VSU Music Scholarship Alliance will hold the annual Pops in the Park Jazz celebration today in the Amphitheater behind the Fine Arts building from 6-9 p.m. Pops in the Park is a music scholarship program held to raise money for VSU music students. The lineup of performers includes the VSU Jazz Ensemble, the New Jazz Ensemble, the Faculty Jazz Combo, ...

VSU’s Student Conduct Office has implemented a new Student Conduct Incident Report available for students, faculty and staff members to report incidents of student misconduct. According to Richard C. Lee, assistant dean of students for student conduct, the SCIR is a component of the school’s conduct management software program, called Maxient, which was implemented by the VPSA/DOSO in 2010. “It ...

Last week VSU was once again recognized as a military-friendly school by G.I. Jobs magazine for their involvement in educating military veterans. The national recognition ranks VSU in the top 20 percent among other colleges, universities and technical institutions nationwide. Dr. Jerry Merwin has always had an interest in helping the military/veteran students at VSU. Promoting the “military friend” policy, ...

Professor Jean Braithwaite visited VSU’s campus on Tuesday to speak with students to about an epidemic that not only plagues Americans nationwide, but also the professor personally: obesity and eating disorders. While some students viewed the lecture as a positive journey through Braithwaite’s road to a healthy lifestyle, others questioned Braithwaite’s thinking patterns and drastic measures to get to the ...

Chancellor Hank Huckaby visited the VSU campus to meet with student leaders for his series of college tours of the 35 college institutions of Georgia at the University Center on Sept 16. In his visit, Huckaby covered budget cuts, the discussion of the new Health Sciences and Business Administration building, and enrollment with student leaders. Twenty student leaders were chosen ...

Starting this fall semester, the VSU bookstore will offer a textbook rental program, giving students the option to rent instead of buy certain textbooks. Bethanie Brogdon, the director of University Stores, says that the announcement was made at the beginning of the school term. Like popular textbook rental sites, the Textbook Rental Program is designed to save students money. However, ...

Nursing professor, Dr. Susan Wold passed away on Sept. 1. Wold was a dedicated instructor at VSU, having worked 13 years as a faculty member at the College of Nursing. Wold had devoted 42 years of her life in the pursuit of public health, working 42 years as a nurse and 35 years as an educator, according to the Valdosta ...

Valdosta may have been far from New York City and Washington, D.C. at the time of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2011, but its citizens have not forgotten the wave of patriotism the country felt that day. Two memorials are scheduled to take place on Sunday to commemorate 9/11, one at the ...

Many freshmen were surprised when they answered a knock at their door and were greeted by one of VSU’s House Call volunteers on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

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 ...