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March 3, 2003
Vol. 110, No. 118 | Athens, Georgia
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Cole accuses Harricks of misconduct
By BRADLEY HANDWERGER
bhandwerg@randb.com
Former Georgia basketball
player Tony Cole levied several
new allegations of NCAA viola
tions against the Georgia basket
ball program over the weekend.
Cole said Georgia head coach
Jim Harrick allowed him to buy a
television with his credit card
while Cole was on the team,
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
reported in its Sunday edition.
In the original ESPN report
Thursday evening, Jim Harrick
was accused only of knowing that
rules were being broken.
Cole also alleged that basket
ball booster Mike Young paid for
a $300 shopping spree for Cole
while also giving Cole up to $900
during his stint in the program,
the AJC reported.
Several other current players
also are getting improper
benefits, Cole said.
“(Harrick) told me he felt like
it could be resolved,” said
University Athletics Director
Vince Dooley at Sunday’s basket
ball game. “What is important is
that the truth comes out. I think
it will. The sooner, the better.”
In the ESPN report, Cole said
assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr.
paid a $300 phone bill for Cole
while recruiting Cole. He also said
Harrick Jr. paid for more than
$1,200 worth of hotel expenses
before he could move into his
dorm room and did correspon
dence work for Cole while he
attended a community college
before enrolling at the University.
The AJC reported that the
$300 for the phone bill came from
the Dale Brown Foundation.
However, Dale Brown, a for
mer Louisiana State University
basketball coach, denies he sent
any money to the Harricks.
On Friday, assistant coach Jim
Harrick Jr. was suspended with
pay from his coaching duties
pending the outcome of an inves
COLIN OWENS | The Red & Black
▲ Sam Taaffe, left, a freshman from Nashville, and Andy
Harkavy, a freshman from Atlanta, sit in disbelief 15
minutes after the loss to Kentucky and after the rest of
the stadium had emptied. “It’s a tough loss,” Harkavy
said, “but we have next year ... hopefully.”
tigation.
“In light
of the serious
ness of the
allegations, we
feel that it
is appropriate
to suspend
Jim Harrick,
Jr. with pay,
until such
time as these
allegations are
investigated
to our satisfaction,” Dooley said
“Despite the many issues that
we have had with Tony Cole in
the past, we still feel this is the
prudent course of action. It
would certainly be our intent
to get this matter resolved as
quickly as possible, and it is
our hope that the resolution is a
positive one,” he said.
The University has launched
an investigation into the
allegations, with the NCAA, the
SEC, Ed Tolley — legal counsel
to the University — and Steve
Shewmaker, legal affairs
executive director at the
University, helping.
On Sunday, CBS showed
an interview with Harrick taped
in Athens before Sunday’s
Kentucky game.
“It’s been immensely,
immensely tough,” Harrick told
CBS. “It’s hard to let people
attack your program and family.
He’s a very bitter young man.
Very revengeful.”
Senior Ezra Williams talked
about Cole following the game.
“This guy just wanted atten
tion. We’re just going to take the
negative publicity and give coach
Harrick some positive,” Williams
said.
When asked about other play
ers receiving benefits, Williams
replied, ’’That’s crazy. T Cole, I
don’t know why he’s doing this.
Coach Harrick was like a father to
the guy. To throw all of this in
his face is like a slap in the face.”
COLIN OWENS | The Red & Black
▲ Margaret Phommathep (left) a junior
from Snellville, and Erin Cassidy, a junior
from St. Simons, made this sign for the
Kentucky game. “It’s frustrating because
we’re on a hot streak and he had to
bring it up now,” Cassidy said.
Dogs’ four-game win streak ends against No. 2 Kentucky
By BRADLEY HANDWERGER
bhandwerg@randb.com
Four minutes separated No. 21
Georgia from No. 2 Kentucky in the
Bulldogs’ 74-66 loss Sunday afternoon.
Instead of ending Kentucky’s
17-game win streak, four straight
turnovers with four minutes to play
ruined Georgia’s chances of extending
its own win streak to five games.
The Wildcats turned Georgia’s
mistakes into an eight-point lead,
which the Bulldogs never could recover.
“That was the difference in the
game,” said Georgia head coach
Jim Harrick. “We just didn’t take care of
the ball.”
Until that stretch, turnovers hadn’t
been a problem for Georgia (17-8,
9-5 SEC).
Harrick wouldn’t blame Georgia’s
mistakes on recent off-court allega
tions. The Bulldogs’ program was
brought into the national spotlight this
past week because of possible NCAA
violations involving former player
Tony Cole, Harrick and assistant coach
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Jim Harrick Jr.
“I don’t think what happened in the
last couple of days had anything to do
with it,” Harrick said.
After the game, senior guard Ezra
Williams said he wasn’t bothered on the
court by the Cole accusations.
“Tony Cole can’t affect what we do
on the basketball court,” Williams said.
He finished the game with a team-high
17 points on 5-of-14 shooting.
Junior guard Jarvis Hayes, who had
11 points against Kentucky (24-3, 14-0
SEC), said the off-court allegations
haven’t bothered the team.
“It didn’t affect us any,” Hayes said.
“We just played basketball. Let all the
other stuff take care of itself.”
The game, though, did bother
Hayes.
“We just buckled. (We) fell apart
after the four-minute mark,” he said.
“(We) couldn’t get it done.”
The Bulldogs made the game inter
esting, at least by Kentucky standards.
The Wildcats had beaten their SEC
opponents by an average of 14.1 points.
Against Georgia, though, Kentucky
never led by more than nine points.
Down by five at halftime, the
Bulldogs stormed back at the
beginning of the second half, eventually
taking the lead by as much as three
points. But the Wildcats wouldn’t give
in to the pressure, taking the lead back
for good with 4:58 to play.
By the end of the game, all
Kentucky had to do was nail its foul
shots. For the game, the Wildcats hit
21-of-28 free throws. In the last five
minutes, though, Kentucky went 12-
for-16, sealing the victory.
“They made their foul shots,”
Harrick said. “Seems like they were
always going to the foul line.”
The loss ended Georgia’s 13-game
home win streak.
Georgia’s next game is a nationally
televised game Tuesday against No. 4
Florida on ESPN.
Hunter-Gault stresses
media responsibility
By JACENTA COBB
jcobb@randb.com
While America has had only one ter
rorist attack, Africa has had
three, Charlayne Hunter-Gault told
students, faculty and staff.
In giving the 11th annual Dari
Snyder lecture Friday, she also said
South Africa currently is trying to
convince Saddam Hussein to cooper
ate with the United States and keep
peace.
Hunter-Gault, the woman partially
responsible for the University’s integra
tion, is a renowned international corre
spondent for CNN who is living in
Africa.
In her speech, she discussed
several issues including post-apartheid
Africa, dreams of an African
Renaissance and possible effects of war
in Iraq.
Hunter-Gault addressed the issue of
eradicating common ignorance of
other countries, and she focused
primarily on Africa.
“If America isn’t interested in the
affairs of Africa, then it is our fault. We
can generate interest, and it’s up to us
to sustain it,” she said.
Hunter-Gault said that about
45 percent of children in Africa are
malnourished.
“If America does not have any inter
est in poverty in Africa, then surely
they’ll be interested in the poor and
alienated. When we see people
attached to these numbers, it becomes
real,” she said.
Hunter-Gault insisted that journal
ists have a greater responsibility to
“develop a critical mass of listeners”
about these issues.
She urged all journalists to deliver
quality news and all citizens to
challenge local sources of media to
present better news.
The goal is to present information —
“information that truly informs,
because it may better inform attitudes
and actions of war and peace,” she
said.
Hunter-Gault was one of the first
black students admitted to the
University in 1961.
After battling racism and injustices
by her fellow students and the
University, she graduated in 1963 with
a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Shanetta McLin, a junior from
Rossville who heard the lecture said, “I
felt honored to hear her speak.
“It’s personal for me because
of what she did, I can attend
the University and be a part of
the Grady College myself. As
an African-American student, I
was accepted into the Grady
College (of Journalism and Mass
Communication), and viewed as an
equal,” she said.
MEGAN NADOLSKI | The Red & Black
◄ Charlayne
Huntei^Gault, a
CNN correspon
dent and the first
black woman to
enroll at the
University, spoke
Friday at the
11th annual Dari
Snyder lecture.
Hunter-Gault lives
in Africa and spoke
about the plight of
African children
during the lecture.
RUNNING DRILLS
COLIN OWENS | The Red & Black
▲ Derrick White, a junior middle linebacker from Union City, runs linebacker drills at
the first football practice of the 2003-2004 season Saturday morning. The University
lost three key linebackers in Boss Bailey, Chris Clemons and Jonathan Sullivan and have
some holes to fill. “The main thing,” head football coach Mark Richt said before prac
tice, “is for them to show us they’re ready to play.”
College radio monitor falsifies playlist
By KATIE REETZ
kreetz@randb.com
University radio station
WUOG has been faithfully
reporting its playlists — but a
national organization has been
manipulating the contents.
College Music Journal (CMJ),
the organization that monitors
airplay on college radio stations,
has admitted to falsifying its
playlists.
Jonathan Hart, general
manager of WUOG, said
the revelation is causing the
station to take a second look at
its relationship with the
company.
“The music industry is pretty
corrupt, but we thought CMJ
was above that,” he said.
Hart said WUOG reports its
playlists to CMJ by manually
submitting the data to the com
pany’s playlist. The controversy
began when the organization
started to switch to a digital
system.
The new system, RAM, allows
playlists to be automatically
submitted to CMJ, but when the
software is unable to identify a
track, it is listed as “unverified”
and a placeholder is inserted in
its place.
In this case, the placeholder
just happens to be “Certain
Damage” — CMJ’s compilation
album for which they receive
$3,000 per track from major
music labels to produce and give
away.
Hart said he feels it’s
respectable that CMJ was
upfront about the charges, but it
shows they knew they were doing
something wrong.
“This is disappointing to all of
college radio,” he said.
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