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The Colonnade The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia College

February 10, 2012

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Volume 88, No. 16

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Homecoming 2012 Bobbi Otis Senior Reporter When Director of Campus Life Tom Miles arrived at Georgia College seven years ago, Homecoming wasn’t the production it is now.

Students complained there was no real sense of spirit, that there were no events for them to celebrate as a community.

Over the years, Miles has collaborated with the Student Government Association to improve Homecoming and make it more of a tradition.

“I started working with the SGA and teaching them how to build ethos on a college campus, a sense of spirit and pride, who we are,” Miles said.

But with growth comes an everincreasing price tag.

This year, $82,330 will be spent on Homecoming events – up $5,530 from 2011, and up $19,330 from 2010, according to initial budgets.

The increase in the Homecoming budget over the past few years can be attributed to 8 percent of the Student Activities Fee now being set aside for the events.

Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Paul Jahr said funding

In only a year’s time, the Homecoming budget has increased $5,530. Eight percent of student funds are now being allocated for the Homecoming budget.

This year, $82,330 will be spent on Homecoming events — up $5,530 from 2011, and up $19,330 from 2010.

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Eric Dodd Band

$57,500

$2,000

for Homecoming is set before the academic year even starts.

“Homecoming, as of this current fiscal year, is now formula funded, which means that 8 percent of the anticipated budget will be allocated to the Homecoming event,” Jahr said.

According to Jahr, each year the Budget Office provides a record of the anticipated revenue for the coming fiscal year for the Student Activities Fee. For the 2011-12 school year, the fee is $81.

This year the Student Activity Budget Committee had approximately $1 million to allocate to various organizations and activities including: the Department of Campus Life, SGA, The GIVE Center, Registered Student Organizations, intramural

Homecoming Budget:$82,330

Marketing

Bobcat Ramble

$8,000

$1,500

College Trivia Bowl

$1,389

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$76,800 Budget Total: $82,330

Budget Total:

2011 2012 2011 2012 2011

$16,800 $15,000

Homecoming Week: Homecoming Week:

$60,000

Homecoming Concert:

2012

Homecoming Concert:

$67,330

Source: Initial budgets from SGA and Department of Student Affairs

Senior senator arrested Lauren Davidson Senior Reporter A Student Government Association senator was cited for underage possession of alcohol early Sunday after campus police allegedly found him slouched against a car.

Shortly after 2 a.m., Senator John Fajuke, 20, was spotted on South Liberty Street by Officer Megan Frasier of the Georgia College Department of Public Safety.

Frasier noted in her incident report that Fajuke’s speech was slurred and that his breath smelled of alcohol.

He was asked to blow into an Alco-sensor, which showed his blood-alcohol level to be .183, more than twice the legal limit to drive in Georgia. Fajuke was given a citation and taken to the Milledgeville Police Department.

It was not the first time that Fajuke has been arrested here. During his first term as an SGA senator, late one night in October 2009, he was arrested for underage alcohol possession after police said they saw him urinating outside the campus Chick-fil-A. The situation was not addressed at the time by then-SGA-President Zach Mullins.

Mullins said he was never informed of the 2009 arrest, and there were no impeachment articles filed against Fajuke by SGA. The case, however, was heard by the Student Judicial Board and the standard sanctions for all first-time offenders were levied.

According to Bruce Harshbarger, sanctions given to all first offenders are a $100 fine, required completion of AlcoholEdu and placement on student disciplinary probation for a semester or longer.

Last semester, a resolution was passed by the senate to send any senator or executive officer directly to the Student Judicial

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Crime

Homecoming-banner bandits await punishment Sam Hunt Senior Reporter In Napier Hall, shredded Mr. and Ms. Georgia College banners adorn two rooms. As far back as last august, the banner bandits have been striking, hindering the campaigns of Homecoming hopefuls.

“What upset me the most was the student-on-student issue. We had students that stole from other students,” SGA President Evan Karanovich said. “I am under the opinion that at Georgia College we’re a family. You don’t steal from your family members. It’s important that students feel comfortable around each other and feel safe. To me, that’s the biggest concern.”

On Monday, Feb. 6, the Georgia College Department of Public Safety received information that political banners for students running for Mr. and Ms. GC were missing.

After receiving emails from several different organizations about the banners, SGA Attorney General Andrew Whittaker then forwarded the emails to and contacted Public

Safety, who began to investigate the matter.

Public Safety first acted on the issue by checking the footage of the security cameras around campus to see if the people responsible for taking the signs were caught on video. Yet, none of the angles from the security cameras provided a view of that particular spot outside of The Max. In preparation for the culprits attempting to strike again, Public Safety altered their view of The Max by moving a security camera to where it had better focus on the balconies from where the banners where stolen.

“We started pulling video. Unfortunately, our cameras weren’t picking up that particular area,” Detective Robert Butler said. “So we went in and repositioned them just in case the culprits came back again, which they did. They came back Monday night.”

On Monday night, the three students returned to The Max balconies to steal banners a second time. This time, the security camera recorded the students stealing the banners and also captured the vehicle they were

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“What upset me the most was the studenton-student issue. We had students that stole from other students. I am under the opinion that at Georgia College we are a family.”

Evan Karanovich, SGA president using, a black BMW. “This is an absolute defiance of the whole reason, respect, responsibility thing at Georgia College,” Whittaker said. “It’s Mr. and Ms. Georgia College, it is a title and it’s a homecoming king and queen. This is one of those things where campus ethos and good behavior should be at all time high.”

On Tuesday afternoon, Public

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Quotable

Special Collections’ oral histories To celebrate Black History Month, Special Collections has compiled oral histories of black educators from the 1930s to 1960s. Before desegregation, these teachers share their point of view.

To listen and view blogposts, visit: gcsuspecialcollections.blogspot.com

“My last tour in Afghanistan was nine months, and I got sent home early because I got hit with an IED in the truck I was in.”

-Trey Quattlebaum Public Safety Officer

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News

Submitted by Public Safety Mr. and Ms. Georgia College banners hang in Napier Hall, in the rooms of students caught stealing the banners from outside of The Max. The three students are currently awaiting to be seen by the Student Judicial Board to receive their punishment.

Other banners were found in their dorm room, which were being used as wall decoration.

Inside

President talks institutional status.........................2 NAACP comes back to campus............................3

A&E

White Kids begin musical career.........................11 ‘Hyperborean’ to make art exhibit debut.........11

Sports

Men’s basketball ends winning streak.................16 Ultimate wins home tournament.......................18 Community News........................................9 Leisure...............................................................13

Number Crunch

$1.5 million Number of dollars construction at The Village for the new parking lot for The Wellness and Recreational Center and the transportation hub cost.

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GC president discusses state of university Noelle Brooks Staff Writer Interim President Stas Preczewski took on campus issues on Feb. 3 to discuss the state of Georgia College, focusing on current renovations and future retention efforts. Faculty, students and staff joined Preczewski in Russell Auditorium to hear the annual speech.

Regarding current renovations, Preczewski discussed the remodeling of Ennis Hall as well as a series of maintenance repairs throughout campus. Plans for Ennis Hall have been underway since 2010 and is intended to be transformed into lecture halls and work spaces for the Department of Art. The renovation was voted as a priority project by the college and sent to the Board of Regents, but in order to keep a balanced budget, Ennis Hall has been removed from the current list of priorities by the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget. A request has been made that the state legislature review the project and Preczewski hopes adjustments can be made to incorporate the renovation in the budget. Making the best of limited resources has become a common theme for Georgia College and is a challenge Preczewski has seen as a motivation to improve overall efficiency.

“We have been able to identify where we’re wasting things

and how we can improve things,” Preczewski said. “You want the best you can get for the lowest cost.”

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, college and university funding in Georgia has been cut by $151 million and most likely will not see a boost until 2019. In spite of this decrease, Georgia College has maintained tuition costs while completing various institutional enhancements. As interim president, Preczewski has overseen several of these projects and credits most of the success to the resourceful dedication of Georgia College’s faculty and staff.

“Challenges were very few, opportunities are very many,” Preczewski said. “I’ve found a college that’s focused, that’s unified in its efforts to be a top tier liberal arts college with a particular focus on its undergraduates.”

This focus on undergraduates contributed to the series of maintenance repairs currently underway, including repairs to buildings such as Terrell Hall. These repairs are ones junior chemistry major Amelia Zuver believes are long overdue.

“I was really happy to hear about the maintenance around campus,” Zuver said. “There are some things that have gotten really ridiculous.”

President’s Address - Nursing majors ranked No. 1 on licensing exam - Middle level program named national association Outstanding Teacher Education Program - IDEAS staff developed 23 software programs, saving $150,000 - GC in US World News & World Report Top 12 in the South - Admitted freshman rose 13% - First doctoral degree program approved- Doctor of Nursing Practice

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Source: Office of the President

New fraternity begins steps to become chartered Alyson Crosby Senior Reporter A group of Georgia College students are trying to bring a new chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a nationally recognized fraternity, to campus; however, it could take a year before the fraternity becomes chartered.

“While we recognize the high caliber of the national organization, and feel that they would be a compliment to our existing Greek community, recruitment numbers over the last five years do not warrant an expansion in IFC (Interfraternal Council) at this time,” Reese Cohn, assistant director of Greek Life and special events in the Department of Campus Life said.

“We hope that the IFC will be open to another chapter in 2013 in order to accommodate this interest group. But, ultimately the decision will be up to the university and our existing IFC fraternities.”

Right now SAE is considered an interest group, which is the first stage in becoming a

fraternity, according to Paul Ogletree , the president of the IFC at GC and member of Delta Sigma Phi. Once the group is considered an interest group, the next step is to become a colony. Finally, they are chartered.

So far SAE has relied on word-of-mouth to gain membership, as they do not participate in official recruitment.

“Right now we’re at about 15 or 20 members, but we want to be at around 25 or 30 before we colonize,” Elliot Payne, prospective president of SAE , said.

SAE’s reputation as a fraternity is well known among the current fraternities at GC. It was established in 1927, and its philanthropy is the Children’s Miracle Network, according to SAE’s national website.

“It’s a very respectable name, a very good name and a very old name,” Ogletree said.

But, some members of current fraternities think the addition of SAE could have a negative impact.

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“I think it may need to wait because the way the Greek office is, they don’t necessarily want more fraternities than sororities, Ogletree said.

“They’d like to have an even number, or even more sororities than fraternities. Right now we already have six fraternities and five sororities.”

Some members are ready to see SAE chartered.

“Any time a new chapter comes to campus it means that Greek life at GC is growing, which is a good thing no matter what letters you wear,” Chip Long, member of Kappa Alpha said. “While some fraternity men may see a new chapter as just another competitor in the game of rush, having SAE on this campus will be an asset to Greek life as a whole, which everyone can appreciate.”

Payne, and the rest of SAE still have high hopes for their organization.

“I hope to see it become an actual chapter before I graduate. I hope to one day be able to look back and know that I was one of the founding

fathers of an organization,” Payne said.

Yet, the IFC is not the only part of Greek life that may be expanding. According to Ogletree, the Panhellenic Council is also looking to expand within the next year. This council consists of Kappa Delta, Delta Zeta, Zeta Tau Alpha, Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Mu. According to Lisa Lotyczewski, a graduate assistant in the Department of Campus Life, this semester the Greek life office will be developing a committee to decide a sorority to charter.

First they will send a message to national chapters saying that GC is open to having a new sorority. The national chapters will then send representatives. The Panhellenic Council will play host to these representatives and give them tours of GC. The delegates will give presentations about why their sorority should be chosen and why they would make a good fit here. Each of the existing sororities in this council will voice their opinions before a sorority is chosen to be chartered.

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February 10, 2012

Aubrie Sofala Senior Reporter

Not many artists dream of being sued for copyright usage. Yet, when met with the prospect of being slapped with a copyright-infringement lawsuit, Michael Murphy, assistant professor of art, jumped at the potential opportunity of establishing stricter copyright laws.

The question over copyright came about after Murphy created a three-dimensional sculpture of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, two days after Jobs died in October.

“The minute he died I started working on it and I got it done in two days,” Murphy said. “It was probably about a couple of months after that the photographer contacted me.”

Murphy received an email, from the photographer who took the image Murphy used to create his piece, asking to remove the piece from his website and said he was not permitted to sell it.

In response, Murphy took the piece from his main page, but

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it still has a space on his GCSUnade com website, just for more under a difinformation ferent headabout Michael er. Murphy Murphy stands by the fact that his piece does not infringe upon the photographer’s rights.

“It looks like I’m creating a replica of the photography but it’s just an illusion,” Murphy said. “I told my students about it because it was an opportunity to discuss copyright laws with my students.”

According to Murphy, the piece went viral as soon as it hit the Internet because of the high volume of people searching for Job images after his death. This type of publicity is what Murphy works towards in creating his art.

“It seemed like a great opportunity to get more press and have this situation, potentially with Apply computers, to go to court and establish copyright law,” Murphy said.

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the photographer, his immediate thought was to seek legal council. Murhpy turned to Shepard Fairey’s lawyer, Anthony Falzone. Fairey is currently facing a fair-use suit with AssociatePress over an image he chose to use when creating his “Hope” poster of Barack Obama.

“He was unsure because he had to see the piece in person to understand,” Murphy said. “If look at it from the right point of view, it looks like the photo, but if you move a quarter of an inch, it looks nothing like it.

The most important aspect of copyright law is whether you transform the meaning of the original work—I was really surprised by that.”

The question of whether art pushes the boundaries of copyright is an issue many artists deal with on a daily basis.

“In the world of mass media, musicians can sample and mix each others work all the time,” senior art major Joel Huffman said. “Where is the line be-

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Art professor uses personal experience with the law to instruct students on the dangers of using copyrighted material in their art

Caitlin Renn / Senior Photographer Assistant professor of art and acclaimed artist Michael Murphy works in his studio on a recent piece made with melted plastic. Murphy recently ran into copyright issues with a piece, which was inspired by Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple.

Timeline: Copyright History 1990: Congress passes the Visual Artists Rights Act, which protects artists’ rights of attribution and integrity.

1992: Congress amended Section 304 of Title 17 making copyright renewal automatic.

1996: The World Intellectual Property Organization

2005: Google launched a project to digitalize the

convened to bring international copyright law into the electronic age.

collection of several research libraries.

1998: President Clinton signed the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which established safe harbors for online service providers.

2011: The Stop Online Piracy Act is introduced

Source: Association of Research Libraries

NAACP re-emerges, new members, same mission Matt LaMothe Contributing Writer Using word of mouth and social media, campus organizers are trying to revive the college’s NAACP chapter, possibly by semester’s end.

Earlier this month, students and faculty members met to gauge interest in the idea, said junior sociology and political science major James Bridgeforth, who is leading the effort.

“The NAACP is an organization that works for social justice, not just for blacks, but a coalition for blacks and whites to make sure that we work towards changing things including equality,” Bridgeforth said.

The last NAACP chapter at GC was in 2008. The students who ran the chapter graduated, and the group dissolved.

“Since we don’t have many minorities here, when you start an organization you really need people to keep it going. And since those students graduated, we didn’t have anyone to step up and keep it running,” Bridgeforth said.

Twenty-three people attended the Feb. 2 organizational meeting.

“After the meeting, I am almost 100-percent sure that we will be able to bring it back,” Bridgeforth said. “Starting in March, we’re looking to become active on campus.”

The mission of NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, college chapters is to inform campuses about problems affecting black youth and other racial and ethnic minorities. Chapters also seek to create leaders within the organization, who form a co-

hort of students trained in activism and public awareness.

Moriah Thomas, sophomore psychology major, has agreed to become the co-chair for the GC chapter.

“I’m looking forward to working with James and letting students know that the NAACP isn’t just one race, one religion or one social class,” Thomas said.

To fund the chapter, at least 25 members are needed. If the member is under 21, it costs $15 a year. Annual dues for older members are $30.

When starting an organization, there must be a faculty adviser who supports and oversees the group. Professor Lana McDowell, assistant professor of criminal justice, attended the meeting and agreed to become the faculty adviser.

“As James’ mentor over the last year and a half, I’ve worked with him and feel very comfortable supporting him,” McDowell said.

In 2011, 7.9 percent of GC’s student population was black. The same year, 27 percent of student populations at Georgia universities were black, according to the Board of Regents.

With the number of minorities on campus low, the NAACP chapter strives for change and awareness. They want students to have a great experience both academically and socially.

“It gives not just minorities a voice, but every student,” Bridgeforth said. “There are not many minorities that are pushing for social justice and equality here on campus, and there are many reasons for that, but I really want to start this so that someone is pushing for that.”

Kendyl Wade/ Senior Photographer James Bridgeforth, junior sociology and political science major, leads an NAACP interest meeting on Feb. 2. Bridgeforth is trying to bring the chapter back to Georgia College.

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Global symposium localizes health Anna Morris Senior Reporter Last year, plans began to take shape for this year’s Fifth Annual Georgia College Global Citizenship Symposium. With the freshman convocation book for this year being Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle,” it was an easy decision to make the theme for the symposium “Personal and Global Health: My role. Our challenges.”

Co-sponsored by the American Democracy Project, Green Fee Committee, International Education Center, academic departments and student/faculty organizations, the symposium ran Feb. 6-8, with most of the events, including several panel discussions and documentary screenings, held in Magnolia Ballroom.

Monday’s events served as an introduction to personal and global health and consisted of a

showing of the documentary “Sick Around the World.” The film depicted capitalist democracies, how they deliver health care and what the United States could learn from them.

Following the film was a fact-filled panel discussion responding to “Sick Around the World.” The panelists included GC faculty from Community Health and Human Services, Nursing, Economics and guest panelist David Bennett, associate Dean from Wellstar College of Health & Human Services at Kennesaw State University.

Community Health Professor Heidi Fowler was one of the many panelists present, and she had a lot to say in response to health care and the U.S. “The longer the U.S. delays implementation of true health care reform, the more expensive it will become,” Fowler said. “Our country is challenged by providing access to care. This

From combat to campus Sam Hunt Senior Reporter Transitioning from serving four tours in the U.S. military to becoming an officer for Georgia College Public Safety, Trey Quattlebaum has experienced a tremendous adjustment in the past year.

“It’s a big change, but there’s little aspects that help me over here,” Quattlebaum said.

“Since I’ve dealt with so many large groups of people that speak a different language it’s easier for me to talk to a person that I can actually communicate with in English to get the point across.

Also, in tactical situations, I’ve been there before, I’ve done it. So I kind of know what’s going on and know what has to be done.”

Quattlebaum began working for Public Safety on Jan. 7. Prior to beginning his career with Public Safety, he was in law enforcement for a little over a year, serving with the Milledgeville Police Department.

“He’s a well-rounded officer. He is previously from the Milledgeville Police Department.

He is well experienced in handling and answering calls,” Detective Michael Baker of Public Safety said. “I am confident in his abilities and I am proud to say that he’s working with us.”

Quattlebaum decided to transition from working with MPD to Public Safety because of

the educational benefits.

“Mainly the benefits were a big-time point from the city with the teacher’s retirement and free educational benefits. They were the major turning point,” Quattlebaum said. “The other thing is I like the way the college is. It’s not always ‘lock somebody up,’ you can give people a chance, too.”

Before beginning his career in law enforcement, he worked in construction then went into the military. He served with two areas of the U.S. military and did four tours in the Middle East, three in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. From 2002-05, Quattlebaum served in active duty for the United States Army with the 82nd Airborne Division, during which time he did three of his tours.

“My first tour in Afghanistan was six months.

My second tour in Iraq was nine months,” Quattlebaum said. “My third tour in Afghanistan was for the elections in ’04. We were there for a month and a half just to add extra security there.”

After spending time in the U.S. Army, Quattlebaum then served for the National Guard on reserve status from 2006-09. Quattlebaum did his fourth tour when he was placed on full active status for the National Guard in 2009 and was sent to Afghanistan. After enduring a serious injury in Afghanistan, he was sent back to

“Food waste is a big issue. Twenty percent to 50 percent is wasted before it reaches people’s stomachs.”

Debbie Harshbarger, Community Garden Association Board Outreach Chair will remain a challenge until we demand the right to basic health care just as we demand the right to an education and the right to a fair and speedy trial, should we find ourselves in need.”

An entertainment factor was added to both Monday and Tuesday to break up the panel discussions and keynote speakers. The Firehouse Theatre of London Performance was featured Monday afternoon, and the play “Gruesome Playground Injuries” occurred Tuesday Afternoon, both of which had a good turnout.

Food and agriculture was the overall theme for Tuesday, with events such as a showing of the documentary “Food, Inc.,” a free lunch comprised of all locally grown food and various breakout sessions about sustainability.

The day opened with another panel discussion, this time with a mix of farmers and agriculture enthusiasts. GC students, faculty and Baldwin County residents were present to ask questions as well as talk about things like why

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Public Safety officer goes from four tours of duty in the Middle East to Middle Georgia the U.S. early from his fourth tour.

“My last tour in Afghanistan was nine months, and I got sent home early because I got hit with an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) in the truck I was in,” Quattlebaum said.

Quattlebaum still serves with the National Guard currently on reserve status.

Although he has only officially been working as a law enforcement officer for a little more than a year, Quattlebaum has had experience working with police during his time in the military. Quattlebaum served as infantry and trained with police in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“The police situation in Afghanistan and Iraq is a whole different world than it is over here.

Over there they focus on large groups, they don’t answer calls singularly. They’ll go in a truck with six to eight people and talk to somebody and see what’s going on just because the security situation over there is so bad,” Quattlebaum said. “If somebody’s house is broken into, we’ll check it with two or more officers, whereas they’ll go in with a whole team of people and clear the house in a tactical manner which is a little bit more aggressive than the way we work here.”

Lt. Robert Butler of Public Safety has a positive outlook that military training is highly beneficial for law enforcement officers.

“We’ve seen officers who have been in the military that are more disciplined than people who have not been in the military,” Butler said.

“I think he (Quattlebaum) makes good decisions on his feet and he’s good at working with the general public. I think he’s going to be a good fit for us.”

Going from working with the military to a career as a law enforcement officer is a practice some Public Safety officers are familiar with.

According to Baker, four of the 18 law enforcement officers at Public Safety have a background in the military.

“It’s definitely a plus. For one, they already have similar training. I think it gets you in that sort of mind frame by being able to control hostile or intense situations,” Baker said. “The police and the military have a lot of the same responsibilities so it just kind of transfers nicely.”

In the near future, Quattlebaum intends to stay in Milledgeville and continue to work at Public Safety. He also intends to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice at GC. “I’m definitely going to attempt to get my bachelor’s and possibly even higher,” Quattlebaum said. “Right now I plan on being here for a while because I like the atmosphere and the benefits are awesome.”

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West Campus work continues into spring Brennan Meagher Staff Writer Although the Wellness and Recreation Center is open, construction at West Campus continues with the addition of a parking lot and transportation hub.

Students who are unable to find parking at the WRC have begun to park in the spots reserved for The Village Apartment residents. This problem is now being addressed with the construction of a 180-spot parking lot adjacent to the softball field. Additionally, a transportation hub is being constructed near Sandella’s.

This hub will be a covered area where students can wait for the shuttle.

Mark Bowen, Facilities Planning project manager, is in charge of the construction.

“Half of the funds,” Bowen said, “came from student fees which were leftover in the Wellness Center budget, and the other half came from the university.”

The total cost of the parking lot and transportation hub at West Campus is $1.

5 million.

The construction projects are slated to be complete in April, but Bowen hopes the projects will be finished in March.

Design work has been done and construction is three-fourths complete.

“We are working hard to get the lot done before softball and baseball seasons begin so the parking lot can be utilized.

Hopefully it will help the Wellness and Recreation Center. We’ve got an awesome facility and a parking lot will just make it easier to use,” Bowen said.

Anslely Brown, junior management major, office assistant and resident at The Village Apartments, doubts the parking lot will be used as much as expected.

“In theory, it was great to have a parking lot specifically for the Wellness Center. In reality, how many students do you know that would park all the way out there and walk to the Wellness Center?

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This is not the first time Murphy has worked with images of high profile people in society. Murphy created a 3dimensional piece of President Barack Obama with wire during the presidential election 2008. One of the common misconceptions over his work of Obama is the notion that his work is pro-Obama.

“A lot of my initial Obama pieces

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Continued from page 2 For Preczewski, such actions will contribute to higher retention and graduation rates and cannot be sacrificed due to budgetary issues.

“Students have choices and options,”Preczewski said. “If we don’t maintain these things on the highest level and keep costs low, we will not be able to retain our students.”

Yet structural changes alone will not guarantee an increase in Georgia College graduates. Preczewski emphasized the importance for faculty and staff to act as a support system for students and incorporate excellency within the classroom. This sort of focus on excellency is one of the primary reasons that senior chemistry major Christina Hamilton has stayed at Georgia College.

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None,” Brown said. “Everyone parks either in the Parking and Transportation, Building 1, or Building 6 parking lots.

Parking has recently been a problem, not only can you rarely find a spot after 6 p.m., but people have actually parked on the curb of the Building 1 lot blocking in the cars that were actually parked in a parking spot.”

On the other hand, Cassidy Dampier, junior exercise science major, believes that a parking lot is a great addition to West Campus. Dampier regularly visits the WRC and also plays intramural softball.

“I go to the Wellness Center several times a week, and every time I struggle to find a parking spot. I always feel bad about parking in a resident’s spot, and I can only imagine that when intramurals start up parking will become even more of a nightmare. A new parking lot will help alleviate some of this traffic,” she said.

Some students have had issues with the relocation of shuttle stops at West Campus due to construction.

Greg Brown, Auxiliary Services’ director of operations, said the campusshuttle stop was moved one time last year while the loop was being built. Students had to be picked up behind Buildings 200 and 300.

“The shuttle stop has not moved this year,” Brown said. “Where students have to go to catch the shuttle has not changed.”

Junior Ansley Brown, the management major who doesn’t think the parking will be used much, said she has not had any issue with the shuttle stops.

Still, she does not think a transportation hub is needed.

“I believe building the new shuttle stop is foolish, because in all actuality, you don’t have to wait for more than four-ish minutes before another shuttle comes,” she said.

were not in favor of Obama it was basically just critique’s of the political process,” Murphy said. “The entire system was in a state of illusion.”

Murphy continually pushes the boundaries of copyright law, even going as far as ensuring all his photos he uses to create art are copyrighted material by AP. “Copyright law is a really gray area, which is really dangerous for artists,” Murphy said. “I would love to end up in court one day in hopes to define some of the laws to provide safer environment for other visual artists.”

College and a lot of people don’t know what that is,” Hamilton said. “Yet, it’s just the sheer fact that I know what a jewel our school is that I can go forward with my head held high in interviews along with those who have graduated from schools like Duke.”

Since faculty and staff are essential to creating better retention and higher graduation rates, Preczewski also discussed changes that will affect these members of the college, such as the increase of salaries for staff workers, procedural adjustments to health care benefits and a cap on the number of new hires. Each of these adjustments contribute to the overall satisfaction of faculty and staff which Preczewski believes will ultimately help the focus remain on the students.

“The number one priority has always been about the students,” Preczewski said. “Everything else is secondary.”

Kendyl Wade / Senior Photographer Madii Davis, freshman math major, and Duztin Hunter, sophomore Georgia Perimeter student, display their musical talent at the Homecoming Talent Show on Wednesday, Feb. 8. The The duo belted their version of Adele’s, “Rolling in the Deep.” The talent show was one of many events for Homecoming week 2012. For a full article on the talent show and to view the winner, look for the article in the next Colonnade issue on Feb. 17.

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Continued from page 1 Safety received a tip that the stolen banners were located in a dorm room in Napier Hall and went to investigate.

“Andrew Whittaker had received information through the DZs (Delta Zetas) that someone had some possibly missing banners in their residence hall over at Napier,” Butler said.

Butler went to the two rooms in Napier and made contact with the students in their rooms. Butler discovered that political banners were in the students’ possession and the students had used the political banners to decorate the dorm rooms by hanging banners from the walls.

All of the political banners that were stolen were recovered, some of which dated as far back as last August. Multiple banners that were stolen were damaged, including a banner for Karanovich. The banners were returned to the Mr. and Ms. Georgia College candidates they belonged to.

“That’s what I like about my job truly more than anything is that when we can get property back to students or individuals, and this is a prime example, you just work together,” Butler said. “We were able to find where the banners were located,

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Continued from page 1 Board if he falls into poor judicial standing during his term.

President Pro Tempore Stephen Hundley, who drafted and presented the resolution to the senate last semester, said because the resolution is now in effect, Fajuke will be referred to the Student Judicial Board for a hearing. The proceeding, set for next week, will determine whether he keeps his SGA post.

“Because it was an Honor Code infraction, he’s just going to go straight to J-board and be tried like every other student. And while they are trying his case, as they would anyway, they are

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go in and seize all the banners and get them back to their rightful owners.”

According to Butler, this is not the first time that political banners were stolen, but this was the first incidence where this many banners were stolen.

Public Safety is not going to file charges against the students responsible and the case has been turned over to the Student Judicial Board.

“We’re going to run everything through Student Judicial simply because everybody that actually came down to report it to me in person, all they wanted was their property back and that’s all we tried to do from the very beginning is get their property back to them,” Butler said. “The main goal was just getting the banners back to the students as soon as possible.”

Under the Student Judicial Board, the students responsible for stealing the banners will be faced with GC Honor Code theft. As of now, an official date for the hearing has not yet been set.

“Our Judicial Board is lenient when they need to be, but they’re firm when they need to be,” Karanovich said. “I don’t think they’re going to lay back and let this go unnoticed, because it affected so many people at such a very important time not only for those individual organizations, but our campus community as a whole.”

going to evaluate his status as a senator and decide if he will keep that title or be removed,” Hundley said. “Anyone is welcome to go to the hearing, as J-board hearings are public, but we (the senate) will not be trying him as part of this resolution.”

On Monday, Fajuke told The Colonnade that he wanted to apologize to the student body for his most recent arrest.

“First and foremost, I would like to apologize to the student body, to SGA, CAB, Pi Kappa Phi and the Wesley Foundation,” Fajuke said in an email. “I should know as a leader I am held to higher standards than the average person, and there is no room for making mistakes and no room to succumb to the pressure of every-

day academia. I hope this is no way reflects poorly on any organization I am part of.”

He went on to say that during his time as an SGA senator, for the past three years, he has worked to serve the students.

“In SGA, I have strived for the past three years to be the best senator I could possibly be, to positively contribute to the GC community and to be a strong voice on behalf of the Georgia College student body,” Fajuke’s email said.

“Seeing as it is the student body who elected me for three consecutive terms and this being my last semester on SGA, I am hoping and praying that the actions of one night do not take away from all the hard work I have put in for the past three years.”

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Budget

Continued from page 1 maintenance, Campus Activities Board, Homecoming and a percentage to unallocated reserves.

SGA President Evan Karanovich says there is a steadily increasing number of student organizations, but a capped amount of funding for the past few years.

“We’ve maintained the same budget for several years, but our student organizations have increased in numbers,” Karanovich said.

Homecoming week events

The Homecoming week festivities total $15,000 this year. This overall figure has fluctuated over the past three years within the parameters of $13,000 and $16,800.

Health

Continued from page 4 is important for kids to be introduced to gardening and what should be done about food deserts, places where fresh fruits and vegetables are not readily available.

During lunch, Danielle Nierenberg, Project Director of the Nourishing the Planet project for the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C, along with other Georgia farmers, brought to light issues that some people may not be aware of.

Debbie Harshbarger, Community Garden Association Board Outreach chair, spoke about food waste and how pressing of an issue it really is.

“Food waste is a big issue. Twenty percent to 50 percent of food is wasted before it reaches people’s stomachs,” Harshbarger said. “The good news is that we can all manage this by buying less, donating food that we don’t need and preserving food.”

The final event of the night was without a doubt the most anticipated. With Magnolia Ballroom filled to the brim with students, faculty and Baldwin County residents, the keynote speaker took the stage. A year ago during the planning of the symposium, it was decided by the Green Fee Committee that Joel Salatin would be the optimum person to have as the keynote speaker.

Salatin, who was featured in Food, Inc., is the face of Polyface Farms and was deemed the “most influential farmer in North America” by TIME Magazine. Accounting professor Cynthia Orms is responsible for bringing the “high-priest of pasture” to GC. Salatin, who was introduced as a “lunatic farmer,” lived up to this title as soon as his first

Marketing, over the last three years, has been the highest cost in the Homecoming week subsection of the budget. This year $8,000 has been spent for that purpose.

The purchase of green “rally” towels cost over $3,000 this year.

Miles says the purchase of the towels is important for creating traditions, but the funding does not solely come from the Homecoming budget. “(The cost of the towels is) split between two budgets. Week of Welcome because all the incoming freshmen get them and then we do it again at Homecoming to make sure all of the towels are there at the game,” Miles said.

The remaining $4,000 is dedicated to Mr. and Ms. Georgia College, College Trivia Bowl, an intramural event, the Bobcat Ramble, the Homecoming parade and community service costs.

According Karanovich the $300 set aside for community service costs are more for materials needed by organizations not labor costs.

Homecoming concert

The remaining $67,330 in the overall budget is pledged to the Homecoming concert.

Third Eye Blind is being paid $57,500 for headlining the show and the Eric Dodd Band is receiving $2,000.

Some students feel the band choice and the fund allocation was a good move.

“Third Eye Blind is my favorite band and I also enjoy Eric Dodd,” freshman undeclared Milly Edwards said. “I think it will be a good turn out. I have friends coming that don’t go to GCSU, so the money spent is reasonable.”

Other students do not think the spending was wise.

“I think $57,000 is a lot,” Lamees Aisami

line was uttered. He spoke of the major difference between today’s generation and past generations and the cultural ideology of younger people.

“We are a guinea pig culture,” Salatin said.

“We’re the first culture who routinely eats food we can’t pronounce. We’re the first culture where the average morsel travels 1500 miles and we’re the first culture that eats food that won’t rot. If you can squeeze cheese out of a bottle, that ain’t normal.”

Salatin, who suggested that GC change from a formidable campus to an edible campus, discussed the importance of soil by gallivanting around stage and making various, strange sound effects to explain the different organisms that live within soil. He stated that the “visible world is dependent on that invisible world.”

Today, people continuously make excuses about why they cannot buy the kind of food that their body really needs. According to Salatin, no culture before this one has spent such a small amount of their income on food. If people can buy flat-screen televisions and box after box of Domino’s pizza, then they can afford healthy food.

“We are far more concerned with the purity of the gas we are putting in our Honda than the purity of food we’re putting in our bodies,” Salatin said.

Ending with a standing ovation, Salatin’s passionate speech was well received, but the amount of students present was not what was expected.

Ellen Gaither, sophomore liberal studies major and co-chair of the Green Fee Committee, wished that more students had attended the day’s events and were more passionate about agriculture.

“I really wish more students would have come,” Gaither said. “They could have looked up the speakers and realized how important they

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February 10, 2012 freshman middle grades education major said.

“I’m not sure how much other bands cost to get.

I think Homecoming and student life is important, but the money could have been spent in better places on campus.”

Besides the bands, sound and lighting is the most expensive element of the concert; the cost is $7,000 this year.

In addition to the formula-funding, Homecoming also received funds from CAB and Oconee Regional Medical Center for the concert this year. CAB gave $2,400 and the ORMC donated $5,000.

President of CAB Britta Gervais says the organization donated the funds to support student interest in the Homecoming concert.

“We are an organization built for the student body. We are here to serve them,” Gervais said.

“We are designed to make students happy, and that was the quickest way to do it.”

really are.”

Wednesday marked the end of the symposium and focused more on finding jobs within organizations like the Center for Disease Control, the Peace Corps and AID Atlanta. Most of the organizations required a bachelor’s degree, if not a master’s degree, and experience within the career desired but getting involved in internships was stressed.

“Go get an internship,” Ariana Youmans, case manager for Fulton County jail, said. “I beat out people with master’s degrees because of my experience. I was really dedicated and passionate about it.”

Even though it was emphasized that working with the CDC usually requires a master’s degree, they do offer a fellowship called the Public Health Associate Program that provides its recipients the chance to work with a mentor for two years, and it is available to undergraduate students with either little experience in public health or a lot of experience. The position is paid and can eventually lead to a higher position as a public health advisor.

“After two years, you can be given a position as a public health advisor and do anything from run programs and events to jump out of helicopters in Africa or interview someone after an outbreak,” said Laura Eloyan, Global Health Recruitment Specialist for the CDC. Presented with three days of issues related to personal and global health, locals who took part may be inspired to change their lives for the better.

“I hope people, students especially, begin to recognize there is a much greater world beyond them,” Gaither said. “It’s something as simple as growing our own food and appreciating all the world has to give us.”

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BODY

A closer look at the growing epidemic of distorted body image Lindsay Shoemake Senior Reporter It lurks in magazines, gyms and college campuses. Ravaging self-esteem and unraveling sanity in one fatal swoop, a body image disorder stealthily selects its victims and refuses to relent until its transformation is complete.

Body image issues are undoubtedly alive and well on college campuses everywhere.

Although these issues are often synonymous with women, men are not immune to the dangers of eating disorders and extreme weight loss tactics.

“I would normally say girls suffer from eating disorders, but I believe a lot more guys suffer as well,” said Rachel Sullivan, GC University Health Educator. “It’s a control issue when (an eating disorder) gets to the point of being extreme. It becomes the only thing that a person feels like they can control with their body and their image.”

According to 2011 results of GC’s National College Health Assessment, .7 percent of students claimed to suffer from eating disorders or an unhealthy body image, a .1 percent drop from 2009’s NCHA results. Although body image issues may be on the decline, remaining vigilant and informed is paramount.

“I have several clients every semester with eating disorders or body image issues,” said Susan Spencer, GC Health Services Counselor. “Students have to be aware of it, because

it is so insidious in our society.”

Common methods used to attain an ideal body weight include: diet pills and other over-the-counter products, using laxatives, purging food after a meal, compulsively exercising or simply refusing to eat, according to Sullivan.

Additionally, men may rely on dietary supplements and exercise performance enhancers to achieve the “perfect” body, where many of dietary or exercise enhancers are not FDA-regulated or approved.

“Addictive or obsessive personality traits are going to show up in whatever you do, whether it’s not eating or working out too much,” Spencer said. “For some people, it’s already at the disorder level when they become aware that they have a problem.”

As a former ballerina, sophomore marketing major Whitney Schwartz understands the harsh reality of restrictive eating habits.

“My ballet director was constantly telling us to ‘suck it in’ and ‘watch what you eat.’

We were scared to eat anything but a salad around her,” Schwartz said. “Many of my close friends went through eating disorders as young as 12.”

According to Sullivan, inevitable environmental factors like school, social situations and stress, can also play a role in skewing normal eating patterns. She also says an overwhelming amount of college students fall victim to “disordered eating.”

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“It’s a control issue when (an eating disorder) gets to the point of being extreme. It becomes the only thing that a person feels like they can control with their body and their image.”

Rachel Sullivan, University Health Educator dents have ‘disordered eating,’ not eating disorders. They haven’t been clinically diagnosed, but their eating patterns aren’t normal,” Sullivan said. “When you get to college everything changes, and that includes your diet. Sometimes you might binge eat just because you haven’t eaten all day.”

Sullivan also notes that many college-aged individuals subconsciously compare themselves to others, resulting in an unhealthy game of cat-and-mouse with a “magic number” on the scale.

“Society puts a lot of pressure on people, especially groups of friends,” Sullivan said. “It’s great to value someone else and think that they have it all together, but we need to go about that direction in a healthy way.”

Competitive atmospheres are often unavoidable and are

not solely limited to college campuses and dorms.

“Ballet creates such a competitive atmosphere, where you’re constantly striving to be the best,” Schwartz said.

“Being in a tight leotard with other thin girls will naturally cause you to compare your body to others’.”

Although the media continues to portray emaciated women and sculpted men on television and in magazines, there has been a visible shift toward healthier body perceptions and lifestyles, most notably in Nike’s “Strong Is The New Beautiful” advertising campaign.

“One of the things I’m excited about regarding men and women’s bodies is that strong is becoming sought after, and I love that,” Spencer said.

“Toned and strong is being promoted (instead of) thin.”

By being fully educated and aware of what is healthy and what is not regarding body image, individuals have a fighting chance in avoiding detrimental weight issues and destructive eating habits.

The first step toward holding a healthy body image begins with an evaluation of all facets of life, many of which affect the way people perceive their outer appearance.

“Take as assessment of your life: physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, relationally, intellectually,” Spencer said. “The goal is not to be perfect in all of those areas, which is often the trap, but to be healthy and moving forward by setting realistic goals for yourself without expecting perfection.”

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Reconstructive plastic surgery Opinion: The body age years as well. We had to run a mile once in middle school and I just couldn’t because of the back pain I had.

But none of the gym coaches believed a girl of 13 or 14 could experience that much pain.

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Patricia Frederickson, GC 2011 graduate with a B.A. in rhetoric, had a breast reduction in March 2011 due to the lack of mobility her body offered her because of her large breasts. She’s been experiencing pain, and her inability to work out since she was 13. This interview was done via email.

Q: Why did you get plastic surgery?

A:I had really huge breasts that made my life exceedingly difficult to do things like run, swim, jog, jump around, the basic exercise activities that 99 percent of people take for granted. My back was in constant pain and I had back spasms all the time. It was a really miserable existence.

Q: What are your views on cosmetic plastic surgery and medical plastic surgery?

A: Well, mine was medical, but also technically cosmetic. I had my plastic surgery with a cosmetic surgeon, but it was covered by my insurance as a medical expense. It is kind of absurd how difficult it can be to get medical plastic surgery, but if you have the money, cosmetic surgery can be done in the snap of your fingers.

A millionaire can get bigger breasts over the course of a weekend, but someone who desperately, legitimately needs smaller breasts will have to jump through dozens of flaming hoops to have a chance.

In order to receive medical plastic surgery for my old insurance company, I would have had to have lost a lot of weight. I would have had to have weighed about 120 pounds. This was completely ridiculous, of course, because I couldn’t exercise. My breasts were too painful to do anything with. It was this vicious cycle and there was no way around it. Luckily we changed insurance in January of 2011, and their requirements are much easier, or I would never have been able to have the surgery.

Q: How long did you contemplate receiving plastic surgery?

A: Oh, man, my whole adult life, and a lot of my teen-

Q: Do you ever feel judged or misunderstood if people find out you’ve had plastic surgery?

A: A lot of people really love to say stuff like, “What, why would anyone want them to be smaller?” or, “Do bras even come in that size?” It’s like a foreign concept to them. What I really wish people would understand is that, yeah, in the movies and on TV and in magazines, bigger breasts are a huge asset. But really they are a complete pain — literally — and there really needs to be more support out there for people suffering this way.

Many people believe that if you lose a bunch of weight, weight will come out of your breasts, but for me, it was all tissue, not fat. I could have weighed 100 pounds, and I would still have had ridiculously large breasts.

Q: How do you feel now, a year later, about your plastic surgery procedure?

A: I could not be happier. I am doing things I never thought I’d be able to do. ... I can go to Walmart and buy a bra there. There are so many little things that people who have smaller breasts take for granted and sometimes I just want to take them by the shoulders and be like, “No, really, appreciate that.”

Q: Are you planning on any more plastic surgery in the future?

A: Ideally, no.

image in the media Kathryn Shadden Staff Writer

I have a theory that if something shows up on the television or the Internet, we, the viewers, normalize it. No matter how initially shocking the picture or information may be, the fact that we are seeing it in the form of mass media, we get used to it. That’s where the subliminal messaging comes in; because we are over-exposed to advertising, we don’t realize how it affects our thinking.

According to the American Time Use Survey of 2010, the activity that takes up the most time in our lives is watching TV. On average, people 15 and up spend 2.7 hours per day in front of the television. That’s almost 19 hours a week, around 81 hours in a month, and more than 900 hours in a year. That doesn’t even account for an entire lifetime.

I don’t think television is evil, but I think people underestimate how much it affects them. If we spend a year of our life watching more than 900 hours of TV, you expect that to affect our thoughts.

The kinds of shows that keep popping up never cease to disgust me. There are plenty of people who watch “Toddlers & Tiaras,” where little girls are taught to value their looks and “personality” over any actual talent. Girls from the age of 4 are putting on pounds of make-up as if they’re middle-aged women.

Some children have spray tans. One girl had to wear fake teeth. They undergo beauty rituals that are normally reserved for teenagers and older women.

I remember seeing a special on E! that featured two people who

had undergone extreme amounts of plastic surgery. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of good reasons to have that kind of surgery—correcting a congenital defect, repairing a shattered face, or replacing breasts after a mastectomy. Yet it seems that those who go under the knife for anything other than a “legit” reason are put on display for mockery. Like “Toddlers & Tiaras,” we the viewers are supposed to laugh at these people who have become caricatures of human beings in the search for beauty. But we aren’t the ones who feel the effects.

Don’t get me started on commercials. There was the Shake Weight commercials where for women, the Shake Weight supposedly could help turn your arms “from flab to fab.”

For men, the Shake Weight’s promise was almost the opposite— to add “definition, size, and strength.” But that’s not even the worst—an advertisement for Multi Grain Cheerios says, “More grains, less you!”

Thanks, but no. I’ll stick with Lucky Charms and be more of myself. Losing weight, if it means improving your health, is a good thing, but the way weight loss commercials are worded doesn’t sit well with me. It seems advertisers try and tell women to want to be small, slender and “less you.” And advertisers try and encourage men to be fit, strong and muscular.

So many commercials for weight loss could send the wrong message — that we’re fat and need to lose weight. I think we should just stop doing this to ourselves. I think we should just calm down on the weight loss, the fat-phobia, plastic surgery and the obsession with appearance and just…read a book.

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Mr. and Ms. GC campainging is overdone Yard signs fill the grounds of campus. Tents surround the fountain.

Goodies overflow off the tables set up by hopeful candidates. Slogans are chalked onto the sidewalks and any surface in sight.

It’s Homecoming election week and The Colonnade believes that it is a little bit overdone by some and underdone by others this year.

Last year SGA passed a resolution that closely defined the role and responsibilities of Mr. and Ms. Georgia College. The two that win the election shall serve as a positive role model for the entire campus and will be required to plan and implement a service project.

Sure the treats are nice, but not everyone wants to be bludgeoned to death with them on their way to class.

In addition of giving us campaign cups, cotton candy and cookies, try giving out pamphlets that inform the student body what you are going to do to ensure your status as a positive role model for the student body.

And, if you are to be crowned as the next Mr. or Ms. GC, it should be public what type of service project you are going to do to better our community. The tri-folds in The Max are fantastic. They list what the candidates have done so far at GC, but only some of the student body eats there, so the reach is limited.

Instead of giving all of the students some type of incentive to receive their vote, try out a different approach that will result in more students voting on election day: talking about your platform. Attend various organizations meetings around campus and ask the leaders if they would be OK for you to speak for a few minutes at the meeting.

If that doesn’t work, hold a forum, similar to the SGA Presidential Debate, which will allow you to have your voices heard by the student body about what you would like to do for the campus, instead of just passing around trinkets that will likely be forgotten on election day.

Voting for Mr. and Ms. Georgia College is a fun part of Homecoming week and the candidates do deserve campaigning attention as potential representatives of GC, but there is one group that is being slightly overshadowed.

The Student Government Association Executive Board elections happen during Homecoming week, too.

We at The Colonnade believe more students need to pay attention to the SGA elections than the numbers that do.

SGA handles over $1 million in student fees. Some members choose where and to whom to allocate those funds. The members of this body are instrumental in telling the campus administration what the student body wants.

Students should be more interested in who manages their finances and relationship with the college.

Only about 75 people showed up to the Presidential Debate on Feb. 2.

That is disappointing since the issues addressed in the debate affect every student enrolled at this university.

The Colonnade believes the student body needs to stop only thinking about the free food and items they can get and think about the issues.

In a year, chances are you are not going to remember that cupcake you got by the fountain once, but you will remember the strain on your wallet when it comes time to pay fees.

“No, because I think it is really fake. I want to remain true to who I am.”

Ryan Thacker, freshman chemistry major

“No, it is a waste of money. I would be too scared of what the outcome could be, too.”

Lindsay Yates, freshman biology major

“The only time I would ever get plastic surgery is to correct something from an accident. I want stay as natural as possible.”

Michelle Mercer, junior mass communication major

Unemployment rates are high for graduates Kevin Hall So I’m sure we all wonder this from time to time what is all this money spent on our education really getting us.

These thousands upon thousands of dollars each semester that we are shelling out, only to be thrust into the adult work force, facing some of the highest unemployment rates in our country’s history.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the unemployment rate for someone with their bachelor’s degree and higher as of December 2011 was 4.1 percent. Now 4.1 percent doesn’t seem like that outrageous of a number, but that statistic is taking into account all college graduates of any age in the workforce.

The New York Times released an article last year saying that the outlook for recent college graduates is even bleaker.

They reported that as of 2009, 44.4 percent of college graduates under the age of 25 are either working in a job that does not require a degree or not working at all.

Now what do all those facts, figures and statistics mean? To me they mean this education that I’m paying a little over $4,000 per semester for better get me a decent job. I’ve worked in the food service industry in various places since I was 15, and if I have to continue to do it for much longer after I graduate, I am going to be a little perturbed.

Making $2.15 an hour plus tips isn’t going to help me to pay of student loans any time soon.

So what is this education actually preparing me for? What are they teaching me at this great learning institution that is Georgia College? Well, personally, I

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“No, when you mess with something as beautiful as this it can only get worse.”

Sean Michael Noah, senior mass communication major

“No, I like myself the way I am.”

Aubrey Kemp, junior math major

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The Litter Box Thoughts and Rants of Georgia College

It is amazing how a police officer would let a student go for a felony. College students are babied and always given the benefit of the doubt. When some of us graduate and are welcomed into actual society with real rules and real consequences, we will pay the price. College students getting away with crimes makes me physically ill. When you are caught, you should be judged lawfully. We are not immune to punishment. Or, at least we shouldn’t be.

Why in the hell am I getting emails about someone’s missing crap? You’re seriously emailing the entire school about a jacket and a scooter... What?!

We get rid of a member of SGA for making the school look bad. Maybe the baseball team should start doing the same.

Why have the concert on a Thursday night? I feel like that’s a huge middle finger to the alumni. Surely, GC students can stay in Milledgeville for one weekend this semester.

I feel like this week is never going to end.

I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIRD EYE BLIND (Insert comment about the annoying weather patterns of Milledgeville here.)

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transferred here for my junior year, but core classes are pretty much the same wherever you go. Everyone does pretty much the same math, English and science classes. But what is different here?

A class you can take is Survey of Philosophy. What this class entails is learning the philosophical teachings of some of history’s greatest thinkers. These people such as Aristotle, Plato and Descartes just to name a few really were great thinkers. Keyword there is were. I don’t really feel like their teachings hold any real world value today.

My biggest problem with the classes we take here is a little bit selfish because of how much trouble I have with them.

Almost every major, if not all, in the College of Arts and Sciences have to take four levels of foreign languages.

Before having to take any of these classes (for me it is French) I always thought I wanted to learn a second language, but being forced to take them because I want a degree in mass communication seems a little absurd.

I feel like it is like that for many of my friends who are also in my shoes.

I feel like with people my age their is always going to be some kind of push back on anything they have to do.

Plus after talking to friends who have received their undergraduate degree from here already say they are no more fluent in their particular foreign language of choice than they were before they took four semesters of them. By the way this is in no way meant to be insulting to the teachers for any of these classes, especially the ones in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. They have all been wonderfully understanding and helpful with me.

My point in all this is with how difficult it appears to be to get a job in our chosen professions, I feel like GC needs to do more to prepare us more to enter the workforce no matter what our major is rather than make us “well rounded individuals.”

“If I had the money, I would definitely get plastic surgery.”

Christine Carpenter, freshman music education major

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January 27 at 2:30 a.m. Officer Denna saw a man in the bushes urinating outside the Century Bank building, according to Public Safety. Denna confronted the man about what Denna had witnessed, but the man denied urinating. The man said he was looking for his friend’s keys in the bushes. Denna could smell alcohol on his breath and saw that the man had bloodshot eyes. The man said he had been drinking earlier and tested .098 on the Breathalyzer. The man continued denying urinating on the building. However, Denna noticed the man’s pants were unzipped. The man changed his story and eventually admitted urinating on the building. Denna issued a citation for public drunkenness.*

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Permit required

January 30 at 11:59 p.m. Public Safety received a complaint from a male non-student in reference to a fraternity party, according to Public Safety. The fraternity had a live band from 8 p.m. until midnight. When the non-student male complained to the fraternity, the fraternity said it had a permit for the party. The nonstudent male contacted City Hall the following Monday and was told a permit had not been issued for the fraternity party. Public Safety will follow up to see if a permit was issued.*

February 10, 2012 • Editor, Steffi Beigh

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Expensive book stolen

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A two-day ride

January 30 at 10:10 p.m. A female student reported her MacBook was stolen from her vehicle, according to Public Safety. The MacBook costs $1,700. The girl put the laptop on the passenger floorboard of her vehicle, and the laptop was stolen sometime between 7:45 and 9:00 p.m.*

January 28 at 9:05 p.m. Sgt. Miller was dispatched to Foundation Hall in reference to a possible drug overdose, according to Public Safety. A male student called the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office. He said he thought he was dying from a two-day drug binge. Sgt. Miller and Officer Quattlebaum saw that the man was “obviously wired” on something.

The officers asked the man what he had ingested and he replied, “I don’t know, I do all kinds of stuff... LSD, Ecstasy... I don’t know!”

The man gave permission for the officers to search his belongings. They found marijuana-smoking devices and a bottle of rum, but there was no evidence of any other drug possession. The man was taken to Oconee Regional Medical Center and released at 3 a.m.

The officers advised the man to be referred to Student Judicial Board.

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Cars without Insurance

1 Alcohol violations

2 Fire alarms Information from Public Safety.

What’s Happening Saturday, February 11 7:30 a.m.

Class of ‘62 breakfast at Fairfield Inn

8:30 a.m.

Bobcat Ramble 5k (Historic Downtown)

9 - 11:00 a.m

Campus tours and Open House (Parks Hall)

9:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Alumni registration (Magnolia Ballroom)

10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Special Collections open house (Library)

11:00 a.m.

Tent City Tailgating (Centennial Square)

11:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m. Homecoming Parade (Tantall Street) 12 - 2:00 p.m.

Campus tours and Open House

2:00 p.m.

Class of ‘60 and ‘62 reunion reception and man- sion tour (Old Governor’s Mansion)

7:30 p.m.

Valentine’s Day Rendezvous (Magnolia Ballroom)

7:30 p.m.

SGA and Mr. and Ms. GC election results (Centennial Center)

Sunday, February 12 5 - 11:00 p.m.

Grammy night (The DEN)

Monday, February 13 9:00 a.m. - March 2

“Hyperborean” exhibition (Wooten-Garner House ArtFix Gallery)

Tuesday, February 14 1 - 6:00 p.m.

Dr. John Sallstrom Blood Drive (Magnolia Ballroom)

Wednesday, February 15 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Dr. John Sallstrom Blood Drive (Magnolia Ball-

room) 12:00 p.m.

Internships for history students (113 Chappell Hall)

12:30 p.m.

“From Angst to Agency: The Presentation of the Madonna-Prostitute by Male Writers in the African Novel” (A&S room 251)

5:30 - 10:30 p.m.

Relay For Life Spirit Night (Centennial Center)

8:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Quadruple Feature February (Front Campus)

Thursday, February 16 3 - 7:00 p.m.

GC Art Department Printmaking open house (341 N. Wayne St.)

8:00 p.m.

The Vagina Monologues (Max Noah Recital Hall)

Friday, February 17 6 - 7:00 p.m.

Friday Night Shabbat Dinner (Hoke Dining room in The Max)

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

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February 10, 2012• Editor, Lauren Davidson

‘White Kids’ on the block

Kelsey Garrison/ Staff Photographer The White Kids consists of Graham Williams (left), junior mass communication major, Cody Allen (middle), junior political science major, and Elliott Payne (right), junior mass communication major. Allen and Page were former members of the band Mars Hotel, while Williams and Thomas were in an acoustic duo together.

Kesley Garrison / Staff Photographer Junior mass communication major Graham Williams is the lead singer and guitarist for The White Kids.

Student band brings pop melodies to Milledgeville through downtown performances, Homecoming Kyle Shanahan Contributing Writer Springtime at Georgia College is soon to be graced by one of the newest student bands to rise out of Milledgeville’s music scene: The White Kids.

Comprised of guitarist and vocalist Graham Williams, second guitarist Drew Thomas, bassist Elliot Payne and drummer Cody Allen, the band is set to perform at future musical events around GC. The story behind The White Kids dates back to the previous year’s summer. Williams and Thomas spent time as a duo playing acoustic shows in downtown Milledgeville, while Allen and Page were active members in Mars Motel, another student band who were participants in last year’s Battle of the Bands competition. All

four members met and jammed with each other over the summer and Fall semester before playing their first show at The Brick during Winter Break.

As for their name, “That’s all we are,” Williams said. “(The name of the band) isn’t meant to be racist or anything, it’s just who we are.”

Since their winter debut, the band members have continued to perform and find that they enjoy playing the downtown scene. Aside from meager difficulties like missing a PA system, the members agree that downtown is a fairly nice place to perform; restaurant and bar managers tend to be welcoming to diligent bands and will offer them a place to play.

“It’s all about bringing people in,” Williams said, referring to bands being able to draw in customers. “[Bar managers] will work with you or hold drink specials during your set if you’re

willing to work with them and play different music.”

Williams says that the group plays both cover songs and original material.

“We usually just do covers now, pop 90s covers and everything,” Williams said. “We’ve got our own stuff, but we feel the drunk people we play to wouldn’t enjoy it.”

As for influences, all four members are inspired by many different bands, showing unique tastes and visible influence from Jack Johnson and playing covers of songs by artists like Foster the People and Macy Gray.

Payne finds current inspiration in jam bands like Phish, Widespread Panic and a lot of dubstep.

“I listen to a lot of bluegrass; there’s, like, no drums in it,” Allen said. “Punch Brothers, Old Crows…they’re all good.”

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Williams says his all-time Check out favorite band is 90s alterna- GCSUnade com tive rock outfit Third Eye for more Blind, who will be perform- information about the new ing at the GC Homecoming band, The White concert in Centennial Center Kids. on Feb. 9.

“They’re why I’m really excited for Homecoming,” Williams said. “To me, their lyrics are just great.”

The White Kids currently plan on playing an hour-long set at the Homecoming tent city event on Feb. 11. The band is set on performing in this year’s Battle of the Bands competition around late March or early April. The White Kids will perform as a three-piece for the time being due to the absence of guitarist Thomas, who is recovering from a recent injury.

Flash Mob 2012

‘Hyperborean’ on exhibit Eclectic art exhibit portrays creative dimension between human beings and the natural world Caitlin Renn Senior Reporter Assistant Professor of Art Crystal Wagner will show her most recent work in a printmaking and mixed-media exhibit called “Hyperborean,” opening Feb. 13 at the Wooten-Garner Art Fix Gallery.

The works feature a combination of mixed media, printmaking and found objects and will jump away from the ordinary, typical gallery display by involving the walls, floor and ceiling.

“Titles are so important for promoting a sentiment when you walk into something, and the title is ‘Hyperborean,’ which deals with colder regions of the world,” Wagner said. “But my entire body of work right now focuses on the increasingly severe divide between human beings and their natural world.

I just think about that disconnect all the time as I’m working, and I have this bizarre idea of what the world is, but I don’t live in these areas so that’s how they get more plastic and bright and colorful.”

Wagner says she is working within a similar color palette in reference to the exhibit’s title, but also including some “jolting or surprising” colors. She likes to use different printmaking processes in her work because of the varying aesthetic quality of each mark; etching for a more saturated, deeper mark, screen printing provides a very flat, graphic quality and her use of relief components add another element in transitioning color.

The exhibit will evoke an environment, rather than a display. None of the printed components will be hung flatly on the wall.

“Emulating environment with installation seems so appropriate to me, because when you walk into a space that is your environment,” Wagner said. “There will be a mix of things involved in completely filling the space, and I think there’s some semblance of influence from graffiti artists in my work, so I will definitely be taking that approach when it

comes to the walls, floor and ceiling.”

Senior art major Lori Edwards has assisted Wagner in creating the components for “Hyperborean,” and she praises both Wagner’s work and her influence.

“It’s a really cool direction,” Edwards said.

“Prints are usually seen on the wall, and this is a fairly new direction for printmaking, so it’s cool watching the process. Working with Crystal changed how I look at my work, and it made me incorporate new things into my work.”

Senior art and creative writing major Peggy Des Jardines also appreciates Wagner’s style.

“It’s interesting how intuitive she is through the whole process. I feel like she’s so familiar and comfortable within her own process that she’s not afraid to make crazy decisions or to try anything new. Even when I might question something she’s doing and she questions it too, it always ends up perfectly because she knows herself and her process so well,” Des Jardines said.

For Wagner, the creative process and the joys of art-making outweigh the pressures of creating an exhibition or the fear that something may not work out as planned. But Wagner says she’s a problem solver, and she likes that about being an artist.

“The best part for me is seeing it come together,” Wagner said, “because even now I’m working on all these different pieces and I have so many components for the show: etching, relief, screen printing, cut paper, printing on the front and back, plastic, all this crazy stuff. When it gets into the space and I walk into the gallery that’s the best part because I can trust myself while I’m working on the components, but I don’t know how it’s going to look. I just have an impression, and then I move forward. But in that way decisions get made in the gallery.”

The opening reception for “Hyperborean” will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on Feb. 13 at the Wooten-Garner Art Fix Gallery.

Lauren Davidson / Senior Photographer GC students gathered by the A&S Fountain on Wednesday, Feb. 8 to break out into an impromptu flash mob in celebration of Homecoming week. Practice and organization went into planning this year’s flash mob, with an enthusiastic and high-energy group of dancers performing to a mashup of popular songs.

Art

Artists venture to Atlanta Kyle Shanahan Contributing Writer Seventy-five Georgia College art students recently toured the “Picasso to Warhol” exhibit at the High Museum of Art, a collection of famous artworks spanning several decades of the last century. Led by Professor of Art Tina Yarborough, the Feb. 11 excursion into Atlanta was both educational and insightful.

As the title suggests, the exhibit featured works from 14 influential 20th-century artists, curated for the first time in the Southeast. Notable artists ranged from globally recognizable names like Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol to less-familiar artists such as Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp and Jackson Pollack. All works displayed in the exhibit were provided by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Students who toured the exhibit witnessed the experimental works of all 14 artists, starting with Picasso as the earliest and finishing with Warhol as the most recent. Yarborough enthusiastically provided commentary on each artist as

the group progressed through the exhibit.

“All these artists, especially after the 19th century, were looking for new frontiers,” Yarborough said. “Not only is the exhibition about these 14 artists and how they defined and changed art, but about how they knew each other…and how they influenced each other.”

The exhibit noted the artists’ relationships with one another, like how Picasso and Matisse kept in contact with each other, and how the Georgia-born artist Jasper Johns used Duchamp’s ‘readymades’ to pursue his own artistic ideals. At the front entrance of the exhibit, the welcoming intro paragraph inked into the wall says, “Within the 14 we find friends, rivals, and mentors…we see shared interests and concerns as well as vital efforts to build on or to challenge each other’s inventions. Together, the works in the exhibition reveal the twentieth century as a dynamic laboratory fueled by individual effort and exchange, awareness of the past and a will

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Q & A with Lena Thompson, printmaker The Georgia College Department of Art is set to celebrate the intricate craft of printmaking in an open house on Thursday, Feb. 16. The Colonnade held a Q-and-A with sophomore art history major Lena Thompson, one of the creative visionaries behind the open house, to learn more about the printmaking process and how students can become more involved in artistic endeavors on campus.

Q: How involved are you with the Department of Art and printmaking at GC?

be demonstrations of every type of printmaking we do at GC including screen printing, mono printing, reduction printing and A: I am just one of many stu- more. Along with demonstrations dents involved in the printmaking there will be a T-shirt sale, bake program. This semester printmak- sale and live music. ing I through IV is being taught

by Bill (Fisher) and Crystal (WagQ: How can students become ner). I am a printmaking minor more involved in creative projcurrently taking printmaking III. ects on campus?

Q: What is your favorite type A: A really great way to get inof printmaking, and what has volved with creative projects is to been your favorite project? join the GC Art Events group on Facebook. There is almost always A: My favorite type of print- some new event happening that making is linoleum relief cuts. is posted and shared on the FaceBasically, you carve an image book page. Another good way to into linoleum block and then use get involved is to attend the artist the printing press to transfer ink talks that occur when we have a onto a sheet of paper, the finished visiting artist with an installation product. Last semester I made a at Blackbridge Hall. These events replica of Johnny Cash into a lino are posted on the GC Art Events cut.

Facebook page as well.

Q: What can students expect to see at the Printmaking Open House and why did the Department of Art decide to host the event?

A: At the open house there will

The Printmaking Open House will be held in the GC printmaking studio located at 341 North Wayne St. from 3 to 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. For future art events, visit GC Art Events on Facebook.

By Lindsay Shoemake

ingness to buck convention.”

Highlights included Picasso’s “Night Fishing at Antibes,” Piet Mondrian’s “Trafalgar Square,” Fernand Léger’s “Three Women,” and the four vertical sculptures of Constantin Brancusi. The works of French artist Duchamp were displayed in a side room off of the main exhibit hall, showcasing his ‘readymades:’ ordinary objects he turned into art by making slight alterations to them.

Duchamp’s “Prelude to a Broken Arm” consisted of a store-bought snow shovel on

February 10, 2012 which he simply signed his name, while “L.H.O.O.Q.” consisted of a picture of the Mona Lisa with an added mustache and goatee, and an inscription on the bottom of the work’s aforementioned title.

The final stages of the exhibit showcased the collages of African-American artist Romare Bearden and the Expressionist works of Pollack, whom the museum quoted to have painted on the floor “…since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides, and literally be in the painting.”

The Warhol showcase displays the artist’s famous

“Campbell’s Soup Can” paintings in a wall-spanning cluster containing 32 cans.

The showcase also included a showing of Warhol’s screen tests: silent films portraying undisturbed shots of Warhol associates including Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg and Lou Reed.

Yarborough holds the extensive exhibit in high esteem, and hinted at a potential trip to see the upcoming Dutch Art exhibit in 2013.

The “Picasso to Warhol” exhibit is scheduled to be displayed at the High Museum until April 29. For more information on upcoming exhibit visit www. high.org.

Music

Valentine’s Day vocals Max Noah Singers ‘rendezvous’ with romance and showtunes in annual choral performance Kathryn Shadden Staff Writer Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching, and the Max Noah Singers are prepared to belt a romantic repertoire of tunes to audiences at the sixth-annual Valentine’s Day Rendezvous on Saturday, Feb. 11 in the Magnolia Ballroom.

Jennifer Flory, director of choral activities, says she came up with the idea to have a performance like this six years ago. It will be an event for couples (and singles) to listen to lighter music, have snacks and mingle.

“This is the sixth year we’ve had it,” Flory said. “I wanted to make it an annual event.”

Part of the purpose of this event is to raise money for the Max Noah Singers’ tour. At one point tickets were sold to the Rendezvous, but now the musicians have relied upon donations for the past four years.

The performance will have a lot of variety to it, featuring solos, duets and small ensembles such as a women’s trio and a mixed quintet.

Composers will range from George Gershwin to Frank Sinatra and Adele to The Wreckers.

Flory said that the goal is to appeal to an older audience as well as current students.

The students singing solos generally pick the songs they will sing over the winter or even as early as Fall semester and must have a song picked by the time school starts. Flory chooses the rest by the end of Winter Break, but not every song makes it to the end.

“This event has to fit on TV, so it gets cut short,” Flory said.

This year, they eliminated a nine-minute medley by Rodgers and Hart. While most of their attention has been focused on the February show, several students just returned from All-College Chorus in Savannah.

“This is the sixth year we’ve had it. I wanted to make it an annual event. ” Jennifer Flory, director of choral activities The Max Noah Singers have been hard at work since the second week of school, holding 75-minute practices twice a week as a class as well as rehearsing on their own time. Even people who are not performing in the spotlight that day have put forth a lot of effort.

“Everyone has to put in their fair share of time,” said freshman music education major Mitchell Moore. For Moore, the most challenging song has been “In Love with Rodgers and Hart.”

Chelsea Oglesby, a senior art history major, will be performing a solo.

“I picked ‘One and Only’ by Adele because it’s my last concert, and I wanted a challenge,” Oglesby said. She will also be performing “Leave the Pieces” by The Wreckers with another student.

Bradley Sowell, a freshman music education major, says that he has chosen to sing “If I Would Ever Leave You” from the musical “Camelot,” originally starring Julie Andrews.

“I picked it because it was a nice love song, but I’ve done it before,” said Sowell. Of the overall performance, he said it is very diverse and looks forward to the show.

Regardless of relationship status, students are encouraged to attend the Max Noah Singers’ annual music event, held in the Magnolia Ballroom at 7:30 p.m.

Movie Review: ‘The Woman in Black’ Put on your funeral slacks. The death of this film is near.

Nick Widener Reviewer A rocking chair violently swings back and forth and antiquated baby dolls and clown toys twinkle with a smile. Under a dim candle in a dismal mansion doors lock and unlock erratically. A ghost temporarily discards her black veil to don an outfit consisting of only mud. She shrieks. I laugh uncontrollably.

In the past decade there has been a real dearth of scary movies. The only film coming to mind containing any element of actual horror is 2008’s “The Strangers.” It is a perfect example of the modern incarnation of a horror. And though “The Strangers” is by no means a perfect film, it is not sadomasochism like “Saw” or “Hostel.”

It is not the incoherently messy “found footage” approach to filmmaking like “The Blair Witch Project” and “Paranormal Activity,” nor is it the abysmal “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.”

The recent degradation of horror films is inarguable, but “The Strangers” has all the right pieces “The Woman in Black” is missing.

In London, Lawyer Arthur Kipps (Daniel

Radcliffe) is given a final chance to keep his job by his employer. He is sent to the remote village of Crythin Gifford to sort through mountains of papers at the large estate of a dead woman.

Although Arthur is reluctant to leave his son at home with the nanny, in order to pay the rent he must. But, Arthur is a troubled young widower. His wife, Stella (Sophie Stuckey), clad in white, died in childbirth and haunts him.

“The Woman in Black” makes many inexcusable errors. Foremost, by not having a workable script. Written by Jane Goldman (“X-Men First Class,” “The Debt”) and based on a novel

by Susan Hill, the script has some gaping holes in it. The scenes in the film are identical to mostly every other film in the genre. So much so that there is not even a way to conceive the film going in another direction other than spiraling down the old, broken route it travels.

The dialogue in the film is trivial. No character says anything noteworthy or particularly interesting. All of the villagers are vapid, and when they are not menacingly glaring at Arthur, the extent of their actions consist of inappropriate off-screen screams.

Grade:D-

Yet, it’s not all bad for Arthur. He finds a friend in a villager named Daily (Ciarán Hinds).

Daily offers Arthur a place to stay at his home, but Arthur declines, wanting to “work through the night” in the looming estate of the woman.

While in the woman’s mansion, if not sorting through immeasurable stacks of paper, Arthur quivers as he patrols the halls with a candle.

The umber hallways are a striking hue and glow with an invitation of terror. Yet, they are incapable of delivering. Instead, cheap scares and loud booms in the soundtrack deplete any potential the dramatic scenes could have held.

As for the woman in black, when unveiled, her face is brown, scarred and hideous. Most of Arthur’s searching in the house is anticlimactic, and all of the intended scares are preposterous.

And, once the woman in black’s true motives are revealed, the script and the scares plummet.

Though director James Watkins (“Eden Lake”) tries to go for a more atmospheric scare, he was rather indecisive about the film he wanted to make. In some beginning shots of the film, Watkins uses some shaky camera shots and

some jarring zooms. While this is a stylistic decision that sometimes works, Watkins soon discards this choice for some more still, balanced shots -- a flip-flop with no explanation.

After going through more stacks of paper, Arthur discovers a way to amend the wrong done to the woman in black by appealing to her reason, which is utterly absurd as ghosts are irrational. Nevertheless, Arthur exhibits some small-town heroism and attempts to eradicate the ghost from Crythin Gifford forever.

While Radcliffe is the mass appeal of the film, within the film he has no appeal. His mournful, blue eyes appear to be capable of greater expression. But, the rest of him is inadequate, unwilling to succumb to the full potential of his role. Seemingly, Radcliffe is still in a “Harry Potter” trance, running off of Harry’s fumes.

For his first post-Potter role, Radcliffe made an unwise decision. And although Radcliffe does exhibit potential, he is an ill-equipped actor attempting to dabble in leading-man territory. But, with a dreadful script and poor direction, he fits right in.

Leisure

Brennan Meager Columnist Sipping beer in Ireland. Scouring racks of clothes in Paris. Experiencing exciting, foreign locations is something a lot of college students dream of. Unfortunately, the bank account of some college students does not necessarily allow for jet-setting to other parts of the world. Add Paris and Ireland to your bucket list and start saving now, but in the meantime, why not go out and have an adventure close to home? Day trips are a fun-filled way to spend a Saturday without draining your bank account. An exciting trip to Atlanta from Milledgeville can be made without spending more than $50.

Atlanta is approximately 100 miles away from Milledgeville. In a car that gets 25 miles to the gallon, gas will cost around $25 for a roundtrip, but don’t forget to calculate in a gallon or two more of gas for driving around the city. Bring friends along, and gas will only cost about $5 per person. That means there is still $45 in the budget for the rest of the day.

Eats If you leave Milledgeville mid-morning, you will arrive in Atlanta just in time for lunch. Of course Atlanta has the typical chain restaurants, but there are a surplus of restaurants unique to Atlanta.

Featured on the popular Food Network television show “Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives” is Atlanta’s very own Broadway Diner. This diner serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. The menu offers a wide variety of options, including some Greek and Italian dishes, but for the picky eaters, hamburgers, pastas and salads are also available. There are also several vegetarian options on the diner’s menu.

The prices at Broadway Diner are affordable, and the bill most likely will not exceed $10 to $15.

Another interesting restaurant to check out is Eddie’s Attic. Although the Attic offers meals, it is best known for music. Artists such as John Mayer, Sugarland, Justin Bieber and The Black Crowes have all performed at Eddie’s Attic. This restaurant features rooftop dining and a music room where customers can have dinner and listen to live music.

The menu offers seafood, salads, burgers and more, and the tab should not exceed $15. Eddie’s Attic is a great spot to eat if you want a more exciting eating experience, but add this restaurant to the end of the trip and enjoy some live music with dinner.

February 10, 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 Colonnadestyle 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. I, Anna Morris, will judge these dishes based on taste, creativity and presentation. The winner will move on to the next round, and the loser gets “sliced and diced.”

Secret ingredients: flour tortilla, mayonnaise, tomato paste, black olives, garlic

VS.

Hangouts

WINNER

For those that don’t want to eat out or have a budget of less than $50, why not pack lunch and enjoy a picnic at Centennial Olympic Park? Home of the 1996 Olympic Games, Centennial Park is a great place to enjoy the afternoon. Eat lunch while watching the Fountain of Rings, an interactive fountain, or just stretch out and enjoy the sunshine. During the winter, the park has an ice skating rink, which could be a fun activity after lunch.

Shops A trip to Atlanta wouldn’t be complete without shopping. After lunch, head over to Atlantic Station, which has a wide variety of stores including H&M, Banana Republic, DSW Shoe Warehouse and even a movie theater. Another place to shop in Atlanta is Little Five Points, which boasts that it’s “Atlanta’s most bohemian retail district.” Be sure to check out music stores Wax n’ Facts and Satellite Records. Little Five Points also has its fair share of clothing stores such as Rag-ORama, which occasionally has $1 sales.

Sudoku

Solutions from 2/3/12

Kate Ramsey Junior mass communication major

Steffi Beigh Junior mass communication major

“Almost Tomato Soup”

“Almost Pizza”

Creativity.......................4

Creativity.......................3

Taste...............................3

Taste...............................5

Presentation...................3

Presentation...................5

Crossword

Happy Valentine’s Day

You have my heart.

Sports

February 10, 2012 • Editor, Sam Hunt

Collegiate

Bobcats fall to Clayton State Bobcat men squander career-high 28 from Aquino, dropped by Clayton State, 62-55 Chad Patterson Staff Writer Despite a career-high 28 points from senior forward Ryan Aquino, the Georgia College men’s basketball team (13-8, 6-6 PBC) fell 62-55 to the Clayton State Lakers (14-7, 6-6 PBC), ending its five-game win streak.

Aquino had his shot falling early and often, hitting four of his first five shots in the game. Aquino tallied 15 of GC’s total 30 points in the first-half for the Bobcats.

“The last game I shot terrible, so just got to get (my) shots up in practice between games,” Aquino said. “I just had to make sure to get ready for this one.”

Six turnovers by the Bobcats allowed the Lakers to run off an 11-4 run to end the first-half. Head Coach Terry Sellers was surprised at the team’s slow start.

Scott Carranza / Staff Photographer Senior forward Ryan Aquino pulls up for a 3-pointer over Clayston State’s Tim Budd on Tuesday, Feb. 7. Aquino scored a career-high 28 points against the Lakers.

“I thought we were fortunate to be down only five at the half. Men’s We were a little slug- Basketball gish tonight,” Sellers GC 55 said. “We weren’t as CSU 62 sharp as we have been in the last few games.

The intensity was not quite what it has been the last few games … and I really thought we would have come out with more intensity.”

The second-half didn’t start off much better for the Bobcats as junior forward Scott Ferguson limped off the court with an ankle injury just three minutes into the half.

Multiple turnovers and missed shots

by GC allowed the Lakers to add to

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Scott Carranza / Staff Photographer Junior forward Scott Ferguson awaits Clayton State defender Torrin Greene on Tuesday, Feb. 7. Ferguson limped off the court early in the second-half with a right ankle injury.

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Tennis sweeps Morehouse 9-0

Women’s basketball loses fifth straight

Men’s tennis opens Spring season with dominating 9-0 home victory Kate Ramsey Staff Reporter The Georgia College men’s tennis team began its spring season on Sunday, Feb. 5 at home with a nine-match sweep over Morehouse College.

The doubles portion of the day went over more than smoothly, with the number one pair of senior Jerome Leborgne and junior Johan Wadstein beating their opponent by 8-0 in the pro-set match.

The matches that followed were close behind; juniorsTyler

Franks and Kasper Konyves with an 8-2 game and then pair junior Wictor Andersson and senior Leo Bernardes with an 8-1 win.

The singles portion of the day was equally as successful, with Leborgne winning two straight sets, ending in 6-1 and 6-2.

Wadstein followed the winning lead by finishing up with two shutout victory sets, each 6-0.

“We are a very strong group as a whole,” Bernardes said. “This win brings more confidence for each of us for the season to

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Scott Carranza / Staff Photographer Freshman forward Belinda Schaafsma puts up a free-throw for the Bobcats against Clayton State on Tuesday, Feb. 7. Schaafsma grabbed seven rebounds in an 81-56 loss to the Lakers.

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Jen Hoffman / Staff Photographer Business graduate student Jérôme Leborgne serves the ball during a match against Morehouse. The men’s team won all its matches on Sunday, Feb. 5.

The Short Stop

The women’s basketball team (4-16, 2-9 PBC) stepped onto the floor against Peach Belt Conference foe Georgia Southwestern State University on Feb. 4 coming off three consecutive losses.

Freshman forward Belinda Schaafsma’s career-high 11 points and classmate guard Shanteona Keys’ 18 points and perfect 8-8 free throws could not overcome the Hurricane’s veteran play from their four starting seniors as GC

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fell 72-47.

It was an 11-point game at the half, but allowing 13 fast-break points and being out shot 43 percent to 29 percent from the floor, the Bobcats never came back. Three Hurricanes scored in double-figures.

Returning from their weekend loss, GC kept the ball at home on Tuesday Feb. 7 to battle the PBC West leading Clayton State University. Outsized and much younger, GC took its fifth loss

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Quote of the Week “As long as I stay healthy and am having fun, I’m going to keep going. I sit here with three weeks to go before spring training and I’m not ready to say this is it.”

-Braves third baseman Chipper Jones on his future.

The Side Line

Lack of school spirit disturbing Chad Patterson Sports Columnist Junior forward Scott Ferguson drives toward the basket for a slam dunk, and the crowd goes wild, or not.

A couple claps here and there are overpowered by the announcer’s voice sitting next to me. The band starts to play Neil Diamond’s catchy, “Sweet Caroline.” Fans are supposed to join in and sing the chorus, belting out, “So good! So good! So good!”

There’s nothing.

Just your typical Georgia College basketball game.

The problem is simple. Students here could care less.

The Department of Athletics here at GC pumped out $2.5 million to support NCAA sports during the 2010-2011 school year. So why don’t our students embrace the teams?

Students don’t care. Take a stroll around campus Monday afternoon and it won’t be hard to find multiple students wearing shirts from other colleges, especially that one in Athens.

Students here are lazy, and the excuses only make the problem even more obvious.

The typical excuse: “I don’t like (insert sport here), or I didn’t even know when the game was.”

Going to a college basketball game shouldn’t be about whether or not you like the sport. It should be about the experience as a whole.

Here at GC, that experience is impossible because a majority of our student population doesn’t care.

Some will get a glimpse of school spirit this Saturday during the Homecoming games, but it’s short-lived.

Students in Greek organizations go to support the Mr. and Ms. Georgia College award ceremonies, not the basketball team.

The next game it will just go back to how it is now.

Nearly empty of students.

The student section? Nonexistent more often than not.

Thunder Crew’s mission is straightforward, and it should work. However, it’s difficult when some students would rather stay in and watch “Real Housewives of Orange County” or kick back and play “FIFA” with the bros.

The lack of school spirit is not only disturbing, but it’s also unattractive. Attendance at the Centennial Center is well under 1,000 per basketball game in an arena that accommodates more than 4,000 fixed seats.

The lack of school spirit isn’t a basketball-only issue.

It spreads through all sports.

But it’s blatant during basketball season. It’s pathetic.

It’s not the administration. It’s not the Department of Athletics. It’s not Thunder Crew.

Students are the problem, and only the students can create a fan base that spans not only throughout campus, but throughout the entire community around Milledgeville.

Notable Stat

.304 The career batting average of Braves third baseman Chipper Jones, who enters his 19th season this year.

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Softball struggles in season opener Softball drops three of four in opening doubleheader Morgan Wilson Staff Reporter

Kendyl Wade / Senior Photographer Senior pitcher/outfielder Caitlin Duvall fouls off a pitch against Catawba College on Sunday, Feb. 5. The Bobcats dropped the doubleheader 5-3 and 3-0.

The Georgia College softball team split a doubleheader to open its season against Queens University last Saturday, losing the first game 8-5 and winning the second 10-2.

“We started off a little more confident than last year,” coach Jamie Grodecki said.

The next day, the Bobcats lost both games of a doubleheader against Catawba College, 5-3 and 3-0.

“We could’ve done better,” sophomore outfielder Whitney Okvist said. “We were nervous and anxious about our first games of the season, but we will show our true talent as the season goes on.”

In the Bobcats’ first game against Queens, they trailed 8-1 in the bottom of the seventh. With the bases loaded, sophomore first baseman/pitcher Haley Burnett made it interesting.

She socked a grand slam to pull the home team within three, 8-5, but the Bobcats’ rally fell short.

The homer fired up her teammates.

“Overall, we did OK,” Burnett said. “But we did not play up to our potential

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The Bobcats picked up the pace during the second game against Queens. They plated five runs in just two innings.

Burnett pitched a complete game. Sophomore catcher/infielder Kelsea Martin led the team scoring three runs, and her teammates followed scoring four more runs in the fifth inning. The eight-run rule in five innings won the game for GC. “We need to work on coming together as a team,” Okvist said.

The Bobcats didn’t get much of a break on Sunday as they prepared for their second doubleheader in as many days, which Catawba’s Indians swept.

The Bobcats took the lead in the first inning, scoring three runs on Burnett’s RBI double to right-center.

The Indians scored five runs, and GC, which managed only four hits after

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Kendyl Wade / Senior Photographer Junior pitcher/infielder Dani Gallucci rifles a fastball against Catawba College on Sunday, Feb. 5. Galluci struck out four against the Indians.

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Bobcat baseball takes 2 of 3 on opening weekend Powell Cobb Staff Writer The No. 23 Georgia College baseball team (2-1) won two of three games against King ColBaseball lege to open GC 5 the season KC 9 last weekend.

The Bobcats GC 5 split a Friday KC 4 doubleheader, losing the first GC 9 game 9-5 and KC winning the 3 second 5-4, then beat the Tornado 9-3 on Saturday.

In game one, the King College Tornadoes ran out to a 7-1 lead with the help of a five-run sixth inning, which included RBI singles from King’s Jarrod Payne and Shane Timberlake. Payne finished with four RBI in the contest.

The Bobcats scored four more runs in the final three frames, with junior catcher/ firstbaseman Cody Maas belting his first home run of the season, but it wasn’t enough as the Bobcats fell 9-5.

Game two saw a much more focused Bobcat team, with junior right-handed pitcher Darin Wiltgen guiding the team to a victory by pitching all seven innings allowing just two earned runs and walking one.

“During the second game, our defense was really helpful. They definitely were a big factor in our win,” Wiltgen said.

In the bottom of the sixth, the Bobcats, down 2-1, put together a four-run inning to jump ahead. The Bobcats loaded the bases with nobody out, and with the help of a bases-loaded walk, a wild pitch, a sacrifice fly by junior designated hitter Jeremy

Donaldson and a RBI single from catcher Cody Maas the Bobcats led the Tornadoes 5-2.

On Saturday, game three saw the GC pulling off another win with a 9-3 score, ending the series against the Tornadoes.

GC’s offense was on a roll throughout the game, scoring in six of eight innings.

Starting on the mound for the Bobcats was junior righthanded pitcher Taylor Hart, who pitched the first four innings and allowed only one earned run on six hits.

Sophomore left-handed pitcher Hayden Martin relieved Hart, going 1 2/3 innings and only allowing one hit in addition to two strike outs.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, senior infielder Tanner Funk blasted a double to score two runs to put GC ahead 7-2.

“In that situation, I was trying to hit the ball up the middle to score at least one run,” Funk said.

“The pitcher left a curveball up and over the plate and I was able to send it into right-center, bringing in two runs.”

Sophomore utility player Matthew Robinson and junior right-handed pitcher Zack Hula combined efforts to pitch the final 3 1/3 innings, giving up just one earned run.

The Bobcat defense did not allow much past them, with a trio of double plays keeping the Tornado from putting too many runs on the scoreboard.

This weekend, GC faces off against No. 5 University of Tampa in a three game series. Tampa is a long running rival of Georgia College, so ambitions are high among the players and coaches.

“The pitcher left a curveball up and over the plate, and I was able to send it into right-center, bringing in two runs.”

Tanner Funk, Infielder “Tampa’s a good looking team, but our expectations are always the same,” Head Coach Tom Carty said.

“Baseball is a game of repetition, so if we can continue to play like we did last weekend, things should turn out well.”

The series begins at John Kurtz Field on Friday with a doubleheader at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., followed by the final game at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

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Ultimate snags first in tourney Disconnected hosts, earns first place in The Flickn’ Nuts Tournament, raises $1,200 for local charity Sam Hunt Staff Writer The Georgia College Ultimate team, Disconnected, hosted its first tournament of the Spring season last weekend and took first place, defeating the University of Florida B team in the finals.

“I feel great about it. We really were just on top of our game the whole time,” senior business management major and president of Disconnected Sean Morris said. “We were looking a little sluggish in our first game but about half way through we started doing what we need to do, which was win. This was the biggest tournament we have ever had. I couldn’t be happier with the results.”

The Flickn’ Nuts Tournament 2012 is an annual tournament hosted by GC and had a total of 12 competing teams this year. The GC squad played four games on Saturday and three games on Sunday, including the semifinals and finals.

Disconnected opened their annual home tournament on the morning of Saturday Feb. 4 where it faced Augusta State University. Both teams played aggressively throughout the match but GC come out on top with a 13-9 victory. In Saturday’s play of the Flickn’ Nuts Tournament, the rules are set to where the first team to reach the score of 13 wins the game.

“We won the championship and made some money, which is what we needed to do because this tourney was basically a fundraiser to pay

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for the rest our season and all of our other tournaments,” Morris said.

According to Morris, Disconnected raised $1,200 dollars in their home tournament. The club team is donating 10 percent of the money they earned to Have a Heart Foundation.

After opening up the tournament with a win, GC kept the momentum going when it dominated Florida Institute of Technology in the second tourney game, hitting the 13 point cap when Florida Tech had just two points in their favor.

“I think overall in most of the games we were pretty confident in our abilities,” Morris said. “We put in a lot of good throws that took a lot of confidence.”

GC faced Southern Polytechnic State University in the third game and overpowered the Marietta team with a 13-2 victory.

Closing out the last Saturday game, Disconnected faced the alumni a team, the recent GC graduates and came out on top with a 13-6 win.

“I think this tournament really made us come together,” Morris said. “It was a complete team effort as far as getting ready for the whole tournament. We really came together and I think it really helped our game.”

While the point cap for the Feb. 4 games was 13 points, the point cap was increased to 15 for Sunday’s games.

GC opened up Sunday facing the Alumni B team. A much older team comprised of The B team actually played

better than their a team, but still fell to Disconnected 15-8, sending GC into the semifinals.

In the Flickn’ Nuts semifinals, Disconnected outplayed the University of South Carolina and reached the point cap when the score was 15-7. This victory sent GC to the finals.

I think even though we won, we need to still work on the energy to keep going,” Morris said.

“When you’ve played seven games the ability to run and keep playing at the same the level is difficult and its easy to get tired, which is somewhat inevitable because its seven games in one weekend.”

In the finals, Disconnected was up against the University of Florida B team. Florida came out playing aggressively but GC took control of the game and came out on top of the finals with a 15-10 victory, giving the Disconnected crew the Flickn’ Nuts championship title.

We need to continue to practice hard and not be lazy.

Its really easy to go out there and just have fun,” Morris said. “I think taking our practices seriously so we can keep getting better is something we need to do.”

Disconnected will be on the road to Louisiana for their next tournament, the Mardi Gras Ultimate Frisbee Tournament in Baton Rouge from Feb. 18 to 19.

“It’s a pretty competitive tournament,” Morris said.

“I’d say it’s the most competitive tournament of the year besides nationals.”

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From then on, the Bobcats turned the game into a heavyweight battle down the stretch, starting with an 8-0 run guided by six points from Aquino.

“I think that’s when guys really picked up the intensity. Defensive intensity got much better,” Sellers said. “We got a couple steals. I think that’s when the guys seemed to really get energized, and realized they had to pick it up.”

With just under seven minutes to play, Aquino drained a 3-pointer with the shot clock dwindling, and sent the bench into a frenzy, tying the game 51-51.

“We were playing with an edge and playing together,” senior forward Jared Holmes said.

“Basically we were playing much harder basketball.”

The game remained close as the final minutes approached, but with 45 seconds left and GC trailing 56-55, Clayton State’s Juron Dobbs slammed home a put-back dunk, silencing the home crowd.

“We can’t do anything but blame each other in that situation,” Holmes said. “He dunked the ball, so that’s all of our faults. Just a miss communication right there. We’ve got to come back Homecoming day and just play with an edge and lots of energy like we had been.”

Dobb’s put-back dunk sealed the Bobcat’s fate, and Sellers called it the play of the game.

“That was the key in a one-point game. We just needed a stop and then come down and score,” Sellers said. “The guy made a good play. We missed the block out, and he dunked it back in.”

The Bobcats came in riding a season-high five-game win streak in the PBC, which had hoisted the Bobcats into third-place in the west division.

“Everybody was really disappointed. We’ve got another game Saturday, and it’s not like it’s the end of the season,” Sellers said. “We’ve still got a lot of basketball left to play. It was a tough loss, but we’ve just got to learn from it.

We play a really good Columbus team on Saturday, so we can’t feel sorry for ourselves.”

The Bobcats host Columbus State (13-8, 8-4 PBC) Saturday at 3:30 p.m. for their final Homecoming game of the week at the Centennial Center.

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“One of our for more greatest strengths information about the GC was in the last softball team’s game when we doubleheaders didn’t let the gap in Spring season get bigger,” Burnett said. “We just need to work on timely hits and working together as a team.”

The Indians stayed hot in the second game, shutting out GC 3-0. GC had just three hits. Bobcats’ freshman pitcher Erica Bell could not hold off the Indians as she gave up three runs on three hits in three innings.

The Bobcats travel to Eckerd College for the Spring Invitational in Clearwater, Fla. They face the Nova Southeastern University Sharks in the tourney’s opener Feb. 10.

“We want to bring back the tradition of winning and playing hard and being a respected team in our conference,” Grodecki said. “We need to work on chemistry because there are so many new people on the team this year.”

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Morgan Wilson / Staff Photographer Freshman outfielder Alex Duvall bats Sunday, Feb. 5. Duvall hopes to have an immediate impact on the team this season.