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Vol. 112, No. 67 | Athens, Georgia
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CATHERINE COE | The Red & Black
▲ Members of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority cheer on sophomore Christie Thompson as she performs the “worm” in
the step show sponsored by Sigma Gamma Rho sorority Friday night. Members of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority,
Zeta Phi Beta sorority and Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority coached women in the participating sororities on how to do
their step performances. The event benefited girls that members of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority mentor at Alps
Road Elementary School, Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School and Clarke Middle School every Friday. Sevena Scott,
a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, said, “We’re just trying to mentor them and turn them into the best
ladies they can be.”
Lady Dogs beat No. 2 Longhorns
By JEFF COCHRAN
j cochran@randb .com
The Georgia women’s basket
ball team knocked off the No. 2
Texas Longhorns Sunday night
in a game that was a clear tale of
two halves.
In the first half, the Lady
Dogs were down by as much as
15 points and suffered a score
less drought that lasted more
than seven minutes.
“They had dominated us on
our offensive end of the floor,”
head coach Andy Landers said.
“We acted like we didn’t know
what to do.”
When sophomore guard Cori
Chambers drained a three-
pointer with less than five min
utes left in the half, the Lady
Dogs began to turn their perfor
mance around.
“We were doing a lot of the lit
tle things really well at the end of
the half,” Chambers said.
“Everyone started playing really
together.”
Carrying that momentum
into the second half down five
points, Georgia made a run at
the Longhorns’ fragile lead.
With 17:00 left in the second
half, freshman phenom Tasha
Humphrey nailed a short jump
shot and tied the game at 35-35.
“She was our go-to player
tonight because she was hot,”
junior guard Sherill Baker said.
“She stepped up big.”
Scoring only three points in
the first half, Humphrey took
over the paint under the basket
and put up 24 points in the sec
ond half.
She finished with 27 points,
eight rebounds and two assists.
Humphrey would put the
Lady Dogs up with two free
throws and Georgia never gave
up the lead.
With 4:29 left in the game,
Chambers hit a three-pointer
that put the crowd on its feet
and the Georgia lead out of
reach at 68-56.
Landers said he saw a defense
he didn’t see in Georgia’s 98-76
win over Furman Friday night.
He also noted three keys to
Georgia’s 78-64 victory.
“Cori (Chambers) dropping
threes, (Rebecca) Rowsey with
MELISSA GOLDEN | The Red & Black
▲ Janese Hardrick, sophomore guard from Powder
Springs, warms up before the game against the Texas
Longhorns Sunday night. Hardrick went on to score five
points in the Lady Dogs’ 78-64 victory over the
Longhorns.
five straight defensive rebounds paint,” Landers said. “We got it
and Tasha (Humphrey) in the done.”
Student
killed in
Fallujah
By DEEPIKA RAO
drao@randb.com
A University student who was serving in the
Marines was killed in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday leaving
his fraternity brothers without the one they affec
tionately called “Dad Arms.”
Bradley Thomas Arms, a 20-year-old from
Charlottesville, Va., left the University this past
summer before his junior year to answer the call to
go to Iraq with eagerness and a sense of duty, his
brothers said.
Taylor Stanfill, a sophomore
from Marietta and a Sigma Phi
Epsilon brother, said Arms
earned his nickname by being
older than a lot of guys in his
pledge class.
“He always acted like a dad; he
was mature, and he always want
ed to grow as a person,” he said.
Arms’ father, Bob Arms, said
his son was determined to make
the most of his life and saw the
Marines as the ultimate vehicle ARMS
both for improving himself and
the world arond him.
Even the rigors of boot camp didn’t dissuarde
Arms from his goal of serving in the military.
“After he got back from boot camp, I asked him if
it had been hard, and he just looked at me and said,
‘Dad, it was so easy, all you have to do is what they
say,”’ said Bob Arms.
Arms was also passionate about the University,
and even in Iraq, his thoughts never strayed too far
from Athens.
“All Marines can take one personal item, Brad
took the UGA flag to keep with him,” said Bob
Arms. “He also loved UGA football, and asked me to
send him tapes of the games.”
Through hand-written letters and e-mails to the
fraternity Listserv, fraternity brothers got frequent
insight into how life was for their friend overseas.
“He had a positive attitude about going to war;
he had good morale about the whole thing,” said
Matt Tincknell, a senior from Savannah. “He defi
nitely saw his purpose, and he was proud to be
there defending his country, which gave us great
comfort in knowing he wanted to be there.”
In one of the e-mails dated Oct. 31 to the frater
nity, Arms wrote the reasons he was in Iraq were
becoming more clear to him every day as he was
cheered on by children and given “cold stares” by
older men.
“It’s the future of this country that will be differ
ent down the road; it’s extremely hard to change
hearts that have hated for so long,” he wrote in the
e-mail. “But as long as we can keep younger genera
tions open-minded, then we will win this war, even
though the fruits of my labor will not be realized for
many years when the children of this country now
rule.”
He also wrote his experiences at war “strength
ened his resolve to live the life of a balanced man
and lead by example.”
Charlie Britt, a junior from Atlanta who shared a
room with Arms at the Sig Eps fraternity house last
spring, said he corresponded with Arms several
times through letters and e-mail and even spoke to
him on instant messenger two weeks ago.
“He’d always speak of coming home,” Britt said.
Students wary of new
Dean’s list requirements
By SARA PAUFF
spauff@randb.com
While faculty say it’s time to
raise the University’s academic
standards, students said they
are unsure if increasing the
number of credit hours
required to be a Presidential
Scholar or member of the
Dean’s list is the way to do it.
“I don’t think it’s a very
good idea,” said Lesley
Graybeal, a sophomore from
Augusta.
The University Council
executive committee passed a
proposal Thursday that would
require students to take 15
hours, at least 12 of which
must be graded A-F, to be eligi
ble for the Dean’s list or to be a
Presidential Scholar.
“It was brought to our
attention that a fairly large
percentage of people were
becoming Presidential
Scholars,” said Malcolm
Adams, a member of the edu
cational affairs committee of
University Council.
Adams said being a
Presidential Scholar or mem
ber of the Dean’s list should be
an honor.
“It’s an honor that should
be something special,” he said.
“Because of grade inflation, it’s
not as special as it once was.”
Adam Sparks, president of
the Student Government
Association and a member of
University Council, said he
thought the new requirements
weren’t that stringent.
“Our academic standards
have risen,” said Sparks, a
senior from Watkinsville.
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CORRECTION
Due to a reporting error, The Red & Black inacurrately
reported Friday a decline in total University online course
enrollment. Independent Distance Learning has experienced
decreased enrollments, but online programs in other University
departments have not.
Anxiety need not be harmful
By ANNA FERGUSON
aferguson@randb.com
For Jackie Feit, college is more
about following a passion than
being bogged down with stressful
classes.
It was for this reason she
dropped her pre-med major and
focused on her love: Spanish.
“I wanted to be a doctor my
entire life,” she said. “But after get
ting into the actual classes, I real
ized I didn’t enjoy it. The thought of
being in those intense classes made
me change my mind. Physics just
pushed me over the edge.
“I am a perfectionist and it
became too difficult to have any
kind of life outside of class,” she
said.
This kind of stress is common in
high pressure, competitive majors
like pre-med and pre-law, and can
cause anxiety disorders, said a psy
chologist and University professor.
“College students experience a
lot of stress and anxiety,” said Dr.
Hope Jackson, a professor and psy
chologist who worked in the
University Anxiety Clinic for a year.
“Too much stress can lead to an
anxiety disorder. If you worry about
having too much to do or you are
always feeling like you have one
more thing happen that you didn’t
anticipate, all this could cause a dis
order.”
SUPPORT GROUPS
University Anxiety Clinic
Anxiety support groups
Held on the first and third Tuesday of each
month, 6:30 p.m. in Room 133 of the
Psychology Building
For more information or to set up a
counseling appointment, call the clinic at
542-1173.
Students enrolled in high-pres
sure majors are more likely to be
under great amounts of stress and
therefore more likely to develop
anxiety disorders, she said.
“Any major that is highly compet
itive or demanding, like law or pre-
med, is likely to be more anxious,”
Jackson said.
However, the likelihood of a stu
dent developing an anxiety disorder
varies from student to student and
depends on personality type, she
said.
“Some people, due to personality,
ways of coping and sensitivity to
anxiety, are going to be more likely
to experience anxiety,” she said.
“This might be true no matter what
their major.”
However, some stress is not a bad
thing. A student who has no stress
will have very little motivation. Too
much stress is when problems occur.
Students should aim to find a
balance within those two ends of
the spectrum, she said.
“There’s a concept of an optimal
level of arousal,” she said. “If you’re
not anxious at all, then you might
have no impetus to prepare for any
thing. You’d be apathetic.
“Too much anxiety or arousal can
sort of make you freeze, and you’re
so overwhelmed you can’t figure out
how to act,” she said. “If you have a
moderate degree of anxiety, though,
it’s enough to get you going, but not
enough to overwhelm you and get in
your way”
The University’s Anxiety Clinic, a
branch of the psychology depart
ment, provides patients with thera
peutic ways to cope with excessive
anxiety.
“Cognitive-behavioral therapy
focuses on changing your behavior
and the way you think as well as
teaching things you can do physical
ly, such as breathing and relaxation
techniques,” said Courtney Beard, a
graduate student working in the
clinic.
For students who may be experi
encing more severe levels of anxiety,
the clinic offers professional help.
“Basically if anxiety is impairing
your ability to function effectively or
significantly impeding your ability to
enjoy life, you might have a problem
that warrants some assistance,”
Jackson said. “It certainly couldn’t
hurt.”
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