Georgia State will now consider accepting undocumented students at its Atlanta campus, and some advocates for immigrants’ rights are hailing the news as a triumph over a policy that’s been called discriminatory and segregating. But, […]
On Nov. 12, when state Sen. Vincent Fort officially stepped into Atlanta’s crowded race for mayor, he told supporters he wants to offer tuition-free community college to the city’s public school grads. The Atlanta Democrat, […]
University President Mark Becker said activists vying for a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) to address concerns of gentrification during Turner Field’s redevelopment are barking up the wrong tree. Becker told The Signal that members and […]
Atlanta Police Department’s Deputy Chief Joseph Spillane will soon claim the chief seat of Georgia State’s campus police force. After an extensive, nationwide search for the new chief of Georgia State’s police department, Spillane was […]
A Georgia State student killed himself Thursday afternoon by jumping from the 26th floor of 25 Park Place, a skyscraper which houses Georgia State’s advising center and offices for the college of arts and sciences. […]
Activists for undocumented students are asking Georgia State’s Student Government Association (SGA) senate to buckle down to fight policies which bar undocumented students from the state’s top colleges. At SGA’s Oct. 13 senate meeting Laura […]
Fresh legislation authored by Atlanta City Councilman Kwanza Hall aims to decriminalize nearly all the city’s “quality of life” offenses, which, he claims, are targeting marginalized people. Hall lobbed this ordinance at city hall to […]
Students, protesters and advocates alike can no longer rally in Georgia State’s Library Plaza. After a Student Government Association (SGA) proposition was ratified by university officials last year, the school has allocated two spots at […]
When Georgia’s anti-mask laws were scrawled into state code some 60 years ago, supportive legislators sought to curb anonymous violence by hooded Ku Klux Klansmen. But first-year Georgia State student Nabila Khan never guessed such […]
After some minor head-butting with campus police on Sept. 7 afternoon, advocates marched to Georgia State University President Mark Becker’s office to deliver a letter demanding he sit down with neighbors of Turner Field to […]
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