“Author Archive”
Stories written by Nick Widener

RSOs see cut in budget from SABC allocations

Editor’s note: The Colonnade is funded by SABC and received an allocation of $27,000 for FY14. The budgets for student run organizations that asked for funding for the coming school year were slashed by an average 25 to 35 percent. SABC, comprised of SGA executive staff, recommended this year’s allocations, which have have been approved [...]

May 4th, 2013 | Posted in News | Read More »

Editor bids farewell to newspaper

I didn’t think about writing newspaper articles. I thought about writing screenplays and making movies. I thought about how having a double major of mass communication and English would propel me to where I wanted to be. But that was a year and a half ago. That was before I did my first practicum, a [...]

April 25th, 2013 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »

Evil Dead

Grab your shotgun and chainsaw and strap in for the night: here comes blood, trouble and ghastly looking dead, all they want is a bite of your soul Horror films are kitschy now. They mostly toe the line between overly gruesome and laugh-out-loud ridiculousness. But the genre has evolved vastly since the advent of special [...]

April 11th, 2013 | Posted in A&E,Reviews | Read More »

Contrast, clarity on SGA elections

Editor’s note: this story is the final part of a series on election procedures at Georgia College.    The election process at GC is far different from that of local and state elections. After the voting mishap in Florida in the 2000 Presidential Election, states nationwide were awarded grants to upgrade voting apparatuses. Yet some [...]

March 21st, 2013 | Posted in News | Read More »

Complaints of voting system failure; results questioned

Callie Wiley went to cast her vote at the Bobcat on Front Campus. She said while she was logged on to OrgSync, the Wi-Fi went down. She was told to vote again later. But when she logged back on, her vote had already been cast for her. “I never even got to the page with [...]

March 7th, 2013 | Posted in News | Read More »

SGA election results are in …

but The Colonnade does not have them. There was supposed to be an article about the Homecoming elections in this week’s edition, but SGA allegedly deleted the results. An open records request was submitted and must have a formal response by Friday, Mar. 1 On Monday, The Colonnade asked for results from this past week’s [...]

February 28th, 2013 | Posted in News | Read More »

Recently Commented

  • Corrupt Milledgeville: Who cares ? It’s just weed. At least 80% of gscu students consume alcohol on a regular...
  • Evan: C’mon, there are so many negative posts on this! I think the attention the group is getting is wonderful!...
  • Actually...: Actually if you check out google, you can find at least one or two article talk about Harvard...
  • Proof: Newmahr, S. (2010). Rethinking Kink: Sadomasochism as Serious Leisure. Qualitative Sociology, 33(3), 313-331....
  • Actually...: Harvard happens to have a campus-recognized club of the same nature