My Times Talk was on Wednesday, Nov. 4 and was facilitated by Dr. Sandra Jordan who is the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs. This was her first Times Talk and she did a great job. The topic of discussion was "Big Time College Athletics: Win at all costs?" We discussed everything from whether or not GCSU could support a football team and several different aspects of the big universities and their huge involvement in college sports. The main article of discussion was about the Binghamton University Basketball team and that their star guard, Emanuel Mayben might be kicked off the team. He was caught in early September for the sale and possession of crack cocaine.
The discussions were all very interesting and it was insightful to hear input from a diverse group of people. We had several professors and students of all different majors, including GCSU's new Athletic Director, Wendell Staton.
To promote this event, I created flyers that were posted all over campus, wrote a press release and created a Facebook event. The Times Talk had a great turnout of about 19 students and professors, so I feel like I did a good job promoting this event.
