Tuesday night students packed themselves into the Rotunda of the Student Union to attend the Street Signs event, an event which allowed students to create their own personal street signs. The event was hosted by Campus Activities Board and started at 7 p.m., but students were already crowding in around 6:15 p.m. Freshmen Danielle Shifflett and Savannah Saunder were excitedly ...
Read More »Campus Wellness Committee raises heart health awareness
VSU’s Campus Wellness Committee held a Healthy Heart Luncheon on Tuesday, in awareness of Heart Month, to teach staff and students the risk factors of heart disease and precautions against it. “Campus Wellness based this seminar off of its original program “Go Red for Women,” Rebecca Murphy, current committee chair, said. “We started as a group of faculty and students ...
Read More »SpecTech: New smartphones hit the market, Windows 8 Beta debuts
Welcome to the first day of March! Only one week left until spring break! This edition will introduce you to a ton of phones, the Windows 8 Beta, and the countdown to the iPad 3. The Mobile World Congress event started with a bang as Nokia announced the Nokia 808 PureView; a phone unlike any other. Although it runs the ...
Read More »Super Tuesday primary voting opens in Georgia
Super Tuesday has arrived, offering Georgia voters one last chance to cast their votes in the Presidential Preference Primary. The polls are open until 7 p.m. across all Lowndes County precincts. This map shows the voting location for each precinct. If you are unsure of your precinct, check your voter registration card or call the Elections Office at 229-671-2850. View ...
Read More »Primary voting open early
With Super Tuesday growing ever nearer, time is running out for Georgians to voice their preferences for who will appear on November’s presidential ballot. Super Tuesday refers to the Tuesday in February or March when the greatest number of states hold primary elections. Advanced voting for Georgia’s presidential preference primary is ongoing until 7 p.m. on March 2 at the ...
Read More »Zaxby’s opens 199th Ga. location
There’s a new chicken in town, in Lake Park that is. Zaxby’s recently opened their 199th store in Georgia, just off of Exit 5 with a brand new kitchen and dining room design. This location is a kind of sister store to the one currently being built on St. Augustine Road in Valdosta. Both stores stand on previous Hardee’s locations. ...
Read More »Asbestos: Danger tape may have sounded false alarm
Red tape and warning signs of an asbestos hazard kept students off of the sidewalk at the College of Education Wednesday afternoon. The tape labeled “DANGER ASBESTOS” stretched from the sidewalk running along the education building to the doors by Einstein’s Bros. Bagels. Construction workers who are replacing roofing and carpeting in the building said that asbestos was found inside, ...
Read More »Georgia Hall revokes resident visitation rights
Visitation privileges for all Georgia Hall residents have been temporarily revoked for reasons that have yet to be clarified. According to Leighia Hammond, associate director of Housing, the suspension of visitation rights is in response to numerous reports of vandalism and damage that have happened within the past few weeks. Housing and Residence Life are working to ensure that students ...
Read More »Internet privacy act proposed
While internet privacy is a huge concern, both here at VSU and elsewhere, the Obama Administration has released what they call a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, which intends to give people the right to control how personal data is collected and used. According to a press release put out by the Administration, the Bill of Rights, which is intended ...
Read More »SGA: Building back on budget, cookout planned
Plans for the new Health Sciences building are back underway according to the SGA meeting on Feb. 27 in the UC Magnolia room. SGA Comptroller Drew McCall announced that thanks to letters written to legislature, the Health Sciences building for VSU medical field majors is now back on the budget. “The letters were necessary because four schools from Atlanta got ...
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