Written By Taymara Tait There is a question one must ask about student employment:should student employees receive benefits such as healthcare? Well, President Barack Obama has brought that question into consideration. According to The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which begins in the year 2015, student employees who don’t work 30 hours per week will not receive healthcare. This is not ...

Written By Mayah Cantave The world is moving into the future at fast pace toward cashless transactions. The use of wristbands, smart phones and biometrics are only a few ways the world is changing. London uses wristbands as a means of cashless transactions. Nairobi uses text messages and Sweden uses biometrics. The biometrics transaction is insane. It records your ID ...

Written By: Kristin Whitman. Valdosta State University women’s soccer team opens their season at North Georgia College Friday, Sept. 5 at 4 p.m. The team is looking to continue their success after their 10-0 win over South Georgia State College in their scrimmage on Wednesday, Aug. 27. First year head coach, Rebecca Nolin, was all smiles after the scrimmage and ...

Confederate Commemorations Can’t Continue Georgia taxpayers should not be forced to support the legacy of the Confederacy. This summer, sociologist Mark George and Reverend Floyd Rose sent an open letter to Governor Nathan Deal and all Georgia legislators imploring them to do several things: stop endorsing Confederate events and holidays, stop managing Confederate sites and monuments, and change all state ...

Written by: Neil Frawley. On Friday, six Blazers will begin their final season as collegiate athletes. But before we delve into the sentimental aspects of everything in their past, there are still 28 regular season matches and a post season to do what no other Lady Blazer volleyball team as done before: win a Gulf South Conference title. While head ...

By Jordan Hill President Barack Obama said he may need approval from Congress before handling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria situation, to which he previously said he had no strategy for. That’s funny. Only a few months ago did the president make a 5-1 trade without the approval from Congress. After the beheading of two American journalists, President ...

Written By: Chris Webb September in Valdosta means one thing: football. After going 6-4, losing three of their last four games and missing the Division II football playoffs, Valdosta State is ready for a new season. “We aren’t really thinking back on last year,” Head Coach David Dean said about his team’s attitude entering the season. “We look at this ...

By Tatyana Phelps Each semester, teachers tell students which books they need for class and expect them to have the books on the first week. But refunds never go out as early as the first week of class. This is where the issue occurs. This semester, refunds won’t be released until Sept. 5 for students with direct deposit and Sept. ...

By Kenzie Kesselring Without frontline journalism, Americans would never be able to capture footage or gather information about conflicts overseas. The American journalists that were beheaded are heroic for serving time as frontline journalists in the war-torn country of Syria. When journalists go to another country to report the news, they have to know the dangers that are waiting for ...

Written By: LaShawn Oglesby The Student Government Association (SGA) swore in all of the sophomores, upperclassmen and graduate senators before going over their strategic plan for the academic year at their first meeting of the semester. Last Monday at 8 p.m. in the University Center, the president of SGA, Tyler Barker, read and explained SGA’s strategic plan for the upcoming ...