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Basketball career overrides tennis talent
By MITCH BLOMERT
The Red & Black
The net hasn’t always been tied to the rim in
Gerald Robinson’s athletic career.
Not that long ago, it sat right in front of him on a
different kind of court the tennis court.
Though the junior guard has enjoyed the early
stages of the Georgia men’s basketball season as one
of the team’s leading scorers, he hasn’t forgotten
about his days as a collegiate multi-sport athlete.
While he was at Tennessee State, he balanced his
Squidmas celebrates start of holidays
By PATRICK HOOPER
The Red & Black
It’s beginning to look a lot
like Squidmas.
For those not in the know,
Squidmas is now in its third
year, as Doctor Squid teams
with the Warm FYizzies and
Flesh and Blood to bring
Athens an early holiday con
cert extravaganza to the 40
Watt tonight
“Reading Day eve is the
best time for something like
this,” said Larry Cardinal,
Doctor Squid’s lead singer and
a senior real estate major from
Dallas.
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MERRY TUNES
When: Tonight at 9:30 p.m.
Where: 40 Watt
Cost: $5 for 21 +, $7 for under 21
Cardinal and company see
Squidmas as a way to kick off
the holiday season and give
students a last hurrah before
shutting themselves away in
their study cocoons.
Drummer Jason Moody, a
marketing and sports manage
ment double major from
Lawrenceville, said tacky
Christmas clothes are encour
aged, if not expected, whether
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time between basketball and tennis.
Robinson was a member of the Tigers’ men’s ten
nis team during the 2008-09 season, despite having
not played organized tennis in years.
"I was actually at the tennis court, dribbling ten
nis balls like it was a basketball,” Robinson said. “So
sometimes I’d get out there and hit, and have a little
fun with it.”
Those dribbles and serves, originally intended for
nothing more than recreation, would eventually
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that means wearing a Santa
hat or the world’s gaudiest
Christmas sweater.
The concert will also have a
charitable bent, as the EP
on sale at the 40 Watt and con
taining holiday tracks contrib
uted by all three bands will
generate proceeds for the Girls
Rock Camp of Athens, a chari
ty suggested by Flesh and
Blood guitarist and vocalist
Jessie Marston.
“There’s no reason for
Squidmas to exist, but it
does,” said alumnus Jason
Harwell, guitarist and singer of
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alongside Doctor Squid tonight for the third annual Squidmas.
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Sports 9
Numbers show
University
lacks diversity
Minorities
still growing
By RACHEL BUNN
The Red & Black
University of Georgia
junior Lauren K. Mains is
used to standing out.
At about six feet tall,
she towers over her fellow
students as they crouch
over books, preparing for
finals.
But Mains stands out
for more than her height
at the crowded tables of
the Jittery Joe’s in the
Miller Learning Center, she
is the only black student.
“I’ve been the only black
student in several of my
classes probably the
majority,” she said. “I’m
really surprised when I see
another black student. I’m
like, ‘Yay.’ But I may not
know them. It’s really good
when I have a friend in my
class, that’s any student,
whether they’re black or
white, it’s good to have
someone you can relate to,
someone you know. I guess
I’ve gotten used to it.”
For Mains, this is noth
ing new. Though she is part
of a minority at the
University, Mains is not
surprised when she finds
herself to be the only black
face in a classroom.
University receives
A- on green efforts
By KATIE VALENTINE
The Red & Black
With the recent installment of the Green Fee and the
Office of Sustainability, it seems there has been wide
spread success with campus green efforts.
Now, the University has the grades to prove it.
The Sustainable Endowments Institute gave the
University a grade of A- on its annual College
Sustainability Report Card. The Report Card grades
more than 300 colleges and universities across North
America on their sustainable practices in nine catego
ries, including transportation, student involvement and
green building. The University improved in every catego
ry, which brought its ranking up from last year’s grade of
a C.
Kevin Kirsche, director of sustainability, said he thinks
much of the grade increase has to do with the Office of
Sustainability’s presence at the University.
“We have been able to make an impact and change
some of the ways that we operate on campus, so work of
and through the office has resulted in higher grades in
various categories,” he said.
The Sustainable Endowments Institute gathers infor
mation for its Report Card by sending surveys to the
students and administration of participating
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“I lived overseas in
Saudi Arabia, so I went to
a small private school, and
there were other black stu
dents, but after Sept. 11,1
was the only girl in the sev
enth grade,” she said. “I
was the only black student.
So, I’m just used to it. It
wasn’t a culture shock or
anything.”
By the numbers
Looking at the raw
numbers, the University
seems to be lagging behind
in diversity.
According to the 2009
UGA Fact Book almost 77
percent of the University
population identifies as
white, though only 65 per
cent of the population of
the state of Georgia identi
fied itself as white in the
2009 census.
About 8 percent of the
University population
identifies as black com
pared with a little more
than 30 percent of the
state of Georgia popula
tion, according to the 2009
UGA Fact Book and 2009
census respectively.
However, the number of
University students identi
fying as black has grown.
Between 1999 and 2009,
the number of black
University students has
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