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Campus Review
October 8, 2014
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Clayton State Provost and
Deans Take the Ice Bucket Challenge
President Hynes Survives the
“Longest Ice Bucket Challenge”
by John Shiffert
lots, and vehicles on campus. Tobacco
products are defined as cigars, cigarettes,
pipes, hookahs, all forms of smokeless
tobacco, clove cigarettes and other smok-
ing devices such as vapor and electronic
cigarettes.
“The comprehensive scope of the policy
is a reflection of our on-going commit-
ment to educational excellence at Clayton
State, and stands as an important new
development in bringing us closer to the
shared learning goals we value as part of
the Clayton State experience
“I believe that it is easy to comprehend
that this decision is based solely on the
concern for the overall health of every
member of our campus community. I am
confident that we will promote the deci-
sion campus-wide and as we interact with
other community members throughout the
area.
“As always, thank you for your on-going
determination to move our university for-
ward. Thanks to you, Dreams. Made Real,
is much more than a tagline… it is truly a
reality achieved every day at Clayton
State.”
More information on Clayton State
becoming part of the 100 percent tobacco-
free USG is available on a special Clayton
State
website,
http://www.clayton.edu/Tobacco-Free.
Also available on the Clayton State
Tobacco-Free website is a special video of
Hynes discussing the campus’ tobacco-
free status. The video is also available
with closed captioning on the Clayton
State
You
Tube
channel,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8yy
n1okIoc.
More information on the USG policy is
available at; http://www.usg.edu/tobac-
cofree/.
Think about all of the Ice Bucket
Challenges you’ve seen on You Tube or
TV. They all went by pretty fast, right? No
one wants to spend more time than they
have to under a deluge of ice water.
Clayton State President Dr. Thomas
Hynes joined in the Ice Bucket Challenge
on the Clayton State University Quad,
coming through with flying (though
chilly) colors after what seemed like an
endless, 12-second exposure to a bucket
of ice water at the mitts of the Clayton
State mascot, Loch. While Hynes is a
native of a somewhat colder climate –
Boston – he pointed out prior to the dous-
ing that his background does not in any
way make ice any warmer. In other words,
while Hynes may be used to the cold, this
was not a dream made real.
“That’s got to be the longest Ice Bucket
Challenge I’ve ever seen,” commented
more than one observer in the large and
cheering crowd of Clayton State faculty,
staff, students and administrators, an audi-
ence that included almost all of the
President’s Cabinet.
(Director of Campus Store Services Todd
Smith, speaking for Loch after the
Challenge, explained that Loch bears no
animus towards the president, it’s just that
mascots are not equipped with typical
hands, thus maintaining a secure grip on a
Dr. Kevin Demmitt, Clayton State
University interim provost and vice presi-
dent of Academic Affairs, was recently
joined by three of the University’s deans;
Dr. Nasser Momayezi, dean of the
College of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Lila
Roberts, dean of the College of
Information and Mathematical Sciences
Tobacco, cont’d, from p. 2
Provost/Deans, cont’d, p. 12
Hynes Challenge, cont’d, p. 12