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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Georgia 70, Southern Miss 53
Lady Dogs
notch win
at home
Second-half run
takes out Eagles
By MICHAEL FITZPATRICK
The Red & Black
Andy Landers only needed to
tell his team one thing at halftime
of Wednesday’s 70-53 win over
Southern Mississippi.
“Quit jacking 3's after one pass,"
Landers told his team.
His team listened as the Lady
Dogs only attempted four 3-point
ers in the second half, compared to
15 in the first, a period in which
they scored a season-low 26 points.
“This was almost the same thing
that happened [in Georgia’s lone
loss) to Southern California,"
Landers said. “We finally stopped
Jacking 3’s, settled
down a little bit,
and the whole game
changed.”
However, a made
3-pointer may have
changed the game
for Georgia.
Sophomore
Jasmine James, who
scored 18 points, hit
a pair of 3-pointers
near the end of the
first half to give
Georgia a nine
point edge over the
Lady Eagles.
But after those
made baskets,
Georgia (6-1) looked
like a different team
on both sides of the
floor.
Georgia opened
the second half
white-hot against
Southern Mississippi on a 20-10
run, hitting its first six shots from
the floor to extend its 26-21 half
time lead to 46-31.
For the half, the Lady Dogs shot
60.7 percent from the field, a far cry
from their 31.3 percent in the first
half.
“That separated us a little bit
and gave us a little bit of breathing
room,” Landers said. “[James] got
us rocking and that did separate it
to 10, and it was never a game
again.”
Added James: “I think every
body came out and was anxious.
We rushed a lot of shots and it
didn’t allow us to get into a rhythm
offensively. We talked about set
tling down and actually playing
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Worn carpet costs students SIOO,OOO
By BRIANA GERDEMAN
The Red & Black
After only 18 months, new
carpet will be installed on the
fifth floor of Tate 2 over the
upcoming winter break. The
project will be funded with
SIOO,OOO horn student fees.
Although the Tate 2 expan
sion is relatively new, the fifth
floor already shows wear and
tear and needs new carpet
because of the high traffic it
receives, said Jan Barham,
director of the Tate Student
Center.
“The unpredicted volume in
and out of the facility and in
and out of that space warrant
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ed the replacement,” she said.
Physical Plant stair, custodial
staff and the dean of students
noticed the need for new carpet
and helped make the
decision that It was time
to replace it, she said.
After Tate 2 was built,
the student center
received 1.8 million visi
tors between June 2009
and June 2010, Barham
said. The previous year,
before the addition was
built, Tate received
800,000 visitors half as
many.
“It shows what a tremen
dous need there was on campus
for this expansion,” she said.
Hanukkah brightens last days of class
By PAIGE VARNER
The Red & Black
With gifts, gambling and
greasy fried pancakes, the Jewish
holiday of Hanukkah is no time
for repentance and fasting.
“Nobody would say Hanukkah
is on the same level as Passover
or the Day of Atonement,” said
Jewish studies professor Richard
Elliott Friedman. “It’s serious,
but it’s more ftm.”
During the eight-day festival
of lights which started
Wednesday night Jews eat
foods cooked with oil, such as
doughnuts or latkes, which are
fried potato pancakes.
Jews, especially children, play
the game of dreidel, often gam
bling for pennies, M&M’s candy
or chocolate coins.
And though not traditional,
Jewish parents in countries heav-
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a gift each night to their chil
dren.
But the most important obser
vance during Hanukkah, said
Rabbi Michoel Refson of the
Chabad Jewish student center, is
the lighting of the menorah.
Jews light one candle each
night on the candelabra until the
menorah is fUUy lit.
Though Hanukkah is not a
festival commanded by God in
Jewish law, Joel Marcovitch
the director of the Hillel Jewish
student center said it is impor-
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The project, which will
replace the carpet in the Grand
Hall and on the rest of the fifth
floor, will cost approximately
SIOO,OOO. The money will
come from a reserve fund
for unanticipated costs,
which comes from the
previous years’ student
fees, Barham said.
“We tried to be really
good stewards and find a
good price,” she said.
Including the price of
labor and the carpet
itself, It costs approxi
mately $4.60 per square
foot, she said.
SGA President Josh Delaney
originally thought the project
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was an “odd” idea, but after
meeting with Barham, he said
he understands why the new
carpet is needed. But he still
has some concerns.
Delaney said he realizes the
carpet wore out more quickly
than expected, but he said he
wonders why those involved in
designing Tate 2 didn’t project
the building’s usage more accu
rately.
"It’s good that it’s being
used, but it’s hard for me to
understand how we shot so low
with projected usage,” he said.
Delaney said he also wished
there had been some student
input, in the decision to buy
new carpet.
By JULIA CARPENTER and
KATIE VALENTINE
The Red & Black
Editor’s note: What is a night in
Athens like? The Red & Black took
to the streets to find out, recording
the sights and sounds of an Athens
evening. We continue with reports
from students working late on the
Thursday before Thanksgiving at
the Library and Miller Learning
Center.
Gordon Robbins, a junior biolo
gy and psychology major from
Dunwoody, won’t be able to enjoy a
Thursday night downtown until
January. Instead of joining the
throngs on Broad Street, he’ll be
stuck in the library studying for
the MCAT.
“I hate being in the library on a
Thursday night,” he said. “I usually
go downtown. Up until this semes
ter, I would always go downtown
on Thursdays. Then this semester
I started taking this MCAT Kaplan
test. I’m taking the test in January,
so I haven’t been going out a lot
this semester.”
Many students can sympathize
with Robbins’ plight every
Thursday night, while other stu
dents unwind from a long week,
some students are just getting
started with piles of work.
Lauren Lim, a freshman bio
chemistry major from Suwanee,
and Stella Yoon, a sophomore
dietetics major from Lincoln, Neb.,
arrived at the Miller Learning
Center, fortified with take-out.
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tant in Jewish history.
It marks the second-century
B.C. rededication of the Temple
in Jerusalem. The Greek ruler of
Judea banned Jewish religious
practice, and an army of Jews
revolted and overthrew the
Greek ruler.
Rabbinic tradition states only
one jug of ritually clean oil could
be found in the desecrated
Temple, only enough to light the
menorah for one day.
But tradition says it miracu
lously lasted eight days.
“It’s a symbol of weak over
strong, few over the many,”
Refson said. “Anybody can take a
little bit of goodness and spread
it. You can dispel a lot of dark
ness with a little bit of light.”
Chabad and Hillel co-hosted a
menorah lighting Wednesday
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