By RAISA HABERSHAMTHE RED & BLACK

Helen Fosgate remembers watching games on Myers Quad from her room in Rutherford.

She remembers the bonds she formed with her room-mate and fellow residents, that are still intact today.

She has fond memories — memories that could be erased if the Board of Regents approves the University’s proposal to demolish Rutherford.

The Board of Regents is set to vote on the measure this August with construc-tion beginning in May 2012.

“I think it’s difficult for current residents to under-stand how Rutherford can engender such affection,” Fosgate said. “But in the ‘70s she was grand.”

Fosgate lived in Rutherford for two years until 1980, when she gradu-ated with a degree in animal science.

“I chose her because she was a modest-sized dorm and because she was historic and I wanted to live in that setting,” she said. “Also, because I was a science major, I wanted to be on South Campus.”

Fosgate now works at the University as editor of UGA Research Magazine.

As a result of recent hous-ing overcapacity issues, the University has proposed to demolish Rutherford and build a new dorm with 100 more rooms to bring the

total to 260 rooms.Among the proposed

changes are temperature control settings in the rooms and increased bath privacy.

Gerald Kowalski, execu-tive director of University housing, said Rutherford wasn’t designed for students of the 21st century.

“Just by its age, the sys-tems that support the build-ing have extended beyond

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By TUCKER GREENTHE RED & BLACK

The conference room goes quiet, and Mel Baxter closes her eyes, collecting herself like a diver before the plunge. She knows that between nervous parents, eager students and a crammed sched-ule, it’ll be her last quiet moment for 16 hours.

For Baxter, a senior orientation leader from Leawood, Kan., it’s just another day on the job.

Baxter begins her day at 7:30 a.m. in a meeting with the other 11 orientation leaders and her three bosses before heading to the Brumby Hall lobby to greet incoming students and hand them

their room keys for the night. “I will be exhausted when I

wake up in the morning,” Baxter said. “But the second the stu-dents and parents walk in, it just gets me fired up.”

At 8:30 a.m., she leads a group of parents and students to the Tate Center, answering questions along the way.

“I’m the only out-of-state OL, so I get to answer all the out-of-state questions,” she said.

At 9 a.m., Baxter and the other orientation leaders run onstage at Tate Grand Hall, chanting “I said it’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog.” They welcome the class of 2015 by singing personally choreographed introductions set to popular

songs, each drawing more and more laughs from the crowd. Baxter sang a rendition of “Thank God I’m a Southern Girl” reworked to say “Thank God I’m a Georgia Dawg.”

From there, Baxter walks to the MLC to meet with her small group of students, whom she calls “All-Star 11s” after her orientation leader number. Here, Baxter

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By POLINA MARINOVATHE RED & BLACK

In a two sentence paragraph, the dean of the Terry College of Business described how the fiscal year 2012 budget cuts will affect the college.

“The impact of reductions will be wholly offset,” reads Terry College’s impact of reductions report.

Deans were asked to submit an impact of reductions report to the provost detailing what pro-grams will be cut and how the cuts will affect the college. While many schools and colleges sub-mitted lengthy reports listing the elimination of programs and posi-tions, the newest budget reduc-tions will not hit Terry as hard.

“The budget cuts for the most recent year are not as severe as the ones we saw two years ago, but there is this continuing trend for reduced state funding,” said Robert Sumichrast, dean of Terry. “We really started planning for budget cuts four years ago. We knew money was going to be tight.”

Tim Burgess, senior vice presi-dent for finance and administra-tion, said since resources are scarce, schools and colleges must

consider their priorities. For Terry, it’s keeping valuable faculty.

“We have to continue to tight-en our belt, eliminate anything that we believe is absolutely not critical or necessary, while at the same time hopefully focus on those things that are important such as academic quality, offering classes and keeping the buildings maintained,” Burgess said.

Terry is cutting about half a mil-lion dollars from its budget, but the college is able to make up for the loss through reve-nue from teaching additional courses and through pro-fessional programs which help supple-ment undergradu-

ate programs. And of course, Terry relies heavily on private gifts.

“We’ve had just outstanding success with private donations to the college which have been very helpful in keeping us going,” Sumichrast said.

Private funds make up a little more than 20 percent of Terry’s budget. Last year, the college received gifts and pledges in

excess of $21 million. But since many private funds are designat-ed for a specific purpose, the col-lege uses about $2 million per year to supplement its budget.

“We’ve got great students, great faculty and really loyal, well-placed alumni,” Sumichrast said. “And all of the constituency groups want to support the col-lege.”

But Sumichrast said though the college has managed its cuts well, it’s eliminated several alum-ni services. The college produced a Terry Magazine but replaced it with an electronic version because printing it became costly. Terry also eliminated a “fairly elabo-rate” donor recognition dinner it hosted each fall.

“We still recognize the donors because we have an event in Atlanta each spring, which actu-ally generates revenue for the col-lege through a fundraiser,” he said. “A lot of what we’ve been able to do is continue to provide the same kind of recognition and services to alumni and the kind of classes to students, but we’ve been able to work more efficient-ly.”

But Terry is not immune to the

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Helen Fosgate lived in Rutherford Hall in 1980 as a student and encourages University officials to reconsider the demolition of the historic building.

Orientation leader ‘fired up’ about incoming class

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Alumni try to save historic Rutherford

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Senior Mel Baxter is one of 12 orientation leaders. She welcomed incoming students by singing ‘Thank God I’m a Southern Girl’ reworked to say ‘Thank God I’m a Georgia Dawg.’

HALL OF FAMECapacity: 159 students

Rutherford was built in 1939 as a part of the New Deal.

The dorm was one of the first all-women dormitories on campus.

The fireplaces and marble hearths were designed to make women feel at home.

Since 2000, the dorm has housed the Franklin Residential College — students studying the humanities, fine arts and performing arts.

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their natural life,” he said. “Rutherford hall has been a planned renovation proj-ect for a number of years.”

Built in 1939 during the Great Depression, Rutherford along with Mary Lyndon and Soule were constructed using P u b l i c Wo r k s Administration funds as a part of the New Deal.

Rutherford was one of the first female dorms on campus, something Fosgate said is instrumen-tal in the University’s his-tory.

In 2000, Rutherford became a co-ed dorm and began housing Franklin Residential College — an initiative modeled after Great Britain’s Oxford University and Ivy League institutions with the intent to serve groups of students who are major-

ing in the humanities and sciences.

Kowalski said though scenarios vary in which a building can be renovated, re-purposed or recon-structed, Rutherford just simply has to come down.

“If you think about the changes that have hap-pened for students and what their lifestyle is like in the late 1930s and now, you can understand why we would be wanting to

update that in order to be meeting student needs for the 21st century,” he said.

Student complaints about living in Rutherford have contributed to the needed renovation, Kowalski said.

“We’ve had some humidity issues that stu-dents have expressed some concerns about,” he said. “There have been concerns with plumbing. We’ve had pipes burst

there have also been con-cerns about electrical sys-tem — that is not large enough to hold what stu-dents have in terms of devices.”

Kowalski said nonethe-less, students residing in Rutherford for the fall will have a good experience.

“Whenever you identify the need for renovation or demolition of an older building, there’s always going be controversy about what you do,” he said. “It’s important to know that no matter what, students who are assigned to Rutherford Hall for fall 2011 will have a good experience.”

There have been efforts to delay the University’s plan.

Amy Kissane, director of Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation said she first found out the University was going to tear down Rutherford in June when the Georgia Historic Preservation Division sent a letter to the University asking them to hold off demoli-tion.

Kissane and her staff decided to take matters into their own hands.

“We don’t obviously have any jurisdiction to prevent the University from doing this,” she said. “We felt the best was to get the word out and to get as much pub-lic awareness about this as possible.”

This meant the orga-nization had to mobilize local media and former residents of Rutherford, including sending out copies of the exchanged letters between the University and the GHPD, writing an edito-rial in the Athens Banner-Herald and co-authoring a press release with the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.

The University is required to notify the GHPD before renovating or demolishing a histori-cal building, Kissane said.

Though the University has notified the GHPD, it did not respond to the organization’s request for a meeting to discuss the demolition.

There is no word so far as to whether or not the University will meet with the organization to dis-cuss the changes.

Though Kissane understands the need for an upgrade, she said the University should at least consider the residence

hall’s history before going forward with any changes.

“They’re making these decisions not in the histo-ry and the architectural context as a whole,” Kissane said. “They didn’t ask that question with Old College because of the history.”

Kissane believes part of the reason the University hasn’t taken Rutherford or other his-toric buildings into con-sideration more is because they lack a preservation plan for the campus.

“They have made a strong commitment for North Campus, but unfor-tunately they have not given a conservation plan for the rest of campus,” she said. “When you have a building that is 70 years old you’re always going to have issues. If you look at the buildings that they have renovated over the years in North Campus, they have renovated with-out changing the struc-ture.”

Fosgate said even though she sympathizes with the University’s need for on-campus housing, she thinks Rutherford is different from the other dorms.

“I’m empathetic with the University’s problem with wanting more kids to live on campus,” Fosgate said. “It enriches their personal and educational experiences. It certainly did for mine. I wish they’d put them somewhere else. This isn’t some Baxter Street high rise, this is something that needs to stay where she is.”

Likewise, Kowalski sees Kissane and Fosgate’s point of view.

“I think it’s a legitimate perspective and staff and University Housing wouldn’t want to do any-thing that would adverse-ly affect the historical aes-thetic of the University, that’s why part of our pro-cess and communication is working with the University architects and upper-level administra-tion to see what are their issues with the project.”

Kissane said when it comes down to it, the focus should be on stew-ardship.

“We’re not just talking about the next 10 years, we’re talking about long-term stewardship,” Kissane said. “In absence of the preservation plan, I do not feel that they have taken the role of steward-ship, with the exception of North Campus, seriously.”

By JASON FLYNNTHE RED & BLACK

University producers of a doc-umentary on the 2010 BP oil spill were rewarded recently with more than footage of underwater black gold.

“Black and Blue: Beneath the Gulf Oil Disaster,” is a long-form documentary produced by the University broadcast, video and photography unit. It documents the devastation caused by the Deep Water Horizon oil spill, which followed the explosion of a drilling rig on Apr. 20, 2010.

The film received a Southeast Regional Emmy and a 2011 Gabby Merit award from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters at the end of June.

The broadcast, video and photography unit is responsible for producing all University pro-motional videos and for handling television news inquiries, image capture and multimedia.

Steve Bell, director of broad-cast, video and photography ser-

vices, said the award was made possible by “tremendous effort put in by the staff... and the unique subject matter.”

“It’s not often that we receive the opportunity to be a part of such a historic event,” Bell said.

“Black and Blue” documents University Marine Sciences Professor Samantha Joye and her research team on the vessel “Walton Smith.”

The team studied the “far-reaching consequences of the biggest man-made environmen-tal disaster the world has ever known, the Deep Water Horizon Oil Catastrophe,” according to the documentary.

The cruise lasted two weeks during which time Bill Evelyn, field producer and videographer, captured the research team at work gathering samples in the Gulf.

Evelyn was fortunate enough to document the research team’s discovery of deep water oil plumes, the cause of massive devastation to the Gulf of

Mexico’s ecosystem.Bell said the documentary

acted as a “vehicle to get Joye’s findings to the public.”

“A lot of its information was not being released early on,” Bell said. “We were even at odds with the White House, when they didn’t want some things released.”

Because of its wealth of important information, the docu-mentary received widespread media attention.

“It was featured on 65 televi-sion stations — from the gulf coast to Texas and North Carolina to Florida,” Bell said.

The widespread coverage was extremely important for the broadcast, video and photogra-phy unit.

“It validates the abilities of the department, which has to compete with commercial opera-tions,” Bell said.

Bell said the recognition was also important for the University as a whole.

“It’s proof that the University

can produce materials of interest that can inform and educate the public,” he said. “[That] brings credibility to all future University projects.”

Others involved in the pro-duction of the documentary include Graphic Designer Geoff Gilland, Broadcast Media Marketer Pete Konenkamp, Production Manager Kim Dillard, Uplink Coordinator Andrew Rhiem and Studio Director Mike Barrett.

A second documentary, “Atlantis Revealed: Where the Oil Went,” has already been pro-duced by the broadcast, video and photography unit.

The film was the recipient of a 2011 Gabby Award from the GAB.

Bell said there is not a plan for another long-form documen-tary.

However, there is a possibility of a third installment if the unit has the opportunity to film a third cruise with Joye, featuring the deep sea submersible “Alvin.”

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Oil spill documentary wins regional EmmyWoman reports rape near downtown

A 20-year-old female reported a rape to the Criminal Investigation Department of the Athens-Clarke County Police on Friday at 5:19 a.m.

An officer spoke to wit-nesses who saw the sus-pect downtown.

According to the docu-ment, the victim left Barcode with the suspect and went to an “unknown location” off Lumpkin Street.

After the rape occurred there the suspect drove her back to her house where she called the police.

The Criminal Investigation Department requested that the officer take her to the East Station to be interviewed.

Detective Harrison Daniel is handling the investigation.

A chase sends two to the ACC jail

A University student was arrested by the Uni-versity Police on charges of underage possession of alcohol, possession of fake ID and obstructing on Friday at 2 a.m.

According to the University Police report, Thomas Jackson Davis, 20, and Owen James Brock, 20, ran from officers on Lumpkin Street. The of-ficers followed the males to the Chi Phi fraternity house where Davis was at-tempting to enter the front door.

He started walking to-ward the officers before he and Brock began running again.

They ran south toward the Kappa Alpha parking lot.

According to the docu-ment, more officers chased the two males and finally apprehended them at the Holiday Inn.

The officers observed Brock smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot eyes. Brock provided his driver’s license, which showed him to be underage. He was then placed under arrest for underage possession of alcohol and obstruction of a law enforcement officer.

Davis also appeared intoxicated, according to the document. He was arrested on charges of underage possession of al-cohol, obstruction of a law enforcement officer and possession of a fake ID.

Both were transported to the University Police Department and then to the Clarke County jail.

Student takes a break on parking deck wall, arrest-ed for underage posses-sion

A University student was arrested by the University Police on a charge of underage posses-sion of alcohol on Saturday at 12:30 a.m.

According to the University Police report, an officer observed Clinton Chase Martin, 20, urinating at the North Campus Parking Deck outside wall. He told the officer he was taking a break and using his cell phone. The officer smelled alcohol on his breath and confirmed that Martin was under 21.

The officer asked him how many drinks he had consumed and Martin told him “not much.”

Martin was arrested on charges of underage pos-session of alcohol and transported to the University Police Department. He was later transported to the Clarke County Jail.

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Rick Temple buys old grease.

Since he graduated from the University this spring, Temple has been working as an intern with Greenlight Biofuels, a company that converts used restaurant grease into biodiesel.

Biodiesel is considered an environmentally friend-ly alternative to traditional diesel fuel. The EPA esti-mates that it emits 78 per-cent fewer greenhouse gases than diesel.

“It burns cleaner; it reduces our dependence on foreign oil and it reduc-es the greenhouse emis-sions that are put out from everyday cars,” Temple said. “There doesn’t need to be any modification to a diesel car’s engine for our biodiesel to run in it.”

Temple holds a degree in political science and had originally planned to go to law school in the fall. But after a study abroad trip to New Zealand, he became interested in pursuing a career in renewable ener-gy.

“I’ve always been kind of aware of being green and recycling and what-not, and I think that the New Zealand experience over there really opened my eyes in terms of what they do,” he said. “Over here, people are so mind-less about what goes on.”

“With Greenlight, I feel like I’m making a differ-ence,” he said. “I feel like our whole company is making a difference in terms of getting restau-rants signed up and mak-ing an impact.”

Temple’s typical work day involves making cold calls to restaurants and explaining the biodiesel business to owners and managers. He estimates that Greenlight has between 20 and 25 accounts in Athens, includ-ing Kelly’s Jamaican, Earthfare, Shane’s Rib Shack, Phi Mu, Zeta and SAE.

Ryan Myers, one of the owners of Amici Italian Cafe downtown, has used Greenlight Biofuels for several months, and he said he is pleased with the business.

He has even recom-mended it to other restau-rant owners.

“What made me want to do the switch was just being a little bit more green about it,” he said. “They keep the area back in the back clean. The other company came and just dumped it. There’d be grease all over the place.”

Greenlight, which has more than 6,000 accounts in the Southeast, provides free advertising and mar-keting incentives.

“We have a team of mar-keting specialists that handles broadcasting what the current accounts are doing with their oil,” Temple said. “It’s a cost-less way for a restaurant to get more exposure in their community.”

But the competition for grease is fierce. Temple said he has heard of com-panies stealing grease out of rivals’ dumpsters.

Companies offer restau-rants a rebate that depends on the amount of grease the restaurant pro-duces, but Myers said the money has never been enough to determine who gets his grease.

Most grease companies are not making biodiesel. Carolina By-Products and Darling International have accounts in Athens. They use the grease to make products such as animal feed, soap and makeup.

“They say they recycle, but really they’re just fat-tening up chickens,” Temple said. “Technically, they are recycling, but they’re doing more dirty of a practice than what we’re trying to do. We’re just try-ing to make a cleaner fuel.”

Rendering companies have been under heavy FDA regulations since researchers discovered that their feed products

could spread BSE, com-monly known as mad-cow disease.

Temple’s toughest cus-tomer is the University. Right now, campus dining halls sell their grease to a rendering company.

“UGA with all the din-ing halls would be a great fit for Greenlight,” Temple said. “Even one dining hall would be crucial. I wish they would just give me some time of day to see if we could just put one on.”

Daniel Geller is a University research engi-neer who studies biodiesel and other biofuels.

“Unfortunately what

drives where this grease goes is the price,” he said. “Believe it or not, there’s a huge demand for feed.”

Geller is working with food services to find a way to convert University grease into biodiesel.

“Tolling it — that’s what it’s called when you give it to someone else and they convert it for you — that makes sense, and we could probably make even or save a little bit of money on the back end,” he said. “I think within a year, we might actually make that happen on campus. I think that would be a really good thing for us.”

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CUT: Terry short on business school faculty, teaching load increased

Univ. grad turns grease to gold

KRISTY DENSMORE | The Red & Black

Alumnus Rick Temple poses by a vegetable oil recycling bin by the Chi Phi fraternity house on Lumpkin Street. Temple interns with Greenlight Biofuels, which collects grease from businesses to make biodiesel.

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realities of the budget cuts. When the reductions first began, Terry eliminated several administrative positions, seven director positions and one of the associ-ate dean positions in order to keep more faculty in the classroom.

“One of the other things that has hap-pened is that we’ve increased the teach-ing load on some of our faculty,” Sumichrast said. “In the first year of the budget cuts, I had several faculty mem-bers volunteer to teach an extra class.”

Since FY08, Terry’s faculty base has grown from 148 to 153, but the under-graduate enrollment also increased by 327 students.

“I don’t think anybody is satisfied with the way that it’s going,” Sumichrast said. “You always want to continue to improve and offer more electives and smaller sec-tions. One of the things I’m very con-cerned about is that there’s a real short-age of good business school faculty.”

Although many of Terry’s faculty have strong ties to the University, Sumichrast said professors are getting offers from other institutions.

“The faculty here haven’t received a raise in the past three years, and at some point, opportunities elsewhere are pretty strong,” he said.

As for the future? Sumichrast has faith in Terry’s robust

alumni support base.“While I am nervous particularly about

the lack of raises for faculty and staff over the past three years, I think we’re going to be well-supported by the alumni,” he said. “I think over time, UGA and the Terry College will continue to improve even though this is a pretty rough patch that we’re going through.”

Tidbits about Terry’s budget

Private funds make up a little more than 20 percent of Terry’s overall budget

Last year, the college brought in about $21 million in gifts and pledges

The college uses about $2 million to supplement the budget

As a result of budget cuts, Terry Magazine is now online only and Terry no longer holds a donor recognition dinner in the fall.

Terry has eliminated several administrative positions to avoid faculty layoffs

Each week, The Red & Black will focus on one college within the University for a closer look at how the FY12 budget cuts affect its faculty, staff and students. Next week, we will focus on the College of Education.

Oil converted to biofuels

PRODUCTS FROM RECYCLED COOKING OIL

Biodiesel — a rise in popularity has led many companies to convert used grease to fuel

Animal feed — used restaurant oils are sometimes used as an ingredient

Makeup and soap — a common use for recycled oil from restaurants and kitchens is in cosmetic products

Composting — used cooking oils can be composted with other organic matter

A June 30 Red & Black editorial reached incor-rect conclusions about the funding support for UGA’s One Diversity Scholarship Program.

Under no circumstances did the UGA Athletic Association “dump a scholarship” on the UGA Foundation, and future funding for the program has never been in doubt.

The Athletic Association provided a temporary source for fund-ing assistance when the original corporate donor was unable to provide it.

The new Arch Foundation picked up the funding support the next year when its revenue income was sufficient for this purpose, and will continue this funding as the newly-created UGA Foundation.

The student newspa-

per unfortunately jumped to the conclusion that a Regents decision on the president’s deferred com-pensation put funding for a valuable student schol-arship in jeopardy. The Athletic Association gives millions each year for stu-dent scholarships and pro-fessorship endowments.

Regardless of how one feels about the Regents’ action to provide supple-mental presidential com-pensation with non-state funds from the Athletic Association, the fact remains that Athletics is a generous contributor to UGA academics, and certainly did not put the future of an important UGA scholarship program at risk.

TOM S. LANDRUMSenior Vice President for

External Affairs

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Do you know your high school GPA? Are you sure?

What many students may not know is the Georgia Student Finance Commission recalculates GPAs after students graduate to determine their eligibility for HOPE and the new Zell Miller Scholarship.

As it happens, their formula for this calculation is backwards and may have negative consequences for the hardest working students.

GSFC strips your grades down to a 4.0 scale, regardless of the rigor of your courses. Then it reweighs your grades according to their own formula. This formula is mysterious in two ways.

First, weight is only added to AP or IB grades if the student did not make an A in the course. This way, no GPA can be above a 4.0.

Second, one point is added to AP and IB grades only if the stu-dent did not make an ‘A’ and only if the course was taken during or before the 2005-2006 school year. Just half a point is added if the course was taken in a later year according to an email sent to me by GSFC last week.

That means most students don’t have a clue what their HOPE GPA is.

This formula matters, because the HOPE GPA will determine who receives the Zell Miller Scholarship

and 100 percent of their funding in the fall. I had never heard of this reweighing before last week when I found out that the 4.0 I had when I graduated is actually a 3.65, accord-ing to GSFC.

This means I will lose 10 percent of my funding in the fall for falling below the 3.7 mark, according to a phone conversation with a man from GSFC on Friday.

Needless to say, I was dis-pleased. Even when I realized that the difference is less than $400 a semester, which I can earn easily in two weeks, I was still upset.

The HOPE GPA is a slap in the face — a devaluing of the hard work we did in high school.

Let’s examine who loses in this reweighing situation.

First, students who challenged themselves in high school are at a disadvantage when it comes to reweighing. Why did I spend my time taking hard courses when the easier courses would have served me equally well or better in terms of funding?

Second, students who chal-lenged themselves and excelled in

their AP and IB courses by making ‘A’s have no advantage. Why did I do two hours of math homework every night for two years to earn an ‘A’ in BC Calculus when a ‘B’ would have served me just as well?

Clearly, hard work and the drive to excel don’t mean much to the legislators who determined the GPA weighing system for HOPE.

The state’s message is clear: academically advanced high school students should not be rewarded. They don’t deserve credit for their work. Down with the advanced. Up with the mediocre.

What an interesting message, considering these regulations come from a bunch of state legislators who never had the determination and ingenuity to make a career in national politics.

It’s also interesting that the reg-ulations are tacitly enforced by a gaggle of faceless bureaucrats at GSFC who never had the true merit to distinguish themselves from the crowd.

In short, the HOPE GPA is a system that awards mediocrity, and that’s no surprise as it was the brainchild of a group who is, frank-ly, mediocre.

We need a system that rewards exceptional students.

— Emily Patrick is a senior from Atlanta majoring in English

EMILY PATRICK

As the budget battle between President Barack Obama and

the Republican Party heats up, many Americans feel lost.

On the one hand, our quality of life is diminish-ing. We could all use a lit-tle help to get by in these troubled times.

But American distrust of government spending is as strong as ever. We see taxes as a burden and government spending as wasteful and irrelevant to our lives.

A co-worker of mine echoed this sentiment to me last week. She thinks taxes are an act of theft and social programs should be abolished. She believes people need to have more personal responsibility. Welfare programs encourage lazi-ness and discourage achievement.

I found my co-worker’s line of reasoning dubious to say the least. But many Americans would agree with her.

With so many people restless and discontent, taxes and social programs become convenient scapegoats. Personal responsibility becomes the antidote to all our economic woes. The appeal of this rugged individualism is easy to understand. It can be very comforting to think

we are singularly respon-sible for our own destiny.

If poverty is nothing more than the result of laziness, we simply need to get rid of government and let people rely on themselves.

However appealing self-reliance may be, it is actually nothing more than a comforting fantasy.And if we look closer, we can see something dark and cynical lurking under-neath this illusion.

The myth of self-reli-ance obscures a powerful truth — wealth is a social creation, not an individu-al one. No individual could prosper without the group.

We are not self-reliant — we are socially reliant.

An individual’s destiny is inexorably tied to the group as a whole.

We don’t grow our own food, pick our own cotton and sew our own clothes, pave our own roads, build our own homes, perfect our own medical technol-ogy, harness our own elec-trical grids or treat our own sewage.

We are interdependent, and we benefit from our ability to trade skills and

expertise with others. Taxes are a crucial

part of social interdepen-dence. They allow us to pool together our com-mon resources for the good of all. No one could earn a living without using taxpayer benefits.

My co-worker might not like seeing money taken out of her paycheck each week. But if not for taxes, she wouldn’t even have a paycheck in the first place.

As a University employee, her paycheck is funded by Georgia tax-payers. Her income is fur-ther supplemented by social security — a gov-ernment program. Her hospital bills are paid for by the taxpayers through Medicare.

The food she eats and prescription drugs she takes are only safe thanks to inspections by the Food and Drug Administration. And she wouldn’t even be able to make it to work each day without driving the roads paved by our tax dollars.

Ironically, the people who benefit most from government are also its biggest opponents. What can account for this observation?

Selfishness is an obvi-ous answer. It is easy to reap the benefits of gov-ernment programs with-out wanting to pay any-

thing in return. But more importantly, many Americans are ignorant of how socially embedded our economy is.

If success is nothing more than a reflection of individual merit, then the rich owe nothing to any-body else. And the poor are undeserving of our help, because they simply need to work harder. This view benefits the ruling class at the expense of the rest of us.

It keeps the poor poor and the rich rich. It blinds us to the social connect-edness we all rely on to make a living. And worse still, self-reliance prevents us from uniting as a group to affect social change.

Social movements don’t happen when we imagine ourselves as dis-parate individuals. Change occurs when we recognize ourselves in others, not when we pre-tend we exist only for our-selves.

My co-worker’s discon-tent is real. But let’s not misdirect our rage and surrender to the tempta-tion of creating a scape-goat.

Taxation is not the problem — our belief in self-reliance is.

— Jonathan Rich is a senior from Alpharetta

majoring in sociology

JONATHAN RICH

GOP lacks adept candidate for ’12Every time I hear

about the 2012 GOP presidential candi-

dates, I can’t help but break out in hives.

With high gas prices, an economy still in disarray and unpopular American foreign intervention, President Barack Hussein Obama should be a guar-anteed failure come 2012.

But it seems all the serious Republican candi-dates have taken a pass on the next election, and I’ve yet to see someone in the race that I can sup-port.

There are nothing but a few Barnum & Bailey cir-cus clowns in the ring.

Leading the pack is businessman and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Most Republicans believe he is the key to winning back the White House.

But I’m more inclined to believe that he is secretly the identical twin to Gordon Gekko and this presidential run is all part of a sinister scheme to take over Wall Street. I mean, the guy has flip-flopped on every major issue in the past 20 years.

Pro-health care one day. Anti-health care the next. And with hair like that, you think he can be trusted?

Unfortunately, running in second to the Fonzie look-alike is Sarah Palin-on-steroids, Minnesota congresswoman and Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann.

Bachmann’s hobbies include running her mouth, burning her Census and labeling peo-ple anti-American.

She’s just like your average Joe… McCarthy.

Not to mention she wants to ban porn. She’s really vying for the male vote.

From the same state as Congresswoman Censorship is former Governor Tim Pawlenty. Or as I like to call him, Tin Pawlenty.

The man moves like a robot and sounds like a zombie. Watching him on television is as entertain-ing as picking lint out of my belly button.

If you like boring, he’s the candidate for you.

Of course, already win-ning the award for worst presidential campaign ever is Georgia native Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich’s résumé includes four years as

Speaker of the House, 20 years as a U.S. Representative and 68 years as an adulterer.

Does anyone else have a problem with the idea that people are lining up to have sex with this guy?

I mean, the man looks like a cross between come-dian Ben Stein and Newman on Seinfeld.

And yet, he even puts Tiger Woods to shame.

Also running from Georgia is talk show host Herman Cain, who has never held any elective office. Instead, he brags about his experience working for Burger King and Godfather’s Pizza.

Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t recall any point of time that I’ve walked into a fast food restaurant, pointed at the guy behind the counter, and said, “You! I want you to be my next Commander in Chief.” He might want to consider reworking that message.

Many tout Cain as the only black American in the GOP arena — or more like the only black man in the party — but that is not true.

Former candidate for the Rent is Too Damn High party Jimmy McMillan has switched his allegiance and is also run-ning as a Republican.

Man, let’s just hope he doesn’t siphon too many of those Republican minority votes from Cain.

The list of Republican nut jobs could go on and on. From Rick “I’m strongly pro-life but I sup-ported my wife’s abortion” Santorum to Ron “I’m the perennial, unelectable candidate but weirdly popular with young dum-mies” Paul, this batch of candidates is as electable as an Alaskan pitbull with lipstick.

But do not despair. I bring good news. Former Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan David Dukes has stated that he is now considering a run.

Finally, someone nor-mal in the race. And to think I was worried.

— Jeremy Dailey is a first-year law student from

Conyers with a degree in political science

JEREMY DAILEY

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‘When I Stop Running’ by Totally Fuckin’ Doin’ It

I’m not sure what these guys are “totally fuckin’ doin’,” but my best guess would be headlining Vacation Bible School — which doesn’t make a lot of sense considering the band name.

The first full-length debut album by Totally Fuckin’ Doin’ It (TFDI), “When I Stop Running,” is a mixture of acoustic songs from three stylized singer-songwrit-ers.

It’s apparent that the trio can play guitar. Each member has strong, individual vocal styles. But this listener had a hard time looking past the use of many — too many — major chords right off the bat.

The second thing that came to mind was Bob Dylan. In fact, he’s even mentioned on track eight, “Sweet Talkin’ Liar.”

“When I Stop Runnin’,” the third track, is more country and rock-inspired and has vocals that are very Dylan with some Tom Petty sprinkled on top.

The next track, “Hold On Tight,” sounds exactly like an acoustic Christian song.

Dylan continues to prevail through the album until track six, “Ghost,” when Creed devours him and they sing as one. The guitars are catchy though.

The eighth track, “Sweet Talkin’ Liar,” flaunts the group’s ability to harmonize. The harmonies are well-balanced, and once again very Dylan-like.

The last three tracks on the album are covers of Tom Petty’s “American Girl,” Bright Eyes’ “Lover I Don’t Have to Love” and Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again.”

TFDI’s take on “Lover I Don’t Have to Love” has a John Mayer meets Jack Johnson feel to it.

It’s easy to see how fans of the aforementioned art-ists might find this album appealing, but it incorpo-rates too many church sing-alongs to ignore.

With more chord experimentation and rhythm vari-ation, these guys could have a broader appeal. It will be interesting to hear how their sound has evolved a couple albums down the road.

— Holly Young

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meets 25 students and has each say their name, home-town, major and an inter-esting fact to break the ice. She said she will have repeated this process with some 400 students once the summer is over.

Though some students are hesitant to talk, Baxter engages her group with an infectious energy.

“I honestly don’t know where it comes from,” she said. “This job just makes me happy.”

Next, Baxter takes her group to rejoin the other students for an informa-tional “Arch session.” With the students busy, Baxter and the other orientation leaders escape to Tate to assist parents and get them ready to head to lunch.

At lunch, Baxter sits with a table of parents, chatting about topics as diverse as smoothie prefer-ences and Greek life. Baxter is in a sorority, but cannot reveal her affiliation during orientation.

After lunch, Baxter sits in Tate with three other leaders, making herself available to help parents.

Despite their packed schedules, the orientation leaders find time to make plans for the weekend, hack each other’s Facebook pages and “swagjack” one another — a game of tear-ing off each other’s nametags and throwing them out of reach.

“I feel like we’ve been really blessed with a lot of really awesome, genuine and incredible people,” Baxter said. “We have so much fun and we are prob-

ably so obnoxious when the 12 of us are together.”

Baxter emphasized how well the orientation leaders work together.

“If there’s a question that I feel like I can’t answer, we can bring in another orientation leader and somebody’s going to have an answer or some-body’s going to be able to relate,” she said.

Milly Gorman, director of new student orientation, echoed that sentiment.

“I think they’re great,” Gorman said. “I always feel really lucky when you see them in their zone. They’re such a diverse group. I think they’re rock stars.”

At 4 p.m., Baxter heads to the Tate theater to help answer questions from par-

ents, responding to topics such as printing services, Bulldog Bucks and the dif-ferences between the resi-dence halls.

The next couple hours are a whirlwind, as Baxter and the other orientation leaders perform education-al skits about the first year experience, teach the stu-dents how to bark like a Dawg, mingle with them at a tailgate-themed dinner, and offer information ses-sions.

The day’s climax is Orientation Live, a “Saturday Night Live”-esque series of skits per-formed by the orientation leaders for entertainment. The humorous skits touch on themes of parent-child separation, awkward fresh-

man moments, roommate relations and SEC rivalries.

At 11 p.m., Baxter is still joking with incoming stu-dents and the other orien-tation leaders, laughing with the kind of joy that only comes from doing something one loves to do.

“Mel is an awesome ori-entation leader,” said Nehemiah Lawson, a rising freshman from Columbus. “She made me feel really welcome here at UGA.”

To Baxter, those words may be the highest compli-ment of all.

For Baxter and the other orientation leaders, it’s the end of another long day. But for the students they’ve introduced to the University, it’s just the beginning.

DAY: Leaders answer questions, perform skits

By ALEXIS LEIMAFOR THE RED & BLACK

The daily grind can often become diseased with drudgery, for University students and Athens resi-dents alike. And for Ed Burmila, laughter is the best medicine.

“Being a professor and doing comedy are very similar, believe it or not,” said Burmila, assistant profes-sor of political science at the University. “You stand in front of a room full of strangers and you have to find a way to make them interest-ed in what you have to say. Teaching and comedy are both based on the same set of skills — getting and holding the attention of a skeptical audience.”

Amusing strangers on stage and teaching them in a classroom could seem like an odd pair of occupa-tions. However, Burmila said laugh-ing about the subject matter can help students learn.

“There’s a surprising amount of research showing that humor is a very effective teaching tool. It improves students’ attention and retention,” he said. “I understand that some topics in political science are not exactly enthralling to the average 19-year-old. So I do what I can to make the material more appealing.”

And his students seem to appre-ciate the break from humorless material, Burmila said.

“I have a dry, sarcastic sense of humor and I tend to apply to it to whatever topic I’m talking about in class,” he said. “I started doing [that] so that I would enjoy teach-ing, but fortunately some students seem to like it too.”

Not only is comedy useful in cap-tivating his students, it provides an outlet for Burmila to take the edge off of his career’s usual focus on poli-tics and life in general.

“Most of my material is political,” he said. “In fact, I have to remind myself constantly to come up with some jokes that aren’t about poli-tics.”

The Chicago native said he found new inspiration in some southerners’ reactions to seasonal occurences.

“The way students treat college football here is hilarious,” Burmila said. “I’ve never seen anything like it and I’m still not used to it. And, of course, being a native Chicagoan I

laugh a lot about the way people react to ‘winter’ down here.”

The professor’s comedic mixture of stand-up and politics continues to evolve from his first routine devel-oped during his college years.

“Bill Hicks is the biggest influ-ence,” Burmila said. “Most comedi-ans who see me perform can spot that right away, because I do a lot of political stuff and most of the humor

comes from sarcasm.”With political drama raging from

both parties, Burmila said joking about national problems is often the best way to handle any mounting frustration.

“I find that it’s hard to pay con-stant attention to politics if you don’t have a sense of humor about it,” Burmila said. “If you can’t laugh about it, you’ll eventually go crazy.”

Political professor turns comedian

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Orientation leader Mel Baxter (right) answers questions on topics such as printing services, living accomodations, classes and Bulldog Bucks.

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Ed Burmila, assistant professor of political science, has done standup on the side since his days in college. He has performed political comedy at shows such as AthFest’s “LaughFest 2011.”

Poli Sci class a laughing matter

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The Japanese Sudoku puzzle relies on reasoning and logic. To solve it, fill in the grid so every row, every column and every 3 by 3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. Nothing needs to add up to anything else.

By RACHEL G. BOWERSTHE RED & BLACK

Lizzy Stemke is itching to get on the volleyball court.

It has been somewhat of a whirlwind since the last time the New Orleans native has been in the gym for a volley-ball match.

“These first five months have been extremely busy with making sure that we’re setting new expectations, setting a gym culture for the way that this program will be run,” Stemke said. “And a lot of that has been getting to know our players and build-ing those relationships.”

Since last season, she became a mother and accept-ed a job without seeing the facilities first hand, meeting the team or getting a feel for the town until after she took the offer.

She became a head coach for the first time — for the Georgia volleyball team.

She made the 1,000-mile move from Lincoln, Neb., — where she was assistant coach for the volleyball team at the University of Nebraska — to Athens.

And now she is just more than one month away from the start of the 2011 season.

After inheriting a program that has gone 49-45 overall throughout the last three seasons (24-36 in SEC play), Stemke emphasized a “gym culture” and said expecta-tions for this year’s team will be high.

“I think the gym culture is set on a day-to-day basis, whether it’s the tempo in the gym, the attitude in the gym,” Stemke said. “I think that there’s a lot of details that go into running a program and trying to build it to the top. We’re gonna expect a big commitment level on and off the court on a day to day basis here and just making sure everybody’s on the same page with those expectations is a big part of our job.”

Stemke hit the ground running upon her arrival to Athens and had to make sure her family settled in quickly

and had to quickly become familiar with the program she took over.

Since she was not able to come to Athens prior to accepting the job (she gave birth the same time on-campus interviews took place and her husband checked it out for the family), Stemke was quickly reminded of the difficulties of remaining patient.

“There’s a lot that we would like to do

and we have big goals and so just reminding ourselves that it’s gonna take a little bit of patience and time to build the program to where we want and we wanna do it the right way,” Stemke said. “Learning to stay patient is always my biggest chal-lenge.”

At the start of the sum-

mer, Stemke was finally able to enjoy what Athens has to offer, exploring the restau-rants, things to do, bands to listen to, all while spending time with her family.

But the first-year head coach and her team are about to display the work they have put in this offseason, as the season begins Aug. 26 in the Hotel Indigo Invitational in Athens.

“I think we’ve built a lot up in the spring and I guess I’m most excited about just getting on the court during a season with this group,” Stemke said. “This team has invested a lot this spring and I know they’re working hard throughout the summer and we’re just excited to start to chip away at the process of building. We’re working at it every day and we’re excited to see where we’re at come game time.”

SPORTS The Red & Black | Thursday, July 14, 2011 | 7

Coach settling in new job

Handful of Bulldogs to compete in Atlanta at ATP tennis event

There’s no need to wait until spring to cheer on the stars of Georgia men’s tennis.

Former Bulldog players John Isner and Drake Bernstein join rising senior Wil Spencer at the ATP Atlanta Tennis Championships, which starts Monday and runs through July 24 at the Racquet Club of the South in Norcross. Isner and Bernstein are in the singles and dou-bles main draws, respectively, while Spencer competes this weekend for one of four qualifying bids in singles play.

Isner is ranked No. 36 in the world, and comes into the Atlanta Championships with momentum. The 6-foot-9 former All-American claimed his second career ATP World Tour title in Newport, R.I. last week after defeating Olivier Rochus in the final of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.

Isner topped Rochus 6-3, 7-6(6), not losing a set during the tourna-ment and taking home a winner’s check of $76,500. Isner, who won his first ATP title in Auckland in 2010, was runner-up at last year’s Atlanta Championships, losing to Mardy Fish. Fish, the No. 9 player in the world, returns to Atlanta again this year to defend his title.

Bernstein recently graduated from Georgia and finished his senior season No. 76 in the ITA rankings. He was an All-SEC second team selection and was one of only 14 players in Bulldog history to win more than 100 matches (career record of 112-44). Bernstein will pair up with Georgia Tech’s Kevin King into the main draw of the doubles

competition.Spencer competes on Saturday to

earn a spot in the 32-man singles draw. He reached as high as No. 12 in ITA singles rankings last season and finished No. 14, earning All-SEC first team honors and attaining All-American status.

Also playing in this year’s Atlanta Championships are Lleyton Hewitt, former No. 1 player in the world and U.S. Open and Wimbledon champi-on, James Blake and Tommy Haas. Nicolas Mahut, the man Isner beat last year at Wimbledon in the lon-gest match in tennis history, is also in the draw. Past winners include Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick, Pete Sampras and John McEnroe.

— Staff Reports

AJ REYNOLDS | The Red & Black

Sophomore Kathleen Luft and the Georgia volleyball team begin the season under first-year head coach Lizzy Stemke on Aug. 26 in Athens.

AJ REYNOLDS | The Red & Black

Wil Spencer will compete for a qualifying bid in singles play for the ATP Atlanta Tennis Championships, which begins Monday.

SUMMERTIMETo get ready for the pro action next week, tennis enthusiasts can head to Georgia’s Dan Magill Tennis Complex this weekend to catch the ITA Collegiate Summer Circuit, which provides college (and junior and alumni) players the opportunity to compete in organized events during the offseason. It runs today through Saturday, and members of the Georgia’s men’s and women’s teams will be represented.

‘Gym culture’ emphasized

STEMKE

FISH IN A BARREL

8 | Thursday, July 14, 2011 | The Red & Black SPORTS

Georgia duo catches a big break

By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK

Even without the flair of a final buzzer, two University anglers’ third place finish in last week-end’s Mercury College B.A.S.S. National Championship was noth-ing short of a photo finish.

Seniors Randy Tolbert and Chase Simmemon, who represented the University of Georgia Bass Fishing Club, secured their spot on the podium as they reeled in their largest fish of the day with eight

minutes to spare in the three-day tournament.

“We were getting pretty worried,” Simmemon said. “But we never did lose hope.”

Each of the tourna-ment’s 36 teams were allowed to weigh in their five best catches each day. The winning team would be that with the greatest combined weight.

But as time wound down, Simmemon said the Georgia pair found itself with four less-than-impres-sive fish in the boat.

“It was all about tim-ing,” he said.

“We had 10 to 15 brush piles marked. We would hit one, if we didn’t get any-thing, would go to the next one ... [Using equipment],

we could see them down there in the brush piles but there’s certain factors that make them bite at times and not at others. ...For some reason they started biting again [with 30 minutes left].”

The team ended the tournament by pulling in three bass including a 4.25 pounder with eight min-utes remaining.

This landed them in third place with a final day total of 12.94 pounds.

Ryan Watkins and Andrew Upshaw of Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas took first place with 15.25 pounds and Auburn’s Shane Powell and Jordan Lee finished second with 13.63 pounds.

“It was disappointing to get that close and be beat by two pounds,” Simmemon said. “One fish could have put us in the lead. ... But we’re happy. It’s always good making a top five finish, especially in that caliber tournament. You’re fishing against the best.”

But the Georgia team didn’t always look like the favorites in the tourna-ment.

Simmemon said they got off to a rough start, losing two three-pound bass and one six-pounder before reeling in their first catch on the first day of the tournament.

“That was real heart-breaking,” he said. “Especially since we didn’t have a fish. We thought that would come back to haunt us. ... Those are key fish in a tournament but those are the kind of fish that get away a lot of times.”

At the end of the first day, the team weighed in only three fish, but Simmemon said it was enough to keep them in the running.

Texas A&M’s Andy Schafer and Weston Brown were fourth and Virginia Tech’s Wyatt Blevins and Carson Rejzer, who led on the first two days but were hit with a pound-a-minute penalty for being five min-utes late to check-in, fin-ished fifth.

This top-five finish is the club’s the most recent success as they work to establish a name within the bass fishing communi-ty.

Last year, the club’s 20 anglers won the 2010 Boat US Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship and took second in the College B.A.S.S. National Championship. Simmemon and Tolbert also won the Southern Collegiate Bass Fishing Series Points Championship that same year.

“The club is only about four years old but we’re starting to get recognized,” Simmemon said. “We’ve won a lot of tournaments and I think we’re starting to get the recognition that we deserve.”

Takes third with final fish

CHASE SIMMEMONYear: seniorMajor: wildlife biology & fisheries and aquacultureLatest competition: Finished third at the Mercury College B.A.S.S. National Championship

TOLBERT

SIMMEMON

RANDY TOLBERTYear: senior

Major: fisheries and aquaculture

Latest competition: Finished third at the Mercury College

B.A.S.S. National Championship