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3 + 1 = Manray? Page 4 WWW.RBDANDBLACK.COM Engineering majors could be approved next week By DALLAS DUNCAN The Red & Black Next week will mark a crucial step in the University’s path to getting a school of engineering. John Millsaps, spokesman for the Board of Regents, said the University submitted three dif ferent proposals for new under graduate majors civil engineer ing, mechanical engineering and electrical and electronics engi neering. “It’s on the agenda for the meeting next week,” Millsaps A CUT ABOVE £ ■ ■ ■ .- '•****. • .•. i • % ■ AB NCNCMME lUCHM ! Tbs Rbd a Black a Nate Kohn, telecommunications professor and associate director of The George Foster Peabody Awards, is seeking students to help choose winners for ‘the most highly-respected award in television/ Peabody awards accepting student judges By ELAINE KELCH The Red & Black With the recent premiere of the fall television season and red carpet cover age just around the comer, University students interested in sharing their opinion of what's award-worthy beyond a one-way dialogue with the TV set are in luck. Applications are now available for students to be a judge of the oldest award in electronic media The George Poster Peabody Awards. The Peabody Awards, administered by the University’s Grady College of Muslim speaker encourages interfaith relations By PAIGE VARNER The Red & Black When Dr. Nidal Ahmad lived in Jordan, his family served lunch in an American guest’s honor. Ahmad translated the English to Arabic for his father while the American ate serving after serving. The guest, Ahmad exaggerated, gained about 40 pounds that day. “The propaganda that we hear that Muslims hate Americans is not true,” Ahmad said at Wednesday’s Campus Ministry Association meeting. No Muslim ministry is represented in the roughly 30-member association, and Ahmad spoke about interfaith and MusUm-American relations in his talk titled “A Muslim Bulldog Perspective." Ahmad is the secretary at Al-Huda sunny and bright High $2 \ Low SI Where's Mikey? ' 4| ■ President Adams - JL just has the music in fH fEES&gS his soul - he's ■ / ■ anenoing anotner concert* Hell be at me Dailey 4 Vincent oiuegrass concen vy tonight at 8. The Red&Black An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community ESTABLISHED 1893, INDEPENDENT 1980 said. He said he could not speak as to the factors the Regents would use to make their deci sion. but said there was a formal ized process of getting the pro posal to them. If the three new majors are approved, Millsaps said the rest is up to the University. “The Regents approve the overall degree program, but once the Regents approve It, it is the responsibility of the academic institution to put it in place,” he said. University officials would not Journalism and Mass Communication, were established in 1940 with the first awards presented the following year. While first intended to recognize radio programs, the Peabodys now award excellence in electronic media, including TV and radio stations, net works. producing organizations, individ uals and the World Wide Web, according to the Peabody Awards' website. “There’s one criteria: excellence, and it can be defined many ways,” said Nate Kohn, associate director of the Peabody Awards and telecommunications profes sor. “It’s an amazing thing the most Islamic Center on South Milledge, which doesn’t have an imam, or mosque leader. Joe May, the ministry association's vice president, said Al-Huda has a large University presence, so it could be a member when it meets the requirements of having a leader who holds a master’s degree or has been In active ministry for at least five years. Ahmad, who graduated from the University in 1993 and married his American wife in the Tate Center, said Athens is home. Yet he senses discomfort with Islam in America. “If someone wants to get famous or if someone wants to get in office, insult Islam," he said. Sept. 11 was a strange day for Ahmad, his wife and his children, he said. “My kids have struggled, really strug APP ATTACK M Check out which two apps we picked as our favorites for this week. Page 7 Index Thursday, October 7, 2010 ONLINE DOCUMENTS Proposal for three new engineering majors comment on the proposals, only to clarify they were for engineer ing majors, not for a school of engineering. “We’re reserving comments beyond the materials we’ve already submitted,” said Tom Jackson, vice president for pub lic affairs. Scott Angle, dean of the News 2 Calendar 4 College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences where two of the University’s existing engineering degrees, agricultural and biological engineering, are housed said in an interview last week he could not comment on the progress being made. “We will still have a depart ment of biological and agricul tural engineering, but if those [new majors] happen, those fac ulty will have a joint appoint ment,” Angle Bald. He said CAES might lose some students if the University gets highly-respected award In television.” he said. “No category is too small. A televi sion station in Chattanooga can win as much as HBO and the BBC.” Student judges will be placed on one of 30 screening committees composed of two University staff or faculty members and the student themselves. Each committee win review between 30 and 40 programs beginning in late January, with recommendations due to the Peabody Board —a 16-member panel of critics, academics, cultural experts See PEABODY, Page 7 gled, and we struggled explaining it to them,” he said. That day, Ahmad said, was unimagi nable. “Islam was massacred again," he said. “We’re being judged and sentenced for it, at least in the public eye." But Ahmad has also seen compassion. Members of other faiths have come to the mosque offering help. Ahmad said he doesn’t expect others to align their views with him on every issue. “However, we must have enough respect for each other;” he said. “We are all equal." Among people with different beliefs, there must be a give and take, he said. “Before I demand from others,” Ahmad asked, “what do I give them from myself? BRING IT ON What year did the University get female cheerleaders? Page 3 Opinions 6 Variety 7 —______ Hr 3 ! •! iaßjg * i Jm m m H USUI Im B * iHI PAW* VARNER ! Tu Ran * Bute* ▲ Dr. Nidal Ahmad holds up a prayer rug while giving a talk about interfaith relationships at a meeting Wednesday. Sports 8 Crossword 2 -*/ ji/4 Vol. 118, No. 38 j Athens, Georgia these new majors, and especially if it is later approved for a school of engineering. "The three proposed engineer ing degree programs will address significant needs in Georgia by providing a greater number of graduates to meet engineering workforce demands and expand ing access to engineering educa tion opportunities for Georgia residents,” the civil engineering proposal from University President Michael Adams states. See ENGINEERING, Page 2 Business, education keys for candidate By DREW HOOKS The Red & Black With the November elections nearing, candidates are in the home stretch in campaigning for those final votes. Athens-Clarke County mayoral candidate Gwen O’Looney spoke Wednesday night at the University’s Young Democrats chapter meeting. A University alumna, she briefly spoke about her history working for the Red Cross In Vietnam, the Carter administration, and the Boys and Girls Club In New York before finally settling down again in Athens where she became involved in local politics and ________ was elected mayor ■■[ in 1991, a position lip!* .ffijfcjt-' she held for eight years. K jpySf Twelve years W* 1 later. O'Looney is K /-Aft running again, and 1H she says there is a Hb* lot she wants to rt'lllHl do. l Her main focus- O’LOONEY es, she said, are the quality of life in Athens, education and small-business development. “I want to brand Athens,” O’Looney said. She said she wants to do this by appealing to small business owners and home office people who are looking to “set down roots.” “They don’t want to have a home office in Atlanta or Charlotte. They want somewhere like Athens,” she said. “Athens will never get the big factories, but It will have the industries of the mind.” And she hopes to expand the potential for these industries. Even though the Special See ELECTION, !\ige 2 SOUNDBITE * fGot something to say? Gheck out rants and opinions in Soundbite. Page 6 Sudoku 7