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g£rr volume 57 issue 5 Southwire brings dream for stadium one step closer By Carlos Sellers Staff Writer csellerl @my.westga .edit For the past two years, there has been talk about a stadium being built for the University of West Georgia. Many say this will be a great improvement to the university, and they are looking forward to seeing this work in progress. Donations have been coming left and right just to get this project off the ground, and now w ith the help of Southwire, the “Dream” will soon be one step closer to reality. “This has been a persistent concern of many students that we play football at our local high school,” Andrew Leavitt, associate vice president of development and alumni relations said. “We hope to raise higher the spirit and pride of the students at West Georgia.” Stu Thorn, CEO of Southwire, has generously donated the wiring for the new complex. “Southwire Company Former UWG student's homicide rocks Maine community By Adam Disser Staff Writer gdisser I @ my.west get .edit The homicide of Benjamin Preston, a former UWG student, shocked his hometown of Winterport, Maine on Sept. 6. An autopsy revealed that Preston, 26, died of “multiple blunt force trauma, and upper spine displacement.” Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, said the inflicted trauma led authorities to “label the death a homicide.” Preston was run down by a pickup truck in his driveway Sunday afternoon and was pronounced dead later that day in Eastern Maine Medical Center. Although no charges have been filed, police say that the truck was driven by Nikki Thibodeau, 32, of Corinth, who is engaged to Preston’s sister Samantha. Word of Preston’s death spread fast in his community of 3,800, and after it was declared a homicide, many individuals began searching for answers. Preston was a 1999 thbWest Georgian is continuing its long tradition of support of the University of West Georgia through the donation of all the copper wire needed to build the Athletic Complex," Leavitt said. “We are grateful for this valuable and useful gift and look forward to switching on the electricity for our first home game on opening day.” Thorn presented the gift to UWG President Dr. Beheruz N. Sethna and Ray Fulford, member of the Stadium Development Committee, who hosted an event at his home for the Major Gift Drive and the Alumni Gift Drive. The upcoming 9,000-seat football stadium will also include a soccer stadium for the UWG women’s program. The complex will include a women’s varsity softball field and extra fields for soccer and football practices. The facility will also be equipped with a gameday fieldhouse and a high-tech press box (approximately graduate of Hampden Academy. During his stay at Hampden, he excelled in several sports, including football, baseball and track. He set many school records in track and rushed for 1,000 yards for three years straight. Underclassmen looked up to him, and as stated by Kayla DeGennaro, “He was every little girl’s crush.” He also played sports during his years at the University of West Georgia. Ryan King played on the Hampden Academy football team with Preston. “Ben was a good friend and a great guy. He had his wild side,” King said. “I didn’t think he would go off to college, but he did and really persevered. Now, as soon as he’s ready to live his life, it gets cut short. It’s hard to believe that something like this could happen. Everybody is pretty quiet about the whole thing. People are not saying much; everybody’s pretty silent. We’re just waiting to hear what the police say. Nobody knows the truth except the people who were there.” In News Multicultural panel educates students. WWW THEWE STG EG RGIA N .COM Jll Jji ift lljil I 240 feet long) that will house up to 12 special suites. “This gift-in-kind (the wiring) will help build the stadium, which in turn will be a great Multicultural panel educates students By Fontez Brooks Staff Writer falridg I @my.westga .edit Last week the Bonner Lecture Hall opened its doors to a successful Multicultural Panel. The panel featured testimonies from UWG students from Mexico,South Africa, Sweden, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Germany, Japan, Bolivia, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, and India. Each student’s testimony featured a personal account of their home country and their own thoughts on the United States and how they adjust. The Swedish student stole the show, giving the students and even the professors in the audience a laughbydiscussing such things as Abba, the Swedish pop-band, Swedish chocolates, the Swedish furniture store, Ikea, and his country often being misrepresented as Switzerland. In Opinion The case for life: What is the unborn? new facility for UWG.” Sethna said. “It will help us solidify in the minds of students the image of UWG as being in the robust tier of doctoral comprehensive Afterwards, the amazingly laid back student from Bulgaria refuted the myth that Bulgarians speak -.. rr '' . WiMfL v Vf .. JUf|n 1 Photo by Kimberly Hahn German, and he educated the audience on the fact that Bulgaria is actually the oldest country in Europe. A student from the United Kingdom shed In Sports Braves face slim playoff chances. universities.” For more information on the building of the stadium, visit The Campaign for a West Georgia Stadium at http://www. light on the fact that the city where she is from is well known for its partying statistics, while the Bolivian student told the crowd that the legal drinking age was non existent, a statement that raised interest from the students in the audience. A common theme In Entertainment iPi Art Department hosts Brian Bishop. Wednesday, September 19. 2007 Photo by Terence Pashm westga.edu/~stadium/. To make a donation to the "Let’s Build a Place to Call Home” football stadium drive, contact Dr. Andrew Leavitt at 678-839-6582. throughout the night was the fact that each student, each from completely different backgrounds, had to start learning English at an early age. The cultural diversity at this school is so much more immense than people think. These students have traveled thousands of miles from home, and in some cases much farther, to go to school here. These students, who have to deal with being home sick and having culture shock, are still working hard to get an education. At the end of the seminar there was a question and answer session, and someone asked the panel if there was something that could make their stay more comfortable. The panel responded by saying “If everyone could be as opened minded and accepting as possible, things would go a lot smoother.”