BY MITCH BLOMERTTHE RED & BLACK

Another scare, another win.After seeing a dominant lead disintegrate to a tied

game at halftime, the Georgia men’s basketball team fought back in the second half to win 83-74 against Colorado on Tuesday at Stegeman Coliseum.

The Bulldogs (2-0) went to the locker room tied 33-33 with Colorado after leading by as much as 17 points in the first half. However, the Bulldogs fended

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By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

There are 1,418 University employees who were almost out of jobs for Fiscal Year 2011.

The affected offices were spread all over the state, from the President’s Office on North Campus to the Bamboo Farm & Coastal Gardens in Savannah. The positions to be cut were on the list of proposed cuts given to the Board of Regents in February as part of a system-wide $300

million budget reduction.“None of that ever transpired,”

said Tim Burgess, vice president for finance and administration. “The University as a whole has not had any direct layoffs. We have not had an employee lose their job as a direct result of the budget cuts.”

However, just because no one was laid off does not mean facul-ty and staff were not affected by the budget reductions.

“This FY11 got aggravated,” Burgess said. “Just within a few

days of the fiscal year starting, we got word from the Governor’s Office we would need to make additional cuts.”

The University already had a number of positions that could not be filled because of money problems in FY10, and the latest cuts didn’t help matters.

“You name it, we’ve done it, to absorb what for us has been about $180 million,” said University President Michael Adams. “We have done a big por-tion of that by not filling these

600 positions or so because the most expensive thing at the University of Georgia is labor. So we have had to make hard deci-sions about what we could fill and what we couldn’t fill, and that’s what we’ve done.”

Hundreds of vacancies

“What’s been the biggest impact with those cuts is it has stymied hiring,” Burgess said. “We’re up to hundreds of vacant positions. A good number of

those are on the staff side but we have some on the faculty side as well.”

See CUTS, Page 2

University not affected by direct layoffs

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Maurice Snook will be offering Athens residents the chance to see the celestial.

Privacy rights may be violated

By MARIANA HEREDIATHE RED & BLACK

Various University stu-dents were caught in the midst of the case between Deszo Benedek, a compara-tive literature professor at the University, and the administration.

The students were accused of submitting fraudulent transcripts to the adminis-tration concerning Benedek’s Maymester in Budapest pro-gram, accord-ing to Stephen Humphreys , who success-fully defended Benedek in a case that attempted to revoke his tenure.

Earlier this month, the hearing committee and the University officially announced their decision to allow Benedek to keep his tenure.

Benedek was accused of violating Board of Regents’ policies by misleading stu-dents about whether or not his study abroad program was University-affiliated and HOPE-supported. He was also charged with violating conflict of interest policies by promoting a program which he directed.

In the case against Benedek, the University attempted to prove Benedek’s long-running study abroad program was not valid. In this attempt, the University sent student tran-scripts to four credit evalua-tion agencies. The transcripts included personal identifying information such as names and Social Security Numbers, Humphreys said.

See BENEDEK, Page 3

BENEDEK

President Michael Adams said the University had to absorb $180 million in budget cuts.

By SHAWN JARRARDTHE RED & BLACK

Between Uranus and the moon, plenty will be on dis-play in tonight’s sky — hope-fully.

“This’ll be the fall star watch, in which we’ll be looking at craters on the moon, the large planet Jupiter, Uranus and

Neptune, provided that the weather cooperates,” said Maurice Snook, a self-described “dedicated ama-teur astronomer.”

Snook is a member of the Athens Astronomical Association, the group that will be helping Sandy Creek conduct its “Night of the Giant Planets.”

“For about 20 years, the Athens Astronomical Association, which is a pret-ty loose group of only about a couple of us — we used to be pretty active, 50 members or more, but now there’s only about two or three of us — we’ve helped Sandy Creek host their star watches about four times a year,” Snook said.

One of the main attrac-tions of the night will be Jupiter and its four largest moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto — named “Galilean” for their

discoverer.“On Jupiter you can, of

course, see the cloud bands, and the four giant Galilean satellites,” Snook said. “One of the satellites will be behind Jupiter, and we will watch it come out from behind. These moons of Jupiter, because of the incli-nation of their orbits, they lie right in a plane with us. So instead of seeing them go around Jupiter in a circle, we see them go back and forth because we’re seeing it edge

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Gerald Robinson (22, above left) and Chris Barnes (4, above) helped lead the way in Georgia’s 83-74 victory over Colorado.

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If the first two games of this basketball sea-son have taught us

anything about Georgia basketball it’s this: The players are a resilient bunch.

Through the first six minutes of its 83-74 victo-ry Tuesday night, Georgia appeared poised to run Colorado out of Stegeman Coliseum and all the way back to Boulder, Colo.

The Bulldogs jumped out to a 20-8 lead while

shooting 80 percent from the floor and held the Buffaloes to a dismal 15.3 percent (2-for-13). Georgia shared the bas-ketball — had six assists on the eight made shots

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Three individuals were charged with unlawful sale of an alcoholic beverage to a minor during a series of enforcement checks using Athens-Clarke County underage operatives, according to Athens-Clarke County police reports.

The operatives used their actual IDs.

Sheyna Krystal Hopkins, 26, was cited after selling alcohol to underage operatives at Country Rock at around 10 p.m. on Nov. 11, accord-ing to police reports.

On Nov. 13, student Abigail Rose Murphy, 18, was cited after selling Corona beer to underage operatives while bartend-ing at Reds Tavern.

Kyle Veitch, 26, was also cited while bartending at Roadhouse bar, according to police reports.

Student charged with financial transaction card fraud

A warrant was released Monday for a University student connected to a financial card transaction fraud, according to a University Police report.

The warrant was issued for University student Patrick Allen Robbins, who is charged with finan-cial card transaction fraud.

The charge is connect-ed to a report filed Nov. 10 by a student who reported that on Oct. 19 her credit card number was used to make a purchase worth $97 at the University Health Center, according to the report.

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Copyright infringement may not be the first thing on students’ minds when they post on their blogs, but they might need to be more cautious with their work in the future.

Last month, according to Time magazine, a publi-cation called Cooks Source magazine published a story about apple pie that a food blogger named Monica Gaudio had post-ed on her blog.

Cooks Source credited Gaudio in the byline, but did not ask her permission to publish the work. When Gaudio wrote to the publi-cation, Cooks Source’s editor Judith Griggs told Gaudio the Internet was “public domain” and she should be happy Cooks Source edited and pub-lished her work free of charge.

William Lee, a professor of mass communication law, disagrees with Griggs’ claims that the Internet is public domain and that publications have the right to publish another per-son’s work without per-mission.

“This is a clear-cut copyright violation,” he said. “The editor of Cooks Source is completely out to lunch in her response.”

Lee said even if the magazine credited Gaudio as the author of the story, her story’s copyright was still violated.

As soon as work is fixed in a tangible medium — when it is written, posted to a blog or captured in a picture — it becomes copy-righted.

“That’s sort of like tell-ing people, ‘This crack came from Ed.’ Well, big deal. It’s still illegal to have that crack,” Lee said.

To prevent a situation similar to Gaudio’s, Lee said students should regis-ter their work with the U.S. Copyright Office and post copyright notices on the work they publish on their blog.

Though the notice is not necessary for a work to be copyrighted, it is helpful to warn potential

violators that the work is copyrighted.

“Unfortunately, I think students have been trained in many bad ways about copyright, because they grew up with Napster and other forms of illegal file sharing,” Lee said. “The ease of duplication doesn’t eliminate the need to be vigilant in protecting your copyrights and to respect the copyrights of others.”

Melissa Buckman, a junior from Alpharetta, has had her blog, “Screw You, I’m Hilarious,” since last January. The blog has developed a strong reader-ship, and in May was fea-tured on stumbleupon.com, which Buckman said caused an extra several thousand people to view her blog.

“It was a pretty dinky little blog for the first four months, and then that happened, and it got almost 1,000 views in one day,” she said.

On a normal day, Buckman said her blog has between 30 and 60 views, and lately, she has

had around 120. She said she has

thought about copyright issues regarding her blog before, because her mom writes a monthly opinions column for the Atlanta Journal - Const itut ion. Buckman has talked to her mom about copyright infringement because her mom has had her work posted and discussed on other websites.

“She has expressed concern for me that if I keep doing what I’m doing, the same type of thing will happen,” Buckman said.

Buckman said right now she wouldn’t consider registering the work on her blog and posting a copyright notice, because her blog does not have a large enough readership for her to consider copy-right infringement a threat.

“I just don’t think that it’s got enough attention for me to really consider it at risk,” she said. “In a hypothetical situation, where I’m getting 60,000 views per day as opposed

to 60, that would definitely be something I would look into.”

Randall Bourquin, a senior from Suwanee, said he doesn’t think posting a copyright notice on his blog is necessary, since he doesn’t blog professionally. Bourquin’s blog, “Sorry For Staring,” is a compila-tion of humorous events he witnesses throughout the day.

“I never really consid-ered it,” he said. “It seems very strange to me that someone would steal con-tent off a blog for another outlet.”

Bourquin said he would consider posting a copy-right notice on his blog if he posted something that he worked extensively on and was worried that someone might take it without his permission.

“In the future if I wrote something that was kind of universal in nature, and thought it could be taken and distributed widely, I guess I would copyright that, in light of recent events,” he said.

Bloggers question copyright issues

MICHAEL HARRIS | The Red & Black

Junior Melissa Buckman writes and maintains the blog ‘Screw You, I’m Hilarious.’ She said she has considered copyright issues online.

CUTS: Staff members critical for campus

From Page 1

In the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences — which originally was slated to lose 311 jobs — the administration did all it could to keep employees.

“Most faculty positions that have been lost were mainly through retirement, but we’ve had a couple people leave for taking other jobs, one or two peo-ple leaving for not getting tenure — all of these posi-tions have been held open,” said Scott Angle, CAES dean. “They may or may not be filled in the future … but just because a posi-tion was vacant doesn’t mean we’ll fill it in the exact same area.”

Angle’s senti-ments echo many of those throughout campus.

“We have a cou-ple of positions that are vacant right now but these are not a result of the bud-get reductions,” said Rodney Bennett, vice pres-ident for student affairs, whose units could have lost 12 positions. “I think any time you’re going through a budget situation you should look at vacant positions. I’m not saying we would leave them vacant but I would ask, ‘What would the impact be if these positions weren’t filled?’”

Burgess said the limited ability of departments to hire faculty and staff has reached a crucial point.

“What the president has tried to project is we’ve reached a critical mini-mum level of faculty,” he said. “The president said, ‘We’ve kind of gone too far and we need to start delib-erately looking at how we can hire more faculty.’”

Burgess said the hiring initiatives Adams and the administration began in August are helping, but in some aspects of their jobs, employees are suffering.

“What it’s caused is a general decline in respon-sibilities of procurement actions. We buy hundreds of things on this campus and buying things is very regulated,” Burgess said. “It’s like throwing sand into the gears of a machine — it still works, but it doesn’t do it that quick.”

He said another way faculty feel the effects of the budget cuts involves the way they do their jobs. With so many staff posi-tions being gone, Burgess said professors are spend-

ing more time on adminis-trative tasks, which eats into them being able to do what the public feels is their actual responsibility.

Units that report direct-ly to the President’s Office could have lost seven posi-tions, according to the FY11 proposed budget, but Adams said he only knows of four positions that remain open — those were the results of people leaving the system.

“That’s how we’ve lived for the past two years,” he said. “I doubt there is a department here that does

not have some story like that.”

The cuts that hurt

David Lee, vice president for research, and the units under his lead-ership could have lost 20 positions if the proposed cuts had gone through.

“I think we were talking about eliminating the Technology Transfer Operations, which is where most of those 20 positions were located,” he said, adding this was one of the top such offices in the nation.

Lee said this depart-ment was not eliminated, but a smaller graphics office was. One employee from this office was re-assigned to the informa-tion technology depart-ment, and another left. This office, however, was targeted to be cut before FY11.

He said he doesn’t want to think about what hap-pens if the budget in FY12 is worse.

“There is no fat left,” he said. “We’ll have to cut those programs further and possibly consider clos-ing more offices. We really do not have anything that we consider a real luxury … If we’re forced to [cut the Technology Transfer Operations], that’s a real negative to the University and it would take us a long time to recover from that.”

Adams said he did not want to speculate on the FY12 budget because of many unknown variables, but said his top priorities included protecting faculty and staff from layoffs.

“We have to have lab people, we have to have people who keep up with chemicals, we have to have police officers,” Adams said. “If we fired all of the staff members, it probably wouldn’t solve all of our problems. And clearly we have to have staff people.”

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Although Tuesday’s Student Government Association did not intend to talk about the possible Israel resolution, the issue still came up for discussion when Clark Fortson, a former University student and Athens resident, asked about it.

Fortson asked Senator Katie Black if SGA took a different procedure or gave more time for discussion when it came to such perplexing issues. Fortson cited the Israel resolution as an exam-ple.

Black answered that senators proposing the resolution may talk about it amongst them-selves, but that it may not be brought up during meetings until the Rules Committee deems it for the floor.

Fortson said although he was not a student anymore, the issue still interested him.

“I was intrigued by what I read. I wanted to find out more. I’m not sure if I got the answers I was looking for,” Fortson said.

Nevertheless, he also men-tioned SGA adviser Ed Mirecki spoke to him after the meeting and said SGA is reconsidering the resolution.

During the meeting, SGA also passed several resolutions includ-ing one that would give freshmen students the option to volunteer

as part of the First Year Odyssey Seminar program.

The resolution is in support of allowing freshmen students to replace one of the required events, which are supposed to get first-year students more involved with the University, for some hours of community ser-vice in the Athens area.

Additionally, SGA passed a

resolution in support of allowing students to reschedule some of their finals if they have three or more finals on the same day.

Further, the senators and Freshman Board also passed a resolution addressing the with-drawal policy as it relates to sus-pended students.

The reasoning behind the res-olution was to look further into

the cases of students taking 15 hours who have been suspended and would automatically fail at least one class since University students are only allotted four withdrawals.

SGA also passed a resolution that would officially make the Okefenokee Oar the official stu-dent body trophy of the Georgia/Florida football classic.

From Page 1

Humphreys contacted the University in the name of the students whose transcripts were in question.

Humphreys said one of the students, upon learning of the allegations by the University, requested any documents that might have information about his tran-scripts in an open records request.

Humphreys said the University replied by saying that these documents did not exist and that the student should contact Noel Fallows, associate dean in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, for further information.

Humphreys was unable to say whether the student con-tacted Fallows or not, and The Red & Black was unable to contact the student for any comments.

Additionally, Humphreys said when his firm made the same open records request, the University replied by say-ing they could not release the documents due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

Humphreys said he thought the University gave an improper response.

“It is an unusual response to say that no documents exist when those documents should exist,” he said. “Also, the student was directed to discuss the matter with the author of the documents. That’s putting a student in a very intimidating situation.”

Tom Jackson, vice presi-dent of public affairs, said the University was unable to pro-vide a representative to dis-cuss the matter with The Red & Black. He said discussing such information would be a violation of student rights under FERPA.

Humphreys also said the student involved attempted to contact President Michael Adams directly.

“I know the student did not contact the Dean, but he did write directly to President Adams in protesting violation of privacy rights and protest-ing failure to follow the Open Records Act and protesting fact that he was basically defamed when UGA implied he committed academic fraud,” he said.

Humphreys said the stu-dent received no response from Adams.

Additionally, Humphreys said his firm tried to address this matter with the adminis-tration, the Board of Regents, the Office of Legal Affairs and the Attorney General, but he has received no response.

JULIANNE UPCHURCH | The Red & Black

SGA Senator Cameron Secord speaks about a resolution regarding volunteering for freshmen. The government group met Tuesday evening to discuss University issues.

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By BRIANA GERDEMANTHE RED & BLACK

An SGA resolution that would have declared University students’ support for Israel did not face a vote at Tuesday night’s SGA meeting. Instead, the resolution was withdrawn after students and student groups raised objections.

The resolution garnered “overwhelming criticism” from students and SGA members, said Nate Christensen, president of Athens for Justice in Palestine.

Regardless of personal opinions of Israel, some students were alarmed that SGA attempted to endorse one opinion on a politi-cally divisive issue. Some were also concerned that it would further limit free speech on campus.

“There are serious concerns about what kind of implications it would have for free speech on campus,” Christensen said. Although AJP wasn’t mentioned by name in the resolution, he said it “certainly was tar-

geting our group and other groups and indi-viduals that are like us.”

Anush Vinod, one of the SGA senators who originally sponsored the resolution, said it was not intended to alienate students who disagreed, but to demonstrate the importance of SGA.

“We felt that this would push the organization forward, and we felt that this would get people talking and thinking about what SGA does,” he said. “A lot of senators did feel quite passionately about this issue and thought a lot of their constituents felt the same.”

Vinod said he was glad the proposed resolution had encouraged students to get involved and express their opinions, but he was “satisfied” with the decision made to withdraw the reso-lution.

He said he hadn’t intended for the resolu-tion to cause a political debate, and he felt

there were other issues SGA wanted to focus on.

“Since this didn’t directly affect the stu-dents … we felt that there were some other things that needed first priority,” he said. “We all have many other projects and resolutions that we need to be working on.”

Although said he didn’t know the reasons the resolution was withdrawn, SGA president Josh Delaney said he thought the decision was a “smart choice.”

“From hearing a little bit about what they were looking to do, I think it was a smart decision to withdraw it, because I don’t think it was going to accomplish whatever they wanted to accomplish with the debate that was starting to brew,” he said.

The co-presidents of Dawgs for Israel, Lauren Light and Leslie Herskowitz, wrote in an e-mail statement, “Dawgs for Israel sup-ports a peaceful resolution that sees a Jewish state of Israel side by side an Arab state of Palestine, with peace and security for both nations.”

Decision to nix SGA Israel document deemed good choice

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Grades went unchecked. Assignments went uncom-pleted. PowerPoint notes went un-reviewed.

On Thursday afternoon, eLearning Commons became inaccessible to University students and faculty.

According to Greg Ashley, technology officer for Enterprise Information Technology Services, prob-lems with the program began in October, but EITS professionals were able to restart the system and get eLC back online.

The program experi-enced problems through-out last week, and on Thursday, the site crashed and was offline until early Sunday morning.

Ashley said the failure was caused by a problem in eLC’s file system.

“It’s a pretty complex issue, and it took some time to diagnose it,” he said. “We ultimately replaced that file system with another file system over the weekend and restored data back to that new file system.”

Ashley said he can’t remember an outage of the previous program, WebCT, or eLC that lasted as long as the recent eLC failure.

“When we architect these systems, we know how extremely critical they are to the mission of the University,” he said. “Historically, WebCT and then eLC have been up over 99.9 percent of the time, so we’ve had very few issues or failures around the systems.”

Ashley said the problem was not preventable, but he is confident the new file system will prevent similar problems from occurring in the near future.

“We’re confident that we’ve fixed that issue,” he said. “Moving forward, we’re always looking for ways to strengthen our sys-tems and increase their availability.”

Paula Lemons, an assis-tant professor of biology, said the eLC outage caused her to postpone a test for her introductory biology class that was originally scheduled for last Thursday.

When eLC was experi-encing sporadic outages last week, Lemons said her students were unable to access the materials need-ed to study for the test.

“I had uploaded all my lecture outlines and clicker questions and feedback that I give to students about work they turned into eLC — and all that is pertinent to their study-ing,” she said.

Lemons said the outage affected the lecture sched-ule for her class. She did not have enough time to develop a lecture for Thursday in place of the test, so the lecture she gives on the final day of class, which is usually a review of all the material covered over the course of the semester, will be cut.

Some students said the crash wasn’t a problem for them.

John Daubenmire, a freshman from Watkinsville, said the eLC shortages didn’t cause a major incon-venience for him.

“I mean if I had four classes that all relied on eLC, then I could see how that could be a problem,” Daubenmire said. “But since I only have one that really uses eLC, it wasn’t really that big of a deal.”

Michelle Cheng, a senior from Dunwoody, however, had a test last Thursday in her chocolate chemistry class, and said she was affected by the eLC short-ages that occurred on Wednesday.

“It was really frustrating not to be able to access eLC on Wednesday,” she said. “I couldn’t access it until late at night — maybe nine or 10. Almost all the notes were there, and it was just really frustrating that I couldn’t get on.”

Despite the shortages, Cheng’s chocolate chemis-try test was still held on Thursday. She said the fact that she could not access eLC on Wednesday could have affected her perfor-mance on the test, but she doesn’t know for sure.

“I’m just glad it’s back,” she said.

eLC outage causes problems for someBy LINDSEY COOK

THE RED & BLACK

Today, Apple’s iPad will be available for use in libraries across campus. Although Apple has declared the prod-uct magical and revolutionary, stu-dents may not agree.

The library purchased 10 iPads to be distributed among the Main and Science Libraries and the Miller Learning Center. Library leaders said the upgrade, which will allow students and staff to check out iPads for three-hour intervals free of charge with their UGA ID, will benefit the campus.

“This program is intended to pro-vide students with the opportunity to try out a new technological tool and see how they like working on it,” said Caroline Barratt, director of Miller Learning Center Library Commons.

The iPads will be equipped with rel-evant apps such as Google Mobile, Facebook and eventually such staples as Microsoft Word and Excel.

University staff plans to incorporate student opinions and evaluate the decision via research gained from user questionnaires.

“We will have a short survey for users to tell us what apps they used, what they would like to see and any other comments and suggestions they may have about the program,” Barratt said.

Some technologically-minded stu-dents, such as first year English major Katherine Arnold, are excited about the upgrade and plan to check out an iPad.

“It would be interesting to try out the iPads and see the difference,” Arnold said.

Some students question the use of their technology fees — which are $114 per student per semester — for buying iPads.

Sophomores Claire Goldsmith and Andrew Ackall said they think their fees could be allocated more efficiently to have the greatest effect on campus.

Ackall suggested using the fees to buy more buses, though, given the recent complications with eLearning Commons, Goldsmith feels the fees should be used to aid programs already in place.

“They should use the money to fix eLC,” said Goldsmith, a biology major from Lilburn.

And some students don’t approve of the new technology at all.

“I don’t approve of Apple products,” said junior Nina Williams, an Arabic major from Lawrenceville. “I have never had one that I liked.”

Library debuts iPad rental program today

By ELAINE KELCHTHE RED & BLACK

Lee Fanning is not Steven Spielberg or George Lucas.

However, his indie film, “A Genesis Found,” may just remind Athens of another indie hero: Indiana Jones.

“The best compliment I ever got was that the film is a do-it-yourself ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’” said the filmmaker via e-mail. “So maybe that gives some folks a frame of reference.”

An independent feature film, “A Genesis Found” deals with the purported discovery of an anomalous skeleton at the Moundville archaeological site.

“The idea first came while [I was] a senior at the University of Alabama,” Fanning said. “I ini-tially wanted to do a period treasure-hunt story. … When we decided to do a feature we obviously couldn’t afford to make the entire film period, so we decided to use some period flashbacks.”

The setting of Moundville, an important archaeological site in central Alabama, was decided upon early.

But “A Genesis Found” is not simply a his-torical-themed feature. What distinguishes it is its cross-genre motif — that other genre being science fiction.

“I integrated the ‘ancient astronaut’ subplot because of my dad,” Fanning said. “I thought it would be a good tool to use to explore what we wanted to explore.”

What Fanning and partner Ben Stark do explore is the fictional journey of Civilian Conservation Corps cadet John Patton Jr., who discovered and subsequently hid a skeleton in 1938 that was anomalous — neither man nor animal.

Patton’s grandson, Gardner, becomes fasci-nated with his grandfather’s discovery 70 years later and is joined by a documentarian, Bart Thompson, and his girlfriend, Kelsey.

Together they attempt to understand the nature of the skeleton and perhaps something other-worldly.

“I think what’s so vital about [“A Genesis Found”] being told as a film is that, ultimately, the major theme explored is story,” Fanning said. “How stories and myth can both educate and manipulate, be both beneficial and detract and inform and mislead.”

Even if a serious discussion of “big ques-tions” is not a priority of audiences, Fanning assures “A Genesis Found” offers something for the general public.

“I think first and foremost, ‘A Genesis Found’ is an adventure drama with a sci-fi edge. The approach is fairly traditional, though I do think there are elements where we’re defi-

nitely trying new things,” Fanning said. “Don’t expect something bizarre or shocking or irritat-ing.”

What is shocking to Fanning is the warm reception the film has garnered from audiences and the media.

“Overall, I think the response has been over-whelmingly positive. We’ve gotten a lot of press interest solely on the distribution infrastruc-ture,” Fanning said. “We’re certainly not the first to do it, but it’s still not a common type of approach for distributing films, indie or not.”

That “infrastructure” involves point-of-pur-chase sales of “A Genesis Found” on DVD at screenings, as well as mail-order copies and the ability to stream the film via the Internet.

Innovative distribution models aside, “A Genesis Found” owes its success thus far to its content, heart and passion more than its pack-aging.

“It’s a challenging film, but I think [it’s] generally pretty appealing, and it’s also a spe-cial treat for Southern audiences,” Fanning said. “That’s something Wonder Mill, my and Ben’s company, is pretty committed to: to telling Southern stories for Southern audienc-es, highlighting parts of the Southern experi-ence and Southern mythology that aren’t trans-lated outside of the region.”

For early comers, 50 copies of the DVD will be given out free of charge. Additional copies will be available for purchase.

Indie sci-fi film offers skeleton, treasure hunt in Athens screening

When: Tonight at 6

Where: Baldwin Hall

Price: Free

More Information: First 50 in attendance receive a

complimentary DVD of “A Genesis Found.” Additional

copies will be availabe for purchase.

Lee Fanning’s independent film will be screening tonight at Baldwin Hall.

“A GENESIS FOUND”

VARIETY The Red & Black | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | 5

By SHAWN JARRARDTHE RED & BLACK

Hot tea and HIV/AIDS will form the basis for discussion at today’s Tea Talk.

Hosting the beverage and conversa-tion is World Ambassadors.

“World Ambassadors is one of the most diverse groups of students, both from undergrad and grad school,” said Danielle Alexander, a graduate student interning with the International Student Life office, under which World Ambassadors housed. “One of the things they’re doing is Tea Talks.”

The talks are aimed at creating aware-ness and brainstorming solutions.

“What it is, it’s kind of a smaller room, more of a discussion than a debate,” Alexander said. “A particular speaker leads the discussion on a topic that’s important in the world — usually it’s a social problem. They’ll just kind of explain what they know and what they’ve learned about the problem to the group, and talk about some of the human rights issues with what’s going on. And then we’ll discuss all of the factors that are influencing it, and how we can essentially work to change some of those things. We just sit around and discuss it while drink-ing tea.”

Each Tea Talk varies widely in topic, and today’s event marks the third and last of the semester.

“The first one we did had to do with Chevron’s pollution in Ecuador, and just explaining to all of the students what’s going on, what’s the history of the prob-lem,” Alexander said. “The second one was about the laogai camps [Chinese criminal reform camps] in China.”

For the final talk, World Ambassadors wants to bring the discussion a little

closer to home.“The one [today] will be about AIDS,

more locally,” Alexander said. “They’ll touch on some of the profile of AIDS and what it looks like today, and how it’s affecting citizens. They’re also going to bring it in more locally this time, and explain how AIDS is not just a problem that’s in some country far away. AIDS is prevalent throughout the United States. Some of the students are just presenting on what they’ve learned about AIDS here in Georgia and how we can help.”

The selection of tea as a focusing agent has both practical and ideological reasoning behind it.

“I think they essentially picked tea because International Student Life does coffee hour on Fridays, and so they didn’t want to call it anything related to coffee because it might get confused with coffee hour,” Alexander said. “So tea was the next hot beverage. But I think, too, in a lot of other countries tea is a more com-mon drink, and so when political leaders sit around and discuss things, they would discuss it over tea. So I think that was kind of their thought behind the original naming of Tea Talk.”

Students can bring questions if they want, but the tea will be provided.

“They don’t have to discuss anything if they don’t want to,” Alexander said. “Just be ready to learn about some-thing.”

Club offers tea time to discuss topic of HIV

When: 4–5 p.m.

Where: Tate Student Center, room 145

More Information: Drink tea while discussing

the issue of HIV/AIDS locally and internationally

TEA TIME

By HEATHER KINNEYTHE RED & BLACK

Laughter is the best medicine, and who needs a giggle or two more than a campus full of stressed students?

New Earth Music Hall will be hosting its third round of Last Comic Standing tonight, which pits local comedians against each other for a headline performance at New Earth and $250.

“I wanted to do come-dy in Athens but I found you basically had to get on a bill with musicians because comedy didn’t have enough draw at that point,” said Chris Patton, organizer for Athens’ Last Comic Standing. “I start-

ed brainstorming ideas of ways to get people out and I figured a competi-tion would be a good way to get it started.”

Last year, the competi-tion featured 13 contes-tants. This year, it was bumped up to 20.

“The show has done really well so far,” Patton said. “We are in the semifi-nals right now so we have four [comedians] left.”

The audience is in charge of the vote, decid-ing who stays and goes by casting paper ballots.

“The four [comedians] we’ve got left are definite-ly the best four that have been in the competition,” Patton said.

Several of the final con-testants are current and

past students at the University, including Robert Hayes, Kelvin Williams and Matt Gilbert.

The comedians prac-tice outside of the venue to prepare for the differ-ent rounds.

“It’s fun to watch the heat get put on them when they move on to the next round and all of a sudden they have to come up with eight to 10 min-utes of new material,” Patton said. “I like to see the comedians grow.”

Comics compete for laughs

MEGHAN PITTMAN | The Red & Black

Three of the four gas giants — Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune — will be on display tonight, though Jupiter will be the most visible from ground.

SPACE: Jupiter eclipses visible

From Page 1

on.”Gazers will get a chance

to witness a celestial danc-ing of sorts as several eclipses occur about Jupiter.

“They [the moons] will pass in front of Jupiter ... they’ll go behind Jupiter and disappear,” Snook said. “And then they’ll come out from behind Jupiter, and then they’ll go into Jupiter’s shadow, which means that one of the moons is having a Galilean eclipse. And so as you watch the moon, with-in five minutes it disap-pears. It’s out there in space, you see it nice and bright in the telescope and then all of a sudden it starts to get dimmer and dimmer and dimmer — and finally it disappears.”

The solar system’s four gas giants include Uranus Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter, but only Jupiter will be on such grand dis-play tonight.

“Unfortunately Saturn is not out, so we can’t see all four giant planets, just the three of them,” Snook said. “They’re so far away, Uranus and Neptune, that in the telescope about the only thing you can tell is that Uranus is a little ball, and not a star, which are points of light even in tele-scopes. So that’s why we’re calling it the Night of the Giant Planets.”

The Athens Astronomical Association will be providing its own equipment for the gazing.

“There will be at least two of us, and we’ll have two big scopes and several other little smaller scopes,” Snook said. “Hopefully maybe we’ll get some more people to come out to Sandy Creek Park.”

When: Tonight at 9

Where: New Earth

Price: $5

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Love your body, no matter weight or hair

It’s easy to sweep controversial issues under a rug, and it’s even easier to shove the blame to

someone else. However, it’s usually the wrong

thing to do. In the Student Government Association, we know issues as controversial as the pro-posed “Israel Resolution” are not things that magically appear or dis-appear.

Likewise, we know “he said/she said” is nothing the readership of The Red & Black and the 35,000 students on this campus deserve.

Some of you are angry, confused and hurt that a resolution was pro-posed advocating a “Pro-Israel” stance.

This paper is asking “why?” First, let’s make this clear: we

did not vote Tuesday evening on a resolution in regards to a Pro-Israel stance.

The proposed resolution was pulled last Friday and was not placed on our agenda.

We will not discuss this resolu-tion any further.

During the course of this semes-ter, SGA senators were approached by University students to propose the resolution in question.

To be clear, any student can write an SGA resolution, but it requires at least one SGA senator to sponsor it.

In this case, two of our senators made the decision to sponsor this resolution.

However, after discussions with student groups supporting both sides of the issue, the sponsoring senators decided not to pursue this resolution.

At our core, SGA is a student-led organization whose sole mission is to serve the needs of our peers.

We received numerous e-mails from students who were in support of this resolution, but an even greater number from students who were not.

It was determined that it is not SGA’s role to pursue an issue that would potentially divide campus.

Every student on this campus has at least one senator responsi-ble for responding to his or her concerns.

As an organization, we exist to respond to the student voice. So, if a student approaches a senator with an idea, question or concern, that senator should and will explore the issue.

We support our senators’ actions

in advocating for the students’ pro-posed resolution, but we now real-ize the negative effect it could have on the students we serve.

This is why we decided not to pursue the issue further.

However, there was a lack of communication with our campus media outlets.

We dropped the ball and we take full responsibility for this.

The Red & Black was not wrong to run this story based upon the information they had.

The editorial asking “why” was not unwarranted.

We should always be able to defend our actions. However, it is unfortunate the proper information was not available to ensure an accurate story.

Again, we take responsibility for this.

We want to make certain you know we hear you.

This situation has given us a renewed sense of what matters to you and it is our vow to continue to work on those issues.

We encourage you to come to us with your questions, concerns and ideas so that we can be an advo-cate for you.

— Addie Hampton is the Director of Communications for the

Student Government Association

ADDIE HAMPTON

I thought SGA stood for Student Government Association.

Allegedly, SGA is com-prised of elected students serving to represent the interests of the student body.

This semester, I’ve yet to see a shred of evidence proving that to be true.

Every day I pick up The Red & Black and read about some new outland-ish legislation SGA is try-ing to propose.

Smoking — good luck.Israel vs. Palestine —

are they not allowed to tailgate on North Campus either?

Most of the time, I’m not even aware there is a major student concern over these issues. Probably because there isn’t.

Apparently, these stu-dent government mem-bers think they are as effective as the United Nations when it comes to international policy, and know better than the Food and Drug Administration regarding cigarette expo-sure.

These fringe interest ideas have little to do with my daily life at the University or the lives of my fellow students and much to do with specific interests of the few.

Coincidentally, those few happen to be SGA members.

And they wonder why so few voted on their pro-posed cigarette ban and why such a limited num-ber of students voted them into office in the first place.

When the response from SGA to an actual campus issue such as the overcrowding of buses is “walk to class instead” — you have your answer. An

authentic problem, not a lot of effort to solve it.

The editorial board yes-terday already enumerat-ed several far more impor-tant and fairly obvious student concerns they shouldn’t even have had to list out.

Buzzwords such as “budget cuts” and “17 rapes reported since June” would make anyone assume SGA has a built-in agenda for future legisla-tion. But they seem to keep diverting from what the rest of us actually care about in order to tailor their résumés.

Perhaps major issues such as campus transit would take more time and effort to fight for, but isn’t that the point?

President Adams hasn’t exactly figured out what to do about the lack of state funding, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to start a campaign against UGG boots.

If any SGA member decides to champion a cause that has anything remotely to do with unit-ing rather than polarizing the student body, I will lis-ten with an open mind.

But with a track record of such divisive proposals, all I see for SGA’s future is a continuing pattern of self-importance — and an ignorance of campus con-cerns.

— Megan Thornton is a senior from Marietta

majoring in newspapers and is on the

editorial board for The Red & Black

Dark hair, small breasts, a wide nose, and wide

hips: my body certainly doesn’t meet the blonde bombshell standard of beauty.

But you will never hear me say I would change the way I look.

We all have parts of our bodies that we despise, and none of us will ever be completely satisfied with our appearances.

Trust me. I’ve been there.

During my sophomore year I had the horrible realization that I’d gained almost 30 pounds since high school. I was in a constant state of denial.

I remember putting on a pair of jeans and think-ing, “That’s strange — my jeans shrank.”

But my jeans hadn’t gotten any smaller — it was me who was getting bigger.

I was unhappy with the way I looked, and I lost a lot of my self-confi-dence.

Then the negative thoughts started to slow-ly seep in.

You are ugly. You are fat. You are invisible.

I was always beating myself up about it, so I knew I needed a change.

I changed my eating habits, and lost 35 pounds in a little over a year.

But my journey did not end there.

I thought losing the weight would suddenly make me happier and more confident.

Well, it didn’t.Those negative

thoughts and emotions about my body were still there even though my old body was gone. A change on the inside was what I needed.

We often think chang-ing this one thing about our appearances will make everything else fall in to place.

If I lose weight, I’ll meet the right guy.

Or if I get my nose fixed, I’ll get that acting job.

But it doesn’t always

work that way.We need to learn to

accept our bodies for how they are because they are always changing.

And they will continue to change after we lose weight or undergo plastic surgery.

Just ask anyone who’s had a face-lift. The fix isn’t permanent and even-tually has to be redone.

In 2009 women had more than nine million cosmetic procedures, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. This is a strong indicator to me that too many women feel the need to have an immediate fix to their appearance.

Many of us knew girls in high school who would disappear for a little while and come back with a new nose, or some other minor adjustment to their appearance. And I’m sure that girl swelled with con-fidence over the next few months.

But I bet if you check up on her now she will have some other com-plaint, about some other part of her body. Changing your appear-

ance will not make you happy.

And it is possible to love your body without making any changes.

First off, stop compar-ing yourself to other women. Your body is all that matters.

Second, don’t let what you see on television or in magazines get in to your head. Most of these women have been air-brushed or the images have been altered to make them look that per-fect.

Last — and I know how hard it is — you must try and love yourself.

Be proud of your so-called flaws. A good way to start is by making pos-itive remarks about your own body, and eventually you will learn to accept it, and all of its “imperfec-tions.”

Because if you seek happiness through the reflection in the mirror, I’m afraid you may never find it.

— Crystal Villarreal is a senior from

Lawrenceville majoring in magazines and

women’s studies

MEGAN THORNTON

CRYSTAL VILLARREAL

The Athens for Justice in Palestine organization is right in fighting against the Israeli resolution, but they are wrong in their reasons (“Israel proposal unfair to Palestine,” Nov. 16).

The point that they should be basing their fight off of is that the Student Government Association clearly has better things to do. But instead the AJP is saying that the resolution would “hinder free speech” and “intimidate students.”

In no way would the passage of this resolution hinder free speech.

If the resolution passed, the AJP would still be free to plaster up signs, have protests in the middle of Tate Plaza and do any-thing that they were able to do prior to the intro-duction of the resolution.

And it would not “intimidate students” who disagree with Israel any more than a smoking ban would “intimidate” smok-ers. They are incorrect in their assertion that it would impact their group financially, too.

The Small Clubs Allocations Committee is responsible for distribut-ing funds to groups, and the five members who vote to decide to distribute funds will have their own opinions about the Israeli conflict regardless of the passage of the resolution.

If four of the members of the Small Clubs Allocations Committee have a bias against the AJP, then they will not get funding even if the resolu-tion fails. If four out of five

members of the group have a bias in favor of the AJP, they will allot funds even if the resolution pass-es.

THOMAS SHATTOSenior, Peachtree City

Chemistry

With all the controver-sial issues that come up today, too many people stoop to the level of name-calling and personal attacks. I will stay away from this and just stick to the facts.

First, as Stephen Thompson, the vice presi-dent of the Student Government Association, stated, “a resolution is a declaration meant to rep-resent all University stu-dents.” How could a reso-lution supporting Israel represent the views of stu-dents that are pro-Pales-tine?

Second, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index, Israel is not even classified as a “full democracy,” but rather as a “flawed democ-racy” with the same civil liberties score as Rwanda.

Is this the example we want to hold up?

Finally, it is not the pur-pose of SGA to take on international issues. SGA’s purpose is to “serve as a liaison between students, administrators, and orga-nized governing bodies of the University.” These are the facts.

ELIZABETH SHELDONSenior

Port Orchard, Wash.Political science and International affairs

Israel plan divides readers

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off an aggressive Buffalo offense in the second half to secure another victory in the closing minutes of the game.

“That was a real hard-fought game,” head coach Mark Fox said. “We beat a very well-coached Colorado team, and I was extremely impressed with their team and the effort that they gave, and that’s a really good win for our team.”

It is the second in as many games this year that Georgia overcame a second-half deficit, following a 72-70 win over the upset-minded Mississippi Valley State Nov. 12 — the first regular season game with-out injured star forward Trey Thompkins.

Along with junior Gerald Robinson, who led the Bulldogs with 21 points, the Bulldogs had two other players in double figures for the night. Travis Leslie scored 19, while Jeremy Price added 17.

Leslie was missing for the final three and half minutes of the game after fouling out, which became a common theme for both teams throughout the evening. Georgia had 26 fouls, while Colorado (1-1) ended with 30.

As a result, both teams spent plenty of time at the free-throw line, which became the root of the Bulldogs’ troubles — they were only 27-for-43 from the charity stripe.

“Our free-throw shooting was awful,” Fox said. “I told my coaches at a staff meeting two days ago that our free-throw shooting was about to cost us, because I have not been happy with our approach when we shoot them in practice.”

For Colorado, the free-throw line sparked its first surge of the night, going 13-for-16 in the first half. Trailing Georgia 31-14, while going 2-for-15 from the field, the Buffaloes’ free-throw sharpshooting ignited a 19-2 run to close out the half tied at 33 points apiece.

Leslie led Georgia through the early minutes of the second half — scoring 10 of his 19 points — the ninth and 10th coming on one of his signature dunks to give the Bulldogs a 52-46 lead. But Colorado contin-ued to pester the Georgia defense throughout the rest of the half, regaining a 60-58 lead with six min-utes left to play in the half.

The Buffaloes were anchored by Cory Higgins, who scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half.

Georgia continued to surge in the final minutes of the game, out-scoring the Buffaloes 14-10 the rest of the way, led by Robinson’s six late points.

“We knew we had to let our expe-rience carry through at the end of a close game,” Robinson said. “We played a tough game, and with some of us in foul trouble, we knew we had to have each other’s backs out there.”

Colorado was led in scoring by Alec Burks, who had 21 points.

The loss is the first for Tad Boyle as the Buffaloes’ head coach.

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— rebounded and held Colorado’s 3-point barrage to a goose-egg: 0-for-7.

Basically, they improved on everything that nearly killed them against Mississippi Valley State and held a seemingly com-manding 31-14 lead with 6:28 remaining in the first half.

“We had a great start,” Georgia head coach Mark Fox said.

Then it all came crash-ing down.

Georgia started turning the ball over and missing shots left and right.

Its white-hot shooting streak turned ice-cold as the Bulldogs ended the first half on a 4-for-17 skid.

Even the high-flying Dunkmaster General Travis Leslie missed a one-handed slam — leaving the game wide open for a Colorado Buffalo come-back.

Georgia allowed Colorado to finished the half on a 19-2 run by com-mitting foul after foul.

And Colorado hit free throw after free throw in the half, hitting 13-of-16 free throws.

Conversely, the Bulldogs consistently missed theirs, shooting an abysmal 5-for-13 from the charity stripe in the first half.

“I think it was a lack of concentration,” said senior forward Chris Barnes, who himself missed eight free throws. “I know I shot ter-rible from the line and it was really funny when I made a free throw and the crowd started cheering. It was our focus and we have to be focused all through-out the game.”

The last 6:10 of the first half was, dare I say, remi-niscent of when Dennis Felton roamed the side-lines and when, like clock-work, Georgia would sleep-walk through large stretch-es of games and complete-ly fall apart.

Yet unlike the Felton days, the Bulldogs didn’t fold up the tent and go home.

They battled through the stamping Colorado run. They battled through the excruciatingly tight officiating and the embar-rassing amount of missed free throws.

They even battled through the loss of Travis Leslie to fouls with 3:27 left while clinging to a 69-65 lead.

The locker room at half-time was full of encourage-ment rather than dismay, and the Bulldogs showed it in the second half.

“We knew we had to

have each other’s back,” said junior guard Gerald Robinson, who had a team-high 21 points. “You have to learn how to win those close games. It’s easy to win blowout games, but to have the experience of staying together it gives confi-dence to everyone and will help us win these games in the future.”

After Leslie was exiled to the bench for fouling out, the onus to lead the team fell to Robinson and Dustin Ware.

Ware scored all seven points in the last 4:14 and hit four crucial free throws in the final minute to keep Colorado at bay.

“Our backcourt played like upperclassmen,” Fox said. “They made the right plays tonight and kept us

organized. It helps us to have experience like this. Close hard-fought games help down the road. It helps even more that we won but I’m very proud of our kids tonight.”

These were the kind of games Georgia lost in past years, including

Mark Fox’s first season in Athens.

Last season, Georgia was 6-10 in games decided by nine points or less.

Granted, the sample size is small, but Georgia has won both games this season is such fashion.

And with its best player, Trey Thompkins — who has missed the past two games with an ankle injury — in street clothes.

“We don’t have Trey and we had to look at the younger guys to step up and they did,” Barnes said. “They made big plays and it showed they are learning from the younger guys and this is really going to help in the long run.”

It’ll help, because in the long run, this team is a whole new breed of Bulldog. This is the type of team that will be able to withstand comebacks and preserve leads late in games this season.

It’s the resilient type.

— Michael Fitzpatrick is a sportswriter for The Red & Black

RESILIENT: Dogs better at closing out wins

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Juniors Travis Leslie (1, top) and Gerald Robinson (22, above) led the Bulldogs with 19 and 21 points, respectively.

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By ROBBIE OTTLEYTHE RED & BLACK

Commitment. Discipline. Enthusiasm. Leadership.

Words such as these line the walls of the lounge in the Suzanne Yoculan Gymnastics Center, where Georgia’s gymnasts are practicing for their second year since the eponymous coach’s retirement.

The 2011 season will also be the second under coach Jay Clark, and the second since the departure of Olympian Courtney Kupets. However, the upcoming season has one glaring difference from the last — in the spring, the Bulldogs won’t be defend-ing a national champion-ship for the first time since 2006.

“It’s kinda that nasty feeling from last year, know-ing we didn’t do as well as we could, that pushes you,” senior Cassidy McComb said. “Being in a different

position, that we haven’t been in years past, could be a good thing.”

When a fan base becomes accustomed to an unprecedented run of prominence, much like the Gym Dogs’ five consecu-tive national champion-ships, it can be difficult to call a season a success when it results in anything less than a championship.

A particularly glaring mark on last season came when the Bulldogs ended a 26-season streak of qualify-ing for NCAA champion-ships. But Clark pointed out that Georgia, which tied for second in the Columbia regional, was a tiebreaker loss away from returning to the national championship, and finished ranked fifth in the nation.

“I don’t ever want to put a negative spin on what they did last year,” Clark said. “Everything they heard came from a predis-position of doubt. The pri-

mary talk last year was about the transition and not what the potential of that team was.”

The year was challeng-ing for Clark for a variety of reasons, but possibly most significant was stepping into a position of leader-ship after serving as an assistant coach under Yoculan for 17 seasons. Though Clark led his team differently than Yoculan did, he felt the familiarity of his time with the pro-gram meant he responded to setbacks much as Yoculan would have. The second-year head coach still believes he had a lot to learn about being a coach when he began his tenure, though.

“You can’t really learn until you have to go through it,” Clark said. “When things don’t go well, you feel like you’ve let your fan base down or you’ve let your kids down and you wanna immediately reex-

amine things. While it’s an admirable trait, it’s proba-bly not a healthy way to react to adversity.”

As a part of his reexami-nation this offseason, Clark read books by John Wooden and Pete Carroll, particu-larly taking to heart their suggestion that the pro-gram’s core values need to be better defined.

“The thing that I really got out of it was it’s impor-tant to define what your philosophy really is,” Clark said. “In some ways we probably plagiarized some of those ideas.”

Clark and the other coaches always knew that the team emphasized lead-ership, but the coaches began to discuss exactly what that leadership meant. The focus on defin-ing their philosophy now plays a major part of the team’s Monday meetings, even sometimes taking away from their practice time in the gym.

“It’s one thing to throw a word out to your team and expect them to under-stand how to implement,” Clark said. “It’s important to take time away from our physical trainings some-times and really try to get them to understand these concepts and be invested in it.”

Already, Clark says, he’s seen the team’s new focus pay off. Junior Gina Nuccio may have been battling an injury, but she’s still been in the gym supporting the team during practice, even if she can’t join them dur-ing routines. McComb has been showing a level of leadership and excitement greater than she has in past years.

Another change comes in the level of difficulty of the various routines the Bulldogs expect to perform in the spring.

In gymnastics, each rou-tine is scored on two com-ponents: the difficulty score and the execution score. While Clark expects that much of Georgia’s competition will perform relatively conventional rou-tines, he hopes to push his gymnasts to perform as hard as they reasonably can. In doing so, he’s con-tinuing a Bulldog tradition of breaking the mold for college gymnastic routines.

“Particularly at the col-legiate level, [the sport] can get very static. … There are teams that we compete against year in and year out … that are very conser-vative,” he said. “If we can do it, we’re gonna do it. And if we win, we win big, if we lose, it’ll be usually by our own doing.”

However, this year, the Bulldogs won’t be fully expressing that philosophy, as they plan to perform routines with less difficulty than previous years. The routines the Bulldogs will be performing still have the opportunity to score a per-fect 10, but the Bulldogs have a greater desire to avoid injury in the upcom-ing season than in years past.

“It would be foolish to try to push that envelope in a year when depth could be an issue,” Clark said.

Clark’s girls agree with their coach.

“If you can do higher dif-ficulty, then do it, but if you can’t do it, then there’s no point,” junior Kat Ding said.

Georgia will face what Clark calls an “incredibly tough” schedule this year, with home meets against SEC rivals Auburn, Florida, and Alabama, and non-conference competition against schools such as Utah and Michigan. But Clark said the Bulldogs will overcome these challenges.

“This team has a grit about them that I think could serve us well,” Clark said. “The key for us is gonna be, can we execute when we have to, and hope that we get some breaks along the way.”

His gymnasts share Clark’s optimism, and look forward to competing as underdogs, many for the first time in their Georgia careers.

Unlike last year, Georgia will not open the season with a No. 1 ranking, but the Bulldogs expect being deemed long shots will allow them to focus their energy on a new goal.

“People may not be expecting much from us,” McComb said. “We’re gonna let our gymnastics do what we plan on doing and just surprise every-one.”

The Bulldogs have reex-amined their values, their routines and their sched-ule.

But the program’s over-all philosophy, a proven success under Yoculan, remains the same.

“We’re not gonna knee jerk and try to do anything radically different,” Clark said. “There was nothing philosophically different last year than there had been the previous 17 years that I was here.”

And according to Ding, the values of Georgia gym-nastics remain the same.

“Georgia gymnastics has an air of success, and the least we wanna do is be able to uphold it,” Ding said. “Georgia gymnastics is all about heart.”

Gym Dogs prepare as underdogs

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Sophomore Kati Breazeal (left) and senior Cassidy McComb (right) look to rebound from last year’s disappointing Gym Dogs season.