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THURSDAY
January 17, 2008
Vol. 115, No. 85 | Athens, Georgia
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STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY
Students and faculty can expect to
hear about this year’s University
goals during the State of the
University given by University
President Michael Adams at 2 p.m.
today in the Chapel.
Besides upcoming plans, Adams will
address the past year’s highlights and
big announcements, said Chuck Toney,
a speechwriter, in a telephone interview
Wednesday.
“[Adams] will address issues of con
cern areas we need to continue to
focus on and the University needs to
continue to put resources toward,”
Toney said.
Here’s a recap of Adam’s key points
from last year’s State of the University
address and what has happened since.
Jo Ann Anderson
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BY CLAIRE MILLER
The Red & Black
Students at universities across the nation
using campus servers lost a day of social net
working on the Web site Facebook.com during a
router error Wednesday.
Students at the University, Kennesaw State,
Georgia Tech. Clemson and Georgetown report
ed problems accessing the site on campus.
Bert DeSimone, associate director of
Enterprise Information Technology Services,
said the University is not blocking the site.
“There's no conscious effort to block
Facebook at the University,” DeSimone said
Wednesday in a telephone interview. “There’s a
problem outside of the University System of
Georgia with the Internet routers that route
messages between domains ... but it’s down
stream from us, so to speak.”
John Vanchella, special assistant in the
Board of Regents office of media and publica
tions, said the problem is related to the connec
tion between Peach Net and Facebook.
The Office of Information and Instructional
Technology “is aware of this problem but
doesn’t know much about it,” Vanchella said.
Peach Net is the state’s communications net
work for all of the state’s institutions.
But John Millsap, Board of Regents commu
nications director, said he didn’t know about
the site being inaccessable on some servers.
“That sounds like an institutional issue,”
Millsap said.
Matt Meador, a University student from
Lawrenceviile, said he and his friends tried to
access Facebook during class Wednesday but
couldn't.
Later that day, he spoke with his friends at
Kennesaw State and Georgia Tech, who were
having similar problems. Then he tried to access
the site through a different server and instantly
connected to the site, he said.
“We went to a proxy server online while we
were still on campus and we could access every
time,” Meador said.
Facebook began working on campus late
Wednesday, about 24 hours after it stopped.
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guard Sundiata
Gaines looks
to pass
around
Alabama
guard Rico
Pickett during
the game
- Wednesday
night. The
Bulldogs
defeated the
Crimson Tide
61 to 54.
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INCREASE SALARIES
► HE SAID: Adams focused on increasing
faculty salaries in his 2007 address.
► WHAT HAPPENED: The University
budget allocated a 3 percent increase in
salary for faculty and staff effective Jan. 1,
according to the 2006-2007 Annual Report
of Institutional Progress. The salaries of
the lowest paid University employees were
increased to $20,000, an increase from
$12,790 in 2002, according to the report.
UNIVERSITY EXPANSION
► HE SAID: Adams expressed a need for building
expansion for the art museum and the pharmacy
school.
► WHAT HAPPENED: The art museum reached its
fundraising goal of S2O million towards a 30,000 sq. ft.
extension to the Georgia Museum of Art. The pharma
cy school’s expansion will be completed in summer
2009.
► HE SAID: Adams called for future University expan-
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▲ 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Tretheway cheers on the Dogs before reading from her poetry
book. Tretheway is a former captain of the University cheerleading squad.
Alumna returns to read prize-winning poetry
BY ALEX BUSKO
The Red & Black
Poets may no longer be
celebrities in America, but
2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet and University alumna
Natasha Trethewey stood
before a crowded lecture
hall on Wednesday to read
from her latest collection.
“Native Guard.”
A woman on the front row
stood to take Trethewey’s
coat as she entered the room.
Several others approached
her, shaking her hand and
praising her work. Flashes
from three different photog
raphers flooded her with
pulses of light.
Trethewey, who earned a
Resurgent Bulldogs rip Tide to pieces
BIY LAWRENCE CONNEFF
The Red & Black
The Georgia men’s basketball team
finally got it right against Alabama
Wednesday night at Stegeman Coliseum,
holding off a late game rally to get its first
SEC win of the season in a 61-54 final.
The Bulldogs (10-5, 1-1 SEC) blew a
ten-point lead in the final four minutes in
Tuscaloosa last year capped of by a
controversial buzzer-beater —and again
let the Crimson Tide (11-7, 0-3) creep
back into the game.
Georgia led 55-43 with four minutes
Dogs on Ice
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Are you freezing today? These
University student athletes
drive an hour from campus to
practice and play in the cold.
President Michael Adams set to address
issues of concern and top priorities .
sion, which included proposed changes for the Navy
school site.
► WHAT HAPPENED: In partnership with the
Medical College of Georgia, the University proposed
to turn the Navy school property in Athens into a
medical school by 2012 or 2013, according to a Tuesday
news conference.
The University submitted its proposal for the Navy
school property, and the Board of Regents approved a
plan for the site.
bachelor’s degree in English,
was also the captain of the
University Cheerleading
Squad.
After completing her post
graduate studies, Trethewey
held teaching positions at
Auburn University, University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and Duke University. She
holds the Phillis Wheatley
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INCREASE ENROLLMENT
► HE SAID: Adams called for more graduate
enrollment in his 2007 speech.
► WHAT HAPPENED: According to the
University’s Office of Institutional Research,
there were 6,699 graduate students enrolled
at the University in the spring semester of
2007 and 6,214 in the fall semester of 2007.
The numbers are similar to the enrollments
of 6,679 and 6,918 in the spring and fall 2006
semesters.
Distinguished Chair and is a
professor of poetry at Emory
University.
The reading was spon
sored by the Georgia Review.
Stephen Corey, the publica
tion’s editor, gave opening
remarks and introduced
Trethewey to the audience
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remaining, but a late flurry of turnovers
allowed Alabama to cut its deficit to four
on a pair of Mykal Riley free throws with
1:42 remaining.
But junior guard Billy Humphrey
responded with a 3-pointer that put the
Bulldogs back up by seven with 1:14 left.
Immediately after, Sundiata Gaines and
Corey Butler forced Riley to turn it over
on the other end to thwart the comeback
attempt.
“We were in a little drought,” Gaines
said. “They came back, got a couple
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