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Valdosta to choose new mayor Tuesday

This year’s municipal electionballot includes a couple of hot-button issues, like Sunday alco-hol sales and school consolida-tion, but most items are for cityofficials.

only residents living within acity’s limits may vote in thisyear’s election.

Municipal elections, like thisone, fall on odd-numbered yearswhile state and national officialsare elected in even-numberedyears.

Valdosta residents may votefor one of three candidates run-ning for mayor: Brooks Bivins,John Gayle, or Gary Minchew.

Each candidate told mass me-dia department head frank Bar-nas about his plans for beingmayor on Barnas’ newsTalk105.9 radio show, “The MorningDrive.”

Bivins is a Valdosta native anda graduate of Barry college. Theformer Valdosta High Schoolsubstitute teacher, who is now amill worker at Packing corpora-tion of America in clyattville,considers himself “a christian,not a politician.”

“What i would like to bring tothe table is a working man’spoint of view, just an everydayperson,” Bivins said on the show.

“What i would like to dois…have a transparent gov-ernment where really the peo-ple have a voice, because i amnot a politician. Your concernsare my concerns…i want toget this right with the people.We can work together and getthis right. it’s not me, it’s us,and your voice will be heard.”

Gary Minchew, a Valdostanative, local real-estate brokerand former chairman of theValdosta Lowndes county in-dustrial Authority, is also inthe mayoral race.

Minchew is the candidatebehind the yellow “Jobs, Jobs,Jobs!” signs and says he hashelped bring jobs to Valdostafor many years through his in-volvement with bringing incommercial businesses.

on Barnas’ show, Minchewsaid that he decided to run formayor because he has been inter-ested in politics for a long time.He also stated that if he becomesmayor, Ashley Paulk will be thecounty commission chairman.

“Ashley and i have been bestfriends since we were five yearsold,” Minchew said.

“[i’m] not saying we haven’thad disagreements, i mean, i did-n’t like it when he wouldn’t fixmy speeding ticket when he wassheriff, but…if there’s an issue between the city and county,Ashley and i are going to go to aroom or go to his farm or myfarm and we’ll work it out.”

According to Minchew’s cam-paign website, “The job of May-or is mainly a ‘selling job’—selling the city of Valdosta towhomever will listen.

Gary has been a salesmansince he was 15 years old and

knows how to sell any producthe believes in; he believes in Valdosta and knows how to sell it.”

John Gayle was the first ofthe three candidates to an-nounce his intent to run formayor. He said on “TheMorning Drive” that he start-ed thinking about runningaround christmas of 2010 andcited his top priorities asspending taxpayers’ moneywisely and bettering relationsbetween the city and county.

“i certainly believe that thecouncil and county commis-sioners are at odds sometimesand i hope that we can workon a better relationship withthe county commissioners,”he said.

“i think that’s very important. We all live in the same community, whether we’re Lowndes countians or Val-dostans, and we’ve got to get along. if we don’t get along, that costs everybody money, inmost cases.”

Gayle moved to Valdosta with his family in 1951 when

he was about eight years old. Heis a graduate of Valdosta Highand Valdosta State college (nowVSU).

Gayle is a local business man

who has assumed various leader-ship roles in the community in-cluding President of the ValdostaJaycees, President of the Valdos-ta country club, chairman ofthe Board of Deacons of firstBaptist church, outstandingYoung Men of America, andKappa Alpha order, according tohis website.

Valdosta residents may alsochoose one of two candidates forcity council At Large: Mattflumerfelt or incumbent Ben H.norton.

flumerfelt is a health-careprovider who has lived in Val-dosta since 1982. He is also awriter and musician interested inbeautifying his city.

“i think that Valdosta is grow-ing,” flumerfelt said.

“i think we’ve got to get pre-pared for the next round ofgrowth. We need to work on in-frastructure. i want to work onbeautification, myself, and moveValdosta more towards tourismand away from heavy industry.

Tourists spend a lot of moneyand if they stop off here on theway to florida, we’d like them tostay, shop, eat, spend money, andthen go wherever they’re going.”

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Huckabeevisits Ga.for benefit dinner

College students use

dating website to help

pay for school tuition

A new website is causing con-troversy by offering students achance to meet men and womenwilling to pay the students’ col-lege tuition, otherwise known asSugar Daddies or Sugar Mom-mies.

A number of VSU students areregistered on the website to re-ceive financial help from SugarDaddies or Mommies.

The website, seekingarrange-ments.com, was founded by dat-ing expert Brandon Wade and be-came available in year 2006.

The website, featured in thenew York Times, ABc news, Dr.Phil and even Playboy, offerswhat Wade describes as “mutual-

ly beneficial relationships.”According to a story ran in the

Huffington Post, “of the site'sapproximately 800,000 members,Wade estimates that 35 percentare students.”

The website lists the top col-leges with sugar babies. University of california ranks in13th place with 193 sugar babies,Harvard University in 8th placewith 231, and new York Univer-sity is number one with 498.

The website is completely freeand does not reveal names. Eachmember is given a user name in-stead.

Students must first create aprofile, listing their location, age,and any other information aboutthemselves. After the profile isactivated, the search for a sugardaddy begins.

former presidential candidate,Mike Huckabee, will be comingto the VSU campus Tuesday at 7p.m. for a benefit dinner hostedby the Georgia christian School.

Huckabee is going to be speak-ing to about 485 guests in theStudent Union auditorium, whichGcS has rented out for the event.

“He will give a speech,” ryanWarren, the Vice chairman of theBoard of Directors at GcS, said.

“We were so pleased with VSUthe first year—the facility and thecatering,” Warren. “We love hav-ing the university as the locationfor the dinner.”

The event is open to the public,but tickets, which run for $125per person, were nearly sold outat the time of print. Some atten-dees are VSU students who arealumni of GcS.

“We’re excited,” Warren said.“it’s a big deal for us, and a bigdeal for our students, and a bigdeal for VSU.”

The benefit is an opportunityfor the school to raise money forits budget, which helps cover thecost of tuition for students whowant to attend GcS, but are notable to afford it. The dinner hasraised about $140,000 annuallysince its inception.

Huckabee is a republican, andhas served as Governor ofArkansas before he ran for presi-dent in the 2008 election. He wasone of the frontrunners of the re-publican Party for the upcoming2012 election, but dropped out inMay. He is also an ordained Bap-tist minister who hosts a regularradio show.

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Bank robbed near

campus, man arrested

The Southeastern federalcredit Union bank on Baytreeroad was robbed by Jeffery Har-go, 35, on friday afternoon.

Valdosta police responded to adispatch call at 4:27 p.m. and ar-rived at the bank at 4:53 p.m.

According to Lt. Aaron Kirkof the VPD, the suspect, enteredthe bank alone and unarmed,wearing dark clothing and abaseball cap. The suspect waslater identified as Hargo. Hargoalso had two unidentified men ina black sedan parked outside ofthe bank.

Hargo walked into the lobbyand walked up to the teller with anote demanding money. Theteller then followed the note andgave Hargo an unknown amountof money.

After taking the money, Hargothen ran out of the bank and intothe sedan with the other two

men. no one was harmed in therobbery. Police began lookingover surveillance tapes and talk-ing to witnesses to get a lead onthe suspect.

According to the Valdosta Dai-ly Times, Police cmdr. Brianchildress said that around 6 p.m.,the Lowndes county Sheriff’soffice received a tip about therobbery, which LcSo capt.Wanda Edwards passed along tochildress.

Police then left the bank andheaded to the Big Seven Motellocated on U.S 84. The suspectwas trying to leave the motel in avehicle when police arrived andtook him into custody, childresssaid.

childress was satisfied withthe VPD’s timely actions in re-sponding to the dispatch and thecapture of the suspect. “Withtheir help, we were able to take(the suspect) into custody quick-ly,” he said. childress alsopraised the work of police offi-cers and detectives. “it was agreat team effort between the twoagencies,” he said.

Students were also shocked bythe robbery but satisfied with thework of the VPD.

“i think it’s bad that its gottento the point where people arerobbing in the middle of the daylike that,” said junior psychologymajor Schalon Dyce.

“i think the cops did a goodjob about apprehending the rob-ber in the same day.”

other students also questionedthe actions of Hargo, since therewere no weapons involved. “i think that if he went as far asrobbing a bank that he must havereally needed the money,” saidsenior nursing major AndyDoster.

“The fact that he didn’t haveany weapons kind of makes methinks that this was like his finaloption. i’m not justifying at all

but times must have been hard.”

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Valdosta

Mayor

-Brooks D. Bivins

-John W. Gayle

-Gary MincheW

City CounCil

at large

- Matt FluMerFelt

- Ben h. norton

City of Valdosta

alCohol referenduM

City of Valdosta

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Mayor

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- Ben Futch

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- russell h. lane

- Paul Mulkey

- eric schinDler

- sanDy sherrill

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dasher

City CounCil post 2

- DonalD J. Bryan

- Becky roDGers

City CounCil post 3

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Nov. 2

A set of keys was reportedstolen by two males but wasfound later. Nov. 1

The entry arm to the nevinsHall east side parking lot wasbroken.A threatening email was re-ceived by a student. ValdostaPolice Department was noti-fied as well.Oct. 31

A bike was stolen from Geor-gia Hall.Oct. 30

A professor’s bike was report-ed stolen by a student. Theowner was notified.Oct. 29

A wallet from a concessionstand worker’s purse wasstolen while she was workingduring the VSU football game.Oct. 27

A Valdosta city worker wasnotified about people writingtheir first and last names intothe wet concrete of the side-walk the worker just laiddown. A threatening note was foundon a student’s car.A car stereo was stolen from avehicle over fall Break. Oct. 26

A bike was stolen from Patter-son Hall. The entry arm to the nevinsHall east side parking lot wasbroken.

Police Briefs

Announcements

Benefits and Wellness Fair

VSU campus Wellness andHuman resources and Em-ployee Development will hostover 45 exhibitors at its sixthannual Benefits and Wellnessfair Thursday from 10 a.m. to3 p.m., in the Student UnionBallrooms. free screens forglucose, cholesterol, bloodpressure will start at 9 a.m.,and free screens for hearing,vision, skin scan, bone densityand body mass index will startat 10 a.m. There will also befree food and massages aswell as exercise demonstra-tions. Students will be able toget their flu shots for $10, fac-ulty and staff for $20. Relay for Life kickoff

for VSU’s relay for Lifekickoff, there will be eventssuch as a bounce house obsta-cle, potato sack races and 90’smusic dance off on the frontLawn Thursday at 1 p.m., to 4p.m. The theme for this year is“cancer is wack…let’s fightback.” relay for Life will beheld in April 2012.Coffee is a Hot Commodity

Symposium

four panelists will come speakabout world coffee market is-sues, while students will beable to sample coffee fromdifferent global coffee-produc-ing areas, on friday from 10a.m. to 12 p.m. in the StudentUnion Ballroom. The speakerswill be Andrew Blythe, a roy-al coffee new York’s seniorcoffee trader; Terry Davis, co-founder of Ambex, inc., amanufacturer of coffee roast-ers and roast control systems;felipe croce, whose familyowns a coffee plantation inBrazil; and ricardo Pereira,Greenville’s BrASc coffeeimporters owner. ‘Genetic Privacy and the

Constitution: Do You Know

Where Your DNA Is?’ lec-

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University of new HampshireSchool of Law professor Al-bert E. Scherr will speak aboutgenetic privacy Tuesday at 7p.m. in the University centerMagnolia room.

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A VSU student and naval re-servist died of a massive heart at-tack while jogging Mondaymorning.

Ben Herron, age 22, was foundaround 9:30 a.m., on old Pineroad by county workers.

Herron was part of the frater-nity Phi Sigma Kappa Psi andwas a criminal Justice majorwho was taking this fall semesteroff.

He was born in Seoul, SouthKorea, but grew up in Valdosta.He was raised in the militarylifestyle.

“He was an easygoing guy, al-ways happy and a perfectboyfriend,” said Sabrina Dale,Herron’s girlfriend and seniorearly childhood education major.“We spent every day together.”

Dale and Herron has been

friends since they were 12 yearsold, and they had planned to getmarried at the end of next year.

He attended Wiregrass GeorgiaTechnical college’s Paramedictechnology program to become acertified paramedic. Herron wanted to become part ofthe Valdosta Police Department,but his long term goal was to bea U.S. Marshall.

Herron was a Georgia Bull-dogs football fan and enjoyedplaying baseball and wrestling.He was also into karate.

After finding his body, emer-gency workers attempted to re-suscitate him, but the hospitalpronounced him dead around10:20 a.m. Monday.

Ben Herron’s viewing will befriday at 6 p.m. at carsonMcLane funeral Home, and hisfuneral will be Saturday at 11a.m. at St. John’s catholicchurch located on Gornto road.

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ELECTIONContinued from Page 1Ben norton, the incumbent, haslived in Valdosta since age three.

He spent 24 years teaching inthe Valdosta city School Systembefore running for city councilto fill the unexpired term leftopen when John Eunice left Val-dosta to attend law school. nor-ton is now seeking reelection toserve a full term.

“He was a lead supporter inthe changing of the way citycouncil’s expense reports arehandled,” according to view-pointnews.net.

“With other candidates run-ning for the same position hissupport of changing the waythings were done by the citycouncil should help his bid forreelection.”

one item on the Valdosta bal-lot has stirred up heated debateson both sides of the issue. regis-tered voters who have at least asix-month residency in Valdostaare eligible to vote on the school

consolidation referendum whichwould repeal Valdosta’s indepen-dent charter for the Valdosta citySchool System, incorporating itinto the Lowndes county SchoolSystem if passed.

current legislation allows citycouncils and county commissionsto call for referendums to vote onSunday alcohol sales in retailstores, such as package storesand gas stations. The Valdostaand Lake Park ballots both in-clude Sunday alcohol sale refer-endums.

The cities of Dasher, Hahira,and Lake Park also have seatsopen for various positions.

Dasher citizens may vote forcity council Posts 2 and 3 andHahira citizens may vote for citycouncil District 3.

Lake Park has an open may-oral position for which Benfutch is a certified write-in can-didate.

There are also open positionsfor Lake Park city council AtLarge and citizens may vote for

four candidates. cathi Brown hasofficially withdrawn from thisrace and, in accordance with theofficial code of Georgia, “allvotes cast for such withdrawncandidate will be void and shallnot be counted.”

The Democratic and republi-can parties are offering rides tothe polls for registered partymembers that may need them.The Democrats ask that they becontacted at 241-1694. if no oneis available at this number, 630-8486 can be used as an alternatenumber.

The republicans can bereached at 247-4111 or 548-3748.

Voting hours are 7 a.m. to 7p.m. at the Elections office lo-cated at 2808 n. oak St. throughfriday. There are no voting hoursfor Monday, as voting is not al-lowed on the Monday before anelection.

The last day to vote is nov. 8.on this day those wishing to votemust report to their polling

places which are determined bythe address they have registeredwith the Voter registration of-fice and indicated on the voterregistration card mailed to thataddress. Hours for all pollingplaces are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Voters can check out a sampleballot online to see what elec-tions they are eligible for beforegoing to the polls using “My Vot-er Page” (MVP) at sos.ga.gov/mvp.

By inputting their first initial,last name, county, and birthdate,voters can not only check theirsample ballot, but also theirelected officials, early voting lo-cations and hours, mail ballotstatus and poll locations.

To be eligible to vote in anyelection, voters must register bythe Voter registration Deadline.The deadline for this electionwas oct. 11.

for more information, call theElections office at 671-2850 oremail [email protected].

SUGARContinued from Page 1

once a student has a sugardaddy, the pair negotiates theamount of money the student willreceive.

The article in the HuffingtonPost included information abouta certain sugar baby using thepseudonym Taylor.

According to the article, Tay-lor’s profile indicates preferencesfor an "arrangement" in the rangeof $1,000 to $3,000 a month.

Taylor says she was led to thesite after being faced with about$15,000 in unpaid tuition andoverdue bills.

The pair must also negotiatethe boundaries of their relation-ship.

Sugar babies can agree to dateand even have a physical rela-tionship with their sugar daddies

or agree on a platonic relation-ship.

Traraya Perkins, freshmanmass media major believes thatsince the man is giving the stu-dent money, the relationshipcould never be platonic.

During the date, Taylor rubbedsunscreen on her sugar daddy’sback and braced herself to “en-dure an afternoon of sex withsomeone she suspected was actu-ally about 30 years her senior,”according to the Huffington Post.

Angera Bolton, sophomorepsychology major, thinks that thesituation is immoral and notsending out a good message.

Taylor received $350 for her“date.”

"i just wanted to get out of thatsituation as safely as possible,pay off my debt, and move on,”

Taylor said.

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Earl Williams, a 51 year oldformerly homeless man fromnew Jersey, is one of the manypeople who have benefitted fromValdosta’s charitable efforts, andnow he is opening his doors tospread his own goodwill.

“Wednesday of last week, i in-vited three homeless men to myhouse to get them out of thecold,” Williams said. “When iwas homeless and in the street, ididn’t have anybody to help me,so if someone needs a place tocrash for the night, my house isopen and welcome.”

Williams, a current welder, hasbeen able to rebuildhis life effectivelywith the charitable ef-forts of Mission PointBaptist church locat-ed in downtown Val-dosta.

“When i first start-ed coming down here,two of the brothers in thechurch found out that i was awelder; they helped me get mytools, one gave me about $600worth of tools, the other gave meabout $300 worth of tools,” Williams said. “i got back on thejob and started working using thetools they gave me, and it wassuch a blessing.”

Statistics show that homeless-ness is not only a local problem,but a national one as well.

The nation’s homeless popula-tion increased by approximately20,000 people from 2008 to2009. The total number of home-less people in America is approx-imately 670,000, according to areport by the national Alliance toEnd Homelessness.

The Alliance estimates that inthe next three years homeless-

ness in the United States couldincrease by five percent, or74,000 people.

The homeless population inValdosta currently ranges fromabout 150 to 200 people and in-creased slightly in September.

Gayle Moreen, the day centercoordinator at Lowndes Associat-ed Ministries to People, has atheory as to why Valdosta experi-enced the recent increase.

“There are a lot of families,”Moreen said. “Most of them arejust having a hard time rightnow. Lack of education, laid off,they’ve gotten far behind.”

The economy also factors intothe number of people who flockto the shelter and the day centerthroughout the year. Moreenclaims to personally serviceabout 80 to 90 a month.

According to Lt. Aaron Kirkfrom the Valdosta Police Depart-ment, the problem of homeless-ness in Valdosta is nothing new.

“There are a lot of themaround the mall and business ar-eas,” Kirk said. “They are also

heavily popu-lated aroundthe interstateand down-town areaswhere thereare hotels andmotels.”officer

Vernotis Williams,VPD community policing officer,agrees that these areas are heavi-ly populated.

“i see them mostly around theEast and West Hill areas,”Williams said. “it’s close to theinterstate, so when cars are com-ing into Valdosta, they can stopthem right there and get theirfunds.”

“They solicit food and moneywhich can cause traffic problemsbecause it gets backed up,” Kirksaid. “Businesses have createdordinances to try to prevent this.”

Kirk feels the ordinances havemade a slight difference.“i’ve seen a slight decrease sincethe businesses passed their ordi-nance law,” Kirk said.

Williams agrees that the prob-lems with the homeless not only

seem to be ongoing, but a nui-sance to residents.

“Most people, from a civilianpoint of aspect complain aboutthe campsites that homeless peo-ple have; most people call it tentcity,” Williams said. “it’s usuallyin a wooden area not too farfrom a residential area, and a lotof people complain about the siteitself being an eye sore.”

Williams also expressed sever-al other inconveniences thatseem to be a result of the home-less.

“People have also complainedabout sometimes when the home-less get food or something frompeople just passing by, they’lltake the containers, boxes bags,etc., and because they don’t havea trash resource, they may justthrow it on the curb, or leave itwhere they are.”

According to Kirk, the VPDconducts field interviews in orderbetter identify the homeless.

“What happens is an officer isout and they see them, possiblyon the side of the road or walk-ing the street so we talk to themand get their information, “ Lieu-tenant Kirk said. “ it’s a consen-sual encounter and it makes themeasily identifiable.”

officer Williams also agreedthat the background checks areuseful.

“for some of them who wantto go to places like the SalvationArmy, like when it’s extremelycold or extremely hot, or if theytry to stay for a few days, theyhave to come here and get abackground check,” Williamssaid.

According to Kirk, the VPDattempts not to be confrontation-al with them.

“As long as they’re not caus-ing citizens problems, we try notto harass them too much,” Kirksaid. “The majority of them aredown on their luck so we try notto compound them.”

Those that are down on theirluck can turn to pastor Mike nel-ligan.

“We try to give them a newsupport system and a new fami-ly,” said nelligan.

The support found at Mission

point includes PowerPoint biblestudies, contemporary music, andhot meals after services.

“What we attempt to do hereis on Wednesday and Sundaynight, as well as Sunday morn-ing, we provide a hot meal andoperate a clothes closet in theback,” nelligan said.

The clothes closet in the backis designed for the homeless tocome get clothes, blankets, sleep-ing bags, and other necessities. “it’s a pretty simple operation,”nelligan said. “What we do itmake things available to peoplethat couldn’t get it otherwise.”nelligan feels the clothes closetserves as a special purpose.

“it’s especially helpful in thewinter time when the weather isdangerously cold, we let themcome inside and let them use thechurch building as a survivalshelter,” nelligan said.

nelligan believes that Missionpoint offers beneficial services.

“i’m a certified addictionscounselor, and i work at behav-ioral health services, and we tryto link some of them up with thatwhen they’re ready,” nelligansaid. “Typically we try to buildlong terms relationships withthem and encourage them tomake spiritual connections.

According to nelligan, Mis-sion point serves more men thanfamilies with small children.

“on any given Sunday we’llsee somewhere from around 80to 100 people,” nelligan said. “Probably 80-90 percent of thatgroup is men who are homelessfrom criminal activity, addiction,etc.”

nelligan believes though therearen’t many families that comein, Mission Point does see themfrom time to time.

“We are starting to see morefamilies with small childrenshow up lately, not in great num-bers yet ,about five or six ofthem,” nelligan said.

According to nelligan, Mis-sion Point yields many successstories. once such success storyis Henry Moore, a 67 year oldValdosta man formerly addictedto crack cocaine for 22 years.

“one day i happened to be

walking up and down AshleyStreet where Mission Point is lo-cated and i just saw people inhere eating and i was hungry andhomeless,” Moore said. “i justcame in to get some food, butwhen i got the food, i didn’t justget ushered out like so many oth-er places, i got fellowship fromthe congregation of people thatwere here.

Moore, who has been attend-ing the church now for fouryears, believes that the church isopen to anybody in need, nomatter their situation.

“Despite the condition i wasin, they put their arms around meand showed me love and heardmy story,” Moore said. “it wasjust the love of christ i saw thesepeople exemplify that made mewant to be a part of that love.”

Moore is no longer homeless,

and has now gone on to stay atthe Ashley house, federally sub-sidized housing apartments forlow income elderly people locat-ed across the street from MissionPoint.

Moore feels his housing is ablessing from his previous life.

“i have a one bedroom apart-ment that i have been staying atfor four years now, with my ownkitchen and a living room,”Moore said. “You just pay 30percent of your income; i’m re-tired now so i get a check.”

Moore has now gone on to beone of the leaders at Missionpoint.

“i’ve came a long way fromactive cocaine addiction to oneof the leaders here at this church,and now it’s been blessing afterblessing. “ i’ve gone on with mylife and put my life and trust in

An increasing number of stu-dents are finding themselves vic-tims of theft, one of the mostcommon crimes on campus.

Burglary and dorm room thefthave been popular crimes report-ed during the semester by stu-dents. items such wallets, bags,iPods, shoes and other variouspossessions have been stolenfrom various locations on cam-pus.

Sgt. Matthew Maestas ofcriminal investigations acknowl-edges dorm room theft as a bigissue on campus.

“it mainly comes from stu-dents leaving their doors un-locked, even if it’s for the simpletask of going to the bathroom for30 seconds,” said Maestas.

not only have burglary anddorm room theft been a major is-sue on campus, a number of stu-dents on campus have experi-enced computers and bike thefts.

VSU campus Security sug-

gests that students take affirma-tive and proactive steps to pro-tect themselves against this typeof college crime. Students shouldtry to be aware of their surround-ings, especially in areas wherethieves are most likely to committheft. This is a crucial factor incrime prevention.

There are also a variety ofproducts available that can veryuseful in combating this type ofstudent crime.

Maestas suggests that studentsget software to track the where-abouts of their computers if theyget stolen.

“We have been pushing forstudents to use programs such asLoJack programs that can befound on absolute.com,” he said.“i use it on my personal comput-er-phenomenal software.”

in an attempt to try to preventbike theft, Maestas recommendsthat students follow proper pro-cedures when locking their bikes.

“Make sure bikes are lockedup on a designated bike rack,” hesaid. “i would recommend the U-Bolt locks because they are thehardest to break into.”

Maestas also encourages stu-dents to enroll in the BicycleAnti-Theft program or the B.A.T.program. The B.A.T. program al-lows students who own bikes tosign a form and receive a decalwith their i.D. number to placeon the crossbar of the frame be-tween the seat and the handlebarsof their bikes. That informationis then put into the UniversityPolice computer system fortracking in case of theft.

“it helps us find the bike or ifanother agency finds the bike, wecan recover it,” Maestas said.

Maestas encourages studentsto write down the serial numbersof anything of value to them ormake distinct descriptions oftheir personal belongings tomake it easier for their posses-sions to be found.

Victims of theft should callVSU police department at theiremergency number at 229-259-5555 or file a report in the policedepartment on the 2nd floor ofthe oak Street Parking Deck.

J.J. WorthamS TA f f W r i T E r

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A line of people comes to get a decent meal at the Mission Point Bap-

tist Church.

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Organizations lend helping hand to homeless

Theft rising problem on campus

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Shorter bans gay employeesWe live in a time in which one would

like to think that we have rid ourselvesof all prejudices, especially prejudicesrelated to sexual orientation. The vastmajority or our society has evolved withthe times and almost everywhere a per-son looks, people live, work, and co-ex-ist with each other, regardless of differ-ences in sexuality

Unfortunately, there are some dark ex-ceptions to this widely accepted stan-dard. There are still remote corners ofour American civilization that adhere tocertain antiquated and backward ways ofthinking, deeming it necessary to en-force such ridiculous rules that ban ho-mosexuals from certain rights and privi-leges that other homosexuals are free toenjoy elsewhere.

Shorter college in rome, Ga., is a

fine example of an establishment thathas let itself fall behind the times by of-ficially banning all gay employees fromworking at their university.

This may come as a shock to many, asthis seems borderline illegal, but the factof the matter is, Shorter college is a pri-vate institution, not receiving any gov-ernmental assistance; therefore, retain-ing the right to enforce policies on itsown—not necessarily morally correct—way.

According to an article from the Huff-ington Post, all Shorter college employ-ees were required to sign a “personallifestyle pledge,” proclaiming that theyreject homosexuality and premarital sex,among other policies in the pledge.

When the WSBTV network inter-viewed Shorter college President Don

Dowless, he maintained that “their goalis not to offend people, but to declarewho we are.”

Though Dowless claims that Shorter’sgoal is not to offend people, this is ex-actly what they very well may do. neverin any public university, or any kind ofpublic establishment period, would thisban of gay employees be tolerated. it isa simple violation of a person’s rights,not to mention an extremely distastefuland narrow-minded standard to holduniversity employees to.

Despite the outrageous rules enforcedat places like Shorter college, VSU andthe rest of our nation will hopefully con-tinue to grow and prosper as a kind, tol-erant and tasteful place, and unfortu-nately leave places like Shorter collegebehind. Photo Illustration by Garrison Muelhausen/THE SPECTATOR

This editorial was written by Trevor Smith ([email protected]) and it expresses the opinion of the entire editorial staff.

People Poll:Will you graduate indebt from schoolloans?

Corey Jones

freshman

nursing major

“Yeah, about $35,000.”

Erica Adams

sophomore

nursing major

“i haven’t even reached $5,000,so not over $20,000.”

Ebony Bowles

sophomore

early childhood education

major

“Probably around $10,000.”

Deante Lumpkin

freshman

criminal justice major

“i really don’t know; animpressive amount.”

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Riley Stuart

freshman

business major

“i don’t have any school loans.”

Obama eases student debt

Everybody wants an education,but paying for a good one hasbecome harder and harder.

According to USA Today, thisyear will be the first time loanswill exceed 1 trillion dollars. re-ports from the federal reserveBank of new York show Ameri-cans now owe more on studentloans than on credit cards.

When it comes to studentloans, debt has definitely becomea problem. There should be moreoutlets for students to pay forschool that don’t automaticallyplace them under a great amountof debt when they graduate,which they will undoubtedly bepaying off for years to come.

reports from the collegeBoard indicate that students areborrowing twice as much as theydid a decade ago after they hadadjusted for inflation. The totaloutstanding debt has also dou-bled in the last five years.

for those who have the HoPEscholarship, the changes in theregulations makes affordingschool even harder as HoPE willno longer pay the total amount ofa student’s tuition, but only 90percent of it, and books and

mandatory fees are no longer in-cluded.

This, in combination with thefact that many students and theirfamilies most likely do not havethe fundsto com-pletelypay forcollege,puts evenmorepressureon peopleand leadsthem totake outloans.

Borrow-ing mon-ey forschool af-fects stu-dents notonly in the present, but it alsodictates what they are able to doin their future. Aside from hav-ing the burden of debt and mon-ey that needs to be paid off, stu-dents may have to put off trips orother important milestones suchas buying a house or car.

President obama has recentlyannounced a way to alleviatesome of the strain that studentsface trying to pay back theirloans.

His new plan will allow stu-dents who have taken out bothdirect government loans andloans from the federal familyEducation Loan Program to com-

bine theirdebt intoone singlegovernmentloan, whichwould endup reducingtheir interestrates.

it willalso lowerthe maxi-mum re-quired pay-ment of astudent loanfrom 15 per-cent to 10

percent of theborrower’s annual income. An-other change in his plan will in-clude amnesty for remainingdebt after 20 years instead of 25.

obama’s plan will go into ef-fect next year, instead of 2014.

This plan could potentiallysave borrowers hundreds of dol-lars in payments.

Students who choose the op-tion to consolidate their loanswill also have the additional loanforgiveness benefit and other re-

payment options.Unfortunately, this plan will

not affect borrowers who are al-ready in default. According tothe Education Department, itonly applies to students takingout loans in 2012 or later andthose who also took out loansbetween 2008 and 2012—around1.6 million borrowers.

i think this would greatly ben-efit most, if not all college stu-dents, because it would givethem an easier way to figure outwhen and how long they will beable to pay off their loans. Peo-ple coming to college will al-ready be starting out with an ad-vantage, because their interestrates will be lower than thosewho have already taken outloans.

“This is for someone who hasa job, but it doesn t pay enoughand is struggling to make loanpayments,” said Phyllis furmanof new York Daily news. “Thiswill provide them with financialrelief by reducing their loan pay-ments to an affordable level.”

The measures of obama’s newplan may sound insignificant, butsome sort of help is better thannone.

Police attack occupy protestsin Denver. Police fire tear gas atanti-Wall Street protesters.

These two headlights glimpseinto the various violent police at-tacks on the occupy groups.

in Denver this past weekend,police pepper sprayed, fired rub-ber bullets at and arrested pro-testers. A total of 77 people havebeen arrested since the start ofoccupy Denver; this past week-end, a man was pepper sprayedand then shot in the face with arubber bullet.

one of the more violent en-counters happened in oakland onoct. 25, where police used teargas and bean bag rounds to dis-perse the 170 protesters in frontof the city hall’s frank ogawaPlaza. Police claimed it was de-fense against the protestersthrowing various objects likebottles at them; one protesterclaimed the police came outswinging batons. iraq War veter-an Scott olsen was severely in-jured when a projectile hit him inthe head.

“To hurt the citizens you swearto protect, is, you know, a contra-diction to the oath that you takeas a police officer to be courte-ous and professional,” Sgt.Shamar Thomas, Marine iraqWar veteran, said to an rT Amer-ica reporter.

Sgt. Thomas’ video gainedmuch attention as viewers seehim yelling at the police for at-tacking peacefully protestingprotesters. Thomas comes from a

long military background and hasrecently returned from iraq him-self.

Under the first Amendment,American citizens can peacefullyassemble. While a permit isneeded to march in some zones,traditional public forums such assidewalks, street corners, publicparks, city hall plazas—areaswhere oakland, Denver andthousands of other occupy pro-testers demonstrate at, are free-dom of expression safety zones.Police are not allowed to hurt orrestrict people as long as theyfollow these laws.

it should go without sayingthat police should serve to pro-tect the people. History and re-cent events have shown that po-lice officers often distort this ba-sic purpose and use their powerto their advantage. Variousvideos show and articles readthat people were simply practic-ing their rights; when policecounteract with such forcefulmethods, such as throwing peo-

ple to the ground and macing agroup of blocked-in protestors.All these incidences make youwonder what the police reallyrepresent.

We need the police. We needgovernment. Tensions have risenas the occupy movement growsand lengthens. citizens havecomplained about the protestersurinating in the streets, beingnoisy at all hours of the day,blocking streets and defacing cityproperty. Police are there tomake sure the protesters staywithin their legal rights.

A Valdosta city police officerbiked along the occupy Valdostaprotest march on oct. 14. Theprotesters were reminded to stayon the sidewalks, since theycould not get a permit to marchin the streets in time, and to notlitter or deface property at any oftheir stops. The police officerwas not forceful in the slightest,and i think i saw him talk casual-ly to some of the protesters.

This models the ideal protest

situation—peace between lawabiding citizens and cops. Theproblem is, cops have not beensticking to their end of the deal.A driving point of the movementis governmental power corrup-tion and misuse; the cops arefeeding into that. When peopleare obeying their constitutionalrights, you should not use any ofthe means at your disposal,namely grenades, guns and pep-per sprays.

Movements as massive as thiswill bring disruption and arrests.it happened before with the anti-Vietnam War protests of the six-ties, with the civil rights Move-ment of the fifties and sixties andwith countries such as Egypt andTunisia at the end of last and be-ginning of this year. cities getanxious and antsy with theselong-standing groups marchingthrough their streets. Police arecalled in to monitor and keepthings in line; however, they arenot called to unnecessarily harmand maim innocent people.

The occupy movement willnot be going anywhere anytimesoon. citizens should respectpublic property and other citi-zens’ rights, while police shouldrespect the citizens’. in themeantime, keep fightingmarchers. You have come this farwith your cause; don’t give upnow.

As Pam Mccausland, a retiredVirginia third grade teacher whowas a recent college graduateduring the anti-Vietnam Warprotests, said, “it brought changethen, and it will bring changeagain.”

Protestors meet police brutality

Kyle BerryS TA f f W r i T E r

[email protected]

Stephanie TurnerM A n A G i n G E D i T o r

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Photo Illustration by Garrison Muelhausen/THE SPECTATOR

Photo by MCT Campus

Happy belated Halloween! ibet there were plenty of tricksand treats out Monday night, andi know there’s still someone outthere throwing back left overcandy corn and tootsie rolls.

As if this Halloween didn’tbring on a bunch of wild andfreaky events—and boy, did thefreaks come out—Jimmy Kim-mel brought out Pee-Wee Her-man to celebrate some trick-or-treating mania on his show.

There’s just something about agrown man expertly playing thecharacter of an overgrown kidthat screams creepers!

Anyway, he’s supposed to pro-long the freakiness and show hisface on “Dancing with the Stars”soon. i shudder when i picturehim following the waltz with thatridiculous Pee-Wee Hermandance.

While Jimmy plays playhousewith Pee-Wee for Halloween,Amber rose looked super cutefor Halloween dressed as power-rocker Slash. i thought her cos-tume was, by far, the best!

if you didn’t look hard, youwould have sworn it was him—until you got behind her, perhaps.

Amber may be rocking it out,but somebody says that Biebermight really be having a “baby,baby, baby!” on the way. Usher’slittle apprentice, Justin Bieber,has knocked somebody up,ladies, and she isn’t SelenaGomez.

rumor has it that Bieber’s 20year-old baby mom’s name isMariah Yeater and he’s definitelytrying to “beat it”—well, thelawsuits that is.

Yeater put out a lawsuit de-

manding Bieber take a paternitytest to prove that he is not the fa-ther of her 36 weeks and 2 dayold baby boy.

i can’t wait to find out who’sthe pappy! Who knew thatBieber was sowing his royal oatsalready? Poor Selena didn’t evenget a chance to make it past ayear—or did she?

no matter, because even ifthey didn’t, Gomez and Bieber’srelationship definitely lastedlonger than Kris and Kim Kar-dashian, oops! i meanHumphries. That’s right—thewedding is over and so is the 72-day marriage.

Supposedly Kimmy cakescouldn’t take it anymore, soalong with pushing their new lineof purses on interviews and hermom, Kris Jenner, taking up forher on “The Today Show” (andintroducing her new book aswell), she didn’t waste a minuteblaming the whole divorce onher ol’ ogre.

Guess Humphries could havelearned a thing or two fromShrek—at the end he keepsfiona, not ditches her!

So, that was no big surprise.The surprise is the reason; get aload of this. Word on the street isthat Kimmy cakes divorcedHump-de-dump for a good rea-

son—and a fine reason at that:reggie Bush. Kimmy cakesthinks she’s slick.

Little Miss fast met up withfine-behind reggie Bush thesame weekend poor Kris waslocked out and went to go staywith his family in Minnesota—because it isn’t like he has prac-tice to go to.

Anyway, shortly after her littlerendezvous with reggie, rightbefore she left to go to her inter-view in Australia, she gave herogre the boot. Karma is going totag that ho-cake in the future.

Even though the media is eat-ing up Kimmy cakes and herdrama, Madonna will be stealingthe show during the Super Bowlthis year with her half time per-formance!

i can’t wait to see what my fa-vorite cougar has in store for us. Supposedly she will have a per-formance with nicki Minaj andthe European firecracker MiA.

Talk about hot, exciting, andfreak-fest all in one! i just hopeMadonna doesn’t make out withthem on stage, because it didn’tgo so well with Janet and JustinTimberlake’s boob mishap.

Well, peeps that’s all i havefor you all this week! The coolerpart of the fall is setting in and idon’t know how to act. Appar-ently y’all don’t either becausei’m seeing snow boots, tights andshort shorts and letterman jacketsalready. Stop it folks! You’re killin’ me!Just remember to stay tuned inevery Thursday for the latest gos-sip and entertaining news. Seeya!

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Sudoku Answers

in this issue of the Spec Tech:a new nook, bendable phones,and 4G LTE phones are coming,Apple troubles, and GameStopsells Android tablets.

nokia and Samsung both an-nounce that they are creatingphones with bendable screens.

Samsung has not demonstrat-ed their phone, but nokiashowed that bending the phonezooms in and out of pictures.

This may seem like an oddgimmick, but this may mean thatthe screens will be harder tocrack if dropped. These phonesare reported to be available in2012.

Google TV got a huge updatethat users have been waiting for.The user interface is much sim-pler and now built on the Honey-comb operating system.

This allows users to access theAndroid Market. Google saysthat 30 apps will be playable atlaunch.

The update is available nowon Sony nSZ-GT1 and SonynSX-GT1 TV’s (who comes upwith these names?). Logitech de-vices will receive the update at alater date.

The Post-smartphone era isupon us. A chinese technologygroup has created a phone calledXPPhone 2 which can run Win-dows 7 as well as the upcomingWindows 8 operating system.

The phone contains a 1.6GHzprocessor and 2GB of rAM.This company is definitely aim-ing at replacing computers withphones.

The launch date is expected tobe in Jan. 2012 running Win-dows 7. it will be able to runWindows 8 when that comes out.

Samsung has announced theSamsung Galaxy nexus, the firstphone to run Android 4.0: icecream Sandwich, will be avail-able on nov. 17 in Europe—therest of the world shortly there-after. it could be released onBlack friday.

nov. 6 is a huge day forAT&T and its customers. TheSamsung Galaxy S ii Skyrocketand HTc Vivid are AT&T’s first4G LTE phones.

not only that, but 4G will beavailable in Boston, WashingtonD.c., Baltimore, and Athens, GAon this day too! You folks from

Athens or Atlanta can now have4G AT&T phones.

The iPhone 4S may have ahuge hiccup after all. Many cus-tomers have been complaining ofdraining battery life in hourswith minimal use.

A newspaper in the U.K.thinks that the culprit is the “Set-ting Time Zone” feature. Whentraveling between time zones asignal is sent from the phonetower, to the phone, and that isthe end of it.

in this case, that communica-tion between the tower andphone is not turning off and killsthe phone in a few hours.

if this is happening to you,

you can turn off location-basedreminders and it will save yousome battery. Apple is lookinginto this issue.

Speaking of Apple, the MacPro devices may be leaving storeshelves. Apple may finally pullthe plug on this desktop and fo-cus more on the MacBook Proand Air devices. i wouldn’t besurprised if iPods soon disap-peared, or at least all but theiPod Touch.

Barnes & noble is holding anevent on nov. 7 about the nookcolor. Sources are reporting thatit is either a nook color 2, or atablet rival for the Amazon Kin-dle fire. There will be more in-formation after the event.

GameStop has had an interest-ing stab at portable gaming late-ly by selling refurbished iPods.

As of friday, GameStop willsell three refurbished Androidtablets with free games. Thetablets are the Acer iconia Tab,the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer,and the Samsung Galaxy Tab10.1.

They will be pre-loaded will 6games: Dead Space, cordy, rip-tide GP, Monster Madness, re-load, and Sonic the HedgehogcD. four of the games areplayable with select blue-toothcontrollers.

When i visited the GameStopat the Valdosta Mall, i did notnotice any tablets. only 200stores in the US are taking partin this.

i hope registration went wellfor everyone! Look forward tonext week when i review a veryspecial game.

Sources: cnet.com andGamestop.com

spec techwith Steven Setser

Correction:Last week’s page 4 article,

“Students experience history”

was written by Assistant

Opinions Editor Mikayla Beyer.

Her email address is

[email protected].

Gamestop to sell Android,

iPhone 4S troubles surfaceNokia and Samsung develop bendable screens, Barnes &

Noble may launch competition for Amazon’s Kindle Fire

The Valdosta Symphony or-chestra (VSo) will present aclassical Masters concert Satur-day at 8 p.m. in Whitehead Au-ditorium, conducted by Dr.Howard Hsu.

Dr. Hsu is the Music Directorof the Symphony orchestra, Di-rector of orchestra Studies andan assistant professor of music.

The program features piecesfrom two of the greatest com-posers of the classical era,Mozart’s bubbly Symphony no.36 (Linz), Schnittke’s entertain-ing Moz-Art à la Haydn andMozart’s lively overture to cosìfan tutte.

The program will also featurethe solo performance of theaward winning cellist, WendyWarner, performing Haydn’ssunny cello concerto no. 2.

“Wendy Warner is an Ameri-can cellist who is one of theleading musicians in the worldtoday,” Dr. Hsu said. “She was astudent and protégé of the leg-

endary cellist, Mstislav ros-tropovich, and by her 20’s shehad made her debut with manyof the greatest orchestras all overthe world.”

According to Dr. Hsu, Warnerhas also appeared as a soloistwith the chicago, Boston, Lon-don, San francisco and nationalSymphonies, as well as thePhiladelphia and Minnesota or-chestras.

The VSo is made up of VSUfaculty, professionals from as faraway as florida, Atlanta and Al-abama as well as VSU musicstudents who have put in manyhours of individual practice andgroup rehearsal in order to pre-pare for the classical Masters.

“The weekend of the concertwe have three full rehearsals andtwo concerts over the span ofthree days,” Dr. Hsu said. “Sowe will have worked very hard,but it's an incredibly rewardingexperience to perform this in-credible music.”

chelsea Slagor, a sophomoreand a member of the VSo saidshe is very comfortable perform-ing on stage with the orchestraand is excited about performing

in the classical Masters.“i love being surrounded by

such incredible musicians,”Slagor said. “i performed withthe Valdosta Symphony last yearand really enjoyed my experi-ences on stage. Dr. Howard Hsuis phenomenal and the fact that iget to play alongside my profes-sors is simply amazing.”

Dr. Hsu and his orchestra as-pire to provide Valdosta with thehighest level performances of themasterpieces of the classicalrepertory.

“We are extremely fortunateto have an orchestra of this qual-ity in Valdosta - many largercities don't have orchestras atall,” Dr. Hsu said. “Hearing livemusic in the concert hall can besuch an amazing experience, sodifferent from listening at homeon an iPod.”

Tickets for the show are $25and can be purchased by callingthe music department’s outreachoffice before friday at 229-333-2150.

Students with a valid VSU iDmay purchase tickets at the doorfor $10.

Megan HarrisS TA f f W r i T E r

[email protected]

Classical concert to feature

award-winning solo cellistWendy Warner visits VSU to play in the Classical Masters

concert with the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra

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divorce, more ‘surprises’Kardashian eyes former flame, Madonna to take Super

Bowl stage, Pee-Wee Herman to grace “Dancing” cast

Trick-or-Treat: VSU style

Halloween brought students dressed in all kinds of festive attire, from extravagant makeup to

elaborate costumes. Natalie Eustace (L), junior art major, and Sam Herrin (R), freshman

political science major, stand outside West Hall between classes.

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Games of the Week

Women’s Soccer vs.

West Fla. in GSC

Tournament

Pensacola, Fla.

Fri. 1:30 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball at

New Orleans

New Orleans, La.

Fri. 7 p.m.

Men’s and Women’s

Cross Country at

NCAA South Regional

Championship

Tuscaloosa, Ala. 8 a.m.

Women’s Volleyball at

West Fla.

Pensacola, Fla.

Sat. 3 p.m.

|VSUSPecTaTOr.cOm NOVember 3, 2011s P o r t s

VSU had a new sport join theschool in the fall of 2010 whenthe women’s lacrosse team wasfounded. And since then theyhave attempted to further VSU’swinning tradition in the athleticdepartment.

The lacrosse team has recruit-ed girls from many differentsports and sprinkled in a few vet-eran players to build one of thebigger club teams on campus.

Players were brought into theteam in a variety of fashionsfrom former lacrosse players thatwanted to continue playing asport they love, to new playerslooking to get a little bit of aworkout.

“coming in freshman year ididn’t really know anyone; iwent to The Happening and sawthere was a lacrosse team,” Jeena

Yohannan, junior exercise physi-ology major, said. “it is some-thing i liked in high school and itseemed like a good way to meetpeople.”

This past february the teamtravelled to rome, Ga. to com-pete against colleges such as:reinhardt, Tennessee Wesleyan,Shorter, and Aquinas in a tourna-ment.

Although the team ended thetournament without a win, theyplayed extremely competitivelyagainst colleges that actually re-cruit lacrosse players. To makethe close nature in which gameswere played even more impres-sive, take into account that nearlyhalf of the team had never playedin an actual lacrosse game be-fore.

“We definitely have a lot ofnew players to lacrosse, but luck-ily, most of the girls that joinhave played other team sportsand pick up the game very quick-ly,” Lacey Turner, the VSU

women lacrosse captain, said.Lacrosse is a game that is a lot

more popular in the north than insouthern states but look for aspike in the game in the near fu-ture.

Turner’s words for the stu-dents of VSU and the city of Val-dosta are clear.

“Just keep an eye out forlacrosse...it's such a fun sport andis growing like wildfire, especial-ly as it's moving through Geor-gia. i can't wait to see it reallygrow in Valdosta in the next fewyears!” she said.

Practices for the team are heldon north campus on Tuesdaysand Thursdays from 7-9 p.m.

Anyone who is interested inplaying on the team or just wantsto get some exercise is welcometo attend team practices.

D.J. DavisS P o r T S W r i T E r

[email protected]

In the important game against conference rivals West Georgia, the Wolves were able to score the winning

touchdown with 4.9 seconds left on the clock. Despite putting up 414 total yards of offense, including 188

rushing yards by freshman running back Troy Braswell, VSUwas unable to stop UWG during key drives.

The Blazers have a bye week before returning to play their season finale against North Alabama on Sat.

Nov. 12 at 2 p.m.

Blazers lose heartbreaker against west Ga. 23-20

“Meet the Blazers”

Basketball Day

Come out to The Complex

on Sunday at 6 p.m.

Red vs. white scrimmage

games, autographs, and

lots of food.

Club team spotlight: Women’s lacrosse

The VSU women's soccerteam continues its historical in-augural season friday taking onpowerhouse West florida in itsfirst ever GSc tournament gameat Brosnaham Park in Pensacola,fla.

The Blazers missed the chanceto share the GSc regular seasontitle, but tied 1-1 with WestGeorgia last week.

As a result, VSU took the no.3 seed and will compete againstthe no. 2 Argonauts in the semi-finals.

Despite not earning the no. 1seed in the tourney, Head coachMel Heinz is satisfied with theway the regular season endedfinishing in the top four.

"i'm pleased with the effortand hard work,” Heinz said. "Thebar is set high for us. This iswhat we worked to achieve."

The last time these teams metup was last month when theBlazers were shut out 5-0.

She agrees that her team's in-experience showed all game longagainst such a tough squad.

"You could tell we were ner-vous, we just didn't play our way.We are going to change our sys-tem a little bit," Heinz said.

VSU goalkeeper olivia Mills,led GSc this season with eightshutouts, will look to redeemherself from their last meeting.

Heinz says she plans to keepthe same starting 11 from lasttime however will make minoradjustments to the sub players.

VSU middle fielder Lauren in-gram disregards the previous lossfrom their last matchup.

"We've seen how they play,"ingram said. "i think just know-ing that we loss that much willjust make us play harder."

West florida is led by seniorTina Murray, who finished theregular season with a staggering14 goals.

UWf has won the last three

GSc championships in a row andhas made the tourney every yearsince it started in 1996.

The Blazers claim they areready and not intimidated in theslightest.

"They put 11 on the field, weput 11 on the field," Heinz said.

Heinz heads into this big gameafter recently being awarded thisyear’s GSc coach of the yearhonors.

"i think West florida is goingto face a different team and ifthey want to overlook us causewe lost to them so badly, that'sgood too."

Eric JacksonA S S i S TA n T S P o r T S

E D i T o r

[email protected]

Women’s soccer No. 3 seed in first GSC tourney

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Emily Cooper, sophomore midfielder, takes a shot during a match earlier in the season. Cooper was awarded

a spot on the All-GSC second team after scoring one goal and two assists on the season.

Blazers look to redeem themselves against No. 2 seed West Fla. after 5-0 loss earlier in season

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