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The Red and Blach. Thursday. August ». 1979
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Good suggestions
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In office barely two months,
acting University System Chan
cellor Vernon Crawford last
week made four sound sugges
tions to the Board of Regents. He
asked the board to increase
system salaries, fringe benefits,
operating expenses and desegre
gation projects.
All of the acting chancellor’s
suggestions are important to the
future of Georgia’s higher
education program.
experience a brain drain of its
own.
and grounds maintenance capital
must be available.
Fringe benefits play a part in
keeping faculty and staff quality
on par, too This society pays
much lip service to what a noble
profession education is, how vital
it is to the health of the nation.
Although salaries for Univer
sity System employes have been
hiked three times in as many
years, the cost of living has also
been climbing. The fact Georgia
educators are paid below the
national average does not need
Yet, when talk gets down to
dollars and cents, legislators and
policy makers always seem to
find other areas to spend the
public money.
Lastly, although some efforts
have been made towards deseg
regation. more muscle should be
put into them. Not only would
this smooth the way for minority
students and faculty members,
but it would keep the federal
government's fingers out of our
educational pie.
repeating here. What is impor
tant is teachers, regardless of
how much they may like a
particular school, are going to
work where they can maintain a
comfortable lifestyle.
If pay scales in Georgia's
colleges and universities do not
keep pace with those in other
parts of the nation, the state will
To keep the worth of a diploma
from a Georgia institution high,
the quality of the staff and
faculty must be kept correspond
ingly high. To do that, prospec
tive employes must be given a
good reason to come and see
Georgai. Next to money, the best
reason is benefits.
Of course, pay scales and
benefits are all well and good.
A university system’s reputa
tion plays a major part in the
system’s success or failure in the
realm of higher learning. A good
reputation can only be gained
through good faculty and staff
members and qualified gradu
ates. To get both requires money
and the knowledge of when and
where to spend it.
but if the schools are allowed to
deteriorate, both prospective
employes and students will look
in other places. Research money
Chancellor Crawford has ad
mirably detected where best to
spend. It is to be hoped the
regents have the good sense to
decide the when will be next
fiscal year.
Loose ends
Ingrid Schorr
many of us are left with a lot of
academic loose ends that simply must be
tied into a neat little package called a
Grade Report Much as we'd like to leave
all these loose ends—maybe tie them at
one end and present them to our parents
as a sort of corsage—the inevitable
finality of quarter's end lurks very near,
and we must pull ourselves together for
one last spasm of productivity
More often than not. the greater part of
the quarter’s work comes after mid
terms Most instructors plan their assign
ments according to this “Let's zap them
all at once" strategy, resulting in a lot of
students trying to manage a Herculean
three, four, or more major projects in the
last few days of the quarter. Poor
student—he just can’t cope, and
something has to give
Ingrid Schorr is assistant entertainment
editor of The Ked and Black
boo
If that something is the student's health,
fine If he is twitching with fever or
breaks every bone is his body trying to
maneuver the library steps under the
weight of all fifty volumes of Federal
Communications Commission Reports,
that’s just dandy—he may withdraw from
his classes, slink back to his cave to
mend, and start all over again next
quarter
If it's the student's overworked mind
that snaps, that's a chance for temporary
reprieve, too Unfortunately, one's
mental state must meet the rigid
standards of Student Affairs, which
accepts only “psychological emergen
cies" as bona fide reasons to withdraw
from a class after 21 days Despair won't
cut it. nor will hopelessness Not even
that chilling feeling that the world will
cave in at any moment and get that nasty
dust in one’s coffee
No doubt the people at Student Affairs
know what they're doing, but it seems
that this arbitrary power to relieve the
pressure on students *s misplaced Why
shouldn t the professor, who knows the
student (usually > and knows the demands
of the course, decide whether or not a
student may withdraw without penalty
after 21 days of the quarter have
elapsed 0 A student may have a genuine
problem with his classes that prevents
him from completing them as he
normally would, yet if this problem
doesn't have a name assigned to it in the
psychology books, the student usually
doesn't have a chance
To fight to have the withdrawal period
extended to 21 days was a student
victory, but the problem of second half
wipeouts remains To withdraw without
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failing grade from a class that a student
cannot handle may be the only solution in
some cases, not for the student who has
had a “so what” attitude the whole
quarter or for the student who never had
a chance of passing, but nevertheless,
withdrawal is sometimes the only
recourse.
University policy makes this recourse
more of a Purple Heart award or a
Section Eight discharge, available only to
those who pass Student Affairs’
inspection for defects Student Affairs
slips a little piece of paper into the
student's pocket, one which reads
"Inspected by number 3955,” stamps a
“W“ on the student's forehead (a
forehead, we assume, either heavily
bandged or showing signs of a fresh
lobotomy), and leads him gently by the
hand to the door
The student whose problem does not
fall within the narrow confineds of the
Unviesity definition of "emergency’’ has
the option of failing his class, pleading
for an incomplete, or possibly pulling
through at the risk of doing real damage
to his other course work, his physical
health, or his mental health Then he
may scoff at Student Affairs—"see, tolja
on the Department of Student Affairs, nor
are they a personal vendetta against any
professor at the University who tends to
heap assignments on students towards
the end of the quarter with all the gusto
of Jackson Pollack heaving globs of paint
at a canvas Nor am I advocating a
completely open no-fault withdrawal
policy.
The reviewer herself did not care to understand’
‘What purpose’
TO THE EDITOR:
Whoever gave Ingrid Schorr the
authority to review the University
production of "The Boys from Syracuse"
in The Red and Black of July 26. 1979
made a grievous mistake. Because the
reviewer herself did not care to
understand deeply the subtle nature of
the fast-paced humorous comedy of
mistaken identity fully loaded with witty
remarks, characters in difficult and
embarrassing situations, domestic diffi
culties. and a “happy ending .”
TO THE EDITOR:
‘Let’s use
proper English
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The second mistake was that the
reviewer did not warn her helpless
readers in advance about her shallow
knowledge of dramatic principles nor her
disjointed combination of bogus writing
style and ill-founded dramatic criticism
One would certainly be committing a
culpable crime against art as a reflection
of realities of era a crime against
theatrical finese. a crime against
aesthetic sensibilities of the Athens
community, and a crime against the
stature and reputation of the Univesity
and its departments of Drama and Music
(which produced the play) if one were to
swallow hook, line and sinker all that the
assistant features editor purported to
portray to The Red and Black readers.
In response to Kevin Jay Lipsitz's
letter last week. I would like to know
what purpose it would serve for someone
to identify himself to petty people like
Kevin. Has he nothing better to do than
to harass people who have done him no
harm? I guess everyone's got to find
something in life to take as his cause
What a cause. Kevin.
Also. I would like to know. Kevin, it
you have ever read any other classifieds
requesting a roommate? Some say
Christian roommate wanted, non-smok
ing roommate wanted, etc. I suppose
since this is 1979 people should not be so
specific as to request which sex they
want a roommate to be.
Let's face it—even in this day and
time, there aren’t many blacks who
would want to room with whites or whites
with blacks It is nothing personal, and it
doesn't have anything to do with “poor
parental upbringing."
TO THE EDITOR:
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Great God! If journalism students have
gone so far downhill that the city editor
(Seth Cohen) does not know the
difference between the definitions of lay
and lie in respect to the unadorned
sunhathers. diplomas should he withheld
If those girls were laying naked, what
or whom were they laying? Let s have
the whole story However, if they were
lying, I say let sunbathing girls lie. naked
or otherwise, but for heaven s sake let s
use proper English in describing their
activities.
ROV J. KRUSBERG *f
If there was any sense in the review at
all. it was the nonsense it made of the
directorial skills and stagecraft gimmick-
eries of the Drama Department.
So come down off your high horse and
think about what type of roommate you
would choose: white? black? male?
female? Christian? Jewish? smoking?
non-smoking? It was an innocent request
that wasn't meant to hurt or offend
anyone.
‘Each student
must decide
for himself ’
And if there was any perfection, either
in theme, credibility and relevance, and
even in the alien tone of the review, it
was in its catalogue of inaccurae
assessment of the efforts and seriousness
of the cast. "None of the cast seemed to
take The Boys from Syracuse” too
seriously...” she insinuated vaguely and
arbitrarily forgetting that ih such a
musical comedy the audience attention is
focused mainly on the state of confusion
into which all the characters fall.
NAME WITHHELD
TO THE EDITOR:
Soon many of you will, in Biology
laboratory courses, be asked to perform
‘Fuss over
one word’
TO THE EDITOR:
laboratory dissections of several animals,
some of which were raised, killed, and
sold lo the University expressly for these
labs Others, including the earthworm,
clam. frog, and rat. will be alive at the
time Each student must decide for
himself whether to participate in these
dissections, and this decision merits
reflection.
In other words, there is no main
“conflict" but rather a series of minor
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a short time, in flashes, not in a
continuous aciton which, because it
reveals the character and by revealing
the character, becomes significant.
There are flaws in the present policy,
flaws that cannot be blamed on any one
department or administrator, but flaws
that ultimately prove detrimental to the
student. A slight stretching or bending of
the present rules happens once in a
while, but giving the student and
instructor more say in withdrawal
decisions is a far better thing Fewer
students would have to feign those
peculiar, sudden illnesses that strike
around week nine and resemble nothing
so much as bubonic plague, and those
students who take the other road and
develop all the signs of teetering close to
the edge of a nervous collapse could save
themselves the trouble
A few tattered loose ends would still
remain, of course, but a "W” looks much
prettier fluttering in the breeze than an
"F "
The characters cannot determine or
influence the course of events: the action
of the play progresses in units of time not
because of what the characters can do.
but because of what happens to them
They are passive as the situation
demands—not because they are lazy or
unserious
In the play, all the characters seem
never to reason about what happens:
they never use their heads, particularly
Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of
Syracuse, their wives, slaves. Luciana,
Adriana and Luce.
Like automations, they register won
derment, anger, surprise, disgust, and so
on but they never make rational adult
inquiries Because if the characters of
the play do reason about events, the
action of the play would quickly come to
an end
Thus we may observe that confusion
and embarrassment are exhibited in the
play for the sake of entertainment. A
character that suffers embarrassment is
supposed to be amusing in itself
The highly talented director of the
play, Dr Head, and the maverick
designer. Larry Graham, deserve com
mendations^ The musical direction
handled by the energetic director, Albert
Ligotti, and the choral direction
controlled by the innovative musician,
Dr Leglar. was a huge success Untiring
Steve Rees and Dan Warrick and their
technical crew cautiously paddled the
technical canoe to harbor
The Red and Black has a reputable
history and tradition to uphold There
fore. it cannot afford to lose its
professional integrity by publishing
unprofessional criticism which olten Dore
no relevance to the works of art
criticized The same thing happened the
other day when Gloria Gaynor and the
Village people performed in a disco gig
on May 7. 1979 at the Coliseum
The review equally written by the
features section of The Red and Black
has no bearing to the disco. Simply put, it
was a review of how not to write a
review
One is thus disturbed nowadays that
artistic reviews of this paper could be so
distanced and amateurishly written to
make it lose all stamp of The Red and
Black identity. Finally, "The Boys from
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In response to Kevin Jay Lipsitz’s
letter that appeared in last week's issue.
I would like to say “grow up, buddy.”
I'... • ..I mm* »y tkwt jrra ka»o In panes
such a fuss over one word—white
I happen to know the girl who placed
the ad. She is by no means a prejudiced
person. She would never cause any harm
or want to hurt anyone's feelings She
merely placed the ad in the way that she
did to eliminate telephone calls
It is her right to do so. From hindsight,
she realizes it was a mistake She did not
mean to offend you or anyone else
Funny though, she did find a roommate
from the ad. so clearly your feelings
were not felt by everyone 1 myself am
not a prejudiced person I have black
friends, so my attitude toward you is in
no way racist.
I know that the girl who placed the ad
has received harassing phone calls since
the ad appeared in the paper She has
been very upset over the whole matter.
She did not realize the repercussions
would be so strong In fact she did not
realize there would even be reper
cussions.
Why do you need her identification? Do
you want to lynch her? As to her reason
for placing the ad, that's obvious: she
needed a roommate
Don't you think vou've lone a little too
far with the parental upbringing pan
Come now, I'm sure her parents never
sat her down and coached her on how to
place a classified ad. Don't use them or
anybody else as a scapegoat. Kevin
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever
heard
The only point that I agree with you on
is that, yes. this is 1979. The trouble is
that you don't seem to realize that we are
not in the middle of a healed Civil Rights
debate. That was over a decade ago
Sice it is 1979, our society should have
matured somewhat in its racist attitudes
I realized I can't speak for everyone, but
I know a lot of people are not in the KKK
The words white, black, red or yellow
are descriptive terms. Christian. non-
Christian. female, male, liberal, conser
vative, smoking and non-smoking are
also descriptive terms. In placing a
classifed ad, the objective is to give a
description of what you need
The more descriptive you are, the more
you narrow your responses, therefore,
the better the chance to find what you
want with minimum effort This is what
the girl did
Syracuse" 'was not a discordant
dramatization of absolute imperfections
I could go on forever I hope you
realize my point, which I hope reflects
the motives of the girl who placed the ad
In my opinion, you owe her an apology
for all the (rouble you’ve caused her In
all sincerity, she meant no harm
MUYIWA AW0D1YA
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Most people agree there should be
some restrictions on the amount of
ouffcnng to which an animal should tie
subjected in the name of science. Rut if
you're willing to dissect a living animal,
where are you going to draw the line
above which the suffering is excessive 0 If
you take an animal apart piece by piece,
and then discard it when you are done,
•what more harm could you really have*
done to it? Your lab instructor may
assure you that the anexthetized animal
feels no pain, but when you think about
it, how could he possibly know that 0
How
could anyone know'' It is theorized that,
in the case of operations under
anesthesia, the human patient feels pain
but doesn't remember it. when he wakes
up. Maybe the anesthetized animal feels
pain too but. of course, these animals
aren't going to wake up (Incidentally,
you won't even he asked to anesthetize -
the clam They have fairly complex
nervous systems. Don't you imagine they
feel pain?) How much suffering is
justified in the name of science 0 How
much suffering are we willing to inflict
for a good grade on a lab hand in?
If vou agree that the present practice
of raising animals to he killed tor
dissection is undesirable, you may
wonder is there an alternative 0 " "Can
this practice be stopped Hie answer is
yes. Biology is a vast field and the staff
at the University is flexible and
open minded laboratory exercises can
easily Ih* designed that would provide
valuable laboratory experience for
students, hut would not require the use of
living animals There an* plenty ot dead
animals available without killing more
for use in labs Thousands are killed
accidentally on the highways Unfortun
ately. many are killed in public pounds
These two sources can provide all the
animals needed for dissection, and not a
single animal will have to be killed
It
would take a little more time and trouble
hut we can stop this senselt -- inhuman*
abuse of animals
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Whal can you do now to change the
system? First of all. refuse to partieipale
in dissection labs This is (he faslest and
surest way lo brinn about a change
Secondly, express your concern to your
instructor, and request an alternalive
assignment Thirdly, wrile or call the
Biology department, ihe Dean, and the
local newspapers There are Ihe
alternatives. The decision is yours
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MIKE EINCIIEIt