The Grambling State University Honda Campus All-Star Challenge team (quiz bowl squad) will head to the 27th annual National Championship Tournament on April 2-6 in Torrance, California. The GSU squad qualified for the tourney by placing second in the regional meet at Prairie View. GLENN LEWIS/The Yearbook Grambling State University President Willie D. Larkin (3rd […]
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Student selected deputy commander
Courtesy photo Courtney Heard, with incoming 17th Regiment Commander Todd Dixon, on March 12. Grambling State University Army ROTC former Cadet Courtney Heard, has been selected to serve as the Deputy Regimental Commander for the 17th Regional area of the National Society of Pershing Rifles. She is a graduate student in the area […]
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CAMPUS BRIEFS
Teacher/Graduate School Fair to be held on campus April 4 Monday, April 4 is the date that school districts will be on campus looking to hire prospective graduates to teach. The event is the Teacher Educational/Graduate School Fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Black and Gold Room in Favrot Student Union. The […]
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GSU students react to Trump comments
Out of the 50 states that have voted in the recent primaries only 38 have voted. Those that remain are Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Wisconsin are yet to have either of their primaries as reported by political polling agency Politico. Donald Trump The District of Columbia […]
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Women of the Week
Condoleezza “Condi” Rice was born on November 14, 1954, and is the only child of Angelena and John Rice Jr. Throughout her childhood she participated in several different activities like piano, figure skating, music classes, and she even learned how to speak French fluently. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Her family moved to Denver, […]
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Did you know?
On May 5, 1809, Mary Dixon Kies received the first U.S. patent issued to a woman for inventing a process for weaving straw with silk or thread. Before then, most women inventors didn’t bother to patent their new inventions because they couldn’t legally own property independent of their husbands. In 1903, Mary Anderson was […]
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GSU professor of 25 years remembered
Funeral Services for Dr. Hattie Logan Perkins will be held on Friday, March 18 at 11 a.m. at the King's Funeral Home Chapel in Ruston, Louisiana. She passed away Sunday, March 13 after a lengthy illness. The wake service will be held today, (March 17) at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the King's Funeral […]
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Derrick ‘The Great’
“Always be me. Why change?” is the reason rapper Derrick Johnson decided not to go a different route when it comes to choosing his stage name. Johnson, who goes by Lil Derrick or Lil Derrick The Great as his rap name, is a senior mass communication major with four different companies and five different mobile […]
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Women’s History Month
Madame C.J. Walker (Then) Madame C.J. Walker Madame C. J. Walker was a civil rights activist, philanthropist, entrepreneur and feminist. She was born as Sarah Breedlove on Dec. 23, 1867. Walker had a hard life growing up and was forced to move around and work hard as an extremely poor […]