Author: JUSTIN MADDEN

News

Contest win yields GSU free concert

    On Monday, at 8 p.m. vitaminwater and FADER will host a free concert in the T.H. Harris Auditorium.  GSU students, alumni and others competed for the concert throughout the summer by texting their favorite HBCU.   The contest is part of the Uncapped series, in which over 100 […]

News

Large donation highlights gala

  The attendees of the 2nd Annual Port City Gala were bowled over when Grambling received a donation of $205,000 from Willis-Knighton Health System.  The check, presented by James Elrod, the president and CEO of the company, is intended to be used to fund three endowed professorships in health at […]

News

Gramfam hosts fair

Campus was buzzing with excitement Tuesday afternoon during the Organization Fair sponsored by Favrot Student Union Board and Student Government Association.  The temperature was high, and so was the bass coming from GoDjTwins on the 1’s and 2’s.  Students came out to the Organization Fair and Calendar Girl signing in […]

Tips

KGRM struggles with technical problems

    Grambling State University’s 50,000 watt non-commercial educational radio station goes off air due to technical malfunction. KGRM 91.5 FM radio station lost an important drive to one of their main computers. The drive was responsible for storing program information and the running of the entire on air operation.  […]

Tips

Mandatory meeting for non-registered students

  As the deadline for registration at Grambling State University comes to a close on Friday, unregistered students were asked to attend a meeting in the T.H. Harris Auditorium on Wednesday at 4 p.m.  With about 100 students still left without a fee sheet, the Office of Financial Aid officials […]

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SGA elections final

On Wednesday, potential Student Government Association candidates flooded the T.H. Harris Auditorium in hopes of becoming one of Grambling State University’s student leaders.  For the past two weeks the SGA has held fall elections for freshman, sophomore and senior officers.  Candidates waited patiently as Donna Hill-Todd, director of internal audit, […]

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Democratic convention opens with dynamic speakers

  DNC 2012: It looks the same, but it feels different The vivacious energy of the anticipated Democratic National Convention kicked off Tuesday at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., with a diverse group of speakers and audience members eager to experience what the Obama administration has become […]

Opinion

Refund season brings changes

At times we’re all young and broke, or we are not as daring or as glamorous, as we claim to be. Someone was once our provider and care-giver and everything that we had was because of them.       This came with strict rules and supervision for reasons […]

Opinion

Natural hair advice

Recycled trends are nothing new to those who like to stay up to date with the latest fashions. One fashionable trend that continues to amaze participants and observers is natural hair.    Natural hair was popularized in the 1960s during the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. This trend enforced […]

Tips

Students get opportunity to enhance skills

Grambling State University students have a new opportunity to enhance their skills. Students may join the new university media bureau and help cover the university, with an emphasis on academics. For the first time in recent memory, GSU will have its own media bureau The bureau is being created by […]