Issue 1, Spring 1998
Welcome. You have found the first edition of FC Bytes, a web magazine created (mostly) and compiled (mostly) by students at Floyd College in Rome, Georgia.
You may want to know what to expect from this magazine, and you would
not be alone. Staff members continue to ask what it is we are creating,
exactly. Will this type of writing fit in the magazine? How about these
photographs, these graphic designs? And the answer to their questions has
been the same in every case—yes, yes, and yes. Just as computers have
changed what we think of campus life here at Georgia Highlands College, and what we
think of course content, they also should alter expectations for a magazine
that will exist on the web.
Georgia Highlands College students already produce two hard-copy publications—the award-winning newspaper The Six Mile Post (which is going online soon) and the national literary magazine The Old Red Kimono. What we hope to offer in this and future issues of FC Bytes is journalism that does not easily fit into the Post, creative work that may not belong easily in the pages of the Kimono, and other types of work that clearly could not exist in any other medium.
In this issue, to name a few examples, we give you Wil Nix's fascinating (and lengthy) interview with biologist and environmentalist Dr. Michael Windelspecht. There is a series of articles assessing the impact of Floyd College's laptop project on student and faculty life. April Langford reviews two courses offered at Floyd. Marlena Cecil discusses the music scene in Rome. Brent Moore takes us on a search for Pez. Jacob Sullins has written the first segment of a collaborative novel. Sumer Lang has put together a collection of "found classifieds." You will find a page designed by Janice Cross as a tribute to her late brother, a Vietnam vet. Art guru Joel Ball has assembled an impressive gallery of work.
There is much more, but perhaps you begin to get a sense of the variety of our content. We want to provide a forum for a wide range of ideas, of art, of expression. Some of these ideas are specific to Georgia Highlands College—and others have much broader appeal. I hope the magazine can successfully defy easy definition.
Resist, then, your temptation to define the magazine. That is my advice to the staff—and to readers. It is what it is.
Jon Hershey
Faculty Advisor
| THE STAFF: | Joel Ball, Marlena Cecil, Glen Harris, Phillip Kemp, Sumer Lang, April Langford, Brent Moore, Wil Nix, and Jacob Sullins |
| WEBZINE DESIGN: | Joel Ball and Jeannie Blakely |
| GUEST CONTRIBUTORS: | Ruth Boyett, Charles D. Burrows, Don Crider, Janice Cross, Tim Dees, Eric Dempsey, Barrie Gibson, Valerie Gilbert, Christine Nichols, and Kelly Shane |
| FACULTY AND STAFF ADVISORS: | Jeannie Blakely, Steve Burns, Steve Head, Jon Hershey, Dale Suffridge |
| THANKS TO: | Sandy Briscar, Paul Clayton, Misty Galloway, Debbie Holmes, Rob Laltrello, Andrea Mathis, William Mugleston, ---and to Brett Senentz for inventing the name of the webzine |
This is an independent web site produced by students of Floyd College. The information and opinions found in this web site do not represent those of Georgia Highlands College or the University System of Georgia.