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Newspaper Page Text( I The Red and Black ITiursday, January 15. 1987 Opinion THE RED AND BLACK Established 1893 — Incorporated 1980 Tami Dennis, Editor-in-chief Andy Smith, Managing Editor Hector Vargas, Opinions Editor American Nawipapars PuMsftara Association TO AOVANCE THE CAUSE Of A FREE PRESS An independent newspaper not >\ffUiated with the University of Georgia Ineligibility results The past two months have wreaked havoc upon the Uni versity’s athletic program, while simultaneously, bolstering its academic reputation. A total of six University athletes have been declared aca demically ineligible to play collegiate sports, three of them stars on the University’s football and basketball teams. Can it be that the Jan Kemp trial is finally making some headway into profound changes at the University, a year after its conclusion? Probably not, but these declarations of ineligibility are a step in that direction. According to the Board of Regents’ audit of the Devel opmental Studies Program last year, athletes generally have been given preferential treatment in academic matters — a fact that doesn’t favor the academic reputation of the University. Kemp’s court battle was fought to end these practices and, in light of recent events, it looks as though the Univer sity may be heading in that direction. At least one of the athletes declared ineligible said his suspension was at least a partial result of the attention fo cused on the athletic program in the aftermath of the Jan Kemp trial. However, when athletes make statements like this it’s just a cop out. Blame for the matter must be entirely their own. These athletes decided that they wanted to come to this university and that entailed compliance with its academic policies. Although athletic officials do have some responsibility in the academic affairs of their athletes, their main concern is training an athlete to win; a fact not uncommon to many of the nation’s universities. Therefore, athletes really have no body to rely on but themselves. Athletes may complain that they are being treated un fairly because of extra media attention resulting from the Kemp trial, however, strict adherence to academic eligibi lity requirements can only be a plus for the University as a whole. We applaud University officials for declaring these stu dent-athletes ineligible because the good it does for the Uni versity and its athletic program outweighs the bad. The athletic program only can look more credible and more ear nest in wanting to uphold the academic integrity of the Uni versity in light of these suspensions. In the end, this move is a positive step for the University in establishing itself as an academic institution rather than just a fine sports program. some thoughts by erik johnson it's thc . f - PHONE jT Hnua?? i I DAO ...THAT VU6 Tost W ivtcoNSir>esAT£ Roomie , tcesoef HETMAN ! GIVE M6 THE IV VcU'K v IJOST OONlJA T***. 1 N Editorial: 543-1809 Editor in Chi#/ Tami Dennis Managing Editor Andy Smith Opinion* Editor Heitor Vargas Front Pag* Copy Editor Theron Corse. Chi#/ Copy Editor Tommy Sims Copy Editor Jessica Saunders New* Editor Frank Steele Sport* Editor Jim Cailis Entertainment Editor Julie Carey UGA Today and Librarian Jim Farmer Chi#/ Photographer Warren Koibert Associate New* Editor* Lauran Neer gaard. Christy Richards Sport* Senior Reporter Lori Clark Asaiatont Sport* Editor Chris Deliecese Aaantont Photo Editor Nat Gurley S ta/f A rtm Chris Harmon Senior Reporter* Bill Kent. Mike Krensa vage Keith Phillips. Carol Schuster. Jeff Turner. Mark Wheeler.Tony L Wilson Advertising: 543-1791 Advertiamp Director Bill Wolgast Student Advertmng Manager Bonnie Drobnyk Advertising Representative* Lawrence Greenspon. Rhonda Johnson. Tiffany Kuril. Keith NimiU. Mark Smith. Gary Thacker. Michael Wells, Stacy Hulsey, ftacy Long. Scott Staggs Becky West Ajverimng Xrt Photography Ben Niles Advertising Production Manager Brenda Cleveland Editorial Production Manager Michelle Maruc Production Staff Pamela Burns. Sarah Gallant. Mary Catharine Ginn, Lisa Logue. Tanya Reed. Julie Ann Rowland. Drew Wilson. Jennifer Abel. Kelly Long. Laura Callahan General Manage' Harry Montevideo Office Manager Mary Straub Credit Munager Lisa Luue Classified Sole* / Receptionist Lori Morns THE RED AND BLACK is published Tuesday through Friday avith the exception of hoii days and examination periods by The Red and Black Publishing Company. Inc . a non profit campus newspaper not affiliated with The University of Georgia 123 North Jackson Street Athens Georgia 3M0I Third-class postage paid at Athens Georgia Subscription rate is S24 per year POSTMASTER Send address change* to 121 North Jackson Street. Athena Georgia Mol Opinions expressed in The Red and Black other than unsigned editorials are the opinions of the writers of signed columns and are not necessarily those of The Red and Black Pub liahing Co . Inc All rights reserved Reprints by permission of the editors Setting sights on older women Meet Market Personals c/o Creative Loa/ing Atlanta, Ga. 30303 Sirs. Please run the following ad in its entirety. I know it's long, and believe me. a lot of KISS and Frampton records got hocked for the check I've enclosed, but if it works I'll be eternally grateful Thanks. Was that you I grew old with in the checkout line at Kichway the other day? Were you the one who mispronounced Conan the Destroyer’ at Video Rental Shack? Or was that you I saw on Wheel of Fortune yesterday? Remember 0 You picked T.S.N.L.R, and E SWM, 23, college guy. has just returned from annual Christmas holiday in Suburbia with new perspective on life. No more being ignored by evasive nubile college women for this muchacho I can’t wait anymore I want me a hausfrau. You might be the one. Honest You. Do you have killer instincts? Would you bid one dollar over the highest bid on The Price is Right 0 Even better, would you ask Bob Barker what the other bids were first? How many Donahue show audi ences were you in last year? That’s all it takes — a winning personality.. You don’t even have to be a former housewife; just be unmarried. Hausfrau is, after all, a state of mind. It’s a cold, cruel world out there, what with all the traffic jams, people who leave carts in parking spaces, clerks that don’t tear the carbon on charge card slips, and a host of other maladies that burn me up just thinking about them. A hausfrau can survive. Rusty C.urtmill Not only survive, but thrive, and rise up and .shout so angrily that the world must take notice. The arms race? "My cousin Deidre works at GE, so don’t cut that." Social problems? "If they weren't getting worse, then why are they making so many TV movies?" Comparable worth? "My dating service guarantees it won’t match me TvifH anyone whose income's less than mine. ' Drugs in the schools’’ "Where? Where?! 1 knew that had to be happening! 1 knew the PTA should have voted to allow the German shepherds in the (Jails." I’ll come home every day and help reassure you It’s a Jungle Out There. We can trade office gossip Who needs to buy a National Enquirer when George knows someone who knows someone whose kid blew four of his fingers off playing with firecrackers? You can save the En quirer money to buy more aspirin and coffee. By the way, my Mr. Coffee has a timer that kicks on automatically, lest you feel endangered that one day you’ll have to play Lucy lo my Ricky Ri cardo Jusl don’t set my USA Today on fire Gel bored easily? I’ll teach you some games you might like One of my favorites is "How old is she?" Say you're standing in the express line and someone whips out her checkbook lo pay for Doritos and Cokes. Get ready. A driver’s license will come out soon Ready ..set...guess! If you come within three years of what the clerk writes down, you win. (I usually guess five years too high) If you lose, buy her a ’Baby on Board stick-on Oops — there went the coffee money Who said life isn't a gamble? We can grow old together, and laugh as the college cuties who dumped their boyfriends to run off with 35-year-old guys agonize over their dwindling chances of marrying again. I think Madge started out that way. Is that really ker osene? You’re soaking in it. If you don't want to slave over the hot micro- wave. we can go out to eat sometimes — just none of that radical Del Taco food, please Bring home a paycheck and you can decide what movies to rent And I promise not to make you a Football Widow unless the Falcons make a se rious run for the title You can't gel a much better guarantee than that Do you detest roller derby but admire the coaches for their assertiveness? If the world ended tomorrow, would you make sure to call and tell Kathy and Joanne about it? Is any woman on your 10 Most Admired list ugly? I thought not Ooooh you’re getting so perfect for me I can hardly stand it! So what do you say? Are you ready to get a whole new perspective on pushing 30? Don't send anything - I'm sure I’ll find you Just be ready w hen I do Be the sunshine of my life. Be my hausfrau. Rusty Cartmill is u senior in the School of Jour nalism. No smokers, please. ‘Spies Like Us’ political reality The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency have employed a noted movie actor to write a new handbook on espio nage. Immediately, Roger Moore or Sean Connery might come to mind, but I’m looking for someone with more of a comic genius; someone who has starred in such movies as "Ghostbus- ters” and “The Blues Brothers.” Someone who co-starred and helped write the screenplay for one of last year’s comedy hits Yep, Dan Ayckroyd. In fact, Ayckroyd was a paid consultant to former NSC staff member and Constitutional in voker Lt. Col. Oliver North. Don’t believe me? Well, any of you who have cable and turned it on at least once during Christmas break had to have seen "Spies Like Us" starring Chevy Chase, Ayckroyd’s wife Donna Dixon and Ayckroyd himself. For the unmotivated, the movie goes like this: An NSC member initiates an arms deal with Iran to secure the safe return of American hos tages in Lebanon, while two U S. generals dupe a couple of State Department officials into sending some foreign service agents to Nicaragua. Their mission: to kidnap Daniel Ortega's dog, Rojo, and send the dog to CIA counter-espionage ca nine obedience school (Ortega, not his dog. is played by Tbny Orlando). The mission is, of course, funded by the pro ceeds from the Iranian arms deal initiated by the NSC member, a former mental health pa tient (played by Mel Brooks) The NSC member, seeing a chance to secure a comfortable retire ment, buys a condo in Grenada with money he embezzled from the arms deal Meanwhile, the foreign service agents (played by Chase and Ayckroyd) mistake Ortega's wife llrctor \ ttrfins (played by Bette Midler) for Rojo, and bind, gag and send her to the United States in an un marked plane The U.S. early defense warning mechanism (a.k.a. SD1 a k a Star Wars a.k.a. the Hocus Focus Defense System) detects the unidentified flying object and the order is given to obliterate it The President boards airborne command as the laser misses Ortega's wife’s plane, and the plane somehow ends up in Iran where Ortega’s wife becomes a sex slave to the Ayatollah Kho meini. The President gives the foreign service agents medals for their ingenuity and courage* An MTV satellite is blown up by the misguided beam of light causing hard-headed rockers to ex claim. “Bitchin .” All this done without thc* knowledge of any Cabinet level offic ials or the President himself Unfortunately, the press find out and crucify the President, his staff and the NSA officials in volved The two foreign service agents vindicate themselves by becoming the next U.S President «*d Vice President. s /Okay, so maybe there* has been some deviation Ijrom the plot of the movie, but two crucial statements don't change First, the MTV satellite is obliterated as rockers ecstatically exclaim eccentric exple tives; and second, all this dyne without the knowledge of any Cabinet level officials or the President himself Baloney. To the second statement only, of course. Ayckroyd’s screenplay for “Spies Like Us" does involve two foreign service agents on a mis sion to confiscate a Soviet missile within the So viet Union that only two generals and two lowly state department official know about And if thc comedy continues in the current Contra-gate scandal facing President Reagan, I would put the whole farm on the line to say that either North saw "Spies Like Us’’ and got some tips on how to deceive the all-napping Reagan or Ayckroyd was the mastermind behind the whole deal setting up North as the fall guy If it could only end like Ayckroyd’s movie where the worl^J is saved from apparent Arma geddon and boy gets girl, but it won't. Unfortunately, what we’ve got here is a full blown scandal incomparable to anything that the Reagan administration has faced before — a scandal that we may never know the truth about because officials involved say the truth is their a * m * ku[j before that phrase is finished, invoke the r ifth Amendment to save their own buns and the buns of higher officials. we ' ve &ot a Presidency badly shaken by the philosophy (made famous by edi torial cartoonist MacNelly) that Reagan either knew it and blew it or should've known it. but didn t Either* way, Reagan is ultimately at fault By the way. stay tuned for Ackroyd’s next movie titled "Dirty Harry, the President’’ star ring himself as Clint Eastwood running for Pres ident. Hector Vargas is the opinions editor of The Red and Black Letters North vf. South a#ain TO THE EDITOR: I am writing in reply to "Rude, crude Yankee go home ” After reading this article I studied my face in the mirror I found no hair sprouting from my upper lip Then I checked my student ID My name had not changed to Glenda over night I panicked, wondering what was wrong with me. After all, I am a Northerner, and as we know, any intelligent human being should ste reotype not just “Yankees" but also all racial, religious, political, or so cial groups If I don't like it. why am I here 0 Here, in the South, home of gross prejudice, land of loons who still be lieve the Civil War is a current event? Even worse, home for all people who enjoy mutilating the En glish language and inventing any rule of grammar that suits their needs 0 Simply because. Mr. Wilson. we Northerners get a kick out of milking the South's cheap labor so we can go back to those condos and clothing stores in the sky < laughing all the way); remembering to tell our obscenely rich aunts and uncles that in the South human beings do say "ya’U" and wear silly lace bows so heavy they would snap the neck of any self-respecting Northerner But on the serious side. South erners, I’ll tell you why "oft obnox ious’’ Ed Koch compares what is happening in. New York to the lynchings in the deep South Mr Wilson says that lynchings went out “a month of Sundays ago." Does anyone in the South turn off "Hee Haw long enough to watch the news 0 Does Y-106 set time aside for the news? Obviously not. because everyone seems to have forgotten what happened at The Citadel, a little more than a month of any days ago Remember the boys dressed- in sheets, a cross burning in the room of a black student 0 Where else but the South could the victim be pun ished and the criminals let off so easily 0 Where else but the South can 1 hear the word "nigger" daily, again and again 0 I am sorry to say that while The Red and Black re porter had to exaggerate to prove his point, I am not exaggerating Yes, white man's ethnocentrism is alive and well, thriving in a corner of the country where people can't even pronounce most of the words of their native tongue cor rectly In closing let me remind you. Mr Wilson, and all South erners, that when you point a finger at someone else, your thumb is al ways pointing back at yourself • Kelley Bowers Freshman, pre-journalism Letters Policy The Red and Black welcomes let ters to the editor and prin space permits Because limitations and legal cons all letters are subject U editing for libelous ma length Short letters are pi To be considered for p letters must be double-sf 60-space line They mus elude the name, address time telephone num be writer. Please include sti sification and major or ot priate indentification < Union officer, etc ) We your name in print foi reason upon request To be considered for the following day letter received by l p m the d publication filers can be sent by or brought in person to Tl Black's offices al 123 Nor St, Athens. Cja 30601

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