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More tickets sold to fill student section
By RACHEL BUNN
The Red & Black
18,000. That’s the number of
student tickets allotted by the
University Athletic Department
at each home football game.
10,000. That’s the estimated
number of students in atten
dance at the Arkansas game on
Sept. 18.
For the next home game, the
Athletic Department has a plan
to fill those empty seats.
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obtained by The Red & Black,
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been running smoothly ever since the long-time Athens duo took over the Music Business program.
Music business stars fine-tune program
By CHRIS MILLER
The Red & Black
There have been a few skips and
pops since last spring in Terry
CoUege’s Music Business Program,
which had run smoothly since its
inception in January 2006.
Now, just a few weeks into the
semester, the new management is
getting the program back into the
groove.
OfficiaUy announced Aug. 2, David
Barbe nationaUy-renowned music
Student was a positive ‘light’ for friends and family
By JEN INGLES
The Red & Black
Family, friends and coworkers
gathered at the Arch Tuesday
night to remember alumnus
Jordan Oriner, 24, who was struck
and killed by a drunk driver in
June this year. Griner had been
acting as the designated driver for
friends the night he was killed.
Tim Reed, Griner’s friend,
spoke first at the candleUght vigil.
“He was a Ught in everything he
was involved in,” Reed said.
Griner graduated from the
University in December 2008, and
he had been working at the
Governor’s office after serving as
an intern there. His parents, Toni
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Athletic Promotion Director Tim
Cearley said to boost student
attendance at the next home
football game versus Tennessee
on Oct. 9, the University Athletic
Department will sell 1,000 stu
dent tickets to students who
received split ticket packages
and did not receive a Tennessee
ticket.
Beginning at 9 a.m. today and
ending at noon on Thursday, stu
dents in that category can
request a ticket for the game.
Awarded tickets will be loaded
onto students’ ID cards.
producer and Athens local has
taken over the Music Business
Program with fellow Athens producer
Tom Lewis.
The official announcement came a
month after Terry announced that
original director Bruce Burch and
several other faculty members would
be leaving to start a similar program
at Kennesaw State.
Barbe was approached by Burch in
June, after he had already made his
plans known to Terry.
Asa man who worked for close to
and Autumn Griner, said his two
defining characteristics were his
ever-present smile and his relent
less determination to achieve.
“From second grade on he
would set a goal and he would
always reach his goal,” Autumn
Griner said.
She said she had worried her
son wouldn’t be able to achieve his
dream of coming to the University
because of their fafnily’s limited
income. But Jordan studied hard
and was accepted for admission.
Patrick Smith, a friend who
worked with Griner at the
Governor’s office, also loved
Jordan’s positive attitude and
drive to make a difference.
“Everything he did here on
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Associate Athletic Director
Claude Felton said the depart
ment was releasing the extra
tickets to allow students who did
not originally receive a ticket the
opportunity to go to the game.
“We have data from foil last
year and this year until this point.
And the students that all have
tickets are not all coming to the
games,’’ he said.
Felton said under this prem
ise, there will be extra tickets
available for students.
“If a student has a ticket, and
finds out they’re not going to go,
campus made him better prepared
for his life ahead," Smith said. “He
worked harder than anyone I
know.”
During the vigil, while Griner’s
loved ones took turns sharing their
memories of him, a common theme
was his ability to lift their spirits.
Many expressed gratitude for
his friendship and love.
The irony that he was killed by
a drunk driver on the night that he
ferried his friends home safely as a
designated driver was not lost on
the crowd.
“What happened to him can
happen to anyone,” Smith said.
“And what happened to the girl
who killed him could happen to
anyone."
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30 years as an independent business
man in the music world, Barbe was
initially a little surprised by the sug
gestion.
“I thought their idea that I should
be the new director of the Music
Business Program was crazy,” Barbe
said.
Despite his initial reaction, the
Music Business Program was founded
by instructors with real-world experi
ence, and Barbe has that dating back
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they can donate it back to the
system,” Felton said. “So you
could have some of the dona
tions in there, too, that could
make up some of those 1,000
tickets. Based on the data we
have, it would be highly, highly
unlikely that all of those 18,000
students would come to the same
game.”
Athletic Director Greg
McGarity said the Athletic
Department made it easy for stu
dents to attend games, but filling
the section is up to students.
“So, you know, we've done
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Jordan Griner, who was killed by a drunk driver.
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everything we could do and now
we’re paying for it not finan
cially, but we’re paying for it by
the students not living up to
their deal,” he said.
McGarity said the Athletic
Department is working on a sys
tem that would prevent empty
student seats for the 2011 sea
son. He said the department is
looking at ticketing systems used
at Ohio State, Texas, Florida and
Alabama to determine how to
improve the system.
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Q&A with A.J. Green
Receiver takes
responsibility
for suspension
By RACHEL G. BOWERS
The Red & Black
Georgia’s star wide receiver has broken
his silence. A.J. Green was available for
interviews for the first time in about a
month
What’s it been like sitting out this last
month?
Aw man, painful. But everybody makes
mistakes in life. It’s taught me a valuable
lesson. In this game, you need time to
reflect and see who really was for me per-
sonally and see who was
gonna stay in my comer
through thick and thin and I
really found out that and it
made me a stronger person
and just moving on now.
What was the process like
with the NCAA? At what
point did you realize they
were talking about a jersey
rather than the party?
I really didn’t think about
it. It was so long ago. It was just a painful
process. I’m not a type of guy that ever got
in trouble here and stuff like that. It just
sometimes I couldn’t sleep just thinking
about stuff like that. It was a painful pro
cess, man. I'm just glad that it’s over.
Did you know what the investigation was all
about when it started?
No, at first I didn’t, like I said. It was a
long time ago, so really didn’t think nothing
of it.
Selling the jersey was a long time ago?
Yeah. I didn’t really think nothing of it
and then when that came up, they asked me
so I told them and just moved on.
When did selling the jersey come up?
That came up probably a week before the
game. I didn’t think nothing of it about
when I sold the jersey. I thought everything
would be OK and then that came up. And
then they said how you got the money and
all the stuff like that and I told them and I
broke the rule. I paid my price. I’m just
ready to play again.
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