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Been there,

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Seniors’ advice to freshman

BY ALEXANDRIA RICHBOURG The Reflector staff

Summer fun is coming to an end and it’s time to get in gear for the school year. It’s fall semester and there are a lot of things to be excited about. Especially if you’re an incoming freshman. It’s the start of your young adult life.

No more living with your parents, curfews or being told what to do. You’re officially on your own.

Although your newfound freedom is awesome, being in college comes with many responsibilities that you may not be aware of yet. College will be one of the greatest times of your life where you make

some of the best memories but you have to remember why you’re here.

Two seniors reminisce on their time when they were freshman here at Georgia Southern.

Myrriame Dosso, a chemistry major, like many others was confused when she actually got on campus.

“Every time I see a freshman it reminds me of how the first day I was really confused,” said Dosso. “I was late to all my classes.”

When it comes to her college experience thus far, Dosso says that she’s enjoyed it.

“I’ve learned a lot and enjoyed a lot,” said Dosso.

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“Looking back, I’d tell freshman me not to be afraid to talk to my professors or befriend my professors. Also to not be afraid to talk to people or others that are in the same class as me,” said Dosso.

Information systems major Stanley Heard looks back as well and gives advice from his own personal experiences.

“It’s weird because that was me four years ago. I reminisce all the time just because I wish I would have did more, gotten involved earlier and have gotten a mentor,” said Heard.

Some of the best advice you’ll get when you’re a freshman is from those that have been there before.

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Welcome back Eagles. For the first week of class it looks like we’ll be greeted with high temperatures and mostly cloudy conditions.

Always take initiative to get to know not only the people in your graduating class, but from those upperclassmen that have been here for some time now.

“Study, learn how to actually study because GPA matters.

Get involved as much as you can,” said Heard.

“I know it’s hard trying to figure out who you are. You definitely go through different phases in college but I would just say the biggest thing is, focus on what you’re in college for and don’t get messed up doing something stupid,” said Heard.

So when it comes to being

new on campus and figuring things out just remember that someone knows what you’re going through because again, we’ve all been there.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions, stay on top of your schoolwork, get involved as much as possible and have a lot of fun!

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IAN LEONARD Leonard is a junior writing and linguistic major from Johns Creek, Ga. For better or worse, the 2016-2017 school year has officially commenced here at Georgia Southern University and I believe there are some introductions in order. First of all, my name is Ian Leonard and I am the new Editor-In-Chief of The George-Anne Print division. We’ve undergone some drastic changes here at Student Media and

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provide certain benefits. Thanks to our less stringent deadlines, our reporters and editors will have more time to look past the initial details of a story and present a side that you may have never considered.

We want to focus on the people, places and things that make not only Statesboro, but this entire university, a truly intriguing place to live. We want to not only share stories with you, we want to help you experience them. With the help of our creative division, we hope to compliment our stories with some great art, dynamic photos and vivid colors to give you an appealing way to read your news.

All in all, I’m looking forward to the new opportunities and challenges we will be facing this year. Of course none of this will be possible without you. We want to involve you all in as many ways as we can.

We hope to hear your voices through your letters to the editor and if you truly want to get involved with media on campus, I hope you’ll join us here at Student Media.

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DEVIN CONWAY Conway is a junior journalism major from Manchester, New Hampshire.

From the classrooms that demand I remember to the late nights that require I forget, college has offered me an opportunity to experience absolute freedom: freedom to express myself, freedom to reject the outdated notions that have been imposed upon me and the freedom to do as I please.

This experience has given me the tools necessary to explore a vast array of ideas, cultivate meaningful relationships

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we’re excited to begin this new chapter in our history.

The world is always changing, and thanks to the rapid evolution of technology, even the way we all consume information has changed. To reflect this, The GeorgeAnne has created a new division to focus solely on reaching our audience online through social media and our website.

I won’t go too in-depth about our digital section, instead I want to tell you about the goals of the print division for the coming school year.

It’s no secret that newspapers are often outdated by the time they reach a consumer’s hands. Our world is moving at an incredibly fast pace and news can be spread worldwide in a matter of minutes after it breaks. However, there are some stories you simply can’t rush. We want to bring you the deeper story behind a notification you may have seen on your phone this morning.

When news breaks we know we probably won’t be the first place you’ll read about it, but that quality does

and develop my own nuanced opinions about the world around me.

Despite the pleasures of cheap thrills and the fleeting glimpses of boozeaddled euphoria, the most intimate moments of my formative years have not been spent out at the bar among friends, but rather the time I’ve spent in the clarity of my own vision.

To be completely comfortable in my own skin, even in the face of brash criticism and the ever-increasing pressure to conform to social norms, is empowering in a way that is difficult to articulate but impossible to ignore.

The road to self-actualization is paved by those blissful moments of lucidity, and although there are inevitable moments of doubt, I continue to stride confidently toward my goals and rebel against a decadent culture with a return to the traditional values of hard work and determination.

I have come to accept the level of responsibility that comes along with my freedom, and I have come to embrace the passion that drives me to unapologetically stand up for what I believe in.

Having recently been promoted to the Opinions Editor of The George-Anne, I’m hoping to offer a unique voice of my own while simultaneously facilitating the views of the larger Georgia Southern community.

With that being said, I would like to encourage each and every one of you to contribute, no matter how controversial the topic or unpopular the opinion.

In a day and age that allows for the instantaneous sharing of thoughts and ideas, it’s really easy to get caught up in the narratives that dominate the news cycle.

There seems to be an endless supply of debates, and the repetitive and often mundane nature of these disagreements can be overwhelming.

Written pieces that allow for reflection and thorough planning can be a relieving outlet for the aforementioned stress that accompanies these platforms for public discourse.

If you would like an opportunity to express yourself, especially in those areas you feel passionately about, I invite you to come and participate in the art of persuasion.

STAFF LIST Print Editor-in-Chief Ian Leonard Digital Editor-in-Chief Casey Cargle Print Managing Editor Jozsef Papp Digital Managing Editor Meg Elwood Print News Editor Tandra Smith Digital News Editor Blakeley Bartee Features Editor Julia Fechter Digital Sports Editor Stephanie Matzelle Opinions Editor Devin Conway Creative Manager Lauren Grizzell Photo Editor Kiara Griffin Design Editor Erin Fortenberry Features Designer Stevey Mann News & Opinions Designer Jasmine Davis Sports Designer Dionna Williams Marketing Manager Haley Clark Business Manager Austin Hinkley The George-Anne welcomes letters to the editor and appropriate guest columns. All copy submitted should be 350 words or fewer, typed, and sent via email in Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx) format to letters@ georgiasouthern.edu. All submissions must be signed and include phone number for verification. GSU students should include their academic major, year and hometown.

The editors reserve the right to reject any submission and edit submissions for length.

Opinions expressed herein are those of the Board of Opinions, or columnists themselves and DO NOT necessarily reflect those of the faculty, staff, or administration of GSU, the Student Media Advisory, Student Media or the University System of Georgia.

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ABOVE: President Hebert speaks at his first Fall Convocation. He spoke about education, the city of Statesboro and the future of GS among other topics.

RIGHT: Hebert, along with other staff, addressed faculty and staff during the Fall Convocation at the PAC.

President Hebert addresses GS community during annual Fall Convocation

BY BAILEY ADCOCK The George-Anne staff

President Jaimie Hebert addressed faculty, staff and a select few students Wednesday, August 8 at the annual Fall Convocation after an introduction from VP of Student Affairs and former interim president, Jean Bartels.

Prior to joining the Eagle family, Hebert, GS’ thirteenth president, spent time in Boone, North Carolina and is an alum from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.

“I have been told that any residue that may remain from Boone, North Carolina or Lafayette, Louisiana was all washed off in Eagle Creek,”

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Hebert said.

The Fall Convocation address mostly consisted of thanks and praise for the staff and faculty of GS and the city of Statesboro.

“During my first hundred days I said that my primary goal would be to listen... to listen deeply to everyone associated with the university,” Hebert said.

He addressed two

main goals which he would like to focus on for the school year: institutional growth and economic impact.

“Never in my life did I expect to have an opportunity to live and work among people who do what I’ve always desired to do professionally, but who do it in a way that I’ve always wanted to do it personally,” Hebert said.

With classes starting anew

Georgia Southern is a community that thrives on using every moment of every day to create meaningful experiences for students on campus.”

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and old students arriving on campus, Hebert says he is excited to see what the new school year brings, especially at a school as great as GS. Prior to the president’s address, a panel of speakers, made up of Bartels, Richard Flynn, Ph.D., moderator of the faculty senate, Brenda Gates, member of the president’s staff council and SGA Vice

President Valencia Warren spoke on various points, welcoming Georgia Southern University’s faculty and staff to the fall semester.

Warren represented students in her welcoming address to those gathered.

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CONVOCATION continued day to create meaningful experiences for students on campus,” Warren said.

Warren continued in her speech, thanking GS faculty and staff for their guidance in providing students with the opportunities they need to soar.

“On behalf of the student body, we thank you. It is our hope that you continue to push yourselves just as hard as you push us, that you continue to

think outside of the box when it comes to higher learning and that you continue to be the best version of yourself,” Warren said.

Following Warren’s Speech, VP Bartels acknowledged the 2016 Staff Council Merit Award recipients, given to staff who provide top notch service to campus, as well as the Awards for Excellence honorees.

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13 things you need to know from our 13th President’s Fall Convocation 1. GS students bring an average SAT score of 1113 which is higher than the national and state average.

2. GS could soon be bringing close to one billion dollars to the economies of Statesboro, Savannah, and their surrounding areas.

3. Hebert’s mission is to listen to the people of Georgia Southern.

4. Who we are as people will establish who we are as a university.

5. Georgia Southern University is recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as a doctoral research institution.

6. Two areas we can improve upon are institutional growth and economic impact.

7. We have the only manufacturing engineering program in the state.

8. The demographics of Southern represent the state of Georgia as a whole.

9. GS maintains a student to teacher ratio of 22:1 10. “Academics and student success are and will always be our main goal,” President Hebert said.

11. There was a 100 percent employment level with last year’s engineering graduates.

12. GS receives over 13 million dollars per year in external research funding.

13. Hebert says that GS has one of the most wholesome relationships with its town he has ever seen.

BY IAN LEONARD

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Q: What role do you think athletics play in a school’s academic success?

A: “It plays a critical role in the overall university environment.

It creates within students a confidence; a level of confidence that they carry into every aspect of their lives. I think it has an indirect impact on a student’s success.”

Q: What are you most excited to get accomplished in your first 100 days?

A: “Listening. I have to have a really deep understanding of what the non-negotiables are. The culture and the tradition of this place is non-negotiable.”

Q: Due to the recent NCAA sanctions against the football team, our football budget is to be cut by 1 percent. Will students see that change reflected on our athletic fees?

A: “No. There will be no impact on student fees whatsoever.”

-Quotes taken from an interview conducted on August 15.

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BY JULIA FECHTER The George-Anne staff

You are figuring out the best route to take to class, scrambling to buy the best books, settling into your apartment or dorm and adjusting to the newness of the semester. In the midst of all of this, you just want to relax and not have to think about it.

This calendar features a variety of special deals and events from five different Statesboro’s bars and restaurants, ranging from concerts to trivia night to extended happy hours.

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BY TOM BARSZCZ The George-Anne staff

A new school year at Georgia Southern means a new year for ingenuity and the opportunity for our students to do something great.

Sophomore business management major Jordan Walker and freshman information technology major Alex Knapp are seizing that opportunity.

They are collaborating to create Georgia Southern’s first ever original anime series.

Anime, which means animation in Japanese, is a style of cartoon that originated in Japan. Stories typically take place in a fantasy world that’s made up of vibrant, whimsical creatures who can inhabit human traits.

The idea for the series, titled “Doppelganger”, came about when both Walker and Knapp were in high school.

“We sat next to each other in the same psychology class in high school and we started talking about our love for anime and would talk about the

different clichés they have. We would joke about how we would make an anime different from the traditional sense,” Knapp said.

According to Knapp and Walker, their idea for creating an original anime was tabled until coming to GS when joining the film club provided better resources to bring the project to life.

They needed more individuals talent and knowledge of anime which led them to contacting Georgia Southern’s anime club.

Walker presented the idea for the project to Vaughn Ellis, senior mechanical engineering major and president of the anime club, along with the club’s members.

“We’ve never had a time where someone came in and proposed to completely create an original anime.

She [Walker] blew us away. It’s something completely new,” Ellis said.

The project consists of about 30 people including Walker and Knapp, who are the head directors. Over the

course of the year, they will be working together to design the characters of the show, the characters’ fantasy world, record voice actors and record custom soundtracks for the show.

The soundtracks will be played by Bullmoose, a local band.

Walker and Knapp decided to design the story so that it captivates all genres of the anime field: comedy, action, drama, fantasy, mystery, but differs from other anime’s in its concentration on depth and character development.

Together they produced a brief synopsis of the story’s complex plot, explaining the characters and how the show will develop beyond season one.

The story starts on Earth, where a girl named Scarlet gets hit by a car.

She wakes up from the accident in a world completely opposite of her own.

There, she meets a disingenuous butler named Jarvis, a young military general named Cole and Leila, the youngest princess of the Gemini kingdom.

Leila must share her body with

Scarlet as they try to figure out how to send her back to Earth together. The girls must also avoid an all-out war between the powerful supernatural Gemini kingdom and the avant-garde Human kingdom.

The first season of “Doppelganger” is expected to premiere on free access websites such as Youtube, Vimeo and Daily Motion in the fall of 2017. In the meantime, Walker, Knapp and their project team will continue to design and develop the anime throughout this school year.

They encourage any GS student to get involved if interested, whether it be by voice acting, drawing, designing or simply presenting ideas. Students can contact Walker or Knapp through the film club to audition for a role in the team.

Walker said, “It’s all about creating a new world where your creativity can go wild.”

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NCAA hands down sanctions to Georgia Southern football program

BY ROBERT GEORGE The George-Anne staff

On July 7, the NCAA informed the Georgia Southern University football program that they would receive a handful of sanctions in response to an investigation that found two former staff members provided improper academic assistance to three studentathletes over the 2013 and 2014 seasons.

A former assistance compliance director was found to have given a flash drive containing work for a course they had previously

completed to a studentathlete that was enrolled in the same course. The professor discovered the cheating and confronted the student.

The director and the student then collaborated in an attempt to make it seem like it was the student’s idea from the beginning. During the interview process, the student eventually confessed that the staffer had given him the flash drive and convinced him to lie.

The other instance occurred when an assistant director to athlete services logged in

to two GS players’ accounts and submitted extra credit assignments. She obtained their log in information and submitted the work without the student’s knowledge.

The university has since revealed the three games that have been vacated: the wins from the 2013 season against Savannah State and St. Francis and the conferenceclinching win against the University of LouisianaMonroe in 2014. The 2014 Sun Belt Championship, however, will not be affected.

“While it is disappointing to vacate these three victories,

we get to put this chapter behind us,” Tom Kleinlein, GS Director of Athletics, said in a statement. “Compliance and academic integrity are of the utmost importance here at Georgia Southern; we will continue to reinforce these values and ensure that our department is operating in a manner that consistently upholds the proud tradition of this University.”

The upcoming season will not be affected in any way by the sanctions. The team is still eligible to compete for a

Sun Belt Championship and a bowl berth. As far as the players are concerned, they have moved past this stain on the program and are looking forward to competing for a trophy this season.

“We definitely put it behind us. It doesn’t affect us going to the championship or bowl game, so it’s behind us,” Matt Breida, senior running back, said. “We’re gonna let AD Tom Kleinlein handle it, and we’re just gonna focus on this season.”

BIGGEST SANCTIONS Vacate three wins from 2013-2014 seasons

Two years of probation for the university

Loss of two scholarships for 2016-2017 season

$5,000 fine and an amount equal to 1percent of football’s program’s operating Budget

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GS Athletics over the summer

BY ROBERT GEORGE The George-Anne staff

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While most students took a break from classes following finals week in May, Georgia Southern athletics continued on well into the summer. We’ve got the biggest stories you might have missed while you were enjoying your summer.

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3.82 GS BASEBALL TEAM ADVANCES TO SUN BELT CHAMPIONSHIP After finishing the regular season at just two games over .500 in the conference, the Eagles entered the Sun Belt Tournament as the No. 6 seed.

They proceeded to outscore their opponents 23-4 in the first three games of the tournament and advanced to face South Alabama in the championship game. The run finally came to an end at the hands of the No. 2 seed Jaguars 5-0. They finished with a 34-26 overall record.

LAURA THOMAS NAMED HEAD COACH FOR SWIMMING AND DIVING The Swimming and Diving program got a new head coach in June, when it was announced that Thomas would be taking over the program.

Thomas, who spent four years as an assistant coach Northern Arizona University,was a two-time All-American and four-time All-SEC swimmer at UGA. The Eagles are coming off a third place finish at the CCSA Swimming and Diving Championships and a 5-2 regular season record in the 2015-2016 season.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL AND WOMEN’S TENNIS RECEIVE TOP SUN BELT GPA AWARD

FORMER GS MEN’S TENNIS ATHLETE BECOMES NO 1 PLAYER IN FINLAND

MIKE MURPHY NAMED HEAD COACH FOR MEN’S SOCCER

Two GS Women’s programs finished with the highest GPA in their respective sport. The tennis team finished with a 3.82 team GPA, which is the highest of any sport in the Sun Belt. It’s the second straight year they have owned the top GPA in the conference.

Meanwhile, the basketball team finished with a 3.23 GPA.

When Rise Lanne graduated last May, he left as one of the most successful men’s singles players in GS history.

He carried that success back to his home country, where he won the Finnish National Championship. Lanne will return to GS this fall to finish his major and get his degree in journalism while also serving as an assistant coach with the tennis program.

Murphy was announced as the program’s seventh head coach in July. He comes from Boston College, where he spent the last two seasons as the associate head coach.

Murphy brings over 20 years of collegiate, professional and international coaching experience. He’ll look to jumpstart a program that hasn’t had a winning season since 2006.

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GS players on college football preseason watch list

BY CHRIS SMITH

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On July 5, the NCAA released a preseason award watch list for every football award given to players at the end of each college football season. These awards are given to the best players in the country at each position.

Georgia Southern University has two players that were named to the watch list for these prestigious awards. Senior running back Matt Breida and has been placed on the watch list for the Maxwell Award and the Doak Walker Award.

The Maxwell Award is given to the best offensive player each season and the Doak Walker

Award is given to the best running back.

The second GS player, senior center Andy Kwon, was nominated as a possible recipient of the Rimington Trophy.

The Rimington Trophy is awarded to the best center in college football.

Aside from the awards, GS has five players that were voted to the Preseason All-Sun Belt team. Running back Breida, center Kwon, defensive tackle Jay Ellison and defensive end Bernard Dawson were all named to the All Sun-Belt first team.

Junior defensive tackle Darrius Sapp was named to the second team.

TOP: Andy Kwon has established himself as one of the best centers in the conference.

BOTTOM: Matt Breida will look to end his storied GS career on a high note this season.

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