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A bit of Eastern culture traveled to VSU earlier this semester, as 100 Southern Korean students transferred in through the “1+3 program.” The academic program, set up with Dongguk University Computer Science Institute in Seoul, requires the students to study English while completing their core classes for one year in Korea before coming to VSU [...]

The Student Government Association discussed the Student Health Care’s insurance policy and the SGA budget along with many other topics during Monday night’s meeting in the University Center Magnolia Room. To keep the student health fee from rising, the Student Health Center requests for students to file their insurance information. The policy, which started last [...]

Movie: Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormakur Starring: Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale Movie Release date: January 13, 2012 Currently Playing at: GTC Valdosta Stadium 16 and Valdosta Stadium Cinemas Contraband is an action packed movie about a family man named Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) who in his past was known to smuggle drugs and counterfeit money. [...]

Divided By Zero’s grand opening festival started off with a bang as people joined and celebrated the beginning of a very unique business from early in the afternoon to late in the night. The free festival hosted last Saturday Jan. 17 from 1 to 9 p.m., included live music from local artists such as Ninja [...]

The Whitehead Auditorium was filled with the classical sounds of the enhaké Quartet last Wednesday evening playing pieces from composers such as Walter Rabl and Dmitri Shostakovich. enhaké includes musicians Katherine Geeseman on the cello, Eun-Hee Park on the piano, Wonkak Kim on the clarinet, and Valdosta State’s own Max Brent Williams on the violin. [...]

The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts began its debut of its annual Draw Project Fundraising auction on Jan. 9 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The Draw Project assists the art department in raising money, which helps contribute to scholarships offered to exceptional art students involved in the community that attend VSU. The event [...]

Welcome back. I hope you had a great winter break and MLK holiday. Because the Consumer Electronic Show was last week, this issue will have tons of cell phones, tablets, and as much info as I can give. First, we will start with the phone all the critics are talking about, AT&T’s 4G LTE Nokia [...]

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

If you aren’t angry, then you aren’t paying attention. That’s what I have been saying for the last two weeks in light of the law enforcement abuses across the country. Let me bring you up to speed. At the University of California – Davis campus, students were peaceably protesting as part of an Occupy movement. [...]

Twilight’s 4th movie, Breaking Dawn Part 1 easily won the Thanksgiving box office number one spot with a $62.3 million win over the break with Disney’s The Muppets closely coming at number 2 with $42 million gross. Like other Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn did not disappoint fans. Although unlike other Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn might [...]

I hope everyone had a fun Thanksgiving and a safe Black Friday. In this issue, announcements from Microsoft, EA wants to give you free stuff and more iPhone 5 and iPad 3 rumors. Microsoft announced that thousands of users’ Xbox LIVE email accounts had been sent a scam email. The email promised free Microsoft Points [...]