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October n, 2004
Vol. 112, No. 37 | Athens, Georgia
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Dogs fall to Vote, damage nat’l title hopes
KATIE FOLEY | The Red & Black
▲ Tennessee tailback Gerald Riggs Jr. evades Georgia’s Thomas Davis and Greg Blue for a nine yard gain in the first quarter that led to
a field goal, giving the Vols a 10 point lead. Georgia was defeated 19-14 in Saturday’s game.
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By BRAD HARRISON
bharrison@randb.com
With their national champi
onship hopes battered, the
Georgia Bulldogs face an
uphill batter to attain SEC
supremacy.
After Saturday’s stunning
upset by Tennessee, the
Georgia Bulldogs will be for
tunate to win the SEC
Eastern Division.
The 19-14 loss, coming a
week after the Bulldogs’ 45-16
win over LSU that heated up
national championship aspi
rations, puts Georgia in a diffi
cult position even to win the
SEC East.
“We can’t even get out of
the east right now,” said
Georgia head coach Mark
Richt. “We’re going to be try
ing like mad to beat
Vanderbilt.”
Though Georgia and
Tennessee (both 4-1 overall)
are 2-1 in the SEC, the
Volunteers hold the head-to-
head tiebreaker.
To win their division, the
Bulldogs must win their
remaining conference games
and rely on Tennessee to slip
up.
Tennessee has no remain
ing games against teams
ranked in the top 25. Their
toughest game will be Oct. 30
at South Carolina, which lost
to Ole Miss 31-28 Saturday.
“We knew if we won this
game, we could forget about
last week,” said Tennessee
offensive tackle Michael
Munoz, referring to last
week’s 34-10 loss to Auburn.
“We know we can take it from
here and go where we want to
go.”
Georgia, which begins a
four-game road trip after
Saturday’s homecoming game
against Vanderbilt, has yet to
play Florida and Auburn.
“You don’t lose one game
and lose the season. Very few
teams get to go undefeated.”
said Georgia defensive end
David Pollack. “God says it’s
not time for us to be undefeat
ed.”
But the Bulldogs aren’t giv
ing up.
“We’ve got to come back
out and try and beat every
body else on the schedule,”
said Georgia safety Thomas
Davis.
Georgia was doomed by
mistakes against Tennessee
that were nonexistent a week
earlier. The Bulldogs were
penalized 12 times for 82
yards, a contrast to LSU when
they were flagged just once.
Perhaps the most damag
ing of those penalties was a
holding penalty against tight
end Leonard Pope that nulli
fied a Bryan McClendon kick
return to the Volunteer 2-yard
line.
“We kept shooting our
selves in the foot. Half of them
were real close calls,” Pope
said. “But you can’t blame it
on the ref.”
Aside from the penalties,
Georgia’s secondary appeared
disoriented at the start of the
game. Volunteer quarterback
Erik Ainge found open
receivers as Tennessee staked
its way to a 10-0 first quarter
lead.
“We blew two coverages on
the first drive and gave them
seven points,” Pollack said.
“I’m not going to be one of
those people who never gives
anybody credit like some of
them do. They did a good
job.”
Despite the miscues, the
Bulldogs still had a chance to
win, closing the 19-7
Tennessee advantage by a
touchdown with 4:22 left in
the fourth quarter.
After stopping the
Volunteers’ offense, senior
quarterback David Greene —
who finished 15-of-34 for 163
yards — appeared to have
some last-minute heroics to
make up for an otherwise
inept day.
Driving from their own 13
with a little over two minutes
to play, the Bulldogs had one
last shot a victory with one
second left but Greene’s pass
intended for Pope was inter
cepted.
KENDRICK BRINSON The Red 4 Black
a State Sen. Brian Kemp, right, listens to Drew
Page, president of the Athens-Clarke County
Economic Development Foundation, discuss the
development of the Georgia Life Sciences Park at
the University at an Athens Chamber of Commerce
meeting Thursday morning.
Senate candidates
debate state budget
By BRIAN McDEARMON
mcdearmon@randb.com
Georgia Senate candidate
Becky Vaughn said Sunday
the state has the money it
needs to avoid a mid-year
tuition hike, but her incum
bent rival Sen. Brian Kemp
said the money already is
allocated for other needs.
Vaughn said Gov. Sonny
Perdue is sitting on three
untapped sources of revenue
that could be used to fill the
$179 million hole in the
state’s budget:
>- $28 million from the refi
nancing of bonds
>- A $90 million surplus
left over after the end of the
last fiscal year
>- $82 million in backtaxes
that were collected in
August.
The governor’s office
could not be reached Sunday
to comment on these figures.
Vaughn, a Democrat, is
challenging Kemp, a
Republican, for his District
46 Senate seat.
“The situation is such that
we shouldn’t even be talking
about a mid-year tuition
increase,” Vaughn said. “(The
governor) has lots of
options.”
However, Kemp warned
using these funds is not one
of them.
“A lot of that money,
although it’s sitting there, it’s
already been spent,” he said.
The senator said the
General Assembly would
need the money to make
adjustments in grades K-12,
higher education and to pay
for rising healthcare costs.
“If you spend that money
now, it’s just like throwing
them a cut in the middle of
the year,” he said.
The $179 million void was
created a few weeks ago
when Perdue went back on a
decision to push the last pay
period of the fiscal year,
which falls in June, into July,
which marks the beginning of
the new fiscal year.
The move was intended to
free up almost $200 million
for fiscal year 2005. However,
Perdue changed his mind
when it started to look like
the maneuver could hurt
Georgia’s bond rating.
>- See KEMP. Page 5
SGA, students march on Capitol
A SGA Vice President Mallory Grebel hands out folders of each
schools’ petitions to representatives from the schools. Each represen'
tative went into the governor’s office individually to hand the folders
to his secretary. Gov. Sonny Perdue was out of town Friday and did
not meet with the students.
By SARA PAUFF
spauff@randb.com
ATLANTA — Members of the
University’s Student Government
Association are taking their concerns to
the Board of Regents this week after
more than 100 students from around the
state gathered at the governor’s office
Friday morning to protest budget cuts
to higher education.
Shouts of “No more budget cuts!” and
“No increase!” echoed off the Capitol
dome as students marched from the
Georgia State University Student Center
and presented a petition with 34,958 sig
natures, asking Gov. Sonny Perdue to
reconsider a budget cut.
Perdue has proposed a $68.7 million
cut to the University System of Georgia.
SGA President Adam Sparks said last
week University System Chancellor
Thomas Meredith told him the amount
was lowered to $64 million.
However, Perdue was not present,
Sparks said, because he already had
been scheduled to speak in South
Georgia.
Mallory Grebel, SGA vice president,
said they plan to address the University
System Board of Regents — which over
sees the state’s 34 public institutions —
at its meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Grebel, a junior from Leesburg, said
Sunday, however, the governor was not
going to change his mind so willingly.
“He said a rally with a bunch of stu
dents wasn’t going to change his mind,”
Grebel said after she spoke with Perdue
at Saturday’s football game. “He governs
us too. The governor should listen when
we talk.”
Eighteen of the 32 schools that partic
ipated in the petition drive were
represented at the Capitol rally. Each
representative took a moment to speak
to the crowd about their thoughts on the
budget cuts.
>- See SGA. Page 5
Black
Students ccmw oat for GLBT rights
By MEILING AROUNNARATH
marounnar@randb.com
It started in 1987 after the
second March on Washington
for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
Today, just like every Oct.
11 since the march in
Washington, D.C., is recog
nized as National Coming Out
Day.
The University’s Lambda
Alliance — a student organi
zation that supports gay, les
bian, bisexual and transgen-
dered (GLBT) students on
campus — will hold a week of
festivities with help from
the campus’ Amnesty
International.
The week kicks off with the
Coming Out Party at the Tate
Student Center Plaza today
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The main feature will be a
wooden closet door that
students can use to literally
“come out of the closet.”
“It’s our biggest event of
the year,” said Stefanie Papps,
field director for Lambda.
“We’ve been planning it since
the summer.”
Although National Coming
Out Day began in 1987, it
became more popular and
more necessary since the 1998
death of Matthew Shepard, a
suspected victim of an anti
gay hate crime, Papps said.
“There was a real aware
ness that people needed to
come out,” she said.
There also was real ani
mosity and hostility toward
GLBT people around that
time, she said.
Papps said more people
felt the need to “come out”
because they wanted to be
able to educate others about
GLBT problems and issues.
“If we’re not active, noth
ing’s going to change,” she
said. “A person who knows a
GLBT person is less likely to
be homophobic.”
Lambda has several other
events planned this week.
Tonight at its regular meeting
students will share their
“coming out” stories.
On Wednesday, Lambda
will hold its unofficial Coming
Out Day Ball at Boneshakers
nightclub; the official Coming
Out Day Ball will be Oct. 22 in
Memorial Hall.
This year marks the first
time Lambda will be in the
Homecoming parade.
“Lambda has not been in
the parade before because a
lot of people — for personal
reasons — have been afraid to
be out,” Papps said.
“The environment before
didn’t feel right for it,” she said.
“Now, it is, admittedly, better
than it was 10 years ago.”
Amnesty International will
help out at the Tate Center by
dispensing information about
OutFront, the organization’s
campaign supporting
research on GLBT rights in
developing countries, said
Amnesty co-president Kacie
Moreno-Schoen.
Amnesty will show a docu
mentary on coming out in the
developing world Tuesday at
6:30 p.m. in Room 251 of the
Student Learning Center.
Also supporting the
day at Tate will be
Northeast Georgians Against
Discrimination and GLOBES
(Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual
Employees and Supporters).
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