House Ad - Social Media - Banner - Fall 2017

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 ...

On Tuesday, Georgia Military College held a donor registry event called “BetheMatch” for VSU student Michele Siegrist and other people needing bone marrow transplants around the country in order to help in their battle with leukemia. The event was held from 9 a.m to 7 p.m and was deemed successful as over 250 people throughout the community registered to become ...

 Hey fellow pop addicts! It’s been a rainy week so far, hasn’t it? I really need to invest in some rain boots—any ideas anyone?   While you’re trying to come up with some places for me to go, I’m going to go ahead and dish out the dirt for this week!  The State Trooper has been busy, busy, busy, I see! ...

 A dog is a man’s best friend…or is it?  For some college students, owning a dog can be a hassle, while for others, a dog can be a relief from everyday stress.  Josh Goforth, junior mass media major, and Bailey Ragan, sophomore sociology major, own Olive, a 13-week-old chocolate lab who they say helps them learn more about themselves.  “We ...

 While most know “The Vagina Monologues” as an annual play, it has a much deeper purpose.  The Women and Gender Studies Program advertises V-Day as “a global movement to stop violence against women and girls” and “a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations.”  “The Vagina Monologues” is produced ...

“I believe it is a pretty risky move by trying to put everything together like that.” Terry Cologne junior early childhood development major   “I don’t feel comfortable about it.” Asea Thompson junior interior design major “I think it is a bad idea; it is like putting the toaster in the bath tub.” Dj Davis sophomore exercise physiology major “I ...

Facebook is the most popular form of online communication in existence, partly due to the fact that there are so few rules that govern what is appropriate to post on it.  While semi-nude photos and political outbursts certainly will not harm any open-minded individuals personally, there are more subversive ways to turn a seemingly nice way to keep in touch ...

 The weather in Valdosta has a mind of its own and anyone who lives here can clearly see that.  One day you walk outside and the sun is shining overhead. You can wear a t-shirt and a pair of shorts and just enjoy a nice warm day. You go sit in your dorm room for a few hours, and when ...

 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 ...

 A biomass electric generating plant is projected to begin construction June 2011 across from the Mud Creek Waste Water Treatment Plant and will be fully functioning by 2013.  There has been much controversy regarding the plant and we, as a staff, feel that the construction of the biomass would be more destructive than beneficial. The plant is projected to create ...