Author: TRENT BROWN

Arts

Best medicine is laughter

Orlando Lewellen says laughter is one of greatest things that can be given. The first of its kind, GSU’s student-produced sketch comedy show, “Etch N’ Sketch,” premiered Tuesday night on Youtube and will premiere on the Residential Life channel 79 this week.  The idea for the show is largely originated […]

Arts

Quick chat

  Senior mass communication major Tiffany Bailey is starting a reality show. It’s not just any reality show where we see our culture acting foolish for ratings.  Bailey’s reality show follows the life of a mass communication student. She will have auditions Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1p.m. in the […]

Sports

Grambling Lab Kittens give up 53 points to Cedar Creek

  The Grambling lab Kittens now fall to 1-5 as they lost to the Cedar Creek Cougars 53 -28.  The Kittens struggled early on the gridiron struggle. They gave up 20 points before scoring a touchdown late in the second quarter behind running back Ladarius Lakey three- yard run. Lakey […]

Sports

G-Men extend losing streak to seven

The Alcorn State Braves overwhelmed the Grambling State Tigers in Indianapolis, and beat the Tigers 48-0. On paper, this was Grambling’s worst performance of the year. Alcorn set the tone of the game early by blocking a Grambling punt on the first drive.  “Started the game off again this week, […]

News

G-Men end boycott

Grambling State University football team agreed to end the strike. Therefore,  a homecoming game and  the Bayou Classic is still on this fall. Imagine if the G-Men’s demonstration would have extended. That would mean more canceled games, more canceled halftime shows from the World Famed Tiger Marching Band, the cheerleaders […]

News

Grambling receives $2.8 million for library project

 After receiving $2.8 million through the state of Louisiana’s Capital Outlay, construction has been underway in the abandoned basement inside the A.C. Lewis Memorial Library Annex.   onstruction first began in June to fix a water intrusion that caused the basement to flood after a failure of the French drain system. […]

News

AKAs back, 47 strong

The wait is over! Three long years and finally the “pretty” ladies of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. have added some new sisters to Grambling State University’s Alpha Theta chapter.  “It feels good to bring a line of anxious smart ladies, ready to do the work of Alpha Kappa […]

News

Mourning the loss of a sister

The Alpha Theta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Grambling community are currently in a deep state of mourning. Alice Stapleton-Brooks, a Fall 2011 graduate of Grambling State University, passed away from pregnancy complications on Saturday morning. She was 24.  Brooks, a Delhi native who pledged AKA in Fall […]

News

Football team’s walkout causes uncertainty

  The practice field was empty, still soaking wet from an earlier rainfall.  The workout room was deserted leaving nothing but out-of-date equipment and black patches of the floor missing in several spots.   There weren’t any football players in sight for Wednesday’s scheduled football practice at 5 p.m. at […]

Tips

Business students attend conference

  Seventeen students and two faculty advisors from the College of Business attended the 34th Annual National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Southwest-Western Region Student Conference held in Houston, Texas on Oct 3-5, 2013. The aim of the conference was to offer students opportunities to sharpen their professional skills and […]