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Website hopes to aid addicts
By DREW HOOKS
The Red & Black
An addiction help website will be
launched by a group of students (torn
the University’s School of Social Work
today.
Donna Leigh Bliss, associate profes
sor in the school of social work, and 14
social work students have created a web
site for Macon and its surrounding area.
The website is the fourth in a series of
five that compiles information about
addiction recovery and addiction statis
tics for people living in major cities and
their surrounding areas in Georgia.
The site, EecoveryMacon.org, will be
activated in conjunction with the begin
ning of National Alcohol and Drug
Addiction Recovery Month and will be
added as a link on the National Alcohol
and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
website, RecoveryMonth.gov.
Bliss originally started the program
four years ago as a part of a Service-
Learning Fellows initiative at the
University. The first website created for
the project, called RecoveryAthens.org,
was created for Athens and the greater
University community. Since then, the
CRIME NOTEBOOK
Sometimes it pays to wear a helmet
University student Dylan Layfleld
was arrested and charged with DUI and
possession of an open container in a
motor vehicle at about 2 p.m. Saturday
after he was pulled over by University
Police while driving a scooter, according
to a University Police report.
According to the report, the arrest
ing officer smelled alcohol on Layfleld's
breath although Layfleld said he had
not been drinking. After the officer
asked him again, Layfleld said he drank
two beers before the football game and
agreed to a field sobriety test.
After the tests, Layfleld said he
drank from a keg before the game, in
addition to the two beers.
He was then placed under arrest and
charged with DUI. Police also discov
ered Layfleld carried a silver hip flask
and charged him with possession of an
open container in a motor vehicle.
Banned following argument
While tailgating on Myers quad
University student Justin Futterman
became ‘argumentative” with
University personnel and was banned
from University property for every home
football game, according to a University
Police report.
While FUtterman stood next to a
table selling items, a University repre
sentative came and shut the table
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cities of Atlanta RecoveryAtlanta.org
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“It is aggravating to have to search
through many websites looking for ser
vices,” said Danielle Barth, a first-year
graduate student in social work from
Portland, Ore. “This project places every
thing on one website.”
The site is a good resource not only
for people who are struggling with addic
tion, but also for friends and families of
people who are affected by addiction,
Barth said.
The website has links to information
treatment centers, AA meetings, sup
port groups and churches for people
wanting to escape addiction. It also pro
vides information about drug and alco
hol trends in the Macon area so people
can know the big problems affecting
their region, said Jessica Knowles, a first
year graduate student in social work
from Macon.
The website will be announced in the
Macon Telegraph as well as in churches
in the Macon area in order to inform
people in the area about the resource,
Knowles said.
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Police Documents
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FUtterman told The Red & Black he
became “argumentative" and the
University Police were called.
FUtterman’s picture was taken and
he was banned from University property
for every home game.
“I smiled and put my thumbs up,”
Futterman said.
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During a routine patrol of the West
Campus Parking Deck, a University
Police officer noticed three people sit
ting in a vehicle with the windows down
who appeared to be trying to hide
something, according to a University
Police report.
According to the report, the officer
stopped the driver and said he smelled
a strong odor of burnt marijuana.
University visitors Matthew Eide and
Anthony Rotoloni were placed under
arrest and charged with possession of
marijuana and possession of drug-relat
ed objects. Eide was also charged with
underage possession of alcohol and pos
session of fraudulent identification.
Both Eide and Rotoloni were placed
under arrest and transferred to Athens-
Clarke County Jail.
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▲ Cully Clark, the dean of Grady College, was one of the speakers at
Monday’s panel discussion of new media’s effect on American politics.
Politics changed by new media
Panel speaks
on the issue
By JULIA CARPENTER
The Red & Buck
It sounds like the begin
ning of a bad joke: “Two
senator's, a college dean
and a Libertarian talk show
host walk into the
University Chapel...”
But Monday afternoon's
panel event at the chapel
was a serious discussion of
new media’s influence on
American politics —with a
few jokes.
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had one central question
on the table: Is more infor
mation from more sources
good for democracy today
or not?
Sen. Saxby Chambliss
(R-Ga.), Sen. Ben Nelson
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Neal Boortz and Cully
Clark, dean of the Grady
College of Journalism and
Mass Communication, dis
cussed the effects You Tube,
social media, instant Web
updates and vicious blogs
have had on the political
sphere over the last
decade.
“This is just the sort of
topic that a great University
ought to be addressing,”
said University President
Michael Adams, who intro
duced the panel. “And per
haps the most important
question in this day when
photos can be altered,
when blogs of any type can
spew forth information
with either a great or lesser
level of accuracy Who
can we trust?”
Chambliss, acting as
moderator of the discus
sion, asked his fellow pan
elists about the importance
of verification of sources in
journalism today.
“It’s the threshold of
what we must do,” Clark
said. “Get our stories multi
sourced so we have confi
dence in them. In the wel
ter of information with
which we are bombarded,
there are many ways of
monitoring it. It’s the ever
present question: How do
you know with some confi
dence that when you pass
something on to the public
that it adds value to the
discussion?”
Nelson and Chambliss
said political campaigning
in the Internet age can be
difficult when even the
slightest slip-up can be
tweeted, re-tweeted and
circulated around the
country within a few sec
onds.
“You just leave a word
out and all of a sudden it
becomes an issue,” Boortz
said. “Before Twitter and
all this instantaneousness
that never would have hap
pened.”
Clark said a world domi
nated by new media leaves
no remark free from cen
sure. One hiccup in a tele
prompter speech can
become the sound byte
heard around the world the
next morning.
“There is no space that
isn’t subject to digital rep
resentation somewhere
else,” he said. “Yet we com
municate with anonymity.
We may overdo this feeling
that we are alone. We are
never more vulnerable than
when we create a digital
space."
Nelson and Chambliss
have both sought to com
bat new media's potentially
negative effects through
their embrace of its posi
tive influence on constitu
ents.
“We do a weekly You Tube
now,” Chambliss said. “And
the response to that has
been phenomenal. I never
would have guessed that
when my staff first brought
it up.”
Nelson also posts
You Tube conferences for
his constituents with some
frequency.
“It makes a considerable
impact on what we do
because we want to get our
message out there,” he
said. “Truth travels at the
speed of sound You have
to get your message out
yourself."
Though all panelists
expressed some distrust of
new media, all also empha
sized the benefits gleaned
from new media, such as
enhanced voter participa
tion.
“This is one of the ways
new media helps,” Boortz
said. “It gets people talking
about politics who other
wise wouldn’t be interested
at all.”
All panelists agreed that
there is no changing new
media they are the ones
who have to adjust to its
ever-expanding influence.
“It is how you use the
various media to elevate
your issue,” Clark said. “In
the end, organization is
everything in politics. It’s
not so much managing a
particular medium as it is
utilizing all of them. Let’s
try in our discourse to
approximate something
that is honest discourse.”