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THURSDAY
January 10, 2008
Vol. 115, No. 80 | Athens, Georgia
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Professors seek policy clarifications
Concerns rise
of delay, theft
BY BRIAN MINK
The Red & Black
The Board of Regents
addressed faculty concerns
regarding privacy, ambiguity
and potential for abuse before
it implemented its new crimi
nal background check policy,
a top official representing
Basketball team scores victory despite injuries
MEN’S BASKETBALL
GEORGIA 79, TECH 72
BY LAWRENCE CONNEFF
The Red & Buck
Billy Humphrey didn't
know Tuesday whether he
would play against in-state
rival Georgia Tech, let
alone lead the Georgia
men's basketball team to a
slump-busting win
Wednesday night in a
packed Stegeman
Coliseum.
Yet fighting through
nagging pain in his left
knee, the junior guard led
all scorers with 23 points in
a 79-72 victory over the
Yellow
Jackets.
The
Bulldogs
(9-4) had
lost three of
their last
five con
tests dating
back to Dec.
20 before
Corey
Butler
HUMPHREY
drilled a three-pointer with
1:38 remaining to give them
a 73-66 lead that effectively
put the game out of reach.
Humphrey, who has
dealt with the pain in his
knee for several weeks,
didn’t appear to be limited
by it, doing his damage
inside and outside to shoot
75 percent from the field.
“As long as I can get up,
I’m not too much worried
about my legs,’’ Humphrey
said
“If I can get my arms up
enough to shoot my shot,
then I’ve got a lot of confi
dence in it.”
Humphrey had an MRI
Monday that revealed he is
suffering from chondromal
acia, also known as “run
ner’s knee.”
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History maker suggests
‘expanding comfort zone’
BY STEPHANIE PERRETT
The Red & Black
The people we overlook in
life are often the ones who make
the greatest impact.
Georgia Department of Labor
Commissioner Michael
Thurmond shared this senti
ment with about 150 high school
students, University students
and faculty members on
Tuesday during the 23rd annual
Holmes-Hunter Lecture.
The lecture is held annually
on the anniversary of the
University’s desegregation to
commemorate Hamilton Holmes
and Charlayne Hunter-Gault,
the first two black students
enrolled at the University.
Thurmond said Holmes and
Hunter never would have been
admitted to the University with
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state professors said
Wednesday.
Hugh Hudson, chair of the
department of history at
Georgia State University and
executive secretary of the
Georgia Conference of the
American Association of
University Professors, said
the policy that went into
effect Jan. 1 at the University
represents the middle ground
in a proposal that initially
concerned faculty.
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out the help of a black janitor
who cleaned the University’s
admissions offices.
“Back then, if you were a per
son of color, it was impossible to
get your hands on an applica
tion,” Thurmond said.
Hunter and Holmes received
their undergraduate applica
tions from the Janitor who
slipped the documents into his
lunch pail during work.
Thurmond encouraged the
audience to build alliances with
people regardless of race, reli
gion, creed or occupation.
"If you want this day to be
successful, then commit your
self to expanding your comfort
zone,” he said.
With the help of many people,
Holmes and Hunter pried open
the doors of educational oppor
tunity at the University, he said.
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moniously (with the Board
of Regents) to come up with
a draft that was then provid
ed for the units” in the
University System of Georgia,
Hudson said. “The policy that
came out offered security
to the individual faculty. ...
(The regents) recognize that
individuals have rights.”
Professor John Morrow led
faculty efforts early last year
to address policy concerns
with University System
Chancellor Erroll Davis.
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A Michael Thurmond, the first black to hold a state
wide office position in Georgia, speaks Tuesday at the
Holmes-Hunter Lecture in the University Chapel.
“Holmes and Hunter recog
nized they had a greater pur
pose not Just an education
for themselves, but an educa
tion for many generations ahead
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“We had reservations about
the nature of the fact that a
private company would have”
employees’ criminal records,
Morrow said.
Morrow submitted a reso
lution in February 2007 to the
Georgia Conference of the
American Association of
University Professors outlin
ing several grievances with
the policy, including concern
that faculty were not consult
ed in its initial formulation
and its scope and procedures
of them,” he said.
Thurmond said Holmes and
Hunter would want University
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were unclear.
Also, the policy put faculty
at risk of identity theft or
invasion of privacy, which
made the hiring process less
friendly especially toward
international faculty —and
was a disproportionate liabil
ity compared to the relatively
small benefits, Morrow’s reso
lution read.
University Council appoint
ed a committee to address
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Univ. to
assess
need for
daycare
BY JOANN ANDERSON
The. Red & Black
After last semester’s debate
about the University’s child care
services, administrators will con
duct an online survey starting
today and create focus groups to
gauge the community’s child care
needs.
Faculty, staff and students
were informed of an online survey
concerning campus child care,
according to a news release issued
Monday by Arnett Mace,
University provost.
An e-mail will be sent today
with a link to the survey, and
everyone in the University com
munity, regardless of child care
needs, is encouraged to partici
pate, according to the news
release. •
The survey can be completed
until Jan. 22, said Donald Bower,
head of the child and family devel
opment department.
The focus groups, which will
be held Jan. 15 and 16, will include
faculty, staff and students who
volunteered or were recommend
ed. Mace said Tuesday in a tele
phone interview.
After the survey and focus
groups are completed, WFD
Consulting, a paid firm, will
observe child care services in the
area and offer suggestions to the
University, Mace said.
A child care committee
appointed by Mace will review
the results and provide input,
Bower said.
The Child Development Lab of
the McPhaul Child and Family
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Eyeglasses offer
possible evidence
After a pair of eyeglasses were
found Wednesday at Memorial
Park, Athens-Clarke County Police
are looking at pictures to deter
mine if the glasses are linked to a
missing University graduate stu
dent, according to a report by the
Athens Banner-Herald.
Cayle Bywater, 29, has been
missing since Dec. 29. She was last
seen in Memorial Park with her
dog.
A woman found the glasses in
Memorial Park and called
Bywater’s family, the Banner-
Herald reported.
Authorities have searched the
woods and lake of Memorial Park
and University’s intramural fields.
Detective Dustin Smith, the
case’s lead detective, asks anyone
with information about Bywater to
call (706) 613-3888, ext. 795.
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