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January 22, 2009
Vol. 116, No! 86 | Athens, Georgia
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State of the University to target economic woes
By VIVIAN GIANG
The Red & Black
University students, faculty
and the Athens community are
invited to hear University
President Michael Adams’
State of the University address
today at 3 p.m. in the Chapel.
The speech will review some
of the highlights of 2008, but
the main focus will be the
future and how the University
can strengthen itself despite
economic hardships, said
Chuck Toney, Adams’ speech
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Lady Dogs face tough opponent
without old offensive strength
By RYNE DENNIS
The Red & Black
The good news for the Georgia Lady
Bulldogs is that it ranks second in the SEC
in scoring defense this season, only allow
ing 52.7 points per game.
The bad news is that its opponent
tonight, Vanderbilt ranks third.
While the Georgia defense has been
stellar this season, the Lady Bulldogs aren’t
putting the numbers up on the scoreboard
that they are accustomed to on offense.
That is mainly because of a lack of some
one who can seize control of the game.
“When you look at the dynamics of our
basketball team, the skills are much differ
ent than [players] we’ve had in the past,”
Georgia coach Andy Landers said. “There
isn’t a go-to player.”
Four times this season the Lady Bulldogs
have failed to break the 50-point mark in a
game, and against Rutgers in early
December, they only managed 34 points.
But Landers has been around long enough
to know what constitutes a go-to player.
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writer and political analyst,
in an e-mail interview
Tuesday.
“President Adams will
address budgetary concerns,
but the speech will be more
optimistic and upbeat than
some might expect, given
those concerns,” Toney wrote.
In his January 2008
address, Adams focused on
four key points for the 2008
school year increasing
access to education, improv
ing the undergraduate expe
rience, improving interna
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“Go-to players are go-to players because
they establish the fact that they need the
basketball and want the basketball and
basically demand the ball and that they do
something with it,” he said. “Players misin
terpret things ... They may not feel com
fortable with being the go-to player.”
A large problem for the Lady Bulldogs
offense is that four-time All-American
Tasha Humphrey is not around anymore.
Still, Georgia needs to find somebody to
put the ball in the basket. The Lady
Bulldogs sit at eight in scoring offense
(65.1 ppg), ninth in 3-point field goal per
centage (29.9 percent) and ninth in free
throw shooting (66.5 percent). Without
Humphrey this season, Georgia is trying to
find the right pieces to its puzzle.
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ing research.
> INCREASING DIVERSITY
Adams said he wanted to
progress the demographics
of the University by better re
flecting the ethnic profile of
Georgia within the incoming
freshman class.
The numbers in
minority student enrollment
in fall 2008 are similar to previ
ous years, according to the
40th edition of the University
With their powers combined,
students strip for greener goals
By VINCE HAMPTON
The Red & Black
Some of the University’s ecol
ogy students took the theme of
sustainability to a whole nude
level. Covered in little but water
ing cans, bicycles and recycla
bles, they modeled in a 2009
calendar that encourages green
living.
“Well, sustainability is such a
buzzword right now so we want
ed to kind of coin on that,” said
Devin Myers a senior ecology
major from Atlanta and “Mr.
January” in the calendar. “Some
of our friends are really smok
ing.”
The idea for the calendar was
fleshed out when several partic
ipants saw someone with a sim
ilar idea.
“We just saw a guy who was
selling calendars of himself, and
while we didn’t think that would
be very feasible, we thought it’d
be a cool idea, something fun to
do to raise awareness on sus
tainability,” said Elijah Carter, a
University alumnus from Alma
who modeled for the project as
“Mr. September.”
Besides baring all for the
green living theme, the creators
wanted to stress the three R’s:
reduce, reuse and recycle. Their
message tries to convey the
importance to think of ways to
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Students who identified with
being in a minority group
comprise 21 percent of the
freshman class in fall 2008.
African-Americans make up the
largest minority group at 8.4
percent -a 0.2 percent increase
from 2007.
> UNDERGRAD EDUCATION
Adams also said that the
University wanted to increase
the number of tenure-track
faculty who teach first- and
conserve today so future gener
ations can enjoy the benefits of
a healthy environment.
Support for the project has
been widespread around cam
pus.
“It was just a really fun kind
of way to spread awareness
about sustainability and differ
ent easy things you can do
around your home to be more
sustainable,” said Karen Christ,
a junior from Peachtree City
who is not affiliated with the
project.
Members of the project said
family and friends have bought
copies, and people outside of
the Ecology Department have
expressed interest.
“It’s gotten bigger than any
one expected it to. All of a sud
den everyone on campus seems
to want one,” Christ said. “The
Dean [of the Ecology
Department] was very support
ive of the project. He thought it
was great.”
Most of the calendar models
are ecology students, but the
calendar project is not affiliated
with the Ecology Department.
When contacted by The Red &
Black, some members of the
project declined to comment on
the story to avoid associating
the calendar with the Ecology
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Three art majors and roommates
decorate their house with their
own paintings and ceramics and
have transformed their house into
an exhibition gallery.
second-year courses.
“Due to budget reduction,
we’ve lost ground on President
Adams’ original goals for
more tenure-track faculty
to teach first- and second-year
courses,” said Tom Jackson,
vice president of Public
Affairs, in a phone interview
Tuesday.
According to the Office of
Institutional Research, credit
hours taught by tenured and
tenure-track faculty have
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President
Adams
will speak
at 3 p.m.
today.
Budget
effects
Oasis
system
rehaul
Need for
easier model
By BRITTANY BINOWSKI
The Red & Black
Many faculty and stu
dents said they believe the
University needs to make
changes to Oasis, but
money for the new system
is hard to find.
The administration
understands the need for a
new online system that
allows students to register
for classes and track impor
tant information but just
doesn’t have the money for
it, pushing anew system
down on the University’s
long list of priorities, said
Rebecca Macon, the
University registrar.
Macon, who has been
trying to get approval for a
new student system for the
past four years, said she
strongly believes Oasis
needs a major change.
“This is the worst student
system I’ve ever worked
with,” Macon said. “I’ve
worked in higher education
for over 30 years, and this is
the worst I’ve seen.”
She said the system
should be more intuitive,
friendlier and easier to use.
With a newer and better
system, it would be easier
to reset pin numbers,
request transcripts and
organize student informa
tion, Macon said.
“In these hard times we
can’t say that we’re a high
er priority than hiring more
faculty,” Macon said. “We
can’t say that. It’s definite
ly a struggle.”
To change the system,
the University needs a
mandate from the Board of
Regents to supply neces
sary funds.
“It is a very old system
developed 20,30 years ago,”
said Rehan Khan, the asso
ciate chief information offi
cer of Enterprise
Information Technology
Services. “Most of the peo
ple that created Oasis are
no longer available, so it’s
very difficult to support
right now.”
Macon said the University
is the only school in Georgia
that uses Oasis instead of
Banner —a newer, more
relational system. She said
it’s hard to implement poli
cy changes with a system
that only a few understand.
“For us, it is a very labor
intensive process,” she
said.
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