Appearing through Thursday, Sept. 27 in the Dunbar Hall Art Gallery is the work of Vitus Shell and Joey Slaughter. Slaughter is currently an art professor at Louisiana Tech University, however he has also taught at Grambling from 2003 to 2007. His mother is employed at Grambling State. Shell is also an art professor […]
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Students gravitate to GSU
Unofficial Grambling State University enrollment figures show an increase from the fall 2011 semester, a modest 1.3 percent rise in undergraduate numbers and significant 13 percent leap for graduate enrollment. There are 5,277 students enrolled at GSU this fall, compared to 5,207 students last fall. Many credit the increased numbers to the administration’s continuing […]
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LADY TIGER BASKETBALL
Grambling State’s new appointed women’s head coach Patricia Cage-Bibbs has named her assistant coaches for the 2012-13 season. Lou Hamilton, Erica Henry, and Brittanie Taylor-James will join Bibbs. Hamilton comes in his third year assisting Bibbs. The Greenville, South Carolina native played for Charleston Southern football team before relocating to Fayetteville State to further […]
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Professor’s book addresses health issues
According to the World Health Organization, one in three deaths is from an infectious or communicable disease, about 17 million deaths per year. As a former registered nurse in Cameroon, Dr. Martin Ayong Ayim, now an endowed professor of health education at Grambling State, knows just how devastating this problem can be. To help […]
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FAMU continues to fall short to hazing
The misuse of power and lack of respect and unity leaves one historically black college without dance moves and music to grove too. Florida A& M University has lost both their band and dance team due to hazing. Florida A&M University Interim President Larry Robinson stated, “Everyone on campus needs to be unified in […]
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Theater to present ‘Miss Evers’ Boys’
Grambling State University theatre will present Miss Evers’ Boys, by David Feldshuh, Sept. 25-28 at the Floyd L. Sandle Theatre in the Conrad Hutchinson Performing Arts Center. The play will be the first main stage production of the 2012-2013 season by the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Admission is $3 for students […]
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Lady Tigers valiant in loss
It was the prefect atmosphere for victory; cheerleaders flipping, the drum line in full effect and it seemed like everyone in the small town of Grambling was squeezed into Memorial gym for the first serve. With the cameras focused on the Lady Tigers, they were unable to overcome the Devilettes of Mississippi Valley State […]
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Student of the Week
“In all things, aim to be, rather than to seem,” is what the biography of Corban Bell reads on his Instagram profile. Bell, a 22-year-old economics and accounting major from Manteca, Calif., has proven himself to be a student-leader on and off the campus of Grambling State University. The California native has served […]
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Remembering 9/11
On any other Tuesday the yard at Grambling State University would be jam packed, with students preparing for music and fun. However, this past Tuesday was overwhelmed with silence, as the East Coast Coalition, a student organization comprised of East Coast natives, hosted a campus vigil honoring the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. […]
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RA spotlighted in national magazine
La’Darrus Brister, is one of two senior resident assistants spotlighted in the September issue of Resident Assistant Magazine. Brister, a 22-year-old electronics engineering technology major from Angie was advised by his area coordinator to submit his online paperwork. “We normally have RA’s submit the form that’s online,” says Tanisha Cousby, Freshman Village area coordinator. […]