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The ColonnadeThe Official Student Newspaper of Georgia College & State University

February 25, 2011 www.GCSUnade.com Volume 87, No. 17

Brina PotvinStaff Writer

Aside from the traditional Homecom-ing events that all students look forward to such as the annual Homecoming con-cert and the highly anticipated Home-coming Basketball games, various other events take place throughout the week in order to promote school spirit and dis-play Bobcat Pride.

Competitive contestTo kick off the Homecoming festivi-

ties, the Financial Aid Office, the Office of the Registrar, the Graduate office, Plant Operations as well as the Office of the President participated in a decorat-ing contest in which creative techniques such as the use of plants, sound effects and even old pictures were used to dis-play this year’s Homecoming theme, The Hunt for Memories and Spirit.

“It is very competitive each year among Financial Aid and the Registrar’s Office,” said the Annual Fund Coordina-tor and event judge Mandy Peacock.

However, this year the Financial Aid Office won the Golden Slipper award which will be displayed in their office until next year’s competition.

Paws for a CauseDuring Homecoming week, many

campus organizations purchased the paws for $36 as part of Paws for a Cause charity fundraiser.

“The (money went) to fund a child who is from 0 to 5 years old for a year to receive a book each month,” said Direc-tor of The GIVE Center, Kendall Stiles. “It passed our expectations.”

Twenty eight of the 30 paws were pur-chased and about 150 students and fac-ulty gathered to paint or observe during the event.

According to Tom Miles, director of Campus Life, nearly $2,000 was col-lected from the event to be donated to the Ferst Foundation.

Alpha Delta Pi won the best paw award and were then given the opportu-nity of being special guests of Wendell Station, the director of athletics, at the Homecoming game.

Hall SpiritA sense of spirited competition was

a trend throughout the week’s events as the Residence Halls competed for titles of their own.

“Each Residence Hall designed and created a spirit board which is used to represent their hall in the Homecoming parade,” said Jessica Rehling, area co-ordinator and co-advisor of the Resident Student Association. “The halls work on the (boards) for two to three weeks and then bring them to the RSA meeting dur-ing Homecoming week for the voting.”

The winning board from the Parkhurst Hall had a bobcat on it and included the Parkhurst Pirates theme as well as the Homecoming theme.

“(The boards) were very artistic and held to the theme with great creativity and artistry,” Rehling said.

The students and community advisors were very involved in the competition for the prize of a fully funded hall program

89The number of reported cases of financial transaction card fraud since Feb. 5 at Georgia College. This statis-tic is as of Feb. 23.

InsIde news Flash NewsSGA changes for upcoming year............................2Library upgrades........................................................3Features“The 1940’s Radio Hour” graces Milledgeville...6Mr. and Ms. Georgia College crowned..................7

Community News.....................................11

SportsBasketball playoff push begins..............................13Baseball sweeps Pfeiffer, tops Valdosta...............13

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Fraud location narrowed down

The point of compromise has been deter-mined for the financial transaction card fraud that has been occurring on campus since early February. According to Public Safety, the loca-tion is off campus, but cannot be disclosed at this time. Four suspects who have benefited from the theft, have been identified. Officials do not have any new suspects at this time. Close Up............................................................9

“I love singing and acting and could not imagine living my life without theater

and drama being a part of it.” - Shirelle Ruddock, senior theatre major

Source: Public Safety

Matt ChaMBerSSenior rePorter

The HOPE Scholarship will undergo drastic changes as soon as next Fall under a plan proposed by Gov. Nathan Deal on Feb. 22.

Students with a 3.0 GPA will only receive 90 percent of the fiscal year 2011 tuition rate instead of the cost of full tuition. Deal’s plan also elimi-nates the funds for fees, books and remedial classes. Accord-ing to the Director of Financial

Aid, Cathy Crawley, Georgia College had 3402 students qualified to receive the HOPE Scholarship in Fall 2010 be-fore the changes passed.

Under his proposal, only high school students with a 3.7 GPA—and a 1200 SAT or 26 ACT score—will have their entire tuition covered under a new Zell Miller Scholar-ship program. These students will need to maintain at 3.5 throughout college to retain the scholarship.

“With this plan we are go-

ing to maintain one of the most generous scholarship programs the United States has ever seen or will ever see,” Deal said. “Even in tough economic times we are facing, HOPE is going to endure, it’s going to thrive.”

Another change to the pro-gram is decoupling of tuition and HOPE aid. Aid will in-stead be adjusted annually by the General Assembly based on lottery revenue, meaning that if tuition increases HOPE aid may not increase.

Deal also proposed spend-

ing around $10 million for a low-interest loan program for students who cannot maintain a 3.0 GPA. The program will have around a one-percent in-terest rate and the loan would be forgiven for those who teach math or science in Georgia public schools. In 2008, Geor-gia lawmakers passed a similar program but never dedicated any money for it.

Deal’s proposal will go the the Georgia Legislature to be debated and voted on before any changes will be enacted.

According to Crawley, the changes could be enacted as early as July 1— the start of the HOPE Office’s fiscal year.

“Right now it’s just a bill so there’s a lot of negotiations go-ing on right now and the little things could actually change,” Crawley said. “As soon as the Governor signs it we will com-municate it to students to make sure students are informed.”

According to Deal, the plan will save about $300 million. The HOPE Scholarship has been straining due to an in-

crease in aid recipients —over a 22 percent increase from FY 2009 to FY 2010—as well as tuition while lottery funds only increased slightly over one percent over that time.

The Georgia Student Fi-nance Commission set up three triggers to try and offset the strain on HOPE. The triggers were first to cut book funding in half , then completely and to finally to eliminate fee pay

Deal proposes changes to HOPE Scholarship

Monday Feb. 14

Homecoming Week Events

Offi ce Decorating Contest

Tuesday Feb. 15Paws for a CauseResidence Hall Spirit Board Contest

Wednesday Feb. 16Blue and Green Trivia Bowl

Thursday Feb. 17Homecoming Concert

Friday Feb. 18The Golden Slipper Murder Mystery Show

Saturday Feb. 19Bobcat RambleHomecoming ParadeTent City Tailgating

Dinner in Centennial Parking Lot

Kendyl Wade / Senior PhotograPherStokeswood’s guitarist, synthesizer player and lead vocalist Adam Patterson performs for the crowd at the Homecoming Concert. Stokeswood played frequently at Amici Café, which is co-owned by band drummer Jon Joiner.

A B.o.B.cat Homecoming

Kendyl Wade / Senior PhotograPherFrom left: Katherine Medlock and Jacqueline Tibbs celebrate after finishing the Bobcat Ramble 5K in just over 27 minutes on Saturday, Feb. 19. The fastest time for the race this year was 16:33.7. Homecoming page 3

Campus displays Bobcat pride throughout Homecoming week activities, competitions

draKe SimonS / Senior PhotograPherFollowing his performance at the Grammys, B.o.B., hypes up the crowd at the Homecoming concert on Thurs., Feb. 17. B.o.B. performed his most well known hits, “Magic,” “Nothin’ On You” and “Airplanes,” for the attendees inside the Centennial Cen-ter. The concert was the most highly attended Homecoming event this year. At once point during the concert the performer dove off the stage into the crowd.

JeSSica ramirez / Staff PhotograPherParticipants in the Golden Slipper Murder Mystery Show feign puzzled looks over the death of one of their own.

BoBBy gentry / Senior PhotograPherFrom left: Ashli Dills and Matt Riley walk in the Homecoming parade carrying the Wells Hall banner. Riley painted his face to show his Bobcat pride.

HOPE page 4

Source: Public Safety

the ColonnadeThe Official Student Newspaper of Georgia College & State University

November 12, 2010 www.GCSUnade.com Volume 87, No. 10

lauren davidSon Staff rePorter

Last weekend the University System of Georgia held its 13th annual USG Facilities Officers Conference in Savannah, Ga. At the conference, GCSU was hon-ored with two prestigious awards.

The Campus Theatre was awarded the Excellence in Public Private Ventures award and re-ceived a pyramid-shaped crystal trophy that will be displayed in the Campus Theatre box office. In ad-dition, President Dorothy Leland was honored with the Cornerstone Award and given a marble monu-ment-shaped trophy.

The Public Private Venture award is given in recognition of building projects that meet the needs of a university in an innova-tive way. Linda Daniels, USG

Jay fiCkleStaff Writer

Imagine what it would be like to have to push yourself around campus and to have to plan your route accord-ing to where the disability ramps are located. Thanks to the Roll Your Own event, students were given the op-portunity to stop imagining and give it a shot, on Nov. 11. Students were able to use a wheelchair to try and get around.

“It showed me the struggle that

people go through every day that are disabled in a wheelchair,” said soph-omore political science major Alecia Carlise.

During the early afternoon hours on Nov. 11, about 50 students decided to brave the cold weather and cross the campus in a wheelchair. Partici-pants were given a map with arrows directing them through the course.

They started at the Bobcat head

kevin hallStaff Writer

GCSU apparel will soon be seen in stores throughout the community in order to promote the new brand-ing campaign for the school.

Stores such as Wal-Mart, Kroger and others throughout Milledgeville will start to carry GCSU merchan-dise in their stores, maybe even as soon as the holiday season, accord-ing to SGA President Zach Mullins.

“This is something we’ve been looking into for a little while now, and Wal-Mart was so eager to help with the idea that if we didn’t call

them, they were going to call us the next day. We just got to them first,” Mullins said.

All of this new marketing within the community is to help establish Milledgeville and Baldwin County as a whole as Bobcat Nation said SGA senator and Thunder Crew President Patrick Gamble.

“We want to get GC merchandise into stores that have UGA apparel in there because we feel it will help the community become the Bobcat Na-tion that we want it to be,” Gamble said. “Also, this will help us pro-mote our branding and our name change.”

The school has recently changed its informal name from Georgia Col-lege & State University or GCSU, to Georgia College or GC in order to eliminate confusion with Georgia State University and others.

“We don’t want people getting us confused with GSU. We want to have our own identity,” Gamble said.

University Communications has played a large role in spearheading this project as well. They feel that if the community supports the school it would be an excellent way to build our brand throughout the com-munity, according to Kyle Brogdon,

the director of publications and marketing.

“The backbone of why we are do-ing this is to get the community as a whole involved in GC and building our brand throughout Milledgeville. We want to strengthen our brand awareness here,” Brogdon said.

The school will also reap some of the benefits that go along with all of this new marketing.

“The school gets seven percent of anything they sell, but like I said before this is more about promoting the new identity and brand of GC in Milledgeville,” Brogdon said.

Some students are excited to be

able to buy the school’s apparel throughout the community.

“I feel like it is a good thing,” said senior history major Adam Greene. “Baldwin High School has their ap-parel sold in those places, so I feel that it would give the community more of an attachment to GC. The bookstore is the only place that of-fers GC novelties, so it will be good for the people who aren’t aware that the bookstore is the only place that offers these items.”

University Communications hopes all of these changes will spark GCSU pride in Milledgeville to spread the Bobcat Nation.

Bobcat apparel to hit stores next month

Leland, GCSU receive awards

Kendyl Wade / Staff PhotograPherSteel Magnolias grace the stageFrom left, Lizzie Spratt as Truvy, Hannah Schumacher as M’Lynn, Lauren Adel as Ouiser, Erin Williams as Clairee and Erin Borain as Annell perform a scene from Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias.” The play takes place in Truvy’s beauty salon in 1980s Louisiana. The play debuted on Nov. 9 in the Campus Black Box Theatre. Issues of diabetes, relationships, family and aging are central to the plot.

SuBmitted By the office of intuitional equity and diverSitySenior mass communication major Bryan Smith (left) and junior liberal studies major Keilah Johnson (right) took the opportunity to experience life on campus confined to a wheelchair during the Roll Your Own event.

Rollin’ on through

Brina PotvinStaff Writer

Until Nov. 22, the Christman Construction Company is hold-ing a canned food drive at the West Campus Wellness Center job site in order to benefit the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank.

According to Jeff Arlington, the director of the Christman Construction Company, the “Be Constructive” canned food drive is a tradition that the whole com-pany participates in every year at all of their job sites and offices in various states around the holiday season.

“We started this tradition a couple of years ago because we think it is important to give back and contribute to the communi-ties that we are working in,” Ar-lington said.

Senior project manager of the Wellness Center job site David Lefevre also supports the proj-ect.

“Since we’re in your space, we like to support what is local,” Lefevre said.

After only a week of collect-ing items, sending fliers out to local businesses and spreading the word, there has been a steady

flow of contributions. However, Lefevre hopes for an even better response in the last several days of the drive.

Lefevre even encourages stu-dents and GCSU staff to partici-pate along with the on-site work-ers and subcontractors of the company in easing the hunger of the local community.

“The Middle Georgia Com-munity Food Bank provided us with two empty large barrels for

the canned goods, but I hope to surprise them by filling even more,” Lefevre said.

Some students are surprised at the construction site’s contribu-tions.

“I think it’s a great thing that a group of construction workers would think of something like this. The next time I have a soc-cer game at the intramural fields, I plan to bring a few cans to drop off,” said Justin Peacock, a soph-omore history major.

Freshman political science major Rachel Sitherwood agrees that the project is a welcome ad-dition to the construction zone.

“It is incredible that these con-struction workers don’t even have anything to do directly with the community, but they want to give back. That’s the selfless holiday spirit that everyone needs more of this time of year,” Sitherwood said.

If you are interested in giving back to those less fortunate in the community this holiday sea-son, contact the Wellness Center construction site office at (478) 387-7035 to contribute to the drive. Only non-perishable food items in non-glass containers will be accepted. Traditional holiday items are especially appreciated.

Christman Construction gives back to community

Award page 3

Events promote disability awarenessdraKe SimonS / Senior PhotograPher

Senior Project Manager for the Christman Company David Lefevre sorts through the donated cans in their on-site construction office.

Disabilities page 4

121Monday, Nov. 8 marked 121 years since Georgia College & State University was founded. In 1889 the Georgia General Assembly passed legislation to establish Georgia Normal & Industrial Col-lege.

InsIde news Flash NewsProfessors utilize Facebook................................. 3Students support S.N.A.P...................................... 4FeaturesOne GCSU tour guide’s routine.........................5Review: Jazz band concert....................................6

Community News.....................................7

SportsPreview: Bobcat basketball revs up..................12Intramural fields receive more funds..............13

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”I’ve been asked if porn was ac-cessible on the computers in the library. (It) was completely out of

nowhere too, I wasn’t expecting it.”

- Melanie Wooten, senior biology major

Den grand openingThe Den celebrates its grand reopening Wednesday with new furniture, an air hockey table, new televisions and a completely re-vamped atmosphere. The Den is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. and Saturday through Sunday from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. The Den is also now accessible from the front of Magnolia Ballroom, left of the main entrance steps. Close Up.......................................................10

The ColonnadeThe Official Student Newspaper of Georgia College & State University

February 11, 2011 www.GCSUnade.com Volume 87, No. 15

137The number of teams registered for intramural sports teams this semes-ter. See page 23 for more.

InsIde news Flash NewsNew Kroger to open............................................2Scrubby Bear comes to campus.........................4FeaturesCostume designer mimics the 1940s..............13The Colonnade Oscar Predictions .................14

Community News.....................................6

SportsHurst flourishes in leadership role...................21Baseball rallies to take series from Tampa......21

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New endowment helps Department of English Lynda Banks has created the William Wright Banks Sr. Endowment for English at Georgia College to honor her late husband. The en-dowment will help fund faculty development, publications and department promotional activities. Wright serves on the Georgia Col-lege Foundation Board of Trustees.

Close Up......................................................19

“I think when deciding on schools and sports for the college level,

(you should) take advantage and be thankful for the opportunity you

have to be able to pick and choose, but realize that it is your future your

deciding on. ”

- Josh Hurst, senior forward

BoBBi otiSStaff rePorter

Herty Hall’s original construction will tenta-tively be completed by mid-February with the project coming in $900,000 under projected budget costs.

Original construction costs totaled $3.4 mil-lion and with the final costs coming in below that figure, additional items can be added to en-hance Herty Hall further than expected.

“This job came in and we had this extra mon-ey and we all got together and put together a list of scope additions so we are just checking them off as the money comes available,” said project manager at Plant Operations Donnie Beasley.

“Scope is the definition of what you want the

project to turn out to be,” said Rick Ruark, as-sociate director for planning, construction and business services for Plant Operations. “Scope is the bare minimum of the original project and additional scope is what you add.”

The additional scope items for the Herty Hall project will include three major things.

The green house will be placed on the roof, where a space already exists. The interior of the observatory will be finished with flooring, sheet-rock and more shelves. A new boiler will also be purchased and installed for the building. The current boiler is 30-years-old and is in need of an update.

katelyn heBertSenior rePorter

A Georgia Military Col-lege freshman is behind bars, as of Feb. 9, at the Baldwin County Jail after the Milledgeville Police De-partment charged him with sexual battery involving a 21-year-old female Geor-gia College student Sunday, Feb. 6.

Jamal Tyler, a GMC run-ning back, went downtown with the female prior to the incident, said Capt. Dray Swicord, MPD chief of de-

tectives.“I think they visited sev-

eral different places, and ac-tually met the suspect at an-other place,” Swicord said. “From our understanding, the suspect and the victim were not really acquain-tances, (they met) through the friend.”

At approximately 3:30 a.m. Sunday, MPD was dis-patched to College Station Apartments in response to a sexual assault incident.

Public Safety’s Sgt. Nick Reonas and Officer Gary Purvis were first to arrive on

the scene due to proximity.“Our part in it was get-

ting there and stopping the subject from leaving, which if we wouldn’t have gotten there, I have no doubt he would have been gone by the time the city got there,”

Reonas said. “I was really happy with our response. I was happy that were were able to stop the subject be-fore he got away.”

Once they arrived, they saw a person matching the description of the suspect

running down the stairs from the apartment in ques-tion. They detained Tyler and attempted to take him into custody.

Courtney MurrahSenior rePorter

Students will soon be en-countering bobcats on their morning walks to class.

Four bobcat statues pur-chased by Georgia College to raise school spirit will be un-veiled one by one starting Feb. 14.

“As they are completed, they will be placed and we’ll do a dedication as they’re ready,” said Vice President of University Advancement, Amy Amason.

The university originally bought six statues, but so far

only four have sponsors – Georgia College SGA, The Brick owner Frank Pender-gast, Mitch Melder of Melder Properties LLC, and Frank and Joann Chambers with Wilkin-son County Bank.

The first statue to be revealed is sponsored by SGA.

“We are planning on hold-ing a bobcat statue unveiling ceremony on Monday, Feb. 14 at 2:30 p.m.,” said SGA press secretary Meg Harth.

The statues were first an-nounced last spring with the original debut date being pushed back to the first week of November, but the statues have

yet to be shown off.“It has taken longer to get

them painted and get the ma-terials to paint them,” Amason said.

Georgia College’s Depart-ment of Art, including Depart-ment Chair Bill Fisher, has been hard at work getting the statues ready.

“We are applying surface treatment to them,” Fisher said. “I’m working on one with green mosaic tile from top to bottom.”

Rebecca Ezell, a graduate student in art education, was volunteered by her teacher in class to work on the statues.

“Bill Fisher came into our class asking for help, and my teacher asked me to help paint,” Ezell said. “I helped paint the one that displays the Front Campus architecture. I plan on going back again to help do more detailing on the statue.”

The statues were created by the company Cowpainters, but the supplies and labor needed to decorate the bobcats were provided by the Department of Art.

The bobcat statues are made of fiberglass and measure a height of 30 inches high and 50 inches in length.

University Advancement

played a big role in making Wilkinson County Bank’s Chairman Frank Chambers’ idea of the statues turn into a reality.

The statues have gotten a great deal of support not only from those on campus but from the outside community.

The individual designs for the bobcat statues were cho-sen through a community-wide contest run by the university.

The bobcat statues are now being held in the garage be-hind the Museum of Fine Arts while the artwork is completed. Once finished, the statues will be placed on Front Campus,

West Campus and the Centen-nial Center.

“The SGA statue will sit outside the den,” Harth said.

The statues’ presence on campus are to symbolize school pride and the ties Geor-gia College has to the rest of the Milledgeville community.

Julia Allen, a senior paint-ing major, also helped paint the statues and agrees with the symbolism.

“I just came to do what I could for Georgia College and to come represent my school well,” Allen said. “Students and faculty are putting in a great deal of time on these statues.”

First Bobcat statue to prowl campus Monday

manoJ Kuninti / Staff PhotograPherThe newly painted bobcat statues will soon appear across campus. Bobcat statues will be placed around campus as they are completed. SGAs statue will be unveiled the first day of Homecoming week.

Sexual battery accusation surfaces

Herty updates in final stages

Debt forcesReynolds to sell assets

BoBBi otiSStaff rePorter

Reynolds Plantation, located in Greene County, is selling off assets to extend its future line of credit and to paydown $45 million of debt to the banks that lend to Linger Longer Development Company.

In a letter that was sent out to residents of the communities Chairman Mercer Reynolds wrote, “Historically, acquiring land in the Lake Oconee area to ensure that Reynolds Plantation continued to grow has been a reliable business strat-egy. However, with this downturn, we found ourselves in the position of having acquired more real estate, and debt, for Reynolds Plantation than is supported by recent demand.”

This downturn has resulted in the need to sell assets and amenities at the Planta-tion.

On the chopping block are the Planta-tion’s assets and amenities, which include: golf courses, clubhouses, maintenance fa-cilities, marinas facilities, the Lake Club, the Jackson House, the Nature & Heritage Center, Administration Building, Central Services Building and furniture, fixtures and equipment related to such facilities.

The cost of construction for these ame-nities was totaled at approximately $136 million.

The purchaser of these assets is still un-decided. In the letter that was distributed, Reynolds lists three options for the sale.

Construction set to be complete in mid-February

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SuBmitted By tim vaculaFrom left, students Rebecca Ezell and Chelsea Oglesby diligently paint one of the new bobcat statues that will be featured in various places around campus. There are currently six statues and four sponsors. The fiberglass material requires many coats of paint moving the expected release date from November to Feb.14.

The chain of

events

Tyler and the victim met downtown

Tyler and the victim went back to her apartment

A sexual assault was called in to MPD

Public Safety arrived on the scene and detained Tyler

Tyler was charged with sexual battery

Tyler is currently being held in the Baldwin County Jail

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manoJ Kuninti / Staff PhotograPherOriginal construction of Herty Hall is scheduled to be completed by the mid-February. Additional scope items from contingency money will be added after this date.

the ColonnadeThe Official Student Newspaper of Georgia College & State University

October 1, 2010 www.GCSUnade.com Volume 87, No. 6

eMily MCCurleyStaff Writer

With only four weeks of workdays to date, GCSU Phonathon has raised over $30,000 for the Heritage Fund.

Phonathon is a student-employed organization which contacts alumni, for-mer Peabody Laboratory School students, transfer parents, freshman parents and graduate students for a donation opportunity to support the Heritage Fund.

“The Heritage Fund is unrestricted gifts,” said Abbey Fleming, a senior political science major and room manager of Phona-thon. “Whatever (amount) a person donates goes into the Heritage Fund and (is) used for any need on cam-

pus.” The Heritage Fund pro-

vides monetary support to whoever applies and is ac-cepted for use. GCSU Ath-

letics and other academic departments have taken advantage of the fund in the past. Last year Phona-thon raised over $200,000,

exceeding their $175,000 goal.

This year Phonathon set their external goal at $200,000 in donations. With the current average of $5,700 a week, the target looks achievable.

“At this point this is a re-cord for (Phonathon), since I’ve been here we haven’t been at this level,” said Annual Funds Coordinator Mandy Peacock. “Last year, we (raised) over $200,000 and the year before that over $180,000. (We’ve seen) a steady increase over the last few years.”

Peacock and Fleming have ideas as to the reason for this year’s record break-ing success.

First is the new way stu

Caitlin MullaneyStaff Writer

Greek Life of GCSU is coming together to give back to the com-munity through the Big Greek Give Oct. 3 through Oct. 7.

According to the Fa-cebook group, “The Big Greek Give is a week-long service project in which students from all walks of campus life come to give with our Greek community. It is meant to encourage community, friendship, and above all philanthro-py. Each organization is

actively trying to give throughout the year, but during this week all Greek organizations will come together to dish it out for the community,”

All week long from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., sororities and fraternities will be handing out the schedule of events and collecting donations by the Arts & Sciences fountain. Everyone can do their part by donating items including blankets, clothing, school sup-plies, can tabs, canned

goods, children’s books and old text books and spare change for the Animal Rescue Founda-tion.

“The Big Greek Give was started last year by Tiffany Cannon in an

act to unify all of the sororities and fraterni-ties on campus. She just came up with the idea and thought it would be a good way to let the stu-dent body see how the Greeks work together on

each other’s philanthro-pies,” Gant said.

Each day will have a different theme, which will begin Oct. 3, with a Greek Clean-Up at Bar-tram Forest, barbecue picnic and a pet walk

in the afternoon for Earth and Environ-ment Day. Oct. 4 is Education System day; they will be re-cording people read-ing books on tape to send to children learning how to read, and an 8 p.m. fash-ion show at Magno-lia Ballroom.

The fashion show will consist of cloth-

ing from local busi-nesses including Maggie Lanes, French Vill’Edge, Villane’s, and Jack and Darcy. There will also be performances from the Swing Dance Club and

contestants from Milled-geville Idol. Tickets for the fashion show are $2 and all proceeds will go to ARF.

Oct. 5 is Ribbon Day when all of the sororities and fraternities will be handing out ribbons for their respective philan-thropies. There will also be Greek Boot Camp at 6 p.m., which is a 45 minute-long routine that is being run through the Wellness Depot for Health and Sickness Day. Oct. 6 is Hunger

Cara daviSStaff Writer

The first student-led Geor-gia Gubernatorial Debate, a debate between three major party candidates in the Gover-nor’s race, will be held on Oct. 7 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m at the Georgia Public Broadcasting Studios on 14th Street in At-lanta.

The debate has been orga-nized by students involved in Student Government Associa-tions from Georgia College, Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, Georgia Southern and Morehouse College.

The major party candidates that are confirmed for the de-bate are Democrat Roy Barnes, Republican Nathan Deal and Libertarian John Monds.

“This student-focused de-

bate was proposed and orga-nized by the Georgia Tech Stu-dent Government Association with a goal of expressing the importance of the student vote to the gubernatorial candidates and to the state,” said GCSU SGA Chief of Staff Alissa Tor-shia.

Debate topics will include the economy, higher educa-tion, transportation, taxes and energy policy, all of which are important to voters between the ages of 18 and 30. The de-bate is meant to focus on the issues that deal with student voters across the state of Geor-gia.

“This is an exciting event for Georgia College and other universities around the state,

Mark WatkinSStaff Writer

On Sept. 27, GCSU University Senate passed a written policy for situations involv-ing missing students. Under the policy, stu-dents over the age of 18 now have the abil-ity to name a confidential contact that will be contacted no later than 24 hours after the stu-dent is deemed missing.

“Every university will notify its students with the opportunity to identify a confiden-tial contact,” said Director of Public Safety Dave Groseclose, who also authored GCSU’s policy.

According to the policy, a student is miss-ing when he or she cannot be contacted after reasonable efforts, an act of criminality is involved, the student is in danger, medicine dependence may threaten the student’s life or health, or physical or mental disabilities could cause danger to the student. Other circum-stances can also deem students to be consid-ered missing. A GCSU official or the Depart-ment of Public Safety must deem the report of a missing student credible.

GCSU has always had a missing student policy, but an amendment to The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act—a federal law that was passed in order to improve safety on college campuses—now requires it to be a written formal policy.

“It basically says that if we have a missing student that comes to our attention, that there are certain procedures we have to do,” said Executive Director of University Housing Larry Christenson. “For (University) Hous-ing, it doesn’t change anything.”

The new addition to the act requires all

universities to have a formal policy outlin-ing the steps that will be taken when a col-lege is notified about a missing person. The formalized missing persons procedure for GCSU is to contact Public Safety after a person is reported missing. During the investigation various items of information will be gathered and documented in a po-lice incident report. Some of the items re-corded include names, locations, as well as time and dates last seen or contacted.

Vice President of Student Affairs Bruce Harshbarger would be contacted after an officer’s attempt to contact the missing student has been unsuccessful. If the incident occurs within University Hous-ing, Christenson would be contacted.

GCSU has been successfully dealt with missing students in the past.

A form will be sent to all current students of GCSU giving them the opportunity to name a confidential contact. This person would be the first number that will be called if a student is deemed to be missing. Groseclose highly en-courages informing someone after you name them as a confidential contact.

“We’ve always done this,” Christenson said. “It’s just formally publishing the proce-dure.”

SGA promotes election debate

Greek organizations to join together for service week

charmaine teSina / Staff PhotograPherA balancing actSophomore criminal justice major Chris Williams maintains his balance while slacklining on Front Campus. Students tie a nylon rope between two trees and attempt to walk the length of the rope. Experienced slackliners can perform tricks such as catching flying discs. For more information on this acrobatic trend see page 7.

GCSU rings in the donations

anSlee Schroeder / Staff PhotograPherFrom left, Junior Callen Womack, senior Chandler Moore, junior Emily Willis, and junior Amanda Collins work for Phonathon at GCSU. They have raised over $30,000 so far this semester.

Senate sets policy on missing students

Missing status is determined by the student’s failure to respond to phone, email and in-person contact attempts by a GCSU offi cial; paren-tal notice; establish-ment of lapse of time class attendance, lapse in affi lation with roomates and friends, or use of GCSU facilities and services; concern of criminal or safety incident, etc.

Establishing Missing Status

At a Glance: The Big Greek Give CalendarSunday Monday ThursdayWednesdayTuesdayGreek Clean-up at Bartram ForestBBQ and PicnicPlanting, Weed-ing, and general cleanupPet Walk

School Supplies DriveBooks on TapeBook CollectionFashion Show

Letter writing to soldiersVoting sign-upsWomen’s Issues AwarenessDiversity Awareness

Clothing CollectionProject LinusCanned Goods TailgateSoccer GameKick Competition

Ribbon DayGreek Boot Camp

Debate page 6 Phonathon page 6

Give page 6

Parents, alumni donate more funds than previous years

20:44Allison Lanes led the Lady Bob-cats in Charleston, S.C. with her 20 minute and 44 second 5k finish. The women’s cross country team placed third in the non-Division I portion.

See page 15.

InsIde news Flash NewsHonors service hours, new requirements........ 2“The Peacock’s Feet”............................................. 4FeaturesReview “Dog Sees God”.....................................7Blackbird lends its walls to local artists............8

Community News..................................16

SportsGolf finishes sixth in tourament.......................14Soccer extends winning streak ........................14

Quotable Number CrunCh

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“People underestimate our cooking. They just don’t know;

it’s magical.”

- Lance Taylor, co-founder of Hillel

Plan barring illegal immigrantsA State Board of Regents committee approved a recommendation Sept. 28 banning illegal immi-grants from attending colleges without the space to admit all academically qualified applicants. Cur-rently 510 out of the 310,000 students in Ga. are classified as “undocumented” students — U.S. citizens or illegal immigrants who do not provide documentation to determine their tuition status. GCSU has no “undocumented” students. “Ours are all fully documented and legal. It doesn’t affect any students we already have,” President Dorthy Leland said. If the policy changes pass next month, the changes will be in effect next Fall.

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The ColonnadeThe Official Student Newspaper of Georgia College & State University

April 1, 2011 www.GCSUnade.com Volume 87, No. 20

BoBBi otiS Staff rePorter

A new on-campus radio sta-tion, WRGC, began broadcasting from West Campus March 30, reaching 62,000 people across six counties in Middle Georgia.

Programming for the station includes the complete Georgia Public Broadcasting program-ming package and tentatively will add up to 15 hours of local programming by fall.

GPB programming will in-clude popular National Public Radio shows “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered.”

From 5 to 8 a.m. Monday

through Friday, WRGC listeners will be able to get updated news and coverage of arts and sports by listening to “Morning Edi-tion.”

Listeners can tune in to “All Things Considered” from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday as well. “All Things Considered” is a mix of news, interviews, com-mentaries, reviews and features.

Other shows include: “Ab’s Place,” a jazz show that plays emerging artists, “Car Talk,” a show that provides car advice, tips and answers to car ques-tions, “Talk of the Nation,” an exchange of opinions about news among others.

Georgia College got involved with the creation of this station because it noticed a lack of GPB programming services in the Middle Georgia area. WRGC now fills the void for Baldwin, Putnam, Morgan, Jones, Wilkin-son and parts of Jasper counties.

The station will be broad-casting 24 hours a day with an award-winning broadcast jour-nalist at the helm.

Mike Wooten was named the Operations Manager for WRGC 88.3 FM. Wooten has 13 years of experience in broadcast. Be-fore applying at WRGC Wooten worked in news talk radio for Cox Radio stations WGAU and

WXKT in Athens.“This is a really unique oppor-

tunity because you don’t often get the chance to be part of a new radio station from the ground up.” Wooten said. “I’m excited to have a chance to manage the sta-tion and bring quality public ra-dio to the area. Since I’ve mostly worked in broadcast news, it’s a new and exciting challenge both personally and professionally.”

WRGC will offer mass com-munication students at Georgia College an opportunity to gain experience in a professional ra

New West Campus radio station enters the airwaves

BoBBi otiS / Staff PhotograPherMike Wooten, operations manager for WRGC, sits at the con-trol desk in the newly designed station next to the pool at West Campus. WRGC premiered Thursday with a complete listing of GPB programming.

Matt ChaMBerSSenior rePorter

On March 28, Georgia College began sending out weekly emails called “GC Highlights” to announce events and infor-mation for the upcoming week.

This email, combined with the new web-based online sales and announce por-tals, are an effort to provide more useful,

relevant information for students.

The student announce and sales lists are now located under the Stu-dent tab on myCATS. The new sections in my-CATS allow students to see a title of topics to see if they want to click and find more information. The lists are also search-able by subject, author or message. Messages can also have images and other things attached to them, allowing more flexibility for posts.

“This will be a pull technology verses a push technology so students will have to be proac-tive in order to keep up with current messages,” said webmaster Barbara Monnett. “The idea is

that students will be more willing to look at the messages displayed in myCATS than to check them in email. Another plus is that messages will be delivered individually in a more timely manner and will not have to wait until a certain time of day to get a col-lection of messages.”

Monnett worked with SGA and Instruc-tional Technology Support Specialist Jay Lancaster to devise the new system. Mon-nett was responsible for adding the new channels on myCATS while Lancaster worked on the conversion process. SGA helped give student feedback and input.

“Barbara Monnett and Jay Lancaster had been wanting to upgrade the system. They’ve been working on (the change) for a while,” said junior Maxwell Pichan, chair of the SGA taskforce for the project. “They were noticing a lot of students were just de-leting the emails.”

Unlike the previous system, the new GC Highlight emails will not have an opt-out option, according to Pichan. Pichan hopes that students utilize the new sales and an-nounce lists more than in the past.

“We think it’s a really great system, Pichan said. “Before it looked like it was coming from a typewriter, it’s definitely a big upgrade.”

Monnett feels the new system will allow students to find what they want quicker.

“I hope students will value the idea of messages not being sent to their email where they sometimes get lost in the to-tal amount of emails everyone receives,” Monnett said. “They can now go and view the email at their convenience and will not have to search their emails for specific pieces of information.”

MyCATS new home to sales list

BoBBi otiSStaff rePorter

Application, acceptance and en-rollment rates have been increasing throughout the country, and Georgia College is no exemption.

In Fall 2010, 4,122 first year fresh-men applied to Georgia College and 2,526 were accepted. Out of the students accepted, 1,199 enrolled in the univer-sity, meaning 47.4 percent of accepted applicants enrolled this Fall.

These numbers are up from 3,259 applications in Fall 2005. That same se-mester 1,952 were accepted and 1,032 were enrolled.

Though the numbers have been climbing steadily over the years, the number of students who enroll is capped now at roughly 1,200.

“We are not planning right now to in-crease the number of students we bring in because of a few things: with our mis-sion of being Georgia’s Public Liberal Arts University, we are trying to keep our classes as small as possible, and we just don’t have room to grow physically on this campus,” said Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management Suzanne Pittman.

At Georgia College, there is a require-ment for all students to live on campus during their first year. As of now, there

are 2,250 beds available to students. Therefore, if enrollment rates for fresh-men were to increase, University Hous-ing could handle the higher demand.

“All freshmen have to live in the dorms, and about one-third of students in each class after that live in University Housing,” Executive Director of Uni-versity Housing Larry Christenson said. “Some of the rooms now are used for office space, so those could be convert-ed back to dorm rooms if needed.”

Not only is the number of applicants

increasing, but Georgia College’s reten-tion rate is growing as well. Out of the students who entered Georgia College in Fall 2009, 85.22 percent returned for their sophomore year.

“Our retention is growing which means that the students who come here are persistently staying,” Pittman said. “So, we can’t really bring in that many more students because of the number of

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- Weekly emails with upcoming events and announce-ments

- Web-based sales and announce portals under student tab of myCATS

- Students can see a title of topics as well as search by subject, author or message

Newlist changes

Layout by Rebecca Burns and Taylor Seay

Radio page 6

5Number of rapes on campus that have been reported to Public Safety in the past three years, two of which occurred in the 2010-11 academic year. See page 5 for more.

InsIde news Flash NewsSmoking ban not followed on campus..................2City Council researches skate park option.........2FeaturesGreene Mile makes dreams come true.............10Milledgeville Memoirs takes New York..............10

Community News........................................9

SportsGeorgia College broadcaster profiles................16Coaches paid equally to similar colleges...........16

Quotable Number CrunCh

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Geography Bee at Georgia College

Georgia College will host the state-level portion of the annual National Geographic Bee for the 10th consecutive year at 12:15 p.m. on Friday, April 1 in the Arts & Sciences Auditorium. This year’s moderator will be Dr. Warner A. Belanger. Out of 100 first-place fourth to eighth grade finalists, only one will advance to the national finals hosted by Alex Trebek at the National Geography Society’s Washington D.C. headquarters May 24 and 25.

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“I honestly don’t know what they could do to help prevent that.

... Maybe if we walked around with scissors and just cut the person’s

cigarette off their face.” - Jared Powell, junior rhetoric major

oCtoBer 22, 2010 the Colonnade 3

katelyn heBertSenior rePorter

It was the eve of the April 5, 1952 senior dance. Sanford Hall was alive with excite-ment with girls traips-ing from room to room primping for one of their last college out-ings before graduation. But the girls never made it to the dance.

What was supposed to be a time of celebra-tion turned into one of confusion and shock when they found Cook-ie’s body sprawled across a bed in a third floor room.

It was a time before ambulances and emer-gency rooms. The girls called the hospital. An old friend of Cookie’s responded and took her to the Binion clinic, which at the time was located downtown across from Georgia Military College.

Dr. Bob Wilson, history professor and university historian, has researched Cook-

ie’s story and met the friend, one of the last people to see Cookie alive.

“One of the things she said to this guy,” Wilson said. “She called out his name and said ‘don’t let me die.’”

Once they got her to the clinic, she had lost too much blood. They couldn’t save her.

Betty Jean Cook, a biology major affec-tionately called “Cook-ie” by her friends, was an active member in theater and in the the-ater honors fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega.

“The whole story was always sad to me,”

Wilson said. “Because here’s a girl who was so bright and had so much potential and then she just cuts her life off like that. She was an elegant looking girl, in fact, she was beautiful, full of energy.”

But the Sanford Hall story started years be-fore Cookie walked the third floor stairs for the last time.

“(During Cookie’s time) Sanford was the dorm for senior girls, and they loved it,” Wil-son said. “They were out of the way of ev-erything, in the back of it was just woods, there was even a little recreation cabin back there.”

Built in 1938, the third floor of Sanford was used as dormi-tory space however, this was years before Cookie was found.

“That wasn’t Cook-ie’s room up there,” Wilson said. “There

Courtney MurrahSenior rePorter

An estimated 100,000 unmarked graves nationwide belong to mental patients with 30,000 being in Milledgeville, causing the town to be dubbed “the city of lost graves,” according to the Today Show.

These 30,000 unknown graves al-ready outnumber the current population of Milledgeville, and they are not the only ones to be found in the town.

Another cemetery of unknown souls lies at the old prison off of Highway 22. The 300 graves are only marked by license plates labeled with numbers.

Hugh Harrington is a cemetery preserva-tionist. Along with authoring many books about local history, he spends his time dis-covering and taking care of lost graves as a part of Friends of Baldwin County Cem-eteries, Inc.

According to the group’s website, there are 182 cemeteries in Baldwin County.

“A large number of people never bother to put a stone out either because they don’t care or can’t afford to or they mean to some-time later and never get around to it,” Har-rington said, “so it’s a very common thing not to have a marked grave. Usually after a while, people everywhere forget who is buried there. There are entire cemeteries of people who’ve just been forgotten.”

Meredith McMahan, a junior environ-mental science major and Milledgeville resident, has seen some of the unmarked graves in the cemeteries.

“I know there are several (unmarked graves) because of the history of Milled-geville,” McMahan said, “between all the wars it’s been through and the different economic levels that live here. The old sol-diers who no one knew they just buried in mass graves or just had small ceremonies for them but didn’t have the money for a headstone. There are several in Rose Hill and the main one, Memory Hill. They ei-ther are just marked with bricks around it - I’ve seen several of those - or a headstone you can’t even read.”

About 1,000 of the 7,000 graves in Memory Hill are unmarked, Harrington said.

For those interested in spending time in Memory Hill and seeing some of its well-known residents, the cemetery is open to the public. Brochures for walking tours of points of interest are made available in the cemetery’s gazebo.

“Just wander around in there. They’re about the best people in town, above and below,” said Harrington.

It is important to remember, however, that it is a final resting place and should be respected as such.

“(There are an) awful lot of cemeteries out there,” Harrington said. “Be aware of where they are and what they are.”

Spooky local stories, legends and lore

draKe SimonS / Senior PhotograPherThe third floor of Sanford Hall where Betty Jean “Cookie” Cook committed suicide in 1952 has been closed off for years. The floor was closed off even years before Cookie’s incident and was only used for storage at the time. Now, heating and air systems for the hall are installed throughout the third floor.

The story behind Sanford’s Cookie

Campus building said to be haunted by ghost of 1946 alumna Mary Virginia Harrison katelyn heBertSenior rePorter

The Harrison House, lo-cated at 434 W. Hancock St., is now home to the Office of Institutional Research, but its history is marred with the story of a local woman’s sui-cide.

Nestled atop the mantle in an open room in the house sits a photo of Mary Virginia Har-rison along with a shoe that once belonged to her. Harri-son shot and killed herself on Nov. 6, 1979 and according to Dr. Bob Wilson, history professor and campus histo-rian, Harrison is now said to haunt the Harrison House.

Harrison was born in 1925 to Benjamin and Gussy

Harrison of Milledgeville. She later attended Georgia State College for Women and was friends with Flannery O’Connor.

“She was beautiful: dark hair, brown eyes,” Wilson said. “For her, life without boys and men was just insup-portable; it was just like one

after another. And she was the ultimate flirt; she was the southern bell of all time.”

Harrison was on the staff at The Corinthian, a mem-ber of Alpha Psi Omega, the Allegro Club, President of the Literary Guild and was involved in many other ar-eas around campus. She also suffered from severe mood swings.

“She was really talented, but screwed up,” Wilson said.

She was the first woman under the age of 21 to register to vote in Baldwin County. She married twice, the first, to John Allison Mills, lasted almost five years. The sec-ond, in 1959 to Roy Russell, Sr., lasted until he died in the

1974.After Russell’s death, Har-

rison moved back in with her mother.

On the day of her death, there was a couple visiting the house. Harrison was 55 years old. Her mother had brought out a small pistol she had used to shoot snakes to see if the couple wanted it since she no longer had use for the gun.

“She left the gun on the table and Mary Virginia on this impulse—and there was a maid in the house who saw this—grabbed the gun went running through the house down the back steps, out to this little magnolia tree out back, and put the gun to her head and shot herself,” Wil-

son said. Harrison later died in the

hospital. Wilson has heard rumors

that Harrison may not have left the Harrison House. He had his own encounter with the ghost while on a year-long research sabbatical in 2001. His office was moved to an old bedroom in the Har-rison House.

“There were three doors into this room, and all three of them shut. Boom, boom, boom,” Wilson said. “No breeze or anything, they just shut.”

He had one more encoun-ter at the end of his stay in the Harrison House.

“I never had anything else weird happen until I

was packing up my books to move next door into the Humber-White house,” Wil-son said. “I sat down to take a break and this perfume just permeates the room, out of nowhere. So I went out into the hallway to try and see if they were somebody here. And then it was gone.”

Wilson discovered later that Harrison had an affin-ity for fine perfumes. Others have approached him about the possibility of a ghost be-ing in the Harrison House as well. People have seen lights flickering and doors closing without any evidence of the source.

“People that live in that house still see strange things happen,” Wilson said.

Unmarked graves populate city

Mary Virginia Harrison

Betty Jean Cook

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draKe SimonS / Senior PhotograPherGraffiti is spread throughout the third floor from years of student break-ins. Recently steps have been taken to make the third floor less accessible to unauthorized personnel.