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THURSDAY October i B, 2007 Vol. 115, No. 45 | Athens, Georgia Thunderstorms. High 73 | Low 65 ONLINE: w^jedandUadLcom 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 \ icWm \ ■ ik f Jr' ■ . 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 Reaching the Newsroom News (706) 433-3037 Variety (706) 433-3041 Sports (706) 433-3040 Opinions (706) 433*3043 Photo (706) 433-3046 Red&Black An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community ESTABLISHED 1893, INDEPENDENT 1980 coach, an opportunity to fulfill my dream,” Yoculan said in a news release. “This pro gram has come a long way since then, as have I, 1 II but I’m just as passionate about HKHplf what I do today and still love coaching. *. The girls past and present and the | experiences I’ve CLARK 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 DAWGTOBER FEST , -.' MR gijitoti. ggjggjgjgiai? v %c3aH mfiSxm PHOTOS BY SARA GUEVARA | The Red * Buck 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 Water Saving Tip Think at the Sink Place a toilet dam or bottle filled with water in your toilet tank to cut down on the amount of water used for each flush. - Unified Government of Alhens-Clarke County 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,” See COACH, Page 6A ’ '** * iHfiv c'A '• jr , ** & ' I4j FRANNIE FABIAN | The Red * Buck 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. Drink Responsibly 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. KELLY WEGEL I The Red * Buck OUCH? 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 See MEN, Page 5A Index UGA Today 2A Wire 2A 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.