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www.redandblack.com Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Vol. 117, No. 111 | Athens, Georgia
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scoop on arrests in Athens. See page 2 for a daily report of crime
in the Classic City.
News ........................ 2Variety ..................... 3
Opinions ..................4Sports ...................... 6
Crossword ...............2Sudoku .................... 5
NEW COACHES, NEW WAYSDefensive coordinator Todd Grantham and linebackers
coach Warren Belin will team up to whip the line-
backers into shape. Page 6.
DON’T TELL!Shhh! Athens has
secret. Turn to page 3 to find out about
students involved in a secret society.
Thin as a fry or round as a latke,
a new study warns all couch
potatoes. Page 5.An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
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By dreW kAnnThe Red & Black
Three true freshmen will make their inaugural appearances in front of the Foley Field faithful tonight in the Diamond Dogs’ home-opening game.
And though the experience may not be comparable to step-ping up to bat at Yankee Stadium or fielding a punt in front of 92,000 rabid Georgia fans “between the hedges,” tonight’s game will be a nerve-racking affair for freshman shortstop Kyle Farmer, designated hitter Zach Taylor and second base-man Todd Hankins.
Even for Farmer — who played quarterback at powerhouse Marist in Atlanta in front of thou-sands each game — there will be
no shortage of butterflies.“I probably won’t get much
sleep [Tuesday night], but I’ve always wanted to come out here and listen to everybody do the dog bark as we run onto the field,” Farmer said. “It’ll be spe-cial to play in front of the home crowd, play in front of my friends and family because I only live an hour away and I know a bunch of people will be coming up to watch me play.”
Farmer and the other fresh-men got their first taste of the
college game when the Bulldogs traveled to Waco, Texas last weekend, as Georgia started this season 2-2.
In Waco, Farmer and Hankins impressed Georgia head coach David Perno with their poise defensively and at the plate, as both batted .375 over the course of the weekend.
“I’m excited about them. I think Kyle is really good and everything that we thought he was,” Perno said. “I think the biggest surprise out of the fresh-man is Hankins. He played lights out and he’s a high-energy guy.”
Taylor, on the other hand, struggled to find his swing, bat-ting just .091 in 11 plate appear-ances.
See GAMe, Page 6
Freshman to make Diamond Dog debut
By rAchel BUnnThe Red & Black
A 24-year-old University stu-dent was found dead in a Peachtree City home over the weekend, according to police.
Samuel Kennedy was found unresponsive Sunday morning in the Bradford Estates subdivision in Peachtree City. The cause of death is unknown. Friends remember Kennedy as a loving
friend. “He was a great guy,”
said Scott Eichler, Kennedy’s roommate in Vandiver Hall.
Eichler said Kennedy was studying kinesiology and liked working out, sports and hanging out with his girlfriend and friends. “He loved the New England Patriots,” Eichler said. Jason Broom, a for-
mer co-worker of Kennedy’s, said Kennedy was a “guy’s guy” and had a passion for life and lived each day to the fullest.
“He was a stand-up guy with a good heart,” Broom said. “You couldn’t ask for a better friend than Sam.”
Broom said he got to know Kennedy when they worked together at Best Buy for several years. He
said Kennedy had a lot of friends and would definitely be missed by many.
“Everybody loved Sam. There are a lot of people in mourning right now, including myself,” he said. “It’s sad to see him go so young.” According to the Facebook group “R.I.P. Sam Kennedy,” Kennedy’s funeral will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Peachtree City First United Methodist Church.
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KINGS OF THE ICE
Campus ready for SGA election
By dAllAs dUncAnThe Red & Black
With Student Government Association campaigns beginning in March, the time of year when future Ronald Reagans and Hillary Clintons begin their roles in the University’s political arena is fast approaching.
But how much power does SGA really have to make changes on campus?
“The word powerful is loaded with different con-notations,” said Ed Mirecki, associate director of stu-dent affairs. “But are they influential on campus? Absolutely.”
Mirecki said SGA tries to get out and discover issues affecting University students. One such issue, which resulted in SGA hav-ing stewardship over allo-cating $1.8 million in stu-
dent fees, was the c o n c e r n that stu-dents had little say in where their student fees went.
He said SGA mem-bers had always been
on the student fee alloca-tions committee, but this year, SGA gets to read organizations’ applications and recommend to the vice president of student affairs which student organiza-tions get how much money.
“It takes a little bit of authority to change some-thing that’s not broken,” Mirecki said.
Cameron Secord, a senior from Snellville and SGA vice president, said SGA has expanded across campus since he has been a University student, but he did not think ‘powerful’ was the best way to describe the association.
SGA Attorney General Sean Cranshaw, a senior from Ormond Beach, Fla., said SGA is not powerful in the sense that local, state
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SGA expands its influence
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What lies beneath...University produces 42 tons of hazardous waste yearly
Science laboratories at the University produce an average of around 95,000 pounds of haz-ardous waste per year, and despite the potentially high risk for explosions and environmen-tal accidents, there hasn’t been an injury for decades.
The production of waste typically begins as University science graduate students and professors conduct experi-ments involving hazardous materials, which are then stored in specialized facilities within the building.
From there, the waste is shipped to the Environmental Safety Division annex off South Milledge Avenue, where chemicals and hazardous mate-rials can be col-lected and con-solidated safely.
“ T h e University and p r o f e s s o r s take haz-a r d o u s materials very seri-o u s l y, ”
said George Majetich, profes-sor in the chemistry depart-ment. The labs in the chemistry building, as well as the entire campus, are monitored regu-larly by the State Department and the ESD, Majetich said.
Under the direction of Brian Adams, hazardous materials facility coordinator, the ESD evaluates University depart-ments to ensure correct label-ing of containers and correct storage procedures. The ESD collects and then ships an aver-age of 8,300 pounds of hazard-ous materials per month, including highly flammable chemicals, called pyrophorics,
which ignite spontane-ously with any
exposure to air.Yet even
with the
large amount of hazardous materials coming through the ESD annex, the program boasts a record of safety.
“I’ve been here 20 years, and we’ve never had anybody injured in a chemical accident,” Adams said.
The ESD facility is specifi-cally constructed for the han-dling of hazardous materials and serves as a temporary stor-age facility where trained tech-nicians classify, label and store the waste.
Environmental Protection Agency regulations require the ESD to store the waste for no more than a year.
From there, the hazardous materials are sent to disposal companies, many of which are in Detroit, where the waste is destroyed.
“A lot of colleges and univer-sities actually pay waste dis-posal companies to come in and do all the packing,” Adams said.
The University, however, saves money by consolidating its own waste, he said.
The four members of the hazardous material staff make sure the storage facility is checked daily for any labeling problems, container problems or spills.
Upon receiving a shipment of waste from a science depart-ment, the material is carefully classified and consolidated.
“Our job is knowing what is compatible, what we can and can’t mix together,” Adams said.
He said the consolidation of compatible chemicals makes the waste much easier and
cheaper to ship. The ESD facility houses
a built-in fire suppression and alarm system and is
under police video-surveillance 24 hours a day.
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A collection of potential-
ly- dangerous chemicals
housed at the environmental
safety division
annex off south
Milledge Avenue are monitored
by four University employees.
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2 | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | The Red & Black NEWS
CORRECTIONSIn Tuesday, Feb. 23’s
“Official predicts layoffs unlikely,” the article incorrectly stated the budget of the University of Georgia is expected to decrease by more than $360 million. In fact, the budget of the University System of Georgia is fac-ing a $360 million budget decrease.
The Red & Black regrets this error.
The Red & Black is committed to journalistic excellence and providing the most accurate news possible. Contact us if you see an error, and we will do our best to correct it.
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By BRIANA GERDEMANTHE RED & BLACK
University President Michael Adams fielded questions from community-minded students at Tuesday’s Open Mic with Mike, but students calling for a living wage for all University employ-ees will be disappointed for now.
Several students asked about the disparity in income between the University and the Athens community, including some stu-dents from UGA Living Wage.
One student pointed out some of the University’s lowest-paid workers have the hours of full-time employees, but are clas-sified as part-time employees. Because of this, they don’t get higher wages and job benefits associated with a full-time job.
“I don’t like the practice, and I’ve made it well known,” Adams said.
The University has decreased the number of staff in this situa-tion from 200 to 40 workers, Adams said. Of those 40 still working essentially full-time jobs for part-time pay, many have chosen to remain part-time employees.
Still, Adams said the University’s goal is to reduce that number to zero.
He also said the typical entry-level employee at the University makes $12 to $14 per hour includ-ing benefits.
“They’re not making $7 an hour,” he said. “You just need to sit down and do the math.”
Evan Tucker, a sophomore from Marietta and a member of UGA Living Wage, asked Adams to clarify some points and asked when the University could achieve a living wage for every employee.
Adams said the University is “pretty darn close” to that goal, but said, “I would need a crystal ball to know what the economy’s going to do.”
Tucker replied he was not asking about the economy but specifically about the University. But his question was cut off by Adams’ response.
“You’re in la-la land,” Adams said. “How are we going to ignore the economic situation that the world, the country, the state, the region and the University’s in?”
Several students voiced con-cerns about how to attract good students and help keep the University competitive with fewer honors scholarships and the possibility of the HOPE Scholarship running out in the near future.
Adams said the Honors pro-gram has had “some donor suc-cess” in funding honors scholar-ships, and said HOPE would not disappear all at once.
“I don’t think you have to fear the HOPE going away, at least not in the foreseeable future — five, seven, 10 years, which is probably about as far as any of us can see.”
Still, he said, though the University is a strong institution in terms of student body and faculty, it could become “vulner-
able” if the economic situation continues.
Cameron Secord, vice presi-dent of the Student Government Association, asked how Adams would respond to legislators who
say the University should raise tuition to offset losses.
Adams said he didn’t want to privatize the University but hoped it would remain viable for any qualified student to attend.
Adams talks money
LILY PRICE | The Red & Black
Tuesday’s Open Mic with Mike allowed students to ask the University’s president about living wage issues.
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and national governments are because University administrators make the majority of decisions.
“I think the issue isn’t so much whether it’s power-ful, but if it’s effective and enacts positive changes on campus,” he said. “The stu-dent government can do a lot, but it requires the stu-dents in it to be visionar-ies.”
Cranshaw said he felt the lack of idealists and visionaries in the senate could be seen as a nega-tive, despite the executive branch’s progress on its platform.
“The senate may not realize they have the same power as [the executive branch], and as a result, they don’t do as much,” he said.
Cranshaw said an issue in the senate is putting down ideas that seem unre-
alistic.“Cynicism is the biggest
impediment to both prog-ress and new ideas,” he said. “SGA really needs to take the lead, especially in issues like [Dawgs for Haiti] that affect more than just students.”
Elizabeth Mulkey, a sophomore from Toccoa, is one of two senators repre-senting the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. She said the senate does get things done, despite being more conservative with its goals.
“The senate is a lot more realistic because a lot of the senators are pretty goal -oriented,” she said. “I think it’s a good thing.”
She said students might be drawn to idealistic cam-paigns, but it is harder to get those goals accom-plished in a timely manner.
“If you don’t have really realistic goals, it’s kind of
hard to measure your suc-cess,” Mulkey said.
SGA President Katie Barlow said there exists a distinct separation of pow-ers between the senate and the executive branch.
“ S o m e t h i n g passed by the sen-ate has the full weight of the stu-dent body behind it because the sen-ate was elected by the student body,” she said.
Barlow said stu-dents elect sena-tors to get things done in a timely manner, so there is pres-sure to have more realistic goals.
“It was very visionary for us to try to go after stu-dent activity fees,” she said.
Students who wish to run for executive and legis-lative positions in SGA are already gearing up for cam-
paigns. Executive candi-dates — the president, vice president and treasurer — run together on one ticket and must obtain 300 signa-tures from students allow-ing them to run. Senatorial
hopefuls must get up to 100 signatures, depending on their colleges’ enrollment, from students in their school. “We do verify your petition,” Mirecki told students at an SGA elections information session Thursday. Signatures not within a sena-tor’s college can be
disqualified, threatening a candidate’s ability to run.
Mirecki said SGA candi-dates had specific spend-ing limits on their cam-paigns. The executive tick-et is allowed to spend a maximum of $700, and sen-ators can spend $200 each.
However, if senators join a party to campaign along-
side an executive ticket, the maximums are decreased to $600 and $150, respectively.
He said all money spent must be recorded on a financial disclosure form, and candidates must sub-mit receipts for everything campaign-related. “We set maximums to not let cam-paigning become a kind of circus,” he said.
Mirecki said there was nothing in the SGA Code of Elections limiting the use of additional funds for run-off elections. He said runoff elections did not happen often, but when they do happen, candidates normally choose to use existing materials rather than creating new cam-paigns.
The SGA senate recent-ly passed a bill allowing candidates the option of not putting donor names and personal information on their financial disclosure
forms.“There are many who
saw that information as irrelevant, particularly the candidates themselves,” Cranshaw said. “It was never looked at during the elections process.”
He said the biggest con-cern with finances during campaigning was the amount of money spent, not where it came from.
“A lot of people who were donors for candidates didn’t feel comfortable dis-closing their personal infor-mation,” Cranshaw said.
Mulkey said this bill was seen by many senators as a way to open up SGA to students who otherwise might have had a harder time getting funding for a campaign.
“It’s not like people can get $10,000 and get all this nice stuff to bribe people with,” she said, adding most of the donors were students’ family members.
SGA: Cynicism a large issue facing student government senators
By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK
Addison Goss, 21, was arrested and charged with DUI and failure to obey a traffic control device at 2:44 a.m. on Feb. 23 after a police officer saw her run a red light at the intersection of Broad Street and Thomas Street, according to a University Police report.
When the officer approached her vehicle, he smelled a strong odor of alcohol and noticed Goss had bloodshot eyes. After asking if she had been drinking, Goss told him she worked at a bar downtown and had a drink at work.
Goss told The Red & Black she was not drinking on the clock.
“I had already been cut from work,” Goss said. “I was not drink-ing on the job.”
After pulling Goss over, the police officer carried out several field sobriety tests which indicated Goss was over the limit.
The officer then asked her again how much she had to drink, and she told him she had two beers during the night and at least half a shot in the previous hour.
When asked about this discrep-ancy, Goss chose not to comment.
She was eventually transported to the Athens-Clarke County jail where, after three unsuccessful attempts to provide a sufficient breath sample, officers took her behavior as a non-verbal refusal, and Goss was placed under arrest.
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By JULIA CARPENTERTHE RED & BLACK
Three University stu-dents handed out free scarves in downtown Athens to help residents fight the bitter cold. They weren’t doing it for advertising or promotion — they just wanted to give away $100.
“We got various reac-tions,” said one of the stu-dents, Margot Hancock, a junior early childhood edu-cation major from Watkinsville. “Some people were like, ‘Oh, OK, why are you giving me this scarf?’ and others were like, ‘Wow, that’s so sweet! What a great idea!’”
The three University students — J o r d a n K o f f m a n , Lucy Hass a n d Hancock — were acting as a part of a larger o r g a n i z a -tion, the
Secret Society for Creative Philanthropy.
“It was an amazing expe-rience,” said Koffman, a senior from Watkinsville. “Uplifting. We gave the scarves out to anyone who wanted them. We didn’t dis-criminate who we gave them to. We gave them to elderly people, college students and some people desperate-ly without homes.”
Each participant or group received $100 in cash — not to keep, but to use with the goal of finding a creative way to spend the money to help others.
After one year, all mem-bers will meet to discuss how they spent their share of the money.
Saturday, the society met to discuss how members have used their $100 so far.
“It encourages thinking
about philanthropy in a new light,” said Amy Coenen, founder of the Athens chap-ter of the society. “There’s something that is immedi-ately, directly inspirational about this process that’s different from volunteering at the Red Cross. It’s really cool to get to hear all these different takes from differ-
ent people on what philan-thropy means to them.”
Members value the ano-nymity and inventiveness of a good deed over the size of the donation.
Coenen created the Athens chapter of the orga-nization this year, pulling from her own personal funds to distribute $100 to
each member or group.She said the organiza-
tion’s name is a misnomer — there’s nothing especially hush-hush about the soci-ety.
“That’s only to make it sound like a fancy name,” Coenen said. “It’s not secret at all. Everyone is invited to come.”
By ADAM CARLSONTHE RED & BLACK
University student Justin Kennedy has
always been certain of two things: he wanted to be a country singer, and he wanted to live in Athens.
As a child, he inherited his love of music from his father, Terry Kennedy, who introduced him to Lynyrd Skynyrd and the guitar.
They had a pseudo-recording studio in their basement, complete with a stage and drums, and music was always a part of life. Terry had toyed around with band-life in high school and college, but Justin took it one step farther.
At 10 he began learning to play, taking lessons both with an instructor and his father.
At 14, he wrote his first song in his parent’s basement, recording it on his mom’s computer.
And last year, after breaking up with his girlfriend, Justin wrote his first CD, recording it over the course of three weeks with the help of live-in producer Pat Brooks.
Soon, he was playing shows in Atlanta.
Not long after that, the album’s first single, “Letting Go,” was featured on the radio station 94.9 The Bull.
In the fall, he made the jump to Athens when he transferred to the University.
“The move to Athens was the best musical choice I made,” Justin said. “It’s the only place I’ve ever wanted to live.”
As a college town famed for its music scene, the combination certainly makes sense. But Justin is not just any up-and-coming musician: he’s a country singer.
“I write so that, musically, people will
understand what I went through,” he said. “When it’s about you, you convey the emotion 1,000 times stronger.”
That’s how Justin likes to define his style: country with rock, but with a heart — hard-hitting and emotional.
“I prefer the raw sound. Even if it’s bad, if it connects with the audience, it’s still good,” he said. “The best music is raw and from the soul.”
That directness of style has earned him some strong reactions: one man even approached Justin to reveal that his song
“Letting Go” had left him in tears; and when his single was first played on the radio, the DJ announced on air how sur-prised he was an 18-year-old had written it.
“His ear for music is something else,” Terry said. “Over one experience, one date, one trip, he can put it all together. It’s amazing.”
Justin’s love of music has left him with a continuing need to perform — no mat-ter what.
He admits he’s extremely stubborn.
But he’s also determined: over the last five weeks, he’s booked four shows, most recently at Tasty World and, with each one, he has booked follow-up engage-ments.
His determination comes with the con-tinual assurance that what he does is something different than what’s out there.
He attributes the early success of his music to being more than new — it’s fresh.
“Most country is the same song writ-ten 1,000 times over,” Justin said.
“I try to keep it as raw as I can possi-bly get it. [My music] is real. It’s actual stuff. It’s actual stories.”
That confidence keeps him going, even as he balances his college career with his music.
As a sophomore business major, school can occasionally get in the way. But in the long run, Justin is confident that his onstage career is what he wants.
“I’d rather be a broke musician than a rich executive,” he said.
As part of his plan for success, he’s already written his second and third albums and hopes to see them released in the next two years.
He’ll keep playing around Athens with his ever-rotating band, and each night he climbs onstage, his dad will be right beside him as his guitar player.
“I love playing [his] stuff,” Terry said. “And he really gets the audience, which is something you can’t teach.”
Of course, Justin’s non-musical life will also continue to motivate him in what he writes: bad dates, down days — all of it could inspire.
“I’d love to stand on stage one day in front of 10,000 people,” Justin said. “Just like Lynyrd Skynyrd.”
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ASHLEY STRICKLAND | The Red & Black
Sophomore business major Justin Kennedy moved to Athens to attend the University and, more importantly to him, promote his “raw” music.
By ASHLEY STRICKLANDTHE RED & BLACK
They are the hardest-working team you’ve probably never heard of.
Their last game was a steam-roll defeat of Emory, final score 18-1.
Yet, some students don’t even know the Ice Dogs exist and not many make the 50-mile trek to see them play one of 13 home games in their competitive season.
In order to practice on the ice, the intercollegiate non-varsity hock-ey team makes an hour-long drive every week to hold Tuesday night practices at the Duluth Ice Forum.
During their season, which lasts from late September to early February, the Ice Dogs also have multiple games on the weekends.
In short, the team spends a lot of time on the road just so they can remain a team.
“That hinders participation and crowd support at home games,” said Chris Copelli, senior forward. “It def-initely makes a huge impact on the amount of people that even know about our team, and we’re playing an hour away. It’s kind of rough.”
The average participation for a weekend game can range from 50 fans to rivalry games against schools like Tennessee that can bring out 500 fans. Their tournament in
Savannah, played against Georgia Tech and Florida, drew 6,000 people.
A recent Georgia tradition since 1987, the Ice Dogs have made strides as a team with 10 consecutive win-ning seasons and even being named the second best team in the SEC last year. The players continued the streak this year with impressive wins over their biggest rivals.
Coming down off another winning season, the Ice Dogs are waiting to see how they will qualify for region-als, held in Pelham, Ala. They hope to advance onward to the SEC championship and take the coveted place as the top team in the South.
To prepare for their long season leading up to the SEC champion-ships in March, the Ice Dogs under-go an intensive training camp in September and once again in January to recover their stride after winter break.
Keeping a full roster every semes-ter also requires the Ice Dogs to recruit heavily.
Their coach talks to high school coaches and attends high school all-
star games, always keeping an eye out for students wanting to come to the University.
The team also posts fliers all over campus to raise awareness and recruit freshmen, who may not know that the team exists.
This year, the combined efforts worked, bringing out 30 hopefuls. The team was able to take on about 20 students.
Most have a background in hock-ey, but there is the potential to learn from the Ice Dogs as well.
“It would be nice to see more of the talent that is here that isn’t play-ing,” said Matt McClure, a junior for-ward. “I’ve heard of incredible hock-ey players coming here that didn’t join, so it would be nice if we could have 100 percent participation. If we could just get more people, then we would have more support, from both fans and players.”
For a team that endures a rough sport with a challenging season, the Ice Dogs remain ready for anything. They have learned to rely on one another and work as a team.
“Everyone is on the same page, and it’s a really big commitment,” said Michael Gabelman, team cap-tain. “It just makes for a group of players that are more close-knit and more passionate about what they do.”
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4 | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | The Red & Black
The economy is a mess. In my four years of college, I have witnessed businesses all over
the country close, millions of lay-offs and families forced to sell their dream home.
Who says nothing good has come from this economy? Well, there’s at least one thing we can thank the market for — the experience. This experience with the economy should affect our relationship with our finances.
Whether it may be in a few years or several months, we are all close to the time where we will become financially independent. Because our independence comes during a time of economic turmoil, we should realize the importance of liv-ing financially sound lives.
For the seniors graduating this May, we know how it feels not knowing if we’ll get a job after we graduate. Even if we do land our first real jobs, entry level positions will be the first to be laid off.
The economy has forced numer-ous students to work to finan-cially support themselves, including myself.
I feel the aftershocks of the economy because my family needs me to financially contribute to my school expenses. Having to support myself has made me appreciate every penny I earn. Not only do I appreciate how hard it is to earn money, but I plan where every dol-lar is spent.
Other college students have witnessed the difficulty of a rough
economy without being fully sub-merged in it. Regardless of how affected we have been by the econ-omy, thankfully we are at the age to understand the severity of the recession. Our understanding of the economic times allows us to draw important financial lessons.
Some advice I’ve learned from my financial planning class:
Save your money. Once we get our first jobs and our feet on the ground, we need to get in the habit of not spending everything we make.
Many might wonder how we are supposed to start saving money with entry level salaries. In the beginning, it’s not as important how much money we save, but that we get in the habit of saving.
In fact, most Americans begin saving when it is too late and retire with less than $150,000.
Not only should we save our money but invest it wisely. We need to put our money in interest-earning accounts to fight inflation that causes our retirement money to lose spending power.
But be careful because not all types of interest-earning invest-ments will make enough money to fight inflation.
Everyone should have an emer-
gency savings fund. This is what’s going to help us deal with unex-pected difficulties that everyone encounters in life.
We all know we aren’t invincible. Everyone’s cars break down, and people lose their jobs. Until we can get back onto our feet, the emer-gency savings fund is what will help us through hard times without accumulating large amounts of debt.
We should never live beyond our means. Living up to our heads in debt is no way to live our lives.
This is when houses are fore-closed on, and collectors come knocking at our doors. Living within our means does not recession-proof families, but lessens the severity of how bad economic times can get.
I urge students to take the HACE 3110 Money Skills class to learn how to plan financially strong and happy futures. This class teach-es students important life skills such as learning your credit score to setting up a 401(k).
Perhaps in the next few years the economy will turn around and we’ll see the country prosper.
Regardless of when the turn-around will happen, we can all be thankful we saw how bad financial times can get.
Having this in the back of our minds will help set a framework for our financial habits.
— Marcie Opraseuth is a senior from Dunwoody majoring
in publication management
Lessons learned in bad financial times
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Secretary of Defense Bob Gates and Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert?
Students have launched a campaign to bring Colbert as the spring commencement speaker, and Facebook groups with thousands of sup-porters have already started cropping up.
The editorial board of the Red & Black appreciates the contributions of our past nota-ble commencement speakers, but how about we shake things up a bit?
Known for his parody of Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and all things conservative, Colbert has garnered legions of fans — including many who will be sitting in the audience on graduation day.
College graduation is a moment that stu-dents work their entire lives toward, but many can’t wait for the ceremony to end before it even begins.
Colbert would surely lighten the mood for students regardless of their political affiliation and make a drawn out commencement that much more bearable.
— Patrick Hooper and Yasmin Yonis
for the editorial board
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Considering concerns with the economy and the typically tight budgets of most college
students, I decided that a piece highlighting a few pointers for eat-ing inexpensively would be quite pertinent.
However, upon conducting a bit of research in order to round up a few outside ideas and tips, I found myself absolutely appalled.
At the top of every single list of “cheap meals for college stu-dents” perched Ramen Noodles, frozen dinners, boxed macaroni and cheese, and fast-food dollar menus.
Can somebody please explain in what dimension of the twilight zone is promoting obesity in a box con-sidered quality advice?
OK, I am all for experiencing the full “college lifestyle.” All the same, never will the sun rise on a day when rolling out of bed to an after-noon breakfast of Natty Lights and Totino’s Pizza Rolls is a good meal … even for a broke student.
I really don’t mean to offend any of patrons of the beloved college staples, but have you ever actu-ally taken a gander at the nutrition label on a pack of Ramen?
Your first mental alarm should sound when you see that one pack-age contains two servings. Who might I ask eats only half a package of Ramen Noodles?
In reality, there is a plethora of means to cost-effectively obtain delicious, quality food. The key being a smidgen of thought paired with a pinch of effort.
The first years living on one’s own are a crucial time for forming
habits that could very well last the remainder of your life. Thus, now is the perfect time to establish fiscally and nutritionally wise eating habits.
There are numerous affordable, staple food items that can scrump-tiously serve as the foundation for innumerable wholesome meals.
Keep the kitchen stocked with essentials such as eggs, canned tuna or chicken, oatmeal, low-fat yogurt, potatoes and beans. Of course, always keep fruits and veg-gies on hand, preferably fresh or fro-zen, as canned typically lose nutri-tion and flavor.
Now for a few basic “Do’s of eco-nomic eating.” Invest in some basic kitchen tools, including a couple of good cookbooks and actually take them out of the cupboard. Establish a food budget and stick to it.
Shop wisely by checking out store specials, clipping coupons and making a shopping list before head-ing into aisles of enticement.
Plan ahead by making dishes on the weekend, such as homemade soup, that can be eaten throughout the week or frozen for later.
Purchase good seasonings to add more variety to your recipes. Try to prepare the majority of meals at home and let dining out be an occa-sional treat.
Avoid unplanned food ventures while out and about. Those little
gas station snacks and afternoon McFlurries add up quickly.
Consider reducing your meat intake. You can easily save a little cash and reap some health benefits with a few weekly vegetable-based meals. Always eat breakfast. You’ll be less likely to feed dollars to the vending machine throughout the day.
And for the “No-No’s.” Thou shall not forsake thy leftovers. Often, they can be revamped into something more scrumptious than the original.
Don’t be glutinous, it’s a deadly sin for a reason. Eating more than you actually need and mind-less snacking is truly a waste of food, and consequently, a waste of money.
Avoid racing to fast food and pizza places just because of a “meal deal” advertisement. It’s still typi-cally cheaper to cook at home. Try not to waste money on pricey pre-packaged munchies and snack packs.
Also, don’t waste money on soda and stick with water, even when eating out. Don’t pay up to three times as much for pre-cut fruits and vegetables. You can slice an apple all by yourself.
All in all, being a college student does not have to equivocate in starving or surviving on a diet based on toxic lard, as long as you make a few conscious efforts to expand your culinary horizons and wisdom.
— Darcy Lenz is a freshman from Valdosta majoring in
English and consumer foods
Good food habits possible with tight budget
DARCYLENZ
High school students slop through ankle-deep puddles as
they make their way to class. No, it’s not rain-ing. Their school is slowly crumbling to the ground.
Opening their text-books, they find outdated information and obsceni-ties scattered throughout. One day, man will land on the moon, one textbook reads.
Even if the desire to learn is stoked, the infra-structure to do so is inad-equate. It’s a silent battle for inner-city students — a battle I knew little of until my social psychology class was shown a video about the disparity between inner-city and suburban public schools in the state of Ohio.
But it’s not just hap-pening in Ohio. Look at the schools in inner-city Atlanta and compare them to those in Fulton, Cobb and Gwinnett counties. The contrast is visible without even setting foot in the schools.
Every day, a dispro-portionate number of America’s youth go to school in buildings that are in disrepair — some of which are condemned but cannot be torn down due to lack of funding to build a replacement.
As the walls crumble around inner-city students, so too do their chances at an education equal to that of their suburban peers — an education that will pre-pare them for college.
Even the most tena-cious students can be deterred from learning in such facilities. And it doesn’t just stop with stu-dents.
According to studies by the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, teachers are increas-ingly dissatisfied with the facilities they work in. Disgruntled teachers con-tribute to poor academic performance.
The video showed stu-dents in an inner-city high school having study hall as basketball practice took place in a gymnasium. In a suburban high school, students were shown using the expansive study space at their disposal. Just another example of the disparity that goes largely unmentioned.
In the last 50 years,
much of America’s wealth left its inner cities. Suburban America is now full of upper-middle-class families — a great source of property taxes, which are the main source of funding for schools.
In large cities, the prop-erty tax base is smaller and poorer. School sys-tems in these cities have been left with aging build-ings and little money for repairs.
I’m lucky. I spent all 13 of my school years prior to college in one of the best public school systems in the state. The textbooks were always up-to-date, and the facilities were first-class. There was a sense of enthusiasm. High expecta-tions were the norm. Most of the time, I looked for-ward to going to school.
In a word, I was always comfortable. And comfort facilitates easier learning.
When students must bundle up and go from one building to another just for a bathroom break, they become uncomfortable. Their minds begin to wan-der. They wish they were somewhere else — some-where with heat.
A great teacher can only foster so much hope with-out the proper tools and surroundings.
Inner-city children across America deserve to be able to leave behind the destitute environments they often live in for a few hours each day and enter a place that promotes enthusiasm and better-ment — places like the public schools I attended.
While a great many of our country’s inner-city public schools lie in ruin, the government contin-ues to construct massive, state-of-the-art prisons.
The irony here? Many of the students that drop out of these dilapidated schools will end up in these prisons where they may at last acquire the world-class education they are entitled to.
Too little, too late, I say.
— Justin Davidson is an alumnus
from Lawrenceville
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JUSTINDAVIDSON
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By CASEY BRIDGEMANTHE RED & BLACK
Students may have a refresh-ing new excuse to skip class: sitting for that long could kill you.
In a study released in the January edition of the Journal of the American Heart Association, a shocking statis-tic on sedentary time was revealed.
According to Australian researchers, every sedentary hour spent in front of a TV per day brings with it an 11 percent greater risk of premature death from all causes and an 18 per-cent greater risk of death from cardiovascular disease.
The most surprising part of these findings is that they
apply not only to obese and overweight people, but also those with a healthy weight.
The study notes these statis-tics apply to generally healthy people because prolonged peri-ods of sitting have a negative effect on blood sugar and fat levels.
This creates an interesting dilemma for students who find themselves sitting in classes for a large portion of most days.
Can sitting in class every day actually kill you?
Not so, said Angie Ruhlen, the nutrition services coordina-tor at the University Health Center.
“It’s nothing that I would lose sleep over. We have more studies showing the benefits of exercise time than the detri-
mental effects of having a desk job,” Ruhlen said.
Ruhlen also pointed out that the study is not without its flaws.
“I think it tells us exactly what we know, that the more physical activity you get during the day, the better it is for your body and your heart,” Ruhlen said. “In the study, they didn’t ask people what they did for work — are they sedentary dur-ing the day?
“They only asked how much TV-watching time you do, so they weren’t taking into account their whole day’s phys-ical activity.”
However, researchers claim the average daily TV-watching time in Australia is three hours per day, while Americans watch
an estimated eight hours per day and suffer from a nearly 70 percent rate of adult obesity, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While the study does focus entirely on sedentary time spent in front of the TV only, the researchers also note that watching TV is the most com-mon form of sedentary activity.
Stacy Connell, assistant director for fitness and wellness at UGA’s Department of Recreational Sports, encourag-es students to focus on being active when they’re not in the classroom to counteract the time spent seated.
“[Students] should be more worried about what they’re doing in their leisure time when
they’re not in class because I think that’s where a lot of the implications of the study show,” Connell said. “If you’re in school for an extended amount of time where you have a seden-tary job, then I would be con-cerned about what they’re doing in their down time.”
Ruhlen and Connell agree that the best way to beat car-diovascular diseases is to find simple and creative ways to stay active, even when the weather makes it difficult.
“We do have a natural instinct to hibernate when the weather is cold, so the one thing is to make it a part of your day,” Connell said. “Just find something you enjoy doing,” Ruhlen said. “It just takes some creativity.”
New study shows danger of long periods of sitting
By EVA VASQUEZTHE RED & BLACK
Out of all of the alternative therapies, the practice of Reiki has proven to be the most difficult to understand and truly experiential practice.
The name Reiki originates from the Japanese tradition, and like the Chinese practice of acupuncture, Reiki deals with the universal life force energy.
The actual practice of Reiki involves the Reiki practitioner laying his or her hands on, or just above, the body in an attempt to channel the universal life force through the hands and into the cli-ent’s body.
Michael Moore, a Teaching Reiki Master at the Healing Arts Center, explained the concept of how Reiki works in a way that makes the conceptu-al practice able to be understood and visualized.
“It is the most natural instinct for a mother to put her hands on her wounded child,” Moore said.
He said anyone who has felt the com-fort of a mother’s loving touch has expe-rienced, to some degree, the concept of Reiki.
“The other word for the universal life force is love,” Moore said.
The difference between someone who lays their hands to comfort their beloved and a Reiki practitioner is that the trained Reiki practitioner has cleared his or her channels and can transmit the universal life force to a complete strang-er.
“We have ways to invite the energy to come through us,” Moore said. “The
highest calling of a Reiki practitioner is to be a channel.”
But it is not the practitioner who does the healing, and as Moore explained, the Reiki energy doesn’t heal a patient. It only allows the body to heal itself.
“Reiki is an element of building a foundation of good health because it fills us with the life force,” Moore said.
Tracy Atkins, a University alumna, vis-its the Healing Arts Center every six weeks to receive Reiki therapy from practitioner Meghan Burke.
She explained she had some health problems and felt compelled to look into the healing powers of Reiki.
However, she said she cannot be sure the Reiki therapy is actually balancing her energies.
“For me, I think of it as a meditation session — I try to meditate on certain things while she is doing what she does,” Atkins said.
Regardless of if anything is happening with her energy, Atkins continues to value her time with Burke.
“At the end of each session, I have a sense of feeling more collected and calm and more grounded,” she said.
However, other users are more sure of what Reiki is capable of changing in their lives.
Barbara Locascio, a psychotherapist and Reiki Master at the Athens Center for Therapeutic Arts, first became involved with Reiki when she noticed an energy during therapy sessions.
“I was feeling energy between me and the client — the quality of the air would change,” Locascio said.
She looked more into energies, and
eventually became certified in Polarity Therapy, and shortly after, Reiki.
“I scan the body. The energy gets more chaotic in certain places,” Locascio said.
“A person may come in with a terrible headache, when it is really a digestive issue,” Locascio said.
Sometimes her intuition just tells her what the problem is, but she is also
aware of how the practice can seem unbelievable to a skeptic.
“I have a number of clients who have pain through fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, and it is helpful to them,” Locascio said.
“I once had a patient with a horrible back problem, after her Reiki session she went straight to her chiropractor, and he was amazed.”
MICHAEL HARRIS | The Red & Black
Practitioner Michael Moore channels energy to allow the body to heal.
Reiki channels universal life force
By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK
Georgia’s linebackers may not know exactly which linebacker position they will fill in new defensive coordi-nator Todd Grantham’s 3-4 scheme, but they now know who will coach which posi-tions.
New linebackers coach Warren Belin will coach the inside linebackers while defensive coordinator Todd Grantham will be in charge of the outside linebackers.
“Todd [Grantham] and I will both be working togeth-er with the linebacker corps,” Belin said. “I’ll be focused on working with the inside linebackers, but there’ll be times during drills when I’ll be working with the outside linebackers.”
“My philosophy for my players, and I’ve sat down and told all of those guys this the first day, is honesty No. 1, fairness No. 2 and then 100-percent effort and attitude on and off the field. If you do those things and do them right every day, you have a good chance to be success-ful.”
Belin said head coach Mark Richt is still “working out the details” of who will be handling what for the special teams units, but the defensive coaching staff is officially set heading into spring practice March 4.
Belin also spent two years as recruiting coordinator at
Vanderbilt and said the state of Georgia had “been real, real good” to him on the recruiting trail while he was at Vanderbilt.
Georgia sits at No. 6 in attendance for 2009
SEC football has always been praised for the intensi-ty at which fan bases sup-port the conference’s foot-ball teams, a level of football fanatics perhaps only the Big Ten could match.
That fervor is evi-dent in the 2009 foot-ball attendance fig-ures released by the NCAA Tuesday.
The SEC was home to six of the top-15 schools in home attendance numbers.
Georgia ranked sixth in the nation in home attendance,
averaging 92,746 and selling out each home game this season.
Tennessee was fifth (99,220) in the nation and tops in the SEC. LSU fin-ished at No. 7 (92,489), Alabama at No. 8 (92,012), and Florida at No. 9 (90,635).
The SEC averaged the most fans of any conference — 76,288. The Big Ten was second with 71,769, but the Big Ten had the top three — Michigan (108,993), Penn State (107,008), and Ohio State (105,261).
By MICHAEL FITZPATRICKTHE RED & BLACK
It is a vault that requires a tre-mendous amount of skill and pre-cision.
The Yurchenko one and a half, in which a gymnast hits the horse in a backwards handstand and twists 540 degrees before landing on the mat, had been giving junior Gym Dog Hilary Mauro fits this season.
She had practiced it every day and in the first few meets of the season performed a watered down version of the vault because she couldn’t consistently stick the landing.
“I do it every day in the gym,” Mauro said. “What’s frustrating is that I’ll go and warm up and have some struggles with it.”
But that all changed Friday in Gainesville, Fla., when the gym-nast short in stature — 4-foot-8 — but big in heart, exorcized her vault demons and stuck the land-ing, tying a season high score of 9.85.
“It gave me so much confi-dence,” Mauro said. “I was just so excited — I was just so excited that whole meet. Just landing that vault was momentum going into floor and [balance] beam.”
Mauro’s vault propelled her to season-high scores of 9.875 on the floor exercise and a 9.9 on the beam. When she finished her beam routine she told teammate Courtney McCool, “That was easy.”
“When she goes up there she is as consistent as consistent can be. Everything is awesome,” McCool said.
Mauro had been out of the vault lineup in the two meets prior to Friday because she couldn’t con-sistently land her vault, and her entrance had been increasingly dif-ficult due to the performance of
teammates, senior Lauren Sessler and freshman Shayla Worley. But she kept working hard and forced herself back into the lineup.
“She has really tightened the screws since that competition [to get in the lineup] has been going on, and you are starting to see some good positive results of that,” head coach Jay Clark said.
It was the disappointment of being held out of the lineup that got Mauro to work harder and harder, a commitment her team-mates never fail to notice.
“We need her to be the star she is, and she works harder than almost anybody in the gym,” senior Grace Taylor said Friday. “She works ridiculously hard, and her scores are finally starting to show what she deserves.”
Mauro, who admitted that in previous meets she “had been
timid here and there,” let loose in Gainesville, and her teammates fed off of the energy of her routines and her cheering.
“It gave us so much confidence because you know the last few peo-ple are gonna blow it up,” junior Cassidy McComb said. “To have her hit in the middle of the lineup gave us so much momentum.”
Outside of being the “energizer bunny,” as Clark called her, Mauro also serves as the in-house come-dian, even if she isn’t always that funny.
“I’m always the jokester, or I try to be anyway,” she said with a laugh. “Sometimes I’ll say things, and they aren’t so funny and peo-ple will say, ‘Oh wow, did you really just say that?’ I just try to keep people happy and upbeat all the time and just do my best,” Mauro said.
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But Taylor feels having a few games under his belt should help him when he steps up to bat this evening.
“ T h e r e were a lot of jitters, espe-cially in that first game [last week-end],” said Taylor. “I think there will be some jit-ters tomorrow, but overall I think I’ll be a lot more relaxed and settled in.”
But for Farmer and Taylor — both Georgia natives — tonight’s game will be a special one, as they make their first appearance donning their jerseys.
“My dreams will be ful-filled I guess you could say,” Farmer said. “I’ve been looking forward to this moment for 18 years and it’s finally come. I’m expect-ing big things tomorrow, and hopefully we’ll come out with the victory and impress the home crowd.”
Junior brings consistency to Gym Dogs
By ZACH DILLARDTHE RED & BLACK
Through the trials of a competitive indoor season, a constant has remained for Georgia track and field.
The Bulldogs’ top group of performers have consis-tently improved as the 2010 season has progressed, much to the credit of their fellow teammates.
Weight throwers John Freeman, Branislav Danis and David Schiedt have forged a friendship over their years spent in Athens that toes a line between competi-tive and encouraging — with a large dose of comedy thrown in for good measure.
“A lot of the pushing comes in the weight room, where we push each other to get a little bit higher lifts,” Schiedt said. “Obviously, out in throwing it’s more sup-portive and [we] try to help each other throw farther. It is not so much a personal competition at all.”
In reality, most track and field athletes go into every meet looking to improve upon their personal best marks, as opposed to defeat-ing the opposition.
But when it comes to the Bulldog weight throwers, this trait does not necessarily extend into virtual reality.
“We compete more in video games [than in other
sports], I’d say,” said Schiedt, who submits the claim of Call Of Duty champion by default as “the nerdiest of the group.”
The contrasting back-grounds of each athlete seem to add to their bond, contrib-uting a wide array of likes and dislikes into the friendly mix.
Danis came to Georgia from the European country of Slovakia, while Freeman is the resident Texan of the group. Schiedt serves as the hometown kid — he hails from Lassiter High School in Marietta.
Even their dating situa-tions remain different. Whereas Schiedt remains single, the other two consider themselves taken — high-lighted by Danis’ specialized “girlfriend voice” for his sig-nificant other.
However, the teammates are not as divergent when it comes to producing results.
The Bulldog weight throw-ers comprise three out of the top six conference perform-ers in the event this indoor season, which could trans-late into a serious bundle of points if they can back up their production at the SEC Indoor Championships.
Freeman enters this week-end’s SEC Championships in the No. 3 spot on the confer-ence leaderboard in the weight throw with a top
throw of 68 feet, 1 inch.Danis placed eighth at last
season’s SEC meet as a soph-omore and enters this week-end in the No. 5 slot in the conference, well within a shot of a higher finish this year.
Schiedt rounds out the SEC’s six best in the weight, posting career-best throws in every meet so far in 2009.
“We are really shooting for two, four, and six at the SEC’s based on the confer-ence standings,” Freeman said. “We are just shooting for those spots with possibil-ity of placing even higher if somebody from another school falls off.”
The No. 25 Georgia men will be banking on Freeman, Danis and Schiedt to carry a large portion of their points this weekend — something the throwers have prepared for.
“We definitely thought this would be possible after what we did last year and after we trained really hard in the fall,” Schiedt said. “We worked hard and got stron-ger, faster and better.”
“And prettier,” Danis added.
So as the Georgia heads to Fayetteville, Ark., this weekend, the Bulldogs will leave with the confidence in knowing they have the best (and apparently prettiest) weight throwing unit in the conference.
Tight-knit trio of weight throwers push for success
JACKIE REEDY | The Red & Black
Weight throwers Branislav Danis (left), John Freeman (middle) and David Schiedt (right) hold three out of the top six performances in the SEC in their event, with Freeman sitting at No. 3 in the SEC.
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Junior Hilary Mauro worked to earn back her spot in the Gym Dogs’ lineup after struggling with her landings on vault.
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