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FRIDAY
November 3, 2006
Vol. 114, No. 55
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VARIETY, PAGE 6A
Council passes course changes
Students must
double math
By KELLY PROCTOR
kproctor@randb.com
A change in core courses
passed the University
Council yesterday, despite
resistance from professors
who called for more tweak
ing.
The changes include dou
bling the requirements for
culture, humanities, the arts
and languages from six to 12
hours.
Complaints included the
added courses in chemistry
students’ course loads, ques
tions of improving academic
rigor and concerns that more
fine arts should be included.
In the end, the proposal
passed by a majority. If
approved by the Board of
Regents, the changes will be
in place Fall 2008 at the earli
est.
Also in the changes was
instead of taking one math
course and opting out of
another, students have to
take two — the second in
computers, statistics or cal
culus.
Also at the meeting, the
crowd congratulated two
University policemen, Cpl.
Derrick Gregory and Officer
James Simons, who were
given the Governor’s Public
Safety Award last month.
Gregory and Simons
entered the Tau Epsilon Phi
fraternity house in December
to alert the residents of a fire
in the building. All fraternity
members survived.
University President
Michael Adams congratulat
ed the University on attract
ing a series of high-profile
speakers, including Pulitzer-
Prize winning columnist
Leonard Pitts and Supreme
Court Justice Clarence
Thomas, who have recently
visited the University.
During the meeting,
President Adams delivered a
series of quips for his audi
ence of teachers, faculty and
students.
When Terry College of
Business dean George
Benson stood up to be recog
nized for his new position as
President of the College of
Charleston, Adams clapped
along.
“Congratulations,” he said,
laughing. “Your troubles have
just begun.”
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HEATHER FINLEY | The Red * Black
A State senate Democratic candidate Jane Kidd (center) speaks with Vinkta Naik (right), a psychology major from
Marietta, and Kourtney Witham (left), a marketing major from Peachtree City, at a Democratic rally Thursday.
Campaigns enter home stretch
Candidates prepared for upcoming elections
By AUBREY SMITH
basmith@randb.com
With the midterm elec
tions four days away, state
politicians might want to
dust off their running shoes.
Several candidates said
they’ll be going door to door
throughout Athens, partici
pating in their own marathon
of sorts.
Mike Cantone, campaign
manager for Jane Kidd who is
running for the State Senate
District 46, said volunteers
and interns plan to contact
20,000 people before Tuesday
either by phone or in person.
Kidd said she is focusing
on “getting out the vote,”
thanking people via phone
calls for their support and
making personal appear
ances.
Kidd attended a
Democratic rally Thursday
and will give a speech about
alternative fuels at the
University today before head
ing to a Chamber of
Commerce meeting tonight.
Looking around her cam
paign headquarters Thursday
afternoon, Kidd said she had
roughly 15 workers manning
the phones but expected
between 50 or 60 volunteers
to help throughout the week
end.
Kidd’s competition for the
State Senate seat, Bill
Cowsert, will stay busy over
the next few days as well.
Chris Herdner, campaign
manager for
>- See VOTING, Page 3A
HEATHER FINLEY | The Red 4 Black
A Democratic gubernatorial
candidate, Mark Taylor,
speaks at a rally Thursday.
Web site catalogues wishlist of life experiences
By RACHEL WEBSTER
rwebster@randb.com
Farah Mahbub and Shuva
Dawadi, both seniors, sat in
the Tate Plaza Monday com
posing their life lists.
“Definitely travel, like to
all of the continents. That
would be ideal,” said
Mahbub, a biology major
from Griffin.
“I will not be happy if I die
without traveling,” agreed
Dawadi, a biology and psy
chology major from
Dunwoody.
“Along with travel, be a
photographer,” said Mahbub.
“I wouldn’t mind writing a
book. And I wouldn’t mind if
it hit the New York Times
bestseller list,” added
Dawadi.
These types of ambitions
and goals make up a life list
— a catalog of experiences
that a person wishes to have
in his or her life.
With so many possible
adventures and goals, life
lists can get a little unwieldy.
That’s why Wake Forest
alumni Brent Thomas and
Lee Briggs created
eLIFELIST.com, a Web site
that lets users create, organ
ize and share personalized
life lists.
Thomas said he always
had a life list, but it was “dis
organized.”
“I figured a lot of people
had that same kind of idea of
things they want to do,” he
said.
The Web site, which has
been up for about three
months, allows people to
make a concrete list and set
time frames for accomplish
ing goals.
“It lets you keep track of
everything. It lets you show
your accomplishments,”
Thomas said.“We created it
for people to be excited
about the things they want
to do,” Briggs said, adding
that the site allows users to
make friends and leave com
ments on others’ lists.
Sharing life lists publicly
can provide motivation for
people to actually move
toward accomplishing those
goals.
“If I write it down, then I
look at it more and I think
more like, ‘OK, when can I
have the opportunity to do
that?”’ Thomas said.
Briggs said when his
father started using the site,
“he felt that it really made
him more aware of what he
wanted to do,” and he start
ed a rock band called Last
► See ELIFELIST, Page 6A
TOM O’CONNOR | The Red & Black
A Lady Dogs Cori Chambers (21), a senior from
Elmsford, N.Y., drives the ball down court past guard
Kotreece Bender (32) in the first period of Georgia’s
exhibition game versus West Alabama Thursday night.
The Bulldogs won the game 76-50.
Lady Dogs cruise
to exhibition win
By TYLER ESTEP
testep@randb.com
The 9th ranked Lady
Bulldogs basketball team
got a solid start to its 2006-
’07 campaign Thursday
night.
Paced by guards Janese
Hardrick and Cori
Chambers, the team earned
a 76-50 victory over West
Alabama in its lone presea
son exhibition.
Hardrick set the pace for
the Lady Dogs with a team
high of 20 points.
In addition, 2006 All-
American Tasha Humphrey
played minimal minutes.
The first half saw the
Bulldogs showing a little
rust, but they were able to
put it together to accumu-
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Georgia 76,
West Alabama 50
late a 39-25 half time lead.
“I’d like for it to get bet
ter, but I think it will get
better,” head coach Andy
Landers said of the team’s
performance. “I think we
have a group that’s willing
to do the work.”
Though it was the first
game for a quartet of Lady
Bulldogs, the upperclass
men dominated the action.
Seniors Hardrick and
Chambers and junior for
ward Megan Darrah com
bined for 46 of the Bulldogs
► See BBALL, Page 6A
Anti-SGA Web site
back up after threat
Legal action never pursued
By SARA PAUFF
spauff@randb.com
The Web site Hatin’ SGA
is back online after two
weeks of being shut down,
and only after its creator felt
sure he wouldn’t be
threatened with legal
action.
The site www.
ugasga.com — run by SGA’s
former financial director
Chris Lindsey — came back
online Oct. 25 with a post
saying he took the site down
because of a threat from
Student Government
Association Senator Brian
Dunn.
“Two weeks ago, I was
given a threat slash ultima
tum by SGA Senator Brian
Dunn. Either take this won
derful site down, or the
UGA Administration would
come after me,” the Web site
states. “Events of the past
few days have led
me to come out of the clos
et.”
Lindsey said he talked to
people he knew in
University Judiciary and
was assured a complaint
was never filed against the
Web site.
Hatin’ SGA is dedicated
to criticizing and lampoon
ing SGA and its members.
The site, which is registered
anonymously through a
proxy service, includes pho
tographs of SGA members
drinking and posts such as
the one on Tuesday titled,
“SGA Elections — A Waste
of Time.”
Lindsey, a junior from
Grayson, said Dunn told
him the administration was
considering legal action
against him for the Web site.
Dunn, a fifth-year land
scape architect major from
Watkinsville, said he did not
threaten Lindsey with legal
action and was not advised
by the University adminis
tration to look into the Web
site.
Dunn said he didn’t know
>- See HATIN’, Page 3A
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Pamoja dance company is
putting its spin on
“Romeo and Juliet,”
performing a musical
rendition this weekend.
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Index
UGA Today 2a
Wire 2A
Opinions 4A
Variety 5A
Crossword 3A
Sports 6a
Sudoku 5A