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Thursday, October 28, aoio | The Red * Black
ELECTION Q&A WITH
NATHAN DEAL
AND ROY BARNES
Editor’s Note: With less than a toeek to go before the
gubernatorial election, The Red & Black conducted
e-mail interviews with both the Republican and
Democratic gubernatorial candidates to see why the
University is important to them.
Why should a University student vote for you?
Deal: As governor, I want to make sure that our
educational system, including the University System,
remains strong and competitive. I want to create an
economic environment that will bring more Jobs to
Georgia and would allow graduates of the University
of Georgia to stay in Georgia and find a career and
start a family.
Barnes: Though UGA students may not be focused
on more than passing their next exam or beating
Florida this weekend, every Georgian needs to be
thinking about the future. This election is about our
children and our grandchildren. It’s about education,
about jobs, about Georgia and its future. My first pri
ority as governor will be restoring adequate funding to
our state’s public education system.
What is your position on getting a stu
dent representative on the Board of
Regents?
Deal: I believe that our current board
provides representation from across
the state, While I would not change the
makeup of the board, I would consider
creating an advisory position.
Barnes: I think it’s a very good one.
I’m in favor of getting a student repre
sentative on the Board of Regents.
Some of the best ideas that I have seen
in every campaign and while I served in
public life have come from college cam
puses.
How will you handle the budget cuts
facing the state with relation to higher
education?
Deal; Of all the priorities of state
government, education must be among
the highest. We need to prepare univer
sity students to compete in a global
economy. At the same time, we are fac-
ing uncertain times in terms of the state budget. I will
do everything in my power to limit the adverse impact
on our public colleges.
Barnes: Higher education is the key that unlocks a
prosperous future for individual students, including
jobs, and it is a key piece of my vision of economic
development, job creation and prosperity for Georgia.
The first thing that needs to happen in Georgia is
the General Assembly and the Office of the Governor
needs to fund higher education. Last year, our
University System was being funded at 1998 levels.
That has a negative effect on our great colleges and
universities as well as effectively draining the HOPE
Scholarship.
Do you have any affiliation with UGA?
Deal: My son, Jason, is a graduate of the UGA law
school and my daughter-in-law, Denise, earned her
undergraduate degree from UGA.
Barnes: The first time I was ever in Athens was
when my father dropped me off for freshman orienta
tion. I earned my undergraduate degree at the
University of Georgia, and went straight through
another three years and earned my law degree from
UGA as well. I currently serve on the Board of Visitors
for the law school.
What is your most memorable college moment?
Deal: On a break from school, I went home and a
high school classmate introduced me to her college
roommate. Her name was Sandra and that blind date
has turned into 44 years of marriage.
Barnes: In my senior year at UGA, I went on a blind
date with a beautiful, intelligent young lady named
Marie. We've been married 40 years now and I love her
with all of my heart. We live close to our three children
and six grandchildren.
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Bikers go 300 miles in 30 hours
By PAIGE VARNER
Thk Red & Buck
It takes dedication to drive rough
ly 300 miles to Jacksonville, Fla., for
the weekend football matchup.
It takes a little bit more dedica
tion ride a bike that far.
About 30 people from the
University’s Baptist Collegiate
Ministries are doing just that during
the group’s annual Ride for Christ.
Nathan Byrd, BCM campus minis
ter, said cyclists mostly will ride par
allel to U.S. Highway 441 and Georgia
State Route 15.
But at night they’ll ride on the
four-lane Highway 441, bookended
by the vehicles.
Cyclists depart from Watldnsville
today around 10 a m. for the 30-hour
trip.
Duane Jurma, a junior from
Lawrenceville and a photographer
for this year’s ride, will provide
encouragement for the Jacksonville
trip. He and others will ride in vehi
cles in front of and behind the
cyclists, cheering them on and acting
as a barrier between them and other
cars.
Night or day, Byrd said a support
vehicle is always within eyesight of
cyclists.
The vehicles will don Christmas
lights and reflective tape saying
“Cyclists ahead.”
“You can see us from miles away,
we’re so lit up," Byrd said. “You’d
have to be blind not to see us.”
While in hilly North Georgia, they
will ride in 20-mile legs, stopping in
between for water and snacks.
When they reach flat South
Georgia, they will aim for 30-mile
legs, said Scott Murphy, a second
year master’s student who will ride
to Jacksonville for the third time.
Still, riding 300 miles with 10-min
ute snack breaks every 30 miles is
THOSE WERE THE DAYS....
Editor’s Note: This Thursday
series chronicles some of the
most interesting, hilarious and
monumental moments that hap
pened this week in the
University’s history.
POLO IS ASSURED FOR
ATHENS AND UNIVERSITY
Beyond lending its name to
one of today’s apartment com
munities in Athens, the
University Polo Club started
this week in 1924 was not as
successful as many in the ‘2os
had hoped it would be. “Athens
has obtained a polo field, orga
nized a polo team and is well on
the way toward having this
game an established feature of
the sports activities in this
city.” The sport never attracted
a sizeable student following,
and it certainly didn’t achieve
the level of popularity The Red
& Black originally predicted in
an Oct. 30 issue. "[Polo] is
expected to prove a strong rival
of football and other sports.”
Football remains king for most
University sports fans.
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▲ Beginning today, members of Baptist Collegiate Ministries will
bike to Jacksonville for the group’s annual Ride for Christ event.
not all that comfortable, said Ethan
Gudger, who will ride this year for
the second time. He recommended
bike shorts for the butt padding.
And Murphy said because cyclists
are constantly burning calories, they
must continue refueling during
breaks.
He should know he said once
when his potassium was low, his leg
cramped while he pedaled uphill and
his bike toppled over. He rode in a
van until the next leg of the Journey.
The middle part of the ride is the
hardest for Murphy that’s when he
has to fight to stay awake and ener
gized.
Gudger said he’s found a solution
to that problem Mountain Dew
and ibuprofen.
“Staying awake is not an issue,”
Gudger said.
Each cyclist is encouraged to raise
S4OO for the SendMeNow mission
ANCIENT INDIAN’S GHOST HAUNTS MANUSCRIPT ROOM OF MAIN
LIBRARY
Beware of hanging around odd nooks of the University's Main Library this
Halloween.
In the 19505. building janitors refused to clean several manuscript rooms
because they feared late-night spooks “Cleveland Billups, the library’s old
est janitor, says he firmly believes that a ghost resides in the locked vault in
the library's special collections room.” Library workers believed a Native
American skeleton on display at an Indian burial exhibit was walking the halls
at night making odd noises behind the book stacks.
Just in time to dispel All Hallow’s Eve rumors, an Oct. 31,1957 issue of The
Red & Black revealed the ghostly rumblings were actually just caused by the
room’s poor acoustics. “At night, when a person fitting at the last table
moves, his movements may be heard from the direction of the stacks.”
RUSSELL DATING SERVICE SET
Innumerable freshmen boys have
dreamed of merely calling a hotline and
ordering beautiful co-eds to arrive at their
dorms within the hour —and in 1971, Larry
King and Scott Hiliey decided to turn this
dream into a reality in Russell Hall.
The two University students started
Russell Hall Dating, a free service run
through King and Hilley's dorm room that
paired male and female participants based
on answers to an interest survey. At times of
great demand like the 1971 Homecoming
weekend Hiliey and King would set guys
and gals up blindly, hoping for the best.
“Boys are all for it, but girls are all wary at
first. I think they feel like they’re being
picked up or something,” Hiliey said. “Of
course, if somebody got married or some
thing, it’d be nice to know I had a hand in
it.”
CRIME NOTEBOOK
Arrest warrant issued for
underage possession
An arrest warrant was
issued for University stu
dent Hannah Olivia Dees.
18, Tuesday for underage
possession of alcohol.
Dees was questioned by
University Police at 12:40
a.m. Saturday after police
responded to a call that
said she was intoxicated
and barely conscious in
the Russell Hall lobby.
Dees had an odor “com
monly associated with an
alcoholic beverage coming
from her breath” and had
slurred speech and blood
shot, red eyes, the police
report stated.
According to the police
report, Dees told police
she consumed “too much”
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Thailand, Peru and Russia.
Murphy said he signed up the first
year just to meet new people, not to
add an athletic notch to his belt.
Murphy has continued to ride in
support of summer mission trips
through Georgia Baptist Collegiate
Missions.
Once the group reaches the
Jacksonville city limit sign Friday
afternoon and the trip is over, Gudger
said he will want a bed and a shower.
As for dedication, he said he’s the
type of person who does things com
pletely and fully.
“I am one of those lunatics,”
Gudger said.
But he said he won’t be celebrat
ing his arrival to Jacksonville very
long.
“I’m going to crawl in a hole and
sleep a while,” he said.
alcohol. When EMS per
sonnel asked Dees about
the date and where she
was, Dees was unable to
answer.
“Dees was too intoxicat
ed to answer these ques
tions correctly and kept
repeating the number 23,”
according to the police
report.
Dees was transported
to St. Mary’s Hospital at
12:59 am. Saturday.
Postage stamp swindler
Forty sheets of first
class stamps worth S6OO
were stolen en route to a
University employee
between Oct. 21 and Oct.
26, according to a theft
report filed with University
Police Tuesday.
KAZOO POWER
This week in 1973, The Red
& Black profiled the Mell-
Lipscomb community Kazoo
Band. “Bandleader Vic Bray
said he founded the band
because ‘while we don’t go to
the games, we do enjoy some
of the atmosphere. So we
decided to do something... be
it honest or satirical.’” Forty
band members performed pub
licly outside Sanford Stadium’s
main gate on gamedays, regal
ing football fans with such
University favorites as “Dixie”
and “Glory, Glory to Old
Georgia.”
Compiled by
Julia Carpenter
ONLINE
Police Documents
Amy Lynn Peterson, an
administrative associate in
the center for computa
tional quantum chemistry,
told University Police she
ordered the stamps from a
website.
She reported the
stamps she ordered were
removed from the mailing
envelope before it was
delivered to her.
Peterson reported the
theft to Campus Mail
Services and the U.S.
Postal Service, the police
report stated.
Compiled by
Katie Valentine
