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WEDNESDAY
February 23, 2005
Vol. 112, No. 110 | Athens, Georgia
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>- Fans of Lady Bulldog
Tasha Humphrey form a
club. SPORTS, PAGE 7
EXTREME MAKEOVER
TREVOR CLARK | The Red & Black
▲ Josh Jones (right), a junior drama major from St. Mary’s, tightens a corset on Justin Birdsong (left), a
senior drama and music major from Lawrenceville, in the dressing room at the Seney-Stoval Chapel before
Tuesday night’s performance of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” When asked about his experience
playing Lady Blacknell, Birdsong said, “It was challenging because I’m playing a woman. I had to create the
physical body of a woman.”
Dean miffed
by HOPE bill
By GRAYSON IRVIN
girvin@randb .com
and BRIAN McDEARMON
mcdearmon@randb.com
Hours after the state
House of Representatives
voted to lower the cap for
HOPE Scholarship eligibility
in some majors, a University
administrator said he urged
his students to actively
oppose the bill.
Bruce Ferguson, associ
ate dean of the School of
Environmental Design,
called the bill unfair to land
scape architecture students
whose major requires 156
hours.
“Some (students) will
choose an entirely different
life plan because of this,”
Ferguson said.
Students in traditional
four-year majors are eligible
to receive the HOPE
Scholarship benefits until
they reach 127 hours.
However, students pursu
ing majors that require more
than 127 hours are currently
eligible until they hit 150
hours. The bill — passed
Tuesday by a House vote of
93-76 — would eliminate that
exemption.
Another hard-hit major at
the University would be the
Doctor of Pharmacy, which
takes 209 hours to complete.
Current students would
go unaffected by the cap,
which would apply only to
students who enroll after
July.
If the bill makes it out of
the House, it would then go
to the Senate’s Higher
Education Committee,
where members would get a
chance to tweak the legisla
tion before it goes to the full
Senate floor for a vote.
Opponents in the state
House could get another
chance to kill the proposal,
however.
Rep. Tom Bordeaux
(D-Savannah) served notice
Tuesday after the vote that
he would ask the chamber
today to reconsider the bill,
according to the House
Clerk’s Office.
Proponents of the bill,
including its sponsor Bill
Hembree, R-Douglasville,
have said the measure would
make the merit based schol
arship fairer, with all
students being eligible for
the same benefits.
>- See HOPE, Page 3
Univ. funds tied to Real Estate payraise
By SARA PAUFF
spauff@randb.com
Part of a pay raise for Jo Ann Chitty,
president of the UGA Real Estate
Foundation, may have come from rev
enue paid to the organization out of the
University’s Resident Instruction bud
get — the same budget that pays the
salaries of deans and vice presidents.
During a closed meeting last March,
the UGA Real Estate Foundation
increased Chitty’s total compensation
by 40 percent, from $218,000 to
$304,595.
Chitty’s salary comes from the rev
enue generated by the foundation. The
University, the Real Estate
Foundation’s only client, pays the foun
dation out of various budgets, includ
ing Parking Services, Student Housing
and Resident Instruction.
Deans’ and vice presidents’ salaries
come from the Resident Instruction
budget, said Hank Huckaby, senior vice
president of Finance and
Administration.
Ryan Nesbit, University budget
director, said some faculty salary comes
from the Resident Instruction budget
as well.
UGA Real Estate Foundation
employees are not employees of the
state, but they are “part of the
University community,” Huckaby said.
“The president of the UGA Real
Estate Foundation should not be mak
ing more than deans and heads of aca
demic departments,” he said.
In a phone interview Tuesday, Chitty
said rent on the buildings and proper
ties leased to the University was deter
mined by the foundation’s executive
board.
PAYMENTS TO REF
Revenue the University paid to the UGA Real
Estate Foundation in the past two fiscal years:
> Fiscal year 2004
Resident Instruction Budget Total: $2,949,022
Parking Services Total: $1,681,295
Student Housing Total: $20,377
Food Services Total (East Village Commons):
N/A
> Expected Fiscal year 2005
Resident Instruction Budget Total: $4,421,374
Parking Services Total: $1,749,910
Student Housing Total: $5,841,750
Food Services Total (East Village Commons):
$1,400,590
Source: UGA Budget Division
The board considers the overall
expenses of the Real Estate
Foundation, the time devoted to a
project and the market conditions
when determining rent, she said.
Chitty said salaries form a “very
small portion” of the foundation’s
expenses.
“Our largest expense is debt ser
vice,” she said.
In fiscal year 2004, the University
paid a total of $4,650,694 to the founda
tion. Almost $3 million of these pay
ments came from the Resident
Instruction budget, the same budget
that covers deans’ salaries, according
to a document faxed to The Red &
Black from Nesbit.
For fiscal year 2005, the University is
budgeted to pay more than $13 million
to the foundation. The increase comes
from added buildings in the past year,
including the B & L Warehouse, East
Campus Village and East Village
Commons.
CLARIFICATION
In Tuesday’s edi
tion of The Red &
Black, the article
“Local leaders
speak out on pro
posed bill,” stated
the HOPE Scholar
ship covers the cost
of students’ tuition
and fees until a stu
dent reaches 150
credit hours.
Only students in
programs designed
to be more than 127
hours are eligible
for a total of 150
hours if the student
has a 3.0 GPA at the
127-hour mark. All
other students
already have a 127
hour cap.
Pitching corps gets
Diamond Dogs win
By DAVID PITTMAN
dpittman@randb.com
Georgia may not want to rely on its
pitching as much as it has been to start
this season, but the team has been
forced to with hitting performances like
it has had.
Junior Jason Jacobs connected on a
1-0 pitch in the bottom of the 11th
inning to hit a two-run home run high
over the left field wall Tuesday night to
finally give No. 6 Georgia a 3-1 victory
over Mercer.
“He was throwing inside fastballs,
and I kind of like those,” Jacobs said of
the pitch on which he hit the home run.
“I felt like he was going to throw it
there, and I was kind of sitting on it.”
Despite the late-game heroics
provided by Jacobs, Georgia’s pitching
staff has given up only one run in the
last 21 innings.
“I tip my hat to (pitching coach)
Butch Thompson and the crew,” head
coach David Perno said. “They’re doing
a great job.”
Five pitchers — starter Jason
Fellows, Josh Fields, Bo Lanier, Will
Startup and Mitchell Boggs — com
bined to allow 10 hits and one run. The
performance followed Sunday’s 3-0
shutout.
“We never let them breathe,” said
Boggs (1-0). “There never was a chance
where they could break the game
open.”
In Sunday’s 3-0 win against Elon,
Georgia (4-0) could only score one run
in the first seven innings. Tuesday night
the team managed just one run in the
first 10 innings.
“I think we’re a little out of sync
right now,” Jacobs said. “We’re a lot
BASEBALL
Georgia 3, Mercer 1
better than the way we’ve been playing.
I think we’re more the team you saw
Friday night (when Georgia scored nine
runs), and I think that’s what we
expect out of ourselves.”
Jacobs, who came in for starting
third baseman Adam McDaniel in the
ninth inning, said the team’s depth is
key to its ability to compete in longer
games like the one Tuesday.
Josh Morris led off the 10th inning
with a double, but Georgia couldn’t
drive him home.
Startup, Georgia’s closer, pitched
the eighth inning. Startup missed the
opening series for Georgia recovering
from an ankle injury.
Mercer (9-2) tied the game at one in
the sixth inning when Eric Renfroe was
able to score from third, after Lanier
threw a wild pitch.
Joe Billick had just entered the
game as catcher, replacing starter
Derek Smith, who left after injuring his
left hand.
Georgia scored its first run of the
game in the third inning when right
fielder Bobby Felmy doubled in Justin
Niefer, who was aboard after walking.
Fellows pitched four shutout innings
in his first time pitching for Georgia
since 2002, having spent the 2003
season at Georgia Perimeter and being
red-shirted last season.
The Bulldogs are off until Saturday,
when they take on Georgia Southern at
Foley Field starting at 3 p.m. to begin a
two-game series.
MELISSA GOLDEN | The Red & Black
a Junior shortstop Matthew Dunn
throws the ball during a play in
the top of the second inning dur
ing Tuesday’s game against
Mercer. Dunn scored one of
Georgia’s three runs and had two
hits in four at bats. UGA won 3-1
in the 11th inning.
Former governor,
Civil Rights figure,
alumnus dies at 86
By KELLY PROCTOR
kproctor@randb.com
Ernest Vandiver, a
University alumnus and
former Georgia governor who
defied state law to keep the
University in session during
integration, died Monday at
the age of 86 after a long
illness.
Athens’ representative in
the state legislature Jane
Kidd, Vandiver’s daughter, is
one of his survivors, along
with his widow, son and
another daughter.
Born in 1918 in Franklin
County, Vandiver attended
the University, served as a
U.S. Air Force pilot in World
War II and then returned to
the University to earn a law
degree.
He later served as gover
nor of Georgia from 1959 to
1963, running on the platform
that “No! Not one!” black
child would be allowed in
white classrooms.
But the turning point in
Vandiver’s political career
came in 1961 when he
changed his stance and
challenged a federal ruling
against integration.
U.S. District Judge
William Augustus Bootle,
who died in January, had
ordered the University to
FILE | The Associated Press
a Former Georgia Gov.
Ernest S. Vandiver is
shown in this 1972 file
photo. Vandiver, who
was elected on an anti
integration platform,
went on to preside over
the peaceful desegrega
tion of public schools.
He died Monday at age
86. He was governor
from 1959 to 1963.
admit two black students —
Charlayne Hunter and
Hamilton Holmes.
At the time, state law
dictated funds be cut off to
any college or school that
admitted black students.
► See VANDIVER, Page 3
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