April 13, 2011 Issue

By DREW HOOKSTHE RED & BLACK

As the HOPE Scholarship and other education funding gets cut while tuition costs get higher, the costs of going to school are daunting.

Joe Paul, a senior social studies education major from Grayson, is married and has worked all four years of college in order to pay rent and bills.

He still has HOPE, but since he has one more year left in school, he will not be able to depend on that to cover tuition expenses.

“We rely on Pell Grant a lot, and with the proposed reductions, that could really mess us up a lot,” he

said. “If we have to, we’ll just make it up in loans. Definitely, with my HOPE being up and it being reduced. My idea is to work to pay for rent and stuff even though I have to work a lot. I’d rather not have to worry about my monthly expenses and suck it up and get a loan if I have to.”

Heather Cochran, a senior sociol-ogy major from Lilburn, has been supporting herself since she was 17 years old and has worked full-time and gone to school for the past six years.

Cochran said she always feels pressed for time.

“There’s never enough time to do everything. In most classes there will be quizzes, so you have to get the reading done daily. I can’t do that. I’ll get it done for the test, but I can’t space my time out like other students can,” she said. “You’re working harder than other people,

but they are making better grades than you are. It’s really discourag-ing.”

Cochran said she feels as though many people at the University do not understand the situation she and those who have to work for school are in.

“Coming from Gainesville [State College] to UGA, it was a culture shock. In Gainesville, most people worked so I was used to it. When I came here, most people had every-thing paid for, and if people worked, it was for beer money or fun money. Most people don’t understand,” she said. “Teachers don’t think about it either, and I’m worried that they think I’m a worse student. That concerns me when I’m thinking about rec letters.”

Since Cochran is graduating this semester, having to pay for

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Theft common, but IDs rarely targeted

By ZACH DILLARDTHE RED & BLACK

Travis Leslie did not make the Georgia basketball team wait very long.

The Bulldog standout junior forward, who said he will test the NBA Draft pro-cess last week, decided Tuesday that he will forego his senior season in Athens and keep his name on the list of eligible underclassmen.

Leslie had until May 8 to make his decision to stay or leave. He didn’t need that long.

“I would like to thank UGA for giving me the opportunity, as well as [head coach Mark] Fox and the staff in helping me to improve my game,”

Leslie said in a release. “Last but not least, I’d like to thank the Georgia fans for their sup-port over the past three years.”

Now that he has made his decision to

leave, Leslie will presumably sign with an agent in the com-ing weeks.

The Bulldogs will now have two underclassmen enter the same NBA Draft for the first time in school history, with both Leslie and fellow junior forward Trey Thompkins pro-jected as possible first-round picks.

The NBA Draft is set for June 23.

The two forwards led the Bulldogs in scoring and rebounding this season.

A factor many draft experts have pointed to is some of the elite players in college basket-ball decided to return to school and their decisions have opened the door for fringe prospects such as Leslie.

“It was my pleasure to coach Travis,” Fox said in a release. “It has been a real joy to see him develop as a player the past couple of seasons. He has made a decision to pursue his dream and we wish him nothing but the best.”

Leslie’s departure leaves Georgia with just two return-ing starters for the 2011-12 season: guards Dustin Ware and Gerald Robinson.

Leslie declares for NBA Draft

By ROBBIE OTTLEYTHE RED & BLACK

ATLANTA — The Diamond Dogs took the drive down I-85 to Georgia Tech hoping to begin what head coach David Perno called their “most difficult week” with a win.

And a victory would begin by avoiding a repeat of their mid-week pitching woes, as the pitchers gave up 15 runs in their meeting last month.

Though the pitching staff — and the team as a whole — per-formed considerably better Tuesday night, they nonethe-less continued to struggle

against Georgia Tech, losing 5-3.

“It was a tough deal we got [Tuesday],” Perno said. “We played a good base-ball game and had chances and it just didn’t happen.”

Both teams poured on the offense in their first meeting last month, scoring a combined 21 runs as the Yellow Jackets left Athens with a nine-run victory.

But the Diamond Dogs’ bats were quieter Tuesday, with just three runs off 12 hits.

Power offense came from

third baseman Colby May and center fielder Zach Cone, who both posted solo home runs to

right field. May’s homer, his first of the year, came during a three-hit night.

“It was a relief — it was like a weight off the shoulders,” May said. “It was good to be back out there and having fun and swinging the bat.”

Georgia left nine men on base during the game. Shortstop Kyle Farmer’s two hits continued a

12-game hitting streak, but struck out with two men on and two men out in the seventh.

The strikeout snapped a Georgia rally and likely pre-served the Georgia Tech win.

Still, the lack of offense came largely as a result of a career day from the Yellow Jackets’ starter — Matt Grimes — whose 6.2 innings pitched and 10 strikeouts were career highs, earning him the win.

“He was keeping the fastball away,” Cone said. “He mixed up his pitches well and was keep-ing us off balance.”

Diamond Dogs keep it close but fall to Jackets

Tuition hikes, aid cuts alter collegiate paths

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Third baseman Colby May (25) hit a solo home run, one of his three hits on the day, but Georgia Tech pitcher Matt Grimes held Georgia to just two earned runs on the night. Check out the online gallery on our website.

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Members of Lambda Alliance handed out Ring Pops and performed marriage ceremonies in Tate Tuesday to support marriage equality.

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Students struggle to make ends meet

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By ADINA SOLOMONTHE RED & BLACK

They’re left on bar tables, conve-

nience store counters and even in University dining halls — so hold onto them.

Forgetting a wallet or purse in an unsecured location is one of the most common ways people get their IDs lost or stolen, said University Police and Athens-Clarke County Police officials.

“It doesn’t happen every day, but we get reports several times a week,” said Hilda Sorrow, public information assis-tant for ACC Police. “Sometimes they’ll just be walking in the street, and they’ll have no clue where they lost it.”

Sorrow said IDs are stolen more often than they’re lost, but people are rarely looking for just the ID. Usually, they will steal the wallet or purse for the money and credit cards, and the ID happens to be inside.

“It’s not usually the IDs they’re after,” she said.

University Police Lt. Eric Dellinger said he rarely receives reports from stu-dents for only their ID being taken.

“Typically, it’ll be because a purse was stolen and the ID was in it,” Dellinger said.

He also said University Police will report theft of lost or mislaid property

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Student reports stalking

A University student reported a stalker Monday, according to a University Police report.

The student told police that between 3:45 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday a known individual made repeated unwanted con-tact with her through text messages, according to the report.

— Compiled by Tiffany Stevens

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STAN KOZLOVSKIjunior biology major from Marietta

“They matter. You have to have a way to compare schools and insti-tutions. I think rankings have a purpose.”

NIKITA DESAIfreshman interna-tional business and marketing major from Roswell“I don’t think so. Not to me. They weren’t really fac-tors on why I came here and they’re not a big impact on my everyday life.”

KAYLIN STAUBsenior marketing major from Flowery Branch

“I think it does. It has more to do with per-ceptions outside of the school. I don’t worry about my friends know-ing I going to the No. 1 party school, but I do worry when it comes to employers. I think the requirements to get into UGA make up for that though.”

JOSEPH MOOREjunior chemistry major from Madison

“Some are more relevant than oth-ers. Obviously, higher education rankings are going to be more rele-vant than party school rankings. I guess it does mat-ter in a way.”

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if the object is missing and it’s not where the owner last had it. If someone finds the property, they’re legally obligated to give it to police or the owner or they can be charged with theft.

Dellinger said people sometimes use stolen University student IDs to access the owner’s Bulldog Bucks debit account.

Sorrow and Dellinger said if someone realizes his or her ID is missing, the person should file a report with the police. Dellinger added if it’s a student ID to also report it to Bulldog Bucks.

To avoid ID loss or theft, Sorrow said students should keep an eye on their wallets and purses.

Once wallets with the IDs inside are stolen, peo-ple normally take what they want and throw away the rest, Dellinger said.

Sorrow said if the loss or theft just occurred, ACC Police will check trash cans near the immediate area of the incident to see if some-one threw the ID away.

IDs are sometimes returned to their owners because the wallet will be found, she said.

“There are some kind citizens who call and say they found it,” Sorrow said. “There are, again, no sta-tistics. Sometimes we can return them, and some-times we can’t.”

COST: Jobs may limit study timePOTENTIAL FINANCIAL HURDLES

Cuts to HOPE scholar-ship include not cover-ing fees and limiting awards to 90 percent of FY11 tuition

Possible tuition increas-es may be announced by the Board of Regents as early as next week

Contrary to popular belief, labels don’t end after middle school. Universities all over the nation are scrutinized each year, and rankings are assigned.

The University is ranked 18th on the U.S. News & World Report’s list of the 50 top public universities in America. It has also been recognized as one of the top 25 colleges and uni-versities in the nation whose students join the Peace Corps.

Kiplinger’s magazine ranked the University as the eighth best value among 100 public colleges and uni-versities in America. And of course, it also holds the distinction of being the Princeton Review’s No. 1 party school.

But, do students think the rank-ings hold any value, or is it all in our heads? Do we care about rankings?

—Charles Hicks

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graduation expenses is another cost she said she has had to deal with.

“I had a hard time this month because I had to pay for a cap and gown,” she said. “My ex-boyfriend was in the same situation last year, except he made less money so he couldn’t afford a cap and gown and didn’t walk, even though he went to school for six years.”

Joe Oquendo, a junior biology major from Grovetown, is a part-time student at the University, president of the Latino fra-ternity Lambda Sigma Upsilon, and works two jobs. He started school in fall 2006 with HOPE, but lost it after his first year. During his sec-ond year, Oquendo’s father paid for his first semester, but he was on his own the second semester.

“It didn’t hit me until my sophomore year that college is really expensive, and my parents aren’t the best at being financially stable. So I had to do things on my own,” Oquendo said. “I took [a] break because I didn’t want to accumulate so many stu-dent loans. I wasn’t happy how things were going aca-demically and financially because I felt like I never had money or time to do anything. I was always get-ting late fees so I had to find a way to make it affordable.”

During his year off, Oquendo stayed in Athens, worked with food services and got a second job in the summer doing maintenance at the Club Apartments.

Even though he works two jobs, Oquendo said he has felt the cost of increas-ing tuition rates and fees.

“Almost not being able to pay for school happened spring of 2010. That was right when they were making budget transition, and that time I had to pay $1,500 out of pocket,” he said. “Sometimes I do question if I can continue but if there’s a will, there’s a way.”

Oquendo said his goal is to attend medical school, but since it is so expensive, he may have to postpone those plans for a while.

“At one point I was on the pre-med track but med school is such a financial burden,” he said. “Med school is the ultimate goal, but it’s going to be a while before I get there.”

Going to work while attending classes is a Catch-22 for Oquendo because he has to balance his need to pay bills while making good grades.

“It’s a constant struggle

because one, the more you work, the more you get paid so you can pay bills, but the more you work, the less time you have to study,” Oquendo said. “When it’s test time, and especially during finals, if I’m not working, I’m study-ing. If I’m not studying, I’m eating or sleeping.”

The pressures of school and work also limit the amount of time he has to spend with friends and invest in campus organizations.

“I definitely have to bail on people a lot. I’m definitely not as outgoing or social as I used to be, but when I have time, I make an effort to hang out with friends,” Oquendo said. “It’s hard to be really active in student organizations because I’m always pressed for time, and even though I’m president of an organization it is hard to work through things because I don’t have time. I have to rely more on my brothers and the alum around to help.”

Faced with these difficul-ties, Oquendo has found rea-sons to continue and finish his education.

“One, for my family because I’ll be the first one to graduate from a major accredited university,” he said. “Two, for myself to say I did. Three, the year I was off really showed I need a degree to be well off, because the first thing a lot of employ-ers would ask was if I had a college degree or was attend-ing college. I had two really good job offers go away because when they found out I wasn’t in school, they took it away.”

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Sophomore India Pender is organizing a pancake breakfast on Saturday morning to raise money for Parkinson’s disease research.

By BRIANA GERDEMANTHE RED & BLACK

After both of her grand-fathers were diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, sophomore India Pender knew she wanted to do something to fight it.

“I always wanted to help him out in some way,” Pender said. “In high school, I got this idea that I would become a neurosci-entist and do research.”

Pender’s grandfather, Bill Pender, was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s disease in 1993 at age 47. A few months ago, her other grandfather, Chuck Baldwin, was also diag-nosed with Parkinson’s.

“I didn’t really under-stand it or grasp it until high school,” she said, “what Parkinson’s was or the implications of not hav-ing a cure.”

Parkinson’s, Pender explained, is a neurodegen-erative disease in which the brain stops producing dop-amine, the chemical that allows for mobility. Usually, a telltale sign of Parkinson’s disease is a tremor in an extremity of the body, such as the hand.

Pender enrolled in the University as a biology major, hoping to become a doctor and do research that would someday lead to a cure for Parkinson’s. But after a semester, she decided medicine wasn’t the right career. Her strengths, she realized, were as a “people person.”

Her mentor suggested she could still be involved with Parkinson’s research by working in communica-tions. Pender changed her major to public relations and business management.

Last summer, she interned with Wilkins Media Company and helped plan a Polo for Parkinson’s fundraiser. Bill Wilkins, the CEO and chair-man of the company, has Parkinson’s and founded the Wilkins Parkinson’s Foundation.

“I have to do something for Parkinson’s awareness for these people,” she said, of her decision to help with Parkinson’s research.

That “something” took the form of Pancakes for

Parkinson’s, a pancake breakfast Saturday morn-ing before the G-Day game. Pender has recruited about 40 volunteers to mix batter, cook pancakes, provide toppings and drinks and sell tickets. She hopes to raise $5,000 and proceeds from the event will go to Team Fox, a grassroots organization of the Michael J. Fox foundation.

Pender’s parents, Sean and Jennifer Pender, lent moral support to their daughter as she planned the event. Their business, Pender & Associates, an independent insurance agency, is a sponsor of Pancakes for Parkinson’s.

Sean Pender said Parkinson’s disease has affected his father Bill

Pender’s life “significantly.”“My dad was a man’s

man, a heck of an athlete, very intelligent, super type A personality. To suddenly not be able to control [his movement] was a devas-tating thing,” Sean Pender said. “He’s still as indepen-dent as someone could be expected to be. He’s a shadow of what he once

was, but he’s still an inspi-ration to a lot of people with the disease.”

Pancakes for Parkinson’s is organized by UGA UNO, the Undergraduate Neuroscience Organization, of which Pender is the president. She also recruit-ed students to help plan and solicited donations and sponsorships. Wilkins Media helped get a bill-board on Broad Street to advertise the event, and Georgia head coach Mark Richt made an endorse-ment video.

“We’re trying to reach out past the students and make this an Athens com-munity event,” Pender said. “Our goal is just to honor people we know with Parkinson’s.”

Family struggle inspires student’s eventPANCAKES FOR PARKINSON’S

When: Saturday from 9 a.m. to noonWhere: Memorial Hall BallroomPrice: Student tickets, $3 (advance), $5 (door)More Information: Tickets can be purchased at Tate

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Tanning beds a possible health risk

Love is sometimes a little sloppy, but in the end it perse-

veres.Earlier this semester,

my opinion column (“Mission trips or poverty tourism?” Jan. 18) appeared in The Red & Black.

In the column, I ques-tioned the economics behind students collec-tively spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on weeklong “mission trips.”

Due to my membership in the organization, I used the Wesley Foundation’s spring break mission trip to Jamaica as an example.

The response from Wesley, a Methodist cam-pus ministry, was startling. They sent out a counterar-gument to my opinion to everyone going on the trip.

They also acknowl-edged the opinion at their intern meeting and their leadership meeting that same day.

Though some were nothing but kind, many Wesley leaders stopped speaking to me.

I became Hester Prynne. And I was angry.

How could an opinion on a topic unrelated to the gospel make me so alien-ated from an organization with which I had worked, poured hours of my life and met some of my best friends?

They were older Christians.

Isn’t the Wesley Foundation the group with the “Grace: It’s Free” shirts? Aren’t they grounded in the Bible? Why didn’t I matter to them?

I stopped going to Wesley. I stopped going to leadership. I just stopped.

And I started becoming spiteful.

I can’t tell you how many Wesley quips I made — but it was a lot.

After about eight weeks, I decided to give Wesley another shot.

However, I couldn’t stay for the whole service. Singing “Your Love Never Fails” with a group whose love failed me just seemed hypocritical.

But I would pretend that everything was fine when a Wesley intern would flash me a knowing smile as we passed during a class change.

And that’s when I real-ized everything was wrong.

Here I was — technical-ly, still a Wesley leader — angry about an organiza-tion’s out-of-character response to an uncommon event. I was trapped

under a yoke of unforgive-ness — and no one was suffering but me. That’s when I started to repent.

The Wesley Foundation’s love failed. The love of Wesley leaders failed. And my love failed too. I gave up on them.

Human love failed.But God’s love did not.He changed the way I

view Him, other people and myself. He loved me.

Paul wrote in his letter to the Corinthians: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud … It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails (NIV).”

Humans have taken the idea of love and trashed it.

Look at the people who produce the campus abor-tion display. Look at Muammar el-Qaddafi. Look at how we treat each other.

Christians aren’t per-fect. Sometimes, we suck.

We are haughty and protest military funerals. We throw our condemna-tion down people’s throats. We have slaugh-tered people in the name of God.

But those acts were done by people. And peo-ple’s love is imperfect.

I went back to Wesley, and my heart was softened toward the group.

This whole experience has shown me that even organizations such as Wesley will have hiccups. They are still grounded in the Bible. They still give grace.

But they’re human. That does not negate the pure intentions of the directors and interns to bring the student body to the Lord.

Though I am not apply-ing for Wesley leadership next year, I have learned much from my position within the group. The greatest of these lessons is that the exception is not the rule.

It’s the intention that matters. We must look at the heart.

Then — and only then — love wins.

— Charles Hicks is a sophomore from Savannah

majoring in sociology and anthropology and

is a news writer for The Red & Black

CHARLES HICKS

Those who fight monsters must be careful not to

become monsters.For Jews, there is no

bigger monster than anti-Semitism.

Blood libel, pogroms, the Holocaust — Jewish diaspora life was defined by persecution. Jews were attacked and victimized no matter what nation we lived in.

How can we slay the monster of anti-Semi-tism?

In the late 19th centu-ry, the budding Zionist movement seemed to provide an answer.

Zionists argued Jews could never live in harmo-ny with gentiles (non-Jews). The creation of a national Jewish state would be the only way to ensure the survival of the Jewish people.

In the aftermath of Nazi genocide, Jews pro-claimed “never again.” And the Zionist plan came to fruition.

In 1948, the state of Israel was declared in the land of Palestine.

Unfortunately, the indigenous population liv-ing in Palestine presented a problem for the Zionist desire for Jewish separat-ism.

As a result, 725,000 Palestinians were forcibly removed from their homes and sent into exile,

according to Israeli histo-rian Ilan Pappé.

Isn’t it ironic that Jews, who were exiled from Egypt in ancient times, were the ones doing the ethnic cleans-ing?

The number of Palestinian refugees and their descendants has grown to more than four million, most of whom live in the West Bank and Gaza, according to the United Nations.

Israel robs the Palestinian refugees of their basic human rights.

Israel has confiscated land from Palestinians for Jewish settlements; pre-vented Palestinian villag-es from building schools, homes and health care facilities; and failed to provide Palestinians with electricity, water and sew-age, according to Human Rights Watch.

Israeli Jews are given preferential treatment as a result of the harsh con-ditions imposed on the Palestinians.

The brutal treatment of Palestinians is designed to keep Israel ethnically pure — for the creation of a Jewish

State.People of Jewish heri-

tage have a birthright to live in Israel. And yet, Palestinian refugees are not allowed to return to their homeland.

If Israel accepted Palestinian refugees as equal citizens, it would force Jews to live and interact with gentiles. And Zionists will not allow that.

The Israel-Palestine conflict forces us to ask the question: is Zionism preventing anti-Semitism — or provoking it?

After more than six decades of warfare and conflict, Israeli’s actions have failed to safeguard the Jewish people.

Israel’s persecution of Palestinians has created a backlash of anti-Semitism in the Middle East and the world at large.

In an attempt to save us from anti-Semitism, Zionists have become a mirror image of those they hate and fear the most.

It is immoral for Zionists to use Jewish suffering to justify the persecution of Palestinians.

“Never again” should mean for everybody — not just Jews.

Jews were once consid-ered “rootless cosmopoli-tans” — citizens of the world. Today, Zionists

have inexplicably tied our salvation to nationalistic pride.

Jews are noted for intellectualism and criti-cal thinking skills. Today, criticism of Israel is writ-ten off as “anti-Semitic.”

Those Jews who have the audacity to question Israel — such as myself — are smeared as “self-hat-ing Jews.”

But Jewish separatism will not eradicate anti-Semitism.

Thankfully, there is another way: social inte-gration.

Creating and reinforc-ing common identities will lessen the likelihood of anti-Semitism and pro-vide a groundwork for cooperation.

A multicultural society with respect for diversity is our best protection against anti-Semitism.

The majority of the world’s Jewish population lives outside of Israel. This indicates Jews want integration — not Zionist separatism.

If they desire peace, Israel must integrate its society.

Israel must become a state in which Israeli Jews and Palestinians can live as equals.

— Jonathan Rich is a sophomore from

Alpharetta majoring in sociology

JONATHAN RICH

Last week I was visiting the doctor for a skin irritation that developed on my stom-

ach.I figured I had nothing to worry

about. I thought it would quickly dissolve and I would forget about it.

Then, the doctor handed me the diagnosis.

Scabies. I was shocked. I felt my stomach

turn and wanted to vomit.I had been violated.Though one cream application

will cure it, Scabies is a mite that gets under the skin and is highly contagious.

The doctor asked me a series of questions. We agreed I most likely came in contact with the mite from poor sanitation at my tanning salon beds.

I froze my membership and stopped tanning all together.

The next step was — as every well-educated person knows — to Google it.

As we dedicated tanners choose to ignore, tanning beds are a great source for microorganisms that cause skin infections.

I knew the risks all along. I chose not to believe it could hap-pen to me.

Recently, 11 Alive News went undercover to multiple tanning salons and took swabs from the “sanitized” beds.

They discovered more than 50

different organisms and five of the most prominent: Staphylococcus Epidermidis, Staphylococcus Hominis, Micrococcus Luteus and Staphylococcus Cohnii.

In other words, gross bacteria that lead to nasty infections.

Around Athens there are at least 12 tanning salons and even gyms that offer tanning memberships.

Memberships to these salons range anywhere between $10 for one-time tanning to $110 for a full salon membership.

The influence of television shows such as “Jersey Shore” highlight tanning as a necessity for looking beautiful. They make the results seem well worth the price.

I was angry to learn I paid a lot of money for a tan — and walked away with skin covered in red itchy bumps.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I am sure the employees are cleaning the best they can.

The problem may not be with their cleaning.

It could be with the person who laid before you.

Tanning salons do great job by offering different options to achieve the results for which we came into

their store. You can choose Mystic, Versa and even airbrush tanning.

Many style and beauty tip-fo-cused magazines urge their readers to invest their skin’s health in sun-less tanning, rather than sacrificing to the ultraviolet-bulb gods.

Stereotypes of orange skin may not sway consumers, but spray tan-ning solutions have become more advanced and the results are look-ing more and more natural.

I experimented at my salon of choice with the “Versa, dark & clear” solution. I have had a lot of people asking me where I spent my spring break.

An average spray tan can cost the same as a full tanning bed membership — about $40 for a one time spray that would last about a week.

I would rather pay the high price of spray tanning for healthy bronze skin than ever have to feel violated again or pay the higher price when I am in my old age.

Thankfully, summer is approach-ing, “Jersey Shore” has had its sea-son finale and my “condition” has been cured.

Though my skin may not be able to welcome the sun with a sun-kissed glow, I can rest assured that I will not be at risk for infection from dirty tanning beds.

— Elizabeth Valdes is a junior from Destin, Fla.,

majoring in magazines

ELIZABETH VALDES

I applaud Nick Trevena’s desire for con-cealed carry on college campuses, protecting themselves and others from harm (“Allow con-cealed carry permits on campus,” April 12).

If only there were citi-zens with concealed fire-arms in Tucson that could have averted that tragedy!

Well, actually, there were.

Joe Zamudio, gun in hand, wrestled an armed man into a wall, threaten-ing to shoot.

Of course, the armed man was not Jared Loughner, but the man who had taken Loughner’s semi-automatic weapon with its high-capacity magazine (which enabled him to maim and murder more victims before reloading).

Zamudio had previous weapons training- some-thing not required in Arizona to carry a gun- and was undoubtedly try-ing to help.

But in a high-stress sit-uation, he nearly killed an innocent man.

Could you imagine a school shooting situation on campus, with armed student vigilantes search-ing for the assailant, look-ing for anyone carrying a weapon?

Does this sound remotely safe?

And why the need for a gun for personal protec-tion, when effective non-lethal weapons exist?

ALAN REESESenior, Savannah

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VARIETY The Red & Black | Wednesday, April 13, 2011 | 5

By LIZ JUSTMANNFOR THE RED & BLACK

Plants should drink water, not blood.

But this isn’t the case for Audrey II, the exotic plant in “Little Shop of Horrors” that offers a floral assis-tant fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its unorthodox craving.

The Town and Gown Players are performing the landmark Off-Broadway play for the next four nights and University students who are participating couldn’t be more thrilled with how it has turned out.

“Our first performance went real-ly well, it was great to hear the audi-ence laugh,” said freshman Clara Nibbelink who plays a Skid Row bum who is “drunk and asleep” for a majority of the play.

Actors have been preparing for months.

“There was a lot of camaraderie between actors,” Nibbelink said.

Freshman Ellen Meadows, who

plays “Audrey” enjoyed working with director G. Derek Adams.

“He’s a ridiculous guy. I really like working with him,” Meadows said.

A director is the backbone of a play, and Adams is a strong support for the actors.

“I worked with him in high school,” Nibbelink said. He has a good vision for how things should go. He has a good sense of when something will be funny or not.”

After months of learning lines, the performers are eager to share what they’ve created with the Classic City.

“It’s been cool to come together and make art,” Meadows said.

By ADAM CARLSONTHE RED & BLACK

It got bad before it got better.

Wil Wright began writing what would be his band’s next album turmoil-free, and then the troubles started: deaths, family issues — none conducive or creative.

At least, so Wright origi-nally thought.

Then he realized the sym-metry: the album, “Half Wild,” had already started to take shape in his head.

It would be inspired by the story of Genie, a young girl who was discovered in 1970 as having lived most of her life locked in one room, in total isolation.

And the album would take for its title a line from Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian,” in reference to the nature of horses, half-broken.

So it was fitting, Wright

discovered, that he experi-enced “forced transition dur-ing writing an album about transitions.”

As the writing process neared completion, however, a silver lining emerged: Wright’s band of 11 years — Senryu — had finally settled into a lineup that was stable.

Better, it included a group of musicians Wright didn’t just approve, but enjoyed.

A band of Puerto Rican brothers — with a back-ground in heavy metal — alternated on drums and a fellow Wright referred to only as “a freak of nature” accom-panied on bass.

The setup was a far-cry from Senryu’s Knoxville-based beginnings, when Wright was content to see its lineup shift.

“I’ve always wanted a band that included a lot of people,” he said.

And it kept the sound

spontaneous and new.“And sometimes people

are assholes,” Wright said. “And it’s good to rotate out the assholes.”

Things recently stabilized and, Wright said, it’s a sur-prisingly comfortable feeling.

“It’s a more focused set of ideas,” he said.

The sound now oscillates between highs and lows.

“In this one I tried to pull them apart a little bit,” Wright said — not any less schizo-psychedelic than Senryu’s previous work, but certainly a little heavier.

“The band’s sound has become more dark and more melodramatic,” Wright said. “Over the years we’ve shifted between spastic … it’s always been a little tongue-in-cheek dark.”

This is evident on the album, “Inklings,” which is layered over whispers and the dirge-like pulse of an organ. But Senryu isn’t so serious, really.

“We do at least approach [it] from a serious place,” Wright said. “We come at it sort of as a mix of fun and pain.”

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Matt Hardy plays ‘Seymour,’ who discovers his plant craves blood, in the Town and Gown Players’ ‘Little Shop of Horrors.’

Quartet embraces ‘turmoil’

Students hope for laughs in ‘Little Shop of Horrors’

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THIRST QUENCHING

Schizo-band turns ‘darker’

listen up!

‘Sound Ground’

Gary Ogan’s newly released album slides lazily through 11 tracks with a bluesy and funky tonality.

The album gives off a jazz

aftertaste, with light percus-sion and a melodic bass line. It then brings back memo-ries of the ’80s with an obnoxious keyboard accom-paniment.

Ogan’s lyrics, with puns and unique statements, add a sense of individuality to an otherwise mundane sound.

Taken in larger portions however, the lyrics do little to stand on their own.

The first song, “Shake It Up,” reiterates the title in all different types of shaking, which draws little attention to itself despite its funky tune.

“Picture of You” takes dry lyrics such as “How much

harm could it do, to get a picture of you/ I’ll let you take one too, after we get one of you” and mixes it with a screeching electric guitar solo that could have been turned down a few notches.

Still other tracks have redeemable qualities: “You Found the Light” and “Down Like You” have a catchy mel-ody combined with a more sophisticated blues style.

Ogan is reaching for an audience of overworked busi-nessmen and the wistful ’80s community, and his album, released in March, definitely hits its mark.

— Sarah Smith

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By ZACH DILLARDTHE RED & BLACK

Trash talk is rampant among the Georgia foot-ball players this week.

With head coach Mark Richt employing a new system of selecting teams for the annual G-Day spring game, competitive spirits have been raised higher than in year’s past.

Georgia’s coaching staff selected team captains to hold a team draft, with players selecting the opposing sides for Saturday’s game.

“I think this definitely adds a little spice,” said quarterback Aaron Murray, a co-captain of the black team. “Everyone is talking trash now, I mean it definitely added a little flavor to the locker room and out at practice saying, ‘Hey, look at him,

he’s going to be protect-ing you. He’s catching balls for you.’ It’s a lot of fun, though.”

Murray and fellow black team captain Brandon Boykin appear to have taken the process more seriously than their red team counterparts, Ben Jones and Christian Robinson.

“We got to go at like 3 o’clock [Monday] and went up to the conference room and looked at the depth charts and schemed on them a little bit before practice,” Boykin said. “So we kinda had an upside. And then Ben tried to take my paper at lunch and rip it up.”

In the draft’s war room, tempers flared according to Murray, Boykin and

Jones. Murray and Boykin reportedly took the pro-ceedings a bit too far after a few of the selections, “jumping up and down and screaming” in Jones’ face.

But Jones stood firm during interviews on Tuesday, repeatedly con-tending the black team’s captains cheated.

“He’s just upset. He’s been talking smack and he finally realized we have the better team, so we’ll see what happens,” Murray said.

In past years, Richt and his staff have simply pitted the No. 1 offense and No. 2 defense against the No. 1 defense and No. 2 offense. But this year, the coaches and captains went position-by-position and drafted teams on Tuesday — a tactic that appears to have had the desired effect so far.

The trash talk began on Twitter, with team cap-tains calling out the opposing team and claim-ing their team’s superiori-ty. But Boykin claims one player has topped every-one.

“Christian’s been insti-gating everything. People are telling him to get off their timeline [on Twitter],” he said. “People stopped following him because he’s talking too much.”

The incessant arguing is not expected to stop any time before this week-end. Players and coaches laughed off the notion of the war of words spilling

past the team’s spring practices, saying that the team will “always come first.”

But until the conclu-sion of Saturday’s game, it appears to be a house divided.

Quarterback challenge slated for G-Day halftime

Halftime of Saturday’s G-Day game will feature four of the top passers to ever don the red and black.

Former Georgia quar-terbacks Eric Zeier, David Greene, D.J. Shockley and Matthew Stafford will compete in a skills compe-tition to help raise money for the Johnathan Taylor Fund.

Funds will be raised through an online auction.

A large portion of the proceeds go toward Johnathan Taylor, the Georgia baseball outfield-er who suffered a broken neck in a game against Florida State on March 6. Taylor is still undergoing rehab at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta and his condition is scheduled to be updated Thursday at 10 a.m.

Murray found it diffi-cult to pick a favorite in the event.

“It’s hard because I like them all,” he said. “I call Stafford for distance, Greene for accuracy and Shockley for whatever the other one is just to make it fair.”

Offensive coordinator Mike Bobo, another for-mer Georgia signal caller, said he will not be partici-pating in the skills chal-lenge simply because he would win.

Not everyone around the Butts-Mehre Building held the same sentiment.

“Coach Bobo tries to play with us when we do our accuracy drills, and actually he’s pretty accu-rate most of the time. But anything over 30 or 40 yards he’ll have a tough time,” Murray said.

The auction closes April 14 and is being held on georgiadogs.com.

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Aaron Murray (11) is a co-captain of the black team with Brandon Boykin. They’ve taken the new format seriously thus far.

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