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MONDAY
January 12, 2009
Vol. 116, No. 79 | Athens, Georgia
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FRANNIE FABIAN | The Red a Biack
▲Shireen Judeh, president of Athens for Justice in Palenstine, protests in solidarity for Gaza. The protes
tors marched from Woodruff Park to the CNN center. It was one of many protests calling for ceasefire.
Demographics merge
to end Gaza violence
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FRANNIE FABIAN] The Red * Black
A Children protest the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza. More
than 880 people have been reported dead since Dec. 27.
ON THE AIR
Culture, tradition perseveres
despite new location in Tate
By LAURIE MCGOWAN
The Red & Black
As the birthplace of leg
ends R.E.M. and DJ Danger
Mouse, it’s no wonder WUOG
is causing such a commotion,
rehashing old memories as it
packs up and relocates to its
new home inside Tate.
Indeed, the history of the
station lends itself well to
Athens’ fame, and some of
the town’s distinction is actu
ally because of WUOG’s long
time on the air.
Therefore, it comes as no
surprise that Memorial Hall
had been the beloved home of
90.5 FM for 36 years mak
ing this a momentous move.
“WUOG’s No. 1 fan is a
man named Richard Worley,
who lives in the mountains of
North Carolina and somehow
magically gets WUOG,” said
Jenny Peck, the general man
ager of the station. “If I was
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CALLING FOR JUSTICE
ever late to the station and it
was not turned on before 8:15,
I would get a call from
Richard on the request line
asking me why we were off
the air.”
It is sensible, then, to ask
what has put this memorable
venue into retirement? Well,
the answer is actually quite
rudimentary Memorial Hall
will soon be the site of anew
student services building,
functioning much like the
Bursar’s Office does now.
It seems unfortunate
WUOG should have to move,
however, “the good thing is
that Memorial wasn’t initially
made to be a radio station
we just had a DJ booth and
built sound-proof walls,” Peck
said. “But Memorial did have
a character all of its own with
stuff pinned to the walls and
graffiti from bands and people
who had passed through
the new space is a bit corpo
Queen Rollerball
page 5
The Classic City Rollergirls are
seeking women 18 and up to
attend roller derby “boot
camp.” The faint of heart need
not apply.
By TIFFANY STEVENS
The Red & Black
As the crossfire between Palestinian and
Israeli forces continues, students on campus in
support of both sides approach the conflict with
different solutions for peace.
Though armed conflicts have occurred
between the two nations before, the most recent
conflict occurred Dec. 27 when Israel began its
attack against Hamas, a Palestinian political
and military organization. More than 880 people
have been reported dead since the initial attack,
according to New York Times reports.
Shireen Judeh, a senior from Duluth and
president of Athens for Justice in Palestine, said
the war in Israel affects her particularly because
she is of Palestinian-American descent. Judeh
said she feels she has a moral obligation to
make her community aware of the Palestinians’
plight.
“The most recent atrocities in the Gaza Strip
have deeply affected anyone and everyone who
has heard of them,” Judeh said. “At the [pres
ent] time ... over 800 people in Gaza have lost
their lives at the hands of the criminal Israeli
war machine, one third of those people are chil
dren, and over 3,200 people have been wound
ed.”
Yasmin Yonis, a sophomore from
Lawrenceville, said her involvement in the fight
for justice in Palestine stems from her commit
ment to human rights, rather than from a dis
like of the Israeli nation.
“Without the U.S., [the conflict] would not be
happening,” Yonis said. “My tax dollars are
being used billions, billions and billions of
dollars a year are being sent to Israel to fund
genocide, to fund murder.”
See GAZA, Page 3
FRANNIE FABIAN I Thk Red a Buck
▲ WUOG, a student-run radio station, moved from
Memorial Hail to its new location in Tate Friday.
rate feeling at the moment.”
Yet fear not although
the locale has changed, tradi
tion has not.
“Just because we are in a
corporate space does not
mean we’ll have corporate
music. We are sticking to our
music philosophy. We want to
try to preserve the culture of
WUOG,” Peck said.
Sticking to tradition they
are —and have been. As the
place where it all began for Of
A
Montreal and R.E.M., Live in
the Lobby still airs today.
Ears were first privy to DJ
Danger Mouse during the
Halftime Hip-Hop Show, and
it, too, remains on the air
waves with host Akeeme
Martin.
In retrospect, members of
WUOG view the move in a
positive light as well. “It’s a
newer bigger place in a better
See RADIO, Page 5
Gym Dogs Woes
page 6
Find out what troublespots
created the Gym Dogs’ lowest all
around team score since the 2005
NCAA Regional.
ON THE WEB
See what The Red & Black
says about last weeks news.
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Students’
jobs at
risk from
low funds
By RAISA HABERSHAM
The Red & Black
University students who have part-time
jobs through work-study programs may
lose their positions because of low federal
funding.
The Office of Student Financial Aid is
changing the way it awards federal work
study and “will no longer hold positions
for returning students,” according to an
e-mail sent early last week to all University
federal work-study students.
Federal work-study is given on a “first
come, first serve” basis, and the office
encourages students to complete the
financial aid application as early as possi
ble, even if they intend to return to the
same department.
“We anticipate that for 2009-10 Award
Year those funds will run out even earlier,
perhaps as early as March,” Sherryl Fern,
the University’s federal work-study coor
dinator, wrote in a Jan. 7 e-mail.
The University averages between 365
to 375 students who are awarded and
employed under the federal work-study
program annually. There is no set maxi
mum number of federal work-study stu
dents per department.
See JOBS, Page 3
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I LANA MCQUINN I The Red Buck
▲ South Carolina’s Jewel May
attempts to block Georgia’s Danielle
Taylor during the game Sunday.
Lady Dogs’ coach
approaches lofty
career milestone
Junior playmaker
aids in 799th victory
By MANIK K. GUPTA
The Red & Black
Andy Landers is one step away from
achieving a milestone that only four other
Division I women’s basketball coaches
before him have accomplished.
Eight hundred victories.
But, before the Georgia women’s bas
ketball coach can celebrate number 800,
he needed a big basket from his junior
playmaker to save the day to get number
799. And Ashley Houts did not disappoint.
With the score tied at 63 with 1:10
remaining in the contest, Houts scored six
straight points to help lead Georgia (10-6,
1-1 SEC) to a 69-63 victory over South
See HOOPS, Page 7
Index
UGA Today 2
Wire 2
Opinions 4
Variety 5
Crossword 2
Sports 6
Sudoku 7