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Established 1927 Covering the campus like a swarm of gnats The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia Southern University www. stp.georgiasouthern.edu SPORTS: GSU Baseball falls to No. 8 Georgia Tech Page 6 i Thursday, March 10,2005 • Volume 77, Number 74 AROUND the HOUSE s Habitat for • Eagles wrap up day three of spring practice Humanity's • Ultimate Frisbee Tournament comes to the 'Boro Collegiate Page 6 Challenge This year's Collegiate Challenge to • DeMarc Campbell speaks of condoms be the largest hosted in Statesboro Special to the G-A ■ CampusProgress.org examins the effect of drug Instead of spending this Spring Break soaking up charges on fincial aid the sun on the beach, students from three different colleges will be coming to Statesboro to build houses for spring break as part of Habitatfor Humanity's Col- * Page 4 legiate Challenge. The three campus chapters make up the largest group itus ever to take part in Statesboro's Collegiate Challenge, at over 30 students. Students from St. Joseph's College Check out our guide on how Special to the G-A in Rensselaer, Indiana; to eat sushi 3 Doors Down (from left to right) Todd Harrell, bass; Chris Henderson, guitar; Matt Roberts, guitar and Brad Arnold, lead Gettysburg College in vocals.will be perfoming on April 27 at Paulson Stadium. Gettysburg, Pennsylva- "This week also nia and students from gives students a the University of Kan- great chance to sas will begin construc- ^x^. travel to a new loca- 3 Doors Down to perform at GSU tion on two houses in the Statesboro Pointe tion and spend time April 27performance to be held at Paulson Stadium subdivision. with their friends This year, more than Special to the G-A building a home." Page 10 never had a show in the stadium. The success will determine if other groups 12,000 students have Georgia Southern University will chamber of commerce had two country come to Statesboro. signed up to participate - Alynn Woodson, Collegiate u Challenge manager 0 'a. present a major outdoor spring concert shows there in early 90s, but this is the "We're entering a whole new era for in Collegiate Challenge featuring the top rock group 3 Doors first schooLsponsored event." GSU," said Cashon. "We hope to do this across the country, rais- Thieves steal empty safe Down at Paulson Stadium Wednesday, Organizers call 3 Doors Down an every year. We hope to have a good reputa- ing $8 million dollars to help build 450 houses. Students from the United States, FOSTORIA, Ohio - Thieves broke April 27. exceptional live band, which stands tion with this. We want to have students into an agency that serves the poor The show is the first performance of among the top concert draws in North say 'look who we had perform here.'" Canada and Japan will travel to more than 200 locations and made off with a safe. The only a major recording group at GSU in at America citing record sales of 12 million 3 Doors Down has had six No. 1 singles in the United States and Mexico. catch - the safe was empty. least five years,' say organizers, who add since its debut in 2000. 3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite," "Duck & Run," "Loser," "Last year students made such a difference by giv- "It is really quite comical," said this is the first school-sponsored musical recently released its third studio album, "Be Like That," "When I'm Gone" and ing one week of their time to help families," said Alynn Susan Simpkins, director of the Woodson, Collegiate Challenge manager. "Theweekalso Fostoria Bureau of Concern, "it was performance at the stadium. "Seventeen Days" (Republic/Universal). "Here Without You," - making the group very heavy, and they did us a favor "Widespread Panic performed here "Seventeen Days" debuted at No. 1 on one of the most popular and consistently gives students a great chance to travel to a new location by taking it." five years ago in Hanner Fieldhouse," said Billboard Magazine's top 200 albums successful rock bands in recent history. and spend time with their friends building a home." She said the agency had wanted Earl Cashon, who heads GSU's Office of chart Feb. 26. According to Billboard Magazine, they The GSU chapter of Habitat for Humanity is to throw out the safe but it was too Student Affairs. "Georgia Southern has GSU officials say this performances v big to move. See PERFORMANCE, page 2 See HABITAT, page 2 The thieves entered the agency through a back door after it closed for the day on Feb. 28 and took the u safe, which was in the office. They did manage to grab a small Dan Rather signs amount of money from the office's petty cash supply, police said. I off as 'CBS Evening More OIA on Page 3 News' anchor SHflKlfIG Q W By David Bauder Associated Press t "Good people are good because up the airwaves they've come to wisdom through NEW YORK- Dan Rather failure." echoed a word he once briefly used to sign off the "CBS Evening • -William News" - courage - in anchoring Students face changes with skepticism Saroyan the program for the final time after 24 years on Wednesday. By Adam Crisp In a brief statement at the Special Photo [email protected] end of the broadcast, Rather Dan Rather anchors his last paid tribute to Sept. 11 terror- Students, fearful that popular music and an CBS Evening News broadcast upbeat format might be pulled in favor of a more ist victims, tsunami survivors, from the CBS Broadcast Center conservative lineup, greet changes at WVGS with American military forces, the in New York on Wednesday. oppressed, those in failing health Rather began anchoring on pensive uneasiness. and fellow journalists in danger- March 9,1981. "I want it to still have that student feel to it - that ous places. whole young, excited feel that the station has had "And, to each of you," he said. Jennings remaining at "World over the last 31 years," said Stephen Yancey, the Friday "Courage." News Tonight." station's programming director. He seemed to savor each Bob Schieffer is Rather's Reed Smith, a broadcasting professor who has HIGH word of his signoff: "For the temporary replacement starting pushed for the Comm. Arts takeover, says students 70° 'CBS Evening News,' Dan Rather Thursday. CBS expects to name shouldn't worry. C-C3 reporting. Good night." a permanent anchor team to "I can assure everybody that we're interested in LOW Rather's reporting career succeed Rather in the coming serving students," said Smith. "We are interested Few Showers HJ spanned the Kennedy assassi- months. in finding out what they want from a campus radio nation to this winter's tsunami, Rather, 73, is returning to station in terms of styles of music. We are really going to listen to them and program it that way. Saturday and he's been the public face of full-time reporting for CBS s "60 Jared Siri/STAFF We're not talking about turning it into classical or CBS's legendary news division Minutes" broadcasts. Susan Ahls, a WVGS DJ, works in the studio. anything like that." HIGH since replacing Walter Cronkite He flashed a steadfast defi- on March 9,1981. ance in reminding viewers of But, students aren't sure whether to believe His first newscast included the phrase "courage." He was "I want it to still have that student feel to Comm. Arts' promises. They say that's mostly LOW a story about English girls mocked by some for using the because they've yet to have anyone from the it—thatwhoieyoung, excited feelthatthe department explain how the changes might affect Sunny 39° imitating the hairstyle of Prince word to end his broadcasts for a Charles' bride-to-be, Diana. On week in September 1986 before station has had over the last 31 years." the station. Wednesday, the lead story was giving up on the idea. "From what I've heard a lot of people say . Insic oil prices causing a bad day on For its first 20 minutes, (WVGS) will become all jazz, all NPR-type station Rather's final broadcast was all - Stephen Yancey, WVGS station director as opposed to playing contemporary music that News Briefs 3 Wall Street. He's the second of the three business. No one - Rather or college students want to hear," said Hendrix, who Opinions 4 men who dominated network correspondents John Roberts has worked at WVGS for about two years. "We've Sports 6 news for more than two decades and Anthony Mason - acknowl- been hearing some people say 'Oh, things won't Classifieds 7 to step down in four months. edged it was a special night. change,' but I have a feeling they are just telling Crosswords 7 NBC's Tom Brokaw exited in See WVGS, page 5 Comics 7 November, leaving ABC's Peter See RATHER, page 2 (912)-681-5246 • [email protected] Williams Center Rm.