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By CAREY O’NEILTHE RED & BLACK

A University graduate student was thought to be seen brandish-ing a gun at the Dean Rusk Center after leaving threatening voice messages for one of his teachers.

University Police were alerted to the situation around 10:40 a.m. Thursday, and roughly one hour later they determined no gun-man was on campus and the sus-

pected student was already in Clarke County jail on unrelated charges.

Police are in the process of obtaining arrest warrants for the student, who attended classes during the summer but is not enrolled this semester.

University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said the weapon report was most likely made after rumors of the student’s threats spread.

“It’s sort of like the little

example we have in school, when you line everybody up and whis-per something in one ear and get to the very end and see what it is,” he said. “I think what hap-pened was people were talking about the issues between the student and the faculty member and as people talked about it, being in the world that we live in today, it eventually grew on us.”

University President Michael Adams said threats such as the one that lead to the report are

not entirely unheard of.“There are threats out there,

there had been some threats in this case,” he said. “I get threats. Unfortunately, sometimes faculty members do.”

No matter the number of threats, Adams said safety is always one of the University’s top priorities.

“We are serious about provid-ing as protective an environment as we can,” he said. “I have a lot of confidence in the University

Police.”Though officers were deployed

to deal with the reported shooter, the area was not evacuated and no UGA Alert was issued.

Williamson said not evacuat-ing is standard practice in such a situation.

“If we said to evacuate, I might have led them right into his arms,” he explained.

A UGA Alert was not issued

See GUN, Page 2A

Grad student’s threats lead to rumors of guns

By POLINA MARINOVATHE RED & BLACK

Say goodbye to unrestricted tail-gating on North Campus — for now at least.

University President Michael Adams told The Red & Black no changes will be made to the new tailgating restrictions on North Campus until next year.

“If it’s not working, we’ll tweak it at the end of this season,” Adams said on Thursday. “I’d like to wait until we get through Tennessee and

Vanderbilt at home-coming before we render any judg-ments about wheth-er it’s working or not.”

In October, Josh Delaney, president of the Student G o v e r n m e n t Association, will have a chance to meet with Adams

and other members of the adminis-tration to discuss the tailgating regulations.

“We have been on them about making sure we’re going to be in that room,” Delaney said. “We’re going to be very vocal and very adamant with our point.”

Delaney said the frustration of the student body stems from the fact that there was no student input when formulating the new tailgating regulations. When decid-ing to implement the new tailgat-ing restrictions on North Campus, Adams appointed a committee with members representing the environmental, administrative and security needs of North Campus. However, there was no student rep-resentative on the task force.

“I definitely think there’s merit

See TAILGATE, Page 3A

Tailgating restraints to remain for season

By MICHAEL PROCHASKATHE RED & BLACK

Graduate student Karrissa Wimberley keeps winning as her baton remains spinning, but it would be a mistake to say she’s on fire.

After almost 10 years of soak-ing her baton in kerosene the night before performances, her worst injury to date has been a mere blister.

“All it does is singe off my arm hair,” Wimberley said. “One time I caught the baton between my fingers and I got a blister, but nothing ever tragic happens. I’ve had a pretty good success rate for all the times I’ve been ablaze.”

Wimberley is the featured majorette for the Redcoat Marching band and a member of the competitive auxiliary team.

She recently flew back from Norway’s world championships in baton twirling with a silver medal, marking the first time in 30 years that an American woman has done that well.

Norway wasn’t Wimberley’s first abroad performance, nor is it likely to be her last.

With talent coveted by twirlers all over the globe, Wimberley constantly gets asked to teach her tricks overseas.

She racks up as many frequent flier miles as a diplomat, and in some ways it’s as if she is an ambassador of twirls.

“You learn so much firsthand. I’ve gotten to go to Japan, Australia, Italy and Holland,” she said. “When you spend a week or so with them, you start to learn a couple words from their language or just things like their traditions

See FIRE, Page 6A

Fire-twirlerleads team at nationals

Rape connected to binge drinking, officials say

NATASHA PEAT | The Red & Black

Georgia junior Brett Richardson came up just short to Georgia Tech’s Patrick Barron in the Bulldogs’ dual meet sweep of the Yellow Jackets. More on page 6.

ELISSA EWALD | The Red & Black

Karrissa Wimberley, better known as ‘Fire Girl’ to University students, recently took the silver medal at the Norway world championships in August.

ADAMS

STAYING SAFE DOWNTOWN

RING OF FIREPAGE 3

More from Michael Adams

By TIFFANY STEVENSTHE RED & BLACK

Deciding to have only one or two drinks downtown may feel limiting to students, but it could prevent them from becoming victims of rape, according to University and law enforcement officials.

Jimmy Williamson, University chief of police, said many rape cases involve alcohol and might have been pre-vented if alcohol use was not pres-ent.

“I’m not blaming the victim, because the victim is not to be blamed,” he said. “We try to remind

people to drink in a responsible way, because if you overconsume, you can make yourself more appealing to peo-ple who want to commit a crime.”

Fourteen rapes have been report-ed in Athens Clarke-County since June. One of the incidents involved a University student who said she was raped at an unknown location after getting into a taxi downtown.

ACC Police Capt. Clarence Holeman told The Red & Black alco-hol was involved in the incident involving the student.

Larry Gourdine, relationship and sexual violence prevention coordina-tor at the University Health Center,

also said alcohol was the most com-mon contributing factor to rape in Athens.

“There are other drugs that are out there, like roofies, and those are out there in Athens and downtown, but the main one is alcohol,” he said. “That can be applied to both men and women, but the majority are women.”

University President Michael Adams has also taken note of the number of rapes in the county, and he urges students to be cautious.

“I particularly would appeal to

See RAPE, Page 3A

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2A | Friday, September 17, 2010 | The Red & Black NEWS

University employee indicated in theft of money

A warrant for a former University employee who allegedly stole more than $200,000 in University funds was released on Wednesday, according to University Police.

Rebecca Adams Hill, former office manager of business operations at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, has been charged with racketeering. Hill allegedly embezzled funds from the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, accord-ing to Jimmy Williamson, University chief of police.

Williamson said the police investigat-ed Hill after officials discovered account-ing irregularities in the fall of 2009.

“It was determined that over a period of four years she had been taking money from the Carl Vinson Institute to a sum of $219,000,” Williamson said. “Her posi-tion was office manager, and so over the years she used a means to falsify docu-ments to get the funds.”

A University police report was filed about the accounting regularities on Nov. 30, 2009.

According to the Magistrate Court of Athens-Clarke County, a search warrant was also released for Hill in December of 2009, and was returned on Jan. 12.

Men harass female students, barred from Tate, MLC

Three men were barred from the Tate Center and the Miller Learning Center Wednesday at about 3 p.m. for allegedly harassing passing female students, according to a University police report.

Willie Elvis Barnett Jr. of Parkview Drive, Nathan Parker Daniel of Waddell Street and Antwon Maurice Dixon of Franklin Street were allegedly sitting outside the Bulldawg Café and bother-ing female students as they walked by. The individuals were not University stu-dents, but stated they “just wanted to see all the girls in the Tate Center,” according to the police report.

Barnett, Dixon and Daniel are barred from the Miller Learning Center and Tate Center for 90 days.

Barnett, a former business services worker for South Campus custodial, was previously arrested and charged with criminal trespass on Dec. 25, 2008 and Dec. 27, 2008.

University student arrested for driving without a valid license

A University student was arrested and charged with driving without a valid license and failing to yield to pedestri-ans Wednesday, according to a University police report.

Jonathan Blake Kirby, 23, was arrest-ed at about 1 p.m. Wednesday after an officer discovered he did not have a motorcycle license on him. The officer stopped Kirby after observing him fail-ing to yield to two pedestrians approaching the journalism building.

Kirby was transported to Clarke-County Jail.

— Compiled by Tiffany Stevens

CRIME NOTEBOOK

From Page 1A

because of the speed University Police handled the situation.

“By the time we got the information, we knew there wasn’t anything for students to do because there was no threat,” said University Public Affairs representative Chuck Toney.

“We’ve gotta get good information before we’re going to tell people every-thing.”

And Adams said he

thought the University Police handled the situa-tion quite well.

“They are well-trained in this area,” he pointed out.

Williamson said regard-less of how well the sys-tem worked this time, he always prefers a call for an unfounded threat to a dangerous situation get-ting out of hand.

“People are ultra-sen-sitive to this,” he said. “I’m just happy that our community felt comfort-able enough to call.”

GUN: No alert until officials get facts

From Page 1A

in some of the policies,” Delaney said. “I think that the beauty of North Campus is something important and something we want to preserve. But I stand by my intense discontent that students were not included whatsoever in this decision-mak-ing. It’s really disappointing for us when you make decisions that affect the cam-pus and you don’t talk to the people that live on the campus.”

When asked if Adams has heard from any students other than SGA on the tail-gating restrictions, he said he didn’t think so.

“All we did was adjust the rules on North Campus,” he said. “The general feedback I’ve had is pretty positive.”

Wesley Joiner, a senior from St. Simons, said he thought there was a problem with trash, but banning essential tailgating items is not the solution.

“I think it’s ridiculous that people can’t take some pride in making sure that North Campus is clean,” Joiner said.

“Especially since most of those people are alumni and students, they should know to respect that area, but I think what President Adams did was too harsh.”

Joiner also said he thinks a lot of alum-ni who financially support the University tend to tailgate on North Campus, and “that needs to be taken into consideration when you make restrictions like that.”

“I think they need to go back to the drawing board,” Joiner said. “Honestly, I think the rationale for putting restrictions on the tailgating on North Campus is because of the amount of garbage and expense in cleaning that up. But part of throwing an event like a Georgia football game is having to clean up after tail-gaters.”

Danny Brown, a University alumnus, said North Campus was bare on game day, but he didn’t think the first game was a good indicator of the rules’ effects.

“It was just kind of difficult to gauge things with that early of a kickoff,” Brown said. “But I feel like you’ll have some peo-ple tailgating less because that was kind of their thing. The people might just give

up altogether — not to say that we’re going to — but I can see where some other people might make that decision and just end up at bars.”

Brown is also the creator of a Facebook group with more than 1,400 members called “Michael Adams Tailgate Extravaganza (Myers Quad).” The group encourages tailgaters to bring all of the banned items — such as tents, kegs and grills — to the Myers Quad.

When asked if such measures could pose problems for students who live in residential areas, Dexter Adams, director of grounds for the Physical Plant, said he isn’t sure what tailgaters will decide to do.

“I don’t know where they’ll move to, but they will certainly have to move,” he said. “I hope they can find another lovely spot to tailgate. Certainly, it was not intended to diminish anyone’s experience at the game. But that one space on North Campus belongs to all of us.”

Last game weekend, American Stadium Services collected 19.8 tons of trash and the University Physical Plant reported 10.2 tons of trash — coming to a total of 30 tons of trash on campus.

Arthur Johnson, associate athletic director for internal operations, said there was never more than 50 tons of trash dur-ing a game weekend last year.

Though Dexter Adams also said last weekend’s game was not a good indicator of the effectiveness of the tailgating regu-lations, he believes the new restrictions are already having positive effects.

“There was a vast improvement,” he said. “You can’t compare it to the big night games last year, but it was an enor-mous improvement.”

Delaney said students and alumni he talked to seem unified about the issue, so even though there are no plans for loosen-ing the tailgating restrictions in the near future, he will continue fighting for North Campus on behalf of the student body.

“We are not planning on giving this up,” Delaney said. “We honestly believe there is room for headway. We have faith that if we just construct a solid argument and make that argument well, then the deci-sion-makers will meet us halfway on some sort of compromise.”

TAILGATE: Students want voice

FILE | The Red & Black

Tailgating on North Campus will be restricted throughout the season. After the first game weekend, a total of 30 tons of trash were collected.

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University President Michael Adams sat down with The Red & Black Thursday to discuss his views on hot topics at the University.

During the hour and a half conversation, Adams dis-cussed topics including football, rape, academics, research, tailgating and money.

Now, we’re letting you in on the conversation. Here’s a compilation of some of Adams’ thoughts on

campus issues.

Michael Adams on... No. 1 party school titleWe don’t run around trying to over-police your con-

duct. We try and hold out some role models for you and let you grow up. You make two or three phone calls home to parents of deceased children and it sobers you up real quick. Binge drinking is a pervasive national issue that injures about as many lives as anything I know. When you’re driving drunk, when you’re passed out in the bushes or when you become belligerent and harm either yourself or other people, I’ve got some con-cerns about that kind of behavior.

Michael Adams on... fundingWe look at credit-hour production. We look at where

the revenue comes from, and we are probably going to apply a substantial amount that we get in that area to that area. We always get into arguments at universities — is X subsidizing Y? You look at research productivity, and you look at the pre-eminence of the faculty who are there, you look at the needs of the state, and you try and put all of those things together.

Michael Adams on... his relationship with studentsI sometimes think people come out of high school,

and they come to a University like this one with an image of me that’s sort of like their fatherly high school principal who’s in the halls all the time slapping them on the backs all the time. It’s an entirely different entity. It’s a multi-billion-dollar operation. Do I spend as much time with students as I would like to? No. But there’s just so many things you have to do to keep the ball roll-ing forward.

Michael Adams on... A.J. GreenI think A.J. is a good guy. I got to

know him a good bit last year. He’s embarrassed about all this. He knows he made a mistake. A.J. thought this jersey was personal property, and yet the rules of additional benefits on stuff like that are very clear. He regrets it, I regret it, but this case is nowhere near the most serious one we’ve had in my time here.

— Compiled by Polina Marinova

NEWS The Red & Black | Friday, September 17, 2010 | 3A

By ADINA SOLOMONTHE RED & BLACK

The Navy Supply Corps School isn’t leaving Athens quietly.

Today, the school on Prince Avenue is saying farewell with a rock con-cert featuring Sister Hazel, Blessid Union of Souls and the Rattlers. The concert is free and open to the pub-lic.

After this semester’s class graduates Oct. 29, the Navy School will move to Newport, R.I., as part of Base Realignment and Closure.

BRAC is when Congress studies military installa-tions throughout the coun-try, making recommenda-tions on which should be closed and which should be consolidated.

A few years ago, Congress decided to com-bine Athens’ school with Newport’s.

The Navy School will hold its first class in Newport Jan. 10, 2011.

“It’s been a great pres-ence in Athens,” said Patrick Allen, director of community relations at the Navy School.

He said students of the Navy School have been active in Toys for Tots and United Way, and many completed their master’s degrees at the University’s business school.

Allen said the Navy School realized it would be a “shame” if the communi-ty didn’t join together to celebrate the school’s 57 years in Athens.

“The bands that were picked have an interest across age groups,” he said. “It’s family-friendly.”

A total of 2,200 tickets — all of the tickets avail-able — have been distrib-uted, Allen said.

“We knew there would be a strong demand, but this is beyond expecta-tions,” Allen said.

John Bing, an instructor at the Navy School, said the school secured its cam-pus after Sept. 11, barring

out the community. Athens hasn’t seen the school in nine years, but that will change with the concert.

Jami Talbott, an August Navy School graduate from Wintersville, Ohio, said she’s glad the community will get to see the school’s campus before the school leaves.

“I love that they’re open-ing it to the public for this final moment in time,” she said. “It’s such a historic moment for us that we’re leaving. I think we need to take a moment and cele-brate our history with the public one more time.”

Bing said the Navy School feels tied to the University, and to com-memorate this, the school commissioned a bulldog statue to be painted and then placed on the Athens campus.

The bulldog will stand there for the next occupant of the Navy School’s space, the Medical College of Georgia.

The Navy School also

plans to take a bulldog statue to Newport to remember its time in Athens and around the University, Bing said.

“A lot of the students who come through here become football fans of UGA,” he said. “That’s what I think of our rela-tionship with UGA. It becomes our team also.”

Talbott said though moving to Newport is an exciting new chapter for the Navy School, Athens won’t be soon forgotten.

“We’re grateful and sad, and we’re going to miss it,” she said. “But thanks to the community.”

Navy school thanks community

AJ REYNOLDS | The Red & Black

The Navy Supply Corps School has not opened its gates to Athens since Sept. 11, but tonight the school is opening up to the town. Tickets for the concert event have all been distributed.

RAPE: Friends can act as safety nets

From Page 1A

young women to make sure they use sound judgment about where they are, what time of day, and what con-dition they’re in because those circumstances occur in an overwhelming majority of those kinds of cases,” Adams said.

Williamson said he didn’t believe the recent media reports on rapes in Athens would affect many stu-dents’ behavior patterns.

“What do you hear when your friends go downtown? ‘I’m going to trashed, I’m going to get messed up,’ and that kind of thing,” he said. “Nobody plans for those things to occur, and most people don’t think it’ll hap-pen to them. So they don’t the steps to reduce expo-sure.”

Gourdine said he also tries to encourage students to prevent violence through intervention.

“If you see someone at a party and you see someone supplying someone with alcohol to get them intoxi-cated, that’s a great opportunity to step in and say that’s not OK, that’s not right,” he said. “Or if your friends are intoxicated, don’t leave them. Make sure they get home safely. That’s a message that, as a com-munity, we’re not going to tolerate violence against any student.”

Caroline Kirkman, an economics major from Ft. Worth, Texas, said she also felt like rapes in Athens could be prevented by students taking care of their friends.

“I feel like [the recent rape reports] mean that stu-dents aren’t really looking out for each other,” she said. “It makes me more conscience of who I’m talking to in bars, and it makes me make sure that if people are going downtown they’re getting safe rides home.”

Williamson said he didn’t disapprove of drinking socially, but that students should find a way to drink more responsibly and safely.

“When people overconsume, they come in contact with the police in one of two ways — either they’re the offender or they’re the victim,” he said. “We’ve got to get back to a culture where people have a couple of beers, and have a good time.”

ADAMS

A FEW THOUGHTS FROM: Michael Adams

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Mara Shalhoup comes to UGA

Creative Loafing editor-in-chief Mara Shalhoup visited the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication on Tuesday, and we couldn’t be more pleased. Shalhoup’s brilliant career brings hope to all journalism students. Even in this economy, if we work hard and write well, there’s hope for us all.

Humane act results in animal casualty

Alas, we mourn the loss of a friend. He was a bat, and his name was Rabies. All he wanted to do was fly across the grounds of this University and drink blood. But one day a large human hand descended upon the frightened Rabies. He was forced to defend him-self. He bit that giant hand, and it resulted in his execution. It was too soon. Rabies did not live up to his immortal vampiric legacy, and his unbaptized body now lies burning in Hell. May God have mercy on his soul.

Quick response of University police

OK, so maybe there wasn’t an actual gunman on campus, but if there had been, the University Police were all over it. They got the call, arrived on the scene and cleared the area, all before most University students knew what was going on. This will sure make us think twice before pulling a fire alarm to postpone a test...

No appeal for A.J. Green

Are you getting as tired of hearing about A.J.-gate as we are writing about it? The NCAA needs to hear Green’s appeal and end his suspen-sion so we can all get on with the rest of our season.

Michael Adams comes to the office

We’re not President Adams’ favorite group of people. I mean, we have his face on Waldo’s body on the front page everyday. But we commend him for coming up to The Red & Black to talk to us. Maybe he likes us after all!

No hope for North Campus tailgating

Perhaps, one day, red tents will once again grace North Campus. But that day’s not going to be this semester. Adams said the tailgating rules will not change this season. Who knows, they may never change. R.I.P. fun.

— Daniel Burnett, Courtney Holbrook and Carey O’Neil for the

editorial board

Quote of the week: “I went to pick him up, but he turned around and bit me and wouldn’t let go. So I was like ‘Forget you. If you’re going to bite me, I’m not going to help.”

— from Tyler Wayne Reed in the article “Student’s humane act comes back to bite him”

on Tuesday, Sept. 14

You can tie it up with a bow or slice through it with a knife.

Either way, you must speak up to avoid the absolute annoyance of that creepy person lurking from your momentary lapse of dating judgment.

Let’s face it: we’ve all been lone-ly and given someone a chance that we almost immediately regretted.

Some call it desperation — I like to think it’s romantic optimism.

Last semester, I met someone who seemed interesting and wasn’t too terrible on the eyes.

The facts of our extremely short-lived, pseudo-correspondence con-sisted of texting, some phone calls and a lunch at Bulldog Café, where I was already enjoying a delicious Chick-fil-A sandwich when he met up with me.

That’s it. Not even a kiss.After I realized our personalities

were mismatched, I was honest and pinpointed why I wouldn’t be returning his phone calls.

I told him that we wouldn’t be having that first date.

And we probably couldn’t do the whole friends thing.

And I didn’t see it necessary to communicate anymore.

Despite my Mary Poppins per-fection, there’s just no logical explanation for why this guy keeps contacting me.

He even left me a “Happy birth-day” voice mail ... and I don’t have Facebook.

I’ve never come home to find a pet rabbit on my stove or anything — just e-mails.

Everyone has a friend who avoids a confrontation thinking it would be rude to tell their leech they’re not interested — yet won-ders why their stowaway keeps in constant contact.

When did dating get so polite?Westside Middle School. Seventh

grade. I asked the most popular guy in the class to “go out” with me.

He hopped onto the speckled gray lunch table and announced my proposal to the entire cafeteria.

The roar of laughter surpassed the screeches of round, plastic seats.

Ah, memories.But at least I got the point — he

wasn’t interested.Nowadays it seems people are

afraid of hurting someone’s feel-ings.

But without a confrontation,

your nuisance’s love bug bite won’t shrink and you’ll never know when they will infiltrate your inbox.

What’s the harm in telling some-one you’re not interested in him or her? Actually laughing in their face? Trust me, it’s efficient.

There are socially acceptable ways of informing someone they went from being a potential part-ner to potentially forcing a phone number change.

Just remember, some people require a superior level of clarity when you’re dishing it out — so, when necessary, don’t let manners mangle the message.

Like most pests, they’re not year-round — just the occasional outbreak every few months. But that doesn’t mean we should put up with someone bugging us.

Avoid personally attacking the person on the reasons there won’t be a second date.

Citing a big nose or small feet would be petty. Instead, provide a general, concise list that gets to the point without specifically calling out their bile-boiling characteris-tics.

In extreme cases, when all else fails, you may have to write a col-umn.

— Samantha Shelton is a senior from Auburn

majoring in newspapers

SAMANTHA SHELTON

We must spread a true Christian messageChristians, you

should be alarmed.Now I know

what you’re thinking — this is going to be anoth-er article all about pre-venting those crazy, evil terrorists from building a mosque near Ground Zero.

Not this time. This time, I am going after you.

James 2:20 proclaims “Faith without works is dead.”

In this passage and throughout the Bible, Christians are instructed to spread the Word in the hopes that more nonbe-lievers will come to know the Lord.

Yet, it seems lately that many believers have laid back and allowed this task to be overseen by radicals with their own obscure and intolerant beliefs.

Yes, this refers to the likes of Pastor Terry Jones, who ignorantly planned to burn the Quran in Florida last Saturday before God intervened and told him to cancel.

To quote the infamous Dr. House, “If you talk to God, you’re religious. If God talks to you, you’re psychotic.”

But Jones is not my main interest. I’m more concerned about how the Message is being deliv-ered by radicals on cam-pus.

You know who these people are.

First, there are the football haters.

There is nothing like walking into Sanford Stadium on a Saturday afternoon while being persecuted by a group of ignorant fools who think throwing a pigskin is going to cause an apoca-lypse.

They hold up their “To Hell with the Homosexual” signs. They scream their own misin-terpretations of scripture. And they condemn com-plete strangers as they

pass by.I once tried to talk to

one of them, only to be told that I was fat and guilty of gluttony. I thanked him for the com-pliment and informed him that his unibrow and adult acne were very becoming as well.

Then, there is the MLC preacher man with the crucifixion staff. Last time we encountered him, he yelled to a group of us that we were lustful and God was going to punish us with AIDS.

Needless to say, none of us ran to the health clinic to get tested for HIV that afternoon.

Finally, there is the old guy who has nothing bet-ter to do than travel to campuses around the country and let students know that they are defi-nitely going to rot in hell for eternity.

Naturally, it’s always a treat to host him here at the Tate Plaza.

You might simply shrug off these schmucks because you know that they are not a true repre-sentation of Christianity.

But that does not guaran-tee that everyone else will.

To many nonbelievers, Christianity is exactly what these people preach. It is intolerant, ignorant and hateful.

Their representation is taking hold. The truth is not.

Christians have allowed this image to be procured. And now Christians should work to have this image dissolved.

So how do you do that?

Don’t go stand on the street corner and attempt to share the Gospel with random people. That is just taking a strategy from the opponents’ play-book.

Instead, reach out to your friends and peers. Share your beliefs with them. And act out what you preach.

Only then can they know what Christianity is really about.

— Jeremy Dailey is a senior from Conyers

majoring in political science

JEREMY DAILEY

Issues remain in ticket purchases

Caryn Klein’s column (“Football game and Yom Kippur don’t mix,” Sept. 16) makes a good point about student tickets, but misses the bigger pic-ture.

While the new ticket system is, in my opinion, a big improvement over the old one, two large issues remain.

There is no option for students to apply for tick-ets to some games with-out throwing away money on games they are not planning to attend, and there is not enough encouragement for stu-dents to give up tickets to games they won’t attend.

The former issue can be fixed simply by giving students an option to apply for some (not just all) tickets.

The latter issue can be fixed by allowing refunds instead of simple dona-tions.

The athletic depart-ment should simply give students more options.

To add to Klein’s issue with scheduling a football game on Yom Kippur — which UGA Hillel appar-ently asked the NCAA to change — if college foot-ball bowl games are not played on Christmas, shouldn’t the NCAA give that same respect to Jewish players and stu-dents?

DANNY PITTS Grad student, Entomology

Orlando, Fla.

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NEWS & VARIETY The Red & Black | Friday, September 17, 2010 | 5A

By KATIE VALENTINETHE RED & BLACK

The University has received a record-breaking amount of research fund-ing this year, thanks in part to a recent economic stim-ulus package.

The University received $175.6 million in research funding for the 2010 fiscal year. A substantial portion of the funding came from federal agencies.

The National Institutes of Health contributed approximately $57 million to research at the University, and the National Science Foundation contributed approximately $23 million.

Regina Smith, associate vice president for research, said the large amount of funding from the NIH had nothing to do with the University’s recent part-nership with the Medical College of Georgia.

“The NIH has always been our top source of federal f u n d i n g , ” she said.

In fiscal year 2009, the amount of research funding the University r e c e i v e d was slightly

lower, at about $174.6 mil-lion.

This was a large increase from fiscal year 2008, when the University received approximately $139 mil-lion. Smith said the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was partly responsible for this jump in funding.

“We here at UGA are keenly aware of how much the ARRA has helped us,” she said.

The ARRA is an eco-nomic stimulus package that was signed into law in February 2009. In the 2010 fiscal year, the University received approximately $23.5 million in ARRA funding for research.

ARRA funds are distribut-ed to universities on a competitive basis, Smith said.

“ARRA funding has depended on the quality of the applications we’ve sub-mitted,” she said. “It’s not free; it’s highly competi-tive.”

In the first few months of the 2011 fiscal year, which began in July, the University has received approximately $5 million from the ARRA, but because the deadline for distributing funds is in fis-cal year 2012, 2011 should be the last year the University will receive ARRA money.

“We don’t expect ARRA funding in fiscal year ’12,” Smith said. “When it goes away, if we don’t make up the difference with other awards, odds are we’re going to see a drop in fund-ing.” Part of the University’s strategic plan for 2020 is to increase funding for research.

Smith said the University must become more competitive when applying for research money in order to offset the absence of the ARRA funds.

She said turning in bet-ter research proposals and putting together teams of researchers from different disciplines can help increase the amount of research funding the University receives.

“Bringing together researchers from multiple disciplines — psychology, biochemistry and public health, for example — helps create a rich proj-ect,” she said. “If we can do a better job of putting together these teams, we can offset the difference from ARRA funding.”

Stimulus ups research funds

SMITH

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JOE WILLIAMS (1-2)

ZACH DILLARD (2-1)

NCAA Football 11 Arkansas 76, Georgia 35

Georgia

Total Yards: 902

Total Offense: 668

Rushing Yards: 97

Passing Yards: 571

3rd-Down Conversion: 58%

Turnovers: 7

Fumbles Lost: 3

Arkansas

Total Yards: 737

Total Offense: 678

Rushing Yards: 146

Passing Yards: 532

3rd-Down Conversion: 60%

Turnovers: 1

Fumbles Lost: 0

BY THE NUMBERS

Heading into week three of our Xbox skirmish, the fact that I lost the coin toss yet again seemed like a bad omen in and of itself — who knew I was so bad at flipping a coin?

To my surprise — and Zach’s, I’m sure — the game quickly turned into a one-sided Bulldog neutering, with yours truly sitting smug with a scalpel.

The past few weeks, Mr. Dillard and I have exchanged cheap shots and low-blows for the sake of our little video game escapade.

The truth is, however, the nasty comments we hurled at each other were fun in the simple fact we both expected Georgia to win — we have a good team, right?

Defending why I deserved a victory with a team like Lafayette is comical.

That being said, my stomping of Georgia didn’t strike up the playful jabs the sports editor and I have grown accustomed to — it actually sort of hurt.

Sure, we’re playing a game that has the ultimate crybaby himself flexing his muscles on the front cover, and half of the players in the game are either severely overrated or totally forgotten. [Editor’s note: Lattimore? Not such a big shot when pixilated.]

Our prediction shouldn’t matter, right? Not to run the whole A.J. Green thing

further into the ground, but the one thing Dillard was lacking (other than composure) as I wiped him across the faux-Sanford grass was a genuine star player.

Someone who could be the deciding factor in a third-and-long situation. Someone who could keep morale up and turn drives into something other than a fumble-fest for dear Caleb King.

My strategy for finally shutting down our beloved Aryan lookalike?

With Green out of the picture, the University’s offense relied entirely on Durham and King — which I exploited play after play.

The past two weeks has had King tearing up the running game, reaching over 700 yards combined.

Instead of playing noob-style and consistently selecting my defensive tackle to try and secure a sack, I sat back like a vulture with my linebackers.

If King ran, I attacked — hard. If Dillard threw, I chased after Durham for the pick. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, it really was that simple. Instead of trying to come up with new and improved ways to make Dillard cry, I think it’s important for fans to realize the severity of the A.J. Green situation.

With Arkansas — easily the most underrated team in the game — coming into Sanford Saturday, what will it take for the Bulldogs to cry mercy?

Hopefully more than a single game-worn jersey with a hefty price tag.

Drop may come in 2012

Editor’s Note: It is war between sports and variety. The rules are simple: each week we will flip a coin to designate who will represent our beautiful university in NCAA 2011.

Seven-minute quarters and updated roster changes will set the table for our epic full-season battle.

Though it may seem the two editors are disguising their friendship with a false bravado of hatred — they are not. It is all true.

Stay tuned each Friday for the latest installment of the virtual bloodbath between the hedges.

The only prediction that actually matters. Kind of.

There are multiple pitfalls to win-ning the coin toss and playing with Georgia three weeks in a row.

One stems from the fact that the variety editor begins to catch on to your tendencies with the team after three consecutive weeks.

Another is related to the constant fear that another of your virtual play-ers will be suspended for the upcom-ing game — whether it be related to agents or scooter helmets.

The worst of the pitfalls? Taking an embarrassing beating from a stacked Arkansas offense in front of every one of our readers, just one touchdown after another without any help in sight.

And the help never came. Never.There was zero help from a second-

ary rendered useless by Joe’s inces-sant passing attack.

And there was zero A.J. Green.Once again, Green sat on the side-

lines due to his NCAA suspension. Only this time the lack of a playmaker on the outside came back to haunt Georgia.

By the time you are begrudgingly reading through this column, the beloved All-Everything receiver may or may not have been reinstated for the Arkansas game.

Either way, a variety editor is in the win column with a resounding victory.

On the drive home after the loss, my mind flashed through all of the possibilities for this column and how to justify such an humbling loss. I thought of blaming the unlucky array of fumbles in the game, blaming WR No. 8’s suspension or just the simple fact that I began to feel sorry for Joe after hearing the heartwrenching story from his girlfriend that he has cried himself to sleep lately.

I even thought of mimicking Florida’s Chris Rainey and sending Joe a “time to die” text on the way home — but I figured a felony stalking charge would serve no purpose for this weekly column.

But, truly, the right thing to do is to take the beatdown for it is worth.

The right thing to do is to look across to the other cubicle and say to Mr. Williams, “Good game, champ.”

But the right thing did not feel right on that ride home, so I decided to pray that Joe would decide to sell his video game-worn Taking Back Sunday shirt. Only then would he be suspended and ruled ineligible from claiming this victory, and only then could I truly feel a little better about this loss.

I figured it was not too much to ask — a little suspension never hurt any-one anyways, right?

Well, except me.

FY 2010

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FY 2008

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$174.6 million

$139 million

RESEARCH FUNDING...IN NUMBERS

Sports Editor’s Take GEORGIA

Variety Editor’s Take ARKANSAS

Source: The University of Georgia

6A | Friday, September 17, 2010 | The Red & Black VARIETY & SPORTS

By EDWARD KIMTHE RED & BLACK

After a 4-game road trip that led to the No. 21 Georgia women’s soccer team going 2-1-1 — includ-ing a 2-1 overtime loss to No. 2 Stanford and a 1-1 tie in double overtime to No. 9 Santa Clara — one problem still exists for the Bulldogs.

Head coach Steve Holeman remains con-cerned with his team’s inability to put together back-to-back complete games — a problem that was demonstrated over the weekend.

“You enter that game [against Stanford], you know that it is going to be a battle. You know that you gotta do everything well,” head coach Steve Holeman said. “To come up short is a little disap-pointing. We had Stanford on the ropes. They hadn’t lost a game at home in three years and we’re 12 minutes away and so we are a little disappointed that we didn’t get the win. We turn around on Sunday and tie No. 9 Santa Clara, but with that said I think on Sunday we needed a better effort. We needed better execution, and with-

out question we learned some things this past weekend.”

This inability to stay focused and play hard for 90 minutes has already hurt the Bulldogs more than once this season.

In Georgia’s first two games of the season against Duke and Utah, the team went three straight halves without a goal despite taking 30 shots.

When the team was finally able to play like the coaching staff expected in the second half against Utah, Georgia put on an offensive showcase — win-ning the game 3-0.

But then, just a week later against a less-talent-ed Mercer team, the Bulldogs went into half-time trailing 2-0 before ral-lying to a 3-2 double-over-time victory.

Being able to consis-tently play at a high level, no matter the opponent, appears to be the only thing right now standing between Georgia and elite teams such as Stanford.

Even the voters have shown their confidence in the Bulldogs as they moved Georgia up two spots this week to No. 21 in the nation, despite their 0-1-1 performance this past weekend.

“I think we need to get switched on right from the beginning,” said freshman

midfielder Nicole Locandro. “That’s been something that’s hurting us, I’d say. We definitely have ‘it.’ We were so close, and we don’t get that chance often. When we get our chances, we need to take them.”

Before Georgia starts SEC play next week, they have one last tune-up game against the College of Charleston, where the team’s focus will again be tested against a lesser-known team.

“I think that it is impor-tant that we come out focused, we play with a lot of intensity and we become better from last week,” Holeman said. “It is impor-tant that we get a result this Friday night before entering conference play.”

The Cougars come to Athens with a 3-4 record and are coming off a 6-1 win over Presbyterian College in their last match. Sophomore midfielder Maryam Buazza leads the team with four goals and two assists for 10 points.

Georgia has never lost to an opponent from the Southern Conference.

Soccer returns from a successful road trip

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at breakfast.”Wimberley has twirled

fire since high school, but has been familiar with the spinning marvels of a baton since the age of six.

Rather than being dis-couraged by her family, it was actually sibling rivalry that inspired Wimberley to take her whirling flair to a whole new tempera-ture.

“At first I was afraid of it, and then my brother twirled with me in high school and he was a pyro,” she said. “He was a senior and I was a freshman. He did three fire batons and all the crowds starting looking at him. That’s when I said ‘throw me the third one!’”

Wimberley’s not alone in trying to defy gravity with a metal rod at a young age.

Most of the 13 spirited ladies that make up the auxiliary baton line have had an interest in chore-ography, color guard, gym-nastics and baton twirling for years.

This, and their rigorous practice schedule, is a main cause for their suc-cess at this summer’s

National Championships in Indiana, where they snagged three collegiate titles.

Lesli Koche, a junior broadcast news major from Knoxville, described the numbing sensation of victory.

“Our mouths were wide open — we had surprised looks on our faces,” she said.

Wimberley alone had two-and-a-half minutes to awe judges with a compi-lation of school songs such as “Go Georgia Bulldogs” and “Devil Went Down to Georgia.”

The rest of the group performed a lively can-can and a traditional Spanish routine.

Now that nationals are over, the majorettes are focusing on the football season.

Self-proclaimed as the face of the Redcoat marching band, the major-ettes said Georgia is known for having the best majorettes.

“First we’re Redcoats and then we’re major-ettes,” said Kay Leigh Gaines, a sophomore pub-lic relations major from Lavonia.

They all agreed their

loyalty is with the band first and foremost, even though most have never taken a music course.

This fall they will be counting to Freddie Mercury’s screeching fal-setto, performing such Queen classics as “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Bicycle,” and “We Will Rock You.”

The future looks as bright as the auxiliary’s smiling winning smiles, especially for Wimberley, who has been invited to perform for Cirque du Soleil and asked by a for-mer world championship baton twirler to be a part of a Broadway production.

“I think it would be so much fun and really excit-ing to do, but I want to make sure I have my degree first,” she said, adding that she’s not afraid of twirling profes-sionally at a later age.

“There’s starting to be a longer age span in the sport because people are figuring out they are just starting to peak at a com-mon cut-off age.”

Wimberley wants spin-ning, dancing and twirling to stay in her bones for awhile — figuratively and literally.

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Georgia cross country’s dual meet with Georgia Tech came down to the last steps Thursday.

Georgia Tech sophomore Patrick Barron edged Georgia junior Brett Richardson by just over three-tenths of a second at the finish line to take first place overall in the men’s race. However, both the Bulldog men’s and women’s cross country teams beat out their Yellow Jacket counterparts in the second and final home race of the season.

“[Richardson] led every step but the last,” Georgia head coach Jeff Pigg said. “That’s kinda the one you want, but at the same time I don’t think anyone’s gonna fault a guy for going out and try-ing hard and getting caught at the end.”

With temperatures creeping into the high 80s, Richardson took the lead right from the starting gun. As the race began, all 11 Bulldogs competing started the 8-kilometer race ahead of all the Yellow Jackets. However, Barron closed the gap by the final turn, and extended his hand across the finish line just ahead of Richardson.

“Of course I would have liked to have the win, but I just didn’t have enough the last mile,” Richardson said. “[It’s] never happened like that before.”

Pigg, nonetheless, has seen both sides of last-step finishes as both an athlete and coach, and expressed confidence in Richardson’s race.

“I bet he learns from that,” Pigg said. “If you’re out there by yourself, and you’re in control, make sure you have

another gear.”Despite the last-second loss of the

first position, Georgia’s men won the race overall, scoring 23 points to Georgia Tech’s 34 — with the lower score giving them the victory.

Senior Caleb Vogt also provided a strong showing, finishing third overall in his first race after being slowed down by illness earlier in the season. “I was sick last week, lot of respiratory stuff,” Vogt said. “I just felt healthy, but my legs felt better this week too, so it was a much, much better showing this week than the first week.”

The women’s race preceded the men’s, and with Bulldogs placing second through eighth, Georgia scored an impressive 20 points to Georgia Tech’s 43. “I hope to keep [my place] all season — that’s one of my goals,” said freshman Sydney Marshall, who placed second overall. “If I can do that, and then the other girls can follow me, I think we’ll be in good place to make it to Nationals.”

But by itself, the “pack” of Bulldogs doesn’t guarantee future wins.

“It kinda depends on where that [group of] seven lands,” Pigg said. “We’ve got a nice pack. Now can that beat other packs? I think they can.”

Georgia’s victory came despite resting junior Kristie Krueger, the winner of the Bulldogs’ previous home meet on Sept. 4.

“She ran so well last weekend, it’s sort of like, what do you do for an encore after you go out and run 16:55 your first weekend?” Pigg said. “We’re planning on a long year, and just thought it’d be smart.”

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Georgia’s cross country teams — both men and women — swept Georgia Tech for the third straight season.

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Highly-touted running back prospect Isaiah Crowell from Carver High School in Columbus will be in attendance for Saturday’s game against Arkansas.

Crowell, the second-ranked running back in the nation, has an offer from Georgia and considers the Bulldogs one of his two favorites — along with Alabama.

The 5-star standout was in Tuscaloosa, Ala., last Saturday for Alabama’s 24-3 win against Penn State, and was impressed by Crimson Tide’s gameday experience.

Crowell told Chip Towers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that hear-ing the noise of the crowd at Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium was a memora-ble experience, even noting “the crowd was so loud you couldn’t hear the person next to you.”

Crowell’s recruiting stock is still rising as he continues to turn heads on the field each Friday at Carver. He has rushed for 395 yard in his last two games alone for the Tigers.

Two weeks ago, after facing Crowell, Buford High School head coach Jess Simpson said Crowell was better than anyone he has ever faced, and looked good enough to be an SEC starter as a freshman.

That means a win against Arkansas Saturday may be the ticket to a stronger running game as early as next season for the Bulldogs.

Brother of Georgia commit receives high rating

Scout.com, a leading recruiting evalu-ator, released its ratings for Class of 2012 prospects Monday, one of which was given to family member of a Bulldog commit.

Offensive lineman John Theus —

brother of Class of 2011 commit Nathan Theus — was given the highest-possible

rating of five stars by Scout.com, making him one of top prospects in the nation among high school juniors.

John — who attends The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Fla. — is one of only three Class of 2012 offensive linemen to receive five stars. His national ranking has not been released.

The 6-foot-6, 274-pound Theus already has several offers — one of which is from Georgia.

Already having Theus’ older brother in the program could bode well for the Bulldogs, as family affiliation has helped lure prospects in the past.

Such was the case with current fresh-men Alec and Alexander Ogletree, who committed to Georgia together for the 2010 class.

Basketball prospects to visit Thursday

Class of 2011 basketball prospects Nick Jacobs and Tim Dixon are set to visit the University this weekend.

Jacobs, a 6-foot-8 power forward, is a 4-star prospect ranked 20th in the coun-try at his position. He currently lists Clemson as his favorite team, but doesn’t intend to make a final decision until November.

Dixon is a 2-star center prospect from Kendrick High School in Columbus.

Along with Georgia, Dixon has offers from Alabama, Auburn, Florida State and Oklahoma State.

Kentavious Caldwell, who has already committed to the Bulldogs, will also be in Athens this weekend for another visit.

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By NICK PARKERTHE RED & BLACK

As soon as Demarcus Dobbs heard Georgia would be installing a new 3-4 scheme under Todd Grantham, he knew instantly Justin Houston would thrive.

“I said that from the beginning when people were asking me about the new 3-4. I told everyone the people that we had at defensive end, like Justin Houston, this is the perfect system for their type of play,” Dobbs said. “It fit him perfectly. It’s his time to shine now, and he’s showing everybody what he can do.”

Houston’s results speak for themselves thus far this season.

In his first two games as an outside linebacker, Houston has already amassed three sacks — 11th in the country indi-vidually.

Houston said it hasn’t been as much of an adjust-ment because about “50 percent” of the time he’s still lining up with his hand on the ground as a 4-3 defensive end in Georgia’s nickel package. And as a stand-up outside lineback-er, his main responsibility remains the same as a 4-3 defensive end: Hit the quarterback.

“[Outside linebacker] is going pretty good. I’d be even more happy [with my play] if we had won last Saturday,” Houston said. “For us to win, I got to turn it up a little, so I’m still disappointed in myself. I feel like if I had done more that last game, the game would have been a different outcome. I still got a long ways to go with myself.”

It’s hard to ask for much more from a linebacker than a career-high 10 tack-les, two sacks and a momentum-flipping forced fumble Houston produced in the loss to South Carolina.

It’s that same team-first attitude that Houston responds with when asked if he has any goals he’s

striving for after finishing second in the SEC in sacks a season ago with 7.5, despite playing in just 10 games.

“I haven’t set any indi-vidual goals. Whatever comes, comes,” Houston said. “I’ll look at the stats at the end of the season. Right now I’m just worry-ing about the victories.”

And for Georgia to escape with a victory on Saturday against Arkansas, the need for a strong rush is greater than any game Georgia may play all sea-son, with Arkansas’ Ryan Mallett, the SEC’s top quarterback, heading to town.

“If you can put pressure on Mallett, and get him moving, that’s a big differ-ence in the game,” Houston said. “He’s got a cannon, so if you just sit there and let him throw, he’ll pick you apart. We’re going to try to put pressure on him and make him move his feet a little more than nor-mal.”

Family matters

What’s made this season special so far hasn’t been the individual numbers Houston’s accumulated, but rather, being able to look to his side and know his “brother” — DeAngelo Tyson — is right there with him.

Tyson, a junior, isn’t bio-logically related to Houston, a redshirt junior, but when you’ve been best friends as long as they have, a refer-ence to family seems more appropriate.

“Me and DeAngelo, we’re like brothers. We’ve known each other since middle school. We started playing ball together when we were in middle school and ever since I’ve played ball he has been on the squad with me,” Houston said. “We are very close, and we’ve been very close for a long time.”

Now, just like they did in high school for three years, Houston is starting along-side Tyson, who plays nose tackle, along the Georgia

front seven.“It’s been great, espe-

cially this year he’s actually out there starting with me,” Houston said. “I can look to the side and feel com-fortable with this guy play-ing because I know he’s going to do his job and do what he’s supposed to do because I’ve been playing with him for a while.”

The fact that they’re playing together now is a welcome change from the first time the two met — a meeting that Houston says began his awakening as an athlete.

That meeting came at a middle school basketball team tryout when Houston was in seventh grade, and Tyson, a sixth grader, was selected for the team over Houston — a selection Houston strongly disagreed with.

“I really did feel like I was better than DeAngelo at the time,” Houston said, laughing. “I felt like I was a lot better than him and he made the team over me, but that did motivate me a lot to work hard.”

Added Tyson: “Ever since then that’s the joke that we always used to tell, that I made the sixth grade basketball team and he didn’t. And I think that motivated him to become the great player that he is today, because the next year he was a good player, and we were like, ‘Where did it come from?’”

Ironically, it was Houston selecting the team the two would play for in college, as Tyson told Houston when he was being recruited that “wherever you go, I’m com-ing there.”

Sure enough, a year after Houston signed with Georgia, Tyson did the same.

“Part of it was Justin, but I also came here because I like Coach [Rodney] Garner. He’s like a father figure in my life,” Tyson said.

Ever since then, the duo has been motivating each other, just as they did nine years ago in that middle school gym.

And although they are teammates now and don’t get to spend much time on the hardwood anymore, they still compete.

“We’re always in the room playing video games, talking trash to each other,” Houston said. “It’s about 50/50 who wins. It depends on what game we’re play-ing.”

Houston’s game of choice is NBA 2K, while Tyson prefers NCAA College Football. One thing both can agree on, though, is their “pride” in repre-senting Statesboro.

“[Everyone back home] supports us very much,” Houston said. “They send us text messages before and after every game. If

they don’t talk to me, they talk to him, asking us how we’re doing, so they sup-port us a lot.”

That hometown support dwarfs in comparison to the support they have for each other, though.

“If he makes a big play on the field, I’m going to go up and congratulate him, same as if I do something like that. I think we have a bond together,” Tyson said.

It is not the type of bond that comes from friendship, it’s more than that.

It’s “more like broth-ers.”

HOUSTON, THEY HAVE A PROBLEMJustin Houston has vaulted himself into defensive stardom — with a little bit of help

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DEFENSEGeorgia’s defense has looked both dominant and dormant in the span of two

weeks. Arkansas looks to pose more problems through the passing game than South Carolina did, which could spell bad news for the secondary. The Razorback defense has not faced an SEC-caliber opposing offense, but they have not disap-peared against lesser opponents. Arkansas ranks fourth nationally in scoring defense through two games, allowing just five points per game. Judging on each team’s body of work to date — as well as last year’s high-scoring affair — this seems like a toss up.

EDGE: EVEN

SPECIAL TEAMSThough it was expected that this category would be a runaway for Georgia in

every game this season, Bulldog punter Drew Butler’s game against South Carolina may have slightly narrowed the gap. Butler, the top punter in the nation

in 2009, only averaged 42.8 yards per punt against the Gamecocks — nearly five yards under his career average. Regardless, kicker Blair Walsh remained perfect on the season, scoring Georgia’s six points on two short field goals in the South Carolina loss. But with Arkansas punter Dylan Breeding averaging a higher punt average than Butler thus far, as well as kicker Zach Hocker fail-ing to miss a field goal or extra point, the Razorbacks’ kicking game should stay competitive.

SLIGHT EDGE: GEORGIA

OFFENSEThis is a tough one to judge on numbers, for against mid-major teams both

offenses look impressive. Georgia hung 55 points on Louisiana-Lafayette, while Arkansas put up 44 and 31 points on Tennessee Tech and Louisiana-Monroe, respectively. However, Georgia’s offense looked stagnant in its first SEC contest, and with the possibility of star receiver A.J. Green missing yet another game, it appears the same unit will take the field for the Bulldogs, bar-ring a reversal by the NCAA. On the other hand, Arkansas boasts the fifth-best passing offense in the country heading into the third week. With standout quarterback Ryan Mallett distributing the ball to a talented group of receivers, there is cause

for concern for Georgia fans. Although Arkansas has yet to be tested by a signif-icant opponent, the Razorbacks hold the edge until proven otherwise.

BIG EDGE: ARKANSAS

Georgia vs. ArkansasGeorgia vs. Arkansas

COACHINGArkansas head coach Bobby Petrino has had his team prepared for two over-

matched opponents so far, winning two games in convincing fashion. Petrino is a steady winner in college and has quietly built what he believes is a contender in 2010 — with Mark Richt and his Georgia squad being the first real litmus test. The staff at Georgia has also attracted criticism over the past week, including some parting shots from victorious coach Steve Spurrier. Georgia holds an 8-3 record all-time in the series, with the team going 5-0 in the Richt era.

SLIGHT EDGE: GEORGIA

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RAZORBACKSTURNOVER MARGIN: -4 PASSING YARDS: 361.5TOTAL DEFENSE: 187.5 PENALTY YARDS PER GAME: 55LEADING TACKLER: Linebacker Jerry Franklin, 7.5

BULLDOGSTURNOVER MARGIN: +2PASSING YARDS: 192.5

TOTAL DEFENSE: 241 PENALTY YARDS PER GAME: 27.5

LEADING TACKLER: Safety Bacarri Rambo, 9

DO THE MATHThough the No. 12 Razorbacks are undefeated, they

have yet to face an SEC opponent this season. Geor-gia has cut out the incessant penalties thus far and kept the turnover margin in its favor, but the defense couldn’t make clean tackles in its last outing. And Ar-kansas is still airing it out against its opponents with the Bulldogs’ secondary next in line to potentially fall victim to quarterback Ryan Mallett’s strong and accu-rate arm. The numbers say it all:

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However, one would be hard-pressed to find any-one on the Georgia defense who has forgotten what Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett did against the Bulldogs last season.

In case they forgot, though, the tape of last year’s game had 408 reminders for them — as in the number of yards Mallett threw against the Georgia secondary in the 52-41 shootout won by Georgia at Arkansas last season.

“It was just all Ryan Mallett,” defensive tackle DeAngelo Tyson said. “That’s all you can say [about last year’s game].”

The Georgia secondary wasn’t the only one torched in last season’s game, though, as Joe Cox had the best game of his career in a 375-yard pass-ing performance.

“Last year was definite-ly one of those games where the dam kind of broke and both teams were kind of scoring at will,” offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said. “It was one of those games that was back and forth, where you felt like you had to score every time you had the ball.”

With 10 starters back on offense, Bobby Petrino’s offensive juggernaut has shown little signs of slow-ing down this season, boasting the SEC’s top offense with an average of 509 yards per game of total offense through two games.

“They have a lot of returning starters on both sides of the ball. They are a very, very dangerous offensive football team,” head coach Mark Richt said. “They have probably the No. 1 pro prospect at quarterback of anybody in the nation in Ryan Mallett.”

Mallett’s definitely lived up to the billing this sea-

son, throwing for 701 yards over his first two games and leading his team to a No. 12 ranking.

“He’s just in a class all to himself,” linebacker Christian Robinson said. “Not to blow him up, but he really is that good, and we definitely have a chal-lenge this week.”

With the challenges Mallett presents, and the fact that Georgia’s offense is freshly removed from a less-than-stellar, 6-point offensive showing a week ago, Richt isn’t sure whether his offense will be able to match Arkansas’ production.

However, to have a

chance, he says the kid gloves are going to have to come off Aaron Murray.

“We have to let him shoot a little bit more than we have lately. Can Murray match Mallett? I don’t know about that,” Richt said. “I don’t know what’s going to happen.

“We could predict shoo-touts and it becomes a real close game, a low-scoring game. It’s just so hard to tell. I know that when you play good teams, you tend to not have as much offense or not as many stats. It tends to make both teams look maybe not as good as they might have looked in their open-

ers, but they do have the ability to be truly explo-sive on offense. I’m not sure we’ve proved that yet this year.”

The Georgia offense would have a lot better chance of proving its explosiveness if star receiv-er A.J. Green wins his NCAA appeal and is back in time for Saturday’s game.

But with the decision on Green’s future not set until today, Petrino and his staff are having to pre-pare as if Green will play.

“We have to prepare as if he’s going to play, because we have no word if he is or not,” Petrino

said. “So it’s just a matter of having our game plan set as if he’s going to be on the field.”

Whether Green is on the field or not, Georgia’s offense can’t afford to fre-quent the three-and-outs it endured last week against South Carolina.

“Our offense may be our best weapon at holding Arkansas’ offense off the field,” wide receiver Kris Durham said. “If we have to run the ball to limit their time with the ball, then that’s what we’re going to have to do.”

But how does the defense itself go about slowing down Mallett, with

everybody questioning them after last week’s per-formance?

“[The pass rush] is going to be very impor-tant. He’s an NFL-type quarterback, he has good reads, and he checks off when he needs to, but were going to try to get after him,” defensive end Demarcus Dobbs said. “It’s going to be important for us to get to him with the four-man rush, not just when we bring the blitz.”

At 6-foot-6 and 238 pounds, Mallett is far from mobile in the pocket.

But with four senior offensive linemen in front of him, three returning wide receivers and one of the conference’s best tight ends in D.J. Williams, get-ting to Mallett is easier said than done.

“They have three great receivers coming back. They were all sophomores last year, and I thought they were fantastic last year,” Richt said. “They have four returning offen-sive linemen who are seniors, and their tight end, D.J. Williams, is a fan-tastic player, a senior who is very versatile. That is going to be a challenge.”

For Georgia, it is a chal-lenge with huge implica-tions, as a loss would put Georgia in a deep hole in the SEC at 0-2.

“I don’t know how big a game can get, but this is big. We know that and our coaches know it, our play-ers know it, I think the Bulldog nation knows it. It’s big,” Richt said. “We have to get after it. We have to play with a lot of intensity and with a lot of discipline and challenge a very good Arkansas Razorback team, [the] 12th-ranked team in the country.”

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Georgia’s offensive line has struggled. The most experienced unit for the Bulldogs has not gotten off to the best of starts, paving the way

for only 61 yards rushing against South Carolina. Though Arkansas doesn’t possess playmakers such as South Carolina’s Cliff Matthews or Devin Taylor at the end posi-tion, the Razorbacks have a solid unit led by juniors Jake Bequette and Zach Stadther. Georgia’s linemen have stressed throughout the week that their performance will be much improved from the conference opener, and needs to be for Georgia to stay competitive. Georgia will need to run the ball more efficiently throughout the con-

test not only for the offense to put up more points, but to keep Arkansas’ offense off the field for extended periods of time.

Williams is one of the top tight ends in the nation, and has been considered such since his sophomore year in 2008, when he was named a Mackey Award semifinalist. Williams creates matchup prob-

lems for any defense and is a perfect complement for the Razorbacks’ passing attack — opening up opportunities for talented receivers Joe Adams and Greg Childs. With the Georgia secondary likely preoccupied in locking down the Razorback receivers, the large portion of assignments to cover the 6-foot-2, 251-pound senior tight end will fall to the Bulldogs’ linebacking corps. If Georgia linebackers such as Christian Robinson and Darryl Gamble are able to match up well with Williams and prevent him from

becoming a safety valve for when Mallett feels pressure, it could go a long way in getting off the field in third down situations.

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Scary is a word that comes to mind for Georgia fans when hearing the name Ryan Mallett, especially those who remember the Arkansas quarterback’s performance against Georgia in 2009. The junior led an

Arkansas offense that scored at will against the Bulldogs in last season’s game in Fayetteville, Ark., posting up 408 passing yards and a school-record five touchdowns. Georgia’s task does not appear to be any easier in 2010, as Mallett returns four starters along the offensive line as well as his five leading receivers from the previous year. Georgia’s regulars in the secondary struggled in the SEC opener against South Carolina, not only in tackling but defending the pass. When the Gamecocks did choose

to go to the air, quarterback Stephen Garcia was able to complete 12 of his 17 passes, including finding a 100-yard receiver in Alshon Jeffery. With a similar performance from its secondary, Georgia can expect better numbers out of Mallett — and a lot more points.

THE HEAT INDEXThe magnitude of the Arkansas game is not escaping Mark Richt.He knows — he has to.For those who do not know, Georgia’s second SEC matchup could

define a season in Athens — possibly even a coaching career.For to earn a win at home against a ranked opponent would not only

catapult the Bulldogs back into SEC contention and possibly the national polls, but also back into the good graces of frustrated fans. A loss, on the other hand, could spell disaster.

Following a lackluster performance against South Carolina, for both the coaches and players, Georgia is now facing a losing record this far into the season for the first time in the Richt era.

The last time Georgia started a season 1-2 was in 1996, during former head coach Jim Donnan’s first season at the helm. Fittingly, that 1996 team was the last Georgia squad to finish a season with a losing record, a lowly 5-6.

A 1-2 start to the 2010 season, including 0-2 in the conference, would be unacceptable to fans or the administration.

Furthermore, if this Georgia team were to mimic the 1996 squad and “accomplish” a losing season, the Richt hot-seat debate will pick up a full head of steam by the end of the season.

Couple any of the previous downfalls with a combination of losses to Florida, Auburn, Tennessee and/or Georgia Tech, and a coaching search could be in place in a few months.

The upcoming Arkansas game is pivotal for the rest of the season, a conference clash that could signify that the South Carolina loss was sim-ply a minor hiccup or that it could be a long season in Athens.

There are so many consequences — both positive and negative — rid-ing on Saturday’s outcome. And Mark Richt knows them all.

— Nick Parker

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BREAKING DOWN WALLSDemarcus Dobbs does it on the field every week — but had to learn how off the field

By RACHEL G. BOWERSTHE RED & BLACK

Demarcus Dobbs is expected to break down walls put up by opposing offensive linemen.

The defensive end is supposed to apply pressure to opposing offenses to stop forward progression.

He is asked to wear down the only line of pro-tection that separates him and from vulnerable quar-terbacks in the pocket.

And as one of the oldest players on the defensive line, he has a slew of under-classmen looking to him for the exact formula to get those walls to crumble.

“I try to take on a lead-ership role and try to help bring the guys up. But it all comes with production,” Dobbs said. “I have to pro-duce and it’s hard to preach about a lot of things if you’re not practicing what you preach. I’m trying hard and just trying to keep the morale up going into this next game.”

And after last week’s loss to South Carolina, Dobbs used his resilient personality to try to boost the Georgia defense in preparations for Arkansas.

“I try to be there and crack a couple jokes here and there and try to keep their spirits up, keep every-body’s spirits up,” Dobbs said. “I just try to keep the morale, the team up and that’s what we need in order to push forward and accomplish all the goals we set at the beginning of the season.”

Though Dobbs acts as a bulldozer each Saturday, he wasn’t always wired to do so.

The 6-foot-2, 274-pound-er has years of experience in building proverbial walls to protect himself from emotional adversity.

He spent the first years of his childhood in “foster homes and shelters” and when Dobbs moved from Atlanta to Savannah as a youngster, he made the best of his situation with his younger brother Daniel at Bethesda Home for Boys.

But when Dobbs was in eighth grade, his smile

caught the eye of an unsus-pecting cheerleading coach at a charity event held at Bethesda.

Stephanie Britt and her family’s lives would never be the same.

“She called her husband [Danny] and let him know about me and there was also this guy named Tony Ornelas. He really spoke up for me because they need-ed to know more about me and he was really my bridge from Bethesda to Coach Britt,” Dobbs said. “He talked good about me and Coach looked up all my stuff, all my academics and everything and made sure that was good and they really took me under their wing from then on.”

To avoid the possibility of being let down by the Britts, Dobbs built up a wall of protection to shield his emotions from the same kind of heartbreak people in his past caused by com-ing into and abruptly exit-ing his life.

But the Britts eventual-ly weakened Dobbs’ emo-tional fortifications and

Dobbs realized their senti-ments were genuine.

“At first, I was kinda skeptical because I didn’t wanna it to be just a repeti-tive thing — somebody coming to you and saying they care about you and then leaving,” Dobbs said. “So it really took a long time for me to even open up to them.”

About the same time Dobbs met the Britts — Danny, Stephanie and their two daughters, Southern and Saylor, who Dobbs calls his “little sisters” — he was being recruited by Calvary Baptist for his aca-demics, something Dobbs prided himself on.

“I wasn’t always the best kid, but I did take care of business in the classroom,” Dobbs said. “So the first thing [Calvary Baptist] looked at was my academ-ics and my academics were good. I had good grades — straight As.”

Dobbs went through another whirlwind of changes — meeting the Britts and starting school at Calvary Baptist. But it

was in his senior year of high school that Dobbs found his permanent home.

After troubles at Bethesda became too much for him to handle, the Britts made the ulti-mate move to give the then 18-year-old Dobbs a sense of belonging.

The family of four cleaned out the office in their house and converted it into a bedroom for their surrogate son. Dobbs moved in for the remainder of high school, and still calls the Britts’ house in Savannah his home.

“They’ve been nothing but good to me,” Dobbs said. “They helped me with a lot of stuff. They got me my first cell phone, got me my first car. It’s all thanks to them that I’m here where I am right now.”

But graduation came and went, and Dobbs was faced with another transi-tion, another change. He would leave the family he had finally become com-fortable with for college in an unfamiliar town five hours from home.

Just as he did with the Britts, Dobbs threw up another fortified wall when he came to Athens in 2006. He kept that barricade intact for the first semester of his college career, not socializing with his team-mates or forming trusting friendships.

“Some of [my team-mates] thought I was crazy because I snapped a couple times, but they really didn’t know what for,” Dobbs said. “But that’s just my way of protecting myself from all the things I’ve been through. It’s hard going into a different sur-rounding and just accept-ing people into your life.”

Dobbs “taking a little bit longer to open up” was apparent to coaches, but with patience, assistant head coach and defensive line coach Rodney Garner knew he’d come around.

“I think when he came in, he had a hard time trusting people,” Garner said. “He had to sit back, observe the real from the phoney until he got com-fortable. Now he feels like he’s got a whole bunch of brothers.”

After an adjustment period, the walls Dobbs

built slowly began to weak-en as he opened up to his teammates and coaches. He began to show the same kind of compassion to his teammates that the Britts showed him.

“He’s just the type of guy who’s always there for you, whatever you need he’s the kind of guy that’s there to help if you need something,” said Akeem Hebron, who calls Dobbs a brother. “He can get along with anybody. I think that’s what separates him from others. He’s just so caring about others.”

With all of the change Dobbs has seen through-out his life, he has learned how to put up a wall and break it back down to allow in those who truly care.

“I’ve been trying to learn to open up more and not

take so long to open up to people and let people in,” Dobbs said. “This has been a transition, but I think it’s been a helpful one. I think it’s helped me in the long run.”

Though the rubble of his past is slowly disintegrat-ing into dust, he has used his life experiences, good and bad, as motivation, feeding his hunger for suc-cess.

“I just try to push for-ward everyday and do all I can do that right. And I’m not an angel. I’m not a saint. I’m not perfect,” Dobbs said. “But I think God knows that my heart is and I’m just trying to do everything I can to the best of my ability because there’s a lot of people counting on me and look-ing up to me.”

A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME

Demarcus Dobbs wasn’t always a foot-ball player. He never played “a lick of foot-ball” until he was in ninth grade. But with as much spare time he had after school and the size he possessed, he threw on a helmet and shoulder pads to learn the game. He went from the JV squad at Calvary Baptist to playing tight end on var-sity to playing linebacker his last two years.

A HAND ON THE GROUND

After a position change to defensive end, Dobbs’ production has slowly increased since he got to Athens after red-shirting in 2006:

2007: Registered just one tackle with three quarterback hurries

2008: Started four games, had 19 tack-les, two sacks, two tackles for loss, one forced fumble and two interceptions

2009: Started every game, had 30 tack-les, 4.5 sacks, 5.5 tackles for loss, three forced fumbles and 14 quarterback hurries

2010: Four tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss

Senior defensive end Demarcus Dobbs (58) struggled trusting people when he arrived in Athens because of events from his childhood. But over the last four years has formed friendships with people he’ll ‘never forget.’

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