USG copes with budget cuts, possible student fee increase
A University System of Georgia-wide budget cut increase from 6 percent to 8 percent will result in eliminating many positions that are currently frozen according to GCSU President Dorothy Leland. An additional $150 mandatory emergency fee may be added to the existing fee, totaling $250 per student for Spring 2010 semester, according to Leland.…
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District 4 race goes to Joiner
Phillip Joiner was elected to the Milledgeville City Council this past Tuesday, winning 71.8 percent of the vote in a three-way race for the District 4 seat. Joiner had 298 votes, while his opposition, John Alton and Ed "Dodo" Hollis garnered 83 and 34 votes respectively.…
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Congressman Barrow hosts financial literacy program
Building student-loan debt alongside escalating credit-card use during college can cause many students to start their financial futures off on the wrong foot.
U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., held a forum on financial literacy this past Monday at West Campus to inform GCSU students and community members about available opportunities for staying financially responsible in Baldwin County.…
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Low lottery funds put HOPE at risk
Sophomore management major Ryan Brown is one of many students at GCSU and across the state of Georgia who has benefited from the HOPE Scholarship program. Naturally, he's concerned about recent reports that the program, funded by the Georgia Lottery, is beginning to dwindle.…
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Construction continues at the Village at West Campus
The whirring and buzzing of saws and machines reverberated across the Village at West Campus as residence hall construction continued in late October.
Construction began during the summer and was intended to be complete before the official move-in day. Originally, the crews were only intent on repairing the stairwells of the 100, 200 and 300 buildings on West Campus.…
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For those interested, Milledgeville has a healthy selection of body art and piercing shops to choose from.
For those interested, Milledgeville has a healthy selection of body art and piercing shops to choose from.
Wayne Street Tattoo, Pair-O-Dice Tattoo and Bluz Tattooz, are three parlors in the city and they all lay within about three miles of the GCSU main campus.…
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Flashbacks
This Month in Colonnade History:
On Nov. 7, 1934, the superintendent of the Atlanta public schools, Willis A. Sutton spoke an address to the students and faculty on the upcoming changes in education. He spoke mostly in how teachers must adjust to its students but also a point was made that the students must enrich their own education experiences as well.…
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Junior Jouranlists
Last week, the president and other members of Georgia Partnership for
Excellence in Education toured the Georgia College Early College program. The Partnership made six stops over three days during the their tour. Below are the experiences of 10th graders in the program.…
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Press secretary joins SGA
Two resolutions, one on campus ethos and the second streamlining the procedure for requesting money from the Student Activity Budget Committee, were approved this past Wednesday by the Student Government Association during its weekly meeting in the Magnolia Ballroom.…
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SGA discusses possible Greek community
According to some within the Student Government Association, GCSU aspires to build a Greek community on West Campus in the future in hopes of further enhancing student affairs and increasing Greek involvement.
"The university is interested in moving forward and has communicated with University System staff and with people who have been involved in the planning of similar facilities on other campuses," Dr.…
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Several birth-control options on the market
A 17-year-old girl suddenly collapsed and died this year from a pulmonary embolism. This is just one in a number of cases of pulmonary embolisms in the last five years in people under the age of 60. Pulmonary embolism is normally a condition found in the elderly.…
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67 percent of GCSU population in favor of smoke-free campus
The results of an online survey regarding the no-smoking proposal are finally in. With an estimated majority of 67 percent, GCSU students surveyed appear to be in favor of the newly proposed policy. But what does this mean? And when, if ever, will it come into effect?
Greg Brown, the associate director of Auxiliary Services at GCSU, has played a large role in the awareness and organization of the proposal.…
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