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Congratulations to Jennifer McLeod, who will be presenting her paper: With Pen or Pointy: Slaying the collegiate demons both Metaphorical and Physical, at the Slayage Conference (http://www.slayage.tv) being held at Gordon College on May 26-28.

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Book Drive for Gulf Coast Survivors

By Derek Smith

Family literacy programs that are meeting the educational needs of families displaced by Hurricane Katrina, especially those in some of the most devastated areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, need your help. The National Center for Family Literacy (www.famlit.org) and Better World Books (www.betterworldbooks.com) are collaborating to supply much needed books and other written materials to these programs.

Better World Books organizes and runs book drives on college campuses all across the country and then either directly donates those used books or sells them online and one hundred percent of the profits goes to procure and distribute the books and other materials to the children and families who have lost so much in this natural disaster.

The SGA will be hosting a book drive during the Book Buy Back period of May 3-5. Please consider donating your unwanted used textbooks.

Top 10 Things I hated about Finals

By Angela Abston

As the spring semester winds down, Gordon students must say goodbye to friends and cherish the happy times together before they can enjoy the summer vacation. Unfortunately, there is a labyrinth of twisted tortures and evil around every turn that a student must get through before realizing paradise. Yes, I am referring to final exams. If you are tired of having to fill in bubbles, erasing until holes appear in your paper, scrambling to pull that borderline grade back from the point of no return, and wondering why you can't just revert back to elementary school when you could eat crayons and paste, then the following is for you.

Here are the ten things I hate about finals:

1. Trying to buy a "blue book" when you are colorblind.

2. Buying and sharpening fifty No. 2 pencils for that frightening exam only to discover that the pencil requirement has been changed to the new No. 5.

3. Staying up all night to study for your final only to find that your roommate had thrown away all caffeine products in the room. The roommate has stress issues.

4. Lying to your friends, telling them that the strange patterns on your face are new tattoos instead of the remains of your literature essay that you fell asleep on.

5. Writing the perfect MLA formatted research paper only to discover your sibling used it for a placemat on taco night.

6. Wondering why you have only seen ten of the thirty students in your class until the exam day, and then why they made a better grade than you did. Is there a conspiracy?

7. Endangering your life as you search up and down the side of the interstate for a book your boyfriend or girlfriend threw out of the car window in a fight, just so you can get your grades…. that is, if you survive.

8. Learning that plagiarism isn't a new exercise program.

9. Finding out that you have failed your P.E. class. Something you hadn't thought possible since high school.

10. Hoping that writing a two-page essay on the French Revolution, for your history final, is enough to earn the maximum points, even though the question was about the Civil War.

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Are you an artist? Are you in a band? Are you a writer? G.C. Press is starting a new monthly profile on the talented people here at Gordon. If you're interested in having your name in the paper contact Gordon College Press at gcpress@gmail.com, 770-358-5889 or slip a note under the door of Student Center 205D.

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