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16 underage drinking arrests

Festivities to celebrate the start of the fall semester have resulted in 16 arrests relating to underage drinking in various housing facilities.

"It's a problem because everyone knows that it is easy to get away with it, and it is."

-Donata Borsos, Commons

resident

Parking website crashes

Access to the Auxiliary and Support Service's website was denied long enough to cause the website to shut down, adding to anger and frustration many student already feel towards the school's parking issues.

"We pay ungodly amounts of money for the employees to be RUDE to us, their websites to NOT work..."

-Mercedes Jordan, student

First Semester banning illegal immigrants

Fall 2011 marked the first semester GSU has barred undocumented students. The State Board of Regents implemented the ban last year after discovering an illegal Kennesaw State was charged in-state tuition. Though illegal students have been banned, various efforts

have been made to give illegal immigrant a chance to take classes through an effort called Freedom University. A group of professors started this program teaching  a rigourous course once a week, bearing similiarties to courses taught at one of the banned universities. Officials argue that illegal students stole spots from other qualified students. Howver, the BOR will allow these students to attend other colleges in Georgiam but must be charged out of state tuition.

Virginia Earthquake Shakes Atlanta

Rattled Atlantans were on alert after feeling the aftereffects of an earthquake in Virginia on Aug. 23. As residents along the east coast were shaken by the 5.8 earthquake, Atlantans blew up social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook reporting the aftermath of the rare occurrence. The city did not report and damages.

12 marijuana arrest

Crime reports indicate four incidents where students and non-students were arrested for marijuana possession on campus. Reports of odor led to the arrests of at least six GSU students and six non-GSU students.