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field. Others feel that the tests are non-inclu sive and that it is not possible to determine intelligence in this way.
The second set was just as close as the first with neither team being able to pull away. Both teams put up a similar amount of kills with very few errors com ing from either side. The Bobcats came out on top with an iden tical score of 25-21.
“The problem is we’re burning so much fossil fuel, and they are re leasing carbon dioxide, which is one of the big gest greenhouse gasses, so we’re increasing how much greenhouse gas is in the atmosphere, and more heat is get ting trapped than es caping, so it’s getting warmer,” Mutiti said.
Using data present ed by a Twitter account called CelebrityJets (@ CelebJets), that tracks the flights of celebrities’ private jets, the data analysis group known as Yard conducted a study to measure which celeb rities are emitting the most carbon through their flying habits.
impact on the planet.
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GC volleyball tipped off conference play with a dominant 3-0 sweep over USC Aik en Tuesday, Sept. 13. After a questionable 4-7 start to the sea son, the Bobcats put the PBC on high alert with this statement win.
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Machovec led the team with nine kills, also tallying eight digs.
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E-cigarette manufac turers like JUUL have greatly profited from this upward trend in use of these products. Before crackdowns such as the court case that they just
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Set 1 was a tight, hard-fought battle where neither team was able to secure a very comfortable lead. The Pacers were able to tal ly more kills during the game, but commit ted several more errors than the Bobcats. The Bobcats were able to take the first set 25-21.
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Dr. Christine Mutiti is an associate profes sor of environmental science at GC. She ex plained what carbon emissions are and why they have such a negative
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in part of a government prerogative that looked to crack down on under age nicotine consump tion, underage nicotine use has become more widespread in the last couple years as a result of the addition of these new and easily conceal able e-cigarette products.
bring new users, it brought habitual users as well. According to a Truth Initiative study, 37.6 percent of current JUUL users in 2019 used it on 10 or more days of the month, thus in dicating that they used this product habitually which is indicative of a growing addiction or re liance on the product for day to day functioning.
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“In this sense an employ ment aptitude test has much in common with a traditional IQ test.”
Some people argue that IQ tests or cognitive aptitude tests are neces sary for employment to determine the general success rate of the con sidered employee in the
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marketing campaign yielded unbridled suc cess as it doubled the us ers of JUUL in the year from 2018 to 2019 and deeply embedded the product into teenage cul ture. Additionally, over half of respondents who had used JUUL, aged 1517, had never used com bustible tobacco before, indicating that JUUL was effectively enticing children that previously had not been at risk to start smoking to start.
“Both IQ tests and employment aptitude tests measure critical thinking skills, learning ability, and problem solv ing,” Criteria Corp. said.
Set 3 was when the Bobcats displayed their dominance as they held a comfortable lead through the whole set. The Bobcats tallied 13 kills, while the Pac ers only recorded nine.
approximately 3376.64 tonnes of carbon di oxide into the atmo sphere from January to July in 2022. This is 482.37 times more car bon than the average person emits each year.
Earlier this month, a costly settlement was reached in a multi-state inquiry into the market ing tactics of the e-cig arette manufacturing company, JUUL. This settlement totaled $438.5 million and involved payouts to a total of 34 states and territories.
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This decisive ruling against the company comes as a retort of their controversial marketing
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“Overall we clicked and we haven’t clicked like that yet this sea son,” said graduate stu dent and outside hitter Rachel Machovec. “We knew the crowd was go ing to be really big, so we were excited to have everybody here and get our click together.”
The manufacturing company faces scrutiny after supposed unlawful marketing practices
Both teams had a similar amount of errors with the Bobcats tallying ten and the Pacers tallying eight. The Bobcats sent the Pacers packing with a final score of 25-18.
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The Bobcats were firing on all cylin ders, as several play ers made their mark on the scoring column.
In 1971, The Supreme Court banned the use of IQ tests in the business world because of the case Griggs vs. Duke Power Co. It was determined by court during this case that there can be no bar riers to employment that are targeting or discrim inating against a certain race. An alternative to the IQ test that is still used today are called cognitive aptitude tests.
settled, the net worth of this company peaked at $10 billion in Oct. 2020.
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This enormous pop ularity emerged largely due to a deliberate mar keting campaign targeted towards giving the prod uct appeal to underage adolescents where JUUL utilized free samples, so cial media campaigns, lavish launch parties, discreet packaging and childish flavors, such as mango, cotton candy and other fruit flavors.
practices, in which it is believed they unlawful ly attempted to market the product to underage children. The current national legal age for the consumption of prod ucts containing nicotine is 21 and was made so as the result of legisla tion passed in Feb. 2019, which amended the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to change the legal federal age.
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According to Criteria Corp.’s “Pre-Employ ment IQ Tests,” these are assessments that are “designed and validated specifically for predict ing employee success.”
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Cox at her State of the University Address in February 2022 nearing her one year anniversary as 12th
“There are always
Cox is an advocate for student-led events, campus events and Milledgeville communi ty events. Cox has joined the Board of the Milled geville Baldwin County Chamber of Commerce. She does volunteer work to see the person al and social needs of the local community.
Despite these chal lenges that President Cox is working towards to fix and advocate for the students’ needs and wants, she has been wel
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GC President Cathy Cox began her first year of presidency in 2021. Prior to being the uni versity’s President, Cox gathered her skillets in other positions. Presi dent Cox was a lawyer in Bainbridge and At lanta for 10 years until she was elected to the Georgia House of Repre sentatives. After, she be came the first woman in Georgia history to serve as Georgia’s Secretary of State. Following this ca reer path, she switched to become president of Young Harris College and then dean for Mer
cer University School of Law before making her way back to a pres ident for our campus.
“This campus has been so warm and hos pitable and welcoming,” President Cox said. “I can hardly find the words how wonderful that has been and the greater Milledgeville communi ty has been so welcom ing and hospitable to my husband and I. They have certainly made me feel welcome here, and they are so fun to get out and know our students.”
Cathy Cox at her State of The Union Address in 2022
“I don’t feel like I’ve even really scratched the surface of what I hope we can do in the years to come but I feel like I’ve personally accomplished some of my goals in just trying to get to know the campus,” President Cox said. “My hope is that my skillset and my experiences can add val ue to what has already been happening here.”
She discusses that GC budget is her biggest issue because of what money is allocated to the university. Learning the process and adjusting to the GC budget is some thing that she has been consistently working on in order to better her role here. She claims that ath letics, as a public high er education university, is less funded than the private higher education universities that she had previously worked at.
“We have this great first Friday event in
There are many events that GC provides for students to attend year-round, as well as the Milledgeville com munity. President Cox
downtown Milledgeville that is really fun,” Pres ident Cox said. “I’m really looking forward to, for the first time in several years since the pandemic, that they’re bringing back the Deep Roots festival. I love going to all our musi cal, theater, and dance performances. That to me is one of the biggest things I’ve missed about not being in the heart of a liberal arts campus was being able to attend and participate in those fine arts and know the students performing.”
“I want them to nev er leave here or never want to leave here, then when they graduate to think ‘I have had the best 4 years of my life here at GC and I will al ways love this universi ty’,” President Cox said.
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attends most of these events, hoping to be more involved with the GC and Milledgeville community than she was in her past careers.
comed to the GC com munity with open arms.
challenges in learning any enterprise,” Cox said. “More particular ly, the biggest difference from private higher ed ucation to public higher education, honestly, is how athletics are fund ed and that’s a very dif ficult challenge because students pay an athlet ic fee every semester.”
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Jack Howle, a se nior political science major, said he does not believe the mod ule will be effective in preventing hazing and that almost all students he has discussed the module with have said they did not read it.
The heavy sanctions coming down as part of this lawsuit have virtually eliminated JUUL’s viabil ity as a company in com parison to its presence and affluence that existed at the end of last decade. However, the product’s effects on the habits of underage adolescents appear to be both sig nificant and lasting.
Two other GC Se niors recount their ex periences with JUUL in high school, saying that it was considered com pletely normal to own and use one while in class which was made possible due to the abil
The second part of the plan is to ensure the loan system is more manageable for future and current borrowers. This step includes cut ting monthly payments on loans and changing the requirements for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
and refunding any loan payments made since the beginning of the pause. The plan aims to provide relief to low- and middle-in come borrowers and advance racial equity by narrowing the racial wealth gap. This plan was finalized through exec utive action and is ex pected to have pushback.
“Loans are one form of assistance that helps many people access a col lege education that they could not afford other wise. But student loan debt can be an impedi ment to some borrowers, so efforts to reduce any undue burden are im portant,” said Daniel Mc Donald, Interim Director of Public Affairs at GC.
“I don’t think it would help a lot considering most people have to get student loans per semes ter and that adds up con sidering interest,” said Kennedy Cook, a sopho more mass communica tions major. “I don’t think that would be enough. I think obviously it would help but it doesn’t make that big of a difference.”
e-cigarette products to underage students can be seen in the biennial ACHA NCHA Survey II for the year 2020, which sampled 1138 students at GC. According to re sults from this survey 30 percent of college stu dents used some form of tobacco or nicotine delivery products with in the last 3 months, with e-cigarettes be ing used almost 3 times more frequently than traditional cigarettes.
GC students have a wide array of opinions on the use and market ing of JUUL and e-ciga rette products in general.
“Teachers didn’t even know what it was, so you could get away with charging it in class,” said an anon ymous GC student.
nors and the parents of potential students.”
“What someone might think is funny and harmless at the time has the potential to become inappropriate, humil iating, degrading, and dangerous,” Pope said.
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President Biden’s plan is expected to help many with the $10,000 and $20,000 going to those who receive the Pell grant.
She believes all students must be involved in the effort to end hazing.
GC requires all re turning students to complete the Hazing Prevention 101 Course and requires fresh men to take the mod ule before arriving on campus. According to Rachel Pope, a health educator at GC, the hazing prevention module is required be cause this topic has not been addressed with all students. Haz ing can be physically, emotionally and psy chologically damaging.
Students who have knowledge of hazing events or witness them can be held liable. It is important for students to report them through the GC website at Incident Report (maxient.com).
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An anonymous GC senior and business ma jor calls vaping “a breath of fresh air” and cites it as a daily activity that allows him to be pro ductive due to nicotine’s stimulant properties.
Even though gover nors of some states have an issue with this plan, President Biden is push ing forward. Governors Abbot, DeSantis and Ivey have signed a letter to President Biden stating their disagreement due to the taxpayers having to pay $600 billion in total to cover this plan, despite the Biden admin istration stating it will cost $24 billion annually.
Annie Siegel, a soph omore and marketing major, feels that it is a dangerous product that should not be al lowed to be market ed to underage kids in the way that it is.
Pope views all forms of hazing as harmful and emphasized the im portance of bystander intervention as crucial to hazing prevention and organizations that haze aspiring members because past members were initiated through hazing and need to abandon that mindset.
or lower for individual people. For those in mar riage, the income must be $250,000 or lower.
They want people who have worked in the military, nonprof its or any form of gov ernment to get credit on their loans through this program now. The third part of the plan is to find a way to lower the cost of college after it has risen three times the amount it was in 1988 for public schools.
She said that student organizations will be
This three-step plan has been long awaited by many since President Biden paused loan re payments. To receive this assistance, the annual in come must be $125,000
JUUL, which was ini tially brought to the mar ket as a way to transition smoking adults off of the habitual use of cigarettes, faces a variety of rep rimands in addition to the significant financial damage they will incur as a result of this settle ment. This settlement will limit their ability to market to people under the age of 35, limit its presence in in-store dis plays, place a limit on on line and retail sales and force them to undergo a retail compliance check based on strict protocols.
“They’reorganizations.delivering a message about what hazing is, how to spot it and then their commit ment as a collective, as individuals, to fight haz ing and report it when they see it,” Jarvis said.
The Biden Adminis tration announced a loan forgiveness plan where borrowers can qualify for up to $10,000 in student loan forgiveness. Cur rently, the United States has $1.6 trillion in cu mulative federal student loan debt and 45 million borrowers. Along with this, they’re canceling $20,000 in debt for some Pell Grant recipients, extending the pause on federal loan payments
people to be able to re ceive more money since many people have loans that exceed $20,000.”
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GC students have been thinking about af fordability when it comes to college and coming up with plans to pay for col lege using student loans.
Despite the fact that JUUL is now facing discipline for its con troversial marketing practices, the full effect on individual health and society as a whole. due to the increased use of this product by underage people as a result of these practic es remains to be seen.
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“The module treats hazing as a black-andwhite issue and to com pare embarrassing re cruits or forcing them to perform menial tasks to potentially life-threat ening acts is disingen uous,” Howle said. “The module is nothing but posturing by the GC Administration in or der to save face for do
The effect of the marketing of harmful
“If they gave every body with these out standing debts $10,000 that would be called ex pansionary. So, they’re putting money in the hands of people basical
She noted that haz ing does not only occur in Greek life and can happen in any kind of student organization. Hazing is not exclusive to students. This can happen among adults, whether at work or in an organization. Jarvis rec ommends the counseling services at GC for those who have been affected by hazing incidents, even if they were not recent.
“We have our report ing form online that can be anonymous, but we do encourage people to include some informa tion, knowing that we will keep that in con fidence,” Jarvis said.
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“I cannot believe e-cigarette products like Juul are allowed to be marketed in the way that they are, es pecially given what we know about smoking’s and nicotine’s detri mental effects on long term health,” Siegel said.
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“The student loan plan won’t be able to re lieve my debt completely but I think it will help me not have to worry as much about saving up and paying off as much money in the future,” said Savannah Schofield, a sophomore English major. “There hasn’t been another loan forgive ness program to com pare to this one so I’m not sure if the amount is fair. I would love for
ly if you think of it that way,” said Christopher Clark, professor of eco nomics. “If they did give everybody the $20,000 instead that would be even more expansionary but you have to remem ber that money comes from somewhere. So that money is going to be pulled from currently ex isting tax revenue or they may have to raise taxes to fund those because it doesn’t just go away.”
Emily Jarvis, the di rector of Family and Parent Programs, shared that hazing is often more psychological in nature. She supervised filming for the Nation al Hazing Prevention Week video. The video includes commentary from students involved in Greek life and other student
ity to use this product discreetly with ease.
requested to post the video to their respec tive pages and several campus departments are already planning to upload it. Jarvis hopes the video will be effec tive as students learn about hazing from their peers and classmates.
“ Georgia College & State University’s Finan cial Aid Office works diligently to ensure ev ery student can exhaust all options for helping make a college educa tion more affordable.” said McDonald. “ At this time, we await ad ditional guidance from the federal government on how to help make sure this loan forgive ness program achieves the maximum possible impact for student loan recipients in the Geor gia College community.”
Junior accounting major Clay Spicer was pleased with the Bills’ triumph over the Rams. He predicted that the Bills will play in the Su per Bowl this season.
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“I enjoy watching the NFL sometimes, but only because college football is not on,” Hawk said. “But when the Falcons were good back in the day, my family and I had season tickets. They lost the NFC championship that year, and I remem ber being at that game as a kid and crying.”
decrease from the 2021 season opener for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Dallas Cowboys.
Many GC students watched the game, in cluding senior criminal justice major, Connor Hawk. He is an Atlanta Falcons enthusiast but still wanted to observe the Bills play the Rams. However, his true pas
Left to right: Austen Sorrells, Grayson Oliver, and Clay Spicer watch the Bills play the Rams for the NFL kickoff
Rams’ wide receiver and Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp also per formed well; he fin ished the game with 13 catches for 128 yards and a touchdown.
The Bills’ defense also performed well, forcing three turn overs and seven sacks.
Playing conference games is very different from non-conference games for the players.
“We kept the ball off the floor,” Krumdieck said. “Our defense was re ally good, 52 digs is a lot.”
if he cannot find some thing better to watch.
Another stand-out performance came from sophomore outside hit ter, Ally Hall, totaling six kills. Her perfor mance put her up to 444 kills at GC, which ties her with Maggie Roper (2016) for ninth most in school history.
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“I definitely think the Bills will go to the Super Bowl this year,” Spicer said. “Their of fense is really good so I would be shocked if they don’t make it.”
“It’s just more of a rivalry. I’ve seen these
Freshman defensive specialist Alanis Ber nis led the defensive effort for the Bobcats with a total of 19 digs followed by senior set ter Emily Long with ten.
backs. His four-yard touchdown on thirdand-goal in the fourth quarter set the Bills ahead 24-10, launch ing them into victory.
were leaving Tony Gon zalez turned around and ended up scoring this amazing touchdown and they ended up winning.”
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“We were keeping them on their toes be cause they didn’t know where the ball was go ing,” said head coach Gretchen Krumdieck.
“It’s like a wakeup call,” Hall said. “When it’s
Hawk said that he has fond memories of attending Falcons games and is thankful for those experiences.
Consistency will be key for the Bobcats as they move forward in the season. They look to face every team with the ferocity they played with against the Pacers and plan to be a force to be reck oned with this season.
sion for the sport re volves around the NCAA and the No. 1 Bulldogs.
Several factors could explain this drop in viewership, including the death of Queen Eliz abeth II, who passed away on the same day as the season opener. Likewise, the second half was not as exciting as the previous year. It was clear that the Bills would take the win ear ly into the third quarter.
The spread attack was a key part of the Bob cats’ victory, as eight different players re corded at least one kill.
Sorrells said he still watches NFL, but only
NBC Sports projected that its coverage of the 2022 Kickoff Game be tween the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams averaged more than 21 million viewers across its linear and digital chan nels. That was a 19%
girls for five years now,” Machovec said.
“I remember one time we were about to leave the game early because we thought the Falcons were going to lose,” Hawk said. “But as we
The Bobcat defense also showed out re cording 11.5 blocks and 52 digs compared to USC Aiken’s three blocks and 43 digs.
Senior marketing major, Austen Sorrells, is rooting for the Char gers this year. Howev er, he said that he does not regularly watch the NFL. He too pre fers college football.
conference time, that’s what matters. Not that the other games didn’t matter, but conference is when you either wake up or you go to sleep, and I think we woke up.”
The Buffalo Bills dom inated the reigning Su per Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams in the NFL season opener on Sept. 8. They lived up to their pre-season expec tations, with a 31-10 vic tory. This was the largest scoring margin in a kick off game since 2013 ac cording to NBC Sports.
“It is like, ‘What am I doing? Nothing? I guess I will watch NFL,” Sorrells said.
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Conference games are especially important to the veterans of the team.
“College football is way better than the NFL,” Sorrells said. “NFL is overrated because of the money and celebrity status. College football is superior in every way. The only reason watching NFL is important is be cause of fantasy football and fantasy gambling.”
Bills’ quarterback Josh Allen finished 26 of 31 for 297 yards with three touchdowns and two in terceptions. He rushed 56 yards on 10 carries and scored the 32nd rushing touchdown of his career, tying him for 14th most in NFL history among quarter
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“Last year was my first year doing all kinds of workout and training and my body was not used to it. I remember
at the end of the season I was almost getting hurt just from the new train ing but now this year, I’m used to everything, and it seems kind of normal.”
vidual sport, which in most aspects, sometimes, but most of the time, you’re putting your body through a lot of pain,” Bulatao said. “Having a
Both Alabama and Ohio State took care of business this weekend as well. The Tide rolled over
this recognition, which made receiving this as a sophomore special.
Bulatao has previously been awarded 2021-22 PBC Silver Scholar, and he finished 22 at the 2021 PBC Championship and 79 at the NCAA Region al for Division II. During his 2021 season, his time for the 8k was 26:45 and his 10k was 34:30.
myself but as a team.”
“Our coach gives us this piece of paper of what we need to train, and I’ll look at it here and there, but I’ll also keep notes on what felt good, what felt bad, what can I change and I tweak it every sin gle time,” Bulatao said.
We have official ly concluded week 3 in college football. We saw a couple of games that ended in dramatic fash ion. The Appalachian State Mountaineers stole the weekend once again with all the attention.
During his fresh man year, he saw many upperclassmen receive
This recognition continues to motivate Bulatao as he is cur rently striving to place all conference and top 16 in the whole Peach belt conference.
to bounce back at home, the Aggies were able to take care of business this time as they didn’t allow Miami to score a touch down, winning 17-9 over the Hurricanes.
The top 12 teams in the nation remain un beaten, with Georgia clearly looking like the best team right now. Most of these teams will play each other that are in the top ten, so we should start to see a ma jor shakeup in the rank ings in just a few weeks.
support system behind you is really nice because you have other people going through the same thing as you. And it’s nice sharing something in common and getting through it, not just by
ULM 63-7, and the Buck eyes ran up the score on Toledo winning 77-21.
Since the beginning of his college career, he has changed the way he practices in order to improve his perfor mance. In comparison to last summer, his work ethic has improved.
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#25 Oregon host ed #12 BYU in what was a highly anticipat ed game for the Ducks. After a horrendous loss to UGA to start the sea son, the Ducks’ offense showed no issues against BYU as they tallied up 41 points. BYU simply looked outmatched from the start and the Ducks took the victory 41-20.
defense only allowed one touchdown, which came in garbage time.
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“The biggest thing is staying consistent,” Bu latao said. “Not going through trying to skip a day because I’m tired and just staying on top
“I know cross country may seem like an indi
“He brings great cul ture to the team, always enthusiastic, ready to at tack the day and always gives a positive attitude,” said Caiden Curtis, a sophomore cross coun try runner. “He’s always motivated, ready to go, willing to do anything that comes at him. He deserves it, he works harder than anyone.”
Many thought Geor gia might struggle in this game at first be cause of history, but this
After holding College Gameday in Boone, NC, home of the Mountain eers, this game didn’t dis appoint. Down to the fi nal seconds of the game, Appalachian State threw up a Hail Mary prayer that bounced off multi ple players and landed in the hands of a Mountain eer receiver. The receiver quickly ran around to the right side of the field and into the endzone to stun Troy University 32-28.
game was over before the first quarter end ed. The Dawgs routed the Gamecocks 48-7, as the offense amount ed to over 500 yards of total offense and their
Cross country’s Bobcat Athlete of the Week
In addition to his team motivating him, he finds ways that he can improve himself during training.
Another part of the sport that he deems helpful has been the support from his team.
of everything has really been helping me so far.”
After finishing sec ond in a group of 51 runners at the Jaguar Invitational, Philip Bu latao, a sophomore cross country runner, was named Bobcat Athlete of the Week during the first week of September.
His teammates have seen how he has been beneficial to the team.
The number one ranked team in the na tion, the Georgia Bull dogs, traveled to Colum bia, SC to take on their first road SEC game of the year. The Dawgs, who have started this season as dominant as the end ed last season, absolutely embarrassed the Game cocks on their home field.
“I have to work a lot harder to keep up with everything, and
I’m doing almost dou ble of what I did in high school,” Bulatao said.
“It’s a pretty big ac complishment, just being a sophomore, and I hope to win it again, but we’ll see how it goes,” Bulatao said. “It’s an honor after going week after week doing my own thing so it’s nice seeing it finally paying off a little bit. It’s a really big motivator because I can see that something is going right.”
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Another game that held a significant amount of weight was #13 Miami vs. #24 Texas A&M. The Aggies were coming off one of their worst upsets in school history to those same Appalachian State Mountaineers. Looking
“Back in the day, in the 1950s and stuff, women were looked at as very fragile,” said Lau ra Beth Nix, junior mass communication major. “Now with the devel opment of feminism, women are very strong and upheld. I think a lot of men are scared of that, and so natural ly, chivalry dies down.”
Horror short film screenings at Central State seems fitting as the Halloween season approaches.
Chapel of All Faiths will offer horror short film screenings at Cen tral State Hospital from 10 p.m. to midnight.
great way to celebrate the arts,” Bracewell said. “They are enjoyable, and they allow Milledgeville to plug into the growing film industry in Georgia
a time in which society considered them sec ond-class citizens. Some argue that when a man is chivalrous towards a woman, it keeps those gender stereotypes alive.
Courtesy of the Milledgeville-Eatonton Film Festival website. The festival returns after a pandemic-induced hiatus.
The phrase “chivalry is dead” began to cir culate heavily on social media platforms such as Tumblr and Twitter in the mid 2010’s. Wom en tended to use it in an ‘ironic’ fashion, cracking jokes referring to real life situations in which they had felt objectified by a man, often ending posts
According to Mer riam-Webster, to be chivalrous means to be “marked by gracious courtesy and high-mind ed consideration espe cially to women”. Origi nally a code of conduct, chivalry governed Mid dle Ages’ knights’ behav iors and actions. It re ferred to their obligation to rescue the ‘damsel in distress,’ and to protect those weaker than them.
Central State Hospital, Powell Building, circa 1937
“I think feminism has made a lot of women want to be more indepen dent,” said junior Reagan Lippold, a psychology major. “I think men have to kind of be able to read the situation and see how the woman may react to how ‘chivalrous’ they’re being. Personally, I don’t have a problem with it.”
For Blazer, the festival is more than just a chance for GC students and staff to get together for a fun night; it is an important step towards reviving the theatrical experience.
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“Film in general is such an underrated and important aspect of art, in my opinion,” Pickle said. “Films can bring to light different human experiences and unite people together through emotion and action. Films tell stories, often with very deep meanings,
Dr. Joy Bracewell, an assistant professor of English and director of GC’s Writing Center, is not familiar with
As the feminist move ment continues to surge forward, gender roles and the expectations placed upon men have shifted dramatically. With these changes, the presence of day to day ‘chivalry’ has slowly ceased to exist.
Dr. Alex Blazer, En glish professor at GC, discovered the festival almost a decade ago. Its mission resonates with him, and he believes the festival’s value lies in highlighting excit ing, lesser-seen films.
Some women argue that chivalry belittles women; a woman does not need a man to hold the door for her, or pay for her meal, or walk to her left on the sidewalk.
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official website describes the festival as “focused on international col lections of story-driven films with unique voic es” and “created by film makers for filmmakers from over 25 countries.”
to be difficult to stream.”
so I think it is important to bring film festivals into places like Milledgeville.”
However, chivalry roots itself in the per ception of women from nearly 1500 years ago,
“I think the culture around chivalry has shifted to where some of the things we used to do aren’t as widely prac ticed,” said an anony mous GC senior.“I think there’s more avenues than ever to be chival rous towards a partner.”
noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The afternoon’s live script readings will run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
In the present day, the internet has made acts of chivalry accessible to nearly anyone who wishes to express them: through gifting someone virtual flowers, an e-card, a virtual hug or even leaving a kind comment on their social media.
The Milledgeville-Ea tonton Film Festival be gan in 2013 as the Milled geville Film Festival. The
Chivalry is dead, and no one went to the funeral
Since then, the meaning of the word has evolved to refer to actions associated with ‘being a gentle man’ and a man’s con sideration for women.
Scheduling and tick eting information are available online for stu dents and staff inter ested in attending its Eatonton screenings.
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However, the femi nist movement rebukes this notion, and at its core fights for equality between the sexes. The argument stems around the proposed question, does the call for equality erase the need for a man to behave as a gentleman?
By the 15th century, chivalry, as it had once stood, no longer existed. The first reference to its absence came in 1790 when Irish statesman Edmund Burke said, “The age of chivalry is gone: that of sophisters, economists and calcula tors has succeeded: and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
Small chivalrous acts, such as holding the car door open, are a rare site on today’s college campuses.
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“While the availabil ity of so many films on streaming is a boon for faculty and students who study film, an aspect of film that has gotten lost is public exhibition,” Blazer said. “The festival is not only curated, but it also brings film back to its communal experience.”
Mackenzie Pickle, a junior English major, ex plained the importance of hosting film festivals in Milledgeville and other small towns. She believes the events are beneficial to all residents, not just film students.
From left: seniors Kaylee Kallam and Chris Shimer
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“I was surprised to learn of the festival in the early 2010s,” Blazer said. “It made sense be cause of the state’s push for filming in Georgia. More important than economic development for Milledgeville and the state film industry, how ever, the festival serves as a way for people in Middle Georgia to see independent films and short films that are not going to play at the AMC Classic Milledgeville 6 and are probably going
with the tagline “and they say chivalry is dead.”
frustrating to see celebri ties emit so much carbon on a regular basis while ordinary people are try ing to manage their own significantly smaller car bon footprints through measures like car pooling and recycling.
Besides animals teaching students re sponsibility they also are a great source of pro ductive entertainment. Not only for their owner but for friends and fam ily members around. .
“They addressed the fact that her plane has been used the most, but they argued that most of the time it wasn’t her,” Christensen said. “I don’t know if I would have done that. She ba sically just defended the actions and tried to jus tify them without look ing to change course. And at a time when there’s so much empha sis on climate change, it seems hypocritical. If I were on her PR team, I would probably try to look forward and see how we can lower our emissions and try to do something about that instead of just not tak ing any responsibility.”
Often when stu dents are thinking about adopting an animal, they neglect to think about future summer plans. Some people return home while others spend weeks away on vacation.
Pets do benefit from their owners’ lives, but it is vi tal that owners don’t for get to prioritize their life and well-being as well.
Before considering let ting an animal into their college home, students must take the time to thoroughly think about
In response, her PR team released the follow ing statement, “Taylor’s jet is loaned out regu larly to other individu als. To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.”
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(Photos submitted) Left to right: Carmella and Indigo, two GC students’ beloved pets.
ties of feeding and bath room breaks. These an imals are dependent on their owner to ensure they have a healthy and happy life. Almost every thing that went into pro viding a safe and stable home for yourself is man datory for your animals.
though the statistics about celebrities seem large and notable, com mercial airlines are still used way more frequent ly and are therefore pre senting a larger issue, es
what their free time con sists of. Active lifestyle students need to be con scious of how much time goes into owning a pet.
“When I first got my cat, I knew that bud geting was something I had to learn,” said Abbee Walters, sopho more psychology major. “There have been mo ments when I have to put my wants to the side to tend to my cat’s needs.”
Topping the list of ce lebrities whose private jets have been in the air the most in 2022 is Tay lor Swift. This pop icon’s jet spent 15.9 days in the air in just the first half of 2022. Swift underwent fire for her vast levels of carbon emissions, espe cially on social media.
Adopting and own ing an animal can be very costly. As far as college students’ finan
After studying for long periods of time or being in class all day
“Being responsible for an animal’s life taught me important qualities like patience, trust, and a lot of love.”, said Alay na Fogarty, senior mass communication major.
“College students are one of our most fre quent adopters,” Bennett said. “They have to go through the application and it takes at maximum a week to go through
their animals are ready for them to come home and love on them. Tak ing them on walks and even playing for 10 min utes with them is a great way to regroup yourself.
Before adopting stu dents need to educate themselves on what they need to do to prepare an adequate living situation and lifestyle for their pet and themselves. It is im portant to think critically before adopting an ani mal as a college student.
To save one life is to protect the other. Adopt animals to give them a forever home, not just for your own sake of wanting an an imal for a few weeks.
Sienna Slater is a sophomore environ mental science major at GC. She has learned about the negative im pacts of global warming and carbon emissions in many of her classes.
Many GC students have houses full of ani mal companions. How ever, it can be difficult to manage a life as a full-time student and a caregiver to an animal.
Adopting an animal comes with more than your daily responsibili
“I spend much of my free time with my dog,” said Drew Hill, junior business major. “Ei ther I will take him on a walk around down town or we will hangout together on the couch.”
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“The amount of greenhouse gasses that are released into the air has really negative effects on the environment, and the only way to stop and reduce climate change is to reduce the amount of carbon that is released into the air,” Slater said.
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Being a pet-owner comes with many chal lenges. Fiscal, physical and even emotional. Be ing a pet owner is not ideal for everyone. How ever, that doesn’t stop GC students from add ing their own furry com panions to their family.
“Once I got my dog, I had to revamp my time management to fulfill my schoolwork accord ingly in order to give my dog the time he needs,” said Carlyn Freeman, junior marketing major.
sor of mass communica tion, conducted research on crisis communica tion and is the faculty advisor for PRSSA, the Public Relations Stu dent Society of Ameri ca. Christensen gave his take on how Swift’s PR team handled the back lash of the situation.
pecially with how much more difficult it would be to reduce their use.
As a whole, if hu manity wants to reduce the amount of carbon being released into the
GC students are also very aware of climate change and the green house effect. It can be
Kate Bennett, vice president of Arf & friends and volunteer at Milledgeville animal shelter, talks about the process of adopting a pet through Arf and friends.
Animals can pro vide many lessons to students within their lifespan. Responsibil ity being one of the most important lessons.
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them. We make sure this is a trustworthy person and that they will be able to take care of the pet. It is somewhat of a contract. So, if they can’t take care of it, they have the option to return the pet so it does not end up a stray.”
cial means go, it can be a challenge caring for an animal when you’ve nev er been responsible for someone or something other than yourself. Stu dents often aren’t aware of just how costly a fur ry companion can be.
“We’re already at a point where climate change is irreversible, and the more we do it, the more irreversible it’s going to get. But I think that commercial airlines probably are the bigger problem and contribute more to carbon emis sions than celebrities.”
“It’s not that it’s any much more than vehi cles or commercial jets,” Mutiti said. “It’s the fact that if you compare a commercial jet that is carrying over 300 pas sengers versus a private jet carrying three or four passengers, the two are burning a significant amount of fuel and out of the exhaust fumes comes carbon dioxide.”
atmosphere and warm ing the planet, it will take measures from everybody, regard less of celebrity status.
When the black pa tients building was re built, the new building included a new facility where inhumane medi cal practices on specifi cally black women took place. This building of horrors was glossed over in the Ga. state records that Segrest examined.
According to Croft, there is not a lot of stuff about Central State at the GC library. The li
There are 25,000 un marked graves on the property. Some of them are just marked by a number while some of them have no marking at all on them. These pa tients’ entire existence was reduced to a sim ple number, but they were real people whose lives ended unfairly.
“It was August, very hot, and the heating system ran under the building, but for some
To share and preserve history, history preser vationists such as the Auntie Bellum’s Attic antique shop in down town Milledgeville have collected items from the hospital. Larry Houston, the owner of Auntie Bel lum’s Attic, received this collection from one of his vendors, Edwin Adkins. This Central State collec tion includes photos, a replica of an old electric chair, t-shirts with quirky logos on them, old doc uments and paintings.
According to Segrest, there were issues of over crowding in the building that housed the black patients. Patients in the black building, espe cially black women, re ceived significantly less necessary supplies than the white patients re ceived. In the late 1800’s, a fire burned down the black patient’s housing which resulted in one death and many patients getting tuberculosis.
brary has a few books and some annual re ports, but they do not have many resources.
“I had to read these documents very close ly before I would catch things,” Segrest said. “What they did was add this little building to do surgeries, gynecologi cal surgeries. And what was that? That was hys terectomies. So, they were starting very ear ly as the legacy of the fire and the building, having a surgery for eugenic sterilization.”
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subjected to abuse in this facility as well, however, black patients were sub jected to unfathomable horrors. When discuss ing these disparities, Seg rest referenced an article written by Ebony Mag azine in the 1940’s that equated the white pa tients experience to pris on and the black patients’ experience to a Nazi concentration camp.
“I think Milledgeville itself has done a lot of omission with the story of Central State,” Croft said. “There are periods of time where Georgia was really proud of Cen tral State, and periods of time where they have not been proud of it. The records reflect that.”
“I imagine there’s a ton of stuff still out there.”
Auntie Bellum’s At tic, an antique store in downtown Milledgeville, is currently selling items from Central State Hos pital. Before its closure in 2009, this hospital was the largest asylum in the United States, but it holds a disturbing past of racism and abuse.
Now, Central State is seen as an abandoned ghost town that is just rotting away, but the real ghosts are the patients and workers who were forgotten. Because this was once the largest hos pital in the U.S., it has im pacted thousands if not millions of people as well as influenced the way psychiatry is practiced, and this history is being lost. In order to prevent these peoples stories from being lost and to prevent these injustices from ever happening again, this history, espe cially the bad parts, must be acknowledged, taught and preserved properly.
“Through my reser ach, I realized this was a narrative about racism and the effects and after lives of slavery which are still so prevalent in the south today,” Segrest said. “Not only on this asylum, but on psychiatry itself.”
“The state of Georgia is not invested in letting people know what hap pened, from the state point of view,” Segrest said. “By the time I left, all the documents I had gone through in that mu seum had been stacked up and put away in one of the administration offices, and you couldn’t get access to them.”
Horrific stories like this are often not in the official documentation the state of Georgia has on this hospital. Holly Croft, GC’s digital archi vist, condemned the way the state has document ed Central State’s past.
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“They just got rid of all the stuff after wards,” Houston said.
There is an extensive list of reasons a person could be admitted into Central State in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. A person could be admitted for reasons such as asth ma, laziness, suppres sion of ideas about mas turbation, enthusiasm about religion, spending time in war, menstru al cramps, being kicked in the head by a horse, leaving their husband, ill treatment by husband and many more rea sons. These reasons for admission were dispro portionately used to put African Americans and women into the facility.
Mab Segrest, author of Admission of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunt ing of American Psychi atry at the Milledgeville Asylum, spent 15 years researching this hospital.
Similar to the stories of the patients, the sto ries of these workers are lost. After receiving a grant from the Institute for Museum and Li brary Services, Croft is working alongside Evan Levett to record sto ries of past employees.
“I’ve compared this fire with some asylum fires in Ohio and in the north, and their patients were taken into peoples homes and churches and cared for,” Segrest said. “Whereas, these black patients were put in prisons or in the tun nels under the campus.”
(1) One of the several buildings abandoned at Central State Hospital’s campus, (2) Items relating to Central State being sold at Auntie Bellum’s Attic
By the 1960’s, many of these workers were passionate about help ing these patients, but unfortunately, even the people who came to this hospital for good reasons were traumatized. Rich ard Brookins, a friend of Segrests, came to Cen tral State in the 1950’s in hopes of helping people in need, but on his first day of work he experi enced the first of many traumatizing events.
Working at Central State was one of the best paying jobs with the most benefits in central Georgia; there fore, until its closure, it was the biggest employ er in Baldwin County.
“It was like its own little town,” Croft said. When you’re talking about employees of Cen tral State, you’re not just talking about nurses and doctors.You’re talking about dentists, firemen and people who served food. One of the largest kitchens in the United States is at Central State.”
Patients were segre gated until the 1960’s.
There used to be a small museum at The Depot that had some resources about Central State hospital, but this museum is no longer in use. Now, the museum is being moved to the Central State campus. This museum will in clude the materials from the old Georgia capitol building, but accord ing to Segrest, the sec tion about Central State will shrink dramatically.
“Oral histories are wonderful but also you wish that there was more documentation,” Croft said. “You’re do ing the oral history to create the documenta tion for something that should already exist. That’s just not out there.”
White patients were
reason the heat was still running and the doors were locked,” Segrest said “32 people died that night. It’s not so clear if they just died there or if something was happen ing across the campus. I looked in the records, and I could never find it.”
“We have to stop enter taining this fiction that it happened 100 years ago, and we have no respon sibility for those events,” said Mark Huddle, pro fessor of African Amer ican history and popular culture. “Without that acknowledgement, there can be no reconcilia tion. Without reconcili ation we cannot create a more equitable society.”
human cognition which found that it compris es at least three distinct mental traits,’’ Connor said. “IQ tests have been used for decades to as sess intelligence but they are fundamentally flawed because they do not take into account the com plex nature of the human intellect and its differ ent components.” There are some professionals that argue the validity of cognitive tests for a business setting. For ex ample, Thomas Co. re
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I think knowledge is such a subjective thing that it cannot be deter mined by a test with spe cific questions about cer tain criteria. In general, knowledge for everyone is different. For example, a successful artist is most likely to be highly edu cated in artistic concepts.
I believe that it would be impossible for a test to determine a person’s true capabilities and in tellectual range. This line of thinking is backed by Independent Co.’s article, “IQ tests are ‘fundamen tally flawed’ and using them alone to measure intelligence is a ‘falla cy’, study finds,” writ ten by Steven Connor.
“In the end, who saves Hogwarts? The kids,” Chitwood said. “Yes a number of good-heart ed teachers come to their aid, but it’s the kids who plot, plan, strate
In the same way, a sci entist will have the most awareness of scientific related experience. With this concept in mind,
“Fall is towards the end of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and while I know Christ mas isn’t a part of all that, we certainly start hearing about the hol
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ies that are fitting for the months of October through December. The copious amounts of food during the feasts seems fitting for Thanksgiving season and the gener al spooky aspects of the films, especially that of Prisoner of Azkaban, are perfect for Halloween.
The Harry Potter movies are a staple tra dition for many during the fall and winter sea sons. Although there are not technically Christ mas films, it is general ly around this time of year that people gather with friends and fam ily to binge the series. Something about the cozy Hogwarts scenes and the dark and dreary cinematography make it comforting during the cold seasons of the year.
Here on campus, it is interesting to see some of the different houses fellow students feel they identify with. A poll con ducted to 90 students via Instagram found that Sly therin is the most com mon, coming in at 40%. Next is Hufflepuff with 30% and both Gryffin dor and Ravenclaw fin ishing at 15%. Looks like GC should keep an eye out for the dark mark with all these Slyther ins around. Kidding!
cover insights across different disciplines,” Thomas Co. said. “As a business manager, if your line of work pos es daily challenges, you want someone that can demonstrate the abili ty to adapt and change and show the attitude to do this before hiring.”
As a young woman it was always Hermione Granger that inspired me the most. Her intel ligence and confidence were so incredible to me, and I grew up studying
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In most of the movies it is often portrayed to be cold outside with snow covering the rooftops of the shops in Hogsmeade. There is also something so warm and inviting about the Gryffindor common room with its warm fires and big comfy chairs. The Collider arti cle, “My Comfort Mov ie: Why ‘Harry Potter’ Comforts Even When Adults Disappoint”, writ
ten by Adam Chitwood explains how he feels the series is a comfort to peo ple of any demographic.
leased an article in 2020 titled, “The Importance of Intelligence Tests in Modern Recruitment”, which argued that IQ tests are crucial for en suring that employee positions are filled by the most qualified candidate. The writing claims that IQ assessments are ad vantageous because they make recruitment more targeted, save time and money and get future insights into
I think that IQ tests could have been a good concept had they been conducted with a wider range in mind and pro vided inclusivity to those of any demographic or
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movies so close. I think it’s because they truly do inspire young people to be bold and brave and to stand up for what they believe in. That at the end of the day it was the adults that were failing and the kids that were saving the world. Even as an adult, I go back
This outlook was re markable because it opened a new thought process for me consid ering why I hold these
hard wanting to be like her. My love for the char acter helped me to grow as a person and to feel female empowerment for the first time. The offi cial Wizard World web site released an article titled, “The Importance of Hermione Granger,” which explores the be
I have read the series each year since I was a child. Last year, I also went with some fami ly friends to Universal Studios Harry Potter World in Orlando, Fl. during November. Many childhood dreams were achieved that weekend.
Whether it be the bravery of Gryffindor, the intelligence of Raven claw, the empathy of Huf flepuff or the ambition of Slytherin, viewers have a house that they feel fits them best. Fans are also able to take a test on the Wizarding World web site that helps them find what house suits them best. My results ended up being Ravenclaw and I cannot say that I’m sur prised or disappointed.
gize, and mobilize. They realize, as they enter young adulthood, that they can no longer wait around for others to do the right thing. They’re gonna have to do it themselves, even if it means self-sacrifice. And that’s damn inspiring.”
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iday a lot during the fall season,” Joest said. “Like Halloween, a lot of Christmas lore is reliant on magic and perhaps the most magical person of them all, Santa Claus. This may be why there are some fans who con sider the Harry Potter movies more of a winter watch, by the way, but that’s just my theory.”
every year to watch my childhood heroes defeat Lord Voldemort and epi cally save their world. In some ways, it is like a well needed reset each winter to prepare me for the upcoming new year.
It is a bit strange that these movies have such a large impact on people in the chillier seasons. Giv en that the overall plot is about an orphan boy that is fighting for his life majority of the time, it seems unusual that these films are such a comfort to so many. In the Cine ma Blend article, “Why Fall is the Best Time to Binge Harry Potter ‘’ Mick Joest breaks down why these movies have such an impact on people specifically in the months leading up to Christmas.
loved character and the lessons that she taught us. “Lessons that say that it’s important to be out spoken and stubborn –it can win you even the most difficult situations,” The article said. “Her work ethic, her sheer willingness to do what she believed was right, is inspiring. In short, Her mione Granger was the real hero of the outfit.”
Another huge part of the movies that people identify with is the school houses and the traits that go with them. It’s fun and inclusive, providing a wide range of traits that viewers can identify with.
race. It is a shame that there was a period that these tests were used for the malicious purpose of not allowing minorities the opportunity to get a job. In general, it is not possible to truly measure the intelligence of a per son. The human mind is incredibly complex, and everyone retains information different ly. With this in mind, it does not seem possible for a test to determine an individual’s capability to succeed in a position.
On Sept. 8, Queen Elizabeth II was pro nounced dead after a 70-year reign over the United Kingdom and 14 other commonwealth realms. On Wednesday, Sept. 14, the queen’s four children, grandchildren and certain members of her staff trailed her cof fin as it was processed through central London.
again.” while the world turned upside down during the pandemic.
Foundation Hall: Abbi Clark, freshman nursing major, provided an expe rience she was met with this year in the dorms.
Senior one: “So, fresh man year, I came to GC without any of my high school friends and decid ed to take random room mates. I thought it would be fun and I knew I was going to be busy anyways so it would not be super awkward.One day, my roommate decided to drive to Florida and buy 2 frogs from a random ad she saw on Facebook. Without telling any of us, she brought them home and kept them under her bed in a cage for the rest of the school year. I mean, you do you, but I remember feeling like that was information that should have been shared with myself and my other roommates. Not to mention how dan gerous and odd it was to meet a random person to buy frogs from. Had she
ed to take matters into my own hands. It was at this point that I found a moldy pumpkin in the corner of the room that my roommate forgot about. It was disgusting and to this day I will not buy real pumpkins for fear that I’ll experience that horrible smell again.”
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would not go away my freshman year. I looked everywhere around the room only to determine that the smell had to be coming from my room mate’s side of the room. I persistently asked her what the smell was, but she continued to dismiss the comment, claiming she did not smell any thing. After weeks of the pungent smell, I decid
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in jail cells because they are singles, but we are hoping it will all be fixed soon. Fingers crossed.”
“Foundation hall was receiving maintenance to help fix some issues occurring with the ac units while my room mate and I were in class. I live on the fourth floor of Foundation.While the maintenance men were up there, they hit the water line right above our dorm. I received a call from my CA while I was in my literature class stating that my dorm was completely flooded. I ran back to our room and there were at least 15
At just 24 years old, Queen Elizabeth took accession after her fa ther died. Before her life as a monarch, however, she only had a few short years of being a naval wife and served in the women’s branch of the British army during the second world war. Unlike many of her successors, Queen Elizabeth was made to be a monarch. It was during her speech on her 21st birthday that
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Maintenance men stand ing in feet of water. Our beds, computers, clothes, food, rug and the wall paper my dad hung were all floating and ruined at our feet. Since our dorm was completely unlivable at that point, they moved us into temporary dorm rooms while they gut and fix our ruined dorm room. The rooms we are currently in are like living
GC offers first-year students the opportunity to live on campus in one of their residence halls. Freshmans can rank their desired residence hall from GC’s 7 offered, as well as their roommates and suitemates. With such an unprecedent ed year of beginnings ahead of these freshmen, unprecedented experi ences warrant as well.
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“I remember this re ally awful smell that
Many of our child hood fantasies and sto ries told have been about a good queen or king, or, if not, replaced with a good princess or prince. Queen Elizabeth showed us that it does not have to be imaginary, and it can, in fact, be a reality.
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was built to be a mon arch, The New Yorker remarks her majesty as the “ceremonial head of state, empty mirror for the nation to gaze upon itself, the C.E.O. of a rich dysfunctional dynasty.” The queen re mained steadfast surviv ing King Charles affair with Camilla, the death of Princess Diana, Prince Andrew and his connec tions to Epstein, rumors that Prince William was having an affair, and Me gan and Harry receiv ing freedom from the “royal cage”. Even with dismissing themselves from the royal lifestyle, Harry and Megan, in an intense interview with Oprah discussing their leave from the firm, nev er accused the queen of anything, especially not of being callous or racist.
I think that living in the dorms provided me with some of my favorite experiences that I keep with me even as a se nior. While living close in proximity to 3 other people can be difficult, it was filled with so many memories. Freshman year, my roommates and I decided to go down town after a long week of classes. When we got back to our hallway, we found all the furniture from the study rooms pushed out into the middle of the halls, dé cor ripped off our doors and honestly everything in complete shambles. Although there were al ready smeared avocado stains and broken exit signs adding some spice to our hall, I cannot help but think that was a little too much destruction.
King Charles, while being raised and trained to take his mother’s posi tion, has been the direct cause of much scandal and scrutiny that the queen received during her reign. Because of this bad public view on the new king, will Britain follow in the footsteps of Barbados in remov ing the head of state or Jamaica whose prime minister said his country would be “moving on’’ from the British monar chy. This is hard to say.
Parkhurst Hall: Two anonymous GC se niors provided differ ent animal experienc es within the dorms.
Will anyone ever again share Queen Eliz abeth’s innate apprecia tion of the mystique of the monarch or her nat ural royal dignity? Time can only tell. As for the late sovereign, she was regarded as the “splendor of our political and mor al inheritance,” accord ing to the Washington Post. It will be difficult to name any royal that would carry the power as graciously and convinc ingly as the queen did.
Queen Elizabeth, while subjected to much scrutiny during her time, was noted to never show her dissatisfaction, reign ing with great fortitude. According to the New Yorker, the queen made “I have to be seen to be believed” her aphorism of ruling. She upheld this value in being the first monarch to visit Ireland after gaining its indepen dence in 1921. In chan neling her inner Dame Vera Lynn, Queen Eliz abeth said “We will be with our friends again; we will be with our fam ilies again; we will meet
Although the queen
According to the Washington Post, though Democracy left her no governing power, Queen Elizabeth was ahead of her time in spearheading notions of equality and diversity in the Com monwealth and, by most accounts, she made her views discreetly known to successive prime min isters that she met with weekly. Margaret Thatch er, long serving Prime Minister, upheld labor policies and a reluctance to impose sanctions on South Africa. These de cisions left her at odds with the queen’s views. The royal press secretary, Michael Shea, told jour nalists that the queen regarded the prime Minister’s views as “un caring, confrontational and socially divisive.”
Yes, her majesty was met with a “dysfunc tional dynasty” but her
this would be recognized by not just her people but by the world. Queen Elizabeth said, “I de clare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your ser vice and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.”
Long live the Queen of England.
steadfastness, unwav ering loyalty to country and years on the throne lead to her defining the constitutional monarch of Europe and of the world. This does, how ever, pose the question, can one family represent an entire nation and its values with Queen Eliz abeth’s passing and the dysfunctional dynasty that is left to take charge?
This week I asked a slew of students ranging from first years to fourth year to share their stories and experiences while living in the dorms.
Wells Hall: Fourthyear middle-grades co hort member, Claire Garwes, senior middle grades education major, provided an experience she was met with fresh man year in the dorms.
Not my opinion but yours: GC dorms edition
Abigayle Allen Opinion Editor
Senior two: “My roommate and I found stray kittens running around campus one day and decided to “save them.” Three days later, our room was covered in cat feces, and we unfor tunately found out that these kittens were also infected with worms. We took them to an animal rescue shortly after this.”