"Project Stop"

A Day With Susan Still



Today was a very interesting day at Paine College. I had the opportunity to attend "Project Stop", its a event that's held to prevent domestic abuse in homes, school, or relationships. The event was held in the chapel, where we had the honor to see and hear one of the strongest women in Women's Right Activist, this particular individual has suffered verbal and physical abuse while being recorded by her 13 year old son.



After being abused for several years and months she now has a story to tell about her abuse and how she suffered, now she speaks as a woman who has overcome domestic violence from her former husband Ulner Still. Susan Still born 1964, New York state is an American women's rights activist who escaped a decade-long abusive relationship with former husband Ulner Lee Still.

Paine College Constitution Day

Paine College’s Annual Constitution Day was held September 17, 2008 with the theme: “A Living Constitution for a Living Democracy” at Gilbert Lambuth Memorial Chapel. Constitution was addressed by Dr. Sudah Ratan, Chair of the Department of Political Science of Augusta State University. The service focused on how students should understand their constitutional rights and take advantage of their rights pertaining to constitutional by-laws. “How can you hold government accountable if you do not understand constitutional rights,” said Dr. Ratan.

May of 1787 fifty-five men met in Pennsylvania to revise and construct America’s first constitution, the Articles of Confederations. These men were patriots and most were committed to the idea that government must rest on the consent of the governed. They feared that ordinary people, if given ready access to power, would enact policies against the interest of privileged class, and thus the nation as a whole. It was this milieu that a group of men decided that a new document was needed for American government, and they wrote the Constitution of the United States of America which embodies theses principles of federalism, separation of powers, and a separate judiciary branch of government.

In examining the Constitution of the United States, which is the most perfect constitution that ever existed, one is startled at the variety of information and the amount of discernment that it presupposes in the whom it is meant to govern.

The government of the Union depends almost entirely upon legal fictions; the Union is an ideal nation, which exists, so to speak, only in the mind, and whose limits and extent can only be discerned by the understanding. “The whole structure of the government is artificial and conventional, and it would be ill adaptd to a people which has not been long accustomed to conduct its own affairs, or to one in which the science of politics has not descended to the humblest classes of society” Alexis DE Tocqueville stated in Democracy in America.

The program was constructed by current Student Government Association President Daviea Flowers. She stated “It’s important for students to understand constitutional rights because it unites America together by law, these are our rights.”