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Panama City
March 18,1999
Volume 44
Number 10
News 1-2
Opinions/Features 3
Campus News/Organi
zations... 4
A& E 5
Sports 6
ETC 7
Classifieds 8
News Briefs
Spring Break is here. It
officially begins March
22-29. Report to classes
on Monday March 29.
Be safe!
Don't forget your Media
Day tickets. They are $5
and available in Hum.
room 315.
A&E Briefs
John J.Cimino will give
a musical performance
of "Don Quixote's Chil
dren: A Concert of Ideas
tonight at 8 p.m. in the
Townsend Center. Free
admission. For more
informaion call Dr.
Cecilia Lee at 770-830-
2215.
; Sports Briefs
Baseball Braves battle
Gulf South Conference
rival Valdosta State on
Sat. March 20, and Sun.
March 21 in a three
game series. The Braves
begin battle at 1 p.m.
Briefs
Early registration is
April 8. Remember
to mark you calen
dars and see your
advisor!
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"All people know the
same truth. Our lives
consist of how we choose
to distort it."
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You know you're a redneck if...
Jeff Fox worthy featured at athletic
department's 4th annual Super Night
Paige Fleming/Hayla Adams
The West Georgian/ Reporter
With more than 600 people in at
tendance and Jeff Foxworthy as the
guest speaker, the West Georgia Ath
letic Department’s Fourth Annual
Super Night was the place to be on
Thurs., March 11.
Sports and athletics surrounded all
the participants of the evening. There
were speakers set up outside of Z-6-
where the event was held-with audio
of past West Georgia sporting events
blaring out of them. The familiar sound
of Mitch Gray’s voice could be heard
all around Z-6.
The event began with a silent auc
tion that contained more than 200
items. Some of the items up for bid on
the auction block were a boxing glove
signed by Evander Holyfield, a base
ball autographed by Ryan Klesko, a
UGA football helmet signed by
Herschel Walker, and several trips to
vacation spots like Jekyll Island and
Fort Lauderdale.
Raffle tickets were sold for several
prizes including a 27-inch television
set and a trip to San Francisco.
Dinner began at 8 p.m. with
Outback Steakhouse in Douglasville
donating all the food. Bob West, owner
of Douglasville’s Outback, said that
he donated the time, energy, and food
because many of his employees are
students at UWG, and he felt that
there was no better way to repay them
than to show his support for the school.
Each Outback Steakhouse tries to
get involved in different charitable
events. West said that they “try to do
something for the area that the store is
located in.” West’s Douglasville store
located on Chapel Hill Road is the
Faculty, students, staff encouraged to
donate to Habitat for Humanity cause
Misty Pasley
Reporter
The local Habitat for Humanity
has not received nearly enough
funds to complete its mission of
building a house.
Professor Jerry Perkins, a
fundraising coordinator for Habitat
for Humanity, reported that only
$ 11,691.94 has been raised to date.
A total of $30,000 is needed to start
a house.
According to Lisa Matheson, also
a coordinator for the service orga
nization, a Habitat house is con
structed for families who have pre
viously lived in substandard hous
ing structures and who meet other
criteria as determined by Habitat
for Humanity.
“The West Georgia Chapter has
a committee which reviews appli
cations and selects each family,”
said Matheson. “The selectee must
be able to pay the zero percent mort
gage on the home and must contrib
ute 300 hours of ‘sweat equity’ to
ward the construction of their own
home or another Habitat house.”
So far there have been numerous
events and strategics aimed at gcl
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closest Outback to UWG.
After dinner, Mike Cooney, assis
tant director of athletics and coordi
nator of Super Night, presented West,
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Rhubarb Jones and Jeff Foxworthy helped make Super Night
a success for UWG’s Athletic Department. The event raised
more than $30,000 for the department.
ting more local support for this
worthy cause. Among them have
been bake sales, the sale of t-shirts,
garage sales, lotteries, and, the most
recent and most creative, the
“Doxey Proxy” in which faculty
and staff are urged to donate dol
lar votes that will either “either
shut him up” or “keep him talk
ing” on campus e-mail.
Besides donations, Habitat for
Humanity also needs volunteers
to help with the actual construc
tion of the house. Perkins noted
that no expertise is required to be
a labor contributor.
Dr. W.H. Smith encourages stu
dents to make some form of dona
tion whether it be monetary or in
the form of physical labor. “If we
count students, faculty, and staff,”
he says, “an average of ONLY
$3.50 would take us to our goal.”
Smith would like to commend
the role of the staff “which has
been significantly and succcsfully
involved."
In order for this to truly be a
community accomplishment.
Habitat needs wide participation,
especially from faculty and stu
dents.
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Rhubarb Jones, and Jeff Foxworthy
with the first ever Golden Spear
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to be bestowed on someone on be
half of the athletic department.
Before Fox worthy went onstage,
a live auction was held where items
such as a
Peach Bowl
team
autographed
football went
for $275, atrip
to see the At
lanta 500 went
for S6OO. and
a bid of $3,500
took home the
rights to a Ca
nadian fishing
trip.
Rhubarb
Jones, disc
jockey for Y
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Georgia alum
nus, intro
duc e and
Foxworthy to
the enthusias
tic crowd. He
said that
Foxworthy did
not hesitate to
take part in
Super Night.
And as
Fox worthy put
it later, he re
sponded to
Jones’ request
with, “When do
you need me?”
Foxworthy
went onstage a
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little before 10p.m.and keptthecrowd in
stitches the entire time. The most memo
rable of the jokes was when he implied
that the light fixtures at Z-6 were taken
from a local Denny’s restaurant. With
that, everyone looked up at the fixtures
and laughed even harder.
After his set, most of the crowd disas
sembled, but the live auction continued.
Cooney said that overall the ath
letic department raised more than
$30,000. “We are ecstatic at the suc
cess of the event,” he said. “It could
not have gone better.”
Mitch Gray, director of sports in
formation, and Cooney both agreed
that without the campus community,
the alumni, and the Carrollton com
munity supporting the event, it would
not have been such a success.
“The most important tiling is that the
community came out and supported us,”
Cooney said. “We are really pleased with
its success.”
Dr. Sethna, UWG president, said that
he was “so excited and grateful to Rhu
barb Jones and Jeff Fox worthy ’ ’ for taking
part in the event He also said that the
annual athletic department fundraiser is
veiy important because “retention rates
and graduation rates are higher for ath
letes because of the closer personal atten
tion” that they receive.
Ed Murphy, head of the athletic
department, said that he appreciated
the people who came out to support
Super Night. He said that the athletic
department appreciated them not only
for their donations, but also for their
constant support as fans.
Dr. William Doxey
is one of the fac
ulty members who
is encouraging fac
ulty, staff, and stu
dent involvement
in West Georgia’s'
Habitat lor Hu
manity house.