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Football player assaults woman for third time
By JACOB DEMMITT
The Red & Black
The University football player
arrested and dismissed from the
team earlier this week was jailed
after slamming a University stu
dent on the ground, according to
the University Police report.
All of defensive end Montez
Robinson’s arrests, including the
Economic
climate
decreases
donations
By POLINA MARINOVA
The Red & Black
The University prides itself
on raising more than SIOO
million each year, but the
number is misleading.
According to the Voluntary
Support of
Education
report for fis
cal year 2009,
the University
received close
to $67 million
in private
gifts.
The report
does not take
into account
LANMUM
money raised by the Athletic
Association.
Tom Landrum, senior vice
president for External Affairs,
said private donations are
especially important to the
University in order to supple
ment what the state of
Georgia already provides. He
said private money can be
used where state money can
not, including scholarships
and support for student ser
vices and activities.
“I think we've made a good
deal of progress over the last
20 years in our overall fund
raising success, and a lot of
that is attributed to the
excellent reputation that the
University has achieved over
that time,” Landrum said.
When asked if private
money could be used toward
helping with the recent bud
get cuts, Landrum said exist
ing endowments from donors
have gone down as much as
30 percent because of the
economic climate.
“As generous as our donors
have been, that money alone
See FUNDS, Page 5
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▲ Monday's Bulldog Nation Blood Drop, hosted
by the Red Cross, attempted to break the world
record of 800 people standing in the shape of a
blood drop. Only 120 participants attended.
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most recent charges of simple
battery and family violence, have
been tied to a female student
who, according to University
Police Chief Jimmy Williamson,
has had an on and off relationship
with Robinson for some time.
The most recent incident took
place at 3 a.m. on April 2 as
Robinson “grabbed and pushed
[the victim) off of his bed and
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▲ Sophomore Erin Arevalo (far right) earned her 15th win on the season in Georgia’s shutout Monday night.
Bulldogs flex offensive muscles in five-inning shutout
By ZACH DILLARD
The Red & Black
It took the No. 8 Georgia soft
ball team less than two hours to
dispel its in-state opponents
Monday evening.
Georgia (27-8) dominated
Georgia Southern to the tune of
10-0 at the Georgia Softball
Stadium, putting 10 quick runs
on the board and setting down
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then picked her up and slammed
her on the ground,” according to
documents obtained bv The Red
& Black.
“She’s had a relationship with
him.” Williamson said, “and her
coming to the police for the sec
ond time indicates she wants
some intervention on our part.”
Robinson’s first simple battery
charge came as a result of a fight
the Eagles in rapid succession in
the five-inning victory.
Sophomore pitcher Erin
Arevalo chalked up the win for
the Bulldogs, improving to 15-5
for her five innings of work.
Arevalo had been rather
struggling of late, compared to
her early-season dominance, but
she used the in-state competi
tion to get back on track. The
Lathrop, Calif., native struck out
Graduate fabricates kids’ fantasy into reality
Designed sets for
Nickelodeon
By MICHAEL PROCHASKA
The Red & Black
Alumnus Eric Baker has a color
fill resume, literally.
For seven years after college, he
grew accustomed to the orange
logos surrounding his desk at
Nickelodeon studios.
He then moved on to the green
glare of Hermit the frog, the yellow
canopy of Big Bird’s fluiiy feathers,
and now the dark and ominous
shades of Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry
His job is in design, art and
makeup and puppetry, but chil
dren can just call it magic.
“I was inspired by Jim Henson.
He passed away my senior year at
Georgia, so I never got to meet
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involving the same victim on Oct.
20. According to witness state
ments, the argument turned vio
lent, and Robinson injured the
victim when he threw her against
a trash can.
Around the same time these
arrest warrants were issued,
police also charged Robinson -
See ARREST, Page 2
SOFTBALL
Georgia 10, Georgia Southern 0
six batters while only allowing
three hits including freeing
herself from a jam in the top of
the third to preserve the lead.
“We did a good job of the
team really banding together
today,” first baseman Brianna
him, but 1 was always inspired by
the Muppets,” Baker said. “I start
ed doing puppet shows in second
grade to kids at school. In college,
when I was living in Reed Hall for
three years, I had a whole little
shop in my dorm room. On
Halloween, everybody in the hall
would come to me to help put their
costumes together.”
Baker landed his first job while
still enrolled in journalism and film
production courses.
“There used to be a little TV
station in town, right across from
the Georgia Theatre. Once a week,
they did the ‘Larry Munson Show,’
and Larry Munson would come in
from Atlanta and do a live show
talking about what had gone on in
Georgia sports that week,” Baker
said. “I went up and said ‘hey, I’m
a makeup artist, and I want a job.’
So they gave me a Job as Larry
Munson’s makeup artist, and that
was my very first Job in television."
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Hesson said. “Erin was phe
nomenal today, and her spins
especially looked phenomenal
from what I could see at first
base. She did a great job today,
and obviously it shows on the
scoreboard here tonight.”
Georgia got on the board in
the bottom of the first inning
when third baseman Alisa Goler
See WIN, Page 10
As soon as Baker graduated, he
moved to Orlando to work for
Disney and Nickelodeon and
learned art design required the
skills of an architect.
“For ‘Clarissa [Explains it All]’, I
would fabricate anything the script
called for. Clarissa’s dad in the
show was an architect, and he
designed all these wacky buildings,
and so the writers would write for
me to design something like a
shopping mall shaped like a bee
hive,” he said.
Nothing could prepare Baker for
the bizarre and outlandish cre
ations that would come next in his
600 television episode adventure
with Nickelodeon.
“Clarissa was having a fantasy
that she wanted a Porsche, and
everything she looked at looked
like a Porsche, so I had to make a
mashed potato Porsche," he said.
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Montez
Robinson
will not be
a part of
this year’s
football
team after
repeated
arrests.
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