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President Adams has nothing on his schedule for today. Earning that salary,

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They have the power to suspend you. They have the power to determine your future at the University. They have the power to put you on trial.

But the four people in con-trol of all of that power have only held their positions for a few months.

The top four employees in the former Office of Judicial Programs, now called the Office of Student Conduct, have either resigned or been transferred to another department within the University.

Kim Ellis, former associ-ate dean of students, who has headed OJP for 10 years, was transferred to University Housing in September to serve as assistant director for Family and Graduate Housing.

Now, Kristopher Stevens, an alumnus who has never

worked at a university, is in charge.

“I know that in the indi-viduals who have recently left, we’ve lost a lot of good experience,” Stevens said. “I think that as new individuals come into the positions, we’ll have a fresh perspective, but we’re definitely going to miss everybody who’s leaving.”

Following the resignation of former Assistant Dean of Students Brandon Frye in August, the office has under-gone a complete leadership overhaul.

In addition to Ellis, the two coordinators for student conduct — Cara Simmons and Jeananne Tiffany — resigned a day apart in early December.

Frye was replaced with Beau Seagraves, former assis-tant dean for student

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Long-time employees lost in staff shake up

By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

The Gulf of Mexico was adverse-ly affected by the events of April 20, 2010 — the day the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, spilling unfathomable amounts of oil and gases into the water. However, innumerable questions remain, and the answers are not clear.

Instead, they’re blue.“The water, to a marine biolo-

gist, is not just water-plus-salt. It’s alive,” Sylvia Earle, the National Geographic explorer-in-residence, said in her keynote lecture Tuesday.

Earle, referred to as the “U.S. Sturgeon General,” wanted to show how the future of mankind was intertwined with what humans do

to the ocean.“We’re a part of

nature, not apart from nature,” she said. “What we do to nature affects ourselves. We’ve been disrupting the nature of nature.”

Offshore drilling is a contingent of this disruption, Earle said.

“I personally am in awe of the technology it takes to extract fossil fuels,” she said. “It’s stunning. What’s even more stunning is we don’t have the technology in place to deal with the problems that arise.”

Case in point: Deepwater Horizon.

Earle said she believes it’s not too late to reverse the damages and said the oil spill symposium held this week was essentially a stepping stone in this direction.

“Once you know, you can’t go back. You’re burdened with this knowledge,” she said. “If people don’t know, they can’t care. Thank you for what you’re doing.”

Building bridges

The symposium Wednesday fea-tured scientists, media representa-tives, government and Gulf-area officials speaking on their challeng-es and advantages from

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Panelists explore questions of oil spill

By ADAM CARLSONTHE RED & BLACK

There’s a garden now, where there used to be a parking lot.

And where there was once brick and stone and angles, there’s now a walkway, leading to a series of high-ceilinged gal-leries.

The Georgia Museum of Art is reopening after a nearly two-year, $20 million renovation, and the extra space is immedi-ately evident.

In fact, it’s everywhere.“The idea both behind the

expansion and the way it will wrap around … our director had this vision of creating a cloistered world where people could come in from the busy outside world,” said Jenny Williams, the museum’s public relations coordinator.

What was once an L-shaped floor plan is now a giant U, with the idea of inclusion going

beyond the mere idea of physi-cal space — though the impor-tance of being able to include more artwork can’t be overstat-ed.

Before, showcasing any sub-stantial part of its permanent collection was difficult, given the restraint on space.

Originally, there was room enough for only 0.3 percent of the paintings collection, said William Eiland, the museum’s director — not 3 percent, but three-tenths of a percent.

Now the museum is able to consistently showcase hun-dreds of its own pieces at a time, in a series of exhibitions

that run in chronological, Georgia-centric order.

“They basically tell the story of how art, even in the begin-ning, was important to the art in Georgia,” Williams said.

Even with 400 pieces of art — including originals from Andy Warhol and Howard Finster — there still isn’t enough room, and there

wouldn’t be if the expanded space doubled or tripled or quadrupled in size.

“This is still only a fraction of our permanent collection,” Williams said, since the muse-um’s holdings now approach 8,000 individual pieces.

Some pieces will be rotated

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Georgia Museum of Art re-opens after renovation

DON’T FORGET: CLASS ON SATURDAY

Saturday is the first of two snow make-up class days.

The University will operate on a Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule.

Campus transit will operate similar to a summer and end-of-semester finals’ schedule; Service will be provided on all routes from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. Van service will be available for disabled students, faculty and staff as it would be on finals week. For more informa-tion, visit www.transit.uga.edu

The Miller Learning Center and the Tate Student Center will operate on a regular Saturday schedule.

The next make-up day is Sat-urday, Feb. 12, for Tuesday/Thursday classes.

DINA ZOLAN | The Red & Black

After a nearly two-year, $20 million renovation, the Georgia Museum of Art is re-opening with several planned events, including a student day on Feb. 3.

When: MondayWhere: East Campus, across from Lamar Dodd and Hugh HodgsonTime: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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OJP Restructuring Timeline

Aug. 4, 2010 – Brandon Frye resigns as assistant dean of students effective Aug. 31, 2010.Sep. 27, 2010 – Rodney Bennett (vice president of student affairs) sends Jere Morehead (senior vice presi-dent and provost) a letter about transferring Kim Ellis to University Housing – Beau Seagraves (assistant dean for student support services) is notified he is selected as assistant director for student conduct.Oct. 4, 2010 – OJP is renamed to Office of Student Con-duct; Ellis begins new position; Amanda Patterson named interim director for student conductNov. 11, 2010 – Kristopher Stevens applies for director of student positionDec. 7, 2010 – Jeananne Tiffany (coordinator for student conduct) sends Seagraves letter of resignation Dec. 8, 2010 – Cara Simmons (coordinator for student conduct) sends Seagraves letter of resignationJan. 4, 2011 – Stevens begins as director of OSC

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interaction with each other.

“We almost had to have our talking points in mind when we showed up to work,” said Monty Graham, an associate professor of marine sciences at the University of South Alabama and senior marine scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.

Finding the balance between peer-reviewed data and the public’s need for information led to chal-lenges when dealing with the media, members of the science panel agreed.

“There’s some journal-ists that call you and their story’s written before they talk to you, and they just want you to give the sound-bite they’re looking for,” University marine sciences professor Samantha Joye said.

Gulf-area officials and industry personnel expressed their worry about news stories dealing with the people who live in the Gulf area.

“My No. 1 concern is that the great damage done to the human side is going to be forgotten in the long term,” LaDon Swann, director of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, said.

Rex Caffey, professor of natural resource econom-ics at Louisiana State University and director of the LSU Center for Natural Resource Economics and Policy, said images replayed in the media — such as the video of oil billowing from the broken well — led to negative consumer percep-tion of the safety of Gulf seafood.

Caffey said this leads to potentially devastating economic affects for the

commercial fishing indus-try.

“It’s very hard to com-pete with images like this. I think we should welcome a free and open press,” he said. “But there’s a cost to this image being out there four months in a row. Perception trumps reality.”

Buck Sutter, deputy fisheries director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association

southeast region, cau-tioned everyone associated with the spill on how they presented information to the media.

“What we do, what we say, how we say it and how we communicate it have huge impacts on people who are the receiving end of that information,” he said.

Evidence of this was provided by Herb Malone, the executive director of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach Tourism.

His office learned that oil was expected to hit Alabama’s shoreline via a newspaper headline.

The oil didn’t come to the beach for two more months, costing the area six weeks of tourism dol-lars.

And what do media rep-resentatives have to say?

“If various reporters hadn’t covered this aggres-sively, I think we’d be sit-ting here today wondering how much oil was flowing into the Gulf of Mexico,” said Justin Gillis, the envi-ronmental science writer for The New York Times and a University alumnus. “My No. 1 problem in life is winning [scientists’] trust. Convincing them that I’m not an idiot who’s going to mangle what they say to me is the hardest problem I have.”

When it comes to the government, Gillis said in Wednesday’s roundtable discussion, it’s OK for offi-cials to simply say, “I don’t know.”

Laura Folse, director of science and technology for British Petroleum’s Gulf Coast restoration effort, said as a scientist working for British Petroleum, the challenge was maintaining transparency while taking a backseat to other scien-tists.

“It never crossed my mind whether or not I needed to be spinning information for our share-holders,” she said. “What was on my mind was the search for the facts.”

Lessons learned from Deepwater Horizon

“We have got to figure out how we contribute to

the solutions as scientists,” said Jim Porter, professor in the Odum School of Ecology, at Thursday’s white paper session. “If we don’t do that, we have failed not only the scientific method, but we have failed the people who trust us to inform them.”

Irv Mendelssohn, profes-sor of oceanography at LSU, cautioned scientists from immediately releasing data to the media.

Instead, he said it was better to review the infor-mation for a day or two.

“I think it became very hard to convey to reporters … the nature of the scien-tific process, the stage that we’re at,” said Joe Montoya, a biology professor at Georgia Tech.

The failures of respond-ing to the Deepwater Horison oil spill were in all sectors, said Ian MacDonald, a biological oceanography professor at Florida State University.

“I don’t think there’s some great single failure,” he said. “There’s some learning on the fly. I think we did a decent job of not getting beyond our facts, and the media did a pretty decent job of doing what we told them.”

Charles Hopkinson, director of Georgia Sea Grant and a University marine science professor, was one of several who brought up training scien-tists how to handle media interviews.

Charlotte Vick, content manager for Google Earth, said perhaps it simply came down to being “judicious” in whom scientists spoke with.

The public, members of the discussion agreed, does have the capacity to under-stand complex data — it is just a matter of how the data is presented.

Though she was not part of the symposium or Thursday’s discussion, Earle expressed similar sentiments about the pub-lic in her lecture on Tuesday.

“Don’t think because you’re not a scientist, you can’t be informed and understand,” she said. “Go get wet. Go jump in and see for yourself.”

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Entering autos reported on South Campus

Five entering autos

were reported in parking lots on South Campus Wednesday, according to University Police reports.

Car owners in four of the incidents reported CD players stolen, according to the reports.

The owner of a car parked in the Oglethorpe House lot reported a Sony radio and iPod charger auxiliary cord taken through the front passen-ger side window, which was busted out.

Another car parked in the Oglethorpe House lot was entered through a shattered side window. The owner reported a black CD player’s face plate and miscellaneous papers from the glove compartment missing.

The owner of a third vehicle entered at Oglethorpe House lot reported a CD player and suitcase stolen, according to Thursday’s University Police log.

University Chief of Police Jimmy Williamson

said car owners may be able to deter thieves who focus on stereo systems by taking detachable face plates with them when they leave their vehicles.

“The detachable face features are great crime deterrents, but only if car owners use the feature,” he said.

Additional entering autos were reported Wednesday.

The owner of car parked in Russell Hall lot reported a black and blue flip-face CD player and a three-socket power adapter taken through a broken driver’s window.

Another owner reported her 16GB Apple iPad taken from her car. There was no forced entry and police were unable to determine if the vehicle had been locked during the time frame of the theft.

Williamson said police are using past entering auto incidents in their investigations.

“We find in a lot of these

car break-ins, the people are repeat offenders,” he said.

He encouraged people to alert police upon notic-ing any suspicious activity.

“If you see people look-ing into cars, or acting sus-picious, call [706-542-5813],” he said.

Argument leads to barring notice

A visitor was barred from the Ramsey Center after police responded to a complaint of a verbal argu-ment Wednesday, accord-ing to a University Police report.

Zackery Counkle, 28, told police during an argu-ment Anthony Mitchell, 19, had shoved him. Counkle told police he was unin-jured and didn’t wish to press charges.

After further investiga-tion, it was revealed Mitchell was not autho-rized to be in the Ramsey Center. He is barred for a period of one year, accord-ing to the report.

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By KATHRYN INGALLTHE RED & BLACK

Don’t be confused when you hear about another new year celebration — the Chinese new year begins Feb. 2.

“I feel like this is an opportunity to assemble all the Chinese students at UGA and to share our cultural identity with our American friends,” said Zhang Hongyu, president of the Chinese Student Union.

The group will celebrate the holiday in the Tate Grand Hall beginning at 5:30 p.m. with food and continuing with the-atrical and dance performances.

“There will be a lot of funny programs which will make the audience laugh,” Zhang said. “After the gala we’ll have a dancing party.”

Zhang said there was no problem find-ing talented students to perform at the celebration.

“Some of them play Chinese instru-ments, some of them dance, some of them sing very well,” he said. “So it’s not that hard to find performers.”

Zhang said the group is expecting between 300 and 400 people to attend the event.

“We host this event, but it’s not only

for Chinese students,” he said. “It’s also an opportunity to promote Chinese cul-ture, give them an idea what Chinese life is like and how they celebrate their festi-vals.”

Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the most important celebration in China.

The celebration officially ends on the 15th day of the new year with the Lantern Festival.

“It’s similar to the time of Christmas in the States because in China in all the streets you can feel the ambiance of the festival,” he said.

As part of the celebration, children receive red envelopes filled with money from family members called “hong bao.”

Chinese international students study-ing far from home will have the chance to celebrate this festival with new friends on a different continent.

“There is a saying that goes, ‘Every time there is a festival I miss my family and friends the most,’” Zhang said. “That’s why we need to celebrate the fes-tival the most — because we’re in a for-eign land.”

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FRANCES MICKLOW | The Red & Black

Panelists at Wednesday’s Building Bridges roundtable discuss the Gulf oil spill. The panel included scientists and media representatives, including New York Times reporter Justin Gillis.

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support services.Frye’s position was the

first to be changed.Four finalists — includ-

ing Simmons — were inter-viewed for the assistant director for student con-duct position.

Geales Goodwin, execu-tive director of University Judiciary, was asked to evaluate the candidates.

In her evaluation of Seagraves, she wrote: “doesn’t necessarily seem to connect OJP with great-er UGA picture,” according to documents obtained by The Red & Black.

Simmons, however, was p r a i s e d a s “INCREDIBLE!!!”

On the evaluation form, Goodwin checked “yes” when asked “Do you rec-ommend this candidate for the position?”

She left the question on Seagraves’ form incom-plete.

Seagraves was selected for the position.

Ellis was the next to go.She was moved to “the

newly created” assistant director of family and grad-uate housing position, which was “developed with Ms. Ellis in mind,” accord-ing to the documents. Her salary remained the same.

Amanda Patterson, in addition to her other duties as assistant to the vice president for risk manage-ment, stepped in as the interim director of student conduct and received a sal-ary supplement of $30,000, the documents state.

In November, Stevens applied to fill the position. He began work Jan. 4.

Goodwin said she was part of the hiring process for Stevens.

“As with any change, there is a period of adjust-ment,” Goodwin said. “But we received great support from other staff members and from the administra-tion, and students were also able to be part of the new hiring process.”

Stevens, who received his undergraduate degree at the Terry College of Business and his law degree at Emory University, was an attorney in the Air Force for four years.

“I think my experiences

as a UGA student definite-ly help me see the perspec-tive of the current UGA students, and I feel like I can empathize with the sit-uation that they’re going through because I once walked in their shoes,” Stevens said.

No students were on the committee to select Kara Fresk — one of the new coordinators for student conduct.

Instead, Eric Atkinson, associate dean of students who oversees the OSC, and Seagraves selected the search committee — which did not include a student.

“Due to the quick turn-over at the office, to best serve students, it was important that we filled the position in a timely manner,” Goodwin said.

Atkinson said he had not received any feedback from students on the per-formance of the new lead-ership.

“I think we’ve been con-tinuing to operate at a very high level,” Atkinson said. “There haven’t been any complaints. We’ve had questions. Some people have called me and said, ‘I used to work with this per-son every day, and now I don’t know who to talk to about this.’”

None of the changes were widely broadcast to students through an offi-cial release.

Tom Jackson, vice presi-

dent of public affairs, said the University typically doesn’t announce position appointments below the level of deans.

Jackson said if the Office of Student Affairs had requested a release, the University would’ve issued one.

Josh Delaney, Student Government Association president, has not yet met anyone in the newly formed OSC.

“I haven’t met anyone yet,” Delaney said. “I cross paths with Student Affairs enough that you would think I would’ve met them already, but that hasn’t happened yet. So, I plan on being proactive and intro-ducing myself soon.”

And he had to find out about the changes on his own.

“I did not receive any personal or official notifica-tion of what was happen-ing in the office,” Delaney said. “I guess they didn’t feel it was important enough or that students would care.”

But Delaney said stu-dents should care.

“It’s a very, very impor-tant office to students,” he said. “It’s the type of office that most students hope they never have to interact with, but a lot of them do. All students should have some kind of awareness or concern about what’s going in that office.”

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By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK

Before he could point to Athens on a map, Jim Kingston knew that’s where he wanted to be.

When it came time to submit his application, he filled every line of the lega-cy box with the names of four grandparents, two parents, two aunts, three cousins and a sister who had already attended the University.

But even with a legacy that runs as deep into the heart of the Bulldog Nation as Kingston’s, the admis-sion decision would come down to other factors — just like everyone else.

“Legacy is not a factor in admission to [the University],” Patrick Winter, a senior associate director in the office of undergraduate admissions, wrote in an e-mail to The Red & Black.

With more than 200,000 living University alumni, about 40 percent of all first-year applicants are able to claim some immediate fam-

ily connection, according to Winter.

“With such a large num-ber of applicants having family connections to UGA,” he wrote, “it was the decision of the Faculty Admissions Committee to focus the selection process on the academic perfor-mance, abilities and extra-curricular experiences of the applicants them-selves.”

Winter also said since the University was deseg-regated only 50 years ago, considering legacy would “disadvantage students whose family members were not eligible to be con-sidered for admission.”

Yet applicants continue to be asked about legacy status.

This has caused a mis-conception among poten-tial students, but Winter said its sole purpose is for statistical reporting.

“If there are currently-enrolled students who believe that their legacy status helped them earn admission to UGA,” he wrote, “that belief is cer-

tainly not held by the appli-cants with legacy status who are denied each year.”

Kingston, a sophomore economics major from Savannah, said he knew legacy wouldn’t help him when he clicked the submit button on his application, but that never bothered him.

“Everybody should be given an equal chance of getting in,” he said. “Where I grew up, it’s everyone’s goal to make it to UGA. If you can’t make that goal, you transfer.”

Although legacy doesn’t affect admission to the University, Kingston said it does come with advantag-es.

He remembers growing up in a house full of red and black paraphernalia, taking pictures with Uga and knowing where he wanted to attend school from a young age.

When asked if he thinks his children will one day include his name in a lega-cy box when they apply, Kingston responded, “They better. I hate orange.”

Family legacy status won’t affect admissions

JACOB DEMMITT| The Red & Black

A sign in Memorial Hall reflects the changes going on in the Office of Student Conduct, formerly called the Office of Judicial Programs.

CONDUCT: Information not widely released

A few weeks ago, Time magazine reported a change in the zodiac signs to accommodate a change in the earth’s rotation.

The article sparked an Internet fren-zy of searches, articles, Facebook updates and blogs wondering exactly: “Who am I?”

People swarmed the Internet, either debunking the entire practice or with

desperate complaints of a lost identity. We’re all still scrambling for information.

What sign am I really? What’s the dif-ference between Eastern and Western symbols? Who the heck is Ophiuchus?

The Red & Black hit the streets to find out student opinion on the increased astrological attention.

— Lindsey Cook

SPENCER SCARVEYjunior, pharmacy major from Salisbury, N.C.

“I think it’s all pretty silly. I feel like people are just going to iden-tify with what they think they were their whole lives. People were surprised at first but they weren’t real-ly freaking out. I’m still a Virgo at heart.”

ALEXIS ENRIQUEZfreshman, psychology major from Bethlehem

“I was expecting it. I knew it was going to happen. I read some time back on. It is kind of funny actually look-ing at how people react.”

ELLEN JACOBSONsophomore, psychology major from Dunwoody

“I think it’s pretty silly. I was kind of confused at first, but then I real-ized if you are not born before 2009, it doesn’t affect you. So I was OK with it. I like being a Cancer. I don’t think I relate with Gemini. I would be pretty upset if I had switched signs.”

JOSH COOKfreshman, biology major from Snellville

“I don’t really care. I know a lot of my friends have been talk-ing about it.”

MAN ON THE STREET:Zodiac Sign Change

AJ REYNOLDS | The Red & Black

The admissions office deals with a large number of applicants with family ties to campus, but that doesn’t matter when admitting students.

KEY DEFINITIONSOffice of Student Conduct: receives all complaints regarding student conduct, schedules University Judiciary hearings, coordinates appeals, maintains disciplinary records and trains University Judiciary

Director for Student Conduct: responsible for planning, imple-mentation, evaluation and oversight of the University’s student conduct system

Assistant Director for Student Conduct: supervises both OSC coordinators, works on the formal hearing process and helps produce reports

MACKENZIE HAYES freshman, sociology major from Flowery Branch

“I think people’s reac-tions are ridiculous. I’ve seen people post-ing on Facebook being all upset that they have a different sign. I just want to tell them it’s not a big deal. Of course, mine didn’t change.”

WIL FASON junior, middle school education major from Dublin

“No, I didn’t really pay attention to it. I might have some friends that will freak out. They may pay attention to it more than I do.”

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Office of Student Conduct

The Office of Judicial Programs, or Office of Student Conduct — or what-ever they’re calling it these days — is one of the most important offices for students on campus. Its staff handles conduct code violations, and if you’ve messed up as a student, you’re sure to visit with the OSC. But when this important office underwent major structural changes, students were not informed. No announcement was ever widely broadcast. And that’s not acceptable. When the people in charge of a student-centered office leave that office to be replaced with a slew of newcomers, students deserve to know about it. They deserve to know why. Because something just isn’t right.

Lumpkin tree fall

Strong winds Wednesday (‘wind’-sday) blew over a tree near Five Points, which knocked down power lines and a sorority girl. No traffic lights meant bad traffic and an incon-venience for those driving in the area. Despite Mother Nature’s best efforts to cause chaos, city workers managed the situation admirably, and the felled student suffered no lasting injury. We can’t say as much for the tree.

State of the Union

The campaign for hope — or what’s left of it — lives to see another year. Obama’s call to “move forward together or not at all” was a much-needed reminder of the importance of working together for the greater good of society. Though watching our con-gressmen sitting awkwardly with each other — assigned to seats next to col-leagues they’d normally never associ-ate with — brings to mind scenes from the elementary school silent lunches, we still hope for the day they’ll learn that “sharing is caring.”

Oscar nominations

And now … the only thing the edito-rial board is actually excited about — Oscar nominations! They were announced, and we can’t wait for the celebration. Sure, it’s over-hyped and meaningless to most of our futures, but who doesn’t want to watch Natalie Portman or James Franco glide down that red carpet? Our bets? No clue. But hurray for movies.

Facebook uprisings

An uprising occurred halfway around the world — and you need to know about it. Oppression in a small town in Tunisia set off an explosion of Facebook protests. This resulted in the toppling of the 23-year dictator-ship of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Now, protests have spread across Egypt, Yemen and the rest of the Arab world. Social networking can battle authori-tarian regimes and change diplomatic relations. Here’s to the communica-tion of our generation.

Basketball

Stegeman Coliseum was sold out for Bulldog basketball Tuesday. But Florida’s Erving Walker drove a knife through the Bulldogs’ hearts with a 3-pointer at the end of the first over-time. That 3-pointer took the wind out of the players’ sails as Florida headed back to Gainesville with a 13-point win and the lead in the SEC East.

— Courtney Holbrook, Anita George, Mimi Ensley, Robert Carnes

and Rachel G. Bowers for the editorial board

Quote of the week: “If you are in the shower when the cops show up, they let you finish the shower ... That was pretty nice of them.”

— from Ryan Vincent Rivera, after he was charged with possession of less than

an ounce of marijuana and possession of drug-related objects in “Smell of marijuana leads to arrest,” Jan. 25.

Some of us will be satisfied on June 12.

Others anxiously await Nov. 18.

No matter our vampirical poi-son, 2011’s premieres will further our addiction.

I’m sure guys are wondering why we’re obsessed with fictional men, and why we sometimes bring the fascination into our relationship reality.

Whether you have an R-Patz poster over your bed or Viking Vampire Eric as your screensaver, drooling over bloodsuckers is no new fad.

Angel, from the cult classic “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” made our skin sizzle before we under-stood the hormones behind the tin-gle.

And just like leggings, the trend of desiring dark, brooding vampires as companions is back in style.

The appeal for vampires has many different facets.

While looks aren’t the most important aspect of attraction, gor-geous, chiseled features never hurt anyone.

Since vampires are old — really old — they’re cultured. They’ve traveled, they’re well-read and have had years of courting experience.

With their superhuman strength, the fear of, well anything, flies right out the window.

Years of theft and good invest-ment has left their bankrolls hefty. I’m not saying money is everything, but being positively loaded isn’t

exactly a deal-breaker.But the central reason behind

our vampire fixation — whether we want to admit it or not — is that landing one fulfills our lifetime goal.

To change a man.Think about it — vampires kill,

pillage and break all moralistic rules, but they magically stop once they find a girlfriend. She not only makes him a better person — she overturns centuries of practiced animalistic urges.

Considering we can’t get men to put the seat down, it’s quite the feat.

While even vampires aren’t per-fect — Edward is controlling, Bill kills people when he’s mad — they’re better than anyone you’ll meet in Athens.

Who could possibly be more appealing than a vampire?

Though it seems a girl who is lucky enough to land one of these divine creatures should latch on and never let go, only one thing matches the satisfaction received from changing a man’s ways.

Cue the werewolves.While vampires generally play

the good guys — if you overlook the aforementioned killing — the were-wolf, or shapeshifter, always repre-sents that bad-boy edge most of us

have to try (at least) once in our lives.

Oz plays guitar, Sam runs a tav-ern and Jacob rides a motorcycle.

Bands, bars and bikes — were-wolves officially hit the bad-boy tri-fecta.

Werewolves generally appear in the second installment of the book or series — usually when things are rocky in the undead union.

No matter the bad-boy allure, the heroine never ends up with the werewolf. It’s always the good-guy vampire.

That’s right, in the realm of the supernatural, nice “guys” finish first.

It may seem stupid to fantasize over mythical creatures, but many real-life lessons can be learned from our bloodsucking and shaggy paramours.

Though vampires appear to be perfect, they have many flaws. You must be willing to truly forget their sordid pasts.

Werewolves sport the bad-boy image that’s oh-so-appealing, but only for flings, not long-lasting love.

Though men may find our fiend fixation ludicrous, there are under-lying axioms beneficial to any mor-tal relationship.

My pick will always be the nice, vampire-like guy — because choos-ing the werewolf is only for the “fanged” of heart.

— Samantha Shelton is a senior from Auburn majoring

in newspapers

SAMANTHA SHELTON

Fourteen years ago, Keith Olbermann left his job amidst

controversy.He’d been an anchor

for ESPN’s flagship, “SportsCenter,” and a famously contentious one: blustery and big and provocative.

In his five years at the network, he became one of its largest personalities — until an unauthorized appearance on Craig Kilborn’s “The Daily Show” kicked up a feud between the host and his network that has, in some ways, never been resolved.

Months afterward, he was gone.

Four years later, déjà vu: Olbermann left his job, again. He’d been with the Fox Sports Network for just three years. The union had not gone well.

After his departure, News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch only had this to say: “I fired him; he’s crazy.”

(And Murdoch would know.)

Now, the wheel is on its third — or fourth — or

fifth spin, as MSNBC recently announced it was ending Olbermann’s contract.

The announcement came with surprise. Since assuming the chair at “Countdown” eight years ago, Olbermann has become the network’s highest-rated host, some-thing of a cottage indus-try (spinning off Rachel Maddow into her own successful show) and a liberal hotwire.

He was — to many viewers, college students and twice-removed pun-dits — a gentler, saner Glenn Beck: a Liberal We Could Believe In.

(His editorial “quick comment” on Pat Robertson’s response to a desolated Haiti a year ago still burns and stings.)

Olbermann was also something of an asshole — or so say the co-work-ers, according to a New

York Times article (“Olbermann split came after years of tension,” Jan. 24), who worked and shied around him for eight years on MSNBC.

And it’s for them that this decision — less a “fir-ing” than a “negotiated separation” — comes: for the bosses he dismissed, the colleagues he rebuked and the esteemed Old Guard he rattled.

But how must that seem to the dignified breed of nationwide pun-dits — now one fewer after the firing? The world of punditry just lost its loudest, most liberal voice — and, I imagine, Glenn Beck’s week just got a little brighter.

But he’s losing the for-est for the Keith.

A product and propo-nent of what Jon Stewart elegantly decried as “the country’s 24-hour, politi-cal pundit, perpetual, panic conflict-inator,” Olbermann is now its lat-est casualty. And he may not always be alone.

It’s feasible, even in some distant but forsee-able way plausible — the

ranks of high pundit priests are going to thin.

After all, Olbermann’s situation is really not so distinct that it couldn’t happen again.

And Fox News presi-dent Roger Ailes is not yet so senile that he wouldn’t — given the opportunity — cut the bottom out from any of his stars if they grew too bright, too hot.

And, really, given Beck’s track record, how much longer could that actually be?

He’s not one strike away, or even two; but maybe he’s three — just one great, unflattering accusation from a McCarthy moment.

So if there’s any bright spot in the story of Olbermann’s star implod-ing, it’s that even the mighty have clay feet.

Here’s hoping it’s a crazy that topples next.

— Adam Carlson is a sophomore from Hiram majoring in magazines and film studies and is

a variety writer for The Red & Black

ADAM CARLSON

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VARIETY The Red & Black | Friday, January 28, 2011 | 5

By BECKY ATKINSONTHE RED & BLACK

Yoga has long been a practice that strengthens the mind and body and brings them together for a harmonious experience.

With a variety of classes available for different interests and fitness levels, yoga can be a great way to discover more about one’s self.

Cal Clements, owner of Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution, a donation yoga studio on Pulaski Street, said yoga can be described in one word: expansive.

“Yoga is actually much more of a creative tradition than people real-ize,” Clements said. “Many minds, personalities, genders and national-ities contributed to the formation of yoga.”

Every Wednesday night from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution, Clements teaches a yoga class with a different focus: Eccentric Poses of Yoga.

The class explores the wider physical culture that yoga draws from.

“To many people, all the poses of yoga look eccentric,” Clements said. “Yoga is about discovering and developing the wider range of possibilities for the body, both in terms of motion and in terms of health.”

One of the things Clements likes about the Eccentric Poses class is that everyone is a beginner.

“No one has any idea what will happen next,” Clements said. “Students of Eccentric Poses of Yoga have a wild experience that is out of the box. That in itself is worth doing, since life is more inter-esting when one encounters its myriad variations.”

Ruth Allen, a yoga instructor at the Ramsey Student Center on

campus, has created a class that creatively combines two of her favorite ways to achieve emotional balance: yoga and music.

“There’s a huge difference for me in how I’ll hold myself in a pose when I’m not in the mood to be doing it in the first place and how I’ll hold it under the same circum-stances listening to [songs such as] ‘Tight Like That,’ ‘46 and 2’ or ‘Swallowed,’ which are a few of my personal favorites if I want a really serious experience,” Allen said.

Offered Tuesday and Wednesday nights, Allen’s Rock Your Vinyasa yoga class mixes traditional style hatha yoga with rock, folk and punk music from artists such as Tool, NOFX, Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Beautiful Girls and anything else the class decides upon.

“Oneness is one of the many things people seek through yoga and meditation,” Allen said. “We make this connection through expe-riencing anything we love. We have these moments with music and our collective playlists. They take us from one place and leave us some-where new and different with fresh perspective, like a yoga class.”

Allen encourages her students to make their own playlists to bring to class.

“They can just come in and say, I’m dealing with this frustration, happiness or whatever and we can

move through the class in such a way that at the end we are all, hopefully, back to a more neutral space,” Allen said.

Jenni Derryberry Mann, a yoga instructor at Five Points Yoga on Lumpkin Street, teaches BodyMindBliss yoga boot camp, a class that puts the intensity of a boot camp with the mindful inten-tion of helping students move toward a personal transformation.

Every other month, the studio offers this weeklong yoga class starting at 5:45 each morning.

“The purpose of BodyMindBliss yoga boot camp is unique to each person,” Mann said. “The weeklong yoga intensive gives people a time, a place, and the support of a com-munity to be intentional, to do something meaningful, exceptional and inspiring with their week.”

Mann’s class takes to heart the key principle of yoga: strengthening mind and body.

“[The class] is a great way to deepen your practice, to jumpstart your fitness, and to deepen your connection with yourself,” Mann said. “You start the day with a great sense of accomplishment before the day has really even begun. To be in a good mood in the morning sounds like a small thing, but it can be quite profound.”

Just as Mann sees her BodyMindBliss class having a pur-pose for each student, yoga as a whole has that aspect as well.

“There’s this really cool thing at Five Points Yoga,” Mann said. “The inside of the bathroom door says, ‘Yoga is...’ and the rest of the door is covered, top to bottom, in little love notes and artwork, simple truths and profound ideas that have all been written there in Sharpie by the people who practice yoga there.”

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out, as dictated by their ability to survive during brightly-lit exhibitions, but others will not.

Those that have been chosen as part of the open-ing and ongoing display fulfill aesthetic or histori-cal significance to University or its patrons, said Paul Manoguerra, the museum’s chief curator — and some fulfill all at once.

Additionally, the project has allowed the re-working of past spaces for new use. What was once an audio-video theater will now be used for new media proj-ects and projections, and a part of the third floor has been re-appropriated into study rooms, complete with period-specific archives.

“The expansion has cre-ated and improved several aspects of the museum’s physical structure that will all help the museum better meet its mission of teach-ing, research and service,” Manoguerra said.

Indeed, a motivating factor behind the renova-tion was the education program — and, specifical-ly, expanding it.

In one way, it’s a goal that has been nearly 15 years in the making.

“The museum project was always meant to be a phased building cam-paign,” Eiland said.

At the beginning of the last decade — after the fundraising for the latest and last phase had been completed thanks to feder-al grants and private dona-tions — the conceptual and design work began in earnest, with the final architecture job falling to New York firm Gluckman Mayner.

Their end result would have to do two things at once.

On the one hand, a need arose to better serve the surrounding rural areas, which the museum frequently reached out to with suitcase and back-pack tours, as well as by sending out educational outreach packets.

And the original struc-ture, as it has stood since 1996 — after moving out of what is now the basement of University President Michael Adam’s office — simply couldn’t do every-thing, all at once.

“While we are the University museum, we are the state museum of Georgia,” Williams said. “Our mission is to serve the University population, but also the state at large, because this collection belongs to them.”

And on the other hand,

“them” also includes the thousands of students on and around campus, many of whom have never expe-rienced the museum since it closed two years ago.

The solution is a bal-ance.

“We are particularly attuned to our mission of serving both communities, especially the people of Georgia throughout the state, but especially in rural and small-town loca-tions where cultural opportunities are rare or non-existent,” Eiland said.

For their part, at least, some students have never forgotten about the muse-um.

“We just want to get students involved,” said Theresa Rodewald, presi-dent of GMOA’s student association, “because the art is there for them.”

To that end the group is organizing a series of events to increase student awareness of museums across the state, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, as well as to raise interest in the GMOA’s reopening. Bands have been booked, tours have been arranged.

“Everyone’s just so excited there’s an actual space with actual art,” Rodewald said.

That includes faculty at Lamar Dodd, many of whom have long partnered with the museum.

“There’s always been a desire between the art fac-ulty and the museum to collaborate more,” Williams said. “There’s def-initely excitement between the two parties.”

It has spread farther than that: as GMOA re-opens, the new space and resources available will only strengthen its mission of teaching, service and scholarship.

With the museum finally complete, several University officials are thrilled for what it will mean to campus.

“They realized,” Williams said, “that all great universities have great museums.”

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6 | Friday, January 28, 2011 | The Red & Black SPORTS

By MITCH BLOMERTTHE RED & BLACK

Dustin Ware is enjoying hav-ing some weight taken off his shoulders.

After being Georgia’s only true ball handler during the 2009-10 season, the junior point guard’s playmaking has benefitted great-ly this season due to his improved surrounding cast — and the sta-tistics show it.

When the Bulldogs (14-5, 3-3) travel to Lexington, Ky., Saturday for their second matchup with the Wildcats this season, they take with them one of the nation’s most precise passers. Ware’s 3.84 assist-to-turnover ratio — 73 assists and 19 turnovers — ranks third-best among of Division-I players.

“Whenever you take care of the ball, you got playmakers that are obviously going to give you chances to win,” Ware said. “That’s something we always harp on in practice — making good decisions. And we’ve been able to do that so far.”

Ware’s assist-to-turnover ratio has improved by 1.65 this season, and he can thank the progress made by this season’s starting five for that.

“I think we’ve been doing a good job with the assist-to-turn-over ratio, and obviously we want to do better,” Ware said. “We feel we can do better, and we’re going to continue to do that.”

It could happen with the turn-around the Bulldogs have made since last year.

Last season, Ware led a thin Georgia backcourt alongside for-mer walk-on Ricky McPhee, with almost little depth made up mostly of freshmen behind them.

As the only natural ball han-dler in the lineup, Ware often saw all the play-calling from outside fall on him, placing enormous pressure on him from the point.

“Not some — all the pressure,” Bulldogs head coach Mark Fox said. “He had to handle the pres-sure, really 35 minutes a game with just a freshman behind him who never played. He had a for-mer walk-on as his backcourt partner who was also playing 30-plus minutes — who wasn’t a ball handler — and so it all fell on his shoulders last year. Physically and emotionally, that was a big burden to bear.”

With forwards Trey Thompkins and Travis Leslie’s decisions to forego the NBA draft, Ware knew he would have support.

But who would help him in the backcourt?

That question has been answered by Gerald Robinson, who sat out the 2009-10 season after transferring to Georgia from Tennessee State. The junior has risen as one of the Bulldogs’ pri-mary scorers this season with 13.7 points per game — a perfect accomplice for Ware in the back-court.

“I’m pretty sure he felt not necessarily stress, but knowing the main ball-handling responsi-bilities were on him,” Robinson said. “It just makes it a lot easier to not outlet it to one person. If I’m on one side of the court and Dustin is on the other, [team-mates] can kind of pick their poison.”

Ware said he knew Robinson was a scorer. What Ware said he didn’t see coming was Robinson’s team-leading 4.2 assists per game — slightly higher than Ware’s 3.8.

With assists being such an important statistic to a point guard, Ware could be worried about his role in the starting five. But with Georgia winning more games and remaining a factor in the SEC East, Ware said he isn’t concerned about some of the assists going to his backcourt mate.

“I never really thought about

that,” Ware said. “I just knew he was a guy that was going to come in and help our team be a lot bet-ter. That’s all I was really focus-ing on — how to make it all work and make it the best it could be.”

It’s turned into an ideal fit. Fox’s triangle offense demands

two primary ball handlers and is a style that allows Ware and Robinson to play off each other’s abilities. Ware is the confident shooter Fox can count on to take

care of the ball, while Robinson’s the bigger, quicker guard who brings a different element to the team with his ability to penetrate but plays a bit more recklessly than Ware.

Combined, they’ve formed a backcourt that has made Georgia one of the best passing teams in the SEC. The Bulldogs’ 15.5 assists per game leads the con-ference, while their 13.5 turnovers per game are fourth-lowest.

“I think you’ll see one of them bring on the break one time and two possessions later it might be somebody else,” Fox said. “I think they have a good under-standing of what each one of them can do and how they can play together.”

But Ware hasn’t lost his own scoring upside with the addition of Robinson. In fact, it has helped. Robinson’s ability to get into the lane has carved out space on the perimeter for Ware, who continues to be Georgia’s primary 3-point shooter. That makes teams pay for leaving him open behind the arc with a 41.6-percent 3-point average.

Such was the case on Dec. 7, when Ware hit seven 3-pointers, including the game-winner with 15 seconds left to score a season-high 21 points in a 73-72 win against Georgia Tech. He has also hit double figures three times in SEC play, including a 15-point, nine-assist effort against Ole Miss two weeks ago.

“He’s still running our team,” Fox said.

But like assists, the points are nothing more than numbers on a stat sheet for Ware as Georgia enters the final third of its sched-ule.

“I’m thinking more on the lines of whatever we need to win,” Ware said. “That’s all I’m focused on — I’ve been here for three years now and all I’m focused on is winning.”

Point guard more comfortable in backcourt role

By ROBBIE OTTLEYTHE RED & BLACK

With fewer than three meets in six days this week, the Gym Dogs (5-1) have had a chance to rest and recuperate.

And at the Coliseum Practice Facility this week, evidence of that recuperation was clear.

Several gymnasts meandered outside of the training area, while senior Cassidy McComb sported an immobilizing boot that head coach Jay Clark called “precautionary.”

“We’re gonna stock our training room with boots,” Clark joked. “When you leave the gym, make sure you have your boots on.”

Still recovering from a week that saw Georgia lose two gymnasts to health-related issues, but still win 2-of-3 meets, the team is headed for Lexington, Ky., to face Kentucky tonight for its first SEC road competi-tion. Clark hopes his team

will continue its forward progress.

“I’m looking for ’em to take a step forward, and not take a step back,” he said. “That’s a tough thing to do.”

The Gym Dogs’ chal-lenge is particularly diffi-cult given the growing laundry list of injured gym-nasts.

Junior Gina Nuccio con-tinues to recover from an ankle sprain suffered dur-ing a dismount last Monday, though Clark sug-gested she may be able to compete tonight. Senior Hilary Mauro will try to avoid contin-ued injury of an inflamed Achilles tendon, junior Kat Ding’s health may leave her question-able tonight, and sophomore Shayla Worley has moved beyond an illness that kept her from competing last Friday.

“We’ve got six, or five in some cases, and then a maybe,” Clark said.

Meanwhile, Georgia has seen increased contribu-tions from gymnasts who may not otherwise start.

Clark singled out fresh-man Laura Moffatt in par-ticular, after she competed in her first meet as a Gym Dog and posted a crucial 9.800 on balance beam.

“Until you see her out there you don’t really know what you’re getting,” Clark said. “She was put in a place where she had to hit, or we were counting a sec-ond fall on the night, and ... it was impressive.”

Despite the Gym Dogs’ success, Clark said he doesn’t feel his team is ready to compete as one of the nation’s best yet.

“We certainly haven’t had a meet where you could say all 24 routines

looked about like you wanted them to look,” Clark said. “What I’m look-ing for is a complete per-formance top to bottom, where we don’t have any major breaks.”

Georgia climbs in rankings

Following a week that saw them score more than 1966 points twice in a row, as well as posting the third-highest score in the nation so far, the Gym Dogs moved to No. 3 in the rankings released Monday, behind No. 1 Florida and No. 2 Stanford.

In rankings on the different appa-ratuses, Georgia is No. 3 on beam, No. 4 on floor exercises and No. 5 on both vault and uneven bars. As always, though, Clark said he tries to keep his team’s focus away from the rankings.

“Are we one of the top-three best teams in the coun-try? I don’t have any way of gauging that,” Clark said. “We’ll find out in April.”

Eight Gym Dogs are listed individu-ally in the latest rankings, including

three ranked in the uneven bars.

Freshman Lindsey Cheek, Ding and Nuccio are listed as Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on that apparatus, and after her performance last week, Cheek scored the No. 1 ranking in all-around.

But since the rankings are based on the gymnast’s average, Cheek will drop in the rankings should she ever score lower than her 39.550 all-around. Since that’s a definite possibility, Clark said he is proud of his gymnast, but isn’t emphasizing the ranking.

“All that stuff is good fluff, and our fans love it, but we really try to down-play the whole thing,” he said.

Gym Dogs’ injury issues remain heading into first SEC road meetBy RYAN BYAN BY LACK

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Courtney Newton decimated her home state’s flagship university Thursday night in Columbia, S.C.

And there are numerous adjectives that can easily describe the South Carolina junior guard’s 16-point perfor-mance — “clutch,” “impressive,” “superb,” to name a few — which hand-ed No. 20 Georgia its first SEC defeat of the season, 57-48.

But no adjective fits better than “shocking.”

The Flowery Branch native came into Thursday’s game having scored just 13 points the entire season.

Against Georgia (16-4, 6-1), Newton not only bettered her season’s point total by three, but also went a perfect 5-for-5 on 3-pointers.

“She cashed in on every single 3-[point] shot she had,” Lady Bulldogs head coach Andy Landers said in his post-game radio interview. “Over 25 per-cent of their productivity came on five shots from 3-point range.”

Newton’s five 3-pointer’s played a key role in the biggest stat that doomed Georgia in the game — the Lady Gamecocks (12-9, 4-4) went 8-for-21 behind the arc.

The Lady Bulldogs, on the other hand were shut out in the 3-point department, going 0-for-7.

Newton’s surprising outburst also

overshadowed a gritty performance by Lady Bulldogs sophomore guard Jasmine James, who led Georgia in scoring with 15 points despite battling a nagging inju-ry to her right wrist, which is her domi-nant hand.

Georgia senior forward Porsha Phillips narrowly missed posting another dou-

ble-double, finishing with 10 points and nine rebounds. Phillips’ 10 points put her over 1,000 for her career.

Though Landers was not happy with the loss, he prefers that the team not waste too much time moping about it, instead focusing on what lies ahead.

“We’ve got to put this behind us and learn what we can learn from it,” he said. “I thought South Carolina played very well. They were patient, deliberate and did what they wanted to do about 40 percent of the time, and that was good enough tonight to win this basketball game.”

Georgia will be back on the road for the second consecutive contest when it takes on LSU at 5 p.m. Sunday in Baton Rouge.

Georgia no longer perfect in SEC

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Dustin Ware has welcomed Gerald Robinson as a Ware has welcomed Gerald Robinson as a Wsecond ball handler and scorer in the backcourt after averaging 31.5 minutes per game last season.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALLSouth Carolina 57, Lady Dogs 48

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