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rh. Itt'il and Black. Friday. January A. HUM
^Perception*
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Childish behavior
It is impossible for any
students a! the University who
care about what representation
they receive from the student
government association not to
deplore the actions of President
Rogert Strauss, Wednesday
night
Strauss made a spectacle of
himsed and a sham of his entire
office whe he fired minister to
consumer affairs, Gregg Jocoy,
in front of a packed senate
meeting v ithout any prior
warning It was calculated to be
,1 embarrassing, vindictive ges
ture. and it came across as one.
Str; iss gave little reason for
the firing of .hicoy beyond that
he pr ted politics from the
talking behind
his back.
We don't know what Strauss
rring to except that
U used his office
as a means ot getting positive
dene he has probably
ed his political chances.
Jocoy been an ineffectual
we could perhaps
Strauss' behavior But
i the exact opposite is
thing'
increa:
minist
excusi
instea
true.
Last fall, Jocoy was the
driving force behind' the Student
Buying Power Card. This "credit
card" permitted students to bey
items at a discount from varioi s
Athens businesses Jocoy had o
work with the University admin
istration. city stores, and the
Housing department to finally
get results from the projects. In
spring of 1978. Jocoy devoted his
energies to forming a student
council with the College of Arts
and Sciences to allow for more
student input into the allocations
process. Although the status of
this council is still as yet
unclear. Jocoy did start the ball
rolling.
Jocoy's latest endeavor is the
book co-op. The co-op is designed
to drive down text costs and
offer some competition to the
bookstore. The co-op was a
modest success that took many-
long hours of work by Jocoy and
others.
We're not calling Jocoy a
perfect official—we've had too
many run-ins in the past to
prevent us from going that far—
hut we've never doubted that he
has the interests of the students
at heart in nearly every official
action he takes.
When firing Jocoy, Strauss
said he had been accused of not
doing anything during his term
and now he was finally going to
do something. And with those
sage words he fired Jocoy as his
fraternity brothers jeered in the
background. It would have been
much preferable had Strauss
kept with his tradition of doing
nothing than to do something so
destructive.
After his announcement, made
in the opening minutes of the
meeting. Strauss and his friends
left the hall although there were
important motions on the senate
agenda. It was as if after having
his say he didn’t particularly
care what might happen to
anything under discussion in the
senate.
During the upcoming presi
dential elections it should be kept
in mind the lesson of Roger
Strauss. It was fun while the
campaign lasted but his inability
to hold the position quickly
showed through.
Carter doesn’t
deserve flak
‘■vidence was
i> id ... '‘cHripsday nieht's
it appeared that
impeaching Si nate President
a little harsh,
the senate saw
tit to v*»tv. against the impeach
ment proceedings should not be
perceived as a victory for Key.
There are. doubtless, still many
questions in people’s minds as to
some of his actions.
All SGA candidates need to
start exercising a little more
in't CARE If IT IS TIAST one place,-
ifsPRETtr good fob, Athens.
Frank Gregorsky
Most of the criticisms lately hurled at
President Carter are at least understand
able and at worst overdue Not so for the
flak the feminists are flinging his way
over the firing of Bella Abzug as head of
a women s advisory group
This is not the first time Carter had
incurred feminist wrath. Last year he
dismissed Margaret Costanza from her
Frank Gregorsky is
Georgia College
a student at West
$57.000-a-year post as a White Hou*
counselor I am a New York native
are Ms. Costanza and Ms Abrug a". 4 I
say that the ousting of these two a
from their lofty positions - . - -
for American women is the best
that our President is basicalh a -ikeen
fellow.
Cos tan/a wav el.
New York. CUy OoUM
The publicity was intox.cat g >-. sh*
quickly sought to take *ht : 4- : *:r.c
Congressional seat from veteran Republi
can Barber Conable Her campaign was
an affront to intelligent thinking She
preached against inflation while urging
more government spending. She subtly
tried to link Conable. a man of high
integrity, to the ongoing Watergate
scandal Her commercials featured her
standing in front of Congress telling
viewers, i care " It was a relief to
many New Yorkers when Conable won.
57-40 percent
Undaunted. Costanza became a Carter
booster, at a time when few Yankee
women were Upon becoming President,
he tt\: obligated to offer her a job She
v.i" the White House in a whirl, and
p: ceedrd to invite gays to her office
* *c publicly certain Carter
«c\ ' ■•••> Carter needed to show that he
charge so Costanza was eased
out
Vs vr.ug has been around longer In
*4'. T’-e New York Post, a liberal paper.
sj she followed the Communist
Far:> *e in her college activities." In
me flies, she worked with the ultra
a v.g National Lawyers Guild During
the Vietnam War. she savaged the U.S.
and its ally while ignoring all evidence of
Vietcong atrocities.
In six years as a Congressperson, she
voted against all defense appropriations.
She also called the U.S nuclear arsenal
“useless " Since Sept. 1976. she has lost
races for Senator. House of Representa
tives. and Mayor of New York City. Even
her friends concede she is loud, abrasive
and often counterproductive. Indeed, on
“Issues and Answers the Sunday after
she was canned, she admitted to
“lecturing" the President during their
final session together
The question is not why she was fired.
The question ought to be, “How in the
world did this weird person win the right
to represent 110,000,000 American women
to the President of the United States?"
He won't miss her—or “Midge"
Costanza.
President Carter ought to replace Bella
with Anita Bryant She is a traditionalist
and a Christian, as Carter sometimes
admits to being, and she is far more
representative of American womanhood
than gay sympathizer Costanza or
"abortion a la mode" Ahzug. You can
depend on that
ethical behavior and a little less
rule dodging. It’s hard to believe
a candidate would really work
for the students if he can’t even
handle his own campaign cor
rectly.
South and north meet
Justin Gillis
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I’ve lived too long with a hidden secret,
and 1 just have to let it out . sometimes 1
sneak down on South Campus and walk
around.
The weather doesn’t matter The time
of day means nothing Whenever that
urge hits, tasks are forgotten ; I pull out a
coat or an umbrella and hit the sidewalk
Justin Gillis is assistant campus editor of
The Red and Black
I’m a journalism major and a writer
for The Red and Black 1 spend most of
my time on North Campus: working
here, attending classes here, covering
news events here I pretend to be
intellectual, since that is a qualification
for getting along with most of the North
stuck-up. hut most of them damn sure
are.
Park Hall stands as a monument to the
North Campus attitude If there is
anything which better represents the
mind-frame my South Campus friends
call "wooly-headed," I can't find it
The English department is not all bad.
mind you. I read the sonnets of
Shakespeare and understand them, with
help But nothing lends itself more to
intellectual snobbery than this pursuit of
castles in the air.
Conner Hall, which houses the College
Letters
of Agriculture, stands on the other hand
as a monument to practicality. They use
books in the classrooms, hut beyond that
all similarity ends South Campus people
are scientific and technical-minded , even
the purest research uses a distinct
methodology and when successful yields
concrete results
I see the most striking differences in
the students themselves. North Campus
tudents are more cl ass-conscious and a
lot less willing to judge an individual on
the basis of worth. They suppose
themselves to be more intelligent,
although it's probably false They are
awfully snotty when they want to be
So 1 just sneak down on South Campus
and walk. I seldom meet anyone I know;
1 don't go for that purpose The people
walking around are usually in a hurry; I
walk slowly The trees down there aren't
as old. the buildings aren't as historic.
Sometimes you can see lights in a lab or
two way after dark, and as the
streetlights gleam I turn on my
intellectual radar and imagine myself at
the very heart of a vibrant, growing,
technologically-oriented culture
I picture my South Campus friends as
the creators and the perpetuators of that
culture. I think of the “ag-hill boys" and
1 see golden fields of wheat, tall stalks of
corn, overflowing cupboards in every
American kitchen When one considers
that most people in the world don’t eat
nearly as well, we have something to be
thankful for.
Then there are my scientific-minded
friends. I stand beside the WGTV studio
and look at that huge parabolic antenna
aimed at the sky, presumably receiving
satellite signals about moon rockets and
test-tube babies and ICBM's, about
clones and robots and computers
Standing beside Conner Hall and
looking north, I imagine that the extra
buildings are gone and that I can see Park
Hall on the opposing hill Two castles a
castle in the air and a castle with its feet
firmly in the earth
Perhaps it is an unfair distinction No.
I know it is an unfair distinction, because
to picture a whole constituted of opposing
parts is surely destructive My view can
do justice neither to the ag-hill boys nor
to the intellectuals, because I do not
really believe the categories are
mutually exclusive.
Yet the distinction is one I feel
compelled to make Perhaps it is my
attempt at reconciliation, maybe I feel
sorry or guilty for crossing the bridge
The castles stand Each with its own
encircling army, each with its own
population of inhabitants, they stand
facing one another
I'm walking again, slowly northward.
As I leave 1 cannot help but wonder
which castle is greater
I suspect I know the answer
‘Strauss insulted our intelligence’
TO THE EDITOR:
Prior to the Senate meeting of Jan 24.
I had never seen the face nor heard the
voice of Roger Strauss Although I've
observed only three first hand minutes of
his term in office. I can honestly say that
I am ashamed to have Roger Strauss as
president of the Student Government
Association
I refer to the manner in which he fired
Gregg Jocoy. former minister of
consumer affairs Strauss quoted his
power to fire ministers and dismissed
Mr Jocoy (who had no previous
knowledge of the matter! in front of a
hundred people His emotionalism and
personal vindictiveness was unbefitting
of the office of President Strauss
reminded me of a child It seemed he
said. "I’m president and you're fired, so
there!"
Strauss gave no concrete reason for
firing Jocoy. It was an unnecessary
flaunt of power and insulted the
intelligence of the Senate and of SGA
The knowledge that Strauss represents
the student body of the University angers
me I'm not alone
GRIER HOYT
‘Be aware
of distinctions’
TO THE EDITOR:
When attributing editorial writers on
your "Perspective" pages, please be
advised of the following Kevin Crysler is
not a senior in the School of Business
Rather, he is a senior in the College of
Business Administration And similar
problems exist in by lines for other
columnists who study in several schools
and colleges in the University, most
notably our own School of Journalism
and Mass Communication, which has
been referred to more than once as the
"journalism department.'
In as much as uus criticism might
seem trivial to you, I will offer one
simple response: there is not excuse for
such careless error in a college
newspaper
Thank you very much
MICHAEL F. TURNBULL
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