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University after his tour, he had a hard time even registering for classes.

“It’s a pain when you’re over-seas and have no phone, no Internet,” Barton said.

It was also difficult to go from the strict schedule of the military to a student’s life where he had to set his own schedule.

“It wasn’t easy. I think most everybody who came back had some difficulty,” Barton said about the fall semester he returned.

After that semester, his battal-ion was called up to serve in Afghanistan. This time, he would be a sergeant and his primary job would be the oversight and train-ing of five police stations.

But he didn’t leave before mar-rying his wife, Mari, who will grad-uate in December from the University.

“She’s awesome. She’s made me the happiest I’ve ever been and she’s a big part of my motiva-tion now,” Barton said. The cou-ple is expecting a daughter, to be named Samantha, in January.

Mari also would like to pursue a career in the military in either aviation or in JAG, the legal branch of the military.

The couple met through mutu-al friends and got married in April before Barton left for Afghanistan.

“It was horrible and extremely lonely,“ Mari said. “It wasn’t so

bad since I got to talk to him just about every day [when he was in Afghanistan]. Most days I got to talk to him on webcam, but that’s really rare.”

She also had the companion-ship of other wives whose hus-bands were deployed.

“There were several wives in Brett’s unit who were my age and who also go to UGA,” Mari said. “We would go to different restau-rants with each other instead of having date nights with our hus-bands.”

Barton said he looks forward to pursuing a career in the Army when he graduates in two years.

“It’s something I’m good at, it’s something I enjoy, and I have the opportunity to serve my country,” he said. “I really like being in the military and like the people.”

On Veteran’s Day, Barton said he would just like people to recog-nize the service of those in the military, remember them, pray for them and maybe even send a care package.

“I think the people at home have been really supportive,” Barton said. “Everywhere you go, when people see you’re in the mil-itary they shake your hand and say ‘thank you.’”

He said many times when he has gone to pay his check in a res-taurant, the waiter says it has already been taken care of.

As a third-year cadet in Army ROTC, Barton is a team leader over four cadets.

“I feel that I can give a lot of help to some of the guys,“ he said.

Master Sgt. Aaron Stringer, who is an instructor with the Army ROTC, said the military experience of Barton and others who have already served is helpful in assisting cadets who don’t have that experience.

“He can also lead by example in our labs in Whitehall,” he said. “He already has a foundation

knowledge of small unit tactic skills.”

Barton said being in the mili-tary has taught him everything from time management to setting goals.

“Since I’ve come back from Afghanistan I’ve applied a lot of skills. I had deadlines and a lot of people counting on me,” Barton said. “Now I have people counting on me too — my wife, and soon my daughter.”

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Student reports battery outside Brumby Hall

A University student reported that he was pushed into bushes, punched and poked in the eye by individuals playing Humans vs. Zombies out-side Brumby Hall Monday, according to a University Police report.

The student told offi-cers he was walking to Brumby Hall at about 11 p.m. to meet friends when three people began throw-ing socks at him. The indi-viduals were playing Humans vs. Zombies and were known by the stu-dent.

According to the report, the student told the indi-viduals to stop and pushed one of them. He told offi-cers one of them then poked a finger in his eye, pushed him into the bush-es and punched him.

The game will continue, though.

“I got a call from the police chief this morning asking me to send every-one who’s playing a mes-sage and reiterate some of the rules,” said player Kenny Adcox. “We sent out a message, and now the police is satisfied, and so are we.”

University student Nicholas Rodriguez, wit-nessed the event, but he said he wasn’t even sure it was a fight.

“To me, when I got there, it looked like they were just wrestling around and being guys, but when I got there, I saw that he had been punched in the face,” he said.

Simple battery reported in Rooker Hall

A University student reported Monday that a masked person grabbed her in Rooker Hall, according to a University Police report.

The student told offi-cers on Oct. 29 at about 10:30 p.m., a masked per-son was turning the lights in the laundry room on and off as the victim was doing laundry. When she left the laundry room, the person grabbed her arm, according to the report.

The student reported no injuries or marks from the incident.

—Compiled by Tiffany Stevens

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the OASIS system with a new student infor-mation system. The $6 will not be charged if students do not support the replacement ini-tiative, according to the proposal documents.

The University will decide whether it will move forward with replacing the OASIS sys-tem sometime later in the spring, said Tim Burgess, senior vice president for finance and administration.

Students now pay transportation, activity, recreation, athletic, health, facilities, technol-ogy, green and institutional fees — a total of $833. With the proposed fees, the new total would be $845. All fees, except the $200 insti-tutional fee, are set by the University. The Board of Regents set a special institution fee of $100 in the spring of 2009. Then, in November of 2009, the Regents approved an additional $100 increase to the institutional fee in order to cover budget reductions.

The three new proposed fee increases are pending approval from University President Michael Adams and the Board of Regents. If the Regents approve the fees, they will be effective next fall.

The technology and transportation fee increases were unanimously supported by the students on the committee, and three out of four students voted for the student activity fee increase. Josh Delaney, SGA president, said he was “on the fence” about the issue,

but he decided to vote in favor of the fee. “It was either increase fees or develop other

funding models that could include charging student organizations more to reserve rooms or charging more for print and copy services,” he said.

Jason O’Rouke, Graduate Student Association president, was the only student who did not vote in favor of the student activ-ity fee increase.

“The main reason I didn’t vote for it was because there were some large reserve accounts that had been accumulated over the years, and it wasn’t completely clear to me how those accounts would be spent,” O’Rouke said. “I didn’t think it was appropriate for a fee increase when we had those accounts.”

However, Burgess said the representatives who proposed the activity fee increase showed how all the reserve funds were being allocated, and that the reserves would not be sufficient to cover basic operating costs.

“It was their opinion that if you used the funds that were in the reserves for the pur-poses that they had outlined, then you would bring the whole student activities function much closer to the edge — in terms of being able to operate without any cushion at all,” Burgess said. “So they had recommendations on what they were proposing the various reserve accounts be used for, and the fee increase was therefore necessary to cover additional basic operational costs that had

nothing to do with what was in the reserve accounts.”

Delaney said the fees will primarily be used for the upkeep of existing programs, and will not be used to fund anything new.

“In this current economic climate, we would not vote for an increase in our fees to support a convenience or a luxury,” Delaney said. “Everything had to be justified as a necessity to continue based on the services we already had. We all came in there with that outlook, and I think we came out of it pretty confident that there wouldn’t be any extraneous increase to support something that would be conve-nient or just kind of nice.”

MONEY: Activity fee increase elicits debate

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money,” Adams said last month. “It will start out at about five or six thousand dollars a year and then over five years it would work up to about $3 million a year. And we think we have the capacity to meet those needs.”

Brantley said the gover-nor and many legislators don’t understand how the University System faced budget issues earlier this year, yet they can finance the engineering program without a problem.

“UGA had a very orga-nized and effective student-led process for giving input,” Brantley said, speaking about resistance to University System bud-get cuts. “They came up here and lobbied the legis-lature on exactly what some of these cuts would mean. I just think that’s going to raise questions from the legislature who heard all these stories about programs going away, and just a few months later, you’re now saying you have ample room to fund new programs. The worry is there will be some dis-trust formed there.”

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By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK

The Office of Student Conduct has launched an investigation into accusa-tions that University stu-dent Philip McGill sold marijuana to fellow stu-dents.

Eric Atkinson, associate dean of students, said the investigation is ongoing and has yet to be resolved at the University.

The accusations arose after students Molly Alexandra Smith, 18, and Elise Nicole Snyder, 18, were arrested and charged with possession of marijua-na on Oct. 23.

According to the police report, Snyder told police she and Smith bought an eighth of an ounce of mari-juana from McGill at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house days earlier.

In addition to the mari-juana, police also found

pipes in the glove compart-ments of the girls’ car.

Smith told The Red & Black Monday McGill is a “friend of a friend” of Snyder.

On Oct. 26, the Office of Student Conduct — for-merly the Office of Judicial Programs — opened an investigation into the accu-sations and sent McGill a letter which states, “it is alleged that Mr. McGill engaged in drug related misconduct when he sold marijuana to another stu-dent,” according to docu-ments obtained by The Red & Black.

The Office of Student Conduct handles code of conduct violations at the University and are assisted by University Judiciary in formal hearings.

Smith said she has not been contacted by anyone from the University or by police with questions about where they purchased the marijuana.

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Case has not been resolved

We’ve heard about Anonym_us — since September the secretive social media user has given away $20 or more daily to students who follow him on Twitter.

But not many people know that the owner of the account is a sec-ond-year student himself. He sat down for a quick interview with The Red & Black to explain his move-ment.

Why are you giving away all of this money?

I am giving away money because the college students deserve it. We study a whole lot and it’s tough. We’re here to get an education, and the economy is kind of sucking, so why not add an extra level of fun to it? Why not get the students up for something that adds a little excite-ment to their day? I mean it’s fun, so why not?

Where does this money come from?I have revenue coming in from

different areas that I’d rather not disclose, and I’ll leave it at that.

What made you think of Twitter?I was reading an article in Time

magazine about Tony Hawk. I had never been a big fan of Twitter, but then I saw that Tony Hawk had hid-den a skateboard in a Porta-Potty on the side of the interstate and told his followers where it was at, and he signed it. I saw that and just thought that was someone who was using Twitter for a good reason. I was like, ‘Man, wouldn’t it be cool if someone hid money?’

Are there any strings attached to your game or is it honestly just free money?

It’s honestly just free money. That’s the beautiful thing about this. Whenever people start to hear about this, whenever I was passing out fliers at the beginning, most

people looked at it and laughed because they didn’t think someone was actually giving out free money.

Do you try to be safe in the ways you give out the money?

I try to do it in public places, sometimes at night and sometimes during the day, but always in public places. That way you don’t have to worry about getting jumped or any-thing along those lines.

Are you doing this giveaway for any organization?

No. I’m not involved in any frater-nities and very few clubs.

Is it only you giving away the money?

No, it’s not always me. I have a couple of friends who help me out in this process, and I also like to go up to strangers on occasion and ask people if they’d like to help me out with a social experiment and usually people are down. I just give them money, tell them to wait for some-one.

So what do your friends think of it?They think it’s interesting. I have

not given them money. I told them that if my friends want to win some money they need to follow me and run in to it.

Can you give me some details on how this thing started?

I actually came up with this idea a year ago, and I’ve just been sitting on it because I’m a sophomore, and last year I was just trying to learn everything and learn the city.

Are you going to get more creative with the giveaways?

I hope so, once there’s enough followers. I had the idea of possibly having events scheduled, such as: let’s have the world’s largest pillow fight and send out a tweet asking

people to meet on Myers quad at 8 p.m. or something.

Does it take a lot of time to coordinate?

I spend a little bit of my time dur-ing the day thinking about what I’m going to do, where I’m going to hide it and what the activity’s going to be during the day. I try not to use the same activities over and over again, so I guess I devote some of my time to it. Brainstorming and coming up with new ideas, but overall I’m still trying to do my schoolwork.

Do you find it rewarding?I really do. Anytime someone

wins $20 that they didn’t have to work for, their face lights up and that does give me a warm feeling. Because it makes their day, and hey, it is free cash.

Will this only happen for a year, or do you plan on continuing it?

I plan on continuing all this year and if things work out, then next year as well. We’ll see how big it grows. Right now we’re at 860 fol-lowers. People are starting to find out about it and take an interest. It’s real. It’s happening.

Are you generally around when peo-ple give away money? Are you around enough that people could recognize you?

Well, possibly, but the people that I give away money to, I generally ask them to not point me out to a group of friends or make my face known.

Why don’t you want to be known?Because I don’t want to be known

as the guy who gives away money on campus. Everyone would be watch-ing me out of the corner of their eye and there’s no need for that.

— Compiled by Sarah Giarratana

Q&A:Who’s behind @Anonym_us?

By PAIGE VARNERTHE RED & BLACK

Indonesians visited the University Tuesday to highlight their country’s diver-sity and tolerance.

Though 86 percent of Indonesia is Muslim, it is not a Muslim state, said speaker M. Syafi’i Anwar, executive direc-tor of the International Center for Islam and Pluralism.

Because Indonesians directly elected their president for the first time in 2004, Anwar said the debate on whether Islam is compatible with democracy is no longer relevant.

Furthermore, Indonesia’s model of reli-gion and culture is not unlike that of the United States, said Islamic studies profes-sor Alan Godlas, whose religion depart-ment co-sponsored the Indonesian Diversity Symposium.

“They have a respect for diversity,” he said. “And in that respect for diversity is strength and unity.”

Jesuit priest Ignatius Ismartono provid-ed a Christian Indonesian’s viewpoint. Catholics and Protestants make up about 9 percent of the Indonesian population.

Godlas compared the relationship between Christians and Muslims in Indonesia to their relationship in the United States.

“In America, being a Christian doesn’t preclude you from working with human-ists,” he said. “In Indonesia, being a Muslim doesn’t preclude you from working with people of other religions.”

Syafaatun Al-Mirzanah, professor of Islamic thought at Indonesia’s State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga, said Islam is both the fastest-growing and most misunderstood religion.

Western media furthers stereotypes of Islam as being equated with fanaticism, intolerance and violations of human rights, she said.

Islam is able to be interpreted in many

ways, something she said she would explain to an extremist Muslim intending to con-vince her of radical ideas.

Godlas said he welcomed the Indonesian speakers because they spark University students’ desire to learn languages critical to the national interest.

“Part of the problem until Sept. 11 was that America was somewhat xenophobic,” he said.

Godlas said he wants students to be equipped for communication outside the Western world.

An Arabic minor was added to the reli-gion department last year. He hopes for the other languages housed there — Indonesian, Bengali, Pashto, Persian, Tajik, Turkish and Urdu — to also be offered as minors.

Because these languages are taught by teaching assistants in the Fulbright Program — funded by taxpayers through the Institute of International Education — classes need not meet enrollment quotas before being offered, Godlas said.

The key to receiving University funding for creating new language minors is stu-dents showing interest, Godlas said.

Student interest has produced results in the past. The University funded a Persian class because 25 students wanted to enroll.

Whether students enroll in these classes to boost their résumés or to broaden their worldview, Godlas said learning other lan-guages is a step toward making the United States a truly global country.

“We need to be less focused just on internal affairs,” he said, “and more inter-nationally aware.”

Indonesian campus visit may spark interest in languages

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Syafaatun Al-Mirzanah (left) and Ignatius Ismartono discuss diversity in Indonesia, which is 86 percent Muslim and 9 percent Christian.

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Take a look at the SEC divisional standings for football.

Notice how all the best teams in conference this year are in the West? Auburn, LSU, Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi State — five ranked teams loaded into one division.

Meanwhile, look at the East. Just two ranked teams. And they’re barely ranked, for that matter.

Feel a little bitter that Georgia’s football division isn’t nearly what it used to be? Well don’t worry, because basketball is here — and the situation is the exact opposite in the SEC.

The preseason AP Top 25 polls have three teams from the SEC East ranked: No. 9 Florida, No. 11 Kentucky and No. 23 Tennessee. Georgia isn’t ranked just yet but received 67 votes, third-most of any unranked team.

It says good things about Georgia that it was picked to finish third in the division by a media poll. That means they’re being held in the same light as the teams that already have a ranking.

The most important thing is winning the games that matter. The Bulldogs’ 5-11 conference record last year was, in large part, due to a series of close losses. Of the six losses by four points or less, five of them

were against SEC oppo-nents — not a good way to get a higher seed when the tournament rolls around.

Luckily, some added depth this season should help combat those close losses from happening again. Instead of wearing

out the starting five in the late minutes of the game, head coach Mark Fox has a few more guys to cycle in and out in crucial situations.

The Bulldogs should also be more disciplined as well with so many seasoned guys — putting them in prime position for a top seed in the SEC Tournament.

But Georgia shouldn’t fret too much about not winning the division or being seeded No. 1 or No. 2.

With the conference being so lopsided, even a fourth-place finish behind the three aforementioned ranked teams would stage the Bulldogs against the No. 5 seed from the West. And if the West is as weak as we assume they are, that would put Georgia against one of the lesser teams in the conference.

So there’s plenty of leeway to be had. Take last year’s tournament, for instance. The Bulldogs — the No. 6 and lowest-seeded East team — faced the West’s No. 3 seed Arkansas — and won 77-64.

From there, it’s up to the team’s improved talent and depth to do the rest. Two First-Team All-SEC selections and aren’t going to just disappear, barring injuries. Knock on wood.

Or, Georgia can just do what they did in 2008, and Cinderella-run it to the SEC title after going 4-12 in conference play during the regular season. Although this year, it might not be a Cinderella run if it happens.

—Mitch Blomert is a sportswriter for The Red & Black

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Thompkins remembers in detail the night he told Fox he would return for his junior year.

It was last April, at the team’s end-of-season ban-quet, when players were receiving awards for their individual accomplish-ments throughout the sea-son. Fox then recognized Thompkins, praising him for his efforts and keeping the audience laughing with a few jokes.

When Fox concluded his recognition, Thompkins caught his audience off-guard with one simple statement.

“Don’t worry, coach,” he said. “I’m coming back.”

Thompkins knew he wanted to stay in Athens, but it wasn’t due to a lack of skill — mock drafts had made it clear he was ready to go pro. It was what he wanted to accomplish in college before he left that brought him back.

Leslie had just announced his decision to stay for his junior year, and Thompkins wanted anoth-er year with the Bulldogs so he could get the one thing he was missing in college — a winning team.

“I wanted to be known as a winner,” Thompkins said. “Winning is impor-

tant to me and I feel like I couldn’t leave the University without leaving a good taste in the mouth of all the fans. They have definitely come out and supported us, so I want to give the best game that I can and do as much as possible.”

Thompkins’ return has bolstered the Bulldogs’ talent and depth, and if he can repeat last season’s 17.7 points and 8.6 rebounds per game, the extra scoring can turn close losses into wins.

“We knew we were close, and it brought a level of confidence to us,” Thompkins said. “But it also let us know that we had to work that much harder because there were some things we weren’t doing on the defensive end that had to be done, and now this year we plan on taking care of that.”

The close losses and season of mediocrity didn’t make Thompkins want to leave the University. His friendships with his team-mates had become too tightly tied, and his drive to play for a winner was much too pressing to walk away from Stegeman Coliseum for good.

But if there was anyone he wanted to stay close to, it was Fox — the coach

who made him want to work for his achievements.

“Once he got me to learn how to play hard all the time, then we clicked,” Thompkins said. “He put levels of responsibility in my hands and once I start-ed handling my business, then he confided in me more, and he would ask me questions he would ask former players that went on to play professional. There was just a level of friendship after I became a smarter and stronger play-er.”

By the time the season was over, Thompkins knew he was not ready to leave Fox or Athens, which is why he will still wear his Georgia jersey this sea-son.

“I’ve learned a lot as a person as a player being at the University of Georgia,” Thompkins said. “I’ve been through a lot and it’s made me stron-ger.”

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Leslie’s high school coach, Phil McCrary of Columbia High in Decatur, has been an active part of the junior’s life, even after high school.

“He’s like a father figure to me,” Leslie said.

So when McCrary told

Leslie he still had things in his game to work on, Leslie listened.

“I knew I wasn’t pre-pared for the next level,” Leslie said. “I had a lot of things to work on — ball handling, jump shot.”

At 6-foot-4, Leslie is moving from his native for-ward position to the shoot-ing guard position, a spot more suited for his height. He will likely play guard in the NBA. But Leslie knew that attempting to play guard at the next level without formal training or game experience at the position was a risky move.

So when he chose to return for another year at Georgia, Leslie knew it was exactly what Fox wanted him to do.

“He wasn’t surprised,” Leslie said. “I think he knew I was going to come back. He always asked me if I needed stuff to work on and I always told him ball handling, so he knew I had things to work on over the summer.”

Leslie spent the sum-mer working on ball han-dling and jump shots — a must-have skill for his position, while testing himself against NBA play-ers at the LeBron James Skills Academy in July in Chicago.

Leslie will play in the back court with point guard Dustin Ware and newcomer Gerald Robinson, but will still get a chance to do what he does best: dunk.

He led the team with 36 of them last year, becom-ing the Bulldogs’ newest version of a human high-light reel.

“I wanted to come back and give Georgia fans and everybody an SEC Championship, and do what I can to help us win,” Leslie said.

He’ll get a chance to do just that alongside one of his best friends, one with whom he has quite a bit in common.

They’re both juniors. They’re both All-SEC

First-Team selections. They both turned down

the NBA to be teammates for another year.

Leslie made his decision to come back to Georgia two weeks before Thompkins did, not know-ing that his teammate had intentions of making the same decision. When Thompkins announced his return for his junior year, it only made Leslie more excited about this season, and made Thompkins an even closer friend.

“We’ve always been close, even when we were freshmen,” Leslie said.” When he made the deci-sion, I was happy he decid-ed to come back. With me and him, we can be a big problem for the SEC or whoever we’re playing.”

DUO: Returnees give Dogs shot at title

MITCHBLOMERT

FILE | The Red & Black

Junior Trey Thompkins, the Preseason SEC Player of the Year, is one of the major reasons Georgia coaches and fans have such high expectations for the Bulldogs for the 2010-11 season.

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New Fall Colors!

By MITCH BLOMERTTHE RED & BLACK

With so much buzz about Georgia’s returning starters and the amount of experience on the team, it’s easy to forget about the newcomers.

Case in point: The freshmen.The Bulldogs boast a quiet, yet talented freshman

class, and they’re still pulling their own weight so far despite the spotlight shining elsewhere on their veteran teammates.

“It’s been great to mesh with these guys,” freshman forward Marcus Thornton said. “We have a good level of chemistry and unselfishness and no ego.”

Thornton, a 6-foot-7 forward out of Atlanta, highlights the freshman class. He is joined by fellow forward Donte’ Williams and recent walk-on Elliott Long to compose Georgia’s trio of first-year players.

Both Thornton and Williams come to Georgia highly touted out of high school as two of state’s top in-state prospects, something head coach Mark Fox has empha-sized in his recruiting.

Upon his arrival at the University, Fox stated recruit-ing the hotbed of talent in Georgia would be his No. 1 priority on the recruiting trails, and his signing of Thornton was the first of what appears to be many to come for the Bulldogs.

Thornton was named the 2010 Georgia Mr. Basketball by the Atlanta Tip-Off Club and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a title given to the state’s overall top bas-ketball player.

Thornton was a highly sought-after prospect on the national scale as well. He was ranked the 26th-best power forward in the country by Scout.com.

So it’s no surprise that Thornton’s high potential has made him an important player early on his career at Georgia.

In his first game as a Bulldog, he played 19 minutes and scored seven points the Bulldogs’ 85-48 win against Augusta State last Thursday. He also excelled on the defen-sive end of the floor, tallying two steals and two blocks in his limited playing time.

“I thought that Marcus, for the first team out as a freshman, did a lot of nice things,” Fox said. “He shot the ball in, rebounded the ball well. I thought it was a good first outing for Marcus.”

Williams, a 6-foot-9 forward out of Ellenwood, was even more dynamic in his Bulldog debut, scoring nine points against Augusta State and leading team with seven rebounds.

If both players are able to play with similar success during the regular season, they will add even more depth to a Georgia lineup that has more talent than last season.

“I’ve learned a lot since I’ve been here and I feel good about it,” Thornton said. “I don’t know what my playing time will be. I just know whenever coach Fox needs

me I’m going to go out there and do my best to contrib-ute and produce.”

Long, who walked on last Wednesday, is a 6-foot-4 guard from Atlanta. He helped Greater Atlanta Christian School win a Class AA State Championship in 2010.

Freshmen play pivotal role for team

SEC WRAP UPSPORTS The Red & Black | Wednesday, November 10, 2010 | 5

SEC EAST 2009-10 RECORD COACH 2009-10 RECORD COACHSEC WEST

21 - 13 Billy Donovan John Pelphrey

Anthony Grant

Tony Barbee

Trent Johnson

Andy Kennedy

Rick Stansbury

Kevin Stallings

John Calipari

Mark Fox

Darrin Horn

Bruce Pearl

24 - 9

35 - 3

14 - 17

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28 - 9

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11 - 20

24 - 11

24 - 12

Donovan leads what looks to be his best team since

winning the 2006 and 2007 national titles.

Although returning three starters, it could be another

underachieving season for the Razorbacks.

In his second season, Grant returns three starters to

the Tide, including standout forward JaMychal Green.

turnaround from a recent stint of lackluster basketball.

After a disappointing season in 2009-10, it would be a

shock for LSU not to be a factor in the SEC West.

After its best season under Kennedy, the Rebels will

need to replace four starters from last year’s squad.

for its graduated defensive stud, Jarvis Varnardo.

Stallings could very well have the SEC’s top team

following his best season in Nashville in 2010-11.

After losing four NBA draft picks, Calipari hopes to

The return of Trey Thompkins and Travis Leslie has

the Bulldogs poised for a breakout season in 2010-11.

after losing SEC leading scorer Devan Downey.

It was an offseason of turmoil for Pearl’s program.

The Volunteers will look to prove the doubters wrong.

THORNTON

WILLIAMS

Forward Marcus Thornton impresses in early minutes

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Newton’s failures better for Georgia

E-mail and letters from our readers

Now is a great time for the University to get an engineering school. And, nope, we’re not being sarcastic.

As University President Michael Adams has said, fundraising without an engineering or medical school limits the money the University can raise.

Yes, we don’t want other programs to suffer because of this school, and it may be difficult to invest money amidst program cuts and rising student fees.

But sometimes you have to spend money to make money, and an engineering school will soon lead to graduate engineers who, let’s face it, may be a little better equipped to give back to the University than some other majors.

Adams better not be expecting a check any time soon from us journalists, that’s for sure.

Still, some worry a University engineering school is redundant because of our good friends over at Georgia Tech.

But wait — didn’t Georgia Tech have to turn away some qualified high school students this year? And wouldn’t an engineering school make space for the students turned away from the University’s own engineering program?

By creating a school in Athens, the University will be opening up spaces to help fill much-needed positions in Georgia, benefiting the whole state.

Who knows? Maybe one of our grads could engineer a way for post-football game traffic to be a little less awful.

Still, it would be nice to know exactly where all the money to start this program is coming from. And if students have to pay another “one-time, special fee,” it might be better to pass.

Hopefully we won’t have to ask any Techies to design the school a building...

— Carey O’Neil for the editorial board

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Idaho State, thanks for the pota-toes. Have a safe trip home.

Now, let’s talk about Auburn.Here’s the thing: I don’t think

it’s that difficult to beat Auburn. Especially since this game is com-ing at the perfect time.

Auburn’s Heisman candidate quarterback Cameron Newton is in the midst of a scandal now being reviewed by the NCAA.

A former Mississippi State play-er is accusing some agent middle-man named Kenny Rogers — not to be confused with the country singer of the same name with all those chicken restaurants — of shopping Newton around to several SEC schools for the low sum of only $200,000.

Give or take $20,000.Newton started his collegiate

career at Florida in 2007, serving as the back-up quarterback behind Tim Tebow, until he left in 2008 for facing felony burglary charges for stealing a laptop from another stu-dent’s dorm room.

After a stint playing at Blinn College in Texas, Newton trans-ferred to Auburn.

Now it seems that while at Florida, Newton was facing possi-ble expulsion from the university for academic cheating on three separate occasions, according to Foxsports.com.

Well knock me over with a feath-er. Cheating accusations from such a stand-up young man?

Newton was busted for cheating the first time for simply putting his name on another student’s paper.

When he turned in a second paper to the instructor, it was later found to have been purchased off the Internet.

Good call, Cam.It has not been reported wheth-

er or not he received unfair extra credit on said paper for simply being able to spell his name, but I’m looking into it.

I’m not a coach, so I don’t have any athletic wisdom to bestow on the Bulldogs on how to stop Cam Newton or beat Auburn.

But allow me to offer an alterna-tive solution.

Though it’s not clear what paper the subject was in, if the Dawgs find themselves falling behind against Auburn, perhaps the defen-sive line could simply quiz Newton into submission.

“Pardon me, Mr. Newton, but I was wondering if you could enlight-en our team on the importance of historical attitudes toward the French Revolution as reflected in Charles Dickens’ ‘A Tale of Two Cities.’”

That might not work though. Newton may have seen the “Wishbone” episode of “A Tale of Two Cities” on PBS.

Well, if that doesn’t pan out we could always try playing well — but that’s proved shaky in the past.

However, Auburn has a sub-par defense that Mark Richt could take advantage of.

While Auburn has put 422 com-bined points on the board this sea-son, they’ve also allowed 243 points from their opponents.

Arkansas State scored 26 points against Auburn, and last weekend Chattanooga put up 24 points against the Tigers. Even Kentucky, who Georgia beat 44-31, lost to

Auburn by only 3 pointsI’m not saying that I don’t

believe in Georgia, but these scan-dals plaguing Cam Newton and Auburn don’t hurt either.

It seems like Cam Newton is the perfect fit for Auburn since he has yet to be accused of cheating at that university.

But then again, Auburn can’t even figure out what mascot it wants to be. Are you the Tigers or the War Eagles? What is a War Eagle anyway, besides something that’s fun to shout when you’re drunk?

Maybe the quarterback coach put all of Newton’s plays on a LeapFrog Reading System.

Yes, Auburn is good. Yes, Cam Newton is good. But if Louisiana-Monroe can hold Newton to only 1 rushing attempt for -11 yards, I think Georgia can do even better.

Maybe Georgia needs some kind of mystical alternative mascot to lead us to victory. Perhaps some sort of robotic dinosaur?

Meanwhile, I’ll keep working on my Cam Newton voodoo doll, and hope this soap opera at Auburn gets even better.

Will the NCAA investigate Auburn University?

Will Cam Newton be eligible to play against the University?

Will Kenny Rogers blame his evil twin — who turns out to actually be the country music sensation Kenny Rogers — for soliciting Newton to SEC schools?

Will Mark Richt recover from his amnesia and remember how to win football games and keep his job?

Find out this weekend on “As Auburn Turns.”

— Caitlin Wilson is a junior from Conyers majoring in English

CAITLIN WILSON

I’m done.Done with being

overly stressed about school, the job search and everything else in my life — for a couple hours at least.

I will escape into the world of shopping.

Do I head to the mall or a dress boutique down-town?

Neither.Instead I will seek the

sanctuary of secondhand items at local thrift stores.

I’ve always been a thrift-store shopper. In high school, my brother and I shopped weekly Goodwill. We liked to see who could find the best deal for something valu-able.

You may ask, “what previously-owned item could be considered valu-able?”

Sometimes, it’s a brand new, Lacoste shirt with the tags still on. Other times, it’s crisp, white, button-down Polo, just my size. A leather satchel, pearl earrings, and an old crewneck Georgia sweat-shirt are a few of my trea-sures from secondhand shops.

The list goes on and on.At family gatherings,

my brother and I tell of our latest finds and revel in the cheap prices.

But there’s more behind the idea of thrift-store shopping than just great deals.

There’s a built-in chal-lenge. It’s a treasure hunt. “One man’s trash is anoth-er man’s treasure,” has proved itself true again and again in my life.

I don’t have to spend money to have a good time. It’s the experience that keeps me returning.

Almost every time I go to a secondhand store, I see something that takes

me back in time such as my favorite American Eagle denim skirt from eighth grade, or Dr. Seuss’ “Oh the Places You’ll Go” book my mom used to read to me.

As I write, I’m sitting in a thrift-store purchase — a yellow-velvet swivel rocker that’s been around proba-bly since my grandmother was a baby.

I would love to know where it came from.

But I don’t. All I know, is I found my

treasured reading chair in a clutter of other chairs. And for $25, it became mine.

As I shoveled out my money that day, I was sat-isfied. I had completed my search successfully and without breaking my bank.

Money makes the world turn. But money is hard to come by while in college, so thrift store shopping is the smarter option.

And before you turn up your nose at the thought of using someone else’s old stuff, set out on your own hunt.

Head to Potters House at 478 North Ave. or Habitat Restore at 532 Barber St. Take some time to head out of town on 441-S and stop at Reed’s Odds and Ends at 5531 Macon Hwy in Bishop.

You may discover a love for shopping the second-time-around way, which helps everybody — seller and buyer alike.

— Holly Hess is a senior from Augusta

majoring in magazines

HOLLY HESS

Conservative values do not come from leaders

Jared Peden (“Republicans, do not forget your promises,” Nov. 7) offers a view into what Republicans should do now that they control the House of Representatives.

Peden seems to have forgotten, however, that “conservative princi-ples” have not been put to use by the de facto conservative party in the U.S. for at least 30 years.

Ronald Reagan ushered in an era of unprecedented federal spending and sky-rocketing deficits and debt.

This continued under George H.W. Bush.

Only when a Democrat — the supposedly “tax and spend” and “fiscally irresponsible” party — became President did those deficits come down.

In fact, when Clinton left office after eight years, the U.S. had a budget surplus.

Enter George W. Bush and promises of fiscal conservatism, and the budget surplus evaporated and turned into unprecedented

deficits and debt. Here comes another Democratic

president, entering the office under extreme economic duress created by his predecessor, and what hap-pens?

The deficit actually shrank after his first full fiscal year after enter-ing office — not by much, but it did shrink.

To go along with Reagan, Bush I and Bush II’s irresponsible fiscal policies were a collective 20 years of stagnating wages and lethargic job growth.

In fact, the eight years of Clinton’s presidency generated more new jobs than all 20 years of Republican administrations since Reagan.

Though unsatisfactory to the public in light of nearly 10 percent unemployment, Obama’s policies — including the oft-vilified stimulus — generated or saved more jobs in 18 months than W’s administration did in eight years.

So for all the rhetoric about how Democrats are anti-business, it has been Democratic administrations that have actually generated jobs for Americans.

For all the rhetoric about “fiscal

conservatism” from Republicans, it has actually been Democrats who have reduced the deficit and debt of the U.S.

For all the rhetoric about Republicans obtaining the majority in the House due to a “mandate for change” and punishing Democrats for not “listening to the people,” Peden forgets to mention one important thing: the current eco-nomic mess was entirely created by Republican mismanagement of our economy.

The public voted out Democrats at the ballot box because they failed to fix 20 years of failed sup-ply-side economic theory in 1.5 years in the face of an intransigent, incoherent and logically dysfunc-tional opposition.

Americans didn’t punish Democrats, they punished them-selves.

So go ahead Republicans, don’t forget your promises, which were ... to not do everything that they have always done as a party for the last 30 years.

AARON JOSLINGrad student, Athens

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Buy a painting. Fund an artist party.

The master of fine arts graduating candidates are hosting their third annual art auction to raise money for the thesis expedition that will take place in the spring.

Artwork that was not bought or guaranteed dur-ing the silent auction that ended Tuesday at the Lamar Dodd School of Art will be featured in the live auction at Little Kings Shuffle Club.

To be guaranteed, art-work much be purchased at the “buy-it-now” price, which is double the artists’ value.

This will be the first live art auction hosted by Little Kings.

“I love hosting different things, so hosting an art auction will be fun,” said Terri Silva, manager of Little Kings.

More than 140 pieces will be up for bids. The art-work featured will include

work from graduating MFA students, faculty, visiting artists and alumni.

Artwork prices generally range from around $20 to $600. There will also be some African pieces priced around $1,200.

Melissa Walter, an orga-nizer of the event and MFA candidate for jewelry and metals will be featured in the show.

Her pieces include ster-ling silver earrings, a broach shaped like a bird with movable parts and freshwater pearls and framed handmade paper with thread.

Becky Rugg, MFA can-didate for fabric design, will have about 10 small quilts up for bid.

All of her quilts are

“pop-arty” and feature objects, such as a toaster, banana, shrimp and a fanny pack.

“The auction is held in a setting that is more com-fortable and people can hang out,” Rugg said. “People can come out, drink and buy art at a cheap price.”

The money raised at the event will go toward the opening reception for the MFA thesis expedition on March 25.

“I’m expecting 40 to 60 people throughout the night and more coming in and out, but hopefully more than that,” Walter said.

Some local businesses even donated gift certifi-cates for the auction.

The Loft, Mama’s Boy, Anchor Tattoo and Georgia Medical Massage are among some of the gift certificate donors.

“We really want to get more people in the com-munity and outside the art school to come,” Walter said. “Everybody should come.

Art auction funds reception

By RACHEL G. BOWERSTHE RED & BLACK

Mark Richt was full of jokes and smiles

during his weekly news conference Tuesday. And as the Bulldogs prepare to head to Auburn, the main topic of discus-sion was Auburn’s Heisman Trophy can-didate Cameron Newton.

The 6-foot-6, 250-pound quarterback has accounted for 3,036 yards of total offense — 1,146 on the ground and 1,890 through the air.

“Just when you think [Tim] Tebow left town, he shows up in another jersey,” Richt said.

The junior college transfer’s ability to make plays with his legs and his arm could pose multiple problems for the Bulldogs, especially going against a player like Newton who Richt said “usually wins the human equation.”

“He’s another quarterback, and there aren’t many quarterbacks who finish runs like Tebow did and like Cam does,” Richt said. “I don’t know if I’ve seen anybody knock him back.”

But amid Georgia’s preparations for Newton and the Tigers, Newton has come under fire in the last week.

The NCAA has started an investigation looking into allegations that a man who represented Newton during his recruit-ment out of junior college last year sought up to $200,000 from coaches to land Newton on their rosters. Former Mississippi State quarterback John Bond told ESPN.com the man was a former teammate who wanted $180,000 for Newton to play for the Bulldogs in Starkville. ESPN.com is reporting that former teammate to be Kenny Rogers.

Mississippi State made officials in the SEC office aware of the matter and the NCAA launched its investigation into Newton’s recruitment last month, asking for financial records from Newton and his family around that same time. Despite the investigation involving Newton, Richt

said the Bulldogs will continue to prepare to face the College Park native Saturday.

“[The investigation] didn’t seem to bother him last week, so I doubt it,” Richt said on whether the investigation would affect Newton’s play. “Usually when you start playing ball, whether you are prac-ticing it or playing it, no matter what’s going on around you, it’s usually kind of a haven for an athlete to able to just be in his element and be able to shut every-thing out, shut the world out, and just go have fun playing ball.”

Auburn lineman could pose big problems for Bulldogs

With Newton being the Bulldogs’ main concern for the defense to handle, Auburn has another weapon on its side.

But this 6-foot-5, 298-pounder lines up on the defensive side of the ball.

Defensive tackle Nick Fairley has 7.5 sacks on the season, 18 tackles for loss, and even gave Arkansas’ mammoth quar-terback Ryan Mallett a concussion earlier this season. With Mallett measuring in at 6-foot-6 and 238 pounds, Georgia quarter-back Aaron Murray — who is 6-foot-1 and 209 pounds soaking wet — could be a rag doll for Fairley.

“I’ve not really seen any one man block him. I rarely have seen two guys block him very well. I’ve seen him get a sack without even touching the quarterback –- he knocked a guard into the running back and then the running back into the quar-terback and the quarterback got knocked down,” Richt said. “And then when he sacks guys, he tends to like to body slam them. It makes me real nervous. Hopefully, Murray won’t see this press conference.”

And while offenses opposing Auburn this season have averaged 241.3 yards through the air, a positive note for Georgia and its receivers, Richt said with

a defensive lineman as dominant as Fairley in the lineup makes throwing down the field that much more difficult.

“You know what the biggest problem is? The biggest problem in my opinion is Nick Fairley. Because when you’re talking about getting the ball downfield to A.J. [Green], to do that you’ve got to hold the ball a little while. And it’s hard to hold the ball a little while when that guy is com-ing,” Richt said. “This guy, he’s a lot to handle.”

Murray said he has “complete confi-dence” in Georgia’s offensive line, but the redshirt freshman said he hopes Fairley doesn’t get to him and knock Murray on his back, especially after seeing the types of hits Fairley is capable of.

“Hopefully he doesn’t. We’ll have posi-

tive thoughts about that. I don’t even wanna think about [getting hit by Fairley]. That’s not a pleasant thought,” Murray said. “I’m gonna do some extra praying this week. Hopefully, I’ll get no concussion if it does happen. You just gotta hopefully maybe treat the offensive line a little bit nicer in practice this week and make sure they have my back come this weekend.”

Quip from Tuesday:

Murray on whether he’ll talk trash with

defensive tackle Nick Fairley: “Oh, no that’s not happening. I might say, ‘Hey, how you doing today? Please don’t kill me.’ Our guys will do a great job against them.”

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Head coach Mark Richt discussed the game-changing potential of Auburn’s quarterback Cam Newton and defensive tackle Nick Fairley.

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By JOHN BARRETTTHE RED & BLACK

When Canadian jam-

electronic trio The New Deal formed in 1998, there was no conscious decision to exclude the typical ele-ment of guitar.

Quite the opposite is true, in fact. According to keyboardist Jamie Shields, the band came together spontaneously, with virtu-ally no premeditation. The lineup intact to this day — Shields, bassist Dan Kurtz and drummer Darren Shearer — was born of an impromptu jam session.

“Darren had this weekly acid-jazz jam thing going on at some lame pool hall kind of thing that they wanted a live band [at] for some reason,” Shields said. “It was fun music, but nobody was listening and nobody cared. Then one

day the guitarist couldn’t make it, so it was just me, Darren and Dan. We played the show and it was awesome. We just made some great music togeth-er.”

After recording their very first show, they decid-ed on the spur of the moment to release it to the public via a mailing list and tour in support of it. This approach worked, and over the years The New Deal’s crowds steadily grew by the hundreds.

“That’s kind of the way The New Deal handles its operations,” Shields said. “There’s no real conscious decision when it comes to The New Deal. It’s about sort of going with what you feel at the time is the best thing, which is how we approach playing con-certs as well.”

Shields’ philosophy is

reflected in the band’s name — keep everything spontaneous, keep making things new and fresh, and keep reinventing oneself.

“If you don’t [push yourself], you just kind of become a lounge act,” he said. “We’re trying to improve and change and develop through our jams constantly, and we reached a critical mass about six months ago where we decided it was time to take the bull by the horns and do what has to be done to move on to something new.”

The trio’s most recent shift in stylistic focus has brought about The New Deal 3.0. Whereas in the past the band focused more on the jazz-fusion and house elements of dance music, it now ven-tures deeper into aggres-sive electronic music terri-tory, incorporating a digi-tal bass synth and elec-tronic drum kit into its typically digital-free setup.

“It’s definitely getting a little darker, it’s definitely getting a little heavier [and] it’s getting a little more electronic,” Shields said. “There’s a lot more ‘umph’ to what we do, and we’re trying to play differ-ent rhythms and styles than what we had.”

Still, Shields — who cites Frank Zappa, Brian Wilson, Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis as his chief influences — is quick to point out that he still doesn’t loop a single sound that emanates from his keyboard rig. Even if a part is repeated, he plays every note with his fingers (and, if his hands are fully uti-lized, sometimes his nose).

“A lot of [dance music] is repetitive loops pro-grammed into a keyboard, but that’s not really our style and it never has been because it limits us,” Shields said. “If you start playing to looped bits and to sequenced bits, then you kind of handcuff your-self to whatever’s going on right at that specific time.”

Indeed, collective improvisation is still the touchstone of The New Deal’s concerts 12 years into its career.

“Harmonically I’m in charge of the chords, but the way that Dan shifts his [bass] playing around, he’s able to modify those chords in ways that per-haps I wouldn’t think about,” Shields said of the group’s on-stage chemis-try. “One flick of the wrist and he just changes a note, and it completely changes the dynamic and the appeal of whatever chord progression we have.”

The New Deal’s unwav-ering grassroots approach across its musical history has produced an intimate bond between the band and its audience.

“The relationship we have with our crowd is sort of a shared experience,” Shields said. “A lot of times with bands that are out there, it’s sort of focused on the scene. People are like, ‘Well, I’m going to go because my friends are going to go and I’m going to have a good time, but I’ll probably end up talking in the back of the room.’ That doesn’t really happen a lot at our shows because while there is a scene, you get people who want to dance, you get people who just want to listen to the music, and then you get people who are a combination of both.”

What’s even more impressive is how The New Deal has managed to sus-tain a presence in the music world despite hav-ing not released a studio album since 2003’s “Gone Gone Gone.”

“We’re going to be releasing something in stu-dio form, either an EP or a bunch of tracks, sometime early in the new year,” Shields said. “[But] the way that any band is going to have any sort of eco-nomic viability is by hit-ting the road. The way that we’ve been able to maintain a fan base is by playing a lot of shows, playing good shows and allowing people to tape our shows since the very beginning.”

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Canadian jam-electronic band The New Deal credits much of its success to a philosophy of keeping things spontaneous, new and fresh.