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Thursday, October ai, aoio | The Red a Black
Last chance to withdraw today
By KATIE WEISC
The Red & Black
Students wanting to avoid the
infamous WF better hurry up.
Today is the deadline to with
draw from classes and still possibly
receive a WP withdraw passing.
Through today, instructors have
the choice of giving a WP or a WF,
which counts as an F letter grade.
But after today’s deadline, WF is
the only option instructors have.
“It kind of creeps up on you with
out you realizing," said Brian Potts,
a fifth-year sports management
major. “If you are going to get a WF,
you might as well stay in class and
try your hardest to raise your
grade.”
However, even after the deadline
has passed, there is the exception of
a hardship withdrawal, which stu
dents can use in some specific cir
cumstances.
A hardship withdrawal is a veri
fied hardship experience that pre
vents students from finishing the
TUMOR: Student will continue with fight
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his diagnosis.
When Elliott first started oral chemotherapy and
radiation after surgery, his health fluctuated largely due
to the many kinds of medication he was taking.
“I got to lose all my hair and I gained a ton of weight
while on steroids.” Elliott said. “I was ugly for a little
while big for a little while.”
The first round of tests after the initial chemothera
py and radiation treatments showed the remains of
Dennis had stayed about the same size, and Elliott,
along with his family, decided to search for more aggres
sive cancer therapies.
Coming across a clinical trial program out of Duke
University’s Preston Robert Tisch Cancer Center, Elliott
began another round of treatment for his brain cancer.
"It was a really aggressive program. They did a
bunch of chemical trials, and I had heard the drug
Avastin was big,” Elliott said. “They were trying to get
it’s use approved for the brain.”
After starting with Avastin and the other drug
Velcade in the trial, Elliott left home for his first year
of undergrad at New York University. Feeling better on
the treatment, losing weight and having his hair grow
back, Elliott said the other drug was getting to him.
“I started getting side effects from the other drug in
the trial,” he said. “I got neuropathy, a kind of leg pain,
and ended up, about the beginning of November, com
ing back home just to recover. That neuropathy came
around so fast.”
Best friend and past roommate Michael Fox, a junior
from Ellyay majoring in real estate, said Elliott had to
stay busy when he was home recovering.
"He didn’t want to just be in Ellijay while all of his
friends were in college," Fox said.
In the spring semester of 2009, Elliott intended to
return to NYU for classes but he decided the University
was the better fit.
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semester, said Alan Campbell, who
serves as senior associate dean for
student support.
Usually these issues are physical
or mental health issues, but they
also can be situations such as a
death in the family or financial prob
lems affecting the student’s ability
to finish classes, Campbell said.
Campbell explained a hardship
withdrawal requires an application
through the Office of Student
Support Services and documenta
tion to verify the circumstances.
“Most commonly, it's health-re
lated, and we get a letter from the
student’s doctor explaining their
medical issues,” he said. “Students
have to carefully weigh a number of
decisions to see if it is in their best
interest to withdraw.”
Students can apply for hardship
withdrawals at any time of the
semester, usually up until the last
week.
With the exception of rare cases,
students who apply for a hardship
withdrawal are expected to with
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“I didn't necessarily want to stay close to home, but
I wanted to go to Georgia. I have friends there,” Elliott
said. “It was the best decision I’ve made.”
In the spring of 2009, Elliott also received word that
Avastin was officially approved to fight brain cancer.
After another round of chemo and radiation in the
fall of 2009, Elliott wasn’t feeling his best.
“Pretty much when he was on chemo, he got cranky,”
Pox said. “He just didn't feel good, at all. You wake up
feeling like crap and you go to sleep feeling like crap.
The fact that he was taking classes, taking chemo and
being a college kid all at the same time, we as room
mates had to understand he was going to be testy.
Everyone’s going to have their good and bad days.”
University Disability Resource Specialist Margaret
Totty said Elliott has shown lots of perseverance.
“To provide appropriate accommodation, we get
what’s called a neuropsychological evaluation,” Totty
said. “His neuropsychologist at Duke sent us that, and
it kind of goes through when somebody has had some
sort of injury or internal event in their brain.”
After six months of struggling through the oral che
motherapy, Duke’s doctors told Elliott they couldn’t
see anything from his most recent PET and MRI scans.
“They said to me, ‘Hey, we can’t see anything right
now,' which is absolutely phenomenal, because stage
four brain cancer isn’t supposed to go away," Elliott
said.
Doctors declared Elliott in “intermission,” and if
there is no growth for a year, he will be declared in
“remission,” and he’s felt good ever since.
“I wish this didn’t happen to me, but the fact is that
it has and I just have to get through it," Elliott said.
“That’s the main thing, you can’t give up. I’m 20 years
old. I’m about be 21 in three months l’ve had this
thing since I was 18, you know. I can’t have my life end
that early, I still got to live this thing out. And I was
going to get rid of it, that was my plan, that’s what I’m
on my way to do.”
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draw from all of their classes, and it
is not guaranteed a student will
receive a WP
“We send notifications to the
instructors. They still have an option
of assigning a WF or WR" Campbell
said. “Instructors recognize there
has been a legitimate hardship issue,
so oftentimes the instructor will
assign a WP but they do not have to
do that.”
A WP received under a hardship
withdrawal does not count toward
the four-withdrawal limit students
face when obtaining an undergradu
ate degree.
Students under hardship with
drawals might have to pay back
financial aid, or they could lose their
ability for aid.
“I understand if something terri
ble happens that you should with
draw, and I’m glad the University
has services for that," said Corey
Hunter, a fifth-year physics msjor.
“But for the rest of us, withdrawing
is for quitters let’s finish the
drill."
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▲ University President Michael Adams fielded
student questions at the Open Mic with Mike
event. He addressed smoking and immigration.
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be frinded, he said “we
would start slowly and
small.”
Adams said, “It’s not a
huge amount of money.”
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some faculty that might
retire in an under-enrolled
area, and he has heard
from people who are willing
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“It’s not a huge under
CRIME NOTEBOOK
Victim of alleged robbery
could face charges
A University student
may face charges of filing a
false report after telling
police he was the victim of
an armed robbery on
Baxter Street on Saturday.
Hyunjae Shin, 20, told
The Red & Black
Wednesday that he signed
a statement admitting he
had made false accusa
tions despite the fact that
he was “really mugged."
When he signed this,
however. Shin said he was
unaware it would lead to
warrants being taken out
against him.
“I got confused when I
was first reporting it,” he
said. “I was so nervous I
didn’t know what I was
saying.”
The way he was being
questioned by the police,
his claustrophobia and the
fact that English isn’t his
first language all contrib
uted to this confusion,
Shin said.
“They started trying to
say I made this whole
thing up,” he said. “They
thought it was suspicious
that there were differences
in times.”
Shin said police then
gave him an opportunity
to sign a statement indi
cating the robbery never
happened.
“They said, ‘lf you do
this now we can let you go
home,’” he said.
Since he just wanted to
leave, Shin said he signed
the statement.
“But somebody really
mugged me,” he said.
University Police could
not be reached Wednesday
afternoon for comment.
Shin said he was
approached from behind
by a male with a knife
while walking on Baxter
Street.
“He said, ’Give me ail
your cash,”’ Shin told The
Red & Black. “I said, ‘My
wallet is in my back pock
et. I’m going to take it
out.’"
After giving the attack
er a $5 bill. Shin said he
taking, but we think it’s an
important focus to help
unify what we need to do
across the board,” he said.
Adams had a lot to say
about the engineering pro
gram, but when a student
asked about his opinion on
the new hot-button immi
gration policy precluding
undocumented students
from attending the
University, Adams said,
“My opinion is that the
Regents are the Regents.”
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emptied all his pockets.
The assailant allegedly
then took a pack of ciga
rettes as well.
According to the
University Police daily
crime log, warrants have
been issued for Shin under
the charge “false report of
a crime (robbery).”
Snack thieves arrested
Sleep well Athens the
notorious vending machine
thieves have been tracked
down and now face charg
es.
Warrants have been
issued for the arrest of sev
eral students after
University Police received
a report of S4O worth of
snacks taken from a Boggs
Hall vending machine.
According to the police
daily logs, Parsa B.
Benhamiri and Timothy
Gregory face charges of
theft by taking, Caitlin
Jones and Ama E. Udoh
face theft by taking (crimi
nal attempt).
Douglas Kasem faces
both charges of theft by
receiving and theft by tak
ing.
compiled by
Jacob Demmit
CORRECTIONS
Tuesday’B story “Bon
Voyage: Navy School
bids farewell to Athens ’’
incorrectly states the
Medical College of
Georgia is becoming part
of the University.
The two schools are
actually entering a part
nership.
The Red & Black
regrets this error.
Editor-in-Chiefi
Daniel Burnett
(706) 433-3027
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Managing Editor
Carey O’Neil
(706) 433-3026
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