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2 Tuesday, October la, 2010 I The Red * Black OUT: Hillel provides safe space ► From Pago I now a board member of the Atlanta chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays is her biggest supporter. They walked together in the Atlanta Pride Parade Sunday. Though Brandino said she is happy now, she strug gled between her high school sophomore and senior years with her decision to come out. Her core group of friends diminished, and she didn’t seek support from the school’s gay student organi zation because “if you went there, you were gay,” she said. “Looking back, it was a stupid decision because everyone there was in the same boat,” she said. “At the beginning of my senior year, I decided I was going to be happy. If I was comfortable, other people were going to be comfortable.” A Jewish Lesbian Brandino said coming out at college is easier than in high school because college students are more mature and respectful of differences. She has found a safe space at Hillel, a University Jewish student center, where she is the director of engage ment. “It’s ‘come how you are,’” Brandino said. “Most of my Jewish friends are really accepting. I feel they’re more open-minded.” She said the Bible’s vers es against homosexuality don’t change her views. “I think people use the Bible, the Torah, to back up arguments about homosex uality, but there’s so many other lines about stoning people, you shouldn't eat shellfish, that you can’t pick out one line and say we’re going to carry this over thou sands of years and say this is how we should make our laws,” she said. With more people coming out, more people know someone who is gay, she said. And it might make a difference in legislative set tings. Those who pass laws might consider gay people they know instead of a general group of people when they consider extend ing marriage rights. Brandino met her girl friend of eight months at a University rugby practice. 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However, she said coming out in college may be easier for some students. They go on dates. They take turns paying. “I wouldn’t say one of us is the boy and one of us is the girl," Brandino said. “It just works.” She said she probably has it easier than a gay guy. “Boys have more pressure to be manly and macho and be on the football team. You can be gay in those things too, but I think most gay boys don’t fit into that mold. A lot of straight boys don’t too,” she said. On the other hand, girls can play soccer or softball, she said, and people just think they enjoy sports. Plus, lesbian relationships are more acceptable to guys than gay ones, she said. After being hit on down town once, she told the Casanova she had a girl friend. “He said, ‘You should totally make out and I’ll watch,’” she said. “I don’t think any boy would say or admit that boys kissing is attractive.” Downtown, Brandino may be attractive because of her sexuality. But at the hair salon, she worries it may be a different story. “I could be sitting, get ting my hair cut and the lady asks, ‘Do you have a boyfriend?”’ Brandino said. “I want to say, ‘No, I have a girlfriend,’ but I’m afraid my The Daily Puzzle i 2 r~HHT~ 5 6 S |Hs To - ~ TT“ ir — " “’“^■77” 21 ~" — ?*> _ 26 27 28 — 3O [3l 32 33 34 _ ~BKs _ ~' _ HB3B ■■39 40 ~"” BEI """"” ■■42 "“" 43 [44 ~ BBEis " HHE* " """"“■■BBkr ■ — —■ 48 49 V) “'■■si - ' 52 S3 ~ 54 _ ' "TK 59 ~ Br - ” flaSsai something a certain way 9 Attack 10 "Once a 8ma...” 11 Uprising 12 Btyth 6 Julian 14 Peculiarity 21 Charged atoms 25 Ms Remick 26 Fencing sword 27 Mental picture 28 Semi-synthetic accessory DOWN 1 Cut with an ax 2 _ tea 3 'My country. Us of 4 Early calculator 5 African nation 6 Cause of thrombosis 7 Villain 8 Inclination lo do hair is going to come out terrible if she has some homophobic agenda. I have to always decide: is this a safe place for me to be myself?” Married With Children After Brandino gradu ates, she plans to attend graduate school for either speech pathology or audiol ogy. And she wants to get married, but she doesn’t think she would move to another state if same-sex marriage were not legal yet in Georgia. “I don’t think I would move to have a piece of paper,” she said. “But it would definitely be some thing that was missing until I was able to do it.” She wants to have chil dren too. She’s not opposed to either giving birth or adopting. If she could rewind histo ry to the day she first told someone she was gay, Brandino said it would be easier overall not to tell. But she wouldn’t change her decision. “I think now that that’s part of my identity, I wouldn’t choose anything else,” she said. “I think the country is moving more toward acceptance. I’d like to think that.” 10/12710 44 Bivalve mollusk 46 Abandon 47 Staned 48 Ballerina's skirt 49 Burden 50 Trigonometric function 52 False deity 53 Festive 54 cutlets 56 Alleviate 59 _ Beta Kappa fiber in fabrics ' 29 _ and groom , 30 Lubricates 31 Wear away 32 Rescues 33 Small bony fish 35 Powder 38 Star of TV's "Get Smart -39 down; noting on paper 41 Color 42 Beef or venison NEWS FAKE: Fines, fees up ID cost ► From Pago 1 here for fake IDs because we’ve been able to get rid of all of them through pretrial diversion," he said. Through the pretrial diversion pro gram, first-time fake ID offenders can pay S3O a month for up to six months of probation and serve community ser vice hours on top of a S3OO fee all to keep charges off their records. An individual’s eligibility for the program is left to the discretion of the judge and prosecutor, but people with out criminal histories facing minor charges almost always get in the pro gram. “I’ve never seen a pretrial applica tion be rejected, but I suppose some cases in which it could be rejected is if somebody was very rude with the offi cer and the officer noted in the report that this person was belligerent,” Jones said. “They figure people coming here to Athens, usually away from home for the first time, 18, 19, they’re gonna do stupid things and get into trouble and they shouldn’t have a mark on their record for the rest of their lives.” Sophomore and Red & Black sports writer Chris D’Aniello was one of those people who slipped up after coming to Athens. He and a friend were arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol and possession of a fake ID on March 5. D’Aniello officially entered the pre trial program Monday. D’Aniello acknowledges he did something dumb. Still, he said he couldn’t help but feel like the victim of a system where police are willing to search detained individuals’ wallets without warrants, and when they find what could be a fake ID, slap people with extra charges. In fact, since 2007 police have arrest ed and charged 29 people with nothing but possession of a fake ID. Add 70 fake ID charges coupled with traffic violations, and about one fifth of the 453 fake ID arrests during that time aren’t even related to alcohol. “It’s a joke system. It just chums stuff in and out,” D’Aniello said. Jones explained fake ID charges don’t often hold up in court because of procedural issues with the way police obtain IDs. Although he had never seen a fake ID case make its way in front of a judge, Jones said that if it happened, “There would be a pretty good shot at getting it at least reduced or thrown out.” Unlike fake ID charges, most traffic violations don’t require a person to see the inside of a jail cell. But because those nearly 100 people were charged with possessing a fake ID. they got to go down to the county jail, pay hundreds of dollars in bail bonds, often thousands in lawyers fees and, for many of them, hundreds of dollars more to enter the pretrial pro gram. But the cost isn’t only monetary. Probationers are not allowed in any place focused on selling alcohol. If caught in a bar or liquor store, the offenders could be kicked out of pre trial, forfeiting the fees paid for the program and forcing them to face the charges they were originally trying to divert. Even getting caught in bar restau rants such as Copper Creek or bar music venues such as the 40 Watt can end the person’s eligibility for the pre- Online jsjyjr^'' 1 & 706-542 3243 or 800-877 3243 de.adworOgeorgiacentef.uga.edu ff 4-p| "*> ‘ t < B iia ' rm;.’ • < u< h- 4:1 ► CLASSES THAT RT t* ****!*."* **© > "** YOUH SCHEDULE 1197 Soutti LumpUn Street - Athens. Gflorgle 30602-3603 looking (oi an fd.m* when .you graduate? 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About two percent of that revenue came from fines and forfeitures, and only a small fraction of that amount came from fake ID arrests. “You’re talking about pretty narrow slices,” said David Mustard, an associ ate economics professor specializing in crime.“‘l don’t think that’s a big reve nue generator for the county.” Still, Mustard pointed out business es such as law firms and bail bond companies can make a good living off the arrests, with fake ID charges alone generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyers fees annually. “Lawyers are always gonna go where there's some market for their fees,” he said. “If you have lots of arrests then you can sustain a business or two or three.” CORRECTIONS The Red & Black is strongly committed to journalistic excel lence and providing the most accurate news possible. Feel free to contact us if you see an error, and we will do our best to correct it. 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