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By POLINA MARINOVA
The Rep & Black
The battle over piles of
dirt in a residential neigh
borhood has reached a
stalemate.
Since the beginning of
March, Jamie Roskie, man
aging attorney for the
University Land Use Clinic
and resident of Sunset
neighborhood on Price
Avenue, has been fighting
to remove excess soil from
the vicinity of her neigh
borhood, which she said
hasn’t been properly con
tained.
The dirt comes from the
University’s Special
Collections Library project
and is being used for anew
residential development in
the area.
Ashley Hill, the develop
er of the new neighbor
hood, said he is allowed to
keep the dirt on Price
Avenue, and is adamant
that it is not nearly enough
for his project.
Hill said he plans to level
off the lots and create a
gravity sewer system, which
would be more stable than
using a pump system. Hill
said the system will require
even more soil.
“We actually need more
dirt than what’s here on
the site,” Hill said. “We
want more, but after four
days we quit hauling
because when it rained, it
would make a mess, and
we didn’t want to make a
mess in the street.”
Roskie, however, said
she does not agree. She
said two civil engineers, an
architect, a land use lawyer
and a soil scientist reside
in the neighborhood, and
they do not think the site
will be able to accommo
date such a large amount
ofjdirt.
“None of us really buy
that he needs all this soil
on the site in order to do
gravity sewer, and we don’t
necessarily think gravity
sewer is the right solution
for that site,” Roskie said.
“If you raise that site up to
the amount he needs in
order to put gravity sewer
on there, we think he’s
going to cause stormwater
runoff problems for neigh
boring properties.”
Roskie spoke with
University Architects, and
said Danny Sniff, campus
architect, will negotiate a
deal with the contractor,
Brasfield & Oorrie, to take
some of the dirt back to
the Special Collections
Library site.
However, Sniff said he is
trying to help, but taking
the dirt back to the
University site is not in the
plans.
“If Ashley Hill has done
something wrong or inap
propriate, and he needs a
place to bring the dirt to,
the contractor should try
to help,” SnifT said. “But
we’re not' actively trying to
get the dirt back.”
Hill said he got the dirt
for free because the truck
ing company, Harris
Trucking, wanted to get rid
of it. and he needed it. He
emphasized this is a deal
between him and the truck
ing company, which has no
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copyright infringement.
Although his job required him to turn the
student's name over to Student Judiciary,
Dehelean told the student he could make the
issue “disappear” for a sum of money, accord
ing to University Police Chief Jimmy
Williamson.
After the student alerted police, an under
cover officer met and completed a transaction
with Dehelean on Feb. 1.
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other students may have been victimized by
Dehelean.
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dents have come forward.
“I believe more victims are out there based
on conversations with the offender. All I can
do is try,” said Williamson. “I’ve done every
thing humanly possible to tell them we are
concerned with what he was doing, not
them.”
Although no more victims have been dis
covered, Brian Rivers, a director of University
information security, told The Red & Black in
an e-mail that Dehelean's arrest led EITS to
make policy changes.
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Old practice tape fuels
Gym Dogs for regionals
By MICHAEL FITZPATRICK
The Red & Black
Heading into Saturday's NCAA Regionals in
Columbia, Mo., the Gym Dogs feel supremely confi
dent.
And it’s all thanks to the 2008 edition of the team.
Head coach Jay Clark found a copy of the high
lights of the 2008 National Championship in Athens,
when a flawed and injured Georgia squad garnered its
fourth-straight NCAA title.
“As I was watching it I realized, this team wasn’t
perfect,” he said. “We didn't stick any vaults, we went
out of bounds on floor and we didn’t have [Courtney]
Kupets, similar to Shayla [Worley] and I thought,
‘They need to see this.’"
So he showed the video to his team, half of whom
were members of that 2008 team.
“It showed them perspective.” Clark said. “With all
the attention that has been paid to them this year, I
think they lost that sense of freedom that they had to
go and compete and not worry about being perfect.
That team made a lot of mistakes and we still won
because we finished strong. It was nice of them to see
that and we have to be confident in what we do and
we are every bit as good as that team was.”
But this year’s team feels they are not only as good
as that team, but better.
“That was a huge turning point for us watching
that tape especially for those of us that were here
for it," senior Grace Taylor said. “For me, we had this
memory and this vision of perfection that we were
unstoppable and that we were so much better than
we were this year. But if we learned anything, it’s that
this team is better than the 2008 team inside the gym
and our personalities gel so well and it built our confi
dence so much."
With a week off after the disappointment of the
SEC Championships on March 27, when Georgia blew
a lead on its strongest two events the bars and bal
ance beam the team has found a renewed confi
dence by staying focused in itself, no matter the cir
cumstances.
“It's that aggressive, calm confidence that will
keep us engaged and in the meet the whole time and
the end result will be what we worked for," senior
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