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Put your hands together for last weekend’s volunteer efforts. Page 2 WWW. RE DANDBLACK.COM v ■ In Hff MiJ' r*ifc • ■JI ja Mb ■ v - B -jflr", HL * ‘lp j WE* BLANKENSHIP TANARUS Rid a Black ▲ 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 CULTURAL CELEBRATION LMJM MCCMAMIC I Tut Rtt, Black a Korean traditional drumming was one of the many events at this weekend’s International Street Festival. Page 3. O sunny. High 80| Low SO Red&Bla^K ■ESTABLISHED 1893, INDEPENDENT 1980 ITS ON ME Flip to page 2 to find out why letting someone else pick up your bar tab might turn out to be a bad idea. Index 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 A TASTE OF FALL IIIIIII PHOTOS BY JOH-MfCHAEL SULLIVAN Tmi Rtn a Buua ▲ (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. News 2 Opinions 4 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 * * * * .* 4TWmfM.fi. 1 .. -•* 4C,. - Jkim : J! . - -. Jv"- . ■’j.'jmHß 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 MR. 300 See which key player for the Georgia baseball team reached a major milestone this weekend with the Dogs’ win. Page 6. Variety 5 Sports 6 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 THE B-52S AND R.E.M., TOO Crossword 2 Sudoku 7 Vol. Ix 7, No. 139 | Athens, Georgia 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. Page 5.