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Fraternity house bur
glarized
Three University stu
dents reported more
than $4,000 worth of
items stolen from the
Sigma Phi Epsilon fra
ternity house on
Tuesday, according to
the Athens-Clarke
County Police report.
“There’s a chance it
might show up, but I’m
counting it as a loss for
right now,” one victim
told The Red & Black
Wednesday.
All of the stolen
items were located in
common areas, but in
different rooms, accord
ing to the victim.
In total, a mountain
bike, backpack, book
and two Macßook lap
tops with a total value
of $4,095 were reported
stolen.
The victim said the
fraternity house has had
some small thefts in the
past.
However, he said
there’s never been any
thing quite “on this
scale.”
“All the doors lock
and there are codes on
them,” he said. “But I
believe one of them was
open.”
Another victim told
The Red & Black that
“most everyone in the
house was asleep at the
time.” He said anyone
could have come in.
And he said he did
not believe the offender
was anyone affiliated
with the fraternity or
living in the fraternity’s
house.
“We definitely feel
like it was an outside
thing,” he said.
“Someone probably
decided to check doors
and found an open one
and had a nice little
walk around.”
He said he was typ
ing a report, went
upstairs and planned to
come back down to the
common room to get
his laptop in the morn
ing before going on with
his day.
But when he came
back for the laptop,
which is valued at
$2,000, it was gone.
“Whoever it was
could have literally just
walked through quietly,”
he said.
Police don’t know
how entry was made
into the house, but “at
least three doors were
standing or propped
open,” according to the
report.
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Thanks to television, being 16 and pregnant is no longer the secret
life the American teenager.
And most teens polled by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen
and Unplanned Pregnancy said shows they like that feature teen preg
nancy such as MTV’s "Teen Mom * made them consider their own
risk of getting pregnant and how to avoid it.
In fact, 76 percent of the 1,008 teens polled said what they see in the
Club promotes pro-life
education in Athens
By PATRICK HOOPER
The Red & Black
Anew student group is
taking a stand for unborn
life everywhere.
Though the group’s
Facebook page links to
the Students for Life of
America website, the
University’s Students for
Life group shares a simi
lar name but none of the
other group’s clout.
“We are an indepen
dent group without any
official links,” said Peter
Ascik, a chemistry gradu
ate student from Asheville,
N.C. “Getting the word
out was a challenge.”
Ascik cited the fall
activities fair as especially
useful, giving his fledgling
group the chance to intro
duce themselves to the
student body. This is the
group’s first active semes
ter on campus.
He said he built the
Students for Life around
three core notions sup
porting pregnant mothers
in Athens, educating the
community about life in
the womb and calling
attention to the loss of life
caused by abortion and
embryonic research.
“Pro-life is always an
issue,” he said of his deci
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The episodes are never fun.
They’re struggling and suffer
ing. They might have to make
the choice to give the child up
for adoption. You see how dif
ficult it is.’
now. “It’s never gone
away.”
Ascik said the issue is
particularly relevant
today, as the field of bio
science has begun moving
toward the use of embry
os in its research.
Steve Stice, director of
the University’s
Regenerative Bioscience
Center, said there was no
cause for concern for that
kind of research at the
University.
“We’re not doing any
research on embryos,” he
said. “It’s prohibited by
the [National Institute of
Health] and by law for
federally-funded
research.”
The NIH provides the
University with its supply
of stem cells.
Athens Pregnancy
Center Director Tricia
Parker said some students
volunteer but the center
still welcomes more help.
Parker said the center
encourages raising one’s
child as the first option
and adoption as the sec
ond, but they do not turn
away women who have
chosen abortion.
“We have a support
group for girls who have
had abortions,” she said.
“I want them to know
they have support.”
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DOCUMENTS: Avoiding record keeping
described as an ‘unsavory’ practice
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about what we have learned
as a result of the Dear, of
Students search and the
documents that were kept
- that [The Red & Black]
did an open records request
for and subsequently pub
lished,” he said. “And so I
reminded the department
heads that, as they are
reviewing candidates and
candidate credentials, they
need to be aware that we
operate in an open records
state and any document
that we create or maintain
is subject to public
review.”
When
asked if
Bennett
encourag
es solely
verbal col
lection of
feedback
for depart
ments, he
said no.
“No, I
would
encourage people to do it
in whatever way they're
comfortable doing it,”
Bennett said. “Sometimes
you can collect feedback
verbally and that’s fine.
And other times you need
to collect feedback in
another form, and I think
it's OK to do it in the other
form if that’s what the situ
ation calls for. But I don’t
think anybody should be
reckless in Just creating a
bunch of documents and a
lot of records that they
really don’t need. I think
you need to have a specific
purpose for creating a
record and maintaining a
record."
Bennett said when con
ducting a search, he often
writes down comments
about the candidates in
the margins or on the back
of the paper, and all of
those comments on the
documents could be made
publicly available.
“If you don’t need to
write that down, if you
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media about sex, love and relationships can launch discussions about
it with adults.
So, The Red <fc Black wanted to hear it from University students
do shows like “16 and Pregnant ’’ and “The Secret Life of the American
Teenager” positively or negatively influence teens?
Paige Varner
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don’t need to keep that
information, don’t keep it,”
he said. “If you need to
keep it, then By all means
keep what you need to
keep, but have a purpose
and a reason for keeping
it."
Frank LoMonte, execu
tive director of the Student
Press Law Center, said not
keeping written feedback
“just seems like a bad prac
tice.”
“Asa general matter, an
agency is only required to
turn over documents that
they actually have,”
LoMonte said. “The ques
tion is, ‘Can you conduct
your business in a way that
undermines open records
policies?'"
John Millsaps, spokes
man for the Board of
Regents, said universities
in the University System of
Georgia don’t have to keep
anything outside of the
documents required by the
U.S. Department of Labor.
The U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
requires employers to keep
all personnel or employ
ment records for one year.
Employers are required to
also keep records of
employee payroll, employ
ee benefit plans and other
employee records such as
wage rates and job evalua
tions.
LoMonte said universi
ties should not purposeful
ly abstain from keeping
“written feedback or evalu
ative information.”
“It certainly seems unsa
vory for a school to get
around open records prac
tices in order to avoid pub
lic disclosure,” LoMonte
said. “It may technically be
legal, but the public would
be right to ask if this is a
sound practice.”
Josh Delaney, SGA pres
ident, said people have a
right to know about all pro
cesses that occur in a pub
lic institution.
“I think it’s important
for all search processes for
positions —be it student,
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pruned senior biology
major from Marietta
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they’re too young to be
having their future set in
stone. But I've heard of
some girts becoming preg
nant so they can be on
the show.”
SUMAN MOMIN
international anairs
major from Johns Creek
“Secret Life’ shows teen
pregnancy as a way to
get popular, as some
thing to get attention for
The girl’s mom helps her
out a lot. I think there’d
be more consequences
in real life.’
staff or administrative
conducted by a public uni
versity that iq taxpayer
supported to be public. I
think all citizens stu
dents, journalists and who
ever else should be able
to have a transparent look
at what’s going on in the
processes at that universi
ty."
Bennett said some can
didates for jobs ,at the
University may be in a situ
ation in which they risk
being fired if their supervi
sor finds out they are con
sidering a job at another
institution.
“That’s the problem
with doing searches that
are so public where [The
Red & Black] published
the name, rank and serial
number of everybody,”
Bennett said. “That’s sort
of the backlash that we
have to deal with. It’s that
some of your best candi
dates will not apply
because they can’t take the
risk of having their supervi
sor or employer know
they’re considering other
jobs.”
Bennett
said the
context of
what the
entry in the
Housing
Meeting
document
was refer
ring to is
that after
the recent
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DELANEY
Dean of Students search,
staff should be more aware
of what University docu
ments can be made avail
able to the public.
“There’s no policy relat
ed to recoils, but with the
stories that [The Red &
Black] printed, it certainly
provided opportunities for
good discussion for pro
cesses going forward and a
reminder of the Open
Records Act,” he said.
After the , Dean of
Students was announced,
students expressed the
need for more transparen
cy on the administrative
level.
“Any search process
should continue to have
records that people can
look back on in order to
keep people accountable
spid make sure the process
es are done in a transpar
ent way,” Delaney said.
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