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THURSDAY
September 13, 2007
Vol. 115, No. 20 | Athens, Georgia
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| Congress passed Friday a bill that will make!
it easier for college students to pay tuition and!
later repay their loans.
I The College Cost Reduction and Access Act 1
bf 2007 gives student borrowers the opportunity 1
to repay loans as a percentage of their income. 1
PELL GRANTS: 1
■I Increases the maximum Pell Grant amount*
(now $4,310) to $4,800 by year 2010, $5,490 by*
2012 and $6,580 by 2013.
INCOME BASED
Repayment program:
Borrowers have the opportunity to repay*
loans as a percentage of their income.
STAFFORD LOAN PROGRAM: I
Stafford Loans fall into the loan program the I
University uses, said Susan Little, the director *
of the Office of Financial Aid.
' “The University of Georgia participates solely *
in the Federal Direct Loan Program which*
enables students who are enrolled half-time or l
more to borrow low-interest money for educa-I
tional expenses directly from the U.S.I
Department of Education,” according to the*
University’s financial aid Web site.
IMPLEMENTATION: |
The act takes effect on July 1,2008.
!& “Congress has passed the law, and the U.S.*
Department of Education will have to write the!
rules to go along with that, which will be given*
to the universities to implement. We probably*
won’t receive those until mid to late spring,**
tittle said.
” a
WHY STUDENTS HAVE
TROUBLE REPAYING LOANS: §
“Students who default on loans usually just*
don’t have the resources to make payments, sol
this will be a great benefit for our students,”*
1%; Little said the default rate for University stu-I
BENEFITS FOR UNIV
STUDENTS IN GEORGIA:
m Total increase in loan and Pell aid over five*
years: $859,007,000.
Lower interest rate savings per student over*
gje life of the loan at a four-year school (oncel
pally phased in): $4,230.
ts. Total number of students who receive the*
Pell Grant this year: 179,86 .. J*
II Source: U.S. House of £
g Representatives Committee on 9
Education and Labor’s Web site jH
Bbrmer linebacker led Dogs to SEC Championship
Editor’s Note: This story about Ben
Zambiasi is one of three profiles of
former Georgia athletes who will be
inducted into the University’s Circle
of Honor on Friday.
By LAWRENCE CONNEFF
The Red & Black
To say Ben Zambiasi didn’t see
this coming would be an under
statement.
When Athletics Director Damon
Evans called to inform the former
All-American linebacker that he had
been named to the University’s 2007
Circle of Honor induction class,
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Circle of Honor
Zambiasi at first assumed a team
mate was playing a joke on him.
“I thought it was someone pull
ing my leg,” he said. “My classmates
were notorious for making stuff
up.”
“We’d be on road trips, and guys
would call up your room and pre
tend that they were a reporter, and
do interviews, and they’d have a big
laugh over all the questions they’d
asked.
“You’d think you were gonna
have an article in the paper, but it
was just a teammate yanking your
chain a little bit.”
But for Vince Dooley, who
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Anti-HIV drug license sold
By HOLLY ELLINGTON
The Red & Biack
In a near million-dollar
agreement, an Atlanta
based biopharmaceutical
company purchased the
licensing rights to anti-HIV
compounds from the
University and promised to
fund future related research
at the University.
Inhibitex, Inc.
announced Tuesday it
owns the license for a group
of anti-HIV compounds
developed by University
scientists, according to a
news release.
Kim Rosenthal, assis
tant to the CEO of
Inhibitex, Inc., said the up
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▲ This photo has been intentionally censored. (Right to left) University students Brittanie Knight,
a sophomore from Suwanee, Taylor Lynn, a senior from Brunswick and Dannielie Malone, a
senior from Peachtree City sign a copy of the “Girls of the SEC” edition of Playboy Magazine for
freshman Dan Hesketh of Acworth at Barnetts Newsstand on Wednesday. Hesketh was accompa
nied by his girlfriend to the signing. Some of the models used psuedonyms for the magazine and
when talking to The Red & Black.
Playboy stars Univ. women in ‘Girls of the SEC’
By CHELSEA COOK
The Red & Black
Playboy magazine introduced its
newest assets from the SEC
Wednesday afternoon at Barnetts
Newsstand.
Six female University students
were chosen to pose for Playboy’s
October issue, which features 38 col
lege women in a “Girls of the SEC”
section.
Five of the six models appeared
at the downtown business to sign
copies of their hard work, including
Melani Chase, Taylor Lynn,
Brittanie Knight, Ally Ling and
Danielle Malone.
“We’ve sold over 100 copies
coached Zambiasi at Georgia from
1974-77, the selection was a fore
gone conclusion.
“I don’t ever remember having a
more tenacious player than Ben,”
Dooley said.
“He was a natural shoe-in as soon
as he became eligible.”
Zambiasi started three years at
linebacker for the Bulldogs in the
mid-19705, amassing 467 total tack
les, a mark that is still tops in
Georgia history.
In his breakout junior season of
1976, Zambiasi was the leading
See HONOR, Page 6A
front license fee paid to the
University Research
Foundation included
$750,000 and 226,000 shares
of Inhibitex stock in a
phone interview
Wednesday.
The company plans to
pay royalties if the com
pounds progress through
clinical trials and reach the
market she said.
The project is in pre
clinical stages.
The possible anti-HIV
drug was researched in
the laboratory of Vasu
Nair, director of the
University’s Center for
Drug Discovery and head
of the department of
pharmaceutical and bio
already,” said store employee Midge
Gray, about halfway through the
signing. Handfuls of men, and a few
brave women, stopped by between 3
and 5 p.m. to meet the University’s
newest celebrities.
“This is the first Playboy I’ve ever
bought,” said Scott Carlson, a sec
ond year economics major from
Athens. “I came out to support my
Dogs.”
Carlson wasn’t the only fan who
felt this issue of Playboy deserved
school spirit.
“I feel like this is a part of history
[for my school to be featured] and I
want to get in on the action,”
said Aaron Jongko, a fifth-year
early childhood education major
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medical sciences.
The anti-HIV com
pounds integrase inhibi
tors block insertion of
viral DNA into genomes on
a host cell according to the
press release.
The drug is considered
treatment, not prevention,
Rosenthal said.
“This is a technology
developed in Georgia and
licensed by a local compa
ny,” said Sohail Malik,
director of technology com
mercialization for the
University, in a phone inter
view Wednesday.
“It’s great. Everything is
staying in Georgia,”
Rosenthal said.
She said Inhibitex, Inc.
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has the right to market the
compounds later on,
Inhibitex also agreed to
fund clinical stage research
performed at the University
related to the licensed
compounds for the next
three years.
Malik said the licensing
agreement is an example of
the opportunities available
in life sciences research at
the University.
“We want the recogni
tion for university people
to know that the University
is working on the cutting
edge research,” Malik said,
“Everything is all
Georgia-based, let’s hope
it goes through all the next
stages.”
from Suwanee.
The “action” Jongko described
was giggling men with sweaty palms
who stuttered compliments here
and there.
“This is so much fun,” said model
Brittanie Knight. “Everyone has
been so supportive ... this was so
much more than I expected.”
The models handled themselves
well under the circumstances.
“We haven’t gotten any nasty
questions or anything,” said model
Taylor Lynn said.
Lynn, Knight and several other •
models used aliases for the maga
zine and during an interview with
See PLAYBOY, Page 5A
+ Ben Zambiasi,
a University
football player
in the mid
’7os, will be
inducted into
the University’s
Circle of
Honor the
school’s highest
tribute paid
to former ath
letes and
coaches.
Other inductees
include
football player
Royce Smith
and gymnast
Hope Spivey.
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