March 31, 2011 Issue

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PUSH MOWER!There’s more graffiti! But this time in the form of cartoons.

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CARTOON CHARACTERSThe offensive line coach is

trying to get the big boys to work

together. Page 8

Where’s Mikey?

He’s still in Buenos

Aires.

By ADINA SOLOMONTHE RED & BLACK

University senior Connor Reynolds, 22,

filed report with Athens-Clarke County Police on Wednesday afternoon, but police have yet to comment on how Thomas Kelly Scardino Jr., 20, was wrongly identified as Reynolds in a Saturday night arrest.

Multiple calls placed by The Red & Black to the police Wednesday have not been returned.

“They know they made the mistake, and what they’re doing now is trying to correct what they did wrong,” Reynolds said. “As big as a flaw it is, I feel like they have the power to make things right.”

Reynolds said he met with ACC Sgt. Jay Ragsdale, who is “doing everything he can to fix what happened,” and get the arrest off

Reynolds’ records. Reynolds explained his ID

— the one Scardino had dur-ing his arrest — was sent to the Georgia Department of Driver Services because Scardino declined to take a urine test after arrest.

“They’re going to go back and fix whatever happened with my license,” Reynolds said.

Additional information about Scardino has surfaced, including a police report for an arrest in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on charges of unlawful breaking and entering of a vehicle on March 9, 2010. A University of Alabama student accompanied Scardino, according to later statements given to Tuscaloosa police.

A search warrant was executed at

Scardino’s residence, and marijuana and $1,063 were found and seized by law officials.

A warrant for Scardino’s arrest was issued in April of 2010, and bond was set at $15,000.

Scardino has been enrolled as a student at Gainesville State College since January 5, said Donna Foster of the Gainesville State registrar’s office.

Thomas Scardino, Scardino’s father, said his son is being singled out by the media.

“He’s being represented, and I therefore can’t say anything, but I think it’s very impor-tant for your readership and for you all as leadership to make a point to keep it in per-spective,” he told The Red & Black.

Report filed in student identity caseAthens growth not just students

By SARAH GIARRATANATHE RED & BLACK

With a 15 percent popula-tion growth in the last 10 years, Athens experienced the largest growth rate of Georgia’s five largest cities, according to recently released U.S. Census data.

Despite the population of students that the University attracts, students only make up a small fraction of the growth in Athens-Clarke County.

“Students used to be counted where their parents

live, but now they’re count-ed where they go to school,” said Doug B a c h t e l , U n i v e r s i t y professor of housing and c o n s u m e r e c o n o m i c s . “It’s not just the students,

the 15 percent growth — now there’s like 109,000 people in Athens — the increase in stu-dent population is part of that 15 percent, but not the majority at all.”

The University grew from 31,085 students in 2000 to 34,677 students in the fall of 2010, according to the University’s Office of Institutional Research.

The population of Athens-Clarke County grew from 100,266 people in 2000 to an estimated 116,342 by the end of 2009, according to the cen-sus.

The combination of young professionals, young workers and their families, people close to the poverty line and students account for the growth, Bachtel said.

He said though Athens-Clarke County’s public ser-vices motivate some to move to the city, most young pro-fessionals come for jobs.

“Of course you have growth caused by other fac-tors, such as universities or an influx of retirees, for exam-ple,” said Jeff Humphreys, director of Terry College’s Selig Center for Economic Growth. “At least in a devel-oped economy, though, one of the primary relationships to growth is job growth. In general, there is a positive correlation there.”

Athens Mayor Nancy

See CENSUS, Page 2

SARAH LUNDGREN | The Red & Black

Senior Alisa Goler (35) is met by teammates after hitting a grand slam in the second inning.

By EDWARD KIMTHE RED & BLACK

In softball, every once in a while a player will go on a streak where she can do no wrong. Every swing of the bat is perfect. Every defen-sive play looks smooth and easy.

Right now, senior Alisa Goler is on such a streak.

In Georgia’s 10-2, five-inning victory over in-state rival Georgia Tech (28-6), Goler tied a career high of seven RBIs with two home runs, including a grand slam at Jack Turner Stadium on Wednesday night.

“I guess you could say [the ball] looks like a beach ball right now,” Goler said. “Baseball and softball

are so funny because when things are going great, everything seems to go your way. I just need to ride it right now and I hope it stays the same for awhile.”

In her last 10 games, Goler has nine home runs with 20 RBIs to lead the team in both categories.

Georgia (28-4), as during most of the season, again struck first. With one run already across, Goler in the second provided the fire-works for the evening, hitting her second grand slam of the season off of Tech starting pitcher Kristen

Adkins (14-3) to make the lead 6-0.

But the No. 25 Yellow Jackets did not go back to Atlanta quietly. In the fourth, a two-run shot by Tech’s Kelsi Weseman nearly hit the scoreboard out in the left field, cutting into the lead.

Goler, however, got both runs back and then some in the fourth with a three-run blast over the right field wall — this one off Georgia Tech relief pitcher Hope Rush.

Three batters later, Rush gave up the mercy rule needed run on a wild pitch that scored Georgia sophomore pinch runner Maya Branch to give No. 2 Georgia the win.

Senior slugger helps Dogs throttle Georgia Tech

AVERY DRAUT | The Red & Black

University students Caitlin Greene (left) and Elizabeth Ogletree (right) skate on longboards outside of the Tate II. The two art majors hand-painted their longboards.

Student duo longboards on campus

By LINDSEY COOKTHE RED & BLACK

Most students stand slumped in the morning wait-ing for the bus, concentrating on the chemistry notes for the test next period, guzzling cof-fee to make up for the sleep which they never got and wor-rying about their class that begins in 20 minutes.

For sophomores Caitlin Greene and Elizabeth Ogletree, the 30-minute com-muting time between their home near Springdale Street and the University campus is the most fun and relaxing period of the day.

Instead of riding on buses, the best friends enjoy the fresh air by riding their longboards to class, which they said is a fun and environmentally-friendly way to get around campus despite the dangers of traffic, pedestrians and hills.

Ogletree, a fabric design major from Griffin, learned about the activity from a friend who compared it to surfing — a sport she has always enjoyed.

After she learned the basic riding skills and bought a board off eBay a few months ago, she taught her best friend and roommate Greene to longboard. Now, she encour-ages everyone to try long-boarding, even if it is out of his or her comfort zone.

“I don’t ride roller coast-ers,” said Greene, an art major from Dacula. “I’m afraid of heights and open water and the dark.”

Longboaders on campus follow the same rules as bikers and ride in bike lanes, which pose many dangers such as too-steep hills, buses, cars pulling out and pedestrians.

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in an argument 9 Letters on the

back of a love letter envelope

13 Tow; drag 15 Useful 16 Strong desire 17 __ of Wight 18 Songbirds 19 “I’ve __ Working

on the Railroad” 20 Cruel 22 Take apart 23 British conser-

vative 24 Tyson nibble 26 __ respected;

very much esteemed

29 Sappy 34 See eye to eye 35 Allen or

Feldman 36 British restroom 37 Make cloudy 38 Has a party for 39 Lowly worker 40 Charged atom 41 Acts of derring-

do 42 Brief memory

failure 43 Entirety 45 __ away; shrivel

up 46 Big coffee cup 47 Father offspring 48 Seaweed 51 In name only 56 Canal in Egypt 57 Covered with a

climbing plant 58 In the __; ahead 60 Window glass 61 Chutzpah 62 “__ and the

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Electrical wiring taken from library

Electrical wiring was stolen between February 28 at 6 a.m. and Tuesday at 6 a.m., according to a University Police report.

An officer dispatched to the Special Collections Library met with the site foreman for Gwinnett Sprinkler Company, who said “an unknown individual unlawfully entered a secured building site” and took 12 spools of electrical wiring, accord-ing to the report.

The total value of the stolen items is $85,000.

There were no signs of forced entry. The building is under con-struction and is “unse-cured, but perimeter of the building site is secured by a locked fence.”

Graffiti of cartoons found on campus

Graffiti of cartoon characters was found by a Red & Black reporter Tuesday.

Characters from TV shows no longer running — such as “Doug,” “Rugrats,” “Rocket Power” and “Hey Arnold!” — were found near the Chemistry Building, the Physics

Building, the Geology Building, the Tate Center bus stop and the Oglethorpe House bus stop.

University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said he wasn’t aware of any police reports of the graffiti as of Wednesday.

“Most graffiti gets reported when it’s noticed by the Physical Plant,” Williamson told The Red & Black.

The Physical Plant was unavailable for comment.

Williamson said if police notice graffiti on campus, they radio log they saw it, but they don’t file a report.

Williamson said graf-fiti is harmful because the University must “spend money they don’t have” in order to clean up the images, but people doing graffiti are usually caught when witnesses report them.

“We’re investigating the reports that we’ve been made aware of,” he said. “The community is crucial in a lot of things we solve because they do get involved.”

— Compiled by Adina Solomon

2 | Thursday, March 31, 2011 | The Red & Black NEWS

CRIME NOTEBOOKONLINE Documents

THOSE WERE THE DAYS...REGISTRATION THROUGH THE YEARS…

Think you’ve got problems with OASIS? For decades, University students had to wait all day in line to pay their fees and register for classes. Here’s a look at how far we’ve come:

Danner, “was handled ‘smoothly’ Monday, except that numerous students came in through win-dows,” according to The Red & Black in March 1951.

-tory venereal testing before registration.

“Armed with tortures that would make a Spanish Inquisition look like child’s play and with promises of a death in almost indescribable suffer-ing, this murderer, called by some ‘Venereal Disease,’ aims every day his twin weapons of syphi-lis and gonorrhea at unsuspecting men and women,” said The Red & Black opinions page.

able to register for classes with other freshmen.

insignificance is felt in comparison to the signifi-cant attitude taken by an upperclassmen.”

STUDENTS SPEAK OUT AGAINST IRAQ WAR

On March 27, 2003, The Red & Black reported the University’s Department of Student Activities provided space in Tate for students to voice opin-ions about the war.

The event also featured “Thoughts About the War” banners.

“It’s vitally important for students to get the opportunity to speak their minds,” Joey Piergrossi, who was then a first-year student at the University, told The Red & Black. “This is what we’re fighting against now — the suppression of free speech.”

WOMEN MANAGE NEWSPAPER

The “history-mak-

issue of The Red & Black was the first all-female staff edition of the paper. Women journalists edited con-tent, reported articles and managed the paper’s business.

Some staff mem-bers, such as Managing Editor W. I. Ray — who was replaced by Mary Louise Hill — weren’t pleased.

“Women’s place is in the home and not in the newspaper game,” Ray said to The Red & Black. “They cannot put a paper out regu-larly. It simply can’t be done.”

By LINDSEY COOKTHE RED & BLACK

LINDSEY COOK | The Red & Black

Graffiti of ‘Doug,’ a popular cartoon from the 1990s, was spotted on a light post.

SKATING: Boarders don’t fear injuries

From Page 1

All of these potential threats make the mode of transportation an exciting one, Ogletree said.

“Longboarding on cam-pus is exciting to me because there is so many people, so many cars and so many things you have to be aware of,” she said. “Every second you have to evaluate your next move.”

Greene added: “And if there are any escapes.”

As female longboarders, the pair said they usually get a lot of attention when they are riding together, except from male long-boarders, who they said avoid them.

Though they are honked at and yelled at often from passing cars, the pair remembers one particular-ly strange encounter with a 30-year-old man in a con-vertible who yelled, “You’ve got to be silly!” at them when they were boarding down Milledge Avenue.

For the most part, Ogletree and Greene said longboarding isn’t particu-larly dangerous.

However, Greene has some battle scars to show for her efforts.

A few weeks ago, the pair was boarding back to their house as usual. Green was sitting on the board when her finger slipped under the wheel, crushing the nail and causing her finger to bleed profusely and her nail to hang from her finger.

“I just sat there shaking at the sink and just praying that my nail wouldn’t fall off,” Greene said. “We got over to the Health Center and they put me in a wheel-chair because I was shak-ing so much from losing blood. It was probably the stupidest way you could get an injury.”

Avoiding injury while longboarding sometimes depends on luck, said Ogletree, who thought she would crash when she went over the train tracks on Carlton Street near the art building.

“I was freaking out in my mind, but then I just went over it,” Ogletree said. “I guess sometimes it’s just luck.”

Some students appar-ently don’t have as much luck.

Brett Crow, a freshman telecommunications and history major from Kennesaw, received a distal radius fracture in his wrist requiring surgery to stabi-lize his wrist with one plate and 10 screws after a long-boarding accident.

“I went out the front door of Russell and imme-diately stepped on the board and decided to go down that hill,” Crow said of the accident. “It was a very silly decision because that hill ends with stairs.”

Crow hit a concrete curb and flew off his board.

He recalls people rush-ing to his aid who he brushed away, thinking the injury was minor, until he looked at his arm and almost passed out at the sight of his crooked wrist.

Although Crow joked his arm “looks like I attempted suicide,” he plans to begin boarding again as soon as he gets his neon green cast taken off.

“I will be longboarding again,” Crow said, “but I’m probably going to scout my routes beforehand and be more careful.”

Despite injuries, these students said they can’t quit longboarding because of the thrilling rush and enjoyment they gain from the activity.

“Everyone should try it because you might be sur-prised,” Ogletree said. “Longboarding isn’t as hard as it seems and it’s really, really rewarding. It makes you feel good about yourself to do something that other people consider dangerous or difficult.”

Editor’s Note: This Thursday series chron-icles some of the most interesting, monumen-tal and hilarious moments in the University’s history.

From Page 1

Denson said people come to Athens for the small, but steady, growth of jobs.

“We’ve got more jobs, but we have more people too. I just had breakfast with a new potential business in Athens, bring-ing 25 new jobs,” Denson said. “We fre-quently have companies opening up, pro-viding 20 or 30 jobs.”

Denson also said the University addi-tions of the medical and engineering schools will benefit Athens.

“You’re not seeing those kind of things in the headlines, but they’re definitely growing — the slow growth, the small things are happening,” she said. “That’s where most of the hiring comes from.”

Also according to the census, only 8

percent of the Athens-Clarke County population are people 65 and older, but Denson hopes to change that, attracting more of a retired population to the Athens community.

“One phenomenon I’ve seen that doesn’t surprise me is people my age, retirement age, coming back to Clarke County because of the proximity to the University and medical care,” she said. “They’re going to have disposable income that they put in the local economy and are great as volunteers in the communi-ty.”

But whether retirement age or young professional, Bachtel said future growth in Athens relies on the growth of jobs.

“When you have high growth rates, it’s because of the jobs,” he said.

CENSUS: Athens attracts business

NEWS The Red & Black | Thursday, March 31, 2011 | 3

By BRIANA GERDEMANTHE RED & BLACK

A university’s campus is not a shop-ping center. It’s not a market. It’s not an outlet mall. But it can provide a prime location for a student-run store, created as a class project.

Couture a-la-cart, which sells clothing and accessories made by students and local vendors, is the first store on campus run by students. It’s also the main project for Emily Blalock’s Entrepreneurial Merchandising class.

“We have so many students who want to be small business owners one day, and this is an avenue for them to take risks,” said Blalock, a textiles, merchandising and interiors lecturer.

Couture a-la-cart sells mostly accesso-ries — necklaces, earrings, bracelets, hats, headbands, bags and more. Nearly all of the products are one-of-a-kind. The cart can usually be found in Dawson Hall on Sanford Drive.

“Occasionally, we will try to venture off to the Tate Plaza,” said Kelli Born, mar-keting coordinator for Couture a-la-cart and a fashion merchandising and public relations major from Houston.

Couture a-la-cart first opened last spring, Blalock said.

“We were only open for 11 days, which wasn’t a lot,” she said. “Last semester was all about building the cart, coming up with the name.”

This year, the business is more estab-lished, and the class has worked on mak-ing shopping an entertaining experience. One day, the group invited a hair stylist from a salon to do feather extensions on customers’ hair.

Unlike a permanent store, Blalock said

the cart doesn’t have the expenses of employees, rent or electricity, so Couture a-la-cart doesn’t have to mark up its pric-es as much. After paying vendors for the items they sold, the profits from the cart are saved for next year’s class.

Savannah Smith, a student in the class and the professional liaison for Couture a-la-cart, said everyone in the class took on a different part of the job of running the store. Researchers determined the target audience was college females. The manager makes decisions on when to open the store and handles customer complaints. Buyers worked with vendors to choose what will be sold at the cart.

Smith, a furnishings and interiors major from Arlington, said her experience work-ing with the cart will help in her career.

“I have plans for entrepreneurship later on,” she said. “This is basically a venture for if you wanted to start a fashion bou-tique, but I’ve had to translate that to interior design.”

Jimbo Graves, one of the vendors whose products are sold at Couture a-la-cart, is the founder of Global Ties, a non-profit organization that helps refugees in Uganda improve the education system for children.

Global Ties, which Graves describes as “stewardship creating opportunities for disadvantaged people through the fash-ion industry,” will sell bow ties and bags at Couture a-la-cart. In the past year, Global Ties’ proceeds have been used to build a new school and install a water system in Uganda, as well as providing food, water and school tuition for refugees.

Students run Univ. store

DINA ZOLAN | The Red & Black

Samantha Kaufman, a senior fashion merchandising major, looks through clothes sold at Couture a-la-cart. The boutique is student-run and sells clothing and accessories made by students and local vendors.

When: Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.Where: Dawson Hall or Tate PlazaMore Information: “Like” Couture a-la-cart on Facebook to find out more

COUTURE A-LA-CARTOn-campus boutique sells handmade items

4 | Thursday, March 31, 2011 | The Red & Black MUSIC NOTES

The Red & Black’s guide to nothing fun at all* in Athens from March 31-April 2.

Compiled by Chris MillerDesigned by Ana KabakovaContact [email protected]

40 WATT CLUB

9 p.m., $6Madeline

Melodic acousti-pop with unapologetic lyricsNana Grizol

Comically catchy and frank indie garage-pop

CALEDONIA LOUNGE

9:30 p.m., $5 (21+), $7 (18+)Gobble Gobble

Electro-break beat pop-edelicQurious

Ambient electronica smooth as the Milky Way and backed by cosmic visualsWowser Bowser

Computerized melodies in the key of funky indie popSunspots

An intergalactic wind blowing a drum kit through the cosmos

FARM 25511 p.m., freeThe District Attorneys

Echo-laden, rolling hill indie rock

NOWHERE BAR

10 p.m., $4Josh Roberts and the

Hinges

Rootsy, bluesy rock with poppy eccentricitiesThe Woodgrains

Minimalist rock with a natural-ly offbeat simple catchiness

THE MELTING POINT

7 p.m.Dead Confederate

Local faves perform Neil Young’s “Tonight’s The Night”The Interns

High energy Southern alt-rock with soaring, clean vocals

TERRAPIN BEER CO.5 p.m., $10 with a glassConnor Pledger

Acousti-funk and folk fronted by dynamic vocals

WUOG 90.5 FM

8 p.m., free“Live in the Lobby”

Nutritional Peace

An out-of-focus, electro-col-lage of organic tones

THURSDAY40 WATT CLUB

9 p.m., $10 adv.Futurebirds

Big ol’ beer-drinkin’ anthem Southern rockDexter Romweber Duo

Athens’ indie-roots rock origina-tor, Jack White predecessor and Flat Duo Jet returns!Woodfangs

Local psychedelic earthy blues with post-punk yelps and hol-lers

HENDERSHOTS COFFEE BAR

See “Genius Loves

Company”

CALEDONIA LOUNGE

See “Forever Afloat”

UGA PERFORMING ARTS

CENTER

8 p.m., $20 for studentsBela Fleck

World renowned banjo player of the FlecktonesZakir Hussain

Indian percussionist credited with helping start the world music movementEdgar Meyer

Upright bassist called “the best bassist alive”

TERRAPIN BEER CO.5 p.m., $10 with a glassException to the Rule

FRIDAY

8 Wines for $10.00

Blind Wine

Tasting

Thursday,

March 31

at 6pm

40 WATT CLUB

8 p.m., $11 adv.“Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise

Tour”

A slew of Elephant Sixers play selections from numerous proj-ects out of the collective

HENDERSHOTS COFFEE BAR

8 p.m.Homegrown Revival

Dahlonega bluegrass folk with textures as warm as gold

CALEDONIA LOUNGE

10 p.m., $5 (21+), $7 (18+)Burns Like Fire

Early ’90s-era, super-technical, super-energetic punkSo it Goes

Technically tight punk metal, plus a little ska/reggae for kicksReeks of Failure

’80s style, lyric barking, pound-ing, full bore punkMachismo USA

A band so punk, they have nothing on their Myspace

RYE BAR

10 p.m., freeActual Proof

Vibraphone, keys, bass and drums jazz-funk fusionTribal Zine

Funky basement-tape jam rock

TERRAPIN BEER CO.5 p.m., $10 with a glassThe Woodgrains

Minimalist rock with a naturally offbeat simple catchiness

THE MAX CANADA

2 p.m., $6“Second Annual Haiti

Benefit”

Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers and David Barbe and the Quickhooks headline a full day of local tunes for a good cause

THE MELTING POINT9 p.m.,Holman Autry Band

Country rock from Athens’ No. 1 local band for 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards

SATURDAY

Anyone who considers themselves an aficionado of California’s Bay Area music scene circa late ’90s/early 2000s probably already knows about Etienne de Rocher.

For Athenians outside that circle — which, granted, is kind of a small circle on the opposite side of the country — consider this an introduction.

Raised just one state west of here in Tuscaloosa, de Rocher moved to California after high school to study phys-ics at U.C.-Berkeley. But after a year or so of that, he decided to take a break from academia.

Rather than sub-atomic par-

ticles, he decided to take a break and focus on his music. It ended up being a little more than just a break.

“I basically did that for over 10 years,” de Rocher said.

After putting together sever-al self-produced albums, de Rocher built up a reputation as a top-notch solo artist and col-laborator in the area. His root-sy-folk style attracted musi-cians and producers, building up to his 2006 self-titled release, which garnered critical praise and high expectations.

Numerous critics who reviewed his work rejoiced at the possibility that they had dis-

covered the next big thing. The word “genius” got thrown around a lot.

But then in 2008, with a wife and child and another on the way, de Rocher decided it was time to get back to his Southeastern roots.

“I wanted to be closer to family,” de Rocher said, refer-ring to his brother and parents who now also live in Athens.

On top of that, the hectic life-style of being a musician in a West Coast city was getting old.

“I kinda missed the Southeast,” de Rocher said. “I wanted to be in a more relaxed town. All the people I was play-ing with out there were so busy; here it’s a lot easier ’cause everyone’s in the neigh-borhood.”

Not long after moving to Athens, de Rocher started up old habits of casually playing with several high profile locals, including drummer Ben Mize (Counting Crows, Cracker), bassist Chris Sugiuchi (Ham1) and guitarist Dan Nettles (Kenosha Kid). A year later, a

band was playing its first show.“We haven’t really pursued

booking,” de Rocher said of the group’s work up to this point. “But people ask us and things come up and we do it.”

But with the now-steady lineup and a strong song base, de Rocher seems ready to push the group forward a little more.

“Finally now we’re in a posi-tion where we can make a go for it because we have some material, and I finally have a lit-tle more time and some resources,” he said.

The transition to Athens gave de Rocher an opportunity to push his music as well, mov-ing from a mellow, rootsy Americana to a more visceral sound to fit the Athens club scene.

“There’s not a lot of listening rooms where people wanna

come and listen to you sing songs for an hour [in Athens] — it’s more of a band vibe,” he said. “So I’ve tried to use that as inspiration to see what I can do in that context.”

For now, with a musically clean slate and a more relaxed atmosphere to create in, this project has become nothing but

a labor of love for de Rocher and Co. — who soon hope to have a formal band name because, as de Rocher noted, it’s more of a band than a sing-er-songwriter project at this point.

“It’s like a hobby that I’m taking increasingly seriously,” he said.

Genius Loves Company: Etienne de Rocher

Courtesy Etienne de Rocher

When: Friday at 8 p.m.Where: Hendershots Coffee BarPrice: FreeAlso playing: Daniel Clay

ETIENNE DE ROCHER

3/31 Josh Roberts & The Hinges with the Woodgrains4/2 Machine Funk WSP Tribute Recreating WSP’s show at the Georgia Theatre from 4/2/91

STS9 After Parties:4/20 FLT RSK

4/21 Suex Effect & Concrete Jumpsuit

MONDAY AND TUESDAY 4-7 PM

The Red & Black | Thursday, March 31, 2011 | 5 MUSIC NOTES

Courtesy Mike White

RYE BAR

10 p.m., freeLaissez Funk

Funky jazz jams, playing stan-dards, originals and beyond

*APRIL FOOL’S

It’s been a long, curious journey for Venice is Sinking. Throughout the past eight years, the band’s dreamy, mel-low pop has made it one of Athens’ favorite groups and gotten them recognized on the national indie stage.

But it didn’t start off that way.

In 2003, Karolyn Troupe, violist and half of Venice’s cele-brated vocal duo, met Daniel Lawson (the other half) to work on a recording project. From there, it starts to sound more like they should’ve started a Southern rock band.

“We started having these quote-unquote ‘jam sessions’ where we’d all come together and play music, and we would just hang out and shoot BB guns and throw beer bottles at the trains and stuff,” Troupe said.

Their locale for “jamming,” a house on Pulaski Street, proved the perfect environment for the now long-running band to piece together its sound. But what came out was hardly The Allman Brothers.

“That was a good place to get inspired and kind of have the Southern feel,” Troupe said. “We’d get together on Sundays and have mimosas and just play music.”

That “Southern feel” is in the tradition of R.E.M., a reflec-tive, rolling-Georgia-hills-with-a-long-history ambient melan-choly.

“Our songs are pretty geo-

graphical,” Troupe said, refer-ring to the songwriting style of basing the sound off experienc-es in a specific time and place. “When you’re having that kind of really laid-back experience I think you can get really inspired … listening to the rain on the tin roofs and having bonfires, kind of a leisure lifestyle.”

Following that, it’s hard to describe the band’s actions as leisurely. Often touring every weekend in between day jobs, Venice built up its name and received national notice and praise for its first full-length release in 2006, “Sorry About the Flowers.”

But that never stressed the band that started with BB guns and Sunday morning mimosas.

“I don’t think we’ve ever felt pressure at all, because we do this for the joy of doing it,” Troupe said.

Venice would keep playing simply because it loved to do so, not to try and be the next big thing.

“I think we all feel a desire to keep working and keep writ-ing and producing music,” Troupe said. “And if people like it, it’s really awesome.”

Through the years, Venice is Sinking has gone through some normal band changes, including lineup changes and experimentation with new songwriting methods. But the band’s distinct mix of male and female lead vocals, horns and Troupe’s viola has con-tinued to endear audience and add to it.

“The thing about us, is that no matter what we play, it still sounds like Venice is Sinking,” Troupe said. “So I don’t think that we can fully morph into a different type of band, but we are constantly evolving.”

The steadiness of the sound, the ability to evolve and Venice’s longevity are all signs of the fact that this is a band with no plans to quit, or according to Troupe, even the option.

“I think we’ll probably be together whether we want to or not. It’s not a negative thing, it’s just like, we’re family,” she said. “Our music styles go together so well, and it’s hard to find that in people.”

Since the band’s 2010 release of “Sand and Lines,” recorded in the pre-fire Georgia Theatre, Venice is content with the goal of continuing to play together. And one other thing...

“We want to have a dedicat-ed throne from Venice is Sinking in the new Theatre,”

Troupe said. But not just any throne.

Venice is donating the pro-ceeds from “Sand and Lines” to the Georgia Theatre rehabilita-tion. The band hopes to be able to provide a toilet to the new building.

“It’s one of those lofty dreams that we have,” she said.

Maybe not the most meta-phorically fitting symbol for this celebrated ensemble bred on the Athens scene, but as a band with few expectations other than being able to keep making music together, it’s more than enough.

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Hood symptomatic of social issues

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A call to arms for the virtues of littering

At this point in 2007, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama,

John McCain and Mitt Romney all had something in common — each had formally or informally announced his or her run for president of the United States.

Flash forward to today, and the news stations are covering pressing issues such as revolutions in Africa, wars in the Middle East and the earthquake in Japan.

Cheeky discussion about who is going to run for the American presiden-cy months and months from now is thankfully absent.

We got way too much of the primary process back in 2008.

“First Black President?”

“First Woman President?”

“First Mormon President?”

During the longest pri-mary process in modern history, the headlines got old, and the news became repetitive. The news became repetitive. The news became repetitive. The news became repeti-tive.

We were ready to have the candidates and get it over with. And politicians are finally taking note.

I believe it is fair to call this occurrence Hillary Clinton Syndrome.

Let’s be honest for a second. Who thought Obama, the first-term junior senator from Illinois, would be the 44th President of the United States?

No one.When Clinton

announced, “I’m in. And I’m in to win,” on her web-site on Jan. 20, 2007, not many people disagreed. Clinton’s lead was hardly contested throughout 2007.

In October, Clinton was 30 points ahead of Obama in the polls (51 percent to 21 percent), according to CNN analyst Bill Schneider. In December, she was still ahead by a strong 19 points (42-23).

And then came Iowa.Almost a year after

announcing her candidacy, Clinton lost the Iowa cau-cus — arguably the most important caucus, because it occurs first. Obama — the multiracial tyke from the Midwest — won.

Fifty-one percent of the voters at the Iowa caucus said “change” was their highest priority according to exit polls. Obama was a

Washington outsider. Clinton was the wife of a former president in addi-tion to being an estab-lished senator.

And now, Clinton is Obama’s secretary of state.

No one has officially announced yet, because we saw that early buzz didn’t lead to the nomina-tion in 2008. It was the comeback story that Americans wanted plas-tered in the headlines.

Not to mention, an early announcement is not an accurate precursor to a successful run. And really, why bust out with the announcement when it’s still snowing outside?

Ronald Reagan announced his successful 1980 campaign on Nov. 13, 1979. Bill Clinton announced his 1992 cam-paign on Oct. 2, 1991. George W. Bush didn’t announce his 2000 cam-paign until June.

But that was before Facebook.

Our generation has been dubbed by the Los Angeles Times as the “ADHD generation.”

I mean, remember last month when we were talk-ing about Charlie Sheen, Hosni Mubarak and “Black Swan?”

They are old news now. Politicians are having to find the new “right time” to enter the fray.

Or else they will become old news.

And I’ve never known a politician running for pres-ident who wants to be old news.

Politicians are reverting to the method of later announcements and sav-ing the money and the press for later in the match when it truly counts.

And Americans are reverting to a time when we actually took a break from being in an election cycle.

Expect a little bit lon-ger before any big announcements from major contenders.

Not too long, but enough to make us all sweat.

— Charles Hicks is a sophomore from Savannah

majoring in sociology and anthropology and

is a news writer for The Red & Black

CHARLES HICKS

Once again, our community has been affected by sense-less violence.

While investigating a carjacking case, Athens-Clarke County Police Officer Elmer “Buddy” Christian was shot and killed by suspect Jamie Hood. Officer Tony Howard was wounded. After a four-day manhunt ended with a hostage cri-sis, Hood surrendered to the police on live television.

As Christian is laid to rest, we are left struggling to make sense of this tragedy.

And it is all too easy to surren-der to the temptation of retribution — to repay an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But we must ask ourselves — are we concerned with justice, or revenge?

Hood’s crimes are morally repre-hensible. But his actions are symp-tomatic of a disease endemic in American society.

Blacks are twice as likely as whites to be unemployed, three times more likely to live in poverty and six times more likely to be incarcerated, according to The National Urban League.

More black men are imprisoned, on probation or on parole today than were enslaved before the Civil War, according to Michelle Alexander, law professor at Ohio State University.

Hood’s personal biography bears out these social facts.

In 1997, Hood was sentenced to 12 years in prison for robbing a pizza driver at gunpoint for $3, according to the Athens Banner-Herald (“Suspect already served 12 years for armed robbery,” March 23).

In 2001, Hood’s brother was shot and killed after pulling a gun on a police officer.

The poverty, racism and violence in Hood’s life do not justify his crime. But they do allow us to understand his actions in a larger context.

More often than not, our culture encourages us to value the wrong things.

We are taught to look out for No. 1 and avert our gaze from the suf-fering of others.

We spend our lives chasing after money, power and success. In the process, we lose sight of our con-nection to one another.

We rationalize human suffering with “that’s just the way things are” or “it’s only business.”

Our culture has traded compas-sion for apathy.

We did not shed a tear when Congress and the president con-

spired to hand out tax cuts to the obscenely wealthy, while leaving millions of unemployed Americans out in the cold.

We’re not outraged our for-profit health care system allows nearly 45,000 people to die each year because they lack health insurance, according to research from Harvard Medical School.

We sat idly by while the U.S. gov-ernment and private military con-tractors destroyed two nations and profited from the reconstruction.

If we cannot trust our political, legal and economic institutions to behave morally, how can we expect everyday citizens to do so?

Murderous crime is the inevita-ble consequence of institutional-ized greed and violence.

I sympathize with the anger and sadness Christian’s friends and family must be feeling.

But we cannot condemn Hood’s reprehensible crimes without also condemning the greed and violence infecting our society as a whole.

Let’s use this as an opportunity to bring compassion back to the forefront.

Violence begets violence. Hate begets hate.

We must break this cycle before it engulfs us all.

— Jonathan Rich is a sophomore from Alpharetta

majoring in sociology

JONATHAN RICH

Can we get some nice, student-related stuff in the Tate plaza? We’re all tired of depressing, con-troversial speakers yelling at us about our sins and what not day after day.

To those who spit on sidewalks — you’re not in Alabama anymore.

Reminder to SGA — you live in Georgia. If you really want a “say,” focus on becoming rich, old and white.

The iPads at the Main Library made me think we have a high-tech campus. Then I remembered UGA owns a broadcast news station AND

apparently uses dial-up Internet for PAWS.

Someone please fix the sundial on North Campus. It’s an hour behind for some reason.

Apparently, UGA got its sexual harassment policy straight from “The Office.”

Especially after last Sunday, every UGA student should be a proud Athenian, even if only for four years.

Hey, you who ran the red light right before I crossed the intersection — I’m coming for you.

Go ahead, flick your cigarette butt to the ground.

Stomp out the cherry or let it fizzle out in a slow, dramatic fashion — the choice is yours.

Why am I urging stu-dents to litter the University with shriveled, cancerous leftovers?

Well, what other choice do we have?

On Monday the “brain-power” of the University — also known as President Michael Adams — decided it was a good idea to remove the ciga-rette posts from the Miller Learning Center breeze way — or as the nicotine-inclined prefer, “Smoker’s Alley.” This was in response to the recently passed “smoking ban,” which states stu-dents cannot smoke with-in 35 feet of any doorway.

This is the same smok-ing ban that was passed by a whopping 4 percent of the student body and isn’t enforced by the police.

If 96 percent of the student body didn’t care enough to vote, how could we possibly expect anyone else to take it seriously either?

Let’s be honest: smok-ers are going to smoke, regardless of whether or not you take away their only means of keeping

their cigarette butts off the ground and out of the bushes.

You’re dealing with people who smoke even though it slowly steals their life, one puff at a time. They’re a stubborn bunch.

Now don’t get me wrong, I understand that if you don’t smoke, you probably don’t want a toxic cloud to waft into your nostrils and momen-tarily gag you.

But I assume the same 4 percent who took the time to shake their fists at smokers are sadly unaware that the MLC actually has two doors — on opposite sides of Smoker’s Alley.

Yes, indeed, you can walk in from one entrance, buy a coffee, go to class, use the bath-room and leave through the other entrance with-out ever encountering even the slightest carcin-ogen.

To further burst your bubble, my self-righteous 4 percent, caffeine is actu-ally a carcinogen, accord-ing to Health.net.

Don’t shoot the

messenger. But surely there are

other solutions? Smokers could just toss their butts into a trash can.

Well, what happens if one student forgets to snub it out first and toss-es it into a pile of trash?

Things would get hot quickly.

Removing the smok-er’s posts is not only dan-gerous — it’s naïve.

What do you think will happen to the hundreds — and soon thousands — of cigarette butts spot-ting the ground outside the MLC?

For two to five years, not much. That’s the deg-radation time of a ciga-rette butt, according to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection.

That’s a long time to stare at something that could have been properly disposed of in the first place.

And what about all the University tours that go through the MLC, offer-ing prospective students a glimpse of our beautiful campus?

I don’t know about you, but I’d rather see a few adults smoking than an entire breezeway lit-tered with cigarette butts.

The reality is this — President Adams has a

skewed perception of cause and effect.

Take the smoker’s posts away and what do you get?

A campus littered with non-biodegradable ciga-rette filters? Potential trash fires?

Or maybe, yet another task bestowed upon the MLC custodians who have better things to do than go outside and sweep every 10 minutes.

Let me emphasize again — the police will not issue tickets or fines for smoking on campus. They’re removed from the situation all together.

I have to wonder if any thought went into what would actually happen if the University took away the smoking posts in Smoker’s Alley.

It’s not rocket science — it’s nicotine addiction.

And I promise you, meeting that craving is the only thing on any smokers’ mind outside the MLC.

So go ahead, students. Nobody is watching.

Light one up, burn it down, then toss it right onto the ground.

Adams wouldn’t have it any other way.

— Joe Williams is the variety editor for The Red & Black

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Student Connor Pledger has performed in both Vietnam and Paris, and tonight he brings his ‘acoustifunk-folk’ to Terrapin Brewery.

By HEATHER KINNEYTHE RED & BLACK

Sitting across the table, staring contempla-tively at his coffee, Connor Pledger credits his musical beginnings to disobeying his father.

“My dad played guitar and he sang and stuff ... He was always like ‘Don’t touch my guitars!’” said Pledger, a music educa-tion major at the University. “One day, I was like, ‘Forget it, I’m gonna go mess with it.’”

Once he started learn-ing how to play, the prob-lem shifted to what he was playing.

“My brother was also kind of curious too and we had both thought we had figured out how to play ‘Stairway to Heaven,’” Pledger said. “But really, we were play-

ing what I later figured out was Metallica.”

Despite his father’s experience playing with R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Pledger took the initia-tive himself when it came to playing music.

“I actually taught myself,” Pledger said. “My dad stood on the sidelines when it came to the progression of my music. Which, I’m kinda glad, [because] some-times there are those parents that try to live through their kids and that is one thing that he hasn’t really done.”

Self-described as “acoustifunk-folk,” a term he gladly stole from The Red & Black’s Music Notes, Pledger draws influences from artists such as Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder.

Pledger was raised lis-

tening to country before he moved here from Phoenix, Ariz.

“Living close to Atlanta, I found a lot of R&B influences,” he said.

Pledger’s first gig in Athens was at The 40 Watt, though he has also played in Vietnam and Paris.

“I think really the one thing that I love when performing is to tell a story,” Pledger said.

It is this connection with the audience that Pledger thrives on.

“Music is a language,” he said. “I think, in ways, music can describe the way you feel better than saying it.”

Student plays with soul

By ADAM CARLSONTHE RED & BLACK

Chelsea Wingfield doesn’t know what to do with herself.

President of Psi Sigma Epsilon, lawn mower mar-keter and independent businesswoman, Wingfield hasn’t yet had time to chart her future.

Which is understand-able: there’s so much occu-pying her present.

“I’ve learned right now just not to plan,” Wingfield said. “Be whatever — your plan is gonna change.”

Busy as she is, there has been one constant since at least age 13, one plan that hasn’t changed.

“In eighth grade, I decid-ed I wanted to be a market-ing major, and didn’t really know what it was,” Wingfield said.

Why the certainty?“So I walked into my

doctor’s office and there was a pharmaceutical sales rep and she was so cool and I knew I wanted to be her,” Wingfield said.

Now a senior with a mar-keting major and English minor, the Leesburg native is well on her way.

Of course, her father helped push her in the right direction.

“I know more about lawn mower blades than most 22-year-old girls,” Wingfield said.

She’s talking about her father’s business selling lawn mower equipment, which was started in 1995, and she’s been part of it from the beginning.

“Business was ingrained

in me,” Wingfield said.First it was sweeping

floors, and then it was answering phone calls, and then it was taking and fill-ing customer orders.

“Now he can leave for a week and I can run the business almost by myself,” she said.

In college, Wingfield’s role has naturally evolved to marketer. She organizes the email campaigns for the company and helps with its online presence.

Since October, however, Wingfield has also had a business of her own. It was in her home-town that Wingfield first noticed the many boutiques sell-ing many little things for many outrageous prices.

“I’m a fairly crafty person,” she said. “I thought, ‘I can do that and I bet I can do it cheaper and a lot better.’”

eBay entered the mix and Wingfield began searching around online for possible resources, researching the things she might need to start her own venture.

With a few months’ time, the machine that she would need — which looks and acts something like a die cutter — arrived.

Totally Chels Designs was born.

By Christmas it had begun in earnest, jump-started by sorority sales and private orders from friends.

“It’s easy, because my target audience is me,”

Wingfield said.The process is simple,

involving a computer, the die cut and whatever design a client can imagine. From that, she can apply the vinyl cutouts to almost any solid surface: key-chains, mugs, wineglasses, flasks, Christmas orna-ments and others.

What started as a “pet project” has grown, and Wingfield estimates she has had between 50 and 75 orders since last fall.

She’s made money, but not a lot; her ambition was

to keep costs low in order to lower pric-es as well.

Instead, custom-er personal satisfac-tion has become its own reward, Wingfield said.

With graduation approaching, how-ever, she doesn’t expect to continue the business —

Totally Chels was an idea for her college years.

Wingfield looks to an uncertain future.

“I’m graduating in two months and as of today I have no idea where I’ll be in two months,” she said.

She is not without options, lining up job pros-pects for the summer with the hope of eventually working in brand manage-ment or something in the fashion industry.

Marketing is the journey, not the goal; Wingfield has dreams but not certainties.

“I realized that’s not how the world works,” she said, “and you have to roll with the punches.”

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It hasn’t even been two months since Will Friend was hired as Georgia’s new offensive line coach.

But the challenges he faces this spring have arrived in full force.

Friend must reassemble a Bulldog offensive line that struggled throughout the 2010 season, while replacing departed starters and moving players to new positions.

“You’ve got to be able to play with the best people out there,” Friend said. “To get your best five — some-one has to play more than one position. That’s big for us to have guys that do that.”

Friend, who was a grad-uate assistant for Georgia from 2003-04, returned to Athens from the same posi-tion at UAB to help allevi-ate an inconsistent offen-

sive line that helped create only 1,854 rushing yards last season — third-worst in the SEC.

That means the new coach has to be as authori-tative as possible, even while his players are still getting to know him.

“Basically, they all start from scratch with me,” Friend said. “It’s about what they do for me. Nothing has been any easi-er, but nothing has been different.”

If anything is different, it’s the sheer size of his players. Friend has seen a considerable increase in

weight among his linemen — some of them substan-tial.

Cordy Glenn, who is switching from guard to tackle this spring, is listed at 348 after weighing in at 320 last season.

He is matched in size by guard Justin Anderson, who spent last season at nose tackle as a 326-pound-er. Senior center Ben Jones has moved from 300 to 316, sophomore Kenarious Gates has moved from 307 to 328 and junior A.J. Harmon has increased from 320 to 345.

“We got a lot of size, a lot of big guys,” Friend said. “It’s a game of move-ment and collision. It’s about being able to move and strike people. If they can do it at that weight, the more they put on, the better.”

But bigger isn’t neces-sarily better.

Though the Bulldogs now brag a mammoth line, Friend is concerned the weight gain may hamper Georgia’s ability to get off the line and efficiently pro-tect quarterback Aaron Murray.

“If you can put on weight and still move and still bend and do all those things, that’s great,” Friend said. “But if you can’t move and can’t do that anymore, you might as well be 15 or 20 pounds lighter where you can do that.”

If the speed is still there, the Bulldogs may be able to make up for less experi-

ence and inconsistency with intimidation.

Friend has Glenn in bat-tle with Trinton Sturdivant at left tackle, a position best suited for the team’s most effective pass blocker in protecting the blind side.

“He’s going out to tackle and he’s rusty there,” Friend said. “The biggest thing is that he has a lot of potential. He can be a dominant player, and we need him to be one.”

Gates and Anderson are the slated as first-team guards, but have little depth behind them. Redshirt freshman Brent Benedict is the go-to back-up, but Friend has also given first-team snaps to redshirt sophomore Chris Burnette and redshirt freshman Kolton Houston.

“I’d love to run five and say, ‘Here comes a new five’ but we’re not at that point yet,” Friend said. “It’s good to have guys in the corner that can do both. We really have to work with the twos because we really don’t have a second-team center right now.”

For offensive coordina-tor Mike Bobo, his briefing to Friend was simple — make the line work as a unit, not as individuals.

“The main emphasis of that group is playing hard and playing together and establish cohesive group that are playing tough and coming off the ball,” Bobo said. “We’ve gotten our glimpses.”

8 | Thursday, March 31, 2011 | The Red & Black SPORTS

O-line starting from scratch

I never talk to my parents when I’m covering a game.

They know I’m working, and they respect me enough not to bother me unless an event of the utmost importance occurs.

However, the Georgia women’s basketball team’s Sweet 16 game on Sunday in Dallas, against Texas A&M marked a rare exception.

With the Lady Bulldogs down 48-17 at the half, my dad called me and said, “Well, looks like this one is over, huh?”

And it was.Georgia never cut into Texas A&M’s lead in the

second half before setting a new, unwanted school record for margin of defeat in an NCAA Tournament game — 41 points — losing 79-38.

“It just wasn’t pretty,” Lady Bulldogs head coach Andy Landers said in his post-game interview. “And if you’re Georgia, it wasn’t any fun.”

This was the second season in a row Georgia didn’t have “any fun” in the Sweet 16, as Stanford hammered it last year in similar fashion, 73-36.

Now, the Lady Bulldogs must ask the unavoidable question of themselves — what can be done to make it further than the Sweet 16 next season?

The first issue Georgia must deal with is losing its lone senior, forward Porsha Phillips. And it goes with-out saying that Phillips — and her production — will be hard to replace.

She led the SEC in rebounding (10.7 per game) and free-throw percentage (80.7 percent). She also became the first Lady Bulldog since Katrina McClain in 1986-87 to average a double-double in points and rebounds (10.8 points and 10.7 rebounds) for the entire season, a year in which McClain was named the national player of the year.

Though Phillips won’t win that award, her rebound-ing will be sorely missed. The second-best rebounder on the team is junior forward Meredith Mitchell, who averaged 4.9 rebounds per game, less than half of Phillips’ total.

And for a team that was as bad at the free-throw line as the Lady Bulldogs were this season — their 63.7 percent effort ranked 292nd in Division I out of 333 teams — Phillips’ graduation compounds that issue as well.

The next-best player on the team in that depart-ment was freshman guard Ronika Ransford, who shot 73.9 percent from the line this year. Ransford’s play going forward will be one of the keys for the Lady Bulldogs in the coming seasons.

When Landers benched Ransford for six of Georgia’s final seven games due to “not taking care of academic business,” it shrunk an already-short Lady Bulldog rotation that consisted of just seven players at season’s end.

“I like the players that we have,” Landers said. “I think we need more. We need more depth.”

If the Lady Bulldogs don’t address their issues — depth, abysmal free-throw shooting, replacing Phillips — come this time next season, they can expect to suf-fer another thrashing in the Sweet 16, maybe sooner.

And I can expect another call from my dad at half-time of said beatdown.

— Ryan Black is a sports writer for The Red & Black

Lady Dogs have issues to address

FRANCES MICKLOW | The Red & Black

The offensive line has a new man in charge this year in first-year coach Will Friend, who wants a more cohesive unit than last season.

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