TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2019 NEWS 5 New classroom building to replace V Lot NEWS BRIEFS But it’s not expected to be complete until 5 years from now LOCAL BEN COLETTA Invasive snakehead Associate News Editor fish found in Georgia A northern snakehead fish was reeled in by a tudents tired of navigating crowded Gwinnett County man. corridors and sitting in classrooms and The Georgia Department Slecture halls with every desk and seat of Natural Resources is filled will be glad to hear that Georgia State recommending that anyone is planning on constructing a new classroom who catches or finds one of building. these fish kill it immediately However, students will have to wait the and to freeze it afterwards expected five years it takes for the new building to ensure it is deceased. to be approved by the University System of The northern snakehead Georgia and constructed before they can attend is an invasive species that class there. can breathe air and survive Georgia State officially requested $65.5 temporarily on land, million to construct the building as a part of allowing it to travel from one the Capital Projects Funding Request for fiscal water source to another. The years 2021-24, according to Jazmin Mejia, fish has been on the banned Student Government Association university- importation list since 2002. wide president. However, USG and the Board of Regents have yet to approve or deny the request NATIONAL or to allocate funds for the construction. Because this project is in the earliest stages US begins trade talks and funding has yet to be approved, no official with China plans or renderings for the size or appearance Trade negotiations of the building have been made public. A have begun between U.S. contractor or name for the building have also and Chinese officials. not been selected at this time. The Chinese government If approved, the new building will be officials, including Chinese constructed on the property that is currently V Vice Premier Liu He, are ILLUSTRATION BY BRANDON ZHAN | THE SIGNAL Lot, behind the College of Law. in the U.S. to talk about According to Mejia the new class building coming to an agreement “will be started and completed within the next to end the months-long three to five years.” has grown in size significantly. Undergraduate assisted in breaking the Georgia State record for trade war between the U.S. Mejia also noted in an interview with and China. If negotiations Panther Report News that V Lot parking will enrollment at the Atlanta campus increased most students enrolled at just over 53,000. 50% in the period between 2000 and 2014, Many on-campus walkways have been go well, both parties be “relocated to another area on the Downtown are hoping to begin the c ampu s .” according to The Washington Post. restricted or demolished due to the According to Georgia State’s data reporting construction associated with the greenway process of reaching a Students looking for a quick fix for campus trade agreement before and class overcrowding will have a wait ahead system IPORT, there are 35,187 students project currently taking place on campus. The currently registered to attend class at the greenway project began this summer with the additional tariffs will be of them for relief. levied by President Trump’s In the last few years, the Atlanta campus Atlanta campus and 18,733 registered for the destruction of Kell Hall and is currently in the Perimeter campuses. This year’s incoming class process of demolishing library plaza as well. administration next week and then again in December. GLOBAL Turkey attacks Syrian Students form March for Our Lives chapter Kurds Turkey, a U.S. ally, has begun attacking Interest meeting hosted to discuss initiatives the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in Our Lives event. She sits as the lead, which is “I’ll send a quick text … and students can just northern Syria, which are also allied with the U.S. The essentially the president of the chapter, with walk up there.” Kurds are the world’s largest WILL SOLOMONS help from Vice Lead Laten Robinson, Treasurer Besides hosting and joining in on protests, stateless nation, spread Managing Editor Natalie Rocha, Secretary Kayla Quamina and Turabi said that students can make a difference across four countries, Marketing Director Julian Pinneda. through voting. The chapter plans to divide into multiple including Syria, where they “That is the only way to spark the change,” have fought for greater committees, focusing on community outreach, she said. ver a year ago, the March For Our Lives autonomy or complete social media, lobbying and fundraising. To emphasize the importance of voting, movement was established in the wake According to Robinson, the university’s independence. Recently, of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High they’re holding a voter registration week from the Kurds have assisted O location makes an excellent spot to stage Nov. 18-22 that aims to not only help register School shooting in Parkland, Florida. Students in the fight against ISIS. protests and reach out to the Atlanta individuals to vote but also to educate them and advocates began to petition legislators community. Recently, the U.S. removed about gun violence. to enact stricter gun control in the hopes of “We are a very prime location for a March all forces from the region They plan on meeting up to write letters preventing other mass shootings and gun For Our Lives chapter. I just want to get the ball that were assisting the SDF to legislators, urging them to write stricter violence. rolling and get this conversation sparked so in the ongoing fight against gun control legislation, alongside hosting a Now, students at Georgia State are banding students at Georgia State can get involved and ISIS. The removal of U.S. together to create their own chapter of the other universities like Clark and Spelman and screening of “Elephant,” a movie based off the troops and the longstanding organization to quell gun violence happening in Morehouse [can too],” he said. events of the Columbine High School massacre. conflict between Kurdish the Atlanta community. He said that the proximity to the Capitol The organization isn’t currently official, with and Turkish forces has The Georgia State students met on Thursday allows them to also join in on other protests processes underway to be officially chartered ground the fight against ISIS to a halt in the region. in a study room at the Dwell Apartments to organized by other groups. With the creation with the university. They’re currently looking discuss upcoming plans and hone in on what of a task force specifically to rally students, to get a faculty adviser to sponsor them, who is initiatives the organization wants to take for an he added that it’ll be easier to gather as many waiting to get approval from their department, initial interest meeting. people as possible. and from there, it will take roughly six months They were led by Minah Turabi, who “It’s a way for March for Our Lives as a whole to become an official Georgia State organization previously organized the Augusta March For to have an inside at the Capitol,” Robinson said. if approved..