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WES BLANKENSHIP | The Red & Black

University President Michael Adams addresses the campus Wednesday. He discussed budget-ary and academic plans for 2010.

JACKIE REEDY | The Red & Black

Senior Alex Hill and his teammates on the Georgia men’s tennis team have created a quirky game for practice. Details on page 6.

TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING

University approves ‘green fee’

By MIMI ENSLEYTHE RED & BLACK

Four rows of students representing members of the University’s various envi-ronmental groups cheered when they heard the news.

At Wednesday’s annual State of the University address, University President Michael Adams announced he would accept the recommendation to impose a $3 “green fee” to fund an Office of Sustainability on campus.

“We’d heard lots of rumors, but we weren’t ready to trust anything until we heard it from the man himself,” said Mark Milby, co-chair of the Go Green Alliance. “And he delivered.”

The “green fee” recommendation stems from a student referendum last March. The fee passed the University’s Mandatory Fees Committee last semes-ter. It will support efforts to coordinate environmental programming, address energy efficiency and interlace sustain-ability efforts on campus with University academics.

Kevin Kirsche, now serving as assis-tant director of planning in the Office of University Architects, will head the Office of Sustainability. His new duties begin Feb. 1, and the fee would be implement-ed next semester.

Emily Karol, a junior from Marietta and the other co-chair for Go Green Alliance, said for her, the fee is exciting.

“It’s going to give us an outlet to explain what we want on campus, explain the initiatives that we keep coming up with,” she said. “Instead of having to go to 10 different people, we can go to this one person, this one office, this one com-mittee, and they can help us bring those goals to fruition.”

Adams announced, however, that he would not be signing the Presidents’ Climate Commitment, which would require the University to develop a plan to achieve climate neutrality in the near

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By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

Its bloodsucking capabilities make it one of the most dangerous threats to sheep, goats and other small ruminants in the Southeast.

No, it’s not a character from “Twilight” — it’s a parasite called Haemonchus contortus.

“The biggest management prob-lem with sheep and with goats is parasite control,” said Robert Stewart, a project coordinator in the animal and dairy science depart-ment. “It has been identified that Haemonchus is the biggest parasite of concern.”

Robert, who has worked with sheep for the past 25 years, said small ruminants, or cud-chewing animals, are more susceptible to

contracting the parasite because when grazing, they bite off closer to the ground — possibly ingesting the parasite eggs.

Sally Stewart, a sophomore from Watkinsville, has been involved in her family’s sheep farm for most of her life. She said not only is the Haemonchus contortus the deadli-est parasite in the Southeast, it’s the biggest problem her family’s flock faces.

“Haemonchus is a huge problem,” she said. “[It] causes anemia, diar-rhea and dehydration, among other things, and can eventually lead to death if not treated.”

What’s almost more disturbing than having a vampire-like worm infesting a sheep flock is that many Haemonchus strains are now becom-ing resistant to common de-worm-

ers — and drug companies are not developing any new products to alle-viate the situation, Robert said.

“We had excellent de-wormers on the market that worked very well, but de-worming anything that often, you run the risk of creating a resis-tance,” he said, referring to the pre-vious practice of de-worming sheep flocks every 30 days.

Bob Storey, a laboratory manager in the department of infectious dis-eases, said Haemonchus contortus, more commonly known as the bar-ber pole worm, adheres to the inner wall of the abomasum — or true stomach — of sheep, goats and other small ruminant animals.

He said the parasite could also cause other problems.

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Professors improve test for deadly sheep parasiteSTICK IT TO ‘EM

By BEN BUSSARDTHE RED & BLACK

Finally.The Georgia women’s bas-

ketball team was able to defeat the mighty Tennessee Lady Volunteers for the first time in nearly six years Thursday, and get a win at home for the first time in 10 years.

In a back-and-forth battle that yielded 16 lead changes and 10 ties, the No. 8 Lady Dogs (18-1, 5-1) outlasted the No. 3 Lady Vols (16-2, 4-1) by a score of 53-50.

The stellar Georgia defense — which held the Lady Vols to just 29.2 percent shooting in the second half — clamped down on Tennessee guards Angie Bjorklund and Shekinna

Stricklen, as they were a com-bined 6-for-21 shooting overall and racked up 13 turnovers.

“I don’t even think I’m going to sleep tonight because me and Ashley waited, talked about it and thought about it,” senior center Angel Robinson said. “[Now] we leave on a good note. That’s something I’ll always remem-ber from my senior year. I don’t think I ever had that feeling throughout my whole career here.”

Robinson wasn’t the only one hurling the monkey off her back as fellow senior Ashley Houts shared her feelings fol-lowing her first victory over the Lady Vols and where the win ranks in her career.

“Top of the list. One of the

top wins we’ve had here. It feels good definitely to beat Tennessee, but I think it means more for this program,” Houts said.

Tennessee would turn the ball over a total of 23 times and send the Lady Dogs to the free throw line 23 times. The Lady Dogs capitalized on their foe’s mistakes, scoring 21 points off of Tennessee turn-overs.

As important as the Thursday night win was to the Georgia players, head coach Andy Landers could barely contain his admiration of his team’s overall effort.

“I‘ve said for a long time that selfish players won’t play defense ... you’re not going to get a selfish player to play

defense,” Landers said. “So the greatest compliment that I can pay our team is that this is a very, very unselfish group of kids because we don’t put anybody on the floor that doesn’t just play their tail off on the defensive end.”

The significance of the win against Tennessee was best represented in the eyes of seniors Houts and Robinson, as they were able to accom-plish something that had elud-ed them throughout their entire careers.

But as the horn sounded and the entire Georgia team stormed to midcourt, it was clear that every Lady Dog knew just how important this victory truly was after a long six-year wait.

Lady Dogs get win against rival Tennessee

PHOTOS BY ASHLEY STRICKLAND | The Red & Black

Senior guard Ashley Houts put up 12 points in the Lady Dogs’ 53-50 victory over rival Tennessee Thursday. The win is the first in six years for Georgia, and the first in Stegeman Colisem since 2000.

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By PAIGE VARNERTHE RED & BLACK

Want to learn how to paint but haven’t taken the prerequi-sites for ARST 2100?

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The University Center for Continuing Education isn’t just for those wanting to earn their real estate licenses.

University students can take courses there also.

“If students take a class here, they will be impressed,” said Annette Ogletree-McDougal, assistant director of marketing and communications for the Georgia Center.

The personal enrichment

courses — such as painting, pho-tography and creative writing — cost between $100 and $200, but the professional courses, such as legal studies certificates and the Spanish/English Interpreter Series, can cost $600 or more.

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The Georgia Center even pro-vides LSAT, GMAT and GRE prep courses.

The courses are convenient to students, whether on campus or online, Ogletree-McDougal said.

There are assignments in per-sonal enrichment courses, but no

grades. “You can just take it for fun,”

Logan said.More than 1,400 students took

the Georgia Center courses in fall 2009, but many of them were not seeking hobbies.

“We offer a variety of profes-sional development [courses] for career changers,” Logan said.

The Georgia Center offers pro-fessional exam reviews for some career paths, such as certified administrative professionals and personal fitness trainers.

“The online courses that are hot are speed Spanish, grant writ-ing, Web page design and Microsoft applications,” Logan said.

The University 2010-2020 Strategic Planning Committee is addressing continuing education

in order to meet the lifelong learn-ing needs of Georgia citizens.

“We know most of our gradu-ates are going to have four or five jobs over their careers. We need to offer lifelong learning,” said William Vencill, the committee chair.

With a little help from the Osher Foundation — totaling $200,000 next month — the Learning in Retirement program, now called the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, provides area retirees with more than 50 cours-es for less than $30 each.

“We keep the fees and dues as low as possible because retirees are on a set income, and we’re strictly a volunteer organization,” said Anita Brannen, president of the OLLI at UGA.

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“Athens is often rated right at the top, within the top five. Retirees love the moderate weather and love to be around a college or university for a lot of things to do, and it’s located not that far from a major city,” she said.

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future.He cited the University’s coal-powered

steam plant and major agricultural college as reasons for not signing the document.

“I want us to be known for doing what we say we will do and not for signing on to agreements with obligations we know we cannot meet,” Adams said.

But Karol and Milby were not upset.“His concerns about us not being able to

meet the goals are legitimate,” Milby said.Adams also briefly addressed the

University’s budget situation, but he said the budget would not be the main focus of his speech. He will present a budget update on Jan. 29.

But he did announce that the University would use $4 million in central budget savings to “address some critical needs” — $2 million for hiring faculty and $2 million for “one-time critical needs.”

“We simply must support the central missions of teaching and research, and to do so we must begin to replace the ranks of essential lost faculty,” he said. “This action will, I believe, also position us to take advantage of the opportunities to bring in new faculty talent that will present them-selves as we come out of the recession.”

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“Our economic challenges, though very real and contributing to hard decisions that we have yet to make in regard to the future of this institution collectively, pale in comparison to what the real economic challenges are, in many ways, around the world,” he said.

Adams asked the campus community to show its support for Haiti next Tuesday by wearing the Dawgs for Haiti T-shirt. T-shirts are available in the Tate Plaza.

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“There is an intermedi-ate stage where it causes poor performance in the animal,” he said.

Poor performance can include losing weight and producing little to no wool — big economic problems for producers who sell their sheep to market.

“Due to the high preva-lence of Haemonchus, pro-ducers de-wormed like crazy,” Storey said. He said Cydectin, a popular de-wormer on the market today, is “the last thing in our arsenal right now” to fight the parasite.

Robert said the FAMACHA system, a method for determining the level of anemia in sheep by checking the color of their inner eyelids, was developed to strategi-cally treat flocks of ani-mals to help cut down on the amount of drug-resis-tant parasites.

“I cut my de-worming

by 75 percent by being able to strategically iden-tify the animals that were truly infected,” he said.

However, older methods of determining the severity of Haemonchus infestation took up to two weeks to return results, despite indi-cations by the FAMACHA system, Storey said.

Storey, along with his University colleagues Ray Kaplan and Sue Howell, and Michael Kent, a micro-biology professor from Oregon State University, have been working to implement a faster way to determine the population size of the parasite in a given pasture.

The test Storey and his colleagues set out to modify and implement — original-ly developed in Australia in 1996 — was never put into practice in the United States.

It involves using lectins — chemicals found in plants that bond to sugar.

“We didn’t discover the

test,” said Kaplan, an asso-ciate professor in the department of infectious diseases. “It never was really used, it was just pub-lished. We decided to inves-tigate it and try it out.”

Storey said the lectin staining procedure tests for the percentage of para-sitic eggs in a fecal sample using a fluorescent dye.

“The lectin from pea-nuts had an affinity for the protein coating on Haemonchus eggs, but not on any of the other [para-sites],” he said.

He said the lectin test would be very valuable in the fight against the para-site.

“It is not a class of test to replace FAMACHA, but is designed to back it up,” he said. “We really like for people to use the FAMACHA system.”

Storey said the test is available at the University, and costs $40.

Howell, a research pro-fessional in the depart-

ment of infectious diseas-es, said fecal samples from the University’s sheep flock had not undergone the new lectin test, though there are plans in place to run the test the next time samples are sent in.

Robert said the University’s population of Haemonchus is becoming resistant to some of the de-wormers used on the sheep flocks, but added the FAMACHA system will still be used as a primary

source despite the intro-duction of the lectin test.

“If the faculty at the vet school need to use [the lectin test] or if we run into a parasite problem we can’t solve, then yes we’ll use it,” he said.

SHEEP: Test to help save flocks

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By MICHAEL WHITWORTHTHE RED & BLACK

According to Jimmy Hughes, the future of humanity is bleak. In fact, he believes that humans themselves may even give way to post-apocalyptic bugs.

So goes the theme he devised for the new Folklore concept album, which the band will play tonight at the Caledonia Lounge.

“This [album] is about a post-human Earth where peaceful ani-mals coexist until a day when an ancient demi-god by the name of Loki is unearthed,” he said. “They believe him to be the last of the humans.”

Hughes removes his own human perspective out of the conceptual nar-rative and envisions the new world from a differ-ent angle.

“I wanted to show

what it would be like from an animal’s or a bug’s perspective to live in a world where humans had become extinct,” he said

To add to the band’s eccentric insect-inspired themes, Hughes said the band has an unusually large number of mem-bers, “at least 10 or 11 people on stage for some songs.”

The current lineup is apparently a hybrid of two groups, one hailing from his current town of Philadelphia and the other residing in Athens.

New Folklore album predicts future bugsBy KATIE ANDREW

THE RED & BLACK

Anyone who happens to walk by the black double doors of the 40 Watt Club tomorrow night will get an earful of what may sound more like an electro-pop orgy than a band.

“If Hot Fuzz-era Killers and No Doubt had a sleazy one-night stand that pro-duced an illegitimate child, and Bloc Party adopted it, that would sound like us,” Joshua Schwarber, key-boardist for Athens’ new-est electro-pop outlet The Orkids, said.

The band, which recent-ly made the leap from stu-dio project to full-flung five-piece, will be hosting a release party for their EP “Paper Dolls” this Saturday at 40 Watt.

“I thought it was a good overarching theme for the whole album,” guitarist and vocalist Adam Monica said of the album title. “It’s kind of about doing what you want and not being a format, not giving in to what other people want.”

The album begins with vocalist Sandra Gallardo belting out a title track. The emotionally-charged lyrics, however, were writ-ten by Monica.

“It’s a song I wrote through her point of view,” he said.

Gallardo describes the song as dealing with an issue most people face at one time or another.

“‘Paper Dolls’ is about changing who you are to fit a mold for a guy,” she said.

Monica added that the song describes living in a two-dimensional world after having lost a part of yourself to someone else.

Monica and Gallardo

are the founding members of the band and share songwriting responsibili-ties.

After having their fun as a studio project, the pair recently teamed up with keyboardist Schwarber, along with Brad Lee Zimmerman on drums and Sheldon Wolfe on bass.

While the male mem-bers have had plenty of on-stage experience, this is Gallardo’s first band.

“I think this is as com-fortable as a rookie could get,” she said. “Even though the boys have their own language, I’m trying to catch up.”

The Orkids members

say they are excited to get the EP off the ground in Athens because of the good vibes Athens audi-ences have accorded it in the past.

“Reception has been very positive,” Schwarber said.

Perhaps the positive response is a reflection of the band’s “familial” dynamic.

“The five of us, beyond

having a musical synergy, just really dig each other as people,” Schwarber said.

Everything hasn’t been perfect, however. Guitarist Monica recounts one par-ticularly awkward mishap at a Go Bar show recently.

“I had my iPhone [on stage] playing a backtrack and the chord was hanging down,” Monica said. “In the middle of the song I went to turn it up. I caught the chord with my guitar and launched my iPhone across Go Bar into the crowd.”

Monica described the feeling of watching his $600 musical apparatus — not to mention phone and iPod — flying into the abyss.

“It just threw me off and I felt like an idiot,” he said “That was the worst.”

The Orkids’ EP pushes being real

With Trances Arc and CraneWhen: Saturday at 9:30 p.m.Where: 40 Watt ClubPrice: $5 in advance at Schoolkids Records or online at www.athensmusic.net; $7 at the door. Every ticket includes a free copy of the album.

ORKIDS EP RELEASE PARTY

By KATHLEEN DAILEYTHE RED & BLACK

The publishing industry encom-passes many genres making it diffi-cult for aspiring novelists to find a direct path to success.

Amy Jackson Pearce, a 2007 UGA English department graduate, is returning to her alma mater for a question and answer session about how to succeed in the industry. The Q & A will follow her book reading and signing.

Pearce will be reading clips from her novels “Sisters Red” and her newest novel “As You Wish.”

“Since ‘As You Wish’ is about to be released in August, I am planning to focus on that book during the reading,” Pearce said.

She also plans to speak with stu-dents who are aspiring authors and give them an inside look at how to become published and share her insider knowledge.

“When I was entering the busi-ness, I had no idea what I was doing,” Pearce said. “It is a very tricky field to get into, but not if you know and understand how it works.”

Pearce, whose works fall under the young-adult genre, has dreamed of being an author since childhood.

Pearce has been writing since the

age of 10, when she would write small stories on her parent’s com-puter.

“It wasn’t until I was about 19 and in college when I realized that I wanted to write for real,” she said.

But, having only taken one cre-ative writing class in her life, she was largely self-taught.

“For me, school and writing never went hand in hand,” she said. “I loved the English classes I took, but I never took many creative writing courses.”

However, UGA’s English Department and Park Hall have been in Pearce’s mind since her departure from campus three years ago.

“The novel I am working on now features a magic bookcase that is actually inspired by the library in Park Hall,” Pearce said.

Pearce decided to enter into the young-adult fiction drama because she feels that the characters are

more relatable and that the genre has been overlooked.

“Young adult [novels] intrigued me,” she said. “I was not interested in adult books because I was never able to connect with the characters.”

Pearce feels that young-adult fic-tion centers around coming of age stories.

“Young-adult fiction has been overlooked in colleges and schools for years,” she said. “Some are now stepping up and taking advantage of these works.”

Pearce finds it difficult to pin-point inspirations of her ideas, but she can always trace the idea back to a single thought.

“Usually I’ll get an idea and spawn all my novels from that one thought,” she said. “For example, ‘Sisters Red’ started out as me won-dering what would have happened if the story of Little Red Riding Hood were altered into a story where she kicked the wolf’s ass?”

Pearce hopes to share her knowl-edge of the literary business with aspiring students while promoting her books as well.

“Writing is a confusing and diffi-cult industry, and I am excited to help out in any way I can,” she said. “I am looking forward to seeing Park Hall and the campus again as well.”

Novelist alumna returns to guide aspiring authors

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4 | Friday, January 22, 2010 | The Red & Black

It seems like all we hear about are budget cuts, deficits and how much money everyone needs and simply does not have.

The Red and Black editorial board feels it is a welcome change of pace to hear President Michael Adams pledge money toward hiring faculty.

Adams resolved to put 2009 behind him, and he did it in fine form during the 2010 State of the University address. Two million dollars will go toward the hiring of faculty, with the scienc-es announced as the major benefactor.

Hopefully, this funding will also provide some relief for the English department and the School of Public and International Affairs, along with many other colleges.

Both these colleges serve as examples of how much strain the budget crisis has placed on faculty numbers as student enrollment in these colleges continue to increase.

Another $2 million was pledged to the University’s critical hiring needs, which the President stressed as “one-time.”

Attending a university that bucks recession trends so fiercely fosters confidence that can be hard to come by in a weak economy.

The President’s decision to implement the $3 “green fee,” which will go toward the University’s very own Office of Sustainability, is a positive step toward a sustainable campus.

The University has already made other important steps in that direction with LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, certificated buildings and campaigns to reduce water and energy use.

However, the President’s declaration that he had rejected the notion of signing the Climate Commitment, along with the reminder that a coal-fired power plant still sits on South Campus, came as uncomfortable reminders of further steps the University must make.

Fortunately, Adams tempered worries with a stated desire to see the University change for the better and the greener.

“We have done much, and we will continue to do much,” he said in his address. The senti-ment is wonderful to hear. Hopefully, Adams stays true to his words.

— Thomas Hooper for the editorial board.

Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board

$4 million forwardPresident Michael Adams’ announces new progressive budget allocation

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Bill Richards,I believe the time has

come for you to seriously take into consideration your current ability to be a viable political cartoonist.

Your cartoon published Thursday, Jan. 21 (as well as many published recently) lacks any sort of attempt to be even some-what objective.

Sure, political cartoon-ists have their biases and beliefs which lend to their art, but they also acknowl-edge the importance of seeing the world through a mostly objective lens.

This gives them cred-ibility. You do not do this.

Implying that, by elect-ing a Republican senator, the state of Massachusetts has “flipped off” America insults not only the foun-dations of federalism which our Constitution is based on, but also the people of Massachusetts who made that choice.

Maybe we should just do away with popular elec-tions and have the current administration fill Senate vacancies.

God forbid, a Republican might get elected by the free will of the people. I’m trying to help you here. Regain some equilibrium in your work.

EVAN TIGHEGraduate student

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L.A. tours do not “sanitize” culture

This is in response to Lisa Glaser’s comment on the gang bus tours article on Jan. 19.

A former gang member choosing to highlight the lifestyle of south-central L.A. “from a sanitized perch” is about as dehu-manizing as say, the musi-cal “West Side Story.”

Or how about gang influence/gang references in music? Or even history channel shows on gangs and gang violence? Are these also objectionable forms of expression?

I, too, have never resided in south-central L.A., and I would be much more inclined to trust the opinion of a resident of the area.

ROBERT KUTLICK Graduate student

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There’s nothing quite like the sound of your friend getting slammed up against the wall

… especially when her cries are of pain, not pleasure.

Unfortunately I know exactly how this sounds. I’ve been the help-less ear on the other side of the door.

The only other sound more dis-turbing than my roommate’s spine-chilling shrieks was hearing her tell the Georgia State Patrol officer that she doesn’t want to press charges.

I’m not going to preach about domestic violence, nor will I express my full support for the brave women who have stood up to their abusive partners by pressing charges.

That column has come and gone. Now I’m interested in figuring out how these situations have come to pass — how do you prevent a dat-ing disaster? Were there signs in my roommate’s case?

Absolutely.Aside from being on parole for

some drug charges and a history of cheating, stealing and the murder he told me he got away with — I can’t forget about the tattoo … under his eye … teardrops … two.

Regardless of whatever red flags that might indicate to steer clear, this was not my roommate’s fault, nor any woman’s fault who is abused by a man — if you need help or know someone who could use a protected place, call 706-542-SAFE.

Dating disasters also strike in less extreme & destructive ways – so what are the warning signals to look out for?

Well for one, tattoos on the face that denote people killed — yes, I looked it up on Wikipedia — are generally indicators of a less than moralistic person — not to mention a former prison spell and current narcotic addiction.

Those are givens. However, for the less extreme, hopefully more prevalent, hints which should alert you to pump the brakes, I had to ask around.

“Drug use is a pretty good sign,” said Heather Terry, a junior from Warner Robins.

Terry had her debit card stolen by a boyfriend who then drove her car, without permission, to Wal-Mart, where he purchased a PSP and a movie.

“Lying or cheating aren’t attri-butes to ignore either,” Terry divulged in the interview.

Although I agreed with Terry, I realized this was all from a woman’s perspective. What about the guys? What are the potholes they try to avoid?

Before I hit the streets for some male input, I started thinking about

my past and the guys that kind of just disappeared — who I subse-quently imagined were eaten — and the last thing I did, which could’ve been the reason they never called... ever again...

Yeah, I’m pretty sure all of them were eaten.

Anyway, after getting some help with my computer at the MLC, I Facebook-stalked the tech guy who was so knowledgeable with my Mac and asked him what were the sure-fire ways to scare off a guy.

“A girl who doesn’t mind burp-ing in public,” Rami El-Jourbagy, a senior from Monticello said with a chuckle.

I mentioned the general red flags from the female’s side, such as cheating or lying, and he had some great insight on possible rea-sons why guys would stay in such a minefield,

“If a girl has some of those issues you just listed but they mask it very well and are quite attractive, some guys will look through the crap. I think that can go both ways though.”

Ultimately, I believe trusting your intuition is the best way to avoid a dating disaster — that little pinch in the pit of your stomach that makes you feel nauseous and like you’re about to fail an exam.

Yeah, trust that feeling.

— Samantha Shelton is a seniorfrom Auburn majoring in news-

papers and women’s studies.

Look for warning signs when datingSAMANTHASHELTON

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you some lessons I have learned over the past four years and I hope you will take them to heart.

Book learnin’. (Since that’s the most important part of college, right?)

Don’t pick the major that seems useful, attractive on a résumé or what most people you know are choosing as a major. Don’t listen to your advisers. Don’t listen to your parents. Choose a major in what-ever subject truly interests you the most, that excites you and that you are most passionate about.

If you can find a job related to your major, you will be the happi-est person on earth. If not, then too bad. Half of your college “educa-tion” is out of the classroom any-way. If I could rewind time to be a freshman and start all over again, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Live downtown.Downtown Athens is one of

the most magical places on Earth. Nowhere else can you experience

the Twilight Criterium, hundreds of bars and some of the best music in America.

Claim the couch of a friend who lives downtown and crash there as much as possible. Eat brunch at the Last Resort every Sunday. If you get the chance and you are of legal age, drink champagne or a Pabst Blue Ribbon on the roof of Farmer’s Exchange. Only then, my friend, have you truly lived.

When in doubt, do it. I’m not condoning sex, drugs,

alcohol or making the Tom Petty college quote your mantra so that irresponsibility becomes your last name. Just don’t spend your life wishing you had gone to that con-cert instead of studying for two tests you had the next day. I have no idea what tests they were or what grade I got but I will always

regret missing that show.Go on dates and make friends. The concept sounds overly

simple but trust me you would be surprised.

Be open to all kinds of people. Some of the most interesting times in college I’ve had have come from going on random dates — whether it was grabbing a cup of coffee or dinner.

You have the rest of your life to be married. College is an opportuni-ty to create friendships. Do not run after a M.R.S. degree. Just because your parents met in college, doesn’t mean you have to be meet the right person in the four quick years you are here.

You won’t be able to take back a minute you waste, so don’t waste a second. College is the time to grow as an individual and get to know who you are and who you want to become.

Be yourself — it’s the best ver-sion of you, I promise.

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JACKIE REEDY | The Red & Black

Junior Drake Bernstein and the rest of the Georgia men’s tennis team open the dual-match season Saturday.

By LISA GLASERTHE RED & BLACK

At a given practice, the men’s tennis team may begin or end their workouts with a game called “Sticks.”

Let the trash talking com-mence.

“Nate feeds me the ball and I smash it,” senior Christian Vitulli said.

“I’m the best by far,” junior Drake Bernstein said.

“I’d say Nate [is the best], and Drake would obviously say himself, selfishly,” senior Alex Hill said.

Though the views on the game are varying, the rules are straightforward. Played in front of the service line, after one dou-bles pair serves the ball in, a member of the other team hits it to his partner, who then returns it back over the net using the “stick” side of his racket. “Sticks”

is a practice tool for the team for several reasons.

“We’ll do it at the beginning or the end, to either loosen up or to cool down. We play it just to have some fun, especially after a long day of practice,” Bernstein said.

Vitulli points to how the game helps with hand-eye coordina-tion, while Hill feels “Sticks” is useful in improving certain ten-nis skills.

“It helps our movement. But mostly, it’s just for a little relax-ation and fun,” Hill said.

Outside of a desire to improve each player’s individual abilities, “Sticks” may represent how this team relies on one another to have fun and make it through both practice and the day. It is one of several examples showing the team’s camaraderie.

“I’ve always felt that bringing the team closer together is the key to success. We’ve always had

a very close team and a lot of it has to do with the things we do together, stuff like playing that game,” Hill said.

Off the court, the team hangs out together, eats dinner togeth-er and occasionally pranks each other. The amount of time spent with one another may contrib-ute to the team’s atmosphere.

“You probably couldn’t find a time in the day where there’s not at least two of us together. When we do stuff, we do it as a team. We try to push that with everybody,” Bernstein said. “When freshmen get here, they kind of see how it is and how you do anything for your teammates

and they’re going to do whatever they can to help you out.”

With the team’s goals includ-ing winning a national champi-onship, every step toward the NCAA tournament involves every player, in one way or another.

According to Bernstein, depending on a teammate to help a fellow teammate improve in practice, laugh with you in a game of “Sticks” or to win an important match are all inter-twined.

“Really, when it comes down to it, that’s the difference between the best teams and the teams that are great,” Bernstein said.

“In the last few years, you could say, other than when we won it in ’07, the most talented team might not have won the tournament. It’s always the team with the best relationships that win it.”

Warm-up, cool down game improves Bulldogs’ play

By MICHAEL FITZPATRICKTHE RED & BLACK

Look around the Suzanne Yoculan Gymnastics Center and you’ll see photo after photo of beaming Gym Dogs celebrating national championship after national championship.

One of the gymnasts promi-nently displayed is junior Cassidy McComb. As a freshman in 2008, she was a key component in win-ning Georgia’s fourth national championship in a row, as she scored 9.9 in three events — vault, balance beam and the floor exer-cise — en route to a first team All-American selection on floor.

But all the photos of a celebra-tory McComb and her success in Stegeman Coliseum almost never happened. The Gym Dogs’ “Las Vegas Showgirl” didn’t want to go to Georgia, but to rival — and tonight’s opponent — Utah.

Her parents are from the Beehive State. She has family in St. George and Salt Lake City and had her heart set competing for legendary Utah head coach Greg Marsden, arguably the greatest NCAA women’s gymnas-tics coach of all time, rather than Suzanne Yoculan at Georgia.

“We had had our eye on her for a long time,” said Georgia head coach Jay Clark, who then was in charge of recruiting. “But I wasn’t sure if there was much interest, and to tell you the truth there really wasn’t.”

Marsden offered McComb a scholarship, but she didn’t imme-diately accept it.

“It was where I had wanted to go all along but I didn’t say ‘yes’ in time,” McComb said. “I wasn’t ready.”

When McComb finally accept-ed Utah’s offer, she was too late. Jacquelyn Johnson had already accepted the Utes’ last available scholarship. And a seemingly once closed door to Georgia was immediately reopened. Clark called McComb on July 1, 2006 to offer her a scholarship and sched-ule a visit to her family’s home in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson.

Clark said he talked to the McComb family for nearly four hours and that it was a “great visit.” And as he was preparing to leave, McComb gave him quite the surprise.

“As I was packing my things to leave she stopped me and said, ‘Let’s do this,’” Clark recalled. “She hadn’t even seen the cam-pus yet or anything and I looked at her mom and her dad and I said, ‘Are you guys OK with that?’”

“The way she committed was certainly a shock, but we knew that we were getting a good kid.”

Clark said it’s rare to recruit an athlete west of the Mississippi River without a Georgia angle, but for a western gymnast make a blind commitment is nearly unheard of.

McComb has no regrets for her eventual trek east to Athens. Two straight national titles can have that effect on someone.

“[Utah’s] program is just amaz-ing,” McComb said. “But Georgia just wins, and how can you turn something like that down? I’m much happier that I made this decision.”

Don’t let McComb’s flashy beam routine which features a Michael Jackson moonwalk — continuing a tradition set by for-mer Gym Dog Nikki Childs — fool you. She has no love lost for any opponent, much less her one-time dream school, and especially after losing in decided fashion last week to archrival Alabama.

“We have nothing to lose now,” said McComb, who will have 41 family members in attendance. “Go big or go home is all we have to do now, and that’s all we’ve got because we’ve basically hit the lowest low we can hit, and all we can do is go up from there. They are a huge rival for us and we want to go out there and kill ‘em.”

It’s McComb’s attitude, one of fervent competitiveness and determination, that makes her so important to Georgia’s success.

“I don’t even know where to start because I can’t even picture where this team would be with-out Cassidy,” said senior Grace Taylor, while looking at the pho-tographs on the wall.

“She’s vital. She has the atti-tude and the strong personality that really gives this team teeth. And we need that, some one us have the tendency to get a little white and fluffy, like girls in leo-tards, and she reminds us to be fierce.”

Fate leads McComb to Georgia, Gym Dogs

By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK

Travis Leslie has quickly become a YouTube favorite for his monster one-handed slam over Kentucky’s Demarcus Cousin’s head in what analysts are calling “dunk of the year.”

But all dunk-hype aside, he’s also quietly become one of the SEC’s most productive and underrated players.

Leslie has been so productive recently that he currently ranks in the top 10 in the SEC in every major statistical category: points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks.

Leslie currently ranks ninth in the SEC in points at 17 points per game, fourth in rebounding (9.7), 10th in assists (3.67), fifth in steals (2.33) and ninth in blocks (1.33). He leads the team in each of those categories except scoring, where Trey Thompkins holds the advantage at 18.7 points in league play.

He is nowhere close to a fin-ished product either. At 6-foot-4, Leslie is constantly undersized against the league’s small for-wards, but he has a weapon they do not — a 46.5-inch vertical leap. Leslie’s athleticism is so eye-popping that he’s brought back memories for Georgia fans of a man they called “The Human Highlight Reel” — former Bulldog and NBA Hall of Fame member Dominique Wilkins.

While his numbers have already made him one of the

SEC’s top players, he has only attempted three shots from behind the 3-point line this sea-son — making only one. As his perimeter stroke improves, so will his numbers.

“Travis is becoming a better and better player,” head coach Mark Fox said. “He has made a lot of jump shots this season, but he hasn’t made a lot of threes. But he’s not ready for that yet. He will evolve to that.”

Leslie has been working hard on his jump shot all season in an effort to keep defenders from sagging on him and allowing him to eventually transition to the shooting guard position.

“It’s not like you wake up one morning and start chucking up a bunch of threes. It has to be developed and he’s working hard at it. I don’t think he shot any last year,” Fox said. “I think over time he will evolve to where he can shoot more and more and become more guard like, but that transition will take all year and probably some of next year.”

When that transition becomes complete, Leslie could go from one of the country’s premier

dunkers to one of the country’s premier players.

“If he can learn to work like we’d like him to and become as

consistent in that approach and in his play, his future is very bright,” Fox said. “I mean extremely bright.”

Leslie’s production soaring for Dogs

Cassidy McComb’s decision to come to Georgia was spur of the moment.

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Sophomore guard Travis Leslie’s play this season has him in the top 10 of each statistical category in the SEC.

When: 7:30 SaturdayWhere: Stegeman Coliseum Price: Free for student with UGA IDMore Information: The contest will air on Fox Sports Net

GEORGIA VS. TENNESSEE

FLIP THE GRIP

When: 1 p.m. SaturdayWhere: Indoor Courts of Dan Magill Tennis ComplexPrice: Free

GEORGIA VS. USC-UPSTATE

By CHRIS D’ANIELLOTHE RED & BLACK

There is always room to improve under the infinite ceiling of perfection.

Jeff Wallace, head coach of the Georgia women’s tennis team, said after last week-end’s Georgia Invitational that his team had “a lot to work on” in order to get ready for their first dual match of the season against South Florida Sunday.

“The best part about the Georgia Invitational is that we can pick out the spe-cific areas that we need to improve in,” Wallace said. “And it’s only January — there’s

going to be things to work on.”Wallace has been working with his team

all week to tweak every aspect of each play-er’s game in preparation for South Florida.

“Exactly what needs to be addressed is different for everyone,” Wallace said. “Because each player has unique needs, I’ve been spending a lot of time this week in practice with each of the players individually.”

Whether or not these needs were properly addressed will be tested Sunday when soph-omores Chelsey Gullickson and Nadja Gilchrist and junior Cameron Ellis look to stay undefeated in singles play, while Gullickson and Gilchrist try to stay unde-

feated in doubles against a strong South Florida team. The Bulls rank No. 75 in the country and includes the nation’s 8th-ranked doubles squad in junior Irene Rehberger and senior Melissa Konin.

“We all know that some matches are big-ger than others,” Wallace said. “But we take the same approach no matter what.”

“We know South Florida has a great squad and the next team we’re playing is always the most important team on the schedule.”

Practice key to work on ‘specific areas’When: 1 p.m. SundayWhere: Indoor Courts of Dan Magill Tennis ComplexPrice: Free

GEORGIA VS. SOUTH FLORIDA