www.ksusentinel.com TUESDAY The April 15, 2008 VOLUME 43 ISSUE 24 ENTINEL OF KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY SS SERVING SINCE 1966 Dance company KAB event attracts wins in Gator’s hundreds of students KELLY BLAINE poker, blackjack, roulette, STAFF WRITER craps and Texas hold-em at the University Rooms in the hometown Every spring, students head Student Center. At the end of to the campus green to partake the night, students could use in the carnival-like celebration their chips to purchase raffle of KSU Day and this year, that tickets and $1,000 in prizes tradition continued. was raffled of afterward. On April 8, more than KAB also held its annual KSU’s dance minor 1,000 people came out to elections and students nomi- holds its own against join in the day’s events which nated freshman Shannon were put on by the Kennesaw Carter as next year’s KAB big-name universities Activities Board and orga- President. “I am very ex- nized largely by KAB’s KSU cited to have been elected Hommie, Ashley Brown. as KAB President because I Activities included en- know KAB is great organi- tertainment from singer and zation and has the potential songwriter Natalie Stovall, to be greater and I am ready an inflatable maze, mechani- to start that change,” Carter cal bull, karaoke, cotton said. candy and a lunch. KAB is the programming According to KAB main- body at KSU whose mission tenance coordinator, Tiffany is to provide students with Grady, the purpose of KSU fun, free activities. KAB of- Day is to bring together all ficials did not mention what registered student organiza- the budget for KSU Day was, tions and Greeks in order to but said that KAB’s annual have fun and raise school budget is approximately $6-8 spirit. “Today has been a per student. great success. We have had There are 25 voting members an amazing turnout,” said of KAB, and anyone inter- Grady. ested in finding out more KSU Day closed with about the organization can Casino Night where 426 visit their Web site at ksukab. students tried their hands at com. ing the needs of educational institutions in the northwest Money region of Georgia, receiving less attention than “politically demanding constituencies.” dispute “The chancellor’s office is maintaining an imperial atti- tude, like an emperor reaching out to people and patting them put on on the head and not doing any- thing,” Fein said in a recent interview. display According to Fein, on aver- age, KSU professors already make less than the national av- CLARK BARROW erage of $80K, reaching only STAFF WRITER $65K, and 18 percent below the average faculty salary in the The issue of state fund- University System of Georgia. ing for KSU caused a war of “We’re not asking for mir- words earlier this month be- acles, just asking for justice,” tween a sociology professor Fein said. “They don’t have to and President Papp. solve all the problems immedi- Professor, Dr. Melvyn Fein, ately, but they should make a recently submitted an opinion start.” piece to the Marietta Daily KSU contributes more Journal, where he blasted state than $500 million to the Cobb officials and accused them of County economy and contin- forcing KSU to operate on ues to upgrade the workforce a budget more suitable for a of northwest Georgia. Fein Courtesy of Jamie Bullins junior high school. Papp re- Top: Jason Marret. Above: members of the KSU Dance Company perform winning piece, “Incubus,” that will be featured in said the university is a part of plied with his own editorial National Festival. the engine that makes the area stating that there has been pos- prosperous, and the community SHELLY MIDDLETHON University of Alabama and is that the dance department at clude: Andy Allen, Tai Courtney, itive movement in response to needs to understand it’s in their STAFF WRITER Mississippi State University KSU is only three years old and Myles Johnson, Jason Marett, the school’s needs for a fund- interest to support the school. performed before adjudicators only offers a minor in dance,” A.J. Paug, Richard Smith and ing increase. Fein helped organize the Founded in 2005, and direct- in Gainesville, Fla. hoping to said Richard Smith, senior KSU Cory Washington. Fein, whose op-ed ap- Friends of KSU, Inc., a non- ed by Ivan Pulinkala, KSU’s be selected to perform at the dance team president. “Some of The team is currently look- peared in the April 2 edition profit grass roots movement dance company recently beat the National Festival at Columbia these big schools have master ing for sponsors to assist them of the MDJ, accused Gov. working to get more funding odds at the American College University in New York City programs. We were able to in participating in the National Sonny Perdue of allowing the for the university. Friends of Dance Festival in March where this June. achieve in a few years what it Festival. To inquire about University System of Georgia KSU, Inc. has collected more they competed and won against The KSU Dance Company has taken other schools much sponsorship, make a donation to drift backward by not build- than 3,000 petition signatures the likes of much older, larger joined the University of South longer to achieve. It shows or to obtain information about ing adequate classrooms, from students, faculty and dance companies from 33 well- Carolina as one of two win- that there is a great passion for upcoming performances, con- hiring an insufficient number staff. Fein stressed that stu- established universities. ners who will travel to New dance at KSU because we have tact Ivan Pulinkala, assistant of faculty and seriously under- dents should care about the Schools such as the York to perform at the National come so far in such little time.” professor of dance and direc- funding research. The tenured funding situation because if University of Florida, The Festival. Company members who will tor of the Dance Program at professor also accused the University of Gainesville, the “What is truly noteworthy be traveling to New York in- [email protected]. Board of Regents of neglect- See MONEY, page 2 Weekly weather Around campus What: Visit from Rt. Reverend J. Neil Alexander, Bishop of the Diocese In this issue of Atlanta When: April 16, 12:30 p.m. NEWS OP/ED WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Where: University College Building, room 227 HIGH 68° HIGH 73° HIGH 73° Who Kill the LOW 42° LOW 45° LOW 52° won? babies What: Earth Day Celebration 2 4 When: April 17, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Where: Student Center Terrace A & L SPORTS Seeing A thousand SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY What: Taste of West Cobb, organized by KSU business students green successes HIGH 71° HIGH 71° HIGH 73° When: April 19, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. 6 9 LOW 51° LOW 48° LOW 52° Where: The Avenue West Cobb The Page 2 • News SENTINEL Tuesday, April 15, 2008 • MONEY from front page response by saying Fein’s recent arts and humanities. the university does not receive editorial, “requires a response KSU’s mission statement Center for the Investigation of Human funding comparable to other in- that provides proper context has changed four times since stitutions of similar size, it will and some corrections.” its beginning in 1963; first Trafficking finds home at KSU not be able to hire quality pro- According to Papp, funding founded as a junior college, fessors. Fein said that KSU al- for the university system has con- later becomming a college cur- MASHAUN D SIMON Last month they officially kicked off a slav- ready has better faculty than the tinued to increase over the past rently described by the Board STAFF WRITER ery mapping program in Kennesaw, accord- school deserves due to its loca- three years, increasing by 10.5 of Regents as a “robust, com- ing to Mark Hoerner. The Hoerners serve as tion in Cobb County. He went percent in 2008. Papp said the prehensive university.” As the A center designed to map and monitor human Georgia State Directors for the Not for Sale on the record saying Dr. Papp Board of Regents understands the mission statement changes, the trafficking in the state of Georgia is in its begin- Campaign. “The slavery mapping program here is doing a good job fighting for dire funding needs KSU has and expectations for students, facul- ning stages here at KSU. The proposed Center in Kennesaw focuses on identifying possible the school and understands his that last year Perdue, the Board ty and staff increase, along with for the Investigation of Human Trafficking situations in which people are being forced to difficult position. Fein said that of Regents and state legislature expectations from the Board of would allow students and faculty to collaborate work against their will, either in an industrial, Papp is the one person that can worked together to provide $42.5 Regents. on research projects to map and monitor human agricultural or sexual format,” he said. “In San help, and he needs students, million toward a new health sci- “We do have some funding trafficking in the state. Francisco, students concentrated on identifying faculty, staff and citizens of ences building. challenges, but we have been Keisha Hoerner, department chair of KSU’s massage parlors that were doubling as brothels Northwest Georgia to back him Papp stressed that a major very forthright about these chal- First-Year Programs, said students in the first- populated by women (often young girls) being in the fight.