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The Colonnade The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia College

April 27, 2012

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Volume 88, No. 24

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Live the life you have imagined -Henry David Thoreau

News Flash Kappa Sigma Suspended

Georgia College’s chapter of Kappa Sigma has had their charter suspended and has been placed on trustee status due to deficiencies in the chapter’s operation and commitment to National values and standards. The chapter must have all events and activities approved by the trustee before they are removed from this discipline status.

Quotable “To me, the mark of a really good leader is that they don’t remember the leader, they remember themselves and what they’ve accomplished.”

-Courtney Denis, senior art major

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News

Inside

Tuition increased by 2.5 percent............................3 Q&A with President Preczewski............................4

A&E

Clash of the Titans..................................................12 Rock for Relay..........................................................12

Sports

Cheerleading places 3rd in nationals.................17 3 golf players added to all-PBC teams...............15 Community News........................................8 Leisure................................................................7

Number Crunch

62 percent of students that take a tour from a Georgia College student ambassador enroll in the university every year.

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Tuition increases Mark Watkins Nick Widener Senior Reporters Georgia College tuition will go up 2.5 percent this fall.

Georgia’s Board of Regents set the rate last week, and it affects 32 state schools.

In-state GC students enrolled in at least six credit hours will pay $81 more per semester.

For out-of-state students registered for more than six hours, tuition will go up $294 per semester.

The rising costs stem from recent state budget cuts, which created a 25-percent gap from previous-year budgets. As a result, the board was forced to fill this gap and cut spending.

The board also voted to approve an increase in the University System of Georgia’s budget and state appropriations to $1.8 billion, which is an increase of $89.6 million from last year.

The instructional contract between the Board of Regents and the state requires each party to contribute half the budget. Due to the increase in the USG’s budget, the Board of Regents was forced to increase tuition.

“It’s a balancing act between trying to maintain academic quality with trying to keep college accessible for students,” said Board of Regents spokesman John Millsaps.

Some students say they understand the need for the increase, but feel uninformed.

“I think it’s unfortunate for people who already struggle,” said Spencer Collins, sophomore economics major. “I’ll pay the increase, but I’d like an explanation about why specifically Georgia College needs the increase.”

The university system also approved the increase in rates of 18 institutional fees out of a total of 254.

The Wellness and Recreation Center fee, now at $125, will increase to $175 for Fall 2012, and the athletic fee will increase from $175 to $181 to begin to fund the university’s addition of an intercollegiate volleyball team.

All housing and meal plan rates will increase, as well as GC’s late tuition fee payment - from $50 to $75.

In 2009 the Board of Regents introduced the special institutional fee, which was meant to aid universities suffering from economic hardship.

The $275 fee was set to end June 30, 2012, but will continue as of now, with some exceptions – active military personnel, joint-enrolled students and students who are exempt from fees.

Increased Tuition Meal Plan Increases Unlimited 14 Meals/Wk 150 Block 100 Block 25 Block

2011 $1,942

2012

$1,891

$2,000 $1,948

$1,568

$1,615

$757 $190

$780 $196

Housing Increases 2011

2012 $2,495

Residence Hall $2,422 Triple $2,557 RH Double

$2,634

RH Single

$3,240

$3,337

RH Double as $3,441 Single The Village (4 $3,571 person)

$3,544

TV Double

$4,055

$4,177

TV Single

$4,443

$4,576

$3,678

This fee brings in $210 million to the USG’s operating budget annually. John Brown, USG vice chancellor for fiscal affairs, said, on the USG’s website, it would be difficult to operate without this funding.

Students at Georgia college are unhappy about the increase, but understand the need for funding.

“I’m not looking forward to paying it, but I understand that the money to run this school has to come from somewhere,” said David McCullom, freshman undeclared major.

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Discrimination alive and well The university prides itself on diversity, but cases of discrimination continue to occur on campus Lauren Davidson Senior Reporter Connor Johnson was walking down the street one day not long ago.

A green truck cruised past.

From the passenger window, someone screamed, “Faggot!”

Johnson, an openly gay GC student, couldn’t help but hear the slur.

“It doesn’t necessarily hurt my feelings because I am strong enough and love myself enough not to let those kinds of things affect me,” Johnson said. “However, it kills me to think that could have happened to another student … and that they would be hurt or even hurt themselves over such hateful comments.”

Bruce Harshbarger, vice president of Student Affairs, sent out an email on April 12 to the student body to address recent incidents of verbal discrimination against two Georgia College students – Johnson and an unnamed black student.

“Incidents such as these do not constitute free speech – they could constitute harassment and could be a violation of the university’s Student Code of Conduct,” Harshbarger’s email said. “They could also constitute hate speech, a category of speech without protection and without excuse.”

These two students who reported their experiences to Harshbarger are not the only ones who have encountered such slurs.

CJ Little, a black junior music therapy major, said he has experienced people yelling racial slurs at him twice since he’s been at GC. The first time he experienced this was from a passenger in a moving car, and the second time happened while he was driving past a group of students by the dorms on campus.

“The first time, I was simply in a state of shock. Simply because I had never really been hit with blatant racism,” Little said. “The second time, I simply was just aggravated with it. It was ignorant and cowardly.”

Emmanuel Little, diversity retention & training coordinator, said he has had various students come to him and report specifically having racial slurs directed towards them. But he said some go unreported.

“When I leave, regardless of whether I’m here for four years or six, my main goal is that a gay student will step on this campus and say that without a shadow of doubt, they belong here.”

Connor Johnson, junior mass communication major “Sometimes, students don’t report issues of discrimination because they may not believe anything will be done on their behalf,” Little said. “It’s important for them to realize that these issues will continue to be addressed as we collectively work towards a more culturally sensitive campus — they’ve just got to continue to report when others say or do things that are counterproductive to this end.”

Racial slurs are not the only problem on campus. Several gay and lesbian students have experienced both verbal and nonverbal homophobic discrimination.

Sara Wood, a GC alumna and community resource coordinator for Communities in Schools, is one that has experienced this type of sexual prejudice three times during her years as an undergraduate. The first time happened while she was riding her bike to the library early on a Friday morning. A group of six fraternity brothers were outside yelling different forms of the word “faggot” as she passed by. She said she felt threatened and confused as to why they were yelling such hateful words at her for no reason.

“I basically just stopped and got off my bike. I laid it down in their yard and at this point they are all kind of in a line next to each other, and I went up to the first guy, I shook his hand, and said ‘My name is Sara,’ and I went to the next guy, ‘Hi, my name is Sara,’”

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President Preczewski’s farewell to campus Laura vTvS Staff Writer Interim President Stas Preczewski has served Georgia College well over the past year. Although it is time for him to leave, he is taking many fond memories and important lessons with him.

How did this year go, overall?

Have there been any challenges or improvements since you’ve been here?

I’d say that this place is better than it knows it is. No particular challenge couldn’t be met. Some great opportunities were available to improve student life: we improved the fields, we opened the rec center, Ennis is near final approval for the arts program, we improved staff salaries…We’ve

opened the Sallie Davis House…the incoming class is more diverse and of higher quality. We had a challenge to our culture in the diversity memes, which has created a thoughtful set of discussions and activities to improve the diversity on our campus. But again, backing the first statement, what I found is that this campus is humble. It doesn’t know how good it really is. You know, coming from the outside, and seeing it, it’s easy to celebrate a lot of great things that are happening here.

How do you feel about leaving this campus?

Sad. Very sad. The community is a very welcoming and, frankly, loving community. People have opened up their classrooms, their ball fields and their homes to welcome me in. Their sincere willingness to help is remarkable. But, in the end, as I’ve said to

some of the faculty groups that I’ve addressed, Georgia Gwinnett College will be a much better college because of the things that I’ve learned here. I’ll take back many examples of excellence in so many areas and apply them to our college up there.

What has been your best experience here at GC? I would say my single best experience has been with Dr. Sandra Godwin’s social justice class with seniors and what they’re doing to attempt to improve the Baldwin County community. All the best memories are in classrooms and out at student events.

That’s what college is about — it’s about students. But to see her and the passion that these students have to assist the local community is remarkable. I’ll carry that with me for the rest of my life.

Greek Week recap

What do you think GC students will most remember you by?

In a lot of ways, I hope they don’t.

I hope they remember more what they’ve accomplished and what they’ve done to contribute to make the college better. It’s really not, nor should it ever be, about the president.

It should be about the students and their learning and their development.

To me, the mark of a really good leader is that they don’t remember the leader, they remember themselves and what they’ve accomplished.

What do you think about finding a new president for this college?

I think Georgia College deserves the finest, most experienced president the country has to offer. As a campus, it’s poised to truly move to the next level as a university while maintaining its liberal arts under-

graduate focus. It’s a really great university. It’s set up to take off in every way. You’re adding a volleyball team, you’re renovating facilities, you’re adding programs, you’re gaining national recognition … it needs a visionary leader to work with the community to help it achieve its fullest potential.

SGA opens referendum

for constitutional changes Bobbi Otis Senior Reporter

Alyson Crosby / Staff Photographer Sororities and Fraternities competed in challenges all week to be crowned best Greek organization on campus. Pi Kappa Alpha came out on top amongst the guys and Phi Mu won out over the ladies. Members of Pike and Kappa Delta pulled their teams to victory in the tug-o-war. Delta Zeta stomped on the competition to with the step show. Check out the entire story online for the breakdown of all of the Greek Week events.

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Interim President Stas Preczewski

A campus-wide referendum is set to open Monday and offer students a chance to vote on two proposed changes for the Student Government Association’s constitution.

“The way that it works is that we make a content revision to the constitution and then that’s a referendum,” SGA Pro Tempore Stephen Hundley said. “We already had one last semester, but we usually like to have only one or two a year.”

One resolution is to amend the senator absence policy.

The current constitution only contains one line concerning senator absences. It says, “In the event that a senator has accumulated

three (3) unexcused absences from scheduled meetings and/or events, the senator shall be removed from office.”

In a previous interview with Hundley, he said why he felt the line was too vague.

“It’s never made clear what would constitute an unexcused absence,” Hundley said.

“So if you wanted to make an event mandatory, it was kind of an ambiguous policy.”

The new addition to the constitution, if passed in the referendum, would have six parts. The first portion is the same line as in the current constitution. The second part adds senate and committee meetings as mandatory, and thirdly, the committee chairs can make events associated with their committee compulsory.

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Cuba

Refugee calls GC home Laura vTvS Staff Writer You’re 4 years old.

It’s the middle of the night.

Your parents tell you you’re leaving.

Tears sting your eyes as you say goodbye to loved ones for the last time.

You board a 20-by-20 wooden raft kept afloat by almost a dozen 50-gallon barrels.

Its motor is an old truck engine.

You set off into the black ocean water.

You don’t know if you’ll survive.

The raft is taking you away, on a voyage to another land.

The raft is giving you hope for a better life.

For most college students, this might all seem like a bad dream. But for one Georgia College student, this was reality on September 9, 1994. Javier Becerra, a senior biology major, is a Cuban refugee from La Boca, Cuba.

When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Cuba’s economy lost much of its power. As a result of this economic downturn, Fidel Castro, former president of Cuba, decreased food rations.

“People were eating stuff you wouldn’t imagine to survive,” Becerra said. His parents decided to leave Cuba in order to give him, his brother and his sister a better life.

Five hours into their voyage, a U.S. Navy ship picked up Becerra and others from the raft. The people on the ship shot down the raft so that no evidence of refugees would be left. The Navy then took them to Guantanamo Bay, which was a Cuban refugee camp at the time.

“My dad didn’t know if we were going to make it or not, so it was kind of a blessing that they picked us up,” Becerra said.

A lottery system was used to determine who could leave for the United States, but

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Matt LaMothe / Staff Photographer The PRSSA team, as part of National Organ Donor Awareness month, inform students about the organ-donating process. “There’s a lot of myths surrounding organ donation,” said PRSSA President Amanda Brodzik.

PRSSA encourages, educates students on organ donation Nick Widener Senior Widener

Powell Cobb / Staff Photographer Matt Heath, GC alum, balances as he is encouraged to stand up on a 8-foot, inflatable, Earth replica; one of the more popular attractions of the play-day.

Earthfest rolls through Earthfest provides GC and the communtiy with survey of sustainability practices and front campus play-day Mark Watkins Senior Reporter Earthfest, the final event in the weeklong celebration surrounding Earth Day, brought to Front Campus local artists and vendors, various picnickers, three live bands and one 8-foot-tall inflatable Earth.

Organized by the Environmental Science Club, Earthfest and the week before celebrate and host various events that support the club’s mission statement.

“Our mission is increasing awareness of the sustainability movement around the southeast within our student body and the Milledgeville community as a whole,” said Colin Maldonado junior environmental science major, one of the organizers of the event.

One of the final events of the week, a play-day on Front Campus, invited students to spend time on Georgia College’s front lawn.

“It’s a time for students and community members to get out and enjoy a day full of activities that pertain to our mission and get people to appreciate things that are going on outside,” Maldonado said.

One of the most popular events turned out to be the three slacklines arranged in a triangle, or tri-fecta. While the name suggests something different, high-weight ropes are ratcheted tight so that participants can attempt to maintain their balance as they walk across the line. Lines are attached to two anchor points various distances apart.

“It can be from tree to tree, from cliff to cliff, but on our campus, usually just tree to tree,” said Sam Ovett, junior environmental science major.

Another item that was surprisingly entertaining for the participants on Front

“It’s a time for students and community members to get out and enjoy a day full of activities that pertain to our mission and get people to appreciate things that are going on outside.”

Colin Maldonado, Assitant Organizer of the event Campus was the 8-foot-tall inflatable Earth that was caged within the slacklines. Students would roll themselves on top of the ball, adjusting to stay up for as long as possible, some even venturing to stand up while on top of the world. This style of activity largely embodies the overall feel of the event.

“It had a good feel when I was there.

Everyone was relaxed and having fun. Everyone was doing interesting things,” Codie Mosher, freshman pre-veterinary major, said.

While this play-day is one of the more popular events, it is only a piece of the week-long series of sustainability events throughout the preceding week. The Georgia Power representatives that passed out high-efficiency light bulbs on campus were invited as a part of this week, and a open-

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Search for Greek Life director winds down Alyson Crosby Senior Reporter On April 19 and 20, Georgia College interviewed two candidates for the open Greek Life Director position.

The search committee narrowed the field to two applicants: Tyler Havens and Ebony Ramsey.

“The position initially opened three months ago,” said Bert Rosenberger, search committee chairman. “The committee will review all the information and submit our recommendation to Tom Miles, and it will be up to him to either accept our recommendation, or we can look deeper in the pool at that point, or open it back up for more candidates.”

Each candidate gave a presentation entitled “The Role of Fraternities and Sororities at a Public Liberal Arts University.” Representatives from departments across campus, Greek members and students came to hear these pre-

sentations. After each presentation the floor opened for the audience to ask the candidates questions. Each audience member was given a feedback form for the search committee to help them in their decision.

The office of Greek Life has had one full time position for a while, and they are now expanding to two full time staff members.

“I’ve been a staff of one for six years, so I’m pretty enthused about having some full time help,” said Reese Cohn, assistant director of Greek Life.

Some members of the organizations believe having a director will help Greek Life at GC grow further.

“The biggest thing we need at GC is a direction. We’ve got a lot of great people, and we need to get the infrastructure in place so we can continue to grow,” said Evan Kara

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April is National Organ Donor Awareness month. This year, Georgia College’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America is doing more than its share of promotion.

Although they aren’t donating any organs, the Bobcat chapter is promoting organ donation awareness, as well as informing students on how to donate.

The event, National Organ Donation Awareness Competition, is sponsored by PRSSA and is in its ninteenth year. But this year is the first time the Bobcat chapter is participating. Making up the Bobcat team is junior Vanessa Whited, senior Sophie Singer, senior Erin Keeler and junior PRSSA President Amanda Brodzik -- all mass communication majors.

PRSSA dictates requirements for the competition, and one of the stipulations is to host a day-long event. On April 25 the chapter hosted its event from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the A&S fountain. The event included an interactive display, a presentation, free food and prizes, and raffles.

Students registered as organ donors could show their driver’s license to be entered into a raffle, and students not registered as organ donors were encouraged to register.

From 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. the chapter moved to Buffington’s for trivia night. There, the chapter asked organ donor questions to the weekly trivia crowd, in hopes of dispelling myths.

“There’s a lot of myths surrounding organ donation, and none of them are really true, like the quality of care you could receive, if your life’s in jeopardy, or how they treat your body after you pass away,” Brodzik said. “You can have an open-casket funeral. That’s something a lot of people don’t think is an option.”

The campaign motto of “It’s what’s inside that counts” aims to restructure the notion of donation – that anyone is eligible, and all it takes is the willingness to help. At the event, there was a tent displaying facts about donation.

“One person’s organs can save eight people’s lives. There are hundreds of thousands of people waiting on the organ donor list,” Brodzik said.

“So we thought instead of promoting something to people raw, we could promote something to save people’s lives.”

PRSSA’s main partner for the event was Donate Life Georgia, but downtown businesses lent their help as well.

Singer’s father is currently suffering from kidney failure and is on an organ donor list, so the chapter has an emotional tie to the event, Brodzik said.

“I actually am learning about NODAC from the campaign and what they’re doing,” Ginger Carter Miller, PRSSA advisor, said. “Because I really had no awareness of it other than knowing one person who had been an organ donor and knowing I signed and checked that box on my driver’s license. So I’m learning as we go along.

It’s a great opportunity to learn more about organ donation opportunities.”

Becerra and his family had a spot of untimely luck.

During his three months in the camp, Becerra was run over by a U.S. Army vehicle.

“I was in a coma for 13 hours, and they almost had to fly me to the U.S.,” Becerra said. “The next day they sent us to Miami.” He and his family lived in Miami for about five months before his father left to find work in Atlanta. His father lived in his car for about a month working and saving money. Finally, he was able to rent a duplex in Lawrenceville, and the family lived there for a year before they moved to Grayson, where they have lived ever since.

Although Becerra has lived in the U.S. for almost 17 years, he is not a full citizen yet. The majority of his family is still in Cuba.

“May 8, three days after my graduation, I go to become a citizen,” Becerra said.

He is becoming a citizen but still visits Cuba multiple times a year and loves the country so much that he would live

The Colonnade there forever if he could. Even though he enjoys visiting Cuba and seeing his family, it’s hard for him to see how they live.

Becerra’s aunt is a prime example of the extreme poverty of most Cubans. She has a master’s degree, and with that she makes the equivalent of $20 a month. A shaving razor is about $10.

“My family is well-off because we help them with money and stuff, but a lot of people in Cuba don’t have that luxury of having family over here,” Becerra said.

The relationship between the U.S. and Cuba angers Becerra because he sees how much his people are suffering. He thinks there is no valid reason for the embargo against Cuba.

“We trade with China and China is a communist country, so don’t come telling me we don’t trade with Cuba because they’re a communist country,” Becerra said. “My family is suffering from it.”

Becerra is very appreciative of his experiences. He is very driven to take advantage of all opportunities presented to him to make a better life for himself and his family.

Referendum

Continued from page 3 Additionally, any senator can propose that an event be mandatory, and if passed by a majority roll call of senate, it is considered such. Lastly, senators wishing to miss mandatory events or regular meetings of the senate must contact the clerk of the senate at least 24 hours in advance with a valid excuse; senators who want to be excused from committee events and meetings will have to appeal to their respective committee chairs for an excused absence.

The second proposed resolution to be voted on is to further define the appropriation committee.

According to the resolution, the constitution contains only a “partial, and fragmented, definition of the appropriation committee.”

The proposed change reads, “Appropriations — shall foster a working relationship and host a meeting with the sponsoring senator(s) of a bill and the benefitting RSO so that the committee

Discrimination

Continued from page 2 Wood said. “I got to the last guy, and I said, ‘Hi, my name is Sara. I’m very sorry that I disrupted y’all this morning, but I hope that you have a better day,’ and the last guy apologized.”

GC is a liberal arts college and, according to its values statement, the college prides itself on the pledge to promote “Reason, Respect, and Responsibility by deepening students’ individual, group, and community values through greater understanding of self, promotion of reasoned and respectful discourse, and the development of engaged citizenship,” but many do not feel that the college lives up to that.

Daniel Chamberlin, an openly gay senior art history major, said he feels the college is more conservative than liberal.

“I really want people to think about the fact that we are a liberal arts college and how conservative things are around here,” Chamberlin said. “Personal identity is what college is about.

Even though you may be comfortable with the identity that you have and possess, there’s no reason why you should hinder anyone else’s personal expression of themselves.”

Starting in the fall, the university is planning on pushing for more diver-

and associated parties might then review the bill in question.”

The referendum will allow students to have a voice in the proposed changes in the SGA constitution, according to Hundley.

The voter turnout in past referendums has been lower than expected. According to Hundley the number of voters was around 100.

“I really don’t want people to think we are being sneaky with these amendments,” Hundley said. “We definitely want everyone to find out.

At the end of the day, it’s about the students being interested and us doing our jobs and letting them know.”

To try to combat the lower numbers Hundley says SGA is taking a proactive stance on getting the word out.

“We are going to tell all of our senators to email, tell all of their friends,” Hundley said.

“We are going to put in on the SGA Facebook page I’m sure.”

Voting will be open on OrgSync at midnight on Monday and will close on Tuesday.

The URL to access the referendum is: https:// orgsync.com/4505/forms/49191/show

“Incidents such as these do not constitute free speech – they could constitute harassment and could be a violation of the university’s Student Code of Conduct.

They could also constitute hate speech, a category of speech without protection and without excuse.”

Bruce Harshbarger, VP Student Affairs sity campus-wide through a campaign called “I am Georgia College” that will be part of the Fall Week of Welcome, as well as a number of diversity classes.

Connor Johnson plans on being a part of the campaign during the Week of Welcome and feels like it is a great start to pushing towards a more diverse campus.

“I definitely think the university is moving forward in a very good direction. When I leave, regardless of whether I’m here for four years or six, my main goal is that a gay student will step on this campus and say that without a shadow of doubt, they belong here.”

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Continued from page 5 novich, Parliamentarian of Kappa Alpha, and member of the search committee.

According to Karanovich, GC has added a few organizations in the last few years, but a plan was never made on how to deal with the growth. He said a director for Greek Life could aid in creating and implementing that plan.

“We’ve kind of had a lot of unprecedented growth, so it’s kind of put us at a disadvantage because we didn’t have time to get the infrastructure,” Karanovich said.

Tyler Havens is currently the assistant director of student activities for Fraternity and Sorority Life at Monmouth University in New Jersey. Ebony Ramsey served as the director of student activities at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina.

Each candidate’s resume can be viewed at http://gcsu.orgsync.com/fraternityandsororitycandidates.

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EarthFest

Continued from page 4 forum recycling session for students and community members was hosted with professors from the Department of Sociology, the Department of Psychology, the Department of Economics and the Department of Environmental Science.

“That was just a chance for students and community members to get a well-rounded view on recycling, not getting biased opinion in one way or the other,” Maldonado said.

The Environmental Science Club usually holds a clean-up the Sunday following Earthfest, but this year was something different.

The Chemistry Club assisted with planting eight trees and spreading pine straw to hold the soil in place when it rains.

“We wanted to take the initiative to help restore the Pit,” Maldonado said. “We actually were restoring the erosion problem right there on that side closest to the dorm.”

Powell Cobb / Staff Photographer Tyler Pearson, GC alum, shows his skills on a slackline while using his arms as counterweights.

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Two markets, one goal Two markets in Milledgeville aim to provide local-grown produce, opened early due to the early spring Taylor Seay Senior Reporter With spring in full force and summer right around the corner, farmers in the Milledgeville area are busy producing goods for farmers’ markets.

Milledgeville is now home to two weekly farmers’ markets, The Milledgeville Market Place Farmer’s Market and the Fall Line Farmer’s Market.

The Milledgeville Farmer’s Market opened on April 3, which is a month earlier than they opened last year.

“A lot of farmer’s markets start in April, but we probably have five to eight more vendors that will be starting in May, just because that is what they are used to, and they keep the same schedule,” said Carlee Schulte, director of Milledgeville Mainstreet.

The Milledgeville Farmer’s Market has both producers and resellers selling goods on Tuesday afternoons from 4 p.m. until 7p.m. The Milledgeville Farmer’s Market also allows reselling up to a 250 mile radius around Milledgeville.

“Usually we ask them to supplement the products that are regional when a certain product is not in season, but to get it locally if they can,” Schulte said. “We try to keep it as local as possible, but to have a successful farmer’s market, we have found that supplementing works better for us.”

The Milledgeville Farmer’s Market is located at Milledgeville Market Place next to Golden Pantry on East Hancock Street.

The new farmers’ market that has joined the Milledgeville community is the Fall Line Farmer’s Market, which held its grand opening on April 14. The Fall Line

Farmer’s Market is not in association with Milledgeville Mainstreet, but the City of Milledgeville has asked Fall Line’s market to join the Milledgeville Market Place “The city has asked that market to join our market,” Schulte said, “or just to create their market at this location, because we don’t want it to diminish the work that the city is putting in to this location.”

The Milledgeville Market Place has been revamped since last year, and this space is dedicated to the Milledgeville Farmer’s Market.

“It has taken a lot to tear that structure down, build it back up, and we just recently had sod put down,” Schulte said. “We want to make sure that area is kind of known for the farmer’s market for the community.”

Fall Line Farmer’s Market is located in the parking lot behind First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Wayne and Greene streets.

“Three people from our board of directors are from the Presbyterian Church, so they are the ones who started the initiative of this market,” Rachel Rivera, market manager, said. “They figured it would be easier to use the spaces already available to them.”

The Fall Line Farmer’s Market is dedicated to local and sustainably- grown food. The market allows farmers within 100 miles to sell their products, and the farmers must produce what they sell.

Fall Line Farmer’s Market is passionate about sustainable principles. All of Fall Line’s vendors practice sustainable farming, which promotes human health and wellness along with the humane treatment of animals and environmental responsibility.

“There is a difference between processed food and food that is

“That’s the good thing about this market.You talk to the people who grow your food, and you know exactly how it is grown and what is on it.”

Rachel Rivera, Fall Line Market manager fresh from a farm,” Rivera said.

“That’s the good thing about this market. You talk to the people who grow your food, and you know exactly how it is grown and what is on it.”

Fall Line Farmer’s Market features 17 vendors to sell naturally grown vegetables, grass-fed beef and lamb, heritage-breed pork, free-range eggs, hormone-free dairy, baked goods, artisan bread and cheese, and local honey.

Some of the vendors at Fall Line’s market include Babe + Sage Farm, East Georgia Produce, Rocking Chair Ranch, Cakes by the Pound, Forest Grove Farm, Rocky Hill Honey Farm, along with several farmers in the regional area.

Although Milledgeville has two farmers’ markets, Rivera said the community can handle both.

“I think Milledgeville can support both markets,” Rivera said.

“If someone can’t make it to the Saturday market, then they can go to the one on Tuesday.”

Vesterfield Farm, part of Fall Line’s market, is located in Cochran, Ga., which is about 65 miles south of Milledgeville.

April 27, 2012

LITC changes late fees Lauren Davidson Senior Reporter The Library Instructional Technology Center will soon have new a protocol for checked-out equipment that is overdue.

Traditionally, when students are late turning in rented equipment, they receive three email reminders letting them know their equipment is late. For each day a $5 charge is put on their account, and once the equipment is 10 days late, the student will accrue a lost fee that consists of the value of the equipment, plus a $50 processing fee.

Joe Windish, lead technical specialist for Instructional Support, said that in efforts to receive the equipment back from students who have checked it out, if students do not respond to the three reminder emails that are sent out, they will receive an email referring them to the Student Judicial Board for a hearing.

“I (will) send an email notifying the judicial board and copying the dean of students and again saying if you don’t come in we will take this action,” Windish said. “The point is to escalate it up to get their attention and the assumption is that that will get their attention.”

SGA President Evan Karanovich said that while checking out equipment at the LITC, he noticed there were several flaws in the checkout procedures.

Earlier this month he said Windish contacted him with a possible solution to those problems.

“I am currently working with the attorney general and Student Affairs to determine what this means to students and what the procedure will entail for students,” Karanovich said. “Also, SGA will be working now and in the future with the LITC to ensure that they communicate the changes that are currently taking place to students.”

Karanovich said he believes there is nothing unreasonable about the current proposed changes to the LITC equipment checkout procedures.

“They are simply to ensure that the equipment (that is paid for through the Student Tech Fee) is used properly and equally by all students,” Karanovich said. “Students should have equal opportunity to check out this great technology, but if we have students that do not follow the guidelines, it is reasonable to seek restitution for ‘student’ property.’”

Windish proceeded with his new

plan and spoke with SGA Attorney General Andrew Whittaker about what the Student Judicial Board could do.

“I’ve explained to Joe what it means to include the judicial board and what it would have to look like administratively,” Whittaker said. “Students would only be sent to the judicial board under extreme circumstances. Specifically only after the equipment is 25 days overdue and the student has ignored three email reminders.”

Currently, the LITC has an inventory of 400 iPods, 80 iPads, 111 flip cameras, 38 laptops and various pieces of electronic equipment for students to check out. During their busiest month of October, they had a total of 780 checkouts booked, which could include several pieces of material for each checkout.

Having such a large volume of equipment for students to checkout, Windish said, it is vital that students return the equipment after the seven-day rental period.

“The important thing about that is this equipment is in demand, so we need to get it back,” Windish said. “Every day it’s late there is somebody else, another student, that doesn’t get it. Much of our equipment is 100 percent checked out, and so we need to get it back.”

Students who use the LITC equipment check out services should expect for the new procedures to go into effect this coming summer semester. To find information on the current procedures please visit, http://www.gcsu.edu/library/guidelines.htm.

LITC Protocol • $5 charge per day for

late equipment

Leisure Kathryn Shadden Reviewer Summer is getting closer by the minute, and many Georgia College students are heading back home. For those who remain, either for work or for school, there is no reason to fear because plenty of new movies, books and events are coming up to keep the Milledgeville locals and students entertained.

Summer always has a ton of movies coming out each week. On May 4, “The Avengers” comes out nationwide. Directed by Joss Whedon, this movie stars some of the biggest names in Hollywood such as Chris Evans as Captain America, Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, and much more. “The Avenger” is essentially the story of the Marvel Comics superheroes joining forces to fight Loki and his new army. Thor did an excellent job of building up Loki as a villain, and Captain America gave the viewers a glimpse at this gathering of heroes.

Another movie, “The Dark Knight Rises” will hit the theaters July 20, 2012. Christian Bale returns as the tortured Bruce Wayne/ Batman, who must face villain Bane and Catwoman (Anne Hathaway).

This release marks the end of the trilogy of Batman movies directed

by Christopher Nolan. The buildup to this movie has been intense, for anyone paying attention; the greatest mystery is who the villains will be. Some have been skeptical about Catwoman, but Hathaway is an intriguing choice. To see her in such a dramatically different role makes it all the harder to wait for July.

Book lovers can also look forward to new releases. Fans of author Cassandra Clare and “The Mortal Instruments” series will be happy to know that book five, “City of Lost Souls,” is expected to hit the shelves on May 8. This series is about an unseen world that exists alongside ours, but that normal humans (referred to as Mundanes) cannot see. A race of people known as the Shadowhunters have dedicated themselves to pro-

• After 10 days,

equipment considered late and $50 processing fee added • 3 email reminders

sent

Courtesey of Marvel

Sudoku

Solutions from 3/16/12

April 27, 2012 • Editor, Anna Morris

Food Network is known for shows such as “Cupcake Wars” and “Iron Chef.” Here at The Colonnade, we decided to bring a little bit of Food Network to the paper by doing a Colonnade-style spinoff of the show “Chopped.” Two students will be given five secret ingredients and only 30 minutes to make a dish that will wow the judge. For the final round of this spring semester, I, Marilyn Ferrell, and two other judges, Siobhan Fitzgerald and Haley Schmidt judged the contestants based on presentation, creativity and taste. The winner this round will be known as the champion while the loser will be “sliced and diced.”

Secret ingredients: soy sauce, ground beef, cream of mushroom, onion and crackers

Courtesey of Margaret K. McEldery

tecting humans from those unseen dangers, which include demons and grotesque creatures. The main character is red-headed Clary Fray, a member of these demon-slayers. In all, there are four books out in this series.

For those with no Fourth of July plans, the Lake Country Freedom Festival will take place from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. in Eatonton. This event will take place at Crooked Creek Marina and feature arts and crafts for purchase, food, music and fireworks to finish it all off. While admission is free, you may have to pay for parking. More information can be found at the Lake Country Freedom Festival website.

Gray has another event earlier in the summer called the 9th Annual Daylily Festival. Taking place June 1 through June 2 on 273 Railroad St., the event promises arts and crafts, a car show, other activities and the Daylily Dash which is a 5K or 1 Mile Fun Run. Whether or not this involves fighting over flowers has yet to be determined. Gray is very close to Milledgeville, and the Daylily Dash just might be worth checking out.

Bobbi Otis’ “Everything but the Kitchen Sink”

Crossword

Jennifer Clark’s “Savory Pasta and Meatballs”

Community

April 27, 2012 • Editor, Steffi Beigh

Public Safety Report 3 EMTs

4 Fire alarms

1

What’s Happening Friday, April 27 3:30 - 5 p.m.

Georgia 2012 Outdoor Education Symposium (MSU Banquet Hall)

6 - 7 p.m.

Jazz Fest (Front Campus)

7 - 8 p.m.

BALD Shorts Film Festival (Black Box Theatre)

Saturday, April 28 2 - 3 p.m.

Dance Minor Concert (Russell Auditorium)

Monday, April 30 All day

Last day of classes

7:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Piano & Violin Faculty Artists Concert (Max Noah Recital Hall)

10 - 11:45 p.m.

Midnight Breakfast (The Max)

All day

Final exams

Wednesday, May 2 All day

*Incident does not appear on map

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one man’s trash...

April 15 at 7:43 p.m. A man was seen digging through trash cans and disturbing students around campus. Officers Reid White and Gary Purvis spotted him in front of Magnolia Ballroom. He has been banned from campus.

2

hello, my name is

- ralf!

April 14 at 2:56 a.m. A student stumbled into traffic and through the intersection of Hancock and Jefferson streets. Officers Megan Fraiser and Reid White stopped him and asked for his ID. After giving them his name and a phony birth date, the student threw up on himself. He was arrested for public drunkenness and underage drinking. While in a holding cell at the police station, he threw up on himself again.*

Information gathered from Public Safety records.

Tuesday, May 1

Final exams

Thursday, May 3 All day

Fnal exams

9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Georgia College Natural History Museum-Special Commencement Hours (Herty Hall - Ground Floor)

Friday, May 4 All day

Final exams

All day

Last day to withdraw Maymester classes and receive 100 percent refund

7 p.m.

Graduate Commencement

NOTE: If you would like to see any events incorporated on the calendar, please send them to colonnadenews@gcsu.edu.

April 27 2012• Editor-in-Chief, Bobbi Otis

Bobcat Beat

Letter From the Editor: A farewell Many thanks, GC B

By The Numbers

2 Arrests

Opinion ‘thanks’

Thank you. It’s the simplest expression with a multitude of meanings. Thank you, Georgia College, for a beautiful campus, a variety of intelligent educators and a reason to be proud to call myself a GC Bobcat.

Thank you, Department of Art, for guiding and instructing me to be a better person and facilitating a well-rounded perspective of art and its history. Special thanks to Carlos Herrera, Tina Yarborough, Elissa Auerbach, and Bill Fisher -- without y’all I would not have been able to produce my senior exhibition with excellence.

But the people I would like to give my greatest thanks to are my friends.

They’ve allowed me new experiences, been there for a shoulder to cry on, joined in for tear-inducing laughs, and a drink or two to enjoy the downtown revelry.

I’ll never forget the countless occurrences at the 320 House, or Dan’s house, as he likes to call it. We’ve celebrated every event from our annual Christmas Extravaganza to various birthdays to the Braves’ home opener to the unusual such as Dan’s last day at Mellow Mushroom.

The friends that converge at this house, I like to call my extended family. Without these wild times and late night tomfoolery I would probably not be the person I am now.

These occurrences have allowed me to come out of my shell and meet a variety of new and interesting people. I’ve created several bonds with students, from inside the classroom to outside the classroom to some unexpected locations, that will last until the end of time.

My home in Milledgeville will always be at 240 South Liberty with my brothers Alex, Charlie, & Walker as the SouthLib Bandits.

Taking liberties of “The Facts of Life” theme song, “You take the good, you take bad, you take them both and there you have the SouthLib Bandits.”

I will never forget: My altercation with a ledge and a five foot drop. Tie-dying with some great ladies in the rain for Earthfest. My brief stint as a member of Elastic Skyline, Halloween 2010. I was in my best form at the Christmas Extravaganza, December 2010. Sledding down Washington Street on the unexpected Snow Day. “Sneaking” into ADPi’s Kentucky Derby, April 2011.

There’s so much to say, but such little time to do so.

The best way I know how to define the friendships and experiences at Georgia College is to simply say, “We had a time.”

than anyone I have worked with, while adding her own brand of humor to break up the stressful atmosphere of the office.

Sports Editor Sam Hunt has consistently provided this campus with fabulous sports coverage and worked unwaveringly to bring the section to its highest potential, all while being kind and courteous to everyone, which can be difficult when you are with the same small group for more than 40 hours a week. Photo Editor Kendyl Wade has shown me what it means to experience life to the fullest, while holding down three jobs and a full course load, while keeping a smile on her face.

Ad Manager Hillary Strickland’s loyalty and success has taught us all that you can do anything with the right mixture of enthusiasm and devotion.

Lindsay Shoemake will be taking over at the helm of the paper next year. She has shown her dependability all year, consistently taking on stories and helping mentor younger writers. Lindsay has an unmistakable eye for good journalism and is just the person to take The Colonnade into another successful year.

A memoir chronicling the woes, triumphs and memories of college As I sit here now, I struggle to find the right words to scroll across the screen. It’s funny to think my whole college career has been built upon creating words into stories and now when I need them the most they are vacant. But, tell me, how do I sum up four years into paragraphs? How do I force sentences to form memories?

For four years I have been a part of this college, whether it was spending lazy days sprawled out on the evergreen front lawn, or studying and shivering in the library.

College has this innate ability to draw out the best in anyone, and this couldn’t be truer about Georgia College. This campus managed to turn a shy, awkward girl into someone who is outgoing and independent (still with a twinge of awkwardness.) As I prepare myself to walk across the stage on May 5, I know that I am a different and better person because of my experiences here. This whole time I knew I was a part of this campus, but I didn’t realize it would end up being a part of me.

I graduate, like many, with debt already hanging above my head. Those dreaded six months, where I will have to inevitably

start payments, are already looming over my graduation day, but if anyone can transform bad situations into better — it is our generation. We are a generation reaching adulthood in a time of recession.

We are fierce and diligent competitors out of necessity, not desire. I truly believe my education at GC has given me the edge to legitimately contend in the current job market, and I know I will utilize my degree to its full extent.

As graduation comes ever closer, thoughts keep popping in my mind like, “Will this be the last time I walk across Front Campus?” and “Will I feel like an outsider once I graduate?” As I whisk my way through campus, no doubt heading to MSU, the bunker Colonnade folks hide out in — I brush those thoughts out of my head. Come May 5, I know that whether it is two or 20 years until I step back onto this campus, I will know this place by the color of its grass, by the gracefulness of its antebellum- era buildings, and by the camaraderie of students on Front Campus.

This place has a name. This place is home.

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“I would be against this because at 21, you can drink and at college that’s a big thing. Guns and alcohol don’t mix.”

Allison Smith, sophomore marketing major

I wouldn’t be OK with guns on campus.

I think it’s really dangerous, especially in a school environment. I understand we have a right to bear arms, but I don’t think they should be allowed in public places like schools or airports.”

Nina McRay, sophomore English major

The Litter Box Thoughts and Rants of Georgia College

Woah, woah, woah.You mean to tell me that I’m about to graduate and go off into the real world? Where has the time gone?

Don’t professors realize I’m graduating in 9 days? I don’t care about projects or papers or presentations anymore! ALMOST FREE!!!!

It bothers me that professors decide to give tests the week before finals. What’s the point?

My roommate has sneezed 16 times in the past 5 minutes.

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“I would be against it just for safety reasons in general. Campuses are a really populated areas and I feel like this idea is in the same vein as taking a gun to an airport. You wouldn’t know whose holding a gun and that is kind of scary to me.”

Melissa Haghighat, sophomore English major

Look, I know parking on this campus sucks but that doesn’t mean you have to lose your sense of humanity when a spot opens. If you see someone waiting to get that spot don’t be a ducking fick and take it from them.

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“I would be for it. With possession of a gun, you have to have a license anyway.

So if they have a license to carry a gun, I don’t have a problem with it.”

Brad Williams, junior physics and mathematics major

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Popcorn balls of burnin’ fire

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“I would be for it because if you have the right license, then why not? If people have committed a felony, they wouldn’t be given a license.”

Kevin Kulp, freshman computer science major

“I would not be ok with guns on campus because knowing how quickly a rally was brought together when Osama bin Laden was killed, I think the last thing we need is a bunch of gun- toting idiots.”

Justin Dickenson, sophomore psychology major

Leaving GC, moving on:

- Thomas Mizelle, senior museum studies major

Editor-in-Chief

“If Congress were to pass a bill allowing students to carry guns on campus, would you be for it or against it?”

obbi Otis

On moving on, moving up and passing the torch Some say you have to graduate college and get a grown-up job to gain “real world work experience.” After experiencing the past 12 months of my life at the reins of this award-winning newspaper I would have to unequivocally and unreservedly disagree. After 24 papers I have gained invaluable knowledge that I can take to any job I hold in the future.

I’ve learned there is no such thing as “off the clock” in this industry. We’ve put the paper to bed at 4 a.m. and had to wake up at 7 a.m. to start reporting on breaking news on more than one occasion this year. This has taught the whole staff the importance of time management.

I’ve received phone calls and emails at all hours of the day and night that required immediate attention. This has taught me diligence in communication.

Every trial and tribulation and every success have been made possible only because of my amazingly talented staff, whom I now consider my family.

News Editor Aubrie Sofala has taught me what it means to be a truly ardent journalist, whose compassionate heart has led her to write some of the most touching stories the paper has published this year, if not ever. Arts & Entertainment Editor Lauren Davidson has shown more determination to break important stories

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April 27, 2012• Editor, Lauren Davidson

“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)”

Q&A with Drew Allen Scott Carranza / Staff Photographer

Benedict Esposito Staff Writer On April 18 I sat down with freshman undeclared major Drew Allen, who plays Adam in the comedy “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).”

What’s the play about?

Scott Carranza / Staff Photographer (Left) Senior mass communication major Drew Godsey kneels while attempting an intense monologue from the play “Hamlet.” (Upper right) Freshman undeclared major Drew Allen and sophomore theater major Sasha Schafler converse and fret over Juliet’s dear Romeo.

(Lower right) Godsey acts as a balcony for Allen in a scene from “Romeo & Julliet.”

Theater troupe brings to the Russell Auditorium stage the Cliffnotes version of the English playwright’s best-known works Scott Carranza Contributing Writer Amid the excited chatter from the audience, a humble actor takes the stage and states that the viewers will witness a theatrical feat rarely attempted: a performance of all of Shakespeare’s most popular plays in one play itself.

Directed by senior theater major Erica Mandato, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” combines humor, improvisation and classic theatrics in a way unlike any other play. Complete with only three actors, multiple characters are portrayed using lightning-fast costume changes backstage.

Mandato decided to increase the cast number from three to six, allowing for two shows with three different actors in each. She also expressed extreme satisfaction with her cast choices and the time spent with them.

“They are the most talented, dedicated, inspiring individuals I have ever met,” Mandato said. “We have grown so close as a cast and as a family. It’s been the most amazing experience of my life.”

For sophomore theater major Sasha Schäfler, acting in the play was a different experience, since her part is scripted for a male actor.

“Incorporating me into it was very interesting at first since it was a part written for a guy,” Schäfler said. “But Erica was able to make it work. She was a great director, she was fun, and she was very open minded in letting us do our own improvisations.”

The play starts with the actors portraying “Romeo and Juliet,” then goes down the list from “Macbeth” all the way to Shakespeare’s comedies condensed into one scriptreading piece. The play utilizes audience interaction as well, especially in the entire second act, which is completely devoted to the play “Hamlet.”

Mandato received a lot of praise from her actors in re-

ward for being a proficient director. Freshman undeclared major Drew Allen appreciated her patience and devotion to the play, which took months to put together.

“She was very patient with all of us,” Allen said. “Very calm, collected and (she) always let us know when we did wrong and what we could do to better it.”

Allen also shared how Mandato was very much a part of the acting as much as directing.

“During rehearsals and the performances,” he said, “if you glanced at her in the audience, you could see her mouthing the words and mimicking the actions. She performed every single role along with us. She knew every role better than all of us.”

For Mandato, directing the play also involved turning it into a traveling children’s show for her senior capstone.

“We’ve traveled to hospitals across Georgia and Tennessee,” Mandato said, “performing the plays for cancer patients and other patients in the hospitals as well.”

She explained that one of the most stressful aspects of acting in hospitals was that she had to disinfect all the props, dry clean the costumes and follow hospital protocol religiously.

The play garnered many laughs and cheers from both nights that they performed. Freshman biology major Cristina Clines had seen the play before, but found Mandato’s rendition to be hilarious.

“I thought the acting was great and I would definitely recommend it to a friend,” Clines said. “I actually have seen this play before so I kinda knew what to expect, but it was still so funny because of some of the improvisation.”

Zach Roberts, a junior theater major, expressed his appreciation for his fellow actors and director.

“I was completely blown away,” Roberts said. “I did not expect any less, but at the same time, I didn’t realize how much effort they had all put into the play and how fantastic it was going to be.”

It’s basically three actors trying to honor Shakespeare by attempting to perform all of his most famous works in a single performance. But as the three actors go along, it just gets crazier and crazier and, granted, you see the plays through their interpretation and a lot of them have very skewed ideas of what’s going on in Shakespeare’s plays.

So what do you like most about this play?

What I like most about it is that whenever you imagine Shakespeare, you imagine very complicated, complex words that very few people are able to understand. It’s very dry, very boring, and we actually go into detail about that at one point in the play. But what this one does is it makes it fun and satirical, and there’s massive audience participation. We encourage audience participation; we ask for their opinions; we ask for them to laugh with us; we ask them if it’s alright if we call them names. It’s funny and somewhat mature without being bathroom-like.

What do you mean by “mature?”

It’s made for older people. I would recommend ages 14 and up, who have some minuscule experience with Shakespeare.

It’s always fun having the hardcore Shakespearians walk in and tell us “I really loved your interpretation of “Troilus and Cressida.” And I’m like “We didn’t; we just threw a football around.” That’s always fun.

Who do you play specifically?

In accordance to the script, I portray the character of Adam.

(With) the way the authors wrote the script, the original (characters), Adam, Jess and Daniel, you are given, as an actor, a lot of freedom to basically play yourself; that’s why the play is so popular, because there is no set characters. It’s just you go in there, and you be you, and you interpret it as however you want it to be interpreted and have fun playing it yourself.

One of the things that the original actors do is with Adam, he is kind of stupid and kind of very out of the loop of the three whereas I go about it with clear, blatant ignorance. I am aware of Shakespeare; I know what’s going on; I choose to not care, and the parts I am passionate about, no one seems to understand. I would describe my character as the runt or the mutt.

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Senior art exhibits take vastly different approaches Megan Fletcher

Chad Lawrence

Leah Wooddall

Lindsey Norton

Four soon-to-be alumni utilize their talents to explore nature, modern times and everything in between Scott Carranza Contributing Writer With the last week of school steadily approaching, seniors are preparing for their capstones, projects or exits. In the case of four humble art students, they are putting the finishing touches on what will be their senior capstone: filling the walls of a gallery with their own original art.

Megan Fletcher, a senior studio art major, is especially excited for the opening next week on April 30. She and three other peers will adorn the walls of the Wooten-Garner Artfix Gallery with pieces they have been working on all year. Fletcher’s art deals specifically with barns and their connection with the environment.

“My pieces are all about old barns,” Fletcher said, “and they are all in the plein-air style.

They are very colorful and are a nice change from my usual liking of black and white.”

Her advisor, Associate Professor of Art Valerie Aranda, has been working closely with Fletcher in order to make sure her artwork will be gallery-ready come next week. Aranda stated that Fletcher’s art revolves around the changing environment and how this relates to the simple farmland.

“Megan is looking at the barn as a symbol of this vanishing system,” Aranda said, “and she explores these issues through her paintings. She’s also looking at different ways of experimenting with paint and color.”

Her artwork will consist of three canvas paintings of barns, utilizing her traditional favorite watercolor paints but delving into acrylic paints as well.

Fletcher is not the only senior displaying her artwork. Senior studio art major Chad

Lawrence also is stealing a spot on the walls with his animation artwork and posters.

“It’s going to be a four-minute animation that will project on the wall,” Lawrence said, “and I’m hoping to accompany it with two movie posters for the animation.”

Lawrence delved into what the movie was going to be about without revealing too much.

He wanted it to remain a surprise for the actual viewing.

“It’s a sci-fi, adventure cartoon about a guy living in a city in the clouds,” he said. “He then slowly realizes that something is a little bit off about certain things.”

Growing up around comics and cartoons, Lawrence’s life and hobbies seem to point toward art. His parents recognized this and en

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The Colonnade

potlight: Q & A with dancer Julia Richardson

April 27, 2012

Clash of the Titans stomps Russell

Julia Richardson, junior mass communication major, shares her experiences with the Dance Minor Spring Concert and offers insight to anyone pursuing dance at Georgia College.

Q: How long have you been involved with dance?

dance is about perfection and making it look effortless especially in a group.

A: I’ve been involved in dance at Georgia College since my freshman year, but overall, I’ve been involved in dance since I was four.

Q: What has been your favorite part of this performance?

Q: How did you get involved with dance at GC? A: I knew I wanted to continue dance in college so I looked online at the classes offered and saw the ballet workshop.

Then I saw the dance minor concert and that you don’t have to be a dance minor to be in it although the majority of the dancers are.

Q: What can we expect from the concert?

A: Everything: ballet, tap, modern, contemporary, and possibly jazz.

Q: Do you have any advice for anyone thinking of participating in dance?

A: I would say maybe take a dance class at GC, and definitely try out for the dance minor project in the spring especially since it’s not too much of a time commitment. Of course, that always depends on the choreographer, but rehearsals have been great, in my opinion.

A: I’m in three pieces: Pas de Quatre which is fifteen minutes long, and four of us are recreating the original choreography. The second piece I’m in is a dance with a folksy feel to it. It’s a character piece and there’s a group of us who are kicking three prostitutes out of town.

The last piece I’m in is modern and contemporary in which we look scary, although that piece has changed a lot; now it’s mainly just movement.

Dance Minor Spring Concert

Continued from page 11

So why “Shakespeare Abridged?”

Why not just give us the full monty of Shakespeare like an actual Shakespeare play?

A: Perfecting the choreography because

For more information on the concert and upcoming theatrical events, visit events.gcsu.edu/theater.

By Constantina Kokenes

Clash of the Titans page 13

Artists redefine printmaking to be a part of such a wonderful, well thought out event,” said Ryan Walden, lead singer for Holiday Away. “All of the bands were amazing and definitely brought life to the stage as well as the crowd. We are proud to have been a part of the show and hope to bring more of our music and entertainment back to the Georgia College community.”

Although there was no cover charge, donations were accepted, and raffle tickets were sold for $1. Since the performers played for free, all money made went to the American Cancer Society and Relay for Life.

“I don’t know how much money was made ... I imagine it’s a fairly modest amount because donations were optional,” Sterling explained. “ … thanks to the generosity of the performers, and Claire from Buffington’s, I was able to put on the whole concert for under $80.”

One of the biggest issues they ran into was that the Corey Smith concert was scheduled for the same night, right around the corner at Capital City. But Hamlett and Sterling were still happy with the turnout. “ … turnout was much better than I expected in light of the other show,” Sterling said. “I was always pretty adamant about not having a cover charge, and I’m especially glad that I stuck to that in light of the other event downtown that night.”

“We started to gather a bigger crowd throughout the night as more people filled the bar,” Hamlett stated. “Unfortunately, we didn’t raise as much money as I had hoped

Rock for Relay page 13

It’s only a curse if you say it in a theater, Benedict! But yes, we make fun of that line so much to the point where I almost say it on stage, and everybody just flips the hell out before we stop and explain to the audience about it, to the point where we curse ourselves.

Multicultural fraternities compete in a danceoff, hoping to continue the tradition next year

Russell Auditorium buzzed with energy on April 14 as stepping and strolling teams stormed the stage with force.

Stepping is a form of dancing in which performers use their entire bodies as instruments to produce rhythms. They may stomp their feet, clap their hands, use spoken word or a combination of all techniques. Strolling is like stepping, but is done in a line.

“It’s like a piece of Jell-O that coagulates together and that moves and shakes,” said Carlos Herrera, associate professor of museum studies.

Lambda Sigma Upsilon’s second annual Clash of the Titans dance competition brought chapters of various multicultural Greek organizations from all around the country. Junior economics and modern languages double major and president of LSU Antonio Barajas said that only three teams competed at COTT last year. This year, 13 teams came to Georgia College to showcase their skills. Although this second show was much larger, LSU still wants the shows to grow.

“I want this to be bigger. I also want to have similar shows for fall semester,” said Edwin Mendoza, senior management information systems major.

Many GC multicultural Greek organizations participated in the competition. Alpha Phi Alpha, Mu Sigma Upsilon, Kappa Alpha Psi, Delta Theta Sigma and Phi Mu Alpha all competed. Other organizations from around

Kate Ramsey / Staff Photographer (Top) Junior mathematics major Miles Daly and junior theater major Erin Borain practice diligently for the spring concert alongside fellow dance minors. (Bottom) Dancers prepare for the Dance Minor Spring Concert. Performances range from ballet and tap to contemporary and modern.The concert will include exciting dances such as a folksy, character piece and a modern dance in which the performers will don scary attire. Student tickets are $5 with their ID.

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Graham Williams, junior mass communication major and lead singer for The White Kids, thoroughly enjoyed playing at the benefit concert.

“It was a lot of fun and an overall good cause,” Williams said. I knew Jeff Sterling from class and have played music with him before so when he said he was putting together a concert for Relay for Life I was more than willing to help out. It was a great time overall, and I think the spectators enjoyed themselves.

I just hope a lot of money was raised for the cause.”

Despite the competing Corey Smith concert and being heckled by an inebriated man who wanted to buy a raffle ticket with his debit card, Sterling was not deterred away from planning another benefit concert.

“It’s a complicated proposition to get the right performers, at the right venue, on the right night, to bring out the maximum amount of people,” Sterling said. “But I’m always open to trying new formulas, and as the year goes on I’m sure I’ll keep working on stuff to try and hold bigger, better events.”

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Although the evening was a great success for LSU and its brothers, attendance left much to be desired. The audience mainly consisted of other chapters of LSU, Mu Sigma Upsilon and the performing organizations.

“I was expecting a lot more mainstream fraternities and sororities to come out and support us,” Becerra said. He would also like more diversity in the crowd for future shows.

Tickets were $5 in advance and $7 at the door (maybe this should be at the beginning, since the event is over?).

“A lot of this money goes to HIV/AIDS awareness,” Becerra said.

First, second and third place were all awarded to GC chapters of Mu Sigma Upsilon, Phi Mu Alpha and Alpha Phi Alpha, respectively.

Senior exhibits

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“I’ve always loved drawing,” he said, “and my parents always told me to do something I love. So that’s why I picked an art major.”

Among the mediums of painting and animation, senior studio art major Leah Wooddall will contribute to the gallery with her ceramic concentration.

“It is a tile picture made of rectangular clay tiles,” Wooddall said, “that have been carved

Alan Martin / Staff Photographer In the above image, Koichi Kiyono’s “Cultivation II” is found in a room of the Museum of Modern Art on Georgia College’s campus. The artist’s choice of medium is etching on cotton-wool and felt. Carlos Herrera, museum studies professor, makes it a part of his mission to bring art to GC students, so he worked with Samuel Yates from the University of Tennessee to bring the exhibit “Redefining the Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers.” Native-American artist, James Luna, originally planned to visit the school, but due to medical issues he was unable to do so. This did not stop Herrera from bringing together an intense and educational exhibition for students and faculty to enjoy.The exhibit opened April 16 and plans to be available until May 11. The art can be viewed Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or by appointment. Samuel Yates also visited GC on Wednesday, April 25 for a curator talk allowing students and faculty to speak and ask questions about the exhibition. Each artist has his or her own style and creativity, which allows for him or her to redefine printmaking. The artists of this exhibit push the boundaries of prints creating images from that of melons that look like planets in the Solar System to sushi with chopsticks.

Because we did that last semester with “Hamlet,” and there was a fantastic response to that in terms of the audience. But “The Complete Works” is much more audience friendly. With “Hamlet” there is a lot of complicated words, and people don’t understand with the old English, and we kind of bring it into a modern context that people are much more able to understand. And we make it silly, and we cut lots of pieces here and there, and we make it seem like we have no idea what we’re doing. We could do a real version of “Macbeth,” but I think it’s much more fun to have ten seconds of “Macbeth” and then stumble our way right into “Julius Caesar” in an attempt to have the jack-of-all-trades approach to it all instead of coming in with “Hamlet” and being the king of everything.

It’s a much more broader, friendly interpretation for the play.

I noticed you said “Macbeth” several times now. Are you worried that you just screwed up the show?

Laura vTvS / Staff Photographer Closing the Clash of the Titans competition, the Nuo Step Team performed a fast-paced routine, wowing the crowd. They are one of Lambda Sigma Upsilon’s national dance teams and are comprised of brothers from different chapters. The Nuo Step Team was just one of many dance teams that performed at the event. Clash of the Titans helps promote diversity, and the event is expected to continue growing.

the state that joined in included Delta Phi Lambda from Georgia Tech and Lambda Theta Alpha from the University of Georgia. One of LSU’s national dance teams, the Nuo Step Team, closed the show with a high-energy routine.

“My favorite part was seeing all the different competitors strolling and seeing what they brought to the table,” said Javier Becerra, senior biology major and public relations chair of LSU. The GC chapter of LSU does not compete because it hosts the event.

Two non-Greek organizations also competed in COTT. The Sassy Cats brought a combination of stepping and gymnastics to the stage.

Little Feet, a volunteer program through The GIVE Center, is a children’s dance group in Milledgeville.

“Little Feet was good,” said Javier Francisco, associate director of management enrollment. “I think it was really cool to see that energy and effort that they put into that group.” Francisco is also the coordinator of recruitment and retention of Latino students.

Herrera thinks that COTT helps promote diversity and plans to attend future shows.

“It’s a connection — a link — to past, to present and possibly the future,” Herrera said.

Francisco also expressed his joy about the success of the evening.

“I think that it was exciting that we were able to bring these students to our campus and to have a very kind of high-energy event,” Francisco said.

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Drew Allen Q&A

Saturday, April 28 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 29 at 2 p.m.

Russell Auditorium

Laura vTvS Staff Writer

Q: What was the hardest part about this performance?

With four bands and no cover charge, the first Rock for Relay benefit concert could have turned out to be an expensive event. But thanks to the generosity of performers and the people at Buffington’s, the concert was a success.

Hosted by WGUR, the concert stemmed from the passion to raise money for Relay for Life and an equal passion for music. Senior mass communication major Jeff Sterling took over the position of Concert Coordinator in January, and along with WGUR Programming Director and senior mass communication major Courtney Hamlett, they combined their efforts to create the benefit concert.

“I have wanted to do this concert for the past three years,” Hamlett said. “I am a member of Gamma Sigma Sigma, a community service sorority, and we have done Relay for Life every year since I’ve been at Georgia College. Volunteer work has always been close to my heart, and I wanted to combine my passion for that, along with my passion for music, and put the two together for a great cause.”

After talking to the people of Buffington’s and finalizing the plan to not have a cover charge, various bands were asked to play the concert on one condition — it needed to be free of charge. For some people, this would be an automatic turn off, but thankfully four bands stepped up: The White Kids, Holiday Away, Louise Warren and the Johnson Braxton Band. “(Jeff Sterling) asked if we would like to play at Rock for Relay, and we were stoked

The Colonnade

A: Working with all the different girls and forming relationships with them has been my favorite experience. Even though I’m not a dance minor, they’ve been very accepting, and it’s been great.

Q: What pieces will you be dancing in?

Anna Morris Senior Reporter

April 27, 2012

into and had clay added to it. My piece is all about growth, memories and places.”

To finish off the group of contributing artists, senior studio art major Lindsey Norton will display her artwork consisting of a combination of painting and print work.

All four seniors will finally have their year’s worth of hard work displayed professionally in a gallery and exit the school with their diplomas in hand.

What’s the hardest part about wearing either makeup or women’s wigs?

I’ve never had much experience with makeup aside from regular foundation. But the difficulty with the wigs and the costumes for the show is that, especially for my character and Evan Field’s character, there are so many costume changes and props and wigs that we have to use consistently throughout the show. One of the reasons the show was double cast is that if Evan is on stage, I’m backstage managing his props and his costumes, so that when we come back to change I’m ready to assist him, because it really is difficult to change that quickly. It got to the

point we would just throw a skirt over our heads and say it’s a garter for Gertrude and we’re gonna wear a sash for Claudius because we just don’t have that much time to swap out.

Since you’re wearing women’s wigs, do you ever find yourself embracing the character to the point where you look at yourself and go “I do not look beautiful today” or become enthralled with how you look?

I have caught myself many times looking in the mirror and doing the little Ophelia dance that I do. I tell myself “I need to stop this. I’m in public.” The character is definitely rubbing off on me. I performed it once in high school as well and so playing the character of Ophelia was kind of like opening the closet, seeing the old wig from years ago and saying “Hello old friend, how have you been? I’m sorry I have abandoned you.”

What’s the most embarrassing moment you have?

(Chuckles) You can’t be embarrassed as my character. You just have to be shameless.

But, I suppose, the most embarrassing part of the show would have to be when I completely screw up “Othello.” I walk out super confident, and I say, “Here’s Othello. And now we’re done with Othello so we can move on,” and the audience is wondering what just happened. I completely embarrass myself for the audience.

Anything else you want to add?

We toured the show around the Southeast.

We took it to Oconee Regional Medical and St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., which was a very rewarding experience. The children there were incredibly grateful for our performance. We also performed up in Atlanta for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as well as Scottish Rite Hospital. It is a very rewarding experience to have very sick children sitting in front of you, laughing along as you dance. I was really surprised at how happy and enthusiastic they were about the show given their situation, whether they have leukemia or cancer. It was a very intense, eyeopening experience, and I’m very grateful to our director for setting that up.

Congratulations Class of 2012!

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“Practicing for the drag show with great friends”

-- Michael Wedincamp, political science major

“Sledding down the pit in a in a canoe when it snowed.”

-- Lauren Holman, fine art major

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“Learning in calculus class the meaning of the ‘Mean Girls’ quote, ‘The limit does not exist!’”

“When the ultimate team went to Nationals two years in a row”

-- Eleanor Clifton, economics major

-- Daniel Sitaris, enviormental science major

“When I crashed ADPi’s Kentucky Derby social” “Dressing up to go to themed parties”

-- Becky Skuse, art history major

-- Thomas Mizelle, museum studies major

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April 27, 2012 • Editor, Sam Hunt

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Cheer squad succeeds at Nationals

Sam Hunt Goodbye from the sports desk

Courtesy of Kelly Walter The GC cheerleading squad poses on Daytona Beach after winning third place in the National Cheerleading Association Collegiate National Championship, where they competed against nine other teams. In order to compete, the squad had to win a bid at camp this past summer.

GC cheerleading squad places third in national competition at Daytona Beach against nine other Co-ed Division II teams Matt LaMothe Staff Reporter Basketball games aren’t the only place you can see Georgia College’s cheerleading squad in action.

They’ve performed in events such as “The Nutcracker,” the Peach Belt Conference Competition and most recently the National Cheerleading Association Collegiate National Championship.

The competition was April 12-13 in Daytona Beach, Fla., and the trip back to Milledgeville for the Bobcats was weighted down with the third place trophy.

Though the team came in third, it is looking to improve for the future.

“Last year we got sixth place, this year we got third. Therefore, next year we hope to get first,” base and team captain Kelly Walter said.

GC competed in Small Co-Ed Di-

vision II with nine other teams and the group was feeling the pressure.

“To get to Nationals, we first needed to receive a bid at camp over the summer,” Walter said. “After getting the bid, we had a lot of practice and hard work to get ready for the competition.”

Base Misty Heath, works hard every day and grinds past injuries to get ready for the team’s competition at Nationals.

“When going through a long summer and even longer season, injuries can happen,” Heath said. “Once Nationals come, though, you have to push through those aches and pains, because you want to do everything you personally can to help the team win.”

The Bobcats spent time on the first day watching routines and showing their support for fellow Georgia schools. The good karma came back around when all those schools showed up to give their own support for GC. In the first round of preliminaries, the Bobcats received a solid 9.200 score from the judges, putting them in fourth place going into the finals.

Stunter and back spot Michael Clanahan, had a good feeling coming into the final round.

“Going into the finals in fourth place, we knew exactly where we stood and what we had to do to ac

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3 golf players added to All-PBC teams Bobbi Otis Senior Reporter Freshman Ryan Trocchio didn’t like golf at all.

In fact, he says he hated it.

He preferred baseball from childhood to his middle school years, and it wasn’t until eighth grade, when he started putting a bit more and his father joined a country club, that he decided he did indeed like golf.

He started taking golfing seriously his freshman year, but he says he wasn’t competitive immediately.

“I didn’t really get competitively good until my junior year in high school and that is when I fell in love with tournament golf and decided to try to play college,” Trocchio said.

After a successful first season at Georgia College, with four top-10 finishes in seven tournaments and a third place finish at the Pirate Invitational in Savannah, Trocchio became the third player in the history of the GC golf program to be named Freshman of the Year by the Peach Belt Conference.

He also earned a spot on the All-PBC Second Team.

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“I got Second Team this year, which was actually a surprise to me,” Trocchio said. “I definitely want to try to make First Team my next three years and not only First Team, but try to become All-American and win a national championship for Georgia College.”

Joining Trocchio on the All-PBC Second Team is junior Taylor Smith. Smith and Trocchio share more than that honor. Smith, too, waited until eighth grade to really pick up golf as his primary sport.

“I played baseball when I was 4 until eighth grade and then I was better at golf than everyone else was, so I stuck with golf from then on,” Smith said.

Smith says it’s rewarding to be selected for the first postseason honor of his career.

“I thought I had a pretty good season, but I didn’t know what it took to get a postseason honor, so I was very pleased,” Smith said.

That “pretty good season” consisted of two top-10 finishes and a stroke average of 74.1.

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Lauren Davidson / Senior Photographer Freshman Ryan Trocchio practices his putting at Milledgeville Country Club last Tuesday. With four top-10 finishes in seven tournaments and a third place finish at the Pirate Invitational in Savannah, Trocchio is the third player in GC history to be named Freshman of the Year by the PBC.

Upcoming Games Tennis:

April 29 GC Women v. Columbus St. @ 9 a.m.

April 30 GC Men v. Francis Marion @2 p.m.

Baseball:

April 27 @ GC v. Armstrong @ 7 p.m.

April 28 @ GC v. Armstrong @ 2 p.m.

April 28 @ GC v. Armstrong @ 5 p.m.

When I came to Georgia College as a freshman in the fall of 2008 and decided to attend a Colonnade meeting, I never would have guessed that it would have led to me writing a goodbye column in the final Spring 2012 issue as The Colonnade sports editor nearly four years later.

Working here at The Colonnade, serving multiple positions and writing all types of stories, has taught me more than I could have ever imagined.

After serving as a sports writer in Fall 2008 and continuing to write in the Spring of 2009 led to me being promoted to assistant sports editor midway through the Spring 2009 semester, serving under the then sports editor Preston Sellers and Editor-in-Chief Corey Dickstein.

Preston and Corey were great mentors to me, and with their help and encouragement my abilities and my confidence both grew. I learned how to effectively write deadline pieces, meaning I could go to a men’s basketball game that began at 7 p.m. on a Wednesday night, which was production night at The Colonnade office, witness the game and take notes while it was going on. Then after the game was over, I could conduct interviews with the men’s head coach, Terry Sellers, as well as two other basketball players, head back to The Colonnade office and crank out the story in less than 50 minutes and get it put in the sports section so the paper could get completed the same night.

After Corey graduated, Claire Dykes took the reigns as the new Editor in Chief for Fall 2009 to the Spring of 2010, where through her leadership and Preston’s dedication as the sports editor helped me continue to grow as a writer and increased my confidence. I was no longer nervous about speaking to coaches and athletes for interviews and was able to write sports feature stories as well as sports coverage stories.

When Claire and Preston both graduated in the Spring of 2010, Matt Chambers took over as Editor-in-Chief in Fall 2010 while Scotty Thompson stepped up to served as the new sports editor.

Through the fantastic leadership and commitment that these guys had toward the paper, I was able to learn more about working inside a newspaper office in addition to being out in the field collecting interviews and writing articles.

Scotty taught me how to improve my writing as well as show me how to design and lay out a Sports section of a newspaper. Then before I knew it, Spring semester of 2011 had rolled around and it was time for Matt and Scotty to both graduate, meaning it was my turn to fill the shoes of sports editor and put all of what I had learned from the great writers and editors before me to the test.

Now, after serving as the sports editor for my entire senior year of college and working with The Colonnade for all four years of my college career, my time has also come to graduate. With that in mind, I will not forget all of those I have met along my journey, not just in The Colonnade staff, but outside the staff as well, including Sports Information Director Al Weston, who always made sure that I was able to interview whoever I needed to as well as all the coaches and players who were always more than willing to speak with me.

The time has now come for Bobbi Otis to take over as Sports Editor and I am confident that she will carry on the tradition of keeping our students informed about the latest happenings in the sporting world circulating GC.

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“My hopes for next year are to keep moving in the right direction; to go from here and keep building . . . We’ve signed two or three pitchers, two catchers and they are all very versatile . . . It gives them more of an oppurtunity to play, but next year we’ll have even more depth.”

-Softball Head Coach Jamie Grodecki on her ambitions for next year’s softball season.

On Wednesday it was announced that former GC pitcher Michael Antonini was called to play in the major leagues with the Los Angeles Dodgers. A former Bobcat All-American, Antonini pitched for GC during the 2006-07 seasons.

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Baseball at a glance Men move to Regionals, Softball season ends, The Georgia College softball team’s season ended on Saturday at the Peach Belt Conference Tournament in Columbus. The Bobcats suffered a 7-6 first-round loss to secondseeded North Georgia College & State University.

GC put three runs on the board to North Georgia’s two in the first inning. North Georgia plated one more batter in the second to tie things up, but after a scoreless third inning GC enhanced their game with one run in the fourth and one in the fifth to take a 5-3 lead.

North Georgia’s bats came alive in the sixth adding three more runs to the mix to GC’s one, making the score 6-6 go-

ing into the seventh. GC was unable to hold North Georgia and with one more run North Georgia cinched the game.

Looking past the tough loss, the team members believe the season was ultimately a success.

“Overall, I think we’ve had a really good season,” senior pitcher Sabrina Chandler said.

“We’ve meshed together well as a team, and I think we’ve done pretty well.”

After a season of 49 games, one game really stands out to sophomore outfielder Whitney Okvist.

“The most memorable game of the season for me was the game against Lander,” Okvist said. “We played really well in those two games, and we swept them, which was really good.

It’s the most memorable to me because I hit the winning hit at the end to win the game.”

Okvist was one of the three GC softball players who received a nod for All-Peach Belt Conference honors on Friday night at the year-end PBC banquet in Columbus. She also set the GC single season and career record during the spring season.

Head coach Jamie Grodecki remembers a game in Florida fondly.

“When we were down in Florida early in the season, we were playing Tampa who was at the time ranked in the nation, and we had an opportunity to beat them, but we ended up los

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Sam Hunt Senior Reporter

Jen Hoffman/ Staff Photographer/ File Photo Feb. 27 John Clark pitched for two innings and struck out five in game two against Columbus State University Saturday afternoon.

April 17

GC travelled to Valdosta State University where they fell to the Blazers 4-2.

April 18

GC postponed their game with Toccoa Falls College due to poor weather. Both teams are considering future dates to make up the game.

April 20

GC played Columbus State University at home where they won 9-8.

April 21

GC played Columbus State University at home where they fell 7-6 in game one.

GC smashed Columbus State University in game two with a final score of 18-2.

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Men’s volleyball club set up by GC student Sam Hunt Senior Reporter Kelsey Garrison / Staff Photographer/File Photo April 20 Senior pitcher Sabrina Chandler pitched two innings Saturday afternoon against North Georgia College & State University in the Peach Belt Conference Tournament in Columbus. Chandler ended the 2011 season with an ERA of 3.79 with 61 strikeouts under her belt.

Ultimate Regionals

women fall to Armstrong

memories remain Kate Ramsey Senior Reporter

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In addition to the numerous club sports available at Georgia College, a men’s club volleyball team is now starting up.

Sophomore mathematics major, Zach Monaco, who is the president and founder

of the team, got the idea to start the squad by watching his twin brother playing club volleyball at Georgia Southern University.

“He’s on the club team there and I went and watched one of his tournaments, and I used to play in middle school and I was like

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Last weekend the Georgia College men’s and women’s tennis teams were both on the road for the Peach Belt Conference Tennis Tournament. Each team played two matches and both walked away from the tournament with one win and one loss.

The men’s win came away on Friday against Francis Marion University with a 5-3 victory.

In singles, senior Jerome Leborgne lost the No. 1 singles match 6-4, 6-2, but junior No. 2 seed Johan Wadstein snagged the first singles win for the Bobcats when he beat his opponent 6-3, 6-2.

Junior Wictor Andersson also snagged a win for GC singles when he won 6-3, 6-3 in the No. 5 slot.

In doubles, GC won all three matches against the Patriots. The No. 1 team of Leborgne and Wadstein and the No. 2 team of Andersson and senior Leo Barnades each won their matches 8-5. The No. 3 team of junior Tyler Franks and Alex Shubert took an 8-6 win over their opponents.

“The first round we played Francis Marion and that’s a team who we had previously lost to during the regular season,” Franks said. “We came out really fired up because we knew we didn’t play our best against them during the season. We all kind of came together, played as a team and beat them pretty bad so it was really uplifting and really positive for the team.”

The women’s victory came on Friday against Flagler College 5-1. In singles, No. 1 seed ju-

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Continued from page 17... complish our goal of top three in the competition,” Clanahan said.

In the finals, the Bobcats posted a 9.000, which boosted them into their third place finish.

GC beat Bentley University and Blinn College, but fell short behind Hawaii Pacific University (9.535) and Valdosta State University (9.435).

To spice things up and attempt to get a higher score in the finals, the team added a move to their routine.

“The night before finals, we added a flip dismount to our pyramid to increase our difficulty,” Walter said. “This is what we felt would hopefully help us get top three and achieve our goal.”

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Continued from page 18... ‘well I never played in high school,’ and I just wanted to start it up so I could play for fun,” Monaco said. “I haven’t played in a while; volleyball is just something that not many people get to play and it’s really fun.”

Monaco says that the practices will likely be held in the afternoon twice a week at the Wellness and Recreation Center, where the team will be allowed to reserve courts.

One of Monaco’s methods of recruiting players was by word of mouth to his friends.

“Basically my friend — that’s who I started with first. I asked them ‘If I made a club volleyball team would you want to play?’ Then we started playing some pickup and some other people came,” Monaco said. “I’m also going to try OrgSync.”

Although the club has not officially started

nior May Johnson, junior Kayla Barksdale in the No. 4 slot and junior Michelle Lingner in the No. 6 spot all secured wins for GC singles.

In doubles, the No. 1 duo of Barksdale and sophomore Lisa Seyton-Ortenzio fell 8-5 to their opponents. Johnson and freshman Leah Pridgeon made up for the loss when they took a 9-8 win in the No. 2 doubles spot. The No. 3 spot of Lingner and sophomore Ivana Maveric teamed up to secure a win for the No. 3 doubles spot, giving the women’s team their 5-3 overall victory over the Saints.

“We just went in their believing we could win and going in and working hard for every point,” Barksdale said. “I don’t think they expected us to do that.”

On Saturday, the GC men’s took fell to Armstrong Atlantic State University 5-1. The sole victory for the GC men came from No. 2 doubles team of Andersson and Bernades snagged an 8-6 victory.

The women also left the PBC Tournament on Saturday when they were defeated 5-0 by Armstrong Atlantic.

The men’s team will compete in the NCAA II Southeast Regionals on Sunday. The GC women are back in action when they hit the road to face Columbus State University on Sunday at 2 p.m.

“We’ve just got to stay sharp,” head coach Steve Barsby said. “They played well, they’ve got to stay sharp. It’s a tough week heading into finals so practice is all over the place. But just keep the focus and know that heading in there we’ve got a shot against anyone we play against.”

Kendyl Wade / Senior Photographer Junior business major Connor Chesser plays in the Ultimate Regionals at West Campus on Saturday and Sunday.

The GC club Ultimate team Disconnected went 3-1 Saturday at the Ultimate Regionals held on West Campus. The first two games were won against Florida Institute of Technology and Southern Polytechnic State University. Disconnected continued their winning-streak by beating Armstrong Atlantic State University, but ended the day with a loss against Samford University. On Sunday, they beat Armstrong and Samford to clench the Division III Regionals. The club team is traveling to Appleton, Wis., the weekend of May 19 to compete in the Division III National Tournament.

By finishing third in Nationals, the Bobcats have nothing but positive thoughts going into next year and the future. This gives high hopes for the program and high school recruits will hopefully look at GC cheerleading in a completely different light now.

“Columbus State University hosts the GHSA State Cheerleading Championship every year,” Heath said. “This gives them the most ideal situation for performing in front of and recruiting the top cheerleaders in the state. After beating them and placing third at Nationals, I really believe this will put Georgia College cheerleading back on the map.”

To watch a video of the Bobcats performing their routines at Nationals, go to varsity.com and search “Georgia College.”

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yet, Monaco says there are about 20 people who are highly interested in playing.

“Set on the team, we don’t have any (players) yet because I want a make a roster after we view tryouts, but I know a good 20 people that would come out to try out,” Monaco said.

Monaco intends on holding tryouts in the Fall semester and says that anyone is welcome to come practice, although not everyone might be guaranteed a spot in the games.

“It’s open to anyone. They can come and practice, they might not be able to play in games, but I haven’t decided whether to keep it open or closed yet,” Monaco said.

For games planned in the future, Monaco has not played any games just yet, wanting to wait until the team is official before doing so.

“I wanted to make the team before I set any games. I know that Georgia Southern has a bunch of tournaments and stuff, maybe we can go down there,” Monaco said. “Really just any school that would want to play. I’m just looking to play.”

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Junior Patrick Garrett’s name was added to the roster of the All-PBC First Team for the second straight year.

He attributes this to a good summer and getting off to a good start in the fall. During the spring Garrett logged a lot of practice time to stay in top shape for matches.

Garrett took the top spot at the Pirate Invitational this year as well as boasting a 73.4 stroke average for the season.

The win in Savannah was a nice surprise for Garrett.

“It was good. It was unexpected,” Garrett

said. “We went out there and we had bad rain delays and the course was really soggy and I didn’t really know what to expect scorewise, but I hit it really well and I putted really well and when we got in I was leading and it was pretty exciting.”

Garrett is happy with the other seven players on the First Team with him.

“I was in good company this year,” Garrett said. “There were a lot of big names up there with me, Jordan Walor from (UNC) Pembroke and Rourke van der Spuy from Columbus (State). There are some good players and I’ve gotten to know them over the past couple years and they are pretty good friends, so it’s just nice enjoying that with them.”

Sabrina Chandler / Staff Photographer The softball team’s shuttle driver, Bear Powelski, watches over the field Saturday at Columbus State University during the Peach Belt Conference tournament.The team lost a heartbreaker against North Georgia, falling 7-6 in the seventh inning to end their season.

Sabrina Chandler is a softball player for GC

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Continued from page 18... ing in extra innings,” Grodecki said. “But it was a huge game, and we played very, very well. … It was a pivotal game that showed us that we can play with some of the best teams around, when we show up and play together well.”

Grodecki said that she has a habit of setting up challenging schedules for her players because she believes it makes them stronger and work harder.

“We’re very good at keeping the momentum when things are going really good, staying together and being a team,” Grodecki said.

This season has made all of the players on the team work harder and enabled them to grow stronger with every practice and game.

Chandler is one of the players who have noticed a significant difference during this season.

“I’ve grown a lot this season, mentally and physically. I’ve gotten stronger as a player and pitcher,” Chandler said. “My at-

titude has changed a little bit too; I don’t get as upset when I don’t do as well, and I can handle umpires better than I used to be able to.”

Next year, both the coach and players have goals in mind to strengthen the team and continue on the path to success.

Okvist said she hopes to hold more of a leadership role on the team, and wants the team to get more excited before their games.

“This year we weren’t as excited for the games as we should have been, and I think that’s really important,” Okvist said. “It’s part of the momentum of the game. I think that was part of our problem this year, and we didn’t excel as much as we could have.”

Grodecki would also like the games to pick up the momentum and move forward.

“My hopes for next year are to keep moving in the right direction; to go from here and keep building,” Grocecki said. “We’ve signed two or three pitchers, two catchers and they are all very versatile. They can play different positions, and I think that that’s something that the new kids I brought in this year were able to offer to the team. It gives them more of an opportunity to play, but next year we’ll have even more depth.”