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The Red ami lilack. Friday. April 27. i97S
‘Perception**,
A coach for the team
Marvin case could
Sometimes it seems like for
every big step the University
takes it has to then take a half
step back. The most recent
example of this was the
announcement by the University
Athletic Department of a new
position for women's basketball
coach Numerous applications
were reviewed. The department
made its selection last week but
instead of hiring a woman they
selected a male coach.
The new coach, Andy Landers
of Roane State in Tennessee, is
undoubtedly qualified to lead the
women's team But the depart
ment made a mistake in not
giving the position to a woman.
Most of the women on the team
have come from high schools
where the basketball program is
relatively weak. For many of
these players their first chance
to play top flight ball comes in
college. College is also the first
chance for many players to train
under a good coach Instead of
letting these players have a
chance to work under a female
coach who may serve as a model
to these women, they will instead
be led by the traditional male
coach.
If the University hopes to
encourage women to take a more
active role in athletics then they
should give the female players a
female coach. It would be very
hard for a women to become a
coach if she feels that few
schools would be willing to give
her a chance.
have implications
Worth your time
A worthwhile and fun event is
being held in downtown Athens
Saturday. Various Athens media
and organizations will be parti
cipating in the first annual
Downtown Athens Bed Race for
Muscular Dystrophy and it
should be an event worth seeing.
The bed race will start
Saturday morning on Washington
Street. Every entering organiza
tion will have a bed which has
been decorated in its own
particular style. At exactly 10:30
the beds will take off pushed by
four members from each organi
zation and one foolhardy
“driver."
The whole event is being
staged by the Athens Downtown
Council, WRFC and the Univer
sity Union with all proceeds
going to the Muscular Dystrophy
fund.
Letters
‘Try watching different sports’
TO Till- EDITOR:
Andy Cook. I feel very sorry for you.
Your life must he as bland as dog vomit
When 1 read the first three paragraphs of
your article called “Breakaway" 'Red
and Black. April 24). I pictured a
slap happy healthy young man who
comes alive like a charging buffalo in
August of every year when pre season
football starts The man beams of
•excitement from September through
December viewing high school, college,
and pro pigskin action. The month of
January" 4 ends JTid so does the football
season -The man ends his feelings of
anxiety With no football around, he sees
life as an empty picture frame He has no
lirections Everything is a void to him
The buffalo will be back once football
rolls around again. Andy Cook, you
remind me of that guy.
Well, there is a cure for your
emptiness, hut before I divulge this
remedy to you I want to get your head
straight of this sport you foolishly call the
"grandest of all sports " Football, on the
average, is a good game to watch but it's
at most times dull There is only an
average of seven minutes of pure action
in a regular football game There are a
number of contact games ten times
better than football You’re either sick or
addicted to football Proof of this comes
from the fact of your detailed account of
(i Day It amazes me why G-Day, an
intersquad game that really doesn’t
mean jack crap, got extensive coverage
hy the local media and business
establishments
Well anyway, here is my cure Try
some of those monotonous non-football
sports Pariion me. why did 1 use the
word monotonous? A single enduring
game of soccer contains more action than
two super howls Hocke> is fast and hard
hitting, rugby is hard hitting (they don't
even use pads* and tennis action can be
as graceful as a falcon in flight How
about a gam** of hasketbair Basketball
is a better sport to watch than football
and I hope tb»* basketball program gets
as much coverage as football Georgia's
best chance at national athletic
recognition will come from our basket
ball team Other sports I would
recommend are track and field events,
auto raring, and swimming
These are my remedies Take them.
Andy Cook, if you want to sleep better at
night
The First Amendment of the Constitu
tion states that "Congress shall make no
law abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press...(italics mine).’’ Anthony
Herbert is not a member of Congress.
The members of our present-day press
seem unable to distinguish between
freedom and license The trick is simple.
If I were to state as fact that Jimmy
Carter is a card-carrying Nazi and a
homosexual I would, obviously, be liable
for a libel suit and a great deal of
trouble But. if 1 were to preface that
statement by saxing "My sources have
discovered " 1 a favorite of Jack
Anderson), or. High administration
officials have disclosed...", or. "A
member of the U S Nazi party has
revealed. .” then I would be free to
claim my own neutrality to the
information I could say. "This is what I
learned from certain informed sources
and I felt the public had a right to know
Furthermore, under the first amend
ment. I claim the right not to reveal my
sources under my agreement with
them The example is purposefully
fictional and extreme, but certainly not
impossible.
Freedom of the press means that an
individual who writes something shall bv
law be free from government censorship.
After all. "the press" is but a
generalization that refers to the people
who are members of the various
newspapers, radio stations, magazines,
etc., and as a generalization has no
rights Only individual human beings can
have rights, and when one individual,
whether he be a member of the press, the
religious profession, a politician, or a
bum infringes on the rights of another
GENE JOHN TOl I.Ol'ZA
‘My facts aren’t
your facts’
John Vardeman
individual by defaming that other’s
character with libelous statements, that
other has a right to redress of
grievances When one man accuses
another, whether in a court of law or in a
paper, that other has a right to face his
accuser CBS News allegedly accused
Anthony Herbert. Herbert is innocent
until proven guilty. It is up to CBS News
to prove him guilty or retract their
statements.
Let us not be naive, as Mr. Krueger
would have us be. A "fact" is not
something like a stone which simply is.
Anyone who has had the pleasure to read
Pravda (in which, as the Russians say.
there is no izvestia) or Izvestia (in which
there is no pravda) knows that your facts
are not necessarily my facts and my
facts are not yours The question in the
Herbert case is. "Why did CBS News
select their facts in such a way as to
defame Herbert’s character, if that is
what they did? Was their intent to show
the evil nature of those military
commanders who dealt with the horrible
Viet Nam war? Or were they merely
reporting facts about which we would all
agree*’’' The public has a right (the right
of each and every individual, including
Mr Herbert, which makes up that public,
not the right of an abstraction) to know
the answer to that question
The press is not an individual which
can be "hurt." Only people (and
animals) can be hurt, and when they are
they have a right to know why. by whom,
and why they cannot be compensated for
their injury
FALL C. SUIILEIEER
TO THE EDITOR:
Regarding the article from Mr
Krueger which you printed on April 20. I
would like to comment
Should a guy kiss a girl on the first
date 9 Should he hold her hand or give
anv other hint of his desire for a steady
relationship?
These and other cupid questions, asked
frequently by University males every
where. could have new meaning due to a
recent California court decision
John Vardeman is a senior in the
Journalism School
I-ast week ‘April 18'. Superior Court
Judge Arthur Marshall awarded "rehabi
litation" aid (alimony in any other
language) to an unmarried woman who
had once lived with actor Lee Marvin.
The couple had never expressed nor
implied a contract to share property.
however, the judge acted on the basis of
a California Supreme Court decision that
allowed "additional equitable remedies"
to protect the rights of unmarried people
living together
The Marvin case marks the first time
in a United States court that an
unmarried person has won any compen
sation from a former lover In fact, the
woman won more than most married
women could ever hope for in a divorce
settlement.
It appears that Marvin’s ex-lover,
Michelle Triola Marvin, has pulled a fast
one Indeed, the former singer has pulled
$104,000 from the pockets of Mr Marvin
in order to regain, (in Judge Marshall’s
words), her "employable skills."
The cash award implies that her long
love affair was a wasted sacrifice that
only money could repair I think not
According to WaiktagtM P«l <
ist William Raspberry, the woman lived
far more opulently (during her six year
affair) than she ever could have on her
own ’’ It is possible that Michelle Iriola
Marvin had lived in wealth and glamour
so long that she couldn't bow out without
taking a piece of it with her
A state court should not have to
provide protection for a person who was
unwilling to make a legal marriage
commitment in the first place To do
otherwise is almost as silly as allowing
alimony for a girl who has broken up
with her steady boyfriend
The implications of the Marvin decision
are obvious, but just how far are the
courts willing to go 9 Unfortunately, this
gossipy, "madc-for-a-movie’ story
doesn't quite end like a movie, and the
future sequels could be very frightening
Maybe it could only take place in the
flakev society world of California, but
just consider for a moment what might
happen if the Marvin v Marvin case
were tested right here on our own
beloved campus
Imagine a real macho student named
Jilt Jackson who has been dating this
cute co-ed for about six months To make
a long, mushy love story short the girl
gets Jilt for the half-year period and then
gets jilted
The poor girl is heartbroken She can't
eat. She can’t sleep. And her rumpled
dresses and scraggly hair show that she
no longer even cares about be I
appearance. 1
In desperation, the girl's worr.eI
parents decide to take their daughter) f
troubles to court They are familiar |
a 1979 court ruling in which ,1
western-state judge allowed a wonunil
receive "rehabilitation" help from I* I
common law husband.
Although Jilt never lived with thet]
daughter, the parents publicly ask "«h|
can't the ruling also apply in a dat^l
relationship 9 '' After many sletpiml
nights, a Georgia Superior Court ju^l
agrees I
Fnor Jilt! He has to take on a psrt-t«|
job just to supply his ex girlfriend * I
the expensive court settlements*B
facial and two hairstyle appointm«i|
per month for a year, a new spring dres I
wardrobe, and a bust builder exerts |
kit
Jilt even has to break off hism«|^^B
recent love affair because the judp fl
insists that the young man refrain fat fl
dating until someone asks his ot £
girlfriend for a date "
To add insult to injury. Jilt receivniH
phone call from an old third-grafeH
girlfriend who enthusiastically exclaiaB
that she is just dying to see him
court
Of course this tale is ridiculowl
far fetched, but the chances of a similar ■
less exaggerated incident popping up <^L
not entirely out of the question iH
California judge has already made sun
of that.
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The art of being chic
Vinnie Papsidero
Being chic
Thousands have spent loads of money
and hours upon hours of time dedicating
their lives toward that almost unreach
able goal. Department stores stock floors
with clothing, shoes, baubles and bangles
designed to quench this undying thirst for
the ultimate chic.
Yinnie Papsidero is a former city editor
for The Red and Black
And yet who sets the boundaries that
we all must follow? Where is the
scorekeeper who determines whether we
are chic or just pretending to mold to the
latest fashion 9 Who decides whether high
heeled plastic "disco" shoes or that
certain bandana worn over the left
shoulder is "in" and therefore the
hearers of such items are considered chic
by the WWW?
I don’t pretend to know everything
there is to know about this segment of
our culture However I have attempted to
collect a list of what may constitute the
perimeters of chic here at the University.
Before proceeding the reader must
realize that this is only a list and should
not he a guide for setting the course of
one's life for the next few decades
When it comes to clothing and styles of
dress at the University, some students
are very chic while others are far from
chic. If you are Greek it is very chic to
wear anything made of khaki, unless it's
a pair of Nike tennis shoes, which are
onlymade of white leather (the chic
pain If you are in a sorority it is tres
chic to wear expensive little gold balls on
a chain around your neck These aie
called add-a-beads and are no indication
of one’s sexual prowess
If you’re an average student it is chic
to be seen wearing anything with a Levis
patch sewn to it This includes pants,
shirts, socks, sweaters, an AMC Gremlin
and underwear It is exceptionally chic to
own a pair of faded, well-used and very
tom jeans If you are ever seen admiring
any piece of clothing associated with
khakis you are far from chic. It is always
chic to own at least five UGA t shirts, but
that's only if you wear them to home
football games
When it comes to the world of music
and entertainment it is chic for different
people to do different things For
instaiice. if you're Greek it is chic to
listen to Q105, but if you’re an average
student (and not a freshman) it is
definitely not chic to listen to Q105
Average students listen to FOX 97 or %
ROCK (chic names for otherwise average
radio stations > If you’re neither Greek nor
average you listen either to WUOG
(which is never chic) or to nothing
Concerts and concert going divides
students on the basis of chic. Some find
going to see Bruce Springsteen or the
Rolling Stones at the Fox Theater very
chic, while others find going to see Kenny
Rogers and Dottie West at the Coliseum
chic But that’s only if you work for Coca
Cola Other students find not going to
concerts chic. There is a home for this
type of student.
When it comes to television there is
nothing chit to watch unless you are
under the age of eight However students
at the University find Work and
Mindy." the "Muppeti" and "Officer
Don" very chic.
When it comes to hanging out on
University grounds one can be considered
tres chic if one has a regularly scheduled
place to hang one's hat. as it were
Greeks tend to prefer hanging out in
front of key academic buildings ‘which
must represent their intellectual exper
tise). Park Hall, and second floor of the
Main Library and the Journalism Plaza
are very chic places to hang out If you
are in the Law School it is chic to sit near
the Law Library doors looking very
exhausted and. of course, very learned
football players and other athletes on
scholarships hang out m the Memorial
Hall plaza because it is chic Agricultural
students find it very chic to hang out in
Xn V eld H Wh,le fore,tr > ma J«rs are
Km I?" '? " at,onal Crests Journa
Itsm majors find it chic to stay in bed
ana miss classes.
Faculty members and administrators
are never chic when it comes to hanging
out Inless it s Friday afternoon and they
are getting into" or Tapping"
their students at either TK’s
O'Malley's, of course y
Being the end of the glorious SeventaB
it is very chic if your major is busina d i
(accounting or economics), journals It
• advertising or public relations), or ar; ^
and sciences (in general) Pharmacww
never chic. Radio is never chic eitheS
Newspaper was once chic as a major, tafl
it is now passe «
When it comes to daily classwortflj
being chic is never having to say
sorry to your Biology professor l*
missing the final Being chic is buytfl
your textbooks midway through tkfl
quarter. And being chic is ne»«|
attending class even if your professcrg
threatens to break both of your legs aatl
dock two points off your average
Students who study every nifkl
including weekends and all religw*^^
holidays, are never chic no matter !»• ^
difficult their major is Students
very high GPAs (above 3.0) are no«|
chic Students who rarely study yet ha* J
decent averages are chic and in hf ■
demand at parties Professors who as# I
daily homework are never chic
are their secretaries. |
In general, being chic is never havtfll
to comb your hair because it
stays in place Being chic is
with
or
everyone call you and you never havafl
to call anyone. Being chic is being 1 a
former member of the Student Go***
ment Association and flaunting it■ JpfjS
chic is having a 103 average and*fag
caring. * I
Not being chic is the ball of sweat ^
the tip of your nose. Not being .[ffl
throwing a party for 250 without tdMH
them it’s a BYOB Not being ch* M.
owning color coordinated noteboo ■■
textbook covers, notes, sleep wear ,11
I zeds Not being chic is working W !■
campus media and flaunting it
Finally, not being or being cWC •
figment of one's imagination The • ■
thing that really counts in life is owning 1
calculator (which was chic), ^tng ■
out-of state transfer student (which •
be chic), and driving an electric I
(which will be chic) For those ■
missed it earlier, writing a column in • H.
publication is never chic. It’s not b* j
anything better to do on a S* ,ur ^ |
afternoon.
fHHed and ‘BlacK
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erttaiag representative* Greg Griffith Donna Peavey Donna Ratchford M1U1 Saul Brenda Shell
Linda Sotke% Liz Wilson
(laaailied ad termini manager Sharon G&mty
Prodoc lino manager Kenny York
Graph* i owrdinaiur Frank Lee
Editor Hope Dlugntima
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Vdterming manager Chartn Ruaaell
t ap* editor* S«*t Jaraha Gary Fouta
Wmat on Skmner
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Roan O'Shea
it*nr Tammy Savage
Entertainment editor Hen Eugitt
Sport* editor Norm Reilly
Photo editor Mai Brook*
VGA Today roordmatm Helen King
Wayne F Sail
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Xaaiatant *port« edMar Frank Malloy. Andy Coot
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