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2 Wednesday, Septembee aa, aoxo | The Red * Black Researcher one of few with funding By DALLAS DUNCAN The Red A Black The day the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico wax the day “all hell broke loose” in the University's marine sciences program. As soon as Samantha Joye, a professor in the department, left for a previously-scheduled research cruise in the Gulf, phones in the department began ring ing off the hook as media grappled for comments (torn professors and researchers who did not always know much about the situation. “When you’ve got an emergency like this, [the National Science Foundation] has rapid response money,” said Bill Miller, the associate director of academics in the department. “It’s like throwing hundred-doUar bills on the sidewalk.” However, Miller said, by the time many of the University professors got in touch with NSF, they were told the rapid response money was already divvied up. Stagnated research “We’ve still got the samples, but we didn’t get more funding, so we haven't been able to make a lot of progress,” Miller said. He said government funded organizations, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NSF, are in the midst of review ing grant proposals. He said the University should receive some money, but added the marine scienc es program is Franklin College's second-most funded department, and professors had funding for other projects, just not those associated with the oil spill. The Gulf research of Joye and Patricia Medeiros, however, are the exceptions, because they both worked with natural seepage of oil in the Gulf before the spill, Miller said. Conditions in the Gulf Joye and Medeiros returned earlier this week from another Gulf trip, this time looking for evi dence of oil in sediment. In her Sept. 6 blog entry, Joye wrote she and her team observed a thin layer of what appeared to be sedimented oil in a sample gathered 20 miles from the Mississippi coast. Though they will not know the oil content until the samples are analyzed lUrther, Joye wrote “We Ml 100 MM FOR a I 'IQUK WAUY RUINING THC Previous puzzle's solution iI p lEI EIWi E 1 Ell I Liol fUM i MAiigjomElMßßi RlelililTßMtul7BHSla| ACROSS 1 Arrange ment 6 Brim 10 Lower limbs 14 Spanish friend 15 Empty *&? amorously 17 FWt fea tures 18 One I.SSST 1 20 Frame of mlnH TTrniO 22 Light wwW 24 „ up; relax 25 Wall coat ing 26 Rush for -31 Obliterate 33 Artist's stand 37 Brainstorm 39 Stringed Instrument 41 Wander 42 Nuiaancea 44 Olaoourage 46 Rad. 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He said the presence of oil does not make ‘ research gathered before the oil spill null and void, but gives scien tists a control to com pare recent samples to. Major changes coming Right now, the under graduate marine science courses taught by profes sors such as Miller only count as non-required science classes or elec tives. That will change if the Board of Regents grants the department’s request and gives the University a marine sci ence major. “We’ve put forward proposals for it in the past,” Miller said, adding another proposal was possibly in the works. He said the major was not necessarily required by the University because most marine science involves like other sci ence majors extensive knowledge of biology, chemistry and physics as well, so the major would be similar to those. “It would change the face of this program for sure,” Miller said. “Because there’s no major, there’s more time for research. It’s kind of a give-and-take.” He said if the depart ment received a major, more faculty would need to be hired, but said the possibility was something the department would embrace. “One of the things I’ve asked the provost the new provost is to take a hard look at student demand when he makes faculty hiring decisions,” University President Michael Adams said in an interview Thursday. “It’s not just student demand ... But in many instances, the driving fac tor is what do the stu dents think they need professionally. 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Headquartered on the ground floor of Park Hall, the room is cozy, lit by natural light and desk lamps and decked in earth tones. There are desks for one on-one studying and clusters of chairs grouped to facilitate discussion. The center’s services and website have also been made over. Assistant Director Beth Beggs said when the Regents’ Exam was done away with in March 2010, it presented an opportunity for the center to move its efforts in a different direction. “The bulk of the work the center did last year was to help those students [required to take the Regents’ Exam] write well enough to pass that test," Beggs said. “It was in many ways reme dial work. Our focus now is on writing excellence.” Beggs talked about the various ways the center helps students develop bet ter writing skills. Undergraduates in any discipline can get help writing anything from technical reports to persuasive essays. The center has reference books for every held of study at the University, and will help students tackle any ques tions they may have about content, for mat or style. Staff members work with students one-on-one or in groups to correct spe 45 Extrene 48 Pandemon ium 50 Sew In new shoe bot tom* 51 Happen and intensi -53 Sign anoth 28 Gorillas 29 Fall flower 32 Lent a hand 34 Mediocre 35 Level; bal anced 36 Meadows 38 to; vouched for 40 Refuse to submit 43 Positive NEWS ;Auburn t VfEWELRY* ART proik"!!(| .inneunres . i * s t li '.nnivrseeri) HALF-PRICE SALE! ONE WEEK ONLY! Tuesday, September 21 thru Saturday, September 25 - (Ootd Jc’Wt'.lnj •| -i .Stiver leweim ■■■ : --;e e. ■. it Ii ' j i ! \!l < 1 1. irint. i ne. id ’evvei: i| I, state* Jewc'iK) SPECIAL SALE HOURS: TUE-FRI 10-7:00 • SAT 10-5:00 125 E. 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Students looking for quick help with a grammar question may find the answer on the website which has also been revamped recently. “The Writing Center website that you see online now is the product of student work,” said Elizabeth Davis, coordina tor of the writing certificate program. “I’m really pleased and impressed with the work they did.” Davis earned a Service-Learning Fellowship to fund her project to rede sign the center’s website. For the past three semesters, stu dents in her class. Writing for the Web, have worked to analyze and re-create the site to be more informative and intuitive to users. Davis said the center is using social media to communicate with students more effectively. Students can find the Writing Center on Facebook and You Tube, and can follow it on Twitter. It’s not too late for this weekend, SAME DAY SERVICE! ONLINE Police Documents CRIME NOTEBOOK Suspicious phone calls University Police announced Tuesday they had received two reports of fraud ulent phone calls soliciting surveys on behalf of the University Police Department. The reported phone calls both occurred Monday night. An announcement was released through UGA News Service to alert students that University police were not conducting any type of survey. “We wanted to make sure [the calls] wouldn’t tarnish the police department’s image, but we also wanted to make sure no one was being taken advantage of," said University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson. Williamson said he didn’t think all of the fraudulent calls were reported, and that some who were called might have given out information. “The parties that contacted us thought that the call was legitimate, and then when the questions started, they real ized it might not be,” he said. “I know we got two phono calls, but my experience tells me that they didn’t contact only two people.” Williamson encouraged stu dents contacted by people claiming to be from University Police to verify the call. “You can ask for the offi cer’s name, and you can call [706-542-2200] and they can verify it,” he said. Arrest follows noise complaint A University student was arrested and charged with underage drinking after offi cers responded to a noise complaint at The Station apartments at about 1 a.m. Tuesday, according to an Athens-Clarke County police report. The report stated that Jordan Powell Rilton, 20, told officers he didn’t have an ID after being approached at his apartment. He later admitted his age. Rilton was transported to Clarke County Jail. —Complied by Tiffany Stevens CORRECTIONS The Red & Black is commit ted to journalistic excellence and providing the most accu rate netvs possible. Contact us if you see an error, and we will do our best to correct it. Editor-in-Chieh Daniel Burnett (706) 433-3027 editorta randb.com Managing Editor: Carey O’Neil (706) 433-3026 mec randb.com 11 ■k