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January 16, 2001
Vol. 108, No. 81 | Athens, Georgia
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Dead woman identified
By SAMIRA JAFARI
sjafari@randb.com
The graduate student found dead Wednesday after
noon in her Family and Graduate Housing apartment
has been identified as 33-year-old Rhonda Harrison, a
teaching assistant for the Statistics Department.
Harrison may have died as early as two days before a
Housing employee was sent to check on her, according
to the police report
Police suspect no foul play in the case.
University Police Chief Chuck Horton said the body
has been sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations
Crime Lab in Atlanta.
He added that the cause of death won’t be confirmed
until lab results are obtained — a wait of possibly
another six to eight weeks.
“The (Statistics) Department was completely
shocked,” said Jaxk Reeves, an associate statistics pro
fessor and graduate coordinator, Monday. “A lot of peo
ple saw her on Monday (Jan. 8) and she seemed fine.
That was the last time anyone saw her.”
A family member asked Housing officials to check on
Harrison after being unable to contact her for a few
days, said Ken Goyen, manager of Family and Graduate
Housing, Thursday.
Katrena Brock, Harrison’s sister, said she last saw
Harrison on Saturday, Jan. 6, and “everything seemed
normal.”
“She was a very giving and generous person,” Brock
said.
Harrison had attended the University’s graduate pro
gram since August, working toward an MBA in statis
tics.
“She was very outgoing and very friendly,” Reeves
said. “She had a knack for helping students who had
trouble with statistics — she was well liked by the stu
dents. It was clear that she was a great TA.”
Reeves said the teaching schedule has been altered
and another teaching assistant will take Harrison’s
place.
Harrison’s funeral was held Saturday at the Pleasant
Hill Baptist Church in Martin. Friends, family and col
leagues were in attendance.
Men take first SEC road victory
MEN'S BASKETBALL
70 J 66
By JOSH KATZOWITZ
jkatzowit@randb.com
For 58 minutes and 10 seconds on Saturday, No. 20 Ole
Miss proved it’s a team that should make waves in the
conference this season.
For the final 1:50, however, Georgia proved it can look
adversity in the face, make smart shots, play intense sec
ond-half defense and pull out a tough road win against a
ranked opponent.
With a little less than two minutes remaining before
8,121 at Tad Smith Coliseum, D.A. Layne, whose team
was behind the whole contest, helped vanquish the
Rebels by hitting two free throws to tie the game and
then nailing a jumper with 60 seconds left to lead Georgia
to a 70-66 win.
Now, the Bulldogs take their two-game SEC winning
streak — not to mention the confidence they’ve earned
— against a No. 8 Florida squad that is missing two key
players in Brent Wright and Teddy Dupay.
Georgia will count on Layne to have another strong
performance in front of what is sure to be a rowdy
O’Connell Center on Wednesday.
“What he did Saturday, he couldn’t have done last
year,” Georgia coach Jim Harrick said of Layne’s 21-point,
five-rebound performance. “Layne creates plays for us,
and he’s a gutsy kid that wants the ball at the end of the
game — to be in that moment and take the big shot.”
And in the second half, he was on fire. Although he
scored just two points before the two teams went to inter
mission with Ole Miss (14-2, 2-1 SEC) ahead 33-24, Layne
— along with SEC Player of the Week Ezra Williams (18
points) and freshman Steve Thomas (eight boards) —
kicked Georgia (9-7,2-1) off on an 11-2 run late in the sec
ond half to give the Bulldogs a chance to win the game.
“I looked at the clock the whole game,” Layne told the
Athens Banner-Herald. “We’d be down by nine, make a
stop and then be down by seven. It’s a grind. We’re grind
ing it out. If we can keep on grinding it out in the confer
ence, good things will happen.”
And if the Bulldogs continue to get solid play from
Williams — who seems to have shaken off his season-long
shooting slump — and Thomas, they might become a
force in the SEC.
First, though, Georgia had to get past an Ole Miss
team that shut down the Bulldogs’ offensive production
in the first half and was led mostly by Rahim Lockhart,
the Rebels’ leading scorer and rebounder.
However, the senior from Mendenhall, Miss., who put
in nine points and just two rebounds, fouled out with 7:21
left. From there, Thomas’ defense and Layne’s and
Williams’ offense brought Georgia back from a 52-39
deficit.
“When we jumped out early, I thought they were going
to lose confidence,” said Rebels freshman forward Justin
Reed, who led his team with 21 points.
DANIEL HENRY | The Red * Buck
A Georgia guard D.A. Layne runs the ball against
Auburn. Layne scored 21 points in Saturday’s game.
“But they’ve got a senior ballclub, and they were able
to come back. Coach basically told us that (Nos.) 50
(Chris Daniels) and 55 (Thomas) weren’t playing that
much, that it was basically going to be the seniors. But 50
and 55 stepped up and had big games, and that was the
deciding factor.”
In other Georgia basketball news, senior center Robb
Dryden, who played six minutes and tallied one point and
one rebound against the Rebels, doesn’t have mononucle
osis, Harrick told reporters during Monday’s SEC telecon
ference.
“He was sick all last week and couldn’t generate any
energy at Ole Miss,” Harrick said. “But I haven’t heard
anything from our trainers, so I anticipate (he won’t miss
anytime).”
Dryden said last week that two mono tests were per
formed on his blood last Wednesday. One came back posi
tive, but the other showed he didn’t have the virus.
Harrick instead said he had an upper-respiratory
infection.
MORE SPORTS TOMORROW
Georgia collected a few key football commitments during the
weekend, including one from blue-chip quarterback D.J.
Shockley. For news on how the Bulldogs are faring in the
2001 recruiting wars, check out Wednesday’s Red & Black.
DANIEL HENRY | The Red . Buce
▲ Sen. Zell Miller, left, details plans for a building to be named in honor of late
Sen. Paul Coverdell while University President Michael Adams and Sen. Phil
Gramm look on. In the foreground is a rendering of the proposed building.
University honors
lateGa. senator
By KERRI GRAFFIUS
kgraffius@randb.com
South Campus will more resemble its
northern counterpart when construction
for a proposed memorial to the late Sen.
Paul Coverdell begins at the end of the
year.
University President Michael Adams
and U.S. Senators Phil Gramm (R-Texas)
and Zell Miller (D-Ga.) announced the
plans for the Paul D. Coverdell Building for
Biomedical & Health Sciences — a 200,000
square foot facility designed in a
style similar to many North Campus
buildings.
Located across from the College Of
Veterinary Medicine at the intersection of
D.W. Brooks Drive and Carlton Street, the
three-story facility will occupy an
area that currently includes graduate
and commuter parking lots, and
should reach completion in late 2002 or
early 2003.
Before ground is broken for the
Coverdell Center, however, the University
will construct a nearby 700-car parking
deck.
“(The Coverdell Center) will be big
enough and it will be spectacular enough
that it will be on the University of Georgia
campus when Jesus comes back,” Gramm
said.
Miller, who succeeded Coverdell follow
ing his July death, outlined the budget
for the proposed $40 million building.
The state legislature and U.S.
Congress both will be asked to allocate
$10 million to the project. The
University will fund the remaining $20
million.
Although the Coverdell Center will not
operate under any specific college, the
facility will allow more than 300 faculty
members from different fields to collabo
rate on improving the food supply, clean
ing up the environment and finding cures
u
“(The Coverdell Center) will be big
enough and it will be spectacular
enough that it will be on the
University of Georgia campus
when Jesus comes back. ”
PHIL GRAMM
U.S. Senator (R-Texas)
for diseases, said University Provost Karen
Holbrook.
According to Holbrook, the
Coverdell Center will include large,
interdisciplinary programs that already
exist across campus but lack a single
building that allows scientists to work
together.
“It is my hope that the scientists who
gather in this center under Paul’s name
will make great discoveries to improve the
quality of life in Georgia and around the
world,” Miller said.
Coverdell, who was known for his com
mitment to educational and agricultural
efforts across the state, began the annual
UGA AG Symposium two years ago.
Shortly before his death, Coverdell spoke
at the spring 2000 commencement
ceremony.
Following his death, a bipartisan com
mittee of senators was appointed to
decide how to memorialize the late
senator.
Besides the Coverdell Center, the com
mittee recommended the Peace Corps
headquarters in Washington be named in
Coverdell’s honor along with a program
that allows Peace Corps volunteers to visit
schools nationwide. Coverdell served as
the director of the Peace Corps for two
years.
Bending Over Backwards
DANIEL HENRY The Red a Black
▲ Sophomore Cassie Bair performs her unique move on
the balance beam during the victorious meet against
Florida this weekend. Story, Page 12
Spending summer with Ezra Pound’s daughter
Author, photographer
to present her work
By GARDNER LINN
glinn@randb.com
“What did you do on your summer vaca
tion?” is a question often asked of elementary
school students on the first day of class, but
it’s rarely directed at anyone above the age of
12. When someone spent the summer with
Ezra Pound’s daughter at a castle in Italy,
however, it’s a question worth asking.
Sarah Grace Davis, an adjunct professor
of English at Truett-McConnell College in
Watkinsville, stayed with Pound’s daughter
Princess Mary de Rachelwitlz at
Brunnenburg Castle last summer, writing
poetry and taking photographs.
Tonight at 7, she will present
her work “Images and Writings from
Brunnenburg” at Barnes & Noble on
SARAH GRACE DAVIS
When & Where: 7 tonight at Barnes & Noble on
Atlanta Highway
Admission: free
Information: 354-1195
Atlanta Highway.
Davis first met de Rachelwitlz when
retired University English professor Hugh
Kenner invited the daughter of the great
Modernist poet to the University in
1999. At the urging of Kenner’s wife
Mary Anne, Davis struck up a correspon
dence which led to de Rachelwitlz’s
invitation to spend the summer at
Brunnenburg.
Davis, who obtained a bachelor of arts
degree in art history and English and a mas
ter’s in English from the University, spent
her days writing poetry and taking pho
tographs.
The pictures, currently on display in the
cafe at Barnes & Noble through February, are
stark black-and-white images of
Brunnenburg Castle and the surrounding
countryside, with a focus on the interplay of
light and shadow. Mountains are glimpsed
through windows, framed in thick black
shadows; a stone tower peeks through trees.
Brunnenburg itself, nestled between
mountains, looks like the setting for a fairy
tale.
Barnes & Noble community relations
manager Eddie Suttles encourages Athens
residents to attend tonight’s reading.
“We like to do local stuff,” he said. “She
has an interesting story.”
On Thursday at 7, Barnes & Noble will
host a reading by University political science
professor Loch Johnson, who has just pub
lished a new book on the U.S. intelligence
community called “Bombs, Bugs, Drugs and
Thugs.”
The Johnson reading is part of Barnes &
Noble’s Salon Series, which focuses on public
policy issues.
Both the Davis and Johnson readings are
free and open to the public.
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