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WEDNESDAY October 3, 2007 Vol. 115, No. 34 | Athens, Georgia P.M. showers. High S3 | Low S3 ONLINE: wwwiedandblack.com 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 f 7 , . .X"■ ■ ' . . ' • -A ; ; ; ; . -■■ V . 1 - , a %h 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. 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 198 0 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 Water Saving Tip Think at the Sink If your shower can fill a one-gallon bucket in less than 20 seconds, then replace it with a water-effi cent shower head to save more than 500 gallons a week. 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 Never Before The University just became the first college in the entire world GP+Wgmjji to do something this semester. df Find out the who, what, when, where and why of it inside. V-"' % 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 PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KELLY WEGEL | The Red a Buck HBBf J —l' - Wk wßm % m iJaBEEL • * Si *#** wf . % I|H| 1 1 - W * HI iff'' SARA GUEVARA j The Red a Black ▲ Alex Squires (left), a freshman from Richmond Hill, and James Webb, a sophomore from Warner Robins, practice 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 YOGATHON! Could you do yoga for 24 hours? Sun Salutations can. VARIETY, PAGE 5 Index UGA Today 2 Wire 2 Opinions 4 Variety 5 Crossword 3 Sports 6 Sudoku 5