By DANIEL BURNETTTHE RED & BLACK

A multi-million dollar deal cut between the University and Bank of America — one that pays the University big bucks to sell student, alumni and faculty contact information to bank solicitors — pays even bigger bucks if those using the Bank of America credit cards go into debt.

According to documents obtained by The Red & Black, the University received more than $12.5 million from the contract since 1999.

And as personal financ-es across the country con-

tinued to deteriorate, the agreement netted nearly $1.3 million — the most since the agreement began — in fiscal year 2010 alone.

The pact requires the Arch Foundation, the University’s main fundrais-ing arm, to provide Bank of America with a list of at least 180,000 names, addresses and telephone numbers that the contract refers to as “members.” According to the contract, members can be nearly everyone associated with

the University: parents, donors, season ticket hold-ers and every student who has not opted out of the University directory.

“This is just another example of how UGA has lost sight of its actual job, which is to educate, and has become like a giant corporation focused on financial gain,” said Amanda Reinke, a senior from Augusta. “I think that’s audacious of UGA to go out and give informa-tion away like that, and then to keep it from us.”

“The target market for our collegiate affinity cards are alumni and team fans,” wrote Betty Riess, a

spokeswoman for Bank of America, in an e-mail to The Red & Black.

Overall, Riess said only 2 percent of accounts were held by students, and the

agreement between the bank and the University is nothing unique — Bank of America has similar agree-ments with about 700 other colleges and universities.

At the University, of the 23,000 total affinity accounts last fall, about 1,200 were student

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Salsa dancing lessons heat up Last CallBy KELSEY BYRD

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Downtown is getting a new spice added to Wednesday nights, because SpicySalsa is back at Last Call.

This fast-paced Latin dance instruction takes the floor at 9 p.m. and is followed by DJ Christian and Eze playing salsa, merengue, bachata, and reggae-ton until 2 a.m.

The latest lesson was led by Gonzalo Miyagui, who kept the people laughing and the moves exciting.

“We start with basic steps like forward and back, then side to side,” Miyagui said. “[These are] followed by ‘camina,’ which means walk, and finish the basics

with ‘vuelta,’ which means turn.”Miyagui has been dancing his

whole life and teaching Latin dancing for the past eight years. He has been the SpicySalsa instructor for the past four, start-ing when it was still held at The Library.

“We had a good turnout tonight,” Miyagui said with enthusiasm. “Of course, it’s bet-ter in the fall with school, but this was a good crowd.”

Miyagui was joined on the

floor by Hannah Parham, who is also an experienced dancer.

“I usually don’t do this but decided to help out tonight.” Parham said. The combination of the two made for an interesting instructional time, with Miyagui leading Parham around the floor in slow motion to teach the moves, and Parham adding her own flair to show how the moves can be enhanced.

The instruction started with simple front-to-back and side-to-side moves, and, after a few times doing it slowly, Christian and Eze turned up the music so the danc-ers could get the feel of the moves.

Miyagui then lined the dancers

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By ALLISON WILLIARDTHE RED & BLACK

On June 4, Gov. Sonny Perdue signed two Georgia General Assembly bills into law. Senate Bill 360 makes it illegal for anyone with a class C license to send or read a text message while driving. It essentially means any adult driver caught messaging while driving will be punished. The ticket for this offense is a costly $150, and any person who is charged twice will be restricted to a class D license for one year — forcing them to follow a strict mid-night curfew.

“Like any law, it’s not going to stop people from acting stupidly, but hopefully it will cut down on [texting while driv-ing],” said Kevin Sevcik, a junior from Milton.

In addition to SB 360, the Georgia House passed HB 23, which only applies to drivers under 18 who hold class D licenses. This law bans any form of cellu-lar phone usage while operating a car.

According to the National Safety Council, at least 6,000 automobile deaths per year are caused by distracted drivers.

As of March, 19 other states plus the District of Columbia outlawed texting while driving altogether. SB 360 was nick-named Caleb’s Law in memory of Caleb Sorohan, an 18-year-old from Morgan County who was killed as a result of tex-ting while driving. After his death, friends and family rallied together during the final days before the June 4 deadline, cre-ating a phone bank and making a visit to Atlanta to petition the governor to sign the bill.

The laws passed after much delibera-tion on Perdue’s part.

State lawmakers have promised to review the bill in next year’s legislative session.

“I think the new law will be a positive thing,” said Jessi Adams, a student in the College of Veterinary Medicine. “It will force people like me who know texting and driving isn’t safe to stop doing it.”

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Have you noticed teens running around campus with digital video cam-eras? How about tweens in scrubs?

For nine weeks throughout the sum-mer, students ages 11 to 17 will be — and have been — occupying various parts of campus for the 10th year of Summer Academy @ UGA. These weeklong camps — run through the Georgia Center — cover a variety of topics, including adventure travel and web design.

“Our intent is to bring a dynamic, intensive, interactive experience,” said Ashley Meijerink, marketing and com-munications coordinator for the Georgia Center. “Kids aren’t just sit-ting in a classroom. They’re participat-ing, too.”

For example, in Aviation Camp, the kids get to go on a plane, mini Med Schoolers participate in a mock sur-gery and film students shoot and piece together their own digital movie.

Classes range from 10 to 25 stu-dents and are taught by graduate stu-dents, Ph.D.s and full professors, as well as experts in their respective fields.

“We go out and recruit the best people to teach,” said Jen Schumann, program coordinator for the Georgia Center.

Instructor positions are paid, but many choose to volunteer their time instead.

This week’s Aviation Campers — one girl and 12 boys — spent

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accounts, said Tom Landrum, senior vice president for external affairs.

That’s a little more than 5 percent of student-held affinity accounts.

An affinity agreement is a mutual con-tract between two organizations. At the University, credit cards in the affinity pro-gram can be emblazoned with either the Arch or Uga.

In 2006, Cynthia Coyle, executive direc-tor of the Arch Foundation, signed an addendum to the agreement ensuring the organization would net at least $1 million per year as an advance against future royalties.

At that time, the benefits of the con-tract were transferred from the UGA Foundation to the Arch Foundation and will last until 2013.

Coyle said once Bank of America pays the Arch Foundation, the funds are equally split between the Athletic Association, the Alumni Association and the Arch Foundation.

“The Arch Foundation gets one-third,” she said. “We allocate it out immediately.”

The contract nets the University $1 per student card opened, plus 0.4 percent of all retail transactions. According to the contract, if the student has a balance at the end of every 12-month period, the University collects another $1.

However, Debbie Dietzler, executive director of alumni relations, says that’s not the case.

Dietzler referenced a 2006 addendum that she said no longer requires the card to carry a balance in order for the University to collect.

“From my understanding, what they’re considering the renewal is not about the balance, rather [that it’s] an active card,” she said.

But according to the 2006 addendum, no such change exists.

“They are not making a great deal of money from that,” Landrum said. “We generate most of our funding from just the original agreement [not renewal fund-ing].”

The story is similar for non-student credit cards — $1 per account opened, 0.5 percent of all retail transactions and an additional $1 if a balance remains on the

card at the end of every 12-month peri-od.

Landrum said affinity cards were not originally created for students, but for alumni who wanted to show school pride and raise money for their university at the same time.

“It really comes down to an adult rela-tionship,” he said. “That in my mind is a responsible action by an individual who wants to help his or her school.”

* * *According to the contract, the annual

percentage rate for a non-student mem-ber is a variable rate of prime plus 7.9 percent and 9.9 percent for student mem-bers. But Riess wrote in an e-mail “the rate on the Student Visa Platinum card is

14.24 percent plus Prime.” However, in documents obtained

by The Red & Black, no change of the original rate was noted.

The addendum states Bank of America will not have to pay the Arch Foundation the guaranteed $1 million if it is prevented from conducting at least five direct mail campaigns and three telemarket-ing campaigns to the full list of members.

According to the contract, Bank of America is permitted to hold on-cam-pus promotions at major events, as well as at least seven home football games and three home basketball games.

However, Riess said bank representa-tives haven’t conducted tabling events “for some time,” and haven’t mailed infor-mation to students for a couple of years.

Landrum said that while Bank of America is still permitted to engage in on-campus solicitation — as long as it fol-lows University guidelines and recent credit card solicitation laws — its appear-ance on campus “has been pretty spotty.” He added the majority of students who sign up for the cards do so at banking centers, not at Tate Plaza tables.

In 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, bring-ing sweeping change to the way banks can solicit to consumers.

According to the legislation, people younger than 21 would not be permitted to sign up for a credit card without a co-signer or showing their means for repay-ment.

Additionally, the free gifts from banks

to sign up for a card — such as the ones used to entice students in Tate Plaza — were prohibited when the legislation took effect in February.

“It’s a good thing that they can’t really entice you into it,” said Ashley Puckett, a senior from Statham, adding the agree-ment negatively affects her trust in the University. “It’s your own decision wheth-er you want to get a card or not.”

If Puckett were sitting in the same Tate Plaza location a few years ago as she was Wednesday afternoon, she may have seen tables of Bank of America represen-tatives offering T-shirts, hats and Frisbees to students in exchange for filling out credit card applications.

Puckett said she, too, found herself in debt — to the tune of three credit cards. Now down to two due to her part-time job, she offered some advice to students tempted by creditors.

“Don’t get more than one,” she said. “Don’t spend more than you can pay off.”

* * *As debt among students increases, so

does the amount the Arch Foundation receives from the agreement. For fiscal year 2010, the Arch Foundation netted $1,294,855.62 — a more than 10 percent increase from the previous year. The University netted $1,168,808 in FY 2009 and $1,013,048 in FY 2008.

The money raised from the contract for the Arch Foundation goes into a non-discretionary fund, and “every bit of it goes back into supporting the activity of the Arch Foundation,” Landrum said.

One of those activities includes the President’s Club event, a $25,000 to $30,000 gala where they “invite those donors to the University of Georgia and we invite them to a reception and tell them how their funds are used,” Landrum said.

John McCosh, spokesman for CredAbility, a nonprofit credit counseling organization, said it’s not necessarily a bad idea for students to have credit cards, provided it comes with a low credit limit of about $1,000.

“Students are having more financial problems, just like everyone else is, in part because their parents are less likely to come to the rescue if there’s a prob-lem,” McCosh said.

His advice for students — create a budget.

“If you start to get in trouble, buckle

down and try not to carry these habits along later in life,” said McCosh, who said he often advises clients with tens of thou-sands of dollars of debt who fell into bad financial habits in their teens and young 20s.

McCosh stressed when someone charges a purchase on a credit card, they are taking out a loan. And like most loans, credit cards come with interest rates.

“In this economy, a good [interest rate] would be probably the low teens,” McCosh said, adding the 14.24 percent interest rate plus prime from Bank of America’s student card is “not bad.”

Riess said students in the Bank of America program will not see an increased interest rate for any reason, no matter what.

“We take a fair and responsible approach to lending,” wrote Riess when asked to provide a statement regarding the University profiting from student debt. “[A]nd, when we do provide credit cards to students under 21 who have the ability to pay or a guarantor with such ability, we have different terms and a strong educational component.”

Other universities, such as the University of Michigan, have since made agreements with Bank of America to cease solicitation of affinity credit cards to students.

While the University of Georgia has yet to formalize any such agreement, Landrum said he “would be open to dis-cussing with Bank of America any adden-dum.”

Meanwhile, Coyle said she received word from Bank of America that they are not “actively soliciting any student right now.”

“We’re very concerned and very cau-tious with our students — they’re very strict about who they give a card to,” Coyle said, adding roughly half of student applicants are denied credit.

But Landrum says the responsibility belongs in the hands of the person swip-ing the card.

“As far as the University profiting from the card because of debt, I don’t have any hard data on that,” Landrum said. “I see that as a part of a contract that is a stu-dent’s decision as to whether or not that student wants to have a card, and wheth-er they want to have a balance. I don’t see that as taking advantage of them.”

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By KELSEY BYRDTHE RED & BLACK

Football campers at the University are used to fum-bles and touchdowns, but they got some experience with foul play after an unknown individual filched thousands of dollars worth of their possessions June 6 from Russell Hall.

“Basically, people left valuables in their rooms and left,” University Police Lieutenant Eric Dellinger said. “Some of them said their rooms were locked, and others were unsure.”

Kenneth Veal, a University alumnus who was coaching at the camp for 8- to 18-year-olds, brought his 2002 SEC championship ring and University graduation ring to the camp.

“They were in a Brinks Security Lockbox on the shelf by the mirror,” Veal said. “I left the door locked and dead-bolted but was told by a person at the front desk that some of the door locks are old and don’t lock well.”

When Veal returned from the camp, he said he initially didn’t notice any-thing was out of place.

“It wasn’t until I heard other campers talking about it that I went and checked my room and found it gone,” Veal said.

He valued his rings at about $6,000 total.

“Those rings I probably won’t ever get back,” Veal said. “Whoever sells them has a world of trouble com-ing to them because they have my name on them, and the police are look-ing.”

The other victims, all campers, reported various electronic equipment miss-ing, including various cell phones and MP3 players.

Also reported stolen were a sports watch, a pair of white Nike flip-flops and

two pairs of black Nike socks, making the total monetary value of stolen items nearly $8,000.

“I believe it’s one of the campers, because as a desk clerk I watch to make sure no creepers come through,” said Alex Snyder, a Russell Hall front desk clerk.

DJ Haynes, a desk clerk at Creswell, said he also believed the culprit to be a camper.

“The only thing you can do is always lock your doors and hide your valu-ables,” said Frank Jordan, another Creswell front desk clerk.

Veal said he hopes this year’s events will not scare away future football camp participants.

“I love UGA,” he said. “I’m a graduate from here and hopefully this won’t deter parents from send-ing their kids back to the camp.”

Dorm thief pilfers SEC ring, flip-flops

By GRACE MORRISTHE RED & BLACK

The Supreme Court of Georgia

heard oral arguments June 8 in regards to the nonprofit status of Nuçi’s Space, an Athens mental health resource center and musi-cians’ practice facility.

Although the local charity set out to combat depression and benefit struggling musicians in the Classic City, its 5-year battle for property tax exemption will set the precedent for interpretation of a 2007 amendment regarding nonprofit taxpayers throughout Georgia.

The amendment in question exempts nonprofit organizations from property taxes even if some part of their property has been used to generate commercial revenue.

As stated in the Official Code of Georgia, the exemption hinges on the condition that the revenue be used “exclusively for the operation of that charitable institution.”

“We’d been refused exemption back in 2005 and didn’t appeal it, so after the referendum in 2007, we applied for it again,” Nuçi’s Space Executive Director Bob Sleppy said.

The Athens-Clarke County Board of Tax Assessors, or BOA, once again refused the request on grounds that Nuçi’s Space rents rooms for private parties unrelated to its charity work. When the Board of Equalization approved the charity’s tax exemp-tion, the BOA decided to sue in opposition.

“It’s easy for the county to paint us as a private musicians’ club because they’ve never come down here,” Sleppy said of the board’s decision to sue.

Nuçi’s Space has its roots in the Nuçi Phillips Memorial Foundation, formed in 2002 by the Phillips family after 22-year-old Nuçi Phillips’ battle with depression ended in suicide.

The center is dedicated to provid-ing counseling and solutions to peo-ple suffering from mental ailments such as depression and anxiety.

Although members of the BOA have yet to stop by Nuçi’s Space, they did pay a visit to the state Supreme Court recently after their victory in the Court of Appeals was brought into question.

Nuçi’s Space learned its lesson

after failing to appeal its refusal in 2005, and this time it was prepared to challenge any opposition to its nonprofit financial status.

While one nonprofit’s will to fight may not have been enough to elicit a Supreme Court hearing, the support of 1,200 other nonprofits was.

The Georgia Center for Nonprofits, an organization that represents these enumerated charities, decided to file a brief of appeal on Nuçi’s Space’s behalf. GCN has a vested interest in the case because “the outcome may dramatically impact the ability of many not-for-profit organization members of GCN to qualify for prop-erty tax exemptions, and in turn, may jeopardize their ability to con-tinue their charitable mission, opera-tions and financial viability,” GCN’s brief stated.

“Other nonprofits had only con-tacted us informally, because if you keep your nose out of it they won’t come after you,” Sleppy said. “That’s why it was so nice to get [GCN’s] support, because they can represent everyone in one brief.”

The voluntary support of GCN raised the stakes, making this case

as much about the future of nonprof-its in the state of Georgia as about Nuçi’s Space itself.

BOA attorney William Berryman Jr. said he did not know what the outcome of last week’s trial could mean for Georgia charities.

“We are only focused on the facts of this specific case and our interpre-tation of the law, but there is concern that the court could allow more property tax exemptions,” he said.

Berryman expressed the county’s concern that nonprofit organizations may buy significant amounts of for-merly taxable property if the court sides with Nuçi’s Space.

The prosecution focused its opposing arguments not only on the rented commercial space but also on the alcohol sold there, drawing Nuçi’s Space’s character as a suicide pre-vention charity into question. Sleppy, however, said alcohol sales are a norm during fundraising, de-fending it as a common practice.

“People expect to come and look at art and drink a glass of wine,” he said. “It all comes down to the motive of what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.”

LAURA MCCRANIE | The Red & Black

Nuçi’s Space, on the corner of Baldwin and Oconee streets, is at the center of a debate on the nature of nonprofits in Georgia.

Nuçi’s Space faces legal battles

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Kayaking enthusiasts can stay in Classic CityE-mail and letters from our readers

That tingling sensation exists everywhere — AJ Green makes another swan-dive into the end zone and the urge to proudly wear the No. 8 can be satisfied post-game at the bookstore.

Maybe you need to finally pay off those late fees at the library that have been adding up since last semester.

Or, even more extreme, your Xbox live sub-scription is about to run out and NCAA 2011 comes out in only a month!

The only issue? You don’t technically have the money right now.

You’ll pay it off. You swear. Let’s face it — society thrives on credit, using

fear tactics to quiet down any reason that’s screaming from your gut to cut your cards.

Want to move up in life and buy a house? Tired of driving your mom’s gray mini-van? Have the urge to move to California as soon

as you walk the stage and complain of anxiety?Unfortunately, all these circumstances

require credit — or a very rich grandparent.I am definitely a sucker for the “quick plas-

tic fix” — my $2,000 worth of credit card debt would support that.

Now, I find out the University is actually prof-iting off of my poor decisions?

To be honest, it’s hard to get upset. It’s my own fault if I fall victim to corporate

marketing schemes. Yes, the University and Bank of America make money if I remain in debt, however, I see a trade off.

When 2 a.m. rolls around and I want to pass the time consuming large amounts of Choo- Choo, my credit card makes this possible.

Perhaps I just want to have a Friday night with the guys and a few beers are in order.

Illogical thinking? Most likely. I’m paying more in the long run to have my fun up front, but like I said, it’s a trade off.

Students’ don’t have to fall victim to these advertisements — we choose to; I choose to. I like to think I have a big enough brain to take care of my own finances.

At some point personal responsibility must be called in to question.

Is it ridiculous that the University is making money off of my debt? Of course.

Is it also ridiculous that Camel and Marlboro rake in billions as we slowly kill ourselves?

McDonalds didn’t make us fat, and the University and Bank of America aren’t to blame if we swipe our credit cards.

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I’ve decided to become a reality-televi-sion star instead.

Now, before you get all judgy, think about it — this is completely logical.

Who’d bother working 9-to-5 when you can just hop on over in front of a bunch of cameras and a national audience?

Oh, but it’s so hard.Really? It’s never been

easier!We live in a hyper-real

world now; anyone who is anybody (and who can do, frankly, anything) can grab his or her moment in the spotlight.

Sure, it used to require that you be — at least — really good-look-ing, or somewhat talent-ed or kind of weird.

However, now every-day tasks can become preparation for your 15 minutes.

Been digging around in your attic preparing for that seasonal garage sale? Bump that: head to Antique Roadshow instead.

(Retro, as they say, is always in ... and who would ever dream of throwing away home-made arts and crafts any-way?)

Secretly harboring dreams of world (err, bakery) domination?

If the Cake Boss can do it, so can you!

Dying to share your nights as a security guard at the Playboy mansion with the world?

It’s not like Ryan Seacrest has anything better to do.

(That’s right, Kim Kardashian, you and your spastically-bobbleheaded family can suck it.)

Oh, but what if you’re a little bit different — what if you can’t do much of anything at all?

Well, if you can read (just a little) and memo-rize a few choice lines (for just a few minutes) then you’re one solid producer meeting away from land-ing your own MTV2 con-fessional (for a few short seasons).

If Jersey Shore deserves its own drug-soaked showcase, why shouldn’t Athens?

Get it now? I’m not so crazy. The airwaves are

crammed with channels that are crammed with empty air.

They’ve gotta put on something. We can look at the Ray Js, Michael Lohans and Holly Madisons of the world and think, “Maybe the Mayans cut out just in time.”

But not me; I’m jump-ing right up on the band-wagon.

I’ll tone up, slim down, darken my skin and bleach my teeth. I may not have perfected the art of the blank stare yet, but I’ve been mainlining The Hills. It’ll take.

I’ll collect a few frene-mies, develop a drinking habit and begin to talk REALLY, REALLY LOUDLY.

Occasionally, I’ll even re-enact scenes from my daily life as they’re hap-pening.

Pretty soon — I’m almost certain — one of those Real Housewives is going to keel-over in a hair spray-induced coma, and I’ll be ready and waiting to shed the bor-ing, sensible skin of my college life for the glitz and glam of a star.

My Kate Gosselin wig will be here any day now, and then it’s off to Hollywood.

You’re more than wel-come to keep toiling away at your higher-edu-cations while I’m riding high on a wave of tabloid-fueled fame.

Where will your bache-lor’s degree leave you?

Me — me you can catch every Friday at 10.

See you on VH1.

—Adam Carlson is a sophomore from Dallas majoring in magazines

and film studies.

Courtesy of The Hills

Viewers tune in to The Hills for a glimpse of rich people’s problems

Music has always been a treasured and important part of my life.

It’s the one thing that is always there, no matter how I feel or where life drags me.

It can heal wounds, lift spirits, bring people together and put oth-ers at ease.

It seems to me, however, that music has slowly evolved into a shell of itself over the recent years.

Simply put, pop culture has completely taken over the musical spectrum.

You might ask, “why is that so bad?”

For the typical Top 40 listener who watches MTV in their spare time and has two stations pre-set on the radio, I suppose it’s not that bad at all.

Some might even enjoy the fact that every genre of music has evolved to include “pop” in it’s name.

Pop-rock, pop-punk, pop-jazz and yes — even pop-metal.

What happened to originality?

Where is the true artist?When I am looking for some-

thing new to play on my iPod, I feel as if I am in a musical coffee shop.

“Can I get the low-fat Alternative?”

“Do you carry Diet Rap?” “One decaf Hardcore, please.” I refuse to accept any passion-

less, trendy music substitutes. The sad thing is, I believe all

this popular music is coming from greed.

Catchy songs sell, and that’s what all of this comes down to.

Bands seem to be moving away from that ‘enough money to make it to our next stop’ mindset.

Don’t get me wrong, I want bands to ‘make it.’ I want them to do well and make a profit off of

their art. What I don’t want, however, is

these bands compromising their art for the money.

In all honesty, should every CD coming out be crafted together with over-worked “singles”?

Do we want music to move to a bland, generic sound that is com-pletely unoriginal and absolutely predicable? I, for one, do not.

We, the audience and listeners, need to start embracing genres such as Experimental and Indie.

We need to support our local music scene – our local artists.

We need to move away from this Daughtry-esque, Star 94 move-ment, where one song cannot be differed from another.

Stop listening to what’s ‘cool’ and what’s ‘in’ and start listening with your heart — only then will we find the passion that has been missing from the airwaves.

— Jody Barber is a senior

psychology major at the University of West Georgia

As someone who routinely says, “kayaking is cheaper than therapy,” I was excited this morning to see an article entitled “Two kayak ven-ues offer options for adventure this summer.”

However, that turned to disap-pointment pretty quick when I was finished reading. Right in our own back yard, just up Atlanta Highway right before the 316 split is a little shop on the left called Big Dogs.

About 7 weeks ago they expand-ed their business, adding Big Dogs on the River— a kayaking outfitters on the Middle Oconee.

What really surprised me is that there was just an article in the Banner-Herald on May 9 and they

advertise in the Flagpole. Having already become one of

my favorite summer activities and being so close to home (5 minutes instead of 30 or 40), I highly recom-mend checking them out.

The cabana on the river is a nice place to relax, before or after your trip and can be reserved for parties.

Be sure to keep an eye out for the lone black duck who hangs in the trio, the sweet little otter who swims the river back there, or the blue heron who gracefully swoops through the sky overhead

TONIA DOUSAYGraduate Student, Livingston, TX

Learning Design & Technology

Flamboyance has appealI would like to commend one of

your writers on a thoughtful, well-written piece about “Glee”.

I might comment though, that it wouldn’t be a highly rated show if the gay character acted ... well, less “gay”.

I understand that gay people range from stoic to flamboyant, but a gay person dressing conservative-ly and wearing an oxford shirt wouldn’t draw attention.

CHRISTOPHER SMITH

Senior, AlpharettaPolitical Science

ADAMCARLSON

JODYBARBER

It isn’t news that maga-zines targeted at teen-age girls and women

fill their pages with pic-tures of waif-thin models and celebrities — a very small minority of women who stand above 5’8 and still weigh below 120 lbs.

Our mothers would tell us, “this isn’t realistic honey, real women simply do not look like this,” and we, the young and impres-sionable daughters, would listen to them and say, “Okay Mom,” while simul-taneously thinking to our-selves, “...but I would still kill to look like her one day.”

Look at any newsstand today and not only are the covers of Seventeen and Vogue displaying the per-fect body, but so are mag-azines ranging from Women’s Health to GQ.

Basically, the message is being driven home and hard — especially when the impossibly gorgeous women on these covers are no longer limited to that minority group of genetically gifted models, but now include actors, singers, and even reality TV stars that were once stay-at-home mothers.

Is the entire world just getting hotter? I think not.

What we’ve got here over and over again is a case of foul play.

Newsweek recently published an article called “Unattainable Beauty: the decade’s most egregious retouching scandals” that exposes various celebrity pictures before and after

retouching. In every picture the

waists of the women were reduced, any signs of cel-lulite smoothed, and, in one case, Demi Moore’s hip was accidentally removed altogether.

Obviously, this distor-tion of the female image has not proven to be suffi-ciently troubling to our society, since the retouch-ing of images continues inching to a higher and higher extreme.

That’s the issue. Have you seen Heidi

Montag lately? If not, you have clearly been living under a rock.

The 23-year-old reality star underwent 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day after already having augmented her breasts because, as she says, she wants to “feel perfect.”

When did the message that real women don’t look like the ones on the magazine covers get lost?

We should worry because other little girls like Heidi Montag are going to grow up and want to retouch their bodies, except they won’t do it on paper with Photoshop — they’ll do it with a scalpel.

— Maria T. Alzuru is a senior majoring in

Political Science at Columbia University

MARIA T. ALZURU

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By CRISSINDA PONDERTHE RED & BLACK

Aside from Independ-ence Day, another freedom day is making its way to Athens this year.

“Juneteenth,” a blend-ing of words meaning June 19, is a significant date for many.

Juneteenth is a date that commemorates the integration of former slaves into society.

This date may seem misleading because most people associate the end of slavery with the Emancipa-tion Proclamation.

The Emancipation Proclamation became offi-cial on Jan. 1, 1863, but it was not until June 19, 1865, that Union troops visited Galveston, Texas, to announce the ending of slavery.

“Texas was one of the last Confederate strong-holds,” said Renaldo Stover, a Master of Social Work candidate and one of the Juneteenth event orga-nizers at the University. “Galveston was a focal point for Juneteenth.”

Now, 145 years later, Juneteenth — the oldest known celebration com-memorating the end of slavery in the United States — is observed in 31 states, according to Juneteenth.com.

Along with most of the nation, there are Juneteenth celebrations in several Georgia cities such as Augusta and Macon, but it has never before been celebrated in Athens — until now.

“Most people may think that Athens didn’t cele-brate Juneteenth because it wasn’t progressive,” said Monika Dobbs, a third-year law student and the main organizer of this event. “But, if you do a lit-tle research, you’ll find that the city was very pro-gressive and full of black history.”

Athens’ first Juneteenth celebration is sponsored by the Georgia Clients Council, the oldest state-wide nonprofit grassroots organization led by low-to-moderate income leaders.

“Our biggest focus is making this a community event,” Stover said.

The celebration will include arts and crafts, cultural performances, educational information and workshops, all in honor of this historical date in the struggle for freedom.

“We will have things that will enrich your life,” Dobbs said.

As the organizers’ mis-sion states, the June-teenth volunteers hope that the event will instill in Athens residents “a sense of pride in community and self.”

There are both commu-nity hands as well as vol-unteers from the law school’s Black Law Students Association help-ing with the historical event.

“We have a lot of intel-lectual minds involved with this celebration,” Stover said.

Stover wants the com-munity to know this cele-bration is not in any way exclusive — in fact, it tran-scends the construct of race.

“This isn’t just an African-American event; it’s for anyone who cele-brates freedom,” Stover said. “This is a chance for the community to come together and become stronger, to reflect on what we’ve done and to look at what we have to do.”

Studentscelebratea day forfreedom

When: June 19, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Where: East Athens Community Center, 400 McKinley DriveMore Information: To donate, volunteer or perform, e-mail JuneteenthAthens@gmail.com or call (478) 501-1373Cost: Free

JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION

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Photo courtesy Josh Marsh

Actors sweat their classic Shakespearian lines while performing outdoors.

Play takes acting outside

SUMMER: Univ. lets youth shoot for sky

By JEN INGLESTHE RED & BLACK

This weekend, much ado may well be made about an unlikely combination: Shakespeare and tailgating.

“It’s not unlike a UGA football game,” said Lisa Cesnik Ferguson, founding artis-tic director of Rose of Athens Theatre, about the group’s latest production.

Her theater company will perform “Much Ado About Nothing” at Ashford Manor, where guests are welcome to picnic on the lawn while they enjoy the show.

The comedy tells the story of two pairs of lovers — Beatrice and Benedick, and Hero and Claudio — as well as the high-jinks of the townspeople of Messina, Italy.

“[Shakespeare] was such a rock star in his day,” said Ferguson, a University alum-na. “He was breaking all of the rules of the well-made play.”

Shakespeare’s plays flew in the face of convention by presenting the audience with a series of scenes, each with a new subplot, then cycling through them as the story progresses.

Ferguson said this makes his plays par-ticularly accessible to modern audiences because the structure of his plays is very similar to the structure of many television shows.

“Outdoor Shakespearian comedies are perfect for summertime,” said Danielle

Miller, the show’s producer.For director Kimberly Faith Hickman

and for the cast, the outdoor venue adds new challenges to the production.

From the notorious Georgia heat to the bugs that might make their stage debut, Hickman said she must help the actors stay focused and hydrated in order to per-form in a sometimes unpredictable envi-ronment.

Music incorporated in the play sets this production of “Much Ado About Nothing” apart from others.

Audience members can expect a dose of 1990s pop music from the likes of Madonna and C&C Music Factory with their height-ened Shakespearian language.

The choice in music will complement the unexpected humor of the play.

Ferguson said jokes that may not fly elsewhere are socially acceptable in Shakespeare’s plays because they are per-formed within the context of a highly respected work of art.

“I love how naughty Shakespeare is,” Hickman said.

Where: Ashford ManorWhen: June 16 - 20, 8 p.m.Cost: $15m $10 for students

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

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Wednesday building and shooting off model rockets in pairs under the volunteered guidance of UGA Aviation Club officers Ryan Aquino and John Wright, along with Tim Wright, president of the Athens area Experimental Aircraft Association.

The majority of the campers say they want to be pilots — commercial and military — when they grow up.

“When I grow up, I want to be a commercial pilot and fly all over the world, and not get hit by rockets,” Alex Hahn, a 12-year-old from Athens, said while dodging model rocket launch-es.

The student pairs experimented with various designs and shapes to create different combina-tions of height and flight time for their foot-long rockets.

“I like making the rockets the best,” said 12-year-old John Cross from Athens. “It was hard, but it was worth it.”

In the process of learning all about flight, the kids are also having fun.

“The balsa wood planes were the best,” said C.J. Phillips, 14, from Athens. “When we were done, we just threw them at people.”

Campers get to go to the airport at the end of the week after experimenting with their model rockets and airplanes.

“I’m looking forward to going to the airport the most,” said 12-year-old Madison Getch from Athens. Getch said he hopes to become a fight-er pilot when he grows up.

Most students come from Clarke and the sur-rounding counties — Barrow, Jackson, Oglethorpe, Oconee and Madison — but some travel in from Gwinnett and the Atlanta area each day.

Every year, at least one out-of-town student’s parents book a hotel room and stay for the week.

Other students are sent to stay with rela-tives, often University faculty and staff.

In anticipation for a drop in enrollment due to the economy this year, the prices for Summer Academy @ UGA were lowered, and more schol-arships were offered.

Current 2010 figures show a slightly lower number of students than last year, but 2009 was the largest turnout yet — almost twice as large as 2008.

So next time you see these kids as you’re on your way to your thru-session chemistry class, be jealous — they could be on the way to fly in an airplane.

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What: Athenaesum Club Tour and SocialWhere: The GlobeWhen: 6-7 p.m.Price: $10, free for membersVerdict: The Athens Clarke Heritage Foundation’s club for young professionals interested in historic preservation will meet with Wilmont Greene, the owner of the Georgia Theatre, to discuss renovations. Contact: (706) 542-5788, athenaeumclub@gmail.com

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What: Argentine Tango EssentialsWhere: Athens Elks LodgeWhen: 6-9:30 p.m.Price: $5Verdict: Atlanta’s Tango Evolution instructor Clint Rauscher teaches this tango workshop. No partner neces-sary.Contact: (706) 613-8178

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Events

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What: “Move to Improve” Block PartyWhere: Waddell StreetWhen: 4-6 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: A party celebrating National Home Ownership Month with live music, games, a moonwalk, food and a dunking booth con-taining Spencer Frye, the executive director of Athens Area Habitat for Humanity.Contact: www.athenshabitat.com

Live Music

What: Valentine & WestWhere: 40 Watt ClubWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $6/21 and up, $8/18 and upVerdict: Laura West adds a glossy melody to local rapper, Tommy Valentine in a per-formance celebrating their new EP, “Prequel.”Contact: www.40wattclub.com

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THE WEEK

This Atlanta-meets-Athens rap duo brings fast rap lyrics, smooth harmo-nies and just a hint of pop to the 40 Watt Club Friday night in Athens.

Tommy Valentine’s tal-ent has been turning heads around here since he became the Battle Rap champion at Mic Club, The Athlete’s Foot Underground Atlanta and Prince of the Ring. He was voted 2006 Top 3 of All Genres, Top 3 Best Hip-Hop/Rap and the Top 3 Up-and-Coming from Flagpole Music Awards.

After taking a brief two-year hiatus starting in 2007, Valentine is back with new songs and a new sound as he is joined by Laura West, a recent theatre perfor-mance graduate from the University. West is young, hip and talented both as a singer and songwriter, and is very excited to be per-forming with Valentine.

The two met when an ad for a backup singer position came to West’s attention and she replied. They decided to work together as a duo and have been wowing audiences ever

since. Valentine’s musical

influences include artists such as Johnny Cash, T.I., Ben Folds and Nirvana, while West pulls from more of a pop side of music with artists including Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, Heart and The Temptations.

Valentine & West was recently voted a 2010 Flagpole Award finalist and will be performing in AthFest on June 26 as well.

Where: 40 Watt ClubWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $6/21 and up, $8/18 and upContact: www.40wattclub.com

Photo courtesy Valentine & West

The Red & Black’s event guide to happenings — news, variety and sports — in and around

Athens from June 17-23.Compiled by KELSEY BYRD

Designed by HALEY TEMPLE

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Events

What: Old Athens Cemetery: History and PreservationWhere: UGA Visual Arts BuildingWhen: 3 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: Janine Duncan, the planning coordina-tor for the UGA grounds department, discusses what she unearthed in the restoration of the Old Athens Cemetery.Contact: (706) 542-9078

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What: Top 10 Errors People Make When Starting a New BusinessWhere: ACC LibraryWhen: Noon-1:30 p.m.Price: TBDContact: (706) 613-3650

What: The Spirit of the LandWhere: The State Botanical

Garden of GeorgiaWhen: 5:30 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: A discussion of the cur-rent art exhibit, “The Spirit of the Land: Landscape Works from the Permanent Collection of the Georgia Museum of Art” by Dr. Paul Manoguerra.Contact: www.athenslandtrust.org

What: Slow Food DinnerWhere: Mama’s BoyWhen: 6 p.m.Price: $22/Slow Food members, $27/nonmembersVerdict: Peach Cobbler finishes this traditional Southerncookin’ family-style meal put on by Slow Food Athens.Contact: (706) 549-8901

What: Summer ShotsWhere: Madison County LibraryWhen: 6:30 p.m.Price: Free

Verdict: A one-hour talk about photography and digital technol-ogy for ages 18 and up.Contact: (706) 769-3950

What: Shakespeare on the LawnWhere: Ashford ManorWhen: June 16-20, 8 p.m.Price: $15/adults, $10/students, $5/children, free for children 6 and underContact: (706) 340-9181, www.roseofathens.org

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By ZACK TAYLORTHE RED AND BLACK

This year AthFest will have a new comedic ele-ment and comedian TJ Young is more than happy to be a part of it.

“I have done some unof-ficial shows during AthFest a couple of times,” Young said.

He tried for a couple of years to get comedy to be a part of AthFest and this year he and fellow stand-up Chris Patton finally succeeded.

Athfest Comedy Showcase will be held June 23 at New Earth Music Hall, and is hosted by Young. Young will join eight stand-up comedians.

Young’s act, in particu-lar, is about “playing dumb.”

He says sticking to a dumb position is what makes it funny. He tries to avoid heavy political satire in light of a different style of comedy.

“I always say my come-dy is light-hearted absurdi-ty,” he said. “I try to take everyday situations and then have a really strange slant at the end.”

His comedy influences run a wide range of come-dians, such as classic comedians like Bill Cosby and Steve Martin to more contemporary comics.

“I would say Brian Regan is my favorite come-dian right now,” Young said. “I also really like Jim Gaffigan,”

Comedians, however, are not the only people who influence Young’s comedy stylings.

“I have some friends who aren’t even comedi-ans, they’re just really funny and I draw from them as well,” Young said.

Young said his life as a comedian has its roots in his childhood.

“I came from a family where laughter was always

a part of what we’re doing,” he said. “I remem-ber my grandfather being a particularly funny guy and I would tell him dumb jokes to make him laugh, which in turn would make me laugh.”

The comedy act didn’t stop there, as Young brought his family’s love of humor into his group of friends.

“I was always the clown in my group of friends,” Young said.

Young is not alone in his stand-up journey. He is one of four members of “The Beards of Comedy,” an Atlanta-based collec-tion of comedians includ-ing Young, Andy Sandford, Dave Stone and Joe Zimmerman, who all hap-pen to be comedians with beards. Young claims he got involved with the group after one of the future members suggested the humorous name.

“The guy without the beard who initially sug-gested the group idea grew a beard a few months later and joined as well,” Young said.

Although they don’t have the same exact comedic styles, they share more than just matching beards. The group has common ideas and goals as comedians.

“We all want to be our-selves and challenge our-selves,” Young said “We all strive to be wildly appeal-ing but not have comedy that appeals only to the lowest common denomina-tor.”

Funny thing: AthFest to host Comedy Fest

up in two lines to keep instructing. Much like speed dating, the guys were asked to switch partners every few minutes. This is both good and bad — the dancers get many different styles to work with, but if one person gets the moves and the next one doesn’t, there might be a small hitch in the dance.

“The instruction was fast-paced

so it was funny watching everyone try to keep up, but once we got to dance and trade partners, I had a blast meeting new people and learning about the different salsa techniques,” said Sarah Shelnutt, a graduate student from Watkinsville. “I’m so glad I got to go and learn something new.”

Toward the end of the lesson, Miyagui began to show off some complicated combos which were difficult to pick up, but some prac-

tice and a few return trips should get them worked out.

“As I always say, if you learn very well your basic, then everything else is easy and fun to learn,” he said.

Several of the dancers feel the same way.

“It’s fun and a great way to meet people and learn new skills,” said Sean Bailey, a senior from Warner Robins. “I’m definitely coming back.”

By ZACK TAYLORTHE RED AND BLACK

Hail to the King baby, Elvis is coming to Athens — sort of.

Chris Shupe is a man of two identities. By day he works in real estate, but by night he goes by the name Elvis Presley. He is an Elvis impersonator. Shupe had his first encounter with the musical stylings of Elvis Presley at an early age when his grandmother bought him his first Elvis record.

“We had a cassette recorder back then,” said Shupe. “I started play-ing around with recording my voice over the music and background.”

After that, Shupe would imper-sonate Elvis at school talent shows and things of a similar sort, and continued to perform as Elvis into the present day.

Shupe, like many of his fellow Elvis impersonators, has attended Elvis impersonator conventions in the past.

“Some of the conventions get a little bit crazy,” Shupe said. “You will get into the hotel and there will immediately be ten or twelve Elvis’s right in front of you.”

Shupe claims the convention is also a good place to hone one’s craft.

“Sometimes you’ll see a guy do a song a certain way or put a little move in there that you haven’t thought of before,” he said.

Shupe stressed that while he loved the many years of imperson-ating Elvis, he has not taken it to the same extremes as some of the other men he has met at these con-

ventions.“I have met some guys who are

really into [Elvis] so much so that they have had plastic surgery to look more like him,” he said. “They act, talk and look so much like Elvis when you are speaking to them it is hard to separate the person from the character.”

Shupe, who does have natural side-burns but keeps them trimmed, said he definitely keeps his Elvis life separate from his day-

to-day life. Since he does have a day job as a

realtor he spends much of his time during the day out of character.

“I can’t walk around looking and acting completely like Elvis 24-7,” Shupe said. “Unless I wanted to get some strange looks and not sell much real estate.”

As far as his uniform is con-cerned, Shupe stated it isn’t likely for you to see him the infamous white jump suit — he just doesn’t have the physique for it.

“I would say I run about 10 miles a week, so I am not trying to por-tray Elvis in his later years,” Shupe said. Elvis isn’t all about his ward-robe, however, there is the music to consider.

Shupe loves so much of Elvis’s catalog and owns a huge collection, but there are a few songs he enjoys performing more than the others.

“I like to perform songs like Poke Salad Annie, Proud Mary, or any song with a lot of action and moves to them,” Shupe said.

Shupe said he believes that although Elvis has been around for quite some time, that’s no reason for the college-age crowd not to enjoy his music.

“Most of the crowd is in their late 30s or late 40s, but the college-age kids who do come out have a great time,” Shupe said.

By day a realtor, at night he’s The King

What: AthFest Comedy

Showcase: Hosted by Athens’

own TJ Young

When: June 23 8 p.m.

Where: New Earth Music Hall

Price: $10/$5 with AthFest

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COMEDY FEST

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SALSA: Like speed dating, partners are switched

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By MITCH BLOMERTTHE RED & BLACK

When Georgia pitcher Alex McRee was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 14th round of last week’s Major League Baseball Draft, he was faced with two options for the future — go profession-al and leave academics behind, or continue the pursuit of graduate school.

McRee’s choice? Both.The senior, who is pur-

suing a pre-dentistry degree, will play in the Dodgers’ minor-league system this summer while preparing his application to dental school.

“I’m going to go ahead and apply in the fall, and if I’m doing good in the pros I’ll defer,” McRee said. “I’ll either make the bigs, and if I’m not going to, I’ll go to dental school from there.”

McRee signed a $5,000 contract with Los Angeles following his draft selec-tion and will report to the Ogden Raptors, the team’s rookie affiliate, on Sunday.

The 6-foot-6 lefty will play for the Raptors until August, when he returns to Athens to finish his degree and take his Dental Admission Test.

Although the hectic schedule of professional baseball on top of a dental

school application may seem like pulling teeth, managing time between sports and academics has become the norm for McRee, who has a 3.4 grade point average and is a four-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.

“That’s just how it was growing up,” McRee said. “If you want to make A’s, you have to do whatever it takes.”

McRee’s choice to do whatever it takes has left him with both athletic and academic opportunities ahead of him. If his base-ball career doesn’t pan out, he can earn his Doctor of Dental Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, the school he is applying to, in four years.

The short length of the program is what attracted McRee to dentistry over his second choice, ortho-pedic surgery.

“It’s four years to do medical school, then six years to do residency, and I wasn’t too sure about that,” McRee said. “But with dentists it’s four years, then you’re done.”

But McRee isn’t taking any of his possible future plans for granted after watching his draft stock fall the past the two sea-sons due to injuries and

inconsistencies. After a successful sophomore campaign that included seven wins and a 3.98 earned-run average, his performance declined, making only 15 appearanc-es his junior year while battling mononucleosis.

Control issues pocked his senior year, finishing with a career-worst 7.25 earned-run average while walking 32 batters and throwing 14 wild pitches in 20 appearances.

The pitching struggles

McRee encountered his last two seasons reminded him that even though he is now a professional base-ball player, it is not a bad idea to be professional in something off the field as well.

“Baseball is never a guarantee, as I found out,” McRee said. “You don’t ever know what is going to happen. You’ve got to have a backup plan.

“You want to devote 100 percent to baseball, but you have to split time.”

It is a very rare event in college athletics when the big-time decision-

makers elect to keep things the same, or God forbid, downsize.

Everything in college sports is always about get-ting bigger, and supposed-ly, better.

Witness the expansion of the NCAA Tournament to 68 teams in late April.

Though the format still must be approved by the men’s basketball commit-tee later this summer, it seems like a foregone con-clusion it will go through.

Another example of the “bigger equals better” phi-losophy of the NCAA is to look at how many teams go to bowl games now.

There are 35 (!) bowl games approved for the next four years, with the addition earlier this year of the New Era Pinstripe Bowl in New York City and the Dallas Football Classic at the Cotton Bowl. This is not to be confused with the old Cotton Bowl game, which moved to the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

So count me among the surprised when earlier this week it was announced that the Big 12 Conference would not “dissolve,” as some people forecasted after the departure of Nebraska to the Big Ten Conference and Colorado to the Pac-10 Conference.

ESPN’s Andy Katz reported June 15 that “a number of influential peo-ple inside and outside of college athletics mobilized over the past week to save the Big 12 Conference,” mainly due to the fact they did not like how the Pac-10 went about trying to poach six teams from the Big 12, and then turn themselves into a “super-conference” involving 16 teams.

I was all but ready to give Texas, Texas A & M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech a pat on the back for not going after the money and head westward to the waiting, open arms of the Pac-10 Conference.

However, that was only until I realized they stayed in the Big 12 for one rea-son — money.

Quite a shocking revela-tion, right?

Katz reported Texas will see increased revenue from television rights and the chance to have its own network, and this new con-figuration stands to make UT between $20 and $25 million annually.

There’s a reason for the phrase “everything’s bigger in Texas,” you know.

But now that the dust has settled and revealed the Big 12 will not be going away, where does that leave the state of college athletics?

One of the biggest doubts I have is the Big 12 will stay at only 10 teams.

Is the Big 12 comfort-able not having a confer-ence championship game in football? And if not,

what schools will they go after to return to 12?

Texas Christian seems like a logical fit for geo-graphical purposes and Utah seems like an upgrade over Colorado football-wise.

Utah has been much more of a BCS contender than Colorado in the last half-decade, going unde-feated and winning two BCS bowl games in 2004 and 2008.

And while Nebraska is on the way back towards prominence with head coach Bo Pelini, there is no doubt that TCU owns a better program than the Cornhuskers at this junc-ture.

The Pac-10 is in a simi-lar quandary to the Big 12.

With the addition of Colorado, they now have 11 teams, just one short of the NCAA minimum need-ed to hold a football con-ference championship game.

Now spurned by the Big 12 schools, who would they look at?

Utah would have to be considered the front-run-ner, and reports from Comcast Sports on June 15 said the Pac-10 will extend an invitation for the Utes to join the confer-ence.

If for some reason Utah does not accept the Pac-10’s overture, don’t count out Brigham Young.

They certainly would not pass up the chance to head to a guaranteed BCS conference, and BYU could hold that as a recruiting advantage over Utah, their bitter in-state rival.

Though most experts feel the Mountain West will be awarded an automatic bid to the BCS party next time the talks come around, one can never be too sure.

One less serious issue is the way the three confer-ences in question — Big Ten, Pac-10 and Big 12 — are misnomers.

The Pac-10 now has 11 teams, and added a team in Colorado that isn’t close to the Pacific Ocean.

And for the Big Ten and the Big 12, there is a rever-sal of sorts going on, where the Big Ten has 12 teams and the Big 12 has 10.

Might I propose they just trade conference names?

Or would that make too much sense?

But the NCAA isn’t in the business of making “sense” — they’re more about making “cents.”

This recent reshuffling of conferences reminds us that though the NCAA is open to change among its member institutions, one thing, one phrase, always stays the same — money talks.

McRee: Baseball or bicuspids? Money at the root of conference changes

USC LB transfers to UGA

The University line-backer corps is about to welcome a new addition.

Jarvis Jones, a transfer from Southern California, was a star linebacker at Carver High School in Columbus who chose USC over Georgia, LSU, Texas and Florida in a heated recruiting battle in 2009.

This time around, the Georgia native felt the Bulldogs were the right choice for him, picking Georgia over Clemson, Florida State and North Carolina.

Jones spent June 14 and 15 in Athens, touring the school and meeting with fellow football play-ers.

Most importantly, Jones met with UGA doctors, who cleared him to play in 2011. Jones injured his neck in USC’s eighth game last season and missed the remainder of the year.

Per NCAA transfer rules, Jones must sit out the 2010 season before being eligible to play next year.

Jones appeared in eight games in 2009, accumulat-ing 13 tackles and 1.5 tack-les for loss.

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Alex McRee will prepare his application for dentistry school while playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rookie team in Ogden, Utah.