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Covering the campus like a swarm of gnats The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia Southern University FOOTBALL n&E Locals help to save destitute animals Page 6A PREVIEW See how the Eagles fare > in a review of SoCon Football 2003 Section B GSU NEWS CUPS Commission created to save scholarship Latino Outreach after ten years of supporting education Presents Lecturer KEEPING Father Roy Bourgeois By Brandon Sparks [email protected] By Brittany Gates The HOPE Scholarship has spent more than $2.5 billion for 700,000 Georgia students [email protected] since it was created in 1993, but now the program is in danger. Father Roy Bourgeois is an activist priest, This year the General Assembly released reports that showed a possibility that the a revolutionary worker, and a Vietnam vet- number of recipients and may begin using up all of the funds that rollover into the lot- eran that has been imprisoned in Bolivia and tery reserve fund. Currently the state keeps roughly $200 million in a lottery reserve the United States for protesting against the fund, but estimates show that within six years that too may be obsolete. According to government in both countries. a published statement by the Senate Information Office "If current trends continue, He spoke to a packed audience in the the Georgia Lottery Commission will not raise enough revenues to allow all students Nesmith-Lane Building last Friday about meeting current criteria to use the HOPE Scholarship for tuition, books, and fees." the atrocities committed by the School Of -*«*/ When HOPE was a first established only student from households earning less than $60,000 a Americas (SOA) located in Fort Benning, year were allowed to receive the scholarship. Now HOPE scholars tend to be middle or upper GA. class. When the program was initially introduced the scholarship only paid for tuition fees Bourgeois started protesting against the and books. Over the years, athletic and activities fees were added. school after it trained soldiers from El Sal- See HOPE, Page 12A vador, some of in who were later involved in the killing of eight people in a Jesuit school ALIVE in the same country. This year, Bourgeois believes he will have about 9,000 protestors to join him at Fort SOUNDING OFF SGA begins year Benning on November 22 and 23. They will carry coffins, white crosses, and pictures of victims in a solemn, funeral-type march. The low down on cell phones with action Bourgeois wants students to question U.S. foreign policy and to become informed Luke M. Hearn By Brandon Sparks [email protected] of other countries' history because "the [email protected] greatest enemy is ignorance." "Turn off your damn phones" is what many professors want for A new semester has begun and the executive board students to do in their classes. of the SGA has already started to make changes on Community Agency Fair But despite their wishes to have a class free of the annoying campus. sounds of cell phone ringers, there is always at least one individual Student Government Association (SGA) works as offers volunteer who doesn't have the decency to at least put their's on silent mode the liaison for students, faculty and staff to the admin- opportunities - most phones have convenient shortcuts. istration. They are also responsible for using more than Although there are no actual statistics for the number of students $40,000 to support student organizations on campus. who use cell phones here on campus, one could safely assume that SGA President Reggie Brown has already managed to By Locke Hamilton communicate the concerns of students to Parking and [email protected] the usage here on campus is on the high side. Whether you're sitting at Lakeside having a burger, waiting outside a classroom, Transportation. Parking and Transportation then began August 26 afforded a special opportunity hanging out in the Union, or studying in the library, there is more allowing the University Store to allow students to pay to Georgia Southern students to meet and than likely someone within your close vicinity that is using their for the parking permits with the financial aid that they get involved in several local organizations cell phone. use at the bookstore to pay for their textbooks. that require volunteers. We have become a culture very dependent on these devices and as He has also asked Public Safety to station a uniformed Organizations such as Habitat for Hu- officer in front of Landrum to help ease the traffic prob- manity, Keep Bulloch Beautiful, American See Phones, Page 12A Photo Illustration lem, that has been growing over the past few years. Cancer Society, Boys and Girls Club, Center Brown says "we are here to bring student,govern- for Wildlife, the American Red Cross, and ment to the students, and to get them more interested the Statesboro Food Bank were present. in the concerns that they may have about how we are Volunteering allows students to get a doing our job." feel for what a real career is like, and also it Powertel sues the City of Statesboro With the help of the Deans throughout campus, SGA provides the students with real world ap- By Luke M. Hearn has bought six glass kiosks to allow the students to see plications. Volunteer hours on a resume also [email protected] the issues that will affect them. The kiosks will be at the capture the attention of many companies College of Business Administration, The Carroll, Hollis, Powertel vs. the City of Statesboro is a case that is currently looking to hire college graduates. Education Buildings, as well as the Russell Union, and pending in a Federal Court. This case is the product of the company According to the Director of Volunteer Henderson Library. Powertel's plans to put up a cell phone tower on the property of St. Services Victoria Du Ree', if a student gradu- SGA is made up of five executive officers, and cur- Matthew's Catholic Church being voted down by the Statesboro ates with over two hundred volunteer hours, rently forty-five senators. SGA is currently looking for City Council. The tower, which is designed to look like a bell tower, GSU will supply the student with a special five more senators to fill the spots added by the creation would help manage the call load that the two towers already in transcript that docments all of their volun- of the new College of Information Technology. In the place here in town are having a hard time handling. teer experiences. This transcript is a very SGA Constitution, Article 2 Section B line 1: states" There St. Matthew's Catholic Church is now zoned as residential prop- desirable document that many companies shall be a total number of five senators from each College Ryan Moore/STAFF erty. The city's zoning ordinances do not forbid towers from being look for when reviewing applications. at Georgia Southern." Those senators that ran under the St. Matthew's Catholic Church is the proposed site of See Powertel, Page 12A See SGA, Page 5A GSU Senior leads a cellular tower to be built by Powertel. effort to raise funding for cancer patient Battling the Bug GSU Student Organization Fair undeterred by heat By David Goodyear By Adam Crisp [email protected] [email protected] 01MQJL1ll1fi<Uin00i Sweat and success mingled together as nearly Instead of loudly roaring along strips of forty student organizations and a multitude of lo- rural highways, looking for trouble in what- cal businesses set up booths for Georgia Southern ever city lies ahead, the Christian Motorcycle University's annual Student Organization Fair at Association, with nearly 85,000 members By Brittany Gates the Russell Union's Rotunda. [email protected] nationwide, is delivering the message of their The event, organized by the Student Activities God at whatever venue and whenever the The Sobig virus turned out not to be so big on GSU's network Center, gives all interested campus organizations need arises. these past few weeks. the opportunity to showcase their specialties and A recent fundraiser at Statesboro's The virus dumped tons of emails containing copies of itself in show the student body just what they're all about mall is just the type of event the CMA many of the servers housing GSU's email accounts, causing major - and the spectrum is very broad. On one end, regularly lends their name to. An all-day slowdown on sites such as WINGS as many tried to register during the Baptist Student Union and Trinity Episcopal event, held at the mall Saturday, August the first week of classes. Church's Canterbury Club were available forthose 23, was organized to raise money for the Faculty and staff were also victims, receiving a large amount interested in religious groups. A short walk from family of BenjiFarrow,a3-year-old recently of the Sobig emails. Fran Aultman, administrative secretary the Rotunda lead to Habitat for Humanity and • diagnosed with Burkett's Lymphoma, a rare for the Department of History, said that she received emails the Fencing Club, and organizations like Omicron form of cancer.