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2 Thursday, November 4, aoio | The Red a Black CRIME NOTEBOOK ONLINE PoNoe Documents 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. 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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 sion to form the group "TBJTo 11 12 . _ —— 1111111 l 22 23 L-Jl r r Jr •„ il-Jil---- V 5? 53 55 56 57 "■■■A • ——> mam ——— HI mmm ——— —- - 5* W) ao r ’ nB fig : liJUJ 1. 11l 1-1... 11/400 61 Memo 62 Blueprint 63 One-masted sailboat 64 Walking stick 65 Warbled 66 Tithing frac tion, often 67 Yellow cheese DOWN 1 Hay bundle 2 Middie East nation 3 Play divi sions 4 Refuge 5 Orchard ’ 6 Actress Lange 7 Insurance 00. employ ee 8 Required 9 Passion 10 Squirmed 11 Author Stanley Gardner 12 Ram hard 13 Blasting substances, for short 21 Assistance 23 Shabby bars 25 Small MAN ON THE STREET: SIXTEEN AND PREGNANT? ng*wp"** i"n i DAM ION MARTELL, junior environmental health science and biochemical engineering major from AS |ll I njh, njj, 1. wanoevHie, Jamaica 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.” 35 Evergreen 36 as a beet 38 Bird homes 39 “Diamond 42 Gazing 44 Drapery topper 46 Use mouth wash 47 Perish 49 Mininum 50 Hebrew *A* stones 26 Raring to go 27 Prior to, to Shakes peare 28 Hell's ruler 29 Overalls part 31 Dazzling effect 32 Poker term 33 Drive too fast NEWS TAYLOR CYLE junior environmental chemistry major from Atlanta T don't know if they help people deal with prob lems. It's much better to leave it to up-front, hon est discussions." ' DOCUMENTS: Avoiding record keeping described as an ‘unsavory’ practice > From Pago 1 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 II I HM S4OO ftr BR ill 51 Tams & berets 52 Stew pot 53 Actor Alda 54 Scheme 56 Warty hop per 56 Sicilian vol cano 57 worthy; consider fit 60 Charged atom 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 - 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, f JF’' v BENNETT TIP MORGAN pruned senior biology major from Marietta ‘lt's a good thing because 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 ipjHßF’' | 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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