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r:r J(iJ;"j Page 2 September 23. 2002 BRIEFS GC Commemorates 9/11 Tragedy $7,000 Grant Awarded By Todd DeWitt the men and women who gave The Georgia Humani Contributing Writer their lives to help others. Dove ties Council presented [email protected] Waters read, "We remember the the GC Social Sciences sad faces and tears of those who Divi sion with a $7,000 Gainesville College held a grant to conduct the mourned the loss of a loved one." Sept. II service to celebrate " Chicopee Oral History The audience responded, "We America and remember the Project" workshops that remember where we were on our events of that day. were held Sept. 13-14 in jobs, at home, in school, with The service started at noon as the CE building. The friends, family and others who students and faculty who wished workshops increased cared and some ofus even cried." to join in on the events met at participants' skills for The litany concluded the ser the anchor. Tom Walters, vice conducting oral history vice as all present joined to say president for student develop interviews. " Yes, we remember Sept. II. men!, began by telling those 2001. We shall never. ever for present the agenda for the ser Nesbitt to I..eIId get." vice. He said, "Thi s service Organization Many of those present filed GC President Martha needs to be a time to pause and GC students gathered at the anchor for a service into the Student Center to hear Nesbitt will serve as the reflect on the events. We need commemorating Sept. 11. Each student was given an the UGA steel drum band per 2002-03 president of the to think about moving forward Americanjlag and a litany. which was led by Theresa form. BSU remained at the site Georgia Association of as a nation." Members of the Dove-Waters. of the service to lead others in a COlleges, an association GC choir then led the group in made up of accredited si nging "God Bless America." ligion and education, led the au- religion classes. The litany re- prayer for the campus and the public and private insti Aner singing, Theresa Dove dience in a litany, which was minded those in attendance that nat ion on this day of mourning. tutions to improve higher Waters. assistant professor of re- written by students in one of her it is important to remember all remembrance and closure. education in Georgia.
'Let's Roll' Flag at GC for 9/11 After Delays, Academic I Reopens GC was honored to fly the Todd Beamer "let's ByJ.J. Ma_ of Regents' M.R.R. (Major Re Roll " flag from Sept. 6- Opinions Editor pair and Renovations) funds and 11. The designer, from [email protected] S805,000 from the State of southwest Georgia, de Georgia Bonds left over after the signed the flag to com Finally. the $ 1 million reno completion of the Science and memorate the 9/ 11 hero. vation of Academic I has been Technology building. Institutions in the Univer completed as of fall semester The building already includes sity System of Georgia 2002. extensions of North Georgia will take turns displaying Greatly anticipated by the for College and Southern Polytech the flag on their campus. eign language and art depart nic State University in the newly ments ,IS well as the nursing and developed University Center. BudgetCuts child development programs, There are anticipated exten Coming the building wil l be beuer suited sions, including a new ar1 room According to Bob to their needs. with up-to-date to be built with four kilns to as Howington, GC vice compute r technologies and the sist in sculpture and ceramic art president of business and addi tion of new courses. and a new outdoor social area finance, the Regents Of The building was predicted to Academic I has reopened and it has many new with furnishings for students to fice has instructed GC to be completed by the beginning amenities to boast of One ofth ese is its student relax. This is still in construc of summer. However, the reno tion for Academic I, said Bob cut nearly $150,000 from break room, pictured here. Complete with a vation process has taken longer Howington, vice president of t he 2002-03 budget . telephone. snack machines, a microwave and Since over 80 percent of than expected by many GC stu business and finance. couches, it provides a quiet, comfortable placefor the GC budget is commit dents. Ronnie Booth, vice presi With a considerable number students to relax. ted to personnel costs, dent of external affairs. stated. of new students and returning Howington encourages "Given the way the system students, Ge's new Academic I GC staff to save in other works. it was probably as fast be paid; they were constant ly fore they could proceed. building can provide a benefi areas. as could be expected." Booth waiting fo r other sources to give Funding for this operation in cial place to learn as well as to also said that all the bills had to the okay for reconstruction be- cluded $372,000 from the Board relax. September 23. 2002 Page J
Enrollment Reach~s All-Time High of 4,183
By Blake A. Duncan When asked what Ih ~student Contributing Writer population rise had done for [email protected] class sizes, Susan Daniell. the GC registmr. said that across the For the first time In board class sizes arc up, but the Gainesville College history, en changes have been subtle with rollment has topped the 4000 only one or two new students· mark. The total enrollment for per class. This enrollment rale the fall 2002 semester stands at has bcen influenced both by the 4 183 students, a 13.4 percent expand ing population in and increase from the previous :!round the Oakwood area, and year's tany of3689 students. the faci Ihal GC has one of Ihe According to infonnation sup highest studenl retention mtes plied by the GC registrar'S of alllong two-year colleges in the fice, the boom in enrollment has sta te. not been limited to just the past But have thc ever-cxplHlding year. The student population class sizes done a nyt hing to af fect the services supplied by the has nearly doubled since 1998, college? Nick Tilford, a third a ri se of46.8 percent. Over hal f semester st udent at GC, an of the enrollment boom has swered "The cl(lss sizes haven't come in the last two years, a DIEGO lSAARA I Compass Staff really affected the way the pro growth o f 28.5 percent since Due to the area population increase and a high retention rate, GC 's enrollment fessors teach." 2000. The main campus is not numbers have climbed Jor the past five years. Despite this rapid growth. GC has "The growt h has been very the only place feeling the effects been able to maintain small class sizes and adequate services Jor the over 4.000 mpid, but Ilhink the service thai of this growth. The Athens Cen students. Like the main campus, the Athens campus has experienced a huge leap Gainesvi lle College provides to ter grew from 2 18 students to Jrom last year 's enrollment. For the Athens enrollment S/01y. see page J6. students has been able to keep 635 just since 200 I. up." Daniell added. Sealing Lots for Future A Long Time Coming
By Heather Hodges vent cracking and ultimately $634,100 Grant from the Goizueta Foundation EditOl"-in-Chief extend the life of these parking Will Help Increase Hispanic Enrollment at GC [email protected] lots. The three. lots were only the This fall , Gainesville Col first of many parking areas AprIl Moore highly regarded by the Goizueta Foundation, lege students and faculty rolled around the GC campus to be Contributing Writer which is steadfast in its belief in givi ng back onto three like-new parking improved, thanks 10 money al [email protected] to the community. lots, the beginning of an located for parking lot repair Sauret was a member o f Ihe committee, S 18,000 project to repair the from the Board of Regents op Gainesville College has received a along with H:miet Allison and Pat Guthrie, lots on the GC campus. erating budget. Beginning 5634, 100 grant from the Goizueta Foun who wrote the proposal that was From Aug. 6- 14, the lots of Sept. 6, weekend sealing of dation in an effort to increase His submiued to the foundation . " It the Student Center, Music other lots will commence. "It panic enrollment. was like a regul:Lr conversa building, and Academic U were will take several weekends to The grant, which has already tion." said Sauret in refer closed. According to Jerry complete the work," said been partially dispersed, will allot ence to the case of which Spiceland, director of plant op Spiceland. $201,600 for 18 two-year sc hola r erations, the lots were not re One lot that wi ll not receive ships, S232,500 to create an Office All Georgia high school gradu- surfaced, as some GC students a makeover, however, is the and faculty believed, but unpaved lot next to the Con of His pan ic Outreach and Devel ates are eligible for the grant, sealed. This was a necessary tinuing Education building. opmenl, and S200,000 for Hispanic even if U.S. citizenship has move, he said: "If we did not According to Spiceland, fund students in need-based not bee n established. do something soon, they would ing from the Board of Regents Said Saurct. even "un deteriorate 10 a point thai Ihey cannot be used to "build a new documented workers would have to be completely park ing lot," but onl y to "re make a contri bution to replaced." pair or rework an older park Recipients of the scholarship the federal tax base." Ac- The cost of replacing the lots ing lot." So until ftmding can must perform a minimum of cordingly, it is the federal would require a much greater be secured for this S 125,000 seven hours of communi ty service a and local taxes that help to support amount of money than simply project, there are no serious week. According to Belinda Sauret, associate our schoo ls, ensuring everyone equal sealing them, which will pre- plans for paving the lot. professor of Spanish at GC, this stipulation was right io an education. Page 4 Sepwmb..- 23, 2002 GC Measures Up Economy Declines, Scholarships Cut
By Natalie Simmons The GC college services By SUmmer LaPann visit 10 companies searching ways to build money fo r the Contributing Writer and programs with the least Contributing Writer for donors to contribute annu foundation and those too have nslm [email protected]\net.edu favorable rankings included [email protected]\net.edu ally to the campaign. " Each been slow this year," stated parking faci li ties, job place Guthrie. The majority ofOainesville ment services, veteran's ser Scholarships allotted to all Guthrie suggested that College students are happy. vices and food services. Gainesville College clubs and one way for students who but problems remain. accord "With respect to food ser organizations have been cut have received scholarshi ps ing io the St udent Opinion vices, the GC average was 20 percent th is year due to an through GC to help is to Survey from fall 200 1. higher than the national av unstable economy. write thank you letters to Pat Guthrie, director of the "The survey was designed erage," said Hamilton. the donors for their schol GC Foundation, is aware of to obtain background and de The rules and policies sec on w.1I SItI" arships ...It would help if the influence the economy has mographic infonnation about tion oflhe opinion survey il· donors, also alumni, could had on Gc. She said, "What ,,,,•• 11, see the fruits of their dona students and college student lustrated that students were happens on Wall Street even services," said John least satisfied with the pur tions," said Guthrie . tually affects us all." It is rare to have a team Hamilton, coordinator of in pose fo r which student fees • lIBt:IS .,.IL " When the economy is of faculty and staff, like stituti onal research aI GC. are used. Respondents were down, there is an increase in PdGuth,le GC's, who truly care and Over 600 st ud ent s re also dissatisfied with the enrollment of educational want to help. Even though sponded to the surveys from availability of their advisors programs; therefore. the need the new budget will not be Oct. 29-Nov. 16. GC students and the value of infonnation for scholarships is higher. generated until next fall, were most satisfied with com provided by the advisors, Many students fail to reali ze j ust company gives according to Guthri e insured "We have a puter services. lea rn ing re shown in the portion regard where scholarship funds are their means each year, and with great deal of optimism for the sources, tutorial serv ices, ing academic environment. generated and the answer may the slow economy some are giv economy," which will lead to class size :md the attitude of These averages we re lower be surprising. ing less and some none at all . more scholarship opportunities the teaching stafT. than those from faU 1997. Every year 30 trustees each Fundraisers are also lucrative for students. DeRoche: Leader or Not? You Be The .Judge _Hodges tion and interaction with The members of the organization fected SGA this year? Editor-in-Chief Compass. and I have faith in their ability WD: The budget cuts have hhod21 [email protected] HH : How will these changes to reach the best course of ac probably had an effect on all of affect the students? tion for the given situation. the clubs and organizations this Student Government Asso WO: Communication will HH : To what extent is OC SGA year. SGA is having to develop ciation has a big job ahead of it make it possible for the students involved with the state SGA or creati ve ways to accomplish our Ihis year. Members will be re to be knowledgeable on how ganization? goals this year, and we are ex sponsible for dealing with their SGA is serving them. These WO: GC is very active in the ploring avenues such as co-pro own budget cuts as well as an plans of communication will Student Advisory Council gramming and fund-raisers. ,swering questions and solving also give an opportunity for stu (SAC). GC was accounted for problems due to budget cuts in dents' issues to be heard and during the spring conference, We are now having to be more other clubs and organizations. addressed. where fonner President Noah selective so we can make the So are SGA members up to the HH : How can you open the Anderson was awarded for his most of the money we received. job'! In a recent interview. club up to more students? involvement over the past year. A couple of these decisions in Wendy DeRoche described WO: I plan to improve the com WO: SGA is open to all stu This summer I attended the clude not having food at our how she imends to approach her muni cation among SGA, the dents enrolled at GC who meet Presidents Conference. Sept meetings and not having an reign as SGA President. Read student body and-the adminis the GPA and hour requirements. 14 and 15 I will be present for overnight retreat. on to see if Gainesvill e tT'dtion at the college. Effective As far as students finding out another conference, where we HH: Why is the dispersion of Co ll ege's newest representative HH : How do you intend to ac about SGA, there was a great are scheduled to take part in the club funds not publicized? can handle the demands of he r complish these plans? deal of publicizing the organi reconstruction of the SAC. I WO: SGA does not allocated job. WO: With a magic wand. but zation thanks to Cheril Bowers, have also actively responded to funds. As President of SGA, I if that does not work I have been vice president, who also did a requests that the SAC Board has have the responsibility of ap HH: What qualities make you in the process of setting great job with the SGA booth asked of me thus far. pointing students to the com a strong leader? monthly meetings with Dr. at the club fair. In regards to HH: Do you have any agenda minee, comprised offacuhy and Nesbitt. AnOl her way to accom the meeting time, we chose a fo r the state organization? WO: Acceptance and resJX."Ct staff, who make these decisions. fulness are two of my key quali plish better communication is day that would allow our mem WO: The conference on Sept. HH: How can students be more ties that I believe make me a for SGA to compose a commit bers to be involved in other J4 and J 5 for the reconstruction involved with how Student Ac strong leilder. Having accep tee of weti page designers to clubs, organizations and activi of the organization will give me tance and respect for every wo rk on the SGA section oflhe ties on campus; we decided to an opportunity to see the direc tivitieslSGA money is spent? member and hi s or her indi club and organization link of h~ld our meetings on Fridays. tion of SAC for this year. Un WO: The students who are in vidual ideas and concepts is an the GC Internet site. Also, I HH : How do you intend to deal derstanding the foc us of this terested can come by the SGA essential part of leading an or encourage anyone to drop off with student complaints? year's SAC will help me deter office and submit their informa ganization. ideas in the blue suggestion box WD: When it comes to dealing mine how to approach the fall tion and they will be considered HH: ' What are your plans for di rectly outside the SGA office. with student complaints, I will SAC conference. to hold one of the appointed improving GC this semester? Finally, I hope forthe coopera- bring the complaint before the HH : How have budget cuts af- positions. , ". ~. '.. .' , .'. :r .•. '. ~.~ •. ,. ~,' ,.J~J,J;iI':,;,.;•• :.: •• :.;,' • Page 6 September 23, 2002 BRIEFS CAB Puts"a New Spin on Student Activities Discounted Movie Passes Available By lason Hanline the best pan- it is free. Gainesville COllege stu Staff Writer Off-campus activities are be [email protected] ing planned as well. Feeling dents, faculty, and staff adventurous', The return of the can purchase $5 movie On the Gainesville College 12 @ 12 program provides passes for Hollywood ca mpus there are always ways some ways to get students' Cinemas in Gainesville. to get in some creati ve leisure hearts racing or to try something time and some quality goofing new. Put on a hat and boots and Visit the student activities off no matter how many hours saddle up for some horseback office to purchase passes a student is taking this semes riding with friends. Or for those or for more information. ter. BUitherc is actually a group who find it reasonable to throw of individuals here on campus themselves out of a perfectly that plans evcnts and outings to good airplane, CAB is organiz relieve all of this brain stress ing a skydiving excursion. The Look for lobs attributed to finding things to CAB mystery trip will be per Using GC Website do. fect for students who like sur prises. To sign up for the 01T The GC job board is a NOl only docs GC sunction these lIctivities. they encourage campus events lmd to obtain all great place to find part them! And the wonderful group ofthe information needed. visit time, fulHime, perma is none olher thun CAB, the the student activities office. nent or seasonal work. Campus Activity Board. Visit the folk s at CAB 10 give suggestions for events. They Interested students may "CA B is a group of students that organizes and pl;!ns social, are always looking for more access the job board ways 10 make the college expe recreational and cuituml activi rience more enjoyable. Volun through the GC website ties for the campus," said Ali teers to work on the board are by clicking on Student cia Caudill. director of social also welcome. activities forC.A.B. "It helps to Resources, Student Ser In addition to the fun and enh:mce your out-of-class expe vices, and Job Board. Any games, CAB sponsored the rience and compliment your in memorial activity in remem questions should be di class experience," noted brance of the victims o( the at rected to Becky Smith in Cuudill. Activities include ev tacks of Sept. II, including the the Counseling and Test eryt hing from comedians, rock service lead by Theresa Dove ing Center at (770)718- walls, live music. and tourna Waters and the UGA Steel ment events like sand court vol On Sep t. II, the UGA Steel Drum Band performed 3744. Drum band that played imme leyball and ping-pong. Here's in the Student Center. This was sponsored by CAB. diately after the service.
Student ActIvItIes Provides Hand GC Professors Granted Citizenship books By Candice W1mbertey opportunity to come. dents to be Student handbooks Contributing Writer The Hebdas initially had no easily acces and planners are avail [email protected] intentions of making the United sible to one able in the Office of Stu States their permanent home. another." dent Activities. Students On July 11.2002, aftcr more However, they soon began to When ques are responsible for know than a decade of waiting, two realize and enjoy their teaching tioned about ing policies and proce professors from Gainesville and financial opportunities, so the differ College's department of math it became a mutual decision to ences be dures governed by GC, elll;!tics and computer science, start the citizenship process in tween Polish which are highlighted in Beata and Piolr Hebda. became 1991. Following the tragedy of schools and the handbook. U.S. citizens. Sept. II, the U.S. go'vemment their Ameri Piotr Hebda was born in the began looking more closely at can counter town ofWalbrzych, Poland and those who lived in the country parts, Beata Cyber cafe Offers came to the Uni ted States in under resident alien status, Due Hebda re Free Coffee 1986. He was joined by his wife to this fact, the couple felt com sponded by Fol/owing the tragedy a/Sept. I I, Beata and duughter Kasia in pelled to finish the citizenship saying, "In Free afternoon coffee Polish immigrants Piotr and Beata 1987. process as soon as possible. Poland I was Hebda qukkly processed their is available to students in The Hebdas left Poland in an Piotr Hebda feels comfort told that girls the Cyber Cafe at 5 p.m. aucmpt to further their math able at GC. He said, " I feel I are not good request/or u.s. citizenship. The Cyber Cafe is open ematical education. They be make a difference in many in math and daily Mon ,- Thu. from 8 g:m the process of acquiring prople's lives. I like Ihe variety should not being doing it. Here, some point, but are quick to say special visas in order to con of students :It Gainesville Col in the United States, I am treated a.m,-8:30 p,m" and from that their return will most cer tinue their studies, and after lege. Thc small classrooms al- · equally." The Hcbdas 8 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday. tainly follow their retirement. three years were granted the low for the teachers and stu- may return to Poland to live at September 23. 2002 Page 7 Surf the Net in the Sun: GC Wi
By lash Poole granted from one of three con· cess will be installed. may be installed. Coker weI· Campus life Editor lrollers located in the Student When asked about plans for comes suggestions or com· [email protected] Center, ACTT Center and the the growth of the program, ments from everyone on the library. The student must pur· Coker already has a few ideas, future of the Gainesville Col· Gainesv ille College stu· chase a Media Access Control but adds that the students arc lege wireless network and dents now have a new way to (MAC) card. available at elec ultimately responsible. "The may be reached at his GC e· access their various on·cam· tronic stores like Best Buy and college is going to develop the mail add ress: rcoker@ pus projects, papers, Banner Ci rcuit City or office supply courtyard, outside Academic gc.peachnet.edu. Web and even the lnternet stores like Staples and Office II", said Coker of a planned GC has gone wireless. Depot. MAC card costs be· ilccess point, adding that a Through the technology tween $60 and $ 100. The stu· canopy and furniture fees charged to each student dent must purchase a MAC upon registration, they now card to utilize the network. have the option o f going wire The cards use the same slot less. This project. headed up that house conventional mo by Rick Coker, director of in· dems and network ca rds. formation techn ology (IT), While the program is still in has constructed a wireless Lo· its infancy, Coker invites stu· cal Area Network (LAN) to dents to try the network for give students wit h laptop com· themselves. As the LAN is puters remCle access 10 the available now to anyone wi th same network that "wired" a Gainesville College account students have utilized for so and a laptop. Coker says that
long. within the next three to six .lOSt1 POOLE I ~ SIaIf Admission ro the network is months an authenti cation pro· GC student Joe HQlper accesses the internet while sitlillg at a table olltside q{the Studellt Center. This is made possible by the LAN Undecided? Read This By Josh Poole campus Life Editor [email protected] Decisions, Attention freshmen: Do you think you know what you want to do with your life? Do you have a four year plan? Did you know that the average student changes his or her major four times while attending Gainesville College? decisions, Beth Scott·Brown, coordinator of career development, and the rest of the Counseling and Testing Center invite you to attend their "Focus on Majors" decisions. event beginning Sept. 23 . "People don't know what they're going to do with what they're going to get", said Brown, who is in charge of the program. The major fair is just the solut ion for that problem. The next one you make is a biggie. Soonpou'll e.nrourA.sso6fmDegree..bdthen On Sept. 24. students may drop by the Lanier AB rooms in the Student Cen wbfI'1 How obrM 9 Saddor's Oegn!e from DeVry HniYmirJ? ter to find infonnation on every major otTered at Gc. Representatives will also I'fofes5oo wih rtd·WOI'Ic1 exp:rieln willleoC'l roo in5lTlOl1 dcmeIond ~I /I(plipr«i lob,. You11 et;oyho/lk. be on hand to answer any questions that students may have. Brown says that at on lallliug lho" giwlo J'OU lhe w/l))'OU" to (OmjMl!ul1d~1m.I in l oWr'~ 1eI:/"r..oIgyr ~ b~ wurld. every station devoted to a specific major, there will be handouts outlining ca· reers oriented with specific fie lds of study. Choose from fkxheIor's DetJees in Busi~ Mnirislfdion. ~lef Enginoo-ing W1no1ogy, Computer The "Focus on Majors" even! coincides with both the "Focus on CareerSkills" Inhnnotion ~ms.. Elemloir.s £ngileering Wno\ogy, Edlniml MalJ¥men~ ord i*romll'tunicotiorrs program and the GC job fair on Oct. 10. Both programs will attempt to get McnJgrmcnt. You're ~ rbJt OOselo 1.JiI~ng )'OUfd reoms. . mdol! oso ~ from OeVry. students ready for the many prospective employers who will recruit students at For, higher dtglH 01 SU((eJ;S, {[II DeVI)"S [)emtU! (ompus at (41J.4) 292·2645, or the AlphorC!llo the job fair. (0IlpU1 ..01Inl) 664·9521. While "Focus on Majors" will try to set the undecided student in the right WWW.devry.edU academic direction, "Focus on Career Skills" will aim to get students ready for the career world, offering courses such as "Producing a Great Resume", "Dress for Success", and " Interview Skills". ,earn "You have got to do what you love," said Brown, and what Brown loves to do is to watch students succeed. Page 8 September 23. 2002 GC Adds GIS Certification Course By Matt LewIs Rogers believes that G IS was aided by the National Sci Staff Writer will have many new appli ence Foundation(NSF). Rogers mle'Wi)[email protected] cations in the coming years, said that previously, most GIS similar to the functions of ccrtification was only available GaincsvilleCollegc has a new GPS systems already avail in four-year schools as part of BS and MS programs. hThe G IS certification course, which able in some-new cars. NSF provided the expertise in could le:ld to new career paths These applications, along with the very real job pros developing the curriculum," for students and national recog pects they ofTer, are mak- said Rogers, "because they re<: nition for the school. The new ing the new course very ognized the need to bring G IS Institute for Environmental and popular. "This is the first training down to the two-year Spatial Analysis (IESA) pro lime we've offered a G IS leveJ." Rogers added that vides training and certification course at night, and it's Semerjian was purpose-trained in GIS technologies. overbooked," said Rogers. by the NSF to become a GIS in According to Lewis Rogers, He added that the City of stru ctor. chair ofGC's di vision of natu-, Gainesville has already be The next step may be the es ral science. engineering. and technology. GIS (Geographic gun hiring graduates of the tablishment of GC as an NSF "Center of Excellence," an in Information Systems) is a com program to "bring the city stitution which trains instructors putenzed mapping resourcc that up to speed with G IS." Pro can be used to analyze data gram graduates are aiding from other schools under NSF Shown here, students work in the GIS lab on guidelines. Rogers believes that based on physical locations lmd the Georgia Department of GC is worthy of this prestigious projects for the certification course. G PS (Global Positioning Satel Transportation and the Environ mental Prote<:tion Division with accolade. "Our administration lite) data. The new course was GIS-based projects, said supports innovation," he said, ties in the country. We want to Analysis. That's the next logi sct up by Rogers and C hris "and I believe we have one of become a Center of Excellence Scmerjian, instructor of geog Rogers. cal step in the plan for the GIS the best science teaching facul- fo r Environmental and Spatial raphy and helld of the G IS I:lb. The setting up of the IESA program .. Opportunities Abound at Job Fair Booker Wins Award Kevin Mann experi ence of networking with resume. There will also be a Staff Writer companies and to answer ques "Dress For Success" workshop By Amber Day by the Board of Regents upon [email protected] tions that student s may have on Oct. 2. wh ich will be a fash Conbibuting Writer the foundingofGC in 1964. She about the company or what kind ion show consisti ng of [email protected] played an instrumental role in On Oct. 10, from 10a.m.to I oflrials a student can expect to Gainesville College students beginning many programs at Sarah Booker, a business di p.m., students will have the op face in the future job market. and alumni. This will, in an en- GC and was in charge of sched vision advisor and part-time in uling and organization for the portunity to attend tertaining and infonnative structor at Gainesville College, college. GlIi nesville Col lege's fashion, help students prop won the prestigious Eleanor The nominating committee annual job fair in the liD erly dress for an interview Crawford Award for 2002. had some great comments about Student Center. The _IIOWmanl and for the workplace. Fi She was presented the award Booker including: "she was so event will consist of nally, there will be an inter at the annual faculty/stafTbreak helpful to me in my transition more than 50 compa view skills workshop on fast on Aug. 14. Booker was from high school to college;" nies that are either cur limlls will IOU II. Oct. 3 at I I a.m. and 5 p.m. given this award for her extraor "she is one of the most positive rently seeking employ to help students learn how dinary loyalty, service and dedi individuals I know;" "she has ees or j ust wish to net all''1 '0 "nil 50 to properly act during an in cation to the college, her fellow always been there volunteering work with other stu terview and how 10 answer employees and her students. her time and efforts in any way dents in regards to their com/lanills all in possible questions that may Recipients of this award are possible;" "she is a light on our possible career choice. occur during an interview. nominated by a selection com campus and never has an un mittee, which consists of three This year. the job fair onll /I'aCII '0 When contacted, Be<:ky kind word about anyone or any members of the alumni council has invited 150 compa Smith, coordinator of the thing." and three members of the GC Booker received a plaque, nies to participate. choosl tromP" job fair, said, "these com faculty and staff. inscribed with her name, which panies are wi lling to come Some of the companies Becky Smith Michelle B. Brown. director is on display at Gc. Her picture that have confinned ap out and talk to students of alumni affairs stated, "I was appeared in the Gainesville pearances in clude about their futureS ... How very pleased with the Times and a picture of her with SunTrust Bank. The many times will you be able committee's selection. I agree her famil y can be found on the Gainesville Times and to find 50 companies all in that Sarah is a true representa Access Nonh Georgia website. Lake Lanier Islands. Also ap Along with the job fair, GC one place to choose from and tion of the Eleanor Crawford When asked how winning pearing this year will be the U.S. will be offering a few work be able to talk to them about Award. She goes above and this award made her feel. Armed Forces. Some of the shops to coincide with the their company and possible em beyond with students, faculty, Booker replied, "1 was very companies will be actively pur event. On Oct. I , there will be a ployment? Even if you are not staff and everyone else in be honored to recei ve this award. suing students for part-time or resume workshop at II a.m. and seeking employment, the net tween." It made me very happy that my full-time employment. Others 5 p.m. that can help students working will be an education in Crawford was the first secre fellow employees nominated will be there to offer students the properly prepare and present a and of itself." tary to the president employed me." " _ .. ,.'C'" ~URGENT! IIEYDU REDUT From: /het Com:p~ Staff
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Exemplary Students and FBalIty "--I GC Welcomes New StIIff
The 2002 Gainesville College Honors Program was held April 17 in the Gainesville College welcomed 16 new faculty/staffmembers to begin the Hugh Mills Physical Education Complex. fall 2002 semester. Noah Anderson, fonner SGA president. presided over the event, at which New faces on campus include: lana Albertson, parent counsdor; Alicia over 250 awards were presented. Caudill, director of stud en I activities; Andre Cheek. director of minority af Tom Walter, vice president for student development, announced the merit fairs and cultural awareness; Kelly Dahlin, instructional laboratory assis and service honors. tant-ESUEnglish; Cindy Giguere, student records clerk : Linnea Haag, ACTT Michael Stoy, vice president for academic affairs' and dean of the faculty, center help desk; Elizabeth Hancock, instructor of history: Tracy Harwell . presented merit and service honors and announced academic honors. circulation manager; James Howard, director of inlramunlls; Molly POllS, The academic honors were presented by Steve Blair, marshal of the col assistant director of admissions; Rett McBride. ACTT center math tutor: Tina lege. He was also presented the Ann Matthews Purdy Outstanding GC Stone, coordinator of computer center; Ram Subedi, instructor of mathemat Faculty Member Award by Anderson. ics and computer science; Dru Thomas, nonfraditional student services/re The Clark-Theodore Awards were presented by Stoy and John Gram, source specialist; Laura Beth Wheeler, admissions office receptionist; Nichole chainnan of the GC foundation. Kasia Hebda received the Outstanding Wheless, admissions specialist; Deidre DeLaughter, Athens center office Traditional Student Award. Denise Davis was named Outstanding Non manager; Penelope Mraz.library; Blanca Rafael. building cleaning services. Traditional Student. These people wi ll be an asset to GC students, facu lty and stafT. Best of President Martha Nesbitt gave the opening and closing remarks. luck in your new positions!
ESOL SUmmer Program Proves SUccessful GC Hosts 12th SUmmer Scholars Program
Gainesville College held the fourth successful summer high school ESOL From July 1 to July 31, 2002, GC hosted the 12th Summer Scholars Insti program from June l7-luly 18,2002. tute Post Secondary Readiness Enrichment Program. The project, coordinated by Harriet Allison, assistant professor ofESL at The program, directed by Lee Anzola, was created to make post-second GC, allowed over 130 9th_12th grade students the opportunity to eam one ary education available to the underrepresented population in higher educa half unit toward high school graduation. Students attended classes from 1- tion. It helps panicipants by improving language, communications and study 4:45 p.m. Monday through Thursday to earn the credit. skills, as well as building confidence. Classes were divided according to language skills. each with about 20 Over 200 71t>_1 0'" grade students took part in the program, which was held students. Two of these classes aimed to prepare students for graduation Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Most students were from 'It, tests. U.S. history. physical science and math were also taught. along witb.. the African-American, Latino and As i ~ communities. basic computer skills. Each student attends the program for three summers. This is fo llowed by The students, from Hall County, Gainesville City and Forsyth County a graduation; Ihis year's was held July 30, 2002. Fifty-six summer scholars schools, were able to participate in the program free of charge. The money took part in the ceremony, which was held in the Continuing Education build for books and supplies was provided by GC, the University System of ing. After graduation, exemplary students are inv ited back for a fourth year. Georgia's Hispanic Pilot Program Initiative, the Panoz Family Foundation but to serve as counselors. and the Piedmont Migrant Education Agency. page 10 September 23, 2002 BRIEFS P.E. Adds Yoga, Karate and Bowling DeskIn T-shirts fur Events Frtn.s By Melissa Maysonet vice president for student The P.E. dept is look ball season, and a choice of c a n be round o n the GC Contributing Writer development. three sports each month. All ing for students to design website under student infor mmav4911 @gc. peachnet.edu Yoga, karate and bowling acti vities began in Septem new t-shirts for GC fit mation . Go to hllp:1I classes have been added to ber. Although flyers were www.g c. peachnet.edu/pe/ ness events. Contact The Gainesville College the li st of physical education Glenn Preston at physical educatio n depart courses. The response to the (770)718·3686, or gJpre· ment is adding yoga. karate. new courses was proven [email protected]. perso nal t raini n g, water posi tive by the qu ic k enroll po lo. and bowli ng as new ment ofsludents fall semes· II activities and courscs fall te r. _tile desire is to Sign Up For scm ester in efrort to encour James Howard, director of Intramurals age students to be more intramurals, whose responsi get eou,' COlDoeUUon To sign up for GC physically active. bility is to encourage Stu intramurals, go to the Concern for the henlth of dents to be as physically ac wit", wider range of Intramural website and students has brought ubout ,I live as possible, has taken a sign up online for one of variety of new P.E. courses new approach 10 intramurals students. " the Oct. sports: volley and intramurlll sports 3t GC. through the involvement of lames Howard ball, softball and doubles G,lry PresIon. chair of the :>tudcnls. "Before, only the tennis. For more infor physical education dep:lrI. elite s tudents were high mation: http :// mcnt. stated. "Micheal Stoy. lighted," said Howard, "but www.gc.peachnet.edu/ dean of Gainesville College. now the desire is 10 get a students/intramu rals/ . set in motion Ihe Idea ofgiv morc equlIl competition with placed on boards, the re ing students a larger variety a wi der range of students." sponse from students has intramura ls/. This site may of courses to choose from." Some of the changes made been slow. also be used as a sign-up form. SWim Meet to be Anothe r strong supporter of include new sports. a one· The source for more infor· Held this cause is Tom Walter. month long 3-on-3 basket- mat ion about int ra mu rals Sign-up sheets for the in tram ural swim meet and tennis tournament are now available in the NOTICE: Important Rules and Regulations for P.E. office. Everyone is encouraged to enter. Skill FootbaIi/Bas'(etball INote: Conduct will be strictly enforced this season.) levels for all competitors are avaitable. Contact Usa Watson at (770)718· Flag Football and 3-on-3 Basketball Regulations 3646 for more informa tion. ·Arguing. fl abfrant violmions. all fi ghti ng and profanity will result in ejections for to minutes. Second offenders will be ejected for the remainder of the game. Multiple offcnders wil l be bun ned from intramurals fo r an undisclosed amount of time as decided by the director. Lockers to be • Teams shall wear si milar jersey/shirt colors. Assigned • All jewelry is prohibited and will result in dismissal from the field. Lockers from last year in the locker rooms of the • Billed hats, casts, and other dangerous items may not be worn. fitness center should be deaned"out immediately. New Rules: 3-on-3 Basketball Contact Glenn Preston for re-assignment. Locks • Teams can consist orup to fi ve players; three may be on the court at a time. may also be purchased • Games begin at 12 noon. Forfeit occurs if a learn is not ready by 12:15. through him For the se • Best two of three games is the fonnat. Games will be played to 21 points by 2's aod 3's. curity of personal belong ings. • One timeout is pcmliued per game. • SubsliCUlions can be made during allY dead ball. CA~ Sponsors • No 3·second rule allowed. Volleyball Tournament New Rules: Flag Football On sept. 4, three teams competed in the sand volleyball tournament, • No steel cleats allowed. held outside the Student • Teams shall have seven players on the field , but may play with five. Center. In an 11-6 • Two femaJes are required to be Oil the field at all times. victory, the first place • Games will begin at 12 noon. Forfeit will occur if a team is not ready by 12: team walked away with • Two 17-min ute..halves will be the-running time. $125. • Two timeouts allowed per game. They may be )0 seconds each. • There is a 25·second play clock. • The first down is at the 20- and 40-yard lines. " • • No contact blocking will be allowed. September 23, 2002 Page 11
CB: I am going to try to get on the Pro Circuit next summer. ZT: Overall. what is the best thing about wakeboarding? CB: Meeting new people. and hangin' out with my fri ends. ZT: One last thing. what does a hard crash feel li ke? CB: Imagine going about 30 mph in a Jeep, and then jump ing out. The conversation I had with the recent North Hall High graduate and newly enrolled GC student was very enlightening. I gained quite an insight on the sport, and to be honest, I was ready to hit the lake 10 minutes into our conversation. Unfonunately he had a math test to study for. but it is good to see that school is in his list of priorities as well. WakeBoarding Terminology I recently had the chance to sit down and talk wakeboarding with local semi-pro Corey Bradley. wake: the wave created behind the boat. used by the I was definitely lost. but amazed with the pictures, the trick names and the conversation as a whole. wakeboarder to jump off of or s lide fakie: switchstance: boarder rides the opposite Wlly that is Wakeboarding has emerged as one of the most popular extreme sports, and it is the king of popular natural fo r himfher water sports today. Even though I have done it a couple of times myself, I am no match for Bradley. switch: landed in the fllkie position People like Bradley make it look easy, but believe me it is not. Wakeboarding takes strength, stam ina, buck roll : boarder hits the wake and flips toward the boat in a finesse, and most importantly cart-wheel fashion the ability to take hard, bone roll to revert: rider approaches the \V3ke lind rolls the board crunching hits on the water. around and over his head. then lands in the fak ie position There are many interesting de hulf cab roll: rider approflches the wake switch :md rolls tails from the conversation I had around. landing regular stance with the GC freshman; and fo r F/S back roll : rider f1 pproaches the wnke and docs n back tlip fair warning, you may want to air roll : a roll perfonned using line tension for !ift instead of hold on before you check them the wake out! scare crow: a 180 degree front flip ZT: When did you begin tantrum: a back flip over the wflke wakeboarding? air raley: rider hi ts the Wilke and allows his/her board and CB: I guess I was about 13, body to swing up over his head without flipping. landing so whenever that was. regular stance (pictured) ZT: What led you to hooehie glide: nn air ruley with a heels ide grab wakeboarding? 9 11 : ai r ruley in which the rider is tumed to his side mlher CB: I have been skiing my than fa cing down whole life, and after I saw it, 1 KGB: a back roll with a blind 360 degree handle pass just wanted to do it. switch DIS mobius: a back roll with a 360 degree handle pass BlAKE HEMBREE I Special ZT: So what kind of tricks do you have in your arsenal? roll to blind: a back roll with a blind 180 degree hlllldle pass CB: Weil l can do a back roll, a switch back roll , nose grab back roll, roll to revert, half cab roll, F/S front roll: a front flip osmosis: when the ri der performs a spin by tossing the handle method role to revert, F/S back roll, F/S roll to revert, air roll, air ro ll to revert, scare crow, switch from one hand to the same hand again scare crow, tantrum, air raley, switch raley, hoochie glide, switch hoochie gl ide, krypt, switch krypt, powe r slide: the rider goes outside of the wake and turns back 911 , hoochie glide to fakie, toward boat, creating a spray (pictured) Indi an ai r, KGB, switch BIS mobius, ro11to blind, front fl ip, , F/S front roll, 360, blind 360, heel side 540, toe si de 540, P.E. FACIUTY HOURS switch 540, heel side 720, sui cide, osmosis 540, power slide, and every type of grab there is except for a mosquito. (To better emphasize his ability, the onl y tricks I can do are a slide, and I can catc h about three feet of air; Corey hangs about 12 to 15 feet on some of his jumps, as shown on thc picture to your left!) ZT: What tournaments have you ridden in, and how did you place? CB: I got 2l1li in the World Wakeboard Association, 3n1 in the South Carolina State Championship, 2l1li in the Georgia State Championship, I" in the North Carolina State Championship, I" in the Florida State Championship, I didn't place in the Lake Burton Water Spons Tournament and on the International Tour in the past four years I got I" three times, 2nd four times. and 3td four times. ZT: Do you see wakeboarding in your future? , ••'~ ','1', .'.~ ...... 1'1',', .... , ., ~ ______...... , .... , ._._ ... _ ...... , I Page 12 @!IJ:EJ September 23, 2002 CLUBS: The What, When, Where, Why & How By lennifer Kent ArtOub Future Health Oubs Editor President : Lauren Howard Prole sslanals (FHP) [email protected] President: Undecided Contact: Micki Davis Advisor: Jim Konzelman Gainesville College has a wide variety of clubs th is year. From sports to fall fa irs Advisor: Stacy Koffman GC hasjt all. Want to get active and involved? Then check out the fo llowing li st n me: Mon. and Fri . OIl noon The goal oflhe..club is 10 rai se awareness about Place: Student Lounge and pick out a club that's ri ght fo r you. As if it's not enough having a li st of cl ubs health· re lated issues on Academic I ready and willi ng to accept your membership, get ready for this. Joining a club The Art Club wi ll contribute points to your co·curricular transcript. Take a chance, join a club! wants to get fellow students more ac Asian Student tively involved Campus Crusade for Computer Oub AssociatIon (ASA) Christ (cce) with the commu- President: Kam Ho Billy President: Brian nity through the use Preside nt: Beth Wheeler Wesnofske to deve lop Wong of aft. Student who Contact: Tammy Wolfe leaders h ip Advisor: H:lrriet Allison Ad visor: Tom Bums are creatively in· ~c.o~~ Advisor: Amy McGhee nme : Every other Wed. at skills. Website: Time: I" & J'~ clined or just ap Time: Mon. at noon noon hllp:/www.gc.peachnel.edu ~:;;;<~ Mon. at noon preciate art Place: Lanier Place: Rm. 134 Academic I www / jkonzelm / Place: Rill . should consider joining the AS III fhp%20webpage l 146 Aca Art Club. CCC is an T he Computer C lub fhpc lubpage demic III international, strives to allow people a ASA's ma in interdenomi better understanding of GCSldnDlvers purpose is to pro nati o nal computers, how to use them President: Heather Heyman mo te th e aWllreness of Christian cl ub to the fullest capacity and (BSU) Advisor: Ron Clay Asian culture ;,md provide organized to provide out how to build and maintain President: Sam As,hw,ortld Advisor: Jason Ponders n me : lsI & 3rd Wed. at noon guidance to Asian students rClIch. truining, encourage them. This term they will Time: Wed. at noon Place: Rm. 136 Sci. Bldg. on ca mpus. ASA hopes to ment, fellowship, friendship have a series of computcr Place: Lanier AB The GC Skin Divers pro workshops, open to every· let Asian students join to and a means lor Chris ti an The BSU has two mote activity in seuba skin one. Visit their website: gether lind share their dif growth for students and the goals: opening up mi,;si c," ~ di ving and snorkeling. They htlp:llitec.gc.peachneLeduJ /erent cultures. community. to all studenlS and to also promote awareness, appreciation and preserva lion of the aquatic realm. Black Student Education Club Chorale Students who like the out Association (BSA) (SGAE) President: Mall McClure doors, nature, adventure, President: Edwin Atcm President: Tiffany Walker Advisor: Lynn Lathem activity, recreation, camp.. Advisor: Andre Cheek Advisor: John O'Sullivan nme: Tues. and Thu. ing, site-seeing, photogra nme: Wed. at noon nme: Every Other Wed. 11-12: 15 phy, camaraderi e, chal· Place: Low Fac. Dining Place: Rm. 119 MusiciAn at noon lenges and of course the wa Rill. Building Place: Either Lanier C or te r, will enjoy this club. USA's purpose is 10 cul- The Chorale is open to Rill. 103 Academic II galllzmg a"" Bible Visit their website: http:// turally educate the campus all students interested in The Education Club has group and prayer panners. www.gc.peachnel.edU/sci through singing. Lathem is always the goal of providing social, workshops. ence!rclay!gcski n-,dive rs!. on the lookout for talented professional growlh and seml1lars. service oppon unities 10 the forum s c rience is required,just Thc Film and Literature Their goal is to bring fundmising. a love of music is needed. Club is responsible for Ihe publication of GC maga students together who share zines the an interest in cultures from Engineering Club "Ch estatee around the world. ISA has R eview", intemational student President: Da vid Abner Nat ional Society of Advisor: JcfTTurk dff& the " Ho i members, along with ~ Professiona' Engineers e students who have never nme: Every Other Mon. :It noon Polloi" and Place: Rm . 228 Science Bldg. they al so traveled outside of GA. The Georgia Society of Professional Engineers student ch _In Free Jazz Band Politically _ Cub (PIC) Math C ub Enterprise (SIR) Advisor: Andrew Santander President: Undecided President: Randy Roberts President: Nathan Ramats Time: Tue. & Thu. 1-2:15 Advisor: Douglas Young Advisors: Delbert Greear, Advisors: Katie Simmons Place: Band Room Time: Mon. at noon & Jennifer Jacobs Jerry & Ellen Graveman Music/Art Bldg. Place: Rm . lOl Academic II Time: Fri. at noon Time: Wed. at noon See Jazz Combo below for The PIC is an organization that encourages true diversity, Place: Rm. 186 Academic III Place:Rm.138Academic lll exact information. opening up new perspectives to students by allowing the ex· SIFE is open to all stu The Math Club's purpose pression of all points of view. It promotes students to speak dents interested in working is to provide academic and up and voice Iheiropinions in as a team to design educa social opportunities for stu· open discussion. PIC gives tional outreach projects that dents outside the class· students a deeper understand help individuals in the com room. The club sponsors munity develop a beller Math League competitions, ing of how the government works and illustrates the im· understanding of the prin a mathematics tournament ciples offrce enterprise and portance of getting registered for two·yearcolleges, Math how to use this informat ion Awareness Week and the and voting. The club is run and organized by the to empower themselves and Problem of the Week com students and is open to everyone. In the past they have had a achieve their dreams. As a petition. Visit their website: numberofguesl speakers, including politicians and have hosted member of a SIFE team, http://data.gc.peachneLedu field trips as well. Vis it their websi te: http:// st udents will be part of one Iwww/clubslmathl. www.gc.peachnet.edulsocscilpiclub/. of the largest global student organiwtions with over 600 college and university teams in 23 countries. Physics Club SIudents for EnvIron Jazz COmbo SIFE teams have the oppor· PreSident: Ro ry Weeks ...... Awareness (SEA) Gainesville Theall!< Time: Tue. & Thu. 2:30-3:20 Alliance (GTA) tunity to compete against Advisor: J.B. Sharma President: Jonathan JOCinson each other at the regional, Place: Band Room in the Advisor: Jim Hammond Time: Mon. at noon Advisor: Cay>.vood Cbafrmn national and international MusiclArt Bldg. Place: Rm. 212 Sci. Bldg. Time: 2nd & 41h Wed. at noon Time: Dependent on the levels. Si nce 1994, the GC The purpose of jazz band The purpose of the Phys Place: Rm. 136 Sci. Bldg. Production Schedule SIFE team has won 25 re is to give students a chance ics Club is to get students The purpose of SEA is to Place: Dependent on the gional and national awards to play great jazz charts and interested and raise environmental aware Production Schedu le and has consistently fin to have the experience of ness. Activities include vol Students interested in ishcd among the top two performing these charts to unteering, field trips and acting, helping year colleges in the world. gether. This builds team Visit their website: http:// the Wetlands Ob- skills and gets students to e i:i:~~~:; data. gc. peachnet. edul promote T A ;~~ht~::e~~~ think of the group as a www/clubs/sife/sifeweb/ fun and fel· ,;,va·t Ion Itrdesigning whole instead of solely fo II default.htm. P I a t- G lowship work· GA l tiESV I L~ should call cusing on themselves. Club THtATR ing with physics and they form . 4- A L LI A N C . Hammond at activities for the year in Vis i t encourage students to enjoy ext. 3609. clude several concerts on the i r physics activities Visit website: ~ __~' GTA has an exciting sched· and off campus, and the their website: http:// http:www.gc.peachnet.edul ule planned for this year most popular is the annual data.gc . peachne t.ed ul sci e n cel rc I a y! SEA I starting with "Charlotte's big band show. www/clubs/spsl. Sea.htm. Web". Ullno_ s-IdWind _~ment IntnmUl1lIs _(LSA) President: James Yeomans _(SGA) Advisor/ Organizer: James Howard President: Betsy Balsell Advisor: Brenda Adams . President: Wendy DeRodle The purpose ofintramurals is to promote the health and physi Contact: Becky Yanez Time: EveryotherThu. noon Contact: Cheril Bowers cal well being of the students. The GC Intramurals is a unique Advisor: Lee Anzola Place: Low Fac.Dining Rm. Advisor: Alicia Caudill experience allowing everyone the opponunity to join a sport Time: Wed. at noon This club is for students Time : Fri. at noon and to have a blast in the process. Sign-ups for October Place: Rm. 139 Academic I returning to school after Place: Lanier AB intramurals ends Sept. 27. Visit their website: htlp:1I Joining SGA is a good The purpose of LSA is to five years or more. Mem- www.gc.peachnet.edulpe/intramuralsl. opportunity to learn more empower its members by bers can meet fe llow non- promoting leadership, edu· about the college. It gives traditional students who cation and culture. By set· students a chance to infl u- T1Ie Compass Student Newspaper ting gl?als and will share their experiences . ence how things are run at _.0IIef : Heathe< Hodges r ifices, and help others face college PC and to decide what is· AftiIar:Dan Cabaniss LSA intends challenges. So why join this sues are addressed in meet- TIme: Wed, at noon nurture, club? It's not only a support ings. It gives students the _ : The COmpass OffICe behind the Cyber Cafe guide . nd group, but it will help stu· option to discuss issues that If you like writing, drawing Of photogr.lphy, come encOurage the dents learn how 10 juagle affect all the students at check us out. Joining this award winning newspaper Latino youth in the cornrnu· lhe many roles as a non·tra· GC. SGA is working hard not only worthwhile, but tun too. nity. Their vision is to pro-' to c;:ollect and detcnnine is-- ditional student and how to mole diversity as a source sues that the students are bec;:ome a more successful of strength rather than as a looking to change or have student division. in the process. addressed. ------...... ~ ...... ,- - ~- - Page 16 September 2.J. 2002 Moving to Wal-Mart Athens: Not Just Home to the Dawgs By ChrislDpher McDonnell square reet, 30,000 of which By lUllan D, Hutrnuon Contributing Writer will be occupied by GC. The Contributing Writer [email protected] remaining 80,000 square feet [email protected] will be occupied by the Office Shopping at Wal-Mart is a of Information and Instruc The enrollment number for this fa ll at the Athens campus is 637-419 more students than last ritual that most students are tional Technology. year, a dramatic increase. This fall marks the beginning of the second year in Athens for Gc. The tumout has been used to, but going to school The new facility will more remarkable and proven II success. Michelle S. Brown, academic and support services, says the there? than accommodate the ex student increase this year was "tremendous." Brown would have guessed that the tumout for the pected growth of around a thou Ir everything goes according Athens campus would have been around 500. She was surprised by the actual turnout, but "ex 10 plan. students enrolled at sand students for fall 2003, cited about being involved in the growth of the Athens center." There are 131 students from Gainesville College in Athens granted that GC has faculty and Athens alone according will be attending school in the s taff to serve the students. to polls; Gwinnell ranks old Wal-Mart on Atlanta High- Along with the large student second with 76. ri rail 2003. The chem- Ronnie Booth, vice president for Academic Affairs, the man who helped to initiate the Athens campus, began considering the idea in O ctober of 2000. Booth's main job was to be involved with off campus affairs, but now his time is focused on the Athens center. His in volvement and good standing with Athens Piedmont campus help put the plan into action. Currently, the Athens center offers mainly core curriculum. With a Like GC's main campus, the Athens campus, shown move in buildings and an above, is experiencing record enrollment. At the increase in space, GC current campus, many challenges are surfacing due will be able to offer more With ever-increasing enrollment numbers at the courses pertaining to to the number of students. Parking and class Athens campus, a new location must be se majors. The first prior availablility are two problems that must be dealt with cured. Plans for moving into the old Wal-Mart ity for expansion is to in the near future. building oon Atlanta Highway are in the works. offer all the business classes needed for an as- sociate degree, because that is the higher demand. Besides the slim classes, parking is also a problem. To park at the Athens center costs S25, but Board of Regents is attempting istry, and biology lab are ex it is cheaper than the commute to Oakwood. to rent the Wa l-Mart building pected to be in place. With GC's commitment to student success, anything is possible. Even Brown agreed; "The for both GC and the Office of Additionally, with the park significant growth certainly presents some challenges, but we can meet the challenge to provide a In structional Technology, ing lot having already been quality and affordable education." which is an administrative ann used by Wal-Mart, there will be of the Board ofRcgents staff. plenty of parking for students. The decision to move OUI of For students who do not have Bring in this ad for $2.00 off any purchase of $6.00 or more! the current building, which GC transportation, the new facility shares with Piedmont College, is on the bus line. WWI«Sqtk.ls,cDm was made when enrollment at With the enrollment growing, SptJrlJ(,lIrds • MmrDrilbiliA • 7(,ys is the new facility a pennanent the Athens campus began to DVDs • CDs · Via,tJ Gilmn rise. Enrollment at the GC cam location or just temporary? Ac pus in Athens has exploded cording to Booth. it "all de from 2 18 in fa ll 2001. to 637 in pends on how fast we fall 2002. With the growing grow ... Our goal is to have II numbers. Ronnie Booth. GC place that looks and feels like II Square If)eals viet: president of eXlernal pro college campus." grams, emphasized that this is With the growing problem of II "front-bumer issue", staling lraffic congestkln around Geor thaI '"we have outgrown the old gia Square Mall. will GC add buikling and we need our own to il? AccordinllO Booth, "11 --Collectibles-- space." won'l be as bed as Christmas The n~ facility is 110,000 shopping." 115 Bradford S" .., Downtown Gainnvilk n O·718·1437 • .' Join the art club. J I I ' OJn Inc 21fT ~lJ=.J in the art Page 18 September ~3 , 2002 GTA Gets First 'Ragtime' Rights in South By Michelle Gilstrap Thanks 10 fonner GC student Art istic Director Jim Hammond issues that many paris of majority of the influx, and the ME Co-Editor Dawn Bumhardt, GT A has ac calis an "episodic plot struc America, including Northeast relationships between predomi mgiI2642@gc,peachnet.edu quired the set and 400 costumes ture," the pl ay "jumps fro m Georgia, are still dealing with. nately black areas and predomi from the national tour, as well group to group teiling their Issues like immigration and its nately white or immigrant areas. " Ragtime" is a Tony award as the choreographer, story." It deals with a lot of the effect on the areas receiving the Hammond feels that we as a winning musical dr.una that has Antoinette Dipietropolo, people can learn a lot run on Broadway fo r years and and two actors. One of the about these relationships made two nat ional tours, For actors, Jerold Solomon, by watching and remem the first time since its premier plays the black ragtime bering the history por in New York, the rights arc piano player, "Coalhouse trayed in "Ragtime." available fo r theatres off of Walker Jr.," one of the Hammond is very ex Broadway to produce the play, leads. The other, Mark cited about Ih is produc Gainesvi lle T hentre Alliance Kellogg, plays the charac tion because it is the cul will be the first company in ter "Father." Bumhardt mination of two years of Georgia and in the whole SOUlh was the assistant company east to present "Ragtime," manager on the national hard work by a group It is a huge challenge to put lOur. called Mosaic. This together, The cast is made up The play is set in and group was fo rmed to or over 45 people sometimes around Boston and New work with the commu portraying mu ltiple characters, York in 1905. More spe nity to diversify the GTA The set is quite intricate, and the cificall y, the play focuses by recruiting members choreography amazing, The on thrcedifTerent fam ilies from ethnic groups not si nging will have to be good, from very difTerent parts al ready represented and too, because the play is about of the NortheaSL There is by mixing up the play se 80 percent music rather than a white family from the lecti o ns. Hammo nd split into scenes with a song suburb New Rochelle, a wants all people in North JIM IW4MONO I 5petIII every other scene like some black fami ly li ving in Performers filed in for 'Ragtime' rehearsals, which have Georgia to be able to look musicals, Fortunately, GTA Harlem and a family of already begun. Two actors from the 'Ragtime' national tour at GTA and say, "that is will ha ve a litt le bit of outside imm igranfS from Eastern will join the others for the production. my theatre because they help. Europe. Through what teU my story." GTA Faces Its Most Challenging Season By Michelle Gilstrap ties and has made two national specds. Hammond commented can care about and poignant are spoken to directly by char ME Co-Editor tours. Set in 1905 in the Nonh that it will be a great challenge moments that they will leave the acters on stage. Charlotte will [email protected] east, this touching story in for the actors in the play to act show remembering. Hammond be greeting young and young at volves three families from radi in the style of Com media. This chose this play because he fee ls hean Oct. 4, 2002 at 7:30 p.m. The Gainesville Theatre Al cally different parts of town means there will be lOIS of that the audience can really a nd Oct. 5 at 2 :3 0 p.m. in Brenau's Pearce Auditorium. liance has a .g reat season whose li ves become extremely masks used, lots of physical identifY with the characters. He Reparatory Company is also planned. II is diverse in both intenwined. "Ragtime·· will be comedy, slapstick and "off the feel s that it could actually hap back this year. Every year, genre and culture. the premier show in the new wall" situations. Hammond pen right here in Gainesville as GTA's fi ve most deserving stu GTA even has a new theatre Hosch Theatre and will run says it is even a lillie '·bawdy." well as in New York where it dents are chosen to represenl. to throw illlo the number of per from Nov. 5- 17. Free nights for "Servant" will run in thc new takes place. " Proposals" will GTA in schools across Georgia. formance spaces Ihey usc students will be Nov. 4, 6, 7, 12 Hosch Theatre from Feb. 11-23. run April 15-27,2003 with free This year they are preparing throughout the year. The Hosch and 13. Theatergoers should be Free student nights for this student nights on April 14, 16, two shows to perform at se Theatre in the John S. Burd aware Ihal this is not the typical show will be Feb. IO, 12, 13, 18 17,22 and 23. lected middle and high schools. Center for the Performing Ans comedic musical. It is quite and 19. Audiences should also know Both shows, "Heading West: at Brenau University lIeats 350 serious. Hammond called it, " Proposals·' will be the that WonderQuest has merged Voices of the American Fron people. It has a main floor and ··Americ3's ·Les Misemble'." season's fi nal show, and as al with Gainesville Theatre All i tier" and "Dragon Flights" were written by the company's direc a ba lcony. but is still a very in The second show of the sea ways, will be held in ance to become the official the tor, Gay H. Hammond. The timate space. Artistic director son is purposefully light Gainesville College's own Ed atre for young audiences. This fi rst Rep Company perfo r year WonderQuest is producing Jim Hammond dcscribed stand heaned 10 give audiences lmd Cabell Theatre in the Continu mance is Oct. 20. More infor ing on the edge orlhe stage and 3ctors alike a rest from Ihe ing Education Bu ilding. "Charlone's Web." This story mation will be available soon. feelinl:\ li ke he can ··,ouch ev dram3. Carlo Goldoni"s ·'Ser Hammond compared it to o f an improbablt friendship Free shows are also available ery scat in the house." vant of Two Masters" is about shows like "Picnic" and ··Bus between a pig and a spider has throughout the year. These are The season opener is the mu an 1811> century Italian serv3nt Stop:' which was performed delighted children for years on the Senior Thesis Projects pro sical "Ragtime:· The play is who gets two jobs in the same last year in the same space. The video. Now children can see it duced by GTA seniors. based on :111 amazing novel by day. This farce includes love. Neil Simon romantic comedy is in play version in a friendly set For ticket and show informa E.L. Doctorow. It has mn on disguise. deception and outra realistic and contemporary but ting where they are encouraged tion call Beth Burgess in the box Broadway si nce the mid-nine- geous comedy at lightnil'!g has characters that the audience to help' with animal sounds and office at 770-718-3624. "" ," :,. ,,\ ,• r ,., • " ,. , ~ .. September 23, 2002 / Page 19 Chorus to Sing at President's Club By April Landry funds. They 3re loyal sup President's Club, as well as ME Co-Editor porters ofGC and we feel it represent Gainesville Col [email protected] is very imporlant to thank lege. them for their financial gifts Guthrie concluded, "At A new school year has be to the college." said Dir«tor such a gathering, we like to gun, and what bener way to of Development. Pat Guthrie. let them know what is going start it off than with honor? The chorus has been hard The Gainesvil le College Cho on at Gainesville College and at work practicing and re ra le ha s been invited, yet pro vide an opportunity for hearsing from day one to again, to sing for the annual them to meet some oflhe stu make a good impression. It President's Club dinner at the dents and see what level of Chanahoochee Country Club will be perfonning five selec excellence the college pro onCct-17. tions ranging from historical vides fo r ou r sl udcllIS . Of "The President's Club din spI ritual pieces to classical course we like to entertain ner is an appreciation fo r our Beethoven. Chorale mem them, and what elm be more major donors who contribute bers considcr it a great honor entertaining than our own stu 10 Ihe Foundmion Scholarship to be invited to entertain the dents!" The Art of Bollock is a Hit Drew Sherwood His paintings arc like a dream Stay." She said, "Nothing gold Funnies Editor which cannot quite be remem can stay, but I sec the gold cen [email protected] bered upon waking. Jim ter and it makes me think of Hammond, professor of speech someone's pure heart; as much A crowded room-people are and dmma, had this to say: " I as they fight and scream it gets standing around, unsure. They think it's fascinating ... I am in taken aWlly; it cannot stay, be peer around the comer to see a trigued by the amount of time cause the world is too chaotic." dizzying assortment of tanta li z this must ta ke, how int ricate Croft ulti mately believes that ing colors. More people enter strings run over and under each the works must be experienced the tiny gallery. Soon it is filled other and how it all plays on and analyzed for oneself. He with students, professors and your emot Ions and feelings." said, "The lines can be really generJ.I well-wishers. Everyone Stacy Koffman, assistant pro separute and differentiated ... ! tmnsfonns iEllo younger, softer fessor versions of themselves. The people in thi s room become transparent specters of th ei r peace. fonner selves. Everyone tmn scends for a time: ifnothing else this is the true art ... and they called it "Bollock", The gat hering of people on this 4'" day of September arc (f~) present to see the works of GC proressor-turned-artist, Bob @;"U.8b erof!. He started doing art work at the beginning of 2002, after inspirat io n fro m the movie love. speed. " Pollock" and encouragement from his famil y. However, his Cool, very cool. And very, very fast. recent entry to the profession is Students alldfaculty /rave been extremely responsive not evident in viewing the to the artwork ofCC Professor Bob Croft. His work High spwf c.Jble internet KCtS$ with cn.frttr Pipeli n t· ~ps you connected. amount of art thai he has already will be on display in rhe art gal/elY until Sept. 17. Chat with friends. dO'Nf1kNd )'Our {.wonte music, do endJess resurch. produced. It's fut, tiSy ~nd ~ffOfd abJ e , It all started with a blank wall ing the energy that just pours image in your own mind. in his bedroom. Croft told his out. I want the students to try Within these paintings there are wife that he was going to paint and absorb some of this en images and thoughts, but you 1.800.800.CABLE her a picture for the blank spot. ergy." Michallene McDaniel, have to pull them out." If the He said, "She was the 'real' art instructor of sociology, said, " I viewer chooses to hate (s)he www.charter.com iSI , though, so she kind of am drawn to the energy and will hate what is seen, but ir laughed about it." Then one day movement or the works." (s)he dares to hope, love or _~Zl:fc-_ ..o...,... .. _,,_;c-. ___w.. .'" __ s-... _.,,_"-_...... """' .. ..,_ .. __-"t .. something miraculous hap Maggie Borders, a business dream, then that is where the _ .. _~ ...... _ ... _ • ..,It .....__ ,. ..._ ,...... ,.._ pened, Croft finished the paint student, commented on a paint journey that has no end must ...... _-_ ..... _--.. -----.. .,--.... ing and his wife was amazed. ing titled "Nothing Gold can begin. Page 20 September 23, 2002 In the novel "Tell No One," Harlan Coben takes the reader into an adventure In my sights this month: ANIME! of a lifetime. The story has all the makings of a work of art: drama, love, Having noticed the large number of "Dragonball Z" t·shirts on and around suspense, deceit, murder, and even a bit of comedy. It has so many twists and campus this semester, I can only assume that I am surrounded by "otaku." This turns that the reader doesn't know what's going to happen until the exact mo is great. The relative paucity oft-shirts displaying logos from anime that mat ment it does. It keeps you guessing on who did what and why up unti l the very ters, however, leads me to believe that either the anime fans around here are last page ... and it leaves you wanting more. utterly clueless, or that they simply haven't been exposed to the best that the Coben puts us into the story on the anniversary of David Beck and his wife. genre has to offer. I shall charitably assume the latter, and herewith present Beck is on a journey to discover the truth some suggestions for anime you should be watching. Several films have been about the death of his wife. They are at a released recently on DVD that put the rather infantile "DBZ" to shame. Now lake when they were attacked and she is don't get me wrong - I like "DBZ." I like Akira Torayama's character designs, kidnapped. She is found three days later and the overall plot is engaging enough. But let's face it...90percent of"DBZ" dead along the side of the road. Now, we consists of shots of overly muscled men glaring and grunting at each other across skip to eight years later. Beck has never ruined landscapes. There's only so much of that the mind can comfortably deal with. The problem seems to be that most of its American viewers don't seem to gotten over his wife's death and on the eve realize that "DBZ" is for kids. Little kids. So' if you're ready to grow up and of their anniversary, he receives an email. check out some good anime, read on. His wife is alive and he's allowed to tell First up this mon.th is the release on DVD of the 1989 classic "Mobile Suit no one. Gundam: Char's Counterattack." Put simply, this film kicks butt. Even if you 're The plot thickens when dead bodies are not a "Gundam" fan , or if you've been corrupted by viewing "Gundam Wing" dug up near the lake. The antagonists de or "G Gundam," you need to see this movie. It stands as an excellent science cide to keep a closer watch on Beck. and fiction film in its own right, and the giant robots only make it that much better. the FBI decides to reopen the case of his Giant robots make everything better. Except "Gundam Wing." Buy this OVO. wife's murder. Suddenly, Beck is the num No self-respecting "otaku" should be without it. ber one suspeCI. Next: "End of Evangelion: Death and Rebirth." This film is the first of two As the story unfolds we find out that lies, fin ishing off the "Neon Genesis Evangelion" series, and should not be missed. deceit, corruption, and blackmail sur This is most assuredly nor little kids' anime. It's some oflhe darkest, creepiest, rounded Bcck 's wi fe's murder eight years most surreal stuff you 'll ever see outside ofa Brothers Quay video. The only prior. We don't find out the whole tmth This ;s one of many caveat is that you really need to have seen the series for the film to make sense unt il the very last page of the book. It had covers for Coben's - so go get the series, too. I can pretty much guarantee that you won 't be able to a powerful ending that has the reader just "Tell No One. " rent this one, but find it somewhere (Best Buy has it, along with the boxed set of sitting back and go ing over everything the series). You 'll be glad you did. . aga in in his head and sayi ng "wow, I never "Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade" was released a couple of months back on DVD. would have guessed." While I'm not a big fan of the rotoscoping he used, this new Mamoru Oshii film Coben created a true masterpiece in his nove\. He wrote the book in first packs a wallop. You won't look at fairy tales the same way again, I promise. person from Beck's point of view . but when other things were happening that Though it 's a little slow moving, the sting in the ending makes it worthwhile. didn't include Beck, Coben switched to third person point of view. It was a This is the kind of film you can show to skeptical non-otaku who "just don't unique way of writing the story and it worked. It gave the reader a better insight understand the deal with these silly Japanese cartoons!" to make them under into what was happening. It was a page-turner until the very end. The story stand. hooks you in the prologue and won't let you go. It is a suspcnsefulthriller in its Also of note for September: Disney announced the release of the new Hayao truest fonn. I couldn't put the book down once J started reading it. I highly Miyazaki film "Spirited Away" this month (finally!). The RinTaro horror anime recommend that if you want a book that will keep you on your toes the entire classic "Doomed Megalopolis" is being brought out domestically on DVD by time you're reading it, this is II grellt one to read. Coben has written a number of DV Films. Release is said to be imminent. "Matrix" fans, take note: the new other mystery novels that I am sure are as good as this one was. "Tell No One" trailer for the nine-episode "AniMatrix" is up at Matrix.com. Go check it out. was written earlier this year and since then he has a new novel out called "Gone Oh, and for "DBZ" fans: new episodes of the original For Good." on Oct. 21 on the Cartoon Network. September 23, 2002 Page 21 Mrl tl·'#I~ij MritJ I~I~I =J~i i Spyware is a sad inevitability in today's computer based economy. A person TRUSTcomp:my is a band I have to admire to a cert:lin degree. The band has can't even download a simple program :mymore without it being infested with existed for eight years and sl ugg.ed il out on Ihe local Alabama music scene spyware/adware. So what is spyware? before garnering attention by major labels. During the recording of their major Spyware/adware are small programs, usually bundled with freeware (free soft* label debut, front man Kevin Palmer's wife of eight years left him. As a result, ware), that track all the user's imernet actions. Usually adware can be easily Palmer wrote many of the songs on the album about his divorce. To carry on as identified by banner ads in free versions of programs and oftentimes the user a band, let alone record an album based on the pain and sutTeringendured dur has the option to either remove the banner ads by paying a registration fee or ing a messy divorce, is a feat in and of itself. Many good things can COme from continuing to use the free version of the program. However, there is no guaran* such emotional sutTering. Unfortunately, this album isn't one of them. tee that once the banner ads are removed that the program will be uninstalled or TRUSTcompany is employing the same fonnula of metal-lite riffs over th un stop tracking your data and sending it back to the adware server. Jtjust simply dering drums, pounding bass, and angst-ridden screaming/singing vocals that gets rid of the banner ads. bands like Limp Bizkit, P.O.D., and Puddle Of Mudd have been using for much There are several spyware/ adware perpetrators and they each have different of their professional careers. I qualities making them uniquely desired by marketing agencies. Equally. these cannot really blame them for programs are incredibly undesirable by internet consumers. On occasion they that, as it will almost guarantee have been known to illegally grab the user's information (full name, home ad* them commercial success. 11 is dress, telephone number, IP address, and sometimes even the person's credit what the kids want, so it is given card number) and can even open a channel between the user's computer and the to them from start to finish. The spyware server that cannol be closed. Some programs that might sound familiar problem with that, however, is include Comet Cursor, HOIbar, Real Player, Gator, and KaZaA. thai the songs bleed into one KaZaA is one of the worSt spyware embedded programs in pan because of another so much that it is hard me desirability of this program and the rest of it being the spyware virus, Toptext, to distinguish one from the next. that is automatically installed with KaZaA. What Toptext does is entrench itself The album becomes tedious and into the user's computer registry (and when something gets into the registry it's boring as you notice that the next to impossible to remove) and then it changes the way a user views the same breakdown from the al internet (literally) forever, Ifit wasn't bad enough seeing banner ads and pop bum opener and single "Down ups everywhere, Toptext now highlights wo rds throughout every web page the fall" heard in "Running From user views and if a person is curious enough to click on the highlighted words, Me," and "Deeper Into You." The only saving grace comes TRUSTcompany it redirects the user to web site of an advertiser. If the user gets tired of this The Lonely PosHioll O/Neutral from Kevin Palmer. The lyrics amusing little virus and tries to delete Toptext, not only will it make KaZaA Label: GetTen Records on the album are really good. As unusable but il will continue to plague the computer with internet and connec Release Dale: 7123/02 Palmer sings on topics like tion problems. Rating: 4.9110 Don't want the spyware and invasion of privacy but would still like the free heartbreak, his own shortcom version of the program? It is possible to find a spyware free version but i\ takes ings, and society at large, you a lot of work to locate one. Take, for instance, KaZaA- begin to empathize and agree with him. Even the overbearingly pretentious and there is a hacked version of this program getting rid of the unwanted spyware emotional histrionics of Palmer's lyrics are pulted off well as he sings them elements, called KaZaA Lite. Anyone can find KaZaA Lite thankfully, just do with such conviction that you forget the problems and lose yourself in his emo ing a search on google.com will bring up several relaled web sites. tion. How else could a line like " I'm beneath I'm crawling out on my knees" For more information on SpywarelAdware check out some of these si tes: sound good? It is bad high-school poetry- it's almost enough to push it to aver www.simplythebest.nelfinfo/spyware.html. http://grc.comloptouLhtmandhttp:/ age status, but it still falls short. I www.cexx.o~8tadware.htm. TRUSTcompany is good for those who like P.O.D. but wish they would not Also included on these web sites are options for adware removal. Another big sing about God as much. If thai is your cup of tea, then this is a.smart purchase adware removal program is Ad-aware, which can be found on any number of for your collection. However, if you have more "discriminating" music tastes, then keep searching. Page 22 September 23, 2002 I: c., rl·l«·' W=0 Sagittarius: Taurus • The Bull The Archer • April 21 to May 21 Nov. 23 to Dec. 21 • • Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't : Taureans are patient and reliable, the constellation Sagittarius just an • warmhearted and loving. Then I arrow? Well just because you are in· : pissed one off and all that changed. significant in the stars, doesn't mean • It's a scam. If you see a Taurus this your mother hates you. Quit crying : year call them by a praise·worthy Sagittarians. • title, like, " Your H i ghness ~ • • • • Capricorn • Gemini • The Goat • The Twins Dec. 22 to Jan. 20 • May 22 to June 21 Have you ever seen that Merry • Your symbols are "the Twins", huh, Melodies cartoon where the goat eats • huh, huh, you said, " the Twins". inanimate objects? Silly goats! Vou • Vou shouldn't have any problem are just as ambitious as your appe· fitting in this year, I mean your SO tite, SO eat up. BURP! versatile! Just stick to your studies and don't be a BOOBY. Aquarius Cancer The Crab The Water Carrier • June 22 to July 22 Jan. 21 to Feb. 19 • Aquarians tend to be eccen.tric or • Hey your sign is an arthropod, too! unique. I think my Aquarian friends But last time I checked, crabs weren't are aliens. If you are an Aquarian, really good in bed. Vour emotional you will understand the following, and loving nature will make up for " beNO K· NOK ·dwe·U p. UP·sh i n u· that. By the way, I'd have that • nakka." It's the best alien 'Yo Mama!' checked. : joke EVER! Libra :Pisces Leo • The Scales • The Fishes The Lion Sept. 24 to Oct. 23 : Feb. 20 to March 20 July 23 to Aug. 22 • h Leos tend to be socialites, which pr~~a~:~'t ~~:~r~~~io:a~~ir~n~~r~~~~:e f:~~~ ~~:e~~~e:nrt~~ : esi ~:~o~e s~~~f~p a:: ~~~h~~: : means they probably like to party, the run-from the cops! Alright, that's unfair for me to say those things. • mal. I hope that flaw doesn't hurt • and party hard! My advice to you is Not all Ubrans are drug lords, but most smoke pot to relieye..the stress : you this semester. What was I just : to at least brush your teeth before of being SO dam "scaly". It must be exhausting to be fair in every • talking about? : you come to class hung over. situation. I tell you all what· lets all smoke a "(atone" fer your sinsemilla· : • I mean, sensibility. The student body feels for you guys who can't feel : A r j es : your feet. COme on-it's your birthday! • • Virgo • The Ram • : March 21 to April 20 : The Virgin Scorpio • • Aug. 23 to Sept. 23: • Aries, your sign is also a verb!.• I don't know if I can believe this There's an analogy for ya! You : "Virgin" label, guys. Virgos can be The Scorpion people are always into something, • shy to the core, but I'd like to see Oct. 24 to Nov. 22 and since you're into trying new : how shy you become when you at· Anyone that is symbolized by a vicious arthropod has got to be things, why not try voyeurism? I • tend your first keg party this fall. This good in bed. That's all. heard that can be fun. : sign's symbol will always be repre· Fellow Scorpios: Whoopi Goldberg, Pat Sajak, and Rosanne Arnold. • sented by a female. Rock on, shake • whatcha motha gave you! • September 23, 2002 Page 23 American Islands GBLWRCRNES ILLESRVEHU LSUH PUH TW Y IU ZW KX ISN B B D S F BUN ANT U C K E T ~I C U X L LHCYARSVLA A IFHCEAEJW TLERUSAERTAL IMMDFUOY LOY IAGBTHOFFC IYOGS IB SVW ENW FLSJ IVQANHJBLU VZEONAWK HAWA IITRPOHV MLLJYOKSO ZVGCHMRCLNX BDW TYDCZYDRTYYLKAQUF WPVAJWSRAM IIYQM O LZCM P P R S V -L Q Y D T G A A K N J H L S S JXNTZNYTEW BNKCQBNKTO AENA IJW IFVXNJYKTYRSW ~~~~~~~~~~i~n Gainesville N Y · T T Q B X 0 C B G H P H Q K D X R M Luxury I, 2 & 3 Bedroom Floor Plans K IBEBOD IEBCALYEXGW CB Controlled Entry Access OBCN ICTUEDBGYRYQQBQZ 9ft Ceilings wi Crown MOlding SZCPQDM KRSFCGNSKQQWO Gourmet Kitchens HGROZFH IMHQZKLSAEVHV Vaulted Ceilings wi Fireplaces' RCKCVN IGR IVZATSEMGAO Garden Tubs' I Powder Room' Collegi:He Pn'ss\\in' - \ ('It', Stlldt'll{\ l \ t' Monitored Alarms h It II: 11\\ \\ \\ .ql\\ i r{' xum Sparkling Pool wi Fountian Lighted Tennis Courts Hawaii Plum Alcatraz State-of-the-art Fitness Center Block Kodiak Rhode Executive Business Center Bodie Long Statel) Children's Playroom Coney Maui Treasure Covered Auto Care Center Nantucket Pets are Welcome Ellis Vitgin "In St-tecI:r!d Home1 Page 24 September 23, 2002 Staff Writers THE VOICE OF THE COMPASS Heather Daniels THE Micki Davis Matt Lewis COMPASS Jason HanHne Get Involved - The Benefits Are Numerous Kevin Mann STAFF Contributing." Involvement in campus activities is an essential part of the college experience. At Gainesville College this is no less true. However, many students miss out on this opportunity to become Todd DeWitt -- - involved. - Blake A. Duncan Ed'~,~: There are numerous advantages to gelling involved on the GC campus. First of all. it is one of Chief -..1- -: April Moore the best ways to meet other students. The short class periods are generally not conducive to Summer LaPann .. meeting new people. Clubs provide an opportunity to meet others with similar interests as well as Candice Wimberly - to learn more about other students' cultures and ideas. This, in effect, allows students to develop Amber Day their own perspectives and to become more open-minded and accepting of others. Melissa Maysonet Since GC is a commuter college, the need to be involved in campus activities is even greater. These events are essentially the only way for students to interact with one another in a college Photography environment. This is not ~>nly helpful for students while at Ge, bUI also for students as they move Jason Green on to future endcavors. Students who participate actively at GC will have a much easier time Carl Smith adjusting to life al a larger university. Likewise, interaction in the career world will be much Barclay Jonah more natuml for those students who have experience intemcting regularly with their peers. As if the social advantages are not enough, extf'.I-curricular involvement scores big points when Advisor Dan Cabaniss applying fo r colleges as well as jobs. Each student has a co-curricular transcript, which lists all events that a slUdcnt attends as wcll as all clubs and organizations of which a student is a member Editor throughout his or her career at GC. 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Sports reservations or billing arc Editor directed to Joe Harper lad< [email protected] '"""" Goizueta Grant Comes at Necessary Time With the ever.growing Hispanic population in the Gainesville/HaJl County aren, it is integral Questions? Ihal Gainesville College becomes r.lcially representative. The best schools arc well-rounded and Comments? diverse. There is no reason why GC cannot be one of these. We have everything else necessary If you would like to respond to qualify as a top school-dedicated professors, involved students, hard-working staff, and state· to or voice your opinion on of-Ihe-an facilities. With the recently received grant from the Goizueta foundation, the possi bil· any of the articles that A&E appear in The Compau, ity of GC becoming II model school is in the near future. 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September 23. 2002 Page 25 Legalize the Herb Every college should be a free marketplace of ideas where all perspectives joust. Nude Cover Evokes Response from GC Professor Yet to even consider legalizing marijuana is often unacceptable in academic com pany. But, because all public policy should be rationall y debated, let's at least Those of us who were on campus last spring (2002) will rcmemberthat the March look at some legalization arguments. cover of The Compass generated a great deal of controversy. The cover featured I wish no one used any recreational drug (and I avoid them all). But if we must four black and white photographs of women, or parts of women, as a way of pub li outlaw everything that is potentiall y dangerous, then we need a federal 30 mph cizing Women's History Month. Predictably, and understandably, the cover pro speed limit and a ban on fatty foods greasing the obesity epidemic kill ing over voked a negative reaction on behalf of many female faculty and staff members who 300,000 Am ericans annuall y (CBS News). felt that the pictures objectified women and reinforced negative stereotypes . • would Somehow we survived legal marijuana until 1937. It actually helped finance like to address some of the arguments, pro and con, on this issue that appeared in our revolution, clothe the Continental Army, and provide the paper for our Decla the April, 2002 letters to the editor section. ration of Independence and the Constitution. Washington and Jefferson grew it, First, the argument put forth by Dr. Penny Mi lls and Dr. Douglas Young that Tt>~ and the latter risked smuggling it out of Europe. In fact, before 1870, hemp oil Compass staff has the constitulional ri ght to feature anything it wants on the cover ranked second only to whale oil in creating light around the world, During World is irrefutable. The first amendment must be our bottom line, always. The second War II, the feds pushed hemp' production to make rope for the war effort . point I would make in defense of The Compass staff is that the photographs, based Dope got banned because federal cops wanted to keep their jobs, cotton farmers on any reasonable definition of "pornographic" or "obscene", are neither. At the wanted to end hemp competition, and whites same time, I am sympathetic to the negative reactions of women on campus who linked pot to Mexican immigrants and black have devoted a large portion of their personal and professional lives to fi ghting jazz musicians. Louis Armstrong never per sexism in our society and who considered the cover an affront to the progress they formed without it, and a later user, Beatie Paul have made since the inception of the modem feminist movement. Though I was not McCartney, still calls joints "herbal jazz ciga personally offended by the cover, I do agree that it was poorly conceived and inap relies." Caucasians feared white girls would ','go propriate. crazy" on dope and become intimate with mi I have heard arguments in fa vor of the cover: that it presents the outer beauty of nority males. So, to avert " Reefer Madness," the weed was outlawed instead of women, whi le the Women's History Month section features the inner beauty, and the cancer sticks, li ver poison, and "Mother's Little Helper" pills preferred by the that the purpose of the feminist movement was originall y to empower women with ruling class. - the ri ght to "have their own sexual independence and to be able to portray them Now 500,000 Americans are in jail for marijuana (ABC News), and over 700,000 selves like the four women on the cover," as former Compass Editor-in-Chief Jes more are arrested for it each year (the FBI). In fact, an anomey on "The O'Reilly sica Stanifer explained in her editorial. Factor" reveals there are presently more lifers in California prisons for pot than All of these arguments strike me as disi ngenuous. The inner/outer beauty argu for murder, rape, and kidnapping combined. So pot-smokers get locked up with ment is reductive. Surely our notions of feminine beauty cover a wider of spectrum and brutalized by our most violent fe lons. How's that for "rehabilitation"? Then of styles and images than those fea tured on the cover, which are the same kind of their records deny them student loans, voting ri ghts, and many good jobs. glamour shots we have seen in thousands of magazines and newspapers advertising Does our abuse of drug-users resemble how we used to mistreat the mentally everything from perfume to panty hose. The rights/empowerment argument, I think, ill? The medical evidence shows drug addicts are unwisely self- medicating a is based on a misuriderstanding of the teons. Just because a person has the right or dopamine deficiency in the brain. They need treatment, not an 8 x 10 cell. How do the power to do something, that doesn't mean he or she should necessarily do it. you think future generations will judge us? And . do not believe that the original intent of the feminist movement was to en William F, Buckley, Jr. notes that 400,000 police can' t go after violence and courage women to portray themselves in exactly the same ways that men have theft due to the endless "War on Drugs." There's also epidemic vice squad cor historicall y portrayed them. That's not progress. I have also heard the argument ruption with drugs since their price is so inflated precisely because they're illegaL that the cover cannot be considered sexist because it was partly, at least, conceived Psst: The fo lks most against legalization-are drug dealers! Why not tax our big gest cash crop and let cops chase violent felons? and executed by a staff largely consisting of women, but the cover suggests that Doesn't prohibition fuel the forbidden fruit syndrome? The 1920s' alcohol ban these women have bought into the same conception of female beauty that men, criminalized a huge percentage of decent Americans, created organized crime in particularly in the advert ising industry, have been propagating for gt:nerations. If a the United States, and corrupted thousands of police and officials (even President woman sexually objectifies another woman, that's still objectification, not empow Harding and Chief Justice Taft secretly drank). erment. Genuine empowerment never comes at the expense of others, Though none is healthy, is pot remotely as bad as alcohol or cigarettes? CBS The only justification for the cover I can accept is one that I haven't heard any News reponed that half of U.S, hospital beds are filled by folks with alcohol body make, but which J suspect is the real one: that the cover was a consciously related problems. Then we have 110,000 alcohol-lubricated deaths a year. Also, politically incorrect anempt to provoke exactly the kind of outraged response it the Justice Deptartment admits that alcohol was the only drug found in 36 percent received. Now, I do not necessarily consider myself one of the Politically Correct, of all convicted criminals and is a factor in over 40 percent of murders. and I will be the first to agree with Dr. Young that PC, at its worst, can become Cigarettes are as addicti,ve as herojn (former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop), dogmatic and totalitarian. But I am equally uneasy with the backlash against PC do far more bodily harm than any opiate (addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew which, at its best, struggles against sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. PC reminds Pinsky), and kill 430,000 Americans a year (CDC), My hygienist says they can us that words and images do have consequences, and that how we describe or de even cause teeth to fall out in your thjrtjes, pict someone determines and is determined by how we think about him or her. In Though pot i ~ psychologically addictive for some, no one ever overdosed, got that context, it is hard for me to see how the Compass cover represents any kind of cancer, or died from marijuana. Nor do people get violent on it (as Bill Maher step forward in our thinking about women. Women bom in the 1980's, many of says, "Forgetling to kill your wife on pot, okay"). Also, studies show most pot whom share feminist values but, capitulating to anti-feminist backlash, do not identify smokers do not graduate to harder illegal drugs. themselves as feminists, seem to take their enhanced status in society for granted, Since decriminalization in Holland, police say pot use is down, and youths are and yet the fact is that women still have not achieved complete equality with men. less exposed to il legal drug dealers and worse substances. In fact, most of Europe The struggle continues. is now doing the same and has for less drug use and crime than we do (ABC). At the same time, I have been very interested in and encouraged by the strong With effective health classes and ad campaigns, U.S. tobacco and alcohol con reactions the cover produced. We are a college community, and it is our business to sumption are way down, Better education can lower pot use as we ll . confront the controversial questions of our day head-on. The worst th ing a newspa Though many states have passed referenda li beralizing marijuana laws, the feds per can do is to play it safe a ll the time, and the worst th ing that students, faculty keep vetoing our constitutional democratic states' rights. Ultimately, either we're and staff can do is to react to controversy with apathy. I hope that we do not lose for less government or we're not. Is it really state business what consenting adults sight of the fact that The Compass is an excellent, award-winning student newspa do in their own home? Must we have a national nanny state with Big Brother per, and I hope that it will continue to generate discussion about topics that matter jailing citizens for weed? Wouldn't our libertarian Founding Fathers be appalled to all of us. at this gross encroachment on our privacy rights? Let's at least debate returning to our roots and finally standing up fo r freedom for a change. Exactly why not? AaocUte ,. of! I.- Dr of Englllh .' Page 26 September 23, 2002 Killer Servers Is SGA Representative? The' Powers' in Prostitution As I was serving tables one GC is an awesome school. GC better. J work for the While watching the recent Austin Powers flick 1 noticed a lot Sunday, a customer approached I mean, it may nOI be as luxu· school on the grounds crew of prodUCI placement: Austin corresponding with Basil on an me demanding his food , with rious as some of the colleges and I have a view point that Apple Computer via AOL, the Shaguar;one oflhe twins holding intention 10 stan an argument out there. but it is a great two is different from most stu a bottle of Heineken, the with me. I was already very year college. I really like GC dents. I work with the staff Starbucks logo, eIC ... I was, at stressed lind in a huge hurry to and I wou ld do anyth ing in of GC, I see the work that first, disgusted, as usual, with F'."'< ~ Y tend to my tables. Ironically. the my power to make it a beller they do. I know the problems such blatant whoring. I don't Redd .. disgruntled dad, and his as place. that they face and I know the really mind it here and there, sumed wife and children, were I tried 10 join the SGA, but problems most students at GC but I' m of the opinion that 4 dressed as if the y hadjusl been I was unable to because my product placement can be used 10 church. GPA was lower than a 2.0, only in subtle ways in order to not ruin a film. So I was disap pointed in Mike Myers for his shamelessness. But after J got As the fathcr's curse words though this is not the fault of back from seei ng the film, something struck me. began to jumble together and anyone on Student Govern " Preparation H, on the whole, feel s good." his secmingly foreboding stat· ment. Yeah, he's still a shameless whore, but at least he 's not lazy ure shoved mc b:lckwards, I Apparently, there is a began tocontcmplalc; what if I abou' it! He son of makes it funn y. policy that states that no stu· Recall Fat Bastard's miraculous weight loss, attributed to dent can join SGA with a face as well. Therefore I Jared·s Subway Diet. This is a prime example of what I" m talk GPA under 2.0. J believe that would lend a different per· ing about. Myers ties his jokes and plot material right into Ihe th is is a stupid policy, because spective to the SGA. If the product placement so well that it doesn't strike the critical viewer it is not representative of the SGA can discriminate against as hard, softens the blow, really. ent ire student body. Cur me because of my grades, After making Ihis observation I decided to go and watch the L rently there are 300 studCTlIs then what is to keep them wcre to throw my elbow across other two Austin Powers flicks again. I noted the exact same his incessant mouth and knee who are in good academic from discriminating based on pattern (wilh much less product placement, which I think is in him d ire ctl y in the crotch, standing. even though their race, sex , or sexual orienta· extricably linked to the fact thallhey were both better films than would I be pmised or fired'! GPA is under 2.0. I received tion? "Goldmember''). Rcgretfully, I did none of Ihe this information from Susan I honcstl y do not care whal " I wanl my baby back ... ribs." above. Instcad, I got his food Daniell. from the registrars my GPA is. Education is And I wonder how much money Chili's gave Myers 10 put that song in the film. He was probably thinking to himself, "an and gmnled his requests with office. based upon knowledge. It is other joke ... um, sure!" He, in effect, kills two birds with one cxtreme apathy. But liule did he This me:lns that due to not based upon the va lue stone: gets paid for film production, and gets free one-liners. know thc smirk on my face was policy 300 students are not someone else gives my edu And if you haven', noticed, the one-lincrs are pretty damn effec· not a result of achieving his represented by the studenl cation. I consider this policy ti ve in getting laughs, even with simple things like Dr, Evil ask scmi-S'lti sfa clion, but it was government. The mission to be very elitist. These are statement ofGC declares that basic freed oms that effect us ing Mini-Me ifhe'd like a Hot Pocket. bec'luse of thc unmcntionablc "You're the Diet Coke ofevil...just one calorie," says Dr. Evil ;Lcts that the cooks mi ght have its purpose is: ·· ... furthering all. I urge everyone to do intellectual development and anything they can to change to his son, on the television, that's right, on JERRY SPRINGER. performed on his food. I calmly Again, the idea here is not to put Myers down, nor to glorify preparing stude nts to func tion th is policy, If we do not do walked b:lck in to the dining him, bulto point out that ifnny of you lazy-ass automatous mov in :l global society, with an something now, where will room confidentl y remembering iegoers didn't notice it, this guy's doing something innovative the concept of··bad kllrma." emphasis on appreciation of we draw the line'! Maybecer (from what I've seen, anyway). I know you arc probubly diversity'-· According to this tu in students will not be al So next lime you hear someone remark in a troubled tone that thinking skcptically, '·where mission statement that policy lowed to visit the library or people are always after their Lucky Charms, you can laugh at docs thi s guy work'!"" I ha ve is very preventative. go in certain buildings be· them and not think about the exchange of cash behind closed spent five years of my life work I just waTlled to help make cause ofthcirGPA. doors. That's what I did. . ing Hl the restaumnt business, and. unfortunatcly. the mental ity of all wai ters lind w;\itresscs is the smile. It is the hard truth that we. as people, arc not per Is It All In Your Head? fect. Thus we will never be able 10 full y satisfy each Ol her. Do relationships really last ordo we trick ourselves in believing they qre there? How do we tell So next lime you decide to if it exists. and what is the next step? Maybe marriage isn't the right approach. The sun lifts our JOIN dine-in at your local rest:ltLr.lllt smiles to the ones we love, but is the love we feel a fear of being alone? I wonder if J get into ;md take out all of your self-in relationships for the comfort and the retirement of being alone. You always hear people saying, i1 icted personal problems on a ·'I'm gctting married and having a lot of children," but is that what they really want? THE server. remember th at even As we grow older our chances of marriage are said to become tholl gh your server may seem lessl!ned, but 1 don 't think that is ever possible. As we grow consistently huppy, they might oldcr. WI! are more experienced and huve a beller chance of P,;sclll.Bugari ~r::- ' COMPASS j ust be contemplating the hor , tl finding the ones we are most computible with. rendous things they arc going Being young is the greatest feeling in the world. and you are , to do to yo u if you push them supposed to enjoy every minute of iI- not worry about rela any funher. tionships and unnecessary drama. How long will we abuse our· STAFF [t is human nature 10 ret:lli :ltc, but it comforts me, more selves'! I think it is time we crawl OUI of our shells and open our eyes because ·'Life isn·1 a bowl of th:ln some, to re:llize that, inevi cherries."' Facing our fears is the best way to live. tably, "whal goes :lround, comes around." September 23, 2002 Page 27 Don't Label Me Scholarships Cuts Punish Success Recently, I was informed pleting the same job as me, even ing group of people and I love Recently, at a local pool hall, ists are allowed in order to fit that a scholarship that I was if (s)he is al ready receiving Ii what I do every day. And I am my friends and I were rudely in to her "scene" of identical to reccive would be cut by 28 scholarship other than Hope. definitely not doing the job for interrupted in a leisurely game haircuts and attitudes masked as percent. This money that I receive for the money. I could work the of billiards when we were ap I understand that economic my job is earned because of the same hours anywhere else and proached by some avant-garde difficulties are causing bud wo rk I do; the money that I re make much more. So, under no wannabe who wanted to know get cuts across the board, in ceive from the Hope scholar- circumstances would I wish to if we were "emo." Obviously, cluding scholarship funds. have a ditTerentjob. But I could she had already labeled us in her However, this was not the rea certainly use that money to pay head as the stereotypical thick son for the decrease in my for gas to get to school, to buy rimmed glasses-wearing "emo monetary award. lunch orto help pay for my te xt· tional" punk rockers. My being different and creative. Ev I was informed that, be books, which cost much more friends and I, not being the shal erything this girl is trying to do cause I earned the Hope than the $ 150 that I receive for low naive followers who must just makes emo more of a cor scholarship, I would not be books from Hope. I mean, what cling to the next "happening" porate fad and a novelty for able to take full advantage of ship is earned as well, because college student couldn't use thing in order to achieve a sta middle class white teenagers the funds allotted to my posi of my commitment 10 my some extra money" tus of individuality, replied not looking to rebel in style with the tion as Editor-in-Chief of The classes. I work very hard to IfGC scholarships are really by yes or no, but with a variety rest oflheir friends. Since when Compass newspaper. earn every bit of Ihis money about rewarding the most de of music we enjoyed from al does a person have to adhere to This, in my eyes at least, so why does one impact the serving, exemplary students. ternative country to c lassic a certain type of nonns and be seems completely unfair. other? then this policy should be punk, including the emo indie liefs in order to be "different," Does GC not strive to have I could use this money as changed. The fact that a stu L rock bands she labeled us as lis when abandoning them is the the best students? BUI, be much as the next person. Be dent does well enough in school tening to. However, the girl did very definition? It seems absurd cause I am able to maintain a cause of my job as editor of the to sustain the Hope scholarship nol recognize the artists we to me that today's countercul 4.0 GPA, I am ultimately be newspaper, I cannot hold ajob should have no bearing on any were so fond of. ture is more interested in "fit ingpunished. Someone who outside of school. Now, by no other sc holarships that the stu does not earn Hope could get means am I complaining about dent earns at Gainesville Col Apparently, in the world of ting in" with the rest of the more money than me for com- my job-I work with an amaz- lege. this self-proclaimed emo guru, counterculture instead of break only a few overplayed radio art- ing away from the mainstream. GC STUDENT POLL Do you have an Do you feel that the media has focused too much on the tragedy of Sept. 11? opinion that you "At first it was, and now it's a year later... but not really, not too much. H Jarld Moon would like to Electi leal Engl_ng vioee? Submit it "I think that they did a good job... but 1 am sort of biased because my father was in the Pentagon," to the Compass. Kelly Fran Send all entries "A lot at first. .. we need to respect it and honor it, we just don't need to overplay it." to JJ Matthews IInonclon__ Conner Management at jmat4160@ No, because it's a threat to society... the actual attack on the twin towers, I think, is overplayed." ge.peaehnet. edu YoreIlnn RocIrIg... Psychology International Oub-- Salsa Dance Lessons, Student Center H GTA- "Charlotte's Web , Pearce Auditorium, 10 a.m. and 12 noon 23 l! First 10~week session midpoint Workshop: "Time Management", GC Athens campus I nternational Club- Film: "La Jetee", Academic III, Room 185 SSQ For Evening Students, GC Athens campus FIGQ I'