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\ WWW.RKDANDBLACK.COM Undocumented applicants may be denied By POLINA MARINOVA The Red & Black Some Georgia colleges, including the University, may refuse admission to illegal immigrants. The Special Residency Verification Committee of the Board of Regents met Tuesday to discuss what recommendations the members will make to the Regents when the Board meets again in October. ONLINE Anti-PSA Facebook Group Ad gets negative viewer criticism By TIFFANY STEVENS The Red & Black Horrible, pathetic and embarrassing are some of the words University stu dents and fans are using to describe a University pub lic service announcement that airs during football games. The commercial, which shows a boring class lec ture turned into an excit ing one and University stu dents transformed into veterinarians, researchers and football fans, has gained criticism recently online. “Change UGA’s Commercial,” a Facebook fan page dedicated to gain ing support for anew PSA, has gained more than 850 fans since its creation on Sept. 11 this year. The com mercial has also been dis cussed negatively on the forums of sports website Scout.com. Josh Delaney, Student Government Association president and one of the students featured in the commercial, said he had not heard positive feed back of the commercial. “I get a lot of text mes sages from people who have seen me in it that say ‘Sorry you were in an ‘insert negative adjective here’ commercial,’” he said. “But I haven’t heard a positive thing about it yet.” University officials say the PSA was meant to con vey the positive effect of education on University students. Steve Bell, director of broadcast, video and pho tography at University public affairs, said he felt the PSA would be effective See COMMERCIAL, Page 3 WIS lUWUPIIHff I Tm Rkd * Black ▲ Head coach Mark Richt b readying hla team for Mhwiaslppi State’s trademark cowbells. partly cloudy. High94 l LowGG J Where’s 1 Mikey? President Adams is gotng to be at MV a UGA Research R, Foundation dinner WSk at the President'* MX House at 6:30 p.m.! MA We re probably ■ all invited. Sfil Red&Black An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community ESTABLISHED 1893, INDEPENDENT 1980 The committee approved a recommendation that five of the more selective institutions in Georgia such as the University may deny admission to ille gal immigrants if space is limited, said Regent James J.Uy, committee chairman. “What it means is that we will no longer be accept ing anyone undocumented in those five institutions that are up to their limit in students and are turning IttOCOCIOOTPftOKCSSOfiSM lb Richard Menke K ©RichardMenke What happened to the good old daya when you could buy the kida aome toy soldiers & they'd create a fantasy world & stay busy for 30 years? 6:37 PM Mar 2nd via Tweet Deck Back to life, back to laundry. 12:22 PM Nov sth, 2009 via Brizzfy I still kind of admire the guy who got tenure by writing a book about trying to get tenure. http://bit.lyA.BlVl October 6, 2009 8:20:04 PM EDT via Tweet Deck Is really enjoying the conversations tagged #ugawww (but feels a little awk ward crashing the thread to express his interest & admiration). 4:30 PM Oct Ist, 2009 via Brizzly ■ Loris Magnani @thanatosl9sß The difference between Lost and Gilligan’s Island is that Lost doesn’t have anyone like Ginger on it...Hmmmmmhhhhh...Ginnnnn-gerrrrrrr. 10:10 AM May 9th via web So, after 46 years Inter wins the European Champions Cup again...l guess I can live with it if they go another 46 years for the next one. 8:54 AM May 26th via web Did you realize that E&M backwards is “ME”? And since our bodies are basi cally held together by electromagnetic forces, well, we ARE E&M. 11:02 PM May 7th via web Elizabeth Davis i’ kIM ©drelizabethd rflfl Nice historical summary of evolution of books/reading: 10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books • The Atlantic theatlantic.com/science/archiv... #ugawww 12:27 PM Aug 27th via Tweet Button Interesting advice for those of us (me!) getting ready to buy an e-reader: WSJ.com - Are E-Books Worth the Money? http://on.wsj.com/asZpmf 12:12 PM Aug 25th via web Perfect for Ist day of fall classes: RT ©rww Teachers Pick Their Top 5 Back- To-School Tech Tools http://blt.ly/bßae9B 11:53 AM Aug 16th via web Index Wednesday, September 22, 2010 away qualified students,” Jolly told The Red Si Black. If the Regents approve the committee’s recom mendation, the policy will be effective In the fall of 2011. The University has two returning students who are lacking proper documenta tion and zero undocument ed students in the fresh man class. Students who do not Georgia to prepare for opponent’s noisemakers By RACHEL G. BOWERS . Thf. Red & Black Saturday marks Georgia’s second away game of the season. But Mississippi State's Davis Wade Stadium will have something Georgia didn’t have to deal with against South Carolina cowbells. The age-old tradition of cowbell ringing during games is said to have been bom in the late 1930 sand early 1940 sand continues to this day, forc ing opponents to prepare for the extra decibels created by the instru ments. TV ROUNDUP Flip to page 5 to find out which new shows will premiere tonight. News 2 Opinions 4 have documentation to prove their citizenship sta tus are not allowed to receive in-state tuition or any federal or state bene fits. “The two students need further documentation, but right now they’re paying out-of-state tuition," said Tom Jackson. He said the University will follow whatever further action the Regents plan to take. ONLINE More Football Notebook Head coach Mark Richt said Georgia's offense is preparing to work against the extra racket by trying to limit play adjustments at the line of scrimmage, but since the unit —and redshlrt freshman quarterback Aaron Murray endured an away-game crowd against South Carolina, the cowbells and crowd noise won’t limit what the offense does. “We are going to the home of the STOP TELEPHONIN’ ME Variety 3 Sports 5 “If the Regents change their policy, we would fol low that policy,” Jackson said. Lydia Cardona, political action chair of the Hispanic Student Association, said she thinks it’s fair for the Regents to ask schools to verify the residency status of its students, but doesn’t think it is a necessary mea sure. “I think it’s done more for the politics of it than to New media embraced by academics By iUUA CARPENTER The Red & Black Some professors try to keep social media out of the class room, but others are embracing its potential for discussion. Richard Menke, a professor in the English department, said he tweets in “microblog” fashion on his personal Twitter account. “In a way that a real blog can offer commentary on things that are on the Web already, sort of a microblog can draw attention to them with brief quips and obser vations,” he said. “Actually, I think that's one of the most use ful things about Twitter, is get ting a sense of conversation about things online especially.” Elizabeth Davis, also an English professor, said when she opened a Twitter account in June of 2009 she initially intend ed to tweet in the same way she updated her status on Facebook. “Then I realized I don’t really want to be doing that. I’ll use Facebook more for personal stuff and Twitter can be for my work, for classroom use, for sharing links related to the works and research and teaching that I do,” she said. Davis is one of the few profes sors who has successfully imple mented Twitter in her class instruction Menke and John Soloski, a University journalism professor, found that it wasn’t as effective of a discussion tool in large lecture classes. Soloski set up a Twitter account separate from his per sonal one to facilitate discussion in large Introduction to Journalism classes. “The reason I did it is because in a class that large, there could be students who are really reluc tant to talk in front of a group, so this would be a way that See TWEET, Page 3 A phone scam is leaving some wondering who’s on the line. Page 2. Check out what one former Bulldog has been up to since the 1980 national championship. Page 6 Vol. 118, No. 87 | Athens, Georgia ■ serve any actual purpose in the community,” Cardona said. “But I think the issue See STATE, Page 3 cowbells. It’s going to be loud. It’s going to be something we are going to have to deal with from an offen sive standpoint,” Richt said. "Anytime we play where we know it’s going to be loud we try to minimize the amount of checking at the line, because the more you do, the more chances you have of somebody miss ing it. But there are certain things you just need to get out of or there are certain times you need to get your protection right. If you don’t, you are in trouble, so well do it, but we do try to minimize it in those kind of games.” A WORLD OF COKE? Crossword 2 Sudoku 5 Tom Jackson said the University would comply with the new rules. Will the Teny College lose its Coca-Cola program? Read all about it on page 3.