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Delta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha will hold a week activities.October 23Delta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha and Delta Iota Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta March of Dimes 5k Run/Walk-Grambling Track 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Womens Appreciation: Trash Takeout-Tiger Village 4:06 p.m. October 24Church Service-New Hope B.C. 11 a.m. October 25Black and […]

The Delta Iota chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., hosted a breast cancer awareness seminar in room 242 of Favrot Student Union Tuesday night. Sorority members talked about breast cancer signs and symptoms, how the cancer forms, tips to detect the cancer early on and possible risk factors. In addition they had breast cancer […]

Nearly 3,700 students from seven states and approximately 50 high schools traveled to Grambling State University to participate in the 32nd Annual High School/Transfer Day on Saturday.The students received meals, game tickets and t-shirts and toured the campus and attended an event in the Frederick. C. Hobdy Assembly Center. At this event students received advice […]

An American author, astute journalist, and professor of graduate studies at Columbia University of Journalism, are only some of the hats Samuel Freedman juggles. With a catalog of six books, including Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry, where he was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in 2000, he has […]

The Division of Student Affairs and Lyceum Series will host a high energy, substantive, and highly interactive Student Leadership Development Seminar featuring Dr. Lee Jones. The presentation will be held Oct. 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the School of Nursing Auditorium.Dr. Jones will articulate how Greek and Non-Greek student organizations exemplify more than just stepping, […]

If a man named “Diamond” with strappy sandals with 3-inch high heels (as described in the VIBE magazine article, “Mean Girls of Morehouse”) walked into my classroom, I probably would politely walk out.While there is nothing I can do about how one decides to present, something of this nature would be a distraction more than […]

At Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia there is an overall standard dress code for students. No hats, sagging pants or do-rags.But upon reading an article titled “The Mean Girls of Morehouse” I had found that there is also a prohibition of any dresses, heels, skirts and other feminine garments. Although many feel that men shouldn’t […]

Morehouse College, the nation’s only all-male HBCU, put its biases on Front Street when the school’s dress code changed last year in response to cross-dressing and non-traditionally attired Morehouse men. Recently the Vibe “Mean Girls of Morehouse” article by Aliya S. King incited many to address longstanding homophobia, patriarchy and generational biases in the Black […]

The student government association hosted a town hall meeting with the university president, vice presidents and representatives in Grambling Hall Wednesday night. The questions came from students who addressed administrators and anonymously in the form of green slips of paper that were given to SGA representatives. One of the first issues addressed was the articulation […]

Paranormal Activity 2 is a must-see and kept America awake until daybreak.People traveled from miles around to take a glimpse at this fall’s most horrifying film. The movie aired midnight Friday and tickets sold out by 10:00p.m. The movie was a box office hit and was shown in two theatres. Both filled instantly. This anticipated […]