February 3, 2010 Issue

By RYAN BROOKSTHE RED & BLACK

UGA’s Junkyard Dawgz are not decked out in the typical red, black and white of Ramsey gym-goers.

A quick survey shows a display of style as much as a demonstration of substance — loose pants, padded beanies and a bright red baseball cap embroidered with Elmo’s face.

According to its members, presentation is just as important as ability when it comes to breakdancing.

“I like it, you know, it’s my style, but hats always come off anyway when you’re dancing,” member Sam Chun said.

Chun is the crew’s “president,” insofar as it was needed for the title of “club” to be given to the crew.

He has only been dancing for a year, but has developed his own individual way of breakdancing; but, for the casual viewer, it can be difficult to dis-sect what goes into a series of moves.

“Starting out, I practiced one move for like three to four hours straight. That’s the six-step,” he said.

The six-step is about as straight-forward as it sounds. On the ground, the breakdancer swings his legs around his torso with six quick steps.

This kind of dedication is exactly what it takes for a dancer to break into this somewhat close-knit group.

“You have to be serious and dedicated to be good,” Christine Akoh, a club member for about a year, said. “It can be really straining if you’re a girl, you might not have the strength at first, but really everyone needs time to adjust.”

But, more experienced members are willing to

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By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK

Georgia must protect their home turf.

Not just on the field, but on the recruiting trail, too.

That’s the mindset new defensive coordinator Todd Grantham’s brings with him to the recruiting trail after watch-ing numerous Peach State natives blossom at the next level over the last 11 years.

And not just from former Bulldogs.

“Over the last 11 years [in

the NFL], I’ve evaluated a lot of players from this state, and I’ve always believed that if we took the best play-ers in the state of Georgia and within a five-hour radius of our school, if they come to the University of Georgia, we can win the SEC championship and compete for a national title,” Grantham said. “I think you can be bet-ter than Florida, you can be better than Texas, and you can be better than Southern

Cal if those players come to Georgia.”

In a state that annual-ly averages 100 Division 1 prospects with only two Division 1 programs in state, the recruiting advantage Georgia has is undeniable. Georgia’s recruiting staff has been able to land a top-10 recruiting class each of the last five years, accord-ing to Rivals.com’s rank-ings.

“That’s what excited me about coming here, is any time

that it’s easy access to your school and you can develop a relationship with [recruits], I think you have a chance of get-ting those players here,” Grantham said.

And Grantham doesn’t believe he’s missed a beat in his 11 years away from the college game. The basic principles still remain the same — trust and communication.

“Recruiting is all about rela-tionships, really. It’s all about making people feel comfortable

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‘Five-hour radius’ most essential part to recruiting

PHOTOS BY DANIEL SHIREY | The Red & Black

Junkyard Dawgz Matti Griffin (top) and Sam Chun (above) demonstrate breakdancing. The organization was formed in 2000 to allow breakdancers a place to show their skills.

BOYS WILL BE B-BOYZ Junkyard Dawgz spin in style

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University employee charged with felonyStudent alleges $800 attempted extortion

By JACOB DEMMITTTHE RED & BLACK

A University employee with access to sensitive student information was arrested and charged with one count of felony theft by extortion Monday evening, and police said they expect their investigation to lead them to more student victims.

Dorin Dehelean, an Internet tech-nology security analyst associate for Enterprise Information Technology Services, was arrested after Laura Elizabeth Adams, a 25-year-old University student, told police he had attempted to extort her on Jan. 25, according to University Police.

Because of his position, Dehelean was given student names attached to IP addresses, which music industry officials said were committing copy-right infringement.

Although this information is typi-cally used by student judiciary, police said Dehelean attempted to use it to extort Adams.

“He told the student that informa-tion that would cause her to be held accountable would disappear for a sum of money,” University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said. “The conversation went back and forth and was concluded with the victim stating the fact that she couldn’t come up with that sum of money.”

Adams told The Red & Black Dehelean originally asked for $800.

She reported the incident to a University official, who in turn called the police.

An investigation was launched which ended with a female officer, posing as Adams, completing a trans-action with Dehelean on Feb. 1.

Dehelean has been charged with one count of theft by extortion, how-ever, police believe Adams may not have been Dehelean’s only victim.

“Information we have makes us believe he’s had contact with other victims,” Williamson said. “We are running down leads that may lead to other individuals.”

Police have not ruled out the involvement of other University employees.

“We don’t want to limit possibili-ties,” Williamson said. “If an employ-ee sees another problem in EITS, we want them to come forward.”

Dehelean did not have access to personal information such as dates of birth or social security numbers.

“This person was in charge of mon-itoring improper uses of the Internet,” said Tom Jackson, vice president of public affairs. “By the nature of his job, he would have that

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By TIFFANY STEVENSTHE RED & BLACK

The University is partic-ipating in the statewide severe weather drill, sched-uled to take place this morning between 9 and 10. The annual drill is meant as a way for Georgians to examine their emergency plans, as well as practice any evacuation routes.

“[The state has] been doing this for many, many years. It’s coordinated through the Governor’s Office and the National Weather Service,” said Steven Harris, director of the Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness. “Primarily it’s aimed at K-12 schools, hospitals, businesses, colleges [and] anywhere a large group of people congregate. And it’s basically to get people to think about what they would do in the case of severe weather.”

Participation in the drill is not required, but it is recommended that stu-dents and residents review emergency plans and b e c o m e familiar with any existing plans in areas they frequent.

“We ask that people pause and ask them-selves what they would do, or ask their instructor what they would do or where they would go in case of a severe weather drill,” Harris said.

He said previous torna-do warnings in the Athens-Clarke County area would alter the usual proceedings of the statewide drill on the University campus. UGA Alert, the emergency system used for informing students and faculty of potentially harmful situa-tions, is usually tested dur-ing the statewide drill. This year, however, UGA Alert will only be used on the Griffin and Gwinnett cam-puses.

“Since we had the actual tornado warning about a week and a half ago, we feel that we got enough data from that, so we won’t use UGA Alert for this drill,” Harris said.

Though UGA Alert will not be used, tornado sirens will still alert citizens of the drill.

“Tornado sirens in Clarke County will go off,” he said. “People may hear the tornado sirens outside, and that’s normally just meant to alert people that they’re outside during the tornado.”

Harris said those who participate are encouraged to visit the Office of Security’s Web site with any commentary.

“We have a survey on our Web site that will go up after the drill, so we would love to hear from faculty, staff and students,” Harris said. “We’d love to hear feedback about if they even knew there was a drill, what did they think and how can we improve.”

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By RAISA HABERSHAMTHE RED & BLACK

Education and unemployment dominated the Democratic gubernatorial debate Tuesday evening.

The on-campus debate, spon-sored by the student-run televi-sion station WNEG and the Democratic Party of Georgia, fea-tured all five democratic candi-dates for governor, including for-mer Gov. Roy Barnes and Rep. DuBose Porter from Dublin.

This is the second debate WNEG has televised this year. The Republican gubernatorial debate was held in January.

The event was televised in Atlanta, Savannah and other major cities throughout the state.

The candidates all seemed to settle on a consensus that in the past seven years the education system in Georgia has needed work.

“We have to make sure educa-tion is adequately funded,” said Thurbert Baker, state attorney general from Stone Mountain. “We’ve been able to cut out $3.8 billion from the funds and to get them back we need to start col-lecting taxes due from the state.”

Baker was referencing an eth-ics issue discovered early last week involving members of the General Assembly who were not paying taxes.

David Poythress, former secre-tary of state from Macon, said he

agreed with Baker on the issue, saying the state shouldn’t use education funds to restore the budget.

“There is a tremendous amount of revenue going uncol-lected,” he said. “One of the first priorities is to reorganize the state revenue department.”

Barnes said education was one of the main reasons he decided to run again.

“We need to prioritize fund-ing,” he said. “There is $10 million in the budget to enlarge eques-trian parks, yet Georgia is the only state in the mainland U.S. that is furloughing teachers.”

Baker said that his main prior-ity is providing jobs for Georgians who are out of work.

“We need to do a better job of recruiting business into the state and creating incentive,” he said.

“If we don’t, we will certainly lose in the marketplace.”

Carl Camon, mayor of Ray City, said he would like to see the state become more of a global player on the world economic stage.

“There is no need to not pre-pare students for jobs in the global market,” he said. “We can do it; we just have to train our future leaders to make sure they can take on the reign to do the jobs we need them to do.”

Poythress said though he agreed with the other candidates’ stances on the issue, their ideas were long-term strategies.

He emphasized that people are interested in the things which will affect them in the short-term.

“There are things the governor could do today that won’t have

people worried about when there will be food on the table,” he said.

After the debate, a few of the candidates spoke with The Red & Black on how to improve high-er education.

“We have to make sure we have the adequate resources,” Baker said. “We can’t cut over $3 billion from resources.”

Porter, who has been a propo-nent of the HOPE scholarship since it was in its early stages, said the state needs to do a bet-ter job of ensuring that the schol-arship stays around.

“We need to protect the HOPE Scholarship and not let govern-ment raid it and replace state funds with lottery,” he said. “If we protect that, we will be able to keep our smart students in the state.”

By NATHAN SORENSENTHE RED & BLACK

A new proposal from Gov. Sonny Perdue may make students in the College of Education rethink their degree options.

The United States Department of Education has offered a grant to states called “Race to the Top,” which offers several states more than $400 million to use for improving education.

Under Perdue’s leadership, Georgia has applied for the grant, which includes a change in the salary system. Under the current system, K-12 teachers are given automatic pay raises based on years of experience and number of collegiate degrees earned. The new system would be based on merit and performance.

Several students and profes-

sors in the College of Education are concerned about this pro-posed change in educators’ pay.

Stephanie Smith, a graduate student from Warner Robins, is a teacher in the Athens area and pursuing a master’s degree in education.

“It seems like the teach-ers that are fresh out into the field might be deterred from staying in Georgia if they’re not being rewarded based on the kind of degree they have,” Smith said. “I don’t see that they would want to stay.”

The proposed merit-based salary system for teachers would focus on the student per-formance levels on standardized tests.

On top of that, administrators would grade teachers on perfor-

mance and would pay them accordingly.

“[Merit-based salary systems] have not been received well by teachers in the past,” said assis-

tant professor Eric Houck from the department of lifelong education, admin-istration and policy. But, according to Houck, there are several advantages to having teachers paid on a merit or performance-based system.

“Under the current sys-tem, there are no incen-tives to work at a high-need school,” Houck said. “But

under the new system, if a teacher helps to bring a student to a high-er reading level, they will be rewarded.”

Houck also said the system in place pays the same salary regard-

less of a teacher’s ability. Under Perdue’s proposed plan, this would not occur.

But for Stephanie Smith, being a College of Education student and a young teacher at this point is “a little frightening.”

Smith voiced concern for future educators, saying should a teach-er’s salary be based on students’ standardized test performance, she could see many teachers choosing to teach elsewhere.Perdue’s proposal involves several changes of policy in the state Department of Education.

According to Houck, the pro-posal would also change the demographics of the College of Education.

“I would expect fewer students coming to the University of Georgia for master’s degrees,” he said.

Graduate students may think twice about teaching degrees

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By JULIA CARPENTER THE RED & BLACK

In January 2007, Jilian McLendon stepped on the scale. It read 64.5 pounds.

“I was a sophomore in college, and I’ve always been thin and small, so when I heard about this ‘freshman 15,’ I thought I couldn’t be one of those people,” said McLendon, a junior art educa-tion major from Winder. “It became an obsession with the scale.”

One eating disorder treatment center refused her plea for admis-sion because her weight was so

low. In the six months she’d been starving herself, she did irrevers-ible damage to her back and spine, and she still suffers from osteoporosis to this day.

“Every week that someone suffers is doing horrible damage to the body,” she said.

The University Health Center Counseling and Psychiatric Services, known as CAPS, sees about 10 percent of the student population each semester — and 3 percent of those students suf-fer from eating disorders.

Allison Puryear, the coordina-tor for the Eating Disorder Treatment Team at the Health

Center, said that some studies estimate more than one-fifth of America’s college students suffer from an eating disorder.

“I’m certain that there are many more people in the UGA community struggling with eat-ing disorders,” she told The Red & Black.

Now healthy, happy and armed with a greater understanding of her past illness’s long-lasting effects, McLendon stressed that the disorder operates on two lev-els — the mental and the physi-cal.

“You have to gain the weight and get healthy again, but also mentally, you have to be ready for it,” she said. “You have to be willing to get better.”

But not everyone suffering from an eating disorder is deal-ing with the stresses of college life. “The peak age of onset is 14, and there’s another around 18, and it’s more likely to come to people’s attention in a university setting. No one knows why these are the peak ages — that’s just what the data shows,” said Sarah Fischer, a psychology professor working at the University’s McPhaul Family Clinic.

The Eating Disorders Recovery Center in Athens has also strug-gled to make sense of this age trend.

“I’m not sure if that’s because there’s more information or pre-vention efforts out there so that people are more educated about seeking treatment earlier,” said Ann Weitzman-Swain, the cen-ter’s founder and clinical direc-tor. “Most of the college-aged patients we see say their prob-lems began at an earlier age, around early adolescence.”

University students suffering from an eating disorder can pur-sue three different avenues of treatment in Athens: CAPS, an outside psychology clinic or out-patient therapy.

McLendon’s father took her

out of school and brought her home to be with her family.

“That’s the best support,” she said. “The support of a family that loves you no matter what.”

CAPS has reported no decline in students with eating disorders in recent years. The number of cases nationwide has skyrocket-ed in the last two decades, becoming even more prevalent among teenagers, particularly those at the college level.

McLendon works with the stu-dent group FLY — For Loving Yourself — an organization aimed at educating the University pop-ulation about the importance of

good body image and high self-esteem.

“I think the earlier people can get awareness the better,” she said. “Lack of self-esteem, the media — thinness is worldwide, it’s seeping through to a different level with girls, and it’s hitting hard in America.”

Weitzman-Swain said she also believes in the importance of early childhood education on body image and self-esteem.

“It’s just one of many factors, but that’s the only antidote to the cultural pressure,” she said. “Any area where we can inter-vene is a good thing.”

Help found for food disorder

By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

The Red & Black and other local media outlets sat down Tuesday with renowned Colorado State University ani-mal science professor Dr. Temple Grandin after she spoke to students during her visit to the University’s College of Veterinary medicine. Grandin, who is autistic, has a unique view of animal welfare and handling in the livestock industry. The structures and research Grandin has devel-oped have greatly assisted in the development of less stress-ful animal handling in the live-stock industry. A movie about Grandin’s life, starring Claire Danes, premiers Saturday at 8 p.m. on HBO.

Q: What got you interested in animal sci-ence?

A: When I hit puber-ty I started getting hor-rible anxiety attacks, and I knew that when cattle got into the squeeze chute, the pres-sure calmed them. So I got into the squeeze chute. And of course then I wanted to know why it calmed me.

Q: Is autism a kind of intel-ligence?

A: Autism is a very big con-tinuum that goes all the way from a child that remains non-verbal and very severely handi-capped up to brilliant scien-tists, musicians and artists. In today’s education system, Einstein would be diagnosed as being autistic.

Q: How has being autistic helped and hindered you?

A: Since I think in pictures, I think like how an animal would think. An animal’s world is very detailed. [On the other hand] I know there’s a ten-dency, when they have a dog behavior problem, they’ll say my dog is nuts. I don’t have any idea what that means. I can’t evaluate that. Or some-one goes out and they’ll say something like “rough han-dling.” What’s rough handling? What did they do? I have no way of knowing what is rough handling.

Q: When you’re trying to evaluate a squeeze chute — a type of stall used to hold an animal still during an exami-nation to reduce injury to the animal and the handler — from

the animal’s point of view, how do you do it?

A: I look at are the latches strong enough — because it could be very dangerous if the chute opens unexpect-edly. If it pushes just to one side, it throws the cow off balance, and they tend to fight it. Another thing I look at is ease of operating.

From the animal’s standpoint, I want to make sure that if he’s mooing in direct response to being restrained, you’re hurting it.

Q: Did talking to students give you hope for either animal welfare or veterinary medi-cine?

A: People are getting away from doing a lot of practical stuff, thinking about things in a realistic, kind of practical way. If you’ve got a problem, [you need to be] troubleshoot-ing it and finding what is the actual cause of the problem.

Q: In your talk, you men-tioned you were working through the UN on animal wel-fare practice in underdevel-oped countries. Can you pro-vide more details?

A: OIE, the world organiza-tion for animal health, started as animal welfare, and the first thing they worked on for ani-mal welfare was slaughtering and transport. These are sort of basic guidelines that every-body should follow, like you don’t beat animals up and drag them around. I said we need to have some very clear guidelines about some bad stuff you just shouldn’t do.

Q: You are honored both by PETA, which people think of as a radical group, and people who kill animals for meat. What do you think about that?

A: I’m finding on the whole animal rights front, the people in the animal movement who are my age understand more practical things. What worries me today is that we’re getting a younger group coming in that doesn’t like what I do because I’ve worked on build-ing slaughterhouses and they think slaughterhouses are evil and ought to shut down so they think I’m a Nazi.

Q: What do you think peo-ple can try to do to get more students to take some of the practical jobs, practical class-es?

A: You have to get kids exposed to stuff. If students aren’t exposed to things then they how can they get interest-ed in stuff they’re not exposed to? We need to be going to the high school and getting kids exposed in interesting things.

Autistic scientist relates to animals

By KATIE WEISETHE RED & BLACK

One out of every 110 children in the United States has some form of autism — and a new College of Education program will help stu-dents learn to teach them.

The University’s communica-tion sciences and special educa-tion department is offering three new degree emphasis areas in spe-cial education, including one in autism and developmental disabil-ities.

At the undergraduate level, the special education program is unique because of the high-caliber training available at the University, said Kevin Ayres, assistant professor in the department. He said stu-dents at other schools in the state don’t have the same options.

The University offers a graduate program in autism education as well — one of only a few in the country.

The graduate program is funded through a grant and prepares teachers to use data-based practic-es that have been used for children with autism and other developmen-tal disabilities. Teachers also learn to consult with families and other professionals and conduct applied research in the classroom with mid-dle and high school students with autism.

This grant is important because very little research has been con-ducted about adolescents with autism, said David Gast, special education professor.

He said teachers should be using evidence-based practices when working with children with special needs.

The work the graduate students do will advance the University’s

research in terms of what works for kids with autism, Ayres said. The graduate research contributes to what the undergraduate students learn.

“It is a neat cycle to watch as our undergraduates succeed at one level then go on to earn their mas-ter’s degrees and publish their own research, thus influencing our field,” Ayres said.

Autism is a growing field in spe-cial education, and these pro-grams will help make it possible for more students to study this important subject, said Rachel

Baginski, academic adviser for the department. She said it would provide more capable educators to Georgia schools than ever before.

The school will also offer two other new emphases.

The high-incidence emphasis is for students interested in teaching chil-dren with mild disabilities, such as learning or behav-

ioral disorders. This program is offered on campus and also through SPECTRUM, an online, at-a-dis-tance program.

The birth-to-five emphasis gives students training, so they can work with younger individuals with dis-abilities.

“It’s exciting we can offer so many options, and we can special-ize in undergraduate [programs],” said Audrey Norman, SPECTRUM student coordinator. “Autism is a growing field, and it’s important for undergraduates to get in the class-room when there is such a need for special education and autism-trained professionals.”

The application deadline for the on-campus programs is Feb. 15. The SPECTRUM at-a-distance pro-gram deadline is April 1.

New programs will train special education teachers

University hosts special programs about special needs

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GRANDIN

Photos Courtesy Jilian McLendon

Jilian McLendon and fiancé Brad Hunt before (left) and after (above) McLendon sought help for her anorexia.

CRIME: No background check was conducted

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Internet,” said Tom Jackson, vice president of public affairs. “By the nature of his job, he would have that information. But most employees are good and won’t break the law. If he had a history of this kind of thing, we wouldn’t have hired him.”

However, since no background check was conducted at the time of his hire, EITS had no way of knowing whether or not Dehelean had any sort of criminal record. “He was hired on Dec. 3, 2007,” Jackson said. “The Board of Regents started requiring background checks on all employees on Jan. 1, 2008. We can argue all day about if that was too late or too early, but that is when it started. I don’t know that a background check would reveal someone’s propensity to go out and commit extortion.” University Police are encouraging any stu-dent who has been contacted or has completed a trans-action with Dehelean to come forward.

“You will not get in trouble,” Williamson said, “and you have done nothing wrong.”

After reading the article “Heating issues leave freshmen shivering,” pub-lished on Friday, Jan. 27., I want to thank the Red and Black for addressing the issue of heating in the dorms or lack there-of.

I live in the same build-ing (Church Hall) as Emily Morgan and Victoria Poole. I have personally put in six work orders regarding my own heater, and I am still having problems with it.

While the girls of Brumby may be sweating profusely, the Church girls have suffered from freez-ing dorms for a good por-tion of the cold weather months.

When I asked the maintenance man how old these heaters were, he promptly replied, “50 or 60 years roughly.”

It’s ridiculous that I have to go to sleep wearing sweatpants, a hoodie, and

gloves, as well as being piled under three blankets.

Finally our heater is working, but it still lacks the on and off feature my surrounding neighbors have. Not to mention, they are so obnoxiously loud, sleeping with them is almost as bad as sleeping without them.

ALLY GERONIMOFreshman, Stone Mountain

Journalism and International affairs

4 | Wednesday, February 3, 2010 | The Red & Black

As a society we all partici-pate in the objectification and exploitation of women.

Whether it is consciously or subcon-sciously, directly or indirectly, we all participate.

Sex discrimination is so embed-ded in the fabric of our lives that we pay it little to no attention, but it is there. It’s in our movies, songs, tele-vision and history. It’s reflected in our politics and our social values.

It is common knowledge that women are the “fairer sex.” That idea may or may not seem bad to you but think about this: when you’re a woman, you’re stuck. You’re either a slut or a prude.

Women have to constantly prove themselves. There is always some-thing about you that you need to change when you’re a woman, just look at any commercial that targets women as consumers.

The norm is male and not female. Femininity is viewed as the negative to the positive — the positive being male.

When a woman walks into any public space, the threat of sexual violence is very real because you’re viewed as someone weak, as some-one who couldn’t possibly defend or protect themselves.

We aren’t always forced to ques-tion why some things are harder for certain groups of people — but those reasons became very real to me when my father passed away.

I was forced to question why suddenly everything became so much harder for my mother.

Women are still more likely than men to be poor and they still receive less pay on average then men in the same job with the same educational background. I choose to care about women’s lives and experiences because equality has not been met.

Change can happen. There’s something that we all can do. We can pay attention to what happens to women in our communities.

We can embrace differences and equality; we can all become femi-nists.

I believe in equality of the sexes. Does that make me a lesbian? No, it makes me a feminist. I should not be required to alienate women’s experiences and intelligence in order to prove my heterosexuality.

I’m tired of hearing that femi-nists are man-haters. Women shouldn’t have to hate men in order to love each other.

I wear lip gloss. I shave my legs. I have a boyfriend. I am a feminist.

I don’t know who’s been shell-ing out the mainstream definition of feminism but it definitely isn’t feminists.

That little factor should tell you something about what you may or may not know about it ... it’s prob-ably a stereotype.

Feminism is about being at a bar downtown and helping that girl you see falling over drunk. Feminism is about telling that guy off when he suddenly decides that he can’t keep his hands to himself.

Feminism is about stopping someone dead in their tracks when they refer to an anonymous woman as some girl they screwed.

It’s about knowing you’re more than your body, more than your looks. It’s about not calling other women prudes or fat — we get enough from men.

Feminism is not about trashing men or saying that women are bet-ter than men. Feminism isn’t about lesbianism, but it can be about loving women. It’s not about bra-burning, or pretending that sex isn’t relevant because it always is.

It’s about loving women. It’s about rejoicing in what you believe it means to be a woman and not what society says.

It’s about self-expression and not thinking about what is and isn’t acceptable for women to do.

Let’s empower ourselves and not wait for some guy to confirm our awesomeness.

We’ve come a long way, and it was feminism that got us here. There is more work to be done and more feminists to be made.

I love women. I love equality. I love difference. I am a feminist.

— Crystal Villarreal is a senior

from Jonesboro majoring in magazines and women’s studies

Feminism not defined by man haters

Heating problems in dorm real problem for residents

E-mail and letters from our readers

We tend to look the other way but sometimes that only makes the problem worse. More than eight million people in the United States are affected by an eating disorder such as anorexia. The problem isn’t going to go away by itself.

In a culture that idolizes physical perfection, body image issues are a dime a dozen. The age of 18 is one of the peak ages for a person to develop anorexia and it’s easy to understand how that can happen to any one of us.

The stress of the first year of college, living away from home, a heavy academic load, try-ing to fit in or family problems alongside body image issues can create the perfect storm for an eating disorder. We may want to believe a friend is fine but be aware of certain signs that may signal a problem:

— Dieting even when weight loss is not nec-essary.

— An obsession with body image that goes beyond simple fitness.

— Refusal to discuss the problem.— Taking steps to hide their disorder, such

as wearing baggy clothes or insisting they aren’t hungry.

If you have a friend suffering from any of these symptoms, please contact the Eating Disorders Center of Athens at 706-552-0450 or the University Health Center at 706-542-2273.

In reality, it’s far better to lose a friendship then for a friend to lose their life to a eating dis-order.

— Patrick Hooper and Yasmin Yonis for the editorial board

Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board

Food for thoughtEating disorders do not have to end in tragedy for friends if help is available

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Tuesday’s Question:What do you think is the solution to the lack of sufficient scooter and car parking on campus?

Answer:As a scooter rider, I believe this new policy to

be outrageous. There is a reason why more than 300 riders chose to buy a scooter to get

around campus. The buses are so overcrowded between class periods that it is almost impos-sible to get from one class to another without being late. I cannot believe how the “scooter task force” decided upon these policies with blatant disregard to the riders. Judging from the proposed scooter map, the new parking

spaces are way out on the edges of the campus and appear to be nowhere near any bus stop. How does this help the riders? The task force

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Chatter Box

Chicken Little’s cry has become outdated. “The sky is falling!” means nothing. I suggest an

alternative: “Watch out for the tiny pastry box!”

This would be appropriate con-sidering a recent incident at the Habersham Medical Center where a security officer was accused of ter-rorism.

The officer, a kind old man who had worked at the hospital for 13 years, had committed the crime of leaving a small pie box with a note attached for one of his friends — the box’s dimensions being three inches by five inches by one inch, as you would find in a vending machine.

He was arrested and thrown into a cage. Cut off from the out-side world, he hoped that his wife received the voicemail he had left on their home phone while crying.

Was the note on the box a bomb threat?

Perhaps he placed the box in a strategic area and called in a threat?

Maybe he had a history of violent or threatening behavior?

No, none of those is the case. The reason he had been charged with a felony “false public alarm” was because someone else had seen the box and without any further inves-tigation, ran through the hospital screaming “Bomb!”

The charge was quickly dropped, as the district attorney would not press charges in a case where the defendant was obviously not guilty of any crime whatsoever (a rather unusual decision for a district attor-ney, actually).

This did not stop the local, back-

woods cops from puffing up and denying that they had overreacted.

Sheriff Joey Terrell, whom I shall now rename “Bubba”, was quoted in the local rag as saying that he was “frustrated” that the charges against an innocent man were dropped.

Bubba went on to say: “We had three fire trucks, four deputy cars, three investigators, the GBI bomb squad [… and if this happens again] tomorrow, we’re going to handle it the same way.”

To put it another way, Sheriff Bubba basically said that they charged an innocent man with a crime, wasted a lot of time and tax-payer money, got everyone all upset but are still right somehow and this won’t change how they act in the future.

In an editorial, the local rag defended the government’s hysteri-cal ineptitude. The editors of The Northeast Georgian wrote, after acknowledging that the tiny box couldn’t have contained a bomb, “In post-9/11 society, all threats or per-ceived threats must be taken seri-ously — especially on Veterans Day at a public medical care facility.”

This “public medical care facil-ity,” don’t forget, sits in the middle of a county whose entire population is barely higher than the enrollment at UGA.

I’m not sure if anybody outside of

this state would even notice if every-one in Habersham County dropped off the face of the planet.

Apparently, some random hospi-tal in that hillbilly, chicken-farming, nowhere hole is a prime target of Al-Qaeda.

Sheriff Bubba still has a job, even after making it clear that he’s learned absolutely nothing from the incident and will continue to arrest innocents and mishandle future situations.

The security officer who was falsely accused has been fired by the hospital, denied the possibility of retirement and denied the unem-ployment insurance he’s been pay-ing into for years

His job prospects are nil consid-ering his age and the fact that the local paper in that tiny community incorrectly reported that he had been responsible for the “prank” bomb threat (something that has yet to be retracted by that rag).

His reputation has been ruined and his ability to make an income for his family has been destroyed, thanks to the hysterics of a few.

People who hear this might sim-ply shrug it off as the price that must be paid for ‘security.’ What else will be done in the name of security because of overreaction to an incident?

Perhaps scanners that make naked pictures of you will be put into airports because some random guy set his crotch on fire on an air-plane. Oh, wait …

— Jacob Lovell is a graduate

student from Tiger in the Master of Education program

Reaction overboard in ‘terrorism’ incident

JACOB LOVELL

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By ANNE CONNAUGHTONTHE RED & BLACK

Fear, threats of harm and physical abuse can be employed as weapons to detain and control victims of domestic violence.

Some stay in unsafe situations because of threats made against themselves, their children and even the family pet.

Threatening or hurting the family pet is one of the first things an abuser may use as leverage against a victim of domestic vio-lence, said Jan Christiansen, the associate director for the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Ahimsa House is the only organization in Georgia that directly addresses this problem.

Instead of only offering aid to women in abusive situations, their mission is “helping the human and animal victims of domestic violence reach safety together.”

For Maya Gupta, the president of Ahimsa House and a UGA alumna, work-ing for this cause has been a dream come true.

But she feels the real reward comes from the people the organization has helped.

“It’s when someone says to you, if it hadn’t been for Ahimsa House, I never would have left the abuse,” she said.

Since 2007, the policy of Ahimsa House has been to find foster homes for the animals while the vic-tims are in shelters. The ultimate goal is to reunite the owners with their pets.

Barriers to this goal are heightened by the econo-my, according to Gupta. It is difficult for people to find jobs and housing, especially animal friendly housing.

However, statistics cal-culated by Ahimsa House show that in 2009, almost 90 percent of owners were successfully reunited with their pets.

Sandy Leath, a client of Ahimsa House, believes the organization is a life-saver.

She had been dealing for 10 months to a year

with increasingly serious verbal abuse and threats from her fiancé at the time, coupled with his abuse of alcohol.

For about six of those months, she received voicemails and text mes-sages threatening her three cats with harm and neglect. The worst came when she got a text mes-sage claiming one of the three cats was dead.

“I didn’t have any place to take them,” she said, “We’re a unit, I love them and they’re my responsibil-ity.”

Christiansen described animals in abusive homes as silent victims. “Pets often bear the brunt of abuse, because the abuser knows there will be no

repercussions,” she said. “They can have an effect on a family member with-out actually hurting them.”

Christiansen acknowl-edges that for people not involved with domestic violence, it’s difficult to make the connection between it and animal abuse.

“It’s really easy to see a woman with a black eye and equate that to domes-tic violence,” she said. “It’s easy to see a child with bruises or burn marks and equate that to a caregiver who is abusing them, it’s really hard to see those signs on an animal.”

According to Leath, who found Ahimsa House in a brochure while apply-ing for a temporary

restraining order, the orga-nization came through on everything they promised. They were even able to keep her cats together, a special request of hers.

The cats are back with Leath now, and she feels nothing but gratitude toward the foster family.

“They were so happy,” she said, “I could just tell they had been well cared for. It was a joyful moment, a real way to begin my life anew.”

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reach out and help novic-es who really have a desire to learn.

Member Matti Griffin has been breakdancing for almost six years and teaches newer members that much of the skill needed to breakdance well is a combination of energy and a kind of ingrained muscle intelli-gence.

“A lot of us did stuff like this when we were lit-tle, climbing all over the place and learning how to use your body. It helps to be able to know how to fall right,” he said.

The “freezes” that the dancers use to pose in midair are intense, as are the falls. Their bodies are spread out into the air, supported only by their shoulders against the floor and fingertips coated with baseball bat resin.

However, displaying these skills in competition is done a little different from an average dancing club.

The crew doesn’t nec-essarily compete with crews from other schools. It functions by competing with crews who have made themselves known at various competitions.

“You can tell when someone at a competition doesn’t breakdance. There are just certain aes-thetics and rules,” Griffin said.

Recently breakdancing has come back into vogue after a long history of ste-reotyped exposure in the ’70s and ’80s.

The Junkyard Dawgz view this as positive expo-sure, even if the styles depicted in the main-stream media are some-what stifled.

“I’m glad that it is just exposing us,” he said. “If something showcases the great parts and people say, ‘hey, wow, I want to see more of that,’ I think that’s good press.”

By ANNE CONNAUGHTONTHE RED & BLACK

Good music can be enjoyed sitting in your room, but there’s something special about a perfor-mance that involves the eyes, ears, and absorbs the whole body.

Or, at least that is the premise behind the blog Kristen Danch-Powell, a fifth year from Roswell majoring in math and statistics, made to write about local music.

Live music is about the expe-rience for Danch-Powell, and the Athens music scene has plenty of those little extra moments when bands give their fans at live shows something to excite them and keep them searching for more.

Last March, she took her love of performance to a new level and began sharing her discoveries with other music enthusiasts via her blog, Echoreyn of Athens.

Writing the blog has inspired her to go to even more shows, and she generally sees bands any-where from one to four times a week.

“She has better coverage than big periodicals,” said Brain McGaw, a member of Crumbling Arches, an alternative rock band.

McGaw believes that Danch-

Powell gives attention to some of the more obscure bands in Athens and is a positive and motivating player in the Athens music scene because she intro-duces people to new music in a very open manner.

“It never ceases to surprise me what goes on with the blog,” Danch-Powell said. “Helping peo-ple find bands they may not find on their own, it’s pretty magical.”

Blaze Bateh, a drummer for the band Bambara, likes the tone of the blog and how it is educa-tional and easy to understand for everyone, not just people who are music experts.

“So many music blogs are snobby,” he said. “She’s good at talking about how the music makes her feel and not saying it sounds like this band or that band.”

Bateh and his roommate could not remember whether they met Danch-Powell at one of their shows or in the audience of another one; yet, they both emphasized that she is a con-stant at shows downtown.

But, in addition to shows at all of the usual downtown venues and festivals, Danch-Powell also likes to write about foreign terri-tory for most local music writers

— performances on campus. “Sometimes on campus is a

place that a lot of other music writers ignore,” she said, “I think it should be celebrated.”

Her love of local music may have begun in Athens, but Danch-Powell does not shy away from blogging about other cities in the future. Wherever people

need to know what show to go to or what bands are good and worth the ticket price, she wants to help.

“I’ve just been letting it be spontaneous, letting it decide where it’s going,” she said, “All I know is I want to continue writ-ing about awesome music experi-ences.”

Student dissects local music in blog

By MICHAEL PROCHASKATHE RED & BLACK

Laughs are like snowflakes; everyone has a unique and individualized chuckle. Some are annoyingly high-pitched while others rumble through rooms as a deep and brawny bellow.

Combine these different sounds in the Tate Theater on Wednesday, and the floors might soak with joyous tears.

A response like that is exactly what LaGrange native Eric Slauson hopes for when he gets on stage to host Local Laughs Live, a night of Athens stand-up comedy.

Slauson’s jokes focus on topics relevant to college students, such as family, dating, and personal health.

Unfortunately, Slauson may soon be retiring from comedy to focus on his degree.

“My English major does help me a lot,” he said. “But I’m at a crossroads right now where I’m trying to decide whether this will be my swan song, and I’ll hang up my mic.”

Whatever choice Slauson makes, it’s not because comedy hasn’t proved to be a fulfill-ing experience.

He has never bombed or been heckled at Local Laughs Live. On the contrary, Slauson would find it amusing if an audience mem-ber got rambunctious.

“If you do it right, the crowd will be on your side and want the heckler to shut up,” he said. “My take would be to insult the per-son in a way that makes absolutely no sense, so they’d have no idea how to respond.”

Harold Kizzapps, a junior psychology major and amateur comedian from Athens, agrees verbal combat is the best way to deal with heckling.

“I faced [a heckler] in Atlanta and had to verbally murder him,” he said.

On the other hand, comedian newcomer

Tammy Weyrich from Buford said she wouldn’t mess with an audience unless they were drunk.

“The audience is one entity, and you’re another,” she said. “So if you start to be mean to someone in the audience, they think you’re being mean to all of them.”

Weyrich, who is one of the older perform-ers of the group, focuses her subject matter less on the audience and more on herself and on finding humor in real life drama.

“Basically I’m a loser dealing with my divorce,” she said. “I think you have to find comedy in drama so that you can survive.”

Though Weyrich has had to deal with foreclosure and divorce, she brings an uplift-ing experience as a wedding photographer to the stage.

“I’ve never been a comedian at a wedding before, but when I’m shooting people I have to make them laugh,” Weyrich said.

Kizzapps agrees it’s essential to combine comedy with everyday life.

“Comedy is very important in life because it makes us laugh, and everyone loves to laugh,” he said. “Laughter is necessary to lead a happy, successful life.”

Local Laughs Live performers find humor in everyday life

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Body paint has long been a sta-ple of hardcore fans looking for an edge in supporting their favorite team.

A Cameron Crazy once even made an outfit out of McDonald’s bags, picking on a Florida State player that weighed over 350 pounds at the time.

But it’s safe to say no fan has ever taken their level of fandom — or stupidity, depending on per-spective — to the level that a Georgia fan did in last Saturday’s home win over Tennessee: lather-ing himself in peanut butter.

That fan, who has simply become known online as Peanut Butter Kid, is Georgia junior Drake Scott from Dacula.

“My HACE 3100 Professor Diann Moorman showed us a photo of a baby smothered in pea-nut butter just a few days before the big game,” Scott said. “I thought it was a genius idea, and I chose to use it as a distraction tool for the game.”

Coach Mark Fox added: “There’s some unique fans out there, but he’s in the top-10, I’ll tell you that.”

Scott has long been known for his crazy outfits and antics at Georgia basketball games, show-ing up 90 minutes or more before tipoff to secure front row seats, wearing “suits, body paint, and any random red and black objects that I can attach to my body.”

But peanut butter was unparal-leled — even for Scott — and has sense drawn the lampoon of ESPN, Deadspin and Spike.

“I’m sure some people thought it was crazy, ridiculous, stupid, funny,” Scott said. “I do it for the

better of the team, screaming my heart out and doing the most dis-tracting things possible toward the other team.”

Naturally, after Georgia upset its first top-10 opponent in six years, Scott was the first one on the court. However, he expected thousands to follow, which would have cost Georgia $25,000 — the hefty fine handed out by the SEC when fans rush the court.

That wasn’t the case.“I jolted toward the court, and

a security guard tried to grab me, but I slipped his grip instantly and jumped for joy while four or five guys chased me,” Scott said. “I slapped [Georgia forward] Chris Barnes on the back and off the court I went. I was pretty mad no one came but more mad at the

SEC for prohibiting such action.”Added Barnes: “I knew they

were going to try to rush the court because we hadn’t beaten Tennessee in so long, but I didn’t expect him to try to give me a hug with peanut butter all over him. But I thought it was pretty funny, but I’m glad the security guard got him before he could get me.”

When Georgia takes the floor Wednesday night in Stegeman Coliseum, Scott will be in his usual place — but likely without the pea-nut butter.

“I do not see the peanut butter becoming a staple due to the flakes that flew everywhere, but I would not count it out,” Scott said. “There will be other big games that may need bigger things that may include food, though.”

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Georgia may not have won the 2009 version of the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, but they did notch an important victory over the Gators in Jacksonville: the battle for one of the nation’s top-10 offensive lineman.

Brent Benedict is a 6-foot-6, 290-pound offensive tackle prospect that Rivals.com calls “possibly the most athletic offensive linemen in the country” but that tre-mendous athleticism was jeopardized this fall.

In a game his Bolles High School team won 68-0 on Oct. 16, Benedict was running down the field when he suffered a devas-tating injury, tearing his anterior cruciate ligament, posterior cruciate ligament, miniscus and ham-string.

But Benedict has had an advantage in the recovery process. Dr. James Andrews of Birmingham, Ala., — the nation’s premier ortho-pedic surgeon renowned for his work with professional athletes such as Brett Favre, Tom Brady and Albert Pujols — treated Benedict’s handful of tears.

“It’s coming along very well, just as much as they expected,” Benedict said of his knee’s healing process. “Rehab is great, so I’m back in the weight room lifting right now, not quite back to lower body but should be back in a couple of months running and that type of stuff.”

One might assume that Benedict would be a prime candidate for a redshirt this fall, allowing him time to fully recuperate, but Benedict says the rehab is “right on pace,”

and he will be fully healthy in time to compete for playing time come practice in August.

“Everything I’ve heard from Coach Searels and from guys on the team is he plays the best five guys no matter who it is, so we’ll see and hopefully I’ll be in a situation where I can be contributing to the team as soon as possi-ble,” Benedict said. “If that’s next year, that’d be great, but if that’s the year after next, that’s fine, too.”

Either way, Benedict is excited to officially become a Bulldog Wednesday, signing

his National Letter of Intent and joining his friend Shaun Chapas at Georgia, who also went to Bolles High School.

“Our families have been good friends since we moved to Bolles, and he’s defi-nitely been good toward me,” Benedict said of his relationship

with Chapas. “Part of the rea-son that I’m ending up at Georgia is having a guy there that I know, and he definitely made me feel comfortable there.”

Now, with his decision behind him, Benedict is hop-ing that Georgia can reel in more big-time prospects on National Signing Day, specifi-cally a pair of fellow Florida natives in top-20 wide receiv-ers Kadron Boone and Christian Green.

“I’m hoping that this will be as good of class as ever come in there, and I know there will be a lot of good players,” Benedict said. “When I got recruited to go to Georgia, the goal was con-ference championship and a national championship, and that’s still my goal, and that’s always going to be my goal every year that I’m there.”

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with you, but that’s a little bit about coaching, too ...” Grantham said. “I think it’s all about being yourself, talking to guys, letting them understand where you are, what you want to do, how they fit into what you want to do here. I’m very comfortable with recruiting, and I’ve always enjoyed it.”

As Grantham reaccli-mates himself to swaying prospects, his new defen-sive backs coach Scott Lakatos is acclimating him-self as well. Not to the col-lege game but to a new

region and new job. Lakatos has never worked outside of the northeast before being hired away from UConn to join Grantham in Athens.

“I’m from the Northeast, and the jobs I’ve had have been pretty much in this region, but the jobs I’ve had have had a lot of expo-sure to different communi-ties,” Lakatos said.

But despite never work-ing outside the northeast, Latakos plans to use his roots and background to build bridges with recruits and Georgia prospects.

“Where I’m from versus who I’m talking to, when you present the opportuni-ties you can gain by going to a school like Georgia, I think all those things are less important and it’s more important that I can help prospective athletes make decisions,” Lakatos said.

But was that theory actually validated when Lakatos got out on the road meeting the pros-pects?

“I didn’t get called out on my accent at all, so I guess I did alright.”

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Defense.If played poorly, it will without a doubt

lose you games.Such was the lesson learned by Georgia

football in the 2009 season and predict-ably, it is defense that has been the focal point for the Bulldogs’ army of recruiters over the last 12 months.

Going into signing day, however, ques-tions abound about this 2010 class.

Barry Every — national recruiting ana-lyst for Rivals.com — feels Georgia, simply put, “dropped the ball” this recruiting season.

Every previously worked under Mark Richt in the University of Georgia’s recruiting offices and was instrumental in bringing former Bulldog greats Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno to Athens.

“I don’t think they did fulfill their needs on the defensive side of the ball, especially if they don’t get both [Jeffrey] Whitaker and [Mike] Thornton,” Every said in a phone interview Monday.

Whitaker, a powerful, 295-pound defen-sive tackle out of Warner Robins, announced Monday afternoon that he will be playing his college ball at Auburn.

By Every’s estimation, the Bulldogs still have a decent shot of landing Thornton, a surprisingly athletic 280-pound defensive lineman from Stone Mountain’s Stephen-son High School.

However, it’s anyone’s guess where Thornton will actually sign today, as he continues to weigh offers from Southern California, Miami, Georgia Tech and Au-burn, among others.

A failure by the Bulldogs to pick up ei-ther of these big men could deal a major blow to new defensive coordinator Todd Grantham’s 3-4 scheme.

Crucial in any 3-4 system is a sizeable defensive lineman who can play the cen-tral noseguard position and is able to push opposing offensive lineman into the back-field to allow other defenders to pursue the quarterback.

Also vital to a 3-4 defense are lineback-ers, and four of them are needed on the field in Grantham’s scheme.

But entering signing day, the Bulldogs have just one linebacker recruit, Orange Park, Fla.’s Demetre Baker, verbally com-mitted to Georgia’s 2010 class.

In Every’s opinion, the firing of former defensive coordinator Willie Martinez and most of the defensive staff that led the lengthy search for a replacement might ex-plain the cool response the Bulldogs have received in courting defensive prospects.

“While they were trying to close this year, they limited it to ‘X’ number of play-ers, and they didn’t really open the scope and go after other players or plan B’s,” Ev-ery said.

“Granted there was a lot of, I don’t know if you can call it controversy, but when they fired the defensive coaches they went several weeks without three defensive coaches. They still don’t have a linebacker coach so maybe that’s part of the reason they don’t have any linebackers.”

To Every, the Bulldogs also made the mistake of looking out-of state for recruits,

when equally capable athletes are consis-tently right in Georgia’s backyard.

“The thing that gets me is they got a lot of kids from in-state, but they also went out-of-state and got kids that they could have gotten in-state,” Every said.

“Georgia produces over 140 Division-1 football players a year and they’ve got those kind of players in Georgia.”

The Bulldogs, by some accounts, seem to be limping towards the signing day finish line.

However, Chad Sim-mons, South regional re-cruiting manager for Fox Sports recruiting branch, Scout.com, said Georgia’s 2010 recruiting class should fill out nicely by this after-noon. But it will be key for the Bulldogs to be able to ink a big defensive lineman to anchor their 3-4 defen-sive front such as Whitaker or Thorton.

“I think they’ve done pretty well so far. I think getting either [Jeffrey Whi-taker or Mike Thornton] is a key for this class obvious-ly for depth reasons and because they’re going to a new 3-4 scheme,” Simmons said.

Simmons also pointed to commits such as Jakar “The Hitman” Hamilton and verbal commit Alec Ogle-tree, a hard-hitting defensive back out of Newnan, as bright spots of the 2010 Bull-dog class.

“I think overall they’ve done a good job. They’ve got a very good secondary group headlined by Jakar Hamilton ... and ob-viously Alec Ogletree, arguably the top player or at least one of the top two play-ers in the state of Georgia and a five-star [recruit] for us on Scout.com,” said Sim-mons. “They’ve needed defense, and this class is very defensive heavy.”

Even though the Bulldogs are poised to add some talented defensive players, Sim-mons said there may be reason for angst amongst the Georgia faithful, especially concerning prized recruit Da’Rick Rogers.

The speedy wideout out of Calhoun, Ga., seemed to be a solid verbal commit-ment for the Bulldogs just a few weeks ago.

However, in the past two weeks, newly named Tennessee head coach Derek Dool-ey and his recruiting cohorts seem to have climbed their way back into the Da’Rick Rogers sweepstakes.

As late as Monday evening, Rogers’ profile picture on his Facebook page was a photograph of Rogers sporting a faux-hawk and planting a kiss on the Volunteers 1998 National Championship trophy.

Several blogs were already claiming last night that Rogers called Coach Richt late Monday or early Tuesday to inform him that he plans to sign with the Volunteers.

“He’s cut off all communications, so no-body’s going to know anything,” Simmons said. “I don’t even think the Georgia coach-ing staff will know until Wednesday morn-ing. I don’t think Tennessee will know until Wednesday morning so if they don’t know, we’re definitely not going to know.”

As another class of coveted high school football performers are officially ushered in to become the Bulldog greats of tomorrow, many of the ques-

tions that have bounced around Georgia football message boards since the end of the 2009 campaign will begin to be answered.

Have Mark Richt and company done enough through recruiting to shore up a Georgia defense that gave up an SEC East-high 26.4 points per game in 2009?

Will the Bulldogs’ new defensive coordinator Todd Grantham pick up the pieces he needs to field the kind of aggressive, ball-hawking 3-4 defense he has promised will be harassing opposing quarterbacks next season?

Did the Bulldogs successfully recruit players that can plug the holes on defense left by the departures of NFL Draft-bound juniors Rennie Curran and Reshad Jones and defensive linemen Jeff Owens, Kade Weston and Geno Atkins?

We asked two of the Southeast’s best informed recruiting analysts to tell us where the Bulldogs will stand after all is said and done on signing day.

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