b'Planning for an ImprovedMicro-Transit in ValdostaMykaela S. Brown, Faith A. McFadden, Jamaceo R. Rhodes, Leroya R. Scott, and Ashlie D. Tolliver JonesSponsor: Dr. LuOn-demand transit has been popular in many cities and they provide a fundamental service for those who cannot afford personal transportation, especially the elderly and impoverished population who are left vulnerable without a means to travel.The city of Valdosta started a new on-demand transit in 2021 and it has had some successes and challenges. The objective of this project is to involve our students in the evaluation of the current on-demand transit system and make an improvement plan. We developed specialized surveys for the Valdosta transit system and interviewed planning and transit management officials in various cities throughout the U.S. who had implemented their own on-demand transit systems. Our analysis reveals some improvement ideas for on-demand transit. Improvement suggestions will be made to the Valdosta on-demand transit system along with specific strategies for implementation as well.Department of Philosophy and Religious StudiesEmbrace the Gray: inconsistencies in theories of the SelfJacob M. StevensonSponsor: Dr. JamesConcepts of the self have been explored in great depth by numerous thinkers across eras and cultures, naturally giving rise to widely varying interpretations. These depictions have often been pitted against each other in an all too binary fashion, especially in the field of anthropology. This common and recurring categorization, promoted notably by Clifford Geertz, distinctly separates the Western self from all other understandings.However, some scholars are in opposition to this idea on the grounds that every self is more complex and multi-faceted than is being conceded. In my paper, I attempt to connect this particular debate with the theories of self focusing primarily on Humes theory that what one claims is self is merely a bundle of perceptions. This concept appears to draw a direct parallel to the ideas proposed by modern anthropologists such as Katherine Ewing (1987), who proposes her own theory of the self that states there is no self to be found in the world.Instead, all humans are in a state of constant flux and indecision, rendering any proper identification of a singular, contingent self to be useless and incorrect. It is this connection and more that I will be discussing throughout this paper, using both an anthropological and philosophical understanding.51'