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In the case that has drawn national media attention, VSU professor Dr. Frank Rybicki was found not guilty of the charge of injuring a student in a Georgia State Court on Monday August 15. It took a jury only a short time to come to a verdict of not guilty after a string of student witnesses took the stand to ...

SGA held its first meeting of the semester at the University Center on Monday evening. Among topics discussed were suggestions from Dean Russell Mast about student safety, freshman elections, and the voting results from last semester’s election. Mast greeted the senate and suggested that the senate focus on issues that have be affecting students including the jay walking tickets that ...

An armed robbery took place this past Monday at the Little Jo Court apartment complex. Around 9:15 pm, Jacob Meeks, a student at VSU was returning to his apartment after visiting the student union. An unidentified man followed him across the parking lot of Little Jo Court and then threatened him at gunpoint. “I turned into the apartment complex and ...

Students who disobey traffic laws on campus may have more to contend with than VSUPD. Officers from the Valdosta Police Department were on campus Aug. 18 giving $112 tickets to jaywalking pedestrians and motorists not yielding to pedestrians in the crosswalks.Ten to 15 tickets were issued to students. Valdosta Police Chief Frank Simons stated that trying to protect students has ...

Valdosta State University has recently obtained a few new dining services on campus that provide students with a better assortment of food. Recently, the food service company Chartwells has taken over a contract with the university to cater to the dining halls of Palms and Hopper. Amongst these new additions on campus, the school has also replaced the popular Quiznos ...

A lot of different programs have made their way to the campus of VSU within the last year, including special interest groups that explore and enhance the talents of certain individuals. One of the newest programs to VSU is an international program known as TaLK (Teach and Learn in Korea). TaLK is a Korean Government Scholarship program in which English-speaking ...

Monday August 15, around 10 a.m. VSU faculty and students experienced problems trying to access the VSU web page due to the heavy amount of traffic the site was receiving. The VSU homepage was unavailable to both faculty and students because of the inefficient code comprising the main page. The Information Technology department already had a solution in place to ...

Students who remember the fire that burnt down Zaxby’s in March of last year, will be happy to hear that Zaxby’s is being rebuilt in a new location and is scheduled to open its doors in 2012. A fire that started in the early morning March 1 2011 damaged the Zaxby’s building on Baytree Road beyond repair. The kitchen area ...

The new Psychology and Counseling Center, that opened June 23 at 9:30 a.m., provides students and faculty with a more convenient, upgraded environment that will benefit them as well as the community. The department, previously located at Regional Center for Continuing Education, two blocks south of the University Center, is now located on the Pedestrian Mall beside Converse Hall. “Almost ...

Rant of the Week I know everyone is entitled to an education but the amount of freshmen on campus is overwhelming. It seems they outnumber everybody. My biggest issue with them is the parking. They shouldn’t be able to have cars until they are upperclassmen. It might seem unfair but what about us commuters who don’t live on campus that ...