GTA’s “She Loves Me” just in time for Valentine’s Day

GTA’s pro­duc­tion of “She Loves Me” is a timely roman­tic com­edy that you just might be famil­iar with. “This is a plot that has been used a lot,” said Jim Ham­mond, man­ag­ing direc­tor of GTA. The orig­i­nal play, “Par­fumarie,” writ­ten in 1937, has been adapted into sev­eral Broad­way and film ver­sions, includ­ing You’ve Got Mail. While the orig­i­nal was not […]

German film Die Welle will be shown Thursday, Nov. 15

The last film in this semester’s for­eign lan­guage film series will be shown on Thurs­day, Nov. 15, begin­ning at 7 p.m. in Nes­bitt – 3110A. Die Welle (The Wave) was directed by Den­nis Gansel and stars Jür­gen Vogel, Fred­er­ick Lau and Max Reimelt. The scoop from IMDB: High school teacher, Rainer Weg­ner, may be pop­u­lar with […]

Dance lessons bring students closer

Prepar­ing for the Latino Stu­dent Association’s annual Black and White Gala, stu­dents have been gath­er­ing in the stu­dent cen­ter for Tango lessons. “A lot of peo­ple were inter­ested,” said Luis Santos-Rivas, adviser to LSA, “so we brought it out.” This year the Black and White Gala will also host a Latin dance con­test, which prompted […]

Former Georgia Highlands president named GSC interim president

Randy Pierce, for­mer pres­i­dent of Geor­gia High­lands Col­lege in Rome, will be the interim pres­i­dent of Gainesville State, after cur­rent Pres­i­dent Martha Nes­bitt retires in July and before GSC is con­sol­i­dated with North Geor­gia Col­lege and State Uni­ver­sity. Uni­ver­sity Sys­tem of Geor­gia Chan­cel­lor Hank Huck­aby announced the appoint­ment Wednes­day. The High­lander, Geor­gia High­lands College’s e-zine, […]

Consolidation committee announced

The Board of Regents announced mem­bers of the com­mit­tee charged with con­sol­i­dat­ing Gainesville State and North Geor­gia on Thurs­day, Jan. 26. Com­mit­tee mem­bers will meet with Uni­ver­sity Sys­tem of Geor­gia Chan­cel­lor Hank Huck­aby in Atlanta on Feb. 6. Although the term “merger” has been used, the BOR is now call­ing the oper­a­tion “con­sol­i­da­tion,” which is in line […]

President of NGCSU speaks at GSC

North Geor­gia Col­lege & State Uni­ver­sity Pres­i­dent Bonita Jacobs came to GSC  on Jan. 11 for a meet-and-greet with fac­ulty, staff and stu­dents to dis­cuss the pend­ing merger. After an intro­duc­tion from GSC Pres­i­dent Martha Nes­bitt, she addressed all of the atten­dees in the crowded Robin­son Ball­room.  She also offered to answer ques­tions about the […]

Native American Heritage Month expands this year

This year, Rachelle Parker wanted to be sure that Native Amer­i­can cul­ture was cel­e­brated at GSC, rather than just acknowl­edged. Parker, sec­re­tary of the Native Amer­i­can Stu­dent Asso­ci­a­tion, worked with other stu­dents plan­ning the events of Native Amer­i­can Her­itage Month in Novem­ber. “For the past year we’ve been plan­ning and orga­niz­ing to bring aware­ness and […]

Fall at GSC

Pho­tog­ra­pher Chase McEv­ers cap­tured some of the beauty of fall at GSC recently in these pho­tos. Click on the image to enlarge.        

Life as a parking cop

Fol­low a GSC park­ing cop on her job: By stu­dents in the JOUR 2700 class.

The Clothesline Project tries to empower domestic violence victims

Octo­ber is the nation­ally rec­og­nized month for domes­tic vio­lence aware­ness. GSC School of Social Sci­ences shed light on the issue with the Clothes­line Project and forums through­out the month. “Pri­mar­ily, domes­tic vio­lence has been born out of this cul­ture of women being oppressed,” Anjana Free­man, pro­fes­sor and one of the event’s orga­niz­ers, said. The theme […]

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