With two minutes to seven o’clock, the chilly calm Grambling air hit the faces of a few students straggling in front of the Barnes and Noble bookstore. Shortly, more students appeared leaving the cafe, exiting the Express and coming from Freshman Village. All gathering for a central purpose: prayer for […]
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Miss Grambling competes for cause
Miss Grambling Ambra Brice is ranked number nine in Verizon’s Ultimate Reign Competition. The competition is sponsored by Verizon which features 10 HBCU kings and queens competing for a chance to win $15,000 for their respective charities. The website displays all ten contestants and their platforms. Students can then vote […]
Grambling pays visit to Delta CC
Nearly 200 students filled the Louisiana Delta Community College conference room to see what Grambling State University has to offer. Delta students met GSU administration, faculty, staff and students during the first “GSU Day at Delta.” “It’s a great collaborative effort between two schools to ensure students receive a […]
Unlocked gates in Freshman Village await equipment
Question linger around Freshman Village, concerning why are the gates not locked? Since August gates in Martha Adams, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman Hall have been locked. “The gates to Freshman Village are going to be locked as soon as the software and equipment to program the gate locks […]
Confusion caused by shutdown affects shoppers
Some students from Grambling State University were surprised when they had to leave behind baskets full of groceries Saturday at Walmart in Ruston. Computer glitches had forced the retail giant to stop accepting EBT cards, the debit-style food stamp cards. “Initially I was in disbelief that I couldn’t get the […]
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 The workout room was deserted leaving nothing but out-of-date equipment and black patches of the floor missing in several spots.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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]