Health Care Reform..Health Care Reform...Health Care Reform!!!!

The Virginia Organizing Project and Health Care for America Now members across the state have attended Town Hall meetings, written letters to the editor, canvassed with their neighbors, and made phone calls to urge our Members of Congress to support this legislation. We MUST keep this up!
Please call 1-877-264-4226 and ask Senators Mark Warner and Jim Webb and all of our 11 U.S. Representatives to support this health care legislation.

VOP- Making a Change for the betterment of the Community

Virginia Organizing Project to received the 2009 Community Change Champion Awardfrom the Center for Community Change.

Loddy Workshop

Are you persuasive? Are you interesting in politics? Do want to know more about lobbying? The Virginia Organizing Project will host at Citizen Lobbying Workshop at General Assembly Building, 9th & Broad Streets, Richmond VA from 10:00am - 1:00pm. to participate you must register by November 30th. For more information contact, Cathy Woodson, (804) 261-7497 or cwoodson@virginia-organizing.org

VOP- An Organization for the People

The Virginia Organizing Project is a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives. VOP especially encourages the participation of those who have traditionally had little or no voice in our society. By building relationships with individuals and groups throughout the state, VOP strives to get them to work together, democratically and non-violently, for change.
Want to learn more vist http://www.virginia-organizing.org/

VSU Annual Christmas Concert

Virginia State University's Department of Music, Art and Design
presents :

University Concert Choir in the ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT

Johnnella Edmonds, Conductor



Tuesday, December 1, 2009

7:00 p.m.

Anderson -Turner Auditorium

Virginia Hall

Free Admission and Open to the Public

Basketball VSU vs Fayettevile

Today the Virginia State University Mighty Trojans take on Fayettevile University in the first home game of the season. Game time starts at 5pm in Daniel Gymnasium. Come Support your might Trojans and get there early.

Ms Black & Gold Pageant: A Night in Chicago

The Miss Black & Gold Pageant for the Beta Gamma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc was held Nov 22 in the Anderson-Turner Auditorium at Virginia State University. Seven lovely contestants competed for the crown and were judged on Introductions, Career, Talent, Swimsuit, Evening Wear and Question & Answer. It was a long and stiff competition but at the end of the night Ms. Mariama Sesay-Bah was crown as the 2009-2010 Ms. Black & Gold (that's me !!!!)

Virginia State University Fall 2009 Graduate Research Symposia

A Showcase of Graduate Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Achievement
Thursday November 5, 2009
4:00 p.m. – 7:00p.m.
Harris Hall: Colson Auditorium
Get registered before Friday Oct. 30 !!!!
Presentations by Graduate students in History, Mathematics, Computer Science,
Biology, Psychology, Education, and Criminal Justice.

The Big Apple Classic: VSU vs VUU

The 4th Annual Big Apple Classic Basketball Tournament, Virginia State University vs. Virginia Union University will be held at Madison Square Gardens in New York City on December 5th. This big event for the Mighty Trojans so if you can please come out and support. For more information please visit http://www.thegarden.com/events/big-apple-classic-2009.html

The VSU 411

Hello everyone, the Virginia State University Student Government Association is continuing are efforts to help inform you, the public, about what's going on with SGA and Virginia State University as a whole. To keep you with technological advances of the university, the SGA has developed a mass texting group through broadtexter.com called " The VSU 411." Members of this group receive blast texts from the website about information involving the university. To join the group all you need is a cell phone number, then you are officially up-to-date on the 411.

VSU 's SGA is on facebook

In the Student Government Association's efforts to be more accessible to the student body and VSU at large, we created a Facebook group "VSU Student Government Association 09-10." This group is to update and inform the public on recent concerns, events, and accomplishments of the SGA. Please feel free to join this group and let us know your concerns

Check out are group

PSA on VSU Homecoming Concert 2009 from SGA

To the Students of Virginia State University:

On behalf of the Student Government Association we would like to present an official explanation of the changes that occurred during Homecoming Week to the VSU Homecoming Concert 2009.

The VSU Homecoming Concert was scheduled to include Gucci Mane since September of 2009. Due to legal circumstances, Gucci Mane was prohibited from leaving the state of Georgia for the duration of the month of October. Unfortunately, the Student Government Association and University Administration were not officially made aware of this decision until October 27^th 2009. As a result, Gucci Mane did not perform and was not permitted to schedule a make-up concert date because of security concerns. The SGA had no control over Gucci Mane not performing, but we understand the students’ frustration and felt it was necessary to let it be known how the situation occurred.

Mariama I. Sesay-Bah

Director of Marketing & Campus Relations

Student Government Association

The VSU Learning Experience

If you attend Virginia State University, please complete this survey. The results of this survey are intended to enhance the learning environment of Virginia State University.

VSU Learning Experience Survey

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc Founder's Day Ceremony at VSU

The Beta Gamma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc will host a Founder's Day Ceremony Today at Virginia State University in Foster Hall Chapel.

Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) is the first intercollegiate fraternity established by African Americans. Founded on December 4, 1906, on the campus of Cornell university in Ithaca, New York.
The founders, Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy, are collectively known as the "The Seven Jewels."The fraternity expanded when second and third chapters were chartered at Howard University and Virginia Union University in 1907. Beginning in 1908, Alpha Phi Alpha became the prototype for other Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLO). Today, there are over 680 active Alpha chapters in the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, the West Indies, and the Virgin Islands.

Alpha Phi Alpha evolved into a primarily service organization and has provided leadership and service during the Civil Rights Movement and addresses social issues such as Apartheid, AIDS, urban housing, and other economic, cultural, and political issues affecting people of color. The Martian Luther King, Jr National Memorial and World Policy Council are programs of Alpha Phi Alpha, and the fraternity jointly leads philanthropic programming initiatives with March of Dimes, Head Start, Boy Scouts of America and Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America.

Dr. Keith T. Miller is the next president of VSU

Dr. Keith T. Miller, current president of Lock Haven University, will be the new President of Virginia State University starting June 2010

Dr. Miller is President of Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Arizona. He started his academic career at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Teaneck Campus in New Jersey and later became Associate Dean of the School of Business at Quinnipiac College in Connecticut and Dean of the College of Business at Niagara University in New York. In 2001, Dr. Miller was named Provost and Vice Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. In 2004, Dr. Miller was selected to serve as President of Lock Haven University. Currently, he serves on the Clinton County Community Foundation, Sovereign Bank Board, Pennsylvania Campus Compact, AASCU Committee on Policies and Purposes, Lock Haven Kiwanis, and the Board of Directors of Adventures in Health, Education & Agricultural Development.

Tiger Woods in Accident, while media tries to scar is image

Famous athlete Tiger Woods was involved in a car accident on Friday November 27th outside his home at 2:30 in the morning, crashing his own car. Tiger has not spoken to the police but instead made a statement on his website on Sunday saying he was solely responsible for the accident outside his Florida home, which left him with facial cuts, some bruises and a welter of unwelcome publicity.
Although there is no speculation of driving under any influence, the celebrity news website TMZ.com reported that a dispute between Woods and his wife, former model Elin Nordegren, was at the center of the incident.
I believe this is just an attempt to bring another star African-American athlete down in the public eye. It was small car accident and he's fine now, so just leave the man alone.

Tiger's accident

Jackson's "This Is It" set for January DVD release

For all you MJ fans out there who want to relive his last moments on stage in your own living room,The Michael Jackson documentary "This Is It" will be released on DVD and Blue-ray Disc on January 26.

You’re pretty for a dark-skinned girl

This is a statement that has plagued the African-American community. Why is it that people are shocked by beauty of someone with a darker complexion? Or are African-Americans still stuck with the hatred embedded from slavery.
The color complex among African-Americans has affected the way we feel about each other and our race. Light skinned girls and dark skinned girls can’t get along. Dark skinned girls resent their fair skinned sisters, while they, just want to fit in and considered black. “Light, bright, and damn near white,” is the phrase they hear unless they are being complimented on their long, gorgeous “good hair.” Which in turn is used against the little girl with “nigga napes,” because society tells her kinky hair is uncivilized.
Since slavery first began in America, slaves were divided by their complexion. If you were lighter skinned you worked in the house and were treated better. Darker skinned slaves were sent to the fields dealt with more mistreatment. This separation placed on the slaves still lives on today.
In the book “Don’t Play in the Sun” I read about a sorority using “the brown paper bag test” on acceptance into their sorority at Howard University. Members of this sorority would hold a brown paper bag to the face of prospects, and if their skin color was darker than the paper bag they were denied acceptance to the sorority. I couldn’t believe such acts were still practiced up to the end of the 20^th century.
The Black community of America needs to stop this nonsense of self discrimination. Its united we stand so let’s stand together and acknowledge all black beauty.

VSU Presidental Search is Over

The next president of Virginia State University has been confirmed. The Presidential Search Committee has made a decision on the next President to take current President Eddie Moore's seat. Some students and faculty have expressed their concerns about the selection process of this next president, stating that enough input was taken into consideration from all parties by the search committee. Members of the committee stated their were surveys and forms throughout the year to give everyone at Virginia State University a chance to voice their opinions. None the less, the next president is here and there will be a brunch to meet the president today in Jones Dining Hall, second floor, at 11am. All are welcome.

The jellyfish are taking over

Giant jellyfish have been reported in Japan's fishing areas and have put Japan's fishermen in danger. The jellyfish have migrated toward the pacific from what scientists believe is a cause of global warming. Could this small invasion of giant jellyfish in Japan be foreshadowing of what is yet to come???

http://http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=16887623&ch=4226714&src=news

Healthcare Reform

The health care reform bill was passed in the House of Representatives a couple weeks ago and now is set to be on the floor in the Senate tomorrow. The bill was passed only by a few votes and it looks as if there may be some trouble getting it passed in the Senate, with Democrats needing 60 votes to get it passed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091130/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul

White House: State Dinner Crashers met Obama

 A reality TV hopeful and husband, Michaele and Tareq Salahi met President Barak Obama after a Secret Service failed to see if they were in fact on the guest list at his dinner last Tuesday.  Michaele has been recognized as a candidate for "The Real Housewives of D.C." I guess people will do anything to get on television these days, even crash a dinner at the White House.

http://www.necn.com/Boston/Nation/2009/11/27/Secret-Service-head-takes/1259376174.html