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Alumnus ambushed and shot in Afghanistan
By SARA CALDWELL
The Red & Black
He was the first one
shot.
Ist Lt. Bobby Woods, a
2008 graduate with a dou
ble degree in psychology
and criminal justice, was
on patrol with his platoon
outside of Kandahar,
Afghanistan when the
group was ambushed.
“He pulled out his own
bandage and wrapped up
his head,” said Lt. Col.
John Fickel, a professor of
military science. “He led
the rest of the platoon as
they defeated the ambush.
Economy
reduces
Mows’
numbers
By KATIE VALENTINE
The Red & Black
The number of students
admitted into the
Foundation Fellows pro
gram has been lower than
average over the past two
years, but program admin
istrators are confident it
will rise again.
On average, the
Foundation Fellowship
one of the University’s top
academic scholarships is
offered to 20 freshmen stu
dents each fall. Last year,
however, 11 first-year stu
dents were admitted, and
this year 16 joined the pro
gram. David Williams,
director of the Honors
Program and Foundation
Fellows, said the state of
the economy was to blame.
“The Foundation
Fellowship budget is fund
ed by private dollars, not
state money,” he said. “The
state budget doesn’t
impact the Foundation
Fellows budget, but the
economy over the last few
years has lead to endow
ments being reduced in
overall size.”
The budget is comprised
of money from several pri
vate donors, the largest
single amount being a
multi-million dollar gift
from Bernard Ramsey.
Williams said instead of
cutting back on the bene
fits Foundation Fellows
receive, the University
admitted fewer Fellows to
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and then conducted the
medevac.”
But Woods did not evac
uate with the other wound
ed men.
“He led back the rest of
the platoon to base before
he got medical treatment,”
Fickel said.
The ambush happened
on Aug. 7, and Woods’
mother learned about it
the following day.
Nadine Woods was on
her way home from vaca
tioning in upstate Michigan
when she said she received
the worst call of her life.
Her son had been seri
ously wounded in combat.
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It is 8,360 miles from Pretoria, South Africa, to Athens, Ga.
This distance is palpable for any 17-year-old freshman
as Pretoria native Georgia tennis recruit Hemus Pieters can
attest. But it has yet to faze Pieters, who joined seven new
recruits for the men’s tenpis squad earlier this month and
became the team’s third international player.
“In the first week that I’ve been here I’ve already realized that
this was a very good aecision,” said Pieters, who is now the No.
1-ranked U-18 player in South Africa. “The tennis should be a lot
stronger, so I’m going to get an opportunity to test myself
against better players than what I would have normally done if
I’d stayed in South Africa.”
It isn’t particularly out of the ordinary for coach Manuel Diaz
to have three international players on a squad of 11. However,
international players usually arrive in Athens under a different
set of circumstances than their domestic counterparts.
Although Diaz and his staff extensively scout junior tennis
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He been had shot in the
head by a sniper. The
buUet entered his skull two
inches above his left eye
socket, where lt fragment
ed and shattered the bone
behind his forehead.
“The next four hours
were the most miserable
four hours of my Ufe,”
Nadine said “I didn’t know
if he was alive or not, or if
he’d make it.” ,
After painful hours of no
contact, Nadine .heard
word from relatives in the
region that Bobby was sta
ble and at the Bagram Air
Base.
Shortly after hearing
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Band shakes off Savannah sweat for Athens
Quintet has high
hopes for future
By PATRICK HOOPER
The Red & Black
There’s more to the down
town music scene than poppy
electronic, hipster bands and
cheap beer.
Coming off a recent
Southeastern tour Athens’ own
Come What May will perform at
the Caledonia Lounge tonight,
bringing with them a slew of
new material.
Having recently played In
Savannah, the guys described
the claustrophobia that came
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that news, the Woods fami
ly received official word
from the Army about
Bobby’s condition.
“After that first four
hours, I’ve really been OK,”
she said. “The tougher side
of me took over and said
‘weU if he’s OK, he’s a fight
er. He’s going to be aU
right.’”
After removing the bul
let from his skull, doctors
beUeved Bobby’s left eye
suffered a detached retina,
and they said it was imper
ative for him to get back to
the United States to save
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tournaments nationwide, they rely more on their international
connections to bring those players to Georgia.
“I have done very little active recruiting internationally. You
have budget constraints, it’s more costly,” Diaz said. “At the
same time, the pattern is more of a worldwide net that every
body’s trying to cast now.”
In Pieters’ case, the connection was Tracy Chappell, a coach
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▲ Alumnus Bobby Woods, loft, with his brother.
with playing at an arm’s length
away from the fans.
“It wasn't a basement,” said
guitarist and vocalist Jack
Fowler. “It was a cave.”
Drummer Patrick Farace, a
finance major from Hinesvile,
said it was the sweatiest he had
ever been.
The homecoming serves as a
period of transition for the
band, which will continue tour
ing in the Southeast before
moving back into the studio.
“In the next coming months,
we’re going to be playing not
quite as often,” Farace said.
The quintet has high hopes
of performing a full tour of the
East Coast by the end of the
summer.
Scout team
to be Ragin’
Cajuns in third
scrimmage.
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“We’ve had a pretty steady
following,” said vocalist and key
boardist Timothy Watts, a
health promotion major from
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
With a gamut of influences
including Emery, Thrice and
The Fall of Troy, Watts
described the band’s style as
highly adaptable, which seems
to be a key to Its success.
“There aren’t many bands of
our stripe around town.” said
lead guitarist Evan Cerwonka,
aphilosophy major out of
Jacksonville. “We all have a base
of music we like listening to, but
we all have our own taste.”
Watts described their
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