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WEDNESDAY September 5, 2007 Vol. 115, No. 14 | Athens, Georgia O Sunny. High 94 | Low 67 ONLINE: wwwjedandUack.com 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 1 * the members of the UGA Table Tennis Club, the game "I "1 Q 1 A jHHv is as serious and demanding as any other sport. I 1 I I 1 /Cm I I 1 I I V Table tennis was made an official University club in 2006 vll W by founder Leon Chen, a third year Ph.D. student from Shanghai, China. He now serves as vice president alongside the president, Sumit j, j , . mSo£ms?m Mohan, a second year graduate student from Manipal, India. LI (l IWVS train £J&eSßsk During a typical practice, the 20-25 players engage in drills, which ' y include hitting 250 balls repetitively across the table and running back fnrhinnnmp <? wards u P stairs. ' y ' • 's '(yt t// fc o BgSiipiaHß While most people do not think of table tennis as a sport requiring 1';, j f nBHHH physical conditioning, the team works very hard to improve cardiovascu- j®Si lar performance for the constant shifting of the body during an intense I' - XiSnSgMiSfflMsk match. B| “People do not think of ping-pong as an intense sport like football or / tennis,” said Mohan. “But we really try to train the body to get it adjusted to the M ' strokes ” ■ For Chen, table tennis serves as more than just a relaxing game to play with friends. “Table tennis is more like an art,” he said. “Not only is it a fun game, but it is a great sport for coor- AsßmW 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.” / PING-PONG, Page 6 > jgT frfl CJT Jr > Foram Ashar, a l \&; ; „ * WMBr . /Jy freshman applied * / biotechnology ■ (ff£.V' ; ■ymajor from Dubai, ; practices table ten- __ ~.■ '■' y: . : }Ty nis with the table tennis club Friday afternoon at Gym West at the f f'x J ‘ * r " -'B'p' Ramsey Student j 1 • .pi Center. ’'kf? 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 The £~*\ Red&Black An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community ESTABLISHED 1893, INDEPENDENT 1980 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 I BY THE NUMBERS ||g| l H 3.000 newspapers = || $230 in printing costs ■ 37,625 square feet of v 1? Y ' ;■ newsprint * , /■' M $6,000 in smoothie coupons fl II 3,000 sudokus £|Eff 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. rrs pah 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 WARREN