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Governor’s race sparks debate
By MARIANA HEREDIA
The Red & Black
We’re too smart to vote.
At Wednesday’s guberna
torial debate, members
from both Young
Democrats and College
Republicans said they
were too smart to vote for
the opposing candidate.
The debate centered
around three main topics
education, the economy
and infrastructure. Each
group had three student
representatives, one for
each topic. Audience ques
tions followed the debate.
According to Sequoia
Bates, who represented
Roy Barnes’ views on edu
cation, the Democratic
Party platform revolves
around public education.
Barnes is planning to give
teachers incentives for
staying and teaching with
in the state, having two
teachers on staff to help
form policy as well as a
teacher panel across the
state and getting rid of
teacher furloughs.
Nevertheless, when a
student asked Bates about
how Barnes planned on
ending the furloughs since
he would not have much
power in this issue. Bates
was unable to answer the
question and directed the
student to Barnes’ website
instead.
On the other hand,
Kristin Moreaux, who rep
resented Nathan Deal’s
views on education,
emphasized Deal’s plans
to give education money
to districts in order to
streamline the state’s
school system.
She also mentioned
both candidates' plans for
the dwindling HOPE schol
arship. She said Deal is
planning on changing the
system so it required stu
dents to have a higher
OPA in order to receive
the scholarship, and
Barnes plans on integrat
ing an income cap for stu
dents’ parents.
lan Gunn, who repre
sented Deal’s views on the
‘Challahgrams’ help charities
By PAIGE VARNER
The Red & Black
If you buy bread tonight, a local charity
will make some dough.
Hillel at UGA, a Jewish student center,
is selling challah the sweet bread Jews
eat during Sabbath meals for $3. All
proceeds go to a charity collectively decid
ed by those who pay.
This challah won’t be store-bought
either. Those who buy it will bake it from
scratch.
Mami Bronstein, director of communi
ty service and outreach at Hillel, said
challah is a sweet egg bread, similar to
French toast.
The dough is braided and sometimes
sprinkled with sesame seeds, poppy seeds,
raisins or chocolate chips before baking.
Bronstein said she would like the char
ity chosen to be local so University stu
dents can support the community.
Hillel hosted a similar event last semes
ter to raise money for victims of the Jan.
12 earthquake in Haiti, Bronstein said.
Musician untethered to genre
By ADAM CARLSON
The Red & Black
The music of Ken Will
Morton is a mystery
even to him.
He can't remember
exactly when music
entered his life; or, specifi
cally, what the progression
of his musical tastes and
talents was.
As close as Morton can
recall, it probably all began
during puberty —and now
here he is, a professional
artist on tour and with five
albums to his name.
“[I Just] put out a lot of
records, tour a lot and play
in a band,” he said. “It’s
kind of what I do.”
Equally, the music that
he’s spent an untold num
ber of years fine-tuning
remains of ambiguous ori
gin, untethered to genre.
“It’s just rock music
with some folk influences,”
Morton said.
Yet there exists some
definition to his sonic
blend.
“True Grit,” the title
track off of his latest
release, sets Mellencamp
esque vocal delivery to the
rhythmic whine of a har
monica.
Other songs, such as
“Restless Heart” and
“Muscadine Wine,” have a
loose, easy ramble.
Inspiration for his writ-
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Georgia’s gubernatorial race at a student debate Wednesday evening.
economy, said that in order
to get Georgians back to
work Republicans were
focusing on Deal's Real
Prosperity Plan. This
includes cutting taxes for
small businesses and cre
ating a zero-based budget
streamline, which he said
would prevent the govern
ment from spending
money it does not have.
On the Democratic side,
Onica Matsika, who repre
sented Barnes' views on
the economy, emphasized
small businesses.
“Government does not
create jobs. Small busi
nesses do,” he said.
He said Barnes planned
on giving small businesses
a S3OO million tax incen
tive to hire new employees.
Additionally, he mentioned
the need to focus all pro
duction on Georgia itself.
Finally, both parties
agreed on some of the
CHALLAH BREAD SALE AT HILLEL I
When: Tonight, 6-8 p.m.
Where: Hillel house, 1155 S. Miliedge Ave.
Price: $3 to bake or pick up. $4 to deliver -
Hillel takes cash or checks
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Though eating challah is a Jewish cus
tom, all students are invited.
Even students who cannot attend can
still buy the bread and support the cho
sen charity.
For the same price of $3, students can
pick up the bread later at Hillel.
For $4, Hillel will deliver the bread
between 8 tonight and 3:30 p.m. Friday to
any location in Athens.
The challah also can be delivered to
someone as a gift, or as Hillel calls it, a
“challah gram.”
For pickup or delivery, students must
fill out an online order form.
KEN WILL MORTON
When: Tonight at 6
Where: Hotel Indigo
Price: Free
ing is equally diverse and
diffuse.
“[l’ll use) whatever
experience seems to pro
vide a muse at the time,”
he said.
Having spent some
time in Nashville, Morton
found the typical song
writing process there
almost formulaic in its
rigidity.
“They just put three or
four people in a room and
crank one out,” Morton
said.
By contrast, the act of
making music is much
more spontaneous for him.
“When inspiration
strikes, I’ll write, but I
don’t try and force it,” he
said.
Complicating the
pigeonholing process as
well is the fact Morton
rotates through his on
stage accompaniment:
sometimes he’ll appear
with a full band.
Other times he’ll step
before an audience alone,
save for an acoustic guitar.
The former instances
usually find attendees at
their most receptive; the
latter, not so much.
“Standing around with
NEWS & VARIETY
infrastructure proposals.
For example, both men
tioned the need to not only
upgrade the MARTA sys
tem, but also to add com
petition to this industry.
Both also said this
would be done through
private investment.
Nevertheless, there
were differences between
the two. J.D. Woodbury,
who represented Barnes’
views on infrastructure,
said Atlanta has some
tough competition for the
title as the Capitol of the
South.
“If we don’t act they
[Charlotte, Orlando and
Tampa] will take over,” he
said. “If we do not invest,
all the strides we have
made in the past 20 years
are simply for nothing.”
He focused on a light
rail system similar to those
of larger northern cities as
a way of moving Atlanta
an acoustic guitar is
tough," he said. “It has its
ups and downs.”
The decision to vary
who goes up with him each
night isn’t inherently an
artistic one.
And according to
Morton, the dynamic is
changed in any great way.
Mostly, it’s a matter of
getting everyone together
at the right time and
place. “It’s Just a constant
juggle,” he said.
Now he’ll be choosing
the third option, which
splits the difference: sing
ing and playing in a duo
with Andrew Vickery.
As laid back and uncon
cerned as Morton is when
it comes to musical history
and stylistic influences, his
performance style is as
well. “I always try and
throw a few curveballs in
there,” he said, adding if
any audience member can
guess where his covers
came from, they’ll win a
prize.
Continuing on In the
Classic City for a few dates
over the next two weeks.
Including a stop in at Cin6,
Morton does hope for one
thing specifically: connec
tion.
“You Just try to, y’know,
play from the heart,” he
said, “and hope someone
out there is a kindred spir
it.”
forward.
Andrew Laarhoven, who
represented Deal’s views
on infrastructure, said at
the moment the state
could not afford to build
new infrastructure, and
instead, it should focus on
upgrading the present
highway system.
He also mentioned
Deal’s plan to get rid of
the toll on GA 400.
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The Red a Black | Thursday, September 30, 2010
THOSE WERE THE
DAYS...
Editor’s Note: This Thursday series chronicles some of
the most interesting, hilarious and monumental
moments that happened this week in the University’s
history. ;
§ Sept. 29,1906, ended the underclassmen’s reign of may
hem, a two-day-long surprise haircutting spree in which unsus
pecting freshmen and sophomores would be ambushed by th#
peers and given a brisk shave and haircut by me band of
aggressors. The morning of Sept. 29, however, “the Freshmen
and Sophomores came to an agreement to cut it out instead of
off," much to the student body’s professed relief.
This week marks the birthday of the University's Hugh
Hodgson School of Music, named after a prominent Athens
musician. Prior to its founding 82 years ago, University students
were unable to pursue studies in music theory, composition and
performance.
On Sept. 30,1960, Federal Judge William Bootle denied fail
University admission to Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton E.
Holmes, two African-American applicants. “The case has been
left open tor a full-scale trial if [the two applicants] are turned ■
down for Winter Admission because of race.’ One year later,
Hunter and Holmes would finally be admitted to toe University.
This week in 1964, a Red & Black writer reported on an inter
esting new trend in girls' dorm rooms: dammit dolls. “D-Ds are
seen hanging by their long mop of wiry hair from mirrors, closet
doors, or any Not only, claims one 'dammit
doll’ devotee, does it reward kisses and whispered sweet noth
ings with good luck, but also it has the power to jinx enemies,
such as boys who break dates at the last moment.” In today’s
female dorms voodoo Barbies have seemed to go the way of
the scrunchie - fortunately no longer in vogue with female
University students.
This week in 1980, female students could order a “bedtime
service” from an unofficial campus organization - in complete
innocence. Members of the loosely-organized bedtime patrol
were on call five nights a week, volunteering in groups of two or
three to assist young University ladies in a journey to the Land
of Nod. The all-mate group would read clients a bedtime story,
warm up a glass of milk and finally tuck their charges in good
night before quietly dosing the door on their way out.
Compiled by Julia Carpenter
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