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Newspaper Page Text4 Monday. January 8, 2007 | Thf Rrd * Buck Lauren Morgan | Editor in Chief editor(g/randb.com Colin Dunlop | Managing Editor mrQerandb.com PT Umphress ! Opinions Editor dpih UnusQrrandb.com Our Take Major it// opinions of The Red *('• Black's editorial board Tate II delayed Death , taxes and construction Mays. Some things in Athens never change. Construction of Tate II has been delayed again big surprise there. The first phase of construction, the 500-space parking deck, was supposed to begin this month, but has been postponed until May. According to head of University architects Danny Sniff, construction costs have jumped 15 percent in the past year due to Hurricane Katrina. Now, Sniff says the building’s design needs a “nip and tuck, here or there.” We could make a laundry list of problems which will subsequently follow the delay in con struction, including the lack of parking for home football games in the fall, the continuous increase in construction costs and the fact that Tate ll’s budget is set firmly at S4O million, but the most important entity the delay will affect is the University student body. Tate II is supposed to be finished by February 2010. This means only current fresh men will be able to use the new building, assuming Tate II meets its new deadline. Students should know how the $25 increase in their student fees every semester is being spent. If those of us who won’t be around in 2010 are still giving money, we have the right to know where the funds already collected are going. The University’s administration sold the stu dents on Tate II being a 100,000 sq. ft building that will now only be 85,000 sq. ft instead. Plus, there's not enough money to get the building LEED certification, making it environmentally friendly. On Jan. 16, the Tate II advisory board will be meeting with the architects from Cooper Carry Inc. and MHTN, the firms in charge of the building’s design. Andrew Gladden, head of the Tate II adviso ry board, said “architects are coming up with creative ways to include everything.” Let’s make sure this includes meeting deadlines. You did what? The Red ct ; Black recaps ridiculous recent arrests as a valuable lesson The new year is young and already Athens- Clarke County police reports indicate unusually stupid crimes. This editorial board wanted to offer R&B readers the opportunity to learn from others’ mistakes and stay out of the Crime Watch this year. Remember that you are responsible for your visitors to the University; do your best to pre vent them from assaulting mascots. Impress upon them the difference between the Hairy Dawg costume and the average punching bag. Once you return to our beloved college town, make an effort to avoid underage possession charges, especially when you’ve only been in town for five hours (and you just changed your Facebook picture to the one you snapped while performing community service for your last MIP). Finally, if you have ever escaped arrest in the wake of the tragic death of a University student by “getting into a canoe and going down the river,” do your best to keep your mouth shut about it while you are being booked for furnish ing alcohol to minors. For more lessons on how not to land in the back of an ACC police car, keep reading our Crime Watch. Have a safe and happy semester. 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Oirls La* ProducSon Manager: Sam PBard Offto* Manager Mary Straub Assistant Offlca Manager: Mary Crardord Racapdontot: kmbany Oraa Pubtlahar: Harry lAontovtdao The Rad 4 Stocb a {xAtahad Monday Fnday la* and aprbig aamastara and aam Thursday aaranar aamesar aacapt noldaya and taampanodt oyTheßadlßuiAPttohrangCompanylnc.anon predk camput nmpapar not dtoatod adffl Pa uraktraay ot Gacrgto Rosts addraat 540 Batoar St Athana GA. 30605 Ftatdd-xxn Subacnpbon rat SlMpariaar ODimons / Kit*** H6o- ctatin...hoia), ) o o & — S’-' J- Me rucuuV want \ Wtta aiwcatiow \ Sfc*. twttut WGfcU. Is —^ A Mr... AcAfcewicN —S tieoe. in &*£ J Happy new year, old building & loan I sat down last week to make a list of resolutions for the new year. After four days of scribbling down ideas and crumpling them up and throwing them into a small metal wastebasket near my desk, it humbly occurred to me that I had no room for improvement. Then I realized I should probably do something more productive like eat, or sleep or send spam emails to President Michael Adams. After a few days of that, I sat down and tried the resolution thing again. This time I focused on those actually in need of improvement pretty much everyone else not named “The Honorable Yours Truly.” Modesty be damned, here’s what I’ve got: ► Former Miami Dolphins/New Alabama Coach Nick Saban: Read the complete works of Abraham Lincoln. Try and learn some thing from “Honest Abe" you lying sack of (expletive deleted], ► Tate II: Hang on, I’ll get to this later. ► James Brown: Come back to life. ► Saddam Hussein: Stay dead. ► Justin Timberlake: Stop putting out mediocre music. Actually, just retire. ► SNL Creator Lome Michaels: Consult with above wannabe diva about a spinoff show specifically designed for “Digital Shorts.” ► President Adams: Don’t expel me no matter what I write about you this Mailbox E-mail, letters and faxes from our readers Paper should be like rebel general I recently did a Google Search for Chi Phi and came upon this scholastic version of the Onion that you mar ket as a school newspaper. Let me say that my opin ions are those of myself and myself alone. However, I think it’s what is in the hearts of many. Two great men had advice that you and your writers should take. Robert E. Lee once said, “The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have commit ted against him. He can not only forgive; he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mild ness of character which imparts sufficient strength to let the past be put the past.” Also, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sin cere ignorance and consci entious stupidity.” So for the sake of good journalism, stop attacking Chi Phi, and report on real news. That is unless tabloid Journalism is your personal schtick! DREW PRITT Political Sciatica University of Arkansas at Utile Rack Fraternity alumni offers his gratitude On Dec. 3,2005, a pre dawn fire occurred at the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity w Paul Rehm ▲ semester. ► The Grammys: Disband you’re so irrele vant it’s nauseating. Only talk show hosts take you seriously. ► S.G.A.: Don’t disband; I need material. ►Greek Hazing: Come back. I really do need mate rial. ► Tate II: Wait a minute, I’ll get to it eventually... ►Charles Johnson: Please stay. Pretty please? Pretty, pretty please? I know class es are hard and whatnot, but come onnnnn. The Virginia Tech QB is having nightmares about you right now and you’re leaving? Stay. ►Danny Ware: Same, err, wait, never mind. Peace out. ►Chi Phi members: Look up the column I wrote about you a few months ago. I only mention this because it’s the first day of classes (nobody skips on the first day right?) and you’d probably given up on attending class months before my column actually ran last semester. ►Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo: Pay my little brother a sum of no less than S6O as he recently pur chased your Jersey and in less than a year no one will E-MAIUNG US Questions, comments, complaints? Here's where to point and cfick: Letters l opinions@randb.com News Tips I news@randb.com house that severely dam aged the kitchen and food prep area, serving area and main dining hall. Due to the severity of the fire, which sent smoke through the entire house, the 31 brothers living in the house had to be relocated for the remainder of the fall semester as well as spring semester (2006), while the house underwent extensive renovations. During that time, the University, as well as various IFC, Pan-Hellenic and non-Greek organiza tions, reached out to the chapter with offers to help in any way they could. Your offers of housing, food, meeting facilities and other amenities no doubt helped our entire chapter get through finals with a positive attitude and made the 2006 spring semester as normal as possible. Asa proud Bulldog and TEP alumnus, I am happy to say that the house reopened this past semester on schedule and is better than ever. On behalf of my fellow Nu Chapter Alumni Advisors, current brothers, alumni and their respective families, I send everyone a heartfelt THANK YOU to each of you from all of us. Your support and well wishes during our Aa ladeyradaat stadral mwh arrvla* Ike llalvmlty <rf Grw*la eoameHy KHTAHI.IHHKI) IMS, INDEPENDENT IHO know who you are. I’m including ail blonde pop stars in this generalization. ►Tate II: Err, wait a little while longer. We’re getting there. ►Tennessee Coach Phil FUlmer: They say the two most popular New Year res olutions are to go to church more and to lose weight. Suffice it to say, you’ve got your work cut out for you. ►The Red Si Black: Give Paul Rehm his own issue. Or better yet, his own section. ►Dick Wale: Stop talk ing about Hansborough; he’s not THAT great. I have a few other things you should stop doing to him too, but I’d get fired for writing them. ►Mark Richt: Respectfully note the effects of having an actual offensive coordinator against Virginia Tech. To be fair, though, it’s not like they had the best defense in the country. Oh wait, they did. Regardless, keep up the good (delega tion) work. ►Athens Mayor Heidi Davidson: Hey, can I bum a smoke? ►David Pollack: Get well soon, man. ►Britney Spears: It may be time to close up shop. And by “shop,” I mean your legs. ►Tate II: Okay, now we got it: Stop with the delays. ►Hairy Dawg: Stop insti gating perfectly innocent future Chi Phis. How sick and twisted are you, any way? Paul Rehm is a columnist for The Red <6 Black. crises helped keep us going while we rebuilt. Thank you and best wish es to everyone for a happy and healthy 2007. GENE A. BENATOR Alumni Advisor Nu Chapter Tau Epsfion PM Family photos can’t be replaced My husband and I attended the Chick-fll-A Bowl this past weekend with our two boys, ages 10 and six. During the third quarter, someone took accidental ly or otherwise my purse. We were sitting in Section 319. Our family digital camera was in the purse, with over 100 pictures on it, including photos from Christmas morning. I have no idea who took it, but I am hoping that maybe someone has heard something and would find it in their hearts to return the family pictures. All I want are our family photos. I can replace everything else, but not the memories in those photos. I realize there is very lit tle chance of recovering the photos, but I have to try and get the word out to peo ple who attended the game. Thank you so much and maybe there are some mira cles out there. WENDY POTI WWsiniburg, VA \A\ Alec Wooden Godfather of Soul fondiy remembered By most accounts, my Christmas Eve was pretty typical. There I sat at my house, listening for rein deer and avoiding sleep, when CNN.com flashed the headline “James Brown hospitalized with pneumonia.” It was a sad thought, being in the hospital on Christmas Eve, but noth ing of much concern. Then I checked back a couple hours later. In a shocking twist of an instant (the headline now read “Soul Godfather James Brown dies at 73”), one of the greatest was snatched from us depriving generations of their musical soul (pun intended) and superced ing Kurt Cobain as the landmark musical death of the last 20 years. Writing for a mostly 18 to 24-year-old age group, that last sentence might have pissed a few folks off. WeU, allow me to explain. Saying that Cobain’s death now takes a back seat taikes nothing away from the martyred Nirvana front mam’s trou bled genius and what he meant to the music world. Actually, it’s quite a corapUment to use Cobain’s death to frame Biown’s. The difference, though, is that Cobain is more faunous for dying, while Brown is more famous for Uving, and liv ing loud. Cobain saved a genre of music, but Brown invent ed one. Waiit, scratch that. He invented three, maybe four, or even more, depending on who you ask. Whatever way you cut it, you almost can’t listen to a song, new or old, that doesn’t have some ele ment of Brown’s magic in it. Even if you’ve never lis tened to a James Brown tune —as incredibly hard as that is to imagine, given the great length and populairity of his catalogue you’ve heard him all over the place. You’ve heaird James Brown in the funk and disco grooves of the ‘7os. You’ve heard him in the lavish beats and heart wrenching, gospel-influ enced melodies of R&B and soul. You’ve almost assuredly heard him in the horn hooks and drum set sam ples of hip-hop and rap music. Some part of the man’s rhythmic innovations lives on in a different vehicle and will continue to do so for many years. It’s sad, really, that we grew up in an era where Brown was known more for his mug shots than for his music. Luckily, I can always turn my stereo up louder than someone can read a police report. James Brown's last moments were said to be incredibly peaceful probably his most peace ful since his wild, story book career began. With longtime friend and manager Charlie Bobbit at his side, Brown whispered “I’m going away tonight.” After a few deep breaths, he did physically —but he didn’t where it matters, because he can’t. James Brown will always remain immortal through his music. In an age-old interview, Brown said “I wanted to be somebody." A dozen nicknames and 50-plus top 10 billboard hits later, I think it’s pret ty safe to say he’s got that in the bag. Alec Wooden is a variety staff writer for The Red A Black and hopes to fill the now-vacant position of “Hardest Working Man in Show Business."

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