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Georgia Southern officials announced another week of decline, reporting only 19 cases during the sixth week of school.
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Services available to help students and alumni secure a job in the pandemic BY SHAKAILAH HEARD Correspondent
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STATESBORO — Students and alumni may have concerns about getting a job after graduation, but the Office of Career and Professional Development at Georgia Southern University has a solution. “I would really like students to know that it’s a myth that employers are not hiring right now,” Glenn Gibney, the director of career and professional development at Georgia Southern University, said. “They are hiring, but they’re hiring in a different way, and you need to become proficient in the job search in a virtual environment.” Gibney said that the basics of finding a job in the pandemic are the same that they’ve been before. The student needs a strong resume that should be specific to the job being applied for. Also, the student needs to know how to interview well. Interview Stream is a service available on the Office of Career and Professional Development website that allows students to practice a remote interview and play it
back to see exactly what needs to be improved. It is important to be aware of the surrounding environment, make sure it is professional, dress professionally and be aware of background noise when participating in a virtual meeting, according to Gibney. The Office of Career and Professional Development also has an online platform called Handshake where employers will post jobs, and students and alumni can upload a resume and portfolio. After uploading the documents, Handshake matches students with possible jobs. “When I talk to students about how to find a job, it’s really all about number one, finding out where you want to work and who you want to work for,” Gibney said. “Then you begin to sort of spend time and learn about that company. Who do you know there? How can you network with those folks at the company?” Career Shift is another service that the Office of Career and Professional Development offers. It will display the names, addresses and even the emails of employees at a specific job.
Georgia Southern reports only 19 positive COVID-19 cases during sixth week Report marks a full month of decline BY ANDY COLE Editor-In-Chief
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STATESBORO — Georgia Southern officials announced another week of decline, reporting only 19 cases during the sixth week of school. “The report below reflects a fourth consecutive week of decline in confirmed and self-reported cases, with no single day last week
registering more than five positive reports” said a disclaimer on GS’ reporting website. “While these numbers indicate continued effectiveness… we must remain vigilant with our adherence to public health guidelines if we want this trend to continue.” Five cases come from employees, three from the Armstrong campus and one from the Liberty campus.
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About 60 to 70 percent of jobs are found through networking. Probably 95 percent of employers use LinkedIn, and the Office of Career and Professional Development can help build one, according to Gibney. Blakeley Bartee is a Georgia Southern alumna who graduated in May 2020 with majors in writing & linguistics and multimedia journalism. She is now a reporter for the Aiken Standard. “I feel like I got lucky and I had the benefit of having a lot of experience from college,” Bartee said. “Both from student media and internships, so I feel like I was just really well prepared to look for a job. I guess all I can say is to keep trying and use what connections you have, ask around, it’s tough out here.” Bartee said she applied through an online application and the employers reached out to her over the phone. Bartee also went in person to the location she would be potentially working at while wearing a mask and staying socially distant. “I had just a short amount of time to graduate and find a job and go out on my own,”
Bartee said. “So it was a little bit stressful knowing that it might be more difficult because of the pandemic.” The Office of Career and Professional Development offers resources to other alumni that feel the same way Bartee felt after graduating. “Our office is increasing our support for alumni in the job search, right now,” Gibney said. “We have built a very strong relationship with the Office of Alumni Relations and so if you are a graduate and you are out for a year, or five years or ten years, you can contact us and we will give you the same level of support as if you were a student.”
The latest numbers from the Georgia DPH’s COVID-19 Daily Status Report for counties with a Georgia Southern University campus:
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2,890 cases, 28 deaths
Chatham County: 8,511 cases, 163 deaths
Liberty County: 1125 cases, 22 deaths
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318,026 cases, 28,552 hospitalizations, 7,021 deaths
Georgia Southern: 15 cases, 1,094 total
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BY OLIVIA CRAFT
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STATESBORO — Over the course of the summer and fall semesters, the student government association (SGA) decided to take some time off to reconstruct their program. We found that while they may be absent now, SGA isn’t gone forever. Students like Brianna McElwaney, a freshman, told us she’s concerned about the lack of representation. “It could be online, it is very important,” said McElwaney. “I don’t understand why they wouldn’t be in session this semester. It is important to get student’s voices heard.” Ken Gassiot, associate vice president for student engagement and advisor to SGA, says this reconstruction
includes the rewriting of the organization’s constitution. Before this, the Armstrong and Statesboro SGAs were functioning as if they were two separate organizations, therefore the constitution is being rewritten in attempts to ‘marry’ the two and make one unified organization. Gassiot added that SGA did not elect new members during the spring semester due to COVID-19 and the lack of presence on campus. “There were other [University System of Georgia] schools that were doing the exact same thing,” Gassiot said. Shakira Robins, also a freshman, says she believes if there was a will, there could’ve been a way.
“They could have made an alternative option, like a Zoom meeting,” said Robins. “It feels irresponsible.” SGA hopes to hold elections this semester, and be back up and running by the end of the semester. Gassiot said that they plan to hold information sessions for elections October 6 – 8. He said SGA should be done with elections and preparing for a meeting after October 28. Meanwhile, Gassiot suggests that if students have concerns about anything, to reach out to him or anyone else in the division of student affairs. “We are all advocates for students, so really they can really come to anybody,” said Gassiot.
Georgia Southern establishes Senator Jack Hill Memorial Scholarship
BY DAVIS COBB
Correspondent Davis.Cobb@thegeorgeanne.com
STATESBORO — Georgia Southern University has established a new scholarship in partnership with the family of Jack Hill, a former Georgia senator and GS alumnus, to honor him after his death in April. Graduating from the Parker College of Business and serving as a senator since 1990, Hill worked to provide reform in a number of fields, including
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sponsoring legislation to create a five percent fine surcharge to fund local victims’ assistance programs statewide, promoting state parks in the 4th Senate District, supporting state public libraries and providing state matching funds for starting or renovating libraries. The scholarship, which will be available to incoming freshmen from the Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Emanuel, Evens, Screven and Tattnall counties—the same counties Hill represented in the Senate— will provide these students
with $1,500 a year. Eligible students may apply for the scholarship through the GS scholarship application portal, after which their applications will be examined by a committee from the office of admissions and the Georgia Southern University Foundation. The Senator Jack Hill Memorial Scholarship will be made available to students in Fall 2021, but the Georgia Southern Alumni Association is currently accepting donations for the scholarship.
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Georgia Southern Theatre goes virtual BY DAVIS COBB
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With in-person performances no longer being much of an option, the Georgia Southern theatre program has begun moving its entire process to a virtual format. Auditions, rehearsals and the showings themselves have all been reformatted to adhere to social distancing guidelines. Some rehearsals have been initiated in person with the actors remaining a sufficient distance apart, but the players are also just as encouraged to attend rehearsal virtually as well. “We started thinking about this early on, because—back in early spring—we had already identified what our seasons of production were going to be on both campuses, and we needed to adapt those as soon as we could,” Pamela Sears, a professor of theatre on the Armstrong campus and
the director of “28 Hours,” said. “We started thinking of various ways we could have the show go on and persevere and send the message to our students that just because we are in a pandemic and 100 percent focused on keeping everyone safe doesn’t mean we can’t still be creative and make art that’s valuable to the campuses and to our communities.” Rather than offering showings in-person, plays through the theatre program will either be posted on their Facebook page or broadcast on Vimeo, depending on if the topic of the play is public domain or not. Due to the revision, the theatre is no longer charging for tickets, either. As of now, two events have been streamed: a 24-hour play event called “Wham! Bam! Play Slam!” and the Irish tragedy “Riders to the Sea.” In addition, two more plays are in production using the new
format: “Social Creatures,” a dark comedy focusing on a group of survivors taking refuge in a theater amidst a worldwide epidemic, and “Touch,” a work directed by Lisa Abbott, chair of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region IV, that will discuss the concept of the titular sense in a world where it does not exist, told through a story crafted entirely by its cast. The actors are getting used to the new format, and as both Sears and Nicholas Newell, the director of “Social Creatures” and a GS assistant professor of theatre, have reported, reception has been positive to the change, and the department is not averse to retaining a virtual option for acting even after the pandemic is over. “Theater is meant to be live,” Newell said. “That doesn’t mean that there isn’t value in any of the experiments we’re attempting.”
Counseling Center works on self-care for students BY DAVIS COBB
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In a collaborative effort with the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Georgia Southern University’s Counseling Center has begun hosting a series of virtual workshops focusing on various topics related to self-care. The “Care for Yourself” workshop series is scheduled to meet once a month, and details virtual conversations on topics such as stress management, coping, and destigmatizing mental health and mental wellness. The series topics were decided upon by a survey sent out to students asking them what they wanted to discuss. The top 4 choices were collected into this series. “Students really need a space to safely discuss these things and to maybe just hear from the counseling center, hear from a professional,
somebody who can hopefully help with some of the skills needed to deal with some of these situations,” said Tatiana Smith, Armstrong campus case manager and an organizer of the workshop series. “I think a lot of people think about self-care and think of ‘spa day’ or whatever, but it really could be coping, maintaining your peace–or having healthy coping skills–and just knowing what to do during really hard times, what you need, and how to pay attention to that, and I think that’s why we wanted to do it,” said Smith. Due to the very interactive nature of the workshops and the potential of the attendees discussing personal topics, the workshops will not be recorded, meaning those interested will be required to attend at the scheduled time. Smith also expressed a desire to hold more workshop series like this in the future, but stated it would depend on student attendance and interest.
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Georgia Southern falls to #19 Louisiana The Ragin’ Cajuns came through late to fend off the Eagles’ upset bid
BY DJ CADDEN
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LAFAYETTE, LA — In a game where the Georgia Southern was a double-digit underdog, many people never even bothered tuning into the game. Yet, Eagle Head Coach Chad Lunsford once again got his team ready for the occasion of playing a ranked opponent. The Eagles came out of the locker room on a mission, immediately driving the ball down the field twice before scoring a touchdown for the first points of the game on the first play of the second quarter. However, this lead would be short lived as Billy Napier’s Louisiana team would find the endzone just five minutes later on the next possession of the game. After one half of football, the game was tied at seven, with neither team being able to find
the scoreboard again in the first half of play. In addition, both offenses would come out sluggish in the second half. The slow start would result in a mostly uneventful third quarter, with both teams kicking a field goal to enter the final period in a 1010 deadlock. The fourth and final quarter was anything but uneventful and would unleash a rollercoaster of emotion for fans of both teams. Less than five minutes into the quarter, Louisiana quarterback Levi Lewis threw a wobbler of a touchdown pass
to give his team their first lead of the game. The following ten minutes were some of the most stressful minutes in recent memory for Eagle fans everywhere. The offense would have to punt the ball on their first possession of the first quarter, but after that Shai Werts would take over. The veteran quarterback would complete his next four passes for 51 yards and rush for another 10 yards as he led the Eagles to a touchdown to bring the score within one point. Then, in a decision that did not shock anyone watching, Lunsford decided to send
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the offense back onto the field to attempt a two-point conversion. On a play that felt like it took an eternity, Werts miraculously found Darion Anderson to give the Eagles the lead with 54 seconds to play. Unfortunately, this would prove to be too much time for the Ragin’ Cajuns to come back. Georgia Southern would decide to run what most call a ‘prevent’ defense, which allowed vetera quarterback Levi Lewis to hit his receivers underneath time after time to put his kicker in range. In the end, Louisiana kicker
Nate Snyder would get the chance to attempt a 53-yarder with two seconds to go. Snyder, who had only made two of six field goals on the season, would leave no doubt as he kicked the game-winner through the uprights. As tough a loss as this was for Chad Lunsford’s team, the fight and heart of this Eagle team would shine through. The Eagles proved today that they are a real threat in the Sun Belt and sent the message to Louisiana that this might not be the last they see of the Eagles in 2020.
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