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THURSDAY
January 27, 2005
Vol. 112, No. 91 | Athens, Georgia
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FILM FESTIVAL
>- Robert Osborne will
host a classic film festival
starting tonight. PAGE 8
PHOTOS BY TREVOR CLARK | The Red & Black
BRANCHING OUT AT THE
ACTIVITIES FAIR
A Above, University students wander the Georgia Hall in the Tate Student
Center Wednesday during the Winter Activity Fair held there.
Representatives from most campus organizations were there to promote
their groups and gain new members. Left, Charlene Wang, a second year
student from Alpharetta, promotes the Ballroom Dance Club to a student at
the fair. The club dances and gives lessons every Monday night in the ball
room of Memorial Hall. The clubs at the fair ranged from PC gaming groups
to community service organizations.
Full smoking ban concept divisive
By WILL MALONE
wmalone@randb.com
Some downtown business
owners disagree about the possi
bility of a 24-hour smoking ban —
which one Athens-Clarke County
commissioner is hoping the com
mission will adopt.
“There is going to be, I believe,
a 24-hour ban in this state,”
said ACC commissioner Elton
Dodson. “It’s just a matter of
when it happens, and I think the
leadership on that should come
from the community.”
Mark Lake, owner of Broad
Street Bar and Grill, said he
thinks that a full smoking ban
would be a good idea.
He said he has never touched a
cigarette in his life.
But after 20 years in the
restaurant business, Lake said he
probably has suffered damage
from secondhand smoke.
“People know they can
have have dinner here and
one drink, then go to a bar
and smoke,” he said. “If it was a
full ban, and if it was enforced
everywhere, it wouldn’t be
that way.”
Though a full ban was an
option last summer, a partial
ban was implemented, keeping
restaurants and bars smoke-free
from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The partial ban passed nar
rowly, with Mayor Heidi Davison
breaking the tie, 6-5.
Dodson said he would like to
see leadership come largely from
someone who loves and respects
business downtown.
The Athens Tobacco
Prevention Coalition invited the
commission to hear information
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KENDRICK BRINSON
| The Red & Black
Monday about the risks of smok
ing, Dodson said.
► See BAN, Page 3
Alumni
group
ignored
warning
Trademark issue
not a first for Univ.
By SARA PAUFF
spauff@randb.com
University officials are still unsure
of how the University’s Alumni
Association trademark and Arch
symbol ended up on wine bottles, a
violation of Board of Regents policy.
University spokesman Tom Jackson
said Wednesday the wine deal was sim
ply a miscommunication.
“It was clearly a miscommunication,
with no ill intent on anybody’s part,”
Jackson said.
The wine, bearing the logo of the
University Alumni Association and the
University’s Arch, violated a Board
of Regents policy, stating that no
University trademarks shall be dis
played on alcoholic beverages.
The plan to market the wine was
initiated by former alumni association
director Dave Muia. Documents
obtained by The Red & Black through
an Open Records Request show that
the alumni association staff was told
not to proceed with selling the wine.
The recent concern is not the first
time the University has taken issue
with an unauthorized use of a trade
mark on an alcoholic beverage.
The University’s Athletic
Association went to court over one of
its trademarks back in 1985, when a
beverage distributing company tried
to market a beer with a bulldog on the
can.
>- See WINE, Page 3
Lady Dogs prepare for ‘very quick’ Gators
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
vs. Florida
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Stegeman Coliseum
The first 750 UGA students who use a valid UGA ID card will also will
receive a free “Beat Florida” T-shirt.
By BETH ZABEL
bzabel@randb.com
The No. 19 Lady Bulldogs
will have a new sense of confi
dence heading into their
match against Florida tonight.
Georgia’s women’s basket
ball team is coming off its first
SEC win on the road this
season and carries a momen
tum players said should help
them play harder.
“Picking up that first SEC
victory on the road is a big
confidence booster for us,”
freshman forward Tasha
Humphrey said. “We were
down because every game
we’d play (on the road) in the
SEC, we lost, so I think that
was a first step in the right
direction.”
Yet junior guard Alexis
Kendrick said she knows not
to overlook any team in the
SEC, especially a team as tal
ented as Florida.
“We really proved some
thing with the win over
Mississippi State, but you
never know with Florida,”
Kendrick said. “They have a
great basketball team, (junior
forward Bernice) Mosby has
been playing really well, and
they just have overall good
players, so we’re definitely
going to have to really dig in
deep to prepare for them.”
Mosby leads the Gators in
scoring and rebounds, averag
ing 14.2 points and nine
rebounds per game. Senior
guard Tamia Williams adds
another 12.6 points per game
for Florida and is one of five
Florida players to average
over 30 percent shooting from
behind the arc.
Georgia head coach Andy
Landers said these ample
scoring options for Florida are
his biggest concerns.
“It’s a very quick Florida
team that has explosive floor
players surrounded by a very
dangerous perimeter,” he said.
Florida enters the contest
having won every SEC road
game this season. While
Landers said Florida’s perfor
mance on the road does not
concern him, Kendrick said it
will only spark the rivalry.
“It definitely motivates us
to play harder and to play
smart basketball,” she said.
“We know that they’re going
to definitely get up for us, and
we’re going to definitely get
excited for them, so we know
it’s going to be a good basket
ball game.”
After being named SEC
player of the week for her
performance against Miss
issippi State Sunday, in which
she posted 24 points and 12
rebounds, Humphrey said she
hopes to play well but does
not plan on having to carry
her team again.
Landers does not want to
place all the weight on
Humphrey either but expects
her to perform as well as she
has all season.
“I’m comfortable with the
thought that Tasha is going to
do what she’s able to do. The
last thing we want to be is a
one dimensional team,”
Landers said, adding that he
hopes to see similarly strong
offensive output from
Chambers and Baker.
Landers said he was
pleased with his team’s offen
sive play at Mississippi State
and hopes the Lady Bulldogs
can repeat the performance
tonight with aggressive
defense.
“We didn’t turn it over
excessively, and I think we
have to continue that type of
smart offensive play,” Landers
said. “Then, on the flip side of
that, we need more turnovers,
we need more deflections, we
need to be a little more dis
ruptive defensively.”
However, Humphrey said
such consistency is still the
team’s weakness.
“We either play really well
or really bad,” Humphrey said.
“I think once we start playing
really well consistently, we’re
going to give a lot of different
teams a lot of different
problems because we’re so
dynamic.”
MELISSA GOLDEN | The Red & Black
a Sophomore guard Cori
Chambers puts up a shot
against Texas during a
game at Stegeman
Coliseum Nov. 21.
SGfl ELECTION: HiUrfiKTilMffi
Candidates voice their goals for Student Government Association
Chua Tan: SGA should
be voice for students
By SARA PAUFF
spauff@randb.com
Their party slogan may sound like truth or
dare gone wrong, but Student Government
Association presidential and vice presidential
candidates Natasha Chua Tan and Matt
Wilson said their campaign is serious about
giving students a voice.
“Let’s shut off all preconceived notions of
SGA,” said Natasha Chua Tan, presidential
candidate for the party running on a “Vote
Naked” slogan. “Let’s go back to being a voice
for the students.”
The party’s platform focuses on increasing
diversity awareness, safety advocacy and the
quality of education, as well as changing
students’ perceptions of the organization.
“We want to change the
entire mentality of SGA,”
said her running mate,
Matt Wilson.
The candidates officially
began their campaigns
after 10 Tuesday night,
passing out T-shirts, wrist
bands, and painting the
entire campus yellow and
blue, the party’s colors.
“We need visibility. We
need to see yellow and blue
everywhere,” Chua Tan, a
senior from Salt Lake City, told campaigners
at Memorial Hall.
Chua Tan said she wanted to improve the
relationship SGA has with South Campus.
She said Wilson, who was part of the Ag
Hill Council, would be particularly helpful in
reaching out to the sometimes forgotten part
of campus.
>- See CHUA TAN, Page 6
Childs: SGA should
return to classic roots
By KELLY PROCTOR
kproctor@randb.com
Student Government Association presiden
tial candidate Will Childs and running mate
Tucker Brown launched a full scale campaign
Tuesday night, tacking up green fliers bearing
their party’s name — The Classic Party — on
bulletin boards across South Campus.
Childs, a sophomore from Rome and sena
tor from the Terry College of Business, said his
party’s name was chosen because, “(The
University) is a classic campus in a classic
city.”
The name also represents an SGA rejuvena
tion under The Classic Party, he said.
“In some ways, our SGA isn’t on the same
level as other universities’,” he said. “We want
to get back to being classic
— not the same old SGA.”
Childs and Brown have
funded their campaign with
campus jobs and family
gifts. Childs, a Creswell desk
assistant, asked for cam
paign money as a Christmas
gift. Brown, a University bus
driver, also teaches ball
room dancing.
Those funds, combined
with The Classic Party sen
ators’ unused campaign
funds, will all go toward the
campaign, Brown said. Elections will be held
Feb. 8-9, and winners will be announced
Feb. 10.
While Childs dictated campaign strategy
over his cell phone, Brown scaled walls and
jumped over concrete partitions at the
Biology, Poultry Science and Food Sciences
Building — only to find most doors locked.
► See CHILDS, Page 6
CHUA TAN
CHILDS
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