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FRIDAY
August 31, 2007
Vol. 115, No. 12 | Athens, Georgia
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Univ. reputation improves
By KRISTEN COULTER
The Red & Black
As Michael Adams
approached his 10th anniversa
ry as president, he said aca
demic rigor has increased in
the last decade at the
University.
“What I am most pleased
about is the academic prog
ress,” Adams said in a tele
phone interview Tuesday.
“Students today are more seri
ous than they were 10 years
ago.”
According to the University’s
“Fact Book 2006,” the number
of freshmen accepted by under
graduate admissions has decr
eased while the number of app
lications has increased.
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WUGA-FM hits 20-year mark
By TAMARA BEST
The Red & Black
A happy birthday song has
been sung and the candles
blown out.
WUGA-FM celebrated 20
years of continuous broadcast
ing in the Athens and north
east Georgia community
Tuesday.
The station, with channels
97.1 FM and 97.9 FM, reaches
more than 20,000 listeners and
has earned more than 130 state
and national awards for its pro
gramming and news, according
to the WUGA Web site.
“It takes real passion and
pride to present the diverse
voices from the community,”
said news director Mary Kay
Mitchell. “Maintaining a level of
high quality specific to the com
munity is a recipe for success.”
Staffers who have been with
the station since its inception
said they remember its humble
beginnings and reflect on the
success it has attained thus far.
“We started very small in
comparison to other stations,”
Student starts non-profit to aid African talent
By COLTER MCWHORTER
The Red & Black
The West African country of
Namibia has artists without interna
tional markets.
Benjamin Cobb, a senior from
Huntsville, Ala., and founder of
Promote Africa, said he wants to
bring it to them.
Cobb said he doesn’t dabble in
aid-based, cookie-cutter solutions.
“Their needs need to be assessed
from the bottom-up,” Cobb said.
“Whatever your avenue for develop
ment is, if you have no comprehen
sive field feedback in place, you’re
never going to know how you’re suc
cessful. Certainly, health indicators
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Adams’ 10 th Anniversary
The percentage of students
accepted dropped from 73 per
cent in 1997 to 58 percent in
2006, and 4,411 more stu
dents applied in 2006
than applied in 1997.
Freshman Nora
Ignatius, a linguistics
major from Duluth, said
she chose to attend the
University because it
offers her major and is
close to her home. She
said the increasingly dif
ficult admissions stan
dards have changed
many of her friends’ opinions of
the University.
“A few years ago it wasn’t a
big deal to get into UGA, but
now everyone’s really impressed.”
Adams said he thinks there
PHOTOS BY LINDY DUGGER | The Red Black
A Mary Kay Mitchell, news director for WUGA radio in
Athens, talks with a panel guest before her weekly
show “Athens News Matters."
said Robb Holmes, program
manager for WUGA. “It is good
to know that it is possible to
receive recognition without
being a large operation.”
Earlier this month, the sta
have improved, but at the same time
the quality of life has not gone up
that much.”
Cobb constructed his non-profit
as a supplement to the international
market connections of Namibia and
Africa.
His field work that provided him
with vocational training, surveying
and support drove its creation.
“Last year, I had an internship
through an NGO called WorldTteach,
living in Namibia and working with
the Ministry of Education,” Cobb said.
From there, he said he roped his
roommates in to talk with local poli
ticians about the potential.
“This year, we were here to set up
international exports with local art
On the Web
redandblack.com
If spreadsheets, court documents
and legal mumbo jumbo get your
goat, hop online because we’ve
got aii that and more from the
court case concerning former
Univ. professor Flynn Warren Jr.
are multiple reasons explaining
why students attend the
University
He cited research
opportunities, the
HOPE scholarship and
the University’s reputa
tion as factors in appli
cants’ decision-making.
He also said students
have a positive experi
ence and share their
pleasure with friends,
who in turn decide to
attend the University.
“We’re the whole
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ADAMS
package,” he said.
In the area of diversity,
Adams said the University
“has become a much more
See ADAMS, Page 3A
tion received several awards
from various journalism organi
zations.
The Public Radio News
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ists,” said Cobb.
“We have, basically, Promote
Africa Foundation and COSDEF
the Community Skills Development
Foundation. We’re selling arts and
crafts, music and literature,” Cobb
said. “We have seven vendors in
Namibia.”
These artisans will be able to
pitch their handwork later this year.
African musicians will benefit
from online tools such as Snocap,
MySpace’s community music player.
“We have 65-70 percent of each
sale actually making it to the musi
cian. We’re compiling a compendi
um,” Cobb said.
See AFRICA, Page 5A
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Athens-only specials, 40 beers
on tap and statue decor make
eating pizza quite the
experience. Anybody hungry?
Flip on over for a tasty treat.
Conversations
show students
received help
By BRIAN HUGHES
The Red & Black
Katie Barnett flew more than
halfway across the country to
attend a review class taught by
Flynn Warren Jr., a University phar
macy professor accused of giving
out test questions to students,
according to court documents.
Now a pharmacist in Seattle,
a graduate from the Wisconsin
School of Pharmacy raved in an
e-mail about the class she took
from Warren in South Carolina
and wrote that the pharmacy
community would be enhanced
with more teachers like him.
As part of her gratitude, court
documents show she then sup
plied Warren with general topics
from her North American
Pharmacist Licensure
Examination, a test used by each
state’s boards of pharmacy, as
well as exact questions to the
test.
“What does- p-value mean if
p= 0.04 does that mean 4% due
to chance? had this twice,” she
writes.
In the same document, Jeff
Bruce, a pharmacy student from
Creighton University, cites
Warren’s guidance for his “inflat
ed score.” He wrote that he
scored a 130 out of 150 on the
NAPLEX, which requires a score
of 75 to pass.
“About one-third of the ques
tions were either word-for-word,
or very similarly worded to those
in the practice test you went over
with us in Athens,” he wrote to
the professor in the document.
Warren retired from the
Ticket Office: students
confused about policy
By LAWRENCE CONNEFF
The Red & Black
Much of the confusion sur
rounding this season’s student
football ticket distribution was a
result of some students failing to
carefully read all of the informa
tion they were provided, Ticket
Office staff said.
Kelley Lawrence, assistant
director of ticket operations, said
the most common problem stu
dents had this year was a failure
to achieve full-time status before
the Athletic Association’s 5 p.m.
deadline on Aug. 17.
Starting this season, students
had to be registered for at least
12 credit hours to be eligible to
receive tickets, according to the
Athletic Association Web site.
The new rule affected not only
seniors who needed fewer than 12
hours to graduate, but also
underclassmen who had not reg
istered for their full class load by
the deadline.
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▲ Benjamin Cobb, founder of Promote Africa,
poses for a portrait outside the Student
Learning Center Tuesday.
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And now students who have
never met Warren are unable to
take their licensure tests, at least
for the foreseeable future.
The NABP suspended admin
istration of both the NAPLEX
nationally and Georgia MPJE on
Saturday.
The organization has not
revealed when students will be
able to take the test again.
The Red & Black scheduled a
meeting for Thursday afternoon
with Svein Oie, dean of the
College of Pharmacy, but the
See NABP, Page 3A
MORE ONLINE
>• View the NAPLEX pass rates for
other pharmacy schools across the
country. 'jp
> Peruse court documents in the
federal civil case ofThe Nation
Association of Boards of Pharmacy v.
The Board of jteg&'nts of the
University of Georgia and
Flynn Warren Jr.
“The few things we’ve had
were a few people who changed
their schedules at the last minute
during drop-add,”, he said. “And
they’ve called and said, ‘Hey, I’m
full-time,’ and we’ve worked with
every single one and accommo
dated them. There hasn’t been a
single one who has contacted us
that we haven’t accommodated
with tickets.”
If students were able to pres
ent documentation proving they
were taking 12 or more hours by
the end of drop/add, Lawrence
said, they were awarded a season
ticket package based on the
number of total credit hours
earned at the University.
Kristen Turner, a sophomore
from Dalton, said she has had her
share of problems with the distri
bution system this year.
Turner said she had 29 credit
hours. Lawrence said all students
with 27 or more hours earned at
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Variety 5A
Crossword 3A
Sports 6a
Sudoku 5A