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BY KENDALL TRAMMELL@KendallTrammell

It started off as a joke.But after exhausting several

other options, becoming a sugar baby didn’t seem so bad for a 20-year-old girl trying to pay her way through college.

“After my freshman year, I got really depressed,” she said. “Me and my boyfriend broke up. I lost [the HOPE Scholarship]. I was really afraid because my parents are super strict, so I couldn’t tell them.”

Her next step was to find a way to make extra cash. She applied to local restaurants, but came up short since many places were already booked for the summer.

And becoming involved with men that would pay her to be in relationships with them never crossed the University of Georgia student’s mind until a friend inspired the idea.

“One of my friends made a joke saying, ‘You should just become a sugar baby,’” she said. “And I start-ed thinking, ‘Wait, maybe I could do this.’”

SeekingArrangement.com, one of the largest sugar daddy dating websites, was the first place she visited. She made an account, and after finishing it off with a profile picture of herself, hundreds of peo-ple began messaging her.

She dates a variety of men — black, white, short, tall, young, old.

But this isn’t a game to her. This is a job — one that’s helping her cover the costs of attending the flagship institution of the state of Georgia and pursuing her hopes of becoming a nurse.

“I just have to keep telling myself, ‘There’s nothing wrong with you,’” she said. “‘You’re doing what you have to do. Right now, this is what you have to do to get through school.’”

There are rules

It’s not a crime to sugar date.Before the UGA student start-

ed her new lifestyle, she checked the activity’s legality and found nothing broke the law.

Though sometimes it’s hard for others to see how the lines are drawn among other similar activi-ties.

“Strippers dance and take off their clothes,” she said. “The money they make is pretty good and all they have to do is take off their clothes. Prostitution runs close to being a stripper, but they want to be with you for just a min-ute. Right now, I could get a gift just for coming and getting coffee. They’re kind of like sisters.”

Free will is one of the key dif-ferences with sugar dating.

As for SeekingArrangement, the company requires background checks on its more than 3 million members. It checks for crimes related to violence, sex, domestic violence and individuals registered as sex offenders. The goal is to help its members date safely.

In addition to SeekingArrangement’s efforts, sugar babies are encouraged to do their own research.

“We discuss income,” she said. “I’ll ask, ‘Can you really do this? Can you support me?’ They’ll say, ‘Yeah,’ and they’ll usually show some sort of bill.”

But knowing who she is in a relationship with is also important for her.

“I research these people, you know, like pictures,” she said. “We have to Snapchat. We have to Skype. We have to communicate some way so I can see your face and I know who you are."

On day one, she makes it clear as to what she’s willing to do.

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www.redandblack.com Thursday, August 21, 2014 Vol. 122, No. 2 | Athens, Georgia

BY LAURA JAMES@laurajames225

Most leases for off-campus stu-dent housing end about a week before the end of July and do not start until the second week of August, leaving about a two-week window of home-lessness for University of Georgia stu-dents living in Athens for the summer.

Alyson Merlin, a sophomore ecol-ogy major from Alpharetta, experi-enced this phenomenon in between her leases this past summer.

“My lease ended about five days before my summer final, and I took organic chemistry, so I needed to be here,” Merlin said. “I just crashed at a friend’s place and kind of had to move around a lot.” Although Merlin’s parents live only an hour’s drive away, she said she needed to stay in Athens to study and prepare for her final. “One of my friends just had to take off work and go to her home, which is like two hours away, and then she came back for her final,” she said.

Although Merlin subleased a fur-nished apartment for the summer, she did have a TV, bookshelf, clothes and other belongings she had to store somewhere when she was in between apartments.

“I kind of just had to leave it in my car and sleep on a friend’s couch,” she said. “It was pretty inconvenient.” And Merlin is not the only one who became temporarily homeless during the summer.

Aqeelah Abdul, a sophomore ath-letic training major from Grayson, experienced similar issues when her lease at Milledge Chase apartments ended a few days before her summer final. Abdul worked at Red Lobster over the summer and had to stay in Athens to work during the window she did not have housing.

“It’s a common problem,” Abdul said. “Almost everyone I worked with had the same exact issue where we were all kind of homeless for two weeks.”

Depending on what type of ses-sion they were enrolled in, students had their finals for UGA summer classes on either July 30 or 31.

The 2013–2014 lease for The Reserve at Athens, an apartment complex mainly marketed to students, ended July 20, and the 2014–2015 lease did not start until Aug. 9, said Mallory Achee, a leasing and marketing man-ager at The Reserve. So for students enrolled in summer classes, their lease

may have expired prior to their classes ending, leaving them without a place to live. Merlin said she could have gone to her parents’ house once her final ended since they live in Alpharetta, but some students might not have that option. “Moving can be very inconve-nient, especially if they’re from out of state and don’t have anywhere else to stay in the meantime,” Merlin said. “I mean, I was lucky to have a friend nice enough to let me stay at her place, but if everybody’s lease ends at the same time and they’re not looking to renew, people don’t really have that option.”

Achee said The Reserve had to turn over about 450 rooms this year and that management uses the time in between leases to clean, paint, do walkthroughs and check the keys and locks.

She also said they walk through the rooms again a few days before move-in to do what they call a “final sparkle.” Merlin’s apartment complex had a similar process.

“I understand their need to retouch the apartments before every-one moves in for the fall, but I don’t really think those last couple of days would have made that much of a dif-ference,” Merlin said. “I think they just

didn’t think to check.”Merlin and Abdul said they both

asked their apartment complexes if they could move in early, however, nei-ther received that opportunity.

Athens Ridge was one property that did allow students to move in earlier than the move-in date on their leases for a pro-rated rent amount.

“The move-in date was Aug. 1, but we let them move in as early as [July 21] because we were just ready early,” said Adrienne Jaubert, resident rela-tions director at Athens Ridge.

Jaubert said Athens Ridge is a new property in its first year of leas-ing, meaning they had no previous residents and more time to prepare the units for fall tenants.

The dates for the 2014–2015 leases at Athens Ridge started Aug. 1 and will end July 15, and Jaubert said they have not decided whether or not they will have the same accommodations next summer.

“It just depends on how ready we are and how quickly we can turn the apartments around,” Jaubert said.

Since Merlin’s new living location did not allow her to move in early, she said she looked into the price of hotels, but opted to couch surf.

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BY LAURA JAMES@laurajames225

Since Saturday morning, Athens-Clarke County police have received five reports of armed robberies in Athens, one of which lasted for more than 12 hours.

Jimmy Williamson, chief of police at the UGA Police Department, gave three suggestions on how students can take precautions to decrease their risk of being targeted by potential robbers. Number one be party smart, he said.

“When you go out partying, try not to over con-sume because that person who’s looking to take advantage of you is looking for the weaker targets,” he said. “If you’re inebriated and stumbling, they know you’re not going to be a good witness and it’s going to be easy to take your wallet or phone or both.”

Williamson said his second piece of advice is to avoid making transactions on the street.

“If you’re somebody who partakes in recreation-al substances that are illegal and not sold in busi-ness establishments, when you buy those things on the street, you put yourself at risk of being robbed and not obtaining what you wanted to obtain,” he said.

Williamson also said he recommends students be wary of using social networking sites to buy and sell items from strangers.

“We know from one of the robberies this week-end and we know from other experiences that a lot of people who are using social networking to set up transactions for what one person may think’s a legit-imate item,” he said. “We highly suggest you do those transactions in daylight and a well-populated area where you know.”

Jennifer Berger, a senior management major form Marietta, said she typically feels safe walking home in Athens.

Berger, who used to live off Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and now lives on East Broad Street, said she has never had any bad experiences walking home at night and that she takes precaution when walking home at night.

“I usually walk in a group or with friends so that’s not a problem,” she said. “And I do have a Swiss Army knife.”

Police responded to an armed robbery on Garnett Ridge Drive Sunday evening around 7:30 p.m. The victim arrived at a home on Garnett Ridge Drive to pick up the woman offender, 23, for a movie, but instead the woman and two other men with handguns robbed him.

Police said the victim used a remote on his key chain to activate his car alarm, causing one of the men to run outside. The victim was able to escape and call for help, according to an ACC police media release. Police were able to locate and arrest the offender who fled.

This armed robbery resulted in an hours-long standoff where police negotiated with the offenders and eventually had to use tear gas to make them sur-render.

Police arrested Miguel Salas, 50, Kristen Rushe Crumley, 23, and Jose Santos Sotelo, 28 on charges of armed robbery and aggravated assault. Salas was also charged with giving false information, according to the media release.

The most recent report of armed robbery came around 10 p.m. on Tuesday. A clerk at Athens Food Shop on Hull Road had just closed the store and was heading to his vehicle when a man came up and pointed a gun at him, according to a media release from ACC police.

The victim said the suspect ordered him to go back in the store and give him money from the regis-ter. The victim followed the suspects’s commands and gave him an unspecified amount. The suspect ordered the victim to get on the ground before flee-ing the scene with the money, according to the report.

The victim described the suspect as a 6-foot-1,

slim, possibly “older” man, wearing dark sunglasses, a bandana, black and white gloves, a red hoodie, tan cargo pants and black shoes, according to the release.

The first armed robbery report came around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, and the second reported incident came just minutes later, according to an ACC media release. One of the victims from Saturday morning was a University of Georgia student.

The first alleged armed robbery happened when two suspects saw a man smoking a cigarette on his front porch and rushed up the stairs, forcing entry into his home while pointing a gun at him. The sus-pects stole electronics from the victim before leav-ing, according to the media release.

The second report came when the same two alleged robbers drove up beside two pedestrians, one of whom was a UGA student, on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, ordering them into the car. The driver and passenger pointed a gun at the victims while demanding they hand over their belongings. The aggravators then parked on Bray Street, told the victims to get out and on the ground and then kicked them repeatedly before leaving the scene, according to the police report.

“I guess I was somewhat in shock, but I general-ly knew what to do,” the student victim said. “We handled it the best we could. We cooperated best we could without any complication.”

Police arrested Michael Lamar Ransom soon after the incidences in relation to both the armed robberies reported that morning. They arrested him on 15 charges, including counts of armed robbery, kidnapping and aggravated assault, according to the police report.

“I’m actually very impressed with the Athens-Clarke County police,” the student said. “Within maybe 30 minutes or maybe an hour after the inci-dent, they had taken us home and had come back so that we could go to the department and identify who had robbed us.”

Police later arrested Stevie Trountay Allen as the second suspect in these robberies, according to an Athens Banner-Herald article.

A third robbery was reported to ACC police on Saturday night. A man and woman were watching TV in their Twin Oaks apartment on East Broad Street, when two armed men entered their apart-ment, demanding money. The male victim thought the guns were fake and the incident was a joke until one of the attackers started to choke his girlfriend. The victim then jumped up to fight off the attackers.

During the struggle, one of the guns discharged, causing a hole in the wall. The attackers then left in a vehicle and police were notified, according to the report.

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Athens-Clarke County police responded to the fifth report of armed rob-bery since Saturday morning, according to an ACC media release.

The alleged robbery occurred at Athens Food Shop on Hull Road around 10:10 p.m. on Tuesday. After the clerk closed the store for the night and was about to get into his vehicle, a man pulled a gun on him, according to the release.

The victim said the suspect then ordered him to go back in the store and “give him the money.” The victim com-plied and removed an unspecified amount of money from the register. The suspect told him to get on the floor and left with the money.

The suspect was described as a 6-foot-1, slim build, possibly “older” man, wearing dark sunglasses, a ban-dana, black and white gloves, a red hoodie, tan cargo pants and black shoes, according to the release.

Police arrest man near elementary, middle school for hit and run, terroristic acts

Around 5 p.m. on Monday, ACC police responded to a complaint of a man pointing a gun at people, according to a media release.

Police arrested William Dennis Durham, 25, on charges of “terror-istic threats/acts, obstructing/hindering [law enforcement offi-cers], reckless driving, hit and run and driving with-out a valid license.”

A witness told police Durham wrecked his vehicle at Alps Road Elementary. The first offi-

cer on scene saw a man matching the description of Durham walking through the playground. After seeing the officer, Durham ran, according to the release.

Nearing Clarke Middle School, the officer saw what was later deter-mined to be a BB gun in Durham’s hand. He took a “defensive position” at the door. Police ordered him to drop the gun and later took him into cus-tody.

ACCPD arrest man after discovering drugs on traffic stop

Not having valid car insurance led to

one man’s arrest after an ACC police officer pulled him over and discovered drugs in his car Tuesday evening, according to a media release.

After officers noticed the offender reaching for baggies of what was later determined to be marijuana, they ordered him out of the car. The driver pushed one of the officers before grabbing a baggy and putting it in his mouth.

As the offender was about to be put in the patrol car, he squeezed the officer’s arm, causing minor cuts.

Since the offender may have ingested drugs, he was taken to the hos-pital. After being cleared he was transported to jail.

Darin Lamar Brown was charged with pos-session with intent to distribute marijuana, tampering with evidence, obstructing and hinder-ing [law enforcement of-ficers] and simple battery on a police office, accord-ing to the release.

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“There are weird guys out there who want to do weird things to you,” she said. “One guy asked, ‘How do you feel about being urinated on?’ I’m like that’s weird, no. Tying you up, it’s like play, OK. Pain, I don’t do pain. You cause me pain, and that’s it. It’s over.”

It’s not always like the movies

She works hard for the money.But even with an extra $200 from time to time

from her clients, she still works two other jobs.“People think they give you thousands of dollars,”

she said. “No, no they don’t. Some do, but those are the high-class New York, California, out-of-the-coun-try kind of people.”

And depending on what she is willing to do and who she will accept as clients, a sugar baby can esti-mate how much a sugar daddy is willing to spend.

“It’s not like how it is in the movies, where you find a sugar daddy, and he buys you a car and pays for your school and all of this stuff,” she said. “It’s a pro-cess. There are girls with really rich sugar daddies who want Louis Vuitton girls, girls who can come live with them in California or New York. But I’m in school. I can’t leave.”

The most she has ever received at a given time is $500.

“At most, maybe we’ll have to do something — get coffee — and I may get a couple of hundreds thrown my way,” she said. “Some want weekly appointments, monthly or on an asked basis.”

And she doesn’t have just one sugar daddy. Out of the 12 total clients she has engaged with, she’s active-ly talking to three. This way, if she isn’t satisfied, she always has a backup plan.

“If I don’t like them, I’m not going to sugarcoat it,” she said. “If I’m not getting enough from them, I just say, ‘You’re not worth my time.’ If he’s not texting me or if I don’t feel something, I don’t even bother. If they say they’re your one and only and don’t do much, then why bother?”

You can’t become attached

She will never forget Texas.She agreed to meet a man between the age of 40

and 50 at a hotel for one night. There was not a single expense she had to worry about. He arranged for a driver to pick her up from campus to take her to the airport. The hotel room was booked and already paid for. He purchased the tickets the day before and made sure she would be able to return to Georgia that very same day.

It came to almost $3,000.“That’s when I started thinking, I could just stop

all of this stuff — school, drama, all of this — I could just go off with him and everything would be fine,” she said.

These are actual relationships. Some are shorter than others, but she has to remind herself that she isn’t doing this for fun. She is doing this to pay for school.

“They’re not as long as I’d like them to be,” she said. “I’ll have one extravagant time like the time in Texas. I had a great experience, but, now, we don’t even talk anymore.”

Getting close to any of her clients is a concern for her because she knows her relationships aren’t ever-lasting.

“Guys are paying a girl to be the girl he wants her to be,” she said. “I’m 20 now. When I get 25, this becomes really hard for me to even find guys because they want young girls. They want 20. They want 19-year-olds. Twenty-one’s are the best because you can go out and drink.”

She has seen other girls mistakenly allow their emotions to get in between their sugar life.

“I’ll have some friends who are like, ‘Oh, sign me up, sign them up,’” she said. “Then people start hit-ting them up, hitting them up and they can’t do it. You can’t be fragile. You have to be a strong person. You can get emotionally hurt. You should not be emo-tionally attached. You have to cut emotion. You have to cut mental.”

And she isn’t just looking out for herself. When it’s time to end a relationship, some of her clients aren’t in the most stable places in their lives.

Although she tries to keep an emotional connec-tion to a minimum, there are some clients who want to the relationship to become more serious.

“Some of them are decent guys,” she said.Her widowed client is one of them. He is in his 50s

with a son close to her age.“He is just like the guy from ‘Up’,” she said. “He

genuinely likes me, and that sometimes scares me.”But she can’t do this for the rest of her life. As

much as some of her clients are interested in her at the moment, she knows it’s only temporary.

“The chiller you are, the more chiller they are with you,” she said.

She wishes she was in a genuine relationship because the stress would be far less.

“It’s weird,” she said. “I’m scared to have any big moments with these guys because then it will all end up being nothing.”

A secret some may never know about

If her parents found out about her sugar life, she is almost sure they would disown her.

So she’s kept it quiet from them along with a number of people that are close to her.

“I act normal,” she said. “I’ve got this life. I’ve got that life.”

From a very young age, she learned how to lie to her parents. For her, it doesn’t matter how she earns her money. Her degree from UGA is what matters the most.

“To me it’s like I’m going to pay the loans,” she said. “My parents aren’t going to pay the loans. My parents put nothing into my school.”

She only told one of her best friends in the begin-ning. As she became more comfortable with being a sugar baby, she opened up to more of her friends, allowing around 10 people in on her secret.

And not everyone is as supportive of her decision.“You can sit here and bash it 24/7 and say, ‘You’re

a sinner,’ ‘You’re a slut,’ but it really doesn’t bother me,” she said.

She may not go to church as often as she was taught, but the sugar baby, who went to Catholic school for 14 years, still considers herself to be reli-gious.

“I pray,” she said. “I pray to God all of the time. I don’t just ask him for stuff. I just pray and say thank you for even letting me get through this year. A year ago today, I didn’t think I’d even make it. I never had my life breakdown as much.”

She admits that she may come across some regret later in her life. Her first regret would be her study habits from freshman year.

“The reason why I’m in this situation is because I didn’t crack down,” she said. “I always think, ‘What if I studied more my freshman year, would I be here now?’”

This is her life. But when it’s her time to have chil-dren, she doesn’t want her child’s fate to be the same as hers.

“Sometimes I’ll just lay there and look up at the ceiling and think about how much I want to cry,” she said.

When she walks away from her sugar life, she will remember the effect it will have made on her charac-ter. That impression is as close of a glimpse others will get to see of her past.

“I’ll let it go to my grave,” she said.

BY NATALIE ADAMS@nadams93

The U.S. Department of Education proposed new regula-tions Aug. 7 that will extend eligi-bility requirements for the federal Direct PLUS loan program in order to improve access for stu-dents and parents borrowing money.

The goal of the regulations is to increase the number of fami-lies that are eligible to borrow money for higher education under the PLUS lending program, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Education. Through the program, the federal government lends money to students or parents who need assistance paying for educational expenses as long as they do not have an “adverse credit history.”

The modifications to the pro-gram, the first since 1994, broad-en the definition of adverse credit history so that more families may be able to receive this financial aid.

“The Obama administration is committed to keeping college accessible and affordable and helping families make thoughtful and informed choices to fund a higher education in today’s econ-omy,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the release. “These changes allow us to continue to be good stewards

of taxpayer dollars and open the doors of college to ensure all stu-dents have the opportunity to walk through them.”

The previous definition of an adverse credit history was applied to a borrower who is delinquent by 90 or more days on any debt, or if there had been a “delinquent event” in the five years preceding the request, including bankrupt-cy, foreclosure, wage-garnish-ment and tax alien.

However, the new regulation states that if the borrower’s com-bined adverse debt is $2,085 or less, then he or she is not consid-ered to have an adverse credit history. This update expands the number of students and parents who will be able to borrow from the program in the future for col-lege expenses.

Some of the other proposed modifications involve more direct definitions so that potential bor-rowers will be able to understand more easily if they have an adverse credit history, decreasing the amount of time a borrower’s history is reviewed from five to two years and requiring loan counseling for approved buyers so they will better understand the process.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, a full list of the updates will be pub-lished Nov. 1. The updates will go into effect for applicants seeking loans for the 2015-2016 school

year, but the department is trying to make provisions so that the eligibility may be accessible soon-er.

Applicants who may have applied earlier and been turned down may reapply under the new qualifications.

According to the release, the change in regulations resulted after the Department of Education “gathered feedback and recommendations from stu-dents, families and partner orga-nizations, including representa-tives of minority-serving institu-tions and historically black col-leges and universities.”

While the modifications may make it easier for some who were not able to get loans in the past, some students warn against the dangers that extending loan options could also pose.

“Students who just need fast cash are not aware of the interest that they can gather from the loans and are going to be shocked later on, not only at how much money they owe, but the interest that they may have acquired when they might not have really needed the money in the first place,” said Ashley Harter, a junior English major from Canton.

While the counseling require-ment that will be added to the governmental loan program may seek to prevent this trend, Harter said it is a tangible danger.

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OUR TAKE

For those of us still plod-ding our way toward undergraduate degrees,

the Los Angeles riots of 1992 — sparked by the beating of Rodney King — were perhaps always more history than they were “real.” Millenials can look back at the tragedy and try to understand, sure, but all were too young to actually experi-ence the turmoil.

With countless cameras and reporters on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri, the nation’s youth are now seeing the vivid, violent images of the communi-ty’s ubiquitous outrage after a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager.

Whether or not the police officer, Darren Wilson, truly acted in self-defense is not the main issue. Michael Brown’s untimely death succeeded in reigniting the conversation of equality in this country. It was the catalyst that brought sim-mering, racially-charged bitter-ness between a majority-white police force and a largely black populace to a dangerous boil.

Perhaps almost as impor-tantly, the government’s ensu-ing attempts to stop the rioting and looting call to our atten-tion the over-militarization of United States police depart-ments at all levels. Almost overnight, the nation has watched a small suburb of roughly 20,000 transform into a war zone complete with tear gas, riot gear and curfews.

On Monday, contingents of the National Guard arrived in Ferguson — presumably because the local police force could not handle the situation. Nearly every time a peaceful protest was initiated, the dem-onstration devolved into an outbreak of violence.

According to the Los Angeles Times, state and local police forces have acquired 79,274 automatic rifles, 5,167 armored vehicles and 407 heli-copters since 2006 — all mili-tary surplus from an already bloated U.S. war machine.

At what point does pro-tecting the public justify exces-sive use of intimidating force to keep the average man in line? Are tanks and other seldom-used military-grade equipment necessary to maintain the peace, or do they only further promote the war-like mentality already heavy among the rank and file of police departments?

The U.S. is no stranger to police brutality. We live in a country where a trigger-happy officer shot an unarmed citizen six times. Coroner’s evidence implies that at least one of those shots had to have come while Brown was already lying on the ground.

It’s almost too understand-able why the people of Ferguson don’t trust the police. The rest of us should feel just as incensed.

— Alec Shirkey for the editorial board

Militarization of police forces unnecessary

CORRUPTION: Rick Perry admits fault on indictment charges and turned himself in for abuse of power following his suspicious veto of anti-corruption funding. Meanwhile, none of us are terribly shocked to find yet another corrupt politician.

iNEWS: Apple is preparing for the exciting launch of the iPhone 6 next month. The new model will be half a centimeter slimmer and feature extra storage space exclusively for selfies.

UKRAINE: Tensions continue to rise in the Ukraine following the death of dozens of civilians trying to flee the fighting. Ukranian government offi-cials suspect Pro-Russian separat-ists, instensifying bad relations between the Ukraine and Russia.

WHO'S IN CHARGE: The World Health Organization was criticized for a lack of immediate response to the Ebola outbreak. In terrifying news, this hasn't been already adressed as thousands have filed in and out of Ebola-infested nations.

What started as an outbreak in the small West African nation of Guinea in February has turned

into the deadliest Ebola epidemic ever recorded. Over 12,000 cases have been reported in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, including 2,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization; this particular strain of Ebola virus, known as the Zaire strain, originated in Guinea and has a 90 percent mortality rate. While there have been other Ebola outbreaks in the past, this case seems to be especially perilous for multiple reasons. Even though Ebola does not have a cure or vaccine, mortality rates drop drastically with early medical intervention, according to the New York Times. However, in a country with poor medical infrastructure such as Guinea, the spread of disease can be rapid and devastating.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a human disease caused by the Ebola virus. The dis-ease is usually acquired when a person comes into contact with the blood of an infected animal such as a monkey or fruit bat. Once a human is infected, contagion is highly likely through direct contact with bodily fluids. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus can take anywhere from two to 21 days to incubate and cause symptoms. Symptoms typically include nausea, vomiting, diar-rhea, muscle pains and headaches; fever and internal bleeding cause death.

Ebola is causing widespread fear, dis-ruption and death. It is showing no signs of being brought under control. In Sierra Leone, a prominent physician named Sheik Umar Khan died roughly one week after it was first reported that he had con-tracted the disease after weeks of treating patients. Khan had saved multiple lives and was instrumental in the fight to con-tain the virus.

The disease has spread to its fourth country as Nigeria confirms the death of a Liberian government official in a Lagos hospital. This death marks the first record-ed case of the highly contagious disease in Africa’s most populous nation. In Lagos, a city with a population of 21 million, health officials are worried about the greater chal-lenge to containment relative to the small-er countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Recent international attention to West African countries infected by Ebola is bringing other deeply-rooted societal prob-lems to light, such as a lack of education evidenced by African fear of Ebola and subsequent refusal to medical care from international relief organizations. This refusal of aid is caused by a variety of fac-tors; some Africans are mistakenly associ-

ating the appearance of foreign medical professionals with the presence of Ebola. In other words, some Africans are falling prey to the common logical fallacy of “cor-relation proves causation” by believing that health workers are somehow causing the Ebola virus to spread.

The fear of health workers is perpetu-ating the rapid spread of the disease, cre-ating a second crisis. When villagers flee at the sight of a Red Cross truck screaming, “Ebola, Ebola!” as they run, it is no sur-prise that health workers are having trou-ble enforcing the containment of the dis-ease.

The hostility against foreign medical professionals has grown so much in West Africa that workers say they are now bat-tling African fear in the form of resentment and aggression in addition to the deadly Ebola virus. Workers from organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization have been threatened with stones and machetes. Vehicles are surrounded by hostile mobs. Log barriers across dirt roads block health workers from reaching villages where med-ical attention is needed.

Some West African social and cultural practices may also be expediting the spread of the virus. There is a stigma asso-ciated with contracting Ebola in many communities where the virus is active, which discourages patients from seeking medical attention that can help them over-come the infection in its early stages. Furthermore, some funeral practices which involve touching the deceased may be accelerating spread of the disease.

Although medical care is urgently needed, it is also crucial to address the public health aspects of the outbreak, such as informing Africans about proper prevention methods. The best way to sur-vive the disease is to avoid infection in the first place. The Ugandan government has made efforts to address the stigma by cre-ating a survivors network to educate the public about the disease. Hopefully, with similar additional measures that reduce fear and misperceptions, the outbreak will have a greater chance of successful con-tainment.

— Hammad Khalid is a sophomore from Duluth majoring in microbiology and

psychology

The world lost per-haps one of its greatest talents to

a crippling illness. Robin Williams’ death is a trag-edy, yet for some reason his manner of death is means for public ridicule and indecency. Williams’ daughter, Zelda, has been forced off of social media due to the over-whelming negativity regarding her father’s suicide.

Williams was a man who had suffered the despairing loss of his best friend Christopher Reeve and endured two divorces; most recently, he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a terminal illness that makes mere day-to-day living incredibly hard. This was a man who had undergone serious obsta-cles in his life.

After years of bat-tling depression, Williams committed sui-cide. Depression, like any other illness, ulti-mately took over his body, yet there is a stig-ma that suggests one could simply cure them-selves if they stopped being sad. This idiotic mentality completely defies the laws of human nature; we can’t simply cure cancer by thinking of not having it. Mental illness is just as real as any other sickness. The symptoms are just less obvious.

Due to society’s need to invade the pri-vate lives of celebrities, and even our peers, via tabloids and social media, we gain this false sense of comradery with people whom we have never met. Perhaps this largely contributes to the callous reactions to Williams’ suicide. Society assumes that we have a right to know Williams’ personal problems, with-out the context of a per-sonal relationship with the actor. Thus, we can-not possibly begin to understand Williams’ reasoning; we are not entitled to make that judgment.

Ultimately, Williams’ death should serve as an awakening to society as we are forced to rethink our perspectives on issues we have demon-strated very little under-standing.

— Courtney Willett is the views editor

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After the riots follow-ing the events in Ferguson, Missouri,

President Barack Obama called for “peace and calm” in the city. If the local police who are supposed to be enforcing the rules are releasing tear gas and smoke bombs onto the people of the town, then how are the rioters them-selves supposed to keep calm?

What the members of the Ferguson community see is this: they see their brother fatally shot by a police officer while doing nothing wrong, as well as the shooting officer given administrative leave from

the department. They also see the KKK putting together a large sum of money to award the officer for his “good deed” of kill-ing an alleged criminal.

This “peace and calm” called for by the president is an unreasonable request for the angry friends and supporters of Michael Brown and his family. The citizens of Ferguson have every reason to be upset. It seems to them that yet another African American teenager in their communi-ty has been killed not because he committed any crime, but because of ste-reotypes, discrimination and hatred. This sort of

occurrence — although absolutely unacceptable — happens too often and should be taken seriously, with the utmost amount of care and respect. Until something of significance is done about this situa-tion that will pave the way for justice for Michael Brown, people should not be expected to simply sit at home and be idle. They must continue tofight for what they believe is right and hopefully, change will ensue.

— Damisi Fawole is a sophomore from

Lawrenceville majoring in pre-journalism

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First and foremost, congratulations on getting

accepted to the University of Georgia. College will be what you make of it, so make it amazing. Here are just a few things that I wish someone had told me before going into my freshman year:

1. Don’t miss out on important opportuni-ties for temporary hap-piness; but at the same time, don’t be a mem-ber of every club avail-able.

It’s important to get involved during your freshman year, but make sure you’re involving yourself in things that actually interest you. Refrain from joining organiza-tions for the sake of beefing up your resume. If you spread yourself too thin, you’re not able to put your all into any-thing. Conversely, don’t miss out on joining organizations during your first year because you want to party all the time or spend end-less hours studying. Although being com-mitted to an organiza-tion takes up some of your time, it does not necessarily have to dominate your college life. Make time for things that are impor-tant to you while keep-ing the big picture in sight.

2. Seize networking opportunities but at the same time don’t let it take over your life.

Take advantage of opportunities for you to put yourself out there. That being said, do not make it your one and only priority. Once that begins to happen, peo-ple start to see you less as a friend and more of a person who is simply using them to gain ele-vation. I personally have grown further apart from people because it seemed that being known or being important surpassed their need to be my friend.

3. Call your loved ones.

During my fresh-man year, I struggled with balancing my school life and my home life. I neglected my family using the excuse that I was busy, knowing that I had plenty of time for frivo-lous things. I didn’t call my parents often and they were hurt. They felt like I was taking advantage of them because they were the ones putting me through school, paying for my phone and pro-viding me this amazing opportunity to have the college experience. Freshman year is such an exciting time and it can cause you to forget about those who sup-ported you along the way.

4. Have the best time humanly possible, with-out getting yourself into trouble.

If you want to do something, then go for it; if you think it’ll be fun, go ahead, but if any part of you feels scared or unsure about something, then say no. Go to all the parties you want, stay up as late as you want, make as many friends as pos-sible, eat all the choco-late cookies you can, join as many organiza-tions as you want; all of this will allow for an awesome time in col-lege. However, once you cross over that line of danger preceding a good time, take a step back.

5. Last but not least, stay true to who you are.

You do not want to be known for going to college and becoming a completely different person. There’s so much that UGA has to offer for every individu-al person; therefore, pick what caters to you the best and head in that direction. You are going to be great this year.

— Damisi Fawole is a sophomore from

Lawrenceville majoring in pre-journalism

When the average American thinks about

Turkey images of jelly candies and Ottoman rulers come to mind, but the country is a strategic hotspot in modern geopolitics. The United States has both economic and military assets in the bridge between Europe and Asia, including Incirlik Air Base, home of many US tactical nuclear weapons. Direct foreign investment has also increased in the past few years, creating industrial opportunities for many stakeholders. Founded as a secular republic, Turkey has recently been a poten-tial gateway to the Middle East for the United States, but all of that is quickly chang-ing. The progression of Turkey to a more authoritarian regime within the past 2 years directly threatens American interests and calls for a renewed approach to the region – something the United States has not yet pur-sued.

In 2003, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected Prime Minister. His experience as the mayor of Istanbul and new energy contributed to an economic expan-sion of the country more than ever before. Growth continued under Erdogan, but in summer 2013 the increasing authoritarian decisions by the man who once ran on an anti-corruption plat-form became clear. His decision to turn Gezi Park, a green-space in Istanbul, into a mosque and building develop-ment was the final straw; protests broke out in the city soon after. This brought into focus a brewing stew of domestic issues in the country – media inter-vention by government, interference in the police force and a crackdown on alcohol sales to name just a few.

With his term limit up, Erdogan successful-ly became president of Turkey and takes power this fall. Although tra-ditionally a more sym-bolic role, Erdogan and his party have been adamant about reform-ing the executive to give themselves more power and control over domestic and foreign affairs, not unlike Russia.

It’s unclear who parliament will choose to be Prime Minister of the country, but he or she may well indeed be a puppet for Erdogan’s administration. This threatens basic stability of the country and becomes an issue the United States should both be aware of and adjust its policies in response to. Relations with the United States are already rocky; after the U.S. declined to engage in military strikes in Syria, Erdogan began refusing to directly talk to Obama on strategic issues.

There are three rea-sons the U.S. should be concerned. First, the Turkish central bank last year participated in trade with the regime last year for oil, an act that used loopholes to

circumvent a NATO agreement the govern-ment in Ankara had signed.

With a developing nuclear program and progress on disarma-ment still uncertain, financial transactions like this one can jeopar-dize U.S.-sponsored agreements to end Iranian development of the bomb.

Iran has also expressed interest in further engagement with Turkish business-es. Second, with the large increase in invest-ment in the nation in past years, Turkey has emerged a new econom-ic frontier for industry. Third, previous U.S. diplomacy guaranteed a safe place to store weapons, a staging area for the rest of the Middle East and a part-ner in an increasingly dangerous region. All of these things could be torn apart if Erdogan’s new government chang-

es their stances, both domestic and foreign.

It will be impor-tant that diplomatic discussions, from infor-mal meetings at embas-sies and consulates to high-level talks between Obama and Erdogan, enforce the message that support of Turkey economically is depen-dent on preservation of U.S. interests in the region. There are a myr-iad of diplomatic and military issues at stake in the Middle East that call for our attention. We cannot take for granted that the Turkish state that we know today, one that is stable and our ally, will be around in the next year. We may be caught off guard by an increas-ing authoritarian leader who may no longer value U.S. interests.

— Tucker Boyce is a sophomore from

Alpharetta majoring in pre-business

You live there, you make new friends there and you study there, but is your dorm room

really that safe?By now most of us have heard of

all of the thefts, robberies and assaults reported last year on cam-pus. Though the idea of a dorm break-in or being robbed downtown might be frightening, there is nothing to worry about if you take a few pre-cautions.

Relatively speaking, the UGA dorms are a safe and secure environ-ment. They are equipped with camer-as, secured access and housing secu-rity is on-call from 10 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. every day. All of the necessary precautions have been taken by UGA and the UGA Police, but you are the only one that can ensure your own personal safety.

In my opinion, “your mind and a charged cellphone” are two of the most important things in crime pre-vention, UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson told The Red & Black. Most importantly he added, if you “see something, say something.”

According to Williamson, a large majority of crimes reported on cam-pus are committed by current UGA students — even dorm thefts and assaults.

One of the most effective, and simplest ways to prevent theft in the dorms is to close your door behind you and lock it. Simple enough, but every year students fall victim to theft simply because they forgot to lock up.

Once a criminal gains access to your dorm, valuables left in the open are easy picking and a skilled thief can be in and out in just a few sec-onds. Just like that your laptop, cash and jewelry are gone forever — or most likely sold at a pawn shop or on Craigslist.

Even the UGA Police Chief can admit that underage drinking inevita-bly happens at UGA. While having fun is a vital aspect of life, Williamson offers invaluable advice to keep you safe while enjoying your weekend

downtown. “Overconsumption leads to bad

decisions. It can lead to you being a victim, or you becoming the perpetra-tor of a crime,” Williamson said.

So if you do decide to have a few drinks, practice moderation—after all it is one of the three Pillars of the Arch.

No matter how fast you can run or how well you can defend yourself, when you have a gun pointed at you there is nothing you can do.

More often than not, unsuspect-ing students are robbed on their walk back home from downtown. If you are clearly intoxicated and walking alone, you are an easy target for criminals. Williamson agrees that you should always use the buddy system or take a taxi opposed to walking alone at night.

There are many tools at your dis-posal to keep you safe during your time on campus, but don’t learn to become dependent on them. Systems fail and it is impossible to prevent all crime from occurring. Visit police.uga.edu to learn about creating a person-al security plan that fits your life and schedule.

Even if you take all of these secu-rity steps, there is always a chance of falling victim to crime. The best you can do is be prepared, be alert and always have a way to contact the police.

If you still have questions or con-cerns, check out UGA’s campus secu-rity guide at safeandsecure.uga.edu.

— Samuel Woo is a sophomore from Marietta majoring in interna-

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BY MARIANA VIERA@mariana_viera1

Many students at the University of Georgia agree: There’s nothing as hectic as traffic on game day in Athens. In order to accommodate the tens of thousands of fans that flock to the Classic City on Saturdays in the fall, UGA provides park-ing and transit options for people coming to campus on game days.

For the upcoming football season, UGA Parking Services will sell season-long parking permits, which guaran-tee a parking space to anyone who buys one.

George Stafford, the executive assistant to the vice president for finance and administra-tion, oversees all game day-related activities, and said campus park-

ing passes allow football fans the chance to get to games at their lei-sure.

“We pre-sell permits and people buy them,” he said. “They like to be able to know they’ve got a parking place and that they can come whenev-er they want to up to game time. They don’t have to be here at seven in the morning to find a place.”

This fall, the per-mits will cover parking for all seven home games for $140, includ-ing shipping and han-dling. Parking spaces are guaranteed to those who come before kick-off and are sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. As of now, passes are available for the parking decks located on Carlton Street and at the Performing Arts Center.

Another way for fans to get around on game days is the foot-ball shuttle service pro-vided by UGA Campus Transit. The shuttles transport people to and from Sanford Stadium, said John Autry, the operations manager for UGA Campus Transit.

Autry said the shut-tles pick up fans from the Intramural Fields and the East Campus parking deck for six hours before kickoff and take them back to the parking decks for two hours after the game ends.

“We do the drop-off right at the stadium just outside of Gate 6,” he said. “It’s that same area where we board after the game. It’s also important to know that we do not run the shut-tles during the game.”

BY MARIANA VIERA@mariana_viera1

With the start of a new semester comes the start of a new football season, and stu-dents at the University of Georgia will spend Saturdays in Sanford Stadium cheering for the Bulldogs. But prepar-ing for the heat of the linger-ing summer months in Athens’ hot and humid cli-mate may pose some poten-tial health problems for fans.

According to the Emergency Medical Services report from last year’s Sept. 7 game against the University of South Carolina, nine peo-ple passed out.

Charlie Whittemore, assistant athletic director for facilities for the UGA Athletic Association, said his biggest tip for people attending games is to stay hydrated.

“If everybody would drink more water, we wouldn’t have as many people getting sick from the heat,” he said.

Liz Prince, associate director of health promotion at the University Health Center, said caffeinated and alcoholic drinks can also con-tribute to dehydration.

“Caffeine, like alcohol, acts like a diuretic in the body,” she said. “It really flushes the body out and not in a positive way.”

Prince said she would recommend those who drink caffeinated or alcoholic bev-erages alternate those drinks with water before the game.

Prince said she also rec-ommends taking into account the heat in the stadium.

“Once you’re in that sta-dium, you have more than 80,000 people crammed in,” she said. “The sun could be beating down on you so typi-cally the temperatures in the stadium are going to be hot-ter than the day’s tempera-tures might be.”

Athens’ average monthly temperature in August is 90 degrees, according to The

Weather Channel.Prince said people should

make sure they are taking care of themselves if they will be attending a game.

“Make sure you get some good sleep,” she said. “Make sure you’re eating good, bal-anced meals of carbs, fats and

proteins.”Wearing breathable and

light-colored clothing is also advisable, Prince said. She added that said people should look up the side effects of medications they are taking because some medications can also act as

diuretics.“There are some medica-

tions that will also cause your body to excrete extra fluids,” she said. “I tell people to accommodate for that.”

Prince and Whittemore said there are cooling sta-tions throughout the stadium that people can visit if they feel they are getting overheat-ed or dehydrated. If the situa-tion requires medical atten-tion, Whittemore said there are also first-aid stations available on site.

Prince said her final tip is for fans to look after each other during the game.

“If you see something in distress, go with your gut and say, ‘Hey, I’m worried about you. Let’s take a walk to the cooling station. Let’s find one of the EMT techs in the sta-dium. Let’s go get you checked,’” she said. “Don’t let folks wander off if you think they need help. People should always have their wingman or wingwoman with them.”

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BY LAUREN PRATT @lpratt315

Enrollment at the University of Georgia has long been dominated by students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, and now these STEM courses are see-ing an additional influx from an under-represented portion of the population.

UGA teamed up with several other Georgia schools to use a $5 mil-lion federal grant in 2006 to increase enrollment in STEM programs by minority students. And since then, STEM courses at UGA have experi-enced growth among minority stu-dents.

Charles Kutal, associate dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Office of STEM Education at UGA, said one of the reasons for STEM course enroll-ment growth lies in the potential jobs that could be produced by those fields.

Kutal said he feels confident in the education the students are receiv-ing within these courses.

“The fact that we have a high retention rate means our [introduc-tion] courses are successful,” he said.

Angela Birkes-Grier, director of the Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, said in an email to The Red & Black that approximately 98 percent of the underrepresented minority students enrolled in STEM courses are Hispanic and African-American.

“In the last 10 years, the state of Georgia, as well as the nation, has had a significant focus on improving sci-ence and mathematics achievement levels for K-12 students, introducing students to STEM careers and pro-moting the necessity of post-second-ary education,” Birkes-Grier said.

As a result, the disparity in enroll-ment between minority and white stu-dents in kindergarten through 12th grade is decreasing, Birkes-Grier said.

Birkes-Grier also said another potential motivation behind the increase of STEM enrollment is the money to be made by minority stu-dents within these fields.

“There was a study published in the June 2012 issue of Research in Higher Education that indicated that majoring in STEM proves to be more profitable for minority students, whether they actually pursue the STEM field professionally or not,” she said.

Initiatives such as Peach State LSAMP, a collaboration between seven Georgia colleges and universi-ties that has received $10 million from 2005-2016, have helped aid UGA in continuing to increase minority involvement in STEM education, Birkes-Grier said.

Kutal said that when comparing the percentages of undergraduate degrees from Franklin College between 2011 and 2013, those pursu-ing a Bachelor of Arts degree dropped from 19 to 13 percent and the percent-age of students pursuing a Bachelor of

Science degree rose from 41 to 45 per-cent. Kutal said these numbers pro-vided a good indicator as to the growth of B.S. degrees, an encourag-ing factor to take into account with STEM course growth.

Along with the increase of stu-dents in STEM programs, the new Science Learning Center, which is scheduled to have its groundbreaking ceremony Aug. 26, will create an addi-tional learning environment for stu-dents taking undergraduate STEM classes.

“The new Science Learning Center will have a transformational effect on STEM teaching and learning at UGA,” Kutal said.

Project FOCUS, a partnership

between UGA and Clarke County schools, has provided a way for Hispanic and African-American stu-dents at UGA to teach science to K-12 students two or three times a week during the semester, said David Knauft, director of Project FOCUS, in an email to The Red & Black.

“We have seen an increase in the diversity of students in FOCUS,” he said.

“This includes not only Hispanic and African-American, but Indian and Asian-American as well.”

Project FOCUS provides students with three hours of college credit and requires that they have a minimum of 12 hours of STEM course credits before entering the class, Knauft said.

BY DANIEL FUNKE@dpfunke

A new law extends veterans’ tuition benefits when they enroll in a public university in the United States.

The Veterans’ Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, signed into law by President Barack Obama ear-lier this month, mandates that states give veterans in-state tuition at pub-lic colleges within three years of their discharge from active duty. The tuition break can also be applied to a military member’s dependents and spouse in some cases. Previously, the decision to grant tuition benefits to veterans was left up to each state.

At the University of Georgia, a similar tuition cut existed prior to the new federal mandate. According to a University System of Georgia policy, personnel could waive out-of-state tuition based on their military status, but could only retain it “as long as the student(s) remain(s) continuously enrolled and the military sponsor remains on active military status.”

Ted Barco, director of the Student Veterans Resource Center at UGA, said student veterans in addi-tion to UGA itself will ultimately ben-

efit from the new federal law.“In my mind, it’s a win-win

because the University of Georgia can cast a broader net to more highly qualified student veterans across the nation who meet Georgia’s rigorous standards,” he said.

Other than being granted in-state tuition, student veterans may also qualify for financial aid packages under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which awards up to 100 percent of tuition and fees at public universities.

Students who have served in the armed forces receive ample accom-modation from the University and often complete their degrees while remaining competitive academically with their peers, Barco said.

“I think it’s a great place for vet-erans to land,” he said. “Our veterans perform at almost identical rates as the undergraduate and graduate stu-dents in the general population.”

Geoff Rapp, a junior psychology major from Kennesaw who served in the war in Afghanistan, said in a pre-vious Red & Black article that tuition assistance is essential for veterans that wish to receive an education.

“Without military tuition assis-tance I wouldn’t be here at this school,” Rapp said in the article.

BY KATELYN UMHOLTZ@Kumh0ltz

According to a recent study, Athens buses are among the most used in the U.S.

In the study , con-ducted by the National Transit Database, Athens-Clarke County placed fourth for the most-used transit sys-tem per capita, right behind the New York City and Newark, San Francisco and Oakland and Washington, D.C. areas.

The 2012 ACC pop-ulation of 128,615 was used for the study — comparatively lower than the cities it ranks closely to — and had 99.5 trips per resident, only .1 trip lower than the Washington, D.C. data. And most of those rides are comprised of students at the University of Georgia.

“UGA is responsible for 87 percent of transit trips in Athens,” said Reuben Fischer-Baum, a writer for the news website Fivethirtyeight.com

The UGA Campus Transit System made 11,095,098 bus trips and 12,801 demand response trips in 2013, whereas the Athens Transit System made 1,687,812 trips and 7,688 demand response trips, Fischer-Baum said. He said this data, along with the data of 414 other urban-ized areas with popula-tions over 65,000, was compiled by the National Transit Database from 290 cit-ies that reported to the NTD every month of 2013.

“We each report our ridership data to the National Transit Database. Those num-bers are combined and interpreted by some-body in Washington,” said Ron Hamlin, UGA transit department head. “The University carries a lot of people. It’s very heavily used and convenient. We operate seven days a week, 24 hours a day during the regular school year, so it’s acces-sible and heavily used. Being a small to medi-um sized city, that rider-ship adds up on a per capita basis.”

But Athens was not the only college town that ranked high on the list.

Champaign, Illinois, home to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ranked sev-enth, while Pennsylvania State University’s loca-tion of State College, Pennsylvania came in at a close eighth.

Some students at UGA view transit use in college towns as essen-tial, especially when they have classes spread out on campus.

Brandan Cowan, a

freshman business and accounting major from Winder, said the buses make it easy to get around campus.

“It helps people who aren’t right at the heart of campus or have classes on the other side get around campus eas-ier than having to walk,” Cowan said.

With 11 different bus routes that run throughout the day and night on a regular basis with an approximately $8 million budget, Hamlin said students should expect nothing but convenience. He also said over $1 million of that $8 million bud-get pays Athens Transit, which allows students

to ride for free on 28 dif-ferent buses that go to many of the apartment complexes in the area.

Though the public transportation in Athens may not com-pare to large cities such as New York City, Fischer-Baum said it is impressive the Classic City could beat out sprawling metropolitan areas such as Boston and Chicago.

“Our system is not really considered big. We provide a level of ser-vices that makes it con-venient for people to get around to their classes, car or dormitory,” Hamlin said. “We’re just trying to make it conve-nient.”

UGA freshmen Emily Measel (left) and Denver Ellison both enrolled in classes for a science, technology, engineering or mathematics program. DIONDRA POWERS/Staff

STEM program enrollment increases among minorities

Athens transit ridership ranks highly

Student veterans at UGA are now guaranteed in-state tuition within three years of their discharge from active duty per a new federal law. JOSHUA L. JONES/Staff

With 99.5 trips per resident, Athens ranked fourth in per capita ridership of public transit in the United States and behind Washington D.C. JOSHUA L. JONES/Staff

Law guarantees in-state tuition for veterans

A8 News Thursday, August 21, 2014 The Red & Black

BY MICHELLE BARUCHMAN

@mlbaruchman

After receiving two low scores for dining hall health inspections last spring, University of Georgia Food Services is taking extra health and safety precautions to begin the new school year.

“We take food safe-ty very seriously in the department,” said Bryan Varin, associate director of meal plan operations at UGA. “It’s something we focus a lot of time and energy on.”

In April, Oglethorpe Dining Commons received a score of 80 while the Village Summit received a 78. And, as of the first week of class, those scores have yet to change.

Varin said UGA Food Services is making special efforts this semester to prevent scores from dropping back to those from the spring.

“We aim to always provide quality food in a

great setting that is safe and ready to eat,” he said. “We want to be good partners to the University community and by doing that, we have to meet all of our goals — quality, safety, inviting environment. We work very hard at food safety, and cur-rently we’re working very hard to bring those scores up at O-House and at the Summit.”

A point system determines what factors into a health score, Varin said, so “some things may be one point, some things may be three or four points and some things may be worth as much as nine points.”

Varin said proper temperature control of food items is particular-ly important and moni-tored on a regular basis.

“We have a system where we are constantly going through all of our dining commons. We take the temperature of food items, record, make corrective action where needed and go back and continue to do

that throughout the day in each service period,” he said. “In order to do that, there’s pretty much someone taking the temperature all the time. We put a lot of emphasis on that because that is a nine-point violation, but it also doesn’t take away from emphasis on other areas.”

All employees are required to complete a food safety course called ServSafe provid-ed by the National R e s t a u r a n t Association, Varin said.

“We go through intensive training with our managers, full-tim-ers and student employees as well,” he said. “We’re constantly monitoring our prac-tices, making improve-ments where we see that they need to be, reinforcing policies that we currently have that work. So it’s very impor-tant to us to stay on top of this and to constant-ly monitor and train and follow-through with employees and our-

selves to make sure we’re doing the right thing.”

Kris Ingmundson, a training specialist in UGA Food Services, said two levels of educa-tion — food handler

level and managerial level — are offered for employees to properly prepare themselves for serving food in the din-ing halls.

“We’re required to have one person in each

building have the man-ager-level certification, per Georgia state law,” she said. “We require all of our managers to have that certification and have several full-time employees who have chosen that level of cer-tification instead of the food handler. We would minimally be required to have 16 people in our department certified and we have about 120 people certified.”

Ingmundson said last spring’s scores are an indication that cer-tain areas should be more closely cared for and inspected.

“Whenever we are inspected by the health department, it’s an opportunity for us to get feedback on how we’re doing,” she said. “We take that feedback and make appropriate changes.”

And that feedback was brought into the design and construction process for the new Bolton Dining Commons, which was fully functional and open for student use by Aug. 18.

“Something we focused on when the building was designed was to be set-up for much more small-batch cooking and make it easier for employees to bring food directly to the serving lines,” Ingmundson said.

While Varin said he is excited about the updated features of the new and existing dining commons, food, health and safety will continue to be the top priorities.

The Village Summit Dining Commons received a health inspection score of 78 last April, which Food Services is attempting to address this fall. DIONDRA POWERS/Staff

Food Services takes precautions after receiving poor health scores in spring

Students participate in a boomerang-making course while studying abroad in Australia. Though European destinations are often the most high-demand pro-grams, students are increasingly seeking to study in other locations. Courtesy UGA

UGA study abroad remains responsive to international crisesBY NATALIE ADAMS

@nadams93

With a cluster of University of Georgia students returning from study abroad pro-grams for the fall semester, some may question whether or not several programs will continue in the wake of political unrest in several nations and an Ebola epidemic in parts of the world.

William Smith, an education abroad advi-sor in the Office of I n t e r n a t i o n a l Education at UGA, said some trips have been modified in response to turmoil in other coun-ries, such as the remov-al of the Ukraine expe-dition, which is usually part of one of the University’s Russia pro-grams.

The OIE offers 70 programs for students to participate in, and while some, such as the trips to Russia and Cuba, may be on the backburner for a short period of time, Smith said other programs will remain in place and continue to be offered opportunities even in the face of international adversity.

“At this moment, the only programs that we have in Africa are the South Africa pro-gram and the Ghana program,” Smith said. “And those are not affected by the Ebola virus.”

Smith said despite

a constantly changing international political landscape, programs will only continue to run if they support the best health and safety interests of the stu-dents.

“Basically, we have a rule of thumb,” Smith said. “If a location is on the State Department’s travel warning list, then we do not support our students going to that location.”

The benefits of traveling abroad out-weigh the fears that can come along with mov-ing abroad for a month, a semester or even a year, Smith said.

More than 2,000 UGA students go abroad each year, and with more than one out of every four students having gone overseas at some point during their time at school, the University’s various study abroad programs frequently change to fit the needs of the stu-dents who travel abroad.

Smith said the most popular programs in recent years have been those in Western Europe. While Italy, Spain and France con-sistently top the list of the most popular inter-national destinations chosen by students, Smith said programs in China, South Korea and Latin America are drawing more interest.

Additionally, UGA programs attract stu-dents from other

schools, with between 150 and 200 students from other universities enrolled in UGA study abroad programs each year.

Kaitlin Kent, a senior journalism major from St. Simons Island, has spent part of her past two summers studying abroad in Croatia and the Czech Republic.

“Going abroad two summers in a row was the best decision that I ever made,” she said. “It’s scary, but exhila-rating. I never thought I could learn so much in one month.”

The OIE also said they try to keep costs as consistent as possi-ble each year to ensure the maximum number of people possible are able to go abroad. While costs vary minimally from year to year, Smith said they strive to keep costs steady so that students may plan accordingly.

Scholarships are available for interna-tional educational pro-grams and students who are concerned about the affordability of traveling abroad. Students can apply for financial aid to cover additional costs.

UGA will host an open house event for students interested in studying abroad Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Office of I n t e r n a t i o n a l Education.

The Red & Black Thursday, August 21, 2014 News A9

BY DANIEL FUNKE@dpfunke

The University of Georgia is now a key sup-porter of a project that will grow the state’s economy substantially through an expansion of trade along the coast.

The Savannah Harbor, Georgia’s largest port, is to begin construction on a comprehen-sive expansion project this month, in which the Savannah River will be deepened by 47 feet in order to accommodate additional trade vessels.

In an effort to aid the communities that will be affected by the expansion, UGA and the Georgia Sea Grant, a program aimed at promot-ing conservation of natural resources, are team-ing up to investigate the best way for coastal Georgia residents to adapt their infrastructure.

Charles Hopkinson, director of the Georgia Sea Grant, said in a press release that he will be working with to better prepare the Savannah area for the effects of the harbor expansion.

“Most of the regional attention to the Savannah Harbor deepening has focused on the ecological effects to the river and adjacent wet-land ecosystems,” he said in the release. “We want to shift the focus to local communities so

that they are prepared to handle the secondary impacts that are likely to accompany the port expansion, such as new transportation and park-ing needs or the school and housing needs of an expanded workforce.”

Stephen Ramos, an assistant professor in the College of Environment and Design at UGA, said in the release that the harbor expansion will benefit communities along the coast of Georgia.

“The changes will affect the entire coastal corridor between Georgia’s two main maritime ports, and we want to help each community ben-efit from the development,” he said in the release.

However, Alex Merritt, a sophomore environ-mental economics major from Alpharetta, said the expansion will result in negative environmen-tal effects for the region.

“While dredging the river may be a good idea commerce-wise, it will ultimately lead to the quickening erosion of the Savannah Harbor areas and an enormous buildup of sediment on islands further down the shoreline,” he said.

Although a focus has been placed on prepar-ing coastal communities for the aftereffects of the expansion project, Hopkinson said in the release that the expansion will benefit Georgians through economic growth and job creation.

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Abdul said she thinks the inconvenience caused by the gap between end dates and start dates on leases could encourage stu-dents to renew a current lease to avoid the hassle of moving.

“I definitely think if I had the option, I probably would have renewed my lease for another month if I could to avoid the stress during finals week,” she said.

Achee said the lease dates can change from year to year and that The Reserve wants to accom-modate students’ sched-ules.

“Unfortunately, last year UGA pushed back classes a week, and if we had known that, the move-out date when we had everyone sign the leases could have been a little later, but the leases were already written,” she said.

However, Merlin said she thinks apartment com-plexes in Athens should do everything they can to remain responsive to the needs of students.

“I think if you’re trying to market to students, you should be aware of what students need, and the main thing a student needs when looking for an apart-ment complex is a place to live while going to school,” Merlin said.

LEASE: Students note flaws in summer leasing process

Wireless Internet in Sanford Stadium to improve on game dayBY MICHELLE BARUCHMAN

AND CODY PACE@mlbaruchman @codypace

When the University of Georgia football team makes an impressive play, fans are often eager to capture and share it on their social networks. But with 92,746 fans in Sanford Stadium on game days, many have experienced the frustration of busy or blocked cell phone signals, a problem that AT&T has attempted to fix.

AT&T announced in a press release Tuesday that it has completed a project that included the installa-tion of more than 400 new distributed antenna systems in Sanford Stadium through which game attendees will notice increased network coverage.

“We just completed, in fact, this past Monday, an expansion of our in-stadium system that will basically provide more than four times the [Internet] capacity of last year for AT&T customers in the stadium,” said Paul Chambers, the Northeast Georgia regional director of external affairs for AT&T.

Chambers said a lack of cell cover-age has contributed to a decrease in game attendance by students, and cited a 39 percent vacant seat rate among students from 2009-2012.

“When they started talking to stu-dents about some of the reasons why students are not going to the games, connectivity on their wireless devices was one of their issues,” he said.

As a result, AT&T added the additional DAS and a large data room under the east end zone bleachers. Although the company expects the problem to be alleviated, Chambers

said AT&T will continue to monitor the situation as the season progress-es.

“Though you can never tell until you get 92,000 people in the stands, the fan experience this year will be greatly improved, not to say it will ever be perfect,” he said.

The DAS will be strategically placed throughout the stadium, which

will provide a better mechanism to handle high-capacity usage in high-traffic areas. The antennas provide enhanced wireless coverage despite physical limitations and situational inconveniences, such as terrain, build-ing construction or crowd density.

The DAS technology functions by decreasing the distance a signal request has to travel, thus improving user mobile experience.

Fans should also be able to expect more reliable calls and consistent access to the AT&T network, accord-ing to the release. And, as AT&T has doubled overall network capacity in Athens, fans can experience better cell coverage while tailgating outside of the stadium.

Greg McGarity, director of athlet-ics at UGA, said in a press release that the enhanced coverage by AT&T will address one of fans’ greatest concerns this season.

Allie Knable, a junior biology major from Augusta, said she is excit-ed for the improvement.

“I am beyond thrilled to hear that,” she said. “I love to share videos and pictures on social media. It’s usu-ally such a pain to use my phone in Sanford, so it’s great that now I’ll be able to send images and clips instant-ly and immediately to my social net-work.”

In response to student complaints about poor wireless Internet reception in Sanford Stadium, AT&T added additional antennas to improve service. FILE/Staff

UGA aids in Savannah Harbor expansion project

A10 News Thursday, August 21, 2014 The Red & Black

BY KATELYN UMHOLTZ@Kumh0ltz

As the fall semester begins again, 5,285 new first-year University of Georgia students will call Athens home for the school year.

Despite the large number of people in classes during the fall, enrollment at UGA during the sum-mer has remained largely constant since last year.

The mid-summer enrollment report from July 9 shows the 2014 summer semester brought 12,577 undergraduate and graduate students to UGA’s Athens campus, whereas the 2013 semester brought 12,531, indicating a small increase from last year.

Despite the slight increase, the change is negli-gable when considering enrollment numbers from the past few years.

In the summer of 2010, there were 15,105 stu-dents taking classes at UGA, after which enrollment numbers dropped until this past summer.

Laura Jolly, vice president for instruction at UGA, and the rest of the Office of the Vice President for Instruction, created a plan in 2013 that would keep summer enrollment from falling in 2014 like it had been doing for the past three years.

“We’ve had online courses for a number of years, but our effort to increase the number offered in the summer started in 2013,” she said. “In preparation of that upcoming summer, we had worked in the spring with a group of faculty that we called Online

Learning Fellows and we developed and offered 36 new online undergraduate courses.”

In 2014, Jolly said they added 20 additional cours-es and offered 56 “high-demand” classes during the summer semester.

“We wanted to put the courses out there that we thought students needed,” she said.

Typically, students take summer classes to get credits out of the way in order to avoid a heavy workload in the fall and spring semesters, Jolly said.

She also said having more in-demand online classes will increase summer enrollment because students who are not in Athens over the summer can get those classes out of the way while at home.

This proved to be the case for Stefon Johnson, a 2012 UGA graduate from Fairburn who took sum-mer classes at Georgia State University and Kennesaw State University before transferring to UGA.

“I usually took 12 or 13 hours in fall and spring, so I took summer classes to make up for that,” he said.

Johnson also found summer classes to be benefi-cial because it allowed him to focus on one or two classes rather than four and five classes in fall and spring.

Jolly said she and her staff continue to find ways to increase summer enrollment by looking at data and talking to students and advisors about what classes are needed.

BY MICHELLE BARUCHMAN

@mlbaruchman

A newly released doc-ument from 1911 shows the University of Georgia placed two divi-sions higher than the Georgia Institute of Technology in a federal government rating sys-tem. But with a similar system in the works, not everyone is excited.

In the early 20th cen-tury, when receiving undergraduate degrees from universities was rare, the U.S. Bureau of Education created a fed-eral rating system of col-leges based on quality. More than half of the nation’s institutes of higher education were divided into four classifi-cations on the basis of how well-prepared stu-dents were for graduate school.

After criticism from low-rated colleges, the president at the time, William Taft, banned the distribution.

Now, more than 100 years later, the contro-versial system is back.

Andy Thomason, a writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, said President Barack Obama has proposed a similar rating system, and it has already received backlash.

“There’s been a humongous outcry about the plan, mostly from people concerned that it will [discourage] colleges from enrolling low-income students,” Thomason said.

The plan would rate colleges on measures of access, affordability and student earnings post-graduation.

It will also consider the percentage of low-income students a col-lege accepts and the probability that stu-dents will be able to pay

off their debt after grad-uation. With this system in place, students who are enrolled in higher-rated institutions could obtain larger grants and more affordable loans.

Thomason said peo-ple fear it could create disadvantages for stu-dents.

The Obama adminis-tration responded to worries by saying the ratings would create a competitive environ-ment for colleges, bene-fit prospective students by providing informa-tion on drop-out rates and earnings of alumni, and encourage colleges to keep costs down.

In a speech given by Obama in August 2013, he said it is “time to stop subsidizing schools that are not producing good results and reward schools that deliver for American students and our future.”

Each year, the federal government spends $150 billion on federal stu-dent aid, according to an article from The Chronicle, but most of the money is allocated based on financial need and the number of stu-dents who enroll. The new plan would be changed so that money would be distributed on how well students do and if they graduate.

Tsoler Terzian, a business major from Atlanta, disagrees with the proposed system.

“It makes me think and feel that the system is a little unfair. A col-lege might have poor student outcome but that doesn’t mean that the students themselves aren’t working hard,” she said. “So therefore, I don’t think financial aid should be allocated based on how students are doing academically, but rather how strong of a work ethic they have.”

Proposed college rating system prompts debate

Summer enrollment flatlines after years of decline, UGA seeks to increase

UGA student enrollment during summer 2014 remained relatively unchanged from the 2013 numbers. However, it marks the first increase since 2010, when summer enrollment began to decline. JOHN ROARK/Staff

EventsTHURSDAY, AUGUST 21UGABlood DriveWhen: 1 p.m.Where: Creswell HallFor more: www.uga.edu

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Nana Grizol, Sea of Dogs, Shark Shark, Orange Twin Family BandWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Hi-Lo LoungePrice: $5 For more: www.hiloa-thens.com

Gov’t MuleWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: $27.50For more: www.georgia-theatre.com

Chris Lane, Tyler Hammond Band, Gannon AdamsWhen: 8 p.m.Where: 40 Watt ClubPrice: $10For more: www.40watt.com

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22UGA

Captain America: The Winter SoldierWhen: 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.Where: Tate Student CenterPrice: $1-2For more: www.union.uga.edu

LOCALBetrayalWhen: 8 p.m.

Where: Athens Community TheaterPrice: $10For more: www.town-andgownplayers.org

MUSICGov’t MuleWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: $27.50For more: www.georgia-theatre.com

Dog Daze FestWhen: 8 p.m.Where: 40 Watt ClubPrice: $5For more: www.40watt.com

Dangfly, Josh Perkins Voodoo Crew, The Pine Box DwellersWhen: 10 p.m.Where: Caledonia LoungePrice: $5 (21+), $7 (18-20)For more: www.caledo-nialounge.com

Five Eight, Tawny Ellis, Adam Klein, The Smoking FlowersWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Hendershot’s Coffee BarFor more: www.hender-shotscoffee.com

Coyotes in Boxes, Wil-bur by the SeaWhen: 11 p.m.Where: The World Fa-mousFor more: www.theworldfamousathens.com

Blunt Fang, Ginko, Manny and the Deep-throats, Fit of Body, Black ParadiseWhen: 10 p.m.Where: Go BarFor more: 706-546-5609

Square Grouper BandWhen: 6 p.m.Where: Nowhere BarFor more: 706-546-4742

Powerkompany, Bag-houseWhen: 10 p.m.Where: MaxPrice: $3For more: 706-254-3392

SATURDAY,AUGUST 23UGAStudy Abroad Open HouseWhen: 10 a.m.Where: Office of In-ternational Education BuildingFor more: www.uga.edu

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes UGAWhen: 5 p.m.Where: The ArchFor more: www.uga.edu

MUSICDog Daze FestWhen: 8 p.m.Where: 40 Watt ClubPrice: $5For more: www.40watt.com

White Violet, Ruby the Rabbitfoot, Grand VapidsWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Green Room

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Back 2 School JamWhen: 5:30 p.m.Where: Stegeman Coli-seumPrice: $45 (gen. admis-sion), $65 (floor)For more: www.skyci-tymg.com

LOCALAthens Farmers MarketWhen: 8 a.m.- noonWhere: Bishop ParkFor more: www.athens-farmersmarket.org

West Broad Market GardenWhen: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.Where: West Broad Market GardenFor more: www.ath-enslandtrust.org

Back to CoolWhen: 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.Where: The Tasting Room at Jittery Joe’s Roasting CompanyPrice: FreeFor more: www.indie-southfair.com

SUNDAY,AUGUST 24UGAWomen’s Soccer vs. UNC GreensboroWhen: 2 p.m.Where: Turner Soccer ComplexPrice: FreeFor more: www.uga.edu

MUSICParasite Diet, The Cryptides, J.B. The Pol-ish Sauage Man

When: 8 p.m.Where: Hi-Lo LoungePrice: $5For more: www.hiloa-thens.com

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MONDAY,AUGUST 25UGAIntramural Flag Foot-ball and Basketball RegistrationWhen: 9 a.m.Where: Ramsey Stu-dent CenterFor more: www.uga.edu

LOCAL Casual ComedyWhen: 8-11 p.m.Where: Hendershot’s Coffee BarPrice: FreeFor more: www.hender-shotscoffee.com

MUSICEmily & The Complex-es, A.O. DonovanWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: FreeFor more: www.georgia-theatre.com

The Love Language, VigilsWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Green RoomPrice: $5For more: www.green-roomathens.com

Workingman’s MondayWhen: 10 p.m.Where: Nowhere BarFor more: 706-5646-4742

TUESDAY,AUGUST 26UGA Karate Class

When: 6:30 p.m.Where: Tate Student CenterFor more: www.uga.edu

MUSIC

Sol Cat, Tedo StoneWhen: 10 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: FreeFor more: www.georgia-theatre.com

LOCALTuesday Farmers Mar-ketWhen: 4-7 p.m.Where: West Broad Market GardenFor more: 706-613-0122

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MUSICShabazz Palaces, Pat-tern is MovementWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Georgia TheatrePrice: $10For more: www.georgia-theatre.com

Athens PRIDE president Justin Gillespie (left) and community liason Walter “Big Mama” Lattimore take part in percentage night at Ben & Jerry’s. JOSHUA L. JONES/Staff

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SportsThe Red & Black Thursday, August 21, 2014 Sports B1

“Today was awesome. After my mom and I

did the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

we both cried in each other’s arms

for a few minutes.”— Watts Dantzler @wattsdantzler

HOW AUTONOMY COULD WORK: Each conference will have three student repre-sentatives, which account for one vote, and one vote allotted per school when deciding on potential rule changes. This graph shows the breakdown of votes per conference.GRAPHIC BY CAITLIN LEMOINE/Staff

SOURCE: NCAA

Challenge accepted: UGA lineman honors deceased father in social media campaign

BY NICK SUSS@nicksuss

The rules are quite clear.If you are nominated for the ALS

Ice Bucket Challenge, you have 24 hours to dump a bucket of ice water on your head or make a donation. You then challenge three other peo-ple to do the same. Those people then repeat the process.

Watts Dantzler didn’t want to take the challenge.

“I had a couple of people chal-lenge me and I really didn’t want to do it. It’s really kind of an emotional thing for me,” Dantzler said.

Back in 2009, Dantzler’s father, Danny Dantzler, died of ALS a year and a half after his diagnosis. The gravity of his father’s death still weighs on Dantzler to this day, as his right arm is emblazoned with a tat-too including his father’s initials, Dantzler’s number 78 and the letters “ALS.”

Because of the emotional con-nection the disease has to his life, Dantzler was initially hesitant to publically speak out against it. However, the support of his family led to Dantzler to finally accept the challenge.

See DANTZLER, Page B3

BY CODY PACE@CodyPace

Aug. 7 and 8 could go down as two of the most important dates in the history of the modern college athletes’ rights movement.

On the former, the NCAA Division I board of directors voted to allow the Power Five conferences — the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 10, Big 12, Pacific 12 and the Southeastern Conference — the autonomy to make rules more conducive to their financial capabilities. The ruling could mean that those conferences provide full cost of attendance, more financial support to injured players and even loosen rules on the contact between agents and ath-letes.

On the latter, judge Claudia Wilken handed down a 99-page decision in the Ed O’Bannon v. NCAA case that ruled in favor of O’Bannon and his challenge to the NCAA’s licensing of the use of his and other players’ likeness in the EA Sports college basketball franchise. Wilken’s ruling went beyond just the use of player likenesses in video games — it changes the way athletes are to be compensated and challenged many of the pillars of the NCAA’s model of amateurism.

Both of these decisions, if upheld, change how athletes are treated by universities and will drasti-cally alter the landscape of college athletics.

“You hate to say it this way, but it’s sort of a per-fect storm, isn’t it?” said Georgia law professor David Shipley, the university’s faculty representative to the Athletic Association.

O’Bannon and the logic of trust funds

The most potentially impactful part of Wilkens’ ruling came in regards to the meat of the lawsuit: the use of player names, likenesses and images.

Wilken ruled that schools must begin to share a portion of the money that they generate by licensing athletes’ likenesses to companies. Specifically, she

said that schools must create trust funds for their athletes, in which they will place their share of the licensing revenue until they graduate. Once athletes graduate, they will be able to access that money.

This won’t be the first time that a trust fund sys-tem has been attempted in amateur sports.

“Back in the Olympics when you had to be an amateur, some sports tried this, so track and field tried this,” Georgia professor of applied economics Jeffrey Dorfman said. “You were allowed to take money out of your escrow account for training expenses and then the rest had to stay in until you were done competing and then you could collect it so it’s kind of similar to this idea.”

Then in the 1980s came Carl Lewis, the eight-time gold medalist sprinter. The story goes that, while training in Houston, Lewis bought an expen-sive house, car and fine china all as training expens-es.

“He was just spending his money however he felt like and saying it’s a training expense, ‘I’ve got to eat, I’ve got to drive to the track, got to have a house to live in,’ all this until they just got so embarrassed and humiliated they just said, ‘You know what? guys, just take the money, it’s your money,’ and they got rid of the escrow accounts,” Dorfman said.

Also, while Wilken’s decision tore apart many aspects of the NCAA’s amateurism, she didn’t dis-miss the entire idea and allowed for a cap on the trust fund account, as long as that value did not go below $5,000 per year.

“I think the one thing that was surprising about the ruling was that, so she ruled that basically the NCAA could maintain amateurism but the rules that it had were too restrictive,” associate professor of journalism Welch Suggs said. “I was a bit surprised that she actually didn’t say that amateurism simply was not a valuable product, that it could be substi-tuted for other products in the marketplace.”

Along those lines, Dorfman pointed out two flaws with the arbitrary cap value. The first was a logical fallacy in the thinking that waiting until grad-

uation for the payout somehow alters the state of amateurism.

“Does it make them more of a professional if they get the $5,000 the minute they graduate?” Dorfman said. “If somebody said to a high school senior, ‘If you come play football at Alabama, I will give you $1 million the day your eligibility is up or you graduate or whatever.’ We call that a violation, right? How’s that different from an escrow account you get once you graduate?”

The second issue is that setting a cap around $5,000 guarantees that players won’t necessarily get a share of the money equal to what they bring in. While $5,000 might be enough to cover the appropri-ate share of the revenue generated by a baseball or basketball player, it limits what a highly marketable, elite athlete can receive, regardless of how much their likeness profits their university.

“So we made this fair by giving Johnny Manziel $5,000 he gets when he graduates?” Dorfman said. “I’m pretty sure [Texas A&M] made way more than $5,000 marketing Johnny Manziel.”

Amatuerism, competitive balance and taxes

While the cap on player compensation could be altered in many different ways as the NCAA appeals the decision, Wilkens’ strong language on many other issues of amateurism in her ruling are sure to continue to resurface throughout the appellate pro-cess.

Wilkens challenged the NCAA on its continually changing definition of amateurism to fit its own needs and dismissed many of the key arguments for maintaining the current system, including the idea that the demand for college football depends on unpaid amateurism, that the athletes’ academic experience would be hindered, that paying players would decrease competitive balance and that paying players would cause teams to leave.

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Wilkens argued that the demand will be high for college football regard-less of whether players are compen-sated.

She said that paying players would be no different than other col-lege students that have jobs or who are wealthier. She also cited that just a handful of teams already dominate recruiting for top-tier talent to strike down the competitive balance argu-ment, and she also cited the NCAA’s lack of evidence in reference to teams that would leave.

While the first two points have been more widely agreed upon, the competitive balance argument and the argument that some teams would leave before paying beyond the cost of a scholarship have not.

To the competitive balance argu-ment, sports economist Andy Schwarz of Sports Geekonomics quantified Wilkens’ arguments that a few teams already dominate recruiting in a Deadspin.com piece. What Schwarz found was a high correlation between recruiting success in one season and recruiting success in the next.

While this would likely hold true and continue regardless of whether or not teams were required to pay for the licensing of players’ likenesses, as the cap on the trust fund increased, it’s very likely that the number of com-petitive teams would decrease.

“If the limits come off whether its how much you can pay or how much you can put in an escrow account, we certainly go from however many schools there are now that at least imagine they can compete for the national championship or league championships which is what, 30 or 40, to what, five?” Dorfman said. “It becomes a really small number.”

To the other argument, Wilken added that the difference between schools in Division I and schools in other divisions centers around the amount of resources each group has at its disposal.

Because of this, she argued that the schools wouldn’t be in Division I if they weren’t already willing to sink money into athletics. Some econo-mists, such as Schwarz, agree with this standpoint while others, such as Dorfman, believe that this could cause some schools to reach a tipping point. Regardless, it’s not going to keep the

concern out of everyone’s minds.“I think if you look at the 65

schools in the five major conferences, I’m sure there are more than a hand-ful, maybe a substantial number in there that, how they’re going to do this and make ends meet is going to be tough,” Shipley said. “We have not talked about that directly as [faculty athletic representatives] but I think it’s in the back of everybody’s minds.”

Finally, the ruling leaves open the potential that athletic scholarships could be differentiated from academic scholarships and be considered as compensation for playing the sport. This could have devastating conse-quences counterproductive to what the players are trying to accomplish.

“I would argue that that’s proba-bly wrong and going to be really bad for the players,” Dorfman said. “If the judges ruling stands and that is not just an inducement like any other scholarship to get you to come to the University of Georgia but actually pay for playing football, then the IRS is going to say that’s taxable income.”

According to Dorfman, this could result in athletes paying as much as $5,000 in income taxes.

Is autonomy the answer?

As the NCAA continues to lose traction on the many fronts of the players’ rights front, middle ground will continued to be sought.

In this spirit, the power grab of the Power Five conferences for auton-omy could be interpreted as a step to meet players in the middle on some of the issues related less to direct pay-ment and more to player safety.

“The whole point of the autonomy move is to give athletes all of these wonderful benefits without entering into an employment contract,” Suggs said. “That really would have pretty devastating effects for all of college sports if athletes were deemed to be employees with full rights under a sys-tem where they contracted with a school on a fee-for-service basis.”

The move toward autonomy will allow teams in these conferences to provide better health coverage, lon-ger-term care for concussion-related injuries and potential access to agents earlier in the draft process, among other things. It also shifts the govern-ment structure of the NCAA to give those conferences greater voting power and will give student athletes 15 of the 80 spots on the new voting panel, as well as providing student athletes with a full-cost-of-attendance stipend. The system also allots one vote per school when deciding on

potential rule changes, thus giving both students and each member insti-tution a voice.

For larger and more profitable schools such as Georgia the, full cost of attendance – a value calculated by the financial aid offices of every uni-versity based on guidelines from the federal government, is an easily doable expenditure that could begin sooner rather than later.

“If there is not an override then I assume the five major conferences could start to collaborate and work together on sort of coming up with these things that are specific to them and I think we’re prepared probably here to implement things as soon as they say we can,” Shipley said. “We’ve done calculations about what it would cost for the program to go with full cost of attendance. Our budget is in pretty good shape, so I think we can hit the ground running once we know we can go ahead with some of these things.”

As the faculty advisor responsible for watching out for the welfare of stu-dent athletes, Shipley made a list of several things he felt the University could do right away, including better health coverage, insurance and the four-year awards.

While all of these things will be allowed to be provided by non-Power-Five school it is unlikely. In fact, that stipend, compounded with the new regulations on paying players for their likeness, could be what ultimately pushes some teams out of a Power Five conference

“The schools that can’t drive as much money from their stadiums … are going to have a hard time keeping up in terms of the kind of menu of things that is going to be laid out

under autonomy,” Suggs said. “Those schools and the universities … have made such a huge investment in being members of the Big 10 or the SEC or whatever that they are likely to make up that money from institutional sources.”

While using institutional money could help subsidize the growth in spending for a time, it’s hardly a long-term solution for those teams that continue to fail to bring in a profit from their athletic departments.

Out of the 48 public schools in the power conferences, only Utah, Minnesota, Washington State, UCLA and UC Berkeley spent less than the FBS median on athletics per athlete in 2012 according to the database on athletic and academic spending pro-vided by the Knight Commission.

While most Power Five schools spent more than the FBS median on athletics, 17 of them spent more than $10,000 per athlete of institutional money on athletics and Arizona State, Virginia, Colorado, Maryland and Oregon State all spent more than $10 million of institutional money on ath-letics. These are just the 2012 values with the Knight Commission predict-ing the median value of institutional money spent by all FBS schools to double by 2020.

“I think there’s even more moral dimensions than economic dimen-sions because just consider this: think about if you had to take out student loans to pay the student fees that were being designated to athletics. How would that make you feel as a student?” Suggs said. “There’s just real serious questions universities have to ask themselves about whether this is fair to raise money from these sources.”

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“My mom and my aunt came down and they were kind of talking about it and they were wanting to do it, so it was a really special moment,” Dantzler said.

Dantzler said that the challenge he eventually accepted was lofted his way by former Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray. Though Dantzler said he was not sure whether Murray was aware of his family’s history with the disease, the general con-sensus around the team was that Murray and Dantzler’s closeness made the challenge that much more personal.

“I guess that probably means a lot to Watts having Aaron do it,” junior offensive tackle John Theus said. “That’s pretty special. It just shows that

Aaron cares and just the great guy that Aaron is.”After accepting and taking the challenge,

Dantzler challenged his mother, his aunt and father’s best friend, all of whom were in attendance and immediately followed by accepting the chal-lenge themselves. Georgia head coach Mark Richt even joined in on the occasion, dumping the first bucket on Dantzler and then helping him dump the rest of the buckets.

“Today was awesome. After my mom and I did the ALS Ice Bucket challenge we both cried in each other’s arms for a few minutes,” Dantzler tweeted from his personal Twitter account on Aug. 16.

Independent of Dantlzer’s individual challenge, the importance of the Ice Bucket Challenge has not been lost on him. Dantzler said that the sheer awareness generated by this well-intentioned inter-

net fad has meant a lot to him and his hometown of Dalton.

“When my dad was going through the disease, not many people knew about it,” Dantzler said. “Now everyone in Dalton where I’m from knows about the disease because my dad had it. With all the publicity the Ice Bucket Challenge is getting, it’s kind of raising awareness, so people know kind of what it is and what it does to the body.”

The importance of this challenge to Dantzler can be seen by his teammates as well. As senior center David Andrews put it, though ALS has its own meaning for everyone, the disease means some-thing stronger for Dantzler.

“For him, it’s a little more personal than just dumping ice over your head,” Andrews said. “A little bit closer to home.”

DANTZLER: Ice Bucket Challenge hits close to home for Georgia offensive tackle

BY JAYLON THOMPSON@jaylonthompson

Inside a college classroom, one will see many talented individu-als. Students are atten-tive and learning from their professor’s lec-tures. There are some that specialize in the classroom, while others specialize in different areas. Rarely does someone do both.

The exceptions are Georgia women’s soc-cer sophomore defend-ers Summer Burnett and Kelsey Nix.

Both were S o u t h e a s t e r n Conference Freshman Honor Roll recipients last season, but don’t take their smarts as a weakness — these women are tough.

“When I step on the field, my mentality is to protect my team and my responsibility to not let the other team score,” Burnett said. “That’s my main goal and my job to not let the ball get in the back of the net.”

Nix is also one to bring a tenacious approach to the back lines.

She is not one to hold back while on the field, and you certainly won’t see her getting

chatty with the oppo-nents.

On numerous occa-sions Nix will be flying around the field letting opponents know what to expect when they come into the box. Generally, the message gets across very clearly.

“I take it as my job personally. The first tackle means that they need to end up on the ground,” Nix said. “It is like a scaring tactic that makes them hesi-tate on their touches and question when I’m coming. It just works in our favor.”

As young freshmen coming up last season, both Burnett and Nix had the honor of learn-ing from some of the best defenders in Georgia women’s soc-cer history.

Each player got to experience a 2013 team that broke records with six shutouts that corre-sponded with a 652- minute defensive score-less streak.

Burnett made sure to take in everything she could from former defender Torri Allen, and now she has taken it upon herself to be the leader of the defense.

“You have to know your teammates along with everyone’s

strengths and weak-nesses,” Burnett said. “You want to know the plays and how to set everyone up to their strengths. It’s my responsibility to know what they can and can’t do.”

Assistant head coach Dan Blank believes in the leader-ship qualities of Burnett, as well.

He calls her “the voice” and sees her as the leader of the back four.

“What she says goes,” Blank said. “We hope everyone learns off of her and everyone starts to feel comfort-able. When it comes to executive power, Summer has the free-dom to make the big choices.”

Being able to com-municate as a leader is something that Burnett, along with Nix, are continuing to work on together as a unit.

It is something that both players believe that they need in order to successfully guide Georgia to victory.

“Communication is huge,” Nix said. “A lot of things can be pre-vented if we have a good defensive shape in the back four.”

BY TANYA SICHYNSKY@tanyasic

The notion that Southeastern Conference fans have an insatiable appetite for content regarding their favorite teams is about as old as the fall of the Roman Empire. For foot-ball fans across the Southeast and beyond, Aug. 14 ushered in an unequaled quencher of their pride-fueled thirsts.

ESPN’s SEC Network is unparalleled because similar channels that preceded it have not the reach this new network boasts. Unlike Longhorn Network and the Big Ten Network, SEC Network has the luxury of describing itself as a national network rather than a regional one; as of now, only one national carrier has yet to pick up the network and its program-ming.

That national scope presents an opportunity for the network to set a precedent within a con-ference largely concerned with 250-pound man children tackling one another for free. Those who turn to SEC Network for its foot-ball coverage will also be exposed to non-revenue-generating sports in the form of at least 450 various sporting events, giving the network the power to shine the limelight on other athletes for a change.

The channel’s programming prides itself on its balanced cov-erage of the conference’s 14 uni-versities, providing segments

devoted not only to the football programs, but also to men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, etc. The net-work is void of Skip Bayless, but the talking heads spewing hot takes may still be hard to evade.

As of now, SEC Network’s daily lineup includes SEC Now, a news show modeled after ESPN’s flagship program Sports Center, an array of college football pre-view shows, reruns of monumen-tal wins and heartbreaking losses and a four hour block dedicated to the ramblings of Paul Finebaum. A. Four. Hour. Block.

Such programming makes sense, for now. College football is right around the corner and this is what the people want, after all. But soon enough, the shows and segments will need to incorpo-rate all facets of an SEC athletic program. What happens when any old Tom, Dick or Harry calls the folks up in Charlotte, North Carolina, wondering why a bunch of ladies are kicking around a ball on his TV when he could be watching Tray Matthews’ and Josh Harvey-Clemons’ enshrine-ment into the college football hall of infamy?

This is television, folks. Although I assume the network has very specific contractual obli-gations with each university to promote sports other than foot-ball, it’s hard to believe the over-all coverage will be anything near balanced.

Enter Tuesday morning’s episode of SEC Now.

Former Bulldog Maria Taylor is on the TV in front of me, break-ing down Johnny Manziel’s per-formance on Monday Night Football. He is an NFL quarter-back, and a backup no less as the news that Brian Hoyer had been named the Browns’ starter broke earlier that morning. Yet, here we are, subjected to content that has absolutely zero SEC rele-vance as of May 8.

I don’t want to watch Browns preseason highlights, and you don’t either.

The next news nugget incor-porated into the show seemed just as unnecessary. Ohio State’s Braxton Miller is out for the sea-son with a shoulder injury. Geography quiz: Where is Ohio State? Not in the SEC, you are correct. Yet some ballsy produc-tion calls resulted in a segment about what player each SEC team couldn’t figuratively live without. Such hypothetical non-sense is the brain child of a pro-ducer stifled by a slow news day.

SEC Network has a lot of potential and the right inten-tions. Once fall sports are in full swing, a slow news day will be hard to come by. But the talking heads model doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. It’ll be up to ESPN and its executives to decide what content is more compelling. And if history and the demands of Tom, Dick and Harry are any indication, we’ll be watching Johnny Football and his Browns highlights for the next five years.

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NAME: Jayson Stanley

POSITION: Wide

Receiver

SCHOOL: Creekside

High School

HEIGHT: 6-foot-2

WEIGHT: 198 lbs.

BY SARAH SPENCER@sarah_k_spence

Following a record-setting season in 2013, the University of Georgia volleyball team has set high standards for itself entering this fall.

The Bulldogs earned 22 wins last sea-son, the most since 2002, and also reached the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2004.

Although they sur-passed many expecta-tions for the season, the Bulldogs suffered a dis-appointing loss in the first round of the NCAA tournament, ending the season with a 3-0 (25-21,25-13,25-11) loss in the first round to the

American University Eagles.

This year, head coach Lizzy Stemke seeks a fresh start and wants the players focused on the task at hand.

“The good, the bad and the ugly, we’re not talking about last sea-son,” Stemke said. “This is a new team with great aspirations to create their own jour-ney.”

Despite seniors Allison Summers, Elena Perri, Brittany Northcutt and Stacey Smith graduating, find-ing new leadership has not been a problem for the Bulldogs. Many vet-erans, including senior defensive specialist/libe-ro Gaby Smiley and set-

ter Kaylee Kehoe, are excited to lead a team that returns 10 players from 2013 and welcomes four freshman.

“All our freshman are really good,” Kehoe said. “They’ve really improved with our skill drills that we do every day."

Leadership and development of new tal-ent should prove to be a necessity throughout the Bulldogs’ tough S o u t h e a s t e r n Conference schedule. The team begins SEC play on September 24 against Alabama, and in its last stretch of the season it will face three teams ranked in the preseason 2014 American Volleyball Coaches Association in

Florida (10) Missouri (15) and Kentucky (19).

The team is not overlooking the string of non-conference oppo-nents it will face at the start of the season.

“We’ve got a very diverse preseason schedule,” Stemke said.

The team will par-ticipate in the University of San Fransisco Bay Area Challenge in San Fransisco on Aug. 29 to face Fordham University, Southern Methodist University and the University of San Fransisco.

Before they travel west, an upcoming team scrimmage will offer the opportunity for players to battle for starting positions and

potential playing time.“We have a very

close group of girls, our chemistry is awesome on and off the court,” Smiley said. “But when

it comes down to it, everyone wants to play, but there’s only six spots on the court, so you have to compete.”

BY JUSTIN HUBBARD@JHubb93

The Georgia women’s soc-cer team will begin its season at Ole Miss on Friday night, and the Bulldogs are carrying a high degree of confidence into the season despite missing two important starters.

Senior midfielder Laura Eddy and sophomore forward Marion Crowder are both await-ing clearance to return to full action after suffering ACL inju-ries last season.

With the timetable for a return still in question, the team may need to lean on some of its younger players in the first couple weeks.

“We’re looking at about a two- to four-week timeline right now before I’m fully cleared, but I’m getting back into prac-tice and non-contact playing, and I feel really great so I should be ready to go,” Eddy said.

Crowder, who is coming off an impressive freshman season, will have to wait about the same amount of time before being cleared for full participation as well.

Georgia head coach Steve Holeman said his team’s youth

could actually be beneficial in this situation because most of the players have not competed with Eddy and Crowder on the field.

“The thing about it is, a lot of our players have never played with Marion Crowder or Laura Eddy because they’re new, so they don’t probably realize what they’re missing,” Holeman said. “They know the value, they’re aware of what they had done in the past, but, right now, what they know is the players they’ve played with and against every day in training. As these two start to come back into the fold, they’re certainly going to make a difference.”

Another reason for Georgia to be confident even without

Eddy and Crowder is the debut of freshman midfielder Becca Rasmussen.

Rasmussen was the only freshman Georgia player named to the Southeastern Conference Preseason Watch List, and she was a highly-touted high school player in Colorado.

According to her team-mates, Rasmussen is as good as advertised.

“She’s just one of the most dynamic attackers I’ve ever watched,” Eddy said. “She has really great vision and she’s always moving off the ball. She’s like the energizer bunny, but she’s a smart and just really crafty player, and she has all the tools and talent she needs to succeed.”

Soccer team to rely on younger players

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SCOUTING REPORTS

OUR TAKE:

Creekside High School’s Jayson Stanley completed Georgia’s busy recruiting weekend when the wide receiver announced his commitment to the Bulldogs last Saturday.

The first trait that jumps out about Stanley is his speed. The Fairburn native is not only a critical member of Creekside’s 2013 AAAAA Georgia State Championship squad, but a critical part of the offense. His ability to get open — and his 6-foot-2 frame — helped him pick up 56 receptions for 1,100 yards and an impressive 18 trips to the end zone during his junior season.

Georgia doesn’t have the depth it used to at wide receiver, so Stanley could have the opportunity to con-tribute to the team right away in 2015. The Georgia coaching staff haven’t put many young wide receiv-

ers in starting rolls in the past few seasons, but Stanley’s dimensions and credentials may be too much for offensive coordinator Mike Bobo to deal out a redshirt.

Stanley is pretty built for a young wide receiver, and Georgia could possibly make him a target for a jump ball where he can outreach defenders and still have the strength to reel the ball in.

Stanley had a host of schools to choose from, but most of Georgia’s opposition came from Oregon and Southeastern Conference rival Auburn. No doubt Auburn’s trip to the National Championship last year made them an enticing choice, and Stanley could have fit well in Oregon’s fast-paced offense. Georgia gets another huge in-state win in Stanley, rated the 19th best prospect in Georgia according to ESPN.

NAME: Jonathan Ledbetter

POSITION: Defensive End

SCHOOL: Tucker High School

HEIGHT: 6-foot-4

WEIGHT: 265 lbs.

STANLEY

LEDBETTER

OUR TAKE:

Georgia made its second big addition to its defensive line last Saturday, when Jonathan Ledbetter flipped on his decision to go to Alabama and committed to Georgia.

His brother, Joseph Ledbetter, transferred to Georgia after playing two years of basketball at Pfeiffer University and is now working with the Bulldogs’ tight ends.

If all goes to plan the defensive end from Tucker will be reunited with his brother in 2015.

Ledbetter is listed by 247Sports.com as the fifth-best strong-side defensive end in the nation and comes in at 72nd overall in his com-posite score.

His high school highlights prove that he can get to the ball in the backfield.

Video shows Ledbetter’s speed in taking down mobile quarterbacks with jumps off the line and displays his ability to weave through holes to bottle up the opponent’s inside run-ning game.

Ledbetter, an Under Armour All-American, has also taken some snaps on the offensive side of the

ball. Ledbetter lined up as a tight end, hitting his blocking assign-ment, locking up the opposing defensive end and driving him downfield to give his running back enough room for a 42-yard touch-down run.

While his versatility is a plus, Ledbetter’s frame — 6-foot-4, 265 lbs. — means Georgia will likely uti-lize him for his defensive prowess. Georgia defensive coordinator, Jeremy Pruitt, may have other plans for Ledbetter when he joins the team in 2015.

Ledbetter is listed at the same position as one of Georgia’s shiniest new prospects, freshman Lorenzo Carter.

If Carter’s freshman year proves to be worth the hype, Ledbetter may find himself competing at another position next fall.

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BY JUSTIN FEDICH@jfedich

The tennis player that 18-year-old Paul Oosterbaan spent much of his childhood watching and imitating was standing inches away on the hard court at the 2013 U.S. Open.

Oosterbaan had looked up to John Isner all his life. But standing face-to-face with the pro, the 6-foot-7 Oosterbaan only had to look up two inches at the 6-foot-9 Isner.

Oosterbaan earned a wild card spot in the main draw at the U.S. Open after winning the 18-year-old doubles tournament at the United States Tennis Association National Championship earlier in the year. This is where he met Isner, who graduated from Georgia seven years ago. Since graduating, Isner has won nine ATP titles, secured a top-10 world ranking and played the longest match in his-tory at Wimbledon in 2010. Since his departure, the Bulldogs have not seen a player nearly as tall as Isner, or with as gigantic a serve.

That will change when Oosterbaan takes the court this season.

Georgia lost two seniors last to graduation, but the team gains four freshmen this fall. Oosterbaan was the only one of those freshmen who was with the team in the spring as a red-shirt freshman.

He saw Georgia fall a match short of the quarterfinals in the National Championship Tournament, and

hopes to help to push the team to a championship this season.

“We’re not that far removed from John Isner’s year,” head coach Manuel Diaz said. “[Oosterbaan] certainly would like to bring back the kind of teams that we had when John was here.”

Diaz and associate head coach Will Glenn have been coaching Georgia men’s tennis for a combined 35 years. Both said they were thrilled to welcome Oosterbaan to the pro-gram in January and believe the fresh-man can become a special player.

Oosterbaan was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he lived before coming to Georgia.

After being recruited by a handful of schools near his hometown, Oosterbaan decided to play tennis at Georgia in an effort to help the school win its seventh national champion-ship.

“Coming to Georgia, I have four chances,” Oosterbaan said.

Choosing to escape the comfort of Michigan was based on more than just his love for the Georgia coaching staff or familiarity with some of the team-mates. Oosterbaan said he is all about winning national championships.

“They’re always competitive for the chance to win a ring,” Oosterbaan said.

Oosterbaan said Georgia’s history of success provided him a better chance than any other school closer to his hometown he was considering.

Georgia won its most recent tennis national championships in 2007 and 2008, but the team has fallen short the past few years despite being in the national title conversation each sea-son.

One of the schools that recruited Oosterbaan was Michigan, where his father, J.P. Oosterbaan, won a national championship as a 6-foot-10 center on the 1989 basketball team.

“[His height] obviously gives him a gigantic serve,” Oosterbaan’s father said. “I think that the coaches are going to know how to deal with a big guy because they’ve done it before.”

Oosterbaan said he would like nothing more than to follow his father’s success, but early on Oosterbaan knew it would be in ten-nis, not basketball.

While he enjoyed shooting hoops in the backyard with his father, it was the thrill of watching his older cousin play tennis at a young age that sent him in a different direction.

“Since I was 6 years old, my main goal in junior tennis was to get a chance to play in front of my friends and family at nationals,” Oosterbaan said.

The junior national tournament was held in Kalamazoo each year. At a young age, Oosterbaan would watch some of the top junior players, includ-ing Isner, compete in his hometown.

“When he was little he would try to imitate one of the players or a move that somebody made or a shot that

somebody did in tennis,” Oosterbaan’s father said. “He was really good at imitating good players, so that was one of the things that got him to be where he is.”

But nothing motivated Oosterbaan more than seeing how awesome being a champion can be firsthand from his father.

“Seeing his rings and stuff sitting around the house made me pretty jealous and made me want to have a shot to have one of those someday,” Oosterbaan said.

BY JAYLON THOMPSON@jaylonthompson

ESPN College GameDay Analyst Kirk Herbstreit is confident in the Georgia football team.

During a confer-ence call with national media on Tuesday, Herbstreit said that he believes the Bulldogs should be a favorite to win the Southeastern Conference Eastern division. One of the rea-sons he believes this to be true is the addition of new defensive coordi-nator Jeremy Pruitt.

“He has inherited a veteran group and he is

a big reason I like Georgia to win the SEC East,” Herbstreit said. “I’m very excited to see the difference he makes with that defense; I think it will be pro-found.”

Pruitt will be taking over a Georgia defense that ranked 79th in scoring defense, 43rd in run defense and only created 15 turnovers a year ago.

With Pruitt special-izing in the secondary, changes have already been made, not just in attitude, but also scheme.

“He is basically a coach that brings a lot

of Nick Saban manner-isms with a hybrid 4-3 scheme with 3-4 ten-dencies,” Herbstreit said.

This is a drastic change from last sea-son, when players were noticeably confused under former defensive coordintor Todd Grantham’s system. Pruitt is taking a much simpler approach, and communication with players has also increased as he holds them accountable for mistakes. Pruitt treats the players like men and is quick to give praise for great play, but not shy when it

comes to their mis-takes. With many start-ers returning from last year, the defense could be poised for a much better season.

“[Pruitt] has a way of confusing offensive linemen and quarter-backs,” Herbstreit said. “He has a way of relat-ing to players. He gets

them to play with heart by simplifying things, yet he makes things complicated for the offense at the same time.”

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The Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services Department is offer-ing “Fit-nastics,” a program created to increase fitness and promote health for children in the Clarke County area.

With a goal of inspiring children to want a lifetime of physical activity, Megan Dunn started a program at Bishop Park, and is eager to inspire the children in the county.

“I wanted to cre-ate a program that could help kids get physically active so that they could feel comfortable joining other activities suc-cessfully,” Dunn, pro-gram leader of gym-nastics at Bishop Park, said.

Fit-nastics is an alternative to gym-nastics that allows students to develop cardio, endurance, upper body, core and lower body strength in a fun and enjoyable atmosphere.

Dance aerobics and a variety of chal-lenging games are also included in this program.

She believes this laid-back environ-ment will teach chil-dren that working out can be an enjoyable experience.

This program’s beginning date was postponed due to the lack of participants registered.

Dunn encourages the children of A t h e n s - C l a r k e County to want to become more active and have fun with their experience.

Although Athens revolves around the University of Georgia, many students believe that the younger demographic need to be encour-aged to be active.

“No, I absolutely think exercise should be something that is stressed more,” said Laura Beth Walker, excersice and sports science major from Dublin.

She believes, at a young age, children should not be pres-sured to be good at one sport, but be involved in a variety of activities that help them maintain an overall level of fitness.

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BY CATHERINE SCHMITT@redandblack

A dynamic lineup of artists has been announced for the fall 2014 season at the Lamar Dodd School of Art with the presenta-tion of two new gallery programs: Video 101 and Photo Topos.

PhotoT opos is a combination of con-temporary photogra-phy and is organized by assistant professor of art, Asen Kirin.

This show features the work of several Athens locals including Rinne Allen, Michael Lachowski, and Carl

Martin. “We wanted to see

how these artists’ piec-es would exchange with one another,” Katie Geha, gallery director at Lamar Dodd School of Art, said. “We want-ed these artists to tell us something about art in Athens right now.”

Photographs by Allen, an intricate self-portrait by Lachowski and a series of portraits of Athens residents by Martin are all included in Photo Topos’ exhibi-tion, which premieres Sept. 12.

“In September, there will also be a panel discussion with

the artists,” Geha said. “It is pretty exciting to be able to see these artists, talk to them and see what inspired them and engage at a personal level.”

Video 101, the other new gallery pro-gram, is showcasing Austin artist Barry Stone and his experi-mental video, “Hum.” The exhibit began Aug. 18 and will continue until Sept. 3.

“I studied video art in graduate school, so I’ve always been into video art. And after meeting with Barry I thought it would be really interesting for him to show his work,” Geha said.

“Hum” is a project that combines images from ’80s metal maga-zines, cloud pyramids, and broken Camaros with a 16-minute suite of music composed of double bass drums and guitar.

A lecture will be held at the gallery on Sept. 3 where Stone will discuss his art, answer questions and engage with the audi-ence. Following the lec-ture, a showcase will take place featuring Stone’s art and music as well as the works of Quiet Evenings, Future Ape Tapes, Jung Bouquet and Circuit des Yeux.

“You have the option to look at the art, hear the lecture or watch the music per-formance.” Geha said. “There a lot of different programs that make it interesting and unique.”

Lamar Dodd School of Art also wel-comes Ry Rocklen as an “artist-in-resident.” This Los Angeles sculp-tor will be working with students and making artwork that will be exhibited in the gallery beginning September 12.

“This is a new thing for the gallery, and he gets to work with our students and use our gallery for his own art,” Geha said.

A full list of events can be found online at art.uga.edu.

“These programs are unique because they show you what exactly is happening right now; it’s all new work. Its all been pro-duced and created for this particular exhibi-tion,” Geha said. “That’s a huge reason to come.”

BY MARSHALL JENKINS@redandblack

Although the Tate Student Center movie theater always gives an excellent opportunity for students to see both new and old films, the 2014 fall semester schedule is starting off on a somber note.

The cinema will open the semester with a screening of “Dead Poets Society,” which is one of the most beloved films of the late Robin Williams’ career. Williams, who was found dead in his California home last week, has been an icon of comedy for most of the world, including students at the University of Georgia.

Williams’ career spanned across many years and multiple platforms. With characters like Genie in Disney’s “Aladdin,” the rediscovering Peter Pan in Steven Spielberg’s “Hook” and even the inspiring Mr. Keating in “Dead Poets Society,” Williams’ inspiring presence on screen has left a void in many moviegoers’ hearts.

Cinematic Arts Coordinator, Jason Freiji, spoke about the choice of the film for Thursdays premiere.

“We are honored to have the opportunity to celebrate a legendary actor. He was a huge influ-ence on so many people around the world, and Cinematic Arts is excited to celebrate his life and his exceptional career,” Freiji said.

It may be a great opportunity to honor the great actor, but it is also a chance to be active in the conversation about mental health.

The circumstances of Williams’ death have sparked a worldwide conversation about depression and its effect on many people, including the man that spread so much laugh-ter to the world.

The subject matter of “Dead Poets Society” is about inspiration and expression, but is does hold heavy themes of isolation and even escap-ism through suicide.

To be active in the conversation about depression, being informed is one of the best methods. Cinematic Arts is teaming up with the University Health Center to give information on their services. Williams’ death has been the topic of conversation since his passing, with media outlets buzzing about depression.

In the end, the screening will be an oppor-tunity for students to gather and show respect to a great actor and comedian.

“They will have a table set up outside of the theater to promote their mental health services for students in light of Mr. Williams’ tragic death,” Freiji said.

“We hope to have a great turnout, and look forward to a successful event,” he said.

Following the tribute to Williams, it will be business as usual for the theater with weekend screenings of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” which is considered one of the better Marvel films in the recent superhero takeover.

The rest of the semester has it films in store, including several Alfred Hitchcock films as well as some crowd pleasers such as “Black Dynamite” and “School of Rock.”

A still photograph from Barry Stone’s experiemental video, “Hum.” Stone will be showcased at Lamar Dodd’s new exhibit this fall, “Video 101.” Courtesy UGA

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Veteran actor Bill Smitrovich gives 007 the orders in new film The November Man, in the-aters nationwide Aug. 27.

Pierce Brosnan is best known for playing the fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. However, when Brosnan retired from portraying the pop-ular character in 2005, it was reported that he would be producing a new spy thriller with his business partner, Beau St. Clair, through their Irish DreamTime pro-duction company.

The project was either cancelled or placed on hold in 2007, but Brosnan decided to keep the screen rights to the novel, allowing him to produce the film adaptation of the book in the future.

The project was res-urrected in 2012 and began filming in May 2013. Smitrovich joined the case, portraying the top-ranking CIA officer Hanley.

Based on Bill Granger’s “There Are No Spies,” from the November Man book series, the film follows highly trained ex-CIA agent Peter Devereaux (Brosnan) who is pulled out of retirement by Smitrovich’s character to extract a fellow agent holding information on high ranking Russian officials.

The catch: Devereaux is marked as a target by his former CIA protégé because he holds information on war crimes committed

by Russians. The ulti-mate CIA cover-up results in the death of thousands of innocent people.

“This is fun, action film,” Smitrovich said. “The twists and turns are great and you care about the characters. There is a humanity about the characters, which makes it more personal.”

Having been in the spotlight for over 30 years, Smitrovich is thankful he has the opportunity to continue working on projects he considers rewarding. He called The November Man his best film experi-ence.

Smitrovich became a household name after starring in the drama series “Life Goes On”. He continued to make appearances on televi-sion series including, “Nash Bridges,” “The Practice” and “Without A Trace.”

On the silver screen his credits have included the blockbuster hit “Independence Day,” “Air Force One,” “Iron Man,” “The Rum Diary” and “Ted”.

Acting wasn’t some-thing Smitrovich intend-ed to do with his career. When his father died when he was 17, Smitrovich left town to become a bowler and pool player.

He worked through-out college to pay for his education. After he graduated, someone handed him the script of Of Mice and Men, and his life changed.

“I was moved to tears,” Smitrovich said. “I had an epiphany as a person. The words moved me.”

Smitrovich says his most gratifying role has been playing the part of a father to a child with Down syndrome for four seasons on Life Goes On.

He involved himself in raising public aware-ness and sensitivity for Down syndrome and hosted his own “Life Goes On” Celebrity Golf Classic for the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles. With upcoming projects “Ted 2” and a role as father of a lieutenant lost at sea on “The Last Ship,” it’s no surprise his plate is seemingly full.

“I still show up to the events, but I’m not as involved as I used to be,” Smitrovich said. “I was on the board of International Special Olympics, and I hope one day they ask me back.”

Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Smitrovich holds an honorary doc-torate degree and mas-ter’s in fine arts and the-ater arts from Smith College, and is a former acting teacher at the University of Massachusetts.

“You learn some-thing every day as a teacher,” he said. “I taught acting to non-theater majors. It was enjoyable to watch their confidence grow and to see them lose them-selves in a character.”

After college, Smitrovich was a found-ing member of the No Rules Theater Company, which is now in associa-tion with the Wooster Group.

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BY JOE YOUORSKI@jyouorski

Improv comedy can be intimidat-ing for many people, but the Laugh Out Loud improv club of UGA seeks to offer an easygoing, accessible envi-ronment for anyone interested.

“It’s a very non-judgmental atmo-sphere,” said Anna Holland, the club’s publicist and a third year pre-market-ing and Chinese major from Savannah. “Of course you’re going to be a little nervous, but you get better in the end, and it’s a really good way to de-stress from school.”

Laugh Out Loud was founded in 2007, and anyone can join the club, regardless of acting experience. The group has about 20 to 30 active mem-bers this year.

“It’s relatively sizable for what we do,” Holland said.

The club performs regularly at conventions around the Southeast, bringing improv performances to a variety of locations each year. The group’s largest stop this year will be Dragon Con in Atlanta.

The group also holds free improv shows inside the Tate Center every Thursday night, with the first meeting on Aug. 21. Participants sign up for the games they’d like to take part in, or newcomers can watch without fear of being forced into acting.

Laugh Out Loud also hosts peri-odic workshops to help boost actors’ abilities to adapt and think quickly, two vital skills in this type of theater.

“The idea is, accept everything that’s given to you as a character,” Holland said. “When someone says ‘You’re the museum curator,’ then all of a sudden you are that character. So

you have to think on the fly of what that character would do and what that character would say.”

This rapid-fire delivery is a draw for some and a deterrent for others, but being able to pull off improv is a rarer skill than some might think.

“It’s honestly a skill not a lot of people have, the ability to suddenly think of something funny,” Holland said. “Comedians have weeks and weeks to write, whereas improv art-ists have a couple of seconds.”

Holland always held an interest in improv thanks to “Whose Line is It Anyway,” but had never tried before joining the club. Her first experiences were highly positive thanks to the easygoing atmosphere Laugh Out Loud strives to create.

“Everyone was super friendly and welcoming,” Holland said. “I didn’t feel criticized at all even when I made mistakes in my games, and they were fine with letting me just watch too.”

Anyone who wants to get more involved can try out for the Pro Team, which consists of the top performers in the group who tour the conven-tions. The Pro Team has about six to 10 people on it at a time.

While improv does have a learn-ing curve, the atmosphere and work-shops of Laugh Out Loud make for a low-stress entrance into the art. Students of all backgrounds are encouraged to try a performance or just watch, and Holland feels that those who stick with it will find them-selves improving quickly.

“I don’t necessarily think of myself as a very funny person, so get-ting up there and trying to make peo-ple laugh can be rough, but once you get used to it, it’s worth it,” Holland said.

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Music Notes:Aug. 21-Aug. 23

Gov’t Mule was developed from two members of The Allman Brothers Band. FILE/Staff

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What better way to celebrate the end of the first week of class than by exploring the vibrant music scene in Athens?

The Georgia Theatre and 40 Watt Club will host a variety of artists, including Gov’t Mule, Dana Swimmer and Brothers. Make sure to check out redandblack.com for reviews of these shows and previews for upcoming performanc-es.

Gov’t Mule, the 1994 side project of Warren Haynes and Allen Woody of The Allman Brothers Band, returns to Athens to promote its first new stu-dio album in four years. The double-disc album is packed with guest spots from artists such as Dave Matthews, Grace Potter and Elvis Costello. The band has a two-day concert series with the first show sold out. With only a few tickets left for the second show and its double-disc set to be released Sept. 24, this a performance you definitely don’t want to miss! Doors open at 8 p.m. at Georgia Theatre

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 22Local band Dana Swimmer returns to perform a set at the legendary 40

Watt Club as part of the Dog Daze Festival. Described by Flagpole Magazine as “run-of-the-mill dad rock,” the band’s sets are always packed full of a wide variety of demographics whether it’s in a small venue or outside simi-lar to this year’s AthFest. The show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets are $5.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 BROTHERSAthens act Brothers is on the cutting edge of the local music scene.

Originally begun as a two-man effort in 2011, the band’s debut EP “Street Names” was released in 2013 to acclaim from several music sites who praised the guitar work and the sense of urgency in the tracks. With fresh material in the works, the band may incorporate some new tracks into its set. The show starts at 9 p.m. at the 40 Watt Club and tickets are $5.

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EMPLOYMENTDairy Queen at 376 Oak Street

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UberPrints is hiring! Part-time and full-time associates needed in our Fulfillment Department. Weekdays, nights and weekends available. Apply online: http://www.uberprints.com/company/jobs

UGA TAILGATE Assistant Baldwin and E. Campus Longtime UGA season ticket holders need a non-drinking, physically strong student to set up, monitor, and take down our tailgate party for most home games including Clemson, Tennessee, Vandy, Auburn, & Tech. $12.50/hour. Please send photo, references with phone #s, age, school status to: UGATailgateAsst@gmail.com

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Dalton Carpet One needs De-livery Drivers. Qualifications: Clean MVR, 21 years or older, Clear Background Check & Drug Screen. Able to lift 50 lbs. Flexible schedule. Email: bbirch@dalton-carpetone.com

HOUSINGLovely Room for Rent. College

students welcome. NE Side. $250/mo. No lease required. Great yard. Near bus line. 3 miles from Cam-pus. 706-549-0703.

Spacious furnished bedroom. Quiet, close to campus. Private entrance, shared bath, kitchen/laundry privileges. Male students only. No pets. $285 includes utili-ties, $125 deposit. 706-353-0227 Cell: 706-296-5223

2B/2Ba Condo with a Pool avail-able immediately!! Gated com-munity, hardwood floors, w/d, oven, microwave, and dishwasher included. Located in Brookewood Mill (close to Campus). Contact Jennifer for more information (770)595-3395.

3BR/3BA in The Woodlands. Woodfloors, Gated, Pool, Gym, Tennis, BBall, Trash included. $800 best price on the block text or call John to view (912)222 5445

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mate for 2 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath, completely furnished townhouse. Quiet complex, free wifi, patio & hassle-free parking. Available July 30.$380/month plus split utilities. Email greenek@uga.edu!

Openings for studious room-mates! I have two rooms: 1@ $295 & 1@ $345, plus utilities. House is located 10 min off campus in a quite subdivision. Josh 4 pics/questions 678-477-5734.

Room for rent. Watkinsville, Georgia.Fully furnished. Large bedroom. Private bath with jetted tub. Kitchen and laundry privileg-es. Off street parking. Non-smok-er. No pets, please. $300/month includes utilities and cable. Ref-erences would be appreciated. 706.540.5000.

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SUBLEASESSublease a room in a 3 bed/3

bath in The Woodlands! Decem-ber to July. Pools, gym, and more at complex. 350 a month plus util-ities. Contact: katlynk@uga.edu

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