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WEDNESDAY
September 5, 2007
Vol. 115, No. 14 | Athens, Georgia
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Association digs deeper into lawsuit
Records show
Warren’s past
By TOM MARINE
The Red & Black
The National Association
of Boards of Pharmacy
announced Tuesday that it
“cautiously estimates” rein
stating the national pharmacy
Table Tennis
Club serves
For most, a game of ping-pong involves
little competition and minimal exertion. But for
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to play with friends.
“Table tennis is more like an art,” he said.
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dination between the brain and the body. It is like doing
instantaneous dance every time you return the
ball, and you have to react in a very small amount
j of time.”
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I LANA MCQUINN | The Red * Black
Newspaper thief stumps
staff, elicits investigation
Several thousand copies of The
Red & Black newspaper were taken
from distribution bins Tuesday
morning.
Rick Chapman, Red & Black
advertising manager, estimated
more than 2,500 newspapers were
taken from bins located around the
Main Library, Student Learning
Center, Psychology-Journalism
complex and Starbucks on Broad
Street.
According to staff reports, news
papers also were missing from bins
around East Campus, Snelling
Dining Hall, Davison Life Sciences
Complex, Boyd Graduate Research
Center, the Chemistry building
and the R.C. Wilson Pharmacy
building.
Publisher Harry Montevideo esti
mated the missing newspapers cost
a total of $230 to print.
The Red & Black filed a com
Reaching the
Newsroom
News (706) 433-3037
Variety (706) 433-3041
Sports (706) 433-3040
Opinions (706) 433-3043
Photo (706) 433-3046
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licensure exam in November
while it continues to seek
information through a civil
law suit against the Board of
Regents and Flynn Warren Jr.
The NABP filed a motion
Tuesday to release more dis
covery requests. The motion
contains six attachments
three directed at the BOR
and three at Warren.
According to court docu
ments obtained by The Red
plaint with the University Police
Department and an open records
request for video surveillance of the
area.
Anyone with information is asked
to call 706-433-3027 or e-mail
editor@randb.com.
Staff Reports
► The newspaper bins out
side the Tate Student Center
sit empty at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday. Sometime Tuesday
morning, copies of The
Red & Black were removed
from bins around campus.
There were no leads as of
press time.
On the Web
redandblack.com
Check out what sports writer
Jason Butt thinks the top-25
should look like in the first install
ment of his blog, “Butt ing In.”
Is he still picking Michigan for the
BCS Championship game? (No.)
& Black through an open
records request filed last
week, the NABP made 34 dif
ferent requests for documents
and information pertaining to
e'very review course and class
taught by Warren at the
University since 1990.
The NABP filed a lawsuit
against Warren and the Board
of Regents on Aug. 3.
According to court docu
ments, the NABP is investi
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JOSH D. WEISS | The Red a Black
Seventh Heaven?
page 6
See if the volleyball team could
chart their seventh straight
shutout win in their home
opener Tuesday against USC
Upstate.
gating Warren for collecting
and disseminating exam ques
tions protected by copyright
regulations. The court papers
cite copyright infringement,
misappropriation of trade
secrets and breach of con
tract in the lawsuit.
On Aug. 23, the NABP sus
pended all administrations of
the NAPLEX and other com
promised tests.
The exams “will be reacti
vated as soon as possible
when NABP is confident that
both examinations are able to
validly assess the entry-level
competence of pharmacists
to safely practice pharmacy,”
according to the NABP Web
site.
The motion, filed by NABR
requested the BOR admit
whether Warren was acting
See PHARM, Page 3
Bar employees face
new age restrictions
By WHITNEY HOMANS
The Red & Black
The Athens-Clarke
County Commission voted
Tuesday to amend the
alcohol ordinance to pro
hibit anyone under 21
from working as a bar
tender or doorperson in a
bar.
The new age require
ment does not apply to
restaurant employees.
The Legislative Review
Committee, a subcommit
tee of the commission
that worked with the pro
posed ordinance for the
past six months, originally
recommended the elevat
ed age requirement and
background checks and
permits for door people.
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Country star Pat Green
returns to Georgia Theatre.
VARIETY, PAGE 5
Report
issued
on Univ.
policies
By ELYSE BEASLEY
The Red & Black
An in-depth report of the
Emergency Preparedness and
Communications Committee was
issued Tuesday with an analysis
of the University’s emergency
programs and a list of 16 recom
mendations.
University President Michael
Adams commissioned the estab
lishment of the EPCC and the
comprehensive safety report in
May 2007 following the April 16
tragedy at Virginia Tech, accord
ing to a report sent to student
e-mail accounts.
“We need to realize that we are
not isolated and protected in the
ivory tower anymore. What hap
pens in the real world could hap
pen at UGA, and we need to be
prepared,” said Kathy Pharr,
chairman of the EPCC and assis
tant vice president for finance
and administration.
Among the recommendations
listed is the installation of camer
as at Sanford Stadium, develop
ment of emergency preparedness
classes for students, faculty and
staff and mandated participation
in UGAAlert.
Also included is the strong rec
ommendation to introduce
Enhanced 911 and Reverse 911
services allowing emergency dis
patchers to track 911 calls and
return them if disconnected. The
committee “urges” the senior
administration to install the ser
vices within two years, according
to the EPCC’s report.
Pharr said the suggested
phone system upgrade and man
datory UGAAlert system are the
two most important suggestions
within the report.
See UGAALERT, Page 3
The committee voted
to alter its recommenda
tion to include the door
person permits but drop
the age requirement after
members of the Downtown
Bar Owners Association
and the Community
Campus Coalition met
last month and proposed
the compromise.
However, several mem
bers of the full commis
sion said they were con
cerned about the back
ground checks. In
response, Commissioner
Kelly Girtz included a
proposal to take out
the background checks
and permits but reinstate
the 21-and-up age
See VOTE, Page 3
Index
UGA Today 2
Wire 2
Opinions 4
Variety 5
Crossword 3
Sports 6
Sudoku 5
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