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Students get a taste of Celtic culture i NEWS,P.2 Editor speaks on Braves' streak I SPORTS, p. 7 Snack Attack Columnist offers different The Hiatus offers easy summer perspective on 'terrorism' Volume 79 I OPINION, p. 4 Number 18 snack suggestions | HIATUS, p.9 THE GEORGE DAILY THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2006 Centennial celebration New payment options coming in August By Jenny Miller An interest fee of 2.75% will be as- student account. Payments by cash Carol Payne, Bursar for the Geor- GSUs 100th Assistant News Editor sessed to the payment and added in Deal Hall and payments by check gia Institute of Technology said that to the amount charged on the card. in person or the mail will also still the transition has gone smoothly for birthday is this Starting August 1st, Georgia MasterCard and Discover have never be accepted. them. "Theintegrityofourprograms Southern will discontinue direct before been accepted on the Georgia "It is getting so expense to ac- is very important to our students, December acceptance of credit card payments Southern campus. cept credit cards, and we really payment trends shifted and the stu- for tuition, fees, meals and housing. • Georgia Southern will also be want to put the money from those dent simply wanted a convenient fee Brittany Hall Due to the growing expenses of ac- offering WebCheck as a payment transactions back into academic payment method...it was relatively Assistant news editor cepting credit cards, students and method. This is a free payment programs and student services that a non-event for our campus," said parents can no longer pay by credit process that will be by electronic will benefit everyone on campus," said Payne. December 1,2006 marks the 100th card in person, but with the new check from a checking or savings Deborah Powell, director of revenue Online fee payments have become birthday of Georgia Southern Univer- online payment options that will be account. accounting. more popular and because the web sity and brings many presents to the made available. This change will not apply to any Other universities, such as Geor- payment options are through a third university, including a research project There will be two new ways to other payments made to campus gia Tech, the University of Georgia party, it will make the transactions and talk of a new residence hall. make payments to the university. A such as the University bookstore, and Georgia State have already dis- more secure. Delma E. Presley, director of third party vendor, TouchNet, will Eaglexpress, Parking and Transporta- continued using certain credit cards For more information about this narratives of the GSU museum and Grayson Hoffman/STAFF offer their PayPath Tuition Service tionandon-campusdininghalls. The and are opting for programs similar new policy, contact the Office of professor emeritus, was asked by Dr. A student employee swipes a credit for payments made by American alteration will affect charges that are to the ones that Georgia Southern Student Revenue Collection at (912) Bruce Grube to commemorate the card at the bookstore on campus. Express, MasterCard and Discover. currently appearing on the WINGS will be using. 871-1265. past century of history, trends and peoples perspectives on the univer- sity and capsulate it in an elegant 300-page-hard-cover volume, "The Southern Century -Georgia Southern Atlanta Symphony Orchestra University 1906-2006." Presley has researched GSU for three years collecting manuscripts, comes to Georgia Southern pictures, books and letters from students, alumni and past university presidents. Presley came across letters By Ellen Eklund formed at many prestigious festivals, tors in the early stages of their profes- written by former presidents talking Staff writer including the Kfar Blum Chamber sional careers. Jackson completed about crisis situations they dealt with Music Festival in his native Israel. her doctoral studies in orchestral along with letters with kudos of good The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Laufer is a founding member of conducting at the University of development. will play a concert at the Performing the Emory Chamber Music Society" Michigan. She has served as a guest "The unique quality about this Arts Center on Thursday, June 29 of Atlanta and has collaborated in conductor for performances with the edition is that it merges the history at 7:30 p.m. The orchestra travels chamber music with Yo-Yo Ma, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the and the people at the university and across the state not only to entertain, Sadao Harada and Alan Gilbert. Alabama Symphony Orchestra and depicts their reactions at that time," but to enhance music education as The ASO performs more than the University of Michigan Sym- said Presley. well. The ASO will feature cellist 200 concerts each year, with its phony Orchestra. "This book is about the presidents Daniel Laufer and will include works main program expanded by pops The ASO, performing now for (of the university) as well as the fac- by Aleksandr Borodin, Camille series, family concerts and a full 62 years, has an interesting history, ulty, staff and students and how they Saint-Saens and Piotr Ilyich Tchai- summer schedule. The orchestra beginning with its first conductor reacted to issues such as racial and kovsky. Tickets for the concert are also performs educational concerts Henry Sopkin, who developed the gender equality and warfare." $30 plus tax per person and all seats for students. Along with outreach ensemble over two decades into In Presley's research, he relied on are reserved. programs in schools and community a respected regional orchestra. In the cooperation of alumi to submit Laufer has been the ASO's. as- centers, the orchestra serves over 1967, Robert Shawbecame the music stories of their time at GSU, good or sociate principal cellist since 1991. 50,000 students each year. director and built the ASO into an bad, and to his good fortune, he has Born in Israel, he started playing The ASO launched many out- orchestra of international acclaim. received a good response. the instrument at age 11 and studied reach partnerships that take the Since 2001, the ASO has been led "Just the other day I received an with his father, Wolfgang Laufer, who orchestra's musicians, individu- by music director Robert Spano and email from a 1954 graduate from plays the cello for the Fine Arts Quar- ally or in groups, into the schools principle guest conductor Donald Waycross, GA named China Altman tet. Laufer toured where children would most likely Runnicles. The new leadership that was telling me about interracial Europe and never meet a professional musician. created a greater emphasis on con- Grayson Hoffman/STAFF meetings she attended when Geor- performed Most of the ASO's players regularly temporary repertoire and projects gia Southern was still the Teacher's with the Dal- volunteer their time for these activi- with a variety of composers. Dingus Magee's bartender Bill Greenwald, left, stands with the checks' College," said Presley. "She actually las Symphony ties, in partnership with local school In 2002, the Atlanta Chapter of real owner, Dingus cook Hubble Beasley. became the first female journalist Orchestra be- systems, arts centers, libraries and the Recording Academy presented hired at the Reporter Associated fore joining other organizations. one of the first Hero Awards to the Press. It's interesting to see where the ASO. He "They are extremely respected ASO for its impact on the community Dingus employees checks people end up." gave recitals in the music world," said Albert and the world's stage. Given by the The book is just one way the in Boston, Pertalion, director of the PAC, "This National Academy of Recording Arts university is "commemorating the Chicago and is a kind of music that will encourages and Sciences, the ASO earned rec- bounce around the bar centennial. With the growth of the Milwaukee, and lifts you up." ognition for their music education university's population, a new resi- and per- Laura Jackson, conductor, came and artistic achievements. Man arrested for buying friends drinks dence hall is in the making tentatively to the ASO as a member of the In October 2005, the ASO won planned be ready for residents for American Conducting Fellows two Grammy Awards, bringing their with cooks stolen checks fall 2009. Program, a national conduc- total to 15 Grammy statuettes for With names of the new residence tor-training program managed the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra halls being brainstormed, several sug- by the American Symphony and Chorus, plus eight additional Compiled by staff "(Minor) was with five to six gestions have hinted towards Centen- Orchestra League. They support awards for soloists and engineers on friends and buying shots for them nial Plaza or other forms coining the the musical and leadership ASO recordings. A 21 -year-old man was arrested and having fun 'till he was caught word centennial to honor 100 years development of conduc- "We hope to have a great perfor- after trying to buy drinks with a and started crying," said Green- of excellence. mance in Statesboro andhopepeople checkbook he found at Dingus wald.