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"yutatoHuudie* iwiKi iTTH 1”““" 9 r fl fmliuv P launch First copy free Volume 54 lssue 26 UWG student charged with armed robbery By Nicholas Kirby Sports Editor nkirbyl @my.westga.edu Clarissa Hoskins, a 21-year-old West Georgia student from Mableton, and her 30-year-old boyfriend are being held without bond at the Carrollton jail following an armed robbery at the Bank of America on Maple Street last Tuesday. Carrollton police say Oliver Twist Williams, 30, of Carrollton, went into the Bank of America branch shortly after 9 a.m. on March 21 armed with a semi-automatic handgun and ordered the customers and employees in the bank at the time to get on the ground. Williams then pointed the gun at two tellers and instructed them to fill a backpack with money. According to Two men arrested for alleged rape of student By Nicholas Kirby Sports Editor nkirbyl @my.westga.edu Two suspects have been charged in the alleged rape of a West Georgia freshman on March 15. Joseph Gillian Hayes, 19, and Israaell Chaz Davis, 19, have both been charged with rape in the Students gather to remember Iraq war dead wat-C^jum >, / *| ** 9k -:. ’*! f, jjSjfiH'fn" - Photo by Kristal Dixon A student lies silently on the ground In front of the UCC to commemorate the third an niversary of the Iraq war. More than 2,000 coalition soldiers have been killed while more than 35,000 Iraqi civlllians have been killed. While the die-in was peaceful, there were some who disapproved of the students’ actions. "Tlic Student Voice at the l Hiversity of West Georgia since 1924" Carrollton Police Captain Chris Dobbs, the police department received a call at 9:11 a.m. on Tuesday morning about an armed man inside the Bank of America demanding money from the tellers. By the time police arrived, which was probably less than a minute, according to Dobbs, the suspect had already left the area. Carrollton police began receiving calls detailing “suspicious” activity in the area. One call led police to the Gold's Gym at 830 Maple Street. Dobbs said the police department received a call saying that the suspect was possibly inside the gym. Police entered the gym and secured the doors. Those inside the gym, about 50 people, according to Dobbs, were instructed case. Hayes and Davis shared an apartment at The Lofts on Lovvom Road, and it is in their apartment that the rape allegedly occurred. The 18-year-old female student told police that she and a group of friends had gone to the apartment of the suspects around 9:30 p.m. on ifc fctJt fw www.thewestgeorgian.com jMt to come up to the front while the police searched the area. No one matching the description of the suspect was found in the gym. The police began to question the people inside the gym, and one woman in the pool area stated that she saw a suspicious male come in with a book bag. The woman told police that the man began to pace back and forth in the pool area, and while she thought that it was odd for the man to pace back and forth from one side of the pool to the other, she did not think a whole lot about it, according to Dobbs. Dobbs said the woman gave police a description of the man she saw and it fit the description they had of the suspect. At around 9:30 a.m., the police asked Gold’s Gym to give them a March 15. While there, the female told police that she began to consume alcohol, but it is not clear if she was intoxicated at the time the rape is said to have happened. The female said that a few of her friends left “to go pick something up,” leaving her alone in the living room with the liitfißrj Photo by Nicholas Kirby The Bank of America on Maple Street was the scene of an armed robbery last week. Clarissa Hoskins, a UWG student, was charged for her involvment in the robbery. printout of everyone who had scanned their card that morning upon entering the gym. The police went down two suspects she had just met while another female friend was in a different room with another male. According to the female, at around 11 p.m. Hayes and Davis led her into a bedroom in the apartment and began to rape her. According to a Carrollton Police Department Incident By Kelly Williams Copy Editor Kellyuwga @bellsouth.net On March 16, several students gathered to remember those who have lost their lives in the Iraq war. Two tombstones were erected outside the University Community Center listing death tolls for American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. The die-in event was sponsored by West Georgia’s Student Peace Action Network. It began shortly after noon with an opening by David Sluder, a member of SPAN. Passages were then read from both major religions, Islam and Christianity, to remember those who have died. After the readings, a bell was sounded to signify the start of the die-in. Fourteen students and faculty joined in and lay down across the front of the UCC. Several students were confused. One student the list to make sure that everyone in the gym was accounted for. “There were two individuals who were not Report, the friends who had left earlier returned at an undisclosed time, and ;T female in the group reported hearing cries of “No” coming from the bedroom the female was in. According to the report, she began to knock on the locked door until the suspects finally unlocked it. She then grabbed the female, and they left the passing by said, “It's a bunch of dead bodies.” Another student who walked up thought the bodies were from truth, com to represent the deaths caused by cigarettes. After the bell rang and the die-in began, SPAN members Joshua Eaton, David Sluder and Lauren Rench read aloud the names of Americans and Iraqis who had died. While they read aloud one passerby shouted, “God Bless the U.S. folks!” Some students were shocked. Brittany Carter, a UWG freshman, could only say “wow.” Alicia Moore, a freshman, said, “We just walked out and they were laying out there.” Though shocked both Carter and Moore said it was a positive shock. Moore said, “It’s more of a memorial service.” Other students, however, did not share the same sentiments as Carter and Moore. One student who was a marine shouted out his Wednesday . March 29, 2006 there that had scanned (their cards) at 9 a.m.,” said Dobbs. “And that See ROBBERY, page 2 apartment. Hayes was arrested at 11:30 p.m. on March 15 near the scene. Davis had Hed the area, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Davis turned himself into Carrollton police on March 18 after police officers were able to contact him and persuade him to do so. rank as he passed by. One student, Chris Arthur, belonged to the Navy for seven years. Arthur believed the group’s message to be “shortsighted and ignorant.” Arthur said, “It’s accurate for them to wear blinders because they are blind to what happens over there.” The die-in continued with students watching and David Sluder returned to the microphone to say the die-in was to “illustrate the human cost.” Afterwards, Dr. Mark Kunkel of the Psychology department played guitar and sang, "Where have all the flowers gone?” Reflecting on the event Sluder said, “I think it went very well.” “The turnout was what we had expected and I think several people received a pretty powerful message, which is all we were hoping for.” Anyone is invited to attend SPAN meetings. They are held every Thursday night at 8 p.m. in UCC room 208.