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Chanting students from across the state march in front of the Capitol at Monday’s student-led rally.

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Members of the community gather to honor the memory of University researcher Efrat Gamliel-Atinsky, who died in an accident Sunday with her mother and two young children in Israel.

By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK

Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno may not be taking the field this year for Georgia’s annual Pro Day, but NFL scouts will still line the practice fields Tuesday to watch a number of former Bulldogs per-form a variety of agility and athleti-cism tests in preparation for the NFL Draft in late April.

Georgia’s two former starting defensive tackles Geno Atkins and Jeff Owens look to continue their ascent up draft boards, and could even edge their way into the first round with another impressive per-

formance at Pro Day.Atkins had been criticized for his

lack of ideal size for defensive tack-le at 6-foot-1, 293 pounds. But Atkins silenced those critics with his blend of speed and strength. The defensive prospect posted a 4.74 40-yard dash and 33 reps of 225 and proved that he has potential to play defensive end in a 3-4 defen-sive scheme in the NFL.

Owens blew away scouts with his incredible strength, posting 44 reps of 225 pounds — the second highest total of anyone at the NFL combine and only one rep shy of the all-time record at the combine.

Atkins’ and Owens’ numbers may have surprised pro scouts, but they weren’t any surprise to Georgia’s Director of Strength and Condition — Dave Van Halanger — who said Owens benched 545

pounds at Georgia and called Atkins “the most explosive line-man” he’s ever coached.

“[Atkins and Owens] are not as tall, but playing-wise, they’re very, very good,” Van Halanger said. “They have so many intangibles. They are all there at the combine and all the sudden these [scouts] are saying, ‘wow.’ They are strong, they’re fast, they’re quick and they’re intelligent. It’s up to them on draft day, but I know they will be high picks, and they will have great NFL careers.”

For an area of the Bulldog foot-ball program — strength and condi-tioning — that has been scrutinized by fans in looking to explain an 8-5 season, having not one — but two — of the top overall performers

See SCOUT, Page 6

NFL prospects prepare for Georgia’s Pro DayFormer Bulldogs display abilities

By TIFFANY STEVENSTHE RED & BLACK

When officials from the University set out to write their budget cut pro-posal, they weren’t acting alone.

Administrators from other Georgia colleges and universities also put plans in place — plans that would affect the Georgia economy and

advancement in medical training, budget officials at some of the state’s universities said.

State legislators recently asked Georgia’s 35 public higher education institutions to submit proposals to the Board of Regents detailing how they would make up their share of millions of dollars in additional cuts to the University System of Georgia.

Depending on the focus of the school, proposals include plans such as cut-ting faculty and staff, increasing class sizes, cutting entire departments and decreasing the number of accepted students.

For the Medical College of Georgia, one of the potential cuts would

See BUDGET, Page 3

‘HIGHER EDUCATION IS UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO YOU DO? STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK’

Hundreds of students rally against University System cuts

By PAIGE VARNERTHE RED & BLACK

Monday morning’s schedule for the rally at the Capitol was a little dif-ferent from the one the Student Government Association representa-tives had planned.

Their message is that the Georgia Legislature should not place a dispro-portionate burden on higher education, but a modest tuition increase is justifiable.

But the Georgia Students for Public Higher Education, who led the roughly 300-student crowd in a chant — “Education is under attack! What do we do? Stand up and fight back!” — and held a sepa-rate press conference, dis-agree.

Ryan Haney, a gradu-ate student at Georgia State University and GSPHE organizer, said he doesn’t know what the University’s SGA’s “mod-est” tuition increase is.

He said his grassroots coalition does not think money in the state budget should be “shuffled around” and instead pro-posed a $1 excise tax on cigarettes and a one-time 1 percent tax on individu-als earning more than $400,000 a year.

Cameron Secord, the University’s SGA vice president, said SGA is more ready to accept the tuition hike because it thinks ruling increases out in the beginning might hurt students in the end.

Secord said SGA understands Georgia is facing a budget crisis, so the group is proposing a realistic solution — but only if the tuition increase is proportionate to the budget allocation the Board of Regents receives from the state.

“We understand we will need to share the burden,” said Greg Abt, GSU’s SGA president.

On Thursday, Gov. Sonny Perdue recom-mended reducing the cuts to slightly more than one-third of the original $300 million universities were

asked to prepare for.Despite the decrease,

hundreds of students still showed up to Atlanta’s Hunt Park for the rally at 8:30 a.m.

Buses from both the University and Savannah State University shuttled about 75 students each, and many drove or walked.

The state’s research universities, four-year schools and two-year col-leges were represented — and their students had a message.

“The ripple effect caused by cutting the budget will be astound-ing,” said Ian Pergl, a senior at Kennesaw State University from Binghamton, N.Y. “Enough is enough. Education is the solution, not the prob-lem.”

Even a two-year school with just over 5,000 stu-dents would be affected by the proposed budget cuts.

Joffe Wright, a student at Darton College in Albany, said class sizes would increase, something many students choose two-year colleges in order to avoid.

“Even though we’re small, we still have a voice,” she said.

Because some SGA presidents thought GSPHE’s message would be partisan, they held their press conference at Hurt Park at 9:30 a.m., instead of at the Capitol at 10 a.m., as originally scheduled.

SGA President Katie Barlow was the first to speak.

“The budget decision-making process should be approached with stu-dents’ interests in mind,” she said.

SGA representatives had a busy schedule after the press conference.

Some went to speak with the lieutenant gover-nor and Gov. Perdue’s

See SGA, Page 3

Poet G.C. Waldrep’s tongue houses textured

language given true existence only when it is

read aloud. Page 5.

Schools’ budget cuts extreme across state

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Athletic Association employee charged with DUI

Assistant Ticket Manager Karen Melissa Warther, 28, was arrested and charged with DUI and failure to maintain lane at 4:05 a.m. on March 14,

according to the University Police report.

The traffic stop which lead to her arrest was initi-ated after a police officer observed a silver Volkswagon Jetta swerve out of its lane several times as it traveled eastbound on

Carlton Street.When the officer

approached the vehicle, he noted an odor commonly associated with alcohol coming from Warther’s breath. The officer also reported her speech was slurred to the point where he had to ask her to repeat herself.

Warther was asked to exit the vehicle and per-form a variety of field sobri-ety tests.

These tests offered sev-eral clues indicating she was over the limit. One such clue came during a finger-to-nose test when Warther kept her finger on her nose for approximately 20 seconds despite being told twice not to wait to be instructed to put her hand back by her side.

Warther was placed under arrest and transport-ed to the University of Georgia Police Department.

A breath test given at the department showed her to have a blood alcohol content of 0.118.

She was then transport-ed to the Athens-Clarke County Jail, where she was eventually turned over to deputies.

Corona consumption leads to DUI

Kayla Anne Kines, 21, was arrested and charged with DUI and failure to obey a traffic control device at 3:35 a.m. on March 14.

According to the Athens-Clarke County Police report, Kines was pulled over after a police officer saw her drive through a red light down-town at the intersection of Broad Street and Pulaski Street.

While asking her routine questions, the officer noticed the smell of alcohol coming from her breath.

When the officer asked, Kines told him that she had been drinking one 12-ounce Corona beer earli-er that night.

The officer then asked Kines to step out of her vehicle to take some sobri-ety tests to make sure she was under the legal blood alcohol content limit. Kines agreed to the tests.

At the officer’s request, Kines took an Alcosensor test and tested positive for a BAC of .114.

Kines was then placed under arrest and charged with DUI.

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By JULIA CARPENTER THE RED & BLACK

He may have recently shaved his trademark beard, but there was no mistaking him. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer was in the bar, surrounded by University students, faculty and alumni, at Athens’ Hilton Garden Inn Monday night.

DiGamma Kappa, the University’s student professional broadcasting society, partnered with the Georgia Association of Broadcasters to honor the famed journalist with their award for Distinguished Achievement in Broadcasting at the organiza-tion’s annual banquet Monday night.

Blitzer is most renowned in the journalism world for his anchor work on the acclaimed CNN show, “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” and students were eager to ask questions and get their picture taken with the veteran broadcaster.

“I talked to him, and he’s a really good guy,” said Tammy Lay, a senior from Stevens major-ing in broadcast news and Spanish. “He gave me some great advice.”

Lay, a previous member of the

organization, is DiGamma Kappa’s 2010 Esther Award recipient for her excellence in internship work.

Blitzer offered simple advice to the other journalism students asking about the importance of internships to a professional broadcasting career.

“Don’t take no for an answer,” he said.

Lay said she believes Blitzer most deserves the award for his unbiased reporting.

“He gets the facts without bias,” she said. “It’s just hard-nose journalism.”

Alesia Snell is a freshman broadcast news major from Jonesboro and a member of DiGamma Kappa. Snell said she attended the banquet because she is inspired by Blitzer’s com-mitment to excellence in his field.

“I came because I know Wolf Blitzer and his work,” she said. “That’s something to aspire to. It’s motivation to continue in this career path. My friend and I were just talking, looking at the names of past winners of this award, and it’s amazing.”

In his advice to aspiring jour-nalists, Blitzer said a good reporter — above all else — must

be curious. “You have to ask questions,”

he said. “If you just want to know things, if you have that instinct and you want answers, that’s an important ingredient.”

Blitzer shared his experiences in journalism and the impetus behind his move into the field with the students, faculty and alumni present at the banquet.

“As soon as I got into it, I fell

in love with it. I realized it was my passion. It was for me,” he said. “You may find out you love it. You may find out you hate it. But you have to try it. That’s my recommendation.”

Wolf Blitzer receives top University honor

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Renowned CNN news anchor Wolf Blitzer speaks Monday night after receiving an award for Distinguished Achievement in Broadcasting at the professional broadcasting society DiGamma Kappa and Georgia Association of Broadcasters annual banquet.

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include eliminating nurs-ing programs offered in Georgia’s universities, making those majors diffi-cult to obtain. Students striving to be nursing anes-thetists would no longer be able to obtain an under-graduate degree in public institutions in Georgia.

“We are the only place in Georgia that offers that program,” said Bill Bowes, senior vice president for finance at MCG. “There is one private program in the state, but it would be the only source for that major.”

An undergraduate nurs-ing program in Athens is also in danger of being shut down. Bowes said the program was originally placed in Athens because of a projected shortage of doctors and medical per-sonnel in Georgia.

“You could look across all of the majors and reach the conclusion they are all necessary,” he said. “I think they’re all impor-tant.”

Georgia Tech would also suffer heavy losses in one of its primary areas — research.

Jim Kirk, budget direc-tor for Tech, said the loss of research would result in loss of revenue, eliminat-ing 200 positions and ulti-mately affecting enroll-ment.

“The additional poten-tial 200 positions [lost] would be from the spon-sored side, in other words from grants,” Kirk said. “What happens is a faculty member can only do so much. He or she can teach and research, but if you increase a faculty mem-ber’s workload in teaching, what ends up happening is the faculty member can’t apply for grants and has no time for research. So we end up losing the grant money in addition to state money. And what happens if we lose research is we

lose a lot of grad students, because a lot of grad stu-dents come here on grants, and a lot of them wouldn’t even want to come to Georgia Tech anymore.”

Kirk said loss of research revenue would also have adverse effects on the economy.

“A lot of our research does plug into the econo-my and does plug into jobs in the private sector,” he said. “We predict that it would cause a ripple effect and would cause a loss for the Georgia economy. During fiscal year ’09, our economic development group developed new inno-vations. There have been a lot of studies that show that research facilities are good for business in the state.”

Chip Hill, director of the Office of Budget and Planning for Georgia State, said budget cuts for his school would amount to $34 million and would mean the loss of 622 posi-tions and resources such as the Capitol Hill Child Enrichment Center and the Regents Center for Learning Disabilities.

“There’s no one single magic bullet that we could cut,” Hill said. “It would be very hard to leave anything unaffected by cuts of that magnitude.”

Hill said it was impor-tant for people to under-stand that all proposed cuts were not final, and that final budget decisions would not be announced until mid to late April.

“Our understanding of the $300 million is a worst case scenario,” Hill said. “Obviously we’re hoping that tax revenue will help

the budget and that we won’t have to make those cuts. But we still have to wait for legislators and the governor to make their decisions.”

Tim Burgess, senior vice president for finance and administration at the University, said he believed the potential budget cuts would affect potential stu-dents’ desires to go to uni-versities in Georgia, espe-cially as universities offer fewer programs.

“It would definitely have a negative impact,” Burgess said. “Obviously we have a lot of students here who are coming to UGA with the purpose of getting their degrees. So the fact that we couldn’t offer the range that we can today I think would have a negative impact.”

BUDGET: As schools face drastic cuts, officials fear long-term state issues

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JON-MICHAEL SULLIVAN | The Red & Black

More than 300 students from 35 Georgia higher-education institutions gathered at the Capitol building in Atlanta to protest against hundreds of millions of dollars of proposed budget cuts.

By RAISA HABERSHAM THE RED & BLACK

Bright and early on Monday morn-ing, 75 University students rolled out of bed to board two buses and ven-ture to the Georgia state Capitol.

The bus was silent, but students undoubtedly contemplated the same thing — budget cuts to higher education.

When the bus arrived in Atlanta, the students joined representatives from other schools in the University System of Georgia, including Geor-gia State University, Valdosta State University and Georgia Tech.

Though some student leaders addressed the crowd, the signs with phrases such as “Students are not ATMs” and “Georgia Education on My Mind!” were more indicative of the student sentiment.

Nevertheless, the symbolic chant “Education is under attack! What do you do? Stand up and fight back!” echoed throughout the Capitol steps, even catching the attention of elementary school stu-dents on a field trip.

Cody Boisclair, a fifth-year gradu-ate student from Warner Robins, was among those protesting. He said he is concerned about losing his teaching assistantship.

“That’s what is paying for my tuition now,” he said. “At some point, I don’t know if my subject —

artificial intelligence — may fall under the ax.”

In addition to the rally, students signed a petition which now con-tains more than 36,000 signatures representing members of the uni-versity community who oppose the proposed cuts to higher education.

Originally, 200 University of Georgia students signed up to rally at the Capitol, but the number dwindled the night before the rally.

Cameron Secord, vice president of the University’s Student Government Association, said short notice of the budget cuts and spring break interfered with planning the rally eventually led to members of the University community deciding not to attend.

“When we originally set the date, the legislature changed its meeting date,” he said. “We felt that if we changed our date, it would be more difficult for students to get to the Capitol.”

Secord added that he thinks the combination of the time change and early morning departure took a toll on students.

Some students gave possible answers for the lower turnout.

“I’m wondering if one of the rea-sons is that some city buses didn’t get to Tate at that time,” Boisclair said. “Some didn’t get there until after 7 a.m., and maybe people were depending on public transportation

to get to Tate.”Kelsey Collins, a freshman from

Warner Robins, had a different view.“I don’t think they spread the

message enough,” Collins said. “President Adams could have put it out in an e-mail.”

Lisa Suh, a freshman from Macon, said students may have had prior engagements they had forgotten.

“I think once it got closer to the date, people were reluctant to get up or had class,” she said.

Though only 75 UGA students actually turned out, Collins said the urgency of the cuts should have been widely felt.

“People don’t realize how much of a threat this is,” she said. “If they increase tuition, I personally know people who couldn’t come [to the University].”

Suh and Collins, who are both HOPE Scholarship recipients, said they also worry about the future of the lottery-funded program.

“HOPE was a huge reason I came,” Suh said. “To have college tuition paid for is really a good thing, and now it may be taken away.”

Collins said if the proposed cuts are enacted, she may have to drop out of school due to personal hard-ships.

“I’m already taking loans and don’t have a meal plan,” she said. “My family can’t help me anymore.”

Fewer go to rally than expected

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D i r e c t o r o f Communications Bert Brantley at 11:30 a.m., bringing the petition that more than 36,000 Georgia citizens signed.

At noon, CNN’s Tony Harris interviewed Barlow and Secord live on “CNN Newsroom.”

At 1:30, Barlow met with the speaker of the H o u s e o f Representatives.

Even though the Legislature was not in session Monday, Barlow said the rally was not a one-day message.

“There will be an ongo-ing discussion,” Barlow said. “And we are 100 per-cent student-focused.”

RALLY: SGA hopes talks continueBill Bowes

from MCG said his school would lose programs with cuts.

To Mr. Michael Yu and Mr. Connor McCarthy, champions of Monday, March 15th’s Red & Black, page four:

There must be a happy medium. With Michael feeling we should hop aboard the budget cut bus in the column “University must tighten belt during tough time,” and Connor feeling we should lie down in front of it, megaphones in hand in the counter-column “Reductions affect entire state not just stu-dents,” — boys, a compromise must be reached.

More in line with Mr. Yu’s view-point, I feel that some money must be removed from the University’s allotted state funds. Though some would say they breathe, sleep and eat (no pun intended) squash, I feel like funding the squash team cer-tainly takes a back seat to prevent-ing the extinction of major-related courses or keeping existing faculty on staff.

However, just going with the flow and allowing Governor Purdue

to swipe more than sixty million dollars from the University’s cash flow is much too complacent for my liking.

I mentioned before that when it comes to monetary allocation for campus institutions, we must pri-oritize in order to keep the meatiest and most beneficial programs alive.

This same line of thought applies to our state government. Certainly, some of the budget cut’s much sought-after money could be pinched from other less developed, riskier state-funded areas of spend-ing.

Need I reference the nineteen million dollars spent on a virtual fishing arena in our charismatic governor’s hometown — Perry, home to a whopping thirteen thou-sand Georgians?

I should hope that our state’s dropout rate, the nation’s highest — an estimated 21 percent — would provide some incentive to leave as much funding as humanly possible invested in the public education

system. Some activities are frivolous and

worth sacrificing, especially in our nation’s time of economic upheaval, but classes and major-related courses are nothing to be tampered with.

As citizens of the world, we must learn to do without selfish prefer-ence and privilege, but we must also keep in mind that our own apa-thy should not get in the way of the societal progress that is inevitable in continuing to support the public education system.

The budget cut is something I would say, “Everything in modera-tion” to — we can afford to hunker down on our spending, but let us not find ourselves stationary and drooling as our state government pulls funds out of the University system and plugs them into anoth-er less deserving institution.

LILY PRICEFreshman, Savannah

Staff photographer

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Having been forced out as dean of the journalism school a few years ago,

John Soloski sued the University of Georgia, with mixed success.

He could not convince a court that his removal as dean was improper, a difficult kind of claim to win under any circumstances.

But he was able to get a court order removing UGA’s letter of reprimand for the sexually charged comments he made to a woman who worked for him.

Although the judge suggested he then “let sleeping dogs lie,” Soloski has chosen a different approach, sitting down with The Red & Black in recent weeks in an effort to reha-bilitate his reputation.

Judging from the favorable fea-ture story and editorial that ran in this newspaper this semester, Soloski is on the verge of success-fully portraying himself as the vic-tim of this whole episode, and his behavior is not that bad after all.

So I feel compelled to share my view that UGA was right that he violated the anti-harassment policy, and that Soloski’s behavior was wrong and warranted discipline. The court order should in no way be taken as a sign that what Soloski did was “OK.” It wasn’t.

Though UGA may not have handled Soloski’s situation particu-larly well, we need to continue to be vigilant against people who behave in this manner.

Let me explain, first, with some quick background on “sexual harassment.” Legally, the term refers to a form of workplace dis-crimination against women that is a violation of the federal Civil Rights Act.

Under this law, individuals like Soloski cannot be sued themselves for sexual harassment, but UGA as the employer can be held respon-sible for Soloski’s actions.

The question in Soloski’s lawsuit was whether he violated the terms

of UGA’s “anti-harassment” policy. Think of the policy as a code of conduct, the kind of thing found in many workplaces. You come work for us, UGA says, and you have to follow our rules. If you don’t follow our rules, you may be subject to various kinds of sanctions, includ-ing being fired.

UGA was right that Soloski’s behavior violated the anti-harass-ment policy. Though the policy does refer to the Civil Rights Act in defining its terms, the language governing employee conduct pro-hibits “incidents of harassment” — that is, something less than the legal definition of “sexual harass-ment” that governs employers. And at least one comment he made to a woman who worked for him cer-tainly qualifies.

At an alumni reception, Soloski said to her: “That is a nice dress. It really shows off your assets.”

He acknowledges making the comment, and explained it in The Red & Black this way: “I had been in a long conversation about stocks, bonds and assets with another dean. The word ‘assets’ was used frequently. I was leaving the recep-tion to go to a dinner date with a woman I was seeing and was really late ... I said it totally off the cuff and knew it was a stupid thing to say.”

Let’s be clear — this comment was not just “stupid” or “inappro-priate.” It was and is a completely unacceptable thing to say to a co-worker, let alone someone who works for you.

It was also a violation of UGA’s anti-harassment policy, which states quite clearly: “Examples of sexual harassment may include …

remarks of a sexual nature about one’s clothing and/or body.” The idea that Soloski was not “on notice” that such a comment would violate the policy is absurd.

This kind of sexually charged comment from one co-worker to another at a work event is some-thing you just can’t do.

And it’s the kind of behavior that, if repeated over time, could lead to UGA being successfully sued by the woman for discriminat-ing against her based on gender by allowing this behavior to continue. So UGA was right to take some kind of action against Soloski.

It makes no sense to say that an employer needs to wait to discipline an employee until he acts badly enough that the employer itself can successfully be held liable for sexual harassment.

The idea is to stop such behavior before it harms others, and puts the taxpayers on the hook for a big settlement or judgment.

Research and anecdotal evidence suggest that women find it debili-tating when they are treated as anything other than professionals in the workplace. And what Soloski did was not just “boys being boys.” It was an abuse of power. If he wasn’t the boss, he wouldn’t have dared say such a thing.

When people abuse their power and harm others, we need to stand up to them, and we ought to thank and give credit to those who stand up for themselves.

Let’s not forget the lesson learned from last year’s Red & Black exposé of sexual harassment at the university and its aftermath — this kind of behavior by people in our community is totally unac-ceptable, and we’re going to do everything we can to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.

— Jason Solomon is an assistant professor at the

University of Georgia School of Law

Univ. not place for sexual comments

Freshman quarterback Zach Mettenberger had a shot to earn the coveted starting quarter-back job for the Georgia football team when the Bulldogs began spring practice.

However, on March 7, the 18-year-old was arrested in Remerton — outside of Valdosta — for a slew of charges, including underage posses-sion of alcohol.

Mettenberger’s time in jail isn’t a first for a Georgia football player. Those mistakes are easy to make for any college kid, but hopefully turn into lessons learned.

But when put into the spotlight for playing one of the most publicized sports in the country, these 18, 19 and 20-year-old football players are catapulted onto a national platform and thus inherit the responsibility of being a role model, whether they like it or not.

There are 8, 9 and 10-year-old fans who have Georgia football posters plastered on their bed-room walls and pretend to be the Mettenbergers and the Aaron Murrays in backyard games of football. It’s a reality only a handful of college-age individuals face — being idolized by the public while in college.

But entering the media zoo that is college football, that reality must be accepted no mat-ter how many invitations to go downtown have to be declined in the process.

— Rachel G. Bowers for the editorial board

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The Japanese puzzle Sudoku relies on reason-ing and logic.

To solve it, fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3 by 3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

Nothing has to add up to anything else.

Previous puzzle’s solution

By MICHAEL PROCHASKATHE RED AND BLACK

Atlanta band The Brightside Suicides came up with their oxy-moronic name for a reason — no reason at all.

But while the intentionally ironic name has attracted the band attention, it has also caused a backlash from those seeking to find a deeper mean-ing.

“We are not advocating sui-cide in any way,” said vocalist Patrick Whiddon. “I was just try-ing to think of contradictions or something that was catchy.”

What began as innocent semantic jousting quickly turned into an unwelcomed mythology. One fan confronted Whiddon about the potential misinterpre-tation of the band’s name.

“She wrote me an e-mail about how she supported our band but she didn’t like the name,” he said.

The woman lost a husband and a son to suicide, yet Whiddon gave the same response to her as everyone else: It’s just a name.

The most common miscon-ception is that it’s an allusion to Kurt Cobain.

“I never really thought of it as being a homage to Nirvana, we just saw it as a paradox,” said guitarist and songwriter Seth Burkett.

Whiddon, who coined the term, realized it was a Nirvana lyric only after he had played around with oxymorons.

Although Nirvana remains a crucial part of Whiddon inspira-tional repertoire, he said the band plays only originals and makes it quite obvious they are not a tribute band.

There is another side of the story, and Whiddon was more than happy to reveal the secret behind the band’s mystique.

“Suicide is the one way of death that you can control,” he

said. “The good thing about [sui-cide] is that you can control it and if it has to happen, that’s the price you pay.”

Control for Whiddon and Burkett is more than just a posi-tive feature of self-inflicted death — it’s what keeps them person-ally separated from such san-guine depression.

“Seth and I have been down in the dumps, but I wouldn’t say we were suicidal,” Whiddon said.

The band members do approach the subject with a sense of irony and wit, but don’t dismiss it as a serious problem or an instigator for those who are suicidal.

“I think a photo of one of our band members with a gun point-ed to his head might not be the cleverest idea, but we were just playing off the name,” Burkett said.

What Burkett wants listeners to understand is that their music is more sensitive to the subject than its provocative band name implies.

“Being someone that’s lost friends to suicide, it’s really a terrible thing,” Burkett said.” We

never intend to upset anybody. I guess for some people it brings up painful memories and thoughts.”

Some of their songs accurate-ly reflect these condolences by touching the hand of death. Burkett wrote a tune titled “Lover’s Lane,” about a guy with a suicidal girlfriend, in less than two hours at the wake of dawn one morning.

However, the real recurring theme embedded in The Brightside Suicide’s music is the inner depth of the lone wolf.

“The wolf has a lot to do with being casted out from society,” Whiddon said.

Cry Wolf is the epitome of such an archetype. Burkett said the song is about the struggle to reconcile primal urges with what society tells a person to do.

“Broke Down in Roswell” is another gem in which Burkett and Whiddon wrote “Just some boys raised by wolves in a deep dark den way back in the woods.”

The founding members of The Brightside Suicides weren’t quite raised by wolves but they

did grow up in rural Alabama, destined to move on to bigger things in urban Atlanta.

Though the big change has generated more money, concerts and fame, The Brightside Suicides have had to adjust to the challenge of balancing the professional world and music.

Two members left the band to pursue other professional obliga-tions. Fortunately, this has not negatively affected the band.

At Caledonia Lounge, The Brightside Suicides will play with a female keyboardist — Samantha Saad — and an inter-im drummer, Volunteer Cass.

These positions may not be permanent, but Whiddon said the band has held a great num-ber of auditions throughout the past couple of months.

Their persistence in perform-ing despite the sudden changes may be a lesson not to resort to a temporary problem with a per-manent solution.

When: 9:30 tonightWhere: Caledonia LoungePrice: $5 (21+) $7 (18-20)

THE BRIGHTSIDE SUICIDES

VARIETY The Red & Black | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 5

The Brightside Suicides’ name ignites mixed emotions

By ADAM CARLSONTHE RED & BLACK

Hearing poetry aloud is nothing like reading it, and for poet G.C. Waldrep, speaking it is something different entirely.

“The performative life of the poem — the life of the poem in performance, in recitation — is different, I think, from the life of the poem on the page,” Waldrep said. “For me, it is essential the work have an existence on the tongue, in the tongue.”

The VOX poetry reading series, which is overseen by graduate students in the University’s creative writ-ing program, began in 2004. Andy Frazee, VOX’s co-director, said its goal is a clear one: to bring young-er, more well-known writ-ers to Athens.

Waldrep is the latest example, although the idea

to invite him has been bat-ted around for months.

“We decided [Waldrep] was one of the poets that we really wanted to get,” Frazee said.

He certainly fits the bill of performative poet. Waldrep’s training in music helped lay the foundation for an interest in poetry readings, and his work lends itself to spontaneity.

“Sometimes I’m inspired by an image; more often by a snatch of lan-guage. Sometimes by noth-ing at all,” he said. “Sometimes I just sit down at a keyboard, or with a pad and pen, and start typing or writing, to see what will happen. Sometimes something [does].”

The opportunity to see and hear new things, such as a poet’s latest pieces, is an attraction of the VOX series, Frazee said. The

chance to participate in a group of poets and poetry-lovers is another.

“[The audience] has the opportunity to talk one-on-one with these readers,” Frazee said. “And it’s excit-ing to be able to mingle with a group of people who may write much like you.”

Waldrep’s reading in particular offers something a little more diverse. His work does incorporate a rich vocabulary, but it’s often more accessible than is typical, as well as more contemporary.

“There’s a texture to his language that is really interesting,” Frazee said. “It makes his work stand out from other poets.”

Poet gives work diversity, existence

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By BEN BUSSARDTHE RED & BLACK

The Georgia women’s basketball team gathered in the banquet room of Buffalo’s Southwest Café Monday night for more than just burgers and fries.

The food wasn’t what was on everyone’s minds. The 2010 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Selection Show captured the attention of Lady Dog players and coaches.

It didn’t take long for the No. 24 Lady Dogs (23-8) to find out their fate as their name flashed on the screen within the first five minutes of the ESPN broadcast.

Georgia earned the No. 5 seed in the Sacramento bracket, and will take on the Conference USA Champs and the No. 12 seed Tulane Green Wave Saturday in Tempe, Ariz.

“I’ve never been to Arizona before in my life,” senior center Angel Robinson said. “I think our freshmen are very excited, and the seniors are just looking forward to taking it to another level.”

Robinson wasn’t the only Lady Dog who expressed excitement about making the trip to the west coast for their first-round match up.

Freshman point guard Jasmine James also expressed enthusiasm regarding her first NCAA Tournament experience despite the fact that it would come in unfamiliar territory.

A native of Memphis, Tenn., James has yet to venture past the state of

Texas and is eager to make the trip to Tempe.

“It was exciting when Tempe, Ariz., popped up because it’s somewhere I’ve never been before,” James said. “I’m just excited to get on the road and enjoy the trip and just get the opportunity to play.”

A five-time SEC Freshman of the Week, James has led Georgia in minutes played this season and is an integral part of the Lady Dogs’ success. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t enthusiastic about playing in the NCAA Tournament.

“I’m just really excited,”

James said. “I don’t know why, watching the brack-ets, I was getting anxious and nervous to see who we were gonna play, so I’m real excited to get out there try to compete.”

Senior point guard Ashley Houts remembers how difficult last season was after a disappointing regular season record forced the Lady Dogs to sweat out Selection Monday.

“Last year we didn’t have a good feeling about things, and the fact that we had played ourselves in a position to where we had left our fate in someone

else’s hands was very uneasy,” Houts said. “This year we put ourselves in a position to where we can be successful in the tourna-ment.

“This year it was a lot better to be sure that we had a spot. Although we didn’t know what it is, we felt like we did well enough to be included.”

The Lady Dogs can breathe a sigh of relief, knowing they are in the field of 64 contending for a national championship. But come Tuesday after-noon, getting back to work on the practice floor will be the team’s main focus.

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Freshmen guards Candace Williams (left) and Jasmine James celebrate after the Lady Dogs’ No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament was announced.

SCOUT: Curran expecting better results in Pro Day

Lady Dogs earn No. 5 seed in tourney

By DREW KANNTHE RED & BLACK

Tonight’s game between the Diamond Dogs and No. 3 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets is much more than an average mid-week, out-of-con-ference match-up — as has been the case in the squads’ previous 200 meetings.

With 32 Georgia natives on the Bulldogs’ roster and 22 on the Yellow Jackets’, state bragging rights will be on the line in Atlanta as one of the most hotly contested and competi-tive rivalries in all of college baseball is renewed.

“I know a lot of people over at Georgia Tech, and I’ve got a lot of friends over there, so it’s definitely not necessarily a Georgia-Georgia Tech rivalry — it’s kind of like friends against friends,” said freshman reliever and infielder Cooper Moseley, a Montgomery, Ala. native who played summer ball in high school for Atlanta’s East Cobb Braves. “We’re going to go over there [to Atlanta], and we’re going to certainly pick up where we left off and keep going hard.”

The Bulldogs (8-8) enter tonight’s game back on the upswing, after winning two of three this past weekend to snap a five-game losing skid.

Georgia head coach David Perno announced Monday that freshman lefthander Blake Dietrich (0-1, 6.14 ERA) will make his first career start against the Yellow Jackets, after serving as a middle-inning reliev-er out of the Bulldog bullpen early this sea-son.

“[Dietrich] hasn’t blown anybody away from his middle relief,” Perno said. “It’s been OK, but I think as a starter he has a much greater upside and will have a chance to use all three pitches, and I think that is where he fits.”

Dietrich will be jumping straight into the fire with Georgia Tech (12-1), who have been one of the hottest offensive squads in the country early in 2010, batting .364 as a team with 27 home runs.

In addition to a strong showing from Dietrich, the Bulldogs will need freshman first baseman Robert Shipman to continue his play as a one-man offensive wrecking crew for the Bulldogs to pull off the upset.

Taking advantage of playing time resulting from an ankle injury to first baseman Chase Davidson, Shipman batted .538 in four games last week, drove in six runs and hit the first three home runs of his Georgia career.

“It gets to the point where the ball starts to just look like a beach ball, and you can see it great, and if you just put a little swing on it, it just flies, and right now, I’m at that point,” Shipman said.

Dogs to ‘go hard’ in rivalry game

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DIAMOND DOGS VS. GEORGIA TECH

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among college football’s best speaks of the program’s effectiveness. “It doesn’t really validate because we already know inside that our kids work really hard,” Van Halanger said. “That’s the great thing about fans, they voice their opinions. But that’s the one thing about our fans: they are always there and support you.”

Safety Reshad Jones also posted

impressive numbers in comparison to other safeties.

But for one of the Bulldogs’ most valued players last season — Rennie Curran — the combine was one to flush from memory.

Curran was already facing doubters about his 5-foot-11 height, and his run-ning a 4.72 in the 40-yard dash — just .02 faster than Atkins, despite his being 58 pounds lighter — didn’t help his cause.

Curran will be looking to lower that number at Pro Day. Van Halanger said he has “run a 4.55” every time he was clocked at Georgia.

Joining Atkins, Owens, Jones and Curran at Georgia’s Pro Day will be Kade Weston, Marcus Washington, Prince Miller, Michael Moore, Bryan Evans, Vince Vance and Darius Dewberry. They all will be looking to prove they could be the hidden gems teams look for in the late rounds.

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