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Campus Review
January 31, 2014
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Athletics
Former Clayton State men’s soccer stand-
out and current Major League Soccer
(MLS) player Chris Klute has been invit-
ed for a tryout for the 2014 U.S. World
Cup squad. Klute was one of 10 young
players invited to train at the U.S. Soccer
National Training Center in Carson, CA
last week to make the 26-member team.
He also has been invited to train with
team, as the squad will travel to Sao
Paulo, Brazil for 12 days. The team will
train at Sao Paulo FC’s facilities and play
two closed-door scrimmages.
*****
The Clayton State Department of
Athletics has hired Merlene Aitken as the
program’s interim Assistant Athletic
Director for Compliance and Student
Services. Aitken joins Clayton State after
recently serving as the Director
Compliance at Georgia Tech for two
years, where she was charged with moni-
toring and ensuring compliance with all
NCAA rules and procedures. She has
more than 10 years of experience working
in the field of compliance in intercolle-
giate athletics. In addition to working at
Georgia Tech, she has served as the
Associate Athletic Director/SWA at North
Carolina A&T and as the Associate
Athletic Director for Compliance at
Winston-Salem State. She also served as
an Assistant Athletic Director for
Compliance at Kansas and the Director of
Compliance at Washington.
*****
Clayton State’s Shacamra Jackson was
named the Peach Belt Astro Turf Player of
the Week in December, after averaging
18.5 points, 9.5 rebounds and six blocks
per game in two victories.
*****
The Clayton State men’s and women’s
cross country and track & field teams
combined to perform more than 550 hours
of community service during the recently
completed fall semester. The Laker teams
balanced time between classes, practice,
and in many cases work schedules, to give
back to the local community in a variety
of volunteer opportunities. The volunteer
time that the teams performed ranged
from serving established charitable organ-
izations like Habitat for Humanity and the
Humane Society, to helping out at several
metro Atlanta road races. A few local
schools were also served, especially
Morrow Elementary School where the
Laker cross country and track teams have
been volunteering for the past three years.
The primary volunteering the teams have
done at Morrow Elementary has been
either reading to students, or having stu-
dents read to them to help MES students
improve this critical skill. Team members
also helped volunteered working the
school’s annual Fall Festival and can
drive.
*****
Clayton State women’s tennis player
Hannah Keeling was named to the 2014
Peach Belt preseason All-Conference
team by the league office in Augusta, Ga.
Keeling, a 5-7 junior from Southampton,
England, enters the season ranked 33rd in
the nation in singles. Last year, she fin-
ished with a 10-5 record at the No. 1 seed
for the Lakers and posted a 9-9 record at
No. 1 doubles. An All-Peach Belt
Conference selection last year, Keeling
was one of only seven players to receive
the preseason honor from the conference.
Clayton State will open its home season
during Homecoming on Saturday, Feb.
15, hosting Erskine College in a 1 p.m.
match at Laker Courts.
Auxiliary Services
“Happy Birthday To You… Happy
Birthday To You!” Auxiliary Services has
partnered with Housing, Dental Hygiene
and Health Services to create the Birthday
Promotion to help you celebrate your spe-
cial day. All students, faculty and staff are
eligible to participate. Stop by the
LakerCard Center during the month of
your birthday to receive your goodie bag,
which includes a personalized Happy
Birthday button and a free drink from
SubConnection, among other surprises!
Center for Academic Success
The Clayton State University Center for
Academic Success, whose services
include peer tutoring in more than 100
different courses, drop-in math tutoring,
Supplemental Instruction for historically
difficult courses, study groups, academic
success workshops, study strategy assess-
ments, and computerized software for
Clayton State students has relocated to
Edgewater Hall (formerly Student
Center), room 276. Center for Academic
Success Director Kathy Garrison and her
staff, Maurica John, Diana Johnson, Jada
Mitchell, Dian Peters, and Matthew
Smith, have reopened the Center and are
ready to welcome students back. The
hours for the Center for Academic
Success will be 8 a.m. – 7 p.m., Monday
– Thursday; 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Friday, and
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Saturday. The phone
number for the Center for Academic
Success (678) 466-4070. The Center for
Academic
Success
website
is
http://www.clayton.edu/cas.
College of Business
Sherwin James has had his second article
published with NACADA. This article, on
advising international student athletes, is
available
at
http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Resources/Ac
a d e m i c - A d v i s i n g - To d a y / Vi e w -
A r t i c l e s / Te n - Ti p s - f o r - Ad v i s i n g -
International-Student-Athletes.aspx.
College of Health
Dr. Lisa Eichelberger, dean of the College
of Health at Clayton State University,
delivered the keynote speech to the Class
of 2013 at Dec. 20, 2013 Mississippi
College
School
of
Nursing’s
Commencement Ceremony. Eichelberger
served as Mississippi College’s nursing
dean from 1987 to 1995.
Communication and Media Studies
Maybe he won’t be winning an “Emmy,”
but Clayton State University Associate
Professor of Journalism Dr. Randy Clark
is a judge for the Emmys, in both the
states of New York and Texas. Clark was
a judge for the New York Emmys last
week, viewing news stories online and
subsequently voting online. In 2013, he
was similarly a judge for news stories the
Texas Emmys. “I judged news stories,
specifically in the political reporting cate-
gory,” he says. “I probably saw 30 indi-
vidual stories from all over the state.”
Although not a member, Clark is on the
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