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Dean
seeks
post as
provost
Finalist for
Ohio job
By POLINA MARINOVA
The Red & Black
Garnett Stokes is look
ing again.
Stokes, dean of the
University's Franklin
College of Arts and
Sciences, is one of four can
didates to fill the provost
position at Miami
University in Ohio, accord
ing to a news release from
Miami.
Stokes was unavailable
for comment.
Stokes was also a final
ist last semester for a pro
vost position at California
State
University,
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STOKES hold an
open forum
on Nov. 10 for the Miami
University community.
At the University, Stokes
was department head of
psychology from 1999 to
2004.
Tom Jackson, vice presi
dent for public affairs, said
it’s not unusual for the
University’s faculty and
administrators to look for
employment at other uni
versities.
“When you have good
people, they’re in demand
all across the country,”
Jackson said.
When seeking employ
ment elsewhere, University
employees are not required
to notify the University
that they’re considering
another job. Jackson said
though the University loses
valuable employees, it
looks good for the institu
tion when faculty and staff
are being approached by
other schools.
“Of course, we’d hate to
lose anybody, but the fact
that other institutions are
interested in our employ
ees is a compliment to the
University,” he said.
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▲ Justin Elliott, a Junior at the University, suffers from a malignant form of brain
cancer. He was given 12 months to live after he was diagnosed in February 2008.
PERSEVERE
Cancer doesn’t stop college success
By SARA CALDWELL
The Red & Black
When junior Justin Elliott was 18, he met
Dennis Dennis the Malignant.
In February of 2008, on a weekend home from
classes at the University of West Georgia, Elliott
suffered a massive brain hemorrhage.
Immediately airlifted from his hometown of
Ellijay to Emory University, Elliott wasn’t too
sure of what was happening.
“I didn’t really know what was going on at
the time since I was bleeding in my brain,”
Elliott said.
Elliot then spent a week in the hospital until
doctors learned of the golf-ball-sized tumor on
the front of his left temporal lobe, and on Feb.
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Texas alt-country band recovers from arson
By JOE WILLIAMS
The Red & Black
When a group of kids broke
Into the merchandise-Oiled trail
er parked in the carport of Daniel
Fluitt’s house In Texas and didn't
And instruments, they set it on
Ore.
“I was living with our drummer
and another artist who recently
just moved out to Athens a few
months ago, and I was asleep
with the girl I was dating at the
time,” said Fluitt, vocalist and
rhythm guitarist for Thrift Btore
Cowboys. “[The] trailer was
underneath our carport and
mainly Just had couches and
clothes and stuff. I guess some
punk kids opened it up and were
expecting to And all this equip
ment and when they didn’t, they
Just totally torched the trailer.”
Fortunately, at 3:30 a.m.,
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28, 2008, Dennis was removed.
“Dennis the name of the tumor was
declared before it was actually taken out,”
Elliott said. “Me and some friends came up with
it. Hopefully he’s in a coma right now, so he
won't wake up.”
Surgeons were able to remove 90 percent of
the tumor, but because of the location of the
growth, 10 percent remains, and Elliott learned
he was in stage four of an aggressive form of
brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme.
He was given at most 12 months to live, but
Elliott, a marketing major in the Terry College
of Business, is approaching his third year after
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Fluitt’s girlfriend’s cat intervened
and fervently scratched on their
bedroom door, both
up.
“I heard something outside,
and it sounded like someone was
trying to break in the van,” Fluitt
said. “When I lifted up the cur
tain, there were, like, 20-foot
Aames right outside of my house.
Luckily, the Are department got
there in like, three minutes, but
pretty much everything in the
carport was destroyed.”
Amongst the things burned up
in the Are were the band’s
albums.
“Every one of our CDs —and
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Vol. üB, No. 48 | Athens, Georgia
Smoking
could be
banned
by May
By POLINA MARINOVA
The Red & Black
Students will know if they have to
put out their cigarettes by the end of
this year.
University President Michael
Adams addressed the recent smok
ing referendum at an Open Mic with
Mike Q&A session Wednesday
night.
Gregory Locke, SGA senator of
the Franklin College of the Arts and
Sciences, said he has received a lot
of criticism over the last week about
enacting a smoking ban. Locke
wanted Adams to publicly state his
opinion on implementing a ban.
In addition to the student refer
endum, Adams said he has received
a largely staff-generated petition
with more than 100 signatures to
make the Health Sciences campus
smoke-free. The University does not
take possession of _
the Health Sciences
property until March, ;J|
Adams said he wants I
to address the smok- l . m
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as a whole at the Hk jjM7:
same time, and plans H[
to make a decision by
the end of the year. ADAIWS
“What I do intend
to do is to deal with it between now
and the end of the school year and
not string it out any longer,” Adams
said. “I don’t want us sitting here
next year with a group of students
who were not participants in the poll
that was passed. Before the end of
school, I think we ought to make a
decision.”
So how much effect does the stu
dent referendum have on his Anal
decision?
"I want to take the student refer
endum into consideration, but It's
not the only thing I want to take
into consideration," he said.
Juan Hernandez, a freshman his
tory major, asked Adams about the
proposal to expand the engineering
program at the University. The
Board of Regents tabled the pro
posal until its November meeting.
However, Adams has not lost hope.
“I know it’s hard for you guys to
believe, but there are some people
who just don’t want to go to Tech,"
Adams said. “I think for us to fill in
that part of the curriculum and
enhance our research opportunities
is the right thing to do.”
Adams said “there are clear cost
issues involved,” and when asked
how the engineering program would
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we had probably 3,000 in there
were completely destroyed,"
Fluitt said.
For a high-caliber band with a
seven-Agure record deal, a few
thousand charred albums is
nothing to fret about.
However, for Fluitt and com
pany multi-instrumentalists
Cory Ames, Clint Miller, Colt
Miller, Amanda Shires and Kris
Killingsworth the ordeal
caused a signiAcant hurdle not
only In terms of merchandise, but
with the recording of their new
est album, “Light Fighter,” which
was released in March.
“It was a pretty big setback. It
was pretty traumatic,” Fluitt
said. “The house is now Ane, and
we got some more CDs in, but it
definitely took us a little while,
that’s for sure. Now it Just seems
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