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Plants grow downtown
Parking spot
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By KELSEY BYRD
The Red & Black
Two parking spots
downtown were closed
Friday morning to cars,
leaving that space to go
green for International
Parking Day.
“All over the world peo
ple are turning parking
spaces Into parks for the
day,” said Katie Crosta, the
Athens CounterSPACE
coordinator for the event.
“We wanted to take the
opportunity to make it into
a community garden
because CounterSPACE is
focused on civic agriculture
and encouraging people to
explore their food systems,
learn where the food comes
from and put them togeth
er."
The two spots were con
verted into three gardening
sections: one for outdoors,
one for the kitchen and one
for the rest of the house.
They featured ways to grow
plants in small spaces, such
as inside a tire or in a hay
bale.
“We wanted to show
people what a community
garden would look like so
we chose the theme 'kitch
en garden,' so we have the
bedroom, kitchen and out
doors making links to the
food that’s growing is the
food that ends up on our
tables,” Crosta said.
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Alumnus Bradley Thigpen said he was there for the
atmosphere if nothing else. He watched the first part
of the game in the Tate Center, although he planned
to purchase tickets later in the day.
“The night games are better because you have
more time to tailgate and enjoy the football season
atmosphere,” Thigpen said.
Williamson said there was a simple way to ensure
the atmosphere remained fun. If anyone brought any
thing valuable to campus, be it TVs or coolers, they
were better off locking the valuables in their car.
Williamson said the University is not responsible
for the safety of these items, although the University
Police are responsible for ensuring their absence on
North Campus.
Thigpen was critical of the North Campus tailgat
ing restrictions.
“North Campus is the epitome of football history,”
he said. “The campus is going to get trashed anyway,
so why move the spot?”
Lindsay Mehlik, a graduate student in the College
of Public Health from Herndon, has no strong feeling
about North Campus, having only recently moved to
Athens. Mehlik was unable to attend the game.
“I don’t have enough money for it, and it's hot out,”
she said.
However, she turned out for a tailgate to spend
time with other students in the College of Public
Health. She said she’s still developing her “fanhood,”
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The spots were designed
by two University land
scape architecture stu
dents who had won 'best
design’ by a jury of their
peers.
“We had a week to design
these two spaces, and with
in our major they chose the
top designs, and we imple
mented it here at five this
morning,” said Ann Nguyen,
a landscape architecture
major from Savannah.
Juan Guzman, a land
scape architecture major
from Lima, Peru, did not
think it was that difficult
to put together.
“It wasn't as much work
as we thought it was going
to be,” he said. “We only
had two hours yesterday,
two hours on Wednesday
and started at 5:30 a.m.
[Friday].”
Crosta didn’t think the
coordination was that sim
ple.
“There was a ton of
coordination,” Crosta said.
“Getting donated materi
als. building the things you
see like the wall or the
bench, the planters, get
ting the plants donated.
We’ve been working on it
since the spring, so a lot of
work went into it.”
Craig Page, the execu
tive director for Promoting
Local Agriculture and
Cultural Experiences,
eqjoyed getting this proj
ect off the ground and into
people’s attention.
He said the day was a
collaborative effort between
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Page has participated in
almost all of those service
learning classes, as well as
UG Arden and is now work
ing with PL.A.C.E. He uses
his experiences to help
spread the word about
green space.
“It’s just to engage peo
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it can be made of, why is it
important," Page said. “In
Athens, we wanted to put
our twist on it and have it
be more of a community
garden and use mostly veg
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theme for the garden is
rediscovering the ‘kitchen
garden.’”
Page and Crosta both
said the message that
should be taken away from
Parking Day is the role of
gardening and how it can
be done in a small space.
“We wanted to make
people make the connec
tion between the food that
we eat is grown somewhere;
it doesn’t just magically
appear,” Page said.
Crosta’s best advice for
new gardeners is to just to
go out a try it.
“Don’t be afraid, just do
it,” she said. “If you need to
talk to someone, you can
go to the fanners market,
look books about it, look
online. Any space you can
grow you can grow food,
your windowsill, your patio,
you don’t have to have a lot
of land. My main advice is
don’t be afraid.”
Technology embeds location in photos
By TIFFANY STEVENS
The Red & Black
University students are express
ing concerns over photos that are
tagged not only with names, but
locations.
GPS enabled smart phones
such as iPhones, Droids and
Blackberries embed the latitude
and longitude of photos taken on the
phone through a system called geo
tagging.
The technology has been com
pared to websites such as Foursquare,
Twitter and Facebook, which allow
users to post their locations.
Brian Rivers, information security
officer for the University, said tech
nology such as geotagging has
proved problematic in some cases,
especially for smart phone users who
didn’t know about the function.
“In general, if you don’t turn [geo
tagging] off, for instance on your
iPhone, it’s going to store that in the
metadata,” he said. “An example of a
situation where this might not work
out so well for you is if you take a
picture of your front door, and say
‘l’m going to work for the day.’ People
know where you live based on the
geotag, and they know you’re not
there.”
Steve Harris, director of the
University’s Office of Security and
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was held to demonstrate how gardening can be done even in smaH areas.
CRIME NOTEBOOK
Let make some noise
It's OK to raise the roof
in Athens, as long as no
one 300 feet away knows
you’re doing it.
University student
James Wardrop Jr., 21, was
cited for a noise ordinance
violation at 9:50 p.m.
Friday, according to an
Athens-Clarke County
Police report.
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Emergency Preparedness, said in
most cases, posting information
about your location online won’t lead
to a crime, but that students who
choose to post that information are
opening themselves up to potential
danger.
“You’re telling people who might
wish you harm where you are, but
you’re also telling people where
you’re not,” he said. “So you’re tell
ing people when you’re not home, or
where you frequent.”
Harris said some crimes had been
committed using technology such as
geotagging. He also said the devel
opment of technology kept law offi
cials from being able to predict or
prevent risks that come with new
gadgets.
“Technology is changing at such a
pace that it’s hard for safety officials
and law enforcement to keep up,” he
said. “So, sometimes we’re behind
the times.”
Some users of social media find
geotagging and websites such as
Foursquare attractive because of the
economic advantage it can afford.
According to the New York Times,
stores including Best Buy and
American Eagle allow shoppers to
gain discounts and coupons through
smart phone applications such as
Shopkick that use the phones' GPS
systems to recognize when users are
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Police Documents
The citation was given
after officers responded to
250 Bloomfield St. for a
noise complaint.
Justin Kennedy,
Wardrop’s roommate, was
at the house when officers
arrived. He told The Red
St Black there was not
in a certain store.
Other stores offer discounts to
students if they “check in” using
Foursquare.
Some University students say the
risks outweigh the benefits, however.
Kate Roberson, a journalism
major from Lawrenceville, said con
cerns about safety would make hei
hesitant to post geotagged photos
from her phone.
“Not only would people know
what you're doing, but where you’re
doing it,” she said. “It’s kind ol
scary.”
Andrew Venable, a biology major
from Charlotte, N.C., said he didn’t
want to create the possibility for fol
lowers online to become stalkers.
“I don't want somebody to see me
and be like, ‘That guy seems cool. I
want to go meet him,' and then find
me,” he said. “That’s like posting
your address on every photo you
take."
Harris said he believed it was a
good idea for students to look into
what kind of options they had
enabled on their phones, as well as
checking who could see their infor
mation on websites such as Facebook,
to minimize their risk for crime.
“It would be a good idea for every
one to check who can look at their
pictures, regardless of whether
they’re geotagged or not,” he said.
only another party going
on next door, but a nearby
fraternity party as well.
Kennedy also said there
were only 10 people at the
house when Wardrop was
cited.
“The cop was a com
plete jerk," Kennedy said.
“No one is trying to sleep
at 9:30 on a gameday
weekend. Every Friday
night is like that. The cop
said he was not allowed to
give a warning, but we’re
taking it to court.”
It’s getting hot in here
According to a
University Police report, a
grass Ore broke out in
Legion Field at 2:01 p.m.
Thursday.
The Clarke County Fire
Department arrived and
put the fire out with no
Usuries.
Compiled by
Jacob Demmitt
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