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Immigration BATTLEAre our students CAUGHT in the middle?

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This is the good-bye issue, for a number of reasons.

Our SGA prez for the past two years is heading for the west coast (page 12). faculty member and SPS club adviser Tonna Harris-Bosselmann is leav-ing GSC after this semester (also page 4). Eleanor Crawford, the first person hired to work for GSC back when the college opened, recently died (page 4).

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Students protest state’s new immigration legislationDaniel DoveManaging [email protected]

On March 24, students from GSC joined other students to protest new immigration legislation set to be passed by Georgia lawmakers.

The issue at hand is House Bill 87, recently signed into law, which many call a “copy-cat” of the legislation passed in Arizona. The bill is essen-tially an attempt to enact the E-Verify system, which was passed into law in 2006.

E-Verify is a system by which all Georgia businesses with more than four employees are required to supply employee information such as Social Security numbers in hopes of discour-aging illegal immigrants from seeking work.

GSC student David Thompson was in the crowd to voice his concerns and protest what feels is an unjust law.

“I think we should focus on the root problems and not look for someone to blame,” Thompson said. “Bad laws are laws that affect a certain segment of the population.”

“The issue is supposed to be about immigration, and nobody denies that immigration is a problem. But what this law does is create racial tension and discriminates against a certain group of people,” Thompson said.

Thompson pointed out that immi-gration wasn’t on the forefront until the economy plummeted.

“Our capitalist system has affected the global economy. We’ve destroyed the economies of third world coun-tries and now they have to come here to work, “ Thompson said. “Immigra-tion isn’t the root of the problem of the economy, it’s the capitalist system.”

Thompson, a foreign language and general studies major at GSC, de-scribed how an October decision by the Board of Regents and state law-makers is another step in the wrong direction when dealing with immigra-tion issues.

“It’s also about the students. Re-cently, a law passed barring undocu-mented students from public higher education. These students are paying more than in-state tuition, and help-ing to boost the economy. Yet they are now being denied access to education,” Thompson said.

“There’s no way you’re going to help the immigration issue by barring a certain group from a right to educa-tion,” Thompson said.

A group from GSC including mem-ber of Students for a Progressive Soci-ety and faculty members joined thou-sands of others who hoped to have their voices heard by lawmakers.

“I think the injustice of a group of people, speaking of the immigrants, who come to this country to work hard, who contribute greatly, who ba-sically do jobs that typical Americans

GSC Students march in Atlanta to protest the pass of House Bill 87.Photo Courtesy of Tonna Harris-Bosselman

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“There’s no way you’re going to help the immigration issue by barring a certain group from a right to education.”

David Thompson,GSC student


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A well-known and highly regarded instructor is leaving GSC after this se-mester. Tonna Harris-Bosselmann has announced that she will not return next year.

Harris-Bosselmann, who instructs ESL classes and splits the responsibil-ity of adviser to the Students For a Progressive Society, sat down with the Compass to talk about her departure.

Compass: How long have you been at GSC?

Harris-Bosselmann: Eight and half years. Before that I spent a year in Berlin. Prior to that, I taught at Geor-gia State.

Compass: What brought you to GSC?

Harris-Bosselmann: I actually had a friend from grad school, Harriett Al-lison, who was, at the time the coor-dinator of the ESL program. I emailed her when I was coming back from Berlin just to see if she had any work for me. And she did.

I was thinking at the time that I would probably just be here a year or so because it was such a haul from (Atlanta) where I live.

But, as the time passed, I really grew to love the students I was work-ing with. I became more active and embedded in the community. So, here I am, almost nine years later.

Compass: I know you’re very ac-tive both on and off campus. What is your motivation for taking on various issues?

Harris-Bosselmann: I’ve always been passionate about social justice and helping people who I feel like are disadvantaged or disenfranchised. I never really had the opportunity to be so active until I came here.

When I started teaching here in Gainesville, I met all these wonderful students who were very much a part of the community. I found out that many of them were undocumented.

As I got to know them and they got to trust me, some of them told me their stories. I realized that they’re in a very difficult situation. I felt com-pelled to help them in their plight.

Compass: I know you helped get SPS up and running. How long have you been the advisor to SPS?

Harris-Bosselmann: It got started

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about six years ago. It started with a few people coming together who were like-minded and really we just looked around and said, “Wow, this place is way too conservative. We need to pro-vide some balance.”

It was just a few of us in the begin-ning, and it’s really grown. The original faculty advisor, Elizabeth Hancock, unfortunately passed away. And when she passed away, I took over advising the club.

SPS, as you know, has focused a lot on immigration issues, but basically whatever the students in the club are interested in, that’s what we do.

We have had panel discussions on gay rights, same-sex marriage, racial equality, the environment. We spear-headed the movement to get campus-wide recycling. We have also respond-ed to a lot of natural disasters that have taken place recently.

Compass: Tell me some of your fa-vorite memories from your time here.

Harris-Bosselmann: As an educa-tor, it’s really beautiful when you can watch your students progress.

Just to watch some of the students who know very little English starting out. I’ve watched them learn and really master the language, and then go on to be very academically successful. That makes me really proud.

I’m going to miss the students. I’m going to miss the college.

I’ve had so many emails and phone calls from faculty and students who wanted to tell me that I’ll be missed, or how much I’ve affected them. Everyone

has just been so supportive. It makes the decision bittersweet.

Compass: How do you feel about leaving SPS?

Harris-Bosselmann: I feel good about the condition of the club. I feel good about leaving it in Eric Skipper’s hands. SPS will be fine. I feel good about the club’s energy.

Compass: How long have you been considering your departure?

Harris-Bosselmann: I’ve been con-sidering it for about a year. I’ve just been weighing the options and trying to make a decision.

Compass: How exactly did you reach the decision to resign from GSC?

Harris-Bosselmann: I’m really a very logical person. I weighed out the pros and cons, and even wrote them out.

I have two children, and my oldest, my 11-year-old, is autistic. He’s getting ready to start middle school, He’s get-ting to the point where he needs more support.

I have to prioritize for my family. I can always teach, but you only get one chance to raise your kids.

My husband has been very support-ive. He wanted it to be my decision.

Compass: What are you plans for the future?

Harris-Bosselmann: I plan to stay politically active. I’m going to focus a lot on my family.

At some point, I’d like to teach part-time near home. I’m going to look into some Ph.D. Programs. I can’t really imagine myself outside the classroom.

Tonna Harris-Bosslemann, ESL instructor and adviser for Students for a Progressive Society, says goodbye to GSC.

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Eleanor Elizabeth Dobbs Crawford, Gainesville State College’s first employee, passed away on Tuesday, April 12.

Crawford was hired as assistant to the college’s first president, Hugh M. Mills, Jr., when the school was the known as Gaines-ville Junior College in 1965.

She worked at GSC until she retired in 1981.

In 1988, the Alumni Association pre-sented Crawford with the Distinguished Service Award.

The following year, the Alumni Asso-ciation established the “Eleanor Crawford Staff Recognition Award,” which is given to college staff members for display of loyalty, dedication and service to the college.

After retiring, Crawford worked for car-toonist Ed Dodd and his wife. She was also a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Gainesville and was involved with the Pilot Club International and the Women of Gainesville State College.

Crawford was 95.

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Feeling stressed?Try a visit to the Wellness Room

in the Student Center.The Counseling and Career Ser-

vices Center offers the room for anyone who needs a break.

The room is designed for stu-dents to cope with stress by provid-ing them with different tools for relief.

The room offers a massage chair, a chi balancing machine, a relax-ation chair, a small trampoline, a vitamin D lamp and many other amenities.

Student Robert Miller takes ad-vantage of the wellness room often.

“I am very thankful for the room, it’s the easiest way to relieve your troubles,” Miller said.

The wellness room is offered to any GSC student without an ap-pointment.

Student Emily Levy left stress free after her first visit.

“I had only heard about the well-ness room from other students and had to check it out for myself,” Levy said.

“They offered a lot of tools and afterwards I felt a ton better than

Shake off some stress in GSC’s wellness room

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GSC student Rob Miller uses the wellness room chi balanc-ing machine.

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Eric BurtonStaff [email protected]

Some 32 percent of college students report that stress impedes their academic performance, and 15 percent report that depression and anxi-ety are impediments to their academic perfor-mance.

On Wednesday, April 14, the Department of Psychology, Sociology, and Social Work and the School of Social Sciences at GSC held a seminar on Stress and Commu-nity Mental Illness in the Continuing Education auditorium.

The seminar, which lasted a little over three hours, consisted of four panels that focused on specific aspects of mental health and stress.

The first panel concen-trated on defining stress as well as looking into factors that cause stress and mental illness, how it affects the community and family, and myths that surround stress.

Elizabeth Saigal and Cynthia Edins spoke on definitions, causes and myths.

“Stress is anything that causes bodily or mental attention,” Saigal said. “Stress is the silent killer.”

Jerome Lawrence, spe-cial projects coordinator for the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Net-work, focused on stress and the community. Gigi Cautino, director of the Hall County National Al-liance on Mental Illness, discussed mental illness and the family.

The second panel narrowed the scope of the discussion to stress among GSC students. Joy Evans and Barbara Ar-nold, personal wellness counselors here at GSC, talked about some of the services available on campus for students deal-

ing with stress on mental illness.

“In the Wellness Cen-ter, you can drop in be-tween classes if you just need a break,” Arnold said.

Nicola Dovey dis-cussed the Disablity Ser-vices here on campus and how they help incoming students and current stu-dents.

“There are approxi-mately 41 students with a disability seeking ac-commodations at our of-fice,” Dovey said, and out of those 41 students, “70 percent of the students are in good academic standing.”

“Accommodations are tailored very much for the individual,” Dovey said.

Richard Goodson, di-rector of Public Safety, discussed how the offi-cers on campus handle incidents that involve those afflicted with stress and or mental illness.

The third panel dis-cussed the policies and procedures within the state of Georgia and Hall County’s law enforce-ment and judiciary sys-tem. Hall County Sheriff Steve Cronick, District Attorney for the North-eastern Judicial Circuit Lee Darragh, and Superi-or Court Judge Kathlene Gosselin spoke of how mental illness affects the legal system.

The last panel dis-cussed interventions and treatments for mental illness. J. Reese Daniel, business manager at Lau-relwood Rehabilitation Clinic, spoke about in-stitutionalization of the mentally ill. Betty Guil-foile, executive director of Avita, spoke about the role of Avita and Yvette Sangster, director of Ad-vocacy Education in Georgia, spoke about the role of the Advocacy Of-fice.

Students learn to relax at stress seminar

when I went in.”Joy Evans, director of Counsel-

ing and Career services, has been a psychologist at GSC since 1992.

“There are DVD’s, books, CD’s and computer games available in the room for GSC students to check out,” Evans said.

Counseling and Career Services provide short-term counseling and workshops for students who are experiencing problems.

They specialize in self explora-tion, interpersonal conflicts, sexu-ality issues, or addictive behaviors. Counseling is free of charge and in a completely supportive and confi-dential atmosphere.

College survival counseling and workshops are also provided. Top-ics cover study skills, time manage-

ment, college transfers, communi cation skills, interviewing skills and resume writing skills.

To date, Counseling and Career Services have held over 400 coun-seling sessions at GSC.

Their programs range from helping depression, eating disor-ders, assertiveness, grieving issues, stress management, relationships etc.

For more information, pam-phlets are located in the wellness room that may provide help for any type of issue.

Office hours are Monday-Thursday, 8a.m.- 7 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Summer hours are Monday- Thursday, 8 a.m.- 6 p.m. and Fri-day 8 a.m.- 1 p.m.Caitlin Barker

The wellness room also provides students with several informational brochures.

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GSC student Emily Levy uses the trampoline to relieve stress before class.


Chelsea ClarkStaff [email protected]

The new building opening up this upcoming fall semester will provide students with a Mac lab.

The lab will be available to all media studies students.

Several other departments have ex-pressed interest in wanting to use the lab.

There is a possibility that the lab will become available to some art and the-ater students.

The lab will hold 20 27-inch desktop Mac Pros.

Each computer will contain all of the latest Apple software, including: Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Final Cut Studio and Sony Vegas Studio.

Final Cut Studio and Sony Vegas Studio are both programs used in pro-fessional video editing.

Brandon Haag, chief information of-ficer of Gainesville State College, said, “We are excited to be able to provide a standard reliable environment for stu-dents to work with in the Mac lab.”

The lab is also planning on have printers available to the students, one that prints black and white and another that prints color.

“There will be a learning curve for those who have never used a Mac,” Haag said.

The computers are arriving some-time this week. Once they arrive the Haag and his colleagues will begin set-ting up and get the lab ready to use by fall.

The entire staff involved is very ex-

MAC ATTACK: We’re getting a Mac lab w/ Acad. Iv

The new mac lab will feature 20 27-inch desktop mac computers all equipped with the lastest software.

Photo courtesy of Apple.com

cited for the program to open. With this program students will get an opportunity that is not offered by many other two-year schools.

GSC in its broad expansion has had to grow along with its rising population.

The opportunity of a Mac lab just shows that GSC is growing above and be-yond expectations, Haag said.

The ability to host a Mac lab is a big step for GSC. It shows that the school is

managing the success well.As GSC is granted the ability to serve

more and more four-year degrees the school must have the technology and education as a backing.

It would make sense that in order for the school to host a four-year degree in media studies that an outlet for the de-gree would be needed.

This is precisely what the Mac lab could promote for GSC.

M a c f a c t s Apple Inc. introduced their first personal computer, the Apple I, in 1976.

The first Apple logo was designed by ron Wayne, co-founder of Apple Computer. It was rather a picture than a logo. It showed Sir Isaac Newton sit-ting beneath the famous Apple tree thinking about gravity.

On average, the cost to develop and sup-port Windows appli-cations is 50 percent higher per dollar of revenue than the cost to develop for Macin-tosh.

Mac facts courtesy of The Apple Museum

dr. Al Panu named vice president for Academic AffairsAndrew SmithStaff [email protected]

Al Panu was recently named GSC’s vice president of Aca-demic Affairs.

Panu has been working at GSC since 2007.

“My new position relates to accreditation, faculty and staff, scheduling courses and the ac-ademic side of the institution,” Panu said.

Panu has been serving GSC as the interim vice president and looks forward to continu-ing to assist students.

“GSC is known for its focus and building a solid founda-tion for excellence in educa-tion and helping students

achieve their goals,” Panu said.Panu believes that GSC will

be a school of continuous im-provements

“I am excited to be working with the staff and students. The staff is dedicated to see stu-dents succeed,” Panu said.

Panu feels that the staff at GSC is committed to helping all students succeed in their college endeavors.

Panu won the Distinguished Teacher Award in 1998 at KSU for being an outstanding teacher.

Panu felt that teachers need to encourage students to reach their full potential.

“Teachers also have to em-power students to pursue their goals,” Panu said

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f a s t f a c t sPanu has been working at GSC since 2007.

He received the distinguished Teacher Award from Kennesaw State University in 1998.

Panu earned his Ph.d. in Chemistry from the University of Georgia.

Al Panu, GSC’s new vicepresident of Academic Affairs

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Matthew LarawayStaff [email protected]

Student Derrick Sabio started a pe-tition in March to bring a designated smoking pit to the campus.

“I’ve been thinking about doing it since last semester,” Sabio said, “I got threatened with a fine for smoking on campus my third day of school.”

Gainesville State College became one of the first campuses in the coun-try to become tobacco-free in 2003.

The only place students, faculty and staff may smoke or chew tobacco is in their personal vehicles.

In their policy, the college cites “health concerns for the students, fac-ulty and staff ” as reasons for the ban.

“The administration makes the rules we just inforce them,” Gainesville police Chief Richard Goodson said. “If I see a student smoking out of their car I will most likely give them a warning but if it’ s a problem I will have to re-port them to the student development office where they will receive their punishment”

Students aren’t the only ones who must abide by the tobacco ban.

“If I see a faculty member smoking I will have to report them to their advi-sors,” Goodson said

Sabio has a plan to talk to GSC President Martha Nesbitt about where a smoking area should be.

“All I want to see is one smoking pit outside of a high traffic area,” he said “I know North Georgia has four or five smokers’ pits on campus.”

Sabio thinks that having a smoking area on campus will benefit the school.

“It would benefit smokers not hav-ing to walk to their car after class on a 10-minute break,” he said. “That’s three hours without smoking. It would promote cleanliness where smokers can dispose of a cigarette butt, since people generally toss their cigarette butts out the window anyway.”

Before the tobacco ban, the college had three designated smoking areas, but smokers chose to smoke outside of these areas anyway, the policy states.

But the lack of a designated smok-ing area is not fair for smokers, Sabio said.

“I feel like people discriminate against smokers on campus.”

Sabio is looking for as many GSC signatures as he can get, whether the signers smoke or not.

“I’m not a smoker but I think it should happen,” student Stephanie Gauthier said. “People still smoke ev-erywhere and it’s hard to find a good place to sit away from it. I think they

should have a place where it won’t bother anybody.”

Not all students agree with relaxing the ban, though.

Student Jonathan Cane said, “smok-ers are just too lazy to walk to their car to smoke. If there is a smoking pit non-smokers who want to enjoy the nice weather won’t be able to because of the smoke clouds.”

If you are interested in learning more about this or signing the petition and you can contact Derrick Sabio on Facebook.

Bridget Elliott and Mike Williams contributed to this story.

don’t want,” said Tonna Harris-Bosselmann, GSC instructor and advisor to SPS.

“They’re contributing to the economy, they’re contributing to our society. Yet they don’t have full rights. And on the contrary, they’re criminalized. They’re looked at as criminals. That hypocrisy has always both-ered me,” she said.

Harris-Bosselmann said Georgia de-pends on cheap labor for many of its indus-tries, and because of that, this kind of law is hypocritical.

“We like our cheap chicken, we like our produce, we like to have construction work done on our homes for a good price. And yet we don’t want to give people the respect they are due,” Harris-Bosselman said.

Notable speakers and performers were in attendance to rally the crowd, including the music duo The Indigo Girls.

The Rev. Gregory Williams, president of

Atlantans Building Leadership for Empow-erment (ABLE), delivered an impassioned speech to the crowd.

“We are not on the side of the injustice taking place here. It’s racial profiling, and it’s wrong,” Williams said. “This law is intended to disenfranchise an entire race of people.”

Those in support of the new legislation argue that the HB 87 isn’t a racial issue. Rather, proponents argue that illegal im-migrants are a drain on already strained resources like medical care and law enforce-ment.

Republican Representative Matt Ramsey from Peachtree City is one of the sponsors of HB 87.

“Our federal government has failed us, and our citizens in Georgia are suffering,” Ramsey said.

“Clearly changes have to be made, and soon. The open borders that lead into this great country are the very reason we are falling from grace,” D.A. King of the Dustin Inman Society said.

“These people are clearly anti-enforce-ment, anti-immigration and anti-sensibili-ty,” King said.

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Since GSC has been tobacco free, the only place students, faculty and staff can smoke on cam-pus is in their personal vehicles. Some students are advocating for a smoking area on campus.

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p o l i c y“The operational phi-losophy of GSC is to promote lifetime well-ness. In keeping with that philosophy, the use of tobacco products is prohibited on any cam-pus of the College.”

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“Clearly changes have to be made, and soon. The open borders that lead into this great country are the very reason we are falling from grace,” d.A. King of the dustin Inman Society said.

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Want to graduate faster? You’re going to have to sign up for summer classesErin TyreStaff [email protected]

Some students will be lying out at the pool, but others will be spending their summer right here at GSC taking classes all day long.

There are a variety of dif-ferent classes to take, but some will make you spend more time on campus than you would if you went in a fall or spring se-mester.

Students feel different ways about whether they enjoy tak-ing summer classes or not.

I asked Anthony Silvers, a transfer junior, what he thinks about summer class, he said "I think summer classes are awe-some because you can finish a class in two months instead of going through an entire fall or spring semester. The only

downside is that you spend your entire summer at school, but in the end it will be worth it."

A Spanish 1001 class, for ex-ample is a Monday, Wednesday and Friday class from 8 a.m. until 8:50 a.m in the spring se-m e s t e r . The same class for the first session of s u m m e r c l a s s e s is Mon-day thru Thursday from 8 a.m. un-til 10:50 a.m..

I asked a GSC student Kristen Owens what she thought about summer

classes, she said "I definitely prefer spring and fall semes-ters. I feel so overwhelmed all summer. Even though it is over quicker, I can not go to school for three hours every day in the

summer.”T h e r e

are many d i f f e r e n t t h o u g h t s on sum-mer class-es around the GSC c a m p u s , but when I asked a large num-ber of stu-dents, the m a j o r i t y voted that s u m m e r

classes are the semester that they enjoy the most.

“I think summer classes are awesome because you can finish a class in two months instead of go-ing through an entire fall or spring semes-ter.”

Anthony Silvers

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- April 28th - Summer tuition and fees due

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- June 1st - May session exams

- June 6th - Summer registration ( full, June and July sessions)

- June 30th - June session exams

- July 5th - July sesion begins

- July 28th - 29th - July session exams


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Katie KeigerStaff [email protected]

GSC’s literary magazine, The Ches-tatee Review, had its final and most an-ticipated event on April 14 — the Ches-tatee Review Premiere.

The Chestatee Review team worked all year on this event, going through the many stages necessary to get to the big event.

“The premiere is basically the same every year; we like to keep it traditional and formal,” said Leslie Worthington, Chestatee Review adviser and English and foreign languages department chair.

The class of the Ches-tatee Re-view, for-mally called M a g a z i n e Product ion 1, creates the events surrounding GSC’s liter-ary maga-zine.

The stu-dents help get word out for the many events the Ches-tatee Re-view holds throughout the year, in-cluding the magazine’s c o n t e s t which hap-

pens every fall.After the class receives all the con-

testants’ entries for the contest, they are sent to be judged by professionals.

Once the judges send back which ones they picked to win first, second and third place, the class will edit them to make them fit for the magazine.

“The class must also work with the artwork and decide which art to go on the cover,” Worthington said, “They must design the cover, too.”

The winner’s plays, short stories, es-says and poems are sent to the South-ern Regional Festival Competition by Worthington before they are edited so the judges there can decide for them-selves.

This year, two of the winners from Chestatee Review won the regional com-petition: Tandra Long for her short sto-

ry, which won second place in the review and first place in regional, and Brad Jamison for his one-act play, which won third place for the review and first place in the regional.

Even after doing the magazine, the class must then prepare and get the news out about the premiere.

Finally, on April 14 all the hard work that went into The Ches-tatee Review paid off when the winners were recognized with awards, presentations and most importantly for college students, free food.

“There were tables where we could eat and listen to the read-ings of the winning plays, short stories, essays and poetry,” Madison Mosley, magazine class student, said.

“There is also a jazz band. It’s a pret-ty classy event and more formal than most events on campus.”

After the premiere the only thing left

is to distribute the magazine across GSC campus and make them available to the whole student body.

“Abbey Diorio is really in charge of this event,” said Tandra Long, editor of the Chestatee Review. As editor, Long was in charge of the premiere.

Gloria Bennett, professor of English and Chestatee Review assistant manag-er, will be the adviser of the GSC literary magazine next year.

Tandra Long will be replaced as edi-tor and the scholarship will be given to another student also.

Another successful year for GSC’s literary magazine, The Chestatee review

Members of The Chestatee Review: (seated left to right) Taylor Grayson, Tandara Long and Andrew MacDonald; (standing left to right) Erin Tyre, Kristin Stamey, Dana Moore, Madison Mosely, Sarah Madsen, Megan McCaffrey and Kayla McGee.

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“There were tables where we could eat and listen to the readings of the winning plays, short stories, es-says and poet-ry. There is also a jazz band. It’s a pretty classy eventand more formal than most events on campus.”

Madison Mos-ley, GSC stu-dent in the

magazine class Poetry

first - “Beltane Night” by Sarah MadsenSecond - “The Auroch” by Jessie MerriamThird - “The Amos” by david Butler

Short Fiction

first - “The Island” by Katherine SchinellSecond - “Gone” by Tandra LongThird - “Jesus Was Wrong” by Abigail dio-rio

One-Act Play

first - “romeo and rosaline” by Katie Kei-gerSecond - “Stuck” by Kayla McGeeThird - “The run” by Brad Jamison

Informal Essay

first - “This I Believe” by Charles ryan Lev-eilleSecond - “Snow Covered Garbage” by Emmy dixonThird - “Oh, To Be a ramblin’ Man” by Grayson Taylor

Formal Essay

first - “Humanity: Killing is in Our Blood” by Jason MartinSecond - “The Normalizing of Abherrant Behavior Through Television Talk Shows” by Cheryl MillsThird - “Why Was School desegregation So Explosive?” by Joyce Kinsey

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Going, going, gone: Graduating art students show off what they learned here

K r i s t a C o r l e y

Age: 24

Art Major

Attending North Georgia in the fall

Enjoys found object art

L i s a C r o n eAge: 21

Art Education Major

Inspired by everyday experience

Attending UGA in the fall

“Art is like a directional force in my life, I’ll follow

wherever it leads.”

E m i l y B e c k Age: 20

Art Major

Inspired by life

Attending Georgia Tech in the fall

Going into Architecture or Engineering

Jennifer ClarkStaff [email protected]

Each year the Roy C. Moore art gal-lery located in the Continuing Education Building, hosts an exhibit for the gradu-ating class.

Maybe you've seen the flyers lying around campus featuring Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan. Look closely at this famous photo and you'll see some of the pieces from the current show in the background.

"They’re examining artwork like peo-ple will be doing in our exhibit," Lisa Crone, one of the flyer’s designers, said.

This year's showcase includes nine

artists and was organized by Beth Sale, the gallery's director.

"I send out an email to all students majoring in art who have enough cred-its to graduate in the year 2011, spring, summer or fall," Sale said.

"Students who are interested in par-ticipating come to a meeting, where they discuss exhibition titles, show cards and such."

The students then decide what to in-clude in the show and work with gallery assistants to frame their work.

The inspiration for the student's art work varies. Some, like Krista Corley, are trying to alleviate boredom or trans-late dreams.

Others base their pieces on various

life experiences: observation, conver-sation and even topics of study.

Inspiration not only comes from their surroundings but from the teach-ing staff.

Lisa Crone was told she had a teach-er's brain. This has encouraged her teaching aspirations.

"Words cannot express my gratitude for all they've done," Crone said.

Photography, charcoals and acrylics are among the preferred media in this show, though Krista Corley has a soft spot for found object art and even wears earrings she made from old flash drives.

The exhibit began March 29 and run through April 28.

A reception will be held in the

roy C. MooreArt Galleryat 5:30 p.m. April 28TH

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Headin’ out westAndrew Wilkinson, SGA’s prez, reflects on his past two years in officeInterview and photos by Lauren Blais

Andrew Wilkinson, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, came to Georgia on New Year’s Eve in 2005. He’d taken a plane to Tennessee, then a Greyhound bus to Atlanta. But he found himself on the wrong side of town, with two suitcases, $2,000 and a gun in his face.

“It was very first thing that hap-pened to me when I got to Georgia,” Wilkinson said.

Little did he know at the time, years later he would draft a docu-ment unifying University System of Georgia schools against proposed legislation permitting guns to be carried on college campuses.

Wilkinson’s successes have not come easily: he has no family here, and no financial aid. He has never been able to buy any of his text-books. He can’t drive, and he’s lim-ited by his visa on how much he can work. The amount of money he makes only equates to half of what it would cost him to attend Gaines-ville State. Many folks have helped him along the way, especially at GSC.

“I’m only here because there were people who believed in me,” he said.

Wilkinson became president of the Student Government Associa-tion in 2008. He is graduating in May and plans to move to Califor-nia to pursue a degree in biochem-istry.

Compass: How were you like before you became president of Student Government Association?

Andrew Wilkinson: Naive, I was so naive. Yeah, I went into it like everyone else seems to be go-ing into it, like, “I can fix the world in the first three weeks and I don’t know what I’m going to do with the rest of my time.”

And then I got into it and then I realized that there was a lot of things that you learn on the job with SGA...

You get people who are disil-lusioned with what student gov-ernment is. They think that we run everything; they think that if there’s something that needs to get fixed on campus that SGA has the power to do it. And what they don’t understand is like the real government, there is more influ-ence than actual direct power. And the more people that have their say and there more people that have their input the more that it’s likely to happen.

One of the very first things I noticed when I took office is that our constitution had no amend-ment clause in it. So it’d been a

static document for years. And I thought, “OK, we have to fix this, there has to be something so that SGA can grow beyond the con-fines of what it is, and really help out the next administration.”

And it took over two years to pass, because we had to write a whole new constitution... and that took a lot of work.

Compass: What is your great-est accomplishment as SGA presi-dent?

Wilkinson: It’s infrastructure, which isn’t the sexiest thing in the world. And I wish we would have had some really big sweeping re-form that helped out the college in total; we had a lot of really great ideas like the Zimride thing that we wanted to bring to campus that was going to help parking, and then our proposal to reform food services... but each of those kept getting pushed back by our own administration... which re-ally bummed me out, because a lot of people really worked hard on those things.

So what I decided to focus on is...make sure that SGA would be taken more seriously more future, that it would be dealt with as a peer organization... So to do that, we had to put more infrastructure on paper.

Compass: What’s something you wish you could have done in office?

Wilkinson: I really wanted to make Gainesville state, I wanted to give it that sense of school spir-it. I wanted people to be proud of calling themselves a “goose.”

You know, people call them-selves a “bulldog” or a “yellow jacket,” and they’re really proud of that. I really wanted to have that at Gainesville State...

What I wanted to do was cre-

ate this sort of volunteer army, at Gainesville State where people would go into the community and work on community project, and become so invested in that, that we would become known as a volunteer school, and that’s where our sense of school pride would come from. And people would recognize in themselves as Gainesville Geese.

Compass: What’s your most memorable moment?

Wilkinson: Every year we have the SAC conference, which is Stu-dent Advisory Council and it’s all the SGA presidents from all the USG schools, and GSC was lucky enough to host it one year... and one of the debates that were before us was talking about gun legisla-tion that was going through the state legislature, they were talking about allowing guns on campus...

So we were bashering around ideas and arguing this way and that way, and I got fed up and I just started writing a position...And then we got 33 out of 35 schools to sign a statement from SAC say-ing that we oppose the gun legisla-tion, that we don’t want guns on our campuses...

And it was really great to kind of see that I was able to bring around a group of people towards a com-mon goal, that was really good for the state, because we’re talking like 300 thousand students...

On-campus something that I’m really proud of besides infrastruc-ture... I’m proud of the work that I’ve done on HOPE and trying work with the Democrats to bring something that will help out our students for next year.

I’m proud of our blood drives, that’s a really great thing that we do. We bring in more blood to LifeSouth and the Red Cross than UGA. And we do that consistent-ly, we’ve done it for the past five or six blood drives.

Compass: What advice would you care to leave behind for next SGA president, officers and mem-bers?

Wilkinson: I’m thinking about that question a lot these days...

The advice that I would give to them, would be pick one thing, that’s really important to you and will benefit students.

It doesn’t have to be the biggest project, it just has to be something that is attainable and something that you have a road map to actu-ally do, and focus on that and you can build momentum and cred-ibility and move on to the next thing.

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Joe Beasley Staff [email protected]

Americans with disabilities are among the most dis-criminated citizens in this country.

Not only do they have to deal with the disability, they have to deal with their marginalization from the general population.

“Don’t be afraid to make a mistake—perhaps the most hurtful mistake is acting as though the student isn’t there,” Director of Disability Services Nicola Dovey said in an email.

GSC is one of the most accommodating schools for students with disabilities. “I went through Young Har-ris’ Disability Services and they weren’t accommodat-ing at all,” student Bridget Elliott said. “Here they meet with me at the beginning of the semester and they see how I’m doing. It’s like (GSC) actually cares. Without out these amenities, I wouldn’t make it.”

“It’s about leveling the playing field...making it fair for all students,” Dovey said.

Some of the accommodations offered at GSC in-clude: disability parking, extended time for tests, private testing environments, alternative media for textbooks, voice activated software, screen readers, sign-language interpreters, note-takers and priority registration among many others in a case by case situ-ation.

“Having a disability frequently makes it difficult to attend class every time so its nice to have someone tak-ing notes for you when you can’t make it,” said Timo-

thy Williams.Priority registration is also very beneficial for stu-

dents with disabilities so they are able to meet with counselors and administrators before the classes that are needed are filled up.

For students who are blind, some of the textbooks are available. For math courses that use graphs, blind students can use Wikki Stix, which are waxy sticks that can either be shaped or the student can shape them to feel them.

Many American students with disabilities are not al-lowed these tools which makes it much more difficult if not impossible to succeed in their education.

Sadly, many hearing impaired and deaf students are mainstreamed, meaning that they are put in classrooms with hearing students.

“It would be like being in a sound proof box and then having a class taught in Chinese,” said Penny Hollis, a deaf student majoring in early childhood development.

Twenty to 30 percent of hearing impaired and deaf students are put in classrooms without interpreters, and they must rely on their ability to read lips, missing for-ty to sixty percent of the information given.

Independence is a big factor in the feelings of self esteem and self worth among the disabled community.

“If you can’t learn independence... if your parents and your teachers are saying ‘you can’t do this and you can’t do that’ because you can’t hear that definitely has an effect (on their self esteem),” Hollis said.

On our campus, the FACE club (Freedom, Advo-cacy, Character Education) helps to serve as a club to benefit for this purpose. Their mission is to “support people with various disabilities as well as to educate the campus population and the community about vari-ous disabilities and how they affect our world” as stat-ed in the brochure.

The main problem that disabled students face is be-ing rude to if not completely ignored by the non-dis-abled community.

Many of the non-disabled community have ques-tions or don’t know how to interact with people with disabilities, which is why many non disabled students choose to not interact with disabled students.

“I’m a student just like everyone else, I just can’t hear. I do everything that you do,” Hollis said.

GSC combats disability discrimination

“If you can’t learn indepen-dence...if your parents and your teachers are saying ‘you can’t do this and you can’t do that’ because you can’t hear that definitely has an effect (on their self esteem).”

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Gainesville State College 2011 Students in Free Enterprise Regional Champions.

Left to right, first row, Katie Simmons, adviser; Diana Intsiful, Litany Koshy, John Hernandez, Efren and Oa-

sis Chavez, Karen Llanes, Bart Foster. Second row, Marco Hull, Matt Post, Jonathan Ra-

jala, Anastasia Roberts, Shruti Patel, Terri Ziegler. Third row, Seth Unger, Cyrus Akbari, Joseph

Campodonico, Dominique Brown. Fourth row, Garfield Anderson, adviser; Joseph Barr;

and Kelly Manley, adviser

SIfE kicks butt at regionals (again!)Students in Free Enterprise was recently named regional

champions for the 17th year in a row.The competition is just one in a series that allows SIFE to pres-

ent the many community outreach projects it has been working on throughout the school year. The GSC club has been working on eight such projects.

In May the club will head to Minnesota to compete in 2011 SIFE USA National Exposition.

From staff reports

Politically Incorrect Club gets photo op with the govThe Politically Incorrect Cub got their picture standing next to State Representatives Doug Collins and Carl Rogers, Gov. Nathan Deal, and State Rep. James Mills. Representatives Collins, Rogers, and Mills repre-sent districts around and including GSC.

Photo courtesy of the Politically Incorrect Club

Photo courtesy of public relations

Got club news?

Email [email protected] and we’ll try and get it in print for yah.



Eddie Gonzalez Staff [email protected]

Ah, those pivotal first impressions.Within the first 10 minutes of “Hanna,” we

meet a girl who expertly handles a bow and arrow, swiftly sprints across a mile of tundra, calmly guts the reindeer she just killed, eas-ily floors her father, obediently drags the deer back to her log-cabin, fluently speaks in four different languages, and takes pride in repeat-ing verbatim what she’s memorized from the pages of a worn encyclopedia.

She does all of this before trying her hand at cooking dinner.

This is Hanna Heller (Saoirse Ronan): 16-year-old feral child of Finland.

When we first meet Hanna, she’s never been exposed to any sort of technology beyond her hunting equipment or any other human out-side of her mentor and father, Erik Heller (Eric Bana), a renegade CIA operative whose man-tra includes thinking on your feet “even while you’re sleeping.”

Why the training? Why the seclusion? This is steadily revealed in perfect proportions as Erik reluctantly allows a “ready” Hanna to make her journey into the real world.

And what a wondrous journey it is.Because we are treated to the world through

Hanna’s unique perspective, what follows as soon as she parts with her cabin is wonderfully bizarre.

It is an experience replete with intriguing visuals, spurts of Bourne-like action, a slew of humorous and intelligent dialogue and a hyp-notic jukebox full of gritty and pulsating beats crafted by The Chemical Brother’s that easily rivals Daft Punk’s score in “Tron.”

Throughout her journey, Hanna uncovers the truth about her father and the nature of her-self.

She also discovers exactly why CIA “witch” Marissa (Cate Blanchett, with a memorable

Texan accent) has hired a vaguely effeminate henchman (Tom Hollander) to kill her and what connection Erik has with the CIA.

Despite having to piece together Hanna’s past in this fashion, I found the task to be rath-er…simple. The characters had clear objec-tives and were rarely duplicitous.

However, what “Hanna” lacks in story com-plexity, it makes up for with a unique and re-freshing presentation.

The fight sequences in the movie are mostly shot with long takes. I had become so accus-tomed to viewing filmed hand-to-hand combat as a rapid series of fists and feet and questions

concerning who’s hitting who that I’d forgot-ten what a good fight looked like.

These long-takes combined with a bit of slow-motion blows on tempo with the back-ground music made the fighting sequences in the subway, cargo-yard, German fun-house (which looked better than it sounds), and play-ground great.

There was one sequence I found to be over-stylized, however. This was Hanna’s escape from a secret facility located in the middle of a Moroccan desert.

The audience is treated to shots of Hanna sprinting through a series ventilation shafts (which always make for a convenient escape) and tunnels while being chased by a band of bumbling guards.

For the entire escape, Hanna is surrounded by seizure-inducing strobe lights and sharp shadows.

We also watch her through a series of wild and whirling camera shots, which are intrigu-ing at first, but, when combined with the light-ing, quickly become disorienting and mildly sickening.

Once I got through this sequence, I found Hanna to be remarkably enticing.

Rarely do you find an action-movie with this kind of poetic depth. Rarely do you find a girl who decks boys that move too fast. I wouldn’t mind a second date.

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It is an experience replete with intriguing visuals, spurts

of Bourne-like action, a slew of humorous and intel-ligent dialogue and a hyp-notic jukebox full of gritty

and pulsating beats crafted by The Chemical Brother’s

that easily rivals daft Punk’s score in “Tron.”

Photo from Focus Features

Hanna stars Sao-irse Ronan, Eric Bana and Cate

Blanchett. The action-packed

thriller was direct-ed by Joe Wright,

who also di-rected the 2007’s

“Atonement.” This movie was released April 8

and is rated PG-13.

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Emma BoswellStaff Writer [email protected]

If you aren’t familiar with the role of a middleman in the business world, look at it this way: After months of tending to your garden, you set up your fruit stand and are open for busi-ness.

Soon after, a man in a suit comes up to you and says, “I’m sorry, but before you sell your products I have to buy all of them for a fraction of your asking price. I intend to sell them on your behalf and give you what small change I get for them.”

You are forced to believe that you no other choice.

The tall mys-tery man in this story represents the middleman that has a reputation for making the path between farms and our tables a long one.

When the food or good comes from another country they make it possible for us to get hold of it, so what’s wrong with them?

The answer comes from organiza-tions that believe in fair trade tactics for buying and selling goods from other countries without all the middle-man’s added charges and fees.

Fair trading is probably something that you’re only familiar with seeing on the labels of organic dark choco-late or whole bean coffee bags.

We see the certification or the words “traded fairly” and don’t think much of it other than, that’s cool.

When you see those words, it means that no forced child labor was

used to make the product, the cor-rect percentage of retail price is being given to the creator or farmer, and the environment for the workers is safe and clean.

These condi-tions sound like a given and though you might think

that this is how all factories and farms are, sadly many are not.

For a product or farm to be con-sidered fair trade certified they must be a member of a national or inter-national fair trade organization such as FairTrade Labeling Organizations

International, World Fair Trade Or-ganization or Fair Trade Action Net-work.

Why is it so beneficial to buy things that are traded fairly?

The makers of USDA organic and nationally certified fair trade loose leaf tea say, “Sustainable de-velopment protects against land loss by promoting environmentally friendly processes which in turn cre-ate a healthy working environment for producers and their families.”

This also promotes fair wages for workers, builds schools and hospi-tals, creates cultural centers, pro-motes gender equality and fights against child labor in their tea pro-ducing areas.

At this moment the best place to buy fairly traded products such as clothing, jewelry, shoes, and deco-rations is on the Internet.

This way you can see their cer-tification, how long they have been certified and where your money is going.

Buying clothing and crafts that have been made safely in an envi-ronmentally aware atmosphere can be more than just a part of the cool going green trend.

It’s also a groovy way to better our economy, our planet and your closet. Good luck, fair shoppers.

Cut out the middle man and help others with fair trade

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G O O d S ?Now that you know the benefit of buying fairly

traded items, here’s where you can find

them.

GaiamThis company buys according to the Fair Trade Federation for sustainable systems of produc-tion. They sell yoga and fitness products in Target and Barnes & Nobles as well as in their online store. http://www.gaiam.com/

American Apparel American Apparel uses verti-cal integration to minimize the use of sub-contractors and offshore labor.http://www.americanapparel.net/

recycle A Tee Their motto is “to produce quality, affordable organic clothing and apparel with a minimal ecological footprint.” When you buy one T-shirt, after you’ve worn it you can return it and get 25 percent off your next purchase. http://www.recycleatee.com/

Ten Thousand villages A great online source for fairly traded cultural artisan per-sonal accesories, home decor, art, sculpture, jewelry, serve-ware inspirered by Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. http://www.tenthousandvil-lages.com

Fairly traded goods are produced using environementally safe procedures and minimizes the use of offshore labor and sub-contractors.

Emma Boswell

“Buying clothing and crafts that have been

made safely in an environmentally-

aware atmosphere can be more than just

a part of the cool going green trend.”


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Daniel Dove Managing [email protected]

With summer fast approach-ing, many of us have already be-gan to make grand plans for our allotted time off.

The weather will be nice, friends will be in town, and free time will be abundant.

Ideally, we’d all like to take extravagant vacations to far-off destinations. But it’s not an ideal world. Most of can’t afford to take time off work and travel.

So, what can you do in this

area, in one day, and not spend a fortune? How about a kayak-ing trip down the Broad River in

Madison County?There are two established

companies that offer kayak rent-als for a day trip down the river. Broad River Outpost and The Sandbar offer similar services for customers wanting to try some mild white-water kayak-ing.

“We have a pretty diverse cus-tomer base. We have everything from Boy scouts, to Church groups, to groups of fraternity brothers,” said Ryan Hines, UGA grad student and employee of the Broad River Outpost.

Hines pointed out that this stretch of the Broad River is great for people of any experi-ence level.

“We offer a guided canoe and kayak tour for those who are new to mild whitewater trav-elling,” Hines said.

Natalie Phil-lips, a manager at The Sandbar, expressed the same saying that everyone should be able to come out and have a good time.

“It’s a good place to learn. I’ve seen kids as young as 8 or 9

go by themselves, and kids who are younger who will go down with their parents,” Phillips said.

JUST ArOUNd THE rIvEr BENd: Broad River kayaking

Kris StameyStaff [email protected]

Trying to avoid the dreaded but seem-ingly inevitable “staycation” this sum-mer?

I have good news for you: Vacations are still affordable if you take the time to do a little research, book ahead, and find extra ways to make your getaway more frugal.

If you cringe at the idea of filling up a few tanks’ worth of gas to get some-where, just grab a group of friends and head up to the mountains to camp or

stay in cabins. You can bring your own groceries, games, and movies.

If you’d like to venture out a little, try taking a trip to historic towns like Sa-vannah and Charleston where you can walk around town without having to pay for transportation.

These towns also feature several in-expensive forms of entertainment such as ghost walks, museums, reasonably priced restaurants, and there’s always the beach of course!

If you aren’t satisfied until you’ve re-ally adventured out, try taking a trip to Las Vegas.

Because the summer weather is less

pleasant in Vegas, there is often a short-age of tourists during this time of year, which means you’ll pay less to get and stay there (though you’ll have to muster up the willpower to keep your money out of the casinos).

And what could be more of an adven-ture, and still reasonable compared to some trips, than going on a cruise?

Not only are all of your meals includ-ed in the cost, but you can often go on excursions for less than $100.

The best way to find the cheapest rates for a cruise is to look up the com-peting travel agents who are often trying to find the best price in order to get you

booked. Remember that it can some-times be cheapest to book in advance while other times, you will find tickets are cheaper if you book within ninety days of the cruise since they might be trying to fill all of the spots on the boat.

This is also a great trip to take with a group of friends who can help split the costs of the cabins.

So, when hanging out at your local pool starts getting dull this summer, don’t forget that there are ways to travel that won’t break the bank. Don’t become a victim of the staycation; get out, play, explore, and have an awesome summer break!

The Sandbar Price: $15 weekdays/$20 weekends

Times: Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and Weekends 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. Must be

signed up before 3:00 p.m. Open from April 1-Sep-tember

Address: Highway 172 West of Bowman, on King Hall Mill Road.Phone: 706- 245-4163

Website: http://www.thesandbarbroadriver.com

Broad river OutpostPrice: $15 weekdays/ $20 weekends

Times: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. daily. 9 a.m.-7 a.m. summer weekends and holidays.

No new rentals after 3:00 p.m.Address: 7911 Wildcat Bridge Road

Danielsville, Ga. 30633Phone: 706-795-3242

Website: http://www.broadriveroutpost.com

Steer clear of the staycation with budget tripsAll photos are courtesy of Natalie Phillips, manager at The Sandbar


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ented people you have at your disposal until you give them a chance.

2) Communicate. No one can read your mind.3) You can’t fire staff, so focus on the positives. Reward those

who do well, ignore the ones you can’t help. 4) I’m going to steal this one from Andrew Wilkinson: focus

on one or two goals. Revamping the layout was my big thing.

And for the rest of you journalism junkies:1) Act like you know what you’re doing, especially if you

don’t.2) Take photos of students. Put students on the cover. 3) If you forget everything else about layout and design, just

remember that the pica is your best friend. 4) Don’t rely on email as a method of contact. Yes, GSC email

is the official form of communication of Gainesville State Col-lege. But your excuse, “the professor/president/student never

responded to my email,” ain’t gonna work on a deadline. If your contact has an office, find it, learn their hours.

5) Canceled has only ONE “L” in it. Please, share this with everyone you know.

6) No one has time to read big columns of gray text. The only reason you’re reading this is because it’s in list format. Box up your info! Create entry points in to your stories. If you aren’t reading your own paper, then some changes need to be made to the way you’re presenting the information.

7) On that note, criticism is good! Someone actually read your story!

8) Check an duoble check you’re storeys for speling, typo’s, and grammer issus. Seriuosly.

9) Most importantly, don’t be afraid to experiment and try something knew. Take risks; this is a college paper, have fun, make it your own!

Big heart,Lauren BlaisEditor-in-chief


It wasn’t what I expected. But sometimes what you don’t ex-pect is better.

In my case it was. Since I had previously been to

University of Georgia, on a 4-H trip, I thought that Gainsville State College would be huge, with monstrous lecture halls and treacherously long hallways.

I was kind of intimidated at first but once I realized that is was nothing like that, I really liked GSC.

I was able to sit in on news-paper practicum class,where the schools newspaper is written, and in acreative writing fiction class. They were interesting be-cause I have always loved writ-ing.

I also visited the Roy C. Moore art gallery where my mother, Jennifer Clark, was doing some research for her next article on the graduating students exhibit. My favorite piece was entitled “Nail Bunny” by John Anderson

I absolutely loved my experi-ence at GSC. I can’t wait to at-tend myself.

2016, here I come.Chloe Clark

(Above) The staff of the Compass goofs off before getting down to do some layout. Standing, left to right, Andrew Smith, Kayla McGee (sort of sitting), Chelsea Clark, Alex Morris (holding Professor Ar-chibald Mortimer Jigglesworth III, Ph.D department of Gynecology), Daniel Dove, Michael Mullins. On the couches, Mike Williams, Eric Burton, Audrey Wil-liams, Caitlin Barker, Bridget Elliott, Matt Wentworth, Erin Tyer. On the floor, Jennifer Clark, Lauren Blais (holding Lady Red Ted). MIA, Clark Hannahs, Eddie Gonzalez. Not pictured, KM Stamey.

(Right) Joe Beasley holds one of our trusty Nikons. If you’re a Canon fan, we’ve got one of those, too.

Middle school student finds GSC more welcoming than UGA

Chloe Clark visited the GSC campus, includ-ing the Roy C. Moore Art Gallery, over her spring break.

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