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MONDAY
December 3, 2001
Vol. 109, No. 72 | Athens, Georgia
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>• The Olympic Torch
procession has a date
with the Classic City.
PAGE 2
► Verron
Haynes
sheds
tacklers
during
Georgia’s
35-7 win
against
Houston
Saturday.
With the
win,
coach
Mark
Richt
became
the first
Bulldog
coach
since
1920 to
win eight
games in
his first
season.
Dogs probably Outback bound
By GRAHAM GARRISON
ggarrison@randb.com
All right ... now what?
With its regular season
concluded, all that’s left for
Georgia is a bowl — but
which one?
At 8-3, the No. 17
Bulldogs most likely are
headed to the Outback
Bowl to face Ohio State.
However, a decision
could come as late as next
week, after the
Southeastern Conference
Championship game
between Tennessee and
LSU.
Bulldog redshirt fresh-
FOOTBALL
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man quarterback David
Greene said the team
played well in its first sea
son under coach Mark
Richt.
“We were a few plays shy
of being a one-loss team,”
Greene said. “We really
came together as a team
and had some big wins.”
With a 35-7 drubbing of
Houston, the Bulldog
seniors became the first
class to win its final game
at home since 1996.
“Now hopefully we’ll go
to a good bowl game, and
we’ll end on a good note,”
senior center Curt McGill
said.
Georgia set a school
record with its fifth consec
utive eight-win season,
and Richt became the
first head coach since
H.J. Stegeman in 1920 to
win eight games his first
year.
Terrence Edwards also
dipped his hand into the
records, tying Brice
Hunter’s career touch
down receptions mark at 19
against the Cougars and
passing Lindsay Scott for
second on the all-time
career-yardage list.
The bad news Saturday
was the loss of senior cor-
nerback Tim Wansley, who
suffered a broken bone in
his left leg on a punt return
and probably won’t play
the bowl game.
After the game, Richt
dedicated the game ball to
junior David Jacobs, who
recently was transferred
from the intensive care unit
at Emory Medical Center
to the Emory Center for
Rehabilitation Medicine,
which specializes in stroke
rehabilitation.
Insomnia to stay open for now
By ROSANNE ACKERMAN
rackerman@randb. com
Late-night patrons of the down
town dance club Insomnia have rea
son to keep their dance shoes on.
For now.
Insomnia’s doors will stay open
past the 2:45 a.m. curfew because
Municipal Court Judge Ethelyn
Simpson threw out the city’s court
case on a technicality Wednesday. The
court intended to apply the closing
ordinance to the club.
But Clarke County Solicitor-
General Ralph Powell said the court
battle is not over, and the county will
continue to pursue Insomnia as long
as it is in operation.
Simpson dismissed the case in
favor of the no-alcohol club, because
club owners Dwayne Gardner and
Sober Entertainment, Inc., were not
clearly established as the owners in
the original May 9 citation.
“The judge made the finding that
the county had not established that
both Dwayne Gardner and Sober
Entertainment were operators (May
9),” Powell said.
Gardner was unavailable for com
ment Sunday.
The Athens-Clarke County police
issued another citation last weekend
accusing Insomnia of the same viola
tion, breaching the May 1 county ordi
nance prohibiting “any public enter
tainment facility located within the
boundaries of Athens-Clarke County
to offer or provide entertainment
between the hours of 2:45 and 7 a.m.”
In October, Simpson ruled against
Insomnia, citing the May 1 ordinance.
One reason the A-C Commission
enacted this ordinance was to prevent
early morning violence downtown, A-C
Assistant Police Chief Mark Wallace
said in April.
Terrorist acts
plague major
cities in Israel
Terrorists struck again
over the weekend, killing at
least 28 civilians and injur
ing more than 200 in sepa
rate attacks in two main
Israeli cities.
“This attack shows the
war on terrorism has many
fronts, including the Middle
East,” said University pro
fessor Loch Johnson, a for
eign policy expert.
Late Saturday night, a
suicide attacker detonated
a bomb near the busy
Zion Square shopping
district. Throngs of mostly
teenage pedestrians heard
two immense explosions,
according to reports from
The Jerusalem Post.
A short time later,
a booby-trapped car
exploded as emergency
workers arrived to treat
the injured.
Sunday, a third suicide
bomber ripped apart a
crowded bus in the major
port city of Haifa.
The attacks came after
the arrests of more than a
dozen members of the
Islamic Jihad, an extremist
group claiming responsibili
ty for this weekend’s
terrorist attacks and two
other recent suicide
bombings.
“It’s been tit-for-tat,”
Johnson said of the ongoing
struggle between Israel and
the Palestinian Authority
(PA). “Eventually, the PA
will have their own state.
But for now, (these attacks)
are the way the game has
been played.”
>• See UPDATE, Page 3
Last lawsuit ends
in acceptance offer
By GREG BLUESTEIN
gbluestei@randb.com
The last of 15 students who sued the University for
admission in 1997 was granted an “offer of acceptance” last
week, a University official said.
Tom Jackson, the University’s associate vice president
for Public Affairs, said Craig Green of Dalton can apply and
will be accepted to the University next fall.
Jackson said the University is eager to move on now
that the final admissions case is settled.
“This was the last pending admissions case,” he said.
“Now we can move forward without further legal
entanglements.”
Green, who could not be reached for comment Sunday,
was one of 15 applicants who sued the University in 1997
for discrimination, said Lee Parks, Green’s attorney.
According to a March 5, 1997, staff report, Parks argued
the Board of Regents should end the use of race-based
admission criteria.
Nearly three weeks ago, the University decided not to
appeal a ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
declaring its admission program unconstitutional.
The Total Student Index (TSI) — a system awarding
students points based on alumni relations, geography, race
and other factors — was used in examining one-tenth of
University applicants.
The other portion of students was admitted solely on
academic performance and test scores, according to an
Aug. 28, 2001, staff report.
Aside from institutional admits — decided by University
President Michael Adams — and varsity athletics, admis
sion will be based on “demonstrated academic achieve
ment without regard to race, gender, socioeconomic sta
tus, legacy, geography or other factors that have been
employed here in the recent past,” Adams said in a press
conference Thursday.
The admissions standard will be based two-thirds on
high school performance and one-third on standardized
test scores.
— Contributing: Associated Press
Harrick’s club remains unbeaten
Dogs post best
start since 1994
By GENTRY ESTES
sports@randb.com
No Jarvis Hayes. No Chris
Daniels. No depth. No size.
No problem.
Seven players were enough
for Georgia to outlast
Colorado and earn a gutsy 81-
73 victory at Stegeman
Coliseum Saturday. Georgia’s
bench — junior Michael
Patrick and sophomore Jonas
Hayes — logged more than 30
minutes each and sparked the
Bulldogs in the final 10 min
utes.
The win gives Georgia its
first 5-0 start since 1994.
“That was a great effort by
our guys,” Georgia coach Jim
Harrick said. “We were certain
ly outmanned.”
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Even though Bulldog start
ing forward Daniels fouled out
with 9:42 to go and Colorado
up by one, Georgia outplayed
the bigger, stronger Colorado
(3-2) team down the stretch.
Georgia outrebounded the
Buffaloes 40-35.
The Bulldogs used the same
lineup for the final 9:42 and
increased their shooting per
centage from 41 in the first
half to 55 in the second.
“We shot the ball because
we executed our offense,”
Harrick said. “We were getting
great looks. We had all kinds of
looks at the foul line.”
Center Steve Thomas
picked up his fourth foul two
minutes after halftime, but he
was forced back in when
Daniels fouled out.
The 6-foot-8-inch sopho
more answered with eight
points late in the game while
avoiding his fifth foul.
“I knew I had to stay
aggressive,” Thomas said.
“The game’s on the line. If you
foul out, you foul out.”
Junior Ezra Williams with
stood a cold to put up a game-
high 26 points on 6-of-13
shooting from 3-point range.
Williams’ final 3-pointer came
with 5:05 left to give Georgia
the lead for good at 68-67.
“People keep talking about
big teams,” Williams said. “It
has nothing to do what that.
It’s not the size that counts,
but the heart.”
Colorado’s 7-foot, 240-
pound center David Harrison
finished with nine boards and
16 points, but he wasn’t a fac
tor down the stretch.
In Daniels’ absence, sixth-
man Jonas Hayes scored 13 of
his 17 points in the second
half. The 6-foot-6-inch
guard/forward held Harrison
without a basket for the final
seven minutes.
“That’s a big fella,” Hayes
said of Harrison. “He was a
giant. It was a tough task.
You’ve just got to out-think
him, beat him to his spots.”
The Bulldogs outscored
Colorado 16-6 in the final five
minutes. Thomas hit a key
turn around jumper with 2:08
left to give Georgia a 75-70
lead and then drew a charging
foul on Colorado’s next pos
session.
Thomas picked up another
basket by tipping a Hayes miss
and drawing a goaltending call
with 39.7 seconds.
“Thomas and Jonas Hayes
were huge down the stretch for
us,” Harrick said. “It was an
unbelievable effort.”
Georgia travels to Atlanta
Tuesday to take on Georgia
State in the Georgia Dome at
7:30 p.m.
BROOKE MORRIS | The Red * Buck
▲ Sophomore guard Ezra Williams scored
26 points against Colorado Saturday.
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