Lee Johnson Managing Editor gljohnson@valdosta.edu Sports Column War Eagle! Gooooo  Dawgs! Sic ‘em! Rambilin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer! All three can be heard on a fall Saturday anywhere on VSU’s campus. Purple and yellow, orange and blue and, yes, even the crimson and white of Alabama can be seen [...]

Last week The Spectator published an article about the Student Government Association’s allocated budget hardly being spent. The thing about news stories is that they lack opinion and are completely objective, so that is why the aforementioned news story is getting followed up by this editorial. Without getting into too much detail about SGA’s budget, [...]

Lee Johnson Managing Editor gljohnson@valdosta.edu On Saturday, the Delta Chi fraternity will host the Sixth Annual Delta Chi Charity Winterball Softball Tournament at Freedom Park in hopes to raise money to help a Valdosta family overcome tragedy. The proceeds from this year’s tournament will go to help the Lee family. The Lees lost a child [...]

VSU I.D.s I have had my VSU I.D. card for almost four years now. FOUR YEARS! I had to have it scanned at a VSU office and it fell apart while it was being scanned. I didn’t sit on it, I didn’t lose it, it was just old and worn from dining hall scans. I [...]

January 20, 2009 – It was reported that an estimated 2 million people crowded Washington D.C. for President Obama’s inauguration, two million. Two million from all across the country, gathered in our nation’s capital to celebrate the beginning of the 44th President of the United States, and many, to celebrate the departure of the 43rd. [...]

Don’t close the check book quite yet.

VSU students will have to pay an additional $100 in fees starting in Spring 2009. The University System of Georgia (USG) has approved the additional two percent budget cuts, on top of an eight percent cut totaling around $136 million.

Lee Johnson Managing Editor gljohnson@valdosta.edu The Beta Tau chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity has had their interim suspension lifted. “After investigation the Beta Tau chapter it has been determined that the chapter has not violate Pi Kappa Phi’s risk management policy,” Kevin Kelly, director of risk management for the national office in Charlotte, [...]

Last week we, The Spectator, ran a front page photo of the newly elected Barack Obama along with the phrase “Yes they did,” a word play based on his campaign slogan, “Yes We Can.” We caught some heat for running that phrase, which in some instances was taken as racist, and in my opinion, unfairly. [...]

The national office of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is currently investigating VSU’s Beta Tau chapter. As of now the national office has not taken any disciplinary action and will not release any more information until the investigation is complete.

Lee Johnson Managing Editor gljohnson@valdosta.edu Just before noon on Tuesday, VSU police evacuated the University Center in response to “two vaguely worded letters suggesting a threat to the University Center and its inhabitants,” according to mass e-mail from VSU. The building was scanned by VSU police, bomb-sniffing dogs, and explosive experts from Moody Air Force [...]

A time.com article’s headline, published on Sept. 29, pretty much sums up the bailout bill that our government just passed earlier this month: “The Bailout Bill That Nobody Likes.” I feel the same.