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 [...]
There are no entrance exams, no SAT or ACT requirements and no GPA minimums for students in Georgia College’s Continuing Education non-credit courses. All that’s required is a desire to learn. “Continuing Education is a wonderful way to tie in with the community,” Artis Williamson, director of the program, said. “Last year we served 12,376 [...]
Signs advertising for the Plenum have been posted everywhere on campus all semester. The poster is simple: a white sheet of paper with “Come to the Plenum” in black text and a few details about location and contact info with a staple at each end. Yet the posters only vaguely hint at what the Plenum [...]
On a cold, starry night in Africa, all was peaceful in the desert of Namibia. At the top of a tower and through night vision goggles, Georgia College’s inaugural Newell scholar, Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell, watched the elephants drinking from the waterhole. All was dark, except for the Milky Way that spanned above O’Connell-Rodwell and the elephants [...]
Midnight Breakfast chimes in for its 22nd year At the end of every semester, when work is piling up and students are at their wits’ end, there’s something to look forward to: Midnight Breakfast. This event, now in its 22nd year, is put on by Campus Activities Board (CAB) and catered by Sodexo. “Midnight Breakfast [...]
On Wednesday, April 17, members of both Zeta Tau Alpha and Theta Chi teamed up for a night at the Baldwin Bowling Center to raise money for breast cancer patients. The event, Bowling Away Breast Cancer, was organized after Jared Aarons, a freshman pre-engineering major and newly initiated Theta Chi brother, found out that his [...]
