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The Red 'id Black • Wednesday, April 19, 1989 • 3
Group protests taxes for military
By ANDREW KENNEDY
Contributing Writer
The crowd was Hmall but supportive.
The Athens Pence Coalition demonstrated
Monday against the amount of tax dollars l>eing
spent on military expenditures by delivering rousing
speeches.
Several activists criticized the U S. Government’s
lack of civil service funding during the tax deadline
day demonstration in front of the Downtown Athens
Post office. The majority of the 15 20 person crowd
listened while relaxing in the grass and applauded
enthusiastically at points that were especially appre
ciated.
Gwen O’Looney, the Ward Five councilmember,
said Clnrke County contributed $10 million to social
programs from it* citizens’ taxes in 1988.
The quality of life in a city depends largely on the
amount of funding for social programs, which isn’t
enough ns it stands today, she said.
Overcrowding of the nation’s prisons is ultimately
the fault of overspending in the military because
there isn’t enough money led over for civil service
programs, she said.
Among the fentured speakers were Kathryn
Kyker, Dan Everett, Richard and Kathleen Ryan,
who are all members of the Coalition’s steering com
mittee. O’Looney spoke about the military spending
of Clarke County.
Kathryn Kiker said a conservative estimate would
put military spending of the total government
budget at 42 percent, other estimates range as high
as 52 percent. The government ru*eds to ulter its
spending, she stud.
Kiker said money spent on the building of war
heads and planes could be put to better use*. The $1.5
billion spent on one Trident submarine, for instance,
could easily help one million homeless or sick people,
she said.
Dan Everett, a computer science professor, re
ceived the largest ovation when he addressed the
issue of military bases not being subject to environ
mental regulations. Military bases currently aren’t
forced to clean up their environmental waste, he
said.
“My mom always made me clean up my messes be
fore she would give me another toy to play with... we
can’t just spend money on the military for old time’s
sake. We have to solve the real problems at home
first," Everett said.
It is important to write or talk to a congressman
because that is the only way that the message can be
conveyed, he said.
Richard and Kathleen Ryan, husband and wife,
closed the demonstration with a reading entitled,
“Who Are the Peacemakers?’’
Kyker said she wasn’t disappointed with the light
turnout. There were more students there than she
expected and everyone gnve n lot of support to the
speakers, she said.
Rest assured— midnight studying
beneficial for short-term retention
Athens television hits the airwaves
Afler three months of hard work
WNGM finally arrived on the air
Tuesday on channel 34.
Kyle Caldwell, account exec
utive at WNGM, said the main dif
ference between WNGM and the
other local TV stations is the com
plete local newscast that WNGM
airs three times a day.
Kim Felty, WNGM public rein
tions director, said the station wall
offer programming from 8 a.rn. to
midnight, seven days a week.
Special programming includes
Newswatch 34, the Athens Music
Show, and North Georgia Mag
azine, she said.
Caldwell said Newswatch 34 is
the local newscast and is aired at
noon, 5:30 p.m. and 11 p.m..
Felty said the Athens Music
show comes on at 11 p.m. on Thurs
days and spotlights various local
popular bands.
North Georgia Magazine is aired
at 8:30 a m., 12:30 p.m. and 11:30
p.m. and is a half hour program
featuring the civic and community
activies of the people of North
Georgin, she said.
WNGM will also program syndi
cated sitcoms, she said.
WNGM began staffing the sta
tion in January, she said, and
signed on the air at 7:20 p.m. on
Saturday, April 15. Tuesday was
the first day of regular program
ming.
Caldwell said WNGM transmits
through a 1,240 ft. tower in Pen
dergrass, Ga and uses 1,258,000 w
ntts of power.
WNGM is aired on both TCI
Cable and UHF on channel 34.
— Moilie BaUs
By ANDREW KENNEDY
Contributing Writer
That test just came all of u
sudden, didn't it? It couldn’t pos
sibly already be two weeks since
the last one, could it? Hut here you
are again, at two in the morning,
and you still have two more chap
ters to study before you can call it a
night — or a morning.
Well, rest assured, you aren't
unusual. There are other student*
who are still up cramming infor
mation into their heads just like
you. But does staying up all night
actually improve your perfor
mance, or does it hurt your health
and your grade?
Wilsey Webb, University of
Florida Sleep Laboratory director,
said that missing one night of sleep
won’t actually be detrimental to a
student’s retention of information.
‘The only problem that staying
up late to study will cause is the in
ability to sustain attention Think
ubout going to the library to read a
bock when you are tired; it is very
hard to stay awake. If you can
munage to concentrate, however, it
could actually help you," he said.
Webb has been involved in
studying the effects of sleep depri
vation for 30 years in universities
and for the U.S. Army.
‘The only time that staying up
all night to study will hurt you is
when you do it over and over. This
creates a sleep debt, and your body
can begin to deteriorate. This can
happen a lot towurds the end of the
term. Just get u reasonable
amount of sleep, and it will not af
fect your grade or your body,” he
said.
Generally, there are two ways
that students choose to cram the
night before a test. Some students
won't go to bed until they are satis
fied with their amount of studying
Others choose to go to bed a little
earlier so that they can get up be
fore the sun and pore over the
material.
Mike Ryan, a sophomore mar
keting major, said he will stay up
all night if that is what it takes
“I don’t know if it really helps me
or not, but I know I learn more
‘The only problem that
staying up late to study
will cause is the
inability to sustain
attention. If you can
manage to
concentrate, however,
it could actually help
you.’
— Wilsey Webb
than I would if I didn’t study at
all," he said.
Ryan never gets up early to
study because he just can’t seem to
get out of bed. ‘Tm just not a
morning person, I guess," he said.
David Hay, a sophomore ac
counting major, takes the other ap
proach to studying at the last
minute “I can concentrate better if
I can take a shower and wake up. I
would much rather get up at five in
the morning than stay up until
three. It is just a lot more comfort
able," he said.
JefT Lating, a University psy
chology lab assistant, suggested
getting an especially good night
sleep two nights before taking a
stressful test This will increase
your body’s ability to perform.
The doctoral candidate said,
based on his own experience, it is
important to get at least some
amount of sleep at night Afler a
period of studying late at night, it
is easy to concentrate more on
trying to stay awake than on the
subject material, he said.
Webb said, given the choice, he
would get up early in the morning
because the information would be
fresh in his head when he took the
test. He conceded, however, that
this is a personal decision.
Webb offered some advice for
more effective studying late at
night. He said that the pure moti
vation of doing well on a crucial
test may be enough to keep
someone awake. But if it is still dif
ficult to keep the eyes focused, he
said there are some things you can
do:
• Take a break. Get up and walk
around for a minute and think
about something else.
• Ingest caffeine. Coffee is a
great stimulant and really does
make it easier to stay awake. Don’t
drink too much, however, because
you can get jittery
• If you do go to sleep try to get
more than just an hour or two. Get
ting only a minimal amount of
sleep may be worse than getting no
sleep at all because the body wants
to stay asleep. Try to get at least
three hours of deep sleep before
taking a test.
Webb also had one last bit of ad
vice. He said that, while nobody
has ever been harmed by missing a
complete night of sleep, your body
will appreciate it if you stay caught
up all quarter and give it some
rest.
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