Written by: Cole Edwards Students became the great and impossible last Monday – or so they thought. The Campus Activities Board hosted the Comedy Hypnotist Show on Monday evening in the University Center theater. The show was led by hypnotist Erick Kand who has been in practice for 12 years. Kand has hypnotized over 15,000 people over the course ...
Read More »Freshman forward thrives in her first-year at VSU
Written by: Julia Armistead / Photo by: David Lacy Being a student athlete requires excessive determination, dedication and capability. Nicole Polk has proven to be a prime example of a successful student athlete, and she’s only a freshman. Polk has already established herself as a leading player for the VSU women’s soccer team. From the small town of Leesburg, ...
Read More »Blazer basketball back on the hardwood Saturday
Written by: Shane Thomas / Photo contributed by: Dowling Payne Following a 97-58 win over Trinity Baptist in Monday’s opener, the VSU men’s basketball team will host Florida Memorial on Saturday in the first of two weekend games. In the opener, the Blazers made 13 of 27 beyond the arc, attempted 37 free throws and out-rebounded the Eagles 43-36. ...
Read More »VSU welcomes Nepali natives
Written by: Hillary Straba/Photo by: Ritsuki Miyazaki Apa Sherpa holds the world record for successfully climbing Mount Everest twenty-one times between the years of 1990 and 2011. Wednesday night, the VSU English Department hosted two Nepali natives, Dr. Samrat Upadhyay and Sherpa, in the Student Union Theater. The evening’s speakers took the audience from the streets of Kathmandu to ...
Read More »Video: VSU gets spooky for Halloween
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Read More »Langdale Hall haunts students
Written by: Brian Hickey Where male residents used to lay their heads is now filled with the shrills of a girl covered in blood begging for help. What was once a bathroom facility now contains the angry ghost who can’t leave the last stall. A dorm that once housed budding freshman residents now houses the scariest ghosts on VSU’s ...
Read More »Solar panels bring green energy to Odum
DREAM Act forum gets a turn out
Written by: Khiry Clements/Photo by: Ritsuki Miyazaki On Wednesday at 7 p.m the College of Arts and Lecture Series hosted an open forum about the DREAM Act. With a crowd of roughly 100 people, the event was hosted by College of Arts and Sciences and The Department of Modern and Classical Language. DREAM stands for Development Relief and Education ...
Read More »Halloween climb in the Union
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Read More »Call boxes offer more protection than we think
Written by: Cole Edwards / Photo by: Ritsuki Miyazaki There are 28 tall, yellow boxes topped with a flashing blue light around campus. The boxes have “EMERGENCY” written down the side; however, the boxes are not only there for intense situations. “We get calls on everything from ‘my car is broken down,’ to thefts, to a student simply wanting ...
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