What’s in a name? A lot, Macadoo’s is learning. Macadoo’s is changing its name in order to avoid legal entanglement from a family restaurant with the same name. “Macado’s” is the original family resturant with locations throughout the south, including North Carolina, and Virginia. According to the Macado’s website, the family resturant is popular with the college crowd with their ...
Read More »Housing enforces new id cards for students
Starting this fall semester, all main campus residence halls have implemented a color coded ID system suggested by a former RA. The new system has made the monitoring of people entering and leaving residence halls more efficient. Before the new system, a card swipe and a front desk worker acted as the only points of security when people entered the ...
Read More »Rugby club team hits hard this fall
Since its inception in October of 2010, the men’s rugby team has been one of the most popular and successful club teams at VSU. The VSU rugby team began play in January of 2011 and has been winning ever since. Savannah holds a well known rugby tournament every year, The Saint Patrick’s Day Rugby Tournament, in which men’s teams from ...
Read More »Impressive display in opener
The women’s soccer program at VSU kicked off in style this week with the Lady Blazers picking up convincing victories against Georgia Southwestern and Queens University of Charlotte. It all began Thursday evening with the inaugural match taking place against Georgia Southwestern. A crowd of 1,577 turned out to see the Lady Blazers dominate proceedings in what turned out to ...
Read More »Blazeview experiences outages
Since the begining of the semester students and faculty have been dealing with BlazeView outtages. VSU faculty and students experienced problems trying to access the VSU web page due to the heavy amount of traffic the site was receiving. Even more students stated that they were unable to access their e-mail accounts on Windows Live last Wednesday around 3 p.m. ...
Read More »VSU gets new innovative printers
Next week, if all goes according to plan, all Ricoh printers will be replaced by Xerox printers for students to use and will be located in all the computer labs with one in Centennial Hall. “The new system will allow students to print from any computer and from their own computers if they are logged into the VSU network,” Joe ...
Read More »SGA schedules re-election for senate seats
During its second meeting of the year, SGA discussed the requested senate reelections, justice board nominees and freshman elections. Reelections for At-Large senate seat 20 will be held on Sep. 8th as requested by members of the NAACP. Last year’s senate elections ended in a tie among four VSU students, each student receiving 30 votes. Zackary Stanaland was then appointed ...
Read More »Students prefer off-campus life
VSU housing has always been a complicated issue among students, but with limited housing on campus and the new off-campus living options like the Grove Apartment complex, more students are making the decision to move off campus. Regardless of gas prices, the constant hassle of parking and arriving to class on time, living off campus has become a better preference ...
Read More »Faculty artwork showcased on campus
The VSU Fine Arts Gallery opened its doors to the Art Faculty Exhibition on Aug. 22 at 7 p.m. while the faculty jazz combo played for the guests. The gallery displays artwork from various mediums, including illustrations, photography, oil paintings, sketches, and even sculptures. The exhibition is sponsored by Hester and Morris Orthodontics. “[The objective is to] showcase works of ...
Read More »‘Our Idiot Brother:’ Good acting offsets bad writing
From the looks of the trailers, “Our Idiot Brother” is meant to be a feel good comedy with a hint of serious family drama, but the truth is, I ended up getting a little more than I bargained for. Ned (Paul Rudd), the idiot brother in question, manages to wreck the lives of his three sisters through a series of ...
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