By BEN BUSSARDTHE RED & BLACK

As the 2010 NCAA Tournament tips off Saturday, one thing is certain for the Georgia women’s basketball team.

Last year’s postseason performance simply wasn’t good enough.

Following a 2009 season that saw the Lady Dogs barely make the field of 64 and suffer a first-round exit, the Lady Dogs enter this year’s tour-ney as a No. 5 seed and have plans to hang around a little longer this time around.

“I’ve got an excited basketball team,” head coach Andy Landers said. “Our veterans have a real distaste still in their mouths for how we played a year ago in this tournament. [And] we have six freshmen who are really excited and want to find out what the NCAA Tournament is all about.”

In the 2009 NCAA Tournament, the Lady Dogs

were defeated by the Arizona State Sun Devils in Duluth, and veterans like seniors Angel Robinson and Ashley Houts certainly don’t want to end their careers at Georgia with a similar perfor-mance in 2010.

“We’re hoping that we can win one game at a

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Water gushed out of Brumby Hall windows after putting out the blaze that destroyed a freshman dorm room Thursday morning.

By MIMI ENSLEYTHE RED & BLACK

One student in Brumby Hall woke up Thursday morning to an unpleas-ant surprise — flames climbing up her dorm room’s curtains.

Lindsay Bannon, a freshman from Dallas, Texas, shared Brumby’s room 340 with her roommate Christina Mauney.

“I was asleep, and at about 10:30 [a.m.] the back of my head started to feel really hot, and the entire left side of my room was in flames,” Bannon said.

The flames crept up the curtains and gradually spread to the desk, she said.

“Every indication at the scene is

that it was an accidental electrical fire,” University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said. “Our officers have been over there all day taking pic-tures.”

Mauney said she had no idea how it could have started, and Bannon said she was sure neither she nor her roommate was at fault.

“We didn’t have anything plugged in that wasn’t normally plugged in,” Mauney said.

Mauney, a freshman from Charlotte, N.C., was not in the room when the fire began, but she heard about the incident after Bannon left a message on her cell phone. At first, she didn’t believe her friend, but she quickly headed back to the dormitory when Bannon confirmed the message.

When Mauney finally got access to her room, she noticed her laptop, iPod, books and a birthday present from her boyfriend were ruined.

Both Mauney and Bannon said officials told them they would proba-bly be reimbursed for the damage.

“I really hope we will,” Mauney said. “I need the computer.”

Rick Gibson, director for residence hall education and services, said the students would have to file paper-work and submit it to the state in order to be reimbursed.

But he said University Housing would help the process go as quickly as possible.

“If it appears that the students

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Tailgaters will only be allowed access to North Campus four hours prior to kickoff for all future football seasons.

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This fall, the University will implement new regulations regarding tailgating on North Campus, including limiting tail-gating to four hours before kickoff and banning a list of items such as tents, kegs, televisions and other tailgating tools.

At Thursday’s monthly Cabinet meeting, University president Michael Adams said the tailgat-

ing restrictions would help pre-serve the beauty and history of North Campus. The cabinet voted unanimously for the measure.

“You only have to walk out there to know it hasn’t recovered from the beating it took last year,” Adams said. Letters from alumni expressing concern about tailgat-ing on North Campus instigated the change, he said.

“We’re not attempting to elimi-nate the tailgating experience, but make it a different type of

experience,” Adams said.He said he can’t anticipate

reaction, but believes and hopes that constituents will agree and call the decision sensible.

But students, like Chris Bower, aren’t too happy about the new rules.

Bower, a senior from Atlanta, said he’s been tailgating with his friends on North Campus since his sophomore year and was upset that their tradition won’t contin-ue.

“I’ve had quite a few tailgates there,” he said. “I feel like it’s tra-dition for people to be able to tailgate in North Campus.”

Bower said he isn’t sure where he’ll tailgate, but thinks the restrictions altogether are a little over the top.

“I feel that they should try to regulate it a little more,” he said. “It’s way too much trash after-wards.”

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By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK

An 85-year-old woman injured in front of Stegeman Coliseum is bringing a law-suit against the Board of Regents and the University Athletic Association, potentially costing the defendants hundreds of thousands of dollars.

According to documents obtained by The Red & Black, as Virginia Drosche exited the Coliseum on Feb. 27, 2008, she tripped as a result of defective flooring. During her fall, Drosche sustained multiple injuries — breaking a shoul-der in five places and bruis-ing her chin, right knee and elbow.

Although Drosche is suing the University for the nearly $7,600 incurred as medical expenses, the court must also decide if she is entitled to a reward for her pain and suffering.

“In personal injury cases of this type, you can expect anywhere from $5,000 to $100,000 in intangible dam-ages,” Hue Henry, Dorsche’s attorney, told The Red & Black Wednesday. “The question here is going to be whether the defect was obvious.”

The flooring called into question was located on a platform where Drosche was instructed to wait for a bus.

A ramp, which was con-nected to the platform, reportedly did not match up properly to create a smooth joint. As Drosche made her way toward the bus, her toe got caught on the uneven joint, causing her to fall.

“She was injured in Stegeman Coliseum due to a defect in the flooring,” Henry said. “It wasn’t laid properly, so it created a ledge.”

According to court doc-uments, other similar uneven joints were taped. This joint, however, was not taped and had no warn-ing signs.

Henry also pointed out since the area was crowded and not well lit, it would have been difficult for

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had nothing to do with actually causing the fire, then we’re going to help facilitate that process,” he said.

Because of the incident, Mauney and Bannon will have to move to new rooms. As of Thursday afternoon, they did not know where they would be relocated, but Mauney said they would probably have to split up because no empty rooms were available.

Bannon said the main damage to the room came from the dormitory’s sprin-kler system.

“Everything in the room is just soaking wet and ruined,” she said.

Tom Jackson, the University’s vice president for public affairs, said about six or seven rooms sustained water damage from the sprinklers.

Assistant Director of University Housing Ralphel Smith said a pri-vate company would clean up the flooding.

The entire residence hall was evacuated around 10:30 a.m., and by 11 a.m., residents still chatted in groups or paced around the parking lot, waiting to be let back in.

“I thought it was a drill,

so I walked just like nor-mal,” said Ashley Tester, a ninth floor Brumby resi-dent from Acworth. “When you got to the fourth floor, you could start smelling smoke, and I started walk-ing a little faster.”

She said some students even skipped stairs as they ran down the stairwell in a rush to exit the building.

But Tester said she wasn’t too worried about the situation.

“It seemed like every-thing was under control,”

she saidStudents could re-enter

the dorm Thursday around noon, but they were direct-ed to go only to their own floors.

According to Williamson, there have only been about two dor-mitory fires in the recent past, and it has been a long time since such a sig-nificant fire erupted in the dormitories.

“Anything similar to this where the sprinkler system was activated, I

don’t remember happen-ing in a very long time,” he said. “Most of the time we just get smoke and alarm activation.”

Smith said he was pleased everything ran smoothly.

“We don’t want things like this to happen,” he said. “But we’re very happy that if they do happen everything works the way it’s supposed to work.”

The incident was still under investigation Thursday afternoon.

FIRE: Sprinklers soak residents’ possessions

By MIMI ENSLEYTHE RED & BLACK

The University is one step closer to achieving its far-reaching goals for the next 10 years.

At the University Council meeting held Thursday after-noon, the council voted to approve the school’s 2020 strate-gic plan, which serves as a compre-hensive vision for where the University wants to be 10 years down the road.

The plan is draft-ed in compliance with the reaccreditation requirements set out by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

The 2020 plan includes priorities such as increas-ing graduate student research productivity, facil-

itating service-learning programs and establishing a school of engineering.

The Strategic Planning Committee solicited input from students, faculty and staff through open forums and electronic communica-

tion last year.“We needed to

have input on the front end, the mid-dle end and the back end,” said William Vencill, chairman of the committee.

U n i v e r s i t y President Michael Adams praised the committee for the amount of feedback

it had received.“This has been a com-

plete involvement process,” Adams said, highlighting the fact that input came from across campus, not just from the senior admin-istration.

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The proposed budget cuts and

looming University concerns domi-nated the media briefing following Thursday’s Cabinet meeting.

Given Gov. Sonny Perdue’s recent proposal, University President Michael Adams said the budget does not appear to be as bad as expected.

“There are no places left to cut,” he said. “Any dollar we save now will be a dollar saved against the 2011 budget. The governor’s cuts are much more favorable to the University System than what the house proposed.”

Yet Adams said there are many things unknown.

The University does not yet know the final budget adjustments from the governor, nor does it know the Board of Regents appropriations or tuition increases for next year.

“This will create managing diffi-culties in April, and I suspect fami-lies will have issues,” Adams said.

But regardless, Adams said cuts can only go so far.

“To think that there would be another $60 million cut without sig-nificant harm to the number of pro-grams is just not a reality,” he said. “The fact of the matter is there’s nothing left to cut.”

Adams said employees who have written to him about the budget situation don’t realize the number of jobs that have been saved.

“At some point, no one is going to support any reductions,” he said.

Adams said he does not know what the next cuts will be, but hopes the governor’s proposed budget will reduce cuts to a third of the $300 million cuts which have been already recommended to the University System.

Adams said if only a portion of the cuts are needed, the elimination of programs such as 4-H and other extension services must be taken into consideration.

“Everything is on the table as far as cuts,” Adams said. “If the ques-tion comes down to teaching or pro-tecting auxiliaries, then we have to protect the core functions.”

Adams said he thinks the budget cuts won’t hurt graduates’ competi-tiveness in the job market.

“We’re not oblivious to the tough economic climate for job seekers, but I believe that we have quality students,” he said.

On the subject of furloughing, Adams said he wasn’t sure what the University plans to do.

“Opinions on furloughing are very mixed,” he said. “Some prefer salary cuts over furloughing, and some pre-fer furloughing over salary cuts.”

This year, the University had six furlough days.

When asked about pulling from the Athletic Association budget, Adams said the association budget is separate from the University’s budget.

The Athletic Association gave the University $2 million this year, which largely went toward faculty support.

“We’ve happily been able to keep

two-thirds of faculty that have had [job] offers,” Adams said.

Though the University hasn’t laid off tenured faculty, there are 170 vacancies, including part-time fac-ulty positions.

Adams said that as a result of decreased faculty, students may be forced to experience significantly larger class sizes while dealing with fewer class offerings.

“I want students to be immune to this process while students are here,” he said. “But there’s no deci-sion left that doesn’t get to the bone given the size of adjustments. We simply have no choice but to do larger classes.”

But Adams said he’s impressed and proud of the many different ways students have been respond-ing during these tough economic times.

“Generally, students have been respectful in how they have respond-ed,” he said. “I don’t agree with everything with SGA — nor proba-bly they with me — but I think they’ve been realistic.”

Adams spoke briefly on the HOPE Scholarship, stating it need-ed to stick to its core values.

“It was supposed to be a reward for those who work hard regardless of where they are on a socioeconom-ic level,” Adams said. “I think for now there are appropriate checks in place that should allow it to oper-ate.

Adams said he doesn’t agree with the idea of moving to a need-based program for HOPE because it dimin-ishes the philosophy.

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Students gather outside of Brumby Thursday following a fire on the third floor. Some rooms flooded after sprinklers doused the flames.

After a night of loud music and green beer, many St. Patrick’s Day partiers were ready to go home and sleep it off. However, due to six safety checkpoints set up by state and local police, 34 individuals had to settle for sleeping on the con-crete benches provided in the Clarke County jail.

“We do them all the time,” University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said about the safety checkpoints. “You can defi-nitely count on them dur-ing holidays and celebra-tion times. Vehicles come in, we interact with them, then it goes off the officer’s intuition.”

After stopping more than 1,000 vehicles Thursday night, 34 people in total were placed under arrest. Not only were around 10 DUI arrests made, but individuals were also charged with public intoxication, underage possession of alcohol, flee-ing or attempting to elude, possession of cocaine and driving without a license.

These checkpoints seem to have caught many peo-ple off guard, despite the fact that police notified the community beforehand about when they would be conducted.

“We do it because we want to be transparent,” Williamson said. “We’re not hiding out there trying to get people.”

Though these 34 arrests were enough to keep police busy, the numbers were down from last year. A similar checkpoint, set up on the same day last

year, screened 700 vehicles and yielded 63 arrests.

“They’re successful whatever way they go,” Williamson said. “The whole goal with this is to change behavior.”

Female student Fahma Mohamed, 19, was placed under arrest at a safety checkpoint. Mohamed was charged with DUI, under-age possession of alcohol and failure to obey persons directing traffic at 3:30 a.m. on March 18.

According to the University Police report, as she approached the check-point, officers began yell-ing at her to stop. She con-tinued to drive through the checkpoint at the intersection of College Station Road and River Road. It was not until an officer stepped in front of her vehicle that Mohamed pulled over.

She reportedly told police, “I thought they were waving me through the checkpoint.”

As the arresting officer spoke to her, he reported smelling an odor common-ly associated with alcohol. When asked if she had been drinking, Mohamed told him she had not.

She then agreed to per-form field sobriety tests.

After showing many clues that she was over the legal alcohol limit, Mohamed declined to offer a breath sample and was placed under arrest.

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Last football season’s tailgating trash initially raised concerns about the preservation of North Campus.

“What’s happened the last few years on North Campus has not been a tradition,” Adams said. “It’s been an aberration.”

Last year, more than 22,000 fans left 70 tons of trash after the game against South Carolina. The clean-up cost amounted to $40,000.

Debra Furtado, a University alumna, said though she is a fan of football and enjoys tailgat-ing, preserving the historic buildings on North Campus should be a top priority.

“I think that it’s impor-tant that we protect the University especially since so many of the buildings are historical,” she said. “My concern as an alumna and member of the UGA Alumni Association Board is that we have to be respectful.”

Furtado said when she attended the University, there were fewer people who tailgated and the

games were played in the afternoons — which she said gives people less time to get drunk.

“What I saw when I was there for the Kentucky game is when games are at night, people are drinking too much and leave trash,” she said.

George Stafford, vice president for auxiliary and admin-istrative services, said colleges wishing to use North Campus as tailgating grounds would have to ask for permission before use.

“That would fall under special excep-tions and they would

have to get permission to have it done,” he said.

This isn’t the first time the University has enacted changes to football game days.

In 2006, administrators and the Athletic Association prohibited vehicles parking on side-walks and grass, and in 2008 banned the use of deep fryers.

In addition to reducing tailgating areas, the cabi-net also voted to eliminate the use of pull-behind cars and golf carts to expand game day parking.

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Drosche to see the danger.“The law requires the owner of

the property to have superior knowledge,” Henry said. “I think it’s a pretty good case. We have a witness who saw the flooring.”

In court documents obtained by The Red & Black, Drosche describes her rehabilitation pro-cess, writing, “For the first month I was unable to do anything for myself.”

Drosche described other issues she has faced as a result of her injuries in a letter to Henry, includ-ing how she was unable to drive for six weeks, was forced to sleep in a recliner for a month and how the knee injury made walking painful.

University representatives were contacted by The Red & Black but declined to comment because litigations are ongoing.

Although it’s difficult to say when their case will make its way before a judge, Henry said he expects a trial within 18 months.

However, this won’t be the first time Henry takes on the University

in a courtroom. After graduating from the

University of Georgia School of Law in 1972, Henry has represent-ed several individuals in cases which have opposed his alma mater.

He helped former Georgia defensive back Decory Bryant score a $400,000 settlement from the University’s Athletic Association after a career-ending injury he sustained in 2003.

His most well-known victory, however, came in 1986 when he represented former University English professor Jan Kemp.

The suit, which eventually rewarded Kemp $1.08 million, arose when she was fired after speaking out against University officials who intervened to have nine football players pass a class in which they received failing grades in fall of 1981.

Though Henry’s most current case is still up in the air, when asked about his success rate with suits against the University in the past, Henry referred to an age-old adage, simply stating, “You win some, you lose some.”

LAWSUIT: Woman says injury has made life more difficult

By SYDNEY SLOTKINTHE RED & BLACK

To introduce his newest CD, Athens-based musi-cian Ken Will Morton chose his favorite local barbeque joint, Jot ‘Em Down, located on Macon Highway.

The event is unconven-tional, taking place on a Sunday, no admission cost, and the party is B.Y.O.B, so attendees should be sure to plan ahead.

“Jot ‘Em Down is a great place,” Morton said, “Those guys have been good to me, so it’s kind of sentimental.”

The CD release party will feature songs from his latest album, “True Grit,” as well as sets by Ty Manning and Betsy Franck.

“It’ll be the first outdoor concert of the season,” Morton said. “The begin-ning of spring, it should be a great time in a great environment.”

The small stage and cir-cle of picnic tables out back makes for an inti-mate performance setting, but in case of bad weather, the concert will be held inside.

Mike Strickland, man-ager of Jot ‘Em Down,

knows Morton from sever-al other times he has played there.

“He’s a great songwriter, great musician,” Strickland said. “We’re happy to have him. He always keeps the crowd captivated.”

Morton’s new album is half new songs and half re-recordings of songs on pre-vious albums. His new label, Sojourn Records, encouraged the re-produc-tion of certain songs. The label also allowed his music to be available on more Internet outlets for those who may have never been exposed to it.

According to Morton, the reaction from fans has been mixed.

“Some love it, some hate it,” he said, “You can’t please everybody. I am just glad someone believed in my music enough to want to do this.”

The event is also an opportunity to do some good. The Athens chapter of Conscious Alliance will

be conducting a canned food drive at the concert.

Conscious Alliance is a national organization that conducts large-scale food drives in conjunction with music performances. Seniors Keegan Keel and Taylor Burnham co-found-ed the Conscious Alliance chapter at UGA.

“I came across it on the Internet for a festival I was going to,” Keel said, “I thought it would work really well with the music scene and because Athens is slightly more progressive than other parts of Georgia.”

By collaborating with musicians, the organiza-tion hopes to make a big-ger impact by tapping into the fan base and getting audience members to donate food.

“We’ve had a great deal of success both locally and at festivals across the Southeast,” Keel said.

The chapter was found-ed in fall 2008 and has raised over 10,000 pounds of food locally, said Keel.

Since the Georgia Theater burned down, Conscious Alliance has struggled with where to hold their food drives. Typically, an executive board sits down and

decides which concerts are likely to have the largest turnout, but Sunday is a little different.

According to Keel, Morton was looking to do some sort of food drive on his own, and approached Conscious Alliance when he discovered the work that they do.

“This is unprecedented

because it’s not actually at a music venue,” Keel said. “We’re used to larger crowds in larger venues, but we’re excited about this opportunity to further expand and reach out to a different music base.”

The idea is that attend-ees will bring plenty of canned food to contribute, and Morton spoke of

incentives for those who do.

Bringing 10 cans of food to donate to Conscious Alliance will earn audience members a free copy of Morton’s new CD.

“It’s a good thing,” Morton said, “A day with friends, good food, and a way to help the community.”

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By EVA VASQUEZRED & BLACK

We like to think we are edu-cated enough to see through marketing schemes and make purchases based on quality not popularity. If that is true, why is Trojan brand, “America’s #1 condom — trusted for over 90 years,” as claimed on the box?

Sexual Health Coordinator Katy Janousek explained that while Trojan is America’s most trusted condom with 78 per-cent of the U.S. market share, it is not the best quality con-dom.

“When Men’s Health does their testing, the highest ranked condoms for strength, feel, etc., are actually Kimono condoms which are made in Japan,” Janousek said. “Consumer Reports repeatedly ranks Durex Extra Sensitive as No. 1.”

This misunderstanding on the part of consumers is a result of marketing schemes aimed to sell us a product.

“In my experience with speaking to college students about safer sex, there are par-ticular myths that keep coming

up,” Janousek said. “For exam-ple, I always hear about specif-ic condom brands being better than others, but few students understand how advertising can affect our purchases even when it comes to safer sex products like condoms, birth control and lubricant.”

Janousek will be discussing this idea in her talk, “The Naked Truth: Safer Sex Marketing Schemes Revealed,” today as part of the Institute for Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series.

“Our Friday Speaker Series is in its 20th year of talks by faculty, students, and commu-nity members,” Terri Hatfield, administrative associate in the women’s studies department, said. “It is a great opportunity for UGA students and commu-nity members to hear about the current gender-related research being done.”

Janousek believes her pro-gram will be a valuable addi-tion to the speaker series.

“In this program we will examine how particular adver-tisements target segments of our population — namely col-lege white men of a higher socioeconomic status,” Janousek said. “We will also discuss the impact of safer sex products on female oppression in our culture.”

Understanding how adver-tising affects our choices can be valuable information regard-less of one’s personal values about sex. Janousek has devel-oped this program with the idea of media literacy in mind, striving to encourage students to be savvy consumers who can differentiate the messages media portray and the facts.

Janousek explained that this program can be beneficial to everyone, regardless of race, gender and sexual orientation.

“My goal for this program is to give students skills they can apply to their everyday lives and to raise awareness about the influence of advertising on sexual health decision-mak-ing,” Janousek said.

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The University could have used an entire offseason to try to address the garbage issue, which received widespread attention only in the last year.

The Alumni Association, Student Government and even the Athletic Department could have been called upon to impress upon the fans how important cleanup on North Campus truly is.

A permit system could have been put in place, so that the least responsible tailgaters would be discouraged from coming to North Campus at all, and those that still litter could be identified and fined.

Expect areas south of Baldwin and downtown to become a night-mare, adding to the gameday headaches of police and local busi-nesses.

The administration’s unwilling-ness to try less extreme measures dismisses decades of tailgating traditions and continues the leader-ship’s trend of treating the entire University like a collection of chil-dren. The garbage issue must be addressed, but this is not the way to do it.

DONALD WAKEFORD Graduate student, Albany

University of Georgia School of Law

New tailgating rules notanswer to clean campus

It seems that these new tailgat-

ing rules are a practice in futility on the way to more campus bans. Certainly there are better methods for dealing with these messes than merely relocating the tailgaters until four hours before kickoff.

Though we can all agree stu-dents, alumni and sidewalk fans alike should be able to act like responsible adults — elementary school students even — and throw away their trash, does this really solve the issue at all?

One Facebook group from Gainesville State — surprise, sur-prise — has already responded to this move from the University by stating they will move their tailgate to Myers Quad.

There rests the issue. North Campus doesn’t turn people into pigs. People are pigs and turn North Campus into their sty. Will UGA, home to a 90,000 capacity stadium on campus, next disallow tailgating on any and all school grounds? The pigs have already made their move, President Adams.

DANIEL TRAYNOR Senior, Alpharetta

History and English

Happiness important during tough times

In no uncertain terms, the edi-torial board asked us, the bird-brained community, why we should care about the fate of our state bird when countless other problems abound. They’re right.

Why care about a bird when funding for education is being

slashed and unemployment rises? Relatedly, why are we perpetuating the Olympic Games while natu-ral disasters destroy the world? Celebrating the World Cup on a continent that faces bloody civil wars and unthinkable living condi-tions?

We can’t spend all our time wor-rying about terrible things or we will never stop worrying. We must work tirelessly to address these issues, but make time for joy in the face of suffering. If people find hap-piness promoting our top agricul-tural industry, let them. It’s funny, and it’s great PR for the poultry industry. These folks work very hard securing money supporting the state and the least we can do is recognize their effort.

TIFFANY UMLAUFGraduate student, Grovetown

Veterinary medicine

Increased use of online classes money-saver

As a business major, I am doing my best to learn how to run a com-pany and make smart and efficient choices to help save money and improve the quality of the busi-ness I work for. One big way that our university system would save a large amount of money is through increased use of online or hybrid classes.

For the first two years of most of our college careers, we spend countless hours going to classes that have minimal if any education-al value which we could do online at our own pace which would save our time and the time of faculty as well.

The faculty would have more time to teach higher classes that require more personal instruction, and students would have more time to move on and knock out more of those core classes that most of us can knock out ourselves on our own time.

Another big problem we are all aware of is textbooks. In most classes, I spend $100+ on a text-book that I did not even use once. This is an area needing much reform. Perhaps classes where you have a choice in which textbook you use may cause competition among publishers and eventually drive the prices down.

RICHARD LEGGEEJunior, Peachtree City

Finance

Sarah Palin comment‘unprovoked swipe’

Although I agree that our State Legislature has better things to worry about than changing the state bird, I would like to comment on the unprovoked swipe this paper took at former Gov. Sarah Palin in Thursday, March 17’s “Our Take.”

The line “Sarah Palin is position-ing herself for a presidential run in 2012” was completely unjustified. It was unprofessional, and very un-journalistic.

The comment was off topic — Sarah Palin has nothing to do with what our General Assembly needs to be focused on — and was a cheap shot by this newspaper at conservatives and Republicans everywhere. It was tacky, and com-pletely uncalled for.

The editor who allowed it to come out should be ashamed, and I as a student am disgusted that this paper, which is considered one of the best in the collegiate news world, would allow such low stan-dards of journalism.

Instead of dragging Sarah Palin’s name through the mud time and time again — it’s really getting old, even CNN has laid off it — how about you look at what’s really going on in this country, and what some of our elected officials who impact us are doing.

In fact, take a look at what President Obama has done for this nation. He’s doubled the deficit, unemployment is up to 10 per-cent, and even his own party with huge majorities in the House and the Senate has to resort to parlia-mentary tricks to pass legislation. Maybe we should be worried that Barack Obama is positioning him-self to run for re-election in 2012.

JARED PEDEN Sophomore, Hinesville

Political science

‘Pathetic’ green grade shows true Univ. colors

Don’t be shy, Red & Black. It’s OK to be honest about UGA’s pathetic standings on our green report card Thursday, March 17’s “Green fee helps cut red tape.” I think a “C” is too high of a grade for our current green initiatives by the University as a whole. You have written that our biggest accom-plishment is that we have lots of buses to take people around cam-pus ... really? We pale in compari-son to Georgia Tech, which got a “B” for all its accomplishments.

We acknowledge that we are incredibly behind the times as a collective school, which is embar-rassing as we are the largest and most looked-at school in the state of Georgia. Until a few years ago, our University system showed little green efforts and are scrambling right now to change that, feeling the heat of competition and reputa-tion. The various green organiza-tions have been working their tails off, but we have to bark and beg at the feet of the University just to get tossed a bone.

We are grateful that our higher-ups have heard some of our cries by creating an Office of Sustainability and the green fee, but we have a lot of work to get done before we can be considered as a “C” grade.

Hopefully our environmentally-conscious efforts continue to be heard as the University realizes that “going green” has a lot more to do than just riding a bus.

CAITLIN SMITHSenior, Charlotte, N.C.

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540 Baxter Street, Athens, Ga. 30605OpinionsBaseball team plays hardball for VeazeyThree hits, including a

home run in his final at-bat.

That’s the performance Diamond Dog’s freshman shortstop Chance Veazey delivered in his final scrim-mage last fall, the last time the speedy, 175-pound shortstop would ever round the bases.

Two days later, Veazey was paralyzed from the waist down. His spinal cord was severely damaged when his motor scooter collided with a car as he left a study session at the Miller Learning Center.

Unfortunately, tragedies of this sort are not uncom-mon in the realm of sports. However, neither is the powerful emotional drive that often fuels a team playing for a fallen team-mate. In sports, there is little more dangerous.

We saw it in 2007, when a Washington Redskins team avenged the sense-less shooting death of Pro-Bowl safety Sean Taylor by winning the team’s final four games to become just the fourth team in the Super Bowl era to make the playoffs after starting the season 5-7.

I can’t predict the future and I’m not willing to place any bets on it, but after spending time with the Georgia baseball play-ers and coaches over the last month, we might see something similar from the Diamond Dogs as the sea-son kicks into high gear.

Don’t believe me? Just ask Georgia head coach David Perno.

“There was one kid on this team in the fall that gave you everything he had

every day, every minute, and that was [Chance],” said Perno. “They’re gonna play hard, they’re gonna play together and they’re gonna play the right way because that’s what Chance would do.”

Like he has been for nearly every Diamond Dogs’ home game this sea-son, Veazey will be in the Georgia dugout tonight, traveling nearly 200 miles north from his home in Tifton to be with his Bulldog teammates.

And though he won’t be snagging ground balls at shortstop, Veazey will be on the field for the Bulldogs. Tonight, and all season long, a little bit of Veazey will be in every swing, every fastball fired towards home plate. There’s a lot going on in Athens this evening: par-ties, no doubt, and the usual downtown revelry.

But when 7 p.m. rolls around and that first pitch is thrown, nothing would mean more to this team and one kid, coping with unimaginable hardship, than to see the stands behind home plate and that ivy hill in right field smothered in red and black like never before.

Let’s make it happen.

— Drew Kann is a senior from Atlanta

majoring in magazines. He is a sportswriter

for The Red & Black

DREWKANN

Adderall aids studying, not academic steroids Before your exam, get

a good night’s sleep. Review your notes.

Eat a good dinner. In fact, eat a good breakfast the next morning, too.

Have a cup of coffee if it won’t give you the jitters. If it will, maybe just settle for tea.

Oh, and don’t forget to pop an Adderall.

Jordan Stover’s column Wednesday, March 16 compared using Adderall on exams to using steroids in professional sports.

All right, an Adderall can help my performance — but while steroids may help me put on mas-sive amounts of muscle, Adderall will not give me a better brain.

I compliment Stover for making the comparison to a cup of coffee; it’s just the comparison I would have made. A coffee focuses your mind and energizes you. So does Adderall. The difference, she says, is the legality of either method.

Excuse me? I didn’t know that legality and fairness were so deeply entwined. Perhaps the lesson we ought to learn is that caffeine should be illegalized, except for prescription use — or that Adderall should be freely available.

A test in college ought to be indicative of a college student’s abilities. That doesn’t mean rote memo-rization and the ability to spew out facts; nor ought it be an endurance compe-tition, in which whichever student grips a pencil the longest — before passing out, his hand an unrecog-nizable arthritic claw — wins.

What that means is that a proper exam tests your ability to think critically, and your ability to analyze and understand concepts. It tests your ability to

apply them. In short: it tests your intellect.

In general, a legitimate college course ought to look for something more than the ability to retain information from the text-book.

Math requires imagina-tive skill — and whatever formulas you hope the Adderall helps you memo-rize are usually laid right out on the exam. The social sciences depend on your analytical ability, not your ability to parrot facts.

And buddy, if you think you can get anywhere in philosophy or literature by popping some pills, you got another think coming.

What, then, does Adderall do? Does it improve your critical thinking skills? Nope. Does it sharpen your ability to imaginatively understand concepts? No. Does it help you think through compli-cated intellectual loops? Sorry, man, you gotta pick another drug for that.

It focuses you. And it improves your recall abil-ity. A confession: I’ve never used Adderall, or any other prescription psychiatric drug. I don’t feel, however, that my fellow students who do use it have any sort of unfair advantage on me. Yes, they may focus better. Yes, they may have better recall.

But at the end of the day, college is about your mind’s capabilities, not the occasional fluctuations of your brain chemistry.

—Phillip Brettschneider is a junior from

Marietta majoring in anthropology

PHILLIPBRETTSCHNEIDER

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VARIETY The Red & Black | Friday, March 19, 2010 | 5

By WILLIAM MOOREFOR THE RED & BLACK

Covered nearly bumper to bumper in rusted and colored bottlecaps, “The Bottlecap Truck” is a roaming landmark known all over Athens and the Southeast. This weekend you can see it for yourself.

On Sunday, Jimmy “Cap Man” Straehla will host a cele-bration from noon until dusk at his home and studio, located in Winterville, to commemorate 10 years of his bottlecap truck roaming the streets of Athens and beyond.

The event will consist of an art show and sale, centered around the truck, by Straehla and friends, and will feature local artists and art car enthusi-asts, as well as live music from several of Straehla’s musician friends.

Straehla’s art career began in 1998 when, using leftover histor-ic building materials from a cot-tage restoration project, he con-structed a rustic bench entitled “Re-Barn.” A local folk artist saw the piece and contacted him, asking if he had similar pieces.

Straehla spring-boarded from the experience to regularly cre-ating folk art and furniture using leftover scrap pieces of wood from building restoration proj-ects.

“My biggest thrill is the hunt-ing for materials,” Straehla said. “I’ll find things sitting on the side of the road or use leftover pieces from another project. I love making something out of something that would otherwise end up at the dump.”

The use of bottlecaps started on a whim after Straehla

encountered vintage Crush bot-tlecaps in an antique store.

He’d placed a sign on his driver’s side door emblazoning “Architectual Resurrections,” the name he gave to his art pro-cess. Signing his name on the sign, Straehla placed a single bottlecap as a signature.

“I put that one cap on,” Straehla said, “and I thought, ‘oh my god, that would be so cool to cover the whole thing.’”

A list scrawled on a piece of wood that Straehla displays at art shows challenges you to guess the commonly asked questions to these answers: “[approximately] 10,000, caulk, 10 months, because it was cheaper than therapy,” reads the weathered plank.

The actual process took about a year, Straehla said, and 10,000 is merely a rough esti-mate of the thousands of bottle-caps caulked to his truck.

The fourth answer is accurate though, as Straehla used the repetitive process of caulking the caps to his truck to distract him from the chemotherapy he was undergoing to treat Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

“I realized I needed to quit my job at the time in order to recover,” Straehla said. “The art was a way of keeping my mind busy instead of sitting in front of

the television.” Though it began as a colorful

collage of a random multitude of caps, the truck has taken on a rusted hue over its 10 years of service.

The truck itself was bought by Straehla from a friend in 1996 for $750.

“I needed something to use for carrying supplies,” Straehla said. “I would have been happy if it had lasted six months.”

Fourteen years later, the truck is still going strong. The odometer reads 63,000 miles, but it lacks a sixth digit and could have rolled over once or

twice. A donations box is screwed

to the hood, and at the front of the grill, just below the yellow tractor hood ornament, a bottle opener gleams in the sunlight.

“I call it the world’s largest bottle opener,” Straehla said. “When I go to festivals, I hang a bucket from the grill underneath to catch bottlecaps.”

This garners Straehla a few caps for his collection, but he said most come from donations.

The majority of his caps are from beer bottles, but authentic soda bottlecaps such as Coca-Cola, Nehi and Cheerwine creep

in as well. “The soda caps tend to be a

bit rarer, so I usually save them for special uses,” Straehla said. “Now people will save up their caps to give to me. It has really become a community effort. Sometimes when I park the truck downtown people will leave a bag full of caps in the back.”

Straehla lives with his wife, Laura, and 5-year-old son, Blake, now becoming known as “Cap Boy.” Young Straehla is fol-lowing in his fathers footsteps, and has sold a number of his own works at $0.25 each.

Bottlecap truck has 10th birthday party

Jimmy Straehla, known as the “Cap Man,” began making bottlecap art as a form of self-therapy while recovering from lymphoma. The truck is covered in 10,000 caps.

WILLIAM MOORE | For The Red & Black

When: Noon till dusk Saturday

Where: 146 Harris Lane, Winterville

More Information: Big City Bread

Cafe birthday cake will be served and

snacks will be available for purchase.

Price: Free

BOTTLECAP TRUCK BIRTHDAY PARTY

By DREW KANNTHE RED & BLACK

On the baseball dia-mond, pitching is often the difference between good teams and great teams, wins and losses.

Nearly one-third of the way through their grueling 56-game 2010 schedule, the Diamond Dogs (8-9) have proven to be no exception: as the squad’s pitch-ing goes, so go the Bulldogs.

In eight of the team’s nine loses on the season, the Bulldogs have dug i n s u r m o u n t a b l e holes early, facing deficits of three runs or more prior to the third inning. The Bulldogs occupy the SEC cellar with a staff ERA of 7.22.

As Georgia plays host to the Auburn Tigers for a weekend, SEC series, the pitchers have one goal: keep the games tight and give your team a chance.

“It’s really just giving us a chance to win,” said sophomore Michael Palazzone, who is starting

as pitcher tonight for the Bulldogs. “[The coaches] really harp on us about throwing a lot of strikes and just giving our team a chance to stay close in the game early on so we can produce early and get going from there.”

For a squad that lacks the power and home run hitting potential of the 2009 Bulldogs, who set a school

record by hitting 109 home runs, playing from behind is the last place these Bulldogs want to be.

“It’s clearly obvi-ous that when we get [quality start-ing pitching] we’re a good baseball team, and when we don’t, it’s an uphill

battle sometimes that’s too much to ask from our offense,” Georgia head coach David Perno said.

Auburn has had its fair share of difficulties on the pitcher’s mound, as the Tigers’ staff has posted the SEC’s second highest ERA, a 5.35 mark through 16 games.

Against a less-than-dominant Auburn rotation, Georgia will look to score early to give its starters a cushion, as the Bulldogs try to pick up some pivotal SEC home wins.

“Kind of what I’ve seen in the past is when we struggle in the first couple

innings, it’s hard for us to rebound so getting on them early I think is the key to winning all three games,” said Palazzone.

Though the Bulldog pitchers have struggled mightily so far this season, to senior reliever Justin Earls, the growing pains the pitching staff is experi-encing may serve as a blessing in disguise.

“You can look at, for instance, last year going into SEC play, in all of the SEC statistics, we were leading the SEC in pitch-ing and we started out well and were leading the SEC halfway through the season and we just kind of faded towards the end,” said Earls. “You look at every great [Georgia] team that’s put anything up on the wall, they’ve all had their struggles, and last year I think we didn’t necessarily have our struggles early on and it maybe kind of bit us towards the end, but this year we’ve been through it all, whether it’s from Chance[‘s injury] in the fall or having our struggles early, it’s grounded us and makes us work harder every day.”

By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK

The arrival of a new 3-4 scheme and three new defensive coaches were meant to revitalize a defense that hadn’t been living up to the Georgia defense of the past.

If the first three days of spring practice are any indication, the players have bought into the changes on defense.

“There’s a heightened aware-ness, whatever you want to say. Everybody knows that they have a clean slate. They have a chance to impress,” head coach Mark Richt said. “The young guys know that a veteran doesn’t have an experience advantage over them because the older guys are learning it from scratch, too, and that’s probably a lot of

the reason you’re seeing what you’re seeing.”

Even the seniors are undergoing an acclima-tion process, with the change in terminology, positions and responsibili-ties in the new 3-4.

“The hardest thing right now is probably just trying to remember every-thing because everything

is coming so quick,” Akeem Dent said. “We’ve installed so much but the thing is once we get on the field, we have to adapt and we’re able to adjust on the run, so that’s probably the hard-est adjustment.”

As a result, Richt has seen a “ton of mistakes” but called Thursday’s practice the best so far. And Grantham says he’s been pleased so far with what the players have “understood and grasped” despite the fact that “it’s all been new.”

“Once we get the con-cepts understood, then we can start adding more stuff and then hopefully guys will start playing fast,” Grantham said. “I think we’ll be fine, but we just have to keep work-ing.”

Samuel moves to inside linebacker

Richard Samuel’s posi-tion switch from running back to outside linebacker lasted all of two practices before he was moving again.

Coaches have switched him to inside linebacker.

“It’s probably a little more natural to him to play inside,” Richt said. “We started him outside because a little bit of the depth issues at linebacker, but to give him a more fair opportunity, we moved him inside.”

6 | Friday, March 19, 2010 | The Red & Black SPORTS

By LISA GLASERTHE RED & BLACK

Drake Bernstein and Javier Garrapiz began competing as doubles partners last year. Their chemistry stems from a friend-ship that began more than two years ago.

When Garrapiz, originally from Huesca, Spain, arrived in the U.S., Bernstein was his host and then later his roommate. Garrapiz feels Bernstein, from Winder, helped with his adjustment to Georgia.

“He was a big help for me when I came here, when I was kind of lost with all of the things here,” said Garrapiz, who is ranked No. 18 in singles.

The two became closer when they lived together their freshman year in the East Campus dorms.

“You never know what you were going to walk into the hall and see or hear. Living with him was an adventure,” Bernstein said.

According to Bernstein, Garrapiz’s

attitude both on and off the court affects each match significantly and makes him someone easy to work with.

“You know that he’s not going to be personally mad if you have a rough day, so it makes it easier to have a lot more good days knowing that everything is going to be alright, win or lose,” Bernstein said.

Though referenced as relaxed, Garrapiz feels this partnership works because of the individual passion while playing. Garrapiz describes himself and Bernstein as loud, screaming competitors during matches. Bernstein said in addition to their emotion is strategic thinking.

This afternoon’s match against No. 3 Southern Cal will be tight Garrapiz said, but he feels the Bulldogs prepared for the fight.

“We just have to fight ... I think this match is going to put us in a situation where we are going to be one of the best teams in the nation, which I don’t have doubts about,” Garrapiz said.

Doubles duo a cohesive unit

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DIAMOND DOGS VS. AUBURN

By DREW KANNTHE RED & BLACK

Georgia women’s soccer head coach and 2007 SEC Coach of the Year Patrick Baker resigned abruptly Thursday citing personal, family and health concerns, according to an announcement released Thursday by Georgia Athletic Director Damon Evans.

Baker’s resignation from the head coaching position he has held for the last five seasons is effective April 1.

“I have put my heart and soul into this program for the past five years, but at present I need to make family and health my highest priority,” said Baker in a press release sent out Thursday afternoon.

In his five seasons as Georgia head coach, Baker became the only coach in Georgia history to take the Bulldogs to three-straight NCAA Tournaments. Baker also resigns as the winningest coach in school history, leading the

Bulldogs to a record of 66-36-6 in his five seasons at the helm.

Former Georgia standout Carrie Patterson was surprised by the news of Baker’s resignation.

“It was definitely out of the blue,” Patterson said in a phone interview Thursday. “I don’t think anyone really had any idea.”

Patterson, who was selected in January with the second pick in the fifth round of the 2010 Women’s Professional Soccer League Draft, played for Baker for all four of her seasons in Athens.

“I’m really thankful to him for bringing me to Georgia because I had a great experience, and my career is definitely something I am proud of,” Patterson said.

Evans also announced Thursday that assistant coach Robin Confer, who followed Baker

to the University after previously serving on Baker’s staff at Florida State, will serve as interim head coach.

“Coach Baker has done an outstand-ing job coaching our team, and we’re disappointed,” said Evans in a press release Thursday. “However, we are cer-tainly supportive of Patrick and his fam-ily and respect his decision.”

Soccer head coach resigns

FILE | The Red & Black

Javier Garrapiz and the Georgia men’s tennis team take on USC today.

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time,” Houts said. “We’ve kinda focused this season around change and we’re not gonna be happy with just getting into the NCAA Tournament ... we want to advance as far as we can.”

Ironically enough, Georgia’s success in this year’s tournament may be determined by the play of one of its youngest players — freshman guard Jasmine James — instead of veterans like Houts and Robinson.

The five-time SEC Freshman of the Week has proven to be the most dependable Lady Dog, as she played the most minutes during the regular season and finished second on the team in scoring.

“It’s something that you watched as a little kid,” James said. “You never really think it’ll be you and now here I’m standing in those shoes, I’m excited.”

In an eerie twist of fate, the Lady Dogs first round matchup will take place in Tempe, Ariz., on the home court of the team that knocked Georgia out of last year’s tournament.

However, that coincidence doesn’t seem to bother James, who is eager to just get out on the court and start playing no matter where that may be.

“As far as going out to the West Coast, I’ve never been there,” James said. “This is the farthest road trip I’ve ever taken but it’s exciting, and I just want to get on the road and just get the opportunity to play.”

Georgia will take on the No. 12 seed Tulane Green Wave — the Conference USA Champions — in the first round of play Saturday.

“Lisa Stockton coaches at Tulane and she has done a terrific job there,” Landers said. “I’m familiar with Conference USA, which I have a lot of respect for, and for them to have won the league and earned a bid tells me a lot about how capable they are.”

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