The Colonnade
The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia College
November 15, 2013
Grants to
promote
diversity
Emily White
Contributing Writer
Georgia College is now giving out up to
$300 to students who commit to furthering
the diversity of the campus.
Students received an email in late August
about a new mini-grant that would be offered
to students from the Office of Institutional Eq-
uity and Diversity. Beginning Sept. 1, students
could apply for a mini-grant if they sponsor or
submit an event that helps promote diversity
on campus.
The grants are meant to encourage diver-
sity and to make minorities feel more included
through the different events hosted by stu-
dents, faculty and staff. The OIED mini-grant
is on a first-come, first-served basis and will
be available while funds last.
Veronica Womack, the interim director of
the Office of Institutional Equity and Diver-
sity, said these events could come in a variety
of forms. According to Womack there is no
perfect candidate for the grant.
“That’s part of the beauty of the program
is that it can be so varied. There is no best
way to get the grant, we’re just looking for
innovative approaches to diversity aware-
ness,” Womack said.
Historically, GC’s campus has been known
for its Colonial-inspired buildings and small-
town feel, but not for its diversity. Enrollment
has decreased in diversity since the year 2000.
Records from the Board of Regents show that
in the fall of 2000, GC population consisted
of 16 percent African-American, 2 percent
Asian, 1 percent Hispanic, 1 percent other
and 80 percent white.
Twelve years later in fall 2012, numbers
decreased to an 8 percent African-American
population, 1 percent Asian, 5 percent His-
panic and 4 percent other. Enrollment was
82 percent white.
Grants page 5
Elliot Payne, senior mass communication major, announced the trivia questions through the night.
Trivia Night wins big
Kyle Shanahan
Staff Writer
The streets of downtown Milledgeville are
quiet and empty on a Monday night; the loss
of activity outdoors might give off a ghost-
town demeanor, but the scene indoors is a lot
different. At Amici, students and townsfolk
alike indulge in the traditional bar pastime
of trivia.
Since its first event on Oct. 21, Amici
Trivia Night has been exclusively sponsored
by GC’s Student Government Association.
According to SGA Press Secretary Kathryn
Stanley, “Amici Trivia Nights have been
such a success in raising money and aware-
ness about SGA’s philanthropy, Students
Helping Students.”
The philanthropy, in the case of GC, is
not so much an organized charity as it is
an ideology to promote and develop hu-
manistic values. It was adopted by SGA
during the 2012-2013 academic year, and it
has influenced several of SGA’s fundraising
News Flash
Congratulations,
Rachel Estridge
Rachel Estridge, senior English major
and editor-in-chief of The Peacock’s
Feet, won the Margaret Harvin
Wilson Writing Award on Nov. 11.
www.GCSUnade.com
Laura Childs, Cancer Wellness program director, leads a group stretch during the 2-hour Survive and Thrive program before 35 cancer patients.
Surviving & Thriving
Wellness Center program improves quality of life
Andy Hitt
Senior Reporter
Bill Amos is 68 years old and loves to look
at pretty girls.
“Wild Bill from Milledgeville,” he said.
“That’s what everybody knows me by.”
Amos had colon cancer.
“When they say that word ‘cancer,’ your mind
goes blank, and the whole world just comes down
on your shoulders ‘cause you think you’re gonna
die tomorrow,” Amos said. “Then this program
came along – it saved me.”
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from
9 to 11 a.m., Amos joins 35 cancer survivors at
the Wellness and Recreation Center to participate
in the “Survive and Thrive” program, a recovery
and wellness program for recently diagnosed
cancer survivors.
The program’s main focus is improving pa-
tients’ lives by addressing side effects of cancer
Scott Carranza / Senior Photographer
initiatives, from its partnerships with local
restaurants to the development of a student
emergency fund. Amici Trivia Nights are
one of the many general community events.
“[Our goal is to] raise awareness about the
student emergency philanthropy fund, ” said
Mary Katherine Bickes, senior mass com-
munication major who helped coordinate
the trivia night on Nov. 4, “and hopefully
raise a good amount of money in order to aid
students who are in dire circumstances.” The
money raised from donations on trivia night
is used to assist others in different ways,
whether it be providing college opportunities
for orphans or giving philanthropic funds to
students caught in unforeseen, unfortunate
consequences.
As for trivia night itself, the event is a
cheerful spectacle that compliments a packed
house on an often uneventful night early in
the week. The first night of trivia attracted
Trivia Night page 3
Quotable
“I’ve never gotten the opportunity to be a
part of something very adult in front of lots
of people.”
- Will Morris, sophomore
rhetoric major
See A&E on
page 9
Volume 90, No. 11 Single copies free
Mark Watkins / Senior Photographer
treatment on a case-by-case basis through physi-
cal and emotional therapy.
Eleven cancer patients participated in the ini-
tial 12 weeks of “Survive and Thrive” in Febru-
ary 2012. Results of the first twelve participants
showed a 9 percent improvement in aerobic fit-
ness, 27 percent improvement in lower body
strength and a 46 percent improvement in upper
body strength. Statistical progress is recorded ev-
ery 12 weeks to monitor the state of each patient
and the effectiveness of the program.
While undergoing cancer treatment, partici-
pants take part in grant-funded, individualized
exercise plans tailored to their unique needs.
This free oncology recovery program includes
exercise, comprehensive “get-to-know-you”
activities and a 12-week educational seminar
called “I Can Cope.” Complimentary activities
also include water therapy, music therapy and art
Mark Watkins / Senior Photographer
Survive and Thrive page 4 A program participant laughs while lifting weights to
improve his mental and physical state.
Students helping students
Supplemental instruction helps with academic struggles
Sarah K Wilson
Senior Reporter
Every student has been
there: That moment when,
while sitting in class, the re-
alization dawns that you have
no idea what you’re doing.
Everyone else seems to
know precisely how to work
that mathematical equation or
string together the most elo-
quent French sentence. Yet no
matter how hard you look at it,
the professor’s scrawling on
the board fails to make sense.
Here is where Georgia David Wicker / Staff Photographer
College steps in and tries to Kirsten Morris (left), a sophomore undecided major, and student in-
make the learning process a structor, Katy Hill (right), a senior Math major, work on Calculus 2 prob-
little easier, or at least more lems. Hill has been a student instructor for the past three semesters.
accessible.
Supplemental instruction,
otherwise known as SI, has gnon, senior mass communi- “I’ve gone through
been making its presence cation and French double ma-
known on campus via The jor who has been working as the exact same
Learning Center since fall an SI leader for the past four things that you’re
2012. SI leaders are qualified semesters.
undergraduate students who “What I tell my students is, going through right
attend a particular class then ‘You’re learning French, but now.”
mentor students in that course. I’ve been learning English!
Typically, the SI leader has I’ve gone through the exact
already taken that course and same things that you’re going Lucine Collignon,
passed with flying colors. through right now,” Collignon SI Leader
“We want to provide stu- said. “Sometimes you don’t
dents with an academic sup- want to ask the teacher some- is intimidating – especially
port system,” Jeanne Haslam, thing, because you feel stupid. when it seems everyone else
I feel that it is sometimes eas- knows what’s going on.
coordinator of The Learning
Center, said. “Because most of ier to talk to a student.” “I know that I would’ve
Many students feel the done worse in my physics
the SIs have had the professor
for the course [they’re helping same way. Although some class if not for the SI that was
find no difficulty in commu- there,” Jack O’Connor, junior
with], they have a good eye
for the content in that class.” nicating with their professor, community health major, said.
at times raising your hand and
This could not ring more
asking that nagging question
true than for Lucine Colli- Student Leaders page 2
Inside Number Crunch
News
1,047
Let Them BeLoved....................................................2
In the beginning, there was Atkinson....................4
A&E
Who are Willy Wonka and Charlie?......................9
Step into seminar.......................................................9
The number of spectators
Sports
present at the men’s
Basketball dominates opener................................13 basketball season opener.
The Equestrians.......................................................13
Community..........................................................7
See Sports on
Opinion....................................................................8 page 13
 2 The Colonnade November 15, 2013

The Kingdom’s Impact Let them BeLoved

Members of Kingdom Impact gathered at The Village for a movie night.
Students share Christian ideals at West Campus
Sarah Dickens
Staff Writer
Jordan Williams, a freshman management
major, saw a need.
He was living at West Campus, and he noticed
there was no Christian ministry there.
“They have the Wellness Center, but spiritu-
ally I don’t see much going on,” Williams said.
So began Kingdom Impact, a Christian out-
reach ministry based at West Campus.
“The collegiate ministries do great things, but
I wanted something that could be over there on
West Campus that could also inspire people to
grow closer to Christ,” Williams said.
Another reason that Williams formed King-
dom Impact is because he was influenced by the
Baptist Collegiate Ministries and Wesley Chris-
tian ministry’s way of spiritual teaching. He also
enjoyed teaching in Macon, his hometown.
“[Teaching is] just something that was dear to
my heart,” Williams said. “To do a lot of teaching
and a lot of things that can help people understand
that it’s good to be a practical Christian and not
just a sit-at-home Christian.”
Despite taking inspiration from other denomi-
national Christian ministries, Kingdom Impact
tries to appeal to all believers.
“We don’t lead [Kingdom Impact] to one de-
nomination or standard or one denominational
viewpoint,” Williams said. “[Kingdom Impact]
aim[s] for anyone who is a Christian.”
Although Williams has had years of experi-
ence teaching and educating others on Christian-
ity, the overall goal of the ministry he founded
is quite simple.
“Our mission is to bring God to this campus,”
Williams said, “and then show that we are true
worshippers of God.”
According to Williams, Kingdom Impact has
25 students who have joined its Facebook page,
most of whom are West Campus residents.
According to freshman music education major
Jessica Norton, Kingdom Impact has attracted
more students than the organization expected.
“I think that we’ve already grown more than
we expected, because I know it was kind of di-
rected towards the Village, but we even had some
people who didn’t come from the Village,” Nor-
GC graduate saves women from a life on the street
Shayne Williams as places of restoration and healing for women
Staff Writer who have worked as prostitutes.
“The same women who were seen as bring-
About a year and a half ago, a nonprofit ing down the value of the city of Atlanta will
organization called BeLoved Atlanta was be the very same women who bring life and
founded by two recent college graduates with restoration back to the city,” Stagnaro said.
a desire to offer restoration to women seeking According to a 2005 FBI report, Atlanta
freedom from the sex industry. is one of the top 14 cities in the U.S. for sex
The co-founder of the organization and trafficking, and 82 percent of the victims are
Georgia College graduate, Kelley Stagnaro, identified as U.S. citizens.
was in an emotionally abusive relationship “I realized that we are all one step away
during her first year at GC. from being in the same destructive circum-
“As the Lord began to heal my insecurities stances,” Stagnaro said. “To spend one day
and past,” she said. “I began to see the need to with a survivor of the sex industry you im-
be that healthy, loving and patient community mediately see their kind and giving hearts,
their strength and yearning for genuine love
others had been for me.” and support. As soon as I saw a woman as my
Stagnaro met Amelia Quinn, founder of Be- sister and friend, I knew this is what I would
Loved, through a friend while in college and devote my life to.”
said they “immediately bonded over [their] BeLoved is a four person team and is con-
John Dillon / Staff Photographer passion to serve women with life controlling stantly looking for help.
issues.” Over Fall Break, a group of eight students
The two women were at different schools and Northridge Campus Church pastor, Dan
when they met. During Stagnaro’s senior year Conner, visited the BeLoved home in Atlanta
at GC, Quinn moved to Atlanta and began re-
searching the needs of women in the city. At
and did some touch-up paint and yard work
for the women.
the same time, Stagnaro was creating a mock “We always need more volunteers and in-
501c3 as a part of a Nonprofit Leadership Al- terns,” Stagnaro said. “We truly could not do
liance program. this work and serve the women without the
“I remember seeing Amelia after she had support of volunteers and interns.”
moved to Atlanta,” Stagnaro said, “and prac- There are a variety of ways to get involved
tically begging her to let me help with the with the organization and make a difference in
startup.” the lives of women in Atlanta.
The mock 501c3 that Stagnaro created at After experiencing the BeLoved program, a
GC eventually served as the foundation of a resident of their home said, “I was able to see
plan to open a home for women leaving the that I could have a regular job, and I learned
sex industry. to believe in myself and that I have value. The
In March 2013, the first BeLoved home experience of having a group of people love
opened and houses up to four residents. Its goal me and help me was the catalyst that helped
is to open homes throughout the city of Atlanta me make the turning point in my life.”
Thursday Shuttle stays popular
Jenna Bryan Park Apartments and then Thursday night shuttle is the
Staff Writer cross the four-lane highway safety of Georgia College
John Dillon / Staff Photographer to get to West Campus. It was students. Of course, I would
Freshman management major Jordan Williams Since its debut Sept. 26, just too dangerous,” Olivia like to expand the shuttle to
explains a topic to the board. the late night shuttle has taken Suda, senior English major, weekend nights, but the SGA
many students from MSU to said. budget cannot accommodate
ton said. “And I know that the original agenda West Campus. On Hallow- Members of SGA have funding multiple nights a
was never to become like a student recognized een night, it had 173 passen- also noticed the reactions of week.”
organization. So, we’ve grown tremendously gers, 60 more students than students who take the shuttle. When asked, Tom Miles,
from just a small Bible study.” the night it began. The peak “The students who ride the director of Campus Life, had
Freshman pre-mass communication major time the shuttle is ridden is shuttle have expressed very very little to say about the
Terrell Davis joined Kingdom Impact because between midnight and 2 a.m., positive opinions about the shuttle.
he wanted an organization that would keep him however the shuttle runs from service,” Ferree said. “We “I am neutral on the sub-
spiritually grounded. 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. haven’t had any incidents on ject,” he said. There were no
“Maintaining some sort of spiritual aspect is SGA funds the shuttle the shuttle, nor have we heard further comments received.
important for college in this century because you which costs $200 a week. any negative feedback from In the future, the Thursday
always need something to keep you grounded,” “We have an outstand- the SNAP officers or the driv- night West Campus shuttle
Davis said. ing amount [who] utilize ers who spend their Thursday will continue to run not just
Williams intends to go far with Kingdom Im- the Thursday night shuttle,” nights on the shuttle.” on Thursday nights, but on
pact’s progress as an organization. President of SGA and senior As far as what is in store other weeknights and perhaps
“As we keep growing, I’d like to plan on accounting major Victoria for the West Campus shuttle, even weekends. If students
working with the other ministries, and I do plan Ferree said. SGA members had much to continue to use it, then it will
on working with the GIVE Center to show that Students have their own say about it. continue to run.
we are still active in the community,” Williams opinions on the shuttle sys- “As of now there isn’t a
said. “And so, it’s just progression.” concrete plan to expand the
What’s been your
tem as well.
Williams leads Kingdom Impact’s bible study “Before the shuttle existed, shuttle’s hours or days of op- experience on the
on Thursday nights from 8:45 p.m. till 9:30 p.m. students would take the Mag- erations,” Ferree said. “The shuttle?
in the Community Room in Building 600 at West nolia shuttle to the Magnolia main motivation behind the @GCSUnade
Campus.

Sitting down with Paul Jahr

Katy Hill, a senior math major, works out math problems during an SI session.
Student Leaders
Continued from page 1...
“The SI knew the class material
very well. It was a great resource for
the class that actually helped me.”
Beyond simply sitting in on classes,
SI leaders hold study groups and one-
on-one tutoring. It all depends on how
many students in a class are seeking
help from the SI.
Miles Mashburn, a junior econom-
ics major, is spending his fall 2013
semester as an SI for the first time. He
holds hour-long study sessions twice
per week, once on Tuesday and again
on Thursday.
“I like to think that I’ve helped a
few students personally. I get to meet
all these students and become close
with them,” he said. “I don’t really re-
teach what the professor has [taught],
but come up with creative and unique
ways to give the information to the
students.”
This unique approach toward learn-
ing is something that The Learning
Center encourages among its SI lead-
ers.
David Wicker / Staff Photographer
“I like to think that I’ve
helped a few students
personally. I get to meet
all these students and be-
come close with them.”
Miles Mashburn,
SI Leader
“We are trying to implement as
many collaborative learning tech-
niques as possible,” Haslam said. “Our
main goal is that you understand what
you’re doing.”
SI leaders can be found in most
core-level classes. To schedule a tu-
toring session of your own, contact
The Learning Center at 478-445-1179
or make a personal visit. The Learn-
ing Center can be found on the second
floor of the library, Room 252.
Have you worked with an SI?
Tell us how it was!
@GCSUnade
The former GC associate professor is traveling the world
Sam Blankenship
Staff Writer
Paul Jahr, former associate pro-
fessor of student affairs, is now
traveling the world by sailboat.
Jahr worked at Georgia College
for 25 years until he retired. Jahr is
making the most out of his retire-
ment and is currently sailing with
his wife to Canada.
colonnade: What have you
been up to since retiring?
jahr: I formally retired from
Georgia College on June 28. Three
days later, I ‘failed retirement’ as
I accepted an offer from the Arm-
strong Atlantic State University
administration to help them out
and become their Interim Direc-
tor of Housing and Residence Life.
I have been doing that position
– part-time due to being a retiree
from a USG institution since then.
As I had previously planned an ex-
tensive trip (no need to call it va-
cation anymore), I am now enjoy-
ing that vacation and will return to
Armstrong after my travels come
to a close.
colonnade: You’re now the
interim director of housing and
residential life at Armstrong State.
How did that come about?
jahr: As I mentioned above,
I was contacted by the adminis-
tration at Armstrong when they
learned that I had retired. The Di-
rector of Housing and Residence
Life position had been vacant
since the spring, and they wanted
a ‘seasoned’ individual to step in
and provide direction to their pro-
gram until a formal search could be
conducted. That search has just be-
gun. I had not served as a Director
of Housing for over 7 years when
I left that position here at GC and
became the Associate Vice Presi-
dent for Student Affairs.
colonnade:: Do you miss
Georgia College at all?
jahr: I do miss many of the in-
dividuals that I worked with for
many years. After working at GC
for almost 25 years and being a
part of so many developments and
changes, it has been difficult in
some respects, but I do manage to
keep up with things via emails and
the internet. I also truly miss work-
ing with the students – the SGA
and the Student Judicial Board in
particular.
colonnade:: I hear you’re
currently sailing around Canada.
What made you decide to take this
trip? Courtesy of Georgia College
Paul Jahr, former associate professor
jahr: The trip was determined
almost a year ago and was designed of student affairs, is spending his re-
to be a ‘celebration’ of my retire- tirement sailing around Canada.
ment. My wife and I love to travel
and this is part of our on-going ef- ing those times.
forts to do new things and see new colonnade:: What’s been
places. Being in Canada and New your favorite part of the trip?
England at this time of the year is jahr: The favorite part for me
wonderful for the brightly colored was stopping in New York City
leaves changing. and getting to see the 9-11 memo-
colonnade:: How did you rial. I grew up in NYC, less than a
first get into sailing? mile from the World Trade Center.
Getting to see ‘my old stomping
jahr: We began taking cruises
almost 15 years ago when our son groups’ was wonderful.
colonnade:: Do you have any
finished his BA at Georgia College,
and we have tried to take at least trips in mind for the future?
one trip a year. My wife retired jahr: We have some future
from GC two years ago and now cruises planned to Europe.
that I am retired, we hope to take
more trips. We have been fortunate
enough to have been on all seven Do you know Paul Jahr?
continents in the world and met a Share your experience!
tremendous number of people dur- @GCSUnade
NOVEMBER 15, 2013 THE COLONNADE 3

TH E . S H O R T . L I S T
The top news stories from all over the world as
collected, curated and composed by Sarah K. Wilson

1 4
3
2
5

Expansion of Aloha. On Wednesday, Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed

1 a bill legalizing gay marriage, making the Aloha state the 15th state to do so.
Hawaii is expecting a huge tourism boost as people begin to take advantage of
the new law, which will go into effect on Dec. 2. (Washington Post)
PERSON / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Former SGA President Cody Allen reviews scores with Mary Katherine Bickes at the trivia night.

Trivia Night
Rape is never funny. India’s top police official Ranjit Sinha made headlines Continued from page 1...

2 on Tuesday, but not for good reasons. During a conference, the Central Bureau
of Investigation chief remarked, “If you can’t prevent rape, you enjoy it.” The
comment has sparked outrage across the world, with many activists now calling
more than 100 people while
the second night did just as well,
for Sinha’s resignation. Nice going, Chief. (Huffington Post) attracting enough individuals
to yield 15 teams. Even now, a
Continuing horror. North Korea executed 80 people by firing squad in a loyal following is already visible
stadium, a Seoul newspaper reported Monday. According to JoongAng Ilbo, on Twitter as well as the SGA
3 10,000 residents packed into a stadium watched as 80 people, none of whom
were guilty of capital crimes, were tied to poles, hooded and shot. A few of the
murdered were condemned for simply watching South Korean entertainment.
Facebook page.
Trivia night on Nov. 4 fea-
tured the ringleaders packed in
(Los Angeles Times) the corner of the bar right un-
der the Yuengling sign, armed SCOTT CARRANZA / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
(Un)clean energy. Corn-based ethanol has been found to be severely only with laptops and the micro- The scene at Amici during one of the trivia nights hosted by SGA.
damaging to the environment, according to an Associated Press investigation. phone. Bickes kept track of the
4 Ethanol, long believed to be the answer for clean energy, is the cause of five
million acres of land being destroyed due to farmers clamoring to cash-in on
game’s progress while the two
MCs addressed the participat- confidence in each answer on a “[Our goal is to]
government ethanol mandates. (CBS News) ing teams with questions rang- scale from 2-5, number two be- raise awareness
ing from Disney TV shows to ing the lowest and five being the
Typhoon Haiyan. More than an estimated 10,000 people are dead after Russian history to Family Guy. highest. Correct answers earn
about the student
Typhoon Haiyan wreaked havoc on the Philippines. In the city of Tacloban A fourth person handed out slips points based on how the team emergency philan-
5 alone, the UN has reported a mass grave with up to 500 bodies inside. A reported
600,000 people have been displaced by the storm, while an estimated 70 to 80
percent of structures hit are now in ruins. (Reuters)
of paper to the players for them
to write down their answers and
then tallied the score of correct
members rank them, which can
result in equal parts joy and
disappointment when a wrong
thropy fund.”

answers for each team. The en- answer is ranked high while Mary Katherine Bickes,
tire game lasted four rounds.
Nailed it. Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky shocked tourists in Moscow’s A team’s scorecard provides
a correct one is ranked low.
The winners of each round are
senior mass comm.
famous Red Square last Sunday when he stripped and subsequently nailed major
6 his scrotum to the ground. A statement released by Pavlensky said, “The
performance can be seen as a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference
and fatalism of contemporary Russian society.” Way to get your point across.
an excellent example of the
game’s scoring system: Each
round consists of four ques-
awarded a free pitcher of beer.
Instead of tips, donations
made during trivia night go to- really happening downtown on
tions followed by a special bo- wards SGA’s student emergency a Monday.”
(The Guardian)
nus question that varies in value fund. It’s a fun and lively period Got ideas for trivia topics?
from 5 to 10 points. After an- of friendly competition, which is
Did we miss something? Tweet us at @GCSUnade swering the main four questions, good considering that, according Let us know! May publish.
or vent to us on our website GCSUNADE.com. the team members can rank their to Bickes’s words, “…nothing’s @GCSUnade
 4 THE COLONNADE NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the beginning,
there was Atkinson
The governor who started Georgia College is honored
HELEN HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
William Y. Atkinson is a little-known figure
on Georgia College’s campus, despite one of the
central buildings, Atkinson Hall, carrying his
namesake.
“I’ve always wondered who Atkinson was
and what he did for the college,” Amanda Ko-
chansky, junior management major, said.
Elizabeth Whittington, junior accounting ma-
jor feels similarly. “I just assumed [the building]
was named after someone important,” she said.
Atkinson, the 55th governor of Georgia, was
ultimately responsible for the bill that led to the
founding GC, or what was then called Georgia
Normal and Industrial College.
In fact, when GC was given its liberal arts
mission in 1996, there was a possible choice of
naming the college Atkinson State University.
The Student Government Association recog-
nized William Y. Atkinson Day on Friday Nov.
8. The event recognizing Atkinson is relatively
new to campus, only occurring over the last few
years.
William Y. Atkinson was a native of Oakland,
Ga. and served as a representative in the Georgia
General Assembly and as chairman of the Geor-
gia Democratic Party in addition to his four-year
stint as governor.
He graduated from the University of Geor-
gia in 1877 with a law degree and shortly after,
married Susie Cobb Milton in 1880. His wife
proved to be a profound influence in his life and
career and was seemingly a prominent force and
influence for many of the great things he accom-
plished.
In fact, Mrs. Atkinson is rumored to have
played a large role in her husband sponsoring the
bill to start GC. She was also a member of the
Georgia Women of Achievement and managed
her husband’s successful campaign for gover-
nor. Even after William’s death, she entered into
the insurance business to support her children.
“Not only was she involved with our educa-
tional piece, but she was active even after her
husband died,” Joshua Kitchens, Special Collec-
William Y. Atkinson
.As a state representative, he introduced a bill that estab-
lished the Georgia Normal and Industrial College, which
later became Georgia College and State University
.55th Governor of Georgia
.He hired the first woman to a salaried government position
in Georgia
.Atkinson County is named for him
tions archivist, said. “Some people say she’s a
more fascinating character than William. She’s
an interesting force behind him, and there’s a lot
of information on her.”
Atkinson served on the original board for the
college, and Atkinson Hall is named after and in
honor of he and his wife.
MARK WATKINS / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Participants in the program work out as part of the two-hour fitness regimen led by Laura Childs.
Survive and Thrive
Continued from page 1
therapy, as well as guided imagery, journal-
ing and various forms of meditation.
“A lot of the patients actually talk about the
psychological effects of being diagnosed with
cancer being harder than the physical cancer
and the treatments,” Laura Childs, associate
director of fitness operations and director of
the Cancer Wellness Program, said. “We don’t
want them just to be physically fit; we want
them to regain that kind of better quality of
life from before their diagnosis.”
When designing the curriculum, Childs
studied the positive effects of physical ac-
tivity and education for patients undergoing
cancer treatment. The Oncology Nursing So-
ciety, a professional organization of more than
35,000 healthcare providers, emphasizes the
relationship among fatigue, physical function-
ing, emotional distress and quality of life.
According to the Oncology Nursing Forum,
“a comprehensive exercise program consist-
ing of low-to-moderate intensity aerobic and
resistance exercise, education and support…
results in significant improvements in physical MARK WATKINS / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
function, fatigue and mood.”
A man holds the gloves he uses during exercise.
Participants are referred to the program
through their treating oncologists whom
Childs directly contacts to receive a full medi- “I’d probably have stayed
cal history prior to their acceptance into the
program. Childs then carries out eight con- home and been suicidal, I
fidential assessments ranging from baseline
fitness testing to their psychological and emo-
was getting so depressed.It’s

Recycling initiative
tional states. like a new life. This program
“Our goal is based on the individual and
what their goals are. For some of them, sim-
has given me strength to go
ple things like being able to drive. They want through this next procedure,

aims to save money which I’m expected to be in

IRIS COCHRAN
STAFF WRITER
With no trash or recycling
bins in classrooms due to the
new recycling policy, students
are flustered, but the goal of
phase one is to change behavior
and make students more aware
of recycling.
“Phase one is completely
about changing behavior,” said
Lori Strawder, assistant direc-
tor of Facilities Operations for
Sustainability, “getting people
more engaged in recycling and
conscious about what they are
throwing away, and separating
our recycling from our non-
recyclable material.”
Students still have to walk
outside of classrooms to throw
away any trash or recyclables,
which leaves some students
frustrated.
“I think recycling is a good
thing no doubt,” Sean Noah,
senior mass communication
major, said, “but if they are go-
ing to take away trash cans in
the classrooms, at least replace
them with small recycling bins
or something. Students want to
help the environment, but we
want to do it in the little things
we do every day.”
SGA Treasurer Holly Nix, a
junior environmental-science
major, said there are no recy-
cling or trash bins in class-
rooms because students are
being held responsible to “take
in what you have to take out.”
Susan Daniels, assistant
director of Landscaping and
Grounds, said students were
putting trash and foods into
the blue recycling bins, and
recycling bins are not worth
putting in the classrooms until
students take responsibility to
recycle properly.
The main focus in phase
one is to recycle correctly by
making sure aluminum or steel
cans, cardboard, mixed paper,
newspaper and plastics are the
only materials to go in the re-
cycling bins.
“The correct way to re-
cycle cans are to empty, rinse
and crush cans to save space,”
President of the Environmental
Science Club Justina Everhart,
senior environmental science
major, said. “Empty and rinse
plastic bottles, be sure to re-
move caps in trash bins, and
check to see if there is a small
“Having not to throw away so much gar-
bage can save us up to $50,000 to $60,000
a year.”
Doug Oetter,
professor of geography
recycling sign with numbers,
one or two, labeled in the mid-
dle to recycle correctly.”
Some students appreciate
the new recycling policy and
how it can promote a difference
in the GC community.
“I believe the new recycling
program is a wonderful idea
that helps promote the pack it
in, pack it out-like philosophy,”
Seth Whitehouse, sophomore
environmental science major,
said. “It worked at Clemson
University; it will work here
as well.”
Recycling also benefits the
University financially.
“Having not to throw away
so much garbage can save us
up to $50,000 to $60,000 a
year,” Doug Oetter, geography
professor, said.
GC checked out Clemson’s
recycling program. Clemson
profits from recycling because
the program separates its own
recyclables and has an agree-
ment with vendors, which al-
lows the recycling program to
fund all expenses.
Clemson has upped its game
and paved the path on recycling
and limiting solid waste bins
and collection, which can be
beneficial ideas for GC future
recycling possibilities. The
program promotes the com-
munity to get involved, which
raises more money for Clem-
son and its recycling program.
“In the future phases we will
be able to garner some saving
and really profit from our pro-
gram,” Strawder said.
Future phases will “garner”
money from the recycling pro-
gram, by the recyclables being
collected then separated and
sold to other vendors. As of
now, GC pays vendors to do
the work for them.
Strawder said that the aver-
age monthly cost to dispose
and transport GC trash and re-
cyclables is $7,800. The aver-
age has stayed the same since
the new recycling policy has
started.
The monthly cost varies, but
their independence back. For some of them,
they want the energy to be able to go grocery
shopping. They want to be able to clean their the hospital anywhere from
houses and make their beds again. It’s simple
things that a lot of us dread doing or take for
10 to 15 days after that sur-
granted being able to do,” Childs said. gery. ”
After a particularly invasive surgery that
removed his bladder, prostate and a portion
of his colon, Wild Bill Amos agrees with the Bill Amos,
research. Member of the
“I’d probably have stayed home and been
suicidal, I was getting so depressed,” Amos wellness program
said. “It’s like a new life. This program has
given me strength to go through this next
procedure, which I’m expected to be in the that are helping you. They don’t seem to mind
the most recent cost, after the listening to you talk their head off.”
new policy took place, includes hospital anywhere from 10 to 15 days after
that surgery. This gives me strength to fight “Survive and Thrive” helps Georgia Col-
$6,700 for July and August to lege achieve its mission to form a mutually
dispose and transport GC trash while I’m in the hospital.”
Physical conditioning is only one of many beneficial, collaborative relationship between
and recyclables. Before the the students and the community through vast
new recycling policy started, positive effects seen by cancer survivors ac-
tively participating in “Survive and Thrive.” volunteer opportunities. Nursing, exercise
the cost was $5,700 during science and community health students are
March and April. Another is cultivated by the relationships
Strawder suggested while formed throughout the course of the program. only some of many who come to work with
cancer survivors.
the new recycling policy was Donna Dunnam is an eight and a half year
taking place, students were survivor of Multiple Myeloma, a white blood “My experiences with Survive and Thrive
were not only overwhelmingly rewarding and
moving out, which made the cell cancer of the bone marrow. She endured
disposal cost go up to $8,200 two stem cell transplants in 2009, transferring inspiring,” Kelsey Schaive, senior exercise
science major and volunteer, said, “They also
during May and June. 45 million of her own stem cells. Art therapy
Building Services, the recy- and music therapy, Dunnam says, are her opened my eyes to the obstacles that cancer
cling vendor GC sends its recy- “fav.” survivors face both physically and mentally.”
clables, collects once a week to “Besides my family and my church, this The American Cancer Society estimated
recycle materials and collects is where I get the most support, ‘cause we more than 49,000 cases of cancer in the state
trash every day to be trans- all have a bond that we don’t have with other of Georgia for 2013.
ported the Centennial Center people,” Dunnam said. “You go to a gym and “If people in Milledgeville knew what they
and West Campus. The recy- you just go to exercise. You come here and you were doing over here, they could pack this
clables are taken and picked up bond with people. You bond with the fellow place,” Amos said.
by Advanced Disposal Services cancer survivors. You bond with the students
in Milledgeville.
The new recycling policy
started in May 2013 and cost
$22,921.30 to implement the
proposal. The proposal consist-
ed of a list of costly materials,
including blue recycling bins,
advertising and solar power
golf carts.
The breakdown revealed the
proposal list cost more $8,000.
$1,500 was spent on 1,050 blue
recycle bins and bags, advertis-
ing and promotion, and solar-
power golf carts cost more than
$13,000.
An audit before the recy-
cling program began showed
that 66 percent of GC waste is
recyclable.
Oetter said the new recy-
cling policy has made the re-
cycling rate increase dramati-
cally. He also stated that it is
too early in phase one to get
an exact percentage. He will
take steps to investigate if the
new recycling policy is actually
working, by counting the bags
of trash, compared to the bags
of recycling.
What experience have
you had with recycling
at GC? Tell us!
@GCSUnade
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
App extends SGA
discount card deals
AMANDA MORRIS
STAFF WRITER
An app that gives students access to the
deals on the Student Government Association
discount card is now available on Android and
iOS phones.
The “College Discounts” app acts as a
digital companion to the physical card which
features more than 30 local businesses.
“The [GC] Discount Card will always be
a staple at [GC]. This is just another way to
save, with different discounts,” said Bruce
Twersky, owner of College Discount Cards,
the company that brings the discount card and
app to GC.
The app currently has approximately 150
users and has garnered a positive response
from students.
“Anyway to save money is right up my al-
ley. The app is even better because you don’t
have to remember it’s in your wallet. Just
check your phone and bam there it is. And
you don’t have to worry about losing it or the
office running out before you can grab a card,”
said Ashley Miller, junior mass communica-
tion major.
The new app also acts as an extension of the
physical card as it can be updated throughout
the year.
“Since the card is printed for a year, but the
app discounts can be switched out easily, busi-
nesses can change their deals monthly to try
out new offers and keep students interested in
coming back to the app to check out the latest
deals,” Twersky said.
Students can download the app for free by
searching for ‘College Discounts’ on the App
Store or Google Play. They can then show the
ad on their phone to the cashier to redeem a
discount. The discounts are good on an un-
limited basis.
If push notifications are enabled, students
can receive a ‘deal of the day,’ which can’t be
found anywhere else on the app.
“We’re always by necessity glued to our
phones anyway, and I’m always forgetting
my student discount card is tucked away in
wallet behind a million other things,” Aus-
tin Brafford, senior creative writing major,
said. “I’m probably more likely to remember
something on my phone and I appreciate that
they’re adapting to the modern student’s life.”
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Grants Diversity
Continued from page 1...
To put these statistics into perspective, com- by the
pare GC’s enrollment to that of Georgia Perimeter
College’s. In fall 2012, it had an enrollment of
43 percent African-American, 10 percent Asian,
numbers
9 percent Hispanic, 6 percent other and 32 per-
cent white. 2000 2012
Ellis Fields, a transfer student from Georgia
Perimeter and junior English major, recognized 16% African American 8%
the need for more diversity on campus.
“Coming from Georgia Perimeter to Georgia
College, the lack of diversity was one thing that 2% Asian 1%
stuck out to me,” said Fields. “The fact that this
grant gives students the opportunity to make a
difference on campus is a great idea.”
1% Hispanic 5%
Events that have been proposed so far include
the promotion of festivals, proposals that sponsor 1% 4%
poetry events or ideas that help support other Other
organizational events. Although events are the
main idea for the grant, Womack doesn’t want 80% White 83%
to define the grant to just events.
This grant could also be used to purchase re-
sources for a diversity-centered organization; the
only restriction to this is that the money cannot
be used to buy food. As long as it’s furthering For comparison,
diversity, it is considered eligible.
The program is not only looking to encour-
Georgia Perimeter College in 2012
age different races, but this grant hopes to cre-
ate a better atmosphere for different religions, African American 43%
sexual orientation, abilities or disabilities and
so on.
“We are finding ways to create a campus Asian 10%
where we all can be comfortable and challenged.
Not a campus where we all think alike, but that
we have a level of comfort in difference, that it Hispanic 9%
is not threatening to be different.” said Womack.
The Office of Institutional Equality and Di-
Other 6%
versity has already received a few applicants
and estimate that they have enough funds for 10
applicants to receive the mini-grant. All of the 32%
COURTESY OF BRUCE TWERSKY money for this grant is state-funded.
White
An in-app map lets users browse business in the Womack and the OIED have high expecta-
area that have deals available. tions for the success of the grant and are hoping
Graphic by: Madalyn Shores
to see an overall improvement. “I think we’re
to call the business, Scan here to at a point of exploration… figuring how do we,
view its website and as an institution, promote an environment that’s
guide the user to the get the app: conducive to all of being successful. And I see that’s just a part of life. No two people are the
business using the that as the very core of diversity efforts.” same.”
‘View Map’ option The Office of Institutional Equity and Diver- GC has had grants similar to this one in the
in each ad. sity are working hard to see programs like the past, but what is unique about the OIED mini-
Another feature OIED mini-grant succeed. Cassandra Wright, grant is that it is not only offered to faculty, but
within the app is the office assistant at the Office of Institutional Eq- to students and staff as well.
‘Deal Map’. Stu- uity and Diversity, is very passionate about the Students, like Ann Marie Giannace, a junior
dents can zoom in efforts of the grant. Wright puts a lot of time Spanish major, seem to be optimistic about the
on Milledgeville and into the diversity programs here at GC and feels grant.
click on locations to that they’re not only important for the campus, “[GC] does have diversity, but it needs to be
find discounts and directions. but for life. increased,” said Giannace. “I think this grant will
Since this card benefits the students, any “These programs are essential to life in gen- be the perfect tool for doing that.”
suggestions on what types of discounts are eral. [They] teach critical thinking, [they] teach
best or what businesses the students would you how to deal with difficult conversations and
people who are different from you, and to not Have something to say about diversity?
like to see will be taken into consideration
and should be e-mailed to bruce@collegedis-
avoid those differences”, said Wright, “but to Write us a letter! May publish.
learn from them and appreciate them because colonnadeletters@gcsu.edu
countcards.com.
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Chappell Hall Undergraduate Research Conference
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Friday, November 15 Monday, November 18
12 p.m. Internship search workshop (Chappell 113) 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch and Learn (MSU Lounge)

6:30-8 p.m. “Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys - Persepolis:

Saturday, November 16 The Story of a Childhood” (Anne Moore Children’s
Theatre)

2 p.m. GC volleyball vs. Paine College (Centennial Center) 7:30 p.m. Student performance series: “String Orchestra
Concert”(Magnolia Ballroom)
3:30 p.m. Intern 101 (Chappell 113)

Tuesday, November 19
Sunday, November 17
11 a.m. Guest Speaker Nancy Tuana: “Climate Change & Gender
3 p.m. Students Circuit of Independent Filmmakers Justice” (Magnolia Ballroom)
presents: “GMO OMG” by Jeremy Seifert
5-8 p.m. Oconee Regional Symphony Orchestra Fundraiser
(A&S Auditorium)
(Chick-Fil-wA on N. Columbia Street)
7:30 p.m. Student performance series: “Empire State Edibles”
(Magnolia Ballroom) Wednesday, November 20

Looking Forward 12-12:50 p.m. Times Talk (LITC 2nd floor)

Feb. 9: “The Iran Job” by Till Schauber

Feb. 26: Ronald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka” Thursday, November 21
March 9: “Finding Hillywood” by Lean Warshawski
March 29: “Arts & Letters Festival Play the Sum of Me” 7:30 p.m. Student performance series: “Small Ensembles Fall
Concert” (Max Noah Recital Hall)

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Public Safety 4
Reports. *Incident does not appear on map Reports obtained from GC Public Safety

6 TOSSING COOKIES OUT THE WINDOW

1 MOMS ARE SUPER HEROES TOO
Nov. 2 1:48 p.m. Officer Johnson received a call from a student’s mother who was concerned for
her daughter’s safety. The mother said her daughter’s ex-boyfriend was threatening her daughter.
Sgt. Ennis met with the ex-boyfriend and warned him not to have contact with the student. *
Nov. 8 12:46 a.m. Officer McKinney saw the passenger of a car sticking her head out the window,
tossing her cookies. The person driving said she was taking her friend home because she’d had too
much to drink. McKinney allegedly smelled alcohol coming from the driver. The sick passenger,
meanwhile, was allegedly slurring her speech and also smelled of booze. Both were arrested for
underage possession of alcohol and taken to MPD. *

2 THE GOOD OL’ DRUNKEN TIMES 7 MALE AGGRESSION AT ITS FINEST

Nov. 3 1:52 a.m. Officer McKinney went to College Station when someone reported a drunken Nov. 9 2:17 a.m. Officer McKinley allegedly saw two guys fighting outside of the Velvet Elvis.
female. The female had knocked on someone’s door, asked to come in and then vomited on the McKinley smelled booze from both of the guys breaths and heard slurred speech. Both males
floor before passing out on a couch. She reportedly had a hard time sitting up and was slurring her agreed to take an alco sensor test. One registered at .2; the other at .19. They were both arrested
speech. She was arrested for underage possession of alcohol and sent to MPD. * for underage possession of alcohol and transported to MPD.*

3 LOOKING SUSPICIOUS CAN GET YOU INTO TROUBLE
Nov. 3 1:56 a.m. Sgt. Purvis pulled over a car in the Golden Pantry parking lot because the car
was swerving. As Purvis walked up to the car, the driver fidgeted. He had glassy eyes, smelled
like booze and was slurring his speech, Purvis noted in his report. The officer gave the driver a
breath test which registered .15. Officer McKinley went to lock the car, on request of the arrestee
and saw suspected marijuana in the driver’s seat. The driver was jailed for DUI and possession
of marijuana. *
8 SWERVING ON THE ROAD
Nov. 9 2:59 a.m. Officer McKinley saw a car swerving in and out of its lane on Greene Street.
The car had a suspended registration. McKinley stopped the car and reportedly smelled booze on
the driver. The driver took a breath test, which registered .13. He was charged with DUI and taken
to MPD. *

9 BOOZING IT UP WITH FAKE IDS

4 DON’T BE A RAT AND RAT OUT YOUR FRIENDS
Nov. 9 11:15 p.m. Officer McKinley went to Foundation Hall because a CA allegedly confiscated
Nov. 6 11:16 p.m. An anonymous caller reported there were four people smoking marijuana some alcohol from two students. McKinley talked to the two guys who admitted to buying the
at the Centennial Center tennis courts. Sgts. Miller and Smith and Officer McKinney went to stuff with fake I.D.s. They handed over their fake I.D.s to McKinley. The case was sent to the
investigate. McKinney and Smith were able to catch one of the suspected smokers and allegedly student judicial review board.
smelled marijuana on him. He said he did not have any marijuana in his room and gave permis-
sion for McKinney and Smith to search it. McKinney and Smith reportedly found a bag of weed
in a blue box. The guy said he went with some friends to buy it at a house but couldn’t remember
who is friends were or where the house was. He was arrested for a misdemeanor possession of 10 THIRD TIME IS ALWAYS THE CHARM
marijuana.

Nov. 9 11:39 p.m. Sgt. Purvis was patrolling on Clarke Street when he saw a guy walking around

5
BOYS WILL BE BOYS AND FIGHT OUT THEIR PROBLEMS
Nov. 7 10:23 p.m. Officer McKinney went to the Delta Sigma Phi house because two guys were
fighting in the yard. McKinney broke up the fight. The two said they’d had a disagreement, which
turned into a brawl. Neither wanted to press charges. They were warned about fighting. *
with a bottle of booze. Purvis asked the guy to stop, but instead the fellow got into a car that had
stopped to pick him up. Purvis then pulled that car over and asked the guy he’d seen with the
bottle to step out. The guy was trying to hide the bottle. Purvis asked him his name and birthdate.
The first name given was not a real name. The second name was also fake. On the third try, he
gave Purvis his real name. When the guy took a breath test, it registered .13. He was arrested for
underage possession of alcohol and sent to MPD. The case was also sent to the student judicial
review board. *
Opinion
Our
Voice
Technology consumes
us more than we realize
There is an epidemic sweeping the
campus, and it’s not hay fever. It’s called
nomophobia: the fear of being without a
phone.
As the fall leaves float down and the
sun breaks through the trees, we Tweet,
Facebook, Instagram and Vine our
lives— so much so that those social net-
working sites are verbs. We’ve lost the
meaning of relationships, both romantic
and friendship.
You aren’t truly dating someone until
it’s “Facebook official,” for all to see and
“creep.” Coffee isn’t coffee unless it’s
been “Instagrammed.” If you don’t tweet
your emotions, then they just don’t exist.
We all do it. It’s a way to connect with
each other and feel important.
Challenge yourself this
week to wean yourself
off your dependence on
your phone.
Acceptance and approval are mea-
sured by the number of likes and favor-
ites, friends and followers. We’re not the
first generation to crave acceptance, and
we’re certainly not the last. But we are a
lonely generation. We gorge on social in-
teraction and starve ourselves of human
interaction.
Think about how many times a class-
room is silent before class starts. Every
squeak of the chair grinds against the
cinder blocks. Coughing is amplified and
sneezing becomes a thousand times more
dramatic. Everyone is on a phone, swip-
ing through pictures, creeping on every-
one else’s life and not living their own.
You never know what you can learn from
the person next to you.
Take a break from emoticons,
hashtags, cats and statuses that belong in
diaries, and try your hand at a conversa-
tion.
It’s a form of procrastination or may-
be just a product of being nervous. Our
phones have become our blankies. If
there’s more than a minute of silence, it’s
unnerving. So our necks crane over our
phones, and our shoulders hunch into an
amorphous mass of loneliness.
Even in the middle of a conversation,
not five minutes goes by and someone in-
evitably whips out a phone. The *bleep*
of the phone becomes first priority versus
the human in front of us.
We’re all victims. We turn into zom-
bies, clutching at our phones for life sup-
port. It bothers us when we wake up late
for class and forget our phone. It’s hard
to “fake text” without a phone when an
awkward silence comes up.
Put the phone down and look up.
Challenge yourself this week to wean
yourself off your dependence on your
phone. When someone is talking, put
your technology down and really listen.
Employers are looking for new em-
ployees to bring knowledge of social me-
dia and mobile use to the job, and we’re
pros at it.
But our future jobs and lives won’t be
lived as colorfully and action-packed in
front our the screens of our smartphones
as they can be stepping away from the
screen.
As the next generation, we are chang-
ing the world already. We need to learn
how to balance content online and the
life waiting to be lived offline. Let’s be
good listeners, friends, fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters, workers and neighbors
by taking breaks from our phones, em-
bracing uncomfortable silences and liv-
ing our lives.
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candidates being unable to hear questions and
comments from the audience.” The event did
experience some technical problems; however,
Cruel and unusual punishment
the article did not mention any of the important
issues that were addressed including the future
of the local economy, the relationship of higher
education institutions relationship with the
city and becoming a more bicycle friendly
and environmentally conscious community,
among other issues. In addition to focusing
on those running for public office, the forum’s
purpose was to bring the citizens, students,
faculty and staff together to consider the health
and potential prosperity of the Milledgeville
community we have in common.
Sincerely,
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American Democracy Project
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“I think that all students can relate to all the pain that all the characters go through and all the disappoint-
ment when you think you’re good at something and then someone tells you otherwise.”
Christina DeCarlo, actress playing Izzy in “Seminar”

ELLIE SMITH / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The GC Department of Music’s Ryan Smith served as director
of the Percussion Ensemble on Nov. 11. Smith has been the
director of the GC Percussion Ensemble since 2005.

Drums beat and

chimes ring in
Max Noah Hall
GC percussion ensemble
energizes crowd at concert
MYKEL JOHNSON
SENIOR REPORTER
JOHN DILLON / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Georgia College’s Percussion Ensemble performed six The cast of “Seminar” rehearses under the direction of senior theatre major William Warren for his senior capstone production. Through weekly
works Nov. 11 in the Max Noah Recital Hall. The concert rehearsals, acting exercises and critiques, the cast works on transforming into their respective characters and fulfilling Warren’s vision for the play.

STEP INTO SEMINAR

conjured sounds of adrenaline-induced beats and arrange-
ments to be left only to what one’s own imagination could
create in his or her head. A genre itself, percussions can
produce enough sounds to form different genres. The en-
semble proved that to be possible Monday evening with
its selection of performances.
“They’re all pretty different from one another,” said
Ryan Smith, adjunct professor of percussion and en- William Warren brings ‘Seminar’ to the stage of the Black Box Theatre to
semble director. “I have some stuff that’s rooted in jazz,
I have some stuff that’s rooted in rock-n-roll, and I have shed light on conflicts that can arise when students have a bad teacher
some stuff that’s rooted in pop. Then I’ve got a couple
of straight-ahead drumming, classical and world music. I MYKEL JOHNSON are compatible with each other while major and active Improv veteran,
SENIOR REPORTER effectively bringing their characters plays the character of Leonard. This
always try to put together as diverse a program as I can so to life. character epitomizes every teacher
that no two things sound alike.” “A lot of what I was looking for who lives to tear his or her students
Each performance stood alone as having its own sound William Warren, senior theatre
major, will offer relevance and fa- was stage chemistry between the ac- down.
and appeal. The opening and penultimate numbers were tors and making sure that they were “He’s a 58-year-old writer, and
the most lively. The latter, entitled “Le chant du serpent,” miliarity with his senior capstone by
directing “Seminar,” a play by The- people who could work well togeth- he’s very bitter about the world,”
added vocalized “Ha!”s and claps to its intense rhythm, er and were believable in the same Morris said. “But here he is, giving a
completing the work’s ritualistic ambiance. resa Rebeck. “Seminar,” shows four
writers’ experiences while enrolled space together,” he said. private writing seminar to these four
“Some of it is based on what I believe the ensemble The play originated on Broadway amateur writers who hired him.”
can handle, where they are developmentally,” Smith said. in a writing seminar led by some-
what of a “hardass.” Tensions flare in 2011 with a stellar cast including Morris is eager to perform in the
“Then, it always depends on the number of players and Alan Rickman, Lily Rabe and Jerry maturely comedic play for an audi-
as stories are torn apart and harshly
how to break things up so that no majority of the weight critiqued by Leonard, the seminar’s O’Connell. Some of GC’s actors ence.
is on any group or any one person.” professor, and rumors spread that he make use of their talents to portray “It’s extremely vulgar, and I’ve
A set of “children’s songs” served as a pleasantly dras- is sleeping with one of the students. the vulnerable and sometimes hu- never gotten the opportunity to be a
tic transition, which sent the room to a dreamlike state as However, eyes begin to open when morous characters of the play. part of something very adult in front
xylophones mellowed the mood. Next was somewhat of the writers - Kate, Martin, Douglas “I am really privileged to be a part of lots of people,” he said. “It’s com-
a suspenseful piece comprised of numerous instruments and Izzy - realize what is holding of it,” said sophomore theatre major edy, and that’s my strong suit. ‘Sem-
ranging from what looked like a miniature circular shield them back from producing their best Codi Henson, “because it’s such a inar’ is about power and sex along
to a small mirror to a large, odd-looking jawbone. The work. small cast.” the way. It’s about writing and find-
insidious tone provided uneven yet synchronized creeps Warren, while reading the play Henson is one of five students ing what you’re good at.”
of sound, like that of an inner soundtrack while driving at for class a year ago, could see the selected out of about 30 who audi- “Seminar” will resonate with any
night down a road one has never driven before. production being played out and tioned for the play. She said the play student who has ever applied their
“I just like to see how they can get into something like wanted to challenge himself in di- is relatable in the sense of its setting blood, sweat and tears to the comple-
this, to see them get as involved with the percussions as recting the play. and its insight into an intense writing tion of a project only to have it struck
they did,” Tabatha Bowles, freshman music therapy ma- “I want to be a director,” Warren course. down by his or her instructor. The
jor, said. said. “I remember thinking really, re- “It’s a writing seminar setting, actors’ depictions of raw emotions
Stephen Ledbetter, sophomore music major, arranged ally specifically, ‘Wow, I can see this so it’s similar to a classroom setting will strike close to home even to stu-
one of the compositions, “Frosti,” originally by Icelandic show in my head.’ I took that as a with a professor kind of review- dents who may not have experienced
musical icon Björk, a tedious but enjoyable process. meaning, like if I can see it, then I ing papers and literature,” Henson such jarring circumstances. Relating
“You listen a lot,” Ledbetter said. “You listen over and should direct it. I should make that said. “It’s actually really informative to the characters is inevitable.
over again, and you transcribe the melody. You take the happen.” about styles of writing and certain Be sure to catch “Seminar”, di-
In the process of reviewing audi- aspects of literature that they can rected by William Warren, at the
Percussion page 11 tion monologues, Warren narrowed
his decisions down to students who
probably relate to.”
Will Morris, sophomore rhetoric
Black Box Theatre. It runs Nov. 19
through Nov. 23 at 8 p.m.

Who are
Willy wonka
and
charlie?
GC students audition for roles from
the famous Roald Dahl story about a
boy and fantastical chocolate factory

PHOTOS BY TAYLER PITTS AND DAVID WICKER / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

Georgia College’s theatre department prepares to show off its musical skills with the production of “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.” On Nov. 11 and 12, Amy Pinney conducted auditions, and made the decision of who would
act as the major characters from the popular story. Nich Stinson and David Dingess were chosen to play the two major roles of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka respectively. The musical is slated to open on Feb. 26, and
it will run until March 2. It will play each night at 8 p.m. and at 2 p.m. on March 2 in Russell Auditorium. General admission is $16, students are $7 and faculty are $12.

Building up to Fresh Faces: Spotlight:

INSIDE A&E 10 Homecoming 10 Valerie Buckley 11 Callie Rowe
10
Building up to Homecoming 2014
Two committees
work with each other
to bring together
Homecoming Week
2014 with help from
students’ opinions
2009:
Theme: Old 2011:
Theme: The Hunt
Traditions, New
Beginnings for Memories and
Spirit
Concert: Cartel
and Shop Boyz Concert: B.O.B.
2010:
Theme: Thunder
Down Hancock Street
Concert: Sean
Kingston and Mute
Having a heart, saving a life
One woman’s attempt to save
a life through animal foster care
Scott Carranza
Senior Reporter
Scurrying across the room, a rescued squir-
rel set its target as the baby’s crib. The squir-
rel expected a challenger. Instead what it found
was a friend. Valerie Buckley’s mother rushed
to her baby’s side to find Valerie hugging the
squirrel like a long-lost companion.
This memory is what Valerie feels prodded
her whole life of taking in lost and abused ani-
mals. She has given hundreds of animals new
homes with caring owners and is spreading the
word on euthanasia rates in Milledgeville. She
has a heart: a fitting requirement for the creator
and owner of Have a Heart Save a Life.
“I’m a northern girl with a southern heart,”
Valerie said, as she spoke about moving to
Georgia with her husband. She was born and
raised in Syracuse, N.Y. where her mother
taught her to care for every living “critter.”
“I remember being taught that even the
smallest of animals were just as important as
humans,” she said. “One time, we rescued a
baby blue jay, and my mother taught us how to
care for it ... It eventually became healthy and
would sit on our shoulders while we watched
television.”
Valerie spent her high school days rescu-
ing stray cats and wounded birds with the help
of her mother. College was the last thing on
her mind, and she wed at age 17. After mov-
ing around the Eastern seaboard for around
30 years, a couple of bad marriages led her to
CROSSWORD
The Colonnade
Marilyn Ferrell
Senior Reporter
For many years, Georgia College’s Home-
coming event has become a tradition where
students, faculty and alumni can all come to-
gether and burst with all of the pride they have
for this school. The event lasts a week with
multiple events from door decorating, a the-
matic parade, loud and boisterous basketball
games, and of course, the concert.
When it comes to Homecoming week, a
lot of work goes into pulling it off. There are
two committees behind the work: a market-
ing committee and a concert committee. Both
are made up of students and faculty members.
The Past&The Future
2013:
Theme: “When in
Rome, do as you
done in Milledgeville.”
Concert: Gloriana
and Jerrod Niemann
2012:
Theme: Back to
the Future
Concert: Third
Eye Blind
Milledgeville - a place Valerie felt like a for-
eigner.
“The culture shock from moving was un-
real,” she said. “I knew we weren’t in Kansas
anymore when I saw a pack of labs chewing on
a dead deer right by the road. You just never see
those things up north.”
The labradors were just the start. Valerie no-
ticed a huge lack of animal control in Baldwin
county and was hard-pressed into lending a
hand with some pets in very horrible situations.
“I view these critters like I view babies,” she
said. “I’m not going to stand by and let some-
one chain their 2-year-old to a fence outside
and leave him there to rot. No one in their right
mind would let that happen.”
Thus, Have a Heart Save a Life, a non-profit
organization that distributes stray pets to vari-
ous foster homes for up to a week at a time, was
born. The rotation of pets and owners makes it
so that an animal is never left on the street or a
“kill shelter.” It also encourages locals to adopt
pets as well, which happens quite often.
One of Valerie’s biggest goals is to raise
awareness of the rates of euthanasia.
“I try to spread the word that Baldwin Coun-
ty Animal Shelter is a kill shelter,” she said. “If
you drop your own animals off there, within
24 hours, the animals will be put to sleep. The
shelter doesn’t have room for people who just
don’t want their animals.”
Enlightening Milledgeville of abandoned
animals is why Valerie has adoptions right on
the side of 441. She has even gone to Bald-
win County Animal Shelter to change peoples’
minds about abandoning their pets.
“I remember a woman dropping off a box of
seven or eight puppies at the kill shelter,” she
said. “I told her, ‘Do you know what you are
November 15, 2013
They each work together to come up with the department and asking students opinions. At
theme each year and the artists to play at the the beginning of this semester, the committee
concert.
This year, the committees are taking upon
revealed an idea to a select group of market-
ing students, and it was not what the students
themselves to do something they have never believed everyone would want. The commit-
done: They intend to bring as much participa- tees took the feedback and their ideas to create
tion to Homecoming week as they can. the theme that will be revealed to students on
Victoria Fowler, GC’s marketing manager, Dec. 2.
is a part of both committees and plans to try to Throughout the rest of the fall semester, the
please as many students as possible. She hopes
to appeal to all groups instead of just specific
marketing and concert committees will begin
revealing more information about Homecom-
ones. Fowler also made is a mission to make
sure that Homecoming week was student gen-
ing week. To keep up with each update, keep
reading The Colonnade for future stories.
erated.
When it comes to student opinion, the To keep up with each update, keep read-
committees are working with the marketing ing The Colonnade for future stories.
Fall 2013: Fall 2013: Winter 2013/2014:
Nov. 22: The
Nov. 11-15: Dec. 2013 - Jan. 2014: The
Homecoming Colonnade reveals Homecoming committees plan
the event planned
Committee plans to reveal the lineup for the
to release teaser for the day of the Homecoming 2014 concert
Homecoming
video this winter.
concert
Fall 2013: Fall 2013: Fall 2013:
Nov. 21-22: Marketing Dec. 2: Dec. 2:
and concert committees Homecoming Plan to have the
meet to continue the theme revealed homecoming
process website launched
Scott Carranza / Senior Photographer
Senior biology major Melissa Johnson and Kennesaw State University student Chris Prather pick through the
new batch of puppies and spot a female boxer-terrier mix named Precious. Like many of the puppies, she’s
been neutered and is up to date on her shots, ready to be adopted.
doing? Do you realize they are going to be put ing animals for a couple weeks to get to know
to sleep the minute and thrown in a landfill?’ I the animal better.
was told by the shelter not to make her feel bad, “It started with me wanting a dog,” Nienaber
but I didn’t care. Those puppies were going to said. “Since I live alone at the moment, having
die for no reason.” a dog or two in the house keeps me company. I
Thousands of cats and dogs have been res- feel a lot safer with these animals.”
cued since Have a Heart Save a Life began in Valerie has created an environment of love
2010, and Valerie’s unwavering love for the lo- and affection. She almost never turns an ani-
cal animals has even inspired Georgia College mal down, and she hopes to create even more
students to follow in her footsteps. awareness of the amount of animals abandoned
“Valerie is one of the most generous people and killed every day.
I know,” Antoinette Nienaber, senior biology “I am very passionate about what I do,” Val-
major, said. “She never lets me leave without erie said. “I don’t think I will ever stop loving
more than enough supplies for my foster ani- and providing for the ones who love me back
mals. She hugs people the first time she meets ... Life is too short for these critters. They don’t
them ... She is perfect for this job.” need their lives shortened anymore than what
Nienaber works closely with Valerie, foster- they already got.”
SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS FROM 11/8/13
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Literary festival pages J u n i o r

through Milledgeville SPOTLIGHT The Colonnade meets with Bobcats to
discuss mid-semester madness.

Meet
Callie Rowe
Housing: Napier Hall
Course Load: 15 hours
Major: Rhetoric
Hometown: Dacula, Ga.
Job: Community Adviser

Colonnade : How do you manage a department with a lot of people who a

job while taking 15 hours? lot more charismatic than I feel like I
Rowe : Being a community adviser and am naturally. It’s a challenge being in a
having 15 hours is a little bit of a stretch department with people like that, but I
sometimes, to be honest. am thankful that I have their influence
and can grow and learn from them.
Colonnade : Why Rhetoric?
Rowe : I took a GC1Y class with Dr. Colonnade: What are your plans for
[Mark] Vail called “We The People,” the future?
and prior to that class, I had not heard of Rowe : I don’t know what I want to do
MARK WATKINS / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Rhetoric. Dr. Vail’s enthusiasm for his with rhetoric specifically, but know that
Sean Hill, a Milledgeville native and one of the keynote speakers, read samples of his poetry and discussed department, and his love for students and whatever career or field I go into, I will
the intersection of history with poetry. Judson Mitcham, the other keynote speaker at the festival, gave a nature of the subject just completely en- need to be able to communicate well.
rousing speech that surveyed his experience as a poet and, more recently, as Georgia’s Poet Laureate. The
reading featuring Peter Selgin, Laura Newbern and Kevin Cantwell packed the Education Room at the Old ticed me. He wrote a comment on one of My current hopes would be to work for
Governor’s Mansion. my speech reviews, saying, “You would a church or a nonprofit, or anything that
make a great rhetoric major.” It com- directly benefits the community sur-
pletely, as a freshman, headed me in the rounding it. Rhetoric would be perfect
right direction because I was undeclared. for anything I go into.
Percussion all epic motion-picture-like score, an evening
Continued from page 9...
of diversity of sound ended seamlessly.
Smith encourages anyone with any musical
Colonnade: What do you find most Fun Facts:
challenging about rhetoric? I love antique stores.
experience to join GC’s Percussion Ensemble.
melody first and then you take the accompa- Rowe : I, through elementary school,
“The group is open to any student on the
niment. This piece was kinda like polyphonic. middle school and high school, was very
It had a bunch of different melodies going on. university campus. It’s made up primarily of I watch “The Waltons” and “Little
fearful of speaking in front of people,
I would figure out one tune at a time and just the percussion majors, but we have a number House on the Prairie” religiously.
piece it together.” of other music majors where percussion is not and I still find that I’m overcoming it
The song was composed to sound like the their primary instrument. Sometimes we have going through rhetoric classes. It’s also I’m too devoted to Napier’s mascot:
smashing of ice, hence its name. some non-major participants. Usually the folks a little bit of a challenge being in the the Napier Narwhals.
The cinematic finale served as “symphonic who play have some experience from some-
pop.” With quick trances of hip hop in an over- where in their lives, but it’s open to anybody.” By Andy Hitt

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Sports
Bethan
Adams
A plagued
friendship
Miami Dolphins teammates Jon-
athan Martin and Richie Incognito
have been in the spotlight in recent
weeks. Incognito is being blamed
for hazing Martin so much so that
Martin left the team Oct. 28.
Racism, bullying and hazing
are all subjects of scrutiny encir-
cling Incognito and Martin. When
this came to light, I jumped on the
bandwagon and blamed Incognito.
Now, I’m not so sure.
Martin left the team after some
fellow NFL offense of linemen
pulled the classic high school
prank: leaving the table when Mar-
tin sat down to eat with them at the
cafeteria. Martin stormed out and
later checked himself into a hospi-
tal for emotional distress.
The Friday after Martin left,
Incognito texted him asking what
happened.
“Yeah I’m good man. It’s insane,
bro, but just know I don’t blame
you guys at all it’s just the culture
around football and the locker
room got to me a little,” Martin’s
text said to Incognito.
Incognito said he is just as sur-
prised as anyone else.
“As the leader, as his best friend
on the team, that’s what has me
miffed — how I missed this. I nev-
er saw it. I never saw it coming,”
he told “Fox NFL Sunday’s” Jay
Glazer.
More and more information is
surfacing from Incognito’s side, but
still very little is known about Mar-
tin’s stance. A week before Martin
left the team, Incognito had left a
vulgar message on Martin’s phone,
calling Martin a “half n-word,” and
saying Incognito would “slap his
real mama.” Everyone is focusing
on the racist voicemail, but no one
seems to know that Martin often
spoke in the same way.
“[The n-word] is thrown around
a lot. It’s a word that I’ve heard
[Jonathan Martin] use a lot. Not
saying it’s right for when I did it
in the voicemail, but there’s a lot
of colorful words thrown around
the locker room that we don’t use
in everyday life,” Incognito said.
“The fact of the matter remains,
though, that that voicemail was
left on a private voicemail for my
friend, and it was a joke.”
Of course, the unspoken rule is
that African-Americans can use the
offensive word, but white people
are not allowed. It’s a word that
needs to fade away forever because
it keeps causing so much pain.
Everything is mushroom-cloud-
ing in the NFL world now: Incog-
nito’s and Martin’s NFL careers,
football locker room ethics and the
questionable role of the Dolphins’
coaching staff.
At first I thought Incognito was
a meathead, an overall a racist jerk
and completely heartless. The plot
thickened, though, especially since
the language is part of locker room
culture. Incognito just happens to
be the bastion of that culture at the
moment.
“If you go by just all the knuck-
lehead stuff I’ve pulled in the past,
done in my past, you’re sitting in
your home and you’re thinking,
‘This guy is a loose cannon, this
guy is a terrible person, this guy is
a racist.’ When that couldn’t be far-
ther from the truth,” Incognito told
Glazer. The Dolphins communicate
through vulgarity and insensitive
treatment of each other off the field.
“No matter how bad and how
vulgar it sounds, that’s how we
communicate, that’s how our
friendship was, and those are the
facts, and that’s what I’m account-
able for,” Incognito said.
With this whole debacle I’m re-
minded just how harmful my own
words and actions have the capacity
to be. Sometimes we get so carried
away we forget to treat our brothers
or sister the way we should.
HAVE A RESPONSE? Send it to
colonnadesports@gcsu.
The
Short
Stop
November 15, 2013• Editor, Lee McDade
Basketball
dominates
opener
Men’s basketball thwarts first
opponent of the season at home
SAMANTHA BLANKENSHIP
STAFF WRITER
The Georgia College men’s basketball team won
its season opener, beating Clark Atlanta 95-82 in
front of 1,047 at Centennial Center on Monday night.
With five players in the double figures, the team
had no problems on offense.
Defense, however, left something to be desired.
Bobcats head coach Terry Sellers said the team’s de-
fense needs improvement.
“I thought our initial defense was good, but we
didn’t rebound very well, and that stood out like a
sore thumb. They got a ton of offensive rebounds, so
that’s something we’ve really got to work on,” Sell-
ers said after the game. “We were very fortunate to
come away with a win, giving up that many offen-
sive rebounds, and that will absolutely not be good
enough in the Peach Belt Conference.”
Terrell Harris, a transfer playing his first game
with the Bobcats, led the way with 19 points.
“Defensively, we started out strong in the first
half. We missed some rotations in the second half.
We got discombobulated a little bit when they started
pressing,” Harris said. “We’ve got to finish the game
stronger than that.”
Sellers is optimistic about the team’s chances this
season.
“The Peach Belt appears to be stronger than ever,
so we’ve got a lot of work to do. But we’re always
hopeful, and we’re always expecting to do well,”
Sellers said.
Robert Armstrong, who scored 16 points and
pulled down 13 rebounds, has high hopes for the
team.
“I think the sky’s the limit. We’ve got a lot of tal-
ent on this team. We’ve got a lot of guys on this team
that can score the ball,” Armstrong said. “Everyone’s
really good at what they do. I think we’re the only
ones that are going to be able to hold ourselves back.”
DAVID WICKER / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Other standout players included Ryan Blumenthal,
Sophomore guard Terrell Harris floats above his opponents as he attempts to score during the men’s basketball
season opener at home. The Bobcats came out on top, defeating Clark Atlanta 95-82.
Basketball page 14
Soccer earns
The
runner-up Equestrians
honors at PBC
Championship
MARK WATKINS / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Rebecca Gaylor, vice-president of the Equestrian Team, calls out to team president Melissa Volentine, before
they went for a weekend ride on some of the center’s horse trails.
MARK WATKINS closes to a few feet.
SENIOR REPORTER “Pitch your chest up – absorb the motion,”
Hunter calls one last time before Charlie
Junior art major Melissa Volentine rides rocks back on his hind legs, muscles coil-
Charlie, a white and brown pony, a few feet ing, and leaps. Volentine’s hand tenses on the
off the fence of the corral at Lake Oconee reins, her feet arch in the stirrups, and she
Equestrian Center. sails with Charlie over the wooden beam. The
Volentine’s trainer, Carly Hunter, calls out impact sounds like thunder underground.
instructions from the middle of the ring as “There it is,” Hunter calls as Gaylor settles
Volentine and Charlie make a long sweeping back into the English saddle and turns toward
turn to set up for the next jump in the practice the next jump. “There it is.”
course. This is a practice with the Georgia College
“Hold the left rein. Wait to turn, wait to Equestrian Team, a competitive riding team
turn,” Hunter says, tracking Volentine and that Volentine started with sophomore psy-
Charlie as they run along the curved wooden chology major and vice-president Rebecca
DAVID WICKER / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER fence. “Wait to turn.” Gaylor.
Charlie pounds forward, his hooves kick- This is its first year as a registered student
See page 14 for full game ing up a spray of brown dirt.
“Now turn,” Hunter calls. Volentine pulls
organization and competing as a recognized
Intercollegiate Horse Show Association
the left rein and angles Charlie towards the
and season analysis oncoming jump. The distance between them
Equestrians page 15
Upcoming Games Quote of the Week Notable Stat
Men’s Basketball “It’s like in the fourth Harry
Nov. 15 vs. Albany State @ Augusta, Ga.
6 p.m.
Volleyball
Potter book with the dragon
challenge.”
4.0
Nov. 16 vs. Paine @ GC 2 p.m. The GPA of Scholar-ath-
“White Out to Wipe Out Cancer”
Women’s Basketball
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Top: Senior guard Royal Thomas cuts around an op-
ponent then dribbles down court. Bottom: Sopho-
more forward Robert Armstrong makes a layup.
Basketball
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The GC women’s soccer team became the first in the history of the school to make
it to the Peach Belt Conference Championship game. The Bobcats won runner-up
in the championship, after tying with Clayton State University and then losing
by final shootouts on Nov. 10. Freshman goal-keeper Jessica Catapano had a ca-
reer-high of 10 saves in 110 minutes of play, earning a spot on the PBC All-Tour-
nament Team along with junior teammates Rebekah Autry, midfielder, and Abby
Dalton, forward.
Graphic by: Kathryn Wardell

Royal Thomas and Jeremy Newsome.

Shanteona Keys’
“Jeremy Newsome does a good job for us,
gave us a nice spark off the bench, with double
figures off the bench. Royal Thomas always
brings great energy to the team.
Ryan Blumenthal got us off to a good start.
He scored our first five or six or seven points,
made some free throws. I know he had a pretty
solid game,” Sellers said.
The coach was appreciative of the support
the GC crowd showed in the opener.
colossal comeback
“I was very thankful, and I really appreci- BRITTANY ALBRYCHT went viral last season, but she is proving
ate the students coming out. ... A lot of times, CONTRIBUTING WRITER she is a better player than just one shot.
that first game, people seem to not realize that While typical students fall along the
we’re playing,” Sellers said. If starting junior basketball player “C’s get Degrees” thought process, Keys
The Bobcats’ next game is Friday as the Shanteona Keys could be anyone, it would maintains a 4.0 GPA while balancing 6
team competes in a two-day tournament be a hybrid of Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres a.m. workouts and 14-15 hour semesters.
hosted by Paine College in Augusta. The next and Robin Roberts - or just Beyoncé, in She began her basketball career in sixth
home game is Dec. 16 against Anderson Col- another life.
lege. Keys became known around the world
after a video of a missed free-throw shot Keys page 15
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Keys
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grade to be involved in a sport. She
gave cheerleading a thought but stuck
with basketball and has played ever
since.
A typical day starts before the sun
rises with weight lifting. Once she’s
done, she goes back to her apartment
to eat breakfast and take a nap. Then
she goes to class, takes another nap,
goes to class again, works on home-
work, goes to a two and a half hour
practice and finally ends the day with
more homework.
Time management is very impor-
tant in the life of a college athlete.
Keys keeps an agenda with her at all
times so she knows where she is sup-
posed to be.
“In basketball, everything is struc-
tured,” Keys said. “You just have to
keep the structure that you have and
roll with it.”
Keys’ mass communication pro-
fessor James Schiffman describes
Keys as smart and hard-working and
said he stresses the importance of
time management for college athletes.
“I think it’s extremely difficult
[to be a college athlete] anywhere,”
Schiffman said. “Our college is a lit-
tle bit more attuned to having scholar-
athletes who are also scholars. The
emphasis here is on academics, and in
order to play sports, you really have
to have your academics in order.”
Schiffman thought that Keys
worked the media coverage of her
failed free-throw shot last year to her
advantage, coming out as a better per-
son.
The shot happened at an away
game versus Columbus State Uni-
versity. Deadspin.com described the
missed shot as “the worst free throw
attempt of all time.”
In an article on Deadspin’s web-
site, Keys discussed what happened.
“On that shot, I just followed
through too close to my face,” she
said. “And my fingernail got caught
on my nose, so I couldn’t follow
through correctly on the shot.”
The video of the missed shot was
taken by someone in the crowd and
quickly spread over social media.
“I knew I was a better player than
that one shot,” Keys said. “I was con-
fident in that, and I had to roll with the
punches on that one.”
Keys said she doesn’t have a prob-
lem with people bringing it up and has
since moved on in her career.
Wendell Staton, the athletic direc-
tor at Georgia College, said that Keys
is on the way to being the Bobcats’
all-time leading scorer in the NCAA
Division II era.
“As a coach or athletic department,
you are fortunate to have someone
like Shanteona once in your career,”
Staton said. “Every coach will have
a great player, every coach will have
a great student and every coach will
have a great person. It is rare to have
that combination, and the level of
excellence in all of those areas that
Shanteona exemplifies is incredible.”
The overall experience of playing
basketball in college is Keys’ favorite
part of being a college athlete.
“Most people don’t get the oppor-
tunity to [be a college athlete],” Keys
said. “I think I would get bored if I
was just a regular student, just here
for academics.”
Staying rested, eating right and
getting her homework done are all
very important for Keys to be suc-
cessful both on the court and in the
classroom.
“It’s about resting and keeping
everything organized,” Keys said.
“I may not be able to do a lot of the
social aspects during the season, but
resting and going to these workouts
and eating right is a major role.”
In her free time, Keys is actively
involved with the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes and is also a repre-
sentative for SAAC, the Student Ath-
lete Advisory Committee. She attends
national conferences with SAAC as
well.
Keys recently spoke to Georgia’s
Board of Regents when it visited
Milledgeville, and Staton said he was
proud of the way that Keys repre-
sented not only the basketball team
and athletic department but GC as a
whole.
“It was my proudest moment as an
athletic director,” Staton said, “be-
cause she represented all the values
that our athletic department stands for
and showed how we align perfectly
with the mission of our university.”
Keys is excited about this upcom-
ing season and playing alongside her
team, both new and old faces. She
said the team becomes like a family
after a while.
“There are a lot of positive things
[about the upcoming season],” Keys
said. “The sky is the limit on this
team. We have the talent but it’s just
about putting the pieces together.”
After college, Keys said her plan is
to find a job, hopefully a broadcasting
position in Atlanta or California.
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(IHSA) team. The team com-
petes in equitation courses when it
goes to IHSA events.
For the most part, equitation is
what you might think for a horse
competition. Riders are given a
course that they have to follow
and a series of jumps they have to
clear, and at the end they are judged
for how well they completed the
course.
The difference at the IHSA is
that all horses are chosen at ran-
dom.
“It’s like in the fourth Harry
Potter book with the dragon chal-
lenge,” Alissa Scordato, freshman
biology major and member of the
team, said.
Since the horses are random,
judges only look at the rider and
how quickly they can adapt to a
new horse which can sometimes be
a challenge.
“They have a profile of each
horse, so if you have a really bad
one, they take that into consider-
ation,” Gaylor said.
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NICOLE PITTS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Top: Melissa Volentine, junior art major
and president of the Equestrian Team,
rides Charlie through the practice
course at Lake Oconnee Equestrian
Center. Bottom: Volentine and Rebecca
Gaylor ride horses from Lake Oconnee
Equestrian Center.
The system is designed to create
a level playing field in a sport that
relies heavily on pedigree – some-
thing that is out of most college
students budgets.
“It shows off all aspects of be-
ing a good rider – knowing your
horse and knowing what it needs,”
Gaylor said. “It’s about how good
you are, not how nice your horse
is or how much money you have.”
At the first show, the team
earned two third-place ribbons
and two fourth-place ribbons, but
Gaylor says the team isn’t all about
competition.
“We actually have a girl that
started this year,” Gaylor said.
“We’re open to anyone really.”
The team practices once a week
regularly and twice if it has a com-
petition coming on the weekend.
Some of the members go out on
weekends and take a horse for a
stroll.
Anyone interested in joining
can join the group on Facebook by
searching “Georgia College Eques-
trian Team.”