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Thirty-one years is a long time. See just how long it has been for Georgia-Florida. Section B WWW.REDANDBLACK.COM VfHHi ■,?! j?J5j H *- | * - •('***- 1 l ~.‘^S’ J '■* ,SKfc>: : WmW%Ms' : ‘ ' ' ' -''V:.:..'’.<• C .J.'-:' '.','■'. ,‘tJ ilijS&lsP \ , ’!'3c?Tmi i”t ' gaßf ipsps?;?. . - •, •., 1 MBMpg I wwjf *uv§ ’'Hi :-|| BL 4 i Ifi*. ■HfrrJ J| .;fS f 1 ' —■—.l .. ,&smumm (jV(^\ for music lovers to come and hang out. Todd Ploharski, co-owner By ELAINE KELCH | The Rf.d & Black Before you ask Chris Razz why he left Athens, you need to understand why he returned in the first place. “I came back for a girl,” Razz said. But he also came back —and left for that matter in pursuit of another love: music. “I went to school here to study science,” Razz said. “I worked at Chapter ni —a record store where Five Star Day is now. It was the late-’7os and the [Athens] scene hadn’t totally developed yet.” Razz headed to New York City in 1981 to work on T-shirts for the B-52s “initially” and stayed for nearly 30 years working at various record labels and opening up a record store. Secret Sounds, in Bridgeport, Conn. Meanwhile Todd Ploharski, whom Razz met while working at Chapter 111 and “taught everything he knows" to, began selling records in the Classic City. “We were in Athens first in front of 40 Watt for years,” Ploharski said. “We moved to Atlanta into a big ger space." Ploharski has lived within 30 miles of Athens for the past 20-plus years. He spent his time at the University “majoring in WUOG and ‘record’ acquisition and storage and not much else." Music mattered to him, and owning a record store serviced that love, but Atlanta was missing “the spirit See MUSIC, Prior 5A HALLOWEEN HAVOC m9■■ jfr l- -- ■- f 9l *■ 9 190 filr MEGHAN PITTMAN | Tu Rm . Bun ▲ Sisters of the Sigma Alpha Agricultural Sorority bobbed for apples and participated in a costume contest during the group’s membership candidate social at The Pit Wednesday night. a.m. showers. High 761 Low 44 Where’s Mikey? President Adams is lockin’ JH999§£N 't in Jacksonville today I wonder ilhe remefr,t *> re<J ,0 <*>g A7 h,s ( ean shots The Rpfivßlflpk lIoWDIdLJV^F^ An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community 1 ESTABLISHED 1893. INDEPENDENT 1980 CYCLE FOR CHRIST Index Thursday, October 28, 2010 RHOTOS BY JENNA WALKER , Tr k*: . Bm. ▲ Before moving to New York City in 1981, Chris Razz (above) studied science at the University and worked at Chapter 111 —a record store where Five Star Day is now. Costumes earn class credit Some teachers promote dress-up By TIFFANY STEVENS The Red & Black * When kids dress up for Halloween, they expect to get candy. When some college stu dents dress up, they expect to get extra credit. Some University profes sors offered their students the chance to receive extra credit for coming to class in costume around Halloween. Shelton Bellew, an instruc tor of French, Italian and Spanish, said while he’s unsure if he will offer the assign ment this year, he’s allowed stu dents to dress up for extra credit in the past because it makes the class more interesting. “What I usually do is I tell them that if they wear it they can get extra credit points as long as they describe what they’re doing [in the language] and what they’re Members of a campus Baptist group bike to raise money for missions. Page 2A News 2A Opinions 4A dressed up as,” he said. “It’s a chance to get practice in the lan guage. Another motive that I’ve had in offering this is getting stu dents excited about coming to class. The class before a holiday weekend, a lot of people might not want to come. So this makes the class a little bit more Interesting and fun.” SHAMP pires, witches and ghosts. A lot of students have dressed up as UOA cheerleaders. That’s always ftm to translate.” Though costumes for credit can usually liven up a class period, professors said the assign ment is not without problems. Bcott Shamp, director of the See CREDIT, Pane 3A FOURTH & FOREVER 9 opinion that , r . actually • Kind Variety 5A Sports 6A Bellew said students who chose to participate often chose more tradition al costumes, but some past getups stood out in his mind. “I’ve seen a zombie Florida Oator fan, which is kinda hard to translate into another language,” he said. “And then I’ve seen classic outfits like vam- Vol. üB, No. 43 | Athens, Gbokgia ON THE WEB Graduation statistics Bulldogs improve on NCAA grad rates By ZACH DILLARD The Red & Black University of Georgia athletics received some good off-the-field news from the NCAA. The NCAA’s latest Division I Graduation Success Rate report was released Tuesday, revealing that stu dent-athletes in the University’s 18 com petitive sports gradu ate at a 77 percent rate up from 75 per cent in 2009. The 77 percent rate is the highest at Georgia since the GSR was implemented in 2005. “The overall report is encouraging and it definitely con tinues an upward trend,” Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said. Providing an accurate calculation of the academic standing of NCAA athletic programs, the GSR measures the graduation rates of student-ath letes in a six-year window. For this reason, the current GSR is the latest available graduation data for the See GRAD, Page BA THE CARNIVALE OF GYPSIES. TRAMPS AND THIEVES When: Saturday, 2 p.m. - 2 a.m. Where: American Classic Tattoo, 2 p.m. - 9 p.m.: Caledonia lounge. 10 p.m. More Information: S4O tattoos, S2O pierc ings and performances by Bums Like Fire, Stone Mountain Freeway, The Carry-Ons and Kartxwnß Tattoo shops join forces for day of ink By ELAINE KELCH The Red & Black The Camivale of Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves will add a little color to the Classic City —and your skin. “It’s a good theme of everything; basically [describes] the tattoo com munity as a whole,” said event orga nizer Josh Smith. The Camivale, an exhibition of body art and live performances, will feature 12 straight hours of art tat tooed goodness. Planning began two months ago, with the genesis of The Camivale belonging to Smith. “It basically started out being fun for Halloween, then we added the show and the bands and it’s turned into a big shindig," Smith said. The shindig will include an art exhibition from local tattooers as well as band performances includ ing Smith’s own Bums Like Fire fire dancers, tarot readings and Mr. Blank’s Camivale of Black Hearts a freak show. Affordable tattoos will also be available to those daring enough. Walk the Line tattooer John Collins is looking forward to The Camivale as a sort of challenge to perform under "the fast get ’em in, get ’em out nature of the event.” See TATTOO, Page BA WHISTLING DIXIE What did musically talented students who didn’t like football do B 1973? Page 2A Crossword 2A Sudoku 4B X Wm MCGARITY