This season, Coach Thomas Macera has said the team needs to play more games in order to get in more of a rhythm. Well, his team got just what the coach wanted as they went into a weekend full of games.
Read More »SGA Candidates set record, African Night approved, “Student Employment of the Year” financed
During the past 20 years of SGA, this year’s election will set a record for the highest number of senator candidates. The executive and senator candidates of the spring elections were released Tuesday, and a total of 68 candidates are running for senator positions. SGA President Demario Jones is pleased with the high number of candidates. “I think that’s its ...
Read More »Blazers fall to FSU 10-2
The last time the VSU baseball team took on a NCAA Division I opponent, President George W. Bush was in his first year in the oval office. On that day March 5, 2000, at Billy Grant Field the Blazers squeaked by Valparaiso 5-4. Last night, 11 years later, VSU (14-18) was looking for another kind of ‘W’ as they made ...
Read More »Baby bump, reality shows, hit singles in, football out
Hello fellow pop addicts! This week’s weather has been like a rollercoaster, hasn’t it? So who’s ready for this week’s dirt? I know you are because I have some treats for you! All the big ballers who didn’t find it smart to invest are about to be hurt big-time with the lockout. So with Sundays and Mondays gone, what will ...
Read More »Solution: Choose sanity
A storm has been brewing around campus, and it has nothing to do with the weather. It’s about an issue between a student and professor that has escalated at an accelerated rate, thanks to the Internet and social media world we live in.
Read More »Valdostans protest biomass
Protestors wearing respirator masks held signs reading “Biomass? No!” in front of the Valdosta City Hall building on Thursday. Members of the Wiregrass Activists for Clean Energy, the VSU student organization Students Against Violating the Environment, and other concerned Valdosta citizens showed up to protest the construction of the Wiregrass Power: Biomass Electric Generating Plant. “We already have solar power ...
Read More »Biomass plant is harmful
A biomass electric generating plant is projected to begin construction June 2011 across from the Mud Creek Waste Water Treatment Plant and will be fully functioning by 2013. There has been much controversy regarding the plant and we, as a staff, feel that the construction of the biomass would be more destructive than beneficial. The plant is projected to create ...
Read More »Lacrosse club hopes to make VSU sports roster
More students are choosing to join club sports offered at VSU because they are able to focus on academics, yet stay passionate about their favorite sport.
Read More »All speech needs protection
In the words of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, speech is powerful. Speech is also, however, protected by the First Amendment.
Read More »Robinson, Satterfield lead win in West Georgia
Whenever a VSU sports team defeats rival West Georgia, it makes for a good weekend. Following two losses against Alabama-Huntsville, the highly ranked Blazers softball team went to Carrollton and beat West Georgia twice, by scores of 6-2 and 2-0, completing the sweep. This was the first of two meetings on the year between the two rivals. “We dropped two ...
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