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MONDAY
February 26, 2007
Vol. 114, No. Ixl | Athens, Georgia
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Chambers assists in Dogs’ win
By TYLER ESTEP
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Senior guard Cori
Chambers was the show on
Senior Day at Stegeman
Coliseum Sunday, scoring 17
points to lead the Lady Dogs
(24-5. 11-3) to a 69-51 win
over Arkansas in their regu
lar season finale.
“It’s just good to go out
with a win." said Chambers,
who also tied her Georgia
single-season record for 3-
pointers made (78).
“It really wasn't about me.
But I'm excited we got the
win and I'm even more excit
ed that I could play well.”
After Arkansas (18-12, 3-
11 SEC) took a 19-8 lead in
the first 11 minutes of the
game, Georgia tightened up
on defense and shot better
on its way to a 22-8 run to
close out the half, setting the
pace for the rest of the game.
"I feel really good about
the way we played the last 30
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▲ Kim Hagan (bottom) and Lauron Davey (top) perform a duet during the 2007 Collegiate South Regional
Synchronized Swimming Championships at the Ramsey Center Saturday. The University’s synchronized swimming
club, the AquaDawgs, placed Bth in the team competition. Hagan and Davey’s performance did not place.
Plus-minus grades a mixed bag for students
By AUDREY GOOOSON
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The Facebook petition
group to end plus-minus
grading probably won’t be
getting their wish.
The overall University
OPA with the plus-minus
system, in Fall 2006, was only
slightly lower than in Fall
2005.
The number of grades
lowered by minuses were
almost 6,000 more than the
number of grades which
were raised by pluses.
Almost 62 percent of grades
remained unchanged by the
system since 2006.
Jere Morehead, interim
vice president for instruc
tion, said he’s only received
“positive feedback” from
professors.
“The plus-minus system
has allowed faculty to give
grades that more accurately
reflect what’s going on in the
classroom,” he said.
But a large group of stu
dents aren't happy about the
new grading system on
Facebook, five groups have
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▲ Graduating senior Cori Chambers salutes supporters
after her last regular season home game. Chambers led
the team with 17 points at Saturday's game.
minutes,” Georgia head
coach Andy Landers said.
“We didn't get it until they
drilled it into our heads, but
after that, we were terrific.”
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A Fall 2006 statistics show that plus/minus grading hurt more grades than It helped.
However, the majority of students’ grades were not affected by the new system.
formed against plus-minus.
As of press time, there
were no groups praising the
change.
Hadas Peles, a sophomore
from Bothell, Wash., said she
is “ambivalent” about the
plus-minus system.
“Does It make you work
harder?” she asked. “I don’t
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“I think we were trying to
feel them out a little bit at
first,” Chambers said. “They
have really good guards and
we were trying to read them
see a difference on campus,
honestly."
“(University President)
Michael Adams said this
would motivate students
and change the culture. I
don't think It’s done that.”
Plus-minus grading does
n’t affect a student's OPA for
HOPE scholarship eligibility.
Baseball
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Did the baseball team
improve their season
record against Costal
Carolina or did they
get washed out this
weekend?
and figure them out, and I
think once we (figured them
out) it made things a lot eas
ier.”
Freshman Ashley Houts
and junior Tasha Humphrey
were also in double-digits,
with 15 and 11 points,
respectively.
Chambers' classmate and
front court partner Janese
Hardrick was held scoreless
for most of the game before
tallying five points in the
final two minutes of play.
Next up for the Lady
Dogs is the SEC
Tournament, which begins
Thursday in Duluth. Georgia
has clinched the second seed
and has a first-round bye.
Georgia’s first tourna
ment game will be Friday
against the winner of
Thursday's Kentucky-
Arkansas match-up.
Chambers said she is
ready.
“I'm definitely excited.”
she said.
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▲ Former U.N. Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor
Apdrew Young speaks at the University
NAACP’s first Image Awards ceremony.
Former mayor
opens awards
By KRISTEN COULTER
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The University chapter of
the NAACP’s First Image
Awards ceremony Saturday
night included a speech
assessing the "daily strug
gles” in their lives.
Former UN. Ambassador
and Atlanta Mayor Andrew
Young spoke to 200 NAACP
members. University faculty
and community members.
"Each and every one of you
is in the midst of a struggle,”
he said. “It’s not because you
are black. It’s a struggle
because you are a child of
God. It’s a struggle between
good and evil.”
Throughout his speech,
Young discussed both the
struggles in his life and those
currently facing the world.
For his personal life, he
talked about the difficulty of
Speaker honors gay
activism landmarks
BY NICK WARLICK
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The University's gay com
munity has had many civil
rights victories since the late
19605, but it still has a way to
go, a University official said
Friday.
Michael Shutt, assistant
dean of students, gave a pres
entation titled “The Queer
History of the University of
Georgia, 1969-Present," fea
turing research done by past
and present students on the
history of homosexuality at
the University.
However, Shutt said, the
research is not complete.
Georgia wins ‘bulldog’ fight
against Miss. State hoops
By PHILLIP KISUBIKA
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In the annual Battle of the
Bulldogs, Georgia showed
who the top dogs are in SEC
men's basketball.
Georgia led throughout
the game and defeated
Mississippi State 86-73
Saturday at Stegeman
Coliseum to keep its NCAA
tournament dream alive.
Senior Levi Stukes led
Georgia (17-10, 8-6 SEC) with
21 points, making five of his
seven 3-pointers in the game.
"I think it’s that time for
me to step up and do what I
have to do to lead my team to
victories each and every
night,” Stukes said.
Stukes also added four
assists, four rebounds and
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dealing with the death of
Martin Luther King Jr., as
well as his troubles with
school. Despite his struggles.
Young said he is amazed at
what he has accomplished.
“I don’t know anybody
that’s as sorry as I col
lege, and look at what I’ve
done,” he said.
Young said many of his
struggles relate to the gap
between rich and poor indi
viduals.
"We’ve integrated the
schools," he said. “We’ve tried
to integrate the politics. Now,
we have to integrate the
money."
Young gave a positive
assessment of the HOPE
Scholarship, and he encour
aged students to return to
their hometowns after gradu
ation. He told students to
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“There’s a lot of informa
tion that’s still not out there,”
he said.
He began by paying trib
ute to Barbara Gittings, a
woman whose activism
influenced the American
Psychiatric Association to
remove homosexuality as a
mental disorder in 1973.
Shutt then described the
gay rights movement in
the Athens area, starting
with the North American
Conference of Homophile
Organizations’ 1969 request
to the University for
advice on a homosexual
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two steals.
"I thought he played terrif
ic all game,” Georgia coach
Dennis Felton said.
“He was really solid defen
sively and shot the ball
extremely well.”
Georgia did not play a per
fect game, though. The team
had 18 turnovers, eight more
than Mississippi State.
The maroon Bulldogs
scored 21 points off those
turnovers and those points
kept them in the game.
"We talked about coming
out and taking the game by
the throat early in the second
half, but we didn’t,” Felton
said.
Georgia had its best game
from 3-point range this sea
son, shooting 63 percent from
behind the arc.
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