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www.redandblack.com Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Vol. 117, No. 110 | Athens, Georgia
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KATHERINE POSS | The Red & Black
Local and state police worked together in their prostitution investigation of Fantasy World.
By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK
Three individuals, one of whom has been employed by the University, were arrested and charged with prostitution in connection with an ongoing investiga-tion of the local adult entertainment business, Fantasy World.
Fantasy World markets itself as a place where adults can go to view pri-vate models. However, months of investigation
and several prostitution and drug-related arrests later, it seems they were offering more than just eye candy.
After months of looking into suspicious activities at Fantasy World, state and county police executed a search warrant at its 1050 Baxter Street location on Feb. 3, according to the Athens-Clarke County Police report.
As a result of the search, manager Robert Barry Dillard, 45, was arrested
and charged with keeping a place of prostitution.
After these initial arrests, three more women were later taken into cus-tody and charged with prostitution on Feb. 19. Included in this group was Karolina Ewa Tupko, 22, who is listed as a service maintenance worker at Snelling Dining Hall and was paid $668.53 by the
University last year.The Athens Banner-
Herald reported there had been suspicion of illegal activity at Fantasy World from members of the com-munity for years. However, it wasn’t until a report of a female employee being stabbed after telling a cus-tomer he would have to pay a “room fee” for certain ser-vices in October that police began taking a harder look.
Because the investiga-tion is ongoing, police said they expect more arrests.
Worker faces prostitution charge
ASHLEY STRICKLAND | The Red & Black
Sophomore Wendell Scott is the host of “The Wendell Show” on Channel 12.
Official predicts layoffs unlikely
By RACHEL BUNNTHE RED & BLACK
The University’s budget is expected to decrease by more than $360 million next year, but a commit-ment to quality education is preventing layoffs, the chancellor of the University System of Georgia said Monday.
Erroll B. Davis, Jr. was on campus to visit the University and assess the
effectiveness of System policies.
He said, though reve-nue is declin-ing, the U n i v e r s i t y System is experiencing i m m e n s e growth.
“The growth has been amazing,” Davis said.
At the present, the University System budget is bolstered by $140 million from the 2009 economic stimulus package, but the money will run out in 2011, he said. Davis said he expects a net decrease of between $360 million and $400 million to the budget in 2011. He said he hopes the loss of money will not be permanent.
“Is it coming back? I would like to think so,” Davis said.
To help increase funds,
See DAVIS, Page 3
By ADAM CARLSONTHE RED & BLACK
It began, as these things often do, with the Big O.
“I was always inspired by Oprah,” Wendell Scott, University sophomore and host of the University talk show “The Wendell Show,” said.
As someone who hopes to go into broadcasting, Scott grew up on the Queen of Daytime.
Last semester, his inspiration prompted him to approach GTV, UGA’s housing channel, to pitch a new idea: the University’s first daytime talk show.
GTV was happy to oblige. With the help of the group’s president, Kenny Adcox, and its adviser, Tamara Burke,
action quickly became reality: rooms were reserved and dates and times were nailed down.
Soon enough, “The Wendell Show” had taped and aired its first season.
Thursday, it will be back on televi-sions across campus on Channel 12 for a second season with topics that bal-ance the serious and the silly.
The premiere, entitled “Haitian Hearts,” will focus on two Haitian stu-dents and their reactions to the coun-try’s devastating earthquake. On April 15, the show will be hosting the North Georgia Paranormal Society.
Mixed issues continue from the first season, which featured diverse episodes such as “Is Hip-Hop Dead?” and “Eating Right: Why It Feels So Wrong.”
“You can’t just do pop-culture all the time. People are interested in more things,” Scott said. “I feel like I have to balance it to make it good.”
That is his main goal: to educate
entertainingly. “I love making people feel comfort-
able,” he said. “I want to open the eyes of the audience to things they don’t see.”
To encourage interaction, there is a Q&A session with each episode’s guest after the interviews.
It’s a segment that provides an opportunity to learn new things on interesting issues, Scott said.
If the issue is interesting — like the first season’s “Health Care: The Great Debate” — it can lead to an energetic discussion with the audience.
Still, Scott has continued to find a steady stream of willing audience members, usually between 20 and 40 students. Handling a live audience, however, requires a capable crew.
That is the task of Mallory Whitfield, his production assistant and “pre-show host.”
See T.V., Page 3
First daytime talk show in Univ. returns ThursdayStudent blends serious and silly
DAVIS
DOROTHY KOZLOWSKI | The Red & Black
Bruce Mill, Clean Air Task Force senior scientist, uses a device to test carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles.
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
By RAISA HABERSHAMTHE RED & BLACK
Cleaning up the air in Athens has become a priority for the community and the University — a priority both University President Michael Adams and Athens Mayor Heidi Davison addressed at a demonstration Monday.
At the event, members of the University and Athens communities experienced first-hand how buses, garbage trucks and other utility vehicles could be cleaner and more efficient with the use of a filter to help reduce diesel engine emissions. Funding from a $1.7 million Environmental Protection Agency grant will bring these filters to Athens.
The demonstration, which showed how
the filters reduce particulate matter, com-pared the emissions of a University-owned garbage truck using a diesel engine to a truck with a filter. With the diesel truck, 800 micrograms per cubic meter of black carbon soot came out of the engine pipe. This was 20 times the amount of particles in the air
See GREEN, Page 2
Top Athens officials prepare to reduce diesel engine emissions
INSIDE More crime in Athens on page 2
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2 | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | The Red & Black NEWS
By BRIANA GERDEMANTHE RED & BLACK
University President Michael Adams is coming down from the Administration Building to meet with students face to face.
Today, Adams will host his “Open Mic with Mike” forum in the lobby of Myers Hall at 4 p.m.
The forum is open to all stu-dents, and the topics Adams will discuss are decided by the ques-tions students ask.
“It’s really open to whatever the students want to talk about,” said Matthew Winston, assistant to the president. “I expect the students that come will have
some questions already.”Winston said Adams would
begin the forum with some short opening remarks and then take questions from students. Tuition, budgets, transportation, academics, athletics and housing are topics stu-dents usually bring up, he said.
Winston said there would likely be questions about timely issues such as the Georgia legislature, which is in session, and construc-tion projects on campus.
“Every time we do this, it depends on what’s going on at
the time,” Winston said. “For instance, [Adams] just made the
announcement about the sustainability fee and the sustainability office.”
Katie Barlow, presi-dent of the Student Government Association, also predicts questions about sustainability.
“I’m sure people are going to be asking about the green fee,” she said. “There may be a couple of questions about budget
issues.”At “Open Mic with Mike” ses-
sions Barlow has attended in the past, students asked questions
about fees, salaries and the University’s need to compete with similar institutions for fac-ulty, she said.
Students usually have both positive and negative feedback for Adams, Winston said.
“Sometimes there are some compliments, and sometimes there are some complaints and sometimes there’s everything in between,” he said.
He said the turnout could range from 25 to 200 students, determined by “what the hot issues are.” Depending on the number of questions students have, the forum will probably last about an hour.
Winston said Adams is used to interacting with select students, such as members of SGA and leaders of Greek organizations, but “Open Mic with Mike” is a good way for him to talk to stu-dents he might not otherwise meet.
“Really, it’s just an opportuni-ty for the president to spend some time with students,” Winston said.
Adams opens up for questions at campus forumWhen: 4 p.m. today
Where: Myers Hall lobby
Price: Free
OPEN MIC WITH MIKE
From Page 1
Monday. The truck with the fil-ter reduced black carbon soot levels by 40 to 70 percent.
Davison said the air quality in Athens-Clarke County has been at risk of endangering residents’ health.
“A cleaner community is attractive to current and poten-tial employers,” she said. “Air pollution doesn’t stop at the county lines. They affect all of us here.”
Stephen Smith, executive director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, said his worries are for his family as far as diesel emissions are con-cerned.
“As a father, I’m concerned about what my children breathe,” he said. “Particles are insidious because they can get deep within your lungs and can get into your bloodstream and become very harmful.”
Adams addressed what the University is doing to help with the county’s air quality.
“In some ways, UGA has two identities,” Adams said. “The first as a state flagship institu-tion charged with teaching the best and brightest. The second as a land grant institution with the majority responsible to reach out to the state and pro-vide assistance to communities where needed.”
The University Research Foundation partnered with Athens-Clarke County in 2007 to solve the problems diesel fuel emissions were causing.
The partnership, cultivated through the Archway Partnership program, received the grant to clean up diesel emissions. The money was a part of President Barack Obama’s 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Athens Transit has also con-tributed to the community’s push for cleaner air.
Sixty percent of Athens Transit riders are students, and
the bus service has reduced its diesel emissions through a free ride program.
“One half of their revenue comes from University rider-ship,” Adams said. “The pro-gram keeps 3,000 cars off the streets, and the grant allows for providing additional transit opportunities.”
More than 250 diesel vehicles are expected to use the filter.
The grant also creates jobs in Athens — jobs that will help the environment.
“It is estimated that the proj-ect has created 30 domestic jobs and $1.5 million to the state,” Adams said.
GREEN: Clean air crucial for county
ADAMS
DOROTHY KOZLOWSKI | The Red & Black
Mayor Heidi Davison speaks at the Georgia Center Monday, where she addressed the county’s air quality.
By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK
It’s not unusual to see some-one flip the bird after being cut off in traffic. But when you stop and take a weapon out of your vehicle — police get involved.
Terrance Zackariah Kwasha, 27, was arrested and charged with felony terroristic threats and felony possession of weapons on school property. He was also charged with a misdemeanor simple assault after he reportedly threatened a female student with a baseball bat, according to the University Police report.
The incident began when Kwasha was almost involved in a car accident with the female vic-tim, University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said. The vic-tim blew her horn, which pro-voked Kwasha to step out of his silver BMW with a baseball bat.
Though Kwasha did say some-thing to the victim, he never struck her or her vehicle. However, the victim felt threatened and decided to contact police.
“She did the right thing,” Williamson said. “She didn’t make contact with the individual. She just followed him and got all the information possible and then called police right away.”
After further investigation Kwasha was placed under arrest and transported to the Athens-Clarke County Jail.
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Thomas Cerulli, 18, was arrest-ed and charged with possession of less than one ounce of mari-juana in Russell Hall on Feb. 19 after police responded to a report
of a suspicious odor.After arriving on the scene,
officers were able to smell the odor of unburned marijuana com-ing from his dorm room. They knocked on the door and were greeted by Cerulli. After being told why the police were there, officers asked Cerulli if he had smoked marijuana in his room.
He said he had not, but did admit to being in possession of a small amount of marijuana. Cerulli then turned over a marijuana cig-arette and a jar containing a leafy green substance which later test-ed positive as marijuana.
Cerulli was placed under arrest and transported to the Athens-Clarke County Jail.
A new form of camping
After a long night of drinking, almost anything can be used as a bed. Provided, of course, you’re not afraid of bush bugs.
Michael Walter Bluhm, 19, was arrested and charged with pos-session of a fake ID and underage possession of alcohol on Feb. 20 after police found him lying face down in a hedge bush on the south side of Phi Kappa Hall at 1:52 a.m.
When police found him, they could smell a strong odor of alco-hol and were concerned by his unresponsiveness. EMS was called and, after evaluating Bluhm, advised he did not need to be transported to the hospital.
Bluhm was then placed under arrest and transported to jail, where he was questioned about the incident. He eventually told police he had used a fake ID to purchase four beers from a club downtown.
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By ZACK TAYLORTHE RED & BLACK
The musicians of local neighborhood Forest Heights are fighting fire with their own type of fire — a warm, charitable flick-er.
Landscaper and Heights resident Perry Johnson, Jr.’s house was gutted in a fire in early January, and, because he had no insur-ance at the time, he was left with only charred rem-nants and no reimburse-ment check.
“Everything I had, I had in my house,” Johnson said, “and now everything I had, I lost.”
But his musically inclined neighbors have rallied together to help his family start again with a benefit concert featuring local bands with members who reside in Forest Heights, such as The Suex Effect, The Adam Payne Band and Kite to the Moon.
Mike Wilson, a member of The Suex Effect, lives across the street from Johnson’s former place of residence and is the main organizer of the event.
According to Wilson, the authorities believe the fire started in the rafters, near Johnson’s chimney.
The chimney was not an original part of the house, and it’s possible that the installation was faulty — leading to the fire.
Whatever the cause, the damage was irreparable.
“What the fire didn’t get, heat, smoke and water damage got,” Wilson said.
The Forest Heights bands are not the only ones to play in the benefit.
“As far as the benefit goes, all of us Forest Heights bands are involved in it, as well as JazzChronic,” Wilson said.
Wilson and the other members of the communi-ty are determined to gain support for the benefit.
“The band and I have been going door-to-door, selling tickets and getting the word out,” Wilson said. “Anyone in the neighbor-hood who has run across [Johnson] before is more than happy to help. I mean, he has been a very positive influence on our community in Forest Heights. We all want to
help him out.”Johnson has been get-
ting involved in the benefit as well, raffling off his ser-vices as a landscaper, among other things.
“I’ve got a set of tickets I’m selling off myself,” Johnson said.
However, Johnson has no doubts about the situa-
tion that he is in.“I’m starting everything
back over,” Johnson said. “I’m in a bit of a bind, and it’s going to take time for things to be right again.”
But he and his wife are grateful that there are peo-ple in his community will-ing to lend a helping hand and wield a helping guitar.
From Page 1
Davis said there is a good chance tuition will increase, but he will not know until the Georgia Legislature passes the 2011 budget.
The University System has made structural chang-es over the past three years to save money by making processes more efficient and productive.
“All the money we are saving is required to offset the impact of growth,” he said.
Davis said no program is safe from budget cuts. However, he also said although layoffs are possi-ble they are not probable, especially in the academic areas.
“Layoffs usually result when there is a decreased demand,” he said. “We do not have a lower demand. Layoffs and personnel reductions are not our first response.”
Davis said if layoffs occur, they are more prob-able in administrative areas than academic areas.
“If we lose scholars, we will have great difficulty attracting more,” he said. “Talent attracts talent.”
Although the faculties at universities across Georgia are stressed, Davis said quality education is the top priority and the University System is doing everything possible to maintain this.
“We are hiring as many part-time faculty as we can,” he said.
Davis said although it helps, the hiring of part-time faculty has draw-backs, particularly because they do not have the opportunity to engage stu-dents outside the class-room.
Davis said he is optimis-tic about the future, but
for now, more resources are needed.
“We are stressed, we are at risk, and we are fighting to maintain quality,” he said. “If we do not main-tain this, we cannot pro-vide doctors, teachers and accountants needed to make this economy grow.”
NEWS & VARIETY The Red & Black | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | 3
Musical residents unite for benefitFeaturing The Suex Effect, The Adam Payne Band, Kite to the Moon and JazzChronicWhen: 8 tonightWhere: 40 WattPrice: $6 / $8 underageMore Information: Donations of clothing and landscaping tools will also be accepted at the event.
JOHNSON BENEFIT
From Page 1
“At first I was very intimidated,” she said. “But when I approach the audience, I have to be excited, myself.”
Her approach typically involves a review of the cue-cards (when to applaud) and rules (no fake laughter) followed by a demonstration of the show’s trademark hand gesture: a large “W.”
In the beginning, Whitfield handled her duties with slight appre-hension.
“It was an experience,” she said. “I had no idea how things were going to go.”
Now, all the kinks have been worked out, and each
live taping is an opportuni-ty for more learning and more hands-on experience.
As the University’s first talk-show host, he hopes his dedication to broad-casting thus far will help him in the future. Regardless, Scott plans on hosting “The Wendell Show” until he graduates.
“[The show] brings something different,” he said. “It’s more ‘Tyra’ or ‘Wendy Williams’ right now. It’s not ‘Oprah’ yet, but it’s getting there.”
T.V.: Show introduces something different
When: Live Taping on Thursday at 8 p.m.Where: MLC 213
THE WENDELL SHOW
Courtesy of Kite to the Moon
Kite to the Moon will be joining several other bands in a benefit to raise money for a Forest Heights resident whose house burned down.
DAVIS: New budget could mean tuition increase
Bands fight fire with fire
I’m surprised no one has written an article yet on this semester’s com-mencement ceremony time change.
The University changed the time of the graduation ceremony from its usual morning slot, lasting only about two hours, to 6:30 p.m., with many additional performances (therefore extending the ceremony length) “to inject more pomp and circumstance into the day,” according to the Athens Banner Herald.
One of the benefits of this time change is the ability of individual schools to host graduation festivi-ties earlier in the day... and that seems to be the only benefit I could think of. Maybe the cooler night weather will make it more comfortable to sit through.
There seem to be more detrimental effects, includ-ing the potential (or rath-er, guarantee) that many students will arrive intoxi-cated, which will interfere with the ambiance of the evening, not to mention with sober students’ abil-ity to pay attention to the speakers.
The new evening cer-emony also infringes on celebratory family dinner times (mine has moved to 9 p.m., but with all of the added performances that the administration is planning, we might just be ordering Gumby’s when we finally leave at 11 p.m. instead).
Sure, graduates could celebrate with their fami-lies on Friday night or Sunday night, but for those of us out-of-staters whose family members have to work 9-5 the Friday before they fly in and Monday after they get back, it’s not exactly good timing.
And finally, adding performances and there-fore making the ceremony longer just seems unnec-essary. It’s a graduation, not a concert. No insult
meant to whomever will be performing, it’s just that graduation is already long enough.
None of the graduat-ing classes before us have had night ceremonies, and none of the graduating classes after us have night ceremonies planned either. Why us? Because it’s an anniversary that happens to fall on a divisible num-ber?
All I can say is I hope we have one heck of a prestigious speaker to make up for our graduat-ing class’s being singled out with this time change and added length... oh wait, administration isn’t doing that either.
LINDSAY SMITHSenior
North Potomac, Maryland Speech Communication
Raise for Congress column good idea
I am compelled to write to voice my approval of Michael Brazeal’s Opinion column from Monday, “Congress’ paychecks lack-ing the punch.” My family knows the Price family, and I, too, agree with what Michael said. I was pleas-antly surprised with his article yesterday morning!
JUSTIN LEEFSophomore, Atlanta
Political science and sociology
4 | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | The Red & Black
When I was little, I always wanted to be Barbie.
It was her blond hair, cute clothes and killer body — not to mention her hot boyfriend — that attracted me.
With her motto, “We girls can do anything,” she taught me I could be whatever I wanted to be — police officer, doctor, actress, housewife — and look good doing it.
And I believed it.It wasn’t until I got older that I
realized Barbie overlooked certain limitations in life: I couldn’t be a doctor unless I had an education in medicine. I couldn’t be an actress unless I had the talent for it.
And I couldn’t have her petite bone structure unless I was born with it.
Imagine my disappointment when these awful truths dawned on me during those difficult early teen-age years, when I was first learning to accept my developing body. I didn’t know how to make sense of all the images I had been receiving.
Models with blonde hair, blue eyes and perfectly sculpted bodies were paraded on TV and plastered on the pages of magazines. Barbie was everywhere — on the chest of drawers in my room, on advertise-ments on TV and in stores at the mall.
Now, almost a decade later, I am at peace with my appearance. But I’m still haunted by the daunting images of Barbie that populated my childhood — and so are many other women.
The American Society for
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reports the number of cosmetic procedures in 2008 was 162 percent higher than in 1997.
The most popular procedures were Botox injections and breast augmentation. Our culture is based so strongly on appearances that many Americans, particularly girls, are tortured by thoughts that they must drastically alter their bodies. Well, maybe Barbie was right: girls can do anything — even rearrange their bone structure.
Years ago, cosmetic surgery was frowned upon, but somehow Americans are learning the features they are born with are not enough — that something drastic needs to be done to alter their natural state.
But, if Barbie were real, her nat-ural state would be 110 pounds and 5 feet 6 inches tall. She would have a 39-inch chest, 18-inch waist and 33-inch hips — making her extreme-ly unhealthy for a woman her size.
The University Central Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, reported she would lack the 20 percent body fat minimum needed to menstruate.
Barbie may look like a real woman, but she lacks the body weight to function like one.
In 1997, Barbie’s body was rede-signed. Her maker, Mattel, gave her a wider waist in recognition of soci-
ety’s changing trends. Barbie is no longer the phenom-
enon she once was. My 8-year-old and 10-year-old cousins prefer Dora the Explorer dolls, which have much wider — and more realistic — proportions than Barbie ever had.
But my cousins still feel the desire to be physically attractive. One, in elementary school, began carrying a handbag and pleading with her parents for make up.
Many girls will be girls, experi-menting with fashion, makeup and hair styles. But our older genera-tions must teach their children to accept themselves, to balance conflicting messages society sends about their appearances and appre-ciate the body they were born with.
People need to focus on things that really matter, such as getting a job, completing an assignment or being there for friends and family — without having to check the mirror every few minutes.
Barbie’s basic message — girls can do anything — is true; we have the motivation, determination and skill to follow our dreams. I rarely have been prevented from accom-plishing something that I believed in if I tried hard enough to achieve it.
We must teach our children to find positive messages in pop cul-ture and ignore the negative ones before we all begin to look like dolls.
— Brittany Binowski is a senior from Conyers majoring
in magazines
Barbie not an appropriate role model
Moving graduation time ruins plans with family
E-mail and letters from our readers
Cheating.You know what it is, and you know its conse-
quences. As early as kindergarten you learned that stealing toys from other students is wrong.
But now you are in college. Do you know how bad cheating really is? It may be more rampant on campus than you suspect.
The editorial board of The Red and Black took a close look at the academic honesty code and found some things that may surprise you.
Have you ever been a part of a group project, but you ended up slacking off and let someone else cover your part?
If you have, you’ve violated the academic honesty policy.
Or maybe you worked hard on your group project, but you ran out of time to finish the English paper that was due the following day. You needed an extra day to finish it, so you told the teacher your printer broke, your grandma died or you were in the hospital.
Did you know you were violating the honesty policy then?
Or the day of the big test arrives, and you are a little nervous about what will be on the test. You might have thought, “lucky me, a friend of mine took the test in the class right before me,” and you asked your friend what was on the test.
That is considered cheating. So next time you are tempted to take a
shortcut, remember getting caught cheating is going to follow you long after that test is over.
— Nathan Sorensen for the editorial board
Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board
Cheating book 101Academic dishonesty includes more than just copying a friend’s answer
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You idiot! Why did you pick up this newspaper?
The razor-thin edge of the page could cut your finger. The wound would leave you susceptible to infection, which, if left untreated for a few years, would kill you!
But no. You heroically laugh in the face of danger and continue reading. I cannot dissuade you from engaging in a beloved pastime.
The government, however, is trying to do just that. Congress and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are exploring tight-er regulations on tanning beds. The American Academy of Dermatology Association intends to lobby for an outright ban on tanning.
The concern stems from studies illustrating a correlation between ultraviolet radiation from tanning lamps and skin cancer.
When will legislators learn that people can make good decisions to preserve their own safety?
Dwight Schrute III, from the sitcom “The Office,” describes his decision-making methodology: “I think, ‘Would an idiot do that?’ And if they would, I do not do that thing.”
Whatever tactic they employ, adults are more than able to make sound choices to ensure their well-being.
Organizations like the FDA have a place in our society for protect-ing citizens, but they should not overstep their bounds. The govern-ment should play an educational role, making people aware of all the
facts, so they can make choices for themselves.
Tanning is, admittedly, danger-ous, but so is driving a car, bathing, changing a light bulb, and — as pre-viously mentioned, though to a less-er extent — reading a newspaper. We still choose to engage in these activities because we personally balance the risk and the reward.
People who tan follow the same process. The information about the dangers of UV radiation is plentiful. People digest that information and then act accordingly to strike their own harmony between risk and reward.
There are numerous activi-ties that present considerable risk of harm, including death. Skateboarding, hockey, baseball and hiking are only a few examples.
This year’s Winter Olympics were nearly permanently tarnished when
a Georgian luger died in a crash during his practice run.
Mental illnesses such as demen-tia and Alzheimer’s are alarmingly common among retired football players and boxers.
In professional sports, the gov-ernment allows the leagues them-selves to regulate the practices of their athletes.
Government regulation is largely absent in recreational and amateur settings. My index finger is still crooked because of a kickball acci-dent from fourth grade, but I never went whining to Congress.
The Internet is inundated with videos of average Joe and Jane Schmos performing ludicrously per-ilous stunts in pursuit of viral fame.
Why isn’t the government trying to curb this kind of tomfoolery?
This kind of posturing is, at best, the government stroking its own ego and, at worst, an attempt to mask its inability to solve more pressing problems.
The government should try tackling a cause which legitimately needs their resources. Improve alternative energy sources. Develop cultivation techniques that increase crop yields. Repair infrastructure in areas devastated by natural disasters. As for giving my skin that bronzy sheen, I can handle that.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, this bear isn’t going to wrestle itself.
—Michael Yu is a senior from Houston, Texas,
majoring in newspapers
Regulating tanning not government’s place
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“Tanning is ... dangerous, but so is
driving a car, bathing, changing a light bulb
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VARIETY & SPORTS The Red & Black | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | 5
By CRISSINDA PONDERTHE RED & BLACK
This year’s Academic Honesty Awareness Week focuses on clearing up what exactly can get stu-dents in trouble under the policy to prevent future violations, whether inten-tional or accidental.
“Many students say ‘I didn’t know it was consid-ered cheating,’ but, in real-ity, just because they didn’t know does not mean they aren’t guilty,” said Caroline Smith, chair of the SAHC (Student Academic Honesty Council).
Because academic hon-esty and honesty in gener-al is significant to success in the professional world, the SAHC will be screen-ing a film to further illus-trate this concept as part of this year’s Academic Honesty Awareness Week.
“Shattered Glass” is about former journalist Stephen Glass, who won awards and was becoming well known for his quality of writing. However, it was discovered that he fabri-cated a large number of his stories.
“The film is about Glass’ fall from grace, essentially,” said Win Blair, a member of the SAHC executive board. “It’s a good example of how dis-
honesty can affect your professional life.”
Blair said that Academic Honesty Awareness Week is always held sometime between midterms and finals to try to prevent the influx of violations that happen during this period every year. In addition to convey-ing an important message through the film, the SAHC hopes to promote academic honesty and integrity throughout the week.
“I hope that students will take from this week the importance of academ-ic honesty and that they may understand that aca-demic honesty and hones-ty in your personal life shouldn’t be taken lightly because the decisions that are made now will greatly affect the people that [stu-dents] will become,” Blair said.
Film shines spotlight on academic honesty
“Shattered Glass” ScreeningWhen: 6 tonightWhere: Miller Learning Center, room 247Price: Free, refreshments will be served
ACADEMIC HONESTY PROMOTIONAL
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By MICHAEL FITZPATRICKTHE RED & BLACK
Suzanne Yoculan accomplished everything else.
She won the most wom-en’s gymnastics national championships ever (10), including the last five, and was the National Coach of the Year five times.
Induction into a Hall of Fame was all that was left for the now-retired Yoculan.
And Yoculan can now put that on her lengthy list of accomplishments.
The famed coach was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame Saturday in Macon along with former Georgia base-ball and football player Larry Rakestraw. Yoculan, who was passed over for induction several times, never considered induc-tion as the end-all, be-all of her career.
“Coaches don’t aspire to be in Halls of Fame,” she said in a telephone interview Monday. “They coach so that they can have an opportunity to work with young people and hopefully step away
with no regrets, and I feel that I accomplished that. This is sort of icing on the cake, and it’s a tremen-dous honor, but I don’t think about it in terms of ‘Finally, I made it.’ It hap-pened, and it was a great honor.”
The most special moment for Yoculan, who served as the head coach at Georgia for 26 seasons, was to have four of her five assistant coach-es and their parents in attendance, including current head coach Jay Clark, current assis-tant coaches Julie Ballard Clark and Doug McAvinn and former assistant coach Scott Bull.
“It meant a lot to me to have those people there and to have people travel far to recognize my career,” Yoculan said. “It was really heartfelt, and it made me remember what I loved most about coaching, and that was the relationships that I’ve formed with everyone.”
However, Yoculan still misses the rush of compe-tition, and watching her
induction video full of clips of her coaching was emo-tional for her.
“It’s really difficult to sit there watching videos of me coaching,” she said. “It’s too recent for me. I appreciate it, and I don’t want to be critical of the timing because it is a tre-mendous honor ... I haven’t
completely moved on, so it was a little difficult, but the timing is better sooner than later.”
While none of the current mem-ber of the Gym Dogs could attend, they were thrilled to have their former coach finally receive the recognition
they thought she earned years ago.
“We’re really excited, but it’s not really a sur-prise because I don’t know how there can be a Hall of Fame without Suzanne Yoculan,” senior Grace Taylor said after Friday’s meet in Gainesville, Fla. “It kind of discredits the Hall of Fame if she’s not in there. You can’t win 10 national championships and win like she has and not be in the Hall of Fame.
It’s definitely exciting, but it’s also common sense.”
Gym Dogs move into top 5
Following Georgia’s 197.15 performance Friday against Florida, it jumped two spots in the rankings to No. 5. It’s the first time the Gym Dogs have been in the top-5 since begin-ning the season at No. 1. Oklahoma, Alabama, UCLA and Florida are the teams ahead of the Gym Dogs, with the Sooners being the only team Georgia will not face in the regular season.
Georgia has posted its three highest scores of the season in the last three weeks, and its latest score is the highest road score of any team in the nation this season. The Gym Dogs also possess two of the top eight scores in the country overall.
Individually, three Gym Dogs are ranked in the top-10 in three different events; senior Courtney McCool is No. 1 in the floor exercise, Taylor is ranked second on the balance beam and sophomore Kat Ding is ranked sixth on the uneven bars.
Yoculan inducted into Georgia Hall of Fame
YOCULAN
By LISA GLASERTHE RED & BLACK
It came down to the third set.
Both of the competitors played nervously for a spot on the 1999 Georgia men’s tennis team.
Head coach Manuel Diaz carries a roster of only 10 players each year.
So, after two weeks of battling in practice for the last spot, it came down to the final set.
A freshman walk-on at the time, Will Glenn was on the losing side on that chal-lenge match and watched as his spot on the Georgia squad appeared to slip out of his hands.
“At the end of the prac-tice, he had his head hang-ing down and started pick-
ing up his stuff and walking out. He knew that was the end of his college career here at Georgia,” Diaz said. “But I was so impressed with his work ethic and his character and his competi-tive spirit, that I grabbed him and said, ‘You know what? I think we’re going to carry 11 this year.’”
That year marked a national championship win for the team and the begin-ning of Glenn’s career at Georgia. He made the tran-sition from walk-on to stu-dent-athlete with a schol-arship to the team’s associ-ate head coach.
But before that chal-lenge match and before that national champion-ship run, Glenn grew up in Athens surrounded by Georgia tennis.
Glenn was a ball boy for Georgia during the NCAA tournaments in the ’90s held in Athens. He played on the same courts as a child when he attended Diaz’s tennis summer camps.
Following graduation, Glenn left Athens after liv-ing here his whole life and traveled — coaching in Long Island, N.Y. and Perth, Australia.
But there is a magne-tism that draws Glenn back to his roots in Athens and the tennis program.
“Every spring, there’s just a scent to this place, a smell to it, something about these courts. Coach Magill would play his army music, so that always reminds us of [NCAAs]. [Being a ball boy] was the
most fun thing you could do all year, that and Georgia football,” Glenn said.
In 2005, Glenn joined the coaching staff as assis-tant coach and was pro-moted to associate head coach in 2008 after Georgia won back-to-back national championships in 2007 and 2008, under the leadership of Diaz and Glenn. The relationship between the two coaches has evolved since Glenn attended Diaz’s summer camps as a child.
“[Diaz] has been a great mentor always. He’s taught me a lot, working alongside him. I think we work well together because he’s got some characteristics that blend well with what I do well and with my personal-
ity, and how I communicate blends along with the way that he communicates,” Glenn said.
While Glenn sees Diaz as a mentor, Diaz points out that Glenn is also a mentor to the team. Since Glenn competed as a Bulldog, he can relate well to players and understand what they face.
“He has great leadership skills,” Diaz said. “He does a tremendous job commu-nicating with these young men. Really, you could say he’s a mentor to a lot of them, and to a great extent, he’s a big part of our char-acter education program.”
Though Diaz is more experienced and sets a vision for the team, Glenn relies on “emotional intelli-gence” to communicate to the student-athletes, who are only a decade younger.
He has become a man of advice on the team, dis-pensing books like “The Art of War”, “The Psychology of Winning” and “The Magic of Thinking Big” to help each athlete find inspira-tion on and off the court.
“It’s just understanding their thoughts and any con-cerns that they have and sometimes you got to be there to listen to them and help them out,” Glenn said.
Though Glenn is described as calm, his com-petitive spirit and personal investment in the program helps to push the players to succeed despite obstacles.
“If we can be the most improved team by the end of this year, we’re going to make a big push and big run towards the national championship at the end,” Glenn said.
Glenn will reflect on his many memories with the tennis program as he coaches Georgia during this year’s national cham-pionships in Athens.
“[Tennis] has been a vehicle to really help me. It’s been a job for me. It’s been a passion. It’s been a sport I can play. It’s been fun. It’s been not so fun at times. It’s been good, bad and ugly. Through it all, it’s always been there, a con-stant and it’s helped me achieve many things. And [coaching] is fun. It’s a great way of life.”
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Associate head coach goes from camper to leaderWHERE THERE’S A WILL ...
Associate head coach Will Glenn was born and raised in Athens, spending his summers at head coach Manuel Diaz’s tennis camps. The Athens native walked on under Diaz, later earning an athletic schol-arship. After graduation and traveling for a handful of years, Glenn returned to Athens and the men’s tennis team as associ-ate head coach. Since Glenn joined the staff, the Bulldogs have won two national cham-pionships and three-straight SEC regular season and tournament titles.
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