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Q: What attracted you to Georgia College & State University? A: I came here because my best friend, Jesus Villamizar, who I've known since I was four years old, came to Georgia College because of a tennis scholarship. He told me to try it. He invited me to come here and visit him. I talked with Susie Ramage of the International Education Center and got scheduled for a campus tour. And I just took a chance, applied and got in. Georgia College is a very nice university. I really enjoyed...

  The first thing everyone asks Tanner Adams when they learn he’s graduating with a major in geography is “What are you going to do with that?”But for Adams, the bigger question is: “What can’t I do?”  It boggles his mind more students aren’t elbowing their way into the field.“For a lot of people, geography reminds them of a sixth grade map quiz,” Adams said. “But it’s so broad. There are so many things you can do with it. The problem, like my professor always said, is ‘You will never...

Bob Marley is quoted as saying, “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” Billy Joel said, “Music in itself is healing.” And Jimi Hendrix was certain, “If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”At Georgia College & State University, 34 undergraduates and 14 graduate students study this phenomenon and bring its healing technique into the community. Students work with elderly adults in five assistant living facilities...