Editor’s Note: Man on the Market has become an anticipated tradi-tion at The Red & Black — both inside and outside the newsroom. Here’s how it works:

We select an eligible bachelor to be paired with four University females on four different blind dates. Our bachelor and each woman will write separate columns the week before Valentine’s Day about their date experiences — and we’ll publish them on our variety pages for the entire University com-munity to see.

Without further ado, meet Nicholas Welsh, a junior from Tucker, this year’s Man on the Market.

Q: Hi Nicholas. What’s your major and what do you plan to do after you graduate?

A: I am a history major, and after college I plan on winning the lottery

and becoming a professional mil-lionaire. Plan B is go to law school.

Q: What has been the best day of your life so far?

A: The day my dad first brought my family to Lake Lanier Islands Water Park. I challenge you to go down the fun-dunker without smil-ing… impossible.

Q: Pretend that you’re your mother and answer this question: Is your son normal?

A: No, they broke the mold when he was born.

Q: If you where crowned king of the whole world, what would your first royal decree be?

A: The cast of Jersey Shore can never tan again and must wait at least 5 days to do laundry again.

Q: What is the last movie that made you cry?

A: The Land Before Time… bawled.

Q: What is your most treasured possession and why?

A: My leopard print snuggie — I don’t know, when I put it on it makes me feel so stylish and com-fortable.

Q: What do you expect to get out of this experiment?

A: You know the same thing every guy wants, one of those cus-tomized Valentine’s Day teddy bears.

— Compiled by Chelsea Cook

It’s that time of year again: Man on the MarketInterested in going on a

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class standing, major and a few sentences about yourself to

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By RACHEL BUNNFOR THE RED & BLACK

Is the Amazon Kindle the answer to the newspa-per industry’s problems? Probably not, according to three University research-ers.

Advertising professors Dean Krugman and Tom Reichert, and associate journalism professor Barry Hollander asked about 50 participants to read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the Kindle and then used focus groups and in-depth interviews to determine participants’ impressions of the device.

“The question is, ‘Do people want to read news on portable technology?’” Hollander said.

Most participants found the Kindle, while easy to read, an undesirable way to obtain news. Older adults complained the Kindle did not include non-news aspects of the paper, including crosswords, com-ics and coupons. Younger adults said the technology felt outdated and disliked the lack of touchscreen and applications.

Participants also said the price — $489 — was too high if the device was for newspaper-reading purpos-es only.

Krugman, Reichert and Hollander plan to conduct a second wave of research about the Kindle to deter-mine how people perceive e-readers and whether e-readers would be a viable revenue source for newspa-pers.

“As technology gets bet-ter and more powerful, at some point this [newspa-per] becomes this [e-read-er],” Hollander said.

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By BRIANA GERDEMANTHE RED & BLACK

Starting next fall, stu-dents using scooters to get around campus might have to join the crowd of people elbowing their way onto the bus.

A new plan proposed by Parking Services will elimi-nate the corrals through-out campus, where scoot-

ers now park, making scooter drivers move to larger parking lots on the edges of campus.

A “scooter task force” made up of students, fac-ulty and staff met four times, beginning in October 2009, to work on the new policy.

Although scooters and mopeds are a cheap form of transportation and can

be better for the environ-ment than cars or SUVs, they’ve caused issues with safety and parking on cam-pus.

As it stands now, scoot-ers are often used to get from one part of campus to another. Scooter drivers apply for a parking permit allowing them to park in any of the scooter parking areas.

This results in a prob-lem several call “flocking,” where certain scooter cor-rals fill up too quickly, and drivers park their scooters on the sidewalk or the grass.

Parking Services has tried brochures and warn-ings to keep scooter driv-ers from parking illegally. They tried issuing parking tickets, but scooters don’t

have license plates, so the tickets couldn’t be tracked. They tried booting the scooters, but people stole the boots.

“We’ve tried to be as friendly as possible,” said Don Walter, manager of Parking Services. “Now we’re going to rely more on towing.”

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The members of synchronized swimming team Aqua Dawgs must float and swim through their entire routine without touching the pool bottom.

SYNCH OR SWIMAqua Dawgs keep aquatic tradition afloat

By ASHLEY STRICKLANDTHE RED & BLACK

Like some of the other obscure club sports teams at the University, synchronized swimming is almost a lost art form. Almost.

However, never fear: the eight ladies of Aqua Dawgs are here.

Chances are cycling in one of the overlooks on a late Wednesday or Sunday evening visit to Ramsey will reveal a sneak peek of the talented swimmers practicing in the diving well.

They begin making strokes across the pool, swimming laps.

But the movements soon change to something called skull laps, or paddling. In the world of synchro-nized swimming, this is the key to success – being able to pull oneself across the pool with just the move-ment of arms.

That is when most people take notice and discover the fact that the University has a synchronized swim-ming club. That, plus the fact that synchronized swimmers have to prac-tice in the diving well because their feet are never allowed to touch the

bottom. “The first question I always get

asked is ‘do you wear the flowered swim cap?’” Raines Plambeck, a sophomore member of Aqua Dawgs, said.

Occasionally the Aqua Dawgs have worn the traditional ’40s swim caps as a throwback to nostalgia, but mostly the team wears commercial swimsuits and waterproof make-up.

But the truth is, synchronized swimming does not fall into its ste-reotypical expectations. It is the product of long, hard practices in and out of the pool, dedication and cre-ativity.

“The first practice, I planned to go synchronized swimming and then go work out afterwards,” Caitlin Payne, a new member of Aqua Dawgs, said. “But it was all so much harder than I expected. I also thought I knew how to float, but it turns out I didn’t.”

The Aqua Dawgs are also facing a new disadvantage this year – no coach and few experienced synchro-nized swimmers on the team.

“We’ve been muddling our way

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By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

Window displays in downtown Athens may be getting modern makeovers this semester — thanks to the design exper-tise of University students in a new ser-vice learning project.

“We always enjoy partnering with the University,” said Kathryn Lookofsky, director of the Athens Downtown Development Authority. “It’s a win-win for everybody.”

Groups of fashion merchandising and furnishings and interiors students will be assigned to different stores in downtown Athens, providing them free design tips and services in return for real-world expe-rience.

“I thought to myself, we always take, take, take — how about why not trying to return some of it?” said Katalin Medvedev, an assistant professor in the textiles, mer-chandising and interiors.

Medvedev said she had coordinated a similar project at a previous job. When she saw how much the hands-on experi-ence meant to students, she wanted to do this collaboration at the University.

“Once they are in the field they are usually more motivated — they want to do better,” she said. “It’s almost like a mini internship.”

Dina Smith, a graduate student from Hattiesburg, Miss., oversees the students’ project.

“They’ll go into the stores and observe specific things that I’ve laid out and exam-ine what about this can be changed to make it better,” she said. “They’ll ulti-mately write a paper of suggestions to the store owners of what the owners can do better to better their business and how they could get the store to target their market a little better.”

Smith said some of the things students will be looking for in stores included win-dow displays, store layout and dressing room accommodations.

“Anything that will make the custom-er’s experience more pleasurable and fun, because the longer a person stays in the store, the more they’re apt to buy,” she said.

Kasey Mays, a junior from Chickamauga, is in the group of students working at Flaunt, a boutique downtown. She had her first store walk-through on Tuesday, where she became familiar with the store’s

owner, layout and merchandise.“It’s kind of cool because yesterday I

went in and there was discount stuff all over, and today I went in and she was changing everything and bringing in new merchandise,” she said.

Mays said she noticed the discount signs were taped to the walls.

“To me, that doesn’t draw my atten-tion. It needs to be something more bold, brighter,” she said. “Also, the window dis-plays — you can’t really see in; I don’t know if it’s the tint or the glare, so all you really see is the sign ‘Flaunt,’ and that doesn’t draw me in as a consumer.”

Megan Lee, an assistant professor in textiles, merchandising and interiors, said though fashion merchandising students will be more in tune with how the store’s layout affects customer purchasing behav-ior, her furnishings and interiors students

will be focusing on design elements to make stores more environmentally-friend-ly.

“We’ll be offering design services depending on what [stores] need, any-thing from accessibility issues to privacy and theft,” she said. “And if they have any concerns with sustainability, we can help them to lower their energy costs.”

Tiffany Ward, a senior from Villa Rica, works with Athena Jewelers. She said some suggestions her group has for the store include livening up the floor, intro-ducing storage units and helping to cre-ate a space for customers to create “vir-tual jewelry” to be made by the store.

“Sustainability goes back to repurpos-ing,” she said.

Instead of asking Athena to purchase new items, the group suggests utilizing what the store already has to give it new

life.Lee said what fashion merchandising

students can tell store owners verbally, furnishing and interiors students present visually.

“That’s what’s making it so unique and exciting,” she said.

Tricia Ruppersburg, owner of the downtown jewelry store Aurum, told The Red & Black she has a loyal customer base with a wide age range, but she thinks others are either not aware of the store or are misinformed about the store’s prices.

She said she hopes to get some good design ideas for the layout and display of the store from someone “who isn’t fet-tered by the idea that it has always been that way.”

“Another aspect [students] may choose to work on is to suggest ways we could more effectively reach the University stu-dent market for our fashion jewelry as well as engagement rings, and this may be the aspect that interested me most,” Ruppersburg said.

Medvedev said some stores in the proj-ect, such as the menswear store George Dean’s, have been in Athens for so long they have a niche market and an iconic window display but have trouble reaching outside that market to new customers.

Laura Elliot, a junior from Alpharetta, is working with George Dean’s.

“To actually work with menswear is gong to be interesting because I don’t have much experience there,” she said. “It’s going to be interesting to see what they do to target college-age guys.”

Elliot said she plans to talk with other students, including male students involved in the project, about why they shop at George Dean’s and what would make other people want to visit the store.

Lee said there was a lot of University support for service learning projects such as this.

“It definitely fits [President Adams’] mission,” she said. “When he was talking about sustainability and the Office of Sustainability, our project really fits that paradigm, and it’s really exciting to see the University heading in that direction.”

Ward said she is excited to get further into the project.

“It’s little shops like [Athena Jewelers] that keep downtown Athens a fun and cool place,” she said. “Athens has been so good to us — this is our chance to give back.”

University students aim to help upgrade downtown

By RYAN PRIORFOR THE RED & BLACK

Pre-med students at the University aren’t letting the controversy over health care reform affect their decision to pursue the pro-fession they love.

Among the most contro-versial issues with the cur-rent health care bill is a possible reduction in doc-tors’ wages, but pre-med students at the University, who will go into residency just after the proposed bill takes effect, are continuing toward higher degrees.

Aalok Sanjanwala, a third-year biochemistry major from Cumming, said the health care debate hadn’t affected his decision to be pre-med at all.

“If you’re in it for the money, you’re not going to make it because it’s a huge time commitment,” he said. “It’s up in the air how much money doctors are going to make. Will they still make six figures? Yes. Will they make half a million like some specialists? Probably not.”

He was tentative about his medical ambitions until a trip to India last summer, in which he saved some-

one’s life with CPR and witnessed another die in his arms.

“I just fell in love with [medicine]. It’s a noble profession,” he said.

Shivam Desai, a second-year biology major from Douglasville, said he wasn’t really interested in what an American health care reform would look like. He said a trip to India had confirmed his aspiration to become a doctor and open a hospital in his family’s home country.

Desai was attracted to working in India because of cultural differences that would allow him to spend more time with his family.

“It’s a lot more stressful here than it is there,” he said. “Here, you’re confined by work and time. There, you can do anything.”

Pre-med students are not required to learn about U.S. public health policy, but classes exist to help them navigate and shape the health care policy of the future. One such class is Introduction to Health Policy and Management.

Joseph Rimando, a third-year microbiology major from Warner Robins, is enrolled in the class. He

said he was taking it because he wanted to pur-sue a master’s degree in public health.

“Fundamentally, it’s a policy-writing class,” he said. “Pre-med students are more focused on the science, not the ethics or politics. That’s for public health.”

Michael Naguib, a biolo-gy major from Dalton, said he was following a long line of family members into the profession.

“Almost everyone on my dad’s side [is involved in medicine],” he said. “I can’t see myself in another pro-fession. Medicine is just what I fell in love with. The reason I’m doing it isn’t about the salary, it’s about helping people. A little pay decrease isn’t going to kill you.”

He said he had spent two weeks this summer setting up clinics in the Dominican Republic, where he saw kids bathing in sew-age and drainage pipes.

“It was mortifying,” he said. “It was amazing they didn’t have any other dis-eases besides what they already had. The whole trip just re-affirmed what I real-ly wanted.”

Pre-med dreams not dampened by health care bill controversy

By CAROLYN CRISTTHE RED & BLACK

After four years in litiga-tion, a former University dean is clear of sexual harassment allega-tions. The University released a statement Monday that a 2006 lawsuit against John Soloski, for-mer dean and now a professor at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, had been settled and dismissed.

The court order states Soloski “did not violate the University of Georgia’s

Non-Discrimination Anti-Harassment policy by engaging in sexual harass-ment.” Soloski came under

investigation after a co-worker filed a complaint in 2005 that Soloski said a dress “showed off her assets.”

The court order is to be the top docu-ment on all files related to the case and must be provid-ed with any docu-ments released about

the case. Tom Jackson, vice pres-

ident for public affairs, declined to comment on specifics of the case or how it has affected Soloski’s

career, but a U.S. District Court lawyer in 2008 called the investigation against Soloski “arbitrary, capri-cious and unreasonable.”

“We made those respons-es in court and are glad to see it resolved,” Jackson said Monday. “It’s time to move forward.”

Though Soloski is one step closer to clearing his name, he’s not talking just yet. He and lawyer Brandon Hornsby are waiting until settlement documents are made public before com-menting.

Grady professor cleared of all charges

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Katie Robertson takes measurements for her senior studio retail project. Robertson and her classmates will help improve local shops.

By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK

A female student reported a burglary and peeping Tom in her Creswell dorm at 5:45 a.m. on Jan. 31, according to University Police.

The victim reported she was woken up in the middle of the night when an unknown man entered her room without her permission. However, nothing was reported stolen.

“We are not sure why he was there, so we don’t know what, if any, charges will be pressed,” said University Police Lt. Eric Dellinger.

Police have identified a suspect and believe they should be able to get to the bottom of this fairly quickly.

Tate II is off the hook

The weather outside on Sunday night may have been clear, but inside the Grand Hall of Tate II, it was raining steal hooks and screws.

Bridgette Woodard, a freshman from Vidalia, reported she was struck in the right shoulder by a four or five pound steal hook at 1 a.m. on Jan. 31.

“I didn’t see it fall,” Woodard said. “My shoulder is bruised, and I have a scratch from where the screw hit me. Other than that, it’s fine. [The hook] was heavy. If it had hit me in the head, I could have died.”

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Right now, Hollander said, the Kindle is primarily a reading device, but that is probably not enough to keep it successful.

“The successful portable device will be used for many different things — news needs to piggyback on that,” Hollander said.

Apple’s newly released iPad seems to address some of the problems the research participants had with the Kindle, but some are unsure about it’s abili-ties.

“It’s still too soon to say about the iPad,” Hollander said.

He said tablets, such as the Kindle and the iPad, are going to provide a com-promise between comput-ers and smart phones. How

these devices are going to fit into the average person’s life is a question that remains unanswered.

Nikki Stephens, a third-year marketing major from Ellijay, said tablets are going to be successful because they combine the traditional with the digital.

“To me, it is fascinating that you can carry a small library with you at all times,” she said. “People who are always on the go and traveling will fall in love with devices like the Kindle. They never have to worry about which books to take along or how many they can pack, because they will only need their tablet.”

According to Krugman, Reichert and Hollander’s research, older adults were more accepting of the idea

of a tablet than younger adults. After the iPad’s release on Jan. 27, more than 50 percent of tweets on Twitter had a negative or indifferent reaction to the new tablet, according to the online analysis firm Crimson Hexagon.

Stephens also notices a disconnect between the Kindle and younger adults.

“I own a Kindle, but none of my friends have adopted the idea of owning a tablet yet,” she said.

Stephens said she is interested to see how the Apple iPad is received by the public. While the iPad has many features to try to appeal to the younger gen-eration, including a touch-screen and applications, Stephens said she was not sure if those features will impress the public.

“The point of a tablet is to have a better reading experience, and when peo-ple read, they usually don’t want distractions such as e-mail and social media to have a presence,” she said.

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By TIFFANY STEVENSTHE RED & BLACK

University alumnus Brian Kemp has been appointed the latest Georgia secretary of state. Kemp replaced Karen Handel, who left the posi-tion to focus on her cam-paign for governor. Kemp served as a state senator from 2002 to 2006.

Q: How do you feel about receiving the posi-tion?

A: Well, just certainly thankful about the oppor-tunity.

I am thankful for Gov. Perdue’s confidence in my ability, and I look forward to serving the people of Georgia. It’s a great oppor-tunity for me.

Q: What do you plan to do while you’re in office?

A: The main thing right now is I’m getting up to speed on the budget and the legislative paperwork in the office. But once I get that done, I want to focus on having safe elections and making sure I protect that part of our democratic process.

I also want to focus on economic growth and job development in Georgia. I feel like the people of Georgia want all hands on deck on economic growth and job development in these tough economic times that we’re in. I know the graduates com-ing out of schools in Georgia and UGA are worried about the job market in Georgia, and we want to make sure that Georgia contin-ues to be a place that’s friendly for entrepreneurship and opportunity.

Q: Have safe elections in Georgia been a problem in the past?

A: I don’t think it’s been a problem. I think Secretary Handel did very well while she was in office of making sure that voting stayed secure. But, I think when you look across the coun-try and you see voter fraud and cases like ACORN ... a lot of those voters were fraudulent, and a lot of people were registered that shouldn’t have been. We don’t want that in Georgia,

and we’re not going to tol-erate it.

Q: Is there anything else you’d like to do while in office?

A: I do want to promote ballot access for college students, to increase vot-

ing registration, increase access to absentee voting and increase awareness about absentee vot-ing.

Q: How do you plan to improve your office during your appointment?

A: I think looking at the office through

the taxpayers’ eyes, we’re continuing to find ways to improve technology but also use less money for the taxpayers. We’re finding ways to do more with less, and I’m proud of that. A lot of our budget people and market people are finding ways to combine opera-tions.

Q: Will any of your plans affect the University or other colleges in Georgia?

A: I think obviously

being involved in economic job growth and job devel-opment will affect our high-er education system. I appreciate what our higher education systems do, not only for research and devel-opment but for helping businesses.

Q: What other plans do you have?

A: Nothing that we can go public with right now. Several things we’re work-ing on that I can’t com-ment on.

Q: Do you think your time spent at the University helped you to obtain this position?

A: Oh, definitely. I think my experience at the University and obviously a lot of the contacts I made while I was there have been a big part of my life.

I think being able to serve in the [state] Senate also influenced me. I learned more in the Senate about what the University does than I did when I was a student, and about all that higher education does for the state, and I feel for-tunate to have learned that.

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University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said the scooter task force was “trying to create more of a structured situation.”

Many of the scooter parking cor-rals are only accessible from the side-walk, encouraging scooters to drive illegally on the pedestrian pathways.

Because they drive on the side-walks and the streets, scooters are sometimes seen as a danger and a nuisance to cars, bikes, buses and pedestrians.

“When we were writing citations [for scooters driving illegally], we had students coming up and saying, ‘Thank you,’” Williamson said.

Dexter Adams, director of grounds for the Physical Plant, helped design the scooter corrals initially, when there were fewer scooters on cam-pus.

“I feel like I’m part of the prob-lem,” he said. “We thought that scooters could be handled some-where between bikes and bike racks and cars and parking lots.”

Now, the number of scooters on campus — 300 registered with park-ing services — has grown so that cor-rals are no longer a practical parking system.

The proposed system will move scooter parking away from the cen-ter of campus, likely reducing the number of students who use scooters to commute from one part of campus to another.

By replacing the scooter corrals throughout campus with 10 larger lots on the edges of campus — creat-ing up to 1,420 spaces for scooters — drivers would use their scooters to get to campus, then take the bus or walk to get around.

The largest of the new lots, in East Campus, would have spots for 588 scooters.

“That will hopefully reduce that flocking, that inter-campus transpor-tation that has caused such safety problems,” Walter said.

Adams said he thinks the plan is a good attempt at making campus less congested and more walkable. But he said the solution the task force has developed fails to recognize that people use scooters to get around campus, not to campus.

Katie Barlow, president of the University’s Student Government Association, said one of SGA’s priori-ties is to increase alternative trans-portation on campus, including scooters.

Although she said there are “still some improvements that need to be made,” she said SGA is “more than thrilled” with the new policy.

But some students and scooter drivers are less thrilled.

“It seems like a decision that was made without very much thought or

input from the people affected,” said Catherine Holmes, a graduate stu-dent from Athens.

Though she acknowledges the concerns about scooter safety, she said she does not think moving scoot-ers away from campus is the solu-tion.

“It’s become a mess,” she said. “Instead of looking at that as a prob-lem on their part, they’ve decided that scooters need to be in big lots away from campus.”

Holmes heard about the changes to the scooter parking policy from her husband, David Berle, an associ-ate professor of horticulture and member of the scooter task force.

Berle said the task force had a two-pronged plan — to increase enforcement of existing rules and to create new scooter parking areas.

He said he realizes that scooter parking is overcrowded, but thinks the new policy is “clearly discrimina-tory against scooter riders.”

“Scooters definitely were not rep-resented in any of the thinking on this new plan,” he said.

Berle could not attend the task force’s first two meetings because he had to teach classes, but he sent e-mails to the task force with his input and attended the last meeting.

“It was advertised as the third and last meeting where we were sup-posed to vote,” he said.

But he said there was no vote — the new policy was announced as a done deal.

But Walter said the proposal is just a possibility and the task force is still in discussions.

“We’ve been negotiating and talk-ing about that, but nothing’s been decided yet,” he said.

However, information found on Parking Services’ Web site includes seven “Task Force Agreements.”

The agreements, which the site said will go into effect in Fall 2010, include the following — move scooter corrals to blacktop parking, increase the number of scooter spaces, issue scooter permits for one location, increase use of towing for enforce-ment and retain the status quo for motorcycles.

The scooter parking situation highlights some controversies about scooters, such as their environmen-tal impact.

Though many, including SGA, tout scooters as a “green” form of alternative transportation, the pre-sentations at the scooter task force meetings cited statistics showing scooters often pollute more than large SUVs and Hummers.

Berle said this is old information that has since been proven inaccu-rate and offered his own family’s scooters as examples.

“My scooter gets 96 miles to the gallon,” he said. “My son has a scoot-er that gets 115 miles to the gallon.”

Another issue, he said, is the per-ception that scooter drivers drive recklessly.

“The assumption is that scooters are students who are kind of trying to get around the laws,” Berle said.

It’s also important for students to note the distinction between scoot-ers and motorcycles.

When Parking Services sampled 100 “scooters” on campus, they found 83 were legally motorcycles, Walter said.

The difference? Under Georgia law, if a two-wheeled vehicle has an engine larger than 50cc’s, requires clutching or shifting or can be pro-pelled more than 30 mph on a level surface, it is considered a motorcycle. And if it is legally a motorcycle, the driver is required to have a class M license.

SCOOTERS: Task force to change parking

WES BLANKENSHIP | The Red & Black

Under the proposed plan, scooter parking corrals such as this would be moved to centralized parking areas, offering more space.

KEMP

I love a goofy holiday as much as anybody, but there’s nothing lighthearted about the cruelty inherent in the meat industry in “Bite into Athens’ ‘Meat Week’ festivities,” published February 1, 2010.

Chickens have their beaks cut off with hot blades. Pigs are castrat-ed and have their tails chopped off. Cows are burned with hot irons.

Female pigs are forced to spend their adult lives in crates so small that they are unable to turn around.

Eight to nine egg-laying hens are crammed into a single cage so small that they can’t spread a single wing.

Such behavior could merit felony cruelty-to-animals charges if inflicted upon dogs or cats, but it is standard operating

procedure in the livestock industry.

In spite of this, “Meat Week” co-creator Joshua Skelton calls vegetarian-ism the “dark side.”

You have much to learn, young Jedi. Master “The Force” by visiting peta2.com.

DREW WINTERCollege Campaigns, Peta 2

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4 | Tuesday, February 2, 2010 | The Red & Black

I admit it — while selling T-shirts for Dawgs for Haiti, I epitomized “those kids.”

You know, the kids who hit up everybody walking through Tate for money to support their cause of choice.

The ones who won’t leave you alone, despite the fact that you’re listening to your iPod or talking on your cell phone. The annoying, self-righteous do-gooders everyone tries desperately to ignore.

Everyone knows how to deal with those people — turn up your music, talk to Mom about your day, studi-ously ignore them and mumble “no thanks.”

Yet never before have I encoun-tered the bitter anger expressed when I approached one particular student.

“Have you bought your T-shirt to support Haitian relief efforts yet?” I demanded.

He met my question with a bit-ing reply: “There are kids starving in this country.” A few steps later, he turned around, “How can you help someone else before you help yourself?”

I was stunned into silence, mouth agape. His question pro-voked a twofold response. First, I asked myself, “Why am I doing this?” He’s right, there are starving children in this country.

Poverty exists here as it exists in Haiti. There are homeless people in New York City as well as in Port-au-

Prince. And then I realized that what

separates me from the Haitian earthquake victims — a small body of water, a language, a fluke of birthplace — means relatively little next to the humanity I share with those people and the compassion I feel for them.

The fact that I was raising money to provide humanitarian aid in the wake of one of the worst natu-ral disasters to strike in the past decade — an earthquake that left 111,000 dead and hundreds of thou-sands of others homeless — does not mean I am blind to suffering children in the United States.

It does not mean that I dismiss the experiences of the people with whom I share a national identity, not at all.

It means that my sense of shared human experience and responsibil-ity as a global citizen demanded I make a contribution to provide immediate relief to a devastated population.

Second, it evoked disappoint-ment in my fellow student.

I know nothing about him and have had no interaction with him besides that brief exchange in the

Tate Plaza. I do not believe that most students on campus share his viewpoint.

But, for those who do, I ask in the future that you approach humanitarian efforts like this not from the point of view of a national-ist who sees only the problems in our country or even as a privileged American citizen with a duty to help the less fortunate.

I ask instead that you see the Haitian people — or any group of people affected so severely by a catastrophe — as our brothers, sis-ters, mothers, fathers and children in light of shared human experi-ence.

A single individual cannot solve all the world’s problems, but a com-passionate, engaged global commu-nity can.

And next time you walk through Tate when someone is raising money or awareness — whether you’re on the way to the bookstore or just walking to class — take a minute to consider your relation-ship to victims of hurricanes, fam-ine, poverty or earthquakes.

Remember these victims wheth-er they are in this country or anoth-er, and realize your ability to effect change for the better.

Because the world needs more of those kids.

— Matthew Sellers is a sophomore from Terry majoring

in English and chemistry

Borders insignificant in charity work

Meat-packing industry’s cruelty not joking matter

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Nobody has raised money like President Adams. But nobody has spent money like him, either.

The taxpayers of Georgia will foot the bulk of a $950,000 bill to renovate the President’s House — which isn’t actually his home at all.

President Adams lives in a spacious house near Lake Oconee and uses the Prince Avenue antebellum mansion to entertain and fundraise.

Work orders submitted to the Physical Plant include a $50,533 order to paint one side of the house and $1,775.83 to replace a cracked mirror.

The state of Georgia is in a budgetary sink-hole. We have underfunded schools and dou-ble-digit unemployment. The editorial board wonders if in this economic climate, now is the time to spend nearly $1 million in renovations — $700,000 of which comes from state funds.

We understand that it is important to main-tain this architectural treasure, but $365 to fix a broken toilet handle is simply taxpayer money down the drain.

— Daniel Burnett for the editorial board.

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It sounds ordinary enough. On Jan. 17, the All-American Basketball Alliance announced

plans to begin its first season this June with teams in 12 cities, includ-ing one in Augusta. It sounds ordi-nary until the message of the league becomes clear.

Apparently, All-American means all-white.

In order to compete, players must prove they are American born citi-zens with two Caucasian parents.

The commissioner, Don “Moose” Lewis, rejected the idea that the league will be racist.

He went on to say to the Augusta Chronicle’s Billy Byler, “Would you want to go to the game and worry about a player flipping you off or attacking you in the stands or grab-bing their crotch?”

He went on to say, “That’s the culture today, and in a free country we should have the right to move ourselves in a better direction.”

The full story, with even more outrageous quotes from “Moose,” can be found on the Augusta Chronicle’s Web site.

Old Moosie here refers to the NBA in that quote, pointing to its players as the root of immorality — which includes tons of crotch-grabbing, for those unaware.

The NBA is not an all black league, or an all foreign-born league, just for clarification.

However, I doubt the hate in Moose’s language needs to be clari-fied.

In fact, nothing really needs to be clarified.

The actual league and any new, interesting perspectives on it are insignificant. The bigotry is out-

right, the ridiculousness makes it seem like a parody of itself, and any-one could agree that it is wrong and there is no argument that makes it right.

But who really cares anyway?This league won’t get off the

ground in the first place. Most like-ly, it is nothing short of an ill-fated delusion from the troubled minds of attention-seekers.

Perhaps we shouldn’t pay any attention to some nut-job who has access to money or the media. I struggled over the decision of writ-ing about this absurd league for the for that reason.

Does giving these column inches to address such ridiculous behavior encourage said behavior?

Not necessarily just this column in a student newspaper. The many news stories or opinion pieces that have popped up since Moose’s proclamation may generate too much publicity for the idea than it deserves.

However, part of this moral dilemma is a compulsion to address

the situation. We must face this directly

because this league, in its attempt to have an Augusta-based team only two hours away from campus, embarrasses all of us.

When people like Lewis grip a microphone, we should grab a bull-horn.

It is unfair to all of us to let someone this full of ignorance and hatred be laughed off instead of clearly rebuked by our community.

Our community includes the University, its students, its pro-fessors, but also, our community includes the entire South.

It may be hard to swallow, but when a Southerner presents goals like these, the entire South is rep-resented by its lowest common denominator.

And for that, I felt compelled to bring attention to the story.

It is nothing short of important, in a place where the ground is filled with the memories of racism and oppression, to be reminded of the past and realize how it still inter-twines with our present and future.

Without fighting these battles, making a point to teach and relearn the ugliness of prejudice, our oppo-nents can grow stronger.

These ideas of hate can gather and spread, like an overwhelming sickness robbing the South of its progress.

There are still people like Don “Moose” Lewis out there, and we should be aware of that because the fight for equality is still being waged.

— Lisa Glaser is a sophomore from Athens majoring in journalism

Racism evident in ‘All-American’ league

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“In order to compete, players must prove they are American

born citizens with two Caucasian parents.”

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VARIETY The Red & Black | Tuesday, February 2, 2010 | 5

Last year proved to be an extremely pro-ductive year for Radric Davis (aka Gucci Mane).

Releasing two albums, one EP, three mix-tapes and a slew of guest spots on other tracks, Gucci has taken on a work ethic of — dare I say — rather “Wayne-like” efficiency.

Like Lil Wayne, Gucci’s music has a knack for being oddly non-sensical at times, yet deftly appealing.

“The State vs. Radric Davis” is Gucci’s second major label effort, and, unlike most mixtape stars whose major label work sheds their charm in favor of sales, for the most part Gucci retains his inner “Gucci-ness” for the whole of his latest effort.

Thank label Warner Bros. for making this happen by sticking with the production team that got him to where he is instead of work-ing with all new producers who wouldn’t mesh well with Gucci’s singular flow.

Album opener “Classical” is just that — Classic Gucci, weird and off-kilter, yet seeth-ing with an undeniable swagger. Gucci rhymes “I’m from east Atlanta 6 where the boy dump bricks, but we don’t bump the Blueprint 3,” and the track then gives way to a woman’s choir bellowing out what sounds like “goooo-chi, goo-oo-oo-chi”.

It’s a surreal moment, a high water mark that never comes down throughout the album.

Gucci’s signature style of spitting with no regard for enunciation is more than evident in tracks like “Lemonade” and “Stupid Wild,” however, Gucci weaves together rhymes such as “Someone dissed me yesterday, what I’m supposed to do, go cry? Put my money-cha-sin’, million dollar mission on the side?”

The rapper’s infamous style is apparent throughout the album, and the avid listener will appreciate Gucci keeping his distinct

style intact.The only thing that gets in Gucci’s way

are the needless glut of guest appearances. Perennial wingman Wacka Flocka Flame and Gucci trade verses effortlessly on “Bingo,” showing the chemistry between the two long-time partners, whereas “Spotlight” has an Usher appearance totally out of sink with Gucci’s style.

At twenty tracks, Gucci could have trimmed some of the fat and crafted a per-fect blueprint on how to survive major label mediocrity, but as a whole “The State vs. Radric Davis” stacks up well despite obvious hitmaking singles.

Recently violating his parole, Gucci is back in jail once again, which is bad for him, but perhaps in this day and age better for his career, giving us all a chance to catch up and for him to slow down.

— Wynn Sammons

New film dedicated to Heath Ledger

A story’s story, “Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” forces everyone to reach deep down into the depths of their own imaginarium so that they may aptly experience this cinematic whirlwind.

Yet, the pseudo-ridicu-lous plot paired with rela-tively unimpressive graph-ics results in a surprisingly entrancing film.

Sure to be a cult classic, Imaginarium boggles the mind. The plot itself can hardly be considered inge-nious.

In fact, the screenplay, co-written by Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown, is rather disappointing. The dialogue is unoriginal and uninspired. The motifs and metaphors are entirely cli-ché. I mean, how obvious can you be when Satan gives women apples?

The actors hired to tell this story of eternal choice unanimously struggled. Perhaps the poorly written dialogue left the actors lit-tle to work with.

The great Christopher Plummer adequately played Doctor Parnassus. If nothing else, he surely looked the part.

As did Lily Cole, the redheaded, porcelain skinned British supermod-el. Miss Cole’s beauty didn’t exactly suffice. Her role of Valentina com-manded charm, naiveté, and grace. Cole lacks the necessary presence and experience to deliver all three simultaneously. I sensed Gilliam’s choice for Cole merely relied on the fact that she looks stun-ning running around in a formfitting red dress.

Andrew Garfield, a new-comer to the feature film scene, initially showed promise in his grand bodily gestures but dwindled when he was forced to face emotional turbulence. However, once more, Garfield looked the part fabulously.

The end credits dedi-cate Imaginarium to the memory of Heath Ledger. Heath’s performance remained very much in tact despite his premature death during filming.

The incorporation of Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell as Heath Ledger’s replacements was contrite.

In any other circum-stance, this alternation of actors would be inexcus-able. But since we all wanted Heath’s last role to come to fruition, we are willing to overlook certain unfortunate plot complica-tions.

Johnny Depp’s Tony should have lasted much longer. His facial contor-tions are very enchanting and deserved more screen time than those of Law or Farrell. A poor choice from the start, Jude Law cannot captivate the same essence of Ledger, Depp or Farrell. He made me very uncomfortable, actually. And rarely does such a good-looking person make me feel that uncomfortable in such a non-threatening role.

Gilliam never pretends that he made a film that could be applicable to an actual situation. And in recognizing his pure inten-tions of trying to encapsu-late a spirit of wonder-ment, you are certainly incapable of denying his valiant efforts.

Gilliam clearly had a rough time with this movie. He had all the right intentions and all the right pieces to the puzzle. Everyone certainly looked the part. The costumes were appropriately elabo-rate.

What Imaginarium did not have was tight editing, well-rounded characters, a sophisticated plot, or good acting. But what does that matter?

listen up!

All too often a rapper’s product becomes diluted with too many appear-ances and mixtapes, but not so for one Gucci Mane.

One album is all we need from this knucklehead, until next year when he gets a chance to make another one.

VERDICT:

Despite all of its flaws, and there are many, I left the theater thinking that I just had a true cinematic escape.

If I’m going to con-template fate and free will, I’m just glad it is among such fun com-pany, even if they can’t act.

— Melissa Cohen

VERDICT:

“The State vs. Radric Davis”Gucci Mane

Presented by Sigma Delta TauBenefitting ugaMiracle and Children’s

Healthcare of AtlantaDoors open at 7pm, Show at 7:30

Where: Hodgson Hall [at the UGA Performing Arts Center]

Cost: $8 in advance/$10 at the doorEmail ugaidol2010@gmail.com for more info

SHOW TONIGHT!

Ojo AjayiKristin Barnes

Jay ButlerAndrew ColeLee DinningTaylor Greer

James HancockWhitney Keith

Haley MurphyLia RacanelliRen ReddingTyler Reed

Mekinnah RicketsonKristin SkoglundKristin Stamps

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6 | Tuesday, February 2, 2010 | The Red & Black NEWS & VARIETY

By EVA VASQUEZTHE RED & BLACK

In acupuncture, the needle marks the spot for many practitioners and dedicated followers. However, for many years it was more of a needle to the seat of many lawmak-ers.

Georgia was one of the last states to make acu-puncture a legal practice with the Acupuncture Act of Georgia (HB 814) in 2000.

Don White is a national-ly certified acupuncturist and has been practicing acupuncture for 23 years. He has served the com-munity of Athens for just short of 8 years — legally that is.

“I practiced in Georgia before we finally passed a law to make it legal, so I had to work in secret, and it was only by word of mouth,” White said.

White earned degrees from Jay Shears Academy of Natural Healing, Southwest Acupuncture College and the International Institute of Chinese Medicine — com-pleting his graduate internship in Beijing, China.

He is now legally licensed to practice in Georgia and is the owner and director of the Athens Wellness Cooperative, Acupuncture Center of Athens and Red Lotus Institute.

During his renegade years of secret practice, White kept a current license to practice in North Carolina and Hawaii, which is where he moved from.

He had the option to leave Georgia and teach at an acupuncture college in Denver but stayed.

“I felt it was my duty to be a pioneer in Georgia, and I stuck out all kinds of opposition,” White said. “I was once threatened to be turned in by a chiroprac-tor.”

According to White, not

only did he fight legal opposition in his first years in Georgia but social criti-cism as well.

“I once had a patient ask me to smoke pot with her,” White said.

White asked his patient where she got that idea.

“She told me the preacher in her church was preaching against me and telling the members that I was a heathen witch doc-tor who smoked pot with his patients,” White said. “This is because I used to use a lot of moxa, an herb that is used to heat points.”

White persevered and can now do what he loves — legally — but he believes there is still more room for growth.

“Acupuncture is still in infancy in the U.S. com-pared to its three thou-sand years in Asian coun-tries,” White said.

Perhaps the resistance to treating acupuncture as a mainstream medical technique stems from its fundamental differences with western medicine.

“There is an old Chinese saying, Chinese medicine is easy to study but hard to practice,” White said. “There are not as many big names to memorize, and it is very logical.”

According to White, it is the practice of the medi-cine that presents the true challenge. “Chinese medi-cine is an art, and is very individual to each person,” White said.

Acupuncture is one of the three age-old practices of traditional Chinese medicine, along with her-bology and massage.

In contemporary soci-ety, spirituality and medi-cine are usually kept in two separate categories. Classical Chinese medicine

combines physical and metaphysical aspects in a way that can seem very fantastical to those unfa-miliar with or skeptical of the art.

“We are looking at the body as a vehicle that has to deal with the world, and then you have the spirit that the body houses,” White said.

Susan Boleyn is a law-yer in Athens and a self-proclaimed skeptic.

“I thought acupuncture was way too granola for me,” Boleyn said.

But when William Skelton, an acupuncturist at the Mind Body Institute of Athens Regional Medical Center, alleviated a nerve issue with her neck and arms when an ortho-pedist and physical thera-pist could not, she started to believe.

“I told him it was my right side of my neck, and

he inserted the needle in the left side of my ankle, and I felt immediate relief,” Boleyn said. Despite the success she has had with the practice, her insurance, United Health Care, will not cover it.

“Most insurance compa-nies won’t,” Boleyn said

Kim Paquette practices acupuncture, herbology, and massage as the owner and operator of Lotus Sun Therapeutics. She has been practicing in Athens for the past five - and - a - half years and is nationally and state certified.

Paquette has found that acupuncture is gain-ing acceptance more and more each day; however, she has also found Georgia to be slightly slower to catch on.

“There is definitely more support out west and up north,” Paquette said.

“If I were in New Mexico [where she studied at the International Institute of Chinese Medicine], I could call myself a doctor of ori-ental medicine.”

Paquette embraces the idea of complementary medicine and works in cooperation with a western doctor, Dr. Daphne Blackburn, who oversees the medical aspects of the care given at Lotus Sun Therapeutics.

Dr. Daphne Blackburn received her medical train-ing at Boston University of Medicine and did her internal medicine training at the Harvard Teaching Hospital.

“I come from a different medical culture,” Blackburn said.

According to Blackburn, it is very common for mainstream doctors in New England to cooperate with complementary ther-apy.

“Here it seems much more divided,” Blackburn said.

She explains that when treatments like acupunc-ture are used in conjunc-tion with traditional doc-tor supervised medical care the benefits the patient experiences can be multiplied.

In Boston, Blackburn worked at a Federally Funded Community Health center where she took part in a medical study.

“We worked with a gov-ernment grant to study the efficacy of acupuncture as treatment for detoxing people addicted to heroin and cocaine,” Blackburn said. “As a result, acupunc-ture became a regular part of the program. “

Blackburn has brought her open-mindedness to the south and has contin-ued to find great success with complementary ther-apy.

“We refer patients to one another,” Blackburn said.

There seems to be a healthy amount of respect between the two.

“I do think pills are overprescribed for sure, but there is time and place for western medicine,” Paquette said.

Complementary medicine fights the good fight

LILY PRICE | The Red & Black

Dr. Don White does acupuncture on a patient, Devon Brown, in an effort to help Brown relinquish his smoking habit. Dr. White practiced in Georgia even before the Acupuncture Act of Georgia, which legalized the practice, was passed in 2000.

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through, but it’s almost more fun that way,” Stephanie Chapman, cap-tain of the Aqua Dawgs, said. “We lost our coach and the last person on the team with any [pre-col-lege] experience in syn-chro.”

Chapman and Flambeck have been cho-reographing all of the rou-tines based on what they learned from previous Aqua Dawg team members to prepare for their two meets coming up.

Synchronized swimming has a competitive season that lasts from mid-Janu-ary to mid-March, but they are asked to perform at different events all year.

While their meets will be at the University of Florida, which has the closest synchronized swim-ming team, they are plan-ning an exhibition here in March or April.

Only eight members are allowed on the team at a time, but they welcome anyone that has any inter-est to come check out syn-chro.

“Ideally, they have expe-rience swimming,” Chapman said. “But not

[usually] synchronized swimming. We teach them everything we know, which is everything we’ve learned since coming to college.”

While a lot more goes into synchronized swim-ming than most people expect, there is one thing all of the ladies are quick to bring up: Knox. “Knox bears mentioning,” Chapman said after her teammates said it in uni-son. Knox takes its name from a brand of gelatin but, like Kleenex, has become a term for a basic necessity. “Knoxing” is a ritual the Aqua Dawgs undertake before every meet.

“You mix unflavored gelatin and basically paint it into your hair,” Chapman said. “After it hardens, it holds your hair shiny and in place. Once you put on the Knox and the make-

up, you kind of look like a doll – stage make-up and shiny hair. It looks like you varnished your head.”

In competition, the syn-chro teams are judged similarly to gymnastics teams. Emphasis is placed equally on the technical aspects as well as the cre-ative aspects.Choreography, music, pre-cision and even appear-ance are judged.

For a team that has only been in existence for nine years, the Aqua Dawgs are doing well. They are also rare for a University club – only two of the members are from the Atlanta area.

The rest have roots scattered across the coun-try, which makes the sum-mer season for synchro-nized swimming a little more challenging.

But the Aqua Dawgs manage to come together as often as they can to keep alive an often forgot-ten sport.

They have found a bond in their passion for syn-chronized swimming since coming to the University.

“It’s like gymnastics without the gravity,” Plambeck said. “Well, some gravity.”

SYNCHRO: Even through adversity, Aqua Dawgs ‘just keep swimming’

Acupuncture faces distrust

By RACHEL BUNNFOR THE RED & BLACK

On Nov. 9, plaques honoring nine orga-nizations were unveiled in the Sphinx Honor Plaza outside Tate II. Unfortunately, they forgot to run spell check.

The nine granite blocks, costing a total of $25,000, were paid for through the fund-raising efforts of the nine honor organiza-tions represented in the plaza.

Instead of reading Omicron Delta Kappa, the block representing that soci-ety has an error: “Omicorn.”

“The plaza was finished around the last home [football] game, Thanksgiving, and we noticed the mistake two weeks later,” said Bobby Woodard, associate director of student affairs.

Woodard, who was head of the project,

said it was the contractor’s mistake, and the company offered to replace the gran-ite block for free.

Despite the plaza’s prominent location, the mistake has largely escaped the notice of students.

“I did not receive a complaint or notice until two weeks ago,” Woodard said. “The student didn’t sound upset; we explained the situation, that it was getting fixed, and they seemed fine.”

Woodard said he received a second complaint Sunday night, but had no other complaints from students.

The purpose of the plaza is to give rec-ognition to the University’s honor societ-ies. Woodard said they are anxious to get the Omicron Delta Kappa stone replaced.

The new block should be installed in the plaza by the end of February.

Unfortunately for fraternity, there’s no easy button for stone engravings

Aqua Dawgs meet in the diving well at Ramsey every

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By LISA GLASERTHE RED & BLACK

Blood pumping and pacing in front of the North Carolina fans, yelling in the bleachers, fresh-man Bo Seal was ready to respond to the fans’ screams.

His doubles partner senior Christian Vitulli pulled his atten-tion back to the court.

“It was just their team and their trainers, but it sounded like hundreds of them here. I don’t think we let that get to us at all when we were playing,” Vitulli said. “It made it more of a competitive atmosphere, and I think we both enjoy that a lot more. It brings our level of ten-nis up when the other team comes up to play. We respect the challenge.”

It was time to answer the trash talking by breaking the set and clinching the doubles point for their team, a major push towards the No. 7 Bulldogs’ eventual 4-2 victory over No. 28 North Carolina Monday.

Seniors Jamie Hunt and Nate Schnugg fell in a close 8-5 match in doubles play, while juniors Drake Bernstein and Javier Garrapiz won 8-4, which then left doubles point in the hands of Seal and Vitulli.

Seal brought energy, and Vitulli, fast, sharp returns — the duo fought through round after round in a seemingly never-end-ing battle.

Every punch was countered — 3-3 led to 4-4, which led to 5-5 which led to 6-6. With their teammates both in the bleach-ers and on the sidelines, Seal and Vitulli finally broke their Tar Heel opponents finishing 8-6.

“They played probably their best doubles match [Sunday], and they played just as good, if not better, today. They really just did a terrific job. We were not set in stone as far as our doubles combinations, but real-ly they showed great chemistry and great teamwork,” head coach Manuel Diaz said.

Vitulli looks forward to the rest of the season with Seal, especially after the two per-formed well during the ITA Kickoff Weekend.

“He’s a freshman, so this is only our first couple of matches together, but we’ve definitely gotten to know each other really well in our games. I think play-

ing together our bond is really good,” Vitulli said. “[Bo] gets fired up so much, and it fires me up ... that just makes me play better and makes him play bet-ter.”

After the win, Seal ran and jumped into a chest bump with Bernstein before being sur-rounded by the rest of his team-mates. Both Seal and Vitulli would return to singles play on courts five and six, respectively.

The victory, won after Sunday’s success of 4-1 against No. 36 Northwestern, gives the men’s tennis team an automatic bid into the ITA National Team Indoors Feb. 12-15.

On court one in singles play, Schnugg fell in two sets, 6-4, 6-2, ending a losing weekend for the senior, who had returned to sin-gles action Sunday.

“[The loss] is definitely a dis-appointment for me. I could have played better, but it’s a process. Luckily, my teammates were there to pick me up and get that win today. Hopefully,

next match, I’ll get the win, and I can give one of these guys a break,” Schnugg said.

Fans behind court two shook the flag of Garrapiz’s native Spain after each point in a tedious match that ended in a second set tiebreaker. The flag came down after Garrapiz’s loss, 6-4, 7-6.

“Javi lost to a very good play-er who played a very good match today … He allowed himself to get a little bit off track, and that’s something he normally doesn’t do,” Diaz said.

While Bernstein cleanly beat his opponent in a two-set victo-ry, 6-3, 6-1, Hunt began to catch his stride after losing his first set in a tiebreaker.

Hunt’s energy, fortune and overall play shifted, and the senior captain went on to win twelve straight games, finishing off his opponent 6-0, 6-0.

After Hunt’s victory, the Bulldogs’ fate rested on Seal and Vitulli.

The doubles pair each wore

sweatbands around their fore-heads, reminiscent of Rambo.

Seal faced his old doubles partner of five years, No. 92 Ryan Noble. While Vitulli rallied in a second set with his opponent, Seal clinched the entire match by winning 7-5, 6-3.

“In a way, it kind of sucked, but at the same time, it was fun. I feel bad, because I didn’t want to clinch the match against him, I’d rather clinch it against some-body else, but you got to do what you got to do,” Seal said.

After Sunday’s win against Northwestern and Monday’s win against North Carolina, Seal, Vitulli and the rest of the team continue to push ahead toward the national indoors.

“We’re just going to take tomorrow off and not even think about tennis, get our minds off of it and relax,” Seal said. “Come Wednesday, when we’re back on the court, we’ll be excited. (Georgia Tech) is our biggest rival, and we can’t wait. We’re excited.”

SPORTS The Red & Black | Tuesday, February 2, 2010 | 7

By RACHEL G. BOWERSTHE RED & BLACK

Two Georgia juniors were included on the list of athletes named to the 2010 Top 50 Watch List for the USA Collegiate Softball Player of the Year award, the Amateur Softball Association of America announced Jan. 27.

Outfielder Taylor Schlopy and infielder Alisa Goler will look to lead Georgia back to the Women’s College World Series as the 2010 season kicks off Feb. 12-16 in Clermont, Fla., at the Dot Richardson’s National Collegiate Softball Invitational.

Goler led the nation with a .994 slugging percentage in 2009, and set a school record with a .455 batting average.

Women’s tennis 2010 recruiting class ranked No. 1 in nation

The tight-knit Georgia wom-en’s tennis team has pulled in the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation for 2010, according to TennisRecruiting.net.

That incoming class includes Georgia native Rachael Hart, who is ranked No. 37 in the southeast, and fellow Georgia Native Kate Fuller, who was named the 2008 Georgia Junior Tennis Player of the Year.

The third member of the class, Lilly Kimbell, is from Vancouver, Wash., but trains at the John Newcombe Tennis Ranch in New Braunfels, Texas, and is ranked No. 3 in the USTA 18s.

“Kate, Lilly and Rachael are first class student-athletes, and we are excited to get them on our campus,” head coach Jeff Wallace told Georgia Sports Communications. “We are proud that people realize the great job Frank has done in recruiting. It’s great for the University of Georgia. We are excited about this year and our future.”

Top-50 Watch List includes Schlopy, Goler

Dogs set for national indoors after winSPORTS NOTEBOOK

SCHLOPY

PHOTOS BY LILY PRICE | The Red & Black

(Left) Senior Jamie Hunt won 12 straight games in his Monday match en route to a 6-0, 6-0 victory over UNC’s Stefan Hardy. (Above) Junior Javier Garrapiz was defeated by UNC’s Jose Hernandez in a two-set match, but posted a doubles win with partner Drake Bernstein.

8 | Tuesday, February 2, 2010 | The Red & Black SPORTS

By LISA GLASERTHE RED & BLACK

After helping to clinch the doubles point Monday in the Georgia men’s tennis team’s match against No. 28 North Carolina, The Red & Black talk-ed with senior Christian Vitulli about tennis memories, his goals for the sea-son and some strange dreams.

Q: When you were a kid, what did you want to do when you grew up?

A: I swam a lot. I played cricket, since it’s one of the big sports in Kenya. I took on tennis very seriously when I was young, so I just dreamed of being a professional tennis player.

Q: What’s your best tennis memo-ry?

A: Reaching the third round of the Junior U.S. Open. I beat No. 5 in the world in the first round and then the No. 1 or No. 2 American in the second round, who plays at Virginia now, and then I lost to the No. 2 seed in the round of 16.

Q: Who’s your favorite athlete? Why?

A: Usain Bolt. He knows he’s good; he’s arrogant, so it’s fun to watch. He’s a tremendous athlete and I love watch-ing him run.

Q: What’s the best class you’ve taken at UGA?

A: Probably a class I’m taking now, History of Pop. It’s interesting. We’re doing a project on the Rat Pack, and we’re going to have to dress up in suits and stuff and probably mouth the music when we give the presentation, so that should be fun.

Q: What would be your dream vaca-tion?

A: I’ve heard Bali is very pretty. My cousin goes there a lot, and he went

there with his girlfriend over New Year’s, and he said it was beautiful and that everything was very cheap. But yes, the islands, small, a resort, some-place secluded.

Q: What’s your favorite movie?A: I really liked Avatar. I just like

those computer graphics. The story was a bit cliché but I just really enjoyed the movie. I watched it on I-Max first, with the 3-D glasses, it was a pretty good experience. I had to buy the tick-ets a week in advance.

Q: What’s your favorite pump-up jam?

A: Anything DJ Tiesto does.

Q: What’s the funniest or weirdest dream you’ve ever had?

A: I dreamt there were aliens in my hometown, and they abducted my fam-ily, and I drove after them in a car, and I eventually caught up with them, and the car could fly, and somehow got them back. And then the dreams car-ried on a second time the next night, and a third time the next night after that.

Q: What do you want to improve upon most this season?

A: I’d like to improve my serve a lot, especially my second serve. If my serve is on for the day, I play a lot better. It gives the rest of my game a lot of confi-dence. When it’s off, I struggle to get into the game a little bit more. That’s definitely one of my goals.

Q: How do you unwind after a match?

A: We normally do a couple of laps, just like a cool-down jog. Dave, our trainer, stretches us out for like 10 or 15 minutes. Take a nice, hot shower and then watch some TV. I put on some music or TV, get on the computer and Facebook, just like everybody else.

Q: After this match, if you could jump into a pool of anything, what would that anything be?

A: Foam Balls, I guess. And then I would just lie there.

Senior digs on DJ Tiesto

LILY PRICE | The Red & Black

Senior Christian Vitulli (above) and doubles partner freshman Bo Seal clinched the doubles point for the Bulldogs after defeating North Carolina’s Brennan Boyajian and Jose Hernandez, as Georgia went on to win 4-2.

By MICHAEL FITZPATRICKTHE RED & BLACK

AUBURN, Ala. — Friday night was a strange experi-ence for Tiffany Tolnay.

She was at a Georgia gymnastics meet, and not only was she not compet-ing, but she was seeing the Gym Dogs as the opposi-tion.

Tolnay — a member of the 2006-2009 national championship winning Georgia teams — traded in her red and black get up for Auburn’s orange and blue, but only temporarily.

“It was weird [Friday night], because I’m a die-hard Bulldog fan and I’ll be a Bulldog fan for the rest of my life,” Tolnay said after Auburn’s first-ever victory over the Gym Dogs. “But I have invested myself into [Auburn’s] program, and I believe in what they are doing here.”

“I just didn’t want to be a distraction ...” she added. “I said ‘Hi’ to all my Georgia girls, and they’ll always be my girls, but I’m here with Auburn now, and it’s going good.”

Tolnay is completing the internship required to earn a recreation and leisure studies degree from Georgia, which she will earn in May. In the mean-time, she is getting the opportunity to run a pro-gram from behind the scenes. And it is thanks to former Georgia Coach Suzanne Yoculan that this opportunity even came to be.

Following her retirement from coaching Georgia, Yoculan was hired as a con-sultant by Auburn head coach Jeff Thompson.

“Tiff’s been awesome,” Thompson said Friday night. “And [Suzanne] said, ‘Tiffany needs to do this, she’ll be great. She’ll be just like your wife, she’s right on everything and is always organized, and she thought this would be perfect.’ So we worked through admin-istration to get it approved, and she’s been great.”

While Tolnay has enjoyed her position as Auburn’s “administrative assistant,” her desire is to become a gymnastics coach.

“That has been my dream for a long time now,” she said. “When I finish my internship here and gradu-ate from Georgia, then I’ll go down whatever path God takes me.”

Former Gym Dog ‘invested’ in Auburn

Improving serve key for Vitulli’s success