Candice McGriff Staff Writer clmcgriff@valdosta.edu Some of the VSU junior and senior Elementary Education majors attended the Project Learning Tree workshop that was held on Saturday in the Bailey Science Center. This project was designed to increase the students’ awareness and knowledge about the environment and related issues. The workshop lasted for six hours, and [...]

Candice McGriff Staff Writer clmcgriff@valdosta.edu VSU Student Life will host the Wii Golf Tournament today at 8 p.m. on Palms Quad. This event is free to everyone and all are invited to attend. Student Life is hosting their first Wii Tournament to create an event that will appeal to students’ interest in a new way. [...]

Candice McGriff Staff Writer clmcgriff@valdosta.edu VSU student and Outdoor Programs employee Barron Gilbert, was named VSU Student Employee of the Year.  Gilbert will represent VSU in the state competition for this year, and he, as well as the runners-up, will be honored at a luncheon on April 15. To be eligible for this award, the [...]

Candice McGriff Staff Writer clmcgriff@valdosta.edu VSU seniors prepared for graduation on Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Graduation Fair that was held in the VSU Bookstore. Although graduation is the main goal for college students, the upcoming graduates are faced with the fear of not being able to get the jobs [...]

Candice McGriff Staff Writer clmcgriff@valdosta.edu The information technology division are hoping that students will forget about schoolwork during Spring Break while it shuts down and moves servers. 200 servers from data centers across campus will be moved into the new Oak Street data center. “We will only move on group of servers at a time, so [...]

Candice McGriff Staff Writer clmcgriff@valdosta.edu Last Wednesday evening the Resident Assistants from Centennial Hall hosted “X-Rated Bingo” in room 138 of Centennial Hall. Several students from VSU participated in this event to learn about sex safety. The game consisted of several questions and facts on sexually transmitted diseases. During the event, statistics from 2008 regarding [...]

Candice McGriff Staff Writer clmcgriff@valdosta.edu Due to the past arrest of an RA in Langdale Hall, minor changes will be made in the RA training process because the RHA “currently have stringent procedures in place,” according to Thressea Boyd, assitant to the president for communications. While the process for hiring has changed, Langdale Hall residents [...]

Candice McGriff Staff Writer clmgriff@valdosta.edu Is it true that students with classes offered later in the day make better grades in their courses? Two economists, Angela Dills and Rey Hernandez-Julian, conducted a study, which appeared in the Economic of Education Review in December, analyzing over 100,000 course grades at Clemson University during Fall 2000 and [...]

Candice McGriff Staff Writer clmcgriff@valdosta.edu During the fall of 1963, VSU (then known as Valdosta State College) admitted its first two qualified (out of applicants) African American Students, Robert Pierce, 18, and Drewnell Thomas, 17. Without a court order, Pierce and Thomas were admitted under President Dr. Ralph Thaxton’s tenure in hopes of creating a [...]

Candice McGriff Staff Writer clmcgriff@valdosta.edu Dr. Matthew Richard and students from the anthropology department are presenting the 2nd annual Causes Film Festival on Saturday, January 24th in the Bailey Science Center Auditorium from 7pm to 10pm. According to the events website, the festival consists of documentaries lasting 90 seconds that reveal causes around Valdosta. The [...]