With a lot of changes at Grambling High School, expectations remain high for new head coach Jamar Dorsey.”The No. 1 thing we want to do is play Grambling football,” coach Dorsey said. “Grambling High has a lot of tradition, and we want to get back to that. We want to score points on offense and […]
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Up Close & Personal With Rod Broadway
As Grambling kicks off the new semester, new head football coach Rod Broadway, former coach at North Carolina Central University, has big plans for the upcoming Tiger season. 1. What are your plans? “Be as good as we can be and try to win as many games as possible. I want to help the players […]
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Women’s soccer team ready to defend title
Coming off a 9-7-2 2006 SWAC championship season, the Grambling State University women’s soccer team took the field earlier this month in hopes of defending its title this upcoming season.”We can win it all this year,” soccer coach Tamura Crawley said. “We have a stronger team this year, and none of my players have shown […]
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National/Campus News
Greece Wildfires claims 64 livesATHENS, Greece (AP) – A helicopter swooped into a village in southern Greece to rescue residents trapped by flames on Monday _ one of dozens of fires that have torn through village and forest across the country, leaving blackened landscape in their wake. The fires have killed 63 people over four […]
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An open letter to Grambling students
An Editor’s note: This is the first of a two part series. At its essence, the willingness to protest represents less a response to a perceived affront than the acting out of a state of mind. Often, the desire to change the offending situation that is beyond our reach may be an incidental benefit and […]
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Overcoming tragedy
NEW ORLEANS – Clarence Russ marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by scrubbing away at the big black “X” spray-painted on his Lower 9th Ward home _ the seemingly indelible mark left in September 2005 by authorities making a house-by-house search for bodies.”I hope to be living here again in two weeks and I […]
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TALKBACK:
“The first day was very good when you do not have to sit in the financial aid line all day.””It was as I expected; exciting and it felt like a fresh start. There were a lot of new faces and it was good to see my old friends.” “My first day was fine. I was […]
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Jena 6 puts a real ugly face on La.
Several years ago, the town of Jena was a sleepy little town where Blacks and Whites peacefully co-existed, even if race relations weren’t the very best. Then, as if an evil sign of some kind was dropped on the town, race relations went all the way down, and Jena became a town that is now […]
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Delta suspension a disgrace to GSU
With all of the controversy that went on last semester with the Delta Iota chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, it was only a matter of time before the entire chapter was suspended. We, The Gramblinite editors, feel greek life is a big part of the HBCU experience, but no student should be put in harms […]
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Major stigma, baby!
There is a major stigma going around today. Apparently, if you are Black, you should be sentenced to jail, unless you are wealthy or an asset to the government. If you are White, then you only get a slap on the wrist. Everyone has heard of the Michael Vick saga. The man fought dogs, blah […]