With only months to go before their first game, Georgia State’s newest team prepares to make history
On June 12, 2008, the entire Georgia State football program consisted of one man, a makeshift office and a desk. The man behind the desk was Head Coach Bill Curry, and his task was to create a full-fledged NCAA Division I football program from scratch. On Sep. 2, 2010, Curry will get to showcase the results of over two years’ worth of hard work. Georgia State, as well as the landscape of college football, will never be the same.
Georgia State unveiled the newest addition to its downtown takeover this year. Rubbing elbows with the sports arena and the recreation center, the Parker H. Petit Science Center was dedicated on March 29. Located at the intersection of Decatur Street and Piedmont Ave.
On May 25, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jack Szostak spoke to a group of students, faculty and guests about his ongoing research into the evolution of early cellular life. The presentation, entitled “Reconstructing the first cells,” delved into the research that he and his colleagues are currently working on.
According to the University System of Georgia, 40 percent of students who enter Georgia public colleges as freshmen will not graduate. Fewer than 60 percent graduate in less than six years. The University System of Georgia is acknowledging the problem.
The City of Atlanta’s transportation subcommittee on parking enforcement, led by Councilman Michael Julian Bond, will meet at the Capitol to present recommendations gathered from the subcommittee’s efforts since a 30-day parking moratorium began. The meeting is at 9:30 a.m. on June 4.
The pause on booting, towing and ticketing is a result of Atlanta’s newly privatized parking procedures. The city outsourced parking enforcement last fall, signing a seven-year contract with PARKatlanta that guarantees an income of $5.5 million for the city each year. Since its enactment, some residents have complained of broken meters, being wrongly ticketed, and receiving inadequate notice of new regulations.
The highlight of this year’s Georgia State University Spring 2010 graduation commencement featured a keynote speech from two-time Peabody award winning journalist Christiane Amanpour. Prior to the ceremony, the Signal got a brief chance to ask Amanpour a few questions about the state of journalism in the developing age of modern media.
34-year-old Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter’s oldest grandson, won a seat in the Georgia State Senate on May 11.
Carter was elected to represent the 42nd district, which includes Decatur, Avondale Estates, Chamblee and Stone Mountain, during a special election held to replace David Adelman.
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