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MONDAY
January 14, 2008
Vol. 115, No. 82 | Athens, Georgia
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▲ Valery By water (left), mother of the late Cayle By water, speaks to the media while Tiffiny Cohen,
Bywater’s sister, looks on during a press conference held at Bywater’s residence Friday. Divers from
Hall County found Bywater’s body in the pond in Memorial Park Friday afternoon.
BYWATER’S DISAPPEARANCE
Dec. 29 Dec. 29 — i Jan. 4 Jan. 9 “”—1 Jan. 10 Jan. 12 ““
Bywater was 30 Family, friends and A pair of The GBI GBI Crime
last seen in Bywater police search Memorial Bywater’s joins ACC Lab identifies
Memorial missed shifts Park. ACC officials eyeglasses police in the the body as
Park around at Aroma’s drag Memonal Park's are found search. Bywater’s.
6 p.m, lake, but find nothing.
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Bywater’s dog, Ollie, is seen running loose outside Police obtain a Divers from Hall
her 2004 S Milledge home. Concerned neighbors picture of Bywater, County’s Shernf s
contact police. Bywater's basement door is open which was taken Department find a
and her purse, wallet, cell phone and car are found the day of her dis- body matching
at her residence. appearance by an Bywater s
Bywater is later reported missing undisclosed person, description.
Gym Dogs go
West, muster
one win, loss
BY TYLER ESTEP
The Red & Black
An injured Gym Dogs squad
had a tough opening weekend
on the road, dropping a close
decision to third-ranked Utah
Friday before eking out a win
over Stanford on Sunday.
Georgia coach Suzanne
Yoculan said
earlier in the ~ a| . ~
week that her
Gym Dogs were
about a month
behind where r> flj
they should be H|l, M
due six off
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ies and other rT 3,
injuries earlier
in the week. KUrfcla
Her prognosti
cation proved to be true
Friday.
Top-ranked Georgia fell just
a tenth of a point shy of victory
in Salt Lake City, where they
claimed their third consecu
tive national championship
last season, leading for most of
the meet before falls on the
beam by juniors Courtney
Kupets and Tiffany Tolnay in
the final rotation meant that
the Gym Dogs had to count a
fall and would lose the contest
196.300-196.200.
The loss marked the first
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Emerson memorial service
overflows with mourners
BY ALEX BUSKO
The Red & Black
Cars lined both sides of
the narrow residential
street and SUVs sat on
curbs and front yards as
the parking lot of the
Central Presbyterian
Church overflowed into the
surrounding neighborhood
Friday. Friends, family and
others gathered to mourn
the loss and remember the
life of Meredith Hope
Emerson.
Emerson, a 24-year-old
University alumna who dis
appeared during a New
Year’s Day hike, was found
murdered in Dawson
County’s Vogel State Park
one week ago and will be
laid to rest in her home
town of Longmont, Colo.
Inside the church, a
young girl wandered up to
the glass and stared out at
the crowd from the nursery
where Emerson had worked
as a volunteer while attend
ing the University.
At 2 p.m., with every
pew filled from wall to aisle
and with the fellowship hall
reduced to standing room
only, the Rev. Deborah
Trimpe opened the service
with a reading from scrip
ture. Two close friends of
Emerson’s lsaac Wolf
and Robby Poister fol-
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▲ Mourners exit Central Presbyterian Church
Friday afternoon after a memorial service for
slain alumna Meredith Emerson. Emerson’s
body was found in the North Georgia woods off
a hiking trail Jan. 7.
lowed Trimpe’s reading
from the Book of Romans
with stories and memories,
telling just what made their
friend such a warm and
caring person and such a
pleasure, to be around.
Julia Karrenbauer,
Emerson’s longtime friend
and Buford roommate, and
Jason Emerson, a cousin,
also spoke.
Emerson acquired a love
Season skid?
page 5
Could the Lady Dogs pull it
together against those Auburn
Plainswomen? We won’t say
here - you’re just going to have
to turn those pages on your
own to find out.
for hiking after her family
moved to Colorado, and
was so moved by her room
mate’s dog, Brandy, that
she began her own search
for a companion. She res
cued the black labrador
mix she would name Ella
from an animal shelter, the
Atlanta Journal-
Constitution reported.
See MEMORIAL, I'tif/r 2
Graduate stude7it found
in Memorial Park lake
BY TAMARA BEST
The fen & Biack
Family and friends are reflecting on the life of
Cayle Bywater after her body was found Friday
afternoon in Memorial Park’s lake.
The preliminary cause of Bywater’s death was
ruled a drowning, and investiga
tors say they do not suspect foul
play.
Divers from the Hall County
Sheriff’s Department found
Bywater’s body at 4:30 p.m.,
almost two weeks after she was
last seen.
“While the search is over, there
are still a lot of questions that
have to be answered,” said her
mother, Valery Bywater. “There’s
so much I don’t understand.
HopefuUy, as they continue to investigate, things
will make more sense.”
Bywater’s body was taken Friday to the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab in
Decatur for an autopsy. On Saturday, the Crime
Lab officially identified the body as Bywater’s.
Her body did not appear to have been the vic
tim of violence, Athens-Clarke County Coroner
Bobby Tribble said. There were not signs of obvi
ous trauma.
Investigators await the findings of a toxicolo
gy test.
"She was a very hard-working student,” Beth
Daniell, a friend of Bywater's, said in a telephone
interview. “We struggled together sometimes,
but she was really enjoying class.”
Daniell talked about Bywater’s love for her
dog, who Bywater affectionately called Ollie.
“Oliver was about 2 years old, and she had
him for about eight months. She was always
talking about going running with him in Memorial
Park,” Daniell said.
ACC officials dragged the pond Jan. 4, but did
not find anything related to Bywater.
She was last seen in Memorial Park around 6
p.m. on Dec. 29 and was reported missing on
New Year’s Eve.
A pair of Bywater's eyeglasses were found
Wednesday, which spurred the 081 to join the
search Thursday.
It was a difficult end of two traumatic weeks
for Bywater’s family.
“We want everyone to know how bright and
loving Cayle was," Valery Bywater said during a
news conference Friday night. “She touched
everyone she met.”
Valery Bywater thanked the media, community
Sit BYWATER, Page 3
MUg-
Cotirrttr Michakl Lavinr
a Yo La Tengo will perform at Melting
Point at 8:30 tonight. Doors open at 6.
Yo La Tengo plays
in tour’s ‘third leg 5
BY VALENTINA TAPIA
■ The Red & Black
Touring in a band
for over two decades
may yield experience
with the lifestyle, but
it doesn't make it any
less strange.
“I think it would be
weird if a bunch of •
people driving around
the country didn’t
seem alien in some
way,” said Ira Kaplan,
a founding member of
Hoboken, N.J.-based
band Yo La Tengo, in
a telephone interview
Friday.
“Not only is (tour
ing) unsettling, I think
SET THE STAGE
After ‘four nights in
Alpharetta’ Doug Benson hits
up Athens. VARIETY, PAGE 3
BYWATER
Y 0 LA TENGO
With Kurt Wagner
When: 8:30 tonight
Where: Melting Point
Cost: S2O
it would be weird if it
wasn't. There’s a lot of
things I like about this
tour, but one of them
is by being different,
it's almost unsettling
extra unsettling,”
he said.
Kaplan said the
“Free-wheeling Yo La
Tengo Tour," which is
now in its “third leg,”
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