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LSA’s Hispanic heritagePAGE 4

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A “culture of domestic peace” for Domestic Violence Awareness monthPAGE 11

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f r o m t h e e d i t o rDON’T GIVE UP yET

I’ve heard from a couple of students that from this point on, the rest of the year goes downhill. We’ve tackled midterm season and now all there is to look forward to is finals and our holiday break. I do agree with this to some extent (I’m not looking forward to finals), but I think that if you look around GSC, there are things that can make your com-mute here worthwhile.

Clubs are still active and accepting members (p. 4), there are plays and concerts free to students (p. 12,13) and if you look hard enough, a potential mate (p. 19), all here at GSC. So don’t despair. There’s hope for us yet.

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Joe Beasley Staff Writer [email protected]

After the discovery of AIDS and the disasterous effects of the virus, organi-zations all over the world have worked to find a cure while helping those with the disease.

This year a class from Gainesville State College participated in the AIDS Walk at Piedmont Park in Atlanta to raise funds and awareness.

Professor Michallene McDaniel’s Contemporary Global Issues class raised $2,020 to donate.

“It was difficult in the beginning (to raise money), but I was persistent and eventually raised $115,” said student Jamie Curtis.

The AIDS Walk McDaniel’s class

participated in was a main source of funding for AID Atlanta and the 11 other organizations involved.

Several years ago, McDaniel decided to begin teaching a class outlining the AIDS epidemic. The class is offered in the fall and is usu-ally full.

McDaniel does not assign tests for this class, instead opting for service learning grades so students can par-ticipate in the les-sons being taught, one such being the AIDS Walk.

“I’m glad I got to do the op-portunity to do such an amazing thing benefitting so many people,” said Chelsea Nally. “This event has really opened my eyes to the chal-lenges that people face every day, the constant battle that so many mil-lions of people have to fight just to stay alive.”

That is one main goal for Mc-Daniel’s class.

“People are still getting this disease, and they

don’t have to,’” said McDaniel.Another goal for the class is to end

the stigma sur-rounding the disease.

M c D a n -iel regularly invites guest speakers to talk with the class. One such speaker is a friend of Mc-Daniel’s who is living with HIV, Jason Lee.

Lee told the class ev-erything from how he be-

came infected, to his self-destructive behavior after he received the positive diagnosis, to what life is like for him on a daily basis, and then offered to answer any questions the students had for him.

“I’ll tell you anything you want to know,” said Lee.

Students are shown several movies that address a variety of issues sur-rounding the AIDS epidemic.

At the beginning of the semester, McDaniel showed the HBO miniseries “And the Band Played On,” which fol-lowed the doctors and epidemiologists during the period of the outbreak, and described the government’s blatant disregard for the virus.

At the end of the semester, on World AIDS day, McDaniel’s class is planning something to inform the student body about HIV/AIDS.

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GSC class raises $2,020 to fight AIDS

Students from Michallene McDaniel’s Contemporary Global Issues class

walked in the AIDS Walk at Piedmont Park on Oct. 16.

“This event has really opened my eyes to the challenges that people face every day, the constant battle that so many millions of people have to fight just to stay alive.”

Chelsea Nalley,Student

Michallene McDaniel (center) walks with student Katie Perkins (left) in the AIDS Walk at Piedmont Park in Atlanta.

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Asia ThomasStaff Writer [email protected]

With the many different clubs at Gainesville State College, fencing is one of the few that is also considered a sport.

“The club was formed in Fall 2010 with a handful of interested students,” Ezekiel Black, professor and founder of the club, said. “Since then, the club has grown to about 20 or 30 members.”

Although fencing is a club, it is also a class offered here a GSC. The class is more structured and formal, emphasiz-ing the fundamental basics through lec-ture, while the club is more hands on.

“Aside from the allure of swords, which is probably the biggest draw, members find that fencing is a good ex-ercise,” Black said.

The club members suit up and choose one of the three weapons to fence with. Most members choose foil but some members pefer the two other weapons called sabre and epee, which are more like traditional swords.

“ I want to see foils and swords,” Josh Hopper, new GSC student who joined the fencing class this semester, said.

As they take their positions and be-

gin to strike their opponent to score the most points, a mediator stands by to cal-ulate the points.

“If there are any new members, the club will introduce them to the equip-ment, teach them the en guard stance and basic footwork, and if they are ready, the club will begin bladework,” Black said.

“Its a lot of fun as a physical activity,” Hopper said.

“It most commonly described as physical chess and involves a lot of men-tal ability,” GSC Fencing Club captain

Margaret Beifus said.Like any other sport there is a chance

of injury. A student was recently hurt in the class, but that is rare, Black said.

“In my years of fencing this is the first real injury I’ve seen,” Black said.

The incident happened in the fencing class as the student lunged forward. As he recovered, he twisted his leg, later to find out he broke the bones behind his kneecap.

“Injuries are few and far between,” Black said. “If you ignore the occasional bruise or scrape, fencing is very safe.”

Club members look forward to the day that they will become a team and compete in intramurals.

“Right now, we are only a club and offer a class,” Beifus said. “Eventually, when we have enough to purchase the things we need, we would like to host tournaments and go to tournaments.”

“It’s really fun. Kinda like joining a family,” Beifus said.

The club meets Mondays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the PE building. All inter-ested students are welcome.

Fencing club slashes its way through campus

LSA celebrates Hispanic Heritage monthMichael Mullins Staff Writer [email protected]

Sept. 15 to Oct. 5 is when Hispanic Heri-

tage month is na-tionally recognized. GSC’s Latino Stu-

dent Association held events all month long in-cluding inviting

a mariachi band to per-form and holding the annual Expo Cultural.

“We’re trying to in-troduce the countries and culture of South

America,” said par-ticipant Christina

Yebra. The LSA will

also have their annual formal, the Black and White Gala in Novem-ber.

All GSC students are al-

lowed to come, as well as non-GSC students and family.

Adviser Luis Santos-Rivas poses with the Belize group at the Expo Cultural.

Students representing Colombia felt that “not a lot of people know about Colom-bia...we need to inform them.”

LSA President Pedro Mandujuano pre-sented the long-running Mexican show “El Chavo del Ocho” because “it has im-pacted several people.”

Students stopped at each country’s poster to learn about the individual cultures.

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Members of fencing club pose with their swords in the Hugh Mills Physical Center, where they practice. Asia Thomas


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Paku LoStaff Writer [email protected]

Gainesville State College’s police force operates like a reg-ular police department and has 11 officers who can do all the tasks a traditional department can.

Their mission is to “provide policing, parking, and emer-gency preparedness to the Gainesville State College com-munity in a professional man-ner to provide a safe environ-ment conducive to education for all that study, work and visit GSC.”

“We’re here 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of every year,” Sgt. Rodney Smith said. “There’s not a minute goes by that someone’s not here.”

Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police Richard

Goodson and Administrative Sgt. Karen Mc-Cusker act as administrative officers while nine officers are dedicated to pa-trolling.

Goodson said that 11 of-ficers may sound like a lot for such a small campus, but most of the time there are only two or three of-ficers actu-ally on the road work-ing, because there are three dur-ing the day, three in the e v e n i n g , one at mid-night and one on the weekends.

“We do police investiga-tions, work accidents, all the things a police department does,” he added.

Smith said that they also work with Hall County as well

as the Oakwood police depart-ment when they need assis-tance. They are the first ones he calls if the GSC police need help.

Goodson worked with the University of Georgia police department as Deputy Chief for 13 years, Georgia College of Milledgeville for 10 years and has been here four years.

Goodson said they hire peo-ple who have been certified by the Police Officers Standards and Training Council, so they come with some life experi-ence. The median age of the of-ficers is around 40 or so.

“My experience has been that the young guys are pretty eager and aggressive,” he said, “and sometimes you don’t want too much aggression on a col-lege campus, but you also don’t want somebody that’s gonna just retire on the job.”

T h e r e have been a couple of drug arrests on campus, but only a few minor issues in the big scheme of things, he said.

T h e r e was a non-student who

stole a bike from campus, a stu-dent arrested in reference to a traffic incident, and a couple of non-students in traffic situ-

Advising made easier with DegreeWorksBrent Van Fleet News Section [email protected]

Gainesville State’s advising weeks are afoot, and it’s going to be done differently this year with a newly implemented program called DegreeWorks.

“It is a degree audit sys-tem that tracks your tracks your progress towards your degree,” GSC Registrar Janice Hartsoe said.

According Hartsoe, four years ago, then-University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll Davis was looking for a way to make advising easier throughout the state.

The majority of USG schools had systems similar to ours, involving a lot of paper-work and a long drawn-out process. Some schools had an electronic advising system.

It happened to be a coinci-dence that most of the other GSC schools were going to begin using DegreeWorks.

Hartsoe said DegreeWorks is filled with features that will ultimately make advising less of a hassle as far as paperwork is concerned and give the ad-viser more time to actually advise the student. Also the features may virtually elimi-nate the frequent question-and-answer emails and calls with advisers.

According to Hartsoe, De-greeWorks shows students what percent of their degree they have finished. The pro-gram shows a clear task list of things that students have to do to complete their degree, and which specific courses are needed.

The premiere feature of DegreeWorks is the “What if ” scenario, which will let stu-dents see what courses they need if they change majors or go for another degree.

“If you were to change your

degree, this program sees where your classes line up in other degrees,” financial aid counselor Stephanie Stahl said.

This gives student a visual representation on their prog-ress towards another degree of their choice, whatever the circumstances may be. There have been many cases where students will stay with a major just for the simple fact they are unaware of the other ma-jors and what their require-ments are, Stahl said, but De-greeWorks will help them see other options.

For example with this “What if ” scenario, say you are taking a math class that is giving you a difficult time, and you’ve failed it over and over.

You could look on Degree-Works and, using the classes you already have completed, you may qualify for another degree, like general studies degree.

This program should help students to graduate on time, Stahl said.

Another feature that De-greeWorks offers is the GPA calculator. There have been many instances where stu-dents have miscalculated their GPA. With all of the HOPE scholarship changes, knowing your GPA is very beneficial, Stahl said.

“This program will give students a better idea what’s up ahead,” Stahl said. “Noth-ing will come as a surprise.”

DegreeWorks is expected to be available for students Nov. 7. You should see it when you log in to Banner.

The advisers have been training in the program for the past few weeks. The stu-dents will have same opportu-nity; there will be workshops soon after it is available for students.

Cops provide ‘policing, parking, preparedness’

Left: Police officer Rod-ney Smith in his office in the Public Safety build-ing. Below: Police cars patrol all areas of the GSC cam-pus.

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Police Department Mission Statement

“To provide police, parking, and emergency pre-paredness services to the Gainesville State College

community in a professional manner that will provide the college a safe environment that is conducive to

education for all that study, work and visit GSC.”

see “GSC police” page 7

“We do police inves-tigations, work ac-cidents; all the things a police department does.”

Richard Goodson,Chief of Police


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You can learn to animate digitally in a new spring se-mester class offered in the me-dia studies department’s new Mac lab.

“I’ve been wanting to teach this since I arrived, but I haven’t had the facilites to real-istically teach it,” said media studies pro-fessor David Smith.

The class will be offi-cially called Special Topics in Media Studies: Animation Production and taught in Ac-ademic 4’s new Mac lab.

The level of difficulty of the class will progress from “flipbook style animation and move up to Flash,” said Smith.

Smith reccomends this

class for those interested in animation and production students.

“The main focus and drive is understanding the mechan-ics behind animation which include timing and composi-tion,” he said.

Smith teaches other media studies classes such as Film Production and Intro to Film.

This class will help with under-standing classes like Film Produc-tion because of those timing and composition les-sons.

“When peo-ple start doing animation, they

spend about two hours creat-ing two seconds of video. They just don’t understand the tim-ing it takes to make a produc-tion from beginning to end,” he said.

Registration for classes start Oct. 30.

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More and more accommo-dating amenities for students are being added on campus, and having lockers may be the next addition.

“It’s been in discussion for a while, but no one’s really done much,” said SGA Vice President Jonathan Ojeda.

Ojeda is the only student from SGA on the environmental com-mittee, a committee that is push-ing to have lockers at GSC.

The environmental commit-tee’s point of view is that “lockers might give people an incentive to park further, and not park on the grass, which is a problem over at the Oconee campus,” said Ojeda. They prefer the locker option to paving over grass to make quick parking spaces until a new deck is built.

Aside from environmental reasons, there is the idea that lockers will provide ease for stu-dents. The chances of having lockers will increase with a show of student demand.

“I think the first step would be to survey the students and actu-ally see if they would be used on campus,” said Jonathan Rajala, SGA president.

“I wouldn’t want to purchase something that wouldn’t actually benefit the student body. We’re not going to just go out and buy some lockers. We don’t want to waste funds, definitely not in this economy,” he said.

SGA’s funds won’t be nec-essary to the purchase of the

lockers unless they voted that sponsoring the project would be something they’d like to add to their agenda. The purchase of the lockers would have to come from the budgets of the individual buildings.

“This wouldn’t be a club proj-ect,” said Cara Ray, director of the Student Center. “It’s something I would probably do through the budget I have for the build-ing. Because we’re a student run building, we have a budget with student fees to purchase things for the building.”

Ojeda has been e-mailing and talking to each building’s manag-er to see how likely it will be for their building to host the lockers.

So far, Acad. 2 has chosen against the lockers due to lack of space and the potential fire haz-ard they might cause.

Ray, as the manager for the Student Center, is more open to the possibil-ity of lockers and thinks it could beneficial to a va-riety of students.

“The purpose of getting lock-ers anywhere on campus is for carpooling stu-dents,” Ray said.

Lockers would keep students from having to leave things in someone’s car or finding the friend who drove them to get their books, Ray said. She thinks it would simplify things for stu-

dents who rode with someone else or whose parents or families drop them off.

“I see people being dropped off all the time at the student center with gigantic backpacks,” she said. “So they wouldn’t have to haul their stuff all day.”

Carpoolers, as she sees it, won’t be the only ones to benefit.

“Also, students wouldn’t have to trek back to their cars,” Ray said. “What if you’re parked in CE and your class is at Acad. 4, but your book is back in the parking lot in your car? There’d be less trekking back and forth.”

There is no set date for when these lockers might be on cam-pus or exactly what buildings they will be in, but Ojeda is eager for them.

“I’d like to see lockers on cam-pus by next semester, but it’s re-ally soon,” he said. “It all depends how fast the looking over of it

goes. I’m send-ing the build-ing managers prices, but it’s up to them to see when they can do it.”

Ray is equal-ly hopeful and ambitious as Ojeda when it comes to finally getting lockers at GSC.

“It’s come up in the past, but never with such enthusiasm as this year, so

hopefully this might be the year we figure it out,” she said.

Lockers a possibility at GSC

“It’s come up in the past, but nev-er with such en-thusiasm as this year, so hopefully this might be the year we figure it out.”

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ations.Smith said the trouble they have with theft on campus is

just like anywhere else.“When you have 6,000 to 10,000 folks coming and go-

ing,” he said, “there’s going to be stuff, no matter how it is, even in your own household.”

Goodson said a benefit of having a police force on cam-pus is that they are more attuned to students and will not overreact when something happens, as opposed to cops from other departments who will not be as understanding.

Although there isn’t much crime on campus, it does happen. GSC student Lee Xiong’s car was stolen this se-mester from in front of the Student Center.

Before he left for lunch with his friends, he had shown them his new car. When they returned an hour and a half later it was gone.

He feels the police weren’t doing their job in that case, but other students feel differently.

Rianne Richter, a student whose car was burglarized, thinks having the police department provides a great ser-vice to the GSC campus.

“It just reduces people doing that kind of stuff,” she said. “It’d be really bad if some creeps were out there and were just taking girls off the street or something. At least we have a little bit of security to scare them away.”

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Manuel MorenoStaff [email protected]

Surrounded by music, excitement, refreshments, and visitors, the $37 mil-lion Academic IV building was dedicat-ed Friday, Oct. 21.

The ribbon cutting ceremony for the 135,000-square-foot building took place outside of the building at the back. Many students, faculty, and staff members gathered to witness the cut-ting of the ribbon.

Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, Regent Philip Wilheit, and Chancellor Hank Hucka-by of the University System of Georgia were amongst the visitors.

The GSC Symphonic Band played a couple of melodies and GSC President Martha Nesbitt commenced the cere-mony with much excitement and grati-tude.

“To say that the college is thrilled to have this building is an understatement – a five-story understatement,” Nesbitt said.

Nesbitt said the greatest day in the existence of the new building was the day that it opened on the first day of the semester.

“This building was not a nice-to-have building; it was a must-have building,” said Nesbitt.

During the ceremony many of the guest speakers praised Nesbitt for her passion and dedication in making Aca-demic IV a reality. Student government

President Jonathan Rajala referred to her as a “true visionary.”

The new building provides new op-portunities for students, said Jeff Mark-er, Gainesville State College’s faculty senate president.

“While my fellow faculty and I ap-preciate having things like new offices and a break room here and there, and we certainly appreciate the better cof-fee, what we see in this building are op-portunities for our students,” Marker

said.Nesbitt was also presented with a

replica of the plaque found inside the new building as a symbol of her work and leadership.

The cutting of the ribbon was led by Nesbitt accompanied by Huckaby and several people who contributed to the construction of Academic IV.

Following the ribbon-cutting cer-emony, Huckaby met with several Gainesville State student leaders. The

meeting was telecon-ferenced with student leaders from the Oconee Campus.

Students asked ques-tions relating to Huck-aby’s background and to what was he enjoyed most about working for the system.

“As a chancellor, vis-iting schools is some-thing that I really enjoy the most,” he said. “So far I have visited several schools and I have en-joyed meeting students and faculty.”

Huckaby also said that on his to-do list while in office was to address is-sues such as having better organization and timing with programs and pro-cedures for overall greater quality of things.

Students asked about the Hope Scholarship and the addition of more bachelor’s degrees at GSC.

Huckaby said the Hope Scholarship is an individual student issue.

“As far as more four-year degrees, as soon was we can get a chief academic officer we will be able to look further into that,” Huckaby said.

He also said that some of the chal-lenges included finding a solution to the budget cuts, considering that there have been no pay raises for faculty and staff in the last four years.

“There has been over a billion dollars worth of cuts in the past four years. [to USG schools],” he said. “We have been using many part-time faculty because full time is being held. The budget area is something we will be working real hard on.”

Huckaby also said that one of his motivations come from past experienc-es and the great respect that he has for young people who want to seek higher education.

“I used to be young, too, and I have great respect for that,” he said. “Seven-teen years of my career have gone to-wards education.”

Huckaby told the GSC student lead-ers he is committed to higher education in Georgia.

“I want to continue the same high level of commitment that previous chancellors had. I don’t want us to di-minish the commitment into serving our students,” Huckaby said.

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Martha Nesbitt is presented a framed image of the new building by Mike Potts as Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle (R) looks on. Potts’ firm built Academic IV.

Chancellor Hank Huckaby of the USG spoke to the crowd.

Merrill Morris

David Smith

Academic IV is finally dedicatedUSG chancellor Hank Huckaby cuts the ribbon on GSC’s newest building


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Katie MooreStaff [email protected]

October is the nationally recognized month for domestic violence aware-ness. GSC School of Social Sciences shed light on the issue with the Clothesline Project and forums throughout the month.

“Primarily, domestic vio-lence has been born out of this culture of women being oppressed,” Anjana Free-man, professor and one of the event’s organizers, said.

The theme for the 2011 Domestic Awareness Month is “Creating a Cul-ture of Domestic Peace.”

The Clothesline Memori-al went up on the quad Oc-tober 6 where hundreds of students have put in their efforts to bring awareness to

domestic violence by decorating T-shirts and hanging them up on the campus’s clothesline.

At the opening day of the exhibit, there were musicians and poetry read-ings to accompany the memorial.

The clothesline project is a national project that came from women’s expe-riences in the 1950s when they were pro-hibited from speaking about domestic vio-lence and could only talk about their ex-periences over fences in their b a c k y a r d s while hanging

clothes. “This is symbolic of how we have

started talking about domestic vio-lence and protecting women … these t shirts really symbolize them refusing to be silent,” said Freeman.

After a few days displayed on the quadrangle the exhibit was moved to the CE building.

In addition to the Clothesline Proj-ect, a forum held by Kim Frndak from the Women’s Resource Center shelter discussed early warning signs and where to seek help if you are in a situ-ation of domestic violence.

She also spoke about how to help someone in this situation. “If it’s hap-pening in your world, it does affect you,” she said.

This is the third year that the School of Social Sciences has held these events on campus.

“Research shows that violence in relationships actually peaks during the college years, so we know that this population has a lot of stories to tell,” said Freeman.

A culture of peace with the Clothesline Project

(Left to Right) The shirts in the the Clothesline Project were hung on Oct. 6; students read the messages on the shirts made by their fellow students; along with the exhibit, there were singers and poetry readings; some shirts had messages of hope as well as stories or overcoming domestic violence, students were provided with shirts and markers to personalize their shirts for the clothesline.

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“If it’s happening in your world, it does affect you.”

Kim Frndak,Women’s

Resource Center

Each shirt had a personalized mes-sage written anonymously by a student or faculty member.

All photos Katie Moore


Eddie GonzalezStaff Writer [email protected]

There’s always a certain air of un

easiness at open mic events. Be-cause of its “open” nature, the acts aren’t necessarily professional or refined.

This provides for hic-cups here and there. Amateur musicians may forget lyrics or chords, opting to s t o p a n d

start a song over rather than carrying through like a more expe-rienced musi-

cian would. Nervous writers reading their work in public for the first time may stumble over their words, quivering both physically and vocally.

Then there’s the inevitable equipment failure. Microphones and amplifiers that

have always been faithful pre-show suddenly decide, nefariously, to quit working mid-act, leaving the per-former stranded and the audience to exchange glances among themselves.

All of this culminates in the obligatory applause and awk-

ward, often hurried, exit off-stage.

But it’s the lack of refine-ment that makes these types of events greatly entertain-ing. No precedents have been set and no expecta-tions have been solidified. This sets the stage for sur-prise.

And this was certainly the case when members of the Chestatee Review de-cided to place a microphone in front of a gathering of students to see what would happen. No sign-ups. No tryouts.

Taking place in GSC’S own Star-bucks-brewing café (located in the new building), the event turned up a larger audience than some of the performers expected.

Naturally, the acts were varied, rang-ing from readings of poetry and short-stories to the performance of mono-logues and musical numbers on guitar and, in one case, flute.

Add to that medley a comedy routine and a final act making use of a relatively unknown instrument, the cajon, and it’s easy to see why the event lasted longer than advertised.

One of the more sensational readings, performance-wise and lyrically, was of a poem by Anis Mojdani entitled “The Branches are Full and The Orchards Heavy,” by student Joshua Hellums. The poem, beginning with the line “gentle-men have you forgotten your god?” stood out as one of the more emotionally

charged and perhaps most controversial piece of the night.

However, the bulk of

the event was set to light-hearted music.Singer-songwriter Kevin Whitfield

offered his own take on hit songs “Chari-ot” by Gavin Degraw and “The Remedy” by Jason Mraz. Also covering contem-porary music was the well-harmonized duo of Zach and ‘Hawaii’, who lightly strummed a laid-back version of Katy Perry’s notorious “E.T” and the old-school Enrique Iglesias single “I Can Be Your Hero”.

Also present were musicians who dared to present their own, original com-positions.

One of these students, Bob Coleman, played a country-fried piece he had yet to title. Indeed, title-less originals seemed to be in vogue for the night.

Then there’s the colorful and versatile Little Eagle, a Native American student who had plenty of talent at hand. In ad-dition to poetry and a comedic act rife with impersonations (including Adam Sandler), Eagle also treated the crowd to a flute serenade, closing with a song he himself termed as “cliché”: The ‘Poca-hontas’ theme song.

Towards the closing of the event, it was clear that the Chestatee Review’s experiment was a successful one. While it wasn’t without its hiccups, students at GSC had plenty to offer.

So much, in fact, that another open mic event has been in talks to be sched-uled for next semester.

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A R T S & E N T E R TA I N M E N TStudents open up at Open Mic Night

zach from the duo “zach and Ha-waii” was one of the many guitar players at Open Mic Night.

Student Joshua Hellums read “The Branches are Full and The Orchards Heavy” by Anis Mojadani.

Students crowded the new cafe in Ac-ademic IV to hear all of the night’s performers.

Many students performed more than once. Little Eagle read poetry, played the flute and did a comedic act.


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Cult classic and fan favor-ite, ““Hair-

spray””, is next on

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Gainesv i l le Theatre Alliance’s set for the 2011-2012 season.

“I remember last year when we would announce to the audience members what we were doing the next year, every time I said ‘Hairspray’ there was a huge re-action,” said Jim Hammond, the GTA’s managing di-rector, who is also a professor of theatre at GSC. “That’s the good, it’s a show that’s very popular but of course that means the expectations are very high.”

For a play that so many people love and are familiar with, audiences are likely to come in expecting what they have seen in other adaptations of Hairspray.

For Rane Titon, who plays the lead, Tracy Turnblad, these expectations are something she’s well aware of.

“It’s definitely scary, just because it’s a well-known musical,” she said, “so you have that in your head with every character and it’s frightening. People are going to come in and hopefully love it for the character that it is, but it probably will be compared. You can’t help that, in a way. You just have to hope that you’re doing the character justice.”

A deciding factor in whether “Hairspray” would take

the stage this year was choreographer David Rossetti.“One of the reasons why I felt that we could tackle

this and do a very good job is because of choreographer David Rossetti,” Hammond said. “David is out of New York and has been associated with the national tour of “Hairspray” for about four years.

“He has been a performer on the tour, he was an as-sistant choreographer, and he was a dance captain. He knows this production like the back of his hand.”

This is Rossetti’s fourth musical out four years of working with the Hammond and the GTA.

“Who you have as your choreographer is critical. When we were able to get him we knew we’d be in re-ally good shape,” Hammond said.

The story of “Hairspray” revolves around Tracy Turnblad and her love of music and dancing, so the play reflects this in its array of song-and-dance num-bers.

“Because ‘Hairspray’ is about 85 percent song and dance, it’s just one big production number after an-other….there’s so many good numbers in this show,” Hammond said.

This requires a lot of practice from the members of the cast during the seven-week rehearsal process that started on Sept. 19.

“We definitely don’t waste a second,” Titon said. “This is my first lead, my first time doing as much singing and dancing as we’ve been doing.”

Moving around stage is a little more difficult for Joe Harris, the GSC student playing Tracy’s mother,

Edna Turnblad, who has always been played by male actors.

“The dancing hasn’t been too intense,” he said. “I’ve had to re-learn how to sit. I can’t sit like a guy, you know. Dancing, I’m not a dancer by trade, but I feel like Edna is giving into that. Edna can dance, but Joe can’t.”

He has to pad his chest to a 64 DDD and wear size 15 heels, which the costumers had

to go to a drag shop in Atlanta to find, in order to look the part of Edna.“It took getting the accoutrement for Edna to re-

ally shine through,” Harris said. “Before it was me just trying to act like a girl and play my mother, but I really feel like putting on the rehearsal clothes, the shoes, the breasts; it really brings her to life. I feel more, Edna.”

Like Titon, he feels the pressure that comes with playing such a loved character.

“I did feel a little bit of pressure in the beginning of the process because she is so famous and she’s been played by so many funny, funny comedians. To be next in line is an honor, but at the same time it’s a definite big challenge and a big mountain to get over,” he said.

While the play is largely a comedy, and Edna is a comedic character, Harris wants the audience to see deeper into her and a mother and a woman through his performance.

“That’s one thing that I wanted to bring, I wanted to find Edna’s heart and not just make her a character. Not just make it this person that’s going to get laughed at, but to get laughed with. It’s about finding the soul of Edna,” he said. “In the story she is a character, granted the funny part is that it is a man playing this woman who lived in the ’60s and was larger than life, but it’s about finding the way to the heart of her and what she cares about.”

Rounding out the Turnblad family is the patriarch, Wilbur, who is played by former GSC student James Odom.

Odom said playing opposite the outrageousness of Edna Turblad was a scary thing for an actor.

“Am I gonna be good enough to match the ridicu-lousness of the other character? The father, Wilbur, has his own unique characterization that I just love,” Odom said.

This play has a host of larger-than-life characters with intricate dance numbers and catchy songs, but Hammond thinks this play goes further than entertain-ment.

“‘Hairspray’ has a finale of ‘You Can’t Stop the Beat,’ which is probably one of the best closing songs of any musical,” he said. “It’s such a celebration of what this play is all about, which is breaking down all the walls between the races and dealing with body image issues and gender issues. It’s an exciting way to close the show.”


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dances onto GTA’s stage

Choreographer David Rossetti teaches the leads how to dance the “Without Love” number at a rehearsal.

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Performances

Opening night: November 87:30 pm, November 8-12 and 15-19; 2:30 pm, November 13 & 19

Tickets are $20-24 for adults, $14-16 for students

James Odom and Joe Harris pose out of cos-tume as Edna and Wilbur Turnblad

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Kaitlin Batson CL Section [email protected]

There are a few times year that the music department at Gainesville State College looks forward to showcas-ing their musical talents.

For two nights in October, the Brass Ensemble, Per-cussion Ensemble, String Ensemble, Symphonic Band, the Jazz Band and the Chorale joined together for two free performances that included over fifteen pieces by composers from all around the world.

When the music department was established, a new tradition of a Fall Festival was put in place.

“We perform twice a semester on campus, at least. Two official performances and sometimes we do a guerrilla performances somewhere on campus. We also do ones at an old folk’s home, a senior or at a school,” said Professor Laurin Smith, director of the string en-semble.

Three-year percussion ensemble director Chuck McKissick was anxious as he waited for the show to be-

gin as the per-cussion ensem-ble has “only been involved in the Fall Con-cert for the past two years”.

“We actu-ally started re-hearsals the second week of school, the first rehearsal

we met, picked music, passed out parts and then we started working. I have to say, these guys have worked extremely hard on this,” McKissick said.

Each of the ensembles included an array of instru-ments.

The instruments in the bass ensemble include the trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, percussion, and the tuba with about thirty members.

The symphonic band has forty-three members who play the flute, alto saxophone, horn, tuba, oboe, tenor saxophone, trombone, percussion, clarinet, trumpet, euphonium and the string bass.

The percussion ensemble is made up of ten perform-ers while the string ensemble is made up of nine mem-bers who play the violin, viola, bass and cello.

Rosmary Saavedra, a member of the string ensemble plays the violin and has been doing concerts at the col-lege since the spring of 2010.

“The first week of school we started practice. We got our music, we were sight reading and we’ve been prac-ticing every time we meet.”

When it comes to playing with another violinst, Saa-vedra said that before she came here she was not used to working with someone else. “To keep a beat with someone else was something I learned here.”

Each ensemble has a variety of students, including some high school seniors. Paul Nelson is a part of the joint enrollment program at GSC in the music depart-ment.

“I can’t wait to play with a college ensemble,” said Nelson.

As the night went on, the Ed Cabell Theatre filled with parents, students, and community members.

The next concert will be the holiday concerts on Nov. 28th and 29th .


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Music department presents

its fall concert

Students in the Brass Ensemble warm up be-fore the show.

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Dominique GaiterA&E Section [email protected]

The Roy C. Moore art gallery at GSC welcomed Art Rosen-baum on Oct. 10 to speak at a showing of Neil Rosenbaum’s documentary, “Sing My Trou-bles”. His son filmed the docu-mentary as companion piece to his parents’ artwork, which is now the Georgia Roots exhibit.

“I’m kind of a shy person,” said Art Rosenbaum. “Some-how, I’m so interested in this music that I’m willing to knock on a stranger’s door and I’ve had a few negative experiences but relatively few. Most of the time people are happy to share these traditions.”

Art Rosenbaum’s paint-ings reflect his love for folk music and traditional families while his wife, Margo Rosen-

baum’s work is a collection of black and white photography on the same subjects.

“People have different inter-ests and this is one of my inter-ests. I appreciate that this was kind of a family effort. Margo is a very good photographer and her photographs are part of the presentation and Neil, our son, studied communications and video. This was kind of a cool project to work on for a few

years,” said Art.The film featured

many folk artists, most-ly older women who told stories about play-ing music and making art.

Bonnie Loggins, one of the artists featured in the documentary also has paintings in the exhibit and is a close friend to the Rosen-baum family.

Loggins is a self taught painter, a poet,

and a singer. She does many of her paint-ings from memory,

and many from her imagina-tion. “Dream Man” is one of her works in the gallery that was painted from memory. Loggins said in the documentary that if she fell for another man that she could imagine he would look like her painting.

Many of the students who showed up to the gallery and documentary showing stayed for questions after the film.

One of the questions was “What do you get out of this whole experience?”

“So much it would be hard to express it. I started collecting this music because I like to play some myself. I play the guitar and banjo, so I started meeting people who play. And, I liked to learn, but I didn’t want to just learn from records or books so I wanted to meet the people and learn about the culture that was a little different from the one that I grew up in,” said Art Rosenbaum.

The exhibit will be open from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday to Wednesday and Thursdays from 10 a.m. till 7p.m. until Nov.3.

GSC exhibit gets back to its ‘Georgia roots’

Art Rosenbaum poses with a piece of his own after speaking to the crowd at the showing of his son’s film.

Dominique GaiterTop: “Man with Coffee Cup”, Middle: “Figure it Out”, Bottom:”Dream Man” - Bonnie Loggins


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SEC still reigns in BCS standingsMike Williams Sports [email protected]

It’s getting close to that time of year again, the time where the BCS standings are coming out, and surprise, surprise, the SEC holds the top two spots.

For the last five plus years the SEC has had a stran-glehold on the BCS National Championship.

It all started back in the 2006-2007 season when the Florida Gators played Ohio State for the champion-ship, winning 41-14.

That Florida team set the tone for years to come. If you can navigate your way through the SEC and win the SEC Championship, the BCS Championship is just a formality.

The next year it was the LSU Tigers turn.The Tigers had without question the best team in the

country, yet lost two games. How, you ask? They play in the SEC.Both times they lost they lost in overtime. People

made fun of the Tigers head coach Les Miles when he said his team never lost a game in regulation, but in fact he was correct. That is just how hard it is to win in the SEC.

LSU went on that year to pick up where the Gators left off the year before and beat up on Ohio State more to win the BCS Championship.

Next came the 2008-2009 season.To prove just how good the SEC is, the Georgia

Bulldogs, led by quarterback Matthew Stafford and

running back Knowshon Moreno, started the year off as the No. 1 team in the nation, yet didn’t even make a BCS bowl game, that is how deep this conference is.

That year, a middle of the road SEC team, Ole Miss, beat Florida 31-30, the only loss on the Gators’ resume.

Florida did not lose another game that year en route to winning the BCS Championship over the Oklaho-ma Sooners. And just for good measure, the Gators held the Sooners, the team that set the record for most points scored in a season, led by Heisman winner Sam Bradford at quarter-back, to only 14 points.

The next season was ar-guably the best in the SEC. The Florida Gators and Al-abama Crimson Tide were on a collision course from the start.

The year prior they played for the SEC Cham-pionship, which Florida won and subsequently won the BCS Title.

This year, they met once again for the SEC Cham-pionship and the right to play for the National Championship, both undefeated.

The results would be very different this year, though, as Alabama defeated the Gators behind the power run-

ning game of Heisman winner Mark Ingram.The Tide would then roll over the Texas Longhorns

to win the BCS Championship, making it four in a row for the SEC.

Now we get to the 2010-2011 season, maybe the biggest proof that the SEC reigns supreme. Auburn started the season, depending on which rankings you

followed, no higher than in the 20s.

Little did we all know just how good Cam New-ton would be.

He led the Auburn Ti-gers to an undefeated Na-tional Championship sea-son, the fifth in a row for the SEC.

Now that brings us back around to this year, where the first BCS Standings were just released and the LSU Tigers and Alabama Crimson Tide were Nos. 1 and 2 respectively, proving once again the SEC is the cream of the crop.

So, the question is, is the November 5th game between LSU and Ala-

bama, in Tuscaloosa, the real National Championship game? I think so.

Last five BCS Champions

2010-2011 - Auburn Tigers

2009-2010 - Alabama Crimson Tide

2008-2009 - Florida Gators

2007-2008 - LSU Tigers

2006-2007 - Florida Gators

Georgia versus Florida: It’s more than a gameBrent VanFleetStaff [email protected]

The SEC conference has been the dominant confer-ence in the NCAA Division I football for over half a decade. The games are fast paced and action packed.

To top it all off, the en-vironments are some of the most fierce in sports period.

But there is one game that stands above the rest. Its the game that fans will plan a year in advance just to attend.

“Every year, I make it known to my boss I can not work during this week of the year,” student Cathy Martinez said.

It's the Georgia/Florida week.

Ordinary fans will go tailgate early the day of the game.

Georgia fans will flock down to Jacksonville, Fl, the neutral site of the Georgia/Florida game a week before to have the biggest fan filled party of the year.

Some will make a pit stop in St. Simons Island, GA

to party with their fellow Dawg fans.Beaches full of Dawg fans, ocean filled with party

boats and yachts for this one weekend of the year. “St. Simons is just one one big tailgate party,” for-

mer GSC student Melissa Beacham said. “Everyone is friends that weekend,” she added.But St. Simons isn't the only place where Dawg fans

go to get rowdy for Flor-ida, many make a bee line straight for Jacksonville.

“The whole week up un-til Saturday is nothing but UGA fans,” Martinez said.

According to Martinez, everywhere you look you see massive tents and RV's just camped outside the sta-dium.

But why? What makes this game so different from Georgia Tech?

According to Martinez, she poked a little fun at Georgia Tech by saying the game meant more to Tech than it did to UGA. Florida was the real deal.

University of Georgia leads the Florida Gators in the series 47-40 but since 1990, Georgia has only won three matchups.

Georiga fans hope they go to the game that they ac-tually come out on top. It's their dream to have a huge party full of memories and to top it off with a win.

“It's a senior's dream and I will not miss out,” Mar-tinez said.

It's not the huge parties before the make it—it is gameday.

“It is one of the most tense environments I have wit-nessed,” Martinez said.

Everywhere, you will see UGA fans and UF fans talking smack to one another. One will do the gator chomp and the other will bark back. It is like that entire game.

Many have said it is like two games are going on at once at Jacksonville Municpal Stadium. The stadium is perfectly divided between the fans of each school. Dur-ing the game at one time you will hear the loud claps of the gator chomps and the barks of the Dawg fans. One side trying to be louder than the other.

“Definitely one of the best things I have been apart of,” Martinez said.

This trash talk continues during the entire game. Even after it is over Georgia fans have to keep jokes

on deck because lately they’ve been on the losing end.“Take your jean shorts back to Gainesville,” Marti-

nez said to a UF fan. “Literally every fan is wearing them,” she added

with a grin.

“St. Simons is just one big tailgate party. Everyone is

friends that weekend.”

Melissa Beacham, GSC student


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Who’ll be at the men’s Final Four in 2012?Mike Williams Sports [email protected]

The college basketball season is right around the corner and it looks to be one of the best in years. In a surprising turn of events a lot of the top players, like North Carolina’s Harrison Barnes, Kentucky’s Terrance Jones and Ohio States Jared Sullinger chose to stay in school instead of enter the NBA draft where they would have been top ten picks.

So let’s delve into the top 10 for the 2011-2012 col-lege basketball season.

10. Florida Gators: The Gators finished off last year with an overtime loss to the Butler Bulldogs in the Elite Eight, just a few seconds away from a trip to the Final Four. They lost their starting front court to graduation, but return guards Erving Walker and Kenny Boynton. They also return their freshman stud from last year in forward Patric Young who said no to the NBA and will have no problem stepping into the starting line-up. Sharp shooting junior forward Erik Murphy and sophomore defensive stopper Will Yeguete should do well replacing the departed players. Bottom line, they should fare well inside the SEC and battle Kentucky for the crown.

9. Kansas Jayhawks: Kansas had a prime opportunity to win the whole thing last year, but was stunned by VCU in the Elite Eight. They lost the Morris twins as well as highly touted freshman Josh Selby. But if I’ve learned one thing over the years it’s to never count out Kansas, they always seem to find themselves in the mix and in a weak Big 12 they are always the favorite. They still have Thomas Robinson and Tyshawn Taylor and as always a good recruiting class. They do have a tough schedule with out-of-conference games against Kentucky, Georgetown and Ohio State, all in their first seven games.

8. Louisville Cardinals: Had a disappointing first round exit in the NCAA tourney to end last season, but just like Kansas, I never count out a Rick Pitino-led squad. They return star guard Peyton Siva to head a young and hungry team. Other than Kentucky their non-conference schedule is fairly easy, so if they can navigate their way through the tough Big East they could be a dangerous team come March.

7. Pittsburgh Panthers: After a heartbreaking loss to

Butler in the second round of last year’s big dance, the Panthers are coming back to once again try to get to the Final Four. Ashton Gibbs returns at guard to lead the fairly young and athletic Panthers. Just like Louisville, they play no real out-of-conference threats, but they do have to find a way to win in the toughest basketball conference in the country.

6. Syracuse Orange: Another team that fell short of expectations in March last season when they fell to conference foe Marquette in the second round. They bring back star guards Scoop Jardine and Brandon Triche, along with forward Kris Joseph. And other than a home game against Florida their non-conference schedule is fairly easy. They should have no more than one loss, if that, going into confer-ence play. The only thing the Or-ange are lacking, just like the other teams behind them, is that go-to guy in close games.

5. Ohio State Buckeyes: They were the best team in the country all of last year until they ran into Kentucky in the Sweet Sixteen and laid an egg. They do return the nation’s most dominant player in big man Jared Sullinger, who re-portedly has shed all his baby fat and added muscle this offseason. They also bring back sharp shooters Aaron Craft and William Buford and a top 10 recruiting class. They should have no problem winning the weaker than usual Big Ten this season. We will get a good read on just how good they can be early on as they play Florida, Duke and Kansas in their first nine games. I see a No. 1 seed come March and a pos-sible Final Four trip.

4. Duke Blue Devils: The Blue Devils are always a threat to win it all as long as Coach K is there. They bring back the Mason boys, plus they added the third Mason brother. They also added Austin Rivers, son of former NBA player and current Celtics coach Doc Riv-ers, whom some recruiting sites named as the top high school player last year. My only issue is what happens when they go cold and don’t have that one guy who can score on the inside. They have a manageable non-con-ference schedule and should battle North Carolina for

the ACC and should be a No. 1 seed come March.3. Kentucky Wildcats: Made it to the Final Four last

year before falling to the eventual champion UConn Huskies. They bring back Terrance Jones and Darius Miller to go along with the top recruiting class in the nation led by the top high school player Michael Gil-christ. Tough games early against North Carolina and Kansas, then they get into conference play where their only real challenge should be from Florida. A No. 1 seed is a virtual lock come tournament time.

2. UConn Huskies: Yeah, they lost last year’s MOP of the Final Four Kemba Walker to the NBA, but don’t think for a sec-ond they aren’t still loaded. They return key contributors from last year’s title team in Jeremy Lamb, Shabazz Napier, Roscoe Smith and Alex Oriakhi. They also got a nice surprise late in the recruit-ing process when No. 2-rated high school player Andre Drum-mond changed his mind and de-cided to attend UConn. They play no school outside of the Big East that should even challenge them, so if they can navigate their way through their conference a No. 1seed should be a no-brainer come March.

1. North Carolina Tar Heels: No team in the nation brings back more talent than these Tar Heels do, with a starting five that was a win away from the Final Four last year as well as a top five recruiting class led by for-ward James Michael McAdoo. If there was ever a team that had the coach and players to run the table and go undefeated, it might just be this Carolina bunch. They start the season off against an always feisty Michigan State team, on an aircraft carrier, and also play Wis-consin and Kentucky. If they get through those three games unscathed, they only have to worry about Duke twice, and possibly a third time in the ACC Conference tournament final at the end of the year. Regardless, a number one seed is a lock.

Final Four Teams: North Carolina, Duke, UConn, Florida

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Evolution of the NFL offenses and defensesKyle Shawn Staff Writer

[email protected]

Chicks dig the long ball. But the object of the fairer sex’s admiration is no longer made of cowhide. Now it’s a pigskin.

In the post-steroid era, popularity of America’s past-time has withered. And the MLB’s loss is the NFL’s gain.

Exit Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire. Enter Drew Brees, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers.

Gone are the days of pounding the rock and playing solid defense to win. The saying is no longer defense wins championships, it is all about offense and just

enough defense as the Packers showed the Steelers in the last season’s Super Bowl.

High-flying offenses now rule the NFL, but the game is still played on two sides of the ball. And the best teams in the game allow their offensive abilities to dic-tate their defensive strengths.

Teams now spread you out with five receivers and use the underneath pass as their running game.

The New Orleans Saints, with the second most pass-ing yards in the league, can afford to be a pedestrian 19th in passing yards allowed. The nearly 100-yard dif-ference in the two statistics has led the Saints to a 5-2 start to the season.

But a pass-first offense requires the Saint’s to be a better-than-average 14th at stopping the rush.

An effective ground attack has proven to be the best defense against New Orleans. The Saints three lowest-scoring efforts of the season occurred during the three games in which they allowed the most rushing yards.

While the New England Patriots accrue over 450 yards in total offense per game, their defense is the league’s worst. However, they’re the eighth best at stop-ping the rush.

The Patriots’ only loss of the season came against Buffalo in a game which the New England defense gave up a season-high 74 yards to a single rusher.

The defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers (7-0) are much the same. Their defense allows the 31st most yards through the air, but is the 9th best at stopping the run.

Men’s Final Four predictions:

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F E AT U R E S & O P I N I O N S

4. ASK qUESTIONS: ask current students about their likes/ dislikes about the school you want to go to.

Find out about class sizes, jobs students are offered after gradua-tion, gather information about on- and off-cam-pus housing, as well as student employment.

2. GATHEr info about the department you want to enter at each university, such as en-trance requirements, application deadlines and also financial aid.

5. EVALUATE the schools you’ve visited and re-searched. rank them on a scale. For exam-ple, 1 being the low-est and 3 being the highest.

6. ACT: apply to your de-sired school(s), send in all proper information need-ed and schedule an ap-pointment for an interview if required. Make sure your credits will transfer.

7. ATTEND orientation, get advised and registered for classes.

3. VISIT the school you want to go to. Make two trips: One at the Open House and one on your own to get a sense of what the school is really like. Observe stu-dents and go to the Student Center .

1. rESEArCH universities you’re considering.

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Develop a support system and

use campus resources.

G o o d L u c k !

Aisha Taylor Staff Writer

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Many students attending Gainesville State College go on to transfer

to other colleges or universities. The Counseling and Career Office located in the Stu-

dent Center helps students transfer by answering any questions they may have.

Here is a guide to transferring from GSC.Following the guide provided will make life much easier for

students wanting to transfer. However, according to Dr. Edward Lai in the Counseling and Career Center, students should look

into the Financial Aid at other schools, because “each school is different.”

For example, if you want to go to University of Georgia and Georgia Gwinnett College, the tuition and fees may be

far greater at UGA than at GGC.Also important, said Lai, is using the Academic Advis-

ing Center. Using the Academic Advising Center is the best way students can learn about the

transitional process from one school to the other.

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rring for dummies

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Katie Keiger Features & Opinions Section

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The season of scares is upon us again and you know what that means, time for Hollywood to crank out new horrors movies for the population to have nightmares about. But let’s face it, for the horror movie industry nowadays, it’s quantity over quality and often times instead of leaving audiences with that fun feeling of fright, they’re left laughing at lousy special affects and acting. So instead of giving you the cliched top 10 scariest movies, here is a list of the top funniest movies that were supposed to be scary. The list will be ordered by laugh factor, not fright factor, and just a warning, some of these are still pretty scary.

A very popular movie, I know, but I think every person who’s seen this had the same re-

action to the first scene. Stop picking up the phone! That was all she had to do – stop answering the phone! Of course, this would’ve stopped the plot and made for a less suspenseful movie but the so-lution was simple enough a child could figure it out. If a scary guy threatens you over the phone, hang up, call the police, hide or get a weapon. Of course, in the case of “Scream,” you really would just have to trip the guy a few times. The villain was clumsier than most of the victims, which made it that much more entertaining.

9. Scream

Five troublesome girls are sent to a Catholic detention center. What a perfect

place to discover they all possess powers from a demonic presence. Not only that but one of the teachers also practices the dark arts but uses her pow-

ers for evil. The funny part is the characters’ attitudes, not to mention the predictable plot twists. A few good laughs, but it’s not the actresses’ fault there was no budget.

7. Five Girls

The idea of a creepy clown doll coming to life

would have been amazingly terrifying but stood the risk of being silly if executed wrong. The producers of child’s play took the risk and scared a lot of people. But when Chucky wasn’t holding a knife and just standing there was some comic relief in his angry little smile. I won’t say Child’s Play wasn’t scary, but during Chucky’s monologues I couldn’t help but smile a little bit. His little demonic voice with that

face was priceless. I wouldn’t say there’s nothing innocent about “Child’s Play.”

5. Child’s Play

Maybe this movie is terrifying for guys but I thought it was hilarious. The main character, Dawn, realizes she has

teeth on a different part of her body. She finds this out a little too late for one guy who attempts to take her virgin-ity. “Attempts” may not be the right word. Nonetheless, more and more guys find out her secret the hard way and soon she decides to use it for good, or what is good in her twisted mind. The funniest part is the guys’ reactions when they make a move, but no more spoilers.

3. Teeth

If you saw this movie in theaters expecting a horror flick, you already went to hell and back. There were a wide range of scenes using special effects, from demonic goats to bunny rab-bit shadows, but none were scary. The lead, Christine Brown, is cursed by an elderly woman when she won’t give her an extra loan on her house. This curse causes her to be tormented by spirits. Before every scary scene, Christine would look straight towards where the horror was sup-posed to happen, and the music would escalate. Sam Raimi tried to make this a scary movie, but nothing could save the film from the goat seance scene.

2. Drag Me To Hell

A movie about a man turning into a fly? Ob-viously, there’s room for some laughs in there.

The main character, Seth Brundle, is a scientist who’s experiment goes horribly wrong but at first nothing happens. Then, the transforma-tion starts and Seth becomes more and more energetic until his ap-pearance begins to change – this is where it gets interesting. Seth’s metamorphosis is not only unrealistic but downright ridiculous. It’s not No. 1 because what do we have to compare it to? No one’s ever turned into a fly before.

10. The Fly

The title alone alludes to comedy but don’t be

completely fooled, this movie actually has a few frights. The funny part is not the fish, but the bayou’s array of characters which helped provide plenty of comedy re-lief. The fish became funny when actually shown. It was like a swamp version of “Jaws,” but this fish had no sense of humor other than its looks.

8. Frankenfish

An abandoned ship is being explored by salvagers when ghosts of the

ship’s past start haunting them. What happened to the passengers before is no joke and the shocking first scene explains that but at least their ghosts kept their personalities. One ghost seduces a man, an-other has a drink with one and the main ghost, Katie, tries to help. The funniest part of the movie is actually a very disturbing scene but I couldn’t take it seriously because of the background music being played. If only the producers knew that hope doesn’t belong in horror, and maybe a few extra bucks for the budget then this movie could have been very scary.

6. Ghost Ship

Don’t judge a movie by its cover comes true in “Boo.” The movie poster

features a group of high school students who, on Hal-loween night, go to an abandoned hospital. The main line in this movie (which is repeated at least four times) is “some build-ings don’t have a 13th floor, this building shouldn’t have had a third.” The funniest part about this movie though, isn’t the dialogue, the special effects, or even the acting, it’s the plot – there is none. The movie is supposed to be about the building being haunted but ends up turning some of the students into zombies and bringing dogs back to life with elevators that only go to the third floor. My line for this movie is “some movies don’t have a sequel, this one shouldn’t exist.”

4. Boo

No comedy list would be complete without “Troll 2.” The

infamous “Oh my God!” scene is not the only funny part about this movie, though it is the best. The act-ing throughout was hilarious and the special effects were nothing to be afraid of. If you’re looking for a good laugh go ahead and watch it or you could just watch the remix of the Oh my God scene on Youtube. Either way, you’ll be terrified how terrible these trolls can be.

1. Troll 2


Reading the lyrics alone, I’m sure there is something stirring in you already.

If you’ve heard the song (which, by now, of course you have), reading these lyrics is reminding you of how the song, with its subtle piano accompanied by Adele’s powerhouse vo-cals, breaks your heart.

The song is practically crying.

The wave of sadness Adele imparts on you with this whole album is almost unbearable. If it weren’t for her amaz-ing voice and refreshing

sound, it just might have been.

Track after track on “21,” she belts about love, love lost, revenge and overcoming wanting to exact revenge.

I understand the ap-peal of these songs. Sometimes you want to feel something so deep-ly, because after all, our feelings are what make us human.

In a sea of “oh baby, let’s rock this party” lyr-ics, her genuine song-writing is welcomed.

Which is why when I say what I’m about to say next, I want you to

understand, I am not a g a i n s t Adele or her music.

T h e s e songs are a w a k e n -ing an an-n o y i n g amount of sentimen-talism in her mass of fans.

Before I go on sound-ing heartless and cold, let me explain.

It’s magical when a song can unearth buried feelings, especially when they’re from a real place. Adele went through a disastrous break-up and “21” was born. She did what she knew best.

This spike in senti-mentalism comes from us. Not to say that there aren’t people who can re-late to a disastrous break-up; that’s a universal oc-currence that’s bound to happen eventually.

What bothers me, and I’ll quote Oscar Wilde to help me make my point, is that these sentimen-talists “desire to have the luxury of an emo-

tion without paying for it.” Adele paid for her emotions with time (two years of a relationship) and tears (I’m assuming she cried at some point).

Now these very heavy, very real emotions are turned into a 12-year-old’s karaoke song, cour-tesy of Kidz Bop. Really, Rolling in the Deep has been covered by the bub-blegum Kidz Bop kids.

The song is filled with bitterness and revenge! She says she’s going to make him wish he never met her! How can any 12-year-old genuinely relate to that?

There’s an indulgence in these emotions that, for the most part, aren’t even ours. They’re hers. They belong to the peo-ple who’ve had to learn the hard way that “some-times it lasts in love/but sometimes it hurts in-stead.”

And while you’re belting out the song in your car, really thinking that you’re feeling these things in the pit of your stomach for four min-utes and 55 seconds, keep that in mind.


MUSICAudrey WilliamsEditor-in-Chief

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In this day of watered-down masculinity, I feel like it is important as a man to celebrate a designated time of mas-culinity.

Every day, men all over the world stand in front of a mirror and shave away their facial hair. But now, there is a sweeping movement to at least temporarily put away the razors and embrace the results.

It’s almost impossible to trace the true roots of the No-Shave November movement, but the motivations for it are fairly uniform. It is generally accepted as a movement that celebrates masculinity and encourages camaraderie by ask-ing men not to shave for the full month.

Naysayers would have you believe it’s more of a celebra-tion of laziness, and that participants embrace it as an ex-cuse to slack off on their grooming habits. This is a danger-ous logic that threatens masculinity to the core.

All through history, men have sported beards proudly. During the Renaissance period in England, facial hair was synonymous with masculinity.

No-Shave November is becoming increasingly popular among young men attending college. The prevailing theory is that it is one last hoorah with the freedom to cultivate fa-cial hair without reprocussions. Many of these young men realize that after graduation, real life starts and soon they will have careers that may or may not allow unkempt ap-pearances.

As men, we must grab masculinity by the balls! Well, at least by the whiskers.

The unofficial “official” rules dictate that the man must start with a clean slate, shaving smooth by November 1. For the duration of the month, it is only acceptable to trim the growth and not shave it. For the brave of heart, the move-ment continues with “Don’t Shave December.”

Fellow men, I ask that you join me in the quest to re-tain our coveted manhood. It won’t be easy, and your lady friend may not like it. Your boss may give you static. Pass-ers-by might mistake you for a vagrant. But with strong re-solve, and some understanding on both ends, we can make a statement.

No-Shave November:

a celebration

of manliness

LIFESTYLEDaniel Dove

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The sentimentalism of Adele I hate to turn up out of

the blue/ uninvited/But

I couldn’t stay away, I

couldn’t fight it/ I’d hoped

you’d see my face/

And that you’d be

reminded/ That for me/

It isn’t over


ANTS EVIEWSR&

At the be-ginning of next year, the largest bank in the coun-try, Bank of America, will implement a new charge on those who use their debit cards. The fee will be $5. Custom-ers will be charged every time they use their debit card for ev-eryday purchases, such as gas and groceries.

Loyal customers of Bank of America are not too happy about this new fee.

I love using my debit card. It’s convenient when I don’t have cash and if I were to ever lose it, I could easily call Customer Service and they’ll send me an-other one.

Five dollars may not seem like a lot of money, but it adds up when you’re a college student. It certainly seems like a lot of money when you’re charged every time you swipe that piece of plastic at the store or gas station.

I just want to ask Bank of America one thing: “Are you serious?”

You’re re-ally just going to force your cus-tomers into us-ing cash instead of using their debit cards? Let’s get honest here: no one wants to be charged to

use their own money.Charging people to use

their own money is the equivalent of paying your

closet to use your clothes. Imagine having to pay your closet a $5 fee every time you want to wear your favorite sweater or those really cute jeans that make your butt look nice. Would you continue to use your closet or keep your clothes in a dresser?

I see two solutions here: carry cash, and you won’t have to worry about being charged for your own money, or take your business elsewhere.

If you’re a Bank of America customer, which choice will you make?

LIFESTYLEAisha TaylorStaff Writer

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Are you serious, Bank of America?




Centered on the iconic airline Pan American World Airways in the 1960s, “Pan Am” is ABC’s newest hit drama.

The series follows the lives of four stewardesses and two pilots of the infamous airline, who served people when jet traveling was seen as a glamorous thing to do.

It’s not your typical girl-power Charlie’s Angel band of women, res-cuing the world from danger or the pilots who are secretly spies. “Pan Am” serves as a historical view of what the pre-psychedelic 1960s was, the Bay of Pigs, the division of Germany, and before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Though many believe that “Pan Am” is much like a movie, this is one of the reasons that make people want to watch the series. Right off the bat the show draws the viewer’s attention.

“Pan Am” starts out with great intrigue and mystery as we meet Bridget (Annabelle Wallis), an English stewardess who is dating Dean (Mike Vogel), the pilot of the jet.

The beautiful stewardess quits her job with Pan Am and vacates her flat in London following her deactivation as a covert intelligence opera-tive for the CIA, as we learn later on in the show. Bridget is never heard of or seen again, leaving Dean is bitter despair.

The show also brings to life the story of many of its characters, amongst them Maggie Ryan, played by the great Christina Ricci, in what I would dare say is one of her best roles yet. Maggie is quite of a bohemian rebel, working as a stewardess, whose intelligence and tem-perament are made known through her many lines in the show, like “That’s Hegel, not Marx” and her disagreement over having to wear a girdle. The series also follows the life of the free-spirited Frenchwoman, Colette Valois (Karine Vanesse) who suffers a heartbreak following the knowledge that the man she falls in love is married. We also meet the Cameron Sisters, Laura and Kate.

Laura Cameron (Margot Robbie), a runaway bride looking only to explore the world and who upon landing at Pan Am, becomes the image of the classy stewardesses in the cover of Life magazine. Kate Cameron (Kelli Garner) is a very smart stewardess who knows three languages, is experienced and is Laura’s older sister. She is recruited by the CIA in the show’s pilot, becoming the new covert operative recommended by Bridget. And lastly we have Ted Vanderway (Michael Mosley), the flir-tatious first officer and a former naval aviator who had been discharged from the Navy.

It’s a great show that should be seen at least once. Each episode is a new location that the crew visits and a new story to be told. It will spark the desire watch it weekly, so buckle up. Adventure calls, and “Pan Am “is ready for take off.

ABC, Sunday Nights at 10pm

TVManuel Moreno

Staff [email protected]

Stewardesses and Spies :

Pan Am prepares for take off

Cuffing season’s best pick-up linesTwan Kaikpo Staff Writer [email protected]

When you were in elementary school you might have been told that there are four sea-sons: winter, spring, summer, and fall.

Well, let me be the first to break it to you, that’s false. There are five seasons, winter, spring, summer, fall, and cuffing season.

What is “Cuffing Season,” you might ask? Let me elaborate.

Cuffing Season is the term used for the time of year when men and women feel the need to be close to each other because of the cold weather.

Also because of the coming holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and Val-entine’s Day when having that special someone amplifies the fun of the festivities.

Here’s Urban Dictionary’s definition so you can get a deeper understanding of the term:

“During the Fall and Winter months people who would normally rather be single or pro-miscuous find themselves along with the rest of the world desiring to be ‘Cuffed’ or tied down by a serious relationship. The cold weather and prolonged indoor activity causes singles to be-come lonely and desperate to be cuffed.”

When the spring finally arrives, the weather gets warm and the clothes start coming off.

That’s when people who were once long-ing to be cuffed want to be released. After the warmer seasons come and go then the cycle starts all over again.

But how does cuffing happen? How do you go about finding your seasonal “special some-one?”

Well, there’s always the shy flirting, but a more direct approach is the classic pick-up line. Will it work? I can’t say, but some GSC students can tell you some of their favorites to get you started.

“What does a guy like me have to do to get with a girl like you? It

actually works”

Randy Countermarsh

“I just go up to boys and tell them that they’re my boyfriend and then they’re happy that I gave them a

chance to be my boyfriend.”

Corray Boggs

“Do you have a map? Because I got lost in your eyes. Or, do you

do karate? Because your body is kicking.”

Austin Lotspeich

“The one I’ve heard that was used on me before was ‘I put the S.T.D. in stud. All I need is

U.’”

Elizabeth Nguyen

Special


D I S T R A C T I O N SFoibles of youth by Matt Wentworth

The Humane Society of Northeast Georgia I’m Moon Doggie! I’m Reno!

Reno has more of a down-home personality rather than wild ways! Reno is a four month old, male Domestic Short Hair. Reno came from another shelter and is as easy-going as it comes. Reno is lit-terbox trained, loves other felines, loves other dogs, and loves hu-mans- is there a more perfect match? We think not. Reno tends to blend into his surroundings, so he might not get as noticed as some of his brighter or more colorful counterparts in our feline adoption room. That doesn’t stop him, he is always one of first pets to jump

up and say “Hello.” Bright and flashy, not his style. He’s an old-school crooner just waiting to sing you a forever home song.

Please call (770) 532-6617 and ask about Control Num-

bers 13723821 .

Moon doggie is amazingly, astoundingly, and completely out-of-this world! Did our opening sentence get you? Well, that is nothing compared to this gorgeous eight month old, male Terrier mix. Moon Doggie is a staff and volunteer favorite, so it will be hard for us to see him go, but we know the sky is the limit for his new parents once they meet him! What’s so great about him? His intelligent ways make him a key candidate for NASA, combined with his relaxed personality, he is a true

winner. Howev-er, we think you need to see this amazing boy in person. Cosmo-naut or not, this guy is completely exceptional!

Please call (770) 532-6617 and

ask about Con-trol Number 12799854 .

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