As part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, the Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) of Lowndes County is working with Prevent Child Abuse Lowndes County and various other organizations to spread awareness of child abuse across the county. In honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, the Valdosta State Chapter of Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) helped sponsor the ...

Thousands of anarchists plan to crash Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding at Westminster Abbey on April 29. “(The disruption) will involve a lot of fireworks, it will involve a lot of people dressed in black, it will involve a lot of very, very loud music to try and hack all the mainstream media broadcasts of that day,” Charlie ...

In America, most children are blessed with a roof over their heads and shoes on their feet; however, in certain countries there are many children who are forced to walk around barefoot in tough environments every day at the risk of getting sick or potentially hurting themselves. On April 5, you can raise awareness to what these children live through ...

 Some worship in church. Some worship outside. Some worship at home. A handful of Texan women worship on a stripper pole.  Pole Fitness for Jesus, a class created by ex-stripper Crystal Deans, provides church-going women in Old Town Spring, Texas., a new place of worship.  If you want to get “closer to God,” as ABC13’s website puts it, pray and ...

 Stoked to apply for the college of your dreams, you submit your extracurricular-filled, grade A marked transcript, hoping to impress the admissions office. Several months pass only for you to receive the dreaded rejection letter. You wonder what you did wrong when a friend informs you that college admissions workers sometimes look at your Facebook profile.  Looking back at those ...

Up ‘Til Dawn, an organization that raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, will host its final event Friday from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the Student Union Ballrooms.

 Eighteen students from a South Korean university are currently enrolled at VSU through a new program. Next spring, that number could increase to 120.  “Students want to come here, and we’re happy to have them,” Lauren Braun, International Student Advisor, said.   For the past three years, VSU and Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea, have been working on the 1:3 ...

 Whites are oppressed.  According to a CNN article “Are whites racially oppressed?” that is what some of them think.  Caucasians are freaking out because they are losing their slot of superiority, calling themselves the new “minority group.”  As a white female, I have to say, “So what?” I am tired of one race feeling more dominant than another. There has ...

 Students and teachers work hard in the academic world, while actors and singers work hard in the entertainment world. When the recession hit, both were impacted. Education, of course, received the worst of it.  News about cuts into HOPE, Pell Grant and school budgets have flooded the local media for the last several months. While those trying to better themselves ...

 Ashley Cinemas, one of Valdosta’s two movie theater complexes, is known for its cheaper ticket prices, but there might be quite a bit you didn’t know about this theater’s past.  Now VSU wants part of Ashley Cinemas’ history. While long-term plans have yet to be made, the university wants to purchase the theater, keeping it in business and using the ...