march 19, 2015 edition of the red & black

Thursday, March 19, 2015Vol. 122, No. 27 | Athens, Georgiaredandblack.com

The University of Georgia immunization policy requiring vaccines is in place to combat infectious disease outbreaks. Courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

By Lauren McDonaLD@laurenmcdonald2

On March 10, President Barack Obama an-nounced and signed the Student Aid Bill of Rights, which he said will reduce student debt in the U.S. and make higher education more accessible and af-fordable.

The executive action is meant to streamline and improve the way the federal government helps students pay for college.

“We’re going to have to do things at the federal level, state level, at the university level to really mo-bilize the entire country around this issue of college affordability,” Obama said in a White House confer-ence call.

In his speech at Georgia Tech, Obama encour-aged students to sign onto his plan through the White House website.

The proposal builds on efforts of the Obama administration to lower the cost of a college educa-tion and address the issue of growing student debt following graduation, said U.S. Secretary of Educa-tion Arne Duncan during the conference call.

“It’s our responsibility to make sure that the 40 million Americans with student loans … are aware of resources to help them manage their debt and want to do everything we can to be responsive to their needs,” Duncan said.

The Red & Black spoke with Jeffrey Dorfman, a University of Georgia professor of agricultural and applied economics, about Obama’s new Student Aid Bill of Rights to help break down how the pro-posal will — or will not — benefit students.

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In light of the recent upsurge in infectious disease outbreaks in the U.S., most notably the measles, rec-ommendations have been made by a group of Univer-sity System of Georgia health center directors that the vaccine requirements be made more rigorous.

“All of these vaccine-preventable diseases are emerging again because people aren’t getting vac-cinated,” said Executive Director of the University Health Center Jean Chin. “Requirements are not as rigorous as they used to be.”

While the measles, a potentially fatal and highly contagious disease, has gotten the most attention due to the multi-state outbreak, Chin said there have also been outbreaks of a number of vaccine-prevent-able diseases in recent years, including the Mumps and Meningococcal B.

The Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vac-cine is just one on a short list of required immuniza-tions set by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia aimed at minimizing student ex-posure to dangerous infectious diseases, but Chin be-lieves more can be done and is working to get changes established.

The Regents Advisory Committee for Health, comprised of USG health directors, met Friday to dis-cuss the policy and make recommendations.

“We have policies where students can have an en-tire semester before they have to prove their immuni-ty or proof of vaccination,” Chin said. “We are trying to tighten that up.”

Chin also said while the Board of Regents sets the minimum standards, the individual universities can also set their own additional pre-matriculation requirements. Those at the meeting recommended making the immunization policy unified across the system.

Now, she said, the final decision is up to the Board.With any major infectious disease outbreak the

stakes are high, and the immunization policy is an im-portant part of protecting the more than 30,000 facul-ty, staff and students on campus.

This is why the updates to the policy are being proposed, Chin said.

“I believe we are doing the right thing, but I be-lieve we could be doing it better, and we are doing it better by asking for consistency across the system,” she said.

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The large, ongoing measles outbreak is a major reason Chin cited as to why the policy needs to be made more rigorous.

UGA has required the MMR vaccine for atten-dance since an outbreak on campus in the spring of 1990, according to Vice President for Public Affairs Tom Jackson. But some of the exemptions and leni-ency, especially those allowing students to show proof of immunization as late as a semester into the year, are a problem, Chin said.

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By naTe HarrIS@grtgbln

Since the semester began in January, four students at the University of Georgia have died. In each of those instanc-es, the Office of the Dean of Students at UGA worked with the parents of the students, assisting in any way needed.

This difficult job is headed by Alan Campbell, associate dean of students and director of student support services.

“I am the person who contacts the parents or family of the student after the official notification [from police] has taken place,” he said. “I reach out on behalf of the Universi-ty to extend condolences and offer assistance in addressing the situation.”

Campbell said what exactly the University assists the fam-ily with can vary depending on each individual situation. The department works as a central hub to extend contact to the appropriate departments, from the housing department to gain access to the student’s room to certain groups on campus in-fluenced by the death. The de-partment also makes an effort to attend memorial and funeral services for those students who died.

“The family doesn’t often know how to address things on campus,” he said. “For in-stance, if a student had finan-cial aid or a loan, we help the family address those things as needed.”

Campbell said any number of student deaths is too many, but with such a high amount of students attending UGA, trag-edy is sadly inevitable.

“We’re going to experience loss in our community,” he said. “The death of any student is a great loss to the University of

Georgia.”Campbell said that a

student death influences the community in several ways, based on the different ways the student is connected.

“The student becomes a part of the University of Geor-gia family, and the UGA family experiences grief and loss like any other family would,” he said. “So we do our best to take care of our community, and to provide our assistance and support to the families of our students as well.”

Campbell said UGA or-ganizes a campus memorial ceremony each spring, which honors those students, as well as faculty and staff, who died during the past school year. This year’s ceremony is sched-uled for April 28 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel on North Campus.

Any student experiencing grief or loss can contact Coun-seling and Psychiatric Services to seek counseling to address their situation.

Reaching out to UGA families in times of loss

Alan Campbell is responsible for communicating and assisting with the families of students who have died. MerceDeS e. BLeTH/Staff

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“If they make that a priority, and they say ‘I’m not going to go get the fanciest apartment and the fanciest car I can with my new salary, I’m going to kind of live like a student — because I’m used to it. I’m going to knock out this stu-dent loan debt and get it out of the way quick. Then I’m going to get on with my life.”

“Don’t go to the expensive, private colleges if it’s going to mean tons of student loan debt. It’s probably not worth it. Go to one of your in-state public universities. I would think virtually everybody can go to place like the University of Georgia. And between what their family can afford to pay, what they can get in actual grant aid loans and what they can earn by working, they can graduate with a very small, easily manageable amount of student loan debt.”

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By Lindsey Conway@LindseyVConway

In an effort to be more clear and up-to-date, the Freedom of Expression policy was revised a approved at a recent University Cabinet Meeting.

“We just wanted to make sure that we eliminated any ambiguity or any confusion so that the fact that we do broadly protect free-dom of expression was accurately reflected in the policy,” said Mi-chael Raeber, executive director for legal affairs.

The policy was last updated in August 2012, Raeber said, and there were ways in which the pol-icy was being implemented more openly than how it was written, so a revision was necessary.

One way in which the policy was clarified was in its terms con-cerning spontaneous freedom of expression.

This revision of the Freedom of Expression policy allows for students to hold spontaneous demonstrations of speech in all ar-eas of campus if a few conditions are met. One condition is that the speech is drawn on by a current event that would make prepara-tion and permission for the speech impossible and that the group of students demonstrating is about 10 or less in number. If the group is more than 10, it is asked that the Dean of Students and University of Georgia police are notified for safe-ty reasons, Raeber said.

UGA has always permitted spontaneous freedom of expres-sion, speeches or demonstrations triggered by current events that

are held without permission from the Dean of Students in the free speech zones located by the Tate Student Center and in the plaza by Memorial Hall. All other areas of the campus were always open to free speech as well, so long as noti-fication and permission were given and received from the Dean of Stu-dents, Raeber said.

“The revised policy does broaden that somewhat by ex-pressly allowing spontaneous ex-pression on other areas of the cam-pus if certain criteria are met, such as if it is triggered by some current event and therefore it is not practi-cal to give advanced notice to the Dean of Students Office that we will permit that spontaneous ex-pression,” Raeber said.

The policy has also been re-vised to make clear that there are no restrictions and there have been no restrictions on the con-tent of speech on campus.

“If you’re speaking about a type of speech that is protected by the First Amendment, which is most types of speech other than things like obscenity and defama-tion, the University does not in any way regulate the content — so you can say whatever you want,” Rae-ber said. “You can have speakers on both sides of a topic and the University will be open to all view-points. That is something that is crystal clear in the policy now.”

The policy also is now express-ly clear in its provisions for speak-ers on campus who are not a part of the UGA community, he said.

“The policy now makes clear that in order to use the publically accessible areas of campus you ei-

ther need to be invited guest of a student or a student organization or the university community,” Rae-ber said. “Or you can use one of the freedom of expression areas, at the Tate Center or Memorial Hall.”

The overarching purpose of the Freedom of Expression policy is to promote the free speech and expression rights of UGA commu-nity members, he said.

“Freedom of expression is im-portant because you get an open mindset about everything and see everyone’s ideas and opinions and then try to incorporate it in your life and it helps you get a better understanding of everyone else’s lives,” said Edward Sidwell, sopho-more biological science major from Stone Mountain.

Harina Bitow, a senior finance major from Clarkston, also said students and members of the UGA community should be able to ex-press their individual opinions and ideas openly and freely.

“Everyone has different beliefs and so it is important to hear what people have to say and be able to have your voice heard,” she said.

There is also the need to bal-ance the need for expression with the need for the safety of the UGA community, Raeber said.

“An important part of a college campus is promoting and having people feel free to express opinions on different viewpoints,” Raeber said. “But the policy, while pro-moting those ideals, also balances the University’s need for safety and security as well as avoiding undo disruption of university activities primarily the educational mission of the university.”

By aLLie dean@aedean8

The rising cost of secondary education is on the forefront of debate in U.S. Congress this year, and Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia (Georgia-R) is supporting an act that could help relieve students of some of their financial burden.

The act, according to a press release, would repeal several federal higher education regulations relating to state authorization, the definition of “credit hour,” gainful employment, teacher preparation, third party providers and the proposed college ratings system.

Isakson said that these regulations are burden-some, unnecessary and “restrict choice and increase costs” for colleges and students.

“Nearly every one of the 6,000 colleges and univer-sities across the country and all sectors of higher ed-ucation — including those in Georgia — are impacted by one or all of these regulations,” said Marie Gordon, deputy press secretary for Isakson.

Karen Webber, an associate professor in the Uni-versity of Georgia’s Institute of Higher Education, said the definition of a credit hour is regulated at the fed-eral level to allow for easier transfer of credit across in-stitutions and across states, but Isakson wants states to have more control over them.

Webber also said that legislators such as Isakson want institutions to provide more detail on how many graduates are getting jobs and how much they earn.

“Currently, proprietary institutions must report to the federal government on how many students find employment after graduation, and I believe some leg-islators want to see other colleges and universities report on this as well,” Webber said. “Some students who are enrolled in for-profit colleges receive a lot of federal financial aid, but never progress well toward graduation nor earning a degree, and I believe some of the legislation on gainful employment is partially related to this.”

Webber also mentioned that new regulations could make the application for financial aid easier and less burdensome.

“Legislators want to make sure all practices are open and available for anyone to review,” she said.

Gordon said it is not possible to predict whether or not the act will be passed.

“The legislation may or may not be taken up by the chair, Sen. Lamar Alexander, (R-Tennessee),” Gor-don said. “If it is taken up, the committee will vote and it will be moved forward to be placed on the calendar for debate in the Senate if Majority Leader [Mitch] McConnell chooses to move it forward.”

Isakson supports debt relief legislation

Language in the Freedom of Expression policy was recently updated decreasing ambiguity and ensuring groups such as Students for Life at UGA have the ability to demonstrate publicly. BRayden RoBinson/Staff

U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson is fighting for legislation that would alleviate students of some of their finan-cial burdens. Courtesy Office of Sen. Johnny Isakson

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Charles Bond is an expert. He moves quickly from trash bin to trash bin. There are five to look through and within 20 seconds, he is already searching the contents of the last. The final bin is the jackpot.

He balances himself against the edge of the bin and dives headfirst into the opening. The previous four were frustratingly empty, but when he reemerges from this particular bin, he pulls out a bouquet of flow-ers.

The flowers look like they were purchased at a store, not at all worse for wear for being dug out of the trash. Bond’s head disappears into the bin to retrieve another bou-quet and then another.

By the end, Bond has collected seven batches of flowers; it’s a re-sounding success.

Diving into trash containers to look for hidden treasures is nothing new. However, the practice has been the subject of renewed national in-terest. “Freeganism” is the name of the movement that describes peo-ple who look for alternative ways to obtain food and supplies. The alter-native method often comes in the form of digging through the refuse of grocery stores and restaurants.

Grocery stores sometimes have a surplus of food that simply cannot be sold. If apples have been bruised or a batch of carrots has been man-gled in shipping, the stores can’t sell them to customers. The result is that this food gets sent to the trash, despite being, for all intents and purposes, still consumable.

Freegans look for ways to by-pass the normal system of purchas-ing food while still remaining within the bounds of the law. Taking items

thrown into trash bins is not illegal in the United States, unless local regulation prohibits it. In Athens, citizens are free to dive — with a few caveats.

“The thing is, it’s legal,” said UGA Police Chief Jimmy William-son. “As long as no one is trespass-ing, there isn’t a problem.”

However, diving into bins that are marked with signs prohibiting it or attempting to gain entry to a bin in an otherwise private property is illegal. Even if a person is diving into a bin that is unmarked, you can still potentially be questioned by police.

Divers should also be aware of safety concerns. Broken glass or other sharp objects could be on the bottom of containers and entering into a bin can also expose one to un-sanitary surfaces.

Ultimately, it’s up to the indi-vidual to weigh the risks and poten-tial benefits of diving.

“I do it mostly because free bouquets are cool,” Bond said. “But I also do it because my chickens love pomegranates. But pomegran-ates are way too expensive to buy just for chickens.”

Bond is a 19-year-old student of biological engineering from Deca-tur. At his residence off campus he raises chickens, and the fruits and vegetables he finds from diving usu-ally go to them.

“I regret not being strong enough to try to eat any of it my-self,” Bond said.

Despite all of this, Bond does not identify himself as part of the Freegan movement.

“I’m just not dependent on it,” he said. “I don’t have the incentive to go and do it every week or so. I just give my chickens snacks with it.”

Freegans sometimes rely on

diving for economic reasons, such as the inability to afford to buy gro-ceries every week.

According to Bond, the hotspots for diving are Earthfare and Kroger, although he has not vis-ited the latter. Some have reported that Krispy Kreme is also a good place to dive for free donuts.

Earthfare did not comment on the subject. However, Bond typi-cally tries to only dive after dusk so as not to disturb the store’s normal operations.

The takeaway for other people interested in diving, Bond said, is to always assess the situation and ask for permission where possible. Some store managers will have no problem with divers looking through trash containers, and it’s always preferable to try to obtain this permission before engaging in diving.

Treat yourself to trash: Finding unlikely treasures

Freeganism describes a movement where people who obtain food and supplies through alternative methods, such as digging through grocery store dumpsters. FiLE /Staff

SGA Senator of Athletics Ken Johnson was behind the resolution to create a named section for students at Stegeman Coliseum. Johnson hopes the area will increase student spirit at games. Joshua L. JonEs/Staff

SGA launches ‘Dawg Pound’ student sectionBy LindsEy smith@LindseySmitty22

Students attending basketball games in Stege-man Coliseum now have a section to call their own, through the help of the Student Government Asso-ciation.

At a February SGA Senate meeting, a resolution passed by unanimous consent to launch a change that SGA Senator of Athletics Ken Johnson has been working on since August 2014.

A key component in Johnson’s revamping of the basketball student section was to involve students in the selection of its name.

“I wanted to get something that students could put their input into, so that way it could be some-thing they could enjoy for years and years to come,” he said.

Johnson pointed out that universities that name their student sections often have a lot of success with their levels of school spirit.

“Duke University has the ‘Cameron Crazies,’ Florida has the ‘Rowdy Reptiles,’ but we didn’t have any name for our student section at all,” he said. “We’re hoping to draw more interest and get more people to the games and at the same time make a better atmosphere and ultimately increase revenue.”

Using an online UGA Qualtrics surveying system, Johnson and the UGA Athletic Department opened a poll for students to have their say on what to call the student section.

“We had over 1,000 votes for 4 names: The Junk-yard, Chainiacs, Stegeheads, and The Dawg Pound,” he said. “It was really close; The Dawg Pound won by 20 votes.”

Although the location of the student section in Stegeman Coliseum will remain the same for the meantime, the UGA Athletic Department is willing to relocate it to a better spot next season under one condition.

“The thing that we need is student attendance,” Johnson said. “If the students are willing to pitch in and show up regularly, then they are willing to move it from behind the goal, to fully in the middle lower section like a lot of schools have. Duke and Florida have it there, and it is very successful.”

Not only will this potential change in location be more enjoyable for students, but Johnson said it will help the basketball team with recruiting as well.

“When [recruits] can see a student section that’s really alive and great, they can put that on websites to show recruits the audience [they] will be playing for,” Johnson said. “It really entices players to want to come play at Georgia.”

Allison Liu, a sophomore from Valdosta, attend-ed the last home basketball game versus the Univer-sity of Kentucky and felt that the new “Dawg Pound” student section was packed and full of energy.

“There was so much hype that I think it helped the basketball team. Overall it was a great atmo-sphere and everything,” Liu said. “The students went all out with cheering too.”

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Gurley bill seeks to protect student athletes

Last October, football mania had once again engulfed Athens. The Bulldogs had safely emerged from a grueling start to the 2014 season, and on Oct. 11,

they were scheduled to take on the Missouri Tigers in a highly anticipated matchup featuring two 4-1 SEC East heavyweights. However, just one day before the showdown, the Bulldog Nation received heartbreaking news when UGA announced that Todd Gurley — then the team’s be-loved star running back and a frontrunner in the Heisman Trophy race — had been suspended indefinitely pending an investigation into an alleged violation of NCAA rules. Ultimately, it was determined that Gurley had accepted money over a two-year period to autograph various memo-rabilia, and he was suspended for four games.

In the wake of the incident, the Bulldog Nation rightfully turned its wrath toward Bryan Allen, the small-town memorabilia dealer who had given Gurley $400 in exchange for autographed memorabilia and subsequently emailed media outlets saying he wanted them] to leak the Gurley scandal. A massive backlash led by fans more upset with Allen’s deceitful antics than with Gurley’s infraction swept the college sports landscape.

Fortunately, his dissent did not go unnoticed. GA Rep. Barry Fleming (R-Harlem), a UGA graduate himself, began drafting House Bill 3 or “the Gurley Bill” in an effort to prevent and more harshly punish the exploitation of student-athletes. On March 13, the Georgia House passed the bill in an overwhelming 145-27 vote of approval. If enacted, anyone who enters into or solicits a transaction with a student-athlete that results in sanctions to the student-athlete would face the possibility of jail time and a maximum fine of $25,000.

A Sports Illustrated article published Dec. 2, 2014 claims that as a result of the Gurley scandal, Allen feels

universally hated by fans of the most popular college football team in his state. Unfortunately, under the current laws, Allen and the other men who profited from the very athlete and university they sabotaged are not likely to face criminal charges. Clearly, the regulations governing situa-tions such as the Gurley scandal need to be re-examined, as the minimal consequences facing those who jeopardize the scholarships and eligibility of student-athletes have failed to prevent exploitation.

For his role in the incident, Gurley was ultimately suspended for four games and ordered to donate a portion of the money he had accepted to a charity of his choice. He was also required to complete 40 hours of community service. Bryan Allen, however, received no tangible punish-ment. While the wrath of the UGA fanbase is intimidating enough to strike fear into the hearts of our opponents, it is not an adequate punishment for those who traitorously exploit student-athletes. To ensure that in the future any-one who entices an athlete to violate NCAA rules is held appropriately accountable, I encourage you all to support House Bill 3 as it is brought to the Senate.

— Thomas Dudley is a junior from Charlottesville, Virginia, majoring in communication studies

Boris Nemtsov was a physicist, politician, crusader against corruption, one-time favorite to

lead Russia and one of Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics. Of the many things Nemtsov was, this last fact proved the most important, as it may have caused his assassination near the Kremlin in late February.

Two narratives compete to fill the gap left by the state-run investigation into the murder. The first is that Putin or one of his people ordered the killing. Support for this explanation consists of a report Nemtsov was rumored to be working on that attempted to prove Russian military forces were fighting in Ukraine, something the Kremlin has vehemently denied since the conflict began.

The second explanation, one sup-ported by the Kremlin, is that one of Putin’s enemies orchestrated the assas-sination to make him look bad. Support for this is comprised of the fact that the assassination has made Putin look bad.

Each theory shines a separate and uniquely appalling light on the Krem-lin. If it orchestrated the assassination directly, then Putin will look like the So-viet-era tyrant many already claim he is. If friends of his inner circle took it upon themselves to get rid of such a powerful enemy of the Moscow, then the Kremlin is responsible for fostering a hostile and lawless political environment. Finally, in the event that some enemy of Moscow’s leadership orchestrated the assassina-tion in order to cast the Russian govern-ment in a bad light, then they will simply

look weak and incompetent in failing to prevent a political murder that took place in sight of the Kremlin.

In any case, the sparse and concise nod Putin gave to the assassination paints him, regardless of the real ex-planation, as out of touch. Paired with the conflict in Ukraine, which is either a Russian plot or civil war the Kremlin is observing while sanctions tank Russia’s economy, the Nemtsov affair makes Moscow look chaotic and incompetent.

— Ian Woods is a sophomore from Suwanee majoring in psychology and

economics

Having your own podcast is a lot like being able to tie your shoes. At this point, it’s weirder if you

don’t do it than if you do.Everyone has a podcast. Celebrities

have them. Weight-loss experts have them. Organic gardeners have them. Your great aunt Judy probably has one. Heck, within the last two years I have started or helped to start four.

Someone who has four, or any amount of podcasts, probably thinks a lot of himself, right? He must think he has some pretty exciting opinions if he wants to record them and have the en-tire Internet one click away from hearing them.

But that is the misconception. You don’t start a podcast to get famous. You don’t start a podcast so that millions will hear you. You start a podcast so that six people, most of which include your par-ents and roommates, can listen to your stream-of-consciousness opinions and theories, like my theory that the fourth season of a television show is almost always the best season.

And when I spent two hours prep-ping for that and recording it over the course of a Saturday night in Athens, I only did it for my own sanity. I actually told most of my friends and family not to listen to it. Recording a podcast is a great way to get your opinions out of your head. It’s a modern day, more adult version of writing in the journal you kept in plain sight when you were a kid and pretended to be offended when your sib-lings found out how deep your innermost thoughts really were.

That’s why I podcast. And that’s why I think everyone should too. You have opinions festering in the back of your head like potential energy at the top of a hill just waiting for a shove. And this is a great way to get it out.

So here’s what you do: Go on your laptop and download some sort of recording software. The most common ones are Audacity and Garage Band, but really anything that captures audio, including webcams and video software, can do. After you download the software and all the necessary exportation plug-ins — those will be necessary for getting your audio file into .mp3 or .wav format so you can put it online or on iTunes — all you have to do is press record.

Once you get good enough and are proud of your podcast, you can start publishing. With my best podcast, Suss-Pace Jam here at The Red & Black, my podcasting partner Cody Pace and I re-corded two practice episodes before we ever published one, and the first three we published were all pretty much pilot episodes where we were attempting to find our voice. Eventually we got better and look at us now. We have the most popular Georgia sports podcast with a title that makes a pun off of a Michael Jordan movie title in the entire world.

Find your element and your passion. If you love movies, talk about movies. If you love to cook, talk about cooking. If you love the history of 18th-century botany, you might have trouble finding an audience, but by all means go for it.

Above all else, just go ahead and do it. The worst thing that can happen is nobody listens. And you stop. It isn’t like you invested thousands of dollars in building your podcast from the ground up. If it doesn’t work, you can always try again. But remember that this is some-thing for you and to give your opinions and knowledge a voice.

— Nick Suss is a junior from Cumming majoring in journalism

DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE: College students everywhere panicked upon discovering 242,000 boxes of Kraft Easy Mac, our primary source of sustenance, were re-called because they could contain pieces of metal.

WATSON AND THE BEAST: Disney announced a March 2017 release date for its live-action ver-sion of “Beauty and the Beast.” With Emma Watson playing Belle, Disney can already count on my money.

OFFICE IN THE ABBEY: Con-gressman Aaron Shock of Illinois resigned over allegations of uneth-ical management of funds. Seeing as his office is modeled after “Downton Abbey” I’m shocked no one caught this sooner.

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Dr. Christopher Whalen, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology in the College of Public Health said measles spreads quickly and is one of the most contagious diseases on earth.

“More than Ebola, more than influenza, more than TB, more than HIV — all those horrible epidem-ics that we know about, measles is sometimes seven, eight, 10 times more likely to spread,” he said. “And it is contagious before the symptoms develop. With a lot of infectious diseases, people will become contagious before they become sick.”

As of press time, 176 cases of the measles have been reported in 2015, the latest on March 13. As of Feb. 11, the CDC confirmed that 125 of the reported cases are part of a large outbreak beginning in late-De-cember 2014 that stems from two Disney theme parks in California.

The spread of measles is largely the result of un-vaccinated travelers, according to the CDC, and in-creasing numbers of parents opting not to vaccinate their children, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

Biao He, a professor and chair in the Department of Infectious Diseases in the College of Veterinary Medicine, said concern about the safety of the MMR vaccine is completely unfounded.

“If you have a way to prevent infection, why not prevent the infection?” he said.

The MMR vaccine, He said, is basically a strain of the disease so weakened it does not cause people to get sick but prepares their bodies to fight off the ac-tual infection more effectively. He said it is one of the safest vaccines ever developed.

People who opt not to vaccinate are putting oth-ers at an unnecessary risk, he said, and the immuniza-tion policy is in place to try and combat the increased medical risks of not being vaccinated on campuses. This is enforced at each USG school, including UGA.

Certificate of immunization

The immunization policy set by the Board of Re-gents applies to the entire USG and has been around since at least the 1989-1990 academic year, according to Charles Sutlive, vice chancellor of communications for the USG. The Board relies heavily on guidance from the Georgia Department of Public Health, the CDC and the USG Regent’s Health Center Advisory Council.

“The policy is designed to be flexible and based on need,” he said. “We have a responsibility to protect the health and well-being of our campuses. We clearly recognize that.”

Today, there is a strict list of vaccines required

throughout the USG system. Students must have either the MMR vaccine or individual vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella, the Varicella (chick-enpox) vaccine, the Tetanus-Diphtheria Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine and the Hepatitis B vac-cine.

Proof of these vaccinations is required for all USG students with only a few exceptions.

Students can be exempt on the ground of per-manent medical conditions that prevent them from being administered certain vaccines. Also, students who believe an immunization goes against his or her religious beliefs may be exempt with the appropriate documentation but only on the condition that in the case of an outbreak he or she will be excluded from campus. Distance learning students may also be ex-empt but must be vaccinated if they decide to enroll in any on-campus course.

The Board of Regents also recommends but does not require vaccinations for the Human Papillo-mavirus, Hepatitis A, Meningococcal and influenza.

“We work closely with the department of public health and the county health departments,” Sutlive said. “We work closely with them to stay aware of any situations that could arise that we should be aware of. The policy is designed with that at the center.”

Under the updated regulations, the individual institutions in the USG are then able to determine if any additional immunizations will be required.

At UGA, a tuberculosis screening questionnaire is also required and a TB risk assessment is required if risk is noted on the screening. Though he could not comment on the USG policy, Ron Forehand, director of Medical Services at the University Health Center,

said the TB requirement was added in March 2011 af-ter nearly six years of careful consideration.

“Screening was the right thing to do for students here at UGA,” Forehand said in an email. “TB remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases with one third of the world’s population infected by the causative mi-croorganism. Georgia ranked [No. 8] in the U.S. in the number of Active TB cases in 2011 and ranked [No. 7] in 2013,”

Chin said most of the schools in the USG, with the exception of only four, require TB screenings. If the recommendations made to the Board of Regents are implemented, the screenings would be a uniform requirement across the system.

The certificate of immunization is supposed to be due 30 days prior to class registration at UGA.

Senior marketing major Daniel Henderson said he sees vaccinations, especially on campus, as a measure for the protection of the whole population.

“If [people] are going to be part of a larger stu-dent body, they don’t need to be putting other stu-dents and themselves at risk,” the Gainesville native said. “I know it is one person, but in a situation like this you have to think about the greater good.”

Henderson said he has no problem with the Board of Regents imposing vaccination requirements on the students, faculty and staff, noting the implications of the anti-vaccination movement can be seen in the re-cent outbreak.

“I think everyone should be immunized who comes into this college,” Henderson said. “I think on the college level, immunizations are important for keeping even [eliminated] diseases from spreading once again. They are still around and they can come back if we are not immunized to them.”

Karsyn Kendrick, a junior international affairs and German major from Grovetown, said while she does not know much about the policy outside of re-membering filling out the form as a freshman, the re-quirements not only make sense, but “feel important.”

“I think it is important to have some kind of base-line requirements for immunizations, because you never know,” she said.

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Obama said in a conference call that the White House is con-tinuing to work with colleges and universities to lower their costs before the issue of grants and loans comes up.

“We can’t allow higher educa-tion to become a luxury,” he said.

The average undergraduate student who borrowed money to pay for college in 2013 graduated with $28,000 in student loan debt, according to a White House re-port.

“We’ve got to encourage high-er education … the problem is it’s never been more expensive,” Obama said.

But Dorfman said student loan debt is not as high as peo-ple tend to think. Between 30 and 40 percent of students graduate without any student loan debt, he said.

At the University of Georgia in 2014, 54 percent of undergraduates graduated with no student loan debt, according to Tom Jackson, vice president for public affairs. For the remaining 46 percent, the average debt was $21,638.

“UGA remains among the most affordable in the nation. We’re on almost every ‘best value’ list for relatively low tuition and a high quality educational experi-

ence,” Jackson said in an email to The Red & Black.

Dorfman said the average is skewed by extreme cases such as the debt of students who attend graduate school because they struggle more to receive financial aid and therefore graduate with larger debts. The median student loan balance is around $8,500, he said.

“Most students are very re-sponsible and graduate with very manageable amounts of student debt,” Dorfman said.

Be able to easily find the resources they need to pay for college

Dorfman said he agrees that all students should be able to af-ford a college education, but not necessarily at all colleges.

“I don’t think everybody should easily be able to afford any college. I think it’s up to [each] college what they want to be af-fordable,” he said. “If few people can afford it, then not a lot of peo-ple will go there. The reason some colleges charge a lot is because they can find enough people that are willing to pay that much.”

Dorfman said while the fed-eral student loan system requires improvements, Obama’s propos-als are not the changes that need to be made.

“The change we should make

is not to loan people money just because they are college stu-dents,” he said.

Be able to choose an affordable repayment plan for student loans

About 60 percent of Geor-gia students graduate with some kind of loan debt, and nearly 1.5 million Georgians owe an aver-age of slightly more than $30,000 in federal student debt, accord-ing to a White House report.

But Dorfman said the issue has become that students do not make paying back their student loans a priority right after gradu-ating college.

“I don’t like that he lets peo-ple pay very little, I don’t like that he wants to forgive it all so that they never have to pay it back,” he said.

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By July 1, 2016, the Secretary of Education will have developed and implemented a new process for borrowers to file complaints regarding Federal financial aid per Obama’s proposed plan.

The administration will also create a central portal where students can view their loan in-formation, regardless of their servicer.

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Tr a d i t i o n a l -ly, freshmen stu-dents are stuck on campus and go on meal plan for their first year. However, there is a small per-centage of fresh-men cooking out of the dorms.

“[The kitch-en] has everything you need. It’s not dirty,” said Kayla Gunby, a freshman early childhood ed-ucation major from Smyrna.

The kitchens in the dorms are typi-cally equipped with at least two stoves and counter space.

Skyler Keeney, a freshman biolog-ical engineering major from Dougl-asville, has cooked a variety of foods such as quesadillas and casseroles.

She learned most of her culi-nary skills from her father.

“My favorite thing to make was a pot roast, which was onions, carrots, potatoes and beef in the crock pot,” Keeney said. “I just got up in the morn-ing and put the beef in a crock pot. That was delicious and lasted me, like, five days.”

Keeney tends to use whatever she has in the dorm to make various cas-seroles and dishes.

“I’ve scrounged up what I’ve had in my room, like rice, corn and brocco-

li, and that’s been really great,” Kee-ney said. “Season it right and you can pretty much make anything taste good.”

S t e p h a n i e Pierre, a freshman biochemistry major from New Jersey, primarily consumes pre-cooked, frozen meals. Her micro-wave is essential to her eating each day.

“Because I keep so much fro-zen stuff, it gets to be a hassle to fit all of the foods, but I make it work,” Pierre said.

This is also true for Gunby. She hardly uses the kitchen.

“If anything, I use the microwave the most, so it’s not a lot of time out of my day,” Gunby said.

Dorms only allow certain size fridges, which can inhibit these stu-dents from having all of the food they need on hand.

“The most in-convenient thing is my mini-fridge, which isn’t big enough for any-thing,” Keeney said. “The freezer can’t even hold chicken nuggets.”

Keeney has found cooking for herself to be cost effective.

“I have to

pay my own way through college,” Keeney said. “Being off the meal-plan is way cheaper, espe-cially if you know how to shop and cook. And I know how to do both.”

The cost of the meal plan and the possibility of wast-ing food are major deterrents from meal plan.

“I thought it was ridiculously expensive. I don’t eat a lot so I felt like I wouldn’t use the money to its potential and it’d be a waste,” Gun-by said. “I also like control of my food and the ability to pick whatever I

want to eat.”None of these

students regret their decision to be off the meal plan, despite all visiting the dining halls at least once.

“I went to Joe Frank Harris with my roommate. It was worth the one-time experience but I would nev-er go back. Just the one time tast-ing their food, I thought ‘I could do better than this,’” Keeney said.

Jenni Sweat, a freshman early childhood educa-tion major from Conyers, is on the meal plan at the UGA and finds it worthwhile.

“I can see where my money is going because they employ a lot of people,” Sweat said. “The facilities are nice and there are a lot of options. During the week, it’s definitely a con-venience, and is beneficial for first-years who are not able to cook.”

Although most freshmen are on meal plan, it is pos-sible for students to be off it and eat well. Cost is the primary reason to cook, but inconve-nience can be an issue.

“To each their own. I can see the benefits of a meal plan and I can see the benefits of not having one,” Pierre said. “It just de-pends on you.”

By Michael Banks@michael_banks

Jessica Riley, a freshman English education ma-jor, has undertaken the challenge to walk barefoot everywhere she goes on campus as a protest against social injustice. She hopes to impart her story of faith and raise a greater awareness in the Athens communi-ty about social issues such as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

“Walking barefoot is really symbolic,” Riley said. “There is this idea that you’re unprotected and can’t protect yourself from thing outside of your own con-trol.”

Riley is an activist, writer and blogger. She is in-volved in the Wesley Foundation, a member of Grace Athens and tutors through the Class A Spanish pro-gram at Oglethorpe Elementary School. She plans to walk barefoot for her entire freshman year as a physi-cal representation of brokenness.

While walking barefoot, her feet are susceptible to a variety of different injuries. Without shoes during the winter, the soft epidermal layer on feet and around toes quickly dries out and cracks. This can give way to bleeding and makes feet prone to bacterial infections.

For Riley, cuts, bruises and possible infections are all potential injuries that represent a need for large so-

cietal change.“I know people do it all the time, but when it’s the

middle of the winter and your feet start bleeding, it’s a little different,” Riley said.

Riley is documenting her year barefoot through her blog, “That. They. May. Live.” She plans to com-pile her journey at the end of her freshman year into a book.

As a writer, Riley explores her past in which she dealt with depression, anxiety, abuse and PTSD. Jes-sica came to understand her own depression and past abuse through her faith. The content on Riley’s blog analyses social issues through biblical context.

Riley is passionate about social justice issues be-cause of the injustices and abuse she has experienced in her past. She believes that it is important that in-dividuals understand their own forms of pain and suf-fering so that they can embrace a concern for larger social issues.

“I was abused and bullied and because of that I had problems with mental disorders and depression,” Riley said. “If people aren’t understanding sometimes with issues as simple as this, they probably don’t un-derstand people who have undergone racism, people in human trafficking, and how present God is in those issues and cares about social injustice.”

Riley is not alone in her work. The larger Athens community seeks to provide outlets for those strug-gling with mental disorders, including places such as Nuci’s Space, which offers mental healthcare for musicians.

“We’ve got some brilliant resources here in Athens. Everyone has something, and we are well catered for. There is no stigma or shame in talking about a broken leg. And there’s no stigma or shame about talking about depression,” said Leslie Cobb, a counseling advocate at Nuci’s Space.

While most Athens residents are receptive to these causes, getting people involved can be difficult.

“I don’t think it’s difficult to raise community awareness,” Cobb said. “However, it is difficult to make people realize that it pertains to them.”

Many organizations in Athens are seeking to raise awareness about mental health and social is-sues. Individuals such as Riley are open to sharing their stories and seek to leave a lasting impact on others.

“I’m not really looking for some huge, crazy movement,” Riley said. I want a safe place for people to consider their own pain and to know God’s heart for them in a way that they don’t feel pressured.”

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Living alone for the first time, many college students have to face the issue of starting to cook. While diving into the kitchen may seem daunting, there are a few tricks to keep the experience varied and cheap.

“I think it’s getting over that food’s not that hard to accomplish well, and you just need some forward thinking on how to get it done and how to do it well,” said Hugh Acheson, owner and chef of several restau-rants including Five & Ten.

One simple way to get started is to pick up a classic cookbook. Tried and true books such as Irma Rombau-er’s “Joy of Cooking” and Marion Cunningham’s “The Fannie Farmer Cookbook” can get nov-ices started off right.

“Those books are still around and have been reprinted 55 times for a really obvious rea-son — that they’re really good books,” Acheson said. “The recipes are really well tested, and they have a core basis for food that’s really smart.”

For those who pre-fer a screen to a page, the Internet is a great resource.

“When I’m unsure about something or I need a quick idea — whatever I’m in the mood to serve, I always look on the internet,” said Joel Campbell, a chef at Athens Country Club.

By learning simple steps, such as how to cook chicken breast or mix vinaigrette dress-ing, beginners can col-lect the building blocks to create more complex meals later on.

To avoid repetition and get the best prices on produce, plan meals seasonally.

“If you just adapt to the seasons, you’re going to be saving a lot of money and changing what you’re eating a lot,” Acheson said.

Another way to keep costs low and change things up is to cook based on deals.

“Don’t be ashamed to use coupons,” Camp-bell said.

A third way to save is to focus on grains instead of proteins. Acheson recommends wheat berries, farro and quality rice.

For aspiring cooks with tight schedules,

picking one day a week to do a lot of cooking can be a useful strategy. Things such as chop-ping vegetables and preparing meat can be done ahead of time.

“Usually, what I’ll do on my day off is meal prep,” Campbell said.

Although some fail-ures are inevitable, stay-ing on top of cooking is key to future success.

“How we learn is repetition, and, the more you cook, the bet-ter you’re going to be,” Acheson said.

BY MICHAEL BANKS@michael_banks

We’re hEAR for You, a nonprofit organization looking to raise aware-ness of hearing conser-vation, supplies earbuds in music venues all over Athens as well as cities across the nation.

“We’re trying to break the stigma of hear-ing protection. People think that hearing pro-tection will decrease the quality of a show. It actu-ally filters out damaging frequencies,” said Katie Carmody, executive di-rector and co-founder of We’re hEAR for You.

The group has estab-lished chapters in Ath-ens, Atlanta, Nashville, Tennessee, and Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins in Colorado. However, the group’s largest chap-ter is the Classic City.

“Our launching ground is Athens be-cause Athens is a live music hub,” Carmody

said. “We have 18 venues here alone that carry our supplies.”

These earbuds have to be restocked quite fre-quently.

“Occasionally, they run out before they bring extras. People are really bummed when we don’t have them. They proba-bly assume that the ear-buds are ours,” said Dave Chamberlin, volunteer coordinator at Nuçi’s Space.

The earbuds are al-ways free, kept in jars on the bar.

“People will some-times go in here and grab earbuds before they go into clubs like Caledonia or 40 Watt so they don’t have to pay for them,” said Jessica Groden, a bartender at Flicker The-atre and Bar.

In addition, the group works with mu-sicians directly, with 25 bands that carry their earbuds on tour. The or-ganization also provides

earbuds for festivals. The group was start-

ed in 2009 by Universi-ty of Georgia graduates Carmody and Caroline DeCelles. Carmody grad-uated with a degree in recreation and leisure services and music busi-ness. DeCelles graduated with a degree in commu-nication sciences and dis-orders.

“We’re hEAR for You focuses on education. Once people understand the science on why they need to protect their hearing, they are so much more likely to use hear-ing protection,” Carmody said.

While Athens is so far its flagship city, We’re hEAR for You seeks to improve communities across the country with free earbuds.

“When they first came around, we were curious,” Groden said. “It’s just kind of weird for someone to do some-thing so nice.”

BY JEANNE DAVIS@jean_valjeanne

An umbrella term that includes hundreds of religions, including Dru-idry, Wicca and Shamanism, pagan-ism represents a small but significant religious minority both nationally and locally.

“Some people say that paganism is any religion that isn’t one of the big five religions of the world. A pagan is essentially anyone that identifies as a pagan,” said Jessica Dinsmore, a third year biochemistry and molecular biol-ogy major from Augusta and president of the Pagan Student Association.

Dinsmore practices a Germanic form of Shamanism. While many out-siders are tolerant and supportive, paganism still carries a stigma and is often affiliated with devil worship and animal sacrifice.

“The majority of pagans don’t be-lieve in the existence of the devil, much less worship one. And in ancient times, most religions practiced animal sacri-fice,” Dinsmore said. “In modern days, most do not.”

Though not a pagan himself, Jeff Patterson got involved as a social re-searcher and is now the PSA’s public relations officer.

“There are certainly a lot of people who are supportive of what we do, even if they’re not pagans,” said Patterson, a fourth year philosophy and sociolo-gy major from Atlanta. “The Secular Student Alliance have been really good friends of ours, as well as the LGBT community.”

Every week, the Pagan Student Association hosts an “Ask A Pagan” ta-ble outside of the Tate Student Center to field questions from anyone curious.

“People come up and are like, ‘Hey, this is really cool of you to do’ and give us a smile,” Dinsmore said.

The group meets every Tuesday night. Each meeting focuses on a dif-ferent aspect of pagan culture, such as religions, traditional holidays, crystals and herbs.

Dinsmore and Patterson remem-ber when a man in a UGA faculty shirt shouted “Hell is waiting for you,” at them. Dinsmore has also received death threats on Facebook.

She sees these reactions as a result of misunderstanding.

“There was a panic about witch-craft and paganism back in the ’80s. Throughout U.S. history, there’s always been some sort of scare over some-thing, like the Red Scare over commu-nists,” Dinsmore said.

The group keeps an open attitude, looking to dispel harmful misconcep-tions.

“Everyone is welcome at the PSA, pagan or not,” Patterson said.

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Nonprofit We’re hEAR for You distributes free jars of earbuds across the country. Athens, where the group began, holds its largest chapter. GABI ROSENTHAL/Staff

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Andy Landers doesn’t like losing.What the Lady Dogs basketball team head coach

dislikes even more, though, is not being able to fig-ure out how to stop losing. Landers announced his retirement after 36 years with the Georgia program Monday afternoon, and he said his team’s inability to win lately was the reason.

“It’s been difficult for me the last couple of years to be trying to figure out what we need to do to win a four seed in the SEC,” Landers said. “After we played in the Southeastern Conference tournament [on March 6] and came back, it was apparent to me that we weren’t what we built this thing to do, and that responsibility is mine.”

Georgia went 39-24 the last two seasons. The Lady Dogs won their first games of the conference tournament in each year before being eliminated the next time out.

An NCAA tournament run ended before it could get started last season, as Georgia fell to St. Joseph’s in the first round. The Lady Dogs missed the tourna-ment entirely this season.

That isn’t normal for a program that has gone to the Sweet 16 20 times, the Elite Eight 11 times and the Final Four five times under Landers, the only full-time head coach in Georgia history.

Landers said he told every athletic director he

has worked for that they wouldn’t have to force him to leave.

“I told coach [Vince] Dooley a long time ago, I told Damon [Evans], I told Greg [McGarity], they wouldn’t have to tell me, I’d know,” he said.

After examining the last two seasons, Landers said he knew.

“Knowing what’s right most of the time for most people is easy,” he said. “Executing what’s right, now that’s difficult. I thought about it for a week, did what most people would try to do — tried to spin it — it wouldn’t spin. So that brings me to this.”

Not only will Landers leave a storied career, one in which he won 944 games overall with over 850 of them at Georgia, behind, he’ll also leave his players.

Landers met with them Monday right as his retirement was announced publicly. Senior for-ward Krista Donald said the emotions permeating throughout the room were “shock, devastation, sad-ness, you name it.”

Donald said she’s happy Landers stayed at Geor-gia her entire career.

“I’m just glad he stayed for my tenure,” Donald said. “I don’t know what I would’ve done, because I came here because of him and his legacy. It’s been great playing for him. He’s been here 36 years, and he’s the type of coach you cherish.”

Landers received a contract extension back in 2013 that had him signed through the 2017 season, so his retirement was mostly unexpected.

Freshman forward Mackenzie Engram said she thought so, at least.

“It caught me completely off-guard,” Engram said. “When he came in, he said that he had some exciting news, so my heart was beating that we got a bid from the tournament, and then he told me and I was devastated. Still am, and will be, for a while.”

It wasn’t just Landers’ current players who were surprised by his decision, though.

Four-time Olympic gold medalist and former Lady Dog great Teresa Edwards said she couldn’t be-lieve he’d retired.

“I really can’t conceptualize this to be honest with you,” Edwards said. “It’s going to take a little time. It’s almost unfair I didn’t get a chance to say ‘No, coach. Come on … don’t do it.’”

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BY TAYLOR DENMAN@t_d_denman

Georgia basketball head coach Mark Fox, along with many other coaches in the Southeastern Conference, has been preaching the strength of the basketball teams in the conference, even wagering that four, even five teams would make the NCAA tournament.

What was just speculation is now a reality; Georgia finds itself sitting as the No. 10 seed in the East Region of the tournament against No. 7 seeded Michigan State.

Fox didn’t doubt the strength of any of the SEC’s five dancers, speaking from experience of course.

“We’re pleased that there’s five teams in,” Fox said. “Obviously some teams had some bumps over the last week or so and that’s always tough. We’ve played four of them, and I’m glad we don’t have to worry about those guys for a while.”

Senior forward Marcus Thornton is the only player on Georgia’s team with experience from the 2011 squad, the last Georgia team to make the tourney.

“This is fun, it’s a fun experience for anyone to get the chance to compete in the NCAA tournament,” Thornton said. “This opportunity is remarkably similar to the last time we went to the NCAA tournament; same city, same seed. Last time was more of a bubble thing, and in fact we thought last time that we weren’t gonna make it. ”

Thornton said this year’s SEC turnout is just what the SEC has been saying since the last time the team was in Charlotte at SEC Media Day.

“Well we want to think that SEC basketball is a very good conference,” Thornton said. “We play very good basketball here so it’s great for the conference’s expo-sure moving forward. We’re gonna look forward to having some success.”

While the level of play may have skyrocketed since the last time Georgia was in the tournament, having the No. 1 team twice on the schedule does help.

“I think Kentucky ... beat a lot of people’s brains in,” Fox said. “I mean Kentucky boat raced a lot of folks. That doesn’t mean that they’re not beatable. I think the fact that some teams in our league battle them proba-bly helped us because Kentucky showed how great they are.”

Georgia has drawn a rather battle-tested straw in first-round opponent Michigan State. The Spartans lost the Big Ten Championship after an overtime game against Wisconsin, one of the tournament’s No. 1 seeds. Thornton said there wasn’t much speculation as to what team Georgia would face.

“We knew right around where we thought we might be in terms of the seed,” Thornton said. “This didn’t start until yesterday, but we weren’t really looking at who we were gonna play. We knew it would be somebody good.”

BY CONNOR RILEY@Kconnorriley

Marcus Thornton and Nemanja Djurisic rank first and second in Georgia history in games played. The two have racked up numerous individual accolades and awards in their years at Georgia.

But the most important thing either of these seniors have done is lead Georgia back to the NCAA tournament for the first time in four years.

Over the course of the sea-son, Georgia head coach Mark Fox and his players constantly mentioned they didn’t want to disappoint their seniors. To fi-nally get to this point, Djurisic was anything but disappointed.

“If I never made it, I know I would look back and see it as a failure,” Djurisic said. “It’s re-ally one special moment in my life and a great way to end my career.”

When Thornton takes the tip-off on Friday against Mich-igan State, it won’t be his first time in an NCAA tournament game. It won’t be his first time playing Charlotte, North Car-olina. And it won’t be the first time he and Georgia are playing as a 10 seed.

In 2011, the last time Geor-gia played in the tournament, Thornton was in his freshman season as Georgia took on Washington in a No. 7 versus No. 10 game in Charlotte. Thornton played only four minutes in the Georgia loss, grabbing one re-bound.

After two knee surgeries, a redshirt year, and a senior sea-son that saw him make the All-SEC defensive team and the coaches’ Second-Team All-SEC, Thornton is elated that he has the ability to compare his first tournament appearance and his last tournament.

“The seeding and the site, everything is the exact same. That’s very unique and looking back on it it’s kind of funny,”

Thornton said. “For these guys to get to experience that is awe-some for me and awesome for us.”

When the team met with the media Sunday night after it had learned it would be play-ing in the NCAA tournament, there was a sense of joy and relief. Weeks earlier Georgia’s postseason odds looked shaky at best following back-to-back home losses to Auburn and South Carolina.

With the team reeling due to an assortment of injuries, Djurisic and Thornton began to carry Georgia.

“We were backed into a cor-ner a couple of weeks based on how we played, and quite frank-ly Nemi wouldn’t let us lose,” Fox said. “We’re at Ole Miss and its late in the game and Marcus

wouldn’t let us lose.”After the loss to South Caro-

lina, Djurisic ran off six straight games with double-digit points, including an 18-point, six-re-bound performance against No. 1 Kentucky. In Georgia’s Feb. 25 win over Ole Miss, the only team in the NCAA tournament that Georgia beat, Thornton dominated with an 18-point, 13-rebound masterpiece. Even in Georgia’s loss to Arkansas in the Southeastern Conference tournament, Thornton outper-formed SEC Player of the Year Bobby Portis as Thornton lim-ited him to four points and 1-of-14 shooting, while Thornton had a double-double with 13 points and 12 boards.

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At Landers’ end: Coach retires after 36 years “Knowing what’s right most of the time for most people is easy. Executing what’s right, now that’s difficult. I thought about it for a week, did what most people would try to do — tried to spin it — it wouldn’t

spin. So that brings me to this.”

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Imagine if Nick Chubb, a former four-star run-ning back from Cedartown, decided against coming to Georgia. Imagine if one of the top high school players in the state of Georgia decided to go Louisville, a school believed to be in an inferior football conference.

Now imagine how much different the 2015 Belk Bowl would have looked if that were the case. You can now see the unique situation that freshman forward Yante Maten finds himself in ahead of the Bulldogs’ opening game of the NCAA tournament.

This time a year ago, after leading his high school to the Michigan Class A state title game and bringing home the Michigan Gatorade Player of the Year hon-ors, an award won by former college greats such as Chris Webber and Shane Battier, Maten was faced with a decision. He could either play for the in-state Michi-gan State Spartans or trek across the country to play for the Georgia Bulldogs.

Making the choice even more stressful was the fact that many of Maten’s friends attended Michigan State, as well as his mother. When Maten was finally ready to make his choice, he and his mother both turned to God for guidance. And God told them that Georgia was the best place for the 6-foot-8 specimen.

“We’re both really strong Christians in our house-hold and we prayed about it and that is where God told us to go,” Maten said.

It’s important to note that Maten made this deci-sion with his mother. Maten got asked to visit the East Lansing, Michigan, campus “about 1,000 times” due to his many friends. But he admitted he only visited the school a handful of times because his mom wanted to be with her son.

“She is that mom who wanted me to be home with her all the time,” Maten said.

Some might suspect that Maten would be turned off by the perceived higher-level of competition at Michigan State and in the Big Ten. But if God had told Maten to go to Michigan State, he would’ve gone there even if they had a Kentucky-type recruiting class.

“If God had told me to go to Michigan with all the five-star recruits that is where I would have been,” Maten said. “Even if I would’ve been the lowest-rated recruit or whatnot, I would’ve just listened to God.”

Maten is playing his best basketball as Georgia enters its contest against Michigan State. In the SEC tournament, he notched his first career double-double

and helped secure a win against South Carolina as se-nior forward Marcus Thornton had to sit out the final four minutes of the game fter he fouled out.

When Maten and his teammates learned of their fate, and that they would be playing Maten’s home state Spartans, the team was exuberant. After it had set in that Maten would be squaring off against the team that recruited him heavily, he wasn’t nervous or afraid. He was ready.

“He came up to me and said, ‘it’s time to show out for the home team,’” junior guard Kenny Gaines said. “I told him to just go out there and be great. Nothing is going to change, just be the Yante Maten you’ve always been. I know he’ll do well.”

After the team had settled down, Maten called his mother, who moved with her son from Pontiac,

Michigan to Athens. The two of them were still over-joyed that Georgia was in the NCAA tournament.

“When we found out, we got on the phone and there was a lot of screaming,” Maten said. “No one could understand each other.”

When Georgia takes the floor against Michigan State on Friday, Maten facing his home-state Spar-tans is one of the many talking points surrounding the game. But for the team and Maten, it is just that. A talking point.

“Obviously having grown up in that state, this is a game that people will talk about,” Georgia head coach Mark Fox said. “But I don’t think that if we played the Montenegro national team, [senior forward] Nemi [Djurisic] would be overly excited. That’s just another small part of the game. It’s still basketball.”

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Despite his vast ex-perience and knowledge of the game, Landers wouldn’t offer an opinion of who should take his place at the helm of the Lady Dogs.

He said he’d leave that decision to McGar-ity and former Lady Dog Carla Williams, Georgia’s executive associate ath-letics director and senior woman administrator.

“If they’re smart enough to keep me around for 36 years,

they’re smart enough to make the right deci-sions,” Landers said.

The four-time Na-tional Coach of the Year took a moment to thank the Lady Dogs’ fans, say-ing many of them have been dedicated for years.

“They’ve been terrif-ic,” Landers said. “Some of the people that were at every game this year, some of them were at every game 25 years ago. That type of loyalty isn’t something that any of us should take for granted. It’s been very, very much

appreciated.”In his career, Land-

ers did just about every-thing a head coach can do. He led Georgia to the SEC tournament cham-pionship seven times and coached a pletho-ra of great players to go along with all those deep NCAA tournament runs.

The only thing he didn’t do was win that elusive national title.

“In the beginning, there was a dream to create a program that would compete at the highest level,” Landers

said. “We’ve done that. The only thing we didn’t get done was win one of those five Final Fours.”

Landers isn’t sure what the future holds for him. The 62-year-old said he still has a lot of energy and said, in his typical, bombastic and theat-rical fashion, that he’d have to stay busy.

“I haven’t crossed that road yet,” Landers said. “My yard will prob-ably look better than anybody’s in the neigh-borhood, at least until I get bored with it.”

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The players on this Geor-gia team love to play for Thorn-ton and Djurisic. After Thorn-ton fouled out in Georgia’s SEC quarterfinal game against South Carolina, freshman Yante Maten turned in his best game as a Bull-dog as he notched his first career double-double. After the game Maten immediately attributed his inspired to play to not wanting to disappoint Thornton.

Junior guard Kenny Gaines shared the same amount of enjoy-ment of getting to his first NCAA tournament as he was to see his senior teammates culminate their career in the tournament.

“It’s great. I feel like it’s spe-cial especially for Marcus, to make his second appearance in the NCAA tournament,” Gaines said. “A lot of people can’t say that, a lot of people can’t say they’ve been to one.”

For 67 teams, the NCAA tour-nament will end in a loss. The scenes of players draping their head in their jersey and the misty-eyed press conference are symp-toms likely to strike Thornton and

Djurisic. Their Georgia careers will be over, but the influence they’ve had on the Georgia bas-ketball program won’t be gone or forgotten.

“Those seniors have made big

plays for us and I’m very happy that they can finish their careers in the NCAA tournament,” Fox said. “There’s been no better lead-ership in the time that I have been here than from Nemi and Marcus.”

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Freshman Yante Maten excited to play against his ‘home’ team

Michigan native Yante Maten (above) is hyped for Georgia’s NCAA tournament game against Michigan State. Many of Maten’s friends, as well as his own mother, attended the Big Ten school. JOshua L. JONEs/Staff

As a result of senior Nemanja Djurisic’s (left) leadership qualities, the team has returned to the NCAA tournament. TaYLOR CaRpENTER/Staff

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By Emily GiamBalvo@EmilyGiam

Even though the Gym Dogs aren’t in the session they hoped for, their end goal has not waiv-ered.

On Saturday, No. 9 Georgia (5-6, 3-4 SEC) will travel to Du-luth to compete in the annual Southeastern Conference Cham-pionship.

Unlike previous years, how-ever, the Gym Dogs will not per-form in the sought-after second session.

“Obviously, we wanted to be in the evening session,” senior Chelsea Davis said. “But hopeful-ly in the afternoon session we can really separate ourselves from the competition, show that we are a different caliber and hopefully that will work to our advantage with the scores.”

When Missouri joined the conference, the SEC Champion-ship split into two sessions, with the top four teams competing at night and the bottom four in the afternoon.

Since this change, no team from the earlier session has ever finished higher than fifth.

But the Gym Dogs do not see that as something that must con-tinue. Rather, additional motiva-tion has emerged in an effort to break this trend.

“We talked about in the team meeting making history,” fresh-man GiGi Marino said. “That’s a very achievable goal, and I think that if anyone can do it, then we can.”

While this weekend’s meet is essentially an away meet for all eight teams, Georgia could bene-fit from being located the closest to the competition.

“It’s only 45 minutes away, so I definitely hope that we’re going to have a good crowd, as opposed to the other teams,” Davis said. “Hopefully we can get them in-volved like we did last week with our home crowd.”

Joining Auburn in the meet’s second session are Florida, LSU and Alabama, and all three of those teams are ranked in the top five nationally.

Earlier in the season, the Gym Dogs stayed competitive with some highly ranked teams, but until last weekend against No. 4 Utah they had yet to come out on top.

“They know how to fight, and

now they know how to fight and win,” head coach DannaDurante said. “They know what that feels like and I think that’s just a huge confidence boost.”

Even with the meet’s slightly different setup, a bit of normalcy will remain.

Since they are the highest seed in the afternoon session, the Gym Dogs will begin the meet on vault and finish on floor just as they do at regular-season home competitions.

“Starting on vault is defi-nitely going to be a little bit of a

comfortable advantage for us,” Marino said. “It’s going to make it feel a little bit more like home and I think mindset wise it’s easy because we’ve been doing it since the beginning of the season.”

And if the team does what she thinks it’s capable of, Duran-te can’t imagine a better way to conclude.

“We love finishing on floor,” Durante said. “I can’t picture a better scenario than our last ath-lete on floor and just soaking it in and really enjoying the fact that we’ve done it again.”

Gym competing in SEC early sessionGeorgia offense stressing installation, not changes

Georgia gymnasts such as Mary Beth Box (above) will head to Duluth over the weekend for the SEC championships. SamuEl J. WilSon/Staff

By JuSTin HuBBaRD@JHubb93

The biggest headline for the Georgia Bulldogs football team this offsea-son was offensive coordi-nator Mike Bobo’s depar-ture for the head coaching position at Colorado State. Georgia hired former NFL offensive coordinator Bri-an Schottenheimer to re-place Bobo.

Since Bobo held the coordinator position at Georgia for so many years, the offense is bound to need time to adjust to a different system, no mat-ter how similar this new system may be to the one Bobo taught.

Georgia head coach Mark Richt said what the offense had in place through one practice seemed to be working well.

“So far, we’ve installed everything we wanted to install and I think we were fine,” Richt said.

The Bulldogs didn’t practice Wednesday with the team’s annual Pro Day festivities being held at its facilities. They re-sumed practice on Thurs-day and will continue on this schedule through the spring.

Richt said he believes the days off will give the coaches time to evaluate what specifically is work-ing and what may need to be tweaked with the new system.

“We had a plan to in-stall two days from now and that’s the beauty of having a day in between practice,” he said. “You get a chance to really review everything that happened. If you had three or four or five consecutive days of practice, it’d be hard to review what you did and install, but, because of the day in between, I think we’ll be fine.”

Bulldogs getting healthy at running back

Senior tailback Keith Marshall has been injured for the better part of two years now.

Although he did play in some games last year, Marshall never was 100 percent healthy due to continued complications resulting from knee and ankle injuries of the past.

Richt indicated that this is not the case any-more.

“I think Keith is in a situation where he has no limitations whatsoever, and I think he looks good,” Richt said. “He needs to continue to get into the right kind of playing shape like everybody else, but there’s no limitations on Keith.”

Explaining what he said about Marshall get-ting into shape, Richt said the coaches wanted Mar-shall to lose some of the bulk he amassed in his time off over the off sea-son.

Another running back who has been on the mend is redshirt sophomore A.J. Turman. Turman under-went surgery last spring, and is just now getting ful-ly healthy.

“He’s been moving a lot,” Richt said of the Or-lando native. “He moved well in the offseason drills and seemed to have no setbacks, even today.”

Tuesday’s practice was light and without con-tact, so Richt has yet to see Turman in full action.

But he did say he was pleased with what Turman did anyway.

“I liked what I saw in him,” Richt said. “There wasn’t a whole lot as far as a lot of different change of direction things, but there were some times when he cut it back across the grain and he looked healthy.”

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BY SARAH SPENCER@sarah_k_spence

Brian Schottenheimer is apparent-ly a little quieter than Mike Bobo.

“I haven’t seen too much of yelling with coach Schott,” sophomore run-ning back Sony Michel said of Schot-tenheimer, Georgia’s new offensive coordinator hired in January to replace Bobo.

When Bobo left for the head coaching position at Colorado State, he started a bit of a trend. Offensive line coach Will Friend joined Bobo in Colorado and was replaced by former McNeese State co-offensive coordina-tor and offensive line coach Rob Sale. Wide receivers coach Tony Ball left for LSU in February, running backs coach Bryan McClendon shifted to that role and Thomas Brown, a UGA running back from 2004-07, took over coaching his original position.

So there are a few different faces on the Georgia practice field — not just those wearing helmets, but those with red and black baseball caps — per-haps in need of a whistle if their voice doesn’t boom quite like their predeces-sor’s.

With so many adjustments made to Georgia’s offensive staff, you’d ex-pect those changes to come across on the field, as well. There are three new sets of hands controlling the joystick of

Georgia football.Offensive tackle Kolton Houston,

however, said he didn’t think coach-ing changes have made that big of a difference — at least, not on day one of spring practice. After all, he mentioned Georgia will still be a pro-style offense and try to establish the run and throw based on its success.

“I don’t think anybody really paid attention to that,” Houston said. “Bobo and them have been gone for a long time, so we’ve sort of transitioned out of that.”

Ask Jordan Jenkins, an outside linebacker who started all 13 games last season and was third on the team with 70 tackles, and he’ll tell a slightly different story. Jenkins said for a while it felt like every other day there was another offensive coaching change.

Jenkins said the new coaches are “intense” and listed a few differences he has noticed in the offense.

“Just maybe the way some of the linemen, the way they make their checks and the way the snap count is, it just takes some adjustment getting used to,” Jenkins said.

There’ll be no way to determine how having Schottenheimer, who just spent the last three years in the same position with the St. Louis Rams, at the helm will manifest in Georgia’s play calling until next fall.

As far as day-to-day player adjust-ments, though, Michel said the differ-ence between Brown and McClendon is not all that pronounced, whether in personality or the drills run in practice.

“It’s similar to [McClendon],” Mi-chel said. “Coach Brown relates well to [McClendon], running kind of similar drills but kind of different.”

Georgia head coach Mark Richt addressed the team’s transition as well,

noting that growing pains and different routines are to be expected, but he said players and coaches had respond-ed positively to personnel changes.

“I like the way the offensive staff is working,” Richt said. “I like the way the offensive unit is responding. There’s enough difference to where you’re not going at the same tempo you’re going at. That’s understandable.”

BY CoNNoR RilEY@Kconnerriley

Todd Gurley’s pro day was more like a zoo exhibit than a job interview.

Gurley, unable to work out due to his ACL injury, stood in front of a horde of media on the UGA practice fields like a caged panda, with the media trying to elicit any sort reac-tion from the former Georgia tailback. Most of Gurley’s time was spent updating his knee status and his intercations with NFL teams

“[I’m] just [getting] ques-tions, how I’m feeling, how my rehab is going and everything,” Gurley said. “I already talked to them at the combine, so just the basic questions.”

As for his ACL, he would not provide a self-diagnosis, but did feel that he was get-ting better.

“I’m not a trainer so I can’t tell you where I am ex-actly but I definitely feel a lot stronger,” Gurley said.

Gurley also addressed his suspension, for which he missed four games for receiv-ing money for his autograph. Gurley admitted he was wrong but was ready to be done with the subject.

“I made a dumb mistake, something I did my freshman and sophomore year. I knew the rules and I broke them,” Gurley said. “I’m definitely ready to move on with and get on with my life but it’s still something that is going to be brought up and it is just some-thing I learn from.”

As for Gurley’s teammates participating at the Georgia’s pro day, they were a little more free and also able to workout. But that did not stop them from speaking about their

former teammate.Both Hutson Mason and

Chris Conley called Gurley a model teammate. Mason said Gurley could have slacked off given his talent. But he never did. Instead he kept trying to shape the team positively.

“He’s one of those guys who obviously gets a lot of fame, a lot of attention and a lot of times you that gets to those guys heads and their work ethic drops,” Mason said. “But Todd, I can honestly say, was very consistent in his work ethic.”

Conley noted Gurley’s hard-working nature but also pointed out that he is an en-joyable jokester off the field.

“He’s a clown but he’s an extremely hard worker,” Con-ley said. “He’s a guy who talks but he backs it up with his play. He’s a great teammate to be around and he makes

people better.”An example of Gurley’s

jovial off-field behavior was on display when he interrupted a Michael Bennett interview to point out that Bennett wanted Michigan State to beat Geor-gia in the NCAA tournament.

In fact, Gurley was at his happiest on pro day when he was asked to give his pick on who will win the NCAA tour-nament.

“For sure. Duke all the way,” Gurley said. “Everybody knows Duke is gonna win.”

Football adjusts to new coaches

This offseason was tumultuous for the UGA offensive coaching staff after for-mer offensive coordinator Mike Bobo left for Colorado State. JoHN RoARk/Staff

Gurley addresses ACL injury at his pro day

After tearing his ACL in his last game as a Georgia Bulldog, Todd Gurley is moving on to the NFL. JoSHuA l. JoNES/Staff



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DOWN 1 Greek letters 2 Money, slangily 3 Hold __; keep 4 Longed 5 “Ida, __ As Apple Cider” 6 His and __ 7 Breather’s need 8 Gloomy; depressing 9 Actor Cibrian 10 Burn without a flame 11 Walking path 12 Tree fellers 13 Hit-or-__; haphazard 21 A, E, __ 23 Olympics prize 25 Apprentice 26 Pile up 27 __ have a prayer; was sure to lose 28 Calcutta’s nation 29 Evergreen tree

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39 Too 40 Big game 41 Records 42 Sheets of ice on the ocean 43 Abandoned 45 Gloomy 46 ...Thurs., Fri., __,... 47 Enjoy a feast 48 Stylish 51 Remorseful 56 Sworn statement 57 Banishment 58 “How __ Is the Ocean”; Irving Berlin song 60 Ascend 61 Ravi Shankar’s instrument 62 2015, for one 63 Sketch 64 Remains 65 Arid

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31 Traditional Eskimo home 32 Snouts 33 Silly as a __ 35 Bamboozle 38 Part of a bed 39 “So soon?” 41 Refrain syllable 42 Arial or Times New Roman 44 Shun 45 Ore seekers 47 Postpone 48 Drape puller 49 Long-running Broadway play 50 “__ Small World” 52 Way out 53 Pocket bread 54 Have to have 55 Sorrowful drop 59 Use a crowbar

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37 Norman __; “Psycho” role 38 Eat 39 Took a chair 40 Earnings 41 On the __; free to the customer 42 Can wrappers 44 __ up; recapped 45 Over the hill 46 Flock members 47 Fodder towers 50 Jacuzzis 51 Wheel center 54 School subject 57 Out of danger 58 __ clean; fess up 59 Board 60 Shoelace problem 61 Patella’s place 62 Takes on employees 63 “__ Wonderful Life”

DOWN 1 A single time 2 Shred 3 Reddish clay used for pottery 4 Unusual 5 Blizzards 6 Chocolate substitute 7 In the sack 8 Holiday drink 9 Excessively 10 Black eye 11 Warmth 12 Fancy vases 13 Prying 19 Belly button 21 Grow weary 24 Lois __; Clark Kent’s love 25 Pub orders 26 __ for; selects 27 Sandbank

28 Grows gray 29 Victorious 30 Taste or sight 32 Paper sacks 33 Suffix for alien or passion 35 Feat; exploit 37 Shiny on top 38 Capitol roof, usually 40 Language heard in Wales 41 Colors 43 Baby’s sock 44 Huts 46 Backbone 47 Knock down, in football 48 Common metal 49 Green citrus 50 Night sparkler 52 Eerie saucers, for short 53 Greek letter 55 Speedometer letters 56 Actor Wallach 57 __ lift; T-bar

ACROSS 1 Our planet 6 __ in; wearing 10 MRI, for one 14 Luau greeting 15 Lasso 16 Lunch spot 17 __ into; eats greedily 18 Goes astray 19 Ceremony 20 Scoured 22 Trimmed, as tree branches 24 Official stamp 25 Gary & Jackie 26 Leah’s sister, in Genesis 29 Cold cereal 30 “...through the night that __ flag was still...” 31 Approaches 33 Good buys 37 Ensnare

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