BY TAYLOR WEST@TaylorWest08

At the end of each semester, a group of University of Georgia graduates go into the world to begin their post-college lives, whatever that might entail. But while the majority of students either enter the workforce or a graduate degree program upon graduation, some are increas-ingly choosing less traditional options.

“In addition to just getting a job or graduate school, there are a lot of opportunities to volunteer and intern,” said Su-zanne Voigt, a career consultant for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the UGA Career Center. “I have some students who are doing Peace Corps or Teach for America, things like that.”

Scott Williams, executive di-rector for the employer relations team at the Career Center, re-ported there are 44 UGA alumni serving in the Peace Corps, and Teach for America hired 55 students last year. Teach for America was one of the top 10 employers hiring for the UGA class of 2013, according to that year’s Post-Graduate Survey.

Voigt said going abroad to teach English is also a popular choice for recent graduates. It all depends on what students want to do after college and what they want to get out of their experience.

“I work with a lot of stu-dents who want to go into the counseling field,” she said. “Sometimes they end up work-ing at summer camps, working with kids. I actually have some students who love to work with animals; one is working with marine animals.”

“Gap years,” or taking time off from school after graduating, have also become popular for students who want to go on to a higher level of education, but not right after receiving their undergraduate degrees.

“If someone wants to go to law school, for instance, and they don’t want to go right away after they graduate with their

undergraduate degree, some-times we talk about what are some things you can do to help prep you just to get you ready for law school.” she said.

And each student has to come up with his or her own post-graduation plan.

“I plan to commission into the Air Force as a Second Lieu-tenant,” said Josephin Starrett, a junior international affairs major from Augusta. “Hopefully I’ll get into pilot school.”

Starrett said she thinks taking time after graduation to get new experiences is a good choice for those who are able to, as doing so gets harder the older people get and the more respon-sibilities they have.

“I think it’s an excellent thing,” she said. “You have to take those kinds of opportuni-ties when you’re young.”

For those who decide to pursue careers, former students reported in the 2013 Post-Grad-uate Survey the top 10 employ-ers hiring class of 2013 students in states all over the world, in addition to Teach for America, included the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UGA, State Farm Insurance and sev-eral accounting firms, including Ernst & Young and Deloitte.

The class of 2013 also had a high number of graduates enter educational jobs, according to the survey, with the top school systems hiring UGA graduates being Athens-Clarke County, Cobb, DeKalb, and Oconee counties. Graduates of the clas of 2013 also entered into a wide number of graduate and pro-fessional programs at places such as Duke University, Emory University, Mercer University and UGA.

Voigt said the whole process of consulting with students is about helping students find the right experiences that are going to line up with whatever students want to do in graduate school, post-graduate school or in the job market. It is an indi-vidual decision.

“I think the big thing is just helping students find their fit,” she said.

BY MOLLIE SIMON@mrsimon22

While the class of 2015 sets its sights on gradu-ation, there are new signs that the labor market may be just as “Arch Ready” as University of Geor-gia seniors.

A survey of 5,700 employers published this month by Michigan State University’s College Em-ployment Research Institute predicts a 16 percent increase in the number of students with bachelor’s degrees that will be hired from the class of 2015 compared to last spring’s graduating class.

“I haven’t seen anything quite as specifically optimistic [as the Michigan State study] about this year relative to previous years,” said Ian Schmutte, an assistant professor of economics in the Terry College of Business. “I think in general the trajectory of the job market has been that it is improving, and in general those improvements have been for individuals who have a college edu-cation.”

And while not quite as high as the Michigan State predictions, other groups have found similar trends for college undergraduates.

The National Association of Colleges and Employers reported that it expected a 7.8 percent increase in the number of students hired from the

class of 2014 compared to the 2013 cohort.Schmutte said improvements in the labor

market are slowly beginning to reflect the overall recovery in the economy following the 2008 reces-sion.

“We have been in a lengthy recession, so I think we are just beginning to see several of the factors that led to large job loss during the reces-sion beginning to reverse themselves,” he said. “Even though output and GDP have been improv-ing for a while, it takes a while for businesses to start making new hiring decisions again.”

A better economic climate leads to more peo-ple willing to leave existing positions in search of other work, as well as more Baby Boomers feeling confident enough in their savings portfolios to retire, Schmutte said. Together, these factors help create new opportunities for recent grads.

Holly Getchell, the director of employer rela-tions at the Career Center, said she is seeing posi-tive signs of hiring from potential employers.

“From a Career Center perspective, I have seen an increase in job posting and an increase in attendance [at career fairs],” she said. “For our fall career fair, we had over 250 employers and that was the biggest turnout we have ever had.”

Getchell said she has also seen an increase in the number of employers requesting reservations

for on-campus interview space. Additionally, new employers from engineering firms are coming to UGA because of the College of Engineering, which was added in 2012.

Mason Burril, a senior advertising and con-sumer journalism major from Asheville, North Car-olina, said she has seen similarly positive trends as the co-director of ADPR Connection, a networking event hosted each fall at UGA. She said 55 com-panies have committed to attending the event, which is set for Nov. 11.

“For qualified people, I think it is a pretty good job market, but you have to be qualified and have experience,” Burril said of her job search experiences. “If you don’t have any internships, it is definitely hard to get a job.”

Despite all the promising statistics about the labor market, 9 percent of the class of 2012 was still seeking employment six to 12 months after graduation, according to the 2013 UGA Fact Book.

Additionally, the 7.9 percent unemployment rate for Georgians still trumps the national rate of 5.9, according to the Georgia Department of Labor’s statistics for September. Athens-Clarke County fell in between with 5.7 percent unemploy-ment.

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Alexandra Walker (above) teaches a class on gender equality in Kpalimé, Togo, and (left) another on how to make soap and lotion as a part of her involve-ment in the Peace Corps. Walker graduat-ed from UGA in 2009 and served two years in West Africa. She is now a regional recruiter for the Peace Corps. Courtesy Alexandra Walker

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Rape of 27-year-old woman on East Side reported to police

Athens-Clarke County police received a report of rape that occurred on Oct. 28 at

an East Side residence, according to an ACC Police media release.

The 27-year-old victim told the police the rape occurred between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

The victim knows the suspect, according to the release.

Middle-aged man arrested for battery of a 17 year-old at mall

Police arrested a man after he at-tempted to grab a female and drag her into

a restroom at Georgia Square Mall after ACCPD

responded to a suspicious person complaint on Oct. 30, according to an ACC media release.

After questioning, Oliver George Frater, 56, was arrested and charged with simple battery and false imprisonment.

Man assaults woman at Fourth Street residence

A woman flagged down police near Jackson Street and Broad Street around

4 a.m. on Oct. 31 to report that a known individual assaulted her at a Fourth Street residence, according to an ACC media release.

The victim told police the man pushed her against a wall, threw her to the floor and choked her until she was almost unconscious, according to the release.

She said the offender also held a gun to her chest, cocked the hammer and threatened her.

After police went to the residence and ques-tioned the offender, they arrested Nicholas John Legato, 27, on aggravated assault and battery, ac-cording to the release.

Woman reports case of aggravated stalking

Police responded to a report by a unnamed 24-year-old women of a possible aggravated stalking Nov. 3 at an undis-

closed restaurant in Athens, according to an ACC police report.

An offender was listed in the report. The incident is under further investigation.

Gun stolen during Craigslist transaction

A 23 year old man reported having his handgun stolen from the rear waistband of his pants at the Rolling Ridge apartment

complex on Nov. 3 at 2 p.m., according to an ACC police report.

The victim told police he was selling a tablet computer on Craigslist and had brought the gun with him for protection. While waiting outside the com-plex with the tablet, an unknown male walked up be-hind him and took the gun, according to the report.

After taking the gun, the owner put it back in his pocket and said, “That’s how we do it, over here,” before walking away, according to the report.

The victim did not chase after the man because, prior to the theft, he loaded the gun and cycled a round in the chamber. The victim stated he did not know the man or where he may live, according to the report.

Identification cards found at the site of an alleged burglary

Police responded to an attempted bur-glary at a North Church Street residence

Nov. 3, according to an ACC police report.The back porch door had damage to the frame

and pry marks, and the screws from the doorknob plate had been removed, according to the police report.

Along with the knife, the victim reported finding three cards all under the same name that were used in the attempted burglary.

A MasterCard and an insurance card with the same name and address printed on them were found jammed in the back porch door of the residence, according to the report.

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The plume of sooty exhaust and creak of brakes are familiar sights and sounds at bus stops and traffic lights around the University of Geor-gia campus, as buses transport thousands of students every day.

But with heavy traffic and stop lights all around campus, going from point A to point B is almost never fuel-ef-ficient, a problem UGA researchers are attempt-ing to address.

As a way to reduce fuel and environmental costs, UGA engineers are researching the imple-mentation of electric buses that could be charged wirelessly along their routes. However, this possibility is only hypothetical for the time being, said Ron Hamlin, UGA Campus Transit department head.

The bus fleet as a whole only gets about 3 mpg with average route speeds of 7 mph, as bus-es are stuck in traffic ap-proximately 50 percent of the time, he said.

“We spend a lot of time waiting at traffic lights and at bus stops and we lose a lot of effi-ciency that way,” Hamlin said. “Our operating center is more like down-town Manhattan — it’s certainly not suburban, it’s not rural driving, it’s heavy, downtown-type driving.”

UGA Campus Tran-sit tried twice to switch to biofuel to power the buses. In 1981, it at-tempted to use peanut oil and in 2007 it tried B20, 20 percent of which is derived from the poul-try industry and 80 per-cent diesel. But neither were successful.

“Our motivation, what we need to do, is to do what people depend on us to do, so we got away from using biodiesels at that point just because we couldn’t depend on the quality of the fuel,” Hamlin said

of the failed transition to B20 in 2007. “We need to make sure we can get buses out every day and we weren’t able under those situations.”

Solving fuel problems

UGA found the use of peanut oil as uneco-nomical fuel compared to petroleum-derived power. Biodiesel didn’t pack enough energy for buses to get up some hills around campus during a heat wave, and later reacted poorly to colder weather, Hamlin said.

“We had some pretty bad luck with it, so we got away from it,” he said. “Electric buses are becoming quite fashion-able and there may be some room for that but that adds to the cost of the bus.”

The electric buses cost $750,000 compared to $400,000 for diesel, without including the costs of building infra-structure, Hamlin said. He said the student transportation fee funds UGA Campus Transit, which is a considered factor.

Beyond price, B20 had too high of a fat content and got stuck in the fuel tank in cold weather, congealing into fat, he said.

“There’s all kinds of philosophical arguments out there as to what’s good and what’s bad, but in our opinion our pri-mary focus is on provid-ing the service that the University depends on,”

Hamlin said. “We weren’t able to do that with the fuel that we were buy-ing, so we went back to straight diesel.”

Hamlin said UGA will consider using elec-tric power for the buses. Zion Tse, an assistant professor of medical robotics in UGA’s Col-lege of Engineering, is working on a wireless charging project, largely focused on switching to an electric bus system powered by “dynamic charging” and funded by Georgia Power.

Dynamic charging would implement wireless chargers at bus stops and traffic lights, for example, to charge the vehicles as they move so they can run continu-ally, Tse said.

If a charge is avail-able in more places, it will allow manufacturers to decrease battery size in electric vehicles and dramatically reduce the cost of the vehicle over-all, he said.

“Charging stations [are] the key — if you don’t have gas stations around and you cannot fill up the gas of your car, then you won’t really drive your gasoline car. Same for electric vehi-cles,” Tse said.

Sustainable options

Before implementing electric charging sta-tions, researchers must first conduct a pilot test, which will take six months. If they’re “con-fident in the technology” after that point, they’ll

install it on campus, Tse said.

WAVE, a company that develops wireless charging systems for heavy duty electric ve-hicles, including buses, has already successfully put in place a 50 kilowatt wireless charging system at the University of Utah Campus, said Vice Presi-dent of Business Devel-opment Zachary Kahn in an email to The Red & Black.

“They are the best,” said Yabiao Gao, a grad-uate student of engi-neering in Tse’s lab who interned at WAVE last summer, of the compa-ny’s charging technology.

Stanford University also uses electric buses and added 10 zero-emis-sion, battery-electric buses over the summer to the three it already had.

Hamlin said UGA has made a “conscious decision” to stick with diesel for the time being after putting into service 12 quieter, lighter diesel vehicles in June, with four more on the way. He said at some point UGA will decide which direc-tion it will go, but he doesn’t see that resolu-tion coming “anywhere in the immediate future.”

“Dealing with the limited resources we have, we want to make sure whatever change we make is going to benefit the University in the long run,” Hamlin said. “We can’t just jump into what seems to be the most promising alternative at the present time.”

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Schmutte said not just having a college degree but having one in a field that is in demand can influ-ence chances of snagging a job.

“I think we are in the midst of a relatively steady recovery, especially for college graduates that have majored in fields that are in increasing demand such as healthcare, information technolo-gy and engineering,” he said. “The economy that we are creating for ourselves is one in which there is a return to being able to combine skills that are really difficult to automate with strong interperson-al skills.”

Getchell also said employers are placing greater weight on in-ternship programs that may trans-late into full-time employment.

Approximately 50 students took part in the second annual Georgia Youth to Business Forum at UGA, which was hosted by AIESEC on Oct. 11..

Caitlyn Beatty, a senior his-tory and political science major from Carrollton and the organizing committee president for the event, said one of her biggest takeaways from the forum was the impor-tance of having broad perspective.

“Going abroad and making yourself more of a global citizen can make you more competitive

in the workforce, and I think that was something that was definitely hit on in the Youth to Business Forum,” she said.

Beatty said the focus on the workforce was due to the impor-tance of the topic to millennials.

“I think that if you really talk to UGA students, employment is something that is really on every-one’s mind,” she said.

Schmutte added that getting a job does not necessarily equate

to making a desirable salary.“I think we want to be looking

at earnings,” he said. “Earnings have stayed pretty flat for recent graduates through the recession and recovery.”

While Schmutte said upward pressure on wages due to in-creased demand has not kicked in yet, he cautions that if the supply is too high, salaries may not get that push.

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OUR TAKE

The Georgia HOPE and Zell B. Miller scholarships have allowed students to

attend schools they would not otherwise be able to afford by covering a large portion of tui-tion costs. These scholarships celebrate incoming students’ academic achievements and encourage them to maintain high GPAs throughout college. However, the balancing act be-tween preserving a GPA above a 3.0 and gaining job experience causes several students to sac-rifice one for the other.

Incoming freshmen enter college with either a 3.7 high school GPA or a 1200 SAT score for Zell or a 3.0 high school GPA for HOPE. Students can keep these scholarships by con-tinuing their studious streaks throughout their pursuit of an undergraduate degree. This has enabled UGA to become increasingly academically competitive, and in the 2014 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Colleges, UGA ranks No. 20 in the top 20 pub-lic schools in the U.S.

A vast majority of UGA students receive either HOPE or Zell (13,783 receive HOPE and 6,213 receive Zell Mill-er, reported by the Office of Student Financial Aid), which puts further stress on students academically. Graduate degrees have grown incredibly demand-ing, as a Bachelor’s degree is not enough to guarantee a job anymore; internships, volunteer work and part-time jobs are necessary to beef up a resume and remain competitive in the job world.

However, with students dedicating several hours a week to studying to maintain their scholarships, there is little wig-gle-room in their schedules for other commitments. Managing part-time jobs, Greek organiza-tions and grades is no easy feat.

There is no doubt HOPE and Zell Miller have given incredible opportunities to thousands of students, but it is a double-edged sword.

This opportunity comes at a cost of gaining job experience and fully committing to any on-campus organizations. When a single bad grade can threat-en your financial aid status, students are put under extreme pressure to constantly be on top of their grades more so than those who do not depend on HOPE or Zell.

HOPE and Zell are fantas-tic opportunities, exclusive to Georgia students, and there is no denying their positive effect on college attendance in Georgia. It is important to keep in mind that these place an in-ordinate amount of responsibil-ity on the student to maintain their GPA every semester, with little to no deviation.

— Courtney Willett for the editorial board

College jobs sacrificed for scholarships

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UNC deprives athletes’ education

COLLEGE ATHLETES

Fake classes sound too good to be true, and they

were thought to be, until the Universi-ty of North Carolina Chapel Hill fell under investigation. Under the radar grade infla-tion, first intended for struggling students, transpired into a joint effort exerted by faculty and staff to siphon student athletes into classes that would not only meet UNC degree requirements, but also keep them eligible for the NCAA.

While these fraud-ulent classes have succeeded in keeping students’ GPAs afloat, there is a greater concern regarding the caliber of the education they received.

For the past 18 years, an estimated 3,100 students, approx-imately 50 percent of which were athletes, “enrolled” in 188 classes classified as indepen-dent studies for which they never had to at-tend yet were rewarded A’s and B’s, according to CNN.

This scandal sur-faced for the first time five years ago, but it was not until recently that UNC admitted this was far more complex than an academic fraud case, as the athletic programs were also in-volved and heavily reli-ant on these courses for their athletes to play.

Perhaps the focus of this issue should be shifted away from the athletic perspective, which encompasses all of the awards and titles in jeopardy of being re-voked, and transferred to the root of the issue: students have been deprived of the educa-tion they expected and deserved.

Aside from their professional athletic careers ahead, they have been cheated of what was promised and offered by a prestigious institution, and forced to enter a society with an education that may not allow them to be as competent outside of the realm of sports.

University learning specialist Mary Willing-ham told CNN that she has worked with dozens of student athletes that cannot read at an ac-ceptable level, some on the same par as elemen-tary school children.

If those reports on literacy, or lack thereof, do not serve as a wake up call demanding the fundamentals of the athletic program to be reevaluated, students will continue to leave

UNC without the edu-cation they both need and want.

“If these kids aren’t getting an education, the whole thing’s a sham,” CNN reported Tom McMillen, former congressman and bas-ketball player, as saying.

Ultimately, educa-tion should be the first priority when coming to college, regardless of one’s aspirations and the likelihood of being drafted, but it seems that certain faculty members were the support system behind students who intended to use the university as a platform to advance their own standing in the eyes of recruiters.

Though UNC is the alma mater to basket-ball legends such as Mi-chael Jordan and home of Coach Dean Smith, incidents such as this undermine the integrity of the University and athletic department.

Michael McAdoo played football for UNC for two years and expressed when inter-viewed by CNN that he was basically forced by his advisers to major in African-American studies, deemed one of the easiest courses of-fered and central to the investigation. He came to UNC with hopes of graduating with a de-gree in criminal justice.

He was kicked off of the football team in 2010 and missed out on two seasons, saying to News & Observer, “An apology would be good for me … I lost out on an education. I lost trust in the school — someone I thought had my best interest.”

Ultimately, UNC and the NCAA have exploited these athletes for talent without pro-viding them with an ed-ucation in return. These athletes have brought millions of dollars in revenue for the univer-sity which has so clearly wronged them. After serving their purpose to the university, these athletes will leave col-lege totally unprepared for the job world.

It is the university’s responsibility to aid those struggling with classes, not to shove the problem under the carpet with an elabo-rate ruse. UNC failed at its core purpose of properly educating its students.

— Katelyn Walsh is a sophomore from Atlanta majoring in

public relations

Thomas Dudley’s argu-ment that NCAA ath-letes are not entitled to

compensation is as flawed as it is unpopular. Additionally, his argument is not particularly persuasive or defensible either. It’s wrong both morally and economically and provides no benefit to sports’ competitive balance.

Mr. Dudley raised the prospective issue of money’s role in the competition during recruitment, but that issue ex-ists now. It exists in the form of apparel contracts, lavish training facilities and televi-sion appearances, all ways the rich get richer. However, the system in place flows the mon-ey into the program rather than the players.

While Mississippi State is one of the top teams in the country, even though it spends less than other teams in the conference, it still spend more than three-quarters of non-SEC teams, according to USA Today. It was also accompa-nied in the Week 10 Associ-ated Press top 10 rankings by three of their SEC West division-mates.

Big and tradition-rich schools already have advan-tages; new rules that expand players’ paid opportunities would simply make them more explicit, and would shift some more of the dollars to those that bring in the revenue in the first place.

Of course, there will be kinks to work out. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, for example, requires gender equity in participation and benefits in federally-fund-ed college athletic programs.

Paying football and men’s bas-ketball players at the expense of women’s athletes would violate that legislation, though reclassification of payment as wages might be sufficient.

Regardless, keeping all athletes poorer is not an answer to that problem. The NCAA, whose Division I manu-al numbers 434 pages and who infamously prevented schools to provide athletes with bagels provided they weren’t accom-panied by cream cheese, jelly or other spread, according to Yahoo News, has never had a problem writing incredibly specific and arbitrary rules. If there’s one thing the NCAA is good at, it’s that kind of minutiae.

The NCAA goes to great pains to insist athletes are students first. Well, journalism students can earn additional money by writing freelance ar-ticles for commercial journals and magazines. Music majors can earn additional money by performing with their band at downtown clubs. Those students sell not just their labor but their likenesses, in the form of bylines and venue marquees. Thousands more students can earn additional money by working at dining halls and libraries. None of those opportunities are com-promised if the students are also receiving academic schol-arships. That athletes don’t have those same opportunities is unfathomable and repre-hensible, and needs to change sooner than later.

— Gerald Burris is a senior from Lawrenceville

majoring in economics

NCAA hoards revenue, takes advantage of unpaid athletes

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made the most

ethical decision when he chose to quarantine Kaci Hickox, a nurse who had just returned from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. While her quarantine was lifted this past weekend, Christie’s initial reaction kept the residents of New Jersey safe in the worst-case scenario.

Hickox has been very vocal about her quaran-tine and the inhumane conditions she believes are associated with it. However, one weekend of discomfort for a single individual does not justify the risk of possibly infect-ing hundreds of thou-sands of people. Although Ebola is not an airborne disease, it is important to keep it contained to minimize exposure and potential advancement of the virus.

I understand Hickox’s distress, but the bigger picture has to be put into consideration. If she had contracted the disease, she could have put her and her family’s lives in danger. Thus, the quarantine was necessary to monitor her conditions and actions. Her decision to violate this quarantine was ultimately a selfish one, as she prioritized her own comfort over the safety of others. As a nurse, I would think she would have a little more consideration for the wel-fare of others.

Perhaps Hickox’s greatest flaw was her bra-zen attitude toward the crisis as a whole. While her experience in Sierra Leone may have given her insight the rest of us lack, her blatant disregard for the rules of quarantine suggest an immature per-sonality. “Saturday Night Live” has poked fun at the issue, mocking both sides of the argument; Hickox, played by Kate McKinnon, is depicted as a lunatic, constantly en-dangering the lives of oth-ers for sport. While this is a gross exaggeration of reality, “SNL” makes the point that Hickox demon-strated a total lack of consideration for others around her, while Chris-tie kept the well-being of New Jersey residents a priority.

Although Christie has received backlash, most notably the Centers for Disease Control calling his decision “draconian,” I believe he had good in-tentions; his motives were based on the needs and well-being of the people of New Jersey. Ultimate-ly, Christie was forced to make a quick decision and he chose the safest option. After Hickox was deemed Ebola-free, she was released from isolation. Yes, she had a stressful weekend, but does that really under-mine the threat of the spread of Ebola, a virus she had spent several months trying to combat?

Whether or not Chris-tie had underlying polit-ical motivations for his decision, no permanent harm was done. Hickox is disease-free and no one else has been exposed to a terrible disease that has ravaged West Africa.

— A’Shondee Kinlaw is a senior from Homer-

ville majoring in English

The scandal surrounding former UGA professor Richard Supli-ta and his relationship with a

teaching assistant has raised concerns not only about defining relationships between students and teachers but also the mishandling of this particular case. There seems to be some discrep-ancy regarding UGA’s Equal Opportu-nity Office’s definition of an appropri-ate relationship and the actions taken to ensure the safety of students.

Society’s fetishism of teacher/student relationships has glamorized an unrealistic, romantic portrayal of classroom relationships. Whether it is a “sexy schoolgirl” outfit sold at the local Spencer’s or the portrayal of the Arya/Ezra flame in the popular TV show “Pretty Little Liars,” there is nothing cute or sexual about the bond between a teacher and their student. It is one of a flow of knowledge and influence.

Keeping this in mind, I was fully prepared when hearing about Richard Suplita’s case to voice a furious and acidic opinion on the sanctity of that bond. However, I instead found myself agreeing with Suplita’s decision to resign, not because of the harass-ment, but the poor handling of the case itself. Suplita has been accused by the EOO of violating the Univer-sity of Georgia policy against sexual harassment. Suplita has been dating a third-year neuroscience Ph.D. student who served as the TA for his classes. Suplita and the girl in question asked his supervisor if they could begin a relationship, and were given approval. They even went Facebook official, a milestone in dating in the technology age.

Although, because this status change happened before final grades were submitted, Suplita was tech-

nically dating his subordinate and this violates the Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment policy. I agree wholeheartedly with this policy and praise its existence along with the EOO. I also understand that these rules have been put in place to protect students in case those in mentoring positions and positions of power de-cide to abuse those in their care.

Suplita himself agrees with the policy and said,“Real harassment goes on, real discrimination goes on and they need to be very vigilant of that and have a good, strong system in place for dealing with that” in a previ-ous Red & Black article.

However he also claims that he had no knowledge of the evidence brought against him and did not have a lawyer to defend him during the in-vestigation. The EOO should be reed-ucating the staff on what constitutes an acceptable relationship. Suplita’s supervisor should have never told him the relationship would be tolerated.

While I do not condone Suplita’s relationship with a former TA, I be-lieve his case was grossly mishandled. He entered the relationship with the false notion that it would be deemed acceptable by the EOO, under the impression that he had done nothing wrong. These policies prohibiting teacher/student relationships are there for the safety of students and faculty and should remain in place to avoid situations such as this. Ulti-mately, a faculty member lost his job due to a misunderstanding, which easily could have been avoided with proper guidance and enforcement of policies on the EOO’s part.

— Shelby Masters is a sophomore from Johns Creek majoring in public

affairs journalist

The infamous TLC reality show “Here Comes Honey

Boo Boo” has finally been canceled due to allegations against the mother, nicknamed “Mama June’s,” relation-ship with a registered sex offender. The show has never received high praise for its exploita-tion of an uneducated, lower class family in the deep South. TLC finally pulled the plug, reported by Enter-tainment Weekly, saying, “Supporting the health and welfare of these remarkable children is our only priority. TLC is faithfully committed to the children’s ongoing comfort and well-being.”

If the network’s primary concern was always for the welfare of the children, then the program would never have aired in the first place. Not only has it glamorized child ex-ploitation, but it has

also shed an unflattering light on Georgia.

In spite of its TV popularity, the residents of Henry County are not happy with their home’s portrayal. “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” has created a completely inaccurate depiction of the South, showing only white-dominated, stereotypically redneck places. While these areas do make up a portion of the American South, TLC has poorly repre-sented the race and eco-nomic diversity present in the state of Georgia.

In addition to the bad publicity that the town has received, there is also a question of the purpose of the show itself.

Exploitation seems to be the prima-ry motive behind the programming, based on the show’s origins. Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson first ap-peared on another one

of TLC’s reality shows, “Toddlers and Tiaras,” where she performed outlandish acts for the judges as a contestant in a child beauty pageant. Videos of the 6-year old were posted to YouTube, where they garnered instant popularity.

This is no doubt what prompted Thomp-son’s mom to present the idea of her own show to TLC and for the network to accept the proposal.

Thompson’s family was only interested in the money they would receive through the pro-gram, regardless of the fact that the majority of viewers were tuning in only to make fun of the characters portrayed.

The TLC network is not completely to blame for the disaster of a show; however, its claim to support the health and welfare of the children involved becomes questionable

throughout its time. Tourists have ventured in and out of the town of McIntyre for the sole purpose of visiting Honey Boo Boo’s house. Such exposure can do nothing but increase the possibility of danger for the entire family, includ-ing the three children with whom the primary network is so concerned about.

Although this show was one of TLC’s most famous, with a generat-ed audience of up to 3.2 million viewers, accord-ing to USA Today, it has also sparked a great deal of controversy. Many are disgusted by the crude

nature of the characters as well as the seeming-ly unorthodox system of family values that is portrayed.

Overall, while the cancellation of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” cannot undo the exces-sive amount of harm already done to the family and residents of the area, there is hope that the show will soon remain in the past as a distant, cringe-inducing memory.

— Damisi Fawole is a sophomore from

Lawrenceville majoring in pre-journalism

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Inspired by the 2,010 individuals who signed a letter to University of Georgia President Jere Morehead about the overlap of the UGA Homecoming game with the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur this year, other religious minority groups on campus have recently penned a new, similar petition.

“Regardless of whether we are a mi-nority on campus, the underlying issue is free-dom to practice religion while still attending ma-jor school events and furthering our academic success,” stated the let-ter written by Hindu, Muslim and Sikh stu-dents on campus.

In the letter, stu-dents pointed specifical-ly to the fact that the Ac-counting 2101 exam was scheduled for Oct. 23, which was also the date of Diwali, the holiest day of the Hindu New Year.

Radhika Patel, pres-ident of the Indian Cul-tural Exchange and one of the letter’s authors, said the primary goal of the effort is to raise stu-dent awareness.

“Really the idea came from when I saw the Jewish community write theirs, and it was a really great letter,” said Patel, a graduate stu-dent studying account-ing from Marietta. “It hit home though that

Jewish students had to go through it this year, but it is something Mus-lim, Hindu and Sikh stu-dents go through consis-tently every year.”

So far, the letter, which was supported by 13 student groups, has garnered 550 signatures, Patel said.

But UGA Vice Pres-ident for Public Affairs Tom Jackson said while the letters were new this year, the issue of sched-uling conflicts is not.

“We have been aware of it in the past and we have been sensi-tive of it in the past,” he said. “We list major hol-idays [on the calendar] to help faculty members be sensitive to the issue, but just being listed on the calendar doesn’t car-ry any force of authority. Whether it is on the cal-endar or not, the student will need to individually

work out issues with fac-ulty members.”

According to the Academic Affairs Policy manual, the “University System policy prohib-its the institution from scheduling registration periods or the first day of class on a religious holi-day.” However, decisions regarding the schedule are left up to each school.

At UGA, the cal-endar is recommend-ed by the registrar and approved by University Council. But accommo-dating UGA’s diverse student body can pres-ent obstacles.

“We have 12 des-ignated state holidays which are not generally religious, and we have to get in so many class hours and so many class days,” Jackson said. “So it is a challenge and we can’t cancel class on ev-ery religious holiday.”

Although religious observances are not ex-pressly mentioned in the syllabus, Swati Bhan-darkar, who teaches the accounting course, said she was able to mediate the situation.

“I was able to ac-commodate the stu-dents who asked for a time change for my ACCT 2101 exam on Oct. 23 due to a religious hol-iday without any prob-lems,” Bhandarkar said.

But Jasim Moham-med, treasurer of the Muslim Student Asso-ciation and the social chair of ICE, said he still has to decide between grades and his religion.

“I believe that grades come first in life because you have to be successful to be able to practice your religion, but I do not like having to choose,” he said.

By GaBe Cavallaro @gabe_cavallaro

Cold and flu season is now well underway, which means University of Georgia students may have had cause to whip out their health insurance cards during a recent visit to the doctor’s office.

For students examin-ing their healthcare options, the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” provides several plans catered to young people seeking coverage.

While many UGA students may be able to find coverage under their parents’ plans, that option won’t last forever, expir-ing when they turn 26.

Jasmine Johnson, a junior public relations major from Conyers, said she plans to stay on her parents’ plan until she turns 26 and that she’s not worried about finding her own coverage but knows “it’s com-ing.”

Maureen Kamanga, a se-nior psychology major from Kennesaw also on her parents’ health insurance plan, said shopping for the most suitable coverage for her is something to worry about after she grad-uates from college.

“I’ll cross that bridge when I get there,” she said.

However, some students don’t have the luxury to wait until after college and must find coverage on their own while undergraduates. For them, options include either a student health insurance plan through UGA, Medicaid cov-erage or searching through the traditional healthcare market for a plan.

Student Health Insurance Plan

UGA automatically enrolls several graduate students in its mandatory plan, which pro-vides coverage worldwide for accidents and sickness. This includes “diagnosis and treat-ment of illness, injury, or medi-cal conditions, along with well-ness benefits,” like physician, hospital, surgical, pharmacy, mental health and substance abuse benefits, according to the UGA Human Resources website.

International students holding a F-1 or J-1 visa status, such as junior economics major Fred Fu of Xi’an, China, are also automatically enrolled. Fu said he hasn’t had to use his health-care coverage for anything oth-er than flu shots so far,.

UGA also offers a volun-tary plan with the University System of Georgia Board of Regents student health insur-ance, which provides similar coverage to the mandatory plan.

There are approximately 3,000 students enrolled as stu-dents on the mandatory stu-dent health insurance plan, while only about 400 students have enrolled under the volun-tary plan, said Joanna Manzi, UGA HR senior managing con-sultant.

UGA HR doesn’t gather data on which other types of plans students are covered un-der, she said.

The enrollment period for spring and summer semester coverage will be in middle to late December, according to the UGA HR website.

This student plan cover-age meets the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that individ-uals have health insurance, so

students on this plan will not incur the tax penalty that peo-ple without coverage must pay.

The fee for not having cov-erage in 2015 is either 2 percent of one’s household income or $325 per person in the house-hold for the year — whichever is higher. This penalty is set to increase every year, going up to 2.5 percent of income or $695 per person, in 2016.

Medicaid

Another option is Medic-aid, although in Georgia it has not been expanded and eligibil-ity for students will depend on

income. People with incomes less than the federal poverty level — $11,670 per year for a single person — may be eligible for Medicaid.

According to HealthCare.gov, people should apply for Medicaid, especially if they have children, are pregnant or have a disability even if their state has not expanded cover-age.

People can apply by con-tacting the Georgia Depart-ment of Human Services’s Di-vision of Family and Children Services or by filling out an on-line application on the Health-Care.gov Marketplace.

There’s no limited enroll-ment period for Medicaid, so people can apply at any time throughout the year.

Traditional healthcare market

There is always the tra-ditional health market. Stu-dents can purchase insurance through a broker or health insurer or take coverage from a full-time or part-time em-ployer. It’s permissible to have more than one health plan too, so combining coverage from two or more plans is an option.

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By Mariana viera @mariana_viera1

Georgia’s state non-discrimination law does not include protections based on sexual orientation or gender identity for workers in the private sector, ac-cording to a recent study by the Williams Institute.

Deirdre Kane, director of admissions for the Mas-ter of Business Administration degree program at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business, said she has had to adjust to Georgia’s lack of protections.

“I still consider myself new to Georgia,” said Kane, chair of the UGA LGBTQ organization GLOBES. “I moved here in July of 2011 and I moved from Massa-chusetts, where there were other and better protec-tions in place. So it’s been sort of an adjustment for me to understand the differences.”

According to the study, about 3.5 percent of Geor-gia’s workforce identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. That’s approximately 170,000 people, 151,900 of which work in the private sector.

Steven Edwards, a junior cognitive science major from Duluth and the executive director of the UGA Lambda Alliance, said many private companies do have protections for LGBT individuals.

“But a lot of times, especially within companies and because we live in Georgia and a certain kind of so-cial climate, even if there are technically laws, they’re all kind of vague and there’s not a lot of backbone to them,” he said.

In a 2011 study by the Phillip Rush Center that surveyed more than 2,000 LGBT people in Georgia, 25 percent of respondents said they have experienced workplace discrimination.

Nationally, 21 percent of LGBT adults say they have faced workplace discrimination, according to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey.

Edwards said he has not experienced any discrim-ination working at UGA Food Services, but some of his friends have not been as fortunate with their jobs.

“I’ve had friends who have had to leave jobs be-cause it was homophobic, or they’ve gotten fired,” Ed-wards said.

Kane also said she’s also heard of people who have been discriminated against or fired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Edwards said his lack of job security affects all as-pects of his job search post-graduation.

“Especially for me as a queer leader on campus, my entire resume is gay,” he said. “For a lot of queer people, there’s no way we can pretend to be straight or try to fit our lives into this narrative. It wouldn’t be fair to us. It would be detrimental to our lives. We shouldn’t have to live in secret.”

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Not voting isn’t for everyone, despite the statis-tics. And some University of Georgia students choose to work with election campaigns to rally fellow stu-dents rather than sit on the sidelines.

For Rory Hibbler, the apathy students show to-ward politics is frustrating.

“It really irritates me,” said the freshman political science and international affairs major. “But most of my good friends aren’t really that involved.”

Her immersion in politics comes from an inter-est in the subject as well as her work with the Young Democrats of UGA and Athens-Clarke County as well as Georgia Victory 2014. Hibbler said she worked to encourage her friends to vote in the midterm election, but most people simply didn’t fill out absentee ballot forms and decided not to participate this year.

And while an interest in politics kicked off her participation, Hibbler also hopes to gain career expe-rience from her campaign work. She said she wants to be a campaign manager, and believes her work on Georgia Victory 2014’s combined campaign for Jason Carter and Michelle Nunn for governor and senator, respectively, will provide real-world understanding and political connections.

“I definitely learned the importance of field work,” she said, “and just doing things like calling people and knocking on doors.”

Hibbler is not the only one gaining practical experience working on campaigns, however. Several other UGA students found themselves in the middle of midterm election politics this year, especially as the race heated up in Georgia.

Grant thomasThe UGA campus chair for Gov. Nathan Deal’s re-

election campaign, Grant Thomas said his campaign work is preparing him for a career in politics.

“I would say volunteering on a campaign is almost like the equivalent of an internship for many students because you get experience and you get to make a lot of connections,” said Thomas, the UGA College Republicans political director.

While on Deal’s campaign trail, Thomas encoun-tered a moment of “damage control,” he said. When Deal visited the University in August, student activ-ists asked him about the University System of Geor-gia Board of Regents policy that denies the HOPE Scholarship to undocumented students in Georgia, according to a previous Red & Black article.

“Following that meeting in the next day or two, I really got to work with the campaign and work with the governor’s deputy chief of staff and chief spokes-man and really try to do damage control,” Thomas said.

Thomas was interviewed by CBS Atlanta about the situation, and he said he worked to explain Deal’s side of the story and “combat a lot of the negative press.”

“I got to be on TV because of working and volun-teering with the campaign, so I think that was a really cool experience too,” he said.

ElizabEth DrEisbachA sophomore at UGA and executive member of

Young Democrats of UGA and Athens-Clarke Coun-ty, Elizabeth Dreisbach said she hopes to go to law school after graduating. For her, working on Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter’s campaigns developed out of an internship search.

Although her campaign involvement has grown since June, Dreisbach said she doesn’t plan to put her name on a ballot.

“I’ve learned I don’t know if I could ever run for office and put my money and family through that,” she said.

Instead, her goal with Young Democrats this election season was to register more students and en-courage them to make it to the polls or vote absentee. But while the “persuasion” aspect of campaigning, which includes informing voters about candidates, can be easier, Dreisbach said getting those people to vote is tricky.

“Even if everyone in Georgia likes Michelle Nunn, nothing will change if they don’t vote,” Dreisbach said. “Getting people to the polls is a lot of standing at intersections, holding signs saying, ‘Make sure you vote today.’”

coDy hallCody Hall first started on political campaigns

during high school. The junior political science and international affairs major first got involved with local-level elections in Dawsonville, but he did not have an official internship until he joined Jody Hice’s congressional campaign this summer.

He got this internship through his work with for-mer U.S. Rep. Paul Broun (GA–10) in 2013 and hopes his work with Hice will provide more opportunities.

“This upcoming spring, I’m doing an internship with the General Assembly in Atlanta, and given those connections and the ones I’ve gotten through the campaign, I’m hoping to work in Atlanta or in [Washington] D.C. in either campaign staff in Georgia or on a congressional staff in D.C.,” Hall said.

After a close seven-way primary, Hall said the campaign’s most positive moments centered on speeches and the July 22 runoff. Hice beat opponent Mike Collins by about 8 percentage points, which was viewed as a large success after the 0.5 percent lead in the primary.

“There was some public stuff that had come out in the media toward us,” he said. “To have to work through that tough time in the campaign really brought us closer together and made us want it all the more.”

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Anonymity is the benefit for University of Georgia students posting to the anonymous mobile social media application Yik Yak, but it is not always guaranteed. For instances of threats, such as the one made against students in the Zell B. Miller Learning Center earlier this semes-ter, or hate speech, the app attempts to mitigate posts directed at causing harm. To learn more about Yik Yak, The Red & Black sat down with Cam Mullen, lead community developer for the app, for a question and answer session.

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The Red & Black:Since Yik Yak is anonymous, what are the ben-efits of anonymity for the app’s users and what are some of the drawbacks?

Cam Mullen: One benefit is that Yik Yak surpasses social circles, so when you are posting on Yik Yak you are posting to people two miles around you and you do not know the identity of who posted or who is reading, and for that reason it surpasses and transcends social circles. Two, when you keep your privacy, you are able to talk about things that you otherwise wouldn’t. On Facebook or Twitter you might be following your parents or professors and for that reason you are a little limited in what you feel comfort-able sharing, and on Yik Yak ... you are able to speak a little more freely and get a unfiltered opinion of the actual content that you are writ-ing about. Drawbacks — There is the potential for someone to make a threat, which is not at all specific to Yik Yak.

R&B: Speaking of when things go a little awry on Yik Yak, how does the app work with law enforcement to promote safety after these threats are posted?

CM: When there is a situation that we consider an immediate threat, such as what we saw at UGA, we cannot provide the phone number, the name or the email address of the individual because our service does not collect that, but we can provide the locations of where the person has posted the other Yaks they posted, and often that information is enough to paint a picture of the student and ultimately identify them. You can see that student was posting Yaks from this dorm room last semester, over the summer went home to this location, and now is living in this location.

R&B: What are some things users should remember when using Yik Yak?

CM: Be kind on Yik Yak is one big thing. We recognized that with any social app or network there is the likelihood of misuse from a small group of users, and on our end we have put specific algorithms in place to prevent this. The first one is down-votes. Beyond that, users can report messages ... and we also have filters running, looking through the actual text of posts. The filters are running to look for race hot-words, racist or homophobic slurs or gen-eral inappropriate content. Another interesting thing we just put in is in response to some of the threats like UGA’s threat. We have hot-words associated with threats. We hope that reminding [students] that we take these things seriously and that there are repercussions will reduce it and help us fight back.

R&B: How has Yik Yak in general affected col-lege campuses?

CM: There is kind of a spectrum that has formed with both of these on the sides, and at first some schools will kind of think that this is a tool that could be used for bad and want to ban it. And what we have found is a drift away from that toward the other end of the spectrum where some big schools in the South have actually reached out to us trying to learn more and get more information of how they can use Yik Yak. They think that the students are already using it and are going to be on it and are asking how they can use all the valuable information that is coming in.

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The University of Georgia Parking Services has teamed up with Students for Environmental Action to solve a problem that has plagued campus bike rid-ers for the past three years. UGA’s campus has be-come a graveyard for abandoned bicycle carcasses, which have accumulated in bike racks in high-traffic areas.

Lack of bike rack space has contributed to un-necessary tardiness and has deterred students from choosing a more sustainable mode of transportation. With a significant lack of available bike rack space on campus, cyclists have grown frustrated.

“I’ve been here for six years and I’ve seen plen-ty of bikes that should have been collected months ago,” said Sergio Encinas, a UGA French teaching assistant and alumnus. “No matter where people are riding to class — to work out at Ramsey, to the dining halls, wherever — abandoned bikes have been taking up space at every rack.”

In his six years at UGA, Encinas has noticed an influx of student and faculty bike riders. While he is enthused at the notion that more people are choosing eco-friendly transportation alternatives, he thinks that number would increase with biker-friendly cam-pus improvements.

“I’m all for people using more bikes, but I don’t think the University is catering to cyclists’ needs when it comes to the amount of bikers on campus,” Encinas said.

Tom Carney, a graduate student and an out-door recreation employee at Ramsey Student Cen-ter, decided to take matters into his own hands. He traveled around campus flipping over bikes deemed abandoned or abused to make a statement and raise awareness about the problem. After three years of letters and complaints urging UGA Parking Services to remove the bikes, his voice has finally been heard.

Don Walters, director of UGA Parking Services, reached out to Students for Environmental Action last month to enlist student cyclists to reduce clutter on campus bike racks and formulate a plan to redis-tribute the unclaimed bikes.

UGA Parking Services created positions for two student bikers, Alix Wertheimer and Lauren Steffes, who agreed to head up a campus-wide bike sweep. They are responsible for locating abandoned bikes and tagging them with a slip around the handlebars.

The tag contains information about the bike, in-cluding the date it was tagged, its make and model and its location on campus. The tag warns the bike owner to remove the bike within 30 days, or the bike will be impounded. Bike owners can claim their bike as not abandoned by emailing parking@uga.edu or by removing their bike from the bike rack location.

“When we look to determine if a bike is aban-doned, we first look at the chain to see if it’s rust-ed,” said Wertheimer, senior cognitive science major from Dunwoody. “Then we press on the tires to see

if they’re flat and look at other areas of the bike for broken parts, missing seats, wheels, etcetera.”

Wertheimer and Steffes have already found over 180 bikes on campus and tagged approximately 90. They are expecting to impound between 50 and 100 unclaimed bikes, of which half are estimated to be re-pairable. They hope to begin the impound process by December.

“We aren’t trying to steal people’s bikes. We want to give people plenty of time to claim their bikes if they’ve just left them on campus and forgotten about them,” Wertheimer said.

Steffes, a fourth-year public affairs journalism major from Marietta, Georgia, believes the bike sweep will lead to lasting improvement

“The bike sweep is just the first step of a long-term program to promote biking as a mode of trans-portation on UGA’s campus and in the greater Ath-ens-Clarke County area,” Steffes said. “We hope that more students will feel more comfortable riding to school every day with the promise of clean and empty bike racks.”

BY taYLor HiCkox@redandblack

Anyone who watched this years Gerogia football videos, such as “Hometown” and “The Georgia Way” on Facebook or at the games knows the immense amount of creativity and passion that goes into each one.

Frank Martin, a sophomore mass media arts major from Atlanta, is the innovative mind behind each video.

Employed by the athletic depart-ment, Martin works specifically for the video department. His job is to create inspirational and motivational vid-eos every week that pump up players, coaches, high school recruits, students and fans alike.

Martin began his film making ca-reer at UGA as a volunteer during his freshman year, working his way up to joining the payroll for second semester.

The start of video career

When Martin was in fifth grade, he and some of his friends attended a football camp with head coach Mark Richt and watched some of the videos that the UGA players watched. This sparked his initial desire to create film.

Martin and his friends talked about these videos and eventually discussed creating a film together in high school.

“Since I could remember, since I was like five,” Martin said, “[I had] lit-tle clay-mation things, like Wallace and Gromit type stuff. I would just do that for fun.”

He has always enjoyed sports and videos. He played football as a kid, but admits that it wasn’t his calling.

“I was ready to try something dif-ferent, but still stay involved,” Martin said.

At one of their high school games, the players watched a video before taking the field that impressed Mar-tin. Video making had always intrigued him, and he weighed the possibility of making videos on his own.

“The program there really opened up and allowed me to start making vid-eos for the high school team,” Martin said. “I got one of my buddies to work with me, Grayson Holt, who also goes

to school here, and Aneek James, he also is a student here at UGA now, and we all came together. Aneek did our narration, he still does a lot of our nar-ration.”

James met Martin through Holt.“I helped Frank with an extra cred-

it film project for his English class by acting in it for a scene,” James said. “When the video was played, people responded pretty strongly to my voice, so, when [Frank and Grayson] had the idea of doing a narration for their hype video, they approached me.”

James said that the video became quite popular in their school, so he kept narrating Martin’s videos throughout high school.

The three friends made videos to-gether in high school for every Friday night game. Over the years they have still maintained their friendship in col-lege.

Martin and his friends even cre-ated a video club at school which still makes sports videos today.

“We had a wonderful communi-ty supporting behind it,” Martin said. “The football team really embraced the idea.”

Choosing Georgia

Martin said receiving the video po-sition was not a rigorous process.

“It was actually a lot of luck,” Mar-tin said. “When it came time to look at colleges, I was looking to kind of maybe continue that sort of work.”

Both of Martin’s parents went to UGA and he has therefore always been a spirited Dawgs fan.

“I had basically been born and bred a Bulldog fan,” he said.

Martin toured Alabama and Flor-ida State, both of which have impres-sive film schools. Alabama was design-ing a new school and Florida State’s was one of the top in the nation at the time.

“I came to Georgia and just fell in love with the community and the peo-ple there,” Martin said.

Making Videos at UGA

“I shoot about 90, 95 percent of

what I use per video,” Martin said. “I try to use as much of my video as I can.”

Since Martin is on staff with the football team, he goes to every game, home and away, and stands on the sideline to shoot pictures and video clips.

“When I got here, I was using most of my own equipment,” Martin said.

The department at UGA is get-ting new equipment each year to en-hance video production. It partners with IMG, a company that gives UGA technology, social media support and its own picture and video content from games that Martin sometimes uses in his videos.

“They’ve got a lot of great footage that we pull from, too,” Martin said.

Martin helps out with recruitment and Instagram campaigns through do-ing photo shoots in addition to filming. During his time here he also has made videos for other organizations, such as the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority.

In terms of football videos, Martin shoots the pictures and video clips, writes the scripts, chooses the accom-panying music and finds the narrators

all on his own. He has been asked to create a video for every home game this season.

“My bosses are wonderful,” Martin said. “They give me a lot of free reign over what I can do and they’re so help-ful, helping me on day-to-day stuff too.”

It takes a lot of people to make a great video.

“It’s really like a huge group effort when it comes to the footage and all that,” Martin said. “I get a bunch of areas to pull from and a lot of creative reign.”

The process is continuous and Martin is thinking videos even in the off-season. Martin did not give a time frame on each video, but said it was time consuming.

“The most astounding thing about Frank is his work ethic,” James said. “He continually gets better at editing and filming. Both Frank and Grayson were doing crazy impressive videos in high school, higher quality than any-one expected of them. But they always asked themselves how they could take it to the next level.”

Filmmaker pumps up UGA fans

As part of the video department, Frank Martin is the student creating the many inspirational football videos released over this fall season. Courtesy Frank Martin

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Scattered groups of students hunch together in a room in the Tate Student Center, excitedly planning and swapping contact information. They range from graduate students to undergrads, landscape architec-ture majors to art students.

They’ve all come together to form three to six per-son groups for the common cause of building a new Driftmier Woods shelter for the goats stationed at Tanyard Creek.

“I think it’ll be a good challenge for sure,” said James Anderson, a first year historic preservation graduate student from Macon.

The competition, dubbed the House the Herd, Student Design Challenge, is straight-forward yet ambitious. The project requires students to build a movable shelter to accommodate up to 12 goats and a wealth of tools, but students are also encouraged to consider practicality, environmental effects and cre-ative design in their work.

As a result of these wide ranging parameters, the competition is interdisciplinary, bringing together a variety of students.

“It’s about sustainability and how it involves different schools, so it makes you meet more people apart from your department,” said Vineet Date, a sec-ond year historic preservation graduate student.

This focus on interdisciplinary work was present from the beginning, with several student groups, in-

cluding the Society of Environmental Engineers, the Society for Conservation Biology and the United States Green Building Council Students, collaborat-ing to create the competition.

“People from different disciplines think in differ-ent manners, and they bring up points that maybe someone from engineering wouldn’t think of,” said Mike McCord, a fourth year interdisciplinary stud-ies major from Peachtree City who aided in the proj-ect’s formation with the Green Building Council and the Office of Sustainability. “So it’s very important to have people from different backgrounds involved, even ones that aren’t normally associated with engi-neers.”

The competition is funded by a grant from the Ford Motor Company, secured by the Society for Con-servation Biology. The grant, the 2014 Ford College Community Challenge, has made for three prizes of $1,000, $500 and $250.

The winning design will be constructed in the Driftmier Woods in the spring. The goats, run at UGA by a student group call the Chew Crew, are used for ur-ban prescribed grazing, a practice used to rid difficult -to-manage areas of invasive species such as kudzu.

The process has not been used extensively in the Southeast, putting the Chew Crew at the forefront of the movement in the region. This creates for neces-sary experimentation in the projects.

“We’re asking for a very specific kind of building,” said Eric MacDonald, faculty advisor for the Chew Crew and a professor in the College of Environment and Design. “It might not be the sort of thing that an engineering or landscape [architecture] student would know exactly how to build. So it kind of re-quires some collaboration.”

The Chew Crew has been working with the goats at UGA since 2012. In the past year, interest was ex-pressed in bring the project to the Driftmier Woods. However, the 10-acre area requires a different shelter than the one used at Tanyard Creek.

“We have no idea what it’s going to be. It’ll depend on what the students come up with and what the jury decides in terms of winning design,” MacDonald said.

The teams cannot be composed of students from all one discipline, and all majors are encouraged to ap-ply by the Nov. 11 deadline. While design is the com-petition’s focus, MacDonald feels that different view-points and skill sets will help prepare students for a work environment.

“Many of them, even if they’re going into design or an engineering field, that’s what they’re going to have to do in practice, collaborate with people of different fields and backgrounds,” MacDonald said.

The designs will be showcased in a science fair-like convention early on in the next semester and will be open to the public. Winners will be announced, but the public will also be able to view all of the students’ works and vote for a community choice award.

“What is unique or different about this one is that it’s mostly student run and developed,” MacDonald said. “They’re the ones who set up the parameters of the competition and they’re essentially running it in-stead of someone doing it for them.”

Students of all majors are encouraged to sign up for an interdisciplinary competition to help create a new shelter for UGA’s Chew Crew. John roark/Staff

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Writing a 1,000 word paper in a week is challenging for most students, but imagine the daunting task of writ-ing 50,000 words in one month. Instead of “No-Shave November,” writers cele-brate this month as the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).

Over 400,000 aspiring novelists from around the globe will participate in NaNoWriMo this year in an effort to create a novel in 30 days. The required pace comes down to writing around 1,667 words a day.

Even to the most experienced writ-ers, this event presents many bumps and challenges along the way.

“It’s like when you’re going up the first hill on a roller coaster. You can see that peak coming and you think ‘Why did I even get on this?’” said Lucy Ralston, municipal liaison for NaNoW-riMo and waitress at The Grit. “The secret is to remind yourself that you’re really going to enjoy the bit after the crest of that hill.”

Many writers agree with Ralston in this aspect.

“The hardest part is definitely the middle of the month when the moti-vation just drops dead,” said Jennifer Fishburn, municipal liaison for NaNoW-riMo. “It’s not you don’t know what to write, it’s more you don’t know what to write next.”

For those who may think NaNoW-riMo is not for them, think again, because there are many great reasons to participate in this event.

Dozens of great and successful books have been created as a result of NaNoWriMo. Some include the New York Times Bestseller “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen, New York Times Bestseller “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern and “Lock In” by Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi.

Many believe the best part about this event is simply writing the novel including the development of charac-ters, a plot and story line.

“I think it would be really awesome to actually have a complete novel with me that I can say I wrote,” said Isa-bel Hinsch, a landscape architecture major.

While 1,667 words per day account for an average-sized novel, most writ-ers can type 1,000 words in an hour.

“It’s really just an hour a day of work on something you love,” Ralston said. “It’s like creating something no one has ever seen before.”

This month-long event gives writ-ers the encouragement to devote the time to create a literary work.

“Once you start writing, it’s amaz-

ing and you don’t want to stop,” said Kerry McNair, a freshman anthropolo-gy and pre-med major at the University of Georgia.

When asked what the best part about NaNoWriMo is, she stated finish-ing was the most rewarding.

Even if you feel it is too late to join the month-long marathon, don’t be discouraged. With most of November left, there is plenty of time to join the hundreds of thousands of writers from around the world.

“There are some serious over-achievers out there,” Ralston said. “There is a subset of people online who try to write the whole 50,000 word novel in one day.”

While writing that much in one day is seemingly insane, doing a little bit each day is a great way to express yourself.

“I mostly did it so I could avoid math homework, because I hate math,” McNair said.

This year, there are more reasons for UGA students to participate in NaNoWriMo. The entire city of Athens is planning on battling Tallahassee, Florida. in a word sprint to see which city gets more words by the end of the month.

There is a possibility the Uni-versity will accept English professor Sujata Iyengar’s request to teach a class based on NaNoWriMo in fall 2015. There is no official class yet, but Iyengar said she will know by July.

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BY CONNOR RILEY@Kconnorriley

Throughout head coach Mark Richt’s 14 years at Georgia, his teams have all had a common goal of winning the Southeastern Conference East and play-ing in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta. This year was no different.

But after No. 20 Georgia’s 38-20 loss to Florida on Saturday, the Bulldogs no longer control their path to Atlanta. If the Bulldogs are to represent the SEC East in the title game, they must beat Kentucky and No. 3 Auburn, and the Missouri Tigers must also lose one of their final three SEC contests.

Following the loss, most Georgia players were stunned. But they know that for now it just needs to refocus for its game against Kentucky on Saturday.

“[The SEC East] is not the ultimate goal at this moment,” defensive tackle Mike Thornton said. “The goal is just to win each game each week.”

The defense in particular must quickly recover from last Saturday’s loss. Georgia gave up 418 rush-ing yards, the second most in school history, and 38 points to a Florida offense that only threw the ball six times.

Coming into the game, Georgia had the second best run defense in the SEC, giving up just more than 100 yards per game. In the four games leading up to Florida, the team had given up 425 rushing yards.

Despite the poor showing against the Gators, the team is still in high spirits regarding their ability and potential. Before the Florida game, Georgia shutout Missouri and held Arkansas to six points in the first half.

Regarding Florida, senior linebacker Ramik Wil-son chalked the showing up to a lack of effort.

“I guess we just got too comfortable,” Wilson said. “They came ready to play and we didn’t exe-cute.”

On Monday, those made available to the media had moved on from Florida and looked ahead to Ken-tucky. The Wildcats are a different offense than what the Gators showed, as Kentucky averages 35 pass attempts per game.

For this game, it won’t matter how well the Kentucky offense plays but which defense shows up,

according to senior defensive back Damian Swann.“We know how good we can be,” Swann said. “We

know what kind of football we can play and we got to go play every week and every down.”

While the Wildcats have lost their last three games, members of the team and Richt cited their close game against No. 1 Mississippi State as a rea-son to not look past them. Under Richt, Georgia’s only loss once in Lexington, Kentucky, came in 2006 but three of the last four contests at Kentucky have been one-score games.

“We have to stay together because the games are only going to get tougher,” Wilson said. “We have to stay positive and keep getting better.”

This is the not the first time that Georgia has needed help to make it to Atlanta. In both 2011 and 2012, Georgia lost to South Carolina and needed the Gamecocks to lose at least twice for the Bulldogs to make it to Atlanta. Fortunately for those years, South Carolina lost multiple games while Georgia was able to win out.

If Georgia is going to make it back to Atlanta, it first needs to beat Kentucky on Saturday before scoreboard watching.

“We know how to lose and we know how to re-group,” Swann said. “We just got to go prepare.”

The Georgia football team lost to Florida for the first time in four years last Saturday and now no longer controls its own destiny in the SEC East. jOshua L. jONEs/Staff

In his junior season, 2016 recruit Jacob Eason has thrown for 2,264 yards, 26 touchdowns and one interception. Courtesy Tony Eason

Georgia first learned about the Todd Gurley allegations on Oct. 7 from an email to the compliance office. jOshua L. jONEs/Staff

Far from home: 5-star recruit ventures southBY ROBBIE DuNN

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Lake Stevens High School in Washington state seems like any other high school in the country. It has a library, an an-nual yearbook and a football stadium that’s filled on Friday nights. However, this is a sta-dium where scouts and fans have come to watch one player in particular.

That player is quarterback Jacob Eason, who is 16 years old and is the No. 2 pro-style quarterback prospect for the class of 2016, according to 247sports.com’s composite rating. Though he is only a ju-nior in high school, Eason has shown what he’s capable of, and was offered a scholarship from many top universities across the nation, including Alabama, Florida State and Washington, among others. With 2,264 passing yards and a 26 touchdowns to just one interception, according to maxpreps.com, it’s easy to un-derstand why he is so coveted.

After receiving offers, Eason took a nationwide tour over the summer, traveling to the University of Washington, Notre Dame, Alabama and Florida State before finally reaching Athens. In mid-July, he participated in the annual Dawg Night camp and amazed all who watched, including of-fensive coordinator Mike Bobo and head coach Mark Richt.

Not long after, Eason ver-bally committed to the Bull-dogs, making the announce-ment on his Twitter July 19 — an unquestionably huge pickup for Georgia’s program.

The arm strength of Eason has many people comparing him to a former Bulldog quar-terback and No. 1 overall NFL Draft pick Matthew Stafford. Drawing comparisons to a professional for a 16-year-old could seem a little daunting, but Eason has handled all the pressure thus far.

“It’s awesome to be com-pared to guys like that, but I just put it in my perspective,” Eason said. “I haven’t proven anything really yet. Yeah I committed to Georgia but I’m still just a high school kid who committed.”

Although he claims he hasn’t proved anything yet, the coaching staff at Georgia would disagree. Eason has al-ready made a difference on the

future of the football program, acting as an unofficial recruit-er, and doing whatever he can to bring top players to Athens with him.

“You know, once I com-mitted I wanted to get the best class possible so I could have a good college career,” Eason said. “Some of those guys committed, I talked to a bunch of them. I sent them all texts … Part of it might be because of me, but a lot of it’s just because coach Richt is a great guy and coach Bobo’s offense and the Georgia atmo-sphere.”

Although Eason is one of

the top prospects in the class of 2016, it is still a bit unusual for a player from Washington to come play in Athens. Lake Stevens is over 2,700 miles away, quite a long travel for a new home.

Eason’s father, Tony, has first-hand experience with moving to play college foot-ball. Tony received a schol-arship from Notre Dame as a receiver in the mid-1980s, and recalls the difficulties of trav-eling back and forth from his home in Washington to Notre Dame.

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BY CODY PaCE@CodyPace

The more than two-week ordeal surrounding the Todd Gurley suspension for accepting more than $3,000 for autographs over multiple years began with an email to the University.

“Tuesday night [Oct. 7] there was an email received to our compliance office … from an individual,” Georgia athlet-ic director Greg McGarity said. “We saw the video … Things started after that.”

The video in question is one that allegedly shows Gur-ley signing autographs in the car of a man whom McGarity would not identify. The email came from an unidentified individual after an exchange of multiple emails between the individual and Georgia compliance. The video evidence that McGarity then received was described as “bothersome.”

From that point the investigation began and Georgia was able to identify who the second man in the car was.

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Bulldogs form run-first identityBy NICK SUSS

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Having an identity is one thing. Being forced into an identity is another.

That is precisely the line on which the Georgia football team has walked eight games into the 2014 season. Run-ning the football is Georgia’s identity. Everyone from head coach Mark Richt to quarterback Hutson Mason to the backs and receivers have acknowledged this offense is built upon a run-first, pass-second philosophy.

In wide receiver Michael Bennett’s opinion, this isn’t something the pass-ing game is doing wrong. Rather, this re-sults from what the running game does right.

“We’ve just been running the ball and running it really well,” Bennett said. “It doesn’t come down to we’re not getting it done. Sure, we’re not perfect, but I think the running game is just re-ally carrying us right now and we’re fine with that.”

As of the loss to Florida, Bennett leads the Bulldogs in receptions. Senior Chris Conley is second on the team in receptions with 22 and the team’s lead-er in receiving yards with 385. After that tandem, however, is where the receiving numbers begin to look bleak.

By receptions, the third-leading re-ceiver on the Georgia Bulldogs is junior Malcolm Mitchell. Though Mitchell’s 15 catches don’t inspire awe on their own, the fact that he sits third on the team in receptions rings less impressive with Mitchell having played in only four of

Georgia’s games.Coming into the season, the re-

ceiving corps was expected to be one of Georgia’s greatest strengths. This simply has not come to fruition through eight games, in which Georgia’s passing numbers are markedly down from 2012 and 2013 despite the return of much of the team’s receiving talent. In 2012, Georgia’s quarterbacks averaged 9.23 yards per attempt through eight games. In 2013, that number fell slightly to 8.92 yards per attempt. In 2014, that statis-tic dropped well further down to just 7.41 yards per attempt.

Though the Bulldogs have repeat-edly contended that there is no use in making excuses about the lack of pro-duction in the passing game, Mason said it is hard sometimes not to make excuses given the injuries and suspen-sions the team has endured.

“Sometimes it just kind of seems like that’s the way it just kind of goes,” Mason said. “It seems like for the past two or three years here, we get decimat-ed by injuries. But that’s something you can’t control and it’s certainly not going to change my attitude on the season.”

Attitudes aside, the passing projec-tions for the rest of Georgia’s season un-derwhelm compared to 2012 and 2013. Assuming Georgia plays a 13-game sea-son as they did in 2013, the Bulldogs should be expected to gain 2,467 yards on 223 completions. That does not com-pare favorably to the 2013 mark of 4,085 yards on 293 completions.

No one expected Mason to be able

to complete passes like four-year start-er Aaron Murray did when he racked up statistics at a pace good enough to set multiple Southeastern Conference passing records. However, Mason has dipped into a territory where his num-bers compare so little to Murray’s that he has now fallen into the company of Murray’s predecessor: 2009 Georgia quarterback Joe Cox.

Through eight games in 2009, Geor-gia’s offense amassed 7.33 yards per at-tempt, a number within 0.8 yards of the mark that Mason and the rest of Geor-gia’s quarterbacks are putting up this season. The 2009 Bulldogs did experi-ence a slight uptick in their last handful of games up to 7.6 yards per attempt but that number is still nothing com-pared to Murray’s production.

The 2009 Bulldogs, however, did not have the production in the run-ning game that 2014 Georgia has. Even

without tailback Todd Gurley, Georgia is still rushing the ball at a rate of 5.98 yards per carry, a rate that has been good enough to propel the Georgia of-fense past mediocrity into an above-av-erage level.

Many of Georgia’s players acknowl-edged that the plan for Georgia moving forward is more of the same, as tailback Nick Chubb should be expected to car-ry 25 or 30 times against Kentucky and he and Gurley will likely combine for that total when Gurley returns.

Richt, however, doesn’t necessarily believe this will be the case. Richt said running is Georgia’s identity. He doesn’t deny that. But he also said he doesn’t believe the identity can’t change.

“That became more of our identity this year, and I’m not saying that’s go-ing to remain our identity in the future,” Richt said.

Georgia wide receiver Chris Conley (31) is second on the team in receptions with 22 and leads the team in receiving yards with 385. joShUa l. joNeS/Staff

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“For me it was a pain because I would usually fly into Denver and then catch another flight to Chicago, and then a two-and-a-half hour bus ride to South Bend,” Tony Eason said. “In today’s age, when I look at Ja-cob in Athens, it’s actu-ally a direct flight from SeaTac [Seattle-Tacoma International Airport] to Atlanta.”

Having a father who went through the recruiting process was certainly a help to Jacob. Although Tony admitted that Jacob is a much big-ger recruit than he was and had offers to play for almost anyone in the country, there is always some way to help.

Tony’s fatherly in-stincts took over as he helped look up statis-tics and various pieces of information about programs, such as the type of offense they run and their history with quarterbacks, which ap-peared to be a big factor in Jacob’s decision.

“You can look at Georgia and what they did with Stafford, and that’s one of the things that Bobo talked about,”

Tony said. “He flew across the country be-cause of Jacob’s arm, and he’s got that Staf-ford-like arm, and that made an impact on Ja-cob.”

The relationship be-tween Bobo and Jacob Eason is very close, with Bobo making two trips to Lake Stevens, show-ing how much he wanted Jacob to be a part of this team.

A selling point that Bobo made was about the recent signal-callers and what they accom-plished.

Stafford and Aaron Murray, who went on to break several Southeast-ern Conference records, such as passing yards and touchdown passes topped the list.

“The track record they have, Stafford being a first-round pick and Murray being a great college quarterback and going onto the Chiefs, they’ve had some great quarterbacks come out of there, they worked with them,” Jacob said. “That’s another thing I looked at. Having a first-round draft pick a couple years ago was a pretty big factor.”

Aside from the re-

lationships with Bobo and Richt, Jacob Eason spoke of how Georgia gave him a good feeling, and he instantly loved the place.

“I just wanted to go to a place that was the best fit for my playing style, the atmosphere, the place, the people there, the coaching staff,” Jacob said. “Geor-gia just fit and exceeded in all those things I liked. Who cares if it’s far away. It’s the place I want to go, and I found the right place, and Georgia is the right place.”

Although Jacob is a West Coast kid, Tony Ea-son joked about how well he should fit in here.

“He’s kind of got a little bit of a country thing in him,” Tony said. “He’s got a country side. He likes country mu-sic and wants to drive a truck. Georgia has more of a country feel to it than some of these city schools after him, and that’s really appealing to him.”

One of the biggest aspects of coming to Georgia was the fan base and how much passion the area cares for foot-ball. Tony Eason talked of a time when they went to a Stanford game, and there must have been 15,000 empty seats, which blew Jacob’s mind.

He also mentioned one of Jacob’s best friends from pee-wee football, who ended up quitting before the high school level and Jacob couldn’t figure out why someone would stop playing the game.

The love for football is immense in Athens, but Tony was quick to point out that football isn’t around your whole life and can often end quickly.

The academics at the University were cer-tainly a factor as well.

“I think it’s my job as a dad and with my wife, we are trying to keep him humble, and keep things in perspective,” Tony Ea-son said. “The next play could be your last play in football, that’s just the way it is. So you have to look at other things. What are you going to do after football? What do you want to be if football did end?”

Barring injuries, Ja-cob appears set to step into the spotlight and show what he can do.

“It’s kind of like the Gladiator movie,” Tony said. “The gladiators want to go to the arena and get to the big show, and that’s what Georgia is for him, getting to the big show.”

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BY SAMMY O’BRIEN@sobrien92

These days, Georgia volleyball head coach Liz-zy Stemke spends most of her time at the Ramsey Center gym on the Uni-versity of Georgia’s East Campus.

The Ramsey gym rep-resents a job, a volleyball culture and her family.

But before her days as Georgia’s head coach, before her career in France, Puerto Rico or with the U.S. National team, even before her college days at Wisconsin as a captain on an NCAA Tournament squad, Stemke found her love of volleyball in her first gym — Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“I played because my older sister did, and my dad was a coach, so we grew up around gyms and fields, with a ball,” Stem-ke said. “At that age, I wanted to emulate a lot of what she was doing.”

Stemke’s father, Billy Fitzgerald, coached the famous Manning brothers on the basketball court and the baseball dia-mond, but Lizzy Stemke was drawn to a different court — that of her older sister Meg. As Stemke grew older, she worked with her best friend to help manage her older sister’s team and assist with shagging volleyballs at games and practices.

Stemke said she grew up watching the game through her sister and naturally fell in love with the sport. Evident-ly, Stemke was a pretty good player herself and found home in a new gym at the University of Wisconsin. With the full support of her parents, Stemke left Louisiana for Madison, Wisconsin, to a Badger volleyball team on the rise in the national scene. She believed in the coaches’ mission, and even though the head coach left after Stemke’s freshman year (to Nebraska), the team persevered.

“I think we were suc-cessful because we were a great team,” Stemke said. “We played because we wanted to get Wisconsin to a place they had never been before.”

And so they did. In 2000, Stemke’s junior year, she helped captain her Badger squad to Wis-consin’s first ever NCAA Final Four. Stemke said the team was unselfish and tough. She recalls a number of obstacles the team overcame in re-gionals in order to move on including teammates with dislocated shoul-ders, sprained ankles and multiple girls with the flu.

Stemke earned captain both her junior and senior years and took Wisconsin the furthest it ever went, until just this past season when the

Badger team also made it to the Final Four.

After college, Stemke spent three years in yet another gym. Only this time, the letters U.S.A. hung in the rafters. She made the U.S. National team and represented her country while traveling the world playing volley-ball.

“Obviously playing for your country is pretty amazing,” said Stemke with a hint of pride. “You are training with U.S.A. on your back everyday. That’s a very special feeling.”

Stemke said she had awesome experiences and made life-long friends.

Following the na-tional team gym, Stemke turned to gyms in other countries — first in Puer-to Rico, then France.

“Both of those leagues were very eye-opening because in those areas you are the foreigner, the one thats different,” Stemke said. “It taught me some great lessons on how to relate to different people from different experiences.”

Stemke earned cap-tain on both professional league teams. She said Puerto Rico’s season was more relaxed because it consisted of fewer games than France, so free time was spent on the beach. The French league was more intense with only a few games a week, but plenty of practices

and travel throughout Europe.

By the end her time in of the French league, Stemke knew the time was coming to start a family in the states. She married her college sweetheart and needed a more stable life for the both of them.

Before accepting her first head coaching job at Georgia, Stemke spent time in other gyms assistant coaching. She coached at the University of Central Florida, helped her older sister at the University of North Car-olina and finally coached at Nebraska under her first coach from college. Stemke believed she was fortunate in all the coach-ing opportunities that she landed because she was under great mentors.

Stemke’s current gym, Ramsey Student Center, starts a new chapter of her life. It is not only her first head coaching job, but also the place where she decided to start a family, now with a little girl and newborn boy.

“I feel very much at home here in Athens,” Stemke said. “It isn’t a place that’s just a job. It’s a home. My whole family feels that way.”

Stemke said a lot of factors went into choos-ing Georgia, but above all, Athens had the whole package. It was an ideal spot to raise her family,

the SEC was a selling point and Athens was something she could sell to the best volleyball players in the country.

“I wanted to make sure that where I was go-ing to lead a program was going to be some place I believed in myself,” said Stemke.

Since Stemke’s arriv-al in 2010, the Bulldogs’ record has improved each season, including last year when Geor-gia reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2004. Because of Stemke’s history as a player, the trust level ris-es with her Bulldog team. Redshirt senior Jasmine Eatmon said it’s amazing that Stemke was a player because she knows what happens on and off the court and can help with it.

Though this year’s team falls just below .500 on the season, Stem-ke believes building a culture takes time. She believes the support in the athletic association is there, as well as within her players and staff.

“We do have the ingredients to be talking about top three in the SEC, winning the SEC, making it to the tour-nament,” Stemke said. “Thats a regular expecta-tion, making it further in the tournament, into the sweet 16, the Final Four. These are not impossible dreams at UGA.”

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At that point Gurley was appointed attorney William King — who also represented Georgia swimming coach Jack Bauerle in his case with the NCAA and was with Gurley the first time the University approached him.

Georgia was able to gather information quickly and the entire institutional investigation was completed just two days later on Oct. 9 — the same day that the news broke and Georgia had suspended Gurley indefinitely.

McGarity added that the second individual in the car, whom Georgia’s legal counsel contact-ed, provided the money figures that were report-ed in the NCAA’s findings beyond the originally reported $400. Gurley admitted to that informa-tion, expediting the process.

“Our investigation was over on the 9th so we were able to gather information in a hurry,” McGarity said. “That information was gathered, was verified and Todd acknowledged it.”

What happened after that was a bit miscon-strued. The perception was that Georgia had to file for reinstatement for Gurley, which was only fueled by an NCAA tweet on Oct. 16 that said it was “awaiting the school’s request for reinstate-ment.”

McGarity clarified that the tweet was in re-gards to a comment from head coach Mark Richt that the school expected a decision on Gurley before Arkansas.

The reality was that the University and the NCAA were waiting on Gurley and King to fill out the necessary paperwork in order for rein-statement to occur.

“That’s Todd and William,” McGarity said. “It’s a complex deal, here. It’s not just you have a piece of paper, ‘Here, you fill in the blanks.’ … It just took time for them to get, for them to review that process.”

When that paperwork was filed, Georgia had the intention all along that it would appeal any suspension longer than the two games Gurley had already sat out and understood that the NCAA rulebook dictated a suspension for 30 per-cent of the season, which amounted to the four games Gurley received.

“You know what the rule book states about … 30 percent for a certain amount of money,” McGarity said. “We always knew that was in play. We were hoping maybe some of the miti-gating circumstances as far as honesty, the way the institution conducted the case, would help mitigate that.”

The situation is now over for Gurley, who can return to play against Auburn after serving the final game of his suspension on Saturday. Gurley is eligible for the NFL Draft following this season but had intended to apply for reinstatement all along.

The incident may only be beginning for the accusers.

McGarity confirmed earlier reports that Georgia could pursue legal action against them, and McGarity confirmed on Tuesday that the school would indeed look into those options.

“I think the University is looking at all those options,” McGarity said. “I think that’s definitely some opportunities there and I think the Univer-sity will certainly discuss that and review that process, absolutely.”

Georgia volleyball head coach Lizzy Stemke is in her fourth season with the Bulldogs and is coming off a season where she led the Bulldogs to the NCAA tournmanent for the first time since 2004. FIlE/Staff

The internal investiagtion that Georgia conduct-ed on Todd Gurley’s status finished the day the team announced his suspension. ERIN O. SMIth/Staff

Volleyball coaches’ long journey lands her in Athens

Gurley: Tailback always intended to return to team

B4 Sports Thursday, November 6, 2014 The Red & Black

BY TAYLOR DENMAN@t_d_denman

The Georgia men’s basketball team held an open practice for stu-dents on Tuesday in Stegeman Coli-seum, but the event wasn’t all about basketball.

“I follow the basketball account on twitter,” said junior economics major Thomas Wilczweski. “I thought, ‘Oh, free T-shirts, pizza and basketball.’”

A solid turnout of students came to the practice where the first 1,000 fans got a free slice of pizza and a T-shirt as they watched the Bulldogs scrimmage.

Wilczweski said he didn’t need the perks to watch the Bulldogs go to work.

“I think it’s great because I love watching practices and stuff but it’s always a closed practice,” Wilczweski said. “It’s always good to watch the players outside the game so that’s really cool.”

Preseason promotions are not at all of the ordinary for Bulldogs head coach Mark Fox. In the past Georgia has thrown an annual Basketbash that was closer to a carnival than an open practice, with the free prizes and halftime acts.

This practice wasn’t at the same level, but announcers got on the P.A. system from time-to-time to make the scrimmage feel more like a game.

Southeastern Conference schools promote their teams to their stu-dents in a number of ways, from Bruce Pearl’s body paint and mid-class pep rallies to Mark Fox’s spike squad stunt. Fox hasn’t painted up this season, but Georgia is putting some effort to spread the word about basketball on campus.

Joseph Bibik, a freshman finance major from Cumming, said he heard about the event in his dorm and spread the word to his friends.

“I told [my friends] about [the practice],” Bibik said. “I got an email and they stand outside Creswell and hand out flyers.”

Fellow freshman and pre-journal-ism major Gracie Thompson said she plans on attending a few basketball

games this year through a class that gives her credit for attending games.

“I’m taking a basketball class so if I go to a game it counts as an event or activity that we have to have done,” Thompson said.

Fox and the Bulldogs can build up plenty of preseason hype, but wins are the best way to attract big crowds this season.

Wilczweski said he has followed the Bulldogs for all three of his years at Georgia, and he thinks the Bull-dogs could have a bright future and tournament hopes ahead of them.

“I am probably way more optimis-tic than most people,” Wilczweski said. “We didn’t do hot at the begin-ning of last year and we stormed to second place in the SEC. We have Kenny [Gaines] and Charles [Mann] coming back and Nemi [Djurisic] is still here so I’m pretty excited.”

Georgia has a couple of open spots in the starting five, after Donte Wil-liams graduated last year and Bran-don Morris was dismissed from the team this summer.

Wilczweski said the Bulldogs need some height in the starting five, sim-ilar to the powerful 6-foot-11 John Florveus, who graduated in 2013.

“We need a big guy to step up,” Wil-czweski said. “I remember my fresh-man year we had [John] Florveus and he was really good. Cam Forte was a transfer last year so maybe he can step up this year and get into that starting lineup and get some work.”

However hazy the future is at this point for Georgia basketball, coach-es have already been lobbying to see five or six teams from the SEC in the NCAA Tournament this season.

Wilczweski said Georgia’s tour-nament hopes are realistic, and he looks to see the Bulldogs surprise the league if they can still play in March.

“This is I think our best shot in my four years to get to the tournament,” Wilczweski said. “Definitely past the first round [of the NCAA Tourna-ment]. We haven’t been in a couple years so that will be a step up, but I think they have a lot of potential.”

BY CODY PACE@CodyPace

The College Football Playoff Committee is useless.

Just two weeks to its meaningless mock rank-ings that actually mean something — it’s now the official ranking system over the Associated Press — and the commit-tee has already proven itself no better than the BCS.

Those that follow college football were promised a plethora of benefits of these rank-ings over what the BCS had to offer.

Strength of schedule was supposed to matter and, regardless of other polls, the best teams in the country would be atop this ranking.

With 12 specifically-se-lected minds in charge of the operation, how could they possibly get it wrong?

Ha.It took exactly two

weeks to prove that the committee is no more qualified to pick teams than a computer.

For proof, just scope out the top 10. Notice anything wrong?

Probably not on first glance, but allow your eyes to scroll down one more team, to the No. 11 spot.

That’s where the Ole Miss Rebels fell to after losing to Auburn.

Sure, sitting at No. 11 is solid for a two-loss team, but when consid-ering the resume of the Rebels, how could 12 people possibly agree that this is the No. 11 team in the country?

This is the same Ole Miss team that was ranked No. 3 last week in the same exact college football playoff poll.

It lost to the No. 4

team in the country, not an unranked team. So if the committee believed that its rankings the week before were cor-rect, how can two teams separated by so little space in the rankings result in one of those teams falling seven spots in a four-point loss de-cided by a fumble on the one yard line because of a broken leg?

Maybe Ole Miss players should practice holding on to the foot-ball with their legs bent in half next time.

As illogical as the drop itself is, looking at the teams above the Rebels makes less sense.

First is No. 5 Alabama, a team that, for the re-cord, lost to the Rebels.

It’s not like the com-mittee outlined head-to-head as one of its important considering factors in deciding where to place teams — Oh wait, yes it did.

A case could be made to put Ole Miss below the Crimson Tide be-cause of the close margin of victory and the fact that Laquon Treadwell, one of the best receivers in the country, is out for the season.

But, when considering head-to-head, anyone considering Alabama six spots better than Ole Miss is criminal.

Then there’s that promise of strength of schedule.

Both of the Rebels’ losses have come to ranked teams. Its worst loss, to No. 16 LSU, came by three points on the road in the toughest stadium in the country to play in. LSU is a team that is regarded across the country as better than its ranking because of improvements made during the season.

No. 7 Kansas State

has just one win over a ranked team, a one-point victory over disappoint-ing No. 15 Oklahoma. No. 8 Michigan State has only one win over a ranked opponent, a five-point win over No. 13 Nebraska, and was blown out of the water by Oregon.

Then there’s the curi-ous case of No. 9 Arizona State, which lost to No. 18 UCLA and barely topped No. 17 Utah last Saturday and has no sig-nificant wins because of lackluster performances by USC and Stanford.

If strength of schedule and on-field performance actually mattered, none of those three teams have the resume to out-rank Ole Miss.

In what seems like an overt attempt to downplay SEC bias, the committee has already gone back on everything it promised it would do.

But don’t be mad that the playoff committee isn’t what it was promot-ed to be.

Don’t be mad that Ole Miss is ranked too low despite two good losses.

Don’t even be mad that the committee has blatantly lied about its apparent criteria (or lack thereof).

Be mad that the com-mittee lied because it knew it had the power to do so.

Be mad that the committee believed that college football fans, exhausted by BCS con-fusion and inconsistency, were vulnerable enough to believe anything.

Be mad that the committee thinks college football fans are stupid.

— Cody Pace is a junior from Adairsville

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The Red & Black Thursday, November 6, 2014 Showcase B5

has been the location for highs and lows for restaurateurs and businesses of all types over the years. Since March, J. Christopher’s, Cinco y Diez, The Pine and YO BO Cantina Fresca opened.

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J. Christopher’sis a chain that offers up breakfast and

lunch. J. Christopher’s hopes to draw stu-dents in through a “Greek Day” promo-tion and will soon accept Bulldog Bucks.

Not all restaurants found Five Points so favorable. Cinco y Diez, which offered Latin food closed its doors on Oct. 20 after opening in March.

Five Points Yo Bo Cantinais the restaurant’s second location after opening in Charleston, South Carolina. The restaurant hopes to bring in locals

and students, especially with competitor Cinco y Diez closing.

The Pineis located at the site of the former Aromas

Taverns. The restaurant offers Southern inspired, globally influenced cuisine that

owner Scott Parrish said was built around, “trying to be unique and do something

different.”

TOP: J. Christopher’s Strawberry Waffle and Eggs Christopher with turkey instead of Canadian bacon.

RIGHT: Yo Bo Cantina serves up four types of tacos, from right to left Diablo, Gringo, Mexican and Baja, all on flour tortillas.

BOTTOM: The Pines deviled eggs, wood-fired pizza (left) and a Southern Tier Warlock draft beer.BRayden ROBInSOn/Staff

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B6 Listings Thursday, November 6, 2014 The Red & Black

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7UGA Film: “North by Northwest”When: 3, 6, 9 p.m.Where: Tate Student CenterPrice: $2; $1 (students)For more: 706-542-6396 MUSIC KarBomb, The Murderburgers, Rational Anthem, SeagullsWhen: 9:30 p.m.Where: Caledonia LoungePrice: $5 (21+), $7 (18-20)For more: www.caledonialounge.com Mike Mantione, Fake Flowers, Ellen Meadows, Field DivisionWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Flicker Theatre & BarPrice: $5For more: www.flickertheatreandbar.com Aaron Behrens and The Midnight Stroll, Ranch GhostWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: $12For more: www.georgiatheatre.com

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8UGA Film: “Rear Window”When: 3, 6, 9 p.m.Where: Tate Student CenterPrice: $2; $1 (students)For more: 706-542-6396 Football at KentuckyWhen: 12 p.m.Where: Televised on ESPNFor more: 706-542-1231 MUSIC 10 Fingers Strong, Call Me Ishmael, Unsound ConditionWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Caledonia LoungePrice: $5 (21+), $7 (18-20)For more: www.caledonialounge.com

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West Broad Farmers MarketWhere: West Broad Market GardenWhen: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.Price: FreeFor more: www.athenslandtrust.org

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9UGA Film: “Vertigo”When: 3, 6, 9 p.m.Where: Tate Student CenterPrice: $2; $1 (students)For more: 706-542-6396 UGA Hockey vs. U.S. Armed ForcesWhen: 1:30 p.m.Where: The Classic CenterFor more: www.ugahockey.com Volleyball vs. ArkansasWhen: 2 p.m.Where: Ramsey Student CenterPrice: FreeFor more: 706-542-1621

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10MUSIC Vincas, TtotalsWhen: 9:30 p.m.Where: Caledonia LoungePrice: $5 (21+), $7 (18-20)For more: www.caledonialounge.com Programs, Stonerider, Velveteen PinkWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: FreeFor more: www.georgiatheatre.com The Tills, Nate & The Nightmares, Realistic Pillow, DJ Nate From Wuxtry, Charlie Megira and The Bet She’an

Valley Hillbillies, Lavender HolyfieldWhen: 10 p.m.Where: Go BarFor more: 706-546-5609

Seryn, ChambersWhen: 7:30 p.m.Where: The Melting PointPrice: $7 (adv.), $10 (door)For more: www.meltingpointathens.com

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11UGA Concert: UGA Wind EnsembleWhen: 8- 10 p.m.Where: Hugh Hodgson Concert HallPrice: $10, $5 (student)For more: 706-542-4752 MUSIC

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Gantt Jones, Mike Young, The Summer SonicsWhen: 10 p.m.Where: The World FamousPrice: $8For more: www.theworldfa-mousathens.com

Boys Who Rock For GirlsWhen: 8 p.m.Where: 40 Watt ClubPrice: $8For more: www.40watt.com

Big Star Third, The Glands, New Madrid, Ruby Rabbitfoot, BalcknerdninjaWhen: 4 p.m.Where: College SquarePrice: FreeFor more: www.arts.uga.edu

The New Mastersounds, The HeardWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: $12For more: www.georgiatheatre.com

Charlie and the Foxtrots, Dandy Line, Crying WolfWhen: 9:30 p.m.Where: Caledonia LoungePrice: $5 (21+), $7 (21+)For more: www.caledonialounge.com

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short 16 Every 17 Ripped 18 Pen name 20 Twelfth-graders: abbr. 21 Great __; very tall dog 22 Actress Burstyn 23 Bring together 25 Sheep’s cry 26 Not immaculate 28 Thin 31 Contaminate 32 Door handles 34 Sty resident 36 Group tubs 37 Contract with a landlord

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AnnouncementsDavid and Melva Provenano of North Charleston, SC proudly announce the engagement of their daughter, LTJG Kiley Dianna Provenzano, USN, to LT Kyle Rob-ert Stewart, USN, son of Rebecca and C. Alan Kelley of Kennesaw, GA and Mark and Sandra Stewart of Cedar Hill, TX. LTJG Provenzano is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and is currently stationed with the II Marine Expe-ditionary Force in Camp Lejeune, NC. LT Stewart is a graduate of the University of Georgia and is currently stationed at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, FL with He-licopter Maritime Strike Squadron 74. The couple plan to marry in May of 2015

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events MFA candidates present a fund-raising ceramic Cup Sale on the 2nd floor of Lamar Dodd School of Art Thursday the 13th 5-8pm as part of the Spotlight on the Arts.

Metals/Jewelry Students present the Holiday Jewelry Sale at Lamar Dodd School of Art on Dec. 1-2 and the Tate Center Atrium Dec. 3-4. Come buy some handmade jewelry!

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Sublease a room in a 3 bed/3 bath in The Woodlands! Decem-ber to July. Pools, gym, and more at complex. 350 a month plus utilities. Contact: katlynk@uga.edu

Needing Female Sublease for Spring or Summer(2015).1 BR/1 BA in the River Club apart-ments.3 female roommates.Fully furnished,Rent $350/ mo + Your share of Power Bill Email me oliv-ia1c@uga.edu

Subleasing room in a 2 bed/1 bath apartment behind Brumby Hall. Has washer, dryer, dishwash-er. Rent is $317.50 per month. Farah @ 404-563-1656

Looking for a female to sublease my room at the Lodge of Athens starting Jan 2015. $460 includes rent, water, and utilities. Shuttle to campus and downtown. Call 912-667-2155 if interested.

Sublease for the Spring in a 3 bedroom at The Ikon for $560 plus utilities. The home is fur-nished therefore you don’t need to bring your own furniture.Con-tact BriannaJ@uga.edu

Wanted: female student to sub-lease my bedroom/bathroom in a 2 bed/2 bath in River Club, available immediately or Spring semester through Summer! Rent is $445 plus electric! Furnished!

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Female sublease for Spring 2015. 3Br/3Ba Flats at Carrs Hill apartments--walking distance to campus! 3 Female roommates. Fully furnished. RENT+utilities $655/mo. Move in Dec. 20 contact: kmckeogh@uga.edu or 2143653828

Female sublease for Spring&-Summer 2015. 4Br/2Ba Lake-side Apartments. 3 female roommates. Fully furnished,util-ities,&cable, RENT $329/mo. Move in Dec. 15. (DECEMBER AND JANUARY RENT FREE) con-tact 7067170097

Female needed to sublease my room in downtown Athens condo. January through July, all utilities and parking included. Please contact me 706-202-3570

Male sublease for Spring 2015 in 2/bdrm townhome at River Mill. Fully furnished incl. W/D, water and cable for $529/mth. Great roommate! Please contact me at treeser1@uga.edu or 321-578-1058

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