Turn your iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android phone into an automatic note-taking machine, allowing recorded lectures to be downloaded to your computer for easy review with Eidetiq from Chubby Weasel Technologies. For $4.99, the application simultaneously captures photographs and records audio of the lecture or presentation. “Eidetiq is a revolutionary note-taking app to remember what’s important, both visually and with ...
Read More »SGA passes new GPA requirements
In an effort to create a more balanced system, the Student Government Association passed new by-laws for fall 2010 regarding GPA standards for senators and executive members. Article 5, Section 4 of the old Constitution stated, “All Senators must have at least a 2.0, and members of the Executive Branch must possess, at the time of election and throughout ...
Read More »“Legend of the Guardians” dazzles, but never really takes flight
Produced by the same studio as ‘Happy Feet’ and directed by Zack Snyder, the visionary behind ‘300’ and ‘Watchmen’, ‘Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole’ is a dark fantasy that is visually stunning yet emotionally vacant. Loosely based on the first three books in Kathryn Lasky’s epic fifteen-book fantasy “Guardians of Ga’Hoole”, ‘Legend of the Guardians’ is the ...
Read More »Transportation for the tipsy
Valdosta has a new late-night transit service, Tipsy Transit, which was created to provide students a safe alternate form of transportation. “We started talking about ways to give students an affordable and safe ride back to their homes after a long night of drinking,” Felix Vayner, Tipsy Transit driver and business major, said. “That’s basically how the whole idea came ...
Read More »Constitution week a success at VSU
Constitution week kicked off with Professor Kenneth Janda as the key note speaker. Dr. Janda expressed the importance of the Constitution.
Read More »VSU student to run for City Council
Sitting idle on the sidelines is not an option for VSU senior, Keith Lee, who is set to graduate this December with a bachelor’s degree in political science. While other students will seek the usual jobs following graduation, Lee hopes to land the position of City Councilman at Large for the City of Valdosta. Lee grew up in rural ...
Read More »Faculty senate discusses advising and new policies
The Faculty Senate discussed changes to advising week, and considered a proposal from the Athletics Committee regarding a university-wide policy on makeup assignments at its meeting on Sept. 16. The Senate also discussed VSU’s Strategic Plan for 2011-12 through 2015-16. The proposal from the Athletics Committee about a university- wide policy on makeup assignments had been remanded to the Educational ...
Read More »‘The American’ disappoints
‘The American’, based on the novel “A Very Private Gentleman” by Martin Booth, is probably not one of the better movies I’ve seen.
Read More »Lil Munney takes rhymes across South
By day, Marlowe Munn is a senior mass media major with an emphasis in audio. On stage, he calls himself “Lil Munney.” In high school, friends called him “Munney” because of his last name, Munn. He said that the “lil” part came from him being a junior. Munn calls himself a “versatile rapper.” Though he claims that his individual style ...
Read More »New BlazeFM tower plans discussed
� With all the construction going on around campus, it is hard to remember what is going to be rebuilt next. One thing that may see a change is a new tower for the campus radio station, BlazeFM. Everything concerning the tower is still in its beginning stages, but the new tower might be completed by the end of the ...
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