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the student Government As-sociation talked about topicssuch as VsU’s brand new taskforce, spring break schedulingconflicts and Hallnet issues dur-ing its meeting Monday at 8p.m., in the University CenterMagnolia room.
the task force intends to trans-form VsU's image from just a“school in south Georgia,” Vicepresident derika powers said.
VsU interim president dr.
Louis Levy has requested thatthe task force put together a pro-posal addressed to various re-search companies.
“We would tell them what re-sults we want, and they wouldtell us how we are going to getthem,” powers said.
“Our main goal is to knowwhat VsU's institutional identityis going to be and to have a solidtag line that is universal so thateveryone can associate withVsU.”
VsU's current tag lines are“simply a Great Choice” and theAdmission department’s “doMore, Become More.”
powers also said that this newinstitutional identity would in-spire support from the school'salumni.
“it would also bring loyaltyfrom our alumni and ourdonors,” she said.
“Without our donors andalumni support, we would not beable to do a lot of things we dobecause they donate a lot ofmoney every year.”
powers went on to say that theresearch company hired wouldput out focus groups and surveysto be completed by VsU stu-dents.
“they are going to take all theinput from students, and that is
how they are going to decidewhat our reputation is now, whatwe are seen as, and what wethink of ourselves.”
Also on the budget was thetopic of spring break.
sGA Comptroller drew Mc-Call brought up the matter of adiscrepancy involving springbreak for the school and springbreak for those in the Valdostaand Lowndes school systems.
“We have a lot of students thatare doing their student teachingduring that time, and because ofthat they have to take their springbreak with the Valdosta or Lown-des County or other school sys-tems in the area,” he said.
McCall suggested requestingthe school systems to movingtheir spring break or maybe VsUmoving its spring break to meetboth needs.
Also brought up was the desirefor a ban on smoking on campus.
“seeing that the student bodywants a smoking ban, i think weshould make legislation for thatso it can be inserted for the up-coming election,” senatorsamuel Logan said.
Logan also mentioned the per-ceived lack of parking spotscompared to students on campus. the internet technology de-
partment has traced the series ofHallnet outages from earlier thissemester to increased smartphoneusage.
“Many users are now bringingthree or four devices to connectto Hallnet,” VsU it director Joenewton said in an email to stu-dents on Jan. 20.
“We have seen as many as 200BlackBerry smartphones connect-ing to Hallnet, each consumingan ip address.”
According to newton, thesephones consumed 10% of all ipaddresses on campus.
sGA Vice president derikapowers pointed this out in sGA’smeeting Monday.
“Everyone now has smart-phones and most people have itset up to where it automaticallywill connect to Hallnet,” shesaid.
As a result, the it departmenthas chosen to block smartphoneusage from Hallnet, which new-ton said was a “temporary, stop-gap measure.”
sGA president Graham davishad an idea to why this was thecase.
“Hallnet as a whole is just re-ally outdated,” he said.
“Ever since i started here it’shad that same issue, and i can’tbelieve they haven’t gone aheadand gotten rid of the smartphonesuntil now.”
the university is shoppingaround for a replacement, accord-ing to davis.
“it really shouldn’t be too longbefore they actually make a pur-chase and redo the system,” hesaid.
VsU students have been quitevocal about the outages.
“For the most part, it’s been ahassle,” staci dyches, a freshmenundecided major, said.
“it will always randomly shutdown and it is really annoying.”Other students felt it was incon-venient.
“i hate it,” nicole Zent, asophomore nursing major, said.“this semester has been evenworse because it’s frustratingwhen the internet shuts down, es-pecially when i am in the middleof a quiz.”
some students suggested futurechanges to Hallnet.
“i feel like it’s slow,” GaryMoulliet, a communications ma-jor, said.
“it needs a wireless connectionthat has a wider radius to accom-modate the ongoing growth of thestudent body.”
smartphone users, for now,will have to depend on their dataplan for accessing the internetwith their phone, according tonewton.
For all tech-related problems,the it Helpdesk can be contactedat 229-245-4357.
VPD robbery case terminated
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VSU’s task force and parking, spring
break issues discussed Monday nightSGA:The increased useof smartphonescaused Hallnetoutages, IT says.
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J.Daniel Young/THE SPECTATORFormer VSU student and local artist John Gay paints goddess mural on Divided by Zero’s wall
Jan. 26. The store is located on 2001 W. Gordon St. and opens everyday from 12 to 9 p.m.
Artist paints mural
Updated projector upgrades Planetarium’sstargazing experience for show on Friday.
When Galileo first peeredthrough his looking glass to viewthe stars, could he have imaginedthat future generations would beable to see the stars projected onthe ceiling of their homes?
While he may not have beenable to envision this future ad-vancement, this is essentiallywhat is happening in the plane-tarium in nevins Hall.
Winter stargazing, the latestplanetarium show at VsU, is tobe held on Friday at the planetar-ium in nevins Hall at 8 to 9 p.m.
the shows are free to the pub-lic and have a capacity limit of47 people per show.
the new digitarium Kappaprojector was installed July 2011at VsU.
its streamlined design and nar-rower footprint is the centerpiece of the planetarium’s re-design during the installation,and it is one of the first of itskind in the world.
dr. Kenneth rumstay, profes-sor of physics and astronomy, fa-cilitates the planetarium shows atVsU.
He explained the new projec-tor’s advanced technology overthe previous one.
“One of the nice things that wecouldn’t do with the old planetar-ium is that not only can we simu-late traveling to other bodies inspace, but we can label the ob-jects,” he said.
He further explained that thelighting can be controlled at theconsole and a mixer can controlthe sound for the shows.
All of the computer softwarecan be controlled from an ipad.
the central computer allowsfor an endless variety of projec-
tions onto the domed ceilingfrom anywhere on the Earth’ssurface to one of saturn’s moons,all points between and beyond.
A projected view from sat-urn’s moons gives an extraordi-nary view of the planet’s rings.
Views from around the worldare as easy as a quick selectionfrom the ipad.
dr. Martha Leake, a professorat VsU and co-facilitator of theplanetarium shows, explained thenew digitarium Kappa projector.
“this one is patterned on theold digital system that had blobsfor stars”, said dr. Martha Leake.
“But this one has been upgrad-ed over the years so that the starslook pretty good.”
it’s all software driven, com-pared to the old spitz model thatprojected the stars with a seriesof mirrors.
the 44-year-old spitz A3p, theformer planetarium projector wasthe old favorite.
According to dr. rumstaythere are hundreds of them atvarious facilities throughout theworld.
When the time came for a ren-ovation of the nevins Hall facili-ty, funding was provided for anupgrade to the new projector.
in addition to a new projector,the couch-style seating was re-placed with individual chairs thatassist in limiting the capacity tothe shows, which is helpful tomaintain fire codes for the room.
J. Daniel Young/THE SPECTATORThe new Digitarium Kappa (right) replaced the 44-year-old Spitz
A3P (left) and is now what VSU Planetarium uses for its shows.
Gaze into the galaxy
J. Daniel Youngp H O t O E d i t O r
the probe into an allegedarmed robbery near the Universi-ty Center has been closed afterthe alleged victim decided tosign a “termination of investiga-tion” form over the weekend.
An email was sent out to allfaculty, staff and students Jan. 26describing an alleged armed rob-bery incident that took place onthe 1100 block of n. patterson
st., where a cell phone wasstolen from the victim at gun-point.
the email also mentioned thatthe alleged suspects were threeAfrican-American males and oneAfrican-American female drivinga blue toyota or Honda.
According to Lt. Aaron Kirkof the Valdosta police depart-ment, the alleged victim repeat-edly changed his story concern-ing the details of the armed rob-bery.
Kirk said that the alleged vic-tim initially said that he was
dragged around a building. Later, he said that the incident
occurred on the side of the road,and that there weren’t any wit-nesses around.
However, Kirk said that theUC cameras caught traffic goingby at the time of the incident.
the alleged victim still claimsto have not known the attackers. no further details have been re-leased.
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“With us being sGA, it seemsthat every concern with parkingand transit always gives us anexcuse as to why we can't getour view across,” he said. “thefirst issue always is parking, andthey always insist that we haveenough.”
Logan went on to stress theneed for more parking.
“Every time school starts, weincrease student population, butparking does not, and they stillinsist on saying we have enough,but clearly we don't,” he said.
Logan believes this could alsoaffect the turnout at campusevents.
“A lot of people come to cam-pus for events at 7 p.m., andthey might park in a 45-minuteparking spot, so if they are going
around ticketing people, that justtakes away from people actuallycoming to events on campus.”
According to Logan, the prob-lem was getting their opinionsheard.
“i want to know how we canvoice our opinions to gettingthem to change our policies.”
powers then asked that thesenators write their proposalsand problems with parking andtransportation and send them tosenator dustin patton.
the recent Hallnet outageswere also discussed. For moredetail, see Hallnet Outagesspark Outrage.
sGA holds it meetings everyMonday at 8 p.m., in the Univer-sity Center Magnolia room.
For more information onVsU's student Government As-sociation, see their website atvaldosta.edu/studentaffairs/sga/.
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Don’t mess with how I dress
This editorial was written by Stephanie Turner ([email protected]) and it expresses the general opinion of the editorial staff.
Sebastiana laremat
freshman
mass media/bursiness major
“in the past my private schoolwould do different
commemorative events to MLK,Malcolm X, Maya Angelou.”
How do you celebrateBlack History Month?
Gregory Smith
freshman
office administration and
technology major
“Looking up black inventors andreflecting and realizing how
fortunate we are that our livesare easier because of these
inventions.”
Briana Hines
freshman
mass media major
“i celebrate Black HistoryMonth by talking to my familyabout different inventors and let
them run history by me.”
Bryon Johnson
junior
accounting major
“i like to catch up on my historyand renew my culture and
remember what my ancestorswent through to get this month.”
Curtis McGruler
sophomore
mass media major
“i try to enjoy it day by day anyway because you don’t needa month to appreciate who you
are.”
Girls Scouts face boycott overwelcoming a transgender girl
A 14- year- old Ventura Countyresident declared a boycott onGirl scout cookies after hearingthe Girls scouts of Colorado wasconsidering allowing a transgendered child to join.
According to new York dailynews, the teenager uploaded theYoutube video in protest of 7-year-old Booby Montania joiningthe organization.
the video argued that Girlscouts was an all-girl experienceand that families trusted that girlswould be in a safe and nurturingenvironment.
the video went viral after justa few weeks, but shortly afterhitting the news both the accountand video were removed fromYoutube.
the video has caused an uprise of voices in the Gay andtransgender rights groups. Ambassador Girl scout, GlyneseHill, a freshman criminal justice
major, responded with outrage.“i personally believe that it
shouldn’t matter if transgenderedchildren are in Girl scouts,” Hillsaid.
“i believe that Girl scouts is anequal opportunity organization.”
Many responses to her videohave been posted on Youtubewith concerned viewers voicingtheir opinions.
Maya Austin, a junior earlychildhood and special educationmajor, has been involved withGirl scouts since childhood andsaw both sides of the controversial decision.
“Boycotting cookies is extreme ,” Austin said.
“if they’re taking an overnighttrip i could see her not going,but if she has a problem withBoy scouts she should be able tojoin.”
Austin feels that sinceMontania is only seven, it’s not
going to be much of a problem.“she’s going to be in the
Brownie section and in that
section they don’t learn aboutpersonal hygiene or care likethey do in the Cadets and seniorsection,” Austin said.
Austin even suggested possible changes.
“As she rises up the troop mayhave to change some of thecurriculum and programs,”
Austin said.since the controversial issue
hit the news, various troopleaders in the global Girl scoutcommunity disbanded their girlsand left the Girl scout communi-ty.
since then Montania has been
entered into the Girl scouts ofColorado.
the organization released astatement through GLAAd ,(Gay& Lesbian Alliance Againstdefamation), claiming that if achild identifies as a girl and thechild’s family identifies her as agirl, then Girl scouts of Coloradowelcomes her as a Girl scout.
For Girl scout intern and junior early childhood & specialeducation major, Kieya smith,Girl scouts is all about equal opportunity.
“i believe that it is very unfortunate that the young ladycould call herself a Girl scout,recite the promise and law, andfeel that it is okay to say thatthey should ban a “girl” becauseshe is a little different,” smithsmith said.”
“GsUsA is an organizationthat is all about equal rights notjust for girls/women but for allpeople.”
Denise Pleasants tA F F W r i t E r
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in december, a bill was filedin indiana and referred to a stateeducation committee. the bill inquestion, state Bill 89, would re-quire that schools teach creation-ism alongside evolution. inci-dentally enough, this same issuehas been addressed in thesupreme Court case of Edwardsv. Aguillard in 1987, where thecourts ruled against schools be-ing forced to teach creationismand evolution in a biology class.states often have to revisit theireducation standards. texas andKansas are other examples ofhaving to deal with the creation-ism and evolution teachings.Which asks the question: howmany times will state education-al departments have to revisitthis issue, especially now thatcreationism has been redecoratedas “intelligent design”?
this brings me to the FirstAmendment, specifically the is-sue of religion and government.the Edwards v. Aguillard caseisn’t the first time that thesupreme Court has had to dealwith issues of church and state,nor will it be the last. this be-comes more evident in the cur-rent political climate when thereligious beliefs of politiciansare often at the forefront of theircampaigns. this becomes a
problem when their religiousbeliefs are imposed on thosewho don’t share them.
the religious leanings of ourpoliticians are almost as preva-lent as their stand on the issues– which are often impacted bytheir religious beliefs.
take Michelle Bachmann forinstance. she touts that her rela-tionship with God is primary inher life. then she goes on totalk about how women shouldbe subservient to their husbandsand how gays should be in ther-apy. these are all statementsthat she credits to her religiousbeliefs.
Mitt romney’s religious faithhas been attacked by backers ofhis GOp opponents who calledhis Mormon faith “a cult.” Let’snot forget the mistaken beliefthat president Obama is a Mus-lim, even with no evidence.
tennessee state senatorstacey Campfield has been ad-vancing his agenda against ho-mosexuals by introducing a billthat prohibits the teaching ofanything other than heterosexu-ality in elementary and middleschools, all based on his reli-gious beliefs.
no one is saying that religionhas no place in society, or evenin politics. However, when reli-gion is being used by politiciansto suppress anyone, be it women,gays, blacks, Muslims; then weneed to take a step back and
question whether we are allow-ing abuse through religion.
Most every religion beingpracticed today talks about ac-ceptance and love. if that’s thecase, then why are acceptanceand love not being practiced by
our political leaders? Were thatthe case, then we wouldn’t haveto worry about separating churchand state because then wewouldn’t be keeping people un-der the thumb of either religionor the government.
Separating church and stateJ. Daniel Youngp H O t O E d i t O r
Associated Pressmitt and michelle share a moment at an event. Both have been
vocal about their religious-centered political leanings.
“I believe that Girl
Scouts is an equal
opportunity
organization.”-GlyNeSe HIll,
AMBASSADOR GIRl
SCOUT AND VSU
STUDeNT
sGA president Grahamdavis and Vice presidentderika powers proposed
during sGA’s meeting on Jan. 23and town hall meeting on Jan. 25that VsU enforce an in-class-room dress “standard.” if thestandard moves forward, it wouldallow a professor to take actionagainst students who are dressed,in the professor’s opinion, inap-propriately.
the purpose of the standard isto improve the student imageupon the professor as well asVsU’s image upon the communi-ty, according to davis.
“We are here for a higher edu-cation and ultimately most of uswill use our degrees to go intothe work force so why not havestandards much like other schol-arly institutions and businessesacross America,” powers said.
When it comes to the class-room, students should have to
worry about tests and papers, nothow they are dressed. Everyoneis different, including professors.What one professor deems ap-propriate, another might not. Ateacher’s personal taste shouldnot affect a student’s.
it shouldn’t matter what is onyour back but what’s in yourhead. teachers should judge youbased off of what you can do.Your work and manner will leavea deeper imprint upon the univer-sity and its professors than if youwore pajamas to class or not.
When we got accepted to VsU, we left the restrictions of highschool behind, including a dresscode. We are all adults here, butwe are also trying to explore our-selves and our futures away fromthe comforts of our guardians’nests; we should be free to ex-press ourselves and dress as welike. We are forced to followdress codes in elementary, mid-
dle and high schools. in the pro-fessional world, businesses havetheir own dress codes. Followingthe same rules for so long with-out a period of free expressioncould cause students to harborresentment for professional dressand lead to rebellion once theyhit the “real world.” the problemis, rebelling against the dresscode in a work setting could costthem their jobs.
For most of us, college is homeaway from home. You don’t haveto dress up at home; you should-n’t have to dress up here . don’tcome to class barely clothed, butyou shouldn’t have to come in asuit either.
VsU does not currently have adress code in the student Hand-book, dean russ Mast, studentAffairs vice president and deanof students, said.
that’s how it should be at thisstage of our education. We
should be focused on preppingfor the future.
during our time here weshould therefore feel liberated,not stifled.
sGA wants student inputs andfeedback on this issue. if you areall for letting a job you don’teven have yet dictating your dai-ly life, then by all means, supportthe standard. if you like libertywith your wardrobe, let sGAknow now.
Attend an sGA meeting; theyare held Mondays at 8 p.m. inthe University Center Magnoliaroom. Contact Graham davis orderika powers; their emails canbe found on sGA’s VsU website.they are our student body repre-sentatives. Let them representyou the right way.
take action. remember youhave a chance to stop this beforeit starts.
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Hello guys and dolls, getyour cups ready becauseas always i am serving
some hot tea!the Legendary don Cornelius
was found dead in his houseWednesday of an apparent sui-cide. the man responsible forthe classic show soul train was75.
Leslie Carter, the sister ofnick and Aaron Carter died attoe age of 25.
if you are not familiar withher she was on the family’s E!short-lived reality show, Houseof Carter. no cause of death hasbeen reported.
t.O. went on Wendy Williamsaccused his publicists Mo andKita of going behind his backpitching a show.
it has been a long and strenu-ous search for the replacement ofregis philbin. Well rumor has itthat the guy who is going to besitting next to Kelly will beHowie Mandel.
Look, i loved Howie Mandel’scartoon Bobby’s World but himas a replacement for regis not somuch.
snooki a parent?supposedly snooki is preg-
nant by Hobbit in shining armorJionni LaVelle.
if this is true we hope she putsthe bottle down.
the City of Hoboken, nJ willnot take part in the ignorancethat is to be snooki andJWOWW’s spinoff.
Hoboken residents want toprotect their “quality of life”.
Homewrecker isn’t just a songby Gretchen Wilson.
some would say it would de-scribe Kandi Burruss of realHousewives of Atlanta.
According to a Facebook pageby a young lady named Mela.Kandi stole her man. that’s notit though, turns out that he was acameraman on the show.
the real Housewives of Bev-erly Hills reunion was what youwould expect form rich womenwho dogs bill can pay off at leasttwenty students’ loans.
Arguments were over whosedogs are the cutest, having abachelorette party at the palms
Casino or planet Hollywood inVegas, and my personal favoriteKyle busting wide open (splits)at an engagement party.
Vanessa “Ca-Ching Ca-Ching”Bryant turned down VH1’s offerfor her to join the cast of Basket-ball Wives.
Bryant has never been one tobe in the limelight. this is verysad for us who always wonderwhat she was like but, good forher and her daughters.
Madonna took some time outof her busy rehearsal schedulefor the super bowl to throw a lit-tle shade at Janet Jackson.
i live for the divas being di-vas!
Madge said about her perfor-mance: “i'm planning somethingsuper entertaining."
she then added, "Yep, yep!You don't have to show nipplesto be interesting and it doesn'tnecessarily mean you're cuttingedge if you do, right?"
Well if that is not the pot call-ing the kettle black. isn’tMadonna the same woman thatkissed Britney spear and Christi-na Aguilera at the VMAs.
time to wash out the cups! Asalways come on back because iwill be serving tea that is guar-anteed to be hot!
Michael schwartz is a nerd. i still live like a five-year-
old,” he said. “What i need is mysuper nintendo, my n64, myGameCube, my music and that'sreally it.”
“i don’t need a Lambo, don’tneed a beach house, don’t needany of that.”
He doesn't have a car anddoesn't see the need for one.
schwartz is average heightand dresses like your average20-year-old nerd from the sub-urbs would.
When i met him for lunch, hewas wearing a layered sweater,ankle-baring khakis, long socksand loafers.
When we went outside forpictures, he donned very ‘90sshades and a very ‘90s bluebeanie.
it may be hard to believe, butthere is something very unusualabout this sophomore fromroswell, Ga; he can rap.
schwartz has gone by manyaliases since he started rappingin middle school, but his currentstage name is arguably the mostironic.
“the name made sense,” hesaid. “My dad's name's Freddyand my brother's name is Jason,and i'm Michael; Michael My-erz.”
if that’s not ironic enough, ac-cording to Myerz, his mother’sfamily can be traced to JamieLee Curtis who played Lauriestrode, Michael Myers' sister, inthe Halloween movies. Curtis'father, tony Curtis, was bornBernard schwartz but changedhis name due to HollywoodAnti-semitism at the time, ac-cording to imdb.com.
nightmarish fame must run inthe family, because Jamie Lee'smother, Janet Leigh, has a littlebit of a horror history as well.Leigh was the girl from the infa-mous shower seen in Alfred
Hitchcock's psycho.With such a famous Holly-
wood family, it would seem thatMyerz has some big shoes to fill.But he says he wants no part ofthat.
"i want to perform. period,"he said.
He wants no part of the com-
mercialism or the stigmas ram-pant in hip-hop music today. Hedoesn't look like the "averagerapper," but that's because he'snot. His music is definitely notanything like what comesbumpin' out of everybody's carstereo speakers.
Myerz raps about being anerd, about life, about dumbstuff. He has fun with it, and itshows through his music. He'snot about the "money, hoes, cars,and clothes" lyrics of t.i. orAfroman's stoner themes.
“that’s not what rap’s about,”he said.
He feels like people don’t re-ally take him seriously in theU.s. because of his Jewish eth-nicity and nasally voice.
“that’s why i’m not really ap-preciated as much in the statesas i am outside the country, be-cause outside of the country [so-ciety]’s way more open-minded,”he said.
He does have fans, however,and plenty of them. His fansaren’t exactly you’re typical rapaudience.
“i have people that literally
listen to zero rap that are like,‘You’re the only rap artist i’lllisten to because you rap aboutwhat i wanna hear’,” he said.
“i guess i just want to conveythe point that you do not need tolook like anyone to make a cer-tain type of music, especiallywhen it comes to rap.
You don’t have to put onsome kind of façade that you’rea thug or that ‘i sell all thesedrugs and i shoot people and ifyou mess with me i’ll cut youup.’ and i’m almost sort ofmocking that in some of mysongs because it just seems likerap today is just a giant joke andit can’t be taken seriously.”
“i’m not trying to soundcocky here, but nobody rapsabout anything i rap about."
His inspiration comes fromeverywhere, from his favoriteband--Black Moth super rain-bow--to Aqua teen HungerForce voice-actor MC Chris.
His first album, “nightmarefrom the 90's,” was inspired bycartoons and videogames heplayed when he was younger.His next album, “nightmare onrosedale,” was much more per-sonal.
“it’s kind of more of showingwho i really am,” he said.
“rosedale,” he feels, is muchdeeper and something that peo-ple could take more seriously.
Both of these were digital re-leases, but Myerz' next releasewill come in a hard copy. He isalready working on his new Ep,“tropical Bananas and sprayCans,” which he plans to releasethis summer on his label, Woozytribe.
As far as future plans, Myerzplans to change his undecidedmajor to English and has alwaysdreamed of working for Cartoonnetwork, but Myerz is seriousabout his music. if he could haveit his way, he would never haveto worry about getting a "realjob."
Myerz pointed out that, con-trary to popular misconception, a
person's hobby, passion, andcalling are really three differentthings. He explained that some-thing can be your hobby--some-thing you do for fun--but if yourheart's not in it you won't be anygood.
interestingly, something canbe your passion that you're ab-solutely trash at. But that's okay,he advises, just keep doing it.
“there’s a difference betweenyou hobby, your passion, and[…] your calling,” he said. “ifit’s your passion, go with that.Like, if you love drawing but
your drawing just sucks, just doit. it can also be your hobby. Butif it’s your calling, make surethat what you’re putting out—what you want people to see—isactually legit.”
in other advice to up-and-coming artists, Myerz said, “staytrue to yourself. don’t try tocopy anyone and if anyone tellsyou your music sucks, give ‘emthe finger.”
though Myerz has been rap-ping since the sixth grade, henever considered himself offi-cially a rapper until last year. His
friends heardsome of his stuff,he said, and en-couraged him tomake an album.
Even thoughhe's only recentlygotten seriousabout his hobby,Myerz has alreadyplayed some pret-ty impressiveshows.
He's donehouse shows andperformed atvenues in Atlantaand Orlando. Hehas another showat the drunkenUnicorn in Atlantacoming up in lateMarch. He alsoplans to start rap-ping at the deeprelease poetrysociety meetingon campus.
Myerz' isalso working withnicole tieman ofWilliams streetshows to get onthe list for a lateMarch show at theWilliams streetHouse, 1100Williams st. inValdosta. Checkout Williams
street shows onFacebook to keepup to date with up-
coming performances there.despite his recent success,
Myers' is still a single man. incase you're interested, he de-scribed his "dream Girl" as agirl who loves his music andwho can play videogames, espe-cially donkey Kong.
"i need someone who's intobeing a nerd with me," he said.
You can find Myerz' music onsoundclound and his Bandcamppage. Follow him on twitter andFacebook to keep up with all of
his shenanigans.
i’m not tryingto sound cockyhere, but nobody rapsabout anythingi rap about.
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VSU student takes a new approach to hip-hop music
the Contemporary Writers se-ries, hosted by VsU’s depart-ment of English, is an annualevent presenting award-winningand well-known authors aroundthe country.
the Contemporary Writers se-ries will present dr. tony Barn-stone today at the UniversityCenter theater at 7:30 p.m.
“i have written four books ofpoetry—12 books altogether,”dr. Barnstone said. “i am also
the Creative Writing professorand American Literature profes-sor at Whittier College in thesmall town of Whittier, Califor-nia.”
dr. Barnstone has won manyawards, particularly the Grandprize of the strokestown interna-tional poetry Festival, the push-cart prize in poetry and the na-tional Endowment for the Arts.
dr. Barnstone received hisB.A. from the University of Cal-ifornia and his M.A. and phdfrom University of California.
poetry runs in the family withtwo other family members whoare also considered poets.
His father, Willis Barnstone, is
a poet and professor of Compar-ative Literature at indiana Uni-versity.
“My father was going to comewith me, but had to stay backbecause my mom fell and hurther back, so it will just be me,”dr. Barnstone said.
Willis Barnstone is an authorof 12 publications and has re-ceived several awards andrecognitions for his work, suchas the Guggenheim fellowship,national Endowment for theArts, Emily dickinson Award ofthe poetry society of America,W.H. Auden Award of the newYork state Council of the Arts,Midland Authors Award, Book
of the Month for three selectionsand three pulitzer nominations.
Last October, the departmentof English presented LiseHaines, an author of three nov-els, two of which had the rightssold to movie production com-panies, with an award.
Haines has also written sever-al short stories and essays whichhave appeared in different liter-ary journals.
the following november,Marianne Boruch, an author ofsix collections of poetry, andfour books, two on the topic ofpoetry, one of poetry and theother a memoir came to visitVsU with the Georgia poetry
Circuit. dr. Barnstone will be continu-
ing his rounds of the Georgia po-etry Circuit without his father,but will still give poetry readingsand show the crowd a bit of hisexperiments with cohesion andpoetry.
“i really love to play withmultimedia and poetry,” dr.Barnstone said.
“i’m working on a graphicnovel book for poems, makinggraphic cards like tarot cardswith poetry and even turning po-ems into a folk-rock music al-bum. i like to show people thatyou can do more with your poet-ry.”
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On Feb. 3 and 4 ,Valdosta'sFirst presbyterian Church is host-ing their 16th Annual Fatherdaughter dance at the James H.rainwater Conference Center.
this event is for fathers anddaughters of all ages. there aretwo sessions: Friday 6 to 8p.m.and saturday 9 to11p.m. Fathersand daughters may attend bothnights.
tickets are online at www.fa-therdaughterdance.org and startat $10.00 with a $2.00 process-ing fee.
When Co-founder Jeff stewartstarted this event 16 years ago,175 fathers and daughters attend-ed which was more than what
was expected. the year after, the dance took
place in our very own Woman’sBuilding where 425 people at-tended. Each year the number ofpeople that attended increased,which is why it has now movedto the James H. rainwater Con-ference Center. the number oftickets sold last year reached upto 4,800.
the dance is suitable and closeto restaurants nearby. Light re-freshments will be provided butreservations for dinner should bemade prior to the dance. Glam-our shots studio will be takingpictures at the event and havespecial packages available for thedance. sunday dress is the sug-gested attire for the dance. Forthose that are interested, t-shirtsare also available online on thedance website. the music is fam-
ily friendly, so everyone is readyfor a great time.
there are Father daughterdances in other locations forthose who cannot attend: Way-cross on Feb.25, Buford onFeb.4, and Barnesville on Feb.11.
proceeds from this dance willgo to the First presbyterianChurch for their ministry ser-vices.
there are also opportunitiesfor people that want to volunteerwith decorating, serve refresh-ments, etc.
For information on the dancecall (229)-460-3800 or visit
www.fatherdaughterdance.org.
Shaundi mcDanielStaff Writer
First Presbyterian Church
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michael Schwartz may not look like your typical rapper, but this VSU student has
already dropped several digital albums and is preparing to drop a physical album
this summer.
Head to The Spectator website to
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this Friday marks the begin-ning of musical sounds as theVsU Opera and Valdosta sym-phony Orchestra performMozart’s “don Giovanni” in theWhitehead Auditorium at 10a.m.
“it’s been a tradition to do aFriday youth performance. Chil-dren from schools are usuallybussed-in for it,” dr. CarolMikkelsen, head of the voicearea of the department of Musicand producer for “don Giovan-ni,” said.
“due to the nature of “don
Giovanni” itself, we’re not play-ing to elementary school chil-dren…”
the performances are mainlyfor high school students.
Mozart’s “don Giovanni” re-volves around the wretchedmain character, don Giovanni,who is a terrible “womanizer.”
this politically incorrect,tragic comedy is bound to raiseeyebrows and get a chuckle outof audiences.
Along with Mikkelsen, facul-ty such as dr. Kenneth Kirk, aprofessor of Music and conduc-tor of the Valdosta Opera, will beconducting the performance.
“’don Giovanni’ is one of thegreat artworks of Western civi-lization. it is an honor to be able
to recreate this piece, and we arefortunate to have the resources todo it,” Kirk said.
the cast and crew have beenhard at work since the idea wasdrawn up last spring.
“it takes hundreds of hours,
and dozens of specialized artists,to put together a production likethis,” dr. Kirk said.
“VsU Opera meets as a classin the fall, and at this point wehave been in intensive weekendrehearsals since the beginning ofJanuary.”
in the balcony, younger musi-cians will be playing differentpieces of music to which thepeasants will dance, allowingsome youth to actually be in-cluded.
Alongside Mikkelsen and Kirkis dorothy Barnes, a part-timeteacher in the theatre depart-ment, who is working on thecostuming.
“she’s doing beautifully!they’re gorgeous costumes…We
haven’t updated [‘don Giovan-ni’] at all,” Mikkelsen said.
Joe Muncy, the technicalWhitehead Auditorium Manager,has been building the sets for theOpera.
Hollis Barnett, professor ofArt and projection Artist for theperformance, has been workingin the animation lab to make pro-jections.
“We’ve been using [projec-tions] for the past few years,since Whitehead is just a big au-ditorium, on the back wall toproject certain images,”Mikkelsen said. “And it’s ani-mated! it’s like a disneymovie!”
“don Giovanni” is set inspain and the spanish Mission
architecture on campus is goingto make up some of the back-drops.
the rest of crew includes:stage director William dwightColeman, Choreographer Mariataylor, and Media Artist Kath-leen Kirk.
there are a couple of studentartists from Georgia state Uni-versity coming as guests to per-form.
“it’s kind of a large cast, so ihad to import a couple ofguests,” Mikkelsen said.
“don Giovanni” will also beperformed on both this saturdayat 7:30 p.m. and sunday at 3p.m. with three different show-ings for the youth, VsU students,and the community.
the newly released film, “redtails,” produced by the greatGeorge Lucas and directed byAnthony Hemingway, lacks afew, certain elements that are im-portant to the success of a greatwar movie, giving it somewhatof a lackluster vibe.
Based on the true story of thefamous tuskegee Airmen, themovie’s big names are CubaGooding Jr. and terrenceHoward. However, both play amuch more secondary role tothat of the airmen themselves.
With good intention in mind,the folks behind “red tails”were obviously trying to empha-size the racial prejudices thatwere undoubtedly present duringWWii times.
Unfortunately, [they] did notemphasize it enough.
the real tuskegee Airmenwere subjected to far cruelertreatment by their white counter-parts and the movie simply failsto capture the harsh bigotry thatplagued that time in history.
“it was not quite what i was
expecting from a movie aboutwar,” Jason Weatherington, 28,said. “some parts were a littleboring, but i think it was decentoverall.”
Furthermore, as the plot un-folds and then concludes, onenever quite seems to establish anemotional connection with anyone member of the tuskegee pi-lots, giving the viewers a muchless sense of remorse when cer-tain members of the fleet fallvictim to enemy gunfire.
deep connections with one ormore characters in a good warmovie tend to get the audiencewhole-heartedly involved andsympathetic, a characteristic that“red tails” fails to capture.
Unfortunately, “red tails”also incorporates multiple andunnecessary romance sceneswhich take away from the mainidea of the story – war.
“it was a little long and drawnout for my taste,” JamieCantrell, 36, said. “i would notrecommend paying to see it intheaters, but instead just wait forthe dVd.”
Much of the film’s love affairbetween an airman and an italianwoman could have easily beenscratched from the film, cutting
the movie time down by a solidhalf hour and saving the action-seeking audience the unexcitingdrawl of kissing and tears.
On a positive note, there aremany scenes throughout themovie of intense air-combat[and] these scenes definitelyprove to be the highlight of thefilm.
Lucas and Hemingway do abang-up job on the effects andthe dog fights do indeed graband hold the viewers’ attention.
Generously critiquing thefilm, “red tails” earns a ‘B-’ atbest for its lacking elements andhistorical inaccuracy.
the best bet would be to waituntil it comes out on netflix,making it possible to skip overone third of the movie.
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When sonic Cd was re-leased in 1993, i wasso excited. But, i did
not have a sEGA Cd console, soi never got the game.
in the end of 2011, sonicteam released an enhanced portof sonic Cd on pretty muchanything that can connect to theinternet. is this enhanced portworth your time and money?
the story of sonic Cd is sim-ple. A planet, called “Little plan-et,” arrives on sonic’s world atthe end of every year.
sonic and Amy rose arrive tosee the view, but find that it iscovered in metal and chained upby dr. robotnik.
robotnik’s newest creation,Metal sonic, captures Amy andleaves sonic in the dust.
sonic must collect the timestones to change the past tomake a better future and saveAmy.
the gameplay feels just likeany other sEGA Genesis sonictitle; it is good 2d plat forming.What separates this from othersonic titles, at the time, was thatsonic could travel to the pastand future of any level.thismeant that every act actually hadthree levels in it.
in the past you must destroy arobot generator and a Metal son-ic hologram to achieve a “goodfuture”. if you go to a “bad fu-ture,” the game is much moredifficult and has more enemiesto defeat.
in addition, you can enter aspecial stage if you have at least50 rings when you beat an act.the special stages are in 3d.
You must destroy all of theUFOs floating to collect a timestone.
there are seven levels withtwo acts and a third act thatserves as a boss stage.
so, what makes this an en-hanced port?
Well sEGA teamed up with afan, Christian Whitehead, whohelped create the engine that thisversion of sonic Cd is runningon. this allows for the game to
run in widescreen at 60 frames-per-second.
in addition, they added theability to choose to use the origi-nal spin dash attack or use thespin dash from sonic 2, which ismuch better.
the player is also able tochoose between the U.s. sound-track and the Japanese sound-track, which i prefer.
Lastly, they added tails as aplayable character after you beatthe game one time with sonic.
Although, you cannot earnachievements with tails, it is funto see him in a game he was notmeant to be in.
i highly recommend anyone tothis game that loved the sEGAGenesis trilogy.
sonic the Hedgehog Cd isavailable on the iOs App storeand Android Market for $2.99 aswell as Xbox LiVE Arcade,playstation network, and steamfor $5. Later, this year it will bereleased on Windows phone 7platforms.
For anyone who is concerned,i have played the iOs versionand the touch controls are veryresponsive and accurate.
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national signing day is theday that every fan learns abouttheir new players and hope theywill be the ones to lead theirteam to the football promise land,and VsU is no different.
VsU reeled in a huge recruit-ing class in terms of size andstature yesterday on nationalsigning day, bringing in 29 newplayers.
the Blazers landed 15 playerson defense, 11 players on of-fense, and three special teamershighlighted by the 6’6”, 360 lboffensive lineman, Jeremydaniels.
VsU scoured all over Georgiaand north Florida—from La-Grange and savannah, Ga. toMadison and deland, Fla. to findthe recruits that will hopefullypush the Blazers back into play-off contention.
the Blazers last won the divi-sion ii national Championshipback in 2007 and are hoping thatthese recruits, including a fewhometown boys, will lead themback to the “title town” famethey are used to.
VsU added longsnapperJayson Crum from LowndesHigh school, defensive back ter-rence Foster and linebackerJonathan Hester from ValdostaHigh school.
Crum is especially excited tobe staying in his hometown.
“i saw VsU as a good schoolto go to and it’s home,” saidCrum. “A lot of kids go off tocollege and don’t like it, plusVsU has a great pharmacyschool and that’s what i want todo.”
the Blazers seem as if they areattempting to continue their tradi-tion of a strong defense aptly nicknamed “the Black swarm”
as they welcomed a whoppingeight more linebackers alongwith five defensive backs.
On the opposite side of the ballthe Blazers seemed to focus onshoring up the passing game byadding five new players at thewide receiver position.
team speed seemed to be apriority of VsU as five players,three offensive and two defen-sive, ran track in high school.
VsU also showed that theywill most likely be running asimilar offense in the future asthey run currently.
the Blazers ran their offenseout of the shotgun a majority ofthe time last year with a lot ofplays featuring a QB option ofsome sort. Just about every quar-terback currently on the VsUroster has some rushing ability.
new QB recruit, Kaleb no-bles, continues that trend and isconsidered one of the best dualthreat QB’s in the state of Geor-gia. nobles turned down an offerto Clemson to play for the Blaz-ers.
With a recruitment class ofseven less players than last yearfans will have to wait anxiouslyto see what kind of impact theseplayers will make on the field lat-er this year.
the VsU Lady Blazer softballteam is prepared to begin their2012 campaign towards a nation-al championship and thanks to apromising recruiting class theywill have the talent to do so.
no. 6 ranked VsU plays theirfirst game of the season thisweekend with a squad that re-turns seven starters and adds sev-eral top tier newcomers.
Four of the seven returningstarters were recently honored bybeing chosen on the preseasonAll- Gulf south Conference soft-ball team.
the four standouts are all in-fielders and are all seniors.
natalia Morozova was pickedat the first base position and ledthe team in rBis last season. shealso has the ability to pitch whichshe did for the russian nationalteam; however, she will be strict-ly at first for the Lady Blazers.
April Hutchens was chosen atthe second baseman position inthe preseason selection aftermaking it to the second team in2011
sam posey, the leadoff spe-cialist, made the All-GsC firstteam last season and honors thethird base spot.
All-American Marti Littlefieldcloses out the list unsurprisinglyat shortstop.
Littlefield is approaching acouple new milestones includingneeding just 11 more homers and49 rBi to set the GsC all-timemark in both categories.
she believes that this particu-lar team can give the seniors onthis team the ideal finish to theircareers of winning a national
championship. “i feel like this year is our
year,” Littlefield said. “We got a lot of potential, we got a lot ofyoung girls and they got a lotspunk. they know the game andare catching on pretty fast.”
several newcomers will alsobe expected to come out andmake an impact early on.
Freshman catcher CourtneyAlbritton, a highly ranked re-cruit, has been given the startingjob at her position right off thebat.
the loss of All-Americanpitcher Holly satterfield will hurtthe rotation however UGA trans-fer pitcher Alanna Hadley is ex-pected to potentially fill the gap.
iowa state transfer Erika tro-jan, third baseman, has the roleof keeping a strong defensiveglove at the hot corner whileposey sits out a couple weekswith an ankle injury.
new pitchers freshmen Court-ney Gunby and stetson transferAbigayle Kohler have been alsobeen brought in to improve thedepth in the bullpen.
Head Coach thomas Maceraemphasizes that his skillful se-niors aren’t the only ones whowill need to play well constantlyfor VsU to have a successfulseason.
“i can’t have seven have agreat year and win it,” Macerasaid. “We have to have all ten
kids playing well. it’s not tennis,it’s a team sport. if you have abreakdown anywhere on yourfield, you aren’t going to win inthe post season. You can wingames but not championships.We need to be clicking on allcylinders.”
the Lady Blazers have wonthe GsC championship the pastthree seasons however theyhaven’t competed for their ulti-mate goal of a national champi-onship since 2010.
the team that sent VsU homeearly from the nCAA southGeorgia regionals last seasonwas GsC rivals Alabama-Huntsville Chargers.
the Chargers lost to UC sandiego in the 2011 nationalChampionship game.
the defeat marked the thirdconsecutive year that a GsCteam had come up one win shortof the gold.
Although UAH was chosen towin the conference again, thedefending champs are not in theslightest bit worried.
“they’re probably our bestcompetition that we have in ourbackyard,” said VsU junior out-fielder Morgan Johnson. “We’dlove to be first but it puts a bigX on your back. it doesn’t mat-ter what you’re ranked at the be-ginning of the season as long asyou’re ranked high at the end ofthe season”.
Coach Macera is 18 wins shyof becoming VsU’s all-time winingest softball coach and will in-evitably accomplish that mile-stone this season. the seasonstarts saturday at the Universityof West Florida regionalCrossover tournament in pen-sacola, Fla. against Barry. Firstpitch is at 4 p.m.
“I feel like this yearis our year. We gota lot of potential, wegot a lot of younggirls and they got alot spunk.”
MARTI LITTLEFIELD
SENIOR SHORTSTOP
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Unstoppable force
Brittany Ferguson (21) shoots a jumper against West Georgia on Saturday, Jan. 21.
the Lady Blazers are on a romp right now, winning 13 of their last 15 games including a four-gamewin streak they hope to continue when they travel to delta state tonight.
the team is major threat in the Gulf south Conference where they sit in third place with a 5-2 con-ference record only one game behind delta state and Alabama-Huntsville who are tied in first withrecords of 6-1.
Leading the way is senior forward, Brittany Ferguson (21). Ferguson just nabbed her fourth Gulfsouth Conference player of the Week award after leading the team to two victories last week. shenow leads the conference in total player of the week awards earned.
Against non-conference foe Flagler Ferguson shot 10 for 12 from the field for 21 points in the 61-49 win over the saints. she followed up this stellar performance with a double-double, her seventh ofthe season, in the 57-53 victory over conference foe West Florida.
After facing off against delta state tonight, the Lady Blazers will travel to Christian Brothers foranother conference game before returning home to face Alabama-Huntsville next week.
tip-off for the game tonight will be at 6 p.m. followed by the men’s game at 8 p.m.
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Recruiting Class 2012
Donovan Bolden
WR 5’9”, 170 - Charlton CountyAnthony Brumbley
LB 6’1”, 180 - Colquitt CountyStevon Bruten
DT 6’3”, 275 - Nassua CCJavon Cameron
WR 6’, 170 - LaGrangeJayson Crum
LS 5’10”, 175 - LowndesJeremy Daniels
OL 6’6”, 360 - Lanier CountyTerrance Foster
DB 6’, 185 - Valdostarashad Guyton
SS 5’9”, 183 - Madison CountyJonathan Hester
LB 5’11”, 221 - ValdostaD’aron Hill
FS 6’1”, 185 - Peachtree RidgeJuwan Johnson
RB 6’1”, 210 - Robert W.Grovesmilton Lamar
DT 5’11”, 265 - LaGrangeJamuari Love
FS 6’1”, 175 - Pike Countyoscar Luna
K 5’7”, 180 - Colquitt CountyKen murphy
LB 6’1”, 224 - Tattnall CountyKaleb nobles
QB 5’11”, 180 - FitzgeraldCedric o’neal
RB 6’, 187 - DublinBrandon Paden
WR 6’, 178 - Lee CountyTevin roundtree
LB 6’, 201 - Madison CountyCalvin Shenault
LB 6’1”, 194 - JonesboroJon-Henry Tolbert
WR 6’, 177 - Norcrossnick Utley
WR 6’2”, 189 - Tift CountyJake Walker
K 5’11”, 163 - Pierce CountyLorenzo Washington
FS 5’11”, 201 - Trinity CatholicSharmaine Washington
LB 6’2”, 230 - Colquitt Countymckinley Weldon
OL 6’5”, 292 - AuburnDalton Wetherington
OL 6’1”, 263 - Lincoln CountyKeldrick Williams
LB 6’2”, 226 - Madison County
Signing Day 2012VSU “Black Swarm” gets stronger; offensiverecruiting brings new targets for quarterbacks
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ESPN.com Top 10
Division I Classes
1. Alabama
2. Florida State
3. Texas
4. Florida
5. Georgia
6. ohio State
7. michigan
8. miami (FL)
9. Clemson
10. notre Dame
Field of softball dreams
Baseball
Comfort Suites Classic
VSU vs. Lindenwood
Friday 2:30 p.m.
VSU vs. north
Georgia
Saturday 5 p.m.
VSU vs . Saint Leo
Sunday 2 p.m.
Softball
West Florida regional
Crossover Tournament
VSU vs. Barry (DH)Saturday 3 p.m.
VSU vs. Nova Southeastern(DH)
Sunday 2 p.m.
Basketball
VSU @ Delta StateThursday
Women’s 7 p.m.Men’s 9 p.m.
VSU @ Christian BrothersSaturday
Women’s 3 p.m.Men’s 5 p.m.
Games this week
Home games are in bold
DH denotes a double-header
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