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THURSDAY
October i B, 2007
Vol. 115, No. 45 | Athens, Georgia
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Yoculan to retire after 2009 season
Coach built team
from ground up
By TYLER ESTEP
The Red & Black
Gymnastics coach Suzanne
Yoculan, who has spent 25 years at
the helm in Athens, announced
Wednesday she will retire after the
2008-09 season. Longtime assistant
Jay Clark will succeed her.
“Twenty-five years ago, associ
ate athletic director for women’s
sports Liz Murphey gave me, an
inexperienced but enthusiastic
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4 Third-year pharmacy
student Richard Lo, 22,
from Cartersville, shows
Becca Lohmuller, 20, a
senior from Snellville,
how to perform infant
CPR using mannequins
on Wednesday during
DAWGtober Fest at the
D.W. Brooks Mall in front
of the Pharmacy School.
The annual event
educates students and
members of the Athens
community on health
issues ranging from
hypertension to asthma.
Maryam Alaei, a third
year pharmacy student
from Tehran, Iran,
checks the blood
pressure of Evan
Anderson, a second-year
pharmacy student from
Jesop during DAWGtober
Fest.
Project Vote Smart rolls into Athens, informs young voters
By JENNA MARTIN
The Red & Black
Voter education rolled onto cam
pus Wednesday in the shape of a
red- and blue-striped bus.
Project Vote Smart, a nonparti
san and non-profit organization,
planned its first tour for the Voter’s
Self-Defense System. The tour is
dedicated to informing citizens
about political candidates, cam
paigns and issues at all stages of
the government, said Jeremy
Clemens, legislative research direc
tor of Project Vote Smart.
The development of the Voter’s
Self-Defense System took more
than 16 years to complete and
required the work of more than
6,000 people, he said.
The system costs around sl2
million and is funded with personal
contributions or philanthropy foun
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coach, an opportunity to fulfill my
dream,” Yoculan said in a news
release. “This pro
gram has come
a long way since
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what I do today and
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shared with them
are what have made me who I am
today.”
Yoculan has led the Gym Dogs
to eight NCAA championships,
and built the Georgia gymnastics
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dations, Clemens added. Project
Vote Smart does not accept money
from any self-interest groups or the
government.
Clemens, along with Jonathan
Arnold, Project Vote Smart’s
national bus tour coordinator, trav
el to college campuses, libraries and
retirement homes across the coun
try.
They stop at five to six locations
a week and drive three to five hours
a day, Arnold said.
Clemens, who has been with the
organization on and off for five
years, said he wants citizens to
learn more about Project Vote
Smart.
“I thought it was very interest
ing,’’ said D.J. Bennett, a graduate
student from Monroe.
“They’re doing a real public
See VOTE, Page 5A
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program from the ground up.
“It’s her program,” senior Gym
Dog Katie Heenan said in a phone
interview Wednesday. “She envi
sioned everything that is in place
now. Everything was her vision.
She made it what it is.”
The four-time National Coach
of the Year leaves the reins in the
hands of Clark, a 16-year Gym Dog
veteran himself. Rumors of
Yoculan’s retirement have lingered
since the close of Georgia’s most
recent national championship
season.
“It’s kind of been talked about
before, but nothing definite,”
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A Jeremy Clemens (left), a legislative research
director with Project Vote Smart, and D.J.
Bennett, a first-year graduate student, talk at
the Project Vote Smart Bus Wednesday.
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page 3
Being found guilty of driving
while under the influence of
alcohol is a serious charge that
could haunt its violator for the
rest of his or her life.
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Read of students’ symbolic
expressions through body art.
OUT & ABOUT, B SECTION
Drought
proposal
outlined
By CLAIRE MILLER
The Red & Black
The Ad-Hoc University Task Force
on Water Resources met behind
closed doors Wednesday to discuss
possible water conservation strate
gies for the University.
“We’re very early in the process.
We’re trying to do basic fact gather
ing and when we get that data, we
can start to make recommendations,”
said Kathy Pharr, co-chair of the task
force, after the meeting.
Wednesday’s meeting was the sec
ond in a month-long series of meet
ings that will conclude with a report
to the administration on Nov. 15. The
report will outline both short- and
long-term recommendations for con
serving water and ways to improve
the University’s water supply, Pharr
said.
“When we submit this report, we
will have been meeting for a month,
and we will present our best input to
the senior administration,” Pharr
said.
Lonnie Brown, an associate pro
fessor in the law school and a mem
ber of the task force, said Vice
Presidents Arnett Mace and Tim
Burgess created the 12-member task
force to study the water shortage in
depth so the administration wouldn’t
rush to make changes.
“(The task force) can focus on the
issue and study the issue in detail” to
provide the administration with the
best options, Brown said.
“We have hydrologists on the com
mittee, we have Ralph Johnson, of
the Physical Plant on our
See WATER, Page 3A
Series weighs
role of media
in masculinity
BY TAMARA BEST
The Red & Black
The Office of Violence and
Prevention is sponsoring several edu
cational programs on relationship
and sexual violence in light of October
being Domestic Abuse Awareness
Month.
The series continues tonight with
the program, “Rethinking Masculinity
and Manhood.”
The blue card event, limited to 25
men, examines and highlights the
influence and role of media, society
and culture in constructing mascu
linity and violence against women.
“Usually when society talks about
the issue of violence, we generally
discuss ways that women can mini
mize their risks, but that is a very
narrow way of looking at it,” Larry
Gourdine, relationship and sexual
violence prevention coordinator at
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Opinions 4A
Out & About iB
Crossword 3A
Sports 6A
Sudoku 5A
< Head
University
gymnastics
coach
Suzanne
Yoculan
(left) talks
with Grace
Taylor
after her
balance
beam per
formance
during a
Feb. 16
meet.