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Newspaper Page TextFrankly, my dear, you won’t want to miss the 7th annual Dixie Film Festival. Page 4 WWW.REDANDBLACK.COM TWO FEW UGA minority head coaches: 2 out of 16 By ROBBIE OTTLEY | The Red & Buck In December 2003, with Georgia’s athletic department all but liter ally in flames, University President Michael Adams made history by hir ing Damon Evans as the first black athletic director in the SEC. Evans’ appointment took place In a heat ed environment, but the acrimony surround ing the appointment had nothing to do with Evans’ race. Instead, the animosity came from what the Atlanta Journal-Constitution characterized as a “feud” between Adams and longtime athletic director Vince Dooley, which began after Adams denied Dooley’s request to continue as athletic director until 2006. “I hired [Evans] because I thought he was the best candidate in the pool, which is why I hire anyone whom I hire,” Adams said last week. “I think many of the staff felt very comfortable with him ascending from a senior associate leadership to the leadership of that department.” In fact, the Journal-Constitution’s edito rial praising Evans’ hiring mentions race only once in 275 words, focusing instead on its hope for “an easing of passions” in Athens. For a black athletic director at the University of Georgia to receive such acclaim, even from outside sources, shows just how far the institution has come since one of its darkest but most famous chapters 50 years ago. But today, only two minorities serve as head coaches out of 16 available positions at the University. And with the Evans era hav ing reached its conclusion almost as quickly as it began, a white man once again helms Georgia’s athletic department, and white men serve as head coaches of the two sports, football and basketball, that produce the most revenue for the athletic department. Since that dark chapter in 1961, when Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter were met with violence as the University became desegregated, the student body has undeniably become more diverse. It remains to be seen whether this trend will continue with the University’s coaches. Perceptions vs. reality Track and field head coach Wayne Norton is in his 20th year at Georgia and his 11th year as head coach. Though he’s faced chal lenges in his tenure as head coach, he believes those challenges come from his sport’s relative lack of prominence on cam pus, not his race. “What I deal with and go through are probably less related to being black and more so to really being the coach of a sport that’s not that high on the priority list for a lot of people,” Norton said. “If you go in and you’re the only woman in the room and they tell you ‘no,’ is it because you’re a woman or because you’re coaching tiddlywinks?” While Norton believes that Georgia has See COACH, Huge 7 flShi TV Ski "rfaw J -**W Wv |W . Jj'dg KS 'a' j ® t p||j|? P iff < /D!|, y^> ~ *#&flK ite HM^'/' WU BLANKENSHIP I TANARUS fan Buia ▲ Senior Kris Durham and his teammates will not be unprepared for University of Colorado’s squad. Few showers. High 80| Low 56 J Where’s Mikey? President Adams is kickin' !■ it in Washington, ■ DC His schedule HB says he gets to go to BtA the Newseumtoday! P 0 **“■- The Red&Black An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community ESTABLISHED 1893, INDEPENDENT 1980 A ~ WIS BLANKENSHIP * Blur ■: Minority A population of wjgEm HHL |H X 'lllp ’ s£sf 3IH' i/M&p-r.f wlm j t: MS OMAN PITTMAN ITn fai,. Br ▲ The University of Georgia’s two minority head coaches, track and field’s Wayne Norton (top) and men’s tennis’ Manny Diaz (above) make up 12.5 percent of the 16 head coaching positions. CHALLAHBACK GIRL Index Thursday, September 30, 2010 Richt, team still remember 2006 game By MITCH BLOMERT The Red & Black Head coach Mark Richt hasn't forgotten what happened the last time Georgia played the University of Colorado. It was Sept. 23. 2006, when the winless Buffaloes traveled to Athens to take on an unde feated, ninth-ranked Bulldog team that had just come off back-to-back shutouts. Appearing to be a lopsided matchup in favor of the home team, Colorado shocked the Sanford Stadium crowd by tak ing a 13-0 lead in the fourth quarter. Georgia's offensive pro- Look inside to see how Hillel can help you ‘challah’ at your friends today. Page 3 News 2 Variety 3 duction had flatlined with a young Matthew Stafford strug gling in the pocket. “The more balls we dropped, the harder he threw it," Richt said. “Our boys weren’t used to catching Stafford’s ball yet.” So Richt chose to replace Stafford with redshlrt freshman Joe Cox, who settled the Bulldogs’ offense and threw two touchdowns in the fourth quar ter, including the game-winner. With 46 seconds left in the game, Cox found tight end Martrez Milner in the end zone VOODOO BARBIE What dolls were popular on campus in the ’6os? See our PP’WB new history V ® series. Page 3 Calendar 4 Opinions 0 FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK Sports 7 Crossword 2 Jill wmTur & Vol. nB, No. 33 | Athens, Georgia DEAN OF STUDENTS Student voice not heard in search Choice ‘surprised’ some on committee By POLINA MARINOVA The Red & Buck After a second extensive search for a Dean of Students, a screening commit tee narrowed it down to two finalists Shay Davis Little of the University and Mary Beth Mercatoris of the University of Texas at Austin. Neither will fill the position. Instead, Bill McDonald, vice presi dent for student life at the Presbyterian College in South Carolina, was plucked out of a discarded set of candidates and selected to serve as the Dean of Students effective Jan. 1, the University announced Wednesday. After the com mittee selected five candidates during the spring semester, an announcement to re-open the application process was made in May because “the right candi date for this position has yet to be identified,” according to an e-mail obtained by The Red & Black from Rodney Bennett, vice president for student affairs. McDonald, who was a finalist during the first round, resubmitted his application for round two, but was not one of the four finalists announced in mid June. But on Wednesday, he’s the Anal choice. “‘Surprised’ would be the first word that comes to mind,” said Josh Delaney, president of the Student Government Association. “Prom talking to students about it since the announcement was made, there is a general sense of sur prise because this is not the direction that students expected us to go in.” The Dean of Students would serve as a liaison between the student body and the administration. When asked why McDonald was chosen even though he had not been a finalist in either round, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Tom Burke said “it had nothing to do with [McDonald] at the time.” “There was just a determination made at the time not to hire from that first round and to re-open and extend the search to see what other candi dates applied.” Burke said. McDonald was a candidate in the See DEAN, Page 2 ON THE WEB Search Documents from 20 yards out to tie the game at 13. Kicker Brandon Coutu’s extra point attempt sealed the win for Georgia. “Close game,” Richt said. “Close as it can get.” Past-forward four years, and Georgia is finally back on the same field as Colorado —but this time in Boulder, and in a much different situation than it was in 2006. The Buildqgs are no longer the obvious favorite. 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The Red and Black (Athens, Ga.) 1893-current, September 30, 2010, Image 1