THE COLONNADE
Friday, November 10, 2006 - www.gcsunade.com - Volume 83, No. 11
Evan
NEWS
Luke’s
life had
Photo special
The Sweetwater Festival
great
Page 2
PS3 vs. Wii
Can the new systems
impact
take off?
Page 3
F EATURES
BY SARAH VER STEEG
SENIOR REPORTER
Intramurals
Expands
More money might be
on the way. BY BROOKE WILLIAMS begins in October and completely immune to
Page 10 STAFF WRITER ends in May, but accord- the highly contagious
ing to the Centers for virus.
The chilly weather and Disease Control, the peak Susan Loper, director
Guys with sticks! the rich, golden colors of season is from December of Student Health
GCSU now has a the falling leaves mark to the beginning of Services, said, generally,
lacrosse club. the beginning of several March. The flu is a respi- more of the faculty and
Page 11 seasons associated with ratory virus referred to as staff take advantage of
the Fall and Winter influenza in medical the vaccine offer than stu-
months: football season, terms. If contracted, the dents. JEN FORDHAM / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
the holiday season and, virus can cause high “ I think students just
W EEKEND W EATHER GCSU is attempting to expand it’s dining options by adding a
unfortunately, flu season. fever, a runny nose, don’t want to get stuck,” new Blimpie to the campus food roster.
up shop in MSU
faculty for the first time Generally, the elderly and flu.”
81 74 64 this semester on Tuesday, young children are at
55 42 41 Oct. 21, in Beeson Hall. higher risk for contract-
0% 30% 10% The process was quick ing the flu, but no one is FLU SHOTS Page 3
Source: http://weather.com and simple, and recipi-
ents were generally in BY KATIE HUSTON Lauren Winfield, a jun-
and out within 10 min- SENIOR REPORTER ior, likes the idea of a new
utes. By the end of the addition to campus.
day, the staff adminis- Sandwich lovers may “(It) sounds good to
tered over 70 shots with soon have another on-cam- me,” Winfield said. “I
no tears shed and only a pus dining option when it think it’s a good way to
few whimpers heard. comes to satisfying that show variety; it’s some-
Most recipients were just
$26, glad they remembered to
stop by and get the shot.
craving, thanks to the pro-
posed new Blimpie at
thing different.”
The new Blimpie would
GCSU. accompany the already
“I usually get one
455,463 every year, around this
time,” said Corinne
Neil Seigler is involved
in the decision-making
existing Chick-fil-A,
Einstein Bagels, and Grill
Burstein, a freshman process. He warns not to 55. If negotiations are suc-
“Borat’s” earn- mass communication get too excited, because cessful, Blimpie would be
ing at the U.S. major. “My parents Blimpie is only one of the located where the Ice Box
always want me to. I had- venues that have been currently stands.
Box Office after n’t planned on getting it looked at as a potential new It is unknown at this
one weekend in done today, but I read the establishment. time what would become
announcement in my e- “Blimpie is just a of the Ice Box if Blimpie
theatres mail this morning and ANDREW BENESH / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER name.,” Seigler said. overtook it.
Source: Yahoo Movies decided to stop by.” Kathy Frazier, RN, prepares an injection of flu vaccine. “Nothing is 100 percent Junior Alison Prock
Flu season officially Students could get the vaccine on Oct. 21. (right now).”
2 THE COLONNADE NEWS NOVEMBER 10, 2006
Sweetwater 11 grand championships this
year, and will be competing
seven hours. I’m just glad I
got to be there.”
for his fourth win at “This whole thing would-
Continued from Page 1... Memphis in May. Since he n’t be possible without
already has a spot in GCSU,” said Dean of
Senator Johnny Grant and Memphis in May, Students and Sweetwater
Milledgeville Mayor Sweetwater will send the Volunteer Coordinator Beth
Richard Bentley. team The Exhausted Rooster Rushing. “I’ve got to say, at
Myron Mixon, member Club instead. least three-fourths of our
of the team Jack’s Old Junior accounting major volunteers are faculty and
South, and winner of the Richard Lenderman used students and they do a won-
2006 contest at The the festival as an opportuni- derful job. It’s an amazing
Sweetwater Festival, shared ty to do a project for his event and a great opportuni-
a few secrets of his success. marketing class. ty for the college to work
“The most important “We sold calendars, gift with the community for the
thing to remember is not to certificates, party trays, and good of this town.”
overcook your meat,” other similar prizes to raise Milledgeville Main St.
Mixon said. “I prefer peach money for Habitat for has more downtown events
wood, but all the fruit woods Humanity,” said scheduled for later this year,
are for great for grillin’.” Lenderman. “I heard some and the earliest ones should
Mixon has already won great music, ate some good be taking place around
two world championships, food, and raised $575 in just Christmas.
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(L-R) The Sony PlayStation 3 goes on sale on Nov.17, with the Nintendo Wii (controller shown)
following on Nov. 19.
DOMINY’S DOODLES
BY KYLE DOMINY
One of our local video stores has shut down their “backroom video collec-
tion.” Why is the porn gone?
Why does every teacher assume that their class is the most important thing in
your life?
I’m a huge fan of Christmas music, but come on people, it’s barely November!
Why can’t people clean up after their pets at The Grove. It’s like walking
through a mine field going to my car.
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advised Officer Gaines that he had con-
sumed four alcoholic beverages earlier in
the evening. The male was arrested and
November 10 - transported to Milledgeville PD and
charged with public drunk.
November 16
Taking a risk
Friday, November 10
On Nov. 1, at approximately 1:44 a.m.,
12 p.m. First Annual Diamond Scramble Golf Tournament Officer Williams observed a vehicle on
(Athletic Alumni Weekend), Little Fishing Creek Montgomery Street fail to yield to oncom-
Golf Course ing traffic. A traffic stop was initiated by
7 - 10 p.m. A.N.G.E.L.S. Old Fashioned “Victorian Sgt. Ennis and contact was made with the
Masquerade Ball, Magnolia Ballroom New Student driver. The driver tested positive for alco-
Center hol on the Alco-Sensor and was arrested
Limited Parking and transported to Milledgeville PD. The
driver was issued a citation for underage
Saturday, November 11 On Oct. 31, at approximately 8:01 a.m., possession of alcohol. The vehicle was
Officer English observed a vehicle on left at the scene of the stop.
12 p.m. Baseball Home Run Derby (Athletics Alumni Montgomery Street that was improperly
Weekend), Peeler Complex
1 p.m. Alumni Baseball Game (Athletics Alumni parked and blocking the driveway to When you gotta go…
Weekend), John Kurtz Field Student Health Services. The vehicle was
2 p.m. Women’s Basketball Alumni Game (Athletics issued a citation for Improper Parking. On Nov. 1, at approximately 2:25 a.m.,
Alumni Weekend), Centennial Center Old Capitol Wrecker was called to tow the Sgt. Lance observed a male urinating in
2 p.m. Tennis Alumni Match (Athletics Alumni Weekend), vehicle. the bushes by Atkinson Hall. Contact was
Centennial Center Tennis Courts made with the individual who was student.
3 p.m. Men’s Basketball Alumni Event (Athletics Alumni All over the place The student admitted to drinking alcohol
Weekend), Centennial Center
5 p.m. Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (Athletics earlier in the night and was arrested. The
On Oct. 31, at approximately 12:58 a.m., student was transported to Milledgeville
Alumni Weekend), Centennial Center Officer Pissott observed a vehicle on
6 p.m. Alumni Barbecue (Athletics Alumni Weekend), PD and charged with public drunk.
Magnolia Ballroom, Centennial Center Greene Street unable to maintain lane. A
7:30 p.m. Choral & String Ensembles Mozart Memorial traffic stop was initiated and contact was You gotta go
Concert, First Baptist Church, Milledgeville made with the driver. While speaking to
the driver, Officer Pissott detected the odor On Nov. 2, at approximately 2:11 a.m.,
of alcohol. When tested on the Intoxilyzer Officer Gaines observed a male going into
Sunday, November 12 5000, the driver registered a .126. The a secluded alley between Amici and
driver was arrested and transported to Joiners Market. Contact was made with
Monday, November 13 Milledgeville PD and charged with DUI the individual, whose zipper was down.
and weaving over the Roadway. The individual tested positive for alcohol
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. “Infinite Pieces” by Senior Art Major Karen Jarratt, on the Alco-Sensor and was arrested for
Blackbridge Hall Art Gallery The flower man public drunk and transported to
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. John Culver’s Exhibition “Traveling Through Time, Milledgeville PD for processing.
Trying to Find Paradise,” Blackbridge Hall On Nov. 1, at approximately 12:41 a.m.,
12:30 p.m. Future High School Educators Meeting, Free Pizza, Officer Gaines observed a male stand in Information compiled
School of Education Rm. 221 the flower beds located on the side of by Jessica Murphy
4 p.m. Native American Pow Wow, Front Campus Amici. The male then began to kick the
8:28 p.m. FCA, Maple Room bushes and pebbles in the flower bed and Please go online to
then proceeded to jump off the flower bed. gcsunade.com to download the
Tuesday, November 14 Contact was made with the male who extended Public Safety Report podcast.
10 a.m. How to Make a Living With an Art Degree, Mayfair
Hall Room 202
12 - 1 p.m. Faculty Brown-Bag Lunch with President Leland,
Bobcat Dining Room
6 - 8 p.m. Transfer Student Association Game Night, Bobcat
Village Clubhouse There is a good possibil- from the Academic ment in May. Keep an ear
7 p.m. Information/ Application Meeting for Undergraduate ity that the number of Governance Committee is out and listen to SGA for
Teacher Education Cohort Programs, Peabody “graduates” walking in approved and signed off by this possible change to
Auditorium in the Kilpatrick Education Building commencement in the com- President Leland, students affect students graduating
8 p.m. BCM Synergy, Magnolia Ballroom, SAC ing years will dramatically will have no grace if they in the spring of 2008 or
decrease. In a recent miss the September 1 dead- later.
Wednesday, November 15 Academic Governance line. If students turn in the In other news, the
Meeting, a proposal to set application on September Sweetwater Festival went
12:30 p.m. Gallery Talk: Infinite Pieces by Karen Jarratt, detailed requirements to 2, they will not be able to over very well this past
Blackbridge Hall Art Gallery walk in commencement has participate in commence- weekend. Student
12:30 - 2 p.m. Student Government Association Meeting, SAC been brought to the table, ment in upcoming May. No Government Association
Dogwood Room A&B and has a very good chance if, ands or buts about it. sponsored the bands, and
2 p.m. Outdoor Aerobics, Bobcat Village Soccer Field of being approved. Starting The committee has brought the turnout was a great suc-
2 - 3 p.m. Career Center Wonderful Wednesday Workshop: in the Spring of 2008, stu- this proposal to the table in cess. SGA’s Get Baked on
Interviewing/Skills ID dents that plan on graduat- order to reduce the number the Front Lawn was also a
ing and walking in com- of students participating in success for many RSO’s.
5 p.m. SIFE Meeting mencement must have their commencement, yet do not Keep your eyes open for
5 - 7 p.m. Reception for Intimate Pieces by Karen Jarratt, application turned in by have the requirements to more SGA events that will
Blackbridge Hall Gallery September of the previous actually graduate. Students be soon to come.
6 p.m. A.N.G.E.L.S. meeting, Blackbird Coffee House year. will need to have an appli-
(Downtown) Currently there is a cation turned in by
“deadline” for applications September 1, and the appli-
6:30 p.m. All About Diabetes, Wellness Depot Classroom to be turned in, but the cation will be reviewed to Submitted by SGA
8 p.m. Christian Life, Maple A Rm, SAC deadline is not really determine if students can Senator Ryan Greene
8 p.m. Wesley House, Magnolia Ballroom enforced. If the proposal participate in commence-
8 p.m. Slam Poets: Steve & Sekou, MSU Lounge
8:30 p.m. International Club Coffee Night, Kilpatrick Atrium
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We love Nintendo
old Nintendo glory, so I
didn’t give up. I put in Mike
Tyson’s Punch Out.
Another reason old
games retain their populari-
ty is because of their sim-
plicity.
“Anybody can play the
old games,” said Jeff Long,
senior philosophy major.
“With the new games you
have to memorize button
combinations and that’s a
waste of time.”
11:40 p.m. – Mike Tyson
knocked out. I started to
feel a little better about
myself and I thought it a
good time to try one of the
hardest games in history,
Castlevania.
Moonshine Still finally
BY
1:20 a.m. – I couldn’t beat JOSH an
it. I don’t even know why I FULMER incredible depth of took full control of the
tried. My thumbs had start- SENIOR REPORTER emotion and energizing an stage and delivered
ed hurting and I was very already-excited crowd arguably one of their best
angry. Now I know why I The 3rd annual with an amazing display Milledgeville performanc-
stopped playing video Sweetwater Festival of musicianship. es to date. Rhythmically
games. brought some of the best PGroove remained on anchored by drummer
They say that playing musicians from the the stage to combine musi- John Joiner and bassist
video games encourages Southeast in a lineup that cal forces with longtime Ray Petren, percussionist
people to act violently, but offered something for Milledgeville favorites Bill Jaret, keyboard player
that’s another thing old everyone. Here’s what you Moonshine Still to form Trippe Wright and gui-
school gamers don’t have missed: “Moongroove,” a merger tarist David Shore were
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ARIANA YOUMANS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER to worry about. Gospel group Touch resulting in intense melod- left to improvise a melod-
So many classics to choose from, so little time. Gillis agrees. and local rock band JFC ic exploration. Extended ic platform for Scott
“The models (of old kicked off mainstage jams were highlighted by Baston’s vocals.
games), which are stick fig- music early Saturday combined guitar riffs from As the music echoed
they fade away like a bad through the downtown
ures at best, are so far from afternoon, preparing PGroove’s Brock Butler
BY KYLE DOMINY
romance novel? streets and light beams
SENIOR REPORTER
Dr. Lee Gillis, chair of who you are that you don’t downtown Milledgeville and Moonshine’s David
9:20 p.m. – I had home- want to replicate those for the headlining acts to Shore. from an array of stage
the psychology department, lights reflected off of
work to do. I could have sat has the answer. models,” Gillis said. “Now come. Atlanta native
down and concentrated on it’s so realistic and there is Tinsley Ellis took the “We’ve made this last- stately edifice of
“I think a lot of it has to Milledgeville City Hall,
my studies, but there was do with what’s familiar. It research showing that peo- stage, demonstrating the ing realtionship with
something else calling for ple can be very involved in kind of musical prowess (PGroove) over the the strongest musical line-
has to do with taking peo- up in Sweetwater’s short
my attention . . . my 8-bit ple to fun times, good those violent games and that only several decades years...we’ve both
Nintendo Entertainment they can go out and commit of devotion to the blues matured as bands, but history gave a stellar per-
times,” Gillis said. formance that will be dif-
System. He said it is all nostalgia. violent acts.” can provide. Ellis’ effort- when you put the two
I decided to begin my 1:30 a.m. – After a hard less fusion of edgy, dis- together there’s still that ficult for next year’s acts
“Nostalgia,” Gillis said, to follow. A humble sug-
adventure with the game reading from a psychology nights Nintendo, I put my tinctly Southern rock, brotherhood, that Georgia
that started it all, Super games away and went to blues-based melodic riffs contingency.” gestion: two days of
dictionary, “the longing to music.
Mario Brothers. return to an earlier period bed. and jam band-like improv- -Scott Baston,
Despite the existence of of life particularly pleasant isation combined with his Moonshine Still
more advanced gaming compared to the present.” soulful vocals to convey a
consoles, such as the Some students have fond sound that is at once tradi-
Playstation 2 and the X- childhood memories of tional and innovatve.
Box 360, and the upcoming playing their first video As daylight faded from
and even better systems, games. the downtown skyline,
like the PS3 and the “I used to play with my Corey Harris and the 5x5
Nintendo Wii, the populari- cousin Keith all the time,” Band took the stage to
ty of old school video said Matt Scott, senior deliver an incredible blend
games still tends to be high. accounting major. “We of blues, reggae, funk and
“They’re more pure,” used to play Pac-Man and jazz inspired by Harris’
said Mike Parks, a junior he would hand me a con- own world travels to
political science major. troller and say I was the explore the very roots of
“The new games have got- ghosts. The funny thing is, the genres. The 37-year-
ten too technical, you can’t I believed him.” old Harris has developed
enjoy stuff like that.” Scott’s favorite game is his style after 25 years of
Parks’ favorite game is Tecmo Super Bowl. musical experimentation
Duck Hunt. Some students just and left the crowd feeling
“It’s a big classic, baby,” remember the games. that they had made a musi-
he said. “My fondest memory (of cal discovery.
10:01 p.m. – I beat Super NES) is Contra because I
Mario Brothers. It took me still remember the code for “We just kinda kept on
longer than I had hoped, the 30-up men,” said Elijah writing songs, trying to be
but I haven’t played in 10 Davis, senior Marketing original and it just kind of
years. I needed to play major. developed over time.”
something that I might still Davis’ favorite game, -Corey Harris
be good at. I pulled out obviously, is Contra.
Mega Man 2 and inserted it 11:09 p.m. – I couldn’t beat Savannah natives
into the console. Mega Man 2, but I was Perpetual Groove took the
But what keeps these determined to regain my stage next, immersing
games alive? Why don’t Hancock Street in it’s own
blend of jazz and psyche-
delic rock with pulsing
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STAT of the WEEK
Men’s Basketball: If the NBA were on chan-
Nov. 17 6 p.m. @Catawba nel 5 and a bunch of frogs
VS.