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By Messenger
The Media ^ 1
Man
You, my friend, have been a guinea pig.
Over this past year I have made an effort to find some
way of reaching people in order to stimulate hidden
resources of pleasure which the average reader does not
know exists or is only vaguely aware of. In trying to do
this, I have sometimes written up to you, down to you, on
your level, insulted you, praised you, begged you and used
just about every technique I could think of to try and bring
about a mental reaction.
Any kind of reaction was what I was seeking. If you felt
I was wrong, that’s fine. I was able to get you to organize
your thinking into decisive action. If you agreed with ine
sometimes, that too was fine. Then you were a little more
receptive to ideas I was planting.
★ ★ ★
SOMETIMES the message was not clear due to poor
writing on my part. Sometimes the essence of what I was
saying was lost in editing my many times verbose material.
Whatever the case, I'm sure it has been a struggle on both
sides.
About the only feedback I’ve gotten has been that I
“liked” too much. Perhaps this is true to a degree. My main
purpose, however, has not been to “hate” things. That is
not a critic’s or a reviewer’s job. With not much space
available to me, I felt it not worth the effort to discuss
things of little value. Time will take care of the worthless or
momentary things. My goal in writing this column has been
to introduce a wide variety of new experiences to the
reader which I felt to be of some merit.
What I’m trying to point out is how easy it is to merely
follow the crowd with the end result being to cut one’s self
off from the enormous potential life offers. It’s such a
simple thing to tell people to do what they enjoy instead of
what they think they should enjoy, but it’s one of those
things everyone agrees to but never believes in.
★ ★ ★
I AM ALWAYS suspicious of people who worry about
being bored about having nothing to do. My God, fellow,
I’ve got 300 lifetimes worth of stuff that I’ll never get
accomplished, and certainly I don’t have a moment to spare
to worry about being bored.
To illustrate what I’ve been talking about, let me say
that I’ll be the first to admit that I love to read Uncle
Scrooge comics, possess several Monkees’ albums, crave
popcorn and kittens and really get off on sliding down
bannisters. But I just also happen to read Herman Hesse
and W. H. Auden, listen to Mozart, Stan Getz and Frank
Zappa, collect art and think history is a fascinating subject.
I would also give my right arm to do a documentary film on
the Winter Olympics, on writing a novel and worrying
about how my garden is doing.
I can go on and on, but I’m not here to ego trip. My
main concern is people. And that means you. We may never
meet face to face, and you may not have even been fazed
by what I’ve written over the weeks. But if just one of you
looks at the world a little differently or enjoys being alive a
little more, or shares one experience you’ve had with others
as a result, then I will have succeeded. No writer can ever
ask for more than the hope of that one person.
The Red and Black, Thursday, May 11, 1972
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WOMEN IN FORESTRY SCHOOI
Not liberation advocates
1. Ricky and David Nelson went to
the shop.
6. By mouth
9. Dirt
13. — Rabbit
14. French novelist and critic
15. Front
16. Fable writer
18. Prefixed to nouns to form
transitive verbs
19. To make Kay
20. Obstacle
22. Restaurant
23. Combat flying experts
26. City in Nevada
28. Curl
31. Prefix meaning not
32. Garden
33. Appendage
34. Away from: Latin
36. Quick to understand
37. Moving piece of machinery
40. Symbol for niobium
41. In Egyptian mythology,
the soul
42. — Taylor
43. Messenger protein: abbr.
44. Symbol for iridium
45. Alcoholic beverage
47. In addition
60. Barnyard sound
61. To cancel a correction
63. To tUt to one side
64. Dance: French
55. Southerners
67. Just
69. Suffix denoting age, sect, social
beUef, or occupation
61. Heave-!
63. Embarrass
66. To give off a fume
67. God: Latin
69. To. except as the sign of an
infinitive
70. Vehicles
71. Commedia del ——
72. Tight
A number of singers wUl be on
the Athens entertainment scene this
week.
Ireland's is featuring singer
Frankie Lee this week from 8 til
midnight each night.
Popular band I’m Mine will be at
the Key to America beginning at 9
each night.
Singing at Your Mother’s
Moustache Thursday night, wiU be
Terry Melton and the Laughing
Disaster. Nacoochie Avenue will
perform from 8 U1 midnight on
Friday and Saturday.
Featured at Between the Hedges
will be linger Johnny Freeman. He
rings at 8:30 every night.
The University Union will
present Charles Barnwell at Gimme
Shelter Friday night at 9 p.m.
Gimme Shelter will be located at
Legion Pool both Friday and
Saturday nights this week. Singing
Saturday night from 9 until
midnight wiU be Tom Gabriel and
Phoebe Snow.
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1. Master of Business
Administration: abbr.
2. Exist
3. Decrease
4. Hurries
5. Storybook land
6. Steal
7. Alcoholic beverage
8. State: abbr.
9. To test for smeU
10. Hidden
11. Expend
12. Women’s Lib oppressors
17. Handles maU: abbr.
19. Note of diatonic scale
21. Brittle, knotted biscuits
22. Solid
23. Fresh water fish resembling
perch
24. treatments for cancer
26. Masculine name
27. Direction: abbr.
29. Ancient Greek
30. Striped animal: plural
36. Masculine name
36. Circumference divided by
diameter
38. Indefinite article
39. With apple pie
46. More spooky
48. State: abbr.
49. Steamship: abbr.
50. Fruit
52. Wood used for carving
64. First public appearance
66. Baron: abbr.
58. State: abbr.
59. Curved line
60. Express agency: abbr.
6J. Possessive form
62. Three strikes
64. Masculine name
65. Electrically charged
67. District Attorney: abbr.
68. Direction: abbr.
Bombings continue in
scattered Belfast areas
BELFAST (UPI) - At least
a dozen incidents of violence
ranging from bombing to an
ambush were reported in
scattered areas of Northern
Ireland Wednesday. One bomb
explosion damaged 12 stores
and smashed windows in 40
others in the town of Omagh.
Spokesmen said as many as
eight persons were injured in
the incidents with heavy
property damage. No deaths
were reported, but a mother
and her baby narrowly escaped
being hit when a gunman fired
on British soldiers in Belfast.
In Armagh, troops and
police ringed the jail when 60
prisoners refused to leave an
exercise yard. British army
sharpshooters took up rooftop
positions, and the prisoners
returned to their cells.
By CAMILLA HOWE
Women in forestry school —
a strike for Women’s Lib? Not
exactly. More like a love of the
outdoors.
Susan Stevens, a sophomore
transfer from Ohio University,
is majoring in forestry, and
Lyn Bowman, a freshman from
Smyrna, is planning to major in
forestry also. Ms. Bowman is
enrolled in the School of Arts
and Sciences, and under the
new School of Forest
Resources program won’t
officially enter the school until
her junior year.
Ms. Stevens majored in
zoology at Ohio, and decided
to transfer to the University
when her boyfriend decided to
transfer here also. “I am an
outdoors person," Ms. Stevens
said "During my spare time at
Ohio 1 used to walk through
the forest and look at the life
in its natural environment."
“I’VE ALWAYS liked the
outdoors," Ms. Bowman said,
“I camp with my family, and
like fishing. I don’t like
hunting.”
Neither Ms. Bowman nor
Ms. Stevens sees herself as a
Women’s Lib advocate,
although both agree with the
movement in some areas.
“I am doing what I want to
do," Ms. Stevens said. “If the
forestry school were half male
and half female, that would be
fine with me. I don’t think that
forestry would be right for
some types of girls. I’m not in
it (forestry) to prove my
identity.”
“Women’s Lib is good for
breaking down job
discrimination,” Ms. Bowman
said. “We (women) don’t know
the limits of forestry yet,
because that many haven’t
tried it yet. I don’t consider
myself a Women’s Libber just
because I’m in a field that is
predominantly male."
THE USUAL reaction most
people have when Ms. Stevens
or Ms. Bowman tell them their
major is: “What will you do?"
“In an ideal situation,” Ms.
Bowman said, "1 would like to
be involved in animal
management, game
management or work in a
wildlife preserve. I might go
into research in genetics. The
paper companies are hiring
geneticists now. They are
beginning to realize that it is to
their benefit to plant more
trees.”
“I’m not real sure what I’ll
do,” Ms. Stevens said, “I would
like to do something related to
wildlife, although wildlife is a
saturated field now. I’d like to
do some field work or research;
I don't want a desk job."
“Something has to be
done," Ms. Bowman said, “to
keep what forests and wildlife
we have left. Virgin forest is
virtually non-existent. It is
more inspiring to me to see
something in the forest that
has been there for hundreds of
years than to see something that
has been planted."
“IT REALLY means
something to me to get
involved in something that I
care about," Ms. Stevens said
about her major. “I’m not
doing 4.0 work, but I’m not
Ms. Bowman and Ms.
Stevens had different reasons
for chosing the University over
other schools. "I chose Georgia
because of financial reasons
and because it is the best in the
state," Ms. Bowman said.
“MY PARENTS think that
forestry is a whim with me and
I’ll get over it,” Ms. Bowman
continued. “I think they are
getting used to the idea,
although my mother keeps
asking me if I want to change
my mind."
Both Ms. Stevens’ parents
are deceased and her guardians
were not satisfied with Ohio
University. “They didn’t like it
because it is a party school.
They wanted me to transfer;
preferably to a smaller Eastern
school. I came here because of
my boyfriend and because the
zoology department is good,
and the forestry school is
good,” she said.
Both women say that their
male counterparts in the
forestry school are very
friendly to them. “It’s nice to
get the extra attention,” Ms.
Stevens said, “But you don’t
always get it and that’s good
too.”
Ms. Bowman said, “1 don’t
think that they (males) make
allowances for me. If I’m in it,
then I should be able to make
it on my own without any help
or allowances."
ALL NEW
THIS IS A TREE THIS IS A HICKORY TREE.
Susan Stevens, (L) gives Lyn Bowman (R) pointers
screwing up either.*’
Although Ms. Bowman is
not in forestry school yet,
under the new program
freshman and sophomore
students planning a major in
forestry attend monthly
orientation sessions.
“We talk about the courses
offered in the school, the
forestry field and we tour
different places. We just toured
the graduate research area,’’
she said.
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