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Adams supports open records taws
■ By WILL BROWN
The Red & Black
A day after The Red & Black report
ed an administration official urged
University employees to be more cau
tious of what they put on public record,
University President Michael Adams
said he would not circulate memos urg
ing employees to keep matters private,
but he also insisted a degree of privacy
is allowed.
“We’re not even any good at keeping
secrets when we try,” Adams Joked in
his Thursday news conference.
According to documents obtained by
The Red & Black, Vice President of
Basketball
tips off year
with win in
exhibition
BY MITCH BLOMERT
The Red & Black
The men’s basketball team
helped celebrate the re-opening of
the renovated Stegeman Coliseum
in fitting fashion —with a win.
The Bulldogs opened the 2010-
11 season with an 85-48 exhibition
win against Augusta State on
Thursday, using a cast of players
to balance the loss of SEC
Preseason Player of the Year Trey
Thompkins.
“It was nice to
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be able to play a
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this level,” head
State 48 coach Mark Fox
said. “A lot of good
things and a lot of
things to clean up, but overall I
was pleased.”
No dominant player shined in
the place of Thompkins, who is
out with a sprained ankle, but
Georgia had four players in double
figures in an offense that empha
sized backcourt play without last
year’s leading scorer’s presence
inside at forward.
“With the injury to Trey we’re
having to re-invent ourselves,” Fox
said. “We don’t have the depth
and the rotation that we had
planned on having so we’re trying
to re-invent ourselves on the fly,
so well have to see how that
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ON THE WEB
Video of Adams’address
Student Affairs Rodney Bennett advised
employees in an Oct. 26 Housing
Management Team departmental meet
ing that “no written feedback or evalua
tive information should be kept for any
candidates in any search process,
including student positions."
That prompted Adams to stress his
“strong support” for Georgia open
records laws on Thursday and argue
that records “should be open to what
ever extent is allowed by law.”
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Friday, November 5, 2010
Thrilling stunts on display in dramatic show
By ADAM CARLSON
The Red & Black
No one could ever accuse “EPIC”
of not trying to live up to Its name.
The show which is the second
of Canopy Studio’s two annual rep
ertory performances crosses ’BOB
- MTV with Cirque du Soleil, the
aerial arts ... and zombies.
"It’s kind of just a silly, over-the
top, really sort of loud, family-friend
ly rock sort of show,” said the stu
dio’s director Melissa Roberts.
The MTV-esque aesthetic began
with a running conversation among
various studio performers and per
sonnel back in April about the titu
lar word and the way it suddenly
seemed to be everywhere at once.
Realization brought nostalgia, as
Adams also explained that Georgia
law allows a degree of privacy for some
matters, though.
“There are some personnel matters
where the law itself allows us to do cer
tain things out of light,” Adams said.
“And fiankly, that to me la a strong pro
vision because It enhances the quality
of the pools from which you can draw.”
Still, Adams asserted that his admin
istration “has been as open as any in
history at the University of Georgia”
and voiced support for Bennett.
“Rodney Bennett is an extraordinary
vice president for student affairs,”
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Whan: 8 pm; Saturday at 4 and 8 p.m.;
Sunday at 2 and 6 p.m.
Where; Canopy Studio
Price: sls, $lO for students
the conversation turned to music of
the past: things that used to be,
well, epic.
“The ‘EPIC’ show came about
because we were sort of [remember
ing] videos we used to love,” Roberts
said.
With production beginning in
June, the crew began assembling the
artists they most wanted to include
in the music-heavy performance.
Those picked include David
Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Queen and
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‘Human vs. Zombies,’ with humans
fending for their lives with Nerf guns.
Humans fight
off zombies,
death ensues
By PATRICK HOOPER
The Red & Black
It’s time to lace up your running shoes and
dust off your favorite bandana. The zombies
are coming to town.
This Monday marks the beginning of the
week-long Humans vs. Zombies game, which
pits students against each other in an effort
to escape or spread the zombie plague, sym
bolized by bandanas.
Humans wear their survival on their sleeve,
while their undead nemeses wear bandanas
on their head. A two-hand tag from a zombie
forces humans to switch sides, their goal
being a complete kill-off by closing time on
next Friday night. Humans can “stun” zom
bies and incapacitate them for 15 minutes by
shooting them with a Nerf gun, or throwing a
sock ball.
Monday marks the semester’s first foray
into a zombie-slaying good time, but it is not
the first time the University has played host
to the infectiously popular pastime, which
swept across campus last fall.
Christine Sawyer, a public relations major
from Jonesboro and HvZ’s advertising com
mittee leader, fell in love with the game for its
simplicity.
“It was really fun without any special
requirements," she said, stating that the dues
and obligations of many other clubs can sour
an experience. “Humans vs. Zombies is a week
of pure diversion. You can be as Involved as
you want.”
Ben Coffee, a junior physics and astronomy
major from Alpharetta, said he already has his
zombie strategy planned out, having found
the perfect hiding place. He won’t let anyone
know his trade secret before the game begins,
but he said it should be easy to figure out.
“People will know when I tag them,” he
said, adding he was able to rack up seven kills
in three hours with that spot last year.
Brandon Lou, a senior biological
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“And it just kind of morphed and
grew from there,” Roberts said.
The repertory company, which
includes 10 dancers, began choreo
graphing pieces that reflected the
overall spirit of bigger, louder and
larger.
“All the pieces are really big,”
Roberts said. “A lot of It Is just really
bombastic."
The biggest, most bombastic set
pieces Include a triple trapeze, a
7-foot rectangle and a bungee.
But all the flair and movement is
purposefully over-the-top: while
there were some serious moments in
shows past, “EPIC,” intentionally,
has none.
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