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By ADINA SOLOMONTHE RED & BLACK

The Kappa Alpha fraternity house was burglarized Saturday morning — for the third time in a week.

An officer was dispatched to the house on 755 West Hancock Ave., where a fraternity member showed a “video of five white males entering the house through the kitchen doors and walking throughout the house,” according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report.

The suspects took a set of pool balls and two composite pictures of fraternity alumni.

Fraternity members found all the stolen items returned on their porch Sunday evening.

“I’m assuming it’s all just a prank,” Fraternity President Christopher Schatzman said. “It’s good to know all that stuff was returned.”

Schatzman said he thinks this burglary is unrelated to the previous ones, but ACC police are still going to investigate it.

It is believed that suspects entered

the house “by manipulating the latch at the kitchen door with either a credit card or some other object,” according to the report.

KA also had burglaries on Feb. 5 and Feb. 8, according to ACC Police reports.

The suspects entered the house through the kitchen door in the bur-glaries both on Feb. 8 and Saturday. The officer told the fraternity mem-ber to have “someone come put a plate over the latch to prevent this in the future,” according to the report for the Saturday burglary.

See HOUSE, Page 2

Fraternity reports third break-in

By AJ ARCHERTHE RED & BLACK

Students and teachers alike say they want the University’s wireless Internet to pick up the pace — and campus officials are responding to the problem.

Campus wireless Internet has been running at speeds as low as 1 megabit per second instead of the usual 12 to 15, according to tests on Speedtest.net, a website that mea-sures the speed of an Internet con-nection.

Brian Rivers, the Information Security Officer for Enterprise Information Technology Services, gave many possible reasons for the decrease in access speed through the University’s Personal Access Wireless/Walkup System, or PAWS.

“The cause of the recent network slowness is the substantive increase in demand over the past few months as compared to past growth,” Rivers said. “Much of this growth is due to increased utilization of online high-definition video, peer-to-peer file sharing and wireless usage.”

Both students and instructors have noticed problems and have expressed difficulties with the sys-tem.

“I noticed issues before the win-ter break and it seems to have not gotten any better,” said Stephen McCreery, a student assistant in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

The apparent slowness has caused issues in classrooms where professors rely on the Internet dur-ing their classes.

“I stream video online as part of the class I teach and from time-to-time, I cannot even do that,” McCreery said.

Students have also encountered

See PAWS, Page 2

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RACHEL BUNN | The Red & Black

Athens-Clarke County Police reported the Kappa Alpha fraternity house was burglarized for the third time this semester.

MELISSA HARWARD | The Red & Black

Senior Julia Stephens chats on Skype with her boyfriend Russell Hosie, who attends Georgia Tech. The couple used Skype frequently to stay connected when Stephens was abroad this summer in Spain.

KATHRYN INGALL | The Red & Black

The softball team won the Fourth Annual Red and Black Showcase at Jack Turner Stadium with five weekend victories to open the 2011 season.

By ASPEN SMITHTHE RED & BLACK

The saying is true — distance makes the heart grow fonder.

At least this holds true for long-distance couples that bridge miles and come face-to-face with one anoth-er with just the click of a button.

Many long-distance couples are relying on Internet instant messaging applications, such as Skype and iChat, to bring them closer, even though they are miles apart.

Julia Stephens, a senior majoring in romance languages and foreign lan-guage education, video chats via

Skype with her boy-friend Russell Hosie, who attends Georgia Tech.

Stephens met her boyfriend her junior year of high school when he was her friend’s homecoming date, and they soon became friends.

After their graduation four years ago, they video-chatted through Skype as a way to keep in touch because they had both just gotten laptops with built-in cameras.

They began dating a year and a half ago.

Now, they use Skype only when they will not see each other for a while. Since Tech is not that far away, she said they see each other often.

But this past summer, Skype closed the distance between Stephens, who studied abroad in Spain, and her boy-friend, who interned in Virginia. Stephens said on average, they would Skype three to four times per week.

Even though finding time to Skype with their different schedules and

See SKYPE, Page 3

Long-distance couples use Skype, iChat to bridge gaps

By EDWARD KIMTHE RED & BLACK

Two games. Two different styles of offense. Two wins for the No. 3 Georgia women’s softball team in its doubleheader Sunday in the Fourth Annual Red and Black Showcase at Jack Turner Stadium.

The long ball provided the action for the Bulldogs (5-0) as they tied a school record with five home runs in a single game in an 8-2 win over the Maryland Terrapins (2-3).

Senior center fielder Taylor Schlopy, freshman right fielder Julia Echols and junior designated hitter Kristyn Sandberg counted solo home runs in the first, second and third innings, respectively, as

their first hits of the season.The third inning also included a

two-run shot by first baseman Brianna Hesson, who gave the Bulldogs a 5-0 lead after three.

Starting pitcher Morgan Montemayor went five innings, striking out eight Terps. Her only mistake in the game was a two-run home run to Maryland third baseman Bree Hanafin in the fifth.

But Hesson followed in the bot-tom of the inning with another home run — her third of the sea-son — to give Georgia a 6-2 lead it would never give up.

Pitcher Katie Murphy came in

to close out the final two innings as Georgia won its first game 8-2.

The team’s second game start-ed as a pitching duel between the Bulldogs and Lipscomb.

Georgia starting pitcher Erin Arevalo gave up two runs in the fourth despite earning her 200th career strikeout.

Lipscomb pitcher Whitney Kihnl had a perfect game broken up by Georgia shortstop Laura Trout with an infield single in the fifth. Trout came around to score the next at bat with a single by Ashley Pauly and an error by the right fielder, bringing Trout home and cutting the lead to 1-2.

But the Bisons came right back and got the run back on an RBI

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Student charged with shoplifting

A University student was arrested Friday after attempting to shoplift groceries from Kroger, accord-ing to an Athens-Clarke County Police report.

Ashley Nicole Gravlin, 20, was arrested after the bakery manager at Kroger on Alps Road approached her. The total value of the goods was reported as $183. All goods were returned, according to the report.

Gravlin was charged with shoplifting and given a criminal trespass warning for two years. She was then transported to Clarke County Jail.

Gravlin was also arrested in 2009 for shoplifting.

Climbing rail leads to arrest

A University student was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol Saturday after attempting to climb into a bar, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report.

An officer approached Mathilde Page Petitpre-Harris, 18, after he observed her trying to climb over a rail into an outside area of a bar on East Broad Street. Petitpre-Harris’ speech was slurred and she was unsteady, according to the report.

Petitpre-Harris told officers she was 21. She pro-vided two birth dates, both of which didn’t provide any record matches, according to the report.

Petitpre-Harris was arrested and transported to Clarke County Jail.

Petitpre-Harris declined to comment to The Red & Black Sunday.

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By POLINA MARINOVATHE RED & BLACK

The Chess Dawgs had all the right moves on Saturday.

For the third year in a row, the team defended its state champi-onship title at the annual Georgia College Team Chess Championship held at Emory University.

The three main schools that participated in the tournament were the University, Georgia Tech and Emory.

“It’s a great feeling to win,” said senior Ben Cartoon, presi-dent of the Chess Dawgs. “It’s been a lot of preparation the last few weeks. Usually there’s a prob-lem with people dipping out at the last minute. But this year, there weren’t any panics or last-minute disasters.”

Adam Kostrinsky, a freshman from Alpharetta, won the award for top score as he went unde-feated in four games.

“It ended up being really close

at the end, and there was a lot of suspense,” Kostrinsky said. “It’s obviously a really good feeling being only a freshman and being able help lead us to the champi-onship.”

In preparation for the tourna-ment, Cartoon said the team members helped one another improve their skills during their meetings, which are held twice a week.

On his own, Cartoon said he spent about five hours a week studying the game in the two months leading up to the tourna-ment.

“A lot of us study individually, but we also play each other and watch the games,” Cartoon said. “After each move, we’ll stop and analyze the position and see what better move could’ve been made. We just basically analyze each game move by move.”

The tournament players are ranked by skill and placed on either the “A” team — which is

more advanced — or the “B” team. After four rounds, the chess team with the best record at the end of the tournament is awarded first place.

“Everybody is really selfless,” Cartoon said. “It’s not about indi-vidual achievement. It’s all about UGA coming in at first place.”

Before the tournament, Cartoon said he was nervous, but defending the state title meant a lot to his team — especially since the Chess Dawgs have won the championship for the last two years.

But Cartoon said chess is not only about planning your next move. Instead, it’s mostly about the person sitting across the chess board.

“It’s all about evaluating your opponent,” Cartoon said. “It’s just like any other sport. You have to find out the weaknesses in your opponent’s position. Chess is all about finding weak spots and hit-ting them hard.”

But the Chess Dawgs may have some competition on the team’s own campus.

Vinh Dong, a sophomore from Warner Robins, plans to register his own chess club, “The Myers Quad Chess Association,” on Tuesday.

“We already have a chess team on campus, but I was thinking about having something like intra-mural chess,” Dong said. “It’d be cool to have competition between two clubs.”

Cartoon said he welcomes the competition and looks forward to playing the new team. Dong said he thinks if there are two chess teams, then there will be a larger pool of skilled candidates to select from for the annual tournament.

“We would improve because of the competition,” Dong said. “We might arrange something like an intramural tournament. It’s going to be healthy, friendly competi-tion between two organizations on campus.”

Tournament a checkmate for chess team

By BRIANA GERDEMANTHE RED & BLACK

A group of four University alumni has developed a product to keep athletes and kids playing safely.

The company, EvoShield, has earned the No. 1 spot on the University’s Alumni Association’s Bulldog 100 list. The Bulldog 100 ranks nominated businesses that are owned or managed by University alumni in order of revenues.

EvoShield sells gear for nearly every sport, and is used by Major League Baseball teams. The prod-ucts include shin guards, wrist guards, chest protec-tion, elbow guards, leg guards, rib protection shirts and more.

“We’re probably one of the fastest growing compa-nies in America, even in this economy,” said Bob Pinckney, CEO of EvoShield and a University graduate.

The company was start-ed in 2006 by University alumni Stan Kanavage, Stan Payne, David Hudson and Justin Niefer. Three of the four had played sports at the University.

Kanavage was approached by a friend in the medical industry, who told him about a new mate-rial that was used for casts and splints.

Kanavage’s friend sug-gested the product could be adapted for use in sports, and Hudson invest-ed money to start the com-pany. The founders designed sports gear that incorporated the new tech-nology and had it tested by an independent sport sci-ence lab, which confirmed that it would be helpful in preventing injuries.

But since the product was unlike any other pro-tective gear on the market, the founders knew they would have to educate cus-tomers about how it worked, said Payne, EvoShield’s national sales manager and a 1996 University graduate. In 2007, they began selling EvoShield products to MLB teams.

“It was cool to see some-thing that we had just birthed on the field in major league baseball,” Payne said.

In the following years, EvoShield focused on find-ing a strong base of cus-tomers among professional athletes and college teams.

Although their product is still popular with profes-sional athletes, their target customers are now high school athletes. They also design custom gear on request for athletes who may need extra protection for medical conditions such as cancer, pacemakers and kidney problems.

“We call our gear game-changing protective appar-el,” Pinckney said. “We really think we have some-thing that can save lives and extend careers.”

This year, EvoShield is expanding from online-on-ly sales to retail. The prod-ucts are now sold in Sports Authority, Hibbett Sports and Academy Sports and Outdoors. In the next 18 months, Payne said, the company plans to expand from 300 stores to 3,000.

But Payne’s goal for EvoShield is about more than just increasing the company’s sales. For him, it’s all about letting ath-letes play intensely but without injury.

“Let’s bring it back to the purity of the game,” Payne said. “And play with abandon.”

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The Kappa Alpha fraternity house on Hancock Avenue experienced three break-ins in one week. Kappa Alpha moved to the area in 2008.

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Schatzman said there are two doors to the kitchen, which “both had a lot of work done to them.”

Schatzman said he didn’t know how suspects again entered the house through the kitchen door.

He said perhaps someone left one of the doors open.“They have been completely bolted on the inside so

neither of the side panels can open up from the outside,” he said. “I’m not sure how they got in this time.”

Schatzman doesn’t know if Saturday’s burglary is related to the previous ones, but the kitchen doors have been checked out and work, he said.

“We’ve looked at them with one of our contractors and we’ve had them secured,” Schatzman said. “As far as we’re concerned, the house is secure.”

KA’s fraternity house on Hancock Avenue — a historic residential district — was completed in 2008, accord-ing to a 2009 article in The Red & Black. The fraternity moved into its house from its previous location on Lumpkin Street.

Neighbors on Hancock Avenue complained about the fraternity littering and playing music too loudly at night, and the fraternity received three noise ordinance viola-tions in November 2009, according to the Athens-Banner Herald.

The fraternity was also broken into on April 3, 2009, and suspects took a flat-screen TV, valued at $2,500, according to an article in the Athens-Banner Herald.

HOUSE: Kappa Alpha had bolted doors

PAWS: Bandwidth will increase soon

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issues when attempting to complete coursework for professors who use Internet-based assign-ments for grading.

“One of my classes has online tests, so it can be pretty stressful if PAWS is not working properly,” said Courtney Strickland, a sophomore dietetics major from McDonough.

In order to remedy the situation, EITS plans to change the network so users can more easily access the Internet through PAWS.

“This past weekend, EITS made network changes that are antici-pated to help the situa-tion,” Rivers said. “We are also actively working with the University System of Georgia to increase band-width for the University in the next few weeks.”

Despite students’ and teachers’ frustrations, officials said PAWS is still providing functional ser-vice.

“There have been some recent performance issues that are being addressed,” Rivers said. “But UGA’s Internet access is still within ser-vice level objectives.”

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By WIL PETTYTHE RED & BLACK

After a year-long absence, the French Film Festival has returned to the University.

“With such wonderful films at the festival this year, we expect a great turnout,” said Sophie Kohn, public relations director of CinéClub.

It first started in 2001 and is being financed by student ticket sales.

Prior to the screenings, Richard Neupert, film studies coordinator, will give the audience a short introduction to the film. Once the movie is com-pleted, the CinéClub will lead the audience in a dis-cussion of the films.

“CinéClub’s role is going to be fielding the discussion to make sure we have a variety of ques-tions,” said Parker Couch, president of CinéClub.

CinéClub has been at the University since 2009. The group’s events hap-pen, for the most part, at Ciné.

The club was approached by Neupert and expressed interest in taking part.

The festival will feature films the organizers want to be enjoyable to every-one in attendance.

“Students should expect films that are not going to be that much dif-ferent than stuff they would see in America,” Couch said.

Many of the films will be making their Athens debut at the University’s festival.

“Since the theaters here in Athens do not always get to screen

these movies when they are released, students have the rare opportunity of seeing these films on a large screen,” Kohn said.

The festival consists of four films released within the last five years.

“[The French] have encouraged a wide frame of film practice,” Neupert said.

Though the French are historically known for art films and the New Wave movement, filmmakers have gone a new direction as the landscape of film has changed.

“French cinema is aware of trying to be increasingly commercial in the global world,” Neupert said.

The movies will be shown on 35mm film. With theaters switching to a digital format, using film will allow better depth in the movie.

“35mm is unfortunately dying,” Couch said.

France is one-of-a-kind when it comes to cinema. One example is how the government helps fund aspiring directors.

“There are actually funds in France to sup-port young directors,” Neupert said. “It encour-ages producers to test people who don’t neces-sarily have 10 films out already.”

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time zones was difficult, Stephens said Skype helped their relationship.

“Skype was really the only reliable way I could get in touch with him instantly,” she said. “The best part was that it made it possible for me to actually hear his voice and see him.”

Elizabeth Ryan, a senior majoring in marketing and German, said she enjoys iChatting with her boyfriend who lives in Tampa “to have the feeling that the other is in the room.”

She said they would sometimes pull up their iChats on their computers and do the things they both need to do, such as homework.

Though they’ve only been dating since October, the two met three years ago when they were both Disney College Program campus representatives.

They never dated while both were in Athens, but once he moved to Tampa, they iChatted almost every day for months and decided to give dating a try.

Now, with his work schedule and her class sched-ule, they rarely iChat.

Instead, they talk on the phone.Since they’ve been dating, they see each other once

a month on average, but they will not see each other at all in February.

For Valentine’s Day, she is surprising him with a package of brownies and other gifts she thinks he’ll enjoy.

Both Ryan and Stephens said Skype and iChat are invaluable in keeping people connected.

Stephens said she thinks long-distance couples who have not tried Skype yet, should.

“I feel like communication is the most important part of maintaining a long-distance relationship,” she said. “Plus, it’s always really nice to get to see each other on a day that you wouldn’t normally have that opportunity.”

SKYPE: Technology brings couples closer together

By ANISHA HEDGEFOR THE RED & BLACK

Today, Leigh Ackerman, in lieu of receiving birthday presents, will make the same wish on each of her 22 birthday candles — to raise $2,214 for clean drinking water in developing countries.

Ackerman, a fourth-year management and interna-tional affairs major from Lilburn, spent three weeks in Kenya last summer, where she saw the sullied water sources on which hundreds of families relied.

After returning to America, Ackerman stumbled upon charity: water, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing clean drinking water to more than 12 billion people.

“Coming home was a huge reverse culture shock,” she said. “Never in my 22 years had I worried that my water was making me sick. Kenyans have to worry every single day, along with having to decide whether to use their little bit of water for washing school uni-forms, bathing or drinking. Charity: water was the per-fect way for me to do something about what I’d seen.”

On Feb. 1, she launched a Facebook event, asking family and friends to donate to charity: water through her fundraising page, mycharitywater.org/waterishope.

Ackerman said reaching her goal of $2,214 is her only birthday wish this year. Thus far, Ackerman has col-lected $1,416.66 — 65 percent of her target. Her cam-paign will continue until the end of this month.

To help her cause, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Ackerman’s sorority, will host a bake sale downtown on Valentine’s Day, with all proceeds going to charity: water.

Ackerman said she simply wants to bring awareness to people who have not had her same experiences.

“I’ve never really been into birthday presents, din-ners and parties,” Ackerman said. “This is the first year I’ve really been into celebrating my birthday — not for me, but for a greater cause.”

Student donates gifts

‘Never Say Never’

If you are not a 12-year-old girl or the guardian of a 12-year-old girl, the new documentary “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” is probably not a great first.

“Never Say Never,” directed by Jon M. Chu (“Step Up 2,” “Step Up 3-D”), is technically a concert documentary, though slightly more than half of the film takes place off the stage.

The pseudo-plotline, Bieber’s stressful countdown to his first sellout concert at Madison Square Garden and the threat of a throat infection in the days before, is spliced between collections of cute baby videos, previous concert clips and inter-

views with the adults responsible for keeping the empire running smoothly.

To Chu’s credit, the Bieber story is one of merit. There are few people younger than my grandmother who haven’t heard, however involuntarily, his melodious bub-ble-gum vocals emitting from some pub-lic eatery or car radio.

But the Bieberphobic, Bieberphilic, Bieberwildered, and people vehemently opposed to any adjective derived from the kid’s last name can still appreciate the sheer brilliance of Bieber’s unprece-dented rise to fame.

His use of social media as a way to bypass the Nickelodeon and Disney machines and appeal directly to his intended audience skyrocketed him from runner-up in a Stratford talent show to sellout headliner at Madison Square Garden in less than four years.

However, that is as far as the film ven-tures into the realm of a legitimate docu-mentary.

As a general rule, the camera seems to gravitate every few minutes to what the viewer quickly gathers are supposed to be Bieber’s strongest non-vocal assets — his hair and his shirtless torso.

In one scene he jokingly threatens to chop away at his bangs and causes a temporary panic backstage.

In another, he creepily sways his gold-en locks back and forth to the tune of Etta James’ “At Last,” invoking a theater-wide squeal.

Verdict: “Never Say Never” will be a big hit with Bieber’s already obsessive fan base. It diligently hammers home the point that you can accomplish anything that you set your mind to, especially if you’re best friends with Usher.

— Carrie Donovan

Movies bring ‘film’ back to film festival

Pull out the nice chocolate and stock up on permeated Scooby-Doo cards, because today is Valentine’s Day. Love it or hate it, since Pope Gelasius I initiated the holiday in 496, Feb. 14 has been celebrated each year as an

ode to lovers near and far.However, it’s not uncommon to hear singles regard Valentine’s Day as “Gag Me Day” or switch “V-day” to the

much more ominous “doomsday.”The Red & Black wanted to see if students were ready to sit down to “The Notebook” and a candlelit dinner for

two or eager to put Cupid back into his chokehold.

— By Charles Hicks

SARAH COLCLOUGHsophomore English and phi-losophy major from Athens“I think it’s a cheap com-mercialized way to commer-cialize sex, capitalize off of human emotion and rein-force misogynistic tenden-cies and behaviors.”

AUSTIN MCDONNELLsophomore advertis-ing major from Atlanta

“I enjoy Valentine’s Day. I’m a hopeless romantic.”

MICHAEL MCDERMOTT freshman economics and philosophy major from Marietta

“I think Valentine’s Day is 100 percent perfect just the way it is — commercialism and all. And if you don’t have a date, you deserve it.”

JULIA STACYsophomore English major from Savannah“I’m not doing any-thing special, so call me if you want to do something.”

MAN ON THE STREET:Shot by Cupid’s arrow?

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Today, enjoy the single celebrationIt’s that time of year again.

That one holiday of the year that’s as beloved and as hated

as the New York Yankees — Valentine’s Day.

And in holiday terms, as in life, I’m not a Yankees fan.

For me, Valentine’s Day is the crème de la crap of holidays.

Elementary school gave me the delusion that Valentine’s Day was a fun celebration of friendship. Everyone gave everyone a Valentine covered with Disney Princesses or Dragon Ball Z. People attached bags of “MARRY ME” Sweethearts or heart-shaped chocolates to the top.

Those days are gone.Now, Valentines are tarnished by

the faces of Justin Bieber and Hannah Montana.

And though the lovers of love dress in red and pink, jaded and lonely people wear black.

What was once an awesome day of shoe-mail-boxes and cupcakes has become a day of mourning.

I dread walking through the Kroger Karnival of Sadness and the Target Aisle of Misery, where heaps of Valentine’s Day candy are a reminder that I won’t be getting any heart-shaped boxes this year.

Saint Valentine is as much the patron saint of love as he is the patron saint of body issues and

online dating sign-ups.But this year, instead of blasting

Celine Dion’s “Because You Loved Me” next to a bottle of Chardonnay and crying myself to sleep, I’m not going to sweat it.

I’ve been Melissa “Table for One” Buckman since the day I was born.

I’m used to single-dom. So why not handle Valentine’s Day like it was any other day?

Today, I’m enjoying my choco-late delights.

No one at Edible Arrangements is going to ask me who I am. They won’t ask what my relationship is with the person to whom I send my chocolate-dipped strawberry bou-quet.

And they definitely won’t know the delivery address is the address of my apartment.

Today, I’m enjoying time with single friends.

We can congregate, binge a little and celebrate the love we have for one another. It’s more fun to share our fears of becoming cat ladies and spinsters than it is to listen to

our non-single friends complain about what their boyfriends did wrong.

Today, I’m saving money.All that candy no one buys goes

on sale the next day — and the Karnival of Sadness and Aisle of Misery turn into pre-St. Patty’s pots of gold. I will hit the register without shame — sweets in hand — and save a few cents.

And I can savor my sweet tooth until Easter, a (thankfully) relation-ship-neutral holiday, comes around.

Today, I’m celebrating being sin-gle.

Staying on the market in what will likely be the most social four years of my life has not been terri-ble. I didn’t come into college look-ing for an MRS degree — and it still hasn’t climbed higher on my to-do list. Believe it or not, spending my time at the University not on the prowl for a life partner has had its perks.

On this Valentine’s Day, I’ll skip the Celine and listen to Destiny’s Child’s “Independent Woman.”

I’ll celebrate the advantages of being single — and still get a dose of the good old days.

— Melissa Buckman is a junior from Alpharetta majoring in

film studies and publication management

MELISSA BUCKMAN

One thing is clear: we are ruining our environment,

depleting our natural resources.

One thing is not clear: what the University and the student body are doing about this, and if anything, whose direction or whose leadership we should follow.

Many of my classmates and I are interested in doing what we can to improve the environmen-tal sustainability of our campus.

But I hear no clear sig-nal from our administra-tion or student leadership on how to focus and use this willingness to create productive action.

Indeed, the signal from both leadership and administration alike is conflicting on what our role should be in preserv-ing Mother Nature.

Recycling initiatives, promoting conservation of water and electricity, biking or walking to cam-pus or carrying reusable coffee mugs and shopping bags — these actions should be commonplace in our University town.

But I do not see enough of this.

And I don’t think the student body as a whole — absent better leader-ship — has a firm grasp on how its lack of action adds to the degradation of our environment.

The administration deals with problems of a greater magnitude. The continued use of a cam-pus coal plant draws criti-cism from environmental analysts.

They must weigh pressing budget issues while trying to progress environmentally.

The closest thing to advocating student involvement I have seen from the administration is the Office of Sustainability’s offering of $5,000 grants for ideas on projects that would sup-port human well-being.

But this opportunity is a mere silver lining in a dark cloud looming over our campus and country.

Of course, one problem is that the word “sustain-ability” is a turn off for many people.

Why?We know the next word

will be conservation.And if there’s one

thing I know about Americans, it’s that they love to spend money and amass material posses-sions. We don’t like to conserve.

We don’t like to save money, either. A CNN Money Poll last year

showed that 43 percent of working American citi-zens had $10,000 or less in savings.

A typical reaction to this: you’re telling me I need to cut back my spending power so that people will be able to live on Earth after me, so they’ll be able to see trees instead of having to read about them in the history books?

Nah.And that’s a roadblock

— because conserving means life changes.

However, thinking through consumer deci-sions is essential. If you’re in the middle class, you can buy just about any-thing you want. Many of us don’t care to change the way we live.

We’re comfortable, right now.

But sustaining our environment and ensur-ing a future will exist hundreds of years down the road requires we adjust our stances as con-sumers on a microeco-nomic level.

We students must deal not only with campus issues. We must apply what we know to real-world economics. Our micro perspective affects the macro. Our decisions affect the decisions of business executives on conservation issues, and really, any issue.

We have the market

power to make them lis-ten.

Shop at a farmer’s market or buy renewable energy blocks from Georgia Power.

Force businesses to change their products and services to be envi-ronmentally conscious as a part of serving their customers.

Can we create a new economic environment where our informed deci-sions become more important to Wall Street than profitability?

This isn’t how the mar-ket works, right now.

But our country is in an ever-changing mode, and we need to realize the future of the U.S. economy and the increas-ingly globalized world depends, in part, on what happens at this University.

So the next time you buy a car, insist that it works on renewable resources. Insist that the next time you sign a con-tract with an electricity company you get clean power.

Our individual efforts can be multiplied many times if we are given proper leadership.

But in the end, it’s up to us to ignite the change.

— Matthew Allen is a senior from Carrollton

majoring in Spanish and newspapers

MATTHEW ALLEN

And the Keebler elf, also known as Michael Adams,

strikes again!University President

Adams forked out $298,138.34 of the University’s budget in fis-cal year 2010 to our former provost Arnett Mace, according to The Red & Black (“Put your money where your job is: former provost earns top pay,” Feb. 10).

Mace works as a part-time special assistant to the president in the University’s medical school partnership.

For that, he received a $163,815 salary.

Man, don’t you wish you could land that gig?

We have hundreds of employees and faculty members working their tails off 40 hours a week — and they don’t receive a six-figure salary.

But Adams’ good old buddy Mace works part-time and brings in more than $100,000.

You have got to be kid-ding me.

And to think I thought Adams’ $600,000 salary was a rip-off.

The rest of Mace’s dine-ro last year came from his retirement and his $400-a-month car allowance.

You’re telling me we’re paying that man nearly $5,000 a year just to tote himself around?

He needs to be sitting in his rocking chair at home smoking a fat cigar and watching John Wayne movies — not doubling his income and greatly increasing our payout by doing a job that others are certainly capable of man-aging.

The worst part about this situation is the hypoc-risy of the administration.

In his State of the University address (and in many other forums for that matter), Adams stressed the importance of smart budgeting due to the “significant challeng-es” the University faces because of the state cut-backs.

Yet he isn’t willing to sacrifice the overpriced Mace to add additional faculty or help our under-paid staff.

When the going gets tough, the meek get screwed.

“We have kept our focus on keeping people employed,” Adams said.

For our former provost, that seems to be the case.

Now, the argument can

be made that the University should value experience.

Retired people such as Mace are vital to our con-tinued excellence.

After all, we have emer-itus professors in most departments who are experts in their field.

Among these is emeri-tus part-time professor Wyatt Anderson in the genetics department, who raked in $279,755.22 last fiscal year, according to The Red & Black (“Cashing in: Terry home to nearly half of top earn-ers,” Feb. 10).

But are these gentle-men really worth the bang for our buck?

For the price we pay, we could bring on at least one full-time faculty member to replace each of them.

Ultimately, it comes down to whether costly old talent is valued over cut-rate new talent.

For Adams, that cer-tainly seems to be the case.

But John McCain also tried to make that argu-ment — and look where that got him.

In good times, I may actually agree with the Keebler.

But with the University struggling, it is simply wrong for these men to get paid so much for the amount of work they do.

We could save money by throwing one last retirement party for these fellows and putting faith in less costly newcomers to take their place.

Though this would only account for a small part of the budget, it would deliv-er the message that Adams and the adminis-tration are truly ready to tackle our budget woes and secure every job they possibly can.

I honor Mace’s contri-butions to the University.

But it is time to pack the bags, buy that RV, take a long road trip and let someone else begin their own legacy.

Maybe he could even take Adams with him.

That, my friends, is what we call a win-win.

— Jeremy Dailey is a senior from Conyers

majoring in political science

JEREMY DAILEY

Genuine interest needed from SGA

I am confused as to why Stephen Thompson and the Student Government Association expects students to spend our valuable time making suggestions to an organi-zation which has proven to be exceptionally ineffec-tive and inept at providing any benefits to the stu-dent body.

In order for us, the stu-

dents, to take the time to offer suggestions instead of criticize your ineffective and unsound policies, we must see a change from the power-hungry, self-serving policies of SGA to a genuine interest in stu-dent affairs.

Stephen Thompson, that is “What SGA can do for me” and the rest of the student body.

MITCHELL SNYDERSenior, Martinez

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The Japanese puzzle Sudoku relies on reason-ing and logic.

To solve it, fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3 by 3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

Nothing has to add up to anything else.

Previous puzzle’s solution

By MITCH BLOMERTTHE RED & BLACK

One down, four to go.The Georgia men’s bas-

ketball team opened its five-game divisional stretch with a win over South Carolina on Saturday.

But it doesn’t get any easier for Georgia.

The Bulldogs return to Athens faced with arguably the toughest series of games of the season. They host No. 23 Vanderbilt on Wednesday, followed by road contests against Tennessee and No. 17 Florida.

The Bulldogs sit tied for second with Vanderbilt after Saturday’s win, and

can break away from the rest of the pack with a vic-tory this week.

“ T h e great part is that this is an impor-tant game

and here we are in February and we’re still playing important games,” Fox said. “That means this team has made progress.”

But Georgia can only prove the progress to the NCAA Tournament selec-tion committee with more quality wins.

The team is only 2-7 against teams in Top 50 RPI rankings.

“I think Vandy has a ter-rific basketball team and so we’re going to have to play very, very well,” Fox said. “Certainly, it’s good to be home, and we need to play well at home.”

The Bulldogs have stayed in the running for a March Madness spot main-ly due to the fact that they don’t have any ugly losses

Each of the team’s loss-es came against teams with a higher RPI than its own No. 43 ranking, including two losses in overtime.

The Commodores, hand-ed Georgia its first SEC loss of the season on Jan. 12.

That loss snapped the Bulldogs’ nine-game win-ning streak and pushed them out of their only AP Top 25 appearance of the season — arguably the team’s highest point of the season.

“They have a terrific basketball team,” Fox said. “They have a great shoot-ing team, they’re playing very well. I think that offen-sively it’s probably as good of a team as we have in the league.”

VARIETY & SPORTS The Red & Black | Monday, February 14, 2011 | 5

Dogs face tough stretch

By SHAWN JARRARDTHE RED & BLACK

Flicker Theatre & Bar is get-ting Kinky for Valentine’s Day, and one thing will definitely be on its agenda.

“Relaxation is the idea — a brain massage — however you want to put it,” said guitar and ukulele player Allen Owens. “It’s basically lap steel cocktail music.”

Athens’ own Hawaiian band, Kinky Waikiki, will be the main attraction at tonight’s festivities.

“Flicker came up with the idea of having a ‘lovers luau,’” Owens said. “Maybe there will be some Hawaiian-themed food. We’re just trying to find something to do on Monday night that’s above and beyond the regular empty bar that’s probably there.”

Alongside Owens are his brother, drummer Carlton Owens, and A.J. Adams, who plays lap steel, an instrument that gives the band its distinct sound.

“[The band] was the brain-child of A.J. Adams, who is the steel guy,” Owens said. “You can’t have Hawaiian music without steel guitar. The idea is maximum R&R.”

The three, who have known each other for years, offer a back-stage glimpse of the Athens music culture.

“We all have other projects we’re involved with that rock,” Owens said. “Carlton plays with a lot of people, A.J. does. I play in this band called Pride Parade. This is an outlet for all of us to do something really easy and fun and laid back.”

Such a spirit of collaboration and camaraderie helps to explain the enduring musical scene with-in the Classic City.

“We’ve shared projects for probably 15 years or so, so it was an easy fit,” Owens said. “A.J. is a multi-instrumentalist — guitar player, bass player, lap steel guy, pedal steel. He also has a record-ing studio and is a producer. We’re all bros. It’s just a good excuse to get together and play some hilarious music.”

One of Kinky Waikiki’s special-ties is putting new spins on old classics.

“Sometimes we’ll take classic rock songs or movie theme songs and turn them into Hawaiian music, see if anybody notices,” Owens said. “We do the ‘Godfather’ theme, and a couple of Who songs. You know, ‘Won‘t Get Hula’d Again.’”

Even though the trio said it likes to lay back and have a good time, they’ve been working on some serious music making.

“We’re in the process of getting some recordings out,” Owens said. “It’s one of those things where we’re all so busy with other things. A.J.’s got a studio, we’ve got some stuff laid down, but there will be a CD forthcoming of some of the stuff we work out.”

But Hawaiian music is defi-nitely a niche market, a fact of which Kinky Waikiki is well aware.

“This is not something you book in a regular club,” Owens said. “It’s just not something you would go to the Caledonia to hang out and watch. It’s not going to rock — ever. That’s the idea.”

Members of Kinky Waikiki, however, said they would love to

be a more relevant part of the Athens music circuit.

“I wish there were more luaus — we’re there,” Owens said. “Some of these local venues have jazz bands all the time, and it’s background music a lot of the time. Why not just have a differ-ent approach to that instead of just your standard jazz? It’s still cocktail music, it’s still laid-back and palatable and easy to listen to.”

For Valentine’s Day, Kinky Waikiki is just the thing for lovers or those of the “would-be” variety.

“Bring your significant other or come down and just get drunk with us and have a good time regardless,” Owens said.

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By TYLER ELRODTHE RED & BLACK

Georgia sprinter Torrin Lawrence has made a habit of breaking records in the 400-meter dash.

He continued that trend in the Bulldogs’ first meet of the spring at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark.,, setting yet another world record Friday with a 400-meter dash time of 45.82 — the world’s fastest time logged this year.

This is the fourth fastest time of the junior’s career, and one that put him on top of the International Association of Athletics Federation’s world perfor-mance list in the 400-meter run. But for

Lawrence, a fourth fastest time isn’t something to be too excited about.

“It feels OK,” Lawrence said. “I mean, I know I can do a lot better so it just shows me what progress I have to make for the next time I run because conference is in two weeks.”

Georgia’s Aaron Evans also set the school record in the 800-meter dash, running it in 1:48.07.

6 | Monday, February 14, 2011 | The Red & Black SPORTS

By ROBBIE OTTLEYTHE RED & BLACK

Anyone who analyzes sports for a living will explain how important it is to compete to win, in contrast to competing not to lose. The Gym Dogs seemed to be affected by the latter Saturday, losing their second dual meet in as many weeks to Florida 197.725-196.600.

“We competed scared,” head coach Jay Clark said. “If we compete scared, anybody can beat you. And that’s what happened out there tonight.”

Georgia posted a score more than 196 for only the third time this sea-son, beat its season average score by more than a point, and scored more than 49 in every event for the first time this year.

Several individual routines were highlights, including sophomore Shayla Worley’s career high on bars.

But the Gym Dogs failed to post high-scoring routines across the board, and Worley said she saw that as a major contributor to the loss.

“We just need to finally put a meet together and stop letting the ball drop in places,” she said. “If we would be consistent and do what we trained, we’d really hit those scores we want and be happy.”

The uneven bars set from the Gym Dogs opened with a low-scor-ing routine from sophomore Christa

Tanella and a fall from sophomore Noel Couch.

But the apparatus proved to be a high point of the meet for the Gym Dogs: after Worley’s career high, junior Kat Ding set a season high with her 9.975, the highest individual score for a Gym Dogs this season. Ding said she was pleased the judges awarded her with that mark, but called some aspects of her perfor-mance “nasty.”

“They think it looks good and that’s fine,” Ding said. “But I’m a perfectionist, so when it doesn’t feel

good I don’t want the 10.”Georgia will need performances

more like Ding’s as the team enters the second half of the season. The Gym Dogs look to overcome their road struggles this weekend as they face No. 19 LSU in Baton Rouge, then return to Athens to face No. 7 Alabama on Feb. 25.

“We’ve got to get a killer instinct and be able to survive the onslaught from a team like that,” Clark said. “We need some edge … and I just don’t see that like we’ve seen from Georgia teams in the past.”

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Kat Ding posted a season-high 9.975 on the bars, but her Gym Dog teammates struggled in their loss to No. 1 Florida.

DOGS: Softball comes back in doubleheader

Sprinters post records

Gym Dogs fall at home

Lady Dogs down Rebels on the road

By RYAN BLACKTHE RED & BLACK

The No. 24 Georgia women’s basketball team shot 6 percent better from the field than the Ole Miss Lady Rebels on Sunday.

The Lady Bulldogs also had more steals, rebounds, assists, points in the paint and fast-break points.

With all of that going in its favor, Georgia nearly lost in Oxford.

And it was an old foe that almost was its downfall — free-throw shooting.

In the end, Georgia (19-6, 9-3) was able to overcome an 11-of-23 performance from the line to hold on for a shaky 61-56 victory over the Lady Rebels.

“We were snakebit from the free-throw line, other than the five posi-tion,” Georgia head coach Andy Landers said in his post-game radio interview. “It was pointed out to me that [Tamika] Willis and [Jasmine] Hassell were 9-of-13 and the rest of the team was 0-for-100. It’s tough in close games when you don’t knock those things down.”

The Lady Bulldog who struggled the most from the line was the game’s top scorer, guard Jasmine James.

James put up 19 points, but went only 1-of-7 from the free-throw line.

Despite her shoddy shooting from the line, no Lady Bulldog played a bigger role in rallying Georgia from a 31-25 halftime deficit, as James scored 15 of her 19 points in the final 20 minutes.

James’ layup off a steal gave Georgia a 43-42 lead with 9:57 remaining.

Georgia then extended its lead to as much as seven before having to hang on at the very end, with a Shae Nelson jumper missing its mark with Ole Miss (10-14, 3-9) down only 59-56 with nine seconds left.

Willis grabbed the rebound and knocked down the ensuing free throws to help Georgia escape with a five-point road win.

“You hope this [victory] gives you momentum as you go back home now,” Landers said.

Georgia faces No. 15 Kentucky on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Stegeman Coliseum.

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double by catcher Mollie Mitchell.

The Bulldogs found offensive life in the sixth, manufacturing runs when Megan Wiggins’s 200th career hit drove home two, tying the game at 3-3.

But the Bulldogs weren’t done yet, churning out five singles and a dou-ble with aggressive base running to extend the lead to 7-3.

The Bisons scored one more run in the last inning before Arevalo came back into the game with two outs to get a final ground-out and preserve the 7-4

win.Montemayor (3-0) in

relief got her third win in two days.

“We were challenged with a very good pitcher in that second game,” head coach Lou Harris-Champer said. “She was pretty mag-nificent and I was super proud of our hitters for the way that they adjusted after their first time through the order and made the changes and were able to get to her.”

The Bulldogs went 5-0 in the showcase, giving up only nine runs, but scoring 26 runs themselves and maintaining their No. 3 ranking.

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