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State senate considers bill permitting students to carry guns on campus

Legislators open discussion on legalizing medical marijuana

Deal proposes largest educational budget increase in seven years

BY TAYLOR WEST@TaylorWest08

The laws on the use of medical marijuana in Georgia have been in place since the 1980s, but they may be changing.

Georgia legislators are looking into the possibility of legalizing medical marijuana.

House of Representatives member Josh McKoon, R-Columbus, suggested looking into the laws that limit the use of marijuana to glaucoma and cancer treatment to see if they should be expanded.

He filed Senate resolution 756 recom-mending the creation of the Senate Prescription of Medicinal Marijuana for Serious Medical Conditions Study Committee on Jan. 17 based on ideas including that new technologies afford more control over the sub-stance as well as studies that suggest a medi-cal benefit.

Josh Wayne, founder and president of The University of Georgia’s Athens CARE — an affiliate group of Georgia CARE — said he has no doubt the government’s study will come back in favor of legalization for medicinal pur-poses.

He said there have been hundreds of stud-ies conducted that support the medical bene-fits of marijuana, but “there hasn’t been much research that the government technically approves of.”

Wayne, who spent the holiday weekend in Washington lobbying for legalization with other marijuana activist groups such as Peachtree NORML and Georgia CARE, said he could plausibly see medicinal marijuana being legalized in the coming years.

He said public opinion is changing. “A good summary is they would back a

medical marijuana bill as long as the research showed it would be beneficial,” Wayne said.

BY DANIEL FUNkE@dpfunke

The Georgia General Assembly is once again considering a law allowing the carry of concealed weapons on college campuses at the forefront of the agenda.

The controversial Safe Carry Protection Act, or House Bill 512, and Senate Bill 101, would permit the carry of concealed weapons on college campuses, in churches and bars. Exceptions include residence halls, fraternity or sorority houses and athletic events.

Student Government Association President Austin Laufersweiler said student response to this has been negative.

“This is an issue that we addressed in brief last year, and the consensus amongst students that we spoke to was that [the UGA student body] would not be in favor of it,” he said.

Last year the Republican-dominated General Assembly passed the bill in a 41 to 10 vote, despite the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia’s disapproval. The legislation heads to the Senate to be con-sidered again sometime this spring.

A proponent of the legislation is Students for Concealed Carry, a national organization composed of more than 43,000 members with chapters at colleges in all 50 states, including at the University of Georgia. According to SCC, carry guns on campus is in the best interest of students' safety.

And Maria Lewczyk, a freshman biochem-istry and molecular biology major from Augusta, said she agrees.

“I feel like too many people, on a college campus especially, would be using the fire-arms in wrong ways,” she said. “There’s no telling what would happen, or what could happen.”

BY BRITTINI RAY@brittini_ray

Gov. Nathan Deal is adding a few more dollars into the state’s education piggy bank.

During his annual State of the State Address, Deal proposed a $42 billion budget for the 2015 fiscal year that will allocate $547 million additional funding for education.

“I mean it’s education and more money going into education is always exciting,” said Kaylynn Washnock, a doctoral student major-ing in history from Dunedin, Fla. “But consid-ering the way the economy is going, that is a huge budget increase. I would like to know where that money is coming from.”

Deal proposed to give more than half of the additional funding to local school sys-tems, leaving the spending decisions up to each school system’s discretion.

The proposed $314 million should be spent to restore the days cut from academic calendars, end teacher furloughs and increase educator’s salaries.

“My approach as governor has been to do in the hard times, what is almost impossible for government to do in the good times; that is, make state government programs leaner and more efficient and concentrate scarce resources on those areas that will produce the best and most long lasting results.” Deal said in his speech Jan. 15.

The governor already proposed a $7.4 bil-lion budget for the 2014 fiscal year. The addi-tional funding will bring the educational bud-get to a record total of nearly $8 billion. Deal said the $547 million increase will be the larg-est single year increase in K-12 funding in seven years.

A proposed budget does not mean an automatic increase — the proposal would be subject to revision and approval.

Deal gives $44.7 million to new space for science studentsBY JEANETTE kAZmIERCZAk

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Gov. Nathan Deal added a $44.7 million Science Learning Center for the University of Georgia to his proposed budget for the coming fis-cal year.

UGA President Jere Morehead’s proposal has been previously approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and now awaits the final decision on the budget by the Georgia General Assembly.

“Construction [if the proposal is adopted] would begin in the com-ing fiscal year, which starts July 1st” said Tom Jackson, vice president of public affairs. “It’s not often that we get both

design money and con-struction money in the same year, but that’s what this is. So we would have to complete design and go to construction but that would all happen in the coming year.”

Jackson said the cen-ter would be built across the street from Stegeman Coliseum next to the pharmacy building where the plant sciences green-houses now stand. The structure will include 33 new teaching laborato-ries, two lecture halls and two classrooms and will accommodate students from disciplines such as biology and chemistry.

“The push back in the 1960s when physics, chemistry and biology were all constructed at the same time was a

major innovation and also, I think, really put the basic sciences on the map at the University of Georgia and kind of set the tone for the next 40 or 50 years of growth, partic-ularly in the biological sci-ences,” said Mark Farmer, professor and director of the division of biological sciences.

He said since the 1960s there have been several buildings opened catering mostly to research space — Miller Plant Sciences and the Davison Life Sciences Complex for example — but very little has been done to update teaching spaces while enrollment has continued to increase.

See SCIENCE, Page A2 Robert Purcell, Jovon Glenn and Sam Wisner review their work in one of the laboratories in the Biological Sciences Building. JEANETTE kAZmIERCZAk/Staff

BY LAURA JAMES@laurajames225

David Braun planned to visit Cumberland Island with his par-ents over spring break this year, but he will not have the chance to go.

Last week, David Braun died at age 21.

David Braun loved traveling and being in nature. He played soccer. He played guitar. He loved the Smashing Pumpkins. He was a vegetarian.

“He lived simply, and I really respected him for that,” said his father Jon Braun.

Their son played piano until he was 16 and taught himself to play guitar in the past couple of years.

“Last time I heard him, I was just kind of amazed actually at how good he was,” said his moth-er Harriet Peacock.

His parents recalled a memo-ry from the last time their son visited them.

“Remember that game y’all played over Christmas?” Peacock asked her husband.“You know, where you’d play a bar of music and he’d recognize the bar?”

“Oh yeah, if you’d put on the song, within a split second or two, he could say, ‘That was such and such,’” Jon Braun replied

David Braun grew up an only child and lived in Marietta with his parents. He played soccer since he was 6.

“He was good, but he was much more interested in having fun,” his father said.

Suman Rijal, a friend of David Braun’s, played soccer with him in high school. They became closer friends when they both came to the University of Georgia.

“We had a really good rela-tionship,” he said. “We would make fun of each other and stuff. I think that’s a side of him that a lot of people never really got to see.”

David Braun attended Nicholson Elementary School, McCleskey Middle School and Kell High School.

Growing up, he enjoyed trav-eling. He went to several states, Yellowstone National Park and Cumberland Island with his par-

ents.Since David Braun loved ani-

mals and loved nature, his par-ents decided to request contribu-tions be made to the Nature Conservancy of Georgia, an orga-nization that buys and preserves land in its natural state, rather than sending flowers to the funeral home for his service.

David Braun’s parents said they were proud of his academic success.

“He worked really hard in school, but he never boasted about it,” Jon Braun said.

David Braun entered UGA as a psychology major and switched to computer science.

“We were laughing because he really wasn’t interested in owning things,” Peacock said.

His mother said he wore the same pair of shoes as he did in high school — sneakers that went through several disasters, includ-ing being dragged through the mud at Music Midtown.

David Braun’s courage was something his mother will always remember.

“I realized how courageous he was because when he was around 11 or so, he decided to grow his hair long just because

he was a kid and thought it was cool. He got made fun of some, but he kept it because that’s what he wanted despite what other people thought,” she said.

His parents said they wish they knew the cause of their son's death.

“It would be nice to have finality, but the important thing is we lost David,” Jon Braun said.

The people who knew David Braun and spoke at his funeral service on Sunday encouraged his parents.

“Everyone who spoke made us feel like it was really special to know him,” Jon Braun said. “That’s what we’ll take away as best we can despite our grief.”

His father remembered about a treasured gift from his son.

“He gave me this rock that he painted about 15 years ago,” he said. “I’ve had it and I still have it. It’s still my lucky rock.”

Jon Braun said he will always hold onto the gift from his son.

“The way I feel is we’re both heartbroken and there’s no words that can express it,” he said. “But we’re going to try to turn that into something positive to remember.”

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Student lived simply before early death

Jon Braun (left) and Harriet Peacock (center) celebrate Christmas with their son, David Braun (right) months before his death. Courtesy Braun family

BUDGET: Deal’s proposed educational spending could be helpful, some students still skeptical

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“I kind of like the idea and then I don’t like it,” said Tiffany Dumas, a senior biology major from McDonough. “I think having more money is great. This could help teachers who do already hate their job, which may help them do a better job of teach-ing kids. So many already hate that they are under-paid.”

Despite Deal’s pleading case, Democratic law-makers disagree with the governor’s decision. Democrats retaliated against Deal’s proposal, claim-ing the state still ranks lowly compared to other state gradation rates and that calendar cuts did not deter these schools, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

“My problem with the proposal is that this is clearly an election strategy,” said Maggie Touchton, president of Young Democrats of the University of Georgia. “Up until this year, Gov. Deal has not done anything to help education. He has actually cut edu-cation spending. Last year he proposed getting rid of sparsity grants and this year he wants to help it out. This is clearly a move to try and get rid of the pressure that Sen. Jason Carter’s (D-42) election campaign is putting on him. I just don’t think it’s genuine.”

To determine funding, the state uses the Quality Basic Education formula. QBE was initially intro-duced to solve the issue of inequality in funding among school systems by establishing minimal sal-ary levels for educators, creating incentives for out-standing teachers, raising educational standards for teachers and established the Quality Core Curriculum, which sets curriculum guidelines for each grade level.

“I was lucky enough to grow up and attend school in a middle class area,” said Ella Taylor, a junior psychology and human development and family science major from Sharpsburg. “We had to bring the occasional school supply, like tissue, like everyone else but we had what we needed. But

there are other areas like Clarke County that could really use the money. I think more education spend-ing is a good thing. Some people don’t always think about that.”

Deal’s proposal will increase the state funding used in the QBE formula by $314 million. Under Deal, increases will be made to the sparsity grant. The sparsity grant is a grant provided to local edu-cation agencies that cannot afford to participate in typical state education programs. The grant pro-gram was introduced in the 1980s and is commonly used in rural schools that have a lower enrollment of students. Deal’s proposal will increase sparsity grants by $2.5 million.

“One thing we’re really excited about is an increase in the sparsity grant,” said Matt Cardoza, the Georgia Department of Education director of communications. “It may not seem like a really sig-nificant figure compared to say $314 million, but what it really does is funds 34 newly qualified schools. These are some of the schools that are just extremely rural; they have a very low tax base. In this particular case, the sparsity grants are really going to help rural schools across the state.”

Despite the governor’s optimism, his Democratic gubernatorial competitor, Carter, failed to see a positive side to Deal’s plan.

“The single biggest failure of Georgia’s current leadership — and the biggest drain on our economy — is the dismantling of our education system,” said Carter in response to Deal’s State of the State Address. “Like the old song says, the governor is trading in tomorrow for today, and the results for our education system have been devastating.”

The state Department of Education appreciat-ed the additional funding and flexibility in spending according to Cardoza.

“The governor’s ability to do this is directly tied to the state’s economy,” said Colin Carr, the political director of UGA College Republicans. “It’s a really positive thing that we are able to do this because it means the state’s economy is kicking back up.”

SCIENCE: Labs, classroom renovations needed for UGA

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“The auditoria that we teach in have under-gone facelifts but they’re essentially the same rooms with the same layout and the same number of seats as they were in 1962 [when Biological Sciences opened],” Farmer said. “And in some cases some of the laboratories are pretty much exactly the same as they were. I’ve had parents come into the building and comment on the fact that, ‘Oh, this lab looks exactly the same way it was when I went to col-lege at UGA.’”

Farmer said stu-dents are active in the for 60 to 65 hours a week.

The setup of the new laboratories in the Science Learning Center are designed to facilitate collaborative learning and experimentation by encouraging lab part-ners on the same side of the table to work together, Farmer said. It also helps that the tables will not be bolted to the floor so the spac-es can be rearranged to suit different instruc-tional needs in the future.

Lee, the vice presi-dent for research and executive vice president

of the UGA Research Foundation, said while creating new teaching space for students inter-ested in the STEM disci-plines — science, tech-nology, engineering and math — old laboratories may forward faculty research.

“We certainly hope that as space is freed up in some of these older buildings we will be able to in a phased sort of way convert at least some of that space into research space,” Lee said. “We’re short of quality research space at the University. I’m concerned that it will begin to hamper our ability to recruit high-quality faculty who have research interests.”

Jackson said the governor’s budget pro-posal for the center sug-gests paying the $44.7 million through 20-year bonds.

Farmer said he thought it only took one trip to bring home the need for new space to the governor’s office.

“The governor’s chief of staff actually came to a site visit about six months ago and I took her into one of our currently used biology labs,” he said. “She walked in, looked around and said, ‘OK, I get it.’”

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UGA researchers study perks of exercise among Hispanics

Online mapping service predicts rising rate of flu in Athens

BY RACHEL BRANNON @rachbran18

A heavy weight has been lifted from University of Georgia research-ers.

Jennifer Gay, assistant professor of health promotion and behavior at the UGA College of Public Health, and her team of researchers have conduct-ed a study suggesting that exercise reduces the risk of disease among a specific demographic — a population of Mexican-American adults located in the southern Texas city of Brownsville.

Gay and her team focused on how exercise affects the amount of allo-static load on a person. Allostatic load refers to a measure of wear on the body that results from stress.

Several factors contribute to the allostatic load and can indicate an increased risk for a number of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular dis-ease.

“For diabetes, most people think about blood sugar as a risk. For car-diovascular disease, most people think about cholesterol or blood pressure,” said Gay, a former assistant professor at the Brownsville Regional Campus at the University of Texas School of Public Health. “Allostatic load looks at all of these risks to give you an overall risk score.”

The researchers randomly select-ed 330 people to participate in the study from the Cameron County Hispanic cohort, a randomly selected, community-recruited group of more than 2,000 Mexican-Americans aged 18 and older living in Brownsville.

The study found that participants who were physically active for 150 minutes or more each week, an amount suggested by the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, had lower allostatic load than those who were not active.

The team also found that inflam-mation was the marker that could be most affected by physical activity.

“The findings in general were not surprising, but it was very interesting to see that inflammation was more important than blood pressure risk or blood sugar for this particular sam-ple,” Gay said.

She said increasing physical activ-ity among that population could reduce levels of inflammation and thus reduce rates of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.

According to a statement from the University of Texas at Brownsville,

the population of Brownsville is approximately 80 percent overweight, and 50 percent are obese.

Gay said this obesity rate could be due to a number of factors such as limited access to fruits, vegetables and other produce. Fast food chains outnumber the grocery stores in the area, making it more inconvenient for Brownsville residents to make healthy nutritional choices.

Weather could also play a factor in limiting the amount of physical activi-ty among the population, Gay said. The hot and humid temperatures make it uncomfortable to be outside for many physical activities.

The biggest reason for the enor-mous obesity rate is because a large portion of Brownsville’s population falls below the poverty line.

“There are low levels of income and low levels of education in that region of the country,” Gay said. “They really don’t have the freedom to pur-chase the foods they might want to purchase.”

The Hispanic paradox is another reason Gay and her team were inter-ested in studying a community like Brownsville. Even though the popula-tion has lower income rates and high-er rates of obesity, they don’t get heart disease as much as non-Hispanic whites with similar risk factors.

Lack of exercise is also a problem outside of Brownsville — according to the Centers for Disease Control, fewer than two in 10 Americans get the rec-ommended 150 minutes of exercise each week. More than a quarter of American adults do not exercise at all, according to the same report.

People ages 65 and older were least likely to engage in exercise, while people ages 18 to 24 were most likely to exercise. The younger generation accounts for 31 percent of the exercis-ers in the study.

Some students make a point to consistently exercise.

Brittany Lewis, a freshman stu-dent from Kennesaw, tries to keep exercise a regular part of her schedule by exercising around three or four times a week.

“I try to go everyday,” said the health promotion and behavior major. “But most times I don’t because I’m too busy or something.”

Another freshman at UGA, Kiara Rouda, exercises four times a week without even leaving her room.

““It’s easier to just do it in my room.,” said the biology major from Covington.

BY DANIEL FUNKE@dpfunke

The flu is going viral in a new way this year.

Sickweather.com, an online map and mobile application that displays areas where certain types of illness-es are prevalent, was launched in November as an effort to illustrate the spread of disease on a platform similar to weather prediction ser-vices.

Sickweather co-founder Graham Dodge said the service pulls from social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to compile location-based disease data.

“We’re using Twitter and Facebook’s [application program-ming interface] to search for different key-words and phrases related to illnesses,” he said. “It’s the first time that this anecdotal information in social media has really been given a platform for people to see what’s been going on in their area.”

Dodge’s database achieves precision by using in-sentence con-text to determine if a Facebook post or tweet mentioning words like “fever” or “cough” is actually related to ill-ness. Then, Sickweather records the location from which the post was published on an online map.

Dodge said it gives people a way of prepar-ing for sickness in the same way they would prepare for weather conditions.

Dodge said accord-ing to Sickweather data, within a 40-mile radius of Athens occur-rences of the flu spiked on Dec. 29, and have steeply declined since.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considered flu to be “widespread” in the state of Gerogia for the week ending in Jan. 11.

Out of the suspect-ed flu samples submit-ted to the CDC for the same week, the majority were influenza A and of those samples sub-typed, 96.9 percent were H1N1, commonly known as swine flu. The report-ed numbers are the highest since 2009.

Despite relatively low Sickweather reports of flu, Biao He, a profes-sor GRA distinguished investigator said college students put them-selves at risk due to a lack of concern and increased socializing.

“College students are young and tend to not worry,” he said. “But they are a lot more social than other peo-ple. They hang out with a lot of people every day, and may go hang out in bars and other places. So it’s a good idea to get vaccinated.”

Mark Tompkins, an associate professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases, said flu is on the rise in Georgia, and cases are likely to increase Athens before the end of the season.

“In Georgia, [the flu] is widespread, above average overall, and higher than many other states in the U.S. right now,” Thompkins said. “Since Athens is fairly representative of Atlanta, then [I expect] it to rise.”

Felipe Moreno, a sophomore from Bogota, Colombia, lifts weights at the bench press at University of Georgia's Ramsey Center on Jan. 13. JOHN ROARK/Staff

Peter Noxsel gives student Megan Lutts a flu shot in the Tate Center on Oct. 18. SEAN TAYLOR/Staff

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From what has been revealed in the past couple weeks, my own personal safety and health are not factors in my decisions. So I ventured into the unreli-able realm of do-it-yourself beauty products

My first homemade concoction was a simple sugar scrub. Nothing fell off and it seemed to even have a positive effect on my skin. I continued in looking for cheap and easy skin treatments.

My next attempt was a toothpaste facial. The purpose is to dry out and close pores to remove oil. Directions were unclear, so I figured it was better to leave it on longer and decided to sleep in it. There is nothing more uncomfortable than wak-ing up with your hair glued to your pillow by toothpaste. After essen-tially having a pillow-fight with myself, I was finally free and missing only a few clumps of hair. But I’ll be darned if my skin didn’t look great — and minty fresh to boot.

It was as if everything had fallen into place. I took this as a sign from the gods and eagerly searched the Internet for

my next task, unbe-knownst to the fact that my ambition would be the end of me.

There were several sites that suggested lemon juice, egg whites and other natural beauty solutions, but I had already con-quered that realm. It was time to try science.

But quick disclaimer: I am terrible at science. I am about as useful as a potato clock with regards to the subject. So logically, I decided to test my limits.

One site recommend-ed using the gel inside over-the-counter drugs to reduce swelling and red-ness in the face. For the

sake of copyright, I’ll call it “TrulyHorribleIdeas.com.” It was quite simple; “Truly Horrible Ideas” said that all I had to do was pierce the capsule and rub the gel into my skin.

There is a very good reason why we never rub medicine capsules onto our skin. That liquid gel is full of acidic baby tears. The second it touched my skin it felt as though I was stuck by the Cruciatus Curse. I quickly rushed over to my sink in a quiet panic, trying not to wake my roommate.

After a couple minutes of fervent scrubbing the pain subsided. I convinced myself that my skin looked better for the sake of my sanity and went about my day.

Thus far, I have sworn off running, dieting and beautification.

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Era of online responsibility is upon us

The days of the lawless Internet will soon end if a new ruling to strike down

net neutrality by a United States court of appeals stands.

But, while the Internet without rules and fees was fun, it wasn’t really fair. Internet users should pay for what they consume online just as they do in the real world.

In the old days of the Internet — the past 12 years — users were afforded an equal chance to visit any website. Now, net neutrality — a man-date on Internet providers to give all websites an equal chance to gain customers’ attention — has been struck down. So, Internet providers are free to discriminate.

That means we could pay more to use sites that use more bandwidth (think of this as the amount of work the Internet has to do to provide the content on a website) than others.

The days of the “Wild West Internet,” where we get the whole world wide web at our fin-gertips for one price, are over if this ruling stands.

Because net neutrality is no longer being enforced, we might be forced to pay more for cer-tain services the Internet allows us to enjoy.

While no one wants an extra bill in the stack, it’s only fair to pay for what we consume. Now we pay one set fee per month to visit 100 websites a day or 10, or we can use websites that use a lot of bandwidth or very little bandwidth. For instance, we pay the same amount to stream movies on Netflix (which requires a lot of bandwidth) as we do to simply search Google.

Compare this possibility of a changing Internet bill to how you pay for electricity. If you keep lights on all day and run energy-sucking equipment in your home, you have to pay more than those who are more conservative in their energy use.

So, if we use more space on the Internet, we should have to pay for the total amount we use.

Netflix is a good example of a type of a site that causes spikes in bandwidth use. It uses 32.7 percent of the total band-width used in America, accord-ing to a report by Sandvine Intelligent Broadband Networks. Netflix is using more than its share, owners of BitTorrent streaming services told The Guardian.

We pay more for textbooks because they give us more infor-mation than novels. We pay more to watch movies in the theaters than to rent them to watch at home. In all these hab-its of consumerism in the real world, we pay for what we use.

It’s time we take responsi-bility for our actions and do the same on the Internet.

—Hilary Butschek for the editorial board

OPINION METER: The week that was

ARCADE INVASION Any ‘90s kid will be thrilled with the resur-gence of arcades, especially in downtown Athens. With the grand opening of establish-ments such as WonderBar, the trip down memory lane is just around the corner.

ON-CAMPUS INNOVATION A new point of pride for the Classic City stems from UGA’s ranking as the 11th most innovative organization in the state, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. But as a research university, shouldn’t we be higher on the list?

SCIENCE SPENDING The budget increase, recently proposed by Gov. Nathan Deal, allows for the welcome construction of a Science Learning Center. Though details are still unclear, it is an exciting prospect for all South Campus frequenters.

FLU FRENZY Who can we blame for this infective burden on UGA? Should we blame this particularly contagious strain of influenza? Or perhaps shun those who refused the flu shot? Regardless of the cause, as the infection spreads, prepare to “bring out yer dead!”

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New Year’s disillusion: Beware bargain beauty

COURTNEY WILLETT

Dennis Rodman is my favorite comedian because he is the most dedicated. His style

combines Will Ferrell and Daniel Day-Lewis.

Here’s what I mean: Will Ferrell has built a career out of characters that are completely ridiculous. On top of these highly entertaining char-acters, he contributes social com-mentary. “Anchorman 2” is a great example. It draws audiences in with hyper-entertaining dialogue and wordplay and uses that to comment on sensationalist and biased media.

Daniel Day-Lewis has built a career out of method acting, which is when you inhabit your character so completely that you live as them. He was referred to as Mr. President on the set of the movie “Lincoln.” He never left his wheelchair for the entirety of filming “My Left Foot,” where he played a paraplegic. The crew had to carry him up and down steps and he won an Oscar for it.

Rodman combines the best of both worlds. He method acts as a Will Ferrell-esque character. The best part is that he never comes out of character. Ever. His life becomes the movie and his decisions the social commentary.

Take, for example, his recent “diplomatic” trip to Pyongyang, North Korea. Rodman organized a basketball game, hung out with his closest dictator pal, Kim Jong-un, and, in general, made North Korea seem like even more of a strange dream.

Upon hearing of his escapades, I realized that no one else could have pulled this off. There exists no other public figure who could have turned the most repressive regime in the world into his personal playground, made a complete spectacle of the situation and gotten away without so much as a slap on the wrist.

Granted, there are some people who did not understand his latest performance on the world stage. The NBA certainly didn’t, as they dis-tanced themselves as far from Rodman as possible after his trip.

Plenty of public officials failed to understand his social commentary as well. Not that it’s surprising, Rodman’s performance during his post-trip interview with CNN was, in my opinion, too good. He even seemed to sympathize with the North Korean’s detainment of U.S. citizen, Kenneth Bae. Granted, it was still hysterical and profound — only a master of comedy like Rodman could have shed light on the ridiculous amalgam of poor deci-sions that is North Korea by making even worse decisions in his own life.

When I was watching the inter-view for the fourth time, skipping

through to Rodman’s funniest jokes, it hit me again just how dedicated he is. Bear in mind, he has been pre-forming like this since 1993. Not even Day-Lewis has stayed in one charac-ter for this long.

Most people who have heard of North Korea understand that it is a hideous and very dark joke. This per-ception has only been strengthened in recent months as Kim has taken up publicly executing dissidents as his new hobby. In what is regarded by many as a consolidation of power, he sentenced his second in com-mand (better know as his uncle, Kim Jung-il) to a theatrical death, com-parable to those of Imperial Rome.

What Rodman has done is remind us that these actions aren’t scary. They are dark, certainly, but still humorous because we under-stand how wrong the actions are. You and I live in a world where such actions are so far off-center that they are laughable. I am thankful to Rodman for reminding me how well off I have it.

After speculating on this, I won-der what Rodman will do next. What will he comment on after North Korea? Only he knows. Having ele-vated what is essentially sidewalk comedy to an art form with interna-tional publicity, he can choose to do almost anything for his next perfor-mance.

—Ian Woods is a freshman from Suwanee majoring in psychology

and economics

Ian WoodsGuest Columnist

Dennis Rodman turns North Korea trip into comedic gold

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FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN VOLUNTEER AROUND ATHENS

Philanthropy DirectoryThe holidays are over and now the community of Athens and UGA are looking for ways to give back to the place we all call home. Here is a list of many of the philanthropies in Athens that are always looking for an extra helping hand!

Athens Area Humane Society http://athenshumanesociety.orgA no-kill non-profit organization dedicated to lowering area euthanasia rates through adoption, spay/neuter and pet retention programs. Provides an online gallery of adoptable cats and dogs.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Athenshttp://athensbgca.comWith four locations in the community, Boys & Girls Clubs give the youth of Athens a clean, healthy, and safe place to play, work, and learn.

Clarke County Mentor Programhttp://clarkecountymentorprogram.orgRecruits and trains volunteers to serve as mentors to students in public schools, K-12 grade. Mentors offer friendship and guidance to encourage positive choices, promote high self-esteem, support academic achievement and introduce the young person to new ideas.

UGA Designated Dawgshttp://ugadesignateddawgs.comDesignated Dawgs is a 501 3(c) non-profit organization staffed by student volunteers that provides safe, free, non-judgemental rides home to students and individuals in Athens.

UGA HEROshttp://ugaheros.orgA non-profit student-run organization helping provide quality of life care to kids infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in Georgia.

Extra Special Peoplehttp://extraspecialpeople.comA non-profit organization with a passion for enhancing the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities. Empowers children and young adults to cultivate skills, self-confidence, and relationships through recreational therapy, community involvement, and the arts.

UGA Red Crosshttp://redcross.org/ga/athensAmerican Red Cross disaster relief focuses on meeting immediate, emergency, disaster-caused needs. When a disaster threatens or strikes, the Red Cross provides shelter, food, mental health, and other services to address basic human needs and to enable people to resume their normal daily activities independently.

Project Safehttp://project-safe.orgA non-profit organization working to end violence against women through prevention and educational programs, crisis intervention, and support services for survivors of domestic violence and their children. Provides a safe shelter, a 24-hour hotline, support groups, children's programs, and community outreach.

Athens Grow Green Coalition http://athensgrowgreen.comPromotes responsible community development policies that protect the environment, reduce sprawl, maintain a healthy economy, and preserve a high quality of life.

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AIDS Athens http://aidsathens.orgA grassroots non-profit organization committed to caring for individuals affected by HIV/AIDS. Serves 10 counties of Northeast Georgia.

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The University of Georgia will be among the first universities in the nation to offer a dual master of busi-ness administration and master of public health degree in the fall of 2014.

Neale Chumbler, a professor and department head of health policy and management in the College of Public Health, said the idea originated when UGA’s Terry College of Business and the College of Public Health saw the interest many students have in get-ting both degrees.

“The idea is actually to meet the needs of the students,” Chumbler said. “Some students were graduating with an MBA and wanting to get into health care consulting and other health care oriented jobs, and they needed more [of] a health-related type of degree. Then, some of our MPH graduates were wanting to get more explicit management training.”

The program is now accepting applications for the fall semester of 2014.

According to the proposal for the dual degree program, it “will give its respective programs a competitive edge in graduate recruitment.”

“This could potentially bring new students into UGA,” Chumbler said. “Because we’re one of the few pro-grams in the country that have this dual degree.”

The University of California at Berkley’s Haas School of Business and Yale School of Management have already started their own joint MBA-MPH degree programs.

Applicants must apply and be admitted to both colleges to take part in the program.

Richard Daniels, the director of MBA Programs and a professor in Terry College, said UGA is taking the initiative by creating this collabora-tion at a time when such a degree is most needed and least common.

“Health care is a really important issue in the U.S., and the business of health care has been getting a lot more consideration than it has been in the past,” Daniels said. “We wanted to be on the front wave and be proac-tive, as opposed to just following what our competition is doing.”

According to the U.S. Bureau of

Labor Statistics, health care will have added 5 million jobs by 2022.

The MBA/MPH dual degree will be a three year program, including at least one required summer internship.

“Think of the first year as being a public health year, where the students will satisfy the core requirements for the MPH,” Daniels said. “The second year is roughly a business administra-tion year, where it’s almost like they transfer over and become business students full-time, and basically they satisfy the core requirements for the MBA. Then, in the third year, they take electives, some of which are from the MBA program and some of which are from the MPH program.”

Jack Gardner, a first-year MBA student from Gainesville, graduated from UGA’s MPH program in May 2013, so he is too far along to apply for the dual program.

He said he would have taken part in the new program if it had been available earlier.

“It would take a year less,” Gardner said. “It’s a three-year pro-gram as opposed to the way I did it, which was two years MPH and two years MBA.”

Gardner said he wanted to get both degrees because he hopes to get a job in health care consulting.

“The MPH degree gives people a glimpse into the health care world and the kind of problems inherent in the current system,” Gardner said. “So the MPH gives you a really good understanding of the current state of health care, what different popula-tions need and a broad look at [the system]. The MBA gives you a little more application into the business world, to show you how you can actu-ally make an impact with what you know.”

Daniels said this dual degree is meeting the requirements of today’s job market.

“The interesting areas in society now are cross-functional, and they require academics to leave theirs silos and to think collaboratively on how they can combine forces to solve the increasingly complex problems that our society faces,” Daniels said. “This shows the rest of the University not just [Terry’s] willingness, but our eagerness to collaborate with some of the fantastic sciences that are on campus.”

Students must be accepted into the College of Public Health as well as the Terry College of Business to pursue the MBA/MPH degree. RANDY SCHAFER/Staff

Public health, business administration degree to meet standards of job market

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Nine student groups received a total of $28,000 from the University of Georgia’s Office of Sustainability to complete projects promoting a culture of sustainability on cam-pus.

Kevin Kirsche, director of sustainabili-ty, said students sub-mitted a total of 33 pro-posals this year. The projects range from out-door solar power charg-ing stations to a com-posting initiative and bike repair stations.

“Being involved in the community really makes me feel like I’m being productive and that it could potentially be important, and I real-ly saw a need for this kind of project,” said Keri Lydon, a doctoral student in the depart-ment of environmental health science, of her water-quality monitor-ing project.

Lydon’s grant will pay for Environmental Protection Agency level tests of the water quali-ty of Tanyard Creek.

Sarah Jones, a senior anthropology major, will be using her grant money to estab-lish small circular gar-dens with an inner com-post pile to teach peo-ple about sustainable ways to grow their food.

“Athens is a place of extreme class distinc-tion and poverty in some areas, and it’s really hard to get access to healthy food. There are a lot of food des-erts,” Jones said. “I want the key hole gar-dens to be a part of cre-ating food for the com-munity and giving the community ideas of ways to create their own food.”

Brian Holcombe, Elizabeth Crute and Katie Dean are design-ing solar charging sta-tions they hope to see installed around cam-pus so students can power up their electron-ics while on the go.

“Coming from an engineering perspective, I’ve always known that you have to interact with people and I think some engineers are very withdrawn and they don’t like to communi-cate with the public about what they’re designing,” said Crute, a senior environmental engineering major from Augusta. “I don’t think that I’m on that end of the spectrum. However, I think the type of ques-tions [Brian] came up

with and how [he] went about getting responses from people was very interesting.”

While the nine proj-ects did have a wide range of diversity, three centered around pro-moting the bike culture on campus and in the community.

Sahana Srivatsan, a junior international affairs major and an intern for the Office of Sustainability, will use her grant to expand the office’s UGA Bulldog Bikes program, which rents bikes as part as a cooperative initiative.

“I really love biking and that’s why I applied for the internship and in turn the grant,” she said. “I always love bik-ing around campus. I’m not like a racer or any-thing like that but I really enjoy it as a meth-od of transportation.”

Joey Robinson, a graduate student in the

Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, will be expanding on a project started by the Outdoor Recreation Center, which will place bicycle repair stations across campus.

“[We want] to make people feel more com-fortable to ride their bikes on campus and let them know if something happened they’d be able to take care of it and not be stranded,” he said.

Kirsche said that three projects out of nine centered on cycling was reflective of a move-ment in the community.

“It’s exciting to see that campus bike cul-ture [continues] to blos-som,” he said. “And of course it supports our goal of fewer cars on campus and more peo-ple biking conveniently and safely across cam-pus.”

BY BRITTINI RAY@brittini_ray

The University of Georgia placed highly on two 2013 Atlanta Business Chronicle lists ranking Georgia’s 25 most innovative organizations.

Falling behind regional rival the Georgia Institute of Technology, UGA ranked No. 11 in most innovative organization based on number of patents for which new applications were made public with 24 and No. 12 based on number of new patents awarded with 31 according to the list.

Patent applications are made public the year after they are filed.

“UGA is constantly improving older buildings, remodeling, and building new things," said Kyla Ross, a senior journalism and political science major from Cobb County. "There have also been a lot of technological changes like with UGAmail and eLC. I can only imagine what the next few years will bring to this campus.”

Patent applications were filed in a range of fields, including agricultural technologies and clon-ing technology. UGA was granted new patents in agricultural technologies, vaccines and medical devices among other things.

“What we’ve scene overall in the University’s innovation is a truly interdisciplinary push, both

with our Interdisciplinary Certificate in Creativity and Innovation and across the colleges,” said Sarah Sumners, assistant director of UGA’s Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development.

AT&T Inc. topped both ranking lists. The com-pany filed 958 patent applications for video and broadband technologies, wireless, voice mail and other telecommunication technologies. AT&T was awarded 1,456 new patents. Georgia Tech ranked second for patents awarded and fourth for number of patents filed. Georgia State University ranked lowest among companies awarded patents, with eight patents awarded.

“There are a lot of different definitions of inno-vation,” said David Allison, editor for the ABC. “It could be new products. It could be research and development. Patents are a company or organiza-tion’s claim that it has created something brand new and really is the heart of innovation. That is why we used that criterion. Innovation is the cre-ation of something new; something never seen before. We felt that a patent was representative of innovation and that is why we felt that a patent was the best way to measure innovation.”

The state of Georgia ranked No. 15 among the top 25 states for patents in 2012 with 2,501. California topped the list with 34,659 patents. Kansas had the least amount of patents, with 1,100 applications.

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We’ve all seen an episode of that one TV show where the doctor has to perform emergency sur-

gery in the field with only a bottle of moonshine and a pocket knife.

My mom always put a little hydro-gen peroxide on my cuts and scrapes when I was a kid.

But is that the best way to disin-fect a cut before you bandage it up?

“Soap and water is really proba-bly the best approach for if you cut yourself with the kitchen knife or get a scrape on the road where you get some sand or a little dirt,” said Davelle Pursner, a nurse in the allergy and travel clinic at the University of Georgia Health Center. “Basically you want to clean it. It may cause a little pain. It kind of depends on the seri-ousness of the cut.”

Pursner said cold water was bet-ter to use because it helps slow bleed-ing and that a plain, non-scented soap. Dove or Ivory was a good choice because additives can cause irrita-tion.

Antibiotic ointments such as Neosporin or bacitracin are a good thing to keep in your car or first aid kit if soap and water are not at hand, Pursner said.

Alcohol or hydrogen peroxide, while they kill germs, can dry cuts out and slow the healing process.

“Using alcohol or hydrogen per-oxide or Betadine, those can all be irritating to the skin tissue and can actually make it a little harder to heal,” Pursner said. “Whereas a baci-tracin or one of those ointments, they stick into the wound and keeping it moist actually helps new tissue grow.”

She said any high-proof alcohol such as vodka would have the same cleaning effects as rubbing alcohol, but would also have the same draw-backs.

Just be glad you live in an era of medical knowledge that sticks to the basics.

One popular old folk remedy I ran across in my research suggests pour-ing kerosene over a laceration to pre-vent infection.

Imagine how much that one hurt.

BY HELENA JOSEPH@helena_josep

Sitting in a cold room for an hour every day can make you lose weight.

University of Georgia researcher Clifton Baile is looking at ways to influence and activate brown adi-pose tissues as well as compounds that can induce the beige adipose tissues in the body.

For a lean individual to activate brown adipose tissues, they have to feel slightly cold. White adipose tissue is a purely fat storage site, while brown adi-pose tissue burns fat in order to keep the body warm. Beige adipose tissue is a combination of both types of tissue that helps keep the body warm while also burning calories. As people gain weight and become obese, the brown adipose tissues are either lost of become harder to activate, Baile said.

“Humans don’t necessarily hibernate, but they do things in order to survive winters, and part of that is using the brown adipose tissue to produce heat,” Baile said.

Colette Miller, a doctorate student in the UGA department of foods and nutrition, said there are conflicting studies as to why people who are obese do not have as much brown adipose tissues.

“The point that is above shivering and just a little chilly is really when you are burning your brown adipose tissues,” Miller said. “But for an obese person, some people think it’s just not there or that’s it there but it may be even colder to acti-vate it. What’s really interesting is that if someone was always kind of cold, they could burn up an extra 250 calories a day just by activating their brown adi-pose tissues.”

Researchers are looking at compounds that can activate and expand brown adipose tissues by using phytochemicals. Phytochemicals can also cause “beiging.”

“Phytochemicals are just compounds you can find in natural foods such as quercetin, which comes from apples and red onions, and that’s just one example,” Miller said. “So for people who might be obese, it might be easier for us as scientists to expand the beige adipose tissue.”

Baile and his research group fed the rats phyto-chemicals in their diet and tested to see if there has been brown adipose tissue activation.

Miller said beige tissues were hard to look for.“Our methods are not as great when we’re look-

ing very small changes such as beiging,” Miller said. “So our study as far as beiging is inconclusive, but we have been able to show that brown adipose tis-sue does activate and increases with the phyto-chemicals.”

BY SAVANNAH LEVINS @LevinsReports

The University of Georgia received a $15 million grant that will allow it to help impover-ished countries around the world.

The grant, awarded by the U.S. Agency on I n t e r n a t i o n a l Development to the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will go toward management of UGA’s

Peanut and Mycotoxin Innovation lab.

The program is aimed at helping coun-tries feed themselves, and those involved with the program are excited to pursue this work in underdeveloped coun-tries around the world.

Over the next four years, UGA researchers will help local peanut farmers maximize their profit and productive-ness in Haiti, Ghana, Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia.

Bob Kemerait, a UGA plant pathologist involved with the pro-gram, has already spent some time in Haiti with the Meds & Food For Kids program.

He said the MFK program uses a peanut-butter-based medicine called Medika Mamba to combat starvation among underprivileged children.

The MFK program’s model was designed to do more than just pro-ducing materials, Kemerait said.

“They wanted to be able to grow Haitian peanuts and use them in their project,” Kemerait said. "However in order to do that ... they had devel-opment people with them, but they didn’t have anybody who real-ly knew peanut farming. They found us and we became involved to try and help them improve their production under Haitian conditions, pro-viding the peanuts to produce the Medika Mamba.”

Kemerait said UGA has big hopes for the future of its internation-al efforts.

“Our goal is to try to work together to try to bring the best that we can to help them through this situation,” he said. “Not only with the peanut farmers in Haiti, but to make a dif-ference with this won-derful program.”

Tim Brenneman is also a plant pathologist at UGA and has been involved with the pro-gram’s work in Haiti as well.

He said peanuts are very important in Haitian culture, but the poor soils and lack of infrastructure in the country make peanut farming extremely diffi-cult.

“The farmers there realize they have much to learn,” he said. “They are very anxious for new varieties and access to inputs that can make them more efficient.”

Dave Hoisington is the new director of the Peanut and Mycotoxin Innovation Lab. He started at the University last September.

Hoisington said one of the program’s goals is to make sure there are appropriate markets for peanuts where farmers call sell their excess product.

“The countries we work with put a lot of emphasis on food secu-rity and understand that if they don’t have well-nourished people, creating economic growth becomes extremely difficult” Hoisington said. “For example, the education system suffers because the kids are hungry, and families don’t have money to buy books or even send their kids to

school.”With the new grant

money, Brenneman said he along with his peers hope to make even more of an influence on these countries.

“Just seeing a small field of peanuts with a disease-resistant culti-var producing a higher yield for the grower is very rewarding,” Brenneman said. “Such differences directly translate into greater economic opportunities for that farmer and his family.”

UGA researchers will also focus on teach-ing small farmers about weed and disease man-agement, soil fertility and seed selection.

They will also help develop local markets maximize the produc-tion and sale of peanuts, as well as attempt to improve storage and quality.

Another project focuses wholly on com-bating mycotoxins.

Mycotoxins are found in many staple food products.

Even though they can pose a serious health issue in develop-ing countries.

Kemerait said UGA was awarded the grant because of a past dem-onstration of excellence and expertise in peanut research.

“I think it’s our proven track record in the past, our current ability to do it and we have some good people involved that the USAID believed in,” he said. “There’s a long way to go, but we’re thrilled about this chance to continue with the program.”

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BY MICHELLE BARUCHMAN @mlbaruchman

Homelessness in col-lege towns is not limited to Athens.

In a documentary called “Homeless In A College Town.” Sari Gagnon followed individ-uals in Amherst, Mass. who lost their jobs and often their homes due to the economic recession.

Amherst is, home to Amherst College, Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts, has simi-larities with Athens.

Gagnon found col-lege students affect liv-ing conditions, and their influence is magnified in college towns. The cost of rent is driven up due to the high demand of housing from college stu-dents, so low income wage earners have fewer options for affordable housing, especially when compared to larger cit-ies.

Ed Moore, director of Bigger Vision Homeless Shelter, a win-ter emergency commu-nity shelter open between mid-October and mid-April, provides temporary shelter to decrease the number of individuals experiencing homelessness in Athens.

Despite his best efforts, though, Moore hasn’t seen a drastic decrease.

“It’s shameful, embarrassing and almost criminal that this level of poverty exists in the community around the state’s flagship insti-tution,” Moore said. “It confuses a lot of people that this economic engine of the university is alongside such high poverty rates.”

And according to the United States Census Bureau, 28.9 per-cent of the Amherst pop-ulation has fallen below

the poverty line while homelessness is increas-ing.

“A t h e n s - C l a r k e County is the single poorest county for popu-lations with at least 100,000 people in the entire United States, according to the 2010 census bureau,” said Andrew Wilkin, founder of the Homeless Help Card. “The majority of teachers don’t live in Clarke County and stu-dents don’t count as res-idents, so most of the money is going out of the county, mostly to neigh-boring Oconee County, the single richest county in Georgia.”

For colleges located in major cities, there are a number of resources available to the home-less, but when the size of the city decreases, peo-ple experiencing home-lessness have fewer options.

“The reason why there is so much poverty in Athens is because there are no services in the 10 surrounding coun-ties. Athens is the only city in this region of Georgia to have a big enough population for shelters,” said Katie Smith, director of the Athens Area Homeless Shelter.

Wilkin said a majori-ty of the people in home-less situations in Athens became homeless since living in Athens.

Wilkin also said for every five or six homeless people seen downtown, there are between 400 and 600 more living in Tent City.

But in comparison with other cities, includ-ing college towns, Moore said, Athens is not the worst.

“If Athens has 400 to 500 homeless people, Savannah has probably 10 times that amount,” Moore said.

BY LAUREN MCDONALD@laurenmcdonald2

Humanities funding is less of a concern for the University of Georgia than statewide budget cuts on public education.

“It’s a problem in Georgia, and it’s a problem nationally,” said Claudio Saunt, a Richard B. Russell Professor and head of the department of history. “Since I’ve been here, the state has drastically cut funding, so it’s basically transferring the cost of public education from the state to individuals. I think the scienc-es are suffering just as much as the humanities.”

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ budget analysis and enrollment estimates completed by the National Center for Education Statistics, the state of Georgia has had a 29.5 percent decrease in spending per higher education student between fiscal year 2008 and fiscal year 2013.

Average tuition at public, four-year colleges in Georgia has also increased by 63.2 percent during that time, the fifth largest increase in the nation, according to the analysis.

Saunt said he has seen this transfer of costs affect the under-graduate and graduate students in his department.

“I see undergraduates who have one and even two jobs while trying to get their BA, and that’s quite difficult to handle,” Saunt said. “Graduate students’ sti-pends here, what they’re paid for the work that they do, which is to serve as our teaching assis-tants, are extraordinarily low, far below even universities that are not competitive with us in all other measures.”

Martin Kagel, an A.G. Steer Professor and head of the depart-ment of Germanic and Slavic languages, said he sees funding being fairly distributed between the sciences and humanities.

“To my knowledge, there have been no targeted funding cuts simply aimed at the human-ities departments,” Kagel said. “All the departments have suf-fered because of the economic crisis over the past seven years, but all of the budgets were cut in the departments.”

Kagel said he has seen these across-the-board cuts in recent

years affect his department.“We have been affected indi-

rectly because the budget of the University has been cut and has been reduced fairly significantly every year,” Kagel said. “We’ve lost positions that haven’t been replaced, and we are still looking to hire faculty members, because in this department we’ve lost six faculty members since 2006. So far we’ve replaced three of those positions.”

Ruth Ann Bailey, a junior political science major from Jefferson, said the shift in focus to the sciences could be seen as positive and negative.

“I guess there could be less funding for the humanities in the future, if more students come to study in the science depart-ments,” Bailey said. “It could be positive, because more money would go into the scientific research, but it could also be negative if that means there’s less funding for the humanities.”

Saunt said the worst effect he imagines happening if UGA were to stop focusing as much of its funding on the humanities and arts departments would be the transformation of those departments into service depart-ments.

However, Saunt said he does not believe this will become an issue.

“A worst-case scenario, which I don’t see happening, and I don’t believe the administra-tion is in favor of, would be that

the history department and the English department become ser-vice departments,” Saunt said. “That means we’re not encour-aged or supported in our research, and that we’re here solely to teach the first year classes and to support the sci-ences and economics depart-ments. I don’t really have a con-cern that that’s going to hap-pen.”

Kagel said overall his depart-ment has been treated well under the circumstances of the budget cuts UGA has faced.

“There’s always room for improvement,” Kagel said. “But I think generally [the humanities and arts] are in a good position, because I think the administra-tion recognizes the significance of what we do and values it also.”

Nicholas Allen, the director of the Willson Center of Humanities and Arts and Franklin Professor of English, also said UGA consistently sup-ports the humanities and arts departments and is positive it will continue to do so.

“We appreciate the support of the president and provost, who understand the intellectual, public and indeed economic value of arts and humanities research,” he said. “The Willson Center brings the University’s research to a global audience and support for our work, and that of the faculty, is an ongoing investment in the University’s ambition for excellence.”

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When Thomas Lyons played center for the Georgia football team in the late ‘60s, his 215 pounds seemed lanky on a 6-foot-2 frame. By today’s standards, he would be under-sized even for a linebacker, much less an offensive lineman.

Nonetheless, he carved out a starting role both in college and in the pros, where he played six years for the Denver Broncos.

It’s hard to imagine a simi-larly-sized player manning the trenches today.

Bulldog starting offensive linemen weighed about 85 pounds more this year, on aver-age, than their counterparts 45 years ago, according to a Red & Black study which examined the weights of Georgia starting lineups in five-year increments from 1968 to 2013.

These results correlate with a nationwide trend of offensive and defensive linemen increas-ing by 0.046-0.275 percent fat per year, according to a Journal of Strength and Conditioning study which examined athletes from 1959 to 2011.

“The guys now are carrying a lot of weight and it is maybe something they’ve been pushed to put on because they’ve been told it’s harder for people to move around you if you’re heavier,” Lyons said. “We used to kind of defeat that with tech-nique [but] now it’s a matter of increasing how much someone has to throw around.”

However, height had not changed significantly for all positions combined, according to both studies, though the JSC study did see a slightly signifi-cant change when just examin-ing linemen.

Adding extra weight, espe-

cially when height has remained largely unchanged, can put undue pressure on the body. Billy Hawkins, a UGA associate professor specializing in sports sociology, said increasing weight can cause metabolic issues, including diabetes and high blood pressure.

“What happens when you put 300 pounds on a 6-foot-1 frame?” Hawkins said. “There’s going to be stress on the organs, stress on the bones.”

THE NEW NORMAL

Hawkins has noticed the changes in size over the years.

He remembers going to football practice and hearing upperclassmen talk about hip replacements and knee surger-ies. Barely into their 20s, the athletes were already feeling the effects of extra weight on their bodies.

“There is sort of what we consider a pre-set size when you talk about what you are genetically pre-disposed for, based on bone structure and muscle mass,” Hawkins said. “There is only a certain expec-tation that you can reach in terms of human potential.”

From 1957 to 1997, Georgia only had two starting offensive linemen over 300 pounds. But since 2001, that unit has aver-aged more than 300 pounds every year.

The 2011 squad averaged a school-record 329.4 pounds, led by two gargantuan senior tack-les — then 348-pound Cordy Glenn and 342-pound Justin Anderson.

The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a number calculated from a person’s height and weight and is used nation-wide as an indicator of a healthy body type. It is useful for esti-

mating a healthy weight, but is not a diagnostic tool, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Every one of last year’s starting offensive linemen would have been considered obese by a wide margin accord-ing to BMI standards.

“When you put 200 pounds above what is the sort of nor-mal size, you can imagine what kind of damage is caused over a lifetime,” Hawkins said.

BMI is not a perfect mea-surement. Georgia running back Todd Gurley, by all accounts one of the nation’s premier athletes, would be con-sidered slightly obese by its standards because BMI doesn’t differentiate between muscle and fat.

But even if athletes can maintain relatively good health while topping the scale, they often have difficulty working off that weight after years of bal-looning diets. What happens after they step off the field rep-resents an even greater health risk, says Jen Ketterly, the Athletic Association’s Director of Sports Nutrition.

“It is great to be a big guy, and you may be lean, but when you finish playing and if you don’t go pro, that profile will probably change from a health standpoint,” Ketterly said. “So how do we address that?”

THE PRICE OF EXPANSION

Lyons played at a much lighter weight than today’s line-men, but he was not spared the consequences of his playing days.

He tore the anterior cruci-ate ligament of his right knee his junior year.

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BY KENNINGTON SMITH@skinnykenny_

In the United States football, bas-ketball and baseball are the most popular sports, but on an international level track & field domi-nates the landscape.

“Outside of soccer, track and field is the equivalent to football and basketball in the US,” said assistant coach and native of the Bahamas George Cleare.

“It is our route to becoming a profes-sional athlete, it is the heartbeat of the Caribbean.”

Cleare, along with fellow assistant coach Petros Kyprianou (native of Greece) lead a recruiting team that brings athletes from their native areas to Georgia to compete for the track & field teams.

On the 2013 ros-ter, the team has three members from the Caribbean and 10 Europeans.

The addition of athletes from other countries on the team adds to the competi-tion level and pushes all members on the team to become the best athlete they can.

“When athletes are given this oppor-tunity they really try to grab it by the horns,” Kyprianou said.

“They are so appreciative of what they are given by the team that they want to produce for the team and make them proud.”

Foreign athletes usually excel very early in their careers at the NCAA level in track & field, especial-ly at Georgia.

Jamaican native Chanice Porter (long jump) and Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas (sprints) were both All-Americans and Southeastern Conference champions in their freshman sea-sons. Miller now runs track professionally.

On the European side, Estonian Maicel Uibo took the SEC crown in the decath-lon while also winning SEC Outdoor Men’s Freshman of the Year honors.

Leontia Kallenou, from Cyprus, was awarded SEC Women’s Freshman of the Week for her per-formance in the long jump at the Auburn Invitational last week-end.

For the athletes living in a new country can be a challenge at times, but they feel like Georgia has pro-vided them with a great, supportive liv-ing environment.

“It is a privilege to be around such nice and warm people, they really make it feel like it is a home away from home,” Miller said.

In addition, run-ning track at Georgia allows these athletes to have access to facilities and medical treatment that are most times not avail-able in their home countries.

“All facilities, medical treatment, and equipment are provided that usually have to be provided by the athletes them-selves overseas,” Uibo said.

“It’s great to come to UGA and know that everything we need will be taken care of."

The addition of international athletes brings different cul-tures together which can do wonders for a team according to coach Cleare.

“The athletes from overseas and the U.S. have a mutual respect for each other’s talent and abilities,” he said.

“The open-mind-edness is great and the support the mem-bers give one another brings everyone closer together.”

As the years pass and more athletes compete for the Georgia from over-seas, the connections between coaches and countries will contin-ue to grow deeper.

According to coach Kyprianou, that network will be key in building a champion-ship program.

“It’s truly an amazing experience and a win-win situa-tion,” he said.

“When you mix different worlds they learn from each other, they learn more and compete better.

It really molds them into the perfect athlete.”

HOW WE DID THE STUDY

The Red & Black study examined the weights of all Georgia starters, not just offensive linemen, in five-year increments from 1986 to 2013. Here are the results:

Skill players – which included tight ends, wide receivers and running backs – saw an increase of more than 30 pounds, from an average weight of 198.6 in 1968 to 232.2 in 2013. Other significant increases included defensive linemen (207.8 to 283.2), line-backers (202.5 to 234) and defensive backs (184.3 to 109.5).

Starting kickers and quarterbacks did not see a statistically significant increase in weight.

Across all positions, the average height had not changed significantly.

— this study was done with help from under-graduate statistician Paul Kirschenbauer

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Unbeknownst to him, he also tore the ACL in his left knee during his playing career. The 65-year-old only discovered that injury when he got a right knee replacement in 2002, which was in part necessitated by the wear and tear from his time on the gridiron.

Now a gynecologist, Lyons has trouble standing for long periods of time while performing surgery.

“By the time that I was finished with profession-al football I didn’t have any cartilage left on my knees. So I was bone to bone from the late 1970s until now,” Lyons said. “I still really don’t enjoy walk-ing on a hard surface.”

On the youth level, ACL injuries have increased by 400 percent over the last decade, according to findings by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. There were 61 ACL injuries in the NFL in 2013, up from 2012 (32) and 2011 (25), according to multiple media reports.

“The knee joint is no stronger than it was [45 years ago],” Lyons said. “The guys now are carrying a lot of weight and it is maybe something they’ve been pushed to put on.”

There are a number of reasons why football play-ers in particular have bulked up over the years, including protein-supplements and a greater empha-sis on single-sport specialization.

The nutrition department, led by Ketterly, uses once-a-day planned meals — the most allowed by NCAA rules — to help the team’s diet plans. It also offers open consultation hours for athletes and a bipod machine to measure their body composition throughout the season.

“We can monitor that and see if a player is going from 20-percent body fat to 30 percent in a cycle,” Ketterly said.

But the greatest influence on player size might be the increasing social and economic demand for bigger athletes, especially for linemen.

“At offensive line, from a very young age, there is a size requirement,” Hawkins said. “It’s clear that it’s going to be market driven. Athletes are going to do what it takes to meet those demands.”

As more money enters what is already the coun-try’s most lucrative collegiate and professional sport, that demand will only continue to rise. Athletes will continue to test their body’s limits to reach the top.

Medical advances will keep them on their feet. The rehab time on ACL tears has gone down drasti-cally and long-term damage caused by knee injuries has been diminished as doctors have learned to repair cartilage, rather than remove it entirely.

Football players continue to add weight and mass while traveling at even higher speeds, which will cause more drastic collisions. Injury rehab is already getting reduced through medical means and some speculate if lifting the ban on Human Growth Hormone (HGH) would only help athletes recover faster.

Still, Lyons is worried about a time when medi-cine won’t be able to keep up with the evolution of its athletes.

“We keep challenging the body to be a better machine to do the things we want it to do,” Lyons said. “Luckily the body is a remarkable organism and it keeps coming up to the challenge, but at some point in time we’ll have to be more bionic than we are flesh in blood.”

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BY NIKKI EGGERS@nik_egg14

This weekend’s meet against Tennessee will be the first meet Georgia swimmer Chase Kalisz competes in since his suspension three weeks ago.

There is no word of head coach Jack Bauerle’s suspension being lifted. Both Bauerle and Kalisz’s suspensions were a result of an academic eligibility issue with the sophomore swim-mer.

“We all know that he’s ready to help and that he would never do anything intentionally to mess up the team," freshman swimmer John Mattern said, "so it’s good to see him be able to swim again.”

Despite the setback, Kalisz has a bright future ahead of him in swimming.

He holds the school records in the 200 and 400 individual medley, was chosen as the SEC Freshman of the Year and named First-Team All-SEC and to the All-Freshman Team last year. He is the reigning NCAA champion in the 400 IM, as well as the reigning conference champion in the 200 and 400 IM.

“He’s excited every time he comes on the pool deck, and I think he’s a great teammate,”

assistant coach Stefanie Williams said.

Kalisz’s recent absence wasn’t easy for the Bulldogs, but freshman swimmer Taylor Dale said the team has handled it well.

“It kind of brought the team closer together because Chase is normally a point scorer ... mean-ing some guys really stepped up

and started working even hard-er,” Dale said. “But we also real-ize that we need Chase to be able to do better at dual meets. However, Chase doesn’t make up the whole team, we all have to work together.”

Kalisz competes next when Tennessee travels to Athens for a meet in Gabrielsen Natatorium Saturday at noon.

BY RALEIGH HARBIN@raleighharbin

In the past, Andy Landers could be seen walking around the UGA women’s basketball facilities sporting dark, slicked back hair, intensity on his face and the nub of an unlit cigar in his mouth.

Landers still walks around the facilities with the same intensity 35 years later, sans cigar. That habit faded out at some point within the last few years, but not a lot else has changed for the Lady Dogs’ head coach.

As he stays the same, the team continues to grow under his tutelage. He took the job in 1979 when it was only six years old. In those six years four different coaches coached the team to a combined record 37-85.

Landers brought stability and led the team to a 16-12 record. 823 victo-ries, Landers hasn’t budged from what was once the glamorless job as the Georgia women’s basketball coach.

“I really don’t think about [the success] a lot,” Landers said. “It nor-mally gets my attention when other people bring something specific up.”

Something specific would be eclipsing the 800 win total.

“He is an absolute workhorse,” assistant coach Angie Johnson said. “He is one of those head coaches that you constantly see out on the road recruiting.”

In the changing world of colle-giate basketball, Landers’ personality remains consistent. His peers, former players and assistants describe him as an intense and passionate workhorse.

Landers maintains a family atmo-sphere in his program, an appropriate approach for a man coaching a wom-an’s game.

Standing outside of the women’s basketball office, one might spot a player hugging an assistant coach, or poking fun at them and giggling.

Landers understands how to keep his team focused while keeping a lighthearted atmosphere.

“I thought he was down-to-earth and candid, open and honest — that was something that appealed to me was his honesty,” Georgia director of basketball operations and former Lady Dog player Meredith Mitchell said. “He’ll mess around with you even during practice and do something that will make you look at him and laugh but at the same time he gets after you.”

Humor aside, Landers is ever-cog-nizant of what occurs in his program and on the court.

“He’s one of the best Xs and Os coaches I’ve ever been around,” Johnson said. “He’ll come in and have an idea in practice and know strategi-cally what advantages we have and they have ... He watches basketball all the time and he’s always learning in my opinion.”

Johnson said male coaches have to figure out how to show the female athletes that they care about them, that they want to coach and teach them.

“It takes a special man to do that,” Johnson said. “Women are wired differently and you have to con-nect in such a different way with them..”

Landers never wanted to coach men to begin with.

“[Female players] want to please,” Landers said. “You’re dealing with fewer egos and there’s a sense about women’s basketball players that want to please and at the end of the day that makes coaching a lot of fun.”

The zeal for competition is still there for Landers, a Hall-of-Famer and coach who has but one feat to accom-plish: winning a national champion-ship. Once he does that, he could go down as one of the best collegiate women’s basketball coaches ever.

BY CODY PACE@CodyPace

When football bowl season gives way to conference play in col-lege basketball, the Southeastern Conference is no longer king — although not everyone agrees with that sentiment.

“Every game is dangerous [in the SEC],” Georgia men's basketball head coach Mark Fox said.

However, the num-bers don’t necessarily support that position.

The ratings per-centage index, or RPI, is used when making up the NCAA tourna-ment bracket at the end of the season. In this index, the SEC is ranked seventh in aver-age RPI. Even the Atlantic 10 Conference, which features George Washington and La Salle as its premier pro-grams, ranks above the SEC.

Although the con-ference posts a sev-enth-best .7029 winning percentage as of press time, that number is inflated by relatively weak schedule strengths in the confer-ence.

The SEC has long been perceived as top heavy, led by top-tier teams like Florida and Kentucky.

Florida has made its case to remain at the top. Although some of its offensive statis-tics don’t rank high on a national scale, it’s allowing less than 60 points per game to its opponents.

For Kentucky, the second-best team in the conference, things have not gone exactly as planned. With six McDonald’s All-Americans in its top-ranked recruiting class, the team was expected to hover near the top of the NCAA, not at No. 14.

With a projected five spots expected for the SEC in March Madness, teams like Missouri and even Georgia will be fighting for those last three spots.

However, junior for-ward Cameron Forte downplayed the com-

parison of conferences.Forte said geogra-

phy plays a bigger role than conference. This argument makes it dif-ficult to define confer-ences by “up or down seasons” because of large changes each year.

“I think you can

just take it year by year just depending on the region of where players come from,” Forte said. “Like for example, the Pac-12 is actually pret-ty good this year, they’ve got a lot of good players over there so I feel like year to year it just depends.”

Sophomore Chase Kalisz won a silver medal in the 400 individual medley at the 2013 World Championships in Spain. SHANDA CROWE/Staff

Andy Landers has found success in his 35 years with Georgia's women's bas-ketball program, recording 823 wins as a head coach. TAYLOR CRAIG SUTTON/Staff

Charles Mann (4) and Georgia have won three of its first four conference games. TAYLOR CRAIG SUTTON/Staff

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BY RANDY SCHAFER @RandyLschafer

Jarrod Miller wants to see if you have what it takes to make people laugh.

He and his comedi-an co-organizer Tommy Cook are holding an open call for any and all comics to sign up for Jerzees first comedy night on Tuesday, February 11.

“Athens has more than enough bars, and more than enough kick-back-meet-some-girl-get-wasted-take-her-home-drive-legally-drunk-bars,” said Miller, a 30-year-old former Redcoat band member and Hairy Dawg mas-cot, turned criminal justice and sociology double major who tells jokes on the side, while acting as general man-ager for Jerzees. “I say that in that there’s not much in the entertain-ment factor on week nights”

Athens’ very own Van Wilder thinks there’s plenty of room for laughs in Athens. After testing his wits at a comedic fixture like Punchline in Atlanta, Miller wants to bring

the same experience he had on stage back to the Classic City.

“The point is not to step on anyone’s toes,” said Miller, in reference to local competition. “I

just see an opportunity and I want to invite young comedians from UGA as well.”

Even though Flickr holds the local comedy crown with its bi-week-ly OpenTOAD Comedy Open-Mic on Tuesdays, Cook doesn’t see the event as a rivalry, but more of a chance to build a collective scene.

“We really want to give people a chance to use it as a workshop, and get better, not using the same set, over and over again,” Cook said. “It’s more about community. If anyone is curious about it and

they want to give it a try we fully embrace that.”

And Miller is look-ing for specific types of comedians.

“The guys that have never been onstage, that may have been afraid to go to Laugh Factory or Punchline and need a little more nurturing,” he said.

Cook and Miller want to see returning comedians step it up and seal their fates with the microphone again.

“And that last group is going to be those really good ama-

teurs who are still bet-ter than a 5-minute set,” Miller said, “but haven’t been given the opportunity to do so.”

Both comedians plan to emcee and per-form in the comedy nights planned ahead, but Miller insists it’s not just about them.

In fact, their plans are partially philan-thropic.

“We want to pick a certain charity and just do a lot of promotion based off that and choose a different char-ity every time,” Cook said. “Besides the com-munity outreach, it’s

something that’s really easy to do — just show up, nothing crazy. But if we can raise some money helping people, why not do it?”

For Miller, the com-edy night is meant to be cathartic.

“A really good comedian once told me, or every comedian has told me, ‘Pain is come-dy,’” Miller said. “It’s the ability to take something that is pain-ful or awkward in your life and relate it to peo-ple you’ve never met, allowing that release.”

And it’s a way to bridge gaps.

“Everybody can laugh,” Miller said. “I can laugh with my granddad about some-thing, but we can’t always just talk about everyday life and laugh about it. I can’t tell him about Facebook or Wi-Fi signals, but I can tell him about a time I tripped when I was try-ing to talk to a girl I was into.”

He hopes to grab a different clientele than his normal bar and nightclub crowd with the new venture.

And if nothing else, these amateur comedi-ans want to at least help people forget about their personal troubles for the length of a movie.

“I’ve seen people that have a very tough life, who never smile, never laugh,” Miller said. “And I didn’t want my life to be like that. I’d like to spend at least a portion of it smiling or laughing while I’m here.”

BY COURTNEY WILLETT@courtney_say

Pilobolus’ performances aim to go beyond the average dance show and break into new realms of human movement and expres-sion.

The show hopes to break the barrier between visual art and dance to form one beautiful dis-play of human talent and cre-ativity.

The group get its name from the fungi that propels its spores with extraordinary speed, accu-racy and strength. The group was founded by Dartmoth stu-dents in the early ‘70s and has continued to grow international-ly.

“Pilobolus goes beyond con-temporary dance. It defies description because their move-ment is really incredible in terms of speed and artistic movement,” said Bobby Tyler, marketing and media relations director for the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center. “It’s innovative and fun.”

Pilobolus also holds the Guinness world record for fitting the most people into a small car. Matt Kent, UGA alumnus, audi-tioned for the troop when he enrolled. He has been with the group since the ‘90s and has since risen up in the company. Kent choreographed two of the performances in the show.

“We’re really excited to have this University of Georgia con-nection with Matt,” Tyler said. “It’s our goal to bring the world’s best artists to this campus.”

His first show “Esc” (short for “escape”) was choreographed in conjunction with famed illu-sionists Penn & Teller. Kent drew inspiration from famed escapologist Harry Houdini. It’s an interactive and daring show that relies solely on the dancer’s talent and creators’ ingenuity to pull off illusions without tricks.

“No other escape artists can do what these dancers do because of their high levels of fit-ness,” Kent said.

Kent’s other show,

“Transformation,” is an excerpt from the nationally-renowned show “Shadowland.”

It’s sold out in Europe, and Kent hopes it will travel to the United States. The show is an

illusion, completely performed with shadows of the dancers, using tricks of scale to create other-worldly images.

Kent worked alongside Stephen Banks, who is best known as the head writer for the popular children’s show “Spongebob Squarepants.” His sense of whimsy and fantasy are evident in the performance.

Kent thinks his talent will fit in well among a college crowd.

“I think Pilobolus is perfect for Athens,” Kent said. “It’s not your typical dance company.”

Having performed around the world, Pilobolus is taking its signature take on dance and visual art to the Fine Arts Theatre. Courtesy Pilobolus

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This week at the 40 Watt, two of the most influ-ential bands in alt-rock will play a trio of frenetic and lively shows.

The two headlining acts, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, have found Athens to be an ideal place for their music and style, responding with this small-er version of their Camp-Out Festival in California.

“We have a really strong following in this part of the country, and when we had our own label starting back in the ‘90s as an imprint of Virgin. We had it based in Athens and it’s been based here ever since,” said David Lowery, Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker frontman.

Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker are largely intertwined groups. Both bands were formed by Lowery and have shared members over the years. Both bands are still highly active, particularly Camper Van Beethoven, with its newest album, “La Costa Perdida,” released in 2013.

Cracker will notably be joined by drummer Ben Mize, a former member of Cracker and Athens ele-mentary school teacher,

who left the band early on.“For this show, we

thought it’d be cool to bring Ben in, since he’s a part of the band’s history,” Lowery said.

The “Camp In” will most likely become a tradi-tion for the next few years, as the bands have found the shows rewarding, and the community has responded well. Athens has proved an ideal foothold on the East coast for these California bands, and there seems to be no reason to move the show elsewhere.

“I couldn’t think of any places that are like second homes for these bands, so we’ll probably stay here in Athens,” Lowery said.

BY CHELSEY ABERCROMBIE@comma_freak

WonderBar is an (over 21) geek’s paradise located on East Washington Street in downtown.

Vintage video games such as “Mortal Kombat,” “Mrs. Pacman” and “Galaga” line the walls, while a Nintendo 64 allows customers to play clas-sic hits such as “Mario Kart” and “Super Smash Brothers” via a supersized projection next to the bar.

All the games are $0.25, and even the food and drinks — “Game of Thrones” themed beer, a Cap’n’Crunch shot and Totino’s pizza rolls, to name a few — will soothe any gamer’s appetite.

The only surprising thing about the combination of vin-tage games and alcohol is that nobody thought of it sooner.

“That’s actually why I came out here, because it was a niche that hadn’t been filled yet,” said Peyton Davis, WonderBar’s owner. “Places like this are really popular in New York, Chicago and Boston right now. There’s one in Atlanta that’s very popular, Joystick Game Bar up on Edgewood Avenue. I was like, ‘This would be the perfect concept for this area.’”

While alcohol is a must-have at any downtown loca-tion (WonderBar was able to outlast its only real rival, Flashback Arcade, possibly because Flashback didn’t serve liquor — “You’ve got to have alcohol,” Davis said), most customers are drawn in by the games themselves.

“It’s really nostalgic for me, because when I was little these were the games that we played,” said Tommy Dornhoffer, a University of Georgia graduate student from Little Rock, Ark. pursu-ing his Ph.D. in marine sci-ence.

Dornhoffer decided to go into WonderBar for the first time because of the Nintendo 64 he saw through the bar’s front window.

“‘Mario Kart’ playing on the wall, ‘Galaga,’ it’s just something I haven’t seen in a long time,” Dornhoffer said.

“For me it was just one of those simple times and these were just fun games. They’re fun to play and the bar offers cash back for videogames, so honestly it’s just one of those times to really appreciate what we grew up with.”

Michael Gold, Kyle Carruthers and Taylor Harris, three UGA alumni who chose to catch up for the first time since graduation inside WonderBar, also credit the sociability of games like “Super Smash Brothers” — a quality definitely missing from today’s market of first-person shooters — for bringing vin-tage games back into popular-ity.

“Back then, games were a lot more social and simple,” Harris said. “Like ‘Mario Kart’ — there are four screens, and you’re with four people in a room interacting with each other at the same time. Today everything is designed to where you have your thing in your house and your friends have their things in their hous-es, and you interact on a much less social level.”

While the point of “Super Smash Brothers” may be to pit two players against one another, it really ends up bringing them together.

“We all used to live togeth-er, and I haven’t seen them in a year, and it’s fun for me to come here and do things we used to do when we were kids now that we’re old enough to

get a beer,” Gold said.While a game like “Mrs.

Pacman” can be nerve-racking enough to leave anyone on the edge of their barstool, the actual design of many vintage video games may be why they mix so well with alcohol.

“I think the reason they work together is simplicity has a lot to do with it,” Carruthers said. “The older video games were designed just so much simpler than the newer ones.”

While “Mario Kart,” “Super Smash Brothers” and “Mortal Kombat” may be bringing in the customers for now, Davis’ dream game to host at WonderBar — keeping with the vintage vibe — isn’t even of the digital variety.

“The ‘Terminator pin-ball,’” Davis said. “It’s very hard to get, very expensive. Six or seven thousand dollars. I’m going to charge a cover at the door — want to come in and touch this? $10 cover.”

Davis also plans to con-nect a PS3 and an Xbox One to a projector in the remod-eled back of his establishment. Even if the bar’s games begin to inch closer to the 2000s and farther away from the social simplicity of their ancestors, hopefully the newer install-ments will retain what made their predecessors such a good fit for the college bar scene.

“Even if you’re inebriated, it’s still pretty easy to play,” Carruthers said.

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A sweet treat to get you through the cold weather

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Top: Lyndsey Kalessa, 14, Donna Kalessa and Dylan Kalessa, 17, from Statham help plant blueberries at Clarke Middle School in Athens on Jan. 20. The family came as part of a group organized by Caterpillar Inc. to take part in Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. Right: Evan Smith, a member of Boy Scout Troop 1111 and student at Clarke Middle School, picks up trash at the Oglethorpe Avenue nature trail in Athens on Jan. 20.

Above: Charlee Duncan, 3, blows bubbles with Michaela Bailey, 16, and Star Davis, 16, at Dudley Park at the MLK Jr. Day of Service on Monday. Bailey and Davis are volunteering with Youth Leadership Athens at the Extra Special People ML5K. Extra Special People is an organization that empowers children with developmental disabilities.Below: Kendall Griffin, a 13 year old (left), paints a red frame inside a greenhouse for her Clarke Middle School garden, with her friends and 12-year-old classmates Andrew Caldwell, (mid), and Alice Watson, (right), on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Athens on Jan. 20. Wanting an environmental club that doesn't exist, Griffin said, “This is the next best thing.” Caldwell and Watson also want to give back to their school.

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Ballroom MagicWhen: 8 p.m.Where: UGA New Dance TheatrePrice: $10-16Contact: anadro@uga.edu

Zoso, Gimme Hen-drixWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: $10Contact: www.geor-giatheatre.com

Blue Blood, Ban-ditos, Ruby the Rabbitfoot, Rolling NowhereWhen: 9:30 p.m.Where: Caledonia LoungePrice: $5(21+), $7(18-20)Contact: www.cale-donialounge.com

Second City Com-pany: “Happily Ever Laughter”When: 8 p.m.Where: UGA Ramsey Concert HallPrice: $40Contact: www.pac.uga.edu

Drummer J.J. Bower of Blue Blood, will share a ticket at Caledonia Lounge with Banditos, Ruby the Rabbit Foot and Rolling Nowhere. TAYLOR CRAIG SUTTON/Staff

THURSDAY JANUARY 23

MUSIC

The Ends, Reverend Debruhl, Jive Mother MaryWhen: 9:30 p.m.Where: Caledonia LoungePrice: $5(21+), $7(18-20)Contact: www.caledo-nialounge.com

Joe CatWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Flicker Theatre & BarPrice: FreeContact: www.flicker-theatreandbar.com

The Georgia Cracker, The Darnell BoysWhen: 8 p.m.Where: 40 Watt ClubPrice: $10Contact: www.40watt.com

Disclosure, Vic Mensa, Samo Sound Boy When: 9 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: $25Contact: www.georgia-theatre.com

Tia Madre, Old Smokey, PilgrimWhen: 9 pm.

Where: Green RoomPrice: FreeContact: www.green-roomathens.com

Taylor KennedyWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Hendershot’s Coffee BarPrice: FreeContact: www.hender-shotscoffee.com

Stereo ReformWhen: 10 p.m.Where: Nowhere BarPrice: FreeContact: 706.546.4742

PERFORMANCE

PilobolusWhen: 8 p.m.Where: UGA Fine Arts BuildingPrice: $50-60Contact: www.pac.uga.edu

FRIDAYJANUARY 24

MUSIC

Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, Shonna Tucker & Eye CandyWhen: 8 p.m.Where: 40 Watt ClubPrice: $20Contact: www.40watt.com

The Ringers, Oli BrownWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: $20Contact: www.georgia-theatre.com

Wise up Rise up, Doug Funny and the Fresh-tones, DJ Armend Ham-merWhen: 8 p.m.Where: New Earth AthensPrice: $5Contact: www.new-earthmusichall.com

Ken Will MortonWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Pizza Hut on Baxter Price: FreeContact: 706.353.0888

PERFORMANCE

PilobolusWhen: 8 p.m.

Where: UGA Fine Arts BuildingPrice $50-60Contact: www.pac.uga.edu

Ballroom Magic Whne: 8 p.m.Where: UGA New Dance TheatrePrice: $10-16Contact: anadro@uga.edu

COMEDY

The Capitol StepsWhen: 7:30-10 p.m.Where: Madison Mor-gan Cultural CenterPrice: $25-55Contact: www.mmcc-arts.org

SATURDAY JANUARY 25

MUSIC

Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, The Hounds BelowWhen: 8 p.m.Where: 40 Watt ClubPrice: $20Contact: www.40watt.

comLadysmith Black Mam-bazoWhen: 7:30 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: $27.50Contact: www.georgia-theatre.com

Snap!When: 10 p.m.Where: Nowhere BarPrice: FreeContact: 706.546.4742

Little Country GiantsWhen: 9 p.m.Where: The World FamousPrice: $10Contact: www.theworld-famousathens.com

CLASSES

Orchard Fruit Produc-tionWhen: 1-5 p.m.Where: State Botanical Garden of GeorgiaPrice: $25Contact: www.botgar-den.uga.edu

PERFORMANCE

Ballroom MagicWhen: 2 p.m.Where: UGA New Dance TheatrePrice: $10-16Contact: anadro@uga.edu

SUNDAYJANUARY 26

MUSIC

Alzheimer’s Music FestWhen: 12 p.m.Where: The Melting PointPrice: $10

Vio/Mire, Jeremy Wheatley Feat. Thayer SarranoWhen: 9 p.m.Where: The World FamousPrice: $5Contact: www.theworld-famousathens.com

ART

Art Censored Panel Dis-cussionWhen: 2 p.m.Where: Georgia Mu-seum of ArtPrice: FreeContact: www.georgia-museum.org

MONDAYJANUARY 27

MUSIC

Marbin, Talkingto, Mama-Fiki, Last of UsWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Flicker Theatre & BarPrice: FreeContact: www.flicker-theatreandbar.com

Jazz JamWhen: 7 p.m.Where: The Melting PointPrice: FreeContact: www.melting-pointathens.com

Holly BelleWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Nowhere BarPrice: FreeContact: 706.546.4742

COMEDY

TUESDAY JANUARY 28

FILM

The Peabody Decades: Green EyesWhen: 7 p.m.Where: Richard B. Rus-sell Building Special Collections Libraries Price: FreeContact: mlmiller@uga.edu

PERFORMANCE

UGA Symphony Or-chestra Concerto Com-petition Concert When: 8 p.m.Where: Hugh Hodgson Concert HallPrice: $5 (with student ID), $10Contact: www.pac.uga.edu

MUSIC

Cicada Rhythm When: 7:30 p.m.Where: The Melting PointPrice: $5 Contact: www.melting-pointathens.com

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29

MUSIC

Secret Lover, White Gold, Ginko, Bong Mar-ley Song System, Rene LeconteWhen: 10 p.m.Where: Go barPrice: FreeContact: 706.546.5609

COMEDY

Second City Company: “Happily Ever Laugh-ter”When: 8 p.m.Where: UGA Ramsey Concert HallPrice: $40Contact: www.pac.uga.edu

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JAN 23 ...Disclosure Live w/ Vic Mensa & Samo Sound Boy

JAN 24 ............................... The Ringers feat Jimmy Herring, Wayne Krantz, Michael Landau, Keith Carlock and

Etienne Mbappe w/ Oli Brown

JAN 25 ........................................ Ladysmith Black Mambazo

JAN 29 ..........Zoso“The Ultimate Led Zepplin Experience” w/Gimme Hendrix

JAN 30 .............................................................. Gaelic Storm

JAN 31 ......... Paper Diamond w/ LOUDPVCK & Manic Focus

FEB 4 .......................................... Relay for Life Presents: Dead Confederate w/ Gringo Star

Drink and Dining GUIDEYour weekly guide to Athens’ daily deals.

THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY

HAPPY HOUR 5 to 10 p.m.$1 off of everything,

Build your own Bloody Mary Bar

Buffet 12 to 9 p.m.

HAPPY HOUR 5 to 10 p.m.$1 off of everything,

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Buffet 12 to 9 p.m.

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Buffet 12 to 9 p.m.

Where: 256 E. Clayton St.Phone: (706) 549-0166Website:www.allgoodlounge.com

WEDNESDAY

$1 off drinks from 4-7pm, new specials daily

$1 off drinks from 4-7pm, new specials daily

$1 off drinks from 4-7pm, new specials daily

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Where: 175 N. Lumpkin St.Phone: (706) 353-2439Website:www.greenroomathens.com

$6 Frozen drinks,$13 House wine bottles $3 Well drinks & shots

$5 Pitchers Coors/High Life

$3 Wells

$5 Pitchers Coors/High Life

$3 Wells

$5 Pitchers Coors/High Life

HAPPY HOUR$1 Pints of High Life

all day

8pm - Trivia$7 Domestic pitchers,

$1 High Life pints

Where: 320 E. Clayton Suite 201Phone: (706) 613-0892Website:mellowmushroom.com

Happy Hour 4-7pm $2 Domestics $3 House

Wines $4 Wells

Oyster Lovers 3-6pm Buy a dozen get a

dozen half off.

Oyster Lovers 3-6pm Buy a dozen get a

dozen half off.

Late Bird Drink Specials 2-6pm $3 Mimosas

$4 Bloodys $2 Domestics

$3 House Wines $4 Wells

Happy Hour 4-7pm $2 Domestics

$3 House Wines $4 Wells

Happy Hour 4-7pm $2 Domestics

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Oyster Lovers 3-6pm Buy a dozen get a

dozen half off

Happy Hour 4-7pm $2 Domestics

$3 House Wines $4 Wells

Where: 1195 S. Milledge Ave.Phone: (706) 850-3451Website:marker7coastalgrill.com

1/2 off Wine or Sangria$2 Bottle Miller Lite

$3.50 Wells $4 Pitchers Miller High Life

3 – Close 25¢ Boneless Wings

$2 Bottle Miller Lite$3.50 Wells

$4 Pitchers Miller High Life

$2 Bottle Miller Lite$3.50 Wells

$4 Pitchers Miller High Life

Live Trivia 7pm$10 Pitchers Blue Moon,

Yuengling & Bud Light$2 Bottle Miller Lite

$3.50 Wells10% student discount

on food

$2 Specialty Martini's $2 Bottle Miller Lite

$3.50 Wells$4 Pitcher Miller High Life3 – Close All You Can Eat:Traditional Wings $13.99 Boneless Wings $12.99

$2 Off Terrapin pints$2 Bottle Miller Lite

$3.50 Wells$4 Pitchers Miller High Life

3 – Close 50¢ Traditional Wings

$2.99 Buffalo Canyon-ritas$2 Bottle Miller Lite

$3.50 Wells$4 Pitchers Miller High Life3 – Close All You Can Eat:Traditional Wings $13.99 Boneless Wings $12.99

Where: 196 Alps Rd., Suite 49Phone: (706) 354-6655On Facebook: facebook.com/BuffalosCafeAthens

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Salads” 13 Fills with wonder 15 Three and four 16 Hearty 17 Ring out 18 Train track pieces 19 Weapons 20 “Beat it!” 22 Robin’s home 23 Facial features 24 Brit’s raincoat 26 Driveway surface 29 Duke or baron 34 Gave a job to 35 Soup server’s spoon 36 Twenty-__; blackjack 37 Eras 38 Tea variety 39 Gigantic 40 Prefix for fat or sense 41 Classic name for a dog

42 Yearned 43 Spider or tick 45 Measly 46 Steiger or Stewart 47 Work hard 48 Actress Delany 51 Humiliate 56 __ up; spent 57 Perch 58 Bug-killing spray 60 Pickle variety 61 Fill with joy 62 Christmas 63 On __; offered at a lower

price 64 Talk out of doing 65 Depressed; sad

DOWN 1 GPS screen diagram 2 Has debts 3 Mountaintop 4 Haifa’s nation 5 __ up on; studies 6 Eager

7 “To __ the Truth” of old TV 8 Musical group 9 By __; accidentally 10 Seldom seen 11 Charitable gift 12 Finest 14 Coat parts 21 Recolored 25 Tavern order 26 African nation 27 Severity; harshness 28 Sports building 29 __ as a jaybird 30 Reason to bathe 31 Everest or McKinley 32 Wrath 33 Impoverished 35 One of the 12 sons of

Jacob 38 Mulled over 39 Ms. Clinton 41 Greek letter 42 Twosome 44 Baby’s bed 45 Redcap

47 Single forkful 48 Failures 49 Huge continent 50 Actress Carter 52 Burrowing animal 53 Canoe or tug 54 Paul, before his

conversion 55 Grain tower 59 Morning grass blade

moisture

ACROSS 1 Summoned with a beeper 6 Likelihood 10 Tiny amount, in a recipe 14 In the know 15 Nurse’s helper 16 Resound 17 Part of USNA 18 Adolescent 19 Red octagonal street sign 20 Vision 22 Arm covering 24 12/24 & 12/31 25 Sporting facial hair 26 Blush 29 “Your Time __ Come Yet,

Baby”; Elvis Presley song 30 Primate 31 Happen again 33 Speed __; one who drives

fast 37 Dock 39 More miffed 41 “Been there, __ that” 42 Threaded metal fastener

44 Passion 46 Sept.’s follower 47 Impudent 49 Davis & Midler 51 Nervous 54 Attorney General Janet 55 Day __; stock speculator 56 Noticeably different 60 Heavy book 61 Secondhand 63 Maui greeting 64 Get __; take revenge 65 Bundle of hay 66 Ease 67 Take a nap 68 __-crazy; tired of

confinement 69 Flower stalks

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6 Sworn promises 7 Count calories 8 Ike’s initials 9 Smell, touch, taste, etc. 10 Abandoned 11 Played a role 12 Push forcefully 13 Remained optimistic 21 Trait carriers 23 Terra firma 25 Exposed 26 Knocks 27 Heroic poem 28 Stag or doe 29 Rush 32 Seashore 34 Like a point no longer

worth discussing 35 In the past 36 Brooklyn team 38 Local yokel 40 Comfy wraparounds 43 __ war; fight 45 Homes with tenants in

them

48 Bushes 50 Bathroom “throne” 51 Say 52 Show to be true 53 Subdues 54 Passenger 56 Sandwich shop 57 Short letter 58 Pal 59 Bugle song 62 Took a seat

ACROSS 1 More or __;

approximately 5 “All __ lead to Rome” 10 Gush forth 14 Declare openly 15 Remove the lid from 16 Unclothed 17 Metal thread 18 Irritate 19 Encourage 20 Coat parts 22 Not brought up properly;

crude 24 Lemon meringue __ 25 Speak off the cuff 26 See eye to eye 29 Sra. in the USA 30 Daring deeds 34 Bitter 35 Family member 36 Baggage porter 37 Actor Cruise 38 Worker 40 Geisha’s sash

41 __ de corps; camaraderie 43 __ and reel; fishing gear 44 Horse’s gait 45 Adjust an alarm 46 The __; NY opera house 47 Paddler’s boat 48 Tear to bits 50 Long sandwich 51 Very many 54 Qualified 58 Poet Teasdale 59 Forest home 61 Kill 62 Job opening 63 Sudden and sharp, as

pain 64 Scoop holder 65 Merry-go-round or Ferris

wheel 66 Actor Lawford 67 Was in the red

DOWN 1 Regulations 2 Wickedness

3 __ as a boil 4 Broom user 5 India’s dollar 6 Singles 7 Expert combat pilot 8 McCallum and Letterman 9 Witch’s curse 10 Rudely ignored 11 Cat’s sound 12 Margin 13 Unwanted garden growth 21 Compete 23 One in prison for the rest

of his years 25 Like a Brinks truck 26 Fall flower 27 Silly as a __ 28 Fannies 29 Unruly crowd 31 Oak nut 32 Forbidden 33 Malice 35 Floor pad 36 Blushing 38 Limber; flexible

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Walkin’” 10 Fail to include 14 Corrupt 15 __ for; desire strongly 16 City in Texas 17 Internal spy 18 Homes 20 Wise as an __ 21 Low area between hills 22 Rex and Donna 23 Roy Rogers and Dale __ 25 Armed conflict 26 Mr. Hemingway 28 Smooches 31 Not smart 32 Group of lions 34 Mover’s truck 36 Walk, trot or canter 37 Of the highest quality 38 Three kings of biblical

fame 39 Large bird that cannot fly

40 Daytime serials 41 Purple shade 42 Stinky 44 Decline 45 Compete 46 City in Israel 47 “Beat it!” 50 Dowels 51 Tit for __ 54 Very stubborn 57 Staple in an Asian diet 58 Shaping tool 59 1/16 of a pound 60 1 of 4 bases in baseball 61 Unwanted plant 62 __ on; incited 63 Smallest bills

DOWN 1 Short note 2 Declare without shame 3 1,000 years 4 Stein beverage 5 Despot 6 Foot parts

7 At __; relaxed 8 __ Lanka 9 Finish 10 Proprietors 11 Riot control spray 12 __ tea 13 Throw 19 Wipe away 21 Bouquet holder 24 Part of a three-piece suit 25 Broad 26 On __; nervous 27 Enlarges a hole 28 Basinger and Kardashian 29 Assessment 30 Long tales 32 Speak to God 33 Tear 35 Pleasant 37 South __; part of

Antarctica 38 Offend 40 __ down; diets

successfully 41 Island garlands

43 Steered clear of 44 In tatters 46 Thus 47 George Bernard __ 48 Give up land 49 Demolish a building 50 Ping-__ 52 Pinnacle 53 Pegs for Ernie Els 55 Foot digit 56 Carpet 57 Fraternity letter

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there 36 Inlet between Africa &

Asia 37 Woodwind, for short 38 __ out of court; avoided a

trial 40 Light brown 41 Worships 43 Oct.’s follower 44 Slipped __; back problem 45 Asian nation 46 Lower limb 47 Shows courage 48 Purple or pink 50 Christie or Cuomo: abbr. 51 Changed a bit 54 Unit of sound pressure

level 58 Pencil’s core 59 Concur 61 __ Scotia 62 Store event 63 Barking marine mammals 64 Cut with shears 65 Individuals 66 Bert’s buddy 67 Misfortunes

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2 “Beehive State” 3 Alaskan city in which the

Iditarod ends 4 Orator 5 __ aback; surprised 6 Smell 7 Help 8 Benumb 9 Canada’s __ territory 10 Still wild 11 Spinnaker or jib 12 Ran fast 13 Scarlet & ruby 21 __ of; free from 23 Famous 25 Winemaker 26 School composition 27 Part of a knife 28 Healthily plump 29 Cauldron 31 Up and about 32 Discontinue 33 Actor Tom __ 35 Affirmative 36 Gun the engine

38 Mexican mister 39 Journal 42 Flows back 44 “Mona Lisa” painter 46 Inn guest 47 One of the Seven Dwarfs 49 Rent long-term 50 Waterbirds 51 Additionally 52 Slender; thin 53 Story 54 Salami shop 55 __ weevil 56 Very bad 57 Drinks like Fido 60 Galloped

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44 Stinky 46 Morning grass blade

moisture 47 __ over; float in the air

above 49 Fully clothed 51 Outstanding 54 News, for short 55 Lurch quickly without

control 56 Straighten out, as a knot 60 Border on 61 Comic Carvey 63 Workers’ group 64 Easy stride 65 Related 66 Furiously angry 67 Specks 68 Tardy 69 Older kids

DOWN 1 Drinks like Fido 2 Fe, in the lab 3 Dig for ore

4 Flee 5 Searching for 6 Free-for-all 7 Fragrance 8 In the past 9 Katmandu resident 10 Eavesdropper 11 Bring upon oneself 12 Ohio or Iowa 13 Carried 21 Kolkata, __ 23 Remain 25 Valuable item 26 Guacamole and salsa 27 Wicked 28 Greek cheese 29 Tree that bears catkins 32 Inmate with an endless

term 34 Created 35 __ if; albeit 36 Mr. Gingrich 38 Sports players 40 “__ We Almost Have It All” 43 Shoe bottom

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48 Destructive one 50 Ms. Sellecca 51 Burn with liquid 52 Verboten 53 Burst forth 54 Senseless 56 College credit 57 __ up; quit 58 Cut of pork 59 Closes 62 Letters before an alias

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