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www.redandblack.com Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Vol. 118, No. 55 | Athens, Georgia
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By ADINA SOLOMONTHE RED & BLACK
Israel is one of the hottest international political topics in the country, and the University’s Student Government Association may be joining the debate.
A resolution supporting Israel as “the only democracy in the Middle East” may come before the SGA senators for a vote at today’s meeting.
By press time, it had not yet
been determined if the resolu-tion would be on the agenda for today’s meeting, be on the agen-da for the SGA’s next meeting in January or be dropped.
Anush Vinod, one of two SGA senators sponsoring the resolu-tion, declined to comment.
Stephen Thompson, the vice president of SGA, said a resolu-tion is a declaration meant to represent all University stu-dents.
“It’s a statement on behalf of SGA,” Thompson said. “A resolu-
tion is like a student perspec-tive.”
A resolution can be written by any student, but it requires at least one SGA senator spon-soring it. In order to be passed, it must receive a simple majority of the senators’ votes at a meet-ing of all the SGA senators. The
SGA president also has the right to veto.
A resolution is used by SGA as student opinion in meetings with administrators to alter rules, Thompson said.
Dawgs for Israel could not be reached for comment.
Nate Christensen, the presi-dent of Athens for Justice in Palestine, said his group doesn’t support the resolution because it disagrees with Israel’s actions toward Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The organization also
believes the resolution isn’t rep-resentative of all University stu-dents, Christensen said.
See SGA, Page 2
SGA may pass resolution in support of Israel
NATASHA PEAT | The Red & Black
Student Lexi Anderson developed a bike rental program for a class project last year.
By MICHAEL PROCHASKATHE RED & BLACK
The mentee becomes the mentor.Junior Lexi Anderson began
Dawgbike as an eco-friendly class project last year that would allow students to rent bikes at an afford-able cost. But the initiative has since been deadlocked while being chan-neled through several layers of com-mittees and departments.
Now, a social media class is get-ting the wheels rolling and out of the mud.
“I was trying to follow bureau-
cratic steps, and I hit a whole bunch of red tape pretty much everywhere I went,” said Anderson, a psychology major from Duluth. “When I set up my original design, it was really, real-ly adventurous. I had only researched systems that were highly funded by entire cities, and so what we are talk-ing about putting in place now is much more scaled back so we can build up to a more sophisticated ver-sion.”
Anderson’s plans were grandiose in application but not publicity. To make the project more appealing to the Office of Sustainability and Parking Services, a class on new media contacted Anderson about developing a better business model.
“I was thrilled to be contacted by this group and excited at the new
perspectives and fresh ideas they brought to the table,” Anderson said. “This group of students brings a whole new level to the proposal and hopefully brings it back to the atten-tion and top of the agenda for UGA.”
Sabrina Nooruddin, a junior adver-tising major from Gwinnett, is one of 19 students who are designing ID tracking devices that would measure the distance and destination of a cyclist and enable the student to post that information on Twitter or Facebook.
The class is not actually imple-menting any of its proposals; rather, it’s coming up with a plan that could potentially be undertaken.
Nooruddin said local businesses
See BIKE, Page 3
Students help bike program gain some tractionClass develops business model
When: Tonight at 7
Where: MLC 148
SGA MEETING Nate Christensen, president of AJP, said the potentialresolution would hinder free speech.
By DAVID MITCHELLTHE RED & BLACK
Michelle Morris knew what she had to do.
It was doing it that was the problem.
It was the 2010 Varsity E q u e s t r i a n N a t i o n a l Championships in Waco, Texas, and Georgia had battled Texas A&M to the first tie in the history of the competition.
Chosen as the team’s rider for the flat event — the first in the four-event ride-off — Morris, a sophomore at the time, could not deny her nerves.
“It was one of those moments where if you screw up, the team loses,” Morris said. “And I was so nervous. I felt like I was going to throw up.”
But, as any big-time competitor does in any sport, Morris calmed her nerves by focusing on the task at hand.
“I knew what I had to do,” she said. “After I got the nerves out, I just focused, made a plan, felt the horse out and performed.”
The result was a 30-point win in the event, helping to lead her team to its fifth national championship in eight years.
“I’m a very visual person,” Morris said. “I like to visualize the pattern in advance of the competition. In a situation like that, I just had to take a step back, visualize and remind myself that I knew the pat-tern.”
Now a junior, Morris has picked up where she left off a season ago.
She is 8-2 with two MVPs in individual competition, helping the
Bulldogs to the No. 1 ranking and, potentially, a fourth-consecutive national title.
Head coach Meghan Boenig attributes much of Morris’ success to her work ethic and her ability to learn quickly.
“You couldn’t meet a more determined or precise young lady,” Boenig said. “She has an incredible feel for horses. It seems like it doesn’t matter the level of difficulty with the horse; she is very quick to figure it out. She wants to give it her all and she’s always willing to put in some extra time and do whatever it takes to be successful.”
Teammate Diandra St. Hilaire, a senior, said that Morris’ personality is also a driving force behind her ability.
See MORRIS, Page 8
Junior leads Bulldogs toward 6th title
PHOTOS BY FRANCES MICKLOW | The Red & Black
Junior Michelle Morris is looking to help secure the Georgia equestrian team’s fourth-consecu-tive national championship this season.
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2 | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 | The Red & Black NEWS
Cab driver arrested on multiple charges
Students avoid strang-ers and don’t hitchhike. But when it comes to climbing into the back seat of a stranger’s taxi, most never think twice.
Students may reconsid-er, however, after the recent arrest of one Athens cab driver.
Five Stars Taxi Cab driver Billy Joe Furr, 54, was charged with open container, driving on a sus-pended license and failure to display a valid taxi per-mit at 2:37 a.m. Monday. A passenger was in Furr’s cab at the time of his arrest, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report.
State Patrol Officers also arrested Furr on charges of involvement in a hit-and-run, the report states.
Officers approached Furr after his taxi, which matched the description of a vehicle involved in an earlier hit-and-run, pulled into a parking lot on Oglethorpe Avenue.
Furr was never able to produce a driver’s license and a check revealed it had been suspended for failure to appear, accord-ing to the report.
A State Patrol officer then tried to locate Furr’s permit to operate a taxi, but found none.
However, he did find a bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade “at the base of the driver’s seat,” accord-ing to the report.
Furr was transported to Clarke County Jail.
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By MICHAEL PROCHASKATHE RED & BLACK
You could call it a paradox to die and be a part of something that fosters life, but University gradu-ate Don Brawley calls it a service. He co-founded Eternal Reefs — a company memorializing loved ones by molding their remains in artificial reefs.
It didn’t take much for the avid scuba-diver and college student to protect the rainforests of the sea. Brawley developed “reef balls” in the mid-1980s out of common sense.
“For the most part, if you wanted to build artifi-cial reefs, people would just dump tires or junk cars and things like that,” he said. “The way we looked at that is by putting those items in the ocean, that’s just trash in the ocean.”
Brawley and his University roommates had a much more effective alternative to restore reef sys-tems. By using natural materials to further the propagation of microorganisms and a concrete cast to withstand tidal currents, the Reef Ball Development Group and Reef Ball Foundation can preserve marine environments.
“The ocean is like a nutrient-rich desert,” Brawley said. “There’s lots of food in the water but it’s sand on the bottom. By putting in these reefs, we essentially create an underwater oasis for all these little spouts of life to start to grow.”
But the artificial reefs — which range in price from about $2,500 to $6,500 — provide more than a habitat for turtles and fish. Every month, Brawley solemnly steers a charter boat bearing mourning strangers. While passengers nibble on snacks and sip bottled water, Brawley hands out fresh flowers and a miniature “tribute reef,” slightly smaller than a soccer ball. As the boat rests silently still above a grave, Brawley begins to read a short passage from a speech by President John F. Kennedy, titled “The Sea.”
“We are tied to the ocean, and when we go back to the sea ... We are going back from whence we came,” he tells a somber crowd, empathizing with its grief.
It has been more than 10 years since Brawley’s father-in-law, Carleton Palmer,, went back to the sea.
Palmer was the real founder of Eternal Reefs. In 1998, after Palmer was diagnosed with cancer, he had dinner with Brawley to ask for a service he couldn’t receive anywhere else.
“He said, ‘You know Don, I got a favor to ask you,’” Brawley said. “He said he wanted to spend
eternity down there with all that life excitement going on. And I never did think much about it at the time, but unfortunately he had cancer and he passed away two months later.”
At the service, the funeral director walked up to Brawley and handed him Palmer’s remains.
“We got the remains and I put them on the shelf like many people when they get remains,” he said.
Then Brawley was asked to do a project in Sarasota, Fla., and that’s when he remembered what to do.
“We went down there and we added the remains into the casting process,” he said. “So many folks who choose cremation think they’re always told to scatter the remains. Well, families don’t feel right about that. They feel like they’re not giving their loving respect or due. They feel like they’re throw-ing their loved ones away by scattering them.”
Palmer’s ashes were the first to be molded in a nautical urn.
“Really we’re in the closure business for the families who have had loved ones lost, and we’re facilitating it with the memorial reef,” Brawley said. “These are individuals, families and people who love the ocean for one reason or the other and have their final resting place be the ocean.”
Eternal Reefs strives for solace in each crema-tion memorial. Families are given a range of options to personalize their memorial. All reefs come with bronze plaques for custom-made epitaphs. Through the use of bronze, the plaque can resist seawater corrosion and remain intact for centuries. The arti-ficial reef itself can last more than 500 years.
Families can also place handprints or cherished items in the wet concrete.
“I’ve seen them put wedding rings in the top portion [of the reef],” Brawley said. “Sometimes they’ll wait until the concrete hardens up a little bit and make little divots, like you would write in a concrete driveway.”
Some common tokens of love include police and fireman badges, military mementos and letters. Brawley said one customer asked for Gumby and Pokey figures to decorate the reef.
Even though Brawley said his business is about helping families find closure, Eternal Reefs imparts a rare, vast meaning to death by giving people the opportunity to make a difference after life.
“The individual is creating a habitat for life to occur,” Brawley said.
It may be dark and cold 60 feet under, but Palmer and hundreds of others are a piece of a flourishing ecosystem.
Graduate creates reefs from ashes
SGA: Some say speech is hindered
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“I think the resolution serves as a blanket state-ment imposing one opinion for the entire University,” he said. “We believe it’s hin-dering free speech at the University of Georgia.”
Though he said he isn’t against SGA being involved in political matters, Christensen said passing a resolution supporting Israel would make SGA inherently unfair to AJP.
“It automatically makes the SGA biased and preju-diced,” Christensen said.
If the resolution is on the agenda for today’s meeting, the group will attend and maybe give speeches, he said. AJP has also been circulating a peti-tion among students against the resolution.
Thompson reminded that a resolution is just a policy statement from SGA.
“They’re not rules,” he said. “Our job is to make a statement and then try to change rules.”
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Product’s sell-by date can deceive
By KELSEY BYRDTHE RED & BLACK
Though some fuzzy things are cute, hairy food is not one of them.
Most food products in stores come with a sell-by date, but Judy Harrison, a professor and exten-sion foods specialist at the University, said those dates can be misleading.
“People think that dates on packages have to do with the safety of the food, and they really don’t,” Harrison said. “They are there for quality purposes. There are really only a couple of foods that are required by law [to pro-vide a sell-by date], and that’s infant formula and some types of baby food.”
Baby food is required by law to have a date because the growth of the infant is so crucial, Harrison said. The food must be used by the date on the package.
“So basically there are sell-by dates, which tell the stores how long to display a product for sale, and a consumer would want to buy that product before that sale by date expires,” Harrison said. “And then there is use-by date which is the last date recom-mended for use of the product, and still have that product be at the peak quality.”
Harrison stressed the fact that for packaged foods, the date does not mean the food is bad after the package date has passed.
“So just because a product is past its use-by date doesn’t nec-essarily mean ‘Oh today that product isn’t going to be safe any-more.’ It simply means that it may not be as good of quality as it was before that date passed,” Harrison said.
Most foods have different dates on the packages, but anything that is fresh has specific things to look for.
“I’ve been drinking milk like a month after the sell-by date before,” said Amonae Dabbs-Brown, a wildlife major from Marietta. “I can’t drink the stuff fast enough before the date.”
Harrison says dairy products are fine up to seven days after the sell-by date, but once it starts to smell rancid, it’s time to throw it out.
“Something on the small amount of cheese you would have at home, you probably want to go ahead and discard it if it’s moldy,” she said. “Once a product starts to mold, it’s not going to taste very good anyway so its probably time to get new cheese or bread.”
Harrison said fresh produce has very specific ways to tell the produce is going bad, but added those same requirements can be used as a general rule for check-ing food.
“When you see wilting, mold growth, sliminess — those are all visible signs of spoilage and visi-ble signs of quality loss,” Harrison said. “You would not want to use the product at that point.”
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NEWS The Red & Black | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 | 3
Facebook is already a creeper magnet.Now, with the addition of a new feature that allows
any user to “See Friendship” between any two other people, many University students believe the opportuni-ties for creeping have been amplified.
But some Facebook users say the feature doesn’t vio-late privacy — instead, it creates a “virtual scrapbook” of a friendship to flick through for years to come.
The feature automatically creates a separate friend-ship page for each interaction between Facebook
“friends.” The individual page compiles wall posts, com-ments, shared likes, photos, event attendances and more.
The “See Friendship” feature on Facebook delights some and scares others, so The Red & Black asked University students how they feel about the new feature — do you like to see your friendships memorialized by Facebook?
— Julia Carpenter
ERIN MCLAUGHLINfreshman international affairs major from Suwanee
“I have kind of noticed it and I thought it was a weird idea. It adds to the whole stalking factor of Facebook.”
CELEST DENMARKsenior speech communications major from Grayson
“I love it! I think it’s a good way to document memories with your friends.”
PAIGE MCNEIL junior sociology and Spanish major from Augusta
“I don’t like it. I don’t like the ugly pictures that appear. I guess not all wall posts are pleasant, so the term ‘friendship pages’ maybe isn’t appropriate.”
DEANNA HEIBECK junior publication management major from Kennesaw
“It’s creepy, but at the same time, it’s so much fun.”
JASON WHITTAKERsenior speech communications major from Stony Creek, NY“I’ve never noticed it, but I don’t really get the idea of it. It’d be horrible if your jealous ex-girlfriend could go through all your photos.”
MAN ON THE STREET:Facebook Friends Forever
REGY PERLERA freshman landscape architecture major from Athens
“It’s very creepy. It’s open to the public, right? So people can see what other people are up to. It’s another opportunity to stalk people.”
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could sponsor a particular bike by placing a serial number on that bike, enabling a student to receive coupons from the sponsor after a certain number of uses.
“If I rode that bike 15 times through the month, at the end of the month a restaurant will send me a check for 15 percent off my next meal because that’s how many times I rode it,” she said.
The alternative trans-portation program would come at a good time after several complaints have been made about buses being overcrowded, par-ticularly during class hours.
“Imagine if taking the bus was fun,” Nooruddin said. “But instead they are crowded and parking sucks, so people are going to use [Dawgbike] for con-venience regardless.”
The campus would have three major bike racks placed on North, South and East campus. Anderson has also suggested a plan to have students register cell phones. Students would text a number and the bike lock would unlock.
The proposal helps the environment on several fronts.
“We’ve talked about starting a bicycle recycling program because every year there’s anywhere between 30 and 90 bikes that are left on campus and abandoned,” Anderson said.
Nooruddin suggested the small businesses that dish out coupons could also provide some of the funds for a bike if the rental cost would benefit those businesses.
Anderson, who has spo-
ken with representatives from Beechwood shopping center and Lakeside Apartments, said it’s diffi-cult to strike a deal with businesses using only a theoretical model.
“It’s hard to get respons-es from those places,” she said. “They want to see if the program is working before they take a gamble. And everyone’s concerned about what it’s going to cost them.”
Regardless of the lack of financial support, Anderson has received critical praise from several universities and institutions outside of the University.
“When we talked to Lexi, she said a big issue was that she wanted to pitch this idea to UGA first because there have been other universities that have come to her and offered her a consulting position where she gets paid to
come and tell them about her idea because she has the intellectual rights to it,” said Phillip Oberkofler, a pre-journalism major from Marietta.
Anderson said the goal of the bike rental program is to make Athens a better place.
“There is no need to wait until we graduate to start applying what we learn and making an impact,” she said.
BIKE: Students solicit businesses’ support
NATASHA PEAT | The Red & Black
The bike rental program would place three bike racks around campus where students would be able to check out bikes. Anderson said the bike rental program will make Athens a better place.
4 | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 | The Red & Black
Israel proposal unfair to Palestine
American presidents can’t solve the Middle East crisis, but our own Student Government Association is here to help.
Today, SGA senators may vote on a proposal to affirm the group’s uncompromising support for Israel.
This resolution includes such heartwarming statements as confirming cooperation between the citizens in the state of Georgia and Israel, the danger of Iran and Israel’s status as the only democracy in the Middle East.
The editorial board has one question ... Why?Why have these specific senators taken
time out of their supposedly busy schedules to parade what looks like an American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) press release?
We contacted certain SGA and non-SGA members who support this proposal and offered them space for a column defending their position on this page. They declined.
SGA does not propose resolutions affirming they are Republican or Democrat. They don’t vote on whether Christianity or Judaism is the correct religion.
The Israeli and Palestinian Conflict is just as alienating and divisive an issue as political par-tisanship or religion. Voting on this resolution would merely turn University students against each other, marching this campus into battle.
The editorial board is composed of many dif-ferent people, with many different beliefs on the conflict in the Middle East.
This is not an issue of pro-Israeli or pro-Pal-estinian activism. This is an issue of SGA sena-tors doing the job they were elected to do.
We still have plenty of problems on campus.Why not worry about student fee hikes, cam-
pus safety or transport concerns? Save the foreign policy for future résumé
padding and stick to helping students.
— Courtney Holbrook for the editorial board
Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board
Middle East voteSGA senators may vote on a resolution to confirm its stance on Israel... what?
Future life choices are tough to make
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Many students have proba-bly never met a Palestinian or even believe them to
exist. I am the granddaughter of
Palestinian refugees who fled Palestine by foot for seven days in 1948. This was after they were given an ultimatum: leave and sur-render your belongings — or forfeit your lives.
The fact that I am alive today can give you a hint as to which path my grandparents chose. This was the same path millions of Palestinians took, only to find themselves refugees in neighboring Arab nations, at the mercy of gov-ernment aid.
The Palestinian camps of our day look too similar to the Jewish ghettos of World War II. People are packed in rooms without proper electricity and running water. The hearts of the Palestinian people are filled with despair. I still have fami-ly who live in refugee camps — more than 60 years since the begin-ning of the conflict.
Today at 7 p.m. in the Miller Learning Center room 148 our Student Government Association will possibly vote on a resolution proclaiming our University’s sup-port for the United States’ stance on Israel.
It is not their job to do such a thing.
This resolution will only serve to alienate, marginalize and intimi-date students who disagree with Israel’s actions. Do we really want SGA to transform this campus into a place where students cannot speak what they believe?
I am e-mailing all of our sena-tors to voice my opinion that this resolution is an insult to the mem-
ory of my grandparents. It supports Israel’s harassment of my family in refugee camps.
I recognize there have been seri-ous casualties on both sides of this conflict. It is not right, nor will it ever be right.
However, these casualties do not and must not negate the human rights of the Palestinian people liv-ing in Gaza and the West Bank.
UN resolution 242 calls for the abandonment of acquired territory in times of war and withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from occupied territories. The Fourth Geneva Convention states it is illegal to transfer citizens into occupied ter-ritories.
Yet, illegal settlements have filled these occupied territories internationally recognized as Palestinian. Israel’s illegal settle-ments bring violence, checkpoints, water deprivation, curfews and spe-cial “Israeli-only” roads that further break up the Palestinian territories.
These methods prevent the Palestinian people from living in a unified and peaceful Palestinian state. This is the essence of an occupation.
It is because of this blatant vio-lation of Palestinian human rights that I have become active in an organization called Athens for Justice in Palestine.
We seek to educate and bring awareness about Palestinians, their culture and their current situation. We bring speakers, have movie
screenings and hold events depict-ing the culture and hardships of the Palestinian situation.
We are able to put up these events in part because of the money in small allocations funds we receive from organizations like SGA.
Disagreeing with issues SGA proclaims as their stance could jeopardize the financial situation of opposing organizations such as Athens for Justice in Palestine.
You may not agree with me on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. Nevertheless, you must e-mail your senators to reject this resolution so our student body can continue to express what they believe without fear of repercussion.
Despite my family’s Palestinian identity, I am an American. I love my country. I am a patriot.
In the land of the free and the home of the brave, I count my blessings each day that I wake and call myself free.
I would die for the freedom I have, and I will not stop until everyone in the world has the same independence.
Our founding father Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death.” This battle cry, once our American rallying point, can now be heard on the streets of Gaza and the West Bank. We can no longer stand idly by and watch inhumanity play out before our eyes. Stand with me today.
Look for me in the front row — I’ll be carrying the American flag.
— Nesrein El-Haddad is a senior from Marietta majoring in
international affairs and Arabic and is the co-president of
Athens for Justice in Palestine.
NESREIN EL-HADDAD
After four years of college, the last thing any graduate
wants to do is move back into their parents’ house wondering what is next.
For me, this is especial-ly true. I’m so used to coming and going as I please that I’m just not prepared to deal with the sideways looks and judg-ments if I happen to creep in the house at 5 a.m.
Even though I’m tech-nically grown, it is her house, right?
I guess I can’t complain too much though. It’s the perfect place for me to gather my thoughts and make my next career move — without papers and tests clouding my mind.
But I still feel like I’m taking a step back.
My old bedroom at home isn’t nearly as sophisticated as the three bedroom, two-bath apart-ment I share with my roommates.
For the better part of my time here in Athens, I could not wait to gradu-ate. Now I’m dreading leaving for good.
The importance of planning has never been more apparent than it is right now. Although I am still young, I wish I had more definite plans.
I’m sure many seniors are stressing about what they will do when it’s final-ly over. We ask ourselves if we’re ready to enter the job market or if more school is the way to go.
Take it from me — you don’t want to be in the last months of your final semester of school with no leads. It’s not a good feel-ing.
Many people put mak-ing decisions off until the last minute, but procrasti-nation really should be my
middle name. We seem to have a bond that cannot be broken. Terrible, I know.
I hear horror stories from my recently graduat-ed friends about the bore-dom. I used to tell them they were living the life. Who would not want to sleep in and not have the stress of school on their shoulders?
Some of my friends took a different route and opted to come back to school for a second under-graduate degree.
Graduate school is a great option. It will give me more time to decide exactly what type of writ-ing I want to do. I can also gain more experience to put my hard-earned jour-nalism degree to use.
Who knows, maybe I will go somewhere far, far away from those parental eyes?
Hopefully it will not be as gloomy as I’m predict-ing. My brother did it after all, moved back home after college to get his masters in psychology. He made it out again and is living on his own enjoying his new career. If he can do it, so can I.
I’m looking forward to what the future has in store for me even though I’m not sure where it will take me. I want to make sure my next move will be the best choice.
I should probably start on those applications now.
— Jessica Walker is a senior from East Point
majoring in publication management
JESSICA WALKER
Rent the Runway great for buying dressesFor a sorority girl,
the only thing more important than who
she takes to a date night is what she wears to it.
Seeing the same dress-es again and again in dif-ferent downtown bou-tiques can be daunting — and re-wearing old prom dresses gets old quickly.
“I hate showing up at an event and seeing three other girls wearing the same dress as me that we all just bought on sale at the same boutique,” said junior Meghan Moran.
As a sorority girl, I’m always looking for new outfits that make a state-ment.
This is where Rent the Runway comes in. This website offers formal, semi-formal and casual styles, as well as an array of fabulous, accenting jewelry available for four-day rentals.
Rent the Runway has made a name for itself on the Georgia campus this fall, attracting consumers looking for that perfect dress social life at our No. 1 party school so willingly provides.
Semi-formal hype is up and girls — including myself — are ready to rent.
The recent fall collec-tion contains the perfect solutions for any stressful dress-shopping concerns for this first semester, from the perfect birthday dress to wrap your 21 sign around to the swanky for-mal gown that will be sure to impress.
The website even has a “sort by occasion” option which lets you choose any occasion from “meet the parents” to “fall wed-dings” and “this-is-get-ting-serious dates.” With styles ranging from clas-sic to contemporary, Rent the Runway has fun, glamorous dresses that transform the wearer from college girl to red carpet celebrity.
I am a sucker for their big, chunky necklaces and earrings that serve as
the perfect statement pieces to make your dress pop. The website also allows customers to rent a second size, free of cost — one of my favorite fea-tures. This eliminates any worrying about weight gained from pre-shopping lunches that always results in trips to Ramsey.
Is renting the new shopping? I think so.
Aside from the fact renters do not have to leave their dorm rooms to find the perfect attire, the website is extremely user-friendly.
Simply log in (go to www.renttherunway.com/ugeorgia to avoid the wait list), choose your dress (and second size), choose the four-day date range you plan to rent for, and wait for its arrival; thus leaving you more time to find a date, and to plan overbearing group din-ners.
In addition, it has defi-nitely caught the eye of our increasingly environ-mentally-aware genera-tion. Rent the Runway provides a more green alternative to buying doz-
ens of outfits a year that will only get worn three times and have little to no future use.
No, your sequined mini-skirt you’ve tired of is not suitable for re-wear by the homeless.
Regardless of my wardrobe’s exponential growth each year, it never seems to hold anything for the occasion.
Rent the Runway pro-vides the perfect means of constantly replenishing my styles. This year, rath-er than bustling around downtown or making trips to Atlanta’s Lenox Mall, my friends and I sat around for 20 minutes on our laptops — cocktails and credit cards in hand — and picked out our dresses together online.
I cannot wait for my Champagne Fountain Dress by Haute Hippie to come in for my semi-for-mal in two weeks.
No dress swaps will be necessary this year.
— Hannah Alexander is a junior from Smyrna majoring in advertising
and Spanish
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VARIETY The Red & Black | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 | 5
Old Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin was poisoned, shot, stabbed and drowned. After all that, he finally died. It is no surprise that a beer named after him would be equally bad-ass.
Old Rasputin comes to us lovely students by way of North Coast Brewing Company.
This beer falls under the style of Russian Imperial Stout; a style originally made in Britain, but received its name because it was exported to Russia.
Old Rasputin is an apt name for this beer, and not just because its namesake and style share a common geography.
Old Rasputin is as black as the soul of the “Mad Monk” himself, sporting an opaque black body and a thick chocolate-milk-shake-like head.
No light will penetrate this beer.Boasting a powerful aroma of coffee, chocolate and
dark fruits, the taste bursts with all these amazing fla-vors dancing around the palate, putting you under a spell as if you were a hemophilic heir to the Russian Empire (another history joke).
For those of you out there who know your stouts, Old Rasputin has a trick up its sleeve. It is surprisingly bit-ter for the style with a nice hop character at its finish.
Now, I know what many of you are thinking, “Zack, I don’t like dark beer. Also, your beard is more amazing than Rasputin’s ever was.”
To this I say, “Thank you for the compliment, but you’re going to have to learn to trust me about dark beers.”
There are many beers out there, and some of the best I have ever tried were the color and consistency of used motor oil. Don’t make me have to put you under a spell to drink these beers, do yourself a favor and try this damn beer!
Rasputin was known to be strangely intoxicating due to his mystique and his large “presence” (which, accord-ing to legend is still preserved in a glass jar). Old Rasputin is just as mysterious and big as the real thing, boasting an alcohol content of nine percent.
Buyer beware — this beer might just intoxicate all who dare lock lips with an Old Rasputin.
— Zack Taylor
drink up!
Photo Courtesy of StayThirstyBlog
listen up!It’s a rather sad day
when you begin to under-stand why the vast majori-ty opt for “rocking out” to the same Katy Perry song 12 times on the radio over a venture away from the mainstream music indus-try’s playlist.
With its monotonous drone of stereotypical indie innovation, Meligrove Band’s most recently released album, “Shimmering Lights,” would justifiably send many a brave soul fleeing back to Justin Beiber’s consoling melodies.
Set to a backdrop of less-than-harmonious horns, the opening song, “Ghosts at My Back,” sets a weak “The O.C.” sound-track wannabe tone des-tined to pervade through the remainder of the album.
One would expect the next song to progress towards a touch more tuneful tact … except it merely reiterates the ini-tial theme of rather harsh-ly obnoxious instrumen-tals and hooks covering a lack of lyrical substance or vocal capacity.
Moments into “Make Believe It” suggests per-haps these Toronto boys just recently managed to get their hands on a syn-thesizer and simply forgot about superfluous details such as lyrics, melody and pitch in the midst of their excitement.
On a slightly more opti-mistic note, “White Like Lies” proves it is in fact possible to simultaneously be excruciatingly whiny and yet void of any recog-nizable human emotion. Who knew?
The album boasts a condonable attempt at the creative sound signa-tures of The Killers, The Shins and Beck; however, Meligrove Band, in all actuality, exhibits about as much originality as a pine tree in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
An attention-demand-ing title, a relatively catchy piano accompani-ment and a refreshingly harmonious rhythm dis-tinguish one of the final tracks, “Bones Attack!!,” as the band’s strongest prospect for landing a spot on any Cali-based
semi-soap opera sound-tracks in the near future.
Causing listeners to unconsciously grit their teeth is generally not a desired goal in putting out a CD, yet by the closing song, I found myself with a dull aching in my jaw.
At least this final track emits a vibe of what one might consider … anger? Which is more than can be said for preceding soulless noise.
In all fairness, “Shimmering Lights” is not what I would consider a musical atrocity by any means.
Meligrove Band’s array of electronic-based noises smashed against careless guitar riffs probably makes for much more appropriate background music in a bar, rather than for jamming in your car.
— Darcy Lenz
Meligrove Band — “Shimmering Lights”
6 | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 | The Red & Black VARIETY
By ADAM CARLSONTHE RED & BLACK
Get ready to move like it’s 1895: belly dancing is back — or, more precisely, rising in popular-ity.
“We get everyone,” said Christy Fricks, owner of local dance studio Floorspace.
Young or old, Athenian women seem fascinated by the dance, she said.
Of course, that may have a lit-tle something to do with the cal-ories burned by the hip-swinging choreography.
“I think for a lot of women, it feels like a fun way to get in shape,” Fricks said.
The dance is also distinct as a method of exercise for another reason — it doesn’t require
immediate physical prowess to attempt.
“You don’t have to be a fit 20-year-old,” Fricks said.
Having taken over the studio in March, Fricks — who’s been a dance instructor for 15 years — began expanding the selection of belly dancing classes Floorspace offered.
Now, the total is three: tribal, Egyptian and tribal-improv.
Together, they are by far the most popular classes Floorspace offers.
“I get wonderful feedback,” Fricks said.
One possible explanation is the ease with which the basic steps are introduced.
“You don’t have to do this perfect technique,” Fricks said of the beginning classes. “It’s more
about having fun.”The earliest sessions begin by
demonstrating the basic belly dancing steps as well as simple combinations.
After the first few weeks, Fricks said, students should be able to do a little belly dancing themselves.
From there, the instruction grows more complicated.
The most advanced instruc-tion available at Floorspace does, unlike in the beginners’
classes, focus on strong tech-nique.
Additionally, the classes offer something slightly exotic, in con-trast to other high-energy, high-strung exercise classes.
“It also has a very earthy appeal,” Fricks said.
In keeping with that, the attendees’ first introduction to belly dancing isn’t set to the typ-ical Middle Eastern rhythms — it’s set to Top 40.
The studio’s instructors work to be sure that all dance students are comfortable in the space, and also in their own bod-ies.
“We make a lot of jokes in class,” Fricks said.
Above all, instruction is driv-en by a philosophy of accessibili-ty, of reaching as many interest-
ed people as possible.In one sense, so far,
Floorspace has been quite suc-cessful.
“The majority of the women reflect the Athens population,” Fricks said.
More broadly, though, the studio’s work is succeeding in Athens in a slightly more reso-nant way.
“We have a lot of unique danc-es geared to any experience level,” Fricks said.
And the women who have found themselves attending — and then belly dancing with a class of three or 15 or 18 other people — have been quite ready to share how much that open-ness mattered.
“They say it’s changed their lives,” Fricks said.
Dust off the finger cymbals and prepare to dance
By MELISSA COHENTHE RED & BLACK
The week before Thanksgiving break is tough.
Professors are busy squeezing in last-minute assignments, papers and exams, and students are slowly becoming detached, craving turkey, mashed potatoes and football more and more by the minute.
A fun, convenient and philan-thropic recess from the hectic week can be spent tonight at Legion Field as Promote Africa puts on a battle of the bands. The entire event goes to a great cause, and the winner gets to play at AthFest 2011.
“Promote Africa works to empower individual African communities by supporting and funding developmental pro-grams that directly benefit the people,” said Jenna Ziesenhene, a senior international affairs and psychology major from Warner Robins and a member of Promote Africa.
The grants given through var-ious groups within Promote Africa are called Big Idea Grants.
The Greek Ambassador’s Program is hosting the Battle of the Bands, and its Big Idea is focused on funding a Ugandan beekeeping farm.
Appropriately, the show is
being promoted to “Bee a solu-tion. Battle poverty.”
Rachel Von Waldow, a junior finance and international busi-ness major from Pittsburg, is the leader of the Greek Ambassador’s program for Promote Africa.
“What we do is pursue proj-ects that promote community betterment with ways people in those communities can partici-pate in deciding how,” Von Waldow said. “A good example of that is in Namibia. A group of women who make the pvc bracelets are set up with mar-kets in the U.S. to sell the bracelets. This allows them to have a much more steady income.”
These affordable bangle-esque bracelets made of PVC pipes are sold in various sizes on campus via members of Promote Africa.
“I love my bracelets,”
Ziesenhene said. “They are all unique, and the concept is one I truly support — not only are they environmentally friendly, but all profits are sent directly to the disadvantaged artists.”
In addition to selling artwork and jewelry made in African nations, Promote Africa turns to music-centric promotional and
fundraising events in Athens.“I actually performed in the
benefit concert they had at Herty field last year, and it was a great turnout,” said Hannah Toland, a sophomore from Warner Robins majoring in mass media arts and music business.
Toland and her band, The Sunlight Alchemists, are one of
seven bands competing tonight.“We just started this year in
August and we’re mostly from Atlanta,” Toland said. “We are pretty rock-based and we write our own stuff. I’m working with all guys, which can be challeng-ing at times with keeping every-one focused and not jamming the whole time.”
Legion Field show to fund Uganda bee farm
Photo Courtesy of The Sunlight Alchemists
Based out of Atlanta, The Sunlight Alchemists is one of seven bands performing tonight at Promote Africa’s Battle of the Bands. The winning band plays AthFest 2011.
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The Japanese puzzle Sudoku relies on reason-ing and logic.
To solve it, fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3 by 3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.
Nothing has to add up to anything else.
Previous puzzle’s solution
By MICHAEL FITZPATRICKTHE RED & BLACK
Mark Fox wasn’t happy with his
team’s effort for the first 35 minutes of Friday’s win over Mississippi Valley State.
He was, however, happy with the result, but knows his team must play a more complete game when it takes on Colorado at 7 p.m. in Stegeman Coliseum.
“We didn’t want to be in that situ-ation, but we just didn’t play well enough to be in a different position,” Fox, Georgia’s men’s basketball coach, said. “But in hindsight, even though we didn’t play as well as I would like us to play, I felt there were things we could take from it.”
One of those things was the play of senior forward Jeremy Price, who scored 20 points, many of them in the last four minutes to lead the Bulldogs to a win.
Price stepped up in the absence of junior forward Trey Thompkins and made several big shots when the Bulldogs desperately needed points.
“He really stepped up like you would expect as an upperclassman,” Fox said. “I wish he had done it before there were four minutes left in the game, but at least he did it.”
“It felt good,” Price added. “It felt good to be out there as much as I was and to make some big plays at crunch time. It was a great confi-dence booster.”
What made the night sweeter for Price was that when Fox arrived in Athens prior to last season, Price and Fox constantly butted heads — about everything.
And now?“Oh it’s like night and day,” Fox
said. “Jeremy is a man now. He is a zero-issue guy right now and we probably butted heads hourly when I first came here. I told him my head was harder than his and he’s really grown as a person and I’m proud of him for that and I think that’s the maturity he showed during the game.”
Once Price finally got on board with Fox’s plan, he said he felt his confidence improve drastically, because he felt the coaching staff supported him and exuded confi-dence in his game.
“I did a lot of growing up and a lot of maturing and I became a lot more confident in my game and had a lot more consistency in my game,” Price said. “The coaches have a ton of confidence in me and even believed some stuff that I don’t believe. They’d tell me to get better each day and to never be satisfied. Never be satisfied.”
For Price’s teammates, Friday’s performance was not surprising. They almost expected it.
“He played the way we always knew he was capable of and I think he’s gonna have a breakout year,” said junior guard Dustin Ware.
Despite the slim margin of victory for Friday’s game, the team at large felt it took more positives from the game than negatives, and it plans to build on them against the Colorado Buffaloes.
“It built a lot of confidence for the whole team,” said junior guard Gerald Robinson. “Even though it’s important to believe in ourselves, it’s even more important to believe in each other, and I think that will help us go a long way and to believe that we can make big plays down the stretch, that will help us go far.”
They will need that confidence against Colorado, a team that likes to play a similar perimeter game
that nearly killed the Bulldogs on Friday.
Sophomore guard Alec Burks and senior guard Cory Higgins can be deadly from behind the 3-point arc, and Fox said his team’s perimeter defense — which allowed Mississippi Valley State to shoot 58.8 percent from distance — and rebounding must improve.
Mississippi Valley State out-rebounded Georgia 41-31 and the Bulldogs only came away with nine offensive boards.
Ware said improvement is as sim-ple as just playing a complete game.
“We have to come out and be more ready to play than we were on Friday,” he said. “Colorado is a great team and we have to come out hard and battle and be ready to play.”
Thompkins out for tonight’s game
Thompkins, who is still recover-ing from a sprained ankle, will miss his second straight game tonight, unless, of course, Fox receives “miraculous news.”
“[His recovery has] plateaued a bit,” Fox said. “We haven’t seen the progress we would like, but he hasn’t practiced and hasn’t been cleared to practice. Unless I receive miraculous news in the next five minutes, he’s not going to practice today, and if he doesn’t practice, he’s not gonna play. If there’s a time ... for it to hap-pen, it’s now, but we have some tough games on the schedule and we gotta get him back.”
Fox said it “would not be unreal-istic” to expect Thompkins back in the lineup for the Old Spice Classic in Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 25 when the Dogs face the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame.
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MAX BEECHING | The Red & Black
Forward Jeremy Price (50) delivered in the key moments of Georgia’s 72-70 victory over Mississippi Valley State, and will look to do the same in the Bulldogs’ game versus Colorado.
By MICHAEL FITZPATRICKTHE RED & BLACK
After taking several bru-
tal late hits during the football team’s loss to Auburn on Saturday, quar-terback Aaron Murray has been diagnosed with a bruised knee and a bruised sternum.
The redshirt freshman’s status is day-to-day, according to Georgia’s director of sports medicine Ron Courson.
Throughout Saturday’s contest, Murray was the recipient of late and vio-lent hits from Auburn defensive lineman Nick Fairley, the last of which occurred when Fairley dove helmet-first into Murray’s right knee late in the fourth quarter. The play eventually led to fist-a-cuffs on the field and to the ejection of Tigers’ defensive linemen Mike Blanc and Michael Goggans. Both players are suspended for the first half of Auburn’s upcoming game against Alabama the day after Thanksgiving.
Murray took a couple of late shots in the first quarter when Fairley appeared to drive the Georgia quar-terback into the ground. In the sec-ond quarter, he also hit Murray in the back well after Murray released the ball and was flagged for roughing the passer.
Auburn’s Chizik maintains silence regarding Newton
In keeping with a policy Auburn adopted last week, Tigers’ head coach Gene Chizik maintained he will not be commenting on any off-the-field issues sur-rounding Heisman Trophy hopeful quarterback Cam Newton.
The last couple of weeks, allegations have been swirling regarding Newton’s academic stand-ing at the University of Florida two years ago and, more significantly, that Newton’s father Cecil solic-ited a six-figure sum from Mississippi State in exchange for his son’s commitment to play there.
Mississippi State did confirm it contacted the SEC regarding Newton’s recruitment and former quarterback John Bond, who confirmed a man seeking money for Newton’s signature approached him, is meet-ing with the FBI today.
The FBI is interested not only in Newton’s situation, but if other college-eligible athletes are being shopped out to colleges.
While it is not known if Cecil Newton solicited — or received — money from Auburn, if the school paid the Newtons for Cam’s commitment then he could be found ineligible by the NCAA.
Consequently, Auburn would be forced to vacate all of its wins this season and Georgia would be
credited with a win on the Plains Saturday.
Green nominated as semifinalist for national award
For the second straight season, junior wide out A.J. Green has been named one of the 10 semifinalists for the Biletnikoff Award, annually given to the top collegiate wide receiver.
Despite missing the first four games due to suspension, Green has caught 41 passes for 674 yards and nine touch-downs.
He had three games this season with more than 100 receiving yards, with his best com-ing Saturday against Auburn.
He caught a career-high nine passes for a season-high 164 yards and
two touchdowns helping stake the Bulldogs to a 21-7 lead in the second quarter. Green’s presence in the lineup has helped the Georgia offense score 30 or more points in six consecutive games for the first time in school history.
The finalists for the award will be announced on Nov. 22 and will be pre-sented live on ESPN on Dec. 9.
Game time against Georgia Tech set
For the first time at home this season, Georgia won’t be kicking off at noon. ESPN announced today the Nov. 27 game between Georgia and in-state rival Georgia Tech will kickoff at 7:45 p.m. between the hedges.
The game will be Georgia’s second appear-ance on ESPN this season — the Sept. 18 game against then-No. 12 Arkansas being the other.
The Bulldogs (5-6) will need a victory over the Yellow Jackets to become bowl-eligible.
Murray day-to-day with minor injuries
FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
Senior steps up in star’s absence
NEWTON
MURRAY
GEORGIA vs. COLORADO
When: Tonight at 7Where: Stegeman ColliseumPrice: $2 for students
THE PRICE IS RIGHT (ON TIME)
2007-08: Named to the SEC All-Freshman team after averaging 8.1 points and 4.4 rebounds per game in 34 games.
2008-09: Started 10 games for the Bulldogs, averaging 5.1 points per game.
2009-10: Key player off the bench last season, averaging 8.2 per game in SEC play.
2010-11: Came up big in the first game of the season, scoring eight of his 20 points in the final four minutes of the win over Mississippi Valley State.
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“Whether Michelle draws the best horse or the worst horse, she is always out to win her point,” she said. “Regardless of the horse she is on, she always holds her head high and makes the best of the situation.”
While the hard work she has put in since she began riding as an 8-year-old has paid off in a number of accolades — both individually and for the team — recognition for the sport from the general public has been sparse.
The prevailing opinion from outsiders, Boenig said, is that it takes very little work on the part of the rider to find success on the horse.
“All too often, there’s an assumption that the horse is doing all the work,” she said. “That’s not true. Michelle isn’t successful because of the particular horse she is riding, she’s successful because she knows how to control it and perform her routine.”
The exception to this lack of attention, for Morris, came in May of this year when she was featured in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” section, an experience that she describes as “surreal.”
Morris was quick to note that it was a vic-tory not only for herself, but for the sport as a whole.
“I couldn’t believe it was in the magazine because equestrian is just one of those sports that are overlooked,” Morris said. “But getting that kind of recognition is awesome for eques-trian. The more it gains recognition, the more schools will start to join it, and that’s just great.”
St. Hilaire also stressed the importance of this kind of attention for their sport.
“When we see an article on us, we all think it’s pretty cool,” she said. “Since it’s an emerg-ing sport, the sport as a whole needs all the publicity it can get. For our team specifically, it means a lot because it verifies that Georgia equestrian has a standard of excellence.”
And Morris intends to continue this stan-dard of excellence going forward.
“I want to maintain my consistency,” Morris said. “I think that’s the hardest thing to do in any sport. But I feel like if I can go in and just do my job every time — control what I can control and not focus on the other things — everything else will fall into place on their own.”
So far, so good.
MORRIS: Hard work results in recognition for equestrian
FRANCES MICKLOW | The Red & Black
Michelle Morris helped capture Georgia equestrian’s fifth national title in the spring, winning the sport’s first-ever ride-off in the championship round. Since the team’s victory, and her individual national title on the Flat, Morris was named to Sports Illustrated’s ‘Faces in the Crowd’ section for her accomplishments.
BY THE NUMBERSGeorgia’s Equestrian Team
5Team national titles
since 2003
63All-time
dual-meet wins
4Individual national
champions in the past
two years
67Student-athletes
on the Georgia
equestrian roster
50Horses used for
competitive events