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▲ University faculty and students gathered at
the Arch June 8 for a vigil to commemorate
the 50th day since the Gulf oil spill began.
Professor talks
oil to Congress
Researcher presents spill
data in news conference
By DALLAS DUNCAN
The Red & Black
The solution to pollu
tion is not dilution.
So said Samantha Joye,
a department of marine
sciences professor, in a
June 8 press conference.
Joye spent several weeks
in the Gulf of Mexico inves
tigating a 15-mile-wide oil
plume she and her team
discovered near the leak
ing remains of the
Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
“The core feature is
between 1,100 and 1,300
meters, but you do get
spreading out throughout
the water column,” she
said. “It's not a constant
depth in the water that’s
laterally
flowing out
from the
well. The
plume is
very zig
zaggy."
She
addressed
Congress
with her
findings in
the Gulf on
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June 9, but spent the press
conference summarizing
her research to-date and
answering questions about
the breadth of the spill's
effects.
“When we were out
there, we did as many casts
as we could to character
ize [the plume’s] features,”
she said, adding it would
take close to six weeks to
truly tease apart the
plume’s features.
Joye’s team spent two
weeks in the Gulf and
gathered 91 data sets
about oxygen concentra
tion, three of which she
had on display at the con
ference. She said the far-
Bass fishing duo take college championship
By jamie McDonough
The Red & Buck
Two University Ashing teammates
reeled in an unusual catch May 28
$6,000, to be exact.
After four days of battling more
than 90 degree weather on Dallas/
Fort-Worth’s Lewisville Lake
impoundment, University of
Georgia's Ben Cleary and Bo Page
won the 2010 Boat US Collegiate
Bass Fishing Championship, and the
$6,000 first-place prize that went
along with it. The money will be used
by the University of Georgia Bass
Fishing Club.
“I knew we were on some pretty
good Osh after day one,” Page said. “I
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thest distance sampled
was about 22 kilometers
from the leaking well site.
“I think we did a good
job constraining the mini
mum size, but I don’t know
that we constrained maxi
mum size of the feature,”
she said.
She said the plume is
moving at a rate of 10 cen
timeters per second, and
research is still being done
on how to best handle the
amount of oil and gas in
the Gulf.
"In my opinion there is
really no good way to reme
diate the deep water,” Joye
said. “The oil's not in a
form that’s easily
removed.”
The deep-water oil,
which has been treated
with a soap-like disper
sant, is broken down into
small particles that are
hard to see, even in sam
ples. She said the samples
her team took had to sit
for a while before the oil
settled out. However, she
added, she does think the
dispersants are doing what
they are supposed to do,
and are effective.
Unfortunately, Joye
said, samples of the three
dispersants have yet to be
obtained for research pur
poses.
One major aspect of the
oil spill Joye was able to
study, however, was the
amount of methane, a
greenhouse gas, found in
the plume.
According to her data,
concentrations of methane
are increasing in the water
column closer to the spill
site and reduced farther
out, she said.
The plume’s methane
concentration is between
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felt pretty conOdent because we were
Ashing in spots that were reloaded
with Ash every day.”
The dynamic duo reeled against
more than 300 anglers from across
the United States in hopes of reeling
in the highest combined weight of
bass. During two days, Page and
Cleary caught a combined weight of
36.4 pounds, beating the pair of Tyler
Beam and Eric Belf from the
University of North Carolina-
Charlotte by a solid 2.85 pounds, as
Beam and Self ended the tourna
ment with a combined weight of 33.56
pounds.
Using watermelon and football
jigs, Page and Cleary weighed in at
18.34 pounds on the Arst day of the
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2 fraternity fumbles, 1 penalty
Both on probation, but punishment disparate for groups
By DANIEL BURNETT
The Red & Black ,
As fraternities seek new pledges,
one star of the 2009 to 2010 school
year’s hazing investigations Pi
Kappa Phi won’t be allowed to
audition, while students looking to
pledge with Pi Kappa Alpha should
expect some chaperoning.
According to documents obtained
by The Red & Black, Pi Kappa
Alpha, commonly known as Pike,
was issued an action plan an
agreement between a fraternity and
the Interfratemity Council to avoid
or correct violations which
includes a stipulation that the chap
ter may only conduct recruitment
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A Students break ground on the first campus community garden. Aided by Athens Master
Gardeners, they planted vegetables and herbs on the South Milledge Avenue site.
UGArden acquires acre for planting site
By DALLAS DUNCAN
The Red & Black
Budding gardeners at the University finally have a
place to grow their own zucchini, tomatoes and beans
—and community relationships.
“We just started being able to have [garden work
days] because we Just got an acre of land,” said Mary
Carlson, a junior from Atlanta.
Carlson and junior Jenny Brickman are co-presi
dents of the student group UGArden, which began
working toward building a sustainable campus com
munity garden in the summer of 2009. The dream
Anally came true June 3 as the group hosted its first
workday at the garden site.
tournament, landing in third place.
“I am glad we were not leading
after day one because there was no
bull’s-eye on us,” Cleary said. “I
thought we could come back on day
two."
Although exhausted from the
excruciating heat and endless hours
of standing on day one, both Cleary
and Page awoke on day two deter
mined to do something no school in
the Southeastern Conference had
ever done before win the BoatUß
Collegiate Bass Fishing
Championship.
The team weighed in at 18.07
pounds on day two. securing their
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Documents detailing sanctions
against Pi Kappa Alpha
and Pi Kappa Phi
activities “if sponsored and attended
by an alumnus or parent."
“In this particular case, it appears
that some concerns were raised
about the fraternity,” said Wes
Rigate, adviser to the Interfratemity
Council. “Anytime there’s a concern
that’s addressed with our office, we
certainly Investigate and see wheth
er it should be referred to the Office
of Judicial Programs. In this case, it
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Andrew Douglass, a senior from Atlanta, is
UGArden’s garden manager. Originally, the group
looked at several different sites to build the garden
and finally chose a location on South Milledge Avenue
near the horticulture greenhouses, he said. Because
the property is owned by the University, the organiza
tion did not have to purchase it, he said.
“It was the perfect place,” Douglass said, citing the
closeness of resources such as water and bathroom
facilities as reasons for choosing the spot.
The group plans to have workdays every Wednesday,
Saturday and possibly every Monday during the sum
mer. Douglass spent three hours at the
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was not referred to the Office of
Judicial Programs.”
Rigate said the IFC frequently
receives concerns regarding fraterni
ties’ actions and works closely with
Greek students to find ways to avoid
or correct violations to the
University’s hazing policy and code
of conduct.
Similar to a professor handling a
disruptive student in class, Rigate
said the IFC sometimes handles vio
lations even hazing violations
in-house. Because the concern lead
ing to the most recent action plan
against Pike was investigated only
within the IFC and not sent to the
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