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Campus Review
February 13, 2012
Athletics
The Lakers’ Tanisha
Woodard has been
selected as the
Peach
Belt
Conference “Player
of the Week.” The
senior forward from
Rome, Ga., and
reining Peach Belt
Defensive Player of the Year averaged 13
points, nine rebounds, five assists and
four steals in the Lakers’ two victories at
Flagler and Armstrong Atlantic. The 5-
foot-10 Woodard started the week with 10
points, nine rebounds, six assists, three
blocked shots and three steals in Clayton
State’s 80-44 rout at Flagler on Thursday.
She followed that up with 16 points, nine
rebounds, six steals and four assists in the
Lakers’ 93-48 rout at Armstrong on
Saturday. This season, she became the
seventh player in Clayton State women’s
basketball history to eclipse 1,000 career
points, and she also set the Clayton State
career mark for blocked shots.
*****
Former Clayton State Laker men’s basket-
ball All-American
Brandon Robinson
was recently selected
on Monday as the
“Player of the Week”
in NBL Canada.
Robinson, a 6-foot-6
shooting guard, aver-
aged 33 points in two
games for his NBL
Canada team – the
Oshawa Power. He
scored a career-high 34 points on 12-for-
20 shooting from the field against the St.
John Mill Rats. Robinson followed that
up with 32 points on 13-for-14 shooting
from the free throw line in the Power’s
110-108 overtime victory over the
Moncton Miracles. For the season,
Robinson is averaging 17 points and
seven rebounds.
*****
The Clayton State Laker men’s and
women’s track and field team set a total of
four team records (two by each team) on
Saturday at Clemson’s Tiger Paw Invite.
For the women, both team records were in
the long sprints. Gisele Javois set the
Clayton State team mark in the 500-meter
dash with a time of 1:25.03 to finish 23rd
overall. Maia Kuhnen established the
Clayton State team record in the 300-
meter dash in 44.11 seconds to finish 28th
overall. For the men, the headliner was in
the 800-meter run, where Ayrton Azcue
continued his stellar indoor season with a
tremendous second-place finish in the
800-meter run. His time of 1:54.97 is a
new Clayton State men’s track and field
800-meter run team record, set for the sec-
ond straight week, and he was only 0.77
seconds off NCAA Division II provision-
al qualifying times. The other team record
shattered was in the 300-meter dash,
where Edlin Veras placed 10th overall
with a record time of 36.20 seconds.
College of Business
Dr. Ali Dadpay spoke to the Clayton
Rotary on Feb. 8 on the Outlook for the
Middle East Economies as part of the
College of Business Graduate Faculty
Speakers Bureau. “He was great. His
experience and insights had the audience
riveted. I didn’t thing they were going to
let him leave they had so many follow-up
questions,” says Dr. Judith Ogden.
NARA
The National Archives at Atlanta will fea-
ture its African American Heritage
Program on Saturday, Feb. 18, from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. All events are free and open
to the public. The program starts with
“Are You Gullah Geechee?” a symposium
sponsored by the Afro-American
Historical & Genealogical Society’s
Atlanta Chapter. Advance registration is
required for this program, which will run
from 9 a.m. to noon. Please email gullah-
programatl@gmail.com. From noon until
5 p.m., the Archives will hold “A Taste of
Africa and America,” providing bite-sized
samples of African-American cuisine,
along with a viewing of Denise White
Fields’ exhibit, “The Artifacts of
Enslavement: The Shackles and Objects
of Slavery,” as well as the Clayton County
African American Arts and Heritage
Festival with exhibits, historic photo-
Across the Campus...
graphs, storytelling and musical perform-
ances.
President’s Office
Clayton State University President Dr.
Thomas J. Hynes participated in the 10th
Annual South Metro Development
Outlook Conference on Thursday, Feb. 9,
at the Georgia International Convention
Center, as part of the Higher Education in
South Metro session, exploring the
impacts of higher education on the region-
al economy and the opportunities for the
future. Over the years, the South Metro
area has become home to a number of
public and private institutions of higher
learning. As these entities, including
Clayton State, expand, these communities
are experiencing growth and revitaliza-
tion, enhancing the local economy and
quality of life significantly.
Woodard
Robinson