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TUESDAY
January 20, 2009
Vol. 116, No. 84 | Athens, Georgia
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MLK Jr. day used for service
A day on, not off’ for many
By MIMI ENSLEY
The Red & Black
More than 700 volun
teers united forces
Monday to celebrate
Martin Luther King Jr.’s
legacy as a part of Hands
on Northeast Georgia’s
day of service.
At 25 project sites,
teams of Girl Scouts,
University students and
Athens residents left
warm beds behind as they
faced near freezing tem
peratures to give back to
the community on what
CHELSEA COOK | The Red & Black
▲ An estimated one-half million gather outside the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday for events leading up to President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration.
D.C. ‘patriotically bedazzled’ before inauguration
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there is one thing that I have
learned after the past two
days in Washington, D.C., it’s
that the inauguration of
Barack Obama, more than
any other in history, yields a
tremendous amount of
opportunity an opportuni
ty to make some fast cash.
The first African-American
president this sequined
portrait is worth every cent!
This moment will go down in
history buy this cup, and
get this one for free! Posters
and coasters, shirts and des
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The Red & Black
After watching tape of Utah
late Sunday night, or early
Monday morning, Gym Dogs
associate head coach Jay Clark
sent head coach Suzanne
Yoculan an ominous e-mail: “We
may lose tomorrow.”
The meet was even at 147.775
after the first three rotations,
but the No. 4 Gym Dogs made
Clark look bad Monday after
noon, topping rival Utah 197.150-
196.725.
“I told them, ‘Don’t compete
to stay on, don’t hold back,”’
Yoculan said. “They were com
peting so tentatively on balance
beam and almost afraid to make
a mistake, like they were com
peting not to make a mistake.
And you can’t do that.”
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pi'oject leaders called “a
day on, not a day off.”
The day was especially
relevant to some who saw
direct ties between Martin
Luther King’s message
and Barack Obama’s inau
guration today.
“You see a start with
Martin Luther King that’s
greatly progressed up to
this point,” said Patrick
Dever, a junior from
Atlanta.
At Barrow Elementary
School, volunteers com
bined their Martin Luther
King Jr. service projects
serts! DVDs from the “We
Are One” concert! Cupcakes
for change! “Yes We Can”
Tattoos! We call this coffee
the “Obama Blend” brew!
These vendors act like they
DANIEL SHIREY | The Red Black
A Senior Courtney Kupets flies through the air as she
performs the floor exercise at the meet against Utah on
Sunday. Kupets scored a 9.900 on the floor.
After besting Louisiana State
by nine-tenths of a point Friday,
Georgia’s 197.150 in its annual
Pink Out meet Monday was its
season high and just the second
197 posted by any team in the
nation this year.
With the score knotted going
into the final rotation, Georgia
stepped up on floor. Senior
Courtney Kupets led the way
Warm, fuzzy dogs
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Find out who called the men’s
basketball team “soft” after its
ego-crushing loss to the
Kentucky Wildcats Saturday.
with efforts to prepare for
the school’s inauguration
celebration.
While some groups
hauled mulch, pulled
weeds and built a sand
box for the school’s Pre-K,
others hung red, white
and blue streamers from
classroom doors.
“The connection
[between Martin Luther
King and Barack Obama]
speaks for itself,” said
Emily Baggett, as she
reached up to secure
some patriotic ornaments.
Baggett, a junior from
Warner Robbins, volun
teered with her fraternity,
Phi Sigma Pi.
didn’t expect Obama’s big
gest crusaders to already own
some Obama gear.
Nevertheless, people are eat
ing it up. Perhaps we should
embrace it, after all, isn’t
over-marketing the American
way? I just can’t imagine that
when Barack Obama started
his campaign, he ever
thought his face would be
patriotically bedazzled on
beanies and backpacks.
This whole experience has
been riding on a very fine line
between commemorating
and idolizing, respecting
with her third 9.9 or better of the
meet, and 9.875s from Abby
Stack, Hilary Mauro and Tiffany
Tolnay solidified the win after
Utah had a fall and two signifi
cant wobbles on beam.
“On floor, sometimes we come
with more of a spirit of timidity,
but we really attacked it
tonight,”
See GYM, Page 6
Other University
groups also participated
in the day’s activities.
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery
was just one of the sites
that attracted University
students. Representatives
from both the University’s
Horticulture Club and
Terry College’s Leonard
Leadership Scholars
Program helped clear wis
teria, English ivy and priv
et from the severely over
grown site.
From the time it was
founded in 1882, the
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery
was “the place to be bur
ied” for African Americans,
said Gail Tarver, the site’s
and exploiting.
I, too, will probably splurge
on an inauguration coffee
mug or an “I Was There” pin,
(although I am very pleased
with my Obama-edition
Metro pass) but if this mer
chandising goes too far, won’t
he become more of a celebri
ty than anything else? Has he
already? We could blame him
for being just so damn lik
able. (Who hasn’t come up
their own nickname for the
guy? Mine’s Bam-Bam.) But
See COOK, Page 3
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SCOTT YOUNG | The Red a Black
A Ben Katz, 22, from Macon, along with other
community volunteers, helps clear debris from
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery on MLK day.
project coordinator.
Though it was aban
doned in the 19705, the
East Athens Development
Reality Bites
Alumnae goes
on reality TV
By COURTNEY SMITH
The Red & Black
University alum Erica Renee
Johnson thought being chosen
as a contestant for the CW’s
new reality show “13: Fear is
Real” would be a fun way to
branch out and challenge her
self.
Little did she know it would
turn out to be some of the
most harrowing and difficult
weeks of her life.
“I didn’t really have any
information about the show
when I tried out so I was
expecting it to be kind of a
Real World type thing in a
haunted house, but I was so
wrong,” said Johnson, who
graduated with a telecommuni
cations degree in Dec. 2004.
“We didn’t get to stay in a
nice hotel and drive to do chal
lenges on camera or anything
like that. They really just
dropped us off in the middle of
the Louisiana bayou to fend for
Southern comfort
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CELEBRATE ON CAMPUS
View the Inauguration with the University
community at the following locations:
UGA Chapel, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Fine Arts Balcony Theatre, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Russell Library Auditorium, 12 to 2 p.m.
East Campus Village Fireside Lounge,
12 to 2 p.m.
Tate Student Center Theater,
11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall, room 407,1 1 :45 a.m.to 2 p.m.
The Georgia Theatre, free inauguration party,
7 p.m.
ourselves with only a little bro
ken down cabin where we had
to sleep on the hard floor.”
But, according to Johnson,
JOHNSON
the show’s participants also
shared their beds with two
types of creatures that Johnson
lists as the only things she
fears: roaches and rats.
As the show progressed, she
found that, although disgust
ing, the rodent infestation was
the least of her worries. In
order to win the $666,666 prize,
she had to combat her own
mind and body as the show’s
producers slowly set the stage
for them to turn against her.
“A lot of the time we would
all just be sitting around and
See TV, Page 5
the contestants
were not the
only things that
called the dingy
shack home.
Apart from the
alligators they
could hear
swimming
around in the
lagoon just a
few feet from
the cabin’s door,
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