By: Rut Labrada, staff writer Get ready to “Dance the Night Away,” Blazers. On Friday, April 17, VSU’s K-pop Club will be hosting their yearly busking event from 3-4 p.m., where the club members will perform a lineup of nine different K-pop dances at Converse Square. The event, which was initially planned to occur from 2-3:30 p.m., was moved back one hour ...
Read More »Food Review: Bluesberry Festival Brings Mouth-Watering Dishes to Valdosta
By: Rut Labrada, staff writer On April 10 and 11, the City of Valdosta hosted its 4th annual Bluesberry Festival to celebrate Georgia’s agricultural industry, local vendors, and of course, the blues music scene of the deep South. When I first heard about the festival, I was confused as to why it was blueberry themed, but a quick Google ...
Read More »Highlights from Bluesberry Festival in Downtown Valdosta
Mom was Right, it is the Darn Phone!
By Adam Peachey, Staff Writer If a person’s screentime is four hours a day, that winds up being equivalent to eleven years of their life on the phone, assuming they live for 80 years. While the importance of phones in our modern society definitely isn’t to be written off, it gets to a point where one must question the status ...
Read More »Look To The Light: Fundraising for L.A.M.P.
By: Gray Walker Staff Writer The Lowndes Associated Ministries to People and Inc. (LAMP), is a primary homeless shelter in Valdosta that also serves in seven other counties, and for the past four years every spring semester VSU hosts a fundraiser for them in the Student Union. This year’s took place on March 26th. The fundraiser was started by Professor Thomas Hochschild, a professor of sociology here ...
Read More »Seguimos Aqui: CAMP’s Bittersweet Finale
By:Ailyn Quiroz, staff writer At 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 26 in the Student Union, the rotunda was filled with artwork from this year’s College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) cohort. CAMP is a national program that is federally funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Migrant Education, which assists seasonal farm workers, or their dependents, through their ...
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Are you ready for CHICKEN? Tomorrow The Spectator will be releasing THE food review of the year: THE CHICKENING. Witness this incredible food feat right here on our website (and all of our social media) on April 1 at 8:00pm. We hope you’re hungry.
Read More »Winning Wednesday Encourages Student Organizations to Engage On-Campus
By: Rut Labrada, Staff Writer On March 25, the Student Life Office hosted their annual Winning Wednesday event on Converse Square amidst increased efforts to promote upcoming athletic events, as well as sororities, fraternities, and other on-campus organizations. This event was hosted as part of an ongoing endeavor to grow engagement with student organizations on campus, which has significantly declined in the past years. The event ran from noon-2 p.m., and it ...
Read More »Review: The Doo-Wop Project “Doo-Wopifies” Valdosta to the 1950’s
By Madeline Higdon, staff writer Since I was six years old, my life has been a euphonious wave of chord blending, vowel matching, head voice vs chest voice, and singing in comically named spaces such as “Disney Princess”, “Pizza Burn”, and “Ah Ha”. Which ultimatley reminds me to sing with my soft palate lifted. My earliest memories of music is ...
Read More »Countdown to Spring Break
Classes got you beaten down? Homework got you stressing out? Keep your heads up blazers! Only 3 more days until spring break officially kicks off. Rev up those plans, call up those friends and get ready to party (responsibly of course)! Also be sure to stay tuned in to The Spectator. A big announcement is on its way.
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