Spring Break
Each semester a $45 student activity fee is included in the tuition of full-time students to enhance campus life. These student fees pay for the majority of events held by clubs on campus. Each club submits a budget for the coming year for approval by a committee consisting of administration, faculty and students. Regardless of the process, many students simply feel that they do not see their money in action.
It should not be news to anyone that right now most Americans are dealing with the brunt of a severe national fiscal crisis. Many families are pinching their pennies and cannot afford any high strain financial situations. Thus it is important in these times to look back and ask ourselves, is college really worth it? College isn't cheap.
Eighteen of ABAC's finest young men took part in an interview, essay contest, line dancing, and an on-stage evaluation in effort to be named the next Mr. ABAC, on Feb. 19. The Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) club was proud to present the 18th annual Mr. ABAC competition. The 18 contestants were each representatives from an organization on campus, ranging from the Agri-business club to the Ambassadors and everything in-between.
ABAC's Agri-Business Club will send 14 students to a national marketing conference and competition slated for April 15-17, in Atlanta. Focusing on the conference theme "Hot Ideas, Sizzling Solutions," student members of the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) are currently preparing original agricultural marketing plans to be presented in stiff competition.
What does it take to find a lost love? This is the question that appears on a theatrical poster advertising for the unexpected hit movie "Slumdog Millionaire." The movie takes place in Mumbai, India, where a poor boy named Jamal Malik, played by Dev Patel, goes on the hit show "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire," not to win the money, but to reconnect with his lost love instead.
The ABAC women's tennis team defeated Young Harris College, 8-1, on Thursday, Feb. 26. This victory was their first win at home for the 2009 season. Prior to this match, the Fillies had defeated Central Florida Community College and St. Petersburg Community College, but had lost to Florida Community College and the University of West Florida, to start off their spring season.
ideo games treat women as sex objects: that isn't a question, or a quizzical thought. It's a fact. It's not as bad as people might think, though, since video games treat everything as either objects or backgrounds. That's just how they're designed. That doesn't change the fact that when the fairer sex does make an appearance in games, nine times out of ten, it's for sex appeal first and anything else second, if at all.
The highly anticipated eighth season of "Dancing with the Stars" returns with more cast members, bigger celebrities, and a new twist for this season's viewers. According to Nielsen Sound scan, "Dancing with the Stars" is an ABC hit, receiving an average of 24 million viewers each night.
Bryan Golden, ABAC's Chief of Police, has recently been appointed to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Council. Golden was appointed by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and is set to attend his first POST meeting of the term this week. The POST Council oversees the certification of all Georgia's law enforcement personnel.
The housing trends here at ABAC are expecting a major shift coming Fall Semester based highly on the current economic and social shifts. It is important for students to understand what they may have to come to expect from their rapidly changing campus. First, lets take a look at the population trends at ABAC.