GSC’s Operation Sole Support While many know that Glenville State College offers a quality education for local students, as well as being a source of employment for many families, it is often understated how much the college contributes to the daily lives of other people in the community as well. From college sponsored projects that are cleaning up litter along roadsides and parks, removing trash and tires in nearby streams, or that have repaired and painted local houses, the college has continuously contributed to the [...]

This is Your Brain…on Spring Break While this pause in the semester for spring recess gives us all a much needed break from the papers and exams of midterm week, for many, this will be a time when their education takes a back seat to personal desires. While we all welcome this distraction from the continuous pressures of scholarly pursuit, most of us do not take advantage of this time to keep up with school work. Many will go to warmer climates for spring break [...]

  The GSC Bluegrass Program While many students at Glenville State College are native or have been raised in West Virginia, there remains some who have not heard the beautiful music of the mountains, bluegrass. This music is a mixture of Appalachian ballads imported from the home countries in Europe, combined with later influences from African American jazz elements. Founded on August 3, 2007 at GSC, this uniquely original program was the first of its kind offered in the country. This program was built around [...]

As students at GSC, we are all aware that this is a small college situated in a rural town, so when our school stands out in a crowded field of competing colleges and universities, this gives us all the right to feel proud of Glenville State. Recently, out of a record number of 141 business plans submitted from eleven colleges and universities from around the state, two teams of GSC students have been selected as finalists in the West Virginia Statewide Collegiate Business Plan Competition [...]

If you have ever had an interest in government management or a desire to see how the government functions, then Tashua Allman-Duval, mayor of the town of Glenville, is offering an opportunity for current undergraduates to learn about and contribute to city government management. During this time as the mayor’s intern, you may be assigned projects and tasks providing research, administrative, and staff assistance. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about careers in government as well as observe leadership roles and the everyday operation [...]

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” Martin Luther King Jr. With the recent observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I am reminded of the forward progression our nation has made in regards of racial relations and tolerance. In the not too distant past, races were segregated and minorities were treated as second class citizens here in America, the “land of the free”. [...]

Food For Thought Are you tired of studying for finals and feeling as though your head is going to explode from all the information crammed inside? If you’re getting sick of late nights, subsisting on Ramen noodles and popcorn, then come and join your fellow students, faculty, and staff for three nights of “Food For Thought”. With the semester ending, this will be a last opportunity to visit with your friends and professors before we all leave for Christmas break. These dinners, held during finals [...]

Pioneer Media The Pioneer Media is an organization of students who are interested in the fields of journalism, radio, or broadcast television. If you have the desire to write articles, a passion for music, or want to pursue a career in television media, then this is a program you may want to check out. While no experience is necessary to join in these programs, a 2.5 g.p.a. is required and a student must have completed CART 101, Introduction to Public Speaking, before they are allowed [...]

Criminal Justice Team Scores Second Place When a body has been discovered, or a crime has occurred and no witnesses are available to tell of the tragedy that has taken place, then how will we know what has happened and who is responsible for this crime? Answering these questions is the goal of the crime scene investigators, and the criminal justice field at GSC offers students the opportunity to pursue this exciting career. Recently three GSC students, Aaron Parsons (senior), Kyla Spencer (junior), and Garrett [...]

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who have fought here have thus far so nobly advanced…” Abraham Lincoln – from the Gettysburg Address, 1863. As a great nation, America has honored, respected and helped to provide certain benefits for its veterans, realizing that had it not been for their sacrifices the nation itself [...]