GC Baseball loses series, but wins senior day

Emily Henderson

Contributing Writer

GC baseball hosted Columbus State University for their last conference series of the regular season, starting on April 28 and ending the series on April 29. Saturday’s doubleheader honored the 12 seniors on the baseball team.

Game one was a tough battle between the two teams. After being down 0-6, the Bobcats came back to tie it up. The Cougars, however, did not take their foot off the gas, as they scored seven runs through the sixth and seventh innings. GC never responded, and CSU took game one, 14-7. stage at exactly 8 p.m. The concert kicked off with the much-loved “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince’’ and from there, dove into the “Lover” album. The concert started off with a bang, and Swift did not hold back with her energy, costumes and choreography. The crowd was packed with adoring fans, and there was not one person in the crowd that was not overjoyed. Each era was paid special attention to, and she took opportunities between each transition to speak about her life and feelings when writing each album.

The Cougars started game two hot and did not slow down. While CSU scored 14 runs again in game two, the Bobcats only scored two, both off of a Mason Spivey home run in the bottom of the sixth.

In game three, the Bobcats scored first after Ben Tuten stole second base, causing a throwing error that resulted in him reaching home on the same play.

Again, in the second, GC extended their lead after a deep shot to right field by Mason Spivey, his second of the day, to make it 2-0 for the Bobcats. Both teams had no trouble reaching base but struggled to produce runs — until the fifth inning, where CSU scored first. An overthrown ball to first started the inning. With runners on second and third, a ground ball to second base allowed one run to score before another ground ball ended the top of the inning.

Fox News

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Following the end of the lawsuit, Fox News’s biggest star, Tucker Carlson, was fired. Fox News has replaced his segment with a series of rotating hosts rotating and are looking for a permanent replacement. This has left many Fox News viewers abandoning the time slot of Tucker Carlson’s show and some ditching the network altogether.

“That is down 56 percent from the 3.05 million viewers Carlson reached last Wednes- day,” said David Bauder, a writer for AP News.

The New York Times reported that Carlson’s private messages, deemed offensive by many, may have been a reason for his firing. The Wall Street Journal said that Carlson used the “c-word.”

Shortly after his departure, Carlson released a video on Twitter. In this video, Carlson addresses public disclosure in the media.

“Where can you still find Americans saying true things?” Carlson said. “There aren’t many places left, but there are some. Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.”

In this video, Carlson did not mention his departure from Fox News nor his next move. However, Carlson told everyone to pray for 10 minutes a day for the future of the country and its people.

“I think Tucker Carlson should have been more protected by the company,” Walker said.

“But under the circumstances, I understand why he was fired because the company was put under spotlight, and if they would not have fired him, it could have caused a public outrage.”

Fulton County jail’s inhumane conditions

Jennifer Crider A&L Editor

Opinion

Lawshawn Thompson, an inmate at Fulton County Jail, was found dead on September 19, 2022. Michael D. Harper, the Thompson’s family lawyer, is allegeding that he died from being eaten alive by insects and bed bugs.

Harper also alleges that the officers and medical staff had previously noticed Thompson’s health deteriorating; however, they offered him no medical aid until they found his dead body.

In November, the Southern Center for Human Rights released a press release called “Uncontained Outbreaks of Lice, Scabies Leaves People at Fulton County Jail Dangerously Malnour- ished,” which called for the jail to immediately improve their conditions.

“According to documents obtained through an open records request, medical professionals brought in to assess the September outbreak found that 100% of the people held in one unit had either lice, scabies and or both,” the Southern Center for Human Rights said.

During Thompson’s death, he was being held in the psychiatric wing of the jail.

“That unit houses people diagnosed with mental illnesses requiring treatment; the reviewers also found that 90% of the people in the unit had not been completing their ‘activities of daily living’ — including showering, dressing, getting out of bed, walking, and using the toilet

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— or receiving essential medications,” the Southern Center for Human Rights said. “Further medical findings showed that over 90% of the affected people were significantly malnourished, showing clear signs of cachexia – a wasting syndrome leading to the loss of muscle and fat, often seen in people with late stage cancers.”

The inhumane conditions of this facility are due to their overpopulation and understaffing issue. According to a 2022 study done by the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, the Fulton County Jail has 728 over-detained prisoners.

This overpopulation is partially due to the fact that Fulton County keeps people charged with misdemeanors de- tained when they cannot pay bail, as well as the fact that they do not transfer inmates that are able to be placed in alternative facilities, such as halfway homes.

The ACLU study also found that 46.6% of Fulton County Jail detainees have not been officially charged with a crime, 12% could not afford bail and 3.6% were able to be transferred to an arrest diversion program.

At the time of his death, Thompson was being held because he could not pay the $2,500 bail.

This Saturday, protesters gathered in Woodruff Park in Atlanta to protest Fulton County Jail. Many people are calling Patrick Labat, Fulton County Sheriff, to step down from his job.

Thompson’s family is calling for this facility to be shut down; how- ever, they have not filed an official lawsuit yet.

In response to this backlash, Sheriff Labat has stated that the jail will be transferring 600 inmates to jails in other countries. They are also spending $500,000 to improve the conditions of the jail.

Although this money will help the quality of life in this prison, the prison has not commented on if they will change their policy of keeping people charged with misdemeanors detained. Without these adjustments, the overpopulation and over jailing people will prevail. Transferring inmates to other facilities will just create overcrowding in other jails across Georgia.

Thompson suffered from mental issues, and he clearly was not receiving rehabilitation in

Tucker Carlson

Carlson’s path forward is unclear, but his media career is certainly not over yet.

the psychiatric facility at Fulton County Jail. If the Fulton County Jail would have sent him to a quality mental facility, they could have provided him with aid and prevented his death. Keeping prisoners does not prevent crime. All this does is perpetuate the cycle of crime. Recently released inmates are not given the proper resources to become accustomed back into real life, and so, they retreat back to committing crime. The amendments this prison is making is not enough. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that between the years of 2009 and 2022, 64 inmates died, and this is the highest rate of death in any jail in Georgia. The Fulton County Jail must be shut down immediately.