By PAIGE VARNERTHE RED & BLACK

Administrative salary reductions, tuition increases and reallocation of funds are not mentioned in the University’s proposal to reduce an additional $60 million in the next fiscal year’s budget. The Student Government Association thinks they should be.

SGA President Katie Barlow said all the college SGA chapters will work together to submit an alternative bud-get cut proposal to the Georgia Legislature when the students lobby the Capitol Monday, March 15.

See SGA, Page 2

By RACHEL BUNNTHE RED & BLACK

Tenure and tenure-track professors can rest easy for now, but non-contract faculty may soon be looking for new jobs.

Under the University’s budget cut proposal for fiscal year 2011, the school would cut nearly $60 million and elimi-nate 1,418 jobs, including 543 non-con-

tract, or part-time instructional faculty.

“I am one of those people,” said Elena Bianchelli, a lecturer in the classics department. “I am a lecturer. I am not tenured. I’m amazed at this.”

Over the past decade, the University has been hiring part-time and

temporary faculty to fill the gap creat-ed when decreased budgets prohibited the University from solely hiring full-time faculty.

“The difficulty is that with the reductions from the state from the last six or seven years, we’ve relied more on temporary faculty,” said Jerry Legge, associate dean of the School of Public

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The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, located on Milledge Avenue, is under an investigation into alleged hazing.

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By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK

The ebb and flow of Albert Jackson’s four years at Georgia have been dramatic.

He served a six-game suspension to start his sophomore season for violating the Athletic Association’s class attendance policy. He had a miracle four-day run to win the SEC championship in 2008. Then, his head coach was fired midseason in 2009.

Jackson has seen it all.“Through all the suspensions

and all the bad things that have happened since I’ve been here to all the good things — and then the whole transition to this year — it was a lot of stuff. But all the stuff will make me a better player and a better person, and I don’t think I would honestly change any of it,” Jackson said. “I can always say I

left here with a championship, and I got to play in the postseason.

“I have a lot of things I can still smile about, even though every-thing might not have went the way I wanted it to. I’m still real proud of my career, proud of the things I got to be a part of as far as starting the new era.”

Jackson says it hasn’t hit him yet that he will run out of the Stegeman Coliseum tunnel for the last time tonight. But when he walks to center court to be honored with fellow seniors Ricky McPhee and Tyler Whatley for his last home

game against No. 2 Kentucky, even he doesn’t know how he will react.

“I might get a little emotional because it’s been a long road, and I’ve been through a lot since I’ve been here. I’m going to miss going out on that court,” Jackson said. “But, at the same time, everybody has a time when it’s time to move on, so I’m just going to try to go out the right way.”

He will have to collect himself quickly, though, as head coach Mark Fox says all three seniors will be in the starting lineup as part of the senior day festivities.

“It’s definitely going to be an experience that I’ll never forget, so I’m just going to try to cherish it as much as I can and leave it all out there,” McPhee said.

Added Whatley: “[Senior night] is going to be crazy. It’s something

See GAME, Page 6

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SGA supports tuition hike to combat cuts

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Facing allegations of pledge-pad-dling, one University fraternity has been suspended from all activities until fur-ther notice, according to documents obtained by The Red & Black.

The University’s chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity could now be fac-ing strict reprimands from its national branch and further sanctions from the University, including permanent remov-al from campus.

Mark Timmes, national chief execu-tive officer of Pi Kappa Phi, has pro-posed several sanctions for the chapter, not only against the individuals directly involved in the hazing, but against the chapter as a whole.

Included in these proposed disciplin-ary actions is the immediate suspension of the chapter’s charter and all activi-ties until Aug. 1. The proposal also rec-ommends the barring of all members — excluding the Fall 2009 pledge class — from any involvement with the fraterni-ty for a period of four years and prohib-iting any new members until January of

2011.The hazing investigation, which

eventually led to the proposed disci-plinary actions, was launched in response to an anonymous letter sent to the Greek Life Office.

The letter was reportedly sent by a concerned parent of a pledge in the fra-ternity. According to the letter, the par-ent said one day he saw “serious abra-sions and bruises and cuts all over” his son’s buttocks as his son stepped out of the shower. When asked about the inju-ries, the pledge initially said he fell, but after further questioning, the parent received a different explanation.

“He was beaten, plain and clear,” the letter reads. “The night of initiation, apparently a very few of the boys decid-ed the best way to initiate the pledges would be to paddle them, BUT beat new pledges with all their might and strength. They stood in a line and one

by one received a severe paddling.” Despite the impending abuse, the

letter said the pledges waited to be beaten.

“My son heard the first few boys receive theirs and knew what was com-ing,” the letter reads. “He did not think it would be bad until they hit him and he practically fell down.”

The pain lasted long after the beat-ing, the letter said.

“I heard they could not even go to sleep or walk that night,” it reads. “From what I have heard, none of the boys could hardly walk and all had bruises for many days, and the bruises lasted for weeks.”

The letter also said the parent had been instructed by his son to keep this incident a secret, and the parent came forward only because he believes the issue needs to be addressed.

“At this time I cannot for obvious reasons leave my name or when word gets out they will likely kill my son,” he wrote.

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and International Affairs.Legge said if the pro-

posal passed, SPIA would offer fewer classes, making it harder for students to graduate.

“I can’t imagine what this would be. It would be pretty disastrous,” he said.

Bianchelli expressed a similar concern.

“First of all, I worry about the students — I teach hundreds,” she said. “For Fall 2010, I am sched-uled to teach classic mythology, and there are 120 people scheduled for that class. Who is going to teach them?”

The loss of part-time faculty will decrease the number of class sections open to students by 13 per-cent according to the bud-

get proposal document. It will also reduce the num-ber of incoming students, including freshmen and transfer students, by 1,500.

Daniel J. Nadenicek, dean of the College of Environment and Design, said the loss of transfer students will be especially difficult for his college, where transfer students make up 40 percent of its 360-student undergraduate population.

He said the loss of tem-porary professors will reduce the number of pro-grams and classes offered.

“The loss of our ability to bring in experienced professors, that will affect our credentials,” he said.

Perry Parks, a part-time professor in the Grady College, said he was keep-ing his options open, but

was not too worried about the proposed layoffs.

“I suppose ‘apprehensive’ is a fair word,” he said. “I was already scheduled not to teach in the fall, so this may not affect me at all.”

John Gittleman, dean of the Odum School of Ecology, said though the full cuts are unlikely to be approved, he is prepared for the worst.

“I am worried,” he said. “I think it is a very serious situation.”

Nadenicek said although budget cuts are a reality, it is important to note noth-ing has passed.

“Nothing is permanent and it is all proposals,” he said.

Parks said the 77 per-cent tuition increase it would take to completely offset the additional bud-get cuts is too drastic, and the state has to find funds somehow.

“The big picture is that a state has to decide what’s big and important, and everyone has to find a way to pay for it,” Parks said.

However, Parks said the classes he teaches in Grady are full, and Legge said it is already hard for students in SPIA to get the classes they need. Other proposed reductions include elimi-nating academic programs, significantly decreasing the educational opportunities offered to students at the University.

“Are we making a proper investment in the future?” Parks asked.

— Patrick Hooper, Kati Braswell, Julia

Carpenter, Paige Varner and Adina Solomon

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“The focus of the story has been on the legislature and administration,” Barlow said at an emer-gency meeting Monday night for SGA members to discuss the proposal released only hours before. “Students are going to the Capitol to put a student picture on it. There will be a very clear message from students.”

SGA members intro-duced alternatives to the proposal, which currently would eliminate 1,418 filled positions on campus, force more than 500 students to change majors or transfer to other colleges to com-plete their degrees, and reduce Miller Learning Center, Tate Center and Ramsey hours by 30 per-cent.

“All the cuts are from programs and jobs, not tuition increases,” Barlow said. “SGA is not against tuition increases, just not a 77 percent increase.”

University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis, Jr. said it would take a 77 percent tuition increase to meet the whole system cut without sacri-ficing any staff or services.

The easiest way for an institution to raise money is through tuition increases and fees, Barlow said. “Fixed for Four,” abolished last year for fall 2009’s

freshmen but retained for the class of 2011 and before, could be wiped out alto-gether to allow tuition increases, she said.

Barlow said she and Georgia Tech SGA P resident Al ina Staskevicius, who are lead-ing all Georgia college SGA chapters in constructing an alternative proposal, are looking into statewide cig-arette, soda and alcohol taxes to curb USG budget cuts.

However, Barlow plans to address University administration’s salaries as a way to meet some of the financial burden.

“That’s step one for our response to them,” Barlow said.

SGA Executive Secretary Lauren Gray said the University could save money by not using its buildings every day.

“I feel like some schools operate more on certain days,” she said. “Some buildings have just a cou-ple of big lecture halls, and the rest of the rooms are offices. They could just open on Tuesday and Thursday, and teachers hold office hours on Tuesday and Thursday.”

Gray said the more mul-tipurpose buildings could be open all five days of the workweek, but other build-ings could close on certain days to save on electricity and heating.

SGA Vice President Cameron Secord said the more than $700,000 in state funds to renovate the President’s House on Prince Avenue where no one lives could be reallo-cated to the state budget.

Some SGA members recommended the University look to the Athletic Association to off-set University budget cuts.

The University and Athletic Association bud-gets are separate, but the association has supported the University in the past.

Last year, it gave $2 mil-lion to an academic fund supervised by the University president.

Barlow said the associa-tion should feel compelled to help.

“What means something real to them is a decreased reputation because we can’t compete with other schools,” she said.

Secord said if any stu-dents have contacts in the legislature, they should e-mail or call them and tell them to look out for the University.

Students have until Friday to confirm they are attending the rally at the Capitol on the SGA Web site: www.uga.edu/sga.

SGA invites all stu-dents to attend its infor-mational meeting about the rally at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the South PJ auditorium.

SGA: Students demand changes

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injuries, the parent’s son was reportedly taken to the hospital. He was reportedly diagnosed with an infec-tion and a blood clot, which, if any more severe, would have required sur-gery. According to the let-ter, the doctor also said it appeared the pledges were beaten hard enough to pos-sibly break a hip.

After an investigation, however, Timmes said in a press release that “it appears the allegations are unsubstantiated and we do not believe them to be true.”

Though he did admit violations had occurred, he told The Red & Black they were “absolutely not relat-ed to what was described in this letter.”

When Timmes was told The Red & Black had obtained documents in which he is quoted telling Assistant Dean of Students Brandon Frye that pad-dling had occurred, Timmes then said, “There was some paddling, but nothing as described in this letter.”

According to Frye’s handwritten notes acquired by The Red & Black, the president of the University’s Pi Kappa Phi chapter, Brent Stringer, also con-firmed “they paddled dur-ing initiation.”

Though the allegations are still under investigation by the University, the national fraternity’s Hearing Committee addressed the case Feb. 28 and made a recommendation to the National Council, Pi Kappa Phi’s Board of Directors.

If Timmes’ proposed disciplinary actions, out-lined in documents obtained by The Red & Black, are accepted by the board, the chapter would

be suspended of all activi-ties until Aug. 1, 2010.

Except for the Fall of 2009 pledge class, all cur-rent members would be given early alumni status, regardless if they were “perpetrator, enabler or bystander.” This would mean only this year’s fresh-men would be allowed to have any involvement with the fraternity for the next four years.

“We would rebuild and reorganize around those men,” Timmes said in a phone interview Tuesday.

The fraternity would also take many steps in order to ensure no future hazing would occur after the fraternity would be allowed to have pledges again in January of 2011.

Not only would the chapter be required to host numerous workshops deal-ing with issues such as haz-ing prevention and risk management, but the Lambda Chapter housing corporation which owns the fraternity house would also be required to hire a live-in adviser by August.

“We want to make sure we set these men up for success in a non-hazing environment,” Timmes said. “There would be no hazing. Period.”

Despite the national chapter’s recommendation, the University could still

ban the fraternity from campus, a prospect several parents of fraternity mem-bers are speaking out against. According to the documents, parents have sent Frye six e-mails in support of the fraternity.

“It seems so wrong to me for this pledge class to be punished for something they have no control over,” Maureen Kaps, mother of a pledge and initiate of Pi Kappa Phi wrote in an e-mail to Frye.

Since the fraternity house is owned and oper-ated by a separate organi-zation, members are still allowed to live there for the remainder of their lease, Timmes said.

Although the Board of Directors has 90 days to make its final decision on what sanctions to hand down, Timmes doesn’t expect it to take that long.

“We’re certainly trying to resolve it much sooner than that,” he said.

Pi Kappa Phi has been on campus since 1915 and has initiated more than 1,700 members since. The chapter now has nearly 100 members.

Despite several calls from The Red & Black, Stringer, the chapter’s president, Ryan Gillis, vice president, and several members of the chapter refused to comment.

By KATI BRASWELLTHE RED & BLACK

Green eggs and ham were on the breakfast menu for one fraternity Tuesday morning.

Members of Sigma Phi Epsilon, a social fraternity at the University, share a common brotherhood with the award-winning children’s author Dr. Seuss. On Tuesday, the chapter spent time read-ing Dr. Seuss’ books to elementary school stu-dents to honor the author’s birthday.

“We wanted to start giv-ing back to the communi-ty,” said Matt Matuszewski, the fraternity’s philanthro-py chairman.

For the first time in the fraternity’s history, 24 brothers went into 14 classrooms at Barrow Elementary to follow Dr. Seuss’ humanitarian foot-

steps.The fraternity aspires

to become more centered on serving the Athens community, Matuszewski said. The University’s chapter already raises money for the Children’s Miracle Network, but the group is now adding this annual service project to serve on a more local level. The fraternity hopes to one day expand the event to raise money for the local schools’ book funds.

“We love having University students here,” said Tad MacMillan, Barrow Elementary prin-cipal. “It is a great oppor-tunity for us to learn together. They bring great energy and the latest ideas.”

The idea came to the fraternity’s philanthropy board after the group was influenced by another chapter’s involvement in

its local elementary schools.

The group saw March 2 — which marks the National Read for America Day organized by the National Education Association in honor of Dr. Seuss — as a perfect opportunity to get involved with literacy.

And Dr. Seuss has set the bar high for his frater-nity brothers.

Through his concern for illiteracy, the author was inspired to write “The Cat in the Hat,” using 236 words that first graders should recognize.

Caleb Penn, a member of the fraternity, expressed a sense of connection with the children’s author.

“The best thing about being brothers with Dr. Seuss is learning how much he impacted several generations of children,” he said.

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Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brothers read books by Dr. Seuss — a member of the fraternity — to students at Barrow Elementary School.

Seuss’ fraternity reads to students

HAZING: Parents defend Pi Kappa Phi

President Adams:As UGA faces an additional $60

million reduction to an already scant budget, I fully believe that there are two ways in which you can address this dire situation.

The first is to do exactly what you are doing now, which includes spouting sympathetic rhetoric about the impact such budget cuts will have on university faculty, staff and students, and how grateful you are for those sacrifices.

This line of reasoning would lead one to believe that you are standing in solidarity with those who are set to potentially lose their jobs. With the release of the draft for addi-tional budget cuts in the 2011 fiscal year, however, this line of reasoning falls short.

Among the proposed cuts for the University of Georgia are the jobs of over 1,400 employees. I highly doubt many of these 1,400 employees are feeling your sympathy with your overall compensation package total-ing more than $600,000 a year.

This leaves the second way in which you can address this situa-tion. In order to mitigate the bur-den for those who will bear the brunt of this economic malaise, I ask that you take a voluntary 30 percent cut in pay for 2011 — an amount commensurate with the proposed percentage of reduction for many UGA services.

While 30 percent of your salary would not be significant in helping reduce the budget cuts, it would be highly symbolic of your unity with those who will suffer the most. As businessman Lee Iacocca once said, “Trouble shared is trouble halved.”

STEPHEN MCGARITY Graduate School, Athens

Social work

Proposed budget cuts would tarnish quality

State Senator Dan Moody:After reading the suggested bud-

get cuts proposed at the University of Georgia, I felt compelled to write you and warn you of the devastat-ing impact these cuts would have not only on the quality of education but also the quality of life in Athens.

As a resident of Roswell for 15 years, I’m hoping that you can be my voice in the government and oppose these seriously debilitat-ing changes suggested for the University. I know my life as a stu-dent at the university will be signifi-cantly affected for the worse.

For a University, and by exten-sion the state of Georgia, that prides itself on the quality of edu-cation offered, these budget cuts would leave an indelible tarnish on the reputation of the University.

Reducing custodial staff by 25 percent will leave hundreds without jobs. Limiting access to libraries and facilities to 12 hours a day will severely impact both academic and extracurricular life.

Elimination of club and intra-mural sports programs as well as the state botanical gardens is hard to imagine, yet such measures are

included in the proposal. Although these proposals are

deemed a worst-case scenario, I believe that opposing these changes from the beginning is crucial to the prevention of their implementation.

ZACHARY FARMERJunior, Roswell

Genetics and Spanish

4-H program valuable to entire state of Georgia

4-H programming in the state of Georgia has touched millions of lives. The state 4-H staff, county extension agents, program assis-tants and volunteers across the state strive for nothing less than “To Make The Best Better,” as the 4-H motto would dictate.

Through summer camps, proj-ect achievement events, programs collaborating with the military, as well as countless other programs promoting leadership, healthy lifestyles, youth/adult partner-ships, financial literacy, and SET objectives 4-H has become a valu-able asset to not only the youth of Georgia, but to the entire state of Georgia.

A statistic that Georgia 4-H proudly boasts is that for every one 4-H member legislation provides $52 and for that very same member, Georgia 4-H produces another $153. Given that Georgia 4-H services upwards of 150,000 youth per year, the Georgia 4-H program is a bar-gain. I dare UGA to find another department that can say the same.

Georgia 4-H will continue to pro-duce the quality programming and opportunities that we have become accustomed to, and its supporters will not allow it to be blindsided by bureaucratic lunacy.

ZACH HALLSophomore, Valdosta

Agriculture communications

Broken fire alarms real problem in dorm arsons

It seems as though the faculty and disciplinary workers in Russell Hall are focusing more on the fact that someone committed the crime of arson rather than focusing on why the fire alarms did not sound.

I have seen the effects of the fire on the 10th floor in Russell Hall, and it wasn’t some small fire that only consumed a small area.

The wall in the elevator lobby was completely covered with burn marks. It seems as though the administrators should worry less about who set the fires and more about why the alarms did not go off.

All they care about is getting someone in trouble and clearing their names, and not so much about the health and safety of the stu-dents that could have been involved in a 10th floor fire.

Maybe instead of contacting police, contact the fire station and get the problem solved so that when there is another arson, you

can catch the suspected criminal and keep the safety of the residents in check. Or maybe that’s above your pay grade.

MATTHEW PELLEGROM Freshman, Roswell

Marketing

University handling of snow days incorrect

I was very unhappy with the way the University handled the school closing. I had to walk 20 minutes to class in the snow at 9 a.m.

I didn’t get out of my classes until 1:45 p.m., right before school was closed for weather which was no worse than what I had walked through earlier.

The University ensured that I would have midterms later in the week and then closed all the best study space for the rest of the day.

At least I’m better off than my friend who was counting on math tutoring offered on campus to prepare for her calculus midterm tomorrow. It sucks to go to school in the snow but it reflects a work ethic that makes our school one of the best.

Apparently, this work ethic only applies in the morning for the sec-ond time this semester. This leaves many of us with the same responsi-bilities but a lack of resources.

If school must be closed it should be closed for the whole day or not at all!

KARLI HEDSTROMJunior, Gainesville

Political science

White beauty standard based on economics

Crystal Villarreal’s column in Monday’s paper makes a broad claim that only white, slender, blond and blue-eyed women are perceived as beautiful in our soci-ety. She backs up this assertion by citing magazines like Vanity Fair with only white women on their covers and makeup companies offering a majority of their products for white skin care.

What she has failed to realize is that white people constitute a majority in this country and there-fore dictate supply and demand for products. White people constitute nearly 70% of the population, and generally have a higher socioeco-nomic status than minorities.

This is why marketing campaigns for beauty products are geared towards white women — particu-larly blondes — because they are willing and able to pay for products more often than minorities.

Companies aren’t looking to make a statement on which race is more attractive, but are rather sim-ply trying to maximize profit.

KYLE WAGNERSophomore, Marietta

Marketing and Spanish

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Would you take a bullet for your brother? Would you take a paddle?

The hazing allegations of pledges by mem-bers of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and temporary suspension of the chapter bring to light a ques-tion that is often ignored — is hazing still hap-pening?

Pledges were allegedly paddled hard enough to cause bleeding and bruises, according to documents obtained by The Red & Black through an open records request.

The Red & Black received numerous e-mail and phone news tips about hazing allegations in regards to the fraternity.

Pi Kappa Phi faces possible barring of all members — excluding the 2009 pledge class — for four years and the barring of a new pledge class until fall 2010, according to the docu-ments.

The details of the alleged incident are unclear. This culture of silence allows the con-tinuation of a dangerous practice. The editorial board hopes this situation, whatever the out-come, will help foster a dialogue that can stop hazing in its tracks.

— Yasmin Yonis for the editorial board

Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board

Paddling pledges?The University chapter of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity scrutinized for alleged hazing

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Sixty five dollars. $12. $18. $37. $60. $32. These dollar

amounts represent the cost of my used books this semester. Tack on an addi-tional 50 percent or more if I bought my books new.

Most students at UGA and other colleges will experience similar costs for books each semester, and they can easily spend several thousand dollars over their college career.

I really wonder why these books are so expen-sive, considering most of the information they pro-vide is on Wikipedia.

I understand the cost of printing and distribu-tion, publishing fees and royalties to the writers, but couldn’t many of these costs be eliminated by switching to digital formats? I, for one, don’t want these costs passed on to me.

With these consider-ations in mind, it’s strange that textbook authors have not yet converted to electronic format. Consider how much an e-book read-er and digital textbooks would cost versus purchas-ing full physical textbooks over four years.

An e-book reader costs approximately $300 today, would only have to be purchased once, could be used for other books, and is becoming less expensive as the technology devel-ops. Out of the approxi-mately $200 to $300 dollars it costs to produce your textbooks in a semester, nearly 75 percent of that cost (printing/distribu-tion) could be eliminated by converting to a digital format.

As an example, the price breakout for my his-tory reading packet at Bel-Jean is as follows:

Royalties: $15.81Packet: $40.23Tax: $3.92 The $40.23 that Bel-

Jean charges to bind, print, store and sell the packet could easily be reduced to $4 - $5 by going digital. It would be less expensive for students and the authors would still receive their due royalties.

Not that I don’t like the friendly folks at Bel-Jean, but their business model will soon be obsolete.

Going digital not only has the effect of reducing costs to students, but is

also much more conve-nient. Consider the weight of the books in a book bag, constantly having to make trips to the bookstore, the time it takes to sell your books back, the clutter of books in your room, etc.

These time-consuming activities could be elimi-nated by having a single e-book reader that con-tains all 60-70 books you would need for an under-graduate degree program.

UGA has already taken some steps to provide paperless texts, such as the inclusion of e-books in the library archives (NetLibrary on Galileo) and the move to eLearning Commons, which allows students to read digital articles and excerpts from full length books.

Considering the recent cuts to UGA’s budget, I would think the school would jump at further opportunities to go digital, which in turn would make tuition more affordable to students.

More and more stu-dents are getting used to holding laptops, smart-phones and MP3 play-ers. The e-book will soon replace paper as a medium for textbooks, just like the MP3 has replaced physical mediums for music.

What can the everyday student do to make this happen? First on the list is to encourage your pro-fessors to make a digital textbook available for the class. Try to turn in your assignments digitally if possible.

When doing a research paper or searching for references, opt for e-book sources and digital arti-cles. If you are a bit more enthusiastic, write a letter to your department head or dean asking him or her to make digital formats available.

If all goes well, hopefully the UGA administration will issue a mandate which states that all students must have the right to pur-chase their books digitally.

— Jason Orlosky is

a senior from Augusta majoring in Japanese

Digital books cheap option for students

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By DREW KANNTHE RED & BLACK

Ouch.Just eight games into

the 2010 season, the Diamond Dogs’ (6-2) infield has been bitten by the injury bug.

This time around, starting shortstop Kyle Farmer was the one tagged, out three to six weeks with a hamate fracture in his left hand suffered in last Friday’s win over Stetson.

Farmer’s injury is the latest blow to a Georgia infield that has been in a state of constant flux since last fall, when start-ing shortstop Chance Veazey was paralyzed from the waist down in a tragic motor scooter acci-dent.

In addition to Farmer’s injury, sophomore infield-er Levi Hyams will be out for at least another week with a back injury.

In the meantime, Georgia head coach David Perno and the healthy Bulldog players have been saddled with the task of weaving together a makeshift quilt of an infield. The results, however, heading into the Bulldogs’ impor-tant SEC opener tonight at 7:35 p.m. against the Alabama Crimson Tide in Hoover, Ala., have exceed-ed expectations.

“A lot of programs, you lose your three starting infielders — the three middle infielders that are going to play for you — you lose those at any cer-tain time in the season and you’re in trouble,” said Perno. “Fortunately for us, we’re OK. Obviously, people have got to step up, but we still think we can run a competitive lineup out there and defend the field pretty well.”

In Saturday’s win over Stetson, sophomore catcher Christian Glisson headed out of the Bulldogs’ dugout without his usual catcher’s mitt and mask and took his position at third base. Glisson says he has never played third base in all his years of playing baseball.

“Coach [Perno] got me out there and I took a lot of ground balls and did a lot of things in prepara-tion for it before the game and I told [coach], ‘I feel fine,’” Glisson said. “I guess once I got those pre-jitters out before the game I was fine. I was just excited.”

Glisson played better than fine Saturday and all week long, batting a team-leading .667 with five RBIs in the squad’s four games last week.

Kevin Ruiz took over third base duties Sunday. Prior to taking some reps at third earlier this spring, Ruiz’s last playing experi-ence at third base came for a travel team in mid-dle school.

Ruiz’s weekend perfor-mance at third has earned him a vote of confidence from Perno, who says he will start the redshirt freshman at third again tonight against Alabama.

“With the injuries that we’ve had with Farmer going down with his hand and then Levi with his back, that was just kind of the natural place to put me at third over there where I’ve been taking reps all spring,” Ruiz said.

By SOPHIE LOGHMANTHE RED & BLACK

Known for her upbeat, energetic and danceable music, Bess Rogers has made a mission for herself this year: to become more well known around the East Coast.

Growing up in a musical family, Rogers was des-tined to end up with a career in the music indus-try. Her mom was a musi-cian who played early clas-sical music, and Rogers attributes her musical knowledge to her mother.

She then started play-ing the flute when she was nine, and around the age of 14, she picked up her first guitar and began to take matters into her own hands.

Throughout high school, she frequently vis-ited various coffee shops in her hometown of Long Island to perform at open mic nights.

“I was totally dedicat-ed,” Rogers said. “I did open mic nights three or four nights a week. It helped me to become more confident and get over my shyness.”

Once she had her shy-ness intact, Rogers decid-ed to go to SUNY-Purchase, where Rogers met some of the most influential people of her life.

“I met a lot of people, like Jenny Owen Youngs and my producer,” Rogers said. “I got a great educa-tion but most of the edu-cation was from my peers.”

Regina Spektor, another singer and songwriter,

went to SUNY at the same time as Rogers.

“She was in some of my classes,” Rogers said. “I would go watch her play and being exposed to so much amazing music like that, I really feel like that influenced me.”

Now, Rogers enjoys touring and recording songs for her upcoming album that will be released this summer.

“There are some pretty rockin’ and heavy songs on this album,” Rogers said. “I think there are some of the best songs that I’ve written, and that’s the ulti-

mate goal — to keep get-ting good songs written.”

One of her favorite songs to perform is “I Don’t Worry.” This song, which was originally released in mid-2009, has over 50,000 hits on her MySpace page.

“It’s a really positive song and it’s about love and the things that are important in life,” Rogers said. “Like not letting the big scary things in life bog you down. I remind myself of that when I sing it, which I need to do often.”

As a part of her Spring Break Forever Tour,

Rogers will be playing in Athens tonight with Jenny Owen Youngs and Allison Weiss. Athens will be her second stop, and the trio plans to make their way to as many East Coast states as they can.

VARIETY & SPORTS The Red & Black | Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | 5

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Also featuring Allison Weiss

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BESS ROGERS

Courtesy Bess Rogers

Bess Rogers started playing music early thanks to her mother and is trained in flute, guitar and ukulele. She studied at SUNY Purchase.

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The 2010 SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament couldn’t have come at a better time for the Georgia women’s basketball team.

After posting just two victo-ries in an eight-game span earlier this season, the Lady Dogs are coming off back-to-back victories for the first time since Jan. 21 and are starting to resemble the team that started the year 16-0.

Georgia (22-7, 9-7) is com-pletely healthy for the first time in weeks and proves to be a tour-nament threat, despite its No. 6 seed.

There isn’t a single Lady Dog who is more encouraged by Georgia’s recent success than senior point guard Ashley Houts.

As her prolific career winds

down, Houts has yet to play in an SEC Championship game, let alone win a title.

“It is my last shot but it’s defi-nitely not a given, it’s going to be hard,” Houts said. “Everybody’s there for the same reason, every-body wants a ring.”

While Houts is still in search of her first SEC Championship hardware, freshman guard Jasmine James will be making her first appearance in postsea-son play and can aid Houts’ search for that elusive title.

“You hear about the level of intensity and the level of compe-tition that it is and I’m just look-ing forward to being able to go in and compete at that level,” James said.

James knows a little some-thing about the level of play in the SEC, as she has racked up the second-most minutes (1,037)

in the conference over the course of her first season at Georgia.

Playing extended minutes as a freshman during the 2006-07 sea-son, Houts knows how important those regular season minutes are come tournament time. She said she is confident James will be ready Thursday night.

“It means a lot to me with her being behind me to be able to do some of the things that might take some pressure off of the

point position,” Houts said.James and Houts have

patrolled the Georgia backcourt all season — ranking one and two in minutes played — and the relationship they share has evolved into more of a mentor-ship.

“She’s been out-of-this-world fun to play with and just very enjoyable,” Houts said. “She’s a great kid, works hard and loves to win and loves to compete. Anytime you have that, it’s a good thing. I just really can’t say enough about what she’s done for me, personally, on the court.”

James — a five-time SEC Freshman of the Week this sea-son — wants to continue to aid her backcourt counterpart as much as possible especially at a time like this when every game could be Houts’ last.

“With this being her last go

around, [she’s] talked about how important this SEC Tournament is and then the NCAA Tournament [and] to play as hard as we can and try to finish as best as possible,” James said.

The relationship that has taken shape between the two floor generals is one that pro-vides the Lady Dogs with stabili-ty and leadership.

But according to James, she’ll continue to learn as much as she can from the senior before Houts hangs up her Georgia jersey for good.

“She talks a lot about being a leader and about how tough it is in this conference and how important it is to be vocal and try to run the team,” James said. “I try to pick up as much as I can from her because she’s a great player, great teammate and a great leader.”

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GAME: Night for seniors a ‘dream’

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I never dreamed would happen if you asked me two years ago,” Whatley said. “But its special. It’s what I always wanted, and I can’t wait.”

A win over Kentucky would complete a sweep of SEC East teams at Stegeman Coliseum and would be “quite the accom-plishment for this group,” according to Fox.

“When you rebuild a pro-gram, there’s often a group that lays a foundation that those that follow get to reap the benefits from, and some of the guys that have laid that foundation don’t get to reap all the rewards that some of the guys later on do. Kids in situations like that have a special place in every coach’s heart. And this group of seniors who I inherited, they have been terrific in buying into our direction with the pro-gram,” Fox said. “And they really have made this year easy for me because they have been on board 100 per-cent from day one.”

James soaks up Houts’ veteran game knowledge

HOUTS JAMES