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Dean candidate pledges to listen to students
By JULIA CARPENTER
The Red & Black
At the dean of students
candidate forum Tuesday.
Shay Davis Little promised
to do a lot of listening
should she eventually
supervise student activities
and developments as the
new dean of students.
“Frank discussions are
key,” she said. “It’s impor
tant for me to know exactly
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A Student Daniel Brettschneider gets 'stoned' with a water balloon Tuesday at 'Stone a Heathen
Day,’ sponsored by UGAtheists. Participants held up signs with Bible verses about biblical stoning.
By PAIGE VARNER
The Red & Black
It wasn’t divine intervention that saved the lives of the
University’s atheist students during “Stone a Heathen
Day” Tuesday. Those “stones” were actually water bal
loons, and people laughed, not died, when they were hit.
“I think 70 percent of people walking by will And it
hilarious,” said Randall Bourquin, president of UGAtheists.
“And 30 percent will get really angry."
Members of UGAtheists held up signs citing Bible
verses Leviticus 24:14 and Deuteronomy 21:21 that
Italian eatery offers balls of the non-meat variety
By SHAWN JARRARD
For The Red & Black
What has nine balls, lots of
hands and loads of fun?
A game of bocce ball, of course.
“Bocce ball is a traditional
Italian yard game,” said Jon
Arnold, an owner of the DePalma’s
Italian Cate on Timothy Road.
“You start out with two sets of
balls, different colors obviously.
They’re pretty big, like a grape
fruit, and then you got a little ball.
It’s called a pollino,” he said.
Ben Tibbitts, another
DePalma’s owner, came up with
the idea to bring the game to the
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what you want me to know,
and that involves a lot of
conversation."
Little, director of admin
istrative operations for
University housing, is com
peting with one other can
didate, Mary Beth
Mercatoris, for the new
position.
The new dean will over
see the Department of
Campus Life including
Intercultural Affairs,
restaurant before relocating from
the Homewood Hills shopping cen
ter to Timothy Road.
“He was talking about it before
we moved over here, and we finally
saved up some money and got it
done," Arnold said. “Once It cools
down a little bit, we’ll be starting
up our bocce ball league. We’re
going to do that every Wednesday.”
Bocce, pronounced “botch-ee,”
pits two teams against each other
on a grassy pitch built in front of
the restaurant. After deciding who
tosses first, everyone stands on the
same side of the small field.
“You throw the little pollino
down the court, and then each
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ship team in the Division of
Student Affairs.
Little especially touted
her experience as a super
visor and administrator.
“The administrative part
is something I feel like a
dean of students has got to
be, right ofT the bat, at the
most basic level,” she said.
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Video of the stoning
condemn blasphemers and rebellious children to death by
stoning.
Bourquin and other atheist students encouraged peo
ple walking in Tate Plaza to stone them according to the
Bible’s commands.
See STONING, Page 3
team tries to get their balls as
close as they can to that one as
possible,” Arnold said.
A rule sheet is available for play
ers, as well as instruction from the
DePalma’s staff, but in the end
Arnold considers bocce ball to be a
gentlemen's game with only one
strict guideline.
“Don’t just chuck them into the
woods or something. I guess that
would be our house rule. We’d like
to get the bocce balls back eventu
ally,” Arnold said.
League play is free to sign up
and will take place around 7 p.m.
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Little presented her
first-year goals should she
get the position. She plans
to solicit rftudent and fac
ulty concerns, understand
the vice president’s goals
for her position, increase
the dean of student’s visi
bility at campus events,
and articulate her goals
and vision with broad input
from University students.
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it’s going to Involve a lot of
listening," she said.
“Listening to students like
you, listening to other stu
dents, listening to staff and
faculty about what this role
is supposed to be, and
what the potential for this
role is.”
After Little shared her
experiences, goals and her
view on the position, Josh
Delaney, Student
Government Association
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New leader
prepared for
transition
By POLINA MARINOVA
The Red & Black
Laura Dunn Jolly will permanently
fill the position of vice president for
instruction at the University effective
today.
Jolly, who has served as dean of
the College of Family and Consumer
Sciences and interim vice president
for instruction since January, said
she’s ready for her new position.
“It’s exciting,” Jolly said. “It’s just
a different view of the University, and
I think it’ll take some
time and some steps
to make a smooth
transition. In the
interim role. I’ve really
enjoyed the variety
and just the whole
range of areas I have
to work in.”
Jolly will fill the
position Jere
Morehead, senior vice
president for academ-
ic affairs and provost, previously
held.’
“I worked with [Jolly] when she
was dean of her college and I was
serving as vice president for instruc
tion," Morehead said. “I’ve certainly
been working with her closely in both
roles since she’s been interim for the
last few months. She’s a great listen
er and an outstanding leader, so I’m
very optimistic about the direction
that she will take instruction on this
campus."
Jolly initially decided to come to
the University in August 2007 and
take on the role of dean because she
said the University's family and con
sumer sciences program was one of
the leading colleges of its type in the
country. She said working as a dean
has been rewarding, and she has
learned things from her former posi
tion that she plans to carry over to
her role as vice president.
“I've learned to always engage
with students and faculty and stay in
touch with the pulse of the campus,"
Jolly said. “I’ve learned to collaborate
and work with them because you’ve
got to keep your eyes on the reason
that you’re here, which is supporting
everything we’re doing in terms of
the instructional program at the
University. So you have to be out
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