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Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern The George-Anne Student Media 4-13-2005 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" (2005). The George-Anne. 3088. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne/3088 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]. itabiished 1927 Covering the campus like, a swarm of gnats I he Offk ial Studervt Newspapei ol (ieorgia ' Social Security Changes President Bush has faced controversy on the changes he wants to make to the current Social www.stp.georgiasouthern.edu Security system. Look to page 7 for more information on the history of Social Security, the current system and the changes Bush wants to make. Thursday, April 13,2005 • Volume 78, Number 5 AROUND the HOUSE ■ Eagle's Baseball visits Theater professor Mical Whitaker Mercer > Aron Price competing in MCI Heritage ■ Boston Red Sox recieve World Series honored with farewell production Rings Special to the G-A as rival a teacher or director will be happy to know directed on campus," said Pamela Bour- Yankees The final Georgia Southern Theatre & that he was able to touch their lives." land-Davis, chair of the Communications look on Performance production of the year will To celebrate Whitaker's upcoming Arts Department. also be the farewell performance for long- retirement and 24 years in theater, the The reception will also serve as a Page 7 time director, actor and assistant professor Department of Communications Arts benefit, with the proceeds supporting Mical Whitaker. will host a reception on Saturday, April the theater equipment needs for the Fine "There are no words to describe how 23, from 3-5 p.m. at the entrance to the Arts/Phase III building, which will house great this person is," said V.A. Patrick Arts Building. a new, 175-seat black box theater. • Amanda Permenter Slade, a GSU alumni who graduated with Following the reception, Whitaker Reservations for the reception, which explains why she doesn't a degree in theater & performance and will direct his final production, Lofton includes a ticket for "Star of the Morning," get crunk at the clubs English. "His patience, love for the arts Mitchell's "Star of the Morning," at 8 p.m. may be made through the Communica- and knowledge surpasses any competent in the Performing Arts Center. tion Arts Department. Tickets are $25 • Luke Hearn writes understanding of theater and life. The "The reception's theme is Amen Cor- for adults and $15 for students. For ad- disparagingly of beauty GSU Theater Department will never be ner,' one of Mical's favorite plays and the ditional information or to order tickets, Special to the G-A pageants the same, but those who have had him as first African-American performance he call 681-5138. Professor Mical Whitaker Page 4 . 4Hj| FDA opposes lifting Hissing Canada goose ^^L '■ greets shoppers silicone implant ban DES MOINES, Iowa - Customers of a south side print shop beware By Lauran Neergaard Inamed's implants back on the market of the hissing goose. For the second Associated Press year in a row, a Canada goose has just 18 months ago, a decision the made the front door area of Artcraft WASHINGTON - Thirteen years FDA rejected because of the durabil- Inc., her home. Mother Goose, as after most silicone-gel breast implants ity concerns. she's called, greets customers by were banned, federal health advis- "Obviously we're disappointed," hissing at them. Last year, she hatched a gosling ers on Tuesday narrowly rejected said Inamed Vice President Dan just a few feet from the front door. a manufacturer's request to bring Cohen, who pledged to work with the She has already made a nest this them back to the U.S. market, citing FDA to get the necessary additional year. To get9 involved... lingering questions about safety and evidence as soon as possible. "I had one customer call from a «■{«"'■* *'iH If you would like to know more about stu- 1 durability. That doesn't mean the implants cell phone and ask if she would bite," Isii*. ■■■' r^^Bi % | dents' efforts to change the spring break date, Mj said Judi Williams, the company's Inamed Corp. had argued that can never be sold, the advisers W contact Caroline Blackmon at (770)317-1901 1 office manager. "She hisses, but she today's silicone implants are less likely stressed. No one expects them to last it; P or by email at [email protected]. m doesn't bite. Otherwise, everybody :: : to break and leak than versions sold a lifetime, but women need evidence thinks she's pretty cool." W '^ years ago. But the Food and Drug Ad- about how likely they are to last 10 Iowa Department of Natural Barbara V. Perez/KRT Campus ministration was years, several pan- Resources officials said geese have Deanna Werinski, 19, left, looks on as her friend Shauna Hartrich, 19, gets a henna tatoo on her abdo- skeptical, and its elists stressed. no teeth and don't carry rabies. They men from Beau Sutton, 22, in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Monday, March 15,2004. Some GSU students "There are women who But FDA ad- rarely nip, but are known to hiss are petitioning to have spring break moved to a warmer time of the year and after midterms. advisers voted 5-4 when people or animals invade their that the company would benefit from these viser Dr. Michael space. hasn't provided implants that don't have Miller, a plas- There are about 80,000 Canada enough evidence tic surgeon at geese in Iowa, said Guy Zenner, a access to them." state waterfowl research biologist. about how long -Dr. Michael Miller, Houston's M.D. "You're going to see things like Students want a the implants will FDA Advisor and plastic surgeon Anderson Cancer this," Zenner said. last — and what at Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Center who has happens when used Inamed's im- More OIA on they break and ooze silicone into plants, argued the devices are being Page 3 the breast, or beyond. held to too high a standard. Without that information, "How "There are women who would later spring break can we get an informed consent from benefit from these implants that don't Quote of the Qav our patients?" asked FDA adviser have access to them," Miller said, By Adam Crisp They say the change will allow for the weeklong break Dr. Amy Newburger, a New York complaining that salt water-filled "All truth passes through three [email protected] from classes to be held when the weather is warmer dermatologist. "It makes me very implants sold without restriction stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, Why not have spring break when the weather is and mid-terms are a distant memory. uneasy ... I don't feel secure about today have their own drawbacks. it is violently opposed. Third, it is "The weather is just bad during spring break," accepted as being self-evident." warm and the calendar actually reads spring? the safety." "All of us feel very strongly that That's what a group of Georgia Southern students said Caroline Blackmon, a sophomore who is trying The FDA isn't bound by its advis- women have a choice," responded -Arthur to collect signatures for a petition to change the date. ers' recommendations — and the Dr. Barbara Manno of Louisiana Schopenhauer are asking. Four students enrolled in a political science class "The weather is always too cold and the break usually panel's vote was a surprise. This same State University. But she ultimately are petitioning the university's calendar committee, falls right in the middle of exams so you spend the panel, with a few different members, asking that spring breakbe pushed forward two weeks. See BREAK, page 6 hadnarrowlyrecommended allowing See IMPLANTS, page 6 Air Force: Tests for lost nuke off Georgia Wednesday coast found no 'significant' radiation HIGH By Russ Bynum 74° "Since the interagency team did not Associated Press find the "significant' radiation levels ffefe LOW SAVANNAH - Government testing Mr. Duke's team reported, the focus Few Showers 51° for possible signs of a nuclear bomb shifted to the arduous task of analyzing lost off the Georgia coast in 1958 data to determine what the samples did Thursday found no "significant" radiation, the contain," wrote DeFrank, the Air Force Air Force said in a letter to a Georgia deputy director of public affairs. HIGH newspaper. The letter was sent April 4 to the 66° Last September, government scien- editorial page of The Macon Telegraph, tists took radiation readings and soil one of the newspapers that published the LOW samples in waters near Tybee Island AP story. The newspaper did not publish after a man who has searched privately the letter, but the Air Force provided Partly Cloudy 46° for the nuke reported finding possible the AP with a copy Tuesday. _ radioactive clues to its location. A damaged B-47 bomber dumped More than six months later, the the H-bomb at sea during a training Police Beat 2 government has not released a final flight in February 1958 after the plane collided with a fighter jet. The military News Briefs 3 report. But a letter by Air Force Col.

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