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August 16, 2006
Vol. 114, No. 1 | Athens, Georgia
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>* Star of “Mind
of Mencia” comes
toUGA. PAGE IB
IN NEWS: Student arrested
for hitting two people with
her car at McDonald’s.
PAGE 10A
SICK OF HEARING ABOUT WHO’S STARTING AT QB?
BARNES
COX
STAFFORD
TERESHINSKI
It’s the burning ques
tion on the minds of the
Bulldog nation as fall
approaches:
Who will be under
center when Georgia
hosts Western Kentucky
on Sept. 2?
Coach Mark Richt
insists the position is still
open but as the debate
rages on, is the hype
surrounding the quarter
backs affecting the
team?
Inside we ask the
hopefuls if they are sick
of the attention regarding
the quarterback ques
tion.
STORY PAGE IB
COURTESY UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTS
▲ A proposed River Road fraternity house offered by the University to replace the homes on Lumpkin Street.
Frat houses offered relocation deal
University to spend millions on new fraternity hmtsing
By JOE MASON
jmason@randb.com
The University could
spend millions of dollars on
new houses to relocate five
Lumpkin Street fraternities
that otherwise would have to
move off-campus.
The plan uses real estate
on River Road east of
Sanford Stadium for the fra
ternities while freeing land
on Lumpkin Street for aca
demic buildings.
It also would provide
most of the money needed
to construct the new houses.
University officials say
the cost could exceed $23
million, which would come
from the UGA Real Estate
Foundation.
“I think it’s a sound plan,
and it should keep them on
campus,” University Pres
ident Michael Adams said at
a news conference last week.
A plan the University pro
posed in October offered
land on River Road, but the
cost of construction was left
to the fraternities, said Tom
Jackson, University vice
president of public affairs.
The University could
begin construction of the
River Road houses as early
as April 2007 and possibly
complete them by the end of
spring semester 2008,
University officials said.
The fraternities have until
October 3 to accept the
River Road offer.
The fraternities must
vacate the Lumpkin Street
houses by June 1, 2008.
The University’s master
plan calls for construction on
the vacated Lumpkin Street
land, including the building
of the Richard B. Russell
Special Collections Library
and facilities for the Terry
College of Business, the
College of Family and
Consumer Sciences, the
Graduate School and the
School of Public and
International Affairs.
The five Lumpkin Street
fraternities being offered
River Road houses include:
>- Tau Epsilon Phi
► Phi Delta Theta
>- Pi Kappa Alpha
>- Kappa Alpha
>- Chi Phi
Sigma Nu and Alpha Tau
Omega, former River Road
fraternities, also have been
extended the offer, Burgess
said.
If all seven fraternities
take the River Road offer
and opt for the larger house
model, the entire project
could cost more than $23
>• See GREEK, Page IOA
>- Check out more draw
ings of proposed houses.
www.redandblack.com
Terror attempt delays students’ flights
By AUDREY LEWIS
alewis@randb.com
Seventy-nine University
students said they are over
joyed to be home and catch
ing up on rest after a terror
ist plot threatened to unex-
pectantly extend their stay
in England.
The students, who were
traveling for programs with
the Franklin College of Arts
and Sciences, Terry School
of Business and Grady
College of Journalism and
Mass Communications, were
notified early Thursday
morning of a foiled terrorist
plot to blow up planes head
ed to the United States from
London.
It was supposed to be the
last day of classes for the
students before they left for
the United States.
Katy Ruth Camp, a senior
from Cartersville, said she
was awoken by a banging on
her dorm room door.
The student across the
hall told her about the plot
to blow up the planes and
that all University students
were to meet with Kalpen
Trivedi, the associate direc
tor of the Oxford Resident
Center, to discuss security
procedures.
Camp said Trivedi briefed
the students on the new
security procedures and told
them their flights might be
delayed.
Students said it difficult
to grasp the full impact of
what was happening
because they didn’t have
access to TVs where they
were staying at Trinity
College.
“It was really nerve-rack
ing not having access to the
TV and having to rely mostly
on Dr. Trivedi and the inter
net for information,” Camp
said.
British police arrested 24
would-be terrorists Thurs
day for their roles in the plot,
the biggest terrorist attempt
since September 11th,
the Associated Press report
ed.
Barry Hollander, a
University associate profes
sor of journalism and the on
site faculty member at
Oxford, said in spite of
everything, the students
handled the situation well,
cooperating with faculty and
helping each other find cre
ative ways to re-pack their
items.
Due to increased security,
the students had to leave for
the airport four hours before
their actual flights.
Passengers weren’t
allowed to carry luggage on
the planes or bring any liq
uids on board.
“Check out lines were
really long,” said Bethany
Kirkpatrick, a senior
► See OXFORD, Page 7A
Senior nit by
friend driving
drunk,
By SARA PAUFF
spauff@randb.com
A University senior was
killed early Sunday morning
in a Florida town after being
hit by a truck driven by a
friend who had been drinking.
Reggie Cleve Bostick Jr.,
22-year-old agribusiness
major from Camilla, was
vacationing in Mexico Beach,
Fla. with Carl Phelps, a 22
year-old Georgia Southern
University student also from
Camilla.
Phelps was returning to
the house at 1003 Hwy 98 at
about 1:30 a.m. Sunday
morning when the Ford F-350
dies
he was driving struck and
killed Bostick in the driveway,
according to a Mexico Beach
Department of Public Safety
news release.
Capt. John Murnan, inter
im chief of the Mexico Beach
Police Department, said
there were two other people
at the house, but the depart
ment is only investigating
Phelps.
“He is the prime suspect,”
Murnan said.
Phelps was released
Monday from the Mexico
Beach jail on a $2500 condi
tional release bond. An
> See DEATH, Page 3A
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Orlando
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JENNI MAYBERRY | The Red , Beach
Red & Black editor goes
from chemistry to papers
Editor’s Note:
Although The Red &
Black normally does
not cover its own
activities, the lead
ership of the news
paper decided that
readers should be
informed about who
is managing their
student publication.
Q: What’s your
name, age and
hometown?
A: David Pittman, 21, from
Woodstock, Ga. I graduate in
December.
Q: What’s your
major/minor?
A: No minors, but I do
have a double major in news
papers and chemistry.
Q: Why chemistry?
A: When you first get to
college, you always take a
hard science, so I took mine
in chemistry. I was
good in it and liked
it, so I continued
beyond the first cou
ple courses. I wound
up liking it so much
that I majored in it.
But that was before I
starting working (at
The Red & Black)
and found out that
this is what I like
more.
Q: What else,
aside from The Red & Black,
have you been involved with
at the University?
A: Not really much of any
thing, seriously.
Q: When did you start
working at The Red & Black,
and what was your first arti
cle?
A: The first story I wrote
► See PITTMAN, Page 7A
PITTMAN
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