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TUESDAY
September 11, 2007
Vol. 115, No. 18 | Athens, Georgia
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SARA GUEVARA | The Red * Black
▲ Hairy Dawg finishes the Dog
Walk before the game against
South Carolina on Saturday.
Mascot
competes
for No. 1
By TYLER ESTEP
The Red & Black
Voting began Monday to determine
the country’s top mascot, with Hairy
Dawg among the final 12 representa
tives in Capital One’s sixth annual All-
America Mascot Team.
Each of the dozen mascots will vie
for the prestigious title in 11 weekly
head-to-head matchups determined by
online voting at CapitalOneßowl.com.
Hairy Dawg, also a finalist in 2003
and 2004, faces off with Minnesota’s
Goldy Gopher this week, the initial step
in trying to become the first champion
from the SEC since South Carolina’s
Cocky won in 2003.
The mascot with the best win-loss
record following each weekly matchup
will take the crown.
CAPITAL ONE’S ALL-AMERICAN
MASCOT TEAM
Zippy - Akron Univ.
Cosmo - Brigham
Young Univ.
Hairy Dawg - Univ. of
Georgia
Monte - Univ. of
Montana
Goldy Gopher - Univ.
of Minnesota
Cocky - Univ. of South
Carolina
Seymour - Univ. of
Southern Mississippi
Campus ROTCs
hold memorials
By PEARMAN PARKER
The Red & Black
To honor their comrades who have
died while serving in the war in Iraq,
the Air Force Reserve Officer Training
Corps and the Army Reserve Officer
Training Corps are holding Sept. 11
Memorial Operations.
Steve Rohmiller, a senior from
Norcross and special projects officer for
the AFROTC, said the run is to remem
ber those who are fighting “against
activities such as what happened on
Sept. 11.”
Cadets, officers and cadre gather at
Sanford Stadium at 6:45 a.m. with rev
eille conduct followed by a jointed color
guard that will raise the flag to half
mast. After reveille, Chaplain Kevin
Hynes plans to say a prayer followed by
a briefing of the run route.
“It’s a huge morale booster,” said
Rohmiller. “There, will be no greater
feeling.”
The three-mile route will start at
Sanford Stadium. They will run to Green
Street, pass Hardman Hall, run back
down Sanford Drive, pass Army ROTC
building and end at Sanford Stadium.
See RUN, Page 3
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Otto - Syracuse Univ.
Joe Bruin - Univ. of
Calif, at Los Angeles
Caveman - Univ. of
Virginia
Hokie Bird - Virginia
Tech
Big Red - Univ. of
Western Kentucky
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MARK LENNIHAN | Associated Press
▲ Two construction cranes work on top of the foundations for the
Freedom Tower in this Aug. 27 photo at the World Trade Center site
in New York. While New York City’s recovery effort from the Post
9-11 terrorist attacks is confined to a single section of lower
Manhattan.
New York remembers Sept. 11
By AMY WESTFELDT
The Associated Press
NEW YORK Once
again, the city will pause
for four moments of silence
to mark the attacks that
killed more than 2,700 peo
ple. Family members will
lay flowers where the twin
towers fell, and the names
of victims will be read.
But much will be differ
ent on the sixth anniver
sary of Sept. 11, after argu
ments about where to hold
the ceremony, whether a
presidential candidate
should be allowed to speak
and if it’s still fitting to
put on such a large-scale
commemoration.
Firefighters, first resp
onders and construction
workers who helped rescue
New Yorkers —and many
who later recovered vic
tims’ bodies were chosen
this year to read the names
of the dead in a small pub
lic park.
After objecting that
they wanted to pay their
respects closest to where
their loved ones died, fam
ily members will be
allowed to descend to the
site below street level and
lay flowers near where the
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MARY ALTAFFER | Associated Press
A Visitors to Ground Zero take in the view
from the PATH train entrance on the eve of
sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on
the World Trade Center Monday in New York.
towers stood.
“It’s still like visiting a
grave on the person’s anni
versary of their death,”
said Rosaleen Tallon,
whose firefighter brother,
Sean Tallon, died that day.
While the list of victims
killed in New York is read,
Osama bin Laden planned
to appear in anew video
and read the will of one of
the hijackers whose plane
flew into the north tower.
Another change in this
year’s ceremony will be
Democratic Hair
page 5
New salon boasts high-end
quality and bold statement
theme to draw in customers.
It sits at the top of Tasty World.
What else can this building
possibly host?
the list of victims. The offi
cial death toll was
increased by one this year
after the city ruled a wom
an’s death of lung disease
was caused by exposure to
toxic trade center dust.
Associated Press
writer Sara Kugler
contributed to this report.
Memorial Benefit Concert
today at Tate Plaza.
VARIETY, page 5
One group aims to create a
comfort zone for members.
VARIETY, page 6
Univ.,
Chinese
discuss
cultures
By SARAH WATKINS
The Red & Black
University students, faculty and govern
ment officials from all over Georgia trav
eled to China to teach Chinese government
officials about democracy this summer.
The trip was carried out through the
International Center for I
Democratic Governance
under the Carl Vinson iffiF 'gggggj
Institute of Government I '
and was part of an out- t/h. Jig
reach program. Cf
Rongrong Liu, China War
program coordinator, said vjl
the International Center Jk
for Democratic Gove
mance sends faculty and LIU
practitioners from Georgia
to carry out the in-class training for pro
vincial Chinese government officials.
Later, the Chinese officials will come to
the U.S. to visit their instructors and
spend time in Georgia.
“The preparation wasn’t too intensive
... We learned more about the culture and
current events in China and how this
might impact our trip,” said Irving Steel,
a University student who went on the
short-term internship. “There was discus
sion on [etiquette, from] how to accept a
business card to how to politely turn
down the next shot of strong Chinese
liquor that the Chinese diplomats were
sure to offer us.”
Peter Klein, another University student
who went on the trip, said it was “a way to
let [the Chinese officials] know about
American government and how it works.”
Klein said the officials ranged from peo
ple in their late 20s to those in their 50s.
“[The trip was] really good for both
parties, but I feel like I learned just as
much from them as they did from us,”
Klein said.
During the lessons, Klein said they dis
cussed issues such as gun control, the war
in Iraq and foreign policy.
He said Chinese officials disagreed with
the way the American government
See LAW, Page 3
’Cock grabbed
on street comer
prior to game
By CAROLYN CRIST
The Red & Black
They may have caged our football
team, but police put one of their players
behind bars.
John Hurton Guerry, 20,
a sophomore linebacker for H
the University of South B
Carolina, was arrested and
charged with underage
consumption of alcohol
and open container early mM
Saturday. JM
An officer of the Athens- l§ c
Clarke County Police pH
Department was on bike pncoov —
patrol at 2 a.m. when he ' ,utK " T
saw Guerry holding a beer
bottle at the comer of East Clayton and
Wall streets, according to the police report.
Guerry threw the bottle in the garbage
and told the officer he was 20, showing his
license.
The office placed Guerry into handcuffs
and took him to the Clarke County
Sheriff’s Office in a transport unit.
Guerry, who was not scheduled to play
in Saturday’s game, isn’t the first
Gamecock player to have a run-in with
police this year. Three other South
Carolina players have been arrested,
including starting safety Emanuel Cook,
who was arrested on a gun possession
charge in August.
Raymond Harrison, USC athletics
director of academics and life skills, was
not available for comment Monday.
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