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April 18, 2006
Vol. 113, No. 142 | Athens, Georgia
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Hearings set for students
charged after Fish death
Court dates set for today, Thursday
Arraignment hearings will be held this
week for five individuals arrested following
the investigation into student Lewis Fish’s
death as a result of alcohol, cocaine and
heroin. The arraignment hearing for Thomas
Carpenter — the Georgia College & State
University student who was with Fish when
he died — is still pending. Charges against
Gene Milner were dropped due to insufficient
evidence.
— Caroline Ervin underage possession of alcohol.
WILLIAM
COWAN
Tuesday
8 a.m.
Furnishing alco
hol to minors,
possession of
marijuana,
MARK
OLSEN
Tuesday
8 a.m.
Furnishing alco
hol to minors,
possession of
marijuana,
underage pos
session of alcohol.
JORDAN
REDELLA
Tuesday
1:30 p.m.
Furnishing
alcohol to
minors, pos
session of mar
ijuana, possession of fraudulent
identification, use of false identifi
cation to purchase alcohol.
I I GRAYSON
GORDON
J Tuesday
I 9 a.m.
Jm Possession of
A marijuana,
^ possession of
1 fraudulent
identification.
1 MICHAEL
CROCKER
Thursday
9 a.m.
Furnishing alco
hol to minors,
possession of
marijuana.
Professor
remembers
Univ. of past
By ANNA FRY
For The Red & Black
University professor Hardy Edwards Jr.
remembers a time when the Ramsey Center was
a dairy farm and the Hodgson School of Music
was a poultry farm.
“All that was chickens,” he said.
Edwards, a poultry science and animal nutri
tion professor, has worked at the University since
Nov. 1, 1957, which makes his employment time
the longest of any faculty or staff member still at
the University, according to employee records
manager Dickie Riggs.
During his 48-year career, Edwards said he
considered leaving Athens only once, when a vice
president from a large company tried to “woo
him” away.
“I just decided I was happy,” he said. “I’ve had
a lot of fun, and I’ve enjoyed it.”
Edwards, 76, said he remembers a different
time in Athens, when the campus was ultra-con
servative. Ladies had to wear raincoats over
their gym shorts on campus, he said.
Recalling the landscape, he said he remem
bered when the Psychology-Journalism Plaza
was the basketball arena.
Edwards said he went to almost every football
game between 1957-1979 before deciding to give
up his seat so others would have a chance to go.
Pictures of former graduate students and doc
toral candidates Edwards has mentored crowd
the top of a bookcase in his office.
“My students go out and they’re very success
ful, so it makes you feel good,” Edwards said.
Anastassia Liem, a graduate student from
Indonesia earning a degree in poultry nutrition,
said she likes Edwards’ sense of humor, experi
ence and patience. She is applying in the fall to
continue working with him on her doctoral
degree.
“He’s one of the nicest (professors) you’ll ever
get,” she said. “He knows how to handle gradu
ate students like they’re supposed to be treat
ed.”
Edwards said he was born in Ruston, La., in
1929 and earned a bachelor’s degree in agricul
ture at Southwestern Louisiana Institute at a
time when 85 percent of the students there
spoke French.
He then graduated with a master’s in agricul
ture from the University of Florida before enter
ing Cornell to work on his doctorate.
At Cornell, Edwards met his wife, Aldies.
Directly after graduating at age 23 with a doctoral
>- See EDWARDS, Page 3
CHUCK THOMSON | The Red & Black
A Hardy Edwards, a professor in the Poultry Sciences department, holds a picture of himself
taken just months before he began teaching at the University in 1957. Edwards, 76, has been
teaching at the University longer than any other University professor and says he has no plans to
retire. “I still enjoy working,” he said. “That's obviously why I’m still here.”
Pledge
period
to curb
hazing
Council hopes
to manage risks
By ASHLEY FIELDING
afielding@randb.com
A proposed restriction on
Greek pledge periods may be
an attempt to reduce hazing
incidents.
Brandon Frye, fraternity
adviser for the Interfraternity
Council, said the changes in
pledge periods may help
reduce the risks involved in
Greek organizational events,
such as hazing.
“We asked ourselves —
when do most issues arise in
fraternities? During new
member education,” Frye
said.
Last week, the University
Council’s Student Affairs
committee proposed limiting
pledge periods for University
Greek organizations to eight
weeks.
Frye said the new policy
would not stop all risks asso
ciated with Greek events.
“You can never eliminate
risk from any event,” Frye
said. “You can only manage
it.”
Frye said many national
organizations have shortened
their pledge periods, and the
N orth-American
Interfraternity Conference
mandated that pledge peri
ods are less than 12 weeks.
FIJI has a semester-long
pledge period.
The pledgeship lasts from
the beginning of Fall semester
to the beginning of Spring
semester so new pledges’
grades can be reviewed before
initiation into the fraternity.
For members taking 12
hours of classes, the fraternity
requires at least a 2.7 GPA;
for those enrolled in 15 hours,
the fraternity requires a mini
mum of 2.5 GPA, said Eddie
Goepp, former president of
the FIJI fraternity.
Goepp said the proposed
changes in pledge periods
may affect the quality of
FIJI’S pledge class.
“We’re going to have to ini
tiate guys that aren’t up to
the academic quality we like,”
Goepp said. “I hope we get
guys that are smart enough to
make the grades.”
Frye said the shorter
pledge periods do not neces
sarily mean fraternities will
end up with the short end of
the academic stick.
Greek organizations still
can hold their pledges to an
academic standard without
waiting until the end of the
semester for grade reports,
>- See GREEKS. Page 5
Diamond Dogs uneven on the road
LAUREN FELTEN | The Red & Black
A Georgia pitcher Ben Jeffers attempts to tag out Gardner-Webb runner Jon Crockett during a
March 4 game. Crockett successfully scored a run, but the Bulldogs held on to win 9-4.
By ALEX BYINGTON
abyington@randb.com
This year’s baseball season
has had more ups and downs
than a roller coaster.
The Diamond Dogs have
gone 9-6 against top 25 teams
and 6-9 against SEC oppo
nents.
Despite the hot-and-cold
play of his team, head coach
David Perno said he is not
worried, preferring instead to
take everything in context.
“That’s why you play the
whole season,” Perno said.
“You go through the tough
times and how you respond
to the adverse conditions
early in the year is what type
of team you are late in the
year.”
The last two weeks, the
Bulldogs have played against
BASEBALL
Georgia (22-13) vs. Mercer (25-17)
When: 7 tonight
Where: Foley Field
Starters: Georgia RHP Brooks
Brown (Jr., 3-3, 4.56 ERA) v.
Mercer LHP Shawn Barrett (Sr., 3-
3, 5.91 ERA)
three nationally ranked
teams on the road, coming
away with a 3-4 record. So far,
Georgia is 7-8 on the road,
with two series wins against
SEC opponents No. 12
Arkansas and No. 17
Mississippi State.
“We got a good team with
a chance to win on the road.
We were in all those games. It
was a good challenge for us at
the right time, and I think our
kids weathered the storm,”
Perno said of his team’s per
formance on its recent seven-
game road trip.
A big reason the Diamond
Dogs have stayed competi
tive is the play of junior cen
ter fielder Joey Side who
leads the team with a .373
batting average.
“He’s hitting the ball to all
fields. He’s doing a great job
setting the tempo for our
offense,” Perno said of Side.
“We just need some other
guys in the lineup to follow
his lead.”
Also playing well is junior
first baseman Josh Morris
who leads the team with 11
home runs and 36 RBIs.
The up-and-down season
has been reflected in the per
formance of the Bulldog
pitching staff, which amassed
a high 4.90 ERA and ranks 11
out of 12 in the SEC.
Despite what he called a
blown save last Saturday and
the poor pitching last
Sunday, Perno still believes
his pitchers can perform
when it counts.
“We’re gonna lean heavy
on our starters and (reliev
ers) Rip (Warren) and Joshua
(Fields), and hopefully get A-
Mac (Adam McDaniel) going
again,” Perno said.
Tonight the Diamond
Dogs (22-13) will face off
against a very strong
► See BASEBALL. Page 6
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