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MONDAY
October i, 2007
Vol. 115, No. 32 | Athens, Georgia
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Adams’ 10 th Anniversary =
Class sizes rise, faculty decline
By KRISTEN COULTER
The Red & Black
Since University President Michael
Adams arrived at the University in 1997,
the size of the student body and the
administration have increased, but the
number full time faculty has not.
The number of undergraduate, graduate
and professional students has increased by
3,297 over the decade, according to the
2006 UGA Fact Book.
However, the number of full time faculty
decreased by 42 individuals from 1997 to
2006, according to the fact books.
Adams attributed this decline to budget
shortages during the 2004-2005 recession.
“We had to lay off and not hire,” Adams
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▲ Georgia tailback Thomas Brown scores Georgia’s only third-quarter touchdown in Saturday’s 45-17 win
over Ole Miss.
Bulldogs win over Rebels ‘far from a blowout’
By TYLER ESTEP
The Red & Black
On paper, a 45-17 score invokes imag
es of Georgia rolling over Ole Miss en
route to a bigger and more important
game at Tennessee this week. So do 328
rushing yards and four touchdowns from
the ground game.
But for two-thirds of the game, the
end result was anything but certain.
Bulldog coaches and players alike know
the contest was, in truth, far from a
blowout.
“The score absolutely does not show
what happened, I think we all know that
that watched the game,” head coach
Mark Richt said. “Because it wasn’t on
All-girls flat track roller derby league new to Athens
By TRICIA PURSER
The Red & Black
The idea of roller-skating usually
takes college students back to a
middle school memory of slowly
skating around a rink, holding
hands with a special someone and
listening to the latest Boyz II Men
song plays on speakers.
However, for the Classic City
Rollergirls, Athens’ new all female
flat track roller derby league, roller
* skating is a competitive race where
knocking down the opponent is the
norm.
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said Thursday. “But it’s still our goal to get
back where we were before.”
He said the University hired more than
20 faculty members last year, and is receiv
ing fewer compiaiints about class availabili
ty.
Vice President for Instruction Jere
Morehead echoed Adams’ comments.
“In the last few years, a significant effort
has been made to add back to the faculty,”
Morehead said Friday in a telephone inter
view.
He also said to accommodate demands
for classes, the class sizes have increased.
Two professors in the School of Public
and International Affairs said they agree.
“I am not teaching more classes... but
the enrollments in my classes have grown,”
§ FOOTBALL
UGA 45, OLE MISS 17
TV, I’m sure people look at it and say we
just whooped Ole Miss, but that’s not
the case at all.”
After a fumble on the one-yard line
ruined what could have been a 14-0 Rebel
lead, and a roughing the passer penalty
lead to a Georgia touchdown, Ole Miss
came roaring out of halftime. An 18-play,
nine-plus minute drive left the game tied
at 17 and kept the Bulldogs fighting into
the end of the third quarter.
“They’re for real,” sophomore comer
back Asher Allen said of the same team
“Roller derby is basically a full
contact race on wheels,” said Brett
Buckelew, a senior speech commu
nications major from Dawsonville
and one of the original members of
the all-female team. “It’s a mix of
offense and defense, which makes it
interesting figuring that dynamic
out.”
The object of the sport is for a
skater to make it around a circuit
track while opponents try to
prevent her from passing them.
The league began earlier this year
when Buckelew and several friends
went to Atlanta to watch a roller
Water Saving Tip
Think at the Sink
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let the water run while rinsing. Fill
one sink with wash water and the
other with rinse water.
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Charles Bullock, a political science profes
sor, wrote Friday in an e-mail.
“That, I believe, has been
the experience of most, if Wr
not all, faculty in the School If ■m
of Public and International |s , S
Affairs.”
Bullock said he teaches || i
upper division political sci- f.
ence electives. He said five ly '
years ago. he would have |ff
taught about 65 students.
Now, his classes draw ADAMS
between 85 and 95 students.
“My enrollments have skyrocketed,”
Loch Johnson, an international affairs
See ADAMS, Page 3
that came close to beating Florida two
weekends ago. “They have all the intan
gibles needed to win a game. You saw it
out there, they can run and pass. It’s
amazing what they can do.”
While sophomore quarterback
Matthew Stafford has a solid day behind
center, the biggest story from the back
field was senior running back Thomas
Brown, who ran for 184 yards and three
scores.
“It was awesome just seeing (Brown)
See GAME, Page 6
Check out Instant Replay for the full game
analysis. SPORTS, PAGE 6
derby competition. They were
interested, but didn’t want to have
to make the commute to Atlanta
and decided to form their own team,
Buckelew said.
“It was basically three or
four girls putting on skates and
figuring out how to skate again,”
Buckelew said. “We definitely
looked to Atlanta for help, because
we didn’t know what we were
doing.”
The small group has now
expanded into two teams,
See ROLLER, Page 5
The Funnies
page 5
A University alumnus Scott Selsor
pioneers a college-themed comic
strip in a Los Angeles studio
inspired by his adventures in the
Classic City. Slack on inside.
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Student
struck by
bus given
citation
By CAROLYN CRIST
and VALENTINA TAPIA
The Red & Black
A 19-year-old University
female who was hit by a campus
transit bus Friday morning was
released from Athens Regional
Hospital that afternoon.
But police cited Sakura Faye
Yamazaki, who was struck just
after 10 a.m., for walking into the
path of a vehicle, said University
Police Chief Jimmy Williamson.
Yamazaki, an international
student from Japan, was cross
ing Baldwin Street from the Fine
Arts building toward Joe Brown
Hall.
“I didn’t see her get hit, but as
we were stopping I heard this
noise,” said KC Georges, a soph
omore from Marietta who was on
the Orbit bus. “Everyone turned
their heads, and the girl was
crumpled on the sidewalk. It
took a second to register that we
hit her.”
Many passers-by then dialed
911 on their cell phones, Georges
said.
Sgt. First Class Jeff Thompson
with the University ROTC was
the first to help.
Thompson, who arrived on
campus last week and has served
three tours in Iraq, worked quick
ly with other members of ROTC
to stabilize Yamazaki.
"She was bleeding from the
back of the head, and I was able
to cut her bookbag off and try to
steady her head and neck,”
Thompson said. “She was seizing
up and going in and out of con
sciousness.”
Sophomore Allison O’Shea,
who was waiting at the bus stop
during the accident, said
Yamazaki first tried to cross
Baldwin while the bus slowed
down as it approached the stop.
Yamazaki hesitated and then
attempted to cross again, O’Shea
said. She was struck by the front
right comer of the bus.
“Her eyes opened and kind of
rolled back, her head was bleed
ing,” O’Shea said. “Another stu
dent held her head, we told her
not to move. She was breathing.”
The bus remained at the scene
until about 10:45 a.m., when
Campus Transit Operations
Manager Chris Baker removed
it.
“No one was moving on the
bus, even at 10:10 a.m.,” Georges
said. “After people started help
ing her, I decided to go to class
and had to push my way to the
front of the bus. I wanted to give
the girl space because she was
lying next, to the back doors of
the bus.”
Police said the bus driver was
not at fault.
“He has not been charged with
anything and will not be,” said
Ron Hamlin, the University cam
pus transit system manager.
Yamazaki is recovering with
back pains and many bruises,
said friend Ching Er, a sopho
more from Malaysia.
“I talked to friends who are
close to her, and she needs to
rest,” she said.
◄ Pam Enlow, a
Junior from
California also
known as “Dirty
Hippie,” skates for
the “Dames of
Maim” squad of the
Classic City Roller
Girls. She practices
speed laps at the
Skate-A-Round on
Sept. 24.
Index
UGA Today 2
Wire 2
Opinions 4
Variety 5
Crossword 3
Sports 6
Sudoku 7
