Six students performed “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” on Sept. 24, taking the audience out the Fine Arts Building and into the Schulz County Schools to experience a day in the life of Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” gang. The college student cast undertook the challenge of acting in a sold out performance with an audience ranging from children to older ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, Fabulous Pizza on Jerry Jones Drive opened its doors to the public for the first time. Located by Slap Daddy’s right off of Baytree Road, this Italian inspired restaurant attempts to set itself apart by providing what Luis Leiva, the owner, calls good quality food, as well as having cheaper prices than its competitors. As soon as ...

Saturday, Blazer red will fade to pink. Zeta Tau Alpha is partnering with VSU’s athletic department and Southern OB/GYN to host the fourth annual pink out football game to raise breast cancer awareness. The game is against South Arkansas at 7 p.m. at the Blazemore-Hyder Stadium. To raise Breast Cancer awareness, ZTA wants the entire stadium “pinked out.” Everyone attending ...

It’s time to raise awareness for the boobies so who’s wearing pink to the game Saturday at 7 p.m.? So Blazers shall we go all out and pink out the stadium? I think we should and make S. Arkansas aware of more than just the field! So where can we begin? Oh, I did promise to tell you all why ...

The Valdosta Symphony Orchestra performed “Back to Bach,” Saturday at 8pm in the Whitehead Auditorium. The program included a concerto for two pianists, performed by Dr. Kevin Hampton of Armstrong Atlantic State University and VSU’s Dr. Lyle Indergaard, and the work of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. “I began planning this concert a year ago with the VSO’s executive director, Doug Farwell, ...

I spent my Sunday night reviewing the just released flick, Drive, directed by Nicholas Winding Refn, a Danish filmmaker with a reputation for his auteur style. Some of you might be familiar with his other work like Bronson (2009) and Valhalla Rising (2009), which, in their own right, weren’t the most popular things to hit the big screen. But if ...

Rainbow flags were everywhere—on the stage, where performers danced or sang; on the painted faces of visitors; in the ponytails of passersby. The sight was the epitome of festivity. And that is what the South Georgia Pride event sought to encompass – a sense of joy and excitement for all attendees. The third annual South Georgia Pride festival was held ...