February 1, 2010 Issue

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By ADINA SOLOMONRed & Black

Three dollars can do a lot toward a more environmen-tally-friendly campus.

That’s the amount each University student will pay per semester for the “green fee,” which will create the University’s new Office of Sustainability.

The office will “communi-cate, coordinate and advance sustainability initiatives on campus,” said Kevin Kirsche, who officially became director of sustainability today.

He said the office will orga-nize the many existing envi-ronmental initiatives promot-ed on campus.

“So much is going on that isn’t well-known,” said

Kirsche, adding the University should help the environment by taking steps such as using less energy, investing in alternate trans-portation, building a bicycle system and making recycling more convenient for the aver-age student.

“There’s lots of things we can do better,” he said.

Mark Milby, co-chair of Go

Green Alliance — the umbrel-la organization for 27 environ-mental groups on campus — said they will work with the office.

“Our goals will become the goals of the office and vice versa,” said Milby, a senior from Marietta.

He said whenever Go Green wanted to accomplish anything or speak with the

University administration before the office existed, they did so alone.

Andrew Durso, a former co-chair of the Go Green Alliance who graduated from the University last May with an ecology degree, said he and fellow students worked a long time to have the green

See GREEN, Page 2

Director of sustainability takes office today

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▲ Senior Lara Fakhoury clinched match point for Georgia against William & Mary.

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Fee hike cancels students’ schedules

By RAISA hABERShAMThe Red & Black

The doubling of the $100 man-

datory fee may be one of the rea-sons 497 students’ schedules were cancelled on Jan. 21.

The cancellations void access to University programs and ser-vices for students who don’t pay their student account balances in full by the deadline.

Registrar Rebecca Macon said the total number was comparable to last year, when 455 students had schedule cancellations. Eighty percent of those schedules were reinstated.

This year, as of Wednesday afternoon, 295 — or 60 percent — of the schedules were reinstated.

One of the students affected was Taylor Damico, a freshman from Marietta, who said she found out she needed to pay the $100 mandatory fee the day after it was due when she received a letter from housing about the late pay-ment. She was concerned she would get kicked out of her dorm and not be able to access the din-ing halls.

“We never got any warning about it until the day after it was due and had to pay the reinstate-ment fee,” she said. “I think if you’re not paying this by the deadline, they need to call or e-mail you.”

But Macon said the Bursar’s Office sent students several e-mails, and Macon said she thinks it’s an issue of students not reading them.

“Years ago, everything was mailed, but today that is not prac-tical,” Macon said. “Students can check account balances on OASIS, but it would be nice if students were more proactive in checking their student account.”

For students to get their

See FEE, Page 2

By MIChAEL FITZpATRICkThe Red & Black

AUBURN, Ala. — The vacant faces

of the Gym Dogs during the fourth rotation of Friday’s ugly 195.225 to 194.900 loss to Auburn said it all.

They didn’t need to have head coach Jay Clark tell them they are too talented to perform so poorly, again.

They didn’t need to hear that it was the first time Auburn had ever beat Georgia.

All they had to do was look at each other.

Senior Marcia Newby told her teammates during the post-meet hud-dle, “‘Let’s make a pact now because I am sick and tired of this feeling. It’s not going to happen. We are going into the gym and we are gonna fix it, we are gonna fix everything and we are making a pact now that this is never going to happen again.’”

Four meets into the season, the Gym Dogs (1-3, 0-2) have yet to put together a complete meet, and the latest was the worst — not just this season, but in a decade. And for a team with a 2004 Olympic silver med-alist, the 2008 balance beam and floor exer-cise champions and four first-team All-Americans, to post a 194 is more than just subpar.

“We’re not very good,” Clark said “We’re gaining a repu-tation for not being able to finish a meet and I told them, ‘Look, this shouldn’t happen. It shouldn’t happen,’ ... We have to go back to the drawing board and keep plugging away at it. This is a better team than what we are competing like and I have

to bear some of that responsibility.”The empty feeling of leaving points

on the floor has become all-too-famil-iar for Georgia this year, and it is beginning to take its toll.

“There’s no words [for how we feel right now],” senior Courtney McCool said. “We did some great gymnastics but for some reason, our team was not on the same page again. We were turn-ing the pages, but it was just a rough day. There were some highlights but we can’t really focus on the highlights anymore. This has happened too many times this year and we’re sick of this feeling.”

Clark challenged his team after practice on Thursday to compete with intensity, which he felt they did for the first few rotations. But after very tight judging on the bars and vault saw the Gym Dogs fail to score above 49.0 on

See FALLS, Page 6

Gym Dogs ‘not on the same page,’ fall to Auburn

By hARpER BRIDGERSThe Red & Black

It was undoubtedly late as tones of blues still echoed through the hot air on that August night in 1923.

Charles “Fat” Hayden had just swooned the raucous crowd from a stage where he didn’t fear discrimination. He found some paint, and in the backstage dressing room, between two windows on red brick, he documented his Athens footprint, most likely amidst a tour of south-ern venues that booked black performers.

At the Morton Theatre there were no hassles, except no smoking in the dressing rooms. Outside was hassle-free, too. “Hot Corner” was the hub of the black community, selling everything from groceries to insur-ance. It was all made possible by one man ahead of his time, paving a path for people like Fat Hayden to follow.

Monroe Bowers “Pink” Morton was born in Athens in 1856. His mother was African-American and his father was white, and according to historical documents obtained from the Morton Theatre, his moth-er was a slave.

See MORTON, Page 2

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▲ The Morton Theatre — the first black-owned vaudeville theater in America — will celebrate its centennial festivities throughout this month.

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fee approved.“It’s been an idea we had

for a while,” said Durso, now a graduate student at Eastern Illinois University.

He said Go Green first proposed the Office of Sustainability in fall 2008 — but without success. Durso said they then put the green fee on a campus-wide stu-dent ballot, and in the high-est voter turnout in 10 years, 81 percent of students approved the new fee.

“It was a pretty wide margin of students who wanted it,” Durso said.

From January to October 2009, Go Green wrote the proposal for the fee, and the University approved it last month. The Board of Regents has yet to endorse the proposal.

Durso said the fee is pro-jected to raise $120,000 per year, all of which will fund the office. However, the director’s salary will be paid for by the University.

But the office will have an effect on more than just undergraduate environmen-talists.

“Becoming a sustainable campus has a positive effect on everybody,” Kirsche said. “Our efforts will hopefully create a healthier campus environment.”

Kirsche said the campus could have cleaner air, and ecological groups are work-ing toward greener “interior environments,” such as the eco-friendly Tate Student Center expansion.

“Creating the office isn’t the end,” Kirsche said. “It’s the beginning of sustain-ability on campus.”

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schedules reinstated, they must pay the balance on their student account, get their late add forms signed and bring proof of payment to the Registrar’s Office along with their late add forms.

Students are also assessed a $150 rein-statement fee in addition to the amount they already owe.

“The fee is there because there is a lot of administrative work done to get stu-dents into classes,” Macon said. “If there was no reinstatement fee, there would be some type of penalty.”

According to the University Bulletin, students who have been approved for reinstatement must pay their full account balance plus the reinstatement fee within three business days. Failure to follow this procedure will result in a reversal of the reinstatement.

Damico said her efforts in getting her

schedule reinstated were extensive and inconvenient.

“I was running around on campus to get the professors and department head signatures,” she said. “It’s hard to find the department head of every department because every time I went there, they weren’t there, and no one could tell me their office hours.”

Damico added she was removed from her classes on eLearning Commons and couldn’t access any updates for them. She also wasn’t allowed to use her Bulldog Bucks.

“To make it easier they should just make you pay a late fee instead of mak-ing you go around campus,” Damico said. “I think if they’re going to tell you to do this, they need to tell you how to reach the department heads. There were some people that were helpful, but there were others that didn’t really know what to do.”

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“Pink Morton was an impressive man for 1910, and an impressive man for 2010 for that matter — very Renaissance,” Lynn Green, theater assistant at the Morton, said. “He owned this building, and owned 25 buildings throughout the city of Athens — including a $25,000 marble structure that still stands on Clayton Street.”

He was said to be the richest black man in Athens and maybe in the state of Georgia.

After being chosen as a state delegate to attend the Republican National Convention in 1896, he was appointed to the commit-tee who informed William McKinley of his nomina-tion as the Republican Party candidate for the President of the United States. Shortly thereafter, Morton was named United States Postmaster for Athens, a position he held for five years to the praise of local citizens.

In 1909, Pink Morton began construction on the Morton building, and in May of 1910, the first busi-nesses opened their doors, like “E.D. Harris Drug Store (Athens’ first African-American owned drug store), [the office of] Dr. Ida Johnson Hiram (the first state-licensed, African-American woman dentist) and the Morton Theatre, the first black-built, owned and operated vaudeville theater in America,” according to his-torical documents.

Although theaters of its kind were typically segre-gated, the Morton always entertained a mixed crowd, according to Jill Jayne Read, one of the people responsible for the Morton’s revival.

“First you had the com-ics who came out and told jokes while the set was being changed behind the curtain,” Read said. “Then you had a pit band that played the music. There were dancing acts, animal acts and also husband and wife acts that mimicked

Butterbeans and Susie,” who performed their quar-relsome and sometimes overtly racy songs like ‘I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll’ at the Morton during the ‘20s and ‘30s.

These decades solidified the black community’s presence downtown for half of a century, even after Pink Morton’s death in 1919.

In the late 1970s, busi-nesses started moving into suburban strip malls that better suited their necessi-ty for expansion.

Downtown’s action dwindled, and vacant storefronts proved that something had to be done to resuscitate Pink Morton’s legacy.

Read, who was director of Cultural and Economic Development for Clarke County, raised enough grants to buy the Morton building for the county, which, at the time, was the only way to properly revive the historic structure.

Athens needed a per-forming arts theater that seated more than 150 peo-ple, according to Read, and her job was to find or build one. The Morton fit the bill.

“It was more than just a theater space since it was built by a man who was thought to be the richest black man in the world,” Read said. “The historic value was irreplaceable.”

The Morton was on the Theatre Owners Booking Association circuit, which means acts like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong

and Cab Calloway passed through its doors, as well as Joe Johnson and the Brown Babies, whose sig-nature can be found along with Fat Hayden’s.

A small fire in the 1950s attracted the attention of the local fire inspector, who deemed the single five-foot-wide stair leading into the theater inade-quate.

The Morton Theatre remained unused for the next 20 years until Read and others called for its resurrection.

In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Read and her team were met with some resis-tance.

“It was a very unusual project in that it was a southern town at a time when there was still a lot of racial strife and suspi-cion, and that brought the whole community togeth-er,” Read said.

They banded together to continue what Pink Morton started three-quarters of a century prior, saving a piece of history that was teetering on extinction.

Volunteers cleaned up the 30-year-old mess, which included driving out a colony of pigeons.

Proceeds from a three-night, historically accurate vaudeville show went to saving the theater from further deterioration, along with a citizen-approved Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST).

In 1992, Athens wit-nessed the grand reopen-

ing of the Morton Theatre, with the original, mis-matched columns, metal-pressed ceiling as well as new renovations, including seats that were rescued from an early 20th century Ohio theater.

One hundred years after Pink Morton began devel-oping a vibrant black com-munity in Athens, the Morton Theatre is now the oldest surviving black-owned vaudeville theater in the U.S., and they plan to celebrate in style.

Kicking off the centen-nial, Broadway star and Athens native Tituss Burgess will return to the Morton’s stage on Feb. 13. Packed with show tunes, jazz standards and back-stage stories, the show cel-ebrates hometown talent in a theater that has sur-vived more than just time.

mORTON: Historic value ‘irreplaceable’

gREEN: Fee to fund office

The Red & Black spoke with several students to hear their opinions concerning the proposal to ban texting while driving.

— Compiled by Sara Caldwell

MAN ON THE STREET:

Is the texting while driving ban OK?

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▲ athens’ Morton Theatre — located in the ‘Hot Corner’ district of downtown — reopened in 1992 after years of disuse.

aNN FraNCisFreshman, Nashville, Tenn.Psychology

“I know a bunch of people who’ve been in really bad wrecks. I’ve heard of bad situa-tions where people have been killed. I think it’s a great idea.

LaUra NeY Sophomore, AtlantaHorticulture and Spanish

”I think it’s probably a good idea. I’ve been with people who’ve texted in the car before. I don’t think it’s necessary. It’s worth making it illegal. “

reBeCCa PrUiTTSophomore, BufordCommunication sciences and disorders

“I think it’s a good idea, because I know I’ve almost wrecked while driving. I’m guilty of texting while driving. I try to do it at stop signs or red lights, but I do do it while in motion. It’s one more distraction.

aarON MiLLiCaNs Senior, Alpharetta Finance

“I love it. Texting while driving has proven to be as dangerous as — if not more dangerous than — a DUI. Texting while driving is more socially acceptable, so obviously it’s more of a threat.”

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By CYNDYL MCCUTCHEONThe Red & Black

Meat Week is here with open arms to welcome every empty bellied, fin-ger-licking and barbecue-loving meat enthusiast.

Meat Week began as nothing more than a ran-domly-generated word from a Web site by two bored co-workers in Tallahassee, Fla. “It was a sign from God,” said Joshua Skelton, captain of the Athens chapter for Meat Week.

Both Chris Cantey and Erni Walker, the players of the random word genera-tor and ultimately the co-founders of Meet Week, agree that the event holds deep, almost reli-gious connotations.

“Cantey and I believe that the ‘spirit’ of Meat Week was always in exis-tence and that we are mere vessels, prophets to spread its word to the people,” Walker said. “The word generator was mere-ly the conveyer by which the message was deliv-

ered to us.” Skelton came to Athens to become a rock star, a path which led him to find the grace of Meat Week.

“God told me to move to Athens where I joined the band, the Bearfoot Hookers,” Skelton said. “It was through a Meat Week run they sponsored where I first saw the heavenly light of meat.”

According to the mem-bers of the Athens chap-ter of Meat Week, meat is a great and incredibly influential part of the lives of everyone involved with Meat Week.

“I’d like to think that just how God sent Jesus to us, there’s a god that sent meat to us, and just like Jesus, meat just keeps on giving,” Skelton said. “Preparing the meat and making the sauce is like praying, and I pray a lot.”

Member Benji Thompson believes that Meat Week is more than a week of meat. “It’s more like a religion,” he said.

The founders of the Athens Meat Week chap-

ter said Meat Week can still be a lot of fun for people who don’t eat bar-becue, or any meat at all.

Aside from Skelton — who believes vegetarian-ism is the “dark side” — Walker, Thompson and Cantey were all vegetari-ans for a year or longer — that is, until they saw the light of Meat Week.

“There are a lot of

Meat Weekers who are vegetarian,” Walker said. “There’s even a vegetari-an captain. We even give away an award for Meat Week’s official Ghost Rider each year [the most consistent vegetarian attendee throughout the week].”

Walker said the side dishes at barbecue res-taurants are often what draw vegetarians into participating in Meat Week, adding they are generally accepted into the group with only a lit-tle bit of good-natured teasing.

“Yeah vegetarians are great and all, but I couldn’t be one,” said Skelton. “I’m like Luke Skywalker and vegetari-ans are Darth Vader.”

And the Darth Vader’s should have nothing to worry about. “But if vege-tarians want to come to Meat Week, we’ll welcome them with open arms and we won’t try to feed them any meat; we’ll secretly wait till they’re nice and drunk and then feed them loads of pork.”

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By BRIANA GERDEMANThe Red & Black

University President Michael Adams remains optimistic about the University’s economic situation for this semester and for next year, he said in a budget update Friday.

He said he knew several members of the University community are wor-ried about layoffs, but the situation today is much brighter than it was in the fall.

Adams attributed the relative sta-bility of the layoff question to good management and savings at the institutional level.

But a question-and-answer ses-sion after his speech highlighted the ways in which budget cuts have affected the University and the Athens community.

Several members of the audience mentioned the economic disparity between the University and the city of Athens, as well as inequalities within the University.

One student mentioned the idea of “furloughing from the top,” with more furlough days for senior admin-istrators.

She said she calculated that Adams’ furlough days saved the University $14,000, whereas fur-lough days for a food service employee or library employee saved only $700.

Adams responded that most senior administrators at the University were paid less than those in comparable positions at other uni-

versities.“Many of them work long hours

and are essential to the ongoing operations,” he said of the adminis-tration.

“If it weren’t for these folks, the story here for the very people that you outlined would be much worse than it has been,” he said.

Adams said the Chancellor’s office indicated there are no additional fur-lough days planned, but the budget situation remains fluid.

He said that he had made dona-tions to the University, and that

many top administrators had done the same.

But he said he wanted to avoid making the issue personal.

“I’m simply not going to personal-ize it,” he said. “I’m not going to defend myself, and I’m not going to defend anybody in the central admin-istration, because our philosophy from day one has been that we’re all in this together.”

Not everyone accepted his answer.

“I was just really surprised that the president wouldn’t even dignify a question with a response,” said

Michelle Lewin, an Athens resident.A faculty member, Pamela Voekel,

said the Athens community and the University’s library were priorities to her.

“A lot of us making the amount of money that I’m making would be more than happy to take an extra furlough day in order that somebody in the library would not have to do that,” she said.

Voekel, an associate professor in the department of history, said the University was responsible for some of the inequality in Athens.

“The University of Georgia is pro-ducing poverty, in essence,” she said after the question-and-answer ses-sion. “It’s very personal.”

Several other audience members questioned the economic disparity between the University and the city.

“The University has made sub-stantial progress in the last five years in dealing with its lowest paid work-ers,” Adams said. “They are still paid less than probably you or I, either one, want. The fact of the matter is, right now, in this budget there are not anticipated increases for any-one.”

Matt Boynton, a senior from Roswell and a member of the UGA Living Wage Campaign — a student group advocating paying workers an amount large enough to pay their minimum bills — said he didn’t accept that logic.

“There’s often the excuse that during a time of crisis, we can’t do anything about where our funds are going,” he said. “But that’s a fiction. At the same time as we have admin-istrators making over half a million dollars, we have staff who really are living below the poverty line.”

Furlough days questioned at budget forum

By ASHLEY STRICKLANDThe Red & Black

For six years, the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival has been building its reputation as a four-day summer fes-tival where “music and mother nature meet.”

Set against the scenic backdrop of Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Ark., this year’s festival is already promising names like STS9, Blues Traveler, Zappa Plays Zappa and John Butler Trio — and tonight could change everything for one Athens band and take it from hometown all the way to playing next to the big names.

Ongoing is the Waka Winter Classic, a 20-city tour made by Wakarusa in order to find the best of the unknown bands in the country.

Tonight, the Winter Classic is stop-ping by New Earth Music Hall in Athens to hear JazzChronic, The Head, Mama’s Love, Sumilan and The Incredible Sandwich. Wakarusa has not included Athens as a stop in the past, but recent-ly realized what a great music scene they were missing out on.

“We get such an audience from all over the country that we wanted to hit some spots that we don’t normally get to to find some great bands,” said Tasha Riggins, event coordinator for Wakarusa.

“It’s a great way to introduce new tal-ent to a huge audience and a great way for us to find some great bands and musicians that are really popular in places like Athens but we haven’t yet heard,” she said. “It’s good for the bands, good for us and great for the fans. Athens is a new stop for us, but it was an important stop because we know Athens is a big college town and music city, so we figured there would be a lot of great talent there.”

The five bands playing tonight have been chosen by the Waka Winter Classic judges via their applications to Sonicbids.com.

Sonicbids.com is a music Web site where bands can submit a press kit and music for entry into the battle of the bands in their specific city.

About 60 bands enter per city and the coordinators narrow it down to five or six.

What can tonight’s winner expect? A spot to play onstage between June 3-6 this summer at Wakarusa.

After all of the cities have been visit-ed, fans will vote online again. The win-ner of all the winners gets a second spot at Wakarusa on one of the main stages.

The judges have made their picks for the battle, but fans will determine who wins the war and goes on.

Most of the bands were lucky enough to have friends on the lookout for them

and entered the battle of the bands in the nick of time.

Tonight, they will have 40-minute sets, starting at 9 p.m. and going until 2 a.m., to prove themselves to be the best of what Athens has to offer and worthy of gracing the stage this summer.

Mama’s Love, a funk-driven jam band from Athens, is looking forward to play-ing in the battle with their fellow Classic City bands.

“The competition is really good and jam-oriented,” said Thomas Galloway, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Mama’s Love. “Some are probably bet-ter instrumentally than us, but we’re focusing on song structures, and catchy songs, not long improvisations. We want to make ourselves look unique through our song selection, lyrics and quality.”

The attention is timely for Mama’s Love — their new EP drops on iTunes this week. They aren’t viewing the Winter Classic as competitively as oth-

ers because they consider tonight’s show to be one amongst friends.

JazzChronic has a similar view, almost.

Their set is going to involve a few long songs of ‘70s funk rock instrumen-tals.

“It’s going to be an awesome night of music,” said Justin Willis, lead guitarist and vocalist for JazzChronic. “It will showcase the jam/funk scene of Athens.”

Luke Powell, also known as Gnarly G, an iconic member of JazzChronic, felt a little more competitive.

“We’ve been Facebooking [our fans] like a mama jama,” said Powell, saxo-phonist and vocalist for JazzChronic. “And we’re going to bring the jams. I would almost feel bad if we win. Almost.”

A progressive jam rock band, The Incredible Sandwich is merely grateful for the opportunity to play the Waka Winter Classic tonight.

“I think it’s most important for all of us to realize we’re very blessed to be in a music town,” said Matt McKinney, lead singer and guitarist for The Incredible Sandwich.

“It’s a good stride for our town. It’s a tricky situation, playing in a battle against friends, because we have to cram all this music into a 40-minute set and let the emotions run with you.”

The Incredible Sandwich is also releasing a new album soon and already at work on a new one.

The benefit of constantly writing and recording means that the band has a big chunk of music at their disposal when the time comes for competition.

But how do the bands in tonight’s line-up pick their sets for a 40-minute show?

“We’re going to play our normal show and hopefully the impression will be that we’re a great band,” McKinney said.

“Obviously, we all want to win. If we don’t win, we’re not going to quit doing what we’re doing already.

Festival searches for unknown athens talent

What: Wakarusa’s Winter Classic Battle of the BandsWho: Mama’s Love, The Incredible Sandwich, The Head, Sumilan and JazzChronicWhen: Tonight from 9 to 2 a.m.Where: New Earth Music Hall More Information: newearthmusichall.com

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PHOTO COURTESY Of MAMA’S LOvE

▲ four Athens bands are set to perform at the Wakarusa’s Winter Classic Battle of the Bands, including Mama’s Love, pictured above.

Bite into Athens’ ‘Meat Week’ festivities

Schedule: Monday: Butt Hutt BBQ 7:00 p.m. Tuesday:Bill’s Bar-B-Que 7:00 p.m. Wednesday:Harry’s Pig Shop 7:00 p.m. Thursday:Hollis Famous Ribs 7:00 p.m. Friday: Shane’s Rib Shack 7:00 p.m.Saturday: Jot Em Down Store & BBQ 1:00 p.m. Price: Free, excluding cost of meal

MEAT WEEK IN ATHENS

LILY PRICE| The Red & Black

▲ The founders of Meat Week gathered at the Butt Hutt to prepare for this week’s festivities.

Adams provides positive outlook

“I was just really surprised that the president wouldn’t even dignify a question with

a response.”

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ON THE WEB Check out MP3s of the bands

OK, so I’ve seen the reaction already to my fel-low dawg Phillip Henry’s letter on the “#ifIwas-whiteatUGA” Twitter trend and I can imagine the reactive letters being drafted as we speak in response.

I’m from a midsize town in southwest Georgia where a real race struggle exists, and because of this the community has more or less stagnated.

There is a locked-up city commission that can’t pass a piece of leg-islation due to it being a “pro-black” or “pro-white” ordinance, an entirely failed downtown renova-tion campaign, and a siz-able town that could be a regional economic tour-de-force completely divided.

This is still going on in 2010, and residents (black or white) will tell you that it’s due to minor prejudi-cial actions that have built up over time to create one ugly atmosphere.

At LeaderShape last year, I met many minor-ity students who became my best friends and gave me so much insight into struggles at UGA.

As a gay male in this southern University, I find that the societal slights that are so very familiar can add up to a point where one can get really quite angry.

However, I also learned that, at the same time, it takes two to tango in the fight for equality.

Out-groups can self-segregate just as quickly, if not more so, than it takes an in-group to marginalize others.

What I mean is, when someone creates a topic called “#ifiwaswhitea-tUGA” (which, by the way, has a serious grammatical error), it widens the gap between white students and black students with a bad reaction that honestly had no reason to be there in the first place.

Like in the town men-tioned above, it took one small action to create one big cloud of negativity.

To overcome our differ-ences, we must embrace our commonalities to the point where those differ-ences become irrelevant in the scope of things.

In order to achieve this, it will take the efforts of all communities at UGA — black, white, brown, yel-low, gay, straight, North Campus, South Campus — or whatever other lines in the sand we decided to drive between ourselves.

Chris Carysenior, albany

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Student support improved game

Hello to all Red & Black readers.

The Fastbreak Club (University of Georgia Women’s Basketball Booster Club) would like to thank all the stu-dents who came to the Tennessee game.

Your presence cer-tainly motivated the Lady Bulldogs in a terrific vic-tory over Tennessee.

We love your enthusi-asm and hope you will con-tinue to support the Lady Dogs in what has already developed into a special season.

Thanks. We look forward to see-

ing you again!

William springerpresident, Fastbreak Club

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Graduate school not backup plan

I was surprised while reading Jordan Stover’s column to find that while she was encouraging an awareness of the job mar-ket in choosing a major, she seemed to have a negative attitude towards graduate school.

Her column seemed to regard it as a last resort or something to avoid, but in today’s job market it’s becoming nearly a neces-sity in many fields.

I agree that college students need to be aware of what to expect with the degree they choose, but for many post-grad studies are just that.

My sister is a history major approaching gradu-ation and both of us are well aware that graduate school is most likely in our futures.

That doesn’t make our degrees worthless or mean that we chose the wrong fields of study.

We each chose what truly interests us but acknowledge that further education will be needed to benefit us in future job hunts.

People with post-graduate degrees statisti-cally have higher salaries and lower unemployment rates.

I feel that graduate school shouldn’t be writ-ten off as something you “flee back” to after failing in your job search as this column suggested.

Instead, graduate school should be valued as an opportunity to special-ize in your education and improve your employment prospects.

laura revolinskiFreshman, martinez

pre-Business

No cold ‘crisis’ in over-heated dorm

I just wanted to let you know that you are surely mistaken about the heat-ing “crisis” in the dorms in your article, “Heating issues leave freshmen shiv-ering,” on Friday, Jan. 27.

Apparently no one in your newspaper has been inside of Brumby lately, because it is hot as a mother up in here.

As I write this, I am sweating profusely with the windows open ... and it has been very, very, very hot in here for two months now.

I can also vouch for Creswell, because unlike Brumby, each room has its own heating unit and can be controlled by the resident.

Believe you me, not a single one of us is “left shivering” in any way, shape or form.

Left sweating our butts off is more like it.

I just felt the need to voice (or type) my thoughts about your obnoxious article.

aBBey viCkers Freshman, Winder

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4 | Monday, February 1, 2010 | The Red & Black

Steve Jobs almost got me this time.

When Apple recently unveiled its long-rumored iPad tab-let, I was afraid the technology was going to be irresistible.

A device that blurs the line between a smartphone and a laptop is more than a little tantalizing for a tech geek like me.

But my wallet can breathe a sigh of relief for now.

Apple’s iPad may look sleek, but it’s missing the most compelling parts of portable phones and pow-erful laptops.

We see Apple products all over campus — if you’re in a public place, take a quick glance around. I bet you’ll spot at least one person with an iPhone, iPod or MacBook in hand.

They’re popular, and for good reason: Apple has shrewdly mar-ried solid technology with slim, sexy exteriors.

Motorola, Dell and all the rest are still playing catch-up to match the narrow profiles of the iPhone and silver unibody MacBook lap-tops.

Steve Jobs and company have applied the same concept to the new iPad, a brand new tablet com-puter running on the iPhone’s oper-ating system. A gorgeous 10-inch screen, 10 hours of battery life and a powerful new processor makes the $499 iPad a souped-up, oversized iPhone.

Sure, it sounds pretty awesome. But I’m far from sold.

Everywhere I go, I carry my net-

book (that’s geek speak for a small, cheap laptop) with me, and I use it every single day.

It has a real keyboard, a 10-inch screen, and can run any program I choose to install on it.

It’s not very powerful, but it still has no problem running Photoshop, a Web browser and Microsoft Word at the same time. Quite handy for a $400 device.

That’s where I run into a prob-lem with the iPad. My netbook offers the functionality of a comput-er; the iPad offers the functionality of a big, pretty smartphone. Let’s break it down:

— The only apps the iPad can run come from the iTunes App Store or from Apple itself. That means it can’t run any software designed for computer operating systems.

— Like the iPhone, the iPad can’t run applications in the back-ground — this may be the most dis-couraging fact about Apple’s tablet, because it means multitasking is pretty much a no-go.

— The iPad doesn’t support Flash. Like the iPhone, it sup-ports YouTube, but anything else on the Internet that uses Flash is out. No Hulu and no FarmVille on Facebook. Ouch.

— There are no USB ports.

Better get used to syncing every-thing through iTunes.

— Unlike the iPhone, the iPad won’t fit in your pocket, and it doesn’t have a camera or a webcam for video conferences.

Not everything about the iPad is negative. There are about 140,000 apps in the App Store now, accord-ing to Apple — and the iPad can run all of them out of the box.

Unfortunately, they’re designed for the iPhone’s much smaller screen, and it will be awhile before iPad-specific apps really take off.

No doubt the iPad will sell in the millions, anyway. The new iBook Store is a powerful threat to Amazon’s Kindle.

Apple may well change the way e-books are sold and read, just like they upended the music world with iTunes.

It’s just a shame they missed out on the convergence that made the iPhone such a revolution: it com-bined a camera, Internet and e-mail functionality and an MP3 player into a phone better than anything else on the market.

The iPad offers less versatility than my netbook, so it’s not going to replace anything I carry around on a daily basis — even if Steve Jobs loves to call it “the ultimate browsing experience.”

It’s a cool device, just not a very necessary one.

Sorry, Steve. I think I’ll wait for the iPad 2.

— Wesley Fenlon is a senior from Clarkesville majoring in magazines

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Holden Caulfield says it best — he always says it best.

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it,” Caulfield, the legendary protago-nist of J.D. Salinger’s most famous novel, “The Catcher in the Rye,” explains.

I wish I had J.D. Salinger’s num-ber programmed into my cell, to call him whenever I finish one of his novels to say, “Gee, that really knocked me out.”

Salinger died last week, so now the phone would probably just go to voice mail over and over. A famous recluse, it’s unlikely he ever would have picked up the phone anyway.

Sometimes an author leads such an extraordinary life that his celebrity — and in Salinger’s case, an unwanted celebrity — over-shadows the beauty of his works. I find myself constantly defending Salinger.

After John Lennon’s killer was found to have been carrying a copy of “The Catcher in the Rye,” with certain pages dog-eared and partic-ular passages underlined, Salinger and his works faced an unfair onslaught of hatred and vindictive book-burning from both Beatles fans and parents’ groups.

His book didn’t kill John Lennon. Mark David Chapman did. A wave of speculative biographies similarly damaged Salinger’s reputation.

Young fans of the author were infamous for their many failed attempts to meet the reclusive Salinger by knocking on the door of his Connecticut cabin.

Reports of curiously bizarre behavior turned many away and intrigued even more. J.D. may have drunk his own urine, according to accounts from his own daughter as well as those of a former lover — so what?

My grandmother continued to watch Joan Crawford movies long after the book “Mommie Dearest” told about Crawford’s abusive behavor toward her children.

Salinger’s books continue to resonate with readers around the world decades after they were first published. They were shoved onto hate lists and banned in schools, but these novels have always crack-led to life a spark of understanding with so many younger readers.

You can really only read them once to full effect; there’s a point in life when these words truly seem to connect on a supersonic level, and then that point is past. You really only re-read them to reminisce about what it felt like the first time.

Salinger knew how to write in a voice that was universal, one that so perfectly matched the American teenage experience.

Part of being an American teen-ager is trying to find something enduringly genuine. You’re mad at your parents, at school and at life, because each separate situation, or the whole conglomeration, seems so riddled with hypocrisy.

I first read “A Catcher in the Rye” at age 14, feeling alienated and misunderstood, and I auto-matically felt I had found a friend in Salinger’s characters. When I read a Salinger story, I don’t read the works of a deranged recluse who harbored delusions of Zen and ulti-mate truth.

I read about Holden, and the Glass family, and what Buddy has to say about life, death and the whole shebang. “Do it for the fat lady.”

On tough, bleary days, in times like this when the winter blues weigh down my every thought and step, I remember I’m doing it for the fat lady.

In the emotional climax of “Franny and Zooey,” big brother reminds little sister that she has to power through the tough times and go through everything in life with a sense of doing it for some higher purpose.

Salinger may have died, but his books live on. So here’s to Bananafish, “It’s a Wise Child,” ducks and a frozen pond.

We don’t need to miss you. You’re still here.

— Julia Carpenter is a staff writer for The Red & Black and a freshman majoring in English

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

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

Nothing has to add up to anything else.

Previous puzzle’s solution

By NICK PARKERThe Red & Black

Head coach Mark Fox came to Georgia with a reputation for employing an aggressive style of man-to-man defense.

Change of plans. The personnel Fox inher-

ited hasn’t allowed him to play his preferred style, and — as a result — the “defen-sive numbers have been disappointing.”

“There’s nights where we might be a little smaller than the other team’s guards ... those mis-matches are hard to overcome in the backcourt and that’s why you’ve seen our team play a lot of zone,” Fox said. “We’ve had to play more zone than I ever wanted to, and I haven’t liked it recently. But our man-to-man defense I haven’t been fond of either.”

In no game were Georgia’s defensive strug-gles more prevalent than Saturday’s 78-77 loss at South Carolina. Gamecock guard Devan Downey — the SEC’s leading scorer — carved up the Georgia zone for 33 points on 12-for-20 shooting, propelling his Gamecocks to a come-from-behind victory over Georgia (9-10, 1-5).

South Carolina (13-8, 4-3) shot 51.8 percent on the game, and was 9-for-17 from behind the three-point line, nullifying Georgia’s impressive offen-sive output.

“We didn’t get enough stops to win the game, and we have to get better there,” Fox said. “We can’t give up 51 percent [shoot-ing] on the road and expect to win. We have to be a lit-tle better defensively.”

Georgia’s defensive per-formances in SEC play have largely overshadowed the

surprising efficiency of the Georgia offense this sea-son. For a team that fin-ished dead last in the SEC in field goal percentage a year ago, no one could have projected that Georgia would be second in the conference in field goal per-centage this season at 49 percent.

Not even Fox.“We are No. 2 in the

league in field goal percentage,” Fox said. “Which, for this team, I got to give our kids credit because that wasn’t to be expected.”

In its last two outings, Georgia shot a season-high 60 percent against Florida and 50 per-cent against South

Carolina, “Guys are starting to

realize where their shots are coming from, where they’re going to come, and just guys being ready and aggressive in those moments when they do come,” guard Dustin Ware said, “and obviously that’s taken our percentages higher.”

Saturday’s loss showed progress in the turnover department too, with Georgia recording a sea-son-low nine turnovers against a South Carolina squad who ranks second in the conference in forcing turnovers.

“We were disappointed in ourselves with how we played at Florida, especial-ly in that area,” Fox said of the turnover problems. “So we were much better there, and they showed much more confidence against the pressure.”

But there’s a reason Georgia is still winless on the road, and currently 0-8 in games in which its oppo-nent scores 70 or more points: defense wins games.

By DAVID MITCHELLThe Red & Black

The Georgia swimming and div-ing teams swept Alabama and South Carolina Saturday at the Gabrielsen Natatorium in their final tune-ups before the SEC Championships.

The Bulldogs took down Alabama 185-115 and South Carolina 225-75, while the Lady Bulldogs posted vic-tories over Alabama 172-120 and South Carolina 193-99.

Head coach Jack Bauerle said he was happy to have such a strong meet to end the regular season.

“We thought the match could have been close,” Bauerle said. “But the guys took care of business. That’s very good for us heading into SEC [Championships]”

The meet opened with both the men and women posting victories in the 200-meter medley relay.

For the Bulldogs (4-4, 3-2), the team of Michael Arnold, Martin Kata, Mark Dylla and Craig Jennings touched the wall first with a time of 1:29.93.

Kata said that he thought a strong first event set the bar for the rest of the meet.

“Our goal is to set the tone for the meet with a good relay effort and try to get the momen-tum going with a win,” Kata said. “When we have a good first relay, I feel like that always pumps the guys up.”

Arnold — who also scored a victory in the 50-yard free-style — said such a strong performance was very impor-tant for the team with the conference meet on the hori-zon.

“A couple of wins definite-ly helps our confidence entering our conference meet,” Arnold said. “Since the beginning of the year, we’ve had our fair share of losses and close meets, but we’ve come closer as a team and found what motivates us. I think we showed that on Saturday.”

For the Lady Bulldogs (8-1, 5-0), Saturday’s victories brought their home winning streak to 71 consecu-tive meets, giving them a 72-1 all-

time record at the Gabrielsen Natatorium.

Sophomore Michelle McKeehan said the streak reflects the dedica-tion of swimmers and competitors

who were apart of the Georgia program in years past.

“[The streak] sets a stan-dard for the Georgia team and explains why we have been so successful over the years,” McKeehan said. “Swimming for Georgia is about swimming first of all for your teammates, then for the girls who have represent-ed Georgia with pride before you and, lastly, for yourself.”

Bauerle said though the record is important to uphold, he is still con-centrating on seeing the Lady Bulldogs finish what they set out to do at the start of the season.

“It’s nice defending the record at home. Some of the girls were three years old when it started,” Bauerle said. “We’ve got other goals we want to accomplish this year, and today was great for our last week going into the SECs.”

SPORTS The Red & Black | Monday, February 1, 2010 | 5

By CHRIS D’ANIELLOThe Red & Black

Senior Lara Fakhoury registered the biggest win of her career Saturday, as the No. 4 Georgia women’s ten-nis team defeated No. 48 William & Mary, 4-2.

The match — which head coach Jeff Wallace called “epic” — was the Lady Bulldogs’ tightest of the year, lasting more than five hours.

Match point came down to Fakhoury on court six, who split the first two sets with William & Mary’s Anik Cepeda.

Leading the third set 5-4, Fakhoury needed to hold serve to clinch the match and the win for Georgia.

“The match has never come down to me before,” Fakhoury said. “That was really exciting.”

The spectators in attendance at the Lindsey Hopkins Indoor Courts — including the men’s tennis team waiting to begin its practice — were on their feet, as Fakhoury and Cepeda played out the match’s final points.

On the fifth match point, Fakhoury laid off her oppo-nent’s stroke down the line as Cepeda’s shot was ruled out, leading Fakhoury to clinch her first match point for Georgia.

“This was the most fun I’ve had in a match since I’ve been here,” Fakhoury said. “It felt great to pull out the

win for the team.”Wallace was pleased Fakhoury kept her composure

throughout her match, and was able to solidify the win for his squad.

“Lara’s aggressive,” head coach Jeff Wallace said. “That’s her style. We always want our players to stick to their game, especially when the match is on the line. Lara stuck with her style. When you do that, good things happen.”

With Georgia going 1-1 in the first two doubles matches — as Fakhoury and doubles partner Naoko Ueshima were downed by Katie Kargl and Marlen Mesgarzadeh — the doubles point came down to Georgia’s Cameron Ellis and Yvette Hyndman.

Despite a 7-4 lead, William & Mary’s Carmen Pop and Cepeda rallied back to tie the match at 7-7 before Ellis and Hyndman were able to close out the hard-fought match at 9-7, giving Georgia the 1-0 lead.

After the first three singles matches, the Lady Bulldogs were up 3-1 as Chelsey Gullickson and Nadja Gilchrist won on courts one and two, respectively. Cameron Ellis lost on court four, as the Georgia senior played through a knee injury.

Mesgarzadeh fought back in the third set after being down 5-1 to Hyndman, and took a 6-5 lead before even-tually taking the match in a tie-breaker.

The victory earned Georgia a trip to Madison, Wis., for the ITA National Team Indoor Championships Feb. 12-15, where the team is set to compete against the 15 other regional tournament winners.

Defensive issues continue for Dogs

WARE

KATA

Senior clinches match, berth to nationals

Georgia swim teams to prepare for SEC meet

FAKHOURY

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either rotation, the wind was slowly taken out of their sails.

Then junior Cassidy McComb hyper-extended her knee during her floor rou-tine and spent the rest of the meet with an ice bag and a heavy limp. The balance beam had carried the Gym Dogs so far in the season, but Georgia struggled might-ily on beam Friday.

Nearly every gymnast wobbled, and two — Kat Ding and anchor Grace Taylor — fell off the apparatus. Taylor’s score of 8.7 was the first sub-nine score in her illustrious career as a Gym Dog.

The score of 48.325 was Georgia’s low-est score in an event this season.

“I don’t even understand [what hap-pened on the beam],” Taylor said. “I’m still confused, just dazed and confused. Like I’m just emotionless [about the beam]. We are tired of losing. We are tired of talking, and we just have to go back to the gym and fix this.”

The team expects to have another meeting in practice this week to voice its concerns about the unexpectedly down-ward direction this is headed.

“We need to talk in the gym and let everybody know that we will not step into an arena unless we show up,” McCool said. “If we are going to do this, we might as well stay home. This is so far off from our potential. Mistakes happen, but we are not — Georgia is not — a 194 team. Ever, ever, ever.”

In 2005, Georgia lost four meets in a row, but never competed as poorly as the Gym Dogs did Friday night. That team won a national title, but the 2010 edition of the Gym Dogs have a long way to go.

“It’s a frustrating night, it’s a disap-pointing night and it’s a night that we need to let sink in,” Clark said. “This one hurts, quite a bit ... This needs to be rock bottom. We train well and we are great in the gym, but we are underachieving — incredibly underachieving — in competi-tion.”

FALLS: Georgia to ‘fix’ problems Lady Dogs lose third-straight

By BEN BUSSARDThe Red & Black

The Georgia women’s basketball team started this season 16-0 — the best start in program history.

Since then, the Lady Dogs (18-4, 5-4) have lost twice as many games as they’ve won and now sit in a tie for fifth place in the SEC standings.

Georgia lost its third-straight game Sunday, this time to the Auburn Tigers (12-10, 3-6) by a score of 67-53.

Senior point guard Ashley Houts was ham-

pered by a left ankle injury and played a season-low eight minutes against the Tigers, leaving freshman guard Jasmine James to run the offense for a majority of the game.

“She could’ve played more min-utes tonight,” head coach Andy Landers said. “As long as we keep playing, it’s just going to prolong the recovery pro-cess so we’ll take it a day at a time and see how much better she’s get-ting and make a decision at game time next Thursday.”

In Houts’ absence, James — the four-time

SEC Freshman of the Week — filled in with 13 points, five assists and three rebounds.

“I thought, honestly, that J.J. played at the point [guard position] extremely well,” Landers said. “I thought that she really did an excel-lent job, so I felt like we were still pretty solid offensively. [Houts’ absence] forced us to put two or three freshmen on the floor at the

same time and they make freshman mistakes.”

As a team, Georgia shot 42.9 percent from the field, but allowed the Tigers to score 22 points off of Lady Dog turnovers and allowed Auburn junior guard Alli Smalley to net 22 points — one shy of her career-high.

“We’re breaking down defensively and I think we’re going through the motions when we go through scouting reports,” Landers said. “We’re iden-tifying people in the same manner that we did before but we’re going out in games and not playing people the way we were earlier in the year.”

In addition to breaking down defensively, the Lady Dogs were outrebounded 39-27 and allowed 13 sec-ond-chance points to the Tigers.

“Tonight, we got ham-mered on the boards and were just very passive when we need to be very aggressive,” Landers said. “You can’t come out and play the way you did in the last game because you got beat in the last game and that’s what we’ve done two times in a row.”

Defense breaks down in loss

HOUTS

OFF THE MARK

In the Lady Dogs’ last three losses, senior point guard Ashley Houts has gone 7-for-29 from the field, including 2-for-3 at Auburn before being taken out eight minutes into the contest due to a left ankle injury. Fresh-man guard Jasmine James has also struggled from the field in Georgia’s last three losses, shooting just 27 percent from the field.

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