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TUESDAY
November 14, 2006
Vol. 114, No. 62 | Athens, Georgia
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NEWS, PAGE 3
Univ. submits plan for site
Health sciences
campus priority
By JOE MASON
jmason@randb.com
The University’s proposal
to use land at the Navy
School site may conflict with
a need to help Athens’ home
less.
The Local Redevelopment
Authority received nine pro
posals in its public outreach
campaign, said Holly Reed,
the base reuse coordinator
for the authority. Seven of the
nine proposals were homeless
assistance submissions.
Some proposals asked for
parts of the Navy Supply
Corps School’s property. But
the University’s proposal
asked for the entire 58.5-acre
site.
The University would work
with the Medical College of
Georgia and Athens
Technical College to create a
health sciences campus using
the Navy School’s property.
In the proposal, the
University said it needed the
entire site to accommodate
projected growth.
The University would
maintain existing historic
buildings for administrative
use but construct new build
ings on the north end of the
campus.
The authority ended its
public outreach phase
Wednesday. It now has about
nine months to come up with
a plan for how to use the
land, which will be available
in 2011.
The federal government
decided to close the school
last year as part of its Base
Realignment and Closure
process.
The authority could divide
the land between different
users, such as the University
Athens-Clarke County
Leisure Services and local
homeless shelters, Reed said.
The site now is a mixed-use
property with offices, training
facilities, housing and shop
ping.
Hank Huckaby, special
> See NAVY, Page 3
CAROLINE KILGORE | The Red & Black
▲ The University submitted plans to use the Navy
School's property on Prince Avenue to create a health
sciences campus with the Medical College of Georgia.
By SAM STEINBERG
ssteinber@randb.com
One of the first times
Georgia center Albert
Jackson learned to play bas
ketball was in a Dennis
Felton basketball camp at
Western Kentucky.
“He was new to the game,
and you could tell,” Felton
said.
“He was big and awk
ward.”
Jackson, originally from
Earlington, Ky., first met
Felton and basketball in
eighth grade.
“It was my first camp ever,
first time playing basketball.
And he was there watching
me,” Jackson said.
Back then, Felton was
coach of the Hilltoppers and
guided another big lanky
front court player, Chris
Marcus, to Sun Belt
Defensive Player of the Year
awards in 2000 and 2001.
At the camp, Felton began
to notice Jackson’s size
and potential talent and saw
a young Marcus in the mak
ing.
Felton found some time to
give advice to the young
Jackson.
“He just told me that I had
a lot of potential and a
chance to be good. That kind
of motivated me a little bit,”
Jackson said.
As the years moved
forward, Felton became head
coach at Georgia, and
Jackson became a highly
recruited national prospect.
“(At the) beginning of my
junior year, he just started
recruiting me hard,” Jackson
said.
Jackson admitted that
Georgia was not even on his
top-10 list of
► See BBALL, Page 7
HEATHER FINLEY | The Red is Black
A Forward Albert Jackson (34) goes for a dunk in Friday’s opener against Southern.
Coach Dennis Felton began recruiting Jackson at a middle school basketball camp.
Player found talent under Felton
Albert Jackson
revealed skill
at sports camp
‘Warcraft’ provides a world of entertainment
By MILES MOFFIT
mmoffit@randb.com
Pretend you’re on Jeopardy, and the
answer is a 2004 role-playing game tak
ing place in the world of Azeroth. Do
you know the question?
It was central to South Park’s 10th
season premiere, there’s a movie deal in
the works, a trading card game, more
than 7 million subscribers, it’s destroyed
countless relationships worldwide and
yes, it’s even been on Jeopardy.
Ever asked yourself what is up with
“World of Warcraft”?
“It literally is a world itself,” said
Matt Joines, founder of a Facebook
group dedicated to uniting players at
the University.
Known in short as WoW, the game is
part of a growing category known as
MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer
Online Role-Playing Games). Like the
genre cornerstone “Everquest,” players
log into an online realm populated by
millions of fellow adventurers,
participate in quests and explore the
extremities of the virtual world
together.
While other games have used similar
formulas to great success in the past,
this game is by far the most popular the
genre has ever seen. No other MMO has
ever garnered such media involvement
as mentioned above, so what’s so spe
cial about it?
“ (WoW) is unlike most games on the
market today in the amount of variety it
brings. To actually complete dungeons
and kill dragons is
► See WOW, Page 5
SPECIAL | The Red & Black
A In this ‘South Park’ parody of ‘World
of Warcraft’ viewers were exposed to
the consequences of spending too
much time playing PC games.
Broadway star
Rapp to discuss
‘Rent’ at Tate
By ABBI LIBERS
alibers@randb.com
If you are certain that
525,600 minutes measure a
year and you know every
word of “La Vie Boheme”
by heart then you may be
considered a “Rent-head.”
Known as those
obsessed with the musical
“Rent,” true Rent-heads
will show their loyalty
tonight at the Tate Student
Center’s Georgia Hall,
where Anthony Rapp, who
played the original Mark
Cohen, will speak.
“He’s supposed to talk
about his life on Broadway,
doing ‘Rent’ and his book,”
said University Union
Division Coordinator for
Ideas and Issues Rebecca
Belou, who invited Rapp to
speak tonight.
Rapp originated the role
of Mark Cohen, the
unlucky-in-love filmmaker
and narrator, in both the
1994 off-Broadway produc
tion and the original
Broadway show, which
began its run in 1996. Then,
last November he reprised
the role for the film version
of the musical.
Although most famous
for his role in “Rent,” Rapp
also has appeared in the
films “Adventures in
Babysitting,” “Dazed and
Confused,” “Road Trip”
and “A
Beautiful
Mind.”
Other
Broadway
credits
include the
recent
revival of
“You’re a
Good Man,
Charlie
Brown”
and John
Guare’s “Six Degrees of
Separation.”
Belou said tonight’s
show will be the last big
event sponsored by
University Union this year,
and she’s expecting a good
turnout.
Tickets were made avail
able Nov. 1 and Victoria
Reynolds, a first-year grad
uate student from Metter,
was among the first to get
one.
A self-proclaimed “Rent”
fanatic, Reynolds created
the Facebook group “We
love Anthony Rapp!” last
July after learning of his
scheduled appearance at
the University.
Reynolds said she be
came hooked when she saw
>- See RAPP, Page 5
Univ spokesman
calls horse tests
standard, humane
By JUANITA COUSINS
jcousins@randb.com
The procedure of poking
an animal’s eye that
University researchers were
planning to perform on the
two abducted horses before
they were taken is the
“most humane” way of con
ducting research, a
University spokesman said.
The horses were taken
from their Watkinsville farm
this summer by a University
professor whose attorney
said he was trying to spare
the horses from the proce
dure.
Tom Jackson, vice presi
dent for Public Affairs,
called eye catheterizations a
“standard procedure,” and
said a metal rod placed in
the horse’s eye doesn’t poke
the pupil or hurt the animal.
University professor
Richard Fayrer-Hosken was
arrested Thursday and
DANIELLE HUTLAS | The Red & Black
A This Watkinsville barn
was home to the horses
stolen this summer.
charged with two felony
counts of livestock theft.
The two horses were dis
covered missing July 12
from a University farm off
> See HORSES, Page 3
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