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In rape cases, feds speed punitive process Expulsion ‘uncommon’ without hearing

By POLINA MARINOVA The Red & Black Picture this: A male student is drinking in his dorm room. He texts a co-ed and invites her to come over and drink even though he knows she’s “so far gone.”

Two hours later, she leaves his dorm.

Two days later, he’s accused of rape.

No one knows what happened that night, but students are confronted with these types of situations.

“When does it go from good fun and dating and flirting to inappropri-

ate?” said Bill Crane, Phi Kappa Tau’s chapter adviser and a 1984 University graduate. “Who makes that judgment call?”

The University can — given that power by the U.S. Department of Education.

In April 2011, the Obama administration issued new guidelines to colleges and universities in how they should respond to sexual misconduct on campus.

The Office for Civil Rights sent a

“Dear Colleague” letter to presidents of every college and university that receives federal funding through the U.S. Department of Education, including the University of Georgia.

The letter states schools must take immediate and appropriate action to investigate a case of possible sexual violence. It outlines schools should not wait for the conclusion of a criminal investigation or proceeding to begin their own Title IX investigation and, if needed, must take imme-

diate steps to protect the complainant.

In the case of the University student who was accused of rape Aug. 26, the Equal Opportunity Office conducted its own investigation consisting of interviews with five people LOMONTE and a texting conversation between the male and female students. The student, who faces no criminal charges, was expelled without a hearing.

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Emboldened Bulldogs

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If nothing else, Saturday night cemented that faith, even if the result isn’t what the Bulldogs or their fans had hoped.

Anyone who questioned the pride with which Richt viewed his team’s showing had their doubts removed during his postgame press conference.

Flustered by a reporter who wouldn’t stand behind a question about Richt and his quarterback Aaron Murray and their struggles in high-pressure situations — instead beginning his queries with the amorphous label “people” multiple times — Georgia’s coach challenged his accuser to be forthright.

“Is that what you’re saying or

The University’s rowing team had a glimmer of hope. A 2010 University self-study identified it as one of eight sports that could be elevated to varsity status in order to “ensure compliance” with Title IX. But dreams of upgraded facilities and a bigger budget have yet to come true.

The University has taken no steps toward elevating UGA Crew or for any other sport the report identified as having the potential to gain varsity status, including women’s lacrosse, fencing, rugby and water polo.

“In the last five to six years there hasn’t been any talk [of elevating women’s rowing], and I think from the University’s stand point, it isn’t high priority, especially because there is an easier standard they can meet and still be Title IX compliant for at least the next several years,” Women’s rowing coach Michael Townsend said.

The easier standard, according to the 2010 report, is a practice called roster management.

The document does not clearly define roster management, although it does mention that, “Part of [the compliance] effort includes actively encouraging coaches in women’s sports to maintain large rosters, particularly in comparison to men’s sports.”

In an email interview with The Red & Black, Carla Williams, the Title IX officer for the Athletic Association, defined the practice as one of the many components of Title IX compliance along with scholarships, equipment and supplies, support staff and coaching.

The New York Times goes a step further. In a 2011 article about roster management, it

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The Bulldogs may have lost to the Crimson Tide 32-28 in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game, but the events that took place during the game eliminated any questions of Georgia's — or Mark Richt's — credibility this year. SEAN TAYLOR/Staff

Georgia’s loss still stirs positive emotions Just outside of Georgia’s locker room Saturday night, the two men shared a short exchange.

“Hey Coach,” the younger man said from behind, trying to get the older man’s attention.

“Kirby!” exclaimed the older gentleman, as he turned around and extended his hand.

A quick conversation ensued, with each man congratulating the other on the hard-fought game they had just endured. After exchanging the usual pleasantries one would expect between coaches on opposing sidelines, Mark Richt and Kirby Smart went their separate ways. Only Smart, Alabama’s defensive coordinator, walked away with a victory on his side and yet another national championship within reach.

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But Richt perhaps gained something far greater.

He earned the admiration and loyalty of the Bulldogs’ fan base through his team’s down-to-the-last-second effort against the No. 2 Crimson Tide, which saw the Bulldogs come up on the short end of a 32-28 score. Of course, some will say that devotion to Richt is ever-present, aside from the most hardto-please members of Georgia support-

Former foster child finds solace in Everest climb

BY NICHOLAS FOURIEZOS The Red & Black During the holidays, University senior Rebeka Geer will climb 12 days through Nepal to the base camp of Mount Everest.

It will only be the latest of many obstacles she’s trekked in her life, which has taken her from an abusive home-relationship to the shuffle of the foster care system to the precipice of graduating from the University.

But it was through surmounting physical mountains that Geer learned to overcome mental ones.

“I have so much belief in the strength that I have and strength in what I’ve been able to do and overcome, that my mindset is so much more developed on what I can physically take, that being on a mountain, I can be like, “Rebeka, this is just

your mind, you can do this.

This is nothing,’” she said.

“And to be able to overcome all of that constant internal dialogue and get to the top, it’s literally breathtaking.”

Her first climbing experience came with Mount Kilimanjaro, when Geer traveled to Tanzania during the winter break of her sophomore year. She served in a volunteer program teaching English to orphans in Arusha, a bustling city that sits in the mountain’s shadow.

Though she hadn’t established herself as a regular climber before the trip, Geer decided to climb Kilimanjaro during her stay.

She wasn’t deterred by its lofty status, both as the highest free-standing mountain in the world and the highest mountain in Africa, at 19,341 feet above sea level.

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tellus@randb.com ble for climbing on the top of my roof when I was little,” Geer said. “I’ve always been the adventurous type, so it’s kind of in my blood I feel. I had already said I was going to climb Kilimanjaro, but I was figuring out when I was going to climb.”

Geer joined a group of local guides and summited the mountain on Christmas morning.

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also adds that the management is “padding women’s team rosters with underqualified, even unwitting, athletes” and “counting male practice players as women.” Their review of public records from more than 20 colleges and an analysis of all 345 NCAA Division I schools suggests a great number of these institutions is using roster management to comply with Title IX. The University report does not mention these practices, but it does go on to say that “there are limits on the number of female athletes whose interests can be effectively accommodated on existing teams." Thus, there may be a question of whether another women’s team should be added. The last sport the University added a sport was equestrian in 2002.

Missing out Women’s club teams are not the only teams missing out on the perks of being varsity. Townsend said the men’s rowing team could also benefit from elevation of the women’s side.

“It’s not necessarily all smooth sailing,” he said. “There’s plenty of logistics and seeming like [the men are] being left out, but if you have good people as a part of both programs it could work really well for both sides of the equation.”

He said if the women were elevated, then the University would likely upgrade the facilities. For example, the rowers would get “a gigantic room with 40 or 60 ergs.” At $12,000 apiece, it is a huge expense that could benefit the men as well. A new boathouse and dock might also be on the list of perks the men would get to enjoy.

But until the University makes moves, Townsend said he is more focused on his goal for the experienced girls he coaches to be ready to beat all programs in the Southeast.

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Welch Suggs, a University journalism professor who has reported on Title IX and has written a book about the topic, explained the effect of roster management could go beyond club teams. He said the practice shifts the focus in women’s varsity sports from quality to ratios.

“If you are complying with Title IX by roster management, what is the quality of experience for the last 10 or 15 percent of the team? Folks that are never going to see the field of competition,” he said. “Is this a valuable competitive opportunity? Are they benefitting from being part of this team? Do you learn the self-discipline? Do you learn the perseverance?”

For Callie Corbin Langford, a goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team, the answer to these questions is yes. She is not a starter on the team and said the team has given her a quality experience. She said for players who are not starters, the quality of the sport depends on their attitude.

“It’s something you have to decide for yourself,” she said. “Am I here to shatter records? Or am I here to do what I love with my best friends? It’s kind of like a balance.”

Suggs said the University provides athletes such as Langford with quality experiences while using roster management as a method of compliance, because it has ample financial resources.

According to the Office of Postsecondary Education, the University’s Athletic Association reported a profit of around $2.7 million last fiscal year. By comparison, the University of Florida reported a profit of about $10 million.

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In its 40th anniversary, Title IX is hailed as a law promoting gender equality in athletics, and the University has met Title IX requirements by growing opportunities for female athletes. The 2010 report states the University has a history of program expansion since 1973.

“I remember having four kids to a room [when traveling]. My father ended up paying for our year-end party, and everything was on a hope

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and prayer,” Jack Bauerle, who has been coaching the women’s swimming team since 1978, said. “We used to have coaches’ offices in trophy rooms. That was our women’s athletic department over at the coliseum.”

He said today he coaches both men’s and women’s swimming teams, and they both have the same facilities and budget. Part of the success with Title IX is that the University has taken a proactive approach to compliance.

Williams said the University “reviews the [Equity in Athletics Data Analysis] report on an annual basis and engages an outside consultant periodically to assist” to comply with the law.

Glada Horvat, the senior associate athletic director for academics and eligibility at the University, said in the past the University has taken suggestions from the resulting reports seriously.

“Women’s sports would put four people in a room [when traveling] because that made the most financial sense. During one of our self-studies, [a consultant] pointed that out and said, ‘You really shouldn’t be doing that. The men don’t do that. They put two people to a room,’” she said.

Horvat said compliance has not been a problem at the University.

“There haven’t been complaints, but it’s just what you do,” she said.

“Things like that have been pointed out that we’ve tried to fix, and we try to be proactive.”

The proactive approach may also be the most logical. Institutions found not in compliance with Title IX are subject to an investigation by the Office for Civil Rights, which could result in the loss of federal funds.

Suggs said this is rarely the case and the investigation itself was similar to “being audited by the IRS.” The most troubling part for institutions is public embarrassment if they were found not in compliance or a lawsuit was brought against them.

This was the case for the University of California, Irvine in 2010.

According to the New York Times, an OCR investigation concluded Irvine was not in compliance with Title IX, but instead of facing federal fund termination, the school reached an agreement with the office to “expand its indoor track schedule and to increase its roster.”

Still, women at the University seem to be grateful for the mere existence of Title IX. “Title IX is such a blessing. We have so many opportunities that people before us didn’t get to have,” Langford said. “We’re seen in the same light as any other athlete. I would never say that I had felt discriminated or wasn’t given an opportunity as a female over a male athlete.”

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BY MARENA GALLUCCIO The Red & Black Over Thanksgiving break, Juliet Elizabeth Allan was named the University’s fourth Rhodes Scholar in the past six years. She was the Univeristy’s 23rd Rhodes Scholar to date.

Allan, a four-and-a-half-year Arabic, economics and international affairs major also receiving an international policy master’s degree, said she is thrilled to study at Oxford University for another master’s degree.

“I am beyond excited to have the opportunity to study at Oxford next year, and I look forward to deepening my understanding of the Middle East through my studies. The entire process has been extremely humbling and fulfilling,” Allan said.

Many of her accomplishments were with the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network,a non-partisan, student-run think tank that generates and lobbies for policies, as well as the Thomas Lay After-School

Tutoring Program.

Allan wrote a 30-page policy paper on cap and trade for the Roosevelt Institute, which was published in a national journal for Roosevelt. During her sophomore year, she wrote a second 30-page policy paper that focused on early childhood education in Athens and was included in a grant. She said this later led her to become a teacher’s assistant for a Roosevelt class that required students to write a 30-page policy paper.

Allan became co-director of the Thomas Lay Program her junior year and, with fellow codirector Abby Wong, she was able to make changes within the school system.

“It was really fulfilling to work with both the Roosevelt [Institute] and Thomas Lay and be able to be a leader because I think with both of those organizations, not only did I grow as a result of being a part of both of them and to see things that I did help other people grow, but to see things that I actually did

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‘50 percent plus a bread crumb’ The “Dear Colleague” letter also encourages schools to use a lower burden of

EXPELLED STUDENT UPDATE An undisclosed resolution has been reached in the case of an expelled University student accused of strong-arm rape.

All parties were supposed to appear at a Nov. 30 court hearing at 10 a.m. in the Athens-Clarke County Courthouse regarding the student’s petition for a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction.

The hearing was cancelled, and a court official said the case was settled on Nov. 29.

Kim Stephens, the male student’s attorney, also said the case was resolved, but he could not release any information due to FERPA regulations.

As previously reported in The Red & Black on Nov. 28, a University student was fighting expulsion related to an incident in which a female student accused him of strong-arm rape in late August.

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proof in deciding cases of sexual violence.

The letter states schools’ grievance procedures must use the preponderance of the evidence standard to resolve complaints of sexual harassment or violence.

The “preponderance of the evidence standard” means if there is a 50.01 percent likelihood the accused student is in violation, that is enough to find the student responsible.

“The preponderance of the evidence means 50 percent plus a bread crumb,” LoMonte said. “It has to be somewhat more than half of the evidence, but it can be just a hair more than half of the evidence that demonstrates that you did it. Ultimately, it typically comes down to a credibility contest.”

But LoMonte said the issue is less with the percentage and more with the training and expertise of the people involved in the process.

“My bigger concern with the process is that you often have a room full of people with no legal training and an accused student who

has no attorney representing him making decisions that dramatically impact people’s lives,” LoMonte said.

In the recent sexual assault case highlighted

by The Red & Black, Kristopher Stevens, associate director of the Equal Opportunity Office, conducted the investigation. Stevens transferred from the Office of Student Conduct and has been in the EOO position since August.

“In my experience with the campuses that I’ve seen working with compliance, they go through and check all the boxes,” Kiss said.

“While it may look like a rushed process on the outside, I would imagine there was a procedure that was followed at the university.”

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LETTER: Proof must be little more than half “It is relatively uncommon to take an action as consequential as an expulsion or lengthy suspension without a hearing,” said Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center. “There are due process protections when your enrollment is at stake, and due process requires a hearing either before the decision is made, or in case of an emergency, immediately after the decision is made. But normally, due process requires that you get a hearing before the right to continue attending is taken away from you.”

The “Dear Colleague” letter also states schools must offer due process to the alleged perpetrator while making sure the steps do not “restrict or unnecessarily delay” the complainant’s Title IX protections.

“The Department of Education can have its opinion, but the department cannot override the Constitution,” LoMonte said. “It may very well be that some elements of their guidance compromise due process.

And if they do, a school can’t be punished for refusing to violate the Constitution.”

Alison Kiss, executive director of the Clery Center for Security on Campus, thinks it’s important for schools to quickly resolve cases of sexual misconduct.

“I would rather see cases decided quicker, so long as the process is fair and equitable and both parties are given an option to discuss and appeal,” Kiss said.

Since the legislation was sent to universities, the University reported 10 rapes and 9 sexual batteries. In two of the rapes and three of the sexual assaults, the accuser knew the perpetrator. Two sexual battery complaints were later reported as “unfounded.”

As cited in the “Dear Colleague” letter, college campuses reported nearly 3,300 forcible sex offenses according to 2009 Clery Act data.

“We know that campus sexual assault is so underreported, so if you have an environment where you can go and report, it’s going to be an environment where more people come forward,” Kiss said. “The main goal is to eliminate a hostile environment and to allow students to have an education without any sort of retaliation and hostility.”

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Crane is familiar with the University’s procedures. He served as a Main Court Justice on the University’s student judiciary when he was a student at the University in the 1980s.

“Back in the day,

and more recently, the Office of Judicial Programs has tried to side with the accuser seeming to think that no one would step forward with such an egregious complaint if it did not have merit,” Crane said. “And I would hope that 90 percent of the time if not more, that is the case.”

However, Crane said in his experience as a fraternity adviser at UGA and other campuses, “the male student, the aggressor in terms of the allegation, is suspended or expelled often times without due process.”

“The U. S .

Constitution gives us the right of court of law to face our accuser, to ask questions and to see what evidence they can offer,” Crane said. “That does not exist on most campuses in the Offices of Judicial Programs.”

LoMonte said in a court of law, an accused person could not lose a case based on pure allegations coming from unidentified witnesses.

“The rules are relaxed in a disciplinary setting, but there’s a point where the process has to be consistent with basic due process guarantees,” LoMonte said.

Though the new legislation aims to eliminate the sexual violence reported on campus as quickly as possible, Crane said the process must be fair to both the accuser and the accused.

“The University has an obligation to not just very quickly perform a cursory review,” he said.

“We are talking about the long-term careers, lives and potentially criminal records of students in their care.”

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SGA, Ignite can boast of accomplishments, but the year is far from over The Ignite UGA Party has almost finished its first semester as the governing power of the Student Government Association, and we are satisfied with its performance so far.

A recent article in the online edition of The Red & Black [“SGA Report Card,” Nov. 30] measured Ignite’s success in carrying out its campaign promises. Ignite put up a respectable showing across the board, earning three A’s (indicating an accomplished platform point, pending implementation), one A- and eight B’s (indicating a platform point in progress). If we consider each platform point the equivalent of a three hour course, that means Ignite has earned a 3.3 GPA. In other words, they’ve fallen short of the Dean’s List, and are hardly squeaking by with Gentleman’s C’s (something past SGA administrations could be accused of).

Crunching the numbers and assigning letter grades according to a (necessarily arbitrary) progress rubric can not totally encapsulate the achievements of SGA so far, however.

For example, we are impressed by the body’s efficiency in creating a legal counseling service for students, which may launch as soon as next January. The Red & Black’s own crime report is an unfortunate reminder of how useful such a resource could prove, but it will likely shine in helping students with more trivial legal issues, like navigating labyrinthine lease contracts.

The inaugural academic majors fair, scheduled for Feb. 12, is likewise a policy success that will benefit hundreds of students.

We congratulate Ignite and the SGA body for these accomplishments, but the school year is only half through. It should not go unnoticed that Ignite’s two most important platform points, the maintenance and reform of HOPE and the presidential search, both earned B’s — they are works in progress, far from complete.

So to Ignite: keep your foot on the gas and keep up the good work. We’ll keep up the pressure.

— Blake Seitz is the opinions editor of The Red & Black

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Opposition to President Obama based on reason, not racism

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have never been fond of our public education system. The bureaucratic nightmares my mother, an educator herself, has to face on a daily basis have given me little reason to appreciate it. My sister just happened to give me another.

Prior to the election, one of her teachers went off on a rant declaring the only reason anyone could possibly oppose the reelection of President Barack Obama is because they are racist. She then challenged the students — ages 13 and 14 — to justify their opposition without (and here’s the catch) using anything their parents have told them.

The distastefulness of such blatant attempts to squelch, rather than encourage, students’ intellectual and political development scarcely needs to be discussed.

It should be obvious to all, even those who support our president. Rather, I want to address the non-argument itself.

There are a plethora of rational reasons to oppose the president, all which involve his policy decisions and ideology. Besides making the call to take out Osama bin Laden and repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” his policies have injured individual rights even more than those of President Bush before him.

Such individualist, rights-centered complaints mean little to those whose ideology requires a culture of collectivist antagonism — black versus white, rich versus poor, immigrant versus native, proletariat versus bourgeoisie — in order to succeed.

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ideology; an individualist ideology precludes it. A man who gets self-esteem from the pigmentation of his skin and judges others on the same is a collectivist, not an individualist.

Opposing this ideology is a matter of reason, not race. Change the collective group being talked about — Obama’s “American people” to George Wallace’s “white people” — and the argument would flow the same, and be just as immoral.

Certainly, collectivism is not unique to the left — the right is plagued with its own versions (such as nativism). And there are those in this country who are legitimately racist, and they ought to be scorned.

But to suggest that President Obama’s opposition is guided by racism ignores that it is the premises of collectivism — those espoused by the left and right — which are at the heart of the problem and ought to be expunged from America’s political discussion.

— Brian Underwood is a junior from Evans majoring in political science and history

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Alumni Association story does disservice to honest employees The “Supervising the Supervisors” article [“Supervising the supervisors: UGA Alumni Association breaks its rules,” Nov. 29] is much ado about very little and disparages hard-working Alumni Relations employees. These professionals put in long hours at odd times of the day staffing events important to our mission of fostering good relations with UGA alumni. In compensation for those overtime hours, they are offered time off from their regular work schedules. Certainly, we desire that the granting of this time off be evenly applied

and within university policy. The cases your article cited in response to a complaint from a disgruntled former employee are not reflective of the overall work ethic of this office.

The article is dramatically overblown for what you had to work with, and the editorial based on the article jumps to unwarranted conclusions that those paying taxes or tuition are somehow being served poorly by this.

Deborah Dietzler Executive Director, University of Georgia Alumni Association

MAILBOX Red & Black should stop running ‘fluff’ Where are your articles of substance? Where is the passion and fire the R&B fought with this summer to retain creative control of the paper, is this the content you fought to write? As newspapers fade into obscurity will your articles stand up or will your paper resemble twitter more every day?

There have been exceptions, kudos to Mariana Heredia for writing a worthwhile column, “University must do more to stop rape” on November 13th. I hope the rest of the R&B staff uses Miss Heredia as an example while shying away from the fluff pieces which so often clutter your website.

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am admittedly bad at the game Monopoly.

Terrible, in fact. And as fate would have it, I am equally bad dealing with real-life realty, which makes me, like every other freshman preparing to sign a lease for next August, the perfect target for coercive landlords.

The first thing to do when delving into the Athens real estate market is to identify what you are looking for.

Apartment, duplex, house — the options are endless. And that’s just the exterior. Interiors come equipped with amenities: wood floors, stainless steel appliances and closets the size of a Brumby dorm room.

Once you have found the perfect place to call home for next year, inquire about cost, laugh when you see the figure, cry when you realize it isn’t a joke and then reevaluate your choice.

You don’t really need your own bathroom — sharing is fine. Ramsey is great — you can sacrifice an on-site gym. Central heating isn’t vital — just buy blankets. A few bugs never hurt anyone.

Continue paring down necessities until rent reaches the requisite price range. Then consider utilities: sneaky devils that drain your bank account, but your roommates won't agree to live by candlelight.

By this point, you have probably (once again) found the perfect residence. Then you make the call to set up a tour and begin signing paperwork, only to hear the most disheartening response imaginable: “I’m sorry, all of our units have already been pre-leased for the fall.”

Prepare yourself now, because you’re going to hear it a lot.

You’re going to lose dozens of “perfect” places before finally signing on the dotted line.

But don’t be discouraged — utilize that plucky determination so characteristic of firsttime house hunters.

Keep searching the Google machine and classified ads for anything livable.

And, ultimately, remember that all of this is one of the first steps in pursuit of the American dream — or at least every first year’s dream of emancipation from dorm life.

— Laura Thompson is a freshman from Houston majoring in pre-journalism

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CALM BEFORE THE STORM: Reading Day,

for uninitiated freshmen, is the hoary old tradition of taking a day off before finals to “study” for exams. Or sleep off a vengeful hangover. Or read your favorite student newspaper cover to cover. Whatever you choose to do today, be sure it does not involve the Student Learning Center.

GAME OF INCHES: Last Saturday’s SEC championship went down to the wire — to the last five seconds and yards.

It was a crushing four-point loss made all the worse by how hard the Bulldogs fought. Even Nick Saban admits we deserve a BCS bowl, but it will be nice beating the pants off Nebraska in sunny Florida.

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Foreign languages a ‘window to culture’

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couldn’t talk to him.

A few months ago, I was reporting for a story about car break-ins, walking through a neighborhood where they were prevalent. I saw a man entering his house and decided to interview him. After I approached him and explained my story, I noticed a confused expression on his face.

He couldn’t understand me because he spoke Spanish — I spoke English.

It is often said that once someone speaks English, learning other languages is useless. After all, with more than 300 million native speakers, English is the world’s lingua franca, a bridge language between people who do not share the same native tongue.

Everyone speaks English to some degree — right?

But in an increasingly globalized world, learning how to converse in other languages has benefits in the professional world and as a way of creating connections across cultures. The world does not speak English, so we must adapt.

Just think: if you know another language or two in addition to English, you have immediately boosted your résumé and gained an edge over the competition.

That means you have just become invaluable in your job, which also creates more opportunities for raises and promotions.

“You’ll be a more productive and useful member of whatever company or organization you work for,” said Ken Knight, a University of Georgia doctoral candidate.

Jonathan Krell is the perfect example. Krell, now a French professor at the University of Georgia, spent five years as an international auditor for Westinghouse Electric and Corning, working in France. He said the only reason he landed the job was because of his fluency in French.

“In order to communicate with people at all levels of the workplace, you really need to speak their language,” he said. “I would go out into factories and speak with workers who didn’t have much of an education, and they’re not going to speak English with me.”

Suddenly, just speaking English doesn’t seem so practical. And international businessmen are not the only ones who need multilingual skills. Depending on where they live in the United States, a teacher could benefit from knowing Spanish, Chinese or Korean.

So could a nurse, a lawyer or a social worker.

Knowing another language also helps others. In medicine, the ability to understand a patient could mean the difference between life and death. A police officer who understands a foreign speaker could stop a crime. A teacher could become more effective in the classroom.

But there are other benefits to multilingualism.

Learning others’ languages is also a form of cultural exploration.

“You can’t learn a language divorced of culture, so you’re really just trying to take in another culture,” Knight said. “You’re doing that in the most intimate way by learning the words that define the culture in a sense.”

When a person learns a language, he is absorbing more than grammatical rules and vocabulary.

Language is a window to culture. If a person wants to

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listen to music, watch movies or read books, the way to gain access is by learning the language.

And a learner instantly earns the trust of any speakers he encounters.

When you speak to someone in his native tongue, you earn a badge of honor. You are brought into the fold, whether it is a language with many speakers or a language with few.

“They really appreciate it, they’re really impressed if you can speak their language, so it makes them feel better about you,” Krell said.

By speaking to someone in his native tongue, even in the United States, you make the other person feel more comfortable and at home.

And with the world becoming more globalized, it is only natural for our tongues to adapt.

Americans take Japanese bento boxes for lunch, watch French movies and listen to the Korean “Gangnam Style.”

But cultural immersion does not come from a trip to the Eiffel Tower or the Taj Mahal. It comes when people converse with the citizens of a country, which can only be done when they share a common language.

On a larger scale, there are many long-standing conflicts between bordering countries: Pakistan and India, Israel and the Palestinian people, China and Japan. If we all knew more about our neighbors, perhaps there would be more room for cooperation.

Our perspective would become more global as we considered the lens through which others see the world.

When people know each other better, collaboration is more attainable.

In contrast, it is a decidedly un-global attitude to assume everyone else will speak your language while you will not speak the language of others. This leads to a foggier cultural understanding of others and a greater chance of conflict.

English is not the de facto ruler of the linguistic landscape. In fact, Americans are in the minority as most of the world is multilingual.

And with the growing importance of Spanish, Chinese and Arabic, English may need to share its influence. It will not be a lingua franca forever.

It seems impractical to cling onto a single language as the economy and world become more globalized and humans become more intertwined. Social media, especially Facebook and Twitter, have broken the borders of countries as international news spreads through posts and tweets. During the Arab Spring, people used social media to organize protests and spread awareness.

Globalization knows no official boundaries.

And let’s not forget the biggest reason for venturing outside the confines of English: Knight said the English skills of people around the world are usually no better than the Spanish of an average American high school student.

I can’t help but imagine the confused look on the Spanish-speaking man’s face vanishing, replaced with a smile. English may be a lingua franca – but it is not a universal language.

— Adina Solomon is a senior from Atlanta majoring in journalism

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o the United Nations hates Israel. If it wasn’t clear before it certainly is now after its vote to grant Palestine non-member observer status in its chamber [“General Assembly grants Palestine non-member observer State status at UN,” UN News Centre, Nov. 29]. To this, left-wing world government advocates will doubtless respond that the U.N. is a great advocate of civil rights.

Yes, the U.N. is a wonderful agent of civil and human rights. In fact, its Human Rights Council includes China, Libya, Uganda, Saudi Arabia and Cuba, widely known as valiant promoters of human rights.

Judging from the hundreds of U.N. resolutions concerning it, Israel must be the most evil and imperialistic of them all. Obviously the countries that compose the Human Rights Council and General Body know a great deal about civil rights and are morally qualified to condemn Israel — a democratic country the size of New Jersey — for protecting its borders and citizens from rocket attacks.

In America and on college campuses especially, ignorance regarding Israel is remarkable.

From snippets of conversations one hears often that “Israel oppresses Palestinian human rights” and that “Hamas is just retaliating to violence and oppression committed by Israel.”

Both of these talking points are untrue.

There is no “apartheid” in Israel. Israel doesn’t want to kill civilians and they take action to prevent it; they want peace, and would indeed give up land for peace.

Israel actually made an agreement in 1979 to give up the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, which said it wanted peace. They have also withdrawn from Gaza [“After Israeli disengagement,” BBC News, Sept. 12 2005]. They did these things, but there was no peace in the

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region — the situation only accelerated.

This is because the conflict has absolutely nothing to do with land or a two-state solution.

If it did, Israel would readily give up land and the conflict would be over.

Instead, this has everything to do with a group of terrorists who want to exterminate — literally exterminate — a nation and a people.

The U.N. voted in favor of supporting the Palestinian Authority by upgrading its status to non-member observer. Nine nations dissented from the vote, including the United States, Canada and (of course) Israel [“Countries that voted against Palestine at UN include United States, Israel and Canada,” The Huffington Post, Nov. 29].

Because of the obvious anti-Israel, antiAmerican and anti-human rights sentiments rife among U.N. members, it is time for America, Israel and Canada to get out, along with the Pacific Island nations that typically support the U.S. The United Nations is united only in its hatred for the tiny democratic Jewish nation called Israel.

— Paula Baroff is a freshman from Atlanta majoring in pre-journalism and political science

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Kathleen LaPorte Guest Columnist

University policy fetters free speech

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he first sentence of the University of Georgia Policy on Freedom of Expression reads, “No rights are more highly regarded at the University of Georgia than the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and the right to assemble peaceably."

One of the two designated “Free Expression Areas” on campus, Tate Plaza provides a place for preachers to criticize students for their dealings with the devil and University clubs and organizations to solicit students’ attention with fliers and bake sales.

With hoards of tables and people practicing their free expression in your direct path to class, it may appear as though free expression at the University is intact and that students’ rights are well protected, with no limitations on free speech rights.

While the University is quick to permit colorful hand-outs and cupcakes, its policy prevents students from exercising complete freedom of speech.

In its policy on public speech, the University employs an approval and reservations process that ensures all forms of speech are reviewed and approved by the Office of the Dean. In this way, the University maintains control over what students are saying on campus.

For most students, free speech means little more than avoiding crowds of students who want to tell you or sell you something at Tate, but the implications of the University’s review process should not be taken lightly.

From an educational perspective the formal process required for students to participate in free expression could deter students from pursuing their rights to free expression.

The free expression policy also puts a time frame on requests for protest, requiring students to submit their request 48 hours in advance. This limits students’ ability to spontaneously respond to current issues.

Free expression should be easy to carry out on a college campus, where the learning environment is designed for innovation and the spread of new ideas.

With its paperwork and formal request policies, the University has slowed down and added a speed bump to the process of free speech.

As far as preachers and colorful fliers go, free expression is visible and, indeed, unavoidable on campus. We grit our teeth and bear these manifestations of free speech, but they should not be the only forms of expression students see on campus.

More important than what you do see may be what you don’t see.

— Kathleen LaPorte is a junior from Decatur majoring in journalism and public affairs

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Professor seeks solutions to better diagnose Chagas disease

BY JEANETTE KAZMIERCZAK The Red & Black Chagas disease is a patient killer. It spends years building up in the tissue of the heart and intestines before becoming a serious problem — and there is no reliable test to detect its presence.

Rick Tarleton, a distinguished research professor in the department of cellular biology, is leading a team that will try to find a more sensitive test for diagnosing this disease, and hopefully discover a better treatment along the way.

The parasite is found in the feces of the triatomine — commonly known as the “kissing” bug because it typically bites the face and lips to feed on blood.

Chagas disease affects 8 million to 11 million people in South America, Mexico and Central America and approximately 300,000 people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tarleton said the difficulty was the numbers of the parasite are so low in the body that it is difficult to tell if the treatment has worked.

When someone is initially infected, symptoms include fever, fatigue, vomiting and diarrhea. These symptoms are not unique to Chagas disease, so people often go undiagnosed for decades before later symptoms like cardiomyopathy and intestinal complications occur.

“To really definitively see the parasites you would have to do a lot of heart biopsies or a number of other somewhat outrageous things that aren’t really doable,” Tarleton said.

The official point of his study, Tarleton said, was

to determine if PCR — polymerase chain reaction, a tool used to isolate and copy a specific strand of DNA — is accurate enough to serve as a diagnostic method.

He said the next step would be to use the samples collected to test the PCR method to see if there were other options for detecting the parasite.

The human immune system does a good job of keeping the infection contained, Tarleton said. It produces antibodies that fight the disease but can mask whether or not treatment is effective.

“Theoretically, if you clear that infection, the antibody levels should decrease over time and perhaps even go away, and that’s what’s now used to determine treatment effectiveness,” he said. “But the problem with that is it may take 10 years or 20 years for you to see that decline.”

Physicians in the United States rarely know to look for Chagas disease when patients present with some of the long term symptoms, Tarleton said.

The research will be done in collaboration with the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and will be funded by the Wellcome Trust, a foundation in the United Kingdom that supports biomedical research.

Sydney Barnes, a third-year biology major from Macon, spent the last four months training in Tarleton’s lab.

“It’s really nice for me to have a part of something bigger,” she said. “I go to class and study all this stuff but then I always love going to the lab because I feel like I’m part of something more because I’m actually putting something forth in helping these people.”

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Rick Tarleton says people often go untreated for Chagas disease for decades until later symptoms occur. Courtesy Rick Tarleton

The Kihansi spray toad became extinct in the wild when its watershed habitat was changed by the construction of a hydroelectric dam. Courtesy Kurt Buhlmann

Tiny toads reintroduced to native habitat in Tanzania

BY Jeanette Kazmierczak The Red & Black Tracey Tuberville and Kurt Buhlmann celebrated their wedding anniversary by participating in the first reintroduction of an extinct-inthe-wild toad to the Kihansi Gorge in Tanzania in October.

Tuberville and Buhlmann, researchers at the University’s Savannah River Ecology lab, were asked to participate in the project as advisers because of their success in reestablishing populations of tortoises in the U.S. “Some of our research is actually focused on how do you reestablish populations in the wild. So much of conservation is protecting what we have left,” Buhlmann said.

The Kihansi spray toad became extinct in the wild when its habitat was changed because of the construction of a hydroelectric dam.

“One of the things that’s unique about this watershed, this river is the only river in that whole area that flows year-round, and it also has a huge waterfall that drops a couple hundred meters,” Tuberville said.

While that makes the Kihansi River ideal for a hydroelectric dam, it also means that the area downstream is a unique habitat, Tuberville said.

“It wasn’t until biologists went in to look at that that they realized, ‘Whoa, we’ve never seen this before.

It’s not like anything else we’ve encountered,’” she said. “They tried to find other places in the mountain

range where that type of habitat existed, where that toad existed, and they weren’t able to find any.”

In an effort to save the species, 500 toads were sent to breeding programs at the Toledo Zoo in Ohio and the Bronx Zoo in New York. At the time of the release, there were 6,000 toads in captivity.

Tuberville and Buhlmann began working on the project in March.

In June and July, the two University researchers reintroduced a small number of the toads in a controlled release to observe how they reacted to the recreated environment. They used small mesh cages to control how far the thumbnail-sized toads could travel.

There were concerns that because the toads had been raised in captivity, they would not know how to function in the wild.

On Oct. 30, 2,500 toads were released freely into the gorge.

There are some scientists who are concerned with losing small captive populations of animals by reintroducing them to their original environment when causes for decreased numbers are unknown, Buhlmann said.

“It is, in some ways, a big experiment, so we don’t claim that it is successful yet,” Buhlmann said. “If we can show some success with the Kihansi spray toad, that gives other people hope and ideas that maybe it is possible to put things back.”

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University, state continue history of malaria research

BY JEANETTE KAZMIERCZAK The Red & Black Georgia has a long history of malaria research.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was established in Atlanta as Malaria Control in War Areas and helped to end the disease as a major health concern in the United States in the 1940s.

Now the University — in collaboration with Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the CDC and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory — will continue that tradition by studying malaria at a microscopic level as part of the Malaria Host-Pathogen Interaction Center.

“The thing that I’m proud of is that Georgia as a state had the capacity here, all within Georgia, to be able to do this,” said Jessica Kissinger, genetics professor and director of the Institute of Bioinformatics Adjunct. “I think that speaks to some of the foresight of the Georgia Research Alliance."

The National Institutes of Health has awarded MaHPIC as much as $19.4 million dollars over the next five years. Two million will go to the University to compile the data that will be collected through the systems biology approach MaHPIC will take to study the disease.

University researchers will be processing all the “omic” data — genomic, metabolomic, lipdomic and others — for the project.

Jessica Kissinger, a genetics professor, said the malaria research will look at host-pathogen interactions. Courtesy Jessica Kissinger The project will be looking at host-pathogen interactions on a scale so fine it is only possible because of technological innovations that increased the speed and precision of tests.

Kissinger said that the hope is indicators will emerge once all measurements of the “omic” date are processed.

They will be looking for correlation in the metabolic profile of the interaction between the host and pathogen to see if they can associate a pattern with an outcome.

“No one has ever looked at the host and the pathogen

simultaneously in malaria in a primate in vivo for the whole course of the infection,” she said.

Kissinger's other major contract, PlasmoDB, a database for malaria-causing Plasmodium in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania, is also funded by NIH. “It’s used by people everywhere who work on those parasites. I worked with NIH two summers in a lab that worked with toxoplasmosis,” said Allyson Byrd, a former undergraduate researcher of

Kissinger’s who is now getting her PhD in bioinformatics at Boston University.

The University faculty involved in the project make sure everyone is using the same information, Kissinger said.

Juan Gutierrez, an assistant professor of mathematics, will help with data management and multi-scale mathematical modeling.

“All the modern mathematics has an influence from the development of physics in the 17th century,” he said.

The project will try to answer questions like why types of malaria go dormant, why sometimes symptoms reappear after a lull and why treatment of one form can cause a resurgence of another.

Galinski said education is an important part of her research.

“There will be very few people who don’t know someone outside the United States, is my guess, because of how we’re interacting,” Kissinger said. “It’s important for us to know and be able to feel safe going in other parts of the world.”

Kissinger said no one knows how this project will play out because no one has been able to monitor the interaction this closely before.

“It’s exciting and terrifying at the same time,” she said.

“The potential of what we’ll get — I think it’s going to be a lot like the Human Genome Project."

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One student was reportedly “urinating on the floor” in Brumby Hall. She responded “One bar.

One mojito” to questions. EMS transported her to St. Mary’s Hospital, according to the report.

The other student reportedly started “throwing a stack of papers off of a desk” in Creswell Hall. The officer arrested him, and he reportedly said, “I was drugged. I was just drinking water, and now I’m in this state. I’ve never been in this state before.”

EMS also transported him, according to the report.

Officers said they would seek warrants for the students.

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When asked about the urine, Smith reportedly said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I didn’t do that.”

Surveillance reportedly showed Smith urinating on the shelf. He was arrested and taken to Clarke County Jail.

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UGA student ‘unresponsive’ in Brumby Hall, arrested A University student , Adam Jude Corwin, 19, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, underage possession of alcohol and possession of a fake ID after he was found “unresponsive” in Brumby Hall Saturday morning, according to a University Police report.

The officer asked Corwin for an ID, and he reportedly gave one which appeared fraudulant.

Corwin was arrested. A “small baggie” of marijuana was reportedly found in his front pocket He was taken to Clarke County Jail. He declined to comment to The Red & Black.

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Action Ministries fuels help for less privileged

BY SARAH ANNE PERRY The Red & Black There is a fight in Athens. A fight against leaving a backpack, a blanket, a man on a sidewalk.

These are familiar sights in Athens-Clarke County, one of the poorest in the nation.

Cyclical poverty and generational illiteracy affect Athens residents and prevent them from overcoming their circumstances.

But Action Ministries isn’t settling in addressing hunger, housing and educational issues. The Athens branch of the Atlantabased agency serves area homeless and working poor.

Although Action Ministries is rooted in the United Methodist Church, it does not preach its beliefs. Erin Barger, the executive director of Athens Ministries Athens, said

this is an important part of the organization’s values.

“We’re pretty guarded about our belief that people should be able to survive whether or not they agree with us religiously,” she said. “And actually, the religions of our staff are varied. So we don’t all agree on every religious issue.

But we are faith-based in that the people in this space, who are on staff here, all do this work in a way that is very integrated in their belief in God and what he’s done for us.”

Action Ministries relies on financial support from local organizations, fundraisers and federal grants. It partners with local churches in the Our Daily Bread Community Kitchen to serve meals at Oconee Street United Methodist Church daily, where guests can also acquire hygiene and personal

care items. They serve 50,000 meals annually.

Action Ministries runs with the help of more than 500 volunteers, ranging from University students to retired adults. Interns majoring in social work and health promotion also play an important role. Barger said she sometimes encounters negative attitudes about helping the poor.

“One of the key misconceptions is that people are poor because they are somehow less deserving than people who are not,” she said. “That’s a really destructive misconception because it not only degrades people that do not have, but it elevates people that do have in ways that are not respectful of the fact that we were all created in the image of the same Creator, and we have all had different opportunities and supports to succeed.”

Carmen Rodriguez is a regular at Our Daily Bread.

She has a public housing apartment now, but was at one time homeless. She grew up as a foster child in New York before moving to Georgia, where she struggled with an abusive relationship. Bouts of addiction landed her in shelters and detox

Volunteer Sally Peters serves those in need of a meal at Our Daily Bread, a program open daily that is organized through Action Ministries. RANDY SCHAFER/Staff programs, but now she is on her feet.

“I was thinking last night, when it was really cold, and it was raining,” Rodriguez said. “I was like, ‘You know, sometimes you’re so ungrateful, Carmen.

But look — you could be out there. You have heat. You have a television. You got a little bit of food. You have clean clothes. If you don’t have a cigarette, you know, big friggin’ deal.

You have a home.’ And I don’t want to lose my

home. I don’t want to be on the street.”

Barger described the difficulty many people have escaping poverty.

“Being homeless is a part-time to full-time job in and of itself,” she said. “Every single day, you’re managing where to put whatever things you may have, how to keep the things you have without them being stolen — or washed away by the rain, if you’re sleeping outside. It can take

hours to figure out where you’re laying your head down. You’re usually on foot if you have no income, so walking from wherever you were able to stay to the various social service agencies can take three to four hours. It’s a pretty complicated situation, being homeless. So getting out of it, just at its most basic, is really challenging.”

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Snoozing in danger during finals week

BY ASHTON MOSS The Red & Black Finals are a stressful time for students.

While nerves are high and tempers are

short, the worst side effect of tests, papers and projects is a constant lack of sleep Angie Ruhlen, the Nutrition Counseling Coordinator at the University Health Center, said students need a consistent amount of sleep, especially during finals.

“Most young adults need seven to nine hours of sleep per night,” Ruhlen said.

Not getting enough sleep has been proven to decrease awareness, productivity and con-

centration while also leading to lower grades.

The University Heath Center’s website says that one in four students indicate that lack of sleep has impacted their academic performance.

Due to the toll they take on the body and brain, all-nighters can actually be counterproductive. During sleep, the brain organizes, sorts and stores the information and experiences from the day and makes it easier to remember and recall

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“Whatever balance that allows you to get seven to nine hours of sleep per night,” Ruthlen said. “The best method of absorbing all the information that you need to know for tests is to study a little every day instead of cramming all night for a test.”

Many students simply ignore their body’s need for sleep, so after staying up all night, they’ll take a nap to catch up. The University Heath Center’s website says that naps are an excellent resource if implemented the right way.

Students are encouraged to nap for 20 to 30 minutes early in the day.

But, when’s the best time to sleep if you only have a few hours?

According to a study done by Stanford University scientists, an early-morning sleep group (2:15 - 6:15 a.m.) scored significantly better on the wakefulness test than a late-night sleep group (10:30 p.m.

- 2:15 a.m.) If students are planning on getting only a small amount of sleep, they should do so during the morning hours.

But can’t students just down coffee to avoid having to sleep?

Ruhlen said that while caffeine definitely keeps the body awake, students should remember that a person is only supposed to have 300 mg of the stimulant each day.

“Caffeine increases adrenaline and reduces the sleep-promoting chemicals in your body,” Ruhlen said. “Even if you can fall asleep right after drinking caffeine, it can reduce the amount of deep, restorative stages of sleep, which makes you feel drowsy the next day despite getting a full night. Best advice: try to stop consuming caffeine at least six hours before bedtime.”

It goes against the way college students are programmed, but the best way to do well on a final exam is to put down the notes, pour out that fresh cup of coffee and crawl into bed.

Don’t feel guilty.

You’re doing yourself a favor.

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Overcome stress with musical therapy Let’s face it, finals suck.

Alas, everybody needs a break on the weekend to get away from studying, and Athens makes that possible.

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Friday At Nowhere Bar, Charlotte band Bubonik Funk will be playing.

The music is a blend of soul and rock, which is something we need during this time. Finals kill our soul.

The 40 Watt will be hosting a Poverty is Real benefit with Hope for A Golden Summer, Dave Marr, the District Attorneys, and members of the Futurebirds will cover Grateful Dead (Bobby’s Shorts).

Grammy-winning musician Jerry Douglas is at Georgia Theatre.

World renowned in his use of the dobro, he has recently worked with many artists including Allison Krauss, Mumford and Sons and Paul Simon.

Saturday Tealvox will headline Caledonia and continues to make a strong presence in Athens. It is

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The Georgia Theatre has Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk and Consider the Source, who both play funk.

For somewhere more relaxing, Hendershot’s will have Breathlanes and Whisper Kiss.

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By Sunday everybody will be back in finals mode and Athens will almost be quiet.

Except for Melting Point. Hosting the Beat Cancer Bash, the venue will have a variety of artists coming together for a great cause.

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Radio station fans fight to save airwaves TYLER EVANS The Red & Black Katie Diem, a third year psychology major, sat down to study, having no idea she was about to assume the role of a renegade.

Diem took a break from the books to turn on WKLS’s Project 9-61.

The station, known for its hard rock and alternative format, was playing “Freebird,” by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Diem was confused, especially when the DJ announced they were going off the air after that night’s broadcast.

After frantically searching for answers, Diem discovered Clear Channel sold the station to Ryan Seacrest.

Project 9-6-1 was to become “Power,” a Top 40 pop music channel.

“They just got me on the wrong night,” Diem said.

When she stumbled across a Facebook page that had already been erected in protest of the station’s demise, calling itself “Save Project 9-6-1,” she asked if she could take part. Not only was she made an admin, but when the creator of the page became too busy, he handed her the reigns.

Within 10 days, the page gained more than 15,000 ‘likes.’

Popular Atlanta rock station 99X, owned by Cumulus, went off the air two days after Project 9-6-1.

Dave FM, owned by CBS, announced it would be gone by October, to make room instead for a sports-talk station.

“There’s really no true rock ‘n’ roll stations out there anymore,” said Anthony Brown, an employee of Mixx 104.5 in Dalton,

Ga. “In the eyes of somebody that truly likes radio for the music, I don’t think it will be around much longer.”

Brown has noticed changes in radio as an employee for years.

“It’s all run by a computer. To me, you lack that personality, even if you do have somebody talking,” Brown said. “You don’t hear the mess-ups, you don’t hear their actual thoughts, because now they’re just going in there and getting what they’ve got to say out and then going on to the next break.”

The initial mission of “Save Project 9-6-1” was to simply keep the station’s former listeners informed. They wanted to keep up-todate coverage on Clear Channel and what, if any, hope there was of getting their station back. Followers of the

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With Facebook, a University student began a local revolution to save a dying art form — terrestrial radio stations playing classics. Courtesy Save Project 96.1 page began flooding the Clear Channel and “Power” Facebook pages with outrage.

They went unanswered.

Fans of the other fallen Atlanta stations joined the “Save Project 9-6-1” cause.

Atlanta band Fifteenth Summer contacted the group to express its support and disappointment with local radio.

It went on to dedicate 50 percent of its new album’s sales to benefit the DJs who lost their jobs when the stations went under.

Godsmack and Sick Puppies tweeted about the movement, while bands such as Art of Dying and All That Remains also vocalized support of the project.

Twisted Sister front man Dee Snider even gave the group permission to use “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as their official anthem.

Diem and her associates next devised a plan to make their cause reach a wider audience by starting their own radio station in protest, called Project Revolution Radio.

“Clear Channel is only going to listen to us if we challenge their wallets,” Diem said.

Attempts to reach Clear Channel and Ryan Seacrest for comment have been unsuccessful.

Not all DJs see changes in radio an apocalypse.

Jamie Diamond is a four year employee of WUOG. He has a different outlook on what’s happening.

“We live in an amazing era with amazing tools. Now you can make your own radio station. Change is not universally bad. You can make your own personal station that is 10 times better than that other station,” Diamond said.

Diamond said, in changing economic times, no one is safe in radio.

“I’m surprised when I see radio stations in the same format for longer than a year or two, even news stations. We just lost WGST, which was one of Atlanta’s top news talk radio stations. It’s now ESPN radio, in Spanish,” Diamond said.

The time for preparation, in Diamond’s opinion, is over.

“It’s not the wave of the future. Terrestrial radio is quickly becoming the way of the past and internet radio is

the way of the present.

This is not future speak of a coming trend, this is happening right now.

If you’re still clinging onto the idea that this is the future, then you’re already in trouble,” Diamond said While Diem admits it might seem strange for a younger person to feel so vehemently about the status of local radio, she sees it differently than most.

“People say radio is dead, but it’s not, it’s just getting totally eroded,” Diem said.

She’s hopeful that Project Revolution Radio won’t suffer a similar plight.

“You have to stand up if you want something, you don’t want these corporations to walk all over you.

[People] like that comfort of turning on the dial and hearing something.

“Our radio station isn’t going to start out on the radio, but if it becomes successful, we hope to move to a terrestrial station eventually,” Diem said.

Although their radio station is underway, there is not yet a set launch date.

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Professor leaves, ends 50-year Dancz legend of musical change

BY Sean Ward The Red & Black Steve Dancz has lived through and created a legend.

You may not have heard of the Dancz Center for New Music, but plenty of musicians have played there.

You may not know that the Dancz family influenced the Redcoat marching band, but you know what it sounds like at halftime on Saturday.

And for many of you, you’ve never even heard of the name Dancz. Odds are, though, you experience what their family in may ways.

After the departure of Steve last spring, this fall marked the first semester in 57 years the name “Dancz” has not appeared on the UGA faculty roster.

In 1955, Steve’s father, Roger Dancz, joined the staff for what he thought would be a temporary position as the director of the Georgia marching band, as it was known prior to its current title of Redcoats. Right out of the military, Roger was, at that time, the youngest member of the University faculty. Shortly after Roger was hired, his wife Phyllis joined the Redcoat staff. In the years to come, Roger and Phyllis would completely transform the Redcoat band.

Roger always had a vision for the band program at the University. He wanted to turn what was originally a band of less than 100 people into a vehicle for entertainment that would bring the same kind of excitement to fans as the football team did. Roger

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In 1959, Roger’s wife Phyllis created the “Georgettes” – a dance group that performs alongside the Redcoats during pre-game and halftime shows. In her time at the University, Phyllis choreographed all of the Georgettes’ shows while Roger wrote all of the music for the band. As the band continued to grow over the years, so did their son, Steve Dancz – in the end zone of Sanford Stadium.

“I literally spent part of my childhood in a playpen on the field during Redcoat practices,” Steve said. “Now you can’t even set foot on the field without the proper credentials.”

What Steve considers his most important programmatic accomplishment over the years, though, is his work with the Terry College of Business to begin a music business program at the University.

“I really think it is important for a music degree to contain information that will help the graduate have a career, and to be able to learn from professionals that have experience on the ground," he said. "It’s so important for students to learn the business and to learn about it from people who have had careers in the industry.

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Although he’s no longer at the University, Steve hopes that people will never forget what his family has done for the school and its students.

“When I look back over my career, I’m so incredibly fortunate,” Dancz said. “I’ve just seen so many amazing things.”

One of those things has been his students.

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SEC: Richt earns Georgia fanbase’s respect despite heartbreaking loss

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➤ From Page 1 everybody else — if that’s what you’re saying — are you saying that?” Richt asked.

The “interrogator” responded with another non-question: “No, I’m saying I hear that every day —” Before he finished, Richt cut him off and said, “Well, that’s for you to worry about then. If that’s what you say, then I’ll answer the question. If you think other people are saying that, I’m not worried about that.”

That proved to be the final question of the media session, but Richt wasn’t done. After getting up from his seat, he left the podium. SEC representatives had already removed Georgia’s helmet from the table and were awaiting the arrival of Nick Saban. One minute later, Richt returned and put Saban’s name plate aside.

“I want to say something else,” he said, still standing. “If anybody thinks our guys didn’t play their tail off and Aaron Murray didn’t play his tail off, they’re crazy. That’s unbelievable somebody would even bring that up.”

While it was out-of-character for Richt to respond in such a manner, it’s exactly the way some Georgia fans have called for him to react in the past. Show more fire, more passion, etc. Act more like Saban, they say, someone who routinely chews his players out when they make a mistake. Two years ago, this vocal (if not small) part of Georgia’s fan base wanted Richt gone, on the heels of a 6-7 season in 2010 and an 0-2 start in 2011. And they made no qualms announcing who they anointed as Richt’s successor.

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Few would say that now. Not after how the Bulldogs played on Saturday night in the Georgia Dome.

They stood toe-to-toe and slugged it out with the nation’s top team (sorry, Notre Dame), led by college football’s top coach for 60 minutes. In the final seconds, the game was still in doubt.

Saban admitted as much in his own postgame press conference.

“They played a tremendous game out there,” Saban said of the Bulldogs. “That was a great football game by both teams. And they could have won at the end just as soon as us, and it came right down to the last play.”

It’s a play critics and second-

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Bulldog fans once called for Richt's head. Those feelings are gone after the loss to the Tide. C.B. SCHMELTER/Staff guessers will rehash forever. Why didn’t Georgia spike the ball once it got inside the 10-yard line with no timeouts remaining? But the Bulldogs even being in that position at all was an impressive feat, considering the Crimson Tide had racked up 350 rushing yards; or that Georgia began its last drive 85 yards away from the end zone with 1:08 to play and no timeouts with which to work.

Oh, and the nation’s top defense was in front of them. It ultimately wasn’t meant to be. Chris Conley’s unintended reception at the 5-yard line — off a tipped pass, no less — with six seconds to go was the last salvo by either side. Out of timeouts and unable to line up quick enough for another snap, the clock struck zero.

The team didn’t have to wonder how its fans felt about the crushing loss, though. When the team’s buses made it back to Athens late Saturday night, Bulldog partisans greeted them in droves, cheering deliriously.

It was a scene normally reserved for a successful conquest, not a devastating defeat. Few times, if ever, has a team reaped as much respect from a setback as the Bulldogs did Saturday night.

One team had to lose.

It just happened to be Georgia.

— Ryan Black is a senior from Elberton majoring in newspapers and the lead football writer for The Red & Black

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BY RYAN BLACK The Red & Black C o r n e l i u s Washington has never been good at mincing words.

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Coming out of high school in 2008, expectations were high. But his Bulldog career got off to a slow start. The ensuing years have been solid, though not spectacular: Washington has tallied 79 tackles in four seasons. The highlight of his senior campaign came in the third quarter of last Saturday’s SEC Championship game against Alabama, blocking a field goal attempt, which Alec Ogletree picked up and took for a touchdown to extend Georgia’s lead to 21-10.

Still, it’s only one play, albeit the kind Washington once envisioned he would make regularly.

“I do get frustrated sometimes when I think about my career and where I want to be later on down the road, but I have to focus on where I’m at right now and what I’m doing here,” he said. “I want to give the guys everything I have, so I just go out every weekend and try to perform the best that I can.”

Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham said Washington’s contributions haven’t gone unnoticed. On multiple occasions during the 2012 season, Grantham acknowledged many of the things Washington does well “don’t appear in the stat sheet.”

“Cornelius has done a really good job,”

A DUI arrest during the 2011 football season was a huge learning experience for Washington, who is a leader within the Bulldog locker room. C.B. SCHMELTER/Staff Grantham said. “He’s a hard worker, he has played multiple spots and he gives effort and energy. He can get the quarterback off his spots with his rush, and he plays defensive line and outside linebacker for us, so he gives us a guy that can do dual things.”

Washington’s best day as a Bulldog doubled as his worst. In Georgia’s victory over Mississippi State last season, Washington had four tackles and two sacks. The first of those quarterback takedowns was a vicious hit on Chris Relf. The ferocious sack proved to be

the tone-setter of Georgia’s 24-10 victory.

Only hours after he left Sanford Stadium, he had a much bigger issue to deal with: a DUI arrest. He was charged with DUI and speeding.

He was also suspended from Georgia’s next two games. Washington, in this solitary instance, decided not to open up when asked about his indiscretion. It’s in the past. It’s a blemish he can’t erase; he took his suspension, did his community service and moved on. His divisive Facebook post aside, Washington has had no further problems. For now, his claim of having

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Former Georgia tennis standout John Isner beat Juan Carlos Ferrero in straight sets 7-6, 6-3 to win the Miami Tennis Cup on Sunday.

Isner earned the first set, tie-break win, earning the final seven points after dropping the first two in the deciding game.

Isner, who hasn’t played since failing to qualify for the ATP postseason, told the Associated Press he used the six-player exhibition as preparation for the 2013 tennis season.

The No. 14 player in the world made additional headlines off the court this weekend. He fired his longtime coach, Craig Boynton, last Friday prior to the Miami event.

Boynton had been Isner’s coach since March 2009. In addition, Isner confirmed he would return to the U.S. Clay Court Championship in Houston next April. In the 2012 event, Isner earned runner-up honors after falling to Juan Monaco.

Watson notches top-10 finish in World Challenge Tournament This past weekend Bubba Watson finished ninth at the 2012 World Challenge at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

It is the Georgia golf alum’s fourth top-10 finish since winning the Masters this past April. The tournament

BY RYAN BLACK The Red & Black

was also the fourth straight unofficial PGA event for Watson as he continues to tune up for his first international contest this year, the Thailand Golf Championship.

Watson shot 71, 74, 67 and 71 in his four rounds over the weekend to finish five-under on the weekend. He tied for ninth with Hunter Mahan and was 12 shots behind the weekend’s winner Graeme McDowell.

Moreno starts second straight week as Broncos clinch division Knowshon Moreno started for the second-straight game, the first time he’s done that since the end of the 2010 NFL season. The start came as the Broncos earned their seventh-consecutive victory 31-23 over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

His statistics weren’t as impressive as last week, but the former Georgia star accumulated over 20 carries, yet again. He had 69 yards on the ground along with 14 yards on four receptions.

Due to the injury of Willis McGahee, Moreno and fellow back Ronnie Hillman are getting the bulk of the carries.

The win clinched the AFC West Division crown for Denver for the second year in a row.

The win also eliminated Tampa Bay from catching the Atlanta Falcons in NFC South Division race.

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Georgia chosen to play in Capital One Bowl

DOGS OFF THE LEASH

BY LUKE DIXON The Red & Black

“learned a lesson” rings true. But should he ever have doubts, he need look no further than the advice he imparted upon Isaiah Crowell before the tailback’s own arrest. Everyone has to navigate through choppy waters at some point, Washington told his young counterpart.

“I told [Crowell], ‘Have a plan, and stick to the plan. Don’t deviate from it,” Washington said. “That’s probably the only thing that’s going to keep you on the right track.”

Georgia will be a part of New Year’s Day festivities once more.

On Sunday, the Bulldogs (11-2) formally accepted an invitation to play in the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1 in Orlando.

“We are delighted with the selection of our team to represent the Southeastern Conference in the Capital One Bowl,” Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said in a release. “Our team and fans have not been to Orlando in four years and I know they will be excited to again visit one of the nation’s greatest bowl sites that is unsurpassed for warm weather, [the] world’s greatest family attractions, and outstanding team facilities.”

One day after Georgia’s 32-28 loss to Alabama in the Southeastern Conference Championship game, head coach Mark Richt expressed his excitement about the opportunity to get his team refocused for their final game.

Georgia will face off against Nebraska, this season’s runner-up in the Big Ten Conference.

Like the Bulldogs, the Cornhuskers (10-3) lost in their conference championship game, falling to Wisconsin 70-31 on Saturday night in Indianapolis.

“To play a team with the history and tradition of Nebraska will be an exciting experience for our team and coaches but also for our fans,” Richt said. “Very few of our current players were on the 2008 team so this will be the first time most members of our team have the opportunity to play in Orlando and enjoy the fantastic attractions."

The Bulldogs are 26-18-3 in bowls all-time and 7-4 during Richt's tenure.

Kickoff for the 2013 Capital One Bowl is set for 1 p.m. at Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium.

It will be nationally televised by ESPN on ABC.

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Jarvis Jones named SEC Defensive Player of the Year Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones has been named the Associated Press SEC Defensive Player of the Year.

Jones totaled 77 tackles, including 22.5 tackles for loss and 12.5 sacks, one interception, seven forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries in 11 games this season.

He is the NCAA’s active leader in forced fumbles per game and tackles for loss per game.

Jones’ 22.5 tackles for loss this season ranks second in school history JONES behind David Pollack’s 23.5 in 2002.

Georgia’s outside linebacker was a unanimous decision.

Bulldog freshman running back Todd Gurley was also named to the All-SEC first team offense.

Alec Ogletree, John Jenkins and Bacarri Rambo all earned second-team honors.

— Benjamin Wolk

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Williams, Mann provide balance

BY YOUSEF BAIG The Red & Black Georgia’s point guards have become more than just scoring and passing threats.

They have become the two funniest players on the team.

Senior Vincent Williams and freshman Charles Mann are the two players that the Bulldogs claim can make them laugh the hardest, but neither will own up to it.

“I’m not the funniest,” Williams said. “I think Charles Mann’s the funniest.”

When Mann was asked the same question, he deflected it back the other way.

“That’s not me. Vincent’s got that,” he said. “He’s just a comedian. That’s the funniest guy on the team.”

Like a good magician who never reveals the methods to his tricks, Williams could not pinpoint the spark to his comedic genius.

He simply replied, “I don’t know, I just don’t know.”

Mann, who generally has a quiet demeanor, just needs the right prodding from his teammates to let his personality come through.

“I’m real cool and calm and just stay to myself, but I can be funny if everybody pushes me towards that,” he said. “[I just like] to make jokes and play around and have a good time.”

When head coach Mark Fox was asked who was funnier between the two, he injected some wittiness of his own.

“I don’t know if Charles is funny. Vincent seems to have some humor about him,” Fox said jokingly. “Charles is still scared to talk around the coaches.”

The importance of having easy-going personalities is vital on any team, regardless of the sport.

Fox said to have comedians as your floor generals can only serve to improve the team’s chemistry.

That’s something Williams has brought for more than three years now.

“You need humor in the locker room. You need guys with strong spirits at that position, and I think they both have it,” he said. “Vincent’s just not afraid to show it right now as a senior. He adds a good dimension to our locker room.”

While both point guards may have a funny bone that is larger than most, their differences lie in their style of play at the position.

The 6-foot, 165-pound senior has excelled as a 3-point specialist throughout his career as a Bulldog and this season has been no different.

Williams is shooting almost 36 percent from behind the arc, and only three of his baskets in the first seven games this year

have come from inside the 3-point line.

The biggest difference for Georgia’s starting point guard has been his lack of hesitation when he gets a good look.

“If they’re open, yeah [I take the shot],” he said. “I guess it’s just falling now. I’m taking the right shots, at the right times.”

Mann, on the other hand, stands at 6-foot-4 and 205 pounds.

He creates a mismatch to opposing point guards and has shown the ability to put the ball on the floor and attack the basket.

Mann is tied for second on the team with the most freethrow attempts.

He only trails the team’s leading scorer — Kentavious Caldwell-Pope — in that department.

One part of Mann’s game that he has been developing is his shooting.

The coaches have urged him to take more shots so that he can develop some faith in himself when he chooses to pull up.

“I have been working on my mid-range and outside jump shots,” he said. “I just probably don’t take as many as I should, and the coaches just tell me to feel more confident and keep on working on that side of my game.”

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In five of those victories, the Lady Bulldogs outscored their opponent by at least 30 points, including a season high 37-point thrashing over Savannah State, which gave head coach Andy Landers his 800th win at Georgia.

A key to the Lady Bulldogs’ early-season success has been the immediate influence the team’s freshmen have been making on the court and the depth they provide.

Freshmen Tiaria Griffin, Merritt Hempe, Shacobia Barbee, Kaelyn Causwell and Marjorie Butler have played in every game this season.

The class of freshmen is led by Barbee, who has started eight of nine games this season.

Despite standing 5-foot-10, Barbee plays inside and out. She is averaging close to five rebounds per game, as well as sporting a 1.8 assist-to-turnover ratio — third best on the team in both categories.

She also has a team-high 22 steals.

The best pure scorer of the freshmen contingent is Griffin, scoring at a clip of 7.1 points per game. The speedy guard uses her pace to lead Georgia’s full-court transition game when she is on the floor.

The third guard in the class is Marjorie Butler.

She has averaged 16 minutes per game this season.

Butler is a fine overall player, who can distribute the ball solidly. She is third on the team in assists, but is first in turnovers, an area she needs to improve before solidifying herself in Georgia’s rotation.

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Hempe is second on the team in rebounding with five rebounds per game, behind senior Jasmine Hassell, Georgia’s most notable post presence. Hempe began to assert herself a few games into the season and has earned a starting spot on three occasions. It is Hempe who will be looked at to control the interior once Hassell graduates.

Causwell, daughter of 11-year NBA veteran and 7-foot Duane Causwell, has been the pleasant surprise of the class thus far. Despite her length, Causwell runs the floor with a gazelle-like smoothness, a necessity in Landers’ press-heavy defensive style. If she can add muscle to her long, lean frame, Georgia could be looking at a dominant post player when she becomes an upperclassman.

Yes, all five Lady Bulldog freshmen look like they could have star quality in their future. As of now, however, they must only give depth to Georgia’s squad, a role they have filled admirably.

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KNOW THE SCORE

AVCA Coaches Poll 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

FOOTBALL

BCS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Men's Basketball

VOLLEYBALL

Notre Dame (12-0) .9978 Alabama (12-1) .9441 Florida (11-1) .8984 Oregon (11-1) .8621 Kansas State (11-1) .8226 Stanford (11-2) .7683 Georgia (11-2) .7583 LSU (10-2) .7511 Texas A&M (10-2) .6756 South Carolina (10-2) .6604 Oklahoma (10-2) .6502 Florida State (11-2) .5047 Oregon State (9-3) .4716 Clemson (10-2) .4693 Northern Illinois(12-1) .3276 Nebraska (10-3) .3264 UCLA (9-4) .2872 Michigan (8-4) .2537 Boise State (10-2) .2513 Northwestern (9-3) .2327 Louisville (10-2) .1808 Utah State (10-2) .1787 Texas (8-4) .1519 San Jose St. (10-2) .1346 Kent State (11-2) .0772

Penn State (56) Stanford (4) Texas USC Washington Oregon UCLA Hawaii Louisville Nebraska Minnesota Florida State Dayton Ohio State Florida BYU Western Kentucky Iowa State San Diego Kansas Creighton Purdue Miami (Fla.) North Carolina Kansas State

Player of the Week 27-2 25-3 23-3 26-4 22-5 23-4 21-6 24-2 27-3 21-6 22-7 26-3 25-4 22-8 23-4 25-3 32-3 18-7 21-6 23-6 26-3 19-10 25-4 24-5 21-7

SEC Standings

Overall ast E W L W L Florida 19 1 25 4 Tennessee 15 5 22 7 Kentucky 14 6 20 10 Missouri 10 10 19 12 Georgia 8 12 14 16 South Carolina 6 14 18 14 West W Texas A&M 16 Arkansas 13 Auburn 8 LSU 8 Alabama 7 Ole Miss 6 Mississippi St. 0

Team percentages are derived by dividing a team's actual voting points by a maximum 2850 possible points in the Harris Interactive Poll and 1575 possible points in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Week 8 is the first week of the BCS Poll. The top two spots will determine which teams will play in the BCS Championship Game.

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Player of the Week

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Notre Dame (60) Alabama Ohio State Florida Oregon Georgia Kansas State Stanford LSU Texas A&M South Carolina Oklahoma Florida State Clemson Oregon State Northern Illinois UCLA Utah State Michigan Boise State Northwestern Louisville Nebraska San Jose State Kent State

12-0 12-1 12-0 11-1 11-1 11-2 11-1 11-2 10-2 10-2 10-2 10-2 11-2 10-2 9-3 12-1 9-4 10-2 8-4 10-2 9-3 10-2 10-3 10-2 11-2

Others receiving votes: Penn St. 83, Vanderbilt 67, Wisconsin 62, Texas 51, San Diego St. 22, Fresno St 20, Oklahoma St. 15, Baylor 15, Cincinnati 15, TCU 14, Arkansas St. 13, USC 11, Tulsa 9, Rutgers 6, Ball St 2, West Virginia 1, N. Carolina 1.

Georgia Schedule vs. Buffalo @ Missouri vs. FAU vs. Vanderbilt vs. Tennessee @ So. Caro. @ Kentucky vs. Florida vs. Ole Miss @ Auburn vs. Ga. South. vs. Ga. Tech vs. Alabama

Sept. 1 45-23 W Sept. 8 41-20 W Sept. 15 56-20 W Sept. 22 48-3 W Sept. 29 51-44 W Oct. 6 35-7 L Oct. 20 29-24 W Oct. 27 17-9 W Nov. 3 37-10W Nov. 10 38-0 W Nov. 17 45-14 W Nov. 24 42-10 W Dec. 1 32-28 L

BCS Bowl Games

BCS Championship Jan. 7 1 Notre Dame vs. 2 Alabama Rose Bowl Jan. 1

Wisconsin vs. No. 6 Stanford

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15 N. Illinois vs. 12 Florida St. 21 Louisville vs. 3 Florida

4 Oregon vs. 5 Kansas State SEC Standings Conference ast E W L W O verallL Georgia 7 2 11 2 Florida 7 1 11 1 South Carolina 6 2 10 2 Vanderbilt 5 3 8 4 Missouri 2 6 5 7 Tennessee 1 7 5 7 Kentucky 0 8 2 10 West Alabama LSU Texas A&M Miss. State Mississippi Arkansas Auburn

W 8 6 6 4 3 2 0

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Kentavious Caldwell Pope Schedule Opponent Date Time Young Harris EX 11/02 86-52 W Jacksonville 11/09 68-62 W Youngstown State 11/12 68-56 L Southern Miss 11/15 62-60 L Indiana 11/19 66-53 L 11/20 60-56 L UCLA 11/23 54-38 W East Tenn. St. 11/30 64-53 L @South Florida 12/04 60-50 L @Georgia Tech Iona 12/15 5 p.m.

Mercer 12/18 TBA Southern Call 12/22 1:30 p.m.

Florida A&M 12/29 4 p.m.

Georgia Washington 1/04 7 p.m.

1/09 7 p.m. @ Florida 1/12 1:45 p.m.

Miss. St. 1/16 8 p.m. @Missouri 1/19 8 p.m.

LSU 1/23 8 p.m.

Florida @Texas A&M 1/26 6 p.m.

Auburn 1/30 7 p.m. @South Carolina 2/02 1:45 p.m.

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SEC Stat Leaders

Passing Efficiency Rating

Passing Efficiency Rating

1. A.J. McCarron (AL) 173.1 2. Aaron Murray (UGA) 172.4 3. David Fales (SJST) 170.9 4. Tajh Boyd (CLEM) 168.5 5. Marcus Mariota (OR) 165.4 6. Geno Smith (WV) 164.6 7. Teddy Bridgewater (LOU)161.6 8. Derek Carr (FREST) 160.6 9. E.J. Manuel (FLST) 157.7 10. Brett Smith (WY) 157.7 11. Matt Barkley (SCA) 157.6 12. Connor Shaw (SC) 156.9 13. Chuckie Keeton (UTST)156.7 14. Seth Doege (TXTECH)156.6 15. Collin Klein (KSST) 156.1

1. AJ McCarron (ALA) 173.1 2. Aaron Murray (UGA) 172.4 3. Connor Shaw (SC) 156.9 4. Johnny Manziel (TA&M) 155.8 5. Tyler Bray (TENN) 146.3 6. Bo Wallace (MISS) 144.2 7. Tyler Wilson (ARK) 143.8 8. Tyler Russell (MSST) 140.4 9. Jordan Rodgers (VAN) 140.2 10. Jeff Wallace (AU) 139.6 11. Jeff Driskel (FLA) 136.0 12. Dylan Thomson (SC)134.9 13. Z. Mettenberger (LSU)129.6 14. James Franklin (VAN) 123.6 15. C. Berkstresser (MIZZ)101.4

Passing Yards 1. Rakeem Cato (MARSH)4201 2. Colby Cameron (LATECH)4147 3. Nick Florence (BAY) 4121 4. Geno Smith (WV) 4004 5. Landry Jones (OK) 3989 6. Seth Doege (TXTECH)3934 7. David Fales (SJST) 3798 8. Derek Carr (FREST) 3742 9. Mike Glennon (NCST)3648 10. Ryan Nassib (SYR) 3619 11. Tyler Bray (TN) 3612 12. Tajh Boyd (CLEM) 3550 13. Zac Dysert (MIAOH)3483 14.. Aaron Murray (UGA) 3466 15. Teddy Bridgewater (LOU)3452

Passing Yards 1. Tyler Bray (TENN) 3612 2. Aaron Murray (UGA) 3466 3. Johnny Manziel (TA&M)3419 4. Tyler Wilson (ARK) 3387 5. Bo Wallace (MISS) 2843 6. Tyler Russell (MSST) 2791 7. AJ McCarron (ALA) 2669 8. Zach Mettenberger (LSU)2489 9. Jordan Rodgers (VAN)2431 10. Connor Shaw (SCAR)1732 11. James Franklin (MIZZ)1562 12. Jeff Driskel (FLA) 1471 13. C. Berkstresser (MIZZ)1059 14. Maxwell Smith (UK) 975 15. Dylan Thompson (SC) 910

Rushing Yards-Per-Carry

Rushing Yards-Per-Carry

1. Dri Archer (KENT) 9.0 2. De'Anthony Thomas (OR)7.6 3. Lache Seastrunk (BAY)7.6 4. Denard Robinson (MI)7.6 5. Chris Thompson (FLST)7.5 6. Gee Gee Greene (NAVY)7.2 7. Marcus Mariota (OR) 7.0 8. Cole Gautsche (NM) 7.0 9. Jay Ajayi (BOISE) 6.9 10. Duke Johnson (MIAFL)6.8 11. James White (WI) 6.7 12. Cierre Wood (NDAME)6.7 13. Giovani Bernard (NC)6.7 14. Ja'Terian Douglas (TLS)6.6 15. Keith Marshall (UGA) 6.6 Rushing Yards

1. Keith Marshall (UGA) 6.6 2. T.J. Yeldon (ALA) 6.5 3. Johnny Manziel (TA&M) 6.4 Eddie Lacy (ALA) 6.4 5. Todd Gurley (UGA) 6.3 6. Michael Ford (LSU) 5.9 Kenny Hilliard (LSU) 5.9 Tre Mason (AUB) 5.9 9. Ben Malena (TA&M) 5.8 10. Zac Stacy (VU) 5.7 11. Dennis Johnson (ARK)5.5 12. Raymond Sanders (UK) 5.2 13. LaDarius Perkins (MSST)5.1 Kendial Lawrence (MIZZ) 5.1 15. Jeremy Hills (LSU) 4.9

Rushing Yards

1. Jordan Lynch (NIL) 1771 2. Ka'Deem Carey (AZ) 1757 3. Montee Ball (WI) 1730 4. Stefphon Jefferson (NV)1703 5. Johnathan Franklin (UCLA)1700 6. Le'Veon Bell (MIST) 1648 7. Kenjon Barner (OR) 1624 8. Antonio Andrews (WKY)1609 9. Beau Blankenship (OH)1500 10. Kasey Carrier (NM) 1469 11. Robbie Rouse (FREST)1468 12. David Fluellen (TOL)1460 13. Stepfan Taylor (STAN)1442 14. Zurlon Tipton (CMI) 1396 15. Adam Muema (SDGST)1355

1. Todd Gurley (UGA) 1260 2. Eddie Lacy (ALA) 1182 3. Johnny Manziel (TA&M) 1181 4. Mike Gillislee (FLA) 1104 5. Zac Stacy (VAN) 1034 6. Kendial Lawrence (MIZZ)1025 7. Tre Mason (AUB) 1002 9. T.J. Yeldon (ALA) 1000 8. LaDarius Perkins (MSST)940 10. Jeff Scott (MISS) 828 11. Dennis Johnson (ARK) 757 12. Ben Malena (TA&M)752 13. Keith Marshall (UGA)723 14. Rajion Neal (TENN) 708 15. Marcus Lattimore (SCAR)662

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Bowl Games Gildan New Mexico 12/15 1 p.m.

Nevada vs. Arizona Famous Idaho 12/15 4:30 p.m.

Toledo vs. 22 Utah State Poinsettia 12/20 8p.m.

BYU vs. San Diego State St. Petersburg 12/21 7:30 p.m.

UCF vs. Ball State New Orleans 12/22 12 p.m.

East Carolina vs. Louisiana-Lafayette MAACO Las Vegas 12/22 3:30 p.m.

Washington vs. 19 Boise State Sheraton Hawaii 12/24 8 p.m.

Fresno State vs. SMU Little Caesars Pizza 12/26 7:30 p.m.

Western Kentucky vs. Central Military Bowl 12/27 3 p.m.

24 San Jose St. vs. Bowling Green Belk 12/27 6:30 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Duke Holiday 12/27 9:45p.m.

Baylor vs. 17 UCLA Independence 12/28 2 p.m.

Ohio vs. Louisiana-Monroe Russell Athletic 12/28 5:30 p.m.

Rutgers vs. Virginia Tech Meineke Car Care 12/28 9 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Texas Tech Armed Forces 12/29 11:45 a.m.

Rice vs. Air Force New Era Pinstripe 12/29 3:15 p.m.

West Virginia vs. Syracuse Kraft Fight Hunger 12/29 4p.m.

Navy vs. Arizona State Valero Alamo 12/29 6:45 p.m.

23 Texas vs. 13 Oregon St. Buffalo Wild Wings 12/29 10:15 p.m.

CU vs. Michigan State Mortgage Music City 12/31 12 p.m.

NC State vs. Vanderbilt Hyundai Sun 12/31 2 p.m.

USC vs. Georgia Tech AutoZone Liberty 12/31 3:30 p.m.

Iowa State vs. Tulsa Chick-fil-A 12/31 7:30 p.m.

8 LSU vs. 14 Clemson TaxSlayer.com Gator 1/1 12 p.m.

Mississippi St. vs. 20 Northwestern Heart of Dallas 1/1 12 p.m.

Purdue vs. Oklahoma State Outback 1/1 1p.m.

10 South Carolina vs. 18 Michigan Capital One 1/1 1 p.m.

7 Georgia vs. 16 Nebraska AT&T Cotton 1/4 8 p.m.

9 Texas A&M vs. 11 Oklahoma BBVA Compass 1/5 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Ole Miss GoDaddy.com 1/6 9 p.m.

25 Kent State vs. Arkansas State

Nicole Choi Schedule Opponent Date Georgia Southern 8/24 Troy 8/25 Georgia State 8/26 Slovenia 8/26 Fla. International 8/31 Florida A&M 8/31 @ Florida State 9/01 Albany 9/07 IPFW 9/08 @ Michigan State 9/08 @ South Carolina 9/14 @ Miss. State 9/16 Alabama 9/21 Arkansas 9/23 @ Missouri 9/30 @ LSU 10/03 @ Tennessee 10/07 Auburn 10/12 Ole Miss 10/14 Georgia Tech 10/16 @ Alabama 10/21 Missouri 10/24 Kentucky 10/28 @ Florida 11/02 @ Auburn 11/04 LSU 11/09 Texas A&M 11/11 11/16 @ Arkansas @ Kentucky 11/18 Miss. State 11/21 Florida 11/23

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Jasmine Hassell Schedule Opponent Rutgers Presbyterian S. Carolina State Belmont Savannah State St. Bonaventure New Mexico Furman @Georgia Tech Mercer Lipscomb @TCU @Illinois Missouri @ Tennessee @Alabama South Carolina @Arkansas Texas A&M Florida Alabama @Kentucky Auburn @LSU @Florida Arkansas @Ole Miss @Miss. St. Vanderbilt

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A Look Back

A Look Back

Closing the season at home, the volleyball team easily dispatched an overmatched Mississippi State squad. After taking the season series from Mississippi State, the Bulldogs hosted the Florida Gators, who easily topped the Bulldogs in straight sets.

The No.7-ranked Lady Bulldogs faced their toughest challenge of the season when they faced in-state rival Georgia Tech. The Bulldogs are undefeated so far and look to continue that success as season progresses.

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A Look Back

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Doumbia has been chosen to represent the Bulldogs off the tennis court. He will attend the "Who's Who Among American Universities?" for the Terry College of Business.

Herring advanced to the quarterfinals of the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships before Florida's Sofie Oyen eliminated her. Herring entered the tournament ranked 53.

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EVEREST: Student’s journey makes successful climbs more satisfying ➤ From Page 1 yourself so hard and be around so many people that are from all over the world, but still you are so in your own mind,” Geer said. “You are with yourself and figuring out how you are going to get to the top.”

Now 21 and graduating in the spring, Geer is excited to experience the thrill of climbing Everest. But even as she plans for the journey of a lifetime, her memory returns to that Christmas morning when she summited her first mountain.

It was Christmas morning, but it

was also her brother Josh’s birthday, only weeks after Josh had been adopted by a new family and changed his last name.

The closest illusion of permanence came in Auburn, N.Y., when Rebeka and Josh were still living with their mom and her boyfriend. It was before the two were forced into a foster care system that was hard enough for young children, and even worse for teenage transplants.

But regardless of their location, they lived under constant oppression from their mother’s boyfriend. “[He] only believed in extremes – there was never any happy medium.

Like everything else my siblings and I learned from him, we learned this the hard way,” Rebeka recounts in her blog, rebeka21.tumblr.com, which she uses to tell her story.

Their mom’s boyfriend was a prison guard, and the discipline followed him home. He imposed a strict 45-minute limit for the children to eat their meals in and if they didn’t finish in the time limit, they received a demerit.

Once they received three demerits, they were placed on “restriction” and could only eat spam.

The pattern of emotional abuse finally changed in June 2005, but only because Rebeka and Josh were placed

in the foster care system. They were returned briefly a few months later, but were once again placed in foster care after Rebeka’s mother was sentenced to a year in jail as a result of her struggle with alcoholism.

So started a journey of shifting homes and ever-shuffling landscapes.

“Josh lived in the temporary home, my mom went to jail that year. I moved in with another couple ... Josh moved into the home that [eventually] adopted him,” Rebeka said.

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Zumba at the Garden When: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

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Where: 40 Watt Club Cost: $5-$8 Contact: www.40watt. com

Mmars When: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Terrapin Beer Co. Cost: Free Contact: www.terrapinbeer.com Women to the World December Songfest and Art Sale When: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Central Presbyterian Church Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5439284 Life Drawing Open Studio When: 5:45 to 8:45 p.m.

Where: Lamar Dodd School of Art Cost: $7 Contact: cementflounder@gmail.com Get Exposed! A Film Athens Networking Event When: 6 to 8:30 p.m.

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Porterhouse Jazz Night When: 7 p.m.

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Open Mic When: 8 p.m.

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Where: Melting Point Cost: $8-10 Contact: www.meltingpointathens.com Trivia When: 9 p.m.

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Where: State Botanical Garden of Georgia Cost: Free Contact: www.botgarden.uga.edu Holiday Book Sale When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Georgia Museum of Art Cost: Free Contact: www.georgiamuseum.org Studio Group Holiday Show and Sale When: 5 to 9 p.m.

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group.biz Workshop: Herbal Lotions, Salves & Lip Balms When: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Where: State Botanical Garden of Georgia Cost: $27 Contact: (706) 5426156 Sharpshooter’s Basketball Clinic When: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Lay Park Cost: $1-$2 Contact: www.athensclarkecounty.com/lay Erik Neil’s Sour Diesel Foundation When: 5:30 p.m.

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Where: Georgia Center Cost: Free Contact: www.ugaglobes.wordpress.com Improv Class When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Tate Center Cost: Free Contact: www.improv. uga.edu Open Bluegrass Jam When: 7 p.m.

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Trivia When: 7 to 10 p.m.

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Where: La Fiesta Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5495933 A Christmas Carol When: 7 p.m.

Where: Seney-Stovall Chapel Cost: $8-16 Contact: www.roseofathens.org Oconee Rivers Audubon Society Lecture: Alligators When: 7 p.m.

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Where: Downtown Athens Cost: Free Contact: www.athensclarkecounty.com/ parade The Splitz When: 8 p.m.

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Crane When: 10 p.m.

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Old Skool Trio When: 8 p.m.

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Kill Kill Buffalo, Dylar When: 11 p.m.

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Blues Night with the Shadow Executives When: 9 p.m.

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Where: Caledonia Lounge Cost: $5 (21+), $7 (1820) Contact: www.caledonialounge.com Dr. Fred’s Karaoke When: 10 p.m.

Where: Go Bar Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5465609 Whomp!, Gear Jammer, Grim Pickins and the Bastard Congregation When: 10 p.m.

Where: Little Kings Shuffle Club Cost: Free Contact: www.facebook. com/lkshuffleclub

FRIDAY, DEC. 7 International Coffee Hour When: 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Where: Memorial Hall Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5425867 TubaChristmas Concert When: 11:30 a.m.

Where: Classic Center Cost: Free Contact: www.tubachristmas.com End Corporate Personhood with David Cobb When: 4 p.m.

Where: Tate Center Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5427774 Holiday Open House and Student Pottery Sale When: 5 to 9 p.m.

Where: Good Dirt Cost: Free Contact: gooddirt.net Greenery Wreaths Class When: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Where: State Botanical Garden of Georiga Cost: $27 Contact: www.botgarden.uga.edu Emily McCannon and the Smokin Hot Band When: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Terrapin Beer Co. Cost: Free Contact: www.terrapinbeer.com Poetry Series When: 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Where: Avid Bookshop Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3522060 5th Annual Not So Silent Night When: 7 to 9 p.m.

Where: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art Cost: $10 Contact: auction@odysseynewsmagazine.net Isaac Bramblett, Matt Joiner When: 7 p.m.

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Where: WUOG Cost: Free Contact: www.wuog.org UGA Observatory Open House When: 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Where: UGA Observatory Cost: Free Contact: www.physast. uga.edu/observatory The Christmas Post When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Morton Theatre Cost: $8-$15 Contact: www.cornerstoneproductionsonline. com Christmas Reflections with the King When: 7:30 to 10 p.m.

Where: Buffalo’s Southwest Cafe Cost: $10-$15 Contact: (706) 354-

6655 Turntable.fm DJ Battle When: 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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Where: Highwire Lounge Cost: Free Contact: www.highwirelounge.com Jerry Douglas When: 8 p.m.

Where: Georgia Theatre Cost: $25 Contact: www.georgiatheatre.com

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Clay Leverett & The Chasers, Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy, Matt Hudgins When: 8 p.m.

Where: Melting Point Cost: $8 Contact: www.meltingpointathens.com Pippin When: 8 p.m.

Where: Town and Gown Players Cost: $12-18 Contact: www.showclix. com/events/14009 Poverty is Real Benefit w/ Hope for Agoldensummer, Dave Marr, The District Attorneys, Bobby’s Shorts When: 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Where: 40 Watt Club

Dec 5 ................................................ Wanda

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CRNKN, Sound Remedy and Maagican When: 9 p.m.

Where: New Earth Music Hall Cost: $6 Contact: www.newearthmusichall.com Powerload, Portly Crue When: 10 p.m.

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Douglas & High Strung String Band Dec 8 ........................................... Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk & Consider the Source

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Where: Soup Studios Cost: Free Contact: www.soupstudios.com

Athens Showgirl Cabaret When: 10:30 p.m.

Where: Little Kings Shuffle Club Cost: $5 Contact: (706) 3693144

GMOA Holiday Workshop When: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Where: Georgia Museum of Art Cost: Free Contact: www.georgiamuseum.org

Mississippi John Doude When: 11 p.m.

Where: Amici Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3530000 Glasscrafts, Velocirapture When: 11 p.m.

Where: Farm 255 Cost: Free Contact: www.farm255. com

SATURDAY, DEC. 8 Athens Area Democrats Breakfast When: 9 to 10:35 a.m.

Where: Brett’s Restaurant Cost: $11 Contact: 706.248.7455 Athens Farmers Market When: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Where: Bishop Park Cost: Free Contact: www.athensfarmersmarket.com R. Wood Holiday Pottery Sale When: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: R. Wood Studio Cost: Free Contact: www.rwoodstudio.com 8th Annual Holiday Market

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Where: 572 Nantahala Ave. Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5467235 Indie South Fair Holiday Market When: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Where: Ben’s Bikes Cost: Free Contact: www.indiesouthfair.com Middle Eastern Drum Circle When: 12:30 p.m.

Where: Floorspace Cost: $6-12 Contact: www.floorspaceathens.com Story Time Author Visit: Richard Gnann When: 1 to 2 p.m.

Where: Avid Bookshop Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3522060 Five Year Anniversary Celebration When: 3 p.m.

Where: Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Contact: (706) 8501916

Asher Armstrong When: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Terrapin Beer Co. Cost: Free Contact: www.terrapinbeer.com Drive-Thru Nativity Pageant When: 6 to 9 p.m.

Where: Princeton United Methodist Church Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3531123 Wake-n-Bake Weekend: Chef Showcase When: 6 to 10 p.m.

Where: Aromas Cost: $20 Contact: www.aromaswinebar.com Dessert Comedy Theater When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Church of the Nations Cost: $10 Contact: (706) 3531199 Water Conservation Workshop When: 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Where: Bob Snipes Water Resources Center Cost: Free Contact: (706) 6133729 Athens Symphony Christmas Concert When: 8 to 10 p.m.

Where: Classic Center Cost: Free Contact: www.athenssymphony.org Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Consider the Source When: 8 p.m.

Where: Georgia Theatre Cost: $10 Contact: www.georgiatheatre.com

Patterson Hood & the Downtown Rumblers, Don Chambers When: 8 p.m.

Where: 40 Watt Club Cost: $15 Contact: www.40watt. com Breathlanes w/ Whisper Kiss When: 8 p.m.

Where: Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Cost: $5 Contact: www.hendershotscoffee.com Tealvox, An English Place, Matt Joiner Band When: 9:30 p.m.

Where: Caledonia Lounge Cost: $5 (21+), $7 (1820) Contact: www.caledonialounge.com

SUNDAY, DEC. 9 Athens Artist Market: Handmade for the Holidays When: 12 to 8 p.m.

Where: Classic Center Cost: Free Contact: www.athensartistmarket.com Itzhak Perlman When: 3 p.m.

Where: Hodgson Concert Hall Cost: $79-$99 Contact: pac.uga.edu Spotlight Tour When: 3 p.m.

Where: Georgia Museum of Art Cost: Free Contact: www.georigamuseum.org

Cost: Free (beginners), $3 (advanced) Contact: www.ugadance. com/imnew Trivia When: 6 p.m.

Where: Blind Pig Tavern Contact: (706) 2087979 Concert, Cookies and Carols When: 6 p.m.

Where: Holy Cross Lutheran Church Cost: Free Contact: www.holycrossathens.com Winter Gala Dinner When: 6 to 9 p.m.

Where: Rialto Room Cost: $50 Contact: www.alcescenter.org

EasyRider When: 10 p.m.

Where: Little Kings Shuffle Club Cost: Free Contact: www.facebook. com/lkshuffleclub

Sunday Night at the Bowling Alley Blues Band When: 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Where: Ten Pins Tavern Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5468090

Humoresque Christmas Concert When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: The Church at College Station Cost: Free Contact: www. churchatcs.com

Stereo Reform When: 10 p.m.

Where: Nowhere Bar Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5464742

Trivia When: 8 p.m.

Where: Capital Room Cost: Free Contact: www.thecapitalroom.com

The Woodgrains When: 11 p.m.

Where: Farm 255 Cost: Free Contact: www.farm255. com

Trivia When: 7 p.m.

Where: Buffalo’s Southwest Cafe Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3546655

Athens Ceili When: 4 to 7 p.m.

Where: Globe Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3534721

The Roycrofters When: 11 p.m.

Where: Amici Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3530000

Beat Cancer Bash When: 6 to 10 p.m.

Where: Melting Point Cost: $5-$10 Contact: www.meltingpointathens.com Ballroom Dance Club When: 6 to 7 p.m.

Where: Memorial Hall

Trivia When: 7 p.m.

Where: Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Cost: Free Contact: (706) 8507561 Athens Flute Choir Holiday Concert When: 7 p.m.

Where: Young Harris United Methodist Church Cost: Free Contact: (706) 2067886

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Klezmer Local 42 and No Shame When: 8 p.m.

Where: Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Contact: www.hendershotscoffee.com

MONDAY, DEC. 10 Feed My School Initiative Seminar When: 10 a.m.

Where: Conner Hall Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5421611 Power Yoga for Athletes When: 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Where: Total Training Center Contact: www.totaltrainingcenter.com Zumba with Ingrid When: 6 to 7 p.m.

Where: Casa de Amistad Cost: $5 Contact: zumbathens@ gmail.com Line Dancing When: 7 to 10 p.m.

Where: Buffalo’s Southwest Cafe Cost: $5 Contact: (706) 3546655 Open Mic When: 8 p.m.

Where: Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Cost: Free Contact: www.hendershotscoffee.com Trivia When: 8 p.m.

Where: Highwire Lounge Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5438997 The Segar Jazz Affair When: 8 p.m.

Where: The Grotto Cost: Free

Zumba When: 8 to 9 p.m.

Where: Athens Latino Center for Education and Services Cost: $5-8 Contact: (706) 5400591 The Christmas Hoot When: 8 p.m.

Where: Little Kings Shuffle Club Cost: Free Contact: www.athensfolk.org Rock and Roll Trivia When: 9 p.m.

Where: Little Kings Shuffle Club Cost: Free Contact: www.myspace. com/littlekingsshuffleclub

TUESDAY, DEC. 11 Santa’s Enchanted Workshop When: 9:30 & 11:30 a.m.

Where: Morton Theatre Cost: $8-12 Contact: www.theatreiv. org Karate Classes When: 1 to 2 p.m.

Where: Tate Center Cost: Free Contact: (706) 4094565 Tour at Two: Highlights from the Permanent Collection When: 2 p.m.

Where: Georgia Museum of Art Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5429078 Special Collections Library Tour When: 2 p.m.

Where: UGA Russell Library

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Where: St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church Cost: $9 Contact: (706) 5430162 Tribal Style Bellydance Basics When: 6 p.m.

Where: Floorspace Cost: $10-12 Contact: www.floorspaceathens.com Heirloom Holiday Wine Tasting When: 6 p.m.

Where: Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market Cost: $15 Contact: (706) 3547901 Athens Swing Night When: 7 to 10 p.m.

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Junker and Norma Rae When: 7 p.m.

Where: Melting Point Cost: $5 Contact: www.meltingpointathens.com Trivia When: 8 p.m.

Where: Locos Grill & Pub Cost: Free Contact: www.locosgrill. com Dan Deacon, Grand Buffet When: 8 p.m.

Where: 40 Watt Club Cost: $10 Contact: www.40watt. com

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Where: Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Cost: $5 Contact: www.hendershotscoffee.com

When: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Where: State Botanical Garden of Georgia Cost: $10 Contact: www.uga.edu/ botgarden

Ike Stubblefield and Friends When: 8 to 9 p.m.

Where: Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Cost: $5 Contact: www.hendershotscoffee.com

McNary When: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Terrapin Beer Co. Cost: Free Contact: www.terrapinbeer.com

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Where: Manor Cost: Free Contact: www.manorathens.com Karaoke When: 9 to 1:30 a.m.

Where: Volstead Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3545300 Trivia When: 9 to 11 p.m.

Where: Fuzzy’s Taco Shop Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3530305 Drafts & Laughs When: 9:30 p.m.

Where: Pub at Gameday Cost: Free Contact: www.pubatgameday.com

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12 Artist Reception: Hope Hilton When: 5 to 6 p.m.

Where: Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3547901 Zumba at the Garden

SALSAthens When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Little Kings Shuffle Club Cost: $8 Contact: (706) 3386613 Porterhouse Jazz Night When: 7 p.m.

Where: Porterhouse Grill Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3690990 Trivia When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Your Pie Cost: Free Contact: (706) 8507424 Trivia When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express Cost: Free Contact: www.choochoorestaurants.com Trivia When: 8 to 10 p.m.

Where: Willy’s Mexicana Grill Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5481920 Trivia When: 8 p.m.

Where: Blind Pig Tavern Cost: Free Contact: (706) 548-

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Where: Ten Pins Tavern Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5468090 The Hobohemians When: 8 p.m.

Where: Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Contact: www.hendershotscoffee.com Sports Trivia When: 8:30 p.m.

Where: Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Cost: Free Contact: (706) 8501916 Trivia When: 9 p.m.

Where: Copper Creek Brewing Company Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5461102 Open Mic When: 9 p.m.

Where: Fuzzy’s Taco Shop Cost: Free Contact: (706) 3530305 Karaoke When: 9 p.m.

Where: Tapped Cost: Free Contact: (706) 8506277 Karaoke When: 9:30 p.m.

Where: Office Lounge Cost: Free Contact: (706) 5490840 Spicy Salsa Dancing When: 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Where: Jerzees Cost: $3 (21+), $5 Contact: (706) 8507320

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Thursday Bomb Night: $2 Cruzan Bombs, $3 Jager Bombs, $3 Barcardi Bombs $5 Moonshine Margarita

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HAPPY HOUR 12 to 8 p.m. $1 Bottle Miller Lite, $1 off of everything, $1 off Pitchers, Imports, $3 Wells, Build your own Bloody Mary and Liquor Drinks Bar Buffet 12 to 9 p.m. $4 Pitcher Miller High Life

$3 Domestics, $3 Gameday Shot, $4 Jack Drinks, $5 Moonshine Margarita

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$1 Draft Miller High Life, HAPPY HOUR 5 to 10 p.m.

HAPPY HOUR 12 to 8 p.m. $1 Bottle Miller Lite, $1 off of everything, $1 off Pitchers, Imports, $3 Wells, Build your own Bloody Mary and Liquor Drinks Bar Buffet 12 to 9 p.m. $4 Pitcher Miller High Life

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Rooftop Restaurant and Bar open 11:30 am - 2 am

Rooftop Restaurant and Bar open 11:30 am - 2 am

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$2.75 Well Drinks & $3 Guinness

Ladies Night $2 Vodka well shots, $3 Martinis

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10% off w/ valid Student ID

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$6 Yuengling Pitchers, $6 Solarita Pitchers, $7 Bud Light Pitchers, $8 All other pitchers, $5 Moonshine Margarita

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$2 OFF Terrapin pints $2 Tacos

HAPPY HOUR 5 to 10 p.m. Trivia Night Starts at 8PM $1 off of everything, HAPPY HOUR 12 to 8 p.m. - $2.50 Buffalo Canyon-ritas All you can eat Wings Build your own Bloody Mary $1 off Pitchers, Imports, and Liquor Drinks Bar Buffet 12 to 9 p.m.

allgood

Where: 256 E. Clayton Phone: (706) 549-0166 Website: allgoodlounge.com On Facebook: facebook.com/pages/ Allgood-Bar/ 152530911447853

Blind Pig Tavern

Where: 485 Baldwin Phone: (706) 548-3442 On Facebook: www.facebook.com/ BlindPigTavern

buffalo’s

Where: 96 Alps, Suite #49 Phone: (706) 354-6655 Website: buffaloscafe. com/athens.php On Facebook: facebook.com/ BuffalosCafeAthens

Tuesday Dollar Night: $1 Shots/shooters, $1 Wells, $5 Moonshine Margarita

$2 Miller High Life

Wednesday Ladies Night: $3 Martinis, Rooftop Restaurant and $6 Bottles of House Wine, Bar open 11:30 am - 2 am $5 Moonshine Margarita

the bury

Where: 321 E. Clayton Phone: (706) 612-1650 On Facebook: www.facebook.com/theburyathens

georgia theatre

Where: 215 N. Lumpkin Phone: (706) 850-7670 Website: georgiatheatre.com On Facebook: facebook.com/ GeorgiaTheatre

Early Bird Special $2 Regular Sushi Rolls

Early Bird Special $2 Regular Sushi Rolls

grilled teryaki

Where: 259 E. Broad St. Phone: (706) 850-6880 Website: http://www.grilledteriyakiathens.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/GrilledTeriyaki-Athens

50% OFF Beer, Wine, & Sake w/ Student ID

Inoko

Where: 161 Alps Phone: (706) 546-8589 On Facebook: www.facebook.com/inoko

Bottles: PBR, Natural Light, Miller High Life - $1.50 Domestics: Bud, Bud Light, Selected craft/import beers Miller Light, Coors $2 Light, Yuengling, Rolling Rock - $1.7

locos

Where: 581 S. Harris Phone: (706) 548-7803 Website: locosgrill.com/ On Facebook: facebook.com/pages/ Locos-Grill-PubCampusHarrisSt/307232036555

Taco Stand

Where: 247 E. Washington St. Phone: (706) 850-6277 On Facebook: facebook. com/pages/Tapped/ 261405617235309

The Still

Where: 318 E. Washington St. Phone: (864) 332-7387 On Facebook: www.facebook.com/ TheStillAthens

transmet

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Zombies” achievements, a task that so far has meant a grueling night spent attempting to defeat night mode without spores and a so far fruitless attempt to kill 10 zombies with a single cherry bomb.

Before I finish writing this column, I’ll probably take another stab, and in a dramatic, angstfilled way, declare I want to kill everyone.

I suffer from rage quitting achievement hunting — a gamer’s egotistical bid to rule over a game, or else throw the controller across the room in a childish fit. Rage quitters are driven by the endless drumroll of perfection. Add in achievement hunting — the need to push your gaming abilities to their limits in order to receive recognition that you have triumphed — and it’s enough to skyrocket stress and feelings of frustration.

Three hours spent fighting an onslaught of cute zombies, and all I got was this lousy virtual badge.

In some ways, achievement hunting is the gaming community’s ability to fight back against the popular misconception that playing video games is a waste of time. It can be pointed to in order to prove worth. Spend five hours on “Batman: Arkham City” on hard mode, get a badge.

It ignores, of course, all the other things that can be gained through gameplay, which get swept under the rug — a sense of story, teamwork, critical thinking, puzzle solving, etc. Achievement hunting is another incentive that capitalizes off a simple fact: gamers are control freaks playing god through a virtual hero.

Since the gaming world is so highly competitive and controlling, it makes sense that rage quitting is such a widespread phenomenon. The popular image of the gamer is of the dweeby teen screaming obscenities at his Xbox over a lost “Halo” campaign. The young adult who shoves his school work aside so that he can rage at the “huntards” on “World of Warcraft” haunts the gamer, leaving the average among us to shout such stereotypes are unfair.

Still, during my last game session I called my computer screen a fascist Sauron lover and a pardon-my-French-filled dictator. So much for eschewing stereotypes.

Achievement hunting would be OK if it weren’t for the fact that those little badges are so gimmicky. They inspire near unfightable urges.

It’s not enough to complete the game. You have to dominate through prowess.

Speaking of, I should probably get back. I still have 19 more achievements to unlock.

—Tiffany Stevens

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By ASHLEE DAVIS The Red & Black Students are finding new ways to perform old dance styles.

University students shake it up at the 40 Watt Club to show off their belly dancing moves.

Students taking dance classes through the University will have their chance to shine by performing belly dance choreography and techniques they have learned over the semester.

“The American term for it is ‘belly dance,’ but it’s actually just a Middle Eastern dance,” said University dance instructor Jean Bennett.

“It is basically folk dance that has been brought to the stage.”

Bennett, whose stage name is Samira, has been dancing for 11 years and teaching for five. With her extensive dance repertoire, she knows a thing or two about belly dance.

“A lot of the basic movements — if you were to see people from the Middle East dancing — they would be doing these,” Bennett said. “These are just the dances they do when they dance at social events. It’s just been dressed up a little and put on the stage.”

She explains that something magical can be found in this exotic style of dancing. In addition to being a hobby for those who love dancing, belly dance provides a self-esteem booster for those with body-image or confidence issues.

“It’s just really fun to learn what your body can do,” Bennett said. “A lot of women may not be happy with the way their bodies feel or look, but you can be really proud.

It may not look the way

University students have practiced all year to show off their knowledge of the Middle East traditional style of dance — belly dancing. Courtesy Annette Hynes you want it but it can be strong and graceful and beautiful. “ According to Bennett, the belly dance show will run much like a recital, but with a twist.

“It’s going to be a mix of traditional, Middle Eastern, what people think of as belly dance, and then there’s going to be quite a bit of fusion,” Bennett said.

“That’s where we take belly dance and do it to music that you may not think fits belly dance.”

Much of the music for the show was selected by students.

These songs were pieces that inspired them, and the music’s modernity adds an extra element to this traditional art form.

“It’s like on ‘Danc-

ing with the Stars’ when they do a pasa doble to Lady Gaga,” Bennett said. “You wouldn’t think of that as working, but it does.”

In the past three years this event has become one of the 40 Watt Club’s staples, occurring once at the end of each semester.

“I think it’s entertaining and it’s interesting,” said 40 Watt Club booking agent Velena Vego.

The 40 Watt Club, which has spotlighted major performers such as Patton Oswalt and Coheed and Cambria has made an impression as one of the most notable venues in Athens.

“The performers have a platform,” Vego said. “I think they like participating at the 40

Belly dancing Show WHEN: Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: 40 Watt Club COST: $5-$8 Watt because they’ve had so many famous people there, so I think with their friends and family members getting to see them on a stage like the 40 Watt Club, it’s special for them.”

On the stage of the 40 Watt Club, the students get to show off their hard work in learning this centuries-old art form.

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