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Back in BusinessWe’re back. It was four days of media blitz and coffee-fueled tweet-a-thons.

And now, we’re writing this from The Red and Black building on Baxter Street from the editor in chief corner office. The view of Jimmy John’s is dazzling.

But you probably want to know why we left. That story is too big, too long and too wide to tell on the front page. Find it inside this paper and on our website, redandblack.com — or better yet, come up to the office and ask us to tell you the story ourselves.

The first thing you need to know is this: Julia’s dad had the best advice back in June.

“Do what they want you to do until you can’t do it,” he said.

And on Aug. 15, we knew “it.”

“It” was threat to student editorial control, which we found unacceptable. We have both worked at The Red and Black since the opening weeks of our freshman year. This is where we learned journalism. This is where we learned how to make good decisions and how to correct our mistakes.

Walking out was not a mistake. We want freshmen to have the same opportunities we had — including the opportunity to lead a staff without a safety net.

We agreed that day we would only return to our positions if they were the jobs we were hired to do. We met with the Board and we asked for three things — no prior review, more student input and editorial control restored to the student leaders.

We’re done making the news. Now, we’re back to report it.

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Student staff gathered Aug. 17 for an open meeting at The Red and Black building on Baxter Street. There, they were joined by alumni and the Board of Directors. C.B. SCHMELTER/Staff

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BY ASHTON ADAMSThe Red & Black

After a walkout by student editors at The Red & Black offices Aug. 15 spurred nationwide discussion, the University community reacted to the national media blitz.

The editors returned to work Aug. 21.

“I know that The Red & Black was established as a student-run paper, and they continue to take pride in that fact to this day,” said Ryan Harrast, a senior communications major from Alpharetta. “So when seemingly major changes are being made by a board of directors, it seems like the paper is abandoning its roots.”

The Red & Black Board of Directors dubbed the impetus a “misunder-standing” resulting from miscommuni-cation.

Editor-in-Chief Polina Marinova wrote in a statement Aug. 16 that “recently [the staff] began feeling seri-ous pressure from people who were not students,” thus leading to the walkout.

“From the start, I sided with the students. They took the heart of The Red & Black with them when they left,” said Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication professor Barry Hollander. “The board had cre-ated an atmosphere that violated the basic tenets of journalism.”

Staffers, editors and designers gathered Friday at The Red & Black offices for an open discussion with board members, leaving the building “thankful and excited for the progress made,” according to a release pub-

lished by former staffers on redanddead.com.

“The students were right to walk out on something that was compro-mising their integrity, but at the same time I don’t believe the board was fully at fault for trying to prevent the theo-retical sinking of the ship,” said Morgan Kemper, a sophomore social work major from Marietta. “I can see both sides, but it’s great to see that things could be settled.”

After Friday’s meeting, The Red & Black board and the publisher, Harry Montevideo, issued a statement expressing their “deepest apologies” and hopes for a resolution.

The statement reiterated that the professional staff who work on the edi-torial side of the newspaper were “intended to be coaches and advisers only.”

Marinova, Managing Editor Julia Carpenter and other top staffers returned to The Red & Black on Tuesday.

“Now that things have been resolved, the board and alumni need to address all the issues and resolve them quickly,” Hollander said. “The paper itself faces financial issues, and the board has a lot of work to get done internally to get things more up to date.”

Student staff, the board and Montevideo released a joint statement Monday saying they plan to return to the newsroom with renewed commit-ment to “a new era of open communi-cation.”

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On Aug. 15 around 5 p.m., everyone in The Red & Black office filed into the conference room.

Polina Marinova, our editor-in-chief, was in tears. All summer, the perfect storm had been brewing.

“I’ve just resigned as editor in chief. Guys, I’m leaving,” Marinova said.

Silence. Stares. Thinking.

Tiffany Stevens, the variety editor, spoke up first: “If you leave, I leave. I follow you, Spartacus.”

Laughter. Family. Smiles. Determination.

“I’m leaving too.” “Let’s go.” It happened that

quickly.

Just did leave

The storm at The Red & Black went beyond Athens.

It was a war of old ver-sus new — the same fight happening at every news-paper.

On one side: the tech-nology natives, Generation X. The mobile-phone-carrying children who can’t eat a sandwich without alert-ing Twitter.

The contenders: our grandparents’ and par-ents’ generations — peo-ple who questioned if the Internet was a “fad” and tried to go digital-first without a mobile appli-cation.

Because of the divide, I couldn’t reform our online presence like I wanted. I wasn’t trusted. So, I walked.

I went to my desk. My heart was pounding. My hands were shaking.

The revolution began.

Outgunned

The reason I left Red & Black turned into The Red and Dead’s strength.

It was cowboys versus Indians: we had guns; they had bows and arrows. Within an hour, our brand was on Twitter, Facebook and Wordpress.

The questions poured in. Everyone was working on something. I switched from tweet monkey to code monkey. I hurriedly worked with Gabe Ram to set-up our website.

My iPad continually blinked with Twitter notifications. There were retweets and tweets to celebrities begging for a retweet. It was too late to corral everyone. I can be a control freak, but I couldn’t control this.

So I kept working. When Marinova’s state-ment was finished I took a breather, for about five minutes.

Our Twitter account crashed because of spam-like activity.

Back to my control freak self.

After looking over Twitter, Facebook and redanddead.com, I was confident. Our website had close to 50,000 page views in less than 24 hours. The Google Doc I published Ed Stamper’s memo in to save time crashed because of too many active viewers.

It was my first all-nighter of 2012. I ran off of the adrenaline alone. I was confident the call

would come tomorrow, begging for us back.

We would win. I was sure.

I was wrong.

Hostile negotiations

On Thursday morn-ing, I guzzled coffee and headed to class.

I tweeted during class breaks and during class, too. I didn’t hear any-thing my professors talk-ed about.

All my thoughts were on the upcoming meet-ing with The Red & Black Board.

I couldn’t keep up. After one class, I turned on my computer and 65 comments were waiting for approval. I stopped reading.

I was still expecting a text that we had our jobs back. It was payday tomorrow. Instead, I got anger and frustration.

“This is B.S.”“How can they be

saying this?”“This is ridiculous.”“Let’s leave.”“OK. Let’s go.”My heart took a hit.

It was clear the meeting was a disaster.

They didn’t want us back. They would replace us. Nothing would change.

They continued to play hardball.

It was baffling. With the attention we

were getting, there was no way they would win. We were fighting with biological warfare and they were throwing rocks.

Then I understood: they didn’t give up because they didn’t get it.

I did. I kept going. We

moved into content pro-duction that night. I hur-ried to fix menus on our Wordpress theme: sports, news, variety, opinion. I checked my email to a flood of messages with “READY TO PUBLISH” in the subject line.

By the time most of the world woke up, we had begun a rival news organization.

The Red & Black scheduled an open meet-ing. We used social media to get alumni, students and other news organiza-tions to 540 Baxter Street the next day.

I still hadn’t slept.

On the wire

If it was war, Friday was D-Day.

The best way for me to stay ahead of all the social media attention was to live tweet the meeting. I publicized. The talk began.

But when I was driv-ing to meet the staff, tweets flowed in. Complaints. Anger. Confusion. The Red & Black had changed the “open meeting and dis-cussion” to a “recruit-ment meeting,” no longer public.

“These people are a PR disaster,” I thought.

I read off the tweets to the fellow editors. The debate began. Should we even go? A picture came in showing all the media waiting in the lobby. I passed my phone around.

“We have to go,” I said. I pulled up. There was

a line of video cameras.I went in. The rest was a blur. I wouldn’t let myself

think about it. Marinova and others

were there to fight the Board’s fight.

Online, I fought the one the board didn’t know existed.

I’ve heard that during the meeting, I averaged more than a tweet per minute.

But my biggest test came about 20 minutes into the meeting when our publisher ended up on the floor with a stu-dent reporter.

“Did you see that? Are you going to tweet that? Say this, say that, use

this word.”I struggled for a cou-

ple of seconds about what word to use — “scuffle.”

Did anyone have a photo? Former Opinions Editor Charles Hicks hurried over to me.

It was dumb luck.The photos went viral.

Our story went viral. It was over.

On Monday, the Board released a joint state-ment. Students would sit on the board.

Ed Stamper resigned. No prior review.

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back. The new world had

won.

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I came back on Tuesday.

I didn’t want to leave the revolution. So, I asked Twitter.

-30- meant the end of a transmission during the American Civil War era. A mentor of mine who works at The Washington Post sug-gested it. It was the per-fect blend of old and new.

When I went back to

The Red & Black, I felt the obvious difference. Social media means something. More than anything, social media is a conversation.

In the past, The Red & Black hasn’t realized this. We’ve made a habit of talking at people instead of with people. This has changed. I’ve changed.

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tion echoing around the country in the meeting rooms of a hun-dred Democrat focus groups.

Since the announce-ment that Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan is the Republican vice presi-dential candidate, left-lean-ing journalists have been happily hammering away at their keyboards to con-struct a Ryan-torpedoing narrative.

These arguments are willfully deceptive. A com-mon refrain against Paul Ryan is that he is a cold-blooded disciple of free market philosopher Ayn Rand.

This is true, to a point: in a 2005 speech to the Atlas Society (named after Rand’s landmark novel, Atlas Shrugged), Ryan credits Rand as the thinker who led him to a career in politics.

By itself, this means lit-tle: Atlas Shrugged has sold six million copies, and countless conservatives and libertarians attribute their political conversion to Rand’s forceful prose.

So who is Paul Ryan?

He’s a man with a plan, in a race and town (Washington, D.C.) whose actors are best known for flip-flopping, statement-hedging and can-kicking.

If we’re all willing to step back from the fiscal cliff and talk like reason-able adults, the Ryan bud-get is the most sensible out there. Yes, I said sensible.

Arguments against Paul Ryan are part of a wider scare campaign waged by individuals who have already expressed willing-ness to lie and throw low blows to salvage the Obama campaign.

This election cycle has already brought the worst out of Democrats. With the Ryan selection, the circus will only continue.

— Blake Seitz is a junior from Dallas, TX majoring

in political science and public administration &

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After Red and Dead

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OUR TAKE

I used to laugh about my role in journalism. Not that I didn’t take it seriously. But, as sports editor, I always downplayed my role in the newsroom. When I talked to news writers, I would say, “well, don’t worry about me. It’s not like I’m a real journalist. I just write sports.”

At the end of the day, sports are simple — you win or you lose. That is about as controversial as it gets, and I was okay with that, because I wasn’t trying to change the world.

I was just trying to tell the sto-ries that I loved. But there comes a point when you have to care — when the gravity of a situation is so discomfiting that to accept indiffer-ence is to be negligent. And last Wednesday, there was no doubt in my mind that such a moment had come — when I saw my Editor in Chief, Polina Marinova, crying over a memo that stole editorial control of the Red & Black from students.

I had cared before, but this was something different.

This was a call to action, and I joined the others who walked out. In hours we had hundreds of online followers; in a day, thousands. And while our followers received flash updates on Twitter and at redanddead.com, what they didn’t see were the sleepless nights and the three hours of rest we sand-wiched between frenzied work from Wednesday night to Friday after-noon.

Talk about putting your learning into practice.

In the course of a few days, we learned valuable lessons about off-the-record statements, how to use social media as a platform to enact change and how to stay professional despite obvious, emotional connec-tions to an issue.

Finally, when the dust had set-tled and Monday passed, we slept. With student editorial control secured, on Tuesday we returned to the offices of the Red & Black.

But, at least for me, there have been changes. I can’t laugh about my role as a reporter anymore — not after what has occurred here.

I recognize that in a new media world, newspapers are struggling as they learn to adapt. However, the adaptation can never overshadow the importance of remaining true to our journalistic ethics.

To seek the truth and report it.To minimize harm. To act indepen-dently. To be accountable.

— Nick Fouriezos is a junior from Cumming majoring in Engish

and journalism

Conservatism in America is on the move. Conservatives

are motivated and ready to make changes. This elec-tion could be their battle to win.

The foremost reason is that Obama’s presidency has been less than stellar.

With the economy still mired in recession, the President has not shown clear leadership on addressing unemployment.

The surging conservative movement has pushed to lower taxes and govern-ment spending, casting aside social programs and environmental regulations. Intransigent Republicans almost drove the country to financial default during the debt ceiling debate. To this day, they will not com-promise on their mission to keep taxes on the wealthi-est Americans low.

I would be happy to see a Republican challenger that would approach the budget with an eye toward getting our finances in order in a way Americans can broadly agree on.

With the selection of Paul Ryan as the vice presi-dential candidate, however, the hardline conservatives

have their crowning tri-umph. His proposed bud-get for the coming year cuts deep into funding for education and food stamps and privatizes Medicare. He proposes a greatly flat-tened income tax that low-ers taxes on the very rich, at the expense of everyone else.

What this country needs now is pragmatic, forward-thinking leadership — not people clinging to extreme ideology.

Sadly, what the country got is Paul Ryan, who is not just a practitioner but a symbol of that divisive ide-ology.

It is evidence that the Republican Party is being driven by destructive ideo-logues. It is not a good sign for our political future.

— Martin Hogan is a senior from Smyrna major-

ing in cognitive science

Ryan pick bodes ill for American politics

Martin HoganGuest Columnist

Sitting in the PGA Championship media center at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, S.C., I was a bit over-whelmed.

Recently, I covered the PGA Championship for several news out-lets. There is no better way to learn than on-the-job experience. For a major golf tournament, preparation begins years in advance, from trans-portation planning, food operations and advertising sales all the way down to putting tee markers in the ground. Major golf tournaments attract over 2,000 credited media members. One of the first things I noticed was how international it was.

Interviewing defending PGA

champion Keegan Bradley about his round is no different than talking to my buddies after they play — Bradley just plays for a lot more money.

What I want to highlight about this opportunity is the value of learn-ing through experience.

You can read 50 textbooks on sports journalism and not learn half of what a single live event can teach you. The same is true for any poten-

tial job you have. What you learn in school is not

unimportant, but it isn’t what will stick with you. The only real way to learn about your field of study is by getting your feet wet.

Don’t short-change yourself by passing up internships. As I learned in a Kiawah Island media center, there is no better way to learn than on the job.

— Alex Urban is a second-year public relations graduate student

from Columbus, Ohio with a degree in political science

PGA Championship highlights commitment to journalismAlex UrbanGuest Columnist

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NCAA TENNIS RULE CHANGE: Replacing the third-set of men's and women's dual matches would make the matches faster, but coaches and players are right in asking to reverse the proposed change. Follow the conflict online. The hashtag #savecollegetennis says it all.

OLYMPIC PRIDE: Allison Schmitt Shannon Vreeland returned to the Classic City with another reason to be a proud Georgia Bulldog – Olympic gold. The two won in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay, and Schmitt also won three additional medals. Let’s honor them and keep the same intensity when they hit the Ramsey Center pools.

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For those who have not yet tuned in, HBO’s “The Newsroom” might be one of the best shows on television.

Among the quirky one-liners and stereotypical character entanglements of any Aaron Sorkin primetime drama, the series highlights how network and cable news shows have lost their way, favoring ratings and revenue over providing important information to the public.

Who knew such a state-ment could become so relevant?

Last week, the New York Post reported CNN may add to its lineup reality televi-sion and talk shows that have a news twist.

I read this as saying they are going to hire Kim Kar-dashian to critique Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s hair products.

While I am appalled that a respected news network’s monetary motives would lead them to consider such a move, I don’t blame them. After all, the public decides the course of television, and when it comes to being informed, they simply do not care. The general public would much rather keep up with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s relation-ship status than the civil war in Syria.

And let’s be honest. As far

as print media is concerned, many people don’t read anything beyond headlines and a few sentences, at best. It takes no more than a quick glance at the com-ments section below an online article to know that.

If it’s not in People or Cosmopolitan, apparently it’s not worth reading.

Others may claim that they get information through subjective news sources such as editorials or talk radio. If this is you, you might as well stick to get-ting information from email forwards.

Walter Cronkite once said that “objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.”

In many cases, opinions columns can lead to inaccu-rate representations of what really happened. Just listen to Rush Limbaugh for an hour, and you’ll understand.

As long as the general populace doesn’t seek facts to discern meaning for themselves, they will never be truly informed.

Only when it’s “popular” do many people start to

care. According to the Depart-

ment of Justice, around 1,800 juveniles are victims of homicide every year. But it takes a story like Trayvon Martin’s before anyone tunes in.

Suddenly, everyone be-comes an advocate.

And rather than becom-ing attentive to what’s important, everyone would much rather focus on sensa-tionalized reports that have no real effect on society.

Congress’s failure to pass a real budget is news; Dan Cathy’s opinion on gay marriage is not.

All in all, CNN’s move toward soft media may seem like a trivial matter. But it has much larger significance.

It’s an indication that viable sources Americans could count on are fading. And without an informed public, can a democratic society truly survive?

I imagine fictional anchor Will McAvoy of “The News-room” would say no. If this trend continues, it won’t be long before we find out.

— Jeremy Dailey is a second-year law student from Watkinsville with a

degree in political science

America shys away from objective news

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According to Kitty-cams.uga.edu, the cams were used to study both cats’ influence as preda-tors on the environ-ment in order to analyze common risks faced by owned outdoor cats.

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Old parking meters in downtown Athens collect money for the homeless, and the mon-ey goes to a surprising cause – bus passes.

The four meters were set up to discour-age panhandling and encourage people to deposit money into the meters instead of hand-ing it out to the home-less on the street.

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August 23, 2012

At the end of every season, in every college sport, there is a loss of senior leadership.

It is no different for the Georgia soccer team, which lost three seniors in May.

However, Georgia head coach Steve Hole-man mentioned four contributing freshmen to watch for, including versatile defender Tori Patterson.

“She’s a center back, and she’s one of our top players,” Holeman said. “We’re working on trying to find the right spot for her right now.”

Patterson said that she sees herself more as a defender.

“When I’m in midfield, I still concentrate on my defensive responsi-bilities,” Patterson said. “I’m also really aggres-sive and good in the air.”

Coach Holeman also praised freshman mid-fielder Liliana Rios.

“Liliana Rios has come in and made a name for herself,” Hole-man said. “She’s fantas-tic in the midfield, she keeps the ball for us.”

Rios, a native of Duluth, agreed that her ability to keep posses-sion was one of her bet-ter qualities on the pitch.

“I’m composed. I like

to play the ball around instead of just dribbling it,” Rios said. “My best quality is that I can keep possession for the team.”

Freshman forward Cara Smith has also im-pressed, despite injuries which have hampered her progress.

“Cara Smith has been a bit injured, but she’s a fantastic forward and front-runner, she’s a goalscorer, and when she’s full go,” Holeman said. “I think she’ll score some goals for us.”

Smith was able to make early substitute appearances against

both UNC Greensboro and Furman over the weekend. Redshirt freshman Bella Hartley, of Wheat Ridge, Colo., scored the game winning goal against Furman on Sunday. The goal was the first of Hartley’s ca-reer, in her first start.

“I’m just trying to take care of the ball and look for seams and staying patient,” Hartley said.

— Cy Brown

Georgia nose tackles John Jenkins and Kwame Geathers and defensive end Abry Jones are poised to put pres-sure on opposing lines this upcoming season.

“The defense is coming together real good,” Jones said. “I think the focus is where it needs to be. I think we’re all just wrestlers going through a short camp, adjusting to school and all that.”

Although defensive coordinator and associate coach Todd Grantham has stated his 3-4 defense will have more rotations this year than last, the start-ers actually embrace the extra help.

“I feel great about that,” Jones said. “I think more rotation gives more guys a chance to get a breather. Having a rotation is a good thing for the team. It just means you have more playmakers

on the team.”Jones also said that the fresh legs

will be essential in creating turnovers, which is something many Bulldog fans can be excited about.

Jenkins said he liked the rotation.“It’s a tremendous help,” Jenkins

said. “In this league, you can’t just have one player for one position and expect him to do everything everyday. Kwame needs me and I need Kwame. We need each other. We feed off of each other.”

Geathers said: “I like it. We do things together. It’s a good combina-tion. We’re teammates.”

—Luke Dixon

Freshman Andie Fontanetta saw her early success cut short by a collarbone injury. WES BLANKENSHIP/Staff

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Two athletes returned to Athens this fall with something no one else campus had — a gold medal. And se-nior swimmer Allison Schmitt brought home three of them.

“It’s kind of weird when people recognize me and ask me if I’m Allison Schmitt, because I don’t really realize they might’ve watched the Olympics this summer,” she said. “It is kinda cool, it’s different and it’s something I never thought would happen.”

Schmitt became the most decorat-ed Georgia swimmer in history at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, win-ning five total medals to bring her ca-reer tally to six. She was able to share the highest level of the podium with fellow Lady Bulldog junior, Shannon Vreeland, after they set an Olympic re-cord in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. Their return to campus has brought them a newfound level of fame and inspired reactions from students that they hadn’t anticipated.

“I was on the bus the other day and someone said, ‘Would it be creepy to congratulate you?’” Vreeland said. “I think it’s cool that so many people watch the Olympics and are taking the time to congratulate you when they see you ... it means a lot.”

Nothing could have prepared them for the moment when they bent down to receive their medals and stood tall as the American flag was raised.

“It was a dream come true,” Vree-land said. “I’ve watched the Olympics forever ... and I would always watch the people up on the podium and would cry with them, so being able to do that myself was awesome.”

“I stood right next to Shannon and I think I squeezed her hand so hard, I’m surprised it’s still on,” Schmitt said. “It was really exciting, and even walking out I was still really giddy. Hearing your national anthem and seeing the flag go up is an experience that I’ll never forget.”

For Schmitt to reach the level of medal-contender at the London Games, she chose to take a year off from school and train with Michael Phelps and his longtime coach, Bob Bowman. Once the Olympics were over and Schmitt had reached the top of the mountain, there was specula-tion that she may forego her senior year and pursue other opportunities — many of which were more financially viable.

Georgia head coach Jack Bau-erle said he never had any doubt of Schmitt’s return because he knew her love for the college game.

“There were opportunities, certain-ly,” Bauerle said, “but the opportuni-ties will be there when she puts her hand on the wall for the last relay for Georgia too.”

The pivotal passage resides on Page 3.

“Requests are hon-ored from sports editors of DAILY newspapers, network affiliate televi-sion station sports directors, and websites that have a correspond-ing publication and/or affiliation with a nationally recognized media entity/network,” it reads.

The seemingly in-nocuous sentence in this year’s Georgia football media guide lies under the heading “Creden-tials.” To most, it means nothing. But to the members of The Red & Black sports staff who joined their colleagues in walking away from the paper last week, it was of the utmost im-portance.

News reporters can still get crime reports, which are available to the public. They can still attend Board of Regents meetings and Student

Government Asso-ciation events without needing a credential or a go-between to set up interviews.

Those in the variety section can still talk to bands to preview an upcoming show without a liaison. They can buy tickets to movies or con-certs and write reviews of them with no issue. And of course, anyone can write an opinion piece at any time.

But the sports sec-tion is a different beast.

Yes, these sports scribes — including myself — could at-tend events as a pay-ing customer, scribble some notes and write a basic story. What they wouldn’t have, however,

is the access to players or coaches needed to give analysis and color to an article.

Refer back Georgia’s process for requesting said credentials. Not be-ing tethered to a printed publication or nationally recognized media entity would have been a stick-ing point as to whether Red & Dead sports writ-ers were approved for access.

Luckily for those sports writers who de-parted The Red & Black temporarily last week, Felton and those around him were right.

But the second sen-tence on Page 3 of the media guide stands as a lasting reminder of how close we, the defectors, came to irrelevancy.

—Ryan Black is a senior from Elberton

majoring in journalism

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Pulse, an app for Android devices and iPad, has a fairly simple modus operandi — take the RSS feeds from popular news sites, incorporate the art and articles into an attractive format, let the reader customize their stream of information into categorized pages.

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Let me be clear: this is a souped-up version of Pipe Dream. Mixed with Pac-Man. Mixed with “Memory.” It’s like a nerdy-nostalgia-throwback chimera, with more than a dash of Adult Swim humor. It is in no way the next “Portal 2” — or the next anything, for that matter.

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Previous puzzle’s solution

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FINDING FASHION: Resistance to overalls is futileBY ALEX LAUGHLIN

The Red & Black

High-waisted jeans. Crop tops. The Spice Girls.

Maybe it’s our generation’s nostalgia for childhood — or the inevitable cycle of fashion trends — but the ’90s are defi-nitely making a comeback.

And what piece of ’90s fash-ion gets my 20-year-old heart fluttering faster than the base-line of Aqua’s “Barbie Girl?”

Overalls.I know what you’re thinking

— shapeless denim sacks that

make you look like a 5-year-old rocking in the Gymboree rock-ing chairs? Not likely to make a second debut on the Athens fashion scene.

But don’t get your scrunchies in a bunch just yet. I have always been partial to overalls, but it wasn’t until last year that I began seeing the tell-tale signs of their return to the mainstream.

The first sign is the romper phenomenon. Rompers inex-plicably became a thing last summer. Suddenly everyone had an excuse to wear shorts

downtown, which paved the way for the denim cutoffs the “srat” stars love to sport these days.

My second major clue: denim — the more the bet-ter.

Denim shirts and jackets became the fashion blogger’s staple last spring. They slowly worked their way into the mainstream. Now I must ask

of you Doubting Thomases and Negative Nancies — what more are overalls than denim rompers?

If you need more convinc-ing, I’m not the only one with denim bibs on the mind. Try to scroll through the Athens Street Style blog (formerly UGA Street Style) without finding a photograph of a hip-looking 20-something sporting some overalls. Hint: you can’t.

Since school started last week, I have seen significantly more pairs of overalls around North Campus than I have

seen in the last year.The ’90s are coming back

for all of us. You can either embrace it with a new pair of (thrifted) overalls, a crop top and a snap bracelet, or you can pretend to ignore it.

Either way, you’re still going to belt out every word of your favorite Backstreet Boys song when it plays in 9d’s Bar.

You’ll be right back with the rest of us.

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