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George-Anne 8/28/02 GrgeAnV7517 1 Hour Reserve(ln Library Use) G-% rf& A www.stp.gasou.ed AU6 2.8 2002 EORQIASOUTME EQRGE-ANNI UNIVERSITY Wednesday August 28,2002 Sports: A preview of upcoming GSU football season Volume 75, No. 17 Section B FF SGA prepares t's ' • for upcoming Eagle Entertainment moves academic year Organization urges students on after loss of Eagle Cinema to attend first meeting spirit of the six-team leaders of Eagle By Michelle Flournoy Part two of a Entertainment. "It has only made us [email protected] work harder and be more creative," SGA is in full swing as students two-part series said Clifton Reese, Leader of Major return, and the 2002-03 year gets Productions. underway. By Erik Howard Each team leader has had to re- • "The entire executive board has evanamos @ hotmail.com think ways they that they will bring been working throughout the summer programs to campus. Since the How do you deal with losing to prepare for the upcoming academic budget has been cut they are limited money and your most attended year," according to President Jonathan with the activities that they are able to program by far? Well if your eagle Perkins. "We are very confident with put together. "The budget cuts have entertainment you face adversity, the progress we've made thus far. had some positive effects on E.E. It plan, and rebuild. "We have several projects that are has allowed us to work outside of With the effects of the closing waiting on senate approval right now," the organization," said Team Leader of Eagle Cinemas still being felt, said Perkins. Brian Gibson. "No longer are we in- Eagle Entertainment have begun Perkins declined to comment dependent in our operation. We are making preparations to make this further on these projects, saying that actively seeking help from outside year their most successful year. The he would release further information organizations." team leaders along with their advisors as they are approved. Eagle Entertainment has also have gone through a total restructuring The first formal Student Govern- brought a new approach to the way of the student programming council, ment Association meeting will be held they are promoting new programs. and still maintain their enthusiasm on Sept. 4 at 6 p.m. The meeting will This was evident Monday night and willingness to provide meaning- take place in room 2080 of the Russell with the information session in the ful programs for GSU. Union. SGA encourages students to Commons area of the Union. As The number of phone calls and E- attend the meeting and to take an active PR/recruitment and retention team mails in and out of the student activi- interest in their government. leader Joy Caine stated "We don't ties center from students wondering Perkins stresses that there are still want this to be an organization often Allison Bennett/ STAFF what happened to the dollar movies a number of empty seats for the fall. people thinking of the best programs indicates that there is still a demand Budget cuts forced Eagle Entertainment to cut Eagle Cinema, one of its most popular programs. Positive Interested students may stop by SG A's for 14,000 students. We want those for the Eagle Cinema. effects of the loss include more work with other student organizations and better methods of promotion new office in Student Activity Center While the closing of the program for other programs. See SGA, Page 3 has had an effect, ithasn't affected the See Cinema, Page 3 :is European, Arab allies warn Minority Advisement Program re, U.S. attack on Iraq could eager to assist incoming students of" * t's By Erik Howard Having that balance between and an excited group. ; te."" .- have vast consequences [email protected] academics and a social life is Avent wants the program to be KRT Campus For those freshman students something that Ms. Yolanda Avent promoted in another light. "In the rn that are looking for direction this says the program stresses. Avent past, the program hasn't been mar- ke, s WASHINGTON - European and year, there is a program on cam- believes the balance is necessary keted campus wide," says Avent. >bt Arab leaders made clear Tuesday that pus that is here to assist them. for success in college. That is why this year the lut Vice President Dick Cheney's vigor- On Monday August 26, the Avent says that the program is program has reached out to other Minority Advisement Program ne ous case for going to war with Iraq has off to a good vStart this year with departments on campus to come he failed to rally international support and (MAP) completed its annual orientation. active participation being up from in and do presentations. Ms. vn they warned that an American invasion MAP is a program designed lastyear. She feels that this is going Avent sees MAP as "SOAR" da a nfi to oust Saddam Hussein could have to provide assistance to minority to be a good year for MAP with the long-term basis and wishes that the ire wide and unexpected consequences. students and as put by Mr. Georj combination of experienced mapees program be funded as such. ad German Chancellor Gerhard Lewis Director Of the Multicul- to . Schroeder, locked in a re-election battle, said a preemptive attack on tural Student Center "to help with Iraq would be "wrong" and that "un- the transition from high school der my leadership Germany will not to college. take part in that." KRT Campus Lewis stressed that the ser- Egyptian President Hosni President Bush meets with the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. at his vices are open to everyone, but the program'is geared towards nd Mubarak, considered a staunch U.S. Crawford, Texas ranch to discuss the nations' differences over Iraq. ally, said that "striking Iraq is some- minority students and the dif- ficulties they face in coming to Oil thing that could have repercussions analysts fault the administration for in this administration's approach to war Georgia Southern. iii and post-strike developments. We fear raising the prickly issue of Iraq and with Iraq with the one taken by Bush's The way the program works sih chaos happening in the region." weapons of mass destruction, sn^? father, who relied on a carefully as- • i is that freshmen sign up for LIU Shortly before Saudi Arabia's am- say the president's hard line may sembled coalition of Persian Gulf bassador to the United States met with have made the necessary diplomatic states and the diplomatic cover of the the program and depending on President Bush in Crawford, Texas, a spadework that much more difficult. United Nations to shore up support there major, they are placed with foreign policy adviser to Saudi Crown The sharp rebukes also came amid for the 1991 operation to push Iraq a MAP sponsor. The MAP spon- Prince Abdullah said U.N. inspectors growing dissent within Bush's own out of Kuwait. sor is a upper-class student that can contain any threat posed by Hus- party over the president's oft-stated Since drawing Iraq into the club of has the same major or one that sein "without firing a single bullet." goal of "regime change" in Iraq and states that support terrorism last Febru- is close to the student or as they "There is no country I know of the methods the White House has ary, Bush and his advisers have made are referred to in the program supporting the use of force in Iraq at employed to far to bring it about, no public overtures to the Arab nations "mapee". • this time," the adviser, Adel el-Jubeir, In recent day s, three stalwarts from that encircle Iraq - particularly Saudi Tobias Mathis, a second said in Washington. "Your allies in Eu- the presidency of Bush's father - for- Arabia- that were vital to the U.S.-led year MAP sponsor, thinks that rope don't. Your allies in the Middle mer secretaries of state James Baker coalition during the first gulf war. the programs main goal is " the East don't." and Lawrence Eagleburger, as well Instead, they have relied on a cam- retention of minority students to I! The Bush administration tack of as former national security adviser paign of statements and speeches to help them stay at Georgia South- talking tough on Iraq has prompted Brent Scowcroft - all have suggested make their case against Iraq, using the ern and graduate." He feels his would-be allies to stake out positions that the time was not ripe for action momentum from the war on terrorism responsibility as a MAP sponsor * is to help his "mapees" get ac- on the war long before the White House against Hussein. in Afghanistan to open a new Adam Bonner/ STAFF climated to the college life both or anyone else in the administration The growing foreign and domestic MAP sponsored Project Move-In at Hendricks and Johnson resi- academically and socially.

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