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WEDNESDAY
February 7, 2007
Vol. 114, No. 98 | Athens, Georgia
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Fans, players to celebrate Signing Day
Parties found
around Athens
By MARSHALL DUNCAN
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National Signing Day is
college football’s equivalent
of the NFL Draft. With
few exceptions, every team
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Dogs seek to overcome slump, defeat Florida
By PHILLIP KISUBIKA
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Timing is everything in
basketball, but the timing is
not so good for Georgia as it
prepares to host No. 1 Florida
tonight at Stegeman
Coliseum.
The Bulldogs (13-8, 5-4
SEC) are reeling from back
to-back road losses to
Tennessee and Vanderbilt,
shooting just 37 percent from
the field and 26 percent
from 3-point range in those
losses.
The top-ranked Gators
(21-2, 8-0) are riding a 10-
game winning streak into
Intelligent design sparks heated religious debate
By CAROLYN CRIST
ccrist@randb.com
The question of how the
universe was created sparks
hot debate across the world,
and discussions at the
University today may shed
light on the answer.
The Christian Faculty
Forum will host a debate on
the theory of intelligent
design at 7:30 p.m. in the
Complex Carbohydrate
Research Center on
Riverbend Road.
The debate will cover the
legitimacy of intelligent
design as a theory for the unl
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will know what new
players will be on its
roster for the next season.
Several local restaurants
have events for fans looking
to celebrate today’s occasion.
The Blind Pig tavern on
Baldwin Street will be
having a breakfast buffet
starting at 8 a.m. as
well as video highlights of
this year’s committed play
ers.
Sports talk radio station
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Athens and are the first No. 1
team to play at Stegeman
Coliseum
since 1997,
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troubles, look
no further than guard Mike
Mercer.
The sophomore is averag
ing 7.5 points per game in
the team's last four games.
verse's origins. It is seen as an
alternative to the theory of
evolutionary biology.
“Every year we find an
issue on the edge of faith
and science and invite profes
sors to debate from a scientif
ic perspective,” said Russ
Carlson, a member of the
forum’s steering committee.
Paul Nelson, who received
his doctorate in evolution and
developmental biology at the
University of Chicago, will
present a 30-minute “pro”
view for intelligent design. He
is also a fellow of the
Discovery Institute in Seattle
and a faculty member at
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960 “The Ref” will also
be broadcasting at the Blind
Pig from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
as well as from 4 to 6 p.m.
The Blind Pig has been the
unofficial home of signing day
in Athens for the past six
years.
While no official visitors
are scheduled, some Georgia
players and coaches
have shown up in years past
to celebrate with the fans.
The Blind Pig will also
well below his season aver
age of 13.6 points per
game, and is shooting a pal
try 26 percent from the
field.
For a scorer like Mercer, a
slump like this is coming at
the wrong time, but he said
it will not keep him from
shooting.
“Just because you're not
making doesn’t mean you're
not supposed to shoot them
if you’re a scorer, ” Mercer
said.
In the off-season, Mercer
changed his shooting
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Chris Peterson, a
University professor in the
plant biology department,
will present a 30-mlnute per
spective against the theory.
A 30-minute question-and
answer session will follow.
“On this particular topic
with pros and cons, even
agnostics question the evolu
tionary process, and the most
evangelical Christians are
opposed to the idea of intelli
gent design," Carlson said.
The Christian Faculty
Fbrum invites professors each
year to speak on academic
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have a shuttle running
to and from the Butts-Mehre
building for fans wanting
to visit or Join the
festivities.
Georgia Head Coach Mark
Richt will be having a
press conference at
Butts-Mehre at 2 p.m. dis
cussing this year’s recruiting
class. Some other coaches
and players will also be in
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
VS NO. 1 FLORIDA
Where: Stegeman Coliseum
Tip-off: 7:37 tonight
TV: Tape-delay on Sun
Sports
Radio: WSB-AM (750) and
WPUP-FM (103.7)
Tickets: All general tickets
are sold out. However,
roughly 250 student tickets
will be on sale at Stegeman
Coliseum Ticket Booth 4
starting at 5:30 p.m. Student
tickets cost $2
topics with a Christian world
view.
“Both presenters consider
themselves Christians but
speak on the different sides,
so it will be really Interest
ing,” said Carlson.
Past speakers have debat
ed the existence of Ood, rela
tivism, absolute truth and
Darwinism.
The Christian Faculty
Forum will also sponsor an
hour-long lunchtime discus
sion, “Is Intelligent Design on
Its Last Leg?” at 12:15 p.m.
today in the Coverdell
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Security gap
allows access
to information
By PETER STEINBAUER
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The University currently
is contacting about
3,500 former and cur
rent students after a
database breach
exposed confidential
information.
The breach
exposed the names
and Social Security
numbers of clients in
the Disability
Resource Center, as
well as their disabili-
ty accommodation informa
tion.
The University deter
mined that proper security
protocols were not fol
lowed, University
New hiring policy
concerns faculty
By AUDREY GOODSON
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All new University hires
will have to go through
background checks before
beginning their jobs,
according to a policy
proposed by the
chancellor of the
Board of Regents.
Some University
professors aren’t
happy about it.
“This is going to
be expensive and a
lot of trouble to go
through for a non
problem,” said Susan
Mattem, the chair of
the executive committee of
the University Council at
a meeting Tuesday morn
ing.
Several members of the
Council expressed concerns
that background checks for
all new faculty would be
expensive, intrusive and
unnecessary.
“I see a slippery slope, an
invasion of privacy I'm not
for,” said Shannon Scott,
staff council for the com
mittee. "The problem for
me is who is using this infor
mation, where is it going
and what context is it being
used in?”
Errol Davis, chancellor
of the BOR, sent a memo to
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spokesman Tom Jackson
said. He said the University
will terminate the comput
er services technician
responsible for the
breach.
“Certain security
patches that are
required to be in
place were not,”
Jackson said.
The breach was
discovered last
week, at which
point the University
closed access to the
server.
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Both faculty and stu
dents recently have com
plained about the
University using Social
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all University System of
Georgia presidents on Dec.
7, notifying them that the
Regent's Legal Affairs
Office will draft “a more sys
tematic policy” for back
ground checks.
"It has come to
my attention that
institutional prac
tices vary widely
with respect to crim
inal background
checks for new
employees hired,” he
said in the memo.
According to the
new policy, a back
ground check is
required for all final-
DAVIS
ists hired for full-time posi
tions at any institution of
higher education in
Georgia.
Under the new policy,
current employees are
required to report being
charged with a crime
(except a minor traffic
offense) to their supervisor
within 72 hours.
Mattern said the
University currently runs
background checks on fac
ulty in “sensitive positions,”
including security personnel
and high-level administra
tors.
At the meeting Tuesday,
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