slogan appears twice on absynthe theme

I've installed absynthe theme and for some reason when I check to have the slogan show it appears twice. Once right along the header as a link back to the home page as the site title and another slogan with different font which i would like to keep on the site. here's the code from page.tpl.php

// Prepare header
$site_fields = array();
if ($site_name) {
$site_fields[] = check_plain($site_name);
}
if ($site_slogan) {
$site_fields[] = check_plain($site_slogan);
}
$site_title = implode(' ', $site_fields);
if ($site_fields) {
$site_fields[0] = ''. $site_fields[0] .'';
}
$site_html = implode(' ', $site_fields);

if ($logo || $site_title) {
print '
';
print $site_title .' '.$site_slogan.'

';
}
?>

any help is appreciated! thanks!