VSU hosted a series of events in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ending with a march and candlelight vigil Wednesday night. Students met outside the University Center and sang spirituals on their march down to West Hall at 5 p.m. VSU NAACP, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Mu Omicron Chapter and the Office of Social Equity hosted the ...

Suspicious activity was afoot on Friday, or so one student thought. The VSU police department was notified by a student that a male in a blue windbreaker was asking students to see student IDs by the Bailey Science Center. Thressea Boyd, assistant to the president for communications, sent out a mass e-mail alert to faculty, staff and students at 1:40 ...

A new scholarship, for students in need, honors a life-long educator and her son. At a post-lunch convocation, Dr. Louis Levy announced the Ruby and John Sullivan Educational Scholarship and awarded Sullivan the fourth President’s Medallion to be awarded at VSU. The scholarship announcement is in conjunction with the renaming of the Valdosta Literacy Center to the Ruby R. Sullivan ...

The search for the ninth VSU president is still underway as the VSU Presidential Search and Screen Committee undergo the planning and recruiting stages of the process. The committee is now preparing the president’s job description, advertising the job on a national level, soliciting feedback for evaluation of candidates, soliciting requests for nominations and recommendations, reviewing candidate applications and selecting ...

The VSU WebSpectator will be undergoing some website maintenance starting at 2:00pm on December 31st, in preparation for the new semester. Please forgive our mess as we work to update, upgrade, and rework parts of our website. Thank you! Rebecka McAleer, Web Editor

With the end of the semester approaching students are finishing up their classes and studying for finals. Many consider this the most stressful time of the school year. For better or worse, the end of the semester coincides with book buyback. “Book buyback helps me figure out which classes I need to study for because once I sell my book ...

Ashley Cinemas, Valdosta’s $1.99 theatre, might one day be no more when VSU’s purchase of the theatre becomes finalized. VSU’s proposal to purchase Ashley Cinemas for various possibilities such as parking space, lecture halls and even for demolition was approved in September by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. “We have to look at the way the campus ...

Sunday kicked off HIV/AIDS awareness week, hosted by HEROS (Helping Everywhere Reaching Out). The goal of this event is to further inform the Georgia community of this growing global epidemic. “I think AIDS awareness week is good because it informs people about safety,” said Hannah Craig, a freshman mass media major. Monday the campus offered free HIV/AIDS testing in the ...

VSU’s graduate student enrollment has reached an all-time high this year, boasting an enrollment of 2,361 students this fall, announced VSU’s interim president, Louis Levy, on Nov. 22. Increasing by 12 percent since the fall of 2010 and a 14 percent increase over the past 3 years, the graduate enrollment has seen such a dramatic spike, largely due to the ...

Transforming lives and impacting communities: As the Thanksgiving holidays rolled around the DST found the perfect opportunity to demonstrate these values.