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Campus Review
July 16, 2012
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Clayton State Garners 37 Honorees
Peach Belt Releases
2011-12 Presidential Honor Roll
by Mike Mead, Athletics
Trivia Time
Rock and
Roll Music
By John Shiffert, University Relations
As The Beatles could surely tell you,
that rock and roll music, “its got a
backbeat, you can't lose it.”
Now, if you want to know exactly
what backbeat is, there we’ll turn to
the coordinator of the Division of
Music, and defending Trivia Time
Champion, Dr. Kurt-Alexander Zeller.
(Might as well get our information
from an expert…)
“In its simplest meaning, (backbeat) is
simply the even-numbered beats that
follow the odd-numbered beats that
usually receive the stress in duple-time
meters. The term is used in Western
pop music to mean accenting those
even beats (say, 2 and 4 in 4/4), rather
than the customary odd ones (1 and 3
in 4/4), which is very common in rock
music — one of the reasons the term
shows up frequently in the titles of
books and movies about rock figures
(most famously the title of a film about
the early years of the Beatles) and was
even the name of a record label for a
while.”
Of course, to all rock and roll animals,
it’s the line from the famous Beatles
song, quoted above, initially (and third
overall) by Jill Ellington, and then also
by David Ludley and B.D. Stillion (all
of whom get two Bonus Points as
well). However, Zeller gets credit for
answering first (plus three Bonus
Points for his musical erudition.)
Norman Grizzell had the second cor-
rect answer.
Speaking of movies about the Beatles,
what does John Lennon ask the crusty
old gentleman in the train compart-
ment in “A Hard Day’s Night?”
Send your answers, not to Sir
Paul
McCartney,
but
to
johnshiffert@clayton.edu.
In high school, Valadez ran for Vista
Ridge H.S. in Colorado Springs. She ran a
career-best 19:40 for 5K cross country
and ran 12:21 for the 3200m run in track.
Valadez will be majoring in Sociology at
Clayton State.
Wilson, a sophomore from Olympia,
Wash., competed in cross country for
OCU last fall and was consistently the
team’s number two runner. She ran a
career-best of 19:37 for 5K last fall.
During high school, Wilson ran for
Tumwater H.S. in cross country and track.
She ran a best of 20:14 for 5K in cross
country and 12:44 for 3200m during track
season. Wilson plans to major in political
science.
Valadez and Wilson are the second and
third signees for the Clayton State cross
country women’s squad. They join fresh-
man signee Taylor Galvin from Posen, Ill.
who was the Lakers’ first signee of the
season and will be joining her sister, Paige
Galvin, who will be the team’s captain
and lone senior this fall.
The Peach Belt Conference announced last
week that a record 1,137 student-athletes
have been named to the Presidential Honor
Roll for the 2011-12 academic year.
Included among that number are 37 stu-
dent-athletes who represented Clayton
State during the past year. The Presidential
Honor Roll recognizes all student-athletes
at the 13 PBC member institutions who had
a GPA of 3.0 or higher for the academic
year.
Of Clayton State’s 37 honorees, nine hail
from the women’s soccer team. A close
second was the men’s cross country/track
team with eight selections while women’s
cross country/track had six selections.
The honor roll is divided into four groups:
Presidential Scholars, Bronze Scholars,
Silver Scholars and Gold Scholars. All stu-
dent-athletes with a GPA from 3.0 to 3.24
are Presidential Scholars while Bronze
Scholars are 3.25 to 3.49; Silver 3.50 to
3.74 and Gold Scholars are those with a
3.75 to 4.00.
The Lakers had five student-athletes named
Gold Scholars and out of those five, three
were members of the women’s tennis team
-- Ivana Krommelova, a junior from Nove
Zamky, Slovakia; Charlotte Fabricius, a
junior from Stockholm, Sweden; and
Martina Dedaj, a sophomore from Pula,
Croatia. The fourth Laker named a Gold
Scholar, senior Robert Spezzacatena from
North Bergen, N.J., was selected last week
as the first Academic All-America for the
men’s cross country/track program.
Spezzacatena also becomes the first Laker
named a Gold Scholar four consecutive
years. The fifth Gold Scholar named was
Samantha Walling, a sophomore from Galt,
Calif. and a member of the women’s cross
country/track team.
The 1,137 student-athletes surpasses the old
record of 1,079 set in 2010-11 and gives the
Peach Belt 1,000 or more honorees for the
third year in a row. Each student-athlete
will receive a certificate from the confer-
ence office in recognition of their achieve-
ment.
Clayton State’s complete listing of PBC
honorees include:
Gold Scholars:
Ivana Krommelova,
Robert Spezzacatena, Charlotte Fabricius,
Samantha Walling, Martina Dedaj.
Silver
Scholars:
Laoise O'Driscoll, Kourtney
Aylor, Jessica Covington, Russell Lawless,
Jon Skinner, Paige Galvin, Jessica Smith,
Lorna O'Connell, Rebecca Brown, Silvia
Espelt, Maia Kuhnen, Albert Mong'ony.
Bronze Scholars:
Luisa Alvarez, Leighton
Fredericks, Natalia Valentine, Marie
Cercelletti, Jennifer Dreasler, Jonathan Ray,
Matt Roskind.
Presidential Scholars:
Clark Nelson, Jessica Budd, Brian Garcia,
Shadawn Clanton, Preston Valencia, Emily
Walling, Edlin Veras, Tony Dukes, Elisa
Gyllin, Shelby Russell, Tanner Thomason,
Ayrton Azcue, Holly McNorton.
Heat Stress, cont’d. from p. 11