By KATHRYN INGALLTHE RED & BLACK

The HOPE Scholarship isn’t just about whiny mid-dle-class students.

The Georgia Students for Public Higher Education don’t want to just save HOPE, they want to solve the ills of society.

Monday night the orga-nization hosted a town hall about the cuts to the scholarship and the broad-er issue of access to afford-able higher education.

The panelists included student and faculty mem-bers from the University and David Lee from the Georgia Student Finance

Commission.Lee noted the difficul-

ties in deciding where the cuts to HOPE may come.

“You either cut the number of people who are getting the scholarship or cut the amount they get, and we’re doing a little of both,” he said.

The discussion also turned to the inequalities of HOPE as a lottery-fund-ed scholarship.

Derrick Alridge, direc-tor of the Institute for African American Studies, said he is troubled by the inequalities of the lottery.

“I wish black folks would stop buying lottery tickets,” Alridge said

about the disproportion-ate benefits received from the lottery-funded schol-arship.

Lee said the lottery is a voluntary tax and people can make a choice to buy or not.

Student Juan Carlos Cardozo said the discus-sion was meant to shine a light on students who struggle to stay in college, not middle or upper class students.

“What we want to do with this scholarship panel is to look at who really needs the scholarship to stay here — to present faces from the working class,” he said.

Panel member and pro-fessor James Hamilton stressed the importance of seeing beyond the issue of the HOPE Scholarship

and working proactively to see educational equality.

“The best outcome, besides perhaps slowing down the whittling away

of HOPE, would be the establishment of an orga-nization that goes beyond and creates momentum,” he said.

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By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

Samantha Joye’s throat was on fire, her face burning from the acid in the air.

Standing aboard the Walton Smith, a research vessel, Joye was haunted by the scene unfolding around her. The Gulf of Mexico was a vision from hell — the air, the water, and the oil were all ablaze. It was not an ideal spot for anyone to be, and cer-tainly not for an asthmatic. But she had work to do.

“The images, they’re seared into my memory,” said Joye, a professor in the University’s Department of Marine Science. “I still smell what it smelled like. I have these weird flashbacks sometimes when I sleep and I wake up, and I’m just choking and it’s because I’m having a dream about being out on the water and there’s just oil everywhere.”

Joye joined a team of scientists in the Gulf, inves-tigating oil plumes she discovered following April’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill — plumes the United States government, British Petroleum and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association said did not exist. But evidence to the contrary was all around. The Walton Smith’s air conditioning had to be cleared every few days because oil from the sur-face water clogged the filters. Five miles from the site of the explosion, the thickness of the tar made it difficult to be on deck. Dead jellyfish floated amongst the Gulf’s detritus, and oil-slicked birds and turtles milled everywhere.

“It was just heartbreaking,” Joye said of the May trip. “I think everybody that was out there when it was really nasty has those same images seared into their heads. It certainly makes you think hard about deepwater drilling and whether it’s worth it.”

The plume Joye discovered, a phenomenon to the Deepwater Horizon spill, showed there was more oil in the water than other agencies wanted the public to believe. Her findings made her the poster child for the oil spill response, bringing intense media cover-age and scrutiny from businesses and government agencies.

See JOYE, Page 5

By MIMI ENSLEYTHE RED & BLACK

When Audrey made an open records request to the University’s Office of Public Affairs regarding a sexual harassment complaint she filed against a University pro-fessor, the office followed through according to proce-dure.

Audrey received the docu-ments within a reasonable

amount of time. All the files she requested were account-ed for. The office redacted, or blacked out, all sensitive information — even removing Audrey’s own name.

“They redacted my name to me,” said Audrey, who asked her real name not be used in this article, as she said her harassment case is still ongoing.

But Audrey’s name was still — somehow — released.

During its investigation of sexual harassment cases at the University, The Red & Black obtained several unre-dacted documents regarding the cases under review at the newspaper. Audrey’s name was one of many released in these documents.

However, Tom Jackson, the University’s vice president for public affairs, said these doc-uments could not have come through his office.

“It would not come out of our office that way,” he said.

In addition to the unre-dacted copies, The Red & Black also has documents it asked for and received through the proper channels in the public affairs office. These documents had been fully redacted.

And that has always been the case. The reports sent to The Red & Black have always been diligently blacked out —

every name, every occur-rence.

Jackson said that is how the office treats every request for information, be the request from a media outlet or other-wise.

But the fact remains that Audrey’s name was one of many unredacted in a stack of documents that made its way to the newspaper.

See DOCUMENTS, Page 2

Student information released in harassment files

Outfielder to move to Shepherd Center

By ROBBIE OTTLEYTHE RED & BLACK

Junior outfielder Johnathan Taylor underwent neck surgery to stabilize his spine Monday after suffering a neck fracture during Sunday’s loss to Florida State, according to a release from Georgia Sports Communications.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to J.T. and his family during this difficult time,” head coach David Perno said in the release. “J.T. is very tough and that is going to help him during his recovery.”

Taylor will move to the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, a hospital specializing in treatment for patients with spinal cord and brain injuries, later this week, according to the release. Dr. Kimberly Walpert led Monday’s surgery in the neurological inten-sive care unit at St. Mary’s Hospital, where Taylor spent the night Sunday. As of press time, no further information was available.

“I don’t know how we’ll hold it together,” head coach David Perno

said after the game Sunday. “J.T.’s a pretty special kid. Not too many like J.T.”

Taylor collided with left fielder Zach Cone while both tried to make a play on a line drive. Cone left the game, having suf-fered cuts and like-

ly a concussion, Perno said. Taylor was carted off on a stretcher and transported to St. Mary’s.

Though Perno said after the game the team may cancel some of Georgia’s upcoming games, team officials said Monday the schedule would remain intact.

Taylor’s family set up a page through caringbridge.org to pro-vide updates on his condition.

PHOTOS BY FRANCES MICKLOW | The Red & Black

Professor Samantha Joye worked with scientists on a research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico in May to investigate the oil plumes following the oil spill which occurred in April.

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Rape reported at Morris Hall

A female student reported a rape on Saturday night, according to University Police logs.

The rape happened at Morris Hall between Saturday at 11:15 p.m. and Sunday at 4 a.m. Hospital staff reported the incident Sunday night.

This rape was the fourth reported on campus this academic year, and the third reported this semester. A rape reported Jan. 31 was determined unfounded by police Feb 3.

Employee arrested on bribery charges

A University employee was charged with four counts of bribery Thursday, according to University Police logs.

Warrants for Gregory Charles Glover were issued in Hancock County. He is a College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences employee based in Sparta.

The bribery incidents occurred between Jan. 14 and Jan. 17.

The incidents were first reported Jan. 28 by a CAES employee, who said “a known individual had possibly used his employ-ment status” to obtain money, according to a police report.

Lt. Eric Dellinger said Glover asked for loans on behalf of the University when they were for himself.

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By LINDSEY COOK THE RED & BLACK

When we think of carbohydrates, bad food comes to mind — bread, bagels, baked potatoes — the food that will make the numbers on the scale skyrocket.

However, complex carbohydrates, the organic compounds found surrounding cells, may also bring the cure for cancer, according to one University researcher.

Geert-Jan Boons and his team, housed in the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, may be close to a breakthrough that could drastically alter the medical landscape — the development of a cancer vaccine.

The project was started 10 years ago after Boons, originally from the Netherlands, moved his team from

England to the University for the CCRC, an interdis-ciplinary research center containing 17 faculty mem-bers all working with com-plex carbohydrates.

Boons research focuses on complex carbohydrates and cancer.

Normally, cells commu-nicate with one another through the interaction of proteins on one cell and

carbohydrates on another cell. When a human gets sick with something such as the flu, carbohydrates are exploited by the outside pathogen. Drugs, such as Tamiflu, attempt to block the interaction of the carbohydrate on the cell and the protein on the virus so people do not get sick.

Cancer is different.In many cancers, the carbohydrates on

the cells change dramatically, no longer controlling communication as they should. They migrate throughout the body, spreading the cancer and eventually kill-ing the host.

Boons is studying these abnormal car-bohydrates, trying to exploit them to help teach the body how to cure itself.

This philosophy already works in a small number of cancer patients who make natural immunity against the unusual carbohydrates. When cancer attacks the body, the patients’ immune systems recognize the bad carbohydrates and kill the cancer cells, healing them-selves.

“But that’s only 5 percent of cancer patients. Our challenge is: can we do bet-ter?” Boons said.

In his lab, the team is making mole-

cules to teach the body’s immune system to attack the bad carbohydrates and kill selective cancer cells. Unlike with the flu where the body recognizes the disease as foreign and goes after it, cancer turns the body against itself, making the cure hard-er to find.

“The difficulty with cancer is that even though these carbohydrates are bad, they’re still self and the immune system doesn’t want to go after self,” Boons said.

The team’s solution has been tested in mice with great success. In a mouse, the team can cure breast cancer.

“We can basically cure the mouse, but it’s just a mouse,” Boons said. “Curing a mouse is one thing. Curing a human being is something quite different.”

The team is now collaborating with Mayo Clinic to discover if the cancer vac-cine can also work for humans.

Boons and his team secure cells from cancer patients to be tested in a labora-tory to see if, given the vaccine, they can recognize and therefore fight cancer.

“Research is slow. When you get the results, it looks exciting,” Boons said. “But it is small steps at the time.”

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After filing an open records request for infor-mation about the individ-uals who had made open records requests to the Office of Public Affairs, The Red & Black found that a woman living out of state had made a request for all of the documents relating to sexual harass-ment cases since 2008.

The documents she now has in her possession are unredacted.

The woman, who also asked that her name not be used due to her close connection with one of the sexual harassment cases, said she made her open records request through the Office of Public Affairs and after paying about $70, received several fully unredacted documents in the mail.

“I was very distressed,” the woman said in a phone interview last week. “The name was throughout the entire documentation.”

But Jackson said there’s no way she could have gotten the records from his office.

“She has talked to us about that and our open records manager is quite sure he didn’t let unre-dacted documents out of here,” Jackson said.

According to the stan-dards of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, as outlined on the U.S. Department of Education website, the University is only allowed to disclose “directory information” concerning students

Directory information is defined as “information contained in the educa-tion records of a student that would not generally be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if

disclosed.”Audrey said the infor-

mation released in the unredacted documents — her name in connection with a sexual harassment complaint — should have been kept private.

She said disclosure of the information may have violated her FERPA rights.

“For them to release my information, that is so per-sonally identifiable, is at odds with FERPA,” she said in a phone interview Monday. “But at the same time, I wouldn’t go back and not make my com-plaint because of it.”

The woman who received the unredacted documents was “shocked” with the lack of protection that was given to these students who are involved in legal issues at the University.

“I found that there was absolutely no protection for this individual as well as others,” the woman said, referencing one of the women who had filed a sexual harassment com-plaint. “And there are seri-ous safety issues involved in this case.”

Rebecca Macon, the University’s registrar, who is listed as the point of contact for FERPA ques-tions at the University, said the releasing of names would usually not be pro-tected under FERPA, as a name constitutes “direc-tory information.” She said the name would only be protected if the stu-dent placed a restriction on his or her record.

However, Jackson said the students’ names should have been redact-ed throughout the docu-ments in question.

“We would redact stu-dent names from any doc-ument,” Jackson said.

“And do so routinely.”But the question

remains. The documents were released. The names were revealed.

“I’m interested in the specifics of it. What was requested?” Audrey asked. “How was my name revealed in it?”

For the woman receiv-ing the documents, it was an issue of safety.

“There are allegations of issues concerning the safety of a student, and then they release all of this,” she said.

And for Jackson and his office, it’s an unsolved case, a question of great importance that has yet to be answered.

“We’re trying to find out where they came from,” he said.

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If the noise from Tate Plaza has students needing a bit of quiet, the Tate Center has a room for that.

The Quiet Reflection Room has been stationed in a small room between Tate I and Tate II since fall 2010.

The space is designated for “brief prayer, meditation or individual reflection,” according to the sign inside of the room.

The sign also asks students to use the space for 10 minutes or less.

Athar Naseer, a senior biology major from Lawrenceville and the public relations officer for the Muslim Student Association, said the MSA asked for a room in which Muslim students could pray on campus.

“What happened is in the previous semester, our organization had tried to get a room for us to do our daily prayers, and not just for us but for other people who might need to meditate or do their daily prayers,” Naseer said.

Naseer said the MSA president spoke to Greg Albanese, the assis-tant director of facilities and services for the Tate Center, about finding a designated space where Muslim stu-dents could pray.

“I spoke to the president of the MSA,” Albanese said. “We talked a little bit about the room, and we put a lamp in there and all. We had some trouble because people would go in there and study, and that isn’t the intention of the room. So we put up some signs.”

Albanese said students should respect the intention of the room.

“This isn’t the break room to go have lunch or have a study session. That’s not the purpose of the room,” Albanese said. “It’s for students to be able to have that quiet time to yourself to pray or meditate.”

Albanese did not know of any non-Muslim students using the space for its intended purposes.

“You know, I don’t really know if anyone else uses it. Some of the Muslim students need that time dur-ing the day to pray,” he said. “There may be other groups of students using the room, but I’m not in con-tact with them.”

Naseer mentioned difficulties in sharing the space since the room was moved from a conference room on the fourth floor of Tate II where the Quiet Reflection Room was housed last year.

“At first, we kind of had a problem with students using it to study,” Naseer said. “Personally, I would go in and find people studying with their laptops. And it was kind of frustrat-

ing.”However, Naseer said that having

one Quiet Reflection Room was enough.

“We are pretty content with hav-ing one room in Tate,” Naseer said. “It’s the center point of campus and a lot of people pass by it. So far, I don’t see the need for us having another room on campus.”

Randall Bourquin, the president of the UGAtheists, said he didn’t have any complaints about the room.

“If it’s open to all students, that’s fine. If it is a room for Christian stu-dents or Muslim students that would be a problem,” Bourquin said. “But if it’s open to all students, I think that’s fine.”

Bourquin also noted that students could appreciate the practicality behind the room.

“I’m glad the University has pro-vided a space like that,” he said. “If we all used it for reflection and intro-spection, we’d be better off.”

Tate room used for meditation

By DREW HOOKSTHE RED & BLACK

The water wars contin-ue.

As the state of Georgia asks the Federal Appeals court in Atlanta to over-turn a ruling banning the Army Corps of Engineers from drawing water from Lake Lanier for use in metro-Atlanta, students want to ensure the water is properly transferred.

Students for Environmental Action has teamed up with Georgia Conservancy’s “No Water Grabs” campaign to peti-tion legislators to pass House Bill 134 and Senate Bill 128. The bills would require the state’s Environmental Protection Department to determine the environmental and economic costs of inter-basin water transfers, which includes the water from Lake Lanier.

The bills ask that a press release be circulat-ed when a water transfer is authorized, and to expand the period of pub-lic comment about the proposed transfer from seven days to 30 days, where a public hearing will be called if necessary. The bills also outline nec-essary conditions that must be taken into con-sideration for an inter-basin permit to be grant-ed, such as the health of the donor basin, the num-ber of miles water will be transferred and the pro-jected need of the receiv-ing basin.

Matthew Tyler, a fresh-man political science major from Atlanta and the community service officer for SEA, said the bills will ensure water is not drawn from the wrong areas or too quickly.

“This campaign is try-ing to protect the future of Georgia’s water sup-ply,” Tyler said. “All stu-

dents know water supply is a huge issue in Georgia, and being able to protect the water supply is impor-tant for Georgia’s envi-ronmental future.”

Will Wingate, vice pres-ident of advocacy and land conservation for Georgia Conservancy, said the bills are vital for Georgia’s economic and environmental well-being.

“This is as much about economic development as it is an environmental issue,” he said. “If you take someone’s water downstream, then how can they continue farm-ing?”

Wingate said the bills are not an effort to com-pletely halt inter-basin transfers, but instead are an effort to ensure they are done responsibly.

“The purpose is to cod-ify protection and regula-tion of inter-basin trans-fers. We aren’t trying to stop them. We’re not try-ing to make them illegal,” he said. “If those bills passed, then everybody downstream and at the headwaters would have some sense of security that water will continue flowing naturally.”

Tyler said the two bills do not propose rash mea-sures, but encourage envi-ronmental responsibility for the state.

“Both have good bipar-tisan support, so it’s not really too controversial,” he said. “It’s a very mild bill. It won’t bring any wide-sweeping changes. It is basically a stepping stone to bring up Georgia’s environmental standards to that of other states.”

Group petitions bills to regulate water transfers

DINA ZOLAN | The Red & Black

A room in the Tate Center is designated for prayer, meditation or reflection. The room should be used for 10 minutes or less.

When Facebook users scroll down their news-feeds, they see who’s sin-gle, in a relationship, mar-ried — and who is in a civil union.

Facebook added the selection of “in a civil union” to their list of possi-ble relationship statuses, which includes options such as “married” and “it’s complicated.” Though

LGBT organizations have responded positively to the decision, the U.S. govern-ment and many states — including Georgia — don’t legally recognize civil unions.

The Red & Black asked University students what they think of Facebook’s relationship status update.

— Adina Soloman

LAURA JONESjunior comparative literature and Spanish major from Thomasville

“It surprised me that it’s taken this long to add it, and I think it’s really cool. It’s an entire population of people you forget about … It’s cool to recognize their presence.”

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TRAVIS TECHOsophomore social studies education major from Suwanee

“It doesn’t really bother me one bit, one way or the other. People can do what they want to do.”

BECCA CHILDERSjunior broadcast news major and political science minor from Atlanta

“As a believer, homosexuality is not something we encourage with Christianity, but at the same time as a believer in human rights, they should have the right to put it up on Facebook because not everyone has the same beliefs as I do.”

BAILEY ANDERSfreshman English and English edu-cation major from Alpharetta

“I don’t think Facebook should do something that’s not representa-tive of every state … It’s assum-ing something is acceptable to the millions of people who use Facebook.”

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In the past week, stu-dents have been pum-meled by leaping gas

prices, heard the wrath of the Tate preacher and sat in silence as the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church.

And students just said, “That’s stupid.”

“Stupid,” will no longer suffice.

Dictators are falling. Civil wars are sprouting. The earth’s temperature is changing.

And we don’t care.Look at the recent

Student Goverment Association’s elections. Only 4 percent of stu-dents voted.

If I had a dollar for each of the 1,438 students who voted, I’d still be more than $500 short of paying the reported mini-mum increase in HOPE cuts slated to begin this fall. And what did I hear again? “SGA is stupid.” “Deal is stupid.”

Based on what were these events “stupid”?

Where is the proof?

If I’m going to critique these events, I know I must have facts and the opinions of those that are wise on which to base my claims.

A statement without a basis is a house built on a foundation of sand.

People tear apart news sources such as Fox News and National Public Radio for being biased. Yet, the sources report facts. Belief-laden facts, perhaps — but facts, nonetheless.

The same goes for University students who hold fundamentally differ-ent worldviews about subjects being taught than their professors.

To those students who are offended by instruc-tion, I encourage you to look at the facts behind the professor’s slant.

These are the facts the state is paying for us to learn. If those facts offend your belief system and you do not know why, perhaps it is time for you to investigate your beliefs and sharpen them — reli-giously, politically or socially.

We must stop becom-ing offended at the mere mention of adverse dis-cussion.

The HOPE scholarship was not salvaged for us to learn how to be comfort-able in ignorance.

We must put on our big boy and big girl pants and bring something to the table — and that something better be based on sources.

Look at Egypt. A youth-led resistance just toppled a government that had been in power for three decades.

Look at Israel. Every person over the age of 18 serves in the Israeli Defense Force for at least two years.

Even look at Americans just a genera-

tion ago. Our parents fought for women’s rights, black rights and worker’s rights — and they won.

They used a multitude of sources and proofs to convince a nation. They listened to Lennon. We listen to Bieber.

This begs the question — what are we doing?

We as young Americans must stretch beyond comfort and into reason.

As the people of the future, we have the choice between what is easy and what is right. Apathy must not be tolerated any longer.

We should know our facts and act on them if we expect to compete on a global scale.

Stand firmly in the face of adversity and face down the darkness with truth — however uncom-fortable it may be.

— Charles Hicks is a sophomore from

Savannah majoring in sociology and

anthropology

State Representatives have declared war on Georgia’s immi-

grants. The 425,000 undocu-

mented immigrants in Georgia are victimized by hate crimes and face rou-tine violations of their civil liberties, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

And Georgia lawmakers are ready to crack down even harder on this perse-cuted minority group.

State Sen. Jack Murphy (R-Cumming) and State Rep. Matt Ramsey (R- Peachtree City) have pro-posed bills that would require all employers to check their workers’ legal status using a cumber-some federal E-Verify sys-tem.

Harsh penalties would be imposed for transport-ing or harboring undocu-mented immigrants.

The law encourages racial profiling by requir-ing police to make an arrest if there is reason-able suspicion that a per-son may be undocument-ed.

A bill proposed by State Rep. Tom Rice (R-Norcross) bans undoc-umented students from attending state colleges and universities.

These proposals are inspired by Arizona’s con-troversial SB 1070 law, which has sparked nation-wide criticism and boy-cotts for its harsh treat-ment of immigrants.

If Georgia follows Arizona’s path, it will become the laughing stock of the civilized world.

As a Jewish-American, I cannot help but see an eerie resemblance between these “show me your papers” proposals and the persecution Jews faced in Europe.

Denying an entire group of people an educa-tion is also a throw-back to the Jim Crow laws of the South’s racist past.

Today, the discrimina-tion is based on imaginary lines we call “borders.” Georgia lawmakers care more about geography than humanity.

State Sen. Murphy made this clear when he declared “if they [immi-grants] start to cause you bodily harm, you have the right to shoot to kill them, like you would any other criminal.”

A U.S. politician would never openly call for the killing of U.S. citizens. Yet it is somehow acceptable for a politician to say this about people born on the other side of an invisible line.

Our commitment to invisible boundaries is so strong we are willing to kill for them. But why is this so?

Human beings have an unfortunate tendency to draw sharp divisions

between “them” and “us.”We behave compassion-

ately toward members of our own group, but we regard outsiders with fear and contempt.

On an intellectual level, we know this is not true. We are all members of the same species, no matter where we come from.

But when we see a stranger — someone who speaks a different lan-guage and has different customs, religious beliefs or skin color — we feel in our guts they are some-how less than human.

The failure to see the “other” as ourselves has led to countless horrors throughout U.S. history.

When Europeans invad-ed and colonized the Americas, they viewed Native Americans as inhu-man — and worthy of extermination.

White Southerners saw blacks as subhuman and brutalized them with slav-ery, lynching and segrega-tion.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prevented Chinese immigrants from living in the U.S. through discrimination and depor-tation.

European immigrants in the early 20th century were discriminated against in housing and barred from employment. Rigid quotas were put into place, forcing Jewish immigrants out of jobs and universities.

Today, each of these immigrant groups has been integrated into American society — often through painful struggle and unwavering determi-nation.

The groups had to con-vince mainstream society of their worthiness to belong.

That is the challenge we face today. There is no “us vs. them” — there is only “us.”

Our representatives are trying to divide us by appealing to our fears and hatreds — the darkest part of ourselves.

We must counter their hatred with compassion and spark the light within humankind.

We must stand up and make State Sen. Murphy feel like the barbaric relic he is for suggesting we “shoot to kill” fellow human beings.

Let’s stand with our immigrant brothers and sisters. Let’s dream of a world without borders.

— Jonathan Rich is a sophomore from

Alpharetta majoring in sociology

The Women’s Studies Student Organization read Students for Life at UGA President

Peter Ascik’s opinion column (“We must engage in abortion conversa-tion,” March 3) with great interest.

You see, Ascik managed to write 519 words on abortion without once mentioning the only people who get them — women.

Ascik invokes the doctrine of human rights, which is inherently problematic.

Reproductive justice advocacy organizations point to the first arti-cle in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights when arguing for women’s rights to reproductive autonomy: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”

Ascik and his group seem to think the students, faculty and staff of University need exposure to anti-abortion ideology.

So, they have invited Justice for All to spread their propaganda across our campus.

These groups use inflammatory rhetoric, manipulated images and unfounded medical claims to pur-port the alleged atrocity of abor-tion.

Even more insulting, they reap-propriate and capitalize on histori-cal atrocities such as genocide, hate crimes and the civil rights movement to divide us based on race and religion.

WSSO is offended. But we won’t take it lying down.

Accounts of women’s experienc-es reveal the complexity and depth of this issue. Their voices articulate the loss they feel when they make

the difficult decision to abort. They also express relief, and anger that they cannot parent in a society that repeatedly and systematically denies access to health care, edu-cation and other resources to live free, meaningful lives.

Women’s stories tell us this — but only when they are not drowned out by the divisive and hateful discourse of many rhetors of the anti-abortion movement.

Students, faculty and staff of the University do not need “protection” from this discourse. They need the critical tools to deconstruct the ideology that belies discourse on abortion issues.

They need the knowledge to assess the validity of the alleged “accurate record” of abortion por-trayed in Justice for All’s propa-ganda.

They need medically accurate, historically accurate and culturally sensitive information.

Women do not need to be “edu-cated” through Justice for All’s ide-ology. Its rhetoric is condescending.

We want the resources to make this complex decision ourselves.

We already have our own morals, and we know our bodies and our lives better than anyone else.

WSSO will be at Tate Plaza today and Thursday with represen-tatives from Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom,

ChoiceUSA, Sexual Health Helpers at UGA and others. Our members and allies will provide information on comprehensive reproductive health care access in Georgia and the United States.

We will host a Celebration for Reproductive Freedom, a perfect complement to Justice for All’s Carnival of Vitriol.

Like Ascik, we “intend to bring abortion into the open where peo-ple can see it for what it is” — a complex decision that can only be trusted to the people whom it affects the most: women.

Ascik said, “The violence of abortion remains shrouded in euphemisms and falsehoods.”

We say, put your money where your mouth is and talk about abor-tion in its real context — women’s lives. We respect everyone’s right to free speech.

But speaking as women, we are not going to let Ascik and others talk about us without us.

If Students for Life and Justice for All truly want to have a discus-sion about abortion that merits the intellectual climate of our campus, their members can come to WSSO’s sponsored debate at Demosthenian on Thursday, March 10 at 7 p.m.

We look forward to “engaging in the abortion conversation” with you.

— Elizabeth Barnard is a grad student from Pensacola, Fla. study-ing nonprofit organizations and is

the ChoiceUSA Liaison for the Women’s Studies Student

Organization

ELIZABETH BARNARD

CHARLES HICKS

JONATHAN RICH

When I arrived at the Lambda spring drag show on Friday night, I expect-ed to be entertained by some fabulous perfor-mances.

I did not expect to find myself moved to tears, with chills running up and down my spine.

Several of the perfor-mances were incredibly touching and courageous. I am amazed by the depth of heart and soul I was privileged to see on dis-play.

Bravo to all of the per-formers, to Lambda

Alliance, and to the LGBT Resource Center.

Thank you for a won-derful night and for the power of your voices.

This straight old lady is proud to stand with you in support, and will always be your ally.

FAYE FLEMINGJunior, Athens

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“It’s odd because I’m not comfortable in this role,” she said. “It’s actual-ly quite strange. I think part of it is that I am a very straight shooter type per-son. I don’t sugarcoat things … I think in the case of this oil spill and through the course of the past 10 months, people really wanted somebody real, somebody who wasn’t sugarcoating or making it better or worse than it actually was, but just look-ing at the facts in her hands and saying, ‘This is what I see from the data that I have.’”

“It’s not easy to be that lone voice,” said David Lee, the University’s vice president of research. “My hat’s off to Mandy Joye for doing that.”

Always asking why

Joye’s desire for answers is nothing new — it’s a life-long habit.

“I was one of those kids when the ‘why’ phase didn’t last between ages 2 and 4,” she said. “It just perpetu-ated into forever.”

Growing up in the Carolinas both on the beach and her family’s farm, much of Joye’s career goals and work ethic can be traced to age 11. It was then that she sat atop a stack of phone books so she could drive a tractor through her father’s tobac-co, corn, soybean and cot-ton fields.

“You grow up on a farm, you get up with the sun and you go in to eat when the sun goes down,” she said. “I was used to work-ing hard.”

When she wasn’t work-ing on the farm or playing with her sister — who would grow up to become a geologist — Joye could be found in a darkroom study-ing microorganisms such as “euglenoids and ciliates” under her microscope, or fishing in one of the mini ponds on the farm.

“I wasn’t really allowed to watch television,” she said. “My parents pushed

me to read. I read and read and couldn’t get enough. I spent a lot of time outside. I spent a lot of time work-ing the earth with my hands.”

During the summer, Joye’s family traveled to Myrtle Beach, a much dif-ferent place then than it is today.

Before high-rise hotels and gift shops lined the seashore, Myrtle Beach was a place of discovery.

“We would go fishing. We would canoe in the tidal creeks,” Joye said. “I used to do the craziest things —

I would get in the ocean and swim so far off shore that the people on the beach were just specks. My mother would always have heart attacks because she was convinced I was going to get eaten by a shark.”

Joye swam into deep waters with pods of dolphins and schools of fish, becoming part of the ecosystems she would later study.

“I always just wanted to get in the water and explore. I had my cheapo snorkel and I would go down and watch the fish,” she said. “I would always see [my mother] on the beach waving her arms, and I know she was going, ‘Get back in here!’ But I couldn’t hear what she was saying, so it was convenient to be that far offshore.”

Joye’s blood “runneth blue” for something besides a Tar Heels’ love of North Carolina basketball — the deep blue sea. She headed off to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to be a heart surgeon, but changed her career goals after an oceanography elec-tive class.

“I pretty much decided I was going to be an ocean-ographer between the time of my junior and senior years,” she said. “I didn’t tell my mother until I was basically going to grad school because I was afraid she would disown me. She thought it was a very bad idea because it was not anything she had consid-

ered to be a ‘safe’ career, and by ‘safe’ I mean ‘have steady employment doing.’ When I had this realization that I wanted to be an oceanographer, it was like somebody had just took the world off my shoulders. It was almost like I knew it in the back of my head all the time, but I just never thought I could do that as a career.”

But for Joye, oceanogra-phy was a “safe” idea.

“I look back and I can’t imagine myself in a hospi-tal 18 hours a day,” Joye continued. “I do 36-hour shifts on ships all the time, but it’s different being out on the water versus being inside. I love being out on the water — there’s just something about it that makes you feel alive.”

Joye obtained her under-graduate, master’s and Ph.D. at UNC, heading off to San Francisco State University and Texas A&M before coming to the University in 1997 as an assistant professor in marine biology.

Athens was one of the top three places she want-ed to go for a faculty posi-tion, and not just for the marine science.

“When I was in school in Chapel Hill, the B-52s and R.E.M. were just becoming famous … so there were road trips to Athens to hear music, so I knew the campus and I knew a lot about the University just from hanging around. What really made me come to UGA was when they start-ed this department,” she said. “I went to a basket-ball school so I’ve learned a lot about football being here, and I actually like football now. I’m a big Lady Dogs fan too.”

A Gulf expert

When a crisis struck the Gulf of Mexico, there was little doubt in Lee’s mind who people would seek to ask for expert advice. Joye’s research of the Gulf suited her for the role.

“Mandy’s career has been spent understanding those chemical cycles, how microorganisms affect them … and how they’re

affected by disasters like the Deepwater Horizon spill,” he said. “She is one of those people who makes sure we have all the facts and are not just accepting bland statements.”

“If I could do anything, it would be to map out all the cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico,” Joye said of her passion for the Gulf. “Every single one of them, and visit them in a submarine and figure out why they’re different. There’s thou-sands of them. I’ll never get to all of them, but I’m going to do my darndest to get to as many of them as I can.”

The University’s involve-ment in the oil spill response effort came quick-ly after Joye got involved, Lee said. But contrary to popular belief, Joye and her colleagues didn’t work in the Gulf for monetary gain.

“It never would have been my goal to be that person, it just sort of hap-pened to be dumped in my lap,” she said. “I have noth-ing to gain from this. I love the Gulf of Mexico … I want to understand the impact it’s had and the impact it’s continuing to have on the ecosystem. That’s my vested interest — I care. I don’t get paid by anybody to care, I just do.”

It is Joye’s zeal for her work which has found sup-porters in high places.

“I have the highest regard for Samantha Joye as a brilliant scientist with integrity and the courage to speak openly about her observations and research,” wrote Sylvia Earle, explor-er in residence at the National Geographic Society, in an e-mail to The Red & Black. “She embodies the essence of what true scientists are — indi-viduals who observe carefully and report honestly what they discov-er. She should be rewarded, respected, honored and held in high esteem for standing by these princi-ples.”

Bess Ward, a professor of geosciences and biologi-

cal oceanography at Princeton University, whom Joye worked with during her post-doctoral period, called her a “top notch” scientist.

“There’s been some real-ly exciting work that she’s been involved in,” Ward said. “She’s the right per-son … It’s a pleasure to work with Mandy Joye.”

Recently, Joye played a main role in continuing the oil spill discussion during the Building Bridges in Crisis: Gulf Oil Spill Symposium hosted on campus in January. The three-day symposium brought scientists, govern-ment officials, media and the public together to deci-pher what the communica-tion problems were and how they can be resolved for the future, should another disaster occur.

“The whole point of it was to achieve something constructive in the disas-ter,” Lee said. “I think we all agree the communica-tion didn’t occur as it should have.”

“This is an oil spill, but it sort of brought into focus the whole importance of the health of the ocean,” Joye said. “The oil spill has given us an opportunity to talk about these problems … some of which are much more serious and worri-some than the oil spill, frankly.”

Going forward

Though the Deepwater Horizon spill has many unanswered questions in

terms of how oil and its components are affecting the Gulf ecosystems, Joye contends there are more pressing ques-tions about human-ity and the welfare of the planet that beg answering.

“That oil spill happened because some engineers lost

control of the drilling plat-form,” Joye said. “But why were they drilling there? They were drilling there because the U.S. consumes most of the oil and gas that’s consumed on this planet by human beings,

and that includes everyone here at UGA — including me. And as much as we might like to deny it, each one of us is responsible for that blowout.”

Joye said it’s a mindset, a habit that keeps America’s appetite for oil growing. But habits and mindsets can change.

“When I was in graduate school, we walked, we rode our bikes. Nobody drove to school,” she continued. “Oil is a finite resource. And at some point, we’re going to have to switch gears and go green. I think this blow-out was a call to green power and green energy and green everything for a lot of people.”

It is with this belief that she moves ahead, trying to best teach her students, and her daughter, about the importance the ocean has on lives.

“My favorite, favorite part of my job is being out on the water,” Joye said. “That used to be my abso-lute favorite part of my job, but now I hate in a way being out on the water because I have a little kid. I really miss my daughter — I miss my husband too! — when I’m out on the water. I really love teaching peo-ple about the ocean and about environmental con-servation and sustainabili-ty. I think that’s really what I was put here to do, is to inspire people to take con-servation seriously and sustainability seriously.”

For Joye, the work in the Gulf, the work to achieve green energy and gain independence from oil never ends. She has stuck with the practice that has remained with her since she was a toddler — never stop asking “why.”

“The biggest concern that I had when I was a student wasn’t that I was going to be unsuccessful, but that I was going to run out of ideas,” she said. “Then I learn later that every experiment you do teaches you something you don’t know. The questions sort of self-propagate. Every question you ask leads to 10 more questions you don’t know the answer to.”

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The British are coming! The British are coming! And so are the fifth grad-ers.

Hosting the fourth in a triannual series of debates between the University and Oxford University of England, the UGA at Oxford study abroad pro-gram welcomes four mem-bers of the Oxford Union Society today.

Joining the audience is a group of middle school students from the debate team at KIPP STRIVE Academy.

“I think it’s going to be great,” said James McClung, associate direc-tor of UGA at Oxford.

“We usually have a pret-ty good turnout and a pretty good response from the University community, but to have this group of kids coming over from Atlanta I think is going to be really neat and exciting — maybe as much for us as it will for them.”

Having suffered defeat

during the last debate in 2008, the University is down two losses to one against the Oxford Union, putting the British ahead for the first time since the Revolutionary War.

“That victory is still a good one, but we can’t rest on our laurels — we’ve got to pick up the pace a little bit,” McClung said.

In order to bring the team together this year, the UGA at Oxford pro-gram issued a campus-wide call to arms.

“We don’t always just go straight to [Georgia Debate] Union and just use their members,” McClung said. “We have students from the Debate Union, and Phi Kappa, and Demosthenian, and Honors and Law and lots of different other pro-grams on campus that we sort of all invite to come

and try out and fight for a spot on the team.”

This year’s event offers a hybridization of the British and American

styles of debate, which will incorporate the more robust features that the Oxford students are used to — such as interrupting the other team with play-ful mockery — and the more formal structure used by UGA students.

A few weeks ago, McClung was contacted by alumna Laura McDonald, who lives and works as an attorney in Atlanta.

“She explained that she was working with KIPP STRIVE in Atlanta,” McClung said. “And that they had begun a debate team there, and it was something that this group of students had really got-ten very excited about.”

McDonald studied at Jesus College at Oxford in 1991 as part of the UGA at Oxford program, and grad-uated from the University in 1993 with a bachelor’s in English.

“KIPP STRIVE recently started the first fifth grade debate team in the coun-try,” McDonald said. “It has grown tremendously in its first year. The team placed third in the district and had numerous state winners against seventh and eighth graders.”

KIPP is an acronym standing for ‘Knowledge Is Power Program,’ and is “the largest nationwide network of open enroll-ment public charter schools in the country, with a focus on serving low income, minority stu-dents,” said McDonald, who is a founding board member of the school.

McClung promptly invited the students after receiving the phone call from McDonald when she discovered the event online.

The KIPP STRIVE team came together under Warren Buck, who started and coaches it. He is also a fifth grade non-fiction teacher at the academy and a University of Florida alumnus — something his predominantly Bulldog-fan students are quick to point out.

“I take an awful lot of grief from the kids about my University of Florida affiliations,” Buck said.

Buck, who taught in a regular public school for two years, noticed a differ-ence after transitioning to the ‘Knowledge Is Power Program.’

“Just the level of teach-er that I’m working with now and the focus on high expectations and really pushing students no mat-

ter what their background is,” Buck said. “I think it’s the exact mindset that education needs right now — especially when you’re dealing with children from rough neighborhoods.”

In its first year, the debate team at KIPP STRIVE helps children to apply what they are learn-ing by challenging their basis for learning in the first place.

“So many kids ask, ‘Why are we learning this? Why do we have to do this?’” Buck said. “Debate really answers the question of why, because they see real-ly quickly that the more background knowledge you have — the more infor-mation you have at your fingertips — the more pow-erful you are.”

Many of the kids at KIPP STRIVE wish to attend college in the future, and Buck hopes their visit to the University’s campus will empower them to work toward that goal despite the obstacles they must hurdle on a daily basis.

“The neighborhood that they’re coming out of doesn’t have a whole lot to offer you,” Buck said. “They do a lot just to over-come their environment. They’re dedicated to put-ting the work in, so for them to see what the pay-off could possibly be will be very exciting.”

For the students who put in that hard work, the knowledge gained is only one of the perks of being on debate team.

“At my last debate, every kid that walked in the door, I was like, ‘Hey!’” said 11-year-old Roielle Turner, a fifth grader at KIPP STRIVE. “We all know each other because I’ve either debated them or they’ve debated some-body on my team. We’ve all made friends with a lot of people and judges and coaches.”

Turner, who wants to attend Tuskegee University when she grows up, is excited about net-working at tonight’s debate match up.

“It’s really fun to be able to get to know some of the people that have been really good debaters and that have been debat-ing since they were, like, my age, and gotten to go to the great school of the University of Georgia,” Turner said.

One issue the KIPP STRIVE debate team has covered thus far is foreign

policy in the Middle East.“Our topic this year is

about Afghanistan and if we should reduce troops or not,” said 11-year-old team member Misha McDaniel. “I’m kind of neutral because there are different things and different sides to it. We need to be there to help the Afghanistan country, but we are also pushing people into Pakistan, which is upset-ting India and it could be a nuclear war.”

McDaniel, who hopes that meeting the judges and people from other schools will help her and the team to perform better in the future, has an idea of who the victor of UGA vs. Oxford round four will be.

“I think it’s going to be Oxford, because I hear that Oxford is like Harvard, and UGA is like UGA, so I kind of think that Oxford will most like-ly win,” McDaniel said.

One of the main goals of KIPP STRIVE is to “get that diploma on the wall,” said Coach Buck, and some students already know what they want that diploma to say.

“Currently, I’m thinking of going to Harvard, because they put out good lawyers, and I want to be a lawyer when I grow up,” said 12-year-old Samuel Larkin.

Larkin has learned some valuable life lessons so far — the student will not be making wagers on the outcome of tonight’s debate.

“The last time I placed a bet, that was when I placed a bet on the Super Bowl and I lost because I was cheering for the Steelers,” Larkin said.

And what did Larkin lose?

“My dignity,” Larkin said. “I told everybody ‘the Steelers are going to win, the Green Bay Packers suck.’ And then when I got to school, everybody start-ed making fun of the team and saying, ‘Oh, they lost, ha ha ha.’”

No matter the winner, the goal of the event is to extend an academic hand in friendship to the University’s partners in education across the wide Atlantic.

“I think regardless of the result, we’re hopefully just going to celebrate by going and hanging out with them after the debate,” said debate union assistant coach Robert Mulholand.

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Budding debaters welcomed to Oxford standoff

courtesy KIPP STRIVE ACADEMY

Joining the audience in tonight’s debate against Oxford will be middle school students from KIPP (‘Knowledge is Power Program’) STRIVE Academy, a tuition-free public charter school in Atlanta.

By KELLY CORBETTTHE RED & BLACK

Fat Tuesday is also Green Tuesday at the University.

The Residence Hall Association and the Office of Sustainability are co-sponsoring ‘RecycleMania: Recyclympics,’ which is part of Green Tuesday.

“We will have games to educate people on what can be recycled in Athens-Clarke County and fun things to do with recycled materials,” said Claudia Langford, student intern for the Office of Sustainability.

RecycleMania, an eight-week competition between universities across the country, is meant to increase recycling, reduce waste and educate stu-dents.

“Freshman are impor-tant to educate, because they haven’t lived in their own houses yet,” Langford said.

Campus environmental groups will have informa-tion tables set up in addi-tion to games and an inflatable slide and obsta-cle course.

“They’re all using mate-rials that could be recy-cled,” said Valerie Swanson, student intern at the Office of Sustainability.

The RecycleMania com-petition began on Sunday, Feb. 6 and will end on Saturday, Apr. 2.

Students can join at any time.

Recyclympics to teach ‘green’ habits

When: Tonight at 7Where: University ChapelThe contenders: UGA vs. Oxford Union

THE GREAT DEBATE

When: Today, 5 to 7 p.m.Where: Myers Quad

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VARIETY & SPORTS The Red & Black | Tuesday, March 8, 2011 | 7

By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK

If strength of schedule, RPI and winning on the road are truly as important as the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee has said every season, then there’s no question in Georgia head coach Mark Fox’s mind as to whether his team will inhabit a spot on the bracket when it’s released Sunday night.

“I feel like our body of work — and you start looking at RPIs, road records, and winning percentage and all those things that they’ll look at — I think our body of work is pretty strong,” Fox said in his week-ly SEC teleconference on Monday.

Fox also made his case publicly on Sunday on Twitter, tweeting: “Committee always talks body of work … 20-10, top 40 RPI and SOS, winning record in conference and on road, no bad losses.”

But the team’s ‘body of work’ is

yet to be complete and could receive a substantial addition, or subtrac-tion, depending on its performance in the SEC Tournament.

As a result, Fox is trying to keep his team’s focus unilateral.

“We can’t worry about [the NCAA Tournament],” Fox said. “I think we’ve tried to play all year towards building a résumé that includes the things that the tournament commit-tee looks at, like your RPI, your road record and so forth. So we’ll have to let the résumé stand on its own with the committee and just worry about playing the next game.”

The “next game” for Fox’s squad is the rapidly improving Auburn team (11-9) that finished a 4-12 SEC campaign with consecutive wins over Ole Miss and LSU, and played Georgia to overtime in Athens before succumbing to an 81-72 loss.

“We play an Auburn team who is continuing to get better all year and probably playing as well as they

have all year,” Fox said. “[Auburn head coach] Tony [Barbee] deserves great credit for that because his team has maybe improved more than anybody throughout the year and then now they’re reaping the benefits from that.”

Luckily for Georgia, the Georgia Dome — the SEC Tournament site, which is located only a little more than an hour from Athens — should have a starkly pro-Georgia feel when it faces Auburn Thursday .

But Fox was quick to dismiss any perceived advantage because at the end of the day, the tickets are split evenly among the 12 conference par-ticipants.

“I don’t know if there’s any advan-tage. We’ve never played in that building since I’ve been here, and so I don’t think it’s a big advantage to be just down the road,” Fox said. “It’s still a neutral court and I think that it’s going to come down to who plays the best.”

Fox states case for tournament

‘Lucy & Wayne and the Amairican Stream’ by

Hymn for Her

Hymn for Her, though from Philadelphia, lives its life on the open road.

The album “Lucy & Wayne and the Amairican Stream,” accurately por-trays the many genres the nation has to offer, as it should. The album was recorded, mixed and mas-tered throughout the United States.

The recording sessions took place in California, Florida and Pennsylvania. The mixing was done in Detroit and mastered in Nashville.

This makes the album nearly impossible to describe.

As a melting pot of genres, every song comes up with something differ-ent for the listener to enjoy.

In the first three tracks, the listener gets to hear bluegrass, folk and punk, respectively. “Lucy & Wayne and the Amairican Stream” also brings forth elements of blues-rock, psychedelic and country.

Other times it is best to describe the music geo-graphically, or through random, scenic situations.

Take “Fiddlestix,” a song that presents a sound of an old fashioned Hootenanny down in the Louisiana Bayou. Almost naturally, the listener will find his or her foot tapping to the rhythm.

Or there is “Montana,” the road-tripping song that finds itself in a weird blend of Detroit garage rock with the Wild West rebellious feel of the state

from which the single got its name.

Even the mood of the album cannot be accurate-ly portrayed as a whole.

“Not” comes across as a sad, soft, Southern ballad.

“Sea” comes across as a peaceful, almost commune like sound.

Reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac or other hippie bands of the time, the song still finds itself blending in with the vari-ety of the album.

The two-piece does a great job with two key things: harmonizing and experimentation.

The harmonization brings the listener a feeling of something nostalgic. The art form of harmony seems to be in its last breaths, but upon listening to this album there is still hope.

Experimentation with the album is a treat for all listeners.

It comes across as near-ly flawless, in a way that reminds the audience of Jack White.

“C’mon” is an example of the group’s experimen-tation. At first the song comes across as folk-rock, but when the chorus kicks in, the song hits a psyche-delic vibe, reminiscent of the Dead Weather.

“Sangre” takes an approach of having verses that sound like the song is gospel. Then the song changes into a slow paced, psychobilly punk chorus.

Overall, the album is a 12-track masterpiece. “Lucy & Wayne and the Amairican Stream,” if it can gather enough atten-tion, could possibly make future lists of greatest albums or “1001 Albums You Should Listen to Before You Die.”

Hymn for Her is a group with a world of potential.

If the future works out in the band’s favor, the shape of music — and the artists who create it — will make a drastic change for the better.

— Wil Petty

FRANCES MICKLOW | The Red & Black

Georgia head coach Mark Fox publicly stated Georgia’s case for the NCAA Tournament in a teleconference Monday. Georgia has a chance to add to that case on Thursday against Auburn.

listen up!

By ZACH DILLARDTHE RED & BLACK

Athens’ fast food indus-try is no friend of Joe Tereshinski.

In an effort to get Georgia football’s players to eat healthier, the Bulldogs’ new strength and conditioning coordinator has devised a systematic approach to keeping tabs on the student-athlete’s meals.

Cut out the sweets. Cut out the junk food. And, of course, less trips

to the drive-through win-dow.

“I think that the first

week people kinda didn’t know what to expect. But now you might be away by yourself, and you’ve got a chance to eat McDonald’s, and you don’t do it,” senior cornerback Brandon Boykin said. “I pretty much cut out sweet stuff, that really doesn’t give you any good calories so I cut that out. If I want to get something, I might get a strawberry smoothie.”

But the most sig-nificant change comes in how coach-es are tracking the players’ intake.

If Boykin wants that smoothie, or any other meal, he just may have to have a camera on hand.

Players are required to send in photos of their

meals during the week, usually three meals a day, which must be approved by a coach before eating. It is a system that is designed to track each player’s intake, creating a greater sense of accountability —

even in the cafete-ria.

Though it may seem out of the ordinary, benefits of the program do exist, according to the players.

“I think it’s a good thing, I think it’s necessary,” Boykin said.

“I really have noticed it, I’ve really changed the way I eat,” added redshirt junior line-backer Christian Robinson, who said he has gained about 15 pounds this off-season.

The nutrition program flows through Tereshinski, who tracks the players’ eat-ing habits through the pho-tos taken of their meals and advises certain ones on how to eat healthier. Although Boykin said he is on a less restrictive diet and has yet to be called in to the office for his lunch or dinner selections, others have not been so fortu-nate.

The attention to nutri-tion, according to Robinson, Boykin and quarterback Aaron Murray, has made a “big-time” dif-ference in the team’s endur-ance during workouts.

And with Tereshinski’s focus on preparing the team for the fourth quarter in 2011, endurance has been a buzz word in the team’s interviews this off-season.

Head coach Mark Richt commended the Bulldogs’ added focus on nutrition, saying it was one of the most impressive parts of the offseason program installed by Tereshinski.

“I think guys are gonna be excited to see what their new bodies can do when they get out [on the field],” Richt said.

Coaches and players are expecting months of eating healthier foods to help the team be more prepared to win on Saturdays.

And if McDonald’s and Burger King have to take one for the team, then so be it.

By ROBBIE OTTLEYTHE RED & BLACK

To put it simply, junior designated hit-ter Chase Davidson is the biggest guy on the Georgia baseball team.

At 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds, Davidson said there’s no truth to the rumor that there are laundry hampers in the depths of Foley Field marked “XL,” “XXL,” and then “Davidson.” Still, he allows that his dirty clothes may be causing trouble for the team managers.

“Yeah, I do have big laundry loops,” he said. “I don’t fit in those XL. Freshman year I could, [but] not any more.”

Given his size and his strength, Davidson may seem to be an anchor of the Diamond Dogs lineup. But he’s strug-gled the last two years, entering this sea-son with a batting average of just .212 in 79 games. Davidson attributes much of the difficulty, particularly in last year’s sub-.200 season, to injuries that dogged him throughout the year. Last summer, though, surgeries removed a cyst in his wrist and repaired nerve damage in his elbow.

“I didn’t think [the wrist] was gonna be that big a deal,” Davidson said. “But when I got it done I started being able to do a lot more stuff.”

But physical struggles alone didn’t explain Davidson’s difficulty at the plate. With his inherent strength and playing ability, something else must have been affecting Davidson’s offensive output. He attributes it to his mental outlook, par-ticularly the pressures he faced as one of five starting freshman two years ago.

“I came in and thought I had to get these huge numbers and get these huge things done as a freshman,” Davidson said. “I just put way too much pressure on myself.”

The pressure is much lower, if not non-existent, this season. Davidson attributes much of his new success to working with new hitting coach Allen Osbourne. Osbourne and Davidson worked on Davidson’s fundamentals at the plate, as well as restoring his self-confidence. That’s led to a new focus from which Davidson has benefitted.

“He’s just never had the type of confi-dence he has now,” head coach David Perno said. “It’s quite a joy to be around him right now because he is having a lot of fun.”

Call it fun. Call it confidence. Call it a renewed mental outlook. But Davidson’s new focus is working. Today, he leads the team in batting average (.350), on-base percentage (.422) and slugging percent-age (.575).

“If I use my hands with my size and I

just make contact with these metal bats, it’s gonna go a long way,” Davidson said. “It’s been happening. I’m gonna hit dou-bles and I’m gonna score RBIs.”

Georgia’s Feb. 26 win over Baylor show-cased the improvements Davidson has made in a year. In the fifth inning, he hit a ball down the right field line, and charged past first base to turn a double. In the seventh, not only did Davidson steal the sixth base of his career, but he also broke up the tag at second and contin-ued on to take third base.

“My dad always told me he watched Pete Rose and took off of that,” Davidson said. “I’m gonna be that player … that’s gonna be the guy to hustle. I try to get team morale up by getting a double like that and just kind of getting the spark.”

When Davidson waits in scoring posi-tion after his at-bat, the stakes are con-siderably lower for hitters who follow him in the lineup. His teammates appreciate his ability at the plate, as well as the team contribution that follows his new offen-sive output.

“He can do it, he’s a strong kid,” said junior third baseman Colby May. “He can put baseballs out the park and in the gaps with just a flick of his wrist.”

Should he continue his offensive renais-sance, there may be no limit to the num-bers Davidson can post this year. But get the rest of the 3-8 Diamond Dogs hitting like Davidson, and Perno said he believes they’ll be able to turn the season around.

“If you would’ve told me he’d be doing what he’s doing right now, I would’ve said, ‘Boy, we’re winning a lot of games because we’re scoring a lot of runs,’” Perno said. “We gotta get some other guys going around him, and I think it could be an even bigger year for him.”

8 | Tuesday, March 8, 2011 | The Red & Black SPORTS

Football focusing on nutrition

BOYKIN

MICHAEL BARONE | The Red & Black

Junior Chase Davidson is the largest Diamond Dog by stature and it’s translated on the field this year, too, with the team’s top batting average.

Biggest Diamond Dog living up to expectations

BETTER WITH TIME

Chase Davidson was a third-round pick in the 2008 MLB Draft out of high school, and he’s now living up to those lofty expectations in his junior season.

2009: .231, 3 HRs, 19 RBIs, 45 games

2010: .189, 1 HR, 8 RBIs, 34 games

2011: .350, 1 HR, 7 RBIs, 8 games

DAVIDSON

Dogs eating habits improve