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www.redandblack.com Tuesday, January 19, 2010 Vol. 117, No. 85 | Athens, Georgia
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By TIFFANY STEVENSTHE RED & BLACK
Jean-Pierre Bourget is still waiting to hear from some of his family in Haiti.
Bourget, founder of the new cultural organization Haitian Students UGA, said Sunday afternoon he had still not heard from his aunt.
“I feel deeply for my people,” Bourget said.
He said though the earth-quake was devastating, the media attention the country is receiving would ultimately lead to some benefits.
“For a long time, Haiti has been ignored by the entire world. What this is doing is shining light on the many problems that the Haitian people are facing. It shows how behind Haiti is,” Bourget said. “People say this is one of the poorest countries, but
you don’t get a sense of that until you actually see it. It shows the inadequacies of the Haitian gov-ernment.”
In response to the global call for aid, University students are coming together to help those affected by the Jan. 12 earth-quake.
Dawgs for Haiti, a relief orga-nization created by Volunteer UGA in response to the earth-quake, is taking donations to be
divided between the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders.
“For this natural disaster, we thought bringing together the UGA community to serve the global community would be right alongside our ideals,” said Stephen Dorner, director of Dawgs for Haiti.
Dawgs for Haiti also hopes to reach out to the Athens commu-nity for donations and support.
“We’re distributing blue rib-
bons to local businesses, asking that local businesses ask their customers to donate a dollar that will be funneled into the UGA account,” Dorner said. “We’re pretty much trying to bring the entire UGA community together. So right now we’re pretty much just trying to get the word out to the entire community.”
Rasaan Wyzard, a fashion
See HAITI, Page 3
Haitian students fear for family back home
Former NFL coach hired as Georgia coordinator
By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK
Mark Richt’s exhaustive six-week search for a defensive coordi-nator finally came to a close last Friday with the hiring of former Cowboys defensive line coach Todd Grantham.
Richt said he didn’t want to handle the hire at “breakneck speed,” but, in the end, he believes that diligence paid off, saying “I believe we hit the jackpot.”
But with a jackpot-type hire also comes a hefty contract, as Grantham signed a three-year deal
worth $750,000 per year, which makes him the third-high-est paid assistant coach in college football.
Grantham’s hire represents a com-plete schematic makeover for the Georgia defense, as he brings a com-plete departure
from the Willie Martinez 4-3, bend-but-don’t-break style of defense, operating out of a 3-4 base which consists of three down linemen and four linebackers and relies heavily on the three down line-men.
“I look forward to developing an aggressive style of defense that all Bulldog fans across the country can be excited to watch,” said Grantham, who has worked under Alabama head coach Nick Saban and Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer. “I’m excited about the opportunity, and I’m looking forward to the challenges ahead.”
“We want to get after everybody we play,” Grantham said. “We want guys to be relentless every play. I think that want you want as a defense, after the game is over, the team you just played is happy
See HIRE, Page 6
LILY PRICE | The Red & Black
All of the jewelry and clothing at Blue Girl is picked to mirror what is found at jam band festivals.
By ANNA KRAKOVSKITHE RED & BLACK
Just anyone strolling down East Clayton Street would most likely pass by Blue Girl Boutique.
But the jam band lover across the street would probably walk through traffic just to browse. They would instantaneously real-ize the store name’s allusion to a famous Widespread Panic song.
Owned by two “Panic” aficiona-dos from South Carolina, Blue Girl
Boutique embodies everything jam.
“I’ve been to a lot of festivals, and it’s cool to see that kind of clothing at a place that’s more comparable in price than [Junkman’s Daughter],” said Tori Stevens, a third-year landscape architecture major from Athens. “I’ve been in the music scene for a while now, and it’s cool that this store centers around it.”
Amy Shaw, who runs the shop with her husband Brian, said she would get really frustrated because not everyone gets a chance to go to festivals, and there are certain types of clothing and jewelry that cannot be found in stores.
“I decided when I opened up this shop that I was going to bring Shakedown Street here, so people who can’t go on tours, whether it be because of school, kids or work, can get what they want to wear at a local store,” Shaw said.
According to Shaw, 90 percent of the clothing offered in this boho-hippie boutique is organic and made out of 100 percent recy-cled material. All of the jewelry is one-of-a-kind and hand-made, and the paintings and posters are dis-tinctive and hard to find anywhere else.
Shaw said she encourages local
See BLUE GIRL, Page 5
Blue Girl Boutique offers festival merchandise Boutique named for “Panic” Song
Todd Grantham to run defense
GRANTHAM By JENNIFER JOHNSONTHE RED & BLACK
Two Athens students are ready to run this town in 2010.
Athens-Clarke County has a University student and a Kaplan University student running for mayor, a first for the communi-ty.
Heidi Davison, the county’s current mayor, said she could not recall a student running for mayor in Athens-Clarke County.
“I think most of the races that have included student candidates have been for a District 4 Commission seat,” she said.
The candidates — Brandon Shinholser, a public administration and policy major at Kaplan University, and Glenn Stegall, a polit-ical science major from Douglas — both hope to gain support from the community and go on to serve the Athens-Clarke County area.
Zach Boronczyk, a broadcast journalism major from Valdosta, said he is concerned the candidates’ ages will hinder their ability to garner votes.
“I think it’s cool and will gather atten-
tion, but I honestly don’t think they’ll win,” Boronczyk said. “An older community will feel they’re too inexperienced, and most students will feel too apathetic to vote.”
Boronczyk said, for him, a younger face in the mayor’s seat could be good within reason, but he would like to see mayoral candidates who have been in a strong lead-ership role previously, whether in politics or otherwise.
When asked if there was a lot of adversity to overcome as a young candidate, Stegall said, “In general, a lot of people seem appre-hensive in the beginning, because it isn’t every day they see a student running, but once I begin talking about the issues my campaign is fighting for, they begin to see me as another qualified candidate.”
Shinholser and his committee also had to put forth extra effort to prove his credibili-ty.
“When we started off, a lot of people didn’t think we would have gotten as far as we have,” Shinholser said.
See CANDIDATE, Page 2
For mayoral candidates, age ain’t nothin’ but a number
DAY OF SERVICEWant to know how some
students decided to honor MLK? Look on page 2 to
find out about student volunteer efforts.
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PHOTOS BY LILY PRICE | PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY LAUREN BELLAMY | The Red & Black
Glenn Stegall (left) and Brandon Shinholser are the youngest candidates to run for mayor in Athens-Clarke County.
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2 | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | The Red & Black NEWS
By ADINA SOLOMONTHE RED & BLACK
With more volunteers than ever before, the Black Student Union said it considered its Martin Luther King, Jr. holi-day a dream come true.
“We really wanted to reach out to get a diverse variety of students to participate,” Josh Delaney, president of the Black Student Union, said.
Only 20 to 30 of the 60 stu-dents who volunteered with the Black Student Union were members of the organization.
According to LeMona Wyatt, vice president of the group, the 60 students were divided among three different projects.
One volunteer group helped out at the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia. Another beautified the Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens.
The third group helped clean up a local woman’s house. People had been using her backyard as a dumping ground for their trash, Wyatt said.
Even though they were working, the students enjoyed assisting others, she said.
“Everyone had a really great time,” Wyatt said.
According to Wyatt, there was a tremendous increase in volunteers this year as opposed to last year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Only 30 to 40 University stu-dents helped with the Black Student Union’s efforts last year, but this year, the group’s 60 spots were filled in two days.
People even signed a wait-ing list to volunteer.
Hands On Northeast Georgia, an organization that coordinated several volunteer projects for the holiday, filled
all of its volunteer slots at its project sites for Monday’s events.
Some might have been motivated by a free Disney ticket offered to volunteers.
“[The Disney ticket] was a great incentive to get people out there,” Wyatt said.
Both Wyatt and Delaney said they hope many students who lent a hand this year will do more than just return next year.
“We’re hoping this will be a gateway opportunity,” Delaney said, adding he hopes students use this experience as motiva-tion to serve more than once a year.
Delaney and Wyatt agreed that this day of service was productive.
“Today couldn’t have gone more perfectly — the weather, the turn-out… [It was] a huge success,” Delaney said.
Numbers climb for MLK volunteering
By DIANA PEREZTHE RED & BLACK
As the race for Georgia’s governor heats up, some stu-dents are doing more than just following the candidates — they are working for them.
Warren Mullis, a senior from Marietta, said he is in charge of the University campaign for DuBose Porter, a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives running for governor. Mullis said he works closely with 10 other students on campus to spread the word about Porter.
“DuBose is running a very grassroots campaign, and I’ve been volunteering with his campaign since September of last year,” Mullis said.
One of the students Mullis works with is Carter Bates, a senior majoring in internation-al affairs and a member of the State Executive Board for the Young Democrats. Bates said so far he has helped out with meetings, a tailgate and get-ting the word out at the University about Porter and
his campaign.“I think DuBose is the can-
didate who has done more for education than any other can-didate, and that’s why I’m working with his campaign now,” Bates said.
On the other side of the aisle, sophomore Brandon Howell, a political science major from Eastman, said he decided to intern with the Austin Scott campaign because he thought Scott was a “genuine politician” when the two met at a tailgate this past fall. He now heads the University’s “Dawgs for Scott” campaign.
Howell said he thought a politician would never care about a student’s concerns until he met Scott, a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives and a University alumnus.
“Austin is a candidate for the people, and students should come check him out since he isn’t that widely known,” Howell said.
Similarly, Mullis said he is
not bothered by Porter’s lower status in the polls.
“I feel like DuBose is the only Democrat who can win.” Mullis said. “DuBose is one of the few politicians who is real-ly against corruption in Georgia.”
Mullis said he will be look-ing forward to whomever becomes the next governor of Georgia.
“It’s a really interesting time in Georgia history right now. We just had our first Republican governor since Reconstruction, and now both parties are vying for the gover-nor seat,” he said.
Bates said he encourages all students to find a candi-date who best represents their values and beliefs and to get involved.
“Students should learn about the candidates because it will be a tight race in the primaries and will probably be a tight race in November, too,” he said. “It’s important who our next governor is, not just for students, but for the state.”
Governor election campaigns let students in on the action
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“We established our committee very early on, released press releases on the issues, and we were very out-spoken, and everything has worked to its potential simply because of how hard we worked.”
Asa Porter, a public relations major from Dublin, said he foresees benefits to having students in office.
“I think recently being a student helps out a lot because they have a lot of support from younger people,” Porter said. “It makes me feel as though age isn’t a barrier.”
According to Porter, having a younger perspective in office may bring attention to changes he would like to see.
Stegall addressed the need for students to be able to set them-selves apart in today’s competitive job market.
“As mayor, I would continue to build the relationship between the local government and the University,” Stegall said. “One example would be a city-wide internship program. Students often look for ways to get involved in the community, while also working hard to stand out in the job market. This program would help students earn valuable real-world experience, while they give back to their com-munity.”
Shinholser also has big plans for University students interested in strengthening their resumes.
“I will involve the University with improving education in Athens,” Shinholser said. “I plan to give stu-dents a chance to become a part of creating a stronger Athens.”
Davison said she is pleased to see citizens interested in potentially building on the initiatives she has started.
“I think it’s great that anybody has the desire to serve the commu-nity as a local official or something higher statewide, and I am gratified there are people who are interested in service,” Davison said. “I com-mend anyone who wants to run.”
Davison also offered advice for any other citizens, young or old, looking to get involved in the politi-cal process.
“They should get involved in community groups or government committees that have to do with government issues as a way to be more immersed in their local gov-ernment and build a network of individuals they can turn to,” Davison said. “I also advise them to start with a commission seat as opposed to mayor, but people can pursue whichever avenue they feel most strongly about, and I would not in any way discourage them.”
Stegall offered his own advice to students getting involved in the community.
“Responsibility doesn’t come with an age limit,” he said. “I encour-age young citizens to shake the world and try to change peoples’ lives as early as possible.”
CANDIDATE: ‘Responsibility does not come with an age limit’
LILY PRICE | The Red & Black
Glenn Stegall (left) and Brandon Shinholser (right) are both running for Athens-Clarke County mayor in 2010.
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merchandising major from Buford, said he first heard about the earthquake while at work.
“My friends all knew I was Haitian, so they texted me, asking if I had heard about what had happened,” Wyzard said. “Since I’d never heard about earth-quakes in Haiti, I just brushed it off until I saw it on the news. It was really, really depressing.”
Wyzard said he appreci-ates how students are com-ing together to aid those affected.
“I’m donating as much as I can,” he said.
DeeDee Sulmers, a freshman from Atlanta with family in Haiti, said she suggested the Black Affairs Council use one of its social events, the Unity Ball, to gather donations
for victim relief. The Unity Ball, on Jan. 23, will pro-vide donation boxes for clothing and food to Haiti.
“I think it’s really horri-ble, but I think it’s really
great how everyone is step-ping up to the plate,” Sulmers said.
Sulmers said she received word from her family in Haiti Friday after-
noon. “They called yesterday,
and said their homes are completely gone, but they’re fine,” Sulmers said. “My aunt works for the president, so she’s staying at his estate or some-thing.”
“I would suggest that [students donate] to the right people, and donate money. Money [is] better than supplies, because a lot of people are flying on private planes, and they have weight limits,” said Michelle Philippe, who is helping Dawgs for Haiti and the National Pan-Hellenic Council. “There are plenty of donation groups that are credible.”
Students can make donations on the Dawgs for Haiti Web site or purchase a Dawgs for Haiti T-shirt at the Tate Plaza beginning today.
HAITI: Students donate all they can for relief
By POLINA MARINOVA THE RED & BLACK
On a list populated by governors, secretaries of state and business leaders, two University administra-tors recently joined the ranks of Georgia’s most important people.
University president Michael Adams and Vice President for Research David Lee were declared two of the 100 most influential people by Georgia Trend Magazine. “Georgia’s Power List” includes peo-ple from government, business, poli-tics, education, the arts and non-profit organizations.
“They tend to be people who wield power and influence in the state,” said Susan Percy, editor of Georgia Trend Magazine and a University alumna. “Some of them are fairly high profile, like Gov. Sonny Perdue. We also try to find people who are less well-known but do important work behind the scenes.”
Percy said the process of how influential Georgians are chosen is rather flexible. The editorial staff meet over the summer to discuss who could qualify for the list. Then the staff members consult with one another until they all agree on who should be featured in the magazine. The recipients are then listed alpha-
betically in the January issue of the magazine.
“All of us have gotten in the habit of making written and mental notes of people who we think should be on the list,” Percy said.
The magazine recognized that under Adams’ leadership, student enrollment set an all-time high, and the University was able to raise $110.8 million in private gifts.
“I think UGA has advanced enormously under President Adams,” Lee said. “I think that we are sure-ly one of the better public universities in the country, and our inclusion in this list is yet another indicator of that.”
Adams was unavailable for com-ment, but Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Jere Morehead said this was a very posi-tive development for the University and a well-deserved honor for both Adams and Lee.
Adams has appeared on the list multiple times, but this is Lee’s first time to be recognized by the maga-zine.
“I’m passionate about wanting
our research to make a difference in the lives of Georgians,” Lee said. “I want to connect our research to the problems, issues and challenges that people face around the state.”
Lee oversees the research of more than 16 academic schools and col-leges across campus.
Along with his staff, he has also worked to advance the University’s research enterprise to further build upon bioenergy and health-related research.
“I hope that we will continue to do those things that fit well with the strengths of the University and meet important needs of our state and region,” Lee said.
However, Lee declined to take all of the credit for the honor.
He said his staff deserves to be recognized for their work because they are “terrific professionals who do a wonderful job of making me look good.”
Lee said he’s excited about receiv-ing this recognition.
“I’m very pleased to be honored in this way,” he said. “I’m also keenly aware that there are many folks who have been working hard to advance Georgia and the University for longer than I have. Many of them deserve this recognition as least as much, or perhaps more, than I do.”
Two University heads ‘Most Influential’
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Courtesy Jean-Pierre Bourget
The Zepherins, relatives to freshman Jean-Pierre Bourget, lost their home in the disaster.
I am a nursing student at Medical College of Georgia.
I travel to Haiti a few times a year and have felt the need to help out.
Since I can’t jump on a plane, I have contacted the organizations I travel with to Haiti. I also con-tacted the organization I use to ship packages to the country. They are both in desperate need of sup-plies.
Supplies gathered will be donated to Eternal Hope In Haiti.
They have a team leav-ing next week.
Supplies will also be donated to the missionar-ies in Port-Au-Prince who use Agape Flights.
Supplies will be collected Jan. 19-29, 2010.
The supplies we are collecting are:- Protein bars, granola bars or protein powder - Soap (bars only) - Flashlights with batter-ies or cranking - Plastic tablecloths to be used as tarps for makeshift shelters - Matches and candles - Gloves - Aspirin - Ibuprofen - Tylenol - Antibiotic ointment - Alcohol swabs - Hydrogen Peroxide - Bandages of any kind
Supplies and donations can be dropped off at:
Medical College of Georgia — School of Nursing at Athens.
It is located at 1905 Barnett Shoals Road Athens, GA 30605
(Located in the same shopping center as Locos and DePalmas.)
The supply drive will run from Jan. 19 through Jan. 29 at 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. during weekdays.
Donations would also be appreciated to help cover shipping costs.
Checks can be made payable to SGA Class of 2010 and dropped off or mailed to the above address.
For more information, e-mail [email protected].
LINDSAY MCLEARMCG Senior, Hoschton
Nursing
4 | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | The Red & Black
A random person asks, “Where are you from?” I already know what will follow. “I’m
from California,” I say dryly. “No, really, where are you from?”
I suck in air. “Cal-i-for-nia,” I repeat as if the person is hard of hearing.
“That’s not what I mean,” the stranger reiterates. “Where are your parents from?”
I get it. I sense what is really being said to me. I’m different. I must be from some other country and not really American. Not white, but not black either.
My presence confuses those around me, but not all. Some don’t think it necessary to know the race of the person they’re speaking to. Well, good luck if you can guess what racial category I fall into.
I am racially ambiguous. My mother is biracial. Her father was a black man from Mississippi and her mother was a red-haired woman from Burgundy, France. My father was Mexican.
When I came to UGA, I auto-matically felt out of place. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it at first, but I think it definitely needs to be talked about in the open.
This campus, in general, is racial-ly segregated. I’m not saying that students deliberately hang out with people of the same race. I’m saying it’s done subconsciously.
Most people here have lived in a neighborhood where the majority of people were white. Many people aren’t used to seeing someone who looks like me. My presence causes discomfort; people need to figure
me out.I wanted a group of friends but
couldn’t seem to grab on to one for some reason. I tried being more active by joining different clubs and going to different events on cam-pus.
There was little progress, so I joined a Latino student group because I felt that it was the domi-nating culture in my heritage.
“You’re Latina?” said someone I’d just met for the first time. “But you’re so dark!”
Should I apologize for not living up to the stereotype? The mes-sage is clear yet again — I don’t fit in here either. We all have identity issues. We are all at similar stages in our lives where we are trying to find out what it means to be us.
A lot of that identity is tied to race. When a person is racially ambiguous it becomes somewhat tougher to figure out what culture is your own.
The idea is that if you’re not white, you sure don’t want to be black. The closer your skin tone is to white the more value society will place on you. By saying you’re black when you don’t look it causes people to see you as deviant, as not understanding the racial makeup of society.
“You’re grandfather was black?!” says a person I thought was my
friend. “I never would have guessed that you had an ounce of black in you.”
Being a racial minority is about mobility. It is about what obstacles are placed in your way not because of who you are but because of what you look like. People on campus have no qualms about blatantly staring at me.
I can feel completely invisible and highly visible at the same time. It’s about serving as a representa-tive for your race without excep-tion.
When your identity is related to multiple races, which should you represent? Does my being black make me any less white or any less Mexican?
People will say I’m half Mexican, or I’m a quarter white. Sorry to tell you this, but I am a whole person. I want to be a whole person even though many around me want me to act how they feel I should act; either white, black or Mexican but never a combination.
There may not be too many multiracial people on campus, but there are some, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way.
Why is it necessary to place a label on people based on their skin tone?
Categorizing people by race allows for prejudice and assump-tions about one’s character to seep in to any given conversation. It only hinders, it never helps.
— Crystal Villarreal is a senior from Jonesboro majoring in Magazines
and women’s studies.
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This past Saturday morning, a tour bus drove through South Central in Los Angeles.
It was its first time on the route, with stops like Skid Row and the L.A. County Jail. It was the launch of L.A. Gang Tours.
Founded by an ex-gang member turned social activist, Alfred Lomas, the tour’s mission is to “provide customers with a true, first-hand encounter of the history and origin of high profile gang areas,” accord-ing to its Web site.
The tour has 12 stops, including places that have been featured in movies or that have been host to riots or violence.
The site goes on to explain that each tour will be equipped with “a guide from the South Central areas who has gained hands-on knowl-edge and experience of the inner city lifestyle.”
The inner city lifestyle? How exciting! Intriguing! I hope there’s blood and guts involved!
It’s a worrisome prospect, to say the least.
In an age where we can com-municate and travel such vast distances, where information is flowing unfiltered and endlessly, it’s disappointing to see such a leap backwards in the dialogue between different cultures.
For only $65, take a walk in someone else’s shoes and see how the other half lives. It’s condescend-ing.
I doubt anyone could be con-vinced that a two-hour tour could encapsulate the life of one gang
member, let alone entire sections of the South Central community. The tour doesn’t claim to speak for thousands, but then what does it claim to represent?
It doesn’t represent gangs or South Central or Los Angeles as a whole. It seems to represent some-thing larger, somehow. As guests ride on a bus through an impov-erished city, listening to ex-gang members recall their pasts, it repre-sents a country of voyeurs.
These tour groups are the type of people who rubberneck as they drive past car crashes. They want to experience and romanticize a life in poverty surrounded by violence. What a luxury, to dissect the inner-city from a sanitized perch.
What is there left to exploit? Let’s just walk through hospitals,
gawking at patients hooked up to life machines.
Let’s set up bleachers in war zones and fill them with history buffs to watch gunfights.
I begin to imagine someone tak-ing tour groups through tent city on the Eastside or through the crime-ridden neighborhood of Stonehenge on the Westside of Athens.
As a student in a community afflicted by poverty, it’s odd to hear of people wanting to watch a prob-lem, instead of struggling to find a
solution. Athens is, of course, not South
Central. There is no comparison. But I feel it is universal to not
want guests in your hometown who are there to satisfy a gross fascina-tion and to pity those they deem less fortunate than themselves.
There is an argument for the tour. Its goal is to raise money and then give back to the community it drives through on Saturday morn-ings once a month.
The slogan of LA Gang Tours is “saving lives, creating jobs, rebuild-ing communities.” The company hopes to disseminate both money and information about gangs throughout South Central.
That is noble, wanting to edu-cate the public on a serious prob-lem while earning funding for vari-ous projects.
I don’t know if the ends justify the means, though. It’s troubling in the singular, but this brand of eth-ics spreading is much more terrify-ing. I don’t live in South Central, so I don’t know what the cost-benefit would be for one of its regular citi-zens.
However, I do know that dehu-manizing gangs and their victims by making them into a sideshow attraction will not lead to greater understanding, peace or progress in South Central.
If that is the goal, then Lomas and his voyeuristic tour have already failed.
— Lisa Glaser is a contributing sportswriter for The Red & Black.
Tour bus dehumanizes poor communityLISA GLASER
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On any given night, Athens has plenty of live music to choose from. But, if you’re looking for something that sounds like a chain saw being dropped into a fish tank, a honky-tonk David Bowie, Darwinian evolutionary rock-and-roll or ’70’s coun-try, Futurebirds – playing with Corndawg – may be your best bet. Tonight will be Futurebirds’ first per-formance as part of a three-show residency at Tasty World Uptown, fol-lowed by shows on Feb. 2 and Feb. 16.
“We’re going to be in and out of the studio for most of the time we’re going to be doing that res-idency, so we’re hopefully going to be playing a lot of the new stuff, songs, try-ing them out,” Thomas Johnson, who plays guitar, banjo and mandolin, said.
Futurebirds recorded its previous EP in just a few days and released it itself, but the band mem-bers wanted to spend a little more time perfecting the new songs.
“We wanted to try out a lot of the stuff, the new songs, play them live and see how they translate,” Johnson said. “Because a lot of times … what you play in the studio doesn’t necessarily come out live the way you want it to.”
Since Futurebirds is made up of six members, most of whom play more than one instrument, they all collaborate to write songs.
The members of
Futurebirds said they all had different musical influences, and offered dif-ferent descriptions for their music.
Bradford said their music had been compared to “a chainsaw being dropped into a tropical fish tank,” and member Carter King said Futurebirds had been lik-ened to a “honky-tonk David Bowie.”
Bradford, playing with the idea of “futurebirds,” joked that the group is “Darwinian rock-and-roll.”
To balance out the show tonight, Futurebirds will be joined by Jonny Corndawg, who plays what he calls “’70’s coun-try.”
His real name is Jonny Fritz, but his stage name came from a drunken mis-
understanding and has stuck with him ever since.
“It’s a bummer, because I was wearing a hat that said ‘Porndog’ when I was 16, and it was misinter-preted by a bunch of drunks,” he said.
He said he’s tried to get away from the name Corndawg, but when he booked a tour as Jonny Fritz, people still knew him by his stage name.
“Johnny Hartford said, ‘Be careful what you become famous for,’ and I think of that every time I play a show,” he said.
Whichever name he goes by, Jonny Corndawg is a solo act from Nashville who, after dropping out of school in 2001, has trav-eled across the country on his motorcycle and played shows across the United States and Canada.
“My show is pretty interactive,” he said. “I like to try to give people their money’s worth.”
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artists and jewelry mak-ers to come in and apply to sell their creations.
“There’s not a store specifically geared to what we have,” Shaw said. “I think Athens, with so many music lov-ers, eco-friendly people and hippies, needed a place like this.”
The Shaws share a love for music and have made it their mission to encourage their patrons to see more live shows. As incentive, they offer 10% off an item if a cus-tomer presents his or her ticket stub within two weeks of the show.
In addition to the dis-count, customers also have the option of donat-ing a dollar to the Michael Houser founda-tion, named after Widespread Panic’s gui-tarist who died in 2002 of
pancreatic cancer. Shaw said Blue Girl
will enter the donor’s name in a drawing for a signed poster that was donated by Brown Cat, Widespread Panic’s man-agement company. Last Thursday, Blvd. Magazine helped the boutique throw a ribbon cutting ceremony with free food, live music and door priz-es.
Kristen Rachels, Blvd.’s director and alum-nus of the University, said pieces from Blue Girl Boutique will be featured in the magazine’s annual fashion show as well as in the spring issue, which is due to come out in late February.
“They’re one of our partners, so we’ll help them out in any way pos-sible,” Rachels said.
Blue Girl Boutique is located on 351 E. Clayton Street.
BLUE GIRL: Boutique promotes live music Futurebirds begin residency with Corndawg
By BEN BUSSARDTHE RED & BLACK
Will the real Georgia women’s bas-ketball team please stand up?
The 8th-ranked Lady Dogs (17-1, 4-1) avenged their first loss of the season Sunday with a 73-63 victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks (8-10, 0-5) in Fayetteville, Ark.
With a 70-45 lead at the 5:14 mark of the second half, head coach Andy Landers cleared his bench allowing an overmatched Razorback squad to go on a 18-3 run.
Despite the late run by Arkansas, Landers was pleased with his team’s effort following their first loss.
“Anytime you can go on the road and win in this league it’s a great, great thing,” Landers said. “It’s an important win because it keeps us near the top and in the Southeastern Conference Championship race, which is where we want to be. We haven’t bottomed out, but you never
know what back-to-back losses would do to you emotionally, so we avoided that.”
The record 16-0 start for Landers’ team may have hid-den some key under-lying deficiencies that he and the rest of the coaching staff have been unable to prop-erly address, therefore the issues lingered.
“We’ve known we weren’t efficient offen-sively and that’s just something that we say we’re working on, but I really don’t think we’re working on it individually as hard as we need to,” Landers said.
The statistics back up those com-ments, as the Lady Dogs rank 152nd in the country in field goal percent-age (39.9), 138th in points per game (65.8) and 74th in turnovers per game (16.6).
“Basketball players on the college level, they all think they’re good [and] it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re not good when you average 60 points,” Landers said. “But it does
mean that you’re not very good at playing with other players and mak-ing good things happen.”
But the focus for Landers has been on the defensive side of the court and taking away second chance scoring opportunities for the opposition.
The Lady Dogs’ defensive prowess has been stellar all season, as Georgia ranks 4th in the country in oppo-nents field goal percentage (33.1), 6th in opponents points per game (51.7) and 11th in blocks per game (5.9).
Georgia’s defensive effort is the key to its success so far in the 2009-10 season, but unless the Lady Dogs can find a way to put more points on the scoreboard they may not be a legitimate contender for the SEC Championship or a deep NCAA Tournament run.
“We gotta remain focused on the importance of being outstanding on the defensive end,” Landers said. “I think we need to remain focused on the importance of rebounding the basketball, yet I also think we gotta spend a little bit more focus on the effort that it takes to get better offen-sively.”
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6 | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | The Red & Black SPORTS
By MICHAEL FITZPATRICKTHE RED & BLACK
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Put simply, the Georgia gymnastics team had a rough day in Friday’s 196.275-195.5 loss to Alabama at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Three freshmen in the floor rotation, seven scores below 9.7 and three falls from upperclassmen showed Georgia head coach Jay Clark what kind of team he has on his hands.
“We are not a very mature team right now,” he said. “We keep seeing immature mistakes and keep seeing things that we need to grow up on because what we are doing in meets is not indicative of what we are doing in the gym.”
Senior Courtney McCool felt an unset-tling sense of concern when her team-mates were struggling before the meet
even started.“In warm-ups people were shaky, and I
looked at [freshman Christa Tanella] and said, ‘Where are you? I don’t see you,’” McCool said, “and she said, ‘I’m coming’ and I said, ‘I’ll give you a minute before I kick your butt — you better get out here.’”
No. 10 Georgia hung around with then-No. 4 Alabama (2-0, 2-0), trailing the hosts by .025 after the two rotations until Georgia came undone on the floor. With senior Grace Taylor sidelined by a respira-tory infection, three freshmen competed on floor, with Tanella making her colle-giate debut.
Their youth showed, as Georgia scored a mediocre 48.475 on the floor.
“I think floor was a fight, and I think a lot of people made really good strides on floor,” McCool said. “I still don’t feel what
we showed here is what we do in practice, and tonight was a shadow of when we practice.”
The Gym Dogs aren’t taking their loss badly — in fact, they are turning it into a positive and finding the silver lining.
“This is a growing expe-rience,” Taylor said. “Honestly, I don’t feel like
this was a catastrophe from our end because a lot of good things happened today. There are definitely places where we didn’t perform to our potential, and everybody on our team knows that, but we didn’t let this get away from us. We fought hard every step of the way and ... a lot of good things [are] happening right now.”
Added McCool: “I think this is good for the freshmen because last week, even though we pulled out a win, it was a win. I think when you lose, and you lose pretty damn good, it hits you harder than a squeeze-out win. We lost pretty good, and I think that hits the freshmen harder.”
The Gym Dogs aren’t perfect, but if winning five consecutive NCAA titles has taught them anything it’s that the first few meets mean little in the long run.
“There’s no panic button here,” Clark said. “We have been through worse things than this before. Even in this five-year run when we win championships, they forget the meets we lost and went 195 last year at N.C. State. Those things are going to happen and we are not panicked. We know that we have a team capable of win-ning a championship and that continues to be our goal.”
Gym Dogs ‘not panicked’ despite loss at Alabama
By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK
For the first 35 minutes of the Georgia men’s basketball team’s loss Saturday at Mississippi State, the turnovers that have plagued them all season appeared a thing of the past.
Then they resurfaced in a big way, with five of their 15 turn-overs coming in the final five minutes, causing them to blow a 13-point lead in a matter of 90 seconds and costing them a third consecutive game in SEC play.
“We did not handle the press well late and coughed it up, and they capitalized on it,” a frus-trated head coach Mark Fox said after the loss to Mississippi State.
“We just had some crucial errors late in the game. But I was proud of our kids for competing as hard as they did.”
Georgia’s inability to handle the press has become a common mantra for each of their losses, as they are last in the league in turnover margin (-7) in confer-ence play by a full four turn-overs.
The disparity in free throw attempts on the road in league play is also a consistent theme, despite Georgia’s attempting more shots from the line than their opponent in each of their four road non-conference losses.
But that’s been a dramatically
different story in SEC road losses against Kentucky and Mississippi State, where Georgia opponents have averaged 17 more attempts from the charity stripe.
“I better just keep my mouth shut [on that],” said Fox after being asked the impact of having
three post players foul out in the Kentucky game.
The Mississippi State game was a similar story, as Georgia attempt-ed 12 more shots from the field than Mississippi State.
Georgia domi-nated the
Bulldogs from Mississippi in points in the paint and forced more perimeter shots by Mississippi State as they took 31 3-point shots.
All those factors should have led to more attempts for Georgia. Not the other way around.
So is Fox — being a new coach in the SEC — not receiving the respect he deserves on the side-lines from the officials, or is Georgia’s persistence on getting the ball inside not being reward-ed on the road?
Whatever it is, Fox knows he needs to figure it out fast.
“We just couldn’t get to the free throw line again,” Fox said after the Mississippi State loss. “We have to figure out how to get to the line more than we are, and I’m not sure how we’re going to do that, but we’ll work hard to figure out a solution.”
Turnovers continue to plague DogsBY THE NUMBERS:
• Georgia’s 26 turnovers
cost them a road win over
undefeated Kentucky, and
the Dogs rank dead last in
the SEC on the season in
turnover margin, giving up
2.81 more turnovers a game
than their opponent. Georgia
is currently ranked 302 out
of 334 teams in the nation
in turnover margin. On the
positive side, they are aver-aging two less turnovers per
game this season than last
season.
• Georgia is impressive at
the charity stripe, shooting
a league-best 72% on the
year as a team, but they
haven’t shot enough of them
— especially on the road. In
their two SEC games as visi-tors, their opponent has shot
a combined 34 more tries
from line. For a team that
struggles offensively at times
(11th in the SEC in scoring),
averaging only 66.6 points a
game, more freebies at the
foul line could have gone a
long way towards a 2-1 SEC
start instead of another 0-3.
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that they don’t have to play you anymore.”
“I’ve seen a lot of it in the NFL,” senior linebacker Darryl Gamble said of the 3-4 scheme, “and it’s a pretty aggressive defense, and a lot of good pass rushers come out of the 3-4. From what I’ve seen, it has been very productive getting guys to the ball, and I think it’s a good defense to run.”
Grantham will coach the inside linebackers in addition to filling his duties as defensive coordinator, and it appears retained defensive tackles coach Rodney Garner will remain on the staff. Grantham says he does not know Rodney but has heard good things about him.
Richt says he was interested in pursuing Grantham from the start, but was more reassured after talking with his brother-in-law Brad Johnson — who played quarterback for the Cowboys last season — as Johnson “gave me a little more peace that this was the right man.”
“I know this process took a little while, but, in the end ... I’m 100 percent certain of that and 100 percent confident in Todd’s ability to get the job done here,” Richt said.
Lakatos Hired to Coach Secondary
Richt said at the start of the
defensive coordinator search that whomever he hired would have a major say in filling out the rest of the defensive staff.
And Richt stayed true to his word, announcing the hiring of Scott Lakatos as secondary coach Monday, who comes to Georgia after spending six years as defensive backs coach at UConn.
“We’re very pleased that Scott has accepted the offer to join our defensive staff,” Richt said. “He has an outstanding résumé of success over the course of his career and will bring a great deal of experience and expertise to our coaching staff.”
The connection to Lakatos, however, comes from Grantham, a long-time friend of Lakatos. Their 15-year friendship was ini-tiated when Lakatos — then a graduate assistant at Syracuse — used to take trips down to Virginia Tech to learn from their defensive staff, in which Grantham served as defensive line coach.
“I’m very, very excited to come to the University of Georgia,” Lakatos said. “The passion you have for football down here is very exciting to me. I’m looking forward to work-ing with Todd, who is a very good friend of mine. We’re excit-ed to get down there and start competing in that conference and expressing the passion that we have for this game.”
HIRE: Former UConn coach to join defensive staff
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