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FRIEND THIS FILM‘The Social

Network’ hits theaters Friday. Is it worth the

hype?Page 8

TWO CENTSOne professor’s research could save species by predicting their

demise. Page 3

Where’s Mikey?

The minions who put together President Adams’ schedule always seem to leave Monday blank. I wonder what he’s up to...

By PAIGE VARNERTHE RED & BLACK

The main issue from Student Government Association President Josh Delaney’s cam-paign platform is also the main challenge for SGA’s Senate.

Delaney campaigned for at-large student life Senate seats to represent campus organiza-tions. But Senate hasn’t decid-ed yet how to implement that plan.

“It definitely makes SGA more representative,” said Gregory Locke, a Franklin College senator. “That way, senators can focus on their col-lege’s issues instead of extra-curricular issues.”

Students already vote for senators to represent their col-leges and schools.

Locke proposed amending the SGA Constitution last week to include these student life Senate seats. The proposal was tabled for Tuesday’s Senate meeting so senators could dis-cuss just how the new senators

would be chosen.Franklin College Senator

Will Burgess said he agrees with the premise of adding stu-dent life representatives, but he was hesitant to fully support the plan.

“I’d have to see the final proposal,” he said. “I want to make sure it’s perfect.”

Delaney said two options for choosing senators are being discussed.

In the first option, 12 stu-dent life representatives would be chosen from the umbrella groups in the Student Life Advisory Council.

See SGA, Page 2

Mark Richt is in a bit of a sticky situation.

He has lost three games in a row for the first time in his head coaching career, and he is 0-3 in the SEC for the first time.

Richt is in uncharted waters as an entire fan base watches him try to navigate the unfamiliar territory with steam pouring from their ears.

“Well, definitely in a posi-tion I’ve never been in as a coach or a player that I can

remember. Certainly not a good place to be,” Richt said. “We also have to look within, starting with me, as to the things that have kept us from having the success that we want.”

Those “things” make up a lengthy list that I don’t have the space to discuss.

But Richt is right about one thing: the coaches need to take one long look in the mir-ror.

Offensive coordinator Mike

Bobo was the first coach all season who finally said some-thing in a post-game interview that wasn’t sugar coated and didn’t have a positive spin on it. The days of deflecting the media from the true problems

— feeding fans lines that hold no water — appear to be over.

“Yeah, [things are] bad if you’re 1-and-whatever the crap we are,” Bobo said. “We play to win the game and work hard and we’re not getting it done. It’s disappointing and I know the guys are frustrated.”

Though Georgia’s players and coaches don’t prepare to play mediocre football, Mississippi State’s effort,

See RICHT, Page 6

By ADAM CARLSONTHE RED & BLACK

Late last fall, the phone rang twice for Jenna Sykes.

The first time, the news was not good: an ailing family member had passed away.

A few hours later came word that the telecom-munication arts major, a senior, had made the cut for “The Amazing Race.” She’d been cast on its upcoming 17th season.

“It was bittersweet,” she said of the experience.It was also an ending to the first part of an

emotional roller coaster that encompassed all parts of her involvement with the show, including the application, pre-production and production stages.

Indecision, excitement, exhaustion and stress recurred consistently.

“There were so many things going through my head,” Sykes said. “What if I do this? What if they don’t pick me?”

And it all started with a tweet.Last September, Sykes’ birth mother, Andy

DeKroon, noticed on Twitter where she had men-tioned an interest in competing on the show —

See RACE, Page 8

LOSING IT

MEAGAN KELLEY | The Red & Black

Jenna Sykes, a senior telecommunica-tion arts major, finished in 9th place on the first episode which aired Sunday night.

WES BLANKENSHIP | The Red & Black

The Georgia football program experienced a couple firsts over the weekend. After losing to Mississippi State for the first time since 1974, the Bulldogs now find themselves at the bottom of the conference.

SGA campaign promise may become new policy

When: Tuesday at 8 p.m.Where: MLC 148More Information: Discussion of how to implement new at-large Senate seats. All students welcome.

SGA SENATE MEETING

FOOTBALL SCORE Arkansas 24, Georgia 12

Freshman kicked off team after DUI arrest

By DAVID MITCHELLTHE RED & BLACK

After a forgettable weekend on the field, Georgia football suf-fered further loss with yet anoth-er player arrest.

Linebacker Demetre Baker was kicked off the team following an arrest early Sunday.

“Demetre has been dismissed from the football team,” head coach Mark Richt said.

Baker, 19, was booked by the Athens-Clarke County Police at 4:26 a.m. Sunday and charged with DUI, underage possession and improper driving, according to police records.

He was released at 11 a.m. on $2,500 bond.

Baker, a freshman, is the 10th Georgia football player arrested and fourth dismissed from the team in the past year.

Previous dismissals include quarterback Zach Mettenberger, linebacker Montez Robinson and punter Trent Dittmer.

“We have had enough issues off the field that it’s been a big distrac-tion and sad for our young men and for our pro-gram and the University and everybody else,” Richt said.

Referencing the severity of the punishment, Richt said Baker “was fully aware of the possible consequences that resulted from this kind of decision.”

The arrest came just hours after the Bulldogs suffered a 24-12 loss to Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss., for the first time since 1974.

Baker did not accompany the team for the game according to the team’s dress-out roster.

Baker, a native of Orange Park, Fla., had not played in a game for the Bulldogs this season and was expected to redshirt.

Richt said he had not yet addressed the team and that they would meet today as sched-uled.

Georgia 0-3 in SEC for first time under RichtBAKER

Student reunites with birth mother for ‘Amazing Race’

RACHEL G. BOWERS

When a professor sizzles

do your grades fizzle?

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24 Recedes 25 Sore from a

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Student resists arrest

University student and Red & Black staff writer Jason Lawrence Axelrod, 20, was arrested Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. after resisting arrest, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report.

Axelrod was approached after officers noticed workers from a bar on East Clayton Street asking for assistance. Axelrod was told several times to leave the bar, then grabbed hold of the railing to prevent being forced to leave, according to the report.

Axelrod reportedly ran toward Lay-Z Shopper, but was unable to punch in the entry code to residences above downtown before officers caught up.

While sitting on the curb, he began speaking in a different language, and banged his head against the window while in the police car.

Axelrod was charged

with underage possession of alcohol, public intoxica-tion and obstruction of law enforcement officials, according to the report.

Student arrested while unconscious

University student Conner Oglesby, 18, was arrested after being found unconscious Friday at about 2:30 a.m., according to a University Police report.

He was arrested in the driveway of the Government Relations Building and charged with underage possession of alcohol and possession of a fake ID.

Urination leads to arrest

A University student was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol after officers observed him urinating in the bushes near the School of Law, according to a University Police report.

Jonathan Allen Cash, 19, was also found in pos-session of a fake ID, according to the report.

University employee issued warrant for theft

A warrant was issued for a former University tell-er connected to the theft of $2,000 from the Business Services Building on Sept. 20, according to a University Police report.

Police issued a warrant Monday for Ashley Nicole Threlkeld, charging her with one count of theft by taking on June 24. The money was taken from a teller cash drawer, accord-ing to the report.

Warrant issued for finan-cial card theft

A warrant was issued Wednesday for the arrest of a University visitor con-nected with the theft of a financial transaction card from a University employ-ee, according to a University Police report.

Officials issued the arrest warrant for Teri Tynesha Bennett after a University Bookstore employee reported she dis-covered fraudulent charges to her card on Sept. 15. The card was stolen on Aug. 9, according to the police report.

— Compiled by Tiffany Stevens

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CORRECTIONSThe Red & Black is

committed to journalistic excellence and providing the most accurate news possible. Contact us if you see an error, and we will do our best to correct it.

Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Burnett(706) 433-3027

editor@randb.com

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CRIME NOTEBOOKONLINE

Police Documents

SGA Report Card

TAILGATINGUniversity President Michael Adams told The Red & Black no

changes will be made to the North Campus tailgating restrictions until next year. Delaney said he remains hopeful he can persuade the Gameday Committee when he attends its October meeting to consider a less punitive option for students.

Grade:

B

By ADINA SOLOMONTHE RED & BLACK

Dreaded furlough days are gone, but perhaps not for long.

Furlough days — where state employ-ees, including those from the University System of Georgia, take obligatory days off without pay — were mandated by the Board of Regents in semesters past.

Furlough days were a last-ditch effort to help the state get out of massive debt, said John Millsaps, spokesman for the Board of Regents.

“The budget hole was so big that they ran out of other options at that point,” he said.

Millsaps said the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget told the Board of Regents to not mandate any furlough days for fiscal year 2011, which began July 1, 2010 and ends June 30, 2011.

But the Board of Regents thinks fiscal year 2012 — running from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 — could be a different story.

“Fiscal year 2011 won’t be as difficult as fiscal year 2010, but they’re looking at the 2012 fiscal year as maybe the hardest yet,” Millsaps said.

He said one reason for this is because stimulus money previously received will expire by fiscal year 2012. Also, a special student fee of $200 charged each semester will end in fiscal year 2012.

But Millsaps said the future is hazy for furlough days.

“I couldn’t predict it. The clear mes-

sage is to try to avoid those this year,” Millsaps said.

Tom Jackson, vice president for public affairs, said the University is doing “slight-ly” better financially this year than last year.

“We had a substantial tuition increase that helped with the budget,” Jackson said.

Tim Burgess, senior vice president for finance and administration, also said the University is in a better financial position this year partly due to the $500 tuition increase for both in-state and out-of-state students.

“We’ve been able to hold the lines on expenditures. We have seriously curtailed hiring to the point that there are a lot of vacant positions,” Burgess said.

He said because the Board of Regents didn’t require furloughs this year, the University has tried to balance the budget without them.

John Soloski, a journalism professor, said though it puts strain on his finances, he understands the University was forced to take the furlough days.

“I think they had no choice,” Soloski said. “The UGA budget may be OK, but the state budget may be in trouble.”

Millsaps said furlough days are not the ideal tactic for increasing revenue because the state has long-term budget problems it needs to fix.

“A furlough is a short-term solution,” he said. “The structural problem still remains.”

Furlough days may recur in 2012

From Page 1

The Student Life Advisory Council members are: Ag Hill Council, Graduate Student Association, Residence Hall Association, Student Health Advisory Committee, Greek Life, Panhellenic Council, the Department of Intercultural Affairs, Multicultural Services and Programs, African American Cultural Center, International Student Life, Student Athlete Advisory Committee and University Judiciary.

SGA is also a member of the council, but Delaney said no representative from SGA would fill the student life seat.

Because the member organizations change year-ly, Delaney said two more

rotating seats would be filled by nonmember — but influential — campus groups, such as Volunteer UGA.

In the second option, 16 representatives would be chosen from each category of groups in the Center for Student Organizations.

“The approach we have to take is for the seats to represent common mis-sions, ideas and visions within that category,” Delaney said.

The academic category has the highest number of member organizations at 104. Most categories, such as arts, religious, profes-sional and service, have at least 25 member organiza-tions.

Locke, the senator who proposed the new seats, said the one senator from the 25 or so organizations

could be chosen by voting among themselves.

If new senators are cho-sen this way, one College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences senator, Gena Perry, said she’s not sure South Campus would be fairly represented.

In the second option, Ag Hill Council would vie against 10 organizations for a Senate position.

Though the category it would be competing in has one of the fewest numbers of member organizations, Perry — who is also the Ag Hill Council’s president — said Ag Hill Council plays a big role in South Campus affairs.

“I would hope that, being such a big part of South Campus, we would have a good chance,” she said.

SGA: Voting may exclude some

TICKETINGDelaney campaigned for students being able to donate unwanted

football tickets to whomever they choose. He said he knew he wouldn’t be able to change the ticketing system between spring and fall, but his goal is to change it by next spring. This week he is scheduling a meeting with Athletic Director Greg McGarity, Director of Marketing John Bateman and Trey Sinyard, student representa-tive on the Athletic Association board.

Grade:

B+

C-MINUS and WITHDRAWAL POLICYDelaney is writing a proposal to the University Council to elimi-

nate C-minus grades. Because proposals must pass committees first, Delaney expects the University Council to vote on it early spring semester. Delaney said the withdrawal policy acts as a double pun-ishment for suspended students — they’re in trouble, and they’ll likely use up all their allowed four withdrawals. He suspects amend-ing the policy will receive push-back, so he’s timing it to reach the University Council later in the year around April or May.

Grade:

A-

UNIFIED VOICE TO BOARD OF REGENTSAt the University System of Georgia Student Advisory Council’s

conference in November, Delaney will propose creating a speaker position to more officially relay students’ concerns to the Board of Regents.

Grade:

A-STUDENTS DECIDING ON FEES

When various units around campus submit fee proposals to the mandatory fee committee, Delaney wants half of those initial deci-sion-makers to be students. He said he’s already spoken to the transportation fee committee, which he said will be open to the idea. Delaney plans a spring semester push for fall 2011 implementation since fees for spring have been or are already being decided.

Grade:

B+

FALL SEMESTER/LUNCHTIME MEAL PLANDelaney said the SGA Student Life Committee has been working

on getting a fall semester-only or lunchtime-only meal plan. Other student life plans are making sure all parking areas display open/close times and getting Redbox movie rental kiosks in the Tate Center.

Grade:

A-

UNIVERSITY JUDICIARYUniversity Judiciary once acted as SGA’s judicial branch, and

Delaney campaigned on reinstating that relationship. But SGA will not move forward with this plan. “That was the one thing on our platform I most regret putting on there,” he said. The two discipline models are too different, he said. University Judiciary sees cases for University Code of Conduct infractions. SGA’s judicial branch solely holds SGA members accountable for offenses such as missing too many Senate meetings. “Whereas you may be found guilty in one, you might be found not guilty in another,” he said.

Grade:

F

SGA AND GOVERNMENTDelaney and student leaders from three other Georgia schools

are organizing a gubernatorial debate for candidates to address students’ concerns. Roy Barnes, Nathan Deal and John Monds will attend the debate on Oct. 3 at Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta. In addition, Delaney is planning a SGA Day at the Capitol during the Georgia Legislature’s spring session for some “good ole-fashioned advocacy.”

Grade:

A+

After the spring semester Student Government Association campaigns, students elected Josh Delaney and “The Snapshot” party.

SGA is pressing forward with its main campaign promise — to add at-large Senate seats for campus organizations.

But what about the other two dozen promises? The Red & Black caught up with Delaney to see where they stand.

— Compiled by Paige Varner

By BRIANA GERDEMANTHE RED & BLACK

Eric Goodman will make the trip from Athens to Jacksonville, Fla., for the Georgia-Florida game this October.

But he won’t spend a penny on gas.

Goodman’s truck runs on cooking oil, which he gets for free from restaurants and busi-nesses. Now, Goodman has cre-ated a business based on col-lecting and recycling used cook-ing oil.

It started this summer, when Goodman’s uncle gave Goodman a vehicle that runs on cooking oil and contacts with three restaurants willing to donate used cooking oil.

Goodman, a business man-agement major, discovered there was a demand for grease collection. On June 1, he found-ed Premier Grease.

So far, Goodman, a senior from Marietta, has expanded his collecting from three res-taurants to 34.

Goodman collects used cooking oil from restaurants, apartment complexes, Greek houses and private residences.

He picks up the oil in one of his two trucks, which both run using cooking oil. He takes the collected oil home, where he purifies it to remove food debris and water.

After the oil is purified, 60 to 70 percent is used to run his

trucks and collect more oil. Goodman sells the remainder to a company that converts the oil into biodiesel.

Goodman also picks up empty cooking oil containers and pays to recycle those. He hopes the business will help emphasize alternative forms of energy.

“The whole thing started in reaction to the gulf crisis — let’s reduce our dependence on oil,” he said.

Although the company is still young, Goodman said he has an advantage over the com-petition.

“First of all, they love the fact that I’m a college kid doing

this,” he said. “They love the fact that I use the grease direct-ly in my cars. Another thing is, basically I’m the only one in town, so they don’t have to wait weeks to get grease collected.”

Graze, a new restaurant serving burgers and salads, is one of Premier Grease’s clients. Owner Brian Chelchowski described the service as a “win-win situation.”

“I love it. I think it’s a cool idea, and being a restaurant owner, I need someone to pick up my grease,” he said. “I kind of wish I had a truck that ran off grease, just because it’s great for the environment and it’s cheap.”

Student recycles used oil

By JULIA CARPENTERTHE RED & BLACK

It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but it’s not happening on the moon — it’s happening right here at the University.

John Drake, a University asso-ciate professor of ecology, and Blaine Griffen, assistant profes-sor of biological sciences and marine sciences at the University of South Carolina, have researched a mathematical for-mula that predicts how and when a particular species may go extinct.

Their findings are soon to be published in Nature, one of the most prestigious scientific research journals in the country.

Drake and Griffen experiment-ed with populations of water fleas, replicating their ecosystems within a lab and observing the gradual termination.

“We’ve examined several things that affect a population’s extinc-tion risk, including things like migration rate,” Griffen said. “We’ve examined factors that inhibit a population’s ability to grow or the size it can achieve which, both of those things, influ-ence extinction risk. Once a pop-ulation is headed towards extinc-tion, we’ve examined scaling rules to predict how long it will take.”

The key finding is a “critical slowing down” of certain popula-tions. Drake said that as environ-ments change, populations may exhibit unexpected “tipping points,” and with the onset of a critical slowing down, popula-tions take much longer to recover from even the smallest hiccup —

and researchers can determine from there how close a group is to extinction.

“When a system’s resilience is lost, this critical slowing down can interact with other fluctua-tions in the system to give you subtle statistical signals, and these are the things we studied in our paper,” Drake said. “These early warning signals that can tell you you are in the vicinity of a bifurcation or a tipping point.”

Tierney O’Sullivan, a junior biology and ecology major from Roswell and a student worker in Drake’s lab, said that the research gave her an opportunity to see classroom extinction lectures in action.

“In class you learn the theory, but this is a lot more hands-on,” she said. “It’s pret-ty exciting to be able to do this as an undergrad, and Dr. Drake is a real-ly good adviser and mentor for us.

Drake said his research uses a wide range of methods to better understand the results as well as of the research produced.

Drake said he anticipates that his findings may be controversial within the scientific community.

“I don’t think there’s any ques-tion about the evidence that we procured, but there are unan-swered questions about how use-ful this is in conservation,” he said. “We need more research to answer that question, and also how widespread these right kinds of bifurcations are in nature.”

University researcher predicts extinction rate

NEWS The Red & Black | Monday, September 27, 2010 | 3

Courtesy of Eric Goodman

Premier Grease, a student-run company, collects and recycles cooking oil from local restaurants and houses. The oil is used in trucks or sold to an outside company.

DRAKE

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SGA helps student representation

Ten.It’s not the number of wins we will have this

season.It’s not the percent of students who still have

faith that we can beat Florida.It’s the number of football players who had

to get arrested before Mark Richt proved he is serious about athletes’ respect for the law.

After University football player Demetre Baker was arrested and charged with a DUI, Richt showed his sincerity in stopping this sea-son’s embarrassing string of athlete arrests by kicking the 19-year-old off the team.

It’s about time.There is a small group of student athletes

giving the entire football team a bad name, and when Baker was arrested early Sunday morn-ing, it was just more salt in the wound.

The editorial board commends Richt’s deci-sion and hopes this decisive action will show athletes the gravity of their decisions.

When it comes to being Bulldog fans, the numbers on the scoreboard aren’t the ones that will make the difference between cheers and jeers — it’s the number on the breathalyzer.

The freshman linebacker was also charged with improper driving and underage possession of alcohol.

Can you pass the salt?

— Daniel Burnett for the editorial board

Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board

It’s about time...The number of arrested football players hits 10, and Richt has had enough.

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Give immigrants a fighting chance Thursday’s paper was

filled with miscon-ceptions about

immigrants and the cost of tuition at a University System of Georgia (USG) school.

Many people agree with the new USG policy to deny qualified undocu-mented students admis-sion to the university.

“I don’t want somebody else who just came in to get HOPE.”

Before you assume that immigrants are stealing your tax dollars, make sure you know the facts.

No undocumented immigrants are receiving the HOPE Scholarship.

No undocumented immigrants are being offered in-state tuition.

No “illegals” are steal-ing your tax dollars.

But how is this fair? If a student from out of

state moves into Georgia and attends a Georgia high school their senior year, they receive the HOPE Scholarship and are evaluated for admis-sion on an equal basis.

An undocumented stu-dent who has resided in Georgia for 17 years, attended Georgia public schools throughout their life, is willing to pay out-of-state tuition, and has an excellent academic record might not even be granted admission under this policy.

I adamantly disagree with this new USG policy.

What’s the real solution here?

Particular immigrant students should be given greater education oppor-tunities as prescribed by the DREAM Act.

Under the DREAM Act, an undocumented student

would be granted tempo-rary legal residency if they meet certain qualifica-tions. They must be between the age of 12 and 35, arrived in the United States prior to age 16, resided continuously in the United States for the past five years, graduated from a U.S. high school and exhibit good moral character.

After graduating from college or serving in the military for at least two years, he or she would be given permanent legal res-idency.

However, the DREAM Act does not seem likely this year. Tuesday, a Republican-led filibuster in the Senate blocked this legislation.

Remember that many undocumented students were brought to the United States as young children, and have attend-ed school by your side for a decade. They just want a fair chance to be admitted to college.

Perhaps they haven’t “cheered on the Bulldogs since infancy.” Instead, they have studied diligent-ly, hoping to pursue the American Dream.

But for so many immi-grant students, the American Dream ends without an opportunity for higher education.

— Logan Krusac is a junior from

Smyrna majoring in political science and

Mandarin Chinese

It’s almost October, and we’ve been working since April.

Student Government Association is nearly halfway through its administration.

We’ve been working hard. And we’ve heard your concerns.

So, here’s a quick glimpse into what we’ve been up to.

We know that despite our team’s performance, tailgating is still an important issue to you.

Don’t worry — we plan on advo-cating for more student friendly compromises to the restrictions when the Gameday Committee meets to discuss plans for next sea-son.

These policies need to be pre-ventative, not punitive.

In the meantime, let’s continue to show our love for a beautiful campus on game days.

Let’s prove that students were never the true problem.

We in the SGA also share a com-mon goal with Athletic Director Greg McGarity — we want to see those student game day seats filled. On that end, we are working with the Athletic Association to iron out

the kinks in the card ticket system. As for the plus/minus system —

it’s still not perfect. But plans are set to finish the drill with the C-minus elimination by the end of this semester.

Hey, we’ve also got your back during finals.

A proposal is set to go through this fall that will save students from taking three final exams within a 24-hour period.

Tired of missing that bus? Good news — we’re moving for-

ward with Campus Transit on a bus GPS tracking system. Soon, you’ll be able to track the exact location of your bus from a computer or your iPhone.

Say goodbye to overcrowding on your ride to North Campus.

But we like to have fun too.Along with Georgia Tech, we’re

hosting the Higher Education

Gubernatorial Debate. We’d love to have you join us. It’s

Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. at Georgia Public Broadcasting headquarters. It will be televised and live-streamed in Athens.

For any questions, suggestions, or concerns, e-mail me at ugasgaex-ec@gmail.com.

Our priority is first and foremost to represent you.

As the SGA president, I’ve tried to live up to the responsibilities of this campus and wishes of its stu-dents.

When you elected me in April, I made a promise — to fight for stu-dent representation.

That’s my plan — and the plan of every SGA officer.

We haven’t let you down. And we won’t stop working until you get what you need.

I won’t say it hasn’t been a tough road.

But as you can see, we’re stick-ing to the plan.

— Josh Delaney is the president of the Student Government

Association

JOSH DELANEY

Online journalism hinders communication

General admission at football games better than printing student tickets

In regards to Ms. Taylor’s article on Sept. 22, gener-al admission student seating has its faults, but it is still better than printing tickets.

When tickets were printed, “fans” would skip class to line up for good tickets on distribution day, leaving worse seats for those who went to class. Then, those same “fans” would often drink themselves into stupors

before managing to stumble to the stadium at kickoff, to kick people who had been there for two hours out of their seats.

General admission allows people who will go to class, then show up early and be loud on Saturdays, to have their rightful spots.

Finally, overcrowding wouldn’t happen if security gave out the correct number of wristbands. Every week at kickoff, the end zone looks half empty, because more people than can fit have crowded sec-tions 109 to 112.

Students who can’t leave their tailgates on time can sit in the end zone.

LAUREN LAZARUSFirst year, Duluth

Law

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I always get a good feel-ing deep down when I see someone read a

newspaper, especially if they are reading one of my stories.

Call me narcissistic, but having a visual of people reading the news humanizes my profession.

Sometimes, people who don’t even know each other will start dis-cussing something they read in the newspaper. Sometimes, even com-plete strangers engage in the art of cordial conver-sation.

People discover the importance of social con-tact through news.

The anniversary of 9/11 just passed and I’m sure it was difficult to escape the inevitable question “where were you?”

Wherever you were, the world stopped, and almost everyone was glued to the television.

I’d imagine a good number heard the news from people they didn’t know and in the time of crisis interacted with peo-

ple just as shocked and traumatized as them.

The heinous event brought our nation together as a collective community — with the help of the media.

Now, imagine a world in which breaking news is a headline on a computer screen in a dark room.

You immediately share it with a friend on Facebook chat. But the room is still empty and you’re still alone.

I believe that one day — probably during my career — all newspapers are going terminate print-ed news and adopt an exclusive online format.

Newspapers are forced to terminate print publi-cation for various rea-sons, including a lack of advertisement, lack of readership and changing technology.

I understand the rea-sons, but as a journalist, it’s disheartening. Readers will become sta-tistics.

It’s great to have an online subscription of 30,000 — but can you put a face to the people read-ing your work?

No.If I were a musician,

I’d gladly perform in front of an audience rather than spend all my time in the studio. If I were an artist, I’d put my art in galleries. So, why can’t journalism be the same way?

Eventually, I won’t see the people reading the news I give them. I won’t see an open jaw, startled eyes, a smile or overhear a chuckle or laugh.

Of course, if iPads and Kindles gain popularity, I could potentially observe those physical reactions and expressions from readers.

But then again, they might also have ear buds protecting their ears from the annoyances of the

general public. I miss meeting people

at Blockbuster and talk-ing about movies.

I miss going to music stores and finding people that have the same taste in music as I do. A ran-dom conversation at CD Warehouse started a few of my friendships.

So, does it matter whether reading news is a public or private engage-ment? Does online jour-nalism contribute to social isolation?

We can rent movies online, get music online — and now read the news online and alone.

I have said farewell to public movie rentals. I have said adios to store bought music. I have said au revoir to print media.

But so did the socially-inept, obese characters in WALL-E — you saw how those people turned out.

— Michael Prochaska is a junior from Marietta

majoring in magazines and a staff writer for

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By JEN INGLESTHE RED & BLACK

A study from C a m p u s R e f o r m . o r g released last month reports a liberal bias at the University.

The study was based on evidence the site cited in three key areas: student life, faculty and university policy.

The site, a part of The Leadership Institute, counted seven political groups — three of which are conservative and four liberal — that are the basis for their claim of a liberal bias in the realm of stu-dent life here at the University.

The Leadership Institute provides training programs for conservative activists and guides con-servatives seeking careers in politics or media.

Chairman of the University College Republicans Kristin Moreaux said that she could come up with a num-ber of conservative clubs on campus higher than the number found in the report.

“I can count four con-servative student groups just that I know of,” she said, citing her organiza-tion, Young Americans for Liberty, Dawgs for Life and Dawgs for Israel.

The three conservative student groups that were named by CampusReform.org were the College Republicans, Dawgs for

Oxendine, and the Law Republicans.

Alex Foster, president of the Young Democrats at the University, said univer-sity campuses tend to be more liberal.

“Athens has been called a blue island in a sea of red,” he said. “I think that the University plays a large role in that.”

There is a liberal bias among faculty members, the report claims, because 83 percent of contributing faculty and staff at the University during the 2008 presiden-tial election gave to Democratic candi-dates, according to numbers from the Huffington Post.

“That’s abnormal because Georgia’s considered a red state,” Foster point-ed out.

Moreaux, a senior majoring in political sci-ence, said that all the elec-tion donations didn’t mat-ter, and what does count is the way that a teacher behaves in his or her class-room.

“I think we have one of the best groups of profes-sors possible for the politi-cal science department, as far as not pushing their own ideals, whether they be liberal or conservative,” she said.

To support its claim of liberal bias in University policy, the report points to restrictions of free speech on campus, citing the Free

Expression Areas at Tate Plaza and outside Memorial Hall, as well as a section in the student handbook defining “acts of intolerance” prohibited by the University.

The Free Expression Areas are the only areas on campus where students are permitted to hold dem-onstrations.

The report called the University’s policy con-cerning “acts of intoler-ance” ambiguous, and stated that college admin-

istrators may use such policies to silence conserva-tives.

“When it comes to political activity on campus, I think people would be surprised how unit-ed the College Republicans and College Dems tend to be,” Moreaux

said.She said the two groups

have a friendly working relationship and had a social for their members last semester.

The only place Moreaux said she saw any liberal bias at the University was with The Red & Black.

“I have been rather dis-appointed with some of the recent cartoons,” she said referring to editorial cartoons depicting Sarah Palin and Nathan Deal, Republican candidate for governor. “There just doesn’t seem to be equal playing time.”

Swarthy Argentinean natives teaching Spanish classes, coquettish linguistics professors pursing their lips, brawny kinesi-ologists pointing out how the muscles move just so — the University has some hot faculty members.

But can pretty faces leading the class actually be a detriment to your education? Are you less or more likely to pay attention

in class when every enunciation or new assignment seems loaded with sexual tension?

The Red & Black posed the question to blushing University students: What’s your classroom experience been like with a hot professor? Do they even exist, or are they just attractive myths?

— Julia Carpenter

MORGAN WILSON freshman chemistry major from Blue Ridge

“They actually hold my attention better. Seriously. I just came from one.”

AUSTIN COHEN sophomore international affairs major from Marietta

“I don’t believe I have one this year that could remotely be considered hot. Deep down I know they exist somewhere. Maybe it’s my major? My fear is that as I delve into my major work and get into more advanced classes these hot profes-sors will dress in a more Spartan manner due to the serious nature of the course. That’s my fear.”

TORI REUNINGfreshman biology major from Blue Ridge

“We freshmen haven’t met that many yet, but I know of one especially. I’d men-tion names, but….”

ELISE PAGEsophomore accounting and international affairs major from Marietta

“I haven’t really come across that many hot pro-fessors. Most of my pro-fessors are girls. I’m sure they must exist, though, right?”

MAN ON THE STREET:

HOT PROFESSORS?

RACHEL MCDANIELjunior journalism major from Acworth

“I haven’t really had one, sadly. They’re legends around campus, though.”

Study shows campus liberal bias

MOREAUX

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to have fun in Athens. The Red & Black scoured the city for free attractions and asked students how they spend their spare time without spend-ing spare change.

Whether you enjoy music, science, art, nature or animals, all of these activities are right out-side your doorstep and free of charge. Keep those pretty pennies in your pockets for text-books.

— compiled by Adina Solomon

Concerts at the University’s Hodgson School of Music

With performances including bass recitals, string quartets and opera, going to a concert is a great idea for both date nights and the entire University commu-nity, said Alan Flurry, public rela-tions coordinator at the School of Music.

Most performers are also stu-dents and faculty at the University.

“All of the performances are at such a high level,” Flurry said. “These people are so accom-plished as musicians.”

Next performance: Faculty Chamber Ensembles tonight at 8 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.music.uga.edu/.

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Insects, birds, live frogs and snakes, mammals, rocks, minerals and the skeleton of a pygmy sperm whale all greet you in the Discovery Room at the Museum of Natural History.

Though not everything in the Discovery Room origi-nated in Georgia, Carol Hoffman, curator for education and outreach at the museum, said many of the exhibits and specimens did come from around the state.

“It gives you an introduction to the amazing diver-sity of things you can find in your own state,” she said.

Weekend hours are uncertain because of carpet damage to the Discovery Room from a rainstorm a few weeks ago, but the museum still opens its doors during the week.

Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Museum is located at the corner of East Campus Road and Cedar Street For more information, call (706) 542-1663.

Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc. (ATHICA)

If you want to see a 30-foot sculpture made out of skulls and crafted by a University professor, ATHICA is the place to go.

ATHICA is a nonprofit, non-commer-cial art space with four major exhibits a year, said Lizzie Zucker Saltz, artistic director and founder of ATHICA. It fea-tures both regional and national artists.

“Contemporary art gives you a rare opportunity to think about issues that are relevant to life through a different lens,” Zucker Saltz said.

Hours: Thursday 6 to 9 p.m., Friday-Sunday 1 to 6 p.m. Located at 160 Tracy St., Unit 4. For more information, call (706) 208-1613.

The State Botanical Garden of Georgia

Expansive gardens and five miles of walking trails can make for a good time close to campus at the State Botanical Garden.

“It’s ever-changing. You couldn’t go there two days and see the same exact thing,” said Connie Cottingham, public relations and spe-cial events coordinator at the gardens.

The gardens also provide free wireless Internet, which is perfect for studying in a natu-ral and serene setting, Cottingham said. She said many people will take their camera or sketchbook with them to the gardens and prac-tice their craft.

The gardens also offer Garden Rambles, where visitors follow a guide through the gar-den and learn about the plants around them.

Hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily until the end of the month. Located at 2450 S. Milledge Ave.. For more information, call (706) 542-1244.

Bear Hollow Zoo

You can see more than just bears at Bear Hollow Zoo. At Bear Hollow, woodchucks, alligators and, yes, black bears, all live next door to one another.

Most animals are native to Georgia. There are also rare and nocturnal animals, said Berkeley Boone, zoo coordinator.

“You get to see some animals that you wouldn’t see otherwise,” he said. “It’s often referred to as Athens’ best kept secret.”

The zoo also offers weekend tours from 10 to 11 a.m. on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month. Tours are led by a docent and meet at the front gate of the zoo.

Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Located at 293 Gran Ellen Drive. For more information, call (706) 613-3616.

PHOTOS BY DINA ZOLAN | The Red & Black

By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK

Mark Richt is suffering through a lot of firsts this season.

First time starting 0-3 in the Southeastern Conference. First ever 3-game losing streak. First time losing to Arkansas and Mississippi State. First time the hot seat has been undeniable.

As if the problems on the field weren’t bad enough, the problems off the field have been worse. That’s not exactly surpris-ing as arrests have been par for the course during Richt’s tenure, but it’s only gotten worse recently — as in the worst in the nation.

As a result, fans are actively beginning to ques-tion the direction of what once seemed like the most stable program in the nation.

And in a conference of impatience, four consecu-tive SEC losses won’t cut it.

“I never would have pre-dicted it, but that’s where we’re at,” Richt said.

Over Richt’s last nine SEC games, he’s just 2-7. Even Richt, in his Sunday teleconference, couldn’t deny this is the toughest stretch he’s endured dur-ing his 10 seasons in Athens.

“There’s no doubt it is,” Richt said. “It’s obvious that it is, because the bot-tom line is we’re 0-3 in the league, and we’ve never been there. And we have had enough issues off the field that it’s been a big distraction ... so there’s no doubt that it’s the tough-

est bit of adversity that we’ve faced since I’ve been here.”

Richt did say he remains confident that he and his staff will be able to turn it around.

But for the first time in Richt’s tenure, Bulldog fans don’t seem as confi-dent.

As Richt begins his soul searching, he should start with the problems in the red zone.

Against Mississippi State, Georgia had the ball three times in the red zone, but added just six points to the scoreboard.

The inability to capital-ize on opportunities has been a theme of Georgia’s last three losses. Just like the South Carolina loss, Washaun Ealey continued his fumbling ways, cough-ing it up on the one-yard line in the first half.

Later, Kris Durham caught a pass and made numerous guys miss on the way to diving in the end zone for a touchdown.

But a holding call brought that touchdown back, and three quick plays later, Blair Walsh trotted onto the field after another blown opportunity to take the lead.

“You can’t turn the ball over, and you can’t have penalties,” offensive coor-dinator Mike Bobo said. “That’s coaching. It’s our fault.”

It’d be hard to put the blame anywhere else but coaching.

The Mississippi State defense showed few signs

of resistance in the open field, as Georgia frequently drove at will through the short passing game. But each time, the result remained the same: Georgia unable to get in the end zone.

Besides a meaningless touchdown pass to Tavarres King with the game already decided, Georgia’s offense produced just six points, despite compiling 387 yards of total offense over the course of the game.

“I wish I could answer [our red zone issues] because we could have won the last three games if we knew what our issue in the red zone was,” quarterback Aaron Murray said. “We’ve been doing fine driving the ball, I feel the past three games, all three losses, and then we’re just going through this little spell we can’t get over inside the red zone. We have to figure out something because we’re doing the hard work. We’re getting there. But we’re just settling for field goals, which you can’t do.”

INSTANT REPLAYGAME

REWINDPLAYER OF THE GAME:

Chris Relf, Mississippi State quarterback

The 6-foot-4 junior accounted for 232 yards of total offense — 97 on the ground and 135 through the air. Relf com-pleted 62 percent of his passes and managed the Mississippi State offense well enough to get a vic-tory over Georgia, proving he can carry the load himself as he has been splitting work with fresh-man Tyler Russell all sea-son.

OVERLOOKED PLAY-ER OF THE GAME:

Fred Munzenmaier, Georgia fullback

The senior was one of the few consistent bright spots for the offense, catching five passes for 36 yards. Munzenmaier blocked well and provided some offensive spark when the team couldn’t find anything to get it going on most drives.

KEY MOMENT: The Washaun Ealey

fumble/the Kris Durham touchdown being called back

Again, the sophomore running back coughed up the ball near the goal line, costing Georgia the opportunity to tie the game at seven on Geor-gia’s second possession of the game. Though he was clocked pretty hard on the play, another Georgia drive was killed because of a costly mis-take. And at the start of the fourth quarter, Geor-gia committed a holding penalty, which resulted in Durham’s touchdown being called back, yet again killing the Bulldogs’ momentum.

KEY DECISION: Dan Mullen’s play call-

ing on Mississippi State’s scoring drive to go up 17-6

Mississippi State put the final nail in Georgia’s coffin after driving 93 yards in 10 plays while taking 5:45 off the clock for the score.

Every play Mullen called caught Georgia off-guard, making for a per-fect drive on a night his team simply outplayed its opponent. Mark Richt tipped his hat to Mullen, and this drive defined the win for the second-year head coach.

QUOTE OF THE GAME:

Offensive coordinator Mike Bobo on the Mississippi State loss:

“[The coaches] didn’t do a good job of getting us ready to play. Didn’t do a good job of execut-ing and that falls on me as a coach. Moved the ball well but didn’t finish. And you can’t finish, you can’t win in this league. And that’s about how we’ve been in three games in this league, basically ... I didn’t think they slowed us down in the first half at all, and to only get six points was disappointing. You can’t have turnovers and you can’t have penalties, and that’s coaching. That’s our fault.”

BY THE NUMBERS: Georgia’s total offense: 387Mississippi State’s total offense: 314

Georgia’s penalties: nine for 63 yardsMississippi State’s penal-ties: four for 30 yards

Georgia’s tackles for loss: 2Mississippi State’s tack-les for loss: 5

— Rachel G. Bowers

6 | Monday, September 27, 2010 | The Red & Black SPORTS

From Page 1

enthusiasm and intensity overshadowed Georgia’s.The teams were evenly matched. But the other Bulldogs got after it on every play.

That Bulldog head coach wanted to prove his team was no longer the laughing stock of the con-ference.

And Dan Mullen, in his second year at the helm, gladly handed that title over to Richt, in his 10th year with his Bulldogs, after hanging 24 points on Georgia.

“They played better than us,” Richt said.

These Bulldogs couldn’t finish drives.

These Bulldogs couldn’t get key stops.

This Bulldog head coach is on the verge of leading his program into a fatal tailspin with inconsis-tent play and off-the-field issues being the main cul-prits.

“We’ll play hard at times and then sometimes we will let up, and they scored every time we let up [Saturday],” linebacker Justin Houston said. “We just have to learn to play hard the whole 60 min-

utes.”Motivating players to

play well for all four quar-ters of a football game starts at the top — with Richt himself. It starts with the head coach, who is 2-7 in his last nine SEC games dating back to last year’s loss to LSU in October.

Whether Richt can lead the Bulldogs out of this potentially career-killing tailspin will make or break their season and spirits.

“[The coaches] just gotta make sure every thing we’re doing is the right thing to do and that we’re doing it well,” Richt said. “That’s part of my job as a head coach. I’m responsible for everything that happens. I gotta make sure every part of our football program starts to do the things we need to do to win.”

That’s a good game plan.

But the team’s list of problems doesn’t include any unusual amount of adversity.

Yet it seems Richt’s boys aren’t getting any better from week to week like the head coach keeps saying in his Tuesday press conferences.

“If you go by watching the film down by down, you’d say we’re not maybe as far [from playing well] as some people might think,” Richt said. “But if

you look at the record, we’re pretty far off from where we wanna be.”

Pretty far off is right. The same problems are preventing Georgia from

posting its second win of the season.

And Richt sitting down in a rapidly-warming chair won’t guide Georgia back into familiar territory.

Coaches account for team troubles

WES BLANKENSHIP | The Red & Black

Much like in 2009, penalties were an Achilles heel for Georgia — even causing Kris Durham’s lead-clinching touchdown to be called back.

PHOTOS BY WES BLANKENSHIP | The Red & Black

(Above) Mississippi State swarmed the Georgia offense the entire game Saturday, holding them to six points. (Below) Falling to 1-3 on the 2010 season has many players and coaches visibly frustrated and looking for answers to the problems on and off the field.

RICHT: Teams’ poor play puts coach in hot water

SPORTS ANALYSIS

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SPORTS & VARIETY The Red & Black | Monday, September 27, 2010 | 7

By PATRICK HOOPER THE RED & BLACK

The third annual EcoFocus Film Festival is now in full swing, with three days down and many more to come.

The Odum School of Ecology’s Festival Director Sara Beresford oversaw the selection of the 46 environmentally-themed films that will air mainly at Ciné downtown through Oct. 3. The schedule marks a signifi-cant step up from the previous year’s festival, which ran fewer than 12 films.

“We’re actually the world pre-miere of this Chattahoochee

movie, which is a big deal,” Beresford said of “Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision,” showing Saturday. “We’re also the U.S. premiere of ‘Vienen Por El Oro, Vienen Por Todo [They Come For The Gold, They Come For It All].’ It’s shown in other coun-tries. It’s shown in Canada. I don’t know why it hasn’t been scooped up.”

“Vienen” will premiere Oct. 3.University associate professor

of psychology Janet Frick has helped coordinate the droves of volunteers for the festival.

Frick said the support likely springs from the festival’s uplift-

ing, community-support spirit.“It was one of the first things

I had in mind when I came to the school,” John Gittleman, Odum School of Ecology dean, said of the festival. “Here’s real opportunity to bring in a younger generation and a wider audience to learn about ecology and issues facing the environment.”

He said public aware-ness has been on the rise since Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Despite the Odum banner, Beresford said the split between non-ecology and ecology majors

who attend the festival runs at roughly 80 to 20 percent — per-haps even as high as 90 to 10.

“A lot of people hear ‘environmental,’ and they get scared away because they think they’re going to get preached at,” said Jennifer Smith, assistant professor of telecommuni-cation. “EcoFocus isn’t about that.”

Smith had a large role in the festival, sitting on the short film jury and offering credit to students

one of her classes for attended the advanced screening of “Greenlit” on Sept. 22.

“In terms of film production, I think it’s important for students to watch films of all styles and genres,” she said. “As storytell-ers, it’s important to see how other people tell stories.”

Though Ciné hosts the bulk of the EcoFocus presentations, including tonight’s “Dirty Business: ‘Clean Coal’ and the Battle for Our Energy Future” at 7 p.m., students looking for something to hold them over can visit the Ecology Building auditorium at 12:30 p.m. for the free brown-bag lunch double-screening of “Call of Life” and “I Stopped for a Turtle This Morning.”

Film festival highlights several ecological issues

The equestrian team opened the 2010-11 season by defeating Kansas State 16-4 Saturday and Southern Methodist 11-1 Sunday at home.

The Bulldogs went 10-1 overall in Equitation over Fences and 9-1 in Equitation over Flat.

Michelle Morris, Carly Anthony, Grace Rogers and Abby O’Mara picked up points for the Bulldogs in Hunt Seat competition. O’Mara was named MVP Saturday for her 85-point ride in Fences. Anthony picked up the same honors Sunday in Flat.

The Bulldogs also swept in Western competition against Kansas State, going 5-0.

Dana Wilson was named MVP in Western Horsemanship.

The Georgia equestrian team will continue its regular season against South Carolina Oct. 23.

Women’s golf ties for seventh

The women’s golf team shot a 4-under 292 to fin-ish tied for seventh in the Mason Rudolph Championship Sunday at the Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tenn.

Emilie Burger and Marta Silva Zamora led the Bulldogs, tieing for 14th with a 4-under 212. Amelia Hill finished 27th. Tess Fordham finished 62nd and Milena Savich placed 74th for Georgia.

Georgia next competes in the Tar Heel Invitational Oct. 8-10 in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Men’s golf sits fourth in tournament

The third-ranked men’s golf team shot a 12-over par 300 and sits fourth after the first round of the PING Golfweek Preview Sunday at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla.

Michael Cromie leads Georgia in eighth. Harris English and Hudson Swafford are tied for 20th.

“This is a challenging golf course, but we knew it would be,” Georgia coach Chris Haack told Georgia Sports Communications. “We’ve got to dig in and focus on the next two rounds. We need to make up some ground on Monday so that we can be in the hunt on Tuesday.”

— Mitch Blomert

Equestrian opens with weekend sweep

By TYLER ELRODTHE RED & BLACK

After an exciting 1-0 defeat of LSU Friday night at home, the No. 17-ranked Georgia Bulldogs (6-2-2) looked to carry that momentum into their second home SEC matchup of the weekend against Arkansas.

Mother Nature had other plans, pouring rain on the Sunday’s game.

Under the harsh and wet condi-tions, Georgia went on to tie the Razorbacks 0-0 in their second SEC game of the young conference sea-son.

“I think you saw a dominating per-formance in the first half where we were running right through them. We did everything but score goals. I think had it not rained you would have seen more of that in the second half,” head coach Steve Holeman said.

“With that said, we had to make an adjustment in our style of play and I thought we did very well with it. Credit Arkansas, their keeper came up big and did what she needed to do.”

The adjustment — switching from their short, quick passing style to launching through balls into the air in hopes of finding an open forward — didn’t pan out and the Bulldogs failed to score a goal in the second half.

“That’s not our style at all, so it took a little while getting used to,” sophomore midfielder Laura Eddy

said. “We just didn’t capitalize in the first half like we should have when we had good field positions for our play-ing style.”

The Bulldogs biggest chance turned to disappointment as fresh-man midfielder Alexa Newfield’s shot rico-cheted off the right post, falling into the possession of sopho-more midfielder Susannah Dennis.

But Dennis was unable to finish her shot, either, as she fired it towards the left post only to have the same result as Newfield.

“It’s just one of those ‘you can’t believe it after it happened’ things. A little lower and we would have been good,” Eddy said. “We can’t look at that as our only missed opportunity

though. We should have created more.”

After two 10-minute overtime peri-ods and an hour delay, the game ended in the 0-0 draw.

Georgia now finds itself in a three-way tie in the SEC East with Tennessee and South Carolina — all behind Florida, who holds the top spot.

However, the Bulldogs gained more than they lost after all was said and done.

“[Rain] is not something we want to see, but we have to be able to play in adverse conditions and I think we became better because of that today. It’s the game of soccer, we may have to face this down the road and if we do we’ll be better at it,” Holeman said.

“We weren’t able to play Georgia-style soccer, but we did well under the conditions. We were pretty pleased with our performance.”

Rain slows scoring on Arkansas

SARA CALDWELL | The Red & Black

Junior forward Ashley Miller (7) and the rest of her teammates were unable to score in the rain against Arkansas on Sunday.

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8 | Monday, September 27, 2010 | The Red & Black VARIETY

Poor Mark Zuckerberg.At 26, he’s already the world’s youngest billionaire;

and now, too, the center of David Fincher’s tricky, dis-orientingly cool “The Social Network,” a film that builds out, like it’s subject Facebook, in concentric circles, all with sharp edges that prickle and sheen.

It’d be dismissive to call the shades of sodden gray that Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is painted in demeaning, leering, or condescending; but it’s difficult to find much that flatters him. But who needs flattery?

The movie begins as Fincher, ever the craftsmen, swoops his camera here and there setting the scene: Harvard, 2003 — Zuckerberg a jittery shrug of a savant.

Enter one good Internet idea which leads him to some trouble. Then, later, enter the Winklevoss twins (Armie Hammer, pulling double-duty), who have a pret-ty good idea of their own which leads, as these things do, to the greatest idea thus far.

Add Zuckerberg’s best friend Eduardo Saverin (a dis-armingly dark-eyed Andrew Garfield), who comes aboard with the money and a pinch of skepticism, and thus begins The Facebook.

Except, of course, not really. Following the site’s launch and success came a host of legal troubles and a bit of backstabbing. The logistics, of course, of the what, when and how are clear enough — the why, not so much.

Building on Ben Mezrich’s book about Facebook’s founding, titled “The Accidental Billionaires,” screenwriter Aaron Sorkin tries to adapt portions of the book, but with clarity and, better, per-spective not in the original.

The film’s college kids, who have fallen out of Sorkin’s head, off of the page and onto the screen may volley back-and-forth like they’re fresh from “The West Wing,” but they don’t just quip — they snap.

Fincher, never the warmest of hearts, doesn’t at first keep step; his plum pictorial style can’t find equal in any emotional or interpretative through-line.

So in its first hour, the film, while vibrantly verbose, remains at arm’s length. Then the skittish remoteness become increasingly less a part of the film than the film.

Zuckerberg isn’t just a wallflower: the kid’s a wound of upwardly-mobile insecurity with feelers like passive-aggressive razors.

The inability to really grasp the worth and depth of immediate connection is his failing; the decision to dis-miss it is his mistake.

And his downfall? Age-old: not realizing what he has until it sues him for $600 million.

Working classically, “The Social Network” lures its antihero further into self-satisfaction, and farther from his friend (and toward, of all people, Justin Timberlake’s Sean Parker, in a small part that pops).

There are eventually a few reckonings, some back-room bickering, and one cathartic blowout, but no neat finish. This is not a film for neat finales.

“The Social Network,” eloquently slit-eyed in its self-awareness, gets at their distress and deceit with sneaky authority, perceptive of the many ways in which people fail each other. Still, its characters spin, reaching for one another while reflecting each other’s negative qualities.

They’re quick-witted enough to savor — but sharp enough to draw blood.

— Adam Carlson

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which then spurred DeKroon on to ask her to do just that.

Sykes’ response was almost automatic. “In that moment, I knew I had to do it,” she said. “From the moment she asked me it was one of those, ‘Oh my God my life just changed’ moments.”

Sykes still spent time weighing the pros and cons of her choice before making it.

“It was a really hard decision to make,” she said. “But at the same time it was really easy …. It’s one of those things where you get presented with an opportunity and it can go one way or the other.”

Also important was an internship that she would have to give up if she chose to compete, as well as the fact that she wouldn’t be allowed to tell anyone about her being in the competition during the summer.

“This was not an easy decision,” Sykes said. “It was a gamble.”

Ultimately, what helped make up her mind wasn’t something she could easi-ly put into words.

“I’ve never felt so sure of something in my whole life,” she said.

From there began a nearly semester-long peri-od of application and preparation involving paperwork, video-making and strength-conditioning.

“We did anything you can imagine,” Sykes said, adding that she tried to watch as many of the pre-

vious seasons of the show as she could.

There were notes taken on what to pack and how those who had succeeded before on “The Amazing Race” did so.

But not once through-out did Sykes and DeKroon meet.

The pair continued to correspond via letters, as they had for two years, but the lack of face-to-face time made formulat-ing strategy difficult.

“It took us a long time to get a sort of strategy together,” Sykes said. “It took us a lot longer than the other teams.”

They did discover some things: DeKroon, for instance, is the stronger swimmer; Sykes is more comfortable with animals.

When the cameras started rolling, there was still more to learn.

“From the starting line, they said ‘go’ and we still had a lot to figure out,” Sykes said.

Oddly, “The Amazing Race” was the perfect place for the two of them to connect and was, in fact, one of the reasons Sykes chose to participate.

Time spent under duress with her birth mother was also time spent where each of them was, according to Sykes, more open.

“We wanted to do this to get to know each other on a real level,” she said.

Their dynamic had always been an easy one, however, with a relation-ship that’s far more friend-ly than parental.

“With me and Andie, there’s never been an awk-ward moment,” she said.

Prepared or not, when filming began, Sykes was still taken by surprise.

“You think on ‘The Amazing Race’ it’s so hard and that’s all you think,” she said. “It is so much harder than anyone can imagine.”

During production on

the first episode alone, her obstacles ranged from going 48 hours without sleep, buying food on a tight budget, handling the physical strain and man-aging the anxiety that comes with knowing you’ve got a 1-in-11 shot at $1 million.

“All of these things made the experience so, so much harder than I expected,” Sykes said.

What was the payoff?The season premiered

Sunday, leaving Sykes and DeKroon’s status as vic-tors unknown.

But the cash is just a part of it.

“I met some people that I’m just so happy to have met,” Sykes said. “I’ve made some really great contacts.”

The opportunity to spend time around and observe the goings-on of the cameramen and other technicians proved profes-sionally satisfying.

“That’s one of the rea-sons I wanted to do the race was because it fit so well with my major,” she said.

Still uncertain of her career after graduation, Sykes thinks some part of her experiences during filming may prove useful.

“I’m hoping it’ll pay off in the long run,” she said.

Regardless of what happens down the road, though, the impact “The Amazing Race” has had is already quite clear.

“The race was such a great experience for me,” Sykes said, “and hands-down it may be the cool-est thing I’ve ever done.

RACE: Tough decision led to real rewards

Courtesy of CBS

University student Jenna Sykes struggled with her decision to join “The Amazing Race,” but said she hasn’t regretted her choice.

The Social Network