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TYUESDA , SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 VOL. 47 ISSUE 5 SINCE 1966 WWW.KSUSENTINEL.COM KENNESAW, GA THESENTINEL KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY Students protest preachers’ presence Alisen Redmond NEWS EDITOR Members of the Southeast Open Air Preachers Association speaking in the First Amendment Area were met by an organized student protest Sept. 13. The preachers who were shouting angrily were confronted by over 100 students who crowded around the First Over 100 students gather around the First Amendment Area to Amendment area with signs that read, “Free protest hate speech. speech is not hate speech,” “Tolerance is a human right,” and “Keep Kennesaw hate Alisen Redmond | The Sentinel f re e .” KSU Police circled the First Amendment Area with tape that read, “Do not cross,” at 12:30 p.m. as students loudly chanted “Get off our campus,” and “Go home bigots.” KSU student and Iraq veteran Joseph Jarquin, 26, was pulled out of the Audrey Gray, 28, chants while holding a sign at the Sept. 13 student protest against the content of SOAPA’s message. A SOAPA preacher holds a sign telling students they are hell crowd by KSU Police. bound while another shouts at students. “[KSU Police] pulled me out now. It must be their campus, even though I taxes,” Holmes said. because they said I was violating [the pay taxes and served in the military.” “I have been here since the fall of 2007 preachers’] freedom of speech by speaking According to student Jason Holmes, and have had to put up with them since the louder than them,” Jarquin said. “They said the SOAPA preachers violated KSU’s First fall of 2007,” said student Audrey Gray, 28. I cannot project over them – on my campus Amendment Area policy by preaching “I have no objection to free speech rights. I – because there may be someone here who outside the circle and trying to drown people have a problem with them spreading hate. wants to hear them. I doubt that. I wish we out while preaching. I do not even know if I want them to leave. could petition the university so they cannot “I pay taxes,” yelled one of the SOAPA They start interesting conversations. I just come here anymore. It is taking way from the preachers. “This is my campus.” wish they would stop spreading hate.” student experience. I could be studying right “I guarantee my tuition is more than his A KSU police officer escorts a student away from the See PROTESTS Page 3 First Amendment Area. Papp addresses budget, facilities and parking Tiffani Reardon BUDGET past few years even with the rough really happens, we are still going to hybrid courses on Fridays and STAFF WRITER economy, Papp said. be okay,” Papp said. changing class schedules to offer Carolyn Grindrod “We are in relatively good Gov. Nathan Deal asked KSU one-third of classes on Mondays ARTS AND LIVING EDITOR shape for fiscal year 2012,” said and 34 other institutions in the FACILITIES and Wednesdays, one-third on Papp, commenting on this year’s University System of Georgia to Mondays and Fridays and one- President Daniel S. Papp budget. “The reason I say we’re in develop a budget reduction plan to Papp said KSU facilities are third on Wednesdays and Fridays. spoke to a crowded room relatively good shape is because cut 2 percent from the budget for “slammed.” This would allow more classes to be during the Student Government we have hired faculty that we have this fiscal year. Campus facilities are at about offered and could help with traffic Association’s Sept. 15 weekly tried to hire. We have also slightly This year’s KSU budget was built 100 percent capacity from Monday and parking problems, Papp said. meeting where he updated the expanded the number of staff we on a three percent reserve, which to Thursday, but only about 16 to KSU has seven building projects organization on the budget, have on board in student services puts it 5.2 percent ahead of what is 18 percent on Friday, Papp said. in the works, with three in the facilities and parking. and in other areas as well.” needed for the first two months of Papp said he would like to see construction phase. The student-faculty ratio, 29 to this fiscal year. the facilities used more on Fridays. 1, has remained the same over the “Even if the 2 percent budget cut He discussed offering more See PAPP Page 3 Educational discounts for KSU students* see store for details ipads • macs • ipods • software • service The Avenue West Cobb (near Barnes & Noble) • 678-384-8550 • peachmac.com 2 • KENNESAW STATE SENTINEL NEWS September 20, 2011 gasoline from one of the golf carts Lanier uses to patrol the campus. The man said he suspected someone had been taking gas at night for a few weeks, but had been unable to - Compiled by Christy Rogers confirm it. He also said that the previous night the golf cart had Not So Sunny Outlook exactly half of a tank of gas, but An officer was dispatched had less than one-fourth when he to the lobby of the police picked it up in the morning. The department on Sept. 1 at 7:34 camera monitoring the golf carts p.m. about a theft. The female appeared to have been redirected who met the officer told him away from the carts. The amount that she was taking a class in the of gas stolen is worth about $20. Burruss Building around 4:55 p.m. when she left to use the Gone in a Puff bathroom. When she returned, An officer was dispatched to she discovered that her black and the KSU Place apartments on pink Oakley Frogskin sunglasses Sept. 3 at 2:58 a.m. When he were missing. She said that her arrived he made contact with classmates did not see who the building’s RA who told him took them. The student said the that she had smelled marijuana sunglasses were a gift from a coming from one of the rooms. friend who passed away and were They knocked on the door and important to her. The sunglasses a male student answered. The are valued at $120. officer smelled marijuana and asked the student if he could Desperate Times enter the apartment. The student On Sept. 2 at 12:29 p.m. agreed, and the officer asked him an officer was dispatched to if he and two other students who the Central Parking Deck in were present had been smoking reference to a theft. He met with marijuana. He said that a friend a man from Lanier Parking who had been over and might have told him that sometime between been smoking. After searching 6:30 p.m. Sept. 1 and 10:30 the apartment, the officer found a.m. Sept. 2, someone removed no evidence of marijuana. September 20, 2011 NEWS KENNESAW STATE SENTINEL • 3 for a $3 million, 100 percent externally funded P ROTEST from Page 1 PAPP from Page 1 art museum, Papp said. When one of the SOAPA and not be judged or have to deal The current construction sites are the An addition to the Student Recreation and preachers shouted that lesbian, gay, with hatred,” said student Tamisha Laboratory Sciences Building, student housing Activity Center, an approximately $48 million bi-sexual and transgender students Askw, 19. “We are here. We are and the Sports and Recreation Park. facility, is also planned. Papp said that the are working their way straight to queer. Get used to it.” The Laboratory Sciences Building will be current gyms would still be available to students hell, students responded by chanting “I helped organize this because finished next summer and is currently under as they plan to annex onto the building. “Gay, straight, black, white, same from what I know, this is not an budget, Papp said. “It will have more basketball courts, more struggle, same fight,” and “We love issue of free speech but of hate New student housing is under construction racquetball courts, a climbing wall, indoor track, gays.” speech,” said student Joshua Katz, adjacent to University Place and will add 451 indoor and outdoor pools, all sorts of great “We do not really care about 27. “They are infringing on the residence halls, Papp said. This will expand stuff,” Papp said. results because that is between the civil rights of our own students. resident capacity to 3,650 beds and Papp said he A second culinary center construction project people and God,” said one of the It’s patently offensive. They’re hopes for the bed count to rise to 5,000. will begin May or June of 2012. “Our first one is SOAPA preachers when asked if advocating a return to life when Papp said he is hoping the next housing already overcrowded,” Papp said. he thought his preaching style was women could not vote and queer project will be a Greek village, but KSU does not Before any new buildings are approved, the effective. “Do you think Jonah was people were back in the closet. There currently have the funding. However, the new Board of Regents will conduct a detailed study nicer than us?” is a unity among students – even set of dorms that is being built may have themed of how much the facilities are being used, Papp The SOAPA preachers ignored students who affiliate with Christian floors for Greeks and other groups on campus. said. further questions in order to preach. churches. They do not feel like they The Sports and Recreation Park addition will “I think everyone should have are truly Christians.