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By JACOB DEMMITT | The Red & Black
Editor’s Note: This week. The Red & Black
investigates fake ID use at the University.
Check back Friday to get the perspective of
bouncers downtown.
You’re downtown, drunk, underage and have
a fake ID burning a hole in your pocket. What
do you do next?
Asa freshman, you were taught the rules of
downtown Athens don’t sit, stumble, jay
walk or look at a police officer the wrong way or
you’re likely to be featured in the next day’s
Crime Notebook.
However, there may be much more to these
downtown directives.
Statistically, if you’re going to get stopped,
you want it to be by anyone other than
University Police.
Of 85 students charged with possession of a
fake ID last year, 63 were charged by University
police officers.
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accordingly, Athens-
Clarke County Police
routinely find IDs on
offenders but do not
add the ID to the list of charges.
Athens-Clarke County Police May. Carter
Greene said this is because of a combination of
discretion on the part of police officers as well
stringent laws concerning when someone
should be charged.
“It could be discretion or it could be that
they haven't used the ID in an illegal manner,”
he said. “It just depends ... Being in possession
of a fake ID that says you’re a different age than
you are is not a crime in of itself.”
It depends heavily on what kind of ID is
See FAKE, Page 2
Athens’ bus stops get musical makeover
By SHAWN JARRARD
The Red & Black
Everyone knows that around
Athens, the music never stops
even when the bus does.
The Athens Area Arts
Council, in concert with the
Unified Government of Athens-
Clarke County and the Athens
Transit System, recently
installed its fourth of eight
planned music-themed bus
stops at Broad Street and
Minor, entitled “Beat A Drum.”
“They made us open up
[one] side so that the bus could
see who was inside,” Arts
Council President Laura Nehf
said. “They claimed that the
drums on both sides blocked
their view. When you’re doing
these kinds of projects, func
tionality is of the highest impor
tance. The art is the great add
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▲ Students are
often charged
with fake ID
possession
downtown.
ACC Police
Maj. Carter
Greene said
being in
possession of a
fake ID isn’t a
crime itself,
but it becomes
a crime if
underage stu
dents are'rep
resenting
themselves as
someone they
are not.
on that makes the functionality
fun and inspirational, but they
still have to be functional.”
This spirit of collaboration
between the county, transit sys
tem and arts council made the
effort a reality, as funding for
the project marked the first
public/private partnership
between the three.
“The public match is that
the bus shelters are paid for by
the county up to the price that
they would pay for every other
green-wire bus shelter that you
see out on the streets,” Nehf
said. “Then the arts council
raises through private and cor
porate donations the artists’
fees and the design fees for the
bus shelters and the additional
materials. That's about $5,000
per shelter that the arts council
raises above and beyond what
the county pays for. The county
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pays $9,160. The total bus shel
ter cost is about $14,160.”
Serving to provide an inspi
rational experience to the
Athens community, the bus
stops came out of a project
called “You, Me and The Bus."
The overall theme of the
endeavor is “Art Rocks!”
“I think we’ve had a lot of
positive feedback," Nehf said.
“The artists were designing
around a musical tribute to
Athens. That’s why we have the
‘Bus Shelter That Rocks’ and a
piano over one of them. Piano
keys and treble clefs and music
notes it was all about music.”
When the time came to
accept design submissions, the
arts council decided to go big.
“We had a nationwide call for
art in both rounds,” Nehf said.
See BUS, Page 9
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Undocumented
students can
no longer apply
By BRIANA GERDEMAN
The Red & Buck
A policy approved by
the Board of Regents
Wednesday means undoc
umented students will no
longer be accepted to the
University beginning fall
2011.
The board heard and
approved four recommen
dations by the Residency
Verification Committee,
which are meant to help
universities properly clas
sify students for tuition
purposes.
Starting in fall 2011,
college application forms
must make students
aware of the penalties for
knowingly providing false
information on the form.
Applications will also
require applicants to
state whether they seek
in-state or out-of-state
tuition.
The other two recom
mendations that were
Caleb King case
sent off to SEC
No time table on decision
By ZACH DILLARD
The Red & Buck
Georgia Athletic Director Greg McGarity confirmed
Wednesday the Athletic Association took the next step
in handling a potential NCAA violation by football
player Caleb King.
McGarity, in a brief telephone interview, said his
office submitted the information pertaining to King to
the Southeastern Conference office.
The inquiry to the league office is in
reference to whether King —a redshirt
junior running back violated NCAA
rules by accepting a SSOO loan from a
female “friend,” as was stated in an
April police report.
"Basically, we are running this
through the proper channels and at
some point in time we will basically
have some information,” McGarity
said.
McGarity said the issue was being
handled by Eric Baumgartner, Georgia's assistant AD
for compliance, and that there is no time frame for the
league to offer an answer.
Baumgartner was unavailable for comment on
Wednesday.
When asked about the circumstances surrounding
King being sent to the SEC office, head coach Mark
Richt responded he was unaware of the situation.
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▲ llga VIII, registered as ‘Big Bad Bruce/ will begin his
reign as the University’s new mascot with a ceremony
before Saturday’s homecoming game against Vanderbilt.
Find out which
Alaskan band
Sarah Palin
shares a
connection with.
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makeover.
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Vol. 118, No. 43 I Athens, Georgia
approved involved chang
es in policy. Public insti
tutions in the University
System of Georgia must
now verify that applicants
are lawful U.S. residents,
and if they are applying
for in-state tuition, that
they are Georgia resi
dents.
Public colleges and
universities that have
turned away any academ
ically qualified applicants
in the past two years will
not be allowed to admit
students who cannot pro
vide proof of legal resi
dency in the U.S.
The Residency
Verification Committee
was formed to address
three concerns that the
University system may be
swamped by thousands of
undocumented students,
that those students were
taking taxpayer dollars
through in-state tuition
See BOARD, Page 3
BARRING GUNS?
Could you carry
your handgun
with you in your
favorite bar?
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