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Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern The George-Anne Student Media 6-26-2002 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" (2002). The George-Anne. 3009. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne/3009 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]. Established 1927 The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia Southern University Wednesday A&El 'The Dangerous Life of Altar Boy s'starsCulkin,Hirsch Volume 75, No. 13 June 26,2002 Page 9 www.stp.gasou.edu ON THE INSIDE: m Fulmer takes promotion,! Student loan interest relocates to Troy State By Doug Kidd [email protected] rates hit record low Hal Fulmer will step down as chair of the Communication Arts Dcpt. July 3 in order to take a similar position at Troy State. Covering the campus like a A search committee to fill Fulmer's position will be formed in the coming] swarm of gnats weeks, said Katherine Conway-Turner, head of the College of Liberal Arts anc Social Sciences. In the meantime, Conway-Turner will look to select a senioi jhAiyft Weather faculty member as acting chair. "It's a great department and I'm sure we'll have people who will step up," she said. Partly cloudy "YOU'RE NEVER Fulmer, al4-year veteran of Georgia with a high of Southern, said he was looking forward to SURPRISED WHEN 84°F and a low the challenge of his new job, although he of69°F. TALENTED PEOPLE did not actively seek the dean of College of Communications and Fine Arts MOVE ON." position at the Alabama school. "Someone nominated me," Fulmer - KATHERINE Only in America said. "I'm not certain who it was, but the CONWAY- TURNER, Troy State people listened and called me." HEAD OF THE • A city in Ohio sets aside a day After sending his curriculum vita and COLLEGE OF for neighbors to say "hi." other credentials, Fulmer went to an LIBERAL ARTS • Florida man believed to be oldest interview last spring. A job offer soon man in US celebrates his 113th followed. AND SOCIAL birthday. "Hal is an outstanding person and he . SCIENCES has great credentials," said Fred Davis, *£ Page 5 provost of Troy State. "He's highly recognized by colleagues around the south.' Opinions Fulmer will take over a program that is a College, not a department like GSU That means more faculty, more students and more money • Amanda Permenter likes "They have some great faculty there," he said. "One of the deans is a formei playing in the rain and wants you college president. It's something to supervise a person who has supervised a] to do it too. whole [university] program." • Adam Brady sees similarities Conway-Turner said Fulmer has provided great leadership since he became between the American Chris Walker/ STAFF Communication Arts chair six years ago. "You're never surprised when talented government and the Star Wars BORROWING BARGAINS: Interest rates will decrease on Federal Stafford loans for the upcoming people move on," she said. Empire. academic year. Fulmer's work as head of the Southern States Communication Associatior & has recently caught the eye of many of his peers. But it was someone from his past 1 Page 4 By Michelle Flournoy The federal government pays interest on Stafford that probably got him recognized by Troy State [email protected] subsidized loans while students are in school. Student Although he's not sure who slipped his name to the Troy State search] Stmti College students and parents receiving federal loan repayment of Stafford loans begins six months after committee, he thinks it was Kaylene Gcbert, provost at Northern Alabama. • GSU hosts high school football assistance will get record low interest rates for the 2002- graduation. Gebert taught Fulmer in grade school in Albany, where he grew up. Troy, ir camps for fifth consecutive year. 2003 school year. Boyett said results from the last university survey southeast Alabama, is not far from Albany. In fact, Fulmer said many of his On July 1, students who are in school and are taking showed that the typical GSU student graduates with mother's family is from that part of the Alabama. advantage of the Stafford loan program will have an about $15,039 in loans. During the fall and spring But, 'still, Fulmer's ties to Statesboro are strong interest rate of 4.06 percent. The rate has fallen 1.93 semesters of 2001-02, 9,083 were issued either subsi- Fulmer said he would come to GSU for academic events in high school, an percentage points from last year's 5.99 rate. Parents dized or unsubsidized loans. when it came time to choose a college, the choice was easy. borrowing under the Parent Plus Program will receive Leslee Fudge, a GSU sophomore, said that while she He was a student at then-Georgia Southern College during the late 70's an interest rates of 4.86 percent for the coming year. does receive loans, she feels uneducated about the early 80's. When it came time to teach, he came back to Statesboro and has beer "I've been at Georgia Southern ten or 11 years, and here since 1988. this is the lowest I've ever seen the interest rate drop," "There's a lot of disconnecting to do," he said. "It's a difficult process—I havj said Elise Boyett, associate director of financial aid. See Loans, page 10 a lot of friends. That part is tough." Page 6 Students have bigger bills| Tanning beds remain popular despite health hazards Features to pay upon graduating • A study attempts to find out KRT Campus "Your makeup looks better. Your at the start of this year's tanning KRT Campus in credit-card debt charging sharpl) why so many bachelors resist PHILADELPHIA - Whether clothes look better. You stand out season said they looked better with higher interest rates. getting married when they're she's been at the beach for a week more. And guys love it," she said a tan, up from 61 percent in 1996. SAN JOSE —Students are The burden of student loans is young. or cooped up in her office over a while waiting to enter a tanning booth Also up are rates of skin cancer, graduating with bigger loan bills than especially onerous for low-incomd long winter, Christina Rovinski's at Hollywood Tans in King of Prussia, the most prevalent cancer in the ever, turning what should be a foun- students and those who attend beauty skin is perpetually a burnished a suburb of Philadelphia. United States. For young women dation for higher lifetime earnings into a financial straitjacket that could colleges, truck-driving schools and walnut hue. Despite warnings from such di- 15 to 29, rates of melanoma, the other vocational programs. It's worsj "People are always asking if verse quarters as dermatologists and most deadly form of skin cancer, take years—or even decades—to es- for students who drop out with hefty I've been on vacation," said the beauty magazines that tanning causes have increased more than 60 per- cape. studentjoans but can't cash in on thd statuesque 24-year-old. Rovinski skin cancer and promotes aging, in- cent since the mid-1970s, accord- A new study says seniors at pub- higher incomes generally associatedj gets her deep, dark tan from iwice- creasing numbers of teens and young ing to the American Cancer Soci- lic four-year universities owe an av- with a college degree. or thrice-weekly visits to a tanning women are determinedly, sometimes ety. Melanoma is the most com- erage of almost $13,000 in student Some experts worry that debi salon, a year-round habit she ac- obsessively, pursuing bronzed skin. mon cancer among people 25 to 29. loans—a figure that runs even higher could deepen further during thd quired about 10 years ago while in According to a survey by the None of which fazes Rovinski a for those who earn advanced degrees. recession as workers stream back tcj high school. The reason: pure van- American Academy of Dermatology, Those figures aren't the full picture, however, because students also are ity. 84.5 percent of people under 25 polled See Tanning, page 10 graduating with thousands of dollars See Bills, page 10| Page 10 Department of University Housing gives facelift to majority of residence to Arts housings effort to improve the living Burkett, who has been apart of GSU By Erik Howard conditions on campus. The board of for over 25 years, will retire at the end &Entertainment [email protected] regents approved a plan to eventually of this month. Burkett started as a University Housing is undergoing tear down Stratford, Hampton, student at GSU and went on to become • "Nu metal" band Korn pushes some changes, both internally and Dorman, Cone, Brannen, Hendricks a hall director and eventually director the musical limits with its new externally, as fall semester approaches. and Veazey halls in order to make of Housing. Watson and Kennedy album. External renovations of both Olliff room for newer residence halls and Halls were highlights of Burkett's and Winburn Hall are taking place, make Georgia Southern "a student- tenure. with also new carpet and tile flooring centered residential campus," The department has also hired four C Page 9 being added in Winburn rooms, ac- ' Housing will also see changes new building directors and over 30 cording to Vince Romanini, assistant internally with it's central staff as Pat RA'S for the upcoming year.