The Student Government Association attended the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Marietta 5K walk and run last Saturday at Grover Park on the Square. The American Cancer Society designed the event to raise awareness about breast cancer and raise money to help fight the disease.
Desire2Learn will replace GeorgiaView Vista beginning spring semester 2013. Students will be required to change their student password to fit new security regulations. The passwords, which presently gain access to Owl Express, GeorgiaView, student email and other school sites and systems, will have to fit a new 12-character format. Students will start receiving notifications to change their password through their student email starting Nov. 1. Notifications will continue until Jan. 21, when individuals will be locked out of their sites if they have not changed their password.
The Anything Is Possible 5K race will take place on Nov. 4 at 1:30 a.m. at the Town Center Mall, when daylight saving time official ends and the clocks get turned back one hour. The idea is that people will finish the race before they began it. Runners receive entry into a post-run pajama party and various race-related awards. There is a registration fee, with one of the benefiting charities being the Veterans Resources. Learn more and register at anythingispossible5k.com/locations/atlanta.php.
The university is exploring the feasibility of providing a campus-based childcare facility. A survey for all students with or without children has been sent distributed via student email to assess the need for such a facility. So far, more than 3,000 surveys have been completed.
“On the Fly,” a service that allowed students to take food back to their apartments or outside, was supposed to be expanded and moved to the Student Center but has been cut for this year due to budget restrictions.
