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The Grambling State University Office of Admissions and Recruitment took advantage of the Port City Classic to extend an invitation to future Tigers. The students from Woodlawn Academy, Booker T. Washington and Garden Oaks got a chance to start their four-day weekend early. Friday each of the schools experienced some of the camaraderie that is […]

Funeral service was held for Loye Jean Daniel Ford, long time resident of Grambling Tuesday, Aug. 31 at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church. She passed from this life on Tuesday, Aug. 24, at 12:28 p.m. at the North Louisiana Medical Center in Ruston.Mrs. Ford was born December 13, 1934 in Arcadia to Dillard and Bessie […]

FridayCoach Eddie Robinson Memorial Golf Tournament (shotgun start: 8:30 a.m.); host – Grambling University Athletic Foundation; Stone Bridge Golf Course, 301 Stone Bridge Blvd., Bossier City; 702-227-7510.n Alumni Hospitality Room (5 p.m.-7 p.m.); host – Shreveport Alumni Chapter; Holiday Inn West (Executive Suite Lounge), 5555 Financial Plaza, Shreveport; 318-929-9983; admission is free. Greek/Non-Greek Step Out/Stroll […]

Senior class senator:Crystal WattsJunior class president: Channing GauldenJunior class vice president: Michael Chalchesa, Corban Bell (There’s a tie. These two will have a runoff. Voting ends at 5 p.m.) Junior class secretary: Erina LoveJunior class senator: LaSharae Jacobs Sophomore class vice president: Jamila MamonSophomore senator: Gerald Perkins Jr. Freshman class president: Jeremy SmithFreshman class vice […]

“GSU, always making history.” Those were the words of KGRM-FM station manager Joyce Evans, who presided during a joint Grambling State-Louisiana Tech press conference Wednesday in the Doris Robinson Banquet Room of the Eddie G. Robinson Museum. The subject of the press conference was the Port City Classic. “The first Port City Classic. How about […]

If you have ever attended church service on campus or in the area, you have to experience The Church Of The Champions. The church is already breaking ground, pastored by Henry Tolbert with his wife LaToya Tolbert.The Tolberts are no strangers to the campus, struggles of young adults and the local spiritual scene. Both are […]

As the Grambling State University students are getting settled down in their new dorms and adjusting to class schedules, The Gramblinite, in the Department of Mass Communication is already up and running with training staffers.A misconception about workshops is that they’re tedious and really not helpful. The mass communication workshop was anything but that. It […]

The Port City Classic is drawing statewide attention.The Grambling Chamber of Commerence has taken an active role in supporting GSU’s classic to be held in Shrevport at 6 p.m. Saturday. “The Chamber considers it an honor to work with the university and the local business owners,” said Barbara McIntyre, president of the Grambling Chamber. McIntyre […]

Whatever we have heard so far about the current and future budget cuts in higher education in Louisiana might as well be true. Economic crisis has engulfed the United States for last two years and is generating desperation and hopelessness. Higher education in Louisiana had been under tremendous challenges in the past two decades. As […]