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Chicken situation a cluster cluck for fraternity
By JACOB DEMMITT
The Red & Black
How did the chicken cross the
road and end up on the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity's lawn?
In the trunk of a fraternity
member’s car.
It may not be the best punch
line, but with multiple signed
statements, it appears to be the
only answer police are going to
receive.
The 15-foot tall, $3,000 inflat
able chicken, known as “Big
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Returning home
may cause stress
By KATIE VALENTINE
The Red & Black
Though winter holidays may come
as a relief to students burned out on
studying for tests and completing final
projects, going home for the long holi
day may cause additional stress for
some students.
Tate decorations celebrate campus-wide diversity
Banners display
holiday variety
By LINDSEY COOK
The Red & Black
With so little school left before
winter break, University students are
eager to dash away, dash away all
back to their toasty fireplaces, moms’
cooking and warm beds. Before they
go, the Tate Student Center is hop
ing to spread some holiday cheer
with spirited decorations.
Past years found the lobby to be
mostly a clear and unrivaled adver
tisement for Christianity, but this
year, the gathering place is rife with
displays from other religious holi
days, including menorahs and ban
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Zach,” belongs to Zaxby’s res
taurants and was reported stolen
from the Georgia Center for
Higher Education front lawn on
Oct. 4.
After the chicken was spotted
behind the Beta Theta Pi frater
nity house on Dec. 4, Timothy
Hale Rood and Ryan Guilbault,
both members of the fraternity,
admitted they had taken the
chicken, according to a University
Police report.
Zaxby’s officials don’t wish to
pursue charges against the indi-
After living at the Urfesrsitj§P&ll
semester, returning oiten
mean the resurgence of chuffs, cur
fews and the general loss of indepen
dence for students.
Kelly Case-Simonson, assistant
director of consultation and outreach
for Counseling and. Psychiatric
Services, said students, especially
freshmen, can face these and other
challenges when returning home for
the first time for an extended vaca
tion.
“I think being independent and
kind of living on your own and then
ners detailing holidays such as Noah’s
Pudding Day —a Turkish holiday “in
remembrance of Prophet Noah’s and
the believers’ deliverance from the
flood,” according to the banner.
Jan Barham, director of Tate,
worked with 800 students associated
with religious and cultural campus
groups via surveys to create the ban
ners, bringing religious education
and diversity to the center.
Barham said the decorations add
holiday cheer and cites the increased
flow of traffic in Tate around the
Christmas tree and the religious ban
ners as evidence that students enjoy
the additions.
“When the decision was made by
the Tate leadership team to decorate
for the holidays this year, we realized
immediately that we should give stu
dents a voice and allow them to rep
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viduals because they had apolo
gized and agreed to reimburse
the company for damages,
according to the report.
When Big Zach was discov
ered by police, it had blue spray
paint on it and was intended to
be used as “decoration” for a
party later that evening, accord
ing to chapter president Andrew
Gross.
resent the wide diversity of religious
disciplines within the student body,”
Barham said. “Students were invited
to create banners, completing the
phrase, ‘We Celebrate Because...’
They were given freedom to choose
their focus and were not limited to
celebrations that occur during
December.”
The seven student-created ban
ners honor Kwanzaa, the Chinese
New Year, The Festival of Lights,
Jewish students via the Hillel group,
Muslim holidays, Noah’s Pudding
Day and the Nichiren Buddhist
Association, celebrating human life
365 days a year.
Even though the decorations at
East Campus Village are still domi
nantly Christmas-related, students
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Both Rood and Guilbault told
police they had acted indepen
dently of the fraternity, but
University Police Chief Jimmy
Williamson said he feels the orga
nization knew about the stolen
property.
“We will be referring individu
als and the organization [to the
Office of Student Conduct]
because we feel the organization
was at least aware,” he said.
Gross disputed this, telling
The Red & Black Tuesday in a
phone interview no one in the
being back in a very different setting
can be very stressful,” she said.
Case-Simonson said students often
change during their first semester at
college, and these changes are some
times hard for parents to accept, espe
cially if they expect their children to
behave the same way they did before
they left for college.
“I think for some parents, it is a big
shock,” she said. “It’s fairly universal
that people struggle to watch people
they care about grow up. It’s hard to
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fraternity knew Rood and
Guilbault had stolen the chicken
despite the fact it had been
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Crime
not huge
during
holidays
By TIFFANY STEVENS
The Red & Black
Past University crime
statistics may indicate
potential criminals are
being more nice than
naughty over the holidays,
University officials said.
University Police Chief
Jimmy Williamson said
crime during the holidays
in recent years has been
relatively low.
“Normally we see fairly
low crime, and I hope that
continues to be the case
this holiday season,” he
said. “I can’t predict what
the crime stats will be, but
I hope they won’t differ.”
Williamson said crimes
that do occur over the
break usually involve prop
erty theft from the
University.
“We see things like cop
per or wire being stolen,”
he said. “Some copper
comes from construction
sites, and some comes from
stolen air conditioners.
We’ve gotten more keen to
that, and we’re trying to
put more measures in place
to stop it.”
Other crimes that have
occurred in the past include
entering autos and damage
to vehicles. During the
2009-10 winter break, three
entering autos and four
criminal trespasses involv
ing vehicle damage were
reported, most occurring in
the Broad Street Art
Studios Parking Lot. In
2008, six entering autos
were reported, most occur
ring in West Parking Deck.
Williamson said entering
autos were uncommon dur
ing the holidays, however.
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Chief Jimmy
Williamson said
police would
refer the case
to the Office
of Student
Conduct.
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