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International Week winds downLive shows, exhibits and activities from the world over came through Milledgeville during the week-long se-ries of events as part of the 16th-annual International Week. One of the week’s highlights, International Day, hosted over 30 countries on Front Campus and was sponsored by the International Club.

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“Little kids love us. I think they love any music on some level, but we do a lot of day festivals and family-friendly stuff. It’s really neat to see the kids just glowing and running around in circles.”

-Mike Sivillilead guitarist for Dangermuffi n

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SCOTT CARRANZASTAFF WRITER

Public viewings through the newly-constructed telescope were given last Tuesday before the offi cial ribbon-cutting ceremony for the addition to Herty Hall.

Ground was broken in November 2009 for an ex-tension of the east side of Herty Hall, Georgia Col-lege’s primary location for the science department. Monday, almost three years later, GC President Steve Dorman cut the blue ribbon and offi cially opened the wing to the public.

The new extension is home to an observatory equipped with one of the most powerful telescopes in Georgia. However, it’s somewhat a surprise that it’s in so soon.

“The original contract we had was to build the building without the observatory,” construction man-ager Byron Waters said. “That was supposed to be a future add-on, but they decided to do the whole project at once. We had to restructure the building midstream of the project.”

Building the extension was a $5 million project. Georgia state Sen. Johnny Grant spoke during the rib-bon cutting ceremony and elaborated on the funding that went into the project.

“We were able to get the $3.4 million in the ap-propriations bill,” Grant said. “We were able to get the project all the way through the process, right to the

The stars will always be out

SCOTT CARRANZA / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERSearching for a perfect view of the moon, freshman physics major Nicholas Daniel tinkers with the new telescope mounted in the fourth fl oor observatory,

Herty Hall given upgrade after three-year construction

Deep Roots Festival Barbecue competition draws cookers, tasters, judges from all across Georgia for cook-off

LINDSAY SHOEMAKESENIOR REPORTER

The ninth-annual Deep Roots Fes-tival was home to many eclectic tradi-tions over the weekend, including the much-anticipated Memphis Barbecue Network cook-off and tasting.

Held annually since 2003, the barbe-cue competition draws seasoned con-tenders from across the South, with each hopeful vying for the grand title. This year’s competition awarded over $7,000 in prizes to the cook-off winners.

Frank Pendergast, board chair of the Deep Roots Festival, explained the lengths that competitors go to for a shot at the coveted title of Grand Champion.

“The competitors arrived in Milled-geville last night, and some have been cooking since,” Pendergast said. “Some of them stay up all night cooking; a hog can take 12 hours to fully cook.”

For the 12 teams entered in this year’s competition, the rules were rigid and clearly defi ned: The competing bar-becue could only be cooked on charcoal or wood, and each choice of meat had to meet regulation standards.

Memphis Barbecue Network member and professional cooker John Childers of Toccoa traveled with his team, ap-propriately titled “Pigs in Heat,” to compete in the fi ery competition.

“A lot of preparation has gone into today; I actually got into town and start-ed cooking last night, and we’ve been here ever since,” Childers said. “We’ve competed in other cooking competitions before, for ribs, chicken, desserts and even seafood.”

A selection of four competing barbe-cue samples were entered to contend in this year’s People’s Choice competition – one of the foodie lures of Deep Roots.

“People’s choice is an opportunity for non-judges to sample professional barbecue,” Pendergast said. “To sample all of the barbecue today, you typically have to be a certifi ed judge.”

On Oct. 20 at 11 a.m., the blind tast-ing of the barbecue began, with each rookie judge walking up to the cook-ing tent with an eager palette. Each $5

sampling plate was clearly labeled one through four to allow for easy judging.

The fi rst barbecue sample was re-markably different from the others in appearance – the meat was lighter and more heavily seasoned than the others. Its taste was initially sweet, with a tangy, vinegar-based aftertaste. Notes of curry were even apparent, putting a Middle Eastern twist on a Southern staple.

Choice two proved to be the most succulent variety of barbecue vying for people’s choice. The pulled meat was much thinner than the other choices and embodied hints of robust hickory fl avor.

The third people’s choice contender tasted like the down-home Southern pork that Georgians grew up on. With a slight whiskey aftertaste, choice three proved to be satisfying, but played the competition safe by sticking to accus-tomed fl avors.

The fi nal barbecue pick up for tasting was by far the sweetest variety, employ-ing notes of honey into its artisan fl a-vor. Heavy spices were also used to add zest to this choice, subsequently toning down the initial sweetness of the meat.

Although she didn’t participate in the tasting, Rebecca Thuns, Georgia Col-lege senior exchange student, notes that having barbecue present at Deep Roots added something special to the day.

“I think the United State does bar-becue better than any other country,” Thuns said. “Even just smelling the bar-becue at the festival was great.”

After the ballots were in and the

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JEANNIE HUEYSTAFF WRITER

Georgia College enrollment is down nearly 3 percent this semester, largely because of a decline in the number of graduate students.

The 2.9-percent dip – from 6,636 last fall to 6,446 now – comes despite a notably larger freshman class. The number of fi rst-year stu-dents here is up more than 17 percent. Even so, the overall decline will affect how much state funding the school gets.

As the economy slowly recovers and job growth picks up, there is a reduced demand for graduate school as recent graduates enter the workplace directly, and those already em-ployed are not returning for part-time gradu-ate degrees,” said Matthew Liao-Troth, in-terim provost and vice president of academic affairs.

In Fall 2011, 1,001 graduate students were enrolled at GC. There are currently 878, a 12.3 percent drop.

The University System of Georgia will

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Undergrad and grad numbers down this year

governor’s signature.”The add-on to Herty Hall is used pri-

marily for laboratories and offi ce space, giving disciplines like environmental sci-ence more room to work. The observatory now provides physics and astronomy ma-jors hands-on experience with telescope equipment.

Chemistry professor Doug Pohl and his wife, Gail Pohl, provided funding for the $125,000 telescope. Physics and as-tronomy professor Donovan Domingue then purchased the telescope through

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MARK WATKINS / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER(Clockwise) Chris Thomas King sings “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues”; a 1969 Chevy Chevelle 350 SS shines in the sunlight at the car show; the concert crowd catches the end of Mayview Road; and Tiffany Lamson of Givers belts out a note during their opening song, “Saw You First.” The ninth-annual street festival fi lled the streets of downtown Milledgeville with students, faculty, residents and out-of-towners alike. For the full story on the bands, see page 11.

“A lot of preparation has gone into today. I actu-ally got into town and started cooking last night, and we’ve been here ever since.”

John Childers,professional barbecue cook

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With the fi nal debate over, the candidates must rely on their policies to carry them through to Election Day.

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MARILYN FERRELLSENIOR REPORTER

As the presidential election nears, the race to the White House continues to be a winding road for both candidates: President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney. On Monday, the two ended the debate trilogy with a focus on foreign pol-icy.

The debate was held in Boca Raton, Fla., at Lynn University and was moderated by Bob Schieffer, CBS News’ chief Washington cor-respondent. Compared to the last town hall debate, all questions asked on foreign policy were from Schief-fer, not the audience. Obama, Rom-ney and Schieffer all sat at a table together rather than the podiums or chairs used in previous debates. The candidates had two minutes to an-swer a question, and then there was a discussion until it led into another topic.

Recent controversies in Libya have pushed foreign policy to the forefront of the candidates’ cam-paigns and American’s minds.

Schieffer began asking the candi-dates about the four Americans that died in the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in-cluding an American ambassador: “What happened? What caused it? … Was it policy failure?”

Romney won the coin toss, so he responded fi rst. In past debates, viewers have seen a lot of argument and disagreement, but Romney started off this debate agreeing with his opponent.

“We’re going to have to recog-nize that we have to do as the presi-dent has done. I congratulate him on taking out Osama bin Laden and going after the leadership in al-Qae-da,” Romney said. “But we can’t kill our way out of this mess. . .we have to have a comprehensive strategy to

help reject this kind of extremism.”Schieffer then turned to Obama to

ask his thoughts on the Libya issue.“... I’m glad that you agree that

we have been successful going after al-Qaeda, but I have to tell you that, you know, your strategy previously has been one that has been all over the map and is not designed to keep America safe or to build on the oppor-tunities that exist in the Middle East,” Obama said.

The president and governor con-tinued to quarrel back and forth about the issues in both Libya and Syria, but ultimately showed how they both want maintain peaceful relationships with the two countries if possible. Despite this, both candidates agreed that Bashar-al-Assad, the president of Syria, needs to be taken down.

The debate then lead into the topic of Egypt and President Mubarak. The candidates again agreed that it was

necessary to say no to Mubarak, and that it was essential to stand for de-mocracy against the Egyptians. After back and forth discussion, the debate led into a topic that interested many: America’s role in the world.

Romney was the fi rst to respond to the topic.

“I absolutely believe that America has a responsibility and the privilege of helping defend freedom and pro-mote the principles that make the world more peaceful,” Romney said. “...because when there are elections, people tend to vote for peace. They don’t vote for war. So we want to promote those principles around the world.”

Obama responded to the topic of America’s role with the fact that the world needs America to be strong. He

discussed how the war in Iraq has ended and that the United States was able to focus its attention on terroris-tic threats and Afghanistan.

After the candidates leading themselves onto a tangent about education, Shieffer reined the two in and asked Romney about his idea of wanting a bigger military – spe-cifi cally a bigger navy – and where the money will come to support this idea.

Romney made it clear how he will have the budget to support his expan-sion of military forces: getting rid of Obamacare and allow the states to run programs like Medicaid. Rom-ney never answered the question of why he wanted a bigger military; only how he will fund the expansion. In support of his idea, Romney cit-ed the U.S Navy’s size as being the smallest it has been since 1917.

Obama quickly responded to Romney’s comments and spoke di-rectly to him.

“You mentioned the Navy, for ex-ample, and that we have fewer ships that we did in 1916. Well, Gover-nor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed,” Obama said. “And so the question is not a game of Battleship where we’re counting ships. It’s what our capabilities are.”

The debate continued its focus on foreign policy discussing the issues of Israel and if it was time to “divorce Pakistan.” The debate then moved to a controversial topic of shipping jobs overseas to China.

“I want a great relationship with China. China can be our partner, but – but that doesn’t mean they can just roll all over us and steal our jobs on an unfair basis,” Romney said.

Obama quickly pulled out another punch aimed right at Romney.

“Governor Romney’s right, you are familiar with jobs being shipped

By Zach Keepers

Political group heats up

ELLIE SMITHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The 2012 Presidential Election is one heated race. But how much heat can you handle? Geor-gia College’s American Democracy Project (ADP) wants to know.

Georgia College Professor Gregg Kaufman, the group’s coordinator, says the nonpartisan ADP, which began in 2003, is an initiative to prepare the next generation to be informed and involved in its community by voting and chang-ing policies.

“Politics is about making the community a better place for all,” Kaufman said.

His goal with the ADP is to “network across the Georgia College campus to identify how involved we are in Milledgeville’s community life.”

The ADP isn’t successful without student in-volvement, however, and Kaufman has created a clever way for students to fi nd out just how

involved they are. The fi rst way to fi nd out is every Wednes-

day at noon on the second fl oor of the LITC. The ADP hosts a weekly, student-led discus-sion series called Times Talk with such topics as Chick-Fil-A, substance abuse prevention and debriefi ng the presidential debates.

As coordinator, Kaufman created a level scale that correlates with student involvement in

The American Democracy Project tries to increaseinvolvement by rating participants on a unique scale

Politics

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“Politics is about making the community a better place for all.”

Gregg Kauffman,ADP coordinator

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“I absolutely believe that America has a respon-sibility and the privilege of helping defend free-dom and promote the principles that make the world more peaceful.”

Mitt Romney,Republican candidate

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President Obama set a goal to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs by the end of 2016 and is working to double American exports over the next fi ve years by promoting U.S. goods and removing trade barriers, expanding access to credit, and promoting strong growth.

As president, Romney will submit to Congress legislation, similar to the Secret Ballot Protection Act, that would require the use of the secret ballot in all union elections regardless of the preference of the union,employees, or employer.

President Obama is putting an end to the health insurance company practice of charging women more than men for the same coverage.

Romney will block grant Medicaid and other payments to states as well as limit federal standards and requirements on both private insurance and Medicaid coverage.

“We can’t put the middle class at a disadvantage. We can’t price out folks who are trying to make sure that they not only succeed for themselves but help the country succeed. Higher education...can’t be a luxury. It’s an economic imperative every family in America should be able to afford. ”

“This kind of divisiveness, this attack of success, is very different than what we’ve seen in our country’s history. We’ve always encouraged young people: Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.”

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the ADP and uses a delicious metaphor to make it relevant to college students: the hot wing. Ac-cording to this scale, attending a Times Talk is the same as eating a mild-sweet honey hot wing – the fi rst level on the scale. The more you do with the ADP, the higher you go up the level scale – the hotter the hot wing you become.

To move up on the scale, the organization hosted a viewing of the four presidential election debates. Students were invited to Front Campus to watch the debate and socialize with other stu-dents.

Participating in a Campus Forum is another way to move along the scale. The current ADP forum, Shaping Our Future, deals with the ques-tion of “How should higher education help us create the society we want?”

Student members of the ADP lead the forums, which deal with discussing the three different approaches that have been created to answering this question for the best course of action for the Milledgeville community.

By getting together and discussing these is-sues under the umbrella of the original question, the group hopes the citizens of Milledgeville will become more engaged with the future of their community while having GC students lead their deliberations. Having these forums and other citizen engaging events seems to be a popularly supported idea.

“The forum is a good idea. Informing the pub-lic on political issues is good and necessary to get (citizens) involved in the process so they know they can actually make a difference,” Rebekah

Bradford, junior exercise science major said. Sophomore criminal justice and computer sci-

ence major David Dietz believes that educating the Milledgeville community on political can-didates and policies of how they can help better the community is necessary and benefi cial. “The community would greatly benefi t from having all of that information,” he said.

Contact Kaufman at Gregg.kaufman@gcsu.edu to receive more information about becoming a member of ADP. Those interested in re-creating the RSO are on track to reach the highest level of the hot wing scale – a smokin’ hot-crushed red pepper wing.

American DemocracyContinued from page 2

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NICK WIDENER / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERJon Dahlhauser plays Madden on his big screen TV. “I have to spider claw the controller,” he says. “It’s the only way I can play.”

Editor’s note: this is part one of a two-part series on disabilities.

NICK WIDENERSENIOR REPORTER

While still in the womb, Georgia College student Jon Dahlhauser had a stroke. Six weeks later he had two seizures. His right arm and leg were permanently paralyzed. But he learned to walk. His brain functions normally.

Although, sometimes, his brain tries to use his right arm, and it contracts rebelliously. But he always has a smirk on his face as he walks, dragging his right leg languidly.

“You never really recognize that you only have one hand or that you’re disabled,” Jon says. “I think a lot of people see that in my eyes.”

Jon’s parents raised him to play sports. They bought him a Fisher Price basketball goal, and Jon says he would shoot on it all the time. He got to be better than some with two hands. He can make a half-court shot.

When he was 16, his parents divorced. His grades were slipping, but his siblings stepped in. He moved in with his oldest sister, Christine.

“Thank God I have a large family,” he says.As the youngest of the seven children, Jon

was used to being the only one in the house, but when he moved in with his sister, he took on a different role.

“I had to take on the responsibility of show-ing them how to do things, of being the older brother,” he says.

Staying involved in sports throughout high school helped Jon remain steadfast and make it to Georgia College.

“(GC) is very accepting of people’s situa-tions,” he said.

In December, Jon will graduate with a degree in theater, and he has aspirations of becoming a motivational speaker or going to graduate school for disabilities studies.

“When I talk individually, I feel like I am already motivational speaking. I feel when I talk to someone, they’re already going to go tell someone else.”

Jon has performed solo shows and is cur-rently working on a poem from Jim Ferris for his poetry performance class

Student says GC ‘very accepting’ of disabled

Diversity

“We’re all crippled/ We’re all disabled,” the poem says.

When he was younger, he looked at his dis-ability as his own problem. But now, he realizes he has something to share with other people.

“I do associate myself more with being dis-abled because it is such an asset to my life, but I can still detach away from it. It doesn’t con-sume who I am.”

When he was a child, Jon said he was more

self-conscious about his ears than he was his arm or his leg. But he has fi elded every ques-tion about his arm, from “how do you cut a steak?” to “you can drive?”

Jon always has friends around him, and he always wants to be with people.

“I’m a social butterfl y,” he says with an om

Accepting page 5

To stay ornot to stay?With transfer rates on the rise, the question to transfer becomes a more pressing one

KELLIE SHIRLEYCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The days when college students spend all four years at one school to earn a bachelor’s degree are coming to an end, even at Georgia College.

One-third of all college students choose to transfer to a different school at least once be-fore earning their degrees, according to the Na-tional Student Clearinghouse. Such a statistic prompts the question: What drives the decision to transfer? The answers are often complex and range anywhere from the fi nancial to the emo-tional.

The high percentage of transfers may be shocking to some, but to most college students today, they are simply part of the landscape. With the stagnant economy, record unemploy-ment and rising college tuition rates, it’s diffi -cult for some students to attend the same school for four years.

As young adults, students are becoming

concerned about the future burden of student loans. Many students try to minimize or elimi-nate them by completing core classes at a less expensive school, according to a Sept. 2 article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The article said nearly 41,000 students transferred into a

University System of Georgia college in Fall 2011, about a 25-percent increase compared to the past fi ve years as a whole.

GC is no stranger to this reality. Former GC student, Shelby Huckeba, shared her reasons for transferring.

“The reason I decided to transfer from Geor-gia College was because of money,” she said. “It was costing me so much money to go to school there, as well as having to pay for hous-ing. So I decided to transfer back home to Ken-nesaw State University so I could go to school for free because I would be living at home and then the Hope Scholarship would cover the rest.”

Shelby’s comments are echoed by many students across the state, especially those who experienced life in a private college with its higher costs. One can reach a point where the trade-off between price and academic credits is simply too much. Some people look at transfer

“The reason I decided to transfer from Georgia College was because of money. It was costing me so much money to go to school there, as well as having to pay for housing.”

Shelby Huckeba,transfer student to

Kennesaw State University

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release offi cial enrollment data later this aca-demic year.

“We will have to wait until it is reviewed by the Board of Regents, but we can expect a nega-tive effect to the amount of state funding in Fall 2014.” Liao-Troth said. “We have not experi-enced an extreme loss in enrollment; therefore, we do not expect extreme reductions in funding due to our enrollment numbers.”

A portion of state colleges’ revenue comes from state appropriations. All USG institutions submit semester enrollment and credit hours to the Board of Regents to calculate state ap-propriations through their funding formula. The formula “generates funds for various fac-tors such as enrollment, maintenance for new facilities, continuing education and fringe ben-efi ts”; based upon the enrollment and credit hours reports, “The funding formula calculates the change in funding required for faculty, staff, and support expenditures caused by the change in credit hours. This is referred to as enroll-ment earnings/losses or workload adjustment,” according to the USG’s Business Procedures Manual (section 8.2.1).

Across the USG system, decreases in gradu-ate enrollment have become a trend since Fall 2009, where it decreased 1 percent in Fall 2010 and again by 1.2 percent in 2011.

“Some institutions have seen fl at or declining enrollment. Yes, the USG is concerned and has been alerting institutions for the past 15 months to prepare accordingly. There is no one reason – it is institution specifi c,” Liao-Troth said.

Repressions caused by reduced state fund-ing as well as tuition revenue are inevitable, however, “The USG is trying to spare academ-ics from being affected by cuts as much as pos-sible,” Liao-Troth said.

GC plans to explore every alternative meth-od possible to reduce spending before cutting

faculty and teaching positions. “Less tuition will mean there is less rev-

enue to support GC infrastructures. We re-duce spending by deferring maintenance which could be something like choosing not to replace the treads in stairs; there might be fewer books on the library shelves, or less opportunities for faculty development travel and workshops. We would rather cut faculty development work-shops than cut teachers from classrooms,” Liao-Troth said.

Other institutions within the USG system ex-ecuted lay-offs in order to deal with the cuts in state funding.

“I read in the newspaper that Fort Valley has had to start laying off teachers because of this,” Liao-Troth said. Traditionally, GC has been fi s-cally conservative which has placed us in a bet-ter position to deal with the funding cuts so we have not been experiencing losses like that and, knock on wood, we won’t be.”

votes were tallied, People’s Choice was awarded to the Smarr Cooking Crew of the Georgia Barbecue Association. Cooking team “5 o’clock Somewhere” garnered the Local Grand Champion title, while the cov-eted Grand Champion title was bestowed upon team “Dixie Que.”

According to Milledgeville Main Street Director Carlee Schulte, the barbecue com-petition will remain a staple of Deep Roots Festivals to come.

“The barbecue contest will continue to be at Deep Roots,” Schulte said. “Having it at

the festival adds a Southern feel that every-one loves.”

nipresent smile on his face. “Living with Jon is not all that different

from living with a non-disabled person, ex-cept when he asks you for help, you kind of have to, otherwise you’re a jerk,” Will War-ren, junior theater major said.

Jon has been a friend of Brittley Blount, senior political science major, since her fresh-man year.

“His being disabled – he doesn’t let it stop him,” she said, “and he’s always up for any-

thing.” Jon attributes much of his success to his

upbringing. Since he was born, he has been getting chiropractic adjustments. He doesn’t take medicine.

“It’s a revolving door,” he says, “with chi-ropractors, you get results.” But he does take his vitamins.

After college he also has aspirations of de-veloping his acting career – the next disabled Tom Cruise, he says.

“You are disabled, but you aren’t. We’re all disabled. It’s how you recognize with yourself.

EnrollmentContinued from page 1 GC enrollment numbers

Enrollment is down by 3 percent this semester

First-year student numbers rose by 17

percent

Graduate student numbers dropped by

12.3 percent

BarbecueContinued from page 1

AcceptingContinued from page 4

“The barbecue contest will continue to be at Deep Roots. Having it at the festi-val adds a Southern feel that everyone loves.”

Carlee Schulte,Milledgeville Main Street director

ring as a bad thing because of how it can po-tentially keep a student from completing their degree on time, especially if they lose credits in the process. However, Tim Renick, associ-ate provost from Georgia State University, sees things differently.

“When you admit transfer students, they have taken college courses and done well. It’s a better indicator than an SAT score,” he told the AJC.

Though GC has its share of transferees leav-ing for other schools, many new faces are join-ing the Bobcat family.

Duncan Walters, a transfer student from the

University of Mississippi, decided that GC was a better fi t for him. For the most part, he is hap-py with his decision.

“I like the fact that at Georgia College the teachers actually know my name and I am not just my student ID number,” he said. “I feel like they actually care about their students’ success and help them achieve in a much better way.”

Like any choice made in life, the decision to transfer between colleges has benefi ts

and drawbacks. One may save money, gain better facilities, have access to more majors or

improve on the many intangibles such as “feel” or “fi t,” but these must be balanced with the fact that transferring colleges can result in lost academic credits, expensive moves or elim-ination of one’s support network of friends.

TransferContinued from page 4

DebateContinued from page 2overseas because you invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas,” Obama said. “We believe China can be a partner, but we’re also sending a very clear signal that America is a Pacifi c power; that we are going

to have a presence there. . .we’re organizing trade relations with countries other than Chi-na, so that China starts feeling more pressure about meeting basic international standards.”

After a lot of back-and-forth from the can-didates, the debate fi nally concluded with both Obama and Romney giving their closing statements.

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Downtown restaurant hosts one-year anniversary party

KATE FEDERMANSTAFF WRITER

In 2001, Bob Evans stood along the side of road selling barbecue to passersby, swearing that his fam-ily’s age-old recipe made for the best-tasting barbecue in town.

Evans took his recipe off the street after hearing the positive feedback from customers and opened a small restaurant called GeorgiaBob’s Barbecue Company in his hometown of Warner Robins.

Now, the GeorgiaBob’s Milled-geville location celebrated its fi rst anniversary on Oct. 15 by throwing a Southern-style birthday bash.

Attendees had the chance to taste the items off their menu, sample desserts and enter to win items from Villane’s Jewelry & Unique Acces-sories, the Vidalia Onion Factory and Gift Shop, the Atlanta Hawks and Peach State Pride.

“I think that our birthday event was very successful,” Ronnie Horn-sby, owner of the Milledgeville GeorgiaBob’s, said. “It gave peo-ple an opportunity to come in and try our food. We saw a big jump in profi t that night. I think the Spec-trumPR group that put the event on did a great job.”

About 85 people were in atten-dance for the party which is more than a usual dinner crowd, accord-ing to Hornsby.

“I am happy that I was able to go to the GeorgiaBob’s birthday event. My meal was really good. I also entered the raffl e and won some earrings from Villane’s, which was awesome,” Brooke Freeman, soph-omore community health major, said.

Hornsby will partake in more promotional efforts for the restau-rant throughout next semester to boost business. The ideas for the fu-ture mostly revolve around T-shirts, whether it be a T-shirt giveaway or

getting a discount when wearing a Geor-giaBob’s T-shirt.

The birthday club, another promotional effort by Hornsby for the restaurant, al-lows members to receive a free meal up to $11.50 on the member’s birthday. Re-minder texts and emails will be sent out to club members to stay up to date on events happening at GeorgiaBob’s as well.

“I think GeorgiaBob’s has really good food. The sweet potato tots are delicious,” Sarah Owens, senior nursing major, said. “I think GeorgiaBob’s has more side op-tions. It also has more than just barbecue, like chicken salad, which will attract more people to come and eat there. I think they will last a long time here in Milledgeville.”

Currently, Hornsby is working on pro-moting the restaurant’s catering to attract more customers. Catering accounts for about 30 percent of GeorgiaBob’s overall business.

“We do everything from low country boils to fi ne dining. We don’t just offer our barbeque menu for catering. So far, we

have catered boxed lunches for functions, weddings, sorority functions and Deep Roots events,” Hornsby said.

The birthday bash was just one tool that the GeorgiaBob’s staff has used to get more customers to come in and get hooked on their old Southern recipe.

“If we can just get customers to just come in once and try the food, they will love it,” Hornsby said.

KATE FEDERMAN/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERStudents enjoy some of the celebratory barbecue at GeorgiaBob’s one-year anniversary party.

On-campus Christian groups unite for night of worship

KELSEY COOPERSTAFF WRITER

Students from different campus ministries gath-ered on Front Campus one night last week to worship and promote unity.

The OneLove event was one that “strives to bring the different Christian ministries together for games, worship and a talk,” Gabby Banzon, junior music therapy major, said.

The service brought together Campus Catholics, the Baptist Collegiate Ministry, Campus Outreach, Wesley and House Church along with the Christian fraternity and sorority on campus. OneLove is pri-marily a student-organized event that bridges the gap between the ministry groups on campus to promote unity.

The vision of bringing the ministries together began in 2011 when Banzon and a small group of people from different ministry groups wanted a way to support each other and unify the ministries. They began the United Ministries Community and planned OneLove and Unite For Impact at GC with the goal of unity.

Banzon believes that unity among different minis-tries is important.

“One thing that turns people off from Christ is that there are a lot of denominations,” Banzon explains. “I want to show we are united despite our differences.”

Senior math education major Kelsey Davis agrees with a push toward unity.

“The ministries on campus have been divided,” Davis said. “We want to fi nd a way to unify them.”

The evening kicked off with games of corn hole and nine square, and then moved into a time of wor-ship. The music team was made up of people from the different ministries. Following worship was a talk from senior political science major Zach Balkcom.

With a theme of unity for the entire event, Balk-com centered his message upon that idea of how the different ministries may support each other.

“I want us to have a greater knowledge of our ac-tions and how they are helping or hurting our push for unity,” Balkcom said. “We have to consider what the point of unity is. I think it’s important that we decide why we’re doing this.”

Davis believes that unity between the ministries can impact the campus.

“As a campus, we need to be unifi ed as a body of Christians,” Davis said. “Each ministry is great in reaching people in their own way. It’s good that we have these different ministries, and by coming togeth-

er we can impact more people.”Balkcom hopes that the unity will bring

friendship among the different groups.“Becoming friends with people in

other ministries can open doors that were closed or ones that we didn’t know were there,” Balkcom said.

After the success of OneLove, the United Ministries Community will host

the three-day Unite For Impact in the spring to work even further to bring the groups together.

With the focus of OneLove being on unity, Banzon left a simple goal for the night.

“I just hope it brings everyone togeth-er,” Banzon said. “That’s really all I want OneLove to do.”

KENDYL WADE / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERStudents bow their head as they are led in prayer after the worship service’s conclusion. The event was held on Front Campus and featured a sermon on inter-campus support.

purchased the telescope through PlaneWaves, a telescope manufacturer in California.

“The diameter of the scope is 24 inches,” Domingue said, elaborating on the technical aspects of the scope. “Since that is over twice the size of the smaller telescope we have outside, we have four times as much light collected by the telescope. This means we can image galaxies and nebulae in just less than a second.”

The telescope was ordered in August of 2011 and was installed in May of 2012. The installation process was risky since the weight of the telescope necessitated the use a crane for placement.

“The crane had to lower the whole system into the room,” Domingue said. “They had to be very steady because the base weighs over 800 pounds.”

Now that the telescope is offi cially operational, groups such as the astronomy club can capitalize on hands-on ex-perience.

“We are learning how to use a camera that we can attach to it and take pictures of stars,” Nicholas Daniel, freshman physics major, said. “But since the telescope is so new, we’re mainly just learning how to use it for now.”

Chemistry, physics and astronomy Chair Ken McGill re-vealed that the residents of Milledgeville would be able to get a glimpse of space during the months to come.

“The astronomy club will do a public viewing at least once a month depending upon the weather,” McGill said. “On our website we will have announcements when we are going to be open.”

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“I am happy that I was able to go to the GeorgiaBob’s birthday event. My meal was really good. I also entered the raffl e and won some earrings from Villane’s, which was awesome.”

Brooke Freeman,attendee

SCOTT CARRANZA / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERPresident Dorman addresses attendees at the grand opening of Herty Hall and the unveiling of the new telescope. A few moments later he cut the ribbon to mark the offi cial opening.

October 26, 2012 • Editor, Constantina KokenesCommunityWHAT’S HAPPENING

7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Choral ensembles: “Dies Irae: Works of Rememberance” (First Baptist Church)

Monday, October 299 a.m. - 4 p.m. MIS or CS resume review day for spring IT career fair (132 Lanier Hall)

11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Emily J. Gomez: “Unearthed: A photographic search for Native American history through landscape” (Museum of Fine Arts) (Runs until Nov. 30)

Friday, October 26

PUBLIC SAFETY REPORT

Wednesday, October 3112 - 12:50 p.m. Times Talk: Debriefi ng the Presidental debates (LITC 2nd fl oor)

12 - 1 p.m. Using LinkedIn isn’t scary (105 Chappell Hall)

3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Don’t get “Spooked” by your internship search (132 Lanier Hall)

*Incident does not appear on map

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Saturday, October 27

Thursday, November 15 - 7 p.m. Emily J. Gomez: “Unearthed: A photographic search for Native American history through landscape” reception and artist talk (Museum of Fine Arts)

7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Jazz band: “Dance the night away” (Russell Auditorium)

Friday, November 27:30 - 8:30 p.m. Jazz band: “Dance the night away” (Russell Auditorium)

Oct. 13, 12:25 a.m. An underage student was seen holding two cans of an alcoholic beverage at Herty Hall. He told offi cer Reid White that he had stashed the drinks behind Herty on his way down-town and came back to get them. He also told White that he urinated behind the building. White disposed of both cans and told the student to go back to his dorm room.

LEAKING CHEMICALS

Oct. 13, 2:52 a.m. A blue Ford Mercury ran a red light at the intersection of Hancock and Wilkinson streets. Offi cer Megan Frasier stopped the car and noticed the driver had glassy eyes and smelled of marijuana. Frasier asked the driver to step out of the car and had a drug dog inspect the car. Mari-juana was found in the car, and the driver was arrested for suspicion of driving under the infl uence of marijuana.

“I SEE TREES OF GREEN”

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7 - 9 p.m. First Friday foreign fi lm series - Machuca (A&S Auditorium)

Midnight “Rocky Horror Picture Show” (Russell Auditorium)

Monday, November 511 a.m. - 2 p.m. GC graduate school showcase (Front Campus)

7 - 9 p.m. CPA resume review night in the halls (Residence halls)

7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Percussion ensemble (Max Noah Recital Hall)

Tuesday, November 69 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. GEICO campus interviews (132 Lanier Hall)

Wednesday, November 712 - 12:50 p.m. Times Talk: Post-election debriefi ng (LITC 2nd fl oor)

12 - 1 p.m. Career fair prep workshop (105 Chappell Hall)

8 - 10 p.m. “Proposals” (Campus Black Box Theatre)

Thursday, November 81 - 5 p.m. Sherwin-Williams interviews (132 Lanier Hall)

7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Georgia College All-Steinway dedication: A grand affair (Max Noah Recital Hall)

Friday, November 910 - 11 a.m. Interviewing strategies (105 Chappell Hall)

Oct. 19, 3:51 a.m. Three students were seen at the intersection of Hancock and Irwin streets car-rying a sign from a campus parking lot. When Sgt. Gary Purvis and offi cer Tron Smith asked the students why they had the sign, they told the offi cers that they wanted something to hang in their dorm room. Two of the students admitted to cutting down the sign after drinking earlier that night. The third student claimed he was watching the other two so they wouldn’t get in caught. The sign was returned and all three students were referred to the Student Judicial Board.*

IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A SIGN, THIS ISN’T IT

Oct. 19, 4:15 p.m. Sgt. Earnest Spikes was called to The Village in response to a fi re alarm. A student was baking bread in her apartment, but forgot it. The bread caught fi re. She used a fi re extinguisher to put out the fi re. Nothing was damaged.*

BREAKING BREAD

Oct. 21, 12:01 a.m. Offi cer Floyd Quattlebaum met with a student at the intersection of North Wilkinson and West McIntosh streets. Quattlebaum recognized him from earlier in the evening when a friend of the student asked the offi cer to take the student home. The student argued with his friends, and the offi cer noticed his bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and an odor of alcohol. He told the student to go home. Half an hour later, Quattlebaum responded to a call at Herty Hall. The student was argu-ing with his friends again and was arrested for underage possession of alcohol.

HAVEN’T I MET YOU BEFORE?

CLOSER LOOK

“The Rocky horrorPicture Show”

GC Department of Theatre presents

Where:

When:Russell Auditorium

Come join the GC Department of Theatre at its 5th-annual production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Plan ahead and get get in line early! The fi rst 400 people to arrive to the show get a prop bag. First-time viewers must be marked with a “V” in lipstick on the forehead. Tickets are available at the door and online at www.gcsutickets.com.

THE COLONNADE HEADS TO CHICAGO!The Colonnade will venture to Chicago from Oct. 31 - Nov. 3 for the annual College Media Association conference. The next issue of The Colonnade will be on Nov. 9. Interested in being on the staff? Join the next pitch meeting on Oct. 29 at 5 p.m. in Donahoo Lounge in MSU!

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October 26, 2012• Editor-in-Chief, Lindsay ShoemakeOpinion

EDITORIAL BOARD

Lindsay ShoemakeEditor-in-Chief

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Laura van Tuyll van SerooskerkenDesigner

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Matt BrookeWeb Master

Morgan WilsonAsst. Web Master

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Bobcat BeatREPORTED BY SCOTT CARRANZA

That Q&A with Cody Allen is weak and he’s just beat-ing around the bush. I could have said all of that in my sleep. What are your REAL goals for the year?? RAWR! sleep. What are your REAL goals for the year?? RAWR! sleep. What are your REAL goals for the year?? RAWR!

This whole CAS thing is reminiscent of the internet This whole CAS thing is reminiscent of the internet This whole CAS thing is reminiscent of the internet This whole CAS thing is reminiscent of the internet in general back in 1996. I suppose it wouldn’t

be so annoying if the thing actually worked. If you’re an alumni who went here while we paid the Well-ness Fee, then we shouldn’t have to pay money to get in there after we graduate. We already paid plenty of money to put that thing up, so why are we continuing to pay if we want to use it after we graduate?

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Our Voice

What was your favorite moment from Deep Roots this year?

By Zach Keepers

“I didn’t like anything. I feel like people didn’t get into the band as much. I feel like there should have been more people. The booths were really boring and the food sucked and was expensive.”Andi Dunn, senior studio arts major

“Probably the concert. That was really the main reason why I went. The Givers were defi nitely the best.”Kalin Jordan, freshman studio art major

“I enjoyed the people’s-choice barbecue; it was delicious. My favorite thing over all was the Georgia College

salsa dance performance. It was so beautiful.”

Hannah Wilson, senior psychology major

“I loved the Magnolia booth because

we gave out free shirts and other goodies. My other favorite part was

the bands, the beer and being able to see everyone; not just Georgia

College students but other “townies” you might know.”

Rachel Estridge, senior English major

GC should offer a class on how to talk to guys and not reveal your freakish obsession for cats.

Hickeys are for high schoolers!

Yes, I am judging you when I see you with a Chick-Fil-A cup.

Hey dude if you’re dating someone you should put it on your FB so I don’t look like a jerk when I ask for your number.

That moment when you forget what your TV channels are because you haven't turned in on in awhile. #seniormscmproblems

I am so excited for my future after graduation! I have ALL OF THE IDEAS. Thanks, GC for preparing

me.

It’s funny how unlikely heroes surface when we need them most. An everyday John Doe can become the champion of the day. We see it on the TV news or in the paper, but occasionally we are lucky enough to see it in real life.

On Wednesday morning, at the intersection of Jefferson and Montgomery streets, an 18-wheeler ran a red light and slammed into the driver’s side of a van.

The van fl ipped onto its side in the blink of an eye, trapping the passengers.

People rushed to the scene, their feet crunching on shat-tered glass on the asphalt. The driver was inside, tending to the van’s passengers. A woman was trapped beneath a wheelchair. The man sitting in the chair wasn’t able to lift himself and

get off the woman.A man on his way to get a cup

of coffee man walked up.He took of his denim jacket.He asked what had happened.

He said he was a nursing-school graduate, trained for emergen-cies.

“Does someone have 911 on the phone? Good. We need to get these people out as quickly as possible,” Adam Mitchell said calmly.

The sound of sirens grew louder as Mitchell crawled into the wreckage.

Police offi cers and EMTs soon surrounded the van. After strug-gling for 10 minutes inside the cramped space, everyone got out alive.

The last person to emerge was Mitchell.

As quickly as he appeared, he was gone.

The world needs more Adam Mitchells, people who know what to do when, for many, panic sets in.

He sprang into action.And what a fi ne example of

how well Georgia College’s nursing school trains its students, and how a Bobcat is prepared for anything life throws his way.

Acts of selfl essness like this are few and far between. The Colonnade is proud to report that Mitchell stepped up. What he did was, in a word, inspiring.

Selfl ess acts of heroism should be applauded

“Acts of selfl essness like this are few and

far between. The Col-onnade is proud to report that Mitchell

stepped up.”

AMY LANDAU COLUMNIST

In the last issue of The Colonnade, I

learned that Paul Broun, the notorious Republican Congressman who recently declared evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory “all lies from the pit of hell,” held what was billed as a “town hall” here on the Georgia College cam-pus. This congressman, by the way, also sits on the House Science Commit-tee along with Todd Akin, the man who thinks that women’s bodies are equipped with a mysterious mechanism to reject pregnancy from “legitimate rape.”

To my shock and dismay, the article stated that no mention was made of the outrageous remarks concerning modern science and no members of the audience even broached this topic. I was relieved to read Professor William Risch’s sensi-ble response to the lapse on the Opinion page of the paper and have since learned that Broun’s staff required that the pro-gram adhere to a tight script with fi ve

pre-approved questions and only two al-lowed from the live audience.

As a graduate student at Georgia Col-lege, a public liberal arts institution, I am dismayed and disheartened that such a charade was tolerated – and that the cen-sorship of open, democratic dialogue was deemed acceptable on our campus. Con-gressman Broun has a right to voice his opinions but freedom of speech is not a selective right that comes with privilege. I have no objection to his appearance on our campus but that presence must be balanced by authentic engagement with the academic community, especially if Georgia College is serious about up-holding its Values Statement: To invest “in its students the extensive knowledge and strategic skills for them to thrive as productive citizens of a globally engaged democracy.”

In the future, I hope Georgia College will think twice before allowing notori-ous speakers such as Broun to essentially use our institution as a PR gig or photo op, rather than as a place for genuine democratic discourse.

‘Town hall’ response

JONATHAN SAVITSKECOLUMNIST

In the third and fi nal presidential de-bate of the 2012 campaign, Gov. Mitt Romney and President Obama squared off on the issue of foreign policy. Rom-ney’s resounding victory in the fi rst de-bate gave him a sizable bounce in the polls, and momentum that, so far, the president and his campaign has not been able to break.

Essentially, all Romney had to do in this debate was play it safe, demonstrate he is levelheaded and collected under pressure, and act the part of the com-mander in chief. While the President came across as insulting and aggravated throughout the debate, Romney did ex-actly what he set out to do – look like a commander in chief.

Obama consistently patronized and insulted his opponent during the duration of the contest with snide comments that will probably alienate undecided voters. Romney on the other hand, looked presi-dential. He was calm throughout the de-bate, but not passive. He looked almost as if he was the incumbent and not the challenger.

On the issues, Obama frequent-ly defended his foreign policy record, while Romney decided to look at the big

picture, specifi cally in regard to China. The highlight of the debate for me

was when the GOP nominee expressed his desire of having a fruitful trad-ing partnership with China, but that he would challenge them to stop artifi cially devaluing their currency which has led to a trade defi cit and in the future could lead to a trade war.

The president, on the other hand, stooped to a new low when discussing the issue of national defense. Romney asserted that the size of the Navy is the lowest that it has been in almost 100 years.

The president then responded with the most snide insult of the night: “I think Governor Romney maybe hasn’t spent enough time looking at how our military works. You mentioned the Navy, for ex-ample, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military’s changed.”

By patronizing Romney, it is further proven that the Obama campaign cannot stop Romney’s momentum in the polls.

While the president may have won many of Monday’s topics on substance, Romney won on style, and that was all that he needed.

He looks like the next President of the United States, and last night he all but sealed it.

The fi nal presidential debate talks foreign policy plans, China and national defense

Debate round three

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October 26, 2012• Editor, Marilyn FerrellLeisure

According to Marie Claire’s Top Fall 2012 Fashion Trends, the unlike-ly pairing of black and navy is on the radar as the “it” color combination this season. Contrary to popular belief, it actually isn’t a sin to wear the two colors together.

While not everyone rides horses, they can still look like they do. Teen Vogue deemed the “equestrian chic” look to be a must have this fall. This look can be achieved through various pieces; a few include knee high riding boots, a blazer, a white button down and leggings. This look gets its inspiration from the stables, but anyone can rock it on campus.

When it comes to shoes, like last fall, the boots are back, and students across cam-pus are excited for the cool weather to be able to wear them to class again.

“What I love about fall every year is the fi rst day I get to wear boots,” Bailey Dobbs, junior economics major said. “They’re defi nitely my favorite part of my fall

outfi ts.”Ankle, knee-high, leather, suede or whatever the type, it’s time to bring

them out. While boots are all the rage, there is a new shoe in town that is gaining a lot of recognition: the loafer. However, this is not just any loafer; it’s the punk-rock loafer, the revamped new-age version of the preppy loafers of the past. Aldo, and many other shoe stores have introduced a

new line of loafers that feature studs of all sizes across the top of the shoe. All the chlorine, sun and salt water during the summer can be pretty hard on the

hair. So it’s probably time for a new cut coming into the fall season. A great style to think about is the pixie cut. This look is sweeping its way through hollywood with actresses like Emma Watson, Anne Hathaway and Ginnifer Goodwin all embracing the new short hairstyle.

To go with the new wardrobe, shoes and hair, there are new accessories out to rock as well. The bubble necklace has been trending since the summer and has carried over into this season as well. The French Vill’Edge and The Lemon Tree are boutiques located downtown where you can purchase these popular necklaces.

Besides the bubble necklaces that many have seen, there is a new accessory called a menswear watch. The folks at Refi nery29 put the menswear watch on their list of Top 30 Fall Wardrobe Essentials. The watch’s name speaks for itself – it is essentially a watch for a woman that looks like a men’s watch.

While the menswear watch is for the ladies, there are some fall trends for the guys also.

Men’s magazine Esquire did a feature on mens fall fashion trends for 2012. According to the men’s magazine, a staple item to have this season is light-colored jeans. Levi’s, J.Crew and Banana Republic were some of their favorite stores for this new trend.

With all of the fashions trends emerging this fall for men, Esquire still thinks it’s best to keep it as simple as possible. Esquire says “simple is about under-stated clothes worn with confi dence.” So stick to muted colors and patterns. Stock

your closet with plenty of v-necks, cardigans and vests.Also according to Esquire, the favorite color combo for men this year

is camel and mustard. Patrick Haley, junior chemistry major, shares his thoughts on the new

fall trends for men, and how he would rather just stick to what he knows while remaining comfortable.

“I’m all about dressing nice, but for me it’s about comfort too. If clothes are not comfortable then I am defi nitely not going to be wearing them,” Haley said. “I think all the fashion stuff is more appealing to women or men in Europe, being a guy from the South, I couldn’t care less about a vest or the color ‘mustard.’”

While fall fashion might not appeal to everyone, there are still plenty of people that love dressing for this season more than any other. So pick a new trend or an old one and embrace it this fall.

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renttherunway:HALEY BOGANSTAFF WRITER

Have you ever been fl ipping through a maga-zine and seen a dress you love but never in a mil-lion years thought you would have the chance to wear? In November of 2009, dynamic duo Jenni-fer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss launched a compa-ny with a new idea of allowing everyone to have the Cinderella experience. Rent the Runway is an e-commerce business that gives women the op-portunity to rent designer dresses and accessories for all of life’s special occasions.

Rent the Runway works off of a three step pro-cess: Love, wear, return.

Renttherunway.com features items from over 160 different designers. Search until the perfect dress is found, then select the date for the rental at 10-15% lower than the retail price. The rental is then shipped with two different sizes. An addition-al feature of Rent the Runway allows customers to add on a back-up style just in case for only $25.

Customers wear their rented attire to a special occasion, and when the rental is due back, it is simply sent back in a pre-paid envelope back to Rent the Runway. The service is fashionable, con-venient and effi cient.

No matter the event, Rent the Runway will as-sist clients with fi nding the perfect thing to wear. Whether it’s a prom, a wedding, a baby shower or just a date night they’re always bound to fi nd something that suits the event.

Rent the Runway has a team of stylists that are available six days a week via email, phone and live chat to answer all fashion concerns.

A lot of Rent the Runway’s business comes from the college-aged demographic. This being so, the company has the Runway Rep Program where women on 200 college campuses nation-wide work as reps for the company and commit to promoting the Rent the Runway by holding fash-ion events on campus.

Georgia College is not among the 200 colleges, but could be in the future. Women can apply to be reps for the program to then bring Rent the Run-way to their campus.

“Well, I think it is a fantastic site for people who are on a budget. It allows us to wear some awesome designer dresses but for a price that won’t hurt the wallet,” Allison Esber, junior nurs-

ing major said. “Some may think it is expensive but let’s face it – we usually wear a formal dress once and then get another one for other events. There are hundreds of selections to choose from and no one else is likely will be wearing that same dress.”

Rent the Runway has just recently launched another program to target college girls – It Girl. The program will allow girls on college campuses to act as buyers of a closet of 25 designer dresses. She will be able to supply her campus with one-time rentals priced at $30. She also is responsible for obtaining 20 “key holders” or subscribers to the closet that can have unlimited access to the closet for a monthly fee of $80.

“Closet sharing on college campuses has been happening for years now, and Rent the Runway is simply allowing college girls to share the most coveted designer fashions at an accessible price,” CEO and Co-founder Jenn Hyman stated in a press release announcing the start of the It Girl program.

GC also doesn’t have an “It Girl” to supply our campus with designer rentals. Women can easily apply online to become one though at renttherun-way.com.

“The idea of having a program like that seems like a good idea, I just don’t know how much I would use it,” Allison Smith, junior marketing major, said. “I do feel like it would benefi t a lot of the girls on campus in sororities though, with socials and formals and that sort of thing.”

While living on a college budget, Rent the Runway is a great new way to enhance your style at a fraction of the cost.

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Mark Watkins / senior PhotograPherHailing from Louisiana, Givers was the final act for the night, bringing in the largest crowd all day. Fans enjoyed them for their fun and energetic performance.

haley Bogan / staff PhotograPher(From left) Mike Sivilli, Steven Sandifer and Dan Lotti of Dangermuffin opened for the headlining act. They played songs off of their new album “Olly Oxen Free” as well as their rendition of the famous song “Iko Iko.” They entertained the crowd with their catchy folk tunes and bright lights.

Deep What?

Lindsay shoemakesenior reporter

Downtown Milledgeville was completely trans-formed on Saturday, Oct. 20. My usual perch at Blackbird Coffee was infiltrated with families, while the Friday night bar crawl route from Amici to Chops was home to a slew of vendors. A boom-ing stage filled the typically vacant and sometimes spooky lot on Hancock Street.

It was my first time having a go at the Deep Roots Festival.

As a senior, I felt it was my civic duty to experi-ence the festival firsthand before launching into the “real world” next May.

Boy, am I glad I did.I began my day at Deep Roots at noon with my

family, slipping on an orange wristband and step-ping into a new dimension of downtown Milled-geville. I nearly walked into a Georgia College Swing Dance Club street performance, narrowly missing a kick to the face (thanks for the heads up, mom).

In my usual fashion, I made a beeline for the food vendors, landing at the barbecue tent in no time. I opted for a tasting plate, savoring a wide ar-ray of the barbecue offered that day. Beer vendors were located approximately every 10 steps, which didn’t hurt, either.

As the day progressed and the sun began to fade into dusk, I bid goodbye to my parents and began scoping out the nightlife that Deep Roots had to offer.

After making the rounds at Amici, Asian Bistro and The Velvet Elvis with friends, the headliners of

Drinking Stellas with Dangermuffin

Jeannie hueystaff Writer

A melodic riff from a blues guitar reso-nated from the heart of downtown , blending with the giggles of children and the chatter of grownups at Milledgeville’s annual Deep Roots Festival.

On Oct. 20, downtown transformed into a venue for music and arts, sprawling over West Hancock, South Wayne and North Jefferson streets to accommodate the ninth-annual Deep Roots Festival.

On South Wayne Street, a crowd of festival goers congregated at an outdoor marketplace. Art vendors displayed items such as jewelry, pottery, paintings and quilts – all set up in the middle of the street.

“I haven’t been here in several years,” Robin Weinrich, the award-winning artisan and designer of “Reflections by Robin,” said. “Last time I was here, it was Sweetwater. It’s definitely grown; it is definitely a better qual-ity. It is very important for me as an artist

that I’m at a place where there is foot-traffic, which there is. They picked a very good week-end – parents weekend – so that was brilliant, and it’s well laid out.”

This year, Weinrich gained recognition at art shows in Canton, winning the merit award, and in Gainesville, where she was awarded second place overall.

Further down the street, residing under a shaded canopy where they set up shop for the day, were ceramic artisans Louise Robertson and Phyllis K. Palmer; this is their first time at Deep Roots.

“This is our first year – we didn’t really know what to expect,” Robertson said. “It’s fabulous.”

Not until recently did Robertson and Palmer begin showing their ceramics at lo-cal events in the Athens area. The 90-minute drive to Milledgeville for Deep Roots is the farthest they’ve traveled out of Athens thus far. Their works “Wheezie Works” and “Play

anna Morris / staff PhotograPherMike Sivilli, lead guitarist for Dangermuffin.

Colonnade editors and students capture their view of Deep Roots

Dangermuffin Q-&-A on page 13

Our editor-in-chief documents her first time

at Deep Roots

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Anna Morris, A&E Editor@GIVERSmusic getting ready for #DeepRoots!”

Kevin Pfeiffer, sophomore“Spotted in the crowd. Glad my beard is back.”

Lindsay Shoemake, editor-in-chief“This night is so great. Thanks for coming to Milledgeville, The Givers!”

Stephanie Reagan, senior“Deep Roots aftermath.”

Tarver Bechtel, junior“Loving seeing these wonderful Macon boys at good ole’ #deeproots2012” Deep What? page 14

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MALLORY CHAPMANSTAFF WRITER

Front Campus is a place for studying, ham-mocking, Frisbee throwing and slacklining.

But last Friday it was a place for “fun rock,” guitar riffs and melodious voices.

CampusFest hosted the bands Rapanui, Tha Hugs and Baby Baby for a night of entertain-ment.

Tori Quante, senior English and creative writing major, was in charge of securing the bands for CampusFest.

“I am friends with Tha Hugs so I asked them, and Rapanui approached me and said this is something they would like to do,” Quante said. “Baby Baby was a suggestion from someone.”

Rapanui got the show started around 5 p.m. and played a mix of funky, electric songs with a dose of rap. They performed fi ve solid songs that got the crowd excited for the rest of the night, while also creating an easy-going atmo-sphere for listeners.

Rapanui is no stranger to Georgia College, with its members being students and playing at other campus events such as EarthFest.

“This is the biggest amount of people we have had on Front Campus so it’s pretty cool,” Joe Latour, junior business management major and drummer of Rapanui, said.

The next to take the stage was crowd-favor-

ite Tha Hugs. Their mix of doo-wop, surf rock and retro sounds made for an interesting per-formance.

“I love our musical style,” Brent Tripp, se-nior philosophy major and Tha Hugs’ guitarist, said. “We have a little bit of everything.”

Songs like “All Good Things” got the crowd up and dancing. The mood shifted from laid-back easy listening to energetic. Their set list was the largest of the night, maxing out at about eight songs.

“I thought it was a good performance,” Tripp said. “Everything went well.”

During the performance, Tha Hugs an-nounced they will have an E.P. coming out in a few months featuring the songs played at Cam-pusFest.

“I liked Tha Hugs because I could see my-self listening to them on my own,” junior math major Tanner Mortensen said.

The evening ended with a performance by Atlanta-based group Baby Baby. Their style – “fun rock” – speaks for itself in setting the mood for the audience. They were highly enter-taining and tried to get the audience involved by talking to them between performances.

“The atmosphere was amazing,” Kyle Dobbs, guitarist for Baby Baby, said.

potlight: Durham Henderson, senior biology major, shares his acting experiences, techniques and hilarious tricks of the trade.

By Constantina KokenesDon’t miss Durham’s performance in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” on Oct. 26 at midnight in Russell Auditorium.

Q: How long have you been acting? A: The first acting experience I had was in my 5th grade production of “Tom Sawyer” where I got to play the vil-lain, Doc. I got to prance about the stage thrusting dollar bills so it was quite the experience. At a young age, I knew I was a little off my rocker so watching the wacky antics of Jim Carrey inspired me to be myself, which is to freak peo-ple out. Through acting it was socially acceptable to be as out there as possible so I felt at home.

Q: How do you connect to your char-acters? A: I connect with my characters by find-ing comedy in each of them. Even with dark, dramatic roles I manage find spac-es for comedic interjections specific to that character. Q: What is your favorite part about acting/performing? A: Feeding off an energetic audience. When I hear that laughter, I feast on their energy, amping up my performance and allowing for a feeling of freshness to the scene. It feels less rehearsed because I’m living in that moment. Q: Do you prefer a certain type of character to play? Why or why not? A: I prefer a character that is written comically because I like to make people laugh. However, my favorite roles are the small, random roles because I’m al-lowed true artistic freedom to take it in any direction. If you give me an inch, I’ll take you on a marathon, baby.

Q: What has been your favorite role so far?

A: The flamboyantly gay illegal immi-grant meets dancing queen role of Fla-mingo in the production of “The Birds.” Because of my language barrier, I had just one simple phrase that gave me the ultimate comedic freedom. It was so much fun to be constantly eating every prop while dancing and honking in com-plete and utter confusion. Q: How does it feel to play Dr. Frank n’ Furter? A: Dr. Frank n’ Furter is one of most “out there” characters because he is clearly clinically - and sexually - insane in the membrane. It’s also one of the most difficult because the timing is so key. The people sitting in the first couple of rows are in for a treat.

Q & A with GC’s Dr. Frank n’ Furter, Durham Henderson

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Kendyl Wade / Senior PhotograPherHenderson played Flamingo, a gay illegal im-migrant, in “The Birds.”

Feeding off an energetic audience. When I hear that laughter, I feast on their energy, amping up my performance and allowing for a feeling of freshness to the scene. It feels less rehearsed because I’m living in that moment.

Q: Do you prefer a certain type of character to play? Why or why not?

I prefer a character that is written comically because I like to make people laugh. However, my favorite roles are the small, random roles because I’m al-lowed true artistic freedom to take it in any direction. If you give me an inch, I’ll take you on a marathon, baby.

grant meets dancing queen role of Flamingo in the production of “The Birds.” Because of my language barrier, I had just one simple phrase that gave me the ultimate comedic freedom. It was so much fun to be constantly eating every prop while dancing and honking in complete and utter confusion.

Q: How does it feel to play Dr. Frank n’ Furter?

A: Dr. Frank n’ Furter is one of most “out there” characters because he is clearly clinically - and sexually - insane in the membrane. It’s also one of the most difficult because the timing is so key. The people sitting in the first couple

CampusFest bands impress

MALLORY CHAPMAN/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERLocal band Tha Hugs was the second band to perform at CampusFest. Tha Hugs is made up of (from left) Brent Tripp on bass, Brandon Jordan on vocals and guitar, Benton Meadows on guitar, Gray Lindsey on key-board and Connor Yates on drums. The band is coming out with an EP within the next few months.

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A PBR-labeled hat. A worn-in bandana. Beards identifiable for miles.

The guys of Dangermuffin are as eclectic as their music. Hailing from Folly Beach, S.C., they’ve graced many a festivals with their “no-frills” roots music. Taking most of their influence from driving through the desert, Dangermuffin creates music that begs to be played to bring a community together, making them a perfect fit for Deep Roots. I, along with Leisure Editor, Marilyn Ferrell, claimed a curb backstage and shared a Stella Artois “Tallboy” with the guys of Dangermuffin. The conversation delved into their newest album, playing for crowds of dif-ferent sizes and, of course, their trademark beards.

Q: Is there anything specific that influenced

your new album “Olly Oxen Free?” Mike Sivilli (guitar & vocals) : The tour-

ing we’ve been doing over the past few years in-fluenced the record. A lot of the vibes came from driving through the desert and going out west. The kind of stuff out there is very inspirational. We met a bunch of cool people and brought that back. The record is a lot about coming back home. It’s kind of influenced by our touring.

Q: How did it feel getting to the #1 spot on the

Home Grown Music Network Radio Chart? Mike: We’ve had some radio success in the

past, not commercial, but more college radio – some of the more cool stations. We were 14 weeks at their chart and beating bands like Dave Matthews and Mumford. But then Mumford just beat us.

Dan Lotti (lead vocals & guitar) : We still had

number one when [Mumford] debuted. Mike : Legends like Jerry Douglas was on

there. Bob Dylan had a new record, and we were beating that. It’s a grouping of 100 stations that they cover.

Q: So would you say that you mostly appeal

to the college crowd or is it a good mix of every-one?

Dan: We’ve been described as jam-band friend-

ly, but it’s roots music – no frills music. We’re really eclectic. We found as we travel around that it’s all different kinds of people [we appeal to].

Mike: Little kids love us. I think they love any

music on some level, but we do a lot of day festi-vals and family-friendly stuff. It’s really neat to see the kids just glowing and running around in circles. Their parents will come up to us and say “Our kids have been making us play your record over and over

again, singing the words to this song.” That’s cool. That’s a cool litmus test because kids have no sort of bias.

Q: What was the process of getting you to

play at Deep Roots? Dan: I think Jimmy sought us out and contacted

the agency to see if we were available. Mike: We’ve been travelling and touring about

for a good solid three years, and just the word gets out and someone hears about your band and say they want to book them for a future festival. It’s not about us. We’re not sending them care packages or anything.

Dan: It doesn’t work. We’ve tried it. Q: Had you hard of Milledgeville before you

were asked to play here? Mike: We hadn’t. We played Macon, Athens,

Atlanta and Augusta before. Dan: We like the smaller towns, and when the

whole town gets involved it’s just so cool. Q: Are there any bands that influence you? Dan: I think we all have different influences,

and that’s what makes the music what it is. We all bring different vibrations to the band. It comes from all sorts of angles. We do different rehears-als – some for getting ready for a gig – or some-times we sit down and write. Anyone will bring in an idea, sometimes a map of an entire song, some-times a rough a map, and we’ll take that idea and try different types of options. And Mike might throw something on top of that. It’s a process of throwing it through the ringer.

Steven Sandifer (drums & vocals) : It’s a

very collaborative process for sure. Q: What other festivals and shows have you

played at, and do you have any favorites? Dan: We’ve done Gathering of the Vibes, Wa-

karusa and Taos Mountain in New Mexico. Last summer we played [Taos Mountain], and that was one of my favorites. We did this after-hour thing, and it was at this campsite on the top of the moun-tain, and there was this bonfire. It was a lot of fun. We did Wanee too. We played the 9:30 Club in D.C., which is the nicest rock n’ roll venue in the country. That was a treat.

Mike: We do this acoustic side project thing

where Steven plays upright bass and me and Dan play acoustic guitars. We’ve done a couple shows like that at theaters. We did some shows opening for Hot Tuna. Those were memorable for me – 500 people, whisper quiet, listening to you. It’s kind of

Mallory ChapMan / Staff photographerDan Lotti, lead vocalist, and the other members of Dangermuffin surprised the crowd with their rendition of the famous song “Iko Iko.” Fans of the roots music sound were impressed by the Folly Beach, S.C. boys.

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this discerning audience, and we sit down and play this folky version of our songs. People re-ally like it. That’s cool getting a standing ova-tion for this acoustic thing. It’s very different than playing a rock n’ roll show at a bar. It’s a nice dichotomy.

Q: Do you ever have shows where there

isn’t a very large audience? Mike: That’s one of the only challenges

of touring. You can go somewhere where you have hundreds of fans, but it’s about getting those hundreds of fans to come out and see you.

Dan: That’s one of the biggest tests as a

band. You don’t really learn anything from some of the shows that really go well. It’s only when you have to get your ass kicked. You go somewhere and learn what’s important. You want to get to a place where you get on stage and play for yourself. When you do that and it brings you joy and fulfillment, it kind of reso-nates out to people. And while people may be dancing and enjoying it, maybe they can get more from it depending on how you look at the music versus how it’s being received.

Mike: Sometimes it’s more rewarding

playing for 10 people who are more engulfed in what you’re doing than playing for thou-sands of people who are like “Party timeeee.” It just totally depends.

Q: What’s with your beards? Dan: We are going to be ZZ Top for Hal-

loween if that’s what you’re asking. Mike: The first time we went to Colora-

do, I think it was four years ago, we said we should grow out our beards. I don’t think I’ve shaved since then.

Q: What’s the short story behind how

y’all got together? Dan: Mike and I have been playing to-

gether since 2005 – we played acoustic as a duo around Charleston. We supported our-selves like that, writing original songs. We met Steven in 2008 and started touring in 2010.

Q: What’s up next for Dangermuffin? Dan: We’ve got a three-week run coming

up in two days, going to Boone and Pittsburgh and Vermont and coming down through Char-lottesville.

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Through their music, it is obvious that the members of Baby Baby are energetic and playful. A tambourine and even a conch were thrown into the mix on some songs. They describe their sound as “fun rock” because while they play the instruments extremely well, they also have fun with their perfor-mance and get the crowd up and dancing.

Baby Baby has performed in Milledgeville numerous times before.

“We’ve played for Sounds of the South, and that was really fun, and we’ve played at Amici’s and Velvet Elvis,” Dobbs said.

They have even gained fans from their dif-ferent performances.

“I originally came for Baby Baby,” Liz Rary, freshman English major, said. “I got to see them a while back so it was awesome to see them again.”

Quante felt that the night’s performances were a success.

“I think the performances went really well,” Quante said. “All three bands did a great job, we had a pretty good turnout, and everyone seemed to really enjoy it.”

n’ the Clay” are two separate brands, but Rob-ertson and Palmer always travel and display their art together.

“There’s so much of a variety,” senior po-litical science major Lee Ann Hughes said. “All kinds of crafts – even things you wouldn’t expect. I loved the wine bottles that were cut in half and shaved down to make candles. A ton of my friends who graduated in May came back for Deep Roots, but I got the candle for a girl friend who couldn’t make it. Deep Roots is something that I will always think of as a favorite college tradition.”

Around 3 p.m. Mayview Road, the first of five headlining bands, initiated the musical lineup with their performance on Deep Root’s main stage across from City Hall. Influences of jazz and blues as well as folk and bluegrass were apparent in their songs.

“It’s a pretty chill scene,” senior accounting major Ashley Lee said. “They seem to cover everything. I’m excited for the rest.”

Baton Rouge native Chris Thomas King was next to stage. Winning both CMA and Grammy awards, he is a reputable icon in the world of blues. It was through the festival’s entertain-ment committee that Milledgeville was able to host artists such as King.

“We have a wonderful entertainment com-mittee that works year round to find up and coming artists to perform,” Carlee Schulte, Main Street director, said.

The sun gradually faded as The Eclective put together their set.

“I’ve never played at Deep Roots before, so this is like a mini dream-come-true for sure,” Cory Cain, lead vocalist and guitarist of The Eclective, said.

The Eclective is a compilation of artists gathered from the bands Josh Roberts & The Hinges and Stokeswood as well as local bands The Macchios, Elastic Skyline and Bomb Chewey. Each member currently lives in Milledgeville, enabling the band to contribute a distinctly local essence to the night’s lineup.

“Jimmy Holder asked me if I would be in-terested in putting something together for Deep Roots, and I didn’t really know what he had in mind,” Cain said. “He asked me what I would do if he gave me an hour to do something. I told him I would call four or five of the best people I know for the job, and we would play together for an hour, and it would be awesome – and that’s sort of what happened.”

Brandon Marsolo, lead guitarist, began striking a familiar line of chords as people continued to head toward the pit in front of the stage.

“I don’t know that it’s sunk in yet,” Cain

said before the night’s performance. “There are a lot of people. It’s something that I’ve gone to every year, and it’s something that I’ve always wanted to do. I feel okay now – we’ll see in about three hours how I feel. It’s intimidat-ing for sure, but knowing that I have these four people playing with me, I know I don’t have anything to worry about.”

The audience recognized the song.A large crowd gathered as close to The

Eclective as the barrier blocking the stage would allow. Fans sang and moved to the rhythm of the song when Cain hit the chorus to a Cold War Kids cover: “Now hang me up to dry you’ve rung me out too, too, too many times.”

“I have an incredible band that I’m play-ing with,” Cain said. “It’s exciting to play for something that has been such a part of our community and that people have worked so hard for – we give a local flavor, you know, and show that we like this stuff too. This means a lot to us.”

Transitioning from one local band to an-other, a trio of heavily bearded men arrived on stage in the form of Dangermuffin. Although these musicians call the shores of Folly Beach home, they are still worthy of the “local” title, as their music is 100 percent organic – local-ly produced and recorded in their native S.C. home.

Dangermuffin has a sound that categorical restraints cannot accurately define. Their songs exhibit traditional jam-band reggae and funk elements, but they transcend the boundaries of the jam-band genre by fusing bluegrass and folk sounds.

“It was a fantastic event,” Dan Lotti, vocal-ist and guitarist for Dangermuffin, said. “The streets were overflowing with Georgians open-ing their minds to new music.”

Streets that only a few hours earlier were flooded with people had more or less emptied, with the exception of the massive audience prepared for the performance by the Louisiana-native band Givers.

“Givers were very high energy and seemed genuinely excited to be here,” Rand Rozier, senior English major, said. “They covered ‘Girlfriend is Better’ by Talking Heads fantas-tically.”

Givers have gained attention playing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April alongside The Black Keys and Radio-head. Their song “Up, Up, Up” was featured on an episode of the show “Glee.”

“My favorite memory this year has to be seeing Givers perform,” Schulte said. “They were a huge hit, and seeing the crowd go wild is always exciting. Just to be a part of this huge venture has always been thrilling to me in gen-eral though. … I am very happy with the turn-out.”

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the night began taking the stage.I made it just in time to nab a front-row

spot for South Carolina trio Dangermuffin, whose down home, soulful rock was a one-of-a-kind treat. The band interacted with the crowd well, and there wasn’t a dull moment between songs.

After dipping out of the performance a few songs early and skipping down the roped-off

portion of Hancock Street with friends, it was back to the stage to catch a glimpse of head-lining band Givers.

The band’s set was a non-stop string of upbeat songs, which prompted many in the crowd to dance. I witnessed a variety of dance moves, from the 1920s Charleston to the ge-neric Capital City grind.

As the band played its final song, time stopped for an instant as I reveled in the light of my first – and last – Deep Roots experience of my college career. The annual festival was a magical experience for me; everything that I imagined it to be and more.

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Soccer:Oct. 27 @ Home

Golf:Oct. 29 & 30 @ Orlando, Fla. Cross Country:Nov. 3 @ Charlotte, N.C.

“I always say you’re one injury or illness away from a disaster. So right now we are just trying to take it easy and maintain the level of perfor-mance we’ve had.”

-Cross country coach Joe Sam-prone on preparing for the NCAA Southeast Regional Race

9The current rank of the

GC soccer team according to the NSCCA Southeast Regional rankings.

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Success on the field and in class

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There’s something to say about a student athlete who not only shows sweat, hard work and success on the field, but also in the classroom.

That something: How on earth do you do it?

That’s not a rhetorical ques-tion, by the way. I am flat-out amazed by how athletes within the Bobcat Nation are able to make it to class, score well on exams and then dominate in their sports. It can’t be easy.

I’m in the classroom with a few athletes here and there. Par-ticularly when I was a marketing major early in my college career, every business class I took I found myself sitting down the row from a basketball or baseball player. And although I would skip class, forget homework or fail to study, they wouldn’t. It wasn’t like I was so busy that I couldn’t find the time. The busi-est my schedule ever got those first two years here was finding time to review notes between episodes of “Tosh.O.”

But the athletes were the ones leading the class discussions. They were the ones venturing into professors’ offices to ask questions and get extra help. Their confidence in their abilities carries over from the court to the classroom. Just as they train their bodies to be stronger and faster, they train their minds to be sharper and brighter. Whether their coaches threaten bench time unless they score well in school or not, I don’t care. The fact is, they do it, and it’s remarkable.

A prime example of this was highlighted in GC news this week when junior cross country runner Philip Laskey was named to the Peach Belt Conference All-Academic Team. There are two main prerequisites to qualify. First, you must be sufficiently involved in your sport. Laskey has led the men’s team in all five races so far this season. Check. Second, you must have at least a 3.3 GPA. Laskey’s is 3.77. Double check. If that’s not impressive, then I don’t know what is.

Laskey isn’t the first Bob-cat all-star to be named to the team, either. Last season, golfer Patrick Garrett made it. Tennis player Wictor Andersson and basketball player Royal Thomas were named Bronze Scholars last season with GPA’s between 3.25 and 3.49. But that’s just scratch-ing the surface. There are many more where they came from, too many to name.

It’s amazing being part of a school that puts emphasis on both test and sports scores. Sure, other schools may surpass GC’s stats with flying colors, but that’s not the point I’m making. Being a Bobcat with talented student athletes is something to treasure and appreciate.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but realizing this makes my experience here that much more rewarding.

Just as they train their bodies to be

stronger and faster, they train their

minds to be sharper and brighter.

Club

DaviD Wicker / Senior PhotograPherFishing team member Clayton Faircloth (pictured in photos above) practices for up-coming tournaments on Lake Sinclair on Monday at sunset. Faircloth and Chancey Grey, team president, competed together in August in the Wackem College Open on Lake Lanier. The pair placed 20th out of 34 teams. The fishing team will compete in its first major tournament on Nov. 10 on Lake Oconee.

Reeling in the competition

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In the heat of summer or the chill of winter, many students would not have the motivation to sit on a boat and wait patiently for the best fish to bite. The Georgia College fishing team em-braces this, practicing and strategizing year-round.

“There’s no offseason. There are times when it slows down, but for the most part there are tournaments throughout the entire year,” senior marketing major and team president Chancey Grey said. “Most of the prac-tices are individual. If we have a prac-

tice on Lake Sinclair, we’ll go out on Sinclair and try to figure out what the fish are doing, because they’re con-stantly moving.”

The team, ranked seventh in the na-tion last fall, and had success in tour-naments last semester.

The team competed in the seven-tournament Georgia Southern Col-legiate Bass Fishing Series and was named fishing club of the year.

“We had a top five in every tourna-ment in that trail and in some we had more than one boat in the top five,” Grey said. “One of our goals this year

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Fall is the season

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The early fall 2012 season for Georgia College Recre-ational Sports boasted a whop-ping 160 teams, comprised of 1,700 athletes, which in turn played close to 500 games.

“I think it went really well,” Director of RecSports Bert Rosenberger said. “We didn’t have too many serious injuries, or complaints, and everybody seemed to be enjoying them-selves.”

The season consisted of five different sports, divided into nine separate men’s, women’s and co-ed leagues, which re-

sulted in nine different champi-onship teams.

“The highlight of the year was probably HitSquad win-ning the men’s championship,” Rosenberger said. “It’s the first time since I’ve been here that a team basically came out of nowhere to become the best on campus. Usually you can nar-row it down to about two teams that have a chance of winning at the beginning of the semester and one of those teams always ends up winning. HitSquad was pretty much an unknown at the beginning of the year.”

HitSquad won both GC’s men’s flag football champion-ship and Georgia Southern Uni-versity’s “Battle in the Boro” men’s flag football tournament with a perfect combined record of 14 wins and no losses.

Many students get involved

with intramurals

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DaviD Wicker / Senior PhotograPherFreshman Maddy Tully dribbles the ball during the Wednesday night game against Montevallo. The Bobcats defeated the ‘Canes 2-0.

Collegiate

Soccer wins three

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The women’s soccer team recently won three games in a row, starting with a match against unranked Newberry at home on Oct. 19.

The Bobcat’s defense had their best showing of the year, not allowing New-berry any shots at goal. The Bobcats loosed 24 shots, with half of them hitting the target.

The end of the first half resulted in a 0-0 draw, but GC broke through in the 58 minute with a goal from Ally Barys, a freshman midfielder.

“It was a buildup up the field, and it was really a team effort,” Barys said. “It (the ball) got crossed into the box and one of their defenders blocked it, but we were able to pick it back up again. Abby

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Georgia College was recently ranked 22nd among NCAA Division II schools in the National Collegiate Scouting Association, Inc. Collegiate Power Rankings. The Bobcats edged up one spot from last year.

The rankings look at the academic and athletic standards of all NCAA ath-letic programs across the country. The

rankings are calculated by averaging student-athlete graduation rates, aca-demic ratings provided by U.S. News & World Report, and the strength of athletic departments as determined by the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup.

“When you look at those three ar-eas, our academic reputation speaks for itself,” Athletic Director Wendell Sta-ton said. “The student athletes come here and they’re motivated to do well academically and they have a system in

place that allows them to do that and a caring faculty and staff that can pro-vide that environment.”

The rankings help prospective stu-dent athletes and their families evalu-ate the strength of different athletic departments as a whole.

“It’s all about being well-rounded,” Staton said. “This is a classic example

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School spirit reigns at Bobcat Madness

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Robin Glaubman / Staff PhotoGRaPheRSophomore outside center Evan Butcher leaps over the goal line after running 80 meters to score for the rugby club against Georgia Tech last Saturday.

The Bobcats Rugby Club hosted its second “Dirty Deep Roots” tournament on Oct. 20. Six rugby teams from around the state took part. The Bobcats beat Georgia Tech 35-7 in the first game and later beat Emory University, 29-14, landing them in the playoff game for third and fourth place. The playoff games were decided on a points system in which the teams with the most collective points, whether they won or lost, competed for first through fourth places at the end of the tournament. Junior man-agement major and the club’s former president Juan Salleras says, “So even though we did great, we still took fourth.” The club lost its final game against Valdosta State by one try in the final minute of the game. Georgia Southern won first place, followed by Macon Love in second, and Valdosta state in third. “It was a great day for our team. We did a phenomenal job on and off the field,” Salleras said.

Bobcat Madness

Scott carranzaSenior reporter

Hundreds of students showed off their Bobcat pride at the annual Bobcat Madness last Wednesday. With a good turn-out and school spirit to boot, this year’s rally proved success-ful.

When the doors opened at 7:30 p.m., students grabbed their glow sticks and seats for a basketball rally full of dancing, contests and scrimmage match-es by the athletes.

Partnering with the Depart-ment of Athletics, Thunder Crew used around one-fourth of the funds given to them by the Student Government As-sociation to put together the event. Thunder Crew president Tyler Kemp elaborated on the expense list for the night.

“We paid $2,700 for the T-shirts, the band and the tailgat-ing food,” Kemp said. “The athletic department paid for the glow sticks, which were $326.”

With around 1,100 students showing up for the rally, this Bobcat Madness had a slightly smaller turnout than last year.

“Last year we had around 1,500 students,” Kemp said. “It’s kind of disappointing com-pared to this year though, since we thought everyone loved it last year.”

Around 400 students par-ticipated in the tailgating event, filling the front row of the com-muter parking lot behind Napier Hall.

One of the newer additions to Bobcat Madness was the women’s basketball scrimmage match. Sophomore guard Saidat Ogbemudia was excited to see all the students and scrimmage against her fellow teammates.

“It was really great to see

all the fans come out to have a good time,” Ogbemudia said. “When we came in, the atmo-sphere was really good and the fans were cheering. We are all just very competitive and the fact that there was dancing on the line for the loser made us want to win even more.”

Junior physics and engineer-ing major Quin Bivins spoke of

what this season had in store for the fans.

“This year you can expect us to do more running and gunning like in the scrimmage match,” Bivins said. “We’re a real up-tempo type team, fast and quick. We don’t have a whole lot of size this year, so we’re re

Kendyl Wade / SenioR PhotoGRaPheRFreshman forward Austin Card participated in a practice game against other members of the men’s basketball team on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at Bobcat Madness in the Centennial Center.

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is to keep that trophy. Every year the trophy goes back. We want to maintain it.”

In late August, Grey and junior athletic train-ing major Clayton Faircloth competed as a team in the Wackem College Open on Lake Lanier – one of the biggest tournaments in college fishing. The two struggled at the beginning, but managed to come through at the end and placed 20th.

“We struggled a little the first day, but we put together a pattern the second day and caught some better fish but we didn’t place,” Faircloth said. “That was the biggest tournament this year.”

So far this semester, the team has only held two inner-team qualifiers to determine who will travel to tournaments. One was held on Lake Sinclair and the other was held on Lake Jackson.

Another qualifier will take place Saturday, Oct. 27, on Lake Oconee. Team vice president and senior environmental science major Jerrod Hendrix said that the qualifiers have proven that the team has grown stronger.

“They’ve been going pretty well,” Hendrix said. “The past two years, our weights for the fish have been a lot better and we’re all getting better. They’re only going to keep getting better with more practice.”

The team will compete in its first major tour-nament on Nov. 10, also on Lake Oconee. Geor-gia Southern is hosting a benefit tournament with all proceeds going to the American Cancer So-

ciety. All the colleges in Georgia with a fishing team and many from the Southeast are predicted to be there. Faircloth says the team has high hopes for the tournament.

“We hope to do well in that. There are going to be a lot of boats and a lot of people. The more experience you get out there, there more chance for sponsorships and we can always use more sponsors,” Faircloth said.

The team has set its expectations high for this semester, and plans to match its successes from last season.

“We have big hopes, we want to do the best we can. We plan on doing very well. We’re going to do what we can,” Faircloth said.

Both Grey and Faircloth expressed the excite-ment they have for the freshman members of the team, and the potential they see in them.

“We have some new guys this year that have a lot of passion for the sport,” Grey said.

Faircloth emphasized that a concentrated mindset is needed to be successful in tournament fishing and that it is very different than what the freshmen have previously experienced.

“It’s a different world in tournament fishing, because you’re on the water for eight hours and it’s a grind,” Faircloth said. “You have to go at it, because the moment you relax and you get a bite, you might lose a fish.”

Hendrix hopes the freshmen will learn from the older members of the team.

“You have to have a lot of passion for it, and people that do learn a lot from the older guys on the team,” Hendrix said. “Hopefully with a lot of practice they can learn a lot and carry the team on when we’re not here.”

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Hampton peltonContributing Writer

The Georgia College women’s lacrosse squad lost its Oct. 13 season opener 13-8 to Kennesaw State.

“Our season is in the spring, so we have only been practicing besides the preseason scrimmage against Kennesaw State,” senior exercise ma-jor and defensive midfielder Sarah Jeffery said. “From what I have seen so far, we should do very well in the spring. We have a lot of skilled freshmen this year and we play great together as a team so I’m excited to see just how well we do this season.”

The informal fall season is accompanied by a lack of a coach for the team, resulting in in-creased team captain leadership.

“Since we no longer have a coach, it is our jobs as captains to step up and be leader(s),” Jeffery said. “We tend to goof off a lot at prac-tice, and even though we are out there to have fun I want to make it more structured. I am get-ting drills and plays from my high school coach, which I plan on using in practice in hopes that it will be fun and help make us better.”

Despite the informalities in the fall schedul-ing along with the lack of coach, the team has experienced increasing participating numbers and team awareness throughout the school due to

word-of-mouth according to junior history major Devyn Pondiss.

“I would love to see this team have an unde-feated season,” Pondiss said. “When you look at the players on our team there is no doubt in my mind that it can be done. I want to see this team grow and grow, maybe even one day we will be official in the eyes of the school.”

Pondiss aims to carry a fun, but hard-working attitude into the spring season where the team is expected to play Emory, Furman and Georgia Southern.

“The best part about playing with the team is the amount of fun we all have together,” center Leah Eller said. “We know we aren’t some DI team that takes every game super seriously, but we know how to have fun with it and laugh at our mistakes. We do take the games seriously, but we also have so much fun playing.”

Despite the hardships that the team and the captains face on a regular basis, the players still find much joy in each other and the game.

“The best part about playing with the team is the amount of fun we all have together,” Eller said. “The girls’ different personalities really makes the team worth playing for. Every girl has a different gift to bring to the team, whether it be with skills or making each other laugh.”

Their next game has not been scheduled, but a full schedule will be out in November.

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Women’s lacrosse gets fall season started

Kelsey Copper / staff photographerCenter Leah Eller scored five of the eight goals in the lacrosse team’s fist game against Kennesaw State on Oct. 13 at home on West Campus, but the team fell 13-8. The team had 13 players participate in the game and 23 sign up to be on the team. This is the team’s second fall season in the program’s history, but since the fall season is informal there are no games currently on the horizon. A full schedule will be out in November.

ally going to focus on our speed.”Many of the students were

thrilled with the night’s events including the new class of fresh-men.

Freshman business major Wil-lie Ledezma praised the atmo-sphere and school spirit of the students.

“I felt like the even was the start of a football game, only re-place football with basketball,” Ledezma said. “I also look at it as a stress reliever since a lot of studying has been happening right now.”

Bobcat Madness has played a pivotal role in the season, allow-ing fans to become acquainted

with the team and get to know the athletes they’re rooting for.

“The students get the chance to really notice who the play-ers are, instead of just seeing the eight to ten players you normally see at game,” Bivins said.

With the season already off to a great start, Kemp was hopeful of the new class of freshmen who attended.

“The majority of the people there at the event were new fresh-men who don’t know very much about our basketball team,” Kemp said. “It’s the first big sporting event they’ve been to at Georgia College. Hopefully the amount of freshmen we had there last night will turn into a positive relation-ship and get people to come out to the games.”

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poWell CobbSenior reporter

Young talent is always exciting to watch. Georgia College runners are certainly no exception to the rule.

The Bobcat cross country team hit the trails last Saturday for the Peach Belt Championship in Montevallo, Ala. The men’s team placed sixth and the women’s placed fifth out of 10 teams total. The freshman team members rose to take center stage during the event.

On the women’s side, freshman mass communication major Taylor Roeck finished 15th among 91 other runners with a time of 23:34, placing

her as the holder of the second fastest 6K time in GC history.

“It feels pretty good to make that time,” Roeck said. “I definitely didn’t expect that to happen.”

Roeck was awarded GC athlete of the week for her performance, making it the second time she has received the award this season.

Coming behind Roeck in 26th place was freshman Lena White, clocking in at 24:12. Allison Lones followed in 32nd place with a time of 24:19.

The fifth place spot for the women’s team is the highest rank they’ve had since 2009.

Leading the charge for the men’s

team was junior Philip Laskey with a time of 26:59 for the 8K, placing him in 19th place among 84 runners.

“I would’ve liked to make the All-Conference team,” Laskey said. “I would’ve had to make 14th place for that. But I’m not upset with myself and my performance.”

Laskey has come in first for the Bob-cats in all five races this season. This week, he was placed on the PBC All-Academic team. To be on the team, a student athlete must significantly con-tribute to a sport and have at least a 3.3 GPA.

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Dalton (a sophomore forward) passed it back to me, and the side netting was open, so I took my shot.”

Barys claims that this goal was a turning point for the team during the match.

“We struggled a lot during the first half, so this goal definitely brought some much needed hope to the team that we were going to pull out with a win,” Barys said.

Playing midfield has not stopped Barys from scoring this season. This is the second match that she has made her way onto the scoresheet, with the first time being a hat-trick against the University of North Alabama in early October.

“A majority of goals have certainly come from the forward line this sea-son, but as midfielders we are sup-posed to be the transition from the defense to the offense and facilitate the play,” Barys said. “Sometimes we find ourselves running up while

the forwards drop back to confuse the other team, but a midfielder always has a scoring opportunity.”

This game also marked the “Kick for a Cure” event at GC. Bobcats sup-porters were dressed in all pink for the

event, while fundraisers and raffles drawings were occurring alongside the game.

“Kick for a Cure was us working with Zeta Tau Alpha to raise money for breast cancer research and breast

cancer awareness,” Athletics Infor-mation Director Al Weston said.

After their home win, the Bobcats travelled to the University of Monte-vallo and beat the Falcons 3-2 on Oct. 21.

The Falcons scored an early goal to go 1-0 up, but senior forward Haley O’Hayer equalized for the Bobcats midway through the first half. The Falcons scored again after the half-time break to lead 2-1 until the 80 minute mark, when senior midfielder Olivia Holden scored from a corner kick from sophomore forward Ashley Veilleux.

One minute later, sophomore mid-fielder Rebekah Autry found the back of the net after another corner kick from Veilleux, who recorded two as-sists on the day.

“Coming off of the Montevallo win, we have a lot more confidence and we got the ball rolling. This win was a big deal because we know we can put the ball in the back of the net,” Barys said.

The Bobcats then faced against the

Georgia Southwestern Hurricanes at home. They shut out the ’Canes 2-0 to get their third straight win.

History was on the Bobcats’ side as they have won all of the last six meetings against the Hurricanes with a goal difference of 24-1.

Sophomore midfielder Lind-sey Knott opened up the scoring by breaking onto the scoresheet for the first time this season in the 23rd min-ute after an assist from sophomore de-fender Kessler Matheson and sopho-more forward Abby Dalton.

“I’m so glad I scored. I’ve been waiting for this all season,” Knott said.

The Bobcats scored again when sophomore midfielder Rebekah Au-try netted a tap-in goal with the assist from sophomore forward Ashley Veil-leux. This was Autry’s second goal of the season.

The GC offense flourished, hav-ing 33 shots on the night, while the defense held firm and kept the Hur-ricanes to only one shot. The Bobcats also had 11 corners and two saves.

of the right balance between academics and ath-letics.”

GC was ranked second among Peach Belt Conference schools, behind only No. 16 Flagler College. The next closest school was No. 45 Co-lumbus State University.

“There’s only three schools from the Peach Belt Conference that are in it,” tennis coach and Assistant Athletic Director Steve Barsby said. “For us to sell Milledgeville and the school and the total environment, I use it all the time in re-cruiting.”

This ranking helps show potential athletic re-cruits that GC wants their student athletes to suc-ceed academically as well as being successful in their respective sport.

“We make it a priority; that’s number one for us,” Barsby said. “If they don’t graduate, then we didn’t serve them right or do anything for them.”

Being ranked No. 22 helps make GC more ap-pealing to prospective students athletes.

“I think anytime you’re recognized for this type of excellence it’s a selling point for our uni-versity. It’s a point of pride,” Staton said. “It’s an overall reflection of the quality of the univer-sity.”

The rankings reflect positively on both the coaches the department and the caliber of the students that GC attracts.

“I think it’s a really positive thing for the ath-letic department. It’s a great honor to be ranked so high, ” head volleyball coach Gretchen Krum-dieck said. “It’s a testament to all us coaches and the athletic department that we’re finding those quality student athletes to carry on this tradition that we’ve tried to build and worked so hard to-wards.”

Staton believes that being honored by the NCSA Athletic Recruiting is another testament to the strengths of GC.

“This ranking is consistent with all of the na-tional rankings that our university gets in gen-eral,” Staton said. “It’s just a reflection of the university and the great job that our faculty and staff do and the great job that our student athletes do and the coaches who get them here.”

“Our season went better than I ever thought it could,” junior mass communication major and wide receiver for HitSquad Seth Patterson said. “We were made up of mostly freshmen and we went 14 and zero. The reason we played so many more games than every-one else is because we traveled down to Statesboro to play in a tournament against six other schools and we won that tour-nament as well.”

Patterson continued to defy odds the entire season, even during the last moments in their final game.

“I learned a lot about team-work because if you look at our team there was not one specific person that carried us,” Patterson said. “Quite frankly, if you look at our team you would think we were re-

ally unathletic, but we learned to work and play together. My favorite game was the champi-onship game because of how exciting it was. There is noth-ing like going into overtime in a championship against an athletically superior team and beating them. The most chal-lenging part of the season was trying to figure out how we kept on winning.”

Alvaro De La Torre and his indoor soccer team, “Ibra,” faced similar difficulties on their road to the championship.

“It went great,” senior man-agement major and defender for Ibra De La Torre said. “We only lost one game at the be-ginning of the season.”

Ibra suffered a loss early in the season, but persevered to the championship in ironic fashion.

“My favorite part of the season was when we beat a team that we had lost against before,” De La Torre said. “We

played this team at the begin-ning of the tournament and we lost; however, when we played them in the semifinal, we had no trouble to beat them and that made us be able to play the final game.”

Late fall sports games start-ed on Oct. 15. In the transi-tion from early to late fall in-tramurals, Rosenberger noted that the season is going great and that GC RecSports has “the most games that we have ever had going on at the same time.”

“This is a busy time,” Rosenberger said. “We usually have eight games going on an hour from 8 p.m. to midnight, Monday through Thursday night. Right now we have vol-leyball, flag football, basket-ball, outdoor soccer and ulti-mate frisbee going on so there are plenty of opportunities for students. Its never too late to sign up as an individual.”

Coming in close behind Laskey was freshman James Ryden, crossing the finish line with a time of 27:17, his best performance of the year. Ryden placed 23rd overall.

Freshman Paul McNeil came in 33rd with a time of 27:49 and was followed by junior Tucker Forbes in 39th with a time of 28:14.

The men’s team enjoyed cooler weather dur-ing their race at 9 a.m.

“It was cold when we got out there in the morning, but it felt really good by the time we started the race,” Laskey said. “Weather doesn’t generally affect me too much. But I don’t like it when it’s really cold.”

By the time the women’s race began only 45 minutes later, the sun was in full force and the heat made it difficult to run.

“It was so hot,” Roeck said. “The sun made it really hard to run. … That combined with how hard the course was made it a tough race.”

According to Roeck, the team had jogged the course last Friday night to gain a feel for the lay-out and difficulty of the trails, but when race time came, the hills that seemed so easy the night be-fore became a challenge.

Despite any difficulties with the race, coach Joe Samprone couldn’t be happier with the team’s performance.

“Things are really looking well for us right now,” Samprone said. “I’m so proud of both the men’s and women’s teams. And I’m proud of the freshmen on the team. It’s been a sort of rebuild-ing year, especially for the men. I know we are going to have a great future.”

As the last race of the fall season quickly ap-proaches, Samprone emphasizes the importance of runners remaining healthy and consistent with their previous performances.

“I always say you’re one injury or illness away from a disaster,” Samprone said. “So right

now we are just trying to take it easy and main-tain the level of performance we’ve had. Avoid-ing anything unusual or dangerous will keep our runners healthy, and we have to keep them as well rested as we can.”

The cross country team travels to the NCAA Southeast Regional race held in Charlotte, N.C. on Nov. 3.

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Kendyl Wade / Senior PhotograPherDiscover Greatness’ senior music major Brandon Marsolo passes the disc during the team’s game against Frisbeeterianism on Wednesday, Oct. 24. Both coed teams went into the game with 2-0 records. Discover Greatness won the matchup 18-7, helping it remain undefeated. Their next game is on Monday, Nov. 5, at 9 p.m. against Coed Frizbee, whose current record is 1-1.

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david WicKer / Senior PhotograPherFreshman runner Paul McNeil paces himself during the Mercer RunFit Invitational on Sept. 15. He placed 25th with a time of 28:28.

david WicKer / Senior PhotograPherSophomore Kessler Matheson, surrounded by her teammates and Hurricane players, fights to keep possession of the ball during the game.

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