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Established 1927 The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia Southern University Geor V75#27 j 1111iiiiiiiiiiii GrgeAn092502 k www.sstp.gasou.edu 1 Hour Reserve(ln Library Use) RECEIVED ■ 1 Ho SEP 2 5 2002 JuvfKU HENDERSON LIBRARY September25,2oST Sports: All nine SoCon teams play this weekend Volume 75, No. ^ Page6 ON THE INSIDE: Identity fraud New chancellor visits GSU cases hitting By Angela Jones [email protected] close to home Thomas Meredith, the new By Michelle Flournoy chancellor of the University Sys- mlf21 @ hotmail.com tem of Georgia, was the honored Covering the campus like a guest at a reception welcoming Television sets and computers aren't the only things being stolen swarm of gnats him to GSU yesterday at the Ne- smith-Lane Continuing Education around Statesboro. building. The number of identity theft Today's Weather The visit is part of the chancel- and identity fraud cases is steadily lor's tour of the 34 institutions that growing. make up the University System of Chatham County police Georgia. released information last week Showers with a "If I had to name one thing I about Denise Janice Brown,42, highof80°Fand hope to accomplish during my who is a suspect in a series of alowof69°F. term as chancellor, it would be identity fraud cases in the Cha- to increase the academic quality tham County. Brown is still on that is underway in the university the loose, according to Sergeant system schoo1 s, and also to increase Mike Wilson of the Chatham the efficiency of our operations," County Police Department. Opinions Meredith said. "We are hopeful that Brown High-level deans and vice- is still in the area," Wilson said. "Normally, when we circulate • Arch-nemeses of column- presidents of the school, along photos apprehension follows writing, Amanda Permenter with select faculty and student shortly after. There are probably and Adam Brady, hash it out in representatives were at the recep- more cases than we know of." black and white. tion to welcome the new chancellor on his first tour of GSU. A lot of people are unaware that their identity has been sto- • War against Iraq: Why and "I think Georgia Southern is len until they start getting state- why now? on an upward path in all areas; academically and in terms of ap- ments, Wilson said, noting that pearance," Meredith said. "The they have seen a significant rise campus is beautiful, and the new in identity fraud in the Chatham Page 4 f buildings going up are both lovely County area. and functional. It's an outstanding "We are promoting vigilance," institution on the move, under the he said. "We are going out into Sports great leadership of Dr. Grube." the community and letting people Meredith is a native of Ow- know that this is out there." ensboro, Ky. From 1988 to 1997 Sergeant Thomas Williams of • Women's soccer takes a 5-0 loss he served as president at Western the Statesboro Police Department to UGA away from home. Kentucky University after serving said that Statesboro has not seen as vice chancellor for executive af- the amount of identity fraud cases fairs at the University of Missis- that Chatham County has, but the sippi for four years. "numbers are on the rise. Meredith received B .A. degrees Williams said that last year in social studies and history from* one case was reported. In Kentucky Wesleyan College, as 2002, there have already been well as an M.A. in education ad- 4 cases. Special Photo ministration and supervision from "We have had two really Western Kentucky University. He Recently appointed chancellor of the University System of Georgia Thomas Meredith spoke at the Nes- big cases in Statesboro," said smith-Lane building during a tour of the 34 schools constituting the system. The highly qualified Meredith See Meredith, Page 3 voiced aspirations for his term as chancellor and expressed positive feelings about GSU in his speech. See Identity, Page 2 Page 6 Cell phones safer Renovations at Olliff Hall Features than once believed plod on beyond deadlines By Laura Porte In the US A, there are around 35 By Angela Jones • Poverty levels are up for the laura_porte @ hotmail.com [email protected] first time since 1993. million cellular phones in use, but Cell phones are safer than there is no law prohibiting the use In response to student re- • Jerimiah Freed debuts with a people tend to believe, ac- of cell phones while driving. quests for cable and internet ac- % revitalizing rock album. cording to a study conducted The survey conducted by cess in their dorm rooms, GSU by the Automobile Association AAA found that outside distrac- plans to update one residence hall of America's Traffic Safety tions cause more accidents than each summer. Foundation. chatting on a cell phone: Things were humming mer- • Outside distractions, such as rily along when Johnson and Page 8 The study contradicts the belief that cell phones cause eye-catching advertisements or Watson were updated, but when many car accidents, and also eyeing another accident, caused they got to Olliff, the $ 1.3 million share a link with the cause of 19.7 percent of car accidents. renovation plans went bonkers. ;ase Arts brain tumors. • Eating and drinking were next, "This has been an extremely tion The Federal Communica- at 18.8 percents, followed by fid- frustrating process for us," said ^Entertainment tions Commission estimates dling with the car audio system, Vickie Hawkins, director of Uni- ibe that nationwide, 61 percent at 11.4 percent. versity Housing. "We started on ccal •After setbacks last season, 'The of 18-to24-year olds carry cell • Chatting with other passen- this back in May, and it has taken West Wing' is back for another phones. With so many people gers came next at 9.4 percent, much, much longer than we ever and year of great television. using cell phones, it is aconcern and then trying to retrieve loose expected." *ed. with how safe they really are. objects rolling about the car at Late parts, partially as- xins Researchers have collected 3.2 percent. sembled equipment and missed ,ac- evidence that points to the • Cell phone use ranked next, contract deadlines have turned :oes. possibility of an increase in accounting for a mere 1.5 percent routine: renovations into a rain- car accidents due to driving of car accidents. nightmare of constant noise now and talking on a cell phone. The survey was based on and inconveniences, according Countries such as Portugal 26,000 North Carolina police to some residents. just *ar..vw » « m ff i mr have banned the use of mobiles, reports complied from 1995 to "There's all kinds of noise, gitis THE WEST WING and Italy, Poland, Switzerland, 1999. going on now," said Ramona uire. Slovenia, Hungary, and Spain "I think that using a cell phone Davis. "I wake up at 9 a.m. some require motorists to use hand mornings to them drilling, and ning Page 10 aned free sets. See Phones, Page 2 since Olliff has no carpeting, isses the noise just reverberates re- ally bad. I mean, my whole bed Renovations at sgina was shaking from it." Olliff Hall have outhern Vince Romanini, assistant taken months longer than ex- rida, director of University Hous- Events pected. Among to be ing, met with more than 30 LECTURE the incomplete ation Olliff residents on Monday to Norman Fries Distinguished address their concerns, listen tasks is the in- stallation of new re. David Oreck to their complaints and deliver nake air-conditioning Nes smith-Lane Continuing- updates on the status of the units, which were Education Building ;s. renovation. sent improperly September 26. 6:30 p.m. hat it Tops on the resident com- assembled with- men, BOTANICAL GARDEN plaint lists were the noise from out an important ttwo • Plant Swap drilling arid other work being component of air Botanical Garden Adam Boimer/STAFF regulation. to be September 28.10 a.c Freshman Tripp Bishop pauses to take a cell phone call on campus. See Olliff, Page 8 m By" Page 2 - Wednesday, September 25, 2002 Illegal cable hookups PHONES, FROM PAGE 1 Police Beat while you are driving is less safe GSU Police Dept. than not using one, but if you are go- Editor's Note: Police Beat irk Northland Cable 9-23-2002 ing to ban cell phones, how can you • A North Main Street resident rcjppjjeds ., appears^ every edition of the not ban CD players or other things Bulloch County's sole cable television provider says most cases his driver's license was missing fteWiv " GeargerAnhe jn an effort to inform the GSU community of the amount of cable theft occur in apartments around Georgia Southern that cause distractions?" said Jef- the Recreation Activities Center. fery Joiner, a senior finance major, • A Dorman Hall resident reported and nature of crime. All reports are public information and can be who's owned a cell phone since he someone damaged the roof and a door on By Jerel Watkins that she did not feel that this justifies obtained at either the GSU Division [email protected] was 16.