Written by Isaiah Smart   As the year winds down, students are still being regarded with importance as VSU joins the Liberal Education and America’s Promise Employer-Educator Compact initiative. The LEAP initiative is sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and aims to provide students with a higher quality education. The program’s purpose
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Written by Neil Frawley   An electrical malfunction forced the evacuation of the Mass Media building on Monday afternoon. The incident took place near the journalism lab where a smell of burning rubber emanated from the ceiling tiles. Students became alarmed by the foul smell and quickly informed Dennis Conway, assistant professor of mass media,
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Written by Jennifer Gleason   Students can expand their knowledge of foreign languages further during fall semester with the addition of Korean language courses. The Center for International Programs, in conjunction with Modern and Classical Languages, has offered Japanese, Russian, Arabic and Chinese for years, and they are available again for registration in the fall.
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Dead Day is not dead yet. It was saved on Thursday at the Faculty Senate meeting.

Written by Shane Thomas & Jamal Tull   The VSU Faculty Senate will meet today at the UC Magnolia Room to discuss policies as the semester winds down. Among the issues to be discussed, the Faculty Senate will propose the elimination of “dead day,” the Tuesday of finals week when no classes are scheduled, from
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Written by Brian Hickey, Jr.   VSU students will have the chance to learn about getting in shape this Saturday during the “Exercise is Medicine” symposium at 8:15 a.m. in Jennette Hall room 1111. The Exercise Physiology Club will host the event with an initiative to make physical activity and exercise a standard part of
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Written by Amanda Usher   On Friday from 3-6 p.m., the VSU community piled into the UC Magnolia Room to see graduate students present their research during the Fifth Annual Graduate Student Research and Scholarship Symposium. According to Teresa Williams, administrative coordinator of the Graduate School, this year’s symposium broke the record for the amount
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Written by Neil Frawley   Blake Pearce has been appointed VSU’s newest Dean of the College of the Arts. Pearce has served as head of the department of art at VSU since 2000, and has served many roles during his 12 years. According to Pearce’s application sent to the Dean of Search Committee, Pearce wrote:
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Written by Jessica Ingram   VSU students will soon have an opportunity to fight for a cause.   VSU’s annual Relay for Life will take place on the front lawn from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. on Friday.   Opening ceremonies will begin at 7 p.m., and will recognize both cancer survivors and the teams
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Written by Joe Adgie The SGA Elections Board declined to name a winner for any of last week’s elections, stating issues that needed to be reviewed by the judicial and elections boards. Winners in the races for SGA executive board positions were slated to be announced at Monday’s SGA meeting, but instead it was announced that election
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