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ESTABLISHED 1893, INDEPENDENT 1980 M || Exercise your spiritual side Page 5 WWW.KSDANCBLACK.COM 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 jBHu ‘t ** ADAMS 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 See TUITION, Page 2 BLOODY GOOD IB scattered t-storms. Highß6\ Low7o 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 Proto courtesy or Samaxtha Joys ▲ 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. Our pick of the week pumps life into the Athens music scene. Check out what else is happening. Page 4 Index News 2 iuuca variety 4 Friday, June 4, 2010 ONLINE Check the scores 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 See CLOSED, Page 3 THE 108 HUNT 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. Page 3 Opinions 6 Sports 7 V* * Mxsmtimk i nitlM MIIMiHi m JC: C-%. > - tWP. e.. U— _ LAURA RtCCRAMC I TANARUS, Rn> a Bum ▲ 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. Vol. 117, No. 154 | Athens, Georgia 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 See SCRIES, Page 7 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. See SPILL, Page 2 BEAT IT University sophomore beat the No. 2 seed to become women’s tennis NCAA singles champion. Page 7 Crossword 2 Sudoku 7 m CHAMFER