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The Green Team“Your Money. Your Voice.”

The MoneyThe Green Team — SGA vice president Cameron

Secord, sophomore Alysa Walden and Franklin College Senator Warren Hawkins — devotes several campaign initiatives to saving money.

Secord’s ticket opposes fee increases in response to the state budget cuts, and they are devoted to minimizing any possible tuition increases.

In addition, they want to ensure transparency in student fees. Each year, they said, students pay

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The Snapshot “The Big Picture”

Snapshot of CampusJoshua Delaney serves in the executive cabinet

as University Council adviser, which means he is actively involved in the movement to get rid of C-minus grades.

“I’m fully confident it’ll go through before the year’s over,” he said.

He and his running mates, Franklin College Senator Stephen Thompson and the Tri-Delta sorority’s treasurer Maddy Adler, don’t want

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Cameron Secord (above) is running for SGA president with treasurer candidate Warren Hawkins and VP hopeful Alysa Walden.

Joshua Delaney (above) is running for SGA president with Maddy Adler, the candidate for treasurer, and VP hopeful Stephen Thompson.

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Task force examines issues of hate, bias

By CAROLYN CRIST THE RED & BLACK

As the University approaches its 50th year since desegregation, diversity efforts have come a long way but still have a long way to go — especially when it comes to making students feel “at home” and com-fortable on campus.

A group of 14 faculty, staff and students formed in March 2008 to address hate and bias incidents on campus after several cases of harassment came to light that spring. The Anti-Bias Advisory Group met throughout the year to discuss ways to assist harassment reporting on campus.

“The purpose of this task force was not to replace the current NDAH policy, but to improve the accessibility and awareness through a more formalized educational process,” said Cheryl Dozier, the University’s chief diversity officer and chair of the group. “This effort aims to provide additional informa-tion surrounding issues that the NDAH policy doesn’t specifically address.”

For Shawna Scott, former Lambda Alliance leader and the undergraduate student representative of the group, the group was a much-needed answer to some of her frustrations on campus.

“Lambda Alliance had been pushing for something like this to happen for a while,” she said, explaining members of her group put together examples of bias reporting at other schools and met with Dozier to ask for a group but never heard anything.

“About a month later we had a speaker and Mimi Sodhi — Dr. Dozier’s right-hand person — was there. So I stood up and asked the speaker how we should get the administration to pay attention to us,” Scott said. “Dr. Sodhi jumped up and said they were starting a task force soon. After the event, I asked how I could get involved.”

College of Education Professor Bob Hill — whose research focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Queer issues — was asked to chair the educational efforts of the group.

“Several concerns that I had, as an educational leader, included that the University community be fully informed about UGA’s commitment to an academic community where bias — in all forms — is unacceptable, and that people know how to report incidents in a way in which they feel completely safe to do so,” he said. “Having a rapid official response to a report is also critical for the credibility of an initiative such as this.”

Likewise, Scott pushed for a Web site, a reporting hot line and a list of

See BIAS, Page 3

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By ASHLEY STRICKLANDTHE RED & BLACK

So you think you can dance old school and take it all the way back to Camelot? One University group can dance a Rufty Tufty that would win any knight’s heart.

“You’re the kids on Myers Quad that hit each other” is something the Medieval and Renaissance Society members hear often. While fighting with broadswords in full armor is something MARS participants

enjoy, it is only a small part of the club.

MARS members engage in all kinds of activities, such as danc-ing, feasting and armor-making. The banging and clanging of the fighting is just the activity that gets the most attention from curious students.

“It’s a lot of fun, a little bit of history and it makes us a fami-ly,” said Alexander Medina, local Marshall for the Society of Creative Anachronisms Barony.

Medina, a 32-year-old University alumnus, says no matter what they do, MARS just wants to have fun. The dancing is simply another way to invite more people to join in.

Tonight in Tate room 139,

dance mistress Susan Wilson — also affiliated with local SCA chapter Bryn Madoc — will be teaching popular medieval dances such as the Rufty Tufty from England and the Black Almond from Germany.

Don’t worry if you don’t know anything about medieval danc-ing or regret not picking up that 12th century gown at Party City on clearance after Halloween. The MARS members like to keep it casual during dance practice, and the main focus — besides fun — is on learning the dances. No dance experience is needed to have a good time.

Most modern dances have

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Medieval group promenades back in timeLessons offered tonight at Tate

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By RAISA HABERSHAMTHE RED & BLACK

Lt. DeAngelo Jelks has an unusually large family.

As platoon leader of 51 soldiers and single father of a 6-year-old boy, University gradu-ate Jelks sees his fellow soldiers as his kin.

“Even though I am their leader, they are my family,” he said. “We bleed, sweat and — behind closed doors — cry together.”

However, his son, who lives with his moth-er, remains one of the most important people in Jelks’ life.

“I am eight hours ahead of home, so it is very difficult to speak to him,” he said. “When I am working, he is sleeping. When I am sleeping, he is at school. I usually end up squeezing away at the most inconvenient times to try and spend a few minutes in Internet chat with him during a time that is convenient for him back home.”

Jelks has been performing this balancing act of work, school and family since 2002, when he was first activated for duty. Rather than being deployed overseas, Jelks was sta-tioned in California for 24 months and taught Ability to Survive and Operate classes.

Now, he serves as a platoon leader with the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq.

“The biggest challenge for me has been to not get too attached to my soldiers,” he said. “So many of them have so many significant family problems back home, and they need serious help in coping because they are help-less while away at war.”

Jelks’ journey began in Kirkwood, a neigh-borhood in East Atlanta, after he attended an under-funded middle school.

Rather than attend his local high school, Jelks tried his hand at dance, applying to the performance arts magnet program at North Atlanta High School.

“NAHS was the one that interested me the most of all of the Atlanta schools involved in the magnet program,” he said. “Also, it seemed like the one most people were afraid of trying to get into.”

For the next two years, an ambitious Jelks took an hour-and-a-half bus ride to school.

That ride would soon end, only for Jelks to embark on a more tempting offer — to gain professional training in dance under a University faculty member.

The move was simple. Jelks lived with his sister, who was a University student at the time, attended Clarke Central High School in the mornings and trained at the University’s Dance Department in the after-noons.

Jelks’ love for dance, as with many of his endeavors, was motivated by one thing — girls.

He laughs about them today, but said he looks at his past relationships as the founda-tion for a fruitful career.

“The ladies that I have had crushes on have been catalyst for some of the most amazing turns of events in my life story,” he said. “Were it not for our acquaintance, I would not have been in the right places at the right time as I apparently always was.”

And just like dancing, Jelks’ interest in the army was inspired by a girl he liked who he met at Clarke Central High School. The girl thought Army ROTC guys were cool, so Jelks joined up. He soon fell in love with the program.

“I always wanted to be an officer,” he said.

“I was in the ROTC in school, and I did very well with all that stuff — just a lot of things people didn’t get.”

Soon after, at 17, Jelks decided to enlist in the Army.

In 1999, Jelks entered the University and eventually graduated from the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.

He furthered his interest in dance by learning to ballroom dance, eventually join-ing the Ballroom Performance Group.

“My experiences at the University were always amazing,” he said. “I learned so much about being an adult, a professional and an individual comfortable in my own skin.”

Also while in Athens, Jelks worked at Gibson’s Men’s Clothing, gaining skills which would help him become an entrepreneur — skills he used to publish his first book.

“While stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, I started to spend more of my free time writing and going to the gym instead of hanging out with my peers at bars and clubs,” he said. “One day in November 2008, I picked up a pen, and by January 2010 I was ready to sell a product I was proud of.”

Jelks’ first book, “Slings & Arrows,” is comprised of short stories and poetry, filled with 131 pages on topics including war, love, sex and God.

“In a few words, I took everything I have ever felt and put it on paper,” he said. “Then in the short stories, I dared to dream and put that on paper too, so readers can get the perspective of someone who grew up on both sides of the tracks.”

Jelks’ second book is a children’s book, which he hopes to get his son to illustrate.

“The children’s book is one that I wrote for my son,” he said. “It is about facing fears and not being afraid of the dark.”

A third book may resemble Jelks’ experi-ences with the army.

“It is kind of a realistic fiction war jour-nal,” he said. “As I write it, I think a lot of the book ‘Tuesdays with Morrie.’”

As for the future, Jelks hasn’t strayed too far from the idea of college altogether.

He plans on getting his master’s of educa-tion in guidance and counseling from the American Military University.

“I have already checked with the Tennessee State Board of Education, and that is a program that they acknowledge, so I am good to go,” he said. “Unfortunately, I must wait until I return to the states for my program because I must be close to the school district in order to accomplish my practicals.”

Jelks said though he gained the experi-ence at the University he needed, it was time to move on, calling the experience a “season of life” and comparing it to his time in the Army.

“Army life is what it is. I love it, but it too is a season of life,” he said. “That season may be 20 years as opposed to four, but . . . they both give me stories to one day tell my grandchildren.”

Graduate balances army life and familyUpset customer charged with disorderly conduct

University student Alexis Michelle Armand, 20, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct at 10:46 p.m. on March 29 after she became upset with a meal she ordered from Ru San’s on Alps Road.

According to the Athens-Clarke County Police report, after receiv-ing a plate of chicken and mushrooms, Armand requested a refund because the menu had not mentioned that the dish would contain mushrooms.

Restaurant manager, Ngee Chin Liew, 41, told police Armand began yell-ing, hit him in the head and threw a plate of food after he told Armand res-taurant policy would not allow a refund.

When police arrived they noted a broken plate, which had been strewn across the floor.

Armand told police the manager was very impolite to her when she asked him if she could exchange the dish.

She said during their discussion the manager had used the phrase, “you people,” which she felt had racial undertones.

Armand also told police that she had lost her tem-per and said she felt she should not have expressed her anger in this way.

Liew told police he did not wish to press charges against Armand for simple battery or criminal tres-pass, but Armand was placed under arrest and charged with disorderly conduct.

Before being transport-ed to the Clarke County Jail, Armand gave the waitress $20 to settle her bill.

Car troubles confuses Campus Transit

According to Campus Transit, a car accident, which occurred on Sanford Drive near the physics building, caused some major issues for students trying to catch a bus around 4:30 p.m. March 30.

“We had to reroute to avoid from Cedar Street all the way past the Tate Center,” said Ron Hamlin, Campus Transit system manager. “The buses were stopping on Lumpkin Street. Drivers were instructed to pick people up who were looking for a bus.”

Though this may have caused an inconvenience for some students, Hamlin said such accidents and subsequent reroutes are not a particularly rare occurrence on campus.

“Several things can cause us to reroute,” he said. “It doesn’t happen frequently, but several times a semester.”

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bias-reporting partners on campus, such the LGBT Resource Center or depart-ment heads who would hold bias-reporting forms if students couldn’t access them online.

Working out the kinks

In the various meetings, Scott continued to empha-size how important it is for students to have an acces-sible way to report bias on campus, but said the group faced increasing pressure to follow legal guidelines and slowly lost momen-tum.

“It was frustrating to watch because I could see the pressure mounting at it from the beginning. At the first meeting, a bunch of faculty and lower-level administrators were there who really cared about it and really tried to help,” she said. “But the longer the meetings went on, the more lawyers showed up, saying stuff like ‘Well, we really can’t do that, that’s not really legal, or it’s not our place as an institution to do that.’”

Scott said the legal con-siderations at times hin-dered the focus of the group’s goals.

“It turned more and more into considering the impact on the University instead of the impact of bias on students physically, mentally and emotionally every single day here,” she said.

“The idea that UGA would cover it up because it looks bad is frustrating. As much as the highest administrator wants diver-sity on this campus, it’s all just talk. They do every-thing in their power to make sure the diversity office can’t truly affect change, which is why we keep losing administration that truly is passionate and cares. They get burned out because they can’t accom-plish anything.”

But Dawn Bennett-Alexander, associate pro-fessor of employment law and legal studies and a member of the group, emphasized how important it was for the University to push forward with the goals.

“The resource was important because there are many, many instances of harassment and hostile environments on campus — inconsistent with the University’s educational mission — that could be

addressed if only time and attention was given to it and the public educated about it,” she said. “This is important because the University must address anything which adversely impacts its mission.”

Hill also noted the need for a tangible and publi-cized reporting system.

“In order to learn, and to achieve our full poten-tial, people need to be free from discrimination and harassment. UGA is quite clear on that,” he said. “When there are real or perceived incidences of dis-crimination and harass-ment, it is imperative that those who experience them — or those who see them happening — know how to appropriately respond. Knowledge of the expecta-tion that we respect each other, and knowledge of the procedures to address violations when respect is transgressed, are central to the mission of the University.”

As meetings progressed last spring, a group of Grady College public rela-tions students created a marketing campaign with the slogan “Respect, Respond, Report” and a logo to be used on water bottles, keychains and more.

However, the program and group meetings came to a halt after the cam-paign was created. Dozier noted that progress stopped as summer ensued and some administrators left.

“The delay was due to many factors including the

shortage of staff in my office,” Dozier said. “Dr. Sodhi was the lead person on this project and left us June 30, and due to the budget cuts, I had not replaced that position.”

Taking the next step

Until a new system is implemented, the University’s police depart-ment handles bias com-plaints.

“We need this clearing-house to record informa-tion for a historical per-spective,” said University Police chief Jimmy Williamson, also a member of ABAG. “But right now, the police department has the reporting structure and sends the reports to the EOO.”

Williamson supports a new reporting system as a more comprehensive way of helping students to address their concerns.

“It’s not a criminal offense, but we have to document it to show what happened, even if the intent or perception isn’t bad,” he said.

Williamson described examples of documenting offensive words written on dry erase boards on dorm doors.

“If a friend writes it, they’ll say it’s just a joke, but if a stranger writes the term, it’s offensive,” he said. “We have to send the message that terms are hurtful no matter who uses them. We must create a culture where it’s all offen-sive speech.”

The group completed a

report for the Office of Institutional Diversity, and Hill said he’d personally be willing to help the program come to fruition.

“As an educator, researcher on diversity, social justice and human rights, and a trainer on cul-tural competency, I am always available to assist Dr. Dozier, EOO, the Omsbuds Office, and our new provost Dr. Morehead in seeing that our commu-

nity embraces difference, ensures inclusivity and respect and sustains a wel-coming campus climate for everyone,” he said. “As an aside, a key ingredient for these to happen will be for UGA to include ‘gender identity’ and ‘gender expression’ as protected categories in all of our poli-cies. I’d welcome the opportunity to work with the president, the provost, University Counsel, OID

and others to see that this happens.”

Although the group hasn’t met since last spring, Dozier indicated the proj-ect and promotion will soon resume.

“We had hope to imple-ment this last semester, and we plan to move for-ward on it before the end of this semester,” Dozier added. “We will have a stu-dent task force to assist in the marketing campaign.”

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By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

These University students are not your run-of-the-mill judges.

Unlike their “Law and Order” counterparts, Justin Brown, Sydney Hayter, Ali Terrell, Deana Veal, Kate Wooten and Josh Whitworth don’t sit behind a bench and evaluate criminals — they evaluate cattle, pigs and sheep as part of the Livestock Judging Team.

“It’s a co-curricular activity for agricultural students,” said Jary Douglas, an instructor in the animal and dairy sciences department. “It allows you to expand upon skills in evaluation and selection of livestock.”

He said team members take a livestock selection course and then have the opportunity to join the team, for which they also get up to six hours of course credit.

Veal, a junior from Wrightsville, said she joined the team because of networking opportunities — she already has a summer intern-ship with an embryologist she met through the team — and to experience different parts of the United States. Douglas also had something to do with her desire to participate.

“Jary is well-known through-out the country,” she said.

Jacob Segers, a second-year master’s student from Talking Rock, was on Douglas’ first University team in 2007.

“I’d wanted to do it since I was a kid,” he said. “If you grow up in livestock, it’s kind of like going out for the football team.”

Douglas said though the main objective of the team is to learn to evaluate livestock for breeding and market traits, students end up with many more valuable skills, including decision-making, communication, time manage-ment and how to deal with unex-pected situations.

Segers said the skills he learned while on the judging team — especially the ability to talk comfortably in front of peo-ple — have helped as he applies for doctoral programs.

“The grad schools that I’ve interviewed with for my Ph.D. position have interviewed me more about judging than they have my GPA or anything else,” he said.

Douglas has coached livestock judging teams for more than 30 years and was brought to the University to help build its team.

“In the past they’ve had a live-stock team, but there was a five-year lapse before I came,” Douglas said. He said he has worked the past four years to revamp the team.

The University pays for the team to travel to various judging competitions around the coun-try, visiting cities such as Jackson, Miss.; Louisville, Ky; Denver and San Antonio, Douglas said.

“There’s about 10 contests you can participate in each spring, but you can’t miss that much school,” he said.

Douglas said the team spends at least six hours a week working out — or practicing — for judging contests. During these practices, students learn to work on what characteristics they should judge.

Douglas said each contest has two primary components — placement classes and oral rea-soning classes. He said students judge 12 classes, or groups, of four animals.

They rank the animals in each class from best to worst, and for the oral reasoning classes, they must create a one- to two-min-ute speech justifying their place-ments.

“Your evaluations would be compared to that of an official committee,” Douglas said. Students are placed on how close their rankings are to those of the committee.

For breeding classes, he said the team judges animals on the amount of fat and muscle, their structural integrity, whether the animal is a good size for its age and animal quality.

“They look at the animal’s bal-ance, how proportional they are and how clean their design is,” he said.

Judging teams also evaluate market animals intended for the food chain. He said more empha-sis is put on carcass merit for these animals.

“We look at whether it’s a lean, healthy product or a fat one the

consumer won’t like,” Douglas said.

Veal said each contest is split into junior and senior colleges. The junior colleges are usually two-year schools, and senior col-leges are four-year schools.

She said awards go to the top 10 students for each species, the overall top 10 individuals, overall top five teams and top 10 indi-viduals for oral reasoning.

“You can win individual awards, but to me it’s more important to get a team one,” Veal said.

Douglas said this year’s team had not won a contest yet, but that does not mean the team is not improving.

“Our best ranking with the 2010 team was Sydney Hayter, who ranked Second High Individual at the Denver con-test,” he said, adding the team ranked seventh out of 27 at the same competition.

Veal said though the contest in Denver was her favorite, she has enjoyed being able to travel to the different cities and see their agriculture and manage-ment practices.

“Each one is so different,” she said. “In Texas, you’ll see Brahman cattle and you’d never see them in Georgia.”

Segers said though each con-test judged classes of cattle, pigs and lambs, some threw in horses, goats and wool sheep.

“Each contest has something they like to call their own,” he said.

Douglas said there were plen-ty of places he would not have seen otherwise if he had not got-ten involved in livestock judging, and he wants his team to have that same experience.

“If we don’t get out of our little area, we don’t really see how dif-ferent things are in the world,” he said.

Photo courtesy of Marcia Douglas

Members of the University’s Livestock Judging Team practice their skills as they evaluate animals based on criteria such as structural integrity and fat and muscle.

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Students travel cross-country to judge livestock

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students to think they are running for SGA to build their résumés.

“None of us are going into politics,” Thompson said.

Instead, The Snapshot team said they are in the race more for students.

“We are students with stories,” Delaney said. “We genuinely desire to leave our mark on campus. We are students who base everything we are on action.”

The Snapshot team’s primary initiative is to let students in on “the big picture.”

They hope to make the SGA Senate a snapshot of campus by adding at-large Senate seats for student groups. The more than 600 student groups on campus would be divided into common interests for this purpose, and then a committee would decide which group representatives from those umbrella organizations would take the possible “nine or 10” additional senate seats.

SGA senators are chosen by schools and colleges, thereby representing scho-lastic interests. Delaney said students he has spoken to about adding the at-large seats are shocked that this hasn’t hap-pened yet because SGA already allocates funds for student groups.

The State Budget

Delaney said he firmly believes his team will be a part of the budget conversation.

“We’ve been guaranteed that once we’re elected, we’re going to be in the room,” he said.

Delaney said many students’ scholar-ships could cover a nominal tuition

increase, but mandatory fee hikes would hit students harder.

The ticket adheres to SGA president Katie Barlow’s plan to advocate for tobac-co taxes or other options instead of levy-ing student fees.

“We will not sacrifice classes or quality education in Georgia,” Delaney said.

Campus Changes

The Snapshot team wants a more ami-able and student-focused solution to the tailgating changes on North Campus.

The gameday planning committee has already instated the policy for the first game, but afterward, there will be an assessment meeting. Delaney’s team said they will be there.

“We will be very present and vocal,” he said.

Delaney said the plan passed by President Adams’ cabinet was a less extreme option than others put before the president. However, if North Campus is restricted, Delaney thinks tailgaters will only move to other areas of campus.

“Game day is still for students, and we don’t want the administration to forget that,” he said.

The team also wants to reform the withdrawal policy — introducing a case-by-case element.

Because hardships and suspension count toward the maximum of four with-drawals, the team wants each case evalu-ated by circumstances.

“We’re not looking for a number; we’re looking for wording,” Thompson said.

Delaney said the administration is will-ing to work with them on the issue.

SGA: Ticket will add senators

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about $43 million in mandatory fees, which are disbursed in a complicated system of commit-tees and administrators.

Secord said roughly $18.6 mil-lion of the fees have no student input. He said he doesn’t want SGA to allocate the fees alone, instead advocating for SGA stu-dents to be there when the deci-sions are made.

He would also like to create a student committee to determine whether a mandatory fee is justi-fied

Placing a student on the Board of Regents has been a goal of the current SGA administration, and The Green Team wants to con-tinue that goal by lobbying the legislature and governor.

“We want to make it a political issue in the gubernatorial races,”

Secord said.The Green Team is also

focused on allowing students to give feedback on what they per-ceive as wasteful spending at the University.

“It’s the general, ‘I saw this, that doesn’t make sense,’” Secord said.

Additionally, The Green Team plans on creating a Web site on which students can report waste-ful spending.

Involvement with Student Organizations

The Green Team is focused on letting campus organizations know money is available to them from the student activity fee.

Because SGA was given con-trol last spring of allocating the student fee, it has the authority to dole out money to campus

organizations.Hawkins said only $3,000 of

the $10,000 in Small Clubs Allocation funds have been used, partly because of fund restric-tions.

As policy stands now, philan-thropic, political and religious organizations cannot receive this help because of the nature of their messages.

However, Hawkins said his ticket wants to reform that poli-cy, eliminating some restrictions.

Secord also hopes to expand SGA’s Student Affairs Liaisons program, in which SGA represen-tatives attend other organiza-tions’ meetings to learn about events and hear students’ con-cerns.

“Last year, six or seven people reached out to 90 student organi-zations,” Secord said. “It’s to say, ‘We’re here to help, not to make

you a part of us. Our job is to work for you.’”

Student Life

The Green Team also wants to start a textbook rental program with the University Bookstore that could save students between 40 and 60 percent off new text-book prices by charging a rental price for the semester based on course hours.

Hawkins said they have also spoken with the bookstore man-ager about expanding digital textbook offerings.

Another way The Green Team hopes help students is by ridding campus of C-minus grades. This could help students graduate on time.

Secord’s team also wants to give additional incentives for stu-dents to place their unused foot-

ball tickets into the ticket bank by giving away signed footballs or sideline passes.

The Green Team proposed decreasing the cost of parking by up to $20 a month by enacting a class schedule-based parking pass system. They will also com-bat the parking ticket structure, opting for a graduated fine scale.

Some other changes include adding a Redbox DVD rental kiosk in the Tate Center; install-ing credit card readers at the Tate Center parking deck; reform-ing the minimum sanctions policy to create a more equitable judi-cial process; posting SGA Senate voting results on the Web site within 48 hours; posting SGA’s yearly budget and monthly finan-cial updates on the Web site; and ensuring students don’t have to take more than three exams in a 24-hour time period.

GREEN: Candidates call for campus parking, textbook reform

VARIETY The Red & Black | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | 5

By ASHLEY STRICKLANDTHE RED & BLACK

The UGA Crew — the rowing team — is all fired up with nowhere to row.

For a sport that enjoys a competitive spring sea-son, the recent draining of the lake at Fort Yargo — a longtime practice facility for the rowers — would be defeating to any other team.

Due to a construction project at the park, the lake is being kept at eight feet below full pool until April 15.

But the resourceful rowing team has increased workouts at Ramsey and even traveled to Lake Lanier to get in some time on the water. For begin-ners, lake time is especial-ly important.

Ask any rower on the team and they will tell you the life skills they have learned from the physical-ity of their sport.

Success lies in master-ing technique, balance, flexibility, athleticism, commitment and stamina, while the keys to winning a race rely on a triumvi-rate of rhythm, power and teamwork.

Unlike most sports, rowing never really stops. They have a fall season of slower-paced, long dis-tance races and then kick it into high gear for a spring season full of fast, sprint-like races with boats crammed next to each other in the water.

Remaining conditioned year-round is a priority.

“I’ve been rowing for six years, nonstop, and it’s hard looking back on life without rowing,” said Alex Ward, senior and team captain. “Nothing feels better than racing. I’m very goal-oriented, so it’s awesome to have goals at the beginning of a season and then work towards them. Outside of rowing, when things get tough, you can work on that goal

at the gym or on the water, and then on race day, you’re the first boat across the finish line.”

Because of the intense goals that drive the row-ing team, rowers must learn to balance their time and commitment.

The team works out on the water three to four times a week, usually get-ting up at 5 a.m. for a practice and then again later in the afternoon. When they aren’t on the water, the team uses row-ing machines at Ramsey.

“It takes a lot to run this team,” Ward said. “It’s a lot of time commitment and money commitment. Rowing is one of the hard-est sports because our enemy is time. In the beginning, it will be tough physically, but rowing becomes a mental break for you that’s worth investing in.”

The UGA Crew — made up of around 30 rowers, two captains and multiple officers this year — has seen membership num-bers as large as 100 in the past.

They have a history of doing well at their regat-tas and nationals, and the women’s team recently placed first in the Southeastern Regionals.

Because the men’s and women’s teams are small-er than usual, they are heavily recruiting to get their numbers back up.

The economy has taken a toll on the expensive sport, as has the time commitment for students.

But to the team, the benefits of rowing far out-weigh the challenges. In fact, the challenges make rowing all the more excit-ing.

Just like their sport, it requires a balancing act to juggle practice and schoolwork.

Each rower has a spe-cial thing he loves about the sport.

“Through rowing, I’ve

really learned that I’m a stronger person than I thought I could ever be,” said Lisa Smith, senior and team captain. “I think, ‘I’m crazy, why am I doing this? It’s so hard, this is going to hurt so bad and so much is riding on it.’ Then afterwards, the success and the high of it all, there is just such elation that it’s indescrib-able. I feel that choosing to row again and again, semester after semester, is like choosing to live a life of extremes.”

Those extremes, how-ever, can be just as chal-lenging. For any novice rower, the first two months can be the most painful.

The blisters are the worst, forming one on top of the other. After high school, rowers are advised against wearing gloves because they wear down the oar handles.

It is better to bandage their blisters and build up calluses that will get them through the season.

Each type of boat also presents its own challeng-es. Singles, pairs, fours and eights are all parts of the team’s competition style.

“Mentally, the eight is easier,” said Diana Orquiola, a sophomore rower. “I mean, it’s not easy at all, but you can’t give up when there are seven other people in that boat with you. Every little stroke matters.”

The combination of stamina and athleticism that rowing requires attracts certain types of people to the sport.

While intimidating to

some, rowing forges bonds between the teammates as they rely on one anoth-er to win.

In team boats — espe-cially in a four — the row-ers come to know each other so well that they can feel the slightest shift in power or balance. Each team member must be in sync.

“I love the beauty and the intensity of the sport,” Orquiola said. “I also love the fact that this truly is a team sport. You can’t just have one fast person in the boat — it doesn’t work that way. Everyone has to put in the time and the effort to succeed, so there’s never a star player. Everyone in that boat deserves that medal when they win.”

As the spring season begins, novice and varsity rowers alike are preparing and practicing every day.

The novices, especially those completely new to rowing, have trained hard in a short amount of time and learned as much as they can from the varsity members.

A network of support, they encourage each other no matter what.

Freshman Cathy Marszalik is not only new to rowing, but sports in general.

She encourages anyone to join because in her short time with the sport, she has quickly found a home amongst her team-mates.

“I think it’s the people,” Marszalik said. “I’ve never met so many people that are so determined and so focused on wanting to be the best that they can be.”

Rowing team is beached, but continues to row

Photos courtesy UGA Crew

The lake at Fort Yargo — where practice is held for the University’s rowing team — is low, so the team trains at Ramsey and Lake Lanier.

6 | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | The Red & Black

He would say, “I need to see you in my office.” That was my clue that whatever he

wanted to say was serious.My dad would say this to me

after I had done something he didn’t approve of. Usually we talked over the kitchen table during din-ner or a TV show afterward in the living room. But when he invited me into his office, I knew we were going to talk about no small matter.

From finances to my classroom behavior, my dad knew that from time to time I needed a good talk-ing-to. I would follow him into his office in our home that was once a playroom for my sister and me and listen to what he had to say.

Other times, however, I would actively seek out his advice. As a successful technical engineer, he worked hours researching Internet network problems and trouble-shooting them.

For him, finding solutions to problems was second nature. So whenever I had something that I needed help with, he was always there.

Until Jan. 26, 2009, when he died suddenly for unknown reasons.

And, since then, I have realized just how much of his guidance and support I really needed.

However, I am not alone. In 2000, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that only 5 percent of family house-

holds are single-father households, compared to the 26 percent of sin-gle-mother households.

Even though my family is not a single-mother household by choice, and even though there are many great men that stick by their fami-lies, I have to ask — where are all the fathers?

In today’s world, gender roles are constantly evolving. There are many more stay-at-home dads than we have ever seen before. As a mat-ter of fact, the number of single-fa-ther households has increased more than 5 times since 1970.

But it is not enough. In the year since my dad passed away, I have realized how important it is to have a father’s voice in the family. And

while my mother’s voice is just as strong, she can never replace my father.

The richness of my father’s expe-riences as a businessman who stra-tegically managed our finances is now missing.

I can try as hard as I want to put myself in his shoes and recall what he would say in tough situations, but I will never know what kind of thoughtful advice and analysis he could offer me.

And while that upsets me great-ly, what upsets me more is that some children never even have the opportunity or the desire to know what Dad thinks.

Some children who grew up in a single-mother household or distrust their fathers can not even imagine what it would be like to have a strong male figure in the family.

But some can. And to those men who have stuck by their families and supported them, who have maintained difficult jobs in the workplace only to come home and work harder for their family’s well being, I say thank you.

America needs more men like you — because on Jan. 26, 2009, the world lost one of the few.

— Brittany Binowski is a senior from Conyers majoring in

magazines, and the recruitment editor for The Red & Black

Fathers missing in American families

Chelsea Cook | Editor in Chief editor@randb.comDaniel Burnett | Managing Editor me@randb.comYasmin Yonis | Opinions Editor opinions@randb.com

When you stand in line in a pre-paid, unlimited dining hall stocked with every breakfast item you could possibly name, you often overhear endless comments of, “Really?? No Special K again?!” and “Man, this is so annoying — I don’t even know what I’m going to eat now…”

These comments are paired with eye rolls and sighs of frustration for all the workers who have been there since 6 a.m. to hear, and you start to wonder — do we really live with such a sense of entitlement that we forget how much we truly have?

Whether a cutback in cereal or a cutback in a university-wide budget, let us not forget that we still remain largely in the black.

From the privileges of high-quality professors and classrooms to the oppor-tunity of involvement in a thousand different clubs, service organizations, sports and research stud-ies on campus, we often take so very, very much for granted.

Sacrificing one of 15 dif-ferent kinds of cereal is not nearly as devastating when we consider that many around the world did not get to eat breakfast this morning.

In the same way, sac-rifices in the cutback of our budget may not seem quite so ghastly when we consider the kids around the world who would kill for the kind of education we have the opportunity to receive here.

Undoubtedly, there is ample room to investi-gate the decisions of our administrators and legis-latures and determine for ourselves the quality of the argument and the ways in which we should respond. But with the loss of one club, let us not forget we have others.

With the decrease of one scholarship, let us not forget how many other opportunities for compen-sation we have offered to us. With the loss of one major, let us not forget the thousands of doors that still remain open.

It is the greatest risk of providing convenience and privilege: that we should begin to expect them. Even without Special K, we still have Cheerios.

May we never forget how fortunate we truly are.

KAITLIN MILLERFreshman, Stone Mountain

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I’m going to live in a box. I’m hoping for one of those refrig-erator ones — they’re pretty

roomy. I hear Kenmore boxes are pretty sturdy. GE supposedly has some larger models.

I’m interested because once my parents stop paying my rent, I’ll be surviving on bread crumbs and the kindness of strangers.

After graduation, I’ll be a well-read hobo who can speak French. Maybe I’m exaggerating just a tiny bit, but you get my point.

It’s tough out there. Some peo-ple are hiring, but jobs for recent graduates are few and far between. Even the best prepared among us are struggling to find work.

Like many students about to graduate, I’m wondering if I made the right choices throughout my educational career. Maybe if I had been a business major, some nice company would want to hire me. Maybe if I had studied biology, I could go to medical school and be a rich doctor. Maybe I should have studied something that could get me a job.

I chose to study international affairs and French because world politics and foreign languages have always fascinated me. It doesn’t matter to me that these two majors do not lead to the broadest range of career possibilities. I could not imagine four years of studying something that I hated, even if it could lead to success later on in my life.

What’s that you say, potential employer?

You don’t care about my knowl-edge of the politics of Angola?

You aren’t interested in what I know about the Chartres Cathedral?

Well, I think you should hire me anyway. I’m awesome. I promise.

I knew exactly what I was get-ting myself into when I picked my course of study. The knowledge I have learned probably won’t make me rich, but that’s alright.

Most of the jobs that I’m apply-ing for are in government or the nonprofit sector. Even if I do find a job, chances are I won’t be raking in the big bucks.

There are, without a doubt, some careers that are higher-paying than others. There are some career paths that offer better job security than others. There are certain degrees that are more “practical” than oth-ers.

Friends, family members, casual acquaintances — you’ve probably gotten career advice from all of them. There will always be people telling you what you should do with your life. There will always be peo-ple telling you what path is right for you. Some of the wisest advice I have heard on this subject comes

from an unusual source — the tele-vision show “Scrubs.”

Though I normally wouldn’t encourage taking a sitcom too seri-ously, the words spoken by Dr. Bob Kelso on the show are just too per-fect to overlook.

“Who the hell cares what every-body else thinks? Look into your heart and do whatever the hell makes you happy,” Kelso said on an episode of the show.

In the context of the particular quote, Kelso was talking about rela-tionships, but his words really can apply to all areas of life.

I’m not trying to say that you should completely ignore the advice of your friends, family or professors. On the contrary — their guidance can be very helpful and meaningful.

However, I think it is a huge mistake to base your life decisions solely off of what other people tell you is best.

We are guided by the advice of others, but ultimately each one of us has to decide what is best for his own life. I’m not saying I think we should be selfish, but we have the right to decide how we want to live our lives.

I could have chosen a different major, one in a growing industry, with lots of job prospects. Instead I chose something that I knew I would enjoy studying.

No one major can guarantee suc-cess. Almost everyone who is gradu-ating is having some difficulties, but I’m confident that there are some employers looking for the skills that I have, even if there aren’t a lot of them.

— Sean Dolan is a senior from Roswell majoring in

international affairs and French

Love of majors worth poor career outlook

SEANDOLAN

It came last week, buried beneath some Arby’s coupons and

our beloved power bill.The single folded sheet

of paper, just larger than your average Chinese menu, nearly ended up in the trash.

Approximately 130 mil-lion U.S. Census forms began arriving at residenc-es nationwide on Monday, March 15, accompanied by ample press coverage of the event — TV com-mercials, online advertise-ments and lively debates on a number of TV news stations about whether or not the Census is an enor-mous waste of government funds.

Despite the significant attention the Census has received, studies show that Americans are sur-prisingly uninformed both about their legal obliga-tion to participate in the Census and about the importance of doing so.

Just 13 percent of Americans are aware that it is illegal not to answer all of the questions on the 2010 Census, accord-ing to a telephone survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports, a public opinion polling firm. Another 57 percent of adults falsely believe that it is not against the law to not answer all of the questions on the Census.

Startling findings, to say the least.

Though the legal reper-cussions for not return-ing your Census are fairly tame — a potential $100 fine and the threat of a visit from one of the thousands of temporary Census workers — the effects on our democracy are far greater.

The Census, boiled down to its core, is simply a count of every individual living in the United States.

However, for Athens-Clarke County residents and University students in particular, your answers to its 10 questions represent a proverbial lifeline to our

local, state and national representatives.

Athens-Clarke County consistently ranks among our state’s most impover-ished locales, with nearly 31 percent of its popu-lation living below the poverty level, a mark that dwarfs the state’s aver-age poverty level of 14.7 percent, according to 2008 U.S. Census Bureau esti-mates.

Clearly, many in our very own backyard are in need of help, and by returning your Census promptly, we, as students and Athens residents, can inform our representa-tives in Washington and Atlanta of our commu-nity’s needs.

Census data is used in part to apportion seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, and to determine representation in state and local govern-ments.

Perhaps more impor-tantly, Census data plays a major role in guiding the distribution of more than $400 billion in government funds, money that on a local level translates into improving roads, schools — including our University — hospitals and govern-ment housing.

Whether you plan to leave Athens behind after your four years are up, or you intend to plant some permanent roots here post-graduation, those 10 minutes that it takes to fill out your Census will have a long-lasting effect on Athens residents and University students, pres-ent and future.

— Drew Kann is a senior from Atlanta

majoring in magazines and a sports writer for

The Red & Black

Census significantlyaffects college town

DREWKANN

“I could have chosen a different major, one in

a growing industry, with lots of job

prospects. Instead I chose something that I knew I would enjoy

studying.”

“... even though there are many great men that stick by their

families, I have to ask — where are all the

fathers?

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VARIETY The Red & Black | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | 7

By ZACK TAYLORTHE RED & BLACK

South Park and Family Guy are both animated series nota-ble for their crude humor, use of vulgarity, sexual themes and strong positive message on diversity.

At least, that is what speaker Matt Glowacki has to say about the shows.

In Glowacki’s talk “Diversity According to Family Guy and South Park,” hosted by the University Union Student Programming Board, he speaks about what he believes to be the real messag-es behind the shows.

He is not looking for differ-ences that divide the show, but instead will be discussing how the shows share a similar message but communicate it through slightly different ways.

“They both use two very sophisticated humor tech-niques, parody and satire,” Glowacki said. “They may come at it from different points of view but they both use the techniques to teach people stuff.”

Glowacki said “Family Guy” uses parody and satire in small bursts of humor, with jokes peppered throughout the episode almost at random, while “South Park” will devote a show to one or two focus issues.

While the presentation may be different the message is still the same, however.

“I think these shows have some of the best messages on diversity of any show on tele-vision,” Glowacki said.

Glowacki hopes his talk will help get people to start watching shows such as “Family Guy” and “South Park,” from a different per-spective.

“I think oftentimes people watch TV and it is just a one-way transmittal of informa-tion,” Glowacki said. “I want people to start paying atten-tion and want them to under-stand what they are actually seeing and why it is funny . . . that is what we are going to be teaching at the program.”

Understanding the deeper meaning behind what the characters on these shows are saying, Glowacki said he wants people to understand that any vulgarity, sexual innuendo, or racial joke being used in these shows is usually done in order to make a social statement.

Glowacki does, however, recognize these two shows can be off-putting to some people.

“I do think a lot of the time people have a problem break-ing past the initial vulgarities of the shows,” Glowacki said.

While he does believe these shows aren’t for everyone, it is the societal message the shows portray that is impor-tant.

“These shows are not going to be enjoyed by 100 out of 100 people, but if 30 out of 100 people enjoy it and under-stand the positive messages they are conveying, then I think the shows are doing a great job,” Glowacki said.

Jonathan Gibson, coordina-tor for the University Union’s Ideas and Issues Committee, believes the topics Glowacki addresses are relevant to col-lege student life.

“Part of our college experi-ence is learning about other people, and [Glowacki] is able to teach us a lot,” Gibson said.

Glowacki stressed his talk is about the good ideas these shows bring into the public forum about diversity.

“This isn’t a show where we are going to bash ‘Family Guy’ and ‘South Park,’” Glowacki said. “We are going to cele-brate the good ideas about diversity that come from the shows.”

Speaker discusses social messages in cartoon comedies

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evolved from these classic dances that originated in the Renaissance and medieval peri-ods. The Rufty Tufty, considered to be an old English country dance, is the ancestor of square dancing.

Medina believes the basic ideas behind dancing haven’t changed much either. Rather than facing down an opponent in battle, it is a social way to con-nect with the person across from you, be it a friend or stranger, he said.

“We’re trying to show that we’re well-rounded,” said Jennifer Leyting, club president. “Just seeing people have fun is the ultimate goal of MARS.”

Leyting said she found a home amongst MARS when she discov-ered it during her sophomore year at the University. Now, she can’t imagine her college experi-ence without it.

On weekends, it’s not uncom-mon to hear hammering or the constant thrum of a sewing machine coming from the house

on Jefferson Circle. The members of MARS can spend hours shap-ing and crafting handmade armor and sewing historically-ac-curate garb. The finished prod-ucts are impressive, the results of an honest effort and dedication to history.

Whether the idea, the history, the exercise or the social aspect attracts you, medieval dancing is just one of the many things to discover on this campus. For MARS, it is all about being a family, a family they hope others will discover and join.

“Dance enables you to put on your finest garb and make some of your best friends on the dance floor,” Medina said. “There’s something inherently joyous about dancing.”

DANCE: Members create costumes by hand

When: 7 tonight

Where: Tate Student Center

Theatre

Price: Free for students/ $5

for non-students

DIVERSITY ACCORDING TO

FAMILY GUY AND SOUTH PARK

When: 7:30-9:30 tonight

Where: Tate Student Center room 139

More Information: Hosted by Medieval

and Renaissance Society, instructor

Susan Wilson

Price: Free

MEDIEVAL DANCE LESSON

ASHLEY STRICKLAND | The Red & Black

Mason Webb (left) and Medieval and Renaissance Society president Jennifer Leyting practice the Rufty Tufty, an old English country dance they will teach tonight at Tate.

8 | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | The Red & Black VARIETY & SPORTS

By CRISSINDA PONDERTHE RED & BLACK

As National Women’s History Month comes to a close, one University group is recognizing the achievements of women on a local level — here at the University and in the Athens community.

The 10th annual T.O.P. Dog Panel Discussion, “Women in Leadership,” will be held today for that purpose.

Sponsored by the Leadership Resource Team, the event will cel-ebrate women embrac-ing leadership positions in their personal and professional lives.

The discus-sion will be led by three women in prominent leadership posi-tions, including Athens mayor Heidi Davison. Joining the mayor is Terry College profes-sor of manage-ment Rebecca Kelly, and Libby V. Morris, vice provost for Academic Affairs and director of the University’s Institute for Higher Education.

“They will be discuss-ing experiences as lead-ers in today’s workforce, the challenges they face daily and also the suc-cesses of being leaders in today’s world,” said University student Tola Adeyeye, director of campus programming for LRT.

Sarah Wilcox, LRT adviser, said it’s impor-tant for the panel to be diverse in the leadership it represents.

“We worked really hard to have our panel represent leadership in the greater Athens com-munity and leadership here at the institution so that there’s a broad expertise,” Wilcox said.

Emily Gober, a sec-ond-year public relations and psychology major from Sandersville and

director of operations and outreach for LRT said women can be assets as leaders in any field.

“Women bring differ-ent things to the table that men may not neces-sarily possess, and with-out women’s input, it would be biased and subjective,” Gober said.

Of course, the pro-gram is not just for women to attend. It’s

also a way for all students to learn and develop skills for their immediate futures.

“It’s not just to educate — it’s also to create aware-ness on issues fac-ing our generation and society,” said Bobby Edenfield, a University senior

and director of the Georgia Collegiate Leadership Conference.

The panelists will give advice to students about how to handle potential obstacles they may face.

“We hope to be able to give a clear view of the women who are in power, so that anybody who is able to attend will see a positive role model and they can hope to achieve as much or maybe even more than these women have,” Adeyeye said.

Because of how far they have come in their different journeys to suc-cess, LRT believes the women participating in the panel can serve as examples for others in similar situations.

“It’s great to see women who have over-come the disadvantage of being underrepresent-ed, and to hear the advice that they may have for others,” Edenfield said.

Panel celebrates female leaders

What: Women in Leadership

When: 4:30-6 today

Where: Tate Reception Hall

Price: Free

PANEL DISCUSSION

By MICHAEL FITZPATRICKTHE RED & BLACK

Some teams high-five or fist bump to transfer positive energy from one teammate to another.

Then there are the Gym Dogs.They prefer the wenis rub, of

course. Senior Lauren Sessler and junior

Hilary Mauro concocted the idea to employ a “wenis pump” before each gymnast competes on an event on the team’s bus trip to Alabama Jan. 15.

“We were on the bus, and some-how we got on the topics of wenises and we thought it was hilarious,” Sessler said. “And Hilary and I we kept thinking about it and thinking about it and coming up with songs, and then we turned it into the wenis pump, kind of like a fist pump, only with your elbow ... Now every time before we compete we rub wenises, and it’s just our thing now.”

The wenis is the term for the flap of skin over one’s elbow, which was supposedly impossible to lick — until freshman Kati Breazeal disproved it.

“We were talking about it at my club gym a few years ago and some-one told me it is impossible to lick your elbow,” Breazeal said. “So I tried it and somehow I was able to do it, and kind of scared and impressed everybody. After I do it, everyone tries to do it, but I haven’t met any-one else who can actually lick their wenis.”

“I saw her do it on the bus and I was amazed because people always say its impossible, but she can do it,” sophomore Gina Nuccio said. “We were all trying to do it on the bus and we just couldn’t do it. It was really funny to see, but she can do it.”

The girls know its goofy, but admit-ted that that’s the point of it.

“It provides comic relief,” Sessler said. “It keeps us laughing and hav-ing a good time, and it’s a little dis-traction from the pressure of com-peting ... It’s stupid and ridiculous, but its hilarious and it just really caught on.”

It not only caught on for the Gym Dogs — it works. And at no other time was that as apparent as during the vault and floor exercise rotations

— the team’s supposed “weak links” — at the SEC Championships Saturday.

Georgia finished their first two rotations and held a sizable lead over the rest of the conference, which includes No. 1 Alabama and No. 4 Florida. Then they lost their focus — for two minutes — but it was that loss of focus that ultimately cost them an SEC title.

“We have to stay within each other and have fun,” Sessler said. “We have to do the wenises and just focus on us and not anything else. Treat this like an intersquad that we do every day, and it’s so important and so cru-cial because our theme this year has

been one little mistake and we tight-en up. We just have to go into this like an intersquad and if we do that, we will come out on top.”

While Mauro — who nearly bought a “Wenis Power” T-shirt on the Internet — and Sessler haven’t shared their wenis songs with their team-mates, the importance of the new trend has infected each and every Gym Dog.

“It’s a tradition we adopted, and it’s pretty important to us now because we are transferring our ‘wenis power’ to each other,” Breazeal said. “It’s something fun we do to loosen us up and get a good vibe going so we can get relaxed before we compete.”

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Sophomore Gina Nuccio (left) and her Gym Dog teammates have adopted the ‘wenis rub’ to boost the team’s morale.

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By DAVID MITCHELLTHE RED & BLACK

Junior Mark Dylla had worked all year for that moment.

After back-to-back second-place finishes in the 200 butterfly at the NCAA swimming and diving cham-pionships, Dylla had finally touched the wall first in what should have been a crowning achievement in his career at Georgia.

Beginning to celebrate and accept congratulations from his fel-low swimmers, Dylla began to emerge from his field of victory when his most dreaded words were uttered over the PA system.

“There has been a disqualifica-tion in lane six,” the announcer said — Dylla’s lane.

The call was that Dylla had per-formed an illegal one-hand touch — rather than the required two hands — on his first turn of the race. While video evidence appeared to show that Dylla did touch with both hands, that particular call is not subject to review.

“I worked all year for that race and I obviously wanted to win this year,” Dylla said. He struggled to find the words. “To have that moment stripped from you — it was pretty tough.”

But according to head coach Jack Bauerle, rather than take it as a moment of failure, Dylla’s next actions reflect the mindset of the team and explain why it has been successful this year.

“[Dylla’s] a great young man, and I couldn’t have been more proud of how he reacted to everything,” Bauerle said. “I still feel a little sick to my stomach just thinking about it, to be honest, but his reaction is indicative of what this team is about. It’s one of my favorite teams that I’ve ever coached.”

Despite the disqualification, the team placed eighth, compiling a total of 143 points in the three-day event, just 6.5 more than ninth place Ohio State.

Freshman Martin Grodzki was the top individual finisher, taking second place in the 1,650 freestyle

with a time of 14:48.15. Senior Troyden Prinsloo and freshman Andrew Gemmell placed seventh and 12th in the event, respectively.

The 400 freestyle relay of Michael Arnold, Matt Bartlett, Kevin Frankenfeld and Craig Jennings secured the team’s eighth place fin-ish by coming in 13th.

“They did a great job,” Bauerle said. “They really picked us up. We needed to finish higher than Ohio State, and on paper they might have been a better team than ours. But those guys swam a great race.”

Now the Bulldogs look ahead to next season. Bauerle said they expect continued progress despite the loss of a couple of key swimmers to graduation.

“I think we’re going to have a great spring and summer,” he said. “We’ll lose some guys, but we’re defi-nitely going to shoot for being a top-5 team next year.”

And as for Dylla?“I want to win that race next

year,” Dylla said, “and I want to win it in commanding fashion.”

Disqualification ‘tough’ to swallow

By ZACH DILLARDTHE RED & BLACK

An important goal for the No. 7 Georgia softball team begins this evening at the Georgia Softball Complex — with bragging rights on the line.

Kennesaw State (15-12) makes the trip from Atlanta to square off with the Bulldogs (24-6, 5-4 SEC) for the first contest against an in-state opponent this season for head coach Lu Harris-Champer and her squad.

“We try not to place any more emphasis on these games than any oth-ers, whether they are from the state of Georgia or not,” assistant coach Gerry Glasco said. “Every game is important at this time of year as we are leading up to the NCAA Tournament.”

Pitching dominated this showdown last season, and the story may not differ this time around.

Sophomore pitcher Erin Arevalo (14-5) has strug-gled of late after a domi-nant start — with her ERA up to 2.02 while going 2-3 in conference play — but has been picked up by the con-tributions of freshman Alison Owen.

Owen (4-0) has stepped in for many successful relief efforts in her first year in Athens, most of which came in big-time games and tough situations. Of the young pitcher’s four wins, three have come against SEC opponents then-No. 17 Tennessee and Kentucky.

“She has really made some great progress throughout the year and she’s starting to be a big factor for us on the mound,” Glasco said. “Coach [Harris-Champer] has

worked really hard with Alison this year, and Alison has worked really hard for coach Champer. We really are getting more confident in her with each out-ing.”

Whichever pitch-er takes the mound for the Bulldogs, she will face Kennesaw

State’s sophomore pitcher Jessica Cross, who is the Owls’ strongest on the mound. Cross (9-3) has held opposing batters to just a .181 batting average through 14 games, etching out a 1.12 ERA in the pro-cess.

Additionally, Cross leads the team with eight home runs and 23 RBIs at the plate while splitting time at shortstop.

After a strong start to the season, first baseman Brianna Hesson still leads the Bulldogs in home runs (8) and RBIs (30) despite slowing down in recent weeks. The junior had an excellent series against the Wildcats of Kentucky last weekend, and could look to continue finding her early-season swing.

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Junior Mark Dylla, who held the nation’s fastest time in the 200 butterfly going into the NCAA Championships, was disqualified due to a one-handed wall touch on his first turn.

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By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK

Georgia returns 10 starters on offense this spring, but the most important position remains unclaimed — quarterback.

And because of that, head coach Mark Richt said he has been in, and will continue to be in, every quarter-back and offensive meeting this sea-son — something he hasn’t done since turning over his offensive play-calling duties to offensive coordina-tor Mike Bobo four seasons ago.

“I just want to do that period from here on in, just because I miss it, and because this spring in partic-ular we’re trying to make a decision on a starter,” Richt said. “I want to make sure I understand completely.”

With a decision as important as the one for quarterback, Richt said he wants to see how the quarter-backs are dealing with the pressure and adjustments that come with being the starter on the fly, and the meeting rooms give him a better chance to do that.

“I want to see them react to coaching. I want to see them answer the questions that Mike [Bobo] asks them,” Richt said. “I just want to kind of get a taste of how they are handling the pressure, so I’ve been more involved in the offensive meet-ing room and the quarterback meet-ing room, mostly by being at every-one of them.”

For the last couple of seasons, Richt has been “basically an observ-er” in the quarterback and offensive meeting rooms, but said he “would watch practice film separately from the staff, make my notes, and talk to the staff about things I saw.”

Not this year, though, opting instead “to be in there every day when they’re going over it to make sure we’re all on the same page.”

Richt initially gave up some of his involvement on the offensive side of the ball because he wanted to give Bobo, as a new offensive coordinator, the same freedom that he had been giving by Bobby Bowden when he was handed the reins as offensive coordinator at Florida State.

“Like I told Mike and the staff, I’m not in there to make them crazy at all,” Richt said. “But I’m in there because I do miss it No. 1. But I also want to be able to add as much value as I can as we go forward.”

Offensive line struggles through injuries

With the announcement that sec-ond-string left tackle AJ Harmon would be out for the remainder of spring practice with a high ankle sprain, Georgia’s depth at offensive line is getting woefully thin.

Trinton Sturdivant, Austin Long

and Tanner Strickland were already sidelined for the spring with injuries. And Harmon’s injury further depletes a unit needing to establish depth behind its five returning start-ers.

With three of the four injured players having the ability to play left tackle, the shuffling around for start-er Clint Boling’s backup began, as Richt says even he “lost track”.

“I think we had like four different guys play left tackle today,” Bobo said. “We were not executing at that position, but that’s another guy, AJ Harmon, that we wanted to provide depth with up front and get him ready to play. Him being out right now is going to hurt his progress, but it gives the other guys more opportu-nity to step up, but we’re short at that position.”

The coaches had been giving Harmon multiple reps in hopes of him providing some solid depth at tackle, where two seniors start. But

his injury in Saturday’s scrimmage not only slows his progression, but places a greater strain on the remaining healthy offensive line.

“It puts pressure on everybody because right now we don’t have a lot of depth, so we really can’t afford another injury right now,” Boling said. “We just have to keep every-body healthy.”

Practice lacking intensity, drive

Throughout spring practice, Richt has praised the intensity of his team in practice.

Not the case after Georgia took the practice field Tuesday.

“I would rank today’s practice ninth out of the nine we have had,” said Richt. “The tempo fizzled on us, and I had been satisfied with the tempo pretty much all spring before today.

“We are going to have to learn to push through when we’re tired. We didn’t practice like champions today, but the good news is that Thursday is another day to get it going.”

10 | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | The Red & Black SPORTS

By CHRIS D’ANIELLOTHE RED & BLACK

As the ladies of the Georgia women’s tennis team collected the balls that managed to stray beyond the edge of the outdoor courts in the Dan Magill Tennis Complex, head coach Jeff Wallace sat down with The Red & Black to catch up with the man at the helm of a team in the hunt to repeat as SEC Champions.

Let’s start off talking about Chelsey Gullickson. What is it that makes her so special and lets her step up and lead the team as just a sophomore?

Chelsey’s having another great year to back up her great freshman year. She’s definitely on track and doing well. You know, she’s a big hitter and she’s an aggressive player. We’re going to continue to work on her transitional game and if we can add a big serve, she’s got the potential to be a phenome-nal player.

She’s also on a 16-game win streak in doubles with sophomore Nadja Gilchrist. Where do you see their potential taking them?

With what Nadja and Chelsey have accomplished in their first year and what they’re currently accom-plishing, we’re most excit-ed about their future and their potential.

It’s important as always they stay focused on improving together and that’s when really good things are going to happen.

Yvette Hyndman has been one of the strongest players for you since the season moved outdoors. She’s gone 6-0 in the SEC. What is it that has allowed her to turn her game around after strug-gling in the indoor season?

Well, Yvette’s started to really practice hard. She’s been coming in for individual workouts and she’s improving every aspect of her game. I’ve always said — and I’ve said this to you before — if you’re coming in extra and working hard a practice, good things are going to happen for you. Yvette’s the prime example of that.

Your team has been climbing the ITA national rankings the past month, up to No. 13 now. Do you pay any mind to these team rankings?

I mean, I know what they are. But they’re not important right now. The last ranking is already gone. And next Tuesday this ranking will be gone. The only ranking that’s final is… the final one. So that’s the only one that matters for us.

What about singles and doubles rankings?If they’re getting better, that’s what’s important.

The rankings and the awards are byproducts of hard work and improvement. If you do everything right, the awards, the rankings will come. So we stay focused on the process, not the rewards.

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