Last Tuesday the Georgia Theatre hosted Greek students for the 7th annual Mr. Milledge pageant. Students from several University of Georgia sororities and fraternities came to support a cause.

All proceeds from the event, which was put together by Alpha Gamma Delta, went toward the Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation. The foundation helps support Meals on Wheels and Feeding Athens. At the end of the evening, $10,000 had been raised for the event.

Attendees came dressed in everything from T-shirts to evening gowns. Freshman J.P. Efferth said he and his friends from Beta Upsilon Chi came out to support Nick Cho, one of the pageant’s participants.
“We’re going to be super loud and obnoxious when he is onstage,” Efferth told The Red & Black. “We’re going to go all out.”

Performer Aspen Countryman also performed numerous covers and originals for the audience.

When time came for the contestants to perform, the crowd was much larger. Each contestant was judged on three categories: best gameday outfit, best pickup line and best talent.

​They would win Mr. Milledge, Mr. Congeniality or Crowd Favorite, which was determined by how many likes their post got on Alpha Gamma Delta’s Instagram account.

Some of the outfits were odd, some pickup lines were sweet and there were several musical performances for talent.

The evening concluded with the presentation of the awards. Xander Davis, representing Phi Kappa Theta, won Crowd Favorite for his memorable gameday outfit. The title of Mr. Congeniality went to Cho from Beta Upsilon Chi for his musical talent. And the title of Mr. Milledge went to Caleb Ellison from Theta Chi.
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For No. 3 Georgia’s SEC East game against No. 24 South Carolina last Saturday, the Bulldog defensive front was all about stopping the Gamecocks’ ground game.

"Our goal was to hold them rushing [for] 50 yards or less,” senior defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter told The Red & Black. “I don't know what our secondary was communicating back there, but the D-line as a group said that we're going to hold them to 50 yards or less."

The Bulldogs only allowed 54 rushing yards to South Carolina, hindering the Gamecock offense. The Gamecocks averaged just 2.7 yards per carry and the longest rush was from quarterback Jake Bentley when he got 11 yards in.

The run defense permitted the Bulldogs to control the game and force the Gamecocks into several passing plays. That resulted in a 41-17 drubbing of the Gamecocks by the Bulldogs.

“It's hard to win a game without being able to run the ball,” Georgia head coach Kirby Smart said. “If you give up enough big plays, which we gave up a few, it makes it tough to win. But, when you control the line of scrimmage in this conference, you've got an opportunity. And that's what we want to do week in and week out is control the line of scrimmage and still have good enough skill players to play."

Bentley threw the ball 31 times in the first half and 47 times after that. He averaged just 5.7 yards per attempt and South Carolina had difficulty sustaining any type of offense.

"I still feel like we gave up too many explosive plays in the run game,” senior outside linebacker D’Andre Walker said. “I know, me personally, I missed the edge on one play and he got outside, and I feel like we still could get better at the run and the pass a lot."

In terms of Georgia’s defense, the Bulldogs had lost nine key contributors from their elite 2017 defense, but on Saturday in Williams-Brice Stadium, the Bulldogs’ run defense obstructed a South Carolina team’s run game, offense and hopes for taking Georgia out from the top of the SEC East.

“Look, we didn't play great in the secondary,” Smart said. “We gave up some passes. We gave up some things we can't do. But if we can control the line of scrimmage, I can promise you most teams would rather run the ball than have to throw it."
 
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As of 2016, the University of Georgia began offering an undergraduate certificate in entrepreneurship, but this semester it will begin to offer a certificate for graduate students, according to a UGA press release.

As reported in The Red & Black, the new certificate program, which is offered by Terry College of Business and available to all UGA graduate students, will be taught by five lecturers with entrepreneurial experience such as the program’s director, Bob Pinckney.

According to the press release, the program aims to help students develop the skills needed to launch and grow businesses and social enterprises.

To fulfill the program’s requirements, certificate students must complete 12 credit hours with two entrepreneurship courses and two electives. The entrepreneurship courses include introduction to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance and managing the entrepreneurial venture.

The graduate program was created because of the success of the undergraduate certificate, with which 80 students have graduated since its inception, the press release said, and the new program will continue the university’s mission of supporting economic growth.

“Economic development is central to the university’s mission, and a key component of our commitment to support economic growth is teaching and refining the entrepreneurial mindset in students who have that interest and ambition,” said Benjamin C. Ayers, dean of Terry College.

​“We’re very pleased to offer this university-wide certificate to graduate students who want to join the ranks of innovators and inventors whose ideas will propel growth in Georgia and beyond.”

The application for the fall semester opened up Sept. 1 and the deadline to submit it online is Oct.1. The spring semester application will open up on Feb. 1 and is due by March 1.

Students who are accepted into the program will be notified via email two weeks after the deadline.

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