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8A I Wednesday, August 16, 2006 | The Red & Black
NEWS
Red & Black
wins honors
for editorials,
photography
The Red & Black won mul
tiple honors from the Society
for Professional Journalists’
Mark of Excellence Awards
for work the newspaper did in
2005. The awards were
announced in early August.
The staff garnered two sec
ond-place awards — editorial
writing and feature photogra
phy — in a contest honoring
the best in student journal
ism.
News Editor Brian
McDearmon and former
Opinions Editor Matt
Barnwell wrote the three edi
torials that comprised the
second-place entry.
One of the editorials took
the University to task for its
lack of movement on adding
sexual orientation to the anti-
discrimination policy, while
another questioned the reap
pointment of Don Leebern Jr.
to the Board of Regents.
In feature photography,
former Red & Black photog
rapher Lauren Carroll took
second-place for a photo
essay about University
wrestler Kyle Maynard.
Maynard was born with a
rare condition called congeni
tal amputation, leaving him
with only three joints: his
neck and two shoulders.
— Staff Reports
Campus life
seeks attention
By DeSHAUN HARRIS
dharris@randb.com
What do Student
Government President
Jamie Peper, comedian
Carlos Mencia and a fortune
teller at Dawgs After Dark
have in common?
They all are affiliated
with Campus Life, the for
mer Department of Student
Activities. Don Reagin,
director of marketing and
public relations for Campus
Life, wants students to
make the connection.
“We’ve talked to stu
dents, and they said they
didn’t really see University
Union, Student
Government Association
and WUOG radio as part of
the same office,” Reagin
said. “So we’re reintroduc
ing it as an umbrella organi
zation with a public rela
tions campaign — some
thing students can really
hang their hats on.”
Campus Life, located in
Tate Student Center and
Memorial Hall, officially
came into existence on July
1.
In addition to the name
change, the office has
gained a few organizations.
The Greek Life Office and
the Center for Leadership
and Services have moved
into the department, while
Volunteer UGA has been
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integrated under the leader
ship center.
“On most campuses
Greek life is included under
the student activities
umbrella, so it made sense
to do it here,” Reagin said.
“We wanted to show that
there is more to (Campus
Life) than just event-orient
ed organizations and pro
grams.”
All the programs under
Volunteer UGA teach lead
ership development, so it
made sense to manage it
with similar programs, he
said.
At the same time,
International Student Life
has been moved out of the
department and into the
newly created Office of
Intercultural Affairs.
After a summer-long
selection process, Melissa
Shivers was chosen to be
director of the office that
will advise ISL,
Multicultural Services and
Programs and the African
American Cultural Center.
“It’s easy to operate in
isolation, but bringing (the
three departments togeth
er) gives the opportunity to
show the rich and globalized
perspective we have here,”
Shivers said.
Despite all of the restruc
turing, Reagin and Shivers
both said no individual
organization will be affected
greatly.
All organizations will
keep their advisers and fun
damental operations will
not change.
Bus cards, newspaper
ads and fliers are a few of
the ways Campus Life plans
to advertise the change.
New business cards and
stationery cost $1,940 to
print the new name. At
press time, the cost to
replace the words on Tate
Center doors and signs had
not been determined.
Reagin said all other cost
incurred — for posters and
brochures, among other
things — are negligible
because the cost would be
the same for new academic-
year supplies.
To reduce waste and
cost, old letterhead will be
turned into scratch pads.
Rush helps girls find houses
By DeSHAUN HARRIS
dharris@randb.com
Although many freshmen
spend the last days before
class decorating their dorm
rooms, a select group woke
at 0430 hours and put on
their “war paint” and meet
for morning briefings.
These determined stu
dents were not Army ROTC
recruits. They were the 1,300
women participating in fall
sorority recruitment.
“Oh yeah, I look awake —
you have to look awake —
but I’m so tired,” said Liz
Morris, a freshman from
Monroe. “I could really use a
nap right now.”
Catherine Williams, a
freshman from Snellville and
Morris’ high school friend,
echoed her sentiment.
Williams said she laid down
for a “catnap” on one of the
recruitment evenings and
woke at 1 a.m.
During recruitment, par
ticipants meet at the Tate
Student Center at 6:30 a.m.
to receive instructions for
the day.
Some girls said they woke
up at 4:30 a.m. to put on
make-up, style their hair and
don “comfortable, yet casu
al” outfits.
“They tell us to dress
casually, but this is not what
I would consider casual,”
said Jessica Srdar, a fresh
man from Alpharetta wear
ing a ruby-colored evening
blouse and black flood
pants.
Many participants wear
sundresses or twin sets with
skirts and high-heeled san
dals, but dress pants are
acceptable and flip-flops
encouraged for the first four
days.
The fifth day requires a
slightly more formal attire,
and the Bid Day dress is
expected to be all white for
most sororities, said Kelly
Tokarz, a freshman from
Alpharetta.
Each day, or “round,” is
designed to allow partici
pants to learn about all 18
National Panhellenic
Conference sororities and to
let individual sororities get
to know the participants.
The first round was gen
eral introductions, the sec
ond round was house tours,
and the third round consist
ed of skits performed by
each sorority to showcase
COLIN SMITH | The Red & Black
▲ Katelyn Connor, Channing Underhill, Melanie Cowles and
Lizzie Souza shed their heels for the walk back to Brumby
Hall after finishing the preferential round of sorority recruit
ment, when rushees select their top choices. No easy
task, says Connor, “It felt like the longest week of my life.”
their unique personalities.
After four days of almost
nonstop sorority interaction
and structured time, partici
pants revisited the houses
they matched up with pref
erentially.
“It’s a really intense
process, but it’s more fun
than I thought it would be,”
said Amanda Duval, a fresh
man from Social Circle.
Along with Morris and
Williams, Duval chose to
participate in recruitment
because she came from a
small, private high school
and wanted to make the
University a “smaller place”
where she could meet peo
ple and become involved.
Tokarz and Srdar partici
pated for similar reasons.
“My mom was in a local
sorority in Ithaca, N.Y., and
she always talks about how
much fun she had,” Tokarz
said. “Growing up I’d wear
her sorority shirts around
the house, so I always fig
ured it’d be a part of my col
lege experience.”
Aside from the social
aspect, most participants
said rushing has improved
their communication skills
and helped them learn the
campus before everyone
returned for classes.
As far as stereotypes
about sorority women, many
participants said they found
them to be completely false.
“Before I got here, I heard
Tri Delt (Delta Delta Delta)
was the best and had all the
normal girls, and AOPi
(Alpha Omicron Pi) had all
the homecoming queens,”
Tokarz said. “But at every
(sorority) I had a totally dif
ferent experience than the
stereotype.”
Srdar said that during
recruitment she met some of
the most intelligent women
she had ever encountered.
Morris said Kappa Delta
determines room assign
ments within their house
according to grade point
average.
Tokarz, on the other
hand, said she met some
sorority members who fit
Greek stereotypes, taut
hopes people don’t judge all
would-be members by those
few.
“I know we must look like
pretty herded animals walk
ing around campus, but
everyone is an individual
outside of these clothes,”
she said.
Finally, after several
meet-and-greet sessions,
early mornings and numer
ous walks down Milledge
Avenue, the women will
attend a bid distribution
today to find out which
sorority chose them.
The majority of partici
pants will be chosen, but for
those that will not there is a
continuous open bidding
process.
Though the participants
will follow diverse paths and
join different sororities, sev
eral agreed on one thing: “I
guess if I (didn’t get chosen)
I would feel like crap,” said
Duval. “Like a sad and total
orphan.”
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