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Strawberry selling season has arrived

Strawberry selling season has arrived

Ashley Royal February 27, 2014

For the past 12 years, the Zeta Tau Alpha (ZTA) sorority chapter at Georgia Southern University has been selling strawberries in the spring to raise money for breast cancer awareness and education.“We...

Swope granted bond but not yet released

Jennifer Curington February 26, 2014

Dominique Swope has not been released on bond and is still in the custody of the Bulloch County Sheriff’s office.WSAV is reporting that a Bulloch County judge granted Swope $25,000 bond today, however...

Graphic: Alexandria Tobias

Life after nursing school acceptance

Kylie Coffey February 25, 2014

Graphic: Alexandria Tobias

 

Your View: Feb. 25th

Your View February 25, 2014

 

Creative anachronists reenact history

Creative anachronists reenact history

Nadia Dreid February 25, 2014

Sword battles, dukes, duchesses and a royal court are all everyday things for Georgia Southern University Southern Creative Anachronists (SCA), or Scadians as they call themselves.The SCA is a group devoted...

Plantation Room debate open to campus

Caitlyn Oliver February 25, 2014

The Mock Mediation Club will host a debate open to the entire campus about the new Rum Runners Plantation Room sign in the Russell Union on March 11 and 12."We've been looking at Facebook and things like...

No rape occurred at Kappa Sigma

Jennifer Curington February 25, 2014

A sexual assault that allegedly occurred at the Kappa Sigma house last semester was recently found to be false.An 18-year-old female filed a report on the evening of Nov. 3 claiming to have been imprisoned,...

Racism at GSU addressed by students and faculty

Cierra Baxter February 25, 2014

This past Friday, a small group of passionate students met with faculty to discuss their concerns over the Plantation Room sign as well as the racism that takes place in University Plaza and the Statesboro area.

Patrice Jackson, Dean of Students, and Dorsey Baldwin, director of the Multicultural Student Center, met with a small group of about twenty students on a rainy Friday morning.

The purpose of the meeting was not to have the sign removed or changed, but instead for students who expressed uneasiness about the situation to feel supported by faculty.

The meeting also served as a way to begin a conversation about how they would like to move ahead, not only with this particular issue, but with similar issues of racism in Statesboro.

“Our goal in this is to support and help [students] use their voices effectively on campus to impact campus and the local community, and make the changes that are necessary,” Baldwin said.

The goals of the students in attendance included bringing awareness to the inequality through communication and education on top of bringing people together to create a sense of joint responsibility, getting people to care, challenging old definitions of the south and training people on how to approach such a hot topic.

The Plantation Room sign is currently face down and has been since Friday morning possibly late Thursday evening. However, attendees made the point that even though the controversy started over the sign, the overall issue is bigger than the sign itself.

“Before you ever had the sign, you had actions that was racist, the sign is representative of a belief system and that belief system led to that sign being up,” John Nwosu, graduate research assistant, said.

At last week’s SGA meeting Brooks Keel, president of GSU made the statement, “protest with your purse,” however most students who were at the meeting felt that if discriminatory practices keep certain types of people from patronizing an establishment in the first place, it wouldn’t matter if those same people boycott or protest the business.

Many events stemming from the issue will take place on campus within the next weeks. The Mock Mediation club will be hosting a debate on March 11 and 12, and the NAACP will be hosting an event called “Speak Out and Be Heard” sometime in March as well.

Nwosu said, “We have to remember, it’s a journey, not a destination.”

Plantation Room sign face down

Plantation Room sign face down

Lauren Gorla February 21, 2014

RumRunners Plantation Room sign is currently face down on the roof of the bar.Tuesday morning between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 6:46 a.m., Rumrunners Plantation Room's controversial new sign was vandalized.The...

 

Dancing for Children’s Miracle Network

Yasmeen Waliaga February 20, 2014

A Dance Marathon event is arriving as Georgia Southern gets involved with a national charitable movement.This Saturday, Feb. 22 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the Williams Center multipurpose room, GSU will...

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