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By Kellee James
(,‘otttrihttting H 'riter

PHILADELPHIA The
pre-dawn rain that fell the morn-
ing of Oct. 25 could not dampen
the spirits of about a million
determined wotnen who arrived
in Philadelphia to participate in
the Million “'oman March.

The event began at 6 a.m. with
a sunrise service, followed by a
corps of women drummers who
marched from Inde endence Hall
to Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
the site of the actual gathering.

The series of featured speak—
ers began discussing 12 platform
issues at 9 a.m. These included
national support for Congress-
woman Maxine VVaters to bring
about a probe into the CIA's
participation and its relationship
to the influx of drugs into the
black community, and the devel-
opment of health facilities that
can offer preventive and thera-
peutic treatment, with an
emphasis on traditional and
alternative medicine.

Kentucky officially sent four
busloads — roughly 200 women
-— to the event, though many
other Kentuckians chose to find
their own transportation to
Philadelphia.

Thirteen students frotn UK
participated in the historic
event, among them Donna
Black, a biology sophomore and
member of Circle of lmani, a
L'K organization composed of
black women. Black said the
march was a “good opportunity
for African-American women to
become uniﬁed."

Throughout the day, leaders
such as Winnie Mande a, ex-wife
of South Africa president Nelson
Mandela, writer Sista Souljah
and actress jada Pinkett captivat—
ed the crowd with unique ideas

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and speaking styles, using force-
ful movements and voices.

Sista Souljah was one of the
most popular speakers among
the group of L'K women.

“She spoke directly to the
younger crowd." Black said.
“She was really inspirational."

The entire event was
designed to spiritually and men-
tally uplift the women who bear
so much responsibility for soci-
ety as a whole.

For the duration of the event,
the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
was jammed with women and
men standing shoulder to shoul—
der. The masses filled the street,
which began at the s )eakers’
stage and ran to the fountain
more than a mile away.

Loudspeakers and a sound
system ensured the majority of
the audience could still hear the
messages.

Family ties were especially
emphasized. Part of the mission
statement of the Million
\Voman March reads, “The Mil-
lion \r\'oman March will revive
life as we once exemplified it:
Great Grandmother tau ht
Grandmother; Grandmot er
taught Mother; Mother taught
Ale; l will teach You."

The March was not all work
and no play, though. Regularly
interspersed with the platform
issues were performances that
were both entertaining as well as E
culturally representative. Singers,

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duction
after she received her bachelor’s
de ree.

As an undergraduate, Geral-
dine Maschio never intended to
become a teacher.

interest lied in theater pro—
and management. and

she held positions in these

Maschio’s decision to teach
resulted from her undergraduate
rofessors’ urging her to go for
er doctorate.

drummers and a step group per— , A5 a ”SUI“ She has been teach-
formed throughout the rogram. mg for 16 years. ,

Vendors who S()l(l) Million , And , 135“ Thursday, the
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alongside food stands, petition— Advancement 0f [61“th

ers and information booths.

The march is over now; Ben—
jamin Franklin Parkway stands
emp t. The women who
marc ed that Saturday have
returned home.

rewarded her work by naming her
Kentucky Professor of the Year.
But,
she began teaching.
“I have a passion and enthusi-
asm for communicating ideas,"

rewards are not the reason

Maschio said.

She said she owed her under—
graduate mentors something.

“It was a way I could give back
something," .‘\las‘chio said. “I rec-
ognized the debt I owed to people
when l was an undergrad."

For H years at L'K. .\laschio
has been doing these things. .\las—
chio teaches upper»level theater
classes and developed the arts
administration program at UK.

“The key to success lies in will‘
ingness to learn." she said.
u'l‘eaching doesn't occur in a vac—
uum."

Learning from people is
important for colleagues as well as
students, said Maschio, who
strives to create a more personal—
ized atmosphere within the class-
room by meetin r with students
individually outsitle of the class.

She said this establishes a per-
sonal link with each of her stu<
dents and helps her understand

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how different students learn.

"The most outstanding aspect
of Professor .\laschio is her aware-
ness of the different learning
styles that are characteristic of
people," said Louis Swift. dean of
Littlergratlti;ttc Studies.

This is no accident on .\las—
chio's part. She has studied intelli—
gcntt theories. like (iai'dncr's
Multiple lntelligences and Kolb's
Learning Styles and has applied
them to ier classes.

“I don't always know w here she
is going with something.“ theater
seiiioriBo List said of .\l.ischio.
"But when she's finished. it always
makes sense.“

Swift said Maschio has a keen
awareness of what students know
and how they learn.

She is “ not doing this out of
sensitivity, but rather ottt of an
awareness of the psychology of
how different people learn." he
said. Swift said she is aware of

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“what makes it easy for one mind
to learn is problematit for anoth~
er."

.\las‘cbio's teaching strategies
have also earned her the Chancel-
lor's Award for Outstanding
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'l‘heater .md Drama this year.

Above all, .\laschio said she
tries to be a real person and as
informal as possible to reach her
students.

“She starts out by learning her-
self," List said.

He said Masehio knows every~
one has something to contribute.
and she demands participation by
everyone.

“The biggest thing for me is
loving and sharing an idea." Mas-
cbio said. “l“.nthusiasm toward an
idea and toward people, I think. is
the most important tool."

Center

the population

UK uses new technology to
track statewide demographics

By James thchie
Newt Editor

Timothy Collins calls it the golden

trian le and crescent.

T 6 same pattern appears on map
after map of Kentucky, produced at
the Appalachian Center with Geo-

graphic Information Systems.

Each one shows a different socioeco—
nomic or demographic trend in the state.
Counties experiencing negative
trends, such as a high unemployment
or high school dropout rate, are heavi-
ly shaded. Those in better shape are

lighter in color.

In each map, the “triangle” of
Louisville, Lexington and Covington
is light in color, surrounded by a dark
“crescent” extending from eastern to

parts of western Kentucky.

“What that tells you is that there are
at least two different Kentuckys in
terms of education and poverty,” said
Collins, research director at the center.

GIS uses hardware, often a personal
computer, and software to place data
sets into a gra hic interpretation, or
thematic ma . t is used on campus in
many discip ines, such as civil engi-
neerin , marketing, forestry, sociology
and o itical science — anything that
con] conceivably involve map ing.

The idea began to take 0 at UK
about seven years ago, and the

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Ap alachian Center has used this tech-
nofhgy since 1994. Over the past three
years, the center has received extensive
equipment upgrades, Collins said.

“I've done this b hand before and
it's not fun,” he said): “It’s labor inten-
sive and very easy to make a mistake.”

Assistant extension professor Scott
Samson a plies GIS technology to
rural socio ogy.

“My focus is on how to get this
technology out into the rural commu-
nities," he said.

For example, he has created maps
that show how much access residents
in rural Kentucky have to primary
health care facilities. On the computer
screen, he can see whether people in a
given area live more than 35—45 min-
utes from a heath care facility.

He also has worked with a database
to ﬁnd out where the most potential
patients live. He has found that a large
number of people who live far away
from facilities also lack cars and me over
age 65, compounding their roblem.

“They’re pretty isolate in terms of
receiving health care,” he said.

Samson also trains female prison
inmates to use GIS. They work on

rejects for counties that can afford to
have mapping done. This way, Sam-
son said, risoncrs gain a marketable
skill for when they are released.

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Users Group. Thirty-eight people
attended the ﬁrst GIS-BUG meeting,
and they came from the public, private,
industry and non-profit sectors,

GIS offers two main advantages for
the Kentucky Geological Survey, said
Morris, who works as a geologist

there.

It allows him and other geologists to
update maps constantly as new informa-
tion comes in. It also increases their abil-
ity to make predictions based on data.

“Here, ifyou make a change in the
database, it will make a change on the
map in real time. right in front of

on,” he said. “It's a dynamic link.
That’s the importance of digitizing."

And providing they had enough
data about the geography of an area,
Morris said, they could estimate how
much rain would be needed to cause

ﬂooding.

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“It's hard to represent, since a lot of
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project to map the surface geological
features of the entire state. The pro-
ject should take between live and

As with most technology, GIS
keeps developing. Associate geography
Kennet y is

involved in improving GIS by creating
software to tell users how accurate

Collectin data about geographic

£6 tricky. he said. Devel—
oping an accurate picture of a payroll
system with a computer is easy, he
said, because it involves discrete num-

“But the environment is continu—
ous,” said Kennedy, author of The
Global Positioning System and GIS.

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that's some great news.

L'K Athletics Association had been getting
calls this weekend from students concerned their
parents wouldn't be able to go to the game
against LSU this Parents” \Veekend.

“It looks like (the students and their families)
will have tickets (today)." Rodney Stiles, director
of administrative services for L'KAA, said.

Stiles said the additional tickets catne frotn a
decrease in people seeking group seating for the
game. The return of bubble sheets probably
scared groups away, he said.

Tickets today will only be available at the
Memorial Coliseum ticket office.

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LONDON, Ky. -— As Sue Bennett College
has struggled against efforts that would eventu—
ally strip it of its accreditation and likely its
license to confer degrees, it's most pressing
concern has been for the future of its 319 stu-

School leaders hoped for a financial miracle
that could keep the tiny United Methodist
Church-backed school running.

none showed and the auditors

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turned to a neighbor’s offer of guardianship as
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In an agreement reached last week, Cheek
essentially bequeathed Sue Bennett's student
records to Cumberland College, a small private
school 30 miles to the south. Cumberland will
take over the academic records when Sue Ben-
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What do Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Katie Couric and “'esley
Snipes all have in common?

They were all residence advis-
ers in college.

About 15-20 positions are
available for the spring semester,
said Melanie 'I‘vner—VVilson, assis-
tant director of Residence Life.

These positions become avail-
able because students graduate or
accept internships. RAs sometimes
resign after a semester.

Residence Life held informa-
tion sessions last week, led by Area

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anted: A iew good resident advisers

Coordinators Marcia Shrout and
Steve Stauffer.

Applications for the spring
semester are due Nov. 7. A selection
committee, which consists of hall
directors and assistant hall directors,
evaluates the applications. Shrout
and Stauffer are co-chairs.

The next step includes inter-
views with a particular residence
ball during November. Only balls
with openings for advisers are
involved in this step.

“It’s a real simple process for
the sprin and isn’t time consum-
ing,” sai Katrina Conley, an arts
administration senior and an RA
in Keeneland Hall.

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Information sessions will be
held on Jan. 21 for the fall
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also be available. About one—half
to two—thirds of the 143 ositions
are usually available, ut this
number varies each semester.

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7. Candidates will participate in
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Bus ride to Philly an exp

Student gives
personal view

of trip, Marc/7

By Kellee James
Contributing ”’t‘iter

Editor’s note: The following it an
account of a UK student who attended
the [Million I/Voman .llarrb.

Oct. 24, 1997, 9:24 a.m.

Four full buses leave from Lex-
ington.

Four buses of determined black
women.

How can I describe the feeling
of anticipation felt by both the
participants and the well-wishers
who came to send us off?

The Circle of lmani would be
represented by l 3 women — all of
whom went through a great
amount of sacriﬁce to get here. It
helped to hear cveryone’s llth
hour struggles to arrange trans—
portation, secure financing and
juggle daily responsibilities to
attend.

There are those who wonder
what 13 people can do to make a
difference — for those cynics I

with interesting people and the tests
were relatively easy,” said Matthew
Homber r, a histo sophomore
and an in H ' all. .
The second p ase is a Leaders
in Residence Seminar in February.
The seminar consists of three ses-
sions that inform candidates of the
issues involved in the job.
“They can make a more educated
decision on that level,” Shrout said.
Residence halls will hold recep—
tions in February. In a casual set-
ting, potential RAs can familiarize
themselves with the residence hall.
Residence Life will notify fall
candidates March 13, before spring
break. This will help students plan

give you the names of Rosa Parks,
Maya Angelou and Marian Ander-
son, to name a few. Never under—
estimate the power of one, or 13.
Especially when those 13 are part
of 200 from Lexington, who are
part of one million, who are part
of the 250 million in the United
States, who are part of the six bil—
lion in our global community.

\Ve begin the trip with a prayer
asking God’s help and protection
in all we were about to do. Once
the buses were rolling, everyone
— young women, old women,
students, mothers, professionals
and grandmothers — was part of a
common goal.

We were a traveling. collective
community.

Same day, 5 mm.

Thirteen and one-half hours
later, we finally arrive in Philadel-
phia, transformed for a period of
24 hours from the City of Broth-
erly Love into the City of Sisterly
Love.

A little stiff, a little tired, but
enthusiasm intact nonetheless —
and the feeling in the city is
already electric. I can feel the
undertone of excitement.

\K'e all went out to dinner, and
while waiting an hour for a table
became involved in an impromptu

and revent conﬂicts with housing
dea ines, Stauffer said.
Fall RAs will meet the staffs of
their assigned buildings in April.
Students turn in more applica—
tions than the number of available
positions. There can be alternates.
Residence Life requires all new
RAs to enroll and complete Edu-
cational and Counseling Psychol-
ogy 518 “in the ﬁrst semester. In
this course, Residence Life staff
teaches aspects of the position and
provides extended training.
Accordin to an outline Resi-
dence Life (ﬁstributes, a successful
candidate should have communica~
tion and listening skills, enjoyment

discussion with some sisters from
Dallas about our responsibility
not only to “play the game of life,"
but to teach others to play it as
well.

We go to bed early. The
March will begin at 6 a.m. tomor-
row.

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The March that has been
planned and talked about for so
long is here!

Just arriving at the actual event
posed problems. All transporta-
tion routes to the site are over—
loaded, to put it mildly. \Vc
decide to walk the 35 city blocks,
or four miles.

Four miles is longer than you
think — especially with no clear
idea of downtown Philly’s layout,
cold weather and the prospect ofa
12-hour day of standing ahead of
us. Not to mention the possibility
of having to walk the four miles
back at the end of the day.

We make it, though, after an
exercise in group cooperation and
coordination. And ﬁnally the
sight of a million women athered
in one place make all the ﬁardship
worth it.

There is so much to take in at
the March — poetry, music and
dance —— but the core was the

of helpin others, time manage-
ment skil s and a sitive attitude.
They should also ave an ability to
motivate others and to make
mature and responsible decisions.

RAs must have a cumulative
and semester grade-point average
of at least 2.5, Tyner-VVilson said.

“It’s the hardest job you’ll ever
love,” Stauffer said.

The best thing about being an
RA for Conle is working with
different peop e 24 hours a day
and seven days a week.

Hornberger said he enjoys the
camaraderie with the other RAs
and the community with the resi—
dents and staff.

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speakers. Sista Souljah, Ava
Mohammad, Maxine \Vaters and
\Vinnie Mandela, to name a few.
Now, for those of you reading
this who have no clue as to who
these women are and what they
stand for, may I suggest that mu
0 out and educate yourseives
ecause what they say has rele-
vance to all of our lives no
exceptions.
\Ne ﬁnish the day tired yet tri-
umphant with some wonderful
inspiration to take with us.

not. 28, 9:80 a.m.

We leave the hotel for our
return to Kentucky. “hat a dif-
ferent feeling the return trip is.

All 50 women on the bus now
stay in animated discussion,
debate and conversation through-
out much of the return trip.

\Ve share our life experiences
and analyze the nation’s social,
economic and political problems
for hours.

It was beautiful, and I felt hon-
ored to be a part of this strong—
minded, wise group.

One thing is clear.

There is a lot of work to be
done, but I believe that our com-
bined talents and abilities will
enable us to surmount any obsta—
cles.

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Lexington
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By Brian Dunn
Assistant New Editor

It took three adopted children
to bring Roger Huston back to
Lexington.

He’d been away from the town,
his hometown, for 25 years.

But he returned.

He returned three years ago so
the children, a es 4, 5 and 8 that
he and his wiﬁ Ginny adopted,
could grow up around family,
including the three older chil-
dren, two who graduated from
UK.

Chancellor Elisabeth Zinser
and UK took advantage of Hus-

ton’s return home.

Zinser hired Huston to ﬁll a
new position at UK —~ director of
Planning and Budget for the Lex-
ington Campus.

“I’m very excited about it —
staying here and ﬁnishing out my
career,” Huston said.

Zinser is excited, too.

“Mr. Huston comes to us
with a great deal of experience
in the business background,”
she said. “I guess the bottom
line is that he met the qualiﬁca—
tions.”

In his 25 years away from Lex-
ington, Huston rode on a wave of
success, in the private and public
sector.

After graduating from the
College of Business and Eco—
notnics as the Arthur Anderson
outstanding accounting student,
he spent the ﬁrst 10 years of his
career as a certified public
accountant.

During that time, be audited

many state universities, including
Western Kentucky University
and Georgetown College. One of
the qualiﬁcations for the job
called for an understanding of
higher education and its unique
planning, budgeting and account-
ing s stems.

T e requirements also asked
the candidate to have senior man-
agement experience in a complex
and diverse organization.

After leaving public account—
ing, Huston became chief ﬁnan-
cial officer for a development firm
creating regional malls in the
Midwest, where he worked for the
next 15 years.

In 1974, Huston entered the
restaurant business by becoming
president of his own company and
developing several franchise oper-
ations in various restaurants like
Wendy’s, Long John Silver’s,
Bojangles and Hooters.

“We saw the good ﬁt with his
very rich background,” Zinser

said. “He was a very strong candi-
date.”

Out of the ﬁve who applied,
three candidates interviewed for
the job, said Zinser, who’d been
looking for a candidate for about a
year.

But Huston didn't apply for the
job until about six weeks ago.

He started work last week.

“It seems I’ve been in meetings
the whole time,” he said. “There
is going to be a learning curve.”

Huston’s main res onsibility is
to help Zinser in the planning
process for UK. In the past, the
duty was part of the vice chancel-

‘lor’sjob.
Former vice chancellor Jim
Chapman has handled the

responsibilities, but when he
became acting president of Lex-
ington Community College, he
and Zinser decided to pull the
budget and planning portion
from his job and create a new
position, Zinser said.

Market plunge largest III a decade

By Joyce M. Rosenberg
Atroriated Prat:

NEW YORK -—— The number
looks uncomfortably familiar, but
the circumstances on Wall Street
are entirely different from a
decade a o, the last time the Dow
Jones in ustrial average fell more
than 500 points in a day.

That was the message Monday
from Wall Street analysts after the
stock market suffered its biggest
drop in years, sending the Dow
down 554.26 to 7,161.15.

The decline was the Dow's
largest point dro ever, surpassing
the 508 points t e stock market's
best-known indicator suffered Oct.
19, 1987. But this latest drop trans-
lated to 7.18 percent of the Dow‘s
value, compared to the 22.61 per-
cent lost a decade ago, and that’s a
big difference between the 1987
crash and this latest setback.

Beyond the percenta es, we’re
in a very different marEet today,
analysts said. The U.S. economy
15 stronger, interest rates are
about 4 percentage points lower
than a decade a o, and stock
prices, while erﬁaps too high
ately, haven't een as overvalued
as they were in 1987, said Alfred
E. Goldman, a vice president at
A.C. Edwards 8: Sons Inc., a St.
Louis—based investment ﬁrm.

When the market crashed 10
years ago, there was little, if any,
investor conﬁdence in the econo-
my. The federal budget deﬁcit was
expandin , and the dollarwas under
attack. his time around, unem-
g‘lo ent is low and the public is

it y conﬁdent about the economy.
The budget deficit for the just-
ended ﬁscal year was the lowest
since the mid-19703. The dollar is
considered tobe era healthy.

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and other Asian markets, which
began spreadin to the U.S. last
week, rattle WalfSn-eet so badly?

“Panic and irrational hysteria,”
Goldman stated.

“It provided an excuse for a
correction to get started," said
A.C. Moore, a stock market ana-
lyst with Principal Financial Secu-
rities in Santa Barbara, Calif.

For the last two cars, as stocks
barreled higher andI propelled the
Dow through 5,000 and onward
past 8,000, many analysts and
investors believed the market was
going too high too fast. Federal

eserve Chairman Alan
Greenspan issued periodic warn-
ings, the most famous of which
was his declaration last December
that prices were riding higher on
“irrational exuberance."

But as the months have gone
by, the market just hasn’t found a
big enough reason to stop rising

— until economic problems began
to surface in Asian countries, rais-
ing the possibility that U.S. com—
panies might not enjoy boundless
earnings growth overseas.

“The market is irrational in
both directions,” said Brian Bels-
ki, analyst at Dain Bosworth in
Minneapolis.

Analysts expect the individual
investors to kee buying mutual
funds and contributing money to
401(k) retirement plans, as the ’ve
done several times this year ur-
ing market pullbacks. It‘s true
they may be a little more cautious,
but they are not expected to aban-
don the market.

The market is likely to contin-
ue to be volatile for a while. But
Goldman predicted that in a few
days or a week, stock prices will
go back up.

“The message is going to be,
‘we were too low.”

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role in Saturday’s
scoring drought

By Price Atkinson
Senior Staff ll 'riter

That one will leave a mark.

Not just the fact that UK’s lat-
est defeat is only three days old,
but because of the “ﬁne line" UK
tightroped over four quarters Sat-
urday.

“You look at the ame ﬁlm and
it’s a very ﬁne line Eetween mak—
ing too many mistakes and making
enough plays to win the game,” a
humble UK head coach Ilal
Mumme said of the Cats” 23—13
loss to Georgia on Saturday.

“I can name 10 or 12 plays
where if you could make two of
those plays go our way instead of
theirs, we win. You only need two
of them and it varies as to which
two. It could be for the most part
any two."

How true.

Looking back, several obvious
but decisive plays stand out as
breaks that
could have
hel ed
rat er
hurt the
Cats' quest
to overcome
the No.16-
ranked Bull‘-
dogs:

VDerek
Homer’s 8—
yard touch—
down called
back due to a
questionable
offensive
pass interfer—
ence call on I-Iomer for pushing
off. Mumme said the referee only
saw Homer trying to get free and

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not the UGA defen-
sive end holding him
initially.

VUK's fake punt
in the second uar-
ter, a gutsy call by
Mumme with the
Cats trailing 7-0 and
the ball at their own

22-yard line.
Mumme said two
missed assignments

prevented UK from
converting the trick
play.

VLong TD runs
by UGA tailback
Robert Edwards of
80 and 44 yards were
the only scores by
the Dawgs‘ offensive
unit.

VUGA cornerback Ronald
Bailey's 37-yard TD off a Tim
Couch interception seconds
before halftime, giving UGA a 14-

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' ,: break.
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chipping the
Red and
Black’s lead
to four,
Munime
opted for a
fancy onside
kick. The
Cats recov—
ered, but the

referee
found rea-
son for

another flag.
Backup cor-
nerback Marc Wilson touched the
ball before allowing it to travel 10
yards.

Aside from major problems.
Mumme said the “youthful mis—
takes" aren't just due to an inexpe—
rienced squad but from being
“extremely uncomfortable play ing
on the road.

“(The mistakes) are things that
young teams make when they play
in pressure situations on the
road," he said.

“It‘s like any other business:
You make mistakes when you ﬁrst
start out and hopefully you learn
from them and don't make them
again.lt’s not something we can‘t
correct," Mumme added.

“I just think it’s something that
just requires a little more focus."

The teacher that Mumme is. he
said that he would not harp on the
Cats' tniscues this week in prepar—
ing for Louisiana State, instead.
opting to show them how close
they are to the next level of teams.

“I want to talk to them about

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‘how close we are.m Mumme said.
“That's the No. 15 team in the
nation. they're bowl eligible and
obviously going to go to a bowl.

“You went down there and
played them in their backyard and
you played them that close for that
long on national TV."

This weekend the Cats return
to their backyard at Common-
wealth Stadium against LSL'.

It's a clear