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SGA considers ticketing smokers and other solutions for a frequent breach in university policy.

SGA is seemingly running on autopilot as they continuously fail to tangibly address student issues.

From kiosks to cars to porn: The screens around you are turning vertical.

Football returns home from where they’re 2-1 this year. 2 p.m. kickoff at Georgia State Stadium this Saturday.

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BLOTTER OCT. 16

It’s a free country, damnit!

A person not affiliated with Georgia State was arrested at Hurt Park for selling alcohol without a license.

OCT. 17

You’ve been hit by a smooth criminal.

A Georgia State student reported a theft valued at $1,500 or less in Classroom South.

Who’s snitchin’?

A Georgia State student gave information to an officer at the University Commons at 11:06 a.m.

The next flight to Canada, please.

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A person not affiliated with Georgia State was arrested on a charge of possession of less than one ounce of marijuana at Piedmont Avenue and Auburn Avenue.

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Someone not affiliated with Georgia State was arrested at Aderhold Learning Center on a charge of trespassing after receiving prior notice.

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Why Amendment 4 is disputed A victims’ rights amendment is stirring controversy in Georgia

NATORI SPENCE

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arsy’s Law is a victims’ rights amendment that will be on the Georgia midterm ballot on Nov. 6, but many victims’ rights advocates are against its

passage.

“If someone is raped right now in Georgia, the rapist has more protection than the person that they raped,” Ann Casas, state director for Marsy’s Law for Georgia, said.

She said that the provisions in Amendment 4 are only to make sure that the victim is allowed to be present and allowed to have a voice during the legal procedures involving their case.

“I’m baffled to think that the victim being allowed to speak would take away any rights from the defendant,” she said. “Especially in this environment that we’re in, I would think you would want the victim to be able to speak. If [the victim] is incorrect, the system already protects the accused.”

The campaign was named after California college student Marsalee “Marsy” Nicholas, who was stalked and killed in 1983 by an ex-boyfriend.

Jeanne Hruska, policy director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Hampshire, explained in an ACLU blog post that the notion that victims’ rights can be equated to the rights of the accused is a fallacy.

“The U.S. Constitution and all 50 state constitutions guarantee defendants’ rights because they are rights against the state, not because they are valued more by society than victims’ rights,” she said. “Defendants’ rights only apply when the state is attempting to deprive the accused – not the victim – of life, liberty, or property.”

Hrusha said that though it has good intentions, the Marsy’s Law formula is poorly drafted and is a threat to existing constitutional rights.

“The Marsy’s Law formula includes the rights to restitution, to reasonable protection, and to refuse depositions and discovery requests, all of which are enforced against the defendant. Such rights do nothing to check the power of the government. In fact, many of the provisions in Marsy’s Law could actually strengthen the state’s hand against a defendant, undermining a bedrock principle of our legal system — the presumption of innocence,” she said.

But, Casas said that the amendment took three years to craft and seeks to secure victim’s rights, not withdraw existing rights from defendants.

“That’s why first of all you go through the legislative process. This bill had to go through all of those considerations in the house and in the senate and in the judiciary committee. And, the prosecuting attorneys council has endorsed Marsy’s Law. They were there, they helped to craft it. So if it violated anybody’s rights, those are things that would have been considered, even the defense attorneys

signed off on it,” she said.

However, Hrusha said that this “experimental model law” is so expansive and ambiguous that it’s impossible to know how courts would interpret it or what its impact would be in any one state.

“It pits victims’ rights against defendants’ rights. Creating such a conflict means that defendants’ rights may lose in certain circumstances. In other words, the chances that an innocent person could be convicted of a crime they did not commit could potentially increase. The proponents of Marsy’s Law may not intend for this outcome, but nothing in their formula prevents it,” she said.

Casas said that the creators of Marsy’s Law recognize the importance of the constitutional rights of the accused, but they also recognize that victims deserve the same type of procedural protections.

“There’s a very long list of constitutional protections that are really very important, and they should be there because if we’re accused of a crime, we need to make sure the government doesn’t overreach in their authority,” she said.

“What we are trying to do is make sure that crime victims are informed about every step of the legal process.”

Right now these protections are written in statutes in Georgia, but they are not constitutionally protected.

“So if violated, there’s really no repercussions,” Casas said.

Casas recalled a traumatic experience that one of her colleagues went through that she believes highlights the need for these protections. Her husband was released from jail after physically assaulting her, and she was unaware of his release because she was not notified by the state. Casas said shortly after his release, he returned, raped her and nearly killed her.

“The protections we are trying to give are procedural protections that do not assume the guilt of the person [accused],” Casas said. “How does a victim being allowed to be in court and being notified and being present, how does that violate someone’s rights?”

These provisions are already in place in 36 states.

“If people’s rights were being violated left and right all over the place, these other states would have had issues since the 1980s and they simply haven’t,” Casas said.

In Georgia, there is some inconsistency regarding the enforcement of these protections across the state, according to Casas. She said this amendment levels the playing field so that all crime victims across the state have the same level of protection.

“You’ve got Atlanta and then you got the rest of the state.

Every county does things differently. So [in] some counties, victims’ rights are gonna be protected more than others, just simply because of manpower,” Casas said.

Jessica Szilagyi, a statewide contributor for AllOnGeorgia. com, wrote an opinion article on why she is voting “no” on Georgia’s Amendment 4.

“In some states, unintended consequences have resulted in problems of due process. In South Dakota, the approved Marsy’s Law has resulted in longer jail stays while courts

THE AMENDMENT STATES THAT A VICTIM SHALL RECEIVE: The right upon request to reasonable, accurate and timely notice of any scheduled court proceedings involving the alleged act or changes to the scheduling of such proceedings.

The right upon request to reasonable, accurate and timely notice of the arrest release or escape of the accused.

The right not to be excluded from any scheduled court proceedings involving the alleged act.

The right upon request to be heard at any scheduled court proceedings involving the alleged act.

The right to be informed of his or her rights.

wait for victims to be notified. Officials say it’s led to notification in even the simplest of crimes, like vandalism, and swamped staff with additional paperwork,” she said.

Benita Dodd from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation also provided her opinion on the law in an article published on their website.

“A constitutional amendment is no place to risk infringing the rights of someone accused of a crime. The accused have the presumption of innocence until convicted; their life and liberty are at stake. For many suffering victims and their surviving families, there’s a fine line between justice based on a court of law and vengeance based on the alleged wrongdoing,” she said.

Hrushka said that to oppose Marsy’s Law is not to oppose victims’ rights. Rather, it is to oppose the highly problematic formula that is Marsy’s Law. “It doesn’t matter if you are white or black, rich or poor, or republican or democrat, you can be a victim of crime, and I would say we have a moral obligation to come alongside of people who have suffered,” Casas said.

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The Student Government Association considered ticketing on-campus smokers before being notified of that policy’s illegality by The Signal.

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SGA unknowingly proposed illegal policy

Senate lacking concrete plan to address smoking, despite promises WILL SOLOMONS & DANIEL VARITEK News Editor & Editor-in-Chief

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or years, the Student Government Association (SGA) has struggled to curb the appeal of smoking on campus. Now, despite assurances that they would not take a hard-line stance on the issue, SGA has said it’s considering ticketing smokers on campus.

In a Thursday, Oct. 11, Atlanta Senate meeting, Sen. Kaelen Thomas of the Safety Ad Hoc Committee delivered an update on SGA’s no smoking initiative, which he’s spearheading.

“We have some solutions available to us,” Thomas said before introducing Freshman Liaison Kenneth Lockett, a partner to Thomas in this initiative. “[We’re considering] the introduction of a ticketing or fining system, which has been implemented at different universities, such as the University of Illinois,” Lockett said, while noting that this would be “a more aggressive approach” to enforcing the university’s no smoking policy.

There’s only one problem: That isn’t legal.

“We have no legal authority as POST-certified police officers to issue any kind of ticket to a student for smoking on campus,” Georgia State University Police Department (GSUPD) Chief Joseph Spillane said.

Lockett told The Signal his goal would be to use ticketing smokers as a means to fund testing supplies for the SGA office, among other things.

“We’re trying to actually push it into Counseling and Student Services so that the $5 and $10 that you’re spending for kind of breaking the rules essentially is actually going back into services that you use every day,” Lockett said. “So, different things like Scantrons and Blue Books in the SGA office.”

This comes just weeks after an announcement that SGA had run low on the free testing supplies its office provides to Georgia State students, which prompted the senate to quickly mitigate the depleting supplies.

For now, students are required to swipe their PantherCard in order to acquire testing supplies, which are presently limited to one Blue Book or a total of two testing items per day.

SGA has previously desired GSUPD’s enforcement of the no smoking rule in order to bolster the seemingly toothless university policy. But, according to GSUPD, that just isn’t possible.

“What police officers do is enforce criminal law,” Spillane said. “They don’t enforce policies of an institution or policies of

an individual company.”

And while GSUPD could deploy officers within its security division to disperse the frequent crowd of smokers in Library Plaza (commonly referred to as the “smircle”), that might not be the best option either.

“We are reaching out to other clubs and organizations on campus in order to spread awareness about the dangers of secondhand smoke, educate on our campus policy, and inform students of the tobacco cessation services we offer at Student Health Promotions.”

— KAELEN THOMAS Student Government Association Senator “The most we could do is somehow involve our security division, who are already kind of tapped out making sure that the buildings are secure,” Spillane said.

When The Signal notified Thomas of the illegality involved with ticketing on-campus smokers, Thomas said he didn’t know.

“I can’t speak for Kenneth Lockett but I can say that I have not been made aware of this,” Thomas said.

Thomas still plans to speak with GSUPD on the issue of smoking, though he conceded they “will not be talking about the ticketing of students.” Instead, Thomas said he’s now focused on raising community awareness for the existing no smoking policy.

“We’ll be in talks with the Interim Dean of Students and other faculty members in the coming weeks over educating future freshman (sic) about the policy. Also we are looking into getting new signage that includes both smoke-free and vapefree wording,” Thomas said.

As new national campaigns emerge against smoking and “JUULing,” Thomas said he also wants Georgia State’s clubs and organizations to take part in educating students on the dangers

of tobacco use.

“We are reaching out to other clubs and organizations on campus in order to spread awareness about the dangers of secondhand smoke, educate on our campus policy, and inform students of the tobacco cessation services we offer at Student Health Promotions,” he said.

At a Sept. 27 Atlanta Senate meeting, Dean of Libraries Jeff Steely became an unlikely ally to SGA in its no smoking initiative. Steely said that once Library Plaza’s renovation begins, students in the smircle will be forced to relocate off campus to smoke. As of late, the smircle has become a place where students gather to smoke, hang hammocks and play cards.

“It bothers me just as much as it bothers you. It’s frustrating,” Steely said. “My hope is that if they feel like they need to smoke, they find a legal place to smoke off campus.”

When asked if the university would be able to create a designated smoking area on campus, Thomas said that may not be possible due to policies already adopted by the university.

“The current policy does not include the ability to designate smoking areas on campus, except for housing, so in order to do that we would have to rewrite the policy to allow it and then it would have to go before a University Committee and then be voted on by the faculty and staff that make up the University Senate,” Thomas said. “I’m not saying we have ruled out this possibility but we are currently looking at more successful ventures.”

When Kell Hall and eventually Library Plaza are demolished, Thomas said it will be more difficult to accommodate and not alienate students who smoke.

“Kell Hall is set to be demolished this coming Spring Semester and Library Plaza soon after. This has made our work of not alienating our students much harder because they will eventually be forced out of the area due to construction.”

Thomas said. “It’ll most likely be something that is addressed by the next administration. But we are doing our best to plan for these events.”

Thomas assured that they were doing what they can to not offend anyone and to acknowledge any viewpoints related to the issue.

“I do believe we can tailor to both sides of the aisle. However, we aren’t creating a brand new policy, only enforcing one that has been neglected,” he said.

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Can you say the N-word?

Student upset over GSU’s response to her incident report ADA WOOD & NATORI SPENCE Staff Reporter & Associate News Editor

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eorgia State student Ronnette Moore filed an incident report on April 4, 2018, to express her concerns regarding her roommate’s use of the N-word.

THE STUDENT’S STORY

“The thing that drew me to Georgia State was diversity and inclusion. I decided this is where I wanted to be, and I drove 3,000 miles to get here,” Moore said. She is a black transfer student from California.

Moore lived with her roommate who is a resident assistant (RA), whose name will be withheld here, at the University Lofts during the spring semester of 2018.

The incident report documented Moore’s issues with her roommate’s lack of cleanliness and the presence of cockroaches in their dorm. In the report, she also mentioned that her roommate used the N-word when referring to her boyfriend during an argument the couple had.

“She said something along the lines of [this to her boyfriend]: ‘N----, you are bigger than me. At the end of the day, you’re a n---- and I look like a little kid compared to you,’” Moore said.

Initially, Moore spoke to Ashley Brown, the housing assistant director for equity, diversity and inclusion, about the issue. Brown then spoke with the RA shortly after and recommended that the two roommates take part in mediation.

Moore said the RA wasn’t present for the mediation meeting. In a later conversation with her roommate, Moore discovered that the RA was confused as to why she couldn’t say the word because Moore herself had used the word around her.

According to Moore, the RA, being a minority herself, felt she was justified in using the word since she had used it in the past with her other black friends. However, Moore remained rigid in her stance and recalled that in high school she dealt with discrimination and the unsolicited use of the word by other non-black people of color.

Moore said she thinks being an RA put her in a position of power, and because of this, her use of the word was a representation of the school.

According to Moore, the RA said Moore had no control over her words. She said the RA also claimed Brown said she could use the word.

THE UNIVERSITY’S RESPONSE

LaRhonda Brewer, the dean of students, responded to Moore’s initial report.

“The reported conduct is not a violation of the Student Code of Conduct,” Brewer said in an email.

Moore said she wants a derogatory language policy implemented in the Student Code of Conduct, which was enforced at her previous university, College of the Desert.

Moore said that ultimately, after going through both housing and university administration, nothing was done to fix her situation. She said that social awareness training would be beneficial not only to teach tolerance but respect for other people.

“This school promotes diversity and utilizes it as a marketing tool but doesn’t have anything to back it up. Instead, we should be upholding the standard,” Moore said.

Randy Brown, director of university housing, said that the university does not comment on protected student records, private interactions between its students or actions relating to student employees, per federal law.

AN EXPERT’S OPINION

“In a very informal situation after a couple beers, I may hear the word being used toward

me,” Oscar Moreno, the senior lecturer and coordinator of the lower division Spanish department at Georgia State. But, he has never been confident in whether or not he should say the word in return.

Moreno’s research includes social networks, language behavior and Spanish dialectology.

There are two clear uses of the N-word: as an insult and as a form of endearment, according to Moreno.

Moreno classified Hispanics according to their generation.

First-generation Hispanics are those who are originally from a Spanish-speaking country and immigrate to the U.S., whereas secondgeneration Hispanics are those born in the U.S. as a result of their parent’s immigration.

He said that immigrating to a new country or community can lead to a lack of awareness of social norms in that new community.

“Their first reaction, in order to identify themselves with the group, may be to use the word as they hear it,” Moreno said. “But they may over-do it or there may be a mismatch between use, context and people.”

He said Hispanics who are born in the U.S. are normally familiar with the two uses of the word and are less likely to mismatch the words’ intentions.

“In my particular case, even if I do want to express endearment, I’m not used to expressing endearment by a form that is foreign to me,” Moreno said. “I express endearment with a different word, maybe a Spanish word. Perhaps I’d say ‘compadre’ to my African-American friends.”

Moreno said that because of the normalization of the N-word, he has considered the possibility of one day using it in a casual setting with his friends, under the condition that they use the word first and give him permission.

Gladys M. Francis, a French and francophone studies professor at Georgia State, moved from the island of Guadeloupe 20 years ago.

Francis said that when Europeans arrived in Africa, they referred to Africans as “blacks.”

Through the transition to slavery, Africans were seen as having lost their body and humanity and thus were referred to derogatorily as the N-word.

“We know why we allow ourselves to be called this. We have reclaimed the word. But it does not belong to you,” Francis said. “You are invited into my culture, but you are a guest.”

Francis said that even though Hispanics are a minority, the same rule regarding the use of the word applies to them as it does white people.

“Why would they have to use that word?

It’s important not to put all minorities into one group,” Francis said.

She said using the word is about

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reclaiming your body and reclaiming your culture, and she likes to believe the same can be said for the use of the word in America.

“I’m a descendant of slavery. I know that, I know what the word means,” she said. “It’s OK, you are not hurting me with this word, but you are not allowed to use it. I’m black, I’m beautiful.”

In response to Moore’s situation, she said that if a black person gives someone else permission to use the word around them, that is a contract solely between those two individuals.

“If I allow the word between the two of us, that is OK. But you cannot take it and use it with the entire community,” Francis said.

Moore said this situation is about students having a voice to the administration.

“Instead of dismissing me, you should hear me.

I won’t say I regret coming here, but I will say I regret not speaking up about these issues earlier,” Moore said. “Hopefully I can give other people a voice to talk about their own experiences.”

CNN reported Gwinnett County now faces two federal lawsuits and accusations from voting rights activists who said that registration rejections disproportionately affect minority voters, particularly Asian-Americans and African-Americans.

The county rejected 595 absentee ballots, more than a third of the total absentee ballot rejections in the state.

More than 300 of the rejected ballots belonged to AfricanAmericans and AsianAmericans. Officials said they tossed out the ballots due to missing birthdates, address discrepancies, signatures that do not match those on registration records and other issues.

NATIONAL Thirty injured after floor collapses during fraternityhosted party

The Washington Post reported dancing partygoers at a South Carolina clubhouse were dancing when the floor gave out beneath them early Sunday morning. Clemson University sophomore Larissa Stone told Greenville News that it happened very quickly.

A video of the floor collapsing went viral on multiple social media platforms. Although no one was trapped in the debris, 30 people were injured, according to a statement by Clemson Police Chief Jimmy Dixon.

GLOBAL Five thousand migrants vowing to reach U.S.

CBS reported that on Saturday about 2,000 Central American migrants swam or rafted across a river with the intention of crossing the Mexican border. Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, they reformed their mass caravan, and they vowed to resume their journey toward the United States. The caravan swelled to about 5,000 overnight, and at first light they set out walking toward the Mexican town of Tapachula.

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Dr. Maged Henary, a Georgia State associate professor of chemistry, is working on new compounds to improve cancer research.

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Cancer’s silver bullet: the eye behind research

One step closer to effectively identifying and killing cancerous tumors ZACH SALLING Staff Reporter

“T

he surgeon is only using his own naked eye to do the surgery,” Dr. Maged Henary, Georgia State associate professor and researcher of organic and medicinal chemistry, said.

Early in his career, Henary used chemistry to develop temperature-induced color-changing ink for beer cans.

“I did some work with a company developing compound for thermochromic ink formulation color change for beer can,” Henary said.

Thermochromic ink is the same technology that makes the mountains appear on Coors’ beer cans.

But during that time, everything changed for Henary.

“In 2001, my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer,” Henary said. “She was 36 years old with three kids.”

Henary said surgeons ran lab tests, made diagnoses and used different imaging tools. His sister underwent chemotherapy and her health improved.

But even with new technology, Henary said the biggest obstacle in the operating room is still using the surgeon’s eye. “[The surgeon is] doing his best, but he’s not sure,” Henary said. “In 2002, [my sister] came back to normal, but at the end of 2002, the cancer came back very aggressively. The surgeon doesn’t see everything. She died in 2003.”

His sister’s passing inspired him to pursue better cancer treatment technology.

Henary, originally from Egypt, obtained his Ph.D. at Georgia State. Before being appointed a lecturer at Georgia State in 2007, he worked briefly at Georgia Tech.

Henary wishes to make surgery more efficient, and the compound that he personally developed, MHI-148, does just that.

MHI-148 isn’t a compound that simply identifies cancerous tumors; it allows medical personnel to theoretically eliminate those tumors completely.

“We can make something to image the tumor and at the same time, kill the tumor cell,” Henary said. “So the compound can be targeting and the drug to kill.”

Henary’s compound is a major breakthrough for cancer treatment. The product has already been used in international cancer imaging research with Dr. Leland W.K. Chung, founder of DaZen Theranostics Inc., where MHI-148 was patented.

DaZen Theranostics Inc. is a Delaware-based startup company developing products which target cancer cells and function as contrast agents, or visibility markers.

MHI-148 stole their attention.

“This new therapeutic technology has shown to be safe and effective in animal studies and to deliver the current drug of interest and also a broad spectrum of other cancer fighting drugs to aggressive and metastatic cancers, without damaging normal healthy tissues,” YuPing Cheng, chief executive officer of DaZen Theranostics Inc., said in a press release.

“I’m very happy because the compound I developed is in [its] second phase trial,” Henary said.

Phase two studies the efficacy of the compound. The duration of this second phase can stretch from several months to up to two years.

DaZen provides the resources and guidance Henary needs to further develop and implement his compound. “[DaZen] takes this compound and moves it because, alone, I can’t do anything. If a company steps in and tries to take this and develop it further, this is a very good thing,” Henary said.

This compound comes at a time when cancer diagnoses are at a high.

In 2018, there will be an estimated 1,735,350 new cancer cases, 609,640 of which are projected to result in death, according to a report by the American Cancer Society.

That’s 1,670 deaths per day.

Yet, those numbers don’t amount from cancer alone.

“You go to doctor [and the] doctor does some lab testing,” Henary said. “All these kinds of [tests] diagnose cancer. They [image] different organs, so only [a small amount of the agent] goes to the tumor. This is why cancer patients suffer a lot, because sometimes it gives a false positive [and] a false negative.”

A misdiagnosis can be fatal. According to a study published in the British Medical Journal, they affect 12 million U.S. adults every year.

But thankfully, MHI-148 cuts out the guesswork for surgeons.

“We can direct the drug, but we found out [the] compound itself can target the [tumor]. So, this compound is not attached to any ligand, or small molecule like a protein, [making] the size very optimal,” Henary said.

MHI-148 aids surgeons by targeting and killing the tumor via fluorescing—essentially lighting up—due to the compound’s high molecular brightness.

Molecular brightness is not a visible brightness but rather a brightness detected by optical imaging, measuring photons (or light particles) emitted.

MHI-148 is useful for surgeons because it fluoresces and absorbs photons in the near-infrared region, where surgeons can use optical imaging for cancerous tumors while operating.

This is much like a blacklight illuminating stains previously undetectable to the common eye.

“The goal of this technology is the patient during the surgery can be injected. This is called optical imaging, so the surgeon can inject this agent during surgery and can circulate and go to tumor cell and the surgeon can cut the tumor, and it’s called image guided surgery,” Henary said.

Henary’s research at Georgia State persists, continuing to create technology better than, but not in spite of, our own shortcomings.

“This is really why I would hope this technology can help the surgeon, to clean this tumor and get it all out,” he said.

OPINIONS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2018

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Student housing: the cushy life?

Renting an apartment is hard. Student living is easier. Is that a good thing?

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ne of the perks of attending college is the opportunity to live on campus. With the campus just a few blocks away, you can roll right out of bed and make it to class in five minutes. There’s no need to commute, so fighting for a parking space in one of our campus lots isn’t an issue. Best of all, the food. Right in the heart of Downtown, Georgia State students have a plethora of options when it comes to food. Georgia State offers three PantherDining locations: Patton Hall, Piedmont Central and Piedmont North. But, when you have pretty much everything at your fingertips for four years or more, when it’s time to live off campus, are you really prepared for everything that comes with living on your own?

Let’s find out.

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RENT

With housing, room and board is already covered. Inexpensive housing options come up to $6,058 per semester; a meal plan is not included in this option. Once students move off campus for the first time, one of the first things they must worry about is paying their monthly rent. How much can you afford to pay every month? Will you split your rent with friends or a significant other? This usually determines the distance between you and the campus. Location. Location.

Location. Georgia State is located in an urban landscape, making the surrounding apartments far more expensive than an apartment outside the perimeter. No more housing directors or resident assistants to talk to when you have an issue with your room. Landlords won’t be wearing a blue Georgia State blazer or greet you with a smile.

UTILITIES

Rent typically doesn’t include utilities. With housing, most of these amenities are included in the semesterly fee—you pay it once in August or January and forget about it. ut when renting off campus, things get a little more tricky. Every month, bills will land at your doorstep whether you can pay them or not— internet, heat and air conditioning, electricity and water, just to name a few. Oh, and don’t forget that security deposit.

A security deposit acts as insurance against the unpredictable; your landlord will ask this of every new resident in an addition to advance rent payments. On the bright side, security deposits

are refundable! Do keep in mind all these new utilities will be in your name; now credit might become an issue.

COMMUTING

Because Georgia State is located downtown, apartments close by are going to cost a pretty penny. Unless you group up with a few friends and agree to each pay part of the rent and utilities, chances are you’re going to have to commute in some way to get on campus. That equals additional time to get ready in the morning or afternoon in order to make it to class on time. No more rolling out of bed ten minutes before and walking into class just in time for the attendance roll. Chances are if you commute to campus, you either need gas money or a MARTA pass to travel quickly. If you’re driving to campus, you’re also going to need somewhere to park your car.

A parking permit at Georgia State is $215 per semester in M Deck and the University Lofts deck.

FOOD

Housing offers three dining options: Patton Hall, Piedmont Central and Piedmont North.

Piedmont Central offers such delights as an international station, salad station, a smoothie station and even a brick oven pizza station—ll buffet style. Sounds pretty sweet, if you can afford a meal plan or a small one-time fee of $8 - $10 to walk in and dine at your pleasure. Trips to your local supermarket will turn into a learning experience all on its own. Meal preparation is a popular option for college students. Cooking in bulk and sorting portions of meat, veggies and snacks that can save you more in the long run than eating Chick-fil-A three times a day. But if neither of those options work for you, ramen is still the go-to meal for college students.

SAFETY

One of the biggest issues living off or on campus is safety. Two weeks ago, a Campus Broadcast was sent out in regards to asexual battery on Piedmont Avenue. Did the student live on campus or commute? In any living environment comes a certain risk associated with living there. Some have a higher risk than others.

Responsibility Students need to have a certain amount of

responsibility when venturing off campus and living on their own. Paying rent, utility bills, commuting to and from campus, cooking, all while maintaining a good academic standing is very difficult. Students are also responsible for keeping their living space on campus clean and livable. It’s more than just making your bed in the morning or learning not to mix darks and whites in the washing machine. In an apartment, expect to do everything on your own!

SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

Everyone loves being social in college— whether it’s clubs, organizations, parties, joining a fraternity, it’s all part of connecting with other students on campus who share similar interests.

But most activities at Georgia State happen in the evening. If you live on campus that’s not an issue just swing by your dorm after class, take a nap, shower and change and you’re ready for the night’s festivities and when it’s over, you’re just a few minutes away from home. However, if you live off campus, you might have to plan out your social activities more carefully. Sure, that club meeting starts at 5 p.m. but what time does it end?

6 p.m.? 7 p.m.? Now it’s late and you have to head to your apartment. Will there be traffic or do you take MARTA? Will you have time to study, to complete any assignments that might be due?

There is nothing inherently wrong with student housing—it’s a booming market, in fact very soon Georgia State students will have a new swanky option for on-campus living. Located on the corner of Piedmont Avenue and John Wesley Dobbs Avenue, “The Mix” seeks to offer 26 stories of relatively high-brow living in the heart of Georgia State’s downtown campus. The 8,200 square foot project costs $90 million and should be ready by August 2019, just in time for fall and a horde of new freshmen eager for the full college experience.

Every college student should have the privilege of living on campus at least once to soak up as much of the college experience as possible but living in a dorm is nowhere close to what it’s like living in the real world. There are bills, you have to work, pay rent and learn to manage your free time as well as your money just to make ends meet, even if it’s for a little while before you get the hang of things. Before long, you’ll be Adulting just like the rest of the world.

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EDITORIAL SGA on autopilot, barely staying aloft Lack of tangible results, halfway through the semester

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e’re more than halfway through the semester and we’ve seen that the Student Government Association (SGA) has thus far had a lackluster approach to solving the university’s plethora of issues. They have sworn in several senators and ushered in new freshmen liaisons, but their biweekly meetings still fall short in attempting to be productive and solve the many issues affecting the student body.

At the first meeting held by SGA this year, one representative said they would work to address smoking on campus, an issue that the past six administrations also failed to tackle head-on. At every subsequent meeting, a common motif of dodging the issue has circulated among the senators’ addresses and committee updates. They claim to have spoken to several university officials, but the student body is still left helplessly waiting for tangible results.

Transportation and an apparent lack of Panther Express shuttles was one of the major topics discussed prior to the completion of the Courtland Street Bridge project. The issue was addressed by a

couple of senators and a queue system was eventually implemented at the Blue Lot at Georgia State Stadium. However, the issue quickly resolved itself after the bridge was completed, and students have seldom complained since.

Sen. Jessica Siemer is currently leading an initiative with the Office of Sustainability to roll out reusable takeout containers. So far, other than several already-scheduled events such as Constituency Day, Siemer’s initiative is one of the few projects that has a clear goal and path to attain it.

SGA is seemingly running on autopilot: The senate votes “yes” or “no,” almost always unanimously (unless it’s for their own $5,000 polos, as seen at the first universitywide senate meeting), on routine issues and shows up to school spirit events that struggle to bolster a student culture or even impact students, other than the occasional free candy and water handouts.

Whenever the senators are asked to sign up for committees, there’s often a long silence followed by one or two senators seemingly reluctantly raising their hand to volunteer for a position. Some of these

senators have held SGA positions for over a year, and it’s disappointing to see such a lack of enthusiasm within them.

This culture of nonparticipation is what leads to students lacking faith in their leaders. If nothing is being done, and senators continue to be unenthusiastic about participating, then what’s the point of the biweekly meetings?

Our school elected the majority of the senators, and to say that they operate fully in service to Georgia State’s students (which they’ve proclaimed several times) would be a lie. We ask that they reach students more and be more involved in bettering the college experience for Panthers at all of our campuses.

As we move closer to the end of the semester, we hope that we will not be left wondering what SGA has done for us. When the SGA debates kick off next semester prior to the election, we hope that we will be able to vote not based on popularity but on fulfilled campaign promises and the commitment to progress for next year.

ARTS & LIVING Can Grindr become Kindr?

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2018

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A new campaign combating sexual racism JOSH WINSTON Staff Reporter

“Go back to Mexico,” “You look like you’re on drugs,” “I have a preference for light skin guys,” and “Whites only.”

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hese quotes feature in Grindr’s most recent attempt to curb racism and hate speech on its eponymous online dating platform. Earlier this year, Grindr launched its marketing campaign: Kindr.

Grindr, a queer dating app, has often been criticized for the amount of racism and hate speech that runs rampant on the app. For many people who have used the app, the discrimination is obvious.

“Its very prevalent in bios and messagesblack/white only, no latinos,” student Will DeLuca said.

DeLuca thinks this discrimination is even encouraged through Grindr’s design and features.

“Grindr lets premium users sort explicitly by race. I think people are a little more willing to discriminare because it’s ‘allowed,’” he said.

The phrase, “It’s time to play nice,” appears on Grindr’s website against a pulsating board of translucent, rainbow colors—n ostensibly hopeful declaration. But is this perhaps a fitting illustration of Kindr’s impact: a visually appealing and optimistic expression that is ultimately devoid of any meaningful substance?

With this campaign, Grindr is trying to address the long and complicated tradition of discrimination based on skin color.

While there is no disagreement that discrimination based on skin color is racist, many people today feel it’s normal when it comes to attraction.

A 2015 Australian study surveyed 2,177 gay and bisexual men to assess how they viewed sexual racism in relation to broader forms of racism. The men were assessed on their attitudes towards sexual preferences being displayed on dating apps, as well as their attitudes toward more general ideas of race and diversity.

These data sets were then cross-analyzed to determine if there was any correlation between the acceptance of sexual preferences and more abstract forms of racism.

The study found that these two were indeed linked.

“Almost every identified factor associated with men’s racist attitudes was also related to their attitudes toward sexual racism,” the study stated.

This study suggested that sexual “preference” is actually just racism hidden behind racially sanitized language. The study concluded that “sexual racism, therefore, is closely associated with generic racist attitudes, which challenges the idea of racial attraction as solely a matter of personal preference.”

The appropriately titled Kindr, Grindr’s recent initiative to discourage discrimination, features short-form documentaries, Instagram campaigns and written profiles of diverse, queer people.

All of this comes wrapped in glossy, pinkhued visuals that closely resemble a Petra Collins photo shoot.

In a video, Grindr assembled queer people of color and provided them a platform to share their experiences with sexual racism.

“You just start to wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and count all the reasons that nobody is going to love you,” a recent Rupaul’s Drag Race contestant, The Vixen, said in one video.

The mini documentary opens with extreme close-ups of its subjects. As they share their social interactions on Grindr, the camera cuts to close-up shots of their hands, their hair and their smiles, creating an intimacy between

the viewer and interviewee that at first seems touching and poignant, like their problems are our problems.

As the video progresses, the camera backs up a bit, giving the speakers space to tell their stories and share their experiences with sexual racism. In doing so, Grindr’s camera gives them what they may often be denied on Grindr’s app: an identity.

But this video is just the beginning of Grindr’s attempt to address racism and hate speech on the app.

Grindr’s Instagram page has also been taken over by its Kindr initiative. What once was a mosaic of queer historical figures, celebrities and half-naked men, has now been transformed into cascading tiles of diverse queer people. Each Instagram photo is accompanied by a brief biography or personal quote about their experiences.

Grindr’s Twitter account has undergone a similar transformation, displaying much of the same content. And it doesn’t just stop on social media; these PSA-style mixed media campaigns also feature within the app itself.

But one must wonder if the campaign will have lasting effects and if people on Grindr have noticed any difference.

“I’m actually unaware of the Kindr Campaign you are referring to,” DeLuca said.

The company’s head of communications, Landen Zumawalt, believes the problems of discrimination and racism in the gay community are so deeply seated, that even Kindr can’t fix everything.

“These issues have been present in our community long before Grindr, but we hope to increase conversations around it and have a dialogue about what constitutes sexual racism,” Zumwalt said.

Kindr may not be a complete solution, but if it can at least inspire the right conversations and begin to uplift the most vulnerable members of the queer community, then it’s a step in the right direction.

Suing Grindr The Kindr campaign came shortly after an Asian man threatened to sue Grindr over alleged sexual racism that occurs on the platform.

Sinakhone Keodara, CEO of Asian Entertainment Television, said he’s been using Grindr for several years now and has routinely come across profiles with “Not interested in Asians” and “No beans, no rice, no chocolate.”

In an interview with Pink News, he said, “I’m suing Grindr because they’ve been a breeding ground, perpetuating racism against Asian people, against black people, against Latino, against Native American— you name it.”

By suing Grindr, Keodara hopes the court will order the dating app to redesign its app to eliminate the ethnicity screening feature and include language censorship in its chat function

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HOMECOMING GUIDE

Tuesday, Oct. 21 The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive at Urban Life on the downtown campus. Lifesouth will hold a blood drive at the Dunwoody campus.

THE DEFINITIVE

Fall, football and homecoming fun

PHOTO BY UNIQUE RODRIGUEZ | THE SIGNAL The 2018 Homecoming Court reveal in Unity Plaza brings new faces to this year’s royal court.

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Thursday, Oct. 25 At the Perimeter campuses, there will be five homecoming blood drives at the Newton, Alpharetta and Clarkston campuses. The American Red Cross and Lifesouth have partnered with Georgia State’s Office of Civic Engagement to bring blood to people who need it and T-shirts to those who donate.

Spotlight organized our student fees into a wonderful ball, a Cirque du Soleil-themed Royal Ball at 8 p.m. The ball will be at the Georgia State Freight Depot, a short walk from Aderhold Learning Center. This semi-formal will give the current homecoming court a chance to preen and give all students a beautiful place to socialize.

Panthers past and present are invited to dress up and get down.

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eel the crisp air nip goosebumps on your arms, hear the solid thwack of a football meeting a “good catch.” It’s homecoming season and time for the delicious combo of football games and fall weather.

Homecoming activities are organized between the Homecoming Committee, the Alumni Association and the Spotlight Programs Board.

They’ve pounced on the planning this year to bring out our best Panther spirit yet.

Homecoming is about welcoming back alumni, celebrating the culture of the school as it was and is.

It is encouraging to look to the past. When current students learn and celebrate the achievements of past graduates, that vision takes them boldly to the future of their own achievement.

Friday, Oct. 26 Kicking off at 7 p.m., the Panther Block Party is going to rock Hurt Park. Live music and giveaways will set the crowd off. We love a day at the park— just bring a blanket and your bluetooth speaker and have a blast. Campus police, please be gentle with the students who wake up in the fountain.

Saturday, Oct. 27 The big day—game day!—has organizers biting their fingernails making sure it goes well. Three events in one day is a lot to manage, but they have a lot of help.

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Kicking off the day in an early and unconventional start will be the Golf Cart Parade.

Student clubs, teams and faculty departments will take Decatur Street. In an effort to increase student turnout, Spotlight’s Spirit and Traditions Director Destiny Collins has moved the parade to a Saturday, Oct. 27, instead of Friday.

Previous parades have been held during the week, but Collins hopes the weekend scheduling will increase involvement and turnout. Already, Student Affairs Advisor Yabsera Demissie said more student organizations have agreed to participate. A growing tradition may be on the way.

Active Minds is a student organization in the parade. The club is meant to educate and advocate for mental health to students.

Ebun Alajogun is the co-president of the club. To her, organizing the Panthers can feel like herding cats at times. Being a student organizer can often present stress of its own.

“Working with the school itself can be kind of annoying,” Alajogun said. “Reserving rooms and trying to plan stuff.”

Within the group, they help each other manage the club organizing along with the inevitable stress. Alexis Smith, the treasurer for the club said work parties and group chats are a must-have for effective, collaborative organizing.

“We share the workload … when we made these goodie bags, it was three or four people in my dorm and we made them all one night,” Smith said.

“We try to spread out the workload and not have too much.”

There will be two tailgates, one each for students and alumni, beginning at noon on Oct. 27. Ticket sales include options for pre-purchasing food and drinks. Although outside drinks in coolers and cans are permitted, glass bottles are not.

Director of the Student Alumni Association (SAA), Renee Bazemore is excited to see the work of her staff and student volunteers. The student members of the SAA get a lot of grunt work, but the job has perks.

“SAA students are judging the golf cart competition and also the office door decorating competitions,” Bazemore said. “They will be going to help decorate for the royal ball.”

Stay safe and try not to miss the game after.

The big game! The Georgia State Panthers will face Coastal Carolina at the Georgia State Stadium.

We are looking forward to the Panther Band going all out at halftime. At halftime is also when the official Mr. and Mrs. Georgia State will be handed their keys to the university. A lot to look forward to after one long day of campus organizing and one hell of a night of football.

Tailgate Prep: Water, water, water. If you’re drinking, hanging outside and tossing the ol’ pigskin, you better bring the ol’ nalgene too (or perish).

Sunscreen. Mineral sunscreens like zinc oxide block ultraviolet radiation for the most deep broad spectrum protection.

Blanket. A place to sit when weather is hot and a shawl when weather is cold.

We stan a versatile queen.

Snacks. Fresh fall fruits like apples and pears, leafy seasonal salads with kale and yams and baked squash dishes will make your friends say, “Weird flex but OK.” PAGE DESIGN BY DEVIN PHILLIPS | THE SIGNAL

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Jumpsuits, a common workwear uniform, have quickly become a trend in the fashion industry.

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From Walmart to Urban Outfitters

Your dad’s work wear is now on-trend, and we celebrate it SAM PUCKETT

Associate Arts & Living Editor

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hore coats, carpenter pants, utility vests, carabinerclipped keys to a nylon belt, neon safety stripes and denim, denim, denim. The on-the-job uniform has become the defacto uniform of 20-something cool guys. The only thing that’s missing is non-stick restaurant shoes.

Work clothes have always had a place in American dress, but that place hasn’t always been Fashion with a capital “F.” Today, that is all starting to change.

Albert Bell is a professional stylist living in Atlanta. He sees a lot of potential in the workwear movement and is excited to see professional dress codes keeping pace with the comfortably stylish man.

“It’s a live, work, play kinda thing,” Bell said. “Guys like to be ready to go anywhere, do anything.”

MASS CULTURE AND WORKING-CLASS CULTURE

It’s not only white-collar office types interested in bluecollar clothes. Raf Simons’ fall 2018 show was filled with rough references. Base layers of prairie skirts and odd knitwear were topped with heavy handed nylon, liberally patched with stripes of neon orange and reflective 3M. The palette was trendy without being derived; nudes and neutrals were offset by horrible industrial shades of neon.

Celebrities, too, have adopted the affection of hard living.

Jonah Hill haunts many #fitwatch Instagram pages. Tyler, the Creator and Jonah Hill frequently sauce in Dickies work shorts. A$AP Rocky makes utility drip like jewelry in iridescent fireman pants. Ryan Gosling beats his Red Wing 877 work boots into the ground. Shia LaBeouf practically sleeps in offduty Patagonia baggies and active-duty Nike service boots.

But remember, functional fashion is not new by any means.

Many ubiquitous fashion statements today were first derived from the ranks of the working class or the military. But those isolated items aren’t a trend so much as products of the American obsession with work.

Trends are new ideas that require mass cultural buy-in, first to the idea and then the literal product. That kind of buy-in,

especially to men, is a hard sell without a practical element.

Rugged, practical commodities sell the fantasy of usefulness, which is modest enough not to offend the toughest of men’s most delicate feelings. But some consumers need convincing from magazines and big name designers before they will adopt a look.

STYLING THE LOOK

Bell doesn’t distinguish fashion from function. To dress is to prepare for the needs of the day. Bell believes to look good is a need, especially in our ever-more image conscious society.

“The whole world is style,” Bell said. “You went and picked out everything you own. It’s about being intentional with those choices.”

Bell has some functional fashion favorites of his own. He lived in Seattle, Washington, for a while, so he learned to prep for rain with a classic, film noir touch.

“I love trench coats,” Bell said. “There’s pockets, it’s waterproof and how many coats for men let you wear a belt over it?”

But the durable waxed nylon flaps and high collar didn’t start with Humphrey Bogart. The dogged private detectives of old Hollywood first wore them in the trenches of World War I, where they earned the name.

There is the impression in this workwear madness that consumers appreciate durable brands for being everything we say fashion isn’t: constant, durable and down-to-earth. Heritage brands like Dickies are living it up in the changeable currents of editorial buzz.

The Dickies brand and business began much as it remains: as tough-wearing clothes ready-made for hard work. High demand from World War II forced Dickies to stop selling to the consumer market, but frankly, the military contract only made them cooler. And they only got cooler when they were adopted by early skaters through the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Since their start, Dickies has been building momentum and respect in the fashion world, attracting the right attention from critics and collaborators. Brands like Stussy, Converse and Opening Ceremonies co-create with Dickies, making items at niche intersections in the web of brands. Matthew Williams’ utterly hype-soaked label Alyx got in on the dirty skater game, selling an Alyx-branded Dickies mechanics shirt.

But weren’t we all just wearing pencil-cut jeans? What

happened to tailored? When did we abandon the skinny leg?

Loosen up a little. But loose doesn’t mean careless; there’s a right and wrong way to wear baggy.

“You have to break it up,” Bell said. “If you’re gonna go baggy, you have to go skimpy or skinny somewhere.”

It’s not just work slacks getting hype. Boot maker Red Wing invented a boot in 1950 which would see fame and imitation until it became a genre-defining boot to wear. The “Irish Setter” brown leather boot comes in a wide and comfortable moccasin style toe with a crepe rubber wedge sole, making the model 877 the perfect hunting boot.

The boot now stands in Red Wing’s “Heritage” line, marketing it as a tough lifestyle product rather than a genuine work boot. Job safety technology has come a long way, and while the moc toe might be comfortable and cool, it’s not as protective as Red Wing’s steel toe offerings.

Japanese luxury brand Visvim, a favorite of American Blues pop star John Mayer, is known for their Americana obsession.

It’s no surprise then that designer Hiroshi Nakamura has made several renditions of the American standard of woodsmanlycool guys, the 877.

Workwear was here before the trend and Workwear will be here after the trend. May our Dickies outlive us.

HERITAGE VS HYPE: Seems like whenever a rich-kid retailer catches wind of schlubbier brands on the rise, they want in.

The original Dickies “874 work pants” can be bought for $22 at Walmart versus Urban Outfitters’ “cutoff” collab of the 874 for $49.

The Champion reverse weave pullover hoodie, for $65, versus French “design collective” Vetements teamed up on a “deconstructed” take on the Champion pullover for $620.

The Carhartt Duck Traditional Jacket sells for $89 versus Junya Watanabe’s patchwork take on the traditional coat, which sells for $1,525.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2018

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Horizontal screens are dead Just how long until vertical screens appear in your home?

SYDNEY BLOEME Arts & Living Editor

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t’s 2013 and you have a video project due for school. Acting quickly after waiting until the night before, you run out and shoot all the video that morning and upload it on the family desktop.

Once you upload it, those infamous black bars make an appearance, hugging your video’s sides to fit the horizontal screen. You made a drastic mistake: You forgot to turn your phone sideways and record horizontally, and now your grade will suffer.

Today, vertical video is popping up everywhere. Many mainstream companies like Instagram, Facebook and YouTube are embracing the 9:16 dimensions. It may even be already in your house. Take a look at the new Amazon Alexa or even the video display on your refrigerator door and you’ll see it.

THE NORMALIZATION OF VERTICAL VIDEO

But you may ask, “Who can we blame for the normalization of vertical video?”

App developer and technology connoisseur Cody Benson, Sr. the Director of Digital Strategy at Georgia State, thinks it’s your iPhone.

“There was a great market for [horizontal TVs] until [the iPhone] got awesome,” Benson said. “The iPhone changed everything.”

Benson said that over time, the normalization and commonplace nature of the iPhone made shooting and consuming video accessible to everyone—no TV required.

The iPhone was designed to be turned sideways for both shooting and consuming media, mimicking the familiarity of the horizontal TV. Even though turning the screen sideways provided a larger screen, people weren’t taking that extra step and instead began growing accustomed to watching video that took up the top half of the screen.

“Because we’re human, we’re lazy. Flipping our phones is an action that we have to take. It’s more comfortable and we can go faster if we can just hold it [vertical],” Benson said.

Today, people are watching TV less and instead rely on their iPhones for media. The rise of apps like Snapchat have made this generation accustomed to watching vertical video. And companies had to keep up to stay relevant.

Instagram began on the iPhone and quickly jumped into the vertical video movement with the introduction of IGTV, a media platform specifically for vertical video, shot by iPhone.

Facebook displays vertical video that fits to your screen automatically. YouTube just announced that vertical ads are coming to the app. Spotify introduced vertical music videos that can only be viewed on the app. And now, most porn websites offer a category of vertical porn with the specific intention of being viewed on a smartphone.

SAVING SPACE AND MONEY

Think of the vertical screens you have come in contact with naturally. You see them used for advertisements, on kiosks, mall directories, airplane delays and menu boards.

Only requiring a glance, vertical video is often used for quick information.

While you can already find vertical screens at Georgia State—here’s one adjacent to the transportation services office—the university uses them for more practical reasons than the leisurely nature of IGTV. Jacolby Chatman from auxiliary and support services at Georgia State said that it’s to display the most information using only one screen.

“To maximize the space, we were able to fit three playlists on there. But for the horizontale ones, nobody would be able to see the text. It would be too small,” Chatman said.

While some of the same ads run on most screens, each department has the choice of displaying what they want on each screen. Information is displayed on “playlists,” or a set order of advertisements. A vertical screen optimizes the amount of advertisements displayed on the screen at once.

In this way, each department doesn’t need to purchase more screens, and, like the transportation services office, they can just rotate what they already have and rely on one screen.

And while screen size matters, wall size matters, too. Benson said that installing a massive horizontal screen requires fitting

The rise of social media and the proliferation of the iPhone are directly correlated with the normalization of the vertical video.

and reinforcing the wall, a long and expensive process.

“Vertical allows you to solve the problem of putting something in there without spending a fortune to retrofit the building. You have to have space. And you have to get one big enough so it can be read from a distance,” Benson said. “All this math goes into hanging one of these on the wall.”

AFFECTING THE FILM INDUSTRY

Adapting video to fit on a vertical screen isn’t difficult.

Benson said it only requires switching two numbers of code.

“This resolution right here is 16:9. And to change it, I went into one line of code and swapped the 9 and 16 and it worked.

That’s how quick it was,” Benson said.

But Benson said the problem isn’t in post-production; it’s behind the screen, during production.

“I think it’s the people filming that will suffer,” Benson said.

Vertical requires a close up and narrow shot. Many TV shows are built around the promise of stage space, such as talk shows, when more than one person needs to be in the shot. Set designers and blocking would be heavily affected, rethinking the purpose of each shot.

Talk shows like The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon are evolving to combat this problem by placing two narrow, singleperson shots next to one another. This in turn elicits a more personal and intimate feel while still including the other guests on the show.

And the cameras that exist now are focused on horizontal shots. Yes, new cameras are now coming out specifically designed to shoot vertically, but these are expensive and not yet commonplace.

To combat this, Benson said people are taking the cameras they already have and placing tape on the viewfinder to see what part of the shot they will lose when producing vertically.

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And there are even a few vertical video hacks floating around the internet about it.

WHERE WILL VIDEO GO NEXT? While technology is advancing, the only way to normalize it to consumers is through what they already have. The TV bares a resemblance to past horizontal media: theater.

Because of the horizontal nature of stage blocking, both consumers and media grew accustomed to viewing media horizontally, and their household belongings followed suit.

Early American households were designed around the family radio. Eventually, they swapped out their radios for the horizontal TV. The common living room layout developed around the TV, with new furniture designed to house and display the TV. Later, the desktop computer mimicked this horizontal nature. People grew accustomed to seeing a horizontal screen and associating it with importance. Horizontal screens were attention grabbing, but not anymore.

So how long until you see a vertical TV in your home?

“Its gotta be a few years out,” Benson said. “They’re gonna come in appliances first … Our furniture would have to change.”

But before you get too comfortable in your horizontal home, take a look at the newest appliances. The screen on your blender? Vertical. What about on your fridge? Your Thermostat? The screen in your new Tesla? Exactly.

With all that said, don’t feel ashamed of your modest black bar frame origins and certainly not that failed project. Pull out your Rolodex and give Ms. Johnson a call because vertical video isn’t a mistake—it’s here to stay.

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Love to exercise with friends? The Urban Run Club meets at 7 p.m. at 412 Chamberlain St., behind Joystick Bar by the black-andwhite mural. The all-levels group is having a chill, under3-mile run.

The Legoland location in Phipps Plaza will be celebrating Halloween the Lego way. Lego characters will be there in common for you to meet, and there will be lots of competition over the best builds.

The Atlanta Horror film festival will begin this Thursday at Synchronicity Theater. The festival will include film screenings, panels and awards.

Screenings begin at 3 p.m. on Thursday with a series of short-form work.

A Bit Show! Is playing at the Village Theater, so grab your friends at the Pencil Factory Lofts and enjoy the show. The comedy cabaret will include stand up, music acts, improv and sketches.

Atlanta has had a kite festival since 2011. Piedmont Park plays host to a fun gathering of highflying friends. There will also be food trucks, face painting, photo booths and live music!

The Football Hall of Fame will hold a frightening Halloween event this weekend. Kids will enjoy the themed obstacle course.

The Georgia Aquarium is hosting scary music, ghoulish dances and spirits throughout the end of October.

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4. This character loves to “pop and lock and jam and break.”

6. During the musical number for “ Status Quo,” Gabriella accidentally spills chili fries on this character.

10. Who dreams of making the perfect crème brûlée?

14. Besides Kelsi, who wins the Juilliard scholarship?

16. What is Sharpay’s dog’s name?

17. What instrument does the skater secretly play?

18. What sport do Chad and Ryan play in “High School Musical 2”?

19. Who writes the best song and plays piano for all of the school musicals?

20. What is the mascot of East High’s rival team, West High?

21. Which character almost misses the spring musical due to a scholastic decathlon?

22. Sharpay is often seen wearing this color.

23. What city in New Mexico does the movie take place?

24. What department does Ms. Darbus work in?

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2. Which character is known for always carrying a basketball with him?

3. What was the name of the country club in “High School Musical 2”?

5. Drew Seeley provided the singing voice for this character in the first movie.

7. Troy and Gabriella met on this holiday.

8. What is East High’s mascot?

9. What sport does Troy play?

11. According to Ryan, “Everyone loves a good ________.”

12. What was Gabriella’s job at the country club?

13. Where does Sharpay say the iced tea at the country club is imported from?

15. This character is captain of the school’s scholastic decathlon team, senior class president and editor of the yearbook.

16. What is Troy’s last name?

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GEORGIA STATE STADIUM IS THE ONLY PLACE GEORGIA STATE HAS WON THIS SEASON With just five games left in the season, the Panthers need to capitalize on every remaining game TAJ STRICKLAND Sports Editor

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rom the start, the Panthers’ football season has been a roller coaster ride. With inconsistency from both the offensive and defensive units, Georgia State has a 2-5 record this year. Even more, the team has consistently struggled to win on the road.

The Panthers lost their first four road games against North Carolina State, Memphis, Troy and Arkansas State by an average of 26 points. During their road losses, the Panthers had their fair share of injuries. For example, junior cornerback, Cedric Stone is out for the season with a knee injury. Stone’s injury and previous starting cornerback Jerome Smith’s departure give the team’s secondary a new look with a majority of freshmen starting.

When head coach Shawn Elliott addressed the youth of the secondary in a press conference after the Memphis game, he said they need to grow up fast. Senior linebacker Ed Curney believes that the Panthers’ inexperienced defense can steadily improve by keeping their heads high.

“As long as they stay confident, they will be okay,” Curney said of the young secondary. “It is okay to fail, you are not going to be the best out there all the time.”

Georgia With just five games remaining, State is... the Panthers look to win the rest of the season and potentially head to their third bowl game in Georgia State history. That’s now a tall task, but Curney believes in his team and is quite confident about the last games of the season.

“A lot of those [previous] games, we beat ourselves,” Curney said.

“If we take every game step by step, play by play and go 1-0 every week, I

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feel like we have a great opportunity to win them all.”

Their open date could have helped the team regroup and give the young players a clearer vision of the games. It also could’ve helped the offense get more acclimated with one another and find their identity as a unit. The offense improved, but the defense was exposed again.

The Panthers’ offense started slow but got hot in the second half against Arkansas State on Thursday. They had a combined 422 yards in the game with 250 passing and 172 rushing.

However, two fumbles in the game harmed their chances of winning the game.

“We are not playing good on the road … On the road we just were not clicking fast enough like we needed to,” junior quarterback Dan Ellington said.

The offense for the Panthers has also had its ups and downs during the season after their nail-biting first win against the Kennesaw Owls. After that win, the offense has experienced troubles, especially with turnovers. Fumbles have hurt the Panthers, and they are holding them back from winning.

The Panthers are averaging 21 points and 367.8 yards of total offense per game on the road. However, at home they are averaging 28.3 points with about 381.7 total yards of offense.

While there is not a huge gap in yardage, the struggles are costing them games on the road.

Also, the run game for the Panthers stands out completely because of how versatile it can be. Although Ellington has 1,224 passing yards and five touchdowns thrown, the rushing attack features a total of four primary ball carriers: Dan Ellington, Destin Coates, Tra Barnett and Seth Paige.

“The running game is really important to what we do and with getting the run game established, it opens up a lot for us especially in the passing game,” Ellington said.

During the first three road losses this season, the Panthers averaged 149 yards per game on the ground.

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The Panthers have been overmatched in nearly every game so far, but Ellington and Curney believe that the team can win every game the rest of the way.

“I think we were just one play away from [winning] each game these past games,” Ellington said. “These last games are really important to get into a bowl and to get to the Sun Belt championship.”

The offense and defense will have to remain consistent for any possibility to win out the schedule, get to the Sun Belt Championship and into a bowl game. The Panthers are in a bad position, and they can’t afford to come up short anymore.

“I like the way they kept fighting to the last doggone snap, but we’ve got to get better in a lot of areas,” Elliott said in a press conference after the team lost 51-35 to Arkansas State.

“I want to see us come out and practice well. I want to think about what we’ve got to do in practice and our preparation to get better.”

Georgia State has back-to-back road games against Louisiana on Nov. 10 and Appalachian State on Nov. 17.

Louisiana and Appalachian State rank second and fifth respectively in rushing in the Sun Belt Conference. Louisiana is also third in total offense and Appalachian State is sixth.

After those two road games, the Panthers return to the Georgia State Stadium where they will play their last regular season game against the Georgia Southern Eagles. The Panthers have won the previous three games against the Eagles including two of them in Statesboro.

Although they are ranked last in defense in the Sun Belt Conference, the Panthers want to get things going as they try to win out every game by defending the pass game and giving up big plays with young guys in the secondary.

The offense looks to keep the fumbles at a minimum and control their own destiny by keeping the plays alive after huge gains in its passing game. They also want to keep the rushing game as consistent as possible and control the tempo of the game with their versatile running game.

With five games left on their schedule, the 2-5 Panthers are on the outside looking in to reaching bowl eligibility with two more road games and a winless record away from Georgia State Stadium.

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Men’s basketball seniors: the living Georgia State legends JERELL RUSHIN Sports Editor

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he four seniors on the men’s basketball team, Malik Benlevi, Devin Mitchell, Jeff Thomas and Jordan Tyson, think they will be the best class to ever wear Georgia State uniforms. They’ve already made the NCAA Tournament, which is something that 50 out 54 other Georgia State classes haven’t done.

If these four can lead the Panthers to the tournament this upcoming season, they will be the first to do it twice.

Thomas entered the Georgia State program in 2014, Mitchell and Benlevi entered the program in 2015 and Tyson transferred into it in 2016. How do the seniors want to end their career finale?

“I want to win regular season and the Sun Belt [Tournament] Championship,” Thomas said. “But I also hope to make it past the Sweet 16 because I feel like this team can and we’re a really good team. Honestly, I think when this senior group leaves, we’re going to the best Georgia State team to ever come out.”

But every Georgia State team that has made the NCAA Tournament has never improved upon its win total in the following year. The .667 winning-percentage in the 2017-2018 season is tied for fifth best in program history.

This team has some of the best players in Panther history.

Mitchell made 98 3-pointers last season, and that gave him the second-most 3-pointers made in the Georgia State singleseason record book. Benlevi shoots .397 on 3-pointers for his career, the fifth-highest mark. Thomas is eighth in both career 3-pointers (141) and 3-point percentage (.387).

“I always had that mentality to just shoot,” Thomas said. “I was kind of a ball hog when I was growing up. But [the quick trigger mentality grew] especially when I got to Georgia State.

Coach Hunter just taught me to shoot the ball. [As a player, you] always have the green light here if you can shoot.”

So when did the 2019 class realize it had the potential to be

this special? It was early on in their careers. “[I knew] mainly when we were all on the scout team together … We were all on the second team, and we sometimes beat the first string,” Mitchell said. “All of us together we played well together. So I knew once it was our time and we were the starters, we would probably be able to do something special.”

This class wouldn’t have reached the milestones they’ve passed if they were only sharpshooters. Nate Summers, director of basketball operations, said the seniors always do the right thing for the younger players on the team. The habits they are building in the younger players should leave the program in a better place than it was when the seniors arrived.

“You see guys in there in the gym [still practicing 10 minutes after practice ended] ... they’re kinda teaching the younger guy, ‘Hey, man. This is the work ethic we gotta have to be successful,’” Summers said.

Sophomore Kane Williams said the four seniors take practice seriously so that the team can never settle for anything less than their best effort.

“They just lead by example,” Williams said. “We piggyback off their energy, so if they bring high energy, we bring high energy. And they pride themselves on not having low energy in practice or anything they do, so we follow that. That’s why we’re so successful as we are now.”

Familiarity is certainly another reason the Panthers are one of the best teams in the Sun Belt Conference. Benlevi says the seniors are lowkey and usually hang out with each other in their free time after spending hours together at the GSU Sports Arena.

“They truly epitomize what it means to be a true brotherhood,” newly hired assistant coach and former Georgia State basketball player Travis Williams said. “I think these relationships they have in the locker room are the relationships that they’ll have forever. I always give the illustration, ‘If I turn my back to you and I look at this wall, and you turn your back to me and look at that wall, I know you’ll fight for me.

“And that’s the mentality these guys have,” Williams said.

“They’re not hesitating and worrying about what goes on the other side because they know you’ll fight for them and vice versa.”

Mitchell told The Signal that when the end of the season nears, Benlevi will definitely be the first to become emotional about it even though he tries to act tough.

“These my boys,” Benlevi said. “They’re my real brothers.

If they ever need anything, they can hit me. They know I got them.”

The Panthers lost as the No. 2 seed in the 2017 Sun Belt Conference Tournament Semifinals, but they felt like they should’ve won the championship. It was a long summer, but they either had to view the disappointment as a death sentence for future success or as a chance to get better. They got better, but the journey to the 2018 NCAA Tournament still wasn’t pretty when they went 2-4 in their final regular season and ended the momentum they built up all year.

“The past three years have been very interesting, very upand-down, but always in a good way,” Tyson said. “Even during the ups-and-downs I always felt like we were working towards something special, and I feel like this year is gonna be the sum total of all those times just being the best team we can possibly be.”

Although the seniors are fiery and always confident, that competitiveness isn’t to be confused with being on an emotional rollercoaster. They treat every obstacle with the same calm and collected approach.

“It’s important [having a senior group that’s tight-knit and level-headed] and it’s really good because they already know the little things that you’ll learn later on in the year,” Panthers guard Damon Wilson said. “They already know that so they can teach you early so you’re not in trouble when your name gets called.”

The Panthers aren’t going to coast through the upcoming season. These seniors are new to the leadership, and it will take time for the entire team to settle into their roles. “[We have the] same mindset,” Mitchell said. “We got a lot of new pieces so [we’re] trying to implement those guys and getting them [to] think the same way we think. I think once they catch on, which they are doing a good job at that, we’re gonna try to do the same thing again, get down to New Orleans and win a championship.”

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Club rowing says it’s the ‘only true team sport’

The club at Georgia State for one of the nation’s oldest sports JOSHUA FIFE Staff Reporter

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eorgia State’s rowing club has been around since ‘89, but still many students know little about the team or the sport itself.

Rowing is the oldest sport in collegiate competition. But, its popularity has fallen tremendously since its early days.

The very first collegiate race was between Harvard and Yale in 1852. The first rowing club in the United States dates back to 1839, 26 years before the abolition of slavery. Rowing was also one of the original sports in the modern Olympic Games.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the Olympic Games and the International Olympic Committee, was actually a rower himself.

Georgia State currently has 20 members in the rowing club.

Those 20 are split up by experience, level and gender. The club has novice and advanced levels and both have four different events for men and women.

The events are based on type of boat and stroke. Boats hold one, two, four or eight passengers. The two strokes are “sweeping” and “sculling.” When sweeping, each member rows with both hands on a single oar. Sculling is when boaters use two oars, one in each hand.

Events are named based on the number of rowers and which stroke. Singles, doubles and quads are all sculling competitions.

Pairs, fours and eights are sweeping competitions.

A rowing tournament is called a “regatta,” and the Georgia State team travels to regattas across the Southeast. The Georgia State Recreation Center provides a van for the team to travel together and covers airline expenses for national competitions.

The largest regatta that Georgia State competes in has around 200 participating teams, but some national regattas host even more.

The school also provides some funding to help offset equipment and tournament costs. Rowing is considered a tier one club sport, which receives the most funding, around $4,000-5,000 per semester from the recreation center.

Unfortunately, recent budget cuts are driving those numbers down. Prices for competitions usually cost around $3,000-4,000 per semester without considering travel costs, the price of equipment, food and lodging.

Rowing costs can run extremely high. Private rowing clubs

may cost around $1,000 or more per season. Georgia State’s rowing dues this year are relatively low, at only $250 per semester. For perspective, dues in previous years have been as high as $450. At some schools, rowing club dues are in the thousands.

Cost is often a deterrent for new members, so the club’s presidents work hard to keep membership fees as low as possible.

“I call rowing the only true team sport. Literally your actions in the boat have to mimic the other rowers in the boat. You’re not just cooperating, you’re emulating each other as well. You’re trying to do the exact same thing as many times as possible.”

— CHAD PORTER Georgia State rowing club head coach “We’re trying to make it more accessible for everyone. It’s a really affluent sport and cost is the main barrier,” Thomas Gray, co-president of the Georgia State Rowing Club, said.

A portion of the dues typically go toward paying the coaches, but in recent years the budget hasn’t been able to support them.

Georgia State’s coaches are now practically volunteers due to the lack of funding. Some larger programs, like Ohio State, are able to pay even assistant coaches around $50,000 per year.

Coaches at smaller programs like Georgia State make closer to $2,000 annually.

It also requires a very high level of commitment to be a member of a rowing club. Regattas are typically far away, and rowers frequently forfeit their weekends to pile into a van and compete. Practices are held early in the day, and the physical demands are extremely high. The physical exertion of a 2,000-meter race has been compared to playing back-

The rowing team practices from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. every weekday on the Chattahoochee River.

to-back basketball games by the Princeton National Rowing Association.

“I wake up at 3:30 [a.m.], but there are people who live on campus who only have to wake up at like 3:45 or 4:00,” Anna Reuter, co-president of the Georgia State Rowing Club, said.

Practices run from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. every morning, Monday through Friday.

Rowing is a full body workout and draws on both physical strength and cardiovascular endurance. It requires explosive power, with controlled technique and breathing. Georgia State head coach Chad Porter said that the team uses lots of circuit training like running and other endurance workouts to prepare.

As far as team sports go, rowing is easily one of the most cooperative. “[Rowing is] the best team sport experience I ever had,” Wyatt Martin, former rower for Saint Andrews Rowing Club, said. “It was probably the most cohesive team experience. It was like we were one person just moving the boat.”

Porter uses drills and film to improve his team’s synchronization. Individual excellence doesn’t mean very much in rowing.

“I call rowing the only true team sport. Literally your actions in the boat have to mimic the other rowers in the boat,” Porter said. You’re not just cooperating, you’re emulating each other as well. You’re trying to do the exact same thing as many times as possible.”

Another major factor is technique, which is more important than power. A team with great technique will beat a less skilled team with more strength.

“On the water is not about power,” Porter said. “It’s far more about technique and adding power to that technique.”

Training includes both land workouts and water workouts.

On land, the most common machine is the ergometer, commonly known as the “erg.” The erg provides a full-body cardiovascular workout that engages the arms, legs and core while building strength and endurance. The motion seems to use mostly arms, but a majority of the work is done by the legs.

“You’re generating probably 80-85 percent of your power from your legs. Your arms really don’t provide anything, they’re really just there to hold the oar,” Porter said. “The rest of your body generates the power, your arms really just hang on for dear life.”

Rowing requires a lot of time, money and energy. Those who are willing to push through are rewarded with camaraderie, physical fitness and memories that last a lifetime.

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Homecoming game can go either way this Saturday Both Georgia State and Coastal Carolina are struggling in the conference JERELL RUSHIN Sports Editor

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he Homecoming football game this Saturday against the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (4-3, 1-2) is a match between two teams that have thus far had unimpressive seasons. Both teams are 1-2 in Sun Belt Conference competition.

Georgia State (2-5, 1-2) won the only meeting between the two schools, an ugly 27-21 game in 2017.

Luckily for Georgia State supporters, the Panthers are 2-1 at home and played exceptionally well in their last home game, a 46-14 domination over Louisiana-Monroe.

“But to see it come together in one game against ULM—in our stadium, in Georgia State Stadium, in front of our fans—to have as much excitement as we did should really put some people in the seats, because there is an opportunity to do this a few more times,” head coach Shawn Elliott said in the postgame press conference after defeating Louisiana-Monroe, snapping a threegame losing streak.

If fans take what Elliott said to heart, then the Homecoming crowd will resemble opening night turnout, just 2,000 under capacity, and not the 14,368 in attendance listed on the postgame statsheet for the Louisiana-Monroe game. The actual crowd against Louisiana-Monroe was much smaller than that in reality, and there were no fans present in a couple of sections.

On the other hand, Georgia State hasn’t won a game since it played Louisiana-Monroe. They’ve been outscored 88-55 in games since then as a result of road conference losses to Troy and Arkansas State.

“We have had a rough couple weeks … It was ugly, there was a lot of ugliness in these contests,” Elliott also said after the Louisiana-Monroe game.

The team was in a drought before that game, but had Elliot said that during the postgame press conference after last Thursday’s loss to Arkansas State, it would’ve been completely accurate in that setting as well.

Strangely, Georgia State outscored both Troy and Arkansas State in the second half. If Georgia State starts off fast against Coastal Carolina, they will give themselves a much better chance at winning. The only time Georgia State got a good start this season was during the Louisiana-Monroe game when they built a 20-point cushion early in the second quarter.

Against FBS competition, Coastal Carolina is 2-4 in terms of second half scoring battles. The Chanticleers have been outscored

Georgia State lost 51-35 against Arkansas State on Oct. 18.

63-28 in the second half against Sun Belt teams. The Panthers are outscoring conference opponents 61-21 in the second half.

Some similarities that Georgia State and Coastal Carolina share are offense lines which give up lots of sacks. The Panthers are tied with Troy for second most sacks given up this season at 20. The Chanticleers are tied with Texas State for most sacks given up with 21. Both teams are below average in the turnover battle: Georgia State is -2 and Coastal Carolina is -4.

“Turnovers killed us in the first half [against Arkansas State],” Elliott said. “We gave up a [91-yard] kickoff return, a fumble return for a touchdown ... things like that, I don’t care what level you play at, you can’t do those things.”

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because they are No. 4 in the conference with 432.3 yards per game. Chanticleer running back Marcus Outlow is a big touchdown threat, and he has scored on the ground at least once in the last six games.

Georgia State has one of the country’s worst defenses. In the Sun Belt, the Panthers are last in total defense (497 yards-pergame) and rushing defense (248.3 yards-per-game), and they are second to last in passing defense (248.7 yards-per-game).

Homecoming hasn’t been smooth sailing for football. It is 3-5, and last won on Homecoming in 2016 against Tennessee-Martin.

Kickoff is 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27, and the game will be broadcast on ESPN+ and 92.9 FM.

GSU and Georgia Highlands battled for 16 innings Panthers defense solid; offense has work to do DANIEL RICHARDSON Staff Reporter

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he Georgia State baseball team took the field against the Georgia Highlands Chargers for their second and final fall exhibition game during the squad’s fall practice schedule. The implementation of a new NCAA rule grants schools the chance to play two exhibition games against other teams.

This year’s Georgia State team features a fresh crop of freshman players—10 in total—who hoped to gain real game experience during the exhibition season. The first game of the fall was played on Oct. 6 against the Tennessee Volunteers.

“There’s a lot of excitement and motivation about playing some outside competition in the fall, especially against a really good opponent like Tennessee,” head coach Greg Frady said before their game on Oct. 6. “This is a great opportunity to learn a lot about our team, especially all of the newcomers.”

The afternoon game, hosted at the GSU Baseball Complex, gave the team a chance to work on the fundamentals they have been practicing. The two teams played a total of 16 innings as both coaches wanted a glimpse of the talent on their rosters.

“My goal was in these two games is to try to get as many people in live-game action for competition and see how they react,” Frady said. “It was just a whole search for information for me

and I think these two days provided a lot of that, and I think it was really good for me to see players in game action to let me know how ready they are and things they need to work on.”

The crisp fall weather was enough to keep the offense to a minimum in the first nine innings. Both the Panthers and Chargers came through with big defensive plays.

“The first [game] was really comprised of a lot of top-end younger pitchers along with Hunter Gaddis, so I kind of expected the game to be low-scoring in game one so that wasn’t a surprise,” Frady said. “Maybe a bit of a surprise to me was that we didn’t score many runs and that’s been one thing we haven’t done well this fall. That will be a point of emphasis going forward.”

Georgia State scored the first run of the game during the bottom of the third inning by redshirt sophomore Terrell Frazier. After the game, Frady praised Frazier for his resiliency in battling through injury last year and having some successful at-bats during the game.

Junior Dalton Davies was right behind him with his own run in the same inning.

Following the exhibition, Frady noted that he was impressed by his team’s defense through the 16 innings. Frady said that the defense is something that they have been working on throughout the fall, and he plans to shift more of his team’s attention to offensive play.

Georgia Highlands scored their first run at the top of the fourth inning after a Panther error.

The Chargers wouldn’t score another run until the top of

the eighth inning when right-handed pitcher Gaddis gave up a one-run home run to sophomore Keith Lyle. The first nine innings ended 2-2, and the teams took a 30-minute break.

The second half of the exhibition featured more offense from both squads. Georgia Highlands won the next seven innings 4-3, but offensive performances from Georgia State seniors Enrique Ferrer and Luke Leonard (who had two runs of his own) stood out. Sophomore Griffin Cheney scored a single home run in the bottom of the 12th inning.

Coach Frady said he wants the team to continue to focus on shortening their swings as a way to reduce strikeouts and fly balls. Frady also alluded to the issue of players relying on their power to carry them through at-bats and the risk that that poses to the team becoming one-dimensional.

Overall, Frady said he learned a good deal about his team during the October exhibitions as he looks forward to the season.

“I found out that we can really do some things in crucial moments, then I also found out that some guys get nervous in some crucial moments and kind of break from training and strategy,” Frady said. “I found out who knows the signs and who doesn’t know the signs and just the little internal things that work on as a team to be the best version of yourself.”

The Panther baseball team has two weeks left of practice this fall, as the team continues to work on critical improvements in their game during that time. The Georgia State baseball season begins on Feb. 15 at home against Richmond.

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SPORTS BRIEFS women’s soccer Tied 1-1 against Texas State in San Marcos, Texas The tie ended the threegame win streak the Panthers had Georgia State scored in the 7th minute The Bobcats’ Kaylee Davis scored on a penalty kick in the 82nd minute

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OCT. 23 women’s golf PAT BRADLEY CLASSIC

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Sorrento, Florida

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Mobile, Alabama

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OCT. 26 ARKANSAS STATE

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GSU Sports Arena

OCT. 27 LITTLE ROCK

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TROY

3-0

5-2

L1

COASTAL CAROLINA

1-2

4-3

W1

GEORGIA STATE

1-2

2-5

L2

WEST DIVISION school

GULF SHORES EXHIBITION

Gulf Shores, Alabama

men’s soccer

OCT. 28

women’s golf Johns Creek, Georgia

school

OCT. 27

Columbia, South Carolina

OCT. 26-28

Men’s soccer

BEACH VOLLEYBALL

OCT. 23

ALEXA STIRLING WOMEN’S INVITATIONAL

Tied 1-1 with Georgia Southern at Eagle Field The Eagles broke Georgia State’s three-game winning streak over them Sophomore Aris Briggs scored the Panthers’ goal in the 67th minute to tie the match Georgia State is 8-4 overall and 1-0-2 in the Sun Belt Conference The Panthers play South Carolina on Oct. 23 Georgia Southern leads the rivalry series for the 20182019 year 1.5-0.5

19

conference

overall

streak

ULM

2-2

4-4

W2

ARKANSAS STATE

1-2

4-3

W1

LOUISIANA

1-2

3-4

L1

SOUTH ALABAMA

1-2

2-5

W1

TEXAS STATE

0-4

1-6

L5

PRO CIRCUIT FUTURES

Birmingham, Alabama

TBA

SCAN HERE TO JOIN US!

OCTOBER 21 – 27 SUNDAY, OCT. 21

HOMECOMING DAY OF SERVICE 1:30 – 6 P.M. STUDENT CENTER EAST BALLROOM

MONDAY, OCT. 22

GOOD MORNING, GEORGIA STATE 9 A.M. –NOON UNITY PLAZA

TUESDAY, OCT. 23

AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE 11 A.M. – 4 P.M. URBAN LIFE HOMECOMING SPIRIT PLAZA NOON – 1 P.M. UNITY PLAZA

For a full list of activities and events, go to

HOMECOMING.GSU.EDU

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24 GEORGIA STATE’S GOT TALENT 7 P.M. STUDENT CENTER EAST BALLROOM

THURSDAY, OCT. 25 ROYAL BALL 8 P.M. – MIDNIGHT GEORGIA FREIGHT DEPOT

FRIDAY, OCT. 26 BLOCK PARTY 7 – 10:30 P.M. HURT PARK

SATURDAY, OCT. 27

SPOTLIGHT HOMECOMING FOOTBALL TAILGATE 10 A.M. GEORGIA STATE STADIUM – GOLD LOT GOLF CART PARADE 10:30 A.M. GEORGIA STATE STADIUM GEORGIA STATE vs. COASTAL CAROLINA 2 P.M. GEORGIA STATE STADIUM *Royal Court Crowning at Halftime

#PANTHER4LIFE

LAUNCH INTO LEADERSHIP Friday, October 26, 2018 10 am - 7 pm 10:00 am - Welcome from President Becker 10:15 am - Professional Advancement Panel 12:00 pm - Club and Grad Program Fair, with lunch 2:30 pm - CV / Resume Workshop 4:00 pm - Keynote Address 5:30 pm - Mentoring Reception with dinner 7:00 pm - Final Toast to your Future Visit: sites.gsu.edu/thecasa for the full schedule and to RSVP!

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