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By KATHRYN INGALLTHE RED & BLACK

Georgia students will find out today how much HOPE they’ll have for next year.

Gov. Nathan Deal is scheduled to announce his plan for the HOPE scholarship this morning.

“We really want to see a priori-tization of public research insti-tutions in the state,” said Student Government Association President Josh Delaney. “Another thing I really hope is that if they cut anything, they’ll make equal cuts to pre-K, private school grants and technical colleges.”

Tim Connell, president of the Georgia Student Finance Commission, said more than 250,000 Georgia students received HOPE scholarships or grants in the 2010 fiscal year.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Thursday the unannounced plan would separate HOPE from rising tuition and decrease scholarship payments to 90 percent.

Delaney said an additional

source of funding could be bring-ing in revenue from the proposed Sunday alcohol sales legislation.

Delaney and student govern-ment representatives from other Georgia universities have con-tacted lawmakers with sugges-tions on behalf of students.

“Right now, we’re just doing our best to make sure leaders in the House and Senate and in higher education understand what’s most important to stu-dents,” Delaney said. “Until something is voted on, we’ll still be as active as possible.”

Allie McCullen, a senior and member of the University’s chap-

ter of Students for Higher Public Education, said she would be in favor of placing a $66,000 income cap on the HOPE scholarship.

McCullen said she’s concerned about the long-term effects of cuts to higher education.

“There seems to be a trend that Georgia governors keep cut-ting money from higher educa-tion,” McCullen said. “If that continues, we’re going to contin-ue to see a rise in tuition and fees. When we don’t apply the HOPE scholarship to tuition, we’re automatically excluding students who need tuition subsi-dized.”

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Lady Dogs lose big on road

By RYAN BLACKTHE RED & BLACK

Monday night against No. 4 Tennessee was a rough one for the No. 22 Georgia women’s basket-ball team by any statistical measure.

People could look at the Lady Bulldogs’ (20-7, 10-4) shooting percentage — 25.8 percent, a season-low. Or that Tennessee’s reserves outscored Georgia’s bench 26-12.

But at the end of the day, only one stat really mattered — the final score, 77-44, doubling up Georgia’s previous worst loss of the season, a 69-53 defeat to Georgia Tech on

Dec. 5.“ Yo u’ v e

got to give Tennessee a lot of cred-it,” Georgia head coach A n d y L a n d e r s said in his post-game radio inter-v i e w .

“They’re very big and very talented and their zone really spread us out.”

The Lady Volunteers (26-2, 14-0) won the open-ing tip and scored on their first possession with a Meighan Simmons 3-point-er. And it only got worse for Georgia from there, as it had more turnovers (8) than field goals (7), leading to a 40-21 deficit at half-time.

It didn’t get any better for the Lady Bulldogs in the second half, as the Lady Volunteers went on an 11-0 run out of the lock-er room to extend their advantage to 51-21 and effectively put the game away.

“I felt if we could come out in the second half and get [Tennessee’s lead] down to 10, we could man-age it,” Landers said. “But it didn’t work that way.”

Jasmine James was the lone Lady Bulldog in dou-ble-figures with 11, while Meredith Mitchell was held scoreless on 0-of-9 shoot-ing. Senior forward Porsha Phillips also struggled, scoring only six points while battling foul trouble.

By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

The foundation for a school of engineering has been at the University for decades. It’s time to get the ball rolling.

“We are hiring faculty at this time,” University President Michael Adams said at the University Cabinet meeting Thursday.

Three new engi-neering majors — civil, electrical and mechanical — approved by the Board of Regents in October, will supple-ment the existing majors at the University in fall 2012.

“It didn’t surprise us at all that UGA wanted to expand its program,” Wade Shaw, Mercer University School of Engineering dean, said. “We sort of anticipated this, so it’s a ‘when’ Georgia was going to make that move.”

The new majors have gotten varying degrees of feedback.

Brandon Byers, a junior at Greenbrier High School in Evans, said his top schools are Georgia Tech or Auburn, both of which have engineering programs that meet his career goals.

“I think these are very popular engineering degrees that I know of,” he

said in an interview in January. “I would consider [attending the University], but I would probably wonder about schol-arship opportuni-ties or if there’d be qualified teachers.”

Melissa Verrill, a senior environmen-tal engineering major from

Fayetteville, said she was in favor of the new majors.

“It’s a very applicable science,” she said. “As opposed to learning chemistry and going on to get your post-doc and this, that and the other, you go out in the field and learn by application.”

The new majors have

See ENGINEER, Page 3

Engineering program will grow by fall 2012

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Quarterback Aaron Murray sprained his ankle in a pick-up soccer game Saturday on campus.

By ZACH DILLARDTHE RED & BLACK

Georgia starting quarterback Aaron Murray suffered an ankle injury over the weekend, but it is one the team does not expect to limit him during spring practice.

Murray injured the ankle during a pickup soccer game Saturday on the University campus, according to a release by Georgia Sports Communications.

Following a statement by University associate

See ANKLE, Page 6

Murray sprains ankle

Tom Fell (above) dresses as the movie character Rocky at home basketball games but was ‘sold out’ Saturday.

By MITCH BLOMERTTHE RED & BLACK

The University student known for his “Rocky run” at Georgia men’s bas-ketball games didn’t make his trademark climb up the Stegeman Coliseum steps against Vanderbilt last Wednesday — and a giant gecko may be the reason why.

Tom Fell, a senior broadcast news major from Charleston, S.C., was unable to make his signature run reminiscent of the classic “Rocky” films when the University Athletic Association’s marketing and promotions department sold his usual timeout spot to auto insurance company Geico.

“I understand that people want to sponsor things, but I just felt it was kind of a cheap shot,” Fell said. “Like, ‘Hey, we appreciate it, but Geico is a little more important. We don’t really care about the team or just having a good overall atmosphere.’” For the past four seasons, Fell has worn a pair of shorts, a headband and boxing gloves to the Bulldogs’ home games, running to the top of the coliseum during the second half as a way to energize the crowd. But Fell was given a change of plans before last

See ROCKY, Page 6

FREEDOM FIGHTERRocky routine halted against Vanderbilt

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Tennessee 77, Georgia 44

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By MARIANA HEREDIATHE RED & BLACK

While students struggle to film UGA NewSource on tape, 10 high-definition cameras sit in the room next door — unused.

Senior John Newsome, a production manager at UGA NewSource, said the unused cameras are part of the negotiations between the University and Georgia Public Broadcasting over University-owned WNEG, now known as WUGA-TV. Studio space and other computer programs are also part of the agreement.

“We can’t use any of the equipment. It’s next door, and we feel like we can’t. Everything is being held until the agreement is done, which I understand,” he said.

Newsome said what he doesn’t understand is the lack of communication between the upper man-agement of WUGA-TV and the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication’s faculty and students.

“You can’t even talk to professors. They don’t know what’s going on either,” he said. “As the shots are being called from the top, there’s no line of communication from them to us.”

However, Jimmy Sanders, the station man-ager at WUGA-TV, said this is not the case.

“We’re in communica-

tion with the journalism school every day, and we have a plan with the Grady College that involves the use of cameras and the facilities of the TV station by Grady students,” Sanders said.

The plan was for stu-dents to gain access to the station’s equipment once the license transfer was completed, Sanders said. He said he did not know when that would occur.

“We don’t know when the transfer of the license will be completed. There is no specific date at this time,” he said. “The reason is that there’s a lot to be done in terms of creating a lot of elements for the new TV station.”

At Thursday’s University Cabinet Meeting, Senior Vice President for External Affairs Tom Landrum said the University hopes the license will be officially transferred by May 1.

Sanders said students

did have some access to the facility.

“The students were in the facility today. They were doing a class in the TV station this morning,” he said.

Senior Jason Hafford, also a production manager for NewSource, said he is more optimistic about the situation with WUGA-TV.

“I feel like because everything is so new, they haven’t reached out to stu-dents to tell us what to expect,” he said. “I think they will, just not yet.”

Hafford also said he expected Grady students to get more opportunities from the switch.

“I hope it just gives us more opportunities to get students’ faces out there. We have this great space that we should really be able to utilize,” he said. “I hope it brings more oppor-tunities for students. Especially for seniors about to graduate.”

Laser light shines through an officer’s vehicle

A green laser light went through the windows of an officer’s patrol vehicle Friday night, according to a University Police report.

An officer was driving into the West Campus Parking Deck when he “noticed what appeared to be a green laser light strik-ing the back window of my patrol vehicle and shining through the front wind-shield,” according to the report.

The light appeared to have come from the upper levels of Oglethorpe House.

A follow-up investiga-tion was done after the incident, but no one was identified, said University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson.

He said there have been more reports of laser lights directed toward vehicles lately with two to three reports in the past few weeks.

Williamson said laser lights can blind a driver, and if someone is caught using a laser light in an improper way that could harm others, they can be charged criminally.

He said misusing laser lights is a “big deal.”

“Someone messes with someone driving a car. Those things can blind,” he said.

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The University may be finishing out its reign as the Princeton Review’s No. 1 party school, but Athens-Clarke County has a distinctively ominous new ranking.

Athens-Clarke County is now home to the highest poverty rate in the United States for a county with more than

100,000 people, according to recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Red & Black wanted to know what students thought about the county’s new status.

— Charles Hicks

MONIQUEROLLOCKS junior marketing major from Alpharetta

“Honestly it’s some-thing that a lot of people fail to real-ize. We need to be more conscious of the people who live in Athens. It’s about giving back to our community through community service.”

ALEC ASBRIDGEjunior economics and management major from Hood River, Ore.

“I think it’s interest-ing with all the school activities. With the amount of money that should be brought into the community, you’d think it would be better than that.”

BRAEDENFIELDS sophomore Spanish and journalism major from Suwanee

“I hate the juxtapo-sition of the differ-sition of the differ-sition of the different classes of wealth. You don’t see it anywhere like you see it in Athens.”

GEOFF NOLFF NOLFF AN NOLAN NOLsophomore interna-sophomore interna-sophomore international affairs and Spanish major from Covington

“I think it’s really sad. UGA is the flag-ship school of the state. I think it’s ironic that a center of higher education is surrounded by a poorer area.”

SAVSAVSA ANNAVANNAVSWEENEYEENEYEENEfreshman public rela-freshman public rela-freshman public relations major from Atlanta

“I think it’s tragic that the county is so poor because so many affluent people live here and could make such a difference.”

MAN ON THE STREET:Poorest County

NGANDA GATGATGA EIfreshman genetics major from Nairobi, Kenya

“I think it’s awful. Students drive around in some of the most expensive cars in the world, and we live in one of the poorest counties in the nation. No one seems to care.”

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raised questions about the University’s focus on engi-neering, including whether or not a school of engineer-ing could be in the works.

“I don’t remember where I read it, but somewhere I heard that Yale didn’t become a top-three school until it added a school of engineering,” Verrill said. “So I could see UGA get-ting one as a sort of morale booster.”

A school of engineering?

“There is no proposal for a school of engineering. This is not what the Board of Regents approved,” said Dale Threadgill, head of the biological and agricul-tural engineering depart-ment.

However, he said there could be an opportunity for one in the future.

“I think if we looked long-term, something along the lines of a school of engi-neering would develop,” Threadgill said. “You’d want to look at the growth and contemplate if that’s what will be appropriate.”

According to the per-sonnel and budget require-ments for the new majors, “a total of 500 students are projected to be enrolled in these three degree pro-grams in the fall semester of 2015.”

The University expects to have 80 students enrolled as civil engineering majors in fall 2012, with a total of 190 by fall 2015. Both elec-trical and mechanical engi-neering are estimated to begin with 85 students in fall 2013, leading to 155 in each program by fall 2015.

“It’ll be a slow growth model with the first class of civil engineering coming in. So yes, there will be limits placed on majors,” University Provost Jere Morehead said at the University Cabinet meet-ing.

The limits are necessary to keep a standard stu-dent-to-teacher ratio.

Shaw said Mercer has 450 undergraduate stu-dents, but added that the student-to-teacher ratio differs by age group.

“Our freshmen ratio is 20-1. Then when they get into sophomore and junior years, it’s 15-1, then seniors it’s even smaller,” he said. “Overall, it’s 18-1.”

There are already more than 300 students enrolled in the University’s engi-neering majors at both the graduate and undergradu-ate levels.

Threadgill said there is a 17-1 student-to-teacher ratio at the University now, but that may change because of the new majors.

“It depends on how many students come,” he said. “There’s no number I can give you, it just devel-ops as you grow.”

Shaw said in order to hire engineering professors a university must pay well and pay competitively.

“You’re looking at about $150,000 to keep the full professor,” he said. “A brand-new Ph.D. is $75,000 plus 40 percent.”

The personnel and bud-get requirements list four tenure-track professors and two instructors as “cumulative personnel” beginning in fiscal year 12, with 16.5 tenure track, 6 instructors, 6 staff mem-bers and 7.5 graduate assis-tants by FY16.

The “recurring funds,” which are salaries, benefits and operating expenses needed in FY12 are $695,000, and go up to $3,180,000 by FY16. One-time funds for equipment, renovations and faculty startup go from nothing in FY12 to $2,850,000 by FY16.

Faculty, however, are just one aspect to having a successful engineering school, Shaw said.

A school of engineering requires “one of the most

expensive buildings to build,” laboratory equip-ment and continually updated technology.

On the plus side, the University may already be well-equipped to handle a school of engineering — meaning much of the cost to initiate an undertaking is relatively nothing.

Institute of the Faculty of Engineering

There are two entities for engineering students at the University — the Institute of the Faculty of Engineering, which is home to biochemical, environ-mental and computer sys-tems engineering for under-graduates, and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, for undergraduate agricul-tural and biological engi-neering.

Both the institute and the department in CAES are led by Threadgill.

And what’s the differ-ence between the two?

The institute is “a uni-versity-wide academic unit” with more than 100 faculty members that is “organized to capture the convergence of scientific and engineer-ing disciplines,” according to its website.

What makes the depart-ment and the institute dif-ment and the institute dif-ment and the institute different is where the funding comes from, Threadgill said. He said for the depart-ment, he reports to CAES Dean Scott Angle, but for the institute, to the Provost.

Civil, electrical and mechanical engineering will fall under the jurisdic-tion of the institute.

Though Threadgill said an institute can offer degrees, Shaw said he was not sure there was a prece-dent for this to be the basis of an engineering school.

“I don’t know that that’s common,” he said. “I don’t think I’ve seen it done that way. I wouldn’t think you would want that for a long-term school, but maybe to grow a program.”

Being in an institute versus being in a college department can be confus-ing, but Verrill said she no longer thinks about it.

“I didn’t know I was in the Faculty of Engineering until I was told. There was no difference in my curricu-lum or in the way I was treated until someone put it point blank for me,” she said. “It’s only this title. I feel like I’m part of the engineering program at UGA.”

A different approach

Civil, electrical and

mechanical engineering will follow the curricula theme already set in the institute, as demonstrated by the variety of faculty backgrounds.

“[The new majors] will be very multidisciplinary,” Threadgill said. “The degrees will be intended to expose students to multi-disciplinary learning.”

The multidisciplinary approach to teaching engi-neering sets the University apart from schools such as Georgia Tech and the University of Maryland, which have top-rated engi-neering programs.

“There’s certain classes that every engineer has to take in order to be pre-pared for the FE, which is the exam you have to take to become a practicing e n g i n e e r- i n - t r a i n i n g, ” Verrill said. “Aside from those classes, everyone takes classes that empha-size in your major.”

Because of this, the University’s core curricula for its existing majors are similar to those at Georgia Tech and Maryland.

Threadgill said having these curricula helped in having the three new majors approved.

“One of the things that softened our numbers, we already have many of the core courses for engineer-ing majors,” he said.

University engineering students must take varying levels of calculus, lab sci-ences as well as general engineering classes such as statics, electrical circuits and fluid mechanics.

Where the curricula dif-Where the curricula dif-Where the curricula differ is the emphasis. Environmental engineering majors such as Verrill take courses covering topics as diverse as sustainability, ecology, natural resources and toxicology. Agricultural engineers emphasizing in electrical and electronic systems instead take linear systems, electronics and biomedical imaging.

Can the University house the multidisciplinary approach for eight engi-neering majors? Threadgill said yes.

“There’s ample instruc-tion facilities. There are lots of classrooms around campus,” he said.

Students already involved in engineering have a home, negating another portion of the money typically required to start an engineering school — the Driftmier Engineering Center. In addition to Driftmier, there are labora-tories and facilities owned by the University all over the state.

What it means for Georgia

“I think that in the short run, it would hurt us,” Shaw said. “But for our

students, any from Georgia having another opportuni-ty would be good, and in the long-term there’s more opportunities for engineer-ing in the state, which is also good.”

Byers shared similar sentiments.

“I think that it will prob-ably be easier to get into than Georgia Tech, but will take away students from Georgia Tech,” he said.

Officials from Georgia Tech would not comment on the new majors or the possibility of the University adding a school of engi-neering to its repertoire.

Threadgill said the new majors will not require increased tuition, though Verrill said she would be willing to pay more to be an engineering major if it meant increased access to facilities and programs.

Though University offi-cials seemed adamant that there is no proposal in the works for a school of engi-neering, the issue isn’t out of the woodwork yet.

“We’re sort of watching this from a distance,” Shaw said. “I don’t know that anybody’s quite sure what UGA has in mind.”

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Health care bill: a problem of politics

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Student fans are just the best. They paint themselves head to toe for their

teams. They spell out inappropriate phrases on their

chests (‘Circumcise ’em’ at the 2009 football game against South Carolina).

They scream at the top of their lungs to dis-tract the opposing team, berate referees after they make “bad calls,” and make up an elec-tric part of crowds at football and basketball games.

But they shouldn’t be sold out by the Athletic Association so it can rake in a few extra dollars.

However, that is exactly what is being done to the beloved Rocky character — Tom Fell — who has been dressing up in a boxing outfit and making appearances at Georgia basketball games for four years.

The Athletic Association’s Marketing and Promotion department told the senior he would have to run through the student section, pass-ing out Geico gift cards, and box the Geico mascot if he wanted to do his “Rocky run.” This all came after Geico sponsored the same tim-eout Fell had been doing his “Rocky runs” in for the last four seasons.

Awesome. Fell was given an ultimatum and when he said no, his fan-favorite segment was taken away so a Geico gecko can pester every-one in the stands. Great strategy to promote and market your teams and get butts in seats — annoy fans. What do you do with an insur-ance gift card anyhow?

Are you gonna make Peanut Butter boy — Drake Scott — smear only Skippy’s crunchy peanut butter on himself? Or make fans exclu-sively use Crayola face paint? If someone walks in wearing Adidas sneakers, are you gonna kick them out? Let student fans be student fans.

Don’t make them sell out for your benefit.

— Rachel G. Bowers for the editorial board

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Selling studentsThe Athletic Association asked a fan to pass out gift cards at an athletic event

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Left: universal care Right: private systemConservatives have

trumpeted that the Patient

Protection and Affordable Care Act has been ruled unconstitu-tional.

The rulings argued that by mandating all Americans purchase health insurance, Congress exceeded its power under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. The feder-al government cannot force individuals to pur-chase a “commodity in the private market.”

Of course, what con-servatives fail to men-tion is that two federal judges have also upheld the constitutionality of the law.

Personally, I’m less interested in the inter-pretation of the Commerce Clause than I am in the rulings’ lan-guage.

Describing health care as a “commodity” makes no sense.

And redefining it as a “privilege,” as Jeremy Dailey has, makes less than no sense.

Most Americans would feel uncomfort-able leaving their health to the whims of supply and demand.

Unlike other consum-er products, such as cars or cell phones, health care is a deeply moral issue. If you suffer from a major illness or injury, you might die. If you’re not treated, your physi-cal freedom will be restricted — you can’t work or live a happy life.

Your life and liberty depend on your health.

That is why health care is not a commodity to be enjoyed by the privileged few — it is a basic human right.

Despite conservative outrage, health care’s status as a privileged commodity remains intact under President Barack Obama’s reform law.

Real reform requires more than mandating coverage from private insurance companies.

Real reform will hap-pen when we refuse to allow corporations to profit from sickness and death.

A single-payer health system would ensure universal coverage by abolishing the for-profit system once and for all.

Single-payer works by expanding Medicare to cover the entire popula-tion, not just senior citi-zens. Private insurance companies would be eliminated. All medical expenses would be paid for by the government.

Single-payer works better than private

insurance because health care is best administered under a democratic government.

Private insurance companies are unsuited to run our health care system. A corporation’s only legal obligation is to secure a profit for its shareholders.

Corporations do not exist to protect our life and liberty — only to pursue their own self-in-terest.

But government answers to a higher call-ing than the profit motive.

Our government was established “of, by, and for the people” and exists to “promote the general welfare.”

The health care debate comes down to a simple question: do you want your health treated as a commodity by a corporation, or do you want it respected as a right by democratic gov-ernment?

I know Dailey doesn’t care about facts and sta-tistics, but a glance at the evidence indicates single-payer works and our for profit system doesn’t.

Per capita, the United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world. And yet we rank 36th in life expectancy, and 33rd for infant mor-tality. We still have more than 46 million people without access to health insurance, according to the United Nations.

In a study of 19 devel-oped nations, America had the highest rate of deaths that should not have occurred with the presence of effective health care, according to the Health Affairs Journal.

In America, helping sick people is not the bottom line — profit is.

Maybe Dailey should have spent more time looking at the evidence. If he had, he would have realized America has only one real choice — a single-payer system of universal health care.

Our lives are not for sale. Despite what Dailey and the conserva-tives assert, our health is not a commodity or a privilege.

It is our fundamental right as human beings.

— Jonathan Rich is a sophomore from

Alpharetta majoring in sociology

Checks and balances are a pain, aren’t they?

You really have to feel bad for President Barack Obama. He spent over a year of his presidency try-ing to cram an unwanted health care bill down Americans’ throats. And less than a year later, one man has potentially torn it to shreds.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Vinson ruled the individual man-date in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitu-tional. He concluded “the entire Act must be declared void.”

Well praise the Lord and pass the butter! There is still some com-mon sense in American government.

Obamacare was passed using the Commerce Clause within Article I, Section VIII of the Constitution.

For those who know little about Constitutional law, this is basically every liberal’s go-to guy for any-thing and everything that questionably oversteps their power.

Jonathan Rich will try to tell you otherwise, but it is only because his brain is being crushed by the weight of those mag-nificent dreadlocks.

The clause states Congress shall have the power “to regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”

The original intent of the Commerce Clause was to prevent states from imposing tariffs and taxes on one another, thereby becoming isola-tionists. But 223 years and a few Supreme Court decisions later, liberal activists have determined the Commerce Clause can now be used to regulate everything under the sun.

The government’s abil-ity to oversee health care was born.

Those on both sides like to argue “facts” and “statistics” concerning whether or not the health care law will be beneficial to the American people.

Honestly, I don’t care.I don’t believe anyone

— no matter their alma mater or IQ — has a clue about the potential future effect.

Do you think President Franklin D. Roosevelt would have pushed for Social Security if he knew what a disaster it would become?

Regardless of the data, Congress does not have the power to mandate that individuals must pur-chase health care or else pay a penalty. The argu-ment should have

stopped there. But Obama and the Democrats chose to ignore our founding docu-ment in order to pursue their own agenda.

Rich argues for a sin-gle-payer health system that would expand Medicare to everyone and says “private insurance companies would be elim-inated…”

I mean, are we reading a column in The Red & Black or an excerpt from “The Communist Manifesto”?

Yes, I agree. Let’s just go ahead and eliminate all the evil capitalist com-petition in America so we can thrive like the Soviet Union. Oh wait.

Like Obama, Rich is brushing the Constitution aside. Congress has no authority to abolish pri-vate insurance compa-nies, and the idea is pre-posterous.

He also argues “health care is best administered under a democratic gov-ernment.”

That makes me giggle.How can anyone make

such an erratic statement when Medicare, aside from Social Security, is the most inefficient gov-ernment-run program in the country?

Not to mention, Medicare is already head-ing down the road to bankruptcy.

Given the opportunity, I’m sure all Americans would be willing to trade their private insurance companies for such a suc-cessful bureaucracy.

Despite what Rich and the like-minded liberals may tell you, it all comes down to the fact that health care is not a right.

It is a privilege.And it should be a

privilege we attempt to share with as many American citizens as pos-sible.

But Rich’s single-payer idea is floating some-where out there in fantasy land.

But unless newly appointed Justice Elena Kagan recuses herself, the Supreme Court will most likely uphold the law and your beloved individual mandate will be saved.

Until then, Obamacare will continue to hang in the balance.

Personally, I’d rather watch it die than see them cut the rope.

— Jeremy Dailey is a senior from Conyers

majoring in political science

JONATHAN RICH

JEREMY DAILEY

On behalf of the Student Government Association of the University, I would like to personally invite you to participate in this year’s SGA elections process. As many now know, things are going to be a bit differ-ent this year with regard to the elections.

One executive ticket has been formed to cam-paign for the offices of President, Vice President, and Treasurer, and this ticket has joined with a group of senate candi-dates to form a party called “The Link.”

Even though the execu-tive ticket is running unopposed, there are a number of independent candidates running for senate seats, and, there-fore, your vote is still vital in determining the next senators for the 2011-2012 administration.

My primary concern is that students will use this rare occurrence as an excuse to challenge the legitimacy of SGA and the way its elections are con-ducted.

As Chairman of the Elections Committee, I can assure you that such assertions are unfounded.

Several weeks ago, all students were sent an e-mail by the Archnews listserv detailing the dates, times and locations of two informational elec-tions meetings and two mandatory candidate seminars that I, myself, hosted.

Students were contact-ed through the Student Government’s Association Facebook events, Twitter accounts and various e-mail contact lists. Finally, the organization

conducted events such as spending a day within Tate Plaza attempting to engage student interest and provide more informa-tion.

With campaigning set to begin in less than two weeks, I wanted to provide further details on how you can get involved in the process. The executive ticket candidates will host a Town Hall meeting on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Hall Ballroom.

This is where they will officially state their plat-form and take questions from anyone in atten-dance. I highly encourage you to attend this Town Hall meeting.

I realize that there are always concerns regarding the work of SGA, but each student has the opportu-nity to determine which individuals will represent their concerns to the lead-ers and administration of both our University and this state.

The sole purpose of the organization is to advo-cate for our rights as stu-dents and ensure that our voices are heard.

Therefore, instead of complaining to your friends and classmates about a proposed smoking ban on campus, changes to the HOPE Scholarship, etc., please come tell us how you feel at the Town Hall meeting on Wednesday. I assure you it will be much more produc-tive for both sides.

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By ADAM CARLSONTHE RED & BLACK

You cannot have just one con-versation with David Barbe.

Begin talking about his early days as a journalism student, and the topic quickly turns to his time as a college musician and frontman for band Mercyland.

Spend a few minutes discuss-ing the rise, success and dissolu-tion of Mercyland and, inevita-bly, the name John Keane comes up.

And a detour into Barbe’s his-tory with Keane leads to many places at once: the story of his start and continuing work as a prominent local producer, which led to his work with Nuçi Phillips; which led to a role in the founding of local musicians’ center Nuçi’s Space. Years later, all of that led to his position leading the University’s music business program; and on and on.

Around spins the circle that is Barbe’s career, and at the cen-ter: Athens.

“He’s so entrenched with the Athens music community,” said Linda Phillips, the founder of Nuçi’s Space, with whom Barbe has worked closely over the years.

Thirty years ago, however, just as the B-52s and R.E.M. were blowing up, he didn’t come for the music. He came because his mother had. And he came for Grady.

“Between the family connec-tion and living in Atlanta and wanting to go to the J-school, it was a perfect fit,” Barbe said.

And then there was a moment — a first.

Barbe’s first show downtown was a Little Tigers performance. And it brought a revelation of sorts.

“I was instantly blown away,” he said.

An amateur himself, Barbe soon contemplated turning pro-fessional, at least part time, with

the founding of Mercyland.It all started with the gift of a

drum set when he was 4 and continued through his learning the guitar via ukulele at age 12.

“And I just gradually went through it,” Barbe said, following in the footsteps of his own musi-cian father.

From there, the path of his career rapidly accelerated, fork-ing repeatedly.

Mercyland got big enough for Barbe to set aside his recently-earned telecommunications degree.

“It was the fall of ’85 and I just had a few quarters to go and I started playing in Mercyland and that was the first time I realized that I could do some-thing real with this,” he said.

And then the band broke up. Barbe then performed along-

side Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü) and Malcolm Travis (Human Sexual Response) in the rock band Sugar, which performed its first show on Feb. 20, 1992 at the

40 Watt. After moderate success and a hit on the UK Singles Chart, Barbe left the band in 1996 to give more attention to his solo career.

Then, on Thanksgiving Day in 1996, his friend and fellow musi-cian Nuçi Phillips killed himself.

Ask Barbe about the specific affect the death had on him and he pauses for a moment, his branching history stopped.

“It made me rethink every-thing in my life,” he said.

And then Phillips’ mother, Linda, called.

“When I came up with the idea to do this space, David was really the only person I knew in Athens and he was perfect for what I was looking for,” Phillips said.

Barbe’s role as the pragmatist was clear from the start. He knew people. He had connec-tions and he understood music.

He was able to put Phillips in contact with some of the mental health professionals that would

be key to the center’s mission of support and outreach. And when the warehouse that would house the center was being renovated, it was Barbe who advised Phillips on the best way to pre-serve and enhance the acoustics.

Ask him about the specific affect Nuçi’s Space has had and there’s no pause at all.

“It’s brought the music com-munity together in a way that no other place ever has,” Barbe said. “And it has truly saved lives.”

His part at Nuçi’s Space has formed a template for the years that followed, with his connec-tion- and experience-rich past informing his work now.

“I’ve always been enamored with the Athens music commu-nity,” Barbe said.

Over the years, his production work has ranged widely includ-ing with the Drive-By Truckers at his studio, Chase Park Transduction.

Throughout, Barbe has main-tained only a few guidelines.

“I prefer to work with artists that are continuing to grow their creativity and expand their vision, and who can allow me to be involved in the creative pro-cess,” he said. “Above and beyond anything else, I have to feel an emotional connection to the music.”

University student Cory Jasin worked with Barbe last fall when his producer Doug Boehm rec-ommended Chase Park Transduction.

During the five-day recording session, Barbe assisted as engi-neer, offering experience and knowledge as needed, Jasin said.

Occasionally, he stepped from behind the mixing board and in front of the microphone.

“He’s an awesome bassist,” Jasin said.

After the announcement in August that he’d be heading up Terry’s music business program, Barbe has filled another niche in the community.

“If that is the role I can fill in order to best serve the commu-nity, then I feel pretty lucky to be able to be somewhat of a con-duit for the plethora of talented people that are here,” Barbe said. “This has been such a great place to call home for the last almost 30 years. I have been for-tunate to be able to be so involved with so much.”

His approach to teaching has evolved over the last seven months, but offering hands-on education has remained funda-mental.

It’s also one of the best parts of the program, at least accord-ing junior Stacia Andrews.

“I learned a lot because differ-ent things went wrong,” she said of her time helping organize “Nuçi’s Space Jam” last fall.

“The hardest thing to get in the music industry is experi-ence,” Barbe said.

Beyond his teaching, produc-ing and community work, Barbe said there are many things he hasn’t done, and more still he’d like to do.

Slowing down would be like dying.

“In any creative pursuit,” Barbe said, “stasis is death.”

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A force in the Athens music scene, David Barbe (far right, alongside the members of Sugar) is the director of the music business program and runs Chase Park Transduction.

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ANKLE: QB back in time for spring ball

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athletic director Claude Felton that Murray had suffered “some sort of leg, ankle, foot injury”, the ris-ing redshirt sophomore was evaluated by team physicians.

Murray underwent an MRI and had X-rays taken on his ankle Monday after-noon, with Georgia direc-tor of sports medicine Ron Courson confirming that it was a sprain.

The severity of the sprain was not released by team officials, but Courson said Murray will perform rehabilitation exercises under the team’s supervi-sion and is expected to participate in the Bulldogs’ spring practice.

Georgia’s spring prac-tice is scheduled to begin on March 10. Sophomore Hutson Mason and fresh-man Christian LeMay sit behind Murray on the depth chart.

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Tom Fell, a senior at the University, performs his ‘Rocky run,’ which has become a signature of home basketball games the last four years.

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Wednesday’s game, saying that promotions and mar-keting informed him before the game that he had been “sold out.”

“I could’ve sworn I didn’t hear him correctly, so I said ‘Oh, the game’s a sellout’ kind of excited, like they were going to do something special with the run,” Fell said. “And he said, ‘Oh, no, not all. You’ve been sold out.’ He said, ‘We sold you out to Geico.’”

Fell was asked to run through the student sec-tion, rather than his usual route at the opposite end of the court, handing out Geico gift cards on the way up, then boxing the Geico

mascot — a giant gecko — during the timeout.

Fell rejected the promo-tion offer, and did not get to perform his usual run despite being told they would run it at a later time in the game.

“I asked what timeout they were moving it to, and they said ‘We don’t know,’” Fell said. “But then the game ends, and I could see clearly where these peo-ple’s allegiances lie — with Geico, some massive non-local corporate car insur-ance company who is one of the most advertised companies out there.”

Emily Deitz, director of promotions for the Athletic Association, said that Fell wasn’t guaranteed another

chance to run.“I didn’t tell him he

would get one, I said we would try to work it back in if there was time,” Deitz said. “It’s not something we did with him every game, being ‘Rocky.’ It’s an opportunity where if the game presents it, we run it. If not, we don’t do it.”

Deitz said the “Rocky run” only occurs when Georgia is playing a close-ly-matched contest, not when the Bulldogs are up by “15 or 20” points.

“I was still pretty confi-dent — especially as the game got closer and closer — that they would play it, or at least play something to get fans excited,” Fell said. “But that was a close

game up until the very end.”

The partnership with Geico was a one-game deal, and Fell will be allowed to perform the “Rocky run” in future games if the situa-tion calls for it, according to athletic director Greg McGarity.

“It’s all straightened up now,” McGarity said. “There was some discus-sion on it, and I think there are some things that we think as a staff are sacred, and [Rocky] I think draws a lot of interest and excite-ment. It’s something we need to pretty much count for every game.”

Fell said he will continue the routine as long as mar-keting allows.

ROCKY: Student gets ‘sold out’ to Geico