Here are videos of all the presentations from the
Meet the Candidates
event at VSU Monday.
This adds to the previous
LAKE videos,
and also includes a different perspective from George Boston Rhynes.
Update 4:40 PM 5 October 2012:
Toma Hawk has supplied
a third viewpoint.
What’s that little shelter by the front gate of VSU?
It’s the last physical remnant of the Valdosta Street Railway,
an early 20th century streetcar
system, when Valdosta was the smallest city in the country to have one.
Valdosta had
5,613 people in 1900,
about twice as many as present-day Hahira.
You do know that Valdosta was the smallest city in the U.S.
that had a streetcar system, right?
Here’s a movie about what probably happened to it, like all the others,
followed by a movie about another mode of transportation: bicycles.
Public Event · By Valdosta State University Social Issues in Film Series
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
7:00pm
VSU University Center room 1171
DOUBLE-HEADER!
“Taken for a Ride” focuses on the Great American Streetcar Scandal
(or Conspiracy), in which major US companies deliberately bought-up
and dismantled the public light-rail streetcar lines in dozens of
American cities. The guilty companies? General Motors, Firestone
Tire, Standard Oil, Phillips Petroleum, and Mack Trucks—all
companies that wanted to replace the public streetcars with buses
and then private cars.
“Pedal Power!” is an inside look at the world’s growing cycling
movement and how bikes are pushing-up against a dominant car culture
in North America. From Critical Mass bike rides and “bike-to-work”
programs, to increasingly popular “public bike” programs, bicycles
are becoming an ever-important component of cities.
Co-sponsored with the Valdosta Community Cycling Center.
Julian Assange of Wikileaks spoke from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London today (video, text):
The next time somebody tells you that it is pointless to defend the rights we hold dear, remind them of your vigil in the dark outside the Embassy of Ecuador, and how, in the morning, the sun came up on a different world, and a courageous Latin American nation took a stand for justice.
The British government made a stunning mistake in throwing away the worldwide goodwill just gained through the London Olympic Games, by actually beginning to storm a sovereign embassy in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations that was observed throughout the Cold War. How could they be so foolish? This man, this reporter and publisher, they think is somehow more dangerous to them than the armed might of the Soviet Union was? This is as if JFK arrested MLK after John Glenn’s first orbital flight (a step which JFK fortunately did not take).
The chief executives of three major Georgia hospitals are getting together to discuss the future of health care in the state.
Probably a good idea. Which hospitals?
CEOs scheduled to sit on the panel are Tim Stack of Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Don Faulk of Central Georgia Health System in Macon and Maggie Gill of Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah.
“…the vast array of services offered at SGMC. We are a progressive hospital with many services that are unique to South Georgia.”
So who organized the hospital CEO discussions?
The Executive Forum, an outreach program of Mercer University’s business school, will host the hospital CEOs….
Hm, maybe VSU could host some hospital CEOs. Maybe unlike Mercer’s Forum, they could make the discussion open to the public. Maybe even invite questions from the public.
I hate to agree with the VDT but Health Sciences at VSU would be
good for the community.
If we weren’t spending so many state tax dollars locking people up,
we’d be able to afford that more easily.
And it turns out the Georgia House found the money.
Amid the lost homes of this past weekend’s tornado and severe
storms, South Georgia could use an infusion of hope.
Good news came Monday with word that the Valdosta State University
Health Sciences and Business Administration building has a renewed
shot at becoming reality.
Earlier this year, the $23.5 million project was assumed dead.
Though its inclusion had been expected, the building was not part of
the 2012 state budget.
Tonight you could be part of a delightful evening of theatre that will
likely not occur again in Valdosta for some time. If you are a theater
fan, do not miss the second and last performance tonight of a musical
written by a VSU faculty member and performed by VSU students and a
guest artist. In the tradition of play reading, The Pier is performed
on a bare stage with six chairs, mikes and a keyboard accompaniment.
Mostly music, the production is fresh and the students enthusiastic in
their parts in this musical. We saw it last night and thoroughly
enjoyed being at the beginning of an amazing creative process.
-Jane Osborn
Be among the first to hear an exciting new musical!
…attend a reading of this new musical theatre work featuring
students in the Musical Theatre Emphasis
Saturday, February 11, 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 11 at 7:30 PM
Sawyer Theatre, VSU Fine Arts Building, First Floor
Free admission, general seating.
Right outside of Palms Quad there’s a free speech thing,
but, as you can see, uh…. [gestures around]
[laughter]
You know, like I said.
If someone’s violating the law here, and creating a dangerous situation
by, uh, physically disrupting the students or faculty, that’s one thing,
we deal with that….
But if it’s, even this gnat, we will allow this gnat to….
Henry Calhoun found VSU Interim President Dr. Louis Levy,
who came over to the Occupy Valdosta meeting 27 October.
Erin Hurley invited him to come to the
mid-November Teach-In.
He replied:
…as long as it’s legal and non-obstructive
in terms of people getting in and out of buildings.
We tend to promote free speech.
And if we don’t, we’ll pay the price for it later.
…
We actually encourage free discussion and debate.
Besides, I’m a sociologist.
We can take what everyone knows and put them into
four different kinds of perspectives and lenses
just to do battle with each other.
We tend to promote free speech.
Information and Organization,
General Assembly, Occupy Valdosta (OV),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 27 October 2011.
Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.