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No one was celebrating.Few had smiles on

their faces.The Georgia players in the

locker room were relatively calm and collected after having posted a 55-7 win and evening their record to 5-5.

But that’s because their next opponent is no cupcake Idaho State squad. It’s not even a middle-of-the-road con-ference matchup.

It’s an undefeated Auburn squad who is No. 2 in the country.

“As soon as that clock struck in fourth quarter zero zero, Auburn came up,” said senior cornerback Vance Cuff, who had his first career interception Saturday. “You can tell around the whole team we came in here, we just had a 55-7 win, nobody jumping around [and] celebrating because we know what’s up for next week.”

“What’s up for next week” is an offense averaging 509.4 yards per game and 42.2 points per game behind its quarter-back and Heisman Trophy candidate — Cam Newton.

And as the Tigers sit with a zero in the loss column,

See TUNEUP, Page 6

By DALLAS DUNCANTHE RED & BLACK

$20 million — gone.That’s what a 24 percent

budget cut to the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences meant during Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011.

“This is a lot of money,” said Scott Angle, CAES dean. “The way the budget process works, we don’t give the money back to the state. That money wasn’t there to begin with — and [the state is] only funding us 76 percent of what our budget was two years ago. That’s what we’ve had to live with.”

In February, the University released a docu-ment to the Board of Regents listing $60 million worth of budget cuts. Though this document was titled as a “draft for discus-sion only,” it set off a wave of panic as administrators reacted to the effects the proposed cuts could have on their colleges.

“The original proposal back at the beginning of the legislative session was essentially to close 4-H camps and significantly downsize 4-H programs throughout the counties. None of that happened,” Angle said. “Yet there were still budget problems in the college that we have to address. We have devel-oped our own college plan to deal with the 24 percent budget cuts which does have an impact on [4-H, County Extension and research farms].”

The college’s strategic plan included retirement incentives, selling several research farms and restruc-turing the Georgia 4-H Program and County Extension services.

“We’ve not laid anyone off,” Angle said. “The incen-tive was an offer for a one-year hire back at one-third pay. And a lot of people took that.”

Roger Ryles, the interim director of development for CAES, was one of the 4-H leaders who accepted the

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Jaideep Sidhu, a master’s student from Chandigarh, India, celebrates Diwali Sunday night.

By PAIGE VARNERTHE RED & BLACK

Imagine celebrating Christmas without the tree, Mom’s pecan pie and family.

That’s what it is like for University students from India during Diwali, the most important Indian festival of the year that began Friday, said master’s student Gaana Gowda of Bangalore, India.

“It never really feels like Diwali,” she said.

Also called the festival of lights, Diwali commemorates the ruler

Rama returning to India after defeating an evil king. Those who celebrate Diwali light up the night for him with firecrackers.

But in Georgia, firecrackers are prohibited without a permit.

“I miss the fun,” said master’s student Sowmya Tummalapenta, who lived in Hyderabad, India, before coming to the University.

Still, those who celebrate Diwali

can do so privately, said Indian Student Association President Ankit Agrawal.

They can light oil lamps — called diyas — in their homes, organize small prayer ceremonies, exchange sweets and clean their homes to welcome the goddess of wealth.

And about 20 students attended the Indian Association of Greater Athens’ Diwali program, dinner and dance Sunday night.

Even though Indian students cannot celebrate as they do at home, one Indian professor of bio-logical and agricultural engineering said the spiritual significance of the holiday is more important.

“I think rituals are fine,” said Brahm Verma. “But they’re only the very beginning.”

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Junior A.J. Green had a big game against Idaho State, racking up 103 receiving yards and two touchdowns.

GEARING UP

By NICK PARKERTHE RED AND BLACK

Georgia had just won 55-7 over Idaho State, and brought its record back to .500 at 5-5, but all the questions in post-game inter-views for players and coaches cen-tered around Saturday’s game against Auburn and how Georgia tries to do what has seemingly been proved impossible thus far this season: Stop Cam Newton.

Newton, the likely Heisman Trophy winner, leads the Southeastern Conference’s top offense — one that is averaging 42.2 points per game.

The undefeated Auburn Tigers head into the game against Georgia needing a win to maintain their national championship hopes. With Newton and the Tigers only a week away, Grantham was

asked for a comparison of Newton’s playmaking abilities from his NFL days, and the only one he could muster for Newton was “Mike Vick.”

“[Michael Vick] is a little differ-ent in that he isn’t as big as [Newton]. But [Newton] is really talented. He can run it, he can throw it,” Grantham said. “He’s so big it’s hard to tackle the guy with one guy sometimes. And we got to swarm.”

The good news for Georgia is they won’t have to reinvent the wheel defensively when it comes to trying to contain Newton. In games against Mississippi State and Florida earlier this season, the Bulldogs received a heavy dose of the spread option rushing attack that Auburn likes to run with

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By NATHAN SORENSENTHE RED & BLACK

Located in its new home at 1242 1/2 South Lumpkin St., the Office of Service-Learning has already begun to get its hands dirty with new service opportunity programs, courses and events.

Shannon Wilder, direc-tor of OSL, said a main objective of University ser-vice-learning is to provide students with opportuni-ties to receive academic credit for community ser-vice, applying classroom learning to real issues.

“We want to help stu-dents to get more hands-on experiences and at the same time help the com-munity by applying course-work content to a commu-nity need,” she said.

OSL moved into a new office behind the Fanning Institute in August. The staff has already begun promoting service-learning from their new location. In fact, much of the landscape surrounding the building was done by University horticulture students as a part of their coursework.

“Service-learning is a chance to really be out doing service work, while at the same time fulfilling academic requirements,” said Paul Matthews, assis-tant director of OSL.

In conjunction with the University’s course approv-al system, OSL has helped to delineate and promote 45 courses with an “S” suf-fix and more than 100 courses involving service-learning. The suffix indi-cates the course’s service-learning component.

The OSL has been work-ing with the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach to offer a new student pro-gram: the Public Service and Outreach Student

Scholars program. Beginning in Spring 2011, the program will provide undergraduates with ser-vice opportunities in eight community-based PSO units, including the Marine Extension Service, Georgia Smal l Business Development Center and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia.

Along with the commu-nity-based, hands-on expe-rience, scholars would also receive an award of $1,000 and recognition at PSO’s annual meeting in April.

Matthews said he hopes students will understand service has a wide range of applications in any field.

“Public service is not a narrow career path, but has a broad range of oppor-tunities,” he said.

For one former University student, the ser-vice-learning opportunities offered allowed her to explore her chosen career path while taking classes.

Caitlin Nossett, a University alumna, works as an AmeriCorps VISTA member for Community Connection of Northeast Georgia in Athens — a fed-erally funded program building the capacity of volunteer organizations.

“I wanted to get more hands-on application to my major,” Nossett said. “Service-learning helped me get out in the Athens community, which is some-thing many students don’t get to do.”

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The 1980 Georgia Bulldog National Championship football team was honored during a half-time celebration at Saturday’s game against Idaho State. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the team’s 17-10 win over Notre Dame in the 1980 Sugar Bowl coached by Vince Dooley.

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Student presents fake ID, never charged

A University student arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol could have faced additional charges after presenting a fake ID to an Athens-Clarke County Police officer.

Djordje Tucakovic, 19, was stopped by police after he “almost fell” into North Jackson Street,

according to the police report.

When asked for identi-fication, Tucakovic hand-ed the arresting officer a Florida ID, which he later admitted to be fake.

The officer then “decided to charge him with one count of under-age possession of alco-hol,” according to the report.

In a previous Red & Black article, ACC Police

Maj. Carter Greene said downtown officers some-times don’t charge indi-viduals found in posses-sion of a fake ID because of discretion on the part of the officer.

Tucakovic was placed under arrest and trans-ported to the Clarke County Jail.

Upon arrival, “he was refused admission at the jail due to his extreme level of intoxication,”

according to the report.Police then made

arrangements to release Tucakovic to medical personnel.

Argument leads to arrest

A University student may find himself with a bar of soap in his mouth after being arrested when officers observed him screaming obscenities downtown Saturday.

Mark Anthony Bradley, 19, was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol at the intersection of East Clayton and North Jackson streets at 12:01 a.m., according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report.

When officers arrived, two groups of males were seen yelling at each other.

The arresting officer approached Bradley, who was reportedly yelling obscenities at individuals.

The officer noted Bradley had watery eyes and a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emit-ting from his breath.

Although Bradley “would not admit to drinking anything,” he did “finally admit to [the arresting officer] that he was only 19 years old,” according to the report.

Student flips the bird, placed under arrest

After flipping someone off and using expletives, University student Sharon Jackson, 20, was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol on East Clayton Street on Saturday at 2:05 a.m., according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report.

After the arresting offi-cer made contact with Jackson, she would not disclose her name or age, according to the report.

The officer then placed her under arrest.

While in custody, she identified herself.

Jackson was then transported to Clarke County Jail.

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offer and retired from being state 4-H director in 2009.

“I reached retirement age and was offered the opportunity to do a little bit of an early retirement, help Extension and our col-lege meet its budget cuts,” Ryles said.

For Ryles — who had been involved in 4-H in some capacity since he first joined in 1966 in the fifth-grade — retiring early set off titters of concern among some 4-H members that all clearly was not well in the agricultural world.

“I can remember know-ing something might have been up when he was retir-ing so early because no one knew he was going to do that,” said Katie Comer, a sophomore from Carrollton who worked with Ryles as a state 4-H president. “I cur-rently work at the Georgia 4-H Foundation as a stu-dent worker, and I remem-ber the day last February when the budget cut came out that they were going to end all Cooperative Extension services for 4-H, and I remember it being a very big deal.”

And a “big deal” it cer-tainly was.

“We’ve lost 88 county agent positions across the state,” said Beverly Sparks, associate dean for exten-sion in CAES. She said 26 additional positions were gone as well — 19 specialist positions and seven admin-istrators.

“We are going through, as we speak, where we are reanalyzing our resources and county presences,” Sparks said. “With all the budget cuts we’ve had and loss of all the positions, we will no longer be able to provide the same service to all counties.”

The frenzy to save 4-H

“When your budgets are cut 24 percent, you’ve got to downsize,” Angle said. “We crafted a plan where the damage is minimized. There is still damage — there is no way around the fact that what we are doing

is something we don’t want to be doing.”

The original budget pro-posal called for 285 layoffs in 4-H and Extension, clos-ing 4-H facilities such as Rock Eagle and maintain-ing only a custodial staff “until a disposition plan could be developed and executed” and closing 79 Cooperative Extension offices.

Angle said the programs will suffer from the cuts the college has faced, but they are not to the extent the University initially suggest-ed.

“We are trying to make the most efficient use of the resources we have left,” Sparks said.

According to the col-lege’s “Review of County Operations” presented in September, 4-H and Extension services will be restructured into six tiers. Each county in the state will be classified from tier one to tier six. Tier one will have no local Extension office, only a basic 4-H pro-gram using an agent from a neighboring county and will receive 50 percent of funding from the county. Tier six will have multiple county agents, various sources of funding, admin-istrative support in a coun-ty office and program assis-tants.

“The main criteria [for tiers] would be the popula-tion of the county, the pop-ulation of school-age chil-dren in the county, the presence of agriculture, opportunities for agents and shared resources across county lines,” Sparks said.

She said there are 25 tier six counties — many are in areas of intense agriculture and others are in the met-ro-Atlanta area.

“It affects 4-Hers and employees, because they of course get budget cuts and furloughs, but it affects the program as a whole,” Comer said of the restruc-turing plan. “If we don’t have certain money to set aside for renovations to Rock Eagle or for scholar-ships or for kids to do proj-ects, then there’s no money

for 4-Hers to prosper and grow.”

Research Farms

Much of the University’s effects on the state are the result of research done at agricultural experiment stations and other facilities throughout Georgia. The University’s proposal called for closing five of them — Blairsville’s Georgia Mountain Research & Education Center, Savannah’s Bamboo Farm & Coastal Gardens, Camilla’s C.M. Stripling Irrigation Research Park, Reidsville’s Vidalia Onion and Vegetable Research Center and the Attapulgus Research and Education Center.

Barring a miracle, CAES is about to lose three.

“We are moving ahead with two small pieces of property. One is called our Redbud farm, in northwest Georgia. There’s another — I guess it’s about 100 acres down around Griffin — that we are actively mar-keting right now,” Angle said.

The third farm, Angle wouldn’t talk about.

“It’s a high profile farm that is potentially going on the market,” he said. “We’re just not to the point yet where we even have per-mission to sell it but we’re talking about it enough that it’s pretty common knowledge that there’s one large farm that’s being con-sidered.”

Though the first two farms were not on the bud-get proposal, Angle would not comment on whether this farm was on the origi-nal list or not.

He said CAES manages 17,700 acres of land, and recuperation of the sales of these farms can help the ones that remain.

“It’ll help us build up the farms we continue to manage and support in a more appropriate way with better facilities and better equipment, and reduce our operating costs, so it was a pretty easy decision to make that this was the direction we needed to go,” Angle said.

Though it is not finan-cially associated with CAES, the State Botanical Gardens has an intellectual relationship with the col-lege and both could be affected if additional cuts are made to the facility.

“We’re looking at how we can generate our inter-nal budget so we’re not so dependent on state fund-ing,” said Shirley Berry, the administrative manager for the gardens, in an inter-view Oct. 22.

Berry said one student position was lost because of FY11 cuts — which origi-nally proposed to close the gardens entirely — but other than that the facili-ties were not devastated by the reductions in fund-ing.

She said contractors and private donors contin-ue to show their support for the gardens, but added the administration was revisiting the idea of charg-ing an admission fee.

What the future holds

Berry and her colleagues might have to entertain those thoughts, however, if the FY12 budget requires further reductions.

“We had to submit a budget request to the Governor’s Office in September,” said John Millsaps, spokesman for the Board of Regents. “We really won’t know the out-come of that until the new governor is in office.”

At its August meeting, the Regents approved a FY12 budget request of $2.1 billion. This includes $145 million for student growth, $8.7 million for

facility operation and main-tenance, $18 million for health benefits, $4.9 million for new retirees’ health insurance, $1.7 million for the University/MCG part-nership and a capital bud-get request of $432.3 mil-lion.

The new budget propos-al, however, leaves plenty of room for cutbacks.

Millsaps said the Regents approved addi-tional FY11 reduction plans for operating at 4, 6 and 8 percent — $77 million, $115 million and $154 million respectively, according to a Regents news release.

“Right now we’re oper-ating at the 4 percent level,” he said.

If adopted, any of these three plans would carry into FY12, according to the news release.

Combined with the 10 percent proposed reduc-tion plan for FY12 the Regents adopted at this meeting, the University System of Georgia could be down $192 million.

For CAES, this means nothing but bad news.

“I would not be happy if we had additional cuts imposed upon us in ’12,” Angle said. “That would be double jeopardy. We’ve already taken cuts in those

areas, and I’d hate to have to get cut again.”

Angle felt for the others in the same situation as CAES, but said there was little he could do.

“We don’t have any abil-ity to help pick up any of their lost resources because we’re struggling with much bigger budget cuts of our own,” he said. “We’re not the white knight who can ride in and save them if they do see budget cuts.”

CAES is primarily B budget — which University President Michael Adams said was less protected than A budget, which is mostly academic funding.

“The B budgets we believe are very, very impor-tant but the legislature chose to make bigger cuts there than they did in the A budgets,” Adams said.

Angle said he felt many other colleges at the University faced lesser cuts because they received stimulus funds — which will most likely be gone by FY 12 — and have more A budget criteria for protec-tion.

“Let’s assume there are more cuts to the College of Agriculture, whether they’re fair or not,” Angle said. “We don’t have any-thing left to cut.”

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MONEY: Cuts may come with new budgetThe FY12 budget request of $2.1 billion approved August 2010 by the Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia includes:

$145 million for student growth

$8.7 million for facility operation and maintenance

$18 million for health benefits

$4.9 million for new retirees’ health insurance

$1.7 million for the University/MCG partnership

$432.3 million capital budget request

“There is still damage — there is no way around the fact that we are doing

something we don’t want to be doing.”

SCOTT ANGLECAES DEAN

Fiscal Year 2012 Budget

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I have a confession to make — I don’t have a Facebook account.

Please don’t think less of me.In our society, Facebook has

become the rule rather than the exception. Abstainers like myself are modern day outcasts, similar to lepers.

When I admit my social inepti-tude to people, they often don’t know what to think.

Facebook eschewal is met with a combination of confusion and awe.

I’m jealous. Not of you Facebook users, but of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Green is the color of my envy and his money. Zuckerberg has an estimated net worth of almost $7 billion.

Based on my extensive research on his life (watching the film “The Social Network” and browsing Wikipedia), I conclude that I actu-ally have much in common with Zuckerberg.

He dropped out of Harvard. I’m about to graduate from Georgia.

He is a brilliant computer pro-grammer. I own a computer.

He has fame and fortune. I want fame and fortune.

Internet giants like Facebook and Google began in college dorms. They give students like us hope

that we might one day hit it big.So, why am I not participating

in the Facebook phenomenon? Because I want to avoid conven-

tion. I enjoy being an exception to the rule, if only because of the con-fusion it causes within the status quo.

It also gives me free time to think of the next Earth-shattering idea.

I’ve realized that the only thing separating me from instant notori-ety is that one great idea.

How’s this for brilliant: the Time-Capsule Time-Machine.

Remember time capsules? Shoe boxes full of newspaper clipping and marbles that you buried in fifth grade to be excavated at a later date.

Except my time-capsule time-machines are buried in the present day to be dug up in the past through the magic of time travel.

This will show older civilizations how advanced they can expect their descendents to become.

Imagine Shakespeare reading Harry Potter on a Kindle.

Picture Napoleon riding into battle listening to The Rolling Stones on his iPod.

Think of Benjamin Franklin interrupting the Constitutional Convention with a loud cell phone conversation with Socrates.

These historic figures lived in an era before social networks and search engines.

They were the engines of change that shaped the world around them.

In that same vein, I choose to take advantage of technology, instead of the other way around.

Instead of following others, I’d prefer to forge my own path and have people copy me.

Mark Zuckerberg did this and my hat is off to him.

There is no denying the power and the impact of Facebook. It has altered our lives and defined our generation.

In fact, I expect a similar response when my time-capsule time-machines hit the market.

They will arrive in stores two weeks ago.

— Robert Carnes is a senior from Dunwoody majoring in newspapers

ROBERT CARNES

On Tuesday, the Republican Party celebrated historic

gains.We took control of the

House of Representatives by a substantial margin.

Eleven Republican governors were elected in states held by Democratic governors, and 12 states kept or elected another Republican governor.

The GOP took control of at least 19 state legisla-tures.

Six new Republican senators were elected to the U.S. Senate.

For the first time in Georgia history, all Constitutional offices were won by Republicans.

Congressman-elect Austin Scott beat four-term incumbent Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Ga.

Gains were made to the Republican majority in the Georgia State House and State Senate.

The American people wanted a change, and they entrusted that change to the Grand Old Party.

However, despite our victories, it is not yet time for my fellow Republicans to celebrate.

In 2006, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., danced across the stage when Democrats took control of Congress.

In 2010, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, held a subdued press confer-ence.

At one point, he shed tears, honored that the American people had entrusted our party with the duty of fixing America.

The future speaker of the House said, “We have real work to do — and this is not a time for cele-bration; not when one in 10 of our fellow citizens are out of work, not when we have buried our chil-dren under a mountain of debt, not when our Congress is held in such low esteem … for far too long, Washington has been doing what’s best for Washington — not what’s best for America. Tonight, that begins to change.”

My party must remem-

ber one important point — the key thing for Republicans to take away from Tuesday’s election.

This midterm election, while most certainly a rejection of the Democrats and their tax and spend policies, was by no means an embrace-ment of the Republican Party.

Instead, it was a man-date from the American people. Cut spending, shrink government and clean up your ethics, Washington.

We — the Republicans — must remember this.

We must use the con-servative principles that make our party what it is to accomplish this man-date.

Otherwise, the American people will once again toss us out on the street.

As Rep. Boehner said, “Our new majority will serve as your voice in the people’s House.”

And we must keep that promise.

In 2006, Republicans found out the hard way what happens when you ignore the will of the peo-ple.

In 2010, Rep. Boehner

told Speaker Pelosi the House of Representatives was the people’s House, and a majority that does not listen to the will of the people quickly finds itself in the minority.

Boehner has kept this theme throughout his time as the minority lead-er.

Let’s hope he keeps that same mantra as the speaker of the House.

If he does not, he will quickly find out what Speaker Pelosi and a line of other people who have sat in the speaker’s office have discovered:

“Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive […], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such prin-ciples and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

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majoring in political science and is the

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College Republicans

JARED PEDEN

Another column about the election may be worth less

than a commemorative cup for this year’s football season, but there was one talking point that was never settled.

I’m sure I heard a varia-tion of the line “there is simply too much crooked money going into this election” more times than the new Eminem song.

I have no doubt the unions, corporations and a thousand different politi-cal groups spent billions influencing this year’s midterms. I’m just not convinced this spending is as dark and ominous as it’s made out to be.

First, is there really too much money in politics? Estimates are still hazy, but early figures indicate the cost of this election will clock in around $4 bil-lion.

That sounds like quite a bit of money.

Here’s another figure: Americans spend about $20 billion on ice cream every year.

So, to put it another way, we spend roughly one-fifth on free elections and the democratic pro-cess as we do on frozen milk and sugar.

Personally, I’ll be keep-ing a closer watch on the impact of dessert than on that of Karl Rove.

Second, even if the greedy corporations and corrupt unions out-give us, are they really stealing the election, or are we giv-ing it to them?

How many of us actual-ly gave money to a cam-paign this year? Like femi-nists at a razor-blade sale, demand was scarce.

Only 0.22 percent — or roughly the chance of find-ing an open table at Boar’s Head on a Friday night — of the population donated more than $200 to a political campaign, according to opensecrets.org.

The modern campaign costs money.

The reason your sena-tor needed to raise mil-lions of dollars was so he could force you to pay

attention and watch his 30-second ads.

No one can pull a President McKinley any-more by running a cam-paign that consists of sit-ting on your front porch all day.

If that was the case, we’d have a lot more con-gressmen equipped with a pair of Ray-Bans and a beer belly.

Finally, does all that money really mean that once you get a Washington, D.C. ZIP code you automatically become corrupt?

Maybe I’ve been watch-ing too many black and white movies, but I like to believe our representa-tives’ voting decisions don’t become tainted the moment they accept money from industry and lobbyists.

Has your congressman really been bought and sold by big oil, or does he just think the idea of mil-lions of windmills stretch-ing from coast to coast is silly?

Is your senator really in the pocket of the labor unions, or does she just believe that big corpora-tions pick on the working man?

Several studies, includ-ing one by Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, have shown that it isn’t the money that matters — it’s the candidate.

Appealing candidates that can win are the same candidates that appeal to donors.

Bottom line, money will and should always be a concern in politics.

But the real focus belongs on the candidates — and trying as best as possible to avoid picking ones who dabbled in witchcraft.

— Scott McAfee is a first-year law student

from Kennesaw

SCOTT MCAFEE

Outside interests affect hunting

The recent debate about deer hunting ignores the fact that cur-rent policies ensure high populations. Hunting is big business, and there are economic pressures to keep the hunting “good.”

State game agencies, university research pro-grams, private clubs and certain businesses rely on hunting revenue. These interests overlap to sup-port policies — like restric-tions on killing does — that keep the population artificially high.

The costs of creating a sportsman’s paradise are externalized onto those who live in the area. Policy changes could easily decrease the population and curb car accidents,

ecological destruction and diseases such as the cur-rent lyme disease epidem-ic.

The next time someone hits a deer, don’t think of it only as a collision of humans with nature.

Think of it rather as a collision between the interests of the few and everyone else.

ROGER STAHL Assoc. professor, Athens

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VARIETY The Red & Black | Monday, November 8, 2010 | 5

By MELISSA COHENTHE RED & BLACK

From his freshman dorm room at the University, Kyle Maynard wrote a New York Times bestselling book.

Now a 24-year-old gym owner, mixed mar-tial arts fighter, professional motivational speaker and an ESPY winner, Maynard has appeared on Larry King and Oprah.

All this from a guy born with arms ending at the elbow and legs ending at the knee.

As Maynard proves on a daily basis, the human condition has an uncanny ability to overcome tremendous obstacles. He is inspir-ing others to do as much in the documentary, “A Fighting Chance,” premiering on ESPN tonight.

The 50-minute film follows Maynard as he pursues a career as a mixed martial artist and a gym owner.

“In the pursuit of your dream, you benefit the people around you,” Doscher said. “Even though Kyle might not have been ultra spe-cial, he found out that his fighting had a pro-found impact on many people, especially those men and women coming back from war. He’s a symbol of hope for what he did and is doing.”

Maynard was born with congenital ampu-tations — fetal limbs unable to attain ade-quate blood supply — leaving him born with missing parts of limbs.

He struggles with being perceived as dis-abled, not with the actual disability.

Maynard types more than 50 words per minute, his bedroom is on the third floor of his house and he fights in mixed martial arts cages with full-bodied men.

“All people just want to be treated like people,” Maynard said. “The thing is, from my perspective, and I can’t speak for everyone, when you have a type of physical disability like I have, it does cast you in a different light. Like, you become an object.”

At a recent ESPN press conference Maynard joined a small panel of amputee athletes.

“There was me and two other guys, one was a coach and amputee, another guy named Craig Deets, who has way less arms and legs than me but this guy [did a] triath-lon and beat many people who were able-bodied,” Maynard said. “I looked at him and wondered the same things people [wonder] about me. I know better than to jump on him and offer help because if he wants help he can ask for it, but he can do things himself. You want to be cast in the same light, as human beings. I want people to look at me as if I had the same limbs they have without any special considerations.”

“A Fighting Chance” has already screened at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

“Kyle always wanted to be in the military. We have pictures of him dressed up as a Marine for Halloween,” Doscher said. “But it isn’t possible for him to serve on the battle-field. But now, when we have so many men returning with missing multiple limbs, it is affecting them physically and emotionally. It is amazing seeing these guys respond to Kyle, whether watching him in the cage, talking to him on the Blackberry or helping him eat. It’s amazing how well he relates to these guys.”

Because Doscher and Maynard are child-hood friends, more intimate moments were able to be caught on camera for “A Fighting Chance.”

“I had turned down offers from other net-works,” Maynard said. “[Working with] Takashi and our other friend Alex [Shofner], the [other] co-director, it wasn’t like they were filming, it was like we were hanging out and they happened to have a camera. For almost two years they set up shop in my house. They were there for everything. The big moments.”

One of those intimate moments came one morning while Maynard was getting dressed and his parents were out of town.

“He talks about the moment he had to put his socks on for the first time when he was 13 years old,” Doscher said. “He had to use a paper clip as a hook device and it [took] him 45 minutes to put it on. Now, it takes him a matter of seconds. That’s a powerful thing to think about, something we really take for granted.”

ESPN has always been interested in

Maynard, particularly for his high school wrestling accomplishments, in which he went an astonishing 35-16.

In 2004, Maynard won the ESPY for Best Athlete with a Disability. Now, six years later, ESPN bid for the rights to show Maynard’s documentary, beating out HBO.

“ESPN has much greater audience accessi-bility,” Doscher said. “That means all the more people we can reach with this story and possibly help. Right before this, they were showing 30-for-30 films, 30 films about the past 30 years of sports. They are preparing our audience for a documentary and humani-tarian perspective for sports.”

“A Fighting Chance” focuses on Maynard’s efforts as a mixed martial arts fighter and his fights against full-bodied men.

“Mixed martial arts — MMA — is very much misunderstood. Its presentation seems very barbaric,” Maynard said. “But, really, it’s remarkably safe as far as competitions go, compared to boxing and football. It’s really about subduing someone on the ground, and that became my passion.”

Maynard actually first learned how to be a mixed martial artist here in Athens.

“Athens has produced two former world champions, and that was in MMA,” Maynard said. “I really fell in love with it in Athens. It takes you to another level. This may come off as barbaric, but if you have someone who’s trying to take your head off, it takes you to a new height physically and with your survival acuity. I love that. I love that opportunity.”

Still in love with the Classic City, Maynard advises University students to never take their time here for granted.

“Gamedays would be my favorite thing, and I would wake up early,” Maynard said. “The calm before the game, the tailgaiting

madness. It’s a really cool thing, just walking around North Campus. But afterwards, you feel very bad because the city is trash.”

Maynard longs to return to Athens and the University, having dropped out after his fresh-man year.

“Now, I wonder if I went back to school, if I would be that creepy 24-year-old hanging out in classes,” Maynard said. “I miss it a ton, because in Athens, things that are important matter — like being happy. As opposed to your status and how much money you make and car you drive. That to me is the least of my interest. I just love meeting cool people and having a good time.”

Past student’s film inspires limbless

Due Date

Zach Galifianakis is a funny man. From his gait to his delivery the man is comedy incarnate.

Robert Downey Jr. is a funny man too. Expressive and flamboyant, he is com-edy for the square crowd — accessible and punny.

But “Due Date” is not a funny movie.

Aside from the uncon-ceivable premise — that saying the words ‘terrorist’ and ‘bomb’ on a grounded plane, in a non-threatening manner and by two non-threatening guys is reason for placement on the no-fly list — “Due Date” strug-gles because it doesn’t have much to say. Even if what is said, on occasion, elicits laughter.

Galifianakis plays Ethan Tremblay, a country dreamer who wants to make it in Hollywood.

Strike One: If you refer to “Hollywood” as Hollywood, instead of Los Angeles, you will not make it in “Hollywood.”

Downey is Peter Highman, an expectant father who accepts his loss of transportation and iden-tity with little to no doubt.

Strike Two: A person cannot be both oblivious and informed. It would be like a presidential candi-date talking about current strained relations with the U.S.S.R.

Together, Highman and Tremblay set out across the country by rental car, borrowed car and hijacked Mexican police vehicle to make it to Los Angeles in time for Highman’s wife’s planned C-section.

Appearances by RZA as a Transportation Safety Administration bag-check-er and “Eastbound and Down’s” Danny McBride as a wounded veteran-turned-Western Union cashier are memorable. And, Jamie Foxx and Juliette Lewis make what they can out of their roles as Highman’s friend and Tremblay’s craigslist-found dealer.

Still, “Due Date” doesn’t work because too many questions are left hanging.

Why doesn’t Highman’s wife find a way to expedite her husband returning home?

How does the dog not die?

And, Strike Three: Why was this movie made?

Verdict: Don’t bother saving the date for this one.

— Elaine Kelch

now playing

When: Tonight at 7Where: ESPNMore Information: Kyle Maynard, a former University student born with congenital amputations, is the subject of a documentary.

A FIGHTING CHANCE

Photos Courtesy Kyle Maynard

Born with congenital amputations, Kyle Maynard has written a New York Times best-seller, owns a gym and contends as a mixed martial arts fighter.

Maynard’s documentary “A Fighting Chance” airs tonight on ESPN.

6 | Monday, November 8, 2010 | The Red & Black SPORTS

INSTANT REPLAYGAME

REWINDPLAYER OF THE GAME:

A.J. Green, Georgia wide receiver

Green had a big-time game for the Bulldogs, though it came against a cupcake team, racking up 103 yards on six catches with two touchdowns. The junior receiver had two sec-ond quarter scores and this performance will give him momentum heading into Saturday’s game against Auburn, in which he must have an outstanding performance for the Bulldogs.

OVERLOOKED PLAYERS OF THE GAME:

The Georgia secondaryThough Idaho State’s

Russel Hill and Kyle Morris didn’t take care of the ball against a superior oppo-nent, Georgia picked off the Bengals’ quarterbacks three times — two were run back for touchdowns — turning on the Bulldogs offense in the second and third quarter after a slow start.

KEY MOMENT:Bacarri Rambo’s pick

sixAfter the Bulldogs

scored just six points in the first quarter because their drives kept stalling out, keeping them out of the end zone, safety Bacarri Rambo picked off Russel Hill and returned it for a touchdown. That got the Georgia offense going, as the Bulldogs put 35 points on the board in the second quarter en route to the blowout win.

KEY DECISION:Letting the second team

get workStarting the second half

with a 41-0 lead, Georgia’s starters on both sides of the ball played just one more series the rest of the game before the second team took the field. That allowed senior Vance Cuff to get his first career inter-ception, which he returned for a touchdown, and it allowed for some younger players to get valuable game experience.

QUOTE OF THE GAME:Defensive coordinator

Todd Grantham on the dif-ference between the NFL and FBS football:

“I’m not used to games like this.”

BY THE NUMBERS:Georgia:Total offensive yards: 450Rushing yards: 181Turnovers: 0Red zone possessions: 6

Idaho State:Total offensive yards: 151Rushing yards: 39Turnovers: 3Red zone possessions: 0

— Rachel G. Bowers

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Georgia’s defensive coordi-nator Todd Grantham said he knows the caliber of offense the Tigers possess.

“Nobody’s stopping [Newton],” Grantham said. “Nobody’s stopped their offense. They’re put-ting up big numbers. They’re putting up a lot of points. They got a good scheme. They got good players. We’re gonna have to play really well. We’re gonna have to fly around.”

Safety Bacarri Rambo said Grantham has more pages in his playbook to contain the high-octane Tiger offense, though he said the defense needs to come together and stay “on the same page” for Georgia to compete Saturday.

“Coach Grantham, I know he got something up his sleeve for those guys, man. He’s a great defen-sive coordinator,” Rambo said. “I know he gonna pull something from outta his sleeve. We just gotta buy into the system and just do what he say. And if we do what he say and play our techniques right, I think we can handle Auburn.”

But as much as Grantham said he knows about the Auburn offense to this point and as much confidence as Rambo said he has in Grantham, this is the first season in recent history in which one team clearly — statistically — outmatches the other.

The history between Georgia and Auburn is a storied one. It’s the oldest

rivalry in the SEC — even being called The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry — with the first game dating back to 1892.

Auburn leads the all-time series by the close margin of 53-52-8.

The Bulldogs have won six of the last eight meet-ings, including each of the last four matchups, though the game is usually a toss up every year.

But this year is differ-ent.

This year, Auburn is rolling, similar to the unde-feated run the Tigers made in 2004. This year Georgia has been shaky and incon-sistent, stumbling to a unimpressive 5-5 record, with the few bright spots on the team being over-shadowed by untimely mistakes.

And now the Bulldogs, who will be the underdog heading into Auburn, must play their best football of the season if they have any hope of taking down the seemingly unshakable Tiger squad and salvaging an otherwise mediocre sea-son.

“Everybody expects us to be the underdog, know-ing that [Auburn] gonna be ranked No. 1 or No. 2 so we’re not even worried about all that,” sophomore cornerback Branden Smith said. “We’re just gonna go in and just play our hard-est. Just study and look at film and just see what we need to improve in. That’s all.”

— Rachel G. Bowers is the First & Goal

editor for The Red & Black

TUNEUP: Dogs to be ready for Auburn

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(Above) Safety Bacarri Rambo (18) came up with a pivotal touchdown-scoring inter-ception against Idaho State. (Right)Backups, such as sophomore Marlon Brown (15), received valuable min-utes after the Bulldogs solid-ified the lead in the third quarter.

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Newton.However, Georgia’s

results were shaky against Mississippi State and Florida in the new 3-4 scheme. In each game, Georgia gave up a few big plays on the ground that sprung big rushing days for their opponents, so Grantham is emphasizing “swarming the ball” to negate the big plays and try to contain Newton this week.

“They do stuff similar to Florida, Mississippi State, they have a little bit of what they do. They do have their own identity, though, so it’s one of those things, they have talented players at the skill positions, and their quarterback run it and throw it, so you got to be able to play every thing. You got to be balanced,” Grantham said. “You have to have good eye control in the back and you got to run to the ball and you have to gang tackle.”

However, Georgia will not use a “spy defense” on Newton as some teams have tried because Richt believes that those “usually backfire” on you.

Teams frequently ran spies on Florida State’s Charlie Ward when Richt

was offensive coordinator there and he believes that “by design, they were good ideas,” but generally back-fired because teams are forced out of their comfort zones and don’t have enough reps in the spy packages.

“I think a lot of people think that might be the answer but a lot of times when you do that you all the sudden run a defense you just don’t run,” Richt said. “If you try to devise something you don’t do, you just don’t have any reps at it, then you tend to just totally just disrupt what you’re trying to do.”

Despite being investi-gated by the NCAA, which came to light last week, Auburn head coach Gene Chizik has maintained that Newton is eligible, and Newton has played since the investigation came to light, so Georgia will more than likely have to deal with the Heisman Trophy frontrunner.

And while Auburn needs the win to maintain its hopes of a national cham-pionship, Georgia needs a win to gain bowl eligibility and ruin a rival’s champi-onship dreams. If Georgia doesn’t beat Auburn, the Bulldogs will need a win over Georgia Tech in the

season finale to gain bowl eligibility.

Although Georgia could conceivably go to a bowl at 5-7 if there aren’t 70 teams with winning records to fill the bowl slots, the odds are slim.

However, two wins, one of which would be a staple win for this Georgia team, could vault Georgia out of selections into lower-tier bowls and into bigger games such as the Chick-fil-A Bowl, Outback Bowl

or Gator Bowl, which have higher slots in selection from the SEC. Losses in the final two games would mean the first losing sea-son since 1996, Jim Donnan’s first season in Athens.

NEWTON: Georgia prepares to stop Heisman hopeful


Freshman safety Alec Ogletree made his second career start against Idaho State, contributing three solo tackles in the Bulldogs win Saturday.

By CHRIS D’ANIELLOTHE RED & BLACK

Interim head coach Chad Hanson had the Georgia volleyball team on opposite ends of two 3-0 sweeps at home over the weekend.

The Bulldogs (12-15, 4-12 SEC) were swept by No. 1 Florida in Hanson’s first match as interim head coach Friday night before bouncing back on Sunday to blank South Carolina.

“We needed to maintain our emo-tion, maintain our physicality through the entire match and I’m very pleased we were able to do that,” Hanson said. “[The team] demonstrated that they can be suc-cessful in playing night-in, night-out and match-in, match-out, so it is very gratifying to get a three-set win and to continue to be as competitive as we can in the Eastern Division of the SEC.”

Following Friday’s loss to top-ranked Florida, Hanson said it would be “unrealistic” to compare his team in their current situation to the best team in the nation.

“I told the team we’re not going to evaluate where we are right now

based on a match against the No. 1 team in the country,” he said. “That’s just unrealistic with our situa-tion. I want to be focused on the next match.”

Hanson was able to get the team focused and motivated enough to sweep the Gamecocks on Sunday, some-thing his players say is one of his strengths.

“He’s been really good at motivating us on the court and off the court in preparations,” junior captain Kathleen Gates said. “We feel really good around him. It’s nice to see him as head coach rather than an assistant on the bench. We get to see more personality out of him.”

Hanson was thrust into his interim role last week when Joel McCartney was relieved of his duties as head coach midseason with a 3-11 SEC record on the year and a 29-45 career record in conference play.

“It’s unique to be the one submit-ting the lineup and shaking hands before the match, calling the time-outs and all the technical aspects

that come with being a head coach,” he said. “And it’s truly unique to have

the players looking towards me for direction.”

But according to McCartney, the team is bound for good things in the future.

“The team is in the capa-ble hands of two extraordi-nary coaches and has a roster filled with talented athletes,” McCartney said.

Hanson worked under McCartney for two full sea-sons at Georgia coming into the 2010 season. The new head coach had a smile on his face when he left the locker room after sweeping South Carolina on Sunday. He said he’s embracing his interim position for now and does enjoy being head coach but recognizes the challenges that come with the title.

“For right now I like it,” he said. “It’s what I’ve been

called upon to do and if I came into the position and dragged my feet, I wouldn’t be doing my duty. I’ve got to embrace the situation as if it’s the position I chose.”

Volleyball splits games under interim coach

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