About 30 students gathered in the cold rain outside Houston Cole Library on Monday before heading up to the 11th floor to protest the planned $37 million stadium expansion.
As the Jacksonville State University Board of Trustees gathered, the students held signs and talked to people passing by about their view on the stadium expansion.
The next leg of Bill Meehan's journey in higher education may take him across the Georgia line, down to a school on whose campus he has never set foot — Valdosta State University.
VSU, a regional university as well, holds many of the same appeals for Meehan as JSU once did.
On Monday, April 14, the Jacksonville State University Board of Trustees decided, in a unanimous vote on Resolution 515, to increase tuition for the first time in two years. Undergraduate tuition will shoot up 12.4 percent and graduate courses by 11 percent. The university's graduate and undergraduate distance learning courses will undergo a $50 per credit hour increase, and the cost of residence housing will shoot up 15 percent. The fee required when applying to JSU is also increasing from $20 to $30.
JSU's more than decade-old Web site is getting a facelift. The site has remained virtually unchanged since the early to mid-1990s, according to Graham Lewis, one of the remodelers. By mid-May, the team hopes to have the site in operation.
On the afternoon of April 14, the Jacksonville State University Faculty Senate met to discuss subjects such as the proposed stadium expansion, the increase in tuition, and the plan by the university to implement a bus transit system on campus.
Jessica Haynes, a 20-year-old college student majoring in graphic design at Jacksonville State University, has been faced with stress while planning her October wedding. She's also had to adjust to living with her fiancé, Brandon Johnson, 24.
On Wednesday night, April 9, Common Sense Media held their third annual "JSU Rocks the Runway Fashion Show" in the Leone Cole Auditorium. The show was coordinated by JSU senior Brandie Foreman and hosted by junior Fred Washington, Jr.
Countless hours spent with one's nose in a book may burn mental energy, but the mind and body need exercise to perform at their peak. College students often spend a great deal of time in their sedentary pursuits. With high school gym classes behind them, most college students struggle to find time to exercise.
In the campus crime docket of this week's print edition, it incorrectly stated that Jerry Perkins was arrested, when Perkins was actually the arresting officer. The Chanticleer regrets this mistake and offers an apology to all who were affected.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — John McCain called Tuesday for the federal government to free people from paying gasoline taxes this summer and ensure that college students can secure loans this fall, proposals aimed at stemming the public's pain now from the troubled economy.