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TUbsday, September at, aoio | The Rbd a Black 2 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 down, Futterman told The Red & ftas Bern SwiHf* r g| r *y St*™* Pash* H£Y.IMT..me \ Of V T^JwiA BIG FAN. ") lY THCYWY m FOR THIS 9 ") TO lumwu YOU \ WHAT 9 Ji v -■■-■ ' v y- ' to amu mew KZiy { ; / of Hue. m a ) i / | ! 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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. ONLINE Police Documents Black. 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. Parking deck pot 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. 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CLAYTON ST. • DOWNTOWN • 706-546-8826 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.”