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University pays $68,000 for Ludacris show
By MARIANA HEREDIA
The Red & Black
What docs Ludacria require at
nis typical concert? One box of
Tfpjan Magnum condoms, one
Pack of Fruit Roll Ups, three
XXL white T-shirts, one iron and
ironing board and six bottles of
the finest liquors, among other
items.
Jerry Anthony, the assistant
director of Campus Life at the
University, said last week’s
Ludacria performance was one of
the most expensive the University
has ever sponsored.
Dropouts
unusual
among
students
Most return
for year two
By KATHRYN INGALL
The Red & Black
Anew study shows that
though colleges across the
country are struggling to
graduate students, the
University is performing
well.
The study by the
American Institutes for
Research found federal and
state governments spent
more than $9 billion
between 2003 and 2008 on
the education of students
who do not return for their
second year.
The Institute also
launched a website where
viewers can search for data
on an individual college or
findings statewide and
nationwide.
“This is an area the
University is doing well in,”
said Tom Jackson, vice
president of public affairs.
The number of students
who returned to the
University after their first
year was 93 percent, which
puts the University in the
92nd percentile among all
colleges nationwide. The
average first year retention
rate for all colleges nation
wide was 78.4 percent. The
graduation rate was 77 per
cent compared to a nation
al average of 57.8 percent.
Jackson said first-year
retention is an issue most
affecting two-year colleges.
The main concern from
the research in high drop
out rates is the high cost
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were not actually paid for by the
University since many of them
were struck out of the contract.
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high end In terms of the cost
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Batteries and burglaries raise crime numbercT^^^
By PAIQE VARNER
The Red & Black
Editor’s Note: Last gear, The Red & Black
began compiling crime data to create an
online crime map. For this semester-long
Tuesday series we took that crime data
and found 10 of the more crime-ridden
residential streets in Athens-Clarke
County. With Jan. 1 as our starting date,
we tallied the crimes on the streets of the
University's home county to create our
list. We continue with Reed and Firewood
streets.
Quamesha Shack doesn't leave her
house much.
Outside her house, after all, are
two streets that have been the
sites of at least 55 crimes since January.
“I know there’s a big crime rate,”
Shack, 31, said, “but I knew if I just stayed
to myself and don’t try to get involved in
this and that, I knew I’d be OK.”
The crime rate is due primarily to bat
tery and burglary there are 17 battery
related and 14 burglary-related charges
on Reed and Firewood streets, located off
Lexington Road near Wal-Mart.
Shack said she’s heard about robberies
and break-ins around the neighborhood,
though she hasn’t been a victim since
moving to Reed Street in February.
One resident of an adjoining cul-de-sac
was not as fortunate.
The Reed Court residence of Deant wone
Tabias McDowell was burglarized Oct. 2
when he wasn’t home.
The burglar made off with McDowell’s
Playstation 3, Xbox 360, cell phone and
some cash all worth more than S6OO.
Reed Street resident Larry Gray, 60, is
a maintenance worker for 10 area homes.
He said his neighbor’s house was bur
glarized, but neighborhood criminals have
given him a break because they know him
and think twice about messing with him.
“I’m that big. tall, long-haired, hippie
lookin’ dude,” he said.
But when he moved there a few years
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Contract with the University
performer," Anthony said. “In the
Atlanta area, those tickets cost
SSO to $60.”
He also explained the high
cost could have been reason for
the University Union executive
board to charge students a small
fee for the tickets.
“We let students put as much
Input into that as possible. They
do factor in whether or not they
can make it totally free," Anthony
said.
Photos, documents, video and crime timeline online.
40 Watt remains Classic City music staple
Venue focuses
on diversity
By ADAM CARLSON
The Red & Black
Nineteen years ago, Kurt
Cobain walked Into the 40 Watt
—and didn’t find a full house
waiting for him.
The show hadn't sold out, the
first In a week to do so, and he
and his band decided they had
something to prove.
“Everyone was kind of raging
that night, but in a good way,”
said Barrie Buck, a University
alumnus and the club’s owner
since 1987.
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▲ Larry Gray, a resident of Reed Street, said rocks have been thrown at
his house, but it hasn’t been broken into. He said he feels safe overall.
ago, hif home was christened with flying
rocks, he said.
Gray said those stones were thrown at
his house because he is a white man in a
black neighborhood.
He said about eight months ago, neigh
borhood boys as young as 8 years old tore
shingles off his roof.
But he feels safe overall. He said his
house has never been broken into.
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He said the board reasoned
that the student activities fee
was enough of a charge to stu
dents.
The original contract between
the University and Ludacris had
various addenda, which changed
many of the original specifica
tions of the contract.
Among these were dressing
room, transportation, equipment
and complimentary tickets speci
fications.
For example, Ludacris’ normal
contract asks for 60
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“Knock on wood,” he added.
Plus, he’s got a pit bull out back.
Thursday afternoon, a police car drove
down Reed Street.
Young women chatted outside, men
congregated across the street and young
children crowded around adults while
they walked the intersection of Reed and
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Soon enough, before the set
had finished, Cobain threw him
self offstage, grabbing onto a
projector screen as he did so.
After that, the crowd began
to rage along.
Nearly 20 years later, the club
still remains at the center of the
Athens music scene and all that
time has left behind more than
just memories.
There are Christmas lights
hanging from the ceiling, glow
ing all year long.
Chinese lanterns mix with
store-bought stars, all twirling
around a disco ball whose light
glints across two faded floral
couches below, halfway between
a Tiki bar, a pool table and a
velvet painting of fried chicken.
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Vol. 118, No. 46 | Athens, Georgia
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In one bathroom, a giant
pineapple covers the wall.
Backstage, messages have been
scrawled over many years in as
many markers.
Now in its fifth location, it
seems like nothing that has
been moved into the 40 Watt
has ever moved out again.
“It’s just a mix of things you
find, things you inherit and
things you rescue from the
dump,” Buck said.
The eclectic objects that dot
the walls, hang pinned from the
ceiling and fill far comers are
evidence enough of the years
spent with a venue frill of peo- \
pie, musicians and all they bring
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