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to the Tony Bennett show at the Classic Center tonight at 8. Find out who Tony

Bennett is on page 5.

By TIFFANY STEVENSTHE RED & BLACK

University officials say a former University graduate student who reportedly threatened the director of the Dean Rusk Center will not be tried by student judiciary.

Richard Houston, a former law stu-dent at the University, was recently charged with terroristic threats or acts, according to Athens-Clarke

County court documents. A warrant was released for Houston on Sept. 16 and Houston was arrested on the same day. The warrant states that on Sept. 13, Houston left voice messages for Don Johnson, director of the Dean Rusk Center, threatening to kill Johnson and his family.

Rumors circulating about Houston’s exchange with Johnson led to a gun scare on North Campus on Sept. 16. A previous Red & Black report states though some thought Houston was carrying a gun in the Dean Rusk Center, he was not on campus, and was already in jail.

Students were not evacuated from the law school, nor was a UGA Alert sent out, due to quick response by University Police.

Houston was issued bail on Sept. 28 for his appearance in the Superior Court of Athens-Clarke County, according to court documents.

University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said Houston would not face student judiciary because he was not taking classes this semester.

“He had taken classes over the summer, but he wasn’t currently tak-ing classes, so we treated him as a visitor to the University,” he said.

Threats lead to former student’s arrest

Forums left future dean with feelings of support

After several months of search-ing, the University announced a new Dean of Students — Bill McDonald — last week. McDonald, who now serves as vice president for student life at Presbyterian College, spoke to The Red & Black to clear up some questions stu-dents may have about the Dean of Students screening process, stu-dent support and his plans for the new position. Here is his side of the story:

Why did you decide to apply for the Dean of Students position at the University?

I applied for several reasons. The reputation of the University of Georgia — what the institution stands for and the mission it tries to accom-plish — is very attractive to me. I applied because it’s got an excellent stu-dent body. I’ve had many, many friends and relatives whose children attend the University of Georgia. In fact, my next-door neighbor has a son at the University of Georgia who is a junior now. Of course, I worked at the University of Georgia, and I knew its reputa-tion back then. And I also applied because it has a great Student Affairs program that was very attractive.

Why did you apply again after the search for a Dean of Students was extended?

I was brought to campus for the first round. When it was extended, I was committed to seeing this position through. And what I mean by that is that the University had not said “no.” They had said they were extending the search. When they told me they were extending the search and because I was inter-ested in the position and because

See DEAN, Page 2

Q&A WITH DEAN OF STUDENTS

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Betty Jean Craige, director of the Willson Center for Humanities and professor at the University, brings her parrot Cosmo to her ecocriticism class. Craige said she will miss her students when she retires next year.

By RACHEL BUNNTHE RED & BLACK

Three words could describe Betty Jean Craige’s legacy at the University: students, community and holism.

Craige, who will retire Aug. 1, 2011, has been teaching at the University for 38 years. She came to the University soon after completing her Ph.D. in comparative literature, with a focus in Spanish literature, at the University of Washington in 1974.

“I wanted to be a University professor,” she said. “I wanted to be a scholar, and that involved teaching. At first, I was very shy in the classroom. I overcame it quickly, but I didn’t realize when I was in graduate school how much I would love to teach.”

She has been the director of the Willson Center for Humanities at University for 18 years and has spent nearly a decade teaching a course on ecocriticism. In 1996, she, along with Gary Bertsch, received a nearly $1 million grant to found the Delta Prize for Global Understanding which has been presented to people such as Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

During her time at the University, Craige has authored seven books, five translations, numerous essays, a humor column and even wrote and produced a documentary, which won first place at the Indie Gathering indepen-dent film festival.

Though Craige said she enjoys the research

See RETIREE, Page 3

Professor leaves legacy of kindness

Key the bagpipes. Clear the throat.

The speech has been written for nearly six weeks, but now the time has come to express the remorse that is weighing heavily on the minds of Georgia football fans and Athenians everywhere.

And so begins the ceremo-ny: “It is on this day, October 6th, 2010, that we gather to mourn the loss of our dearest friend and annual companion. Our loss has been expected for quite some time — over a year

now to be exact — but it does not alleviate the sting we all still feel. It is no surprise that this is a day we never wanted to see.”

With all fans, alumni and students solemnly looking on, the eulogy of tailgating is

underway in Athens.As the announcements of

the start times for Tennessee and Vanderbilt football games were made — two more noon start times — the thousands upon thousands who consid-ered themselves close to tail-gating immediately knew its time had come. The response was tragic, a potent mix of outrage and disappointment.

Though the actual time of death is still unclear, authori-ties believe it could have hap-pened as early as Sept. 18 —

after a 31-24 loss to Arkansas by the Georgia football team.

Ever since that beautiful afternoon in Athens, the pros-pects of tailgating surviving seemed ironically bleak.

Sure enough, the worst of fears came true — even if not everyone has been willing to accept the reality of the situa-tion.

So continues the ceremony: “If tailgating were still here, I’m sure it would want us all

See DEATH, Page 6

Eulogy of Athens tailgating given as campus mourns

LEAVING THE NEST

THE RETURN OF UGAUga VIII will make his big debut

before the homecoming game against Vanderbilt

Sonny Seiler, the owner of the line of English bulldogs that Georgia’s mascot comes from, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Uga VIII will be introduced Oct. 16 in a “collaring” ceremony before kickoff of the Vanderbilt game.

He will be the only known monarch at the University.

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By BRIANA GERDEMANTHE RED & BLACK

When it comes to stress, it’s easy to have too much of a good thing.

“Stress, or anxiety, as we call it, is effective in small doses to motivate us to do things,” said Alana Seibert-Hatalsky, associate director of the psychology depart-ment’s psychology clinic. “Stress in high doses can have less adap-tive consequences.”

With many students stuck in the middle of tests and midterms, it’s important to be aware of the signs, causes and consequences of stress.

Some people recognize they’re stressed when they feel irritable, anxious, rushed or tearful, said Gloria Varley, the associate direc-tor of health promotion for the University Health Center. For others, stress may have physical symptoms, such as headaches, stomachaches, muscular pain or difficulty sleeping.

“It’s very different for different people,” she said.

But those varied symptoms are all caused by the same bio-logical process, in which the body’s “fight-or-flight” response causes glands to pump out stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline.

“Theoretically, the stressor goes and you go back to a relaxed state,” Varley said.

But for a lot of people, the effects of stress remain even after the stressor is gone.

Seibert-Hatalsky said stress can come from both internal and external sources. Students may personally want to do well on a test, but they may also have pres-sure from family to succeed, or they may need to get a certain grade to keep the HOPE scholar-ship.

Either way, that stress can lead to more risky behavior and

less healthy behavior, she said.“When people are stressed out,

they’re just less likely to engage in typical self-care behaviors, like eating as much as they should, or sleeping,” Seibert-Hatalsky said.

To deal with stress, Varley said students can try to remove stres-sors and bring on a more relaxed state.

“Laughter is the best,” she said. “It really has some health benefits.”

Laughter not only improves mood — it also offers physical benefits such as strengthening abdominal muscles.

Exercising and breathing exer-cises are also good ways to relax, she said.

When it’s not possible to remove a stressor, Varley said, it’s helpful to re-frame the stressor in a process known as cognitive restructuring.

“It’s not the perceived stressor that stresses us out — it’s the way we’re thinking about it,” she said.

Students can pay attention to their “self-talk,” which can be optimistic and hopeful or worried and pessimistic, and try to change it to make it more positive.

For example, Varley said, if a student studied hard for a test and still didn’t do well, he could change his self-talk to “I did the best I could” rather than “I’m an idiot.”

Varley said it’s also important to make time for things you enjoy doing.

“In college, you sometimes find you have to put away that creative piece of you,” she said. “If you used to love painting and you’re feeling stressed, get out your watercolors and paint.”

There’s also a difference between acute stress — what you feel when you get pulled over for speeding — and chronic stress, which never goes away.

Stress can mimic other condi-

tions such as depression and anxiety.

However, these conditions dif-fer from stress in their duration and severity.

Both Varley and Seibert-Hatalsky emphasized students should avoid negative ways of coping with stress, such as drink-ing too much, eating too much or not sleeping.

Adam Jenks, a senior telecom-munication arts major, said writ-ten midterms are stressful for him, but luckily, most of his class-es are more hands-on. He said a good way for him to avoid stress is to study away from home, in an academic atmosphere without distractions.

And he said it’s important to put midterms into perspective.

“Yes, you have to do well in school, but at some point you do have to realize that it’s a test,” he said. “In the grand scheme of things, it’s not going to make or break you.”

By ASPEN SMITHTHE RED & BLACK

Managing your finances may sound scary, but Peer Financial Counseling, a student-run organi-zation, is showing University stu-dents just how easy it can be.

Through a series of upcoming seminars on topics such as bud-geting and credit reports, Peer Financial Counseling — which began in 1999 as an attempt to reduce student loan default rates — will work to help students shed the enigma of personal finances.

“If we can teach students how to manage their finances in col-lege, then this could help them manage their money better in the real world,” said Amanda Smith, president of Peer Financial Counseling.

Seminar topics include “Credit Reports and Scores,” “Managing Credit and Debt” and “Making it on a College Budget.” Smith said by hosting these blue card events, she hopes to make students aware of how to budget and save while living without a substantial income.

The Office of Financial Aid encourages the role of students teaching students how to manage their money.

“Students telling students is more appealing,” said Mandy Branch-Friar, coordinator of out-reach for the Office of Financial Aid and advisor to Peer Financial Counseling. “We hope with Peer Financial Counseling students can learn to save their money instead of taking out student loans.”

Throughout their year-long term, student counselors are required to dedicate eight service hours and present at least one presentation.

Before their term begins, they complete training through the Office of Financial Aid and also learn modules created by a University professor.

Brenda Cude, a professor in the department of housing and consumer economics, designed the modules based off the feed-back from a group of undergradu-ates on what they believed were crucial financial issues, such as identity theft, credit and invest-ment.

Cude said she checks the top-ics to ensure they are still rele-vant, but has tried to stay true to the topics the original group of students thought were valuable.

After learning the modules themselves, student counselors visit classrooms, club meetings, high schools and even residence halls to present them and edu-cate other students.

Students talk money in seminars

Arson reported in Reed Hall

A burnt poster located on the second floor of Reed Hall is the subject of another reported arson in University dorms.

A poster in Reed Hall was found damaged Monday, according to a University Police report.

Azura Morgan, a stu-dent affairs specialist at Reed Hall, told officers the arson took place between 10 p.m. Sunday and 2 p.m. Monday. The wall behind the poster had some rem-nants of debris and smoke, according to the report.

Monday’s arson is the latest arson reported in University dorms.

A Ron Paul sticker was set on fire in Reed Hall in early September. Other arsons include a report in July in Creswell Hall, three reports in February in Russell Hall and another report in November 2009 in Creswell Hall.

University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said there was no evidence to connect the arsons.

“It’s too early to tell if they’re connected or not, but we have no reason to believe that it is,” he said.

Williamson said he was fairly certain that each arson was committed by residents, however.

“I’m about 100 percent sure that it’s other stu-dents living in the build-ing, in all of the cases,” he said.

Williamson also said he believed the arsons were meant as pranks, not as attempts to cause serious damage to dorm halls.

“If students have some-thing on their door that other people don’t like, instead of tearing it down I think they set it on fire,” he said. “I don’t think they mean to harm anyone or there’s any intention to harm people in the build-ing. Most of the time the fire puts itself out.”

Graffiti reported in O-House

Officials reported graffi-ti painted in a stairwell on the south end of Oglethorpe House resi-dence hall on Monday, according to a University police report.

Anthony Johnson, a student affairs specialist at O-House, told officers the graffiti was painted between Oct. 1 and 4. The cost to repaint the wall is less than $500, according to the report.

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they had not said “no,” I thought it was incumbent upon me to apply again.

Why do you think you weren’t a finalist in the sec-ond round, yet you were eventually chosen?

I really don’t have knowl-edge of what was going on in the second round, so I don’t want speculate about that. I think I was selected

because I have the experi-ence of working with stu-dents and professionals for almost 30 years now. I can bring an understanding of what the Student Affairs department should be working for, and I can sup-port what Student Affairs is already doing, but I can also bring some new ideas to the work. And finally, I have a history for being a strong student advocate for all the institutions I’ve served.

Students were confused about the selection process itself. What are your thoughts on that process?

The one thing I know from experience when you’re going through a search is that it’s impera-tive that the institution hires who they perceive to be the right person. And that right person must have an understanding about how the institution works, how the position works and what are the needs of that position. It is clear that student advoca-cy is a key role of what will be expected of me as the new Dean of Students. I can understand how some-times the processes may be confusing. I have found myself, over the years, in similar situations where I have to make a decision that I feel is the best for the institution even though not everybody may under-stand that decision.

Are you worried about stu-dents supporting you?

When I was there in April, we had a very good

forum and there was very good discussion. I felt like I connected with the stu-dents, and I felt they con-nected with me.

If the students and the administration had con-flicting views, would you be willing to side with the students?

There are definite times I have advocated students’ views and opinions that were in direct conflict with the institution. There have been other times when, as a leader, I also have to rep-resent the institution’s side of that. From a strictly dualistic approach — would you do this for students? Absolutely. Would you do it for the institution? Depending on what the cir-cumstances are, absolutely. I think any test of leader-ship is to try and take all the different competing interests and try to find the best answer out of that.

What are your plans for your new role?

My first plan in January is to start building a rela-tionship with the wide vari-ety of constituents I’ll be serving — students, stu-dent leaders, staff, faculty, friends of the University and community individu-als.... At the same time, I can start understanding the processes that are in place and understanding better what the institution and the student leaders are expecting of this position.

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involved with academia, she will miss her students most.

“I love teaching these young people,” she said. “I have so much fun in my ecocriticism class that I wake up Tuesdays and Thursdays thinking ‘Oh boy, today’s a class day!’ And I think part of it is the way we have discussions, we have very deep discus-sions about the environ-ment, philosophical ideas — even religious ideas. We also have a lot of fun. There’s a lot of humor in my classroom. Humor’s allowed.”

A professor who cares

Andrew Wills was enrolled in Craige’s ecocrit-icism class in spring of last year. In February, he and his family took their annual ski trip to Colorado.

“The first day we got there I got into an awful ski accident,” Wills said. “It was probably the worst ski accident the ski resort had ever seen.”

Wills had been out ski-ing with his little brother when he hit a patch of snow and landed head first on a rock, cracking his skull. He was immediately knocked unconscious.

Wills was found by a 12-year-old boy and his father who were also out skiing. They called the ski patrol, and within 20 min-utes, 18 snowmobiles cov-ered the mountain.

“This little boy essen-tially saved my life, because had he not lifted my body up out of the snow and wiped my mouth clean and called the ski patrol in the time he did, I never would have made it,” Wills said.

Wills suffered a skull fracture, a hematoma, brain swelling and a stroke in the back part of his brain. He was in the inten-sive care unit at a hospital in Denver for three weeks. He spent eight weeks in rehab at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, where Wills said he relearned how to walk, talk, move around and think.

While Wills was in the hospital and rehab, Craige kept in contact with him.

“When I was in the hos-pital, Dr. Craige — who was

a teacher I had only had for a month, for the first time — she was just really nice, called my parents, got my number and e-mail address, e-mailed my mom, just kept up with me,” Wills said. “It was just an effort she didn’t have to make, and I’ve never seen a teach-er at UGA make before, and it brought UGA a lot smaller to me. It made UGA feel a little bit like a smaller school.”

Wills said Craige found out about his injury after his mother posted on the class’s eLearning Commons discussion board.

“And then he posted, or his mother posted, some-thing on the eLearning Commons about his acci-dent. And then, I wrote them, and sort of got involved,” Craige said.

Wills said Craige e-mailed and called him throughout his hospital stay. When he returned to the University in May, she continued to check in to see how he was doing.

Wills said, for him, being back at the University so soon after his injury was a personal triumph. He said knowing that a professor cared about his education and well-being made his journey back much easier.

“My parents have never been huge advocates of such a big school, I would say. You know, you don’t feel like you’re getting a personal education, you don’t feel like teachers real-ly care that much about you. And for one of my pro-fessors — especially a senior professor like Dr. Craige, a tenured professor like Dr. Craige — to check on me to make sure every-thing’s OK, it seems like she cares about my educa-tion,” Wills said. “I know it might not seem like that big of a deal, but when you’re in the hospital and you don’t have anyone else to talk to, when your teach-er e-mails you, that’s pretty cool.”

The classroom community

Students in Craige’s classes get to know each other very quickly.

“Everyone has to use each other’s names when discussing during class dis-cussions, so they have to learn each other’s names,”

Craige said. “And they form friendships in the class with each other, and I think that makes them enjoy the class better. The class becomes a community.”

Craige said her class is based on discussion. Every class period, two students lead the discussion.

“I get happy when I walk into class and the two stu-dents are already there, seated at the table, all excited about leading the class discussion. I think students like to do that,” Craige said.

Craige said her class also involves a lot of reading and writing. She said she encourages all her students to think of themselves as future leaders and tries to tailor her class to help stu-dents develop their think-ing skills.

“I don’t know how to solve any problems. One student asked me, ‘We dis-cuss all these problems, but we don’t discuss, we don’t find out what the solution is.’ And I say, “It’s gonna be up to your generation to find solutions, but you need to understand the prob-lems,’” she said. “And there are lots of solutions; there’s no one right way to think. Which is another reason I teach by discussion, because I believe that there’s no one right way to think.“

Craige encourages stu-dents to voice their opin-ions about the topics dis-cussed in her class. Her only rule is everyone must be polite and sweet.

“I hadn’t used the word ‘community’ before [to describe my class], but that is what I think I accomplish most in the classroom,” she said. “That I turn the class into a community of envi-ronmental thinkers. Who like each other. That’s important.”

Wills said Craige tries to tailor the class to each indi-vidual student’s interests.

“For example, we have one book that we can choose to read and write a paper on at the end of the semester. She sort of helps people pick books that relate to what they’re studying, that also relate to environmental criticism,” Wills said. “That’s a pretty cool thing to do. She’s very passionate about students’ education.”

Life of a scholar

Craige said her research has been influenced and benefited from her time at the University, getting to interact with faculty from other departments.

“That has enriched my life immensely. And that is one of the wonderful aspects of being faculty at a large university,” she said. “You can get to know people who do all kinds of things different from you.”

Craige’s books vary in topic from Eugene Odom to the emerging holistic way of thinking in topics such as civil rights, femi-nism and patriotism to her more recent book about her pet parrot, Cosmo.

“At the time I wanted to see, and I’ve always been interested in, in learning about how individuals from other species think,” Craige said. “And you know, we’ve got studies of dolphin language and gorilla language, and I’ve always been interested in

that. Cosmo has taught me lots of things, but she has a great sense of humor. I have a harder time than I expected seeing the differ-ence between a bird’s per-sonality and a human per-sonality, because Cosmo’s is sort of like mine.”

Craige said the main research that has driven her in her life and that she tries to pass on to stu-dents is the idea of holism, or the interconnectivity of things.

“It’s kind of a philo-sophical way of looking at things. And that’s what I’ve written about most,” Craige said. “What I think I’ve accomplished there is to teach these students

how to think about the world in a new way. It’s not that I’ve given them a body of knowledge — I’ve given them a way to think about nature.”

Wills said the University community will be a little less rich with the depar-ture of Craige next year.

“She’s been teaching at UGA for almost 40 years, she made a lot of progress, she’s a great advocate for civil rights,” Wills said. “I have a lot of respect for her. She’s a strong person. I have her again this semester, starting the class back that I dropped out of last semester. And I just think she’s a great person. She’s wonderful.”

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RETIREE: Professor encourages community fun in her classroom

By ALEX LAUGHLINTHE RED & BLACK

Professor John Knox spends about 70 percent of his time teach-ing four classes. And he said teach-ing is the most important aspect of his work.

But today, he’ll be honored for his research.

Knox, a professor in the geogra-phy department, is the winner of the National Weather Association’s T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award.

The Fujita Award is the NWA’s only research-related award.

It is named for the inventor of the Fujita Scale, which is used to rate tornado intensity.

Knox’s award-winning research, which is on clear-air turbulence, was sparked 15 years ago by a coinciden-tal confrontation at a conference in 1995.

Knox was giving a poster presen-tation when someone approached him with an idea.

“A fellow walked up to me and asked, ‘What does your research have to do with clear-air turbu-lence?’ I had no idea,” he said.

Knox, a year from finishing his doctoral studies on mid-latitude cyclones in the stratosphere, spent the next month in the library learn-ing as much as he could about clear-air turbulence forecasting.

The result of this research was a chapter of his Ph.D. thesis and 15 years of study leading up to this award.

“I like to tell students that this is evidence of how serendipity works,” Knox said. “Because it was a chance encounter, but I was able to follow

up on it and develop an entirely unexpected line of research that now has led to a national award.”

That Knox can maintain a bal-ance between research and teaching speaks of his priorities as a teacher.

“I think at heart I’m a teacher,” Knox said. “I like opening new doors for students. I like conveying new information and hopefully some-times wisdom to the next generation as well.”

On the first day of classes this semester, students walked into

Knox’s introductory geography class to hear Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me with Science” play-ing over the speak-ers.

Knox said he wants to make his classes enjoyable so students want to attend.

And students respond to his enthusiasm for teach-ing.

A search of “John Knox” on rate-myprofessor.com reveals 14 pages of students’ ravings about him.

One former student wrote, “do not leave UGA without taking a class from prof. Knox. Great teach-er.”

Knox will receive his award at the NWA meeting in Tucson, Ariz., today.

The catch? He will have to miss class to

accept the award.“Missing class is absolutely the

last thing I want to do, but for an honor like this, I have to go,” he said.

Award-winning professor still cares about students

On Friday, Johnny Knoxville met with jour-nalists via conference call to discuss the details behind “Jackass 3-D,” the latest entry in the franchise that made him famous.

Below, the highlights:How do you prepare for each stunt?

“Before I’m doing like a big stunt I’ll prob-ably — just about 20 minutes before it’s on — I’ll go sit and listen to my cousin’s music. And when it’s on, I just get someone to tap me on the shoulder and I walk right in. I want to get it right out of the way.”Why 3-D?

“The studio suggested it initially and we resisted ... but the camera really adds some-thing to it.”Anything that takes this “Jackass” above and beyond?

“Yeah, the relationship with the guys — we give each other hell, but you can tell how close we are, and that’s really there in this

film.”How much longer do you see yourself doing this?

“The Three Stooges did it ’til they were 60. ... We don’t know how much longer we’re doing it, but we aren’t making any predic-tions.”Is it hard coming up with new ideas?

“Yeah, it was easier coming up with ideas for this movie than any of ’em. We have a stockpile of ideas that we didn’t even get to use. And the 3-D camera really lent itself to a lot of stuff.”Any point or reason when you’d turn down a stunt?

“No — the only time I wouldn’t do a stunt is if there’s a negative vibe on the set, like a dark vibe going around and I’ll say, ‘Hey, let’s not do it today.’”

—Adam Carlson

Courtesy Jackass Movie

After surviving a genital snake bite and boxing on stilts, the boys of ‘Jackass’ head back to the silver screen next Friday (Oct. 15) for more craziness — in 3-D!

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Not every service job requires a tipPeople are tired of

tipping.Hairdressers,

manicurists, bellhops and maids all expect tips.

For what? Doing what you were hired to do?

Chelsea Toledo informed the student pop-ulation Monday (“Tipping is not an optional prac-tice,” Oct. 4) of the neces-sity of tipping for servers and bartenders. However, I strongly disagree with her opinion that all servic-es require additional cash.

I believe it’s only appro-priate to tip when the per-son doesn’t earn minimum wage from their employer.

Many people don’t make minimum wage when you factor in taxes — or if they’re salaried and work 60 hours per week.

Though Toledo is cer-tainly correct that most work is performed behind the scenes of a restaurant, I wonder — does she tip the cooks when her food is promptly prepared?

How about the manag-er for making her sched-ule?

Didn’t think so.Tipping has skyrocket-

ed out of control.Because everyone

expects a tip, you’re a bad person if you don’t — and you’re broke if you do.

Tipping servers ensures friendly, happy service when you dine out. If serv-ers didn’t rely on tips, those faces would reflect how we look behind the kitchen door.

I mean, look at the ser-vice — or lack thereof — you receive at minimum-wage clothing stores.

Usually the only person who acknowledges your existence is the cashier.

I’m a bartender, and I love walking home with cash every night.

I make my rent by dis-pensing liquor quickly and politely — OK, not always politely. When I receive exact cash for opening a Bud Light, I don’t make a fuss.

It literally takes me two seconds to twist off the top — why does that war-rant a tip?

Now, after six or seven beers — yeah, slide me a five.

At the end of the night, I chose to work a job that has me mimicking Oliver after I serve a cocktail. I could work at a tanning salon, but I like the instant gratification of money in my pocket after every shift.

Perhaps people would shell out the extra bucks if they didn’t see open palms every time they made a purchase.

Where will it stop?Passing a Ben Franklin

to your doctor after the anesthesia wears off?

How about the cop that issues your speeding tick-et?

They’re definitely serv-ing you something.

But as far as Toledo’s column suggests — when it’s deserved, tip your servers and bartenders.

And anyone who can mess with your hair.

— Samantha Shelton is a senior from Auburn

majoring in newspapers

SAMANTHA SHELTON

In 1948, the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights declared that access to

education is a fundamental right to be enjoyed by all people, regardless of race, class or creed.

Today, more than ever before, that right is under attack.

Funding for public education is drying up in states all across the nation.

Georgia now faces a massive budget deficit, which puts funding for public education on the chop-ping block.

State lawmakers have proposed a $146 million budget cut to the entire university system. The University alone stands to lose $30 million.

And yet, in 2009, the University’s top administrators received an average raise of $12,300, or 4.55 per-cent. Top faculty members received an increase of $13,250, or 5.31 per-cent.

If public education is running out of funds, those at the top don’t seem to be getting the message.

As always, it is the most vulner-able among us who will bear the heaviest burdens.

Administrators will continue to gather obscene pay while the work-ers who keep our campus running

will be laid off en masse. Dining hall employees, janitors,

and construction workers will watch helplessly as their already inadequate wages diminish.

Promising students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds will be turned away when tuition rates increase and scholarships run out.

As convenient scapegoats, immi-grant students will likely be denied access to public universities.

Therein lies the true tragedy of the budget cuts: Georgia will be denied a chance at building a bet-ter future.

Education provides each of us a path to a better tomorrow. It nur-tures the best in us as individuals while enhancing the well-being of our entire community.

Education creates jobs, putting spending money in the hands of workers and stimulating the local economy.

It gives those living in poverty a way out, and would-be lawbreak-ers an alternative to a life of drugs

and crime.If we allow the state to de-fund

our public education, we will inher-it a future of more unemployment, more poverty, and more crime.

It doesn’t have to be this way.If budget cuts must be made,

lawmakers can start with those whose cups are already overfilled.

A small tax increase on the wealthy will allow the rich to give back to the communities that helped create their wealth.

At the same time, it will give the rest of us a fair shot at success.

On Oct. 7, students will have the opportunity to make their voices heard at the March & Rally to Defend Public Higher Education.

The rally, organized by the University’s chapter of Georgia Students for Public Higher Education, will be held at noon in front of the administration build-ing.

With dancing, music, banners, speakers and general rowdiness, students will have the opportunity to stand up for a better world.

This is our future. Don’t allow them to squander it.

— Jonathan Rich is a junior from Alpharetta

majoring in sociology

It’s five minutes until kickoff. I’m standing in the east end zone of

Folsom Field in Boulder, Colo., amongst a giant sea of red.

We’re singing “Glory, Glory” and gearing up for the return of the legend that is A.J. Green — when I hear an insufferable noise.

“Let’s go Buffs!”I turn around to con-

front the person that would quickly become my nemesis for the next 60 minutes of game play.

There stood a large, pale blonde decked out in a buffalo outfit.

It didn’t seem to faze her that she was sitting in the middle of hostile terri-tory.

Every second, the drunken beast just contin-ued to become more and more obnoxious.

I realized then why Buffalo Bill enjoyed killing bison.

By the time Colorado scored its first touchdown, we had enough.

My friend got into the girl’s face and demanded she leave our section.

In an instance, several of her intoxicated minions — who I hesitantly refer to as Georgia fans — stepped in front of her and insisted we leave her alone because she was their friend.

Apparently, the ogre grew up in Colorado so it was okay for her to cheer for them.

Being the reasonable person that I am, I stayed out of the fight. Instead, I offered $100 in cash to the first female that gave her a black eye.

Unfortunately, no one took me up on my offer

and we were forced to lis-ten to her excessive howl-ing for the rest of the game.

Rule No. 1 in Georgia football: Friends don’t bring friends to games unless they support the Dawgs.

I don’t care who they are or what their story is.

If you bring your cute, 90-year-old grandmother to a game and she cheers for anyone but Georgia in the middle our fans, I hope someone decks her.

This applies doubly to our student section.

I can’t tell you how many times one of our peers has snuck in some-one who insists on backing our opponent. If that is you, you are no fan.

We are at the game for one reason and one reason alone — to support our team.

If you are bringing along an obnoxious girl dressed in a cheap buffalo costume to the game, you aren’t doing your job. Every opponent you bring is just one less person championing our cause.

If they must come, don’t make us put up with them. Stick them in the top of the stadium where no one has to hear them.

Otherwise, save us the pain and watch the game with them at home.

Then everyone wins.

— Jeremy Dailey is a senior from Conyers

majoring in political science

JONATHAN RICH

JEREMY DAILEY

I can’t find a job, and I can’t find work.

That is the state-ment I heard when pass-ing by a sobbing girl on my way back from a debate.

Perhaps I can offer some advice on getting a job, whether it be a part-time student position, or a full-time corporate job.

I have worked in both settings, and interviewed potential applicants for both roles.

The first and best way to be excluded from an interview process is to say, “I’m looking for a job.” Most companies do not want to hire people who are simply “looking for a job.”

Just like individuals, companies have needs. They need someone to help teach students. They need someone to negoti-ate top financial deals.

Consequently, you should think, “I want to do x for a company.”

Not only does this communicate that you enjoy working in the

industry, but you also enjoy pleasing customers.

Don’t lie to yourself about where you want to work.

I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to find a place where you WANT to work.

A business major would probably rather run errands for a financial office than wait tables.

Businesses that know you want to work for them or want to help them succeed are infinite-ly more likely to hire you.

But if you can’t find the ideal job, pick some-thing that can help you in your career in the long run.

Let’s say your major is advertising. Though working at the front desk at Ramsey might not land you your dream job, there are plenty of opportuni-

ties to assist with events, create PR and help spread the word about new exercise programs.

If you can do this suc-cessfully, guess what that big advertising company is going to see on your résumé once you gradu-ate?

I don’t criticize or judge students who have the occasional beer or fre-quent parties. But if you’re going downtown for the fourth straight night in a row, you proba-bly don’t have to ask yourself why you don’t have a job.

People say, “I can’t find a job because of the econ-omy.” Incorrect.

Nobody is hiring YOU because of that type of attitude.

Unemployment in this country is hovering around 10 percent. How do you think the other 90 percent of people got jobs?

They worked their rear ends off to get there. They sent out 10 applica-tions every week until

they got an interview. They checked with vari-ous departments in their college. They did every-thing in their power to find a job that suited them.

The real world is hun-gry for fresh meat, and if you don’t make the investment in yourselves now, you’ll be a delightful snack come graduation time.

Without putting in hard work to find the right company for you, without studying to build confidence for that first interview, you’re drasti-cally decreasing your chances in the working world.

So remember — find a company you want to work for. Focus on the reasons you want to work for them and help them succeed.

Now you’re one step closer to having cash in your pockets.

— Jason Orlosky is a senior from Augusta

majoring in Japanese

Take correct steps to find a perfect career

JASON ORLOSKY

Freedom of speech for all viewpointsI wanted to comment on Sarah Quinn’s recent car-

toons, mainly the cartoon printed Monday [Oct. 4] of James Madison regretting certain people’s freedom of speech.

The fact that she regrets contrary opinions and their right to be aired is quite disturbing and is a sad

trend in progressive politics. James Madison would most certainly disagree with

her views on freedom of speech. He would most likely disagree with the issue itself (try his writings for a start).

I deplore the movements which all the more seek to silence the voice of dissenters or “the fringe” — I still support their right to air their opinion.

There were 10 Amendments in the Bill of Rights for a reason.

GEORGE ‘MURRAY’ FOX JR.Senior, Athens

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By MICHAEL PROCHASKATHE RED & BLACK

Frank Sinatra once said he wished somebody would learn his art so it doesn’t die where it is.

Luckily, Tony Bennett was able to follow in his legendary footsteps.

Bennett, entering his sixth decade of professional singing, will perform at the Classic Center Wednesday to help bridge the generation gap for those unfamiliar with jazz and pop standards. Though not a member of the Rat Pack, Bennett had a close bond with Sinatra.

“He was like a brother to me,” Bennett wrote in an e-mail to The Red & Black.

According to a Vanity Fair article, as a child Bennett would tune in to a radio program akin to American Idol and was instantly captivated by Sinatra’s confidence.

More than 60 years later, he established the Frank Sinatra School for the Arts in New York to honor his late friend.

“Just at the time of his passing, my wife Susan and I had been talk-ing about doing something to sup-port arts education in public schools as the arts were being [completely] eliminated,” Bennett wrote. “It was a great tribute that we were able to found a public arts high school in New York City.”

Spearheading the commemora-tive public high school was just one of many accomplishments that land-ed Bennett the United Nation’s Humanitarian Award in 2007.

He has raised millions of dollars

for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, performed fund-raisers for environmental associations and contributed to the American Cancer Society, but marching with Martin Luther King Jr. to Selma, Ala., remains a pinnacle moment in his philanthropy.

“They wanted to have some celeb-rities to get attention to the cause to give the fact that African-Americans were still being denied voting rights,” Bennett wrote. “I immediately said ‘yes,’ as working with African-American jazz artists on the road I had seen firsthand the discrimina-tion.”

At one point he held an impromp-tu performance for the marchers, but because there was no stage, he helped build one comprised of 18 coffins from the local funeral parlor.

Why go through such lengths for a show in Selma?

Bennett wrote the arts allow a person to connect to their soul and communicate that to others.

“Music and art is the essence of our humanity,” he wrote. “As a per-former, I feel it is a very honorable profession and I always try to give my best to the audience.”

Bennett also hopes to edify music lovers unacquainted with older music.

In the 1980s he realized a whole generation had never heard the tunes of many jazz-influenced American composers, such as Cole Porter and George Gershwin.

“To them, it was different. If you’re different, you stand out,” he said in an interview with AARP Magazine.

Bennett was impressed by the advent of MTV and quickly benefited from hopping on the music video bandwagon.

“I told my son and manager Danny that I wanted to get involved, so he got in touch with MTV and the next [thing] I knew I received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year for my ‘MTV Unplugged,’” he told The Red & Black. “As a result performers such as k.d. lang, Diana Krall, Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Bublé were able to make a living per-forming the Great American Songbook and I was glad to be a part of helping the younger genera-tion ‘discover’ this treasure trove of music.”

Bennett has performed for 10 U.S. presidents, recorded more than 100 albums and was the first celebrity to have a cameo appearance on “The Simpsons.” When he doesn’t have a microphone in his hand, Bennett holds a paintbrush.

“I pretty much paint every day,” Bennett wrote. “When I am on the road I always have a sketchbook and pencil and I travel with a portable easel and watercolors, so I often will paint the view from the hotel where I am staying or go to a local park and just paint.”

On Tuesday, actress Diane Lane (“Untraceable”) and director Randall Wallace (“We Were Soldiers”) met separately with journalists at the Ritz-Carlton in Buckhead to discuss the making of their new film “Secretariat.”

Topics included imitating a living subject, having an equine co-star and trying to connect with audiences.

Below, the highlights:

What attracted you to a Disney film?

Lane: Well, everyone loves a winner, you know, and we already knew the outcome.What was it like having your most important co-star be a horse?

Lane: You’re very cautious around 1,800 pounds of co-star who can knock you into next week. So I had to try and become braver than I’d chosen to be … I had to drop all my pretensions and my anxiety and become very Zen.How did you “become” a woman who was not only real, but still alive?

Lane: [Penny Chenery] is neat. She’s a multitude of things. She’s a grand dame, but she’s also hum-ble and grateful. Even though she was confident, she wasn’t brag-gardly. … Living up to her is very surreal.How was working on a Disney film?

Lane: I think there is a level of expectation for the end result that is very specific when you have the brand “Disney” on something, and that’s actual-ly fine with me and that suited the story brilliantly. It was kind of a perfect marriage.How did you end up doing a Disney sports film?

Wallace: The common thing between [my films] is that those are stories about courage and honor and love and the only difference really is that, where in those stories courage and hope resulted in sacri-fice, in “Secretariat” they resulted in glory. … The real question isn’t “Is there life after death?” It’s, “Is there life after birth?”You have a sort of “impressionistic” approach to bio-pics, more about capturing emotional truth rather than facts. How did you develop that strate-gy, and why do you think it’s so effective?

Wallace: I think that in the course of living and trying to connect and communicate with other peo-ple, I’ve found that the most powerful feelings are some that have to be articulated. And that rather than desire a philosophy to tell the truth, we tell a story. … We wanted to get that experience exactly: the sequence of the race, the gaps between horses and the speed they were going. But the deepest question is the soul of the story — the “why.”How did you freshen a genre that’s been done, frankly, to death?

Wallace: When I hear the word “genre” applied to my profession it makes me feel smothered and claustrophobic. And this was presented early on as a sports film, a chick film … and for me it was never any of those things. To me, I’m excited about the icon films … when a story rises to the resonance of myth.What was it like getting Diane for this film and working with her?

Wallace: She is such a gentle cover on a steel core. And that’s what Penny was.How was working with the real Penny Chenery and bringing her story to life?

Wallace: Penny’s like 88 and, like, you wanna ask her on a date. She’s incredibly charismatic. … In my experience in life, racehorses are like women. You can try all you want and you won’t be able to explain ’em. And they want to be unexplainable.

— Adam Carlson

Courtesy Tony Bennett

A lover of all things art, Tony Bennett can often be found painting in his hotel room after a show.

After six decades, legend refuses to slow

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to know that there is always next year, or the next. That’s the thing: even when times looked the worst during the season, we could always look to it. Now it appears that oppor-tunity has passed us by as well. But while we all are hurting here in 2010, the future may yet hold a bet-ter day. We just cannot know. We can only hope something is done to relieve the heartache.”

The inevitable report of its passing came as no sur-prise.

Tailgating in Athens had been on life support for the past year. With the decision to ban many of the most essential tailgating acces-sories from the University’s North Campus, the phe-nomenon was already in a crisis. Most saw tailgating fading fast, but nothing substantial was done to prevent the calamity.

It only took one last straw to flatline our beloved Saturday compan-ion. It came all too fast.

If Michael Adams and the rest of the administra-tion put tailgating on life support, Mark Richt and his 1-4 football team pulled the plug.

Complaints have flood-ed the Georgia media in recent weeks, asking the question as to why the administration keeps scheduling these noon games. Did they not under-stand that it not only were Friday nights unfairly shortened, but our dearest friend tailgating would suf-fer severely from the deci-sion?

Well, this was not a con-

scious effort by the admin-istration.

This was a calculated reaction from outside sources, and tailgating received the brunt of the blow.

With a 1-4 team compet-ing in Athens, television networks have lost all interest in showing the Bulldogs’ games at later times in the day, when viewership is higher. So we now mourn tailgating because the networks would rather kill tailgating in Athens than expose viewers to lackluster Georgia football.

While the slightest of possibilities remains that tailgating could be revived in the season’s final two home games, the fan base should not count on it. With Georgia Tech plod-ding through a mediocre season and Idaho State being Idaho State, noon games appear to be the norm in Athens. And with every noon game announced, it only solidi-fies tailgating’s position at six feet under.

All there is left is to mourn the season’s loss — and hope for a brighter future.

Tailgating is survived by a 1-4 Georgia football team, a partially-filled Sanford Stadium and an athletic administration that is facing diminishing profits and still has not devised an acceptable stu-dent ticket system.

For those looking to console the distant rela-tives of Athens tailgating, it is recommended to attend the Florida game in Jacksonville, Fla., which is set for its traditional 3:30

p.m. kickoff.And so ends the cere-

mony: “Thank you all for attending on this sad day. It was so nice to see these 100,000-plus familiar faces. I know the agony will wear on for quite sometime, and no one will soon forget the year 2010. Hope to see all of you milling around an hour or two before Saturday’s Tennessee game, solemnly missing the days when tailgating was still with us. Please feel free to leave your condolences at North Campus. With that, I will step down before I choke up again. I hate goodbyes.”

Kill the bagpipes. Shoot the guns.

DEATH: Team’s record to blame

By RACHEL G. BOWERSTHE RED & BLACK

For 10 seasons, Mark Richt has brought up the rear when his team runs out of the tunnel before the game.

But during his weekly call-in radio show Monday, a caller posed an interesting question.

“The caller made a good point. ‘You’re the leader of the pack, why don’t you lead the pack?’ That makes good sense to me. I think we’ll try that,” Richt said.

The head coach said Tuesday he “always let the boys go first” because he considered it “their day.” But Richt has decided to take the call-er’s advice.

And since Richt said he will lead the team out of the tunnel Saturday against Tennessee, he said he has been doing some extra preparations for the occasion.

“I’ve been stretching and I’m a little concerned about pulling a [ham-string] if I go too hard,” Richt joked. “I hope somebody reminds me to [run in front] because old habits die hard. It’s been 10 years and I haven’t done it. I have to get out front and lead the pack, so I think it will be good.”

Players respond well to Monday’s practice in full pads

Richt said his decision to practice in full pads Monday “pumped some life” into the players. He said he is reverting to his “original philosophy” of working on the funda-mentals in practice.

He said he stayed away from full pads before because the chances of injuries increase. Richt said one season there were “32 guys hurt going into the year” because the amount of work the team did in full pads during spring practice and fall camp.

“We did the least amount of [blocking and tackling] in camp than we’ve ever done,” Richt said. “Is it biting us in the rear end right now? Probably so. That’s a decision I made based on what I just told you. The only thing I know how to do is go back to the basics of blocking and tackling and make sure we do that good.”

But Richt said the possibility of injuries still weighs on his mind.

“It’s hard not to flinch sometimes when you have your red cross look-ing pretty rough, but it’s part of football,” he said.

Other notes from Tuesday

Richt said he will not have a more active role in play calling, but he will start to give offensive coordinator Mike Bobo more of his opinion in certain situations.

“Sometimes if a coach knows he has three downs to get two yards instead of two downs to get two yards, he may call that a little bit different. Or there may be times I’ll say, ‘Let’s run this thing’ or whatever it might be,” Richt said. “I need to be a little more assertive in that way just to give [Bobo] direction and help him know how to approach it.”

Richt said tailback Caleb King has “made a good case” to claim the starting job against Tennessee, but he also said the starter won’t be named until later in the week.

With Georgia’s laundry list of issues plaguing the team, Richt said the offensive line’s play is “not good enough at this point.” But he also said that goes for the whole team.

“I’d say across the board we just haven’t been good enough,” Richt said. “There have been some bright spots, there have been some good things that have hap-pened, but we just haven’t done it good enough as a team so I don’t really want to single out the O-line because they’re in the same boat everybody else is in, in my opinion.”

Quips from Tuesday

Richt on being a 13-point favorite against Tennessee: “I hope they are right. Are you kidding me? I don’t look at those things, but wow ... Wow.”

Richt on whether Georgia’s defense needs more plays like Colorado forcing the fourth-quarter fumble Saturday: “If [teams] would just not block us I think we would make more plays like that. That’s what hap-pened [on the fourth quarter fumble], we didn’t block him.

Richt on whether he still enjoys head coach-ing: “Is it always fun? Head coaching isn’t always fun, I can tell you that, even when you are winning. Anybody who has head coached long enough knows that every-thing you do in your job is not fun. The purest form of fun in coaching is coaching. Head coaching, you have all kinds of stuff you get to do. I get to hang out with [the media] a lot — that’s fun. That’s one of the fun parts. Is it as fun as it has always been? If you said as fun, yeah it’s as fun. I can’t say it’s off-the-chain fun, but it’s a responsibil-ity that I enjoy.”

Richt to be first out of tunnel

MEAGAN KELLEY | The Red & Black

For the first time, head coach Mark Richt (above) will lead Georgia’s players out of the tunnel against Tennessee on Saturday.

FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

Here is a consolidated list of

possible suspects contributing to

tailgating’s demise:

RICHT

ADAMS

MOTIVE:

Fewer fans

on campus

means fewer

people to

witness the

team’s

performance.

MOTIVE:

Probably

didn’t enjoy

the game

day ruckus

or tailgaters

peeing in his

parking spot.

POSSIBLE SUSPECTS