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Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern The George-Anne Student Media 8-26-2014 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" (2014). The George-Anne. 2848. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne/2848 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]. Tuesday, August 26,2014 Georgia Southern University THE www.thegeorgeanne.com Volume 89'Issue 13 GEORGE-ANNE ARRESTED? WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW • "We're comfortable, we should be comfortable with our freedoms, but we don't think about what happens when those freedoms are taken away." -Michael Russell Director of Public Safety 2 Tuesday, August 26, 2014 The George-Anne ARE YOU INTERESTED IN EVENT PLANNING, SALES, ADVERTISING, OR LOGISTICS? REPORTER TRYOUTS: STUDENT LED FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: STUDENT WILLIAM PRICE, THE GEORGE-ANNE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MEDIA [email protected] JEFF LICCIARDELLO, MAGAZINE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF STUDENT READ [email protected] OPINIONS ©GeorgeAnne www.thegeorgeanne.com Tuesday, August 26, 2014 Beat the heat in the 'Boro Letter to the Editor Statesboro has been heating up! Temperatures this week are going ^. Find a pool now or do the This week I experienced mild astonishment at the sight of a to be extremely high. Dealing with Ice Bucket Challenge. Anything that gentleman well-seasoned in years resting at the bus stop used heat can be a hassle, so here are allows water to hit your skin is a especially for East Georgia State College students. It was an odd sight. some ways to battle this influx of godsend. I observed and learned he was there to distribute the latest issue of sunshine. The George-Anne. I found previous editions of The George-Anne disturbing for a few 5. Avoid walking places at all reasons. One issue in particular published in the spring of 2013 was ERINN WILLIAMS I. Please drink water. You will costs. especially repulsive. I took the position of-never taking my time to The George-Anne staff regret only drinking alcohol and read another. Then, you sent your person out to hand a copy to each soda when you make that trek to the student.. .impressive. After perusing the front page, my curiosity was Education Building. 6. Remember that time in stoked; Williams is a junior writing and middle school that we discovered Thank.you for NacMa Dreid's cover story dealing with religion; linguistics and French double major that thing called "deodorant?" Lets for James Woodall's piece on the respect that Black men deserve; for from Winston. She is the current L. itst's getting really hot in here bring that back. There is nothing Editor-in-Chief, William Price's refreshing "submission announcing opinions editor. and while you should definitely not worse than being cramped into a a new intent for The George-Arine; for Erinn Williams's enticement take off all your clothes because of classroom filled with sweaty, musty to submit "...views from.. .every walk of life, every race; religion and public nudity laws, you can get close. people. class standing." Even my twenty-three year old gaming Bucknell Wear the smallest amount of clothes graduate son might find interest in Michelle Norsworthy's interview you can. Let it all hang out. Some with Esaias Hobbs on Eagle Smash. people may not approve of your 7. Find your way to an A/C Keep up the great work you are all doing. I appreciate each of wardrobe but haters gonna hate. It's vent and lay your body over it and you responsible for The George-Anne. Thank you. Please accept my too hot for you to care. indulge like you are lost in the desert gratitude for the promise I now have of looking forward to this paper and have found an oasis. each week. ■Iris Frison-Wim'bush, sophomore, international business major, 3 Tone down some of your Fort Lauderdale, Fla. make-up. Yeah, sure that contouring 8. Don't exercise outside. Use has you channeling Beyonce, but the RAC or a local gym. A fit body is when that sunlight hits your face cute but you know what's not cute? and your eyebrows melt onto your Heat stroke. shirt, it's going to be a major fashion faux pas. Core classes costing students more In America thirty years ago, all astronomy, geography or any other cannot run without money.lt is just classes seems to be a huge turnoff you would have to do to pay for classes that don't pertain to what I wrong to sap students for all you and demoralizer. School would be college was obtain a summer job. want to do in life. can by forcing them to take classes much less stressful if we were able Today, you have to go thousands Why ' do our universities they don't even need. to get right into what we wanted to CHARLES RUDISON of dollars in debt to even afford to require us to take unnecessary We took all the core classes we do with our lives instead of trying attend school. classes? The answer is to make needed to take in high school. It to figure out what the answer to Rudison is a sophomore, pre-business With the rising costs of tuition, money. Universities are ultimately is unnecessary for us to take those y=mx+b is. We should be able to major from Chicago. books and housing, students are businesses. Their goals are the same same classes again. go to all the classes we need, get beginning to wonder why college as any business, to make money and Not only would cutting out our degrees, and get out. Adding is so expensive, and to top it off maximize profits. unnecessary prerequisite classes unnecessary classes is futile. schools are requiring us to take The more classes we take, the help out our pockets, but it would Some core classes are needed classes that have nothing to do with more money the university receives. be a big morale boost and help for certain majors, those things are our field. If we were only required to take some students actually want to stay understandable. It is just beyond When I applied to Georgia classes that were associated with in school. foolish to force a finance major to take Southern I signed up to major in our fields we would only be here for For all my fellow impatient geography, and to force a engineering marketing. I didn't sign up to take two years at the most. Universities students the foreplay of prerequisite major to take astronomy. Page designed by Kate Rakoczy To contact the opinions editor, email [email protected]. Mmmmmmmmmmmm 4 Tuesday, August 26, 2014 Opinions The George-Anne Straight white male privilege never been racist myself, I certainly stood by Hey. I'm Will. I'm a privileged, straight while other privileged straight white men said present, sometimes-cumbersome privilege. white male who grew up in one of the most terrible things about Black people and Hispanic That was hard to admit. I quickly redirected difficult places in the nation to overcome people in my own town. I watched my religion my anger and set out to find ways to help. poverty: Jefferson County. Only recently have alienate homosexuals- a groug of people who I truly come to terms with what that means. would become some of my most cherished The best, and often most difficult thing to company in college. do is to stand up and not participate when By "privileged," I mean that I grew up in a you see privilege happening. If your friend middle-class family where money was never Through all of this, I DID NOTHING. is telling a girl how much he'd like to "pee really a problem. By "privileged," I mean a Nobody ever told me shit like this was in her butt," it's perfectly appropriate to lot of the appalling things my younger self intolerable, so I just lived innocently and call him an asshole. If they say something did were shoved under the carpet primarily ignorantly within the "Good of Boy" excuse, racist, tell them it isn't OK. Apologize to the because of my skin color and the fact that my and learned from the adults that I thought person they have offended on their behalf. family was well-respected in the community. understood how the world worked. Reprimand them in whatever way you deem appropriate, just make sure they know that That privilege became the bane of my I'm here to tell you, straight white males: you don't think what they're doing is OK. existence this past summer. I hated it. I hated That shit is intolerable. looking around at a racist, masochistic culture Things like culture don't change that people just like me created. A culture that If that makes you angry, good. It made me overnight, but this is the future of your WILL PEEBLES only people just like me can easily thrive in. angry too. It made me feel like the world was nation. You don't have to be ashamed of just looking for somewhere to leave the blame, how you were born, even if you were born I became ashamed of my race, my sexual and straight white males are an easy target.