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▲ After a fire gutted Athens’ J&J Chemical warehouses, Trail Creek was contaminated with various
toxic chemicals and dyes, giving it a blue hue. The creek is slowly returning to its pre-accident color.
Creek contaminants are nearly contained
By PATRICK HOOPER
The Red & Black
Students taking classes this sum
mer may have noticed an unnat
urally blue creek flowing through
Athens weeks later, the creek is
returning to its normal hues, but the
environmental effects may be longer
lasting.
In late July, chemicals spilled into
Trail Creek, which flows into the
FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
Quality receivers keep
Dogs’ head above water
By NICK PARKER
The Red & Black
With only eight scholarship
wide receivers, the depth at
the position has been a con
cern of offensive coordinator
Mike Bobo’s this preseason.
Nonetheless, Bobo contin
ues to be impressed with the
quality of that depth, even if it
may not be as deep as he’d
prefer.
“The whole time I’ve been
concerned about the quantity
of numbers, but I feel good
about the quality of guys.
Those guys really did a great
job of working hard and are in
shape,” Bobo said. “They’re
scattered t-storms.
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North Oconee and Oconee rivers,
following a Are at the J&J Chemical
warehouses north of town.
The fire sent formaldehyde, para
dicholorobenzene and blue dye used
in toilet bowl cleaners into Trail
Creek.
Some of the dye is still visible, but
an EPD news release stated five out of
six water samples pulled from the
North Oconee and Oconee rivers did
not contain any of the para-dichol-
really busting their tails, work
ing hard, they’re hardly hitting
any loafs, and because they’re
in shape, they’re getting bet
ter every day, and I really see a
big improvement in their play.
I feel real good about them.”
One move to improve the
wide receiver depth was allow
ing Logan Gray to play the
position, a move that has
proved productive thus far,
although Gray sprained his
ankle in Tuesday's practice
and was forced to sit out
Wednesday with a boot on his
foot.
“Logan already had a
knowledge of the passing
game, but just his Improve-
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▲ Despite few wide receivers, Offensive Coordinator
Mike Bobo is confident in the team’s ability to play.
ment daily at the wide receiv
er position has been yery
impressive to us as a staff,”
Bobo said. “He probably had
the best day he’s had since
he’s been here yesterday until
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orobenzene contaminant. Concern
that the contaminants would reach a
drinking water supply have since
evaporated.
"Everything has been contained,
and contamination is no longer an
issue,” said Kevin Chambers, commu
nications director of the Georgia
Environmental Protection Division.
Ben Emanuel, the Altamaha
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he had that ankle sprain.”
Another wide receiver
impressing this offseason
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New hires
experience
relief, guilt
over posts
By JULIA CARPENTER
The Red & Black
In the aftermath of the spring’s pro
posed budget cuts, 16 new professors
have joined the University community
as part of the Faculty Hiring Initiative ,
and several more have been hired in dif
ferent departments tp fill vacant spots
left by retirees or those cut in the bud
get crisis’s wake.
Jere Morehead, senior vice president
for academic affairs and provost, said
deans of University schools and colleges
attempt to only hire “critical” faculty, or
those that could significantly alleviate
strain on teaching and research pro
grams.
“[The Franklin College of] Arts and
Sciences had the most significant num
ber, but of course they’re our largest
college, so you might expect that,”
Morehead said. "We had
some clear needs that
served research and
teaching needs. Each
one stood on its own
merit.”
Valya Rose, anew
professor of lifelong edu
cation administration
and policy in the College
of Education, said the
happiness and blessings
of anew job also come
with an unexpected feeling akin to sur
vivor’s guilt.
“For me, there’s some guilt or some
thing, some feeling that says ’I know I
need to be grateful because there’s
other people much less fortunate than I
am,”’ Rose said.
Rose may be grateful for her new
position and excited about teaching at
the University, but she also expressed
qualms about the safety of her tenure
track position.
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Fraternity
community
in conflict
about house
' By RACHEL BUNN
’ The Red & Black
The Chi Phi fraternity will not have a
new home anytime soon.
At Wednesday’s Athens Historic
Preservation Committee meeting, the
fraternity’s proposed additions to the
historic Amocroft House property on
South Milledge Avenue were tabled for
next month.
The fraternity sold its house on South
Lumpkin Street to the University for
$1.75 million and purchased the
Amocroft House.
Though the original intent when the
house was purchased was to demolish
the Amocraft House, the fraternity,
working with architects, the South
Milledge Historic District and other
local historic districts, developed a dif
ferent plan, which was presented at the
meeting.
The fraternity proposed to keep the
existing Amocroft House, but use its
grounds to build a separate U-shaped
house in the style of the South Lumpkin
Street building.
"We were looking for something that
does have an authentic look,” said John
Williams, representative for the
fraternity at the meeting.
Williams said that, as one of the first
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