Meek Mill and Melanie Fiona capped Grambling State University Homecoming activities Friday night by throwing an epic house party in the T.H. Harris Auditorium. The party started at 7 p.m. and if you got there at 7:03 or even 7:01, you would have had to park in Ruston, for everybody was there. The lines outside […]
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GSU’s 1961 men’s basketball team finally gets rings
After waiting half a century, Grambling State University’s 1961 men’s basketball team received championship-quality rings for being crowned National Athletic Intercollegiate Association champions. On Saturday afternoon, just before the G-Men took the field to battle Virginia University of Lynchburg at its homecoming football game, eight of the 13-member team, who held an overall record […]
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Get political: FSUB, SGA bring debate to Tiger Den
Nearly 60 million television viewers tuned in to watch the third and final presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney on Monday night; among that 60 million were Grambling State University students. The Student Government Association and Favrot Student Union Board, in effort to keep students politically inform, hosted pizza and politics […]
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Art of the week
“Mostly Skyz” is a collection of photographs taken mainly around the campus of Grambling State University. The theme of Terrence C. William’s II exhibition focuses on unique ability to observe or dismiss our surroundings. The meaning behind these vistas began in Riverside County California, where Williams lived until he was nine. At an […]
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Spotlight on Grambling alumni at Homecoming
“When people speak Grambling, they speak of a name that is above other universities because of tradition,” said Valvasti Williams Jr., a member of the class of 1985. When you think of Grambling you think of tradition, you think of all the people before who opened the doors and made the paths for an […]
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Domestic violence survivor expresses her story
For seven years I loved a man I called my husband. I loved my husband unconditionally. I allowed myself to be the wife the Bible says I am suppose to be. You know; the wife who submits to her husband, honors him, respects him, listens to him, obey him and follows him as he […]
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GSU to get new online program
Grambling State University will soon offer a 100 percent online collaborative degree, helping those who have started but not finish college to earn a bachelor in organizational leadership. “The main purpose of the program is to bring back students who have earned some college credit but never completed the requirements for a degree,” Rama […]
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Quick chat with Ray Lavender
A product from the “dirty souf”, Monroe native Ray Lavender is one of the artists for the Black Entertainment Television College Tour, which made a pit stop at Grambling State University last Friday. Lavender discovered his voice at the age of four. For three years, the down to earth country boy was a part […]
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Zetas show their sporty side; Alphas go old school
The line on Saturday to enter Grambling State University’s T.H. Harris Auditorium stretched down Main Street. As students, alumni and faculty flocked to park take in one of the last homecoming events- The Greek Step Show. “I expect the GSU students to put on an awesome show, to represent well, and may the best […]
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Forum pushes admire ‘thy-self’
A forum filled with juicy topics, a presence-dominating host and diverse group of panel members left students with a greater look into the mindset of the opposite sex. Miss Plus Couture 2012- 2013, Brittany Smith, helped kick the week off right, when she held her first forum, Lovin’ the Skin I’m In. The forum took […]