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WEDNESDAY
October 3, 2007
Vol. 115, No. 34 | Athens, Georgia
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Puppies found dead and bruised
Student faces
felony charges
By JUANITA COUSINS
& ALEXIS GARROBO
The Red & Black
A University student who
worked at the veterinary hospi
tal and is accused of beating
seven puppies to death said
Tuesday the act isn’t anything
she would do.
“Whatever happened was
unintentional,” said Ashley
Rose Council, a junior from
Ellenwood, in a telephone inter
view Tuesday with The Red &
Black. “This isn’t anything I’d
do.”
Council, 20, was arrested and
charged with seven felony
counts of* animal cruelty on
Thursday nearly a month
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Date an athlete and help make
children’s wishes come true
By DENECHIA POWELL
The Red & Black
Scoring a date with a semi-fa
mous classmate and helping an
ailing child are two activities that
usually don’t go together. But
who says both can’t be done at
the same time?
The University’s chapter of the
Make-A-Wish Foundation is mak
ing it possible tonight at Wild
Wing Cafe.
Emily Rieder, co-president of
the chapter and a junior from
Georgia pharmacy
license exam ready
to be recommenced
By CLAIRE MILLER
The Red & Black
The National Association of Boards of
Pharmacy will reinstate the North American
Pharmacist Licensure Examination on Oct. 5,
according to a memo from the NABR
The NABP suspended administration of
this test and the Georgia Multistate Pharmacy
Jurisprudence Examination on Aug. 25 while
investigating University professor
Flynn Warren Jr., who was charged with
gathering and distributing previous test
questions obtained from students who took
the test.
Carmen Catizone, executive director of the
Georgia Board of Pharmacy, said the original
goal for reinstating the NAPLEX was Nov. 1.
“Our testing staff worked around the
clock” to get the test reinstated, Catizone
said.
Administration of the Georgia Multistate
Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination is sus
pended, but Catizone said the board is trying
to get the test reinstated quickly. They are
working on the software for the test, which
has been the limiting factor thus far.
“We’re working on getting the uncompro
mised items back in the test,” Catizone said.
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after a litter of puppies was
found in a dumpster off
Lexington Road.
She added, “This is so bad.
Everything is messing up. I
didn’t do anything.”
Council, who said she has
three dogs at home, would not
comment on the charges.
She is scheduled to appear in
Athens-Clarke County
Magistrate Court on Oct. 23.
In the meantime, Tom
Jackson, vice president for pub
lic affairs, said College of
Veterinary Medicine Dean
Sheila Allen plans to suspend
Council from employment pend
ing investigation.
Council’s part-time job at the
University’s Veterinary Teaching
Hospital entailed only clerical
work, said Tracy Giese, public
relations coordinator for the vet
school. She did not have con
tact with any animals,
Peachtree City, said the wishes
give the children a spark of hope
while they are going through hard
times.
“It really does help them stay
encouraged to keep fighting,”
Rieder said.
The group will be auctioning
off dates with student athletes to
raise money for a local three-year
old girl.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation
is a national organization that
grants wishes for children with
life-threatening illnesses.
Capoeira club makes fighting look friendly
Students 'preserve culture 9
By LIBBY DEAN
For The Red & Black
When junior Kyle Deal kicked his girlfriend in
the face, there were no hard feelings it was just
another Monday at the University’s capoeira
club, which practices Afro-Brazilian “dance fight
ing.”
While Deal said injuries are infrequent, the
participants practice at full speed. Though capoe
ira is a method of fighting, the actual practice
does not involve hitting the opponent, said soph
omore Zak Vaudo. Rather, the two “fighters” pur
posefully miss each other. All this is done to
music, which makes the “fight” look more like a
dance.
One of the common misconceptions about
capoeira is that it is choreographed. Deal said
capoeira is not scripted but rather practiced by
people acting and reacting to one another.
“You’re not wearing any pads and going full
speed,” he said. “You should have enough control
not to hit them. The way to ‘beat’ an opponent in
capoeira is to work so quickly that your opponent
cannot keep up.”
On Mondays and Thursdays at the Ramsey
Center, the University’s capoeira club team, which
became official in 2001, meets in the upstairs aer
obic rooms. The club’s main goal is to preserve
and enrich the capoeira culture, Deal said.
He added that capoeira is
See DANCE, Page 6
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Unified Government of Aihens-Clarke County
Giese said.
ACC Animal Control
Superintendent Patrick Rives
said Tuesday the saga began
Sept. 8 when his department
received a call from an employ
ee at the Golden Pantry on
Lexington and Cherokee roads.
The employee found a card
board box full of seven dead
black puppies in a dumpster
behind the store, he said. On
top of the box rested a metal
pipe, according to the incident
report. A label on the box
showed it once contained a
JCPenney comforter shipped to
Council’s address in Ellenwood.
An animal control officer
responded to the scene and
snapped pictures of the pup
pies, whose abdomens were
bruised and had red marks, the
report said.
“They were about 6 to 8
weeks old and too young to tell
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their breed,” Rives said.
Their bodies were taken to
the University vet school for the
necropsy of one puppy and the
storage of the other six bodies.
He said he was
unable to share
the preliminary
results because
of medical con
fidentiality
laws.
Rives said
officers traced
the puppies to a
call from a
woman earlier
that morning
inquiring if there was a limit of
animals she could surrender to
animal control. She told animal
control she had seven puppies
she wanted to put in the shel
ter. An officer told the woman
See PUPPY, Page 3
Marissa Mahovlich, the chap
ter’s student outreach director
and a junior from Roswell, -said
this is the first time they have
held a date auction to raise funds.
To grant one child’s wish, it
takes $5,000 to $6,000, she said.
“We figured that everyone
probably wants a date with an
athlete,” Mahovlich said.
Students will have the oppor
tunity to win a date with a variety
of University
See AUCTION, Page 5
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capoeira at the Tate Student Center Wednesday, Sept. 19.
The capoeira club practices every Monday and Thursday.
Second
female
reports
assault
Man took student
to ‘isolated area 1
By CAROLYN CRIST
The Red & Black
A University student is the sec
ond woman to report she was
abducted and sexually assaulted
by a male driving a white passen
ger van after the Georgia-South
Carolina football game,
Athens-Clarke County police said
Tuesday.
The first female to report the
case to police, a 20-year-old from
South Carolina, said she was
separated from her friends while
visiting downtown Athens and
was approached by a male
in a white passenger van. He
offered her a ride at 1 a.m. on
Sept. 9, and she willingly entered
the vehicle, according to the
release.
The male drove her to an iso
lated area on Amoldsville Road in
Oglethorpe County. She jumped
out of the vehicle and called police
at the nearest residence.
The University female notified
police after a friend explained the
incident to Kathryn Keith
Sims, director of Safe Campuses
Now.
“It’s important that police know
he actually raped a female during
this incident,” Sims said. “Some
students may be hesitant to report
it because they have been drink
ing underage or think police vPill
tell their parents, but that’s not
the case. We need to get the infor
mation out in case he has assault
ed someone else.”
The University female reported
“she was taken in a similar man
ner,” according to a news release.
She described a similar man and
white van and said she was
assaulted in the same area of
Oglethorpe County before the
male droye her to Firewood Street
and left her during the morning of
Sept. 8.
Nearly a month later ACC
police issued a warning.
See ABDUCTION, Page 3
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VARIETY, PAGE 5
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Variety 5
Crossword 3
Sports 6
Sudoku 5