Experience the true story about triumphing over adversity recalled by Tommy L. Johnson. Travel the roads of Johnson’s life which was never easy or simple.Tommy L. Johnson’s journey began when he wrote his high school song, poem and motto in 1972. This journey includes his following achievements: the publication of My Book of Poems in […]
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Campus is dead!
So it’s the fall of 1993, Zhane is pumping through the speakers and the Yard is as thick as molasses and, no, it’s not Homecoming. The Greeks are crowding the sidewalks strutting, strolling, and hopping like there’s no tomorrow. Diss struts are sent flying across the Yard in an urgent yet entertaining fashion. But at […]
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Reflections on the outgoing SGA administration
A year ago, I felt insulted by a poster saying “Chris Who?” in my presidential race for SGA President. I took an oath and a promise that I would be the president to change SGA from what it was seeming to be and give the students a reason to remember the name Chris Harmon since […]
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Five students get flu after one visits Mexico, shuts down private school
BATON ROUGE – A private school in Lafayette is closed because five students have the flu, though officials don’t know whether it is swine flu, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday.The closing is a precaution because one of the ailing sixth-graders was recently in Mexico, where experts say the swine flu outbreak may have started, Jindal […]
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Harmon administration’s list of accomplishments
Extended Library and Computer Lab hours during the week of finals Persuaded over 1,500 students to register to vote for the 2008 Presidential Race Provided transportation for students who needed to get to the voting polls. Maintain a weekly section in the Gramblinite, providing the student body with information dealing with the SGA. Sponsored a […]
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Southern graduate publishes youth novella
It is rare to find a college graduate working within her field in the current economic and employment atmosphere. Yet that is exactly the position Southern alumna Brandi Worley has found herself.Worley graduated from Southern in 2006 with a bachelor of arts degree in print journalism and in 2007 with a master of arts degree […]
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A Phi Q crowned champs again
As students filed into the auditorium they waited for the show to get started while patiently sitting in the heat. Although the heat was almost unbearable the musical entertainment from DJ Tagman and B- Solo helped keep their minds off of it.U.A.A.M. (United African American Men) started off the Step Show coming out to the […]
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‘Vagina Monologues’ delight, uplift
Vagina power. Vagina knowledge. Vagina pain. Vagina appreciation. Vagina beauty. Vagina experience. All things vagina were celebrated and explored Monday night in Dunbar’s theater for Aigner Edgerson’s senior project. She presented a portion of The Vagina Monologues. The cast included freshman Tiana Alexander, sophomore Julietta Gonzague, senior Ebonie Hubbard, sophomore Jamila Hickman and senior Angela […]
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Grambling: a troubling place
When I first got to Grambling State University, I learned that there was a place that the University resided in. That place was called the city of Grambling. As the time progressed, I noticed that the city was improving.They instituted a trash program, put up some recycling bins at City Hall, restored their Grambling park, […]
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Conscientious fashionistas?
Gone are the days of the frivolous, selfish consumer, the ones who blindly frolic through retail areas and purchase everything on a “got-to-have” basis.Consumers have become much wiser. This might be due to a deteriorating economy or simply, the consumer has become more compassionate in a sense. With all that is going on with the […]