The joy and pain of summer school

Won­der­ing if you should take sum­mer classes? Here’s a list of the pros and cons of sum­mer school. Pros: You get to lighten your load in fall and spring You have eas­ier access to text­books Classes may be smaller You can redeem your­self in a class you didn’t pass More park­ing spaces avail­able Classes may […]

Editorial cartoonist Andy Marlette not afraid of controversy

Edi­to­r­ial car­toon­ist Andy Mar­lette said any topic is fair game for his car­toons. “I don’t think you should shy away from any­thing if your inten­tions are vir­tu­ous,” Mar­lette said. Mar­lette spoke at GSC on April 3 in Aca­d­e­mic 4. He is the edi­to­r­ial car­toon­ist at the Pen­sacola News Jour­nal, and he’s won a num­ber of awards […]

Take on sports w/ Mike podcast — “Muddy Duck Dash” preview w/ Warren Caputo

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Ron Paul campaign coordinator and GSC alum to speak

The Polit­i­cally Incor­rect Club will host Rich Elsarelli, Ron Paul’s cam­paign coor­di­na­tor for Georgia’s 10th con­gres­sional dis­trict, on Mon­day, Feb. 6, at noon in Aca­d­e­mic 2 Room 192. Elsarelli will make the case for Rep. Paul’s pres­i­den­tial can­di­dacy and answer ques­tions from the audi­ence. Elsarelli is a grad­u­ate of GSC and North Geor­gia Col­lege as well as […]

‘Barbershop Punk’ is next Southern Circuit film

The next film in the South­ern Cir­cuit Tour of Inde­pen­dent Film­mak­ers couldn’t be more rel­e­vant in these days of SOPA, PIPA and other con­cerns about Inter­net free­dom. “Bar­ber­shop Punk” is an advo­cacy jour­nal­ism doc­u­men­tary about one man’s strug­gles to deal with his Inter­net ser­vice provider when they began block­ing his bar­ber­shop quar­tet site. The film will […]

GSC professor starts a radio club

Have you dreamed of work­ing for a radio sta­tion? You can get in on the begin­ning of one if you join GSC’s bud­ding radio club. The club, begun and advised by David Smith, media stud­ies pro­fes­sor, will take advan­tage of the new sound stu­dio in Aca­d­e­mic 4 and will broad­cast online. Smith started look­ing into starting […]

Laker may have some owls for neighbors

When John O’Sullivan arrived at the state park in North Geor­gia with his fam­ily, he imme­di­ately focused on the large owl box above the camp­ground. He stared in fas­ci­na­tion as the owls stood on the box, watch­ing the campers all day. At night’s approach, the owls sent out their call, “hoo, hoo, too-HOO,” when O’Sullivan said he real­ized some­thing. “It […]

Transfer Fair is a big deal at GSC, even as we get more four-year degrees

On Jan­u­ary 19, stu­dents gath­ered in the Robin­son Ball­room for the annual Col­lege Trans­fer Fair. Although Gainesville State Col­lege offers many two-year degrees and is gain­ing more four-year degrees, many stu­dents still trans­fer to other schools. The Trans­fer Fair is held once a year, in the spring, for stu­dents to speak to a vari­ety of […]

What consolidation means for tenure

The imple­men­ta­tion team for the con­sol­i­da­tion of GSC and North Geor­gia was announced on Thurs­day, Jan. 26, and one of the major issues the team will have to take on is tenure for fac­ulty. Tenure is assur­ance that an instruc­tor can­not be fired with­out just cause. Gainesville State pro­fes­sors can come up for tenure after […]

GSC-NGCSU Merger Student Opinions: Yay or Nay?

Gainesville State Col­lege and North Geor­gia Col­lege and State Uni­ver­sity will soon become one school. Park­ing, a rise in tuition, a sports pro­gram, a new school name, dorms and new build­ings are things that may or may not change with GSC and NGCSU merg­ing. Is this a good idea? “I think it’s a good idea […]

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