Written by Aldean Starr, Staff Writer Recently, VSU and the Honors College took a huge step forward by officially naming longtime Interim Dean Michael Savoie as the Dean of Honors College. The Honors College gives their honor students the opportunity to take enriched courses and participate in different types of activities. It is designed for different majors and the Honors ...

Written by Erin Martin, Staff Writer Along with changes to the faculty and staff at VSU, this semester Dr. Calvin Walker was appointed as the Interim Director of African American studies. Walker has been working at VSU for 31 years, and teaching for 38 years. The duties involved with the directory position include supervising the AFAM program, creating the schedule ...

Written by Julia Rodriquez, Staff Writer Sheri Noviello keeps us healthy by ensuring that our nurses are properly educated.  Noviello is VSU’s new dean for the College of Nursing. She joined VSU in April of 2014 as an associate dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Three months later she was appointed interim dean and is now dean.  ...

Written by Carlius Williams, Staff Writer Earlier this month, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey released some news that almost broke the Twitternet— Twitter would make tweet limits 10,000 characters. Way too much for current Twitter users such as myself, there are certain apps that already allows users to tweet more than 140 characters such as Twitlonger and Medium, but only a ...

Written by Gabe Burns, Sports Editor David Dean, the winningest coach in Valdosta State history, will not be winning any games for the Blazers in the foreseeable future. Dean’s departure to Georgia Southern came as a surprise to not just VSU, but to the entire community. As a result, Blazer fans wait with anticipation as the school continues its search ...

Written by Meaghan Bitters, Asst. Advertising Manager After there has been so much talk about the connection between genetically modified organisms and cancer, several people have chosen to cut out GMOs from their diet. However, it can be pretty hard to do that if consumers are unsure of which food has been modified and which have not. A GMO is ...

Written by Miles Brown, Staff Writer The VSU community is investing, igniting and inspiring the future of Valdosta State. To date, the campaign has raised 46 million dollars. This goal was achieved in a short year and a half, which beat out the predicated five year goal. “Invest. Ignite. Inspire” is a comprehensive capital campaign strategy for Valdosta State University ...

Written by Geneva Crooks, Staff Writer As the 2016 Presidential elections quickly approach, we are faced with not only saying goodbye to the Obama’s, but also welcoming in a new President for the next four years. The United States has been a country loosely based off of our Founding Fathers’ religion, Christianity, since its early years. However, Christianity was never ...

Written by Jada Dukes, Staff Writer “We maybe can’t save everybody, but we can save some!” This is a powerful statement made by President Obama during his immense speech regarding gun laws on Jan. 5, 2016. We are only a few days into the New Year and our president has made it very clear that he is taking his last year ...

Written by Geneva Crooks, Staff Witer In a society obsessed with appearance, dieting has become a way of life. But, what happens when calorie conscious people want to have a few drinks? For some, the answer is a phenomenon called “drunkorexia.” Common among college students, “drunkorexia” is the process of someone eating less to drink more. With drinking being such ...