.. _..... .. ,, '. GAINESVILLE COLlEGE P.O. BOX 1358 THE f!] C The Gainesville College Student Newspaper com".• • gc.pac:hnn.edu gccompass.com October 30, 2003 NEWS First Residents Move into Campus Pointe Danger Zone Apartments. Page 3 Landrum CAMPUS LIFE Education Area Employers Make Effort to Drive: RecruitGC Students at Job The Most Fair. Page 6 Dangerous CLUBS Second Wind Road at Club Makes life a Breeze for Gainesville Non-traditiona l Colleg e St udents. College Pag e 9 Full Story Page 3 SPORTS Mountain Bike Race Raises Money For Kids' Charity. A Definitive History of GC Sports Page 10-11 It's "Showtime!" at Gaines· programs in the nation while back with Gainesville ville College ... or at least it was competing in the Georgia CoUege's fll'St presi­ OCONEE when the Lakers ruled the courts Junior College Athletic Assoc­ dent. Dr. Hugh Mills, in Oakwood. iation. and many former GC Announces Have you ever wondered Then known as Gainesville coaches. players and about the dozens of trophies that Junior College. the Lakers faculty members in the First Speech Con­ are housed inside the Hugh (named because o f our prox­ first comprehensive test To Be Held at Mills Physical Education imity to Lanier) won state titles history of competitive Oconee Campus. Complex lobby? in basketball. golf. tennis. trac k: sports at this school. Page 24 It really was Gainesville Coll­ and fie ld and a number of other ege that won all those awards sports over that 18-year span. and honors from 1967- 1985. Those days are long since when the school had one of the gone. but Compass sports Full Story , , most competitive athletic editor Jacob Pomrenke looks Page 12-13 PageZ ': ... WiW'·: . ~r30.Z003'.: ... :. NEWS Student Escapes Communist Cuba BRIEFS By Kevin Moss ship for two weeks. But we knew Contributing Writer anything was better than where we [email protected] were." Later they would be taken to Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. Naval Humanities Dept. Two gallons of formaldehyde Awarded for "Best Station located on the southern end hung over each side of a leaking of Cuba. There they were given Practices" ramshackle raft carrying 28 wrist bands with ID numbers, The Humanities and people, adrift somewhere in the devices used to keep track of the Fine Arts Division has waters of the Gulf of Mexico, many would-be immigrants being been honored with desperate to find the shores of held there. While in Guantanamo $15,000 for "Best Bay, Nosleivys attended school Practices" in regards to America. One of these people was where she began learning English Regents Remediation and enjoyed some of the freedoms Nosleivys Falcon. In 1994, and Tutorials. Carol denied to her by Castro 's Howard, Frank Nosle ivys learned that oppressive Marxist party. Sherwood, Judy formaldehyde was a popular On the island, visas were handed Forbes and Kelly shark deterrent for Cubans out by priority. People with Dahlin accepted the making the perilous trek across handicaps and disabilities received award. the Gulf Shore waters. them firsl, followed by single Fidel Castro's protest of the mothers with children and then Clinton administration's refusal families with sponsors living in the Application to lift the embargo and its Deadline Set for states. The latter would bring tightened sanctions on boat Spring 2004 shelter from the storm for people gave its citizens virtual Gainesville College is Nosleivys and her family. An uncle passes to leave Ihe island. accepting applications living in Miami would sponsor the "Anyone who wanted to leave from incoming family. providing them a place students for the could leave, if you had the means Nosl.ivy. Falcon is now happily married and attending GC. among the free people of the Spring Semester of to," says Nosleivys. The "means" United States-providing them a in this case were eight 55 gallon new beginning. 2004. The deadline wood. Many of them died on their By midnight their raft was drums welded together and Nine years laler Nosleivys is for reception of way over here." starting to sink. Utilizing a fog propelled by an antique car married with children and living in applications is This would be Nosleivys's light to assess the damage currently set for engine. Some of the raft was paid Georgia. She is currently a second attempt at crossing the attracted a U.S. Coast Guard October 31, 2003. for with money Nosleivys's Gainesville College student and water barrier in the makeshift vessel. Soon all 28 passengers COntact Sloan Jones at mother acquired after selling her says living in America has been a craft. The first ended where it had were transferred to a holding 770-718-3836 with apartment, a punishable act in carrier. Once inside the belly of wonderful experience. She also begun after swift gulf currents questions regarding socialist Cuba; many of the raft's the ship, Nosleivys and her knows how lucky she was. "If you twned the raft back towards Cuba applications. parts were stolen. By other family found themselves lost in leave the country and you are without notice from anyone on standards, this was state of the art. a sea of other detained caught, you may end up in front of "People left in rafts made out of board. immigrants. "We were on that a firing squad." Counseling and Testing AnnoulKlOS November Workshops GC at Odds Over Attendance Policy The COunseling and Testing Center will be holding two cnlege By KaISle Davis to drink it," says Josh Purcell, a Tom Burns, assistant the opportunity to attend the survival workshops in Contributing Writer general studies major from Homer. professor of business same class at a different time [email protected] November. "You are paying to go here, information systems, that day. QI Gong For Positive whether you chose to or not should comments, "Intelligence is Elizabeth P. Hancock, a important, but how hard you history instructor at GC, makes Mental Helath will be Students and teachers disagree not fai l you." work and the effort you put into her attendance policy part of her held Nov. 6 at 11 a.m. when it comes to attendance Teachers argue that they are a class is far more valuable". grade, but instead of taking and 5 p.m. in the policies. trying to teach students the Burns' attendance policy away points because of Student Center, lanier A vast majority of students importance of attendance in an allows students to miss one absences, you don't receive Room C. agree that attendance should be everyday work environment, to class without any points. Her grading policy is The Understanding up to their discretion. The show that repetitive absences are repercussions. Ten points is based 25% on attendance. ''This Your Dreams workshop teachers say they don't enforce not tolerated. taken out ofa 300-point system gives students 25% control of will be Nov. 12 at 11 attendance policies to make it Heather Banks, a dental hygiene It for every absence afterwards. their grade. seems to be a.m. and 5 p.m. in the hard on students, but that they major from Commerce, says, "If working well." She says. "Most But Burns' does offer the Counseling and Testing enforce them to prepare students you can miss a few classes and of the course work is not chance to make up points lost Center. for the real world. keep up with yO!JT class work, then repeated after that day, so through extra credit. He also "You don't buy a coke and you should keep the grade you attendance is extremely gives students who miss a class then have someone tell you when earn .~ ' important." ., gccompass.com October 30. Z003 Page J . '~13'+'t1 Landrum is'Unsafe':-for Pedestrians By Blake Duncan another at tbe entrance to the government to wo rk traffic on News Editor grass parking lot and tbe last that street at peak times, [email protected] accident happened at the mangle especially in the morning, during Corey Gossen, a GC srudent where Campus Drive turns ODIO the rush." Darracott added, "It from Gainesville, sat waiting in Landrum. Marion Darracott, the (the traffic) seems to be better his car while a pedes man crossed director ofGainesviJIe College's when we' re out there. They Landrum Education Drive from Security Department, says that (Lanier Tech) have fully sworn the Continuing Education motorist are not entirely to off-duty Hall County deputies building to the Administration blame. and yet I've never seen them building. The oncoming car was "We're seeing students work traffic." walking across tbe street not barely able to stop and the car While the Gainesville College paying attention, like talking on approaching behind Gossett was Security Department does not cell phones," Darracot! says. forced to slam on its brakes to have authority from the Hall avoid an accident. This incident, Landrum Education Drive is a County Sheriff's Department to though, is not the first of its kind. county-maintained road, and actually dole ou t punishment, Over the course of the past few therefore not a part ofthe college. Darracott s uggests that all years GC Security has recorded In the past, security has borrowed students practice civililY and three different accidents on speed detection devices from the safety while driving around campus, each relating to Gainesville Police Department Marion Darracott, director of the Gainesville Landrum Education Drive. The and that "seemed 10 help," campus. College security department, discusses the victims in the acc idents did not Damcot! noted. Darracott stated thai GC potential hazards posed by heavy traffic on require medicallreatment.