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An independent student newspaper not affiliated with the University of Georgia.
New ID rules a good start
A committee of University ID users called
together Monday by Bill Powell took some im
portant first steps to improve the process of
replacing student IDs. and we hope their prompt
response is a sign of action to come.
Under rules adopted Monday, a student
needing a replacement ID card will have to pro
duce a photo-bearing driver's license (or other
photo-bearing identification) before he will be
issued an ID. If he has no photo-bearing iden
tification. the student would have to produce a
witness who has a photo ID to verify his identity.
The new requirement will make getting a new’
ID harder, but so will it make faking a student
ID more difficult. As a reporter for The Red and
Black recently demonstrated, the old rules were
a bit too lax
The most important step toward tightening
the holes in the replacement process was taken
by Powell, director of student activities. Powell
said Monday he will write to Dwight Douglas,
vice president for student affairs, with a request
that the ID replacement job be given to some
other office — the registrar’s office, for exam
ple. Student Activities does not have the same
access to student records that the registrar's of
fice does, and the office would have a hard time
devising an acceptable process for safeguarding
studnet IDs.
While Student Affairs studies the process, it
should consider all alternatives to the present
system, including the possibility of keeping the
ID process in student activities. The process
needs to be a secure one, but it should also be
done at the lowest price possible without
sacrificing security.
Powell should be commended for his interest
in serving the students and for acting so quickly
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We need to reassess our
attitudes for Indians ’ sake
on the ID problem after he was made aware of
it; but we are not convinced that any tighter pro
cess for replacing student IDs will necessarily
place an unreasonable burden on students. The
only unreasonable burden would be continuing a
process which makes fake IDs easy to obtain at
risk only to students whose names are used and
University services which are cheated by the
holder of the bogus card.
What lobby?
It was with no great sadness that we received
word that students would not vote this quarter
on naming a student representative to the
Georgia Student Association, a lobbying group
purportedly representing college students
around the state.
II the University names a delegate to this lob
bying group, the students should be given a
chance to vote yes or no, but we don’t see the
lobby rep as a pressing need for this campus.
Supporters of the Georgia Student Association
say that a lobby rep would keep students inform
ed on the activities of the state General
Assembly, but the truth seems to indicate other
wise.
The lobby formed last year after the state
solons voted to raise the legal drinking age in
the state, but the group has been less than active
this year.
We would challenge the supporters of the lob
by post to show us any important bill or problem
on which the GSA had any influence this session.
And as they begin their search, we wish the sup
porters of the post good luck. They will need it.
“While American Indians encounter
pervasive discrimination not unlike
that faced by other minorities, their
plight is traceable .to the failure of
the federal government to carry out its
treaty obligations... ”
The Southwest Indian Report
A Report of the US Commission on Civil
Rights
May 1973
The Southwest Indian Report is only
one of a hundred sources a researcher
interested in the plight of the American
Indian will find at the public library. To
try to throw facts around in a column of
this size would be a futile and in
complete effort; the information can
only be thoroughly and completely
gathered in years of work
So without the facts, with little first
hand contact, and with a minimum of
understanding, here are my thoughts
on the plight of the American Indians
While cruising westward on
America's highways, I saw constant
reference made to the Indian There
are towns such as Cheyenne. Sioux City
and Seminole There are billboards that
offer to sell the Indian attraction in one
way or another And I drove through
the desertd land that the government
allotted to the conquered for reser
vations
But where are these people, the first,
the original Americans? As a hundred
western movies show us. the millions of
Indians that lived in North America
were wiped out by invading Europeans
Bill Oliver
in much the same way that the
conquerors destroyed the herds of
buffalo that were the Indians' main
stay
The buffalo vanished in deference to
the coming of the train, and the Indians
were vanquished so that the Europeans
could found a nation based on freedom
In itself, the slaughter of the
American Indian should rightly rank
alongside the Nazi atrocities in a
history book's chapter of outrages But
20th century America can do nothing to
change history Americans, however,
do have a hand in the future All that is
needed is a little publicity for the
problem.
A few years ago. somebody produced
a fine commercial It featured a sad
Indian canoeing down a river filled with
man's slop The Indian parked his
canoe and stood by a highway, sur
veying the ruins of his land. Typically,
a motorist driving by dumped a bag full
of trash out his window, and the trash
landed at the tearful Indian's feet.
Great commercial
Unfortunately, the plea that the
commercial made was for an end to
pollution The Indian was just a prop.
If viewers had been a little more
insightful, they might have noticed a
vivid portrayal of the treatment of
today's Indian The Indian that tries to
maintain his native integrity finds
himself either ignored or abused.
In a nation that has traditionally been
the world’s enforcer for the cause of
human rights, it seems ironic that our
own minorities still live in such pitiful
conditions. Sure, it’s possible for the
minorities to strike it rich just like
anyone else; but what do they en
counter when they try to climb the
social ladder? More discrimination,
with resentment on the side.
I don't know what the solution is, but I
think the first step is to alert the public
to the problem
A ban on westerns might be a good
idea Make stories such as "Bury My
Heart at Wounded Knee" required high
school reading. Indians and other
minorities swarm Capitol Hill
peacefully. Reprogram the collective
mind of America (start by monitoring
your own reaction the next time you
encounter a black, an Indian, or other
minority). Let's do something about
this problem — or are economic
troubles more important than people's
problems?
Bill Oliver, a freshman in the College of
Arts and Sciences, spent winter quarter
touring the western United States.
Cases concerning sexual harassing
becoming numerous and absurd
There's been a lot of talk of late about
sexual harassment Phyllis Schlafly
caused a great stir with her comment
about “non-virtuous" women bringing
harassment upon themselves — about
certain women "advertising" just by
their dress and manner
Lawsuits for alleged harassment are
on the rise. Companies are now
establishing programs to deal with and
cut out harassment on the job. Ad
mirable. but frankly. 1 think the whole
thing is getting out of hand
Granted, there are situations that
warrant remedy No person, male or
female, should have to endure out-and-
out harassment An over-zealous
employer or co-worker who is
becoming bothersome should be
dumped into the confines of an icy-cold
"rain locker" perhaps, but the lawsuits
and complaints are getting more than
just a little bit ridiculous
A recent article in the Wall Street
Journal told of a female bus driver in
New Orleans who filed a complaint
against a co-worker who asked her for a
date. The poor guy was reprimanded
and told that if it happened again he
would lose his job That’s absurd!
What is to become of the office
romance’’ If it disappears, is casual
dating far behind’’ Can you imagine it?
Dating disappearing altogether for fear
of lawsuits.
I guess women will just have to
become the aggressors Men won’t be
able to ask for a date for fear of being
accused of harassment and taken to
court
In the midst of all this turmoil. Phil
Donahue, like a knight in shining ar
mour, came to the rescue.
While some women are screaming
about unfair pressures being put on
them by over sexed and under-loved
employers and co-workers, on his May
first show. Donahue had the audacity to
fill his studio with women of all shapes,
sizes and backgrounds and present for
their inspection a triad of dancing,
gyrating, bumping and grinding male
stripper-models
It was a very revealing show — and
not just because the men were taking
their clothes off More so because of the
hundreds of women, ages twenty to
nearly eighty, who were showing that a
little good old fashioned red-blooded
All-American lust is just fine with
them.
It’s reassuring to know that they're
still out there. Thank you, Phil
Donahue, for that.
So how is it that we come to
distinguish those of the Victorian
persuasion from those of the willing’’
Since most of us have pretty much
decided that Ms Schlafly's remarks
are more than a little bit ridiculous.
how are we to know which women it's
safe to ask out, and which will try to win
a lawsuit granting them our first-born
child and half of all the worldly goods
we’U ever own?
I suppose men and women could take
to wearing shirts emblazoned with “I’m
available" signs, so everyone would
know who it's safe to ask out
Either that or men could take to
hanging around outside male strip
shows like Phil Donahue's, or the one
they have every Wednesday night at the
Mad Hatter, waiting for the “safe"
women to emerge from within
The State Patrol could begin issuing a
driver's license with an “available"
notation on it in case there is some
doubt as to whether or not a person is In
fact safe to ask out. Better yet, perhaps
we could start issuing dating permits
Paranoia is beginning to set in, and
we need a solution fast This whole
situation could eventually get to be
worse than the malpractice suits that
have had the medical world in such a
tizzy.
Yes. something has got to be done
And in the great American tradition, it
seems that the solution will have to be
as completely ridiculous as the problem
it is trying to solve
Bruce Wiles is a senior in the College of
Arts and Sciences
‘Preserving South’s culture not a threat to U.S. unity
TO THE EDITOR;
Several years ago someone com
mented that it did not make any dif
ference whether "Dixie” was played at
University football games Now comes
an editorial in The Red and Black that
disapproves of Confederate Memorial
Day Why, in an age when the heritage
of minorities is more and more being
given special recognition, is the honor
ing of the nation's first politically con
scious minority, the South, losing
favor 7
The trend is to downplay the more
distinctive aspects of the South's
history because they are considered
divisive, and somehow dangerous to na
tional unity But the same can be said
for emphasizing the heritage of any
minority Southern youth are losing
much of their appieciation for their
past in today's climate of hostility
toward traditional Southern values
The Confederate experience is a vital
part of the Southern heritage, and one
for which respect and honor are due
Many historians find great admiration
for the South's willingness to fight for
what it believed in. Among agrarian
and conservative Western societies it
alone went to war to defend its values
against the rising tide of the new in
dustrial order To impose on a people
standards that they did not possess pre
judices our understanding of them
There is no proper sense of history
when one does so
The Civil War was not a war between
races Southerners and Northerners
alike in that era viewed racial relations
differently from us, yet in many ways
Southern whites were then closer to
blacks than most whites today In fact,
blacks provided much of the labor for
the Southern war effort and did not once
to the writer's knowledge rise up in
open rebellion against the Confederacy.
The beloved Southern general Robert
E Lee viewed slavery as an evil institu
tion Obviously there were other issues
involved
The Confederate South stood for a lot
more than is popularly represented It
was the culmination of 253 years of
Southern development of identity and
character That it is so little understood
today is ample reason to give it special
recognition The Laura Rutherford
Chapter of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy deserves special thanks
for reminding us of our distinctive
Southern heritage.
B1LLCAWTHON
Graduate student, histors
‘Citizens may
need handguns’
TO THE EDITOR:
Reading The Red and Black every
day. I’ve found it of considerable in
terest to follow the articles (opinions)
concerning gun control. It seems that
each side in this hotly contested issue
have facts and figures related to
homocide and robbery literally pouring
out of their steamy mouths These
statistics are probably very interesting
to some people — statisticians I sup
pose — but I frankly find them imper
sonal and really rather tough to relate
to crime on the whole What I can relate
to is the fact that a handgun saved a
young lady from being raped if not kill
ed The story was in this paper She
awakened to see a figure, presumably a
man. climbing in her window Grab
bing her gun, she shot at him. Needless
to say the person "ran like hell ” This is
an incident I can relate to, and I have
not noticed a single person writing an
article saying that this student doesn't
need or have the right to own a hand
gun!
National statistics are something that
I read in papers and am concerned
about, but when a student here at the
University nearly attacked in her own
home — well, that hits hard. It seems to
me that the question we need to answer
is whose rights concerning handguns
are we going to hurt with “gun con
trol." Something tells me that it
wouldn’t be the lawless element that
would suffer Sure, let’s be tough on
criminals using handguns, but let’s
don't be stupid about the ordinary
citizen who may desperately need one
I'll bet that young lady still has hers
MARK DAVENPORT
Junior, accounting
Beard is a personal choice
WASHINGTON In me you
see a hard core pogonotropher
I have been engaging in
pogonotrophic activities for more
than 10 years and feel absolutely no
sense of guilt or contrition
It’s true I probably am not as deeply
into pogonotrophy as some people you
might know My beard is com
paratively short and neatly trimmed
I am, nonetheless, firmly dedicated
to the tenet that both pogonotrophy
i beard-growing) and pogonotomy
(beard-cutting) are matters of in
dividual choice that should in no way
be abridged either by laws or social
restraints.
Or school boards
My defensive mechanism on this
issue was activated by a report that a
schoolteacher in Roland. Oklahoma
had been suspended for raising a
mustache
It seems the Roland school system
bans all facial hair — beards,
mustaches or anything else that
might sprout on a teacher’s cheeks,
chin, upper lip and wattles Such a
proscription is prima facie evidence
of sexual discrimination
I am not privy to the school board’s
reasoning when it adopted the rule but
it may have been guilty of the kind of
fuzzy thinking that flawed an Esquire
magazine article on shaving last year
Shaving is "a daily affirmation of
masculinity" and "one of the few
remaining exclusively male
prerogatives.” the magazine said Au
contraire!
I can understand why a school
The Lighter
Side
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board might desire affirmations of
masculinity from its male faculty
members, but the premise that
shaving supplies such evidence is
shaky to say the least
Far from being an affirmation of
masculinity, face shaving is a denial
of masculinity — a daily expunging of
the one thing man can do that women
can't.
But pogonotrophy. aha! Consider
this passage from the Esquire article:
"Despite all the complaints from
men about the bother of shaving, 97
percent of the men in a recent study
said they would not want to use a
cream, were one to be developed, that
would permanently rid them of all
facial hair."
Now consider the other side of the
blade Suppose a cream were
developed that would enable women
to grow beards Would 97 percent
avail themselves of it?
Stroking beard triumphantly, the
defense rests
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