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WEDNESDAY
October 17, 2007
Vol. 115, No. 44 | Athens, Georgia
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SGA votes against probation bill
Punishment deemed unnecessary
By CLAIRE MILLER
The Red & Black
The Student Government
Association voted Tuesday
against a bill to give members
probation for missing mandatory
events.
Senate Resolution 20-10,
written by Franklin College
Facility
deemed
best in
Georgia
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Child care center
receives award
By DIANA PEREZ
The Red & Black
Amid criticism for its small size
and long waiting list, the McPhaul
Center received the Georgia
Association on Young Children’s
award for Program of the Year
Tuesday.
Diane Bales, an associate pro
fessor and human development
specialist at the University, said
the McPhaul Center faculty and
staff found out about the award
last Friday.
Bales added that this is the
only award given to a group by
GAYC.
Bales, who also serves as the
president for GAYC, said she knew
about the award weeks before.
“The committee for the
award had already decided several
weeks before, but trust me, I
had nothing to do with it,” Bales
said.
Amy Kay, director for the
McPhaul Center, said, “We
were there Friday night, and there
was a rush of excitement as
everyone started pulling out
their cell phones to call up every
one else to let them know about
it.”
“This award is an affirmation for
the staff and administration, and it
is extremely honoring to be recog
nized,” she said.
Laura Jolly, interim dean for the
College of Family and Consumer
Sciences, also was present at
the outdoor award ceremony
Tuesday.
“This award is recognition for
the excellent work they do, and
it’s reinforcing the high quality
child care here,” Jolly said.
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Senator Clayton Cox from
Marietta, was voted down 11-15
with four people abstaining
from the vote.
The bill would have given the
Absence Review Board authority
to place senators and executive
board members on probation
for up to two months for missing
more than three mandatory
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JOSH D. WEISS | The Red a Black
▲ Michael Lachowski, bass player of local band Pylon, takes a swig from his Pabst
Blue Ribbon tall boy while signing autographs at Wuxtry Records Monday night.
The band held the signing in honor of Tuesday’s re-release of its album “Gyrate,”
first released in 1980.
Artist showcases multimedia in Athens
By MANDY RODGERS
The Red & Black
Elliott Earls has dabbled in
nearly every artistic medium
imaginable, including graphics,
music, film and sculpture.
This week, he’s bringing his
works to Athens, hosting lec
tures and film screenings, con
ducting a workshop and open
ing an art exhibition.
“I told him what a great
music town Athens is, so come
spend a week here,” said Mark
Callahan, associate director of
< Elliott Earls explains
aspects of his perfor
mance art at the Student
Learning Center Tuesday.
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events, office hours or
senate meetings.
“Rather than sending people
straight to Senate, we would
have this committee to review
the reasons for absences,” Cox
said.
SGA members who have more
than three unexcused absences
from these events go before the
Absence Review Board —a six
student panel that decides
if “the accused progress onward
Ideas for Creative Exploration,
a project-based program
involving students, faculty and
the community.
Callahan first heard of Earls
at Cranbrook during his gradu
ate study there, and then saw
him perform a one-man show
in Detroit.
“He was interacting with
video, playing characters on
the video and using instru
ments to trigger different
stuff,” Callahan said. “It was
really innovative and really
kind of blew my mind.”
Earls began art at a camp in
Ohio when he was 5 years old.
He said he won a contest to
make the “strangest hat” and
never looked back.
Towards the end of high
Dawgtoberfest
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Trick or treatment? The phar
macy school is giving out shots,
check-ups and other free treats
for its annual campus health
fair. These treats probably don’t
taste like candy, though.
in the expulsion process,”
according to the group’s consti
tution.
Franklin College Senator
McCoy Pitt from Atlanta voted
against the resolution, saying
probation “is an extra step that
doesn’t need to be imposed.”
“While I understand the
spirit of this bill, I think arbi
trary group members deciding
an arbitrary punishment could
be very dangerous,” Pitt said.
school, Earls said he explored
graphics as a way to make a
living in the arts. From there
he attended Rochester
Institute of Technology in New
York to hone his craft.
“Still to this day, I look back
on that time very fondly,” Earls
said. “I studied figure drawing,
2-D, 3-D designs. The basics of
form.”
Earls has received accolades
in his work, including the
Emerging Artist Grant from
Wooster Group in Manhattan,
the chance to perform at the
Exit Festival outside of Paris
and forming the Apollo
Program Studio, the studio
aspect of his work.
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FASHION MAG
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▲ University golfer
Krystle Caithness, a
freshman from St.
Andrews, Scotland,
poses for a portrait in
the Rankin M. Smith
Center on Tuesday.
Golf team
welcomes
talented
freshman
Woman hails
from Scottish
‘mecca’ of golf
By RYNE DENNIS
The Red & Black
For Krystle Caithness,
growing up in the place
known as “the home of golf”
could only mean one thing
she had to be a golfer.
Caithness is from St.
Andrews, Scotland, a mecca
to golfers and non-golfers
around the globe.
“Yeah, it’s my home
course,” Caithness said.
“There’s actually more than
just one course in St.
Andrews. There’s about six.
It’s pretty open [to the pub
lic] and there are visitors
everyday, and I play there
everyday.”
Caithness began playing
at the early age of four and
began competing when she
was only six. As she
>matured, the awards piled
up.
In 2004 and 2005,
Caithness won the Under-16
championships in Scotland.
In 2006, she won the Under
-21 tournament after shooting
20 under par, including a
10-under 64.
She won the 2006 St. Rule
Trophy at St. Andrews after
posting an 11 -under tally
that fell just one stroke shy
of the tournament record.
As she grew as a player,
her name was getting out
to major colleges overseas.
See RECRUIT, Page 8
WATER
CONSERVATION
TASK FORCE CLOSES
MEETING TO PUBLIC
The water conservation
taskforce meet today at 1:15
p.m. in Old College.
The University, which
has asked the student body
to help alleviate the water
shortage due to a severe
drought, has closed the
doors to the public. Access
has been denied to members
of the media. Members of the
panel were told, not to dis
cuss the meetings of the
committee.
For more information
about the drought and the
University’s taskforce to
save water, see page 5.
Index
UGA Today 2
Wire 2
Opinions 4
Variety 6
Crossword 3
Sports 8
Sudoku 7