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Campus Review
December 18, 2012
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Alumni
John Lewis Morrow, a May 2012 honors
graduate of Clayton State University with
a B.S. in Biology, returned to campus on
Saturday, Dec. 15 to be commissioned as
a second lieutenant in the United State
Marine Corps. The ceremony took place
at outdoor the Judge Eugene Lawson
Amphitheater. A tutor at the Center for
Academic Success during his undergradu-
ate years at Clayton State, Morrow previ-
ously graduated Marine Officer Candidate
School (OCS) 207 in August 2011. OCS
is a 10-week course designed to train,
screen, and evaluate potential marine offi-
cers.
Athletics
The Clayton State men’s soccer team
recently had a player named among the
region’s best as Ado Junuzovic was
named to the 2012 NSCAA/Continental
Tire Men’s NCAA Division II Southeast
All-Region team. A sophomore from
Lawrenceville, Ga., Junuzovic was
Clayton State’s leading scorer in his first
season with the Lakers. He finished the
season with 11 goals and three assists to
lead the Laker offensive attack. The
Clayton State women’s soccer team had
two players named among the region’s
best as junior Alicia Robinson and senior
Natalia Valentine were named to the 2012
NSCAA/Continental Tire Women's
NCAA Division II Southeast All-Region
team. Robinson, a junior from Telford,
England, was named to the first team All-
Region squad, while Valentine, a senior
from Boksburg, South Africa was named
to the second team.
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During last year’s indoor season, the
Clayton State women’s indoor track &
field team set four team records. On
Saturday, Dec. 1, the squad came away
with two team records and a NCAA pro-
visional mark from the Birmingham-
Southern College Panther Icebreaker
Meet at the Birmingham Crossplex.
Senior Paige Galvin set one of the four
records last season and did it again
Saturday. Fresh off the NCAADivision II
Cross Country Championships two weeks
earlier, Galvin bettered her 3,000m indoor
mark by 12 seconds to finish fourth in
10:37.81. Meanwhile, newcomer Jessica
Matthews took it one-step better. The
freshman from Monroe, Ga. broke the
team’s indoor triple jump record and hit
an NCAA DII provision mark on her first
collegiate attempt in the event. Matthews
finished up with a best of 38-4¼ to place
sixth in the meet and have the best
Clayton State women’s triple jump for
both indoors and outdoors.
*****
Led by the Clayton State distance corps,
the Lakers track & field team opened up
its ninth indoor season Saturday with
seven Top 10 finishes at the Icebreaker
Meet. Senior Ayrton Azcue, the team’s
MVP in 2012, led the way with the team’s
highest individual finish with a second
place finish in the 3,000m run with a time
of 8:58.32. He finished the long day run-
ning the fastest leg on the team’s 4 x 400m
relay that ran a respectable 3:23.43 to
place fourth in the event.
Business
Dr. Alphonso Ogbuehi, dean of the
College of Business at Clayton State
University, has been named to the board
of directors of Clayton County Family
Care. According to Clayton County
Family Care Interim Executive Director
Marie Barber, her organization has served
the local community for 60 years, with the
hope that its services will continue to help
thousands of families each year. Barber
also says Ogbuehi’s knowledge, expertise
and vision will be invaluable to helping
define the organization and achieve its
goals. The mission of Clayton County
Family Care, located at 1000 Main St.,
Forest Park, Ga., is to provide short term
emergency assistance and promote self
sufficiency for Clayton County residents.
Campus Life
Campus Life is already planning for the
2013 Alternative Spring Break in March,
which will offer Clayton State students
the opportunity to help provide quality
early education for preschoolers in a Head
Start program in Biloxi, Miss., or, alterna-
tively, to work to protect and preserve a
stretch of the Mississippi River in
Memphis. Students can pick up applica-
tion forms in the Campus Life office, or
they can be downloaded http://www.clay-
ton.edu/campus-life/servicelearning/asb.For
further information, contact LaShanda
Hardin at (678) 466-5433 or lashanda-
hardin@clayton.edu.
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Each year, the Clayton State University
Office of Campus Life organizes commu-
nity service opportunities for Clayton
State students at varied locations through-
out the state and the nation, timed to coin-
cide with the University's winter and
spring breaks. From Dec. 9, 2012 to Dec.
15, 2012 Alternative Winter Break sent
Clayton State 13 students to work with
community agencies in Washington, D.C.,
agencies that focus on the homeless popu-
lation and those people who are most
affected by it; another 10 students go to
eliminate substandard housing on Johns
Island, S.C., with Sea Island Habitat for
Humanity.
CIMS
The First Lego League Super Regional
Qualifier will be returning to the campus
of Clayton State University on Saturday,
Jan. 12, 2013. Specifically, the College of
Information and Mathematical Sciences
(CIMS) will once again be hosting the
First Lego League Super Regional
Qualifier in the James M. Baker
University Center, largely on Main Street
and the Commons Area. The event will
run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with Jarrett
Terry, CIMS assistant dean for
Undergraduate Advisement and Student
Services, heading up the organization of
the event. The competitions during the
day will take place from 10 a.m. to noon,
and from 12:50 p.m. to 3 p.m., with the
presentation of awards from 3:50 p.m. to
4:30 p.m.
NARA
The National Archives at Atlanta is proud
to announce the “release” of its immigra-
tion-themed video, “Coming to America:
Celebrating the Immigrant Experience.”
NARA's social media team recently post-
ed the video to NARA’s YouTube channel.
The link to the video on YouTube is
http://youtu.be/WPDJU8Fg0ps. (“Join the
National Archives at Atlanta for a
Naturalization Ceremony that it hosted on
July 20, 2012. Share the joy of new citizens
Across the Campus...