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They’ve broken records, touched lives and made our campus greener.

Here’s who left the biggest impact at Georgia State this school year.

PANTHERS

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YEAR

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back on the rise

Here she comes

Students can expect tuition to rise 3.5 percent next fall but, don’t worry, university fees will stay the same.

Despite a marred election, SGA president-elect Ashley Epperson will be the face of the students. Check out her action plan.

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News 3

Inside Spring recap

We’ve got stats and reactions from players and coaches for all Georgia State diamond, court, course and track action this spring.

Sports | Page s 9 & 10

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A trip to hell

Creative artists of new Adult Swim show “Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell” take our reporter under the paint for a behind-the-scenes look.

A&L | Page 18

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Local

Police officials have issued a warrant for the arrest of “Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta� star Lil Scrappy after the rapper submitted a urine sample for his probation that the police believe was tampered with. Officials say urine sample was cold and they refused to accept it. Scrappy refused to provide another sample and denied their allegations of him tampering with his first sample. The warrant says that the rapper once again violated his probation by not cooperating. Scrappy’s lawyer, Mawuli Mel Davis, says he plans to appear in court on May 16 to address the issue.

Atlanta Falcons safety William Moore was arrested for simple battery on Thursday afternoon after police received a dispute call in northwest Atlanta. Police arrived in the 600 block of Ninth Street in northwest Atlanta, where Moore and a woman were arguing. According to police, Moore threw her phone and grabbed her shoulder. Moore was granted a signature bond of $2,500 on Friday morning. The Falcons released a statement saying they are “in the process of gathering more information� for Moore’s incident

National

After the violent shootout with police, killing 26-year-old suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the manhunt for the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, has come to an

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end. A resident found the suspect in a boat in his Watertown yard, weakened by a gunshot wound after fleeing the previous night’s shootout with police. The police tried to persuade him to get out of the boat but the scene turned into another shoot out that resulted in police arresting and escorting him to the hospital. The process of filing criminal charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is now underway. The suspect is likely to face the death penalty, according to prosecutors and capital punishment experts.

April 14 University Commons

A student was arrested for alcohol possession while under 21-yearsold and a criminal trespass warning was issued.

Officers responded to a complaint of marijuana odor. No drug was found but a student and a nonGeorgia State individual admitted to consuming alcohol. They were arrested and released on a copy of charges.

Global

According to a cabinet spokesman, Egypt Justice Minister Ahmed Mekky submitted his resignation on Sunday after Friday’s violent street clashes involving supporters of President Mohammed Morsi in order for him to “cleanse the judiciary� of its former supporters and offices. In Mekky’s resignation, he says the protests led to his decision to resign from his office and later mentions a new law that could dismiss 3,500 Egyptian judges and lower the retirement age.

Piedmont Avenue

Officers arrested a student for disorderly conduct. A complaint was made of a patron breaking a picture frame inside the Waffle House.

He was arrested and released on a copy of charges

Days after the start of Canada’s annual seal pups slaughter, Actor Jude Law recently wrote a letter to the World Trade Organization calling for the upholding of the seal fur ban among the European Union. The Canadian government is currently challenging the EU ban as a last effort to revive trade. The final hearing on the issue will be in Geneva next week.

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Sports Arena

A student said his Apple Mac Book was stolen from his book bag after he left it unattended for an hour. This case is being handled by investigations.

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April 15

April 17

Officers arrested two non-Georgia State affiliates for Possession and intent to distribute marijuana and criminal trespass warnings were given. Several baggies of marijuana were found and the individuals were arrested, processed and transported to Fulton County Jail.

An officer observed a suspicious male park a vehicle by S, K and N Deck and leave. The officers conducted a vehicle check on the abandoned car and it confirmed the car was stolen. The suspicious male was arrested after he attempted to flee from officers on foot when returning to his car.

Student Center

M Parking Deck

A report was filed for property damage. A student said he parked his vehicle and when he returned, he discovered his door handles had been removed. This case is being handled by investigations.

April 16

Edgewood Avenue

A student said his food benefit card was missing from his room. He later discovered several fraudulent charges on his card. This case is being handled by investigations.

Decatur Street

April 19

Greek Housing

Officers arrested a student for fraud, drunkenness and batter. Officers responded to a physical altercation and once they arrived they saw a student had swelling and bruising to his face. The alleged victim said a fellow student attacked him. Upon further investigation it was discovered alcohol was involved and the aggressor was issued a criminal trespass warning, arrested, processed and transported to Fulton County Jail.

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r e h tui t tion on $3,899

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Georgia State compared to other universities Georgia Tech: 7 percent University of Georgia: 5 percent Georgia State University: 3.5 percent Georgia Regents University:

3.5 percent

(3% increase)

27 other University System of Georgia colleges and universities: 2.5 percent

(16% increase)

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FALL 2011 SPRING 2012

ANDRES CRUZ-WELLMANN Associate News Editor

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tudents can expect to pay more for courses next semester as the Board of Regents voted last Tuesday to increase tuition at Georgia State for the fourth consecutive year despite increased funding from the Georgia General Assembly.

Tuition will rise by 3.5 percent to $3,899 per semester compared to last year, which only cost $3,768.

The largest increase by far was the 16-percent increase that was implemented in fall 2010, which raised the tuition to $3,535.

In fall 2011, tuition went up by 3 percent to $3,641 and the next year by 3.5 percent to $3,768.

“In determining tuition rates for the upcoming academic year, affordability was the regents’ primary concern,” said John Brown, vice chancellor for Fiscal Affairs at a Board of Regents meeting in Savannah. “Our ability to maintain a low percentage increase reflects a serious commitment by the Board to minimize the financial impact on our students.”

Though students may not look forward to paying more for tuition, they can find comfort in knowing they aren’t

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FALL 2013 SPRING 2014

facing any fee increases by the university.

Last semester when the Mandatory Fee Committee met, no business was discussed in their first and only meeting of the academic year because it was rumored President Mark Becker would not entertain any new fee increases.

Later at his State of the University address in October of last year, Becker affirmed that he would not raise fees for students due to tough economic times.

“Keeping Georgia State University affordable for students is a top priority. The university has frozen fees for the past three years, and at the same time has worked with the Board of Regents to keep tuition increases as low as possible. The 3.5% increase that was adopted for next year is essential to maintain the quality of the education, programs and services that Georgia State provides for students.”

While no new fees will be implemented by Georgia State in the upcoming year, the Student Government Association has passed a resolution sending a recommendation to the Mandatory Fee Committee.

The recommendation asks for the MFC to consider creating a green fee from the $14 Library Fee that is scheduled to end this July.

“We discussed it, but we haven’t come to a conclusion. I definitely wouldn’t want the full $14,” current SGA senator and president elect, Ashley Epperson said.

Even if a $14 green fee were passed, the expiring library

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The largest increase by far was the 16-percent increase that was implemented in fall 2010, which raised the tuition to $3,535.

fee money would be relocated to satisfy eco-friendly purposes, so it would not raise overall fees.

The University of Georgia and Georgia Institute of Technology and will see the largest hikes, with students there paying 5 and 7 percent more in tuition each semester, respectively.

Recently ranked as one of the top public universities in the country, tuition at Georgia Tech is approximately $4,129, the largest of any university of college within the University System of Georgia.

Other colleges and universities in the system will receive tuition hikes of 2.5 percent as well.

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National

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THE MODERN BULLY From stealing your lunch money to attacking you from home

“

The anonymity [of cyberbullying] is huge … People can be really disconnected from the fact that they’re actually hurting someone.”

- Kelley Alexander, Student/Staff Ombudsperson

ANNA N. YANG Staff Reporter

Cyberbullying

happens in multiple forms.

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Cyberbullying takes form by electronic means. That includes text messaging, instant messaging, email, and social media. Within the electronic world, a cyberbully might: send scornful and offensive messages start rumors via electronic means fabricate and manipulate photos or videos to embarrass someone

Cyberbullying

can and has affected many.

Youths that experience prolonged cyberbullying are more likely to: *according to StopBullying.gov

T

he age of a smartphone and computer-driven society has paved ways for a new form of aggression: cyberbullying.

Georgia State is no exception to the matter-- some students have pointed out the @GAStateTruths Twitter account, which brought this issue to the university by publishing anonymous tweets from second parties. “[Student’s name] in my theater class is a fake fatt fuckk,” an anonymous tweet from @GAStateTruths said.

Another tweet from the same account commented on the drag community: “That stupid little drag queen party in front of the student center?

Let’s make sure that never happens again.”

Cyberbullying is bullying by electronic means. This can include mean messages sent over social media, text messaging, emails or instant messaging. Other examples include spreading rumors or embarrassing information about a person over the Internet.

Educating the students

use drugs or alcohol

have lower self-esteem

Youths on social media... *according to Enough is Enough’s library of statistics

66% witnessed others joining the cyberbully

90% have ignored aggressive behavior

21% of the 66 percent say they have also joined

have more health problems

Many Georgia State offices began to combat this issue by sponsoring the “Enough is Enough Campaign to Stem Societal Violence” event, which went from April 1 to April 5 and was purposed to educate and promote peace on campus.

Social media violence and cyberbullying were some of the topics chosen for the events of the week.

Kerry Wallaert, coordinator of Residential Leadership and Civic Engagement at Georgia State, was a speaker at the Enough is Enough event. Wallaert said the @GAStateTruths account was also brought to her attention by another student.

Wallaert said she saw the Twitter account grow from 300 followers to 500 followers in a matter of days.

The first tweet on the timeline dates to March 23, 2013.

Wallaert said she receives cases of attacks on social media in the university housing frequently too.

“Within the past month, there has been probably at least six solid cases I can think of that involve social media,” Wallaert said.

Wallaert said she reports the severe cases of cyberbullying to the Dean of Students Office under the violation of threatening in the Student

Code of Conduct. She is not aware of any regulation that directly addresses cyberbullying although any complaints can fall under threat.

According to the Associate Dean of Students, Lanette Brown, no records are categorized for complaints of online threats.

Cyberbullying is desensitized According to Enough is Enough’s library of statistics, a part of the problem is that some tend to think the victims were subject to the bullying in the first place.

About 58 percent of youths agreed the victim “deserved” to be teased and wanted to “get back” at the person.

Twenty-eight percent said they cyberbully out of entertainment.

“A lot of students will say, ‘That was just me venting. I didn’t mean really mean it. I don’t see it as a threat,” Wallaert said. “While that may be true, when you post it and it reads like a threat then we have to take it seriously … there’s an issue there that we need to address.”

The Office of the Ombudsperson deals with students, staff and faculty experiencing stress and conflicts on campus. The ombudsperson remains neutral while resolving conflicts and directing individuals to other resources that may help.

Kelley Alexander, student/staff ombudsperson, deals with disputes between students. Alexander has had some cases of cyberbullying. She said some students didn’t even know that there was a name for harassing others online.

“What I find is that [students] are not educated enough to know what cyberbullying is, so they may not call it that,” Alexander said. “The anonymity [of cyberbullying] is huge … People can be really disconnected from the fact that they’re actually hurting someone.”

Cyberbullying reaches a wider audience The ombudsperson has seen youths that eventually committed suicide because of bullying and cyberbullying. However, Alexander believed the impact of cyberbullying is more insidious compared to traditional face-to-face bullying.

In addition, 81 percent of youth

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research

Chimpanzees know more than just monkey business JAMES HUNTER Staff Reporter

Breaking ground

I

t seems like every day we learn new evidence showing that chimpanzees, apes, gorillas and other monkeys are smarter than we previously imagined.

Today is no different.

Using Georgia State’s Language Research Center (LRC), a team of researchers from Georgia State and the University at Buffalo discovered that chimpanzees show “metacognition,” or the ability to think about thinking.

The research team included Georgia State’s Michael Beran Ph.D, the associate director and senior research scientist of the LRC and Beran’s postdoctoral fellow, Bonnie Perdue Ph.D. With the great help of the University at Buffalo’s J. David Smith, the group had its findings published in the journal entitled “Psychological Science” of the Association of Psychological Science.

In the simplest terms, metacognition refers to “thinking about thinking” or “knowing what one knows.”

Beran and Perdue explain that humans are often metacognitive. For example, when asked a question, an individual may respond by thinking, “I know for a fact I know the answer to that!”, or just the opposite.

Okay, so maybe you don’t always respond exactly like that—but that is the process your brain goes through when it knows or does not know the answer to a question.

“This is a key issue in cognitive science, because we want to understand what capacities exist for moni-

toring and controlling how we search for and process information, especially when uncertainty or indecision arise,” the research team said.

The debate about metacognition in animals has been running on for decades. However, the new research suggests that chimpanzees can, in fact, think about thinking.

Testing, testing, 1..2..3 The experiment, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health, was conducted by placing food in a container and showing a Chimpanzee what kind of food was in the container about only half of the time.

“When the chimpanzee saw the item, he/she immediately named it by touching an icon on a board,” Perdue said. “A second experimenter would then give the item to the chimpanzee only if the correct name was used.”

In contrast, when the chimpanzee had not seen the food item inside of the container, he/she would first go look inside of the container in the second location before trying to name it for the second experimenter.

This allowed researchers to assess whether the chimpanzee could think about their own state of mind.

In other words, if a chimp knew they knew the name of the item, he should point to its icon it immediately. If that animal knew they did not know the name of the item, he knew he had look in the container before trying to name it.

A link to human evolution?

Now that we know primates show signs of being metacognitive, this information may allow scientists to

better understand the process of human evolution.

“As our closest living relative, research on chimpanzee cognition can certainly reveal a lot about the evolution of humans. These findings suggest that metacognitive abilities are not unique to humans, but that at least rudimentary forms of metacognition are present in other primates.” the team of researchers said.

Although this data is enlightening, we still have much to learn from chimpanzees, according to Beran.

“Even now, what we learn from chimpanzees in a laboratory setting teaches us so much about their psychology and about our own psychology, and it is critical that these kinds of studies will continue in the future.”

Beran said

A breed of their own This is a test that can only be conducted at the LRC, because it, “makes use of the language training of these chimpanzees, where they can name things,” Beran said. “Other chimpanzees cannot do this, and this makes the LRC chimps a special group— one that allows us to ask questions that cannot be asked anywhere else in the world.”

Similar studies have been conducted elsewhere with apes, but this experiment marks the first study conducted with the LRC’s chimpanzees.

Beran has worked with almost all primates, but also studied cognition in bears, elephants, and humans of all ages.

He feels that this comparative approach to cognition provides the most rewarding picture of evolution and the extent of cognition among animals.

the research process 1. First, a container with or without food was shown to the chimpanzee, and was then hidden.

Experimenters put food in the container half of the time. If the container didn’t have food when the monkey saw, experimenters would put food in.

2. If the Chimpanzee saw a food item, he would immediately name that item to an experimenter. If the chimp was correct, a second experimenter would give him the item.

3. However, if the chimpanzee did not see a food item, he would go look into the second container before naming the item.

4. Essentially, if a chimp “knew they ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM knew” the name of an MIRACLE | THE SIGNAL item, he should point to its icon it immediately. If that animal knew they did not know the name of the item, they knew they had to look in the container before trying to name it.

university

E-reserves case update: the copyright battle is far from over JESUS DIAZ Staff Reporter

C

ambridge University Press filed a brief this month appealing the 2011 e-reserves lawsuit against Georgia State, continuing a long and arduous copyright battle on how much online content is of fair use.

The brief, rejecting Judge Orinda Evans decision in favor of Georgia State, may possibly be backed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has requested some time to file a separate amicus brief in favor of Cambridge University Press. Academic librarians worry that the government will threaten fair use of online educational materials through sites like Desire2Learn if it sides with the publishers.

Associate Dean of the University Library, Laura Burtle, said Georgia State will file a response within the next couple of months.

“I feel good about it,” she said.

“We certainly have a strong case… we believe what we are doing is fair

“

Cambridge University Press sued Georgia State University for copyright infringement declaring administrators were “copying” and “distributing” material online to students for free.

use.”

A little less than three years ago after declaring administrators were “copying” and “distributing” online material to students for free, Cambridge University Press sued Georgia State University for copyright infringement.

President Mark Becker, on behalf of the school, argued that Georgia State could use Cambridge University Press copyrighted material under the fair use exemption, which allows copyrighted works to be used strictly for informational and educational purposes.

Moreover, he added that although copyright law protects in-

tellectual property and defends authors and their expression of ideas, the progress clause under the U.S. Constitution also encourages others to “build freely” upon those ideas within the boundaries of fair use. In other words, although the constitution protects freedom of speech and expression, it allows the idea behind that speech or expression to be used for research and teaching purposes, according to the Fair Use Doctrine in the 1976 Copyright Act. When claiming exemption under the Fair Use Doctrine, the court considers four main principles: the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a com-

mercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes, the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole, and the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

In her final decision, Evans set a limit of ten percent, or one chapter, for the total amount of copyrighted work allowable to students and found 70 out of the 75 copyright cases to have been of fair use. By providing a more detailed description of digital copyright laws and further defining their online boundaries, Evans’ 360page decision set an unprecedented legal standard on how much copyrighted work could be used by an educational institution.

Yet, senior communications major Daniel Martini thinks this is not enough.

“Ten percent is slim,” he said.

“Why keep any amount of creative information away from students?”

Martini added that corporations shouldn’t “sweat the small stuff ” by going after educational institutions.

But they are and so is the government. Now that the department of justice is motioning to take action, Georgia State could potentially be in violation of copyright laws by the closing of the next case.

As more and more printed published material like books and magazines are uploaded onto computers, cell phones, iPads and other technological devices, copyright law will lag behind, forced to wait for new cases in order to amend the law.

But as digital material increases, students will be forced to use more online content for their class work, making copyright law cases more imminent.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will hear the case after all appeal briefs are filed sometime this year. Considering the courts most recent copyright case was in 2001, Burtle finds it difficult to predict how this court will react, especially now that the government is stepping in.

“Georgia State has always been very careful and conscious,” she said.

“We will not agree to their [current] standards.”

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Campus Briefs The J. Mack Robinson College of Business faculty has been recently ranked No. 51 among the 100 most productive business schools worldwide and No, 45 among the 100 most productive business schools nationwide by The Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas.

The Players of GSU are performing the Italian comedy, “The Servant of Two Masters” on April 25 through April 27 at 8 p.m. and April 28 at 3 p.m. at the Dahlberg Hall Theatre. Tickets are $10 for students, faculty and staff with ID and $15 for general admission. For reservations, visit www. gsuplayers.com.

Rutgers University Board of Governors Professor of History Dr. Deborah Gray White will present a lecture entitled, “Lost in the USA: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality on the Eve of the Millennium” at the Speakers Auditorium on April 24. The event is free and open to the public.

School of Music students will perform at a free, lunchtime concert in the Florence Kopleff Recital hall on April 25 at 11 a.m.

The Black Sophomore Society will present Dancing With The Greeks, sponsored by the Student Government Association, on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom.

Representatives from various schools systems in Georgia and other states will present as the annual Education Career Fair, hosted by the College of Education and Georgia State Career Services, on April 14 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in University rooms 480 and 485.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

Student government association

Meet your president Ashley Epperson takes over as SGA President

“

I want to take advantage of the mass email system for student. When school starts in August, I want to let them know where concerns or just come in and talk to us.”

-Ashley Epperson, SGA President Elect

D

ue to the disqualification of former presidential candidate Christian Hill, whose ticket won the election, his running mate Ashley Epperson has taken over as the new SGA president. The Signal got a chance to sit down with Epperson and address some issues such as Panther pride, SGA visibility and sustainability. This is what she had to say.

mass email system for students. When school starts in August, I want to let them know where the SGA office is, that they can tell us their concerns or just come in and talk to us. I’d like to attach the student feedback surveys to that as well. Also, with that email, I’d like to have a town hall meeting the first month of school. I’d like to do that.

The Signal: What are the first things that you want to work on once you begin your term as Student Government President?

Ashley Epperson: Well, first thing

TS: Seeing that there was only one town hall meeting this year, do you think that you’d make those town hall meetings a regular thing?

AE: I would like to make them more

is definitely Panther Pride. Football is right around the corner so we definitely want to work on that. I’ve been meeting with Marcus Kernizan, who’s been training me a little bit and we want to set up meetings with the Assistant Athletics Director Tiffany Daniels and talk about the tailgating environment. We definitely have a lot of Greek attendance, which I support, but I’d also like to have a non-Greek friendly environment.

Also working at not just having the students at the tailgates but getting them into the games, more fans in the stands. I think Athletics will definitely agree with me on that. So, with Panther Pride I’d like to work directly with Trent Miles, the head coach. he came to a previous SGA meeting and talked about making football players more visible within the school.

The second thing is visibility of SGA. I want to take advantage of the

of a regular thing. How often, I’m not sure yet. But, I like how many students showed up to the last one

TS: If you do nothing else next year, what do you want your one achievement to be?

AE: This is a very hard question be-

cause, like I said, I’ve been meeting with Marcus and I’d love to give you a definite answer of what to expect.

Speaking with him he’s told me his biggest accomplishment was approving the budget to send our band to President Obama’s inauguration. And, you know, he could have never expected. So, I think that something like that could come along. If I had to give you something specific, I’d have to say the visibility of SGA. I think that students need to communicate with SGA more.

TS: As SGA President you would have a seat on the

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Mandatory Fee Committee, and this year the SGA passed a recommendation to the MFC to pass a green fee.

Where do you stand on that issue?

AE: Well, I’m currently a senator

and Peter Imhoff wrote the resolution which we discussed not to long ago and I did approve of the resolution. So, I still do stand by the green fee. We did student surveys and student forums and the majority do want to see a green fee. It might be coming from the sunsetting library but there wouldn’t be any additional fees.

TS: Currently the Library Fee is $14, do you think that you would use the entirety of that fee or would you lower that to $10, $5 or even $3, like Georgia Southern has?

AE: We discussed it, but we haven’t come to a conclusion. I definitely

wouldn’t want to the full $14. I can’t really give you number right now, but I do want some sort of fee.

TS: So, what is one piece of legislation that you would like to see passed?

AE: I would like to work on the at-

tendance policy of SGA. I know that it might not be a huge issue, but I’ve witnessed many members this past year having to resign due to the attendance policy because it’s really strict right now. It’s not very flexible and these are poeple who are passionate about this position. They had to fill an application. They had to campaign.

They were elected. They were attending these meetings What’s one or two meetings you miss making you resign?

I want our senators to concentrate on getting feedback from the students and not solely on their attendance. We are all really busy and we are involved students.

Modern bully (continued from page 4) agree cyberbullying is easier to get away with than traditional bullying, according to Enough is Enough.

Alexander said, “If someone says something about you, it can go out to millions of people via Internet whereas traditional bullying is usually confined to a smaller audience.”

The Faculty Ombudsperson, Dr. Valerie Fennell, said in way bystanders could be a part of the problem of cyberbullying too.

Some bystanders join the bully and make the problem worse.

Other bystanders try to not get involved in the issue to avoid harm.

However, the bully then has freer reign to instill fear in others.

“The more you encourage and give strength to bystanders to ob-

ject to this issue, then the safer everybody is,” Dr. Fennell said.

Things aren’t getting any better In an email sent by Tahrir Varner, coordinator of the Office of the Ombudsperson, the office does not sub-categorize complaints of cyberbullying either. “...but this year with the rise of cyberbullying incidents, it may be something we begin,” Varner said in the email..

According to The Cyberbullying Research Center, 49 states have bullying laws exclusively, and 16 states have cyberbullying laws.

Georgia does not currently have

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The more you encourage and give strength to bystanders to object to this issue, then the safer everybody is.”

-Dr Valerie Fennell, Faculty Ombudsperson

a cyberbullying law in place.

Sophomore Kelley Henry has been a victim of cyberbullying, and believed cyberbullying is an issue.

However, she didn’t believe government should regulate the problem.

Henry believed an argument against cyberbullying regulation is free speech.

Henry said, “On Tumblr, [a social media blog], for instance, you can block anonymous messaging

and I think that stops a lot of it because a lot of them are anonymous ‘cause they’re cowards.”

Wallaert, in contrast, believes having regulation regarding cyberbullying is a double-edged sword.

“People will use the ‘it’s a freedom of speech’ thing…but then at the same time you are causing psychological harm to another individual and I don’t think anyone has the right to do that,” Wallaert said.

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From the Editorial Board Tuition hikes? So what’s new?

Having your share of the jackpot

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ontinuing a recent legacy of increasing the student’s cost of education, the Board of Regents recently approved a tuition hike that will cost Georgia State attendees an additional $127 each semester.

Over the past few years, the average cost of a Georgia university student’s education has been steadily rising. And with the introduction of “special institution fees” and other increases in tuition, now even students with the HOPE scholarship can end up paying thousands of dollars a semester. So who’s to blame?

In a conversation with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chancellor of the Board of Regents Hank Huckaby defended the hike in tuition as a reflection of the market value of an education at Georgia State.

According to Huckaby, the cost of an education here at Georgia State is “still a bargain.”

While it may be true that plenty of students do benefit from state aid to attend universities here in Georgia, it is unfair and misleading to chalk recent tuition hikes up to students being undercharged in the past.

Certainly in the recent economic recession it is expected that the cost of an education would increase, but charging students more money every year is far from just being the cost of doing business.

Without mincing words, the rising cost of an education for a student is not the result of an increasing market value of a degree—it’s a direct result of spending cuts at the highest level of Georgia government.

Last year, Governor Nathan Deal slashed state spending on education by $108 million, causing the University System of Georgia to cut spending in numerous fields, so increasing tuition was the natural result.

Staff furloughs and increasing student fees are nothing new here at Georgia State (even if we’ve managed to avoid mandatory fee increases in the past two years), as the USG is still struggling to recover from the economic recession.

Maybe the ones that should be taking a hit in their pockets are these administrators who get paid six figures a year, like USG Chancellor Hank Huckaby, who gets nearly $500,000 a year. Why don’t they take a pay cut instead?

In a state like Georgia that leans right and favors small government, students can expect more hits to their already ballooning student loan debt. Cuts to the HOPE scholarship compounded by cuts to USG funding will only hurt students more than it can help, considering that the increasing cost of education is one of the major contributors to the college drop-out rate.

Let’s face it: when the state faces a deficit, one of the first places they’re going to cut is education. One would think that education, the key to a skilled population and the future of our economy, would be protected from most budget cuts. But hey, going into severe debt for education isn’t the state’s problem. We’re the ones who wanted an education, right? Right?

So get used to it, folks. Until Georgia’s lawmakers make clear actions to prioritize education, you can expect tuition to keep increasing (we’ll see if mandatory fees increase next year). Don’t lose HOPE, fellow students, because as we’re told, an education is an investment, and having a college diploma is increasingly important in today’s job market.

Because you’re going to need a helluva job to pay back those loans.

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ambling. It’s a pastime that has withstood the test of time. I recently took a trip to Las Vegas where I happily squandered my parking money. For centuries now, people across the globe have taken the almighty risk of wagering their money and/ or material values in hopes of multiplying on them.

From the affluent equestrian wagers of The Kentucky Derby to the neophyte-friendly slot machines of the Vegas Strip, gambling is controversially man’s best friend and it may soon prove to be a friend of Georgia State students.

On April 11th, our governor, Nathan Deal, signed House Bill 487 into law. In a nutshell, the controversial bill will allow convenient store gambling machines to award Georgia gamblers with lottery tickets, a prize that was previously prohibited. The new bill also places the sole responsibility for regulating these machines in the hands of the Georgia Lottery Corporation. So, what does that little machine in the corner convenient store have to do with you? Everything.

Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that the Georgia Lottery is the sole funder of the HOPE scholarship and HB 487 will add much-needed funds to HOPE. In March of 2011, (courtesy of Gov. Deal) the HOPE scholarship payout was decreased, severing payments for books and mandatory fees. Students were distraught (as they should have been). The gov-

ernor seems to be redeeming himself with this new bill, but it won’t happen without a fight.

Deal has received a severe backlash from social conservatives and Christian coalitions who feel his “advocacy” of gambling has tarnished our good ol’ Southern morals. These “clergymen” fear a widespread distribution of slot machines and ultimately the crumbling of our damned souls. But what they fail to see –or rather turn an eye to –are the needs of students.

While these protestors are holding their pitchforks and torches high, they’ve yet to offer an alternative source of funds for student’s tuition. If lottery tickets won’t pay your tuition, what will? Either you will (out of your pockets) or federal loans will (again, out of your pockets). Yes, there are other scholarships available but the HOPE scholarship is the most inviting scholarship with fewer stipulations. With that being said, why wouldn’t you want to save a dollar on tuition for every time someone hits a Triple 7?

As students, we are the keepers of America’s future and the forecast of this future is contingent upon our education. Our leaders should note that their investment in our education is simultaneously an investment in our country and if they want a grand return on their investment they should consider their stance on this issue.

Do students actually want a smoking ban? Short answer: Yes.

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GA recently passed a resolution in correspondence to the smoking and tobacco usage ban established on October of 2012. This resolution will send a letter to the Atlanta City Council asking for them to pass a city ordinance banning smoking on GSU campus so that it may be enforced by GSUPD and the Atlanta Police department.

When asked if SGA had an idea or estimate of the number of students that constitute Georgia State’s smoking community while considering Resolution 12.5—since it would only be practical to have knowledge of both the pertinence of this legislation and how many people it would potentially effect—Jason Plemmons, SGA senate member and graduate student of the School of Public Health answered, “Not really. The university doesn’t have any demographic on that.”

When asked how he thought the student body would react to Resolution 12.5 he stated, “People that smoke tend to think they can smoke wherever. I think we’re getting more push back for it because we’re telling people what they can’t do.”

SGA’s inherent reluctance to initially assess the facultyimposed smoke ban bill in the interest of the student body in a more aggressive and direct manner motivated me to do what they apparently failed to. I conducted a survey of 100 Georgia State students to get an idea of the interests of the student body regarding this subject.

Fifty-seven percent of students stated that they feel pestered or bothered by the second-hand smoke on smokers on campus. Forty-eight percent answered that they worry about the implications of second-hand smoke they encounter on campus will have on their health.

So it appears, although in my opinion, relatively insignificant in relevance to the spectrum of issues that SGA can be tackling, there is a strong basis for both the smoking ban and SGA Resolution 12.5.

According to the survey, the majority of students said they were in favor of SGA Resolution 12.5. Only 8 percent of students identified their selves as smokers and 13 percent identified themselves as recreational smokers. With this being said the smoker community of Georgia State is not as large as I assumed.

This legislation would only effect a small amount of students and with the majority of students surveyed agreeing with this legislation, it would seem that the SGA has hit a home run so to speak. They instituted legislation that the majority of the student body cared about.

But, there are a few inherent issues with SGA Resolution 12.5 that must be observed.

While it appears virtually harmless and even necessary at first glance, there are several implications of its establishment that I don’t agree with. Primarily, one must consider the student to officer ratio at Georgia State. One must also consider how this will affect the budget.

When asked about the potential effect Resolution 12.5 will have on the budget Plemmons stated, “There is already money allocated to campus facilities. Facilities has a budget for signage“.

Fair enough, “non-smoking facility” or “smoking strongly prohibited” signs will be placed around campus facilities with no additional cost to the student body. But what about actual police and city police enforcement that Resolution 12.5 calls for?

That certainly will have to include increased labor costs for the current campus police employees with the strong potential of hiring more officers to bridge the student to

Survey Results

*based on 100 students Are you a regular smoker?

8% Yes 92%No If no, do you consider yourself a recreational smoker?

13% Yes 87% No Are you aware of the Georgia State Smoking Ban? (est. Oct. 18, 2012) 58%Yes 42%No Are you pestered or bothered by the second hand smoke of smokers on campus?

56%Yes 1% Undecided 43%No Do you worry about the implications second hand smoke from on campus will have on your health?

48%Yes 8% Undecided 44%No Do you agree with the smoking ban, which prohibits “smoking and tobacco use on the majority of the university campus to promote health for students, faculty, staff and the public.”?

63%Yes 16% Undecided 21%No How do you feel about SGA Resolution 12.5, which will send a letter to the Atlanta City Council asking for them to pass a city ordinance that will allow GSUPD and City of Atlanta 51% In favor 20% Undecided 29% Not in favor

officer gap and indeed actually enforce the smoking ban.

In addition to this, although the majority of the students surveyed were in favor of both the smoking ban and Resolution 12.5, one must consider the severity of smoking on campus in relevance to more prevalent and serious campus matters such as safety issues like robbery and theft protection and the lack of security around campus facilities.

With more priority focused on prohibiting smoking on campus, less attention will be allocated toward these more significant issues.

Although SGA is doing a good job in ensuring that non-smokers do have designated smoking areas and the majority of students are in favor of this legislation, Resolution 12.5 remains nonetheless unnecessary. Sure it’s nice in theory, but in reality, the substantial ricochet effect that will follow the establishment of Resolution 12.5 is not worth its potential reward.

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OPINIONS

Boston marathon: Pipe bombs are not the same as guns

I MILES KEENLYSIDE Opinions Editor

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’m sure that Americans will almost unanimously agree that the bombings that took place in Boston on April 15 were a national tragedy. The sting of terrorism pained the United States again and I watched as news reporters, police and officials up to the highest levels of government struggled to make sense of the situation.

Chaos is the only appropriate way to describe the events that unfolded in the days following the bombings. News organizations like CNN struggled to break the news as quickly as possible and stumbled over their own feet getting there.

No doubt these events will inspire dialogue about a countless range of topics.

How did this come to be? Why did it happen? Could it have been prevented? How do we deal with terrorists who are living here in America? Do we classify them as civilians who require Miranda rights, or are they “combatants”?

Hopefully, all of these questions and more will be addressed through due process, but these questions are not the ones I am trying to address.

Here in Georgia, issue of gun control is a popular one, and many of our red-state residents are quick to bemoan gun control laws as the harbinger of nanny-state government hegemony. Since the bombings in Boston, I’ve seen some of my fellow Georgians endorse memes online with such sentiments as “BOSTON BOMBINGS: BOMBER BLAMED; SANDY HOOK SHOOTINGS: GUNS BLAMED.” These kinds of arguments are not only unsound, they are nauseatingly self centered. If you make this sort of argument you are trivializing two separate horrific acts of mass murder in order to further your own political agenda.

The gun control debate following Sandy Hook was sparked by the concern of the mentally disturbed having easy access to

The Boston bombings are not some example to bring up in polite conversation as some sort of “Gotcha!” card you can keep in your pocket until the need arises to weasel your way out of losing a political debate. firearms. The reason we aren’t talking about this issue now is because the acts of terrorism in Boston did not involve firearms, they involved explosives, which already are not easily accessible to the the general public.

I don’t mean to claim that the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were mentally ill, it would be circular reasoning for me to claim that. I only wish to point out to every person who has made the odious comparison of the Boston Marathon to the Sandy Hook shootings that they don’t sell pipe bombs at Wal-Mart.

“They sell fertilizer though, why not regulate that then?” you might ask to counter my argument. Fertilizer isn’t illegal to own until you make it into a bomb and blow it up in a crowded area, just like a raw hunk of steel isn’t illegal to own until you machine it down into an unlicensed firearm.

There is a time and place for a discussion on gun control and regulation, but this is not it. The Boston bombings are not some example to bring up in polite conversation as some sort of “Gotcha!” card you can keep in your pocket until the need arises to weasel your way out of losing a political debate.

Please don’t trivialize the suffering of everyone affected by this tragedy. Don’t use this bombing to be divisive, there are more important issues at hand.

The Weakly Comic by william miracle

TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

YOUR VOICE YOUR OPINIONS The Board of Regents recently raised tuition fees across the state, raising Georgia State’s to $127. Do the education here at Georgia State, or do you think this tuition hike is unwarranted?

Name: Eugene Roberts Major:Marketing and Managerial Science “I feel like its unnecessary, I feel like we pay enough as it is for tuition. For freshmen and other transfer students to come to the school and know that the rate is already higher, and we don’t have a traditional campus […] I feel like it would work if they were countering it with something else that we all can benefit from.”

Name: Nagiullah Noor Major: Neuroscience “I don’t think [it] reflects in any way at all the standard [of education] that we get at this school. I don’t agree […] I don’t see any logical explaination. I don’t think increasing the money increases the standard at all.

I don’t agree with them.”

Name: Shaquita Johnson Major: journalism “Without any specifics it definitely seems unwarranted. I applied and wanted to be here so I obviously thought the quality of education that I would be getting would be good enough. […] I feel like college already is a business and were paying so much to not even be guaranteed a job after school.

As much money as you can save me the better.”

Name: Hannah Basta Major: history and philosophy “I think that they just need more money and that’s pretty much it. They try to B.S. their way into a plausible explanation for why, but its only plausible”

Name: Aria Hariri Major:chemestry “If they are going to use this money to keep adding incentives to the university, then I agree 100 percent. It’s a good university, in my opinion. As far as I know, I haven’t been to any other universities.

I’m a freshman As far as the education it seems pretty on point. I agree, they should increase the tuition. It sucks, they should provide something for students who can’t afford the tuition but at the same time […] prices are going to increase.”

Name: Sandy Nguyen Major:biology

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“I feel that the price increase does not reflect the education at all. The price before the increase was, I feel, a large sum of money already. For them to increase it even more and our education to be the same, there’s no point. A lot of my classmates had a discussion in our English class about where the money goes, and any time anyone calls up to the school and asks where the money goes they say “it’s for fees” but what fees?”

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SPRING RECAPS

Wrap-ups and a look ahead from the court, diamond, course and track Sand Volleyball The inaugural season for the Georgia State sand volleyball team got off to a roaring start.

The team competed in its first invitational, the Ron Jon Surf Shop Beach-n’-Boards Festival in Cocoa Beach, Fla., finishing with a 2-1 record, and drew a crowd of more than 900 at their first home match in the new GSU Sand Volleyball Complex.

The team currently holds an 8-8 record.

The most impressive aspect of the season has been the team’s No. 1 pair of Lane Carico and Katie Madewell.

The pair began their season with a 7-0 record, which included a string of 14 consecutive set victories.

Their streak came to an end against Pepperdine, the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s No. 1 ranked duo, on March 30.

Carico and Madewell’s record is currently 27-5, and they should soon be receiving an invitation to the AVCA Pair’s Championship in Gulf Shores, Ala. held in May. The team’s No. 2 pair, Sara Olivova and Jansen Button, have a record of 11-16, going 9-7 in team matches.

Milani Pickering and Katelyn Rawls have held steady in the No. 3 spot with an overall record of 7-10.

One dual match remains in the regular season.

“A lot of discipline and holding each other accountable to [their] goals” will be the mentality closing out the season, Carico said.

The team will soon look ahead and prepare for next year.

“Next year we’re going to be a completely different team, stronger and more experienced,” Olivova said.

Carico should be the only member of the team not returning next season. This young team has gained some valuable experience that will carry over into the future

Men’s Basketball The men’s basketball team said farewell to the Colonial Athletic Association this season, compiling a 15-16 record along the way.

Many of the players felt like they really were “playing for nothing” according to junior Manny Atkins, since the team wasn’t allowed to participate in the conference tournament.

The tournament ban, leveed by the CAA as penalty for Georgia State exiting

TEAM LEADERS (2012-2013) PPG: R.J. Hunter: 17.0 FG%: Marcus Crider: .517 3PT%: Manny Atkins: .412 RPG: Manny Atkins: 6.7 Blocks: James Vincent: 70 the conference, effectively ended the Panthers’ quest for postseason play before it began.

A five-game losing streak in December smothered the team’s sprit early.

“We hit a low spot. We we’re depressed, but we wanted to get that next win,” freshman Markus Crider said.

The team is now looking forward to next season, one that Atkins believes should have high expectations.

“We have a goal set to win it all next year,” Atkins said confidently.

Kentucky’s Ryan Harrow announced in April that he would be transfering to Georgia State next season.

“I am very excited about the addition of Ryan,” head coach Ron Hunter said. “He played and was successful at the highest level, and he was on Kentucky’s team when they won the National Championship last year, so he knows what it takes to win.”

Forward Curtis Washington will also be joining the team next season. Washington transferred form the University of Southern California last year, and had to sit out the 2012-2013 season.

The entire team, minus graduating senior James Vincent, will return next season.

The team also signed two guards, Jaylen Hinton from Richmond Va. and Isaiah Dennis from McDonough, Ga., in the spring signing period.

There has been no rest for the weary this off-season, according to Atkins, as the team has been in the weight room everyday.

“By next year, [if] we keep working like we are now, we’re going to be a helluva team,” Atkins said.

woMen’s Basketball TEAM LEADERS (2012-2013) MPG- Kendra Long- 32.0 PPG- Kendra Long- 10.9 RPG- Cody Paulk- 8.3 APG- Ashley Watson3.2 BPG- Cody Paulk- 2.7

The women’s basketball team took a step in the right direction this season, despite finishing under .500 and not participating in postseason play.

The team finished with a 13-16 overall record and a 5-13 mark in the Colonial Athletic Association.

“Realistically, in the tough CAA, I went in hoping to finish above .500 after coming off that previous 8-22 season,” head coach Sharon Baldwin-Tener said. “We stayed above .500 until we lost four of the last five of the season. So, we definitely made progress.”

The Panthers were 8-3 prior to the start of CAA play. A tough conference, with NCAA participant Delaware and WNIT champions Drexel, proved to be too much for them to handle.

The team said farewell to three seniors, Cody Paulk, Tiffany Anderson and Kyra Crosby.

But, they return several key players next season and have the potential to keep moving in the proper direction.

“We’re excited about moving to the new conference and getting to play in their tournament for the NCAA bid,” sophomore guard Ashley Watson said. “With so many veterans back and the transfers joining us, along with a good recruiting class, our potential is much higher now.”

baseball The Georgia State baseball team has been giving crowds a show as they near the end of one of the better seasons in school history.

The team is currently 26-16 and coming off of a recent eight-game winning streak.

The offense has been the root source for victories, as the team averages nearly eight runs per game.

Eight players are batting over .300, giving the team an average of .326, the second best team average in Division I baseball “Our offense is strong . . . Each hitter takes his own approach to the plate to help the team,” Chad Prain said.

Prain is currently hitting .418 and has one of the highest batting average in Division I baseball.

The team cannot participate in the CAA Championship because of Georgia State leaving the conference after this season, thus diminishing the probability for a postseason run.

The team has 14 regular season games left, including eight home games.

“Our focus will be on pitching and defense,” Nick Squeglia said on how the team will close out the season.

“The way we are playing right now, we are proving that we will be ready for the Sun Belt next season.”

TEAM LEADERS (2013 SEASON*) BATTING AVERAGE: Chad Prain: .418 RUNS: Josh Merrigan: 38 HOME RUNS: Chase ERA (STARTING PITCHER): Andrew Fessler: 2.76 STRIKEOUTS: Aidan McLaughlin: 36 *-Stats as of April 22

Softball TEAM LEADERS (2012-2013)

AVG- Callie Alford- .363 HR- Paige Nowacki- 12 RBI- Callie Alford- 41 R- Tiffany Anderson- 37 W- Kaitlin Medlam- 17

ERAKaitlyn Medlam- 2.29 The softball team sports a record of 32-16 overall and has compiled a 10-5 record in Colonial Athletic Association competition.

The team has seven games remaining this season; a midweek clash with the University of Georgia and three games apiece against Delaware and James Madison.

Despite not being able to compete in the CAA tournament this season, which greatly reduces further postseason possibilities, the team can still

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TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

Spring recaps continued finish the year with a winning record.

Several Panthers have itched their names into the Georgia State record book this season.

Senior third basemen Paige Nowacki tied the school record for career home runs with her 32nd blast on March 26.

The home run was her 12th of the season.

Nowacki has battled a wrist injury the last few weeks and is hoping to get back on the diamond soon, where she will try to make the record her own.

Junior Kaitlyn Medlam pitched just the third perfect gam in school history on April 10 against Georgia Southern. It was the first time that a single pitcher achieved the feat.

men’s tennis Georgia State’s men’s tennis team has had its ups and downs this spring, but is playing their best tennis when it matters most.

The team had a 6-1 record early in the season, defeated No. 62 North Florida and rose all the way to the No. 60 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings.

After a loss at No. 74 East Tennessee State, the Panthers went on a minor skid, going 6-9 over the next fifteen matches, falling out of the rankings all together.

On April 20, the team defeated Middle Tennessee State in the Sun Belt Conference Championship finals.

Junior Robert Schultze earned the clinching point in the team’s 4-3 victory. He was also named the championship’s Most Outstanding Performer.

Senior Victor Valente, the first male player in school history to be invited to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Collegiate Tournament, currently sports a 28-7 record. He was named to the All-Sun Belt First Team in singles and doubles and finished with a perfect 8-0 singles record in SBC play.

Senior Lucas Santa Ana joined his doubles partner, Valente, on the All-Sun Belt First Team in doubles.

Schulze also earned an All-Sun Belt Second Team honor is singles.

The NCAA

Men’s Tennis Championship in Urbana, Ill. is up next for the Panthers. The championships are being held May 16 to 27.

women’s tennis This season has been one to remember for the Georgia State women’s tennis team.

The team competed in the Sun Belt Championship this season and proved they belong, making an appearance in the conference tournament finals in their first year.

Junior Abigail Tere-Apisah, Georgia State’s top singles player, has been ranked in the Intercollegiate Tennis Rankings for most of the season. She is currently ranked No. 41 and has a singles record of 12-5.

She should receive an invitation to compete as an individual in the NCAA National Tennis Championships later in May. Tere-Apisah and doubles partner, sophomore Masa Grgan, received the school’s first ever doubles ranking and are currently ranked No. 35. The pair finished the season with a 21-4 record and will possible receive an invitation to nationals as well.

The team features just two seniors, doubles partners, Whitney Byrd and Maryna Kozachenko, who also spent a majority of the season in the No. 3 and No. 6 singles slots respectively.

PHOTOS USED Sand volleyball- Lane Carico (Rhett Lewis) Men’s basketball- Markus Crider (Patrick Duffy) Women’s basketballAshley Watson (GSU athletics) Softball- Kaitlyn Medlam (Rhett Lewis)

women’s track Georgia State’s women’s track team has competed well this spring and has had a nice mix of success on the track and in the field events.

Several team members have set new school records and personal bests along the way.

Although majority of the team consists of underclassmen, this will mark the final season at Georgia State for seniors Kesean Henderson, Alison Bishop, Gabby Brooks, Sydney Henry and Leah Norman.

Henderson broke the school’s hammer throw record multiple times this season, which she now holds at 15.56m.

Katharine Showalter set school records in the indoor mile (4:59.62) and 5,000m (16:51.35).

Sophomore Niamh Kearney (1,500 m), juniors Anna Sinclair (5,000m) and Jennifer Rubel (5,000m), and senior Allison Bishop (steeplechase) all set personal bests at the Florida Relays earlier this month.

The 4x400m relay team, consisting of Tatiana Colbert, Gabby Brooks, Wande Brewer and Talia Colbert, ran their season best time (3:45.76) at the Florida Relays as well.

woMen’s golf STROKE AVERAGES (2012-2013)

Laura Sanchez76.68 (28 rounds)

Women’s Tennis- Masa Grgan (GSU athletics) Women’s golf- Maria Palacios (GSU athletics) Men’s golf- Jonathan Grey (GSU athletics) Women’s track- Kesean Henderson (GSU athletics)

men’s golf The Georgia State men’s golf team has had a solid, yet mildly frustrating, season.

“This has been a very interesting season for us,” head coach Joe Inman said. “We have moved up more than 30 spots in the rankings, which is great, but we still are not where we want to be. So right now, I would not call it a success, but I also would definitely not call it a failure.”

While freshman Jonathan Grey has won twice individually, the team hasn’t faired as well. They have yet to record a victory on the season, averaging a seventh place finish in ten events.

Grey posted the lowest round of the year, shooting a 5-under-par 67 at the Mason Rudolph Championship, the first of his two individual wins.

While he’s pleased with the wins, Grey recognizes that improvements could be made.

“It has been an interesting for season for me because golf is both a team and individual sport,” Grey said. “For the most part, I am pleased with the way I have played, but as a team, I know we have all left some strokes on the course that could have made us better.”

The Panthers begin the Sun Belt Conference Tournament on Monday, April 22.

Maria Palacios76.68 (28) Melissa Siviter78.57 (28) Julie Lied78.89 (28)

(GSU athletics) Men’s Tennis- Victor Valente (Graham Robson)

est round of the year with a 69.

Junior Laura Sanchez, from Colombia, recorded the team’s best individual finish, a fourth place at the John Kirk Panther Invitational.

The Panthers finished in seventh at the Sun Belt Conference Championship , ending with four-day total of 913, or 49-over-par. Junior Laura Sanchez finished in a tie for 12th.

STROKE AVERAGES (2012-2013)

Jonathan Grey71.90 (30 rounds) Davin White73.93 (27) Tyler Gruca75.06 (30)

The Georgia State women’s golf season was a tale of two halves.

In their first five outings of the season, the team averaged a paltry 14th place finish. They never finished higher than ninth place, and in one tournament finished 17th out of 18 teams.

That all changed at the JMU Eagle Landing Invitational. They finished in seventh place and never looked back, averaging a sixth place finish in their final four regular season events.

Individually Maria Palacios, a junior from Spain, shot the low-

Grant Cagle75.78 (27) Damon Stephenson76.09 (22)

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Fans treated to a preview of upcoming season RHETT LEWIS Sports Editor

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he Blue-White Spring Scrimmage on Saturday gave Georgia State football fans their first chance to see head coach Trent Miles prowl the Georgia Dome sidelines.

The scrimmage, which featured first units competing against each other and second units competing against each other, drew a crowd of more than 1,800 fans, according to the Georgia State athletics website.

The quarterback position is one that the Panthers have yet to solve in their first three years of existence.

Ben McLane and Ronnie Bell, who both saw action under center last season, and Clay Chastain, a transfer from Georgia Military College, all saw action in the scrimmage.

Chastain completed four of his nine attempts and connected with Desi Banks for a 32-yard touchdown pass.

McLane and Bell completed four of seven and four of six passes respectively.

Northeastern Oklahoma A&M transfer, Gerald Howse, carried the ball five times for 25 yards. He, Travis Evans and Duvall Smith should be the primary options to replace Donald Russell, Georgia State’s leading rusher last season.

Wide receivers Albert Wilson and Danny Williams, the top returnees in the pass game, did not participate in the scrimmage due to injuries sustained this spring.

Defensive tackle Joe Lockley grabbed an interception following a pass deflection by fellow defensive tackle, Nermin Delic.

Sophomore kicker Wil Lutz connected on a pair of field goals during the scrim-

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GEORGIA STATE ATHLETICS

ROBERT SCHULZE TENNIS

Robert Schulze came up big when the Georgia State men’s tennis team needed him the most.

The junior from Frankfurt, Germany was named the Most Outstanding Performer of the Sun Belt Conference Championship over the weekend.

On Thursday, Schulze earned points in the No. 4 singles slot and in the No 2 doubles slot with partner Sofiane Chevallier.

Schulze earned another doubles point, along with Chevallier, on Saturday in the team’s 4-0 pasting of the No.2 seed, South Alabama.

His most impressive performance of the championships came on Saturday versus Middle Tennessee State in the finals.

After dropping the first set, 3-6, Schulze took the final two sets, 6-4 and 7-6 (7-1) to clinch Georgia State’s first conference championship since the 2007 Colonial Athletic Association championship.

MIKE EDEN | THE SIGNAL Nick Henderson (in white) stops ball carrier, Lynquez Blair, as Lateef Laguda (far right) looks on during the Blue-White Spring Scrimmage on April 20 at the Georgia Dome. mage as well.

The scrimmage game was the Panthers’ first game action since the end of a disappointing 2012 season, which ended with a 1-10 record and the retirement of former head coach Bill Curry.

The football team’s first regular season game of the 2013 season is scheduled for Friday, August 30, versus Samford.

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This will be Georgia State’s first season in the Sun Belt Conference and the Football Bowl Subdivision.

During a halftime ceremony, the Georgia State Marching Band members learned they have been selected to participate in the 2014 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

This will be the second time in as many years that the band will represent Georgia

State on the national stage. Earlier this year the band participated in President Barack Obama’s inauguration in Washington, D.C..

Only 10 marching bands were selected for the parade out of 175 applicants, according to the Georgia State athletics website.

The parade will be held on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014, and will cover a 6-mile route through Manhattan.

Sun Belt Championship recap *CONFERENCE GAMES

Mon-Wed, April 22 - 24 MGLF Sun Belt Conference Muscle Shoals, Ala. All Day

Fri-Sat, April 26 - 27 MTR Samford Invite Birmingham, Ala. All Day

Tue, April 23 BSB Savannah State GSU Baseball Complex 5:00 PM

Fri, April 26 BSB Northeastern * Boston, Mass.

3:00 PM

Wed, April 24 SB Georgia Athens, Ga. 6:00 PM

Sat, April 27 SB Delaware * Heck Softball Complex 12:00 PM

Fri-Sat, April 26 - 27 WTF Samford Invite Birmingham, Ala. All Day

Sat, April 27 BSB Northeastern * Boston, Mass.

1:00 PM

Sat, April 27 SVB Louisiana-Monroe (Dual Match) Monroe, La. 2:00 PM Sat, April 27 SB Delaware * Heck Softball Complex 2:00 PM Sun, April 28 SB Delaware * Heck Softball Complex 12:00 PM Sun, April 28 BSB Northeastern * Boston, Mass.

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The men’s and women’s tennis teams made their first trips to the Sun Belt Conference Championship in school history over the weekend and returned with some promising results.

The men captured the SBC title in a tense, five-hour marathon final match. It’s their first conference crown since capturing the 2007 Colonial Athletic Association championship.

Junior Robert Schulze earned the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player award and was responsible for the match clinching point versus Middle Tennessee State University in the finals.

Schulze dropped the first set, 3-6, to MTSU’s Ettore Zito before claiming the final two sets, 6-4, 7-6 (7-1).

Victor Valente, Lucas Santa Ana and Paul Schuette won their singles matches in the finals to help Georgia State secure the four precious points needed to earn the seventh conference title in school history.

The team will be headed to the NCAA Tennis Championships in Urbana, Ill. later in May. Their position in the bracket will be determined on April 30.

The women’s team defeated Louisiana-Monroe and MTSU before falling to North Texas in the finals.

The team dropped the doubles point to begin the match and wasn’t able to rally in the singles portion, losing by a final score of 4-2.

Georgia State’s two points in the final came from singles victories by junior Abigail Tere-Apisah and freshman Linn Timmermann, who were both named to the All-Sun Belt Conference Championship team.

PERSON OF THE YEAR GRACE LEE HER OWN WAY: Alumnae and former Homecoming queen Grace Lee didn’t have to sacrifice her character to have a good time in college.

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uring her senior year of high school, while attending a small Christian school near Jonesboro, Grace Lee didn’t think she was cut out for college. The idea of attending a large university was simply terrifying.

“I wasn’t really excited about college, and I was really scared about the peer pressure that I was going to face,” Lee said. “I have always grown up in a private Christian school, so I felt like I was really sheltered in this little bubble. And you always hear about people in college—them changing—and I was scared that that was going to happen to me because I was so sheltered.”

Later, in her high school senior year, Lee decided to apply to college—but Georgia State was not even a prospect.

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“So I wanted to go to UGA because my best friend was going there,” Lee said.

Only applying to the University of Georgia, Lee found major disappointment after receiving her high school diploma.

“I got denied (from UGA) after I graduated from high school,” Lee said. “So I was a graduated senior, still didn’t know where I was going.”

Her first visit to Georgia State was during INCEPT, and Lee said it was very exciting.

“I really fell in love with Georgia State, it was just

something, I can’t explain it to you, but just the presence and the environment, this is where I want to be,” Lee said.

“And I do not regret my decision at all. I’m really thankful that I didn’t get accepted to UGA.” Although Lee was excited about becoming a Panther, she was still concerned about the challenges her character would face at a big university downtown.

“Before coming to college you have that stereotype or you have this idea that college life is just to be able to be cooler or to be popular,

have a presence on campus, you have to be part of Greek life, you have to be a cheerleader, be part of the football team, you have to fit this mold of what a college student looks like,” Lee said.

Aside from the stereotypes Lee feared, the size of Georgia State was also intimidating.

“It was scary; I mean I graduated with 72 seniors, going from that to the second largest school in Georgia was overwhelming. I think another thing is I had never lived on campus…I still commute from Jonesboro.”

Lee said that being a commuter student has its challenges, but her family is an important part of her life and support.

“My parents are divorced.

I’ve been raised by a single parent, my mom. She’s been my rock since I was like four years old. She has definitely done a lot for me and my sister and sacrificed so much,” she said.

Being a commuter student had its disadvantages as well. Lee was worried that driving to campus would keep her from having the full college experience. During

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I REALLY FELL IN LOVE WITH GEORGIA STATE, IT WAS JUST SOMETHING, I CAN’T EXPLAIN IT TO YOU, BUT JUST THE PRESENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT, THIS IS WHERE I WANT TO BE.”

her freshman year, Lee stayed on campus after class and got involved in programs to try and give her college experience a chance.

“I always made sure to stay on campus to attend events, to get involved with organizations because I didn’t want me living off campus to hinder me from getting the full college experience,” she said.

Lee started getting involved on campus, joining the SGA and doing tours at the Georgia State welcome center. She decided to apply to the INCEPT program for incoming students. It was ultimately a humbling experience.

“I didn’t get INCEPT,” Lee said. “Everyone was like “Grace, you’re going to be an awesome INCEPT-er”, but I didn’t get it because I wasn’t prepared for the interview.”

Lee said her lack of preparation and poor attitude taught her some valuable lessons.

“I came in with this really high horse attitude like cocky, I’m going to get this, I already have it in the bag,” she said.

“That’s why I tell a lot of people doors close for a reason. When one door closes another door of opportunity opens.

And because I didn’t do INCEPT I was able to go to China.”

Her study abroad trip to Beijing and Shanghai in 2010 taught her a few valuable lessons as well.

“It was a cultural experience because before going to China, you hear so much about the Chinese society, that they are really closed minded, that they are not open to Americans and they are kind of cold,” she said.

On her last day in Shanghai, Lee was pick pocketed. The thieves made off with her passport, driver’s license, debit card and cash. Lee credited the generosity of the Chinese people with her experience becoming a positive one.

“I had to grow up really quickly in that [situation]. I had to stay in China for extra days without my group…it just taught me that you have to be totally prepared for the unexpected, which I was totally not,” she said. “It was really with the help of a graduate assistant down there and really the college I was staying at that really showed me Southern hospitality to a T, which is so interesting because down south you always think you will experience it here.”

Lee said she would not trade that experience for anything because of what she learned.

She said she also wants to travel to learn more about her own culture. Lee is a first generation American, so connecting with her Korean heritage is something very important to her.

“I feel like I really haven’t been rooted into my Korean culture, I can barely speak Korean and I’m not really involved with the Korean community.” she said.

Traveling for study abroad and missions trips is something very important to Lee that she hopes to continue through out her life. She said a mission trip to Jamaica really changed her perspective.

“When I went there I really thought I would be helping them out, but they helped me—gave me this life’s perspective,” she said. “We are just in this bubble here in the American society, so consumed in our own lives, being selfish with materialistic things. There is much bigger things and much bigger values to care about. It really helped show me that there is much more to life than just me.”

Lee hopes to go to South Africa, South America and Australia for other mission trips.

Lee’s faith is a motivating in her daily life, but said being a good Christian is more than telling others about your faith.

“What I realize is that it is not through words that you can really make an impact, but through just your actions and being there for people,” she said. “Being present. That’s the best thing, being available to people. I feel like a lot of people are turned down by religion and faith and so many different things in our society, but I think that everyone is the same and everyone just wants to be loved, just wants to be heard.”

Lee said her not only motivates her to help others, but to be brave in her own pursuits and finding a way to have the whole college experience and being herself at the same time.

“My faith really helped solidify me before hand, where I was so scared of the unknown,” she said. “But my college experience has taught me that you have to face your fears you have to be courageous, because that one thing I was scared of the most is one of the proudest moments: not winning homecoming queen or anything else, it’s being able to stay true to who I am.

I’m not here saying I’m a perfect person. I’ve failed so many times and made mistakes, but it’s not about that.”

Although Lee continues on at the university working full-time in the International Student and Scholar Services office, she said that for her journey to continue she needs to step away from college, for now.

“For the longest time, Georgia State has been my passion and my life, but I need to step away from it. I need to be able to figure out some things about me,” she said.

Lee is looking into programs like Fulbright, Peace Corps and mission programs for her to learn more about herself and help others.

“I have my whole life to get my masters,” she said. “That million dollar question is what are you going to do after graduation. Like there is so much pressure for people. Society is telling you that if you don’t have a job than you’re a loser. “ Although starting the next chapter of her life might be as scary as starting college, Lee said she is ready.

“You’re always going to have those fears at the beginning, but I’m so ready to embrace it. I’m so ready to embrace the unknown. That’s why I’m so excited to do Peace Corps and Fulbright…you

SUBMITTED PHOTO Grace Lee joined other students to participate in Holi, the Hindu festival of colors.

SUBMITTED PHOTO Lee, with king Neftali Hernandez, after being crowned the 2011 Homecoming queen. have to put yourself out there and not be afraid to go for what you want,” she said.

Looking back, Lee said her journey at Georgia State has been a fantastic one: although there were some unexpected turns, Lee is happy with the lessons she

has learned.

“I didn’t think that any of this was possible,” she said. “I mean, I was really really scared of college. There’s things that you’re not going to expect to happen. But you just take one step at a time.

Everything has been a blessing.”

ATHLETE OF THE YEAR KATHARINE SHOWALTER Champion distance runner, graduate school hopeful, Atlanta native-Katharine Showalter sets the pace for Georgia State athletics.

WRITTEN BY RHETT LEWIS

Sports Editor

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ne point eight miles.

That’s how far, or not far, someone in the athletics department had to travel from campus to discover one of the most decorated athletes in Georgia State history.

Katharine Showalter, who captured the first Sun Belt championship in school history last fall, grew up right around the corner, in historic Grant Park.

And 1.8 miles is nothing to her.

That’s about the distance of the 3,000m steeplechase; a “running event on steroids” as she described it in a report by Georgia State’s Robert Carnes, in which athletes must scale waist high hurdles and a lengthy water pit.

Showalter finished the event in a shade fewer than 11 minutes at the Yellow Jacket Invite earlier this spring.

She won the event, yet not for Georgia State.

Her allegiance this spring’s outdoor track and field season has been to “unattached,” an identifier for those runners who compete as individuals and not part of a team.

Showalter, a senior English major who will graduate this May, decided to redshirt this season. She will compete for Georgia State next spring– her last year as a collegiate athlete, her first year as a graduate school student.

Choosing an Athlete of the Year shouldn’t be an easy process. And this year, it wasn’t.

Nationally ranked players and AllConference performers litter the Georgia State campus. There was no shortage of qualified applicants.

But, the homegrown distance runner is just on another level.

“Katharine will be remembered as one of the top female athletes ever to compete for Georgia State, and for being our very first Sun Belt Conference champion,” Director of Athletics Cheryl L. Levick said.

That Sun Belt Conference championship capped Showalter’s dominating cross-country campaign, which reads more like a career resume rather than a single season of accomplishments.

Sun Belt Runner of the Year, All-Sun Belt first team, Sun Belt Conference champion, five time Sun Belt Runner of the Week, five individual titles, team best time at all eight events and registered new personal best times in three distances– 4K, 5K, and 6K. She also became just the fourth female runner in school history to compete in the NCAA National Championship.

The indoor track and field record book also had to be reprinted this winter as Showalter set new school marks in the mile and 5,000m and was twice named the Sun Belt’s Track Athlete of the Week. She finished in the top six in the three different events at the indoor championship.

It’s easy to see why we selected Showalter as Athlete of the Year.

But that’s not all there is to the reserved runner who loves to read, yet can’t manage to find the time to, and wants to travel, not run, once she’s done with school.

She’s filled trophy cases at her own home and those at the Georgia State Sports Arena and earned nearly every academic award there is.

But, that’s not enough.

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KATHARINE WILL BE REMEMBERED AS ONE OF THE TOP FEMALE ATHLETES EVER TO COMPETE FOR GEORGIA STATE.

She longs to perfect her skating and parkour skills in the near future, as well as become fluent in Spanish.

The Spanish will hopefully land he in Latin America, no country in particular, where she can teach English as a second language.

Several years ago, Showalter spent her Spring Break in Romania. Not wondering the halls of the Grigore Antipa National Meusem of Natural History or lounging in Bucharest’s beautiful Herastrua Park, but working at an orphanage.

When the athletics department announced that men’s cross-country and track and field teams were being shuttered to make room for a women’s swimming and diving team, Showalter voiced, and penned, her displeasure.

In a time when many athletes, especially at the collegiate level, are reluctant to dispute their governors, her loyalty towards her fellow runners, her friends, was, not to be overly dramatic, both refreshing and inspiring.

She also sings in a choir.

None of these things seem like a very big deal to her, at least not outwardly.

She only mentioned them in conversation as a means to make other points.

What’s even more odd, is she seems to think she isn’t a big deal. Not in an egotistical way, but in general.

Showalter told a Signal reporter earlier this year that she didn’t think she would be a very competitive runner in a different athletic conference and that she was considered a dud her freshmen year at Georgia State.

It’s hard to imagine either one of those statements being true, much less both. Humbleness is probably the culprit as far as they are concerned.

Showalter begins her graduate school studies in the fall. She will have one more season with the Panthers; outdoor track and field the following spring.

No matter what the outcome, she has already proven worthy of being named Athlete of the Year and that Georgia State was lucky to ever have her.

She is a great athlete, and an even better person.

FACULTY OF THE YEAR DR. MICHAEL BLACK

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r. Michael Black, a lecturer at Georgia State, is constantly balancing his work and family. With a wife, 2 year old and 4 year old he still manages to spearhead the green movement at Georgia State and has been named The Signal’s faculty member of the year.

Black received his bachelor’s in Ecology and Systematics from Cornell and began his graduate work at Arizona State University before following his adviser, Dr. Matthew Grober, to Georgia State, where he received his Master’s and Doctorate’s in Biology.

He is a currently a lecturer in Neuroscience at Georgia State.

Though Black’s work within the classroom is amazing–he teaches two classes as part of a Freshman Learning Community in sustainability on top of other science courses–, he is constantly a part of green organizations on campus and has led the fight for a green fee.

Black proposed a green fee to the Mandatory Fee Committee for four years. Each time he failed to get enough votes.

Last semester he decided to turn to the Student Activity Fee Committee to achieve his goal. Though he knew the money that would come from the SAFC would not be able to be used for infrastructure sustainability projects at Georgia State, he still presented his request on behalf of the students to the committee.

After Black presented the idea to the SAFC, and after almost an entire semester of discussing the request and gathering feedback from students, the SAFC created the new Sustainability Fee Council which was given $10,000 to allocate to green student organizations.

Almost immediately, two organizations applied: GSU Bikes and Sustainability Energy Tribe, which Black advises.

“I had been working with Sustainable Energy Tribe in the past, and when they were losing their faculty advisor, they asked if I would become their advisor in 2010,” Black said. “They had been trying to make inroads with the university towards sustainability. I helped them figure out which approaches might work best, and we started working towards a green fee. A green fee had been proposed by students before, but this time we were determined to make it happen, even if it took many years.”

Black also currently advises the Collegiate Neuroscience Society (CNS), ONE Campus Challenge and Atlanta Herpetology Club.

After 12 years at Georgia State, Dr. Michael Black continues his push for a more sustainable campus. And he’s not giving up any time soon.

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A GREEN FEE HAD BEEN PROPOSED BY STUDENTS BEFORE, BUT THIS TIME WE WERE DETERMINED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, EVEN IF IT TOOK MANY YEARS.”

DR. BLACK’S SPEAKERS BROUGHT IN BY GREENING GSU (SINCE 2008)

In 2008 a committed group of faculty and staff “started the group called Greening Georgia State. We met to discuss strategies to move the campus towards sustainability and started a Green Bag Lunch (now the Sustainability Forum) to bring interested university members together to hear from outside organizations and institutions what they do and learn more details about the issues that affect metro Atlanta and the state of Georgia. We had no budget and still have no budget, but our hard work and speakers’ generosity has allowed us to be successful in bringing a number of high profile speakers to campus,” Black said.

Greening Georgia State has brought in 22 speakers since 2008, most with little to no cost.

Black also recently won the coveted George M. Sparks Award. This award has been around for 28 years in honor of the former Georgia State president and is awarded to those within the university that display an extreme amount of dedication to the university and most importantly to the community they are a part of.

“I see Dr. Black as the go-to-guy for sustainability at GSU. He’s definitely a leader when it comes to facilitating green projects and championing the kind of projects that we already have going. Michael is a leader in terms of networking people for sustainability on campus and for leading organizations,” Assistant Professor of Communications, Dr. Carrie Freeman said in a video presentation during the Special Recognition Ceremony where Black received his award.

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Hell Makeup artists take Signal staff writer Samantha Reardon under the paint to show how monsters are made by: Samantha Reardon JOSHUA YU | THE SIGNAL

Shane Morton, horror makeup artist, turns Signal editor Samantha Reardon into a demon.

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otting corpses, bloody bones and walls of heads greeted me at the door of Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse, a veritable hell of chaos. My eyes skirted around a huge, dimly-lit room plastered from floor to ceiling in horror movie posters and monster costumes. My first thought: Was I ready to become one of them?

I was here to interview Shane Morton and Chris Brown, the creative minds behind Adult Swim’s newest show: “Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell,” an office comedy where degenerates go to work with Satan as their boss (Thursdays at midnight). But soon after entering this kooky warehouse filled with paraphernalia of the weird, I knew this experience was going to be more than what I had imagined.

Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse, held every October, is housed here, and the grounds span over 40,000 feet to accommodate the hellish manslaughter of zombie assault.

“There are piles of dead bodies back here…”

Morton said, as he led us around a huge room that was part studio, part storage room.

Remnants of set designs from Pretty Face laid about the room, including the backdrop in Satan’s office: a painted mural of Satan smacking a nude woman’s behind, looking devious as… well, Lucifer himself. Morton showed us the “Ed Wood graveyard” – based on the early low-budget horror filmmaker’s work - complete with smoke machine. A creepy pseudo-bathroom stood in the center of a room, reminiscent of a torture chamber worthy of “Saw”. A wall of melting heads stood alone, gummy faces frozen screams of eternal pain.

Morton and Brown make sets like those for a living. Their newest work appears in Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, where Morton was art director and Brown was co-designer, and both did special FX makeup for actors on the show.

JOSHUA YU | THE SIGNAL Their final product: Shane Morton (left) and Chris Brown (right) pose with Samantha Reardon, our Signal staff writer.

“Every time we did some crazy gag on Pretty Face where like, someone is getting their face blown off, or an infected leg spurting out tapioca pudding, everybody would just get this kind of gleeful ‘oh, this is so good’,” Morton said. “That first day we had the spurting leg…lots of pus. It was like the Neapolitan of wounds. It started with blood and then the blood turned black and then pus started shooting out and we put air bubbles in it so it would like, fart out this nasty stuff – it was just so gross. But while you’re doing that stuff it’s not really gross, it’s funny. You know, we’re all laughing and stuff.”

Tapioca pudding? The team even uses corn syrup for blood. As it turns out, food products are a regular staple in the world of SPFX. Blood is ketchup, pudding is guts, poop is…chocolate brownies. Morton squeezed his fists together to make “colons.”

“I teach classes out here and I tell people all the time that silicone is like the industry standard now, but gelatin is kind of like that. And you can just buy it at Kroger and mix it right up and make seamless wounds,” Morton said.

Morton showed us to a table with props from the show. Each actor had their own special set of horns that was created to fit their personality.

There were also cell phones, “soul contracts” and computers that looked as if they were made from actual skin. I asked Morton how long it took to make a computer out of “skin”.

They bring lots of prosthetic pieces on set.

Sometimes the creative duo has to come up with things on the spot and just make it work.

The computers they made, which doubled as puppets, were completed in two hours, made with prosthetic pieces and hot glue, and then airbrush painted.

“I paint this [a mask] with a couple different things, first I’ll dry brush it here and then I’ll come through and airbrush it,” Morton said. “So this thing gets pretty much painted how we’re going to paint you.”

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This is something you’d have to get used to if you were one of our characters. You constantly have people prodding and touching you and looking at you.”

-Chris Brown

Without further ado, it was time for me to suit up and begin my transformation into a demon.

Morton handed me a long, shiny red robe that I slipped over my head. As soon as I sat down, Brown and Morton were already trying to fit horns onto my head…

Morton explained how the makeup he and Brown were using on me was water-based, so it would remove easily. They picked some small horns for my “tiny” forehead and got out the spirit gum, an “easy-off ” glue that has been used since the twenties.

On the set of Pretty Face, the team used Prozade, a very strong adhesive that is more resistant than spirit gum to actors’ sweat and several hours of screen time.

Morton and Brown applied spirit gum to the horns and blow dried them onto my forehead to make them stick in a process that took several minutes to complete.

While they worked on my face, the duo described their projects. Morton has worked with Rob Zombie, designed themed restaurants and haunted houses, and acts in self-produced horror shows like Silver Screen Spook Show. Brown built characters for companies like Disney-Pixar, was the head puppet-builder at the Center for

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My pretty little face went to Hell continued from page 18 In addition to all their accomplishments, the two currently produce material and design for Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse, a yearly Atlanta phenomenon that is not your average haunted house. Former arts and living Signal editor CC Stovall “survived” last year’s apocalypse, saving both her own ass and a few zombie-killing tricks.

“I have been into this stuff since I was like 3 years old,” said Shane of his work. “My parents took me to see King Kong and it like really warped me. So I’ve been messing around with makeup since I was really small.”

An obsession with the creation of horror resulted, and Morton learned how to make a career in the business.

“When I was in art school in Savannah, I ended up getting a job in the art department on Return of Swamp Thing,” Morton continued.

“I was only like 19. It was really awesome, but I saw how much waste went on. And it wasn’t even a big budget movie, but it kind of freaked me out.”

Morton and Brown are the selfproclaimed “kings of upcycling.”

“To me, low-budget is always better,” Morton said. “If you don’t have money, you have to think and be creative.”

Brown said that anything could happen on set. Costume and makeup malfunctions are a regular occurrence.

“You have to prepare for everything,” Brown said. “Basically you have to bring your shop with you. If you’re lucky, you’ll just need what you’ve got. But it’s very likely that you’re going to get surprised.

Can you pull this out of your ass at the last moment?”

Time crunches and bizarre locations are among the challenges the creative team faces on set.

Morton explained that there were 60 different locations on Pretty Face, one of which was a mountain.

All the equipment had to be taken down into a ravine.

“We had to do makeup changes on the side of the mountain.

Power was tough, and it was really hot, and there were copperheads everywhere and poison ivy.

We came out unscathed, and everybody had a good time, but you’re looking out for all these guys who are in this uncomfortable makeup,” Morton said.

Most other sets on the show are standard. Morton said that most of the footage for hell was shot with a green screen. Sometimes he and Brown only have to build parts of a set, and the rest of the work is handled by a visual FX team.

“There was so much stuff that they were able to do with the VFX that you could never do practically,” Morton said. “Hell really looks hot. When you’re in there, there are heat lines coming off of stuff.”

Office equipment on the show looks like it’s melting. The effect was achieved by blasting

everything with a flame-thrower.

VFX then added “fire” to the props to make them look like they are still burning.

After several minutes of blow dryer-forehead action, my horns were securely applied. Then it was time for paint. Shane began with my face. He airbrushed my entire face, neck and hands with red makeup.

Shane said I lucked out with the makeup they were using. For the characters of Pretty Face, including lead character Gary (played by Henry Zebrowski), Shane and Chris used 99 percent alcohol makeup. This makeup tends to make people sweat much more than usual. Chris explained that the body tries to shed the makeup in an attempt to cool down.

With actors sweating, there were constant touch-ups between takes.

“This is something you’d have to get used to if you were one of our characters,” Chris said. “You constantly have people prodding and touching you and looking at you.”

I was almost demonized. I outstretched my hands as Morton painted the tops of them. For added emphasis, and because makeup lines form as I squinted my eyes, the team filled in any gaps with a grease pencil.

I rose up from my chair.

Everyone in the room looked giddy, holding a secret I wasn’t yet privy to.

“You’re ready for the Black Sabbath reunion,” Morton said.

I walked over to the mirror.

A cocktail of emotions took over me: excitement, astonishment and horror rushed in as I saw my reflection. From head-totoe, I was no longer Samantha, a reporter here for an interview.

Rather, I had undergone a Kafkaesque transformation: I didn’t just look like a demon – I felt like a demon. I felt evil. And in those few moments, maybe I was.

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Professor Rogers Living the best of both worlds

CANDRA UMUNNA | THE SIGNAL Andrea Rogers balances life as a musician, professor and student at Georgia State.

KAYLYN HINZ Staff Reporter

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ith music being her first love but her second job, Andrea Rogers tries to find a balance between teaching as an English Professor, singing in a band and working on her poetry Ph.D. Rogers is quite the professor.

Just talking to her on the street, people would never know that she is a professor, musician and student.

Her unique sense of humor would set a person off, but then so would her outfit choices. Students are used to seeing professors dressed in slacks and typical work clothes. However, Rogers spices it up with pleated skirts and interesting tops. Her thick-framed square glasses definitely complete her look.

Rogers keeps both her music and teaching world separate because she feels as if the two worlds should not meet.

“I think the truth is I don’t feel compelled to tell my students about it,” Rogers said. “In a way, it’s my private life, and the two don’t really overlap. I’ve also never been the kind of person who feels comfortable asking people to come to shows or anything like that, so I think telling students that I was in a band might make them feel like I’m trying to market a product to them in a way.”

Ever since high school Rogers has been in a band with partner Colby Wright. The two of them have had several bands together, but their most recent band, Night Driving in Small Towns, has been around since 2004.

Coming up with a band name is hard, especially getting a name to stick in people’s heads. Luckily, the name came about when Rogers was literally driving down a dirt road in her hometown.

“You know when you are

driving along in a small town and you’re the only person on the road? I don’t know, it’s this intense feeling and you’re just listening to music and you kind of connect to it. That’s what I wanted our music to do,” Rogers said.

Her passion for her music comes out when she talks about it and the goals she hopes to accomplish, one of them being song writing. This is something her and Wright have taken up. They not only write all of their own songs, but songs for other bands too.

“In my wildest dreams I would really like for something that we wrote to take off. That’s really where the money is, but it’s kind of behind the scenes,” Rogers said.

Rogers and Wright share mutual respect for each other and work very well together because they initially know how they both work.

“A lot of bands deal with competition among its members.

Thankfully that’s never really been an issue for us because she’s great at all of the things I’m horrible at.

I trust her and that goes a long way toward keeping a partnership, friendship, etc. moving forward,” Wright said.

Given a copy of their album “Closure,” it is the type of music that one would listen to on a bad day.

Put it on track one and instantly a smile will go across someone’s face.

The songs mainly talk about love, but in a funky, fun way.

Every Sunday, Rogers meets Wright at his house, in the middle of nowhere. If something goes wrong with the scheduling that week, it messes Rogers up and her other work that she needs to accomplish.

Music does not fall short when it comes to her love life. Her boyfriend Heath McNease is a musician as well.

Although it can be hard with both of their busy schedules, they find the time to make it work.

“He tours full-time, so our

schedules almost never line up, but we make it work,” Rogers said. “We have to plan ahead sometimes, so there are no spontaneous dinner dates or trips out of town, but that’s fine by me - I don’t really like surprises.”

When Christmas comes around, the couple will send off videos to their loved ones. This is really the only time when the couple can work together. The videos consist of McNease playing the guitar and Rogers singing a Christmas melody.

With her warm, sweet spirit, Rogers makes sure that these Christmas videos arrive in the mail on Christmas Eve, that way if she cannot be with her family that year, in a unique way they are all together.

“While multi-tasking is exhausting, I’m a big believer in the notion that you make your own path, and I’m equally certain that working hard and being nice pays off in the long run,” Rogers said.

CANDRA UMUNNA | THE SIGNAL Professor Rogers and her keyboard.

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Sneaky Hand

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neaky Hand is a six-piece band otorious among Atlanta’s dive bars and house parties for their blistering dance grooves and on-stage antics.

Their sound bleeds through numerous genres, so they decided to create their own.

“Post-punk funk against the machine, that’s the term I’ve been using -- I’m the against the machine,” said lead singer Matt Maher.

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passing around tambourines to a sea of sweaty bodies, he can be found in Georgia State’s studio art program.

“I just found out I was a senior. I’m getting a BA in Studio Art, and next year I will apply to be a sculpture major. I really love being at school but, because I’m making things, I don’t have tests or papers so it’s easier for me to manage time,” Maher said.

While schoolwork and music can be a conflicting relationship for most, Maher finds the two to be symbiotic.

“I actually came to school with the band in me knowing that I was going do work in and around Sneaky Hand. When I was in printmaking class, I made little posters and cards and fliers and etchings that revolved around the band. The two always serve themselves,” Maher said.

Guitarist and fellow Georgia State Russel Kirn finds a similar musical inspiration in his studies.

“I have a physics teacher here who is extremely awesome and she talks about the movement of electrons, and I think about planets as electrons around the sun as if the sun were this super hot massive dense nucleus.

So my riffs are like this hot ball of nuclei,” Kirn said.

However, time management is still an issue as Kirn navigates between musical and scholarly devotion.

“I take my school very seriously so I don’t sleep at all, but I spend a lot more time worrying about Sneaky Hand,” Kirn said.

Keep up with the adventures of Sneaky Hand at their website, http://www.sneakyhand. com.

Post-punk funk against the machine, that’s the term I’ve been using -- I’m the against the machine,” -Matt Maher

oraine is an instrumental post-rock band fronted by Georgia State students Eric Anderson and Justin Young. They have been active in the Atlanta music scene since early 2012 and are seeking to expand the tiny niche of instrumental bands in Atlanta.

Young describes their unique sound as “instrumental music characterized by long dynamic builds and flowy melodies.”

Loraine has managed to make good use of the little time they have been together for and have played at prominent venues such as The Drunken Unicorn and The Masquerade.

They both face numerous challenges switching between the lives of students and active musicians.

“It’s hard. I go to school, work and play in this band. Pretty much every

spare moment I have is devoted to Loraine,” Anderson said.

Anderson is a political science major in his junior year and views his burgeoning career in music as his main focus.

“School is a back-up plan for me, for sure.

Music is my purpose,” Anderson said.

Young, an English major in his junior year, is currently taking a hiatus from school in order to devote his full attention to Loraine.

“I don’t manage school time and music time.

I stopped doing school for the music, for now.

I’ll come back once something happens or nothing happens,” Young said.

For now, Loraine is continuing to further the scope of their music by finishing a fulllength album, getting signed to a label and embarking on a summer tour.

Hear Loraine’s debut EP “An Autumn Evening” at loraine.bandcamp.com.

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eorgia State student Kelly Stroup has been immersed in the Atlanta hardcore punk scene since 2006, most recently playing guitar for hardcore acts Ralph and Manic.

Ralph was formed four and a half years ago and has since maintained a strong presence among the small yet thriving Atlanta punk circuit.

Manic is a more recent project for Stroup and features a much harsher and caustic sound than Ralph.

“Manic is newer, about a year and a half old. Manic is a heavier band, a little more screamy a little more distorted and the riffs are darker. Ralph is more of a mix between adolescent 80s hardcore in an American hardcore vein,” Stroup said.

He is currently a film major finishing up his senior year and is preparing to graduate.

Even though he is on the cusp of his degree, music and film occupy his time equally.

“Music is my favorite thing to do, film making is really fun but there’s way more of a pressure when I comes to school and doing creative studies like that. I have to get both done, it’s not which one is more important, it’s

how do I split my time evenly.” Stroup said.

Both careers are intensely time consuming in separate ways and Stroup is often forced to make compromises between the two.

“I’ve not studied for school to do a show and I’ve definitely skipped shows to study. It’s pretty equal,” Stroup said.

After graduation, Stroup plans to create his own cassette tape label, release a full-length album and continue performing around Atlanta with Ralph and Manic.

Check out Scavenger of Death Records to hear releases from Ralph and Manic at http:// scavengerofdeathrecords.bandcamp.com.

Class of Collegiate Rockstars PAUL DEMERRITT Staff Reporter

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win Studies is a five piece group that calls on the hazy 80s aesthetics of New Order, Joy Division and My Bloody Valentine.

“We started in September of 2012. We are a little bit dream poppy, but also post-punk and I guess shoegaze as well,” guitarist Jay Stanley said.

Stanley is new to Georgia State and is currently taking a break from school after completing his freshman year.

“I didn’t go to school for a little while after high school just so I could play music. If I was in school I wouldn’t have as much time to do this stuff,” Stanley said.

Though he plans to return in the fall, Stanley does not consider his music career as his first priority.

“The whole thing about being a rock star and making a lot of money off of music is really hard and almost unobtainable. It would probably be better if I find a real career and play music as a hobby,” Stanley said.

Even though the rockstar life seems unrealistic, Stanley still views music as something inseparable from his life, even taking precedence over work.

“I like music too much to give up playing it. Maybe I’ll give up hours at work to get by once school starts again,” Stanley said.

Despite being less then a year old, Twin Studies has managed to play at most of

Atlanta’s hot beds for raw talent, including The Earl, The Drunken Unicorn and Star Bar. Listen to Twin Studies debut material at https://soundcloud.com/twinstudies

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Campus Events Jazz Guitar & Bass Ensembles

Thursda, April 25 6 p.m.

Fulton County Central Library Join GSU School of Music guitar and bass students in this performance featuring jazz standards, contemporary and Latin jazz works. This event is free and open to the public. Get more info on www.music.gsu.edu

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Thursday, April 18 3 - 4:30 pm 403 Classroom South Adobe After Effects is primarily used for creating motion graphics and visual effects. After Effects allows users to animate, alter and composite media in 2D and 3D space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user-adjustable angle of observation.

Atlanta Chamber Winds

Monday, April 22 8 pm Florence Kopleff Recital Hall Come see Robert J Ambrose, artistic director, and the Atlanta Chamber Winds perform. This event is free and open to the public.

Education Career Fair 2013

Wednesday, April 24 4 - 7 pm University Center The annual Education Career Fair is scheduled for Wednesday, April 24, 2013, from 4-7 p.m. in University Center. For more information, contact University Career Services at http://www.gsu. edu/career/index.html.

of other projects to forge this exciting new group, hence the name Tiempo Libre, which means “free time.”

Philosophy Colloquium: Robin Kar Tuesday, April 30th 12 - 1:30 pm

Robin Kar of the University of Illinois Law School will be giving a talk.

Players of GSU: “The Servant of Two MasProspectus Presentation for Jessica W. ters” Thursday, April 18 to Saturday, April 27 at midnight Trussell The Players of GSU present the Italian comedy, “The Servant of Two Masters.” The play will be performed April 18-20 and 25-27 at 8 p.m. and April 21 and 28 at 3 p.m. at Dahlberg Hall Theatre.

Tickets are $10 for students, faculty, and staff with proper ID and $15 for general admission. For reservations go to www.gsuplayers. com and for questions call 404-413-5693.

Tuesday, April 30th 1 pm Announcement of Prospectus Presentation entitled, “Effects of a Direct Instruction Morphographic Curriculum on the Morphographic Knowledge of Late Elementary Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students,” by Jessica W. Trussell.

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Saturday, April 27 8 pm Rialto Classically trained at Cuba’s premiere conservatories, Miamibased three-time GRAMMY-nominated Tiempo Libre performs the incendiary sounds of timba, a high-energy, danceable blend of Latin jazz and son rhythms. Tiempo Libre’s seven musicians came together to realize a common vision: to create the first authentic all-Cuban timba band in the United States. Their passion for the music of their heritage led them together between an array

Thursday, May 2nd 5 - 7 pm Alpharetta Center (Brookside Pkwy) The Georgia State Alumni Association is hosting another FREE Resume Review on Thursday, May 2 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. We will have HR professionals available to meet with you one-on-one to review your resume. You must have an appointment. Call 404413-2190 to schedule an appointment.

Downtown Events Inman Park Spring Festival

Saturday, April 27 - April 28 10 am Inman Park Come tour Atlanta’s most prestigious collection of Victorian and Craftsman homes. Enjoy our famous artists market and street fair, nonstop entertainment, and Atlanta’s wackiest parade. See more details and pictures on our website. 90,000 attendees expected.

The Great Atlanta Pot Festival

Saturday, May 4th 11:30 am - 7 pm Freedom Park (Moreland Ave.) The Great Atlanta Pot Festival is held in conjunction w the Global Cannabis March on Saturday May 4th - 11am to 7pm. The march begins in Freedom Park @ L5P. This A Free Event! Bands and Speakers on our Freedom! Culture (from Jamaica), Copious Jones, Ghost Riders Car Club, Hair of the Dog & the Stone Posse Band.

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Concerts/Shows Smashing Pumpkins

Friday, April 26 7:30 pm Chastain Park Ampitheatre Tickets available on http://www.chastainseries.com/

Tim McGraw with Brantley Gilbert, Love and Theft Sunday, May 12 7 pm Aaron’s Ampitheatre at Lakewood Tickets are $40 - $85+ on Livenation.

Sunday, May 5th 10 am Centennial Olympic Park Fiesta Atlanta is Atlanta’s premier Hispanic outdoor festival and the largest Cinco de Mayo party in the southeast. The party will feature a daylong celebration of Latino culture and heritage, featuring continuous live musical performances on two different stages by international and national recording artists. There will be mariachi music, Mexican folk dancing, a 5k race, youth soccer clinics and sponsor displays with free product samples as well as arts and crafts and authentic foods. Visit fiestaatlanta.com for more information!

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Saturday, May 11th 7 pm Strand Theatre (Marietta) Come see CBS Atlanta’s Markina Brown in the spectacular stage

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Saturday, May 11 6:45 am - 10:30 am Atlantic Station The 23rd annual Komen Atlanta Race for the Cure 5K run/walk and 1 mile family walk will take place Saturday, May 11, at Atlantic Station. This year, an expected 15,000 Atlantans will help raise $1.5 million to help run breast cancer out of town. Register online individually or with a team at www.komenatlanta.org. It’s $30 to participate and you can get more information on their website or by calling (404) 459-8700.

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