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The event is located in the laboratory off of Plant Ops Drive from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. The open house will include tours of the lab where attendees can observe the laboratory and interesting artifacts. Among laboratory volunteers and student assistants, Professor Dr. Ray Crook will assist in artifact identification. An expert “flint knapper” t„ e West Georgian reportedly originated as a domestic situation between “an Asian male who was a resident in one of our dormitories, “according to VT President Charles Steger, the shooter allegedly had a domestic dispute and shot his girlfriend in one of the residence halls at 7:lsam. A female RA who attempted to intervene was also shot and killed. The campus was locked down for 2 hours as police investigated. At 9:45 will teach attendees how to make stone tools. The main attraction of the lab is the sand pit created for mock excavations, an attraction site for many local school field trips. Other games and archaeological related activities are also featured. The Antonio J. Waring Archaeological Laboratory in one of the two depositories located in Georgia for archaeological artifacts from Georgia and surrounding states. The other is located at the University of Georgia. Many artifacts are brought to the lab after research excavations and are catalogued and In News K,. JPnSm Domestic abuse in home town. WWW. I HEWESTGEORGIAN.COM am the alleged shooter entered a building across campus and secured the door with a chain before entering and firing at a class full of students. At last report 33 people and the alleged gunman are dead and 29 others are being treated at local hospitals for injuries related to the shooting, including some for injuries sustained jumping out of second story windows to escape the shooter. In a press release shelved there by mainly student volunteers and student assistants. The laboratory also provides research space and has an extended library of the archaeological history of Georgia, a resource open to students. Anthropology major Armando Tovar said “archaeologists are conservationists at heart, who aim to preserve archaeological sites because they are important to natural history.” Tovar is theeducation assistant coordinator for the laboratory. His job includes informing and teaching the public about the lab. He distributes teaching trunks, which In Entertainment Summer game previews. by University of West Georgia Acting President Dr. Thomas J. Hines, Jr. he states: The University of West Georgia, like all other USG institutions, has a number of procedures and safeguards in place to protect our students, faculty, and staff. Campus security and the safety of ourcommunity is a priority on this campus. We have a Homeland Security Committee that meets regularly at UWG to By Brett Miles Staff Writer bmiles2@ my.westga. edu The University of West Georgia’s Department of Geosciences is currently working on new methods of water conservation in the state of Georgia, starting with the university itself. InFebruary.UWG held its first annual Water Resources Conference. The conference was held in response to local concerns regarding the are available to send to middle schools. Tovar is also in charge of all on campus displays for the lab. He is a student researcher involved with a collection of several thousand artifacts received from Georgia State University. He is also in charge of promoting this open house and any other events located on the campus. The open house is open to anyone who wants to come. “Bring you friends, bring your family, everyone is welcome” said Tovar on behalf of him and everyone else in the anthropology department. In Sports NBA playoff predictions. plan for different crisis scenarios. This committee is comprised of representatives from across the campus including faculty members as well as student services, ITS, public safety,and food services personnel. Additionally, University Police have participated in training exercises to help them prepare to respond to a variety of crisis situations. Our university may also depend upon firs> responder resources politics and physical health of water supplies in the west Georgia region and the state. Scientists, professors, public officials, and conservationists made up the audience of two hundred. Water supply and demand and surface water pollution problems were among the concerns addressed. Dr. Curtis L. Hollabaugh, professor of geology and chair of the UWG Department of Geosciences, is the founder and president of the Upper Tallapoosa Watershed SGA election results President Rob Kelly Vice President Joshua Copeland Treasurer Elizabeth Anderson Senators Jonathan Gist, Joshua Scruggs, Jerrod McAllister, Heather McKenzie, July Carrillo, Shayna Lewis, Tia O'Connor, Brandon Grant, Joseph Gonsalves, Kenneth Jackson, Janava Benton, Nausheen Lakhani, Robert Townes, Ashley Stroud, Jeffeory Threet, Ana belle Weaver, Daphne Burden, Asia Andrews, James Webster, Brittany Reid In Opinion Barack Obama speaks at Tech. UWG students listen. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 18, 2007 in the community in the event of a crisis. There are two confirmed connections to Georgia among the victims of VT, Ryan Clark, a 22 year-old senior from Martinez, Georgia near Athens, and Christopher Boyd, an alumnus of the University of Georgia and professor of German at V.T. Security at the Blacksburg campus may have been tested See M3SSBCPB page 3 Group. This group strives to protect, preserve, and use the Tallapoosa watershed in Haralson and Carroll Counties, conducting ongoing river clean ups. They monitor and test water supplies and also aim to raise public awareness of current water issues. Along with Dr. Hollabaugh, Dr. Randy Kath, UWG professor of geology, and Dr. Thomas J. Crawford, professor emeritus of geology at UWG, are currently working to acquire funds needed to implement a proposal which would both conserve the Carrollton drinking water supply and lessen the financial weight of inflated water supplies. Dr. Kath, who also serves as Director of the UWG Center for Water Resources, hopes to soon be able to develop four new bedrock wells on the university’s newly acquired land. Presently, UWG has three wells, two of which are productive producers. The two See Water page