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Staff meeting
Every year The Red and Black
makes a plea to the campus at
large for talented people to help
work at the paper And every
year we attract a small group of
highly dedicated persons to help
put this newspaper out four days
a w eek
The problem is that we re not
getting all the talented people
who could make a contribution to
this paper
This coming up year is going
to be one of great change for The
Red and Black We’re trying to
improve our articles, features
and services as well as the
general look of the paper To
make the paper a genuinely
better product we don't need
only experienced people but
more importantly people who are
willing to work to get ahead
Through The Red and Black
you car. gam clip file experience,
a fat resume, and recom
mendations Every year it
happens that faithful members of
the paper manage to get the
better jobs And it’s not just
journalism majors who benefit
Business majors as well as
English majors all find it easier
to make it in the “real world
after having a taste of it in
college
You don't need to have years
of newspaper experience to come
to work for us. even though we
won’t turn you away if you do.
What you do need to have is
enthusiam and perseverance to
stick with it.
We need writers to help work
with each of our desks - campus,
city, features and sports. And we
need illustrators and photo
graphers to help make the paper
an attractive one
We also need copy editors to
help edit copy and layout pages
as well as columnists and
editorialists
If you have the desire to be a
part of The Red and Black and
think you have something to
contribute, and everyone does,
come to the new staffers meeting
Sunday night at 7 p.m. in Room
309 of the Journalism building
You’ll be letting yourself in for
one of the most rewarding
experiences at the University.
Vending blues
It’s easy to fee) the pang of
rising prices at the University
To sleep in a University dorm
now costs $15 more than last
year, the meal plan is up 2.4
percent, books, as usual, cost
more this year, and the price of
riding the campus buses has
risen by 36 percent
The hardest increase to take
Letters
though is in the service which we
know we all use That’s right, the
vending machines have gone up
by five cents this year No
more can we look at the wide
array of tempting goodies
through the semi-clear glass,
make up our mind, drop in a
quarter and expect a nickel to
fall out.
The best result erf this would be
to encourage all of us to bypass,
those victims of inflation while
walking down the hall but we
tend to doubt that many will go
to such lengths No. we ll just
drop in our quarters and
complain about the prices while
crunching down on zero bars and
grape drinks
Life after death
Skip Hulett
C»e may be called by many names
bead body, cadaver, corpse remains.
The Deceased stiff etc But regardless
of what you may refer to it as bon many
times have you seen one*
Perhaps by no* I've violated your
reverence for the dead I hope not.
because that s not the purpose behind
this column Read oc
This pas! Sunday 1 hopped in the car and
headed for Augusta I mas on my way to
'he Medical College of Georgia to visit a
lovely voting occupational therapy mayor
who has had the shocking experience of
leasing VGA and being bombarded with
two weeks of indoctrination into the
world of studying She was my primary
objective but she had also promised me a
tour of her anatomy lab. complete with
you guessed it. dead bodies Sixteen of
them to be exact
skif Hulett » assistant campus editor
of The Red and Black
So. as she and I trudged over to the
lab. every apprehension possible flashed
through my mind I envisioned my bold,
seemingly calm, entrance followed by a
nauseated dash to the closest sink, toilet.
trashcan or the closest thing resembling
a receptacle
Sue had warned me about the smell of
the preservative fluid which the cadavers
are soaked in. so I mentally evoked the
smell of cooked cabbage my nostnls
biggest nemesis If I could withstand the
noxious odor of Mom s cabbage. I could
easily make it into the lab. I thought
Well, as we walked through the
corndoi. painted a cool shade of
refrigerator white. I was hit with the first
wave of preservative "Not too bad. I
thought Not much different from that
typical hospital pharmacy smell
So that being over with »» mind
immediately focused its attack on my
eyes Sue had told roe oTfier first visit to
the lab. when she had first glanced in and
seer, the sterile room, backed out and
waned for her courage to build I found
all sorts of black humor running through
my mind Neck-bone connected to the
back-bone, all dem dry bones '
Sometimes I think a sense of humor,
misplaced as it may be at times, can
ward off more fear than anything else
But. before I knew it. we were at the
lab entrance I continued walking right
past the door Sue must have sensed my
initial reluctance "Wait here in the hall
for a second and 111 see if there are any
professors inside They might get mad if
you come m without a lab coat.” she
said
She didn't give me much of a grace
penod though because before I knew it
she w as back
"It s OK. but if you don t want to go
in. you can wait out here I just want
another girl to show me some nerves I
haven t been able to find Nerves How
appropriate. I thought. It seemed like I'd
left mine back in the dorm But my
curiosity told me as did my male ego. I
couldn t back out now
So in I went Sixteen metal tables with
sixteen zipper bags holding sixteen
partially dissected bodies Assorted
groups of students were huddled around
three of the tables, bags open, poring
over the contents
As quick as ! walked in. every bit of
apprehension 1 had felt -was replaced by
an overwhelming fascination This was
medical science in action, brought to us
by the same people who gave us
open-heart surgery transplants and plain
old appendectomies
I watched as Sue and a friend delved
into muscle and nerves, reciting
Latin-sounding terms and pounding
everything they saw and felt into their
memories I helped two other med
students lift a cadaver so they could
retrieve a dissecting instrument which
had fallen down into the metal table
While I was straining to hold the
cadaver's platform up. I watched my
knuckles turn white as they grasped the
metal, which together with the body must
have weighed over 250 pounds
At that moment any remaining
confusion about the relationship between
life and death was erased from my mind
This wasn't the religious experience
my dramatic approach might have led
you to believe By erasing any confusion
I simply mean I d decided whether to
refer to the cadaver as "be" or "it ' !
picked "it."
Because this was not a human being
any more It was a tool being used in a
manner far more compassionate than if
it were dressed up in a favorite suit and
thrown into a snazzy new coffin with
climate control
It may not sound too entertaining
thinking about yourself or a relative
oeing dissected by students and when
they 're finished, being burned like so
much old trash, but you can t do any
waterskiing when you're six feet down
either Funerals and burials may be
great social functions, but as for me, I'm
glad the doctors that operated on me
didn't have to learn from an artists
representation
So. keep your late-mode) coffin and
your plot with the great view, guys Like
John Prine says. Please don t bury me
down in that cold, cold ground Cult my
body up and pass me all around
TO THF. EDITOR
I d like to wholebeartedlv commend
Greg Lang s call to arms on the U.S
Forest Service s wilderness evaluation
process Anyone who has had the
gumption to wade through the sucks of
environmental impact statements knows
the HARE II 'as it is calledI is really a
nonwilderness program and not a
wilderness program The Forest Service
is intent on opening up these roadless
areas to management, tJiat is. mining
and lumbering It's not widely known but
the Dept of Energy has an enormous say
in this evaluation process About 40
percent of the RARE II lands are
considered to have high mineral
potential The Department of Energy is
pushing for the development of these
lands, and according to the man who
initiated RARE II, Dr M Ruper Cutler,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, it s
doubtful that the Forest Service is going
to recommend to Congress as wilderness
any area the Dept of Energy doesn't
want them to
What can the public do* Write letters
Even if you can't have your letter
postmarked by the October I deadline
send it anyway The Fores: Service has
already been pressured into relaxing
their deadline once and I assure you
they are not going to stop reading their
mail on Oct 2.
Here are some facts you can cite in
your letters
1. The RARE II land in Georgia is less
than 1 percent of the total commercial
forest land in Georgia This is an
insignificant amount
2 Ever if all RARE II lands end up as
wilderness, unemployment in the local
counties where the land a. like Towns.
Union and Rabun counties will only be
increased by 1 percent And this does not
include the increase in employment that
would result from bringing hunters,
fishermen, cancers hikers, campers and
naturalists here Witness the prosperity
in communities like Dahlonega. Helen
and even Gatlinburg. Tenn
3 A wilderness designation does not
preclude mining if the claims are made
before 1983 But because companies will
have to be more caretuT about mining
methods which means a higher cost for
removing minerals, they complain that
wilderness prohibits mining It certainly
does not as has been made clear by the
Forest Service
4 Realize also that the federal
government is reimbursing local govern
ments .75 per acre per year for land
designated as wilderness That may not
sound like much, but that is all these
counties make per acre from the timber
business
5 And of course wilderness does not
prohibit hunting or fishing
6 As far as timber goes, most of the
Rare II areas are roadless because it
has never been economically worthwhile
to haul this timber out Most of it is on
steep slopes at the tops of the
Appalachians And suppose this timber is
brought out* What about next time’
Considering the amount of rainfall
Northern Georgia gets, can you imagine
what clear cutting does to a 60 degree
slope* Or what the chances are for a
successful replanting* That s why these
lands have never been cut
7 These lands border the Appalachian
Trail, and the two finest Whitewater
rivers in the Southeast, the Chattooga (of
Deliverance lamei and the Nantahala
The pristine integrity of these already
well-used areas should be maintained
8 These areas are home for the
endangered Eastern Cougar The Bala
Eagle and the Peregrine Falcon nest
here The trout fishing is some of the
finest in the East
This is not an issue of America's
well-being versus locking away vital
resources Georgia RARE II lands do not
sit on top of the only coals and gas in the
United States We have already seen they
are a negligible amount of the
commercial forest land The stunningly
simple truth is that a wilderness
designation precludes very little It is
always reversible But strip mining isn't,
at least not in our lifetimes, and wnere uo
you send the Eastern Cougar until then*
No. RARE II is an issue about the
majority of the American public's best
interests and wants versus which of the
Fortune 500 corporations get to '.urn a
buck in the national forests this year
Wnte now Either before or after the
deadline, but write. Regional Forester,
US Forestry Services. 1720 Peachtree
Rd . N W . Atlanta. Ga 30309
Andy Walker
Women in the
sports locker
Russ Greer
A moment of silence, please, for a recent New York judge s decision to allow
women sportswriters into male locker rooms
No armed guards, no locked doors not even the sight of 22 full grown 250 pound men
in their jock straps may stop the woman journalist now
Athletes and female sportswriters can not even be separated by shower curtains
Strip away those curtains, seems to be the message, and let the truth be known
I admit that the temptation to maybe catch "Too Tall" Jones in drag or Jim Bouton
with his cap on is a great one, but examine the cost if this decision were taken to the
limit
Russ Greer is features editur ul The Red and Black
You see. if women can be allowed in male locker rooms, does it not stand to reasot
that ine re\ erst* is <*isu iru*
Can you see Howard Cosell with Puma, the midget female wTestler telling her, as
she shaves her legs on national television, that she's not as quick as she used to be’
I have no desire to see 13-year-old gymnasts take showers and talk to me in
Russian I doubt any story could be worth facing a 250 pound roller derby queen in her
natural state
Come on New York judge Give these
people a break And more importantly,
give me a break
Just what do these ladies think is so
great in those steamy rooms that smell
Tike pressure cooked tennis shoes*
I spent years escaping the locker room
where some guys think winning
snap-towel fights is a sign of manhood
At the end of the quarter in a locker
room, my clothes always seem to
accumulate to the bottom of my locker to
such a degree that nothing short of sand
blasting can rip my sweat socks off the
bottom
Perhaps these ladies think the locker room is some kind of secret conclave where
athletes, coaches and male sportswriters gather to hide the fact that Scott Hunter has
a groin injury-
some special
cret
sacrifice a live
Go back, ladies, before the term "in-depth" story takes on a whole new meaning
Go back before someone realizes that Farrah Fawcett Majors often Dlavs celebrity
tennis and is fair game under the new rules ’ ’
Perhaps they think Vince Dooley sacrifices a live virgin in
pre-game ceremony and the "Guvs" aren't letting them in on the s<
All right All right The truth is this Vince Dooley does not
virgin in special cermonies
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girl-meets athlete situations In the past skinny, hyperactive public relations men in
skinny ties have handled them well
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