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Kristal Jones
Assistant Features Editor
krijones@valdosta.edu
The Tuesday event started off with high hopes and expectations for the Blanton Commons pool party with MTV celebrity appearances.
According to Blanton Commons Apartments General Manager, Kirstin Orphan, there was a scheduling conflict which caused a last minute change in the celebrities that were appearing.  Instead of the originally scheduled “Duel 2” [...]

Kristal Jones
Assistant Features Editor
krijones@valdosta.edu
April 3 was the night when the carnies came to town.
The Valdosta Mall parking lot has been the central “hang out” spot for locals for the past week now.  It has been the perfect place to go for a night after a long day of grueling classes for VSU students.
“I went to [...]

Amanda Blank
Staff Writer
alblank@valdosta.edu
Francesca Zagami
Staff Writer
frzagami@valdosta.edu
On March 26, at 7:30 in the evening, students and faculty ventured out into the wind and rain to listen to novelist Tom Hazuka read selections of his writing in the UC Theatre.
Hazuka set the audience at ease with jokes about hurrying up so everyone could leave early. Hazuka sipped clear [...]

Michael Wilson
Sports Editor
mhwilson@valdosta.edu
Green River Ordinance’s new album Out of my Hands has plenty of the punch despite lackluster vocals and repetitive instruments.
The album resembles that of a typical alternative rock band with unimpressive vocals backed by even less extraordinary lyrics. Songs like “outside”, “come on” and the title track seem uninspired with generic lyrics like, [...]

Ashley George
Opinions Editor
ajgeorge@valdosta.edu
About 60 students attended the Works in Progress poetry reading Tuesday evening in the Ashley Hall Rotunda.
This was the Works in Progress poetry club’s first meeting. The club is meant to be a place students can meet , share their poetry and express themselves.
“It’s free speech at its best.” Terrence Taylor, creator of [...]

Students came to show their support Tuesday evening when the Alpha Theta chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority held a candlelight vigil in front of West Hall in honor of Black History Month.
The event started off with members of Zeta Phi Beta handing out candles and then going out to the crowd to light [...]

Michael Wilson
Sports Editor
mhwilson@valdosta.edu

Tyrone Curnell is a stand out junior forward for the Blazers basketball team and he gives new meaning to the term playing on the road. He has finally ended his two year road trip and settled down in a place of his own.
Curnell started his college career playing for Jacksonville University, a D-I [...]

Karah-Leigh Hancock
Editor-In-Chief
kphancoc@valdosta.edu
Tuesday evening, a political forum was held in the UC Theater with a round table discussion of the results from last Tuesday night.
The political forum was a part Council on Undergraduate Research Student Faculty Colloquia and was the fifth event of the fall semester.
The event was hosted by Dr. James LaPlant, professor of Political [...]

Danielle Everson
Staff Writer
dveverson@valdosta.edu
Information Technology (IT) is at a hiring and travel hiatus due to the recent budget cuts at VSU.
Traveling to different conferences such as the Georgia Summit Conference has been called off and six new positions to assist IT will not be filled.
“When budget cuts were called, [it] resulted in hiring freezes and cut-backs [...]

Kenny Bush
Staff Writer
krbush@valdosta.edu
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Trick or treat? You remember this, right? The threat that we all made to total strangers in our younger days every Oct. 31, as we roamed the night as various people, things and ninjas. Free candy, homemade haunts, survival of the [...]

These are photos from Wild Adventures Wednesday night, Oct. 15. / Photos taken by Francesca Zagami
More photos by Rebecca Huguet will be added today.