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By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

Roughly 10 years ago, Vince Dooley audited his first horticul-ture class at the University and was bitten by a very unusual insect — the gardening bug.

“I’ve always been curious about trees and plants, and so I thought I’d take a course and that would satisfy my curiosity,” Dooley said. “I didn’t know I was gonna get bitten by the bug, and there’s no cure for this disease.”

The “disease” now spans sev-eral acres at the Dooleys’ Athens home. The former Bulldog foot-ball coach and athletic director literally has an incalculable num-ber of woody and herbaceous ornamental plants in his garden.

“I’ve got probably 120 different varieties [of camellias] and about 40 more of duplicates, and the same way with Japanese maples,” he said. “I’ve probably got 110 dif-ferent varieties and 50 seedlings.”

Dooley said many of the plants in his “mini botanical garden” — including assortments of dahlias, azaleas, trees and even a bonsai garden, to name a few — came from the two professors who most inspired his hobby and others in the horticulture industry they introduced him to.

“I’ve got a wide variety of plants and it’s turned out to be a garden for all seasons,” he said. “I’ve got plants that put on their thing during those winter

See DOOLEY, Page 7

By RYAN BLACKTHE RED & BLACK

HOOVER, Ala. — Georgia fans always have high expectations for the University’s football team, but how did the various media representatives, coaches and players gath-ered at the first day of the Southeastern Conference Media Days feel about the

Bulldogs’ upcoming sea-son?

If their responses hold true, the answer leaves the Bulldogs in a familiar place — looking up at the hated Florida Gators.

“In the SEC preseason, I voted Georgia second,” said Tommy Cobb of Time Out Productions, Inc. TOPsports, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala. “You know,

I traditionally vote them number two in the SEC East. Florida is just a freaky team right now, and there’s not much you can do about it. You’ve just got to ride out the wave Urban Meyer

has got going on, but Georgia has got a great team ... they recruit well in Atlanta, north Florida, over in South Carolina, so they’ve got the best recruit-ing base in the world. You

expect Georgia to be able to win 10, 11 games every year.”

Chris Low, ESPN.com’s SEC blogger, thinks Georgia has a “great shot” at capturing nine or 10 wins in 2010.

However, he also has them finishing behind Florida in the division.

“I think if they had any quarterback coming back

that had played [before], I think some people would be picking them to seri-ously challenge Florida,” he said. “First-year quarter-backs in this league — as talented as [Aaron] Murray is — I think people are hes-itant that they are going to make a run with him. And then on defense, with the

See SEC, Page 7

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PHOTOS BY JULIANNE UPCHURCH | The Red & Black

Hydrangeas, yellow coneflowers and aquatic plants are just a few examples of ornamental varieties found in Vince Dooley’s garden. The football coach’s gardening inspired a new book.

Dooley gets garden fever

EMILY KAROL| The Red & Black

Kappa Delta and the Girl Scouts are pushing for fewer depictions of objectified women in the media.

By CRISSINDA PONDERTHE RED & BLACK

Nearly 90 percent of girls feel pressure from the media to be thin, according to research con-ducted by Girl Scouts of the USA, or GSUSA.

Because of issues such as this, the Healthy Media for Youth Act was introduced to promote posi-tive images of girls and women.

“The Healthy Media for Youth

Act is the ‘take action’ project of the Confidence Coalition, an alli-ance of organizations, companies and individuals who are commit-ted to building confidence in girls and women,” said Heidi Roy, direc-tor of communications at Kappa Delta Sorority’s Memphis, Tenn. national headquarters.

The act’s development is a col-laboration of Kappa Delta and the GSUSA. On March 24, the act was introduced by U.S. Representatives Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va.

“The act is about trying to sort out the truth from the images being shown in the media,” said Betsy Connell, assistant program

director of the older girl program for the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia.

The bill would promote healthy media messages about girls and women by establishing a grant program to support media literacy and youth empowerment organi-zations.

The bill would also facilitate research on the effect of media images on youth as well as create a national task force on women and girls in the media.

“We want our girls to choose role models who are realistic, not the imitation people who are

See IMAGE, Page 3

New law to change face of women in mediaGirl Scouts, sorority unite

Arson in Creswell mimics past fires

By PATRICK HOOPERTHE RED & BLACK

Another arson has struck a freshman dorm.

During the July 16 weekend, an unknown perpetrator set fire to a poster on the second floor of Creswell Hall.

This is the fifth instance of arson in a dormitory in the past year.

“We haven’t linked them yet,” said University Police Lt. Eric Dellinger, who said he was unsure if the latest Creswell offense and the Russell offenses of March 2010 are related.

The Russell offenses also revolved around burnt posters and scorched walls, as did an arson in Creswell during November 2009.

None of the fires were severe enough to trigger a smoke alarm, and no suspects have been arrested.

The University Police are unable to release the full details of their investigation, as it is ongoing.

Arson was also the watch-word at the scene of a fire at Sanford Stadium in June.

However, University Police have since dropped the arson charge.

“There was nothing to deter-mine intent there,” Dellinger said. “We could not find any sort of motive.”

Though the Creswell and Russell fires haven’t caused the kinds of evacuations and renova-tions normally associated with the idea of arson, Dellinger said the offenses still meet its legal definition.

“We err on the side of cau-tion,” he said. “We don’t want to seem like we’re downplaying those fires.”

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The University lost another one of its own this summer.

Stuart Michael Tench, a 22-year-old senior from

Clarkesville, passed away July 17.

Tench transferred to the University from Kennesaw State University to pursue a degree in history.

Brittany Gipson, a speech communications major from Clarkesville, knew him since kindergar-ten.

“He was just a really fun, outgoing — just great all-around guy,” she said. “He just made an impression on anyone he met.”

Tench’s passing was marked by the hundreds of people at his funeral.

Ryan Boelter, a biomedi-cal engineering major from Cornelia, met Tench in high school, where they bonded as fellow players on the Habersham Central High School football team.

Boelter said he came to know Tench as an inspira-tion and a leader.

“I’m going to miss him sorely,” Boelter said.

Tench, who is survived by his parents, sister and other family members, was laid to rest at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Clarkesville July 19.


Zach McLeroy didn’t bother asking himself whether the chicken or the egg came first. It was only ever a question of how he would make his dream res-taurant a reality.

“The idea originated out of necessity,” said McLeroy, a University alumnus. “Back in the early ’90s, there was no one really focused on chicken fin-gers as an entree.”

From that simple idea grew a chicken restaurant called Zax, and from Zax grew the chicken-peddling giant Zaxby’s, now in its 20th year of business.

The Zaxby’s headquarters now sits in Athens, home of McLeroy’s alma mater and his hometown. But, the chain got its start in Statesboro with a little help from a friend, Tony Townley. Townley is now Zaxby’s chief financial officer.

“Our first store happened by happenstance,” McLeroy said.

At the time, he never thought the simple chicken chain would grow into a brand name span-ning the South with a stagger-ing 500 stores to its name.

Tifton is home to the mile-stone location, but the distinc-tion could have just as easily gone to one of four opening stores.

It was simply a matter of which location finished its paperwork and received its per-mits first, McLeroy said.

However, McLeroy said he believes none of that would have happened if he hadn’t learned the values of hard work and self-direction while putting himself through school.

“You get another education at school,” McLeroy said.

However, he admitted that things weren’t always easy on the fried side of life.

“I went for weeks and months without a paycheck,” said

McLeroy. He said he wanted to ensure

his staff got their dues when revenue stretched thin. However, McLeroy and Townley continued to forge ahead. Once they had seven or eight stores, the two decided to start fran-chising, and the rest is history.

Zaxby’s now runs commemo-rative commercials featuring the likes of Richard Dean Anderson, who skewers his own MacGyver character in one TV spot.

Zaxby’s even gained a cult following, as embodied by the super-fanatic Matt, host of a video competition that could earn a participant up to thou-sands of dollars in cash and prizes — if they can meet Matt’s golden brown standard.

With all of this behind him in two decades, where does

McLeroy see his brainchild in another 20 years?

“I see us being nationwide, and we will have upward of 2,000 stores,” he said.

Despite his dizzying success, McLeroy remembers his roots and is more than willing to dis-pense advice to any student with the entrepreneurial spirit.

“Don’t expect anybody to do anything you won’t do yourself,” McLeroy said. “Know how to do everything in your industry. Your best investment is your-self.”

Even with the right mindset, the road to the top won’t always be easy. The trick, McLeroy said, is picking yourself back up after a fall.

“There are days the system kicks you,” McLeroy said. “You can’t give up. You always have to keep striving.”

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Zaxby’s marks 20 years By ZURI MCDONALD

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Fraternities can amount to more than a mere “four and done.”

University alumnus Doug Allen has made his fraternity an insti-tution in his daily life.

He had already made his mark with a national post in the frater-nity, and he continued on in fine form with his re-election.

Allen, a candidate at the 154th National Convention held July 3 in Orlando, Fla., was nominated as Theta Chi’s National President for a second two-year term.

Out of the several chapters that nominated Allen to serve on the board, the University’s Delta Beta chapter was one of them.

“I always thought it would be interesting to serve on our nation-al board,” Allen said in an e-mail interview. “I’m honored that our chapters thought I had the skills, experience and passion to serve at that level — it’s quite an honor.”

In 2006, he joined the Grand Chapter board and served two years as national secretary before being elected President for the first time in 2008.

“Allen has renewed Theta Chi’s emphasis on member recruit-ment, chapter scholarships and technology,” Bart Zino, director of communications for Theta Chi, said in an e-mail interview. “He also spearheaded the formation of a new partnership with OmegaFi, a Greek membership and financial services group.”

Prior to Allen’s graduation from the University in 1990, he served as president of the University’s chapter.

Before joining Theta Chi, one of the oldest fraternities in the nation, Allen had his notions about fraternities and said he never foresaw that he would have become president.

Allen was introduced to Theta Chi through a friend and member who in turn introduced him to other members, thus changing his views about fraternities.

“It turned out that they didn’t really fit the stereotype of ‘frat guys’ that I had in my head,”

Allen said. “As I learned more about the fraternity, it started to intrigue me and they asked me to join.”

Allen remained active within Theta Chi following his college years by working within the orga-nization and serving on numerous committees.

“I really had a great experience in Theta Chi as an undergradu-ate,” Allen said. “I made some lifelong friends and, as Chapter President at UGA, gained some great leadership experience.”

Grand Chapter consists of eight non-paid volunteer alumni who are all members of the frater-nity and who had to be elected to their positions.

“My fraternity experience was — and is — very valuable to me,” Allen said. “And I want to make sure I ‘pay it forward.’ That’s why I’ve stayed involved as a volun-teer.”

The duties of the eight nation-al officers vary according to their positions, but Allen, who serves as national president, is also chairman of the board.

“The national president pre-sides at meetings and works with other GC members,” Zino said. “He also works with the other members to determine and imple-ment fraternity policies.”

Allen now lives in Minneapolis, Minn., and works as a certified energy management professional.

“As volunteers, they live in var-ious parts of the country and maintain jobs and homes,” Zino said.

Since his election as national president, Allen has not had a chance to revisit the University’s campus.

“My professional career and family obligations in Minnesota have not allowed me to get back to Athens as much as I would like,” Allen said. “I do see the UGA guys at our national leader-ship training events — I just saw Nathan Sears [president of the University’s chapter] in Orlando at our Convention.”

Allen advises anyone who desires to reach the national level to get involved in his or her orga-nization and to stay involved even after graduation.

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Bees vanish, foods suffer

IMAGE: Scouts spot ugly trends

By SARAH JEAN DOVERTHE RED & BLACK

The “Where’s the beef?” slogan was made popular in the 1980s — before some University students were born — by a Wendy’s res-taurant commercial.

If honeybee populations continue to decline, that slogan could make a come-back.

Honeybees across the globe have disappeared or moved from their migrant paths, leading University researchers to investigate why.

“It’s important that peo-ple know what’s at stake,” said Keith Delplane, a pro-fessor in the entomology department.

Foods consumed in the United States and other developed countries could be significantly altered if honeybee populations con-tinue to decrease.

Delplane gave an analo-gy between the makeup of a hamburger and the major changes that could take place if bees were removed — everything except for the bun would be eliminated.

Tomatoes, lettuce, onions and pickles all need pollination to grow.

Cattle that are grass-fed — a growing trend — require pollination for grass to grow in abundance for feeding.

Even though pollination can occur in other ways, honeybees are a major con-tributor.

Possible reasons for the disappearance are climate change, land development, viruses, parasites and pes-ticides.

Honeybees are vital to the world’s foods, because as bees collect nectar for honey production, pollen is moved from plant to plant, pollinating flowers along the way.

Georgia is experiencing a large number of colony deaths but is doing as well as any other state. California is also upholding its population, according to Delplane.

The real problems are in the West and Midwest.

“The impact is quite huge, but not doomsday,” Delplane said.

Some colonies are affect-ed by the resources of the very people who need the honeybees as pollinators.

Pesticides or insecti-cides sprayed on crops are being studied as to their effect on the bees.

Often the bees become disoriented and will die when in contact with these chemicals.

Wild honeybees used to live inside hollow trees. But with few remaining old for-ests and groves, the bees are living inside of hollow walls in houses.

Colonies living inside of houses could again result in losing more honeybees to pesticides.

The University received four major grants for use in researching honeybees.

The queen bee of the grants is the $4.1 million Managed Pollinator CAP — Coordinated Agricultural Program — grant awarded by the USDA.

The grant is shared by multiple institutions.

Awarded in 2008, the grant has a four-year win-dow and a split emphasis on education and science.

Graduate students can also focus studies on hon-eybees in an 8000-level course at the University.

“We have one of the best facilities in the country,” Delplane said of the University Bee Lab.

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sometimes seen in the media,” Connell said.

GSUSA’s research found that 80 percent of girls would rather see real or natural images of women, rather than the “Photoshopped” ones that flood television and magazines.

“If they don’t feel good about themselves, they will make unhealthy choices,” said Cheryl Legette, community rela-tions officer for the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia.

The research also found that 55 percent of teen girls admit they diet.

Going even further, 37 percent of teen girls admit to starving themselves to lose weight.

Additionally, three of the most common mental health problems among girls — eating disorders,

depression or depressed mood and low self-esteem — are linked to the sexu-alization of girls and women in the media.

“Television, magazines and movies play a big role in many girls’ lives,” Roy said. “These images can chip away at their self-es-teem and healthy body

image.”Legette said the pro-

motion of healthier media images is a grass roots campaign.

“Our whole goal, at the end of the day, is to make sure our girls are leaders and that they are confi-dent and feel good about themselves,” she said.

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The Girl Scouts are leading the charge to change the way girls look at themselves.

“Television, magazines and movies play a big role in many girls’ lives. These images can chip away at their self-esteem.”

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540 Baxter Street, Athens, Ga. 30605OpinionsI miss George Bush.

Not Star Wars Bush — no, I mean Dubya

Bush, Bush the II, illiter-ate, rodeo-clown Bush.

The man who employed Donald Rumsfeld for six — count ‘em, six! — years. The man who choked on words like they were nee-dles. The man who seemed incapable of turn-ing his lips in any direc-tion but smirky-up.

It was so much easier back when, wasn’t it?

Stuff would go wrong — a city would drown, a war would stall, an econo-my would falter — and we knew exactly who to blame.

How could it be other-wise?

The man, our President, performed his own incompetence with an ardor bordering on aggressive.

He didn’t know what he was doing, but damn if Bush didn’t know he was going to do something.

National politics is all appearance and his was a continual blemish … and it was stupendous: a pro-cession of inanities so long it took satirists two variety shows and two separate sitcoms — hiya, “Lil’ Bush” and “That’s My Bush” — to devour.

Yeah, his administra-tion rocked.

What have we got now that he’s gone?

The country doesn’t seem much better: aside from health care, domes-tic legislation is hopeless-ly mired, and the foreign picture grows hopelessly more entangled despite Hillary Clinton’s best

high-heeled efforts to the contrary.

But who do we turn to? Who do we blame?

The Obama adminis-tration is all polished façade: well-meaning, well-intentioned and well-versed. They bungle things, but they do it with style, carrying the things they’ve carried off with a hitch without a hitch.

Consider — BP’s oil leak may well be the thing that tears Obama’s presi-dency apart, but what

does he do when he pres-ents himself to public scrutiny?

“I take responsibility,” he tells us, voice grave, eyes alert: conciliatory, ready to lay out, crystal-clearly, what went wrong and what he hopes to do right.

This is not the man who posed for an off-shore, full-court press photo-shoot in the mid-dle of a sprawling geopo-litical conflict, and this is not the man who once opined, “I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free-market sys-tem.”

More’s the better, real-ly — I like having a President who seems put-

together.(More’s the better,

Obama also named best-thing-ever The Wire as his favorite TV show, which means he’s smarter than me and has great taste.)

But the guy is like sat-ire Teflon — no one can figure how to get a mock-ing-hold on him.

Sure, his big ears are funny and his speech pat-terns are worth a chuckle, but that’s about it.

So when the stuff hits the fan, it is easy to com-plain about what the President is doing, but it is harder to complain about the manner in which the President does it.

As we approach the halfway point, I’m really starting to crave that old taste of idiocy in theWhite House.

Save the occasional Biden-ism, the current administration is staunchly flavored as stu-dious and hard-working. Which is good when things go right, but when they go wrong the response is no longer a simple case of head-shak-ing, or of blaming Presidential intellectual and verbal incompetence.

It makes the job of siz-ing-up Obama’s goings-on something new: diffi-cult.

So Mr. Crawford, Texas Ranch, our ex-Command-er-in-Chief, just know: in the pages of oneUniversity newspaper, at least, we’re longing for the glory days.

— Adam Carlson is a sophomore from Dallas majoring in magazines

It doesn’t matter if you’re bap-tized by a sprinkle or a dunk; if you pray five times a day or only

crack the dusty King James on Christmas and Easter; or if you wor-ship the father, the son and the holy spirit ... or Ooba-Ooba, the almighty tree god.

Ultimately, our lives are dictated by “a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmo-sphere pressure.”

Not quite what you learned in vacation bible school, is it? Simply put, Calories govern our lives and dictate our future.

From the moment most of us awaken each day, our lives are head-ed in two directions — cancer or heart disease.

I’d be willing to bet that for a lot of people, we switch between which one is creeping around the corner every few weeks.

It’s a vicious circle, really.Somewhere between the potato

famine and the inception of the Double Quarter Pounder® with cheese, humans forgot why it is we eat in the first place — to stay alive.

A few dips in the stock market and a recession or two later, these speedy, cheap, fast-food joints locat-ed on every corner began to evolve from just a fun place to hang out with your friends on a Friday night, to grocery stores for the money-challenged, myself included.

Have $2 in your pocket? Head up to Taco Bell! They’ll gladly hook you

up with one of their four new $2 Meal Deals — my personal favorite, Deal 4: a Beefy Five-Layer Burrito, a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos and a medium drink — all for, count it, two bucks! For people like me, get-ting full on $2 is an utter blessing.

Here’s the bittersweet part — as you chomp down on the golden, liq-uid cheese heaven that’s rolled up alongside the perfect balance of beans, meat and sour cream, lick off the orange powder from your fingers and go for your second refill of Pepsi, that $2 just cost you 1,600 calories.

That’s roughly as many calories as an 18- to 24-year-old woman should eat in an entire day.

After a few months of ignorant eating, our favorite pants begin to shrink, or our hearts quietly clog and a one-way ticket to heart dis-ease is in its beginning stages.

Solution? Diet, baby!Coca-Cola? Gross. Pass me a

Diet Coke. Calorie free is healthier, right?Aspartame, which can be found

in most diet beverages, has zero cal-ories, but can actually make you crave sweets.

One Diet Coke just won’t do the trick — you’ll need three!

In an attempt to drop some

pounds, you begin purchasing the healthy food — Lean Cuisine, Slim Fast, frozen veggies — and replacing your old high-calorie favorites with their sugar-free counterparts — sug-ar-free cookies, sugar-free drinks, and even sugar-free chocolate.

And what is lurking in all those sugar-free items? You guessed it — Aspartame.

Where will too much aspartame get you?

If the reports are correct, a grave. You see, aspartame may or may not cause any number of cancers. We’re still not positive yet.

After a few weeks, our wallets simply can’t bare the cost of all these “healthy alternatives.”

We bounce back, begin eating horribly, and the pounds quietly starting finding their way back.

Instead of worrying so much about sugar-free and cost, intelli-gence needs to play a factor.

Five days worth of fast-food could buy you groceries. You’ll spend the same amount, maybe even save some, and be eating sig-nificantly more healthy.

Perhaps I’m the biggest hypo-crite of all — I eat Taco Bell practi-cally every day. But that doesn’t mean I’m not conscious of my deci-sions.

Enjoy your Friday night beers and pizza, just remember — those little calories add up.

— Joe Williams is the Opinions editor for

The Red & Black

There has been a lot of criticism, espe-cially lately, of the

American print media establishment.

A lot of this is justified.I’ll be as critical of the

system as anyone, despite my love of all things jour-nalism.

Despite its shortfalls, however, I’ve recently had an experience that gave me a much deeper respect for the American system, if not its institutions.

I’m one of the lucky few journalism students who got an internship this summer that’s remotely related to our field of study.

The catch is, I had to come all the way to India to do it.

I’ve been in India for about a month and a half now.

My work has been interesting enough, but I wanted to enhance it with some real journalism experience.

I was fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of one of the editors of a national newspaper here.

I asked if it would be OK if I wrote a few arti-cles for her paper, and she agreed to consider any-thing I sent to her.

A couple days later, I turned in my first story.

It was a special inter-est piece about a Dutchman and Spaniard that I knew lived here together, and how they felt about the approach-ing World Cup match.

My editor liked it enough to run it the next day.

I was pretty excited; I’d never had a story pub-lished in anything bigger than The Red & Black before.

I spent all day looking for a copy of the paper.

When I finally found one, I excitedly turned to my story.

It looked great. The art that accompa-

nied it was well formatted and complimented the story beautifully.

There was only one problem. The article that was printed in that news-paper wasn’t mine.

Now, I don’t have any problem having an article of mine being edited heavily.

I’m the first to admit that my style is far from perfect, and I knew that the story I turned in needed a little polishing.

But there was no way I would want to be associ-ated with what ran in that issue.

The published article in itself wasn’t that bad.

It stuck mostly to what I wrote, keeping the same wording and struc-ture.

But what really both-ered me was that much of the content of the story simply wasn’t true.

The editor had altered what I’d written to make it more interesting and readable.

But in doing so, she decided to alter quotes

and make up things that never happened.

The story essentially lied to hundred of thou-sands of people.

And it had my name on it.

Additionally, the article was rewritten in a format that abandoned all pre-tense of impartiality.

The words and phrases she used told readers what to think of the infor-mation, instead of letting them think for them-selves.

If any of my Grady pro-fessors were dead, they would’ve rolled in their graves.

In America, there’s no way this would fly.

Any paper that tried to print that story here would be sued in places they didn’t know they had.

And because my name was attached to it, I’d probably be laughed out of any journalism related job interview for the rest of my life.

The Red & Black is a favorite punching bag of people on campus looking to be critical of the media.

Again, this is often jus-tified.

But I’ll tell you this — if I had brought the story that my Indian publisher had printed to The Red & Black, they would have rolled their eyes, told me to scrap it and start from scratch.

I’ve talked to some friends and associates here in India who have also had experience with local papers, and they tend to mirror my senti-ments.

It seems that this wasn’t just an isolated incident — this situation is the norm here.

The Indian media are the freest, largest and possibly the best in all of Asia.

And yet, they couldn’t even publish a fluff story with no real significance without altering it.

If they can’t be trusted with the little things, how can they be taken serious-ly when they publish sto-ries about politics or news of national and global importance?

This is where the American system shines.

Despite heavy Constitutional protection, the newspaper and reporter would be held accountable and possibly suffer financial loss.

They would lose credi-bility and readership. They would publish a retraction and an apology for the error.

In India, people just shrug and turn to the Bollywood page.

— Mark Miller is a ris-ing senior from Griffin

majoring in publication management

With Dubya gone, who do we blame?

ADAMCARLSON

JOEWILLIAMS

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Williams’ ‘I quit’ column oversteps boundaries

I am extremely disturbed by Joe Williams’ article in the Opinions page today.

As a customer of the compa-ny he has so virtuously taken leave of, a former journalism stu-dent, as well as a former employ-ee of the 27-year-old “middle-aged man” he found so objec-tionable, I have to wonder about Williams’ motives for this piece.

I happen to agree with much that he said.

I know the feeling of hatred for a mindless, thankless retail job. I understand the desire to be rid of jobs that hold no real interest and move on to your chosen career.

But I also believe that if you are lucky enough to be hired these days, I believe you should do that job to the best of your abilities. Regardless of how grat-ing it is to your nerves.

If that is the case, and then you are fired for trivial reasons, you would understandably be angered beyond words. I have done jobs that bored, angered, or just plain irritated me.

And while I could handle it, I worked my ass off for my mini-

mum wage. Like many in Athens, I even

briefly tried the Dial, and although I woke up ready to cry because I had to go to a job I hated, I was the top seller of my training group.

It is doubtless that Williams will have no idea who I am, given that anytime we were in the store at the same time, he seem-ingly wanted nothing to do with the customers.

In his article, Williams makes himself sound like a wronged employee of the month.

He neglected to mention the many actions he took that showed just how little he cared about that minimum wage pay-check.

He obviously had little inter-

est in doing the job he was hired for. His work ethic was question-able at best, and I was not sur-prised when I found out he was fired.

It was not his manager’s fault that Williams lost the job he found so meaningless. His own actions resulted in that loss.

Had he been my employee, he would have been ousted weeks before.

While I respect his opinions and his right to shout them, I find his journalism ethics as questionable as his work.

The article itself is not the problem. If he had left it at his opinions of the general work force, that would have been one thing.

He crossed the line from

rightful opinion sharing to vin-dictive immaturity when he decided to use his position on this paper to insult someone who is mature enough to do their job. His insults are based on nothing but his personal, twisted logic.

As an Opinions Editor, Willliams should be able to understand the difference between the Opinion page and his personal “blog.”

I feel this article not only detracts from the respect an edi-tor should be able to claim, it also tarnishes the validity of The Red & Black.

REBECCA TUCKER Alumna, Watkinsville

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If I were to tell you that you were dreaming right now, would you believe me?

It’s been a long time since a film like “Inception” has come along. Christopher Nolan’s latest since “The Dark Knight” is both fantastic in its styling and the uniqueness of the story.

Without spoiling too much, I would like to say the film is all at once thought-provoking yet still easy to follow. So, if you’re worried about having to think too hard to under-stand what is happening, that’s not an issue.

You will, however, leave the theater with thoughts spinning in your head about the impossibilities of what you just saw and what they could possibly mean if anywhere near real.

The movie is based wholly upon dreams and their reality. It’s really best to go in knowing as little as possible about the film beforehand, but in order to be better prepared, just think of some of the big-ger questions that one might pose to themselves.

Who am I? Why am I here? Is everything around me as it seems?

Ponder the idea that the life we are living may simply be a state that we imagine, one where every-thing around us has been created for us, but the reality is that we have been left elsewhere.

These are the types of situations “Inception” presents and allows your mind to mull over, while digesting everything else that is happening.

For who among us has not questioned the reality of our situation or the cir-cumstances under which we came to be? It is in this way that “Inception” presents itself above and beyond what else is out there today.

It is the first movie in a long time that has actual-ly made me think about things, or at least in a par-adoxical sense — barring “Benjamin Button” in 2008.

The best kind of film is one that makes you leave the theater talking, and “Inception” does just that.

The film doesn’t simply succeed on the story front alone. Wally Pfister — who has been working with Chris Nolan since “Memento,” his first mind-altering film from 2000 — once again succeeds in presenting an impressive mix of visuals, pushing for-ward the believability and awe-factor of the film.

There are some unbe-lievable moments in the movie that seem almost inexplicable as to how they were filmed. There was obviously a large amount of CGI work, but it all flows seamlessly.

The actors all do a fine job portraying their sepa-rate roles by tieing into one another so well.

With Leonardo DiCaprio leading the pack, just of his stint with Martin Scorsese in anoth-er mind-bending thriller, “Shutter Island,” how could this not be the case?

There are many familiar faces like Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt — whose acting seems a bit dry at times — but the one face that seems to have a great future ahead of him is Tom Hardy.

Though he is just a supporting actor in this film, he still does a superb job, and with “Bronson” in his recent past I expect we can see many great things from him in the future.

It just seems that all of the pieces of the puzzle

came together so readily, all to be topped off by another astounding soundtrack by Hans Zimmer.

What is impressive about the composition is that Nolan asked him to compose only to the script and not to an early cut of the film.

Because of this, when one hears the seamless integrations of the music

paired with the visuals, it is even more amazing.

This is a project that Nolan has had in the works for the past 10 years.

With many insisting that he may be the great director of our time, I can’t help but think of Quentin Tarantino’s simi-lar struggle with the script of “Inglourious Basterds,” which was received well by both audiences and crit-ics.

Verdict:Christopher Nolan real-

ly hit a home run with this one. It is both compelling and thought-provoking, two of my favorite things from a film, and is visually stunning and ground-breaking. “Inception” is a film that needs to be seen, and seen quickly before any of it can be spoiled for you.

— Auryn Baruch

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Students seeking offerings from Athens’ art scene should find themselves at Be Here Now Gallery for the reception of its latest show, “Locals Only.”

The show, starting July 24, features 16 artists who are resi-dents of the Classic City or who have been in the past. Many are University alumni.

Steven Milsap and Dan Smith, curators of the exhibit, said they intend to foster a net-work of relationships among Athenian artists with this show.

“I think it’s been really organ-ic how this show came togeth-er,” Milsap said. “I think the

people who are involved seem absolutely cool and excited about doing it. And, you know, that’s fun to be around.”

Aside from the shared geog-raphy, Milsap and Smith said the only other criteria they used to select pieces for this show was a desire to bridge the gap between low art and high art.

“I don’t see the distinction, but a lot of people do,” said Smith.

High art is anything one would normally expect to find in a gallery, from conceptual per-formance art to Monet.

Low art, said Smith, draws from cartoons, pop culture and tattoo art, and is born out of punk rock cultures.

“It’s like if you go to the mag-azine shop and you pick up Juxtapoz Magazine and Artforum,” Milsap said. “They’re like two different worlds almost, though some people operate in both of them. And I’m trying to get to that middle area.”

Milsap and Smith will both be showing pieces in the exhibit, and Smith said his art is influ-enced by the pop culture of

his childhood.“It’s poppy, cartoonish,” he

said. “Everything from my child-hood fed into my art — all the cartoons and comic books and skateboard posters. All that fed into it.”

The show will include two paintings by artist Nash Hogan. One of these is a street scene in Chicago that cleverly captures the movement through the city’s steeply-lined streets in colors so lush they still look wet.

Milsap and Smith said they chose pieces for their show that cover a broad range of subjects.

“It’s not a bunch of watercol-or paintings of houses,” said Smith.

Milsap said he wanted to

forgo themes in subject matter for the first few shows at Be Here Now so he could showcase what Athens artists have been doing on their own, and build community within the art scene.

“Locals Only” is the gallery’s second show. Its first show packed the small gallery space and hall with between 125 and 150 people, Milsap said.

Milsap said creating art is a solitary enterprise for him, and he began to feel out of touch with what was going on cre-atively in town.

This is what prompted him to open Be Here Now.

“It’s like, I wanted to have a party, after isolating myself for so long,” he said.

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“Athens, GA: Inside/Out” is exactly what it implies, a documentary about the music scene in Athens in the 1980s. Directed and written by Tony Gayton, this film features interviews with several prominent bands and performers based in Athens at that time.

R.E.M., Pylon and The B-52’s all make appearances in the film, along with several less-known but just as talented bands.

R.E.M. formed in Athens in 1980 with members Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry. This band, even today, is one of the most popular alternative rock bands to hit the music stage. Pylon got its start in 1979 with a catchy jangle pop sound. With the help of R.E.M. and The B-52’s, both of which attended many of their shows, Pylon was able to get its music to all corners of the country.

The B-52’s formed in 1976 with a 1960s rock ‘n’ roll style with several other genres thrown in the mix. All of these local bands went on to become national favorites.

In the documentary, each band’s story is told and their history highlighted. Among the other bands featured in the film are Flat Duo Jets, Time Toy, Dreams So Real, Love Tractor, the Bar-B-Que Killers and Kilkenny Cats. There is also an interview with Howard Finster, a fabled Georgia folk artist.

The documentary is occasionally narrated by local storytelling legend William Orten Carlton, or simply Ort as he know about town. His rich voice and friendly demeanor helps the documentary remain interesting and flow smoothly from one story to another. “Athens, GA: Inside/Out” is a very successful

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What: Democratic Caucus ElectionWhere: ACC LibraryWhen: 9:15 a.m.Price: FreeVerdict: Join the Democratic Party of Georgia State Convention in electing delegates.Contact: 706-202-7515, [email protected]

What: 2010 Athens Local Food AwardsWhere: Bishop ParkWhen: 10 a.m.Price: FreeVerdict: Come explore the Athens Farmers Market while listening to the award show for the Taste Your Place competition.Contact: www.localplace.org

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What: Taste Your Place Restaurant Contest & Silent AuctionWhere: CinéWhen: 6-8:30 p.m.Price: $10Verdict: Bid in a silent auction while you taste tapas from local restaurants.Contact: www.localplace.org

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months, and then of course in the spring when they all burst out.”

The classes Dooley audited were taught by horticulture professors Michael Dirr and Allan Armitage. He said both instructors continue to inspire his gardening hobby.

The garden evolved so much since its first seedlings, Dooley decided to write a book about it.

“The book is called ‘Vince Dooley’s Garden: The Horticultural Journey of a Football Coach,’ one that had no background but had an interest,” he said. “I’m kind of an inspiration I guess, because if I can be a gardener, anybody can be a gardener, and if I can write a book, anybody can write a book.”

He said nothing — neither the garden nor the book — got done halfway when he was involved.

“I think I was reading [Winston] Churchill one time, and it said when you start out, writing a book is an adventure, and then it becomes a lover and then it becomes a tyrant,” Dooley said.

“I reached this tyrant state a cou-ple of times, and then when it’s all over it’s satisfying.”

Even though the book is pub-lished, Dooley said gardening is a continuous journey.

“There’s still a lot of places I want to go, lots of gardens I want to see, a lot of plants I want to have,” he said. “It’s been a great experience.”

Out of all the plants he has, Dooley said he could not pick only one favorite.

However, camellias, dahlias, hydrangeas and Japanese maples have to be in the running.

“I really love [Japanese maples] because there’s an endless variety of form, shape, color,” he said. “You’ve got big ones, little ones. You’ve got weepers and you’ve got orange ones and red ones and yellow ones and all different colors.”

Essentially, he said, he’s a fan of whatever happens to be in bloom, even if he can’t always remember the name of every flower.

“Sometimes I remember the botanical name and I don’t know the common name,” Dooley said. “Dr. Dirr insists I know the botanical name.”

The common names for one hydrangea and one camellia are very easy to recall, however — they’re named after the coach.

“Dr. Dirr named [the hydrangea] and then the other one was a couple of people on the camellia society who were big Georgia fans, and this Dooley camellia is a big, red, Georgia red one,” Dooley said. “They knew of my interest in horticulture so they named it.”

The garden is separated into dif-ferent sections, one of which is called “Weeper’s Creek.”

“I’ve got weeping plants all up and down this creek, but when I was coaching football, whenever we’d get beat I’d come out here at night and weep with the weepers,” Dooley said.

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“My wife keeps asking me, ‘Why don’t you grow me some tomatoes?’ and then my friend said, ‘Why don’t you grow something you can eat?’” Dooley said. “I made a commitment that the next thing I was gonna do was start me a vegetable garden, and I did.”

The Dooleys now have tomatoes, cucumbers and asparagus — and a cantaloupe vine which popped up out of nowhere — growing in their yard.

The garden is requested as a venue for tours and horticulture-re-lated meetings on a regular basis, Dooley said.

He said gardening was his golf, and despite his busy schedule, man-ages to squeeze in some time to weed and walk in the garden as much as he can.

“It’s good exercise to start with, so it’s good for the body. It’s good for the mind because there’s always a new plan,” he said. “It’s great for the soul and the spirit because it’s great to go out there and contemplate and figure out life.”

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switch to the 3-4 and [Todd] Grantham’s style, will that translate quick-ly? ... I like them, and I really think they have a chance to challenge Florida, but I still think they’re probably a year away at quarterback.”

Low said the overall makeup of this year’s Georgia team reminds him of the 2005 edition, which was led by quarter-back D.J. Shockley, with the only difference being that Shockley “had wait-ed his turn, while Murray hasn’t taken a snap”.

Clay Travis, a writer for Fanhouse, shares Low’s thoughts regarding Georgia’s chances in the division race.

“I think they can win the SEC East and I think they can win the SEC, [but] I don’t think that’s likely, because I think it’s going to be Florida,” Travis said. “I think Georgia will struggle at the quarterback position, I think they’ll be better at the skill positions, and I’m interested to see how the new defensive coordi-nator is going to do.”

Travis said he believes the Eastern division will have Florida on top, with a noticeable drop-off to the other teams.

“The reality is, Florida will win [the division] at 6-2, and no one else will be better than 4-4,” he said.

Bob Carlton, who writes for The Birmingham News, admitted he wasn’t “the biggest sports fan,” but that did not stop him from giving a prediction on the Bulldogs’ finish in the East this season. His list wasn’t much different than the other avid fol-

lowers of the sport, though.

“Behind Florida and maybe South Carolina, but ahead of Kentucky, Vandy and Tennessee,” he said. “So either second or third behind Florida and possibly South Carolina.”

Perhaps not surpris-ingly, the person most bullish about the Bulldogs’ 2010 campaign is former Georgia offen-sive lineman Matt Stinchcomb.

With new coaches at Kentucky, Vanderbilt and Tennessee, and the fact he feels Florida is vulner-able, he said he believes Georgia could win what he sees as a wide-open division.

“With Tennessee in the state that it’s in, Kentucky with a new coach, Vanderbilt with a new coach, [they’re down],” Stinchcomb said. “South Carolina poses a serious threat because of their continuity and Florida has a new quarterback, too, and a new defensive coordinator. If there was ever a time of ‘weakness’ for the best team in the SEC East, the Florida Gators, it’s this year.”

Kentucky running back Derrick Locke declined to give his pre-diction for the order of finish for the division, but he knows the SEC East is always rough.

“The SEC East is the SEC East,” he said. “It’s tough. The SEC in gener-al is hard. Anytime you go out and play somebody it’s going to be rough — anytime you play Georgia it’s going to be rough ... it’s going to be another hard-fought battle, every game, and that’s what we love about it. ... This is what football’s all about.”

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Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray couldn’t believe how long the line of fans waiting to get his auto-graph was.

With every passing min-ute, more and more people dressed in red and black from head to toe lined up, waiting to have souvenirs signed by the Bulldogs’ first-year signal caller.

“It’s cool, especially being my first year,” Murray said. “It’s nice to see that there are so many people behind my back and behind the whole Georgia Bulldog team.”

Murray was just one of the current and former players who met with fans and signed autographs at the sixth annual Georgia Countdown to Kickoff Fan Day held July 17 at the Woodruff Practice Fields.

The event, started in 2005 by former Georgia offensive linemen Jon and Matt Stinchcomb and for-mer quarterback David Greene, lets fans get up close and personal with their favorite players while enjoying food and games — all for charity.

All proceeds from Fan Day go to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia Transplant Foundation, Georgia Tumor Foundation and the University of Georgia Pediatric Motor Skills Development Clinic. The weekend also included a golf tournament on at the University Golf Course.

“We wanted a fun way to get the Georgia nation involved in a charity event that didn’t really feel like a charity event,” said Jon Stinchcomb, who won a Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints in February. “Something where we had old players and current guys on the team come together for a good cause and have fun all the while.”

Other Georgia alumni in attendance included Cincinnati Bengals offen-sive lineman Dennis Roland and free agent quarterback D.J. Shockley, who played for the Atlanta Falcons from 2006 to 2009 and led Georgia to an SEC Championship in 2005.

In addition to Murray, Georgia players who appeared included corner-back Brandon Boykin, tight end Orson Charles, defen-sive end DeMarcus Dobbs, safety Nick Williams and linebackers Akeem Dent and Justin Houston.

“I love coming out and seeing the real Georgia fans,” Williams said. “It was supposed to rain but I didn’t care. Coming out and seeing real Bulldog fans is great. I enjoy it.”

Fans taking breaks from waiting in the autograph lines were free to browse the practice field, which featured food and souvenir tents.

Several companies set up tents to promote prod-ucts, including Muscle Milk, Zaxby’s, Chick-fil-A and Barberitos. Another tent, provided by Corporate GameDay, allowed fans and athletes to play EA Sports’ NCAA 2011 for the Sony PlayStation® 3. A matchup between Dent and safety Quintin Banks featured an entertainment game of Georgia versus Georgia.

The event also included simulated tackle drills run by Jon Stinchcomb, giving younger fans the opportu-nity to show their moves in front of real Georgia play-ers.

“The thing that’s so fun about this Fan Day is that we normally cut if off at about 2,000 fans, so it’s a little more personal,” Greene said. “It’s more than just signing auto-graphs and leaving. You get to hold babies and take pictures, and that’s what fans want to see.”

But for some fans, like Dale Brannon of Cumming, the glamour of the experi-ence is just getting a chance to meet the players and get a simple hand-shake, as Brannon did when he met Shockley.

“I don’t do [autographs] anymore, I have too many on my wall,” Brannon said. “This is my fifth year com-ing, and we have a good time every time we come. I got to see the old Dogs like D.J. Shockley, and got to see Murray and Orson Charles and see if they can talk some recruits into coming here.”

Javelin star takes aim at world’s bestBy JAMIE McDONOUGH

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Who knew throwing a light spear as far as you can throw it would lead anywhere?

University track and field star Brian Moore did, and it’s taking him farther than he could have imagined.

Earlier this month, Moore, a rising redshirt sophomore, won a bronze medal in javelin at the North American, Central American, and Caribbean Championship in Miramar, Fla.

“It was a great honor to place third,” Moore said. “I was proud to serve Team USA and finish in the top three.”

Moore was one of seven ath-letes from the Southeastern Conference to compete in the championship.

“It was not weird being on the

same team as athletes I usually compete against,” Moore said. “In other sports, competition is con-sidered the enemy, but in track and field we all get along. When it’s time to com-pete, though, we are all looking after ourselves.”

The javelin, a spear with a length of approximately 2.5 meters, is thrown by the ath-lete as he gains momentum by sprinting to a pre-determined area. Moore launched the javelin 224 feet, 5 inches after fouling his sec-ond, third and fourth throws, top-ping Canada’s Kyle Nielson and securing himself in third place.

“I love the competitive aspect of the javelin event,” Moore said.

“I like going to meets and know-ing that I will be competitive. The feeling after a good throw is amaz-ing.”

Last season Moore won the SEC Championship with a throw of 239 feet, 4 inches. He placed 13th at the NCAA Championship last season.

“I plan to keep training hard in the future so that I can hopefully make the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team,” Moore said. “I would love to compete in the 2012 Olympic Games.”

Moore grew up in Willow Grove, Pa., and attended La Salle College High School, where he began competing in track and field events in the ninth grade.

“I became involved in track and field because of my two older brothers,” Moore said. “They inspired me to compete at a young age.”

In college, Moore only com-petes in the javelin.

“My first coach, Dan Babbitt, gave me a lot of confidence in throwing,” Moore said. “He changed my technique and now I feel like I can be competitive in any meet I compete in.”

Moore has high hopes for next season. “I think we will definitely do better than we did this year,” he said. “This year was a building year for next year and years after that. We have a lot of great guys coming onto the team.”

Because success in track and field can appear to be an individu-al achievement, many forget the athletes are part of a larger team.

“I feel like the team — espe-cially the throws group at UGA — pushes you in the weight room and in training which leads to individual accomplishment,” Moore said.

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