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By RACHEL BUNN | THE RED & BLACK

Sagar Patel missed a trip home to Atlanta this weekend. He took a quiz instead.

Following three missed days of class and two late openings to start of spring semester, the University deemed two Saturdays — Jan. 29 and Feb. 12 — as make-up class days.

“I was supposed to be back home,” Patel said of his management informa-tion systems class on Saturday morning. “But I couldn’t go because I had to be here.”

Though campus was full of cars and buses were running, sidewalks were empty and few students were out and about on campus.

“I think it’s sort of funny because most professors don’t want to come to class on Saturday, and I’m pretty sure 100 percent of students don’t want to come to Saturday classes,” said David Henry, a freshman from Barnesville. “I see the benefit of having class, because you’ve paid for it. But it’s not practical. You’re cutting into people’s day off and

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The Miller Learning Center was relatively empty on Saturday when the University held class to make up for missed snow days. On normal class days, the Miller Learning Center would be full of students studying, heading to lecture or grabbing a quick cup of coffee.

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Wayne Silverman (left) and Steve Levine fill in the last letters in the final book of Hillel’s new Torah. The Torah was donated to Hillel by Ray Schinazi.

Smoking ban will go to SGA vote

By KATHRYN INGALLTHE RED & BLACK

Campus smokers shouldn’t trade in their cigarettes for nico-tine patches just yet.

The Student Government Association will vote Tuesday on a proposal that would ban smok-ing in front of building entrances and possibly bus stops.

“We opted out of the all-cam-pus ban because it’s frankly not realistic,” said Stephen Thompson, vice-president of SGA.

Greg Locke, the author of the resolution, said the proposal was an attempt to mediate among differing opinions in the debate.

“It’s in response to basically trying to satisfy all sides of the argument,” he said. “The ban has been a very radical plan. We’re working for the whole campus, not just smokers or non-smokers.”

Although SGA will vote on a res-olution this week, the final decision will be made by U n i v e r s i t y President Michael Adams in March.

“We’re propos-ing a specific area from an entrance,” Thompson said. “That way it will be standardized.”

After SGA votes on the pro-posal Tuesday, they will get feed-back from students at a meeting on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in room 213 of the MLC.

Students will have the oppor-tunity to ask questions and offer any criticism of the plan.

“They can come and voice any opinion they want,” Locke said. “My assumption is more smokers will come than non-smokers because they have more at stake.”

SGA plans to have the pro-posal ready to present to Adams next Monday.

“We’re hoping there’s not a lot of student pushback, but if there is we’ll come back Tuesday for an emergency meeting,” Thompson said.

Thompson said the method of enforcement has not been

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Campus empty despite Saturday class

Proposal doesn’t cover all campus

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By SARAH GIARRATANATHE RED & BLACK

The University’s chapter of Hillel welcomed a new member of the Jewish community Sunday.

This new member is not a per-son, but the Jewish law.

Hillel welcomed its new Torah to campus amid dancing, singing and crowds filling the bottom floor of the Hillel house on South Milledge Avenue.

Raymond Schinazi, professor of genetics and HIV/AIDS researcher from Emory University, donated the Torah in the name of himself and his family because he felt the University’s nearly 2,000 Jewish students needed one.

“I think there’s a need here and the need has now been managed and fulfilled,” Schinazi said. “They now have one that the Hillel at UGA can use every Chabad and

during the week and that’s going to be a big plus on the Jewish life here in Georgia.”

The Torah that Hillel received rests between two dark wood scrolls gilded in silver and was entirely handwritten by a scribe in Israel.

“It is a huge gift and it’s won-derful support for young Jewish men and women,” said Barbara Schuster, dean of the University’s medical college. “This Torah is really very important for this com-munity — plus it’s just beautiful.”

To welcome the Torah, mem-bers of the Jewish and Athens community filled in the last letters of the final book, which represents the completion of a mitzvah or good deed in Judaism.

Members of the community who filled in a letter met the scribe and held the end of his white feather quill as he guided the pen to com-

plete a character.“There’s not many things in life

where you can really feel minute — that the action is a lot greater than the person who’s doing it,” said Joel Marcovitch, director of Hillel. “I definitely felt that when I filled in a letter. I was very proud to be given the opportunity by Ray [Schinazi] to write in ink some-thing that will be around forever and will be treasured.”

The scribe who completes the books, written entirely in Hebrew, matches the document to the old-est known original known as the Leningrad Codex. If the Torah matches the original document, it is considered kosher and usable, Schinazi said.

In addition to filling in the let-ters, members of the community gathered in the center of

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the room to dance and sing, celebrating the gift that will be used weekly for services and during Jewish high holidays cele-

brations at Hillel. “As far as the Jewish

community, this means that any of the groups that come here to worship can have a Torah right here,” said Mara Price, a senior

from Martinez and student president of Hillel.

Price said she appreci-ates the support Hillel has received.

“I am so impressed with the number of people who came out to support us, and it’s fantastic that there are people out here who support what we do and want to see us succeed on campus,” she said.

Marcovitch said the Torah represents a huge part of the Jewish commu-nity at the University and a huge part of his legacy at Hillel.

“The majesty of it is not lost on me — the respect that we have for the Torah is tremendous,” Marcovitch said. “It’s the students who do everything — I just create the space for them to do it, and today that space was filled with the Torah.”

University student arrested on open container charges

A University student was charged with under-age possession or con-sumption of alcohol and having an open container of alcohol on Friday night, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police document.

Jessica Brianna Pont, 19, was going to a sorority function at the Hotel Indigo on College Avenue when an officer reported-ly witnessed her “placing a water bottle filled with an unknown substance

into a jacket.”The officer approached

Pont at Jackson Street and Hancock Avenue and asked for her ID.

Pont said the ID wasn’t hers and she was just holding it for some-one else. When the officer again asked for Pont’s ID, Pont “pulled two out of her wallet and handed me her real ID,” accord-ing to the report.

The officer asked for the “fake ID” Pont had taken out before. She ini-

tially refused, but then gave the officer her wal-let, where the officer was able to obtain Pont’s fake ID.

Pont then “handed the bottle over but would not say what was in it,” according to the docu-ment. The bottle report-edly smelled of whiskey.

Pont was arrested and transported to Clarke County Jail.

She declined to com-ment on the events sur-rounding her arrest to The Red & Black on Sunday.

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By EMILY KAROLTHE RED & BLACK

James “Chunk” Richardson has more than likely touched the “soles” of almost every person walking on the University’s campus.

The concrete he laid with his hands at 18 and the compost he mulched at 62 is met daily with the pounding of intellectuals’ feet.

In March, Richardson will meet his 44th year working at the University’s Physical Plant in the bio-conversion center.

“When I had 30 years behind me, I wasn’t ready to retire,” Richardson said. “If I find something at home that I enjoy like I enjoy it here, I would be at home.”

For 20 years, Richardson was the man to lay side-walks.

“He’s universally respected by the people that work for him, the peo-ple that work with him and anyone who intersects with him,” said Dexter Adams, director of grounds at the University.

In the ’60s the concrete business was done by hand. Steps were dug out by hand. Concrete was unloaded by hand.

“It was hard work, real hard work,” Richardson said.

Now, he is the compost man — though the job doesn’t have too much to do with laying sidewalks.

After the first compost man left the University, Adams asked Richardson to take on the task.

“I think I was put on temporarily,” Richardson said. “But once I started messing with it I really loved it.”

Richardson relates com-posting to time spent on his father’s farm, putting stuff back in the ground, enhancing the roots and watching it grow.

“My daddy loved to grow cotton,” Richardson said. “He likes cotton just like I like this place here. We like seeing the pro-cess.”

Glenda Pope, Richardson’s daughter, described her father grow-ing up as a strict man.

“When I was young, I thought he was mean,”

Pope said. “What he did for me when my friends were having babies at 14 was give me a chance to become a young lady.”

Richardson instilled the importance of hard work and education in his chil-dren — an education that he couldn’t afford.

Pope has noticed that to her father, composting at is more than a job — it’s a way of life.

“My dad never missed a day of work,” Pope said. “They would have to make him take vacation time.”

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decided, but whatever it is, the University Police department will enforce it.

“We’re leaning more towards a fine because as a student, that would really make me not want to do something,” Thompson said.

Ashley McCrea, a freshman biology major from Atlanta, said she favored a partial smoking ban.

“That’s fine,” she said. “It’s respectful to the people who don’t smoke.”

David Buterbaugh lives in Oglethorpe House and said he and friends often smoke in the walkway outside the dorm’s entrance.

“I see how it’s a problem for people who don’t smoke, but I think people should be at liberty do to what they want to do,” said Buterbaugh, a fresh-man from Norcross. “If the smoking ban goes through, that’s not OK. I live in a dorm, but this is my home.”

Buterbaugh said he thought desig-

nated smoking areas were a better solu-tion than a campus-wide smoking ban.

“It’s an OK compromise,” he said. “Of course, I’d like to be able to smoke any-where.”

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By CHARLES HICKSTHE RED & BLACK

Though most University students can’t go a day without using the “F-word” — Facebook — other social networking sites targeted to specific audiences are bouncing into the public realm.

Since 2003, Couchsurfing.org has provided an outlet for thrifty travelers.

“I’ve hosted probably three or four groups coming through town,” said Jacob Nash, a 2009 University alumnus who is planning to use Couchsurfing.org to travel down the west coast beginning this week. “It’s not about just having someone’s couch to crash on. It’s about getting to know the person. By the end of the stay, we know one another.”

Couchsurfing.org uses a vouching system whereby members can endorse other members and help ensure the safety of fellow travelers.

And while traveling, some students may need a place to store their pictures.

Veronica Smillie, a sophomore health promotions major from Suwanee, has been using the website Flickr.com since 2007.

“I participate in 365 pics in 365 days [Project 365],” Smillie said. “It’s a project that encourages people to blossom and develop meaning in their photographic ability. And then you can connect to others through commenting on their pictures or adding them as con-tacts.”

Flickr was founded in 2004 as a photo-sharing site and now hosts upwards of five billion pictures.

And who isn’t listening to music?University students with eclectic musical tastes

have flocked to last.fm. The site allows users to find musicians similar to

ones they already enjoy. Users can also form groups around genres and artists.

“I use it to pull up songs on demand which is nice,” said Chris Godfrey, a senior from Marietta majoring in business management. “It brings up a list of sugges-tions based off of what I listened to.”

Last.fm takes what members are listening to and makes suggestions based on what other people with similar tastes have in their libraries.

“It’s convenient,” Godfrey said.And then there’s Facebook — which at best projec-

tion is expected to reach up to 680 million members this year.

The site became the most-visited website in 2010 beating out Google, the two-year holder of the spot, according to Experian Hitwise.

Facebook allows users to invite their friends to events, tag pictures and write on one another’s “walls.”

Students cite the practicality of Facebook as what keeps them plugged in.

“I just moved here, and I can post jokes on my friends’ walls back home, instant message with them or just see what they’ve been up to by looking on their profiles,” said Drew Mobley, a sophomore from St. Simons Island, who transferred to the University this semester.

Facebook is available via Internet and cellular devic-es such as the Blackberry, iPhone and Android plat-forms.

Over the past 10 years, social networking has become standard. However, not all social networking sites are experiencing success among college students.

Earlier this month, Myspace.com laid off 47 percent of its worldwide staff.

“No one that I know still uses Myspace,” said senior Bryce Helsel from Cumming. “It’s old news.”

By KATHRYN INGALLTHE RED & BLACK

Twitter and Facebook may hold the key to a better community for students in the New Media Institute.

“We’re trying to develop their skills and hopefully do something useful at the same time,” said Emuel Aldridge, a professor who works with students on projects.

In an introduction to new media class, students create a community project while sharpening their web and new media skills.

“I definitely think it was a great idea. It challenged us as students trying to be professional to inte-grate technology for a citywide proj-ect,” said Matthew Clark, who worked on the project for his NMIX 2020 class.

Clark’s group developed a pro-gram for people to track their steps and use the data as part of an online, personalized workout plan.

“We tried to get the people of Athens to get into a better lifestyle with a few simple goals, like track-ing their steps,” Clark said.

Scott Shamp, the director of the NMI, said he measures success by students developing problem-solv-ing skills.

“What I find is when you take on an assignment like that, the walls of the classroom just disappear,” he said.

Shamp said students have taken on issues such as childhood obesity, community gardening and sustain-ability.

“What we always find works the best is to know that students are not going to have the follow-through,” he said. “They’re just temporary citizens.”

Instead of expecting students to dedicate years to a project, they focus on developing what he calls promo-types.

They focus on preparing new ideas that an organization can expand upon and possibly receive funding for.

“What they should plan on get-ting out of this isn’t the labor, but the ideas,” Shamp said.

He also said students have learned about the community through this assignment.

Although they are not required to implement these plans, many have made ties with the community that have gone beyond the class’ requirements.

“A lot of students don’t under-stand Athens,” Shamp said. “They think Athens is just downtown.”

In previous years, students may have found a job with a company, but hard economic times have

opened the door for community projects as well as better résumés.

“It really means something to a company — not only that you know the technology, but that you’re involved with issues,” Shamp said.

Like the NMI student projects, other student-started organiza-tions, such as Athens PBJs, also make a mark outside the class-room.

“I would say that it’s a nonprofit, so it’s not affiliated with UGA and it’s not really student-run,” said Anna Day, who has graduated from the University but continues to work with Athens PBJs. “A lot of students volunteer and a lot of the original founders have moved on, but it’s continued to be sustained though the students and other peo-ple in the community.”

She said their mission comes from the relationships students develop with the community

“We’re called as believers to serve those in need,” Day said. “By God’s grace we have definitely been allowed to make an impact for the community. If we weren’t there I would like to think that some other organization would come about that would continue to encourage and disciple the poor.”

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A lone student sits with her bookbag on campus Saturday. Several students who had to attend class were annoyed by the makeup day.

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work day — I don’t see many people showing up.”

***

At 9:15 Saturday morn-ing, Dynasty Harris had already been to one class.

“I just left sociology, and I’m on my way to math,” Harris, a freshman from Wrens, said as she walked through North Campus toward the MLC.

Some professors offered incentives for students who showed up to class.

Joe Coiner, a senior from Columbus, said his market-ing teacher offered bonus points if students attended the 9:05 a.m. class.

“I was going to come anyway,” he said. “It’s my last semester — I might as well come to class and learn.”

Edward Panetta, an associate professor of speech communication, held his class on Saturday morning, but didn’t take attendance.

“The expectation was that you would come unless you couldn’t,” he said. “I don’t think it’s fair to hold someone to attendance when it’s not slotted in there regularly.”

***

On South Campus, there is a similar morning scene.

From atop Ag Hill at 9 a.m., small, mostly silent groups of students can be seen trudging to class. Some siphon into the Physics building, though most go into auditorium 430W of the Chemistry building.

Thao Luu, a junior biol-ogy and psychology double major from Vietnam, said the makeup day conflicted with her work schedule.

“I don’t really like it because I have to work today and I had to skip,” she said.

Kirty Patel, a freshman microbiology major from Stockbridge, was dis-pleased about having class.

“Honestly, the only rea-son I went is because I thought we had a quiz and we didn’t,” she said. “It was a waste of time for me because I could’ve gone home.”

***

At the bus stop outside of Tate, buses come by more often than people.

On another day, the Tate Plaza would be filled with students, but only a few pass through and most are on their way to study at the MLC, not to go to class.

At 10:30 a.m., Lindsey Huggins, a sophomore business major from Duluth, sat waiting for her macroeconomics class to begin. Out of the 300 stu-dents enrolled in the class, Huggins said she expected few to attend.

“I would say lower than half,” she said. “There’s one later in the day, so I think a lot of people are going to sleep in and go to that one. There’s usually people here by now, and I’m the only one.”

Grant Guldenschuh, a sophomore sports manage-ment major from Lawrenceville, was also heading to macroeconom-ics.

Though Huggins had already been to another class, Guldenschuh said macroeconomics was his only class Saturday.

“I had several teachers who talked about the e-mail that was sent, but this is the only one that took the offer up,” he said.

***

At 10:45 a.m., the bot-tom floor of Aderhold was

completely dark. Normally-crowded bus stops have just one or two students.

Nate Shivar, a member of Campus Transit staff, said buses were running all routes on Saturday, though only at half capacity.

“We had to really drag our feet to keep from get-ting ahead of schedule,” Shivar said.

Elizabeth Andros, a f reshman f rom Lawrenceville, said her kinesiology lab met from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

“It was annoying,” she said. “Saturday is my day to sleep in, and I don’t want to have to come to class on a Saturday.”

Jarred Bond, a senior management information systems major, had no choice but to attend his Java programming class at 11:15 a.m.

“He gave us a mandato-ry quiz,” Bond said, though he added his professor brought the class donuts.

***

At noon, students slowly walk up the hill and take a seat on the stairs in front of the chemistry auditori-um as they wait for their professor to arrive for class.

Morgan Attaway, a senior pre-med major from Marietta, had chemistry at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.

“It didn’t really bother me at first but now I’ve got a lot of stuff to do today and this is smack-dab in the middle of it,” Attaway said.

Alexandria Evans, fresh-man chemistry major from Atlanta, said there could have been other options to make up the day.

“I don’t like it at all. It’s kind of a waste of time,” she said. “[My professor] just said we’re going over test materials so if you don’t come you won’t have it.”

However, for the rest of Ag Hill, it was quiet.

***

On the warmest day of the semester, there appeared to be as many people sunbathing as there were attending class.

“It could have been worse, but it is just so nice outside that I hate to be in,” said Rusty Woodward, a senior finance and eco-nomics major from Vienna.

Spanish professor Fernando Larios was in Gilbert Hall on Saturday, though his students were not. Larios, who teaches Spanish, had his students make up work by writing compositions on eLC.

The students who did have Saturday classes felt it was important to go, but weren’t sure if enough was missed to warrant an addi-tional day of school.

“I had calculus and am glad that I went because we were taught new mate-rial,” said Lauren Byers, a sophomore from Sharpsburg. “But I felt like we haven’t really missed enough to need an extra class.”

But missing out on an hour of a Saturday was not worth missing class.

“I went because I don’t think I could have learned the material on my own,” said Meredith Price, a sophomore from Baltimore, Md. “It was better for me to go than not to go.”

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Duncan and Mary Walker contributed to this report

CLASS: Professors offered incentives

When: Feb. 12More Information: Tuesday/Thursday classes will host makeup days

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Many members of the homeless community ask for money and food in downtown Athens. Student-founded volunteer group Athens PBJs works to tackle the issue of poverty.

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tine service not only saves gas but also helps curb damage from happening. Maintenance such as checking tire pressure, changing oil and air filters and checking transmission and radiator fluids keeps cars run-ning efficiently for longer.

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Some maintenance jobs can

often be done “do-it-yourself” style. In jobs such as changing your oil, it is important to make sure the right filters and recommended oil are pur-chased. Auto shops often have catalogs listing the parts for specific make and year model available and can give step-by-step instructions.

An easier job that should be done frequently is checking for proper tire inflation using a tire gauge. Recommended tire pressure is usually located inside the driver’s door jamb or inside the glove box. You can save up to nine cents per gallon with properly inflated tires, according to fuelecono-my.gov, a division of the Department of Energy.

Slowing down and accelerating slowly: Driving the speed limit decreas-

es gallons used. The U.S. Department of Energy states that driving at an average 48.3 mph provides optimum fuel economy for highway travels. Driving at higher speed burns fuel at a faster pace.

“While each vehicle reaches its optimal fuel economy at a different speed (or range of speeds), gas mileage usually decreases rapidly at speeds

above 60 mph,” the U.S. Department of Energy stated on its fuel economy website.” Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration and brak-ing) wastes gas. It can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds and by 5 percent around town.” That can add to gas bills.

Most new cars are equipped with cruise control. Utilizing it will keep speeds constant and reduces acceleration. Cruise control set between 55 and 60 mph reduces gas mileage on highways.

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By SARAH JEAN DOVERTHE RED & BLACK

“You drive like a granny!” may not be an insult anymore, but a compli-ment and money saver.

As students returned to the routine of school, buying books, lab supplies and food made a large dent into wal-lets. Fuel costs are not high on a stu-dent’s priority list in the first few weeks of the semester, but with the potential for gas to reach $4 a gallon, they could be.

This doesn’t give much time for those who overspent on winter break to recover.

Never fear — there are several ways to save money without having to make major changes. Some ways are as simple as slowing down and driving the speed limit, shopping around for the best price or not driving.

Here are some of the more detailed ways to save on fuel:

MONEY-SAVING TIPS

Small modifications may reduce gas usage

Shopping for the best price: Driving around to save money on fuel is not always effective. Going the extra distance uses up the few cents per gallon that may be

saved by driving around.Many gas stations report their prices

daily online. Some websites feature up-to-date gas prices including MSN.com, GasBuddy.com, mapquest.com and gaspricewatch.com. These sites can also give the most direct route to the station.

“Every night MSN Autos receives pric-ing data from over 90,000 gas stations across the nation. Please note that gas prices in your area may change more fre-quently than we can obtain them,” MSN stated on its webpage.

Remove excess weight: Every vehicle’s weight is different. Weight and aerodynamics affect the fuel econ-omy for a vehicle. The more weight the car has to bear in addition to its own, the more fuel is spent. For every additional 100 pounds a car carries, its fuel economy is

reduced by 1 to 2 percent. That’s roughly 3 to 6 cents per gallon, according to fueleconomy.gov. “The reduction is based on the percentage of extra weight relative to the vehicle’s weight and affects smaller vehicles more than larger ones,” the U.S. Department of Energy stated on its fuel economy website.

*fueleconomy.gov based percentages and savings on an assumed price of $3.07 per gallon.

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‘Don’t Judge a Dick by its Foreskin: God, Life &

Revolution’ by Max Gold

Remember that guy you knew? You know, the one who was opinionated, argumentative … and you couldn’t stand him after 15 minutes?

Author Max Gold elicits the same reaction.

“Don’t Judge a Dick by its Foreskin” fails to live up to the expectations of its attention-grabbing title. Marketed as a com-panion to the humorous writings of Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, the read-er expects anti-establish-ment comedy and cutting political satire.

But Gold’s would-be revolutionary rhetoric is more Glenn Beck than Thomas Paine.

This is Gold’s first book and the format is simple: discuss major issues in the Western world — and force them down the reader’s throat. He wants the U.S. government to abolish the income tax and make English the world’s lan-guage. And that’s fine. Writers have a right to their beliefs.

The problems arise in sound delivery and credi-bility — both of which are nonexistent in this text.

We’re left with one-page arguments for Gold’s life philosophy, in which he favors yelling at anyone who disagrees with him over rational argument.

He abandons even the pretense of citations or actual research.

Gold ignores history and says guns should belong to everyone,

because “how can geno-cide occur, if the ethnici-ties targeted for slaughter own guns?”

Gold’s statements are loud, angry — he’s a bully with a pen, throwing in curse words to somehow appeal to young readers.

This is apparently meant to conceal the fact that Gold lacks any validi-ty as a political writer.

His background con-sists of comedy writing and personal websites calling for revolution.

Hardly the man we would look to for political insight.

Perhaps humor is his purpose? Well, Gold’s attempts at comedy are stuck in middle-school — when hating government made you a “rebel” and swearing was still taboo.

And what a charmer he is. When discussing why multiple languages hurt global relations, Gold informs us, “With so many different languages it’s hard for everyone in the world to ‘get’ the same message to understand each other.” Gold utilizes such calculated, eloquent phrasing throughout the entire book.

Upon closing the text, the reader is left with only one thought — what an ego. Despite a lack of sources and knowledge regarding any of these fun-damental issues, Gold will let you know — he’s right.

You, the reader, will be “educated” on why America is both fascist and socialist, and why government must stop funding public education. And it culminates with a July 4 march on Washington, D.C.

How original.You can joke about

Gold’s skewed logic. You can mock his delusions of grandeur.

But in the end, this book is offensive to schol-ars and writers who put in the time and effort to study their political or his-torical topic.

Without sources or skill, “Don’t Judge a Dick by its Foreskin” is nothing more than the rant of an over-grown teenager.

— Courtney Holbrook

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By HEATHER KINNEYTHE RED & BLACK

“Drawing from the Soul” uses a modern technique that recharges the punch of the black comic explosion of the ’90s.

Revamped from a series of 11 trade paperback, black-and-white comic books, Brotherman is mak-ing the shift from past to present in the form of a graphic novel.

“I’m working on a graphic novel which picks up where the 11th book left off 15 years ago,” said Dawud Anyabwile, artist and writ-er for the Brotherman comics series.

Brotherman was instrumental in starting the black comics move-ment.

“The book basically has a history behind it,” Anyabwile said. “It was historical because it was like the premier black comic book, with a black hero, published by a black family.”

Paired with the series’ historical intrigue is the “Drawing from the Soul” exhibition showcasing the comics.

“The Brotherman art show ... is unique in itself because everybody comes to the show and they haven’t even heard of a solo black-hero art exhibition — that is, in itself, historical,” Anyabwile said.

He is giving a lecture and pre-sentation alongside the hanging of a few choice pieces of art during the show.

“My lectures are pretty broad in that I talk about not only my histo-

ry as an artist and an entrepreneur, but what our family went through to produce the comic book,” Anyabwile said. “I talk about the industry and the animation and the creative arts industry — about the experience working in New York and L.A.”

Taking his inspiration from numerous concept artists, Anyabwile has done entrepreneur-ial work and freelance work, along with working for several companies.

“I did a couple of ‘Pink Panther’ CD-roms [in New York] and when I went to L.A. I was a character designer on ‘Rugrats’ and ‘[The] Wild Thornberrys’ for Nickelodeon,” Anyabwile said.

He has also been working at Cartoon Network and Turner Studios since he moved to Atlanta in 2000.

“That is pretty much what I am doing full time but I’ve been bring-ing Brotherman back,” Anyabwile said.

The final goal for the Brotherman comics is to further develop and continue on with the series.

“We are going to expand, we are going to create more work, we are going to build 3-D structures and as it begins to travel more around the country we are going to get bigger and bigger until eventually we can take it overseas,”

Anyabwile said.“Drawing from the Soul” focuses

on inspiring viewers in a way that teaches them to tap within them-selves and not be afraid to break the mold.

“You’ve gotta draw from your own experiences and tell your story, because part of the story of what [my family] did was that we went against the odds,” Anyabwile said. “‘Drawing from the Soul’ means don’t worry about what everyone else is doing. You have to focus on what is coming from your spirit and tell your story, just like we did with this.”

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‘Manifest Blasphemy’Yo Soybean

At times, “Manifest Blasphemy” by Tallahassee-to-Athens transplants Yo Soybean is utterly conventional.

However, in its finer moments, there’s a transcen-dence past typical strum-along passages, and a clear emphasis on folk rock. It reads like a glib spirit-of-the-age manifesto.

“Send me to the moon, the computer and back,” sings Soybean front man Nicholas Mallis on album opener “Anticipation.” Throughout the album, Mallis frequently ties together consumer electronics with the idea of travel.

Admittedly, cyber culture references can be hard to catch when they’re nestled into a mix full of romp-stomp acoustic guitars and chortling banjo.

The group manages to cover plenty of other ground, however, and not just in terms of the geographic dis-tance conveyed by the album’s narratives (the band’s musical avatars travel all the way to Santa Fe by way of Connecticut, if pseudo-title track “Manifest Blasphemy 2” is to be believed).

In “Breathing Down Our Necks,” Mallis and violinist/vocalist Stephanie Jean Davis take on a winding duet whose aching melodic flourishes somehow manage to render the song’s oft-mentioned “beast with two backs” more tragic than comic.

And of course, a record with the name “Manifest Blasphemy” wouldn’t be complete unless it contained at least a couple jibs in the direction of religion.

Thankfully, the band doesn’t disappoint in this regard: “It’s time to rewrite your instruction book/’Cause Jesus and Achilles/Are laying in a hammock having smokes,” intones Mallis on “Anticipation.” It’s one of Blasphemy’s better lyrical turns, and it’s just this sense of impudence that keeps the record from getting lost in its own reverent folksiness.

Mallis navigates some wide-ranging passages throughout “Blasphemy” that would induce fits in the average gravel-voiced folkster. There isn’t an overly tax-ing vocal reach to be found here — unaffected, airy cool is Mallis’s wheelhouse, and he maintains a very consis-tent tone throughout the record.

Unfortunately, this consistency does not always suit the task at hand: “Paradise Found” gallops relentlessly forward like a minor-key campfire jam written by the ghost of Jesse James, but the track demands more grit and less windy mid-range.

It’s a well-written tune that comports well with the flirting-with-the-devil themes of “Blasphemy,” but Tom Waits might feel more at home on this one after all.

Still, there is something decidedly tasteful about updating old forms subtly, sprinkling in the odd contem-porary accoutrement instead of, say, affixing a drum pad to the body of one’s banjo and calling it Mod.

On Manifest Blasphemy, the members of Yo Soybean demonstrate a keen awareness of the relationship between content and aesthetic and a healthy respect for their folk forebears.

— Colin Frawley

By KELLY CORBETTTHE RED & BLACK

For most people, pro-fessional wrestling doesn’t normally qualify as rock ‘n’ roll.

And most of the trivia questions at Little Kings Shuffle Club on Monday nights are about music — but host Jonathan Thompson will throw in the occasional comic book, movie or pro-wres-tling reference.

“Sometimes they tell me I ask ridiculous ques-tions,” Thompson said.

He tries to then twist them around to at least make it seem like rock ’n’ roll, such as lead singer Scott Stapp of Creed writ-ing a song for the Florida Marlins.

“Tell me the top 15 bestselling albums of the 1990s in the U.S.,” is another example of a triv-ia tidbit asked.

This particular query created some anger among the participants because, surprisingly, Garth Brooks had four entries and the Backstreet Boys had two.

There’s also a creepy running joke amongst the regulars in attendance, since Thompson might have inadvertently killed a few people.

“He’s got a knack for asking questions about rock stars and having them die that week,” bar-tender Daniel Aaron said. “He’s the grim reaper of rock ’n’ roll trivia.”

Most recently, Charlie Louvin of The Louvin Brothers, a country musi-cian from the ’50s, died Wednesday at the age of 83 — a week after Thompson featured him in a question.

Thompson occasionally recycles material, but pre-fers to switch things up since there are some rock ’n’ roll regulars.

“There is a dedicated core that come in,” Thompson said.

He has been hosting the trivia for nearly three years, with familiar faces popping in each week.

“This whole silliness started in 2001 when they were having rock trivia at Transmetropolitan,” Thompson said.

Transmetropolitan stopped holding rock triv-ia in 2004 and Thompson decided to bring it back in February 2008.

“I try to make it as lighthearted as possible,” Thompson said.

The top three winners receive bar tab prize — $20 for first place, $15 for sec-ond and $10 for third.

“Last week, it was an “all-winner trivia,” Thompson said.

There were only three teams, so everyone received a prize.

“It’s fun and education-al,” Aaron said.

Every now and then, Thompson will give away other prizes; after the 2008 election, winners received plastic water guns.

Thompson asks a total of 15 questions, ranging in difficulty.

“The last question of the night is usually a big multi-parter,” Thompson said. “It can have any-where from 15 to 30 parts.”

Local musicians Brandon Reynolds of The Arcs and Jon Lester of Radio:Tahiti will some-times substitute as the host if Thompson is unable to make it.

“I’m the least musically talented, but I ask all of the music questions,” Thompson said.

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Comic book featured in art gallery

Courtesy Dawud Anyabwile

One of the first black comic books, featuring a black hero and published by a black fami-ly, ‘Brotherman’ will be on dis-play in Tate.

Black superhero premiered in ’90s

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Showdown: Super Bowl XLV

Smokers — hide your lights. The Student Government Association is

coming after you.Well, not really. It is going to toss the controversial policy off

to the University Police department. SGA is meeting Tuesday to vote on a pro-

posal to ban nicotine-lovers from bus stops and doorways.

SGA will hold a Wednesday student forum to take questions and comments.

As much as the editorial board appreciates the downgrade from campus-wide to partial ban, we have a question:

What’s the point? Many on-campus buildings ban smoking

close to doorways.A wave of bus-stop carbon monoxide is just

as damaging to your lungs as a two-second whiff of secondhand smoke outside of the Miller Learning Center.

And we’ve yet to see how SGA plans to dis-tribute University police officers outside of every single doorway on campus.

The editorial board wonders how — and why — this plan should go into effect?

The sponsor of the bill, Gregory Locke, insists this is “a very radical plan.” How?

The only thing SGA is doing is planning a way to deny smokers the legal right to smoke — and then making it unenforceable.

This is yet another useless proposal from the would-be politicians. Crippled by powerless-ness on campus, they resort to hazy smoking proposals to maintain the appearance of legiti-macy.

Perhaps they are ready for U.S. politics?

— Courtney Holbrook for the editorial board

Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board

One last smokeSGA will vote on a proposed partial smoking ban on campus Tuesday

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Samantha Shelton’s commentary on Twilight-style vampires (“Girls will always choose a vampire, Jan. 28) reads more like an article from Cosmopolitan than from the newspaper of an accredited university.

I found it offensive and vulgar, and would be ashamed for someone out-side of the University to see my place of learning

associated with such trash and nonsense.

Using the words “we,” “our” and “us” no fewer than 13 times, she seems to truly believe that the common goal of every woman is to nab an Edward for herself.

The statement, “…[Edward and Bill are] bet-ter than anyone you’ll meet in Athens” makes me wonder if anyone actu-ally read this article before running it off to the print-er.

If this is how The Red & Black would like to rep-resent our students, I, as an individual with respect for myself as well as for my university, must consider withdrawing support and interest in this publica-tion.

Ours is an institute of higher learning, not a housewives’ book club.

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The stars at night are big and bright (clap, clap, clap,

clap) deep in the heart of Texas.

So goes the song and so should go Super Bowl XLV.

Two teams.Both with historic

success. Both with rabid fan bases from frigid cit-ies. Both with stingy defenses led by men with girly hair. Both with big wins in the divisional round of the playoffs over avian opponents — the Baltimore Ravens and Atlanta Falcons.

But only one team can win the Lombardi Trophy.

And here are the rea-sons why that team is the Green Bay Packers.

Quarterbacks: Aaron Rodgers scrambles bet-ter than eggs at break-fast. He’s more mobile than a cell phone. The only thing Big Ben Roethlisberger can run away from is a sexual assault case in Milledgeville.

History: The Pittsburgh Steelers won six Super Bowls — more than any other team. Perhaps it’s time they gave someone else a chance to win one. The last Packers’ champion-ship was in 1996, before Brett Favre fell victim to senility.

Defense: The Steel Curtain has shown signs of rust with an injury to Troy Polamalu and the fines being accrued by James Harrison. Pro Bowl-bound Clay Matthews has put the “hair” in “harrowing” this season for a relent-less Packers’ defense.

Injuries: Pro Bowl center Maurkice Pouncey is doubtful for Pittsburgh. The Packers have shown their team can sustain attrition after placing 17 players on injured reserve during this season.

Big Man: The Packers occasionally use 340-pound nose tackle B.J. Raji as a blocker on offense when a bulldozer wouldn’t be enough. Nicknamed “The Freezer,” Raji showed his versatility by returning an interception for a touchdown against the Bears.

Names: Green Bay linebacker A.J. Hawk gives commentators ample opportunity to make “ball-hawk” puns.

Competition: During its ascent from the sixth

seed, Green Bay defeat-ed the Eagles, Falcons and Bears — three of nature’s most feared predators. Conversely, Pittsburgh nearly lost its footing against the Jets, Achilles heel of the Patriots, forcing the Steelers to tiptoe into the final game.

Logos: The Packers share their logo with this University’s athletic department. The Steelers can’t even put logos on both sides of their helmets.

Momentum: Green Bay has won its last five games and done so largely on the road. The Steelers have benefited from playing at home thus far through the playoffs.

Fans: The Packers are the only publicly owned NFL franchise, meaning the thousands of drunk people with foam cheese on their heads could be part-owners. All the Pittsburgh faithful have are those terrifying tow-els.

On Nov. 28, I saw the Packers play in person. My Falcons won that game on a last-minute field goal.

However, the Packers returned to the Georgia Dome two months later and dominated the more important game.

Although Green Bay wasn’t the best team in the regular season, it improved and has played better on the biggest stages. This is the big-gest stage of all.

The Steelers are a good team, and this should be a competitive matchup.

But someone has to lose.

Come Feb. 7, the cheeseheads will be cele-brating in the Wisconsin streets, which will be ill-advised.

It will be about 12 degrees out there.

— Robert Carnes is a senior from Dunwoody

majoring in newspapers

ROBERT CARNES

Hide your kids, hide your wife, hide your Milledgeville

sorority girls, the Steelers are going to Super Bowl XLV.

This is Pittsburgh’s eighth Super Bowl, which ties for the most trips to the big show along with the Dallas Cowboys.

And of the seven Super Bowls the Steelers have played, they’ve only lost one.

The Steelers went 12-4 in the regular season, including a 3-1 start even with starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger sus-pended for the first four games.

Not to mention that the four teams they lost to — Baltimore, New England, New Orleans and the NY Jets — all went to the playoffs.

The Green Bay Packers went 10-6, losing to some of the worst teams in the NFL this season, including the Washington Redskins and Detroit Lions.

The biggest factor for a Steelers’ victory is that they’re scary as hell.

The only thing scary about the Packers is the fact quarterback Aaron Rodgers looks like Skeletor.

Throughout this sea-son Roethlisberger has played on a broken foot and with an injured ham-string, been punched in the face, had his nose broken mid-game — and he won the 2009 Super Bowl with four broken ribs.

His ability to scramble and either find the open receiver or run for the first down puts him in a league of his own — and he’ll get you every time.

The Steelers are stacked, simple as that.

If Roethlisberger’s bionic man resiliency wasn’t enough, the Steelers possess Super Bowl XL MVP and former Bulldog receiver Hines Ward, who may be best known for breaking Cincinnati Bengal’s Keith River’s jaw in 2008.

Wide receiver Mike Wallace is the second-fastest receiver in the NFL. And the first-fastest ain’t playing for the Packers.

I personally wouldn’t want to play against line-backer James Harrison — who has been fined four times this season for dan-gerous hits.

Also, the combined power of safety Troy Polamalu’s hair and

defensive end Brett Keisel’s beard could win the game on its own.

It’s said the Steelers play 16 home games every season.

This is because Steelers fans are every-where — and certifiably insane.

The black-and-yellow wearing, towel-twisting, “Renegade”-loving Steeler Nation accounts for more than 1.6 million fans on Facebook.

The Packers have about 900,000.

When the Steelers played the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL, Steeler Nation out-numbered Seahawks’ fans 25 to 1.

OK, maybe cheaply-made bright yellow towels aren’t really all that terri-fying.

But neither is cheese.If that’s not enough,

fate is on the Steelers’ side.

Pittsburgh is going for its seventh Super Bowl title; Roethlisberger wears No. 7 and is in his seventh season with the team.

Go ahead and mess with that sign from foot-ball heaven, Green Bay, but I wouldn’t want to get back on the plane to Title Town with that hov-ering over my cheese-lad-en head.

The Packers are a good team.

But quarterback Rodgers can’t win the game by himself.

But if the Packers lose, perhaps Rodgers can finally get some sleep.

He looks like he hasn’t gotten any shut-eye in years, judging by those dark circles around his eyes.

Cowboys Stadium was constructed with 14,100 tons of steel, and it’s about to get a lot more.

Black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yel-low.

— Caitlin Wilson is a junior from Conyers majoring in English

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SPORTS The Red & Black | Monday, January 31, 2011 | 7

The Georgia men’s basketball team probably wants to for-get last week.

After Saturday’s 66-60 shortcom-ing against Kentucky and a double-overtime loss to Florida last Tuesday, the Bulldogs (14-6, 3-4) find themselves sitting in last place of the SEC East — only a week after they had a shot of leading it.

Conference play seems to have dulled the edge that gave Georgia a nine-game winning streak, which lasted more than a month and gave the team a No. 24 ranking four weeks ago.

That is now in the distant past. Now the Bulldogs are just fight-

ing to secure one of the final at-large bids in the NCAA tournament.

There’s no doubt that SEC play — especially against East oppo-nents — has put a damper on Georgia’s hot streak. The Bulldogs have lost three of their last four and are 1-4 against the East.

But of those four losses, only one has been against a non-ranked opponent — Tennessee. The Volunteers have a Ratings Percentage Index of 22. (The RPI is a ratings system that factors in a team’s strength of schedule.)

And the loss was only by two. In fact, all six of Georgia’s losses

have come against teams with RPIs higher than the Bulldogs’ 46 — all but one are in the top 20.

Against SEC East opponents, Georgia has fallen short by a mar-gin of 6.8 points.

Meanwhile, Georgia has out-scored both SEC West opponents it has faced by 22 points and faces two more with Arkansas and Auburn this week.

And the SEC West may be the only place the Bulldogs get wins, as they continue to struggle in the SEC East competition.

“We don’t have to go undefeated the rest of the year to accomplish something,” Georgia head coach Mark Fox said. “I think that every team is going to have a loss or two

from this point forward. You don’t want too many of them, but we have to win more than we lose, that’s for sure.”

The NCAA Tournament should be the team’s goal. But to get there, the Bulldogs need quality wins.

A home win against Kentucky earlier this month was a step in the right direction, but more are need-ed to punch their ticket on Selection Sunday.

A win over Xavier on Feb. 8 would be a quality one for the Bulldogs and a big non-conference

win would impress the Tournament Selection Committee.

The Musketeers are the Atlantic-10 Conference leader and a sure NCAA Tournament attend-ee, whether it be by winning their conference or through an at-large pick with their 18th-ranked RPI.

A win at Tennessee or Florida would fit the bill, too. The Bulldogs

need to win six of their last nine SEC games, and beat Xavier to ensure their tournament bid.Anything less and they’ll need to do damage in the SEC tournament.

Either way, we’ll know a lot more after this week.

Two straight SEC losses is one thing, but two more this week would likely put Georgia’s NCAA Tournament chances away for good.

— Mitch Blomert is a sports writer for The Red & Black

NCAA tournament hopes fleeting

By ROBBIE OTTLEYTHE RED & BLACK

Georgia gymnastics head coach Jay Clark may be a psychic.

Clark correctly foresaw the health issues that con-tinue to plague the Gym Dogs (6-1) this year. He knew freshman Lindsey Cheek would be a breakout competitor, and he’s been watching her since she was 5 years old. How did he think his team would fare in its first SEC road meet this weekend?

“Sometimes you get lulled to sleep, you’re at home three meets in a row … [and] you get a comfort level that is just not realis-tic,” Clark said Tuesday. “If we start taking anything for granted, then we can very easily go the other direction.”

Georgia indeed took a step in the other direction Friday in a road meet against Kentucky. The Gym Dogs finished with a victory, 195.550-195.000, but their score was well below their season average of 196.188.

The gymnasts said they felt a gen-eral sense that they didn’t live up to their message of “Win Today” on Friday.

“It was just a lackluster, unin-spired, undisci-plined look to what we did,” Clark said. “You can’t do that in very many places and think you’re gonna win.”

The team set a season high on balance beam, with a score of 49.175, and also scored more than 49 on uneven bars. However, scores less than 49 on vault and floor exercises left the Gym Dogs disappointed with those two events.

“We won two events, started out strong and ended strong, but in the middle … we lost it and didn’t keep it together mentally,” senior Cassidy McComb said.

Clark said he felt the team’s lack of mental focus was chiefly to blame for their difficulties Friday night. The Gym Dogs still faced adversity, but had began to see their perfor-mance as automatic, he said, and that had led them to be “lulled to sleep” as he had feared.

“I was just very unhappy with how absorbed they were with how they were feeling and not with task at hand. And it was exactly what I had warned them about on Monday,” Clark said. “The opportunity was there with the lineup we put out there for us to go 197 [Friday night], and we

didn’t capitalize on the opportunity.”

In a sign of just how greatly injuries have affect-ed the Gym Dogs, Clark sent only five gymnasts to compete on vault Friday.

“We didn’t have a choice,” Clark said. “Five is what we had. They either were trying too hard to stick the landing and the vault got small, or they were just sloppy all the way through it.”

A bright spot of the meet came with the return of several Gym Dogs who had been sidelined by inju-ries. Junior Kat Ding remained in the lineup Friday despite injuries to her legs, and junior Gina Nuccio performed a bars routine after spraining her ankle during the meet against West Virginia two weeks ago. But Ding and Nuccio performed just one routine each. Much more significant was the return of sophomore Shayla Worley, who missed last week’s meet against Auburn with illness. Worley said she was glad she

missed only one meet.

“It felt great to be able to compete again,” Worley said.

Clark also praised Worley’s perfor-mance as “the best one she had done to this point in the year.” Clark said Worley had yet to live up to her full

potential, and though she still made minor mistakes on Friday, she’s turned the corner toward fulfilling her prospects. “She can help provide us with a little bit of that competitive edge because of the way she has the ability to execute,” Clark said. “And she had a different look in her eye.”

Added Worley: “When it’s taken away from you like that, it does give you this new fuel and fire.”Clark said his team will be in the same mental place as Worley next week, as the Gym Dogs go on the road to face No. 12 Arkansas. Part of the re-orientation will come after a week of good old-fashioned hard work.

Clark’s been shying away from pressing his team too hard so far this season to keep from exac-erbating health issues. But with any luck, the worst of the injuries are over and the team can start to ramp up its training.

“I want to protect them and I want to make good decisions … [but] our lack of training in some spots is making us a little bit soft,” Clark said. “We’re gonna bring the intensity level up a little bit.”

Injured Gym Dogs contribute to win

CLARK

By RYAN BLACKTHE RED & BLACK

Porsha Phillips’ last game in Baton Rouge is one she will no doubt expunge from her memory bank.

The Lady Bulldog senior forward — who began her career at LSU before transferring to Georgia after her freshman year — scored just one point and went 0-of-7 from the field in the Lady Bulldogs’ 47-41 loss to the Lady Tigers Sunday evening.

But Phillips was not the only Lady Bulldog who struggled to put the ball in the basket. Georgia shot just 29.1 per-cent Sunday — a season-worst.

Lady Bulldogs head coach Andy Landers lauded his opponent’s tena-cious defense.

“There’s not going to be a dribble-drive game,” he said in his post-game radio interview. “That is what their defense is designed to do — make you shoot it from the outside. I thought our setups and our shots on three were real-ly, really good. We just didn’t hit them. Offensively, we’re way, way short of the mark.”

The only Lady Bulldog who did not succumb to the offensive woes the rest of the team suffered was sopho-more forward Jasmine Hassell.

Hassell scored a game-high 16 points on 5-for-8

shooting and tied for the team-high in rebounds with six.

“We said before the game this is not a defense that is going to let you drive it inside,” Landers said. “Hassell was great when she got the ball [inside], and I thought the guards were great in getting her the ball there.”

Georgia jumped out to a 2-0 lead over LSU (15-8, 5-4) just 48 seconds in, but a 3-pointer by Latear Eason 26 seconds later put the Lady Tigers ahead 3-2 and gave LSU a lead it would not relinquish.

Landers blamed a slow start in the first half for set-ting a bad tone early, and now the team returns to Athens not only with a two-game losing streak in hand, but also looking for answers as to how to turn it around.

Landers offered up a simple solution.“To get better, your pieces have to get better and we

can’t continue to play like we played yesterday and be better today,” he said.

Georgia’s next game is in the friendly confines of Stegeman Coliseum Thursday at 7 p.m. when it takes on the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks.

In the first meeting between the teams this season on Jan. 13, the Lady Bulldogs defeated the Lady Razorbacks 59-56 on Jan. 13 in Fayetteville.

Lady Dogs drop second SEC road testWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

LSU 47, Georgia 41

MITCH BLOMERT

LANDERS

FRANCES MICKLOW | The Red & Black

Dustin Ware and the Bulldogs saw their NCAA tournament hopes take a serious dip with back-to-back losses last week and will need to get hot to end the season to earn a bid.

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Near the main lobby of the Butts-Mehre Building’s expansion, there is a room no larger than a typical bedroom.

The walls are a sterile white, and while standing in any one spot, an Apple computer is never more than a couple feet away. The feeling of tradition, which abounds throughout the new complex, is lost in this environment, giving way to the colder touch of technology.

But this is Georgia foot-ball’s new headquarters for their film database, a state-of-the-art system that rivals that of any college or professional football pro-gram in the country.

More specifically, it is the brainchild of a long-time Georgia football staff member.

“This is Joe Tereshinski’s baby,” said Josh Brooks, who was named associate athletic director of internal operations Jan. 21.

Tereshinski has since moved on from video coor-dinator to head strength and conditioning coach, but he still has a visible passion for film study and its benefits. The 58-year-old former player and long-time coach stressed the need for an upgrade when renovations to Butts-Mehre broke ground more than a year ago.

By all accounts, he got his wish.

“Georgia’s video record-ing system is the best in

the country — there’s not a professional team, there’s not a college team that can beat it,” Tereshinski said. “What it is is a system that no other university has. We haven’t changed our video system in eight years — we were still using equipment that was 25 years old. So this was the time to upgrade ours.”

The upgrades start in the brand-new film room where video on games, practices and recruits is stored on three video servers and two data-base servers. In all, the new system has the capabilities for holding up to 110 tera-bytes of space.

Brett Greene is the man

with the entire film data-base at his fingertips. Hired away from the Jacksonville

Jaguars to fill the vacancy left by Tereshinski’s pro-motion, Georgia’s new video coordina-tor said the quality of the film and the speed the new sys-tem provides will be a distinct advan-tage for Georgia’s coaching staff.

“We’ll shoot on Panasonic P2 cameras — high-definition cameras — and we’ll shoot the games and practices on that. Right after a game, within about 15 to 20 minutes, we’ll have the whole game on their little MacBook,” said Greene, who also said Georgia is the only colle-giate program in the coun-try running football soft-ware on Apple computers.

“We’re going to be the first college using HD. So we’re going to be shooting our practices and our games in HD. And we’re actually the first college or pro team to go that route,” Tereshinski said. “We were just at the point where we couldn’t wait.”

Coaches can gain access to the digitalized film data-base from almost any room in the complex, or at home using their iPads, for show-ing video to players or other coaches. Additionally, 60 scholarship football players will receive iPads this semester to be able to watch film outside of the football complex as well.

Many staffers said they believes the upgrade in technology will provide an edge on the football field and in the world of recruit-ing student-athletes. For a $40 million investment, vaulting up to the front of the “athletic arms race” is to be expected. But the leap forward, is far greater than most on staff expect-ed.

XOS, the preeminent digital company for college and professional football teams, told Tereshinski that Georgia is “10 years in the future.”

And for a guy who has been involved in film study his whole career, that is music to the ears.

8 | Monday, January 31, 2011 | The Red & Black SPORTS

Dogs’ video system top in country

TERESHINSKI

SEAN TAYLOR| The Red & Black

Georgia football’s updated video recording system brings the team an edge in recruiting.