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		<title>From the Editor&#8217;s Desk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the spring 2013 edition of Highlander, GHC’s online quarterly magazine.  As we near graduation, we believe that featuring our students who have succeeded and excelled, often faced with extraordinary challenges, are fitting subjects to celebrate.  Watch the video featuring the four Coca-Cola All-American Team scholarship winners.  Read the story about a very special student and athlete who first encountered GHC when he came to campus as a National Youth Sports Program camper as a child.  Read a compelling “Counterweights” column on violence in America, debated and discussed by Angela Wheelus, counselor in Student Support Services, and Dr. Rob Page, dean of Social Sciences.  Their thoughts are reasoned and factual, and will provide food for thought no matter what ideology you hold. &#160; Assistant Professor of English Jesse Bishop leads you through a thorough a passionate review of his favorite book of poetry, Donkey Gospel by Tony Hoagland, which coincides with National Poetry month. &#160; Finally, you’ll enjoy a unique and very special story on the Civil Rights efforts that took place 50 years ago in Rome, written by Rose Esserman Levin, a native Roman who not only lived here in the 1960s, but participated in the efforts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Face of GHC: Demaurius Morgan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every summer, a rowdy group of boys, ranging in age from 10-16, arrive on the Floyd campus for an adventure most of them never forget.  In fact, some of them keep coming back until they’re too old to participate.  But that doesn’t always stop them.  Some transition into camp counselors.  Demaurius Morgan is one such student.  His journey has been circuitous, but he has returned to Georgia Highlands time and again. &#160; But let’s start his story at the beginning.  Morgan grew up in Rome, attending Rome city schools.  He lived in a neighborhood that might have influenced him to take a different path from the one he chose.  But he had a very strong mother, grandmother, an involved stepfather and a neighborhood friend/mentor a few years older than he who made sure he kept his grades up and his mischief quotient down.  He also gained a whole support system of mentors/educators the summer he arrived on the campus of GHC for the National Youth Sports Program, a federally funded program to expose children to options they might not otherwise see. &#160; The activities and classes he participated in opened his imagination to a world of possibilities.  The relationships he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All-Georgia Academic Team</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the All-Georgia Academic Team, a program sponsored by two-year college presidents, the national honor society for two-year colleges, Phi Theta Kappa, and community college state associations: Marie McCary, Victor Williams, Amelia Bagwell and Meagan Williams.]]></description>
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		<title>History Remembered: a 1963 Sit-In in Rome for Civil Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GHC celebrates Women’s History Month every year with one or more events.  This year’s may have been some of the most fascinating.  At the Floyd campus, students honored three women who took part in the Civil Rights movement of 1963.  The event took place on March 27, a day before the 50th anniversary of the historical sit-in that marked the most visible Civil Rights activity in Rome.  Marisue Harrison-Brown was the first to enroll at Berry College amid jeers, derision and angry eyes that looked quickly away from her.  Linda Cason-Harbert and Lavada Dillard attended all-black Main High School when students decided to follow the example of Martin Luther King and his supporters throughout the South.  Those students are forever etched into the history of Rome, Georgia. &#160; The 1963 sit-in was a dramatic event for a sleepy Southern town like Rome.  The students who decided to participate met one afternoon after school to organize a march to Broad Street in downtown Rome, where they planned to enter stores with lunch counters and order a soda.  Sixty students participated. &#160; On March 28, 1963 they assembled after school and began their long walk from Main High, which was situated on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counterweights:  Dissecting Violence in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The slaughter of elementary school children in Newton, Connecticut just before Christmas shook America to its core.  It also reignited the debate about guns, propelling it to the forefront of American sensibilities as it has never been before.  And of course, it brought out extremes, angry exchanges and much misinformation.  In this issue, Dr. Rob Page, dean of Social Sciences, and Angela Wheelus, counselor in Student Support Services, discuss the problem of violence in America, its causes, symptoms and some potential solutions.  Page:  Since Newtown, many voices have chimed in with any number of reasons or rationales for violence in America.  But the causes of violence in this country are very broad and complex, and I’m not sure we can explore them fully in this forum.  But I do believe that gun violence in the United States springs from our human capacity for aggression, combined with Americans’ historical attitude toward guns, the ready availability of and easy access to firearms and ammunition and the number of guns in circulation. Wheelus: What about mental illness?  Most of the cases we’ve heard about lately, most especially the Colorado theater shootings and the Giffords shooting in Arizona, have involved perpetrators with obvious mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Review of Tony Hoagland&#8217;s Donkey Gospel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April is National Poetry Month, a time that I look forward to each year because I know that many of my colleagues in English at colleges all over the country will be reading and sharing their favorite poems. In keeping with that rich tradition, I wanted to share one of my favorite books with you all, especially those colleagues not in the English department. Tony Hoagland’s collection Donkey Gospel turned fifteen this year and it seems fitting to revisit this book because it taught me, on some level, that poetry was not quite what I thought it was. Among contemporary American poets, Tony Hoagland writes quietly, always with a sharp wit on his tongue.]]></description>
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		<title>GHC Alum Makes Good – and Then Some</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ray Atkins, a well-recognized presence in Rome and Floyd County, accomplished his dream of becoming a published novelist years ago, but he still remembers the thrill of seeing his own words on the printed page.  And one of his first experiences of that satisfying sensation happened at Georgia Highlands College via The Old Red Kimono and the Six Mile Post, two publications that still showcase talented students’ work.]]></description>
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		<title>News and Notes</title>
		<link>http://highlander.highlands.edu/?p=2059</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Nichols, associate professor of philosophy at Georgia Highlands College, has been named a Governor’s Teaching Fellow, a program designed for faculty members who teach at public or private institutions in Georgia.  Participants are chosen on the basis of teaching experience, interest in continuing their professional development and their ability to impact their college communities positively.  Nichols will travel to Athens for intense sessions May 13 to 17 and May 20 to 24.]]></description>
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		<title>GHC’s Inaugural Season: Basketball a Great Start to Athletics Program</title>
		<link>http://highlander.highlands.edu/?p=1927</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Winter 2012/13]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Chargers’ first basketball teams have had their ups and downs, but whether winning or losing, they have added immeasurably to the spirit and culture of Georgia Highlands.  The women’s team has had a stellar season, with 19-4 for the season and 10-3 in conference play.  They most recently beat the number one team in the Georgia conference, South Georgia Technical College, 52-46.  A number of GHC players came with Brandan Harrell when he left South Georgia Tech to become the GHC women’s coach.  They are mature and seasoned players and had already formed a strong team.  Earlier in the season the Lady Chargers were ranked sixth nationally, an unheard-of feat for an inaugural team. The men have improved dramatically as a team unit.  Head coach Phil Gaffney’s Chargers, however, had to learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses, having never played together previously.  The Chargers team has no sophomores on it, so if they continue improving as they have all year, they will be formidable by next fall.  As of this writing, the men are 0-19 for the season, but played a great first half with South Georgia Tech (one of the best teams in the conference) on Jan. 30, [...]]]></description>
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