By KATIE VALENTINETHE RED & BLACK

The number of students admitted into the Foundation Fellows pro-gram has been lower than average over the past two years, but program admin-istrators are confident it will rise again.

On average, the Foundation Fellowship — one of the University’s top academic scholarships — is offered to 20 freshmen stu-dents each fall. Last year, however, 11 first-year stu-dents were admitted, and this year 15 joined the pro-gram. David Williams, director of the Honors Program and Foundation Fellows, said the state of the economy was to blame.

“The Foundation Fellowship budget is fund-ed by private dollars, not state money,” he said. “The state budget doesn’t impact the Foundation Fellows budget, but the economy over the last few years has lead to endow-ments being reduced in overall size.”

The budget is comprised of money from several pri-vate donors, the largest single amount being a multi-million dollar gift from Bernard Ramsey. Williams said instead of cutting back on the bene-fits Foundation Fellows receive, the University admitted fewer Fellows to

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He was the first one shot.

1st Lt. Bobby Woods, a 2008 graduate with a dou-ble degree in psychology and criminal justice, was on patrol with his platoon outside of Kandahar, Afghanistan when the group was ambushed.

“He pulled out his own bandage and wrapped up his head,” said Lt. Col. John Fickel, a professor of military science. “He led the rest of the platoon as they defeated the ambush,

and then conducted the medevac.”

But Woods did not evac-uate with the other wound-ed men.

“He led back the rest of the platoon to base before he got medical treatment,” Fickel said.

The ambush happened on Aug. 7, and Woods’ mother learned about it the following day.

Nadine Woods was on her way home from vaca-tioning in upstate Michigan when she said she received the worst call of her life.

Her son had been seri-ously wounded in combat.

He been had shot in the head — by a sniper. The bullet entered his skull two inches above his left eye socket, where it fragment-ed and shattered the bone behind his forehead.

“The next four hours were the most miserable four hours of my life,” Nadine said. “I didn’t know if he was alive or not, or if he’d make it.”

After painful hours of no contact, Nadine heard word from relatives in the region that Bobby was sta-ble and at the Bagram Air Base.

Shortly after hearing

that news, the Woods fami-ly received official word from the Army about Bobby’s condition.

“After that first four hours, I’ve really been OK,” she said. “The tougher side of me took over and said ‘well if he’s OK, he’s a fight-er. He’s going to be all right.’”

After removing the bul-let from his skull, doctors believed Bobby’s left eye suffered a detached retina, and they said it was imper-ative for him to get back to the United States to save

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Alumnus ambushed and shot in Afghanistan

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Alumnus Bobby Woods, left, with his brother.

CHARLES RYAN BARBER | The Red & Black

Come What May’s performance tonight at the Caledonia Lounge will be the band’s first Athens show in six months.

By PATRICK HOOPERTHE RED & BLACK

There’s more to the down-town music scene than poppy-electronic, hipster bands and cheap beer.

Coming off a recent Southeastern tour, Athens’ own Come What May will perform at the Caledonia Lounge tonight, bringing with them a slew of new material.

Having recently played in Savannah, the guys described the claustrophobia that came

with playing at an arm’s length away from the fans.

“It wasn’t a basement,” said guitarist and vocalist Jack Fowler. “It was a cave.”

Drummer Patrick Farace, a finance major from Hinesvile, said it was the sweatiest he had ever been.

The homecoming serves as a period of transition for the band, which will continue tour-ing in the Southeast before moving back into the studio.

“In the next coming months, we’re going to be playing not quite as often,” Farace said.

The quintet has high hopes of performing a full tour of the East Coast by the end of the summer.

“We’ve had a pretty steady following,” said vocalist and key-boardist Timothy Watts, a health promotion major from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

With a gamut of influences including Emery, Thrice and The Fall of Troy, Watts described the band’s style as highly adaptable, which seems to be a key to its success.

“There aren’t many bands of our stripe around town,” said lead guitarist Evan Cerwonka, aphilosophy major out of Jacksonville. “We all have a base of music we like listening to, but we all have our own taste.”

Watts described their

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It is 8,360 miles from Pretoria, South Africa, to Athens, Ga. This distance is palpable for any 17-year-old freshman —

as Pretoria native Georgia tennis recruit Hernus Pieters can attest. But it has yet to faze Pieters, who joined seven new recruits for the men’s tennis squad earlier this month and became the team’s third international player.

“In the first week that I’ve been here I’ve already realized that this was a very good decision,” said Pieters, who is now the No. 1-ranked U-18 player in South Africa. “The tennis should be a lot stronger, so I’m going to get an opportunity to test myself against better players than what I would have normally done if I’d stayed in South Africa.”

It isn’t particularly out of the ordinary for coach Manuel Diaz to have three international players on a squad of 11. However, international players usually arrive in Athens under a different set of circumstances than their domestic counterparts.

Although Diaz and his staff extensively scout junior tennis

tournaments nationwide, they rely more on their international connections to bring those players to Georgia.

“I have done very little active recruiting internationally. You have budget constraints, it’s more costly,” Diaz said. “At the same time, the pattern is more of a worldwide net that every-body’s trying to cast now.”

In Pieters’ case, the connection was Tracy Chappell, a coach

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Students charged with shoplifting

Two University students were arrested and charged with shoplifting from Wal-Mart Monday at about 7:40 p.m., according to an Athens-Clarke County police report.

Charles Ramone Gunn, 18, and Anthony Mitchell, 19, attempted to steal a memory card and two men’s shirts from the Wal-Mart on the 4300 block of Lexington Road, according to the report.

The shoplifting charge marks the second arrest in Athens-Clarke County for Mitchell, who was arrested by University police on Jan. 24 and charged with possession of marijuana.

Gunn and Mitchell were transported to Clarke County Jail Monday.

Burglar breaks into greenhouse

A burglary occurred at the Department of Botany’s greenhouses between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, according to a University police report.

Michael Boyd, horticul-ture research specialist for the University, told police that between noon Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday some-one had ripped a window screen and crawled through a window into a room in Greenhouse 6.

Boyd said he was unable to determine if any-thing had been taken, according to the report.

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conserve funds.“We invited 50 or 55 stu-

dents to our interview weekend instead of about 70,” he said. “We are actu-ally at or above the num-ber that were admitted for many years; only in a strong economy we went up to the 20 or so mark.”

The average cost to the University for both an in-state and out-of-state Foundation Fellow for the 2011 fiscal year is $24,684. This number takes into account the scholarship stipend that Fellows receive as well as travel costs for study abroad

opportunities. First year Foundation Fellows study abroad in Oxford, England, for a month over the sum-mer, and all Foundation Fellows participate in year-ly spring break travel-study programs.

For Clara Nibbelink, a freshman Foundation Fellow from Athens, the smaller size of her class isn’t an issue.

“The size is perfect right now,” she said. “There are enough people that there is diversity, but you’re close enough to where you get to know everyone.”

Derek Ponticelli, a soph-omore fellow from Marietta, said the size of his class had some benefits.

“We’re a tight-knit group, and there’s not as large of an opportunity to form cliques,” he said.

Foundation Fellows are assigned “Big Fellows” as freshmen, and these older students act as mentors and friends to the younger students. Usually, there is only one Big Fellow assigned to every fresh-man, but because of Ponticelli’s small class size, each student was able to receive extra attention.

“Since our class is small, we each get two Big Fellows, who are two really great resources and friends,” he said.

Though smaller class sizes haven’t negatively affected the Foundation Fellows, Williams said he is confident the program can return to its former size over the next few years.

“The program is very healthy, and is climbing back to its full capacity,” he said. “I feel very confi-dent about its financial stability.”

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Student Government Association kicked off its year commending the new athletic director and vice president for instruction at the first Senate meeting Tuesday, but President Josh Delaney has several more far-reaching initia-tives to tackle.

When University and Athletic Association offi-cials meet to discuss tail-gating after the first home

football game Sept. 4, Delaney will be there offer-ing student input.

“I want their actions to be preventative, not puni-tive,” he said.

Delaney also wants to include more student dis-cussion about mandatory fees by involving students when various units around campus submit their fee proposals.

Delaney said he wants half the group that decides on fees to be students.

Also, Delaney said he

and the Georgia Tech SGA president will present a proposal to other mem-bers of the University System of Georgia Student Advisory Council to create a speaker position for the group. The speaker would officially relay opinions to the Board of Regents.

The SGA Senate meet-ing also approved its year-ly budget, which is about $12,000 less than last year’s budget.

SGA still needs appli-cants for its Freshman

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Applications are due to Garrett 4 p.m. Tuesday.

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Traditional movie rental stores are facing off against new players on the video scene — and in Athens, the battle isn’t over yet.

With companies such as Blockbuster closing franchis-es across the country, some may wonder what will become of Athens’ own rent-al stores when competing with popular suppliers such as Netflix and redbox.

Jeremy Long, manager of Vision Video on Broad Street, said he isn’t too worried.

“We’re still busy,” Long said.

According to Long, cus-tomers shop at both Vision Video and Netflix because they purchase different mov-ies at each venue. He said profits still equaled those of the days prior to Netflix and redbox.

“We’re really a college video store,” Long said. “I don’t see Netflix as really competing with us.”

Kristina Smith, a second-year pharmacy student from Ellijay, said though she “loves” Vision Video, she watches movies from Netflix more frequently — a few times a week as opposed to once every few weeks when she rents from Vision Video.

“I watch Netflix more often because of the ease of it,” Smith said. “I can just sit on the couch and scroll through the videos.”

Wade Edwards, a first-year in the College of Veterinary Medicine from Marietta, said he watches movies from Netflix four to five times per week, almost never renting movies from a store.

“A lot of times when you go to video stores, you can’t find what you’re looking for,” Edwards said. “I think I’ve

been to Vision Video about twice in my undergraduate years.”

Although Smith and Edwards both use Netflix more than any other service, neither named it as the most popular way for college stu-dents to rent movies.

“For Athens, it’s probably Vision Video, but for most college towns, it’s probably redbox,” Smith said.

She said redbox is “hurt-ing” video stores because students like the ease of not registering with a store or service.

Edwards, who used red-box before he discovered Netflix, said redbox is good as long as the customer returns the movie the next day.

He said he believes the service wins as college stu-dents’ top movie rental choice.

In contrast, movie rental stores will become a thing of the past, Edwards said.

“I know in my hometown, video stores close left and right,” he said. “I think video stores are on their way out.”

Smith expressed a differ-ent opinion, saying rental stores will last a long time despite the advent of Netflix and redbox.

“Video stores are probably good wherever they are,” Smith said. “I think they’ll stay around for a while.”

Long also said Netflix won’t send rental stores into extinction.

He said Vision Video has been more successful than Blockbuster over the past few years. He attributed this success to the store offering an array of older films and a program that allows the cus-tomer to pay $5 for five mov-ies for one week.

“As long as there are video nerds, there will be video stores,” Long said.

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his eye, Nadine said. Bobby’s retina was not

detached in his eye, but after leaving Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan he was flown to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

At Landstuhl, doctors continued to watch him by using internal monitors to record his cranial pres-sure.

Officials held a plane from its scheduled depar-ture for two and a half hours so Bobby could make the flight from Landstuhl to Washington, D.C., where he is now in recovery at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

On Aug. 12 — five days after he was shot — Bobby underwent eight hours of brain surgery.

After removing a por-tion of his skull, his brain has the room it needs to swell, Nadine said.

Keeping the bone from his skull, doctors plan on using it to grow more bone for when Bobby goes through plastic surgery six months from now.

“Right now he’s got a scar, a huge scar that runs from one ear all the way across his head to the other ear,” Nadine said. “He got up [Monday], for the first time — walked around a little bit. He’s made an amazing physical recovery.”

Adam McDonald, a past roommate of Bobby’s and Sigma Nu fraternity broth-er, receives constant updates on Bobby’s condi-tion.

“Ninety-four percent of all head wounds from war are fatal,” McDonald said. “Those who do survive come back with a 6-year-old level, brain-wise.”

McDonald said doctors believe Bobby will suffer a slight speech impediment and have limited sight in his left eye, if any sight at all.

Bobby’s 25th birthday was spent recovering from his major surgery, McDonald said.

Sigma Nu Fraternity President Buck Dixon, a senior political science major from Monroe, has known Bobby four years, and he said Bobby is the one who brought him to the organization.

“He’s always been an example,” Dixon said. “Bobby is an extremely strong individual. Service is in his blood — he cer-tainly puts everyone else above himself. That’s really illustrated by the fact that rather than going off to the workforce and making tons of money, he chose to serve our country and fight.”

Dixon said Bobby would never be the type of person who would accept sympa-thy for something like this.

“He had a job to do, and he knew the risk of that job,” Dixon said. “He was strong enough and strong-willed enough to do it. If he makes a full recovery, he’ll be chomping at the bit to get back over there and finish the job.”

Dixon said the University ROTC cadets are planning a trip to see Bobby once he’s ready to receive visitors. Fickel con-firmed the plans.

“This is the first time that I’ve personally known someone who has been in combat and has been wounded,” Dixon said. “It certainly changed my entire outlook on the entire situation when it’s made that personal. I’ve never heard an ill word spoken about him — he’s doing something right now that most of us aren’t willing to do.”

Despite the trauma, Nadine remains optimistic for her son.

“He’s very determined, and I think that’s why he’s going to get through this,” she said. “He’s an Airborne Ranger, which is the tough-est training that the Army has, but he’s really just a people person. I never real-ized how many people he knew until this happened, he’s had so many friends fly here already — he’s the kind of person that really shows concern for other people, and they really show concern for him.”

SOLDIER: Friends display support

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Stop hatred toward Islam Be sensitive to 9/11 fears

On September 11, 2001, a small band of Muslim extrem-

ists shocked this nation with a horrid act of villainy and evil. This was not an act representative of Muslims worldwide.

Why, then, is it increas-ingly acceptable for people to unceremoniously lump all who claim to be Christians under the same libelous banner of hate?

Charles Hicks’ com-ments, though possibly hinting at naivety, were not laced with hatred or anger. They were written to a passive Christian audience that has forgot-ten what the message of love is about. He spoke to a column of believers who want to show love, but have forgotten how.

The fundamentalists who would bomb abortion clinics, protest the funer-als of soldiers and mock those suffering with AIDS because of their sexuality do not represent that.

The extremists who attacked our country and continue to deprive women of basic rights do not represent that.

This week, we have seen numerous articles speaking for this or against that. In each one, however, the same two problems tend to arise.

First, we are constantly shouting at one another as “the other side” in this grand fight. Sure, most of these conflicts do fall on opposite sides politically — but then again, that’s not people. That is an ide-ological division that is used to generalize issues.

If we really want to get anywhere as a society, we have to learn the differ-ence between arguing an issue and slandering a per-son.

Secondly, I know these are sensitive issues. It

must be difficult for some-one to read an article that calls their way of life wrong.

Similarly, it must be dif-ficult to read an article that vilifies your entire belief system as bigotry and malice, or that poses your religion as a terroris-tic regime waiting to mas-sacre the populace.

These issues are wrenching, and they are deeply personal, but we must attend to them with-out reverting to hate.

It is easier to slander the person who disagrees with you than it is to ade-quately present an oppos-ing opinion. But if we real-ly want to achieve some sort of understanding amongst ourselves as dif-ferent people with differ-ent beliefs, we must be willing to approach one another with the knowl-edge that someone is like-ly to disagree with us.

We must be willing to leave that conversation with the peace to accept that.

If you want to know what I believe, I will tell you. But I will try to tell you in a way that does not make you or your beliefs look devalued. I may dis-agree with you, and I may think you are wrong, but I will not ignore your right to believe.

The one thing I ask of you is to believe with your heart, think with your mind and use both in the appropriate circumstanc-es.

— Adam Wynn is a senior from Dacula

majoring in English

AdAm Wynn

Have you ever been to a mosque? Stood in sol-emn respect as the Fatiha — the opening verses of the Quran — began? Ever heard the words Salam alaykum, “peace be upon you?”

I know it’s difficult for Karli to tell the difference between a moderate and jihadist, so until she does the research, let me see if I can help.

Beyond the Muslim American Society, the Muslim Student Association and hundreds of others, there is a laun-dry list of thousands of imams and their mosques across the Western and Islamic worlds who have denounced acts of terror-ism. Apparently, her igno-rant discrimination is their fault, and it should justify her view.

You know, I always had hope for our nation, being torn by the racism of the ’60s and finally realizing that blacks were people too.

I will guarantee you right now that until the mentality of religious hatred and this “us vs. them” environment ends, it will be impossible for us to love our neighbor as ourselves and to be those meek that will inherit the earth.

Charles Fordsenior, lawrenceville International affairs,

arabic and religion

Enough is enough. The blatant Islamophobia and ignorance that has taken over the airwaves, the news stations and even The Red & Black Opinions page has to stop.

Our own Karli Hedstrom wrote, “Fight

those who believe not in Allah,” (Quran 9:36). Why didn’t she finish the verse? “Fight those who believe not in Allah when they declare all-out war against you, and know God is on the side of the righteous,” (Quran 9:36) says the verse in regards to when the early Muslims were being attacked allowing for self-defense.

Did Karli take the time to understand a religion, more like a way of life — that 1.54 billion people believe in — before she spewed hate and false-hoods? Maybe she Googled “hateful Quran verses” and picked her choice of half-quotes and mistranslations from the numerous anti-Islam Web sites?

Karli, I’m not angry at you. I’m scared. I’m scared because ever since that horrific day when our country was attacked, people who didn’t know better blamed me for what happened to my country.

Many of my classmates read your letter in class on Tuesday where you misin-formed them by saying Muslims are violent while I sat next to them, visibly a Muslim with my hijab.

As a practicing Muslim-American and a fellow Bulldog, I offer you a chance to meet with me and learn about the true Islam, not the Fox “News” version. And I offer the Muslim greeting of Aslaamalakum (“Peace be with you”) to you.

YasmIn YonIssenior, lawrenceville

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In response to Karli Hedstrom’s article, I would like to point out the

many instances of igno-rance and factual inaccu-racy within said article.

To say that the Quran justifies violence of any sort is false. In fact, the traditional greeting between Muslims is, “Peace be upon you.”

True Islam is not at all responsible for what hap-pened on September 11, 2001, so to punish Muslims by not allowing a community center to be built two blocks away from Ground Zero is not only completely unjust, but goes against every-thing the United States stands for.

To claim that Muslims should shy away from building in a place where they have every legal right to do so because it makes the ignorant minority in this country uncomfort-able is ridiculous and unfounded in any legal standing.

aYla ZamangIlalumna, lawrenceville

sociology and International affairs

Imam Rauf has a histo-ry of condemning terror-ism, and American Muslims have a history of condemning terrorism. If this project was led by extremists, Muslims in America wouldn’t allow it to be built anywhere.

One should try Googling “Muslims con-demn terrorism” and stop clinging to childish argu-ments such as “not all [group] are [generaliza-tion], but all [generaliza-tion] are [group]” because this can be applied to any stereotype.

hammad aslamgrad student, snellville

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The fact is that the people involved with the mosque have EVERY right to build whatever they want wherever they want. That is not the argument.

The question is, is this the right thing to do?

The answer to that question is absolutely not.

House Republican Leader John Boehner says it best: “The fact that someone has the right to do something doesn’t necessarily make it the right thing to do. That is the essence of tol-erance, peace and under-standing. This is not an issue of law, whether reli-gious freedom or local zoning. This is a basic issue of respect for a tragic moment in our his-tory.”

For the most part, the people concerned about the building of this mosque do not equate American Muslims with the Muslim extremists that perpetrated the ter-rorist plot that took place on September 11, 2001.

Nevertheless, as Charles Krauthammer points out, despite the fact that nobody confuses present-day Germany with Nazi Germany, “no German of goodwill would even think of pro-posing a German cultural center at, say, Treblinka.”

Ground Zero will never be what it once was.

It will always be hal-lowed ground, and a dis-tinct place of remem-brance.

This is not to say that people do not move on, but with the site will always be the memories.

With sensitivity as the main issue, we can now

move on from the argu-ments of the legality, of the people connected to the mosque, and of reli-gious rights. This pre-scribed argument is much less politically charged. Many Americans have heartfelt objections to the constructions of this building, is it then right to go through with its construction?

Aside from even that argument, let’s say that the mosque is built. Are we to believe that the protests and media attention will then cease altogether? I do not think that this will be the case.

What I see for the future of this site is con-stant protesting and tur-moil. Is this what we would want for Ground Zero or for the mosque itself?

KrIstIn moreaUx Chairman, Uga College

republicans

There are certain lines that are drawn that we all must agree with to live in our society. “Do not kill,” “do not steal” — these are principles that all men must live with to be at peace with their neigh-bors.

However, when there is a blatant attack on the common values and mor-als, then there must be retribution and defense against these attacks.

We are a nation that accepts people from all over the world, and, therefore, we must all coexist in society.

That said, if the accep-tance allows for extremist views — on any political or religious scales — then we must ward off the out-liers who would choose to

be harmful and violent.Constructing a

mosque at or near the site of the World Trade Center would be a good way for Muslims to remember what hap-pened and would let them worship.

However, with the proximity to the site of two different fundamen-talist Islamic terror attacks, it may also incite hatred towards non-Mus-lims by those who would attend the mosque and hatred towards moderate Muslims who would choose to live in peace and desire the comforts of living in America.

andrew Cowansenior, stone mountain

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Though I am not ques-tioning the right to build a mosque at the proposed Ground Zero sight, I am not a proponent of build-ing the mosque at that particular location.

The main question for me is: Why is it so impor-tant for the mosque to be built close to Ground Zero?

Many people would see it as an offense against the memories of the vic-tims of 9/11.

If we want to continue repairing the relationship between Muslims and the portion of the offended American public, it would seem the wisest course of action to choose a differ-ent, less debated loca-tion.

Will their prayers not be heard five blocks fur-ther away?

JaKe Carrollsenior, marietta

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songwriting as a collabora-tive process, striving to keep its lyrics from being lost in the noise.

“He is a phenomenal keyboardist, and he’s a great front man,” Fowler said of Watts. “He some-times takes the mic and assaults the crowd.”

Tonight’s performance marks the band’s first Athens show in six months.

Cerwonka said he enjoys the intimacy of Caledonia, which makes for the kind of show the band thrives on.

“We’re really good friends with the owners, and they helped us out,” Farace said.

The band embodies its ideals and themes in its emblem: The equal sign.

On its EP “Solace,” the band placed the equal sign on a falling bomb, a meta-phor for the idea that you shouldn’t do to others what you wouldn’t do to yourself.

“A heavy thing for us is equality,” Fowler said. “If you’re going to drop a bomb on somebody, you should be willing to drop one on yourself.”

Consistent with that idea, the band gave their handle a lot of thought.

“Come what may, we will stick together,” Fowler said. “It’s a promise.”

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and administrator of junior tennis in South Africa. After Pieters decided he might want to attend college in the United States, he talked with Diaz and heard about the Georgia tennis program for the first time.

A visit to Athens on July 14 greatly aided Pieters’ decision, and he committed to play as a Bulldog on August 9, just a week before classes began.

Sadio Doumbia, a junior from Borderes, France, joins the Bulldogs after transferring from Auburn University Montgomery in Montgomery, Ala.

Doumbia knew he wanted to play Division I tennis after two years at his former school, and he continues to balance his love for tennis with a rigorous academic program.

“I preferred to go to college and play pro after college,” Doumbia said. “My parents wanted me to keep going with school.”

Javier Garrapiz is the sole returning inter-national athlete on the men’s tennis team in 2010. A junior from Huesca, Spain, Garrapiz heard about Georgia through Gonzalo Corrales, a co-captain on the Bulldogs’ 1999 national championship team and a native of the Huesca area. Corrales told Garrapiz about his experience at Georgia, and Garrapiz grew excited about continuing his studies while playing tennis.

“I can keep with my major and keep play-ing tennis at a high level,” Garrapiz said. “There are so many good teams, there are so many good players in the nation.”

The tennis culture in America differs from the tennis culture back home for the interna-tional athletes.

Although sports in general are more impor-tant in American culture, the emphasis on football, basketball and baseball tends to rel-egate tennis to second-class status.

However, in many other nations, tennis is still held in higher regard. But for Pieters, one of the chief differences comes not from cul-ture, but from climate.

“We train in such quick conditions, but all that sort of changes here,” he said. “It’s very humid and slow, so they play a lot more base-line.”

French tennis follows the classic axiom that it’s not about whether you win or lose so long as you look good doing it. American ten-nis prefers former Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp’s maxim, “If it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, why do they keep score?”

Doumbia has picked up on this distinction.“We think more about the technique of the

player, and we don’t really try to win,” he said. “Here it’s more of a winner culture. Everything is about winning.”

The three athletes all faced a similar deci-sion — whether to attempt to play profes-sional tennis or give up the game to focus on their studies. Georgia represented a third way for these three Bulldogs, and Garrapiz enjoys the additional option.

“When you’re playing pro tennis you are trying to make money,” Garrapiz said. “Here, you have to play for a big team, for this college and for all your friends as well. It is like a dif-ferent idea of tennis.”

But the most difficult challenge for the international athletes isn’t adapting to that new style of tennis — it’s adjusting to an entirely different culture.

“You don’t speak to people that you don’t know. You are focused on yourself and on your friends and that’s it,” he said. “Here it’s more open — you can speak with anybody. You see some you don’t know and you say, ‘Hi.’ In France you can’t do that.”

Garrapiz — who bids farewell with a friend-ly pat on the shoulder, even to people he’s just met — noted the haste that permeates American life.

“It is kind of a rush,” he said. “I went back home for the summer for the past six weeks, but now I need this kind of life.”

After just one week, Pieters has noticed that Americans are simply louder than South Africans.

“The people here like to party,” he said. “In

South Africa, they’re more businesslike.”Ultimately, though, coach Diaz said his

players get to see the similarities among dif-ferent people, which is something that Diaz, born in Costa Rica, can speak to personally.

“I think at the end of the day we’ve got more things in common than we do things that are different,” Diaz said.

GLOBE: Recruits face culture shock in Athens

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Freshmen Hernus Pieters (above) and Sadio Doumbia are part of Georgia’s vaunted recruiting class.

When: Tonight at 8

Where: Caledonia Lounge

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COME WHAT MAY

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Garrett Brasseaux

Eric Diaz

Campbell Johnson

Hernus Pieters

Sadio Doumbia

Wil Spencer

Ignacio Toboada

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Mandeville, La.

Athens, Ga.

Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

Pretoria, South Africa

Borderes, France

Ponce de Leon, Fla.

Atlanta, Ga.

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Tuesday’s practice was a calm one for Georgia, with the team going back and forth between walk-throughs and conditioning.

Head coach Mark Richt said the scout team also prepared for Wednesday’s scrimmage, where the scout team will act as Louisiana-Lafayette, the Bulldogs’ first opponent of the season.

“We wanted to take our Louisiana-Lafayette scout team and kinda really train as to how we wanted them to line up tomorrow for that practice game. Also wanted give these guys a little bit of a break from the hitting,” Richt said. “We went over offense and

defense assignments. We allowed our scout teams to learn what the [sets should be] so the look will be good tomorrow.”

Richt also said the team did all of the conditioning and walk-throughs outside so the squad can grow more and more accustomed to playing in the heat and humidity during the season.

“We did do it in the heat. We didn’t do it indoors,” Richt said. “We actually ran condition-ing about every 20 minutes just to kinda try to contin-ue to get them conditioned for the heat.”

Georgia will play a half of football in Wednesday’s scrimmage, which will include all elements of a regular season game except for crowd noise. Richt said the coaches will take their positions either

in the booth or remain on the side-lines during the scrimmage.

Where each coach will be locat-ed has already been decided, but Richt couldn’t recall the details off the top of his head Tuesday.

“We’re gonna do our normal pregame warm up. We’re gonna have our cap-tains chosen by tomorrow. We’re gonna simulate a coin toss. We’ll kick it off like a regular game,” Richt said. “We’ll have our head-sets going. We’ll have SEC officials. We’ll have every-thing that we can get other than crowd noise for this game.”

Richt said, more than anything, he wants the squad to get used to game speed rather than worrying specifically about person-nel groupings.

“I consider it a game, so I want them to get used to that,” Richt said. “The coaches are basically put-ting together the Georgia units that we think will play in the first half basi-cally and everybody else goes to Louisiana-Lafayette [scout team].”

Outside linebacker Darryl Gamble said the installation of Georgia’s new 3-4 defensive scheme is “going great.”

The senior said the defense has been spending “a lot” of preseason camp mastering the new scheme, rather than focusing spe-cifically on the offense of Louisiana-Lafayette or other opponents.

“We haven’t really focused on a lot of what they do yet,” Gamble said. “We’ll start that probably tomorrow because it’s mostly about what we do. [We are working on] just being experts at our tech-niques and stuff like that. It’s just pretty much just getting to know our stuff before we get on anything else.”

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Linebacker Darryl Gamble (50) said the defense has been focusing on installation and will start studying up on Louisiana-Lafayette Wednesday.

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