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The Cave Crazies supported Lions athletes on Nov. 13.
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Students fi nd scenic getaways in the mountains of North Georgia.
Piedmontʼs Student VoiceTuesday, November 19, 2013
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For over 20 years, Rick Austin, 47, of Demorest has been teaching classes at Piedmont College, such as Human Anatomy and Physi-ology I and II.
However, Austin will serve a different position in Haber-sham County other than a professor of biology at Pied-mont.
On Nov. 5, Demorest resi-dents voted Austin to replace
Malcom Hunnicutt, who served as Demorest mayor for over 35 years.
During the election, Austin received 56.73 percent of the votes, and Hunnicutt received the remaining 43.27 percent.
Austin has served in other political positions, including county commissioner.
He also served a term in the Georgia State House of Representatives.
Austin graduated from Piedmont with a Bachelor’s degree in biology in 1990.
Long-awaited Internet upgrade completedBy MEGAN STUDDARDEditor-in-Chief
On Nov. 6, Student Gov-ernment Association held an open meeting for students to ask questions about the In-ternet. However, there was an important group missing – the students.
Shahryar Heydari, head of Piedmont’s Information Technology department, fi elded questions about Pied-mont’s Internet and spoke about the new upgrades.
According to Heydari, Piedmont has recently up-graded to a 1 gigabit network.
Piedmont remembers LeCroyThe students and faculty
of Piedmont College experi-enced a loss of one of their
By JESSE SUTTONNews Editor
Photo by MANYI ENO
By ALEXANDRA SMITHSports Editor
On Nov. 9, the Lady Lions soccer team claimed their fi rst USA South champion-ship title.
Piedmont defeated Mer-edith College 2-1 in the fi nal of the USA South Athletic Conference Championship
Tournament to earn their fi rst conference title since winning the 2011 GSAC championship.
The Lady Lions became the fi rst Piedmont team to win a conference tournament championship since joining the USA South a year ago.
This occurred after the PC softball squad earned the school’s fi rst regular season
title earlier this spring.Lindsey Nichols, Savannah
Castles, Shayna Rogers, Lau-ra Goodwin and Katie Zoller all earned spots on the 2013 USA South Women’s Soccer All-Tournament Team.
Last year’s upgrade brought Piedmont’s bandwidth up to 200 megabits shared between the main campus and the dorms.
However, as students quickly realized after moving in this year, Wi-Fi service was lacking in the dorms.
Heydari said that a major part of the problem was the fact that students are using more devices that connect to the Internet.
Students’ laptops, tablets, smartphones, gaming con-soles and even smart TVs all take up space on the network.
“In the past, a typical user would take up, at most, one
IP address whereas now, …the typical user now takes up at least three addresses on the network,” Heydari said.
This semester, Heydari and his staff began looking at ways to increase Piedmont’s bandwidth.
“We were caught by sur-prise at fi rst but as soon as we found out our bandwidth was not going to be adequate, we went ahead and researched our options,” he said.
Heydari explained the dif-fi culties that come with up-grading the Internet on cam-pus.
“Unfortunately it’s not that easy to just fl ip the switch
and increase bandwidth,” said Heydari. “You have to deal with the telecommuni-cations companies. Whatever they provide, you [have to] go from that.”
Windstream is the tele-communications company responsible for providing In-ternet service at Piedmont
See Sports Section, page 10
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own on Nov. 4.Dr. Hoyt LeCroy, a fellow
in music education, died at the MDA Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, after battling leukemia.
During his three years at Piedmont, he taught graduate and undergraduate percus-sion lessons.
Additionally, according to Music Department Chair Wallace Hinson, LeCroy also directed the school’s band program until the spring of 2013.
“To completely remake an
instrumental program in the span of a few semesters, as Dr. LeCroy did here, is as-tonishing,” wrote Hinson in an electronic message sent on Nov. 15. “His accomplish-ments in the fi eld of instru-mental music education are extraordinary, not only in the state, but throughout the country. Nearly every band director in the state of Geor-gia knew Dr. LeCroy, many [who] worked with him di-rectly, and all of them re-spected his intellect and the quality of his bands.”
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Heydari explains the Internet upgrades during the Nov. 6 SGA meeting.
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According to Hinson, LeC-roy “resurrected the band program at Piedmont,” in-cluding The Wind Ensemble Program.
With this program, the fi n-est high school instrumen-talists and directors travel to Piedmont to perform each se-mester.
High school programs that participate receive $50 per student to help students im-prove.
“Dr. LeCroy had a great passion for music and for teaching,” Hinson wrote.
“He shared this passion with everyone and it was conta-gious. He genuinely cared for the students in the band program and worked tire-lessly—without compensa-tion in most cases—repairing old instruments, assembling new instruments and working many hours after rehearsal to help students improve.”
Taylor Sexton, a senior mu-sic major, received percussion lessons from LeCroy for fi ve
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Austin triumphs in mayoral election
Austin lectures to his Human Anatomy & Physiology class.
Freshman Katie Zoller chases an Emory player during the NCAA Division III Soccer Championships.Photo by ALEXANDRA SMITH
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LeCroy spent three years at Piedmont teaching percussion lessons and heading different band programs.
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College.After researching the op-
tions Heydari proposed to upgrade the bandwidth from 200 megabits to 1 gigabit.
“There’s not one school within 100 miles of us [that has this bandwidth],” said Heydari. “We’re very unique in that sense. I’m very proud of it.”
According to Heydari, there are now separate con-nections for the academic side of campus and the dorms.
“We kept the dorms sepa-rate so neither one would af-fect the other,” he said.
The new upgrade now al-lows students to do more on-line, including gaming like Xbox Live.
However, Heydari said the IT department will continue to monitor the status of the network and make decisions accordingly.
“We’re going to monitor it. We take a look at the network logs and the network health,” Heydari said. “Based on that, we will make decisions that we believe will best serve you as students. So far, it’s been good.”
Junior mass communica-
semesters. On Nov. 12, Sexton dedi-
cated his senior percussion recital to LeCroy.
“I learned more from his words and actions than I have from almost any other per-
son in my life,” Sexton wrote in the recital’s program. “He not only guided me through the steps in becoming a com-petent percussionist, [but] he sought to teach me how to live.”
In 1959, LeCroy joined the Southerners Drum Corps of the marching band at Jack-sonville State University.
According to the alumni of The Marching Southern-ers from Jacksonville State University’s website, LeCroy authored more than 40 publi-cations in state and national professional journals.
Additionally, LeCroy “completed a four-year term as a member of the National Editorial Committee for Mu-sic Educators Journal.”
The Student Government Association allocates funding for recognized clubs and stu-dent organizations at Pied-mont.
On Wednesday, Nov. 13, SGA held a special meet-ing with club leaders to dis-cuss their needs and outline the procedure for requesting funding.
There were leadership rep-resentatives from 11 student clubs and organizations pres-ent: Team Piedmont, Biology Club, Outdoor Club, Sigma Alpha Pi, Campus Activity Board, The Navigator, Kaya-king Club, Psi Chi, Alpha Lambda Delta, German Club and Green Club.
Only recognized clubs and organizations on campus can ask for SGA funding.
According to President Sam Thomas and SGA ad-viser Natalie Crawford, for a club to be recognized, SGA must have bylaws and consti-tution on fi le.
Once a recognized organi-zation wants to ask for fund-
SGA UPDATESGA, CAB clash over cash
By MEGAN STUDDARD, JESSE SUTTONEditor-in-Chief, News Editor
ing, it must submit a proposal to SGA.
“We need a written propos-al before you ask for money,” said Vice-President Katheryn Knarr. Knarr noted that pro-posals can be submitted via email or in print.
“We do always encourage clubs and organizations, es-pecially those that don’t have built in funding, to fundraise because SGA’s budget is pretty minimal,” said Craw-ford. “I would caution you not to spend funds expecting that your proposal will be ap-proved.”
According to Knarr, SGA began the year with $5,000 in the budget.
She announced at the Nov. 13 meeting that the budget was $4,310. This does not re-fl ect the money allocated dur-ing that meeting.
At last week’s meeting, the Campus Activity Board pre-sented a proposal request-ing $600 for offi cers to attend the National Association of Campus Activities (NACA) conference on Feb. 15-19 in Boston.
Sophomore business ma-jor Emily DeLorenzo brought the proposal before SGA.
tions major Sarah Smagur asked Heydari about blocked websites.
Earlier this semester, many sites, including Netfl ix and Hulu, were inaccessible in the dorms.
Smagur noted that a site she needed for her fi lm class, IMDB, was blocked, and she wanted to know why.
According to Heydari, streaming media sites were blocked earlier in the se-mester, before the upgrades, because they were slowing down the Internet speed for everyone.
“We went to the regional [conference] last year and we got Ronnie Jordan, Six Ap-peal and the Asia Project, [all] which had a lot of atten-dance,” said DeLorenzo.
CAB plans to send three of-fi cers and graduate assistant Kayla Watson to the confer-ence where they will view en-tertainers to possibly bring to Piedmont for an event.
DeLorenzo said that CAB has been doing fundraisers at their events and are plan-ning a Krispy Kreme sale, but they fi gured they will be short $600.
While students debated the proposal, Crawford, adviser to both CAB and SGA, en-couraged SGA to accept the proposal, emphasizing that the CAB offi cers were willing to drive to the conference and pay any additional costs out of pocket.
Crawford also outlined the specifi c costs of the trip, in-cluding the hotel and reg-istration fees, as well as the fundraising profi ts.
According to Crawford, the group has raised $119.
Freshman senator Josh McGowan asked if CAB had their own budget, and De-
Lorenzo explained that their budget was reduced. Craw-ford then said that CAB does not have a travel budget.
Thomas and Fine Arts rep-resentative Jennifer Pitt cal-culated the fees and conclud-ed that the trip would cost over $3,000.
Crawford then confi rmed that CAB had already received $1,800 from the student travel budget.
Crawford said the student travel budget derived from her request for student travel as the head of the Depart-ment of Student Activities and Campus Events. How-ever, the $1800 CAB received from the student travel bud-get is not enough to pay for the members wishing to at-tend.
“Honestly, from my per-spective, 600 is a big number, especially in the scheme of things, when there are a lot of clubs that are a lot smaller and need funding a lot more than CAB,” Knarr said. “I know that sounds awful, but there are clubs here that don’t have anything. They are start-ing with nothing. Six hun-dred dollars is a big number. I would be okay with maybe
making that number small-er.”
Additionally, Thomas em-phasized that the $600 would be supplemental as opposed to paying for the entire trip.
DeLorenzo said that CAB should receive the funds be-cause they host events for the entire student body. How-ever, she confi rmed that CAB is not guaranteed events from this conference.
Although SGA previously decided not provide money to clubs with budgets, it vot-ed to allot CAB $300 for the trip.
Other topics discussed during the meetings includ-ed:
• Sophomore business ma-jor Drew Long represented the Kayak Club, a new stu-dent organization on cam-pus, and introduced the new club to SGA.
• Psi Chi mentioned that they were working on a pro-posal for money to host a child for Christmas.
• In the Nov. 6 meeting, SGA approved $140 to Roter-act for t-shirts and $300 to the American Marketing Associ-ation for their “Graduation’s Right Around the Corner.”
“At fi rst, due to the limited bandwidth, we tried to get what we considered academ-ic sites…to take priority,” he said. “Things that were taxing [the network] were streaming video sites like Hulu and Net-fl ix. We decided to cut those until we got the bandwidth in place.”
These streaming media sites, he said, check the band-width capacity before stream-ing video.
“If they see you have a fat pipe, they will try to stream in HD,” he said. “The fi rst couple of people to get HD will ruin it for the rest of the users.”
Heydari said they are now using a process called throt-tling that prevents one user from hogging all of the band-width.
Heydari also noted that the fi rewalls Piedmont has in place may have blocked some sites.
He encouraged students to contact him if there are sites they need unblocked.
Bandwidth is not the only thing that has been upgraded on campus.
“There have been a lot of hardware upgrades around campus,” said Heydari. “All of the aging switches and the wirings were upgraded so that we can take full advantage of our gigabit network.”
SGA President Sam Thom-as told Heydari that students have been responding well to the new upgrades.
“I think the fact that no students are here [at the meeting] is a testament to the new upgrades,” said Thomas.
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The Invisibles
By J MONSONColumnist
A homeless man who goes by just his first name Michael He is holding up his broken wrist that he received when he got jumped for being homeless. The people jumped him and took what little money he had.
By MAHEEN RAEStaff Writer
Shockingly October has already come and gone and now we are midway into November and you know what that means, cold weather. I do not know about you all but when it gets cold outside I stay inside and that leads to one big problem-no exercise. The warm sunny jogs are just distant summer memories. Some of you are probably struggling with this same problem. Have no worries, because it is never too late to change this sluggish winter cycle. The first thing I always do is set a goal. Do I want to build some muscle or lose some weight or maybe both? No problem, with all of the different methods of working out in today’s world you can always find a program to fit your needs. The world-wide web is your best friend when it comes to different work out
routines. Open up Google and type in exactly what you are looking for in a workout and Volia! There will be hundreds of links ready to provide you with everything you need. To take this a step further, for all of you smart phone users, there are abundant apps that can help you with staying in shape. One of my favorite apps is My Fitness Pal, which is basically a calorie counter weight loss sidekick. Type in a few characteristics about your self, start documenting your meals and the app will do the rest. Another great app is Strava, a running and cycling app that records how far and fast you run or ride your bicycle so you can document your progress. If these do not work to your liking, there are plenty more to choose from. Just make sure to read the reviews before you download or purchase an app since spare money is usually in short
supply for college students. If your piggy bank is full and you have a few dollars set aside you can purchase one of the high dollar P90x or Insanity programs. This is a home workout regimen with your very own instructor to guide you along the way. These are good programs because they require minimal gym equipment and you can do them in the comfort of your home. If you just want to be a gym rat; please remember our school gym is nicely lighted, heated and even allows you to watch television while you workout. How much better can it get? Remember working out comes down to how bad you want it; those weights aren’t going to lift themselves. So hop off the couch and get started, then when beach season rolls around you will have already done your homework and all those compliments you receive will be the extra credit.
Working out in cold weatherWinter Workout Blues
By GARRETT WESTFALLContributing Writer
Lizzy Mae slowly walks up and attempts a half smile. She looks to be in her mid 60’s, but she is much younger than that. Many of her teeth are missing and she struggles to talk, her small frame slightly bent over. She looks like she could be someone’s grandmother. Lizzy squints into space and begins to tell her story. Lizzy is one of the estimated 215 homeless people that call the streets of Athens, Georgia home. Many people don’t see the day-to-day struggles of the homeless Lizzy Mae, suffers from mental and physical issues and she has a difficult time trying to explain to me that someone “hurt her home,” which was located under a bridge in
Athens. Some of her friends said that someone actually did set her makeshift shelter on fire last year, which happened to be underneath city gas line. Due to that fire, the police have now banned all homeless people from living under any bridges in Athens. When Lizzy
can find a bed, she spends the night at the Bigger Vision homeless shelter. The homeless of Athens face many troubles as they attempt to simply get through the day. Mental issues, violence, hopelessness, substance abuse, little chance of finding a job, and the constant reinforcement that they are often viewed as a lower class of humans, helps to reinforce their misery. For these reasons all the homeless people that I interviewed only gave me their first name, for privacy reasons. I spoke with Michael a homeless man that has lived on the streets for the past 30 years. Michael said, “ I was walking through a part of town looking for a place to sleep. I guess some guys realized I was homeless and they jumped on top of me and robbed me. They got all my money, and
one of them broke my wrist. It just shows that when you roam the streets you are more likely to get in trouble and get hurt.” Michael held up his wrist it was extremely swollen and badly bruised. He didn’t want to go to the hospital because he didn’t have any money and is afraid of needles. Assault on homeless people is not rare; The National Coalition for the Homeless reports that there have been over 1,184 reported attacks on homeless people in the past 12 years. People often blame homelessness on personal failings, but many times the person may have experienced a traumatic life event and just did not have a support system to fall back on. I spoke with Mike, another homeless man in Athens, and he told me that he had a home in Walton County that he built
for his son and his wife. Mike explains,” You know, we got into a divorce and I lost the house and my wife. You know, going through that changed things. But life (sic) grows on.” Mike now lives in the woods; surrounding Athens, he thinks of himself as a long-term camper. What can the average person do to help the homeless of Athens? When asked this question many of the homeless people told me that they would ask people to care about them and try to understand their struggles. Dave, a former homeless man who now lives in an apartment in Athens said,” Give them some help, all they need is one chance. A chance to get a job and get out of their situation, just one chance.”
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By MAHEEN RAEStaff Writer
Piedmont College Athens lacks student participation in the events that occur on campus. Student activities are a big part of the college experience. Many students have shown interest in participating in activates held by Piedmont- but when the day of the event arrives, there are very few students who attend. Despite the efforts of trying to get the word out about the event or even offering things such as free lunch at the occasion, student participation stays at a low. Surveying around campus as
to why students don’t attend students respond with three frequent responses: “I had work”, “I didn’t know of the event”, and the most common, “I live far and the commute wasn’t worth it”. Being a commuter campus, these issues are inevitable. Working around the schedules of students is nearly impossible. The few students who are available to attend events should provide the student activities office with their availability. This will ensure that the school schedules events according to majority of student’s availability. Events during a time that is between classes for many students, a time soon after classes, or a time before classes would expand the amount of student participation. Communication between student activities and the students at Piedmont Athens is obligatory for Piedmont to grow as a community.
Apathy in EverythingATHENS EDITORIAL
The Invisibles HOMELESSNESS IN ATHENS
Piedmont College Athens recently held an open mic night to provide students with the opportunity to express themselves in front of their peers. The theme for the night was “Celebrate Diversity, Cel-ebrate Yourself !”
There was good food from many backgrounds for every-one to enjoy while students presented their works. Stu-dents were encouraged to share their art, poetry, music and anything else they wanted to contribute.
It was a quaint and comfort-able environment for students to enjoy, and many felt con-fident enough to share their works.
Adam Arlt kicked off the night with an acoustic song about mitosis. Later on in the evening, he also performed a cover of the song “Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers. Arlt has been playing guitar since he was six and said he had fun performing at the event.
After Arlt’s performance, Shawanna Smith read her fa-vorite poem, titled “We Wear The Mask” by Paul Laurence. Smith said, “[The poem] sends a message. It emphasiz-es equality and inspires read-ers to think about the reason-ing behind their actions.”
Smith said that she is not comfortable with public speaking, yet she still shared. She said she was glad she did and felt relieved afterwards.
There were two short pre-sentations by sisters Dulte and Jenny Vargas to display their diversity. Both sisters were born in Mexico and raised in Athens, and both are also criminal justice majors.
Feeling inspired by the performances, Cordel Garrett wrote a poem entitled “Who Am I” on the spot and read it for the audience in order to share his personal struggles and obstacles of facing diver-sity.
The most frequent perform-er of the night was Brandi Turpin, who read three of her
own poems. With her poem “Broken Bust,” she incorpo-rated a PowerPoint presenta-tion in order to better illustrate the emotions of the poem. She also read her poems entitled “Existed” and “Women.”
When asked what inspired her to start writing poetry, Tur-pin replied, “I’ve been writing since I was 13 or 14 years old, but my high school English teacher is who inspired me.”
Surprisingly, this was only her second time sharing her poetry with an audience. She said she was nervous before presenting her poetry; howev-er, she also said she was glad she shared and felt good after-wards.
Turpin said she uses her writing as an emotional outlet. She is currently editing fiction novels and is in the process of writing her own novel as well.
The open mic night was a great opportunity for students to unify and share their works with the support of their peers. Many students displayed their talents at open mic night
As the holiday sea-son draws near, shop-pers across the coun-try look forward to Black Friday to grab the best deals on this season’s hottest gifts.
Black Friday shop-ping may be evolving to cater to a younger
Black Friday Survivalgeneration. Just over half of U.S. adults plan to shop on Black Friday this year, ac-cording to the results of a holiday shopping trends sur-vey by IPSOS and conducted on behalf of Offers.com. Of those consumers shopping on Black Friday, 35 percent plan to shop primarily online, 28 percent plan to shop main-ly in stores and 37 percent will shop both online and in stores.
This study also showed that 18 to 34-year-olds will shop on Black Friday more than any other age group. 26 percent will shop primarily online, 24 percent will shop online and in stores and 17 percent plan to shop primar-ily in stores.
“People aren’t as excited
When is Christmas? Be-cause I thought it was more than a month away, yet I am already hearing Christmas music and seeing decorations everywhere. We still have more than a week till Thanks-giving.
I get it; maybe it is a mar-keting strategy- the longer
it is “Christmas” the more people will spend more mon-ey. But what happened to Thanksgiving? Shouldn’t they be marketing all the food we buy around Thanksgiving?
Even the New York Times reported that this year there would probably be more pro-motion than ever for Christ-mas. Stores are trying as hard as they can to bring the cus-tomers in this holiday season. But why can’t it wait until af-ter Thanksgiving?
I wouldn’t even mind see-ing a commercial or two about Christmas, but could we at least turn off the Christmas music for now?
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In my house if you listened to Christmas music or deco-rated for Christmas before Thanksgiving, it was consid-ered bad luck.
I love Christmas- the music, the decorations, the way every-one just seems to be happier, but Thanksgiving is an equal-ly awesome holiday, and every year I am disappointed that so many people completely for-get about Thanksgiving and skip straight to Christmas.
They are very similar holi-days- lots of food, your family comes together, and you get a break from school. I would say the biggest difference is presents. Are we that self-ish of a society that we only care about the holiday we get presents on? Shouldn’t we be thankful for everything we al-ready have fi rst?
Christmas shouldn’t be all about presents anyway. It is supposed to be celebrating the birth of Christ. It is sup-posed to be a religious holi-day, yet now it is more of a commercial holiday. It is an excuse to buy and sell masses of products without money in mind. Thanksgiving is a time for all of us to be thankful for what we have- family, friends, a great education, etc.
I personally can’t wait till Thanksgiving; I wish it would come already so I don’t have to plug my ears in Walmart to keep from hearing Christmas music.
Give Thanks? Everyone Just Calm Down.
Why is there so much dra-ma in the world? People like to tell me that because I’m a theatre major, I signed up for all the dramatic emotional abuse of feelings in my life. However, to set the record straight, that is not what I signed up for.
To be perfectly candid, I signed up to spend four years working toward my MFA so I can teach Creative Drama to students between the ages of four and 18 at a non-profi t theater for many, many years, and then grow old shaping the minds of young, theater loving youth.
If you wanted to know, I did not sign up for this crap. So to rebute the nay-sayers who tell
me it’s because I’m “in dra-ma” I shall say; there’s drama everywhere so stop making excuses. There’s newspaper staff drama, there’s RA dra-ma, there’s chalk on campus drama, there’s party drama, there’s sports drama, there’s baby mama drama - there is drama everywhere.
I’m 21 in real life years but I feel like I’m 400 in drama years. I’m so sick of the be-hind the back talking and the stupid bickering.
I feel like I’m Professor Xavier when he’s using Cere-bro to see all the humans and mutants in the world, except instead of fi nding humans and mutants, I’m fi nding drama and instead of being Profes-sor X, I’m just me and instead of being at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, I’m at Piedmont. I hate it. Mostly the drama but a little bit the X-men part. I would rather do anything these days than care about drama around every corner. In fact, I would rather:
Eat a live moose
Give myself a hickey on my wrist
Choke on asparagus
Never drink tequila again
Shoot myself with a nerf gun repeatedly
Eat coleslaw
Sneeze blood
Re-live middle school
Lick the fl oor of Purcell
Eat a sandwich in the middle of a Pleysier class
Watch toenails grow
Jump into a river of lava
So instead of doing that drama thing you’re doing try to do that other thing you do that doesn’t involve being a terrible person. Maybe talk about music, or how cute pup-pies are, or alternative medi-cine, or just don’t even talk at all. Instead, get your stuff together on your own for ev-eryone else’s sanity. Because I really like what dignity I have left and I’d rather not be forced to do any of the stuff on that list. But I would much rather do it all than deal with complaining entitled poopy heads full of anger and spite.
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to fi ght the crowds to get doorbusters,” said Offers.com CEO Steve Schaffer. “In fact, only 31 percent plan to shop at retailers that open on Thanksgiving, and more and more consumers are skipping the stores altogeth-er and shopping online. This has transformed Black Friday into a weeklong online event, not just a one-day shopping bonanza.”
So how should students plan to shop on Black Friday? The majority, 60 percent, of those planning to head to the stores on Black Friday will do so before 8 a.m.
Plan to wake up early and be ready to fi ght off the crowds, especially if you are planning to shop at retail stores.
“Are we that selfi sh of a society that we only care about the holiday we get presents on? Shouldnʼt we be thankful for everything we already have
fi rst?”
The Beauty of Technology
Get Un-Involved
Cashing In Your Closet
The other day I was sitting in my room listening to music on my iPhone, typing a paper on my laptop, while waiting for an update to download for one of my favorite games. It was in this moment that I found my-self in a moment of thought. I thought about how lucky we are as a generation, because we have the world at our fin-gertips.
I still remember the first
If I had a nickel for every time I opened the Navigator and saw a headline titled “Get Involved,” well, I would have a whole lot of nickels. There’s something about Piedmont and other similar small liberal arts colleges, that really roman-ticizes over commitment and drowning oneself in re-sponsibilities.
Well I’m here to tell you that getting too involved is a terrible idea and very well may kill you. Sure, getting involved on campus is great, but most people really just need to chill out.
First of all, we need to talk about the main reason every-one is here: their major. It’s what they’re going to do for the rest of their lives, it’s only natural it be their main focus. And unfortunately, interest-ing activities in departments
computer my family owned; its monitor was incased in the grotesque-looking cream-col-ored plastic, it took a rocket scientist to turn it on, and it was connected to the outside world through dial-up.
For those of you who nev-er had to experience dial-up, thank your lucky stars.
I rarely used this new piece of technology in my house, unless it was to play Solitaire, Minesweeper, or Microsoft Paint. Eventually, as I grew, I became more acquainted with the computer and we got DSL.
I used it to play more ad-vanced games, research and write papers for class. This object became a portal to the world outside of the Georgia mountains.
Back in my room, with my phone at my side, I thought about the beauty that is our technology.
Today I can find an answer
other than your major may not mesh well with the rest of your schedule.
Being a theatre major, I al-ready to belong to a depart-ment that is, essentially, a schedule monopoly. The hours spent in the shop and in re-hearsal vastly outnumber the hours I spend in class. And that’s only considering main-stage productions; I haven’t even mentioned student proj-ects.
It’s very hard for me to man-age extracurricular activities outside the theatre depart-ment. When schedules over-lap, I obviously choose my major. This is natural; if you love something, it makes ab-solute sense that it would con-
sume all your time. This is how I know I’m in the right major. If other things are getting in the way with that, there comes a time when you have to trim the fat.
The best way to trim the fat is to just say no. It’s okay to say no. If someone asks you to be a part of a club or organi-zation, you’re allowed to turn
them down. It’s your educa-tion after all.
If you’re involved in some-thing you enjoy that is hin-dering something you enjoy more, sometimes you just have to eliminate the former. It’s like my theatre director in high school used to say when cutting his favorite scenes out of plays to make them less than 50 minutes long, “Some-times, you have to kill your children.” It’s better to be extraordinarily good at one thing than to be halfway de-cent at several things, if that one thing is something you re-ally enjoy.
So overworked and over-stressed Piedmont students out there: don’t be afraid to
kill your children. It will be worth it in the end.
Getting i nvo l ve d will turn you col-lege edu-cation into a fulfilling part of your life, while get-ting over-i nvo l ve d will turn it
into a glorious mess of stress, anxiety and mediocre work.
So yes, get involved, but re-member what your priorities are, and don’t be afraid to say no. Unless it’s to the theatre department. The answer is al-ways yes to them. They have saws.
By TYLER DALEOpinions Editor
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Most of the time, if you have unwanted clothes in your closet, you have two options: you can either donate them to Goodwill, or you can try to sell them to consignment shops like Cillie’s or Plato’s Closet. The first option is great, but it doesn’t give you any extra cash in your wallet.
With places like Plato’s Closet, most of the time you won’t be getting very much for what you bring in and lots of times they will reject perfectly good, trendy clothes because it’s stuff they already have.
I got tired of getting ripped off by consignment shops, so I started searching for a bet-ter alternative. That’s when I discovered Poshmark. I’m not sure exactly how I came across it, but I am so glad I did. It’s an app available on iPhone and iPad where you set up an account and can buy and sell your unwanted clothes and ac-cessories.
It’s so quick and easy to set up your account. Once you’ve signed in, you’re ready to start.
Your closet is where you list things you want to sell: de-signer clothes and handbags, shoes, jewelry, etc. It doesn’t have to be designer items though, which is great. You upload four pictures of the item you want to sell, write a description and give other de-tails about sizing and brand.
What really drew me in to the app was that you get to
set your price for whatever you want to sell.
The only thing that could be a negative for some is that Poshmark takes 20 percent commission out of your sale. If I listed something for $10, I would only be making $8. It’s definitely something to keep in mind when pricing your items, but I don’t mind because Posh handles shipping.
Once your item sells, they email you a shipping label and all you have to do is pack up your item and drop it in the mailbox. Your earnings are re-leased three days after the item is delivered to your buyer, or when the buyer accepts it.
Another thing I really love about Posh is that you can choose how you get paid. They will either send you a check, direct deposit into your bank or you can use your earnings to shop within the app.
I’ve never bought anything from Poshmark, so I can’t re-ally speak to what its like to be a buyer. I use the app primarily to make money.
I’ve never had an issue with a buyer not accepting my item, and I try to ship out as soon as possible. The way I see it is the faster I ship, the faster I’ll be able to get my money.
When I first started in June, I didn’t have very high expec-tations. I was hoping to may-be make $20 at most. I was so excited when I made my first sale.
Now five months later, I’ve made over $300 and have over 1,800 followers to my closet. While $300 might not seem like very much in the scheme of things, it is way more than I could have ever expected. I’m so amazed by how positive my experience has been with this app, and I can’t wait to see what it brings me in the future.
I highly recommend this to anyone with an overcrowded closet and an iPhone.
Give Thanks?
By FLETCHER DEALContributing Writer
to any question that crosses my mind, I can listen to an art-ist’s entire repertoire without paying a cent, I can discover a burgeoning filmmaker’s new-est creation, and I can tell you in two seconds the weather forecast for the week ahead.
Aside from the entertain-ment side of the web, I am connected to the world.
I can instantly communi-cate with someone in the next state or in the furthest corners of the globe, I can read the top stories from every major world paper, and I can read the histories of all these for-eign places.
This is the real beauty of the web. This technology cre-ates global thought, it solidi-fies the fact that we are all on this planet together, and it is up to us to make tomorrow brighter than today. That con-nectivity is the beauty of our technology.
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David Adeboye Junior business major
“It’s not bad for the most part. Just hate the rain and being wet.”
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“I wish it would just stay consistent and either be cold or warm.”
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Published author at PCXhenet Aliu to hold reading in the Mason-Scharfenstein Museum
By MANYI ENOStaff Writer
Xhenet Aliu, winner of the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, will visit Piedmont on Thursday, Nov. 21.
Aliu was introduced to reading at an early age.
“At the time, we had an old black and white television that got about two stations,” Aliu said about growing up.
“So instead of watching TV my brother used to read me things like the ‘Bernstein Bears’ and Richard Scarry’s books.”
It was not until her junior year of college that Aliu dis-covered her passion for writ-ing and literature upon sign-ing up for Introduction to Fiction course.
According to Aliu, she signed up for the class be-cause she was planning on becoming a nurse and had some general electives to ful-fill.
“By the time that first class was over, I had decided to become an English major, simply because no other class had ever made my stomach turn from excitement and possibility the way that class did,” said Aliu.
Aliu’s first book was a col-lection of short stories called “Domesticated Wild Things,” published in September of this year.
“It was, of course, thrilling and wonderful, but also a bit terrifying at first to realize that I no longer have absolute con-trol over the work,” Aliu said about the publication process.
“The stories are now in the world for people to love or hate or dismiss, and though I catch myself still editing the stories privately, I have to accept that they’ve left the nest.”
Aliu writes literary fiction and shies away from genre fiction like mysteries, thrillers and romance.
“[Genre fiction does] focus more on plot than character, and I’m far less interested in what happens than why it happens, “ said Aliu.
“I want to understand the character’s interior world—the one in which they have choices—rather than the ex-terior world, where in many cases things simply happen to them.”
Aliu just finished the fifth
re-write of a novel that she has been working on for a long time.
“The earliest seeds were sown seven or eight years ago, and I’ve been working on it off and on since then,” she said.
“I’m excited about hav-ing a current writer visit our school,” said sophomore Eng-lish major Sarah Gesualdo.
“As an aspiring writer, it will be inspirational to hear all of her advice and the things she has to share with us.”
When visiting Piedmont this week, Aliu will sit in on O’Keefe’s Short Stories class
Razors left abandoned, shaving cream cans left half full - this can only mean one thing: No-Shave November is in full effect.
The Hill family created the No-Shave November Facebook campaign to raise cancer awareness in 2009, ac-cording to their website.
The site also states that the premise of this annual phenomenon is to encourage men to let their beards grow for the entire month of No-vember in support of cancer patients who lose their hair.
By getting a bit grizzly, participants can donate the money they would have used for shaving cream and razors to the cause by purchasing No-Shave official merchan-dise or finding a way to edu-cate others on the battles of cancer.
Many of Piedmont’s men have embraced the shaggy nature of the challenge and put down their razors in sup-port of the month’s goal of awareness.
Whether they shaved their beards entirely to start fresh on the first day of November or just let their chin hair go from where it was, these men are showing their support.
Danny Jazrawi, a sopho-more business major and in-ternational student from El Salvador had not experienced No-Shave November until
Getting grizzly for a causePiedmont students participate in No-Shave November to raise awareness
By HILLARY KELLEYFeatures Editor
ANGIE UPDATE:After students, faculty and community members rallied together to raise money for Angie Simpson and her family during her fight with cancer, the amount of funds given to Simpson totals $1051.86.
Keep up with her progress by visiting The Roar at piedmontroar.com
as they read her story “The Kill Jar.”
Afterwards, Aliu will hold a reading from her collection “Domesticated Wild Things” in the Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art at 4 p.m.
“To aspiring writers, I would emphasize that endur-ance and discipline is abso-lutely critical,” said Aliu.
“In other fields, if you were told ‘no’ 99 out of a 100 times, you might start to question your choice of occupation. In writing, if you place one piece out of a hundred, you’re do-ing just fine.”
Aliu’s first book, “Domesticated Wild Things,” is available for purchase online. PUBLIC DOMAIN
What: Reading by Xhenet AliuWhen: Thursday, Nov. 21 at 4 p.m.Where: Mason-Scharfenstein MuseumYou can also follow up on Aliu’s upcoming events, reviews and news on her website by scanning the code
coming to the states to attend Piedmont.
“I think it is a really cool tradition to take part of [as well as] a way to support a good cause,” said Jazrawi.
Some students have joined in on the No-Shave band-wagon just as an excuse to not spend the time it takes to shave.
“I got tired of having to shave everyday for baseball during October,” said sopho-more business major Breck Davidson, who participates every year.
“I had never done it before, and I wanted to see what my little face could grow,” said sophomore business major Drew Long.
“My friends always like the transformation I have from a baby face to a more grown-up [face,]” said Jazrawi.
Whether or not the partici-pants knowingly draw others to ask what the idea behind No-Shave November is, it has become a tradition that has grown from under 50 partici-pants from the original Face-book page to thousands of people around the world, ac-cording to the cause’s web-site.
“It may soon become a Drewster tradition,” said Long.
To receive more infor-mation, donate or purchase No-Shave merchandise, visit www.no-shavenovember.com.
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Drew LongSophomore business major
Dylan KrimmerFreshman biology major
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In an effort to re-pair our campus’ Wi-fi without actually tack-ling the issue, Pied-mont’s administration made a deal with God to gain control of the weather.
Whenever the band-width is lacking in the dorms, they merely turn up the tempera-tures, encouraging Piedmont students to go outside and en-joy the warm weather while it lasts.
Of course, this mass exodus outdoors significantly reduces the load on Piedmont’s Wi-fi, making the In-ternet faster and there-fore appear repaired.
But then, once again, this causes cold weather, creating an endless cycle of un-predictable Georgia
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weather and shoddy Wi-Fi. Upon discovering this
shocking news, The Naviga-tor contacted God, asking why he would agree to grant Piedmont administration total control over the weather.
When asked, He respond-ed, “Well, Thor is too busy with his new movie, so I had to give the job to someone.”
When Piedmont’s admin-istration was asked, they re-sponded, “We hope this will get the students outside of the rooms and exploring our beautiful campus.”
And maybe they’ll break away from Tumblr and Hulu and find some simpler, less addictive forms of entertain-ment. That’s what we did for fun before we had Twitter,” said Piedmont’s administra-tion.
So Piedmont students, if you want another Snowpoca-lypse on the same level as the legendary Snowpocalypse of 2011, there is only one way to do it: stop using Wi-fi.
No Netflix, no Facebook,
Published author at PCno anything. Do that, and our unused bandwidth will force the temperatures down, canceling class and turning Piedmont into a winter won-derland.
But the second someone decides they want to catch up on “Orange is the New Black,” the weather will sky-rocket back up to 60 degrees in typical North Georgia fash-ion.
So Piedmont, you decide: Internet or snow.
The fate of this winter is in your hands.
I beg you make the right choice. Netflix will still be there over Christmas break.
If you are looking for a way to make a difference and help those in need, vol-unteering at a soup kitchen is a great way to spend your free time.
Soup kitchens are also called bread lines. Most homeless shelters also act as soup kitchens, serving a free, hot meal to those who need it.
Most soup kitchens need help all year long. If serving isn’t for you, see if there are other ways you can assist, such as mingling and talk-ing with the diners.
As the holiday season ap-proaches, the spirit of vol-unteering is emphasized even more.
Many PC 101 classes are
focusing their time on com-munity service projects as well.
One PC 101 class focused on the Habersham Soup Kitchen by setting up boxes around campus to collect canned goods to donate.
“We are just collecting can foods as donations [and] there are boxes put out around cam-pus,” said freshman nursing major Gilbert Ibarra.
The Habersham Soup Kitchen in Clarkesville, lo-cated at 166 Ritchie St., serves lunch to the hungry Monday through Saturday.
If you are interested in vol-unteering at a soup kitchen, call the shelter to see when they serve meals to the home-less and if they need volun-teers.
This will most likely put you in contact with the volun-
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Habersham Soup Kitchen
teer coordinator to arrange for your first volunteer stint.
Ibarra also said, “We are giving to kids who don’t re-ceive much and are [less] for-tunate.”
“Christmas is a time to give and thank, and I would give up my gifts so that they can have a warm meal for Christmas,” Ibarra said.
A few tips on volunteering at a soup kitchen:
Arrive at the designated lo-cation early so that you can receive your instructions and meet the other volunteers.
Man your assigned station and serve food to those who pass by.
Smile! You’re making a big difference in the life of some-one who needs it.
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Getting grizzly for a cause
Exploring the mountian terrain of North GeorgiaStudents spend time at the Curahee, Bell, Yonah Mountain overlooks
As the crisp air of fall slow-ly fades to the chilling tem-peratures of winter, students are taking advantage of the weather by exploring the sce-nic beauty of North Georgia’s mountain landscapes.
Popular hangouts in the heart of nature include the overlooks at Bell Knob Moun-tain in Hiawassee, Currahee Mountain in Toccoa and Yo-nah Mountain in Helen.
Each destination is close enough to campus that stu-dents can make the trek and back in one afternoon.
“These places are so relax-ing,” said sophomore busi-ness major Richard Ether-idge.
“I get to go up there with great people and listen to amazing music while looking out over God’s beautiful cre-ation.”
There is a lot of history at-tached to these locations that surpasses the several years’ worth of graffiti marking the hundreds of people who have made the climb.
In fact, Currahee is the setting for the popular HBO mini-series, “Band of Broth-ers.”
The series follows the 101st
Airborne division of the US Army as they trained at Camp Currahee during WWII.
Likewise, Yonah Mountain was used for the mountain training of US Army rangers in past decades.
At times, the Army rangers still use this area for training
By HILLARY KELLEYFeatures Editor
and close off the mountain face from the public.
As for Bell Knob, often shortened to Bell Mountain, the overlook provides a vast view of the Towns County area and the expanse of Lake Chatuge.
“It’s a really cool hike, and
the view there is breathtak-ing,” said sophomore psy-chology major Chloe Sanders.
The trail leading to the top of Bell Mountain, towering at 3,323 feet, is mostly paved road, leaving only about one-third of the trail to require hiking by foot.
Currahee Mountain is a three-mile hike up and three miles back down, while Yonah Mountain’s trail is either 1.5 miles or 2.7 miles depending on the starting point.
Wi-Fi, weather connected
Photos by NIKKI MEANSCLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Sanders sat atop the overlook at Bell Knob Mountain in Hiawassee, Ga. Etheridge spent time listening to music with friends during his trip to Bell Knob. A climber stood on a rock ledge during an expedition to Yonah Mountain. Junior biology major Taylor Hockley worked on homework while visiting Currahee Mountain.
Keep up with campus events:
The Piedmont College American Marketing Association Club and the Office of Institutional Advancement will be hosting an event in the Brookside Dining Hall on Nov. 20 from 1-4 p.m. that will consist of 30-minute informational sessions concerning graduate school and carrer-oriented topics. They will also offer mock inter-views and review resumes for students who are interested.
There is still time to reserve a spot for the trip to Habersham Hills Cinema to see “The Hun-ger Games: Catching Fire” on Thursday, Nov. 21. Students wanting to attend must bring a $5 deposit to room 103 in the student center.
Stop by the student center at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 25 for Channing Tater Tatum night .The event will consist of screenings of “Magic Mike” and “21 Jump Street” while students who attend eat tater tots.
Do you have a story that you think Piedmont students would be interested in?
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There are boxes around campus where students can donate cans like these to the Habersham Soup Kitchen.
Photo by HILLARY KELLEY
Visit www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/foodbanks/GAfoodbanks.html for more soup kitchen locations.
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culture history...On this day in 1893, the fi rst newspaper color supplement was published in the Sunday New York World.
Courage!Piedmontʼs second play of the season will run from Nov. 21-24
in the Black Box Theatre
Marvel TV stakes out spot on Netfl ix
TOP LEFT: Senior theatre majors Ben Cisse and Jacob McKee rehearse a scene from “Courage!” TOP RIGHT: Senior theatre major Melissa Rice looks up into the crowd of actors waiting for their cues.
BOTTOM LEFT and BOTTOM RIGHT: Actors rehearse in the Black Box Theatre. Photos by SUMMER LEWIS
The season of Halloween is now over, giving way to the brighter side of the fall sea-son.
Overloaded on sweets and sugars, we exchange the jack-o-lanterns and spider webs for brightly colored leaves and pumpkin spice.
Ready to relax and enjoy the waning days of the au-tumn season, we turn on our radios and televisions only to be greeted with the all too familiar melodies of winter holiday jingles.
It seems, so far in the twen-ty fi rst century, that holiday seasons are exponentially be-ing rushed by the ever present pulse of the American media.
Department stores begin to stock their Halloween mer-chandise at the beginning of September then move on to
their Christmas decorations sometimes even before Octo-ber ends.
Carols and Christmas songs fl ood the airwaves well before Thanksgiving weekend.
Primetime shows on net-work television present their family centric Thanksgiving episodes which are then fol-lowed by a slew of commer-cials pandering toys and gifts for the winter holidays.
Aside from the holidays themselves, the seasons have all become one huge chunk of commercialism which com-mands the entire last third of the year.
For the students of Pied-mont in particular, this cele-bratory mash-up is even more muddled.
With the semester ending the second week of Decem-ber and several students living far away from each other, stu-dents must celebrate Thanks-giving and the December holi-
days almost simultaneously if they want to party with friends at all.
For example, my suitemate and I do not get a chance to ac-
tually meet up over the break. Instead, we usually decorate for Christmas - tree, lights, the works - in the middle of November so we can enjoy
the atmosphere for more than just the days before we leave for home.
Then after Thanksgiving break we watch several Christ-mas movies while fi nishing off leftovers from the week-end before.
Arranging holiday celebra-tions like these is a fun and ef-fective way to spend the holi-days with your friends here at Piedmont without having to travel long distances over the winter break.
Go with a group of friends to a holiday concert, like the Chamber Singers’ Lessons and Carols.
Host a holiday movie night. Share a slice of pumpkin pie and a glass of eggnog with your roommate.
So instead of griping about the mixing of autumn and winter this year, why not cel-ebrate both with the friends closest to you?
EDITORIAL: Christmas is comingCelebrate with friends on campus before break
By CHASE WEAVERContributing Writer
Junior mass communication majors KJ McCoy and Brandon Williams stand in front of last yearʼs Christmas tree on the quad.
Photo by SUMMER LEWIS
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On this day in 1893, the fi rst newspaper color supplement was published in the Sunday New York World.
“Pilots” take offBy KATARINA HODGEContributing Writer
Upcoming EventsArts and entertainment events
coming up at Piedmont
It took me 21 years, but I fi nally went to my fi rst live concert with a good friend of mine. That concert happened to be the second-to-last show on Fall Out Boy’s Save Rock and Roll tour with Panic! At The Disco, as well as a band that I had never even heard of called Twenty One Pilots.
You know the saying “no one cares about the opening act?” Well, that didn’t apply to this particular concert tour. If you haven’t heard of them yet, I have a strong feeling that you will soon enough.
From the moment they started, I knew that this would be a band that I would want to spread around to all of my friends like the plague.
Formed in 2009 as an al-ternative hip-hop/rock band, they are comprised of two band members, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun. They take their name from the play “All My
Sons” by Arthur Miller, which Joseph read in a theatre class.
While listening to them, you would think that there would be at least three more band members. But in reality, both of them are so talented that they don’t need other band members.
Joseph is lead vocals, and he also plays the ukulele, key-tar, synthesizer and piano.
Dun, on the other hand, has only one job: playing those drums. I have never seen anybody, live or on TV, play the drums anywhere near as well as he does. He is crazy good and an awesome sight to watch, plain and simple.
When I fi rst heard Joseph sing, I wondered how so much beautiful sound could come out of such a little body. He is such a performer on stage, donning his trademark rob-ber’s mask and screaming like a champ.
At the concert I went to, the band played a song that Joseph wrote for his mother, called “House of Gold.” Girls
all around the venue were swooning, including myself. It’s a simple yet beautiful piece, performed only with Joseph’s voice and ukulele.
Twenty One Pilots was nominated for the 2013 MTV Video Music Award for Art-ist to Watch with their song “Holding On To You,” but sadly were beaten out by Aus-tin Mahone with “What About Love.”
So, if you want to have to have some great music fi lling those ears of yours, go out and buy their newest album, “Vessel.” It was the best $10 I ever spent on an album, and I know that they will be on your radios sooner rather than later.
Twenty One Pilots is cur-rently on their Trip for Con-certs tour, and will be per-forming at Center Stage in Atlanta on Saturday, Nov. 23. To purchase tickets, or for more information, go to facebook.com/twentyon-epilots or the band’s website, twentyonepilots.com
Courage!Nov. 21-23 at 7:30
Nov. 24 at 2:00Black Box Theatre
$5 general admissionFree for Piedmont students and
faculty/staff
Art CapstonesPresented by Justin Miller,
Jacob Owen and Hollie CrumleyNov. 18-Dec. 6
Smith-Williams Art Gallery (Miller and Owen)
Mason-Scharfenstein Museum (Crumley)Receptions at 5 p.m. on Nov. 21 (Miller),
Dec. 3 (Owen) and Dec. 5 (Crumley)
Interested in writing for the Arts and Entertainment section of
The Navigator?Submit your articles and share your
love for the arts!Send your ideas and submissions to
A&E editor Emily Clance at [email protected]
Do you love movies?Piedmont’s Film Club wants you!
Next meeting on November 20th at 6:45 p.m. in Jenkins Auditorium
A review of an up-and-coming, two-man band
Netfl ix has recently been made accessible again to Piedmont College residential students. The popular stream-ing website, which had been blocked by the college earlier in the semester, is now back up and running.
This came just in time for the announcement made on Nov. 7, by The Walt Disney Co. that Marvel TV has made a deal with Netfl ix, which will create several original series about four of Marvel’s most popular superheroes.
All four series will be avail-able exclusively on Netfl ix. The four serialized programs will be leading to a miniseries programming event.
Netfl ix has committed to a minimum of four series con-sisting of 13 episodes each, as well as a culminating minise-ries event.
The series are said to be fo-cusing on Marvel’s characters Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, and will
take place over several years of programming.
The series are being pro-duced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Television Studios. This deal is Marvel’s most ambitious move into television storytell-ing to date.
Marvel’s most re-cent creation, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” premiered on ABC this fall.
Netfl ix has also had success with exclusive shows in the past. Earlier this year, Netfl ix debuted its show “Orange Is The New Black” which was met with critical acclaim.
The Internet streaming company has also seen suc-cess with “Arrested Devel-opment,” which gained a loyal fan base over its origi-nal three-year run from Nov. 2003 to Feb. 2006. The show’s fourth, Netfl ix-exclusive sea-son premiered in May 2013.
Marvel’s original program-ming with the Internet TV network is set to begin in 2015.
Simply “Marvel”-ousMarvel TV stakes out spot on Netfl ix
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Originally from Ohio, Twenty One Pilots has built up a substantial following with their energetic live performances.
Wind Ensemble ConcertNov. 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Piedmont College ChapelAdmission is free
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Schticks and Giggles’ “Lift ‘Em With Laughter”
Charity Improv ShowNov. 25
7:00 p.m. Mainstage Theatre
Pay what you can admissionAll proceeds go to
Habersham Middle School
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Senior theatre major Jeremy Douylliez and junior theatre major Kallie Robinson directed John Loganʼs “Red,” a play about artist Mark Rothko. Starring junior theatre majors Tyler Dale and Jacob McKee as Rothko and his assistant Ken, respectively, the play ran
from Nov. 9-10 at the Sautee Nacoochee Center for the Arts.
Photo courtesy of TYLER DALE
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Leading LionWomen’s Soccer
Laura GoodwinSenior, early childhood edu-cation major
High School: Brookwood High School
Hometown: Snellville, Ga.
Experience: I’ve been play-ing since I was four.
What is your greatest per-sonal achievement? My greatest personal achievement is helping my team make it to nationals this year. Any individual success I have had I owe to the support of my team-mates.
What are your pregame rituals?Marjorie Hammond has braided my hair before every game since freshman year. I always take my grand-mother’s ring off my finger and kiss it before going on the field. Eating skittles and listening to certain songs became pre-game rituals for a lot of the girls this season.
Why did you choose PC? I visited Piedmont on a really cold and rainy day. I was terrified of Coach Timmy and I couldn’t under-stand a word that Coach Petey said, but somehow I knew that Piedmont was where I was supposed to be.
What are your plans after graduating Piedmont?I plan on pursuing my MBA at Piedmont after gradu-ating in the spring.
Sports Terms(For Dummies)
Rebound- in basketball, to retrieve and
gain possession of the ball as it bounces off
the backboard or rim after an unsuccessful
shot.
Lions Sports ScheduleMBasketballNovember 19
vs. Toccoa Falls
CollegeTime: 8 p.m.
WBasketballNovember 20
atAgnes Scott
CollegeAWAY
WBasketballNovember 23
vs.Birmingham Southern
Time: 2 p.m.
November 25 at
Truett McConnell
AWAY
MBasketballNovember 30
vs. OglethorpeUniversity
AWAY
November 19vs.
Toccoa Falls Col-lege
Time: 6 p.m.
WBasketball
Lady Lions Soccer falls to Emory in NCAA TournamentBy ALEXANDRA SMITHSports Editor
Piedmont came back from the half ready to work, which was evident when senior Lau-ra Goodwin received a cross from senior Sarah Hill and scored in the 55th minute which was Piedmont’s first goal in the NCAA National Tournament in the program’s second appearance. Good-win’s goal was her 17th goal of the season.
“At first I was very nervous playing in such a big game but the upperclassmen really helped the younger players re-lax,” said Akin.
That goal from Piedmont ended a scoreless streak by the Eagles who had not al-lowed a goal since Oct. 18 in a 2-1 win over New York Uni-versity.
“We knew Emory would be good, but Petey and Timmy both had faith in our team’s ability to compete. Although we lost, we played a much better second half. Petey and Timmy reminded us to be proud of everything we ac-complished this season,” said Goodwin.
The Eagles posted 28 shots to five for PC though four of those for the Lady Lions were on target as Emory put 11 on frame. PC averaged 15 shots per game this season and 2.3 goals per game.
“After the game, Coach Petey was upset about the loss but knew as a whole our sea-son was very successful and he couldn’t be more proud of how much we accomplished,” said Akin.
WBasketball
The Lady Lions soccer team played in the NCAA tournament this past Satur-day against Emory University in Atlanta.
Emory defeated the Lady Lions 6-1 to end their sea-son. The Eagles scored three goals in the first 11 minutes of the contest to put away the Lady Lions early on as Pied-mont was eliminated from the NCAA postseason.
Senior Laura Goodwin said, “Making it to the nation-al tournament is such an awe-some experience, and I feel so lucky to have had it twice in my soccer career. Emory is a great team and since they are located in Atlanta, a ton of fans were able to make the
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Junior Symone Ball goes up for the shot against UNG
Photo by ALEXANDRA SMITHLindsey Nichols traps the ball at her feet
Piedmont College closes out their preseason play with a loss against DII University of North Georgia 46-90.
The Lady Lions’ owned Gabby Arencibia’s three pointer just 1:28 into the game gave PC 5-4 lead, but a quick 11-0 run by UNG would put the Nighthawks up for good.
UNG held a decisive 52-34 advantage over PC on the
glass, and the Lions gave up 22 turnovers that resulted in 32 Nighthawks points.
Sophomore Mary Kate Rushton said, “I think it prepared us for the season because it taught us that we can overcome adversity and we are just going to work harder and be better prepared for our upcoming games. It’s not going to be easy but our team chemistry is building and I know that we will get better as the season goes on.”
Lauren Hamel was the only player to reach double figures with 10 points on 5-10 shooting from the floor.
“Coach said that we just need to play hard and work hard in practice so we can carry it over to a game and that we need to reflect on what happened during the game and what we can improve,” said Rushton.
PC officially opened up the season Saturday against Centre College. PC lost 73-76 against the Colonels.
The Lady Lions saw the visiting Colonels shoot better than 85 percent from beyond the three point arc in the second half to overtake Piedmont outscoring the home team by six in the final 20 minutes after heading into the locker room down by three at the half.
Symone Ball was Piedmont’s leading scorer with 15 points on six of 11 shooting from the field also pulling down a team-high seven rebounds with three coming on the offensive end.
Ball’s numbers were part of Piedmont’s big time production off the bench, while starter Lauren Hamel was one of PC’s best shooters from the field hitting five of her 12 tries to total 11 points as one of four Lady Lions in double-digit scoring.
The Lady Lions take on Agnes Scott on Nov. 20 at 6p p.m. in Decatur, Ga.
Senior goalkeeper Marjorie Hammond posted four saves on the game and sophomore goalkeeper Michaela Gardner posted one save on the game.
“With knowing we could have played better, the team was upset about the loss but we worked hard all season and everyone was overall very sat-isfied with our final record,” said Akin.
The Lady Lions finish the year at 17-3-2 overall having
claimed the program’s first-ever USA South Tournament Championship just a week ago. Piedmont’s NCAA ap-pearance in the program’s second such showing in the last three seasons.
“We had a hell of a season, and one bad half isn’t going to take that from us. The team and coaches have so much talent and the women’s soccer program will only continue to become better in the upcom-
trip to support us.”Piedmont started off pres-
suring the Eagles early by earning a corner kick to put Emory on their heels. How-ever, that was short lived as Emory scored in the fifth, ninth and eleventh minute to tally more goals than PC has allowed in any 90 minute game during the 2013 season, struggling against the top ten team.
The Eagles scored again in the 27th, 30th and 42nd minutes to add on three more goals to put Piedmont down 6-0 at the half.
Freshman Marissa Akin said, “Coach Petey gave us nothing but confidence to win. He told us we came this far as a team and to do every-thing on that field for each other.”
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Can’t make it to a home game.....?
Check out the new live broadcast feature on the Piedmont Athlet-ics website. You can watch live feed of home games. For more
information go to:www.piedmontlions.com/show-
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Alton Honors IIJunior, psychology majorHigh School: Plant City High School
Hometown: Plant City, Fl.
Experience: I’ve been play-ing since I was six.
Why did you choose PC? I chose Piedmont to help me grow as a player and student.
What is your greatest personal achievement? Getting MVP at a Nike Basketball Camp
What are your plans after graduating Piedmont?I’m looking to play pro overseas or n some kind of semi pro league. Otherwise, I want to be a sports psychologist
What are your pregame rituals?I don’t warm up with my jersey on underneath my warm up shirt
Last season, Honors appeared in every game for the Lions, poured in 26 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in a loss to Berry (12/17), ranked second on the team in points per game (12.3) and rebounds per game (5.4).This season, Honors led Lions with 13 points in the 79-58 loss at Marietta College and earned All-Tour-nament honors along with teammate Jessie Jenkins.
Men’s Basketball
Leading Lion
This year, Piedmont’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) participated in the fall semester annual sponsored community service project, USA South Cans Across the Conference.
SAAC is considered a link between the athletes and athletic administration at Piedmont. According to the Piedmont athletics website, SAAC consists of student-athletes who together provide opinion and insight specifically to the student-athlete experience at Piedmont.
Cans Across the Conference is a competition between all USA South conference schools as to what school athletic program can collect the most canned items is to be donated to a local recipient chosen by each college, according to the website.
Piedmont has chosen the Clarkesville Soup Kitchen as their recipient this year, and 15 athletic teams at Piedmont participated in the project.
The Navigator spoke with the assistant to the athletic director and SAAC advisor
Elizabeth “Liz” Butikofer to learn more about SAAC and the canned food drive this fall.
“We were very happy last year to reach 2,000 cans, but we did not win the competition so we do not really have a goal this year,” Butikofer said. “We’re just trying to collect as many cans as we can.”
The two teams that collected the most cans were the men’s and women’s tennis team with 373 cans, and the women’s volleyball team with 279 cans. All together, Piedmont’s athletic department collected 1,413 cans.
To collect cans, some teams held sporting events for all students to participate in. The cross country teams held a 5K event in mid-September where anybody could join and each team bought a certain amount of cans. The tennis teams held a tennis tournament and it was a can donation to get in, while the women’s lacrosse team had a radar gun fastest shot competition, according to Butikofer.
“Each team each semester does something different to help out,” said Butikofer. “For the USA South, this is something we all participate in together, and next we will
Cans across the conference
Lady Lions Soccer falls to Emory in NCAA Tournament
Lions Sports ScheduleMBasketball
Decmeber 1at
BerryCollegeAWAY
MBasketballDecember 7
at Oglethorpe University
AWAY
WBasketballDecember 12
at Toccoa Falls College
AWAY
December 14at
Birmingham Southern AWAY
WBasketballDecmeber 17
at TransylvaniaUniversity
AWAY
Decmeber 1at
BerryCollegeAWAY
WBasketball MBasketball
By MANYI ENOStaff Writer
Photos by ALEXANDRA SMITH
Piedmont College sponsored a student-run event last Wednesday night. The event introduced the 2013-2014 Piedmont basketball teams to the student body through games, a student vs. graduate assistant scrimmage, and a dunk contest. For a
video of the dunk contest and audio interviews with the players, check out www.piedmontroar.com.
Piedmont Athletic Director, John Dzik, participates in the hula hoop contest.
be doing Toys for Kids.”Piedmont’s SAAC is also
responsible for assisting the Cornelia Kiwanis Chapter in their Toys for Kids campaign each year at Christmas.
In the spring, Piedmont will take on another project called “Pennies for a Purpose” in March. All of the change collected will go to the Habersham Animal Shelter to assist with dog and cat transportation out of the shelter.
All student athletes are automatically considered members of SAAC and are invited to attend meetings held bi-weekly on Wednesday afternoons.
The types of concerns and comments discussed at SAAC meetings are timing of practices, class schedules, dining hall hours and menu, transportation issues as well as facility and equipment issues. The SAAC also offers input to the NCAA on the rules, regulations and policies that affect student-athletes’ living on all NCAA college campuses.
Students practice a cheer led by Matt Stephens.
Carl Allen goes up for a lay up in the seniors vs. graduate assistant games
Cydney Goodwin dribbles down court as a part of a basketball skills challenge game.
The Piedmont Women’s soccer team is recognized for winning their conference this season
Senior Patrick Lyons MCs the event
Safari Smith, Alton Honors, and Darius Wilson coach the Graduate Assistant team in the scrimmage
Chris Meeks, Chris Goershel, and Corey Brabham coach the Senior team in the scrimmage
The PC Lion mascot participates in the dunk contest. The cheerleading squad performed routines to pump up the crowd.
Safari Smith jumps over Drew Long as a part of a dunk in the dunk competition.
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The Piedmont College NavigatorLivingBetter safe than sorry
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Tips for being safe on campus
ofBITSLIFEhelpful hint
Always keep emergency money in your car. Roll up a $10 or $20 bill in an empty Chapstick
container and no one will ever notice.
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Campus safety is increasingly important for the students of Piedmont College.
“I worry about people being complacent,” said Piedmont Police and Fire Chief Dick Martin.
He explained that because students feel they live in a safe area, they do not take the necessary precautions to avoid an incident. Martin urged that even though the campus has not had a major incident, something could always change. Piedmont is not exempt from an unpleasant event.
Resident Assistant Brandon Callahan has taught self defense classes before and stresses safety on campus
“The best thing I could prescribe for all situations is situational awareness,” Callahan wrote in an email.
“Always be aware of where you are, what is going on, who is there, what they are doing ... and do your best to never be caught off guard by something.”
Some general safety tips include always locking your doors and windows no matter how long you will be away from your room or car.
“We see it all the time when we are writing parking
tickets. We will see a laptop in somebody’s backseat, and the car is wide open,” said Martin. This will not only protect your valuables; it also protects you from someone who might be in the building.
Avoid walking alone on campus, especially at night. Even if it is just to take the trash out, ask a friend or Campus Security to come with you.
There is strength in numbers. Having someone with you discourages a criminal from attacking you.
Tell people where you are going and when you expect to arrive. This way if something happens to you on your way there, someone can act on it before it is too late.
If something or someone looks out of place, contact Campus Police immediately.Do not wait for someone else to do it. Even if it is just a gut feeling, act on it. You could save a life.
Never prop open doors or leave windows open. This gives criminals an opportunity to get into a building that they did not have before.
Have your keys out and ready when you walk to your car. Fumbling for your car keys gives an attacker the perfect opportunity for an assault.
Know how to identify your valuables by serial numbers
The office of Student Activites and Campus Events is sponsoring a trip to see the most anticipated movie of the year,
“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”! The buses will leave from the GB parking lot at 7:45 on Thursday, November 21st.
There is a $5 deposit to reserve your spot. You can pay your deposit in room 103 of the Student Center.
Club Spotlight: AMAAmerican Marketing Association
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The American Marketing Association is a new student group on campus.
It is also a nationally-recognized professional organization that allows you to connect with chapters from all across the nation and participate in the events put on by local chapters.
The goal of AMA is to help students utilize their marketing skills in professional settings and provide events that help to foster the growth of marketing
in the community. The club will attend a collegiate conference in Atlanta in early March that is made up of a networking cocktail hour and a career seminar and job fair the following day.
“I attended the career fair last year and actually received two internship offers. The information shared by the speakers was very helpful, and networking with the different schools and organizations allowed me to broaden my contacts,” said Katheryn Knarr, club president.
AMA is also gearing up for a case study competition with Hershey. Chapters from all over the country will put together a marketing campaign for Hershey’s Take 5 candy bar and analyze their marketing strategies in order to make them a more effective brand in the marketplace.
Anyone in any major is free to join the club, but there is a $30 membership fee.
AMA has a major event on Nov. 20 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Brookside Dining Hall. It will cover topics on how to
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find a job after graduation as well as topics on graduate school. There will also be mock interviews and resume reviews. All students are welcome to attend.
If you are interested in joining the American Marketing Association, or would like more information about the upcoming event, please email [email protected].
What’s Next After Graduation?
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and physical characteristics that set them apart. If one of them is stolen, it is a lot harder to find if the police do not know what to look for. Martin explained that they often recover lost or stolen items that the students could not identify in order to get back.
Know Campus Security, your Resident Assistant, and your Resident Director’s numbers. These people are here to keep you safe. If something involving your safety is bothering you, talk to them about it.
Be aware of your surroundings at all times. Knowing what is going on around you could prevent you from getting yourself in a bad situation.
Finally, take a self defense class. Having the skills to defend yourself may save you if you ever need to get out of a dangerous situation. Callahan has been trying to organize a self defense class for students on campus. For more information, contact him at [email protected].