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www.redandblack.com Friday, February 12, 2010 Vol. 117, No. 103 | Athens, Georgia
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CRUDE COMEDY See how our Man On
The Market dealt with a slew of awkward jokes on his first date with
Sarah. Page 3
News ........................ 2Opinions .................. 4
Variety .....................2Sports ...................... 5
Crossword ...............2Sudoku .................... 5
MONEY CAN’T BUY YOU LOVESingle this Valentine’s Day?
Turn to page 2 and read about the worst gifts some University students ever received to feel better.
PLAYING INDOORSBoth of Georgia’s tennis squads are vying for the
ITA Indoor Championships this weekend. Visit
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One University club is auctioning off icy hot romance. Go online to see
how to win a date with an Ice Dog. An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
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By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK
University student Norrez Demond Atchison, 19, was arrest-ed and charged with felony threatening a witness after send-ing multiple threatening text messages to a witness testifying against him in an ongoing misde-meanor theft case, according to University Police.
According to police, Atchison was arrested for the felony Feb.
10 at 5:10 p.m. in front of Memorial Hall.
University student Nachiket Gadre, who reported both the theft and threat, said he is sur-prised and frustrated by Atchison’s actions.
“Last semester, my iPhone went missing,” said Gadre, a freshman from Alpharetta. “Every time I called it, it went straight to voice mail. Then one day someone picked up, so I knew it had been stolen. I went
to my call logs and saw who he had been calling. We had one contact in common, so I talked to my friend and figured out who it was.”
Based on this evidence, Atchison was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor offense of theft by receiving sto-
len property on Dec. 11.This was not Atchison’s first
run-in with University Police, however. He was arrested on an unrelated charge of possession of marijuana and drug related objects on Oct. 29 in the Creswell Hall parking lot.
Before his theft arrest could be resolved, Atchison racked up a new felony charge of influenc-ing witnesses.
“The day before the trial, I got text messages saying, ‘You’re in
big trouble,’” Gadre said.According to text messages
provided to The Red & Black by Gadre, Atchison accused Gadre of creating false evidence and gave him two options — tell authorities the evidence he sub-mitted was fake, or be sued by Atchison.
As the conversation contin-ued, Atchison reportedly sent messages threatening a lawsuit.
See CRIME, Page 2
Texts lead to felony charges for student
WES BLANKENSHIP | The Red & Black
Members of the Gym Dogs recently visited Nancy Thompson Butts, who has been diagnosed with lung cancer.
WES BLANKENSHIP | The Red & Black
Stacie and Mark Laplante, both professors at the Terry College, have been married for almost five years.
Local bands: Haiti, be my Valentine?
By JOE WILLIAMSTHE RED & BLACK
Most Americans will prepare for Valentine’s Day in the same fashion they always have — last-second jewelry pur-chases in pre-wrapped pink and purple gift boxes, assorted chocolates that con-tain one enjoyable flavor and two-toned teddy bears that weigh as much as their hefty, laminated price tag.
These unnecessary luxuries are won-derful, but they cannot quench the thirst of a child who has not had fresh water in two weeks. They cannot put a roof over the heads of the estimated one million left homeless after the devastating earth-quake in Haiti.
While many students feel the most they can do is donate a dollar here and there, a few local bands are hoping they can do more by opening others’ ears.
Tasty World, in partnership with the University’s student chapter of Conscious Alliance, will host a benefit concert to help bring aid to those affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti.
Heading the show are local bands Lullwater, Mama’s Love and Sumilan, who each hope to do their part in this time of need.
“Everyone is trying to help out, I know a lot of grocery stores are rounding up to the next dollar and stuff. I think every-one has been wanting to do some kind of relief,” Lullwater lead singer John Strickland said. “We think it’s the perfect way for us to help out — to play music and have a good time, and to use that to help the victims.”
The benefit show, cleverly labeled “A Valentine for Haiti,” was created by Conscious Alliance, a non-profit organi-zation “dedicated to raising awareness about hunger by reaching out to the art and music communities.”
“We are going through our non-profit — American Rainbow response — and 100 percent of the proceeds from the concert go to to Rainbow response, and 90 percent of [those] proceeds they get will go to Haiti,” said Allison Fite, a third year music business student and execu-tive board member of Conscious Alliance.
This will not be the first time Mama’s Love has teamed up with Conscious
See HAITI, Page 2
By POLINA MARINOVATHE RED & BLACK
After a hard day at work, many mar-ried couples go home and complain to their spouses about their co-workers — but for the Laplantes, that could lead to some serious arguments.
Stacie Laplante, assistant professor at the Terry College of Business, and Mark Laplante, lecturer at Terry, form one of the many sets of married University pro-fessors.
They met when they were completing their Ph.D.s at the University of Washington, and married in 2005. At the time, Mark worked at the University of
Texas at Dallas and Stacie was still fin-ishing her Ph.D.
After she graduated, Stacie got a job at the University and shortly after, Mark also applied for work at Terry. They have been working together since 2006, and Stacie said because they are both profes-sors, they have an understanding that other couples may not have.
“We at least know what each of us is going through,” Stacie said. “If we need to work nights or weekends, we both completely understand.”
Stacie mentioned they sometimes talk about research and the highs and lows of teaching once they go home, but the couple has an adventurous streak when
they’re away from work.“We like traveling, diving, skiing and
hiking,” Stacie said. “We do a lot of out-doorsy things.”
Because Stacie works in accounting and Mark is in finance, they rarely have time to see each other, but according to Stacie, this is a plus.
“We work in different departments,” Stacie said. “We’re kind of together, but not too close, so I think we have the best of both worlds in that sense.”
Even though the Laplantes are able to keep an appropriate distance between their personal and professional lives,
See LOVE, Page 2
Professors share happy life outside University
All’s fair in love and work
By MICHAEL FITZPATRICKTHE RED & BLACK
For the Gym Dogs, breast cancer is personal.
In 2003, former Gym Dog Talya Vexler was diagnosed with the disease and the next year, Georgia hosted a meet in which it encouraged fans to wear pink in support of breast cancer awareness.
Tonight at 7:30, when No. 9 Georgia takes on No. 3 Arkansas, the gymnastics will simply be a platform to raise awareness of a disease that will afflict 13 percent of American women during their lifetime, according to the National Cancer Institute.
The Gym Dogs know they
have a platform with which they can promote a cause near to their hearts and don’t plan to let it go to waste.
“It was a very emotional time for us here when Talya was diagnosed, and it was something that everybody wanted to get behind,” said Georgia head coach Jay Clark. “I don’t think when we start-ed it that it would become a yearly thing, but I’m really
glad that it has because it continues to raise money and awareness.
“It’s easy for us to live in our own bubbles sometimes and not realize how many people can be affected by so many tragic things and it’s nice that we can get involved in some small way.”
Senior Grace Taylor knows the toll the disease can take, which claimed the life of her grandmother.
“It’s absolutely necessary because to not do it would be a waste of the blessing we
have been given,” she said. “To not use it to do some-thing greater than just gym-nastics would be a shame. It’s important for the girls in our sport to realize there are big-ger things and more impor-tant things, and as sisters we need to make sure we are fighting for our lives and for each other.”
Following Georgia’s victory last week, Taylor, sophomore Kat Ding, freshmen Christa Tanella and Shayla Worley and assistant coach Julie Ballard Clark, went to visit Nancy Butts Thompson — the daughter of former Georgia football coach Wallace
See PINK, Page 5
Pink meet meant for Georgia to ‘do something greater’
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2 | Friday, February 12, 2010 | The Red & Black NEWS & VARIETY
A box of chocolates, a dozen roses, a boom box playing Peter Gabriel outside your window all night long — these are romantic displays of affection, the kind that can make Valentine’s Day your new favorite holiday.
It’s a sad fact of life that not all gifts can be this amazing — a fact some students know from experi-ence.
The Red & Black asked University
students about their worst Valentine’s Day gifts ever received.
After all, it’s the thought that counts, right?
Unfortunately for last-minute Valentine’s shoppers, most students disagreed.
If the gift is late, uninspired or dead, chances are you might be spending next Valentine’s Day alone.
— Julia Carpenter
RACHEL SMITHsophomore advertising major from Gainesville
“Actually, I’ve never real-ly celebrated Valentine’s Day because I’ve never really had a significant other. I just get cards from Mom and Dad. No bad cards yet.”
MARIE BRODERICK junior risk management major from Savannah
“I got, like, two flowers a week later in my locker one time. I don’t know where that was coming from.”
THOMAS WOODS senior risk management major from Lilburn
“I don’t have many fond memories of Valentine’s Day, to be honest with you. I think it’s a bogus holiday. It’s all about money.”
ROMAN BOURRETjunior history major from Alpharetta
“I got a dead fish one time. It might have been alive when it was bought.”
JENNIE STOSKSTILL junior social work major from Thomasville
“I got a three-foot-tall pink frog stuffed animal. It just wasn’t something someone should spend money on.”
MAN ON THE STREET:What’s the worst Valentine’s
Day gift you’ve ever received?
From Page 1
Stacie’s advice for students who are or will be in relationships with co-workers is simple — be careful.
“Since we are in different departments, it’s almost like being in different companies within the same pro-fession, so there is a separation between us at work,” Stacie said. “If you’re working together at the same company, my guess is things are a lot more interesting, but I’d just say be careful.”
The couple said doing something together for Valentine’s Day is hard because of their hectic schedules.
“I have 750 students, so they’re influencing how much time I can devote to Valentine’s Day,” Mark said. “It makes me feel sadly uncreative. I guess I’m just the vanilla flavor when it comes to Valentine’s Day.”
Although the Laplantes don’t have any special plans for this Sunday yet, Stacie said she bought Mark a great gift and cannot wait to give it to him.
Mark said being with someone who has the same interests as you is “tremendous because we get to know each other better.”
And what’s his expert relationship advice?“It’s advice for any relationship, especially if you’re
working together and have a life outside of work,” he said. “Don’t sweat the small stuff. And remember, it’s all small stuff.”
LOVE: Busy lives limit Valentine’s activities
From Page 1
Alliance.“We’ve done a benefit
with Conscious Alliance once before,” Mama’s Love lead singer Thomas Galloway said. “I feel like putting on a benefit show, although it’s not the best thing that can be done, it’s the best that we can do.”
Lullwater has been on tour since October pro-moting their newest album.
“One thing good about a Lullwater show is that you’re going to get waves of music,” he said. “You’ll get the high energy rock and then you’re going to have poppier folk songs.”
Mama’s Love, who recently went into the same studio that earned gold records for Rage Against the Machine, Bruce Springsteen and the Stone Temple Pilots, fea-ture a jam band-esque sound, with influences varying from the Grateful Dead to the Doobie Brothers. Their newest EP will be available at the show.
A donation of five dol-lars is requested at the door, and the show is open
to all who wish to attend. Instead of spending
Valentine’s Day in an over-priced restaurant and receiving a sub-par steak, guests can expect genuine performances that are sure to leave them begging for more.
“The biggest thing for me is to keep people con-nected to the music in a show,” Strickland said. “If I can connect with just a
handful of people and real-ly make them feel what I felt when I wrote the song and how I play the music, then to me I feel like it’s a success.”
HAITI: Show seeks donations
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Lullwater’s Saturday performance to benefit Haiti will also showcase songs from their new-est album, ‘Forest for the Trees.’
When: Saturday at 9 p.m. Where: Tasty WorldPrice: $5 donation requested
A VALENTINE FOR HAITI
CRIME: Text frightening for student
From Page 1
“My patience is running thin,” read one of Atchison’s messages pro-vided by Gadre. “If you haven’t responded by the time I get out of the show-er, my mind will be made and I will have my lawyer to request a warrant.”
The nature of these messages and the fact that Atchison lives only seven floors above Gadre has Gadre worried about his safety.
“I see him around a lot, but he didn’t know who I was until yesterday,” Gadre told The Red & Black Thursday. “Now I’ve started locking my door at night.”
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VARIETY The Red & Black | Friday, February 12, 2010 | 3
Before I begin I need to throw a much needed shout out to the ladies at Flowerland at the corner of Prince and Milledge. They have been very helpful and extremely nice, so thanks a million ladies.
After a long day of writing a paper, it was nice to unwind and hang out with Sarah at Tasty World. The Mundanish comedy show was on and it was hilarious.
I decided that we should meet up a lit-tle early so we could get a chance to talk and get to know each other.
Sarah is really cool. She’s cute and she seems like a really genuine person.
Sarah told me that she is going to be a special education teacher once she grad-uates. My mom is a special education teacher and I have a lot of respect for someone who dedicates their life to that.
I have never been to a comedy show, but I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it.
There is nothing quite like sitting there on a blind date and have someone stand in front of you and roast on how first dates totally suck.
Nothing was off limits for the headliner either. Jesus’ likeness to Criss Angel, cousins’ wedding (yes the apostrophe is
after the s) and of course sodomy. Sarah said she enjoyed the show too. I
must say I was little surprised, some of his material was pretty raunchy humor. She seems like she is sharp as a tack and very funny, which is really cool.
Sarah and I both share a passion for good movies. I was shocked that she had not seen “Don’t be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood,” which is the greatest spoof movie ever made by one of the greatest family comedy troupe, the Wayans brothers.
If anyone else hasn’t seen it, get to a video store or Netflix and rent it.
I had a good time with Sarah she’s really great, down to earth and funny. I hope I get a chance to hang out with her again.
–– Nicholas Welsh
Nicholas was a perfect gentlemanFor starters, let me say how difficult
it is to write a pithy and/or witty news-paper article after returning from a raunchy (to put it delicately) comedy show.
There is nothing quite like a good sodomy joke to break the tension of a first date, eh? Whew.
But in all seriousness, Nick and I had a very enjoyable evening. We watched a hilarious and delightfully vulgar stand-up show featuring Matt Davis at Tasty World downtown and it was truly a blast.
We met at the venue about thirty minutes before the show started to get to know each other a bit.
We had pleasant conversation about our majors, families, movie taste, child-hood adventures (ahem, Nick, 6th grade partying) and plans for the future. (FYI, gold diggin’ ladies: he is planning on going to law school after he graduates. Just sayin’.)
Most importantly, he was a perfect gentleman from beginning to end. He brought flowers, opened doors, listened intently while I was speaking and, when it was time to part ways, he walked me to my car; after all, it would not have
made for a very reputable impression if he had let me get kidnapped the first time we met. Mama definitely raised him right.
Nick is a very level-headed, laid-back kind of dude and I dig that. He is per-sonable, approachable and should never have a problem getting a date…so long as the date in question does not have beef against Snuggies or Rodney Dangerfield.
Hey, if nothing else, we were privi-leged enough to hear someone use the word “sodomite” on stage — doesn’t get much better than that.
All in all, it was a really fun evening and I certainly would not mind hanging out with him again. Kudos, Nick, for a job well done!
–– Sarah Hinkle
SARAHHINKLE
NICHOLASWELSH
MAN ON THE MARKET
Sarah thought show was lewdEditors Note: This is the third installment of our “Man On The Market” series where bachelor Nicholas goes out on four blind dates with different female students. After each date, they both write a column about the experience.
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Marietta native and world reknowned opera singer Jennifer Larmore to perform a love filled show at the Performing Arts Center on Saturday.
The depression-era musical “Mame” is being presented by the Town and Gown Players tonight and through the weekend, with more encore shows next week.
Athens native Randall Bramblett will be perform-ing at the Rialto Room this Saturday to preview his eighth solo album, “The Mean Time.”
You should tell your detractors something else about Obama’s snack plan:
The Democrats, with President Obama at the head, campaign for laws pertaining to things we “should” do. We “should” want universal health care because it helps everyone. We “should” want to get rid of unhealthy snacks because we want kids to be healthy.
We “should” want to give up a huge por-tion of our income to taxes because we need to “spread the wealth around.”
We “should” do this for that reason, etc. It’s not the government’s place to tell us what we “should” want to do.
The government’s job is to protect us from foreign and domestic enemies and allow us to live, have lib-erty and pursue happiness.
Blame is shifted around a lot these days.
Blame the banks for your debt.
Blame the unborn fetus for hindering your plans.
Blame the snack foods for obesity. Blame guns for deaths.
Nobody wants to step up and take responsibility anymore. The decline of the family structure is the saddest thing in today’s society. The mother and father have either lost their authority or given it up entirely.
It’s not the govern-ment’s job to save us, we need to save ourselves. We, the people, have the power to hold those in authority accountable.
As V [from V for Vendetta] said, “People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” It’s just easier to blame someone, or say “the gov-ernment will handle that”, than it is to get up and do something about it.
If your kid is obese, take the video games away and enforce a healthy diet and exercise plan at home, or encourage sports.
If the parent can’t do it, Michelle Obama and her hideous eyebrows sure as hell can’t do it.
Strong individuals and family units are what made America great, not the government. The govern-ment allowed us the free-dom to be great.
Freedom allows us to make decisions for our-selves, and we live and die with the consequences of those decisions.
Personal responsibil-ity is what America needs most right now, not a bail-out or a stimulus package.
STUART KINGSLEY Alumnus, JonesboroSports management
Not government’s job to fix problem
With the news of Michelle Obama’s cam-paign against obesity I have some questions.
What constitutes obe-sity? Where is the line between fat and obese?
These issues are highly subjective and best left to the individuals but $30 billion will be doled out to bureaucrat salaries and third party private firms to help remedy the obesity problem.
My question, where does this $30 billion come from?
It comes from the same individuals the politicians, bureaucrats and private firms intend to help.
We must help you, now pay us. We take your money so we can better manage your lives. It is devastating to me and my libertarian friends who continue to be shunned and ignored.
For decades the federal government has taken taxpayers’ money, directed it toward giant farming subsidies (ConAgra) and fundamentally altered the American food market.
As its consequences, corn, sugar and animal fat have become cheaper and more accessible than they otherwise would be in a free market.
By the very dollars used to make taxpayers poorer and private firms more prosperous the govern-ment has long enticed its citizens to consume falsely cheapened corn, sugar and fat.
Numerous editorials battle between praise and scorn for the first lady who has taken on obesity.
Various articles write of studies and trends but none address the cause of the current equilibrium: government intervention.
Government interven-tion is the result of a shift in purchasing power from the individuals to the bureaucrat.
It is facilitated by taxes and inflation. The govern-ment will either take your earnings or it will devalue your holdings with a print-ing press.
As politicians continue to battle one problem while causing others, I can only hope that individuals will come to understand the paternalist philosophy of intervention and central banking which makes such malpractice possible.
CARTER KESSLERSenior, Eatonton
Economics
Stop blame game for own mistakes
What a surprise — poli-ticians believe that regula-tion of vending machines in schools will help solve the problem of childhood obesity; even more, many of us actually agree!
This reflects the typi-cal attitude of Americans toward societal problems.
We blame schools and teachers for student fail-ures, despite the fact that those students refuse to cooperate in class or do their homework.
We blame vending machines when chil-dren become overweight despite the fact that they eat fast food four nights a week and play Xbox six hours a day.
Americans need to look no further than their own homes to truly understand the source of these prob-lems: negligent parents.
Yes, parents, it’s your fault that your child is fat, it’s your fault that your child is failing in school.
Parents need to grow up and take responsibility.It is not the government’s job to raise your child for you, and definitely not the responsibility of taxpayers to fund such futile efforts.
Serve healthy dinners to your children, force them to be involved in physical activities, make them do their homework and for your child’s sake, cooper-ate with the teacher in dis-ciplining your child.
Stop making excuses — step up to the plate and start “parenting.”
DANIEL BURROUGHSGraduate student, Law
Augusta
4 | Friday, February 12, 2010 | The Red & Black
It starts with red spots in a few places before it spreads every-where, covering each surface in
pink and rouge marks. Unfortunately medicine won’t
help, because the outbreak has already hit the Classic City. Scientific name?
Saint Valentine’s Day. I’ll be blunt — I hate Valentine’s
Day. I despise, detest and loathe Feb. 14. Am I another angry, single woman? Well maybe, but that’s not why I hate the “holiday.”
I dislike the occasion because for one day out of the whole year, everyone is stressed, even when they are not facing the day solo.
Is she going to like the flowers you picked? His favorite color is blue, right?
Worrying about selecting the perfect gift for your boo is compa-rable to piecing together the inebri-ated debauchery following a game day — why all the stress? Because most stores in Athens are sporting pink and red construction paper hearts?
I’ve spent the past two weeks avoiding the outbreak in Wal-mart while grocery shopping and delet-ing e-mails from Victoria’s Secret encouraging me to buy something special for my special someone.
That’s why I hate this “holiday.” It doesn’t celebrate love or relation-ships — it validates them.
“I personally don’t like Valentine’s ... some people put too
many expectations into the day,” said Kasey Williams, a junior from Marietta. Williams is spending Sunday at her boyfriend’s formal in Savannah. “It’s good because it takes the pressure off Valentine’s Day.”
Price points, checklists and funding the aforementioned in the middle of a recession isn’t what love is supposed to be about, but that’s what Valentine’s Day makes it.
And honestly, how else can you possibly express your devotion toward an individual without roses, chocolate and sexy lingerie?
Heaven forbid you actually have to act like a decent partner 364 other days of the year, especially when you can make up for it on Feb. 14 with dinner and a trip to CVS.
“I don’t do presents on Valentine’s,” said Emily Houston, a junior from Jensen Beach, Fla. “It’s odd when people give big gifts.”
I agree with Houston. Call me old fashioned, but I believe you should treat every day like a holiday when you’re in love, not wait for one day a year to tell the person, “Hey, thanks for being awesome.”
Of course, it’s been rumored
by popular television sitcoms that Valentine’s Day is all about the woman and celebrating women is something everyone should enjoy — except the holiday gives off the assumption that all women like the same things, wear the same skimpy bra and thong set and adore roses.
The idea of standard gift-giving is monotonous and a good way to disappoint someone — not everyone likes roses (hint hint). While I was trying to imagine a guy’s version of Valentine’s Day, someone men-tioned steakandabjday.com.
Wait, so guys don’t like over-stuffed plush animals that cramp tiny apartments or flowers that die after a week? Shut up. That’s non-sense.
That’s right, the link’s name says exactly what a male Valentine’s Day is, which takes place exactly a month from Feb. 14.
This male-oriented celebration is just as bad as Valentine’s Day because it boils down what men want to a few selected “presents.”
In the end, I believe both holi-days are pretty silly, celebrating love with monetary purchases instead of thought and care.
Although I will give it to the guys’ day, they did include some-thing that can’t be bought, or is illegal if you do.
— Samantha Shelton is a senior from Auburn majoring in newspa-
pers and women’s studies
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Growing up, I never loved Valentine’s Day.
In elementary school, when handing out Valentines was mandatory, I got dinosaur-themed cards that told me I was “Pterrific.” The cards featured large pterodac-tyls.
In junior high, I coped with a sense of being left out by organizing my friends to wear black.
As obnoxious bouquets of roses and oversized teddy bears were delivered to other girls in my class, I stared daggers into their pink-sweatered backs.
In high school my sister filled the void. She gave me carnations to go with the box of Hershey’s Kisses from my mom. I usually ate the candy in my room while puzzling over pre-calculus.
Looking back, I think my enjoy-ment of Valentine’s days peaked when I was six.
Now, in college, I’m fine with the day. It’s taken 22 years, but I’ve finally learned to enjoy the upsides of Valentine’s.
First, is the aftermath.Pharmacies and grocery stores
are full with boxes of chocolate and
other delicious goodies — and on Feb. 15, they are discounted like twinkle lights and tinsel on Dec. 26. So couples, enjoy your pre-February 15, full-priced candy. I’ll snack on my post-February 15 heart-shaped Little Debbies for 30 percent off.
Valentine’s Day weekend offers plenty of chick flicks, where women in love go to cry off all their care-fully applied mascara.
Let them, and their poor boy-friends, do the traditional thing and watch something sappy, like “Dear John.”
I’ll be in a near empty theater — able to put my feet up on any seat I choose — watching Denzel Washington or Mel Gibson give people what’s coming to them — likely with a machete or a gun.
Another reason to enjoy Valentine’s? Instead of coping with moon-eyed couples staring at each other over a candlelit table they
waited an hour for, I get seated with no waiting at my favorite greasy spoon.
Though some restaurants, like Last Resort, are guaranteed to be full of lovebirds, there are probably are not too many couples declaring their love with fries at Five Guys or drawing ketchup hearts on their hashbrowns at Waffle House.
Another upside of being alone on Valentine’s Day: no gifts, no pricey dinner, no special outfit and no overdraft fees on my bank account.
Valentine’s for couples is about the “we,” but for singles it’s about the “me.”
So singles, wherever you are, surrender all day to that Lifetime movie marathon or watch ESPN. The only person I have to make happy on Valentine’s day is me.
One last thing. Don’t succumb to the pity party
that Valentine’s Day can be, com-plete with sad love songs and too much tequila.
Just enjoy.
— Paige Bowman is a senior from Duluth majoring in magazines
and film studies
Positives in being single on Valentine’s Day
PAIGE BOWMAN
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SPORTS The Red & Black | Friday, February 12, 2010 | 5
By ZACH DILLARDTHE RED & BLACK
The eccentric squad that captured the atten-tion of the softball world last year is back.
As the youngest team in Division I, Georgia softball reached the semifinals of the 2009 Women’s College World Series. The majority of the squad returns for the 2010 season, looking to achieve even loftier goals.
“It’s always a goal of ours to win the National Championship, but we also want to be a leader in the SEC this year as well,” out-fielder Megan Wiggins said. “So that would definitely be another goal for us this season, to win an SEC Championship.”
No. 7 Georgia opens this season with the highest preseason ranking in school history, due to one of the most feared lineups in the country. A year removed from shattering nearly every possible team statis-tic at the plate, Georgia returns seven of nine start-ers to the lineup — making up 95 percent of last sea-son’s run production.
Led by a gauntlet-like
top of the lineup — which includes two first-team All-Americans — the power of the Bulldogs’ hitters should have opposing pitchers looking back at the fences all year.
“I think [the offense] is going to be even better than last year — we’re just ready to see what every-body can do,” Wiggins said.
Junior All-Americans Taylor Schlopy and Alisa Goler remain in the offen-sive spotlight after premier sophomore seasons.
Schlopy — who batted .406, hit 15 home runs, had 47 RBIs last season — blos-somed into one of the best leadoff hitters in college softball in 2009 and proj-ects to be the engine for the offense.
Goler was able to submit the most statistically-domi-nant season in Georgia his-tory last year and will be looking to replicate those numbers this time around. Among her nine school records, she sits on top for single-season home runs (24), RBIs (83) and batting average (.455).
The lineup will also fea-ture returning starters first baseman Brianna Hesson,
catcher Krysten Sandberg, designated player Tori Moody and second base-man Ashley Pauley — each of whom possesses enough talent for an outstanding offensive season.
From the pitching circle, a bit more uncertainty is present for Georgia. After the graduation of Christie Hamilton, who carried a large portion of the work-load last season, the pitch-ing staff is a little less set in stone entering the season.
“We haven’t really talked about [the pitching staff] yet,” junior pitcher Sarah McCloud said. “We are pretty deep in pitching this year and all of the pitchers have been working really hard, so we are going to see how it goes. I think every-body is going to get a chance to get out there and give it their best shot.”
McCloud enters the sea-
son as the most experi-enced pitcher on Georgia’s roster, submitting a career 31-9 record with a 2.50 ERA. Joining McCloud on the staff will be highly-touted sophomore Erin Arevalo, who played spar-ingly in 2009, but was able to show definitive signs of potential when pushed into action during the WCWS.
The highly-anticipated opening tournament begins today against perennial competitor UCLA, the first of five weekend games, at Dot Richardson’s National Collegiate Softball Invitational in Clermont, Fla.
“You want to play against the top competi-tion that you can and this tournament has a great competitive field,” said Harris-Champer. “We are getting tested early and it is a great thing for us.”
Softball opens season ranked No. 7
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Junior outfielder Taylor Schlopy, who also pitches for Georgia, looks to follow up a 2009 season when her batting average was .406.
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The visit touched the Gym Dogs who went, as they expected to be the entertainers, not to be entertained with pound cake and nearly two hours of stories and prayer.
“It meant a lot and that visit really touched us,” fresh-man Christa Tanella said. “When we first walked in we thought we were going to visit a sick woman, but instead it turned out that we weren’t the one that had the most effect, because we were affected the most because she was sick, but not in her heart. She had such strength and at one point when we started praying for her, she started praying for us, and even though she was literally dying, a lot of us walked out with tears.
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By NICK PARKERThe Red & Black
61 points.That’s how many more
points off of turnovers opposing teams have scored than Georgia in nine SEC games.
Georgia has lost the points off turnover statistic battle in every SEC game this season, and lost five conference games by a combined 20 points.
Georgia is last in the SEC in the turnover mar-gin.
Out of 334 Division I teams, the Bulldogs are No. 319 in the turnover margin.
Even point guard Dustin Ware couldn’t explain the turnover discrepancies.
“I think a lot of guys were all just anxious to make plays for each other and a lot of times we may get overanxious to make plays for somebody else and we end up not seeing everything right away,” Ware said. “So I think it’s a combination of a lot of things, but we’re working on it every day to clean up our passing and everything else. So I feel pretty soon that we’ll get a pretty good handle on it.”
The majority of Bulldog turnovers aren’t coming from the starting guards. Ricky McPhee, Dustin Ware and Vincent Williams are the only Bulldogs with a positive assist/turnover ratio. McPhee and Ware are only averaging 1.7 turn-overs per game.
That number compared with Georgia’s two leading scorers, forwards Travis Leslie and Trey Thompkins, is minimal, as the sopho-mores are averaging 2.4 and 3.4 turnovers a game, respectively.
And Thompkins had six costly turnovers in Georgia’s loss to Auburn
Wednesday.Two other post players
for the Bulldogs, Jeremy Price and Albert Jackson, combine for three turn-overs per game.
“We’ve had to have our posts handle the ball a lot, and they’ve had the ball in their hands quite a bit, and that’s one of the by-prod-ucts of that,” head coach Mark Fox said.
That’s largely the reason Thompkins’ turnover num-bers are so high. On nearly every offensive possession, he’s not only Georgia’s focal point offensively, but opposing teams’ focus defensively, consistently drawing double teams in the post.
“We’re asking Trey to do maybe too much,” Fox said. “He’s having to score, rebound it, and handle it, but he’s a good player and I think he’s going to be able to handle that. But certainly we have some issues there but we’re not a great passing team either.”
From ill-conceived pass-es to moving screens, Fox has seen all kinds of turn-overs from his team.
“We have them all over. It’s been different. I think that a screen foul is a turn-over, a jump ball that they get possession is a turn-over, so we’ve had a variety of them,” Fox said of the turnover issues. “We need to just play with a little more poise away from home and hopefully we’ll mature and make some progress there.”
Turnover troubles hurt Georgia’s play
By BEN BUSSARDThe Red & Black
Struggles continue to mount for the Georgia women’s basketball team following another loss Thursday at the hands of the No. 17 Kentucky Wildcats.
For the fifth time in their last six games, the No. 19 Lady Dogs ended up on the wrong side of the score-board after a 64-48 loss in Lexington, Ky.
Three separate Wildcats scored in double figures as Kentucky (21-3, 9-2) managed to pull away from the Lady Dogs (19-6, 6-6) due to solid offensive rebounding and a suffocat-ing half-court press.
Georgia held the Wildcats to just 34 percent shooting from the field, but coughed up 24 turnovers lead-ing to 22 Kentucky points.
“We played reasonably well early, but the turnovers really hurt us,”
head coach Andy Landers said. “They got us in a hole in the first half and really kept us from coming back in the second half.”
Senior center Angel Robinson watched from the bench in street clothes, as she was recovering from a head injury she suf-fered Sunday against South Carolina.
Point guard Ashley Houts — Georgia’s other ailing senior — managed to play 36 minutes despite being hob-
bled by a sore left ankle. Though she played all but four
minutes in Thursday’s battle at Kentucky, Houts only managed seven points, as no Lady Dog player was able to cross into double figures in scoring.
With the loss, Georgia is now four games out of the top spot in the SEC standings — a spot the Lady Dogs occupied less than three weeks ago.
Shooting has been the Lady Dogs’ Achilles heel all season long, and the current six-game stretch is a testament to that ongoing offen-sive struggle to produce baskets.
Over that stretch, Georgia is 1-5, has shot just 35 percent from the field, 24 percent from the three-point line and 60 percent from the free-throw line.
Despite all of Georgia’s shooting woes, as the Lady Dogs have only one game before a much-needed bye week will give the worn out squad a chance to regroup before traveling to Gainesville to take on Florida.
The Lady Dogs will return home Sunday to face a reeling Alabama (10-14, 2-9) squad that has not won a road game in over two months.
Lady Dogs lose by double digits
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▲ Forward Trey Thompkins averages 3.4 turn-overs per game, and had six against Auburn.
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When: Saturday at 4 p.m. Where: Stegeman ColiseumPrice: $2 for students More Information: The contest will air on SEC Network
GEORGIA VS. SOUTH CAROLINA