The Student Voice Six Mile Post Floyd College-Rome, Georgia Math subtracted FC under attack!! Rome Braves coming The Board of Regents has Paris Lake, the large body Construction continues on the decided recently not to of water behind the baseball stadium that is to be the new add a math portion to the central campus, is home of home of the Rome Braves. Despite Regents Test after all. See the fighting attack geese. weather delays fans can expect the page 4. See Page 9. first game as scheduled. See Page 11. Vol. 32, Number 6 www.floyd.edu/sixmilepost March 11, 2003 FC wins Teaching Excellence Awards SGA to hold elections soon By Daniel Bell By Eric Rose [email protected] [email protected] Editor Staff Writer Floyd College has won both of The deadline for students to the University System of file applications to run for office Georgias Board of Regents 2003 in the Student Government As- Teaching Excellence Awards for sociation for 2003-2004 is March the two-year college division. 14, according to John Spranza, Dr. Kristie Kemper, professor director of student life. The elec- of English and adviser of the Six tion for new officers will be held Mile Post, is this years recipient sometime within the next month. of the Board of Regents Faculty/ The positions available will Staff award and Floyd Colleges be president, vice president of Dental Hygiene program has won special events, vice president of the Department/Program award. public relations, secretary and Each two-year college may senators. choose a nominee for both the fac- There is a provision for two ulty/staff award and the depart- senators from each campus in the ment/program award, at which SGA constitution. Spranza en- point the nominees have to put courages students from the sat- together a portfolio and collect ellite campuses to run for SGA recommendations. offices. A special Regents committee, The SGA currently has no composed of faculty members and senators. They have tried to re- department chairs from across cruit dedicated people from the the system, reviews the nomina- other campuses in the past to no tion portfolios and recommends avail. finalists for each award. We have advertised for sena- Concerning the faculty/staff tors and talked to people who award, the award committee (as were interested, but we never stated by the award criteria) looks Photo by Daniel Bell heard back from them, said for persuasive evidence that Dr. Kristie Kemper and Rebecca Alford work on the SMP. Kemper was awarded the 2003 Regents Teela Davis, current vice presi- nominees have a record of super- Teaching Excellence Award for faculty/staff under the University System of Georgia. dent of special events. In defense lative teaching at their campus, When selecting finalists for to learn that I have been selected for the Teaching Excellence of the SGA, Davis said that it was including a strong commitment to the department/program award to receive the Regents Teaching Award. We would like to thank necessary for the SGA to use the fostering the academic success of the committee looks for evidence Excellence Award for two-year col- the administration, faculty and resources they had. students through classroom in- that nominated departments or lege faculty, Kemper said. staff of Floyd College who have Most of the open positions are struction and through interaction programs promote, support and Donna Miller, director of den- contributed to our success through available because the current with students outside the class- recognize excellence in teaching tal hygiene, said, The dental hy- their support and efforts on behalf SGA members will be transfer- room (e.g. advising, mentoring, and in service to students. giene program is honored to be of our students and the program. ring to other colleges in the fall. recruiting, etc.). I was surprised and pleased selected by the Board of Regents (Continued on page 5...) (Continued on page 5...) Inside this issue: -News- Campus possible medical site in case of attack Page 2 Brian S. Armstrong says Harold Brooks, coordinator makes it a very attractive target ist attack. -Editorials- [email protected] of security at Floyd College. for a biological attack. Were the communitys col- Page 6 Staff writer Atlanta is home to the busi- According to Brooks, Rome is lege. We have always been a part est airport in the country, Dobbins a good location for distribution of of the community and we will con- -Opinions- Floyd College has been named Air force base and the Center for emergency medical services be- tinue to do that. We feel a respon- Page 7 as a possible site for medical care Disease Control (CDC), which cause it is located halfway be- sibility to this community, said and dispersal of medicine and tween Atlanta and Chattanooga. Wills. -Features- other necessary supplies in the Both cities are potential targets, Aside from the resources that Page 8 event of a regional/state bio-ter- and Rome is easily accessible to FC has to offer, its location makes -Entertainment- rorism attack on the Atlanta- both areas. it ideal. Rome is northwest of At- Northwest Georgia area. Penny Wills, vice president of lanta. Because of the air current Page 10 Other possible sites distrib- student development, said that in this part of the country, the -Sports- uted around Floyd County include Floyd College has the facilities, wind would blow any contami- Page 11 Berry College, Shorter College and plenty of room and plenty of nurs- nates in the air over Atlanta east, the fairgrounds downtown. ing students that would be a valu- missing Rome. -Campus Life- Atlanta is a prime target, able resource in case of a terror- (Continued on page 5...) Page 12 Page 2, SIX MILE POST, March 11, 2003 News Students named to ‘Who's Who’ Fifty-one students have been named to Whos Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges. The award honors excellence inside and outside the class- room. Students receiving the award must have at least a 2.5 GPA, and 24 semester hours of course credit. Students must also be active in extracurricu- lar activities on and off campus. Faculty and staff of the col- lege nominate students to Whos Who, with final selections being made by the Student Affairs Committee. This years Whos Who hon- orees are as follows: Odell Abram, Lisa M. Adams, Brian S. Armstrong, Canada Astin, Daniel Bell, Linda S. Beuoy, Cynthia Bing, Lynn Blalock, Samuel Photo by Ken Caruthers FC Bytes co-editors Brian Armstrong (right) and Eric Rose are in charge of what works are published on the webzine. Bosempen, Jason Bourne, Kimberly Carrigg, Joy Cash, Tracy LeAnne Clay, David M. ‘FC Bytes,’ an outlet for student creativity Conway, Connie Marie Cuzzourt, Teela Anitrette Davis, By Micki Alvey reading and viewing experience ized the necessity. students Brian Armstrong and Ray Davis, Robin Davis, Debra [email protected] that differs from FCs other publi- The material in ORK is more Rose. Lynn Evans,Amy Gilliland, Staff Writer cations, The Old Red Kimono refined while FCBYTES is unin- The advisers and co-editors Allison Green, (ORK) and The Six Mile Post hibited. work closely with staff to develop Jennifer Harrell, TuRhonda For those looking for some- (SMP). The concept of FCBYTES was and execute each issue. They also Harris, Kimberly Holliday, Leah where to voice their opinions or FCBYTES differs from the proposed by Steve Burns, former make themselves easily accessible Honea, Barry Tim Hufststler, share their talents for writing, art ORK and SMP in that it exists professor of psychology. It was es- to students who are interested in Julianna Hunt, Michelle or photography, there is a place. only on-line, it publishes a wider tablished by former students Joel submitting to FCBYTES. Huskins, Brooke Hyde, Leigh FCBYTES is Floyd Colleges variety of material, such as plays Ball, Marlena Cecil, Glen Harris, Those who would like to sub- Ann Hyde, Jessica Amanda on-line magazine. It can be ac- and paintings, and, as co-editor Phillip Kemp, Sumer Lang, April mit to FCBYTES, should send Ingram, cessed at www.floyd.edu/bytes. Eric Rose stated, We are more Langford, Brent Moore, Wil Nix their work as attachments to Mike Johnston, Tiffany The publication is an open forum accessible to the entry level writ- and Jacob Sullins. [email protected], [email protected], Nichole Lankford, DeLeah for students and members of the ers. The faculty advisers at that or [email protected]. Leath, Lillian L. Long, Eliza- FC community. Also, the natures of Floyd time were Burns; Jeanne Blakely, As for what the publication beth Ann Talbert Lorenson, The mission of the magazine, Colleges two literary magazines assistant librarian/Tech. Services; will accept, Hershey said, It Tina Loyd, Jesse Ray Mayo, as expressed by one of the are quite different. An editor of Steve Head, assistant librarian/ might be easier to list what kind Amanda S. Mayo, Maureen publications faculty advisers, Dr. ORK, Matt Sunrich, said, When I public services; and Hershey. The of material we dont want, except McTyre, Alice O. Nixon, Jon Hershey, is to provide Floyd first came back to Floyd, I couldnt first issue debuted in the spring I cant think of any right now. Amit Patel, Amber K. College students a creative outlet figure out why we needed two lit- of 1998. The environment of the on-line Rogers, Eric Rose, Serpentfoot, for writing, graphic arts and pho- erary publications, but once I be- The current faculty advisers magazine is liberal and accommo- Rebecca D. Shiflett, Evie tography as well as computer and came familiar with the material are Blakely, Head, Hershey and dates those individuals with Standeford, Matthew Sunrich, other technological exploration.