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blotterOctober 5Piedmont North Officers arrested a student for alcohol possession under 21 years old. An officer ob-served an individual stum-bling while walking; initiat-ing a health and safety in-spection that confirmed the individual was underage and intoxicated. The student was arrested, processed and re-leased on a Copy of Charges.

October 4Piedmont Ave NE Officers arrested a student for alcohol possession under 21 years old. An officer ob-served the individual sleep-ing in her vehicle. He con-ducted a health and safety in-spection and noticed a strong odor of alcohol. After inves-tigating it was confirmed the individual was underage and intoxicated. The student was arrested, processed and later released.

Education Building A report was filed for suspi-cious behavior. A staff mem-ber notified a police officer about a suspicious male. Offi-cers made contact and found the person to be demented. He was transported to Grady Hospital.

October 3 University Commons

Officers arrested a non-GSU student for criminal tres-passing. An officer observed a male loitering. A criminal history check was conducted, which yielded a positive prior notice. The individual was ar-rested, processed and trans-ported to Fulton County Jail.

University CommonsA report was filed for crimi-nal trespass warning. Two non-GSU individuals were loitering. Officers conduct-ed a criminal history check, which yielded negative re-sults. The individuals were escorted off the property with no further incident.

Peachtree St.A report was filed for ag-gressive panhandling. A staff member reported she was walking near five Points and an unknown male aggres-sively asked her for money. The individual made an un-wanted attempt to hug her. She stated she delayed re-porting the incident because the person did not hurt her but after thinking about it she wanted to make a report

Edgewood Ave. A report was filed for at-tempted theft. A student stated an unknown male asked to use her cell phone. The male made an unsuc-cessful attempt to snatch the phone.

October 2 University Commons Officers arrested a student for Possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. An offi-cer responded to an odor of marijuana. The officer no-ticed the drugs in plain view and the individual was arrest-ed, processed and released on a copy of charges.

Student CenterA report was filed for suspi-cious activity/behavior. A student reported seeing a suspicious male. Officers in-vestigated and the person was found to be a student.

Student Recreation Center A report was filed for theft. A student stated he left his unattended book bag on the floor while he played basket-ball. When he returned at he noticed his iPhone had been stolen from the bag.

September 29University Commons

Officers arrested two stu-dents for alcoholic posses-sion under 21 years old. Of-ficers responded to underage students drinking alcohol. It was confirmed the individu-als were underage. The in-dividual were arrested, pro-cessed and released.

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LocalLongtime Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones’ last game was overshadowed by a controversial call. Last Friday an infield fly call in the seventh inning caused Braves fans to litter Turner Field with beer cans and foam toma-hawks. The St. Louis Cardinals advance in the post season after the first time winner-take-all wildcard matchup.

An abortion dispute is causing Atlanta area Catho-lics to stop support for the Susan G. Komen Founda-tion. Komen officials have been authorizing grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings for women. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta disapproves the financial support because the woman’s health clinic also provides abortions.

Parents whose children attend North Atlanta High School were concerned after the principal and his en-tire staff were reassigned and escorted off of school property last Friday. Principal Mark Mygrant was al-ready slated to retire before the incident occurred.

National A meningitis outbreak that began last week is being at-tributed to steroid shots. More than 60 people in nine states have acquired the rare fungal meningitis strain. Federal health officials said seven deaths have occurred and possibly thousands could have been exposed.

AAA reports that California gas prices reached an all

time high last week. Last Saturday’s average per gallon of unleaded fuel of $4.6140 beat out the state’s previ-ous record set in 2008. At the time of AAA’s report last weekend the national average was $3.81 a gallon.

A Florida man impersonated a police officer in an attempt to get free fast food. Authorities said Joseph Pineda went to a McDonald’s drive-thru claiming he didn’t have his wallet because he left a sting operation and showed a firearm and a fake badge. Employees called the real police and Pineda was arrested.

WorldVenezuelans’ vote for president might prove difficult for Hugo Chavez. Chavez, who has been the country’s leader for 14 years, faces off against Henrique Caprilles for the job of leading the country. Caprilles’ platform is stopping climbing murder rates, power outages and food shortages.

In a new deal with the U.S., South Korea has extended its missile range up to 497 miles. Now South Korea’s range now includes all of North Korea and a small por-tion of China. Unmanned drones may also carry more weight under the new ordnance.

A Vatican court sentenced Pope Benedict XVI’s but-ler, Paolo Gabriele, to 18 months in prison. Gabriele, who worked for the pope for six years, released letters and other personal effects to the media in an attempt to expose corruption within the Holy Roman Catho-lic Church.

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In his fourth year as president of university, Mark Becker has witnessed some great landmarks in Georgia State’s history. While educational programs have topped national lists and graduation numbers are at an all-time high, Becker faces economic chal-lenges unseen by his predecessors.

In his State of the University address last week, Becker looked at achievements made by Georgia State and explained plans to keep the university from being unraveled by economic hardship.

Budget cutsState support for the university has declined by

$49 million in four years. This is the trickledown ef-fect of $1.6 billion in Georgia budget cuts due to the recession.

“The economic forces driving down state reve-nues are beyond our control, but managing Georgia State University’s budget is not,” Becker said.

Philanthropic support and research funding continue to rise. Becker also said “we have been suc-cessful in securing targeted increases in state fund-ing for specific initiatives.”

Although there has been a decline in state fund-ing, there has been an increase in funding from the Board of Regents. “Specifically, for the current fiscal year we received a $9 million budget increase from the Board of Re-gents and state fund to support implementation of portions of our strategic plan,” Becker said. This money cannot be used as general funds or real-located to make up for cuts in state funding. It was approved to support specific projects, like the pur-chase of the Atlanta Life Building.The vice presidents and deans are looking at ways to trim spending to help alleviate the strain of budget cuts. “Those savings cannot be at the expense of the qual-ity of education that we deliver…” Becker said.Becker also addressed a pay freeze for faculty and staff that has been in effect since he became presi-dent in Jan. 2009. He expressed gratitude for faculty and staff’s hard work while receiving “stagnate” pay. He said Chancellor Huckaby and, most likely, Gov-ernor Deal would support a pay increase for faculty and staff, but, “I am not optimistic that we will see such a program enacted in the coming legislative session.”

Student diversity and growthAs Georgia State’s enrollment numbers contin-

ue to rise, so does the number of students leaving the university with degrees. Last year, 7,365 degrees were awarded to students, higher than any previous year.

“Just as impressive, students from all ethnic and racial backgrounds succeed at Georgia State at near-ly equal rates, and the same is true of students of all economic backgrounds,” President Becker said.

Georgia State now surpasses Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia in degrees given to minor-ity students.

After a 17 percent increase, the university is the non-profit leader in conferring undergraduate de-grees to African American, according to Becker. He also said Georgia State is in the top 50 in the nation for giving degrees to Asian Americans.

The president cited an Education Trust study,

saying Georgia State ranked number one in the na-tion among public universities that award degrees to Hispanic American students relative to other “stu-dent populations” and second for Hispanic gradu-ation improvement rates.

Later, when President Becker was asked his thoughts on the Dream Act, he said, “I’m not go-ing to comment on national policy; my job is to take care of Georgia State University.”

Graduation rates university-wide are up—this year they stand at 51 percent. Becker said he wants to see a rate of more than 60 percent in the coming years.

New programs for studentsA new advising system is currently in place this

fall that will track a student’s progress during their academic career. The program, which is only being used in three universities in the nation, tracks stu-dent progress compared to historical data.

“This system uses historical retention and grad-uation data from Georgia State to notify advisers at the moment the student goes off track, not three or four semesters later when the student is in a signifi-cantly worse position,” Becker said.

The new University and Advisement Center will be housed in 25 Park Place, (SunTrust Tower), at the end of the fall. Advisement and academic counsel-ing for all students will be consolidated into this one center.

“Another area where we are making important strides in how we will meet the unique needs of the military personnel coming to GSU after serving our nation in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world,” Becker said.

The Military Resource Center will be available for “military learners” that have special needs from other students. United States Marine Corps Sergeant Sion New, a Political Science major, was “instrumen-tal” in the development of the program.

Scholarships for students“The Georgia State University Foundation has

played a major role in stimulating a real and tangible increase in scholarship funds,” Becker said.

Last year the Goizueta Foundation gave $5 mil-lion for Georgia State’s Latino Leadership Pipeline. Atlanta-based Coca-Cola has given the university $1.3 million dollars to award to first-generation stu-dents and study abroad programs. Becker also men-tioned two $500,000 “gifts” from currently undis-closed sources.

Georgia State’s Keep Hope Alive program was also mentioned. The Georgia State University Foun-dation supports this scholarship that provides finan-cial support for students that lose the HOPE scholar-ship because their grades slip.

In all, the President said money for institution-al awards given to students has increased more than 147 percent.

ResearchOver the past year Georgia State has received

$66.5 million in sponsored research money. This is an all-time high for the university. Becker also said 62 percent of research is now federally funded.

“GSU’s federal sponsored research award level [is] a particularly important barometer of our re-search success,” Becker said.

NEWSwww.gsusignal.com/news

As Georgia State contin-ues to expand its skyline and research possibilities, budget cuts and pay freez-es cast a shadow on its up-coming centennial.

PATRICK DUFFY | THE SIGNALDuring Last Wednesday’s speech President Becker also discussed the university’s centennial celebration.

TERAH BOYDNews Editor

“Those savings cannot be at the expense of the quality of education that we deliver…”

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Georgia State

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PATRICK DUFFY | THE SIGNALPresident Mark Becker thanked faculty and staff for hard work during a pay freeze.

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The economyPresident Obama’s proposal to jump-

start the economy includes investing in ed-ucation, new energy sources, adjusting the tax code and reducing the national deficit.

Obama asked, “Are we going to dou-ble-down on the top-down economic policies that helped get us into this mess? Or do we embrace a new economic patri-otism that says, America does best when the middle-class does best?”

Governor Romney’s economic focus was on energy independence, opening trade, education and job training, balanc-ing the budget and promoting small busi-ness.

“[I’ll] get us energy independent, North America energy independent, that creates about 4 million jobs,” Romney said.

By the end of the debate, Romney said his policies would create 12 million jobs.

Obama outlined plans to hire one hundred thousand more math and science teachers, add spaces to community col-leges around the country and keep tuition low for students.

On taxes, Obama said, “I want to pro-vide tax breaks for companies that are in-vesting here in the United States.”

Romney responded with a tax plan that would lower the burden on compa-nies and individuals, but would limit de-ductions and exemptions as well.

The deficitRomney said of the national deficit,

“It’s not moral for my generation to keep spending massively more than we take in knowing those burdens are going to be passed to the next generation.”

Romney’s solution to the deficit prob-lem is lower government spending and grow the economy. His plan includes elim-inating subsides and programs, reducing the number of government employees by consolidating departments, and cutting tax revenue altogether.

“The revenue I get is by more people working, getting higher pay and paying taxes,” Romney said.

Obama proposed a four trillion dol-lar deficit reduction plan and revenue in-crease.

“$2.50 for every cut, we ask for $1 in additional revenue paid for by ask-ing those who have done very well in this country, to contribute a little bit more to reduce the deficit,” Obama explained.

EntitlementsObama opened the entitlement por-

tion of last Wednesday’s debate by illus-trating how $716 billion was trimmed from Medicare’s budget by stopping cases of overpaying insurance companies and providers.

The savings from Medicare were al-

located to preventative care and reducing prescription drug costs for seniors, ac-cording to Obama.

Romney said, “I want to take that $716 billion you’ve cut and put it back into Medicare.”

Romney added that he did not favor changing Medicare for current users, but would let future users choose between pri-vate and traditional government plans.

Role of governmentRomney cited his business experi-

ence to support regulations, but said the government’s role should be limited.

“In some places, regulation has be-come excessive,” Romney said.

On the contrary, Obama said, “The reason we have been in such an enor-mous economic crisis was prompted by reckless behavior across the board.”

Twitter:Some Georgia State students joined

in the debate, voicing their thoughts on what candidates appeared to stronger in the first debate.

Follow @gsusignal during the remaining debates and voice your thoughts on how the candidates are do-ing, what policies matter to you, and the impact of this election will have on America.

Taxes:“My Tax plan has already lowered Taxes on 98 per-

cenT of faMilies, i also lowered Taxes on sMall

business, eighTeen TiMes.”

ALEX OSIADACZ Staff Repoter

Oct. 3 marked the first of three presidential debates, and one vice presidential debate, all to be held this month to give vot-

ers a chance to learn more about each can-didate’s solution for a slow economy, rising healthcare costs and other problems facing Americans.

Half of last Wednesday’s debate focused on the economy, with moderator Jim Lehrer asking candidates about jobs, the federal def-icit, taxes and entitlements. Candidates also debated healthcare, governing and the role of government during the 90-minute event.

healThcare:“iT doesn’T Mean a governMenT Take-

over ... buT iT does say insurance coM-

panies can’T jerk you around.”

educaTion:“we’ve goT a prograM called race To The Top ThaT [is] raising sTan-

dards and iMproving The way we Train Teachers,

and i wanT To Make sure we keep TuiTion low for

our young people.”

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science Teachers...”

Taxes:“we oughT To bring The Tax raTes down

on boTh corpora-Tions and for indi-

viduals.”

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MarkeT and indi-vidual respon-sibiliTy always

work besT.”

educaTion:on job Training pro-graMs, roMney said,

“we’ve goT To ... go To The workers so They can creaTe Their own paThways To geTTing

The Training They need for jobs ThaT will re-

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aMerica energy independenT, ThaT

creaTes abouT four Million jobs.”

debate seriesThe Signal Watch the vp debate this thursday at 9 p.m.

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The Atlanta Asian Film Festival will be screening films from a variety of Asian countries at the Cinefest from Friday, Oct. 5 to Sat-urday Oct. 20 to provide a cultural bridge between the Asian and non-Asian com-munities.

Georgia State will re-ceive $2,861,348.71 in at-torney’s fees and $85,746.39 in costs from publishers who sued it for copyright infringement. Although the publishers had already decided to appeal, their re-quest for a delay on ruling for court costs was denied by judge Evans.

Spotlight released the names of the nominees for the Homecoming Court on Thursday. They included the names of the nominees for king, queen, prince and princess. For the full list of the nominees see their twit-ter account, @GSUSpot-light.

Georgia’s Own Credit Union sponsored a $10,000 cash drop at last Saturday’s football game. 400 stu-dents were chosen to enter the field during half time and attempt to catch cash vouchers which they could redeem at any Georgia’s Own Credit Union bank.

Georgia State will not be sponsoring a Homecoming concert this fall. There will be a concert Sunday, Oct. 14 at the Kenessaw State Uni-versity Convocation Center that students can attend in-stead. See Spotlight’s web-site for more information.

Jane Goodall spoke at Georgia State this past Monday at the Student Center Ballroom and held a book signing afterward. You can also see her Ani-mal Planet Special “Janes Journey” Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 8 p.m.

A National Science Foundation grant will help Goesciences faculty mem-ber Larry Kiage investi-gate how climate changes shaped and affected Afri-can cultures years ago. The project is being funded by a $30,000 grant. Depending on the results of the study, NSF may ask Kiage to inves-tigate further.

The “Latino Influences on American Cultures” art exhibit will be on display at Georgia State until Oct 12 in the Student Center Gal-lery Art Lounge. The work from Georgia State students and artists form the com-munity is meant to celebrate the numerous ways Latino culture has integrated itself into the American art scene.

campus briefs

On the 22nd anniversary of Germany’s reunifica-tion, Harald Leibrecht

answered the question “Is the Transat-lantic Partnership Still Relevant?” with a firm “yes” in his public lecture dur-ing Georgia State’s Think Transatlantic Week.

In his lecture, the German parlia-mentarian and coordinator for trans-atlantic cooperation for the German government stressed the current ties between Europe and the United States, as well as future prospects for the trans-atlantic relationship.

Leibrecht asserted that the United States and Germany are still connect-ed very literally. He said around 50,000 American soldiers are still stationed in Germany, while hundreds of thousands

of Americans work for German com-panies. And, according to Leibrecht, 50 million Americans claim German heri-tage.

Leibrecht discussed what he termed “the main pillars” of the rela-tionship between Europe and the Unit-ed States, which included economic exchange, political partnership and re-search and education in civil society. He said the challenges raised by these pillars could bring the European Union and the United States even closer.

ECONOMYDespite the global recession,

Leibrecht said that the United States and Europe are each other’s most im-portant markets.

But in addressing the debt crises on each side of the Atlantic, Leibrecht explained that Germany opposes a loose monetary policy on both sides of the Atlantic and that Germany cannot

solve the European Union’s problems on its own.

Asia and the region’s growing eco-nomic power also plays a role in trans-atlantic dialogue, Leibrecht said, as both the United States and Germany have interests in peace and security in Asia.

POLITICS Leibrecht paralleled Europe’s

struggle towards a United States of Europe to the changing society in the United States of America. While Euro-pean officials strive to find the best way to unify politically, many Europeans are concerned over the deep divide be-tween the right and left in the United States.

But regardless of who will become the next President of the United States, Leibrecht was confident that Europe is ready to live up to their increasing ex-pectations.

EDUCATIONA challenge Leibrecht said was close

to his heart, academic exchange and edu-cation, also brings hope to the future of United States-German relations.

“Last year, 9,500 students from Ger-many studied in United States and 8,500 students came to German universities. Nearly 50 students from Germany are at your university here, and 25 students from Georgia State University study in Germa-ny.”

Leibrecht said that in order for a solid partnership to exist between different cul-tures, there must be “people who are com-mitted, interested and motivated in advo-cating this partnership.”

Calling for a promotion of German as a foreign language in U.S. high schools, Leibrecht explained that learning a lan-guage is the best way to incite interest in other countries—an interest that he thinks has dwindled in the United States over the decades.

Contrasting the postwar generation with the young American politicians of to-day, Leibrecht said:

“We have to invest in the young gen-eration and convince them that the trans-atlantic relationship is still important.”

LOOKING FORWARD“What Europe and the United States

both need now is visionary and deter-mined leadership for a joint project that will boost growth on both sides of the At-lantic,” Leibrecht said.

He suggested an “establishment of a true transatlantic marketplace,” including trade agreements between several coun-tries, cooperative workforce training be-tween the United States and Germany, and a strong focus on affordable and sustain-able energy.

“The transatlantic relationship is rele-vant and will remain relevant in the future. Even more, our strong partnership is indis-pensible. The United States needs a strong Europe, and we need a strong United States. Only together—and in close coop-eration with other powers—can we solve the challenges of a globalized world.”

Across the pond What American students stand to gain from a relationship with Germany

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ANNA NORRIS | THE SIGNALHarald Leibrecht explains to students the benefits of a secure relationship with Germany.

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State’s trend data of cheat-ing for the fiscal year showed a decrease in re-ported cases. Contrary to September’s report by The Signal, the complete fiscal year data shows a decrease by 67 reported cases.

According to the Dean of Students, Georgia State compiles academic dis-honesty data by fiscal year because paper work and an appeal process make it dif-ficult to track reports by academic or calendar year.

Professors are also not required to report a stu-dent cheating to the uni-versity. Teachers have the option to discipline a stu-dent within the classroom either by failing them or making them re-do the as-

signment. Another challenge

with tracking data is be-cause the college that the course a student is caught cheating in is responsible for the report, not the col-lege the student is in for their major.

Other state universi-ties track academic dis-honesty differently. The University of Georgia and Georgia Tech have their reports available by semes-ter, while Kennesaw State’s records are by school year.

Not all of the academic honesty data was available for every school, but the chart shown to the right shows an approximation of how Georgia State is do-ing compared to other top University System of Geor-gia schools. Georgia State’s numbers are represented by fiscal year, while KSU’s data is by academic year. Each university tracks reported cases of cheating differently, but this graph shows

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As Homecoming week approaches, con-cerns within Student Government As-sociation about financial expenses and

sponsorship were mentioned at last week’s full sen-ate meeting.

Spotlight, the major programming organiza-tion at Georgia State, was assigned an annual budget of $500,000 for programming throughout the year, while SGA’s annual budget varies around a total of $100,000.

“We’re not doing the traditional homecoming tailgate this year,” said Vice President of Public Rela-tions Danielle Kleinman.

A gameday event is usually the only program the SGA hosts throughout the year; however, SGA discovered recently that their gameday event was denied.

“We don’t do programming,” said College of Law Senator James Dutton. “Except for one pro-gram and that is Homecoming.”

At a recent SGA meeting, on behalf of Spotlight, representative Ben Williams proposed for a collabo-rate with Spotlight and to join a cosponsorship for Homecoming events.

The SGA was asked to contribute $5,000 for the week’s events.

Concern was seen on several SGA senators’ faces because of the assigned annual budget for programming that Spotlight was given.

“When a group with a $500,000 programming budget comes to us, and asks for us to sponsor one of their events, I get a little confused,” Dutton said.

Spotlight established a cosponsorship including the Student Alumni Association (SAA), the LEAD Team, and SGA.

“The other sponsors of Homecoming are not contributing financially,” said Kleinman. “But [they] are contributing man power and activities.”

Senators demanded reasons for this “unfair” proposal.

“SAA is specifically in charge of separate inter-active games,” said Kleinman.

According to Executive Vice President Taylor Briggs, the LEAD Team recently suffered dramatic budget cuts due to the organization moving to an-other division.

The Athletics Department will not be contrib-uting to Homecoming programming because the department had “already pulled out all of their ex-penses for Panther Nation,” said Kleinman. “They will not be providing any services or funds.”

SGA promotion is welcome at any of the Home-coming events to “some capacity,” said Kleinman.

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Becker mentioned two $10 million grants giv-en to the College of Education. The U.S. Depart-ment of Education Institute of Education Scienc-es gave one to a center for literacy and deafness to improve readership for deaf children. Georgia State professors Amy Lederberg and Susan Easter-brooks lead this project.

The other program, a center for the study of adult literacy rates, will examine factors contribut-ing to illiteracy in adults and develop a new system for gauging adult literacy. Led by Professor Daph-ne Greenberg, this project was given $10 million by the U.S. Department of Education.

President Becker also said Georgia State’s Petit Science Center is already full.

“Dr. Jim Weyhenmeyer and the office for Re-search and Economic Development are build-ing increased capacity to better support GSU’s re-search enterprise as it grows to increased capacity to the level where we will be in the league of major research universities,” Becker said.

Becker mentioned the expansion of the Sci-ence Center, but did not identify other potential areas for the expansion of research facilities.

Georgia State technologies are also being li-censed to “GSU-based start-ups or industry part-ners.” Becker said professors George Pierce and Sid Crow have research that could potentially decrease the ripening of fruits and vegetables to increase shelf life. Becker said this technology is being “op-tioned to a major biotechnology company” whose

name is not confirmed at this time.

Facilities and expansionAlong with the woes of a full Science Center,

Becker mentioned a shortage of teaching labora-tories, limiting the number of lab science courses available for students.

“That in turn is having a negative impact on student progress and time to degree.” Becker said he has asked the Board of Regents for help in the expansion of the science center and more teaching labs pace.

Georgia State’s move into 25 Park Place contin-ues to be a slow progression.

“The transition will not be rapid because of technical issues arising from the fact that the [Geor-gia State University] Foundation, not the universi-ty outright, is the legal owner of the facility,” Becker said.

The Georgia State University Foundation is a Georgia non-profit organization that secures phil-anthropically support for Georgia State. In the 2011 fiscal year the Georgia State Foundation raised more than $21 million dollars. The foundation’s total as-sets as of 2011 were $435.4 million dollars.

On the eve of Georgia State’s 100th anniversa-ry, President Becker said now is a time of reflection on the accomplishments along the university’s long journey. “Ours is a university that is accelerating its momentum even as economic turmoil continues to present us with fiscal challenges.”

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OPINIONSwww.gsusignal.com/opinions

Recently Georgia Repre-sentative Rick Crawford representing the 16th

district announced that if he is re-elected this upcoming November, he would switch his party affilia-tions from Democrat to Republi-can. This is a phenomenon that is entirely normal, especially given the history of the Democratic Party here in Georgia.

The Democratic Party has a rich history in Georgia, and has controlled a large amount of state and local political offices in the past. Since 2002, however, there has been a shift to the right in Georgia and the Republican Party has been in the Governor’s Mansion ever since. After all, even Sonny Per-due, our first Republican Governor since 1872, was a Democrat before he was inaugurated.

Representatives, senators and

other public officials changing their party affiliations is certainly not unheard of, and often the tran-sitions are rooted in political dis-agreements with the official party platforms.

Oftentimes politicians make the switch from Democrat to Re-publican as their radical idealism of youth fades, and they identify more with the jaded more fiscally responsible platforms offered by the right wing.

And that seems perfectly sensi-ble. Disagreements with economic policy are a legitimate reason to split with a political organization of which you are a part. There are oth-er reasons that seem less sensible.

Rick Crawford cited many rea-sons for his schism with the Dem-ocratic Party, perhaps a mounting number of reasons, but he cited one issue that pushed him over the edge: the Democratic Party of Georgia’s official endorsement of same-sex marriage.

I guess we can go ahead and give up on separation of church and state in Georgia. Mr. Crawford is a Sunday School teacher as well as a Representative, and I fully endorse his right to have the religious belief that same-sex marriage is wrong. I do not endorse his religious beliefs entering into his political persona.

If you are unable to reconcile your political beliefs and your re-ligious ones, you have no place in politics. Not to say that politi-cians shouldn’t be allowed to be religious, but the office they hold is not a platform to broadcast their personal beliefs.

This is not Iran—we are not a religious state, and we do not need priests, clerics, druids, zoroastrians or any other individuals using our political system to support their faith.

The legal benefit of marriage for same-sex couples is a civil right. Denying civil rights is not a politi-cal platform. It’s just bigotry.

The state of Church & State

MILES KEENLYSIDEOpinions Editor

It’s nearing autumn; you can even feel it outside. The world’s got a bit of a bite,

now, hasn’t it? This is when Atlanta turns on. This is when we get the new things, the nice things. I’m a fan of autumn and you should be as well. So let’s find something for you to do on the long march toward finals. You need to go out and do things. Hang out with friends, laugh, drink and maybe get into a fight.

7 stages is running “Dracula the Rock Opera” for one more weekend. It’s fun and gory and the music’s bril-liant! Plus it’s written and performed by a host of local talent. The Alli-ance is running the new Pearl Cleage, “What I learned in Paris”; Ms. Cle-age is another Atlanta author, and it promises to be inspiring and hopeful. The Collective Project Inc. opens their new show at the Goat Farm on the 13th. “The Devil Tree” promises to be something you’ve never seen before. It’s produced, performed and written by local people (myself included).

Project Flux was this past week-end—did you check it out? Local visual and performing artists overran Castleberry Hills. It’s always a blast. The High begins its new exhibit “Fast Forward” on Oct. 13. It encompasses the past 100 hundred years of modern masters presented to you, Atlantans. So many things are happening; take advantage of the new season. A cur-sory search on Google will introduce you to all of the events available in the city.

So what are you interested in? What do you feel like giving a go? As a Georgia State student you can get discount tickets to so many places. Please look around. The work gets better as more money is brought in. More options start appearing as the audience grows. You really have no excuse—many of these events are cheaper than a movie, and you’re al-lowed to talk in galleries.

We’re two weeks away from the Little 5 Points Halloween parade and that is always nuts! Music, food and drink specials will be up and down Euclid and Moreland. Local haunted houses will open soon as well. See? Isn’t autumn the best? It’s got Hal-loween.

So, go out and do something. You really haven’t got an option now. You have been informed and you can find the means and ability. Atlanta has so much to offer, which so often gets overlooked or forgotten. Plus the traf-fic to and from these events is so light compared to getting into and out of a stadium. So, happy fall; do something grand before the days get cold.

JAMES MCDOUGALDColumnist

Editorial

At his State of the Univer-sity speech last Wednes-day, President Mark

Becker shoveled out the praise for the apparently “excellent” progress across “all aspects” of the universi-ty’s mission. Our benevolent leader lauded numerous accolades the university has received for raising graduation rates among minorities, providing new services for veteran students and new student advisory reform. The average student would think that all is well at Georgia State University.

Nested among the back-patting and sycophantic praise about the university’s new property acqui-sitions and improved programs, President Becker managed to gloss over and sugar coat some of the most immediately pressing issues that students are facing here at the university.

Although Becker did not deny the financial troubles facing the Uni-versity, he did somehow manage to shoehorn in praise for the Universi-ty while teachers face frozen salaries, and we spend beyond our means. Becker mentioned that he is “not optimistic” about teachers receiving a pay raise.

Although some of our scientific research facilities are making great strides in attracting funding for their projects, the opposite is happening to our State-level funding apparent-ly at no fault of the university. Blame the economy.

While the University continues to lose funding from the State level, our spending does not seem to re-flect a school that should be look-ing to be more fiscally conservative. The university continues to enter into deals for downtown property to expand our campus, while students must increasingly come out of pock-et to attend classes.

That’s right, going to school may cost you more money next semester. Becker’s attempt to dodge criticism from the student body about the increased cost of attendance is that he will “not request any new student fees or fee changes for the upcom-ing year.” What he will do is request a tuition increase from the Board of Regents. You may have forgotten this Becker, but to a poor student, a dollar is a dollar is a dollar, no matter where the money is going.

At the end of the day, Georgia State is making great strides to ex-pand as a university. The problem is that when the students listen to the President give an address on the state of the university, we need to hear more than just praise for the university’s accomplishments. The only time Becker directly addressed the university’s direct shortcomings was about the lack of facilities in the Petit Science Center. Most other shortcomings seemed to have the blame delegated to the weak econo-my. When the students listen to the leader of the university, it is impor-tant to honestly and directly address the problems facing the university and not use the platform as an op-portunity for public relations.

Talk to us President Becker, not our financial backers.

My fellow burger-bitin’, che es e-chompin’, nugget-poppin’, ice

cream-scoopin’ students...we have ourselves a problem! We forgot to feed the vegan! Yes the Vegan! That one friend that makes us feel like we’ve committed capital murder on Nemo or Chicken Little after we’ve stuffed our faces with sushi or a chicken sandwich. Yes, that vegan! But at least we get the chance to stuff our faces! I can’t say the same for the vegan students of GSU.

With a diet that excludes any and everything from animals, vegan students are finding it very hard to find food on campus each day. Veg-an students like Taylor Pierce only get an hour for lunch and find it “hard to find something within that time and be able to eat it.” It is in my opinion that we provide more food options for Vegan students.

So why should you care? Short answer: because Vegans are people too! It’s not our business why some-one is vegan and it doesn’t matter how feel about it. No one needs to know why you stuff your face with bacon cheeseburgers or egg sand-wiches.

GSU EMBRACES diversity! We can see this not only in the diver-sity of the students but the food we eat. On any given weekday we have our choice of Mexican, Southern, Italian, and Chinese cuisine. But we can’t seem to embrace Vegans?! What’s up with that?

Too often I hear “but they have salads!” We’re not talking about rab-bits here people! Besides who the heck would eat salads every day? On the GSU panther dining’s menu website I found that we omnivores have more than 100 food options at any given dining hall for dinner. That’s like 1,000 different mix and matches we could make to eat! On those same menus I found that Veg-ans have roughly 10 food options excluding the salad bar. 10! This is outrageous! Can you imagine hav-ing your choice of 10 food options a year?

Not to mention the options are merely “side” items such as rice pi-laf, celery sticks, and wilted spinach. Who the heck wants wilted spin-ach?! No actual MEALS here peo-ple. But wait! You haven’t heard the worst part! Chicken noodle soup is

on the vegan menu! Chicken! Frea-kin’ Noodle! Soup! If you can’t see what’s wrong with this picture stop reading my column and move on to the next one.

To top things off no vegan break-fast options are offered and barely any lunch options. I had to inves-tigate this insanity closer and after speaking with staff at the Freshman Dining Hall I did find that there’s been a couple exciting things added to the vegan menu including veggie burgers and vegan tenders. While this is nice it is simply not enough. There are thousands of other Vegan dishes that could be whipped up quickly and won’t be costly.

Every student has the responsi-bility to let our school know about this problem. If not solely out of the good ol’ kindness of your heart then do it for that vegan girl you’ve wanted to ask out to eat but couldn’t because she’d be left staring at you stuff your face while she pushes salad around her plate. Do it for that classmate in your group that sits awkwardly playing with his pen while the rest of you guys discuss power points over pepperoni pizza. Feed the vegan!

*Note to ALL Vegans: I was in-formed my Mike Haun, manager of the freshman dining hall, that the grills can be cleaned at the request of the student for veggie burgers and grilled veggies! You can also have your food grilled in foil!

We forgot to feed the vegan

AMI DUDLEYColumnist

I guess we can go ahead and give up on separation of church and state in Georgia.”

“Fall isn’t just for football

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The Atlanta City Council has passed a new law that prohibits aggressive panhandling and panhandling within 15 feet of a building entrance or exit. The new ordinance could result in community service or jail time for offenders.

Do you think this law will help curtail panhandling downtown, and as a student on campus how often do you encounter aggressive panhandlers?

Brittney Williams Major: Telecommunications journalism

Preston CastoMajor: Film

Colleen KellyMajor: Undecided

“Yes, I definitely agree that it will help protect our city and campus here in Atlanta. I have been approached by a few panhandlers before and it was an uncomfortable situation. It’s just something that happened. I definitely agree with the law.”

“Yeah I’m approached pretty often, and I think [the ordinance] would have an ef-fect for sure, if they actually did some-thing about it.”

“I have been approached. Someone threw a cup at me and my friends, and he was pretty mad that we didn’t give him money. I think it would help a little bit, but its kind of hard to enforce that. I think it’s a good idea because something should be done.”

YOUR VOICE • YOUR OPINIONS

Darrell Green Major: Computer INformation Systems

“I’ve never been approached by aggressive panhandlers. If someone comes up to me and asks for something and I don’t have anything, they don’t get aggressive. As far as the law, it’ll help a little bit but wont stop it all. They’re still going to ask regardless of the law.”

“I don’t think it’s going to curtail it because people are desperate, they need to eat and can’t afford to eat....Cracking down on them is not going to stop it, they’re just going to move to places where maybe the police won’t see them as much.”

Sydney Burnett Major: Biology

Jimie Truong Major: Undeclared

Have you ever tried to ‘get the word out’ by taking a bunch of scrap paper

and handing them out to strangers so that they can throw it away right after you hand it to them? My favor-ite is when the people passing out flyers are really selective about who they want to hand the flyers to. That must be a nice feeling, being one of the few selected people that get the honor of throwing away a piece of cardboard paper for someone else. One time I was handed a flyer walk-ing down the stairs, as soon as I turn the corner there was another guy handing out flyers, so I tried to hand that guy the flyer from the first guy, and he refused to take it. He actually said, “Nah man, I don’t want that,” then he handed me a flyer.

The other people you got to watch out for are the guys with the vests who want you to donate stuff. Over the years I’ve developed a fool-proof approach when it comes to dealing with these guys.

1. Make eye contact and smile at them.

You’ll have to fight your instincts on this one. Normally people handle these guys by pretending to talk on the phone or various other ways to pretend like the donation people aren’t there. You can’t really do this all the time, though, because no-body actually thinks you’re that popular.

2. Don’t talk to them…ever.

Once you make eye contact they’ll be super excited to talk you into donating some money. If you keep smiling and remain silent, you can’t donate anything.

3. Never stop walking. This is the best part. Their mood goes from extremely cheery and up-beat when you first make eye con-tact, to confused and disappointed when you don’t say anything to them and just keep walking by.

MF Fliers

KEVIN MALONEYColumnist

“I don’t believe that it might reduce the panhandling, but I’ve never really been aggressively panhandled before. Most panhandlers just ask once and then walk away, they don’t really keep pushing it on me, but with other students I believe they might. I think the law is fair.”

Consider the following:

“Thanks for remind-ing about that wild party by putting a bunch of flyers on my windshield.” -Nobody

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1,129,127

“You don’t want people to think

that this is just an LGBTQ issue or this is just

a black issue. It really affects

everyone.”-EBONY WYATT,

STUDENT ASSISTANT OF OFFICE OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

affected.

Annual AIDS walk and 5K marathon spreads hopeStudent organizations strive to help change the lives of those affected by HIV/AIDS

FACT:AIDS is the number one killer of African American women, age 18-24.

FACT:40 percent of people newly infected with hiv are young people ages 15-24.

FACT:women are twice as likely to get infected than men.

FACT:1.2 million people are living with HIV in the United States of America, with a fifth unaware of their status.

FACT:According to the cdc, Georgia had the sixth highest case of aids in the united states in 2009.

Out of sight, out of mind is how Amer-ica once treated

people living with HIV/AIDS. Today, Georgia State is one of many college campuses where organizations are rais-ing awareness and funds for communities affected by the epidemic.

On Sun., Oct. 21, AID At-lanta will put on the annual AIDS Walk and 5K Run at Piedmont Park. The Office of Civic Engagement, Softer Touch and the Eta Mu chap-ter of Alpha Kappa Alpha So-rority each have teams that will participate in the event.

Eboni Wyatt, student assis-tant with the Office of Civic Engagement, said she always tries to make sure the office has a team to include stu-dents who want to volunteer.

“I’m really passionate about HIV and AIDS,” said Wy-att, a senior Sociology major. “Just spreading awareness and being an advocate on that end. I’ve kind of just tak-en [the event] on as my little baby. [The Office of Civic En-gagement is] not just focused on homelessness...on envi-ronmental issues... or pov-erty. We’re trying to encom-pass as many social issues as possible. Especially those big ones that affect Atlanta like HIV and AIDS.”

AID Atlanta is the largest HIV/AIDS service organiza-

tion in the Southeast. At last year’s AIDS Walk, the orga-nization raised more than $1 million to benefit people liv-ing with HIV/AIDS. It helped prevent new HIV infections with more than 85,000 edu-cation program participants in Atlanta, according to aid-swalkatlanta.com.

“It was amazing,” Wyatt said about last year’s 5K. “It was really cool because that was my first year doing it. Just being around a lot of people that are there for a cause and just passionate about it- which is really empowering.”

Though World AIDS Day is Dec. 1, the AIDS Walk takes place during LGBTQ History month, possibly because it is a community that is largely affected by the disease, Wy-att said. However, students strive to spread the knowlege to others that this community is not the only one affected.

“The biggest thing is diver-sity,” Wyatt said. “You don’t want people to think that this is just an LGBTQ issue or this is just a black issue. It really affects everyone.”

Tadzy Hall, Parliamentar-ian of Alpha Kappa Alpha So-rority, Inc, said because the disease is affecting the cur-rent college age generation more than it affected their parents or grandparents, it is very important for...

AIDS Walk continued on page 14

CHATEAUX-CAPRI STOVALLArts & Living Editor

Approximately 1,129,127 people in the United states have been diagnosed with AIDS since the epidemic began.

A glimpse at the prevalence of HIV

34.2 million Infected with hiv (100% of global total)

2.5 million newly infected with hiv

1.4 million (4% of global total)

58,000 Newly Infected

Global

North America

23.5 million (69% of global total)

1.7 million Newly infected

Sub-Saharan Africa

source: http://www.kff.org/hivaids/upload/3030-17.pdf

ANNA YANG | THE SIGNAL

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 10 A&L

Amidst the stacks of DVDs and hundreds of TV channels lies a unique TV station: Geor-

gia State TV, better known as “GSTV.” Viewers can tune into anything from The Panther Report to Captain Planet to SGA Live. You don’t even have to live on cam-pus to enjoy what GSTV has to offer. It streams live online and many of its shows are on YouTube.

“Dorms” is the newest, up-and-com-ing GSTV show, but for some reason no one knows about it—yet.

“Dorms” is a comedy about seven new students living and learning in the dorms, trying to make friends but making plenty of mistakes along the way, according to co-producer and co-director Andrew Mixon, a Film and Video major at Georgia State.

Samantha Osburn plays bubbly, quirky Mariah on “Dorms.” The Anthropology major said the show has brought her a “new sense of inclusion.”

“It’s really fun to just play [on set],” said Mariah. “It’s a great way to collabo-rate with students on a project, and really be a part of something.”

Talking to and living with his room-mates inspired Mixon and co-creator Ka-tie Adkins to create a TV show based on those experiences. They wanted to present a show that would strike a chord with stu-dents because it would reflect their lives and their new experiences while attending college.

The project started in Summer 2011

when Mixon and Adkins were working on “Sophomores,” another GSTV origi-nal. The first episode of “Dorms” aired in August 2012. The first season is now four episodes in, and, despite a few setbacks, ideas are already being tossed around for episode five.

Osburn said even if you’re not on the set of “Dorms,” you can feel included in the Georgia State community by watch-ing it or by seeing someone you know on screen or in the credits.

The show is making a sense of com-munity a reality on campus. Participat-ing in organizations like GSTV can help students make friends, network and get a more fulfilling experience at Georgia State.

GSTV airs a handful of new shows, according to General Manager Deranta Avaloy. Among them are “Workin’ Fine” and “Milan” (two original animated fea-tures), SGA Live, and Live in the Court-yard. Avaloy is in his second year at the station and explained that it’s doing quite well.

“We’ve been nominated for two At-lanta CBI (College Broadcasters, Inc.) awards: best student media website and best TV special broadcast,” Avaloy said.

GSTV was nominated for their suc-cessful “Hunger Games Mall Tour” feature this past summer.

Perhaps with more shows like “Dorms,” GSTV will build even more po-tential as a station.

Catch “Dorms” at 5:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. all week long on GSTVonline.org, or check out the show’s YouTube channel, DormsGSTV.

SAMANTHA REARDONContributing Reporter

Living in the DormsGSTV’s new show is all about you

ROBIE DUCHATEAU | THE SIGNALCo-creators, Andrew Mixon and Katie Adkins, work together to write, produce, and shoot the original comedy show, “Dorms.”

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Slam-dunking diabetes” is the phrase Delta Epsilon Psi (Depsi) will be chant-

ing on Nov. 3 at the Who’s Got Game basketball tournament for diabetes research.

This multicultural Greek coun-cil will be speaking at the event along with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Students have the opportunity to register their own basketball team with a $150 entry fee per team, which guarantees every team three games.

In the Georgia State Univer-sity Recreation Center, there will be a maximum of 16 teams play-ing where each roster will have a minimum of 5 players, but no more than 10. However, once ros-ters are submitted, they are not subject for changes. Players receive a Who’s Got Game t-shirt, and re-freshments will be available. Keep in mind, GSUGeorgia State stu-dents are free into the GSU Rec-reation with presentation of their panther card. Nonstudents coming to watch the tournament will be

charged $3 at the door.Having a sister diagnosed with

diabetes at age three, the organi-zation’s active involvement with Juvenile Diabetes Research Foun-dationJDRF encouraged Depsi brother, Parth PatelParth’s deci-sion to be a part of Depsi.

“We don’t only strive for the success of JDRF presently, but want to continue our relationship with them for the future,” he said.

Twenty-two men established Delta Epsilon Psi- Alpha Gamma Colony into the Multicultural Greek Council on June 22, 2012 af-ter maintaining an interest group for two years.

“They say the longer you have to wait for something, the more you treasure it. We definitely trea-sure the privilege to represent our South Asian community by our services, academics, and social as-pects with the organization,” says Depsi brother, Parth Patel said.

Working to make a difference in lives of those that suffer from this life threatening disease, all proceeds from the tournament will directly benefit the JDRFJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. All clubs, organizations, and busi-

nesses are encouraged to donate sponsorships and have their logos printed on the event t-shirts.

Depsi celebrated their Found-er’s Day on Oct. 1. Formed in 1998, it was the first South Asian service fraternity in the nation. The orga-nization’s grounded values attract-ed Nikhil Patel, an alum brother of Georgia State to get involved.

“[It] does a good job instilling those values into the members to face any adversity that may arise in their lifetime.”

Prizes the winners receive:1st: Trophy and $300

2nd: Trophy and $250

3rd: Trophy

*Money goes to diabetes re-search.

CRYSTAL GEORGEStaff Writer

Delta Epsilon Psi slam dunks diabetes

MONAL PATEL | SUBMITTED PHOTOChapters of DEPSI from around the nation promote awareness of diabetes and raise thousands in funds annually.

The Red Bus Project comes to Georgia State

MIKE EDEN | THE SIGNALThe Red Bus Project, a thrift store on wheels organized by the Baptist Colle-giate Ministry and Office of Civic Engagement, parked outside GSU to raise money for orphans on Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

tranquilityA semester of

CHATEAUX-CAPRI STOVALL

Arts & Living Living Editor

GRAPHIC BY ANNA YANG | THE SIGNAL

tranquility

Relaxation is a myth to some college stu-dents. Migraines and

anxiety might be inevitable for those who can’t manage stress. Georgia State’s yoga classes may be the solution to help lessen the pressure.

“Our culture is so much about getting ahead, being re-sponsible, getting things done and asking more of yourself than you ever did before,” said Susan Wells, vinyasa yoga in-structor at Georgia State. “All of those are values that we have. So for most of us, it’s really dif-ficult to relax. A lot of people can’t even sleep well at night.”

According to Wells, when you have your body completely relaxed, you’re able to let go of the concept of the body and be in a deeper place within your-self.

“You’re letting go even of thought,” Wells said.

Alison Taylor, hatha and yoga mix instructor at Georgia State, said the origins of yoga began around 5,000 years ago.

“It began as a way of con-necting with the divine through meditation,” Taylor said. “The postures were developed as a way of making it possible for people to sit [comfortably] in meditation longer.”

While Renee Chahoy, Geor-gia State Bachelor of Fine Arts student, said she doesn’t focus on meditation during yoga, she prefers to concentrate on breathing as much as she can.

“It gives me a lot of strength, it helps me relax and my bal-ance has really improved,” she said.

For the past 20 years, Cha-

hoy said she’s been doing yoga on and off. As well as walking, running and light weight train-ing, she said yoga is her favorite activity. She’s particularly taken a liking to yin yoga.

“It’s the first time I’ve done [yin yoga],” Chahoy said. “You hold the poses for a long time. The muscles have to relax. You feel the tension, then they give way. You’re not really concen-trating on anything but that one relsease.”

Aside from providing a more peacful state of mind and calm-ing ambience for the body, yoga is also a healing tool. There is constant research dis-covering medical uses for yoga, according to Wells.

“Yoga is starting to become a lot more accepted as a thera-putic modality,” Wells said. Yoga therapsts provide yoga per-scriptions for use at home.

Remedies such as forward poses are recommended dur-ing allergy season to help clear out the sinuses. Some se-

quences for headaches include downward facing dog, bridge pose and half shoulder stand.

Sophomore nutrition stu-dent Sallay Jabbie said to add a different activity to her rou-tine, she decided to take the yin yoga class.

“I started in September. I’ve just been trying to do some things to get away from the norm, with school and the hus-tle and bustle,” Jabbie said.

One of the more difficult poses that Jabbie recalls is the matsyengasana, which is a type of stretch.

“You have to have your feet in an Indian-style and then you kind of have to lift your hip un-der and put your arms behind you exorcist style,” Jabbie said.

Even during her short time doing yoga, Jabbie said she no-tices how good she feels after-ward.

“So far [yoga has] really helped me relax. I get really sleepy and it just makes me

kind of focus in on myself,” Jabbie said.

According to Taylor, the more yoga and breathing is practiced, the longer that relax-ation feeling lasts and the better it works. She said taking three breaths can help the body feel a little better, but there are ways to feel fully relaxed.

“If you go to yoga class three times a week, and you learn to breathe, ...when something upsets you and you take three breaths, it really works,” Taylor said.

In America, yoga is consid-ered to be posture practice and breath work, meant to pacify our senses and alleviate stress. But in India, where it originated, there’s a lot more to it than that, according to Wells. Yoga is about worship and service. She said it’s developing your whole self, not just the body. This en-tails spirit, heart, body and soul.

“[It’s about] taking the gifts that you receive from it and giv-ing to others,” Wells said.

PHOTOS BY CANDRA UMUNNA | THE SIGNAL

Downward-Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Savanasana)

Chair Pose (Utkatasana)

Cobra Pose (Bhujangasana)

Child’s Pose (Balasana)

Tree Pose (Vrksasana)

Yoga Mix class starts off each session with a warm-up, paired with low lighting and soothing music. Yoga Mix classes are perfect for beginners and are con-ducted at the GSU Recreational Center in room Studio B every Friday from 12 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. Here are some various poses practiced during the sessions.

Every day, a few students routinely grab their mats, remove their shoes, and begin a journey to peace and clarity.

The opportunity to trav-el the world during college years is ideal

for most students. Georgia State’s Study Abroad program provides that option for various majors to various exotic locations.

Journalism major Ivanka Skovardanova, who traveled to Turkey, was one of the many stu-dents who traveled abroad this summer through the program.

“It challenged the way I looked at the world,” Skovardan-ova said. “I had the chance to see how people in other countries did business and how media impacts their society and culture.”

According to the Georgia State Study Abroad Office, 756 students studied abroad during the 2010/2011 academic year in 70 various programs.

In Istanbul, Turkey, students examined media, journalism, and business. In Costa Rica, students studied linguistics. Students in Liberia explored how womanism shaped the country. During the 2010/2011 academic school year, there were 45 short-term pro-grams and 25 exchange programs offered, according to the Study Abroad Office.

Traveling abroad allowed stu-dents to experience a new and or similar culture, step out of their comfort zone, and earn credit to-wards their degrees and minors. Although a few students had trouble with their credits trans-ferring quickly, those who didn’t have that problem recieved them with an easy-made A.

“I had to abandon a lot of social norms, and instead try to evaluate what I had learned through an entirely different lens,” said Melissa Cruz, a junior English major who traveled to Li-beria this summer.

Not only were students chal-lenged with their perspectives, they were exposed to many new

sounds, tastes and sights, which for some might have been a sen-sory overload.

“Driving – or even being a passenger in a vehicle – caused culture shock,” said Cruz. “There are no traffic laws in Liberia, and people are constantly walking through the roads so that you are always dodging someone.”

Not all students were dodging things this summer. Some dove right in to their new environ-ments, experiencing everything.

Journalism major Karon Franklin, who traveled to Costa Rica, said his favorite place was Puerto Viejo, a small city on the Caribbean coast. The Latin-Rasta lifestyle made him reevaluate all his values and desires in life.

Whether students planned to study abroad to get away from home, receive credits while learn-ing about a foreign culture, or have a delicious experience tast-ing new food, students received more than what they expected.

“I aspire to live the lifestyle that I witnessed in Puerto Viejo,” Franklin said. “I had this ambi-tion previous to my trip, but it was wonderful to see my dream in reality. Capitalist society does not fit my nature at all, and I can-not wait to escape it.”

Based on a survey done by the Institute for the International Ed-ucation of Students on the expe-riences of study abroad, alumni from 1955 to 1999 concluded that 76 percent felt they had acquired

skills that influenced their career paths, 98 percent felt studying abroad helped them better under-stand their own cultural values and biases, and 96 percent felt it increased their self-confidence. More statistics on study abroad experiences can be found at www.transitionsabroad.com.

Students are encouraged to at-tend the Study Abroad Fair this Thurs., Oct. 11 in the Student Center Ballroom from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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AIDS walk (continued from page 9)...students to be proactive in trying to prevent AIDS from taking over the community.

“It used to be seen as a gay man’s disease... that was shunned and looked down upon,” Hall said. “But now, when your daughter has it and your brother has it and they’re not gay—they’re not out of the norm to your standards—you’re more concerned and... you want to help them find a cure for this.”

The Eta Mu Chapter currently has 62 people signed up to partici-pate in the AIDS Walk—a team ac-cumulated after only three weeks of promoting.

“I’m very proud of our chap-ter because we’re about to reach our goal of $3,000,” Hall said. “We started out at an initial goal of $750 and within the first week we hit $1,000. So we kept increasing the goal.”

Hall said Eta Mu’s mission is to raise money to find a cure and to

help people living with AIDS. Ac-cording to Hall, since Eta Mu is a black sorority, being an advocate for AIDS awareness is crucial be-cause the disease is so prevalent in the black community, especially with black women.

Ajahn Richard, Membership Director of Softer Touch, said col-lege students do care about volun-teering for this cause.

“Before the promotion [of the AIDS Walk] I didn’t think [col-lege students cared]. After seeing some of the organizations that are participating in the walk [raise] awareness, I was like ‘Oh, people really do want to get invloved and are interested in it,’” Richard said. “Because we live in Atlanta, and the statistics are so high... it just makes people aware, and in college everyone wants to be aware.”

The AIDS Walk/Run has been a tradition of Softer Touch for a couple of years, Richard said. Their goal is to promote awareness

because AIDS is the number one killer of African American women, age 18-24.

“In America I think people view [AIDS] as a homosexual disease but...African American women are affected the most,” Richard said.

According to Richard, Softer Touch wants people to know how to protect themselves and how to stay healthy.

When students reflect on how far the nation has come socially regarding HIV/AIDS, some will agree that society wants to help the cause. Awareness, research and prevention have become common goals for several organizations around the world.

“We definately have a lot more knowledge,” Richard said. “People aren’t as ignorant. People want to talk to them rather than look the other way. They want to find out ‘How are you doing?’ rather than ‘Oh my god, don’t talk to me.’”

Elizabeth Johnson, a junior Marketing major, said growing up, her schools didn’t have HIV/AIDS awareness programs. She had to learn about the disease outside of school.

“My schools were all abstinence only which is a lot of crap because you don’t learn anything,” Johnson said.

According to Johnson, people have changed the way they react to

HIV/AIDS.“It has somehow lost the scari-

ness and that’s not really good,” Johnson said. “It’s like teen preg-nancy and the way that people are like ‘Oh, it happens.’”

Fiona Thomas, a freshman Film/Visual Media major, said as a college student, she doesn’t really think about the disease in general. If someone is personally affected by HIV/AIDS, he or she may be impacted by it more emotionally, Thomas said.

Wyatt said she knows that there are a lot of walks that happen in Atlanta, but she thinks it’s impor-tant for students to participate in the AIDS Walk.

“We go to Georgia State, we’re a school of 30,000 students, we’re right here in downtown and it’s a big issue here,” Wyatt said. “We all can have a say on how to stop it. It affects Atlanta directly and we live here, we go to school in Atlanta, we should have some kind of interest.”

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Featured Events Now throughOctober 12 Intercultural Relations Fall 2012 Art Exhibit Student Center Gallery LoungeCelebrate the numberous ways Latino culture has been woven into the American landscape through people, music, food, and tradition.

Now Through Friday,November 16Rawiya: She Who Tells a StoryWelch School of Art and DesignRawiya is a photography col-lective founded by female photographers from across the Middle East. For more information on this event, contact Cynthia Farnell cfar-nell@gsu.edu 404-413-5230

Mondays7:30 p.m.The Living RoomThe college gathering of Buckhead Church will in-clude dinner, worship and teaching. Featured speakers are Seth Condrey and Dr. George Murray. “One Way: Is Jesus Christ Really the only way of salvation?” A shuttle from the Commons will arrive at 7:15 p.m. For

more information, contact buckheadcollege.org

Tuesday, October 96-8 p.m.What is the “Normal” Body?Lanier Suite Student Cen-terIntercultural Ambassadors will be exploring and chal-lenging the popular notions of “normal” body sizes and shapes. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information on the event, contact Intercultural Relations 404-413-1580 Stu-dent

Wednesday, October 10Noon-3 p.m.All Majors Career and In-ternship FairDahlberg HallCome dressed to impress recruiters with your resume and a winning attitude. For more information about this event, contact Universi-ty Career Services: 404-413-1820 or www.gsu.edu/career

Friday, October 12Noon- 5 p.m.Exploration Tour Atlanta Cyclorama

At this historic Atlanta land-mark, lunch will be provided and Intercultural Relations will provide transportation and cover entry fee to the Cyclorama. Sinclair Suite, Student Center. For more in-formation on this event, con-tact Intercultural Relations : 404-413-1580 or www.gsu.edu/interculturalrelations

Thursday, October 1111 a.m. - 2 p.m.Day in the RecStudent Recreational CenterCome challenge yourself to Olympic games includ-ing: big wheel competition, shooting Gallery, archery, rowing competition and volleyball. Pre-registration required for volleyball. Con-tact andyhudgins@gsu.edu. T-shirts to the first 500 par-ticipants. FREE food. For more information on this event, contact mbuchheit@gsu.edu

Saturday, October 20NoonHomecoming TailgateThere will be music, free food and giveaways includ-ing a change to win Sony products. For deals and dis-counts visit the Sony Educa-tion store at sony.com/gsu.

Friday, October 26 Noon – 2 p.m. Safe Zone Training Lanier Suite, Student Center Learn more about the LG-BTQIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Questioning) community on campus. Ex-plore ways to promote an inclusive and accepting en-vironment for all members of the GSU family. Lunch provided.

Monday, October 29 Nominations Due: Ho-sea Williams Awards for Community Activism Completed nomination packets should be submitted to the Office of Intercultural Relations located in Suite 330 Student Center via email to tcook3@gsu.edu.

Tuesday, October 30 Lunch and Learn: Experi-ences of Being an Out and Gay College StudentNoon – 1 p.m. Sinclair Suite, Student Center Join Intercultural Relations

as Dr. Matthew K. Robison discuss his research on the experiences of gay and bi-sexual male college students and their educational jour-neys in being out and stay-ing safe on campus. The presentation will be interac-tive and informative! Lunch provided.

Monday, November 5 Nominations Due: MLK Torch of Peace AwardsCompleted nomination packets should be submitted to the Office of Intercultural Relations located in Suite 330 Student Center or via email to tcook3@gsu.edu.

Monday, November 5Intercultural Ambassa-dors Explore: Student Activism on College Cam-puses 5–7 p.m. 480/ 485 University Cen-terJoin the Intercultural Am-bassadors as they explore how college campuses have been transformed due to stu-dent activism. This program will highlight the 20th an-niversary of the student sit-ins at Georgia State. Dinner provided.

On Campus

Feed Your Senses: GSU Arts FairWednesday, October 17 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Rialto Center for the Arts Rialto Center, Woodruff Park, Welch Gallery, Recital Hall and Gilmer Street are in collaboration with the Arts at GSU for this annual fair, showcasing all the arts oppor-tunities available at Georgia State and Downtown. This event will feature live performances and free food.

Atlanta Exploration Tour: Indian Pow Wow Festival at Stone Mountain Park Friday, November 2, 2012 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Stone Mountain Park Join Intercultural Relations as we explore the energy and color of the largest Native American gathering in Georgia by attending the Indi-an Festival and Pow-Wow at Stone Mountain Park. Reserve your space by Fri., Oct. 26 in the Office of Stu-dent Activities, Suite 330, Student Center.

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schedule of eventsMonday, October 15good morning Commuters • 8 - 10 a.m., Unity Plaza and Turner Field Panther Shuttle StopsEnjoy free food and get more information on Homecoming events.

Tuesday, October 16spirit Plaza • Noon - 1 p.m., Unity PlazaJoin Athletics and Spotlight as we celebrate Homecoming!

Field day • 1 - 6:30 p.m., Hurt ParkGames include dodgeball, tug o’war, three-legged races and powder puff. Powder puff game sign-up sheets are now available in 380 Student Center. The last day to sign up is Wednesday, October 10, 2012, by 5:15 p.m.

Panther XChange • 7 - 10:30 p.m., Student Center BallroomFashion, arts and entertainment come together as we bring the fashion scene to GSU. Open only to GSU students till 8 p.m., after which guests will be admitted for $10. GSU students free.

Wednesday, October 17arts Fair 2012 • 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., from the Rialto Center for the Arts to Hurt Park

Panther nation at atlantic station • 7 - 9 p.m. Join Spotlight Programs Board, Student Government Association, Lead Team, Student Alumni Association and Athletics as we celebrate Homecoming at Atlantic Station.

Thursday, October 18golf Cart Parade • Noon - 12:45 p.m.Join us for a Golf Cart Parade through downtown Atlanta. Route begins at Gilmer Street and Peachtree Center Avenue. Golf Cart Parade applications are available in 380 Student Center. Applications are due on Friday, October 12, 2012, by 5:15 p.m.

royal Ball • 9 p.m. - 2 a.m., Venetian RoomTickets are on sale at Campus Tickets, near the Bookstore in the University Center. Tickets are free for students with Panther ID; $5 for guests (one guest per student, please).

Friday, October 19terminus: art/music/Comedy/PoetryFeaturing Comedian DeRay Davis and Friends8 p.m., Rialto Center for the Arts (Doors open at 7 p.m.)Tickets are on sale at Campus Tickets, near the Bookstore in the University Center. Tickets are $5 for students, faculty and staff with Panther ID; $15 for general admission.

Saturday, October 20Homecoming Football game — georgia state vs. villanova • 3:30 p.m. kick-off, Georgia DomeVisit GeorgiaStateSports.com for more information.

No Doubt’s sixth album, “Push and Shove,” rep-resents why some bands

that have a cult following should quit while they’re ahead.

“Settle Down” is, by far, the best track on this album. It’s memorable, and it’s the only one that still has that signature No Doubt sound. Most of the other tracks make it seem as though the band is trying too hard to adapt their sound to match that of today’s Top 40 bands. But fans don’t listen to No Doubt because they’re “in,” they listen to them because they have such a unique style. In trying to modernize that style, they lost the old sound that made No Doubt so origi-nal in the first place.

“Looking Hot” has a good ret-

ro sound but it still isn’t classic No Doubt. Gwen Stefani’s voice main-tains that signature funk or reggae sound that’s so recognizable, but the band together seems to have lost their groove, which is bringing Ste-fani’s talent down. The disappointing music makes her voice sound weaker than it is. The usually self-confident and strong vocalist actually sounds a bit whiny in “One More Summer,” but not in a good way (like in the classic track “Don’t Speak”). It’s al-most as if her voice has matured but the band’s music hasn’t, so they’re trying to make up for it by conform-ing to the current standards of pop music.

The beginning of the track, “Gravity,” gives the promise of a good dance track because it sounds exactly like “Hey Baby,” but it falls short af-ter the first few seconds. The songs are surprisingly boring for such a

distinguished group. “Undercover,” like most of the other tracks on the album, has a dull and consistent beat and melody. That’s a bit expected on slow tracks like “Undone,” but even more upbeat songs on the album have the same problem.

There’s no surprise or mystery in the music, and that makes it hard to remember or even distinguish one track from the next. There’s nothing unique about these songs.

The best example of their pain-ful efforts lies in the title track, “Push and Shove.” Parts of the song sound like a bad version of the Black Eyes Peas, but Stefani still sounds infinitely better than the Peas’ lead female vo-calist. No Doubt’s comeback would have been much stronger if they tried to evolve without losing their own personal style. The band completely got lost in their attempt to make a successful comeback.

With Papa Roach’s eighth studio album “The Connection,”

fans can expect to be INFESTed once

more. The band that had us scream-ing “this is my last resort” from their hit album “Infest” is back and re-minding us why they are “still the ones swinging.”

Taking things back to their roots of rock-rap with tracks like the an-them and lead single “Still Swing-ing,” Papa Roach’s “The Connec-tion’” reCONNECTS us with them. We thought we lost them with the albums “The Paramour Session” and “Metamorphosis” as front man Ja-coby Shaddix and the band explored the “hello kitty” trails of soft alterna-tive sounds and “poppy” beats. But “Still Swingin,” the album’s opener and album anthem, grabs you by the throat and reminds us who’s Papa.

“Count me in I’ll turn it out/ I’m killin’ it you’re burnin’ out” Shaddix beastly spits on the mic moments be-fore demanding your respect with the catchy hook “Forever we will stay! We are the ones still swingin!”

And believe me, they got my respect. Bass player Tobin Esperance is crazy sick on the chords of this track. You’ll find yourself playing air guitar, mim-icking his finger work. Save some en-ergy, though, because the dubstep ending will have you moshing your way through the plaza.

After such a beastly track, Papa Roach slows the metronome down a bit over the next few tracks. The love ballad “Leader of the Broken Hearts” will give you that same feeling you got when you fell in love with “Scars” off their “Getting Away with Mur-der” album. Indeed, “pain is real” as Shaddix cries out in this too-re-al track about “risk[ing] everything and still survive.” If you’ve been bro-kenhearted, this track will be compa-ny to your tears.

But I think the biggest hidden gem of “The Connection” comes near the ending of the album with the superlative instrumentation and

raging chants of “Walking Dead.” Immediately the schizo-bass work and dark drums of the opening takes you away from wherever you are and places you in the film “Zombie Land,” bat in one hand and shot gun in the other. But it won’t be zombies that you’re killing here. “Uncover your eyes/uncover the truth/and re-alize we are the walking dead,” cries out Shiddax.

Papa Roach can never let us go without grabbing us by our temples, shaking us, and enlightening us. The album was released just before Shad-dix’s vocal surgery left him silent and in recovery. What a way to say it all before being forced quiet! The Papa Roach that had our throats sore while yelling “this is my last resort” right before falling to our knees and crying “you tear my heart open” is back on top in their rightful spot and as Shaddix states in “Still Swingin,” they’re “never coming down!”

No Doubt | “Push and Shove”

Dredd 3D

The darkly serious charac-ter, meant to act as a satire of both the war on crime

and U.S. foreign policy, was wa-tered down into a silly comic book pulp complete with cliche’ catch-phrases and goofy action. With the Stallone film being the only thing most Americans recall about Judge Dredd—if they recall anything at all—a remake of the movie seems like a risky venture. But “Dredd” stands head and shoulders above the 1995 film and serves as an example of the right way to do a remake.

“Dredd” fixes all the mistakes of the original movie by being first and foremost about the story. Director Pete Travis, an avid fan of the com-ic, establishes the proper gritty tone within in the first few minutes of the movie. The future of earth is a deso-late one, as an unnamed nuclear di-saster has decimated America into a smoking radiation-filled husk. The last pinnacles of civilization have

been joined together to form one sprawling urban mega-city. Unfor-tunately, forcing so many people into one place has lead to rampant violence and unchecked crime. In order to quell the perpetual near-anarchy, individuals called Judg-es must enforce the peace of Mega City One and are given all the judi-cial powers of judge, jury and, if the need comes, executioner.

Being one of the most effective judges in Mega City One, Dredd is given the task of evaluating a gift-ed recruit from the academy and to surprise her first patrol. But what begins as a simple drug sting quick-ly escalates into something much more serious when they acciden-tally stumble upon one of the larg-est drug dealing cradles in the whole city. With the rookie in tow, Dredd must find a way to keep him and his partner alive while bringing the drug kingpin to justice.

It’s a simple but effective story made no less involving thanks to the engaging performances of the cast. Karl Urban delivers his lines with the right touch of a Clint East-

wood-esque growl without sound-ing cheesy. Oliva Thribly’s fresh-faced recruit Anderson serves as both an engaging central character for the audience to connect with and a source for most of the film’s tension. The movie draws heavy in-spiration from the Indonesian film “The Raid,” as well as feeling like an equal juxtaposition of “Robocop” and “Training Day.” But it never feels like its unoriginal and estab-lishes and maintains its own unique feel throughout the movie. My com-plaint is that dialogue is a little mini-malistic, and there are some awk-ward sounding lines. But everything is delivered with such conviction that the tone of the movie never falls into the camp trap of the 1995 movie.

“Dredd” is simply a great action movie and shows what can happen when emphasis is placed on sto-ry and characters—even for what’s suppose to be a simple action film. It more than makes up for the damage of Stallone’s Judge outing, and with luck may convince audiences to give “The Law” another chance.

ElenaDirector: Andrey ZvyagintsevCast: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Ele-na Lyadova, Aleksey Rozin, Evgeniya Konushki-na, Igor Ogurtsov

Synopsis: Elena, an uneducated and compliant Russian housewife, recently married her ex-pa-tient. When her new hubby, Vladimir, has a sud-den heart attack, he is visited by his wild and un-caring daughter who has been distant for years. On the verge of death he rethinks who will be his heir(s). In a flash of panic, Elena concocts a plan for her unemployed son and his struggling fam-ily to have a chance at survival.

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Grade: CBest Track: “Settle Down”Release Date: September 21, 2012

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The cheerleading team made its best appearance last semester at the NCA Na-tionals as they came in second place, two-tenths of a second after Central Arkansas.

Head coach Darryl Lyons said that second place was an improvement from the first year he coached the team, when they placed tenth.

“The program is slowly growing and getting better,” Lyons said.

Due to the men’s basketball team’s successful season, the cheerleading team started practicing in March, so they lacked preparation for the 2012 Nationals.

This year is a different story, as they will start preparing for the 2013 Nationals in January.

“We’re going to start a little ear-lier this year in preparing to make it easier on everyone,” Lyons said.

Team captain Jordan St. Claire feels the team is ready for the next championship.

“It’s looking like we have a good chance to win it. We have more fulls and better stunts so we’ll be able to do better stunt se-quences,” St. Claire said. “We al-most had to water down the rou-tine last year and we still got second so I’m feeling first this year.”

Cheerleading is an exhausting ac-tivity that requires a lot of physical and mental strength. Yet, head coach Darryl Lyons said cheering for a losing football team is also a tough challenge for them.

“You just have to put on a smile and pretend that there are 100,000 people there,” Lyons said. “We have to dig in deep inside and pull that out and hope we can use that as our motivation.”

Football isn’t the only sport that made it tough for the cheerleading squad to stay excited during a game. According to Lyons, last year’s women’s basketball team and the men’s basketball team two years ago were a challenge.

Ironically, the growth of the football program at Georgia State has led to an increase on the number of cheerleaders on the team.

“When I started we didn’t have foot-ball yet and it wasn’t as exciting. With football and the growth of the universi-ty we got a lot more recruits and people became more interested,” senior athlete Brianna Evans said.

Lyons said that this year for cheer, there were about 50 people trying out and about other 30 trying out for dance.

“When I first came, it was just one team of mostly girls with one or two guys. Now you can see it’s like eight or nine guys and they’re two separate teams, which is a pretty big jump,” Ev-

ans said.With the growth of the team,

the try-out process became more selective. Now, the athletes trying out have to master skills such as tumbling, which weren’t re-quired in previous years.

Financially, the team has also been benefitted, as Geor-gia State Athletics can provide more money to the program.

Lyons believes the fu-ture is bright not only for the team, but for Georgia State athletics overall.

“When we go to the Division 1A, there will be more money opportuni-ties,” Lyons said. “Five to ten years down the road, where we can go to a Bowl game and get that money, that will flourish the en-tire Athletic Department.”

The 2012 NCA College Nationals and the team’s future

The team’s growth

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“Cheerleading as a sideline activity is not a sport be-cause we’re there to support the other sports, but when

we’re there to compete on the NCA Tournament in Daytona, that’s a sport,” Coach Lyons said. “It makes

sense that competitive cheerleading is definitely a sport because you’re being judged and you’re going head to head with other teams.”

“I’ve played football, basketball, base-ball and swam in highs school. It’s by far the hardest think out of them all because you have to tumble, stunt and run to your spot in

only two and a half minutes,” said Team Cap-tain Jordan St. Claire.

“Devotion – it takes a lot of time and effort. You have to learn to be able to balance school, come to the events that we do and especially games. Time is the biggest concern that everyone has,” said Team Captain Lindsay Wild.

▶ Be able to do stunts ▶ Have tumbling skills ▶ Ability to be an ambassador of the university ▶ Be friendly ▶ Have confidence ▶ Women need to be appropriate size (for co-ed)

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The hardest part about being a cheerleader

What does it take to cheer for Georgia

State?

GEORGIA STATE’S CHEERLEADING TEAM CONTINUES TO GROW PANTHER Of The Week

GEORGIA STATE ATHLETICS

Sport: Women’s soccerPosition: ForwardYear: SophomoreHeight: 5’9”

Whitney Ravan gave Georgia State its first CAA vic-tory of the season this week as she scored the winning goal in overtime and put the score 4-3 over Old Do-minion.

Coach Derek Leader was satis-fied with the team’s performance, but highlighted Ravan’s game-winning goal.

“I’m very proud of the way all the girls played, but I was very happy for Whitney to get her second game-winning goal of the season,” Leader said to Georgia State Athletics.

Also, she gave an assist to junior Jordan Young on the same match.

Ravan’s perfor-mance this week extended her lead on the team’s goals (four) and assists (three).

WHITNEY RAVAN

Men’s cross country- The Panthers placed first at the Jaguar In-vitational Friday af-ternoon. Sophomore athlete Austin Boetje finished on first place for the second time in the season, being the biggest contributor to the team’s victory this weekend.

Men’s soccer – Georgia State’s men’s soccer team fell on their visit to Hofs-tra 1-0. This leaves the Panthers with an overall record of 3-7 and a winless CAA record of 0-3.

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Georgia State’s junior goalkeeper Re-

becca Toler was born with a hearing

disability that wasn’t diagnosed until she was

three years old.She attended public school growing up,

was ignored in class and bullied by some of

her classmates. Even after making her varsity

high school team as a freshman, she was told

she would never be able to hack it as a keeper

at the college level.

Toler used the criticisms and intimida-

tion tactics as motivation and turned her-

self into a goalkeeper commodity coming

out of Collierville High School outside of

Memphis, Tenn.

She chose to play college soccer at Ten-

nessee Tech University and was the start-

ing goalkeeper for the Golden Eagles her

freshman and sophomore years before

transferring to Georgia State this fall.

Toler has started seven games and

posted one shutout for the Panthers this

fall while sporting a goals against aver-

age of 1.69.She is also a member of the United

States National Deaf Soccer Team that

recently won the World Deaf Football

Championships in Turkey and will

travel to Bulgaria next summer to

compete in the Deaf Olympics.

Toler, who now wears an in-the-

ear hearing aid the size of a kernel

of corn, lists Tim Howard as her

soccer role model, both on and off

the field. Howard, who plays goal-

keeper for the United States Men’s

National Team and Everton in the

English Premier League, suffers

from turrets syndrome.

Toler said that people have

misconceptions about her when

they realize she’s deaf, which she

proves wrong through a strong

academic performance.

“They think you’re dumb,”

Toler said. “I’ve made the

Dean’s List the last three se-

mesters. I’m a smart kid.”

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3 years old- Toler is diagnosed as legally deaf. Her

family learns that she was born with the disability.

7 years old- Toler’s second grade teacher

refused to teach her. She was ignored and

told to sit in the corner during class. Her

mother found out how Toler was being

treated in school after another parent

witnessed the treatment. She begins to

play soccer as a way to boost her confi-

dence at school.

Junior year- Toler is recruited by a college

in the SEC. After learning of Toler’s hearing

disability, the school backs off its recruit-

ment. Toler signs with Tennessee Tech Uni-

versity instead.

July 2011- Toler earns a spot

on the U.S. National Deaf Soc-

cer Team.

July 2012- Toler competes

with U.S. National Deaf

Soccer Team in World Deaf

Football Championships in

Turkey. The team wins the

gold medal after defeated

Russia in the finals.

Fall 2012- Toler has started in seven

games this season in relief of injured

goalkeeper Rebecca Ingram.

April 2012- Georgia State announced that Toler

will transfer to the school after spending her first

two years of college at Tennessee Tech.

2010-2011- Toler was the start-

ing goalkeeper at Tennessee Tech

for two seasons, both of which

she posted sub-two goals against

averages.

Freshman year of high school- Toler was

the only freshman to make the varsity

soccer team and was named the starting

goalkeeper. That same year she began to

travel to Nashville, Tenn. twice a week to

play with a competitive club team.

Kindergarten- Wears “stupid

FM box and these huge, huge,

white wires that had separate

ear molds” which connected

to the outside of ears while in

class.

On attending college in downtown

Atlanta- “I love being in the city and I’m

a big Braves fan. There’s never a dull mo-

ment here.”

On the difficulties of using sign lan-

guage during a game- “It’s really hard with

my Mickey Mouse gloves. There’re really

big so it’s really hard to communicate on

the field.

On when she knew first knew, in

kindergarten, that she was different than

other people- “Looking around and not

seeing anyone else have a freaking box

strapped to their chest. That’s when a kind

of knew I was different.”

GEORGIA STATE ATHLETICS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 21SPORTS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 22 SPORTS

You know what my least favorite thing about sports is? Hype.

I mean, seriously. We take these games, hype them up to disproportionately high levels, and then act surprised when they don’t live up to our expec-tations. Last years’ Alabama-LSU games are a per-fect example of this. Both were boring, anti-climactic match-ups that couldn’t have possibly lived up to the kind of pressure we put on them.

Usually, this isn’t a problem. Most programs deal with hype very well. It’s not a part of their whole iden-tity, their whole fabric. They accept it as part of the process, and move forward without it defining their teams for more than that game.

But when your entire program is built on hype is when it starts to get murky and crappy.

Georgia State hired Bill Curry, a coach with a lengthy pedigree, but who had been out of the game for several years. He’s been a great ambassador and spokesperson for the team, and has brought nation-al interest to a team that otherwise would’ve not had.

Georgia State uses the Georgia Dome for its home games. This is great exposure for an only three-year old program. We get to play on turf, in a big NFL stadium, with all the lights and fireworks. Recruiting wise, it should give us an edge—big time.

Just looking at those two things alone, we should have an advantage over nearly any FCS team in the business. We were born with at least a bronze spoon in our mouths. And yet, we lose. And especially this year, we lose badly.

Why? Cockiness. Oh, you hired Bill Curry? I know that name!

Good hire! You play in the Georgia Dome? Where the Fal-

cons play? Oh wow, I bet that is just fantastic! Bill Curry, has done a lot of great work in his

coaching career. He was a good college football play-er, and he was a good ESPN announcer. But his career head coaching record is 98-118-4. He had been out of football since 1996. And he hadn’t had an above .500 record since 1989. This is not to disparage Bill Curry as a good football coach; winning games is often just as much about location and good bounces than it is acumen. Just look at Rich Rodriguez.

My point is that Curry is not Bear Bryant, and that treating his arrival as the savior of downtown Atlanta football is a bit ridiculous. I think that kind of mentality seeped into our football program as a whole. We expected to come our as the best, without any kind of struggle, and that is never the attitude you want at USC, let alone a start-up program with three years under its belt.

And the Georgia Dome is even worse. You put these 18-24 year old males filled with ego, who have been in violent competition for most of their lives, and put them in the one place that would make every single dream they have ever had come true. You hear stories all the time about poor people winning the lot-tery and going broke within five years. If you go from Single-A ball to MLB, the learning curve is going to be as steep as a vertical line.

So how do we fix it? How do we keep the invalu-able resources that have been gifted to us, but still change the culture of the program?

Eliminate the hype. Just straight up stake it in the heart. Until we accept that we are not the New Eng-land Patriots and that we are not the University of Al-abama, we are never going to move past the lowest levels of the lowest program.

Hype can only be eliminated through what we are going through now. Our losses are piling up, and it hurts. But at the end of the day, all the bad that comes with grossly high expectations will have been removed. Sometimes, in order to promote growth, there must be destruction. As melodramatic as that sounds, it’s true. And it’s coming—just not as fast as we’d like.

KILL THE HYPE!

HUNTER BISHOPStaff Reporter

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Terrance Woodard continues to be Geor-gia State’s top performer on defense. The junior nose tackle leads the team in tackles and is tied for the team lead in tackles for a loss and sacks, a rare feat for any interior defensive linemen. The defense has struggled to stop anyone this season as they have shown little pass rush, producing only two sacks as a unit, and have been victim-ized by big plays.

Georgia State wins if…they can find a way to protect the football. The Panthers have turned the ball over 19 times and sports a turn-over margin of -13, both of which rank last in the CAA. The offense must protect the ball in order to sustain drives, which may provide some relief for the much maligned defense.

The defense has been just as porous as Georgia State’s. The Rams rank last in the CAA in total de-fense as they have yielded just less than 500 yards of offense per game. They have forced only five turn-overs and opposing offenses have converted over half of their third downs. Defensive back Clement Ani and linebacker Andrew Bose both average more than eight tackles per game.

Rhode Island wins if…they can contain Donald Russell, who only has one touchdown on the season. It will be tough to limit Russell’s yards, but if Rhode Island keeps the Panthers’ main offensive threat out of the end zone, they may find a way to grab their first victory of the season.

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Offense:

Defense Defense

Offense:The Panthers continue to rely heavily on run-

ning back Donald Russell and wide receiver Albert Wilson. Russell is averaging just less than 100 yards rushing per contest and is the second leading rush-er in the Colonial Athletic Association. Wilson has found the end zone three times and averages over 16 yards per reception. Despite Russell and Wilson’s ef-forts, the Panthers only score an average of 10 points per game and are at the bottom of nearly every of-fensive category in the CAA.

The Rams are led on offense by quarterback Bob Bentson. The Rams, who are also looking for their first win of the season, rank near the bottom of the CAA in every meaningful offensive category. They are the only team in the conference to aver-age less than 10 points per game and less than 100 yards rushing per contest. A lone bright spot for the Rams offense has been ball security as they have only turned the ball over six times.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 23SPORTS

CANDRA UMUNNA | THE SIGNALHarrison Clottey didn’t play football until three years ago, yet he was a member of the 2009 signing class.

Keeping Georgia State’s diverse demo-graphics in mind, it’s

no surprise that one of the foot-ball team’s most distinguished members is an Italian of Ghana-ian descent.

Harrison Clottey, a 6-foot 5-inch, 300-pound offensive lineman, was stepping onto a football field for the first time just three years ago.

“My high school coaches really encouraged me to play football,” said Clottey. “I was actually playing basketball un-til my sophomore year in high school, but I wasn’t getting any taller. You realize being a 6-foot 5-inch big-man isn’t going to cut it as you get older”.

Clottey has always been a multi-sport athlete, dating back to his years growing up in Italy. American football hardly gets attention in Europe, so Clottey’s blooming on the football field is quite incomprehensible.

“Soccer is the most popu-lar sport in Italy,” Clottey said. “I enjoyed basketball from an early age as well, but nobody re-ally plays football in Italy. The

only time you’d see people play-ing football was if a movie being filmed had an American foot-ball scene in it.”

Clottey lived in Sassuolo, Italy until he was 10 years old, relocating to Georgia with his family, who felt that America provided an education that is unavailable in many other plac-es.

“My best memories from those days are with my fam-ily,” Clottey said. “I still have a few friends that I keep in con-tact with through Facebook, but they all have their own lives now, whether it be raising families, working, or going to school.”

Clottey said that coming to the United States was a culture shock for him, most notably in the school system.

“Learning to socially adapt to the norms of American cul-ture was definitely hard at first,” Clottey said. “Americans are a lot more interested in the petty and materialistic things of life. I had to get used to being judged by how many pairs of sneakers I owned or which game systems I had. At first I didn’t understand, but I’m used to it now though.”

Clottey’s mentality carries over into his approach towards football, stating that the team

still has many improvements to be made.

“As soon as we transfer our offseason work onto the field on game, I believe our fortunes will turn around.”

Clottey said that, in order to improve, the players need to stick to their role on the field and reach a level of steadiness.

“Everybody needs to indi-vidually focus on their assign-ments and techniques on Satur-days. If everyone is doing their job as a unit, we’ll produce. I feel like we’ve been lacking con-sistency,” Clottey said. “There may be some plays where only nine guys out of 11 are in sync with each other, and those are the big plays that often swing the momentum in or out of our favor.”

In a future, Clottey believes that the team will earn the fear from its opponents and respect from its fans when they begin to translate their potential into wins.

“We haven’t given the stu-dent body what they deserve out of this program, and I know that as soon as we begin to see success, the support will come,” Clottey said. “We have to start winning and handling our jobs in order to get the support. Ev-erybody loves a winner.”

Georgia State’s favorite legal studies professor com-bined motivational speak-er has released his second book, 99 Motivators for Col-lege Success.

His first book, Unlocking Your Rubber Room, was re-ferred to by The Signal’s Jas-mine Shergill in her 2009 re-view as “a hilarious book” that “exceeds expectations.” Binder describes it as a book that shows “ the funny side of law but also about how everyday people can use the law to their advantage.”

This second book is a lit-tle different, though.

“The book is intended to make people think hard about what they want out of a college experience and ca-reer, in an easy to access for-mat,” Binder said.

Similarly to Unlocking Your Rubber Room, the book is divided into three sec-tions: Motivators for Success in Picking a Major or Career Path, Motivators for Success in the Classroom, and Mo-

tivators for Success in Ad-justing to College Life. Writ-ten for freshmen and soph-omores, Binder provides a sample essay question with a college-level answer in his book after he realized that new college students have a difficult time transition-ing from a high school essay exam to a college one.

“At the end of each sec-tion, three ‘Takeaways’ high-light the overarching Moti-vator themes, and then stu-dents are challenged to ap-ply these concepts by writ-ing three Personal Motivator Goals,” Binder said.

In the classroom and in lecture halls, Binder uses 99

Motivators for College Suc-cess as one of his main topics.

“My classes emphasize the importance of humor, self-awareness, and prepa-ration as the key ingredients for effective learning,” Bind-er said.

The dedication to this book is simple and inviting— “This book is dedicated to any person who walks into a college classroom and dares to dream about a better today and tomorrow.” When asked how Binder came up with such a poetic dedication, he jokingly replied, “I swiped that dedication from a late night psycho-exercising in-fomercial.”

“99 Motivators for College Success” by Dr. Perry Binder

LAURA APPERSONCopy Editor

10 Binder’s

tips

1. Don’t let anyone crush your dreams. However, the riskier your dream, the better your backup plan must be.

2. There is a huge difference between a childhood dream and a dream job. If you dreamed of being a lawyer since the age of twelve, you better make sure you know exactly what attorneys do on a given twelve hour work day. Did You Know: In a sur-vey of 800 attorneys, only 55 percent reported being satisfied with their career.

3. Make sure your dream job is not an avocation (a hobby). An avocation is a vacation from a vocation, because the pay ranges from little to nothing.

4. No matter what your part-time jobs or summer jobs are, always be thinking about how those experiences will enhance your resume and work skills.

5. The most important thing for deciding on a major or career path is to get out of the classroom and into an internship which exposes you to the day-to-day ups and downs of that profes-sion. “Learning by doing” will give you a better apprecia-tion of the job than learning through textbooks.

6. Do what you love but don’t let your career choices jeopardize anyone you love. Including yourself. Transla-tion: Take care of others but don’t forget to take care of yourself, sometimes before

others. Listen to our airline flight attendants: “Put your own oxygen mask on first before assisting others with their masks.”

7. Determine whether you are driven to be your own boss or if you crave the sta-bility of a steady paycheck. Assess your personality traits and the risks inherent with both paths. (e.g., the risk of putting up your own money as your own boss versus the risk of losing a job in a company you work for) Did You Know: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics lists occu-pations with the largest job growth projected through the year 2018, starting with registered nurse.

8. Rather than casually asking career advice from parents or other relatives, set up a time to interview them, with prepared general and specific questions. This ap-proach will make them think more thoughtfully about their responses, and may reveal their personal career challenges and triumphs.

9. Don’t rely on luck or fate in your career. Professional success is about putting yourself in a position to cre-ate numerous opportunities.

10. Over the course of your lifetime, there may only be a handful of impactful career opportunities. Assemble an inner circle team of advisors now, so you’ll be able to act quickly to objectively assess the pluses and minuses of future opportunities.

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Horror Movie Night: InsidiousTuesday, October 9, 6-9 p.m., Student Center BallroomJoin Spotlight as we watch the horror film Insidious. Popcorn and other concessions will be served. This is a promotional event for our upcoming Haunted House “Happily Never After . . . My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy.”

Homecoming 2011 Powder Puff Game Sign-Up Now AvailableDeadline: Wednesday, October 10, 5:15 p.m.Pick up your sign-up sheet in 380 Student Center.

ON THE EDGE: HOMECOMING 2012

Monday, October 15Good Morning Commuters, 8-10 a.m.Unity Plaza and Turner FieldCome grab some breakfast and get information on Homecoming Week festivities.

Tuesday, October 16Spirit Plaza, Noon-1 p.m., Unity PlazaJoin Athletics and Spotlight as we celebrate Homecoming.Field Day, 1-6:30 p.m., Hurt ParkEnjoy dodgeball, tug oʼ war, three-legged races and powder puff!Panther XChange, 7-10:30 p.m., Student Center BallroomFashion, arts and entertainment come together as we bring the fashion scene to GSU.Event open only to GSU students till 8 p.m., after which guests will be admitted for $10.

Wednesday, October 17Arts Fair 2012, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., From the Rialto Center for the Arts to Hurt ParkThe music, arts and GSU communities come together to celebrate our accomplishments.Panther Nation at Atlantic Station, 7-9 p.m., Atlantic StationJoin Spotlight, the Student Government Association, Lead Team, the Student Alumni Association and Athletics as we celebrate Homecoming at Atlantic Station.

Thursday, October 18Golf Cart Parade, Noon-12:45 p.m.Come show your school pride and spirit at the parade through downtown Atlanta! Route begins at Gilmer Street and Peachtree Center Avenue. Parade applications are available in 380 Student Center and are due Friday, October 12. Royal Ball, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Venetian RoomThis event is open to GSU students and ONE guest per GSU student. Tickets are free for students with Panther ID and $5 for guests. Tickets are on sale at Campus Tickets, near the Bookstore in the University Center.

Friday, October 19Terminus: Art/Music/Comedy/Poetry Featuring Comedian DeRay Davis8 p.m. (Doors open at 7 p.m.), Rialto Center for the ArtsTickets are $5 for students, faculty and staff with Panther ID; $15 for general admission. Tickets are on sale at Campus Tickets, near the Bookstore in the University Center.

Saturday, October 20Homecoming Football Game: Georgia State vs. Villanova3:30 p.m. Kickoff, Georgia DomeCome cheer on your GSU Panthers as they take on Villanova! Visit GeorgiaStateSports.com for more information.

For a complete list of Homecoming events, visit www.gsu.edu/homecoming. For more details about Spotlight Homecoming events, e-mail Spotlighttraditions@gmail.com. For more information about all Spotlight events, call Spotlight Programs Board at 404/413-1610.

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Campus Events at Library Plaza Tuesday, October 9, 12:15-1 p.m.In honor of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender History Month, we gladly present the LGBT Celebration Plaza featuring Alliance.

Open Mic Night Wednesday, October 10 7-9 p.m.Courtyard Stage, Student Center, First FloorWhether itʼs poetry, comedy, playing an instrument or singing your heart out, any and every talent is welcome in our show. Cash prizes will be given for the top three GSU student winners! If you are interested in performing, stop by the Campus Events office in 370 Student Center or visit our Facebook page at gsucampusevents to apply.

All shows free for GSU students, faculty and staff with ID. Guests $3 before 5 p.m. and $5 at 5 p.m. and after. For details, visit www.gsu.edu/cinefest.

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October 8-14, ElenaMonday-Friday: 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m.Saturday-Sunday: 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m. (No 3 p.m. showing on Saturday)

October 13, Atlanta Asian Film Festival: Norwegian Wood Saturday: 3 p.m.

October 15-21, Safety Not GuaranteedMonday-Friday: 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m. (No 3 p.m. showing on Thursday) Saturday-Sunday: 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m.

October 18, Atlanta Asian Film Festival: The Recipe (Doenjang) Thursday: 3 p.m.

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