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▲ Josh Delaney, SGA’s president-elect, and
Maddy Adler, the association’s next treasurer,
react to news of their campaign victory Friday.
Gym Dogs fail
to advance to
Nationals
Georgia misses cut for
first time in 27 years
By MICHAEL FITZPATRICK
The Red & Black
COLUMBIA, Mo. Competing in the
NCAA Championships was a foregone conclu
sion for the Gym Dogs.
The team always spoke of gearing up for
Nationals with the hope of extending its already
unprecedented reign over women’s gymnastics
to six years in a row.
But, after its third place finish at the
Columbia Regionals in Columbia Mo., Saturday,
No. 5 Georgia will return home to Athens won
dering how their season went terribly wrong.
The 2010 season marks the first time in 27
years Georgia didn’t qualify for the NCAA
Championships and the first time that it will
not reach the Super-6, which was created in
1993.
“We didn’t even think it was a possibility [to
not make Nationals ],” freshman Christa Tanella
said.
The cruel ironies are almost sickening.
Georgia's season depended on the beam
routine of senior Courtney McCool. It needed a
9.925 or better to avoid a tie with No. 8 Oregon
State, who held the tiebreaker. This situation
was not new for the Lee’s Summit, Mo., native,
who had more than 20 friends and family mem
bers in the crowd, with many wearing “McCool
and the Gang” T-shirts.
She won the opening meet of the season
against Stanford on Jan. 9 on the final routine
as well as the March 6 victory over UCLA.
Not on this day, however. McCool who
had fallen on the uneven bars for only the sec
ond time all season fell 0.025 short of the
mark needed for victory, and it was her fall that
lost the meet for the Gym Dogs.
See LOSS, Page 6
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Snapshot wins, develops plans
By PAIGE VARNER
The Red & Black
Members of The Snapshot hud
dled with arms around each other’s
shoulders as Student Government
Association Attorney General Sean
Cranshaw announced the group beat
the Green Team to take the 2010
election.
Then, the party members leaped,
shouting and chanting, “Snapshot!
Snapshot!”
“This is a really surreal moment
right now,” the next SGA president,
Josh Delaney, said. “I’m grateful for
students believing in me. I’m excited
students voted. I commend Cameron
Secord for a really strong race. I’m
excited to get started.”
And his party, which also won 24
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▲ (Above) Wide receiver Rhett McGowan (25) caught one of two touchdowns thrown by redshirt
freshman quarterback Zach Mettenberger. (Below) A small group tailgates before the G-Day game.
Students call for
return of tailgating
on North Campus
By POLINA MARINOVA
The Red & Black
Though Saturday’s G-Day game marked
the first day new tailgating restrictions were
in effect, some members of the University
community still aren’t ready to accept the
changes.
Danny Brown, a University alumnus, has
decided to take matters into his own hands
and create a Facebook group called “Michael
Adams Extravaganza (Myers Quad)” to
encourage fans to bring all banned items
such as tents, kegs, televisions and grills
from North Campus to Myers Quad.
The group has. more than 1,200 fans, and
Brown said he created it as an open forum
for people to express their frustrations with
the new tailgating stipulations.
“I just feel like the administration needs
to be a little more understanding that there
will be trash, and that there are some alter
natives they could have considered other
than just going ahead and pretty much ban
ning tailgating altogether on North Campus,”
Brown said.
He said North Campus is important to
him and others who have been tailgating
there for years because it’s one of the pretti
est and most historic places at the
University.
“It’s the atmosphere up there,” Brown
INSIDE See the quarterback breakdown from G-Day on page 8.
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out 0 1 38 Senate seats, will get start
ed April 27 at SGA’s Inauguration.
The Snapshot won with 51.89 per
cent, or 2,923, of the 5,633 vo’tes cast
for executive tickets.
Eighteen percent of the student
body, or 5,920 students, voted in
some aspect of the election almost
1,400 fewer than voted in last year’s
election.
Cameron Secord, the opposing
party’s presidential candidate, said he
felt all right after the announcement.
“I want to thank everyone who
devoted time, energy and resources,”
he said. “I’m thankful for the chance
to stand behind what we believed in
from the beginning.”
Six Senate seats three for the
Graduate School, and one each for
the School of Law, College of
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said. "When you think of tailgating, you
think of having a tent up there and enjoying
the time with your friends."
The tailgating restrictions were
See TAILGATE, Page 2
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Georgia baseball team
reached a major milestone
this weekend with the
Dogs’ win. Page 6.
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Veterinary Medicine and College of
Public Health will have to be filled
following the first Senate meeting.
The vote of confidence passed
4,445 votes to 364 votes, or with 92.43
percent of the votes, to allow SGA to
continue being a student organiza
tion.
“I’m excited that referendum
passed by such flying colors,” said
Maddy Adler, SGA’s treasurer-elect,
who called her mother after hearing
the news her party had won.
Katie Barlow, who will be the SGA
president for only a couple more
weeks, said she is happy with what
her administration was able to do in
its year of service.
“There’s a lot of stuff left to do,”
See SGA, Page 3
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Black team
posts win
over red in
G-Day game
By RACHEL G. BOWERS
The Red & Black
Zach Mettenberger suited
up for his first showcase in
front of fans Saturday for the
G-Day game Georgia’s
intrasquad spring scrim
mage.
He sported his black quar
terback jersey and new shag
gy hair under his red helmet
as he stepped on the field for
the black team, who donned
white jerseys.
The redshirt freshman
threw for a game-high two
touchdowns —one to wide
receiver Rhett McGowan and
the other to tight end Arthur
Lynch in the black team's
17-7 win over the red team.
Mobile quarterback Logan
Gray started with the red
team but took reps with both
sides, racking up 132 yards
on 10-of-17 through the air
and one touchdown to wide
See GDAY, Page B
One film company has
decided to fill in the
holes of the Athens
music scene’s history.
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