“I like it,” he says sitting crossed-legged in his chair pushing up his tinted glasses. Dressed usually in jeans and sneakers, Olemuel Ashford describes how he feels about his occupation as a bus driver and travel aid for Grambling State University. With 25 years under his belt, Ashford has had his fair share of road […]
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Dunbar gallery to feature senior art shows
Grambling State University ‘s Dunbar Gallery will feature the senior exhibitions of two art majors, Tamarrow Wilson and Tiffany Grant, through April 24.Students create proposals for works to be completed in their junior and senior years at GSU. The works then are submitted to a faculty panel that judges the best works by each student, […]
Earth Day to focus on volunteer efforts
Earth Day Network and Green Apple Festival have announced their 2009 plans for “America’s Largest Earth Day Action” – simultaneous events in 10 U.S. cities over Earth Day Weekend – April 17-19 – that will this year focus on environmental volunteerism. The service events, coupled with Earth Day on the National Mall in Washington and […]
Cash Street Café to host art exhibition
Grambling State University’s Cash Street Café is hosting an exhibition of artworks by Simsboro native De Shadrick “Tae” Talbert through April 29.Each art major at GSU develops a proposal in their junior year that helps to focus the work they produce during their junior and senior years. During the senior year the works are submitted […]
Fashionisto advises individuals to broaden their color horizons
As I walk along the thoroughfares of R.W.E. Jones Drive and Main Street, I wonder what students are interested in and what they are actually wearing for the spring. I hear that a certain commercial where mannequins are wearing a certain “Town Gown” has the ladies of Grambling gossiping. By watching the shows from New […]
Students attend broadcast conference
The 30th annual Black College Radio (BCR) and Television Conference was held in Atlanta. The organization was created by Lorenzo (Lo) Jelks. Over the years this organization has given many African American students the opportunity to showcase their talents and be awarded for them. In the program given to us during the awards dinner Jelks […]
Saint Luke’s Episcopal installs new pastor
Reverend Thomas T. Nsubuga was installed as Vicar of St. Luke’s Episcopal Chapel of Grambling Sunday, March 22. Rt. Reverend D. Bruce MacPherson, bishop of the Diocese of Western Louisiana, presided over the services.I had the oppurtunity to interview the new pastor of St. Lukes Episcopal about, the reason why he decided to bring his […]
GSU expected to cut nearly $5 million from its budget
BATON ROUGE – The University of Louisiana System has distributed $66.6 million in budget reductions to its eight universities based on a phase-in of the new performance-based funding formula. These reductions planned for Fiscal Year 2009-10 are in addition to the $19.6 million mid-year cuts, bringing UL System cuts to $86.2 million. “Our university presidents […]
Making an impact in the community
As the semester winds down, the Grambling Sports Radio Network has been hard at work putting together several activities on the campus of GSU.Santora Black, director of the Grambling Sports Radio for the past 10 years, feels that the activities the network has been doing is good to themselves ,and the community. “I think that […]
Krystle Cravens walks away with title
Lights…camera…action! On March 28, the stage was set for the 41st Miss Annual Miss Calendar Girl Scholarship Pageant to go off with a bang and this year’s pageant did not disappoint. Twenty-six ladies attacked the stage with a dance number to the UK sensation The Ting Tings song, “That’s Not My Name”, proving to everyone […]