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JON-MICHAEL SULLIVAN | The Red & Black

After 22 years as head coach of the men’s tennis team, Manuel Diaz got his 500th win Sunday against Vanderbilt.

MICHAEL HARRIS | The Red & Black

A University Rock-Cornish chicken stands ready to take over the position of state bird should the “Flip the Birds” movement succeed.

By JACOB LOVELLTHE RED & BLACK

There may not be much HOPE for the future.

Although universities across Georgia have not yet considered drastic tuition increases to cover budget shortfalls, higher rates could lead to depletion of the HOPE scholarship program’s funds.

HOPE, which has paid for the college tuition of Georgians since 1993, has never had to turn down

any eligible students in its entire 17 year history.

“As long as a student meets all the eligibility and residency requirements, there is no reason for them to be turned away from receiving HOPE,” said Monét Robinson, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Student Finance Commission, which oversees HOPE.

She said she is unsure of what the future may hold for the pro-gram.

“Until the budget is approved

by the Georgia General Assembly, we do not know what the direct effect budget cuts and tuition increases will have on the HOPE Program,” she said.

Although the future is not set, there may be trouble on the hori-zon.

“I do think in the future we will see big changes to HOPE,” said Nancy Ferguson, the University’s assistant director for scholarships.

She explained the troubles HOPE is facing.

“There is no longer money coming in from the lottery above and beyond what HOPE is pay-ing out,” she said.

In years past, the HOPE pro-gram has seen surpluses, taking in more revenue than it needed to pay out.

If trends continue, those sur-pluses will have to be raided to meet demands on the scholar-ship.

“By state law, the excess money is put into the HOPE reserves for future use,” Ferguson

said. She said the GSFC predicted

“the amount of HOPE expendi-tures at public schools would increase by 19 percent this year but lottery revenue would only increase less than 1 percent.”

Ferguson also explained what would happen in the event of tuition increases.

“Under current law, if tuition is increased, then HOPE covers the increased tuition, and HOPE

See HOPE, Page 2

Future holds ‘big changes to HOPE’

Green fee helps cut red tape

By POLINA MARINOVA THE RED & BLACK

Last spring, the mem-bers of Go Green Alliance held a referendum asking the student body a simple yes or no question: Would you pay $3 to fund an Office of Sustainability?

More than 80 percent of voting students supported the proposed “green fee,” which aims to make cam-pus more energy efficient and sustainable.

“Sustainability initia-tives require funding, and the University wasn’t going to fund them,” said Mark Milby, co-chair of the Go Green Alliance. “We kind of got shot down a few times, so we decided to do our own fee because we thought the student sup-port was enough to merit it.”

The purpose of imple-menting the green fee is to create a “green initiative fund” in the Office of Sustainability. If students or faculty members have an idea for making an aspect of the University more sustainable, they can apply to the office in order to receive money for their project.

“There’s going to be a fund through which stu-dents can receive this fund-ing fairly quickly and with-out the red tape and bureaucracy of a typical administration,” Milby said.

The green fee will first be collected in the fall, and

See GREEN, Page 3

By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

They call him the Chicken Man — and his plans to flip the bird to the state of Georgia are ruffling some feathers world-wide.

He’s not giving Georgia the middle finger, but Augusta-native Chris Cunningham, president of Wife Saver Restaurants, is working to get the Cornish chicken named the new state bird over the brown thrasher.

Michael Lacy, poultry science depart-ment head, heard about the “Flip the Birds” movement several weeks ago and said he is honored Cunningham thought the Cornish chicken was worthy of being a state symbol.

“I think chickens are marvelous ani-mals,” he said. “The Cornish chicken is used by poultry geneticists to make the

stock that is the modern broiler.”Mike Giles, president of the Georgia

Poultry Federation, received a link to the Web site and said he enjoyed the style of the campaign.

“We appreciate the positive attention the campaign has brought to the poultry industry,” he said.

Lacy said Georgia produces 1.4 billion Cornish-background broilers a year at its more than 4,000 poultry farms — mean-ing that if Georgia were a country, it would be in the top five poultry produc-ers worldwide.

Cunningham chose to promote the broiler because it is the main chicken in Georgia’s $15 billion a year poultry indus-try. He said its contributions to Georgia’s economy outweigh those of the brown thrasher.

See CLUCK, Page 2

Chickens may take top state position

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University student Alexander Everbusch, 18, was arrested and charged with possession of marijua-na, underage possession of alcohol and pedestrian under the influence at 1:39 a.m. on March 17.

According to the University Police report, Everbusch was stopped after riding his skateboard in front of a police cruiser

See CRIME, Page 2

Before Manuel Diaz reached the 500-wins benchmark as a head coach Sunday, before he took over the helm of the Georgia men’s ten-nis team and before his stellar career as player, Diaz’s journey to Athens began in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

As he grew up in the beach city, filled with international tourists, he played baseball and dreamed of making it to the major leagues.

He had never seen a tennis court when one of his father’s friends mentioned a new game he was playing. The friend invited Diaz and his father to watch his next lesson.

One Saturday morning, a 13-year-old Diaz stopped by the local tennis club and observed a tennis lesson. He walked on to the courts afterward, hit a few balls over the fence by accident, decided he needed to know how to play the

new game and quit baseball.“Nobody in my family had ever

seen or played tennis. I had never seen a tennis court. So, we started taking a lesson a week and then after about 10 lessons, the teacher said, ‘You have a lot of potential. I think I’ve pretty much taught you everything I can, but there is some-body who is a really, really good coach who you should follow up with and take some lessons from now,’” Diaz said.

That person was Welby Van Horn, a former pro who coached at the Caribe Hilton resort. Diaz, now under Van Horn’s tutelage, learned the fundamentals of tennis. Van Horn’s formula for success was bro-ken into four parts: balance, grips, strokes and strategy, in that order.

As Van Horn taught Diaz more

See DIAZ, Page 8

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Manuel Diaz joins Georgia’s 500-win club

By LISA GLASERTHE RED & BLACK

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Suzanne Yoculan — Gymnastics: 836 (years active: 1983-2009)

Andy Landers — Women’s Basketball: 748 (years active: 1979 -present)

Dan Magill — Men’s Tennis: 706 (years active: 1954-1988)

Jeff Wallace — Women’s Tennis: 534 (years active: 1984-present)

Steve Webber — Baseball: 500(years active: 1981-1996)

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By ADINA SOLOMONTHE RED & BLACK

Brushing basics and flossing fun were on some elementary students’ minds Wednesday after a group of University students visited their school.

In honor of “Give Kids a Smile Day,” a small group of representatives from the University’s pre-dental club went to Oglethorpe Elementary School to teach students about proper dental hygiene.

Billy Ferguson, a senior from Augusta and president of the pre-dental club, said he thinks it’s important to establish good brushing and flossing habits early in life.

“It’ll get you into a routine and prevent most of the problems that arise later,” he said.

With this philosophy, the pre-dental club taught the children about good den-tal habits with various activities.

“They won’t just pay attention to us talking,” Ferguson said.

The kids were split into three groups and rotated among three different sta-

tions. In the first, the pre-dental students used hard-boiled eggs soaked in sugary soda to demonstrate the effects of not brushing. At the second station, kids learned how to floss. For the third activity, the University students manned a ques-tion and answer station.

“Some surprise you with the knowl-edge they have,” Ferguson said.

He also said it’s nice to help out the kids who don’t know as much about den-tal hygiene.

Nathan Raley, a senior from Lawrenceville and the dental school liai-son, said the children were receptive to the activities.

“They’re always so excited,” he said. “I thought they would be scared of the den-tist.”

When the pre-dental students depart-ed from Oglethorpe Elementary after an hour of activities, they left the kids with their own toothbrush and toothpaste to encourage proper dental hygiene.

“It’s important to start early to develop good habits,” Raley said.

Students teach oral hygiene

EMILY KAROL | The Red & Black

Billy Ferguson, president of the University’s pre-dental club, shows elementary school children the ill effects of skipping daily tooth brushing by treating a hard-boiled egg with sugary soda Wednesday afternoon.

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“I’ve known about the brown thrasher since I was a child, and I have nothing against it,” Cunningham said. “It just hit me that the brown thrasher was just a bird playing in the pine straw.”

He said he got together with a local marketing company and was told he had “one hell of an idea.” A Web site was developed and merchandise created and distributed to legisla-tors in Atlanta, promoting the movement.

“The next thing I knew, I’m in the LA Times,” Cunningham said.

In addition to California, Cunningham’s scheme has gotten him press on the “Chicken Whisperer” radio program, various radio stations and even a news-paper in Taiwan.

He said most of the feedback he received so far has been positive. At a Wild Turkey Federation event Tuesday, Cunningham said he had about 10 people recognize him and approach him asking for “Flip the Birds” T-shirts, yard signs and koozies.

“I have a few people who are brown thrasher fans,” he said. “Maybe four people out of thousands have been negative.”

Cunningham said the Georgia Legislature must

pass a bill to change the state bird, and it would probably not be something Georgians would vote on.

The brown thrasher has been the state bird since the 1970s. It was originally proposed in 1935 by the Garden Club of Georgia, the headquarters of which are now located at the State Botanical Gardens.

Connie Cottingham, special events coordinator for the Botanical Gardens, said though she was unsure of the brown thrasher’s history, it is a common visi-tor to the gardens.

Lacy said there are broilers at the University with Cornish backgrounds, most of which are bred with Plymouth Rock chick-ens and called Rock-Cornish crosses.

“They actually do come in different colors,” he said. “The industry prefers white birds because black and brown feathers can leave pigmentation in the follicles.”

The Cornish breed is a result of crossbreeding that occurred in the 1800s, Lacy said.

“The Europeans were used to small chickens,” he said. “They’d been used primarily for sport, for cockfighting.”

The Chinese emperor at the time sent England’s Queen Victoria chickens as a gift. Compared to typical English chickens,

these were large and had feathers everywhere, even on their feet, Lacy said.

“These chickens from China came over and they were huge,” he said. “They were a very gentle breed, kind of like dogs — the bigger the breed, the gen-tler the dog.”

The Asian poultry inva-sion, combined with recent discoveries by the scien-tists Gregor Mendel, Isaac Newton and Louis Pasteur, led to what Lacy described as “hen fever” — everyone wanted to breed chickens and see what they could come up with.

“It was kind of the time of science,” he said, adding people were crossing chickens to get traits such as feather coloring and muscling — as in the case of the Cornish, which made it a good bird to use in the modern poultry industry.

Lacy said someone sug-gested to him the Cornish chicken become the state agricultural bird, an idea Cunningham said he would support.

Cunningham said another reason he chose the Cornish chicken to promote came from a moral standpoint.

“With the economy the way it is, we need to do all that we can do to promote the positive parts of Georgia’s industries, of which the poultry industry is one,” he said.

CLUCK: Switch ‘hell of an idea’

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on Cloverhurst Avenue.As the officer spoke to

Everbusch, he reported smelling a strong odor commonly associated with alcohol coming from the student’s breath.

Everbusch told police he was on his way to his Creswell dorm room after spending the evening drinking a few beers.

When the officer asked Everbusch if he had any contraband, he reportedly responded “some weed.”

The search that ensued turned up a pill bottle con-taining marijuana as well as a brownie which Everbusch told police had marijuana in it, according to the report.

Everbusch was then placed under arrest and transported to Athens-Clarke County Jail.

Flying bag of marijuana leads to dorm room arrest

When the police come knocking on your dorm room door, your first instinct may be to throw any illegal substances out the window. But one Russell resident learned Wednesday, that’s not always the best idea.

Timothy Alan Stuckey, 19, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and drug-relat-ed objects at 12:41 a.m. on March 17 after University Police responded to a report of a suspicious odor coming from his dorm room.

Police knocked on the door, but there was no response from inside the room. At this time, anoth-er officer standing outside just below the window observed an individual drop a white bag contain-ing a dryer sheet and a

leafy green substance out the window, according to the University Police report.

At 12:54 a.m. Stuckey and his roommate opened the door and gave police permission to search both sides of the room.

As they conducted the search, officers reported smelling a slight odor of burned marijuana. They found rolling papers, mari-juana residue inside Stuckey’s backpack and a multicolored glass pipe inside Stuckey’s closet.

Though neither resident claimed the marijuana tossed out the window, Stuckey said it was in his possession when it was in the room.

When asked why the marijuana was tossed out of the window, Stuckey told police he thought it would be a good idea at the time.

— Compiled by Jacob Demmitt

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payouts to students will continue to exceed the revenue the lottery is bring-ing in,” she said.

This cannot last forever, and increased tuition rates could force other benefits of the HOPE scholarship to not receive as much support.

The scholarship now provides a $300 per year book allowance for students.

However, the law requires that if the year-end balance of unspent lottery funds is less than 92 percent of the high-est year-end balance since 2004, then book allowances will be reduced to $150 per year, Ferguson said.

At the 84 percent level, book allow-ances will be eliminated entirely.

These levels exclude those who are in the Pell Grant program.

“This means the only students that will get book allowances are those that qualify for Pell Grant,” she said.

The final level, at 75 percent, does not exclude Pell Grant recipients, and it cuts deeper than book grants.

According to the law, “all scholarships and grants for mandatory fees shall be eliminated.”

Ferguson said had the 75 percent level been hit this year, HOPE recipients at the University would have received $585 less per semester, a burden that could only increase as fees go up.

The University has recently experi-enced a number of fee increases, includ-ing the implementation of a special insti-tutional fee, which is not covered by the HOPE scholarship.

Ferguson said she believes the cur-rent situation may affect future HOPE

recipients in areas such as “who qualifies for it [and] how long they may receive it.”

Though many are concerned about the future of HOPE and want it to con-tinue indefinitely, critics question the program’s benefit in light of recent bud-getary concerns.

“One of the negative consequences of HOPE that has been found empirically is that HOPE has actually led to lower tuition increases in Georgia than in other states,” said David Mustard, a professor of economics specializing in both educa-tion and law.

Mustard pointed to the fact that dur-ing down periods in the economy, Georgia is unable to shift resources away from education by lowering subsidies and increasing tuition.

“When the state is also paying for a large fraction of the students, it’s politi-cally more difficult to do that because they’re still on the hook for the money,” he said. “It removes a degree of flexibility that the state has during difficult budget times.”

This inflexibility has meant that Georgia universities historically have had tuition rates that are too low. When other schools have large tuition increas-es, universities in Georgia have kept tuition down, and the effects have accu-mulated over time.

This difference will not last much lon-ger.

“I certainly expect there to be some significant tuition increase,” Mustard said. “It’s going to be bigger than the historical trend. It’s not going to be a single-digit increase, would be my best guess.”

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Milby said he estimates the fee will raise approximately $170,000 per year.

However, green fees are not a new idea.

Approximately 100 green fees are now in place in universities around the country, and Milby said the University’s green fee was modeled after schools such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

At UNC, the organiza-tion spearheading the cam-pus’ green initiatives is the Renewable Energy Special Projects Committee.

“We have a lot of schools that contact us about the green fee,” said Erin Hiatt, the committee’s co-chair. “The reason I believe this has been so successful is because we meet with advisers that have been really prominent in the community at UNC. It adds a whole level of credibility to it because we have peo-ple within the administra-tion backing up our proj-ects.”

UNC also held a referen-dum, and in the spring of 2003, the university passed a $4 green fee, which raises about $200,000 per year.

One of UNC’s projects is placing solar panels on top of dormitories. The UNC committee is also looking at technology that would turn the lights and fans off in elevators when they aren’t in use.

“Traditionally, our group was only allowed to use funds towards actual phys-ical renewal energy proj-ects,” Hiatt said. “Now, the energy-efficiency compo-nent has really been what’s made us particularly useful to the school because we’re doing projects that have much faster payback.”

Though the University followed in UNC’s foot-steps, Georgia Tech is closely looking at the University’s moves.

Four semesters ago, Georgia Tech’s Students Organiz ing for Sustainability program sent out surveys to stu-dents asking them how much money they would devote to a green fee.

“We got a really good response from the stu-dents, but we were told by our Student Government Association that it wasn’t going to be possible because the Board of Regents wasn’t going to approve it, so that kind of

stopped us dead in our tracks,” said Molly McLaughlin, vice-president of SOS. “But now that we found out UGA has just passed a green fee, we’re all pretty excited because that means if the Board of Regents hasn’t stopped you, that means they won’t stop us either.”

Although Georgia Tech already has an Office of Sustainability, McLaughlin said the office just does procedural things. The members of SOS want a fee to fund some of the projects they have in mind.

She said the surveys indicated students would be willing to pay an aver-age of $8, but she does not think the fee would end up being nearly as much due to the financial climate.

University of Virginia students have proposed the establishment of a “Green Initiative Funding Tomorrow,” which would support green initiative projects proposed by stu-dents and faculty. A few years ago, the committee proposed a $5 fee from stu-dents, but the attempt failed.

“While over 90 percent of the student body was in favor of the fee, the admin-istration was not comfort-able with this process,” said

Thushara Gunda, a mem-ber of UVA’s Environmental Sustainability Committee. “We want to make sure we won’t be imposing an addi-tional economic burden.”

The committee is now thinking of different ideas to propose to the adminis-tration. One includes ask-ing the administration to reallocate some of the unused fees students pay in the beginning of the year toward a sustainability fund, and Gunda said she believes good communica-tion between students and faculty is a must.

“The way we’re envision-ing it, it wouldn’t be purely a student project,” she said. “We would promote projects that show collabo-ration between students and university staff.”

At the University, col-laboration has effectively allowed students to insti-tute a green fee, and Milby is looking forward to stu-dents working closely with the Office of Sustainability.

“It’s such a little price for such a good thing for the University in the long run,” Milby said. “Personally, I feel like this office is a great resource for the University, and it really puts us in the league of other top universities around the country.”

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Courtesy of Munir winkel

Student volunteers work to clear land for the playground and soccer fields they are building for a tutoring center in a local mobile home community.

By KATIE WEISETHE RED & BLACK

Turning a field of trash, rotting tires, poison ivy and thorny brush into a play-ground might seem like a daunting task, but thanks to a group of student volun-teers it will soon be a reality.

The International Events Association, a student-run service organization, helps recruit tutors for Oasis Católico Santa Rafaela, a tutoring center located in Pinewood Mobile Home Community. Oasis is designed to help local Latino children with their homework in an English-speaking environment to improve their speaking skills and help them gain self-confidence.

IAE also aims to continuously improve the landscape conditions at the tutoring center.

“After tutoring, the children spend an hour playing outside, and unfortunately their outdoor facilities are extremely lacking,” said Leyu Wondwossen, sociol-ogy major and site leader for the alter-native spring break program. “Tree stumps, hard uneven earth and an out-dated plastic playground are not what the children of Oasis deserve.”

The volunteers dream of building a playground, soccer field and fenced play areas, and on Feb. 20, Beecham Builders took the first step for them, leveling and

clearing the area for the soccer field at no cost.

Lowe’s was also generous enough to offer materials for less than what they would cost in the store, said Nick Dubernard, business management major and director of public relations for IEA.

An average of 10 people help work on the project every Sunday, and they plan on working every weekend until it is fin-ished. To date, they have cleared more than 5,500 square feet of brush and poi-son ivy, removed two tree stumps, picked up trash and helped touch up the tutoring center, said Munir Winkel, math major and president and founder of IEA.

“Our members and our volunteers will not walk away from this project until its completion,” Wondwossen said. “It really has become a labor of love. We have shared so many bonding move-ments with each other and the children who sometimes come to visit while we work.”

IAE is looking for more volunteers, especially those with landscaping, turf-grass management or construction expertise, Winkel said. They meet at 1:45 p.m. outside the Tate parking deck on Sundays.

“As students, we often feel helpless in trying to reverse many social inequali-ties. We may not be able to change the world, but we can change one person’s world,” Wondwosson said. “We can make their life a little brighter or a little easier, and we can all do that.”

Students build play area, soccer field for mentees Local contractors level land for free

GREEN: Fees a trend across U.S.MAKING THE GREEN GRADE

Source: The College Sustainability Report Card

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIAOVERALL GRADE: C

The Go Green Alliance represents many of the student green initiatives on campus, serving as an umbrella organization for several groups. The school has two LEED-certified buildings and three construction projects are pending certification. University buses carry more than nine million riders per year, and students can also ride on the Athens-Clarke County bus sys-tem to get to many areas of campus.

GEORGIA TECHOVERALL GRADE: B

Campus policy states all new buildings on campus must meet or exceed LEED silver standards, and six buildings on campus have been renovated to meet this requirement. The student group Students Organizing for Sustainability have implemented initiatives such as a bike rental program and a zero-waste dining program. As for transportation, 27 percent of cam-pus vehicles use alternative fuels.

THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAOVERALL GRADE: B-

At the school, all new construction must meet LEED requirements. A sus-tainability-themed residence hall houses 200 students, and first-year resi-dents compete to reduce their consumption of electricity. The University has 74 biodiesel-fueled vehicles, and carpoolers can receive discounted or free parking permits.

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINAOVERALL GRADE: A-

A new building on the school’s campus has reached LEED platinum sta-tus, and silver status is required for all new buildings. In the dining halls, students engage in trayless dining, which reduces water consumption by roughly 12,000 gallons per week. Energy consumption per square foot has decreased by 12 percent since 2003.

The University has given out grades to students for decades, but now it’s the school’s turn to get a report card. The College Sustainability Report Card surveys colleges and universities across the nation and assigns them grades based on their environmental sustainability efforts. Responses to questions in categories such as transportation, student involvement and green building contribute to the school’s overall letter grade. Four schools are compared below.

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What: 9th Annual Karaoke For KidsWhere: Transmet, 145 Clayton St.When: 10 p.m.Price: $3 entrance fee, $15 per team, $1 a songVerdict: Embarrass yourself for charity. Proceeds go to the March of Dimes and the Georgia Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Contact: Cassie Leonard at cassie@uga.edu

What: Civil Rights, Religious Liberty, Gay Equality LectureWho: William Eskridge Jr, Yale Law School Professor of Jurisprudence

Where: Classroom A of the School of Law When: 3:30 p.m.Verdict: We’ve come a long way in civil rights, but we have a long way to go. Contact: Cindy Rice, 706-542-5172

What: Google Tools - Get OrganizedWhere: MLC 370When: 7 – 8 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: You could google how to use iGoogle, or you could just attend this Googling workshop. Contact: ccason@uga.edu

What: Lecture: B-Girling—A ‘‘Herstory’’ of Hip Hop Dance and

CultureWhere: New Dance Theatre, Dance BuildingWhen: 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: Dance artist Teena Marie will teach you hip hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat. Contact: 706-542-2846, tlhat@uga.edu

Who: MimosaWhere: New Earth Music HallWhen: 9 p.m.Price: $8Verdict: Mimosa is one crunked up punk ready to get you musi-cally drunk. Contact: www.new-earthmusichall.com

What: Gubernatorial DebateWhere: Chapel

When: Republican candidates at 6 p.m. Democratic candidates debate at 8 p.m.Verdict: Be proactive by learning about the candidates for Governor. Contact dougherk@uga.edu

What: iFilms: “Second Skin”Where: Athens Public LibraryWhen: 7 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: It’s embarrassing to find out your nemesis is a ten-year-old kid, but what if you find your soul mate through online Halo? This film will illustrate how online gaming can change your life.

What: Engineering at the Interface Seminar ‘Advances in Ecosytem Restoration’Who: Greg Jennings of North

Carolina State UniversityWhen: 2 p.m.Where: Driftmier Engineering Center AuditoriumPrice: FreeVerdict: It’s never too late to stop the destruction of our ecosystem. Contact: Mark Risse, mrisse@engr.uga.edu

What: March Madness and Third Thursday: Coweta and Fayette Counties Alumni Chapter MeetingWhere: Jekyll & Hyde’s, 10 The Boulevard, NewnanWhen: 6:30 p.m.Verdict: Local graduates unite for a campaign to donate pet food to the Georgia Heartland Humane Society in honor of Uga. Contact 706-542-2251, tgardner@uga.edu

The Red & Black’s event guide to happenings — news, variety and sports — in and around Athens from March 18 - March 24.

Compiled by Michael ProchaskaDesigned by Ana Kabakova

PICK OF THE WEEK: The Junior League

of Athens Bargainza

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure at the Farmer’s Hardware Building this weekend. For a much safer and cleaner treasure-hunting experience, climb out of that Russell Hall Dumpster and pick out a mishmash of random personal valuables at the Junior League of Athens Bargainza. Normal shopping con-ventions become null and void at this thrift store extravaganza. There is only one unspoken rule for shoppers to follow: stay clear of undergarments. For everything else, you can’t find better bar-gains.

Where: Farmer’s Hardware Building, 2555 Lexington RoadWhen: Friday preview: 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. and Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.Price: $3 to $6

THURSDAYWhat: Athens Music Collective (AMC) round robin showcase concertWho: Various artistsWhere: 40 WattWhen: 9:15 p.m.Price: $6/$8Verdict: Jam out to local bands and enter for a chance to win an R.E.M. auto-graphed guitar. All proceeds to go GoARTS, a charity that gives opportunities to under-privileged children in Athens

What: Parthemos Lecture: “What Can We Do About Climate Change?”Who: Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in EconomicsWhere: Chapel, reception in Demosthenian HallWhen: 10:30 a.m.Verdict: Global warming awareness doesn’t have to be all talk and no show. Contact 706-542-9295

What: ‘The Naked Truth: Safer Sex Marketing Schemes Revealed’ LectureWho: Katy Janousek of the University Health CenterWhere: 214 MLCWhen: 12:20 – 1:10 p.m.Verdict: They say if you pack it in plastic, it’ll be fantastic. Discover how safe sex mar-keting works. Contact 706-542-2846, tlhat@uga.edu

What: Men’s Tennis vs. Southern CaliforniaWhere: Dan Magill Tennis ComplexWhen: 2:30 p.m.Price: FreeContact: 706-542-1231, www.georgiadogs.com

Who: Steven R. Wilson, Purdue UniversityWhere: 150 MLCWhen: 3 – 4 p.m.Verdict: Learn how to protect the youth of America by sim-ply speaking. Contact als219@uga.edu

What: Globe LectureWho: Laura Pulido, professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at University of South CarolinaWhere: 200 C. Geography-Geology buildingWhen: 3:30 p.m.Verdict: Pulido will talk about the Mexican American racial identity. Contact 706-542-1753

What: Baseball vs. AuburnWhere: Foley Field, CSS-TVWhen: 7 p.m.Price: $5 ($8 reserved seats), free for studentsContact: 706-542-1231, www.georgiadogs.cm

What: Observatory Open House.Where: Physics Building RoofWhen: 9 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: Take your significant other stargazing; it trumps movie and a dinner any day. Contact: www.physast.uga.edu/~star/schedule.html

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What: Panther Creek Day HikeWhere: Meet at Ramsey Student CenterWhen: 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.Price: $30 faculty and staff; $25 UGA studentsVerdict: No treadmill at Ramsey

can give as much pleasure as a North Georgia hike and picnic lunch at a waterfall can. Contact 706-542-8030

What: Baseball vs. AuburnWhere: Foley Field

When: 3 p.m.Price: $5 ($8 reserved seats)Contact: 706-542-1231, www.georgiadogs.com

What: “Starry, Starry Night” Benefit Auction for Prevent Child Abuse AthensWhere: Athens Country Club, 2700 Jefferson Road

When: 6 p.m.Price: $100Verdict: Charity comes in all shapes and forms. Who knew an auctioned painting could save a child from abuse?

What: Family Day: Spring FestivalWhere: Lamar Dodd School of

Art.When: 10 a.m. – noonVerdict: Love seeing dogs play poker? Come to this art class featuring animals in art. Contact 706-542-4662, collardj@uga.edu

What: Performance: I Musici de Montreal

Where: Hodgson Concert Hall.When: Contact 706-542-4400,Price: $25 or $30Verdict: If you’re broke, you may not be able to enjoy baroque music, but for $25 this chamber ensemble will please your ears.Contact: 706.546.9713.

What: Men’s Tennis vs. ArkansasWhere: Dan Magill Tennis ComplexWhen: 1 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: Contact 706-542-1231

What: Baseball vs. AuburnWhere: Foley FieldWhen: 2 p.m.Price: $5 ($8 reserved seats),

free for studentsContact 706-542-1231, www.georgiadogs.com

What: Women’s History Month Program: “The Life and Legacy of Jeannette Rankin – Her Passion for Peace”Where: Oconee County Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, WatkinsvilleWhen: 3 – 5 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: Rankin was the first woman to be elected to the

House of Representatives and the only member of Congress to vote against World War II. Contact 706-542-0066, tlhat@uga.edu

What: Panther Creek Falls Hiking ClassesWhere: Sandy Creek Park, 400 Bob Holman Rd.When: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.Price: $20 ACC resident, $30 non-residentVerdict: Never have witnessed a miracle? Then you haven’t seen

the beauty of North Georgia nature trails. Contact: 706-613-3631

What: Reception: Youth Art Month ExhibitionWhere: Third floor, Lamar Dodd School of ArtWhen: 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: There is no age limit to natural talent. Picasso started painting at age 8. Contact 706-542-1511, artinfo@uga.edu

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SUNDAY

What: Authors Discussion Series: Georgia Writers Hall of FameWhere: Third Floor Reading Room, MLCWhen: 4 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: Ray Bradbury once said you must stay drunk on writing

so reality cannot destroy you. These Georgia writers were never sober from lack of good writing. Contact 706-542-3879, lnessel@uga.edu

What: Crash SeminarWhere: G23 Aderhold HallWhen: Noon – 1 p.m.Verdict: Analyze the race, class, and gender issues embedded in this Oscar-winning film. Contact 706-542-6446

What: Workshop: Find Stuff You’ll LoveWhere: 369 MLCWhen: 7 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: Think the school library is all academia and no fun? Come to this workshop to see what cool stuff you can find in north campus. Contact amy-watts@uga.edu

What: Women’s History Month

Keynote Address: “Too Little, Too Late – Changes in the Legal Status of U.S. Women”Where: Chapel, Reception and book signing follows in Demosthenian Hall.When: 3 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: Historian Joan Hoof wants students to know the fight for women’s rights is far from over. Contact 706-542-0066, tlhat@uga.edu

MONDAY

What: University Theatre perfor-mance: The Rez SistersWhere: University of Georgia Performing Arts CenterWhen: 8 p.m.Price: $8Verdict: Seven desperate women gamble in a bingo game for a chance of freedom from tortured life. Contact 706-542-2838

What: Orienteering and Geocaching ClinicWhere: Ramsey Student Center room 114When: 6 – 10 p.m.Price: $20; $15 faculty and staff; $10 UGA studentsVerdict: If you’re tired of playing ninjas or zombies, try technolog-ically-inclined land pirates hunt-ing for buried treasure! Contact 706-542-8030

What: Student Government MeetingWhere: 148 MLCWhen: 7 p.m.Verdict: The last SGA meeting was crucial in fighting against the state’s budget cuts. This one will be a step up in finding solu-tions that could save jobs and your academic career. Contact ugasgaexec@gmail.com

What: Performance: Monteverdi’s Vespero della Beata Virgine (Vespers of 1610)Where: Hodgson Concert Hall,When: 8 p.m.Verdict: The University Choir will bring euphony to your ears with this 400th anniversary of the classic baroque composition. Contact 706-542-2797, manda-ya@uga.edu

What: Hope Ritter Lecture: “Stem Cells to Create a

Pancreas and Recreate Human Diabetes”Where: 404E Biological Sciences BuildingWhen: 4 p.m.Verdict: Michael J. Fox can’t answer all your questions, but Douglas Melton of Harvard University can. Contact 706-542-3383, head@cb.uga.edu

What: Visiting Artist Lecture: Dave HickeyWhere: S151 Lamar Dodd School of ArtWhen: 5:30 p.m.Price: FreeVerdict: Dave Hickory of the University of Las Vegas teaches how art is can or cannot be a gamble. Contact 706-542-1511, artinfo@uga.edu

What: 2010 Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard Lecture SeriesWhere: Chapel. Reception fol-lows in Demosthenian HallWhen: 5:30 p.m.

Price: FreeVerdict: Get a shot of researcher Julie Jacobson’s study of new vaccines. Contact 706-542-5038, murrayd@uga.edu

What: Discussion: Let’s Talk About it! Making the Invisible, Visible. Advocating in the ClassroomWhere: 147 MLCWhen: 6:30 – 8 p.m.Verdict: Witness college life through the eyes of diverse stu-dents in the LGBT center. Contact 706-542-4077 lgbt@uga.edu

What: Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Induction CeremonyWhere: Rotunda, fourth floor, MLCWhen: 10:30 a.m.Verdict: Support University pro-fessors Judith Cofer and Philip Williams as they are inducted into this prestigious organization. Contact 706-542-3879, lnes-sel@uga.edu

TUESDAY

What: Softball vs. Florida StateWhere: Complex, 2330 S. Milledge AvenueWhen: 5 p.m.Price: FreeContact: 706-542-1621, www.georgiadogs.com

What: Baseball vs. FurmanWhere: Foley FieldWhen: 5 p.m.Price: $5, $8 reserved seatsContact: 706-542-1231, www.georgiadogs.com

What: Film and Panel Discussion: Who Does She Think She Is?Where: 151 Lamar Dodd School of Art

When: 4 p.m.Verdict: Five female artists talk about their diverse racial and religious backgrounds. Contact 706-542-4662, collardj@uga.edu

What: 3rd Annual Osteoporosis FairWho: Hosted by Delta Phi Lambda SocietyWhere: Tate LawnWhen: All DayPrice: FreeVerdict: Don’t make osteoporo-sis your fortune. Stop by and play a nutritional version of Wheel of Fortune to learn how to prevent the disease. Contact: www.uga.edu/deltaphilambda

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There is chirping from across the state: Should Georgia change the state bird from the brown thrasher to the Cornish chicken? It’s an issue that is dividing Georgians between tradi-tion and progression. And the editorial board has a strong opinion on the matter.

WHO CARES???Universities are losing millions in funding.

Unemployment has spiraled into the double dig-its. Sarah Palin has set herself up for a presiden-tial bid in 2012.

We have bigger problems.How many times have you questioned the

legitimacy of the brown thrasher as Georgia’s top feathered friend? How many times have you wrestled with the possibility that somewhere out there — flying proudly in the Peach State sky — there could be a more superior winged beast?

Thoughts such as those are about as rare as a parking space downtown on St. Patrick’s Day.

We don’t mean to ruffle the feathers of any ardent Cornish chicken supporters, but the edi-torial board believes there are bigger issues on the table than feather — we mean whether — a brown thrasher or a Cornish chicken is men-tioned on Georgia’s Wikipedia page.

That, and we don’t want to cheer on a Georgia hockey team called the “Chickens.” The rest of the country thinks we’re hillbilly enough as it is.

One resident’s initiative to flip the bird is an ill-timed, trivial, bird-brained idea, especially when the state is grappling with more important worries.

And don’t get us started on the state tree.

— Daniel Burnett for the editorial board

Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board

Bird-brained ideaThe state of Georgia faces bigger problems than changing state bird

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The 2005 biopic “Capote” recently arrived to my house via Netflix per my request.

I’d seen it once before and I wanted my roommates to check it out. After hearing their mostly positive reviews, I started thinking about the increasingly common art of turning books into movies.

I have always been particularly critical when it comes to movie adaptations of books. My English minor shows my bias, but this medi-um-changing practice has become more and more common.

Four of the 10 movies nomi-nated for Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards were based on books.

“The Blind Side” is based on a 2006 novel by Michael Lewis, titled “The Blind Side: Evolution of A Game.” Novelist Nick Hornby adapted British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir “An Education” into a film. “Up In The Air” was first a novel by Walter Kirn, and “Precious” was first the novel “Push” by Sapphire.

All of these films are wonder-ful and obviously, reputable. They serve as book-turned-movie success stories.

Last year’s Oscars were no different. Three of the five Best Picture nominees were first literary works. The winner in the category, “Slumdog Millionaire” was a novel written by Vikas Swarup in 2008.

There are countless examples of books turned into good and bad films. It wouldn’t be difficult to

name 20 or 30 instantly if asked. How about the Harry Potter, Twilight and Lord of the Rings series? All fiction turned cinema.

Some of my favorite novels have been created for the big screen, much to my fright and sometimes, my dismay.

Luckily, a few of them have revered the book I first loved; some have even made the experience of reading the novel that much better.

Both film adaptations of Ian McEwan’s “Atonement” and Jeffery Eugenides’s “ The Virgin Suicides” did just that.

And I can think of one that absolutely horrified me, and took forever to leave my mind: Sam Mendes’s movie adaptation of Richard Yates’s brilliant novel “Revolutionary Road” (although many liked it).

It takes a special movie to pull off a successful adaptation because for every one of the great movies that found their roots in a book,

there is a handful of bad ones. Most everyone can relate to the

feeling of one of his or her favorite novels turned into a wretched film, and the aftertaste can be pretty bit-ter.

The worst part about the book-turned-movie process is the inevi-table redesigned, “Now A Major Motion Picture” book edition.

The agents and movie people get a hold of the book’s cover and turn it into a publicity vehicle. They’re usually placed front and center in the bookstore, hiding the original, artful edition, or worse, the store carries none of the old editions at all.

Regardless, a great movie — from wherever its story is derived — is a great movie. Movies encompass all the elements missing from books — striking visuals, beautiful actors, stunning music.

The movie version provides an hour-and-a-half escape from the world, an experience that may require more than a month of time if you read the book.

But there is something remark-able about a novel’s power to create for its reader a completely imagined world, one where the reader dreams up the 3-D version.

Of course, movies are beautiful, moving and significant, but when it comes to choosing the movie or the book, I’ll pick the book every time.

— Maggie Summers is a

senior from Chicago majoring in magazines

Novels always trump film adaptationsMAGGIE SUMMERS

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The latest studies indicate tomorrow’s psycho killers are being trained not in some

dank Saudi bunker, but in our very own living rooms.

A statistical analysis of 130 stud-ies from the U.S., Europe and Japan suggests playing violent video games increases aggression and decreases empathy.

Video games have long been a boogeyman to many interest groups worried about the mental stability of children.

I won’t argue that this concern is entirely unreasonable.

It’s justifiable to be worried that kids are learning from such games as “Grand Theft Auto” or “Gears of War” that violence is the only way to resolve conflict.

What shouldn’t be overlooked, though, is the potential for video games to teach the capacity to love as well. Love — for spouse, nation, friends and family — often acts as a motivating force for many char-acters to battle harsh elements, treacherous terrain and sinister enemies.

The recently released “Final Fantasy XIII” is a perfect example of such a tale.

Character Serah Farron is a wide-eyed teenage girl whose mind is fixed solely on her impending first term at college.

While on summer vacation, she falls for the rugged, headstrong Snow Villiers. He’s also the valiant leader of the guerilla resistance group Team NORA (what girl doesn’t like a bad boy, right?).

When the god-like entity Anima forces Serah into servitude, Snow resorts to extraordinary measures.

He fights waves of the totalitar-ian government’s elite forces, slays hordes of fearsome beasts and even journeys to see Anima and offer to take Serah’s place.

It’s not surprising this tale ema-nated from Square Enix, the studio that produced such romances as that of Squall Leonhart and Rinoa Heartilly.

He’s a gruff, stoic orphan/loner. She’s a spunky, affectionate rebel daughter of a general.

When Ultimecia, a sorceress from the future, possesses Rinoa, Squall resolves to fight for her, even as the rest of the world reviles her as a harbinger of doom. Squall travels through time to vanquish Ultimecia and save his beloved.

Or what about the tragedy of

Zack Fair and Aerith Gainsborough? He’s a plucky, machismo-infused

soldier for Shinra, industrial con-glomerate and de facto governing body of the planet. She’s a demure, cherubic girl who grows flowers in the slums.

After Zack witnesses a scandal involving the organization’s top operative, Shinra imprisons him to keep the debacle under wraps. Zack escapes after four years and flees to Aerith while Shinra’s army merci-lessly pursues him.

At the game’s climax, Zack is gunned down by his former com-rades just miles away from Aerith, who still tends flowers in anticipa-tion of his return.

Couples such as Link and Zelda from “The Legend of Zelda” series, Wander and Mono from “Shadow of the Colossus” and Raiden and Rose from the “Metal Gear Solid” series also overcome titanic obstacles to be together.

These stories emphasize the indomitable will to combat all the forces — an evil sorceress or a dispute about whose turn it is to load the dishwasher — that stand between you and the one you love.

Not all games feature this kind of depth and complexity in plot, but the point remains that games can impart positive lessons.

They can inspire us to be like Snow. He dauntlessly battles insur-mountable odds and makes Serah his forever.

That’s an example I’d like my kid to follow.

— Michael Yu is a senior

from Houston, Texas, majoring in newspapers

MICHAELYU

Video games teach more than violence

“What shouldn’t be overlooked, though, is the

potential for video games to teach the capacity to love as

well. Love — for spouse, nation, friends and family — often acts as a motivating

force for many characters to battle harsh elements,

treacherous terrain and sinister enemies.”

“Some of my favorite novels have been created for the big screen, much

to my fright and sometimes, my dismay.”

Eighty-four. The num-ber holds great sig-nificance for me.

Is it the age I’ll retire? Not likely.

The number of cats I’ll have one day? Maybe.

The number of times I will hold my breath while anxiously snaking up and down the Hull Street Deck, hoping desperately to make it in or out alive? Yeah, that’s it.

My fellow deck park-ers have no regard for my twice-daily — four on Thursdays — panic attacks as they careen around corners, almost taking the front-end off my beloved Volvo, Eileen — which I had way before Edward Cullen was a flicker in Stephenie Meyer’s mind.

They speed despite the “Caution: Two-Way Traffic” signs and give not so much as an apologetic wave or even a second glance for almost T-boning me as they back out of their parking spots with-out bothering to look both ways.

Of course, it’s hard to see both ways when a behemoth of a truck is parked beside you, stick-ing out a good two feet past where any regular car would.

Parking in the deck makes me so nervous that I occasionally pass up open spaces for one that has a little more elbow room.

Efficient? No. But I’m willing to trade efficiency

for peace of mind.I’m not asking for the

moon. I’m just pleading for everyone who parks in the decks to be a little more considerate, even careful. The deck is dangerous enough without reckless driving.

Imagine the horror of an accident in the deck. If you think it cuts into your precious time to stop and let someone back out safely, think how long you would be waiting if a tow truck had to drag a crum-pled car down six levels of sharp turns.

Let’s face it: after you get out of the deck, you’re going to be stuck for ages trying to turn onto Baxter Street anyway.

So why not build up some good driving karma? Let someone out today, get a really awesome space tomorrow.

In the meantime, the Volvo driver turning on her blinker before going around a corner or pass-ing open space after open space is probably me.

Don’t be mad. Be glad I’m parking far away from you.

— Paige Bowman is a

senior from Duluth majoring in magazines

and film studies

PAIGE BOWMAN

Exiting the parking decks is not a race

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By MICHELLE BENNETTFOR THE RED & BLACK

Musician Kyshona Armstrong is bringing soul, heart and a little bit of raw pain to Terrapin Beer Company today.

“I consider myself a soulful folk singer,” Armstrong said. “People who have heard us say we have an acoustic soul and blues roots sound.”

Armstrong will be sing-ing and playing the guitar today with her bassist, Paul Thorton, and drum-mer Dylan Clarke. Her close fans and friends lov-ingly refer to the trio as “Kyshona and the guys.”

Armstrong said she is excited to return to Terrapin for nearly the tenth time and plans to appeal to a variety of audience desires.

“I try to be a crowd pleaser and get people pumped up, but I also like to play my originals for people,” Armstrong said. “We’ll be doing anything from Janice Joplin to Bon Jovi to my grandfather’s songs that he wrote.”

However, cover songs are not the only tunes on her set list. Armstrong will also perform some of her original songs for the crowd. One of the original pieces she will play tonight is titled, “The Voices.”

“It’s talking about how our kids have so much they have to hear and how they are being bom-barded with messages from TV and the radio,” Armstrong said. “It’s all those voices in their heads telling them how to act.”

“Music” is another orig-inal Armstrong will per-form.

“‘Music’ is my anthem to the music yesterday that was positive and wasn’t a bunch of mess promoting promiscuity and violence,” Armstrong said.

Many of Armstrong’s lyrics make reference to the constant influences that bombard today’s youth.

“She is not afraid to express pain and she wears her life on her sleeves in her songs but she also gives a hopeful message,” said Paul Reeves, one of Armstrong’s fellow musi-cians and songwriter.

Armstrong’s vocals and personality are both earn-ing her a spot as a regular at Terrapin.

“She is local, and that is what we love about her. She is a singer-songwriter, and we like musicians who have their own music,” said Irina Cochran, event coordina-tor at Terrapin. “She is also a great fan favorite. People always have great comments about her sound, talent and style of music. We bring her back here because the crowd loves her.”

Reeves not only praises Armstrong’s messages but also her vocals.

“The cool thing about Kyshona is that I haven’t seen too many young, contemporary, soulful African-American singers, especially ones who play guitar,” Reeves said. “There is only one other person I know that I think can sing as well as she can. Her voice is so unbe-lievable she doesn’t even need to play the guitar.”

Kyshona is not just a soulful singer with hopeful lyrics. She also imple-ments her life experiences into her music career.

“All my music focuses on the youth and their struggles and that they do have something wise to say even though they’re young, they do have sto-ries we all need to hear.”

Armstrong said she faced difficulties in the past that led her to focus on the therapeutic aspect of music.

This desire led to Armstrong’s degree in music therapy and career as a therapist.

“I have had past expe-riences that have made me want to help others and to help perpetrators because they have a rea-son why they do what they do.”

Although Reeves and Cochran said Armstrong has various things to

bring to the music indus-try table, her vocals remain the bait to reel in the listener.

“Her vocals are soulful, warm-sounding — they feel like and sound like a song that would come off an old record player,” Reeves said. “The main thing is that her voice is out of control.”

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Local musician to bring soulful voice to brewery

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Kyshona Armstrong, a soulful singer/guitarist from Athens, returns to Terrapin Beer Company.

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8 | Thursday, March 18, 2010 | The Red & Black SPORTS & VARIETY

By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK

Georgia’s offensive line was expected to be the strength of the team dur-ing the 2009 season.

And it was — for the last seven games.

But those first six games were like night and day.

The offensive line was never able to get in a flow, and the running game floundered, forcing Georgia to abandon bal-ance and put the ball in the air far more often than offensive coordinator Mike Bobo ever wanted.

The difference in the latter half?

Freshman running back Washaun Ealey, right?

Ealey helped, but the main difference was the return of right tackle

Josh Davis. Davis was unable to

play the first six games while recovering from off-season shoulder surgery and made his season debut at Vanderbilt, a game in which Georgia ran for 173 yards, its highest rushing output up to that point in the season.

“It was big. We looked at the games where he started for us and how we ran the ball. It was an almost 100-yards-a-game difference,” head coach Mark Richt said. “I think when you get five guys across the board that real-ly know what they’re doing, and play with the kind of effort and attitude that they had, it makes a big difference, and we just could not get the continu-ity without him.

“I think a lot of the

pieces of the puzzle were together, but when Josh came in, it kind of made the fifth guy that could really play in synch and coordination.”

The numbers don’t lie.

Without Davis, Georgia ran for just 697 yards in six games.

With Davis, the Bulldogs ran for 1,396 yards in seven games.

“That was the same lineup we had a year earlier, so I think we had all played well together before, and we got together and decid-ed we were going to do something and we weren’t

going to be just a 100-yard-a-game rusher,” he said. “We were going to actually get some yards in the run game, and we just came together with conti-nuity and decided we wanted to do it as a team.”

Added left tackle Clint Boling: “Having Josh helped out a lot. He’s a really good player, he plays hard, he knows what to do and just those things alone will help the running game get better.”

Continuity shouldn’t be a prob-lem this season as

Georgia returns all five starters from the latter half of the season, which should serve as a tremen-dous advantage for which-ever first-year starter

opens the season at quar-terback. And that’s not even factoring in the potential return of Trinton Sturdivant, who is expect-ed to be fully healthy at the start of the season from his second straight season-ending knee injury — a possibility Bobo says the coaching staff is view-ing “as a luxury.”

“I feel good about where we’re at right now as a unit,” Bobo said of his offensive line. “I think those guys that finished the season played well together, communicated well together, and they’re taking a lot of pride in the way they are leading the football team right now. It’s good to see that out there — a lot of guys that care and have ability, and that’s usually a good reci-pe for success up front.”

Experienced linemen crucial for run game

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and more, Diaz and his brother began playing on the junior tennis circuit in the States for weeks at a time during the summer. Starting at 14 years old, traveling was a molding experience for Diaz and a tradition he kept each year until beginning college.

“It was a big part of my grow-ing up. A lot of those trips, I was on my own, self-sufficient, inde-pendent. You had to fend for your-self. You learn to make decisions,” Diaz said.

When Diaz turned 17, former Georgia All-American Tony Ortiz became Van Horn’s assistant. After Ortiz described his time at the University, Diaz became inter-ested in the prospect and made an unannounced visit. During the trip, then-head coach Dan Magill offered Diaz a full scholarship based on Ortiz’s recommenda-tion.

Though Diaz enjoyed the visit and had traveled to the U.S. for all those summers, the actual move to Athens involved major adjust-ment. Spanish was his primary language in San Juan, though he knew English and could speak it. His schools were American, his textbooks in English — since Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory — but living in the South was a new, foreign world.

“[I faced] new food, new lan-guage, new climate, new person-alities. People here were very hos-pitable, just great to me, but it was still a long way away from home. I was very homesick,” Diaz said.

After his first semester away at college, Diaz returned home for the holiday break. He pulled his father to the side and said he did not want to return to the University.

“I thank my dad for this, he didn’t budge an inch. He said, ‘You gave them your word, you signed the scholarship, you com-mitted, you finish the year.’ ... Once spring started, spring sprung. It was warm and we start-ed playing dual matches and big crowds in the stands, and all of the sudden you became recog-nized. I loved it,” Diaz said.

In Magill’s book, “Match Pointers,” Magill describes Diaz’s

signature “monster serve,” as an integral part of his game. Diaz played on court one his sopho-more and senior year. When he played on court six as a freshman, Magill noticed his anxiety com-peting on the new stage.

“His main weakness as a fresh-man was nervousness. He tried too hard and was uptight that he had frequent nose bleeding, and we always had to have a roll of toilet paper courtside,” Magill wrote.

With the season’s pace picking up and time passing, Diaz became accustomed to his new environ-ment. He began to learn English more fluently and understand the town and its people better. He also picked up a role model in Magill, along with an ability to cope with his nerves.

“I blossomed as a person here. As a freshman, I didn’t come in here with all these leadership skills — that was just not me. I hope everybody finds a mentor like I did in coach Magill, and all I’m trying to do is be a little bit of that to our guys,” Diaz said.

Senior Jamie Hunt — who clinched the 500th victory against Vanderbilt — has found Diaz to be significantly influential during his four years in college. Hunt’s story mirrors Diaz’s, in that playing col-lege tennis changed him as both a player and a person.

“I came in a little 18-year-old, snotty tennis player who thought he knew everything about every-thing. [Diaz] just taught me a lot about how to be a better person, how to be a better teammate. He’s just been a great, not only coach, but role model,” said Hunt, who describes Diaz as a calm, relaxed figure during matches.

After suffering a shoulder inju-ry his senior year, Diaz rested and rehabbed for two years after grad-uation.

He slowly began competing as a pro. He beat four players ranked in the top 50 in the world and reached No. 250, but his shoulder never fully recovered, halting his career.

Diaz moved back to Puerto Rico in 1981 and began coaching at a resort. Only a few months into his new job, his former coach called to offer him the assistant coach position. Diaz thanked him

and declined. He lived close to his family for the first time in years. His paychecks were good. His life was settled.

But Magill’s phone calls per-sisted.

Diaz began to reconsider, with Magill pointing his attention to the future. He realized he may not want to coach at a resort long term.

He began as the assistant coach in 1982 and took over as head coach in the fall of 1988. Magill finished 34 years with a 706-183 record and two national championships. Diaz wanted to maintain the tradition Magill began, while also introducing his own style and ideas.

“I embraced being a part of this program as a player and then as an assistant and to me it was just a continuation, possibly a lit-tle bit different in flavor, but in many ways the same,” Diaz said.

Diaz’s commitment in both

continuing Magill’s success and to the team he once played for is a fundamental part of his life. As a husband and a father of three sons — his middle son, Eric, com-mitted last semester to playing for the team next year — Diaz feels his hectic life both on and off the court would be more difficult, if not for his love of his career.

He hopes his players will be influenced by their collegiate ten-nis experience as much as he was. Making an impact in his players’ lives is Diaz’s main goal, not win-ning percentages or setting per-sonal records like his 500 wins.

“Ultimately, in 100 years, no one will remember me anyway. People tend to forget. Records are meant to be broken, someone will hopefully take over the helm when I’m done and do a better job and continue what we have going for the program. It’s how you touch people’s lives that is lasting or not.”

DIAZ: Coach’s influence on players goes beyond courts

JON-MICHAEL SULLIVAN | The Red & Black

Manuel Diaz’s match-time demeanor is described as calm and relaxed by senior captain Jamie Hunt.

DAVIS

By MICHAEL PROCHASKATHE RED & BLACK

Only in a Broadway Musical would a widow be portrayed as merry, but put an operatic twist to a classic tale of romantic comedy and you get the sensation of the University’s Opera Ensemble.

Under the direction of Frederick Burchinal, the ensemble will be perform-ing an opera in only the loosest of terms.

“Although it is called an opera, it is basically what we are calling today ‘cross-over music,’” Burchinal said. “It also has quite a bit of dialogue and quite a bit of dancing … The sing-ing has to be sung [with] a legitimate style so it’s con-sidered an opera, but it has all the elements of what became Broadway musicals.”

Even the dialogue, writ-ten by Sheldon Harnick — most famous for “Fiddler on the Roof” — corre-sponds with the modern twist.

“The singing and music is very well-known music, so even if you don’t know the whole piece, I know that the audience is going to recognize a lot of the hit tunes,” Burchinal said.

Graduate student Kellie McHugh, who plays the character Valencienne, agreed and said the show is for people who don’t go to the opera, in order to get their feet wet.

Sung in English throughout, the opera focuses on two love stories in a fictitious country on the verge of bankruptcy.

In one, Count Danilo Danilovitsch contemplates making a move on his friend, who happens to be the newly-widowed Hannah Glawari.

“The reason she’s called the Merry Widow is because she married a very rich man in her country and a week later he died and left her all of his for-tunes,” Burchinal said, noting she is the only per-son who can save the nation from bankruptcy if she remarries a man who could inherit her money.

“I don’t really want to marry her because I don’t want it to look like I’m marrying her for money; I want it to look like I’m in love with her,” Asher Payne, a graduate student from Carnsville, said of his character Danilo. “My character is also kind of an ass because I’m stubborn and all I do is hang out with whores.”

The subplot of the story features a love triangle among Camille, a French diplomat; Baron Zeta, a French ambassador; and his beautiful wife Valencienne.

Essentially these com-plicated romance issues get resolved in an exten-sively elaborate comedy of errors. Audience members can expect a great deal of classic dramatic irony and use of props. One of the most memorable amusing-ly trivial props that becomes so crucial in tying the stories together is Camille’s fan.

“Camille writes on my fan ‘I love you’ and then loses the fan. I become worried my husband will find it and discover [my affair],” McHugh said. “When I finally rediscover the fan, I flip it over and write on the back ‘to my husband from his faithful wife’ to protect myself.”

The humorous scenari-os and portrayal of unre-quited love are achieved through more than just singing, however.

“An opera singer today must be as much an actor as he is a singer,” Burchinal said. “We have entered an age now when the fat lady with the horns and the spears is gone. You joke that the opera isn’t over until the fat lady sings. Well, she stopped singing.”

Story of widow depicted in opera

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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

SPORTS The Red & Black | Thursday, March 18, 2010 | 9

By ZACH DILLARDTHE RED & BLACK

With the All-Americans taking a night off, No. 6 Georgia softball still received All-American-type production in many of the usual places.

In the midst of a night-long drizzling rain, Georgia (20-3) was able to defeat Furman 8-0 on a run rule in the fifth inning.

The Bulldogs rested many of their lineup’s mainstays for the game, as seven non-starters took their positions in order to pro-vide rest before a weekend series against conference rival Tennessee.

But with the produc-tion provided from the new lineup against Furman (2-7), an untrained eye would be hard-pressed to notice any real differ-ences.

Junior Jennie Auger, who played in place of All-American center fielder Taylor Schlopy, led the still-dangerous Bulldog lineup by going 2-for-3 at the plate with a home run and three RBIs.

Although the Poway, Calif., native put up similar numbers to those Georgia is accustomed to with Schlopy, the outfielder claims there will be no position rivalry amongst the close friends.

“Oh no way — me and Tay are best friends, and I knew she was pulling for me just like I pull for her,” Auger said laughing. “I just felt the confidence from all my teammates behind me tonight, they made me feel like I could do anything.”

Sophomore ace pitcher Erin Arevalo earned her fifth complete game shutout of the season in the 8-0 victory, pushing her

record to 13-2. Arevalo tallied 10 strikeouts

while allowing only two hits, after a rough outing in the Alabama game Sunday.

“Erin is an awesome pitcher, and as an offense we have to put up runs to support her,” Auger said. “We’re just hitting as much as we can and we are never stop-ping.”

After shaking off the rust from a two-hour rain delay, the offense did not miss a beat from a group mainly comprised of back-ups.

Georgia was held score-less in the first inning but got on the board in the second as freshman Amberlie Saxton hit a solo shot for her third home run of the season.

The runs continued to pile up in the third inning as Auger sin-gled down the left field line to score shortstop Laura Trout. The Bulldogs would also score an unearned run on a groundout as well as an RBI double from Saxton to push the lead to 4-0.

Georgia would reach the run rule limit in the following frame — taking the 8-0 lead — high-lighted by Auger’s two-run home run over the left field fence. This marks the eleventh game the Bulldogs have won in less than seven innings in 2010.

Georgia will now look forward to their three-game weekend series against the Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville starting Friday.

Starters get rest as back-ups post victory

SOFTBALL Georgia 8, Furman 0

By DAVID MITCHELLTHE RED & BLACK

Lisa Caprioglio walked into the Ramsey Center wearing her team-issued red athletic pants and jacket and a polite smile on her face.

She walked straight over from an evening class. She had swim practice for nearly two hours immediately before that. It’s just another lap in the pool for someone making waves both in and out of the water.

As a co-captain for the Lady Bulldog swimming and diving team, Caprioglio has helped cat-apult it to No. 1 as well as the maximum 18 qualifiers in the national meet beginning today at Purdue University.

The senior will compete for a championship in five events: the 100 butterfly, the 200 butterfly, the 200 individual medley and both the 200 and 400 medley relays.

While success in the pool has become a near-weekly ritual for Caprioglio, her ascent at Georgia began much more modestly.

A virtual walk-on, she was awarded a scholarship to the University based on academics rather than athletics.

“Coming out of high school, I wasn’t necessarily one of the top recruits or anything,” Caprioglio said. “But I wanted to come to a program where I could practice with and learn from some of the best in the country.”

Caprioglio said she was recruited by a number of small-er schools around the country, but her biggest concern was joining a program where she could learn success from some of the best swimmers in the country.

“I knew if I worked really hard, I could get a lot better,” she said, “so I wanted to go to a big school with a good program

where I could practice with some of the best.”

While Caprioglio would describe her freshman campaign largely as a “learning experi-ence,” she made enormous prog-ress as a sophomore, missing qualifying for nationals by just 0.01 of a second. Since then, she has never looked back.

“That near-miss as a sopho-more has definitely driven me a lot these last two years,” she said. “For swimming, you train all year to make nation-als. As disappointing as it was to be that close and not make nationals, it gave me a lot of confi-dence going forward because of the obvious improvements I had made that season. I knew I could swim with the best.”

Head coach Jack Bauerle said her ability to rebound from a disappoint-ment such as missing nationals is one of her best qualities as a swimmer.

“She gives 100 percent in everything she does and knows how to grow from those experi-ences,” Bauerle said. “She’s a great lady in every sense of the word and it’s been an enormous privilege to coach her.”

While her list of athletic acco-lades continues to grow — and her times in each event continue to shrink — perhaps the most impressive number of all has remained constant from the moment she stepped on cam-pus.

Caprioglio sports a perfect 4.0 grade point average while juggling time-consuming classes as a double-major in marketing and international business. Her minor in Spanish is just the icing on the cake — or hot sauce on the burrito, as it were.

“It’s amazing her level of ded-

ication to the classroom,” Bauerle said. “To keep a 4.0 with the amount of work she has is incredible. I was elated when I got a chance at a B!”

The academic success has lead to back-to-back selections as the female scholar-athlete of the year for swimming in the SEC.

“She might be considered a perfectionist in many ways,” Bauerle said with a laugh. “But it’s her work ethic that makes

her successful in every-thing she does.”

Sophomore Michael Arnold, a member of the men’s team, agreed with Bauerle and stressed that the success wasn’t the most important thing to her.

“I don’t think she cares so much about achieving all the success,” Arnold said. “But just knowing

that she put everything she could into a task makes her feel better about the final product. I think that when her teammates or classmates think of her in five years, she wants them to think not about how she got a 4.0 or swam fast, but about how genu-ine and nice she was.”

Sophomore Michelle McKeehan echoed Arnold’s sen-timents.

“She understands that swim-ming and school are important,” McKeehan said. “However, those things don’t define who she is as a person.”

Bauerle said that these char-acteristics are have ultimately made Caprioglio one of the great members of a very successful program.

“She is one of the great sto-ries of our program,” Bauerle said. “And I’m talking ever. People like her are the people that everyone should know about.”

Swimmer blossoms into team leader

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CAPRIOGLIO

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