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Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern The George-Anne Student Media 7-12-2012 The George-Anne Georgia Southern University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Georgia Southern University, "The George-Anne" (2012). The George-Anne. 2770. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne/2770 This newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Media at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in The George-Anne by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. -~~rX-1-**f*- BAKERY SWIM IN STYLE IN THE FASHION STUDENTS GIVE ADVICE FOR TRENDY BORO SWIMWEAR PAGE 7 PAGE 6 Thursday, July 12, 2012 Georgia Southern University THE www.thegeorgeanne.com Volume 83 • Issue 14 GEORGE-ANNE GSU students to vote on INKBLOT ILLUMINATION fee increases in the fall BY MARISSA MARTIN opinions on the fees. They want to get students The George-Anne staff to vote on the fees before (the Board of Regents) submit a request," Quarles said. Students will have the opportunity to vote on a "Voting will open middle of September. We will new increase of student fees, which will take place have an online voting process, Vice President of in the fall by the Georgia Southern University Student Affairs Dr. Teresa Thompson said. Student Government Association. An increase in a health services fee will be used There will be four fees students can vote towards a new three-story facility near the RAC on: sustainability, athletic expansion, athletic where the physical plant is located, Quarles said. operation and a health fee. These fees are projected "The Health Services Center is past maxed out," to be put into effect for the 2013-2014 fiscal year Quarles said. "The director shares his office with a after the Board of Regents reviews the results, SGA graduate assistant and they have had to create the President Dominique Quarles said. bathrooms into rooms for patients." "The Board of Regents wants to see students See FEES, Page 3 Hamm bids farewell to GSU Assistant dean of students takes job in Alabama BY MARISSA MARTIN "I completed my The George-Anne staff doctorate in May and I wanted to take the next Joy Hamm announced Friday that she will step in my professional leave her position at Georgia Southern University career," Hamm said. as assistant dean of students and director of Greek During the six years Life on August 3. Hamm has worked at GSU, Hamm has decided to resign her position to she accomplished two major allow her to take the next step in her career. She goals as assistant dean and accepted a position as a dean at Chattahoochee director of Greek Life. Valley Community College in Phenix City, "Hamm secured a $300,000 grant for the Demario Cullars/The George-Anne Alabama. alcohol and drug program. She established the Three departments will begin the move to Brannen next Monday. The "I will be dean of student services. I will handle program and prior to her there was no such building design has an industrial feel with psychology study aspects. For admission, financial aid, student development program," Patrice Buckner, dean of students, said. the full story, see page 2. programs, athletics and orientation," Hamm said. See HAMM, Page 3 ON THE Newsroom 478-5246 PO Box 8001 thegeorge Follow us on Twitter Advertising 478-5418 Statesboro, GA WEB anne.com @TheGeorgeAnne Fax 478-7113 30460 2 Thursday, July 12, 2012 News The George-Anne 3 departments move to Brannen next week BY JENNIFER CURINGTON. This new space will help the The 21 labs on the third floor The George-Anne staff department strive for GSU's new offer opportunities for students Brannen goals as an institution, Nielsen to get a more in-depth experience w Floor: Several Georgia Southern said. in their major and work toward 21 Labs University departments are New plans of how to fill becoming published, Nielsen said. ■ moving into the newly renovated the office space vacated by the The interior of Brannen will be 51 Brannen building on July 16. Department of Psychology in a monochromatic color scheme The Department of Psychology, Carroll have already been proposed with pops of color on sliding doors nd Office of Strategic Research and and are awaiting the approval that bring to mind images popular r Floor: in the psychology study, GSU Office of Strat. Research & An. Analysis and Office of Institutional of GSU President Brooks Keel. Office of Institutional Effectiveness Effectiveness are eager for "The biggest difference it's architect Carrie Thome said. the new move into Brannen. making for us is in terms of research Thorne said Brannen's interior "It's very exciting. It will be space. For example, I've been here is nontraditional and features a raw 1st Floor: a much nicer facility for us," about 19 years and during my time industrial feeling. "There is a lot of Peer Mentor Center Department Head of Psychology here we've never had adequate exposed conduits and you can see a Offices Dr. Michael Nielsen said. laboratory space to do research," lot of the bones of the building. So, Psychology will take up the Nielsen said. "19 years is a long not what you expect when it looks majority of Brannen with the entire time for a department to go without very official on the outside and you Jose R. Gil/The George-Anne top floor dedicated to research sufficient research space, especially walk in and it's very modern." space for that department, GSU as the focus of the University With GSU increasing in size every we're getting new facilities for campus, as is Communication interior designer Natalie Sands said. emphasizes research more. This single day, it is a relief to faculty that psychology," Interim Dean of Arts, so it will be nice when comm. Since classrooms will remain in gives us a really great opportunity space is opening for the growing College of Liberal Arts and Social arts is more concentrated in a Carroll, Brannen will become a to work toward those common departments. Sciences Dr. Curtis Ricker said. single building. Those are exciting research center for psychology. goals that the institution has." "We're appreciative that "They're kind of spread all over things happening for us." WillOW Ben- Will owBendComplex.com 1822 Chandler Road. [9-1 Page designed by Jose R. Gil To contact the news editor, email [email protected]. www.thegeorgeanne.com News Thursday, July 12, 2012 3 FEES, from page 1 Statement of Operations The Health Center was built to The George-Anne is the official advertising manager or student service 8,000 students but the university student newspaper of Georgia media director. has grown a lot since then, Quarles said. Southern University, owned The advertiser is responsible for "A new health center fee would be Students and operated by GSU students any errors in advertisements using facilities provided by the and its liability for adjustments is $22. The current health center was university. The newspaper is the limited to the amount of space the built for a population of 8,000 and oldest continuously published error occupied in the ad. Further, we currently have 20,000 students," - newspaper in Bulloch County. The the newspaper is not responsible newspaper is a designated for any damages caused Thompson said. "We can't always public forum for the due to an ad's omission accommodate students as quickly as we Athletic Georgia Southern from a particular Sustainability community. The edition and its would like, students brought up to SGA Expansion STUDENT LED newspaper responsibility about a need to have that. The school is published solely is to system does not fund those, so we have $10 $25 twice weekly, reschedule the to find other ways to fund those." on Tuesdays STUDENT ad in the next $75 $22 and Thursdays, regular edition The athletic expansion fee would go during most of MEDIA at the regular towards adding a deck that could seat up the academic advertising rates. Athletic STUDENT READ to 4,000 students at Paulson Stadium, Health year. Any Operation questions regarding STUDENTS BEWARE: Quarles said. content should be The George-Anne "The athletic (expansion) fee is to directed to the student screens all advertisements build an additional section for students. editor by phone at 912.478.5246 or prior to publication. The at [email protected]. newspaper strives to accept ads for It was initiated three years ago by SGA legitimate products and services after students made comments that ADVERTISING: The newspaper only. Students are urged to there weren't enough seats. It will be a Jose R. Gil/The George-Anne accepts advertising. Inquiries may exercise caution when replying to be made by calling 912.478.5418 ads-particularly those that require $25 fee," Thompson said. or 912.478-0566. Fax any questions personal information. Students The athletic operations fee will be Southern Conference division we would other ways to fund that. It would be to 912.478.7113 or e-mail ads1@ are also urged to report to the $75 and will allow GSU to move up a not be able to play in championships for $10," Thompson said. georgiasouthern.edu. newspaper any suspicious offers which they might see in an ad. level in its athletics, Thompson said. the next two years," Quarles said. The voting process models after the The George-Anne receives The $75 will go toward increasing The sustainability fee will provide RAC fee about five or six years ago, additional support, in part, from PUBLICATION INFORMATION: coaching salary and raising scholarship students with resources to create a Quarles said.