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Monkey herpesThe university’s Viral Immunology Center pioneers life-saving research on the deadly Herpes B virus.

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blotterLocalHistorically black college Morris Brown faces foreclosure next month after in-vestors decided to claim $13 million in bonds. The 131-year-old college, which is more than $30 million in debt, has filled for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Public Health Commissioner announced that Atlanta has eliminated its waiting list for HIV and AIDS medication for uninsured Georgians. Since its creation in 2010, the AIDS Drug Assistance Pro-gram has grown to include more than 1,600 people.

Ivan the Gorilla died at Zoo Atlanta at age 50. The silverback was a favorite at Zoo Atlanta for 27 years. Before coming to Atlanta, Ivan was caged at a Tacoma shopping mall.

NationalNeil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo Neil Armstrong, died at 82 after a cardiovascular procedure. Armstrong and co-pilot Buzz Aldrin commanded the first moon landing in the Apollo 11 spacecraft.

Apple Inc. wins a $1 billion patent court case against Samsung Electronics Co. A jury found that Samsung’s phone, including its one “home” button system, used features exclusive to Apple.

Hurricane Isaac suspended the first day of the Republican National Conven-tion. The convention, set in Tampa, Fla., convened Monday to reschedule activi-ties. Events should resume on Tuesday.

WorldAn explosion in Venezuela’s largest re-finery caused an oil fire that killed 39 people and injured more than 80. The blast was so powerful that it knocked out windows of nearby homes and business-es.

Anti-Muslim Terrorist Anders Behring was declared legally sane by a Norwegian judge. He was received Norway’s maxi-mum sentence of 10 to 21 years for the last year’s killing of 77 people.

Iranian and Israeli tensions are high after a blog leak. A military source told Ira-nian officials that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “determined” to attack Iran in the coming months.

August 18University CommonsOfficers arrested one Geor-gia State student for Alco-holic Possession under 21 Years Old. At 1:02 a.m., of-ficers made contact with an incoherent intoxicated stu-dent after a complaint of possible underage drink-ing. Officers investigated and confirmed the individ-ual was underage and in-toxicated. The individual was transported to Grady Hospital and later arrested, processed and released on a Copy of Charges.

August 23Sparks HallA report was filed for Fraud. A Georgia State student stat-ed he used his credit card and the next day he noticed it was missing. He checked his account and someone had withdrawn $ 4,000. This case is being handled by in-vestigations.

August 22Broad Street/Luckie StreetA report was filed for Theft. A Georgia State student stat-ed at 10 a.m., he secured

his Schwinn Hybrid Moun-tain Bike on a bike rack and when he returned at 1:40 p.m., the bike had been sto-len. This case is being han-dled by investigations. Aderhold Learning CenterA report was filed for Theft. A Georgia State student stat-ed on Aug. 8 at 3 p.m., he left his backpack containing an Apple I-Pad 2, I-Pad case, a pair of shoes and a key on a table. When he returned at 3:15 p.m. it had been stolen. This case is being handled by investigations.

Hurt ParkA report was filed for Theft. A Georgia State student stat-ed at 11 a.m., he secured his Trek 3000 Bike on a bike rack and when he returned at 7:50 p.m., the bike had been stolen. This case is be-ing handled by investiga-tions.

August 21GSU Football Practice FieldA report was filed for Theft. A Georgia State staff mem-ber stated on Aug. 19 at 2 p.m., he noticed a Georgia State Dell Laptop was stolen

from the property. This case is being handled by investi-gations. Library NorthA report was filed for Theft. A Georgia State student stat-ed at 10:27 a.m., he left his I-phone 4S on a counter top in the restroom and when he returned approximately ten minutes later it was stolen. This case is being handled by investigations.

August 20Library PlazaOfficers arrested a Non-Georgia State student for Criminal Trespass. At 5:17 p.m., officers made contact with the individual after a complaint. Officers investi-gated, which yielded a prior Criminal Trespass Warning. The individual was arrested, processed and transported to Fulton County Jail. Re-ports filed. University CommonsA report was filed for Theft. A Georgia State student stat-ed on Aug. 2 he left to go out of town and when he returned on Aug. 16, he no-ticed his property had been stolen. This case is being handled by investigations.

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Since 1998, researchers at the Viral Immunol-ogy Center at Georgia

State have been pioneering life-saving research on the potential-ly deadly Herpes B Virus. Under the direction of Dr. Julia Hilliard, the Bio Safety Level 4 laboratory is one of the few university-level BSL4 laboratories in the country, and analyzes between 15 and 30 thousand samples of the virus ev-ery year.

Appearing in wild popula-tions of Macaque monkeys, B-Virus manifests on its natural host similar to Herpes Simplex in humans. While relatively less se-rious in Macaque populations, it becomes deadly when the virus is

passed onto humans.Currently located inside the

Petit Science Center, researchers at the Viral Immunology Cen-ter work within the confines of a maximum containment labora-tory in order to study this debili-tating virus.

“We hope to find a way to control B-virus infection and prevent b-virus infection, and we have made pretty great strides in prevention by discovering that rigorous first aid goes a long way to preventing infection,” Hilliard said. “We have also discovered how to monitor people who sur-vive the infection, and how to provide support for them so that if they re-activate virus infections, we can identify those quickly and anti-virals can be used.”

The lab is currently follow-ing and monitoring 24 survivors of the virus.

To date, researchers have re-leased nearly 100 publications on different aspects of B-Virus including infection, treatment, diagnosis, case reports, animal disease, transmission between animal species and transmission from human to human.

Since the Herpes B Virus was designated by the Centers for Disease Control as a potential candidate for a biological weap-on, the BSL-4 lab at Georgia State is subject to thorough and strin-gent regulations to ensure stu-dents and researchers are not put in undue danger. All researchers working with the virus must re-ceive clearance from the FBI, and access to the lab is extremely lim-ited.

However, the B-Virus may be dropped from the list of select agents in the near future.

A report compiled by the de-

partment of Health and Human Services suggested dropping the virus from the list, citing low in-fection rates between macaques and humans, high treatability using traditional medicine, the virus’s environmental instability and an insufficient risk of aerosol transmission.

Hilliard has high hopes for the future of the Viral Immunol-ogy Center at Georgia State.

“I think it is only it’s only go-ing to continue to grow,” Hill-iard said. “I think people will work with new organisms, with new viruses, they will look at the immunology, they will look at pathogenesis.”

For more details about the Vi-ral Immunology Center at Georgia State, visit: www.gsu.edu/bvirus

Georgia State’s herpes complex

Federal Regulations on B virus study

▶ All researchers much have FBI clearance to enter the BSL4 laboratory ▶ The building housing the lab must have security at the entrance, and access to the building must be limited ▶ Every sample of the virus must be accounted for ▶ The lab must maintain strict inventory of equipment ▶ Training history of all researchers must be logged and available ▶ Equipment must be maintained to high federal standards ▶ There must be no leaks in any pipes or equipment ▶ There must be records of pipe and equipment decontamination ▶ There must be records that any air released from the lab was decontaminated ▶ There must be records that constant negative pressure has been maintained in the BSL4 environment ▶ And any other aspect of the lab that may compromise safety is fair game for inspection

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Due to its classification as a “select agent,” agencies such as the CDC, FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have strict rules about how research is to be conducted. The CDC visits the lab annually to make sure it is in line with all federal regulations.

A select agent is a substance that has been classified by the federal government as a potential candidate for bio-logical weaponry. Select agents are subject to strict regu-lation and inspection by the federal government, and are considered to have the potential to cause danger to the general public.

B-Virus manifests on its natural host similar to Herpes Simplex in humans. While less serious for Macaques, it’s deadly to humans. PHOTO COURTESY OF ARGONNE NATIONAL LIBRARY

Once the virus enters a human host, it will replicate itself in the dermal and epidermal layers of the skin. In the dermal layer of the skin, it can come into contact with the ends of neurons that feed that particular area of the body. It is taken up by the neuron and traverse by rapid transit to the cell body of the neuron. At this point the virus will either sit latently in the neuron, or travel into the spinal cord of the human. Once in the spinal cord, the virus travels to the brainstem, where it begins to shut down the essential central functions of the body. In humans, the virus has an 80% mortality rate if not treated sufficiently early.

How the virus spreads

What is a “Select Agent”?

Herpes B virus is found in macaque monkeys. Macaques who are infected will “shed” the virus from their mucosal membranes (nostrils, mouth, lips, eyelids, genitals, etc.) The virus begins to spread between wild macaques as they reach adolescence and become sexually exploratory. In order for zoonotic (inter-species) transmission to occur into humans, mucosal secretion from an infected macaque must come in contact with a susceptible site for infection on a human, such as a scratch or open wound.

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City Hall speaks on campus safetyAtlanta campus safety task force announces recommendations to improve safety on area campuses

Students can antici-pate changes, in-cluding a mandato-

ry safety course, after collab-orating with City Hall Safety Task Force and Atlanta Uni-versities this summer.

Atlanta City Hall an-nounced the Campus Safe-ty Task Force recommenda-tions at a press conference on Aug. 20.

The group was formed by Atlanta City Council Presi-dent Ceasar C. Mitchell to recommend and implement new safety policies of At-lanta area college campuses. Representatives from Geor-gia State, including Chief and Assistant Vice President for University Police Connie Sampson, were part of the task force.

According to Sampson, Atlanta colleges, including Georgia Tech, Emory, Clark Atlanta, Spellman, More-house and Georgia State have held monthly meetings to discuss safety measures in-dependently for the past two years.

“I appreciate the involve-ment of the students,” Samp-son said. “It really takes the involvement of everybody in our environment to ensure that everyone is safe.

Marcus Kernizan and Vice President of Student Af-fairs Christian Hill are also included in the process.

“We attended weekly meetings with the force, met with our campus police, and provided feedback and in-sight to the City Council President about safety con-cerns on campus,” Kernizan said.

Burglaries and robberies continue to be a problem on downtown college campuses.

Georgia State has experi-enced a decrease in crime on campus the last three years. Robbery is still the biggest problem on campus, with more than 25 incidents in 2010.

Georgia Tech’s robbery reports have increased, but still less than Georgia State, with 11 in 2011. Georgia Tech did experience a decrease in burglaries, down from 60 in 2009 to 25 reports in 2011. Spelman only reported one burglary in 2010, down from 20 reports in 2008. Clark At-lanta’s burglariy rates are the most alarming, with 58 re-ported in 2011.

“Some of the safety issues that were discussed included, but were not limited to: car theft, homelessness, lack of lighting, sexual assault, se-curing our Marta stations, on-campus robbery, guns on campus and hazing,” Hill said.

Fifteen recommenda-tions were developed over the past month, which will be tracked by an implemen-tation committee over the course of the coming year.

According to Council President Mitchell, the rec-

ommendation proposing mandatory periodic safety training is its most important recommendation. This train-ing would be intended to promote education on crime prevention, said Mitchell.

It remains unclear exact-ly how the mandatory train-ing would be implemented at Georgia State.

“Just because those are proposed, doesn’t mean we necessarily agree with it,” Sampson said about the training. “Certainly educa-tion is important, you can’t know too much about safety.”

Students currently un-dergo a safety session through Incept orientation.

City Council President Mitchell plans to see imple-mentation on Atlanta Cam-puses.

“A number of these (rec-ommendations) we can start to see immediately,” Mitchell said.

Others, such as the video integration system, may take up to one year to implement.

An Implementation Tracking Committee, which will involve students and University Police officials from Georgia State, will track the progress of apply-ing these recommendations on Atlanta campuses.

“Remember, the city council is not our govern-ing authority, the board of regents is our governing au-thority,” Sampson said. “Just because it was recommended by the city council doesn’t mean it will happen.”

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LEAH JORDAN | THE SIGNALAtlanta City Council members joined with student leaders of downtown colleges to make campuses safer.

Over the past three years, Georgia State campus crime rates have dropped. For all downtown Atlanta universities participating in the task force, robbery and burglaries continue to be the biggest problem.

source: 2008- 2010 GEORGIA STATE POLICE CRIME DATA REPORT

According to the U.S. News and World Report rank-ings, Georgia State Law

School enrolled 223 of the 423 accepted students in 2011-2012— a 52.7 percent yield, which is an increase of 9.1 percent from 2010-2011.

“The college works to attract some of the nation’s brightest law students and faculty members, who in turn help the school maintain or improve its rank,” said Cheryl Jester-George, senior direc-tor of admissions at the College of Law.

Irene Liscano, a first-year law stu-dent, said “location, price and ranking” attracted her to the College of Law at Georgia State.

Along with its popularity, the Col-lege of Law ranked second in health-care law studies and 58 in overall stud-ies: up from 60 overall in 2011 and 65th in 2010.

Rankings are determined through an assessment given to each law school collecting data such as LSAT scores, ac-ceptance rate, grade point average, the number of employed graduates and how law professionals view the school.

“Just being in downtown Atlanta affords the law students a variety of op-portunities,” Jester-George said.

Jester-George said that students are able to participate in school programs such as Law Review and the Student Trial Lawyers Association or programs at nearby courts, organizations and agencies.

“The College of Law has a great Pro Bono Recognition Program and I am very interested in volunteering in activi-ties that involve legal issues in the His-panic community,” Liscano said,

As for the cost of an education, the

College’s admissions website lists tuition and fees at approximately $14,000 per year: nearly one-third the cost of nearby Emory University. The College of Law has 687 students registered for this se-mester.

Students also appreciate the diver-sity of the college.

“Minorities make up 31 percent of the entering class.” Jester-George said. The student body is composed of ap-proximately 55 percent males and 45 percent females.

Topping the list of most popular law schools is Yale, who enrolled 81.3 per-cent of the 252 applicants. U.S. News and World Report ranks Yale Law School number one overall for 2011-2012.

The Georgia State popularity rank-ings come after the announcement of a 16 percent decline in students taking the LSAT over the past year.

“[The decline] is a good indication of the number of students planning to pursue a legal education,” Jester-George said.

Data for the 2012-13 ranking will be collected over the next few months and will be released in the spring.

Last Friday’s court hearing for three student journalists that were arrested while covering

a protest yielded no conclusion—only more court dates.

Former Signal photography editor Judy Kim, Kennseaw State University’s The Sentinel’s Alisen Redmon and for-mer Creative Loafing intern Stephanie Pharr, waited more than ten months to appear in front of a judge for the misde-meanor charge “obstruction of traffic.”

They were arrested during a Nov. 5 Occupy Atlanta protest in Wood-ruff Park. Protesters left the park that night and began a march down Peachtree Street. In an attempt to sub-due the crowd, Atlanta Police deployed a mounted unit, motorcycle squad and riot police.

While the protesters wait for a Sept. 28 court date, the student journalists were granted a separate hearing Aug. 24.

The three journalists claimed they were not obstructing the streets with the protesters; rather, they were observing and photographing the protest from the same vantage points as other profession-al journalists covering the event.

The students maintain that they, and other members of the media, did move along the sidewalk and the street while taking pictures.

“In my opinion Alisen acted with the upmost professionalism,” said KSU Media Advisor Ed Bonza when he was questioned about Redmon’s actions at the protest.

Bonza maintained that Redmon was expected to cover the protest, since the event was newsworthy to the KSU community.

One piece of evidence, a homemade

video, shows Redmon being arrested from behind while taking photographs. Bonza said the only difference between Redmon and the other journalists at the event was her age.

Dr. Bryce McNeil, student media advisor for Georgia State, said it was Kim’s job to cover the protest.

“It was happening in the heart of our campus,” McNeil said.

Major pieces of evidence included press passes the students carried at the time of the arrests. They were examined and the ease of their duplication was dis-cussed.

KSU student media identify them-selves as press with distinct students ID cards, including a hologram. Georgia State student media receives press passes from the Associated Collegiate Press and the Georgia College Press Association.

At the time of the arrest Redmon was wearing her press pass around her neck. Kim’s pass was in her bag.

Judge Crystal Gaines’ ultimately did

not make a final decision. She asked the attorneys to have more time to consid-er evidence. She plans on calling them in the coming weeks to discuss the evi-dence.

They may return to court with the protesters on Sept. 28.

“I can’t believe that this wasn’t tak-en care of with a few phone calls,” said Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center.

Months after the protest the jour-nalists continue to wait for the charges against them to possibly be dropped.

“I am disappointed that that is last-ing this long because for me, Alisen and Stephanie we were just trying to do a job, just wrong place wrong time,” Kim said.

Until then, the three will just have to wait.

“It was not what we were hoping for,” Kim said of the hearing. “We’re making progress, slowly and surely, but it’s not were we would obviously like it to be.”

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012 5ANEWS

Many college students start the semester waiting in long lines, treating their

sore feet and facing their empty wallets. In the hands of students waiting in line are textbooks required for their cours-es—books that can cost more than $200 apiece.

Between the 2005-2006 and 2010-2011 school years, the average amount of money students paid for textbooks dropped from $644 to $534, according to market research firm Student Monitor.

Despite the drop, students continue to say prices of individual textbooks are exaggerated and unfair.

“I think it’s not fair because it makes it harder to learn because people are less likely to afford the book,” said Georgia State student David Arbelaez, who spent around $600 on books last spring.

In 2008, The National Association of College Stores published a chart that showed where each cent of the retail cost for a book goes.

Publishers only receive a profit of seven cents per dollar, or seven percent of the book’s total cost, according to the NACS chart.

An estimated 32 percent of the book’s total cost pays for manufacturing

costs, including editorial costs, paper, dis-tribution, storage, record keeping, billing, publisher’s offices and employee’s salaries and benefits. The remaining 61percent is distributed among the author, the college store, transportation and general and ad-ministrative costs of the publisher.

Some students have looked at alter-native methods of purchasing books.

Websites like Boundless.com and Flatworldknowledge.com were created to provide alternatives to the traditional textbook. These sites provide students with free reading materials tailored for specific courses.

Boundless.com created a free text-book with “open” content on the Inter-net. Flatworldknowledge.com provides

free textbooks compiled by experts in their respective fields.

Though inexpensive, these two web-sites carry very little material. FlatWorld-Knowledge.com only has three textbooks on mathematics.

Even with those sites and the avail-ability of digital copies of textbooks sold by the publishers, the majority of stu-

dents continue to purchase physical text-books at their university’s store.

“I have spent more than $600. That’s seven books for five classes,” student An-eisha Jacobs said. “But, I still buy from the bookstore because it saves me the hassle of hunting down the codes for the on-line version of the books at other places. I rather play it safe than sorry.”

Georgia State Law School ranks sixth most popular

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Most popular law schools1) Yale Law School

2) Brigham Young University Clark Law School

3) Harvard Law School4) Southern University Law Center (LA)

5) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

6) Georgia State University7) University of Virginia

8) Liberty University (VA)9) Stanford University

10) University of Memphis 11) University of New Mexico

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Freight ExpenseThe cost of getting books from the publisher’s warehouse or bindery to the college store. Part of cost of goods sold paid to freight company.

Publisher’s paper, printing, editorial costsAll manufacturing costs from editing to paper costs to destribution, as well as storage, record keeping, billing, publisher’s offices, employee’s salaries and benefits.

College store income*Note: The amount of federal, state, and/or local tax, and therefore the amount and use of any after-tax profit, is determined by the store’s ownership, and usually depends on whether the college store is owned by an insti-tution of higher education, a contract manage-ment company, a cooperation, a foundation, or by private individuals.

Publisher’s Marketing CostsMarketing, advertising, promotion, publisher’s field staff, professors’ free copies

Publisher’s general and adminis-trative costsIncluding federal, state and local taxes, excluding sales tax, paid by publishers.

Author IncomeAuthor’s royalty payment from which author pays re-search and writing expenses

College Store OperatiponsInsurance, utilities, building and equipment rent and mainte-nance, accounting and data pro-cessing charges and other over-head paid by college stores.

Publisherr’s IncomeAfter-tax income from which the publisher pays for new product development, author advances, market research, and dividends to stockholders

College Store PerosonnelStore employee salaries and benefits to handle ordering, receiving, pricing, shelving, cashiers, customer service, re-fund desk and sending extra textbooks back to the publisher.

Where the textbook penny goesSOURCE: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE STORES

ANNA YANG | THE SIGNAL

Just a few months shy of its 100th year anniversary, last week Georgia State welcomed

more freshmen to its campus than ever before in its history.

Now, stop to think about that for a moment.

Georgia State has reached a criti-cal juncture in its development, and the decisions it makes now will have serious consequences for the overall identity of the school.

Up until this point, the univer-sity’s increasingly competitive busi-ness, law and specialty programs have driven Georgia State’s mete-oric growth, which is reflected in the university’s major academic and property acquisitions for those de-partments.

After all, its highest paid pro-fessors come from its business school and Georgia State is invest-

ing millions in a new business and law school buildings located near Woodruff Park.

Still, for many students, Georgia State is often a considered a “back-up” school—especially for certain majors like journalism.

Compared on paper to Georgia State’s major competition in that field in particular, the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Jour-nalism and Mass Communication, Georgia State isn’t exactly the rival powerhouse it should be.

After all, Grady consistently ranks as a top-10 school nationally for undergraduate degrees in the fields of journalism, public relations, ad-vertising and telecommunications, with some of the best faculty in the country.

And for that, it deserves the high-est of praise.

So here’s the “but:” with Atlanta , home to some of the largest media organizations in the country and a burgeoning media market in its own right, Athens is just too far away from the action to truly provide stu-dents with the hands-on learning experiences they’ll need to cut it in the real world.

Compared to Atlanta, Athens just can’t compete with the marketplace of ideas and cultures that provide so much to the international flavor

and reputation of the city, including Georgia State.

Indeed, behind the raw numbers behind Georgia State’s massive en-rollment gains, the university has also seen a tremendous shift in the diversity of its students, graduat-ing more African-Americans than other educational institutions in the world, not counting American his-torically black colleges and universi-ties.

Georgia State is also right in the middle of things, so to speak, locat-ed just a few blocks from the inter-national headquarters of CNN—not to mention any of the other major and minor media outlets sprinkled across Midtown and North Atlanta.

So with all this opportunity, why is Georgia State limiting what could be one of its premier undergraduate

social sciences program?As the Communications Depart-

ment continues to grow, moving into the newly acquired SunTrust Tower this semester, the danger for the journalism program is that it will continue to be subsumed by the rest of the department.

After all, it’s kind of silly for a program with three similar yet to-tally separate concentrations (print journalism, public relations and telecommunications) to be lumped together under the same bloated de-partment as film and drama majors.

From a purely logistical and hu-man resources perspective, split-ting up the Comm. Department into several smaller departments with greater autonomy and room for ex-pansion just makes sense.

For starters, it would present the chance to introduce a new brand of leadership into degree programs where graduates face one of the toughest job markets – print media, for example.

Following the advice of leading academics and nonprofits like the Knight Foundation, Georgia State could partner with local media organizations to provide a train-ing ground of sorts for its students, teaching them skills they can use in the cold, hard real world of jour-nalism, which is evolving more and

more every day.Breaking up each department

would also provide a perfect oppor-tunity for the university to consider adding advanced degree programs in certain disciplines rather than under the generic banner of com-munications.

Granted, to do effectively, taking steps now to futurize the university both as a whole and on a department level will take time; no one is saying Georgia State can become the next Grady in just a few years.

However, everything leading up to this point in the university’s his-tory, from its billion-dollar master plan to its quickly-growing FBS football program, has been the result of many careful years of planning.

Now let’s find a way to build on that experience and translate it into an innovative, robust journalism program, and I call on everyone with a stake in the game to support me in pushing for this effort.

Because now is not the time to sit back and watch as other schools take the lead in ushering in the future of journalism and mass communica-tion.

Now is the time to begin building what could be: an innovative, well-connected Journalism Department at Georgia State that rivals the best of ‘em.

OPINIONS www.gsusignal.com/opinions

Building a future for journalists at Georgia State

Remember the fifth of Novemberfrom the Editorial board

On the evening of Nov. 5, 2011 three student journalists, along with 19 Occupy Atlan-

ta members, were arrested during a pro-test in Woodruff Park. The protesters’ re-fusal to leave the park per the Mayor’s re-quest escalated in riot police closing down Peachtree Street in an effort to dismantle the protest.

The student journalists, standing along side other members of Atlanta’s me-dia community, were arrested while tak-ing pictures of the riot police’s descent down Peachtree.

Last Friday, more than ten months after their arrests, Judy Kim, Alisen Red-mon and Stephanie Pharr got their day in court.

Not only did these young women have to prove they were not protesters, they had to confirm they were legitimate members of the media and it was their right to cover the protest for their respec-tive papers.

Press badges were examined, to see if one could be easily forged in an attempt to pose as press. The City of Atlanta in-quired if T-shirts could be duplicated in an attempt to pose as a Signal staff mem-ber. There was even a shaky iPhone video that showed Redmon being pulled from behind by Atlanta police, out of a crowd of older journalists, and then put into hand-cuffs.

The City of Atlanta now has to de-cide if law enforcement acted unfairly when arresting these three women on the charge of “obstructing traffic.” There are a number of things for the city to consider:

were they in fact “obstructing traffic” on a closed street? What are the limits of a press credential? No two may look exact-ly the same, and most press organizations don’t have the luxury of high-tech passes that have a low chance of being replicated.

How can law enforcement identify bogus press credentials, (because there might be a number of faux-journalist run-ning amuck in Atlanta), if they don’t hon-or the request of the young woman with the camera around her neck, yelling, “I’m student media! I have a press pass,” as they put handcuffs on her.

This is not an issue of obstructing traffic—or paying a misdemeanor fine. Student journalists are leading the media community in a digital sea change. Not only are they leaving college to compete with veteran journalists, but also able to perform on a professional level while fin-ishing their college education.

The intimidation of young, passion-ate journalists is not only direct assault against young people being able to accu-rately disseminate information to their peers, but it intimidates students away from an industry that is as American as apple pie and as necessary as education.

It is absurd that the City of Atlanta has yet to throw out the charges against Kim, Redmon and Pharr, although the City of Atlanta might think it just as absurd that ten months later the student media com-munity wont pled guilty, pay a fine and walk away. It may take a trial, but these three women should continue to fight for legitimacy and their rights as members of the student press.

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Have you seen the new water fountain by the University Bookstore?

It’s freaking awesome. I’m not even kidding, I love this water fountain. It’s a little bit unsettling how much I love this water fountain; I’ve never felt this way about a piece of plumb-ing before. It’s the Cadillac of water fountains, a veritable font of wis-dom.

I have forsaken my usual water-ing holes to make great pilgrimages across campus in order to wet my whistle specifically with its cool re-freshing waters.

I can’t stress enough how awe-some I think this water fountain is.

Let me back up a little bit and offer some context here: it’s by the bookstore and it has a special attach-ment that allows you to fill up wa-ter bottles quickly. At the top of the water fountain, there is a tiny display that tells you how many plastic bot-

tles have been saved from landfills by the water fountain. Each time you fill up your bottle, the number goes up!

I have never been so satisfied with myself for contributing to en-vironmental preservation.

I think it’s ingenious. As some-one who habitually commutes by bi-cycle, my fluid intake is very high. I require a lot of hydration, and it’s tedious to fill water bottles at impo-tent water fountains.

Here’s why it’s ingenious: make something convenient and easy to use, as well as mildly interactive and people will eat it up. Why do peo-ple buy bottled water? I can’t answer that, but devices like this water foun-tain encourages me not to buy them.

I get a little giddy thrill each time the number goes up, as if I’m depos-iting environmental karma into my bank of make believe things so I can claim to be environmentally minded at another date.

This thing has me guzzling wa-ter just so I can use it again. I prob-ably end up wasting water with the amount of trips to the bathroom that this entails, but c’est la vie. I love its life-giving water.

“My carbon footprint? Hah! I rode my bike saved 5 water bottles from the landfill today, what did you do? Burn gasoline and club baby seals? I bet you did you monster.”

Okay so it’s not that great of a claim at parties, but devices like this really do make you think of the im-pact that you can make.

Georgia State should seek out more conservation devices such as this one. A little encouragement can go a long way when it comes to peo-ple recycling. Maybe we can install recycling cans that play music and look like jukeboxes so we can bang on them like the Fonz.

Or maybe they compliment you and tell you how good you look.

I don’t know what to suggest for certain, but I do know that it is a good move for Georgia State to seek out where resources are being wast-ed, and replace them with conserva-tional devices.

Good job Georgia State, now lets see some more of those awesome water fountains.

Fill me up, buttercup

MILES KEENLYSIDEOpinions Editor

Like many of you guys, I oc-casionally use the bath-room. I’m always a bit dis-

appointed when I’m greeted by some goofy looking scribble written on the walls that I guess is supposed to be considered a tag. Either that, or some-one’s phone number is jotted down on

the walls with some passive aggres-sive note written next to it. Let’s step up the graffiti efforts, GSU! Nobody cares about your tag or your friend’s phone number. Here are a few of my ideas you can try out:

Why don’t club promoters ever use bathroom graffiti? Most of their flyers end up along sidewalks and trashcans; the bathroom seems like the next logi-cal step.

Step up your bathroom graffiti

KEVIN MALONEYColumnist

Since Georgia State is located in an urban environment, a certain amount of crime occurs here on campus. Have you ever been a victim of on campus crime, and do you feel safe here at Georgia State?

Maria Velez Major: Marketing

David Norwood II Major: Journalism

Edward Doster Major: African American Studies

“I feel safe, just not walking at night, that’s why I don’t take any night classes. My roommate last semester had her phone stolen while walking back to our apartment, but other than that I feel pretty safe.”

“I haven’t been affected by crime at Georgia State, but I do feel safe here because I’ve got a good idea of always being around stu-dents and not being out too late around Aderhold.”

“I feel as safe here as any other place. Security is all over the place, that’s one thing I recognized when I first got here. They are very visible.”

YOUR VOICE • YOUR OPINIONS

Alex Edl Major: Accounting

“I’ve never been affected by it. On campus I feel safe, but when I leave campus I watch my back.”

“In my living vicinity, yes I feel particularly safe, but I wouldn’t venture out in the middle of the night to explore Atlanta by myself.”

Andrea VieytesMajor: International Economics

“I have not been a victim [of crime on campus], and I pretty much feel safe. I stay up in the library until about 10-o-clock and I walk all the way to the MARTA station in Five Points and then get home safely.”

Soraya Djanjo Major: biology

Share a cool hummus recipe

Brag to people about how great your life is

“My other toilet is a spaceship.”

Make a Mad Libs for other people to finish

“The ______ went to see a _______ and got a ______.”

Make up spoilers for Breaking Bad

Need a new roommate? Try bathroom stall graffiti

Write some motivational sayings

“People probably like you!”

Make up rumors about dead people

“King Henry smoked bath salts.”

...make something

convenient and easy

to use, as well as

mildly interactive and

people will eat it up.”

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Skin deepThe models come in all shapes

and sizes...The goal is not to have this ideal figure; the goal

is to have real people.”

- JOSEPH PARAGINE Associate Professor

of Art and Design

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TERAH BOYD | THE SIGNAL

ARTS & LIVING

The students have set up their art supplies and are waiting to begin. The figure model

walks in, gets comfortable and drops her robe to strike a difficult and interesting nude pose. The artists sketch furiously to capture it. Thirty seconds pass.

“Change.”The old pose is replaced with a new

one, and the process begins again. Senior English major Ginny Barnes

used to be a nude figure model for the Art Institute and felt that the experience was invigorating.

“I felt like ‘this is me’,” she said. “I didn’t feel really embarrassed or any-thing because I had a good purpose.”

Though not always comfortable with nudity in this way, Barnes ac-quired an understanding through learn-ing about art. She said that she had no qualms about the job and would do it again if she was given the opportunity.

“Just not in Atlanta. I know too many people in art schools, so it might be uncomfortable,” she said.

With many years of dancing experi-ence, Barnes was comfortable with her body and able to pose in flexible and dy-namic ways. In preparation, Barnes also purchased a book on figure modeling to help her come up with poses.

Barnes took the job when she was 19, and does not think that it should be a controversial job to have. The position paid well for a student job, $15/hr, and Barnes thought it was definitely worth it.

However, some continue to feel discomfort towards nudity. One rea-son comes from the idea that the hu-man body is sacred and private. This is a popular view held by many religions, such as the Judeo-Christian religion. To many religious people, exposing the na-ked body to strangers is considered sin-ful.

Preeti Gulve, a senior biology ma-jor said that she doesn’t understand why someone religious would be opposed to nude modeling.

“I think it’s a very important aspect of art,” she said.

Religion should not be an issue, ac-cording to Gulve, as artistic naked fig-ures have often been part of religious places and monuments, such as the Sis-

tine Chapel. Professor of Photography Nancy

Floyd believes that any discomfort that people feel comes from a misunder-standing about what an art class does.

“For anyone who feels uncomfort-able, it changes once you experience a life modeling session,” Floyd said.

She explained that nude figure modeling sessions, sometimes called “Life sessions,” are very important to the learning process for those studying drawing or painting.

“The bottom line is, it’s a very nor-mal part of any art school or art class,” Floyd said. “The only way to learn is to have the figure in front of you. To be an expert in your field, you have to know what the subject matter is.”

Floyd said that she would have no issue with her spouse or child being a nude model, if that issue ever arose.

“I’ve had friends that did it and I’ve taken the classes,” she said. “It’s not a traditional job, but it’s a professional job with a decent wage.”

Floyd said it all comes down to mutual respect. The artists respect the model and vice versa.

“The goals of the class are you’re try-ing to render the body- it could be very literal, or it could be an abstract im-age,” she explained. “But generally, it’s designed to show students the craft of drawing.”

Life sessions are about three hours long and are held twice a week. Typical-ly, the session is broken up into sections.

Joseph Peragine, an associate pro-fessor of Art and Design, has taken as well as taught these Life sessions in the past.

“The rooms are set up so that the models stance cannot be viewed except by the students drawing in the class,” Peragine said. “There is a heater and blankets given to the model so that they will be comfortable.”

During the first session, the mod-el will change his/her pose about every five seconds as students are rapidly try-ing to capture the pose. Progressively, the model will hold poses for longer pe-riods of time, he said. The model goes from changing every five seconds to ev-ery thirty seconds, to a minute, etc. In the final section, there is typically a long pose that lasts about an hour.

“Keep in mind that these are profes-sional figure drawing models. They’re

not posing provocatively,” Peragine said. “They’re posing in tasteful and dynamic ways.”

Contrary to popular belief about how the models look, they don’t all have Hollywood perfect bodies.

“The models come in all shapes and sizes,” Peragine said. “You have very large men, very large women, etc. The goal is not to have this ideal figure; the goal is to have real people.”

Live sessions give students a chance to get what they cannot get from a pic-ture or a clay model. The textures and form of a real human body have no re-placement.

“We need to have that empathy for the human figure that we can’t get oth-erwise,” Peragine said. “What happens if, for example, their arm is pointing to-wards you? How do you perceive that distance and space on paper?”

Peragine said that occasionally there are students who refuse to take the class for religious reasons. However, he thinks that most of the discomfort some people may feel is due to lack of infor-mation and hasty assumptions.

Although Barnes said that she had the support of her friends, she did not tell her Catholic parents about the job for exactly this reason.

“They would have thought it was immoral,” Barnes said. “I just thought of myself as aiding the students. Figure models help the students with propor-tion and perspective”.

Peragine notes that one should not rely on preconceived notions of the way a person might look, as the naked hu-man form is one of the most difficult to capture for artists.

“I think people are embarrassed the first time they do it, but beyond the first few minutes of the first class there is very little discomfort of any sort, be it embarrassment or desire,” Peragine said. “When students are drawing, they quickly get beyond the fact that the model is nude.”

Though Barnes would occasionally experience discomfort from sitting on a dusty floor or having to hold a pose for a long time, she enjoyed the job and hav-ing the opportunity to see the sketches after the session.

“Being naked is just fun,” she said. “How many times in life will you have the opportunity to be naked in front of that many people?”

Skin deep

BRITTANY BROWNStaff Reporter Interested in

nude modeling?

The models come in all shapes and sizes...The goal is not to

have this ideal figure; the goal is to have real people.”

Georgia State does not hire students to be nude figure models for its art classes, but here are a few Art Centers in Atlanta that do! Contact them for more information.

Atlanta Artists Center2979 Grandview AvenueAtlanta, GA 30305infoatlantaartistscenter.org 404-237-2324

The Art School in Sandy Springs5197 Roswell Road NEAtlanta, GA 30342dthomas555aol.com 678-755-1079

Abernathy Arts Center254 Johnson Ferry Road NWSandy Springs, GA 30328404-613-6172 - JOSEPH PARAGINE

Associate Professor of Art and Design

Nude figure modeling has been around for centuries as a supplement to art classes. Though not controversial in most respects, some discomfort associated with the practice remains.

TERAH BOYD | THE SIGNAL

www.gsusignal.com/artsandliving

It’s old news that the Georgia State Film Department has a se-vere lack of production cours-

es. Faculty and students alike want the same thing: for students to make films.

Senior Lecturer of Film Dr. James Roberts is no exception.

“I want the very same thing that the students want,” Roberts said. “But every year, our budget has been slashed up to 10 or 20 percent.”

Film equipment, especially the most up-to-date equipment in the in-dustry, can be costly. Without it, new classes in production are impossible, according to Roberts. Not only new equipment would be needed, but also new faculty.

“We all want to hire new people, but we have no money,” Roberts said.

Because the program mostly focus-es on film theory, students and alumni are finding other ways to learn about production and bring their ideas to life.

Andrew Schwab, though not the founder of the GSU Film Club, deems himself the club’s revivalist. The orga-nization started in 2009, but has since died down since its founders’ gradua-tion.

Schwab envisions the club as a pro-duction-based film community where members can collaborate and network with each other.

“Theory is great, but film is such a hands-on thing,” said Schwab, who is also the current director of the club. “When people look at you for a job, they want to know what you’ve done.”

There are only two production classes offered—both are very difficult to get into, according to Schwab. Be-cause of this, most guest speakers for the club speak on different areas of pro-duction, he said. The club plans to host speakers from Apple and Canon to dis-cuss new technology in the industry.

The organization is also work-ing with the Society of Motion Pic-ture and Television Engineers, which works closely with Turner Broadcast-ing. SMPTE has industry meetings with the club once a month all over Atlanta to discuss the technical interworking of film.

Schwab’s primary focus is current-ly to grow the club and reach as many people as possible. Anyone interested in film is welcome to come to meetings and jump in; it’s not just for film majors, he said.

“We’re trying to get our name out there a little bit more, too,” Schwab said. “Con-nections are so important in this industry.”

As he continues to build the or-ganization, Schwab is also working on a short film with fellow film-clubber Adam Lowry. The shoot will begin in late October, and he is planning to open up their project to the GSU Film Club.

Lowry, who wrote the script, plans for it to be a semester-long endeavor. Lowry said that being in the club has given him a lot of support and network-ing that he wouldn’t otherwise have. Lowry recently finished an internship for a new Adult Swim show as an office and set PA.

Another active member in the club, rising sophomore Catherine Saenz, is already making plans to intern at CNN next year. The company offers a research documentary track which is open to students who have completed at least two years of college, she said.

Interested in screenwriting, editing and directing, Saenz has been hard at work on a screenplay.

“Being in the GSU film club has given me a better perspective of what the industry is like,” Saenz said. “There are a lot of little details that you usually wouldn’t learn in the classroom.”

Evin Fowler, a recent Georgia State film alumnus, gave insight into life after graduation.

Fowler is currently working in con-junction with the Atlanta Film Festival.

He just finished filming the first epi-sode of “365 Wired,” a bi-monthly vid-eo newsletter that reports the festival’s happenings as well as the Plaza Theatre. Most of his colleagues are Georgia State graduates, he said.

Fowler has also started up his own production company, Apologue Media, with partner Elizabeth Baker. It started off as a company created by the duo for their co-written horror shorts.

“Elizabeth and I based them off of the ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ book series that was out in the 90s,” Fowler said. “They were just really creepy illustrations.”

They have wrapped filming for their first two films of the series.

Apologue Media is also produc-ing a short film that was shot over the Summer, “Like Scared Children,” which plans to wrap editing within the next week.

“Apologue became the blanket cor-poration for what I wanted to do with film,” Fowler said. “Instead of being just my production company, it’s now a pro-duction company for everyone involved with my productions. It’s a jumping point for anyone wanting more expe-rience in film. The school doesn’t offer a lot of options, and the studios are so hard to get involved with because of the union’s influence,”

Ultimately, Fowler wants to be-come his own powerhouse. He wants his company to become legitimate and self-sufficient in the real film world.

“I want to prove that you CAN do this all by yourself from just utilizing the community and without any major corporation funding,” Fowler said. “You don’t have to do it the way that main-stream Hollywood does it.”

Fowler hopes to help remedy the lack of production courses offered at Georgia State by teaching supplemental “how-to’s” of film production.

“GSU is very concentrated on the-ory, but they don’t do a whole lot to ex-plain how to utilize theory in a produc-tion sense,” Fowler said.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012 10A A&L

Despite the lack of film production classes at Georgia State, students are making their films happen

BRITTANY BROWNStaff Reporter

Finding their own direction

Interested in GSU Film Club?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Film-Club-at-Georgia-State-University

http://gsufilmclub.blogspot.com

@Gsufilmclub

CARLI PERLEBERG | THE SIGNALEvin Fowler, a recent Georgia State film alumnus, recently finished filming the first episode of a video newsletter for the Atlanta Film Festival.

Sometimes a student lands a dream internship at a com-pany they respect and ad-

mire, only to have their dream turn into a nightmare.

Maybe when the student begins their internship, no one gives them a clear idea of what their responsi-bilities are, or perhaps their super-visor informs them that their only responsibility will be making cof-fee or running errands. Internships are supposed to be learning experi-ences, so those responsibilities aren’t ideal. But interns have been finding themselves in situations like this for years.

According to Kevin Gaw, direc-tor of Georgia State University’s Ca-reer Services, students at Georgia State will soon see a change in their internship program.

“Departments will be having official learning agreements with internship sites,” Gaw said. “It will clearly state the student will learn x, y, and z. This is how we’ll measure that learning-by outcomes.”

Even if you don’t go through the school to get your internship, one of the most important things to do when preparing for an internship is to have a clear set of goals, Gaw said.

The best way to do this is to go to the university’s internship coordina-tor and develop five or six learning objectives, Gaw said. Then the stu-dent would bring the set of objec-

tives to their academic advisor for approval. After that, the student can approach his or her on-site advisor and tell them exactly what they want to learn.

Being assertive is another in-credibly important aspect of having a successful internship experience. For example, if an intern’s supervi-sor asks them to get coffee every day, should the intern say something about it? Gaw says “absolutely.”

“If there are a set of learning out-comes already predefined, that helps a student go to an on-site supervi-sor and say ‘Hey, I’m not sure how making coffee relates to my learning outcomes. Can we talk about this?’ That’s a good conversation to have… It’s very important for students to learn to be proactive and to help manage their careers…and without being pushy or obnoxious, you can still be assertive. And assertiveness is very appropriate,” Gaw said.

He emphasized that students should not be intimidated to ap-proach an internship supervisor about any issues they may be having.

Gaw’s last few nuggets of advice are to know the difference between a learning experience and a job. Make sure that you are learning at your in-ternship.

“Be assertive. Ask for learning opportunities. Be engaged in the work community of that environ-ment. Ask for feedback,” Gaw said.

Make connections, network and always be on your best behavior be-cause the people who supervise you during your internships will become your future references.

Solemnly and slowly, a woman dons and sheds a furry exterior, which

then turns into a dog that pro-ceeds to walk away.

Conceptually, this illustra-tion might seem like a com-mentary on gender, sexuality, women’s rights or perhaps the true nature of humanity.

But the mural is located within a neighborhood in close proximity to a church, a mosque and an elementary school, and so the illustration has potentially lost its meaning. All that seems to matter to some is the woman’s nudity. Pornography, people have called it. It’s considered in-appropriate by others.

Take a moment to consid-er the advertisements we see around Atlanta. Now, let’s con-sider the common definition of pornography: that which elicits sexual thoughts. Does an H&M

billboard featuring a half-naked eighteen-year-old girl receive half as much outcry? No. Adver-tisements glamorizing alcohol consume the Atlanta skyline, and children observe these ad-vertisements on a daily basis. As soon as an attention-grabbing mural is painted on neighbor-hood walls and not on a bill-board, the context of the conver-sation changes.

The bottom line is that this mural does nothing to encour-age sexual thoughts. The “real” danger is in the fact that it en-courages thought in general. Thoughts about women, about sexuality, about natural and un-natural tendencies of mankind.

The news media seems to have sought out the controversy and turned it into a question of whether or not the mural is appropriate for our children, and therefore for our commu-nity. Local coverage of the event seems to have an “inappropriate until proven artful” perspective. No one seems to be stimulating a discussion as to why a nude woman has become inappro-priate when it’s one of the most natural images in our lives.

The very fact that the female body has become a question of “appropriateness” in public art speaks volumes about the nature of our society today.

The very first forms of art and sculpture were those that

hailed the human body as fa-miliar, beautiful and sacred. Fertility statues were created in homage to the sacred properties of the female anatomy. Now, we shun these aspects of ourselves in favor of more conservative views on behavior.

These conservative views only serve to oppress the most natural tendencies of human-ity. This oppression leads to ca-thartic behavior in which men and women alike furtively seek outlets for their expression. We have so grown to overlook these subtle outlets in entertainment and advertising that the half-naked young girl suddenly be-comes acceptable, and the nude woman symbolically shedding her fur becomes unacceptable. In a complete cycle, the shame we are taught to have for our own sexuality leads us to judge others based on how they art-fully express theirs.

Living Walls, the City Speaks, the organization that commissioned Hyuro to paint the mural, has a clear message: to enlighten people to their surroundings. Here, they have succeeded. Conversations like this must occur in order for us to truly recognize how we have changed over the centuries, to reflect on whether these changes were really for the best, and to inspire ideas for change in the future.

ANNA NORRISOnline Managing Editor

Art or pornography?From the experts:How to get the most out of your internship

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012 11AA&L

KENDALL HARRISStaff Reporter

column

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the classroom and in lecture halls, Binder uses 99

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

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

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

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

LAURA APPERSONCopy Editor

10 Binder’s

tips

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Choices and convocation

One decision can change your entire life. Two young men named Wes Moore from the same neighborhood, dealing with similar circum-

stances, had two totally different outcomes in life.“As I’m getting ready to head 3,000 miles away from

home on a scholarship, he’s getting ready to head 25 miles away from home to a maximum security facility for the rest of his life,” said Rhodes Scholar and New York Times best-selling author Wes Moore.

On Aug. 19, the Georgia State’ class of 2016 gathered at the Sports Arena for freshman convocation. Over the sum-mer, each student was required to read a book entitled The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. During the cer-emony the author of the book was the keynote speaker for

the incoming class.While Mr. Moore used the information about his book

to kick off the convocation, he made it clear that the gather-ing was not about him at all. It was about the students. He just used his life and the life of the other Wes Moore to let people know the powerful impact actions may have on a fu-ture. He encouraged them to make sure when it’s their time to leave this planet that they all make sure it matters that they were even here.

“Mr. Moore was very inspirational,” said freshman Kar-en Valdez. “He made it an important thing to let us know that it’s not about like your major or anything it’s about what you do with your life and how you carry it after college.”

Following the convocation, the university hosted a block party at Hurt Park. Music blared from the speakers and the smell of savory barbecued goodness coated the air, as hundreds of freshmen roamed along stations featuring a variety of student organizations hoping to gain new recruits.

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CANDRA UMUNNA | THE SIGNALGeorgia State students enjoying activities at the Freshman Block Party at Hurt Park on Sunday Aug. 19, 2012.

CANDRA UMUNNA | THE SIGNALGeorgia State Cheerleaders pumping up the crowd at the Freshman Block Party at Hurt Park on Sunday Aug. 19, 2012.

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Consumers already have end-less options when it comes to iPhone apps, but two photo-uploading apps are competing head-to-head right now. Facebook recently purchased Instagram, and now they’ve creat-ed a photo-sharing app that’s some-what similar but with different fea-tures. We’re delving into both apps to figure out which one is better for which purposes.

As pointed out by www.giz-modo.com, both apps function on the same premise-they allow users to share photos with the people in their lives...and both use generally the same process-select a photo, add a filter if you want, and upload away!

However similar in function, the two have very different designs.

The interface on Instagram is all about simplicity. There’s a button for

your home page that shows you the feeds from the people you follow, a button for exploring photos, a but-ton that takes you to the easy-to-use camera, a news button that shows you the latest changes in your Insta-gram network, and a profile button that shows you your own account. It’s nothing too fancy, but nothing con-fusing either. Plus it’s got that nice po-laroid feel (hence the name)-all the pictures are completely square. Actu-

ally, the Facebook app has the same square-style photos, but Instagram has more of the vintage feel since it’s design seems to be geared towards looking more analog than digital.

The Facebook app, unlike Ins-tagram, which has been around for a while, is only on its first version of something that gizmodo estimates will go through a big transformation in the near future. The Facebook app certainly has some things that Ins-

tagram does not. First, the feature of Facebook “tags.” You can tag your Facebook friends in the photos you upload. Secondly, you can upload multiple photos at a time! This third feature may seem like a small thing but it can definitely be frustrating when you want to look at a photo closer on Instagram and there’s no way to zoom in. The Faceboook Cam-era app has allows you to zoom in on photos.

Both apps have the square pho-to aesthetic, both allow users to place filters on their photos, and both allow users to upload photos and share them with friends. But Instagram has a significantly larger amount of filters to offer than the Facebook app does.

The Facebook Camera app gives the user much more control over who sees the photos. You can filter out those who you don’t think would be interested, whereas on In-stagram, all your followers see every photo you post. The downside of the Facebook Camera, though, is that you can’t filter whose photos you see. The app just shows the pho-tos of every single Facebook friend you have (Which, for many of us, means seeing photos from people we haven’t spoken to since middle school). That can be overwhelming.

Weighing all the different as-pects, I think the Facebook Camera app has a lot of growing to do.

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TuesdaysFunny CaféLooking for a couple of good laughs? Join the ATL House of Comedy at Kat’s Café located on Piedmont Avenue. For more information visit the website at

www.KatsCafeAtlanta.com.

June 16 - October 2710 a.m.-1 P.M.Skate It or Hang It!? The Evolution of Skateboard ArtAt the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), this exhibition will examine the visual aspects skateboarding, a sport important to contemporary youth culture since the 1970s, by presenting a broad range of styles, imagery and visual expression in skateboard art. Only 5 dollars

for students!

June 30 - December 29 10 A.M.-1 P.M.The Big Zombie Tour Do you love The Walking Dead and Zombieland? Join in for a 3-hour bus tour of all the

undead sites with tour guides that have worked on these sets.

July 26 - November 7 7 P.M.Lights! Camera! Zombies!Twin Directors Woody and Quentin Scarentino are in town filming The Zombie Games. Location is at Agatha’s “A Taste of Mystery” Dinner Theatre.

August 28 7-11 P.M.Bazaar NoirShop through an array of artisan goods, eat delicious food and take in the night. Lights, stars, fireflies and lanterns will accompany the live music.

August 29 - September 3Pure Heat Atlanta Labor Day Pride WeekendAt the Melia Atlanta Hotel, Pure Heat Atlanta Labor Day Pride Weekend will show different meanings of pride with unity. People from all walks of life will come together to showcase diversity, human rights and education. “Pure

Heat is a front seat into the largest gathering of minority LGBT people and allies in the nation.”

August 297:30 P.M.Enrique, JLO, Wisin & Yandel Pop superstars Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez take the stage at Philips Arena, and are joined by Wisin y Yandel.

August 30th 7:30 P.M. Georgia State Football GameCome see the Georgia State Panthers take on South Carolina State for their home opener at the Georgia Dome.

August 31- September 2 Dragon*ConDragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music and film in the universe!

August 31 7 P.M.

Foreigner with Night RangerCome check this band out at Chastain Park Ampitheater!

September 1 7:00 A.MRunningNerds Presents ATL 20K Relay & 10KThis will be a Road Race in Castleberry Hill/Downtown Atlanta raising $2500 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta. The run will travel through downtown on Peters, around Turner Field, through Georgia State campus, Centennial Olympic Park, Philips Arena and the Georgia Dome and World Congress Center.

September 1 11:30 A.M. – 6:30 P.M. Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game FanZone presented by Coca-Cola ZeroKick times have now been set for the pair of Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games that will open the 2012 college football season. The Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game weekend will feature the first-ever double hosting of marquee, BCS-style games on back-to-back days in the same

venue.

September 1 10 A.M. - 2 P.M.Chalk It Up!Artists of all ages will transform sidewalk squares into unique and dynamic art works. The squares will be along Anderson Street, which is adjacent to Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art and one block off the Marietta Square.

September 1 4 P.M.Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Post-game ConcertDon’t miss the free Lynyrd Skynrd post-game concert following the Braves vs. Phillies game, Saturday, September 1st at Turner Field.

September 2 NASCAR – AdvoCare 500One of the most exciting weekends of the NASCAR schedule returns at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It’s the Labor Day NASCAR Night Race Weekend, and it’s under the lights on a favorite track of fans and drivers alike.

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On CampusGuest Artist Hee-Kyung JuhnSept. 11, 2012 8 p.m. The Georgia State School of Music presents guest artist Hee-Kyung Juhn playing the piano. Come out for some talented music works. This event features pieces by Bach, Dae-Seong Kim, Ravel and Saint-Saens, among others. Watch this free concert in Kopleff Recital Hall. Contact (404) 413-5901 for details.

DOwntOwnBudlight DowntownTouchdown ConcertSept. 1, 2012 5 p.m.Kick off college football season with the free Downtown Touchdown concert across Labor Day weekend! Multiple bands take the Bud Light Stage both Friday and Saturday before the big games at the Georgia Dome. Friday night, it’s American Idol champ Phillip Phillips. Saturday night, Smashmouth will get you pumped up for the season. Event is presented by Bud Light, Verizon Wireless, Georgia’s Own Credit Union, Georgia’s Best Chevy Dealers, and Marine Max. Grab your friends and head to Centennial Olympic Park on Labor Day weekend for the free Downtown Touchdown Concert!

Elle Varner | “Perfectly Imperfect”

Sparkle

Imagine a vibrant young woman whose voice contains as much soul

as her big natural hair. In Elle Varner’s album “Perfectly Im-perfect,” she has given our gen-eration some expressive mu-sic to vibe to. While she may be frequently known as the woman that sings “Refill,” people have no idea of how capable and mu-sically inclined she is until they listen to her album. Even in “Re-fill” there was something distinct about her. If you listen closely you can hear the violins playing throughout the song. This gives it a very classical and eloquent melody that Varner’s voice seems to lightly dance over. There is so much talent being held captive in this young lady. In this album she surely broke free from those chains.

In the beginning of Varner’s album it seems as though you

have been taken back a few de-cades, possibly into the era of the 60’s. Her songs are very pleas-ant and full of soul. In the first few tracks, Varner is hitting high notes that shows off her strong and controlled voice. She does a wonderful job of toning it down when need be or letting her full vocal ability shine when she wants. Varner has a way of tact-fully being high pitched without being too loud. The tunes just seem to move skillfully behind her beautiful singing voice. On the track “Not Tonight” Varner lets her voice take the wheel and drives it from the beginning of the song to the very end.

However, she picks up the pace and brings the listeners back to the music of today with her song “Oh What A Night.” This is basically a typical song about Varner being wasted after a long night of partying extremely

hard. It has a more upbeat qual-ity to it than the previous songs. In “Stop the Clock” you can hear the common claps in the back-ground. This is present in quite a few songs of today.

I think this album was won-derful because Elle Varner is in-credibly versatile. You can sit down and listen to this album with your grandmother and then take this same CD and get pumped up before you go to a club or a party. The way she manages to go from soulful R&B to radical pop is amazing. Varn-er is like a delicate mix of some-one along the lines of India Arie meshed with Rhianna. Accord-ing to Jake Crates of AllHipHop.com Elle Varner sold 33,000 cop-ies of her album during the week of Aug. 17. I must say, based on the positive feedback and those numbers, the album is doing quite well.

We’ve all seen the same melodra-matic movies

before—some man, woman or group has an extraordinary talent. The said man, woman or group almost makes it to the top of the music industry, but that man, woman or group doesn’t make it without en-countering obstacles along the way. “Sparkle,” a remake of the 1976 film with the same name, is no exception.

Set in Motown, three sis-ters —played by Jordin Sparks, Tika Sumpter, and Carmen Ejogo—soon become a singing sensation, against their strict, puritanical mother’s wishes. The mother is played by the late-great Whitney Houston, which, if we’re honest with our-selves, is the bulk of the reason why we want to see the movie, anyway (she died three months before the release of the mov-ie).

And although the movie is titled “Sparkle,” played by Jor-din Sparks, audience members may very well lose sight of who the real star of the film is sup-posed to be. Sparks seems to be lacking in her ability to be a good actress, making it that much harder not to notice Sis-ter, played by Carmen Ejogo. Some of the most memora-ble scenes include Sister and her tumultuous relationship with Satin, played by comedi-an Mike Epps. Carmen Ejogo, who might remind you of Be-yonce during many parts of the film, definitely deserves a showcase of her own.

Musically speaking, “Spar-kle” uses most the same Mo-town tunes from the original, along with new songs by R. Kelly. The music was decent, but in terms of originality, it’s not anything viewers of “Spar-kle” haven’t heard before.

Despite problems with the

stale storyline, confusion over who the ‘real’ star is, and the mediocre music, it’s not a ter-rible film. Emma, the mother of the three sisters played by Whitney Houston, is prob-ably my favorite character in the movie, not because Hous-ton is a great actress, but be-cause her character stands as a cautionary tale to the young women. Although Houston’s performance at the end of the film doesn’t showcase her most powerful performance ever, it still does the late Diva justice.

True to form, Sparkle doesn’t deliver anything un-expected or unpredicted. Like movies before it—2006’s “Dreamgirls” or even the origi-nal 1976 version of “Sparkle”–nothing the audience hasn’t already seen will come of the film. “Sparkle,” at its worse as a sensationalized melodrama, manages to be anything but dull at its best.

Running time: 2 hrs 4 minsGenre: Sci-FiDirector: Ridley ScottCast: Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron and Michael FassbenderSynopsis: A team of explorers discovers a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 73 percent (certified fresh)

Showtimes: Monday to Friday—11 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:45 p.m., 8 p.m.Weekends: 12 p.m.

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CINEFEST

Yellowcard | “Southern Air”

ALEXIS SMITHStaff Reporter

INTISAR SERAAJStaff Reporter

Deep plucks of guitar strings compliment the profound emo-

tion Yellowcard has dug up for fans. Heart-wrenching in a way that would make you home-sick for the South even if you were raised in the West Coast, the “Southern Air” album, re-leased Aug. 14, strikes melodies of truth, pain and finding the strength to go on. Yet, it is still an album to loudly rock out to.

“I give this one to you, an anthem full of truth/I tell you now an epic tale of what you’ve put me through” come from “Awakening.”

In the opening song, “Awak-ening,” Yellowcard croons about their broken hearts as traveling artists, fathers and father away

from the region they yearn to be reconnected with. Not only does this album give listeners a deeper look into the hearts of Yellowcard members but also an alternate perception of what stardom can be like. Although we think the fast life might be fantastic, Yellowcard shows fans that artists can get tired of all the sparkle and shimmer.

“Here in this Angel City, lights will shine/and for a while we let ourselves go blind/ but now we know who loves us and loves us not” come from “Sur-face of the Sun.”

Their tenth and final song on the album, titled “Southern Air,” truly sums up the mes-sage of the whole album by stat-ing their loyalty and love for the

South, but how they will pull strength from the depths of their souls to survive the ach-ing pain. With lyrics like, “the southern air is in my lungs /it’s in every word I’ve song/it seems the only truth I know,” listeners can empathize with the same attachment they have to their hometown.

Within the same song, Yel-lowcard sings: “I’ve thought about the day when I could say/ that I’m better now/well here I am/ ‘cause I have left this grav-ity…/and I will not forget where I am from.” This change in lyri-cal tune exhibits resilience, loy-alty, and an undying love for the South. On this A+ album, one of the best tracks to tune in to is “Southern Air.”

Genre: R&B/SoulReleased: Aug. 3, 2012

Prometheus

SHONEN KNIFE “POPTUNE”

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PONDEROSA “POOL PARTY”

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JEF STOTT “ARCANA” 8FRIENDS “MANIFEST” 7

NICK WATERHOUSE“TIME’S ALL GONE”

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OPPOSITE SEX “OPPOSITE SEX”

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Starting a new school year is stressful for everyone—freshman or senior. The

stress of figuring out tuition, school-book fees, and living and transporta-tion expenses can really take a toll on a student’s body and wallet. Luckily, we’re in the age of the smart phone. These three apps are worth checking out if you’re looking to be healthier, save your money and make some ex-tra cash.

One of the top New Year resolu-tions is to lose weight and eat health-ier than you did the year before, but how many of us really stick to that promise throughout the year?

Shopwell is an application that allows you to quickly sift through food products that are unhealthy for your personal needs and focus on the ones you really need.

“We take the work out of reading nutrition labels so that you can focus on buying what you want as quickly as possible,” promises the Shopwell website.

Shopwell simplifies the process of determining what foods are ben-eficial or harmful to your personal body type. App users can save time and stress, leaving them the time to fulfill their New Year resolution be-

fore it’s too late.We’ve all been that broke college

student at one point. If you are going through that now, the Fiverr Alerts app could put you back on track.

Fiverr is the leading global mar-ketplace for individuals to offer ser-vices. Every time your talent earns you a gig, you get paid. Fiverr Alerts will keep track of all your gigs and how much money was made. With this app, users can see the status of their gig and any upcoming dead-lines. With the reminders and gig in-formation literally at your fingertips, money won’t be a problem anymore.

While the concept is nice, cus-tomers were not happy with the app. Reviews say that the app crashed fre-quently and that the message system had serious issues.

Now that you’ve saved all this time with Shopwell and you’re mak-ing all that money with Fiverr, you’re going to need to keep track of how you spend it.

The easy-to-use (and most im-portantly: free) iPhone app, Mint, will be priceless in any situation. The main perk of Mint is that you are able to check your account balance and enter a transaction in real time to view your available money and how the purchase will affect your ac-count.

There is no need to allow college to get any harder than it already is. Take advantage of the smartphone app era—change your college career!

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Apps to live by

Cost: FreeSite: http://www.shopwell.com/

Grade: A

Shopwell gives consumers more information on the food they purchase so that they can make healthier decisions related to eat-ing. Shopwell offers nutritional ad-vice, personalized health profiles, food information, and alternative, healthier food suggestions.

Cost: FreeSite: https://www.mint.com

Grade: B+

Mint is a personal finance orga-nizer for all your bank, loan, and credit accounts. Having all ac-counts in one place simplifies your finances. The app is secured by a PIN code to ensure the safety of your personal information.

Cost: FreeSite: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fiverr-alerts/id408246829?mt=8

Grade: C

Fiverr alerts allows Fiverr users to keep track of their account and the income they earn from gigs. This is a useful idea, but ratings are low due to crashing issues and incorrect in-formation. The app is also practically identical to the Fiverr website.

There are plenty of free apps that can save students money. Here are some of the best ones we found.

Shopwell Mint Fiverr

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CAMPUS EVENTS • www.gsu.edu/studentevents

Campus Events at Unity PlazaTuesday, August 28, 12:15-1 p.m.To kick off the year, DJ Nica and DJ Peter Parker will perform in a two-DJ plaza.

Campus Events Meet and GreetWednesday, August 29, 5:30 p.m.Student Center, Lanier SuiteCome learn about the exciting opportunities to get involved with Campus Events. Light refreshments to be served.

Courtyard Music Series Presents Karaoke, Krispy Kreme and CoffeeThursday, September 6, 5:30-9 p.m.Courtyard Stage, Student Center, First FloorSing your heart out to your favorite karaoke tunes or come show support for the talented GSU student body as they express their passion for singing. Krispy Kreme doughnuts and coffee will be served.

GSU vs. Tennessee Viewing PartySaturday, September 8Doors open at 3:30 p.m. • Kickoff at 4 p.m.Student Center BallroomCome dressed in your Panther blue and cheer on the GSU Panthers as they go head to head with the SEC Tennessee Volunteers. Enjoy tailgate games, giveaways, prizes and a performance by Frenchy. Tailgate food will be served, but donʼt forget to bring your own folding chair or blanket.

All shows free for GSU staff,students and faculty with ID. Guests $3 before 5 p.m. and $5 at 5 p.m. and after.

xcinefest movie timeshttp://www.gsu.edu/cinefest

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August 27-September 2 • PrometheusMonday-Wednesday and Friday: 11 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:45 p.m., 8 p.m.Thursday: 11 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.Saturday-Sunday: Noon, 2:15 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 6:45 p.m.

August 30Notte Prima Degli Esami • Thursday: 5:30 p.m.Lady Terminator • Thursday: 9:30 p.m.For details, visit www.gsu.edu/cinefest.

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Spotlight

SPOTLIGHT PROGRAMS BOARDwww.gsu.edu/spotlight

Project DynamiteThursday, August 30, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Orange LotIn conjunction with the first home game of the season, join Spotlight for a tailgate featuring Project Dynamite, a comedic novelty act that juggles unusual objects. We will have the grill going, so donʼt miss out on this exciting pre-game action!

Plaza: Brazil in MotionTuesday, September 4, 12:15-1 p.m., Unity PlazaThis Spotlight plaza will be a grandiose display of Brazilian culture featuring a capoeira performance from Cordoa de Ouro. There will also be a colorful display of Samba provided by dancers and drummers from Dance Brasil Entertainment.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!Blue at the ZooFriday, September 7 5:30-10 p.m.Zoo Atlanta800 Cherokee Dr. AtlantaCome join Georgia State University as we paint Zoo Atlanta BLUE! After closing for the day on September 7, Zoo Atlanta will re-open its gates for the GSU community for its inaugural Blue at the Zoo event. Students, faculty, staff and guests will have the zoo to themselves for a private event that will include music, food, face painting, stilt walkers and much more! Donʼt forget to bring your camera so you can catch a lasting memory with GSUʼs own Pounce!

Homecoming 2012!SAVE THE DATE: October 15-20

For more information, call Spotlight Programs Board at 404/413-1610.

Take Advantage of Discount Tickets!Movie theatres, theme parks, athletics teams and other venues

offer discounted rates to the GSU community through the Student•University Center. Most discount tickets can be purchased at the Information Center on the first floor of the Student Center,

and some are also available online. Tickets for Atlanta Braves games and Walt Disney World are available only online.

DISCOUNT TICKETS AVAILABLEAMC Theatres • Atlanta Braves (online only) • Biltmore House

• Georgia Aquarium • Georgia Renaissance Festival (also online) • Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament (also online)

• Regal Cinemas • Six Flags Over Georgia (also online) • Six Flags White Water (also online) • Stone Mountain Park (also online)

• Tennessee Aquarium (discount brochure only) • Walt Disney World (online only) • Zoo Atlanta

Atlanta Hawks tickets coming soon (online only)!More Information: www.gsu.edu/ticketdiscounts

Fall semester rental of lockers in the Student Center,

University Center, Urban Life Building and

General Classroom Building is now available

in 360 Student Center on a first-come, first-served basis.

The rental period will end Dec. 7.

Fees for first-time rentals are $20 per semester plus $10 for a lock. After a lock has been purchased,

fees are $20 per semester. For more information, visit

www.gsu.edu/studentcenter or call 404/413-1860.

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