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FRIDAY
January 16, 2009
Vol. 116, No. 83 | Athens, Georgia
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For some, inauguration worth the trip
Others plan to
view from home
By DANIEL BURNETT .
The Red & Black
Several University students
are planning on braving the cold
Washington, D.C., weather and
epic crowds next week to witness
the historic inauguration of
President-elect Barack Obama.
“It’s going to be a madhouse,
but it’s going to be fun,” said
■ Suzanne
Yoculan
started the
‘Think Pink”
meets in
NCAA gym
nastics.
Gym Dogs
trade bare
feet for
stilettos
By TYLER ESTEP
The Red & Black
Talya Vexler knows it’s
not always about gymnas
tics, and, at least for one
weekend, Georgia’s Gym
Dogs will too.
After their road meet
with LSU tonight, the Gym
Dogs will return to Athens
for a breast cancer weekend
of sorts, hosting their first
“Stiletto Race” Sunday
afternoon before taking on
Utah in their annual “Pink
Out” meet Monday, both to
raise money to fight the dis
ease.
It’s something Vexler, a
former Gym Dog who was
diagnosed with breast can
cer in 2003, knows is all too
important.
“People aren’t immune to
it, and I certainly wasn’t,”
said Vexler; a four-time All-
American as a Gym Dog.
“The whole awareness
thing, I think people don’t
really think about what that
means, but young girls need
to be more aware of their
bodies. The reason that I’m
alive is because I found a
lump myself and went to the
doctor.”
At the time of her diagno
sis, Vexler was 22, done com
peting but still in school, and
the youngest person ever to
be diagnosed with breast
cancer in the Athens area.
Now five years in remis
sion, Vexler’s cancer and
Gym Dogs coach Suzanne
Yoculan is now the reason
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Mehul Patel, a junior from
Grayson who requested his tick
et from his congressman last
March.
Not everyone interested in
attending the inauguration was
lucky enough to secure one of
the roughly 250,000 tickets from
their congresspersons.
Emily Kane, a senior Ph.D.
student from Manassas, Va., said
she plans on taking her nieces to
the event, but will watch Obama’s
swearing-in from the National
Mall.
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DANIEL SHIREY j The Red & Black
A Andy Landers waves to the crowd after his 800th career win Thursday night as
Georgia beat Savannah State 74-28. His players credit his success to his passion.
A dream come true
page 3
Forty-six years ago, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. had a dream.
See what the University is
doing to honor the late
reverend.
ON THE WEB
Check out an editor’s travel blog, “C.C.
goes to D.C.” as she covers the ceremony.
of purpose after eight years of
what I think of not really know
ing our purpose,” Kane said in a
phone interview Wednesday. “It
does matter that we believe in
the country we love and in the
people who lead it.”
Students who plan on attend
ing the event need to remember
to “pack [their] patience,” said
Univ. department to break new ground
By DALLAS DUNCAN
The Red & Black
Almost seven years after pur
chasing 237 acres off Highway 78,
the animal and dairy science
department can begin construc
tion on a state-of-the-art facility
Dpuble Bridges Farm.
Construction is scheduled to
begin in March or April 2009, said
Keith Bertrand, department head
of animal and dairy science, in an
interview Tuesday.
Bertrand said he believes the
best part of Double Bridges is
“that all the units, except for
equine, are close together, which
makes it a lot easier to manage
and help each other across the
Belen Moran, state health risk
communicator for the Georgia
Department of Human
Resources.
“There’s going to be a lot of
people there,” Moran said in a
phone interview Thursday. “We
want our Georgia students to be
ready and be prepared because
anything can happen.”
But for students who are not
planning on making the 594-mile
trip from Baxter hill to Capitol
Hill, campus groups and local
businesses have announced pub
lic broadcasts of the swearing-in
units.”
The Double Bridges project was
initiated when the current South
Milledge facilities —most of which
were built between 1950 and 1970
began to show their age, said
Robert Dove, associate professor
of animal and dairy science, in an
interview Monday.
Initially, the animal and dairy
science department intended to
renovate the existing buildings.
The construction costs of reno
vating the current facilities were
extremely similar to the cost of
building a brand new facility, Dove
said.
Because the University is also
expanding down South Milledge
and space is in high demand, con
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the SEC Indoors this weekend
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of the 44th president.
“We thought that people
would come together and watch
it since it’s such a historic event
in our country,” said Vanessa
Smith, director for programs and
outreach in the Office of
Institutional Diversity. Smith
said she worked to set up view
ings in the Russell Library
Auditorium, the Fireside Lounge
in East Campus Village and
Adinkra Hall in the Cultural
Renter.
See PRESIDENT, Page 3
800!
Landers reaches
career milestone ,
remains modest
By RYNE DENNIS
The Red and Black
It’s easy to see why Andy
Landers has been around long
enough to reach the 800-win mile
stone.
He cares.
Players, past and present, speak
of the influence that Landers has
had in their lives, whether on or off
the basketball court.
“[Landers] has probably played
every male role that he could pos
sibly play in a young female’s life,”
said former Georgia great and five
time Olympian Teresa Edwards.
“He’s gone from being a father fig
ure to a hell of a great coach, to
like a brother to me throughout
my lifetime.”
Landers’ mark as a “father fig
ure” to players began with the
foundation he created when he
came to Georgia in 1979.
“There’s a few great basketball
programs out there ... I don’t think
that there’s that many great peo
ple programs out there, and that’s
what we have always strived to
do,” Landers said. “What makes
fathers special is that they care
about their kids and they want the
best for their kids.”
What has been such a success
since day one continues to resound
through Stegeman Coliseum year
in and year-out - that Landers is a
special person to each of his play
ers.
In the landmark victory,
Meredith Mitchell became the 64th
freshman to start a game under
Landers during his historic Georgia
career. And she is learning why
Landers has been so successful.
“Even during practice, he will
pat you on the back and say things
like, ‘good job last semester,’ or ‘I
heard you did good on your test,”’
she said. “He’s very involved and
very supportive of us.”
See HOOPS, Page 6
INSIDE
Check out the game recap
structing anew facility was good
for both the University and the
animal and dairy science depart
ment, said Robert Stewart, animal
science project coordinator. Hence,
the Double Bridges project was
bom.
Double Bridges is designed as a
modern, environmentally-con
scious farm that will “put students
into a facility that lets them see
operations in a commercial set
ting,” Dove said.
Kevin Kirsche, assistant direc
tor of planning in the Office of
University Architects, is the proj
ect manager for Double Bridges.
He said in an e-mail interview
See FARM, Page 3
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