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TUESDAY
September 7,1999
Vol. 107, No. 11 | Athens, Georgia
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Who’s next?
Dogs look to improve for USC
By JOSH KATZOWITZ
The Red a Black
Behind the arm of Quincy Carter and
the hands of freshman Terrence
Edwards, Georgia managed an easy 38-7
win against Utah State Saturday night
Georgia
Utah State
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▲ Sophomore quarterback Quincy Carter and freshman Terrence
Edwards celebrate after Edwards completed Carter's first touchdown
pass. Edwards racked up 196 yards on 10 catches Saturday.
in the season opener.
The Bulldogs, however, showed what
could turn out to be some major prob
lems — namely a running game that was
hardly effective and a defense that gave
up some potentially big plays, a concern
that needs to be rectified for this
Saturday’s showdown with South
Carolina.
“We played hard, but (Utah State)
made some good plays," Georgia coach
Jim Donnan said. "We created a lot of
turnovers, but we gave up way too many
big plays."
Fortunately for the Bulldogs, even
though the Aggies accumulated 413
yards on offense, they walked away from
Sanford Stadium with a lone touchdown
to their credit.
“We made a lot of mistakes early, and
we were sloppy," senior linebacker
Orantes Grant said. "But we held in
there, and we kept them out of the end
zone."
The Bulldogs’ running game also got
off to a rough start, and although Carter
connected with Edwards — a freshman
who started at split end in place of
Michael Greer — on a 47-yard strike
down the left sideline early in the game,
tailbacks Robert Arnaud and Jasper
Sanks were slipshod throughout most of
the game.
On a Bulldog second-and-six at
Georgia's 47-yard line, Arnaud fumbled
the ball, but it was picked up by
Georgia's Jermaine Phillips for a 5-yard
gain.
Just five plays later on Utah State’s
16-yard line, however, Sanks lost his han
dle on the ball, which ended up being
recovered by the Aggies.
"Sanks had some pretty good runs,
but I had a pretty bad day," said Arnaud,
who carried the ball 10 times for just 26
yards. “I just have to work hard on men
tal reps. I just need to relax and play the
game in my mind before it happens.”
Georgia’s offen
sive line also had a
tough time opening
up holes for its run
ners because as
many as nine Utah
State players
crowded the line of
scrimmage to suffo
cate any kind of
Bulldog running
momentum.
On the opposite
end of the spec
trum, the Aggies’
running game was
extremely effective
in the early going.
Senior Demario
Brown, who rushed
for 101 yards on 16
carries, and Aaron
Jones, who made a
nice 43-yard run off
a reverse before
fumbling the ball
away to Georgia,
combined for 85
yards of offense on
Just five carries in
the opening quarter.
Utah State, how
ever, looked like the
3-8 team of last sea
son, as it couldn’t seem to find its way up
to the Sanford Stadium scoreboard until
late in the second quarter, thanks mainly
to its six turnovers.
Meanwhile, Edwards had quite a day,
racking up 196 yards — 2 yards short of a
school record for most yards receiving —
and two touchdowns on 10 catches.
Many of which were hurled by Carter,
who finished the first game of his sopho
more season completing 24 of 35 passes
with two scores and an interception.
“There's no question we've been talk
ing Terrence Edwards up," Donnan said.
“But it's pretty obvious what his abilities
are. I'm happy with the way Quincy
played, and he had close to 400 yards (in
passing and rushing). We are pleased
with the win, but there’s lots of room for
improvement. We know what we have to
do to get better, and that’s what we'll
do."
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A Football season is here! Students early on
cheered the Dogs to a 38-7 victory Saturday.
Students ‘charged’ up over fees
By CHANDLER BROWN
The Red a Black
Two weeks after the University started charging for
computer lab printouts, students continue to push for
the school to foot the bill.
With mounting costs for paper and ink cartridges, the
University began charging 2.5 cents per page at the
beginning of this semester, when UGACards were
equipped to carry monetary values.
“They’re already taking so much money from stu
dents, I don’t think they should take 2.5 cents more,”
said Jill Kramer, a Junior from Marietta who refused to
pay for her printouts last week at the Memorial Hall
computer lab. “I think it's pretty stupid."
Frustrated — and often angry — students routinely
complain to University Computing and Networking
Services and the Office of Student Activities, officials
say.
What’s their chief complaint?
“They think they’ve already paid enough to go to
school here," said Jerry Anthony, business manager for
student activities. “They think we should pay for their
printouts."
Anthony said his office has fielded about a dozen
complaints per day since the program was launched
Aug. 26.
But students say they’d rather pay a flat rate — simi
lar to a health or transportation fee — instead of going
through the hassle of paying each time they print some
thing out.
“People think a technology fee covers (printouts),”
Anthony said. "We have to inform them that there is no
technology fee."
Last spring the Board of Regents, which would have
to approve a fee increase, denied adding a technology
charge to students’ tuition.
“I think they thought it would stretch the resources
of the HOPE scholarship,” Anthony said, adding that he
favors a tee Increase rather than paying for each print
out.
Another complaint students have is that they can’t
add money to their cards in the Tate Student Center
after 4 p.m. when the cashier’s window closes. Prompted
by an angry student, UCNS has ordered another value
adding machine — at a cost of $2,000 — to be put on the
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documents he wants to print at the Memorial
Hall UCNS lab Friday afternoon.
third floor of the Tate Center.
The cost was worth it, said UCNS computer service
specialist Don Smith.
“We're trying to make this as easy as possible," Smith
said. "Students having to adjust to something new —
that’s always a problem."
Indigo
Girls
coming
By CHANDLER BROWN
The Red a Black
Decatur-based folk duo Indigo
Girls will headline next month's
Homecoming festivities, University
Union officials confirmed Monday.
The popular guitar-playing
group, made up of Amy Ray and
Emily Sailers, is set to play at
Stegeman Coliseum Oct. 22 at 8
p.m.
Tickets go on sale Sept. 18 at 9
a.m. at the Tate Student Center
Cashier’s Window. Tickets cost $12,
$15 and $18 for students.
The Indigo Girls, whose hits
include "Galileo” and "Closer to
Fine,” were formed officially in 1985
but had been playing around
Atlanta since the early '80s. Their
folky guitar music gained national
recognition in 1989 with the release
of a self-titled album that went on
to win a Grammy for Best Folk
Recording.
The concert will mark the first
time the band has played Athens in
at least five years, said University
Union Programming Adviser Willie
Banks.
“We are quite excited the Indigo
Girls are coming to play Athens,”
Banks said.
An opening act has not yet been
confirmed. Negotiations with B B.
King failed two weeks ago when
King accepted an invitation to play
at the White House.
The Indigo Girls will release a
new album, "Come On Now Social,"
Sept. 28. A spokeswoman for Epic
Records, the band's label, said the
concert likely would include songs
from the new album as well as old
hits.
As word spread about the con
cert, die-hard Indigo Girls fans were
surprised but delighted to hear the
band was headed to Athens.
“I'm so excited," said Genie
Umbarger, a junior from Marietta
and self-proclaimed Indigo Girls fan.
Umbarger explained that the duo
“finds words to express emotions
when no other words can."
Officials met last week to deter
mine how best to distribute tickets.
One idea being tossed around is to
have would-be concert-goers fill out
an application and pick up their
tickets at a later date, said Student
Activities Business Manager Jerry
Anthony.
Aside from the football game, a
Friday night performance is typical
ly the pinnacle of Homecoming
Week’s entertainment. Last year Bill
Cosby did his stand-up comedy rou
tine, and two years ago Athens-
based The B-52's played to a home
town crowd at the Coliseum.
INDIGO GIRLS
When & Where: Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. at
Stegeman Coliseum
Ticket!: Available at Tate as ol Sept. 18
for $12, $15 or $18.
> Check out The
R 6 B's review ol
the Indigo Gilts'
latest CD, ■Come
on Now Social,' on
page 3.
University no stranger to admissions controversy
' By AMANDA BRANNON
The Red a Black
Two lawsuits last month
claiming admissions discrimina
tion against whites and women
have administrators scrambling
to create a flair policy that encour
ages diversity.
But there is a long legal history
that has led to the current battles
over Justice in higher education.
In 1887, a few black freedmen
■ought admission to the
University without success, and
the issue of integration did not
resurface until 1950 when the U.S.
Supreme Court ordered the
University of Texas law school to
admit a black man named
Herman Sweatt.
In 1950, however, Georgia
began its own legal battle with a
black man who sought admission
to the University’s law school.
While Horace Ward went about
appealing to the University presi
dent and University System chan
cellor, the Board of Regents
increased admissions require
ments for the law school.
This gave the University time
to avoid making real decisions
about admitting blacks to the
University. A major cause of con
cern was a Georgia law created in
the early 1950s that would take
away money for any traditionally
white state-funded college or uni
versity that admitted blacks.
The state offered blacks
money to attend schools in other
states rather than all-white
schools. Ward refosed the money,
ward continued with his case
against the Board of Regents for
nearly six years until his suit was
dismissed after he enrolled at
Northwestern University.
In 1956, six black students
sought admission to the Georgia
State College of Business
Administration, and a Judge ruled
they couldn't be denied admis
sion based solely on their race.
But the Judge didn't order the
school to admit the students.
In 1959, Hamilton Holmes and
Charlayne Hunter applied for
admission to the University and
were denied because the dorms
were foil, and freshmen were
required to live on campus.
On January 6, 1961, Judge W.
A. Bootle ordered the enrollment
of Holmes and Hunter.
In his book “The University of
Georgia: A Bicentennial History,
1785-1985," Thomas O. Dyer,
senior vice president for the insti
tute of higher education, said the
event marked a pivotal point in
the University's history.
“One hundred sixty years of
segregation had officially ended,"
Dyer said.
Amid protests, screaming
mobs and military security, both
the students attended classes
and earned bachelor degrees.
Since then. University mea
sures to boost minority admis
sions haven’t Increased the num
bers of black students here.
During the 1973-74 school yean
12 years after Holmes and Hunter
gained admission, the
University’s student body was
only 2.6 percent black.
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