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November 15, 2013

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Grants to promote diversity Emily White Contributing Writer Georgia College is now giving out up to $300 to students who commit to furthering the diversity of the campus. Students received an email in late August about a new mini-grant that would be offered to students from the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity. Beginning Sept. 1, students could apply for a mini-grant if they sponsor or submit an event that helps promote diversity on campus. The grants are meant to encourage diversity and to make minorities feel more included through the different events hosted by students, faculty and staff. The OIED mini-grant is on a first-come, first-served basis and will be available while funds last. Veronica Womack, the interim director of the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, said these events could come in a variety of forms. According to Womack there is no perfect candidate for the grant. “That’s part of the beauty of the program is that it can be so varied. There is no best way to get the grant, we’re just looking for innovative approaches to diversity awareness,” Womack said. Historically, GC’s campus has been known for its Colonial-inspired buildings and smalltown feel, but not for its diversity. Enrollment has decreased in diversity since the year 2000. Records from the Board of Regents show that in the fall of 2000, GC population consisted of 16 percent African-American, 2 percent Asian, 1 percent Hispanic, 1 percent other and 80 percent white. Twelve years later in fall 2012, numbers decreased to an 8 percent African-American population, 1 percent Asian, 5 percent Hispanic and 4 percent other. Enrollment was 82 percent white.

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Mark Watkins / Senior Photographer Laura Childs, Cancer Wellness program director, leads a group stretch during the 2-hour Survive and Thrive program before 35 cancer patients.

Surviving & Thriving Wellness Center program improves quality of life Andy Hitt Senior Reporter Bill Amos is 68 years old and loves to look at pretty girls. “Wild Bill from Milledgeville,” he said. “That’s what everybody knows me by.” Amos had colon cancer. “When they say that word ‘cancer,’ your mind goes blank, and the whole world just comes down on your shoulders ‘cause you think you’re gonna die tomorrow,” Amos said. “Then this program came along – it saved me.” Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 to 11 a.m., Amos joins 35 cancer survivors at the Wellness and Recreation Center to participate in the “Survive and Thrive” program, a recovery and wellness program for recently diagnosed cancer survivors. The program’s main focus is improving patients’ lives by addressing side effects of cancer

treatment on a case-by-case basis through physical and emotional therapy. Eleven cancer patients participated in the initial 12 weeks of “Survive and Thrive” in February 2012. Results of the first twelve participants showed a 9 percent improvement in aerobic fitness, 27 percent improvement in lower body strength and a 46 percent improvement in upper body strength. Statistical progress is recorded every 12 weeks to monitor the state of each patient and the effectiveness of the program. While undergoing cancer treatment, participants take part in grant-funded, individualized exercise plans tailored to their unique needs. This free oncology recovery program includes exercise, comprehensive “get-to-know-you” activities and a 12-week educational seminar called “I Can Cope.” Complimentary activities also include water therapy, music therapy and art

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Mark Watkins / Senior Photographer A program participant laughs while lifting weights to improve his mental and physical state.

Students helping students Supplemental instruction helps with academic struggles Sarah K Wilson Senior Reporter

Scott Carranza / Senior Photographer Elliot Payne, senior mass communication major, announced the trivia questions through the night.

Trivia Night wins big Kyle Shanahan Staff Writer The streets of downtown Milledgeville are quiet and empty on a Monday night; the loss of activity outdoors might give off a ghosttown demeanor, but the scene indoors is a lot different. At Amici, students and townsfolk alike indulge in the traditional bar pastime of trivia. Since its first event on Oct. 21, Amici Trivia Night has been exclusively sponsored by GC’s Student Government Association. According to SGA Press Secretary Kathryn Stanley, “Amici Trivia Nights have been such a success in raising money and awareness about SGA’s philanthropy, Students Helping Students.” The philanthropy, in the case of GC, is not so much an organized charity as it is an ideology to promote and develop humanistic values. It was adopted by SGA during the 2012-2013 academic year, and it has influenced several of SGA’s fundraising

News Flash Congratulations, Rachel Estridge Rachel Estridge, senior English major and editor-in-chief of The Peacock’s Feet, won the Margaret Harvin Wilson Writing Award on Nov. 11.

initiatives, from its partnerships with local restaurants to the development of a student emergency fund. Amici Trivia Nights are one of the many general community events. “[Our goal is to] raise awareness about the student emergency philanthropy fund, ” said Mary Katherine Bickes, senior mass communication major who helped coordinate the trivia night on Nov. 4, “and hopefully raise a good amount of money in order to aid students who are in dire circumstances.” The money raised from donations on trivia night is used to assist others in different ways, whether it be providing college opportunities for orphans or giving philanthropic funds to students caught in unforeseen, unfortunate consequences. As for trivia night itself, the event is a cheerful spectacle that compliments a packed house on an often uneventful night early in the week. The first night of trivia attracted

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Quotable

Every student has been there: That moment when, while sitting in class, the realization dawns that you have no idea what you’re doing. Everyone else seems to know precisely how to work that mathematical equation or string together the most eloquent French sentence. Yet no matter how hard you look at it, the professor’s scrawling on the board fails to make sense. Here is where Georgia College steps in and tries to make the learning process a little easier, or at least more accessible. Supplemental instruction, otherwise known as SI, has been making its presence known on campus via The Learning Center since fall 2012. SI leaders are qualified undergraduate students who attend a particular class then mentor students in that course. Typically, the SI leader has already taken that course and passed with flying colors. “We want to provide students with an academic support system,” Jeanne Haslam, coordinator of The Learning Center, said. “Because most of the SIs have had the professor for the course [they’re helping with], they have a good eye for the content in that class.” This could not ring more true than for Lucine Colli-

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David Wicker / Staff Photographer Kirsten Morris (left), a sophomore undecided major, and student instructor, Katy Hill (right), a senior Math major, work on Calculus 2 problems. Hill has been a student instructor for the past three semesters.

gnon, senior mass communication and French double major who has been working as an SI leader for the past four semesters. “What I tell my students is, ‘You’re learning French, but I’ve been learning English! I’ve gone through the exact same things that you’re going through right now,” Collignon said. “Sometimes you don’t want to ask the teacher something, because you feel stupid. I feel that it is sometimes easier to talk to a student.” Many students feel the same way. Although some find no difficulty in communicating with their professor, at times raising your hand and asking that nagging question

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Let Them BeLoved....................................................2 In the beginning, there was Atkinson....................4 “I’ve never gotten the opportunity to be a part of something very adult in front of lots of people.”

- Will Morris, sophomore rhetoric major

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Who are Willy Wonka and Charlie?......................9 Step into seminar.......................................................9

Sports

Basketball dominates opener................................13 The Equestrians.......................................................13 Community..........................................................7 Opinion....................................................................8

“I’ve gone through the exact same things that you’re going through right now.” Lucine Collignon, SI Leader is intimidating – especially when it seems everyone else knows what’s going on. “I know that I would’ve done worse in my physics class if not for the SI that was there,” Jack O’Connor, junior community health major, said.

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Number Crunch

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The number of spectators present at the men’s basketball season opener. See Sports on page 13

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The Kingdom’s Impact

November 15, 2013

Let them BeLoved GC graduate saves women from a life on the street Shayne Williams Staff Writer

Members of Kingdom Impact gathered at The Village for a movie night.

John Dillon / Staff Photographer

Students share Christian ideals at West Campus Sarah Dickens Staff Writer Jordan Williams, a freshman management major, saw a need. He was living at West Campus, and he noticed there was no Christian ministry there. “They have the Wellness Center, but spiritually I don’t see much going on,” Williams said. So began Kingdom Impact, a Christian outreach ministry based at West Campus. “The collegiate ministries do great things, but I wanted something that could be over there on West Campus that could also inspire people to grow closer to Christ,” Williams said. Another reason that Williams formed Kingdom Impact is because he was influenced by the Baptist Collegiate Ministries and Wesley Christian ministry’s way of spiritual teaching. He also enjoyed teaching in Macon, his hometown. “[Teaching is] just something that was dear to my heart,” Williams said. “To do a lot of teaching and a lot of things that can help people understand that it’s good to be a practical Christian and not just a sit-at-home Christian.” Despite taking inspiration from other denominational Christian ministries, Kingdom Impact tries to appeal to all believers. “We don’t lead [Kingdom Impact] to one denomination or standard or one denominational viewpoint,” Williams said. “[Kingdom Impact] aim[s] for anyone who is a Christian.” Although Williams has had years of experience teaching and educating others on Christianity, the overall goal of the ministry he founded is quite simple. “Our mission is to bring God to this campus,” Williams said, “and then show that we are true worshippers of God.” According to Williams, Kingdom Impact has 25 students who have joined its Facebook page, most of whom are West Campus residents. According to freshman music education major Jessica Norton, Kingdom Impact has attracted more students than the organization expected. “I think that we’ve already grown more than we expected, because I know it was kind of directed towards the Village, but we even had some people who didn’t come from the Village,” Nor-

About a year and a half ago, a nonprofit organization called BeLoved Atlanta was founded by two recent college graduates with a desire to offer restoration to women seeking freedom from the sex industry. The co-founder of the organization and Georgia College graduate, Kelley Stagnaro, was in an emotionally abusive relationship during her first year at GC. “As the Lord began to heal my insecurities and past,” she said. “I began to see the need to be that healthy, loving and patient community others had been for me.” Stagnaro met Amelia Quinn, founder of BeLoved, through a friend while in college and said they “immediately bonded over [their] passion to serve women with life controlling issues.” The two women were at different schools when they met. During Stagnaro’s senior year at GC, Quinn moved to Atlanta and began researching the needs of women in the city. At the same time, Stagnaro was creating a mock 501c3 as a part of a Nonprofit Leadership Alliance program. “I remember seeing Amelia after she had moved to Atlanta,” Stagnaro said, “and practically begging her to let me help with the startup.” The mock 501c3 that Stagnaro created at GC eventually served as the foundation of a plan to open a home for women leaving the sex industry. In March 2013, the first BeLoved home opened and houses up to four residents. Its goal is to open homes throughout the city of Atlanta

as places of restoration and healing for women who have worked as prostitutes. “The same women who were seen as bringing down the value of the city of Atlanta will be the very same women who bring life and restoration back to the city,” Stagnaro said. According to a 2005 FBI report, Atlanta is one of the top 14 cities in the U.S. for sex trafficking, and 82 percent of the victims are identified as U.S. citizens. “I realized that we are all one step away from being in the same destructive circumstances,” Stagnaro said. “To spend one day with a survivor of the sex industry you immediately see their kind and giving hearts, their strength and yearning for genuine love and support. As soon as I saw a woman as my sister and friend, I knew this is what I would devote my life to.” BeLoved is a four person team and is constantly looking for help. Over Fall Break, a group of eight students and Northridge Campus Church pastor, Dan Conner, visited the BeLoved home in Atlanta and did some touch-up paint and yard work for the women. “We always need more volunteers and interns,” Stagnaro said. “We truly could not do this work and serve the women without the support of volunteers and interns.” There are a variety of ways to get involved with the organization and make a difference in the lives of women in Atlanta. After experiencing the BeLoved program, a resident of their home said, “I was able to see that I could have a regular job, and I learned to believe in myself and that I have value. The experience of having a group of people love me and help me was the catalyst that helped me make the turning point in my life.”

Thursday Shuttle stays popular Jenna Bryan Staff Writer John Dillon / Staff Photographer Freshman management major Jordan Williams explains a topic to the board.

ton said. “And I know that the original agenda was never to become like a student recognized organization. So, we’ve grown tremendously from just a small Bible study.” Freshman pre-mass communication major Terrell Davis joined Kingdom Impact because he wanted an organization that would keep him spiritually grounded. “Maintaining some sort of spiritual aspect is important for college in this century because you always need something to keep you grounded,” Davis said. Williams intends to go far with Kingdom Impact’s progress as an organization. “As we keep growing, I’d like to plan on working with the other ministries, and I do plan on working with the GIVE Center to show that we are still active in the community,” Williams said. “And so, it’s just progression.” Williams leads Kingdom Impact’s bible study on Thursday nights from 8:45 p.m. till 9:30 p.m. in the Community Room in Building 600 at West Campus.

Since its debut Sept. 26, the late night shuttle has taken many students from MSU to West Campus. On Halloween night, it had 173 passengers, 60 more students than the night it began. The peak time the shuttle is ridden is between midnight and 2 a.m., however the shuttle runs from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. SGA funds the shuttle which costs $200 a week. “We have an outstanding amount [who] utilize the Thursday night shuttle,” President of SGA and senior accounting major Victoria Ferree said. Students have their own opinions on the shuttle system as well. “Before the shuttle existed, students would take the Magnolia shuttle to the Magnolia

Park Apartments and then cross the four-lane highway to get to West Campus. It was just too dangerous,” Olivia Suda, senior English major, said. Members of SGA have also noticed the reactions of students who take the shuttle. “The students who ride the shuttle have expressed very positive opinions about the service,” Ferree said. “We haven’t had any incidents on the shuttle, nor have we heard any negative feedback from the SNAP officers or the drivers who spend their Thursday nights on the shuttle.” As far as what is in store for the West Campus shuttle, SGA members had much to say about it. “As of now there isn’t a concrete plan to expand the shuttle’s hours or days of operations,” Ferree said. “The main motivation behind the

Thursday night shuttle is the safety of Georgia College students. Of course, I would like to expand the shuttle to weekend nights, but the SGA budget cannot accommodate funding multiple nights a week.” When asked, Tom Miles, director of Campus Life, had very little to say about the shuttle. “I am neutral on the subject,” he said. There were no further comments received. In the future, the Thursday night West Campus shuttle will continue to run not just on Thursday nights, but on other weeknights and perhaps even weekends. If students continue to use it, then it will continue to run.

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Sitting down with Paul Jahr The former GC associate professor is traveling the world Sam Blankenship Staff Writer Paul Jahr, former associate professor of student affairs, is now traveling the world by sailboat. Jahr worked at Georgia College for 25 years until he retired. Jahr is making the most out of his retirement and is currently sailing with his wife to Canada. David Wicker / Staff Photographer Katy Hill, a senior math major, works out math problems during an SI session.

Student Leaders

Continued from page 1... “The SI knew the class material very well. It was a great resource for the class that actually helped me.” Beyond simply sitting in on classes, SI leaders hold study groups and oneon-one tutoring. It all depends on how many students in a class are seeking help from the SI. Miles Mashburn, a junior economics major, is spending his fall 2013 semester as an SI for the first time. He holds hour-long study sessions twice per week, once on Tuesday and again on Thursday. “I like to think that I’ve helped a few students personally. I get to meet all these students and become close with them,” he said. “I don’t really reteach what the professor has [taught], but come up with creative and unique ways to give the information to the students.” This unique approach toward learning is something that The Learning Center encourages among its SI leaders.

“I like to think that I’ve helped a few students personally. I get to meet all these students and become close with them.” Miles Mashburn, SI Leader “We are trying to implement as many collaborative learning techniques as possible,” Haslam said. “Our main goal is that you understand what you’re doing.” SI leaders can be found in most core-level classes. To schedule a tutoring session of your own, contact The Learning Center at 478-445-1179 or make a personal visit. The Learning Center can be found on the second floor of the library, Room 252.

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colonnade: What have you been up to since retiring? jahr: I formally retired from Georgia College on June 28. Three days later, I ‘failed retirement’ as I accepted an offer from the Armstrong Atlantic State University administration to help them out and become their Interim Director of Housing and Residence Life. I have been doing that position – part-time due to being a retiree from a USG institution since then. As I had previously planned an extensive trip (no need to call it vacation anymore), I am now enjoying that vacation and will return to Armstrong after my travels come to a close. colonnade: You’re now the interim director of housing and residential life at Armstrong State. How did that come about? jahr: As I mentioned above, I was contacted by the administration at Armstrong when they learned that I had retired. The Director of Housing and Residence Life position had been vacant since the spring, and they wanted a ‘seasoned’ individual to step in and provide direction to their program until a formal search could be conducted. That search has just be-

gun. I had not served as a Director of Housing for over 7 years when I left that position here at GC and became the Associate Vice President for Student Affairs. colonnade:: Do you miss Georgia College at all? jahr: I do miss many of the individuals that I worked with for many years. After working at GC for almost 25 years and being a part of so many developments and changes, it has been difficult in some respects, but I do manage to keep up with things via emails and the internet. I also truly miss working with the students – the SGA and the Student Judicial Board in particular. colonnade:: I hear you’re currently sailing around Canada. What made you decide to take this trip? jahr: The trip was determined almost a year ago and was designed to be a ‘celebration’ of my retirement. My wife and I love to travel and this is part of our on-going efforts to do new things and see new places. Being in Canada and New England at this time of the year is wonderful for the brightly colored leaves changing. colonnade:: How did you first get into sailing? jahr: We began taking cruises almost 15 years ago when our son finished his BA at Georgia College, and we have tried to take at least one trip a year. My wife retired from GC two years ago and now that I am retired, we hope to take more trips. We have been fortunate enough to have been on all seven continents in the world and met a tremendous number of people dur-

Courtesy of Georgia College Paul Jahr, former associate professor of student affairs, is spending his retirement sailing around Canada.

ing those times. colonnade:: What’s been your favorite part of the trip? jahr: The favorite part for me was stopping in New York City and getting to see the 9-11 memorial. I grew up in NYC, less than a mile from the World Trade Center. Getting to see ‘my old stomping groups’ was wonderful. colonnade:: Do you have any trips in mind for the future? jahr: We have some future cruises planned to Europe.

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TH E . S H O R T . L I S T The top news stories from all over the world as collected, curated and composed by Sarah K. Wilson

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Expansion of Aloha. On Wednesday, Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed

a bill legalizing gay marriage, making the Aloha state the 15th state to do so. Hawaii is expecting a huge tourism boost as people begin to take advantage of the new law, which will go into effect on Dec. 2. (Washington Post)

Rape is never funny. India’s top police ofﬁcial Ranjit Sinha made headlines

on Tuesday, but not for good reasons. During a conference, the Central Bureau of Investigation chief remarked, “If you can’t prevent rape, you enjoy it.” The comment has sparked outrage across the world, with many activists now calling for Sinha’s resignation. Nice going, Chief. (Hufﬁngton Post)

Continuing horror. North Korea executed 80 people by ﬁring squad in a

stadium, a Seoul newspaper reported Monday. According to JoongAng Ilbo, 10,000 residents packed into a stadium watched as 80 people, none of whom were guilty of capital crimes, were tied to poles, hooded and shot. A few of the murdered were condemned for simply watching South Korean entertainment. (Los Angeles Times)

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energy. Corn-based ethanol has been found to be severely damaging to the environment, according to an Associated Press investigation. Ethanol, long believed to be the answer for clean energy, is the cause of ﬁve million acres of land being destroyed due to farmers clamoring to cash-in on government ethanol mandates. (CBS News)

Typhoon Haiyan. More than an estimated 10,000 people are dead after Typhoon Haiyan wreaked havoc on the Philippines. In the city of Tacloban alone, the UN has reported a mass grave with up to 500 bodies inside. A reported 600,000 people have been displaced by the storm, while an estimated 70 to 80 percent of structures hit are now in ruins. (Reuters)

Nailed it. Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky shocked tourists in Moscow’s

famous Red Square last Sunday when he stripped and subsequently nailed his scrotum to the ground. A statement released by Pavlensky said, “The performance can be seen as a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of contemporary Russian society.” Way to get your point across. (The Guardian)

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PERSON / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Former SGA President Cody Allen reviews scores with Mary Katherine Bickes at the trivia night.

Trivia Night

Continued from page 1... more than 100 people while the second night did just as well, attracting enough individuals to yield 15 teams. Even now, a loyal following is already visible on Twitter as well as the SGA Facebook page. Trivia night on Nov. 4 featured the ringleaders packed in the corner of the bar right under the Yuengling sign, armed only with laptops and the microphone. Bickes kept track of the game’s progress while the two MCs addressed the participating teams with questions ranging from Disney TV shows to Russian history to Family Guy. A fourth person handed out slips of paper to the players for them to write down their answers and then tallied the score of correct answers for each team. The entire game lasted four rounds. A team’s scorecard provides an excellent example of the game’s scoring system: Each round consists of four questions followed by a special bonus question that varies in value from 5 to 10 points. After answering the main four questions, the team members can rank their

SCOTT CARRANZA / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER The scene at Amici during one of the trivia nights hosted by SGA.

conﬁdence in each answer on a scale from 2-5, number two being the lowest and ﬁve being the highest. Correct answers earn points based on how the team members rank them, which can result in equal parts joy and disappointment when a wrong answer is ranked high while a correct one is ranked low. The winners of each round are awarded a free pitcher of beer. Instead of tips, donations made during trivia night go towards SGA’s student emergency fund. It’s a fun and lively period of friendly competition, which is good considering that, according to Bickes’s words, “…nothing’s

“[Our goal is to] raise awareness about the student emergency philanthropy fund.” Mary Katherine Bickes, senior mass comm. major really happening downtown on a Monday.”

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In the beginning, there was Atkinson The governor who started Georgia College is honored HELEN HARRIS STAFF WRITER William Y. Atkinson is a little-known figure on Georgia College’s campus, despite one of the central buildings, Atkinson Hall, carrying his namesake. “I’ve always wondered who Atkinson was and what he did for the college,” Amanda Kochansky, junior management major, said. Elizabeth Whittington, junior accounting major feels similarly. “I just assumed [the building] was named after someone important,” she said. Atkinson, the 55th governor of Georgia, was ultimately responsible for the bill that led to the founding GC, or what was then called Georgia Normal and Industrial College. In fact, when GC was given its liberal arts mission in 1996, there was a possible choice of naming the college Atkinson State University. The Student Government Association recognized William Y. Atkinson Day on Friday Nov. 8. The event recognizing Atkinson is relatively new to campus, only occurring over the last few years. William Y. Atkinson was a native of Oakland, Ga. and served as a representative in the Georgia General Assembly and as chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party in addition to his four-year stint as governor. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1877 with a law degree and shortly after, married Susie Cobb Milton in 1880. His wife proved to be a profound influence in his life and career and was seemingly a prominent force and influence for many of the great things he accomplished. In fact, Mrs. Atkinson is rumored to have played a large role in her husband sponsoring the bill to start GC. She was also a member of the Georgia Women of Achievement and managed her husband’s successful campaign for governor. Even after William’s death, she entered into the insurance business to support her children. “Not only was she involved with our educational piece, but she was active even after her husband died,” Joshua Kitchens, Special Collec-

MARK WATKINS / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Participants in the program work out as part of the two-hour ﬁtness regimen led by Laura Childs.

Survive and Thrive Continued from page 1

William Y. Atkinson

.As a state representative, he introduced a bill that established the Georgia Normal and Industrial College, which later became Georgia College and State University

.55th Governor of Georgia .He hired the first woman to a salaried government position in Georgia

.Atkinson County is named for him tions archivist, said. “Some people say she’s a more fascinating character than William. She’s an interesting force behind him, and there’s a lot of information on her.” Atkinson served on the original board for the college, and Atkinson Hall is named after and in honor of he and his wife.

Recycling initiative aims to save money IRIS COCHRAN STAFF WRITER With no trash or recycling bins in classrooms due to the new recycling policy, students are ﬂustered, but the goal of phase one is to change behavior and make students more aware of recycling. “Phase one is completely about changing behavior,” said Lori Strawder, assistant director of Facilities Operations for Sustainability, “getting people more engaged in recycling and conscious about what they are throwing away, and separating our recycling from our nonrecyclable material.” Students still have to walk outside of classrooms to throw away any trash or recyclables, which leaves some students frustrated. “I think recycling is a good thing no doubt,” Sean Noah, senior mass communication major, said, “but if they are going to take away trash cans in the classrooms, at least replace them with small recycling bins or something. Students want to help the environment, but we want to do it in the little things we do every day.” SGA Treasurer Holly Nix, a junior environmental-science major, said there are no recycling or trash bins in classrooms because students are being held responsible to “take in what you have to take out.” Susan Daniels, assistant director of Landscaping and Grounds, said students were putting trash and foods into the blue recycling bins, and recycling bins are not worth putting in the classrooms until students take responsibility to recycle properly. The main focus in phase one is to recycle correctly by making sure aluminum or steel cans, cardboard, mixed paper, newspaper and plastics are the only materials to go in the recycling bins. “The correct way to recycle cans are to empty, rinse and crush cans to save space,” President of the Environmental Science Club Justina Everhart, senior environmental science major, said. “Empty and rinse plastic bottles, be sure to remove caps in trash bins, and check to see if there is a small

“Having not to throw away so much garbage can save us up to $50,000 to $60,000 a year.” Doug Oetter, professor of geography recycling sign with numbers, one or two, labeled in the middle to recycle correctly.” Some students appreciate the new recycling policy and how it can promote a difference in the GC community. “I believe the new recycling program is a wonderful idea that helps promote the pack it in, pack it out-like philosophy,” Seth Whitehouse, sophomore environmental science major, said. “It worked at Clemson University; it will work here as well.” Recycling also benefits the University financially. “Having not to throw away so much garbage can save us up to $50,000 to $60,000 a year,” Doug Oetter, geography professor, said. GC checked out Clemson’s recycling program. Clemson profits from recycling because the program separates its own recyclables and has an agreement with vendors, which allows the recycling program to fund all expenses. Clemson has upped its game and paved the path on recycling and limiting solid waste bins and collection, which can be beneficial ideas for GC future recycling possibilities. The program promotes the community to get involved, which raises more money for Clemson and its recycling program. “In the future phases we will be able to garner some saving and really profit from our program,” Strawder said. Future phases will “garner” money from the recycling program, by the recyclables being collected then separated and sold to other vendors. As of now, GC pays vendors to do the work for them. Strawder said that the average monthly cost to dispose and transport GC trash and recyclables is $7,800. The average has stayed the same since the new recycling policy has started. The monthly cost varies, but

the most recent cost, after the new policy took place, includes $6,700 for July and August to dispose and transport GC trash and recyclables. Before the new recycling policy started, the cost was $5,700 during March and April. Strawder suggested while the new recycling policy was taking place, students were moving out, which made the disposal cost go up to $8,200 during May and June. Building Services, the recycling vendor GC sends its recyclables, collects once a week to recycle materials and collects trash every day to be transported the Centennial Center and West Campus. The recyclables are taken and picked up by Advanced Disposal Services in Milledgeville. The new recycling policy started in May 2013 and cost $22,921.30 to implement the proposal. The proposal consisted of a list of costly materials, including blue recycling bins, advertising and solar power golf carts. The breakdown revealed the proposal list cost more $8,000. $1,500 was spent on 1,050 blue recycle bins and bags, advertising and promotion, and solarpower golf carts cost more than $13,000. An audit before the recycling program began showed that 66 percent of GC waste is recyclable. Oetter said the new recycling policy has made the recycling rate increase dramatically. He also stated that it is too early in phase one to get an exact percentage. He will take steps to investigate if the new recycling policy is actually working, by counting the bags of trash, compared to the bags of recycling.

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therapy, as well as guided imagery, journaling and various forms of meditation. “A lot of the patients actually talk about the psychological effects of being diagnosed with cancer being harder than the physical cancer and the treatments,” Laura Childs, associate director of fitness operations and director of the Cancer Wellness Program, said. “We don’t want them just to be physically fit; we want them to regain that kind of better quality of life from before their diagnosis.” When designing the curriculum, Childs studied the positive effects of physical activity and education for patients undergoing cancer treatment. The Oncology Nursing Society, a professional organization of more than 35,000 healthcare providers, emphasizes the relationship among fatigue, physical functioning, emotional distress and quality of life. According to the Oncology Nursing Forum, “a comprehensive exercise program consisting of low-to-moderate intensity aerobic and resistance exercise, education and support… results in significant improvements in physical function, fatigue and mood.” Participants are referred to the program through their treating oncologists whom Childs directly contacts to receive a full medical history prior to their acceptance into the program. Childs then carries out eight confidential assessments ranging from baseline fitness testing to their psychological and emotional states. “Our goal is based on the individual and what their goals are. For some of them, simple things like being able to drive. They want their independence back. For some of them, they want the energy to be able to go grocery shopping. They want to be able to clean their houses and make their beds again. It’s simple things that a lot of us dread doing or take for granted being able to do,” Childs said. After a particularly invasive surgery that removed his bladder, prostate and a portion of his colon, Wild Bill Amos agrees with the research. “I’d probably have stayed home and been suicidal, I was getting so depressed,” Amos said. “It’s like a new life. This program has given me strength to go through this next procedure, which I’m expected to be in the hospital anywhere from 10 to 15 days after that surgery. This gives me strength to fight while I’m in the hospital.” Physical conditioning is only one of many positive effects seen by cancer survivors actively participating in “Survive and Thrive.” Another is cultivated by the relationships formed throughout the course of the program. Donna Dunnam is an eight and a half year survivor of Multiple Myeloma, a white blood cell cancer of the bone marrow. She endured two stem cell transplants in 2009, transferring 45 million of her own stem cells. Art therapy and music therapy, Dunnam says, are her “fav.” “Besides my family and my church, this is where I get the most support, ‘cause we all have a bond that we don’t have with other people,” Dunnam said. “You go to a gym and you just go to exercise. You come here and you bond with people. You bond with the fellow cancer survivors. You bond with the students

MARK WATKINS / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER A man holds the gloves he uses during exercise.

“I’d probably have stayed home and been suicidal, I was getting so depressed.It’s like a new life. This program has given me strength to go through this next procedure, which I’m expected to be in the hospital anywhere from 10 to 15 days after that surgery. ” Bill Amos, Member of the wellness program that are helping you. They don’t seem to mind listening to you talk their head off.” “Survive and Thrive” helps Georgia College achieve its mission to form a mutually beneﬁcial, collaborative relationship between the students and the community through vast volunteer opportunities. Nursing, exercise science and community health students are only some of many who come to work with cancer survivors. “My experiences with Survive and Thrive were not only overwhelmingly rewarding and inspiring,” Kelsey Schaive, senior exercise science major and volunteer, said, “They also opened my eyes to the obstacles that cancer survivors face both physically and mentally.” The American Cancer Society estimated more than 49,000 cases of cancer in the state of Georgia for 2013. “If people in Milledgeville knew what they were doing over here, they could pack this place,” Amos said.

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

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App extends SGA discount card deals AMANDA MORRIS STAFF WRITER An app that gives students access to the deals on the Student Government Association discount card is now available on Android and iOS phones. The “College Discounts” app acts as a digital companion to the physical card which features more than 30 local businesses. “The [GC] Discount Card will always be a staple at [GC]. This is just another way to save, with different discounts,” said Bruce Twersky, owner of College Discount Cards, the company that brings the discount card and app to GC. The app currently has approximately 150 users and has garnered a positive response from students. “Anyway to save money is right up my alley. The app is even better because you don’t have to remember it’s in your wallet. Just check your phone and bam there it is. And you don’t have to worry about losing it or the ofﬁce running out before you can grab a card,” said Ashley Miller, junior mass communication major. The new app also acts as an extension of the physical card as it can be updated throughout the year. “Since the card is printed for a year, but the app discounts can be switched out easily, businesses can change their deals monthly to try out new offers and keep students interested in coming back to the app to check out the latest deals,” Twersky said. Students can download the app for free by searching for ‘College Discounts’ on the App Store or Google Play. They can then show the ad on their phone to the cashier to redeem a discount. The discounts are good on an unlimited basis. If push notiﬁcations are enabled, students can receive a ‘deal of the day,’ which can’t be found anywhere else on the app. “We’re always by necessity glued to our phones anyway, and I’m always forgetting my student discount card is tucked away in wallet behind a million other things,” Austin Brafford, senior creative writing major, said. “I’m probably more likely to remember something on my phone and I appreciate that they’re adapting to the modern student’s life.” There are also direct links from the ads

COURTESY OF BRUCE TWERSKY An in-app map lets users browse business in the area that have deals available.

to call the business, Scan here to view its website and get the app: guide the user to the business using the ‘View Map’ option in each ad. Another feature within the app is the ‘Deal Map’. Students can zoom in on Milledgeville and click on locations to ﬁnd discounts and directions. Since this card beneﬁts the students, any suggestions on what types of discounts are best or what businesses the students would like to see will be taken into consideration and should be e-mailed to bruce@collegediscountcards.com.

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Diversity by the numbers

Continued from page 1... To put these statistics into perspective, compare GC’s enrollment to that of Georgia Perimeter College’s. In fall 2012, it had an enrollment of 43 percent African-American, 10 percent Asian, 9 percent Hispanic, 6 percent other and 32 percent white. Ellis Fields, a transfer student from Georgia Perimeter and junior English major, recognized the need for more diversity on campus. “Coming from Georgia Perimeter to Georgia College, the lack of diversity was one thing that stuck out to me,” said Fields. “The fact that this grant gives students the opportunity to make a difference on campus is a great idea.” Events that have been proposed so far include the promotion of festivals, proposals that sponsor poetry events or ideas that help support other organizational events. Although events are the main idea for the grant, Womack doesn’t want to define the grant to just events. This grant could also be used to purchase resources for a diversity-centered organization; the only restriction to this is that the money cannot be used to buy food. As long as it’s furthering diversity, it is considered eligible. The program is not only looking to encourage different races, but this grant hopes to create a better atmosphere for different religions, sexual orientation, abilities or disabilities and so on. “We are finding ways to create a campus where we all can be comfortable and challenged. Not a campus where we all think alike, but that we have a level of comfort in difference, that it is not threatening to be different.” said Womack. The Office of Institutional Equality and Diversity has already received a few applicants and estimate that they have enough funds for 10 applicants to receive the mini-grant. All of the money for this grant is state-funded. Womack and the OIED have high expectations for the success of the grant and are hoping to see an overall improvement. “I think we’re at a point of exploration… figuring how do we, as an institution, promote an environment that’s conducive to all of being successful. And I see that as the very core of diversity efforts.” The Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity are working hard to see programs like the OIED mini-grant succeed. Cassandra Wright, office assistant at the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, is very passionate about the efforts of the grant. Wright puts a lot of time into the diversity programs here at GC and feels that they’re not only important for the campus, but for life. “These programs are essential to life in general. [They] teach critical thinking, [they] teach you how to deal with difficult conversations and people who are different from you, and to not avoid those differences”, said Wright, “but to learn from them and appreciate them because

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that’s just a part of life. No two people are the same.” GC has had grants similar to this one in the past, but what is unique about the OIED minigrant is that it is not only offered to faculty, but to students and staff as well. Students, like Ann Marie Giannace, a junior Spanish major, seem to be optimistic about the grant. “[GC] does have diversity, but it needs to be increased,” said Giannace. “I think this grant will be the perfect tool for doing that.”

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The Journal of Student Research at Georgia College is now accepting submissions for the online and print editions! Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year for the online edition. Submissions eligible for the print edition of Volume 15 must be accepted for publication by February 1, 2014. Learn more at www.gcsu.edu/corinthian.

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MOMS ARE SUPER HEROES TOO

Nov. 2 1:48 p.m. Ofﬁcer Johnson received a call from a student’s mother who was concerned for her daughter’s safety. The mother said her daughter’s ex-boyfriend was threatening her daughter. Sgt. Ennis met with the ex-boyfriend and warned him not to have contact with the student. *

THE GOOD OL’ DRUNKEN TIMES

Nov. 3 1:52 a.m. Ofﬁcer McKinney went to College Station when someone reported a drunken female. The female had knocked on someone’s door, asked to come in and then vomited on the ﬂoor before passing out on a couch. She reportedly had a hard time sitting up and was slurring her speech. She was arrested for underage possession of alcohol and sent to MPD. *

LOOKING SUSPICIOUS CAN GET YOU INTO TROUBLE

Nov. 3 1:56 a.m. Sgt. Purvis pulled over a car in the Golden Pantry parking lot because the car was swerving. As Purvis walked up to the car, the driver fidgeted. He had glassy eyes, smelled like booze and was slurring his speech, Purvis noted in his report. The officer gave the driver a breath test which registered .15. Officer McKinley went to lock the car, on request of the arrestee and saw suspected marijuana in the driver’s seat. The driver was jailed for DUI and possession of marijuana. *

DON’T BE A RAT AND RAT OUT YOUR FRIENDS

Nov. 6 11:16 p.m. An anonymous caller reported there were four people smoking marijuana at the Centennial Center tennis courts. Sgts. Miller and Smith and Ofﬁcer McKinney went to investigate. McKinney and Smith were able to catch one of the suspected smokers and allegedly smelled marijuana on him. He said he did not have any marijuana in his room and gave permission for McKinney and Smith to search it. McKinney and Smith reportedly found a bag of weed in a blue box. The guy said he went with some friends to buy it at a house but couldn’t remember who is friends were or where the house was. He was arrested for a misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

BOYS WILL BE BOYS AND FIGHT OUT THEIR PROBLEMS

Nov. 7 10:23 p.m. Officer McKinney went to the Delta Sigma Phi house because two guys were fighting in the yard. McKinney broke up the fight. The two said they’d had a disagreement, which turned into a brawl. Neither wanted to press charges. They were warned about fighting. *

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TOSSING COOKIES OUT THE WINDOW

Nov. 8 12:46 a.m. Ofﬁcer McKinney saw the passenger of a car sticking her head out the window, tossing her cookies. The person driving said she was taking her friend home because she’d had too much to drink. McKinney allegedly smelled alcohol coming from the driver. The sick passenger, meanwhile, was allegedly slurring her speech and also smelled of booze. Both were arrested for underage possession of alcohol and taken to MPD. *

MALE AGGRESSION AT ITS FINEST

Nov. 9 2:17 a.m. Ofﬁcer McKinley allegedly saw two guys ﬁghting outside of the Velvet Elvis. McKinley smelled booze from both of the guys breaths and heard slurred speech. Both males agreed to take an alco sensor test. One registered at .2; the other at .19. They were both arrested for underage possession of alcohol and transported to MPD.*

SWERVING ON THE ROAD

Nov. 9 2:59 a.m. Ofﬁcer McKinley saw a car swerving in and out of its lane on Greene Street. The car had a suspended registration. McKinley stopped the car and reportedly smelled booze on the driver. The driver took a breath test, which registered .13. He was charged with DUI and taken to MPD. *

BOOZING IT UP WITH FAKE IDS

Nov. 9 11:15 p.m. Ofﬁcer McKinley went to Foundation Hall because a CA allegedly conﬁscated some alcohol from two students. McKinley talked to the two guys who admitted to buying the stuff with fake I.D.s. They handed over their fake I.D.s to McKinley. The case was sent to the student judicial review board.

THIRD TIME IS ALWAYS THE CHARM

Nov. 9 11:39 p.m. Sgt. Purvis was patrolling on Clarke Street when he saw a guy walking around with a bottle of booze. Purvis asked the guy to stop, but instead the fellow got into a car that had stopped to pick him up. Purvis then pulled that car over and asked the guy he’d seen with the bottle to step out. The guy was trying to hide the bottle. Purvis asked him his name and birthdate. The ﬁrst name given was not a real name. The second name was also fake. On the third try, he gave Purvis his real name. When the guy took a breath test, it registered .13. He was arrested for underage possession of alcohol and sent to MPD. The case was also sent to the student judicial review board. *

Opinion

November 15, 2013• Designer, Madalyn Shores

Our Voice

Technology consumes us more than we realize There is an epidemic sweeping the campus, and it’s not hay fever. It’s called nomophobia: the fear of being without a phone. As the fall leaves ﬂoat down and the sun breaks through the trees, we Tweet, Facebook, Instagram and Vine our lives— so much so that those social networking sites are verbs. We’ve lost the meaning of relationships, both romantic and friendship. You aren’t truly dating someone until it’s “Facebook ofﬁcial,” for all to see and “creep.” Coffee isn’t coffee unless it’s been “Instagrammed.” If you don’t tweet your emotions, then they just don’t exist. We all do it. It’s a way to connect with each other and feel important.

Challenge yourself this week to wean yourself off your dependence on your phone. Acceptance and approval are measured by the number of likes and favorites, friends and followers. We’re not the first generation to crave acceptance, and we’re certainly not the last. But we are a lonely generation. We gorge on social interaction and starve ourselves of human interaction. Think about how many times a classroom is silent before class starts. Every squeak of the chair grinds against the cinder blocks. Coughing is amplified and sneezing becomes a thousand times more dramatic. Everyone is on a phone, swiping through pictures, creeping on everyone else’s life and not living their own. You never know what you can learn from the person next to you. Take a break from emoticons, hashtags, cats and statuses that belong in diaries, and try your hand at a conversation. It’s a form of procrastination or maybe just a product of being nervous. Our phones have become our blankies. If there’s more than a minute of silence, it’s unnerving. So our necks crane over our phones, and our shoulders hunch into an amorphous mass of loneliness. Even in the middle of a conversation, not five minutes goes by and someone inevitably whips out a phone. The *bleep* of the phone becomes first priority versus the human in front of us. We’re all victims. We turn into zombies, clutching at our phones for life support. It bothers us when we wake up late for class and forget our phone. It’s hard to “fake text” without a phone when an awkward silence comes up. Put the phone down and look up. Challenge yourself this week to wean yourself off your dependence on your phone. When someone is talking, put your technology down and really listen. Employers are looking for new employees to bring knowledge of social media and mobile use to the job, and we’re pros at it. But our future jobs and lives won’t be lived as colorfully and action-packed in front our the screens of our smartphones as they can be stepping away from the screen. As the next generation, we are changing the world already. We need to learn how to balance content online and the life waiting to be lived offline. Let’s be good listeners, friends, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, workers and neighbors by taking breaks from our phones, embracing uncomfortable silences and living our lives.

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November 15, 2013• Editor, Marilyn Ferrell “I think that all students can relate to all the pain that all the characters go through and all the disappointment when you think you’re good at something and then someone tells you otherwise.” Christina DeCarlo, actress playing Izzy in “Seminar”

ELLIE SMITH / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The GC Department of Music’s Ryan Smith served as director of the Percussion Ensemble on Nov. 11. Smith has been the director of the GC Percussion Ensemble since 2005.

Drums beat and chimes ring in Max Noah Hall GC percussion ensemble energizes crowd at concert MYKEL JOHNSON SENIOR REPORTER Georgia College’s Percussion Ensemble performed six works Nov. 11 in the Max Noah Recital Hall. The concert conjured sounds of adrenaline-induced beats and arrangements to be left only to what one’s own imagination could create in his or her head. A genre itself, percussions can produce enough sounds to form different genres. The ensemble proved that to be possible Monday evening with its selection of performances. “They’re all pretty different from one another,” said Ryan Smith, adjunct professor of percussion and ensemble director. “I have some stuff that’s rooted in jazz, I have some stuff that’s rooted in rock-n-roll, and I have some stuff that’s rooted in pop. Then I’ve got a couple of straight-ahead drumming, classical and world music. I always try to put together as diverse a program as I can so that no two things sound alike.” Each performance stood alone as having its own sound and appeal. The opening and penultimate numbers were the most lively. The latter, entitled “Le chant du serpent,” added vocalized “Ha!”s and claps to its intense rhythm, completing the work’s ritualistic ambiance. “Some of it is based on what I believe the ensemble can handle, where they are developmentally,” Smith said. “Then, it always depends on the number of players and how to break things up so that no majority of the weight is on any group or any one person.” A set of “children’s songs” served as a pleasantly drastic transition, which sent the room to a dreamlike state as xylophones mellowed the mood. Next was somewhat of a suspenseful piece comprised of numerous instruments ranging from what looked like a miniature circular shield to a small mirror to a large, odd-looking jawbone. The insidious tone provided uneven yet synchronized creeps of sound, like that of an inner soundtrack while driving at night down a road one has never driven before. “I just like to see how they can get into something like this, to see them get as involved with the percussions as they did,” Tabatha Bowles, freshman music therapy major, said. Stephen Ledbetter, sophomore music major, arranged one of the compositions, “Frosti,” originally by Icelandic musical icon Björk, a tedious but enjoyable process. “You listen a lot,” Ledbetter said. “You listen over and over again, and you transcribe the melody. You take the

JOHN DILLON / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The cast of “Seminar” rehearses under the direction of senior theatre major William Warren for his senior capstone production. Through weekly rehearsals, acting exercises and critiques, the cast works on transforming into their respective characters and fulﬁlling Warren’s vision for the play.

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William Warren brings ‘Seminar’ to the stage of the Black Box Theatre to shed light on conflicts that can arise when students have a bad teacher MYKEL JOHNSON SENIOR REPORTER William Warren, senior theatre major, will offer relevance and familiarity with his senior capstone by directing “Seminar,” a play by Theresa Rebeck. “Seminar,” shows four writers’ experiences while enrolled in a writing seminar led by somewhat of a “hardass.” Tensions flare as stories are torn apart and harshly critiqued by Leonard, the seminar’s professor, and rumors spread that he is sleeping with one of the students. However, eyes begin to open when the writers - Kate, Martin, Douglas and Izzy - realize what is holding them back from producing their best work. Warren, while reading the play for class a year ago, could see the production being played out and wanted to challenge himself in directing the play. “I want to be a director,” Warren said. “I remember thinking really, really specifically, ‘Wow, I can see this show in my head.’ I took that as a meaning, like if I can see it, then I should direct it. I should make that happen.” In the process of reviewing audition monologues, Warren narrowed his decisions down to students who

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are compatible with each other while effectively bringing their characters to life. “A lot of what I was looking for was stage chemistry between the actors and making sure that they were people who could work well together and were believable in the same space together,” he said. The play originated on Broadway in 2011 with a stellar cast including Alan Rickman, Lily Rabe and Jerry O’Connell. Some of GC’s actors make use of their talents to portray the vulnerable and sometimes humorous characters of the play. “I am really privileged to be a part of it,” said sophomore theatre major Codi Henson, “because it’s such a small cast.” Henson is one of ﬁve students selected out of about 30 who auditioned for the play. She said the play is relatable in the sense of its setting and its insight into an intense writing course. “It’s a writing seminar setting, so it’s similar to a classroom setting with a professor kind of reviewing papers and literature,” Henson said. “It’s actually really informative about styles of writing and certain aspects of literature that they can probably relate to.” Will Morris, sophomore rhetoric

major and active Improv veteran, plays the character of Leonard. This character epitomizes every teacher who lives to tear his or her students down. “He’s a 58-year-old writer, and he’s very bitter about the world,” Morris said. “But here he is, giving a private writing seminar to these four amateur writers who hired him.” Morris is eager to perform in the maturely comedic play for an audience. “It’s extremely vulgar, and I’ve never gotten the opportunity to be a part of something very adult in front of lots of people,” he said. “It’s comedy, and that’s my strong suit. ‘Seminar’ is about power and sex along the way. It’s about writing and ﬁnding what you’re good at.” “Seminar” will resonate with any student who has ever applied their blood, sweat and tears to the completion of a project only to have it struck down by his or her instructor. The actors’ depictions of raw emotions will strike close to home even to students who may not have experienced such jarring circumstances. Relating to the characters is inevitable. Be sure to catch “Seminar”, directed by William Warren, at the Black Box Theatre. It runs Nov. 19 through Nov. 23 at 8 p.m.

Who are Willy wonka and

charlie? GC students audition for roles from the famous Roald Dahl story about a boy and fantastical chocolate factory

PHOTOS BY TAYLER PITTS AND DAVID WICKER / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Georgia College’s theatre department prepares to show off its musical skills with the production of “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.” On Nov. 11 and 12, Amy Pinney conducted auditions, and made the decision of who would act as the major characters from the popular story. Nich Stinson and David Dingess were chosen to play the two major roles of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka respectively. The musical is slated to open on Feb. 26, and it will run until March 2. It will play each night at 8 p.m. and at 2 p.m. on March 2 in Russell Auditorium. General admission is $16, students are $7 and faculty are $12.

INSIDE A&E

Building up to Homecoming

Fresh Faces: Valerie Buckley

Spotlight: Callie Rowe

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November 15, 2013

Building up to Homecoming 2014 Two committees work with each other to bring together Homecoming Week 2014 with help from students’ opinions

Marilyn Ferrell Senior Reporter For many years, Georgia College’s Homecoming event has become a tradition where students, faculty and alumni can all come together and burst with all of the pride they have for this school. The event lasts a week with multiple events from door decorating, a thematic parade, loud and boisterous basketball games, and of course, the concert. When it comes to Homecoming week, a lot of work goes into pulling it off. There are two committees behind the work: a marketing committee and a concert committee. Both are made up of students and faculty members.

They each work together to come up with the theme each year and the artists to play at the concert. This year, the committees are taking upon themselves to do something they have never done: They intend to bring as much participation to Homecoming week as they can. Victoria Fowler, GC’s marketing manager, is a part of both committees and plans to try to please as many students as possible. She hopes to appeal to all groups instead of just specific ones. Fowler also made is a mission to make sure that Homecoming week was student generated. When it comes to student opinion, the committees are working with the marketing

The Past&The Future

2009: Theme: Old Traditions, New Beginnings Concert: Cartel and Shop Boyz

2013: Theme: “When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.” Concert: Gloriana and Jerrod Niemann

2011: Theme: The Hunt for Memories and Spirit Concert: B.O.B.

2010: Theme: Thunder Down Hancock Street Concert: Sean Kingston and Mute

2012: Theme: Back to the Future Concert: Third Eye Blind

Fall 2013: Nov. 11-15: Homecoming Committee plans to release teaser video

department and asking students opinions. At the beginning of this semester, the committee revealed an idea to a select group of marketing students, and it was not what the students believed everyone would want. The committees took the feedback and their ideas to create the theme that will be revealed to students on Dec. 2. Throughout the rest of the fall semester, the marketing and concert committees will begin revealing more information about Homecoming week. To keep up with each update, keep reading The Colonnade for future stories. To keep up with each update, keep reading The Colonnade for future stories.

Fall 2013: Nov. 22: The Colonnade reveals the event planned for the day of the Homecoming concert

Fall 2013: Nov. 21-22: Marketing and concert committees meet to continue the process

Winter 2013/2014: Dec. 2013 - Jan. 2014: The Homecoming committees plan to reveal the lineup for the Homecoming 2014 concert this winter.

Fall 2013: Dec. 2: Homecoming theme revealed

Fall 2013: Dec. 2: Plan to have the homecoming website launched

Having a heart, saving a life One woman’s attempt to save a life through animal foster care Scott Carranza Senior Reporter Scurrying across the room, a rescued squirrel set its target as the baby’s crib. The squirrel expected a challenger. Instead what it found was a friend. Valerie Buckley’s mother rushed to her baby’s side to find Valerie hugging the squirrel like a long-lost companion. This memory is what Valerie feels prodded her whole life of taking in lost and abused animals. She has given hundreds of animals new homes with caring owners and is spreading the word on euthanasia rates in Milledgeville. She has a heart: a fitting requirement for the creator and owner of Have a Heart Save a Life. “I’m a northern girl with a southern heart,” Valerie said, as she spoke about moving to Georgia with her husband. She was born and raised in Syracuse, N.Y. where her mother taught her to care for every living “critter.” “I remember being taught that even the smallest of animals were just as important as humans,” she said. “One time, we rescued a baby blue jay, and my mother taught us how to care for it ... It eventually became healthy and would sit on our shoulders while we watched television.” Valerie spent her high school days rescuing stray cats and wounded birds with the help of her mother. College was the last thing on her mind, and she wed at age 17. After moving around the Eastern seaboard for around 30 years, a couple of bad marriages led her to

Milledgeville - a place Valerie felt like a foreigner. “The culture shock from moving was unreal,” she said. “I knew we weren’t in Kansas anymore when I saw a pack of labs chewing on a dead deer right by the road. You just never see those things up north.” The labradors were just the start. Valerie noticed a huge lack of animal control in Baldwin county and was hard-pressed into lending a hand with some pets in very horrible situations. “I view these critters like I view babies,” she said. “I’m not going to stand by and let someone chain their 2-year-old to a fence outside and leave him there to rot. No one in their right mind would let that happen.” Thus, Have a Heart Save a Life, a non-profit organization that distributes stray pets to various foster homes for up to a week at a time, was born. The rotation of pets and owners makes it so that an animal is never left on the street or a “kill shelter.” It also encourages locals to adopt pets as well, which happens quite often. One of Valerie’s biggest goals is to raise awareness of the rates of euthanasia. “I try to spread the word that Baldwin County Animal Shelter is a kill shelter,” she said. “If you drop your own animals off there, within 24 hours, the animals will be put to sleep. The shelter doesn’t have room for people who just don’t want their animals.” Enlightening Milledgeville of abandoned animals is why Valerie has adoptions right on the side of 441. She has even gone to Baldwin County Animal Shelter to change peoples’ minds about abandoning their pets. “I remember a woman dropping off a box of seven or eight puppies at the kill shelter,” she said. “I told her, ‘Do you know what you are

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Scott Carranza / Senior Photographer Senior biology major Melissa Johnson and Kennesaw State University student Chris Prather pick through the new batch of puppies and spot a female boxer-terrier mix named Precious. Like many of the puppies, she’s been neutered and is up to date on her shots, ready to be adopted.

doing? Do you realize they are going to be put to sleep the minute and thrown in a landfill?’ I was told by the shelter not to make her feel bad, but I didn’t care. Those puppies were going to die for no reason.” Thousands of cats and dogs have been rescued since Have a Heart Save a Life began in 2010, and Valerie’s unwavering love for the local animals has even inspired Georgia College students to follow in her footsteps. “Valerie is one of the most generous people I know,” Antoinette Nienaber, senior biology major, said. “She never lets me leave without more than enough supplies for my foster animals. She hugs people the first time she meets them ... She is perfect for this job.” Nienaber works closely with Valerie, foster-

ing animals for a couple weeks to get to know the animal better. “It started with me wanting a dog,” Nienaber said. “Since I live alone at the moment, having a dog or two in the house keeps me company. I feel a lot safer with these animals.” Valerie has created an environment of love and affection. She almost never turns an animal down, and she hopes to create even more awareness of the amount of animals abandoned and killed every day. “I am very passionate about what I do,” Valerie said. “I don’t think I will ever stop loving and providing for the ones who love me back ... Life is too short for these critters. They don’t need their lives shortened anymore than what they already got.”

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Literary festival pages through Milledgeville

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SPOTLIGHT The Colonnade meets with Bobcats to discuss mid-semester madness.

Meet

Callie Rowe Housing: Napier Hall

Course Load: 15 hours Major: Rhetoric

Hometown: Dacula, Ga. Job: Community Adviser Colonnade : How do you manage a job while taking 15 hours? Rowe : Being a community adviser and having 15 hours is a little bit of a stretch sometimes, to be honest.

MARK WATKINS / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Sean Hill, a Milledgeville native and one of the keynote speakers, read samples of his poetry and discussed the intersection of history with poetry. Judson Mitcham, the other keynote speaker at the festival, gave a rousing speech that surveyed his experience as a poet and, more recently, as Georgia’s Poet Laureate. The reading featuring Peter Selgin, Laura Newbern and Kevin Cantwell packed the Education Room at the Old Governor’s Mansion.

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Continued from page 9... melody first and then you take the accompaniment. This piece was kinda like polyphonic. It had a bunch of different melodies going on. I would figure out one tune at a time and just piece it together.” The song was composed to sound like the smashing of ice, hence its name. The cinematic finale served as “symphonic pop.” With quick trances of hip hop in an over-

all epic motion-picture-like score, an evening of diversity of sound ended seamlessly. Smith encourages anyone with any musical experience to join GC’s Percussion Ensemble. “The group is open to any student on the university campus. It’s made up primarily of the percussion majors, but we have a number of other music majors where percussion is not their primary instrument. Sometimes we have some non-major participants. Usually the folks who play have some experience from somewhere in their lives, but it’s open to anybody.”

Colonnade : Why Rhetoric? Rowe : I took a GC1Y class with Dr. [Mark] Vail called “We The People,” and prior to that class, I had not heard of Rhetoric. Dr. Vail’s enthusiasm for his department, and his love for students and nature of the subject just completely enticed me. He wrote a comment on one of my speech reviews, saying, “You would make a great rhetoric major.” It completely, as a freshman, headed me in the right direction because I was undeclared. Colonnade: What do you find most challenging about rhetoric? Rowe : I, through elementary school, middle school and high school, was very fearful of speaking in front of people, and I still find that I’m overcoming it going through rhetoric classes. It’s also a little bit of a challenge being in the

department with a lot of people who a lot more charismatic than I feel like I am naturally. It’s a challenge being in a department with people like that, but I am thankful that I have their influence and can grow and learn from them. Colonnade: What are your plans for the future? Rowe : I don’t know what I want to do with rhetoric specifically, but know that whatever career or field I go into, I will need to be able to communicate well. My current hopes would be to work for a church or a nonprofit, or anything that directly benefits the community surrounding it. Rhetoric would be perfect for anything I go into.

Fun Facts:

I love antique stores.

I watch “The Waltons” and “Little House on the Prairie” religiously.

I’m too devoted to Napier’s mascot: the Napier Narwhals.

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Hiring Writers, Photographers, Designers and Ad Reps Ad Rep training this Saturday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in A&S 164 All attendees will be entered in a raffle and will receive Colonnade gear! Contact Sarah Grace for more information 678.538.8911

Sports

November 15, 2013• Editor, Lee McDade

Basketball dominates opener

Bethan Adams

A plagued friendship Miami Dolphins teammates Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito have been in the spotlight in recent weeks. Incognito is being blamed for hazing Martin so much so that Martin left the team Oct. 28. Racism, bullying and hazing are all subjects of scrutiny encircling Incognito and Martin. When this came to light, I jumped on the bandwagon and blamed Incognito. Now, I’m not so sure. Martin left the team after some fellow NFL offense of linemen pulled the classic high school prank: leaving the table when Martin sat down to eat with them at the cafeteria. Martin stormed out and later checked himself into a hospital for emotional distress. The Friday after Martin left, Incognito texted him asking what happened. “Yeah I’m good man. It’s insane, bro, but just know I don’t blame you guys at all it’s just the culture around football and the locker room got to me a little,” Martin’s text said to Incognito. Incognito said he is just as surprised as anyone else. “As the leader, as his best friend on the team, that’s what has me miffed — how I missed this. I never saw it. I never saw it coming,” he told “Fox NFL Sunday’s” Jay Glazer. More and more information is surfacing from Incognito’s side, but still very little is known about Martin’s stance. A week before Martin left the team, Incognito had left a vulgar message on Martin’s phone, calling Martin a “half n-word,” and saying Incognito would “slap his real mama.” Everyone is focusing on the racist voicemail, but no one seems to know that Martin often spoke in the same way. “[The n-word] is thrown around a lot. It’s a word that I’ve heard [Jonathan Martin] use a lot. Not saying it’s right for when I did it in the voicemail, but there’s a lot of colorful words thrown around the locker room that we don’t use in everyday life,” Incognito said. “The fact of the matter remains, though, that that voicemail was left on a private voicemail for my friend, and it was a joke.” Of course, the unspoken rule is that African-Americans can use the offensive word, but white people are not allowed. It’s a word that needs to fade away forever because it keeps causing so much pain. Everything is mushroom-clouding in the NFL world now: Incognito’s and Martin’s NFL careers, football locker room ethics and the questionable role of the Dolphins’ coaching staff. At ﬁrst I thought Incognito was a meathead, an overall a racist jerk and completely heartless. The plot thickened, though, especially since the language is part of locker room culture. Incognito just happens to be the bastion of that culture at the moment. “If you go by just all the knucklehead stuff I’ve pulled in the past, done in my past, you’re sitting in your home and you’re thinking, ‘This guy is a loose cannon, this guy is a terrible person, this guy is a racist.’ When that couldn’t be farther from the truth,” Incognito told Glazer. The Dolphins communicate through vulgarity and insensitive treatment of each other off the ﬁeld. “No matter how bad and how vulgar it sounds, that’s how we communicate, that’s how our friendship was, and those are the facts, and that’s what I’m accountable for,” Incognito said. With this whole debacle I’m reminded just how harmful my own words and actions have the capacity to be. Sometimes we get so carried away we forget to treat our brothers or sister the way we should.

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The Short Stop

Men’s basketball thwarts ﬁrst opponent of the season at home SAMANTHA BLANKENSHIP STAFF WRITER

DAVID WICKER / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Sophomore guard Terrell Harris ﬂoats above his opponents as he attempts to score during the men’s basketball season opener at home. The Bobcats came out on top, defeating Clark Atlanta 95-82.

Soccer earns runner-up honors at PBC Championship

The Georgia College men’s basketball team won its season opener, beating Clark Atlanta 95-82 in front of 1,047 at Centennial Center on Monday night. With five players in the double figures, the team had no problems on offense. Defense, however, left something to be desired. Bobcats head coach Terry Sellers said the team’s defense needs improvement. “I thought our initial defense was good, but we didn’t rebound very well, and that stood out like a sore thumb. They got a ton of offensive rebounds, so that’s something we’ve really got to work on,” Sellers said after the game. “We were very fortunate to come away with a win, giving up that many offensive rebounds, and that will absolutely not be good enough in the Peach Belt Conference.” Terrell Harris, a transfer playing his first game with the Bobcats, led the way with 19 points. “Defensively, we started out strong in the first half. We missed some rotations in the second half. We got discombobulated a little bit when they started pressing,” Harris said. “We’ve got to finish the game stronger than that.” Sellers is optimistic about the team’s chances this season. “The Peach Belt appears to be stronger than ever, so we’ve got a lot of work to do. But we’re always hopeful, and we’re always expecting to do well,” Sellers said. Robert Armstrong, who scored 16 points and pulled down 13 rebounds, has high hopes for the team. “I think the sky’s the limit. We’ve got a lot of talent on this team. We’ve got a lot of guys on this team that can score the ball,” Armstrong said. “Everyone’s really good at what they do. I think we’re the only ones that are going to be able to hold ourselves back.” Other standout players included Ryan Blumenthal,

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The Equestrians

MARK WATKINS / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Rebecca Gaylor, vice-president of the Equestrian Team, calls out to team president Melissa Volentine, before they went for a weekend ride on some of the center’s horse trails.

MARK WATKINS SENIOR REPORTER

DAVID WICKER / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

See page 14 for full game and season analysis Upcoming Games Men’s Basketball

Nov. 15 vs. Albany State @ Augusta, Ga. 6 p.m.

Volleyball

Nov. 16 vs. Paine @ GC 2 p.m. “White Out to Wipe Out Cancer”

Women’s Basketball

Nov. 22 vs. Shorter @ Dahlonega 4 p.m.

Junior art major Melissa Volentine rides Charlie, a white and brown pony, a few feet off the fence of the corral at Lake Oconee Equestrian Center. Volentine’s trainer, Carly Hunter, calls out instructions from the middle of the ring as Volentine and Charlie make a long sweeping turn to set up for the next jump in the practice course. “Hold the left rein. Wait to turn, wait to turn,” Hunter says, tracking Volentine and Charlie as they run along the curved wooden fence. “Wait to turn.” Charlie pounds forward, his hooves kicking up a spray of brown dirt. “Now turn,” Hunter calls. Volentine pulls the left rein and angles Charlie towards the oncoming jump. The distance between them

closes to a few feet. “Pitch your chest up – absorb the motion,” Hunter calls one last time before Charlie rocks back on his hind legs, muscles coiling, and leaps. Volentine’s hand tenses on the reins, her feet arch in the stirrups, and she sails with Charlie over the wooden beam. The impact sounds like thunder underground. “There it is,” Hunter calls as Gaylor settles back into the English saddle and turns toward the next jump. “There it is.” This is a practice with the Georgia College Equestrian Team, a competitive riding team that Volentine started with sophomore psychology major and vice-president Rebecca Gaylor. This is its ﬁrst year as a registered student organization and competing as a recognized Intercollegiate Horse Show Association

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The GC women’s soccer team became the first in the history of the school to make it to the Peach Belt Conference Championship game. The Bobcats won runner-up in the championship, after tying with Clayton State University and then losing by final shootouts on Nov. 10. Freshman goal-keeper Jessica Catapano had a career-high of 10 saves in 110 minutes of play, earning a spot on the PBC All-Tournament Team along with junior teammates Rebekah Autry, midfielder, and Abby Dalton, forward. Graphic by: Kathryn Wardell

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colossal comeback BRITTANY ALBRYCHT CONTRIBUTING WRITER If starting junior basketball player Shanteona Keys could be anyone, it would be a hybrid of Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres and Robin Roberts - or just Beyoncé, in another life. Keys became known around the world after a video of a missed free-throw shot

went viral last season, but she is proving she is a better player than just one shot. While typical students fall along the “C’s get Degrees” thought process, Keys maintains a 4.0 GPA while balancing 6 a.m. workouts and 14-15 hour semesters. She began her basketball career in sixth

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Continued from page 14... grade to be involved in a sport. She gave cheerleading a thought but stuck with basketball and has played ever since. A typical day starts before the sun rises with weight lifting. Once she’s done, she goes back to her apartment to eat breakfast and take a nap. Then she goes to class, takes another nap, goes to class again, works on homework, goes to a two and a half hour practice and finally ends the day with more homework. Time management is very important in the life of a college athlete. Keys keeps an agenda with her at all times so she knows where she is supposed to be. “In basketball, everything is structured,” Keys said. “You just have to keep the structure that you have and roll with it.” Keys’ mass communication professor James Schiffman describes Keys as smart and hard-working and said he stresses the importance of time management for college athletes. “I think it’s extremely difficult [to be a college athlete] anywhere,” Schiffman said. “Our college is a little bit more attuned to having scholarathletes who are also scholars. The emphasis here is on academics, and in order to play sports, you really have to have your academics in order.” Schiffman thought that Keys worked the media coverage of her failed free-throw shot last year to her advantage, coming out as a better person. The shot happened at an away game versus Columbus State University. Deadspin.com described the missed shot as “the worst free throw attempt of all time.” In an article on Deadspin’s website, Keys discussed what happened. “On that shot, I just followed through too close to my face,” she said. “And my fingernail got caught on my nose, so I couldn’t follow through correctly on the shot.” The video of the missed shot was taken by someone in the crowd and quickly spread over social media. “I knew I was a better player than that one shot,” Keys said. “I was confident in that, and I had to roll with the punches on that one.” Keys said she doesn’t have a problem with people bringing it up and has since moved on in her career.

THE COLONNADE Wendell Staton, the athletic director at Georgia College, said that Keys is on the way to being the Bobcats’ all-time leading scorer in the NCAA Division II era. “As a coach or athletic department, you are fortunate to have someone like Shanteona once in your career,” Staton said. “Every coach will have a great player, every coach will have a great student and every coach will have a great person. It is rare to have that combination, and the level of excellence in all of those areas that Shanteona exempliﬁes is incredible.” The overall experience of playing basketball in college is Keys’ favorite part of being a college athlete. “Most people don’t get the opportunity to [be a college athlete],” Keys said. “I think I would get bored if I was just a regular student, just here for academics.” Staying rested, eating right and getting her homework done are all very important for Keys to be successful both on the court and in the classroom. “It’s about resting and keeping everything organized,” Keys said. “I may not be able to do a lot of the social aspects during the season, but resting and going to these workouts and eating right is a major role.” In her free time, Keys is actively involved with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and is also a representative for SAAC, the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. She attends national conferences with SAAC as well. Keys recently spoke to Georgia’s Board of Regents when it visited Milledgeville, and Staton said he was proud of the way that Keys represented not only the basketball team and athletic department but GC as a whole. “It was my proudest moment as an athletic director,” Staton said, “because she represented all the values that our athletic department stands for and showed how we align perfectly with the mission of our university.” Keys is excited about this upcoming season and playing alongside her team, both new and old faces. She said the team becomes like a family after a while. “There are a lot of positive things [about the upcoming season],” Keys said. “The sky is the limit on this team. We have the talent but it’s just about putting the pieces together.” After college, Keys said her plan is to ﬁnd a job, hopefully a broadcasting position in Atlanta or California.

NICOLE PITTS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Top: Melissa Volentine, junior art major and president of the Equestrian Team, rides Charlie through the practice course at Lake Oconnee Equestrian Center. Bottom: Volentine and Rebecca Gaylor ride horses from Lake Oconnee Equestrian Center.

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(IHSA) team. The team competes in equitation courses when it goes to IHSA events. For the most part, equitation is what you might think for a horse competition. Riders are given a course that they have to follow and a series of jumps they have to clear, and at the end they are judged for how well they completed the course. The difference at the IHSA is

that all horses are chosen at random. “It’s like in the fourth Harry Potter book with the dragon challenge,” Alissa Scordato, freshman biology major and member of the team, said. Since the horses are random, judges only look at the rider and how quickly they can adapt to a new horse which can sometimes be a challenge. “They have a proﬁle of each horse, so if you have a really bad one, they take that into consideration,” Gaylor said.

The system is designed to create a level playing ﬁeld in a sport that relies heavily on pedigree – something that is out of most college students budgets. “It shows off all aspects of being a good rider – knowing your horse and knowing what it needs,” Gaylor said. “It’s about how good you are, not how nice your horse is or how much money you have.” At the ﬁrst show, the team earned two third-place ribbons and two fourth-place ribbons, but Gaylor says the team isn’t all about competition. “We actually have a girl that started this year,” Gaylor said. “We’re open to anyone really.” The team practices once a week regularly and twice if it has a competition coming on the weekend. Some of the members go out on weekends and take a horse for a stroll. Anyone interested in joining can join the group on Facebook by searching “Georgia College Equestrian Team.”