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VETERAN: Student uses
experience to help teach
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University alter his tour, he had a
hard time even registering for
classes.
“It’s a pain when you're over
seas and have no phone, no
Internet,” Barton said.
It was also difficult to go from
the strict schedule of the military
to a student’s life where he had to
set his own schedule.
"It wasn’t easy. I think most
everybody who came back had
some difficulty,” Barton said about
the fall semester he returned.
After that semester, his battal
ion was called up to serve in
Afghanistan. This time, he would
be a sergeant and his primary job
would be the oversight and train
ing of five police stations.
But he didn’t leave before mar
rying his wife, Mari, who will grad
uate in December from the
University.
“She’s awesome. She’s made
me the happiest I’ve ever been
and she's a big part of my motiva
tion now,” Barton said. The cou
ple is expecting a daughter, to be
named Samantha, in January.
Mari also would like to pursue
a career in the military in either
aviation or in JAG, the legal
branch of the military.
The couple met through mutu
al friends and got married in April
before Barton left for
Afghanistan.
“It was horrible and extremely
lonely,“ Mari said. “It wasn’t so
MONEY: Activity fee increase elicits debate
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the OASIS system with anew student infor
mation system. The $6 will not be charged if
students do not support the replacement ini
tiative, according to the proposal documents.
The University will decide whether it wUI
move forward with replacing the OASIS sys
tem sometime later in the spring, said Tim
Burgess, senior vice president for finance and
administration.
Students now pay transportation, activity,
recreation, athletic, health, facilities, technol
ogy, green and institutional fees —a total of
$833. With the proposed fees, the new total
would be $845. All fees, except the S2OO insti
tutional fee, are set by the University. The
Board of Regents set a special institution fee
of SIOO in the spring of 2009. Then, in November
of 2009, the Regents approved an additional
SIOO increase to the institutional fee in order
to cover budget reductions.
The three new proposed fee increases are
pending approval from University President
Michael Adams and the Board of Regents. If
the Regents approve the fees, they will be
effective next fall.
The technology and transportation fee
increases were unanimously supported by the
students on the committee, and three out of
four students voted for the student activity
fee increase. Josh Delaney, SGA president,
said he was “on the fence" about the issue.
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about every day [when he was in
Afghanistan]. Most days I got to
talk to him on webcam, but that's
really rare."
She also had the companion
ship of other wives whose hus
bands were deployed.
"There were several wives in
Brett’s unit who were my age and
who also go to UGA,” Mari said.
“We would go to different restau
rants with each other Instead of
having date nights with our hus
bands.”
Barton said he looks forward to
pursuing a career in the Army
when he graduates in two years.
“It’s something I’m good at, it’s
something I enjoy, and I have the
opportunity to serve my country,"
he said. “I really like being in the
military and like the people."
On Veteran’s Day, Barton said
he would just like people to recog
nize the service of those in the
military, remember them, pray for
them and maybe even send a care
package.
“I think the people at home
have been really supportive,”
Barton said. “Everywhere you go,
when people see you’re in the mil
itary they shake your hand and
say ’thank you.’”
He said many times when he
has gone to pay his check in a res
taurant, the waiter says it has
already been taken care of.
Asa third-year cadet in Army
ROTC, Barton is a team leader
over four cadets.
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but he decided to vote in favor of the fee.
“It was either increase fees or develop other
funding models that could include charging
student organizations more to reserve rooms
or charging more for print and copy services,”
he said.
Jason O’Rouke. Graduate Student
Association president, was the only student
who did not vote in favor of the student activ
ity fee increase
“The main reason I didn’t vote for it was
because there were some large reserve
accounts that had been accumulated over the
years, and it wasn’t completely clear to me
how those accounts would be spent.” O’Rouke
said. “I didn’t think it was appropriate for a
fee increase when we had those accounts.”
However, Burgess said the representatives
who proposed the activity fee increase showed
how all the reserve funds were being allocated,
and that the reserves would not be sufficient
to cover basic operating costs.
“It was their opinion that if you used the
funds that were in the reserves for the pur
poses that they had outlined, then you would
bring the whole student activities function
much closer to the edge in terms of being
able to operate without any cushion at all,”
Burgess said. “So they had recommendations
on what they were proposing the various
reserve accounts be used for, and the fee
increase was therefore necessary to cover
additional basic operational costs that had
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▲ Brett Barton, a student who served in the Army in Iraq
and Afghanistan, is a 29-ycar-okS political science major
who intends to pursue a military career when he graduates.
"I feel that I can give a lot of
help to some of the guys," he
said.
Master Sgt. Aaron Stringer,
who is an instructor with the
Army ROTC, said the military
experience of Barton and others
who have already served is helpflil
in assisting cadets who don’t have
that experience.
“He can also lead by example
in our labs in Whitehall,” he said.
“He already has a foundation
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skills."
Barton said being in the mili
tary has taught him everything
from time management to setting
goals.
“Since I’ve come back from
Afghanistan I’ve applied a lot of
skills. I had deadlines and a lot of
people counting on me,” Barton
said. “Now I have people counting
on me too my wife, and soon
my daughter."
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nothing to do with what was in the reserve
accounts.”
Delaney said the fees will primarily be used
for the upkeep of existing programs, and will
not be used to fund anything new.
“In this current economic climate, we would
not vote for an Increase in our fees to support
a convenience or a luxury," Delaney said.
“Everything had to be justified as a necessity
to continue based on the services we already
had. We all came in there with that outlook,
and I think we came out of it pretty confident
that there wouldn’t be any extraneous increase
to support something that would be conve
nient or just kind of nice."
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money,” Adams said last
month. “It will start out at
about five or six. thousand
dollars a year and then over
five years it would work up
to about $3 million a year.
And we think we have the
capacity to meet those
needs.”
Brantley said the gover
nor and many legislators
don’t understand how the
University System faced
budget issues earlier this
year, yet they can finance
the engineering program
without a problem.
“UGA had a very orga
nized and effective student
led process for giving
input,” Brantley said,
speaking about resistance
to University System bud
get cuts. “They came up
here and lobbied the legis
lature on exactly what
some of these cuts would
mean. I just think that’s
going to raise questions
from the legislature who
heard ail these stories
about programs going
away, and just a few months
later, you’re now saying you
have ample room to fund
new programs. The worry
is there will be some dis
trust formed there."
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Police Documents
CRIME
NOTEBOOK
Student reports battery
outside Brumby Hall
A University student
reported that he was
pushed into bushes,
punched and poked in the
eye by individuals playing
Humans vs. Zombies out
side Brumby Hail Monday,
according to a University
Police report.
The student told offi
cers he was walking to
Brumby Hall at about 11
p.m. to meet friends when
three people began throw
ing socks at him. The indi
viduals were playing
Humans vs. Zombies and
were known by the stu
dent.
According to the report,
the student told the indi
viduals to stop and pushed
one of them. He told offi
cers one of them then
poked a finger in his eye,
pushed him into the bush
es and punched him.
The game will continue,
though.
“I got a call from the
police chief this morning
asking me to send every
one who’s playing a mes
sage and reiterate some of
the rules,” said player
Kenny Adcox. “We sent
out a message, and now
the police is satisfied, and
so are we.”
University student
Nicholas Rodriguez, wit
nessed the event, but he
said he wasn’t even sure it
was a fight.
“To me, when I got
there, it looked like they
were just wrestling around
and being guys, but when I
got there, I saw that he
had been punched in the
face,” he said.
Simple battery reported in
Rooker Hall
A University student
reported Monday that a
masked person grabbed
her in Rooker Hall,
according to a University
Police report.
The student told offi
cers on Oct. 29 at about
10:30 p.m., a masked per
son was turning the lights
in the laundry room on
and off as the victim was
doing laundry. When she
left the laundry room, the
person grabbed her arm,
according to the report.
The student reported
no injuries or marks from
the incident.
—Compiled by
Tiffany Stevens