2008 Woodie Awards
The Norfolk State University Police Department will soon be located in a new building adjacent to Scott Dozier Dining Hall. The NSU police staff is currently working out of three trailers that are on the side of Brown Memorial Hall.
Recently, breaking news has been released about the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infection hitting the Hampton Roads area. Cases have been reported at ODU and VCU. Now, two cases and one possible case have recently been linked to Norfolk State University.
According to Norfolk Health Department officials, the general campus population is at low risk for contracting this infection. University officials said the reported impacted areas on campus have been sanitized. Campus health officials were contacted, but declined to comment.
During a press conference Friday morning, Virginia Health officials said not to panic about the infection, according to the Virginian-Pilot.
On a warm Monday evening in the lecture hall of Bozeman Education building at Norfolk State University on January 7, nearly 120 to 130 students, staff, and faculty came to show their respects to the late Professor Gabrielle Peltier.
"We may not be major leagues in baseball, basketball or hockey, but we're in the major leagues of transit now," said Councilman W. Randy Wright after the City of Norfolk got the green light to build a $232.1-million starter light rail line. The contract for the Hampton Roads Transit light rail, which will be aptly named "The Tide," was cleared in Congress on Saturday, September 29, 2007.
A new form of birth control approved in July 2006 prevents pregnancy for up to three years. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia, a non-profit organization that provides reproductive healthcare and family planning to the Hampton Roads area, now offers this new method.
The continuation of the heated discussion about the Jena Six was aired Monday at 5 p.m. on the Dr. Phil show. A conglomerate of mostly all the people that were directly involved with the alleged racially fueled attack on Justin Barker in December 2006, discussed the issues surrounding the incident.
Warmth filled the Scott-Dozier banquet hall on Tuesday, November 27, when students, faculty and staff came together to honor and celebrate the homecoming of Yacob Hailemariam. Hailemariam, a former political science professor of Norfolk State, was jailed in his native country Ethiopia for almost two-years.
"It's not over [the dream] none of us are slaves to ourselves" -- The Honorable John Charles Thomas Beginning in front of the Lyman Beecher Brooks Library, the march was packed with students and teachers alike who had come to honor the life of Dr.
This semester, 70 percent of all freshmen who enrolled for the Fall 2006 semester, returned to continue their education. This percentage is the highest that the university has seen in the past five years. This past August, a committee of faculty and staff members was created by Norfolk State University's President Carolyn Meyers.
Are you extremely tired? Do you have a headache, a high temperature, a sore throat, a dry cough, runny or stuffy nose? How about muscle aches, and stomach aches such as vomiting and diarrhea? If you answered yes to most or all of these questions, you may have the flu.
Norfolk State University alumus, Askia Sparrow, co-founded a tutoring/mentoring program during his senior year at NSU in 1990. Manhood Through Uplift (MTU) Rites of Passage Process is a male development and mentoring program for black youth in Hampton Roads ages 12-16 in grades six-10, primarily attending Norfolk Public Schools.
Tidewater Community College has done Norfolk State a service by reviving its dying funeral service education program by taking full control. The result? -an increase in enrollment. The funeral service program offers an associate's degree to students interested in becoming embalmers and funeral home operators.
As of July 1, Virginia has established traffic laws along with other laws that will help the state with project funding. These new laws will add hundreds and thousands of dollars in fines and court fees along with jail time if convicted or charged with offenses such as traffic violations or smoking near a gas pump.
Seven people, including a Norfolk State University football player, were arrested and face drug and weapon charges. Naron M. Sanderlin, a 20-year old wide receiver at NSU, was charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and concealed weapon.
How did you become interested in audiology? As far back as I can remember, I've been interested in sound and how sound systems work (e.g..,telephone, walki-talkies, radio, etc.) In fact, when I was in elementary school, I took a radio apart for a class project.
At 2:02 the morning of October 5th, a Norfolk State University security officer responded to a call from the Spartan Suites indicating that there was a fire in the building.
When Kafi Rouse was elected to be president of the Portsmouth Rotary Club last year, she shockingly realized that she was changing history. Not only will she be the first black female rotary president in Portsmouth, but she will be the first in the entire region.
During the weekend of September 29-30, four members of NSU STAND (A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition) attended a conference of over 400 student activists in Washington, D.C. to learn how to be better advocates for the people of Darfur, Sudan and victims of future genocides.
Today the only birth control choices for men are condoms, vasectomies, or keep your zipper closed. But in the near future, men may get an alternative that many women have already been sticking to. After having six children with his wife who couldn't take birth control for health reasons, biochemist Joseph C.
While summer vacation faded seemingly faster than it began, a number of students find themselves in a predicament. "The demand for housing exceeded our expectations this year," said Director of Residence Life & Housing Faith Fitzgerald. According to Fitzgerald, university housing accommodates only a third of the entire student population.
Throughout the past years, it would not be out of the ordinary to stroll the Hamm Fine Arts building and notice sets of dry clay footprints prevalent in certain areas. Though this may have proven mildly annoying to some, an even bigger impact is now felt because those footprints will never be seen again.
At forty-five minutes past nine the morning of November 6, an ambulance truck left the front of the office of the Spartan Suites with a passenger in tow. The passenger was a female resident, whose name will remain unanimous, had succumbed to a seizure. As the female student walked through the front entrance of the Spartan Suites she suddenly collapsed.
As Mae Wall Miller was slowly helped to the podium, the years of slave labor showed in her broken pace. An eerie hush and nervous calm fell over students, staff, faculty and guests gathered in the L. Douglas Wilder Center. "I am your former slave" said Miller.
In light of the killing spree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Norfolk State officials are reviewing their Crisis Communications Plan. Ordinarily, the plan is reviewed annually, but Director of News and Media Relations Sharon Hoggard thinks that the recent events call for reassessment, to ensure that NSU would be prepared if a similar tragedy struck.
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