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Tuesday, December 7, 2010 | The Red & Black
Fraternity
set for
move to
Milledge
By ADINA SOLOMON
The Red & Black
After months of meetings,
Chi Phi plans to finally build its
new fraternity house at the
intersection of South Milledge
Avenue and Rutherford Street.
Construction at 925 South
Milledge Ave. is slated to begin
around February or March and
take about a year and a half to
finish, said Jon Williams, presi
dent and landscape architect at
Williams & Associates and offi
cial spokesman for Chi Phi’s
house. Williams & Associates
made the plans for the fraterni
ty’s new house.
The house plans had been
tabled twice before by the
Athens-Clarke County Historic
Preservation Commission
because the commission felt
some of the house's characteris
tics didn’t fit in with the histori
cal area of Milledge Avenue.
Williams said he knew if his
firm kept working, the commis
sion would approve them.
“You address the comments
you get some more com
ments,” Williams said. “X didn’t
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Chi Phi house. The new house will be built in the same
style and on the same property as the Arnocroft House.
expect to get approved the first
go around with them.”
The three-story Chi Phi
house will be made of brick, fea
ture a two-story front porch and
have the same style as the
Arnocroft House, which is on
the same property, he said.
In order to gain the commis
sion’s approval, Williams made
several changes to the original
house plans. Williams said he
also paid attention to the neigh
boring pouses.
“We made it more similar to
the character of the area,”
Williams said.
Jonathan Jones, owner of
Athens Mortgage Resources,
Inc., has his business down the
street from what will be Chi
Phi’s house. Jones said he isn’t
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against Chi Phi moving in.
“As long as it fits the histori
cal integrity of the street,” he
said. “I wouldn’t mind if there
was another fraternity or soror
ity on the street.”
Ali Strunk, a sophomore from
Marietta who lives on Milledge
Avenue, said she is happy about
Chi Phi relocating to the area.
“I think it’s great,” she said.
“There’s plenty of buildings on
Milledge that aren’t historical.
As long as they have some stan
dards, I think it’ll be fine.”
When asked how Chi Phi feels
about moving, Williams said
they’re eager. “I think they’re
excited about the new location
and being on Milledge Avenue
with the other fraternities and
sororities," he said.
Evolution patterns
part of Univ. study
By JEN INGLES
The Red & Black
The Dean of the University’s
Odum School of Ecology is part
of a team of scientists who have
grabbed headlines across the
globe recently.
John Gittleman, Patrick
Stephens, a postdoctoral student
in the Odum School, and other
researchers have concluded that
evolutionary changes in a species’
size follow a pattern, and that the
extinction of dinosaurs created
an opportunity for large mam
mals to appear.
Much of the media coverage of
their research has focused on evi
dence that the demise of the
dinosaurs cleared the way for
large prehistoric mammals such
as the woolly mammoth. But
Gittleman said this is not the
most important aspect of their
findings.
“Body size is very important,”
Gittleman said. “There appears
to be real consistency in how that
fundamental characteristic
evolves. It isn’t random.”
Size can significantly affect the
fate of a species because it influ
ences various aspects of life.
Patterns in evolutionary
change in body size based on
things such as the availability of
resources and diet had been
observed in animals in North and
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public online resources,
such as colleges’ websites
and news sources, to gath
er data.
Susan Paykin, director
of communications at the
Sustainable Endowments
Institute, said this year was
the first year an A- was not
the highest overall grade
on the Report Card. Seven
grades of A were awarded
to schools this year.
“In the past, we thought
an A was sort of a perfect
score and no school thus
far is going to be perfect,”
Paykin said. “Schools are
definitely making huge
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strides and we’ve had to
adjust our own policies to
accommodate the new and
South America, Gittleman said,
but the hypothesis had not been
adequately tested.
The scientists compiled data
on the body size of all mammals
living on the planet today and in
the fossil record, and can now say
definitively there is a pattern.
“Increase in size follows a tight
statistical model,” Gittleman
said.
The rate at which prehistoric
mammals grew in size from one
generation to the next was simi
lar across orders even for mam
mals living on different conti
nents. Also similar across orders
and across the globe was the
maximum size attainable.
“You see the pattern in a some
what gradual and linear way, that
is what was so startling,” he said.
The team was led by scientists
from the University of New
Mexico who recruited paleontolo
gists, evolutionary biologists and
macroecologists from all over the
world to work on this project.
Gittleman was asked to par
ticipate because the team wanted
to work from an evolutionary per
spective.
Gittleman’s work focuses on
large-scale problems in evolution
and the environment.
“This has been wonderful col
laborative enterprise,” he said of
his work with the team in Santa
Fe.
exciting programs these
schools have.”
This year, the University
received an A in five out of
the nine graded categories.
“Student Involvement”
improved from a C to an A
from last year to this year,
and Emily Karol, co-presi
dent of the University’s Go
Green Alliance and pho
tographer at The Red &
Black, said she has noticed
the improvement on cam
pus.
“When I was a freshman,
there weren’t that many
students that were actively
engaging in initiatives and
campaigns in the environ
mental and sustainability
sectors,” she said. “This
year, we have new environ
mental groups such as
UGArden, which is focus
ing on food and is actively
pursuing a campaign
around food for the cam
pus. I just think we got a
lot more attention, and
people were a lot more
motivated this year."
One category the
University received a B in
was energy and climate
change, a category Kirsche
said the Office of
Sustainability is working to
improve. Kirsche said the
office is working on several
projects in this category,
including compiling a
greenhouse gas emissions
inventory for the
University.
Karol said campus group
Studentsfor Environmental
Action recently submitted
a proposal to replace the
University’s coal-fired
steam plant.
“I think a B is still pretty
good, but I think the fact
that we still have a coal
fired anything on campus
probably brings down the
grade a little bit,” she said.
With its grade of A-, the
University is now recog
nized by the Sustainable
Endowments Institute as
an Overall College
Sustainability Leader, a
title given to 52 schools
with grades of A- or better.
Kirsche said he appreciates
the recognition the
University has received for
its work in sustainability.
“It’s motivation to con
tinue to lead because
there’s still a lot to be
done,” he said. “We want to
continue to innovate and
to improve and to really be
a leader in the area of cam
pus sustainability, and to
be a resource for others if
we can.”