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The Red and Black
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THE RED AND BLACK
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Charles H. Russell, General Manager
Chuck Reece, Kditor-in-chief
Alex Johnson, Managing Kditor
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An independent student newspaper not affiliated with the University of Georgia
Activists are quiet but still around
We can’t complain
We, like many students, want badly to complain about the
University's decision to charge students living on campus $15
annually to park their cars in housing lots
But we can’t — not justifiably, anyway.
George Postell, a University Auxiliary Services official, was
right when he said, "Parking is in such a state that we have to
raise funds to alleviate the lack of parking "
By charging dormitory residents, faculty and staff anywhere
from $9 to $70 a year to park on campus will raise $540,000 a year
to build two parking decks, new lots and keep old lots in shape
With the money from the new fees, the campus will have nearly
2,000 more parking spaces by 1985
University students won't be alone in having to pay parking
fees, either. Colleges with similar parking crunches now charge
students and faculty to park; some have for years.
The $15 fee is a minor inconvenience What future students will
get for that money justifies any small amount of suffering the fee
might cause.
SSR vs. SAM
"Students for Student Representation has been working very
hard in favor of a student government It is time for people
against a government to do something," said Dan Mitchell,
organizer of the new Students Against Misrepresentation
Mitchell is right. We don’t say so because we are against the
establishment of The Association of Georgia Students, the propos
ed student government. This newspaper intends to wait a bit
longer before taking a side on the student-government issue.
But it is an important matter. And any important matter
deserves the airing of the good and bad sides. SAM is excellent
because Students for Student Representation, the group behind
TAGS, has needed a devil’s advocate to nip at its heels.
SAM and SSR officials will debate the re-establishment of stu
dent government tonight at Demosthenian Hall. If you care a whit
about the state of the student body here, you will show up and
listen The time to rise above apathy is now.
Gloria Steinems campus appearance Wednesday
night should harken back to the days of the early
1970s when the women's movement seemed as
threatening as the blossoming anti-war movement
But back then women's-rights activists were
regarded as displaced females burdened by either a
divorce or unemployment Many were regarded as
homosexual because they felt they should be paid just
as much as a man for the same job and should hold
that same job if they were qualified
Just as some may say anti-war protests fell on deaf
ears, so may have the radical protests of the
feminists Bra burning and picketing sure caught our
attention, but did they make any impact’
Well, I've never been an outspoken women s ac
tivist, but I do believe women are slowly but surely
earning their rightful place in society
My own father is often amazed at my progression
toward a career while my brother barely passes
English each year
Women have come a long way since Steinem first
emerged as a feminist I can remember relatives
changing the channel every time that "radical,
mixed-up woman" made her monthly appearance on
"The Merv Griffin Show "
Steinem made some poignant reflections in the
August 1982 edition of Ms magazine, which marked
the publication's 10th anniversary She reflected
• In the early 1970s, rape was an action that
women were asking for Today, rape is a felony
demanding more and more enforcement
• Politicians were lucky to get women to vote in
Susan Laccelti
the early 1970s Today, women's organizations are a
powerful political force that can mobilize and sway
primaries and conventions
• The National Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration said someday women would go into
space That seemed about as obscure as a joint
United States-Soviet Union space mission But alas,
the first woman will not be in space in the year 2000
but on the next space-shuttle flight later this year
• Verbal and sexual abuse by the boss isn't part of
the average day of a woman employee Sexual
harassment and discrimination lawsuits are common
and are keeping the big man in line
• The second most powerful branch of the federal
government, the Supreme Court, now has its first
woman justice This event followed the appoint
ment of a black to the bench by almost 15 years
Most of these happenings are now taken (or granted
in today's society as common events Sexual
discrimination lawsuits and rape cases are in the
news every dav But what about a woman presiden
tial candidate or a woman labor leader’ Those steps
should be seen within our lifetime.
But now that women are more readily accepted in
today s world, it must be noted that the forces are
still intact in case we digress
They may be silent but women s rights activists are
still around. The University even has a Student
Caucus on Women's Issues advocacy group
The Equal Rights Amendment might have had its
clock run out. but proponents are still working The
reintroduction of the bill in Congress this January has
spurred an upswing in the interest for woman’s
rights Even Alan Alda has taken up the cause as
hearings are to begin in the U S House of Represen
tatives this month
Women activists have changed their tactics Public
demonstrations and mass discrimination suits are no
longer seen as the answer The legislative process
a nd the ERA is now the key
But contrary to the male perspective, few women
want to be drafted, share bathrooms and wear the
same clothes They just want to keep a reminder on
the law docket that women are people, too, and that
although vou no longer see them taking the flame to
their underwear, they still want their fair chances
Susan Laccetti is an associate news editor for The
Red and Black
* Values of South are not restricted to past ’
TO THE EDITOR .
The editorial by Chuck Reece con
cerning Confederate Memorial Day
hurts It hurts because it shows the total
alienation of growing numbers of
Southern college students with
everything traditionally Southern —
because it represents the virtual
complete triumph of the interpretation
of Southern history which views it as an
unfortunate aberration in the United
States experience, without any feeling
whatsoever for the history, sufferings
and contributions of the Southern
people
One word virtually sums up the ex
treme antipathy which many students
feel toward traditional Southern values
That word is race Nothing the
traditional South ever did or said
matters to them except that one issue
Forget that the South produced the
"Father of our Country," the author of
the Declaration of Independence, a host
of presidents, many men with nobility
of character and high principles —
forget that nearly :um,(XKi Southerners
died in the war that Reece wants to
forget Forget that many of these men
departments
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were deeply religious, including
Confederate officers of the highest
rank Forget that they were men with
hopes and wants and dreams, as human
as you or I They committed the un
pardonable sin They held a different
view of race than twentieth century
Americans
The modern student who turns his
back on the South's past because of one
issue has an extreme provinciality of
time He sees no further than his own
age or his own culture It is as if he
rejected the contributions of the ancient
Greeks because they owned slaves and
thought non-Greeks were barbarians
The North did not enter the war to
abolish slavery, and before the end of
the conflict, the South was training
black troops to defend the homeland
and seriously considering eman
cipation Before Northern criticism of
Southern morality became so vitriolic
in the Items, there was open discussion
in the South of abolishing "the peculiar
institution ” Sherman was extremely
antipathetic toward blacks, while
Robert E Lee did not like slavery
Southerners did not have horns, and
Yankees were not angels
If one could go hack and read the
newspapers of the antibellum era, as I
have been privileged to do. one would
find a minority in the nation crying
oppression and injustice — the very
men that Reece is ashamed of The
South fought for as noble a cause as that
for which any men have ever stepped
forth to fight to defend their beliefs,
their control over their destiny and
their homes and firesides from what
they considered to be oppression and
injustice Such as the cause of the South
that a Polish patriot offered his ser
vices in her defense
Ben Robertson in "Red Hills and
Cotton" gives an angle to the War that
you probably have never thought of
before "We had never intended to fight
that war on a question of Negro
slavery, we had wished to fight it on the
proposition of a rural against an urban
civilization, on human rights against
money rights " The South saw herself
as defending the principles of '78. and
the down-to-earth values of an agrarian
people, against an overly materialistic
and corporate society
It is no wonder that so many students
have only negative images of their past
That is all they have ever heard from
sources they respect To Southerners of
the old school Confederate Memorial
Day. the Confederate flag and "Dixie '
stood for all that was good and noble in
the Southern experience
They stood for honor, character,
bravery, a high code of conduct, per
sistence against overwhelming odds
They represent the history and
character of the Southern people, who
have struggled to be understood and
respected in a nation that has sought to
destroy the individuality of the South
This nation has of late tried to give due
credit to the many cultures that it
contains, with the exception of one —
the traditional Southern minority
and that one has been ridiculed, looked
down on and criticized at every turn It
is time for that to change
The Southern Partisan is a new
magazine which seeks to expose
Southerners to their own intellectual
heritage, and to point out the univer
salitv of their experience The values of
the South are not restricted to a past
time Values of courtesy, gentlemanly-
conduct. a respect for the individual
and spiritual side of man are
aspirations which will never die in his
breast
The time has come for Southerners to
explore their past with an open mind
and to draw from it the many good
qualities of that experience Most of all.
it is time for those who appreciate their
Southern heritage to cease being cowed
by the clamor of the age and to assert
their beliefs, else the South as a
distinctive land will be only a memory
BILLCAWTHON
Graduate. History
*Abuse animals for a living'
TO THE EDITOR:
I was thrilled to read in last Friday's
Red and Black that someone is finally
taking steps to rid this fine nation of its
deadliest element — the animal abuser
We all know an animal abuser we don’t
like to admit it. but we do We
remember him as the one who dropped
kitties off the root of the grammar
school to see if they really had nine
lives or if they 'd land on their feet
Sounds harmless enough, doesn't it’
But as he grew older his "experiments"
became more bizarre - pulling the legs
off spiders, and even going so far as
coaxing the neighborhood mutt into
eating out of the toughest tomcat's
bowl, heaving with demonic laughter as
Slash gave the unfortunate pup a
pummelling Sick, isn't it’ But it didn't
stop there In high school his behavior
bordered on psychotic and teachers
sent notes to his parents ("I'm worried
about Stew. Mrs Palmer I caught him
dissecting a frog in biology lab today
That's the second frog this term
Perhaps some professional help is
needed ").
"Oh. but that was a long time ago.
we say to ourselves, "and Stew was a
weird one anyway " Yes, Stew was
weird; but it wasn't so long ago.
because now he's here — right on our
campus!!! Oh. he looks ordinary
enough, in his cords ihe still wears
them pulled up too high l and plaid
shirt, books under his arm But there
over left breast is the badge, the brand,
the banner that proudly lets the world
know that it's only a few short years
before he can blind, maim and torture
gerbils — and get paid for it!! Yes.
there on his sunken chest we see these
words;
College of Yeterinarv Medicine
STEW PALMER
Class of '85
‘ Why not just abolish taxation?'
TO THE EDITOR
OK. let's "legalize freedom " Those
who oppose abortion would then not
have to fund it through their tax dollars
If I believe killing in wartime is
murder, should my tax dollars be used
to fund wars, therefore making me
suffer the guilt of being an accomplice
to murder’
Why don't we abolish taxation
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Chnatine Hurley
Ne»» editor Mike Tidwell
Editorial 1‘age editor l.i*a Pritchett
Spurt* editor Chat let tidum
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AM'SO 17*1
altogether and set up thousands of
“private organizations" to which we
can all contribute when we feel the
cause is worthy** So what if the wealthy
would have a disproportionate share of
political power** At least we would all
be "free ”
ANGIE STUM ki IND
Senior. Journalism
Miquet: a portrait of life and art
A friend of mine once told me over a beer at
Hedgen's in Atlanta that we in America had much to
learn from West European socialism 1 have a short,
sweet answer to this Ivy League ivory tower propose
tion Below are in-context quotes from personal let
ters I received from a dear lady who lives in
Brussels. Belgium But first lei me describe her for
you
Miquet iMee kav) is the wife of a professional ar
tist. Pierrot They have three unique and creative
children, including a 10-year-old daughter of
adorable caprices They also share a wonderful and.
well, artistic appreciation of life Miquet has perhaps
the most endearing feeling of love and respect for the
tragicomic beauty of life that I have ever en
countered She claims that her mind is not logical,
but her ability to enjoy and truly appreciate art and
its subtle nuances allows her an insight which is often
surprising
Miquet's English is not perfect, grammatically
speaking, but it communicates perfectly well the
thoughts and emotions she wishes to convey In fact,
linguistic mistakes have a way of betraying the
speaker s hidden meanings, as if sentences were
cages for thoughts — poor construction enhances the
thought's transfer
So here is w hat Miquet volunteered in her two most
recent letters showing the questionable virtues of
European socialism
"As we have many troubles with our taxes this
year. Pierrot has decided to emigrate in Ireland' I
would prefer Monaco it is warmer In Belgium they
have decided to kill all independent people and w e are
all registered on computer cards, as in communist
countries isn't it terrifying’ Maybe, he is right, it
would be lime to leave, but it is not so easy " Would
you like taxes so high you would consider emigrating
to avoid them’ Please advert House Speaker Tip
O'Neill of your aversion
She continued in the next letter, "Since his last ex
hibition. < Pierrot's! moral is quite down We have
had lots of troubles with taxes They can't bear in
dependent people, and artists are difficult to place in
their categories, the individual freedom diminishes
more and more, they try to control everything at all
levels and thus people lose the sense of enterprise and
responsibility, we are dependent from the state for
almost all our needs, it costs a lot and we are passive
like in the communist countries Now the number is
all, if you are a minority you have no rights In the TV
program they give cultural emissions between to 30
and 12 in the evening because, they say. it interests
only few people, at the radio there is very few
classical music for the same reason For the mo
ment. we have to be average in every field taste,
size, revenues, length of life It’ is easier to
manipulate "
Offhand. 1 would say Miquet has indeed learned a
great deal from the socialism which cares not (or her
lovely spirit
It seems, by the way. that Belgium suffers from
another affliction more common in the United Slates
Miquet writes. On the TV and radio, most of the
journalists are leftists, so. all the debates and emis
sions are oriented and manipulated in these sense. I
find that really terrifying because their impact
masses is really important Before, people had th<
newspapers of different tendencies, now there is or
one source of information for everybody and it
more dimcuR to be critical in front of an image thai
ext While the subject is up. The Red and Black
to be commended for running mv last two columi
?h*, U ?Zl bl " ng al leasl one or two fingers of the ha
hat (cedv in their entireties The Atlanta Consti
ion would not have dared And the title, "Me<
lie: s - about lying' is too short " I they added the "s'
was a clever delight upon which I could never i
prove!)
cannot resist the very next line from I
Iasi quoted passage. It seems that this letter is qu
1 ho P* m > humor will change with 1
spring that appears in the garden Perhaps this
o! d 10 ^ '^ ere or a you d have t0 *now h
sort of thing, buy Miquet s feeling (or her garden i
!!!! Ument The first thing she asked
ab ^'^ r . h ^ JS l'‘ as lf we had a garden In a way
l **f t Th * re ln <he cramped cities of Euro
£"‘ V* l nd “ “ precious thing and Miquet I
^ a e P*r love for her garden Know ing tl
' hal the gluttonously large va
round our suburban houses require so mi
maintenance they can be as irritating as pleasing’
heT£»'IZV l 2? 0rUm , messa ge Miquet bears is i
an d ” 5 C ! ah5m 601 Ihe respect, worn
onlv learn th * canvas '^1 is life If one c
every bream *** ap 5! recia,f ihe blessedness
!!??- br f ath *»»■>• the joy of children and i
hXMcendence of love, there a no need to pur.ue hi
daTducovenes 0,1 * >n your day
Birney Bull i, a third-y M r , ow