Author: DIANA SEPULVEDA

Features

‘The Voice’ of Grambling State

  Startled, the Grambling alumna takes off her black headphones and throws her hands in the air as if she had seen a ghost.  tanding at 5’5 as stern as they come, wearing vintage gold earrings and her signature scarf tied around her neck, “The Voice” of Grambling State University […]

Features

Terry Lilly is more than a coach

  “We start to die, the moment we are born, so why wait to the last minute to do something? ” coach Terry Lilly said. One could sit and name every accomplishment that Lilly has achieved in life, but the picture in your head is one of a man with […]

Arts

GramFam got talent

It was a packed house on Tuesday for Grambling State University’s spring 2013 Tiger Fest Talent Show, held in T.H. Harris Auditorium at 7 p.m. There were 15 acts for the show. The crowd was the judges, and the winner of the Talent Show was the last act of the […]

Arts

GSU’s Spitta is an artist on the rise

Kelwin Burke Jr., also known as Spitta, has hit the streets again with a snippet of his latest mixtape, Arrived in New Orleans. In anticipation to his latest project, Spitta has released only two tracks, “Made it” and “Light switch,” which he will perform as the opening act for Grambling […]

News

Election fever sweeps campus

Student Government Association candidates and their campaign teams took full advantage of the Election Weeks activities, starting with Monday’s parade. As the World Famed Tiger Marching Band led the parade, attracting the crowd, some candidates raised the bar from throwing coconuts and beads to flinging flip-flops to bystanders.  Candidates like […]

Sports

Truly honored

Grambling State University basketball legend, Bob Hopkins, has been named as a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame induction class of 2013.  As a player, Hopkins averaged 30 points and 17 rebounds a game for the Tigers from 1953-56. He was a two-time National Association of Intercollegiate […]

Sports

Track team sets blistering pace

  Grambling State University’s track and field program was on the road for their last three meets and they were successful, as usual. First they traveled to Lake Charles for the McNeese Relays on March 9.  They competed fairly well, placed first place in every event except the men’s 4×100 […]

Arts

A passion inspired by chaos

#8220;Random photos to like, from a photographer to love,” reads the Instagram (@CileyCares) biography of Ciley Carrington, whose senior art exhibition is showing through Monday.  Filling the Grambling State University Dunbar Hall Gallery, the Los Angeles native uses a combination of photography and digitally generated wors throughout his exhibit, titled […]

Arts

Sigma Alpha Iota kick off celebration week

  Day Two of Sigma Alpha Iota Week was the premiere of August Rush, held at 7 p.m. Monday in the Favrot Student Union Theatre.  August Rush is a story of a music prodigy. Lyla is a renowned and beautiful cellist and Louis is a guitar player and vocalist at […]

Arts

Skin is the new black

Students came out in droves to T.H. Harris Auditorium Wednesday to see what Black Dynasty Modeling Troupe would conjure up for their big spring show.   Inspired by the music and style of Kanye West, the opening number was titled, “All White with Black.”   The easily recognizable intro to […]