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For more information, please contact [email protected]. established 1927 Official Student Newspaper of Georgia Southern University GEOR Wednesday Sports: Danna Simpson becomes 15th Eagle to join 1,000 point club Volume 74, No. 52 January 30,2002 Page 6 www.stp.gasou.edu ON THE INSIDE: Career Services _ Dr. Lee Berger, world-famous offers a wide range r OOTPRINTS OF MAN: anthropologist and GSU of student help By Jenni Ginepri graduate speaks in COB A [email protected] George-Anne For those students who are hav- ^F By Tim Prizer gamed @ gasou.edu ing trouble deciding on a major or Covering the campus like a profession, Career Services may swarm of gnats "By looking to Africa and recog- have the answer. They offer a va- nizing past and present trends in that riety of opportunities to help stu- I Today's Weatbet continent," paleoanthropologist Dr. dents during their college experi- Lee Berger said in his lecture at GSU ence. Friday, "we can come to understand "Let us help you," said acting and predict what will occur in the assistant director Amy Williams. Partly cloudy rest of the world." with a high of "We have lots of really good ser- A now world-famous vices for all students. We encour- 80° F and a low paleoanthropologist, Dr. Berger of60°F. age freshman to come in early so graduated from GSU in 1989 with a we can start working with them." Bachelor's degree in Anthropology But what many students may before studying at Vanderbilt Uni- not know is all the different areas versity in Nashville, TN and at East Career Services can help college Only in America Georgia College. He then received students in. his PhD at the University of. "I never knew we had a career • Reptile theft is on the rise in New Witwatersrand ("where the white center," said Mike Brown. "Being Hampshire. waters fall") in Johannesburg, South a freshman, you don't know ev- Africa. • An Oregon judge rules against a erything that a school has to offer. one-armed driver. Berger's greatest accomplish- But since I am undeclared, I think ment to date, and one of the biggest • 'Tacky' Mr. Potato Head statue I might go and see what they can is welcomed back to Rhode Island. ever in the world of do to help me." paleoanthropology, was his 1997 FINDING THE FOOTSTEPS OF EARLY MODERN HUMANS: Dr. Lee Roger Berger, a former GSU Williams feels their best re- Page 3 discovery of fossilized footprints student and now world-famous paleoanthropologist spoke in the COB A building Friday about the evolution of source is, "personalized career along Langebaan Lagoon about 60 humankind. He focused on the signifigance of the African continent and his findings of the 117,000 year-old advising, career choices, intern- Opinions: _ miles north of Cape Town, South footprints of Homo Sapiens in South Africa. For this accomplishment, he was awarded the first National ships and to help students find Africa. The footprints, which have Geographic Exploration Award. • Adam Brady visits the jungle jobs. We try to be student centered been determined to be the oldest that is the Health Center. in the office." traces of modern humans (Homo • Justin Johnson concludes that sentation held in the COBA build- ment." The giant continent is com- to so many early forms of life, in- One area that is helpful to stu- Sapiens), have been dated to ap- •Procrastination is not your ing, it was stressed that from the monly considered the birthplace of cluding all of the bipedal homi- dents is career information. It is an proximately 117,000 years ago. friend, my friend.' beginning of time, Africa has been humankind, but many do not un- nids. Simply, the massive size of area that allows students to learn The imprints left by these trav- not only the largest Africa is precisely the reason life more about their specific career C Page 4 elers are distinctively of modern Hominids land mass on the began there, Dr. Berger asserted. choice. They offer employee in- humans in that they reveal the big through time planet, but perhaps the Africa's dominance as one-third of formation by allowing students to toe, ball, arch and heel clearly on Sports most significant as all the habitable land mass on use books, videotapes and files each foot. This distinguishes them well. • The Lady Eagles Basketball C ilia Earth is significant mainly be- within the Career Resource Cen- from the footprints of early bipedal team rolls over the App. State Berger explained tor comparison... cause of its equatorial posi- ter better known as the CRC. hominids found at Laetoli in Tan- that not only is our Mountaineers Monday night in tion. With plenty of "When I was applying for an zania which have been dated to own species a prod- Hanner Fieldhouse, 82-61. J* land north, south, east internship, I was not familiar with over six million years ago. i uct of the continent 5^P f"{i\ and west of the equa- some of the companies. I came to This find has led Berger to be- so large that North IfesSIs "~" tor, Berger stressed, Career Services to learn more lieve that the footprints may be America, South Africa is a sort of can- about what each company had to those of "Eve," who to America and Eu- vas on which innu- offer. Everyone was extremely paleoanthropologists is a hypotheti- rope could all merable life forms are helpful and the company I chose I cal female who lived in Africa be- squeeze into it with splattered brilliantly never would have if I did not use tween 100,000 and 300,000 years room to spare, but throughout its diverse the resources that were available ago. Anthropologists have also that Africa contin- environments. Existing to me through the career center," come to believe that not only were ues to pave the way in Africa are all but one of said Jenny Williams. homo Sapiens (and all other forms for the rest of man- Earth's biosystems, and Graduate school is another area of life) born on the African conti- kind. therefore, more species of life where students can learn more nent, but that each of us have de- The view of than on any other continent. about in Career Services. They scended from one common African Africa from outer space, which derstand how anthropologists ar- "Recent Early Man Discoveries have specific software that is de- Page 6 female, "Eve." served as Dr. Berger's first slide in rived at this conclusion. signed to help students look for In "Recent Early Man Discov- the presentation, is what he calls It is no coincidence, Berger ex- Features eries in Africa," Dr. Berger's pre- the "epitome of human achieve- plained, that Africa would be home See Footprints, Page 10 See Career, Page 5 ' With the late arrival of financial aid checks, there are ways to help save money. GSU Habitat for Humanity chapter holds • Herbal remedies are being found President Bush warns nation in , to cure more health problems. groundbreaking for building of second home his first State of the Union address "9 Page 8 KRT Campus not be finished on our watch, yet it JTUTS WASHINGTON - President Bush must be and it will be waged on our used his first State of the Union ad- watch." AEntertainment dress Tuesday night to paint a grave Enormously popular as he begins , ' National touring act, Better and sobering picture of the potential his second year in office, Bush deliv- '? Than Ezra will rock Legends dangers facing the United States and ered a 48-minute wartime speech to tonight. vowed to fight try to set the • Psychological thriller, "The them head-on. ^""^^""* tone for the ■• Shining,' continues to thrill The presi- "AS WE GATHER coming months American audiences. dent appeared and years, to resolute as he TONIGHT, OUR NATION rally the nation informed the behind him for public there are IS AT WAR, OUR what could be a likely "tens of ECONOMY IS IN long and unpre- thousands" of dictable battle terrorists still at RECESSION AND THE against a differ- large, that they ent kind of en- have fanned out CIVILIZED WORLD emy. around the FACES UNPRECEDENTED The presi- globe, that they dent never men- » were found to DANGERS. tioned Osama have diagrams bin Laden, the of American PRESIDENT BUSH Saudi-born fu- nuclear power ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ gitive who is Allison Bennett/STAFF plants and wa- considered the BREAKINGGROUNDFORHTJMA^ITY:TheGSUchapterofHabitatforHumamtyheldagroundbreaking ter facilities and that they are seeking mastermind of the Sept. 11 attack on Saturday, symbolically marking the building of the organization's second home. weapons of mass destruction. America. But much of his speech "We'll be deliberate, yet time is grew out of that day. By Mathew R. Palmer pleted its first home last year on various organizations, another home [email protected] not on our side," Bush declared in his "We can't stop short," Bush said.