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2 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 > From Page 1 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. 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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 The Daily Puzzle 9 ■fo" 11 1 13 —^Hi 22 23 Jill” ■ " 1_ Jl pl ri LHC JT V 53 ■■fs4 56 M 57 eLLLEj 111111 DOWN 1 Picnic spoil ers 2 Cowboy's shoe 3 Old stringed instrument 4 Subjugate 5 One venerat ed in a mosque 6 Penniless 7 In addition to 8 Rue 9 "Trick or !" 10 Pensioner 11 Invisible emanation 12 Unyielding courage 13 Partial amount 21 Put down 23 Jeane mate rial 25 Drills, as a military group 26 Search about m the dark 27 Speeder’s nemesis 28 Amphi theater 29 Trash barrel “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.” 31 Valuable item 32 Becomes dizzy 33 Gray, like fine-grained rock 35 lamb's lament 36 Give a name to 38 Tarnish a reputation 39 Bather's spot 42 Goes up 44 Baby food 46 Infer 47 Sty resident 49 _ four, pas try 50 Masses of floating ice 51 Bullets 52 Midday NEWS 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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ADAMS: Engineering would start small ► From Pago i be frinded, he said “we would start slowly and small.” Adams said, “It’s not a huge amount of money.” He said there may be some faculty that might retire in an under-enrolled area, and he has heard from people who are willing to raise money to support the engineering program. “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.” ONLINE Police Documents 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. 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