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Proposed
coal plant
contested
Public hearings
in progress
By LEILA MATTIMORE
For The Red & Black
Students and residents in the
state have until Oct. 27 to voice
their opinions concerning the con
struction of a $2 billion coal-fired
power plant proposed for
Washington County.
Proponents of the plant say it
will reduce power prices and cre
ate jobs in the state, but adversar
ies worry about the potential costs
to the environment and local com
munity.
One student is joining the cam
paign to stop the approval of the
proposed plant, Plant Washington.
lan Karra, a freshman from
Roswell, is a member of Georgia
Youth for Energy Solutions.
“There comes a point when we
have to evaluate whether the ener
gy needs that our power compa
nies are telling us we have are
worth sacrificing our air quality,
our water quality and the econom
ic well-being of other communi
ties,” Karra said.
Power4Georgians, LLC, a group
of electric membership coopera
tives (EMCs), has proposed to
build the plant in Washington
County, just northeast of
Sandersville —and about 100
miles south of Athens.
The Georgia Environmental
Protection Division is responsible
for ensuring that the plant com
plies with air, water and a number
of other environmental regula
tions.
Power4Georgians submitted its
application in January of 2008. The
EPD reviewed the application and
released draft permits in August
of this year.
“The air and water impacts of
Plant Washington will not be lim
ited to Sandersville,” said Mary
Carr, renewable energy coordina
tor for the Southern Alliance for
Clean Energy. “This is really a
statewide issue. Even areas like
Augusta will be hit hard, because
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▲ Davd Hazinski, right, explains how the newsroom in the Grady College's TV station, WNEG, will work once
construction is complete. A large screen behind the main anchor desk will take the place of a physical set.
Univ. TV station WNEG has its ups and downs
WHAT YOU MISSED:
When Dean E. Culpepper Clark
interviewed for his position at Grady
College, he brought along the idea
of the TV station in 2006 after start
ing one at the University of Alabama
in 2001. Funded through ass million
grant by the University of Georgia
Research 'Foundation, the station
will retain the 32 reporters and sales
representatives from Toccoa. After a
four-month delay in construction, the
dollege just acquired a temporary
certificate of occupancy a few weeks
ago. Final installation should be
complete by December.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Dirtiest play in town
MATT EVANS
The Red & Beach
After the University the
ater’s production of “The
Grapes of Wrath,” audience
members will probably fore
go a night on the town for a
shower. If all goes according
to plan, anyway.
Stifled by the absence of
a budget, director George
Contini chose to make the
set of his production com
pletely out of other people’s
discarded junk. However, to
Contini, the trash-props
aren’t just the result of a
lacking budget, but are also
accurate portrayals of the
novel’s imagery.
“When I was doing my
research, I found these refer
ences where Steinbeck
described the camps that
they used to sleep in as look
ing like junkyards," Contini
said. “At the same time, my
neighborhood was having
foreclosures. All of these
people were just dumping
their belongings in their yard
before they left, which
inspired me to create the
entire set out of junk.”
From there, Contini pro
posed the idea to the cast.
“[I advised them to] start
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“We’ll see.”
That’s the theme of conver
sation about most aspects of
the University’s new TV station
WNEG which is housed in
the first floor of the Grady
College of Journalism and Mass
Communication.
David Hazinski, a telecom
munications professor, chuck
led when he used the phrase
several times, giving a tour of
the area to be occupied by the
Toccoa staff and sets in
December.
But students at Grady are
raiding attics, cellars and
farms to get old and rusty
items,” he said. But only
after receiving tetanus shots.
Much to Contini’s sur
prise, the cast delivered,
bringing in 250 props found
either at thrift stores or as
discarded trash.
“We would grab things in
rehearsal and say, ‘Hey what
can this be?’ and then make
something from it,” Contini
said. In fact, the main prop
of the play, the jalopy-truck,
is entirely composed of
trash-items, including the
tires, steering wheel and
bed.
The transformation of
trash into props, by defini
tion, makes this production
a concept play, as the set
symbolizes the concept of
the characters fighting to
overcome poverty. Still, the
cast initially found it hard to
interact with the junk-props.
“In the beginning, [the
props] looked to us like a
bunch of junk, but as the
weeks progressed we really
began to see what they rep
resented,” said Allison
Perfetti, a theater major
from Morristown who plays
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A video tour of WNEG
not laughing.
Despite big plans for the
future, construction delays and
financial problems pushed back
the opening of the studio and
completely disrupted class
plans for many Grady stu
dents.
Without a studio or news
room to produce a broadcast,
the capstone production class
wasn’t able to produce
Newsource 15 the student
run show that appeared on
Bulldog baseball player
arrested over weekend
By DANIEL BURNETT
Thf. Red & Black
Levi Michael Hyams, the
starting shortstop for the
University baseball team,
was arrested and charged
with underage possession,
giving false information to
an officer and possession of
a fake ID early
Saturday morning.
According to the
University Police
report:
Around 12:53 a.m.,
Hyams, 20, was found
lying in bushes after
being spotted
attempting to scale a
fence at the Campus
Transit facility on
Riverbend Road.
When the officer asked
him why he was in the
bushes, he responded that
his friends had left him and
he just wanted to sleep.
The officer noticed he
had bloodshot eyes and
smelled of alcohol. Hyams
said he went downtown, and
gave the false name of
“Michael Fischer” to the
officer, who could not find a
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Channel 15 at 5 p.m. through
last spring.
“This is what I call the Tost
class of Grady,’” said Faraz
Ahmed, a senior majoring in
broadcast and finance. “This
was my year to be in the pro
duction class. I tried it for a
week and then dropped it.”
Throughout the semester,
students were still in the dark
about the future of the stu
dent-run show. Only at an
“Open Mic” meeting on Oct. 1
did students begin to demand
answers.
“Will we be notified of the
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driver with the name and
birth date provided on the
fake Virginia driver’s license.
After several requests for
his real name, the officer
opened Hyams’ wallet and
HYAMS
batting .263 with five home
runs and 24 runs batted in.
Under Athletic Association
rules, Hyams’ arrest will pull
him from 10 percent of the
games in the spring or
five to she games out of the
Bulldogs’ 56-game schedule.
Hyams declined to com
ment when contacted
Monday by The Red &
Black.
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pulled out a debit
card with Hyams’
name on it. Hyams
confirmed the card
was his and he was
placed in custody.
Hyams began
playing for the
Bulldogs last season,
replacing Gordon
Beckham when he
went pro. Hyams
played in 61 games,