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October 6, 2011 Issue of The Red & BlackTRANSCRIPT
The Red & Black is an independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community • Established 1893, independent 1980
SUDOKU, 7C ● CROSSWORD, 2A ● CLASSIFIEDS AND PERSONAL ADS, 7C
Lonely hearts no more? There’s apparently no reason you shouldn’t have someone
to take on your date night — according to one ranking,
University students go on more than dates than romantic
hopefuls on other campuses. What do students think?
look online sunday
Online marketWhile some scalpers hit the streets on gameday to sell
extra tickets at exorbitant prices, students are taking to
cyberspace to get extra cash for their leftover tickets. Do
students really sell tickets on Facebook or eLC?
look online today
Flu be goneThere’s more than one way to catch the flu — and your
apartment may be to blame. Can slimy dishes, grimy floors
and dusty curtains really give you a runny nose and sore
throat?
look online friday
thursday, october 6, 2011 VoluMe 119, nuMber 9
POP QUIZ: Which Georgia player may be able to smell his coach fart on the sidelines? FIND THE ANSWER IN SPORTS, 5C
Online 24/7 at www.RedAndBlack.com
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AJ REYNOLDS/Staff
Tough love
Pageant Land
Snell it like it is
Those classes that nearly kill you ... do they actually make you stronger? Some students say yes. PaGe 4a
The Miss UGA pageant is more than beauties and butt glue. look online today
What happens when the pizza line closes in Snelling Dining Hall? PaGe 5a
KATHRYN INGALL/Staff
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 ● THE RED & BLACK2A
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A week of weather: The seven-day outlook
TODAY:Sunny and bright.
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FRIDAY:Sunny and bright.
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SATURDAY:Sunny and bright.
HIGH 77LOW 51
SUNDAY:Mostly cloudy.
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MONDAY:Scattered showers.
HIGH 76LOW 57
TUESDAY:Showers.
HIGH 78LOW 58
WEDNESDAY:Showers.
HIGH 77LOW 55
The week aheadMonday• Top Ten Money Management Tips:
6 p.m., MLC 250. A seminar covering how
to avoid credit card debt, budget money
and understand financial aid.
Tuesday• Let’s Talk About It: National Coming Out Day. 6:30 p.m.,
MLC 213. A discussion of anti-bullying legislation and how
to feel safe about coming out.
Wednesday• Sukkot: A Jewish holiday beginning at sundown. A
sukkah — traditionally a small dwelling covered with plants
made during the Israelite exodus from Egypt — is built for
meals and sometimes sleeping.
Thursday• Drawing in the Galleries: 5 p.m., Georgia Museum of
Art. Visitors are allowed to create pencil sketches without
instruction.
CorrectionsIt is the policy of The Red & Black
to correct errors as soon as we
find out about them. If you see an
error in a story or caption, either
in print or online at
www.redandblack.com, please
contact us at 706-433-3002. We
strive for accuracy in everything
we do.
InsidePUZZLES
Crossword ....................2A
Sudoku .........................7C
COLUMNS
Editorial ........................6A
Cartoon ........................6A
Soundbites ...................7A
Your Turn ......................7A
VARIETY...............................1B
SPORTS...............................1C
Agate ...........................6C
Rankings ......................6C
CLASSIFIEDS........................7C
OUT.&.ABOUT......................1D
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 ● THE RED & BLACK 3A
By MARIANA HEREDIAThe Red & Black
The experience of a Saturday in Athens can make or break a football recruit’s decision to commit to the Georgia Bulldogs.
With so much riding on just a few hours, the University’s Georgia Gameday Hosts take on more than just the responsibility of touring the recruits.
“It’s our job to make sure they have a great game day experience,” said Macey Clifton, a junior public relations major from Acworth and hostess.
The hosts help recruits get registered, tour them around Sanford Stadium and answer questions about the University.
“It’s an experience most students won’t have,” Clifton said. “I get to be on the field. I get to meet Uga. It’s just a really cool experience that not everyone will get to do.”
Danielle Davidson, a junior child and family devel-opment major and hostess, said her job included talk-ing to recruits not just about being a football player at the University, but also about being a student.
“In some ways, I’m here to open up their eyes,” she said. “Since I am a family development student I try to talk about my college because I know a lot of the ath-letes go into that, so I try to promote that and explain the different things you can do at college.”
The Gameday Hosts started out as the Georgia Girls back in the 1980s, according to Connie Connelly, recruitment coordinator for the Athletic Association.
She said the changes to the organization came in 2008, when the NCAA strengthened its rules on recruit-ment hosts such as the Georgia Girls.
Now, students interested in giving tours to pro-spective athletes must already be involved in other organizations that give tours to prospective students, such as the Georgia Recruitment Team, or even soror-ity recruitment programs.
Connelly said this was probably the group’s big-gest challenge.
“We had to figure out a way that we could still have a group because we had so many recruits coming in for home games,” she said. “And as you know, Sanford Stadium is huge and hard to find your way around much less when there are 90,000 people there.”
Still, Connelly said this eventually turned into an advantage because the hosts came into the program with touring experience.
Clifton said she feels the Gameday Hosts play a big part in the recruits’ decisions to join the University.
“They might get a totally different idea of what Georgia is by actually talking to someone about it rather than reading about it,” she said. “I feel like my personal experience with Georgia is what convinces them a lot of times, and I feel like that’s pretty reward-ing.”
Connelly also said the Hosts have a significant
effect on the recruits.“I think they play a huge role,” she said. “Not
because of a relationship per se, but because of the way our program is looked upon. If we do our job prop-erly it reflects on the program.”
Though the hosts get football tickets, behind-the-scenes looks and even gameday outfits, Clifton said they do not receive monetary compensation for doing the job.
“We don’t get paid,” she said. “[Our compensa-tions is] strictly the experience. I’d like to work with sports in the future so I know it’ll be a great experi-ence for me.”
Davidson has a similar view on the matter.“Networking is a reward,” she said. “You get to
meet a lot of different people, and I may want to go into sports management and the business side of it.”
Still, these rewards don’t come from just walking around campus and answering a few questions.
Davidson said the hosts have to be familiar with all of the specific NCAA recruitment regulations.
“We don’t want to get the players in trouble and jeopardize their eligibility, nor do we want to get Georgia in trouble,” she said. “Knowing what’s appro-priate and what you can and cannot say in front of the recruits is definitely very, very important.”
Connelly said the hosts sometimes have to act almost like bodyguards with the recruits, guarding them from both boosters and the press.
Clifton said some of the rules included keeping the recruits from interacting with Georgia fans, avoiding Facebook friendships, avoiding pictures and, more than anything, keeping the relationship between hosts and the recruits non-personal.
Even with this distance between the recruits and their hosts, the recruits still walk away with an impres-sion of the University and of Athens.
Clifton said they seemed most impressed with how “hyped” fans were.
“They look over and see all of the students with their pompoms in sync, cheering for the Dogs — they always think that’s so cool,” she said. “That’s some-thing that they want to be a part of.”
Gameday Hosts sell Univ. experience to recruits
The Gameday Hosts may receive football tickets, exclusive on-field access and working outfits, but Macey Clifton, a junior public relations major from Acworth, said they do not receive monetary compensation for their work with the Atheltic Association. EvAN StIcHlER/Staff
“I get to be on the field. I get to meet Uga. It’s just a really cool experience that not everyone will get to do.”Macey clifton, junior public relations major from Acworth
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 ● THE RED & BLACK4A
By JACOB DEMMITTThe Red & Black
As Cooper Hedden huddled over his first financial management test of the year, he quickly realized why it’s considered one of the most difficult classes at the University.
He stopped by his professor’s office as he considered dropping the course but didn’t offer the usual complaints.
“I absolutely love this class,” he said, before promising to do better in the future.
“He’s not babysitting us,” Hedden told The Red & Black of his professor, Mark Laplante. “He basically says, ‘Here it is. Let the weak die out, let the strong survive.’”
On a campus where old tests are passed down like family heirlooms, stu-dents such as Hedden may seem like a dying breed — but not according to some of the University’s self-proclaimed most difficult professors.
“Students, in the end, want to be challenged,” Laplante said. “They’re so sick of classes where they get A's then go, ‘I didn’t learn anything.’ There’s an enormous opportunity cost of spending four years of your life sitting in a desk. You better get a big bang for your buck. I frankly find it insulting to waste stu-dents’ time ... You have to find the sweet spot between being too easy and not distinguishing ability, and being too hard and demoralizing your stu-dents.”
After 12 years of teaching, Laplante feels he’s found that balance.
His average GPA is around a 2.6, slightly below the HOPE Scholarship cut-off, and his end of semester evalua-tions consistently show students feel well-prepared by the course’s end.
“Even though people say, ‘It’s hard, it’s hard, it’s hard,’ 60 percent of them get As and Bs,” Laplante said. “If you look at the grade distribution, it’s not bad. They’re just in an environment where they have to work really, really, really hard to get that A.”
A similar distribution exists for organic chemistry I and II — which are considered the litmus test for many students pursuing pre-medical, phar-macy or veterinary degrees.
“They’re not taking [organic chem-istry] because they’re going, ‘Should I take tennis or organic?’” Richard Morrison, organic and general chemis-try director, said. “They’re taking it because they want to go to med school, pharmacy school or vet school ... It pushes them, and sometimes uncom-fortably. So you hear some squab about it. But when it’s all said and done, the vast majority of them are saying this was a good class. The vast majority of them are performing quite well.”
Of 497 students who took organic chemistry I in spring 2010, the average grade was a C+ and roughly 30 failed.
But Morrison said most students expect a lower grade distribution.
“I wish they didn’t hear the horror stories because it predisposes them,” he said. “They come in almost terrified — and there’s no reason. ... Most of [the end of course evaluation] comments are, ‘Yeah it mauled me on occasion, but I got a lot out of it.'”
But no matter how hard, some of the University’s most difficult profes-sors try to shake these negative reputa-tions, it sometimes just can’t be done.
Instead, many classes are consid-ered “weed-out” courses which encour-age unfit students to abandon difficult majors — a term Morrison would never endorse.
“For many students, it’s the first time they really look at things and ask themselves, ‘If this is what it’s going to be like in med school, is this what I want?’” Morrison said. “They deter-mine that but I don’t ever try to drive anyone out ... I tell students where they need to be to be successful and they sort it out. Some students say, ‘OK, it’s not for me.’ They see organic as that gateway course. And because of that, it does have some of those horror stories associated with it.”
But even if these kinds of classes don’t aim at driving students away, one thing is certain — some University classes demand significantly more work than others.
Seventy-five percent of organic chemistry I students reported spend-ing more than 5 hours a week studying, according to last semester’s end of course evaluations. Forty-six percent said they spent more than 8 hours and only one said less than one.
“You know there are classes where you can study the night before and do well and there are others you can’t,” Morrison said. “For many students, this is the first class they take at the University where memorization only takes them part of the way. Then they have to do the additional work to make up the difference — or they’re just per-forming in the satisfactory range.”
But pre-med student Patrick
Robbins said certain classes have no choice but to be difficult.
“Some just have harder material,” he said. “The only way to learn it is to be dragged through the mud and have your limits tested.”
When they come out on the other end, many students and professors say it’s worth the extra effort.
“Good grades will get you an inter-view,” Laplante said. “But tools, knowl-edge and ability will get you the job — and you can’t fake those ... So I try to focus my class not on grades. I don’t care about grades. I care that my stu-dents, when they leave this institution, have the tools to go kick somebody’s ass — and they do.”
University students who took the American Chemical Society standard-ized exam last semester ranked in the 80th percentile, with certain classes reaching as high as 93rd, Morrison said.
When he looks at these numbers, he said he doesn’t plan on changing any time soon.
“For our students to be prepared to the level where they can take an exam I haven’t even become familiar with and knock it out of the park like that — our students can go anywhere and compete with anyone for any job or apply any-where,” Morrison said. “I owe that to the students ... We’re letting them demon-strate clearly — unmistakably — why they’re the cream of the crop. And not just here, but nationally. And I think we’re doing our job.”
Knowledge outweighs hit to GPA
Richard Morrison teaches a class on organic chemistry I. The majority of students in the class reportedly spend more than 5 hours a week studying. MAx BEEChIng/Staff
Difficult classes give students ‘the tools to kick somebody’s ass’
voices from the past When compiling his syllabus each semester, Mark Laplante shares anon-ymous student comments from previ-ous classes.
Some examples below:
“At first I thought this class was going to be terrible, but I loved it. The tests made me question my decision to pur-sue finance as an area of emphasis ... Hope I can pull an A but regardless I feel incredibly prepared moving for-ward. Keep up the good work!”
“This was a great course and I feel that I got a lot our of it. The material was challenging, but it is possible to suc-ceed.”
“Run for your lives! Be prepared to study! Begin studying from the begin-ning! Don't slack off!”
“I really sucked royalty at the class & its because I treated it like any other B.S. business class. Don’t do that! If you want to skate through this class — drop Laplante now.”
“Tough class, probably the most intel-lectually stimulating class I will ever take. LOVED IT. Considering being a finance major.”
“When he says to remember everything that he says, even things he says about himself, he is not kidding.”
“Practice problems, Practice problems, Practice problems!!!”
“This class is ‘do-able’ if you take the time to do it.”
“I purposely dropped an easier FINA professor to take your class. I heard that you were an awesome, yet difficultprofessor ... I hope to develop more of a relationship with you through future classes. I am struggling more in your class than any other, however I feel like the sacrifice of my GPA was worth the knowledge I’ve gained this semester. Thank you.”
“He’s not babysitting us. He basically says ‘Here it is. Let the weak die out, let the strong survive.’”Cooper hedden, sophomore business major from Gainesville
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 ● THE RED & BLACK 5A
By TIFFANy STEVENSThe Red & Black
It’s Thursday night at Snelling — the haven for night owls and last-minute scholars on the meal plan. It’s also one of the busiest nights of the week in Athens, when downtown begins to see more life and partiers prepare for the weekend with a pre-gaming event. The Red & Black takes a look at the late-night activity at the 24-hour dining hall.
MidnightSnelling is still a well-populated
place. Lights stream out onto the porch from the double doors and highlights a group of students chatting near the entrance. One cluster of boys begins jumping on and off the brass bell near the sidewalk, but besides these antics, everything is quiet and relatively well-ordered. More students are leaving the dining hall than arriving.
Both sides of the dining hall are well-populated. Some students are studying, but most are enjoying conver-sation and fitting in one last meal of cereal and scrambled eggs before bed.
“Right now it’s not that bad, but people come stumbling in around 2 or 3,” said Montana Wong, a freshman busi-ness major from Duluth. “I would stay until around 2 [a.m.] if I wanted to see something crazy.”
12:30 a.M.Dining hall workers are beginning to
close off the pizza line for the night and drag away extra chairs, but students still try to get in to the roped-off areas.
One student attempts to sneak past the ropes and grab a glass of Coke.Another turns back in frustration after she finds her way to the tray disposal area barred. Snelling is beginning to clear out and students are congregating near the omelette line.
Most are still dressed in their day clothes — jeans, T-shirts and Nike shorts. But high heels and party dresses are becoming more common, and pep-pered throughout the crowd is evidence of bar wristbands.
“We actually just got back from a concert,” said Heather Kane, a freshman
theatre major from Lawrenceville. “It kinda sucks because [Snelling’s] not open on the weekends. But it’s breakfast food and it’s free.”
1 a.M.Through the muddled sounds of
conversation and glass breaking, a cho-rus of “Happy Birthday” is raised.
Shelby Jones spends her 19th birth-day among a large gathering of friends, dressed in an oversized navy shirt and boxers. She covers her face and laughs as her friends finish the song and attempt to harass her into eating bacon.
“I had no idea they were bringing me here,” she said. “I came back from my social and they were all in my room. They kidnapped me.”
As one friend teases her about her outfit, she sways back and forth and explains they too can pick up a “dad” shirt for $3 at Wal-Mart.
More and more sorority social attendees begin to make their way to the cereal line.
One girl, dressed in a Native American costume with multi-colored feathers and war paint, begins jostling with a friend in a military uniform on their way to the omelette line.
Sarah Thompson, a freshman fur-nishing and interiors major from St.
Simon’s Island, said she normally doesn’t come to Snelling after socials.
“But I’ve come after studying and stuff,” she said.
Many more girls begin to arrive in oversized white shirts and boxers. One girl shows up in a Minnie Mouse ears, struggling to keep her flowing red shirt from slipping too far down her shoul-ders. She leaves 20 minutes later, still clutching her shirt around her chest.
1:30 a.M.On the opposite side of Snelling,
diligent students are attempting to study.
One group of freshmen said they had been to Snelling late for the past three nights.
“This week has been rough. I’ve got my first freshman test coming up,” said Myles Magloire, a freshman finance major from Powder Springs. “My mom may be paying more tuition next semes-ter.”
For some who are dining off the late night fare, what’s offered is not enough to meet their needs.
“We need turkey bacon for us Muslim people that can’t eat pork,” said Anoosha Panjwani, a freshman psychol-ogy and pre-med major from Johns Creek.
The flow from downtown has nearly
stopped. Those that do enter the dining hall either look fatigued or are stum-bling towards sustenance.
Some students say the flow from downtown causes health concerns.
“Food is sitting out here in the open, unattended,” Magloire said. “People could spit in it, you don’t know.”
Wong said he’s not worried about the food, but the bathrooms.
“I’ve actually never been to the bathrooms here at night,” he said. “I’m kind of afraid to. There might be passed out people in there.”
2 a.M.Snelling is nearly empty, and those
who remain look ready to turn in.Girls in white dresses hold on to
each other and declare their love, while two boys in khaki shirts and backward caps slather cream cheese on bagels.
Magloire said more students will arrive before the night is over.
“They’ll come stumbling in from downtown,” he said. “You know, people are drunk.”
But for now, the outside of Snelling is empty, and the only sound is ’80s rock blaring on the speakers.
Even though the party may contin-ue downtown, for now South Campus seems mostly asleep.
Myles Magloire, a freshman finance major from Powder Springs and Snelling employee, said he frequently sees patronsenjoying an ‘early’ meal with friends in University Food Services’ only late-night dining hall. cArly SNIdEmIllEr/Staff
‘Snellibration’ sees all kinds after hoursStudents hit books, breakfast buffet
NIGHTS IN ATHENS
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My first lesson in this journey called life hit me in the form of an old adage. Before I learned
to walk, talk or think coherent thoughts, I learned the age-old truth, “haterz gonna hate.”
Sometimes people just hate for no apparent reason. They hate things because they can and because they believe they should, not necessarily because they actually hate them.
In a world full of such brutal and suffocating disdain, people have two choices: drink the hatorade or have it splashed in their faces.
All it takes to cast someone or something from the pearly gates of social normhood is one person with a foul opinion. As soon as the aforemen-tioned person sneezes out this foul opinion, it spreads like a cold in a dor-mitory until it becomes an epidemic. In the blink of an eye or the exchange of a few words, the itsy bitsy foul opinion becomes a pillar in the institution of all things socially acceptable.
For example, when I was in the sec-ond grade, I absolutely loved Pokémon. I had all of the games, VHS tapes, post-ers, stuffed animals, everything. The first rule of being a girl who liked Pokémon, however, was that you did not talk about liking Pokémon. While in public, I would push my true feelings aside and join in the other girls’ chorus-es of “Pokémon is stupid. Let’s pretend we’re ponies.” After a long day of pranc-ing with the cool kids, I would return home and spend the next few hours “catching em’ all,” nestled in a cloud of fluffy Pokémon goodness.
I loved Pokémon, but to fit in, I had to love to hate Pokémon as well. I
would bet my level 100 Blastoise the majority of the other girls either secret-ly liked Pokémon or did not, in fact, know what it was or have any opinion whatsoever.
As I grew older, these trends of hatred began to encompass much more than just a franchise based on mutated animals. The stakes grew higher. I hard-ly know anything about football, but I know that I’m supposed to dislike Mike Bobo. Similarly, at University football games, I am supposed to murmur through “Glory, glory to Ole’ Georgia” and then scream at the top of my lungs,
“and to hell with (insert opposing team that I have probably never even heard of).”
When something goes wrong any-where on the field, even if the Dogs are on defense, I am supposed to shout, “Dagummit, Murray!” as if the quarter-back were telepathically controlling the football from the sideline. If I do not partake in the popular hate movement, then I invite the hostile glares of “92,756 of my closest friends.”
The United States government serves as a particularly easy target for its citizens’ hateful barrage. I don’t have to be an economics major to know that President Barack Obama broke the economy, but I don’t know how or when. I have uttered the words, “If Sarah Palin continues to exist, I’m mov-ing to Antarctica,” even though I have never really listened to what she has to say and have no intention of ever mov-ing to the planet’s icebox.
People hate because it’s the popu-lar thing to do. It’s easier to hate than take a risk on liking something or even having an actual opinion of it. Hating allows people to either be proven right in their hatred or pleasantly surprised when the object of their hate comes through for them. “Haterz gonna hate,” but it doesn’t have to be this way. Simply admitting I like to watch “Dancing with the Stars” and listen to the A*TEENS may make me an outcast. But at least I will be a happy outcast who knows why she believes what she believes.
— Megan White is a freshman from John’s Creek majoring
in international affairs
EDITORIAL
OPINION METER: The ups and the downs in the week that was
Our turnFees fall too short
Though more students are contributing to mandated student
fees, the large influx of students was not calculated in this year’s budget for student fee allocation.
Since the budget for Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 was determined in Febru-ary, when leaders of student organizations made their budgets for this school year, they had no way of knowing there were going to be catering to the largest freshman class in University history.
This has the potential to be problematic. If there are extra mouths to feed, extra flyers to print and extra bodies to put in motion, money could dwindle fast. The problem could also go viral toward the end of the spring when compensating for extra freshmen may catch up with unprepared executive committees.
To avoid an unexpected lack of resources later on, we advise the student leaders who rely on student activity fees to start tight-ening your belts sooner rather than later. Perhaps charge for that extra slice of pepperoni, add a $5 membership fee or spend extra time canning down-town to help prevent being shortchanged.
Yes, this year we are all having to adjust to a sizable student body, and that can be frustrating at times. However, bigger can be better as long as the proper adjustments are made with enough time allocated to implement them.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel though. Next year, the large amount of students will be factored into student organization budgets, though it’s likely many of those students will no longer be attending the University.
It's the equivalent of tightening our belts now in order to garner more fruit in the future.
— Charles Hicks is the opinions editor
of The Red & Black
Charles HicksFor the editorial board
Student organizations may have to think twice now, but next year will be better
Life is full of haters, be yourself anyway
CHALLENGING PROFESSORS: Though their tests, homework assignments and projects may keep us up until 4 a.m., challenging professors prepare us for the real, working world. Instead of ragging on them for making us think, we should spend our time at the University thanking them for getting us ready to support ourselves.
IGNORING COAL PROTESTS: Oh, look. Students are petitioning for the University to stop using so much coal. Haven’t they been doing this for the past few years? We understand change doesn’t happen overnight, but proposing a step-by-step plan for our University to become greener would be a step in the right direction. Perhaps the Dean of Students could host a forum for clean coal groups on campus to propose affordable, practical alternatives. Listen to the students.
NO HOME GAMES FOR A MONTH: We love football season. It brings a different spirit to Athens that is unrivaled. But it’s that point in the semester where all-nighters happen a few times a week as classes become more intense. So while the Bulldogs hit the road for a month, we’ll be able to get where we need to go on the weekends. And when the Bulldogs return between the hedges, we’ll be more than ready to have them back.
IPHONE: The stars didn’t quite align for an iPhone 5, but Apple still busted out some new goods at its keynote on Tuesday. More specifically, the iPhone 4S. The phone comes with the new A5 chip, 1080p recording, dual-core graphics and extended battery life. If none of that matters, then you’re in luck — the iPhone 4 dropped $100 in price. Midterms, resume.
People hate because it’s the popular thing to do. It’s easier to hate than take a risk on liking something or even having an actual opinion of it.
JONATHAN PREG/ Staff Cartoonist
Megan WhiteStaff Columnist
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 ● THE RED & BLACK 7A
We’ve all heard the story of the college student who applied to become a puppy walker for
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind. Her black lab snored by her feet through two semesters of chemistry, left “land mines” all over her front yard and was always willing to cuddle after a long night downtown.
But there’s another side to that story. My mom has been going blind since before I was born as a result of a little known genetic eye disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa.
When I was younger, my family used to joke about buying a red convertible once my mom regained enough vision to drive — our garage still sits empty. Instead I learned to adapt, walking two steps ahead so my mom could hold my elbow as we navigated unfamiliar terri-tory. Without thinking, I began avoiding pot holes, intercepting unseen hand-shakes and saying names aloud as peo-ple approached.
When she could no longer drive, we moved to a golf-cart community. When she could no longer see in the kitchen, we installed brighter lights. However, each work-around was a temporary band-aid placed over an ever more obvi-ous realization — the energetic woman who used to force hiking trips on the entire family was being stripped of her mobility before turning 50.
She finally accepted the “b word” last year and applied for a guide dog from Leader Dogs for the Blind.
Around the same time, a family in South Dakota learned the two-year-old golden retriever they had raised since she was a puppy was ready to become a working dog. They may have cried as they gave Sophie a final pat on the head, but those tears likely pale in com-parison to those streaming down my mom’s face as she was introduced to
the animal that would change her life.A few months later my whole family
pulled our hiking boots out of the clos-et, dressed Sophie in her neon harness and headed for the Tennessee moun-tains. With her nose glued to the ground, Sophie seemed to understand the importance of what she was doing. She avoided every root, walked around obstacles and gave me the opportunity to watch my mom hike again — some-thing which should have been impossi-ble.
I doubt my Mom could see much of the waterfall at the end of the trail, but it didn’t matter. She could feel the mist splashing on her face as she smiled knowing she had regained something many had considered lost — her mobili-ty.
So here’s to you puppy walkers: As you find yourself tangled in a leash today, bending down to pick up dog poop in front of the entire student body, try to remember there’s a blind woman somewhere desperately hanging on to her last bit of eyesight. And when you’re saying your final goodbyes to your furry friend through tear-filled eyes, know there’s someone who just found out they’ve been accepted into a guide dog program.
You’ve played a major role in giving someone a gift they really appreciate. For that, I thank you.
— Jacob Demmitt is a junior from Peachtree City majoring
in public affairs reporting
The bus drove away. Rude.
Dear sorostitute who purchases high end fashion products with daddy's credit card during class, I could easily write down all your information if I wanted to.
I love how even the UGA police doesn't stop for pedestrians.
Why aren't you reporting the story of Nickoe Whitley pissing on our hedges?
All those frat boys must have really cold ankles ... why else would they wear those dorky crew socks?
I would like to know why there is no money to give staff a raise, but there is always lots of money to give higher faculty a raise. Where is that money coming from?
Cyclists are not pedestrians. Stay off the sidewalks.
Flossing in public is bad enough, but do you really have to floss with your hair?
I didn't ask you how you feel about don't ask don't tell, so please don't tell me.
Professors: Keep in mind that some of us have social lives, jobs, extracurricular activities, filled agendas and a lot on our plate. Keep your midterms short, sweet, and to the point. Multiple choice tests get bonus love.
To the MILF that walked through the SLC the other day, damn. Wear those jeans more often.
Still thinking about Troy Davis. It's unAmerican that he is dead. Remember Troy. Keep the dream alive.
To the guy who was listening to dub-step in Russell on Monday night: stop.
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GUEST COLUMNISTS
Obama can still lose the next time around
I can not help but make some polite corrections to Will Petty’s column (“Obama shouldn’t worry while the Re-publicans are on parade,” Sept. 27).
First, by most reasonable measures, Mitt Romney, and not Rick Perry, is the frontrunner in the GOP field. As of Sept. 28, the futures market on Intrade.com places Mr. Romney at 47.5 to Mr. Perry’s 26.4. The latest poll by the American Research Group places Mr. Romney, not Mr. Perry, ahead in Iowa, and Mr. Romney remains comfort-ably ahead in New Hampshire. The race is far from over, and there is plenty enough time for Mr. Perry to rebound (or for another candidate to ascend), but to label Mr. Perry the front-runner suggests that Mr. Petty is not up to date on the subject which he attempted to cover.
Second, the futures market currently assigns Mr. Obama a 47.3 percent chance of being reelected. Again, this is very early and plenty could change, but I do not believe that Mr. Petty’s confidence is reflected in the serious analysis of the race. Mr. Obama is in a spot that is by virtually any measure less favor-able than that of multiple recent past presidents who managed to be reelected.
It is still very possible for Mr. Obama to win reelection; there is just no discernible rea-son, given the current body of political and economic indica-tors commonly used to model election forecasts, to assign Mr. Obama’s reelection the level of certainty as does Mr. Petty.
I would say more but unfor-tunately Mr. Petty left little to work with. I do, however, sug-gest that Mr. Petty not take his surname as an inspiration for the tenor of his commentary.
STEVE KASZYCKIGrad Student, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Political science
Coal dependence at University inevitable
Heather Hatzenbuhler’s Letter to the Editor (Mailbox, Sept. 22), provided a good over-view of the efforts to remove coal from campus, but its satu-ration with the words “energy” and “power” is a bit misleading to those who aren’t totally familiar with the situation.
As a point of clarification, the Sierra Student Coalition’s Beyond Coal campaign at UGA does not aim to “phase out campus use of coal power”. Our coal burner produces steam (to heat buildings, for example), but it does not produce electric-ity. Even if UGA replaces its coal burner with an environ-mentally friendly solution, we will still be dependent upon coal (burned elsewhere) to fuel our massive electricity needs on campus.
This proposed change is still much needed, and I am 100 per-cent in support of the Beyond Coal campaign, but in order to put forth a genuine, educated resistance to the coal plant on campus, we should make sure we accurately and clearly repre-sent the facts.
TODD PIERSONJunior, Indianapolis, Ind.
Ecology
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When President Barack Obama proposed his American Jobs Act, he included a controversial
provision: the Buffett Rule, named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett. The Buffett Rule calls for Americans making over one million dollars per year to pay the same effective tax rate as middle class citizens.
To begin with, I dislike that Warren Buffett is parading around telling peo-ple to pay more taxes when his own company, Berkshire Hathaway, has been in litigation with the Internal Revenue Service for nine years of unpaid taxes in excess of $1 billion (Berkshire Hathaway 2010 annual report, page 54).
I also take issue that Obama is changing the tax code based on a single anecdote though Buffett hasn’t released his tax returns to prove his claims. As a private citizen, Warren Buffett has every right to keep his tax returns between himself and the IRS, but if he is calling to change the tax code based on his individual tax history, then it’s fair to ask that we see the real numbers before we institute new policy.
Though Republicans continue to fight a losing rhetoric battle, Stephen Moore pointed out in The Wall Street Journal (“Flat is the new fair,” Sept. 30) that Republicans should wake up from their Obama-bashing haze and realize that Obama is essentially asking the same thing that Republicans such as former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and billionaire Steve Forbes have been advocating for over twenty years: the flat tax. Asking billionaires and their secretaries to pay the same tax rate is the essence of the flat tax. If Republicans can stomach the idea of agreeing with Obama, then the debate can focus on concrete details instead of vague, useless rhetorical concepts.
According to Moore, Republicans such as Armey and Forbes have argued that a low flat tax around 17 percent with no loopholes except an initial deduction for the first $35,000 or so of income would ensure low-income fami-lies bear a very light burden of taxation — and a lower effective rate — com-pared to high-income families, while providing low-tax rocket fuel for the economy and job creation.
Allow me a quick comparison. Family A makes $45,000. The first $35,000 is deducted, leaving $10,000 of taxable income. 17 percent of $10,000 is $1,700, an effective tax rate of 3.8 percent on the original $45,000. Family B makes $1,000,000. The first $35,000 is deducted, leaving $965,000 of taxable income. 17 percent of $965,000 is $164,050, an effec-tive tax rate of 16.4 percent on the origi-nal $1,000,000.
This idea of a low flat tax with a sin-gle deduction not only embraces the liberal core value of progressive income taxation, but also the conservative par-adigm of supply-side economics cham-pioned by Ronald Reagan and econo-mist Arthur Laffer, one of Reagan’s eco-nomic advisers.
The personal flat tax is not the only tax issue where the seeds of bipartisan reform have been sowed. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), chair of the House Budget Committee, has been advocating corpo-rate tax reform of a similar flavor. I am particularly enamored with Ryan’s pop-ulist breed of conservative economic principles, and his case for corporate tax reform is simple and appealing to both sides. He is the first to say a few corporations such as General Electric are not paying their fair share.
By lobbying for special interest loop-holes, a select few companies can twist the tax code in their favor at the expense of their competitors. Ryan advocates closing corporate loopholes to make the tax code fair and competi-tive, and in exchange, the corporate tax rate should be lowered for everybody. He also argues that taking out loop-holes would reduce the cost of compli-ance, which runs over $160 billion each year. We have some of the highest cor-porate taxes in the world, but with a lower rate and simpler taxes, we would attract more business from overseas and create millions of jobs in America.
It’s time for Washington to stop bick-ering and exchanging divisive rhetoric. Our economy cannot wait any longer for economic growth and job creation.
— Sam Hempel is a sophomore from Atlanta majoring in biochemistry
Flat tax is answer to job reform
Seeing eye dogs change lives of people similar to my mother
Sam HempelGuest Columnist
Jacob DemmittSenior reporter
SARAH LAWRENCE/ Staff Cartoonist
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VarietyB&R
Bleeding heartYou’re dating someone and
the sex is great and so is the
conversation. And then you strike
up a conversation with that guy a
row over in o-chem and you start
chatting with him every day too.
Are you cheating?
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Don’t panicAthens’ own Widespread Panic is
in town, y’all. But the rock band
isn’t just passing through to pass
through. It’s coming for a benefit
show, bearing gifts for all the tiny
children.
look online 10/9
The sound of musicNo football, no problem. Our
music writers will be out all
weekend with new previews and
reviews of the best to be heard in
venues all over the city.
look online this weekend
‘Make ... beer you want’
Octoberfest, Oktoberfest
Birth of a bandAll the time in Athens, bands —
struggling, striving, succeeding — start up. page 2B
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Skip the bars and the grocery store. Grow (and brew) it yourself. page 3B
A new month brings a whole new festival of beers.look online 10/8
Dance day returns: the University’s dance department returns with more classes and community.
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BY JESSICA ROBERTSThe Red & Black
It’s practice night.The scene is oddly familiar, even to
a stranger: a group of scruffy-haired, denim-clad guys scattered around a decidedly messy living room.
Pizza boxes and wrappers are the home’s decorations; there’s more band equipment than furniture.
It’s a scene that could be taking place in dozens of houses in Athens — the start-up country band, taking a din-ner break from preparing for its second-ever live show as a group.
Cannery Row’s story is but a single thread in the tapestry that is the Athens band scene — one group among hun-dreds trying to get its name out there and make a mark in the nation’s best college music town.
The story seems common, but each band’s experience is somehow distinct, and Cannery Row — like many of its peers — has something to offer that sets it apart.
The hard part is getting the rest of Athens to notice.
“I think the number one obstacle is there are just so many bands out there in Athens. I mean, everybody is in a band,” said Joe Perry, who plays slide guitar and keys. “A lot of other bands have one frontman that writes all their music, and that has its advantages, but a lot of times it gets boring, because one person can’t always just make good song after good song.”
Will Cantrell, the group’s bassist and co-founder, appreciates the col-laborative nature of Cannery Row, even though the sound he set after during the group’s creation was tweaked as a result. What began as a “straight-up country” outfit grew to incorporate ele-ments of R&B and ’60s pop.
“You can take the boy out of the country, I guess, but you can’t take the redneck out of the boy,” he said. “My intention was that it was going to be a country-rock band, but it didn’t really work out that way … I view it as like a group of songwriters who are trying to do the most tasteful things possible with each others’ songs.”
Cannery Row’s structure distin-guishes it from other bands, and so does its genre of choice. But the mem-bers’ dedication to their country music roots could potentially be troublesome, both for booking shows and finding members.
Cantrell said country music’s reputation has suffered from the mass-produced popular country artists that inundate the airwaves.
“I feel like we're trying to do a throw-back and we have to remind people what this music used to be,” he said. “You’ve got Kenny Chesney with his f---ing chest implants singing about being on the beach with his toes in the sand and ‘she thinks my tractor's sexy’ ... Obviously I keep up with this stuff, and I know who these people are, but it disgusts me.”
Difficulty with finding members caused a band created in May to wait until September to play its first show: when its stand-in drummer broke his arm, the search for a replacement began.
It wasn’t easy.“The thing is that, drummers —
through some phenomenon I’m not aware of — there are just less drum-mers than everyone else,” said Malcolm Parker, one of Cannery Row’s co-found-ers and its lead guitarist. “So, drum-mers tend to be in multiple bands, and finding one that’s free and will really commit to your project is tough.”
Parker also said that finding a drummer who stylistically fits in with the rest of the band is key, and often a challenge. For Cantrell, it’s that style in itself — country — that concerns him the most when he’s trying to attract new fans.
“I’d say that that’s the thing that I’m most worried about: this is not new music,” Cantrell said. “The point of this is not to re-invent the wheel. People may come to the show and say, ‘What’re they doing that’s new?’ But that’s not really the point … It’s important to us because this is our background.”
An inability to communicate your point-of-view can be especially tax-ing, as most of the band’s members concede that in Athens, getting gigs largely depends on connections, and getting positive responses can simply be a matter of contacting the right person.
“As far as getting shows with any band, it’s all about who you know,” Parker said. “A lot of bands try to do internet-based canvassing, essentially, where they just try to email every club in town and say ‘Check us out, call us up.’ And that’s really not as effective as knowing a band that’s going to play somewhere and talking to that club. Specificity is more useful, I’ve found.”
Cannery Row also found itself lucky enough to bypass the weak open-ing shows that a lot of start-ups are faced with; instead of playing in a dim bar to a meager audience on a weekday night, it was offered a prime slot at a well-known venue.
“The first show we played was at Farm [255] on a Friday night, and I think for a new band that’s kind of un-heard of,” Perry said. “It was just kind of a freak thing that happened. I’ve been in bands before, and usually you start play-ing Monday nights at Go Bar, and that can always be kind of draining … It’s all about your connections.”
Self-promotion and a wide social circle notwithstanding, Cantrell empha-sizes that a realistic view of booking in Athens and personal accountability are also central to getting gigs.
“I think that there’s this idea for people who haven’t really played around town and who are new to town, who’re trying to start bands, [that] there’s this network that will just throw shows at you, but it’s really not like that,” he said. “It’s a lot of personal effort. You have to make your fliers and you have to adver-tise and you have to find the bands to play with.”
Unfortunately, personal efforts aren’t the only factors that determine a band’s success in getting shows. Some months in Athens are crueler than oth-ers to smaller groups, and big names often win out in the fall when the city re-awakens.
“A big obstacle I would say is just timing, really,” Parker said. “There are some months — like September — when every club is just full up with big bands because it's when all the students come back in town, and it's just not going to happen for smaller bands.”
But for all of the work involved — the annoyances, the networking, finding fans — the band still thinks Athens is a great place to start a band. The city’s accessibility and warmth eclipse the obstacles to be tackled.
“Athens is friendly to its musi-cians,” Perry said. “You can start a new band and get a gig, it’s not a super hard thing to do ... It’s just a very laid-back, musician-friendly town.”
Cheap living costs, several ven-ues and plenty of other bands to play with add to Athens’ opportunity-rich environment — though, granted, fans and gigs are easier to come by when a group’s sound is widely appealing.
“This band has been a lot easier to [start] than other bands I’ve been in, just simply because we have a more ac-cessible sound,” Parker said. “We have some good solid pop influences that people can really get behind, so we can play with a wider variety of bands.”
Parker said a solid knowledge of where particular genres will fit in town can give a strong foothold to burgeoning bands, and understanding the layout of downtown can be a strategic tool in booking a gig.
“A lot of clubs in town have niches of music that they like to play, and you need to target the clubs that work for you,” Parker said. “As long as you go downtown and get your feet wet in it you’ll figure out what’s what.”
Essentially, constructing a suc-cessful band in the Classic City seems dependent on one thing above all oth-ers: unabashed confidence in your group and your music, even at the risk of being let down.
It’s this confidence that makes the looming sting of rejection a worthy risk for Cannery Row; gains and losses pave equal parts of a new group’s uphill path.
“You have to put yourself out there and … go up to somebody who you’ve never met before and be like ‘Hey, I don’t know you, but I want you to play a show with us,’” Cantrell said. “I think vulnerability is the best word for it … You have to be willing to have people laugh at you.”
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Band searches local venues for breakout moment
Country-rock group details difficulties of starting out, building up in Athens
Cannery Row has faced several obstacles while trying to establish a presence in the Athens music scene, including booking shows and no drummer. KATHRYN INGALL/Staff
cannery rowWhen: 11 tonight
Where: Farm 255
Price: Free
“The point of this is not to re-invent the wheel. People may come to the show and say, ‘What’re they doing that’s new?’ … It’s important to us because this is our background.”Will Cantrell, bassist and co-founder
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BY HOLLY YOUNGThe Red & Black
Editor’s note: for the last in our living cheap series, we look at students who microgrow — and brew.
Some students are saving a little green by growing some.
Brandon Siler, a senior from Athens majoring in horticulture, has been growing vege-tables his whole life.
He is the grounds-keeper of his mother’s Athens home, where he is growing a multitude of edibles.
“Home gardening for the sake of supplying your own food is a lot of work,” he said.
Siler puts at least 30 minutes of work into the gardens every day. But for him, the reward is worth the effort.
“This past summer she spent $200 in seeds buying 40 different vege-tables and multiple cul-tivars of those vegeta-bles,” Siler said.
And though it will take a lot of work, that $200 will provide more produce than he can eat.
Siler also has a vege-table garden plot at the South Milledge green-house complex.
But large-scale labor and space-intensive veg-gie production isn’t always plausible for col-lege students.
Most prefer small herb and container gar-dens, which Siler said “tend to be much easier and require less time to maintain.”
Sarah Carleo, anoth-er senior from Athens majoring in horticulture, has some of these small-scale gardens.
“The past few hous-es I have lived in don’t offer much sun for a long enough time frame dur-ing the afternoons,” she said. “So it is hard to set up anything more sub-stantial than a few pots positioned ‘just so’ in the yard to receive enough sun.”
Her container gar-dens consist of herbs, aloe and ornamental plants.
Carleo is also start-ing some fall veggies from seed.
Her fall garden will include broccoli, spin-ach, kale and cauliflower, among others.
Another of her home-grown projects is what she refers to as a “charity garden.”
This garden consists of rescued plants, which cost her nothing but love to establish.
“I started taking in a lot of ‘trash plants’ from the nursery where I worked over the past
two years,” Carleo said. “In the beginning I couldn’t bear to trash a plant if it had been a lit-tle water-deprived or sun-scalded.”
Because the nursery doesn’t have the space or resources to care for these “trash plants,” it undertakes regular “cleansings” of the greenhouses.
“And so I began to form a charity garden,” Carleo said. “Which I maybe love more than if I had invested money in the plants instead.”
Those rescued plants are now thriving at her house.
“I saved these strays, so to speak,” she said. “And they thanked me by recovering and flourishing in their new home in my yard.”
Another student with limited yard space is producing a different kind of consumable at home.
Chris Parsons, a chemistry major from Cumming, brews beer at his apartment.
“I’m a chemistry person, so I like process-oriented stuff,” he said. “I think it’s fun, it’s cool to do. You can make exactly the beer you want to drink.”
Since he started brewing, Parsons has made five batches.
“One of them was a banana bread beer,” he said. “That was the best one I think.”
Those ingredients set him back only $26.
And with each batch yielding around 50 beers,
there is potential to save a lot of money.
His present brew costs about $60 in ingre-dients, but would retail for more than $2 a pint.
“This beer is a clone of Victory HopDevil IPA,” Parsons said. “It has four different variet-ies of hops and three dif-ferent varieties of grain.”
He purchased those ingredients online, though he said “there are home brew stores around town with good prices.”
He said there’s also potential to save about $7 per batch by culturing your own yeast.
And not only is home brewing cost-effi-cient, it yields quality beer.
“It’s as good as beer you can buy,” Parsons said. “Some of them I like more than beers I’ve
bought.”However, Parsons
does encounter some unexpected costs.
While bottling his present batch, he encountered a “funny dilemma.”
“We [I and my friend] only had 44 bot-tles and expected to need 50,” he said. “So we needed to go to the store and get a six-pack so that we could drink it and use the bottles.”
He headed to Publix to get cash back for beer.
“We wanted to get the cheapest thing we could,” he said. “But we were hungry and decided to buy some chicken.”
The next stop was to get a six-pack from the package store.
However, Parsons couldn’t resist “a really good deal on a 12-pack Dundee sampler,” he said.
But when they got back, ready to bottle, they realized the bottles were unusable screw-tops.
“So we went to get six bottles and come back with beers that we can’t use and a bunch of chicken,” he said. “I don’t know how much money we’re really sav-ing by brewing.”
But like Siler, Parsons agrees that the enjoyment and reward of home production is worth the trouble.
“What I’ve learned from all this,” Siler said, “Is that gardening for personal food supply is easy, but requires a dedi-cated person.”
Students consume indoorsLIVING CHEAP
Homemade gardens, breweries save money
“We wanted to get the cheapest thing we could.”Chris Parsons, chemistry major from Cumming
HOW TO breW a simple malT beverageSupplies:• Brewkettle – 4+ gallon
stainless steel kettle with lid• Carboy and funnel – 5 gallon
glass container for fermenting
• Bucket – 5+ gallon plastic bucket for bottling
• Airlock – Allows CO2 to escape from fermentation bucket
• Racking Cane – Rigid plastic cane with fitting 6-foot vinyl siphon hose
• 2 cases of bottles – Sanitized and non-twist-top
• Capper and caps – To seal the bottled beer
Ingredients:• 2 cans malt extract - Light,
amber, or dark malt based on your taste preference
• 2 oz hops – Pelleted or leaf; the greener the better
• 1 package yeast – Dry or liquid culture
• 2/3 cup dextrose – Corn sugar to use for bottle-con-ditioning
• Chlorine bleach – Non-lemon-scented to use for supply sanitation
Prep time: 2-3 hours
Steps:1. Ensure your work area is clean
to avoid contamination2. Fill kettle 2/3 full with tap
water and put on high heat3. Add malt extract when water
gets hot, and stir continuously until dissolved
4. Add hops intermittently over next hour. Hops added earlier contribute more bitterness; later contributes more flavor
5. After boiling for 1 hour, cover and remove from heat
6. Ensure all equipment is sanitized, as contaminants will lead to a nasty-tasting product
7. When the wort (malts and hops) is cool, transfer into carboy to aerate. Add yeast
8. Wort will ferment over the next 1-2 weeks, which will be evident by vigorous bubbling When the bubbles slow to fewer than one per minute, it's ready for conditioning
9. Prime your bottling bucket with dextrose and transfer contents
10. Your beer is bottled from here, using siphon hose. Siphon from bucket into bottles and cap
11. Wait a week and a half, and your beer is ready for drinking
Chris Parsons discovered the benefit of brewing his own beer: not only was it cheaper — it tasted just as good. Students across Athens are realizing the same: when it comes to food and drink, it’s better to make than to buy. EVAN STICHLER/Staff
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A discussion arose about cheating among my friends recently. There are many things people can do that blatantly qualify as cheating, but one
aspect I had not yet considered is emotional cheating.My friend explained that sometimes she confides in
a male friend of hers and discusses her feelings with him as opposed to her boyfriend because she doesn’t want to “bother [her boyfriend] with the little things.”
This happens more than people would expect. When one person in a relationship feels as if the part-nership is not emotionally fulfilling, turning to someone else that cares about you and listens to you without a second thought can fill your relationship void.
However, if your significant other discovers this deeper connection, the hurt can sometimes be worse than that associated with physical cheating. Many men perceive their partner having emotional connections with other men as much more hurtful than sexual unfaithfulness, according to a 2010 study done at Penn State.
I’m not dismissing the pain that physical cheating can cause, but emotional cheating can be extremely painful as well. A random, drunken hook-up is a sign of many problems that need to be resolved if a couple decides to move forward in the relationship. However, emotionally connecting with someone on a deeper level is much more intimate, therefore can take a more seri-ous toll.
And it can happen more often than people are aware because many don’t know what it means to be an emotional cheater. Asking someone about your problems occasionally in order to understand what your partner is feeling is different than establishing an intimate relationship with someone to whom you could potentially be attracted.
Emotional cheating can cover a range of character-
istics, and many of them involving a secretive aspect. For example, if you discuss things you are upset about with said friend but not with your significant other, it can seem like your “friend” has more of an understand-ing of who you are than your partner.
A sure sign of emotional cheating is feeling a need to hide from your partner that you are getting together with your “friend,” as the need for secrecy seems to be the biggest indicator that something is wrong with the relationship.
Even if discussing your relationship and dreams can seem innocent at first, forming a strong friendship with a potential romantic partner can allow feelings to develop. During any healthy relationship you should have your own friends and passions, but allowing a friend to be your emotional crutch can cause pain for someone else.
In a strong relationship, you should be able to dis-cuss and fix problems, even if they seem inconsequen-tial. The need for someone else may be an indicator that you should work on your communication skills and the intimacy of your relationship, for the choice to include someone else in your relationship can have destructive repercussions.
— Bianca Strosnider is a junior public relations major from Sandy Springs
Bianca StrosniderStaff Columnist
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Rocky Mountain high or low?Georgia has struggled mightily in its last two visits
to Knoxville, Tenn., and Neyland Stadium. But with
three consecutive wins on the books, the Bulldogs
are feeling confident. Find out who has the edge in
this SEC East matchup inside.
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‘Big John’ appearsJohn Jenkins doesn’t want to hurt teammates anymore, just his opponents. PAGE 7C
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Only a freshman, but leading the team in receiving PAGE 2C
Watching from the sidelinesRay Drew led the formation of the ‘Dream Team’
but he sits in the shadows as his freshmen
teammates excel. Now could be his time to shine.
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Brotherly loveGeorgia quarterback Christian LeMay could be
throwing to his brother in a few years if he has his
way, but his brother said that family connection
won’t be the ultimate deciding factor, despite how
close the two are.
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Has Aaron Murray regressed in year two?Interception numbers would say so but that doesn’t tell the whole story. And although Murray still has room for improvement, coaches and players alike are impressed with his improvement and don’t blame the interceptions solely on him.
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BY RYAN BLACKThe Red & Black
Sanders Commings saw this coming.He knew from the first time he set his eyes on
freshman wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell in a 7-on-7 passing drill this summer that the kid had talent.
“He’s probably the fastest guy on the team, great athlete, catches the ball well,” Commings said. “I saw it coming the whole time.”
Tight end Aron White also paid immediate atten-tion to the freshman from Valdosta.
“He definitely shows you things physically that make you say, ‘Wow,’” White said. “Everybody makes a big deal about A.J. Green when he came in, and A.J. Green was second-to-none as far as things he did com-ing in physically. You definitely see some of those quali-ties out of a guy [like Mitchell] who is a little more
physically-gifted than the rest.”Though his teammates felt he could
step in and make a difference right away, Mitchell was not nearly as sure.
“I didn’t think I’d be at the point I am now,” said Mitchell, the Bulldogs’ leading receiver through five games in both receptions and receiving yards. “I have really just been taking it game-by-game. I really haven’t thought about number of receptions. [I’ve thought] more so about the wins and losses. In the situations when my name is called, I
can help out the team.”Mitchell credits the older receivers on the team —
guys such as Tavarres King, Marlon Brown, Rantavious Wooten and Israel Troupe — for bringing him along.
And Mitchell said they have helped him with “everything.“
“If you ever see us, we’re always communicating. We communicate with each other, to see how the other defenders are playing each other. From learning the plays to the players they’ve already played to route running — anything.”
While King is happy to have lended a helping hand, he still lavishes praise on Mitchell for getting the job done.
“The kid’s making plays, man,” King said. “He’s doing what’s asked of him and he’s doing it to the best of his ability. Coach [Mike] Bobo and the staff have done a tremendous job putting him into great positions to make those plays. He’s making plays and doing what’s asked of him, so you can’t knock him for doing it. He’s the man.”
Mitchell’s performance thus far this season has also been noticed by the man calling the plays.
“I’ve been really impressed,” offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said of Mitchell. “He’s got a lot of ability, he’s got a lot of quickness, he’s got really good hands and he’s shown some toughness. He’s still raw in some of the things he’s doing route-running wise, but he’s shown the ability to compete since day one and there was a need for the receivers to step up and he filled that void.”
Like White and Commings, Bobo saw Mitchell’s potential when he first set foot in Athens.
“Malcolm probably made the biggest impact early in camp, so we kind of pushed him along,” he said. “We knew we were going to have to play a couple of [fresh-men] for depth. Did we know that one of them was going to be the leading receiver at this point? No. That’s a tribute to him working hard and it’s a tribute to those older guys helping to get him ready, too.”
Mitchell shies away from all of the attention, though.
Even though he is the team’s leading receiver, he said he does not add any extra pressure on himself to go out and continue to produce numbers at the same level.
“I don’t really care about the stats. I know I wouldn’t have got to this point without the older receivers. They’ve been helping me out tremendously — Tavarres King, Marlon Brown, Michael Bennett, everyone who has been there before me has been help-ing me out. I don’t really pay a lot of attention to [stats] because I just want help the team in any way I can.”
One way he is already helping is by offering words of encouragement to other teammates.
Jay Rome is one of them.Mitchell’s roommate and fellow Valdosta High
School graduate, Rome came to Georgia as one of the top-ranked tight end prospects in the country. But he has yet to see the field behind Orson Charles, Aron White and Arthur Lynch at one of the deepest positions on the team.
“I just tell him to keep working, because you never know when your opportunity is going to come,” he said. “That’s how I feel about any situation. Just keep work-
ing.”Mitchell vouched that Rome has not let himself
get too depressed about the situation, choosing to focus on the present and wait his time behind the elder statesman at tight end.
“When they first let him know he might be red-shirted, maybe he got a little down,” Mitchell said. “He told me he didn’t want that to happen, but that’s it. He never brought it back up. He’s just been living life.”
Mitchell will continue to live life, too, and as long as he keeps up his good play, he’ll continue drawing comparisons to other great receivers of the past and present.
King invoked the name of Philadelphia Eagles
wide receiver DeSean Jackson.Bobo went even farther back into his memory bank
to find a comparable example, going back to two of his biggest rivals at Florida during his playing days at Georgia.
“He reminds me of some of the Florida receivers that they had back in the day,” said Bobo, mentioning Gator greats Reidel Anthony and Ike Hilliard. “They’re a little lean, but they’re quick.”
Comparisons aside, Mitchell's sole focus going for-ward is to avoid complacency.
“Every game I wish I could have did more, just because you don’t want to be satisfied, because when you get satisfied, that’s when you start calming down and not working as hard,” he said. “Every game I find something to get better at.”
And most collegiate athletes feel that same way — they want to get better every game and preferably have it show up in the stat sheet.
What separates Mitchell from most is that he has already gone out and proven it.
“You knew great players were already here and you knew that you were going to have to work your way up,” he said, “but I’m just glad I was able to work my way up to where I am right now.”
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Freshman receiver leads Bulldogs
MITCHELL
Mitchell credits the older receivers for ‘everything’
Malcolm Mitchell continues to make plays as a true freshman and has used his rare speed to lead the Bulldogs in receiving in the first five games. Senior Tavarres King called him ‘the man.’ For Mitchell, he’s just giving credit to the older receivers on the team. (TOP) MICHAEL BARONE/Staff, (ABOVE) AJ REYNOLDS/Staff
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BY KERRY BOYLESThe Red & Black
Sixteen years after its inception, the Georgia soccer team is only one win away from the pro-gram’s landmark 200th win.
“The 200th win is a big milestone for the Georgia program,” soph-omore defender Nikki Hill said. “It just shows how our program is on the rise, and we’re only getting better.”
The women’s soccer program began in 1994 when Athletic Director Vince Dooley hired Central Florida coach Bill Barker to recruit and guide the inaugural team. The program started playing in 1995, and though Georgia didn’t earn a S o u t h e a s t e r n Conference tournament bid, the first team went on to win 10 games and helped pave the way for all the teams that have come along since.
“Literally every play-er who’s ever gone through here has done something to contribute to the program, and none of us would have this opportunity without them,” senior Jenna Buckley said. “I mean, there are great players who’ve come through like Stephanie Yarem, Carrie Patterson, Randi-Lynn Bruso, [and] Kelli Corless, but when it comes down to it, it’s lit-erally every person who’s ever put on a Georgia uniform that’s getting us this 200th win.”
Though head coach Steve Holeman is only in his second year at Georgia, he also recog-nizes the legacy that other Bulldogs have left behind.
“They’ve created a tradition of success,” he said. “Former players have done great things. They’ve been in NCAA tournaments — there’s a team that’s been to the Sweet Sixteen — they’ve competed for SEC titles and they’ve established a great tradition here at Georgia.”
This tradition of suc-cess has established Georgia as one of the well-known soccer pro-grams in the SEC. Though the Bulldogs have never won an SEC tournament title, they have been the runner-up three times and their all-time win percentage is .610, the second highest in the conference.
The win will be important for the soccer program, but this year’s team won’t be focusing on the landmark victory as it prepares for upcom-ing games.
“To be honest we haven’t really talked about it,” Holeman said. “I think it’s great for the program. It’s a great landmark to have, but it’s not necessarily one of our goals. Our goal is to win an SEC champion-ship, and if the 200th win falls in that string of wins we need to win it then [that’s] even better.”
This weekend the Bulldogs will have two chances to get the mile-stone win as well as get closer to reaching their season goal. The team will take on Mississippi State on Friday night and then Ole Miss on Sunday, a game that that will reunite Holeman with his former team. The longest-tenured active SEC women’s soc-cer coach, Holeman started the soccer pro-gram at Ole Miss in 1995 but left when he accept-ed the head coaching position at Georgia.
“I spent 15 great years at Ole Miss,” he said. “I started the pro-gram, watched it grow and helped build it, and obviously you want that success to continue.”
In Holeman’s first season at Ole Miss, the team did not win a single
SEC game, going 0-8 in conference play. Only four years later it was at the top of the Western Division.
Despite Holeman’s long history with the Rebels, he doesn’t think the game will be as sig-nificant as last year.
“The first year we went back to Oxford, and it definitely played a factor in the game,” he said. “I think as the years go on it’ll become less and less of a factor. I don’t think it will be as big of a game, just from that aspect, as it was last year ... We’ll prepare for them just as we do for every other team.
Soccer looking for 200th all-time win
Sophomore Nikki Hill (19) said the Georgia soccer program is on the rise and only getting better, as the Bulldogs try to notch the program's 200th win. AJ REYNOLDS/Staff
Holeman’s program ‘on the rise’
“It just shows our program is on the rise, and we're only getting better.”Nikki Hill, sophomore defender
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For Tyler Bray and Aaron Murray, the similarities are undeniable. Both sophomores are looking to build off excellent freshman seasons. But so far in their sophomore seasons, the comparisons end there. Bray has built off a solid 2010 season to lead the SEC in passing efficiency and yardage, throwing for 332 yards per game thus far. And he’s been efficient, too, throwing only 2 INTs to his 14 TDs, while Murray’s regressed in year two when it comes to taking care of the ball, as he’s thrown six picks already — tied for 2nd most in the SEC. However, Bray doesn’t have dynamite freshman running back Isaiah Crowell to lean on like Mur-ray does, and this game will likely be decided by which quarterback performs better. At the end of the day, this game is likely decided by which sophomore gun slinger has the best day.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 ● THE RED & BLACK4C
DEFENSEWhile Georgia is giving up the same amount
of points per game as the Tennessee de-fense — 20.5 points per game — the Bull-dog defense has suffered from offensive
miscues. Therefore, at No. 2 in the SEC in total defense, the Bulldogs get the edge.
EDGE: GEORGIA
SPECIAL TEAMSWith the conference’s top punter in Drew Butler and the third best kick returner in the conference in Brandon Boykin, the Bulldogs should have the edge on special teams as Tennessee kicker Michael Palardy and punt-er Matt Darr have struggled greatly so far.
EDGE: GEORGIA
OFFENSEThe Volunteers and Bulldogs have a number of things in common — a 6-7 record in 2010 and a promising sophomore quarter-back. But the Vols’ sophomore has been better than the Bulldogs’ so far, leading the SEC in passing with 14 TDs to only 2 INTs.
EDGE: TENNESSEE
Georgia vs. TennesseeSaturday at 7 p.m. on ESPN2
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GAME BREAKDOWN:
COACHINGMark Richt and Neyland Stadium don’t have a great relationship. In Richt’s last two games in Neyland Stadium, the Bulldogs have walked away with blowout losses, despite coming in as the favorites. That will be the case again Saturday, but the crowd gives Dooley an edge.
EDGE: TENNESSEE DOOLEYRICHT
Da’Rick Rogers, the Dog-turned-Vol-commitment on Signing Day in 2010, left coach Mark Richt at the altar and Georgia fans haven’t forgotten. All the disgust with Rogers’ decision to defect was largely over the fact he was ranked the No. 1 wide receiver in the nation. He’s proven that ranking worthy in his second season as he’s second in the SEC in receiv-ing, averaging 110.5 yards per game. The Volunteer wide receiver corps would even be more lethal if dynamic sophomore Justin Hunter hadn’t gone down with an ACL tear in the Florida game. As a result, Rogers has had to shoulder the load, and Boykin/Commings effectively matching up with Rogers mano y mano could go a long way towards attempting to stop Bray.
The Georgia defense is ranked first in the SEC in opposing third down conversion percentage, only giving up 25.4 percent of all third downs. A big reason for that has been a transformed run defense in which the Bulldogs are only giving up 107 yards per game on the ground. As a result, opponents have been forced into long third downs and the Georgia defense’s numbers have improved significantly in year two under Todd Grantham. In no game will that be more imperative than Saturday. Georgia’s stout defensive line of Kwame Geathers, DeAngelo Tyson, and Abry Jones will need to dominate the line of scrimmage against a young, inexpe-rienced Vol offensive line to be able to drop more defend-ers in coverage in hopes of neutralizing Tyler Bray.
Georgia front three vs. Tennessee offensive line
Tyler Bray vs. Aaron Murray
Da’Rick Rogers vs. Brandon Boykin/Sanders Commings
THE KEY MATCHUPS:Bulldogs vs. Volunteers
TYSON
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 ● THE RED & BLACK 5C
BY NICHOLAS FOURIEZOSThe Red & Black
The dream began with Ray Drew.
Though it took him until January to officially commit, the nation’s second-ranked outside linebacker had been working all along to ensure that Mark Richt’s dream team became a reality.
“I knew Georgia was where I was going to end up at for a long time and I was doing my own underground recruiting,” Drew said.
The list of players he was talking to is a who’s who of last year’s recruiting class defensive tackle John Jenkins, wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell and freshman star running back Isaiah Crowell, to name a few.
“I really hate to say this,” Drew said, “but I took my visit to Miami because I knew John was going to be there.”
Drew tracked down Jenkins in Miami and soon was asking him what the defensive tackle liked about the University of Georgia. Though Jenkins initially thought Drew was working for the Hurricanes staff and was spying on him, the two hit it off.
“By the end, John pulled me aside and asked me if I was going to Georgia for sure,” said Drew. “I said yes, and he told me that he’d see me there.”
Three weeks later, Drew not only officially committed to the University, but also chal-lenged Jenkins and still unde-cided running back Isaiah Crowell to join him in Athens.
“‘Come join what we’re putting together, the Dream Team,’” Drew said at the time. “‘But remember, a dream is only a dream until you make it reality.’”
For the most part, last year’s recruiting class has lived up to its potential. Crowell has earned multiple SEC Freshman of the Week honors while rush-ing for more than 100 yards in three of his five games.
Mitchell leads the team in receptions and yardage and Jenkins had a breakout game against Mississipi State with three tackles and a sack.
“It was nice, having an already established relation-ship when we ended up here
together,” Jenkins said. “All of us are like a great big posse.”
However, things haven’t worked out for Drew the way he thought they would.
“I’m just working hard and waiting on the coach to call my number,” Drew said. “I’ll be ready.”
Drew was supposed to become a force in Grantham’s 3-4 defense to replace the pro-duction lost by NFL draftee Justin Houston. The freshman was so good that Richt hinted in the preseason that he could be a starter at outside line-backer. But after two games, Drew had yet to play a snap and was forced to watch from the sidelines as the Bulldogs lost to both Boise State and South Carolina.
To make matters worse, the Bulldogs didn’t have a sin-gle sack in those games.
“Anyone who tells you they wouldn’t want to be on the field
in that kind of situation, they’re lying.” Drew said.“I’m just wait-ing my time.”
The linebacker position has been a revolving door for the Bulldogs, who suffered foot injuries to starting middle line-backers Alec Ogletree and Christian Robinson in those first two games against Boise State and South Carolina.
Even the injuries weren’t enough to get Drew on the field for an extended period of time.
Drew played only briefly against Coastal Carolina, recording two tackles, and made an appearance against Mississippi State, but did not accumulate any stats.
In comparison, fellow freshman Amarlo Herrera has played nearly every defensive down of the last two games at middle linebacker.
“I’m right there behind [defensive coordinator Todd] Grantham — if he were to fart
I’d be the first one to smell it,” Drew said. “I’m right there, hoping to hear my number called.”
Through the first five games, Richt insisted that Drew’s lack of playing time was more due to Cornelius Washington’s stellar play than anything Drew has done. Washington had started three games and led the team with 3.5 sacks before he was charged with a DUI Sunday morning.
Even with Washington’s two-game suspension, it seems as if Drew will still have to wait to receive his call.
Redshirt sophomore Chase Vasser already has two starts at outside linebacker this season, while Washington’s backup, Reuben Faloughi, who has more size than Vasser, at 6-foot-5 and 255 pounds, appears to have the inside track to replace Washington.
Faloughi, a former walk-on,
insisted that when called upon, any one of Georgia’s outside linebackers could replace Washington effectively.
“Everyone’s trying to prac-tice really hard this week, including me,” he said. “Ray’s been a little slow to catch up to the system but he’s adjusting well, and could even play a good bit Saturday.”
Richt did not rule out the possibility of Drew getting an opportunity against the Volunteers Saturday.
“It’ll be an opportunity for him,” Richt said. “He’ll be part of the mix as far as our discus-sion. Will Ray be the sole bene-ficiary of that playing time or part beneficiary of it? I don’t know. That’s what we gotta decide here this evening and then some if it may be decided as we practice.”
If the Bulldogs are going to try to get Drew involved, it bet-ter be sooner rather than later — they face the conference’s top passing offense in Tennessee this weekend, and the schedule only gets tougher with looming match-ups against No. 15 Florida and No. 17 Auburn on the horizon.
And stopping No. 13 Georgia Tech’s running game at the end of the season with a group of inexperienced line-backers will pose a challenge for the Bulldogs. The Yellow Jackets are leading the nation at 378 yards per game, about 200 yards more than the Bulldogs average on the ground.
Drew said he can be part of the mix to help the Georgia defense continue to build upon last week’s four-sack, pressure-filled performance.
“One of the strengths in my game is my pass rush game,” Drew said. “I’ve just been wanting to prove that I belong here, especially going from a 4-3 [in high school] to a 3-4.”
The 2011 recruiting class, banded together by Richt’s “Dream Team” promise, has done well to keep the Bulldogs in the race to win the SEC East.
But unless that group’s key defensive piece hits the field, the freshman class could be dimmed by a dream that never quite became reality.
LB waits, ‘Dream Team’ shines
Ray Drew (47, right) was the ring leader for the ‘Dream Team’ recruiting class, but as his classmates have shined, he has waited on the coach to call his number as he learns the system. AJ REYNOLDS/Staff
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Know the score
COACHES POLL
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Record Points 1. Oklahoma (27) 4-0 1,4212. LSU (21) 5-0 1,4103. Alabama (10) 5-0 1,4084. Stanford 4-0 1,2375. Wisconsin (1) 5-0 1,2366. Boise State 4-0 1,1867. Oklahoma State 4-0 1,1628. Clemson 5-0 1,0289. Oregon 3-1 1,01710. Texas 4-0 87911. Michigan 5-0 80812. Arkansas 4-1 78813. Georgia Tech 5-0 72814. South Carolina 4-1 55915. Nebraska 4-1 55716. Illinois 5-0 54117. Virginia Tech 4-1 47018. Florida 4-1 45619. West Virginia 4-1 43620. Michigan State 4-1 36621. Kansas State 4-0 26422. Florida State 2-2 22923. Auburn 4-1 21724. Arizona State 4-1 17725. Texas A&M 2-2 160
Houston 97, Baylor 90, Texas Tech 68, South Florida 49, Penn State 37, Washington 30, Notre Dame 13, Pittsburgh 11, Southern Methodist 10, North Carolina 10, Tennessee 6, Iowa 5, Air Force 3, Southern Miss 3, Ohio State 1, Cincinnati 1, Duke 1
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at Florida State EX (2-0, L)at Furman (3-1, W)TEXAS (3-0, L)VILLANOVA (3-2, L)at Minnesota (2-1, W)IOWA STATE (2-0, W)MERCER (2-1, W)GEORGIA STATE (4-1, W)at UNC Greensboro (4-1, W)FLORIDA (1-0, L)SOUTH CAROLINA (2-1, W)at Arkansas (1-0, W)at LSU (2-1, L)MISSISSIPPI STATEOLE MISSat Vanderbiltat Kentuckyat AuburnALABAMATENNESSEESEC Tournament First RoundSEC Tournament SemifinalsSEC Tournament Finals
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LIBERTY (3-0, W)FLORIDA A&M (3-0, W)KANSAS (3-0, L)at Pepperdine (3-1, L)Miami (3-0, L)(at Pepperdine)UC Santa Barbara (3-1, L)(at Pepperdine)KENNESAW STATE (3-0, W)at Georgia Tech (3-0, L)Samford (at Georgia Tech) (3-1, W)Mercer (at Georgia Tech (3-2, L)at Tennessee (3-0, L)at Kentucky (3-1, L)OLE MISS (3-1, W)ALABAMA (3-1, L)SOUTH CAROLINA (3-0, W)FLORIDA (3-0, L)AUBURNat Mississippi Stateat LSUat ArkansasKENTUCKYTENNESSEEat Alabamaat Ole MIssARKANSASLSUMISSISSIPPI STATEat Floridaat South Carolinaat AuburnNCAA Tournament
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CROSS COUNTRY
Midfielder Nicole Locandro has two goals on the season thus far.KRISTY DENSMORE/Staff
WHAT’S ON DECKWhat: Georgia volleyball at Mississippi StateWhen: Friday at 8 p.m.
Two cents: Georgia volleyball (6-10) faces a tough Mississippi State squad on the road Friday after an unusual mid-week Wednesday night game against Auburn at home. Mississippi State is fresh off a weekend sweep, but is still only 8-7 on the season, de-spite beating both Alabama and Ole Miss on the road last weekend. For Georgia head coach Lizzy Stemke’s team, she thinks her players are about to turn the corner and the Bulldogs two SEC games this week should go a long way towards determining post-season fate.
Alisha Laing (9) has 11 digs on the season, as Georgia heads to Starkville for a matchup against MIssissippi State. SEAN TAYLOR/Staff
What: Georgia women’s golf at Tar Heel InvitationalWhen: Friday through Sunday
Two cents: The Georgia women’s golf team has struggled so far this season, finishing in a tie for fourth at the Cougar Classic, an event the Bulldogs have historically won, and a 12th place finish at the Mason Rudolph Fall Preview two weeks ago. There’s reason for optimism, though, as 2010 National Player of the Year Marta Silva Zamora struggled at the Fall Preview, finishing in the bottom quarter of the field. Despite Silva Zamora’s troubles both Milena Sav-ich, Emilie Burger and Milena Savich produced solid finishes. And if Silva Zamora returns to form, the Bulldogs will have a lethal four-player nucleus going forward that could do damage in Silva Zamora’s senior year.
What: Georgia soccer vs. Mississippi StateWhen: Friday at 7 p.m.
Two cents: After splitting last week-end’s games against Arkansas and LSU, head coach Steve Holeman’s squad heads into a weekend of home games against Mississippi State Fri-day and then Ole Miss Sunday. Mis-sissippi State is 4-5-3 on the season but is fresh off a Sunday upset victory over No. 20 Auburn and nearly won Friday night as well, tying Alabama. For the Bulldogs, forwards Jenna Ow-ens and Alexa Newfield have formed a potent duo up front for Holeman, with Owens providing the passes and Newfield making sure to finish up front.
What: Georgia men’s golf at Brickyard Collegiate ChampionshipWhen: Friday through Sunday
Two cents: The Georgia men’s golf team heads to the Brickyard Col-legiate Championship, where it has dominated over the last couple of years. Junior Bryden McPherson con-tinues to lead the Bulldogs this sea-son with two top-five finishes in their first two starts of the fall and a win at the British Amateur Champion-ship this summer. Freshman Nicholas Reach has also been incredibly solid thus far in his short career at Georgia and fellow freshmen twins Sepp and Sam Straka have also worked their way into the lineup. The Brickyard won’t be one of the stronger fields the Bulldogs play in this season so they’ll have the chance to improve their record in hopes of making the NCAA Regionals.
AP TOP 25 POLL NOTABLE GAMES WEEK SIX
Record Points1. LSU (40) 5-0 1,4732. Alabama (12) 5-0 1,4353. Oklahoma (7) 4-0 1,3974. Wisconsin 5-0 1,2665. Boise State (1) 4-0 1,248 6. Oklahoma State 4-0 1,1917. Stanford 4-0 1,1858. Clemson 5-0 1,0939. Oregon 3-1 1,02810. Arkansas 4-1 86011. Texas 4-0 83312. Michigan 5-0 81213. Georgia Tech 5-0 66714. Nebraska 4-1 55515. Auburn 4-1 55016. West Virginia 4-1 54417. Florida 4-1 49818. South Carolina 4-1 48719. Illinois 5-0 42820. Kansas State 4-0 34921. Virginia Tech 4-1 34122. Arizona State 4-1 25623. Florida State 2-2 23723. Texas A&M 2-2 21625. Baylor 3-1 186
Michigan State 154, Houston 68, Washington 37, Texas Tech 25, Notre Dame 24, South Florida 22, Georgia 11, Penn State 9, USC 7, Southern Methodist 5, Cincinnati 1, Pittsburgh 1, Tennessee 1
THIS WEEK IN THE SEC
SEC INDIVIDUAL FOOTBALL STATS
SEC STANDINGS
Oct. 8 noon Mississippi State at UABOct. 8 noon Kentucky at No. 18 South CarolinaOct. 8 3:30 p.m. No. 17 Florida at No. 1 LSUOct. 8 7 p.m. No. 15 Auburn at No. 10 ArkansasOct. 8 7 p.m. Vanderbilt at No. 2 AlabamaOct. 8 7 p.m. Georgia at Tennessee
PASSINGPLAYER TEAM COM ATT PCT YDS TD INT RATTyler Bray TENN 98 143 68.5 1328 14 2 176.1Tyler Wilson ARK 111 172 64.5 1517 10 3 154.3Aaron Murray UGA 83 135 61.5 1100 13 6 152.8John Brantley FLA 66 102 64.7 942 5 3 152.6Jarrett Lee LSU 64 108 59.3 793 7 1 140.5Barrett Trotter AUB 73 122 59.8 895 9 5 137.6A.J. McCarron ALA 75 120 62.5 919 4 2 134.5Chris Relf MSST 77 131 58.8 814 4 5 113.4Stephen Garcia SCAR 61 118 51.7 844 4 9 107.7Larry Smith VAND 50 87 57.5 412 3 3 101.7
RUSHINGPLAYER TEAM ATT YDS YDS/G LONG TDMarcus Lattimore SCAR 124 677 135.4 36 9Trent Richardson ALA 96 622 124.4 71 10Michael Dyer AUB 103 567 113.4 52 7Isaiah Crowell UGA 99 515 103.0 29 2Vick Ballard MSST 66 430 86.0 66 5Chris Rainey FLA 74 415 83.0 27 2Tauren Poole TENN 71 318 79.5 28 1Eddie Lacy ALA 46 397 79.4 67 5Zac Stacy VAND 36 280 70.0 77 1Jeff Scott MISS 68 350 70.0 69 5
SACKSMelvin Ingram SCAR 5.5Jadeveon Clowney SCAR 4Cornelius Washington UGA 3.5Jarvis Jones UGA 3Jake Lemonier AUB 3Tim Fugger VAND 3Nick Gentry ALA 2.5Mike Marry MISS 2Danny Trevathan UK 2Jonathan Bostic FLA 2Ronald Powell FLA 2Bark Mingo LSU 2Josh Boyd MSST 2Bennie Logan LSU 2Wayne Dorsey MSST 2Sam Montgomery LSU 2
INTERCEPTIONSCasey Hayward VAND 4Bacarri Rambo UGA 4Charles Sawyer MISS 4Trey Wilson VAND 3Antonio Allen SCAR 3Johnthan Banks MSST 3Nickoe Whitley MSST 3
TACKLESDanny Trevathan UK 59Winston Guy UK 53Mike Marry MISS 51Antonio Allen SCAR 49Cameron Lawrence MSST 45Neiko Thorpe AUB 41Brandon Wilson MSST 41C. Mitchell MSST 41Chris Marve VAND 32Darren Bates AUB 38Ronnie Snead UK 37D. McNeal AUB 36Jerry Franklin ARK 35Tyrann Mathieu LSU 35
THURSDAY• California at No. 9 Oregon (9 p.m.)
SATURDAY• No. 3 Oklahoma at No. 11 Texas (noon)• Maryland at No. 13 Georgia Tech (noon) • No. 23 Florida State at Wake Forest (12:30 p.m.)• Boston College at No. 8 Clemson (3 p.m.)• Miami (FL) at No. 21 Virginia Tech (3:30 p.m.)• No. 22 Arizona State at Utah (3:30 p.m.)• Missouri at No. 20 Kansas State (3:30 p.m.)• Ohio State at No. 14 Nebraska (8 p.m.)
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By RyAN BLACKThe Red & Black
Assistant head coach Rodney Garner wants “Huggy Bear” to come out of hibernation for good.
He wants to see “Big John” instead.But there is a reason the dual per-
sonalities of John Jenkins on the prac-tice field and during a live game exist.
“There’s a story behind it,” Jenkins said. “I was in junior college and I was going against one of my teammates, and when I went against him, I hurt him real bad. I took him out of his whole football career. I tore his ACL, MCL, meniscus, stuff like that. I just told myself I wasn’t going to hurt my teammates. That’s why when I’m on the field during a game, I’m a totally different player than I am on the practice field.”
Story or no story, Garner prefers that Jenkins’ “light” — his competitive fire — be on at all times regardless of the location.
“You see some flickers,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s ‘on.’ It flickers here and there, [but] I definitely think that John is working hard and he’s improving.”
His improvement was felt in the Bulldogs 24-10 win over Mississippi State last Saturday, as Jenkins notched three tackles — two for losses — to go along with a sack.
Garner was so happy, he even let Jenkins shed his “Huggy Bear” nick-name.
For one day, anyway.“He played like ‘Big John’ Saturday,”
Garner said. “I’ve been dealing with that impostor — ‘Huggy Bear,’ ‘Sugar Bear’ — and then ‘Big John’ showed up. He’s got that split personality, so I’ve just got to figure out how we can keep ‘Big John’ [around].”
Georgia head coach Mark Richt also was impressed with Jenkins’ perfor-mance in Saturday’s victory and hoped he can continue to build on it.
“I’m sure he gained confidence from what happened [Saturday],” Richt said. “Not that he’s not a confident guy, but you’re coming in from junior college and there’s a lot of hype about you and that kind of stuff and you want to start being productive to the point where people really notice it. You couldn’t help but notice No. 6 [Saturday], so I was happy for him.”
Then again, it’s always hard not to notice Jenkins.
Not when he’s listed at 6-foot-3 and 351 pounds.
And certainly not when he’s wearing a not-very-defensive lineman-like No. 6 jersey.
“Yeah, it was shocking to me,” fellow defensive lineman Kwame Geathers said of the first time he saw Jenkins sporting the single digit. “I’ve never seen any-body playing defensive tackle at the University of Georgia wearing No. 6. The lowest number I saw [before] was 19, Charles Grant.”
Jenkins always takes the comments about his number in stride, though.
“Honestly, I wasn’t even expecting
No. 6,” he said. “It was just a joke during my recruiting process and it just hap-pened to be that way. I never really thrived on wearing a single number — I didn’t care if I was wearing No. 71 or something. The No. 6 thing has died down, and it wasn’t like I was ranting and raving about having a single digit number.”
Jenkins said he never rants and raves on the field when it comes to trash talk, either.
Unless he is provoked, of course.“There really wasn’t any rules in
junior college, so when they used to do dirty things to me and I would get angry, I would trash talk,” he said.
How else would he be expected to react?
“It’s just the hype of the game, bro,” he said. “It’s the belly of the beast. You’re going to do things in the game [you don’t normally do]. [DeAngelo] Tyson is a good example. That’s my guy. He’s a calm, laid-back guy, but when he’s on that field, he’s a monster. The game brings the monster out of you.”
Sometimes that monster even comes out in the pregame festivities, as numerous players on Georgia and Mississippi State got into a heated dis-cussion at midfield prior to kickoff and had to be separated by coaches and offi-cials.
“No comment,” Jenkins said with a laugh when asked if he was in the mid-dle of the fracas.
Things were much less volatile after the game, though, when Jenkins got the chance to talk with former junior college teammate Vick Ballard, who is now Mississippi State’s starting running back.
“It was crazy to just see us in this atmosphere that we had just played, considering where we came from,” he said. “I was happy for him and he was happy for me.”
And it’s not as if the two hadn’t been in contact leading up to the game.
Though Ballard and Jenkins talk frequently, the lines of communication were ramped up even more last week.
“It was a little trash talk, but it was all love,” Jenkins said. “At the end of the day, it’s all love. As the game was com-ing on, things just started settling out. We didn’t say anything to each other and then when the game came, that’s when things got exciting.”
“Exciting” also describes the reac-tion of Jenkins’ teammates to his con-tinued improvement.
“He understands where he fits in the whole thing and he’s a big, physical guy,” linebacker Christian Robinson said. “Getting him to move and make plays, he demands more than one block-er and that’s one thing I love, because that means one less guy is going to be worried about me.”
Though it may cause a chuckle, teammates said the most underrated aspect of Jenkins’ game is his quickness.
“He’s a big guy who can run, who can move,” linebacker Amarlo Herrera said. “He moves real good. He probably thinks he can play linebacker or some-thing.”
Herrera was right.“I think I still got it,” Jenkins said.
“In high school I played a little lineback-er. I played two games at linebacker and made All-Conference.”
So don’t be surprised if Jenkins rushes the passer from the linebacker
position in the future.It would only fit in with what people
already know him about him — that he is a study in contrasts.
He owns two different nicknames at opposite ends of the spectrum in regards to their meaning.
He’s a defensive tackle wearing No. 6.
Now he thinks he could play line-backer.
Is the notion really that farfetched?Jenkins doesn’t think so. “Anything is possible nowadays,” he
said.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 ● THE RED & BLACK 7C
Garner wants ‘Big John,’ not ‘Huggy Bear’
Nose tackle John Jenkins hurt a teammate ‘real bad’ while in junior college and hasn’t wanted to hurt a teammate again. As a result, he’s struggled to consistently keep that light on come game time. SEAN TAyLOR/Staff
“He played like ‘Big John’ Saturday. I’ve been dealing with that impostor — ‘Huggy Bear,’ ‘Sugar Bear’ and then ‘Big John’ showed up. He’s got that split personality.”Rodney Garner, defensive line coach
Jenkins working to keep his motor running high in games, practice
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BY JUSTIN JOHNSONRed & Black
The unconditional bond between siblings is one of a kind. Uriah LeMay, a 6-foot-1, 188-pound wide receiver prospect out of Matthews, N.C., knows this.
His older brother is Christian LeMay, a fresh-man quarterback at the University of Georgia, and Uriah, who’s nearly halfway through his junior season at Butler High School, didn’t hesi-tate to let it be known how important Christian
is in his life.“My brother and I
are about as close as they come,” Uriah told the Red & Black. “We have been there and done that, talked about and dealt with almost all of it. Everyday, as a new chal-lenge arises, that’s my first call for help after God. He is just such an inspiration to me and so many others that aspire to do and be something/someone great in this world, and do it the right way for God’s kingdom.”
The two spent one season on the football field together at Butler
— with Christian as the quarterback, and Uriah as a wide receiver.
The potential for the two to reunite on the foot-ball field is there, as Uriah has already received a scholarship offer from Georgia.
Being a Bulldog is a strong temptation for LeMay, who has visited Georgia multiple times and come away impressed with sev-eral things the school offers academically and athletically.
“Being a man who loves to eat good food, the cafeteria stands out
[at UGA] to me a great deal, as well as the success rate they have for get-ting their kids through school,” LeMay said. “Football wise, from my time down at camp this past summer, I loved working with coach Tony Ball and get-
ting to know, see and take part in some of the drills that developed one of the most elite wide receivers in college foot-
ball [Cincinnati Bengal and former UGA wide receiver A.J. Green].”
LeMay last visited Athens for its showdown with the University of South Carolina, which he said was a much-needed getaway.
“My last visit to Georgia was on Sept. 10 after my first high school loss,” LeMay said, whose team was 31-0 in his first two seasons before losing their first game of the 2011 season. “Going down to see my brother for his first college media day, it was an enjoyable and needed getaway. It’s
always good to go spend some time anywhere fam-ily is.”
Despite the one loss, Butler has rebounded, winning five straight games. LeMay has been a primary target so far this season, in which he said a coach told him he had 18 or 19 catches for 13 touchdowns and more than 400 yards.
Even though Georgia has a competitive advan-tage with Uriah’s elder brother being on the ros-ter, he wanted it to be known that he will ulti-mately make the decision that is best for him.
“A lot of people would jump the gun at Georgia, because of the fact my brother goes there, but nothing is set in stone. It does not hurt their chances, but it does not help as much as most would think,” LeMay said.
The thought of him and his brother playing together again is some-thing that Uriah has defi-nitely considered.
“It would be great to play again with him, and now that we are both more knowledgeable of the game and its aspects, it would also be fun to see how much hair we could make defensive coordinators pull from their heads,” LeMay said.
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“My brother and I are about as close as they come.”Uriah LeMay, junior wide receiver prospect from Matthews, N.C.
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Once the Indigo Girls left the world of college, its audience became its teachers.
“We’re lucky because people reach out to us and tell us what’s going on,” said guitarist and vocal-ist Amy Ray. “We get to hear what people are going through and how they’re solving their problems and what groups they’re starting, so that’s pretty cool.”
Teaching and learning from others has always been part of the plan for the duo, which includes Emily Saliers. In college, Ray said both she and Saliers considered careers in teaching, but instead focused on their burgeoning music career, which took off in pubs in Decatur.
“Emily wanted to go to grad school in English and kind of struggled with that a little in her senior year because our music career was taking off and we were getting more atten-tion,” Ray said. “But for me, I knew I wanted to jump deeper into the music thing and then teach if I had to. But that teaching thing is something that I’ve never forgotten about. I’ve always thought, ‘When we’re off the road, maybe I’ll go teach. It’ll be fun.’”
Alongside the popularity of other activism-minded artists such as Ani di Franco and Tracy Chapman, the Indigo Girls built its repertoire on social-issue-focused folk, often cover-
ing topics such as war, genocide, sex-ism and civil rights.
Now, with a new album coming out and work in several activism orga-nizations that focus on LGBT issues, environmental concerns and Native American rights, among others, the Girls’ focus has been on learning from the people and world around.
“We’re never going to be that big and that famous so that we totally lose touch,” Ray said. “It’s contained within our activism. If we have a music career but we have another side thing — which is that we participate in the community ... then there’s going to be a lot of dialogue with the community.”
The Indigo Girls believe that it’s not just working with specific causes that’s important, but working with everyone. And the most effective dia-logue and activism in its experience
have been when everyone pitches in.“It’s always multigenerational
when it’s grassroots,” Ray said. “Any group of that kind that’s great is mul-tigenerational ... The groups that are really effective are the ones that have elders and youth and family and non-family and people with different sexual persuasions.”
Activism then becomes a cross-section of not just people, but of their different interests and backgrounds. It’s not unusual when music, spirituali-ty, activism and other parts meet.
“We can’t help but write from where we’re coming from,” Ray said. “We’re both so steeped in all these dif-ferent spiritualities so it’s part of our language.”
It’s also not unusual for Ray and Saliers to see people from disparate backgrounds working for social causes.
“We’ve been kind of accepting that we’re going to be pulled in different directions and that’s okay,” Ray said. “It’s reality ... a tug of this and a tug of that, especially when you’re in college and you’re in art.”
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Milledgeville Hospital and the Angel of HistoryWhere: Georgia Center for Continuing EducationWhen: 2 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 542-4827 You can Can!Where: Botanical GardenWhen: 2 to 4 p.m.Price: $17Contact: (706) 542-6156 Visual Culture Colloquium LectureWhere: Lamar Dodd School of Art (S150)When: TBA
Price: FreeContact: (706) 542-3663 Funding Your Study Abroad ExperienceWhere: SLC (Room 153)When: 5:30 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 542-7038 Interviewer Skills SeminarWhere: Myers HallWhen: 6 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 542-3375 Gender Transcender — “The Life and Times of Joe Calderone”Where: Memorial HallWhen: 6:30 p.m.Price: Free
Contact: (706) 542-4077 “Grandma has a Video Camera”Where: Georgia Museum of ArtWhen: 6:30 p.m.Price: FreeContact: rom.uga.edu “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”Where: Tate TheatreWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $2 general/$1 stu-dentsContact: (706) 542-6396 “My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto’s Musical Tale”Where: Morton TheatreWhen: 7:30 p.m.
Price: $10 to $15Contact: (706) 613-3771 Beer PongWhere: AlibiWhen: 9 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 549-1010 Green Drinks AthensWhere: Hotel IndigoWhen: 6 to 8 p.m.Price: FreeContact: athensgreendrinks.org Jeremy HughesWhere: Highwire LoungeWhen: 7 to 9 p.m.Price: FreeContact: highwirelounge.com
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Emily HEarnEmily Hearn is a sweetheart.On the phone she is bright and
chipper, taking the time to answer each question thrown her way in complete sentences.
Hearn even repeats and gives the exact spelling of words that don’t come out clear from the speakerphone setting on my cell phone.
“I’m from Griffin, Georgia.” she said. For some reason the city name was drenched in static.
“Yeah, it’s Griffin, Georgia,” she said, once again. “It’s a tiny little town about two hours out-side of Athens.”
Though she has been writing and performing music for two and a half years, Hearn still gets shy when her songs get a little too personal.
“Sometimes I sort of make up things to make [a song] more relatable to other people’s lives,” she said. “Or to make it — in a way — less revealing.”
Her discomfort has its upsides, too.
“People will come up to me afterwards and say ‘that’s exactly how I feel, that’s exactly what happened to me,’” Hearn said. “In a way, being vulnerable like that has been good. It ends up being a
bonding experience between me and the audience.”
That is how she managed to fund an entire album: with a little help from her fans.
“I had written a ton of songs, and I was trying to wrap my head around the process of how I was going to get them recorded,” Hearn said. “But I didn’t have any money.”
It was at this time that some friends told her about kickstarter.com, which allows artists to col-lect funding for many different types of projects.
“The longest you can keep [a project] is a month,” Hearn said. “I did mine for just two and-a-half weeks, a really short period of time.”
Even with just a two-and-half weeks, her fans, friends and fami-ly came through in a big way.
“I ended up raising $15,000 just from friends and random strang-ers,” Hearn said. “People who I don’t even know who they are
just found my project and funded it.”
Her latest release, “Red Balloon,” features the same pro-ducer which worked on her “Paper Heart” EP.
“His name is Terry Roth, R-O-T-H,” Hearn said.
She is looking forward to do as much touring as possible behind the new album and is ready to get things going with this new cycle.
“I’m just working my tail off,” she said. “I’m ready to jump on any new opportunity to come my way.”
And Hearn feels like her first EP was only the tip of the ice-berg.
“The EP was sort of a taste of what kind of music I was going to be putting out,” she said. “This new album is so much more developed and way more of who I am.”
—CoryJasin
emily Hearn raised money for her first album online, from friends and fans. She expects only better from her second release. courtesy Amy Dey
When: Tonight at 8Where: Melting PointPrice: $5 (adv.), $8 (door)
Fiber Arts GroupWhere: Whole: Mind. body. Art. When: 6 to 8 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 424-0195 Rally to Save Volunteer PartyWhere Foundry Park InnWhen: 6 to 8 p.m.Price: FreeContact: athenshumane-society.org Circle of HikersWhere: botanical GardenWhen: 8:30 a.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 542-6156
LiveMusic
BRAcappella with Noteworthy and the AccidentalsWhere: SLcWhen: 6:30 p.m.Price: $5Contact: (865) 804-3310 Butch Walker and the Black WidowsWhere: 40 WattWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $21 (adv.)Contact: 40watt.com Shovels and RopeWhere: 40 WattWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $21 (adv.)Contact: 40watt.com New SneakersWhere: AmiciWhen: 11 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 353-0000 40th StreetWhere: blind Pig (West broad)When: 8 p.m.Price: TbAContact: (706) 548-3442 Candid Coal PeopleWhere: blind Pig (West broad)When: 8 p.m.Price: TbAContact: (706) 548-3442 Kyshona ArmstrongWhere: Flicker TheatreWhen: 8:30 p.m.Price: $5Contact: flickertheatreandbar.com Hannah MillerWhere: Flicker TheatreWhen: 8:30 p.m.Price: $5Contact: flickertheatreandbar.com
Lara OshonWhere: Flicker TheatreWhen: 8:30 p.m.Price: $5Contact: flickertheatreandbar.com Ghostland ObservatoryWhere: Georgia TheatreWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $25Contact: georgiatheatre.com ConspiratorWhere: Georgia TheatreWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $25Contact: georgiatheatre.com The SoundmenWhere: Hendershot’sWhen: 8 p.m.Price: FreeContact: hender-shotscoffeebar.com Shallow PalaceWhere: MaxWhen: 6 to 9 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 254-3392 Sleepy Eye GiantWhere: MaxWhen: 6 to 9 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 254-3392 Spring TigersWhere: MaxWhen: 6 to 9 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 254-3392 John FrenchWhere: Melting PointWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $5 (adv.)/$8 (door)Contact: meltingpointathens.com Emily HearnWhere: Melting PointWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $5 (adv.)/$8 (door)Contact: meltingpointathens.com The LessWhere: Melting PointWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $5 (adv.)/$8 (door)Contact: meltingpointathens.com ArpetrioWhere: No Where barWhen: 10 p.m.Price: $4Contact: (706) 546-4742 The Suex EffectWhere: No Where barWhen: 10 p.m.Price: $4Contact: (706) 546-4742 The Segar Jazz AffairWhere: Omega barWhen: 5 p.m.Price: $5 (before 7 p.m.)/$10 (after 7 p.m.)Contact: theomegabar.com Red Oak Southern String BandWhere: TerrapinWhen: 5:30 p.m.Price: $10 glassContact: terrapinbeer.com Indigo GirlsWhere: classic centerWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $40 /$25 (adv.)Contact: classiccenter.com Roxie WatsonWhere: classic centerWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $40 /$25 (adv.)Contact: classiccenter.com
Blues NightWhere: The Office LoungeWhen: 8:30 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 546-0840 Captain Number 1Where: White TigerWhen: 6 to 8 p.m.Price: TbAContact: TbA Grey MilkWhere: White TigerWhen: 6 to 8 p.m.Price: TbAContact: TbA Jack JigglesWhere: Ted’s Most bestWhen: 7 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 543-1523
Friday, Oct. 7Events
International Coffee HourWhere: Memorial HallWhen: 11:30 a.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 542-5867 “Transformers 3”Where: Tate TheatreWhen: 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.Price: $2 general/$1 studentsContact: (706) 542-6396
Clips of Faith Beer and Film TourWhere: Hot cornerWhen: 7 p.m.Price: FreeContact: newbelgium.com Nuçi’s Space 11th AnniversaryWhere: Nuçi’s SpaceWhen: 5:30 to 9:30 p.m.Price: FreeContact: nuci.org “Dracula”Where: Athens community TheatreWhen: 8 p.m.
Price: $12 to $15Contact: (706) 208-8696 “My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto’s Musical Tale”Where: Morton TheatreWhen: 7:30 p.m.Price: $10 to $15Contact: (706) 613-3771 Grown Up Game NightWhere: Whole: Mind. body. Art.When: 7 p.m.Price: Free (Donations Accepted)Contact: (706) 424-0195 Artist Reception — Virginia ParkerWhere: OcAFWhen: 6 to 8 p.m.Price: FreeContact: ocaf.com
LiveMusic
ElevationWhere: 40 WattWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: 40watt.com Justin KennedyWhere: 40 WattWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: 40watt.com The Well RedsWhere: 40 WattWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: 40watt.com Juice BoxWhere: AmiciWhen: 11 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 353-0000 The BuzzardsWhere: caledoniaWhen: 10 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: caledonialounge.com Dirty Hotel Sunshine
Where: caledoniaWhen: 10 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: caledonialounge.com Chuck TaylorWhere: caledoniaWhen: 10 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: caledonialounge.com Daniel AaronWhere: FlickerWhen: 8:30 p.m.Price: $5Contact: flickertheatreandbar.com Jeff FoxWhere: FlickerWhen: 8:30 p.m.Price: $5Contact: flickertheatreandbar.com The HEAPWhere: FlickerWhen: 8:30 p.m.Price: $5Contact: flickertheatreandbar.com Childish GambinoWhere: Georgia TheatreWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $22Contact: georgiatheatre.com The GrandfalloonsWhere: Hendershot’sWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $5Contact: hender-shotscoffeebar.com Rand lines TrioWhere: Highwire LoungeWhen: 8 to 11 p.m.Price: FreeContact: highwirelounge.com Tim Taylor and Beto CacaoWhere: Las conchitas calienteWhen: 7 to 9 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 353-2500 Blue HeelerWhere: Little Kings
When: 10 p.m.Price: $5Contact: (706) 369-3144 Dead in the DirtWhere: Little KingsWhen: 10 p.m.Price: $5Contact: (706) 369-3144 Kill the SchoolWhere: Little KingsWhen: 10 p.m.Price: $5Contact: (706) 369-3144 Tim Reynolds and TR3Where: The Melting PointWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $13 (adv.)/$15 (door)Contact: meltingpointathens.com IndividuatorWhere: New earthWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $8 (adv.)/$10 (door)Contact: newearthmusichall.com Kai Riedi’s ElectrophoriaWhere: New earthWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $8 (adv.)/$10 (door)Contact: newearthmusichall.com Little peopleWhere: New earthWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $8 (adv.)/$10 (door)Contact: newearthmusichall.com AlbatrossWhere: TerrapinWhen: 5:30 p.m.Price: $10 glassContact: terrapinbeer.com Feral YouthWhere: The bad ManorWhen: 9 p.m.Price: (21+)/$5 (18+, before 11 p.m.)/$10 (18+, after 11 p.m.)Contact: thebadmanor.com
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‘Dracula’“Dracula” is not for lovers.“The play is a true Halloween story, it’s definitely
not a Valentine’s Day story,” said Tracy Carroll who plays the title part. “It’s just creepy and a good scare.”
The Town & Gown Players will exploit the darkness and downplay the romance of the classic tale.
“This play is not what a lot of people think of when they think of ‘Dracula,’” Carroll said. “The novel is not a love story at all. The play stays a lot more true to the novel.”
Recent works such as “Twilight” and “True Blood” have brought on a vampire hype and popularized the once-thought evil crea-tures.
Fortunately, bringing out the creepy in vampires isn’t too hard.
“They look like us except they have fangs and they want to drink our blood,” Steven said. “What part of that isn’t scary?”
Vampire lore may lead audience members to hold high expectations for “Dracula,” but this group doesn’t measure itself up to social standards.
“The popularity of vampires, particularly in young adult books, has kept vampires in the limelight, but this is a little more of an adult story,” Steven said. “We keep in mind what audiences expect and play to it and against it.”
The show will surprise audiences with story line and execution — and even a little fire.
“It’s an ambitious production with special effects, pyrotechnics, costumes and props,” Steven said. “It’s a very graphic adaptation. It’s not a sitting room drama: there’s violence, sex and lots of gore. We need to remember that ‘Dracula’ is a horror story.”
Indeed, this adaptation is the creeper version of the classic Bram Stoker novel — and one that’s rough around the edges.
“It is loud, sexy and visceral. It’s not a talking drama,” Steven said. “It is intended to be a rock star drama, but at the same time it is a great work of liter-ature.”
Whether the play will produce the expected chill bumps and gasps will depend on the cast as it was given a wide creative range to work within.
The actors can bring in some experience of their own lives to their roles, but they also must exert a tre-mendous amount of energy.
“There is one scene where after it I feel like I’ve done push-ups and run laps because I had so much emotion, and it’s an emotion I’m not used to,” Tracy said. “It really is exhausting. It’s strenuous but it’s fun.”
Even though the story is based on the fantastical, its morals will not be lost on mortals.
“It is a different kind of struggle between good and evil but with a hope that despite obstacles good can overcome,” Steven said. “Which is something we don’t see a lot nowadays. In the end evil does not triumph, but it is a bittersweet victory in that good must always be vigilant.”
However, viewers may be too frightened at first to realize their lesson learned.
“It’s definitely a monster story,” Tracy said. “It’s more of ‘Friday the 13’ than ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s.’”
— Hilary Butschek
the town & Gown is updating horror vampire classic “Dracula” with a “rock star” twist. courtesy Aspasia Photography
When: thursday to sunday, Oct. 16; 8 p.m. (Fri. – sat.), 2 p.m. (sun.)Where: Athens community theatrePrice: $12-$15; $8 (student thu)
When: thursday to sunday & Oct. 13 to Oct. 16; 8 p.m. (Fri. – sat.), 2 p.m. (sun.)Where: Athens community theatrePrice: $12-$15; $8 (thurs. student special)
SaturDay, Oct. 8Events
Fourth Annual Women and Girls in Georgia ConferenceWhere: sLcWhen: 8:30 a.m.Price: Free (stu-dents)/$10 (staff)/$25 (academics/profession-als)Contact: (706) 542-2846 Basic BotanyWhere: botanical GardensWhen: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.Price: $100Contact: (706) 542-6156 Family Day: the Art of hatch show PrintWhere: Georgia Museum of ArtWhen: 10 a.m.Price: tbAContact: (706) 542-1051 Salamander and Stream Ecology RambleWhen: botanical GardenWhere: 10 to 11 a.m.Price: tbAContact: (706) 542-6156, Serv(ED) Service ProjectWhen: tate centerWhen: 11 a.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 583-0830 “Transformers 3”Where: tate theatreWhen: 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.Price: $2 general/$1 studentsContact: (706) 542-6396 Pulaski Street Art CrawlWhere: Artini’s Art LoungeWhen: 5 to 9 p.m.Price: FreeContact: georgiasculpture.org 2012 Miss University of Georgia Scholarship PageantWhere: tate center (Grand hall)When: 7:30 p.m.Price: $10 (students)/$15Contact: (706) 542-8514 Athens Farmers MarketWhere: bishop ParkWhen: 8 a.m. to noonPrice: FreeContact: athensfarmersmarket.net Athens Craft Beer FestivalWhere: hotel IndigoWhen: Noon to midnightPrice: $45/$65 (VIP)Contact: athensbeerfestival.com “Dracula”Where: Athens community theatreWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $12 to 15Contact: (706) 208-8696 My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto’s Musical taleWhere: Morton theatreWhen: 7:30 p.m.Price: $10 to $15Contact: (706) 613-3771 Shadowrun RPG DemoWhere: tyche’s GamesWhen: NoonPrice: FreeContact: tychesgames.com Dungeons and Dragons Encounters
Where: tyche’s GamesWhen: 5:30 p.m.Price: FreeContact: tychesgames.com Draconoid Meteor ShowerWhere: sandy creek ParkWhen: 7 to 9 p.m.Price: $2Contact: (706) 613-3631
Live Music
EgyptrixxWhere: 40 WattWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $12 (adv.)Contact: 40watt.com Junior BoysWhere: 40 WattWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $12 (adv.)Contact: 40watt.com Twin TigersWhere: 40 WattWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $12 (adv.)Contact: 40watt.com Caroline AikenWhere: bishop ParkWhen: 10 a.m.Price: FreeContact: athensfarmersmarket.net Larry ForteWhere: bishop ParkWhen: 8 a.m.Price: FreeContact: athensfarmersmarket.net MothsWhere: caledoniaWhen: 10 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: caledonialounge.com Old SmokeyWhere: caledoniaWhen: 10 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: caledonialounge.com SerynWhere: caledoniaWhen: 10 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: caledonialounge.com LorkalarWhere: FlickerWhen: 8:30 p.m.Price: $5Contact: flickertheatreandbar.com Timmy TumbleWhere: FlickerWhen: 8:30 p.m.Price: $5Contact: flickertheatreandbar.com VestibulesWhere: FlickerWhen: 8:30 p.m.Price: $5Contact: flickertheatreandbar.com Ye Olde Sub ShoppeWhere: FlickerWhen: 8:30 p.m.Price: $5Contact: flickertheatreandbar.com The Welfare LinersWhere: Front Porch bookstoreWhen: 6 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 372-1236 Marc BroussardWhere: Georgia theatreWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $15Contact: georgiatheatre.com The Lefty Hathaway
BandWhere: Gnat’s LandingWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $7 (general admis-sion)/$5 (with student ID)Contact: gnatslanding.net Hope for AgoldensummerWhere: hendershot’sWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $5Contact: hender-shotscoffeebar.com Sonia LeighWhere: the Melting PointWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $8 (adv.)/$12 (door)Contact: meltingpointathens.com Sol JunkyWhere: the Melting PointWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $8 (adv.)/$12 (door)Contact: meltingpointathens.com PhaelehWhere: New earthWhen: 9 p.m.Price: tbAContact: newearthmusichall.com QuanticWhere: New earthWhen: 9 p.m.Price: tbAContact: newearthmusichall.com Connor PledgerWhere: terrapinWhen: 5:30 p.m.Price: $10 glassContact: terrapinbeer.com. DJRXWhere: the bad ManorWhen: 9 p.m.Price: (21+)/$5 (18+, before 11 p.m.)/$10 (18+, after 11 p.m.)Contact: thebadmanor.com Movie and Dance PartyWhere: Little KingsWhen: tbAPrice: tbAContact: (706) 369-3144 DJ Legend138Where: rPMWhen: 10 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 543-0428
SunDay, Oct. 9Events
Community Dance CelebrationWhere: Dance buildingWhen: 1:30 p.m.Price: tbAContact: (706) 542-4415 “Transformers 3”Where: tate theatreWhen: 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.Price: $2 general/$1 studentsContact: (706) 542-6396 The Athens Craft Beer FestivalWhere: hotel IndigoWhen: Noon to MidnightPrice: $45/$65 (VIP)Contact: athensbeerfestival.com “Dracula”Where: Athens community theatreWhen: 2 p.m.Price: $12 to $15
Contact: (706) 208-8696 My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto’s Musical taleWhere: Morton theatreWhen: 3 p.m.Price: $10 to $15Contact: (706) 613-3771 Live TriviaWhere: buffalo’sWhen: 6:30 p.m.Price: FreeContact: (706) 354-6655 Gourd Mask WorkshopWhere: Whole: Mind. body. Art.When: 2 to 4 p.m.Price: $20Contact: wholemindbodyart.com Live Music
Richard ChamberlinWhere: Flight tapas and barWhen: 8 p.m.Price: tbAContact: (706) 549-0200 Tent CityWhere: Flight tapas and barWhen: 8 p.m.Price: tbAContact: (706) 549-0200 Widespread PanicWhere: Georgia theatreWhen: 7 p.m.Price: $151/$501 (VIP)Contact: georgiatheatre.com New Hope Benefit ShowWhere: hendershot’sWhen: 3 p.m.Price: $2Contact: hender-shotscoffeebar.com
MOnDay, Oct. 10Live Music
Matthew SweetWhere: 40 WattWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $16 (adv.)Contact: 40watt.com Eddie the WheelWhere: caledoniaWhen: 9:30 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: caledonialounge.com LeBLORRWhere: caledoniaWhen: 9:30 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: caledonialounge.com Slaw & OrderWhere: caledoniaWhen: 9:30 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: caledo-nialounge.com SundressWhere: caledoniaWhen: 9:30 p.m.Price: $5 (21+)/$7 (18+)Contact: caledonialounge.com The HootWhere: the Melting PointWhen: 8 p.m.Price: FreeContact: meltingpointathens.com
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Located on Baxter St. next to Papa Johns and right across from Brumby
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BUY, SELL, or TRADE360, PS3, Wii, DS, PSP, XBOX, PS2, GameCube, Dreamcast, N64, PS 1, SNES Gameboy Genesis, NES
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(706) 769-6699www.lanecreekgolfclub.com
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Student RatesMon - Fri $25 +Tax
Sat - Sun $30 +Tax1201 Club DriveBishop, GA 30621
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ThursDAY, OcTOBEr 6, 2011 ● ThE rED & BLAcK4D
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