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By ADINA SOLOMONTHE RED & BLACK
Football weekends aren’t known for safety, but maybe they should be.
In 2006, The Red & Black looked at University Police Department logs and found that compared to normal weekends, crime surged on gamedays. But for 2010 gamedays, crime is at similar levels to non-gameday weekends.
Jimmy Williamson, University Police chief, said he attributes this to earlier kickoff times for the games. They have typically been at noon instead of later in the afternoon like in previous years.
“Games this year haven’t had the draw,” Williamson said. “When we have earlier kickoffs, we don’t see as much people at Sanford Stadium.”
With earlier kickoffs, many ticket-less people who just come to games to party won’t bother show-ing up, Williamson said. He said later g a m e s attract an extra 20,000 to 30,000 people to Athens.
He said the number of police-men patrol-ling the campus has remained the same for the past few years.
“We have no way of knowing from one weekend to the next what the chal-lenges and calls of service are going to be,” Williamson said. “Pretty much every-one is working.”
He said the “main ingre-dient” of the crime police deal with on gamedays is overconsumption of alco-hol, which is lessened when a game is earlier in the day.
Anthony Yates, a junior from Bainbridge, said there might be less drinking and fewer large groups of peo-ple together because the team is losing more games.
“We’re not doing well, so maybe we’re not celebrat-ing that hard,” Yates said.
When asked what levels of crime he expects for the upcoming game against Georgia Tech, a big rival, Williamson said crime will likely still be down.
He said few students will be on campus, and even the dorms are closed.
“We do have some crime, but all of the students are gone for the break,” Williamson said. “Our stu-dent population is way down.”
He said though crime is always the perpetrator’s fault, drinking too much puts people in risky situa-tions, which could lead them to become victims.
“If we’re going to cut down crime, it’s a partner-ship, not just the police,” he said. “Drink responsibly so you can make good deci-sions.”
www.redandblack.com Monday, November 15, 2010 Vol. 118, No. 54 | Athens, Georgia
Umbrellas may be dangerous to some unaware students. Let’s see what one
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SCOOT ON OVERA feel-good
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scooter drivers: look at page 2 to see how the new
rules are working out.
Where’s Mikey?
Adams is headed back from
Texas today. Yee-haw.
DINA ZOLAN | The Red & Black
Ben Walker, a Holocaust survivor, spoke on campus Sunday. Walker was only 9 years old when the Holocaust ended.
Crime down after games
By MICHAEL PROCHASKATHE RED & BLACK
Arbeit macht frei. Ben Walker first heard
this phrase aboard a swel-tering confined compart-ment of a coal-fueled train at the age of six. He stood in human feces clinging to his 2-year-old sister amidst sar-dine-packed passengers — most appearing skeletal and starved. Every few hours, the Nazi soldiers would make room by disposing of the ones who coughed too much.
They would be hauled to a lake, gun shots echoing fiercely in the distance. The others would be taken to what appeared to be facto-ries due to the black smoke emitted from chimneys and a sign at the entrance that read: Arbeit macht frei — German for “work will make you free.”
Walker’s family would be sent to a barn where the German army wouldn’t even try to deceive the passen-gers into clinging for hope. Each family had a few feet of straw and no food.
“I still remember one day a soldier came and we begged him — we begged him — to give us more straw because the straw we had was infected by human waste and lice,” Walker said. “And he says, ‘Folks, you don’t understand. We didn’t bring you here to live. We brought you here to die. And we don’t want to waste any bullets.’”
Some nights, the stron-ger males would wake him up with a two-wheeled cart used to stack logs for fire. They would load up the cart with dead bodies and place them in a pile outside near a shallow grave.
“They couldn’t dig deep enough, but they did the best they could and they buried the bodies,” Walker said. “All around there were forests, and there were ani-
mals in the forest, wolves, bears and foxes, they would smell human flesh. So in the spring we would find human remains all over the forest.”
Walker said he had to bribe the soldiers.
“Pretty soon you run out of things to trade, and that’s called starvation,” he said. “That’s how I lost my sister, my grandparents, my uncles, my father.”
His mother was the only living relative when the Soviet Union defeated the Nazis at Stalingrad in 1943. Fearing her own death and living off rats and mice, she sent him to an orphanage for children who lost parents in the war. Walker slept on a small cot with sheets, ate soup and learned to sing.
“It was the best thing that happened to me so far,” Walker said.
When it was time to go, his mother picked him up, but the Soviet Union army could not provide him food or medicine. But they did
See HOLOCAUST, Page 3
Holocaust survivors share storiesReflect on past terrors
Early kickoff may be cause
WILLIAMSON
SEAN FRANCIS TAYLOR | The Red & Black
Auburn quarterback Cam Newton controlled the game through the air and on the ground — tallying four touchdowns — in the Tigers 49-31 win over Georgia on Saturday in Auburn, Ala.
DEFENSELESS
Dogs’ future holds similar outlookAUBURN, Ala. – Mark Richt
was asked a simple question in his post-game press conference Saturday at Auburn: Why did this season not go like you thought it would?
“When you look at it, there were, I think, a few plays, a few key plays in the games that we lost, not so much today, but they went the other way and we didn’t win the close games for an assortment of reasons,” Richt said. “I’ve said it for years, the teams that can win the close ones will be the champi-ons, and we didn’t win a close game yet.”
Georgia is 0-5 in those games this season, and as is so often the tune during a losing season, the “wait until next year” line is already out in full effect. And not
to be the bearer of bad news, but I can’t comprehend that optimism.
Barring an NFL lockout, Georgia’s top playmakers on defense and offense — Justin Houston and A.J. Green — appear likely to be headed to the pros. And who could blame them? In a game with such a limited shelf life such as football, why waste a year playing for free when one could make millions?
Yes, Todd Grantham’s defense
should be slightly better with the defensive players integrated with the system for another season.
But how much better? Georgia’s issues on defense go a
lot further than coaching or inex-perience in the system. It’s a lack of talent and depth in key posi-tions that Georgia is struggling with. For comparison, Mississippi State defensive coordinator Manny Diaz had one of the best defenses in the conference in his first year in Starkville while work-ing with less talent.
Georgia loses four defensive starters to graduation as well — including top tackler Akeem Dent — and possibly Houston.
I’m not trying to rain on
See FUTURE, Page 6
By RACHEL G. BOWERSTHE RED & BLACK
AUBURN, Ala. — Cam Newton is every bit of 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds.
He is every bit of a show-boating Heisman Trophy candidate who made Auburn relevant again.
He is every bit deserving of the praise he receives for his on-the-field perfor-mance.
But it took a game in which Georgia’s defense gave the most points it has all season — 49 — to show just how easy it was to move the ball against the Bulldogs. The Georgia defense allowed Auburn’s offense to score a touch-down every time it touched the ball in the second half.
“We had a lot of hype wanting to go out and get [a win] for the seniors. We failed to do it,” safety Bacarri Rambo said. “They outplayed us. Cam Newton — he’s a great player. We just let him have his way out there. They just had their way out there.”
The defense gave up big plays, had blown assign-ments, missed tackles and let the Tigers essentially march up and down the field at will.
Sound familiar?That’s because those
same things have consis-tently happened in all of Georgia’s losses. But 11 games into the season, the Bulldogs are still making the same mistakes that led to a 1-4 start, and they are now at a 5-6 record head-ing into the bye week.
Linebacker Justin
See DEFENSE, Page 6
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2 | Monday, November 15, 2010 | The Red & Black NEWS
By NATHAN SORENSENTHE RED & BLACK
After two weeks of using the new scooter and moped parking system, scooter drivers and pedestrians alike have little to com-plain about.
As of Nov. 1, scooter parking changed from the sidewalk-access parking corrals to road-entry sur-face lots. Before the change Nov. 1, scooters and mopeds were a source of protest among students and faculty.
“We used to get almost daily complaints from handicapped students and pedestrians about scooters parked or driving on the sidewalks,” said Don Walter, manager of Parking Services.
With the new surface lot parking for scooters, the need for driving on a side-walk has decreased — as have the complaints.
“The biggest impact from the new scooter park-ing has been the satisfying of disabled students and pedestrians about scooters blocking sidewalks,” Walter said.
With the parking change, the number of complaint calls to University Police about scooters have also dropped.
“Only time will tell,” said Jimmy Williamson, University Police chief. “But we have seen a decline in complaints over the last
two weeks and the situa-tion has definitely improved.”
Before the change, scooter parking corrals were overcrowded and dif-ficult to access. There were not enough spaces for scooters.
But now, even with the total number of scooters ranging from 225 to 275 on campus daily, Parking Services reports more than
550 total scooter and moped parking spaces on campus.
Students also seem sat-isfied with the change from corrals to surface lots.
“I like the new parking,” said Alex Vagasi, a biology major from Lilburn. “The lots are in convenient plac-es, I have my own space, no one is knocking over my scooter and there’s always plenty of spaces.”
Changes satisfy scooter riders
FILE | The Red & Black
On Nov. 1, Parking Services changed scooter parking from corrals to road-entry surface lots.
CRIME NOTEBOOKEight reports of burglary in 24 hours
Burglary numbers reached an unusual high Friday, totalling eight within a 24-hour window.
These numbers are above average, said Athens Clarke County Police Lt. Keith Morris, although they are not “unheard of.”
“Burglaries tend to run in spurts,” he said. “From what I can see, I don’t think they are related. They were spread out all over the county.”
Incidents were reported on Cleveland Road, Riverbend Parkway, Lake Drive, Norwood Circle, Sycamore Drive, Holly Springs, Oak Park Court and Inglewood Avenue.
Thousands of dollars worth of items were found missing from several of the
locations, including a flat screen TV, Xboxes and various other electronics.
In the past, Athens area police have seen a spike in burglaries around Christmas. However, Morris said that trend has tailed off recently.
“In the last three years it’s been pretty consistent with other months,” he said.
Morris said the cause of fewer Christmas burglaries may be students liv-ing in more areas around Athens and shorter winter breaks.
— Compiled by Jacob Demmitt
By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK
Nine University students are starting their week off with a little more bling to their names, in the form of winners’ tro-phies, personalized belt buckles and embroidered duffel bags.
Jacob Daniel, Austin Callaway, Karissa Carpenter, Brittany Barnhill, Ash Collins, Brittany Gordon, Brittany Davis, Kemp Denison and Cameron Clark beat out more than 70 other competitors to become Grand Champion, Reserve Champion and species champions at Sunday’s 88th Little International Livestock Show sponsored by the University’s chapter of Block and Bridle.
“A person can choose any species and then they train them. Winners of each species compete in a round robin contest and the judge chooses an overall winner,”
said Anna Savelle, a junior from Watkinsville and this year’s show chair.
During Little I, students are taught how to show their choice of livestock — horses, beef cattle, dairy cattle, pigs or sheep — and participate in a competition inside the show ring.Savelle said the prac-tices vary depending on the species.
“Basically, you have a species chair who is very knowledgeable about showing an animal,” she said.
In the case of students learning to show sheep, Sally Stewart — the species chair — teaches participants how to catch sheep, walk them around and become comfortable with them, Savelle said.
“They basically learn how to show by doing the experience of working at a show,” she said. “As an animal, they’ll learn how to work with you.”
Unlike most livestock shows, which judge both animal conformation and the
skills of the participant — a category known as showmanship — Little I focuses only on the latter.
“They’re not judging your animal,” said Ali Terrell, a junior from Cartersville and Block and Bridle president. “The judges evaluate who learns the most and who does the best job presenting their animal.”
Savelle said judges are chosen based on how much they know about livestock and shows.
She said many of them come from farms or were on a judging team.
This year marks a milestone for Block and Bridle, and for Little I — which was held at the Lifestock Instructional Arena.
“It’s our 90th year, which is really big for us,” Terrell said. “The reason this is the 88th Little I is because during World War II, they skipped a couple of years because they needed corn to feed the troops and couldn’t feed the livestock.”
Terrell said the first Little I — named for the North American International Livestock Expo — held in 1921, caused classes to be canceled so students and faculty could go to it. She said the 1964 contest was the inaugural event to be held at Stegeman Coliseum.
“It had 5,000 people come, a Hereford [beef cattle] show and a horse auction,” Terrell said. “It was centered around Little I because it was such a big deal.”
Savelle said the participants are mostly students in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, but said she hopes more students will be willing to participate in the future.
“You get to understand how the rela-tionships between animals and humans are so close,” she said. “If more people handle these animals, they’ll become more cognizant of where food comes from and the lifestyles in agriculture.”
Nine students triumph at livestock competition
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invite him to ride on the top of the train where he would see Luftwaffe tower-ing above and pray a bomb would not be released.
When he and his mother got back to their farm in 1944, it had vanished. The land was now occupied by the communist regime and so began their journey to Israel. This was the end of the Holocaust.
Walker was 9 years old.This was one of 13 sto-
ries heard Sunday at the University’s first Holocaust Survivor Luncheon, where 10 survivors and three sec-ond generation survivors spoke. For each person who attended, Hillel donated $1 to the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum in Atlanta.
“I came because I want to learn about a moment in our history I think every-one should have an under-standing of,” said SGA President Josh Delaney. “It’s important because everyone should have a knowledge and under-standing of what happened during the Holocaust so that we can all work to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.”
As a room full of gazes received Walker’s introduc-tory speech, there was a silence from those unex-posed to famine or the stench of flesh. Walker said he speaks to protect these eyes from seeing flaky ashes appear from smoke-stacks or hearing the wails of murder, as he once did.
Though Walker spoke in more detail for a larger group of people in the Miller Learning Center, stu-dents such as Nina Paletta were able to have lunch with a small group of peo-ple and a survivor.
“[Manuela Bornstein] suffered vicariously,” said Paletta, a freshman biology major. “Her story was more of how she evaded the Holocaust rather than being sent to the camp.”
Paletta said Bornstein had to hold back her tears when she pulled out a let-ter from her grandmother that became their last cor-respondence.
“[Her grandmother] was in Germany and couldn’t get a visa out of the coun-try and her friend ended up being captured,” Paletta said. “She sent a farewell letter to her family and then committed suicide.”
Senior and co-coordina-tor of the event Hilary Gray said she heard the stories of some of these speakers while interning at the Breman Museum.
“To listen to somebody — even one time — chang-es your life,” she said.
Gray convinced the museum to get more than 10 speakers to help change the lives of the students at the University.
Senior international affairs major Lauren Rosemary Hook said she took a class on genocide but that secondhand edu-cation cannot encapsulate the atrocities of a holo-caust.
“After being in those classes and being in the Holocaust museum in D.C., actually coming here and
hearing them live is some-thing really more power-ful,” she said.
Walker said Germany has since done a good job of acknowledging its mis-takes and punishing the perpetrators of anti-Semi-tism, but solace didn’t come easy for others. The effects of the Holocaust still linger in the heart of Gray, whose father’s par-ents were both survivors.
“I grew up knowing I would never buy a German car,” Gray said. “My grand-father always said they are just like the German tanks that ran us over.”
Gray ended the lun-cheon by reciting a Jewish prayer called the Mourner’s Kaddish.
“Y’hey sh’lama raba min sh’ma-ya, v’ha-yim aleynu v’al kol yisrael, v’imru amen. Oseh shalom bim-romav, hu ya-aseh shalom aleynu v’al kol yisrael, v’imru amen,” she prayed. “May God grant abundant peace and life to us and to all Israel. Let us say: Amen. May He who ordains har-mony in the universe grant peace to us and to all Israel. Let us say: Amen.”
NEWS The Red & Black | Monday, November 15, 2010 | 3
By ASPEN SMITHTHE RED & BLACK
When the University announced new regulations regarding tailgating on North Campus, several downtown business owners “freaked out.”
Mike Bradshaw, the owner of The Grill, said many businesses were anx-ious about sales plummeting because pedestrian traffic coming from North Campus would be drastically less.
Without the steady flow of tail-gaters from North Campus, Bradshaw said he was convinced downtown would be a ghost town on gamedays.
However, for many businesses, including The Grill, the implementa-tion of the new tailgating regulations has had the opposite effect.
Ashley Becker, the owner of the downtown clothing store Flirt, said sales have actually increased this football season. But whether this can be attributed to the tailgating rules or the afternoon kickoffs, she does not know.
“The 12:30 games are good for business,” Becker said. “Many people leave at halftime and come down-town to walk around.”
Bradshaw said he has not noticed
any drop in sales this football sea-son.
He said once people begin coming into The Grill at 8 a.m., the restau-rant stays full all day.
What may affect sales more than where football fans are allowed to tailgate is how well the football team is performing.
“The better the football team does, the better we do,” Bradshaw said.
Pauley’s Crepe Bar has also expe-rienced a slight rise in sales this foot-ball season. Joshua Fox, Pauley’s assistant manager, said gamedays have been busier than he expected.
“The past game, we had a lot more people than we thought we would — more than compared with last year,” he said.
Now that people cannot tailgate on North Campus, they come down-town and spend money, Fox said.
Several business owners said the new tailgating rules are not a major point of concern among them, now that they have not felt any negative effects.
“People are going to come down-town whether there’s tailgating or not,” Fox said.
Downtown sales up despite tailgating rules
AJ REYNOLDS | The Red & Black
Downtown businesses such as Pauley’s on Clayton Street have seen a slight rise in sales this fall despite the ban on gameday tailgating on North Campus.
HOLOCAUST: Hearing experiences ‘powerful’ for event attendees
DINA ZOLAN | The Red & Black
Hebert Kohn (Top) and Sam Lefco spoke at the first Holocaust Survivor Lunch on Sunday. Hillel donated $1 for each person attending.
4 | Monday, November 15, 2010 | The Red & Black
SGA must ban umbrellas on campus
Abortions do not equal Holocaust
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Display violates University Code of Conduct
In search of general complacen-cy, and perhaps a larger func-tion in society, I had previously
decided to retire from petty cam-pus journalism some three weeks ago. I put my pen to rest in hope of discovering a fresh, uplifting pas-sion. Nothing transpired.
As a result, my insatiable desire to critique this campus community had all but destroyed my emotional stability. Like an alcoholic sans bourbon, I now find myself trem-bling at the need to explode my outrageous opinions upon the deaf ears of my peers.
With this in mind, it is my aim to propose to this University a new — yet necessary — executive order.
The student body must be barred from the use and/or posses-sion of any handheld water-shield-ing apparatus: chiefly, the common umbrella and/or any similar 3-D device of a similar nature and intent.
This includes, but is not limited to, possession of a common umbrella, parasol, rainshade, brolly, gamp, bumbershoot, umbrella-hat, umbraculum and/or any canopy-like structure designed to deflect undesirable precipitation and/or sunlight.
The abhorrent wielding of said devices, (now officially condemned as contraband), in recent rain-storms has forced me to request the Student Government Association enact this obligatory legislation immediately.
It is imperative this vital body of scholars and future world leaders recognizes the importance of such a bill. It should discount trivial campus issues, (namely the cam-pus-wide smoking ban, et al.), in pursuit of a safer, more secure learning environment for all.
Should any aforementioned con-traband be found in possession of a student or faculty member of this University, I humbly request the University Judiciary seek the harshest of penalties: may said scoundrel be waterboarded within an inch of his miserable life, such that he may feel the painful reality of the everyday unarmed, law-abid-ing student.
For too long now, the water-logged innocents have suffered at the hands of the irately self-inter-ested umbrella-toting bourgeoisie:
The pure have been battered and bruised; they have nursed too many a scratched cornea with no retribution, no common decency or consideration from the guilty majority.
The untainted few have endured countless viral attacks due to sod-den stockings and saturated hair while the culpable enjoy a few sec-onds of comfort in an already over-
crowded bus.The time has come for radical
change.I also extend a plea for parallel
legislation banning the use of obnoxious and distasteful rubber rain boots, which have infected the population of this fine institution.
In an effort to maintain the integrity of higher education, I request the Student Government Association endorse a bill that would forever remove the ridicu-lous abundance of such ghastly footwear from this campus ever-more. The common wader is a loathsome distraction.
It must be abolished, effective immediately.
Should you have any questions, comments, concerns or applause, please contact the editor.
I will not concern myself with the paltry grievances and/or pathetic criticism against my pro-posed system of laws, if for no other reason than the obvious fact that I, too, have been a victim of your selfish injustices.
Putnam’s Plan, so it will be con-sciously dubbed. Raincoats are acceptable. Boots remain in ques-tion. Cigarettes are decidedly toler-able.
Umbrellas are not.Those in favor…
— Mark Putnam, Freedom Fighter, is a senior from Alpharetta majoring in
international affairs
MARK PUTNAM
Last week, Students for Life hosted the Genocide Awareness
Project, featuring a graph-ic display that took up most of Tate Plaza.
They apparently hoped to use their shock factor images to bully and terrify students into reconsider-ing their own personal beliefs about abortion.
Before arriving in Tate Plaza, signs were posted stating “Warning: Genocide Pictures Ahead.”
The display featured graphic images of fetuses torn to pieces and baby eyeballs, hands, feet and other separated body parts splayed out next to coins so the audience could see just how tiny these fetal pieces were. Signs stated “Call Planned Parenthood to Butcher Your Baby.”
But most significantly, the display showed graph-ic pictures of victims of the civil rights movement and the Holocaust, com-paring the abortion rate to genocide.
While the project is offensive on many levels to many different types of people, its most offensive aspect is the casual com-parison to the Holocaust.
It seems today many Americans are content comparing anything dislik-able to the horrors of the Holocaust.
When the president passes a new law, he is compared to Hitler. When taxes are raised, the coun-try is compared to Nazi Germany.
And now, when women exercise their right under Roe v. Wade to have an abortion, they are com-pared to the Nazi execu-tioners in the Holocaust and accused of starting a genocide.
This shows blatant ignorance and a chilling disregard for the reality of the Holocaust.
The Holocaust is unique in its horror, and to compare anything to it is to diminish the actual atrocities the victims endured.
There is no greater
insult to those victims, especially when it comes from a generation so far removed from Nazi Germany they can’t fath-om the significance of the insult they so cheerfully throw around.
On Thursday, the University was lucky enough to be honored with hosting a Holocaust survivor to speak about her experiences.
However, Students for Life and the GAP Project sent a very clear state-ment of ignorance for her to see — they don’t care about the reality of the Holocaust, but would rather it stay far removed from them as a set of sta-tistics in order to use it as propaganda.
Reality check: Not everything you disagree with can be compared to the Holocaust.
Genocide is not a one-size fits all term.
Genocide is the deliber-ate and systematic destruction of a people, and the Holocaust was a transgression against humanity which has never been equaled.
Nothing in America can be compared to the Holocaust; not taxes, not the president’s bills — and not abortions.
No matter what the GAP project or Students for Life want you to think, having a necessary and legal medical procedure of your own free will is not, and will never be, geno-cide.
Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, it is time to take a stand against the dismissal of the Holocaust.
It’s time to remember its true atrocities.
It’s been only 65 years since Auschwitz was liber-ated. Have we already for-gotten?
— Stephanie Kuzy is a junior from Carrollton
majoring in Spanish
STEPHANIE KUZY
Abortion display shows the truth
Many have character-ized the anti-abortion dis-plays at Tate as “offen-sive,” “disrespectful” and “disgusting.” However, I think that many students have overlooked the pur-pose of this exhibit: to shock people (students) back into reality.
The first objection many have had to the exhibit is the grotesque-ness of the images dis-played. However, the main argument of pro-abortion-ists is that these unborn children are not children. They have succeeded in separating the inhumanity from the act of aborting a child. Seeing the small, fragile carcasses of abort-ed fetuses would force any sane person back into reality.
The second objection many have had to the exhibit is the demonstra-tors’ comparison of abor-tion to genocide, more specifically of blacks.
Before refuting these facts, I implore that each individual do their own research regarding the birth control movement.
Many who spearheaded this movement did so using racist ideology and ulterior motives. Once this is done, it will be difficult
to classify their claims as “ridiculous,” “absurd” or “conspiratorial” in nature.
SEQUOIA BATESSophomore, Loganville
International affairs and Latin American and
Caribbean Studies
Online program hurts students
It makes sense for the University to keep up with modern technology and make use of it to further education. However, using University students as a test group for eLearning Commons trades our aca-demic success for the experiences the eLC pro-grammers get in trouble-shooting their system.
With ample space on various gmail and uga.edu e-mail systems and reli-able and backed-up web servers, why not go back to having professors post files on websites or e-mail them to the class?
I’m writing this letter while I’m supposed to be studying for a test and preparing for a class, but the files I need are pent up on eLC and I can’t get to them. No More eLC!!!
DOUGLAS PATTONGrad student, Athens
Agricultural and Applied Economics
Gory, ghastly pho-tos stood tall before me. I kept
my eyes deadlocked on Bulldog Café’s glowing, red sign — I was hungry.
Although the people protected behind alumi-num fencing were nice, providing brochures about why abortion is genocide and offering good day wishes — they destroyed my appetite and any chance of me having “a good day.”
Now people are writing how this visual terrorism (See? I can use words inaccurately just like the anti-abortion cult) is an expression of free speech and initiates public dia-logue — two things I gen-uinely cherish.
The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform is a pri-vately funded organiza-tion that works to estab-lish prenatal justice and the rights of the unborn, according to CBR’s web-site, abortionNO.org.
It wasn’t CBR’s bro-chures that bothered me, or their gigantic display — rather, the fact they got away with breaking the rules.
CBR has a right to free speech in America, but the University, under The University Code of Conduct, should not allow their pictures.
The display
“infring[ed] upon the rights, privacy, or privileg-es” (University Code of Conduct, Art. V, Sec. 2) of women who have exer-cised their right to termi-nate their pregnancy.
What about the people who heeled to the “Warning: Genocide pho-tos ahead” signs and were late to class? I believe that constitutes “disrupt[ing] the normal operations of the University” (University Code of Conduct, Art. V, Sec. 7).
Though most buildings near Tate Plaza have entrances out of view from bloody fetuses, the ATMs don’t, making the display a “disruption or obstruction of teaching, research, administration or other University activi-ties, including its public service functions on or off campus,” (University Code of Conduct, Art. V, Sec. 1)
And for our beloved Jewish students, compar-ing aborted fetuses to the annihilation of two thirds of the Jewish population during World War II con-stitutes as “conduct that
causes or provokes a dis-turbance that disrupts the academic pursuits... of another person,” (University Code of Conduct, Art. V, Sec. 2).
The CBR is not the first group to get away with rule breaking. “Tate Preachers” grace our campus and are permit-ted to directly attack stu-dents.
“Physical abuse, verbal abuse, threats, intimida-tion, harassment, coer-cion,” (University Code of Conduct Art. V, Sec. 3) is a direct violation, yet our administration allows these preachers to stand during class transitions and verbally assault homosexuals, Muslims, girls in skirts and anyone not carrying around a Bible.
Are Christian-based attacks exempt from the University’s Code of Conduct? CBR endorses “The Matthew 28:20 Project,” where they use spiritually based quotes to scare people into birth-ing their unwanted chil-dren. I think it’s fair to say they are a Christian affiliated organization.
It appears any persons affiliated with Christianity that violate these provi-sions are exempt from any retribution.
I’m proud our campus recognizes our right to
free speech, however I would like the restrictions to extend to the extrem-ist Christians hell-bent on infringing “on the rights of other members of the University community” (University Code of Conduct, Art. V, Sec. 7).
Our rights — the right to be gay, the right to show our religion, our right to terminate a preg-nancy, our right to walk through Tate Plaza and our right to enjoy a Chick-fil-A sandwich without the images of dead babies on our minds — were disturbed.
Put down your engi-neering school blueprints, President Michael Adams, and do something about the recent attack on your students.
Not only should these preachers, photos and whatever group wants to display them be restrict-ed on campus, the stu-dent organizations that invite them should be fined, suspended or what-ever the proper punish-ment the division of stu-dent affairs can think up.
I know the powers that be won’t do anything without a formal, student complaint... who’s with me?
— Samantha Shelton is a senior from Auburn
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SPORTS & VARIETY The Red & Black | Monday, November 15, 2010 | 5
By RYAN BLACKTHE RED & BLACK
The Georgia women’s basketball
team’s game against Georgia Southern on Sunday afternoon was like watching two siblings go at it in a game of one-on-one.
The older sibling, Georgia, may let the younger sibling, Georgia Southern, keep it close for a while, but the older sibling is never in any real danger of losing the game.
With that, the Lady Bulldogs opened their regular season with a 58-43 victory over the Lady Eagles in the newly-renovated Stegeman Coliseum, improving their all-time record in the series against Georgia Southern to 21-9. Despite the win, Georgia head coach Andy Landers expected more from his team.
“They’re better than they played, actually, but we have some depth,” he said. “A lot of people played a lot of minutes, some of them played close to their potential, some of them may have underachieved a bit, but it’s early.”
Landers was also left with a dilemma, unsure whether he over-worked the team in practice.
“Later in the game, it looked like we were tired, and I’m 50/50 wonder-ing if I worked them too hard this week, which I did on purpose,” he said. “We let up yesterday, thinking we’d get our legs back and thinking since we were sharing so many min-utes — this is the stat sheet I envi-sioned in terms of minutes played by players — that our legs would be fine, but maybe I worked them too hard this week. If that’s not the case, and we’re out of shape, then I didn’t work them hard enough.”
Landers’ criticisms aside, the Lady Bulldogs had a balanced per-formance offensively, with every Georgia player who saw action scor-ing, and two players tying for the team-high in points, as junior Meredith Mitchell and senior Porsha Phillips both notched 11.
Phillips also hauled in 13 rebounds to go with her 11 points, marking her 14th career double-double.
“It’s good to get a win because it’s the first game, but we didn’t do as well as we would like to do,” Mitchell said. “We didn’t knock down all the shots we wanted to. We took some really good shots, but we didn’t get transition buckets the way we wanted to. I felt like they did a really good job getting back on defense.”
As for the game itself, the Lady Bulldogs and Lady Eagles swapped the lead back-and-forth early on before Georgia ended the first half on an 11-2 run to head into the locker room ahead 30-19.
In the second half, the teams
continued to trade baskets, but the Lady Bulldogs never let the Lady Eagles close to within less than eight points, outscoring the Lady Eagles 28-24 to grab a 15-point season-opening victory, 58-43.
A bright spot for the Lady Bulldogs on Sunday was the play of sophomore forward Tamika Willis, who posted career-highs with nine points and eight rebounds in 13 minutes of play. She credits the coaching of Landers to aiding her improvement, and Landers himself was quite pleased with Willis’ perfor-mance, adding that he “hoped” to see more games like this from her as the season progresses.
“That’s a heck of a line for 13
minutes,” he said. “4-of-4 from the floor, eight rebounds, that’s excel-lent. That’s the way she’s practiced and played the last week.”
Jamie Navarro led the Lady Eagles with 10 points and nine rebounds, but for Georgia Southern, which has lost 19 straight games to Georgia — with their last victory being in Statesboro in 1981 — it was just another loss to the Lady Dogs.
“All of the girls on our team are girls that Georgia didn’t want to sign, so this is their shot at them,” Georgia Southern head coach Rusty Cram said. “This is their chance to play some of the best in the country and they feel very good about the way they played as a team.”
Lady Dogs cruise past Southern
A Must For the Dick
Mud Scholar employs biting satire towards soci-ety’s trends, fads and sub-cultures and mixes it with generous doses of sardonic self-deprecation.
The solo project/alter-ego of guitarist and singer Alex McKelvey, Mud Scholar — as defined from McKelvey’s MySpace — is “a lost, perverted soul who is unafraid of ’90s chord progressions and trite vocal melodies.”
Not exactly a praisewor-thy portrayal, but upon lis-tening to debut album “A Must for the Dick,” it becomes apparent that Mud Scholar’s purpose is not merely to lampoon itself, but to morph into the personas of a breadth of posers and skewer them.
With Mud Scholar, everyone is a victim — including you, for listening to the album.
That turns out not to be a bad thing, as “A Must for the Dick” is actually a diverse, funny and wildly entertaining ride.
Sure, the aforemen-tioned boneheaded ’90s chord progressions occa-sionally pop up, but they’re meant ironically. McKelvey seems to create bad music that knows it’s bad, which only serves to
more deeply ridicule bad music being made with a serious face.
Take opener “Stop What You’re Doing and Look at Me,” which rides on the most generic chorus possible but is undercut midway through by an odd, demented guitar breakdown that echoes McKelvey’s former prog-rock band Crumbling Arches.
These progressive lean-ings lend “A Must for the Dick” genuine musical substance beneath all the pastiche.
The clearest musical influences present are Tenacious D and Ween — just like these bands, the music is loaded with humor and irreverence but underpinned with, you know, talent.
Throughout “A Must for the Dick’s” 12 tracks, it’s clear McKelvey is having fun, taking measured swipes at mainstream music labeled as alterna-tive — “My Favorite Band Is Lifehouse;” promiscuity as in “Man-Slut Logic;” hipsters, such as “Elitist’s Curse;” and obsessive Facebook-stalkers — “Tabitha (A Love Song).”
The most experimental track, “I’m in a Band,” par-odies wannabe rock musi-cians while the song struc-ture seems to implode on itself.
VERDICT: “A Must for the Dick”
is, through and through, a hilarious record that deliv-ers consistent laughs — as long as you can embrace the unflinchingly sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek presenta-tion of Mud Scholar’s music.
— John Barrett
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SEAN FRANCIS TAYLOR | The Red & Black
Junior guard Meredith Mitchell (11) led Georgia with seven assists in the Lady Bulldogs season-opening 58-43 win over Georgia Southern Sunday at Stegeman Coliseum.
Morning Glory
Grumpy Harrison Ford is golden.
Age Han Solo 30 years, trap him on Hoth without Chewy and access to booze and you get Mike Pomeroy, newsman extraordinaire and pathetically alone sex-agenarian.
In other words, you get the new co-anchor of Daybreak, the morning show-slash-setting of “Morning Glory.”
Yes, the film is driven by a scrappy, naïve and annoying Rachel McAdams as Becky, the
new executive producer of Daybreak, but it’s Ford who steals the show.
Morning news shows are an event unto them-selves. Pap smears on live TV? Sure. Overabundance of words such as “fluffy” and “yum.” That too. But still, they exist as a part of American culture, pack-aged-joy masquerading as prepared reporting.
Diane Keaton is Colleen Peck, longtime anchor of Daybreak who is content with its position but not with its staff. Daybreak is her show, her way and too be honest, who is going to tell Annie Hall anything different?
The gist of “Morning Glory” is straightforward: young ingénue makes good on childhood dream by achieving the impossible.
But “Morning Glory” really does something else — make adults laugh.
It’s simple, really, for a comedy to be funny, but it’s rare that it is so satisfy-ing.
VERDICT:“Morning Glory” is
worth the ratings and the price of admission.
— Elaine Kelch
now showing
From Page 1
Georgia fan’s future parade, but I just don’t see how this scenario gets much better next season.
If anything, the 2010 Auburn team is the best example for why it’s not going to get better and why Richt might not be the man to lead the ship back on course.
Tommy Tuberville, in his last two years at Auburn before being let go after the 2008 season, went 9-4 and 5-7. Sound famil-iar?
There’s no denying Richt has a burgeoning star for the next three years at quarterback in Aaron Murray, but it’s hard to figure out where the rest of the production is going to come from next season.
For starters, who in the world is Murray going to throw to? If Green comes back, clearly this is a dif-ferent story. But who hon-estly expects him to return for his senior year? Surely not anyone that has seen a mock draft.
And no one needs to be reminded just how bad the Georgia offense was with-out Green out there.
Orson Charles looks like the logical answer based off this season, but he’s a tight end, and it’s easier for defenses to design cov-erages to stop a tight end than it is a receiver lined out wide, such as Green.
Just take a look back to the four games Green was out: Defenses designed their coverage to slow the tight ends, and the only one able to make plays in the passing game in Green’s four-game absence was Kris Durham. For the record, Durham is gone next season.
Marlon Brown looked like the logical answer when he was signed as the No. 2-rated receiver in the country out of high school, but two seasons have passed and Brown looks like another player that won’t live up to his poten-tial while at Georgia.
It is hard to even envi-sion a scenario in which Georgia’s running game picks up the slack offen-sively, either. It’s been stagnant all season, and unless standout high school running back Isaiah Crowell decides to attend Georgia over Alabama, I don’t see an improvement in the running game next
season either. The offensive line loses
its best offensive lineman — Clint Boling — and one could make a pretty com-pelling argument that the offensive line may have regressed this season.
Unless Richt pulls a rabbit out of his hat with Crowell, there doesn’t look to be the Marcus
Lattimore or Cam Newton-type talent that can come in and change a team’s whole offensive identity and program in one sea-son.
College football isn’t like basketball where you can quickly rebuild the tal-ent base in a hurry on the recruiting trail.
In football it takes time,
and Georgia looks a long way off from competing for the SEC title.
Whether fans, and espe-cially Athletic Director Greg McGarity, are willing to give Richt that time to bring it back remains to be seen. But as the firing of Willie Martinez has proven, there is no quick fix for Georgia.
6 | Monday, November 15, 2010 | The Red & Black SPORTS
INSTANT REPLAYGAME
REWINDPLAYER OF THE GAME:
Cam Newton, Auburn quarterback
The Heisman Trophy can-didate ran all over Georgia’s defense, racking up 151 yards rushing on 30 carries with two touch-downs. The junior also threw for 148 yards and two touchdowns to lead his Tigers to victory. Newton also became the first quar-terback in SEC history to rush for at least 2,000 yards and pass for at least 1,000 yards in the same season.
OVERLOOKED PLAYER OF THE GAME:
A.J. Green, Georgia wide receiver
The Bulldogs went to Green early and often in the first quarter, as the junior had more than 100 yards receiving after the first 15 minutes. Though the Bulldogs’ offense struggled the rest of the game, Green finished with nine catches for 164 yards and two touchdowns. He was the go-to target for quarterback Aaron Murray, and kept find-ing ways to get open.
KEY MOMENT: Nick Fairley’s late hit on
Aaron MurrayWith just a couple min-
utes left in the game and the Tigers up 49-31, Auburn’s 298-pound defen-sive tackle threw himself into Murray after Murray had released the ball. That drew a flag, a roughing the passer penalty and ignited tempers on both sidelines. An eventual almost-brawl broke out, leading to two Auburn defenders being ejected and Mark Richt’s decision to take a knee with 28 seconds left in the game.
KEY DECISION: Mark Richt deciding to
kick a field goal rather than go for it on fourth down
At the very end of the third quarter, Georgia had the ball on the Auburn 18-yard line and was down 35-28. Instead of going for it on fourth down, Richt decided to kick a field goal rather than roll with the momentum the Bulldogs had built on the drive. Richt settled for three points instead of taking a chance at the end zone, knowing his defense was struggling to get a stop all day. Heading into the fourth quarter with the score tied would have given the Bulldogs a chance to con-tinue the shootout.
QUOTE OF THE GAME: Richt on taking a knee to
end the game:“The reason why I did
that was tempers were flar-ing. Tempers were getting a little bit out of hand, and I thought if we ran another play, there was a chance something could break out, so I thought we’d just take a knee and make sure that nothing broke out. I wanted all our guys to be able for Georgia Tech game, and when things get that hot and that emotional, it’s hard to control, and I didn’t want anything to happen that would embarrass Georgia or embarrass the Bulldog Nation.”
BY THE NUMBERS: Auburn:Total offense: 463 yardsPassing: 148 yardsRushing: 315 yardsPenalties: six for 73 yardsThird down conversion: 10-of-14Time of possession: 34:15
Georgia:Total offense: 354 yardsPassing: 273 yardsRushing: 81 yardsPenalties: 10 for 89 yardsThird down conversion: 4-of-9Time of possession: 25:45
— Rachel G. Bowers
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(Top) Junior A.J. Green (8) caught two touchdown passes in the first quarter against Auburn. (Above) Quarterback Aaron Murray (11) shined for the Georgia offense against the Tigers, completing 15 of his 28 passes for 273 yards.
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The Georgia defense had a difficult time corralling Auburn’s Cam Newton (2) on Saturday, resulting in 49 points allowed to the Tigers.
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Houston said “I guess not” when asked if the problems were because players haven’t learned the defense yet.
“Some guys isn’t as focused as they need to be. It hurt us. It’s been hurting us all season. I don’t know,” Houston said.
Nine months after installing a new defen-sive scheme, the Bulldogs are still struggling to be in the right place at the right time to make a play or just get a simple stop.
The same held true against Auburn.“I guess people wasn’t where they needed
to be and they just kept running the same plays over and over and people still wasn’t get-ting where they needed to be,” Houston said.
And it’s not as if the defense is completely void of talent (See: Justin Houston, Akeem Dent), but the Bulldogs are failing at even the basic fundamentals of the game.
“I think it was just missed tackles and maybe a blown coverage here and there, but bottom line is we have to make plays,” corner-back Brandon Boykin said.
Said Rambo: “It’s just the little things that have been costing us this year.”
Those “little things” have led to six losses to teams Georgia had the potential to beat. The Bulldogs have underachieved and the record shows that.
But 463 Auburn offensive yards, seven Tiger touchdowns and another loss later, the Georgia Bulldogs’ locker room was full of blank stares and shoulder-shrug type responses after the game.
Boykin said the Bulldogs simply “didn’t step up to the challenge,” though they knew the offensive firepower Auburn has.
“We expected it,” Boykin said. “We knew they were going to run the ball. We knew they had great running backs and a QB that could run the ball. We knew all these things coming in. We prepared for it and we didn’t get it done. I don’t know what else to say really.”
The Bulldogs are at a loss as to why these mistakes continue to happen.
And that’s how they have managed to get to the number six in the loss column.
DEFENSE: Players credit loss to a lack of focus
FUTURE: Departures to deplete team’s talent
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