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Car crashes into store front
No injuries result
from brake failure
By JACOB DEMMITT
The Red & Black
A University student said he drove
his red Dodge Neon through the store
front window of Half-Moon Outfitters
located near Five Points Monday
around 5 p.m. after his brakes malfunc
tioned.
Although no one was injured, an
employee and customer were standing
only feet from the car’s final resting
position when the Dodge entered the
store.
“It sounded like a train coming
through," Half-Moon employee
Katherine Hodges told The Red &
Black Monday. “I was ringing someone
up behind the counter and the car
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Residents of Westchester Drive say crime Isn’t as common In the neighborhood as H used to be.
Editor's Note: Last year, The Red &
Black began compiling crime data
to create an online crime map. For
this semester-long series toe 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. Here is the ninth entry,
Westchester Drive.
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came through the window... We heard
it come through, so we ran to the other
side of the room. By the time we
stopped to look, there was a car in the
middle of the store.”
The driver, who declined to provide
his name, told The Red & Black he was
coasting down South Milledge when he
tried to stop for traffic in front of him.
“I went to put on my brakes and it
didn’t work,” he said. “I pushed with
both feet. My brakes did not work
whatsoever.”
The driver said he then swerved into
the store parking lot to avoid hitting
the cars in front of him.
“I turned into this parking lot and
tried to hit something to make my car
stop,” he said.
The car went through a kayak dis
play, concrete barrier; store window
and interior product display before
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other incidences since Jan. 1.
Residents, however, say it’s not
really a crime-filled locale.
“I know statistics don’t show it,
but if you live over here it’s really not
that bad,” said Tricla Cure, who lives
on Westchester with her family.
“Everybody keeps to theyselves
around here. I mean, you have the
little kids In high school that get Into
fights, but It’s nothing that serious
to be honest.”
Terrell Cure said the family has
lived In the area for several years,
and mentioned TBllassee the road
Westchester branches off of— “used
to be rough.”
Now, he said, crimes aren’t nearly
as common.
Photos, video and crime timeline online.
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▲ A University student drove His car into
the front window of Half-Moon Outfitters
Monday. No one was injured in the crash.
“I ain’t seen no crime,” Cure said.
“It don’t bother us. We stay to our
selves. As long as they don’t bring
trouble here, what they do Is they
business. When they bring trouble to
[our residence] then It’s our busi
ness. That’s how I feel what goes
on out there goes on.”
He chalked up the potential for
crime to kids In the area not having
much to do during their free time.
“There’s a bunch of kids and there
ain’t nothing to do, no park or noth
ing around here to play. You have to
go all the way to Bishop Park,” he
said.
Neighborhood teens who did not
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Vol. üB, No. 41 | Athens, Georgia
Barring
new laws,
illegals
ban stays
By POLINA MARINOVA
The Red & Black
The Board of Regents will lay off on
undocumented students.
Since June, the Regents have been
active in dealing with the issue of
undocumented students attending
University System of Georgia schools.
They recently passed a policy deny
ing admission to undocumented stu
dents in five institutions, including the
University, which have turned away
academically qualified applicants in
the last two years. John Vanchella,
director of strategic communications
for the Board of Regents, said the
Regents are done for now.
“I think the Regents have gone as
far as they intend to go at this point,”
Vanchella said. “I think they’ve
addressed the concerns here. I can’t
really say It’s going to go any further,
but if there’s a change in state law, we
will abide by state law, of course.”
In late September, Georgia House
Speaker David Ralston and Lt. Gov.
Casey Cagle appointed a special Joint
committee on Immigration reform to
look at issues on immigration. The
committee’s first meeting will be on
Thursday morning.
Though no law has been passed pre
cluding undocumented students from
applying to state colleges, the Board of
Regents has had to directly address
the issue this year. Vanchella said the
Regents Initially just wanted to verify
that all students documented and
undocumented were paying the cor
rect tuition amount.
“I think what they really responded
to was they Just wanted our Institu
tions to analyze their admissions,”
Vanchella said. “They were looking at
residency first.”
Georgia isn’t the only state to deal
with Issues regarding undocumented
students. The issue of immigration
laws attracted national attention after
students began advocating for mea
sures such as the Dream Act and pro
testing illegal Immigrant restrictions.
After an analysis of admissions,
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STAGES OF ATHENS
Fresh interior
planned for
historic Theatre
By CHRIS MILLER
The Red & Black
If you don’t remember it, you must
have heard about It.
June 19, 2009, early morning, smoke
billowing upward from the comer of
Jackson and Clayton.
The Georgia Theatre, a temple In
the Athens music Mecca for the better
part of the last 100 years, was burning.
“I tried to run In the building. The
fire marshall had to tackle me. I
thought I could put lt out somehow,”
said Wllmot Greene, owner of the
121-year-old building since 2004.
After being turned away from the
doors, he stood on the comer in front
of the Bank of America building and
watched, helpless.
Backtrack to the summer of 2004.
Athfest time has come, the yearly
week-long celebration of all things
Athenian: beautiful art, loud music
and a lot of beer.
Wllmot Greene Is back In Athens for
the weekend, on vacation from his res
idence in Charlotte, N.C., where he
works as a cartographer.
He received his bachelor’s and mas
ter’s degrees from the University a few
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