Students will likely be digging deeper into their pockets to pay tuition starting next fall because of more budget cuts.    Along with the higher tuition, the eligibility guidelines for the HOPE scholarship will also be stricter for the next school year. Governor Nathan Deal opened the current session of the General Assembly with a State of the State address. ...

  The dream was in effect at VSU last week when the week-long Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Celebration got under way with lectures, discussions and ended with a concert by folk artist and political activist Peter Yarrow.   The celebration, sponsored by The Office of Social Equity, had in previous years been celebrated for a single day.   This year ...

   Carlton Quintez “Tez” Wimbish, a former VSU student who pursued a mechanical engineer major, died on Jan. 1.   Authorities believe it was suicide, but the case is still under investigation by the Valdosta Police Department, said Lt. Aaron Kirk of the VPD.  Wimbish was born in Atlanta, Ga. on Jan. 1, 1989.   He graduated from Stockbridge High School ...

 With spring sports officially beginning practice last week, I thought it would be appropriate to give my predictions for the teams that will be competing for the famed red and black this upcoming spring.  Baseball: Although the Blazers lost a ton of talented players from last year’s team, including sluggers Brandon Decker, who was drafted by the LA Angels, and ...

 Earlier in the season, VSU head coach Kiley Hill said college basketball is a marathon, not a sprint.  With that said, Hill and his Lady Blazers have paced themselves to a 7-8 record to this point, which includes a .500 record in conference play.  Now with heart of conference play facing the Lady Blazers, Hill and his team know this ...

 The Blazers played a breathtaking double overtime game last Saturday against the ninth-ranked Alabama-Huntsville Chargers in the VSU Complex. The game resulted in an 81-77 loss in this top 25 showdown and an overall 14-4 record.  After going all the way to the Elite Eight in the Division II NCAA Tournament last season, VSU graduated seven seniors and left head ...

 The Lambda Beta Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho will be hosting a Postpartum Depression Awareness Benefit and Forum on Dec.6, after the recent events of SGRO member Tijuana Maria Vasquez.   Vasquez, a junior art education major, went missing for about 24 hours in Cairo, Ga.and was found in the woods close to her home Friday morning. Cairo Police Department ...

  The Faculty Senate met Nov. 18, and approved a prayer recommendation by majority vote. The recommendation had been presented by the Minority and Diversity Issues Committee.   The senate eventually approved the initial recommendation that was presented in May.    The recommendation’s language said that the committee “recommends the campus community be mindful that public prayer at official VSU events ...

Samantha Foxx performs Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” Wednesday night as part of the sixth annual Drag Delight in the Ballroom of the Student Union.

Four Loko, a popular drink among college students nation-wide, has been stirring up controversy at some universities and has been banned in five states.