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www.redandblack.com Friday, February 26, 2010 Vol. 117, No. 113 | Athens, Georgia
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By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK
Overtime wasn’t any friendlier to the Georgia men’s basketball team on the road than regu-lation, as the Bulldogs suffered a 96-94 over-time loss to No. 16 Vanderbilt.
Guard Dustin Ware scored a layup with 1:36 remaining in overtime to tie the game up at 86, but Vanderbilt rat-tled off six unanswered points over the next minute to pull away from Georgia.
Ware hit two consec-utive 3-pointers to get Georgia within a buck-
et with 13 seconds remaining. But Vanderbilt’s Jermaine Beal, who had a game-high 28 points, drained four consecutive free throws in the final 25 seconds of overtime to keep the Commodores ahead. Chris Barnes got a dunk and the foul to bring Georgia within two with one second left. He missed the free throw intentionally, and Ware got the rebound but hurried the shot, which came up short. Travis Leslie rebounded it for the put back just tenths of
See LOSS, Page 8
Bulldogs lose in overtime to Vandy
By JULIA CARPENTERTHE RED & BLACK
“Man’s best friend” might not be so accurate a saying anymore, as an increasing number of women are pursu-ing careers in animal medi-cine.
Sheila Allen, dean of the University’s College for Veterinary Medicine, said the college’s applicant pool has been 80 percent female in recent years.
“I don’t know exactly what year it was, but I got here in ’81, and we were already approaching 50-50. Sometime in the ’80s females exceeded males,” she said.
Allen said this phenomenon might be part of a larger trend in women plan-ning for careers in the health field.
“More and more women are attracted to many health professions — nursing, phar-macy, medicine, p h y s i c i a n ’ s assistants, vet-erinary medicine — I could go on. I don’t know why that is. I think men and women are equally-suited for the profes-sion,” she said.
From her experience work-ing in a private practice veteri-nary clinic, Kelly Cummings, a junior biological sciences major from Marietta, said she believes more women are attracted to veterinary medi-cine for the flexible hours and the increased family time a veterinarian’s schedule allows.
“Out of the five vets [at the clinic], four were women, and each vet worked about three of the six days we were open so they could be with their families,” she said. “It’s also been shown many women are
See VET, Page 5
Vet jobs attract more femalesFlexible hours draw women
ALLEN
Men’s Basketball Vanderbilt 96, Georgia 94
DRESSING TRASHY
MOLLY WEIR | The Red & Black
Carla Dennis of University Housing sifts through trash Thursday pulling out recycla-bles students threw away. Story page 2.
By JOHN BARRETTTHE RED & BLACK
She’s everywhere but nowhere.
Who is Natalie Hinkle? The question will finally be answered at tonight’s show at 40 Watt. Is she a real musician, or just a figment of Facebook imagination?
Listed prominently in tonight’s Doctors Without Borders benefit lineup, tonight’s show was billed as her first show in Athens and, according to Quiet Hooves drummer Mercer West, is “a big deal.”
But her sudden emergence in the Athens scene, solely via Facebook-friending students by the hundreds, has led some to speculate whether or not she even exists, as evidenced by the Facebook group “Who the F*ck is Natalie Hinkle?”
No one has met her. No one has seen her.
Whoever the elusive Hinkle really is, she responded to The Red & Black via e-mail, but attempts to reach her via tele-phone to confirm her identity were denied.
“I will be singing and danc-ing with 10 other girls from my dance company,” Hinkle said via e-mail, who mentioned she would perform with an
See HINKLE, Page 6
Mystery musician to appearElusive Hinkle helps Haiti
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Ryan Crowe (left) of the Meat Technology Center and Alexander Stelzleni pose with a freshly cut flat iron steak.
By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK
Eating a balanced diet on a college bud-get can be difficult, but the flat iron steak, a recently developed beef cut, is gaining in popularity for its tenderness, flavor and most of all, affordability.
Alexander Stelzleni, an assistant profes-sor in the animal and dairy science depart-ment, assisted in researching this increas-ingly popular meat product.
“We’d look to see if we cut it in a differ-ent way, what’s going to be the eating qual-ity of that muscle,” he said.
Dwain Johnson is the professor of ani-mal science at the University of Florida who developed the flat iron in the late 1990s.
“For about 10 or so years there’s been a decline in demand for beef,” he said. “What the [National Cattlemen’s Beef Association] found was that the middle cuts, the cuts from the rib and loin, were actually going up in demand but the ends, the round and the chuck, were going down in demand about 25 percent.”
Johnson and a team of researchers from both UF and the University of Nebraska answered NCBA’s call for research and began looking for value-added cuts that could bump up the demand for beef.
“We put our heads together and looked at these muscles to see what we could do,” he said. All told, his team researched 37 dif-ferent types of muscle.
Johnson’s research and muscle profiling led to the creation of the Bovine Myology Web site, which he described as an encyclo-pedia of beef cattle anatomy and muscle properties.
The infraspinatus muscle consists of a
top blade and a bottom blade, with a large seam of connective tissue in between, he said. This connective tissue was one reason consumers shied away from the chicken steak. It also contributed to a lack of ten-derness — the connective tissue required low, slow heating to break down and become tender, which could not be achieved by grilling or cooking it as a steak.
Despite the connective tissue, Johnson saw potential in the infraspinatus. It is the second-tenderest muscle, if cooked prop-erly, he said.
The solution, Stelzleni said, was a mat-ter of cutting against the grain.
The flat iron steak is essentially the infraspinatus muscle in the chuck, or shoul-der, of a beef animal — but cut in a new way to maximize its muscle properties, Stelzleni said. He said prior to the flat iron’s development, the infraspinatus could have been used in three different ways.
“It could be a chuck roast, a chuck steak, or it could be the beef chuck top round steak, commonly referred to as the
See STEAK, Page 2
AGAINST THE GRAIN
What: Haiti Benefit for Doctors
Without Borders featuring Casper &
the Cookies, Quiet Hooves, Natalie
Hinkle, Native Kid, Henry Barbe
When: 8 tonight
Where: 40 Watt Club
Cost: $8
For more information: contact
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
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Innovative beef cut offers more budget-friendly steak option
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2 | Friday, February 26, 2010 | The Red & Black NEWS
By ADINA SOLOMONTHE RED & BLACK
A campus event so dirty it required a biohazard suit is helping promote a cleaner world.
A Dumpster dive into Russell Hall’s trash took place Thursday morning at the Russell Hall bus stop. As people looked on and held their noses, volunteers wearing biohazard suits sifted through 520 pounds of trash collected over a 24-hour period and picked out recyclable material.
The goal of the event was to show onlookers the difference recycling could make in landfills, said David Berland, a residence hall director.
“It will encourage students to take that extra step to recycle,” he said.
Berland said he wants the Dumpster dive to make students “pay attention to what they’re throwing away” because so much supposed trash can be recycled.
“There was a couple hundred pounds of things that could have been recycled,” Berland said of a sim-ilar dive held last semester. “That’s the point of this second one — to see if people improved their habits over last semester.”
Thursday’s dive found 37.63 per-cent of the trash was recyclable, slightly more than last semester’s 36 percent.
Natacha Denis, a freshman from Marietta, was one of eight people who swam through the mounds of dorm
hall garbage.Denis said she was excited when
she first heard about the Dumpster dive and immediately signed on for the event. Even afterward, she said she was not disappointed.
“When I was in there, it was fun,” she said. “A lot of people walking by were in a rush for class, but the peo-ple who stopped were interested.”
Denis petitioned students to sign a pledge advertised at the dumpster dive: a promise to increase their recy-
cling for one month.With or without signing the pledge,
Berland said people can live a more environmentally-friendly lifestyle by recycling, riding a bike and doing “those little-bitty things that add up to make a difference.”
Berland said the Dumpster dive demonstrated what materials people are throwing to waste, encouraging them to recycle more.
“It’s just that one little step mov-ing towards a better world,” he said.
Trash trove full of recyclablesMoreno case dropped
University student
Stephen Anderson, 18, has dropped the misdemeanor battery charge against for-mer Georgia and current Denver Broncos tailback Knowshon Moreno.
The accusations arose after Moreno reportedly punched Anderson in the face in Bourbon Street Bar Saturday night, knocking him unconscious. Anderson reported being drunk at the time and has based his accounts of the confronta-tion on the testimony of witnesses.
Although Anderson didn’t seek any law enforce-ment or medical help at the time of the incident, he did visit the University Health Center the following Monday where he was diag-nosed with a concussion.
Despite these accusa-tions, no arrest has been made, and the case is closed.
The Denver Post report-ed Hilda Sorrow, public information assistant for Athens-Clarke County Police, said, “It was deter-mined there was not enough for us to [show] probable cause to continue with the investigation, and we have closed the investi-gation.”
Hotbox lands two in hot water
A parked car on the side of the road with windows up and two individuals inside is bound to raise some suspicion. Add the smell of burning marijuana to the mix, and you have yourself a drug bust.
Kelly Leanne Coggins, 19, was arrested and charged with possession of less than one ounce of mar-ijuana and Kimberlee Vale Lovern, 18, was arrested and charged with posses-sion of drug-related objects on the Hall Street turn-around Feb. 24 at 9:53 p.m, according to the University Police report.
According to the report,
the incident began when the arresting officer saw a tan Ford Taurus parked on the side of the road. After approaching the vehicle, the officer reported smell-ing marijuana.
A search of the vehicle later revealed a “baggie” of marijuana in the center console and a grinder and glass pipe under the pas-senger side seat.
Class D license leads to DUI
Margaret Whittlesey Brown, 20, was arrested and charged with DUI, underage possession of alcohol, failure to maintain lane and breaking rules of an instructional license on Lumpkin Street at Pinecrest Drive Feb. 25 at 1:19 a.m.
The traffic stop was ini-tiated when a police officer saw Brown swerve out of her lane multiple times. After being followed for several blocks, she was pulled over. When asked if she had been drinking, Brown told the officer she had not.
After gathering her information, the officer learned Brown had a class D provisional license which did not allow her to drive between midnight and 6 a.m. As the officer explained that Brown would have to have someone come pick her up, he noticed she cov-ered her mouth when she spoke and her breath smelled of alcohol.
The arresting officer then asked Brown to step out of the vehicle and per-formed several field sobri-ety tests. Her performance throughout those tests led the officer to believe she was over the limit, and Brown was placed under arrest.
She was transported to Clarke County jail, where a breathalyzer registered .175 blood alcohol content.
MOLLY WEIR | The Red & Black
Students pick through piles of trash at the Russell Hall bus stop Thursday. Much of the waste could have been recycled.
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chicken steak,” Stelzleni said.
Instead of cutting the infraspinatus into smaller steaks, it was filleted like a fish to remove the connec-tive tissue, and voilà — the flat iron steak was born.
“When you fillet it out, it looks like a flat piece of iron,” Johnson said.
Ryan Crowe, the meat manager at the University’s animal science research college, said the flat iron was comparable to popu-lar higher value cuts.
“It’s very similar to a ribeye steak,” he said. “It has a lot of marbling in it.”
Marbling, or intramus-cular fat, helps create fla-vor, tenderness and juici-ness in cuts of beef,
Stelzleni said.A serving of flat iron
contains 200 calories, 110 of those from fat.
“About one-third of that fat is going to be saturat-ed, but of that, 12 to 18 percent is going to be stearic acid,” Stelzleni said. He said unlike other saturated fats, stearic acid is cholesterol-neutral, nei-ther lowering nor raising a
body’s cholesterol levels.The flat iron has a type
of iron known as “heme iron,” which is more absorbable in the human body than iron from plants, he said. Flat irons also contain 96 percent of the daily recommended allow-ance of vitamin B12, and about half of the daily rec-ommended allowance of zinc, Stelzleni said.
STEAK: Flat iron offers many health benefits
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NEWS The Red & Black | Friday, February 26, 2010 | 3
By RACHEL BUNNTHE RED & BLACK
The University may be a Coke-exclusive cam-pus, but for most other products, the college doesn’t care which brand you choose.
“There’s no general school policy because there are so many different subjects and instructors,” said Christopher Hocking, associate director and chair of studio foundations at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
Hocking said there are so many different types of pencils and paper alone, it makes it impossible to implement a single brand policy in the art school.
“Most instructors try to find an economical brand,” he said.
Though the art school does not have an over arching policy on all materials, the department of graphic design does require students to purchase a Macbook computer once they are accepted into the program.
Lanny Webb, graphic design chair, said Apple computers are used by about 90 percent of graph-ic design artists, and students wishing to pursue a career in graphic design should be trained to use them.
“When the Mac first came out, it partnered with Adobe and wrote a number of integral pro-grams which allow users to have WYSIWYG [what you see is what you get], which allows stu-dents to have better control over their designs,”
he said.In the department of mathematics, there is not
a policy requiring students to buy a specific brand of calculator, but leaves the option up to instruc-tors.
However, the University does have a brand preference for clickers, which are used mostly in large student lectures. Clickers are digital devices that make it easier for professors to take atten-dance and administer quizzes in larger classes.
“The University wanted to make a move to make it easier for students,” said David Noah, the University’s coordinator of emerging technolo-gies.
Because many students have to take multiple large lecture courses, switching to a single system would allow students to make a one-time pur-chase instead of buying a different clicker for each class.
In fall 2008, the Interwrite PRS RF clicker became the sole supported clicker on campus.
Instructors can choose to use a different brand of clicker, but they must purchase the equipment themselves. The University will pay for the equip-ment for the Interwrite PRS RF.
“The University researched possible options and decided based on what made the most sense for students and instructors because of ease and cost,” Noah said.
The Interwrite PRS RF clickers can be pur-chased from the University Bookstore for $58.75 new or $44.25 used.
Teachers decide required brands
By PAIGE VARNERTHE RED & BLACK
Former Sen. J. Maxwell “Max” Cleland will be in Athens at 7 p.m. to kick off the School of Law’s two-day anniversary cele-bration of student organizations that promote public interest law.
The event, celebrating the Equal Justice Foundation’s 25th anniversary and Working in the Public Interest’s fifth, will address public concerns such as prison reform, environmental justice, child advocacy, hate crimes and immigration law.
Stinson Ferguson, outreach director for WIPI and the event’s organizer, said Cleland’s story as a Vietnam War veteran, triple-amputee and former United States senator from Georgia is why he was chosen to speak.
Ferguson said someone who has lost the use of his limbs and is still active in public service is inspirational.
“That’s a motivation for those who want to do it a little or a lot,” said Ferguson, a third-year law student from Spartanburg, S.C. “If he can do it, then we can do it.”
Cleland, secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission, said that for law students to align themselves with public issues, they must understand they become a sort of public property, alluding to Thomas Jefferson’s theory about public servants.
“It was painfully obvious that public servants and officehold-ers were subject to total public scrutiny,” Cleland said. “That happens to be true.”
Two other ideas Cleland holds about public interest law come from presidents Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“Public office is public trust,” Cleland said. “And FDR’s views were that we need the courage of the young. As he said, yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but of remaking the world before you.”
Both student-organized, WIPI and EJF promote the vehicle of law to combat social injustice in order to remake the world.
WIPI brings students, faculty and eminent practitioners in various fields to discuss how law can practically promote social justice and human rights for all.
EJF aims to provide stipends for summer law clerks who have
chosen to work in unpaid, public interest positions.
An auction and awards recep-tion will follow Cleland’s speech.
“The auction is definitely high-energy,” Ferguson said. “What’s auctioned off appeals to everyone, from weekend pack-ages to restaurant gift cards.”
Ferguson said EJF members hope the auction will raise between $25,000 and $50,000.
Saturday’s WIPI conference will include roundtable discus-sions and a networking recep-tion. Some discussion topics include human sex trafficking, the struggles of former inmates’ reintegration into society and the disproportionate effect of pollution on minority and impov-erished communities.
The event does not mark the first time Cleland has come to the University.
Cleland mused about a day in 2005 when he lectured for a law class as a Carl E. Sanders Political Leadership Scholar.
“If I were a professor, I would handle class my way,” Cleland said. “So, I took the students out-side under a tree and had class.”
Cleland also donated his sen-atorial papers to the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, including the Senate’s roll-call vote about whether to sustain the House of Representatives’ efforts to impeach former President Clinton.
Cleland said he decided to speak at the law school event as a favor for being honored as a Sanders Scholar.
“In Washington, there are yel-low dogs and blue dogs and hot dogs,” he said. “I do think I’m a Bulldog.”
Former Georgia senator to speak at law school
LILY PRICE | The Red & Black
Students sit in class at the Miller Learning Center taking notes on their Macbook laptops. Students in the University’s graphic design program are required to use Macs.
When: Today7 p.m. – Cleland’s “We are Public Interest” speech8 p.m.– Awards and silent auction9 p.m. – Live AuctionWhere: Melting PointPrice: Free and open to the public
When: SaturdayWhere: School of LawMore Information: See Web site for schedule: www.lawuga.edu/wipi/wipi_full_schedule_10.pdfPrice: Free for students and faculty, $25 for all others.
LAW SCHOOL EVENTS
If there’s ever a time that faculty, staff, students and their parents, and all forward-thinking citizens of this state need to band together, now’s the time.
State legislators have asked the university sys-tem to cut an additional $385 million immediately. That’s equal to the entire budgets of 23 of the 35 campuses in the state sys-tem.
Drastic measures are on the table. How does a 77 percent hike in tuition sound? It may soon be a reality.
How about services cut far beyond what’s been seen yet?
More rounds of fur-loughs and salary cuts? A devastating blow to the state’s university system and its future?
E-mail your view on this situation to Sen. Seth Harp (R-Midland), Rep. Austin Scott (R-Tifton), Rep. Bob Lane (R-Statesboro), Sen. Don Balfour (R-Snellville) and Rep. Bill Hembree (R-Winston). Ask your friends, teachers, and par-ents to do the same. See a new Facebook group “Save Our State of Georgia.”
We all need to make some noise. And fast.
JAY HAMILTONFaculty, Grady College
The University of Georgia
Bartender article not newsworthy
As a Grady alumna and usually avid supporter of The Red & Black, I have to say I am extremely dis-appointed with your news judgment in publishing the article, “DUI charge for area bartender,” on Wednesday, Feb. 24.
Singling out Amanda Goss for a story in the print edition when your paper normally publishes DUIs in the crime round up is ridiculous.
The fact that Goss is a bartender does not make her a public figure, and that you would single her out for ridicule is absolute-ly ridiculous.
Surely your editors and writers know what is news-worthy, and this simply isn’t. I hope in the future, you will use your brains and leave the sensational-ism to gossip sites.
LINDSEY LEE Alumna, Nashville, Tenn.
Journalism and French
Column typical of policy confusion
As a response to the Afghanistan column, “Afghanistan’s dead show reality of war,” published Thursday, Feb. 25, I would like to shed a little more light on the situation in general.
While working in Africa two summers ago, I lived with an Afghani family who had been evacuated from Afghanistan in 2006 after being constantly threat-ened and harassed by the Taliban in Kabul.
I expected the family to have strong anti-American sentiments regarding the military occupation in Afghanistan, but I found the complete opposite to be true. The family, who had lived as lower-middle class shopkeepers in Kabul, expressed their admiration and gratitude for military forces interven-ing in Afghanistan.
They also surprised me by saying that the overwhelming majority of Afghani citizens are pro-U.S. intervention.
While it may seem that we are “playing” in Afghanistan and the U.S.’s accidental bombings of civilians result in a mere apology and an embar-rassed “whoops,” the occu-pancy in Afghanistan is very misunderstood.
I agree with Amanda Abbotts that we “must understand our country’s foreign policy, and par-ticularly what’s going on in Afghanistan,” but I believe Abbot’s portrayal of U.S. military presence is igno-rant and unresearched.
She stated that if we kill one civilian, all of his fami-ly members adopt terrorist ideals. I believe that this generalization is offensive and largely inaccurate.
I admire her ambition and call to action for our generation to pay more attention to our country’s foreign affairs, but I believe a better-informed article is required to do so.
This article is a typi-cal example of how we so easily misunderstand and twist U.S. foreign policy.
I would be careful of accusing our government of sending soldiers to “play” overseas in a coun-try where our occupation is needed and appreciated by many.
COLTON PARKSJunior, Atlanta
International affairs and Spanish
4 | Friday, February 26, 2010 | The Red & Black
I could type the keystroke blind-folded.
I could type it in my sleep.My e-mail address and password
logged me into the Facebook world that is filled with status updates, friend requests and news feeds.
I checked it before I began studying, in the middle of study-ing and when I finished studying. Between classes and at work.
And last spring, I realized how foolish I was for checking a Web site that often.
A meaningless social Web site.A Web site of such little signifi-
cance that if it shut down, users would lose only the ability to share their latest relationship drama with the rest of cyberspace.
No one really cares to read sta-tus updates that rival the length of short novels. We don’t want to read about your first burp of the day and your last fart of the day. We all have that Facebook friend.
So, from February 2009 to June 2009, I deleted my Facebook account — unplugged from social networking.
I disconnected from the world of little red notification numbers and wall posts to join the bustling planet that continues to turn, while 400 million Facebook users stare blankly at computer screens for 55 or more minutes every day.
I no longer needed to see who commented on what or who was tagged in what photo.
I now concentrated on things on my to-do list rather than the list of requests that clogged my Facebook home page.
I had nothing to log onto and
check when I sat down to study, except making sure I had my text-book and a pen.
Instead of making vague, empty plans for unspecified weekends with Facebook “friends,” I exerted genu-ine effort to get together with those I actually cared to spend time with.
I turned off my computer and rejoined the world full of different types of people and experiences. I spent more quality time with my closest friends instead of “hanging out” with them on Facebook.
But I was pulled back into the world of social networking because my close friends and I were going our separate ways for the summer. One of my best friends was going to study abroad in Spain. Another was moving back home to Atlanta for work. And I was staying in Athens to work.
It was easier to keep in contact through Facebook rather than using e-mail.
I could see the pictures Jessica posted of her time in Spain and I
could easily catch up with Nastassia since we weren’t able to see each other as frequently as when she lived in Athens.
I kept my Facebook account when school began because it made coordinating group projects and school assignments easier.
And a slew of my family mem-bers and friends — who I rarely see because they live in various parts of Georgia and across the country — joined the cult of Facebook.
Facebook made it seemingly effortless to stay in touch with them, though they live in different cities and states.
We, as users, shouldn’t turn a Web site into a virtual way to stalk ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends we had continue to pine for after bitter breakups.
We should be working hard to ace our tests rather than killing time perusing various profiles of people we no longer talk to on a daily basis.
The true use of Facebook — and similar social Web sites — is to keep in touch with those we aren’t able to see as often as we see our close friends who live near us.
It takes a five-minute drive to see Jessica or Nastassia.
But it takes more than a quick trip in my car to see my extended family in Seattle, family friends in Dallas and best friends who don’t live in Athens.
For me, Facebook is now a com-munication tool rather than an obsession.
— Rachel G. Bowers is the sports editor for The Red & Black
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The Red & Black acknowledges the epic amount of time students spend on Facebook, but consider these sites to spice up your mid-term procrastination:
- Textsfromlastnight.com — A collection of text messages submitted by senders and receiv-ers, TFLN is guaranteed to make whatever you did last night seem not so bad, even if it was.
- Fmylife.com — Users share stories of why their lives suck — big time — usually in relation to injury, break-ups and humiliation.
- Yahoo! Games — Throw back to eighth grade and go buckwild playing Bejeweled, Mahjong and, for English majors, Text Twist.
Here’s to being productively unproductive.
— Paige Bowman for the editorial board
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A high school kid in Florida has won a court battle for every university student.
She is Katherine Evans, now 19, and she won a federal court’s approval in Miami last week to continue with a First Amendment lawsuit against her former school, Pembroke Pines Charter High School, for suspending her after she created a Facebook group critical of a teacher.
So why is this good for us?Because our constitutional
guarantee of the right to peace-ably air grievances and petition our government — through any means, Facebook included — just gained an extra layer of validation.
Like Evans, we are students at a government-run public school. And also like Evans, our speech rights at school are limited.
I think this is sometimes for the better — truly threatening or bla-tantly disruptive language has no place in education, and protests or rallies must not disrupt the flow of traffic or endanger public safety.
But many high schools and uni-versities abuse these limits. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that free speech “doesn’t stop at the school-house door.”
Yet subsequent court cases slowly have strangled our ability to express our views and ideas both on and off campus.
UGA, for example, has received a “red light rating” — the lowest possible — from the Foundation
for Individual Rights in Education, which monitors speech codes in higher education.
The chief UGA culprit is a hous-ing policy that prohibits “acts of intolerance that harm or threaten to harm a person or group” includ-ing “verbal attacks and/or physical acts on students and/or their prop-erty, as well as jokes, posters and comments.”
The problem is that “intoler-ance” doesn’t mean anything con-crete. The definition of offensive behavior is different for everyone.
Our school has crafted a policy that is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad, and this restricts our right to express our ideas, as crude or crass as they may be.
Georgia Tech was sued over a similar policy four years ago, and the school subsequently loosened its speech restrictions.
Are not universities — and to a lesser degree high schools — supposed to be open forums for thought and debate?
Ideas should be exchanged, and we should be able to enlighten ourselves with knowledge that we might not have found otherwise.
Limiting that openness through a misguided sense of social respon-
sibility restricts the effectiveness of education and leaves students at an intellectual disadvantage.
That’s why in Miami, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Garber struck a positive blow for our speech rights, ensuring that our opinions, including criticism of our professors, cannot be stripped by overzealous administrators looking to protect our sensitive feelings.
To be sure, Evans’ Facebook group — “Ms. Sarah Phelps is the worst teacher I’ve ever met” — is hardly a bastion of intellectualism or debate.
In fact, it’s cruel and in poor taste.
However, it does not threaten violence — a major concern for schools following recent classroom shootings. It also does not disrupt the school’s educational mission. Any teacher who cannot handle student disapproval should not be in the classroom.
Our Founding Fathers believed freedom of speech to be the pillar of a democratic society and that it should be protected at all costs.
With forums for public debate growing by the day, it is important that all of us — in new media, and old — are free to spread opinion.
Hopefully, Evans’ case is the first of many that ease campus speech restrictions and solidify our rights.
— Michael Brazeal is a senior
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By SOPHIE LOGHMANTHE RED & BLACK
They’ve attracted audi-ences from all over the country. Just recently, the group headlined at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City.
Those Darlins are three girls not to be reckoned with.
They go by the names of Kelley Darlin, the group’s bassist, Jessi Darlin, the group’s guitar-ist and Nikki Darlin, who plays the baritone ukulele.
All three ladies sing and all three ladies write.
The three Southern girls, who reside in the col-lege town of Murfreesboro, Tenn., first performed for a friend at her surprise birthday party.
From then on, the band has attracted audiences demanding boisterous and cheerful shows.
Popularly known for their melancholy blend of country, rock and pop, their songs address female empowerment, boys and drinking.
Kelley Darlin, who comes from South Carolina, traces her music roots back to when her mom would play ’50s and ’60s rock and roll songs.
“She played the Beach Boys and the Beatles,” she said. “And my dad listened to country music.”
It’s this strange blend of rock and country that gets audiences hooked on the trio’s tunes.
Ethan Payne, a 2007 University alum, is a new fan of the band and describes them as punk, country girls.
“They have a kind of punk rock sloppiness mixed in with their Dirty South bar music. Kind of rare,” Payne said. “The Black Lips did it with garage music, now they can do it with country.”
Although the band is composed of three females, Kelley wouldn’t necessarily consider the band a femi-nist one.
“I don’t think that’s an important way to label yourself or a project you’re into,” she said. “But I think by nature it is who we are. And personally, I identify myself as a femi-nist 100 percent, but we’re not a feminist band.”
Saturday, Those Darlins will perform at Tasty World — their fourth time return-ing to Athens.
The one thing the band always remembers about the town: the thrift shop-ping.
“We always find some really great clothes,” Kelley said, which is important because the girls love to dress up for their shows.
They try to coordinate their outfits with clothes that have some extra flare.
Those Darlins frequent-ly encourage fans on their Facebook page to dress up for their shows, too.
“The last couple of shows, we’ve had some pretty great costumes,” Kelley said. “In Chicago, there was a group of four girls in animal costumes. There was a bear, octopus and a lizard dinosaur with scales sticking out. It was awesome and it totally makes your day. When you see people dress up, you know it’s going to be a big party.”
So, a note to all Athenians: to get the attention of these girls, it’s encouraged to come to their show tonight dressed up in a funky, daring cos-tume.
“I can’t wait for when we look out and all the audience is dressed up in crazy costumes for no rea-son other than it’s a Darlin show,” Kelley said.
Dressing up simply goes along with the unique experience these girls bring to each show.
Loren Hoffmann, a Savannah College of Art and Design alum, is fond of the excitement these girls bring with their catchy, relatable songs.
“Those Darlins have it down,” Hoffman said. “Their style is fresh, unique and raw. Their lyr-ics are catchy and comical, they know how to get the crowd going and give you an experience that is more than unforgettable.”
NEWS & VARIETY The Red & Black | Friday, February 26, 2010| 5
By JULIA CARPENTERTHE RED & BLACK
And you thought your commute was boring. To the amazement of many a dazed driver, Lima, a circus zebra from Barnum & Bailey’s Ringling Circus, raced down an Atlanta highway during rush hour Thursday, Feb. 18.
The zebra escaped from a holding arena in downtown Atlanta during a practice session. He sprinted through traffic before being recovered by circus workers later in the day and carted off to the University.
“We took him to the vet hospital first thing Saturday morning,” said Crystal Drake, the Southeast Circus spokeswom-an for Barnum & Bailey Entertainment.
Lima’s hooves were injured from pound-ing the pavement, but Kat Gilmore, direc-tor of public relations for the University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, said the hospital could not release any more infor-mation about the particulars of the zebra’s medical condition.
“All of our patients who come here are treated just like people patients. Their
medical records are private,” she said. “We can’t talk about them.”
Drake said Lima is in good condition, but the Circus is still not sure when he may be deemed well enough for release from the hospital.
“He’s on the mend. We’re taking it day by day. He’s doing well,” she said. “I don’t want to speculate, I’m not a veterinarian.”
Drake said the circus entrusted the zebra’s health to Barnum & Bailey’s chief of veterinary care, Dr. Dennis Schmitt.
“We trust his judgment,” she said. “I can only imagine it was the very best care conceivable. And Dr. Schmitt was familiar with the UGA vet school.”
The veterinary college’s proximity to the scene of the accident was largely responsible for the circus’s decision to send Lima to the University’s facilities for treatment, Drake said.
“We were just two hours away. We’re just really lucky that we were close to a school of that caliber,” she said. “Our vet staff has been in contact with them numerous times a day. We treat him just like any human patient.”
Vet School heals wayward zebra
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more empathetic, so maybe more of that could transfer to the animals in some way.”
Cummings said she sees more female than male students involved in her veteri-nary interest activities outside of the classroom, such as Forgotten Friends, a student organization dedicated to help-ing companion animals and raising aware-ness about local rescue organizations.
Andrew Durden, a junior animal sci-ence major from Loganville, recently applied to veterinary school.
He said he sees more female students in his classes and veterinary activities.
“There’s a lot more females, but then there’s honestly a lot more females at UGA in general,” he said.
Keith Bertrand, department head for animal and dairy sciences in the College of Agriculture, said his department has seen an increase in female enrollment over the last few years — students studying animal science are also 80 percent female.
“Our undergraduate department is growing — we had 75 women in 2005 and 214 in 2009, and the men’s percentage isn’t growing as fast, but we do have more males, too,” he said. “We have a large
number of students in our department planning to get into vet school and be veterinarians.”
Allen said the vet school is taking steps to equalize the gender ratio.
“We would like to see a more balanced applicant pool to reflect society in all aspects,” she said. “We are reaching out to alumni to mentor more young, talented boys in the veterinary fields. Our recruit-ing efforts are broad. It’s not only gender. We’d like to see more applicants from rural Georgia as well.”
The College of Veterinary Medicine does not offer any financial aid geared specifically toward male applicants.
“Our scholarships are gender-neutral,” Allen said. “Occasionally we have some for a particular region, but that’s it.”
Cummings said she believes male applicants may receive preference during the admissions process.
“They do get a little boost,” she said. “But as long as they’re qualified, I don’t think anything needs to change.”
But Allen said that’s not so. Admissions are gender-blind, with males receiving no preference, she said.
“They all have to be qualified,” she said. “Men have to meet the same criteria as women do.”
VET: Gender balance important
By CAROLYN CRISTTHE RED & BLACK
More than five years ago, one senior administrator position solely represented students and their needs — the dean of students.
Although the represen-tation nearly disappeared, shouts from recent Student Government Association presidents kept the topic on the agenda. Now they’re getting what they want.
By July, the University will hire a new dean of stu-dents, and by the end of the semester, students can interact with finalists for the position and voice their opinions.
“This person gets to come to work every day and work for the students. It’s exciting,” said SGA
president Katie Barlow. “The dean of students will solely focus 100 percent on us, which will enhance stu-dents’ ability to advocate for ourselves, and the dean will communicate for the students.”
Though the dean of stu-dents position was created in 2001, it was combined with the vice president for student affairs title, and Rodney Bennett took both positions in 2005.
“It was combined with the vice president position, and I retained both,” Bennett said. “I’ve per-formed them to the best of my ability for the past four years, but we’ve worked hard to convince then pro-vost [Arnett Mace] that we need to return to separate positions.”
Barlow and former SGA president Connor McCarthy in particular called for sep-arate positions, and Bennett credits them for the administration’s final move to “reallocate inter-nal resources” to create the position.
“The loud voices of SGA were a huge benefit,” Bennett said. “The provost [Mace] and president [Michael Adams] knew there was a need, but not without the ideas of Katie and Connor. Maybe around 2013 they would have got-ten on board with the bud-get, but those two helped to pull it to the forefront.”
Barlow and Tom Burke, associate vice president for student affairs, are heading up the screening commit-tee for the position. More
than 60 candidates from across the country applied by the Jan. 29 deadline, and the committee plans to pick three of four final-ists during March.
Those finalists will then be invited to campus for an interview and will interact with students through sev-eral forums.
“This is a person that students need to feel good about and have a high con-fidence in as head of stu-dent initiatives,” Bennett said. “My role will shift to focus on the policy level, budget and human resourc-es. They are very different daily functions.”
Barlow and Burke are looking for the “best fit” — a candidate with a doctor-ate who has 10 years of stu-dent affairs experience at a
comparable university in areas such as Greek life, diversity and the student union. Bennett wants a final name by July 1, so the dean can start working during the summer and “have an impact for fall semester.”
The position was initial-ly created by Richard Mullendore, the doctoral program coordinator for the University’s College Student Affairs and previ-ous vice president for stu-dent affairs. He started the dean of students position to “allow that person the flexibility to be visible and approachable to our stu-dents.”
“I was not able to be vis-ible at nearly as many stu-dent meetings and events as I wished because a third of my time as vice presi-
dent had to be spent fund-raising for the division,” he said. “I sincerely believe that a senior level student affairs administrator should be where the students are to fully understand their needs in order to be an effective advocate.”
Mullendore hopes the new dean will keep the same goals in mind.
“At a large university like UGA, it is easy for stu-dents to get lost in the bureaucracy or not be heard as loudly as they should,” he said. “I believe that it is incumbent upon student affairs to help stu-dents find their voice, and to be advocates for student rights and needs even when it may make others in administration somewhat uncomfortable.”
New dean to focus solely on student-related issues
Darlins request daring costumesWhen: 9 p.m. SaturdayWhere: Tasty WorldPrice: $7
THOSE DARLINS
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Dr. Donna Almondia, second-year radiology resident, gives a dog a sonogram. The number of women in the vet school has increased.
“Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?”The Brian Jonestown
Massacre
It seems weird to com-pare BJM band leader Anton Newcombe and Matthew Stafford, but these two mirror each other in a certain way.
Both are supreme tal-ents in their respective fields, but neither has ever lived up to his immense potential and probably never will, but that doesn’t mean they won’t have their shining moments at some point. “Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?” just may be Newcombe’s moment to shine after such a self destructive, roller coaster of a career.
Completely ditching the clangorous drone of previ-ous albums in favor of a restrained take on factory kraut-rock, “Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?” is the perfect record to listen to in the dead of winter.
Recording the album in Iceland obviously affected the production, because the album is very mono-chromatic despite each track’s diversity, but it never feels slow, only expansive, never hitting the brakes throughout the whole 80-minute record, which is an impressive feat for such a long disc.
Perhaps this is due to longtime narcissist Newcombe’s decision to finally open up the door for collaboration’s with skilled player’s such as Spaceman 3’s Will Caruthers, whose steady bass gives a boom-ing depth to each track not heard in previous BJM records.
Also, Icelandic vocalist Andrea Einarsdottir lends her voice to many of the tracks giving the album a vulnerability that Newcombe’s voice could
never lend to his previous work.
Verdict: “Who Killed Sgt. Pepper” shows off every-thing Newcombe is great at. He may never be the best, but for at least one time he met expectations and it was damn good.
“The Madness”J. Period and Nneka
Look, we all miss Lauryn Hill and The Fugees. They were a landmark rap group whose imprint on the game is still being felt today. In some ways Nneka and J.Period’s record is the spiri-tual successor to where the Fugees left off. In fact, imagine a supergroup with Lauryn Hill and Nas rap-ping over RZA-produced beats, and that’s what you basically get with “The Madness.”
Culling from the golden era of rap, the production here synthesizes everything that was dangerous about hip-hop in its heyday. The prime example would be “Gypsy/Infamous” a track that samples Mobb Deep’s classic “Shook Ones.”
Curious though that, for a record whose main mes-sage is pan-African unity and peace, there are sam-ples from gangsta rap like Mobb Deep and from Dr. Dre on “Changes.”
2009 was a huge year for rap that saw many con-tenders vie for pop suprem-acy, but none were crowned champ, and most were KO’ed by year’s end. So where is rap to go now that it’s thrown its best punch and whiffed? I don’t think “The Madness” is the answer to that question, but at the very least “The Madness” could take rap forward by taking it back.
Verdict: Rap took one on the chin last year. Nneka just might be the Band-Aid to stop the bleeding, if only for a little while.
—Wynn Sammons
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ensemble cast of guitarists, vocal-ists, keyboards, percussion, elec-tronic beats and — potentially — saxophone.
“Most of the show is going to be a surprise, but I can promise lots of crazy lights and videos and smoke machines and lots of dancing,” she said. “The music is really tribal-sounding.”
Hinkle’s true identity is still dubious at this juncture. Why can’t anyone figure out who this woman is? Other than on Facebook, there is no information of her anywhere. At least, not of the name Hinkle.
She claims over e-mail that she uses her mother’s maiden name and not her true last name.
She could be a bona fide, up-and-coming young musician.
Or, she could just be a ruse thought up by the headlining bands to draw more attention to the cause.
In fact, a new group was created in response to the “Who the f*ck is Natalie Hinkle?” question titled “I am Natalie Hinkle,” which suggests Hinkle may have been created by Quiet Hooves member West him-self.
Quiet Hooves is headlining the event with Casper & the Cookies, which was mysteriously the first friend Natalie Hinkle added to her profile upon its creation in early February. The two groups joined when a high school student thought up the event.
The brainchild of Winston Barbe — whose brother Henry serves as tonight’s opening act — all the pro-
ceeds of the event will go to Haiti relief efforts through Doctors Without Borders.
“I’ve known David [Barbe] for a few years and he’s always been a really incredible guy, and I figured that if his son was old enough to start being involved in the local music scene that I’d like to work with him on whatever he’s doing,” said Jason NeSmith, guitarist and singer for Casper & the Cookies.
Though the band is not playing new material, NeSmith ensures last year’s elaborate double album, “Modern Silence,” is nowhere near exhausted.
“It’s so long that it still feels like
a new record because most people are not even finished listening to it the first time through,” he said.
Whether the elusive Natalie Hinkle is performing out of the goodness of her heart for the chari-ty or was simply created by those involved to promote the cause, whoever or whatever she is, the charity that will benefit from this Facebook induced frenzy appears to be the whole point.
“The most important thing about this show is that we are donating all the proceeds to Doctors Without Borders’ relief efforts in Haiti,” Hinkle said. “That is the whole reason behind it all.”
6 | Friday, February 26, 2010 | The Red & Black VARIETY
By MICHAEL WHITWORTHTHE RED & BLACK
For all those who have always wanted profession-al help — musically, that is — award-winning song-writer Caroline Aiken is here to steer the future musicians of Athens straight.
Aiken saw a need in the city for hands-on musical tutoring, so she invited some of her experienced and prolific musician friends to teach work-shops on the various aspects of music as a busi-ness and an art form.
“I’ve organized a lot of schools and workshops across this country and even in Europe, so I want-ed to provide a chance for students in Athens to learn and perform, to give
them hands-on time with an acclaimed artist,” Aiken said.
She feels that knowl-edge that she and the other professionals have gained will provide a unique learning opportu-nity for those who wish to pursue music either in a performance arena or even as a hobby.
In the workshops, the professional musicians will teach the students for a certain period of time. Afterward, the students themselves will have an opportunity to perform: as the opening acts for a con-cert given by the profes-sional musician after the workshop.
Jan Smith, a profes-sional vocal coach and successful artist, will be teaching the vocal work-shop.
“I really want to make this a relatively hands-on and intimate setting, where the students can ask me anything they want about the music business or the technicali-ty of singing,” Smith said. “It’s a way of giving back and furthering the next generation of musicians.”
Other workshops will be taught by artist/guitar-ist Bobby Lee Rodgers and Yonrico Scott of the Derek Trucks Band.
At the end of the day, these workshops are for those with interest in music ranging anywhere from professional perfor-mance to just having the desire to be competent enough to write a decent song or sing in tune.
“I want people to enjoy themselves — the audi-ence and the musicians,”
Aiken said. “That’s why I think the opportunity to perform alongside a pro-fessional is such a great opportunity for aspiring Athens musicians.”
Local musicians offer expertise in workshopsWhen: Today, workshop from 2-6 p.m., student public show-case from 7-9 p.m., teacher public performance 9:30 p.m.Feb. 27: Bobby Lee Rodgers, Master Guitar WorkshopMar. 6: Jan Smith, Master Vo-cal WorkshopMar. 13: Yonrico Scott, Master Drum WorkshopWhere: The GlobePrice: $25 for workshop, $10 for concert admissionMore Information: To reserve a student seat contact Caroline Aiken at [email protected]
MASTER CLASSES
By CYNDYL McCUTCHEONTHE RED & BLACK
The Classic Center is about to experience the most heated, curled and freshly-manicured enter-tainment straight from the hit stage play “Beauty Shop.”
Shelly Garrett, the “Godfather of Black Theatre,” is bringing his sixth installment of the most successful African American stage play in his-tory to Athens for the first time.
“People love the show because it’s so entertain-ing,” said Garrett, who
wrote, produced and directed the play. “The audience really becomes a part of the play, and they love it.”
Audience-driven and interactive, the details of the play’s plot change with each performance. Centered around gossip hotter than the barrel of a curling iron, the five beau-ticians chat with custom-ers while they clip and foil, occasionally involving the audience when the news is just too juicy to let sit under the dryer.
“My inspiration came from my everyday experi-ences,” Garrett said. “I would go to the beauty
shop and get a manicure every week. I was inspired by the characters and the gossip that I saw there and later decided to write about it.”
Although perfectly timed for the last weekend of Black History Month, according to Angi Harben, the marketing manager at the Classic Center, the tim-ing of “Beauty Shop” was nothing more than a fortu-nate coincidence.
“Our goal was to book the show on a Saturday night that would work with both the show’s schedule and our calen-dar,” Harben said. “It just so happened to be on the
last weekend of Black History Month.”
Garrett said he is pleased that the perfor-mance worked out to fin-ish off Black History Month for the Athens community, and he hopes his first show in the city will be celebrated with a packed house ready to be lathered, get lipsticked and have a good laugh.
‘Beauty Shop’ primps Classic CenterWhen: 8 p.m. SaturdayWhere: Classic CenterPrice: $18-24
BEAUTY SHOP
Courtesy Classic Center
Written by ‘the Godfather of Black Theatre’ Shelly Garrett, ‘Beauty Shop’ was inspired by everyday gossip and chatter.
listen up! HINKLE: Show planned by high schooler
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Casper & the Cookies will join Quiet Hooves and Natalie Hinkle for a concert benefiting Doctors Without Borders.
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SPORTS The Red & Black | Friday, February 26, 2010 | 7
By DREW KANNTHE RED & BLACK
To label the slow offen-sive start of Colby May as a slump would be jumping the gun.
The sophomore is the Bulldogs’ top returning slugger, who hit 11 home runs and was named to the All-SEC freshman squad in 2009. However, with just four hits in the third base-man’s 22 plate appearanc-es, this season is uncharted territory for May.
“He’ll find his way — it’s just he’s never experienced anything like this,” Georgia head coach David Perno said. “It’s always been pret-ty easy for him and I think in one respect, it’s good for him to go through this because I think you’ll see what his character is about as he fights through it.”
In each of the Bulldogs’
first five games, May has batted in the third position of the team’s batting order. The “three-hole” is a posi-tion typically reserved for the team’s best all-around hitter, a batter who can consistently hit for average and keep innings alive.
Last season, May did just that, driving in 42 runs and posting a .339 batting average. The then-fresh-man was second only to then-senior slugger Rich Poythress, who was select-ed by the Seattle Mariners in the second round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft.
“It’s been a very hum-bling experience going through this, and it’s really showed me a lot,” May said. “It’s really opened my eyes to a lot of things. I believe it’s going to help me because I’ve figured out a lot of things that I’ve been
doing wrong that I need to fix ... I need to go up there and stay calm and not be so anxious at the plate.”
Despite May’s early offensive struggles, the other Bulldog bats have picked up the slack, as left fielder Johnathan Taylor has racked up 8 RBIs and center fielder Zach Cone leads the Bulldogs with a .524 batting average.
Though May’s .182 bat-ting average so far this sea-son is hardly the figure he and his Bulldog teammates are accustomed to seeing, fellow right fielder Peter Verdin is definitely not ready to hit the panic but-ton.
“It’s baseball. It hap-pens. You go through slides, and he just happened to hit his slide right here at the beginning,” Verdin said. “I’m sure he’s going to get out of it real quick and he’s
going to have a great sea-son ... there’s no doubt in my mind.”
For May, a three-game set at the friendly confines of Foley Field may be just what the doctor ordered to help pull the Bulldog slug-ger from his current offen-sive funk.
“It’s going to be nice, especially after getting the first home game out of the way, now it’s going to be a little more comfortable,” May said. “I’m going to go out there and have fun and not put too much pressure on myself.”
May battles through hitting struggles
By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK
Kris Durham needed to make one point clear to a class of wide-eyed eighth graders at Oconee Middle School: he is more than just a Georgia football player.
He is their student teacher, and he is there to teach.
“[My students] figured that out after about the first 20 minutes. Somebody either recognized me or a teacher said something,” Durham said. “I had to get that out of the way real quick, make sure that they saw me as not like a football player, I’m here to help you guys learn and help educate.”
Durham wants to be a teacher and coach and is set to graduate with a degree in education in May. To fulfill his final major requirements, he’s currently teaching eighth grade Georgia History at Oconee Middle School — a 21-hour course load.
“I’m there from 7:30 in the morning until 3:30 in the after-noon,” Durham said. “I have to grade the papers, make the tests — all that stuff — but I have a good mentor teacher that helps me out a lot and is very understanding.”
Durham, a 6-foot-5 senior wide receiver, said he wants to be a high school teacher because he has “been blessed by having so many great teachers and coaches, and that’s how I have to pay it for-ward.”
In the meantime, his status as a football player on his stu-dents’ favorite team is making things tougher on him in the class-room.
“It’s definitely something I have to overcome because they look at me as almost like a friend type, so I have to kind be more of a discipli-narian and that kind of stuff,” Durham said.
While student teaching, Durham, who caught 13 pass-es for 199 yards during his junior season, is trying to shake off the rust before spring practice begins March 4 after sitting out all of last season while recovering from a torn labrum.
Durham said the medical redshirt season was “a bless-ing in disguise” because it made him “appreciate the game more.”
“I’m ready. It’s been so long,” Durham said of spring
practice. “I just hope I’m not as rusty as I think I’m going to be. I’m ready to get back out there and get playing with the guys.”
As the veteran of the receiving core, Durham has been adjusting to his new role as a senior leader.
“I’m trying to do that. It’s definitely a new role for me because I’m usually more of the quiet, do my own little thing and try to lead by example more than step up,” Durham said. “But A.J. [Green] has definitely helped me out a lot and I’m just taking it in stride. It’s nothing you can really be pre-pared for.”
The process of becoming more vocal is one he and Green have shared, as the two are both reserved, mild-man-nered guys trying to make the transformation into vocal leaders at a position with five underclassmen.
“Durham is a smart kid, as you can see. He’s a great lead-er, and he knows every posi-tion,” Green said. “If I have a question and I can’t ask coach [Tony] Ball, I can always go back to Durham and ask him.”
Receiver puts on student teacher hat
ASHLEY STRICKLAND | The Red & Black
Sophomore third baseman Colby May has been struggling at the plate thus far in the season, hitting just .182 in his 22 at-bats.
DURHAM
By BEN BUSSARDTHE RED & BLACK
The Georgia women’s basketball team ended its regular season road schedule — and more importantly its shooting slump — Thursday night with a 65-49 victory over the South Carolina Gamecocks.
“The energy was good,” head coach Andy Landers said. “The execution was very good from a defensive standpoint for the most part. Overall, it was just a good, solid performance.”
With the win, the No. 24 Lady Dogs avoided the sea-son sweep after losing to South Carolina (13-14, 6-9) in Athens earlier this month.
Georgia shot 50 percent from the field — its highest shooting percent-age in conference play this season — led by senior point guard Ashley Houts’ best performance of the sea-son.
Houts led the Lady Dogs (21-7, 8-7) with six assists and 21 points on 7-of-7 shooting from the field, as well as hitting all three of her 3-point attempts.
Junior forward Porsha Phillips recorded her sixth double-double of
the season with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
“I thought Porsha was outstand-ing. She hit open shots, she got her hands on a lot of balls, she rebounded. A double-double night for Porsha Phillips, she obviously played outstanding,” Landers said.
Despite holding the Gamecocks to just 31 percent shooting in the first half, Georgia entered the locker room with a slim four-point lead and had to fend off the feisty South Carolina squad.
“Defensively, we were more on point with the things we talked about trying to accomplish,” Landers said. “Offensively, we were able to get some shots in transition and we were also able to knock down shots.”
With the victory, the Lady Dogs now sit in fifth place in the SEC standings and are just one game back from the all-important fourth spot that secures a first-round bye in the SEC Tournament.
Lady Dogs produce ‘solid performance’ on the road
When: Today at 5Where: Foley FieldPrice: Free for studentsMore info: The three-game series will continue through Sunday
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8 | Friday, February 26, 2010 | The Red & Black SPORTS
By MICHAEL FITZPATRICKTHE RED & BLACK
“Georgia, Georgia blows it up! Woof! Woof!”
That is the chant the Gym Dogs beam team yells before each time it competes this season.
It was born from the Sneak Peek meet in December by senior Courtney McCool as a way to jack up her team and it has morphed into the rally cry of Georgia’s stron-gest event.
The beam team — comprised of seniors McCool and Grace Taylor, juniors Cassidy McComb and Hilary Mauro, freshman Shayla Worley and a combination of sophomore Kat Ding and freshman Christa Tanella — ranks second in the nation this season and holds two of the top three rotation scores.
“We like to call ourselves the ‘Dream Beam Team,’” Worley said, “and when we get out there on the beam, it’s lights out.”
“Lights out” may not do it jus-tice. The balance beam, long con-sidered the great equalizer in gym-nastics, brings the No. 5 Gym Dogs the utmost confidence, and more often than not leads them to wins rather than loses.
“We have a sick, sick beam team,” McCool said.
“It’s a security blanket for us,” Taylor added, the 2008 balance beam national champion.
At home, Georgia com-petes on the beam third, but in road meets, the visi-tor ends the meet on the beam and twice, the Gym Dogs have overcome early mistakes with a strong beam score. They earned a 49.325 at Utah on Jan. 22 and a 49.45 at Florida last Friday.
“It’s an event we are comfort-able on,” said Georgia head coach Jay Clark. “It’s an event we can start on, finish on and we just feel really comfortable in a champion-ship rotation that we aren’t going to be bothered by the balance beam.
“It’s a wonderful feeling to know you can go to balance beam and have that calm confidence and be able to know that if you have to win a meet there you can.”
Historically, Georgia has had great success on the 4-inch wide apparatus, especially in the last four years. A Gym Dog has won the national title on the beam in 2006 and 2008 and have five All-Americans — Taylor (three times), McCool and Mauro — on this sea-son’s squad. McCool even has a beam skill named for her, an entrance called “The McCool.”
McCool no longer does her sig-nature move — not because she can’t — but because she doesn’t need it. Her beam skills are that good.
“It was so awesome to have it named for me,” she said. “But I’ve decided that because of my leg [which she injured in 2008], there is too much risk for injury.”
And that tradition of excellence
drives the current team to keep the train rolling.
“It’s intimidating to other teams that we are so strong on the beam,” Ding said. “We are so strong on that event and we know we are going to score really high.”
McCool, Taylor, Mauro and Worley have each scored a 9.9 or higher at least once this season, led by McCool’s 9.975 last week.
The beam is radically different than the other three events because instead of a pure rush of adrena-line, the gymnast needs to find calm confidence.
“Gymnastics is said to be 90 per-cent mental, as all sports are,” Tanella said. “But the beam is 99 percent mental. It’s a complete mental approach; it’s calming your nerves, talking to yourself when you’re on the beam and taking mental cue notes. It’s completely mental.”
Added McCool: “You have only four inches and you can either attack it or it will attack you and
we don’t let beam get the best of us. You have to know the beam is working for you, and to use it for your advan-tage and not the opposite.”
Part of the swagger the beam team carries is because of the talent it possesses, accentuated by Taylor and McCool. Any one of the gym-nasts in the lineup could anchor any team in the coun-try, but those two are at the
head of the class.“She’s with me for every skill
and I’m with her for every skill and between the two of us we bring the best out of each other on that event and we just have a blast,” Taylor said. “We can relate to each other because of how passionate we are about beam and it’s a special moment for us.”
Early in the season, the pressure fell on Taylor and McCool to carry the weight, but as the season pro-gressed the rest of the lineup has picked up its end of the bargain.
“We know each of us has a job to do and we don’t want to rely on those two to always have our backs, although sometimes that’s what happens,” Worley said. “But those two girls at the end are our anchors. Once Cassidy starts off strong and just keeps the momentum building and building, it’s awesome.”
And as the championship sea-son rapidly approaches, the Gym Dogs relish the opportunity to use the beam as a springboard.
“For every other team in the nation, they think it would be terri-ble to get beam first or get beam last [in a championship draw], but for us it doesn’t matter,” Taylor said. “We are going to bring a whooping down on the country and the SEC when we do beam, wheth-er it be first, second, third or fourth. There is a lot of peace in that.”
Gym Dogs’ beam lineup to put ‘whooping’ on teams When: Tonight at 7:30Where: Stegeman ColiseumPrice: $2 for students
GYM DOGS VS. LSU
LOSS: Dogs ‘disappointed’From Page 1
a second too late.Vanderbilt (21-6,10-3) was 12-for-12 from the free
throw line in overtime and made 17 more from the line than Georgia.
Though Georgia (12-14, 4-9) was up five points with 33 seconds remaining, Vanderbilt forward Andre Walker drilled a 3-pointer and center A.J. Ogilvy tipped in a shot to tie it up with 10 seconds remaining.
Leslie couldn’t convert a contested left-hand reverse layup, sending the game into overtime.
“We were behind at the half and really played with a lot of heart and courage in the second half,” head coach Mark Fox said. “We were better from the field than they were, made more field goals, we won the rebounding battle, and only committed 11 turnovers in 45 minutes and played really well tonight. Still, we leave here with a loss so I’m really disappointed for our kids.”
Ware played his best game as a Bulldog with 16 points and a career-high eight assists. Leslie led the Dogs in scoring and rebounds with 22 points and 10 rebounds. Trey Thompkins notched his fourth game with 20 points or more with a 21-point, seven-rebound performance.
THE ‘DREAM’ BEAM TEAM
COURTNEY McCOOL
GRACE TAYLOR
HILARY MAURO
SHAYLA WORLEYCHRISTA TANELLA
CASSIDY McCOMB
KAT DING
YEAR: SeniorCAREER HIGH ON BEAM: 10.0ACCOLADES: All-America hon-ors on beam in 2007, 2008, 2009; won the 2008 beam title
YEAR: SeniorCAREER HIGH ON BEAM: 10.0ACCOLADES: All-America honors on beam in 2008; 2009 runner-up for the beam title
YEAR: FreshmanCAREER HIGH ON
BEAM: 9.925
YEAR: JuniorCAREER HIGH ON BEAM: 9.925ACCOLADES: Second-Team All-America honors on beam in 2008
YEAR: JuniorCAREER HIGH ON
BEAM: 9.875ACCOLADES: SEC
Freshman of the Year in 2008
YEAR: FreshmanCAREER HIGH ON BEAM: 9.8
YEAR: SophomoreCAREER HIGH ON BEAM: 9.875ACCOLADES: SEC All-Freshman
Team in 2009
PHOTOS BY ASHLEY STRICKLAND, WES BLANKENSHIP AND DANIEL SHIREY
The Gym Dogs often rely on their balance beam lineup — which is No. 2 in the nation — to secure victories.
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GRAPHIC BY RACHEL G. BOWERS