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For softball team, championship is in sight
By ZACH DILLARD
The Red & Black
Last year was a wild and
crazy ride, but without the
championship ending.
This year the Georgia soft
ball team has other plans for
the 2010 Women’s College
World Series.
“We are going back and we
are not going to settle for
third [place] or less,” Junior
Tuition
hike to
fund 25
new staff
By DALLAS DUNCAN
The Red & Black
Despite a fiscal year 2011
budget down 12.1 percent
from the previous year, the
University has plans to hire
additional faculty, partially
with money raised from
increased tuition.
“I’ve approved with [the
provost] beginning in the fall
semester, for the provost and
the deans to initiate another
round of searches for an addi
tional 25 positions in high
need critical areas, which I
hope will make another sig
nificant step in rebuilding
faculty.” University President
Michael Adams announced
in a May budget meeting.
“I continue to believe that
faculty are the heart of this
institution and that any avail
able resources that we’re able
to acquire have to go back
into faculty hiring," Adams
said.
Adams also
said, however,
a limited num
ber of employ
ee positions
would be on
the chopping
block for the
coming year.
Some of these
will come from
“A budget,” or
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the resident instruction bud
get. and others from “B bud
get,” which includes
University programs such as
Cooperative Extension. He
said layoff notices would be
distributed between now and
October.
“While I expect that 99
percent of your jobs will be
protected in the 2011 budget.
I cannot tell you that it will
be 100 percent,” he said.
Protecting as many faculty
jobs as possible was one of
two primary goals the admin
istration has tried to achieve
in the past two years, Adams
said. The other was to con
tinue to provide a quality
educational experience to
University students.
One way the University
will be pursuing these aspira
tions will come from the
roughly $17.5 million acquired
from increased tuition in
fiscal year 2011. Incoming
freshmen, rising sophomores
and students who have been
at the University longer than
four years will be fronting
this bill next year, paying an
facing tuition increases yet,
Adams said.
UOA students will also
continue to pay the S2OO spe
cial institutional fee
All students students en
rolled prior to fall 2006, stu
dents in the Guaranteed
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Megan Wiggins said. “We
want to go out with a nation
al championship. ”
The sixth-seeded Bulldogs
began their quest for a
national championship late
Thursday in Oklahoma City,
taking on the defending
champion Washington
Huskies in the first session of
the WCWB.
The Bulldogs (48-11) made
the program’s initial trip to
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▲ A view of surface oN in the Gulf of Mexico in a picture taken by' UGA researchers investigating the effects
of the oil spill. The spHi began in April, when a British Petroleum-owned offshore drilling platform exploded.
By DALLAS DUNCAN
and GRACE MORRIS
The Red & Black
As thousands of gallons of British
Petroleum oil continue to stream
unchecked into the Gulf of Mexico,
University marine science researchers
are gearing up to determine how to cap
the flow.
Samantha Joye, a professor in the
School of Marine Programs, is leading a
two-week research cruise in the Gulf to
characterize and gauge the size of the
largest deep water oil plume, or oil par
ticle clumping, which resulted from the
April 20 oil rig explosion —a plume that
BP officials insist does not exist.
“Nothing like these plumes has ever
been seen before,” Joye wrote in her
Campus faces big changes
Construction clogs campus roads
By KELSEY BYRD
For The Red & Black
Though the typical University
colors are red and black, the cam
pus is being overrun with orange
and white this summer as traffic
cones and detour signs decorate
all four comers of campus.
Portions of Baxter Street
from the intersection of Newton
Street and Cloverhurst Avenue
down to Lumpkin Street will be
closed until June 21, which could
cause some traffic jams as stu
dents arrive for orientation. Right
now, however, University buses
are having to alter routes to avoid
the roadblocks.
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Oklahoma City in 2009, when
the Bulldogs advanced to the
final four before being elimi
nated by Washington (50-7).
“We’ve had great competi
tion through the year to get
here, and we are very proud
to be here with the other
“Baxter Street is affecting the
Silver route right now,” said Ron
Hamlin, manager of Campus
Transit. “East West will start being
used once summer students start
coming back for classes, but we
don’t foresee any major issues.”
Baxter is closed as construc
tion crews build the Special
Collections Library and the
Northwest Precinct Central Utility
Plant. Though Baxter will be
reopened when the utility plant is
complete, the Special Collections
Library construction will continue
for another year.
According to the University
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teams that are here,” said
Georgia head coach Lu
Harris-Champer. “Also, we
are very thankful for the hos
pitality that we have been
shown here, from our host,
bat girls -and everybody
Involved with the tourna
ment.”
Also playing in this year’s
Series are ninth-seeded
Missouri (51-11), 16th-seeded
Hawaii (49-14), fourth-seeded
Deep water oil
plume examined by
University team
blog. “Seeing oil in this quantity from
plume filters is convincing evidence that
the deep waters do in fact contain oil.”
Joye and her team sailed from
Gulfport, Miss., on May 25, and six days
later discovered the source of the
plume.
“When the water collected from with
in the plume was transferred into collec
tion bottles, we noticed an oil sheen,”
she wrote. “Everybody saw it. Everybody
Taking off the cap
means putting on a
suit Find out how to
make a clean break.
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▲ The Baxter Street detour greets new students arriving
for orientation. It is Just one of many examples of the
transformative projects tailing place all over the campus.
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Florida (48-8), fifth-seeded
UCLA, lOth-seeded Arizona
(48-11) and 15th-seeded
Tennessee (47-13). It is a
double elimination tourna
ment.
The competition in
Oklahoma City should prove
much tougher than what
Georgia faced to get there, as
the Bulldogs ran through
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got excited. Seeing is believing.”
Bill Miller, associate director of aca
demics in the School of Marine Programs,
said Joye was not involved in the much
publicized top-kill efforts, where BP
attempted to close the leaking oil pipe
with a mixture of pressurized mud and
concrete.
Instead, he said, Joye is analyzing
this oil plume at sea and will bring back
samples to see how much oxygen is con
sumed as various microbes eat the oil to
break it down.
Miller said Joye will also bring him
back samples, which he will study using
simulated sunlight to break down the
particles.
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BEAT IT
University sophomore
beat the No. 2 seed to
become women’s tennis
NCAA singles champion.
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