THE COLONNADEThe Offi cial Student Newspaper of Georgia College

September 9, 2011 www.GCSUnade.com Volume 88, No. 4

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LAURALEE IAQUINTOCONTRIBUTING WRITER

As the anniversary of Sept. 11 nears, many have moved past the events that took place ten years ago. The feelings of fear and grief took hold of most Americans that day; how-ever, law enforcement offi cers and fi refi ghters were in the heart of the disaster, and continue to feel its effects. These professionals’ daily routines have changed since that day – with procedure becoming more strict.

For Captain Gilbert French of the Baldwin County Fire Department, many things have changed when it comes to his job. Safety re-quirements are strongly enforced and overall policy has become stricter.

“Since Sept. 11, many things have become different. National Incident Management is now mandatory training, so all fi refi ghters are on the same page, as well as HAZMAT stan-dards across the entire country,” French said.

“I think it made all of us look really hard at communication, because Milledgeville might be small, but we could still be a target, and because of that, we are much more united,” French said.

As a precaution, men and women in the Baldwin County Fire Department have start-ed branch-specifi c training. French must con-duct pre-incident planning once a month.

“We go to commercial businesses and conduct drills on how to get citizens out, and we need to know how buildings are built and

where the exits are for this same reason,” French said.

These changes make communication in this fi eld easier.

Georgia College Public Safety has not seen as much change in their daily routine as the Baldwin County Fire Department.

“I believe more things are the same than different, as far as how we operate,” Public Safety Detective Michael Baker said.

However, Baker does see one difference within Public Safety.

“I think the biggest change in the ten years since that infamous day is communication,” Baker said. “Means of communication have been enhanced since then with the develop-ment of new technology over the years… dig-ital broadcasting radios and better network-ing abilities, allow agencies to communicate clearer, farther and faster than before,” Baker said.

Much like French, Baker stated the entire unit of GC Public Safety is much more uni-fi ed because of the new and better means of communication.

GC students, although some were not di-rectly affected by the events of Sept. 11, still realize the daily repercussions of the day. Elizabeth Hutchinson, freshman special edu-cation major, has noticed changes in the way she travels.

“It seems like airport security is a lot more extensive, but that is just from my limited ex-perience.” Hutchinson said.

EMILY RIVERSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The ten-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is quickly approaching. While in the past, Georgia College has held small college-wide memorials, this year The GIVE Center Director Ken-dall Stiles, along with Pam Beer of The Baldwin Bulle-tin, decided Milledgeville’s ceremony for the National Day of Service and Remem-brance should be a bit differ-ent. The remembrance event at Georgia College spans fi ve days, Sept. 9-13.

“We want not only to remember and honor those who lost their lives ten years ago, but also to thank those who keep us safe here in Milledgeville on a daily ba-sis,” Beer said.

In order to do that prop-erly, they want the entire Milledgeville community to get involved.

Everyone is invited to join the many events being held, including a Sept. 11 remem-brance ceremony at 3 p.m., on Front Campus in honor of four individuals from Geor-gia that lost their lives on that day. A candlelight vigil will also be held on Front Campus with 92 candles to represent the number of countries that lost someone in the Sept. 11 attacks.

A walking parade will take place on Sept. 13, begin-

ning on Front Campus and ending at Georgia Military College, with a community-wide barbecue sponsored by GC, GC’s foundation, So-dexo and GMC.

Local schools are getting involved as well. Second graders at Midway Elemen-tary school will be holding a reception for Baldwin Coun-ty Fire Rescue volunteers to honor the men who keep Baldwin County safe.

Another event in honor of the attacks is the stair climb fundraiser on Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Pi Kappa Phi and the GC Fire Brigade are sponsoring a fundraiser at the Centennial Center as a way of honoring the 343 fi refi ghters that lost their lives on Sept. 11 and the 220 fl ights of stairs they climbed that day. Teams of participants will wear a fi re-man’s uniform and climb as many stairs as possible.

Anyone is welcome to participate in creating a team for a $50 registration fee. Each additional person is $25, contact stairclimb@gcsupikapp.org to register a team. Pi Kappa Phi will also be selling memorial T-shirts for $14.

The money raised will benefi t widows and children of fi remen in New York as well as the Georgia Chapter of the National Fallen Fire-men Foundation.

Billy Benzur, vice presi-

dent of both Pi Kappa Phi and the GC Fire Brigade remarked “Many Americans have, sadly, let their patrio-tism dwindle away at a time when we should all be fl ying the colors in our front yards, and cheering every time a man or woman in uniform safely returns home.”

“Through the stair climb, we hope that students and faculty of GCSU and GMC, as well as the rest of the community in Milledgeville, will remember the day the world stopped turning and will have their spirits swell with pride and appreciation for the red, white and blue and all who serve to protect it from danger both foreign and domestic,” Benzur said.

Stiles also hopes to bring the Milledgeville communi-ty and GC campus together for the anniversary.

“This type of program should, and does not, belong to one group but rather one community,” Stiles said. “We have also planned a variety of events so that in-dividuals can celebrate or remember that day in the way that they feel is impor-tant to them. It may be from remembrance of that day as well as the victims, to pay-ing tribute to the victims by doing service in honor of them or in celebrating our local heroes who protect us every day.”

9/11 past and presentSince the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, law enforcement and fi refi ghters’ daily routines in their professions have seen changes

Ten-year anniversary ceremonies aim to bring Milledgeville community and GC campus together

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INSIDE NEWS FLASH NewsSGA Vice President arrested for DUI...................2Students refl ect on Sept. 11....................................5FeaturesTiffany Bishop remembered....................................9Memories of 9/11......................................................9

Leisure.................................................................8

SportsCross country takes second at home................12Golf places sixth at Kiawah Island......................13

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Spanish professor writes novelMyron Alberto Avila, assistant professor of Spanish in the Modern Languages and Cultures Depart-ment, published his fi rst novel in Guatemala. The title of the Spanish novel roughly translates to “Adventures, Vicissitudes and Shenanigans of the Very Dexterous and Perspicacious Ms. Juana Isabel Palomeque Aycinena, alias La Jucha.” Avila’s work parodies the largely masculine tradition of the Spanish picaresque narrative. Community News........................................6

“She had a heart the size of the continental United States… Wait,

that might be underestimating how large her heart was.”

-Ginger Carter Miller,mass communication

professor

Source: CNN

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Connections program aims to break cross-cultural barriers

Caitlin RennStaff RepoRteR

For students interested in expanding their social horizons, the International Education Center offers the Connections Program to bring international and American students together on campus and in the community.

The Connections Program, coordinated by International Education Center intern and sophomore mass communica-tion major Lucine Colignon, facilitates cross-cultural friend-ships by pairing together inter-national and American students who apply for the program. New international students are partnered with current Geor-gia College students who have been on campus for at least one semester.

“With our program, you involve the time that you want. There aren’t any time requirements, you can meet where and when you want,” Colignon said. “Students sometimes go to dinner downtown or out for coffee. I know

some people even go to the lake, or a movie, or shop-ping.”

Most commonly, students spend time studying, playing sports, shopping, grabbing a bite to eat, attending cultural events or sharing holidays to-gether.

“(The program) gives students an opportunity to get to know the com-munity a little bet-

ter, and it gives the students who are already here a chance to get to know another culture and another person,” said Liz Havey, study abroad adviser at the International Education Center.

Colignon bases student matches on shared hobbies, interests, goals or curiosity about a certain region of the world. According to Havey, “She makes a really concerted effort to try to connect people with common interests and common goals. They do try to put together people that are going to get along well and enjoy time together.”

“I have an interview and I try to get to know people,” Colignon said.

In her third semester with the Con-nections Program, sophomore business management major Jade Disque says the Connections Program does a great job putting people from other cultures

Institutional fee set to remain Campus Life receives close to half million

tRiStan HaRRiSonContRibuting WRiteR

The Georgia College special institu-tion fee increased from $175 to $275 per semester for the 2011-2012 academic year. The fee was implemented at the start of the 2009-2010 academic year by the Board of Regents during a period of economic strife and was set to expire in June 2012. Continued financial instabil-ity and insufficient revenue, however, have not only caused the fee to increase but made its 2012 cessation highly un-likely.

Further state funding and federal stimulus reductions, enrollment growth and budget cuts left Georgia’s 35 pub-lic colleges and universities with a $346 million gap between revenue and expen-

ditures this year, making an increase in attendance cost unavoidable, according to the University System of Georgia’s website.

John Millsaps, associate vice chan-cellor of media and publications for the USG explained why the BOR choose to increase the fee instead of tuition.

“Since we cannot raise tuition for students on the guaranteed tuition plan, the fee increase was more equitable and fair to all students,” Millsaps said.

Increasing a system-wide “general purpose fee,” such as the special insti-tution fee, is essentially a way to raise tuition without making the tuition base any higher.

“It goes to the same thing as tuition,

SABC allocates $450,000 to Campus Life, which amounts to 45 percent of entire budget

SabRina CHandleRStaff RepoRteR

This year the Department of Campus Life received $450,000 from the Student Ac-tivity Budget Com-mittee. The money comes from stu-dent activity fees, which are separate fees not covered in tuition.

The allocation may be consid-ered excessive compared to other SABC allocations, but when looking at the large num-ber of activities offered, the cor-relation between budget and activi-ties is apparent.

The yearly allocation pro-cess is very important for student groups like the De-partment of Campus Life to receive money.

According to Paul Jahr, fi-nancial advisor to the SABC, every spring the SABC an-nounces that it is accepting money requests for student ac-tivities. Any Recognized Stu-dent Organization can request money, and is then asked to

present a proposal as a follow up to their request.

“After deliberation and rec-ommendations, your elected SGA president announces which organizations will re-

ceive money for the follow-ing fiscal year, and how much money they will receive,” Jahr said.

Many differ-ent organiza-tions are within the Department of Campus Life. Some of the organizations include recre-ational sports and Greek life.

Director of Campus Life

Tom Miles says the money goes first to personnel costs, which takes a large chunk of out of the budget. In fact, per-sonnel costs for this year are $285,000, including salary for employees who work with student activities and the em-ployee’s benefits.

“The remaining amount of money goes to where the

SGA Vice President arrested for DUIbobbi otiS and aubRie Sofala

SenioR RepoRteRS

SGA Vice President Ross Sheppard was charged with driving under the influence of al-cohol after an arrest on Aug. 20, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office incident report. Sheppard was involved in a traffic stop in Putnam County initiated by Officer Jonathan Saunders for failure to maintain lane.

Upon speaking to Sheppard, Saunders no-ticed signs of intoxication. Sheppard failed field sobriety testing and refused to submit to the portable breath test, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office incident report.

Saunders placed Sheppard under arrest for DUI (alcohol) and read him the Georgia Im-plied Consent Notice and requested breath sam-ples. Sheppard agreed to provide the samples, according to the report.

Sheppard provided samples of 0.171 and 0.175 on the Intoxilyzer 5000.

A blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 or higher is considered a DUI, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Sheppard was issued citations for DUI (al-cohol) and failure to maintain lane.

“I never saw this coming, and I think a lot of us didn’t even know,” SGA President Evan Karanovich said.

Karanovich, Director of Campus Life Tom Miles and Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Bruce Harshbarger had a private meeting with Sheppard to discuss the

issue. “We at least let him

know the procedural way about going about do-ing this. At that time Ross claimed that he would not resign,” Karanovich said.

SGA is currently explor-ing their constitution and bylaws to assist in handling the situation.

“We are still trying to determine what the best course of action and pro-tocol is to follow,” Kara-novich said.

According to SGA At-torney General Andrew Whittaker, if a student is stopped and arrested for a DUI he or she will be charged by the Office of Student Affairs for vio-lation of student Code of Conduct number two.

The Code of Conduct, found on Georgia College’s website, says that students are subject to disciplinary action for violating the code of conduct. Code number two states:

“Conduct that constitutes a danger to the personal safety of other members of the uni-versity community. This may include assault, attempted assault or the threat of assault,” ac-cording to the document.

Harshbarger states that code of conduct number two includes a DUI charge.

Whittaker commented the location of the

incident is a factor in the disci-plinary process.

“Georgia College Public Safety collects police reports from Baldwin County Sheriff, Milledgeville Police Depart-ment and, of course, their own records,” Whittaker said. “And those arrest records are referred to the Office of Student Affairs and from them we determine which students are actually en-rolled and who got in trouble from that.”

Due to the fact Sheppard’s arrest took place in Putnam County his records were not delivered to Public Safety as they would have been if the in-

cident had occurred in Baldwin County. Harshbarger states the rule applies to events

that affect campus directly in Baldwin County. The events have to present a clear danger to campus; events that occur in other counties do not apply to the rule.

“We would be doing a huge injustice to file charges against Vice President Sheppard in par-ticular instance and not everyone else, because we really shouldn’t have known about this one,” Whittaker said.

If Sheppard does not resign, he could pos-sibly be removed from office by impeachment proceedings, if impeachment articles are filed.

Any member of SGA can file the impeach-ment articles. However as Senate elections have not occurred, no impeachment proceedings can begin until after their conclusion.

Whittaker will act as prosecution and pres-ent the case to the Senate if articles are to be

Courtesy of Putnam County sherrif’s offiCeSGA Vice President Ross Sheppard was arrested in Putnam County for driving under the influence of alcohol. He had a BAC of over 0.17.

Greenhouse produces pineapple harvestKatie leVan

ContRibuting WRiteR

The Geogia College Greenhouse might be the last place one would expect to find pineap-ples, but the fruit has been harvested annually since 2006.

It all started in 2004 when Alex Kittle, biol-ogy major, purchased a pineapple from Kroger. Before Kittle ate the pineapple, he decided to attempt to harvest one of his own.

It is important to note that the top should be twisted off, not cut off in order to grow a new plant. Once the leafy top is twisted off, roots are immediately present and ready to be planted in light soil in a small pot that should drain water. The plant will soon be too big for the small pot and must be re-potted into a one-gallon con-tainer.

Two years later, in August 2006, Kittle’s pineapple plant produced its first fruit. The first generation of pineapple was harvested, and the leafy top was twisted off to plant in order to continue the cycle of this generation of pine-

apples. Since the first harvest, the pineapple plant has produced fruit almost every year.

“We have our own pineapple pro-duction here,” said GC Greenhouse Supervisor Marina Barkovski.

Barkovski began working in the GC Greenhouse as a volunteer in 2004 and has been working as the supervisor since 2005.

Producing a fruit takes a great deal of time and energy for the pineapple plant. From the first ap-pearance of a flower cluster, the fruit will take about six months un-til it is ready to be harvested.

The key to a healthy growing en-vironment for the plant is a lot of sunlight and protection from frost.

“There can never be too much sunlight,” Barkovski said.

Once the pineapple reaches the golden-yel-low hew, it is ready to be picked immediately.

Keith Moore, GC Greenhouse attendant and

senior environmental science major, har-vested this year’s pine-apple.

“Once the pineapple is a week overripe we harvest it and cut off the brown spots. The fruit has a softer, sweet-er taste,” Moore said.

Moore began work-ing in the GC green-house in August.

“I spend most of my time on the computer writing articles and modifying powerpoints, so I enjoyed harvesting this year’s pineapple,” Moore said.

One of the many perks of harvesting a pineapple, as opposed to purchasing one from the market, is that one can wait until the pineapple is about a week over-

ripe to harvest. The pineapples obtained from grocery stores

are harvested long before they are ready to eat, so they are not as fresh as a pineapple harvested in a greenhouse.

“The pineapples harvested in the GC green-house are better than store-bought pineapples. They are sweeter and juicier, and smell deli-cious,” Barkovski said.

Some GC students were unaware of the har-vest occurring annually in the GC Greenhouse.

“I never knew the GC Greenhouse was har-vesting pineapples. I think it is pretty awesome. I don’t really know too much about pineapples but I didn’t think they would grow here,” said Amanda Burke, junior environmental science major.

The GC Greenhouse will celebrate its 25-year anniversary this winter.

For more information about harvesting pine-apples, check out a step-by-step presentation at the GC Greenhouse website: http://www.gcsu.edu/greenhouse/databases.htm.

“The pineap-ples harvested in the GC greenhouse are better than store-bought pineapples.”

Marina V. Barkovski,GC Greenhouse

Supervisor

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“Beyond per-sonnel, every dime we have goes to stu-dents and their interests.”

Tom Miles,Director of

Campus Life

“It really helps to make more connections with people who would probably not otherwise meet each other.”

Liz Havey,study abroad

adviser

“I never saw this coming, and I think a lot of us didn’t even know.”

Evan Karanovich,SGA President

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City marshall urges student crosswalk safety STEFFI BEIGH

STAFF REPORTER

Approximately 115,000 pedestrians were killed from 2000 to 2009 in Georgia, according to Transportation for America. Since 2009, fatalities are still occurring all around Georgia, and college cities are hot spots for pedestrian traffi c injuries.

With 6,000 students walking to and from Georgia Col-lege’s campus each day, it is imperative that drivers and pe-destrians alike be aware of each other.

On Aug. 24, Vice President of Student Affairs Bruce Harshbarger sent out an email to the student body concerning safety precautions when using crosswalks.

This concern was brought to his attention by City Marshall and Director of Public Works Jack Graham.

Graham is “in charge of code enforcement: student laws, parking in front of student houses, sidewalks in disrepair, etc.,” Harshbarger said.

“Many students are assuming that they have the right-of-way, and that vehicles must stop for them if they are in a crosswalk,” Graham said in an email sent to Harshbarger. “These students often don’t look, don’t acknowledge oncom-ing vehicles, don’t acknowledge the ‘Walk / Don’t Walk’ signs and just walk into harm’s way.”

In the past, both Detective Michael Baker and Harshbarger have said there have been students hit by vehicles.

“The intersection of Hancock and Clarke streets has been the scene of several such accidents,” Harshbarger said.

“People have gotten hit by log trucks before,” Harshbarger said, noting that because Hancock Street is a state highway, many log trucks travel through town. According to him, the students were “fortunately knocked down by them,” and not severely hit.

Although a serious accident has not occurred this year, Public Safety and Graham are trying to avoid pedestrians ac-cidents through education.

Public Safety offi cers stood on the corners of campus at the beginning of the semester to promote safe and legal cross walking.

Harshbarger says he does not “know anyone who has been cited for jaywalking,” but correct crossing is encouraged.

Occasionally jaywalking laws are enforced, but Baker says that normally, Public Safety “(doesn’t) really give tickets for jaywalking” and usually gives verbal warnings.

Public Safety does give tickets out for darting into traffi c, Baker said.

Harshbarger says students are also to blame for lack of at-tention. “I’ve noticed a lot of people looking at the phone or students crossing the street while listening to music,”

Harshbarger strongly advocates for pedestrians and driv-ers to use caution and remain aware of each other.

“We all know that drivers are sometimes distracted for one reason or another, the sun, a cellphone call, adjusting the ra-dio, etc.,” Graham said in an email sent to Harshbarger. “It’s just not worth the risk to avoid everything that you have been taught.”

VICTORIA HEAD / PHOTOGRAPHERStudents use the crosswalk at the intersection of Hancock and Clarke streets. Their safety when using the crosswalks is a top priority for Geor-gia College, as fatal accidents have occured in the past.

Weatherproofi ng maintains MSU building integrityCHELSEA HINKEL

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Georgia College’s ongoing preventative maintenance program seeks to maintain the structural integrity of the Maxwell Stu-dent Union dining hall, as well as the Centennial Center, through vertical waterproofi ng. As workers continue to weatherproof the buildings, student and faculty safety remains a high priority.

The vertical waterproofi ng, carried out by Suncoast Restora-tions and Waterproofi ng Inc., includes maintaining the caulking around windows, in between control joints and also between ex-pansion joints on the buildings. This is important because every ten to 12 years the caulking in the joints begins to dry out.

The preventative maintenance program aims to replace this caulking before damage can be done to the buildings such as leaks and surface cracking. Over time, all buildings move subtly with the constantly changing landscape. The vertical control and expansion joints located every several feet exist to “control” the

subtle changes and expansions that the brick experiences every year. Thus, the caulking is an integral part of the buildings struc-ture as it seals the tiny gaps in control joints that allow the build-ing to essentially be fl exible.

“Middle Georgia is one of the few places where we have 20 degree winters and 100 degree summers,” said Donnie Beasley, plant operations project manager. “And with this extreme weath-er comes a lot of contracting and expanding.”

In order to keep the students and faculty safe a lot of the con-tracted work takes place in the evening.

To replace caulking, it must fi rst be cleaned with high-pow-ered water hoses, which is one of the main safety concerns. Working at night provides for a safe environment during school hours. Once the caulking has been cleaned, they essentially dig it out and replace it with fresh caulking.

“We try to be conscientious of our buildings which is why we always keep our eyes open around campus,” Beasley said. “It’s all about the students and faculty, and we want you guys to be comfortable, but primarily safe.”

Each year Georgia College has a budget allocated for major repairs and renovations. This year, the vertical waterproofi ng taking place is part of the requested budget from the Board of Regents. The repair and replacement of the rubber caulking on MSU and the Centennial Center is costing $165,500 for each building.

GC is known for its beautiful landscaping and stately struc-tures. In order to maintain the 88 buildings owned by the univer-sity, Plant Operations works diligently to keep up with the struc-tural integrity of all buildings. With the vertical waterproofi ng being a main priority this year, workers will be moving around MSU frequently. Because of this, all students are encouraged to use a little caution when navigating weatherproofi ng areas.

“I know that Georgia College always has the best interest of the students in mind,” said senior psychology and criminal jus-tice major Caitlin Steinhour. “I’m not really concerned for my safety because I know that the university would not do anything that would put students in harm’s way.”

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Inside Sacred Heart Catholic Church in downtown Milledgeville, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory sits in a room with more dishes of food than occupants. He is wearing a white shirt, and is surrounded by students. The lan-guid expression on his face is comforting to his parishioners.

“The main purpose is to let them know they are important,” Gregory said. “Families aren’t

always easy, but they’re always important. That’s why I try to make it every year.”

This year marks the third time the arch-bishop has come to Milledgeville to visit with the Campus Catholics. His visit is part of the group’s series this semester called “Being Bold in Your Faith.” The series is about “helping oth-ers and yourself. Being proud of your faith,” said Deacon Cesar Basilio, minister in charge of Campus Catholics.

“I’ve been doing this since 2001,” Basilio said. “I never had this opportunity in college.”

Before hosting a Q-and-A in the Arts & Sciences Auditorium, the Archbishop had dinner with the students of Campus Catho-lics.

“When you got young people, you got to feed them,” Gregory said. And Sacred Heart does, weekly. The church’s parishioners host a dinner for college students every Sunday evening after mass.

“The parishioners always have food for us,” said junior biol-ogy major Courtney LaHatte. “It keeps people coming back week after week.”

Following an introduction by Basilio, the archbishop opened the floor to questions. Stu-dents and members of Sacred Heart queried topics ranging from the archbishop’s duties to sacraments of the church.

“It’s more important I answer their questions. We are best Catholics when we stay connected to each other,” Gregory said.

The archbishop’s trek to Milledgeville is only the second of many he will make this year.

“I don’t learn about the people of the diocese working at my desk,” Gregory said.

Within the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the dis-trict for which the archbishop is responsible, there rest 95 parishes. Confirmations, anniver-saries, budgeting, planning and finance are only but a few of the archbishop’s duties.

“I was not ordained a priest to be an admin-istrator,” Gregory said. “I spend a lot of time on the road.”

The archbishop emphasized throughout the night how crucial it is for college students to “stay connected” as they develop.

“We’re so blessed,” said senior English major Sophie Dunn. “Without backbone, we wouldn’t have this ministry.” Dunn, who is the president of Campus Catholics, was elated the archbishop

was able to come to Milled-geville. Collaborating with the parishioners of Sacred Heart, Dunn and other Cam-pus Catholics engage them-selves as one body.

“We love this commu-nity,” Dunn said.

But the archbishop’s presence in Milledgeville held even more significance than a flowery promise of belonging. In Atlanta, the archbishop has begun an outreach program called

“Catholics Come Home.” The out-reach is aimed towards members of the church who have fallen away, for whatever reason. As he intends to branch this program out to the entire archdiocese, he invited the students and community to aid him. He also touched on the topic of reaching young people where they spend most of their time, the Internet.

“It’s important that the church stay connected to you, and you know there are other Catholics too,” Gregory said.

The archbishop concluded his talk with a prayer and was on his way to “hop on I-20,” Gregory said.

Campus Catholics then resumed their cus-tomary weekly rituals and ended the night with worship music and prayer.

“We are reminded that we should go to each other for support, and that we are always con-nected to the Catholics in Atlanta and all across the world, even though we are in the small town of Milledgeville,” said junior biology and chemistry major Joseph Festa.

Campus Catholics meets every Tuesday at 8 p.m., at the Campus Catholics’ house at 211 W. Greene St. Sacred Heart Catholic Church holds a college mass every Sunday at 5 p.m.

Archbishop shares faith with community

Nick WideNer/ PhotograPherThe Archbishop of Atlanta, Wilton D. Gregory, comfortably sits on stage in the Arts & Sciences Auditorium as he entertains questions from Milledgeville’s Catholic community.

filed. To be impeached there must be a two-thirds

majority vote in approval, seventeen members or more, in this case. After this step, the case is seen by the student judicial board, which requires a simple majority to approve removal.

If he were to be removed Sheppard would be precluded from running for a Student Govern-ment Association office for a full calendar year and would be replaced by the president pro tem-pore, when one is named after the Senate elec-tion.

“I am the president of SGA first and every-thing else second,” Karanovich said. “This situ-ation is a priority to me. I want to make sure that we are doing it the best way, like I said the most fair and balanced way. Ross has his rights and so do the students.”

Ross Sheppard was unavilable for comment. *Editor’s note: This article was published on

Sept. 2 on gcsunade.com.

running the institution,” Millsaps said.

SGA President Evan Karanovich understands the challenging position the BOR is in. Serving as a vital link, Karanovich works with administrators to communi-cate the students wants and needs.

“It’s kind of like a tax,” Karanovich said of the in-stitutional fee. “We demand certain things, and in order to have them, we have to pay,” Karanovich said.

Though times are tough,

Karanovich believes the BOR is doing their best to provide the highest quality education at the lowest pos-sible price.

“In my eyes it’s about finding the best solution,” Karanovich said. “We are going to get the maximum capacity out of our dollar.”

Though the cost of a col-lege education is high, stu-dents can rest assured that it is well worth the price. As a student himself, Karanovich looks at education as an in-vestment.

“It’s not a cheap invest-ment, but education is im-portant,” Karanovich said.

Elizabeth Teasley, fresh-

man undeclared major, be-lieves her education is a wor-thy investment. She wishes, however, that administrators would make financial reports more detailed and easier for students to access.

“A lot of students just pay their bill without thinking too much about it,” Teasley said. “It would be nice if they provided students with a detailed statement about exactly where their money will go.”

The BOR will meet in April 2012 to discuss financ-es concerning the upcoming academic year, including the future of the institution fee.

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in the position to get to know each other. “The most rewarding part of the program is

the satisfaction of knowing that you played a significant role in helping an international stu-dent feel welcome at Georgia College,” Disque said. “The program is also a safe way for inter-national students to ask questions about Ameri-can culture and to clear up any misconceptions that they have about life at an American univer-sity without being judged.”

The Connections Program also aids in en-couraging interactions between people that might never get a chance to engage in conversa-tion together.

“It really helps to make more connections with people who would probably not otherwise

meet each other,” Havey said. “It’s a nice op-portunity to develop another buddy, friend, per-son to be sociable with, to do things with.”

Dona Nguyen, sophomore chemistry major, thinks the program is a great program to have on campus. “We would have a lot to talk about – their culture, my culture as an American and my Asian heritage,” Nguyen said. “The main thing would be getting to talk to somebody about dif-ferent perspectives, like different political or religious points of view. You could see things from another point of view. It’s always good to be open to that spark of new ideas.”

The Connections Program serves as a bridge for international students when entering life at Georgia College.

“I think it’s kind of a mutually beneficial support system for people who are looking to diversify their experience,” Havey said.

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highest interest of students is,” Miles said. “This year, intramural sports are receiving $60,000. That is where we’re spending the most, because that is what the students par-ticipate in the most.”

Following in line are the departmental costs, which add up to be $36,000. A dele-gated “special projects” budget is also in the mix. This budget is $30,000.

“Special projects usually amount to the ‘Week of Welcome,’” Miles said. “We cover the entire Week of Welcome, which gets pretty costly.”

OrgSync, a student organization manage-ment system, receives $17,000. Club sports,

such as the volleyball club and the racquet-ball club receive a total of $12,000.

Rounding out the budget, the last $10,000 is saved for summer activities.

“Beyond personnel, every dime we have goes to students and their interests,” Miles said. “When you compare our student in-volvement with other colleges, our students are extremely active and involved.”

Some students are content with the bud-get and the cost of student activity fees. Jai-mee Reyna, second year graduate assistant for the athletic training program is one of these students.

“I think that the budget is pretty reason-able after hearing where the expenses are coming from. I enjoy participating in intra-murals and I appreciate the fact that we have them available to us,” Reyna said.

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“ The main pur-pose is to let them know they are important.”

Wilton D. Gregory,archbishop

“I want to make sure that we are doing it the best way, like I said the most fair and balanced way.”

Evan Karanovich,SGA President

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Georgia College remembers . . .

“I was in the seventh grade in class. Our teacher had the TV on, but I didn’t really under-stand what was going on. It was a very confusing time for all of us.” - Maggie Maxey Junior math major

“I had just moved to Syracuse, N.Y. when the Sept. 11 attacks hap-pened. I was teaching a class when I heard about the attacks, and immedi-ately cancelled class.” - Sandra Godwin Assistant professor of sociology

“I was in the seventh grade, and I remember my teacher getting a lot of calls on her phone. Eventually, a bunch of kids were taken out of school by their parents.” - Kim Gronroos Senior psychology major

“I was in the second grade and I remember our teacher tried to explain what was hap-pening. I couldn’t fully understand the extent of what was going on be-cause I was too young.” - Colleen McGlade Freshman early childhood education

“I remember being at lunch when I fi rst heard the news about the 9/11 attacks. It was a very scary and confusing day.” - Kathryn Ash Sophomore early childhood education major

“It was early in the morning and somebody came into the room, tell-ing the teacher to turn on the TV. She went out for a moment then came back, telling the calss that a tragic but historic event had occurred and we needed to see it.” - Kalae White Sophomore English major

“I lived in Hawaii when it happened. That was about second grade for me. All I remember is that I didn’t go to school that day.” - Max Graessle Freshman computer science major

“I was coming from Chick-fi l-A with a friend. Her grandfather was driving and talking on the phone; looking back, he was probably talking about what happened.” - Holly Nix Freshman environmental science major

“I was in a meeting in At-lanta when we found out the fi rst tower had been hit. We assumed it was an accident, but my boss’s nephew was actually in one of those towers.” - Heidi Fowler Assistant professor Department of Kinesiology

“I remember how shock-ing it was. I was in the eighth grade and the im-ages were so violent, like something in a movie.” - Laura Turner Biology graduate student

“I was in the third grade and my brother was in kindergarten and he said ‘people don’t like the U.S. did something really bad but just know your mom and dad love you.’” - Brittain Edwards Freshman political science major

“My mom came and picked me up early from school. I had no idea what was going on so I was just really excited I got to leave school.” - Elise Williams Freshman art major

“I remember my math teacher turned on the TV in class even though she wasn’t supposed to because her husband was on a plane to New York for work.” - Kelsey Callahan Junior psychology major

“I remember sitting in my sixth grade history class watching a movie and all of a sudden they turned it off and said there was a huge issue going on with the coun-try.” - Bruce Nyland Senior business management major

“I was sitting in Ms. Johnson’s sixth grade history class and there was a knock on the door and the teacher stopped class and walked outside and came back in with a concerened look on her face.” - Derek Sears Junior exercise science major

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August 26 at 2:23 a.m. Sgt. Reonas was dispatched to the refl ection pool on Greene Street in reference to two males swimming in the pool, according to Public Safety. As the offi cer approached the males, they started to run away from him. Sgt. Reonas began to pursue the individuals, but had to stop when he injured his leg while running. The offi cer observed the two males use a swipe card to enter Foundation Hall. Sgt. Reonas was unable to fi nd the subjects after they entered the building. Detective Baker pulled video footage from Foundation Hall the next day and discovered the identity of the male who swiped into the residence hall. Sgt. Reonas contacted the male, who admitted to running from him and being under the infl uence of alcohol at the time of the incident. In lieu of arrest, the male is being referred to the Student Judicial Board.

SWIPE GET-A-WAY

Saturday, September 10

Monday, September 12

Tuesday, September 13

7 p.m. Art Stop for Kids interest meeting (Mayfair Hall 101)7 p.m. Thunder Crew new members meeting (Centennial Center 104)

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Men’s Club Soccer versus Emory season opener (West Campus)

5 - 6 p.m. Criminal Justice Club meeting (Arts & Sciences 236)7 - 10 p.m. Ten-Year Anniversary Stair Climb for Sept. 11 (Centennial Center)

Sunday, September 112 - 10 p.m. 9/11 Never Forget Ceremony and Celebration (Front Campus)

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August 31 at 12:33 a.m. Sgt. Reonas was dispatched to The Village Building 5 in reference to a male who was passed out and unresponsive in the hallway, ac-cording to Public Safety. Sgt. Reonas made contact with housing personnel who advised they found the male passed out in front of one of the rooms. Sgt. Reonas was able to smell the strong odor of an alco-holic beverage coming from the 18-year-old male. EMS was called and the male was transported to Oconee Regional Medical Center for treatment and evaluation. Five hours later ORMC staff called and advised that the male was still passed out and had a BAC of .394g. The next morning ORMC called and stated they were getting ready to release him. Sgt. English picked the male up at ORMC and charged him with underage possession of alcohol and trans-ported him to Milledgeville Police Department for processing. This case is also being referred to the Student Judicial Board.

August 27 at 11:34 a.m. Offi cer Mason reported that the front glass of the Macon Center was broken during a fi ght on the sidewalk the previous night, according to Public Safety. The amount of damage to Georgia College property is unknown at this time. The Macon Police Department is handling the case.*

August 29 at 2:02 p.m. A male reported that he lost his wallet during the night of Aug. 27 while visiting bars downtown, according to Public Safety. The male stated the wallet contained several credit cards, $11 cash, a permit to carry a concelaed weapon, a Bobcat Card and a driver’s license. The male did not report any fraudulent activity on his credit cards.*

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September 9, 2011• Editor-in-Chief, Bobbi OtisOpinion

“I try to be courteous of drivers so I’ve never had a problem on the crosswalks.’”Sam Hardy, senior accounting major

“The crosswalks past the Den going to-wards Hancock is where I’ve had the most trouble.”Matt Wheeler, sophomore outdoor education major

“Have you had any close calls in the crosswalks?”

Bobcat BeatREPORTED BY ANNA MORRIS

Dear GCSU,As a commuter I would greatly appreciate if you’d get

the parking situation under control. You have “com-muter” stickers for people that live off campus, but

within walking distance of school. These people often drive to class and take up parking spaces that could be used by those of us that have to drive 30+ minutes for

classes. If we can’t fi nd parking in either of the close lots, we have to go all the way to Irwin St or Centen-

nial for the shuttle. This is not what my fees go to. Build us a parking garage or something, do a better

job of assigning parking passes, something because I’m tired of having to run out to my car to avoid a ticket

because I had to park in 2 hour parking.

Dear GCSU,As a commuter I would greatly appreciate if you’d get

the parking situation under control. You have “com-muter” stickers for people that live off campus, but

within walking distance of school. These people often drive to class and take up parking spaces that could be used by those of us that have to drive 30+ minutes for

classes. If we can’t fi nd parking in either of the close lots, we have to go all the way to Irwin St or Centen-

nial for the shuttle. This is not what my fees go to. Build us a parking garage or something, do a better

job of assigning parking passes, something because I’m tired of having to run out to my car to avoid a ticket

because I had to park in 2 hour parking.

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Unity after Sept. 11, gone

We all remember. From the most elderly of faculty members to the youngest of freshmen, we all remem-ber. Sept. 11, 2001, is a day that will live in our memories forever as one of the most devastating days in our coun-try’s history.

When it happened, I remember be-ing in Mrs. Rogers seventh grade geog-raphy class, and one of the high school teachers, whose name escapes me now, kept popping her head in and out of the room giving us updates. Nobody in the small classroom with the exception of my teacher were exactly geopoliti-cal whiz-kids, so we had a tough time grasping what was really happening. Of course being in seventh grade lends itself to some of us making jokes as to our well informed predictions of who might be behind such a heinous act.

Later on in the day, I walked into my English class, and my teacher, Mrs. Kirkland, was in tears. It hit me at that point that this day would have deep, long-term ramifi cations. This little preface of what I remember from that day leads into this: It really didn’t mat-ter what was going through our minds when this happened. At the time no one was thinking clearly. It was just a gamut of emotions, most of which fell somewhere between heart-break and unadulterated anger. Now that we can look back on it over what’s nearly been ten years to the day, we have a better understanding of what it all meant.

It meant that we needed to hunker down. Our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, friends and other members of our respective communities were go-ing to be deployed to where ever they needed to go, and possibly lose their lives in order to keep this from hap-pening ever again.

It meant the political landscape would be forever changed. Everyone now needs to know where every politi-cian stands on how they will protect us from another attack of this nature.

It meant airport travel will never be the same, and it’s just something we will have to accept. Sometimes you may need to take off your shoes to board a plane, and if that is the case then so be it.

But one thing that has been lack-ing since that infamous day was the unity the country felt in the immedi-ate aftermath. The country was never more unifi ed. The images of people at candle-lit vigils, fl ying American fl ags from everywhere possible, and people just putting aside their differences because now we know life is too pre-cious to harbor hatred for one another.

In these ten short years, we seem to have lost sight of the unity we once had. It should not take something like 9/11 for us to stay strong and stand together, as we did in the aftermath of the attacks.

Do not just remember 9/11 as a day that will someday just occupy space in a history book; remember how it brought us together as families, com-munities and as a nation.

This is also something we can take to heart as a campus. If you don’t be-lieve that cliques don’t exist once you get to college, you’re in denial. On the ten year anniversary of the most vicious attack on U.S. soil, we need to forget our differences. Put aside the exclusive things we feel make us what we think we are, and just be one collective voice to air our support to our troops overseas and to each other. We should not need something like this to remind us every year, once the weather starts to cool down, and the images of that hallowed day plastered all over our televisions and minds rise yet again, that we are one people, united.

Thunder&Lightningby

Zach Keepers

STEVE HOLBERT

Truth or dare is not only for high school

Since its beginnings in the 1970s, stand-up comedy has evolved into a totally different beast. Early comedians like Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Richard Pryor set the stage for future comedians to take the torch and run with it.

The 1980s sparked the stand-up boom in America. Bill Cosby and Rose-anne Barr got their own shows, and co-medians were getting right in the pub-lic’s living room.

Stand-up’s extremely strong popu-larity in the 80s meant that it had to wane eventually, and the 90s was that time. People who thought that comedy was easy oversaturated the scene.

In the early 2000s stand-up returned to the visible spectrum of mainstream media with comedy from Dane Cook, the Blue Collar Comedy tour and Kings of Comedy, making it popular once again.

This decade, many new comedi-

ans are hitting the scene, keeping the popularity of stand-up soaring. People like Aziz Ansari, Daniel Tosh and Nick Swardson are keeping comedians on the tips of almost everyone’s tongue. But there is one person that every fan of stand-up needs to know, and if you haven’t heard of him, get out from un-der your rock.

Louis C.K. is quickly becoming a favorite of fans and other comedians alike. Patton Oswalt said in a recent GQ article that many comedians are as good, talent-wise, but no one has his level of commitment.

All this being said, look him up. C.K.’s material is pure gold. He dis-cards jokes other comedians wish they could write. He is always writing new material. While other comedians start with stand-up, only to jettison their ca-reers for movies and television, C.K. is committed to the craft. Sure, he has had small roles on shows like “Parks & Recreation,” and even writes, directs, produces, edits and, oh yeah, he is the star of the show too, which is aired on FX; but he always returns to the stage.

Even if you are not the most avid fan of stand-up, give him a shot. He proves that there’s an art to stand-up, and while it will never be perfected, he is now as close as any one person can get.

Comic Louis C.K., is a fan favorite and committed to his craft

Comedy is pure gold

KEVIN HALL

Activities that used to seem immature now have adult appeal

“I just put myself out there on the cross-walks and am usually late for class so I have a lot of close calls.”Lindsey Forester, senior rhetoric major

“I feel bad for crossing, but the cars get as close to the crosswalk as possible; cars at the crosswalk are very impatient.”Haley Brookshire, sophomore middle grades education major

In high school, certain activities seem im-mature such as skipping class, plagiarism and sexual experimentation, but after several years of higher education, these events possess latent adult appeal. In a sea of possibilities, one pas-time stands out as the paragon of professional-ism and occurs nightly on campus among people regardless of race, creed or alcohol tolerance: truth or dare. This quasi-Olympic sport is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, but every time, play-ers run out of philosophical truths or inspira-tional dares, and resort to switching clothes and sharing anatomic secrets. Never fear, here is a list of truths and dares perfect for undergradu-ate students seeking a night of progressive fun.

TRUTHSShould you be studying? If so, what?• Do you intend on marrying the person you’re • dating? If so, what’s your time frame? If not, why are you fi lling them with false hope?Does your major fulfi ll you emotionally? If • not, why are you afraid to swap?Should you have stopped drinking a while • ago? Why didn’t you stop?Are you unhappy with your body image? If • so, what have you done to change it?Are you lonely? If so, how often do you leave • your room or post online ads?What do you spend the majority of your mon-• ey on? Where do you see yourself in fi ve to ten years? • (Prison is a landmark not a destination.)Do you have a long term crush on anyone in • the circle? Is he or she your best friend? Are you his or her ride? On the way home, why don’t you stop for Golden Pantry, lock the car doors and talk? Have you ever failed a course? If so, • was if really the professor’s fault? If so, why didn’t you write the dean?

DARESIf you are unemployed, fi ll out a job applica-• tion.If your signifi cant other is unemployed and • has not fi lled out a job application, dump him or her and date someone with initiative. Let someone view your Internet history and • openly discuss questionable material.Throw away everyone’s contraceptives, and • live off of the pleasure of literature for a week.Give the host’s dog to someone who will • love it instead of using it to pick up women.Call your landlord, Community Advisor, • or parent and tell him or her how many pin holes or paint stains are covered with furni-ture or toothpaste.Find an unattractive person in the circle and • style his or her hair for maximum sex ap-peal.Sign your friend up for the GRE, fi ll out his • or her basic information on a Yale applica-tion, and say, “If anyone can, it’s you.” Write your favorite Bible verse on your • friend’s face in Sharpie.

Slow journey to class over the crosswalks

September 9, 2011 • Editor, Anna MorrisLeisureCrossword Sudoku

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It’s in the Bag

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The top five “tote-ally” chic and functional school bags for this year. Not looking for a school bag? All the bags on this

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Decorative prints are a great way to show off personal style. Its simple cotton canvas bodyis durable enough to hold your books, or fill it up with your camera and art supplies.

ArtsyFossil “Key-Per” Graphic ToteFound at: dillards.com

Impress your friends with this sleek tartan satchel with leather trim. Large enough to carry a 15” laptop and a couple of notebooks, it’s also an awesome weekender for those quick trips to Athens.

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This messenger bag’s body is made of 100 per-cent recycled materials and is ideal for daily use.Not just for school books, this bag has a large main body compartment great for toting your yoga mat to Greenway Yoga Classes Fridays at 9 a.m.

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Add some sparkle to your day with this glam se-quined ziptop tote! The large main compartment is great for school books, or use this as a beach bag to carry your towel and magazines when Spring Break comes around.

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JanSport is a classic brand to go to when shopping for sturdy school bags. Ideal for those carrying laptops, the Ella tote comes with a padded interior sleeve that can fit a 15” laptop. This bag is unisex and comes in a variety of colors and patterns.

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F o l k - p o p o u t f i t

Jack and White has hit the indie music scene with their first studio release,

the “Gemini EP,” which dropped in late August. The duo consists of Jack Matranga and Brooke

White, two California natives looking to embody the easy, breezy sound of the West Coast through their music. The

“Gemini EP” is a six-track album loaded with acoustic melo-dies, upbeat rhythms and seamless vocal harmonizing fit for an afternoon lounging on the warm sands of Huntington Beach. The album opens with the jubilant “Double Trouble,” a song carried by White’s rich, sultry voice and Matranga’s jaunty guitar strumming. With lyrics noting iconic land-marks like Sunset Boulevard and San Diego, the “Gem-

ini EP” opens with a strong West Coast influence in tow. The sunny-side-up nature of the album’s beginning

encompasses the “Gemini EP” as a whole with other notable tracks like “Gemini” and “Smoke and

Mirrors” rounding out the uplifting vibe of the entire EP.

The album concludes with “Feathers,” a touching tune that describes two forlorn lov-ers floating away from each other in seem-ingly contented spirits. The song is accented by White’s haunting vocals, Matranga’s soft backup and the dainty addition of chimes.

Jack and White will appeal to fans of similar folk-pop acts and duos like She & Him, Rilo Kiley and Castledoor. The newly released “Gemini EP” is available for digital download through amazon.com and the iTunes store.

LINDSAY SHOEMAKEREVIEWER

September 9, 2011• Editor, Lauren DavidsonFeatures

Lauren DaviDsonsenior reporter

He was in his seventh grade English class when it hap-pened. Like many that day, his unfamiliarity with the World Trade Center turned into sadness and fright after watching the events unfold.

“At first I just had no clue what the World Trade Centers were at all but ... we just went through the rest of the day at school, and I got home and ended up watch-ing the news for quite a while after school,” Andrew Grant, a senior business manage-ment major, said. “It was just tragic, it was kind of sad and kind of scary, you know we weren’t sure exactly what was going on.”

Little did he know at that time that he would soon be enrolling in the United States Marine Corps. Grant expressed that he decided to join the Marines because of his desire to take a different path after high school, different from the traditional path that most students take.

“The most significant reason I decided to enlist in the Marines was that I decided I wanted to have some different experiences than I would normally have if I had just gone straight to college,” Grant said. “Be-ing in the Marines has really given me a lot of opportunities and experiences that I would never have been a part of had I not joined. “

At the age of 17, in January of 2007, he signed his en-listment papers, and just six months later started his train-ing in boot camp. His training began at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Parris Island, S.C., where he stayed for

three months. Soon after, he left for Camp Lejeune, where he stayed for three weeks, and finally finished in Huntsville, Ala., where he spent five weeks going through job-specific training.

After all of his preliminary training was complete he left for Iraq, in August of 2009, where he was stationed at Al Asad Airbase, which is the second largest United States military airbase in Iraq. There he served as an ammo techni-cian assigned to the Combat Logistics Battalion 46, (CLB

46). As an ammo technician, his duty, along with the rest of his unit, was to do a complete inventory of all the ammunition on the airbase, which he did for the first three weeks 12 hours a day. Furthermore once inventory was taken they disposed of expired ammunition by burning it or blow-ing it up, depending on what type of ammo it was.

The overload resulted from the fact that it was more expensive to ship surplus am-munition than it would have been for the places that needed it to acquire their own, causing much of it to expire, Grant says.

“…There are certain specifications once ammunition has fallen below a standard, you can’t use it in combat anymore. There was so much ammunition that it was too

much to really use in training also. It would be more ex-pensive actually to ship the ammunition back to the states or over to Afghanistan, where they couldn’t have used most of it,” Grant said.

Student marine reflects on time in service

On September 11, 2001, almost 3,000 fami-lies lost one or more of their loved ones very suddenly. It’s one thing to lose a family mem-ber who has been fighting a disease for a long time or because of old age, but so many people that day lost someone they had seen just hours, or even minutes, before. My Uncle J.R. was one of those lost.

While at school, I had heard that something had happened in New York, and that some-thing was on fire in Washington D.C.; but for an 8 year old, the most bewildering part was that everyone was going home early. By the time school ended, over half the students had left. When my mom picked me up, she told me what happened and that we didn’t know if Uncle J.R. was okay; I had never even heard of the Pentagon or the World Trade Center. As we pulled into the driveway, I saw something very out of the ordinary. My dad’s car was in

the garage; he was home early. I got inside, and when I walked into my parent’s bedroom to see him, I saw a sight I had never seen be-fore. It terrified me, and still hurts me to re-member it today. My dad was sitting in a chair, hands over his eyes and sobbing, talking on the phone. We always look to our parents for support, and they never seem to back down. My own father, who I always saw as one of the toughest men I knew, looked vulnerable and defenseless. The shocking events of the day and seeing his sister in such an awful state, not knowing if her husband was coming home or not, terrified him and tore him up inside, and he wasn’t the only one.

A few days after the attacks, he had to fly to New Jersey to be with his sister, who had just lost her husband of more than 20 years, and their three children, who had just lost their father. Through special congressional permis-sion, he flew on a plane just days after the attacks. The airport was like a military base and almost completely deserted. He flew on a plane that only had a few other people on-board, many who cried, as they were all

Memories of 9/11 Looking back on alumna’sshort-lived inspiring lifeThe affects of the attacks on one student and his family

Kevin HaLLsenior reporter

“I know you may not want to see me on your way down from the clouds. Would you hear me if I told you that my heart is with you now?”

Ben Harper never met Tiffany Bishop, and odds are he was not writing his song “She’s Only Happy in the Sun” about her either, but Sara Doude, associate professor of criminal justice, will always think of Tiffany every time she hears it.

The song played on their way to the funeral.

“It broke us all down,” Doude said. “Through that trip there, ‘She’s Only Happy in the Sun’ was one of the last songs we heard and (we) were getting re-ally anxious about her funeral.”

GC’s Tiffany Bishop gradu-ated with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication with a focus in public relations in 2009, and in 2010 got her master’s in criminal justice. Tiffany died Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, due to a fatal gunshot wound at a training facility at Jackson State Prison in Jackson, Ga., at the age of 24.

“I immediately started crying,” Doude said. “I don’t think I believed it until I saw the body and, even now, I’m in a zombie-like state.”

Others just remembered her for her constant upbeat and passionate personality.

“It just had a real impact on me,” said Gin-ger Carter Miller, professor of mass communi-cation. “She had a heart the size of the conti-nental United States,” she paused. “Wait, that

might be underestimating how large her heart was.”

Her death had an instantaneous imprint on all those around her. The shock waves were felt almost imme-diately as the news passed from per-son to person.

“I’m normally a very gregari-ous, happy person,” Doude said. “The first night, (I) was just crying, screaming ‘Why this person?’”

Tiffany’s short life had an immea-surable affect on anyone who came into contact with her, even if it was just for a minuscule moment.

“The funeral was in Mcdonough, Ga. It was a nice size funeral home,” Miller said. “The

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Andrew Grant, sophmore business management major, during his time at the Al Asad Airbase in Iraq. His tour was cut short due to a major leg injury.

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Movie Review: ‘Apollo 18’

Ryan Del CampoRevieweR

Remember the 1995 classic movie, “Apollo 13,” with Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and the rest of those renowned actors? If not, here’s a very ab-breviated recap: three American astronauts go on a manned trip to the moon, things go wrong, they have to come home. This plot was essentially cop-ied by “Apollo 18,” which is no sequel to the clas-sic. But “Apollo 18” will certainly not earn any Academy Awards like the nine nominations and two Oscars that “13” won. In fact, it would have been better suited as a Sci-Fi Channel made-for-TV movie.

Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego’s creation of “Apollo 18” in the image of “Paranormal Activ-ity” was ill-fated ever since its conception. The trailers didn’t even look decent, even though they still gave away a majority of the plot. The movie not only took the plot of “Apollo 13,” but also stole the cinematic style of “Paranormal Activ-ity” and the dedication to historical accuracy from “How to Train Your Dragon.”

To its credit, “Apollo 18” did not steal its whole story. It added little rock-crab-aliens that inexplicably wanted to wipe out all of the as-tronauts and their equipment. Also, not to forget, there are dead zombie-like Cosmonauts.

One of my chief concerns about the worst movie I have seen this year also involves its claim of historical accuracy. Obviously, no confi-dential NASA mission was ever sent to the moon and aborted because of attacking rock-crabs. But the movie claims that it did happen, and it starts off by showing vintage-looking footage of fami-lies with dated clothes on before the astronauts were sent up to the moon. But, when they were shot up into space, suddenly the imaging became

HD-quality. I wasn’t aware that HD technology existed in 1970.

The bottom line: don’t go watch “Apollo 18.” Don’t even watch it when it comes out on Redbox. There is not a single redeeming factor to mention about it. I never thought that I would say this about any movie, but watching “Shark Night 3D” would have been a much more enjoyable ex-perience than seeing “Apollo 18.”

Grade: D-

viewing started at eleven, and we got there about 11:20, and it was already packed. The line was wrapped around the chapel just to talk to her family.”

Tiffany was remembered for her spir-it.

“She was just very positive,” Doude said.

“There was this guy who spoke at the funeral who was training with her,” Doude recalled. “And it was this big, burly, scary looking dude, and she passed by all the nicer looking people and said, ‘Hi, I’m Tiffany, do you want to be my partner for training?’ She impacted him positively after just an hour and a half.”

She was always willing to do anything for anyone. In the Fall of 2007, her public relations writing class was introduced to stories from the point of view of cancer survivors. As a part of a class project, they got together and wrote letters back to the survivors.

One of her classmates, Lauren Ed-wards Hammond, interviewed a little girl struggling with cancer, and worried that her parents might need help mak-ing Christmas special for their children. “(We) all agreed among us to bring in as much as we could to make a nice Christ-mas basket for the family. Tiffany showed up the day we collected items with an iPod nano, and everyone in the class was kind of taken aback,” Miller said.

They all asked in various ways if she was sure she wanted to do that. An iPod nano in 2007 was not exactly the cheap-est thing in the world, and even today it would be an expensive gift for any col-lege student.

“She said she bought it for the brother because ‘I didn’t want him to feel left out,’” Miller said with tears welling up in her eyes. “I think about her generos-ity and her thinking about that, outside of everything else. That’s the kind of person she was. That’s the kind of heart she had. That’s the kind of soul she had, and that’s the kind of legacy she leaves.”

She always seemed to have her mind set on going into some kind of career in criminal justice, but this did not stop her from putting forth a Herculean effort in everything else she did. Her public rela-tions writing class in 2007 became the founding members of the GC chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA).

“We worked so hard from the Fall of 2007 to the Spring of 2008 to get this off the ground and I just worked so closely with her on all those things,” Miller said. “It just had a real impact on me.”

Tiffany’s true dreams lay somewhere outside the field of public relations.

“Her dad was a federal probation offi-cer, so I think that was a large reason she wanted to get into that field, and she re-ally liked it,” Doude said. “I would ven-ture to say she was one of the top students I’ve ever seen come through the program. All of us in criminal justice tried and tried to talk her into getting her Ph.D. because she was just that smart. She set the bar for graduate students.”

“Her mother made a quip,” Miller said, referring back to the funeral. “I said I had met her at the senior luncheon for public relations students, and she said ‘That was before she jumped ship.’”

Miller did not think she jumped ship, though. She thinks she followed her dreams.

No one who knew Tiffany wants her death to be forgotten. Doude wants to create an endowment in her honor.

“It’s going to go to grad students who want to go into corrections because that is the least desirable job,” Doude said. “I don’t want master’s students to go into a not very high paying job with a lot of debt, but it’s very worthwhile.”

Miller commented on the local PRS-SA chapter creating an award in her memory.

“I think we should call it the Tiffany Bishop Unsung Hero Award because she was always working behind the scenes,” Miller said.

No matter who came into contact with Tiffany whether it was through class, or her probation officer training, or even through the different customers she wait-ed on during her five years at Amici in downtown Milledgeville, she had an ab-solute impact on everyone. She created a lasting memory for everyone including Doude.

Doube holds, “she’ll always be sun-shine in my life.”

During his time away, he was still able to talk to his friends, because the base pro-vided everyone with a wireless Internet connection. Garrett Korn, his roommate and senior English major, says he was able to keep in touch with him via Face-book.

“The only way we could really contact him is Facebook,” Korn said. “He would post videos and stuff of what was going on out there, post pictures. We would message back and forth, just to keep in each other’s lives.”

His time was sadly cut short, only serving for a month and a half, due to a leg injury. He specifically broke both his tibia and fibula and was sent to Land-sthul Regional Medical Center in Ger-many, where he recovered for around three weeks. The surgery left him with 16 screws and plates in his leg.

Since he returned to the United States, his roommate Logan Brown, a senior psychology major, says that he sees now

that he is more appreciative of the college lifestyle.

“I think he is definitely more appre-ciative of this lifestyle now you know, getting to experience it for a few months when we were freshman and then having to be pulled away from it and now getting to come back to it,” Brown said. “I think he sees there’s more opportunities and I also say maybe that he’s a little more lib-eral in his thinking.”

Grant is still active in the Marines, as he serves as a reservist now. Once a month he travels to Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, Ga., where he completes annual qualifications training, various hour-long classes, administrative duties, rifle quali-fications and physical fitness tests, that they complete once or twice a year.

Since he returned from the war he holds that if he needed to go back today he would.

“I can say that I’ve signed up for a job, and if I’m called to go back I’ll do it willingly and in a heartbeat for, amongst other things, those that serve with me,” Garrett said.

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Looking for something fun to do on a school night? Am-ici Italian Café, Buffington’s Burger Lounge and The Brick all host a trivia night. Amici’s “No Phone” Trivia is on Monday night from 11 p.m., until around 1:30 a.m., and is hosted by Amici employees, Salem Cook, a GC alumnus and Randi Estes, junior biol-ogy major. The winner of “No Phone” Trivia gets a $30 bar tab, and the winner of each round wins a free pitcher of beer. Trivia Night at The Brick is on Tuesday night from 9 p.m., until around 11 p.m. The Brick’s trivia is hosted by GC alumnus Cory Cain and junior mass communication major, Amanda Poss, both of whom are Brick employees. There are five rounds of trivia questions, and each round poses a differ-ent theme. The winner of each round wins a free tower of beer, and the overall winner wins a $40 bar tab. Buffington’s Trivia takes place on Wednesday night from 8:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. Evan Boitet, biology graduate stu-dent, is the host of Buffington’s trivia. Boitet has been host-ing trivia since February, and became an employee of Buff-ington’s through hosting trivia. The winner of each round wins a free pitcher of beer and the overall winner receives $30 Buff Bucks. Also, the overall winner of each semester can win $250 Buff Bucks.

Your downtown trivia hosts

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flying because of some connection to the attacks, and all were unsure if they would even land.

My dad soon arrived at his sister’s house. They had all been waiting for that one phone call to come through, the one phone call where they hear him say “I’m okay.” For almost 3,000 families, mine included, that call never came.

While there, he found his dad, my grandfather, sitting on the couch, saying, “I don’t know what to do.” One can only handle so much, and for him, it was too much. Here was an 80-year-old man who had lived through the Great Depression, fought in World War II, raised a family, ran a restaurant in Brooklyn and had lived through the rest of the 20th century, now unable to do anything. For my dad, to see his father so distraught was as heart-wrenching as it was for me to see my dad in such a horrendous state.

As an eight-year-old, I just didn’t un-derstand what was going on, but the one sight I did understand was my family was in a state of shock and sadness by the day’s events. To know now that ev-ery time I see my aunt, she has dealt with a loss that is simply unimaginable to me breaks my heart. To see that day’s horror over and over on TV, and not fully under-stand the magnitude of what is going on has a great effect on an innocent kid. As I grew older, I started to understand more, but the one thing I will never understand is the pain that my aunt and her three kids went through. For two days they held out hope that they would find him, but they never did. For days afterward, her kids had nightmares of finding him in the rub-

ble. It’s a horrific thing to hear, knowing that my cousins, who I know and love, are dreaming like that.

But, perhaps what was best is that ev-eryone has tried to move on. I went back to school like always, and everyone in my family soon went back to their daily lives as well. When tragedy strikes, most peo-ple don’t have the luxury of rolling into a ball for a few months. One has a responsi-bility to move on and go back to routine, which can be very therapeutic.

Today, my aunt is happily engaged and her kids are grown up and living on their own. I did not know my Uncle J.R. very well, but, as I would later find out, he and I had a good amount of common inter-ests. He loved history, as do I; he loved to read, as I do; and he was a huge fan of The Who, a band I am a fan of as well. I now imagine us having debates over who is better: The Who, or my favorite band, The Beatles. But, because of the terrible attacks, this can never be.

To see my family, that I love with all my heart, so distraught is one of the most painful sights I have ever seen; but we, as a family and as a nation, came out stron-ger than ever. The stars and stripes still flew, heroes gave up their lives to save others, and on that day, America truly became united. The passengers on Flight 93 gave the ultimate sacrifice for people they will never meet. Ordinary people on the streets of New York went back into the burning buildings to save others. The terrorists did not succeed in demoralizing our country: my family stuck together, the nation came together, and today, ten years later, we all try and live our lives the best we can, every day.

This personal narrative is dedicated to my Uncle J.R., and to all those who died on that day.

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lauREn davidson / staff PhotogRaPhERThe staff at Amici Italian Café, where she worked for five years, held her close to their hearts and since her passing have placed a pic-ture in memory of her.

Courtesy of The Weinstein Company

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Zhao Bo, Entirely Copied No. 29, 2010, Oil on canvas

Blackbridge Hall Art Gallery presents a group art exhibition displaying a collection of 30 works of art, from paintings, prints, photography, and ink on paper, from internationally recognized

artists from China.

Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Exhibitions are free and open to the pubic. For more information please call the Department of Art (478) 445-4572

Li Jin •Wang Jinsong•Shen Shaomin •Cui Xiuwen •Wu Yi•

Zhao Bo •Liu Bolin•Zhang Dali •Wei Dong •Zhang Gong•

Scenes from Within: Contemporary Art from China

August 15 – September 23

Museum of Fine Arts

Fall semester MoFA hours: Monday – Friday, 12:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., and by appointment. Exhibitions are free and open to the pubic.

For more information please call the Department of Art (478) 445-4572

The Museum of Fine Arts presents drawings, prints, and paintings from the GC permanent art collection, and showcases more than thirty nationally and

internationally recognized artists. The collection ranges in dates from the early 1800s to the 21st century. This exhibition also displays

Artists-in-Residence limited edition prints produced through the Department of Art Gas Light Press.

Join the artists for Night of 100 Pots, at Grassman Ceramic Studio, and see demonstrations by the artists and create pots with them, coordinated by

Georgia College Ceramic Professor, Sandra Trujillo.

September 13-20Visit the special exhibition featuring contemporary Turkish ceramics by

visiting artists, Sibel Sevim and Cemal Sevim, Professors of Art at Andolu Universitesi, Turkey.

September 15, 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.Attend the reception for the artists in the Museum.

September 15, 5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Faces around downtown

Not only a server at Amici but a student teacher at Georgia Military Prep SchoolKevin Hall

Senior reporter

What do Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell and Stephen Rockwell have in common? All of them know what it’s like to touch the “Weekend Update” desk from the set of Saturday Night Live.

“The ‘Weekend Update’ desk grazed my leg,” said Rockwell, who has his undergraduate degree in English and is currently working to earn is master’s degree in teaching.

Rockwell’s brother got them the tickets via a lottery drawing, but they almost missed their opportunity.

“We had taken a nap in the hostel, and we woke up kind of late,” Stephen said.

“We thought we missed it,” said Stephen’s brother, Hugh Rockwell.

“The ticket said show up no later than 6:45 (p.m.) or your tickets might be invalid,” Stephen said.

To top off already running late, they ran into some issues get-ting to NBC’s studio.

“We took the wrong train in the subway and we ran through (the parking lot) and were completely out of breath,” Hugh said.

“We probably showed up five minutes late and we are just sprinting up there and people … look at us like ‘What the hell are y’all doing?’” Stephen said.

They, of course, were the last ones in line.The two went through one line and were instructed to take all

the metal objects out of their pockets as to not set off the metal detector.

“Then she told us to get in another line, and of course we were the very last ones in the line,” Hugh said.

Well that move turned out to be beneficial for Stephen and his brother.

“That put us down on the very front row on the floor,” Stephen said.

And in a small-world turn of events, Stephen was there with someone else who had recently been to GC.

“It was probably a week after B.o.B. did the homecoming concert here, and he was a guest musical performer with Jessie J,” Stephen said.

Stephen was born and raised in Waynesboro, Ga., and always knew he was going to end up a Bobcat.

“It was the only college I applied to,” Stephen said. “I came here in eighth grade for a basketball camp and I just thought the campus was really gorgeous.”

Stephen also wanted to break away from the mold as well.

“(I) decided to come because no one else in my graduating class was coming here,” Stephen said. “I just wanted to carve my own path.”

Now Stephen is working towards his master’s in teaching, and as a requirement, has to student teach at one of the local area schools. He did not get the traditional school that many others are accustomed too. Stephen just started his student teaching at

Georgia Military Prep School earlier this semester.“The worse thing I thought was going to happen is that I was

going to go in and they were going to shave my head,” Stephen said. “I honestly didn’t really know what to expect.”

Stephen earned his undergraduate degree in English, but did his senior capstone in a rather odd place for such a degree.

“I did my senior capstone in Athens, Greece … (I) had to do travel writing like food, public transportation and the people.”

Stephen tried to adapt to the culture there, but the locals made it a little bit difficult for him.

“We were taught to practice our Greek, but then all the people over there want to practice their English to us,” Stephen said. “And they listen to a lot of the same music we do, just ten years behind us.”

Not only has Stephen studied and traveled abroad, he’s jour-neyed to many places in the U.S. to follow the Georgia Bulldogs. From everywhere in the Southeastern Conference as far out as Big 12 country. His trips out haven’t always yielded wins for the Bulldogs.

“The worst was Oklahoma (State),” Stephen said. “I guess that one was the worst because we traveled so far. The OSU fans looked at us like ‘why are you guys driving this far?’”

Today Stephen not only is working on his master’s and stu-dent teaching during the day, but he is also working as a server and bartender at Amici Italian Café.

“I had worked at Ruby Tuesday, and I had friends who got me in here,” Stephen said. “I had always wanted to work some-where downtown because I had always lived within a block of campus.”

Stephen does not think that working in food service is a job that is suited for everyone.

“I think it takes a lot to deal with people who it seems like their one objective is to really not treat you with respect.”

The biggest thing he takes away from his time at Amici and GC is his drive and determination.

“I’ve become so much more independent than I was in high school. Once I came to school I was pretty much dependent on myself.”

And like everyone else who has worked in food service, Ste-phen has that one customer that he will always remember.

“We had this one lady, her name is Janice Sadowisky... She would come in here and she loved so many of us, but some peo-ple find her kind of irritating,” Stephen said. “I just loved bring-ing a smile to her face. This was like her safe haven.”

Janice has recently passed away, but Stephen says he will re-member her more than any other customer that has ever passed through those doors.

Lauren DaviDson / staff PhotograPherGraduate student Stephen Rockwell waits on one of his many tables during Wednesday wing night at Amici. Rockwell also spends his days Monday through Thusday student teaching at Georgia Military Prep School.

September 9, 2011 • Editor, Sam HuntSports

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In 2009, Bud Selig, the cur-rent commissioner of Major League Baseball, told MLB.com that he planned to retire once his contract ended in 2012. A new commissioner is closely approaching, and a familiar face may already be the lead candidate. Joe Torre, a 17-year player, five-year manager, and the recently named executive vice presi-dent of baseball operations is climbing his way through the commissioner’s office. Torre accepted an unverified $2 million annual base salary to serve as the commissioner’s liaison to general managers and field managers of all 30 MLB teams. His job title is focused with on-field disci-pline, operations and umpire supervising. Selig revamped his entire office to solidify a deal with Torre, and many of those surrounding baseball are concerned with how the process is unfolding. There are seven executives in the office, and Torre is now one. Three senior officials were laid off: Mike Port, vice president of umpiring, Ed Burns, vice president of administration and Darryl Hamilton, senior specialist. Torre has never held any executive or supervisory position in his ascent to the top. His new job didn’t even entail relocation. Selig has agreed for Torre, who moved west for his years with the Dodgers in 2008, to orches-trate business via satellite communication with the head-quarters in New York. This could be unsettling watching Selig implement his preferred choice in a questionable fash-ion. Maybe the owners and players and even fans should have a say. But regardless of how we want it to be, this is how it’s going right now. And despite Selig’s abrupt changes, I can’t say I disagree. Major League Baseball needs to join the 21st century in terms of replay concerns, publicity and appealing to the next genera-tion. Torre can be that man. He’s dealt with players for most of his life. He won four World Series, and handling the high profile players that come along with a world series is not easy. He was a Gold Glove winner in 1965, and the MVP in ‘71; he has a deep understanding for baseball in many facets. From the mind of a stressed-out player in the World Series to the manager of a new club, Torre would help keep the players and manag-ers satisfied with his previous knowledge and personal famil-iarity. Secondly, he knows a lot of the players and managers in the league. Not by the name on their back or because he’s kept scouting charts on most of these guys for decades; he’s managed so many players and worked with numerous officials. A mutual respect has been built from one-on-one sit downs with players, discussing issues off the field and on. In any organization people need someone to guide them with familiarity for the subject. Submersed in America’s pas-time as a player, coach, broad-caster, and now vice president of baseball operations, Torre’s hasty selection should not deter one from seeing what he can do.

The SideLine

Soccer:Sept. 9 6 p.m. vs. Wingate Sept. 11 1:30 p.m. vs. Tusculum

Cross Country: Sept. 10 @ UC Irvine

“Everybody want me to snap? Is that what they want? You all want to see me snap, is that what it is? Yeah? Well, we don’t discuss what happens in the locker room. But if you guys want me to throw a table or something I’ll do that, maybe smash a camera, if that makes everybody feel better.”

-UGA head football coach Mark Richt

10.5The number of games

the Atlanta Braves are trailing behind the first place Philadelphia Phil-lies.

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Upcoming Games Quote of the Week Notable Stat

Cross Country seizes second

Morgan Wilson / PhotograPherThe women’s cross country team (pink) stays together during the first leg of the third annual Bobcat Invitational at West Campus. The Bobcats finished second in their first meet.

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The women’s cross country team began its season Friday, Sept. 2, at the third annual Bobcat Invitational. The team finished strong, taking sec-ond place against Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia Southwestern State University and Young Harris College.

The race was held at West Campus, which gave the Bob-cats the home-field advantage.

Although SCAD finished first, Georgia College was not far behind. The first eight run-ners to cross the finish line were all from GC and SCAD. Sophomore Allison Lones led the team, finishing the 5k course in fifth place with an impressive time of 21:27. Se-nior Karissa Ekstrom followed close behind in sixth place with a time of 21:48.

Early in the race, everyone cheered Lones on as she took

second place. She was quickly catching up with SCAD’s first place runner until an unex-pected wrong turn slowed her down. Although GC had the home-field advantage, a tired Lones lost focus and went down the wrong trail. She quickly turned around and got back on track but not with-out being bumped back a few places.

“I was expecting better,” Lones said, “Between my shoe coming untied and having to turn around, I added a few ex-tra seconds to my time. We did really well pacing as a team though, so I’m glad our first five runners finished strong.”

The remaining placing Bob-cats raced in to finish shortly after Lones and Ekstrom. Sophomore Ashton Passino finished seventh with a time of 21:55. She was followed closely by freshman Rebecca

The Bobcats take second place behind Savannah College of Art and Design in the 5k

Men’s cross country runs strong at the 8k Bobcat Invitational, takes second place

Morgan Wilson / PhotograPher(Left to right) Karissa Ekstrom, Ashton Passino, Madeline McCane, Rebecca Shane, Ellen Osment and Catie Tinker posing after the conclusion of the Bobcat Invitational. The women ran a 5k, while the men ran a 8k.

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The Georgia College men’s cross country team started off the Fall season with their first meet at West Campus on Friday, Sept. 2, against Savannah College of Art and Design and Young Harris College.

Of the three teams that compet-ed, the Bobcats finished in second place at the third annual Bobcat Invitational.

The Bobcats started off the 2011 season coming in as a strong second. The overall winner for the Bobcat Invitational was Ignacio Fernandez from SCAD, who fin-ished with a time of 27:05.

The first Bobcat to finish the 8k race and claiming the third place spot was senior Tyler Mattix with a time of 28:01 on the West Campus Cross Country Course. Finishing right behind Mattix was Bobcat senior Daniel Horseman

who finished the race in fourth place at 28:26. Nipping at his fel-low teammate’s heels was senior Colin Conroy who finished just three seconds behind Horseman with a time of 28:29, giving him a fifth place finish.

The next GC runner to finish was sophomore Phillip Laskey, who took the eighth place finish with a time of 28:53.

Finishing behind Laskey for the Bobcats and taking the 14th place spot was senior Rob Man-ning, who finished with a time of 30:25.

Coming in at 31:10 at 22th was freshman Beau Bittinger. Finish-ing one spot behind Bittinger at 23rd place was sophomore Tucker Forbes with a time of 31:14.

Taking 28th was senior Travis Knight with a time of 32:54.

Bringing up the rear for the

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Dan Horseman5th 29:30

Colin Conroy6th 29:32

Philip Laskey13th 30:35

Tucker Forbes 31st 33:28

Travis Knight34th 35:13

Nick Widener36th 37:49

2010 2011Dan Horseman

4th 28:26

Colin Conroy5th 28:29

Philip Laskey8th 28:53

Tucker Forbes 23rd 31:14

Travis Knight28th 32:54

Nick Widener30th 33:47

Source: gcsubobcats.com

Bobcat Invitational Results

The men all improved their times and places from last years cross country home opener.

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Bobcats take sixth at Kiawah IslandCOURTNEY COILE

STAFF WRITER

The No. 14 Georgia College golf team took sixth place out of 17 teams at the Ki-awah Island Invitational held in Kiawah Is-land, S.C., Sept. 5-6.

At the end of round one, sophomore Vic-tor Monte hit even par, which was 72, that put him in 11th place, while junior Taylor Smith was behind one stroke, putting him in 15th place.

Junior Patrick Garrett shot a 74, which put him in 21st while freshman Ryan Troc-chio carded a 77, putting him in 43rd. Fresh-man Bryan Fox shot an 81 for 64th.

Monday’s round concluded with the team in fourth place and eight-over par at 296 on the par-72, 6,875-yard Cougar Point Golf Course.

Round two on Tuesday included another 74 for Garrett, an All-Peach Belt Confer-ence honoree, putting him in 12th place and in the lead for the team, leaving him four-over par in the tournament.

Monte shot fi ve-over par with a 77 put-ting him in 14th at the end of the tourna-ment.

Smith shot an 81 putting him 10-over and in 35th while Fox shot a 76, which made him 13 over and 47th.

Trocchio added six strokes in his second round, making him plus-16 at 60th.

Round two concluded with the team at 308, which put their fi nal score at plus-28.

The tournament concluded with the Bob-cats fi nishing in sixth place and Georgia

Southwestern State University winning the tournament with score of plus nine.

“We defi nitely saw some positives. (The) tournament was not the outcome we were looking for, but we can defi nitely improve and be ready to play in May for the Na-tional Championship,” Head Coach Jimmy Wilson said. “We’re a young team and most don’t have experience in collegiate golf. They need to learn to be patient and take what each golf course gives them instead of trying to force the issue.”

“The results from Kiawah weren’t exact-ly what we wanted but it was the fi rst time out for three of our guys and they just need some more experience in collegiate tourna-ments,” Assistant Coach Kyle Collins said. “I’m excited for our team, though, because we have a pretty fresh and young group of guys, and we are defi nitely rebuilding from some strong seniors we’ve lost. Everybody has to go back to work and know what they need to work on.”

The team will continue their season on Sept. 12 at the SpringHill Suites Intercol-legiate tournament in Florence, S.C., held by Francis Marion University.

“One of the biggest strengths we have is the competition between the team and how they push each other so they continue to play, because if they don’t work hard, they might lose the chance to play in a tourna-ment,” Wilson said. “For the next tourna-ment, we’re going to shuffl e up the line-up and give some new guys a chance to play. The ones who played this past week know what they need to do to get better.”

Athleteof the Week

# 33 Kessler MATHESON

Height: 5-3Year: FreshmanPosition: DefenseHometown: Martinez, Ga.High School: LakesideMajor: Health Sciences

Four year starter• Earned All-Region, All-County twice• 2011 Offensive Player of the Year•

In high school...

Source: gcsubobcats.com

September soccer schedule

vs.

Wingate

Tusculum College

Montevallo

Barry University

University of Tampa

Lander University

Georgia Southwestern

Friday, Sept. 9

Sunday, Sept. 11

Friday, Sept. 16

Saturday, Sept. 24

Tuesday, Sept. 20

Sunday, Sept. 18

Wednesday, Sept. 28

TAYLOR LAMBSENIOR REPORTER

The women’s soccer team began their 2011 season with a 2-1 loss against No. 8 Le-noir-Rhyne University in the Tusculum Kickoff Tourna-ment in Greenville, Tenn., but returned Sunday to even their record, beating Southern Indi-ana University 1-0.

“The girls were disap-pointed in the loss, rightfully so, but it was an extremely well and hard fought battle,” Head Coach Hope Clark said. The Bobcats were down 2-0 against the bears with over 11 minutes left in the fi rst half. Sophomore Taylor Yee’s fi rst goal for the Bobcats’ 2011 sea-son came seconds before the whistle, enhancing the team into halftime. Yee, playing on a partially torn knee, received a free-kick from junior Ja-mie Colcord, touching it past LRU keeper Caitlin Scruggs. “When (Colcord) kicked it, I thought I had already over passed it,” Yee said. “Olivia Holden actual got a foot on it and she just kind of redirected it. Luckily I was on sides and I was just there to fi nish it.”

At the opposite end of the fi eld, freshman Annie Ste-phens was the Bobcats’ force in the goal. Stephens blocked six shots during her busy col-legiate debut and earned her fi rst career shutout in game two. “(Stephens) certainly did a great job to kind of earn that potential starting spot,” Clark said. Three freshman goal-ies are still competing for the

goalie position every week, and the team is benefi tting.

“All three of us train to-gether, it’s more like a solid unit,” Stephens said. “Where some of us have weaknesses, others of us have strengths. It was basically a toss-up; any of us could have gone.” Out-played in the fi rst half, GC re-turned, thriving off Yee’s late goal to worry LRU. Although they fought hard, the Bobcats were unable to pull out the win.

“We had a very strong sec-ond half against them,” Clark said. “If we’re going to lose 2-1 to the number eight team in the country, that’s the way to go down.”

In game two, the Bobcats knew they did not want to start their season 0-2. Fresh-man Kessler Matheson guar-anteed that, blasting her fi rst goal to beat Southern Indi-ana University 1-0. Despite outshooting SIU 12-3, the fi rst half remained scoreless. With 15:05 left in the second half, a three on one Bobcat counter-attack provided them with their fi rst goal. Sopho-more Brittaney Borror unself-ishly gave up her decent look to fi nd the better shot from Matheson. At a better angle and location, Matheson beat the keeper one-on-one with a far post goal to put the Bob-cats back at .500 and assuring their fi rst road win.

Hosting the Bobcat Shoot-out, Georgia College will take on Nova Southeastern Uni-versity Friday, Sept. 9.

Women’s soccer goes 1-1 at Tusculum Tournament

FILE PHOTOA GC golf team member takes a swing. The Bobcats took sixth place at Kiawah Island, while Georgia Southwestern State University fi nished at fi rst place. Georgia College’s next meet will be at the Spring Hills Suite Intercollegiate.

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14 THE COLONNADE SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Shane in eighth at 21:58 and Courtney Timmerman, who ended the GC scoring in tenth place at 22:09. GC fi nished the race with 36 team points, behind SCAD’s fi rst place score of 21 points.

“I think we did pretty well,” Ekstrom said. “We were determined throughout the entire race. We just need to make sure we get enough rest and are mentally prepared for the next meet. It always helps when we get psyched up before a race.”

The blistering 90-plus de-gree heat did not make run-ning the course any easier. The girls persevered and managed to cross the fi nish line with exceptional times.

The audience consisted of the team’s friends and family, and as the girls began to tire, the cheering fans around every corner kept their adrenaline pumping. The girls say they would not have done as well without the extra support.

“The fans were great,” Lones said. “There was some-one cheering us on at every mile.”

The team will continue their 6:30 a.m. practices and extra runs on the weekends in order to improve their times for their next meet in Cali-fornia at the UC Irvine Invi-tational on Saturday, Sept. 10. They will continue pushing themselves at practice as they endure hill and interval work-outs in preparation for future meets.

“The team ran extremely well,” Head Coach Joe Sam-prone said. “I’m happy with their performance because they ran as a good, tight group.”

Fall’s frantic fantasy football season

Bobcats was junior Nick Widener, who fi nished 30th with a time of 33:47.

“I was very pleased with the results for the men’s team. We had a solid per-formance from Tyler, Dan, Collin, Philip and Rob. I was very happy with the top fi ve,” Head Coach Joe Samprone said. “They all did really good, ran well and gave it their all. I was very proud.”

Taking the fi rst place spot

was SCAD, who fi nished the day with 26 points. The Bob-cats fi nished with 42 points and Young Harris completed the race with 71 points.

“We have one important race all season: Oct. 22. Ev-erything is pre-season until then, and that will be the only time we will see all the other teams. This race was like dress rehearsal, we just wanted to see how to make this team better,” Samprone said. “I was extremely proud of what I saw at this fi rst race. We are working on getting our … (top) fi ve run-ners to run as fast and close to each other as possible.”

In preparation for the up-coming meets, Samprone said the teams primary concern was maintenance, keeping the team healthy, well rested, eating right and staying safe around campus.

“Our goal is to fi nish the top two or three at confer-ence. That would be excel-lent, but my main concern is to get them to the line healthy, so they can walk away with good memories,” Samprone said.

The Bobcats are back in action on Saturday, Sept. 10, when they will travel to California to compete in the UC Irvine Invitational.

The National Football League is back again, and this means many things for scores of sports fans.

For some, it means a Sunday escape from stressful weeks.

For others, it means an opportunity to live vicariously through these athletes.

But for millions more it means the return of fantasy football.

This booming industry has helped turn the NFL into the most watched spectator sport in America today, and it continues to grow.

The reasons people play fantasy football are as numerous as the reasons people watch foot-ball in general.

“It makes the experience more personal,” said senior computer science major Zack Lock-hart. “You’re more involved in every game. It’s not just guys out there making money and win-ning games, ‘cause they are playing for you too, in a sense.”

Others believe that it creates a draw for the more casual sports fan and generates more in-

terest in the NFL.“It gives people who wouldn’t watch foot-

ball under most circumstances a reason to keep up with league activity,” said Marvin Guelce, who is currently pursuing his master’s in busi-ness administration in health care management. “Plus the hype that follows fantasy football is like free advertising for the NFL.”

There is also the appeal of “playing general manager” for your own NFL team.

“The draw to fantasy football allows a person to create their dream team of favorite players,” said GC sports broadcaster and senior rhetoric major Chandler Lee. “Not only that, fantasy

football is a way to let an avid fan play the role of owner however desired.”

Whatever the reasons, people spend hours on mock drafts, looking up statistics from years past or trying to make their own projections for how Matt Cassell might do this year, everyone has his own draft strategy.

“I probably use the same strategies that peo-ple who aren’t ‘draftologists’ use,” Guelce said. His strategy is a common one among many drafters.

“I try to get the best running backs and quar-terbacks fi rst, then the top three receivers.”

Guelce fi nishes his drafts with what he calls “safety picks.”

“Safety picks are for injuries and bye weeks,” he said.

Senior history major Adam Greene notes that the running back position is where the bulk of points come from, and bases his draft strategy on this.

“Wide receivers and defense are only go-ing to give you so many points and they aren’t as consistent as running backs,” Greene said. “Plus, if you are ever in a pinch for better play-ers, you can always pawn one of the running backs off later in the season.”

Many fantasy nuts always have to sort through the delicate conundrum of whether to draft the best players available or to go for their favorite players.

“I am gonna go for guys that I like as long as they aren’t terrible over guys who may be a little bit better,” Lockhart said.

Lee has a similar draft strategy when dealing with this Catch-22.

“I draft heavily on statistics, from years past and projected,” Lee said. “But there are also some players I draft because I like the way they play the game and would benefi t my team.”

Draft strategies aside, many have the same reason for playing: winning; and Greene knows exactly why.

“Knowing that your gambles paid off and then getting to smack talk your friends about it is why we play.”

“The draw to fantasy foot-ball allows a person to create their dream team of fantasy players. Not only that, fantasy football is a way to let an avid fan play the role of owner however desired.”

Chandler Lee,GC sports broadcaster

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With a boost in its budget this year, the Georgia College Thunder Crew plans to invest in student involvement. Up to $12,000 from last year’s bud-get of $10,500, the Thunder Crew will spend the extra mon-ey giving back to the students, pumping up tailgating and gen-erating buzz or major games, like the Battle of the Cats and Homecoming.

“We’re wanting to spend a lot of our money on handouts for the student section. We spend a good $2,000 on t-shirts to hand out at games. We’re wanting stuff like pom-poms and rally-rags, stuff to sort of impact the game,” Thunder Crew President Pat Gamble said. “We’ll have anything you would want to use as a college student at tailgates or games––coozies, arm bands, T-shirts. We want a good brand on campus.”

“I think we’re going to spend a lot of [the budget] on new T-shirt ideas,” Thunder Crew co-vice president Allyn Harris said. “We’ve got a lot of new exciting shirt designs that we’re look-ing forward to, along with other promotional items.”

According to Tyler Kemp, co-vice president of the Thun-der Crew and junior marketing and management major, about $5,000 or $6,000 will fund the Battle of the Cats game.

Kemp will be taking over as Thunder Crew president when Gamble graduates.

“We’re going to do our own version of the Green Towel, with Battle of the Cats logo on one side and Thunder Crew on the other,” Kemp said. “We’re also going to have megaphones for that game, and we’re going to give them out to people in the student section. And we do have three or four T-shirts that we’re hoping to give out this year.”

Kemp says they will spend about $300-$500 on bands for the big tailgates. The Thunder Crew hopes to be able to bring in bands such as Elastic Skyline and Brantley Gilbert.

“A lot of money has to go to tailgating because we have to rent generators for every game,” Kemp said.

“We’re also working on

launching ThunderCrew.com, where we’ll advertise more games, sell Thunder Crew and GC merchandise, and students will be able to sign up for away-game bus trips,” Gamble said. “All the stuff is very interac-tive, churning back and forth between the Thunder Crew and the students.”

Kemp says about $600 will be spent on the website.

Plus, the Thunder Crew was recognized as the loudest stu-dent section in Division II.

“We want to get to a point where we rival Division I in loudness, organization and com-petitiveness,” Gamble said.

“We’re just trying to improve the overall experience for the students and the fans,” Harris said. “We’re working on im-proving the atmosphere of the games and the tailgates.”

“A lot of money we spend goes right back to students, and it’s working. Game attendance is up 45 percent in the past few years,” Gamble said. “The stu-dent section was huge last year – 275 seats with people still standing in the aisles. We set the bar last year, but we’re always trying to improve,” Gamble said.

“It’s more than just the stu-dent section,” Gamble said. “When people develop ‘Bobcat pride’ they want to do more on campus.”

Thunder Crew focuses on student involvement, boosting tailgating, athletics and Homecoming week

Caitlin Renn / Staff PhotogRaPheRPat Gamble (left), Thunder Crew president and senior rhetoric major, and Tyler Kemp (right), vice president of the Thunder Crew and junior marketing and management major, organize a sign outside the library to advertise the informational Thunder Crew meeting to be held next Monday at 7 p.m. in the Centennial Center, Conference Room 104.

“We’re wanting to spend a lot of our money on handouts for the student sec-tion... We’ll have any-thing you would want to use as a college student at tailgates or games––coozies, arm bands, T-shirts. We want a good brand on campus.”

Pat Gamble,Thunder Crew

President

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The Georgia College softball program and Head Coach Jamie Grodecki are pleased to announce that Saturday, Oct. 22, will be the University’s annual Alumni Game.

“GC softball has an outstanding tradition and it’s important that the former players who have made this program so successful know that

it will always be their program,” said coach Grodecki. “We’re one big family and this will be a great event for all of our alumni who can attend.”

The alumni game is set to start at noon with a cookout to follow. The game will feature current Bobcat athletes facing off against Bobcat and Colonial Alumni. This is also the same day as Milledgeville’s Deep Roots Festival as well as Family Day on the GC campus.

Deep Roots Festival is a cul-tural arts and music festival that is located in historic downtown Milledgeville and showcases lo-cal, regional and national talents, artists, and vendors. The gates will open at 10 a.m.

For more information or to RSVP to this event please contact assistant coach Brittany Bennett at 478-445-5279 or brittany.ben-nett@gcsu.edu

GC Softball players return for annual alumni game