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University not affected by direct layoffs
By DALLAS DUNCAN
The Red & Black
There are 1,418 University
employees who were almost out
of jobs for Fiscal Year 2011.
The afTected offices were
spread all over the state, from
the President’s Office on North
Campus to the Bamboo Farm &
Coastal Gardens in Savannah.
The positions to be cut were on
the list of proposed cuts given to
the Board of Regents in February
as part of a system-wide S3OO
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GEORGIA 83, COLORADO 74
Basketball avoids
close call for win
BY MITCH BLOMERT
The Red & Black
Another scare, another win.
After seeing a dominant lead disintegrate to a tied
game at halftime, the Georgia men’s basketball team
fought back In the second half to win 83-74 against
Colorado on Tuesday at Stegeman Coliseum.
The Bulldogs (2-0) went to the locker room tied
33-33 with Colorado after leading by as much as 17
points in the first half. However, the Bulldogs fended
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Bulldogs prove to be
‘resilient’ against Buffs
If the first two games
of this basketball sea
son have taught us
anything about Georgia
basketball it’s this: The
players are a resilient
bunch.
Through the first six
minutes of its 83-74 victo
ry Tuesday night, Georgia
appeared poised to run
Colorado out of Stegeman
Coliseum and all the way
back to Boulder, Colo.
The Bulldogs jumped
out to a 20-8 lead while
Sandy Creek Park to host viewing of three gas planets
Sight is out
of this world
By SHAWN JARRARD
The Red & Black
Between Uranus and the
moon, plenty will be on dis
play in tonight's sky hope
fully.
“This’ll be the fall star
watch, in which well be
looking at craters on the
moon, the large planet
Jupiter, Uranus and
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million budget reduction.
“None of that ever transpired,”
said Tim Burgess, vice president
for finance and administration.
“The University as a whole has
not had any direct layoffs. We
have not had an employee lose
their job as a direct result of the
budget cuts.”
However just because no one
was laid ofT does not mean facul
ty and staff were not affected by
the budget reductions.
“This FYII got aggravated,”
Burgess said. “Just within a few
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shooting 80 percent from
the floor and held the
Buffaloes to a dismal 15.3
percent (2-for-13).
Georgia shared the bas
ketball had six assists
on the eight made shots
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GIANT PLANETS
When: 7 - 9 p.m.
Where: Sandy Creek Park
Price: $2
Neptune, provided that the
weather cooperates,” said
Maurice Snook, a self
described “dedicated ama
teur astronomer.”
Snook is a member of the
Athens Astronomical
Association, the group that
will be helping Sandy Creek
conduct its “Night of the
Giant Planets.”
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days of the fiscal year starting,
we got word from the Governor’s
Office we would need to make
additional cuts."
The University already had a
number of positions that could
not be filled because of money
problems in FYIO, and the latest
cuts didn’t help matters.
“You name it, we’ve done it, to
absorb what for us has been
about SIBO million,” said
University President Michael
Adams. “We have done a big por
tion of that by not filling these
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“For about 20 years, the
Athens Astronomical
Association, which is a pret
ty loose group of only about
a couple of us -we used to
be pretty active, 50 members
or more, but now there’s
only about two or three of us
we’ve helped Sandy Creek
host their star watches
about four times a year,”
Snook said.
One of the main attrac
tions of the night will be
Jupiter and its four largest
moons lO, Europa,
Ganymede and Callisto
named “Galilean” for their
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discoverer.
“On Jupiter you can, of
course, see the cloud bands,
and the four giant Galilean
satellites,'’ Snook said. "One
of the satellites will be
behind Jupiter, and we will
watch it come out from
behind. These moons of
Jupitei; because of the incli
nation of their orbits, they
lie right in a plane with us.
So instead of seeing them go
around Jupiter in a circle, we
see them go back and forth
because we’re seeing it edge
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600 positions or so because the
most expensive thing at the
University of Georgia is labor. So
we have had to make hard deci
sions about what we could fill
and what we couldn’t fill, and
that’s what we’ve done.”
Hundreds of vacancies
“What’s been the biggest
impact with those cuts is it has
stymied hiring,” Burgess said.
“We’re up to hundreds of vacant
positions. A good number of
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those are on the staff side but we
have some on the faculty side as
well.”
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Privacy
rights
maybe
violated
By MARIANA HEREDIA
The Red & Black
Various University stu
dents were caught in the
midst of the case between
Deszo Benedek, a compara
tive literature professor at
the University, and the
administration.
The students were accused
of submitting fraudulent
transcriptß to the adminis
tration concerning Benedek’s
Maymester in Budapest pro
gram, accord-
ing to Stephen
Humphreys,
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case that HpUR*
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revoke his
tenure.
Earlier this BENEDEK
month, the
hearing committee and the
University . officially
announced their decision to
allow Benedek to keep his
tenure.
Benedek was accused of
violating Board of Regents'
policies by misleading stu
dents about whether or not
his study abroad program
was University-affiliated and
HOPE-supported. He was
also charged with violating
conflict of interest policies by
promoting a program which
he directed.
In the case against
Benedek, the University
attempted to prove
Benedek’s long-running
study abroad program was
not valid. In this attempt, the
University sent student tran
scripts to four credit evalua
tion agencies. The transcripts
included personal identifying
information such as names
and Social Security Numbers,
Humphreys said.
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President
Michael Adams
said the
University had
to absorb
SIBO million in
budget cuts.