After a victory over Coker last week, the Lady Blazers soccer team has a tough test with a long road trip ahead and the added pressure of the first conference game against Delta State on Friday. Last year, the Blazers escaped with a 1-0 victory over Delta State. However, they had home field advantage in a mid-season game.  This year ...

The Valdosta State football team hosts Fort Valley State this Saturday, looking to bounce back from its season opener (28-24) loss to Saginaw Valley State last weekend in Michigan. Blazers won’t get a break on their tough 2012 schedule against the Wildcats, who upset nationally ranked Delta State Statesmen (31-23) last week. VSU will be without a few of their ...

The VSU rugby team hopes to put its club on the map this season, beginning with its first game against Georgia College on Saturday at 2 p.m. When facing Division I schools, team captain, coach, and rugby club founder Derick Howard has been leading the club since fall 2010. “We’re in our second full fall season, and our second matrix ...

Tropical Depression Isaac caused major panic as it arrived on shores of the southern U.S early last week. Since then, over the past week, Isaac has damaged over 13,000 homes in Louisiana alone and caused power outages in almost one-million homes throughout the south and heartland of the country according to Weather.com Tragically, the storm has also claimed two lives ...

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 To Rep. Paul Ryan, college students forced to move back in with parents are the poster children for the bad economy. � But from a personal finance perspective, experts say returning home can be a triumph.  “College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they ...

 No one was hurt when a VSU shuttle bus caught on fire in a parking lot at North Campus at 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday.  The driver smelled smoke and pulled over to investigate, safely evacuating the two or three passengers.  As the students evacuated, the smoke began to intensify, prompting the driver to call police, according to Thressea Boyd, assistant ...

VSU and the surrounding community will get “Casual for a Cause” on Friday. With a donation of $5, those who  wish to take a stand against Alzheimer’s disease can purchase an Anti-Alzheimer sticker and forget me- not on the second floor of the student union from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Anyone can participate by wearing jeans or other casual attire the ...

Hello ladies and gents: I have a conflict, and I need some advice. Love has always been an up and down battle that I have gone through, and am going through now. I’ve been cheated on in the past many of times, so I have trust issues. You would think that I would have my guard up—NEGATIVE.  I wear my ...

The Collegiate Men of VSU are continuing to strive toward moral excellence and changing the attitudes of young men.  “We specialize in taking young males, and transforming them into supportive men by building a family of men that are like minded in making a way to succeed,” Secretary Samuel Logan, a senior mass-media major, said. According to Logan, the idea ...