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Three freshmen live in supplementary housing in Boggs Hall. They and their fourth roommate share a space that was originally intended as a study room.

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Record enrollment of freshmen causes housing shortage

Erin Schilling City News Editor Benson Gathany moved into his first dorm room at University of Georgia’s Boggs Hall on Aug. 6 with intentions of moving out as soon as possible.

The freshman history major from Atlanta is currently in supplementary housing at Boggs, living in a study room turned dorm room with three other roommates.

Gathany picked his housing assignment with freshman criminal justice major Anthony Belvedere in late May. The two freshmen went onto the UGA Housing website and chose what they believed to be a typical dorm in Boggs since it had the same floor plan as the others.

“This room number came up as a normal, cookie-cutter Boggs room,” Belvedere said. “We chose it completely randomly. There were other va-

cancies.”

About a month after they chose the dorm, University Housing emailed them their other roommates’ names, which is when they realized they would be in supplementary housing.

“If we had looked at the fine print, it showed that there were four slots for that room,” Gathany said. “So we couldn’t really go back.”

The two said their other roommates made the same mistake as they did by assuming that room was only a two-person dorm. After the roommate emails were sent out, they said that housing removed the previous photo of the floor “We were kind of in suspense of what the room looked like at all until we came here for orientation,” Gathany said.

Supplementary housing has been implemented in other dorms as well because of this year’s large freshman class, which is 4 percent larger than last year’s.  S E E F U L L H O U S E PAG E A 4

Immigration protest becomes Charlottesville vigil Amy Scott Staff Writer Following violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend, what was initially intended on Tuesday to be a protest to defend immigration rights turned into a candlelight vigil in solidarity with the University of Virginia community.

Aldo Mendoza, a University of North Georgia student and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient, said he was there to not only stand in solidarity but to defend DACA for himself and his friends and family.

The Trump administration has worried some by being ambiguous on their stance regarding DACA, which currently protects minors who enter the United States without documentation.

“For many people like me, DACA is not just a work permit, but an opportunity,” said Aldo Mendoza in his speech.

“An opportunity to work legally and support my family, an opportunity to drive safely without the fear of deportation, an opportunity to be able to access a higher education.”

The protest was initially organized by Humberto Mendoza, a leader in the Athens Immigrant Rights Coalition.

The vigil was added to the event as a memorial for one counterprotester who was killed and 19 others who were injured on Saturday, Aug. 12 after being struck by a car during the violent outbreak between white nationalists and counterprotesters at a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.

These are people who understand where the oppression comes from.

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What started as a protest for immigration rights became a vigil following violence in Charlottesville. J A N E Humberto Mendoza said he believes the two reasons for the rally are closely connected.

“It’s a great crowd here today,” Humberto Mendoza said.

“These are people who understand where the oppression comes from.” Attendees said they felt it was important to join together both in solidarity with Charlottesville as well as to support and defend those who fear they may lose DACA in the coming months.

Before lighting candles, volunteers came forward to speak to the crowd. Aldo Mendoza ended his speech by asking the audience to ask their senators to defend DACA. Speaker and activist Mokah Jasmine Johnson came forward during the vigil to speak and described the moment

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when she learned that protesters had been harmed and killed by white nationalists.

“I thought to myself for moment, ‘Man, this is going to make people afraid to stand up and fight for what they believe in,” Johnson said. “We cannot be afraid to stand up and fight.”

Prior to the vigil, on Sunday, a protest in solidarity of Charlottesville took place after news of the violence broke.

Additional rallies are expected followed the Tuesday vigil including a “community conversation” held at the Athens-Clarke County Library on Wednesday regarding Charlottesville and the presence of the Confederate monument on Broad Street.

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The Student Government Association introduced plans for new University of Georgia night time bus routes, which will increase service to Family Housing, Milledge and Health Science Campus. The new plan hopes to decrease wait times during the day from 10 minutes to 7.5 minutes and drop night wait times to 15 minutes, as opposed to the previous 20 minute wait. Riverbend Parkway will be serviced by a shuttle through the end of the year.

field athlete Shaunae Miller-Uibo finished third in the 200-meter dash at IAAF World Championships in London. Miller-Uibo first made headlines when she took gold in the 400-meter dash at the 2016 Summer Olympics with a dramatic diving finish at the international competition. With the third place and bronze medal-winning finish, Miller-Uibo was the only current or former Bulldog to medal at the event.

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Forbes magazine released a list of the top 25 colleges that “dominate” in both academics and in sports.

The University of Georgia ranked No. 17 out of the top 25 schools on this list. To qualify, each of the universities were required to have a minimum of 20 Division I NCAA championships, and the colleges were then compared by their academic records from the earlier Forbes list of Americas’ Top Colleges.

Athens-based theater troupe Town & Gown Players put on four performances of the comic thriller “Die, Mommie, Die!” from Aug. 10 to 13. The play was influenced by American horror movies from the 50’s and 60’s and inspired the creation of a movie of the same name. Every performance of the show was sold out. Fans looking for future shows can attend productions such as “Deathtrap” later in the season.

Former UGA UGA ranked No. Runner takes home 17 on Forbes list bronze in London of schools that Former Georgia track and ‘dominate”

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Town and Gown Georgia soccer Players sell out per- splits exhibition formance of ‘Die, games Mommie, Die’ The Georgia soccer team

finished up its preseason scrimmage schedule with a 1-1 record. The team started the preseason slate with a 3-2 home loss to No. 10 Auburn. However, the Bulldogs turned things around on the road against Georgia Southern, closing out the exhibition schedule with a 3-0 win over the Eagles behind three goals by freshman players. Georgia will kick off its regular season schedule on August 18 against Wake Forest.

Police Blotter Felon thought to have BB gun found with actual gun

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Athens-Clarke County police arrested a convicted felon on Aug. 14 after he threatened others at Vine East apartments with a firearm.

Police spoke with a witness upon arrival who said the man began arguing with him and four others.

He then went inside and came out with what the witness believed to be a BB gun, according to the police report.

Police then spoke with the potential perpetrator who said the group of men threatened him, and he went to get a gun in order to scare them off.

The man additionally was a convicted felon with a prior charge of burglary.

He was placed under arrest for possession of a firearm and transported to Clarke County Jail.

Athens-Clarke County police are further investigating the theft of a $200 door mat from Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity from Aug. 14.

According to a member, the mat was a gift from alumni of the University of Georgia.

Police found out members of Alpha Kappa Psi suspect it was taken as a “rush prank” by Theta Chi since they have a history of targeting Alpha Kappa Psi.

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remove and steal parking meter from downtown Athens

UGA professor creates Waffle House eclipse map As people across the nation make plans to see the solar eclipse on Aug. 21, an assistant geography professor at the University of Georgia suggested some viewing locations for southerners on Twitter.

Jerry Shannon created a map to find the Waffle House restaurants in the eclipse’s path of totality.

The tweet has more than 250 retweets, which Shannon said is his “Twitter record.” Waffle House gave Shannon a shout out in response to their maps as well. — Erin Schilling

Athens-Clarke County police are still searching for two men who stole a parking meter from the area surrounding College Avenue at Washington Street on Aug. 14.

An Athens-Clarke County parking service worker contacted police and informed them that at approximately 3 a.m., two males stole a parking meter from the area.

The men were last seen in the area of Washington Street at Jackson Street.

Police were able to identify key characteristics of the men’s physical appearance; however, they were unable to identify them by name.

The parking meter has not been returned, and the incident remains under further investigation.

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unable to maintain lane found with drugs

On Aug. 15 at approximately 12 a.m., Athens-Clarke County police arrested a man in possession of multiple substances after he drove in another lane.

Police issued a traffic stop when the driver continued to drive over a center lane.

When police made contact with the driver, they reported the “fresh smell of marijuana” coming from the vehicle.

The driver told police he was trying to put his cigarette out and did not realize he was going into another lane.

He also told police he did not have a license and did not claim ownership of the car.

When asked about the marijuana, the man said he was coming from a woman’s house who was responsible for the smell.

Police searched the vehicle with probably cause and found a small bag with “numerous rock-like substances” which tested positive for cocaine, as well as marijuana.

Police arrested the man for possession of marijuana and cocaine as well as a failure to maintain lane.

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Professor’s syllabus goes viral Savannah Peat Senior Staff Writer While students at the University of Georgia are only just starting their semester, one Terry College of Business professor has already made headlines.

Dr. Richard Watson, a UGA professor since 1989, instituted a new policy in his management information systems’ fall 2017 syllabus depicting a ‘stress reduction policy’ where students were permitted to choose their final grades.

The new policy then went viral, and was reported by major national news outlets including Fox News and the Washington Post.

Watson stated on this copy of the MIST 4610 Data Management syllabus, “if you feel unduly stressed by a grade for any assessable material or the overall course, you can email the instructor indicating what grade you think is appropriate, and it will be so changed.”

This section of the syllabus has since been removed completely due to backlash from UGA faculty and staff.

John Knox, a professor in UGA’s geography department, said he would never have thought to implement this form of policy in his 17 years of teaching.

You shouldn’t be able to choose your grade at the end of the day.

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Knox also noted specifically how this incident impacted UGA’s reputation as an educational institution.

The dean of the Terry College of Business released a statement following the adverse response. It detailed that Watson’s decision did not reflect UGA’s grading integrity as a whole.

News of the syllabus was picked up by outlets such as Breitbart and the Washington Post. K R I S T I N

Watson himself has not commented on the situation, or any potential repercussions he may face.

Watson explained his intention in an email to the MIS department, according to Knox. The email read that Watson’s goal was to create a discussion with students on how to best reduce stress, not to lower his expectations for his students.

This incident brings to light the underlying issue of course load pressure placed on college students, said Knox.

“We could have a good discussion about the role of grades, and the appropriate role of college students —who ­­ are adults — in the grading process,” he said.

While some who viewed this policy through social media considered it a cop out for millennials, some students contemplated the sentiment for themselves.

“I think it’s a good idea to open up discussion, but you shouldn’t be able to choose your grade at the end of the day,” said Jared Hayes, a junior history education major.

A policy such as this has yet to stick at the university that was ranked No. 17 in Forbes’ magazine list of colleges that “dominate” in academics

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as much as athletics.

Junior English major Kayla Barnes felt subjectivity, especially in her area of study, has helped her grow as a student, rather than hinder her.

“It didn’t help the credibility of the college very much and kind of defeated the purpose of higher education,” she said.

Fast Facts  Dr. Watson has been at the University of Georgia since 1989  The story of Watson’s syllabus was picked up by news outlets such as Fox News and the Washington Post  The dean of Terry College of Business released a statement denouncing Watson’s policy  The syllabus prompted a national discussion about college students and stress  The controversial section of the syllabus was removed

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Spilling over This school year, around 13,000 students were accepted out of around the 24,500 who applied. In the end, over 5,800 went on to accept their enrollment.

This number was unexpectedly high and came as a surprise to UGA. “Better students typically have more options and the University Admissions office expected a lower ‘yield,’” said Greg Trevor, director of media communications at UGA. “As the quality of applicants increased, more students needed to be admitted to end up with a similar number of students enrolled in the fall.”

Trevor attributes this 400 student increase to the growing reputation of the university.

To accommodate these first-year students, housing also offered to buyout the housing contracts of upperclassmen for $2,500-$3,500 and offered $1,000 to nearby freshmen to commute to campus.

For those in supplementary housing, Belvedere said affected students will receive a 25 percent discount on their housing bill, which makes the slightly cramped living arrangement worth it for him.

I have to go wherever [housing decides] to move me. It’s mandatory.

They could say ‘go to ECV on Aug. 20,’ and I have to go. .

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Gathany doesn’t have the same outlook.

“I appreciate the whole paying less thing, but I like having my own personal space that I can go back to,” Gathany said.

Gathany said he has called housing three times so far to change dorms, but there are still no vacant rooms available.

The two said that there are waiting lists for all the dorms, ranging from around 20 to 160 students depending on the size of the dorm.

“There’s already a lot of stuff coming to college, and adding living in bunk room when you weren’t expecting it is just another thing,” Gathany said. “It’s not devastating on it’s own.”

Even so, both freshmen said that their living situation isn’t as bad as they initially thought it would be.

“It hasn’t taken anything away from my college experience,” Belvedere said. “In fact, having more roommates is almost kind of nice because you have a variety of people.”

she was rooming with her RA until she contacted her roommate herself.

Maafoh said having an RA roommate is helpful for campus advice, but she does wish she had the chance to explore with a fellow freshman roommate.

“I kind of do stuff by myself,” Maafoh said. “You don’t have that ‘froomie’ to explore with, that you’re both in it together and new.”

The freshman experience Jordan Tildon, freshman social work major from Augusta, said she’s also not getting the typical freshman experience.

Tildon is living in an apartment-style dorm in Rooker Hall at ECV with her own room and one other suitemate. She said she’s “on the lucky side” compared to others at ECV who have to share their rooms.

Tildon said her only problem is being far away from her class locations.

“Once [housing] got to a certain limit, they just started giving people housing,” Tildon said. “My roommate didn’t get to pick her housing, either.”

Tildon said housing is giving her a reduced price of $3,501 as opposed to the normal $3,899 for Rooker Hall, but this is still higher than what freshmen are typically required to pay.

According to the housing website, freshman high rises and Hill Community dorms usually only cost around $2,600-$3,000.

Nathaniel Gaul, a freshman political science and German major from Decatur, was also placed in ECV and has five other suitemates.

“All the amenities are really nice, but it’s kind of far away from campus and downtown,” Gaul said. “But paying more for [housing] without having much of a choice is kind of annoying.”

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An unlikely pair Even some students with standard rooms are forced to make some adjustments. Some freshmen are living with their resident assistants while others were placed in areas usually reserved for upperclassmen, like University Village, also known as Family Housing, and East Campus Village.

Trevor said that these accommodations mean that every freshman who wanted to live on campus is able to do so.

Cheryl Maafoh, a freshman marketing major from Snellville, is currently living with her RA in Brumby Hall, but even that living arrangement is going to be temporary.

She said other freshmen who were living with RAs have already started being moved to other dorms.

“Since I didn’t do a [room] request change, I have to go wherever they decide to move me,” Maafoh said. “It’s mandatory. They could say ‘go to ECV on Aug. 20,’ and I have to go.”

Maafoh’s original roommate was placed with a random roommate in University Village, which Maafoh said happened because housing was already getting too full.

Housing also gave Maafoh a random roommate, and she didn’t find out

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Stand for Charlottesville Jaime Conlan Opinion Editor White supremacy is a disease. The recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia should serve as a wake-up call. We don’t have to pretend like the white supremacy movement is normal, one that refuses to recognize a detrimental flaw in society. With white nationalists already planning future rallies in Texas and other states across America, we cannot afford to stay mute.

Speak out for Charlottesville before similar problems arrive in Athens.

Speaking out is vital since language plays a key role in the Charlottesville tragedy.

James Alex Fields Jr. is the man suspected of driving into the counterprotestors. Fields told his mother, Samantha Bloom, that he was going to an alt-right rally.

“I didn’t know it was white supremacists. I thought it had something to do with Trump,” Bloom said in an interview with a CNN affiliate station Toledo Blade.

There is immense confusion about what to call this group of white supremacists.

Alt-right and neo-nazi are just a few terms.

Confusing language muddles a toxic message and hides the malicious intent of white

Confusing language hides the malicious intent of white supremacy groups.

JAIME CONLAN, OPINION EDITOR

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“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides,” said Trump in a statement on Aug 12.

Trump later made a second statement with a stronger stance against specific groups, but he still remains too passive because he doesn’t recognize his own role in the rise of white supremacy in 2016-2017.

KKK and white supremacy groups do not deny their support and appreciation of what Trump has enabled their groups to do. By taking a passive stand on racism, other groups feel comfortable spreading

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their hatred.

“We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump,” said former KKK leader David Duke.

White supremacy is thriving everywhere, and with too much silence it will continue to thrive. The protest at the arch downtown in response to Charlottesville was only the beginning of a long line of necessary outcries. The people of Athens must raise their voices and call for change.

Jaime Conlan is a sophomore entertainment and media studies major.

Meet the future of meat Cellular agriculture is revolutionizing the meat industry

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Mariah Manoylov Contributor Imagine America without a barbecue on the Fourth of July or turkeys baking in the oven on Thanksgiving. Meat consumption is so ingrained in our society that there’s no wonder it is a $750 billion industry annually.

Despite the economic benefit, the meat industry has disastrous tolls on our environment. According to the EPA, the livestock industry is the primary emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than CO2. It also uses 26 percent of the world’s land for grazing and causes 80 percent of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest region. Meat production is unsustainable and will not be able to meet future meat demands if it continues with current techniques.

We need cellular agriculture to fulfill our meat demands while reducing its impacts on the environment. If you are a meat eater, consider lab-grown meat as an alternative to

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your protein needs.

With advancing technology, meat can be made in a lab using recombinant DNA. New Harvest, a nonprofit organization urging breakthroughs in cellular agriculture, describes this process as taking a microbe such as yeast and inserting the genetic blueprint for a protein into the microbe’s genetic makeup. Since all cells read the same genetic code, the microbe makes the protein the same as if it came from the cow cell. As more microbes produce more protein, you get tissues of meat that are identical to that actually grown on the animal.

The result of this meat is that it requires much less time and resources than growing the entire animal itself. It is a revolutionarily clean way of getting meat that is healthier for humans, better for the environment, and requires no animal slaughter.

However, the technology is new. The process is expensive. Technology becomes more efficient as it progresses, and there will come a day when we see lab-grown meat line our grocery store shelves.

Start-up companies such as Hampton Creek and Memphis Meats hope to be the first ones to bring lab-grown meat to store shelves in 2018 and 2021, respectively.

The way we understand meat consumption and production as we know it is changing rapidly, and we as consumers will need to adjust our mindsets in order for major environmental change to occur. It is because of our purchasing power that the current unsustainable meat industry thrives, and it will be up to us to change it.

We desperately need to uphold the benefits of lab-grown meat despite its formidable novelty, for we will be the generation that makes or breaks the industry. It will be a fruitless effort to save the environment and revolutionize our meat-production if people aren’t on board. Once the newness dies down, the benefits won’t be so hard to swallow.

Mariah Manoylov is a junior ecology and English major.

The first five days

Syllabus week enables students to ease into classes

Asher Beckner Contributor As another academic year rolls in, students across campus prepare themselves for another week of going over syllabi, doing last-minute adjustments to schedules and getting back into the swing of classes. This first week, syllabus week, is crucial to the collegiate environment.

A full syllabus week allows students and professors to engage with a new environment of coursework and people.

Students can take advantage of syllabus week through the add/drop period, buying textbooks and acclimating to campus. “[Add/drop week] allows [students] to make mid-course corrections and to remedy faulty selections by canceling some courses and selecting other courses,” wrote Elisha Babad of Research in Higher Education. Syllabus week can act like a fail-safe in this way.

Professors benefit from syllabus week.

Students walk to class on the first day of school. “[Professors] can make use of this period to market their courses,” Babad said.

Both students and professors can stay flexible with their coursework and test the waters of a new semester, ultimately providing a useful tool for everyone.

According to the National Science Teachers Association, students can develop a strong

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group identity during this time.

This mindset leads to a healthier student-teacher relationship overall.

Syllabus week allows students and professors to tweak the syllabus in terms of course materials, making it a useful time to figure out which books are necessary. Extra time allows students to ship their books, and many online sites have

cheaper prices than local bookstores.

Students acclimate to campus during syllabus week. Due to syllabus week’s relatively light course load, students may experiment with more student organizations, which will acclimate them better to the UGA climate.

Many students may dislike syllabus week because it discourages teachers from assigning work that allots them valuable knowledge, but it is exactly this reason that syllabus week works effectively. Without syllabus week, students could feel confused and stressed.

While you sit in class listening to the third professor of the day go over grading rubrics and other minutia, know that syllabus week is more important than lectures. It allows the campus to thrive in a healthier environment for students and professors alike.

Asher Beckner is a sophomore English and social work major.

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Tina Bieri (top right, left) and Miranti Mcgraw (top right, right) are the creators and owners of the bohemian clothing line, Bo Chic.

Bo Chic clothing line debuts Jordan Meaker Events Editor Savvy shoppers looking for fresh clothing options can head to the Graduate Athens hotel on Aug. 20 for a trunk show displaying items from Bo Chic, a new online clothing retailer created by students Tina Bieri and Miranti McGraw.

We really like the idea of having well-made, ethically-made clothes, but at a reasonable price point.

TINA BIERI, CO-OWNER OF BO CHIC

Dresses, skirts, tops and jewelry will be some of the items available at Bo Chic’s trunk show. Customers can browse the items, try on clothes that catch their eye and make purchases as if they were at a real store.

McGraw, a sophomore early childhood education major at the University of North Georgia, said Bo Chic differs from other clothing lines because of the variety of options available.

“We have a mixture of it all—we have a little bit of boho, and a lot of chic,” McGraw said.

Bieri and McGraw decided to create a clothing line back in February. Now, the business owners have received two shipments of items and are beginning sales.

Bieri, a junior fashion merchandising major at the University of Georgia, said she and McGraw chose to sell clothes similar to what they actually wear daily.

“We decided to sell clothes we both would want to wear,” Bieri said. “We noticed that while a lot

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of the stores in downtown Athens are really cute, they’re all kind of expensive for a college budget.”

Bieri and McGraw order clothing and jewelry items to stock the online store from an online wholesaler based in Los Angeles.

“It’s a lot easier for a startup business to get our foot into the market that way,” Bieri said.

The friends and co-owners said they were inspired to create a clothing line with the encouragement from their moms, who have been friends for many years.

“Our moms have been friends since we were little,” McGraw said. “My mom owns a flower shop and she inspired me to start up Bo Chic with my friend and business partner, Tina.”

Bieri compared Bo Chic’s style to Free People, a boho-inspired clothing line.

“Some of their stuff is really cute, and it looks good on the models, but on the everyday person, maybe not. Ours is more accessible and wearable by the everyday girl,” Bieri said.

Bieri said Bo Chic is inspired by the sustainable fashion movement, a cause that seeks to limit negative impacts on the environment caused by the fashion industry while creating systems that can be sustained indefinitely into the future.

“We really like the idea of having well-made, ethically-made clothes, but at a reasonable price point,” Bieri said. “Instead of having your Forever 21 prices that are dirt cheap, but they’re going to fall apart after three or four uses and end up in the landfills anyways, we just wanted to have a more sustainable approach to fast fashion.”

Bieri said she also draws inspiration from Katie Jacobs, founder and owner of the Cheeky Peach boutique in downtown Athens.

Creating a new startup business comes with its own specific set of challenges, and Bieri explained her surprise at the amount of paperwork that goes into establishing an online store.

“I didn’t expect all those charges, so that was a big shocker,” Bieri said. “But it was a good learning experience, to get all the legal stuff out of the way before getting to the fun part.”

To help launch Bo Chic, Bieri and McGraw have created a Facebook page and an Instagram account to market their products. McGraw said getting the business’ name out there has been one of the greatest challenges so far in running a clothing business.

Looking to the future of their business, Bieri and McGraw said they hope to increase exposure for their brand.

“Right now we’re focused on getting our name out there and making it bigger, and maybe someday owning an actual store,” McGraw said.

Both owners said they want to host more trunk shows to introduce customers to their products.

“I’d like to open a few pop-up stores, maybe ones that stay open for a few weeks during the holiday season,” Bieri said. “Hopefully we can expand our product line, hopefully we can get some more shoes. I’m really into finding good, easy to wear makeup. We want to make it more of an overall brand.”

Bo Chic’s fall trunk show will be held in the Galleria 1 room at the Graduate Hotel on Sunday, Aug. 20, from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

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McKibben works in the genetics research lab in the Davison Life Science Complex in Athens, Georgia.

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Research spending rises Sophomore genetics and cell biology major Kathryn Mckibben works in the field of evolutionary genetics. F I L E / S T A F F

Research Spending in Thousands

Data comes from The National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development Survey.

2006

$342,763

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$335,901

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Harrison Young Campus News Editor Research spending at the University of Georgia rose once again in 2017 to exceed $450 million, an all-time high.

This record spending is part of an ongoing trend, with 2017 marking the fourth year in a row to experience a major increase.

David Lee, UGA’s vice president for research, said recent years have marked a period of explosive growth for the university’s research spending, which has grown by 37 percent in three years.

“We think that as a world leading university, it’s our responsibility to generate important new knowledge and to help to solve the important challenges of our time,” Lee said.

Lee pointed to the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development Survey as a key measure of American universities’ focus on research.

The most recent data available from that survey shows a steady increase over time, up to record spending this year. And while spending dropped after 2008, it has now exceeded that high point by almost $70 million.

Lee said a significant amount of this increase has come from the dedication of UGA researchers in obtaining a larger amount of the limited grants provided by the federal government.

“UGA faculty are taking a bigger bite of a non-changing federal funding pie,” Lee said. “It’s extraordinarily competitive and UGA faculty are doing an outstanding job in a very competitive market.”

Lee said only 5 to 10 percent of grant proposals

will eventually be funded and that the pool of funding has not been increased in recent years. Now UGA researchers are receiving more of that money than ever.

John Drake, a distinguished research professor in the Odum School of Ecology, said it is important for the university to focus on research.

“I don’t think that the public perception of the university as a knowledge generating resource is [equal] to the importance of the university of our society,” Drake said.

Ed Pavlic, a distinguished research professor of English, said this emphasis on research will help the public perception of research universities.

Both Pavlic and Drake ultimately said they saw forward momentum and were glad to see the university continue to expand its commitment to research.

“I think that we are continuing to push the university in a positive direction … to do research that is more relevant to the society that we live in, to do research of an even higher quality and quantity than we’ve ever done in the past,” Drake said.

[Getting grants] is extraordinarily competitive and UGA faculty are doing an outstanding job.

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Defensive back turned wide out Mecole Hardman making transition

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10 Years Later Nathan Berg Assistant Sports Editor

It’s early fall in Athens, and as usual, the expectations for the Georgia football team are high.

Headlined by a sophomore quarterback looking to make the jump from mediocrity to greatness and two talented running backs, the Bulldogs are expected to be major players in college football, and perhaps candidates for national championship contention.

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But it isn’t 2017.

It’s 2007, 10 years ago this fall. That quarterback is Matthew Stafford, and those running backs are Thomas Davis and freshman Knowshon Moreno. At this point in the year, no one, not even the players on the team, know what Georgia is about to accomplish.

“Coming into that season, honestly, I think it was like any other season,” fullback Brannan Southerland said.

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Youth meets experience Georgia soccer begins season stocked full of freshmen and seniors Brittany Stewart Contributor

Seniors Mariel Gutierrez (top) and Kelsey Killean (bottom) will welcome 12 newcomers to head coach Billy Lesesne’s (middle) soccer team. R E A N N H U B E R / S T A F F

When Kelsey Killean looks around the huddle at the faces dripping with sweat at the conclusion of practice, the image looks vastly different than it did at the conclusion of last season. This time, she not only finds herself to be a senior leader, but she has twelve new Bulldog teammates peering back at her.

This season’s Georgia women’s soccer roster is stacked with seniors and freshmen. The 16 returning players, including nine seniors, welcomed 12 newcomers to the team, including 11 players fresh to their first collegiate soccer season.

This large roster shift creates a lot of adjustments for the Bulldog team, on and off the field, as the women have to mold new personalities and game-styles together in anticipation of a rapidly-approaching season opener on Aug. 18 against Wake Forest.

The freshmen, who are not only adjusting to living on their own for the first time but also balancing workouts, school and practice, are also having to learn and adapt to the differences between high school-level and collegiate soccer.

“On the field, it’s definitely more physical than club or high school soccer,” freshman Katie Higgins said. “The players are obviously more experienced and so everything is more fast-paced and everything just moves quicker, so it’s something you have to get used to.”

A three or four-year age or collegiate experience gap stands between most of the team, but Higgins said she hardly notices as the women are already so close-knit and the seniors welcomed them all into the team family immediately, making the transition less difficult.

As the freshmen mold into collegiate soccer, the seniors have not missed a beat stepping into their leadership roles and have subsequently taken the freshmen under their wing. Killean said she wants the girls to feel comfortable and feel they can rely on the seniors for whatever they need.

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hard and buy into the program,” Killean said. “They’re getting used to practices and college, so we’re just trying to encourage them by answering their questions off the field and positively encouraging them on the field.”

Senior Summer Burnett said the seniors help the freshmen while the freshmen give the seniors and the rest of the team energy and positivity to make a new and improved team dynamic to start the season.

“Naturally, freshmen bring a new energy to the team because this is their first year,” Burnett said. “This is their first game, their first everything and they have nothing to lose and everything to prove. With this class, I’ve been impressed. They’ve been working hard since day one, so I expect them to make a difference for us.”

Head coach Billy Lesesne, who is entering his third season with the team, agreed that this freshman class was bringing a lot of personality and energy to the team this season and said they have bought into the team goal of placing well in SEC tournament.

Lesesne also said he is impressed with the dynamic between the freshmen and the seniors, and believes that it will make a difference this season as his seniors take ownership of their leadership roles, and the freshmen become good followers.

“The seniors are at the point where they understand what we are looking for and now they become the teachers,” Lesesne said. “I’ve been really impressed with the balance the team has shown. The young eager ones relying on the older, more experienced players, and they have really grown and molded together as a unit.”

I’ve been really impressed with the balance this team has shown.

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Georgia volleyball turns to new head coach Tom Black Jed May Senior Staff Writer

Mecole Hardman runs out of the tunnel before a game against Vanderbilt last season on Oct. 15, 2016. T H O M A S

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Getting up to speed Mecole Hardman adjusts to move from defensive back to wide receiver Jed May Senior Staff Writer At this time 365 days ago, Mecole Hardman was a five-star recruit entering his second week of college practice as a defensive back.

Fast forward a year, and Hardman now finds himself on the offensive side of the ball. He spent spring practice transitioning from offense to defense, and now, at least according to head coach Kirby Smart, he is showing flashes of the potential he has at his new position.

“He’s had some pretty spectacular plays,” Smart said after practice on Aug. 8.

Hardman’s first calendar year as a collegiate athlete has surely felt like a whirlwind at times. Just as soon as he figured out the defensive schemes and calls, he was switched to the offensive side of the ball.

Smart said so far in the fall, Hardman’s increasing familiarity with the offensive system has shown on the field.

“It’s not that he’s faster than he was in spring, he’s more confident, which makes him faster,” Smart said. “He hears

the call and he knows what to do.”

Smart compared Hardman to former Georgia receiver Isaiah McKenzie in terms of the competitiveness and toughness they both bring to the game.

McKenzie was used on many jet sweep plays that, while technically passes, were essentially running plays. These plays served not only to boost Jacob Eason’s completion percentage, but also as a way to get the ball to the team’s most explosive playmaker.

Smart wants to make sure Hardman gets the ball, too.

“You’ve got to find ways to get Mecole the ball, hopefully we’ll be able to do that,” Smart said. “Hopefully the better he goes up and catches it and makes plays vertical down the field, it’ll take the top off some of these defenses that we’ve struggled to do that in the past.”

Hardman is far from a finished product as a receiver. But one thing seems to be clear: he’s not going to be playing defensive back any time in the near future.

“I still think he’s got to work on his hands and natural catching the ball, but he’s a good athlete and I think he’s found a good home,” Smart said.

OFF THE GRIDIRON Georgia football is not the only sport at UGA that will begin its season in the coming weeks. Georgia soccer, volleyball and men’s golf will also start before the Bulldogs kick off against Appalachian State in Sanford Stadium on Sept. 2. The Georgia soccer team will take on Wake Forest on Aug. 18 in Athens. Georgia volleyball will open its season on Aug. 25 in the Benson Hospitality Invitational which is also a home tournament. The Georgia men’s golf team will tee off in the Carmel Cup at the Pebble Beach Golf Course in California on Sept. 1.

Other sports on the near horizon include cross country, swimming and diving, equestrian, women’s golf and men’s and women’s tennis. It won’t be until later in November that the basketball seasons begin. — John Durham

Amanda Dachs celebrates in game against Texas A&M in 2016. T H O M A S

For every coach that takes over a collegiate program, the first season is important. It’s a time for the coach to prove to the team’s supporters that he or she is the right person for the job.

But for new Georgia volleyball coach Tom Black, the first year is critical for resurrecting a program that has had a miserable two-year stretch.

Two years ago, the Bulldogs had one of the worst seasons in program history. They went 5-25 and didn’t win a single match in Southeastern Conference play.

The 2016 season wasn’t much better. Although the overall record improved to 13-18, the SEC record was still only 1-17. As a result, head coach Lizzy Stemke resigned on Dec. 1.

This year brings major changes to the volleyball program. In addition to Black taking over, the team will be playing in the newly-renovated Stegeman Coliseum starting this season.

But to turn Georgia volleyball around, the most important change that Black needs to make is being more competitive in the conference and winning more than one SEC match. Luckily for him, he has a roster that is experienced enough to help turn the program around.

Georgia loses three seniors from last year’s team: Elle McCord, Desiree McCray and Megan Spencer.

There are three seniors again this year in Amanda Dachs, Kendall Kazor and Cassidy Anderson. The Bulldogs also return four of their top five players in terms of kills, their assist leader in sophomore Meghan Donovan and five of their top six in digs from 2016.

Also entering the fold for Georgia in 2017 are seven freshmen. These newcomers include high school All-Americans T’ara Ceasar and Brynn Chandler, as well as the 2017 Georgia High School Player of the Year Dalaney Hans.

These freshmen could play a huge role in the outcome of Black’s first season. Although the team does return a lot of players, it’s not like they’ve had tremendous success in their time in Athens. This team’s seniors have won a grand total of six SEC games in three years and have yet to achieve a .500 overall record.

Figuring out which players are best for this team will be one of Black’s biggest early challenges. If he wants to right the proverbial ship that is Georgia volleyball, he has to play the best players as opposed to just going with the more experienced option by default.

While Black’s first season is not necessarily an indicator of his future success, it’s worth looking back to see how Stemke did in her first season at the helm in 2011. The Bulldogs went 11-19 overall and 7-13 in the SEC. There was success later on in her tenure, but Stemke’s stay in Athens ultimately fell short.

If Black wants to avoid Stemke’s fate, he needs to at least improve the Bulldogs in his first year. The rarity with which the program has earned conference victories cannot remain at the level it was at in the waning seasons of the previous regime. If Black fails to stem the tide that has left Georgia near the bottom of the conference in recent seasons, the program could be relegated to the basement of the SEC for years to come.

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Meaghan Raab competes in a swim meet against Emory in 2015. Raab swam the 200-yard breaststroke in the meet against the Eagles. C O U R T E S Y

On the blocks

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She had an internship in Fort Collins, Colorado, for the Ultimate Training Camp, a faith based camp for college athletes. She went to swim meets in Indianapolis, Indiana, and East Meadow, New York.

That trip to New York for the U.S. Open Swimming Championships went as well as it could have for Raab. She placed first in the 200-meter freestyle and 200 IM on Aug. 6.

“There’s a lot of great athletes [at the U.S. Open], but who wants to step up and be the best of the rest and take it?” associate head coach Harvey Humphries said. “She stood up against some fantastic competition and really did an incredible job.”

Now Raab is back in Athens as arguably the most experienced senior on the Georgia women’s swimming and diving team.

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While this makes the trio of seniors the de facto leaders for Georgia this fall, Kingsley just underwent a second surgery on her knee and missed periods of time during last season because of knee subluxations, or a partial dislocation of the knee.

Raab recognizes what is required of her as a senior leader, but it still has not hit her yet, with the first meet of the season on Sept. 27 against Emory fast approaching.

“This is my last chance to leave an impression on the team as individuals but also as the sport itself here at Georgia ... but definitely I would love to be a leader for the rest of the team in and out of the pool because my days in the pool are getting shorter every day,” Raab said.

If Raab is as focused on the upcoming task of being a senior on a perennial top-10 swim team as she is behind the blocks before a race, the transition should not be an issue for her.

Raab has garnered a reputation of having an intimidating demeanor before she steps on the blocks to race.

“I didn’t realize it at first that I have that sort of persona behind the blocks until a teammate of mine actually back in high school was watching a meet live,” Raab said. “She said she automatically knew who I was because of my face just because I looked so serious and ready to go all

the time.”

But Raab assures she isn’t like that all the time, just when she’s getting ready to race.

“I love to race and compete,” Raab said.

“That’s like my happy spot in swimming is behind the blocks, ready to go. Sometimes it’s a little too much for other people.”

Fellow senior Jay Litherland said the success of the team, as well as the development of its future leaders rests at least partially on Raab’s shoulders.

“She’s definitely a huge plus to the team,” Litherland said. “She brings out a lot of energy, it’s great. She sets a pretty good example for the girls’ team as well, for the incoming freshman class. She’ll play a big role this year as well.”

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Fromm good to great Addition of Jake Fromm and Brice Ramsey’s return boosts depth behind Jacob Eason Zach Shugan Assistant Sports Editor Rewind to Georgia’s 2016 season opener against North Carolina and the weeks leading up to the game.

The uncertainty surrounding the quarterback position loomed over the team like a dark cloud. Yes, Jacob Eason was on the team at the time, but the five-star recruit had yet to play a snap in college. It was graduate transfer Greyson Lambert who ended up starting the first game of the season in the Georgia Dome — although Eason started every other game in 2016.

2017 is an entirely different story, largely thanks to a new quarterback arriving in Athens and another choosing to stay.

The new gunslinger in town is Jake Fromm, a fourstar prospect out of Warner Robins who was rated the No. 47 player in the Class of 2017, according to the 247Sports composite. Then there’s Brice Ramsey, the veteran of the group who elected to stay at Georgia and play his final year for the Bulldogs after considering a transfer.

With Lambert using up his final year of NCAA eligibility in 2016 and Ramsey contemplating a change of scenery, the situation at quarterback seemed without depth for Georgia entering 2017. The Bulldogs were going to have just two quarterbacks on scholarship:

Eason and Fromm.

It had some coaches worried during the offseason, including offensive coordinator Jim Chaney, but that doubt has all but faded away at this point.

“I’m tickled to death in that quarterback room,” Chaney said in a press conference on Aug. 5.

For Georgia, the arrival of Fromm couldn’t have come at a better time due to the departure of Lambert.

One of the best effects Fromm has had on the team, at least in the coaches’ eyes, is the competition he’s provided. Even if he never sees the field or makes a start in 2017, the freshman is pushing Eason to improve.

Even Eason himself acknowledges the benefit of having a quality backup in the fold.

“Everyday’s a competition,” Eason told reporters after practice on Aug. 7. “The fuller the QB room, the better, because you got guys and they’re bouncing ideas off each other. Every rep you’re looking at a different thing.”

While the team’s depth chart might look fine at quarterback this season, Georgia’s coaches are already looking to the future of the position.

Ramsey will definitely be gone in 2018. And by the 2019 season, the Bulldogs very well could be without Eason, should he choose to enter the draft early.

Fromm will be a junior by then, so he will be the only

sure thing come 2019.

That means it’s up to Georgia head coach Kirby Smart and his staff to hit the recruiting trail and find the next signal-caller for the Bulldogs’ offense. They don’t want to see the amount of talent in the quarterback room dwindle as time goes on.

As Chaney puts it, stocking up on elite quarterbacks is essential if you want to compete for a championship.

“Our job and I think Georgia’s job and everyone’s job is to make sure that room stays as competitive as it can for a long time,” Chaney said. “You want to have a good, solid football program? Keep that room really nice.”

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Football players start classes A lot of thoughts have been running through the minds of the Georgia football team over the first two weeks of fall practice.

Players have been thinking about learning the playbook, what their specific assignments are and, in some cases, how to win a starting job. The first two weeks of practice allowed the Bulldogs to focus solely on their athletic careers.

But on Aug. 14, the first day of classes at Georgia, senior tight end Jeb Blazevich had different things in his mind during the middle part of the day, a time that had been reserved for football for the past 14 days.

“Now it’s, ‘Well, I’m worried about event management and then music theory or something class, what’s a staccato?’”

Blazevich said.

The fact Blazevich was thinking about musical rhythms and not route trees during practice Aug. 14 signifies the players are, once again, full time student-athletes.

The new school year was evident in the weekly schedule.

Georgia’s practice was moved back a couple hours to accommodate the players’ classes. According to junior linebacker Roquan Smith, the first week or two of

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class is all about finding the timing that works the best.

“Once you know what you have to do and priorities and you have that in line, pretty much everything else just lines up,” Smith said.

However, the adjustment to the start of classes doesn’t happen right away.

“It’s really hard the first day of classes, traditionally that’s a terrible day,” Blazevich said. “But thankfully nobody said anything about it, we were able to push through and focus after sitting through random lectures, topics that we haven’t heard about in two weeks being in camp.”

However, Blazevich said he can’t carry class over to football just like he can’t bring football with him to the classroom.

While Monday, Aug. 14 was the first day of classes of this semester, being student-athletes isn’t new to these players.

They’ve done it all through high school and, for older players such as Blazevich, throughout their days in college. As Smith said, at the end of the day, academics is just something that has to be done.

“You’re a student-athlete, so I feel like that’s just an obligation you have to take care of,” Smith said. “When you get to football, it’s just like you’re in camp, so it is what it is. You’ve just got to take care of business.”

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Eclipse won’t stop practice Alex Soderstrom Staff Writer

Georgia head coach Kirby Smart has spoken on multiple occasions this week about how the heat of the sun has affected his players in practice.

And while the sun may be going away for a time next Monday, practice will certainly not be.

At a press conference on Aug. 15, Smart was unfazed when asked whether or not the impending solar eclipse on Aug. 21 will have any bearing on Georgia’s practice.

“Not that I’m aware of,” Smart said.

In Athens, the eclipse will reach its peak around 2:38 p.m., before the Bulldogs typically begin practice.

Smart is only concerned about the practice itself, he said, but he does know a few individuals who have the eclipse on their mind.

“My wife and kids are really excited about it,” he said.

School systems across Georgia, including Clarke County School District, have delayed their dismissal times for August 21 in an effort to prevent students from damaging their eyes by looking at the eclipse.

On Georgia’s campus, Sanford Stadium will be open from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. to older students wishing to view it. In Athens, the sun will come just short of total coverage by the moon at the eclipse’s peak.

If the practice schedule next week is similar to this week, Georgia’s practice will begin after the eclipse is over. But Smart kept hope alive the Bulldogs might get to see the eclipse.

“Maybe I’ll go take the team and we’ll watch it,” Smart said with a smile.

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A literal dog pile Georgia started off the much-hyped 2007 season with a sound victory over visiting Oklahoma State University.

Stafford completed 75 percent of his passes and threw two second-half touchdowns in an opening day blowout.

But the offense came up a bit short the next week, failing to score a single touchdown against University of South Carolina in Sanford Stadium. It was a deflating loss, but it didn’t change the Georgia players’ thoughts on what their team was capable of.

After all, the Southeastern Conference has a reputation for tough rivalry games.

“It was defeating to lose, but it didn’t really defeat our confidence,” wide receiver Sean Bailey said. “Because we knew it was a SEC battle, and we knew that had we shown up to our full capabilities that game we would have won it.”

The next SEC contest was on the road at the University of Alabama, and it was essentially a must win.

Georgia scored the first 10 points, but the Crimson Tide scored the next 10. In the second half, neither team ever led by more than seven points.

In the end, it came down to overtime. Alabama kicked a field goal in its first possession following the end of regulation, so a touchdown would win it for the Bulldogs.

They had one possession to tie or win the game, but they only needed one play.

Bailey has a clear memory of it. He remembers being lined up as the X receiver on the right side of the field.

Teammate Mikey Henderson was across the field at the Z position. Bailey said the team knew Alabama was likely to blitz its safeties on the play, leaving its cornerbacks on islands with Georgia wide receivers. One-on-one against Crimson Tide defensive back Lionel Mitchell, Bailey, Henderson and Stafford all liked their odds of winning the matchup.

“We had gone into the play saying that whatever side he was on, that was the side that Matt was gonna go to,” Bailey said.

That side happened to be the left one, and Mitchell was working on Henderson. Henderson blew by Mitchell off the line, and Stafford hit him in stride.

Henderson made the catch, ending the contest.

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Georgia’s final record in 2007 Immediately following the play, Georgia’s bench emptied as the entire team started a pileup on top of Henderson right in front of Alabama’s student section.

Bailey was one of the first on the pile, and he even grew a little fearful at the bottom of the massive celebration.

“I had 60 guys on top of me,” Bailey said. “I couldn’t move. I couldn’t breathe. I was freaking out for a minute, and I said any other situation like that, I’m gonna stay off the dog pile. Cause I was panicking for a second.”

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Georgia followed up the overtime win against Alabama with a sound defeat of an outmatched the University of Mississippi at home. But the week after, the Bulldogs were going up against the University of Tennessee on the road.

The Volunteers scored 28 points in the first half, and Georgia never made it a close game. The 21-point final deficit was the most the Bulldogs had lost by since 2003.

Linebacker Rennie Curran said playing and winning in Neyland Stadium is never going to be an easy task.

“In a stadium like Tennessee where they always have the crowd behind them, always playing the Rocky Top song, as annoying as it is, the game can get away from you pretty quickly,” Curran said. “And that’s what happened.”

Following the loss to Tennessee, Georgia needed a 10-point, second-half comeback to beat the much less talented Vanderbilt University.

And while the win wasn’t pretty, Curran said the close call against Vanderbilt was exactly what the team needed.

“That really was the game that I believe kind of changed the trajectory for our season,” Curran said. “Just in that fourth quarter when we were down and we had to find a way to scratch and claw, find a way to win. And after that I think we kind of turned the corner.”

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After beating Vanderbilt, Georgia had a bye week before playing in Jacksonville against the University of Florida.

Florida had won 15 of its last 17 games against Georgia. As Bailey put it, “Florida had owned us.”

In the practices leading up to the rivalry matchup, Bailey remembers a shift in the mood in Athens.

“The week of Florida, for whatever reason, that week just changed,” Bailey said. “Coaches got a lot more tense.

Players got a lot more tense. The routine catches in practice that you make all week, for some reason the guys were dropping them.”

According to Bailey, head coach Mark Richt was not happy with what he was seeing.

“He looked at the coaches and told them, ‘You guys got to loosen up,’” Bailey said. “‘Y’all gotta loosen up.’ He looked at us and said, ‘Hey, y’all just have to play.’”

Then he presented his team with an ultimatum: celebrate so much as to cause a penalty flag to be thrown following the first Georgia touchdown against Florida or “Y’all are gonna be in some trouble,” as Bailey recalled Richt saying.

Georgia came right out and scored the first touchdown early in the first quarter on a one-yard Moreno plunge. As soon as Moreno crossed the plane, Georgia players jumped from the benches, as every player ran onto the field to celebrate.

Penalty flags flew.

Curran was watching from the sideline when Moreno got into the end zone. He watched as all his teammates started to stream onto the field. Someone grabbed him by the shoulder, Marcus Houston or Trinton Sturdivant perhaps, Curran said he can’t remember exactly who.

“He was just like, ‘Man come on.’” Curran said. “And then just as everybody’s running on the field and I’m just looking around like what is everybody doing? And then once everybody goes, I jumped in too.”

Sean Bailey goes up for a catch in Georgia’s 2007 “blackout” game against Auburn. F I L E / S T A F F It was a decision Curran would never regret.

“It was one of the best 15 seconds of my life,” he said.

A bittersweet bowl of sugar Curran, Bailey and Southerland all agreed the Florida win was a turning point for the 2007 team.

Following that, Georgia finished the season with dominant wins over Auburn University in a blackout game, the University of Kentucky and then the Georgia Institute of Technology inside Bobby Dodd Stadium. Despite a sixgame winning streak, Georgia’s early-season SEC losses would come back to haunt it.

A stunning series of losses by top-ranked schools in the final weeks of the season left many arguing Georgia should be in contention to play in a national championship game, But the Bulldogs had not even made the championship game of their own conference — Tennessee did. It was too great an obstacle to overcome.

Georgia finished the season ranked No. 6 in the country.

Many saw the ranking as unfair, but Southerland said the team’s early-season losses made it deserving of the committee’s decision. He also believes if college football had used the playoff system back then, things would have been different, and the Bulldogs would have earned a chance at the national title.

Instead, Georgia got matched up against undefeated University of Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl. And while it hadn’t lost since the Tennessee game, Southerland said the team was still getting disrespected.

“There was a lot of people who thought that the high scoring offense of Hawaii was going to give the Georgia team fits,” he said.

That year, the second half, I don’t know of a team that I did not feel we could beat.

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The Bulldogs came out against the Rainbow Warriors on a mission, and they dominated the team from start to finish. Highly-touted Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan was sacked eight times and eventually knocked out of the game.

Southerland said Hawaii players looked afraid lining up against Georgia’s defenders.

“Their offensive tackles just could not seem to sit in there long enough to hold the snap count,” Southerland said. “They were so scared of the speed of, say Marcus Howard on the edge, that was trying to come at their quarterback.”

Howard ended the game with three sacks, one defensive touchdown and a Sugar Bowl MVP award, and the Bulldogs ended the season with a 41-10 win over Hawaii. The victory made them the No. 2 team in the country in the AP rankings.

Louisiana State University would go on to beat Ohio State University in the national championship game behind quarterback Matt Flynn and take the No. 1 spot.

Georgia never got a chance to play the Tigers, but by the end of the year, Georgia and LSU were widely considered the two best teams in college football. No one will ever know what might have happened if the Bulldogs and Tigers had met to decide college football’s champion of the 20072008 football season.

But members of that Georgia roster have some guesses.

“That 2007 season, the team that beat Florida, the team that beat Hawaii, that beat Auburn, that year, the second half, I don’t know of a team that I did not feel we could beat,” Southerland said.

UGA’s 2007 Defining Moments  Sept. 22: Overtime win over Alabama  Oct. 27: Full-team celebration vs. Florida  Nov. 10: “Blackout” game win over Auburn  Jan. 1, 2008: 41-10 victory in Sugar Bowl

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Indie South hosts flea market in Normaltown Mauli Desai Culture Editor Indie South will hold its second flea market in Normaltown on Sunday, Aug. 20 on Prince Avenue. Presenting a variety of handmade items and food trucks, Indie South will provide complimentary mimosas at this music-filled event, according to its Facebook event page. The flea market will host vendors from around Athens as well as the Southeast, such as Nedza’s Waffles founded by UGA alumnus Joe Nedza and the skincare company Bello Body.

Starting at 10 a.m. behind the Indie South lot, the flea market will occur every third Sunday of the month until December.

“I’m hoping to build this into something that people really enjoy and look forward to...hopefully [the flea market] can become something that happens on a regular basis,” Ferguson said.

Indie South Fair is an open-air market that aims to bring together artists, designers and creative entrepreneurs in festive atmosphere filled with music, food and drinks, according to its website.

Launched in 2006 by Serra Ferguson, Indie South Fair was the response to a growing market for handmade, locally-produced goods. In 2016, Ferguson opened a permanent location in Athens to showcase vendors’ products and to conduct workshops. The shop offers vintage items from

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Pip the Pansy

Formerly known as Wrenn, Pip the Pansy will bring her “bubblegum-chic” aesthetic to the Georgia Theatre this Thursday at 10:30 p.m. Electro-pop duo Eugene Marie will open at 8:30 p.m. and southern-soul musician Sam Burchfield will follow at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8–10. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

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Lazer/Wulf

The Caledonia Lounge will host the Atlanta instrumental prog-metal group Lazer/Wulf. They will appear alongside Multiple Miggs and local, all-female rock trio Mean Queen.

Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8 for those over 21 and $10 for those 18 to 20 years old.

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er Shawn Mullins will perform his at The Foundry alongside Claire Campbell of Hope for Agoldensummer.

All proceeds go to Family Connections-Community in Schools of Athens. Tickets are $18 in advance and $23 at the door. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m.

SUNDAY, AUG. 20

Segar Jazz Affair

Dwain Seger will celebrate seven years of hosting WXAG’s jazz program with an evening at The Foundry. Crossgenre trio Fusion Triangle will perform at 6 p.m. There will be a buffet dinner option from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12–15 and $26–29 with the buffet.

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THURSDAY, AUG. 17 THIRD THURSDAY EVENING ART TOUR What: Third Thursday is a monthly art tour of seven public art galleries in Athens. This month’s tour includes stops at Ciné, Hotel Indigo and ATHICA. Where: Attendees can begin at any of the seven galleries When: 6 – 9 p.m.

Price: Free

ADAM GRABOWSKI COMEDY SHOW What: University Union will present a comedy show by 2015 APCA Comic of the Year Adam Grabowski to kick off the school year. Door prizes will be given before the show.

Where: Tate Grand Hall When: 8 – 10 p.m.

Price: Free for students (with UGA ID), $5 for non-students

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The Foundry will put on a back-toschool Beatles bash hosted by the long-running Athens tribute band, Abbey Road LIVE. Doors open at 6 p.m.,

the Southeast, original art, jewels and herbal apothecary among its diverse merchandise.

Open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., Indie South Shop also hosts weekend events, be it daylong markets with partnering businesses such as Creature Comforts Brewing Co. or educational and creative DIY workshops.

“We love being at Creature Comforts…[we] kind of work together well. They bring their crowd, and we bring our crowd,” Ferguson said.

The Indie South Fair owner explained that people socialize more and stay longer at events when there is beer, so teaming up with breweries such as Terrapin Beer Company in Athens creates a symbiotic relationship for all parties involved. Obtaining its own liquor license is too expensive for Indie South, Ferguson said, making partnering with breweries more appealing.

“The partnerships [with other businesses] are really about the venue…unfortunately in Athens there’s just… very, very few affordable indoor venues, so I end up having most of the events outside,” Ferguson said.

Indie South will host a 3-hour event, Dyeing With Flowers, on Sunday, Aug. 27 which will explore different techniques for creating floral prints using homegrown flowers and plants. Brittani Bumb of Untitled Thought clothing shop will lead the workshop. The event starts at 4:30 p.m., and tickets cost $60.

and the show starts at 9 p.m. Student tickets are $8 at the door. General admission tickets are $10 in advance and $13 at the door.

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What: Wildwood Revival is a three-day music festival featuring 11 musician performances, karaoke, a dance party, an artisan market and more.

Shakey Graves will headline the festival.

Where: Cloverleaf Farm When: Venue opens at noon Price: $80

AUTHOR SCOTT GOULD: STRANGERS TO TEMPTATION What: Avid Bookshop will present author Scott Gould, who will host a reading of his book “Strangers to Temptation.”

Where: Avid Bookshop on Prince Ave When: 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Price: Free

FRIDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY- SALSA What: All community members are invited to a beginner’s salsa lesson taught by the UGA Ballroom Performance Group.

No previous dance experience is required. Semi-formal attire is recommended.

Where: New Dance Theater at UGA Department of Dance When: 7 – 10:30 p.m.

Price: $3 for students, $5 for non-students

SATURDAY, AUG. 19 2ND ANNUAL PET EXPO AND ADOPTION EVENT What: Come out to adopt a cat or dog. There will also be demonstrations, presentations, games and prizes for people and their furry friends.

Where: Classic Center When: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

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FIVE POINTS FOOD TRUCK PARTY What: Bring your lawn chairs to this food truck party featuring Holy Crepe, Nedza’s waffles, Taqueria 1785 and many more food trucks.

Where: Milledge Avenue Baptist Church When: 4 – 8 p.m.

Price: Varies per truck

SUNDAY, AUG. 20 TRI TO BEAT CANCER What: The eighth annual Tri to Beat Cancer triathlon, duathlon and aqua bike will take place in Sandy Creek Park. It is a fundraiser for The Cancer Foundation and is Athens’ only outdoor triathlon.

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