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By Rebecca Perbetskychief reporter
New parking regulations have now been implemented at Georgia Regents University.
An email was sent out Oct. 8 an-nouncing annual parking registration was open. The email provided a link to the parking registration page within the Georgia Regents website, and according to the website, students were informed to select the student fall option for the fall semester. After receiving the new park-
ing permit, students were informed the permit would expire Dec. 31, and a new permit would be issued for the following semester. A fee of $35 will be issued each semester.
The new parking permits are part of a master parking plan the university has drawn up to help bring the two campuses together. The plan is called the Bridge Plan, and according to a PowerPoint pro-vided by Karl Munschy, the director of Business Services, the goal of the new parking plan is to keep rates low for both faculty and students and cover parking
and transportation costs.The plan is referred to as a stepped
method to try and level the rates across the university, and according to the Pow-erPoint, the new approach will be the foundation for an inclusive parking and transportation plan that will help support a research institution.
One student who is on board with the new parking plan is Patrick Moorehead, a senior kinesiology major. He said he looks at the change as something positive for the new university.
“It used to be that they automatically
took (the money) from everyone whether or not you have a car or drove, and then you would sign up for a parking pass,” Moorehead said. “Now they are making it an option. They found a way to double their income.”
Georgia Regents’ transportation and parking costs are around $2.6 million a year in order to function, and according to the PowerPoint Munschy created, in order to accommodate the cost of park-ing and transportation, a fee has to be charged to everyone.
Parking plan takes effect
By Megan Stewartarts & life editor
The merger brought many policy changes to the Summer-ville campus this semester with one being a new way of policing postings around the university.
Originally, the former Au-gusta State University moni-tored the information posted in the Jaguar Student Activities Center with the exception of information coming from aca-demic departments, said Debra van Tuyll, a professor of com-munications.
“In the past, there has been an agreement that Student Af-fairs would not touch materials that had to do with academic programs,” van Tuyll said. “They were primarily looking to control materials coming on campus from off-campus enti-ties, and those were the ones that they were wanting to make sure they knew what was going up and what it was. But if it was related to an academic program here on campus, there was no problem with it being put up without an approval.”
Effective Aug. 1, the Office of Communications and Market-ing altered the policy to include postings by academic depart-ments; however, many of the students and faculty members were not aware of the change, said Allison Foley, an associate professor of criminal justice.
After coming up with an as-signment for students taking her Gender and Victimization class to design a poster for October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Foley said the students printed the poster and then OCM said it needed to change to fit the requirements under the policy.
“Any time there’s a new
policy that goes into place, there’s always some time where you have to work out the kinks, and this is my first time going through the new rules,” she said. “And they’re not bad rules, you know, but my students weren’t told by one of the offices of Stu-dent Life and Engagement that they would need to get the post-er that they submitted for the tear drop approved by OCM.”
The reason academic de-partments were excluded from the previous policy was because many faculty members objected due to the restriction being a form of prior restraint, van Tuyll said.
“Prior restraint prohibits any government entity from in-fringing on freedom of speech,” she said. “And the idea of hav-ing a piece of paper stamped before it can have government permission to be hung up, well, that was one of the reasons that catapulted us closer to fighting the Revolutionary War because the English government passed a Stamp Act that required pa-per circulated in the colonies to be stamped by the government before it could be circulated. So this is just taking us back to 1765 all over again with govern-ment saying, ‘You have to have this stamp before you can send out your messages.’”
Although OCM is review-ing publications, David Brond, the senior vice president of the Office of Communications and Marketing, said the department is not checking them for content – the department is just ensur-ing the logo is present and posi-tioned correctly.
“I think that the only excep-tion to that would be if there was something that was very
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By Kereyia Butlerstaff writer
College students don’t of-ten understand how the classes they take relate to their lives, and the program Knowledge Integrated is trying to show them how.
KNIT is a program at Georgia Regents University that essentially evolved from an idea students came up with that introduces a specific time period each semester to give students access to a better lib-eral arts experience, according to Wes Kisting, an associate professor of English and the di-rector of KNIT.
The program has 15 fac-ulty members in different fields from economics to sociology and more than 100 students.
Craig Albert, an assistant professor of political science and the associate director of KNIT, said everyone from the students to the professors are really excited about the launch of the program and are re-sponding to it very well.
“We met over the sum-mer,” he said. “We had some like teaching circles and train-ing seminars about what we should do, what to expect, how to implement what we wanted to do; and they were great.”
The goal of KNIT is to gain the full benefit of the program by obtaining the cohesiveness it brings to see how every course relates to others and uses the theme for that particular se-
mester, like the Enlightenment period that is being used for the fall semester, Albert said.
“We want people to sign up for three or more KNIT classes at a time,” he said. “They all help each other and work with each other, and so hopefully that’s what we’ll be able to do in the next coming semester.”
Lance Hunter, a lecturer of political science, incorporates the program in his Introduc-tion to American Government course.
He said he wanted to be part of KNIT because the pro-gram addresses the questions students who feel like their course work is not related to their fields of study may have.
“The whole point of the KNIT program is to really prompt students to think be-yond just the basic level of information, such as this is the Constitution, this is the year it was written, etc.,” Hunter said. “It’s really geared to-ward encouraging students to dig a little deeper and to think about questions such as what really motivates human nature, human behavior; what are hu-mans really like at their basic core; what is education, how do people learn, why is that important; what does that mean for government. So I think stu-dents are responding to it pretty well right now.”
Hunter said the primary readings that are part of KNIT are much more in depth and involved than the readings stu-dents are normally exposed to
because the normal textbook is very straightforward and it’s a lot of surface-level material.
“Incorporating it forces me or encourages me to bring in these primary readings,” Hunt-er said. “So, it encourages me as a professor to get just out-side the basic text and to bring in these other readings that are relevant. It makes me as an in-structor to go deeper in the ma-terial as well and to think about the material more myself also. So, I would say, I learn the ma-terial better myself too.”
Kisting said the program is already succeeding in its fo-cus to connect students and the community.
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By Rebecca Perbetskychief reporter
Georgia Regents University is look-ing to expand student housing.
The Georgia Board of Regents has been working with the university in plan-ning an expansion of the campus to the downtown area, said Matthew Kawti-netz, the executive director of the Augus-ta Regional Collaboration. Even though the university has been looking at two of the mills in the textile district, he said the location of the student housing could move if there is a concern with the qual-ity of life.
“The decision has not been made yet,” Kawtinetz said.
Dale Hartenburg, the director of Stu-dent Services, said the master plan for the campus expansion is still in its early stages as of right now.
As for student housing, there was a survey conducted when the merger was announced called the student quality of life facilities.
Hartenburg said the survey gave the executive board members some insight as to what students preferred and the thought behind the freshman dormitories was to help improve the freshman experi-ence.
“It looked at housing, recreation and dining spaces,” he said. “What came out of that and everything in the report, at the moment, is still preliminary. There hasn’t been a piece approved to it but what came from it was a need to consider freshman housing.”
Right now at Georgia Regents, there are no traditional freshman-style dormi-tories. Hartenburg said along with Uni-versity Village, which is apartment-style student housing, the residency program
at the Health Sciences campus does have something similar to the traditional fresh-man style dormitories.
Thomas Robertson, the president of Cranston Engineering Group, P.C., sup-ports the addition and said it is exciting and much needed.
“Getting something that was fresh-man specific and dealt with the kind of issues they dealt with and helped them be successful was something that really came out of that plan and something we looked at first,” Hartenburg said.
Not only will the new freshman housing help with students becoming successful in school, Hartenburg said, but living in student housing, especially as a freshman, also has other advantages.
“At UV, we put in a specific program structure to help our first-year students, and that program is University Connec-tions,” Hartenburg said. “For housing,
our focus right now is first-year students and getting them into campus and getting them into an environment where they feel comfortable and transition well into col-lege.”
As far as where the student housing is going to be located, Kawtinetz said that decision is still up in the air at this point. Right now, the plan is still foggy, and even if the plan gets accepted, the next concern would be financing, since the money comes from the students choosing to live in the housing.
“What they would try to do ideally is try to know for a fact how many students are choosing to live in student housing and that fee would be set,” he said. “And then they would turn around and look for an outside person to build that student housing based on the requirements they provide.”
Student housing options likely to increase
By Richard Adamsstaff writer
The buildings for Georgia Regents University may possibly be expanded beyond the Summerville and Health Sci-ences campuses along with the hospital.
Vice President of Facilities Sup-port Services Phillip Howard said dur-ing planning one of the chief concerns has been aligning space issues with student needs. This was due to the new enrollment projections from a university survey conducted during the merger. Around the same time, he said, the city proposed its own project to the universi-ty: involvement with the redevelopment of the historic Sibley and King Mills.
“The city approached GRU as a pos-sible tenant in the mills district, which is what they are calling it,” Howard said. “It’s something that’s been posed to us as a possibility, and it will be considered during our master planning project that will be kicking off in the next couple months.”
The question at this time is what those specific changes will be. What Howard did know is that it will involve growth – a lot of it.
“This is a fairly large thing,” How-ard said. “We’re actually master plan-ning in all respects a new university. It
will be something that we can certainly celebrate, working very closely with the city because, obviously, anything that we do impacts the city. So the city will be very engaged in this process, as well as the community. So we’re pretty ex-cited about it, and it will help define us moving forward.”
The current momentum on both sides is the result of separate master plans held by both city and university, which prove to be beneficial for both en-tities, he said.
“What the city’s doing now with (Augusta Regional Collaboration proj-ect) is what the city has needed to do,” Howard said. “They’re certainly identi-fying certain districts that they want to develop, which I think is a very smart approach. The mission that the city has, we’re hopeful to be at the table every step of the way.”
The Sibley Mill was designated a
national heritage area by Congress in 1996, said the executive director of the Augusta Canal Authority, Dayton Sher-rouse. He said he was extremely opti-mistic about the possibility of the uni-versity somehow utilizing the two mills, which combine together to form more than a million square feet of space.
“It’s kind of a grand vision, and it has a potential to really change Augusta in many respects,” Sherrouse said. “Of course, obviously, it’s got to be a good thing for everybody involved: the city, the Canal Authority, GRU, the consoli-dation, all of that. So it has the potential of really being a kind of game-changing project for Augusta.”
Sherrouse added there are still a lot of unanswered questions that are cur-rently being addressed by the Augusta Regional Collaboration project and the university.
“One confusion that people have is that we’ve recommended that GRU move into the mills, which is not nec-essarily true,” said Matthew Kwatinetz, the executive director of the Augusta Regional Collaboration project. “What we are recommending is the creation of a district that includes the mills and the other area around there, in order to facil-itate GRU expanding more quickly and successfully to expand quality of life to its students.”
During the past year, Kwatinetz has been heading up multiple commu-nity development meetings in the his-toric Harrisburg neighborhood, a swath of homes and businesses that connects Summerville to the mill properties. Safety remains the major concern the school has communicated to Kwatinez.
“For us to consider putting some-thing in there, you know, obviously our primary concern is student and staff safety,” Howard said.
“So whatever we would put out there, if the decision was to do that, the environment around whatever we would have there would have to be developed far enough along that we would be com-fortable with the safety and security of the site.”
Campus considers mills district
By Meredith Daystaff writer
Downtown property may be a site for the future population of Georgia Regents University.
Earlier this year, it was announced that the Georgia Regents administration is look-ing at using Sibley Mill and King Mill as a possible means of expanding to the cur-rent campuses. While the expansion to the buildings is uncertain, their history is rich.
John Hayes, an assistant professor of history at Georgia Regents, talked about the mills’ origins and why they were brought into Augusta, Ga. Sibley Mill was con-structed from June 1880 to February 1882 and named after Josiah Sibley, a local cot-ton broker and civil leader. King Mill was constructed in 1883 and named after John Pendleton King who helped to get the Au-gusta Canal expanded in order to produce more horsepower, according to Historical American Engineering Record documents at the Augusta Historic Society.
“Both were built a couple decades af-ter the Civil War, and that was part of a re-gional, which I mean throughout the South, trend of constructing textile mills,” Hayes said. “So, until that time, textile mills had been primarily a phenomenon in New Eng-land, and it was an attempt to industrialize or promote an industrial revolution in the South.”
The director for the study of Geor-gia history at Georgia Regents, Lee Ann Caldwell, said the area around the mill became a community for the people who worked in them.
David Daniel worked for Kings Mill as a security guard in the front of the mill in 1981. He worked 16-hour shifts at a time when there were around 360 people employed. Despite the long hours, he de-scribed the mill as a good working environ-ment.
Mills district contributes to city’s history
MEREDITH DAY | STAff The historic Sibley Mill is a potential site for the expansion of Georgia Regents University, along with the King Mill in downtown Augusta, Ga.
City proposes new mills campus
RICHARD ADAMS | STAffBilly Power, the hydroelectric plant manager of Sibley Mill, manages the grounds and building.
It’s kind of a grand vision, and it has a potential to really change Au-gusta in many respects.
-- Dayton Sherrouse,the executive director of the
Augusta Canal Authority
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By Mindy Wadleycopy editor
Relationships can be hard work, but for people struggling with their mental health, they can be especially difficult to manage.
When patients suffer from mental health symptoms such as stress management, anxiety or depression, those will often have an impact on interpersonal relationships, said Shannon Nix, a counselor and interpersonal outreach coordinator at the Counseling Center at Georgia Regents University. Negative relationships can worsen one’s mental state as well.
Nix said family relation-ships can be especially difficult, since the ways people are raised can have a big impact on their sense of self and their beliefs.
The loss of a relationship can also trigger a depressive episode, said Dale Peeples, an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Geor-gia Regents. For people with depression, a symptom called anhedonia can occur, when peo-ple experience the loss of enjoy-ment of activities they used to enjoy.
“The changes in behavior are probably going to drive off friends,” Peeples said. “They don’t like activities so they just withdraw from their social circles. Similarly with anxiety, a lot of anxiety is tied up into so-cial situations, so you definitely see withdrawal there.”
Remaining connected with friends and family is an im-portant coping tool for people struggling with mental illnesses,
Peeples said. Fighting the urge to withdraw is a key.
“It’s really important to try to break that cycle because if you do withdraw, if you do iso-late, it’s going to reinforce the depression,” he said.
“So even though they might not enjoy it, it’s still important to remain socially connected until they’re able to move out of the depression because it’s going to help with the recovery if they stay active with friends.”
It is important to look out for warning signs a romantic re-
lationship may be taking a nega-tive turn, Nix said.
A lack of personal respon-sibility, a push for intimacy and the need to spend too much time with one’s significant other can indicate red flags that abusive behaviors may arise, she said.
“When someone’s giving you that much attention and gifts and saying all these wonder-ful things, your brain is releas-ing endorphins,” she said. “It’s kind of like being on a drug. So you’re not as objective, and you’re not noticing these things other people might notice.”
Knowing the signs of abuse can help victims avoid abusive relationships. GRU Violence Awareness Month is sponsoring a workshop on abuse in LGBTQ relationships Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the Jaguar Student Ac-tivities Center Coffeehouse.
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inappropriate, and we’re saying very inappropriate – visually or otherwise,” Brond said. “I’ve worked for a couple of universi-ties that are state-funded as well, and there’s just not a line there because it’s where the funding comes from. It really doesn’t exist, and it doesn’t exist here.”
While Brond and the vice president for Student Affairs, Mark Poisel, said they are most-ly concerned with publications posted throughout JSAC, Foley said her Facebook was also un-der scrutiny when her poster didn’t include the proper logo.
“They didn’t want this ver-sion being posted on our Face-book page because it didn’t have the logo and wasn’t in line with the branding require-ments,” she said. “So they just asked for us to take whatever
we had up, down and replace it with the edited version. I mean at that point, I don’t think I real-ized, ‘Oh yeah, these rules apply to our Facebook pages.’”
Although Brond and Poisel said they don’t care about the content on the publication, the stipulations in the policy itself contradict that claim.
“The new branding require-ments govern what fonts you can use, what colors you can use and stipulate that a logo needs to be on there, and it stipulates where the logo needs to be placed,” Foley said.
Eventually, OCM intends to expand this policy as well, Poisel said, to indicate when student fees are used to sponsor programs.
“The other thing that we’re going to be working on is we want the flyers to indicate stu-dent fees have been used in order to sponsor the program,” Poisel said.
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By Meredith Daystaff writer
Open Access Week began Monday with plenty of events planned to educate the students and faculty of Georgia Regents University on what is open ac-cess.
Open access is a way for people to access free scholarly journals, theses and disserta-tions, historical images, pre-sentations and other scholarly information online, said Kim Mears, the nursing information librarian.
Sandra Bandy, who works with content management at Georgia Regents, said the Scholarly Publishing and Aca-demic Resources Coalition cre-ated Open Access Week in order to educate people on what open access is.
“This year we really wanted to do a little more because we are now consolidated,” Bandy said. “We wanted our students to understand Open Access.”
The “What is Open Ac-cess?” presentation will be host-ed at both campus libraries on Wednesday and Thursday from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Peter Shipman, a librarian assistant professor, hosts on Wednesday at Greenblatt Library in room 211 and Lindsay Blake will host at Reese Library in room 304.
The final presentation will be held in Reese Library in room 304 at 12:15 p.m. Thursday and will be hosted by Virginia Feher, a librarian assistant professor.
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Letter to the editorHospital policies need revising
Parking registration is finally open, and some students aren’t particularly happy about it.
It makes perfect sense that the pow-ers that be at the newly merged Georgia Regents University would require stu-dents to replace their old Augusta State University parking decals with ones that reflect the new university.
It also makes perfect sense that the administration would want to streamline parking rates across the campuses.
However, it seems a little unfair that the Summerville employees and students are the ones paying, literally and figura-
tively speaking, for the discrepancy in fees.
Student parking rates increased by $15 while faculty and staff rates jumped to $10 per month.
As annoying as shelling out this ex-tra cash may be, it’s not cause for com-motion.
What students find irritating, and what we at The Bell Ringer cannot com-prehend, is that we are just now getting notification that we need to register for this term’s parking – when we are more than halfway through the semester.
Registration at the former Augusta
State University took place in August when classes started. Students were giv-en a grace period of about two weeks, during which they were expected to get registered and begin displaying their hangtags on their vehicles.
The timing of Augusta State’s regis-tration made perfect sense. Students print their schedules, buy their books and reg-ister their cars.
It’s understandable that a new uni-versity will have kinks to work out, but considering the much-maligned parking situation at the Summerville campus, one would reasonably expect that vehicle
registration would be near the top of the list of issues to resolve prior to the start of the academic year.
But it wasn’t.And now the administration is ex-
pecting us to shell out $35 to park on campus when we have less than 8 weeks left in the semester. When we start again in January, we’ll have to pony up again for another $35.
At this point, wouldn’t it be more logical for the university to just cut its losses, let the semester finish out sans parking fees and implement the new parking fee structure next semester?
I’m taking a photography course this semester, and I currently have a love-hate relationship with it.
I have a great professor who knows his stuff. He’s been a pro-fessional for years, and it’s quite intimidating, even though he’s ex-tremely humble about it. He’s had experiences and been and lived in places that I can only dream about at the moment. He’s had his work shown at festivals and has won vari-ous awards, so when I started the course, I was immediately inspired.
He’s given us different websites to try to help us come up with ideas and points out different photogra-phers we could look to for inspira-tion. He’s shown photography docu-mentaries and videos from YouTube in class that are helpful if we want to do print work with models or any-thing like that.
But no one said it would be easy. Everyone thinks photography is just clicking a button, but it’s not. There’s a lot more to it, and if people would just take the time to learn it, they’d take much better photos.
The course is split into two parts: the first half deals with 35 mm film and the other half deals with digital.
At the beginning when we start-ed the film portion, I was excited because neither I nor many of my classmates had had much experi-ence with taking photos with a 35 mm camera and using the darkroom to develop photos, which is pretty cool but the process is frustrating.
I chose to buy my own 35 mm camera, tripod and other accessories because I just like the idea of hav-
ing my own. Plus there are only so many cameras to rent, and there are about 30 people taking two photog-raphy courses. I then thought about how good 35 mm photos would look in my portfolio, in print and online. Plus I’d get to go out and take pho-tos whenever I wanted with my own equipment. For the digital portion, I’m planning to buy a DSLR as well. Again, I just like having my own.
Anyway, having a camera and all is awesome, but taking the ac-tual photos can be difficult. Your subject matter must be important or must display a specific message in the photo you’re taking. I feel I’ve done that so far, but finding places or things to take photos of in Au-gusta, Ga., is hard. Even if I take trips to Evans, Ga.; Martinez, Ga.; Grovetown, Ga.; or even Harlem, Ga., there is stuff everywhere, but nothing I’ve come across is photo-worthy, especially for a grade.
When I go out to shoot, I just drive around for a few hours just trying to find something worthy of snapping, but it never works. I tend
to overthink it, and that may be a problem. I’d love to explore empty buildings or have a model of some sort to create different images with, but I don’t. I know I could probably find one, but that takes time, and I don’t have any.
Another thing I’m uncomfort-able with is the darkroom. I like ev-erything on the surface about it, but actually following the procedures and mixing the chemicals is nerve-wracking.
The only way to develop good film photos is in the darkroom, and it’s quite baffling that I’m still hav-ing trouble with it. I usually pick things up pretty quickly, but I’ve been avoiding going to the darkroom because of everything involved.
I look forward to the digital part because, again, I’ll have my own equipment and there will be more to learn. I already own a point-and-shoot, and that’s beneficial for a beginner, but for someone like my-self who eventually wants to make money with photography or photo-journalism, it’s vital for me to learn everything I possibly can.
I’m hoping the digital portion of the course goes way better than the 35 mm portion. I sometimes find myself uninspired, and that really frustrates me. I’m going to have to not overthink things and just go with the flow when it comes to taking photographs. I’m positive that the course, overall, will help me with my skills. I’m looking forward to learning more and hopefully apply-ing it when I start my career.
My struggles with photography
Dear Editor, October is additionally Infant Loss Awareness
Month; with optimism toward saving lives of future in-fants and babies, I would like to share a letter I wrote to Doctor’s Hospital of Augusta, Ga., and its affiliate hospitals on April 4, 2013. A copy of said letter:
I have been trying to work with Doctor’s Hospi-tal of Augusta, Ga., to get some policies, procedures and trainings started. I am doing this in response to the death of my infant daughter. I feel that if the changes I want were in place, her chances for life would have been greatly improved. I have shortened the list down to six things. I could really use some advice on how to get some of these things accomplished.
Things I want done:Three policies and procedures:1. Fetal heart rate is to be considered lost after it is
found to be lost with a single piece of technology. Loss of fetal heart shall not be confirmed through other meth-ods. Actions to attempt to recover fetal heart rate are to be begun immediately upon loss of fetal heart rate.
2. Resuscitation efforts should include all techno-logical and medical advances available to rescuers. Re-suscitation efforts must go beyond CPR. Resuscitation efforts must only be called off when next of kin or a state appointed guardian chooses to do so.
3. In the event of a stillbirth, during after care, the mother’s privacy must be paramount. Medical staffs not performing medically necessary procedures are not per-mitted to be in audience with the mother without her permission, which must be given immediately prior to said audience.
Three trainings I want people who work in Labor and Delivery to receive:
1. Stillbirth/loss of child bereavement training: A training program that teaches sensitivity toward those that have just gone through the loss of a child.
2. Crisis management training: A training pro-gramsthat teaches how to have emotional composure to medical professionals in times of crisis.
3. Anger management training: A training program that teaches the potentially damaging effects of anger during a crisis situation and how to minimize said anger.
Any feedback would be wonderful, thank you.I have also sent this to Capital Regional Medi-
cal Center, Coliseum Northside Hospital, Fort Walton Beach Medical Center, Lake City Medical Center, Oca-la Health, West Florida Hospital, Coliseum Health Sys-tem, Fairview Park Hospital, Gulf Coast Medical Cen-ter, North Florida Regional Medical Center and Twin Cities Hospital.
-Patrick D. [email protected]
Swimming in the seas of my mind,long before I met you…
ideas of walking on the ground.You will always be real to me.
Flying through the shadows,in the reservoir of my soul
is the piercing beam of light;I caught a star for you
Looped a lasso roundthe moon and pulled, bringing
light closer to my dreams.We get to cradle you there
Reaching out into the rustling windsare little rings of laughter,
lamenting sighs of sorrow and…words of every lesson we would ever want to
teach you.
If sounds can reach the cosmos,every corner that dreams can see,
hear our cooing cries of adoration…from your mom and dad, we love you.
- For our daughter, Niamh
Everyone thinks that photography is just click-ing a button, but it’s not. There’s a lot more to it.”“
Music has always been a huge part of my life.
Before my mother got mar-ried and had me, she studied art in school. She told me before she had me she knew she wanted not only music but the arts in general to be a staple in the lives of her children. As a result of my mother’s artistic roots, music became one of the most im-portant aspects of my life.
While growing up, music was always around me, whether it was my mother and me singing and danc-ing in the living room or me singing in my bedroom. Music has always been a part of my memories.
When my mother exposed me to music, she made sure I listened to different genres and artists, so I would grow up with a much larger appreciation for the art.
However important it is to be ex-posed to different artists and types of music, I think there is a much deeper reason as to why I took to music the way I did. This deeper reason is because music was, has and always will be what has gotten me through the roughest parts of life.
Music is only one of the main reasons I can remember significant life events I have gone through. Looking back, I don’t think I would have been able to get through those events if music was not an option for me.
It has always been the outlet I use to express my feelings, espe-cially when I am going through a difficult time in my life and I can’t find the words to explain how I feel. While going through these things, I was always able to find a song that expressed how I felt.
As I grew up, the way I used music changed. Instead of finding other artists and songs that would best fit my feelings, I began to find the words I needed to express my-self, and I began writing my own songs.
There is one song I wrote, which was by far the hardest song I have ever had to write, that meant the most to me. It was the song I wrote for my nana after she passed away from pancreatic cancer.
The song I wrote for my nana helped me with the grieving process in a way talking could have never done for me. I haven’t written a song since then, but I have evolved artisti-cally over the years since I wrote my last song.
My evolution with music has been a lifelong process. Recently, my artistic side has grown and flour-ished into other creative aspects of art such as painting. About a year ago, I began to really get into paint-ing, and from then on I have been in love with it.
Even though I have started experimenting with my different talents and with different artistic outlets, I don’t foresee myself ever giving up music. It is simply a part of my life that I will never be able to let go of.
I believe 100 percent that music is food for the soul. It not only feeds your soul, but it feeds the artist in-side of everyone. It makes you grow and reflect on things that without it you just don’t get the same type of healing from.
I have always said I don’t want to be like my mother when I have kids. Now that I think about all the good times I had as a child sing-ing with her, I know I will end up just like my mother one day, sing-ing at the top of my lungs with my children, with plastic spoons in our hands, while we dance around the entire house.
Music provides outlet for emotions
By Rickey Jonescontributor
Style is defined by Merri-am-Webster as “a distinctive manner of expression.” Need I say more? We all have differ-ent styles and ways of how we do things. Whether it be fash-ion, writing, music, food and even hobbies, we are defined as people by our “one in a mil-lion” styles.
I have so much fun on my daily strolls through the halls and classrooms of Georgia Re-gents University because we have such a diverse group of students! From punk rockers who obsess over black trench coats, no matter the tempera-ture, to the stereotypical soror-ity girl who’s usually wearing her letters on a shirt that’s two times too large for her skinny body, or the eccentric African-Americans who pride their dashikis, circular sunglasses and nose-rings. Georgia Re-gents, although it’s not NYU or UGA, is still a very diverse place. I LOVE IT! If you don’t know me personally, I am a very sociable guy, so I’m usu-ally not afraid to talk to new people, especially ones who are different than myself.
In fashion, I define myself as the modern prep. With my button-ups, fitted pants and boots, I pride myself in my overly developed sense of what I call “prep culture.” However, in all of my preppy glory, I still understand the importance of recognizing street style and haute couture. Cashmere and Merino wool reign supreme in my closet, and I love to show off my patriotic garb, seeing as how my favorite color combi-nation is a cherry red, poster board white and navy blue! I love and know designer; how-ever, I know what looks great on me, and prep is it! Louis Vuitton, so many things I could say, is my favorite! The classic monogram print that indicates the initials of one of the most innovative designers of all
time just exhilarates me. OK, enough about that, let’s talk about you!
I am in Craig Albert’s In-troduction to American Gov-ernment Class. This semester, we have been reading from Alexis de Tocqueville’s “De-mocracy in America,” a 700-plus page book filled with Tocqueville’s philosophy of America. In the book, Toc-queville says it’s our obligation as people, more specifically as adults, to form an opinion and let go of our nonage! You are a single, solitary person on this gigantic place we call Earth. Why would you want to be like anyone else except for yourself?
Here are some tips on how to create and develop your fashion style:
1. Find Things You Love - There are so many avenues of things that you can find! There is no excuse for you not find-ing something you really like! Whether it be peplum skirts or military jackets, there is an in-finite number of styles you can choose from!
I have found that I really like piercings. I probably will not be getting any, but they re-ally interest me! Finding things you love shows your individu-ality because it forces you to find things you like. When you like something, hopefully you won’t change just because of someone’s opinion.
2. Embrace Other Styles - By embracing the styles of your peers and class-mates, you open up your mind to a whole different area of the fashion ocean, that you prob-ably haven’t even begun to inhabit. Although my personal style is Modern Prep, I look to people like my fashionable cousin Xavier when dressing up because I know dressing up in a suit and tie is his specialty. Or when I want to learn more about punk fashion, I look to-ward some of my friends who have accepted that as their per-sonal style.
3. Create a Signature Look - As you probably well know, my signature look is a button-up shirt with a layered sweater, complimented by my slim fit pants and boots or loaf-ers. Creating a signature look helps people recognize you! It also helps you with your self-confidence because it reminds you that NO ONE can wear your signature like you can!
I have had my signature look now for a while, and I know no one can wear that out-fit like I can. It’s funny, when you set a signature, it’s actually easier for you to go shopping because you have a good idea of what you want. You go in, get what you want and leave!
4. Assess Your Current
Closet - Many people feel that when setting a new style, they have to go out and buy all-new clothes. I highly beg to differ! Before starting your new style, make sure to do a cumulative look at your closet. Some of your pieces could be altered to where they fit in perfectly with your new style! I fell victim to doing this with my style, then I took a deep look at the con-tents of my closet and I found I could actually use a lot of my clothes for my new style.
Like I said before, we are all individuals, so whatever you like, embrace it! I hope these tips will help you devel-op and create a style that’s all your own. Thanks for reading!
Fashion is more than style
COnTRIBUTED BY RICKEY JOnESRickey Jones is wearing a Gap blazer, Ralph Lauren button-up shirt and American Eagle slacks in downtown Augusta, Ga., for Fashion Night.
Rebecca Perbetsky
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The recent argument sur-rounding the Washington Red-skins really shows how igno-rant our nation is as a whole.
For starters, society is try-ing to infringe on the Redskins’ First Amendment rights. They are part of a privately owned franchise, giving the own-ers the right to name the team whatever they choose – no matter whom it may offend in the long run.
Society feels as though the term “redskin” is offen-sive, when in reality it was a term linguists say was origi-nally used interracially. Native Americans themselves were the origin of the term, and it
wasn’t considered offensive at the time. Over the years, though, it turned into a deroga-tory slur.
This team chose its name in honor of its former coach William “Lone Star” Dietz who said he was Native Ameri-can. So in his honor the team’s name changed in 1933 from the Boston Braves to the Bos-ton Redskins. After the team’s move to Washington, D.C.,
in 1937, the team retained its name, becoming the Washing-ton Redskins.
Native Americans should be honored their national-ity is the only one with teams named after them. Parts of modern-day society may think this is offensive, but that does not give them the right to take away someone’s freedom of speech.
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By Jordan Barrystaff writer
Augustans came together for an annual dose of Greek philoxenia, or hospitality, as the Greek community celebrated its culture and showed outsiders just how they do it in the annual Greek Festival.
The festival took place Oct. 10 through Oct. 13 at Holy Trin-ity Greek Orthodox Church on Greene Street in downtown Augusta, Ga., where there was Greek food, music, dancing and vendors selling clothes and jew-elry.
Alexandra Bitere, a Georgia Regents University senior biol-ogy major and a member of the church, said she helps out with the festival every year, and the Greek community and church put on the event for several rea-sons.
“It’s to introduce the au-thentic Greek culture to a small town,” she said. “It’s also used as a fellowship just to provide a little more culture to the city and also a good way for us to show the way the Greeks do it. It is a good fundraiser for our church also.”
The whole church comes to-gether to help put the festival to-gether in some way, Bitere said.
“It’s a big group,” she said. “It’s all about teamwork and (the) community of people from our church. So it’s just all a big teamwork. Everybody comes and volunteers; everybody comes and helps. We all put it together as a family.”
Jerry James, a volunteer for the festival, said his wife is Greek, and he has volunteered at the festival for years. He said
the Greek Festival is important to the Greek community and the church.
“Well, I think it just brings everybody together, and it’s a fundraiser for us to support the church,” James said.
Agreeing with James, Hilda Kelly, another volunteer, said she got involved with the Greek Orthodox Church because of her son-in-law’s Greek heritage.
“It pays for (the church’s) mortgage,” Kelley said. “It pays for all their activities they do during the year. It supports the church in a very big way and helps them out.”
Stacey Decatalier, another volunteer, said she has been in-volved since the first Greek Fes-tival in Augusta.
“Actually about more than 25 years ago, the first festival was held up on Washington Road at the Big Tree shopping center,” Decatalier said. “The Young Adult League held that first festival, and I was a mem-ber of the Young Adult League, so I’ve been active with the Greek festival ever since.”
Decatalier said the main difference between Greek and American culture is the empha-sis on family.
“In the Greek culture, fam-ily is very, very important,” she said. “When you think about family, you think about food,
sitting down to meals together. So the food is, of course, a part of our culture. And when we sit down to eat together, we cel-ebrate together. So you have music, and it all kind of goes together.”
The band A Night in Athens played traditional Greek music throughout the festival, and visi-tors learned how to do some tra-ditional Greek dances.
“It’s traditional Greek danc-ing, so it’s very like group line dancing that we do,” Bitere said. “We have our traditional costumes and outfits. There’s simple ones that we can get the crowd up to do that are like four steps that we just go around in a circle and do.”
Olivia Magoulas, a se-nior majoring in middle-grade education, said although she is Greek, she was born in America, and the festival is a great way for her to learn about her fam-ily’s culture and keep it alive.
“It was always something that I did when I was little,” Ma-goulas said. “It was just kind of a fun way to be able to go and see parts of my culture and be able to Greek dance and show other people what our culture is all about.”
Another intrinsic part of the festival for Magoulas was being able to tour the inside of the Greek Orthodox Church, she said.
“A lot of people think that Greek Orthodox is not Christian, but it is,” Magoulas said. “We believe in Jesus and everything. Our sermons every Sunday are just pretty much like telling a Bible story, just in a very tradi-tional way.”
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George Antonopoulos entertains the crowd while playing the bouzouki at the annual Greek Festival in Augusta,Ga.
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By Ashley Trawicknews editor
The combination of a phar-macy and a boutique is becom-ing common in cities nation-wide, and there is one located right here in Augusta, Ga.
Custom Boutique, located at 1543 15th Street, provides a mixture of different boutique-style clothing including dresses, jewelry, scarves and clutches.
A junior biology major, Morgan Fordham, and the bou-tique’s assistant, Jennifer Link, said they both got the idea while working at the pharmacy.
They said they wanted to cater to women who were wait-ing for prescriptions to be filled and they came up with the idea for a boutique from a social me-dia website.
“We are students, and we love clothes,” Fordham said. “So one day, we’re just looking on Pinterest and looking online and finding these boutiques, and some boutiques were in pharma-cies, and they were doing well. So we went to our boss and asked him if he would be will-ing to do it. His wife loves to shop, (and) he (has) a college-age daughter, so we figured we’d all have fun doing it and that we’d give him extra busi-ness and extra walk-ins.”
The business did a trial run over the summer and it went well, so the owner green-lighted the plan, Fordham said
The boutique is small right now, Link said, but they’re look-ing to add more clothes racks due to weekly inventory being delivered and more items being discussed to sell in the store.
The pharmacy, Custom Pre-scription Shoppe, provides med-ical equipment from DuraMed Medical Services.
Thedra Howard, the cus-
tomer service manager and certified mastectomy fitter, has been working at the pharmacy since 1987 and said it’s different from other pharmacies because all of the medicine is made in-house.
“We don’t deal in any ani-mal-based products,” Howard said. “They’re all plant-based.”
For the boutique, Link said it is in the process of getting a website together where custom-ers can order items online.
It is also in the process of expanding its collection with handbags, headbands, home decorations for the holidays and possibly shoes, she said.
Fordham also said the store has a good range of clothes. They’re not just directed at young women.
“It’s from high school to older business women,” she said. “But there is stuff you can wear to work, there’s stuff you can on the weekends, (to) wed-dings, casual, cookout, game day, anything like that. But we (mostly) have casual to business wear, you know, the fun, stylish kind of business wear.”
How it differs from other local stores, Link said, is it’s another business that benefits everyone in the community, and the location is really convenient.
“To me, as an ASU student, I would rather come right down the road after class or on break than have to fight the traffic go-ing to the mall,” she said. “Plac-es like the mall, I love to shop at the mall, but whatever you get at the mall, everybody’s going to have. So you don’t have to go out of town (or) drive miles to go get some cute clothes. Every-one likes their own little unique style.”
By Jordan Barry staff writer
The second annual Monster Bash drew a large crowd for a night of Halloween fun to raise money for a local children’s hospital.
Co-founders Mary Lynn Sheram and Marie Smith started the Monster Bash in 2012 to fill the void of fundraising events for the Chil-dren’s Hospital of Georgia.
As a critical care physician in pediatrics at the hospital, Sheram said she and Smith wanted to do something fun for the community that would also benefit the hospi-tal, and when she and Smith were brainstorming ideas in 2012, they thought a Halloween party would be a great idea.
“I guess we were just talking about fundraising events,” Sheram said. “We were thinking about fun things to do in Augusta, (Ga.) and the only real Halloween parties are at bars. And we thought maybe it’d be a good idea to try to get other people out of the community to come join in.”
Megan Dean, a registered nurse in the pediatric intensive care unit at the hospital, said she helped plan the first and second annual Monster Bashes.
“We decided that other chil-dren’s hospitals have all these big benefits and things like that, and ours, which is a great children’s hos-pital, it doesn’t have a lot of those things,” Dean said. “We thought this might be a fun little way to try and raise money for the hospital and
have a good time at the same time.” Smith said last year they used
the money to buy special vein-find-ing lights that help reduce the trial and error when hooking children up to IVs. They were also able to pur-chase special incubators to help ba-bies born with jaundice. However, she said they are not sure what the money will go toward this year.
“All the money raised will come straight back to the children’s hospi-tal,” Smith said. “Then Dr. Sheram and I will get to sit down with ad-ministration and decide where that money goes.”
The party was hosted at the Enterprise Mill Friday, and patrons paid $50 for a ticket, which included everything provided at the event.
When the doors opened at 8 p.m., patrons enjoyed heavy hors d’oeuvres, an open bar, a silent auction and live music and danc-ing with the band Seven Once, a
11-piece band, playing hit music to get visitors dancing, which Smith said the band did for free.
“We just happened to know one of the band members, and they’re doing it on their time off,” Smith said. “They’re not charging us any-thing, which is pretty nice. They want to help out the children as well.”
There was a costume contest for the best couple’s costume and the best individual costumes. Dean said she won the costume contest in 2012 when she dressed up as a loo-fah, and her date dressed up as a box of soap. She won a one-year mem-bership to Evans Fitness Center.
This year, patrons dressed in various costumes and a prize of $500 was awarded for the best cou-ple’s costume, along with a prize of $250 awarded for the best individu-al costume.
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Seven Once, a party and show band, volunteers to play at the Monster Bash-themed fundraiser at Enterprise Mill Friday night.
By Richard Adamsstaff writer
Families will gather round Friday night to hear eerie tales straight from the heart of Ireland, the home of Halloween.
The Charms of Ire-land, a family-friendly evening of storytelling and music, will be held on the Summerville Campus Quadrangle Lawn at Geor-gia Regents University. Spooky stories and tradi-tional Irish music around a campfire will commence at 6:30 p.m.
Debra van Tuyll, a professor of communica-tions, and Carl Purdy, a professor of music, said they coordinated this event to explore Irish history and culture through mu-sic, folklore and dancing in order to coincide with fundraising attempts by Georgia Regents students planning to attend a study abroad trip in Ireland this summer.
Having the music, dancing and storytelling revolve around a fire pit was an idea central to cre-ating the ambiance neces-sary for a night similar to the original Halloween tradition, Purdy said.
“You know, the Irish holiday that we call Hal-loween is called Sam-hain,” van Tuyll said.
“The Irish would have fires on Samhain because you have to burn the de-tritus of the crops that you’ve harvested. You’ve got leftover stuff, you know, like how in the fall here we burn the fields – so bonfires are very tradi-tional at the end of harvest.
Fires are part of the Sam-hain tradition and part of the Halloween tradition.”
Ashley Pacheco, a sophomore history major, signed on to participate because she said she has both a love of Irish his-tory and the desire to take advantage of the study abroad program this sum-mer.
“I’d heard about the program, but like money-wise, I didn’t think I’d be able to do it because it is so expensive,” Pacheco said.
“The Charms of Ire-land is a way in which people who are doing the study abroad program are able to participate. Any proceeds that the actual program makes that night get equally distributed be-tween all the people who were involved.”
Both van Tuyll and Purdy said this was a proj-ect close to their hearts, and it has strengthened the bond of friendship that has grown between them over the years of planning out and escorting groups of students on the study abroad trips to Ireland.
These are exactly the kinds of friendships that Ireland engenders, they both said. It has been a ma-jor reason they continue to do the extra work it takes to provide this opportunity to Georgia Regents stu-dents and staff.
“This is going to sound really nerdy and silly,” van Tuyll said, “but one of my great joys in life is showing Ireland to other people.”
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Spanish culture and food collideBy Meredith Daystaff writer
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the students and faculty of Georgia Regents Univer-sity were invited to enjoy a Hispanic cooking demon-stration as well as sample some flavorful cuisine on the Health Sciences cam-pus Oct. 7.
David Moulton, the executive chef at Georgia Regents, said he has been in the cooking industry for 38 years.
“This is my second year of doing the Hispanic cooking demo, and it was just something to educate people on the different cui-sines around us,” he said.
Torri Lampkin, the of-fice specialist for the Of-fice of Diversity and In-clusion, said the cooking demonstration was just one of many events planned for National Hispanic Heri-tage Month, which takes place each year from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15.
Heather Abdelnur, an associate professor of his-tory, said prior to 1965, only a certain percentage of people were allowed to come in from each nation or region of the world. However, the Immigra-tion and Nationality Act, which was put in place in 1965 and became effective in 1968, made it so equal amounts of people were allowed from every nation and region, which caused the Hispanic population to grow.
“This is actually the second time that we’ve done a cooking demon-stration, but this is the third year that we’ve had Hispanic Heritage Month events at the school,” Lampkin said.
Another event the uni-versity holds for those in-terested in Hispanic culture is Tertulia every Friday at Mi Rancho on Washington Road in Augusta, Spanish Professor Jana Sandarg said.
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While the Summerville campus maintains its longstand-ing function as a liberal arts institution, the Health Sciences campus is often still mistaken as merely a medical school.
Heather Metress, the reg-istrar for Georgia Regents Uni-versity, said the Health Sciences campus prepares students for jobs across a wide spectrum of the health care industry, not just future doctors. The campus houses five different colleges including the dental school, al-lied health sciences, nursing and graduate studies in addition to the well-known medical college.
“A lot of times, when some-one heard ‘Georgia Health Sci-ences University,’ they thought that it just housed a medical col-lege,” Metress said.
“I think most of the time, people are just surprised to hear that we do have a College of Dental Medicine or that we do
have a dental hygiene program or any of the other programs. I think for so long when people heard that, it was just synony-mous in their minds with ‘medi-cal college.’”
One college at the Health Sciences campus that is prepar-ing students for a growing ca-reer field is the College of Allied Health Sciences. Barbara Rus-sell, the interim associate dean for strategic initiative and fac-ulty development in the allied health college, said the college offers degrees in 11 different disciplines, including under-graduate, graduate and doctoral degrees.
“Allied health profession-als provide a lot of the support, a lot of the therapy, a lot of the direct patient care that needs to be there for quality health care,” Russell said.
“Anywhere from telling the health information to perform-ing laboratory testing to per-forming diagnostic radiology testing to performing therapy.
We have occupational therapy, radiation therapy (and) physical therapy. And also we have pub-lic health, which looks at com-munity health as a whole.”
Russell said this diversity in the field of allied health makes the college attractive for stu-dents from many different back-grounds and interest levels.
A learning tool utilized by
students at the Health Sciences campus is the Interdisciplinary Simulation Center, where stu-dents from different degree pro-grams such as nursing and den-tistry are able to train in patient care with mannequins that have lifelike characteristics, such as a pulse, blinking eyes and visible breathing movements. Kevin Velez, the office specialist at the
simulation center, said the cen-ter is a good preparatory step for students before they move on to work with live patients at the Georgia Regents Health Center.
“If we kill them here, we just reset the system,” Velez said. “Across the street, it’s not so easy.”
Health Sciences campus provides more than MDs
Instructors simulate real world
By Ashley Trawicknews editor
Events held at the Maxwell Theatre and the Lee Auditorium at Georgia Regents University are handled very differently.
Kelly Thomas, the direc-tor of the Maxwell, said the process to book different acts can be done in a few different ways. Past acts like Tom Sulli-van and Ethan Bortnick reached out to the Maxwell staff about performing, but one example of acts Maxwell reached out to get, he said, was the Lyceum Series.
“There are only four events,” Thomas said. “We don’t have a terribly large bud-get, so we’re not about to bring, like, 12 events a year. We bring four events, but because we can only choose four, it means we can only touch on a certain num-ber of things within that particu-lar series.”
For the 740-seat theater, a season is considered to be more like three years, he said. Within that three-year time segment, a committee, split up between students, faculty and staff, con-siders hosting between 25 to 50 events. However, many of the acts don’t come because they are too expensive or the time
frame is too close in the school year.
“Others don’t happen be-cause, for instance, just last season we had the Chinese ac-robats,” he said. “We’re not go-ing to book them for next season because it’s too close together. So if we’ve done a particular thing recently, we’re not going to touch on that again. Certain popular shows, like the acro-bats, we will do again and again, but we try to put some time in between them. Generally, we try to make it so a student in four years is getting a whole variety or as much as you can do within a time that they are here.”
Events are planned between October and December for the next school year. Thomas said the season usually finishes up in the March to April time frame. Lee Auditorium, which seats an audience of 400, is gener-ally reserved for many of the student organizations, town hall meetings or any of the facility trainings for the hospital, said Joshua Randall, the manager for Instructional Systems.
“Pretty much any larger meeting that requires more than 200 seats,” Randall said. “That’s our only large destination on the Health Sciences campus.”
Randall said Lee Auditori-um is always open for bookings. The Event Management System used to book different events and to reserve different spaces on both campuses.
Faculty, staff, students and the Augusta, Ga., community members all have access to see what events are being hosted at Maxwell on the website.
However Randall said the Lee doesn’t have availible ac-cess online because it’s basi-cally considered a room versus a building.
“There’s not really a special stipulation for that room versus any other enterprise room on campus,” he said. “The book-ings run through my office, but it’s owned by the university.”
Student organizations can organize and plan events using the portal Community as well, said Karen Belk, the director of Student Development.
“(It) lists their purpose, their roster of members and their up-coming events,” Belk said. “It’s also used for students to request from the office of Student Life and Engagement permission to host events on campus or off-campus under the student orga-nization’s name.”
Two theaters coexistASHLEY TRAwICK | STAff
Patrons fill the Maxwell Theatre at Georgia Regents University Saturday to watch a performance by Ethan Bortnick.
By Jordan Williamssports editor
Liberal arts and health sci-ences fused together with the merger, but the shuttle bus ser-vices for the different campuses of Georgia Regents University remain distinctly separate in their work.
On the Summerville cam-pus, students board the Jaguar Express while the MEDEXpress roams the Health Sciences cam-pus from parking lot to parking lot, picking up students and em-ployees, and transporting them to the buildings.
The Jaguar Express became a service available to students in 2005. It operates with two buses on a continuous route between University Village, the Sum-merville campus and Christen-berry Fieldhouse, said Director of Auxiliary Services Karl Mun-schy.
Munschy said the only real changes brought on by the merger of the two campuses was an extra shuttle bus on a strict route between Summerville and Health Sciences and the addition of a bigger bus.
The intercampus route starts on the Summerville campus at the main entrance in front of University Hall and has a drop-off point on Laney Walker Bou-levard on the Health Sciences campus, Munschy said.
The new buses were a result of the additional route connect-ing the campuses. Not only is the recent model bigger in size but it is also equipped with a new component that allows the bus to to lower itself for handi-capped students, Munschy said.
Brittnay Tinker, a recent
transfer student and criminal justice major, said the shuttle buses are nice, but they could step their game up.
“I think that we could have more stops on campus,” she said. “Maybe they can have a stop right dead in the middle of campus, like closer to the book-store or right in the middle of the Science Hall and the JSAC and then come over here next to the science building and Allgood (Hall).”
Meanwhile, the MEDEX-press has 11 shuttles, all under the watch of the director of Pub-lic Safety and chief of police, William McBride.
A major distinction between the shuttle services is the Jag-uar Express is bound to contract with Horizon Motorcoach, and the MEDEXpress is indepen-dent, McBride said.
“We buy the buses, (and) we hire the humans,” he said. “We give them a commercial driver’s license, and they run the routes.”
In the downtown area, new buildings are constantly being built and put in places that were formerly used as parking lots, forcing Health Sciences em-ployees and students to park far-ther and farther away, McBride said. Therefore, the MEDEX-press was created to shuttle bod-ies closer to the Health Sciences buildings.
The plan for the Jaguar Ex-press and the MEDEXpress is to consolidate under one shuttle service, McBride said.
“It doesn’t make any sense to have two different processes in the same institution, so I would assume that it will hap-pen some point,” he said.
Merger provides intercampus route
Campuses’ student activities unify as result of mergerBy Jordan Barrystaff writer
Student activities at Georgia Regents University are under new management.
Prior to the merger, the Health Sci-ences campus and the Summerville campus had their own activities boards, which planned their own student pro-grams and events.
The president of the Graduate Stu-dent Government Association and a fourth-year dental school student, Brett Page, said Georgia Health Sciences Uni-versity and the Medical College of Geor-
gia used to have all kinds of fun events put on by the SGA.
Most of these events occurred Friday evenings, so they called them TGIF. Stu-dents attended the county fair, Adventure Crossing, roller-skating nights and even a casino night.
“We’re kind of siloed into our own little programs,” Page said. “So the SGA tried to offer those activities to everybody on our campus when we were MCG and GHSU, but the individual schools also put on events that kind of were adjunct to their own students.”
Augusta State University’s own ac-
tivity board, then known as the Jaguar Activities Board, planned all of the stu-dent events such as Week of Welcome, Club Fest, Pig Out, school night at Ad-venture Crossing and Finals Frenzy.
However, things have changed drastically since the merger of the once-separate schools into Georgia Regents. Jessica Haskins, the assistant director of student programs, said the SGA from the Health Sciences campus and JAB, from the Summerville campus, have joined to form the Jaguar Production Crew.
President of the Crew and senior ki-nesiology student Alexis Perry said the
Crew is in charge of planning student ac-tivities to benefit both.
Because the two schools are now one, the Crew is making an effort to be fair to both campuses, Haskins said. There will be one big event on the Sum-merville campus then the next semester the big event will be held at the Health Sciences campus.
Although there are growing pains of the merger, Haskins said the two cam-puses should view themselves as one.
“It’s no more them and us,” she said. “It’s us. We’re all one.”
MInDY wADLEY | STAffKandace Chariff, an occassional instructor, guides Dane Culverson, a nursing student, in a simulation exercise at the Interdisciplinary Simulation Center at Georgia Regents University to learn different techniques for patient care.
Halloween Crossword PuzzleAcross
1.The fear of Hal-loween is called ___. 2.The word witch comes from the word ___, which means wise woman. 3.___ is a medieval Christian precur-sor to modern-day trick-or-treating. 4.Trick or treat-ing evolved from the ancient ___ tradition of put-ting out treats and food to pla-cate spirits. 5.These origi-nated in Mexico about 9,000 years ago
Down 1.Michael Meyers’ mask in “Hallow-een” is in the like-ness of ___.
2.The person who grew the largest pumpkin ever mea-sured. 3.The first Jack-O-Lanterns were made from ___. 4.___ is typically believed to be the birth place of Halloween. 5.Magician that died in 1926 on Halloween as a result of appendi-citis. 6.Ancient Roman festival that cel-ebrated the har-vest goddess and helped influence Halloween. 7.___ is the coun-try of origin for the day of the dead holiday. 8.___ Halloween parade is the larg-est in New York City.
CAMPUSES COLLIDE
ACROSS
1. SAMHAINPOHBIA
2. WICCE
3. SOULING
4. CELTIC
5. PUMPKINS
DOWN
1. WILLIAM SHATNER
2. NORM CRAVEN
3. TURNIPS
4. IRELAND
5. HOUDINI
6. POMONA
7. MEXICO
8. VILLAGE
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Story of my life: Loving losing teams
The sideline report
Love hurts, and loving a losing foot-ball team is no exception.
So far this season, both the Atlanta Falcons and the Georgia Bulldogs have had mediocre performances, adding a layer of dull pain to the heartbreak I experienced at the end of last year’s hugely successful seasons, both marred by devastating losses. Atlanta went 13-3 in regular season play. They beat the Se-ahawks in the second round of the play-offs, only to lose 24-28 against the 49ers in the NFC Championship.
Georgia’s 2012 overall record was 12-2, losing to Alabama in the SEC championship. The popular consensus among most fans of the SEC was that the true national championship game was played between Georgia and Bama, since Notre Dame was a joke of a com-petitor.
Sadly both the Falcons and the Bulldogs have shown their fans a disap-pointing start to what should have been a promising season.
Georgia is currently 4-3, with the most recent loss against Vanderbilt Sat-urday. Despite an overall winning re-cord, the losses against Clemson and Missouri do not bode well for the rest of the season, especially considering Mis-souri’s new ranking as the frontrunner for the SEC East.
And then there’s the Falcons’ miser-able record of 2-4. You would think this would be enough to make me give up cheering on the Dirty Birds week after week. But despite the embarrassment of sitting in the Georgia Dome with black lines painted on my face as I chanted “Rise Up,” only to watch as the New York Jets of all teams dominated us, I remain loyal to my team.
Win or lose, my love for my teams isn’t going anywhere. My fellow Geor-gia fans and I take pride in our bleeding red and black in victory or defeat. And the same goes for my feelings on the Fal-cons, who happily did get their second win of the season Sunday against Tampa Bay. I’m even wearing my Matt Ryan hoodie as I write this.
A runner’s course from Zimbabwe to AmericaBy Richard Adamsstaff writer
Pardon Ndhlovu sees win-ning as a responsibility.
Because of this outlook, Ndhlovu, the assistant coach for the men’s and women’s cross-country teams, said he wants to one day give something back to his home country of Zimbabwe.
Middle school- and high school-aged boys and girls in Zimbabwe run track barefoot every day, and Ndhlovu said he would like to see those students have shoes to run in.
“I ran without shoes, and I know that there’s a lot of kids that could use donated shoes pretty well if they are given the opportunity and if the resources are provided,” Ndhlovu said.
Ndhlovu is one of the best young runners in the nation, according to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coach-es Association; in 2013, he held the 17th fastest collegiate time for running the 10,000-meter race.
“I started running seri-ously when I was 13,” Ndhlovu said. “My dad had a friend who coached the Zimbabwe Repub-lic police team because my dad
is a police officer. And we lived in a camp, a police camp where the government houses (were), and they had a sports team. His friend was like, ‘Hey, can your kid (come try out for) running?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, why not?’”
Ndhlovu said he began to find competing and winning, especially winning, enjoyable. He said others quickly acknowl-edged the specifics of his talent: a combination of ability, natural competitiveness and sheer en-joyment of the sport.
“The high school that I went to, (especially) the principal of the school, they gave me what-ever I needed to go train with the other guys that were good from other teams so that I could be good,” he said. “They gave me the opportunity to go travel to other countries, to the South-ern Championships (in Botswa-na). The school did that.”
When Ndhlovu graduated from high school in 2007, he said he already had a specific goal he had been working to-ward since 2004: He planned to use running to get to the United States and utilize the education-al and training resources avail-able there.
The process of arriving to
the U.S. was a long one, though. While waiting for acceptance
into the U.S., Ndhlovu said he interned at World Wide Scholar-ships, an organization that spe-cializes in international sports recruiting.
Two years after beginning his search for a university in the United States, Ndhlovu said he was accepted to UNC Pembroke in 2009. During Ndhlovu’s time at UNC Pembroke, GRU Au-gusta cross-country Head Coach Adam Ward said he became aware of Ndhlovu as a competi-tor almost immediately, since GRU and UNC Pembroke are both in the Peach Belt Confer-ence.
“It’s kind of hard to miss a guy that runs that well,” Ward said. “He’s been a stand-out runner every year he’s been there. I mean, he’s made an All-American team every year
in either cross-country or track, some years both.”
When it came time to find a graduate school where he could pursue his MBA, Ndhlovu said he found himself turning to his competitors at GRU.
“They’re in our conference, so I knew them since 2009,” Ndhlovu said. “I raced most of their guys and, most of them, we became friends anyways. I be-came friends with Dustin (Ross) and Jaiden (Brandt) when we were racing each other.”
Ross, now a senior at GRU, said respect had a lot to do with
the friendship he and fellow teammate Brandt developed with Ndhlovu during their years of competition.
“For the actual event or race he always would be focused, de-termined, all about what he had to get done, but after he won, because he won pretty much all the time, he didn’t rub it in anybody’s face,” Ross said. “He was the kind of guy you wanted to win. I mean, you cheered him even though he was a competi-tor.”
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By Ashley Trawicknews editor
The GRU Augusta wom-en’s volleyball team has a player who is willing to give her all during a game and then some.
Kristen Koch, a junior outside hitter, attended and played volleyball at Nicev-ille High School in Niceville, Fla., before being recruited by GRU Augusta in 2011.
The 6-foot player and co-captain of the team said she was introduced to the world of volleyball by seeing her older sister play while grow-ing up.
“I kind of got exposed to it early,” Koch said.
“So when (my sister) started playing, I would just be in the gym just watching her just shagging balls. So then I started playing finally when I (got) in the sixth grade so I’ve just been playing on travel and school teams since then.”
As a freshman at GRU, Koch was one of the top at-tackers on the team. She played in 127 sets over 34 matches, completed the sea-son with 261 kills and tied for team high with 32 service
aces, according to the Jag-uars’ Athletics website.
During her sophomore year, Koch ranked second on the team with 337 total kills, according to the Jaguars’ athletics website. Her sea-son high was 28 kills against Armstrong at the Christen-berry Fieldhouse.
Sharon Bonaventure, the head coach of the women’s volleyball team, said Koch was recruited to come and play front row, but over the last couple of years, she’s worked hard to establish her back-row defense and her serving.
“(Koch) has a lot of po-tential,” she said. “She’s very athletic (and) she’s very strong. When she gets a har-ness or a handle on that, she’s unstoppable. She went from a front-row player to a six-rotation player.”
Bonaventure said Koch sometimes has the tendency of getting beyond herself a little when there’s a lot going on.
“She gets ahead of her-self where she’s trying to make up for so many other positions that she tries to do too much,” she said. “When she stays with herself and
then she plays her game, she (kills) it. I keep her on the floor in every rotation. She has a nice, short slow serve, and she’s very strong defen-sively.”
Bonaventure also said she’s seen a lot of growth since Koch’s freshman year.
“I think it goes back to (when) she was just a front row-player because she didn’t have much back-row game,” she said. “She was just in-consistent. She’s done a lot of work over the summer and over the last three years. By having other teammates she was able to watch and learn, and she’s a captain, so leader-ship skills are there.”
Maggie Darling, a junior pre-biology major and team-
mate of Koch, said Koch def-initely takes the leading role, whereas the other captain, Jenna Keeler, is more posi-tive and encouraging.
Bonaventure wants fac-ulty, staff, students and Au-gusta, Ga., community mem-bers to know that, in order to continue to support Koch, team support is also needed.
“Don’t look at record,” she said.
“Record does not tell the whole story. We are a much better team. We are a much different team, and it should be interesting as this second round of conference play be-gins. Students should come and take a peek and watch.”
Koch brings offense
By Brittany Hatchercorrespondent
Alexis Wren stood as she gathered her stuff to leave then headed toward the door to make her exit. Her first meeting of the year for the Outdoor Adventure Club was a success.
Wren, a senior chemistry major at Georgia Regents University, found an in-terest in outdoor activities last year and started the Outdoor Adventure Club to meet more people on campus who have common hobbies.
“It’s really hard to find people to do outdoor stuff,” Wren said. “I don’t know a whole lot of people on campus, and the people I do know are mostly science ma-jors and they’re really busy. So I really just wanted to meet more people on cam-pus with similar interests.”
The club intends to plan hiking, kayaking, biking and camping trips as well as bring in guest speakers to educate
members on topics such as mountain bik-ing, backpacking and rock climbing.
Wren started this new student orga-nization alone and held an interest meet-ing Sept. 27 in the hope of reaching out to students to join the club.
Clair Reed, a junior nursing major, attended the first meeting because she saw a flyer for it and had been search-ing for a club like the Outdoor Adventure Club.
“It’s awesome!” Reed said. “I’m glad they finally have something like this on campus. It’s a good way to meet new people on campus. It’s hard to find people with the same interests. This is going to be a great outlet to get people connected that have the same interests.”
Any student can become part of this organization, Wren said. Membership is open to undergraduate and graduate stu-dents, as well as Georgia Regents faculty and staff. She said only members are al-lowed to attend meetings, events or ac-
tivities. To be a member, you must pay a fee
of $15 by Thursday. The fee will cover food at meetings and possibly a souvenir. Wren said the goal is to use as much of the member dues as she can to cover ex-penses, but some activities may require extra money. Participating in activities is not mandatory, so if a member can’t afford to rent a kayak, for example, it is OK.
To make it more affordable for mem-bers to participate as much as possible, discount plans have been set up with most of the outdoor stores, like Escape Outdoors and others located in Augusta, Ga., and Evans, Ga., Wren said.
Once dues are paid, members will be issued a membership card to present at these stores, Wren said. For example, kayak rentals would be discounted to $15, as opposed to the usual prices rang-ing from $30 to $50. Deals such as 10 percent discounts storewide, free bike
loans and more will also be offered.“I’m really excited about all the sup-
port we have gotten from local business-es,” Wren said.
There will be about four to five meet-ings a semester, and they are not manda-tory but attendance is encouraged, she said.
Wren said the meetings are a good way to get together over free food, plan events and get to know one another. She said she hopes to have about four to five planned events per semester or more.
Junior biology major Clint Kuglar also came to the interest meeting. Kuglar said, since it’s the first meeting, the club is still trying to figure everything out, but he is excited everyone wants to help out and looks forward to the trips with ev-eryone.
“I feel like it’s easier to meet people through a club,” Kuglar said. “So it’s kind of cool and exciting.”
New club for those with a taste for adventure debuts
ASHLEY TRAwICK | STAffThe Jaguars’ outside hitter, Kristen Koch, jumps up to spike the ball during the Oct. 9 game against USC Aiken at the Christenberry Fieldhouse.
By Amy Thornecorrespondent
The GRU Augusta men’s basketball team provided fun for the community Oct. 10 by play-ing a special exhibition game against a local wheelchair team.
The Augusta Bulldogs rep-resent Champions Made from Adversity, an organization dedi-cated to offering various sports programs to the physically dis-abled in the CSRA. Representa-tives of CMFA collected dona-tions throughout the event.
Fans filled the stands of the Christenberry Fieldhouse in hopes of seeing a unique game for GRU Augusta. Before the game against the Bulldogs, none of the Jaguars had ever played basketball in a wheelchair, men’s basketball Coach Dipp Metress said.
After a few warm-up shots and a quick chant from the Jag-uars, the first quarter began. Only a few minutes passed be-fore Bulldog Cole Wooten made the first basket for his team. His teammate Damion Peyton made most of the team’s shots for the rest of the first quarter.
The Jaguars missed several 3-pointers and committed a few lane violations. The game was so intense Jaguars senior for-ward Harold Doby fell out of his wheelchair but hoisted his chair back onto the floor and contin-ued to play.
During the second quarter, Jaguars junior forward Devin Wright-Nelson scored the Jag-uars’ first point, putting the team on the scoreboard with less than
three minutes left in the quarter. Junior forward-guard Devonte Thomas also added to the score, making a 3-point shot with only 23 seconds left in the quarter.
During the third quarter, Doby fell for a second time. The men’s team missed free throws but still managed to score points.
The Bulldogs kept a strong pace throughout the game and ended the final quarter with 44 points. Doby ended the game by hanging from the rim of the basketball goal after a dunk to celebrate his regained mobility.
After the game, Doby said using his legs is the most impor-tant aspect of basketball to him, so not using them put him out of his comfort zone.
Jaguars junior guard D’Angelo Boyce said his big-gest challenge was steering and using his arms to maneuver around. Although the experi-ence was still enjoyable be-cause it was an opportunity to do something different with the team and share the bond team-mates have.
Abbey Mayfield, an Augus-ta Bulldog, said even though her team was in its element, the Jag-uars had height and long arms to their advantage. She also said she saw the Jaguars improve as the game progressed.
“They started to pass better and maneuver, and they kind of caught on,” she said. “Team-work is always something you can work on.”
Despite getting a win, Pey-ton said the Bulldogs still have room for improvement.
“We could have had more talking, more time management overall,” Peyton said. “The height made a difference, but it was mainly communication.”
Doby said the real purpose of the game was to entertain.
“Everybody laughing and having a good time – that’s what it’s about at the end of the day,” he said.
Eight years ago, the Jag-uars played the CMFA at Garrett Elementary School. This year, however, officials decided the Christenberry Fieldhouse would be easier on the players and au-dience.
The greatest improvement came, perhaps, not over the span of the game, but in the eight years since they first played. Metress said he saw a difference in the Bulldogs’ game.
“They’ve got some ringers,” he said. “I remember a couple of them from last time, and they’re definitely better.”
He also said the all-wheel-chair game provided a good warm up for the Jaguars as they face the upcoming season open-er Nov. 9.
“Our guys showed good spirit and camaraderie,” Metress said. “They gained some valu-able experience.”
Baskeball team hosts scrimmage on wheels
Teamwork is always something you can work
on.--Abbey Mayfield, an Augusta Bulldog
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nEIL DAVEnpORT | pHOTOgRApHERThe GRU Augusta basketball team and the Augusta Bulldogs gather for a photo after their Oct. 10 exhibition game.
By Jordan Williamssports editor
When competing in sports, injuries come with the territory, but through proper care, an ath-lete can bounce back with a suc-cessful recovery.
That care is made possible through the world of sports medicine, a field of people dedi-cated to preventing injuries and restoring athletes back to peak performance when injuries do occur.
A sports medicine office utilized by multiple athletic programs in the local area is the Georgia Regents Sports Medi-cine Center. The center is a one-stop shop operated by Georgia Regents health system, equipped with a physical therapy clinic, a team of athletic trainers and physicians who see athletes as well, senior athletic trainer Tim McLane said.
The sports medicine cen-ter has personnel working with GRU Augusta athletic teams and an outreach program for lo-cal South Carolina high schools, such as Midland Valley, Silver Bluff and South Aiken.
McLane said he is the front-line person for handling athletic injuries, and athletic trainers are responsible for trying to prevent injuries first, taking care of them when they do happen and reha-bilitating them after they hap-pen.
Lisa Cummins, the senior athletic trainer responsible for covering all of the Jaguar teams, said the best way to prevent or at least recover more quickly from an injury is for athletes to con-tinuously improve their strength
and conditioning. Senior forward for the GRU
men’s basketball team KJ Sher-rill said his team places heavy emphasis on stretching out the muscles in order to stay on the court.
“As much running that we do every day, the best thing to do is stretch,” he said. “Any little aches that we have (we have to) make sure we go to the training get ice or just stretch them out.”
McLane said the most dif-ficult injuries to recover from are those requiring surgery or a severe concussion because returning to complete health is not instantaneous. He adapts his methods of encouraging and pushing an athlete to a success-ful recovery according to their individual personalities and how they handle things.
“Everyone has their own little buttons,” he said. “So there are different things that motivate everybody a little bit differently, and you just have to find that button to help them get through it and work them through.”
Sherrill is familiar with the rehab process, as he redshirted last year due to a torn meniscus, he said. The knee injury takes two or three months to heal, but instead of resting Sherrill played through the pain, which only made the knee problem worse.
“At first it was challenging because it was hurting,” Sher-rill said about the rehab process from his knee injury. “I had to force myself to be here, so ev-ery day I got better and better. Ms. Lisa (Cummins) did a great job of rehabbing me, so now my knee is almost 100 percent.”
Center takes on injuries
Getting to know Kristen Koch• favorite movies -theHarryPotterseries• favorite restaurant -Carrabba’sItalianGrill• favorite tv show - GossipGirl• favorite store - WhiteHouseIBlackMarket• favorite vacation place -“Home”inNiceville,Fla.• if she wasn’t a volleyball player - shewouldbea
studentatUniversityofFloridaandpartofAlphaDeltaPisorority
• After graduation - shewillgraduatefromtheGeorgiaRegentsUniversitynursingprogramandbecomeanursepracticioner
The high school that I went to, the principal of the school,
they gave me whatever I needed to go train.
-- Pardon Ndhlovu, the assistant coach for
cross-country
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JORDAn wILLIAMS | STAffAthletic Tranier Lisa Cummins works with Jags’ senior forward KJ Sherrill.
RICHARD ADAMS | STAffCross-country Assitant Coach Pardon Ndhlovu sets the pace at practices.
By Meredith Daystaff writer
Clint Bryant, the director of Athletics at GRU Augusta, was recently inducted into his alma mater’s Athletics Hall of Fame at Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, N.C.
Bryant was one of two men selected this year to join the hall of fame, and he was invited to attend the ceremony Oct. 5 dur-ing Belmont Abbey’s home-coming weekend, he said.
Chris Poore, the sports in-formation director at Belmont Abbey, said people are chosen every other year for different reasons to enter the hall of fame. He said Bryant was selected for his years of dedication to athlet-ics as a coach and as a basket-ball player at the school.
Bryant played basketball for Belmont Abbey in the ‘70s
and recalls his time there fond-ly. He said it was his first time away from home, and it was a fun and exciting time for him.
“I was a student who was from Washington, D.C., who
went to Belmont Abbey to play basketball but also ran cross-country (because) that was a part of our fall workout,” Bry-ant said. “I remember going to a cross-country meet and us get-
ting there and all of these people had on these shorts and nice run-ning shoes, and we were all just basketball players. It was kind of funny.”
Bryant said during his time
at Belmont Abbey his head coach, Bobby Hussy, inspired him to become a coach himself.
After graduating, Bryant said he went on to coach for Clemson from 1977-84 and Mi-ami (FL) from 1984-88. Then he came to GRU Augusta, which was at the time called Augusta College, where he has worked for the past 25 years.
Bryant coached the men’s basketball team for nine years before he became the director of Athletics. Joey Warren, the athletics media relations direc-tor for GRU Augusta, described Bryant as a caring, hardworking individual.
“He cares about his people, as a boss, (and) he cares about his employees,” Warren said. “He does anything in his power to go to bat for you any way he can.”
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By Nikki Skinnerproduction assistant
Fans and friends piled into Surrey Tavern for the first Beer Olympics Satur-day.
The Augusta Furies women’s rugby team held its first Beer Olympics tournament as a fundraiser for the team, players said.
“Women’s rugby is very underground, grass-roots still, especially here in the Southeast,” Furies President Ruby Munoz said. “Tournament fees and just field maintenance is very expensive.”
To help cover the cost, the Furies decided to hold a fundraiser. They wanted it to be something different, something they had never done before and some-thing everyone wasn’t used to doing. With the help of their sponsor, Joe’s Under-ground Café, they came up with the idea of Beer Olym-pics.
“I liked the idea of Beery Olympics,” Munoz said. “It combined different events and makes things more challenging.”
Originally, the idea was to hold the event at Joe’s Underground, though due to unforeseen circum-stances the event had to be moved at the last minute.
No worries, though, because the team got the word out and was able to find a back up venue with
Surrey Tavern. The change of venues did not hinder people from coming out and showing their support.
The day of the event, 14 teams came out to com-pete. Each team was made up of four members. An-other goal for this event was to help get the word out about women’s rugby.The teammates were asked to get teams together that didn’t consist of other play-ers.
“We are around each other all the time, but the goal is to have more out-reach in the community,” Munoz said.
The teams were en-couraged to be creative and come up with themes and even dress up. They just wanted people to come out and have a good time.
There was a wide vari-ety of themes from comic book heroes to historical characters. A team of girls dressed up in black togas called themselves Zeus’s Bitches.
The event had many qualities mirroring the ac-tual Olympics, even down to the opening ceremony, to get everyone in the spirit.It consisted of five main events: boat race, flip-cup,
beer pong, red Solo stack and quarters. Besides brag-ging rights, winners re-ceived Gift certificates to places like PF Chang’s and Nacho Mamma’s and vari-ous other prizes.
Everyone crowded out on the back deck. There was barely enough stand-ing room. They were then divided up into two groups of seven.
After announcing the rules and regulations, the first event, Boat races, be-gan. This was a game that is very popular among rugby teams.
“Boat race is very popular in the rugby com-munity,” Munoz said. “It is really the only place I have ever seen it done.”
The first group of teams formed their rows to begin the event. Once their cups were filled the event began. The team Zeus’s Bitches swept that round putting them in the lead.
As the events pro-gressed, Zeus’s Bitches held strong. By the end of the day, all of their drink-ing skills paid off, and they walked away with bragging rights as winners of the first Beer Olympics.
The teammates said they are hoping they have brought a big enough fol-lowing to make the Beer Olympics an annual event in the community in the fu-ture.
Drinking for funds
By Maggie Smithstaff writer
The women’s and men’s basketball season is kicking off in a different way this year by chang-ing up a past event with new introductions.
The GRU Augusta Athletics Department and the Rosewood Club will be hosting a pep-rally event called Jaguar Madness Thursday.
The event will be held at the Christenberry Fieldhouse and will introduce the 2013-14 season for both Jaguar basketball teams, according to a press release.
The event will consist of player introduc-tions, a three-point contest and many giveaways, according to the press release.
Although events like this have been held in the past, Assistant Media Relations Director Tay-lor Lamb said this event is going to be different than before.
“The idea of Jaguar Madness was based off of an event we’ve had called Midnight Madness,” Lamb said. “However, Jaguar Madness came from resurrecting the idea with the new school name and creating a different and more exciting event.”
One of the biggest changes to the event will be the reveal of the teams’ new jerseys. After in-troductions, the players will be revealed in the jerseys for the first time.
“This reveal will help hype up the basketball team and season,” Lamb said. “The new jerseys will be a fresh new start to our season.”
The event will begin at 7 p.m.; however, doors will open at 6:30. Admission is free, and it is open to the public. Season tickets will be avail-able for sale along with reserved seating.
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JACqUELYn pABOn | STAffThe new GRU Augusta basketball uniforms will be revealed for the first time at the Jaguar Madness event.
MEREDITH DAY | STAffDirector of Athletics Clint Bryant received a plaque during the indcution into his alma mater’s Athletics Hall of Fame.
Coach Bryant receives basketball glory
nIKKI SKInnER | STAffGroup 1 competes in the first event of the Beer Olympics at Surrey Tavern, which benefitted the Augusta Furies Rugby Club, Saturday.
nIKKI SKInnER | STAffFlemming Keffe, one of Zeus’s Bitches, finishes up the third round for her team, putting them in the lead of the competition.
We are around each other all the time, but
the goal is to have more outreach in the community.
--Ruby Munoz,the president of the Augusta Furies
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