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Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern The George-Anne Student Media 10-17-1995 The George-Anne Georgia Southern University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Georgia Southern University, "The George-Anne" (1995). The George-Anne. 1384. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne/1384 This newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Media at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in The George-Anne by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. BLUE EDITION 1 Tuesday, October 17,1995 Vol. 68, No. 26 The 4, ;> Lady Eagles win The Lady «• Eagles soccer team beat Florida Atlantic Georgia Southern University's Official Student Newspaper Statosboro, Georgia 30460 Founded 1927 3-1 Sunday. Please see story, page 6 Premiere raises money Homecoming selection BRIEFLY... The GSU chapter wmmrnmm^i process will not change *» Urinal falls off the wall in of Habitat for By John Munford Features Editor upset," Leavey said. 'The stu- Communication Arts Building Humanity will use dents should have the vote all L When a large number of to themselves. If homecoming By Melanie WeBberg proceeds to build GSU students booed the all- «. Assistant News Editor turns into a brawl, then we more houses black homecoming court at won't be able to have home- . I. A urinal in the men's bathroom in the halftime ,of last year's homecoming anymore. We'd just communication arts building fell off the By Ashley Hunt coming game, it showed that News Editor have a football game and that wall Thursday Oct. 5, leaving nearly two the election of homecoming would be it." inches of water in the hallway and block- Habitat for Humanity queen and king has become The homecoming commit- ... ing the front entrance to the building. doesn't just build houses, it what campus leaders are call- tee, made up of four black stu- "A guy came running out of the bath- also sponsors movie premieres. ing "a racial issue." dents and three white stu- room saying the urinal fell off," David The GSU chapter of Habitat Before Wednesday night's dents, voted in May to make Addington, head of communication arts, for Humanity sponsored the homecoming committee meet- the popular votes worth 50 said. Georgia premiere of "Now and ing, the committee decided to percent of each candidates' fi- It took the Physical Plant 20 minutes to Then," the movie that was make the selection of home- nal score. The interview por- arrive. filmed on location in Statesboro coming queen less a popularity tion was to be worth 30 per- "There was an awful long delay before and Savannah. contest and "a little more mean- cent, with the essay portion they got the water turned off," Addington "I asked permission to see if ingful" of an honor for the stu- comprising the final 20 per- said. we could sponsor it," said Leslie dent chosen, according to com- cent. Ronny Alderman, structural superin- Sharpe, executive director of mittee chairman W. Eric Dee Lockett, a black mem- tendent for the physical plant, did not Habitat for Humanity in Johnson. ber of the homecoming com- return several phone calls by press time. Bulloch County. "I thought it But after hearing student mittee, was one of the commit- 1 The cause of the incident is unknown, would be a good opportunity to criticisms of adding an inter- tee members who felt the es- I « as well as the reason for the Physical do a fund-raiser." view and essay portion to the say and interviewing ideas Plant's delay. Tickets were sold for $25 criteria for naming a queen, were bad from the start. The Physical Plant worked all day to and GSU Habitat for Human- the committee threw out their "Homecoming is not meant rectify the problem. The urinal is tempo- ity president Adam Focht esti- changes so the queen and king to divide GSU, but it is meant rarily repaired, but the wall board is not mated that about 400 were sold will be elected strictly by popu- to bring us together," Lockett yet replaced. for the premiere. lar vote. James Hill said. "But a lot of black women "This is the biggest fund- The committee said they didn't feel comfortable that Premiere movie-goers peruse pictures from location filmings at a Construction on Georgia raiser the student chapter has decided to revert to the old sys- they could do well on an essay reception hosted by Habitat for Humanity prior to the showing. Avenue delayed due to traffic ever had," he said. tem because their new qualifi- and interview." Three houses have been includingjam-the-jars. This is cations were not liked by a large Lockett also said students By Serra Johnsa program that all chapters are Staff Writer built so far in Bulloch county held during the week before involved in. Students spend a number of students on campus who complain about the past and the money raised by the homecoming where organiza- week on location building a who felt the rules were changed two homecoming queens be- The construction on Georgia Avenue premiere will be used to pay off tions around campus sponsor a house. because the past three home- ing black need to show up and which was scheduled to be completed last the debts incurred from jar for loose change that people This year, the GSU chapter coming queens at GSU have vote. month has been delayed due to traffic buliding the third house. drop in them, Focht said. is hoping to go to Beaufort, been black. "People feel if you didn't problems, said Shawn Driggers, supervi- Habitat for Humanity is an "Last year we raised almost N.C. Committee member Erin vote, that's your own problem," sor for the construction. organization that helps pro- a thousand dollars," he said. Focht isn't sure if the chap- Leavey said the committee Lockett said. 'There are only Driggers said the the construction vide housing for low-income 'We should get a lot this year." ter will have another big fund- wants to have a homecoming just over 2,000 black students i should be completed by the end of October. families. The GSU chapter The chapter is planning is a raiser like this one. where everybody could get on this campus, and if the other The project should be over in a couple of helps with fund-raisers and spring break trip to help build "The money that was made along, and that would not hap- 12,000 people came out to vote, weeks, he said, however, traffic is delaying volunteer support. a house. for the event went back into pen if the new selection crite- there's no way a black home- the completion of the project. Habitat is also planning This trip, called the Chal- the community," he said. ria were used. coming queen would be "Their are 15 people who are presently other fund-raisers this year lenge project, is a nationwide "We don't want people to be Please see CHANGES, page10 working on paving the road and the side- walks," Driggers said. Bike safety committee Housing says Pines gate installed WORD OF THE DAY discusses alternatives for security, students complain By Ashley Hunt and there is going to need to diurnation (di»er»NA»shun) n. the News Editor be more time between classes. .. habit of sleeping during the daytime Operating under the But we have to be realistic premise that there is an im- and look at things. We don't Source: Weird Words mediate safety concern, the have 15 minutes between SGA bike safety committee classes, and we don't have a proposed several alterna- transportation system. We 'BORO WEATHER tives last week to enforcebike have to allow people to get safety such as bike riders from point A to point B in the walking their bikes in high safest possible way." traffic areas and using ser- Brown suggested that vice officers to enforce bike there be certain areas on cam- safety during busy hours. pus where bike riders would SGA President Lee Hyer walk their bikes. recently agreed to open the "I think there are areas committee meetings to the that should be designated as student press. walking areas and if you want "We need to seek to pro- to walk your bike on them Today vide safety since there are no that's fine, but there are some Sunny with a high in the mid 70s. bike paths," said SGA presi- (areas) that are too congested dent Lee Hyer. "I think our to ridebikes,"he said. "I don't Wednesday concern is pedestrians. We want to ban bicycles from Partly cloudy with a high in the 70s to need to operate under the campus, but there are some lower 80s. premise of an immediate areas where they are not go- safety concern." ing to mix." John Munford George Shriver, a history Hyer also agreed with To avoid the need for hangtags to open the the Pines through the exit gate, which was just INDEX professor and member of the Brown that there are some entrance gate, some drivers have been entering one of the students' many complaints. committee, said he became areas that should be desig- By John Munford placed near the end of the A aware of a problem with nated for walking bikes only. sex Apartments), and other Features Editor building at the apartment com- Announcements 2 "renegade" bikers because of One of these, Hyer said, is security issues we had to ad- plex.

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