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4 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 Make the most I Spring semester ] and leave the cooking to us! 1 /• . ’ .- ; < ; ‘ '• Join the UGA Meal Plan www.uga.edu/foodservice^gji Lfot more information call ::i &v ryTMF v ly F H E:lJM:ltfiil?TilMli , a&. private bedrooms and bathrooms, resort-style amenities, townhome floor plans available. ATHENSSTUPENTHOUSING.COM | 706.543.4400 | 706.548.0600 _HWL_ . sjmi g, 1 Courtesy Williams a Associates A Williams & Associates produced plans for the new 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 NEWS 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 GREEN: Environmental groups push campus to higher grades ► From Page 1 universities. It also uses 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 UGA^H^9 Online Credit^^ 706-542-3243 or 800-877-3243 de.advisor@9eorgiacenter.uga.edu ‘‘‘yßCjJL j| • fV A The I'mvcrsitv ot Georgia yjp S Hi. Center for i ontinutn* Mu,anon CLASSES THAT FIT €4Lt/ YOUR SCHEDULE 1197 South Lumpkin Street • Athens, Georgia 30602-3603 GREEN REPORT CARP Administration A Climate Change & Energy B Food & Recycling B Green Building A Student Involvement A Transportation A Endowment Transparency B Investment Priorities A Shareholder Engagement Overall A* From www.greenreponcafd.or9 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.”