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MONDAY
January 24, 2005
Vol. 112, No. 88 | Athens, Georgia
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79. THE WIRE, PAGE 2
Rural
student
totals
small
By SARA PAUFF
spauff@randb.com
Annette Broome said she knew
Athens was where she wanted to
spend her college years.
“I always wanted to be a
Bulldog,” said the freshman from
Donalsonville in Seminole County
— a rural county at the state’s
southwest border. “Basically I can
spit on Florida and Alabama. It
wouldn’t be very lady-like to, but I
could.”
Broome is one of eight students
from her home county. The small
percentage of University students
from rural counties recently has
been criticized by legislators.
Del Dunn, vice president of
Instruction, said
enrollment from
rural counties is
low because the
college-bound
population in
those counties is
low.
“There are
fewer students in
rural counties,”
Dunn said.
Some counties DUNN
in the southern
part of the state, like Quitman and
Long, only had one student
enrolled at the University in Spring
2005, according to the University
Office of Institutional Research’s
Web site (www.oir.uga.edu).
Twenty counties south of
Columbus enrolled fewer than 10
students, and one county — Echols
— enrolled no students this
semester, according to the Web
site.
Gwinnett County sent the most
students for this semester, totaling
3,770.
Spring enrollment numbers are
preliminary until March 4.
► See ENROLLMENT, Page 3
KENDRICK BRINSON The Red a Black
▲ UGA forward Corey Gibbs, a redshirt freshman from Lithonia,
shoots over Vanderbilt defense at Stegeman Coliseum Saturday
afternoon. Gibbs, who missed five games due to an injury, returned
and scored seven points adding to Georgia’s first SEC victory of the
season with a final score of 68-59.
Dogs grab first
conference win
By MATTHEW BORENSTEIN
mborenste@randb.com
On Friday, sophomore guard
Levi Stukes told freshman
guard Kevin Brophy to be ready.
Stukes, the Georgia men’s
basketball team’s leader and
top-scorer, informed Brophy he
was not sure he would be able to
play against Vanderbilt because
of a sprained right ankle.
Stukes did not play, but
Brophy certainly did.
In his first career start, the
Melbourne, Australia, native
scored a career high 19 points,
leading the Bulldogs to a 68-59
victory over Vanderbilt (11-7, 2-3
SEC). It was Georgia’s (7-8, 1-4
SEC) first conference win.
“I felt with Levi out, a big
bulk of our scoring was gone,”
Brophy said. “He told me him
self, ‘you’ve got to look for your
shot more.’ I went out there
with all of the confidence in the
world and kept shooting.”
Brophy shot 5-for-7 for the
game, including 4-of-6 from
beyond the three-point line. He
was 5-of-7 from the free throw
line.
His three, from almost four-
feet behind the line, with 4:59 to
go in the game broke a 50-50 tie
and gave Georgia a lead it would
never relinquish.
“Whenever he gets the oppor
tunity for open looks at the bas
ket, the chances are good
they’re going to go in,” said head
coach Dennis Felton, who called
his team’s play in the game the
best so far this season.
After shooting just 25 percent
in the first half, the Bulldogs
shot just over 58 percent in the
second-half and finished the
game shooting 38.3 percent.
Brophy, who separated his
shoulder right before the sea
son, started the year 0-for-7 and
did not make a three, or any
shot, until the third game of the
season. But both Brophy and
Felton said they never lost confi
dence in the guard’s long-dis
tance shot.
Those in the jubilant locker
room after the game were
pleased to have finally won an
SEC game.
“It’s a big relief,” said Brophy.
“We have people saying we’re
not going to win a game in the
BASKETBALL
lei? 68 .Sip, 59
SEC. We know we can compete
with everybody.”
Felton credited his team’s
defense for shutting down the
Commodores prolific three-
point shooting.
Entering the game,
Vanderbilt had made 181 threes
and had made 12 or more in
eight games. The Commodores
were only 2-of-15 from beyond
the three-point line.
“It was a big key of us not to
allow them to shoot any threes,
not make threes, we did not
want them shooting them,”
Felton said.
This was the first game
Stukes, who injured his ankle
Thursday in practice and who
has had a bruised hip for much
of the season, has not started in
and the first game he has
missed in his two years at
Georgia.
Freshmen guards Channing
Toney scored 16 points and
Sundiata Gaines added 13.
With their first conference
win now behind them, the
Bulldogs will travel to Florida to
face the Gators Tuesday night.
After the game, Felton said
he was unsure of Stukes’ status
for the game against the Gators.
KENDRICK BRINSON The Red £ Black
a Felton’s Fanatics (right
to left) David Sylves,
Bryan Smith and Trey
Dunn cheer in the second
half of Saturday’s SEC
game against Vanderbilt.
Dunn, dressed in a kilt,
said he dresses up for
every sporting event he
can attend.
Second City to meet
Classic City tonight
By KRISTA DERBECKER
kderbecke@randb.com
Although they might be seen live from
New York on future weekends, for now
it’s “Live from Athens, it’s Monday
night!”
The University Union plays host
tonight to The Second City Tour, a six-
member comedy team that will perform a
three-act show consisting of written
sketch and improv comedy.
Similar to “Whose Line is it Anyway?”
The Second City Tour is also where many
“Saturday Night Live” cast members get
their start, said Joe Hayes, program
adviser for University Union.
The Tour’s alumni include Mike Myers,
Bill Murray, Tina Fey and Chris Farley
Hayes said.
The show is part of the 45th
Anniversary tour and will include
favorites from the company’s archives
and original material, some of which is
written by the actors, said Andel Sudik,
one of the comedians in the Tour.
“There’s a feeling of trust when you’re
onstage with five of your friends,” she
said. “I’m going to do whatever it takes
to make the audience laugh and make my
partners look good.”
Sudik said the three-week tour can be
difficult, especially because of the discon
nection with family and the hassles of
traveling.
“This is the first time I’ve had a room
mate since I lived at home with my sis
ter,” Sudik said.
“Sorry if I sound distracted right now,”
she said, laughing. “My roommate just
walked in and started dancing around to
distract me.”
The theater is very laid back and cre
ativity controls everything, said Janet
Neumann, the assistant to the producers
at Second City.
“We can laugh at ourselves and laugh
SECOND CITY TOUR
When: Tonight at 8
Where: Fine Arts Theater
Tickets: $8 for students, $17 for
non-students
at each other,” she said. “The Second
City Tour is the true essence of political
satire. It reflects how society looks to us.”
The Second City Tour is based out of
Chicago, the location typically from
which alumni rise to stardom.
When alumni come back into town,
they often make guest appearances on
the Second City stage.
Although Sudik has never been
onstage with any of these special guests,
she observed that the alumni don’t lose
the onstage chemistry.
“There is a level of being scared and
intimidated, but the same unspoken
trust is there,” she said.
Chicago is the hub of the five cities
that comprise the national theater pro
gram, Nuemann said.
The program consists of standard the
aters and a separate training center,
which is a private institution to teach
comedy, business skills and communica
tions.
The touring company is an essential
part of the program, Neumann said.
Three different casts tour around the
United States, and one of the groups
recently returned from the Middle East.
The tour group spent weeks in Kuwait,
Northern Iraq and Baghdad, performing
for the soldiers.
“There’s no one in the world who
needs laughter more than a soldier,”
Neumann said.
When the tour group returned, the
members all had much more of an invest
ment in what is going on overseas, she
said. “It became real to them.”
Police issue warrants for cell thefts
By WILL MALONE
wmalone@randb .com
University Police are putting
a cell phone theft ring on silent
after issuing arrest warrants for
three men in connection with a
rash of stolen cell phones last
semester.
Police said the new charges
may be related to an arrest
made in the fall regarding cell
phone thefts in the Ramsey
Center, said University Police
Capt. Lisa Boone.
“Lots of cell phones were
stolen,” Boone said, “and it was
pretty much a theft ring.”
Warrants were issued for
Antwan S. Freeman and Byron
E. McKinley, who both face 19
counts of theft by receiving, and
James L. Hill, who faces a
charge of theft by deception and
19 counts of theft by receiving,
according to police reports.
None of the three men is cur
rently in custody, an Athens-
Clarke County Jail official said.
Twelve University students
lost their cell phones at the
Ramsey Center last fall, topping
$2,040 in stolen property.
Horace E. Wise was arrested
in December 2004 for “illegally
taking the property of another
while inside the Ramsey
Center,” according to police
reports. He also was arrested for
criminal trespass.
He then was charged with
two counts of criminal attempt
to commit theft by taking,
according to police logs.
He currently is being held
in Athens-Clarke County Jail,
where his bail is set at $6,500.
Boone said police try to
return recovered phones to
their owners if there is a way to
connect the phone to the owner.
“That’s why it’s important for
people to make notes of their cell
phone serial numbers,” she said.
If people leave their cell
phones lying around, she said, it
is too easy for people to pick
them up.
“People can sell them, use
them until the service is discon
nect or loan (the phone) to
someone else to use,” she said.
Christina O’Neal — whose
bag containing her cell phone
was stolen last month from the
Ramsey Center — said police
contacted her about her miss
ing bag.
O’Neal, a junior from
Snellville, said she was told that
sometimes when bags are
stolen, police will find them in
the Dumpster behind Ramsey,
but her bag had not yet turned
up, she said.
Her phone cost about $200,
she said.
— Contributing: Staff reports
CAUGHT IN THE BIRDS’ GRIP
KENDRICK BRINSON The Red* Black
a Scott Parrish, an Athens resident and former University student, watches the
Falcons play the Eagles in the NFL playoffs Sunday at Taco Mac on Broad Street.
The Eagles won 27-10, earning a spot in the Super Bowl. See the story on Page 2.
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