By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK

In a sea of cottage-style homes with decorative porch swings and wind chimes as far as the eye can see, tow-ers one house above all others — a brick mansion proudly displaying the letters “KA.”

Inside the house there’s no music, but instead sits a student poring over a history textbook in a mahogany-col-ored leather chair. Outside, the lawn sits freshly cut. A couch pillow rests lodged in a tree — the only sign that this house may have hosted parties in weekends past.

This is not the stereotypical frater-nity house, and not what the neighbor-hood feared when the Kappa Alpha fraternity moved to Hancock Avenue two years ago.

Although residents in the area said things aren’t always this peaceful, they rarely get out of hand.

“It’s just a different lifestyle,” one resident, who has lived in the neigh-borhood since her home was built in 1951, told The Red & Black Sunday. “Obviously, we’re the ones that have to adjust ... If it’s KA or just students, it’s just a different lifestyle that makes a difference in the neighborhood.”

Neighbors fearing this change raised stiff opposition in 2005, when the fra-ternity decided on the new location.

The concerns surrounded the fra-ternity’s decision to stay away from Milledge Avenue and River Road, where most of the Greek community lives, and instead to purchase property

in a residential area with a large black population.

“They are located in the wrong place,” said Athens-Clarke County Commissioner George Maxwell in a 2009 Red & Black report. “They should be on River Road where they belong.”

But University chapter president Christopher Schatzman said Kappa Alpha has worked hard to change that attitude.

“People in the neighborhood are seeing us in a much more positive way,” he said. “We’re doing everything we can to make our presence desired rather than deterred.”

In addition to volunteer work and local service projects, Schatzman said the fraternity’s presence has promoted the neighborhood’s housing market,

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A University student was assaulted

Monday morning by an unknown attacker, who ran away after a nearby resident chased him, according to the Athens-Clarke County Police.

The student was in the area of South Milledge Avenue near Family Housing when she was assaulted by a black male in his late 20s to early 30s, according to an e-mail sent to University students on Monday.

When the stu-dent screamed for help, a resident heard the student, came out of his apartment and chased the attacker.

The resident eventually lost sight of the male as he fled toward Milledge Avenue and the Ga. Loop 10 bypass.

Capt. Clarence Holeman at the ACC Police told The Red & Black that nobody else was on the street, and the student wasn’t harmed.

The male was described in the e-mail as being about 5-foot-8, “clean cut,” bald and wearing a tan plaid button-up shirt and khaki pants.

Holeman said police have searched the Intel Suites hotel across the street from the attack and other businesses and apart-ments, but haven’t found anything yet.

“We’re still checking around the area,” he said.

Holeman also said no one has reported any information to the police as of Monday afternoon, though police encourage people to do so.

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Students plan campus effort to aid Japan

By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

It was almost 1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on March 11 when a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Honshu, Japan.

Now, leaders of Volunteer UGA and the Student Government Association are ready to spring into action.

They held an organizational meeting at 10 p.m. Monday hoping to brainstorm ideas for the relief effort. The results of the meeting were unavailable as of press time.

“This meeting is not an emergency meeting,” said Ashley Bartlett, the execu-tive director of Volunteer UGA. “It’s more of coming with ideas … more of what the response should be, and then we’ll go to other organizations on campus to see if they want to pledge their support for the effort, kind of like we did [with] Dawgs for Haiti.”

Josh Delaney, SGA president, said it was impossible for students to watch the news and not want to help in some way.

“The most basic way obviously is donat-ing money, which we’ll definitely activate somehow,” he said.

Bartlett said additional ideas that had been tossed out prior to the meeting included fundraising at Tate.

“Our ideas are not fully fleshed out yet. Even the community isn’t aware of what we should do just yet,” she said. “We just have to do something, and we’ll get togeth-er to discuss what that something should be.”

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By ADINA SOLOMONTHE RED & BLACK

As armed robbers tied

up his family and ran-sacked his house for valu-ables, Nitesh Bhakta hid in the attic, silencing his heavy breathing — and posting a Facebook sta-tus.

On Wednesday night in his Cartersville home, sophomore Bhakta heard his grandma screaming across the house after three intruders used gar-den tools to break through the screen door in the back of Bhakta’s home.

“When I heard scream-ing, I went to go check,” Bhakta, 19, told The Red & Black.

There, Bhakta saw men entering his house. He

reacted quickly, grabbing his laptop and hiding in the attic.

The men tied up Bhakta’s grandma and searched her and his younger sister for jewelry. They then walked around the house to check for other people and came within five to six feet of Bhakta in the attic.

“I was nervous — really anxious,” Bhakta said. “In adrenaline situations, you breathe really loud. I was trying to keep my breath in control and not make a sound.”

Bhakta said he had been watching a movie on his laptop when the men broke into his home, so he was careful to not open his laptop until the men had gone downstairs.

Opening the laptop meant the movie would begin playing again and make noise from Bhakta’s hiding place.

“I didn’t want to risk

the chance of one second of them hearing some-thing,” Bhakta said.

After the men left the attic, Bhakta posted his status on Facebook in all caps: “SOMEONE PLEASE CALL 911 NO PHONE, HIDING IN MY HOUSE. ROBBERS!”

His friend eventually called the police, though Bhakta said most people thought his status was a joke. Ten to 15 minutes after Bhakta posted his call for help — and 20 to 30 minutes after the intrud-ers first broke in — the police arrived and the three intruders tried to flee the house.

Bhakta said one jumped out the window — only to land in front of a police vehicle.

The other two escaped, but left behind their guns and cell phones.

“These guys weren’t

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Nitesh Bhakta used his Facebook status to get a friend to call police during a home robbery.

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The Kappa Alpha fraternity chose the Hancock Avenue site in 2005. Though residents were initially hesitant about the move, the fraternity has worked to improve relations in its neighborhood.

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“Frodo lives” — at least, according to graffiti found on Park Hall, Joe Brown Hall and The Red & Black office.

When employees of The Red & Black arrived to the Baxter Street office Sunday afternoon, they found red and black graffi-ti about eight feet long in the back of the building.

“Frodo lives” was writ-ten in cursive and rings were drawn next to the text.

An unknown suspect spray-painted the building sometime between March 11 and Sunday, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report.

Similar images were also found on campus, according to University Police reports.

On March 15, a Physical Plant employee discovered the graffiti outside of Park Hall, though this one read “Frodo lived.”

The same words were

also found outside of Joe Brown Hall in the same report.

The employee was “unaware of when the damage was actually done,” according to the document.

Also on March 15 but reported at a later date, there was a “picture on a painted wall” written in permanent marker inside of Park Hall. This image shows a Hobbit-esque foot next to the “Frodo lives” phrase.

“Frodo lives” is a popu-lar counterculture slogan referencing an increase in the readers and availability of J.R.R. Tolkien’s popular series “The Lord of the Rings,” according to sever-al websites dedicated to the series.

The phrase has been on T-shirts, buttons and other paraphernalia.

Other “Lord of the

Rings” related slogans in the context of “Frodo Lives” gear include “Gandalf for President” and “Support Your Local Hobbit.”

University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said he doesn’t have any investiga-tors looking into the graffi-ti, saying incidents of crim-inal damage have been dis-covered in the past because someone witness-es the act in progress.

“Someone will see it being done, and they’ll call the police department with information,” Williamson said.

He also said the ones doing graffiti are usually individuals, not a group of people.

Williamson said he didn’t know if there was a connection between the targeted buildings, which all house departments focused heavily on writing.

“I have no way of know-ing anything,” he said.

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encouraging developers to build new homes.

“Hopefully, we’ve changed [the negative] perception and residents would back us up with how we’ve bettered the area,” he said.

The 60-year resident said the neighborhood’s attitude isn’t the only thing changing — its demograph-ics are as well.

“You don’t have many homes in any one bloc that are residents,” she said. “They’re mostly students now ... Between the med school, navy school and all the expansions, I don’t know how much residential Athens will be left.”

Though the resident said she’s sad to see her neighborhood change, she considers herself lucky.

“Most students adhere to maintain their property,” she said. “We are fortunate. I don’t think every neigh-borhood has that.”

But things aren’t per-fect. Neighbors said music occasionally echoes across the neighborhood, but it’s rarely too out of control.

“They’re on totally dif-ferent hours than people that work, but you adjust,” the 60-year resident said.

University senior and neighbor Leighton Kohlmann, shared a simi-lar opinion.

“It doesn’t bother us,” she said. “We can definitely hear it, but sometimes we’re just as loud ... We’re younger. They’re families — it’s probably just more annoying for them.”

Schatzman admitted the fraternity can get noisy, but they encourage neigh-bors to express concerns.

“It’s typical with any house of college students,” he said. “We do the best we can to keep the noise with-in our limits. Yes, we’ve had complaints, but we’ve done our best to respond to them.”

Though the neighbor-hood may look different than when she moved in, the 60-year resident said she hasn’t started house shopping just yet.

“No, we’ll be here for the long haul,” she said. “This is home.”

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Graffiti lines the outer wall of The Red & Black building on Baxter Street. Similar words were found in Park Hall and near Joe Brown Hall.

As of June 2010, 292,847,098 people in the United States used cell phones, which is 93 percent of the population, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association.

The widespread popularity of cell phones during the past couple of decades has raised major concerns by consumers and researchers as to the health risks they may pose since they use a form of radiation to transmit sig-nals. The type of radiation emitted by cell phones has not been found to pose a health risk, according to the National

Cancer Institute, but more research is needed.

A study conducted by researchers from the National Institutes of Health showed brain activity increased in the region around the cell phone’s antenna after 50 minutes of use, but this increased activity is not proven to have any adverse affects.

The Red & Black wants to know if students think cell phone use has unhealthy side effects on the human body.

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LILLIE KLINEjunior studio art major from Atlanta

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“Probably a little affects your brain, but not enough to affect your learning or cause you to have cancer.”

ANDI DANGERFIELDjunior psychology and studio art major from Madison

“There is definitely an effect because you have some kind of signal right next to your ear so that has to do something.”

LIZ JUSTMANNsophomore public relations and speech communications major from Johns Creek

“Maybe they give you radia-tion, but so does Diet Coke.”

DAVID THOMPSONfirst year graduate student environmental planning and design major from Winder

“No. If it’s going to affect anything it’s going to affect my crotch because I keep it there all the time.”

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Some members of the University community experienced the effects of the earthquake firsthand.

For those near the affected areas — in Tokyo, Sendai, Fukushima and Yamagata — it was mid-afternoon before the rever-barations of the earthquake hit. Most people were in their office buildings.

“I was in my apartment and it started shaking,” said John Matthews, a 2008 University alumnus who lives in Tokyo. “Then all of a sudden shit started fall-ing down … It felt like the entire room was falling apart. I just tossed a bunch of stuff on my bed and bolted out.”

Matthews, who came to Japan to get his MBA and now works as a translator and interpreter, said the area had been experiencing small tremors for months.

Japan has some of the toughest building codes in the world as far as earth-quake-proofing, so Matthews said he really didn’t see that much dam-age.

“People’s stuff got messed up,” he said. “There was some cracking, but it was really minor.”

Bill Miller, the associate director of the School of Marine Programs, was in Kashiwa — about an hour from Tokyo — when the earthquake hit. He was working on collaborative research with a colleague, Mitsuo Uematsu, a profes-sor at the University of Tokyo, at the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute.

“I was on the seventh floor when the earthquake hit,” Miller said. “It wasn’t any worse than being on a storm at sea. I knew it was an earthquake but I didn’t know if it was very bad or not.”

He said he didn’t start to get scared until he saw the expressions of his col-leagues.

“When I saw the look in their eyes, I realized this was not normal and I should be scared,” Miller said. “The whole experi-ence lasted about two

minutes.”Two minutes, and an

entire country was thrown into uncertainty.

The earthquake, which the U.S. Geological Society claimed was the fourth largest in the world since 1900, and the 10-meter-high tsunami it sparked led to death toll estimates of 18,000 people, according to the Associated Press.

Much of the tsunami’s effects were felt in Sendai, where Matthews has been, translating for a National Public Radio host covering the disaster.

“Sendai city proper had no tsunami damage,” he said. “The coast is what took most of the damage.”

The seven University students studying abroad this semester in Japan are safe and sound, according to Kasee Laster, the study abroad director in the Office of International Affairs and Education.

“We knew by 10 hours, 12 hours after the earth-quake that everyone was OK,” she said. “None of them were in the area … They were on break when this happened.”

Laster said one student

who was in Tokyo did go to stay farther south, but the rest of the University stu-dents who were in Japan were either out of the coun-try entirely or in safe areas.

However, the State Department issued a travel warning Monday for the entire country, and Laster said the University was encouraging its students to come home.

“Two are coming home in the next couple of days,” she said.

Laster said the University could not force the students to return to America, but their exchange programs would no longer be funded if they chose to stay in Japan.

“We’ll work with [those who come home] and see if we can find summer alter-natives,” Laster said. “We will repay the second semester exchange fee.”

The students who return will incur some additional fees because they will not be taking second semester classes in Japan — which has a different academic calendar than the University — but the exchange fee refund will offset most of that, Laster

said.Though Miller left his

research program early to come back to Georgia, he said he did not leave Japan out of fear and concern for travel warnings.

“I was in the way,” he said. “I realized that I didn’t need [my hosts] to worry about me … They couldn’t let go that they needed to be a good host to me. I was torn because it was like, your friends are in trouble and you leave.”

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exactly brilliant,” Bhakta said.He said a few pieces of jewelry

were taken, though it’s just “a matter of time” until the other two men are found by police.

Bhakta — a computer science, mathematics and math education major — said this isn’t the first time he has experienced a burglary. A few years before, Bhakta was held at gun point by three men at his family’s liquor store in Tucker.

Though the men escaped, Bhakta said his prior encounters with bur-glaries helped him stay calm during the one Wednesday.

“It just clicked. I knew what to do,” he said. “I guess that’s why I took this one so seriously. I’d been held up before, so I knew it wasn’t a joke.”

Bhakta explained how using Facebook to notify people of his emergency was the most logical choice to make.

“How can I message someone

instantly and they’ll get it? Facebook is the only thing,” he said. “On Facebook, you know there will be a certain amount of people on.”

Now even more people are friends on Facebook with Bhakta. He said he has received more than 100 friend requests and “a ton” of messages after his story became popular and reached worldwide audiences on CNN.

“I didn’t even think it would go international,” Bhakta said. “I didn’t think it was going to be huge.”

WEB: Update provided wide-spread alert

JAPAN: Students abroad asked to return home

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Nitesh Bhakta, a sophomore from Cartersville, hid in the attic of his house and asked for help through his Facebook status as robbers tied up his family and searched for valuables downstairs.

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The weapons of war have been unleashed.The United States has entered another major

conflict — this time in Libya. The international community has joined

forces with the United States to fight against the murderous reign of Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. This man is a tyrant. And perhaps our intervention is warranted.

In fact, in a recent Opinion Meter the editori-al board called for a no-fly zone. But that policy has led to bombs and international turmoil.

Combat means death. And the United States hasn’t been without conflict since America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq.

We understand these are complex issues. Do we engage in violence when the international community unites behind us? Or do we consid-er the damage of Afghanistan and Iraq — and step aside?

And so, we ask you — the students — to pay attention.

We must take part in the international dis-cussion.

Yes, the United States has not yet set forces on the ground in Libya. But that does not mean it isn’t a future possibility.

We must remember that our military is not simply composed of uniformed brigades in faraway lands. We know these proud men and women. They are our brothers and sisters, our boyfriends and girlfriends.

This must inform our opinion in the coming days of Libyan conflict.

As the air raids continue, keep an eye out for news of blood and battle. This is not just a random attack in the long history of American intervention in the Middle East.

Consider the multiple and conflicting effects of future violence.

Gather information. Involve yourself in the discussion.

We can’t predict the future. But we can have an effect on what that future may be.

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UGA Parking Services is the bane of my existence.

We used to be really close, but somewhere along the line things turned sour.

It all started last summer when I transferred to the University and Parking Services and I started our tumultuous relationship.

So much time spent together, yet so many questions left unan-swered.

Why exactly do students have to pay the full monthly amount for a parking lot when they only use it for three weeks during Maymester?

Parking Services claims it con-siders all cumulative hours, includ-ing transferable hours from other universities, according to its web-site.

I’m a junior. So why was I placed 500 or higher on every waiting list for all the lots I applied for in fall semester?

And why are undergraduate resi-dents given a higher priority than undergraduate commuters?

I don’t live on campus. It’s more difficult for me to find a space than somebody who lives within walking distance to class or campus transit.

Why is it that if I park on cam-pus without a permit my parking ticket costs $40 — the same as someone who parks on campus with a permit but is parked in the wrong lot?

Riddle me this Parking Services:What do all of those $40 tickets

pay for? Surely they don’t pay for any kind of improvement to the

roadways around the University or the conditions of the parking lots.

I’m fairly certain that N07 — located on the corner of Baldwin and Jackson Streets — hasn’t been repaved since the dawn of time. Have you tried to drive over that broken up entryway?

I’m pretty sure that’s where the meteor fell that killed the dino-saurs.

Maybe that $40 can go to fixing the gate in North Deck so it doesn’t fall on my car.

This is also a problem of sched-uling.

I have a 9:05 a.m. class. I have to catch the Athens bus at 7:30 just to arrive on campus at 8:10 so I can sit around for an hour until my class starts.

I don’t mind taking the bus, but I would prefer to be able to park on campus for a single hour — from 9:05 to 9:55 — so that I don’t have to wake up before daylight.

I would even be willing to pay $20 to $40 a month just to park on campus for an hour — even if I still had to take the bus.

But alas, I was not awarded a parking permit. Perhaps because I fall in the bottom tier of the requirements for parking permits as an undergraduate commuter.

I understand that faculty, staff and administration have higher pri-ority than I do. But this is ridicu-lous. Not only was I not awarded a parking permit, but neither were the thousands of other students waiting in line before me on the Parking Services registration web-site.

I have class in two buildings right next to each other on North campus. As a junior, is it too much to ask for a parking permit any-where within a five mile radius of my classes?

Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy the walk and I don’t mind riding the bus. It is free after all. And all of the Parking Services employees I’ve met have been extremely nice.

I blame the institution. We all pay good money to attend this school. And with HOPE being cut we will be paying even more. Then we pay extra money out-of-pocket for ridiculously expensive parking permits.

Why do you subject us to such a harsh rating system on your regis-tration website, Parking Services?

We’ve always had such a good relationship in the past. I followed your rules. I let your parking deck gate fall on my car and I forgave you — and this is how you repay me?

I thought I was special. I thought you cared.

Let’s work it out.

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Want to see Hugh Hefner’s newest, negligee-less

playmates or hear the lat-est on Sarah Palin or Charlie Sheen’s personal lives?

Go to TMZ.com for all of that — and the rest of the irrelevant news.

Many sites sport this type of news judgment — showing us the juicy gos-sip that isn’t timely or essential to readers.

Alexa Internet, Inc., a company that collects browsing behaviors of internet users, ranks the most popular web pages: movies pages, Skippy peanut butter, Vanessa Hudgins, Miley Cyrus, Heart Attack Grill, free Facebook ads, Craiglist and Pokémon.

A lot of people are looking for entertainment when they navigate the web, and this isn’t a sur-prise.

But, we should take sites that feature adver-tisement and propaganda driven news and use them for what they’re worth — entertainment, even if they are designed to appear like vital informa-tion.

Sites with more appli-cable information can tickle your intellectual and social taste buds at the same time. People are talking and thinking criti-cally about issues other

than the latest pop-cul-ture topic. And they are writing it down! It’s out there, available 24 hours a day on sites such as nytimes.com and wash-ingtonpost.com.

As college students, we understand that spending too much of our time on entertainment isn’t bene-ficial to achieving a goal.

Disclaimer: I enjoy entertainment. I under-stand that we live in the United States — in a cul-ture of free information where we can find any type of knowledge that pleases us.

Sometimes, we feel the need to gossip in the pub-lic forum. Some of us like to know what color shoes Paris Hilton purchased three minutes ago or whenever she last tweet-ed about it. But I don’t think a lot of students spend their time waiting at the whim of the hotel chain princess.

But, popular blog sites take advantage of our highly specific interests to draw readers in, and advertisers pay bloggers to direct their messages to an audience — the exact audience they want

to target. These types of sites

feed our rabid consumer-ism — the lifeblood of the United States citizen. But the problem with spend-ing too much time enter-taining ourselves with random information has deeper roots than smart advertising ploys. The issue deals with the mod-ern mind-set.

An example of this mind-set: a growing pre-occupation with social status drives large com-panies such as Facebook and Twitter in a similar way that it drives enter-tainment sites such as the Huffington Post and TMZ.

A psychological study performed in 2008 by University professors Laura E. Buffardi and W. Keith Campbell theorized there was a link between self-promotion on Facebook and narcissism. Google search the topic next time you’re changing your profile picture.

So, U.S. culture, and the broad expanse of human nature that defines it, drives the suc-cess of specified online news and social networks. So what?

I’m not saying we need to limit online random-ness or change our con-sumer habits. I use Facebook regularly and read sports blogs — in

unhealthy increments.However, we should

also look for the news produced by people who spend endless nights, as opposed to seconds, struggling to include the most important news of the day. We should recog-nize and support the news companies with strong records in public service.

These are the people who tell you about revo-lutions in Libya, the lat-est vote on the health care bill and the struggles of people in third world countries.

These institutions send correspondents to all corners of the globe, into situations where safety and health are compromised — to com-municate ideas that help us to relate to humans from different cultures and situations. These ideas, images and articles can give us a broader per-spective and help us to contextualize what we learn at the University.

Maybe we should pay attention to these sourc-es. Maybe we should sup-port these companies.

Or we could just dab-ble in our own fancies until we see fit to stop.

— Matthew Allen is a senior from Carrollton

majoring in newspapers and Spanish

MATTHEW ALLEN

Actor Michael Douglas said “Greed is good” in

the movie “Wall Street.” I must say I agree with him. No, I don’t feel greed in the biblical sense. Rather, I am driven by a desire to want more and achieve more — I hunger for it.

I know I’m not alone in this.

At this point in our lives, we have to begin amassing what we can, whether it be wealth, respect, love or all of the above.

And since none of us, I wager, are wealthy busi-ness executives, we have to start with working a part-time job

I’ve been working since I turned 18, even while attending classes full time. I can say with confidence that what I have learned in the classroom is equally as important as what I have learned on the job.

Yet, why is it only 45.3 percent of full-time college students hold a part-time job, according to a National Center for Educational Statistics most recent survey for 2008?

Probably the biggest contributing factor to a students’ decision on whether to work is the monetary support — or lack of — from their par-ents. It must be nice to have tuition paid by the state and living expenses by parents.

However, the reality is quite different. You may be living out of their house — but you are still bound by their rules. For some that’s OK, but you should want more.

When I became finan-

cially independent two years ago, I felt a control over my life I’d never had before. It was now my road and I was laying down the asphalt.

Love doesn’t come cheap for anyone. Between movies, dinners and gifts I can hear my bank account weeping.

But those numbers drift away when you see your significant other smile. Working part-time assures your partner that you can contribute when the dinner bill comes. It shows you are a reliable person.

Gaining respect is a tricky game. Respect is judged by what you do and say. I think working part time toward being self-sufficient brings a wealth of respect.

For example, the University Career Center tells everyone the most important section on a résumé is experience.

This is because employ-ers know a good education only provides the skills for a profession. But the com-mitment necessary to be an effective employee comes from previous work experience, no matter how menial.

So if you don’t work now, consider doing so. Get out there and get greedy.

— Bryan Diaz is a senior from Miami, Fla., majoring in publication

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Travis Barker has the world of music wrapped around his finger.

The tattooed, soft-spo-ken, occasionally mohawked percussion prodigy — who has drummed for Blink-182, The Aquabats!, The Transplants, Box Car Racer and +44 — has finally taken his love for drum remixes and backed it up with an all-star cast of hip-hop giants, guitar legends, and even a dash of metal and electro house.

“Give the Drummer Some,” which hit stores March 15, features Barker in his standard rhythmic glory — blasting intricate beats from behind a drum kit while allowing his accomplices to do the dirty work of singing/rap-ping/yelling.

This is not a standard collaboration of rock and hip-hop, though. Rather than a Jay-Z meets Linkin Park collaboration, this genre-less musical esca-pade dabbles in a little of everything ... to mixed effect.

Barker’s beats are fresh and inhumanly robotic, fusing genre’s that wouldn’t be within 20 feet of each other in a record store, much less featured on the same album.

The songs, however, all of which were penned by the singers themselves, cause an audio car crash with very few survivors.

The opening track and first single “Can a Drummer Get Some?” boasts some of hip-hop’s biggest names, with Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Game and Swizz Beatz trading off mic time, though the whole attempt seems lost and misguided. Two dis-torted guitar notes and a depressingly repetitive chorus comprise the majority of the three and a half minute track, which simply isn’t enough time for four mega-rappers itching for the limelight.

“Knockin” features a sleepy sounding Snoop Dogg sing-talking the many uses of marijuana, which lulls the song until Ludacris and E-40 step in, revive the track and turn it into one of the more impressive songs on the LP.

Twista, Busta Rhymes

and Yelawolf raise the bar on “Let’s Go,” unleashing a machine-like fury of rhymes that compliment Barker’s ability to spasti-cally switch between bass, snare and tom fills.

The black sheep is “On My Own,” featuring Corey Taylor, lead singer of the eight-piece metal-group Slipknot. Taylor scream-yells in his usual fashion, which works for the first 20 seconds or so. In an awkward transition, how-ever, the music takes on an angsty-alternative sound, which plays more like the entire discography of Rise Against — with spectacular drums — than metal-rock fusion.

Tom Morello, Slash, Paul Wall, Steve Aoki, The Transplants, Kid Cudi, Raekwon and many others round out the 16 song deluxe LP to varying degrees of success. Very few of the tracks actually warrant a purchase, and the rest are easily skipped.

“Give the Drummer Some” is a fine-tuned drum collaboration bear-ing many musical heavy-weights, though the disori-ented direction of rap, metal, so-cal rap-rock, and electro house is bound to upset listeners who are looking for a more full and complete experi-ence.

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By HEATHER KINNEYTHE RED & BLACK

Fifty-five photos line the walls of the Joseph E. Brown Hall lobby in recollection of the Civil Rights Struggle.

Along with featuring African-American GIs in Germany, polit-ical activist Angela Davis is also depicted.

“The exhibition is based on a digital archive that two histori-ans are putting together,” said Martin Kagel, Head of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies.

The photos are broken down into six segments.

“They chronicle the period immediately after [WWII] and then different periods, basically topics: Martin Luther King’s visit to Berlin, Angela Davis in Germany, to the beginning of the 1970s,” Kagel said.

Historians Maria Höhn and Martin Klimke curated the pho-tos themselves for the exhibition.

“It is a traveling exhibition that came here from Ole Miss, and I don’t exactly know where it is going from here,” Kagel said. “It’s a huge project. It has been going on for a long time. It’s won an award from the NAACP.”

Both Höhn and Klimke recently coauthored a book detailing the chronicled events in the exhibition: “A Breath of

Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany.”

“I think it is very interesting because it connects Germany and the U.S. in a completely dif-ferent way,” Kagel said. “The

point of the exhibition ... is to show German/American rela-tions in a transnational context. And what that means is, that the African American GIs being stationed in Germany during the war, fighting on the American

side during the war ... had expe-riences that fed into the civil rights struggle here in the United States.”

Soldiers would come to Germany, attempting to defeat the racial state.

“In a way, many of them feel liberated being in the army in the first place, but then also being able to fight in Germany ... because a lot of things they are not allowed to do here they can do over there,” Kagel said. “That is what the exhibition’s about. Not to show that Germany is a better place but to show that there is a transnational relation-ship between the experience in Germany and how that feeds into the civil rights struggle here.”

Höhn and Klimke will also give a lecture on these topics.

“The department, we brought the exhibition here, but they are really the ones who should get credit for the exhibition,” Kagel said. “The department is excited to host the exhibition not only because of its transnational character, the unique way in which it connects cultural and political developments in both Germany and the United States, but also because it connects us with the Athens community.”

By KELLY CORBETTTHE RED & BLACK

Coming out clean is not an option after a trip through Petty John’s Cave.

Petty John’s is the third largest cave in Georgia and is the site for the Georgia Outdoor Recreation Program’s advanced caving trip.

“You have to know that you’re comfortable underground,” said Darren Hamilton, GORP trip leader and recent graduate.

Before Hamilton began leading trips for GORP, he had already been caving around 24 times. His favorite thing about caving is the sense of discovering something new.

“Some are easy,” he said. “Some are wicked.”

Tom Carney is the other GORP trip leader going to Petty John’s. He has been on eight caving trips with GORP over the past two years.

Petty John’s is the most chal-lenging cave trip GORP offers.

“There is more technical work,” Carney said. “We actually have to do some climbing, crawling, swish-ing through mud and descending through some pretty tight spaces.”

The caverns vary in size, any-where from the size of an unfinished basement to a two-story building, Carney said. There are eight spots available, for a total of 10 people with the trip leaders. As of Monday evening, 7 people have already enrolled.

The trip will take about 5 to 7 hours inside of the cave.

“Some caves are completely wild,” Hamilton said. “They all have their own interesting appeal.”

GORP usually schedules 2 to 3 trips a semester, depending on the season and the wetness of the caves. The group takes beginner and intermediate trips as well.

“Everyone needs to respect what they’re doing,” Hamilton said. “You can definitely get seriously injured or even worse. We’re good at keep-ing people together and from goof-

ing off.”GORP provides the gear, such as

backpacks, kneepads and three sources of light. Cavers just need to wear non-cotton clothing that can get dirty and bring a lunch that doesn’t squish easily.

“The thing with caves is that they’re all kind of different,” Hamilton said. “It’s kind of like a giant obstacle course.”

In Petty John’s, there’s a place that is only 12 to 18 inches wide called Pancake Alley and towards the far end there is a waterfall that cavers can climb.

“You can be miserable or have the time of your life,” Carney said.

VARIETY The Red & Black | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 | 5

listen up!

When: Through April 30Where: The lobby of Joseph E. Brown HallMore information: Höhn and Klimke will speak about the exhi-bition Thursday at 6 p.m.

PHOTO EXHIBITION

African American GIs depicted in photo exhibition

SARAH LUNDGREN | The Red & Black

The photo exhibition “The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany” is on display in Joseph E. Brown Hall and will be on display through the end of April.

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Student Alex Falk descends down a ledge inside Petty John’s, Georgia’s third largest cave, during GORP’s 2010 trip.

6 | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 | The Red & Black SPORTS

Diamond Dogs hit stride after rough startGeorgia head coach David

Perno goes into each season with a puzzle on

his hands. The various pieces of a baseball team — pitching, offense and defense — don’t necessarily relate to one anoth-er.

A great hitter may average an error a week, and in a league with designated hitters, a great pitcher can’t score runs by him-self.

The Diamond Dogs’ play during first month of the sea-son suggested that the pieces were well jumbled up.

Georgia lost badly to teams from conferences with muddier pedigrees than the vaunted SEC. The Diamond Dogs opened the season by losing three games to the Atlantic Sun’s Stetson, and split a two-game home-and-away series with the Southern Conference’s Furman.

Then came what may prove to be the season’s lowest point: the injury to junior outfielder Johnathan Taylor.

With Taylor hospitalized and a 3-8 record, the Diamond Dogs’ prospects seemed dim entering a nine-game road series of historic proportions.

Yet something happened, as Georgia progressed through nine different stadiums over two weeks: the team finally began to live up to its potential. Second baseman Levi Hyams went on a 12-game hitting streak, and the team garnered its first shutout of the season against St. Mary’s during a trip to Los Angeles. Pitcher Alex Wood led Georgia to a victory

over No. 10 UCLA with 11 strikeouts.

Still, the road trip wouldn’t be all fun and games for the Diamond Dogs, as it concluded with a series loss to the defend-ing national champion South Carolina in Columbia. Georgia’s pitching staff, which had finally begun to turn a corner on the road trip, fell apart in Sunday’s rubber match, walking 10 bat-ters and giving up eight runs to the No. 4 Gamecocks. The offense, too, struggled over the weekend, posting only six runs in three games.

Georgia finally returns to Athens this week for a stretch of four games that give this team the opportunity to prove itself. Tonight, the Diamond Dogs bring clean, old-fashioned hate to Foley Field in the first of three games against No. 17 Georgia Tech, and will face No. 11 LSU this weekend. Win three or four games, and Georgia will continue to move into conten-tion in a competitive confer-ence. Win one, or get blanked, and the road to relevance remains rigorous.

Regardless of any one game’s outcome, Georgia has the right pieces this year. What remains to be seen is whether they’ll fall into place.

— Robbie Ottley is a sports writer for The Red & Black

ROBBIEOTTLEY

By ZACH DILLARDTHE RED & BLACK

Scouts from every team in the National Football League are expected to descend upon Athens today, all with one thing in mind: finding and evaluating talent.

Fourteen Georgia football players, all of whom have either used up their eligibility or declared early for the NFL Draft, will work out for scouts as a part of Georgia’s annual Pro Day.

Wide receiver A.J. Green and linebacker Justin Houston are the marquee names participat-ing in Georgia’s Pro Day, which consists of a series of drills and workouts performed in front of scouts in order for the players to improve their chances of being selected by an NFL team. Green and Houston both had a year of eligibility remaining at Georgia, but both have been projected as first-round draft picks and opted to forego their senior seasons.

The other participants in the events were all seniors on the 2010 team: fullback Shaun Chapas, wide receiver Kris

Durham, tight end Derek Rich, defensive ends Kiante Tripp and Demarcus Dobbs, cornerbacks Vance Cuff and Chad Gloer, line-backers Darryl Gamble and Akeem Dent, and offensive line-men Josh Davis, Chris Davis and Clint Boling.

Eight of the players — Boling, Chapas, Cuff, Dent, Dobbs, Green, Houston and Josh Davis — performed similar drills at the 2011 NFL Combine, but they will look to improve on their measurements in a more famil-iar, less pressure-packed envi-

ronment.Past Georgia draftees such as

Matthew Stafford have elected not to participate in certain drills at the NFL Combine, instead choosing to perform for scouts on campus at Pro Day.

Each player will start the day by getting measured for height and weight. Then everyone involved heads into the weight room where each participant is tested on bench press, broad jump and vertical jump.

Speed and agility drills fol-low, with each player being timed in the 40-yard dash, shut-tle run and an L-drill. Though Green will not run the 40, as he chose to let his 4.5-second 40-yard dash time stand from the NFL Combine.

The final phase of Georgia’s Pro Day starts at noon with players being put through a series of individual position drills.

FILE | The Red & Black

Wide receiver A.J. Green (8) will be among 14 players taking part in Georgia’s Pro Day in front of NFL scouts.

Pro Day a chance for more exposureGreen, Houston participating

When: Starts today at 9 a.m.Where: Butts-Mehre practice facilitiesMore Information: Closed to the public, but check out our Dog Days blog for coverage.

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By RYAN BLACKTHE RED & BLACK

The Georgia women’s basket-ball team is a mere victory away from clinching a spot in the Sweet 16 of this year’s NCAA Tournament.

That’s the same place Georgia made it to last year before the Stanford Lady Cardinals soundly defeated the Lady Bulldogs 73-36 to bring their season to a close in Sacramento, Calif.

The Sweet 16 is a familiar place to the Lady Bulldogs, though.

Georgia’s 18 appearances in the Sweet 16 are tied with Connecticut for third-most all-time, trailing only Tennessee (28) and Louisiana Tech (20).

But to taste the sweetness of the final 16 yet again, the sixth-seed Lady Bulldogs (22-10) will have to go through Florida State, the No. 3 seed in the Dallas Region.

The Lady Bulldogs did not get to see much of Florida State’s 76-46 victory over Samford on Sunday, but sophomore guard Jasmine James has had the chance to watch them on televi-sion a few times this season.

“They’re very athletic,” she said. “They have some very good perimeter players as well as some very good post players on the inside. I feel like we should match up with them pretty well, and it should be a really good game.”

The premier matchup will come down to two all-conference performers in the post, as Georgia senior forward Porsha Phillips — an All-SEC first team selection — will face off against Florida State junior forward Cierra Bravard.

Bravard was named to the All-ACC first team after averag-ing 14.6 points and 7.6 rebounds per game this season.

Both players came through for their teams on Sunday, as Bravard led the Lady Seminoles (24-7) with 23 points and 13 rebounds, while Phillips had a

double-double of her own with 10 points and 14 rebounds, her 15th double-double of the sea-son.

Phillips will not have to go at it alone in the post, as sopho-more forward Jasmine Hassell has kicked her game up a notch since the end of the regular sea-son. Hassel upped her points per game average from 9.5 points per contest in the regular season to a team-leading 15 per game in postseason competitions.

“I don’t want to say it’s my mind-set,” Hassell said about the uptick in her production. “I know that it’s one-and-done and it’s important.”

Hassell is not the only Lady Bulldog who has picked it up since the regular season conclud-ed, with Phillips, James and guard Meredith Mitchell all aver-aging double-digit points in Georgia’s three postseason games.

But no category has seen a more noticeable improvement from Georgia this postseason than at the free throw line.

During the regular season, the Lady Bulldogs were next-to-last in the SEC in free throw percent-age at just 64.3 percent.

In the postseason, Georgia has hit on 40-of-54 free throw attempts — 74.1 percent — near-ly 10 percent better than its out-put in the regular season.

And after an outstanding defensive performance against Middle Tennessee State on Sunday — where the Lady Bulldogs held the Lady Blue Raiders to a season-low 41 points — even Georgia head coach Andy Landers had a hard time pin-

pointing what his team could improve on heading into its date with Florida State.

Aside from the 21 turnovers the Lady Bulldogs committed, of course, which was well above their season average, 16.1. The return of backup point guard

Ronika Ransford should help.“Fifty percent of those turn-

overs came from the wrong per-son having the ball at the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said. “Take those mistakes away, and we probably could have enhanced a lot of other things.”

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Lady Dogs’ post play key in second round

FRANCES MICKLOW | The Red & Black

When: Tonight at 9:30Where: Auburn, Ala.More Information: In this sec-ond-round matchup, Georgia is looking for its 19th appearance in the Sweet 16.

LADY DOGS VS. FSU

Sophomore guard Jasmine James said the Lady Dogs should match up ‘pretty well’ against Florida State tonight, as the teams vie for a spot in the Sweet 16.

Gym Dogs No. 2 seed in Athens

By NICKLAUS PARKERTHE RED & BLACK

Although the Gym Dogs won’t be the top seed in their region at NCAA Regionals, it’s safe to say the locale will have a distinctly pro-Georgia feel to it.

The NCAA regional fields were released Tuesday with Gym Dogs being awarded the No. 2 seed in the Athens regional, allowing them to compete at home at Stegeman Coliseum on April 2nd. It is Georgia’s third time hosting a regional site.Georgia is one of six regional hosts, along with Alabama, Denver, Michigan, Oklahoma and Oregon State.

The top two teams from each region advance to the NCAA Championships, and the Gym Dogs will have to fend off two teams in the top 20 — No. 6 UCLA (the top seed) and No. 18 LSU. N.C. State, Maryland and West Virginia will join the three top 20 teams in the field. The Gym Dogs are 4-0 on the season against those teams.

Taylor out of intensive care

Outfielder Johnathan Taylor moved out of inten-sive care at the Shepherd Center on Monday, accord-ing to Taylor’s CaringBridge website.

In a March 6 game against Florida State, the junior col-lided with teammate Zach Cone as they were both going after a line-drive. Taylor underwent surgery on his spine at St. Mary’s Hospital on March 7 before moving to the Shepherd Center on March 11.

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