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www.redandblack.com Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Vol. 117, No. 115 | Athens, Georgia
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TOILET TAXITo see how some
University students con-fused a cab for a urinal,
check out the Crime Notebook on page 2.
News ........................ 2Opinions .................. 4
Variety .....................5Sports ...................... 6
Crossword ...............2Sudoku .................... 5
FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHINGA freshman paired up with a senior for doubles play, as the Georgia men’s tennis
team took on Furman. See how they did on page 6.
CHANGING THINGS UPWith spring practice
starting this week, the football team will adjust to position changes for the
defense. Page 6.
Birds of a feather flock
together in new University play.
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Serial arsons in dorm lobbies
By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK
Flyers in elevator lob-bies have been used to inform students of who they are not supposed to claim and what events they can look forward to, but over the past few weeks they have been used in a much more sinister way.
There have been three reported arsons in Russell Hall over the past two weeks, two of which took place this past weekend. In each incident, and in another similar incident in Creswell hall last November, flyers in elevator lobbies were set on fire.
Although fire alarms never activated and no serious damage was done, these recent arsons have raised concern amongst University police and hous-ing staff.
“The police are very actively investigating these incidents,” said Russell Hall Area Coordinator Louis Gustafson. “It is extremely uncommon for us to have this number of incidents in such a short period of time.”
Due to the similarities between these arsons, it would appear they are somehow linked, but police will not know for sure until arrests are made.
“Common sense would say they are linked,” said University Police Lt. Eric Dellinger. “We’re going to investigate them as if they are, but we are open to other possibilities.”
Although there a cur-rently no security cameras in the elevator lobbies, Dellinger said they plan to tighten security in order to suppress future incidents.
“There is always the possibility that something awful could happen,” he said. “So we will definitely step up patrol in those areas.”
University staff are tak-ing a different approach.
“We have tried to get students active in provid-ing information,” Gustafson said. “We’re trying to get 970 people in Russell to be looking out for this kind of thing.”
LILY PRICE | The Red & Black
Student artist Colin Tom is also a magazines major for job security, even though he thinks art is in his blood and plans to continue painting as a profession.
CHOPPING BLOCKUniversity proposes ‘unthinkable’ budget cuts
By MIMI ENSLEY and CAREY O’NEILTHE RED & BLACK
Reduce. Eliminate. Consolidate. Close.
These are the com-mands beginning almost every line item in the University’s budget reduc-tion proposal, a plan to cut $60 million more from the University’s budget for fis-cal year 2011. The University was already planning for a $44 million reduction in state appro-priations, but a legislative committee directive last week left system presidents and officials frantically pushing through the week-end to compile a document outlining where additional cuts could be made.
“It’s kind of unthink-able,” said Tim Burgess, the University’s senior vice president for finance and administration. “It’s hard to think about the pros-pect of literally tearing the University apart from what it has come to be.”
The proposed cuts — though not yet approved by the Board of Regents — include 1,418 layoffs, 543 of which come from the non-contract instructional fac-ulty. This is the same fac-ulty the University has used to plug the gaps cre-ated by the school’s inabil-ity to hire as many full time professors.
“These are real people,” Burgess said. “These are people that are working for the University today that would not be here in July.”
According to the docu-ment, the elimination of these faculty would limit the number of course sec-tions available and would force the University to reduce the incoming fresh-man class by 500 students and incoming transfer stu-dents by 1,000 “because seats in courses would not be available for them to complete their educa-tions.”
“This action would delay the time to graduation for many students,” the docu-ment states.
Reductions to hours in student-centered buildings would also leave some stu-dents feeling the effects of the steep cuts.
The document outlines
See BUDGET, Page 3
By ADAM CARLSONTHE RED & BLACK
Local artist Colin Tom’s work has a message, is definitely dif-ferent and only slightly illegal.
As a senior art major with an emphasis in painting, his work violates what many would con-sider “traditional.” Although he works in a normal artist studio, Tom favors the cartoonish, exag-gerated aesthetic of street art and R. Crumb over watercolors.
His work can be seen here and there around Athens, stuck up on the side of buildings, or scrib-bled in an odd corner. He has created a gallery of his impromp-tu work all across Athens. Some would call it tagging but Tom is merely sharing his art with the
people.He even has something of a
signature piece: a recurring image of a naked guy bent-over — aka, “Butt Man.”
“[Butt Man] kind of resonates with some people,” Tom said.
He’s also Tom’s longest-living piece of work, begun when he was still in high school.
Coincidentally, that was also when Tom decided to consider pursuing art in college — even though the profession had been a part of his family before that. His grandmother is a classically trained painter.
Once he started drawing and taking classes, Tom’s certainty became a decision.
“When I was given the choice to study something, it was natu-
ral I chose art,” he said.The actual work of becoming
an artist involves more than just blank paper and free time, though. Adjusting took some time. “I got acclimated to the whole formality of art in my freshman year,” he said.
It began with being broken down and taught specific ways to draw, as well as how to prepare certain paintings: all the “rules of art school,” according to Tom.
After that came hours and hours, and years and years, of classes and studio time.
Then, last spring, he took a trip to Barcelona. Seeing the street art there was a wake up call. It didn’t have the pretension
See TOM, Page 5
Student artist leaves his mark all across Athens
CUT: $58,910,117JOBS LOST: 1,418
Would lay off 543 instructors, reduce the
amount of course sections and constrain
the number of incoming freshmen and
transfer students admitted for next year.
$14,774,489
Last Thursday, the Chancellor of the University System of Georgia
asked the 35 system presidents a staggering question: What would
you cut if the system budget was reduced by $300 million? The presi-
dents began drafting proposals immediately, and after a whirlwind 48
hours, submitted their ideas. At the University, President Michael
Adams had to find almost $60 million worth of employees, programs
and facilities to eliminate or reduce. A final decision won’t be made
until the Board of Regents receive their budget for the next fiscal year,
but the proposal shows where cuts will be made if the University can-
not offset some of the reductions by increasing tuition.
ON THE WEB UGA’s summary of reductions
ON THE WEB Police Documents
Would limit student access to the center
to 11 hours per day, down from 16 hours.
This would be a 30 percent reduction to
the availability of the athletic facility.
$154,652
One-fourth of campus facilities will not
regularly restock restrooms, trash will be
emptied once a month and classrooms
will not be cleaned daily.
$5,597,196
Would limit student access to the center
to 11 hours per day, down from 16 hours.
This would be a 30 percent reduction to
the availability of the student center.
$167,059
Reduces research, instructional and out-
reach opportunities at a 300 acre facility
billed as a “living laboratory” for students
and faculty.
$875,688
Access to the MLC, Main and Science
Libraries would be reduced by 30 percent,
forcing students and faculty to limit their
use of these buildings to 78 hours weekly.
$249,633
Would force more than 500 graduate and
undergraduate students to change majors
or transfer to other institutions to complete
their degree programs.
$5,225,511
Eliminate Facilities Management positions Reduce hours in the Ramsey Center Eliminate all non-contract teaching faculty
Reduce the hours in the Tate Center
Eliminate State Botanical GardensReduce hours in the MLC and librariesAcademic program eliminations
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By JACOB LOVELLTHE RED & BLACK
Members of the University’s
Interfraternity Council have returned to Athens with awards in hand.
The council, a student organization representing 26 social fraternities at the University, recently attended a conference in Atlanta and emerged with six awards, more honors than any other IFC in attendance, according to Philip Rosen, IFC vice pres-ident of public relations.
The Southeastern Interfraternity Conference hosted 49 different IFCs from universities as far as Texas and Virginia, representing tens of thousands of students.
The University’s IFC awards were for a number of accomplishments over the past year. The IFC was recog-nized for community service, for fostering a positive view of Greeks by the campus and community as a whole and for the recent completion of the Habitat for Humanity house sponsored by Greek organiza-tions on campus, for which they received the “Outstanding Service Project” award.
Rosen, a junior from Signal Mountain, Tenn. majoring in biology, explained what the University’s IFC is all about.
“We have eight committees, [including] recruitment, pub-lic relations, community ser-vice,” and others, he said, which all look to provide ser-vice and guidance to the IFC’s member chapters.
Though IFC does not rep-resent all fraternities at the University, it is the largest and oldest governing body of Greeks on campus.
Daniel Salisbury, president of IFC, explained the goals of the recent conference.
“We had a lot of speakers come in, talking about several issues that interfraternity councils face on different cam-puses,” he said. Topics includ-ed recruitment and increasing GPAs for fraternities.”
Greek life honored at conference
CRIME NOTEBOOK
ON THE WEB Police Documents
Every time taxi drivers pick up drunken downtown patrons, they know they could be in for a wild ride. One driver had a particu-larly crazy time Saturday.
According to a University Police report, during a traf-fic stop at River’s Crossing on Feb. 27 at 2:40 a.m., a police officer saw a Much Love Taxi pull into a park-ing lot and could hear the driver yell at her passengers. When the office approached the cab, there were three individuals in the back seat.
The officer also saw Roger Barry Leithead III, 20, who was “slumped over with his penis out of his pants and he was urinating inside of the taxi,” according to the report.
“I do not remember that,” Leithead, who was visiting Athens for a friend’s birthday, told The Red & Black. “Even if I woke up to do that, I don’t know if I would remember it.”
Because of his state of intoxication, Leithead was transported to Athens Regional Medical Center.
“They said there were no life-threatening compli-cations,” Leithead said. “They just gave me some pills and fluids.”
As police dealt with Leithead, they asked the other passengers, later identified as University stu-dents Connor Thomas Lynch, 20, Daniel Wayne Skelton, 20 and Kyle Wesley Pritchett, to wait on the sidewalk. Police reported Lynch and Pritchett uri-nated on themselves while they waited to be ques-tioned.
Skelton was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol and possession of a fake ID.
When police tried to search Lynch, he reportedly pulled out his cell phone and said he needed to call his parents. Despite being told several times to give his phone to police, Lynch refused. Police got the phone out of his hands, and he was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol and obstruction.
Although this visit to the Classic City didn’t end well for Leithead, he said he’ll be back.
“I think I probably over did it and was a little too excited,” Leithead said. “I love Athens, and I will probably go back. I wouldn’t like to get arrest-ed again, though.”
Be careful what you ask for, especially when you are asking to be breathalyzed while under the influence.
University student Jorvy Mammen, 31, was arrested and charged with public intoxication on Feb. 28 at 4:54 a.m. after behaving bel-ligerently toward police and employees of The Grill, according to the Athens-Clarke County police report.
Police responded to the scene to give Mammen a criminal trespass warning and informed him he had been barred from the prem-ises. The officer asked Mammen to leave and not harass anyone.
Five minutes later, the arresting officer reported seeing Mammen on the corner of Clayton Street and College Avenue yelling at three employees, “Your loss! You wont be getting any income from me for the next two years!”
Police arrested and charged Mammen with public intoxication. After repeatedly claiming not to be drunk and asking for a breath test to prove it, the arresting officer allowed Mammen to provide a breath sample. The alco-sensor gave a reading of .22 BAC, and Mammen was taken to jail.
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By JULIA CARPENTERTHE RED & BLACK
Don’t expect to catch the latest hits from Lady Gaga or Jason Mraz on WUOG 90.5 FM airwaves — the University’s college radio station reflects a differ-ent music philosophy.
“We don’t play artists you can hear on 95.5 Beat, Vh1, or MTV,” said Akeeme Martin, a senior from Gainesville and host of the WUOG specialty show “Halftime Hip Hop.”
WUOG opts to showcase artists that don’t get air-play on commercial radio, those that have yet to break into the top 100 on the Billboard Charts.
Artists like Surfer Blood and Cold Cave get air-play over popular acts such as the Black Eyed Peas and Taylor Swift.
“Sometimes it’s a culture shock for new DJs,” said Jessica Smith, a junior music business major from Chesapeake, Va., and WUOG’s general manager. “I mean, we all grew up listening to mainstream radio. It’s not so much rejecting those artists as giving oth-ers a chance.”
Smith hosts “The Wrecking Ball” — a show described by the WUOG Web site as “international psychobilly and instrumental surf rock” — and “The Boiling Point” — a show described as “Punk/hard-core/thrash/awesomeness.”
These two specialty programs showcase WUOG’s commitment to play music different from what’s played on commercial radio stations.
“We’re considered an alternative station — alter-native in the sense that we’re not mainstream,” Martin said. “Once you hear an artist on mainstream, you don’t want to hear it here, too, because then that defeats the purpose.”
Martin’s “Halftime Hip Hop,” is enormously popu-lar with University students. It was syndicated last year and now plays on airwaves around the world.
“Talks for syndication started last summer, and they were finalized in September 2009. Jessica was there to help me with the paperwork, make sure everything was legal,” Martin said. “The opportunity itself was awe-inspiring. Now they are asking me to DJ over there in the summer in Taiwan.”
Because of the station’s laid back, anything-goes atmosphere, both DJs hesitate to define a typical day in the life of a WUOG volunteer.
“It’s not even a clock in, clock out thing,” Martin said. “I do both a rotation and a specialty show. Sometimes I play stuff from “Halftime Hip Hop” on rotation. That way we get the best of both worlds. It’s all what you put into it. I prepare all week long for a three hour show.”
Even though they get free music — “the music director’s trash,” Smith calls it — and live passes to local shows, WUOG DJs don’t get paid a regular sal-ary. Every shift they pull is volunteer.
“You do it because you love it,” Martin said.The online component is vital to the station’s lis-
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show, all the setlists are stored in the Web archives, and students also have the option to listen to the show or other rotations live online.
“There’s no better place to DJ,” Martin said. “Athens is a New Orleans-style jambalaya.”
And the DJs said they don’t mind late-night shifts.
“There’s always someone listening,” Smith said.
Station airs little-known artists
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By NATHAN SORENSENTHE RED & BLACK
Despite the recent trag-edy in Huntsville, Ala., involving a professor who was denied tenure, the Office of Faculty Affairs has not discussed any changes in tenure policies at the University.
“I have not heard any-one suggest that a change in policy could prevent such destructive behavior,” said Libby Morris, vice pro-vost of academic affairs.
Earlier this month, a pro-fessor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville shot and killed three of her col-leagues, wounding three others, in a faculty meeting after her application for ten-ure had been turned down.
However, at the University, of the average
100 professors applying for tenure status each year, only a small percentage are denied, said Jayne Smith, director of the Office of Faculty Affairs.
Tenured professors have greater job security and academic freedom. But the road to being tenured can be difficult.
“It’s a very rigorous pro-cess,” Smith said.
The tenure track begins at the department level, with each department set-ting its own criteria. After passing the department level, a professor must meet University guidelines.
The earliest a professor can be tenured is after five years of teaching. But if a tenure-track professor does not reach tenure status by his or her seventh year, or what many professor’s call
the “up-or-out” year, the professor’s contract is ter-minated, Smith said.
Eric Stabb, associate professor in the microbiolo-gy department, achieved tenure more than a year ago and, as of Fall 2009, is one of the 1,230 tenured University faculty members.
“At first it was fun,” Stabb said of the tenure process, “then it dawned on me that the deadline was coming, and I started to feel stressed.”
Stabb compared the five-year evaluation and applica-tion process to achieving a bachelor’s degree.
“It’s like four years of col-lege with no grades,” Stabb said, “and then a group of professors decide whether you graduate or not.”
According to the Guide l in e s f or
Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure handbook, ten-ure may be awarded upon recommendation by the University’s President and approval by the Board of Regents. Also, the profes-sor’s dossier is assessed by colleagues at the University, as well as experts from other universities.
Even with the rigorous process, a majority of University faculty on the tenure track are achieving tenure status each year.
“There were really no surprises,” Stabb said, “from what I can tell, the University has a much bet-ter system for tenure than other schools.”
As of Fall 2009, there are 419 professors and associ-ate professors on the ten-ure track. Of those, 101 will be evaluated for tenure.
Tenure track lengthy and difficult road for professors
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lessened hours in the Miller Learning Center, Main and Science Libraries, Tate Student Center and Ramsey Center — 30 percent reductions on all fronts.
“This is something that’s going to affect us quite suddenly and harshly,” said Danielle Timmons, a senior health promotions major. “Especially with studying and stress relief.”
Burgess said the sudden need to cut so drastically from the University’s budget forced administrators to con-sider the core mission of the institu-tion. Though deans and department heads had drafted proposals for the smaller $44 million cut, administra-tors had just 48 hours to extrapolate from those plans and determine what else could go, while still retain-ing the central functions of the insti-tution.
“It was a very stressful and very painful exercise to even talk about the things that are in there,” he said. “Not to mention layoffs.”
Layoffs in the Facilities Management Division would mean the loss of 25 percent of the custodial staff. One-fourth of campus facilities’ restrooms would not be cleaned reg-ularly. Trash would be emptied once a month.
“They probably don’t need to be cleaned daily, but monthly is just ridiculous,” said Isaac Shiffman, a freshman from Harrisburg, Pa.
The plan also calls for eliminating academic programs. Though Burgess did not know which specific pro-grams would get the ax, the proposal document states the program elimi-nations would force more than 500 students to change their majors or transfer to other institutions.
To protest the immense burden the legislature placed on higher edu-cation, the University’s Student Government Association is joining with campus leaders from across the state to protest the budget cuts.
This week, the student leaders will pull together a list of grievances related to the cuts to send lawmak-ers a united message of opposition.
“Higher education shouldn’t be the entire focus of raising revenue,” said Katie Barlow, SGA president. “Everybody’s in a very sticky situa-tion politically, but none of that should matter. What should matter is quality.”
The student leaders will head to Atlanta Monday, March 15, to meet with representatives from the com-mittee which ordered the cuts, and Barlow said SGA will provide busses for any students wishing to tag along. Altogether, Barlow said she expects more than 1,000 students from across Georgia to show up to protest.
“The perspective of the individual student is incredibly vast, even on this campus alone,” Barlow said. “People haven’t seen the line items that are coming out of the $60 mil-lion, and once they see that, they’re going to react.”
Barlow said the rally is designed to put a student face on the budget reduction issue.
“It’s not just education; that’s people’s lives and people’s jobs,” she said.
Even if it means increasing tuition, Barlow said it is important lawmak-ers and the University do everything they can to avoid cutting programs.
The proposed cuts are not priori-tized on the list, and the chancellor specifically told officials to not con-sider tuition increases as they draft-ed their documents.
However, John Millsaps, spokes-man for the Board of Regents, said tuition increases could be possible down the road.
The chancellor has said that a 77 percent tuition increase would be required to offset all of the additional cuts — totalling $300 million for the system as a whole.
“Obviously, the Regents are mind-ful of the pressure that tuition places on HOPE,” Millsaps said. “But they also have to make decisions based on the needs of the system and stu-dents.”
Announcements about tuition increases usually come in April, Millsaps said.
Although a 77 percent increase would be extreme, Barlow said shift-ing some of the burden to students could be a reasonable solution.
“It’s not that we’re against any tuition increase at all,” she said. “We understand the need for a tuition increase if we’re going to keep the quality and caliber of the University.”
Tonight, SGA is holding an infor-mational meeting about the Atlanta rally at 7 p.m. in room 148 of the Miller Learning Center, and Barlow said students can reserve seats on SGA busses until Friday by visiting their Web site at http://uga.edu/sga.
—Tiffany Stevens and Adina Solomon contributed to this story.
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TOP PHOTO BY JON-MICHAEL SULLIVAN | BOTTOM PHOTO BY EMILY KAROL | The Red & Black
Under the budget proposal, the University would close half of the County Extension Offices, which support the state’s agricul-ture industry. The Vet Teaching Hospital would also face cuts.
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UGA is being forced to look at a possible $60 million budget cut for 2011, in addition to
the $100 million reduction already taken over the past 2 years.
A budget cut of that size impacts every student, and as the primary clientele of this University we find these cuts to be unbearable.
As a student at the University of Georgia, you can make a bigger impact than you may think. The history of our university has shown that when students speak up, change happens.
During desegregation, the Governor nearly closed the University to enforce a state law mandating segregation at all state institutions. It was UGA students that personally convinced him to do otherwise.
When Georgia needed a forestry school in the thick of The Great Depression, a junior forestry major convinced Governor E.D. Rivers to build it. Even within the last six years, our SGA joined others from around the state to prevent mid-year tuition increases and a toll booth on GA-316. We need your help to continue the tradition.
SGA will host an emergency information session, tonight at 7 in MLC 148 to discuss the student response to these proposed bud-get reductions. On Friday, UGA and Georgia Tech’s SGA will meet with state legislators in Atlanta to express our concerns. The Student Government Association invites you to join us and students from every
state public college and university as we rally at the Capitol in Atlanta on Monday, March 15. We want our legislators to hear us, loud and clear. If you’d like to travel with us, please sign up at www.uga.edu/sga.
More than $20 million will be cut in academic programming, includ-ing the elimination of all part-time and temporary faculty positions, according to the Board of Regents’ proposed cuts released Monday. It is estimated this action would reduce faculty, cutting the size of the incoming freshman class by 500 students and transfer students by 1000.
Additionally, the lack of faculty could force up to 500 students out of their current major, resulting in students having to change majors or transfer to another institution altogether.
And the list doesn’t stop at academic programs — more cuts
could significantly affect our quality of student life. The proposal calls for the elimination of 12 positions within the Office of Vice President for Student Affairs.
Furthermore, according to the proposal summary, “[t]hese reduc-tions would force the elimination of many recreational sports programs, including intramural and club sports. It would also force the loss of the only sign language interpreter on UGA staff, possibly jeopardizing students’ ADA rights.”
In total, the proposed cuts by the Board of Regents would eliminate 1,418 currently filled positions at the University of Georgia.
Being a student at the University of Georgia is indeed a privilege, yet these cuts significantly hinder the type and the quality of education that we receive.
We understand the state’s finan-cial difficulties during this time and that cuts will undoubtedly happen.
However, we will continue to work closely with state legislators, the UGA administration, and the Board of Regents in managing these cuts to be as fair as possible with-out completely jeopardizing our academic experience.
In the meantime, we need your voice now. Please join us for the dis-cussion tonight and sign a petition against the budget cuts at http://www.petitiononline.com/georgia1/petition.html
— Katie Barlow is the President of the Student Government Association
SGA provides forum for budget talk
Campus restrooms may become BYOTP with the University’s announcement of nearly $60 million in proposed budget cuts on Monday.
Among the massive cuts, the University esti-mates “one fourth of campus facilities will not have restrooms restocked regularly.”
You can read each area for which the University is proposing to cut spending at www.redandblack.com. But what does cutting each of these areas — yielding a loss of 1,418 jobs — mean for students?
First of all, this announcement is a proposal. The Board of Regents gave the University 48 hours to find areas in its budget in which $58,910,117 could be cut. They requested this in order to find out what sacrifices would have to be made if the void was not filled as it typically is — by raising tuition.
If none of these proposed cuts were made, tuition would have to be increased by a whop-ping 77 percent. The good news? This is not an either/or situation.
The editorial board thinks students can expect a tuition increase as well as some of the eliminations included in Monday’s proposal. We understand the need for a tuition increase and as long as it doesn’t exceed 30 percent — five percent more than last year’s increase — we support it. Anything higher would be too much of a financial strain on students who are already feeling the effects of the economy.
In addition to a reasonable tuition increase, we understand there must be other sacrifices.
It’s up to the Regents to decide what will best replenish the University’s deficit. But as students — the most vital component of the University’s existence — we need to make sure our educational needs are not sacrificed.
For this reason, The Red & Black supports the 35 student governments representing the colleges and universities statewide that will rally at Georgia’s Capitol on March 15. Because the state of Georgia has no student representa-tive on the Board of Regents, this is our only chance to let state legislators know that we must be prioritized.
We encourage students to research where their University’s spending is going to be cut, and decide what should not be compromised.
As a student, you can finish this sentence, pay the tuition increase if it’s implemented, graduate and move on. But if you are someone who cares about the University and what it has done for you, we encourage you to think about the future implications of these monumental sacrifices. Stand up for the quality of education for Georgia’s college students. Stand up for the generations to come.
— Daniel Burnett and Chelsea Cook for the editorial board
Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board
Budget cuts deepStudents should make their voices heard as Regents review proposal
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KATIE BARLOW
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I am writing in response to the column, “Radical Tate min-ister preaches damnation.” I am a little confused why Mr. Michael Prochaska decided to write an arti-cle bashing a man that a majority of this campus has never even heard of. I do not pick up The Red & Black to hear about your beef with Asghar Ghafoor’s beliefs. If you have a problem with Mr. Ghafoor, the 33,000 of us do not care.
Furthermore, I am not sure when the Red and Black became a platform to disrespect a man for his own personal beliefs. Prochaska wrote, “The more Ghafoor spoke, the more I pictured him with a thick bar of hair under his nose and a swastika on his jacket.” That is funny, because the more I read Prochaska’s article, the more I pic-tured a journalist with a vendetta.
I am sure Christians, Jews and Muslims all appreciate your omni-scient opinion Mr. Prochaska. We thank you for your unwavering pro-tection against the “faux gospel” of Ghafoor.
In fact, I would love it if you started your own church so we can all attend something with a bit of truth. I expected better out of The Red & Black.
ANDREW BRANDT Junior, Lawrenceville
International affairs
Central message of Jesus not damnation
Mr. Prochaska’s comparison of Asghar Ghafoor’s evangelism to the tactics of Adolf Hitler was quite harsh. A person showing love to others and a Jew-slaughtering megalomaniac are two very differ-ent people.
Prochaska’s real question seemed to be, “How can a loving and just God not allow everyone into heaven?”
Similarly, Bill Gates asked people to purchase Microsoft stock a few decades ago. Only a few did, and now those people are exceedingly wealthy and those who refrained are now wishing that they had.
Ghafoor seems to be saying that Jesus is doing what Bill Gates did. There is a choice in the scenario. One receives a reward while the other does not. It would be nice for Bill Gates to reward those who did not believe that his company was worth investing in, but that would not be just.
The Christian God does not con-demn. Ghafoor asserted, “(Jesus) died for all humanity.” All. Jesus did not die for the Middle Easterners so that the whites go to hell. Nor for men, so that women go to hell. He
died for all so that no one has to go to hell. We condemn ourselves.
One of the central messages that Jesus’s life taught is “Judge not that you be not judged.” We are for-tunate to live in a time of free grace and not one of shame and guilt.
Also, to believe in Christ is not to live in fear as Prochaska asserted. We especially do not fear damna-tion, but to live in the freedom of truth.
You can ask what proof Christians have that Christianity is the absolute truth, and they can point to miracles like Ghafoor’s ankle being healed or the deaf hav-ing their hearing restored through Heidi Baker, but to some extent all life comes down to faith.
Ghafoor has faith that if people do not believe in Jesus as the son of God, then that person will go to hell. And Ghafoor, not wanting any-one to go to hell wants all to experi-ence the joy of Christ’s love and is telling people how to get to heaven, so that no one rejects a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Next time, it would be fair to try to see the good in what people are trying to do instead of making unfair stretches.
CHIP HICKSFreshman, Savannah
Sociology
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PAIGEBOWMAN
Lawmakers across the country are pushing strongly for legisla-
tion against DWT, or driv-ing while texting, calling it a dangerous distraction for drivers. Little do they know another danger lurks.
DWD, or driving while dancing, is common, especially among college-aged students listening to pedestrian hip-hop and Lady Gaga. Sometimes, when my hands should be on the wheel and my focus on the road, I’m snapping and clapping to the latest pop music has to offer.
I want to believe I am not a danger to others, but I know that I distract some people. Caught in jammed Milledge Avenue traffic one evening, I was pretty jazzed when the theme song to the beloved ‘80s classic, Footloose, came on the radio.
My (non-brake) foot started tapping, and so did my fingers on the steering wheel. I was loudly singing nonsense words and really cutting footloose, com-plete with the hand jive and the limited hip move-ment that sitting in a car allows.
Then, the wake-up call.
Out of the corner of my right eye, I saw him, my reality check — a middle-aged man on the sidewalk, doubled over in laughter, watching me “dance.”
If my moves were enough to stop a power-walker, what could they do to people watching me in their rearview mirrors? I admit it. I occasionally am a distracted driver — be it dancing or looking through my iPod for the perfect dance song. But who on the road isn’t distracted?
Whether it’s an obvious problem like cell phones, an embarrassing one like dancing or even something small like scanning the radio, it’s impossible to drive distraction free.
Yes, I am all about road safety. But I hope lawmak-ers keep their focus on texting and leave one of the few pleasures of my life alone.
— Paige Bowman is a senior from Duluth
majoring in magazines
Driving while dancing not an obvious danger
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By CYNDYL MCCUTCHEONTHE RED & BLACK
Amoeba Arts’ newest theatre production, “Blackbird,” is going to be a hot Twitter talk, especial-ly since the audience will tweet during the show.
According to Alicia Corts, media designer and dramaturg for Blackbird, twitter is a unique incorpo-ration to the show.
“With such a complicat-ed storyline as in ‘Blackbird,’ people will want to respond and voice their opinions,” Corts said. “They will get the chance to respond via Twitter before, during and after the show.”
Corts also said there will be people at the auditori-um before the show to help audience members sign up for twitter.
“You don’t have to have a Smartphone either; you can tweet through texting.” Corts said. “This is the one show where we aren’t going to tell you to turn off your cell phones.”
However, Corts does rec-ommend that all cell phones are turned on silent
or vibrate.Blackbird is a sort of
psychodrama that takes place in an office break room between the young Una, played by Tressa Preston, and the much older Ray, played by Scott Higgs, who previously had an illegal sexual relation-ship when Una was twelve.
Throughout the play, truths are revealed as the two relive their haunting past through the chilling memories of their relation-ship.
According to Preston, the story is far more com-plicated than a young girl being a pedophilic victim.
“When I first saw the script, it was both compel-ling and terrifying,” said Preston, a graduate stu-dent in Theatre at the University. “At the same time, this idea of injecting media into theatre was so exciting, so I hopped on
board.”Higgs, however, had
more of an immediate response to the play.
“As soon as Hunter [Parker] approached me, I was on board. I didn’t even think about the content.”
Parker, the graduate research assistance at ICE, Ideas for Creative Exploration, and director of “Blackbird,” developed the idea of mixing technol-ogy in the theatre.
Parker said that she chose David Harrower’s “Blackbird” because pedo-
philia is a controversial topic that people always have comments on; it’s the perfect production to incorporate twitter into.
Mark Callahan is the artistic director of ICE. ICE is also involved with Amoeba Arts, a student theatrical organization involved in new media.
“ICE supports projects in creative research,” Callahan said. “Hunter’s project was a really great idea, so ICE provided the funding and the environ-ment to make it happen.”
‘Blackbird’ incorporates viewer tweetsWhen: Tonight and Wednesday night at 8Where: Fine Arts Bldg. 151Price: $5
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LILY PRICE | The Red & Black
Artist Colin Tom switched to painting from print-making after visiting Barcelona.
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a week-long series pro-filing last-minute spring break trip ideas. Throughout the week, the des-tinations will get closer to Athens, for even the most last-minute planners.
Athens to Norfolk: 520 miles, about 8 hours by car
Located on the Chesapeake Bay, the state’s second-largest city bal-ances the urban and the ocean, allowing visitors to see the beach by day, and to play downtown by night.
STAY:
Rent a room at the Econo Lodge Inn & Suites located at 865 N. Military Hwy.
A double room, non-smoking, will run from about $43-$50.
EAT:
The Top Ten, located at 748 Shirley Avenue, is vegan friendly but still offers what it deems “Meaty Sandwiches” for carnivorous patrons. It has received favorable reviews from all local media outlets and is reasonably priced.
One of Norfolk’s oldest restau-rants, the Freemason Abbey, is locat-ed at 209 W. Freemason Street in a 136-year-old church and is a little upscale but a unique choice if budget permits a nice dinner.
PLAY:
The 8-mile-wide Ocean View Beach offers beachside access, and the downtown and Town Point Park, located on the banks of the Elizabeth River, has more than 100 days of free events, outdoor art and an interac-
tive fountain.BAR Norfolk, a popular bar and
restaurant located at 333 Waterside Drive, has a weekly College Night entitled BARkini every Wednesday and a ladies night every Saturday.
Time Lounge, located at 271 Granby Street, is posh and frequent-ed by celebrities when they pass through the city. Thursday night is ladies night at Time, a strict dress-code is always enforced and the line usually stretches down the block, so get there early.
As listed on the event calendar, the city also has its own hockey team, the Norfolk Admirals, which play throughout the week at the downtown Scope Arena.
Jay-Z will be making an appear-ance on Mar. 7 at the Scope Arena as part of his Bp3 Tour.
—Adam Carlson
Norfolk has nightlife, culture and celebrities by the waterSIMPLIFIED SPRING BREAK
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A screen on stage will show audience mem-bers’ input as the play’s incestual themes unfold.
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he was used to, and it inspired him to switch his major from an emphasis in print-making to paint-ing. It’s a decision he doesn’t regret.
“[Painting] appeals to me because you can do it at the speed of thought,” Tom said. “There’s noth-ing I’d rather be doing.”
Born in San Francisco, the work he does now is influenced by the graffiti culture he grew up around.
To showcase and improve his work, Tom has uploaded pieces online on Flickr, and is preparing an exhibition at Walker’s Pub downtown.
Trying to build a body of work while working on his degree has been a tricky feat. Finding free time is difficult when he’s spending up to four hours a few times a week making pieces for class.
He remains dedicated, though.“[Tom’s work] is really confidently done,” said
Brian Hitselberger, a graduate student and former teacher of Tom’s. “He’s not worried about a lot of the same things the other students are. He’s doing something he loves, and he’s doing it well.”
The near future will likely involve a reappearance of “Butt Man,” and maybe even some more unsanc-tioned art stuck outside a store or downtown.
Although he’s double-majoring in magazines as insurance for his future, painting remains his focus.
“It’s special to me because it’s an emblem for some sort of raw energy,” he said. “I think it’s a really pure form of expression.”
TOM: Artist posts to Flickr
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By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK
When defensive backs coach Scott Lakatos was hired last month, he said new defensive coordinator Todd Grantham’s 3-4 scheme would have little effect on the responsibili-ties or positions of the defensive backs.
But that is not the case for the front seven.
The 3-4 scheme demands different body types and skills from for-mer defensive coordinator Willie Martinez’s 4-3 scheme.
With spring practice beginning Thursday, Grantham and the defen-sive staff have been work-ing to slot players into ideal positions in the new scheme — even though the positions will likely change once the players hit the practice field.
“Coach Grantham has a vision for what his defense is going to look like and what the body types are at each position. So he and coach [Warren] Belin, coach Lakatos, and coach [Rodney] Garner have all looked at the film together, and Todd has been describing what he’s look-ing for in each spot and trying to fit what they see to the position that he envisions them playing,” head coach Mark Richt said. “But he knows that until he really gets a
chance to watch them practice, he’s not 100 per-cent sure where everybody is going to line up.”
For now, though, the nose tackle position — arguably the most impor-tant position in Grantham’s scheme — will be manned by Deangelo Tyson and Kwame Geathers.
With the need for bigger bodied defensive ends than in the previ-ous 4-3 scheme, for-mer defensive tack-les Brandon Wood and Abry Jones will be switching over to the defensive end, joining Demarcus Dobbs.
Justin Houston, Montez Robinson and Cornelius Washington will make the transition from defensive end to the outside line-backer position. Former starting running back Richard Samuel will also start work-ing at outside line-backer, but will be given a chance inside or outside.
“As an outside backer, you’re an edge rusher. So you’ve got to have some athletic ability. You’ve also got to have some flexibili-ty, and you’ve got also have the ability to do some drops,” Grantham said. “You also got to have the ability to tackle in space.”
The two inside line-backers — nicknamed “Mike” and “Mo” under Grantham — will be two of
Darryl Gamble, Marcus Dowtin, Christian Robinson, Akeem Dent and Akeem Hebron.
“As an inside linebacker, you’ve got to have similar skill sets in the sense of athletic ability [as an out-side linebacker], but you probably have a little more
range, a little more ability to close on a guy in space,” Grantham said. “You have more coverage responsi-bility as an inside linebacker. You’re going to have more areas, more zones, different matches, a little bit different run fits. You’re not going to rush the passer as much [as an outside lineback-er].”
Linebacker Nick Williams, who has played at safety and linebacker in his time at Georgia, is heading back to safety.
Sanders Commings, another hybrid-type player at 6-foot-2, 214 pounds who has seen snaps at corner-back and safety, will see the majority of his snaps at safety in the spring.
Nevertheless, each play-er on defense will be expected to know how to play multiple positions.
“I’ve always said that you evaluate your players one through 50, and you always want to put the next best player in the game,” Grantham said. “So I think it is important that players are flexible, that they can adjust and that they can play more than one position.”
Special teams duties dele-gated for Bulldogs
After former defensive ends coach Jon Fabris was let go, the special teams responsibilities have finally been assigned for the upcoming season.
Richt said wide receiv-ers coach Tony Ball will continue his role as coach of the kickoff return unit after a season in which Brandon Boykin set Georgia’s all-time record for kickoff return yardage with 988 yards and three returns for touchdowns on the season.
After Drew Butler led the nation in punting last season, assistant coach John Lilly will again han-dle the punt team, and he will also take over Fabris’ job coordinating special teams meeting times and practice times.
Linebackers coach Warren Belin will take over the kickoff coverage team, a unit that ranked last in the SEC and 117th in the nation last season. Belin served in this capacity for eight years at Vanderbilt.
Running backs coach Bryan McClendon is now in charge of the punt return unit.
6 | Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | The Red & Black SPORTS
By LISA GLASERTHE RED & BLACK
Although the doubles point had been clinched by the Georgia men’s tennis team, fans contin-ued to watch a small drama unfold on court three.
Before the No. 9 Bulldogs went on to a 6-1 victory to defeat No. 65 Furman Monday, Alex Hill with Will Reynolds played out their doubles match.
The pair had not played together during the dual season, and all of the doubles pairs were rearranged to see how different combinations worked together.
“We feel like we need to be ready to mix things up in case we want to split Nate [Schnugg] and Jamie [Hunt] up, for what-ever, for a particular match or if something happens,” said head coach Manuel Diaz. “We just need to be comfortable with different combinations, and that’s what we did. And today, I wanted to give an opportunity for Alex to play and for Will Reynolds to play in doubles.”
Hill and Reynolds faced a four- game deficit mid-match, with a score of 1-5. The game became a tipping point, and then a momen-tum shifter.
“I was serving ... We were almost down three breaks. We just found a way — kept bat-tling,” Reynolds said. “The sec-ond half of the match, we moved forward better, hit our volleys better, put them away and kept the pressure on them, and it
worked on in the end.”After the freshman and senior
pair won the point to move up 2-5, they began to slowly close the difference. As their team-mates looked on and cheered, the two forced a tiebreaker and then finished their opponents off 8-7. It was Reynolds’ first dual doubles match, and became
Hill’s first dual match win ever.“We rolled with it ... That’s
such a big thing,” Reynolds said. “We stayed in it, we stayed posi-tive, and we came out with a win. The fact that we got back in the match showed a lot, and the fact that we came out with a win shows even more.”
Moving into singles a point up
and with spirits high from Hill and Reynolds’ match, the Bulldogs found success on courts two, three, four and five, all in two-set victories. Christian Vitulli finished first on court five with a score of 6-1, 6-0.
“I took advantage of the guy’s weakness [today],” Vitulli said. “His backhand was, well, he
sliced it all day. So I continued going to his weakest side and then eventually moved forward, and [I would] come to the net and take a volley.”
Junior Drake Bernstein fol-lowed suit on court four, winning 6-3, 6-1. No. 12 Javier Garrapiz defeated former Georgia player Chris Motes 6-2, 6-1 to clinch the match. Play continued as fresh-man Will Oliver lost on court six, 6-4, 6-2, in his first singles match of the dual season.
“Will hasn’t played a singles match since mid-fall, so this is a match he is going to learn from and improve on,” Diaz said.
On court three, Hunt found a 6-4, 6-0 win while Schnugg was pushed into a tiebreaker on court one. Schnugg pulled out the 6-3, 7-6 victory to post a 6-1 Bulldog victory. This weekend the team plays their first away match of the outdoor season against No. 28 Alabama Friday before travel-ing to compete against No. 25 Auburn Sunday.
“We’re excited about starting the SEC schedule. It’s going to be a great challenge. I think we’re looking forward to good SEC competition,” Diaz said. “We know every match is going to be close and hopefully the guys understand that we have to bring our best each time out and noth-ing but our best.”
Freshman, senior pair up to get doubles win for Dogs
JON-MICHAEL SULLIVAN | The Red & Black
Freshman Will Reynolds and senior Alex Hill battled back in doubles from 1-5 to get the 8-7 win. It was Reynolds’ first dual doubles match and Hill’s first dual match win.
Dogs adjust to position changesFOOTBALL NOTEBOOKSpring practice
begins Thursday
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MEN’S TENNIS Georgia 6, Furman 1