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2 Wednesday, October axaoio | The Red * Black GHOST: Guides speak of haunted history > From Pas* I tracks by North Campus right beside the cemetery and the train didn't see him, and it cut off his head,” said Kelly Aratoon, a senior public relations major from Vienna, Va., who serves as bench chair of the Student Alumni Council. It’s speculated that the ghost of “Wee Willie” sleeps in a hollow log on the banks of the Oconee River, according Aratoon's research. “People come through downtown walking and they sometimes think they can hear him screaming,” she said. Most of the other anecdotes of horror are more than a century old, Aratoon said. Knowledge of these stories can turn familiar land marks into scary spaces, a welcoming campus into a Halloween haunt and historic alumni into ghostly phan toms. In the 1820s, for example, Robert Toombs, a student and member of Demosthenian Literary Society, had been expelled several times from the University and could not attend graduation. Toombs instead stood under a large oak tree in front of the Chapel and gave a speech so compelling that stu dents fled their graduation within the Chapel to hear Toombs’ defiant discourse. But the oration abruptly ceased when lightning struck the tree and killed Toombs. A sundial now stands in the place where Toombs allegedly died. A Toombs impersonator will act as a tour leader tonight, but Toombs' ghost may still linger the streets, Aratoon said. “I'd definitely say that there's ghosts that come and visit us,” she said. “Is it a negative thing? I don’t think so.” One of those spirits may be looming the mysterious stairway in Joseph E. Brown Hall on North Campus, Lee said. When the building was a dormitory in the 19305, a stu dent hanged himself during Christmas break. The putrid corpse remained suspended in midair for days until a potent decaying smell led to the body’s discovery, accord ing to Lee. The staircase that supposedly led to the late student’s room still remains, but the door has allegedly been sealed by a concrete wall. An enlarged photograph of the apartment of the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the only visible thing hanging today. Senior magazines and sociology major Savannah Weeks said she’s heard of the Joe Brown Hall haunting. However, she said she was not aware of any of the other ghost stories. ‘Tm expecting to learn a lot of history of UGA,” Weeks said. “Any University this old has to have some good scary stories.” PEARLS Before Swime® by Stephan Fastis ®THIS MA6A7INE ON IJ WHAT \ ITHftFSMTMTUI KSM ( HEbPS WITH RESALE. TtHEN RCMO9CU I'M * FOR’/ VALUE OF THE HOME. , v IIMFINS AIOUT MATINS THEY'RE A VERY POPULAR . CONTRACTOR IMSTAbk I \ \ FEATURE RISHT NOW. } ME OF THOSE ISLANDS \ V., f MRtUi mmtewTEg % • - . 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The cemetery can still be seen on Jackson Street, but when the University was chartered, it extended from the Bishop House all the way to the Psychology building, Aratoon said. Burials have ceased since 1892. Aratoon said all the bodies underneath the ceme tery are of Civil War and pre-antebellum time and that the Civil War played an integral role in the University’s history, as North Campus served as an infirmary dur ing the war. Reema Patel, a microbiology major from Savannah, said the historical element is what attracted her to the tour. “I expect the tour to talk about ghosts of past important students,” Patel said. "I love haunted hous es and ghosts, so I thought this would be lots of fun and a way to scare all of my friends.” The tour will be dimly lit with Halloween lanterns, and students will follow guides who will be disguised under grisly costumes. “A lot of people said last year it was really historic but wasn’t exciting and captivating, so this year that’s our goal is to really captivate everyone,” Aratoon said. 40 Tiny 43 Drink too much 45 Arm cover ings 48 Deteriorate 50 Madman 51 Combined 52 Show to be true 1 53 Become soft and juicy 26 Rum cake 27 Has debts 28 Tavern drinks 29 Lubricated 32 Terry doth wrap arounds 34 Extinct bird 35 Ridicules 36 Mr Gingrich 38 Recup eration NEWS Online W Classes* deadreof©geofgiacenter uga.edu 1 Ml//’ I’ll nil jl'l ® 1 W >ri CLASSES THAT FIT aatmft-mtng YOUR SCHEDULE 1197 Soutn Lumpkin Steel • Athens, Georgia 30602-3603 The Red & Black TEcJ Z3?*£PJh7 * s now a ( * ona^°n Toys For Tots! Accepting New, Unopened Toys Donations Accepted BKg Through the Month of November Drop donations offal The Red & Black offices located: ">4O liaxter Street (!l-r Mon.-Fri.. (‘losetl 11/22-28) Questions? Call: 7.45L31H10 54 Tale 56 Menlo , NJ 57 On uptight 58 Observed 59 Tender to the touch 62 Greek T | Picture I h y j| ii 1 MK flyj 5 w% v 111 bbll. ■' JBBHI wt m FRANCES WICKLOW The &d* Bla4 * ▲ Ashlee Nicole Sharer (directly above) guides the North Campus ghost tour. The tour shares stories about some sinister secrets on campus. ONLINE Police Documents CRIME NOTEBOOK Student arrested while waiting for Mends A University student was arrested Tuesday at about 2 a.m. after an offi cer observed her wander around inside The Grill in a confused manner, according to an Athens- Clarke County police report. Taran Marie Gilreath, 18, was arrested after an officer noticed her walking around in and out of The Grill multiple times. . Gilreath was wearing a costume comprised of a black outfit with what appeared to be dried blood on her neck, according to the report. After the officer asked if she was OK, Gilreath replied that “everyone had left her," that she had sat with random people at the Grill, and that she was going to walk back to Russell Hall alone. The officer reported the smell of alcohol on hef breath asked for her ID and found an ID that did not belong to Gilreath in addition to Gilreath’s ID. Gilreath was charged with underage possession and public intoxication. She was transported to Clarke County Jail. Panhandling leads to barring notice A man was banned from campus for one year Monday after asking peo ple for money near the Oglethorpe House parking lot, according to a University Police report. Compiled by Tiffany Stevens CORRECTIONS The Red & Black is committed to journalistic excellence and providing the most accurate news possible. 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