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DANIEL SHIREY | The Red a Black
By CHELSEA COOK
The Red & Black
Bless his heart.
Miss Gwinnett
County has a boy
friend. He may not
have realized there are
some responsibilities that
come with thgt .title;
“We call them pageant
boyfriends,” said Jessica
Black, the title-holder and
University senior from
Garfield. “Because there
are some guys that get it
and some guys that don’t.
He holds my little marker
when I have to sign auto
graphs and takes pictures
and stuff. He’s really sup
portive, I really appreciate
that about him.”
Miss Gwinnett County
also has a part-time job as
a pharmacy technician for
CVS, five finals next week,
six more games where she’ll
cheer on the Diamond Dogs
as a Diamond Darling,
bingo nights at a nursing
home twice a week, gradu
ate school applications to
be a physician’s assistant
and she still doesn’t have
her dress picked out for the
Miss Georgia pageant this
summer.
She’s not the only one.
University students have 14
reigning pageant queens
among their peers for 2009
half of them will go on to
the Miss Georgia pageant,
whose queen could be
crowned the next Miss
America.
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DANIEL SHIREY | The Red a Black
► (Right) Miss
Warner Robins,
Channing Wood,
is majoring in
biology and
works in the
poultry science
iab. (Below)
Georgia
Watermelon
Queen, Lindsay
Mann, plays the
harp and piano
for weddings
and other
events. They
are two of 14
reigning pag
eant queens at
the University.
DANIELLE MOORE ! The He i, . Bea, k
▲ (Above) Miss Gwinnett County,
Jessica Black, works as a pharma
cy tech at CVS. (Right) Miss Black
& Gold Georgia, Tiffany Hobbs, is a
Ramsey fitness instructor.
ances and 8 a.m. classes,
interview coaches and all
night study sessions, these
14 women hardly are run
ning on empty.
They are on the con
trary mastering their time
management and using
every aspect of their busy
lives as fuel for their journey.
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Miss Southern
Heartland, Laura Stone,
just recently got into pag
eants because she was
“freaking out about pay
ing for college.”
This sfeems to be a
common sentiment among
the women —and even in
. GETTING OUT OF A FUNK
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WAITES LASETER | The Red * Black
the most dismal econo
mies there is a lot of
scholarship money that
comes with the crown.
“I’m going to college for
free this semester,” Black
said. “I paid for
See QUEENS, Page 5
Coming off a second loss
to Jacksonville State, the
Georgia baseball team is
looking to regain its form
and play like a top 10
team. See Page 11.
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Opinions 4
Zinkhan:
the man
behind the
manhunt
By DANIEL BURNETT
The Red & Black
Before he was George Martin Zinkhan
111, the alleged murderer, he was Martin
the smart and likable kid from the Boys’
Latin School of Maryland.
That smart, likable kid eventually grew
into a polished professor at the University of
Houston.
William Locander was on the team that
hired Zinkhan as a marketing professor
there. He said he remem
bers Zinkhan as a prolific
scholar and a family man.
“He liked to get out with
his kids from his first
marriage,” Locander said.
“He was very devoted to
his children.”
For Locander, memories
of Zinkhan are not com
prised solely of mug shots
and police tape.
There are picnics, social
events with families —-
images of a man with a
genuine interest in listen-
ing to people.
“This is an absolute, total shocker,”
Locander said. “People [who knew him] just
can’t believe it was George.”
Locander said Zinkhan enjoyed badmin
ton in the backyard and had an indescrib
able sense of humor. He added that Zinkhan,
intently focused on establishing his career
in marketing research, was also student
oriented and generous with his time
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JIM DIFFLY | The Red & Black
▲ Senior Ross Ridgewell hopes to
leave his name “etched in the record
books and be remembered.”
Aussie races clock
to score track title
By ZACH DILLARD
The Red & Black
Roo is determined to leave a legacy.
Ross Ridgewell, affectionately dubbed
“Roo” by a former coach, was destined to
make a significant difference somewhere
even if he had to make one on the opposite
side of the world. The native Australian has
nestled his way comfortably into the
University’s community in his three years in
Athens, as well as in the Georgia track and
field record books.
Asa senior middle distance runner,
Ridgewell holds the fourth-best time in
Georgia history in the outdoor 800-meter
run, and he understands he has only a few
more chances to break the mark and win an
SEC and NCAA 800-m title.
“I have been here [at Georgia] for three
years now and have absolutely fallen in love
with this place,” said Ridgewell, named an
All-American after his junior indoor season.
“I would love to leave my name etched in the
record books and be remembered here for a
long time.”
The conference and national titles have
proven to be elusive for Ridgewell in his ten
ure on the track. In his junior indoor
See RIDGEWELL, I'age 12
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Something is blooming on top
of the geography building. One
University class built a rooftop
garden that is helping to feed
the hungry in Athens. Check
out our Web site for the story.
Crossword 2
Sudoku 11
Athens, Georgia
George
Zinkhan in
college.
