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November 9, 2006
Vol. 114, No. 59
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Republicans still control Georgia
By AUBREY SMITH
basmith@randb.com
While Tuesday’s election
saw much of America turn
from red to blue, Georgia
became redder.
Democrats wrestled con
trol of the U.S. House of
Representatives out of
Republicans’ hands Tuesday
night, and Wednesday took a
majority in the Senate.
Democrats also won gover
norship in 20 of 36 states, giv
ing them power in 28 state
governments nationwide.
Georgia, however, bucked
the trend, re-electing
Republican Gov. Sonny
Perdue by 58 percent to 38
percent over Democrat Mark
Taylor, a wider margin than
he enjoyed in his 2002 victory.
Republicans also were
elected for the first time to
the major statewide offices of
secretary of state and lieu
tenant governor.
Trey Hood, a University
political science professor,
said Tuesday’s results are the
continuation of a trend that
began four years ago.
Hood pointed to Perdue’s
2002 election as the beginning
of the end for Democratic
candidates in Georgia. He
said top-of-the-ticket
Republican winners “open
the floodgates” to other
Republican candidates.
However, Hood said
Georgia’s change in political
tides “has been a long time
coming,” pointing to the well-
established conservative
mindset of voters in southern
and rural Georgia who once
counted themselves as con
servative Democrats.
“Enough of those people
finally starting voting
Republican,” Hood said.
Charles Bullock, also a
University professor, said
Georgia is going against the
grain by favoring Republicans
because the state is more
conservative than the rest of
America.
President Bush is more
popular in the state, and exit
polls show most Georgians
approve of his job, Bullock
said.
He said state and national
politics moved in opposite
directions during the
midterm elections because
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PHILLIP BLUME | The Red s, Black
A Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue accepts his reelection at
the Westin Hotel in Buckhead Tuesday night. Georgia
bucked the national trend to elect Democratic candidates.
DANIELLE HUTLAS | The Red & Black
ordered to remove banners
CAROLINE KILGORE | The Red & Black
TOM O’CONNOR | The Red & Black
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■4 Members of the UGA
HEROs gathered 9,000
handprints to represent
the 9,000 children in
Georgia with AIDS.
Gabi Klaes, a sopho
more from Marietta,
traces her hand on a
HEROs banner in the
Tate Plaza Wednesday.
Klaes is on the P.R.
committee for UGA
HEROs.
YJenn Ottenweller
studies in front of
Walker’s Coffee and
Pub Wednesday.
Walker’s is one of more
than 110 locations
around Athens where
HEROs banners were
displayed.
By PEARMAN PARKER
pparker@randb.com
A student organization dedicated to giv
ing money to families of children touched
by AIDS was ordered to take down their
on-campus banners Wednesday because
their placement violated University policy.
More than 110 banners for UGA HEROs
were placed around campus — including
on trees near the Tate Student Center
parking lot and on one of the gates of
Sanford Stadium.
“We only took down 20 to 25,” said Kevin
Scott, a senior from Kennesaw and chair
person of the organization’s corporate rela
tions committee.
Rodney Bennett, vice president for stu
dent affairs, said UGA HEROs did not
request permission from Student Affairs to
put the banners up, as required. He also
said several of the banners were posted on
places prohibited by the University’s sig
nage policy.
“My understanding is that the banners
were not placed with the
poster signage policy,” said
Bennett, who told the group
they had to take down the
banners.
Scott said UGA HEROs
sent Bennett an e-mail
Wednesday morning, but did
not receive permission to
hang the banners.
The group also placed
signs on the stairwell at the
Student Learning Center
and near the bus stop at
Snelling Dining Hall.
Some of the organiza
tion’s banners completely
covered a few of the
announcement boards
around campus. One banner
hung between a light pole
and the Arch.
Basketball team
to play opener
By SAM STEINBERG
ssteinber@randb.com
The popcorn will be popping, the music will
be pumping and the basketball will be bounc
ing as Georgia opens up the season at home
on Friday against Southern University.
“I’m just really ready to get the season
started,” senior guard Levi Stukes said.
“Hopefully on Friday we can come out and
show our fans, our coaches and ourselves that
this is going to be a special year for us.
“Obviously I am just ready to see how we
start and hopefully wish for the best.”
Unlike Georgia, last season Southern — a
school with an enrollment of 9,803 — had a
dream season.
Located in Baton Rouge, La., Southern
went 20-13, including 15-3 in the
Southwestern Atlantic Conference, on the
way to the school’s first ever trip to the post
season.
Although Southern lost 70-54 to Duke in
the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the
program put itself on the radar.
“With Southern being one of the former
teams in the
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HEATHER FINLEY | The Red & Black
A Freshman forward Albert Jackson leaps
for the basket during Friday’s exhibition
game against West Georgia.
Gay rights activist recalls
historic liberation meeting
By CAROLYN CRIST
ccrist@randb.com
Lambda Alliance,
GLOBES, UGA Stonewall
Students — gay and lesbian
students today have numer
ous support and advocacy
groups on campus.
In 1971, they had none.
Today marks the 35th
anniversary of the first Gay
Liberation meeting held in
the Brumby Hall lobby by
students Bill Green and
John Hoard.
A Brumby resident assis
tant asked Green, a gay stu
dent, to discuss homosexu
ality with Intraspect, an RA
seminar group. He expected
the discussion would be a
small affair.
“I showed up and the
lobby was full of people —
students, faculty and
reporters from The Red &
Black and Athens Banner-
Herald,” Green said in a
phone interview Wednesday
from his home in Panama
City Fla.
“I turned to Hoard and
told him we could either
step lightly or take the issue
head-on. Rather than doing
a question-and-answer ses
sion, we announced that
evening that we were start
ing a gay activist group on
campus to promote under
standing between gay and
straight people.”
The event sparked imme
diate backlash.
Shutt provided The Red
& Black a memo to then-
Dean of Student Affairs
Suthern Sims noting that a
University professor called
the provost and asked,
“What the hell is going on
here?”
Green said the Board of
Regents tried to stop the
group from meeting freely.
Students were prohibited
from holding a dance in the
Memorial Hall ballroom and
could not join the
Southeastern Gay Alliance.
Michael Shutt, assistant
dean of students for the
Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and
Transgender (LGBT)
Resource Center, said Green
and other students who
faced a more hostile environ
ment on campus paved the
way for his program.
The center was started in
2005. That year, Green was
invited to the first “lavender
graduation” — held in the
same room he tried to spon
sor a dance almost 35 years
before — to celebrate the
accomplishments of LGBT
students who were graduat
ing. He was presented with a
Founders Award.
“I keep it in my living
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