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WEDNESDAY
October 13, 2004
Vol. 112, No. 39 | Athens, Georgia
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GETTING SLEEPY
V Hypnotist Dak K
will perform at Ramsey
for homecoming. PAGE 6
BOR: No
mid-year
increase
By PURVI PATEL
ppatel@randb.com
ATLANTA — The Board of Regents voted
against a mid-year tuition hike here on
Tuesday, but Chancellor Thomas Meredith
said a hike next fall is inevitable.
“The possibility of an increase in the fall
is substantial,” Meredith told regents at
their meeting. “We have come up with one
time solutions that will have to be read
dressed in 2006.”
Gov. Sonny Perdue deducted $3.9 million
from the $68.7 million the University
System was originally asked to trim, reduc
ing the total cut to $64.8 million, Meredith
said.
Meredith outlined how that money will
be gathered:
>- $20.3 million will be cut from the sys
tem’s operating budget
>- $28 million will be removed from the
system’s employee health reserves — reduc
ing the recommended 60-day reserve to a
30-day level
>- $9.4 million will be obtained from
money set aside in 2001 for construction of
a pharmaceutical research facility at the
University — which was scrapped by Merial,
the private sector entity that had initially
sought the cooperative venture with the
state.
Those three actions will bring in
$57.5 million from the $64.8 million to be
cut, and regents have not yet determined
how the remaining $7.3 million will be
gathered, Meredith said.
In a news conference following the meet
ing, regents’ chairman Joel Wooten said the
board is seriously considering tuition
increases for the future.
“That needs to be done with a great deal
of thought and deliberation,” he said.
Three tuition task forces, representing
two-year schools, four-year schools and
research institutions, will study and recom
mend how much of a raise will be necessary
beginning next fall, Meredith said.
University Vice President for Instruction
Del Dunn will head the research institution
task force.
► See REGENTS. Page 2
DAVID BANKS | The Red & Black
LEARN
THE
ROPES
4 Master
Sgt. Randy
McElwee
belays while
Rodney
Bryant, a
freshman
biology
major, rap
pels down
the side of
the
Psychology
Journalism
Plaza during
military sci
ence class.
“I have an
intense fear
of heights
... I just
tried to lis
ten to
everything
he said and
forget
everything
else,”
Bryant said.
MILS 1010
is an open-
enrollment
class and
students do
not have to
enter into a
commitment
with the mil
itary if they
take the
class.
Student
leaders
celebrate
success
By SARA PAUFF
spauff@randb.com
Student government leaders at the
University and Georgia Tech said they are
glad there will be no mid-year tuition
increase, but also agree Tuesday’s solution
to statewide cuts to higher education was
not ideal.
Student Government Association
President Adam Sparks and Georgia Tech
student government president Amy Phuong
addressed the Board of Regents Tuesday
about the $64.8 million budget cut to higher
education. Gov. Sonny Perdue recently
reduced the figure from $68.7 million.
“Students across the state should be pat
ting themselves on the back,” Sparks said.
“We were actually heard.”
Sparks said he thought the budget cuts
were still a little steep, but the regents had
come up with some very “creative” solu
tions.
“The regents and the chancellor found
some very good short-term solutions,” said
Sparks, a senior from Watkinsville.
Students from across the state marched
to the Capitol in Atlanta Friday to deliver a
petition with 34,958 student signatures from
32 of the state’s 34 public institutions
protesting cuts to higher education and
denouncing a mid-year tuition increase.
SGA Vice President Mallory Grebel
attended Tuesday’s meeting and said she
thought the regents were receptive to stu
dents’ concerns.
“The regents and everyone in the room
was very open to what (Sparks and Phuong)
were saying,” said Grebel, a junior from
Leesburg.
Sparks and Phuong both said they were
happy with a tuition increase being moved
to the fall.
“If students know that it’s coming, this
gives us time to plan, time to prepare,”
Sparks said.
One student said she appreciated the
extra time to prepare.
>- See SGA, Page 2
Public’s opinion of Kerry, Bush set say professors, students
By MEILING AROUNNARATH
marounnar@randb.com
The final 2004 presiden
tial debate is tonight at 9,
but some political science
professors and students say
it won’t affect the public
opinion polls.
President Bush and
Democratic candidate Sen.
John Kerry will debate
domestic policy, social issues
and the nation’s economy.
“Unless people haven’t
been watching the debates,
they’re not going to learn
anything new,” said Trey
Hood, assistant professor
of political science. “This
debate will be less watched
than the first because of the
fatigue factor since there
have already been two other
presidential debates and a
vice presidential debate.
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
When: 9 p.m.
Channels: ABC, CBS, PBS, NBC,
CNN, FNC, MSNBC,
CSPAN, CSPAN2
“I expect more of the
same things as the other
debates,” he said. “Each of
the candidates have a mes
sage and will continue to
repeat them.”
Andrew Dill, president of
the University’s College
Republicans, said since the
audience viewing this debate
will be smaller than the first
two, it is crucial the two can
didates be their best in the
first 30 to 45 minutes —
before people turn away
from the debate.
On the other hand, Dill
said, he thinks both candi
dates will try to define them
selves.
“The debates are for the
swing voters,” he said. “So,
(the candidates) will define
who they are and make that
very clear to the swing vot
ers.”
The third debate will
probably not have as much
effect on viewers as the first,
said Kenneth Mulligan, a
teaching fellow of political
science, since more people
watch the first debate than
the second or third.
“My own humble opinion
is that the debates are help
ing Kerry more than Bush
this year,” he said.
Public opinion polls have
shown most people thought
Kerry won the first two
debates — the first one by a
landslide, Mulligan said.
>- See DEBATE, Page 2
Another Pollack the star of different homecoming
KENDRICK BRINSON The Red 4 Black
▲ David Pollack, right, a third-year graduate student in playwrighting, and Henry
Bazemore Jr., a third-year graduate student in acting, prepare for the “The
Homecoming” full dress rehearsal Tuesday evening. The play, directed by profes
sor Ray Paolino, opens today and runs through Saturday, Oct. 23.
By SONYA ELKINS
selkins@randb.com
David Pollack will be having an eventful
homecoming this weekend, but it will have
nothing to do with football.
“The Homecoming,” a dark, absurdist
play that explores family relationships,
opens today and features a cast of six
University students, including Pollack, a
graduate student from Charlotte with no
relation to the Georgia football standout.
The play was written by Harold Pinter.
“Harold Pinter is one of the most intrigu
ing playwrites of the 20th century,” Pollack
said. “A lot of times what people take from
Pinter in general is a sense of menace or ter
ror — something is just outside of the walls
and they’re not sure what it is.”
Director Ray Paolino, an associate pro
fessor of drama, said Pinter’s “deep and
dark subtext” is part of what attracted him
to the plays.
“It’s a really strange world that he cre
ates — when audiences see it they will go,
‘Huh, what just happened?’” Paolino said.
“It deals with the subterranean life that
people see in dreams, nightmares, fan
tasies.”
The play focuses on the unannounced
homecoming of a successful professor from
America to his seedy England home to visit
his elderly father, brothers and uncle.
The play is set in post-World War II north
London and gives an interesting view of the
city’s emerging shady underworld of crime
organizations and underground activity,
said Blake Bowen, a graduate student from
THE HOMECOMING
When: Oct. 13-15,18-23 at 8 p.m., Oct. 17
at 2:30 p.m.
Where: Cellar Theatre, Fine Arts Building
Admission: $10 regular, $8 students and seniors
Tickets can be purchased at the Fine Arts Theatre
box office, 542-2838, or at the door, but seating
is limited.
Lansing, Mich. As his thesis project, Bowen
plays the role of the professor’s brother,
Lenny.
Family structure is a key theme running
throughout the play, Bowen said.
“What’s a family?” he said. “It’s seeing
how functional a family can be in a world of
disfunctionality. ”
Cheryl Binnie, a senior from Lakemont,
portrays the play’s sole female role of Ruth,
the professor’s young wife. After meeting
her for the first time, Lenny and his father,
Max, find themselves drawn to Ruth.
The dynamics of these strange relation
ships and the effects on the characters of a
woman entering the world of men are
important conflicts within the play, Binnie
said. The curveballs the playwright throws
in beneath the play’s surface gives it its
intrigue, Binnie said.
“You’re going to come in and watch char
acters in a situation that seems normal and
like everyday life, but suddenly you will hear
something and say, ‘Wait a minute, did he
just say that?”’ Binnie said.
This questioning of reality is a key part of
Pinter’s plays, Paolino said.
“The audience may feel uneasy, which is a
nice result,” Paolino said. “One thing I
would like to see the audience leave with is
‘What is reality? What is true?”’
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