The Delta Statement

Photo of Stephanie Messer as a undergraduate student

Green Light: Stephanie Messer is Fashion Forward

Aallyah Wright, Editor March 25, 2016

  "Three words!" Stephanie Messer said while laughing. "Just three? You're asking the wrong thing of an English major!" Anyone who knows Messer knows that she is a very flamboyant person...

Green Light: #UniteToFight

Green Light: #UniteToFight

Aallyah Wright, Editor March 25, 2016

Delta State University junior, Stephon Jackson, has been battling with sickle cell anemia since birth. To help bring awareness to the disease, Jackson is starting an organization called United Sickle...

Photo from Keiths Facebook page.

Green Light: Keith Johnson, Prince of the Blues

Aallyah Wright, Editor March 3, 2016

Keith Johnson is a senior Delta Music Institute audio engineering major at Delta State University and is taking the blues world by storm as the Prince of the Blues. A native of Glen Allan, Miss., Johnson...

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Greenlight: Jonathan Westfall

Rebecca Carroll, Staff Writer March 3, 2016

Dr. Jonathan Westfall, is an assistant professor for Psychology and Coordinator for First Year Seminar at Delta State University. Westfall joined the DSU psychology faculty in Fall 2014. “I chose...

Photograph of Janie Magee

Green Light: Janie Magee

Rebecca Carroll, Staff Writer February 24, 2016

Janie Magee is an instructor and the clinical director for the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Delta State. Magee came to work at DSU in the fall of 2011. She was a rehab director at a...

Todd Davis

Green Light: Todd Davis

Katherine White and Sheldon Ransom February 22, 2016

Todd Davis is part of the Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Department at Delta State University. He runs the OKRA Camp and is Director of Outdoor Recreation. Davis has been a teacher at DSU...

Chocolate Lovers Month

Chocolate Lovers Month

Rebecca Carroll, Staff Writer February 15, 2016

Valentine’s Day is coming up, and many different types of chocolate can be seen on the shelves at just about every store around. According to The Statistical Portal website, chocolate sales in the United...

Green Light: Amber Dodge

Green Light: Amber Dodge

Rebecca Carroll, Staff Writer February 11, 2016

Amber Dodge is a junior majoring in wildlife management from Goldsboro, N.C. Dodge wants to work in a rehabilitation center for animals but is still unsure what kind of animals she would like to work...

Green Light: Tori Summers

Green Light: Tori Summers

Rebecca Carroll, Staff Writer February 11, 2016

Tori Summers is a senior speech and hearing science major at Delta State. She said she plans to work as a speech-language pathologist until she can continue her path towards a master’s in special...

Green Light: All Gas, No Brakes

Green Light: All Gas, No Brakes

Aallyah Wright, Editor February 9, 2016

Twenty-two year old, Treyzar “Boochie” Eatmon, is an entrepreneur and current student at Delta State University. See why he shines so bright. Eatmon started his own organization, All Gas No Breaks,...

Green Light: Natalie Carroll

Green Light: Natalie Carroll

Rebecca Carroll, Staff Writer February 9, 2016

Natalie Carroll is an assistant professor of Graphic Design at Delta State University. This is Carroll’s second year teaching at DSU. She teaches beginner and upper level courses such as Typography, Package Design, and Advanced Graphic Design. During the summer, she normally teaches a section of Introduction to Art. Carroll said she almost got a degree in chemistry because she excelled in science but after visiting the Art Department at The University of Tennessee at Martin, “something just clicked.” “I was just drawn to the field of design and how versatile it could be,” she said. When she is not designing for a client, her personal portfolio is more in the digital art/collage realm. She likes the idea of fragments, colors, and repeated images. She said that she likes breaking images up, this way it loses its original meaning and becomes something completely different. She is an active member of the trivia group,...

Delta State journalism students Laura Orsborn (left to right), Elisabetta Zengaro, Conor Bell (back row), Tiago Doneux, Aallyah Wright and La Tia Penn display a record number of Mississippi Press Association awards for news, editorials, features, photography, graphic design and general excellence. The awards were presented at the annual Better Newspaper Contest in Jackson on March 26. Associate professor Patricia Roberts, Delta Statement advisor, is fourth from left. (The Delta Statement)

Forever Grateful For Your Presence

Alecia Wilson, Staff Writer February 9, 2016

Professor Roberts: You taught me so much in so little time. It breaks my heart that you can't teach me again in this lifetime. As I write this, I smile as the tears flow because I know that you are...