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Police attack Occupy protests in Denver. Police fire tear gas at anti-Wall Street protesters. These two headlights glimpse into the various violent police attacks on the Occupy groups. In Denver this past weekend, police pepper sprayed, fired rubber bullets at and arrested protesters. A total of 77 people have been arrested since the start of Occupy Denver; this past weekend, ...

Everybody wants an education, but paying for a good one has become harder and harder. According to USA Today, this year will be the first time loans will exceed 1 trillion dollars. Reports from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York show Americans now owe more on student loans than on credit cards. When it comes to student loans, debt ...

We live in a time in which one would like to think that we have rid ourselves of all prejudices, especially prejudices related to sexual orientation. The vast majority or our society has evolved with the times and almost everywhere a person looks, people live, work, and co-exist with each other, regardless of differences in sexuality Unfortunately, there are some ...

Former presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, will be coming to the VSU campus Tuesday at 7 p.m. for a benefit dinner hosted by the Georgia Christian School. Huckabee is going to be speaking to about 485 guests in the Student Union auditorium, which GCS has rented out for the event. “He will give a speech,” Ryan Warren, the Vice Chairman of ...

An increasing number of students are finding themselves victims of theft, one of the most common crimes on campus. Burglary and dorm room theft have been popular crimes reported during the semester by students. Items such wallets, bags, iPods, shoes and other various possessions have been stolen from various locations on campus. Sgt. Matthew Maestas of Criminal Investigations acknowledges dorm ...

A new website is causing controversy by offering students a chance to meet men and women willing to pay the students’ college tuition, otherwise known as Sugar Daddies or Sugar Mommies. A number of VSU students are registered on the website to receive financial help from Sugar Daddies or Mommies. The website, seekingarrangements.com, was founded by dating expert Brandon Wade ...

A VSU student and naval reservist died of a massive heart attack while jogging Monday morning. Ben Herron, age 22, was found around 9:30 a.m., on Old Pine Road by county workers. Herron was part of the fraternity Phi Sigma Kappa Psi and was a Criminal Justice major who was taking this fall semester off. He was born in Seoul, ...

The Valdosta Symphony Orchestra (VSO) will present a Classical Masters concert Saturday at 8 p.m. in Whitehead Auditorium, conducted by Dr. Howard Hsu. Dr. Hsu is the Music Director of the Symphony Orchestra, Director of Orchestra Studies and an assistant professor of music. The program features pieces from two of the greatest composers of the Classical era, Mozart’s bubbly Symphony ...

In this issue of the Spec Tech: a new Nook, bendable phones, and 4G LTE phones are coming, Apple troubles, and GameStop sells Android tablets. Nokia and Samsung both announce that they are creating phones with bendable screens. Samsung has not demonstrated their phone, but Nokia showed that bending the phone zooms in and out of pictures. This may seem ...

Tuesday marked the beginning of “Movember,” an annual charity event calling for all guys to grow out mustaches in the attempt to raise awareness of and money for prostate cancer.