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COVER dESIGNBRANdEN LEFTY

PHOTOBRITTANY McKOY

Student Ashley McCabb pauses to look at one

of the shir ts in the Clothesl ine Project

display in the Student Center.

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Student gets picked for NASA programBrad JamisonStaff [email protected]

Gainesville State College student John Luecke is one step closer to achieving his dream.

Luecke will travel to Johnson Space Center in Houston in late October as part of the National Community College Aero-space Scholars program sponsored by NASA.

Luecke says he has had a life-long inter-est in NASA.

“My mother used to take us to the li-brary and I would spend all of my time in the 500s (science) section.” He said having seen Neil Armstrong walk on the moon also boosted his interest.

Luecke, who has maintained a 3.7 GPA while balancing a full-time job and four children, is among 89 students from around the country taking part in the pro-gram.

The students will spend three days form-ing fictitious companies centered around Mars exploration. These "companies" will develop and present Mars rover prototypes as well as business plans.

Participants will also be briefed by NASA astronauts and given a tour of the space center.

Although Luecke has always hadan in-terest in NASA, he admits "a lot of things in life got in the way."

A successfully recovered alcoholic and ex-Naval person, Luecke said, "My wife and I separated three years ago. That's when I got myself together. The man up-stairs said, 'OK, John, you've got one more chance.'"

Luecke was determined to do some-thing with his life.

“I wasn't going to be flipping burgers at the age of 50. I was going to go back and do what I should've done straight out of high school."

After a friend told him about the HOPE grant certificate, Luecke enrolled as an engineering major at GSC. First enrolling in the personal trainer certificate, Luecke soon switched to the geographic informa-tion systems certificate on the advice of Professor J.B. Sharma.

"John lives up to the ideal of a perpetual scholar," Sharma said. "He has a family and a job, has been taking very challenging courses with meritorius results. His love of learning is an inspiration to all of us."

Lueke completed his GIS certificate this past summer.

Amid the excitement of his trip to Hous-ton, Luecke commended NASA for many of their findings to "green" jobs" we have

today. "People (who advocate "green" projects) don't understand that some recycling technologies and monitoring the planet itself all come from the space program. We wouldn't even know about the hole in the ozone layer if it weren't for NASA."

With the program focused around the Mars rover, Luecke was optimistic about the possibilities of Mars exploration.

"Where there's water, there's life. And they've already found water there, so I'm sure that there's some sort of bacterial life form."

He went on to cite Europa's (Jupiter's moon) under-ice ocean as the "perfect ex-ample" of the possibility of life outside of Earth. He hopes to be part of the engineer-ing team to send the first manned mission to Mars.

“Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do something," he said. "The worst thing you can do is fail and you learn just as much from your failures as you do from your successes."

After graduation, Luecke plans to at-tend the Georgia Institute of Technology for aerospace engineering.

“I wasn’t going to be f l ipping burgers at the

age of 50. I was going to go back and do what I should’ve done straight

out of high school.”

John Luecke, student selected for

NASA Program

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Brad JamisonStaff [email protected]

The University System of Georgia has mandated that all schools change the current three-year suspension policy to a one-year suspension policy, including Gainesville State. All USG schools have until fall 2012 to enforce the change; GSC is implementing the pol-icy effective immediately. The policy applies to any Learning Support student who receives a “U” in their exit-level (0099) class.

Learning Support students are given two attempts for reading and English and three attempts total for LS math. Under the previous policy, stu-dents who failed to meet these requirements were allowed to appeal for an additional at-tempt. The new USG policy does not allow for any addi-tional attempt.

Dede deLaughter, interim director of Learning Support, says that USG does look at whether or not students come back after three years. Unsur-prisingly, very few do.

“That’s not hard to under-stand,” deLaughter said. “Three years is a long time to be hang-ing. That could be the reason-ing behind the new policy: make it punitive, somewhat, have consequences, give stu-dents one year --three consec-utive semesters -- to make any changes they need to before ap-plying for readmission.”

Vice President of Academic Affairs Al Panu feels like the changes are positive.

“It shortens the time period over which a student can try again,” Panu said.

“With a three-year suspen-sion, there is a greater pos-sibility of losing hope. (The changes) keep the hope alive of returning with a renewed pur-

But students lose option to appeal

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Kayla McGeeLayout [email protected]

There is an entire town under Lake Lanier--maybe several.

Houses, churches, and old businesses lay rotting under the water. Gas stations stand with their carports still intact. There’s even an old racetrack-- its con-crete bleachers were visible during the worst of the drought that hit Georgia this past decade.

This is what the popular belief is, anyway.

It is true, those concrete bleachers were visible in late 2006, but the truth about what lies beneath the lake is more complicated than that.

Students at Gainesville State College are now participating in a project to help bring the truth to the surface. The project aims to map out the lake and the land as it was before the lake was there. The focus is not just on the physical ge-ography, though, and it’s not just our geographic information science stu-dents working on it, either.

“It’s going to be a very interdisciplin-ary project,” J.B. Sharma, who teaches physics and remote sensing said.

The project involves many depart-ments on campus, from the sciences to social sciences, especially students and faculty from the history department. In fact, Sharma is not the only faculty member heading this project. Dee Gil-lespie, who teaches courses in history and social work, helps run the program.

The project, which has been going on for about three years now, is funded by GeorgiaVIEW.

The project receives $5,000 in fund-ing each year. The group working on the project faces an immense challenge, which is one of the reasons this is the first year they have announced their work.

“We just weren’t ready,” Sharma said.So what is really under Lake Lanier?Fifty-six thousand acres were bought

and 700 families throughout Hall and Forsyth county were displaced when the Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Chattahoochee River and built Lake Sidney Lanier.

That does seem like a lot of people being forced to move, but it only works out to an average of one family for ev-ery 80 acres. Of course, some families owned much more than 80 acres and some owned much less.

In fact, the first homeowner who chose to sell his land to the government and move was Henry Shadburn, who sold 100 acres near Young Deer Creek in Forsyth County.

The government paid Shadburn $4,100, an amount roughly equivalent to $37,600 today according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This may not seem to be much, but it was more than the land speculators who were in-vading the area were offering, said Da-vid Coughlin, historian and author of “Lake Sidney Lanier: A Story.”

One reason the land might not have been worth much was its development. The image the public seems to have of the community under Lake Lanier is of a small but bustling town with a busy main street with restaurants, shops and homes that were modern and placed close to each other. This is not the truth.

In reality, the community that was evacuated and flooded was a sprawl-ing, rural community full of farms and woods and houses that were not wired for electricity and did not have indoor plumbing. In fact, the first plans the Corps made for the dam placed it near Roswell in a more heavily populated area. The dam was moved to an area near Buford because of the smaller pop-ulation.

The government was also careful in the way it bought the land. There were

people who were unhappy about hav-ing to move, some so angry they drove government officials off their land with shotguns, Coughlin said. And in these cases the government did exercise emi-nent domain. However, they were fair in their payments and offered more money to families who had obviously put more money into improving their land. They also offered families complete access to the shore after the lake was finished, even though the lakefront is technically owned by the government, if the fami-lies had spent their own money to have their property surveyed. Also, a prop-erty’s proximity to things like churches and schools affected their worth.

The idea that there are buildings left under the lake is not entirely true.

Members of the Corps ended up de-stroying a lot of the structures in the area because they could have proven hazardous if left behind. Many of the buildings were made simply of wood and other materials that would have rotted in the water and, if a house rot-ted and floated to the surface of the lake, it could prove to be a navigation hazard for boats and other watercraft. Buildings made of stone or other mate-

rials that would not rot were left as they were. The racetrack bleachers visible during the drought in 2006 were made of concrete, for instance.

So, while there may be some truth to the idea that there is an entire commu-nity under Lake Sidney Lanier, the story has gotten a little corrupted as time has passed. There are some buildings left standing and some evidence of things such as roads and old bridges, but there is not much and what little there is is spread much farther and wider than most people think.

Students, faculty uncover Lake Lanier’s history

(Above) A map showing an example of students’ work at the lake.(Right) Robert David Coughlin, author of Lake Sidney Lanier: A Story, recently visited the college and discussed the construction of the dam.

Daniel Dove

GSC Spatial Analysis Laboratory

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Daniel DoveNews [email protected]

Amid concerns that undocu-mented and illegal students are flooding the university system, the Georgia Board of Regents passed controversial measures last week to keep such students out of Geor-gia colleges and universities.

The regents voted Wednesday, Oct. 13, to change the application and admission process for Univer-sity System of Georgia Schools.

Under the new regulations, any institution that has had to turn away qualified students in the past two years will not be allowed to admit undocumented students.

Additionally, any student who is determined to be undocument-ed will be required to pay out-of-state tuition. These new provi-sions will go into affect for the Fall 2011 semester.

According to a report by the BOR, of the 310,000 students en-rolled in the University System of Georgia, only 501 are undocu-mented. All of these students are paying out-of-state tuition.

Following the regents' decision, Jerry Gonzalez, executive direc-tor of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, was not happy about the ruling.

"We're clearly very disappoint-ed by this. This makes Georgia the second state in the country to ban access to higher education," said

Gonzalez. "The Board of Regents went against their mission of pro-moting access to higher educa-tion."

"Despite the fact that [the stu-dents] are academically qualified, despite the fact that they are pay-ing more than their fair share for tuition, they are being denied ac-cess to education," said Gonzalez.

"The committee did say they were conflicted with this, but they chose to act as immigration cops anyway. They're putting the insti-tutions of higher learning in a po-sition to enforce federal immigra-tion laws," said Gonzalez.

Supporters of the legislation were pleased with the ruling.

"Today the Board of Regents went one step closer to the origi-nal intent of the 2006 of the Geor-gia Security and Immigration Compliance Act. I'm very happy to see what the Board of Regents has done today," said D.A. King of The Dustin Inman Society.

"Post-secondary education is

not something we can offer to the entire planet," said King. "I'm proud to see that the Board of Re-gents have taken a very reasonable course today. I do not believe they have gone far enough, but I pre-dict the [Georgia] legislature will finish the job in January."'

"We have to have a priority on who we allow into our limited seating classrooms," said King. "With what the Board of Regents has done today, we are only ex-cluding illegal aliens from five universities."

Leading a resistance to the pro-visions pass by the BOR was a group of students and faculty from Gainesville State College.

"I must say I'm actually a bit surprised at the decision made by the board today. I couldn't dis-agree with this decision more," said GSC student Taylor Lanham.

Lanham, who is involved with the Students for a Progressive So-ciety, was poised to present the regents with a petition contain-ing more than 4oo signatures of students, faculty and other con-cerned citizens of Georgia.

However, the regents would only accept an earlier version by e-mail which contained fewer sig-natures.

Lanham said that he and and others at GSC will continue the fight to raise awareness and pro-mote equality. "The next step is spreading awareness," said Lan-ham.

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A few weeks ago during one of its weekly meetings, the Student Government Association voted on who was going to be the new secretary. And the winner is Sean Magee, a student and member who was very involved in SGA prior to the election.

Magee received more votes than the other two candidates, Matthew Chavez and Jonathan Oje-da.

The qualifications for becoming secretary are that the student must be currently enrolled at GSC at the time of election, a member of SGA in the semester in which the election takes place, have a minimum GPA of 2.25 and must be in good judi-cial standing with GSC.

The reason for a vacant secretary position at the start of this semester was because the position was split into two; a secretary and a treasurer. In the past the secretary was also the treasurer. David Spencer ran for treasurer last year which in turn created an open position to be filled.

SGA President An-drew Wilkinson sent out the open position, ask-ing members to nominate

current or prospective members of SGA to run for secretary.

Each candidate had to prepare a five-minute speech that told the gen-eral assembly why they should become secretary.

The basic duties for the new secretary are to take the minutes for all sched-uled SGA meetings and executive council meet-ings, coordinate the dis-play of the minutes to the general membership and to the public via the SGA website, to present min-utes from the last meeting for approval by the SGA and to keep and main-tain attendance records of meetings and events.

SGA is branching out and trying to create and incorporate a more struc-tured system.

The new tasks for Sean are mainly internal mat-ters involved with SGA.

Wilkinson said that he is pleased with the prog-ress Sean is making.

“Sean is doing great,” Wilkinson said. “I’m re-ally happy with Sean. He is organized and competent. We’re all excited to have somebody whose purpose is a lot clearer than I think we’ve had in past SGAs. He’s hit the ground run-ning and has been doing really great since being elected.”

Regents crack down on undocumented students

pose,” said Panu.Students who are suspended

for one year may not enroll in any other University System of Geor-gia school. USG is comprised of 37 schools.

While the policy is tough, de-Laughter says the most recent data (2004) shows that 79 percent of all first-time LS reading students passed on their first attempt. 77 percent passed math and 72 per-cent passed English.The Learning Support department contacted all students who were suspended as part of the old policy. “We sent out postcards to those who could reapply and who had served at least two semesters of their three-year suspension,” says deLaughter.

“We wanted to let folks knows that they don’t have to sit out for three years.” She went on to say that the Oct. 4 GSC website release of the new policy was aimed towards students who were already sus-pended.

With many Americans return-ing to school during the poor economy, the suspension policy as a whole might seem untime-ly. “ The timing is a little ironic,” admits deLaughter, “When the economy is bad, historically, that’s when enrollment in higher educa-tion and technical colleges -- espe-cially community colleges -- goes up. A one-year suspension, works in their (LS students) favor as op-posed to the three-year suspen-

sion.” Nearly one-fourth of GSC’s students are non-traditional stu-dents.

Many of these students receive student loans. Even with the one-year suspension policy, many stu-dents who are not enrolled in a school for more than six months must begin paying back those loans.

DeLaughter encourages stu-dents who are in any Learning Support class, particularly those on their final attempt, to meet with her and their advisor. She en-courages anyone who is on their final attempt and are struggling to meet with Disability Services to see if there could be a subtle learn-ing disability.

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“I ’m actual ly a bit surpr ised at the

decision made by the board today. I couldn’t disagree with this decision

more.”

Taylor Landham,student

SGA MEETINGSopen to al l students

Mondays at noon

Meeting Room 1Student Center

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Katie KeigerStaff [email protected]

There are plenty of clubs and organizations to join around Gaines-ville, but a lot of campus activities go unnoticed by many students.

Intramurals is one of these.

For people who have extra time on their hands, there are plenty of sporting opportuni-ties available. Flag foot-ball, soccer, volleyball, tennis, golf, power lift-ing, bowling to name a few.

There are some mis-conceptions about intramurals like who can participate, if there is a fee to play, and how to get involved.

Anyone who is a Gainesville State College student, faculty, staff or a Laker Society Member may join a team.

There is no cost to become part of a team and registration is done through the internet on the GSC website. A helpful FAQ is available there as well.

The main issue that intramural teams are facing is simply a lack of players be-cause of the miscommunication.

Some students on campus do not even hear about intramurals. Some know about the programs, but do not feel they have the skills because they have not played in a while.

However, there are some members of teams who are retired and still enjoy a

good game.“There are no set positions in volley-

ball,” Andie Sweat, a volleyball player said.

For this sport it makes things easier and more flexible for new and veteran players.

Also, time is a real problem that many people face when it comes to in-tramurals. For those who can be avail-able it is well worth the effort.

“It is going really well. In spring, we’ll have basketball and flag football,” Lisa Watson, an assistant to Ken Har-rison who is in charge of intramurals, said.

The intramurals being offered now to those who meet the requirements are flag football, volleyball, and soccer. Flag football is the most popular of these this season, with games still going on almost

every Monday and Wednesday until Nov. 3. All games are held at noon with differ-ent teams playing every week at one of the two football fields.

Soccer is anoth-er rather popular sport in intramu-rals being played every Tuesday and Thursday until the post season finalist on Nov. 2. Games will be held on ei-ther Soccer field 1 or Soccer field 2.

Volleyball is also available this

season on Mondays and Wednesdays at noon on either Volleyball Court 1 or 2. The finalists’ teams will compete on the Nov. 15. All these sports have a variety of teams to choose from within each sport.

Upcoming events in the world of in-tramurals include Bowling and Power-lifting.

Bowling is having a tournament on Oct. 29th at 3 p.m. Four players will be on each team and all the lanes are paid for by the school.

The Power-lifting tournament is No-vember 15-19. Power lifting is a variety of three techniques used to lift weights; squats, bench, and power clean.

To find out more go to: www.gsc.edu/campuslife/intramuralsfitness/pages/gainesvillecampus.aspx

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Students battle on the field during an intense flag football game on campus.

Nick DeAngelo

Gridiron battles at GSC SORBA Preview

On Saturday Octo-ber 30th, the Southern Off-Road Bicycle As-sociat ion (SORBA) wi l l be host ing a s ix hour mountain bike race at Gainesvi l le State Col-lege.

The race wil l s tart at 10 a.m. and wil l feature awards, swag and l ive music.

Racers wi l l ei ther be al-lowed to compete solo or on teams up to three members.

There wi l l be contests for those who decorate their bike, their pi t and/or themselves.

Al l proceeds wi l l ben-ef i t Tr ips-For-Kids, GSC SORBA and Gainesvi l le SORBA.

To register for this event, vis i t Active.com

Electronic t iming is pro-vided by dir ty Spokes.

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Volleyball scoresOct 8 Oakwood 0-2 Game Tropix Room Nazis Oct 8 F.O.B. 2-0 defectorsOct 11 Oakwood 0-2 Showtime TropixOct 11 Game 1-2 Mi l ls Gang Room Nazis

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Fal l Carnival For Kids

SGA wil l spon-sor the annual fal l carnival for kids, featur ing games presented by campus clubs for local kindergar-teners on Oct. 29.

Source: www.gsc.edu

Scholast ic Book Fair

The Education Club is sponsor-ing the 3rd an-nual Scholast ic Book Fair on Mon-day, November 15 to Fr iday, No-vember 19 f rom 8am - 8pm each day. This wi l l be a Buy-One-Get-One-Free Event, so come in and browse and buy! Books and more for al l ages, infant through grown-ups, wi l l be avai l-able.

Source: www.gsc.edu

LSA Gala

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Kathryn Brown Staff [email protected] KeigerStaff [email protected]

“I’m really similar to everyone else. I generate a lot of garbage, the only difference is I don’t throw it away,” said artist David Hamlow at the start of the “Wild Culture: Ecological Perspectives” Art Exhibit Sept. 23.

Hamlow displayed his piece “Archival Structure 4” in the Roy C. Moore Art Gallery as part of the exhibit.

At first, the piece al-most looks like a giant mass of trash.

Closer inspection re-veals it to be several boxes pieced together to form the well-designed struc-ture.

“Archival Structure 4” resulted from Hamlow saving all kinds of card-board packaging .

Because he couldn’t re-cycle in the neighborhood that he lived in, “I made a commitment to keep it all until I could recycle,” said Hamlow.

Many boxes are filled with things like receipts, movie tickets, and photos. “It becomes a conversa-tion about our daily lives,”

said Hamlow.Also part of the Wild

Culture event was a don-key named Aliass and her owner, Karin Bolender.

Starting from Lake La-nier in Flowery Branch, Bolender led students by foot down Buford High-way to the GSC amphi-theater.

The students who par-ticipated are involved in a group of classes that work together to teach com-mon objectives called the Wild Culture Learning

Community.Bolender used to walk

her donkey for weeks at a time along roads and live off of what she and Ali-ass could carry on their backs.

She did this to experi-ence nature in an intimate way and to view the world as an animal would.

During the commute, Bolender shared her ex-

perience with the students so they could see what they were missing when they drove by a seemingly normal road every day.

The students were to be silent during the trip ex-cept on breaks.

Why the silence, though?

“Seeing the world through a donkey’s point of view, not being able to speak for yourself and paying attention to little noises,” Katie Logue said.

A donkey cannot stand up to the constantly changing surroundings it is placed in.

The hike itself was a part of the art for wildlife.

The people were like pieces of art in motion for everyone to see.

While most people ignored them, some did stop to ask questions.

There were people who were: “confused, angry and acted like they saw this everyday,” Andrew Minnick said.

Though it was a hard walk because of the heat, the students still had a great time and learned a lot.

Finally, the donkey walked up to the art show in the Dunlap Mathis Building.

Mike Williams and Kai-tlyn Frizzell contributed to

A special appearence at the opening of a new art exhibit at Roy C. MooreWild culture starts out true to its name

David Hamlow, one of the artists at the exhibit, pets the donkey Aliass while owner Karin Bolender watches.

Kaitlyn Frizzell

Juan Carlos Martinez checks out one of the pieces at Wild Culture: Ecological Perspectives exhibit in the Roy C. Moore Art Gallery.

Professor Bolender and students camp out near the GSC Amphithe-ater.

Katie Keiger

“(We saw) the world though

a donkey’s point of view,

not being able to speak for yourself . . .”

Katie Logue,student

Kathryn Brown

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Brittany McKoyStaff [email protected]

“You may have never hit her, but the names you called her no one should be called,” a white t-shirt scrawled in red ink says.

Students who have walked through the Student Center during the past month have probably noticed the clothesline full of t-shirts.

The Social Sciences division has tak-en an interactive approach to spreading awareness on campus with the Clothes-line Project.

The Clothesline Project is a nation-wide project started in the 1950’s to ac-knowledge domestic violence. The proj-ect gets its name from the women who would share their stories and give each other support while hanging up laundry.

“This has morphed into just a sym-bol of speaking out,” Melani Freeman, exhibit organizer and professor in the School of Social Sciences, said.

October is domestic violence aware-ness month.

All are welcome to contribute to the Clothesline Project exhibit. The shirts are provided and are available on the Student Center stage. At GSC, the sto-ries range from personal experiences of overcoming domestic abuse to drawings and poems.

Ashley McCabe, a student, stopped by the stage to read the shirts.

“It’s so important that this is here,” she

said. “It opens peoples’ eyes about what’s going on. (It happens) a lot more often than people think it does.”

Gateway, a safe house for those flee-ing their homes to escape abuse, has do-nated yellow shirts to the event that hang in the center section of the clothesline.

The organization is also responsible for a program at GSC that collects used or damaged cell phones in a bin on the stage. These phones will eitiher be refur-

bished or placed in care packages. They may be utlized as 911 phones for those trying to escape offenders or sold to gov-ernment institutions to raise funds for those victims.

“Gateway is the only local sponsor for the phones in Hall County, but people can continue to donate their old phone to any Verizon Wireless branch, and it’s called the Hope Line,” Freeman said.

The School of Social Sciences is spon-soring the Domestic Violence Sympo-

sium on the 27th.It will be two hours long this year op-

posed to the one hour last fall.“We felt like last year we kind of ran

out of time and there was more interest for extra time” Freeman said.

The symposium will begin with Dr. Donna Echols, a psychology professor, taking a look inside the mind of the of-fender to see the signs of abuse before they start. The director of Rape Response will inform about the laws in place to protect victims, even in marriage.

There will also be a speaker from the Center of Hope and Healing discussing the correlation of child abuse and do-mestic violence. The second hour will include speakers from law enforcement officers of Hall County.

After the symposium, the School of Social Sciences will offer counseling referrals and resources for students that may be having problems with domestic violence.

“Just educating them about domestic violence is not nearly enough. Offering solutions and interventions after the symposium is really where our main fo-cus is,” Freeman said.

The Clothesline Project exhibit will hang until the end of the month.

“The shirts really represent overcom-ing adversity. All those shirts, minus the ones in yellow, are GSC students. They are doing something positive with their lives, though many might have suffered the abuse as a child. That’s a strong state-ment about the human spirit.”

(Above) A student made shirt saying “Violence Isn’t The Solution” hangs on one of the clotheslines.(Left) Students show their sup-port for the Clothesline Project by bringing in shirts with mes-sages against domestic vio-lence.

Nick DeAngelo

Melanie Freeman, (left) one of the sponsors of this project, talks to Ashley McCab (right) on the stage at the Student Center.

Brittany McKoy

LEGACY OF HOPE Exhibit sheds light on domestic violence

Brittany McKoy

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For the first year ever, CAB intro-duced the fall version of Spring Fling on campus.

“We wanted to something in the

fall that would be fun for students. We pulled it together in two weeks. It was easy to plan,” said CAB leader Etienne Joubert.

Like Spring Fling, Fall Fling includes activities for students to interact each other such as ultimate frisbee, soccer, volleyball, and football.

Along with sports, henna tattooing by CAB member Genna Williams, cari-catures and an inflatable Jumptasic slide were available for students.

CAB was able to have the event with-out spending a lot of money. Joubert said that while the Spring Fling cost around nine thousand dollars, the Fall

Fling only cost about 11 hundred.Students like Jenna Pulliam turned

out for a break in their day to participate in the event.

“I like this.” she said. “I had fun go-ing on the bouncy slide and everyone’s having fun. It is good way to make new friends.”

Fall Fling is a welcome break from midterms

(Top) Artist Don Harden displays his caracature rendition of Brittany Jessie. The caracature artists drew around 100 pictures of students at the Fall Fling. (Left) Pablo Picazo prepares to catch a football from another student.(Above) Stephanie Nunez receives a henna tattoo from CAB member Genna Williams.

Photos by Audrey Williams

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Fall has always been my favorite season. The days grow shorter and cooler as the sweltering summer sun of Georgia retreats earlier each evening, the pace of life slows, food and drink become abundant.

Beer is no exception. Breweries all over the world shift their at-tention to their autumn offerings with great care, craftsmanship and pride. These Oktoberfest ales are brewed with cinnamon, pumpkin, allspice, brown sugar and nutmeg, much like the foods that they pair strikingly well with.

Keep in mind, however, that the alcohol content (ABV) of these beers is quite higher than the 4.2 percent ABV of Bud Light and should be drunk with that in mind. Over the last month or so, I’ve had the opportunity to taste some of the greatest beers available in Georgia. Each beer is available through No-vember or December. I hope you seek out these and other artisanal beers and enjoy them as much my friends and I enjoyed drinking and reviewing them. As with any great Oktoberfest beer, they are best en-joyed with food, friends and Geor-gia’s crisp fall nights.

5. Pumking (9 percent ABV) Southern Tier Brewing Co., Lake-

wood, NY Available only in 22 oz. bottles,

this ale is a great way to break yourself into the Oktoberfest scene. Upon first sip, the robust taste of roasted pumpkin seeds coats the tongue, immediately followed by a wash of caramel, vanilla and brown sugar. A slight bitterness follows with a warming presence. This is tasty ale pairs well with carrot cake or – the obvious choice – pumpkin pie.4. Oktoberfest Ale (5.5 percent) Bell’s Brewery, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI

As one pries off the cap, a soft and inviting aroma of coriander, brown sugar and spices fills the nose. When poured into a pint glass, the smell strengthens and the head (foam) of the beer dwindles a little too quickly for my liking, but after one sip, apologies are accept-ed for the lacking of foam. A crisp, nutty and sweet flavor spreads over the taste buds and begs to be fol-lowed by another. My omnivore

roommate suggests this beer with grilled sausage or a fatty steak.3. Punkin Ale (7 percent)

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Milton, DE

Delaware’s first and only brew-ery has a 15-year-old tradition of unique and flavorful ales. This particular recipe won the brew-ery First Prize in the state’s 1994 Punkin Chunkin’ Recipe Con-test – six months before Dogfish Head became a brewery. While their year-round offerings include a 9000-year-old recipe for Chinese beer and a fermented beverage that is believed to be King Midas’ burial drink, Dogfish shows no sign of surrender with their bold and be-nevolent autumn ale. Brewed with local and organic pumpkin meat, brown sugar and spices, Punkin Ale is a libation that is deserving of a seat at your Thanksgiving din-ner table. Dogfish Head president, Same Calagione, suggests that this beer be drunk with turkey, roasted duck and stuffing. If you’re looking for a beer that drinks like a meal, then look no further than this bold and beautiful ale.2. Paulaner Oktoberfest-Marzen (5.8 percent)

Paulaner Brauerei GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Germans might not have in-vented beer, but damned if they didn’t perfect it. Since 1634, Pau-laner has been serving up signa-ture ales. In particular, this ale excites me every time I’m granted the opportunity to sample it. With a well-balanced blend of spices

and green apples, this brew is one that can be rivaled with the best of ‘em. Imagine Mom’s pumpkin pie, dusted with that thin layer of spice and brown sugar, accompanied by a subtle layer of tart, green apples. If that ain’t enough, add a dollop of whipped cream to the mix and it’s the perfect comparison to this decoratively crafted ale.1. Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale (6 percent)

Smuttynose Brewing Co., Ports-mouth, NH

Out of the several ales I tasted throughout this process, Smutty-nose’s Pumpkin Ale was the one I found myself going back for nu-merous times. After being poured into a pint glass, this ale boasts its flavor profiles and accumulates a lush, dark orange head. Cin-namon and allspice hit the nose first, followed by a warm, toasted malt scent. While the smell is bold enough on its own, the taste and drinkability of this beer is the clincher – the cinnamon, allspice, malt and subtle pumpkin flavors could not be balanced more per-fectly; no one flavor prohibits an-other from its moment of glory on the taste buds. For the vegetarians and vegans, this beer goes extreme-ly well with stuffing and vegetarian shepherd’s pie. The meat eaters will find that this ale compliments a golden roasted turkey. If you find yourself buying a six-pack of this delightful ale, you might want to consider dividing it among friends. Otherwise, you won’t remember its great taste in the morning.

Five autumn beers you gotta try

Breweries all over are bringing out their Oktoberfest ales. Smuttynose’s Pumpkin Ale is the perfect balance of cinna-mon, allspice, malt and subtle pumpkin flavors.

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Colbert & Stewart: Taking political matters seriouslyHannah GarrardStaff [email protected]

This October Comedy Central’s late night show comedians, Stephen Col-bert and Jon Stewart, are taking their political puns to new heights!

Stewart will be hold-ing the “Rally to Restore Sanity” along with Col-bert who is planning the “March to Keep Fear Alive” on Oct. 30 at the National Mall in Wash-ington D.C. The rally and march will take place from noon to 3 p.m. Rain or shine with no admis-sion fees.

Jon Stewart clarifies this rally is for Ameri-cans, “who feel that the loudest voices shouldn’t be the only ones that get heard; and who believe that the only time it is ap-propriate to draw a Hitler mustache on someone is when that person is actu-ally Hitler.”

Some of the conserva-tive right media are criti-cizing both Colbert and Stewart, believing they are making a mockery out of conservative tea

party activist Glen Beck’s rally back in March.

Stephen Colbert is even making a joke out of mockery itself, by try-ing to convince people to attend his march as op-posed to Stewart’s rally, both taking place at the same time.

As always the two co-medians are playing up their supposed rivalry, but no doubt they will both be there together along with other special guests.

Members of the GSC Democrats are pumped and ready to go. Any students interested in attending the rally can email the GSC Demo-crats at [email protected] about joining them on the trip to D.C.

With election season fast approaching in No-vember what better way to make a statement.

Being that its Hallow-een weekend Stephen Colbert suggests you wear a costume and come as your biggest fear!

Thousands are expect-ed to attend; as for me I have my Colbert tote all packed!

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It is Saturday night in New York City and 16-year-old Craig (Keir Gilchrist) is shocked and frightened to find himself standing on a narrow beam of a busy bridge, staring down at moving cars, contem-plating why he shouldn not just go ahead and jump. He rides to the nearest hospital for help and pleads to be admitted. Craig re-alizes this rash decision might be a mistake when he winds up in the adult center, surrounded by mental patients with serious problems. He quickly recants his suicidal tendencies as not that serious after all. The head psychiatrist explains he must stay for at least five days until his first evaluation and because the teen facility is currently un-dergoing renovations, he will remain in the adult mental fa-cility.

While in the facility Craig befriends Bobby played by Zach Galifianakis, who is well known for his hilarious perfor-mance in The Hangover. Al-though at times humorous with his deadpan stares and snide comments this is not Galifiana-kis’ usual role. He proves his versatile ability as an actor by creating Bobby a very complex and endearing character who shows Craig what real emo-tional wounds are and just how much Craig has to live for.

Craig also makes a con-nection with Noelle (Emma Roberts), another teen in the facility and as their budding ro-mance progresses they find yet another reason to stick around and enjoy life.

Gilchrist does an excellent job portraying the pressures often placed on kids in modern day America by competitive in-tercity schools. Throughout the film Craig explains his insecu-rities and frustrations of lack-ing a specific passion and focus, unlike his friends who seem to have it all figured out. While in an arts and crafts workshop at the mental facility Craig realiz-es his amazing artistic abilities, which have been suppressed since childhood. However, the pivotal point of the film takes place when Craig participates in the music workshop tak-ing the lead vocals, belting out “Under Pressure” expressing what the film is all about.

The film is an adaptation of Ned Vizzini’s novel, drawing from his own personal experi-ence growing up. Even though this is another predictable com-ing-of-age film, its characters and acting, especially by Gil-christ and Galifianakis make it well worth seeing. Their per-formances bring a bit of depth and reality to this empathetic dark comedy and remind us of a simple truth often forgotten; the joy of simply living and dis-covering that life is not some-thing to take so seriously.

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Entertainment Weekly re-cently asked, “How on earth did we stalk our exes, remem-ber our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"

Nielsen Online has reported that people spend more time on Facebook than on any other Web site.

What did we do before Face-book? We talked to our friends at school, we called them on the phone, and we wrote them notes in class.

Now we write notes on our friends’ wall, and talk to them

on chat, and maybe even tag them in an embarrassing photo

For most of us Facebook connected us to our world in a new way in Sept. 2006 when registration was open to every-one.

That’s right: Facebook used to be closed to everyone but college students with a valid college email address.

Facebook has allowed us to be connected to friends and family, near and far, 24/7.

With mobile apps, smart phones and a constant connec-tion to the Internet we are con-stantly checking and updating Facebook.

“I do think Facebook is con-suming our lives.” Callesha Wright said. “I'm constantly

checking it and by the time I look two hours are passed and no homework is done.”

Facebook not only connects us to people we know, but pro-vides entertainment through games such as Farmville.

“I check on my vegetables a lot,” Jordan Hobbes, a student and Facebook user, said.

Student Jonathan Cain uses Facebook on his phone and can keep up with friends anywhere, at anytime. Which seems pret-ty normal.

“(I)t’s not weird to check Facebook in any situation,” he said.

So is Facebook consuming our lives?

“For some of us, yes,” Cain said.

Is Facebook taking over our lives?

Callesha Wright checks her Facebook page on campus. Statistics say that people spend more time on Facebook than any other website.

Even though this is another

predictable coming-of-age film, its charac-

ters and act-ing, especially

by Gilchrist and Galifianakis make it well

worth seeing.

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Texting and driving has be-come a hot topic in both local and national media.

On Oct. 1 Commuter Dude, John Gerard from 11Alive news was on campus to take part in The Great Hang-Up: Don’t Text and Drive.

He showed two powerful videos. One demonstrated how using a cell phone and driving impairs one’s ability to make quick decisions when road haz-ards are presented.

The next told the story of a high school girl who died in a car crash. Text messages recov-ered later revealed that she was texting up to the moment of the accident.

After the presentation stu-dents lined up to sign pledges saying they would not use their phones while driving anymore.

Jamie Peach signed the pledge was one of them. Peach said that one of his friends died because of an accident related to cell phone use and driving and that he himself has nearly crashed.

“(I’m) just trying to stop be-

cause I’ve almost gotten into a few wrecks because of it.”

The problem is not just tex-ting while driving but talking and all the other things people can do on their phones. Today cell phones are basically small computers that make it easy to access anything in a second.

There are now laws in Geor-gia that restrict the use of cell phones while driving.

House Bill 23 prevents driv-ers in Georgia under 18 with Class D licenses from driving a car while talking on a cell phone, texting or anything oth-er than driving.

A second Georgia law, SB 360, puts the same restriction on texting while driving on drivers over the age of 18 with Class C licenses. That law only deals with writing, sending or reading a text-based commu-nication on a phone (i.e. text message, instant message or e-mail).

If caught, the fine is $150 and a point on your license.

The law is a step in the right direction but has a long way to go in order to be as affective as law makers would like it to be.

Student Linzy Kennedy said that she texts while driving, but

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New laws aim to stop texting & driving

Frida Bushra said she doesn’t agree with the new no texting and driving law.Jennifer Booth

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Having trouble picking out a spot for lunch? There is a handful of fast food res-taurants around the campus that are willing to give you a discount just for being a stu-dent. They know how hungry we get and how little change we have in our pockets. "I love using my student ID for discounts when picking a place for lunch. It's great for my budget as a student." Says Amy Deal, a sophomore at GSC.

Restaurants such as Moe’s, Burger King, Zaxby’s, Waffle House, Dairy Queen and Arby’s (excluding items on the dollar menu) guarantee 10 percent off of your entire purchase with the use of your

student ID. Also, Chick-fil-A will give you a free medium drink with the purchase of any item on the menu.

If you do not have a stu-dent ID and wish to receive one, you can visit the kiosk outside of the Game Room in the Student Center.

Are you looking for a job? Restaurants around GSC are accepting applications.

Currently accepting ap-plications are Arby’s, Sonic, Moe’s, McDonald's, Burger King, Chick-fil-A, Waffle House and Dairy Queen. If interested, stop by and pick up an application or visit the restaurants websites to re-ceive one online.

"People are friendly and understandable. It's a good working environment." Brit-ney Wehunt, a Chick-fil-A employee said.

Have retail experience? The Mall of Georgia gets ex-tremely busy during Thanks-giving and Christmas. Stores currently looking for sea-sonal help are Bath and Body Works (both upstairs and downstairs locations), The Icing, Justice for girls, Ba-nana Republic, Motherhood Maternity, Rock Shop Music and Comics, Victoria’s Secret, Chico’s, Aerie by American Eagle, See’s Candies, Hickory Farms and Crocs.

"I like working at Bath and Body Works because it's a fun experience. It's a place where I can grow and be-come an excellent sales asso-ciate." Litonya Jones, a Bath and Body Works employee, said.

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Restaurants such as Moe’s, Burger King, Zaxby’s, Waff le House, dairy Queen and

Arbys (excluding i tmes on the dol lar menu) guarenttee 10 percent off your ent i re pur-

chase with a student Id.

Amy Deal uses her student ID at Chick-fil-a to get a free drink.

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admits it’s hazardous. “(It’s) a very dangerous thing

to do. I do text and drive but I do agree with the law.”

Students may agree wtih the law, but find it difficult to break the habit.

Katherine Copeland was wearing a cast at the Great Hang-Up event. Gerard asked

her to share her story with the other students.

Copeland was run off 985 when a woman drove into her lane. The woman was talking on a cell phone.

“She came into my lane and she pushed me off the road at 70 miles an hour into the bar-rier,” Copeland said from the

student center stage. “I spun around and sling-shotted back across the interstate and landed. But she was on her phone and she couldn’t see me and she just came over.”

Peach said he was affected by the videos shown at the event.

“I don’t want to almost get into a wreck again. It scares me.”

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Mark it down right now, the Miami Heat will win the ’10-’11 NBA Title.

No athlete has taken more heat, no pun intended, over the past few months than LeBron James.

I’ll be the first to admit that I am a huge fan of James, but I am also fair in my writing and can put my personal feelings aside.

That being said….To me there is no better ath-

lete in the world than LeBron when you talk about his com-bination of size, strength and athleticism.

Almost everyone considers Michael Jordan to be the great-est basketball player who ever lived.

I myself am in the minority.I think Magic Johnson and

Oscar Robertson are the best players to ever lace up their sneakers.

Like both Magic and Robert-son, James is blessed with the size of a power forward, but also the unique skill set of a point guard.

Surely most of you know who Magic Johnson is, but I doubt you know who Oscar Robertson is.

Robertson is the only player in league history to average a

triple double for an entire sea-son.

If you are unsure what that means, it’s when someone aver-ages 10+ in three categories, i.e. points, assists and rebounds.

A fact that gets overlooked far too much. He is the most underrated player in league his-tory.

LeBron just might become the second player to average a

triple double this season.Last season he averaged 29.7

points, 7.3 rebounds and 8.6 as-sists, doing so without any other player near the caliber of Olym-pic teammates Wade and Bosh who he joins in Miami this year.

What continues to amaze me is how unselfish James is as a su-perstar.

What amazes me more is he continuously gets killed for it by the media.

James could average forty points in a season if he really wanted to, but rather than con-stantly go 1 on 5 he chooses to pass the ball to the open man, the right decision is to pass to an open NBA player making millions of dollars.

Yet when that player misses the shot, it is LeBron who is criticized. They say he doesn’t have the killer instinct.

Just go check the tape from game five of the 2007 Eastern Conference Finals against the Detroit Pistons. James scored 29 of the Cavs final 30 points, in-cluding the last 25 of the game, on the road, in a 109-107 dou-ble overtime victory.

It’s arguably the greatest playoff performance ever, right up there with Magic Johnson’s game when he started at center for the Lakers against the Sixers in the finals and scored forty in the series clincher and the fa-mous Michael Jordan flu game in the finals against the Jazz.

So don’t tell me LeBron doesn’t have that killer instinct.

The king is coming to Miami

MIKE WILLIAMS Sports Columnist

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It almost felt like the days of old as I headed to the Ted for Bobby’s last regu-lar season series.

It didn’t really hit me until I passed a car with Braves window flags flying high.

The game began with a standing ova-tion for the skipper himself, but the crowd was soon silenced as the braves fell behind early.

Phillies 11, Braves 5, it was a gut wrenching loss.

Couple that with a San Diego win, it put the Braves a mere one game up in the Wild Card.

Saturday had a different feeling to it. We had to win today, after all it was

Bobby Cox day.It was almost unreal in the stadium.Everywhere I looked there were

Braves greats standing around. Javy Lopez, John Smoltz, Greg Maddux and

Hank Aaron just to name a few. Tears filled my eyes as Bobby himself

took the stage to thank the fans, and the outpouring of love from the fans was un-like anything I have ever witnessed.

It truly felt like another world when the Braves took the field.

Unfortunately the Phillies would ulti-mately win seven to nothing.

We were now tied in the Wild Card race.

How could this happen? How could we loose on Bobby Cox day?

The possibilities left open Friday night were now limited to one day.

Sunday could have been Bobby Cox’s last game, but the Braves were not about to l0et that happen.

The Braves erupted with four runs in the fourth thanks to Tim Hudson’s RBI single and Omar Infante’s two-run triple.

Derek Lee led off the fifth with a line drive home run and the Braves soon found themselves up eight to two.

Tim Hudson pitched seven solid in-

nings allowing four runs on two hits. Jonny Venters got two quick outs in

the eighth, but after two batters reached base, Cox turned to veteran closer Billy Wagner.

There was a slight sense that the game was over with one of the best closers in baseball backing you up, what could go wrong?

An error by Infante would prove oth-erwise, and a fly ball over Nate McLouth would bring the Phillies to within one.

Fortunately Wagner got out of the eighth without anymore trouble.

The top of the ninth started and ev-eryone was on their feet. All 52,613 fans were cheering to see Wagner close it out.

He wouldn’t disappoint. He struck out the side earning Cox his final regular season win.

Cameras were locked on Bobby as he shook hands with players and umpires and the crowd began to chant, “Bobby Bobby!” It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

And then we waited around in the stadium to watch the Padres and Giants on the jumbo tron.

Right around 8 p.m., a relatively small crowd watched as Brian Wilson struck out the final Padre batter that sent the Braves to the playoffs.

For such a small crowd, we sure made a lot of noise.

Shortly after, the players stampeded out of the dugout and hoisted Bobby to their shoulders.

The Bobby chant started once again as the champagne soaked team headed back to the dugout.

Eight days later Cox’s brilliant career came to an end when the Giants beat the Braves 3-2. The Giants haulted their celebration to honor Cox’s career with a standing ovation.

Former third base coach and new manger Fredi Gonzalez has some big shoes to fill.

Mike Williams and Jennifer Booth contributed to this column.

Cox’s brilliant career comes to an end

The Heat will ultimately sweep the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals, going undefeated in the playoffs after being 74-8 in the regular season.

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The problem is he has such a high basketball IQ that he looks at situations and figures the best percentage play and makes his decision whether to pass or shoot based on that.

That’s what you should want in a player in a team sport. Someone who always puts the team first and foremost.

I have never heard a guy get destroyed for wanting to win so badly that he puts team above self.

So watch out this year, I be-lieve you will WITNESS the greatest statistical season in NBA history, and yes, pun in-tended this time for those of

you who know the campaign NIKE launched when LeBron first came into the league saying we were all Witnesses.

I also believe the Heat, with the addition of James and Bosh to go with Wade and the other complimentary pieces will be the greatest team in NBA his-tory and break the Bulls record of 72 regular season wins.

The Heat will ultimately sweep the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals, go-ing undefeated in the playoffs after being 74-8 in the regular season.

You heard it here first.

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CREATING HALLOWEEN

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Everyone’s favori te excuse to play pretend is back. Hal loween, one of the biggest consumer hol idays, begs you to spend r idiculous amounts of money on costumes and candy. In spite of the cost, some people just real ly love to go al l out. I would be one of those people.

In conjunction with my love of the spooky hol iday, is my love for make-up. Instead of buying a completely prepackaged costume, using your face and make up is a creative, budget f r iendly way to go.

Each year I t ry to outdo the previous year’s costume. This year I ’m channeling dio de los Muertos, a t radit ional Mexican hol iday of celebrating the dead. Heavy use of skul ls , f lowers, spider webs and vibrant colors are used in this hol iday. Merging the two hol idays, I came up with this.

White face paintTranslucent powderRed face paint

Green face paintBlack l iquid eye-l iner

WHAT YOU NEEd

Cover your face and l ips with white face paint. Hol low out your eye by creating a circle with black face paint. Make a scal loped detai l around the eye using red and green face paint, and black l iq-uid eyel iner. Make your face skeletal by hal lowing out your face. Use black face paint to create a spade shape on your nose. draw a f lower on your forehead with red and black face paint. Make a web on your chin with the eyel iner. draw teeth on your l ips with black face paint. Leave the other half of your face normal.

GSC student Raeanne Pagliarulo is a big fan of Hal loween. This year, she’s been invited to a Hal loween masquerade bal l and instead of buying a mask, Raeannne is looking to create one using make-up. See how i t turned out, and learn to do i t too.

Red face paintBlack face paintBlack eyel iner

Black eyeshadowGold eyeshadow

WHAT YOU NEEd

Trace the pattern you want for your mask out with the black eyel iner. Get creative and be as elaborate as you want. F i l l in the outer edge of the mask with the black face paint. F i l l in the re-mainder of the mask with the red face paint. To set the black face paint, dust some of the black eye shadow over i t . To set the red face paint dust gold eye shadow over i t . This wi l l also create a metal l ic f inish.

Student Scott damron’s t radit ional way of celebrating Hal loween has been “dress-ing up half-wit tedly and exploit ing r ich neighborhoods for candy.” Thi hal loween, he’s practicing as a zombie for a zombie f i lm with GSC’s F i lm Club).

White, burgandy, deep red, and purple face paintTranslucent powder

Black and brown eyeshadowFake blood

WHAT YOU NEEd

Cover the enti re face, even l ips, with the white Face Paint. Set i t with t ranslu-cent powder. Create bruis ing around the enti re eye using the burgundy and deep red (can mix black and red) face paint. dust over the bruis ing with a mixture of brown and black eyeshadow. Create a hal lowed, s ickly face by applying black eyeshadow on the contours of the face. F i l l in your eyebrows messi ly with black eyeshadow/eyeliner). Apply fake blood anywhere you see f i t to create a decay-ing, brain hungry zombie.