Come next Fall semester, YSU students will have another housing option on campus. Work has started on the construction of a new 162-bed student apartment building along Rayen Avenue between Fifth and Belmont avenues. “This project reflects YSU’s continued efforts to provide our students with the finest housing options and the most comprehensive student experience for their collegiate careers,” said Jim Tressel, YSU president. Hallmark Campus Communities will construct the four-story apartment building, called University Edge, on 3.4 acres of university-owned land.

Civil rights leader and peace activist Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine who defied threats to attend an all-white high school in 1957, waits to be introduced for a presentation on campus earlier this month. Brown Trickey was at YSU to screen a documentary on her life titled “Journey to Little Rock: The Untold Story of Minnijean Brown Trickey”. At the age of 16, Brown Trickey was one of the Little Rock Nine, the nine black teenagers in Arkansas who defied death threats, hostile white demonstrators and the National Guard, to attend an all-white high school.

Nathan Wolfe, the “Indiana Jones” of virus hunting, signs a copy of his latest book prior to giving the YSU Skeggs Lecture Oct. 8, in Stambaugh Auditorium. Below, Wolfe is interviewed by a Vindicator reporter.