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The Red and Black • Thursday, July 13. 1989 • 3
Students host debate forum
By WESLEY KINO
Contributing Writer
David Herndon Bays not all Uni
versity students are "apathetic
booze-hounds," and he and his
fellow members of Friends of Rapid
Fire are out to prove it.
D^idon is the executive officer
of Friends of Rapid Fire and acts as
host and moderator of the organi
sation’s television program, "Rapid
Fire."
The show features debate and
discussion of national, state and
local issues by student leaders.
The program, Herndon said, at
tempts to present a balanced dis
cussion of leading topics.
"We provide a public discourse
show by University leaders,”
Herndon said. "Every week we pro
vide analysis and prediction on
current issues.”
The program is broadcast Satur
days at 12:30 p.m. on WNGM
Channel 34
Herndon, a junior speech com
munication major, said the pro
gram strives to make sure both
sides of an issue are presented.
Proponents of the liberal and con
servative viewpoints are pre
sented, with Herndon firing
questions at the panelists and al
lowing time for each to respond.
Herndon said advertising sales
were used to support the show. He
said the production cost for each
show is about $200.
The program has received a very
positive reaction from the business
and community leaders of Athens,
and has attracted a large following
of alumni who want to keep up
with what’s going on at the Univer
sity and students’ opinions on is
sues, Herndon said.
The show has also drawn a posi
tive response from its participants.
Ted Echols, a Student Association
junior senator who has appeared
on the show, said he enjoys the
unique perspective the program
provides.
“I like the show because it has
local University issues which you
don’t see on TV that much," Echols,
a junior political science major,
said “Though it's debating, it’s ed
ucational.”
Herndon said Friends of Rapid
Fire has the potential to become a
leading and influential force on
campus. He said the organization
has the ability to reach 2 million
households through its program,
something that most campus orga
nisations can’t hope to do.
He said he sees the program as a
unique project that can only im
prove.
“As far ns we know, we’re the
only program like this in the
country," says Herndon. “It’s really
taken off."
Profs discuss Spanish explorers
By NEAL CALLAHAN
Staff Writer
The Center for Latin American
Studies is sponsoring a five-week
seminar on the history of the
Spanish explorers of the 16th and
17th century and the Indians they
encountered in America.
The seminar is part of the Insti
tute on Spanish Exploration and
Indian Chiefdoms and is funded by
the National Endowment for the
Humanities. The University’s
branch of the Institute is directed
bv anthropology professor Charles
Hudson.
The seminar is designed for col
lege- and university-level profes
sors and the dissemination of
knowledge for the education of the
students under the teachers in
volved, Hudson said. The seminar
began on June 26 and will be held
until July 28.
The seminar involves professors
from throughout the Southeast
and a few from other regions, he
said. It includes 10 visiting
speakers in addition to speakers
from the University.
University speakers include
David Hally, anthropology pro
fessor, and Marvin Smith, former
assistant anthropology professor,
and Mark Williams, a research as
sistant. All three have been
working with Hudson in a 10-year
study redefining the route of Her
nando DeSoto’s expedition into the
interior of North America, the first
by a European.
AI90 on the commission is
Carmen McClendon, director of the
University’s Center for Latin
American Studies. She said the
center will also be sponsoring a
one-day workshop for eighth-grade
teachers and curriculum directors
on the same subject area July 31.
McClendon said the center is
now planning activities for the
500th anniversary in 1992 of Co
lumbus’ voyage to the New World.
Volunteer voices feel “rewarded”
By ELIZABETH GRADDY
Staff Writer
Gloria Martin, voice specialist in the Depart
ment of Drama, does it to practice her voice
Tommy Clinton, retired nurse, does it because she
loves books Margaret Timm, retired secretary,
does it because she finds it personally rewarding
All three do it to help others.
They are volunteers at the Athens unit of Re
cording for the Blind They perform various tasks,
including reading, monitoring others’ reading and
copying cassettes in an effort to create talking
books for the visually impaired.
It works like this.
• A request made by a visually impaired person
for a specific book comes in from any of the 31 other
units around the country.
• Volunteers at the Athens Unit read and record
the books using a reel-to-reel tape recorder
• Cassette copies are made and sent to the re
quester via headquarters in Princeton, N.J.
• The master copy is sent to headquarters
• When finished, the requester sends the cas
settes back to the Athens unit via headquarters
• The cassettes are erased and used again
The Athens Unit has been in operation for 35
years, founded just five years afler the national
program began.
John Marshall, director of the Athens Unit of Re
cording for the Blind, said the unit is reading for a
record number of borrowers but still needs volun
teers.
Timm said she has been a volunteer for 25 years
— so long she can’t remember how she first became
interested in Recording for the Blind.
Aside from one-and-a-half hours a week at the
unit, Timm does a great deal of other volunteering.
‘That’s my middle name,” she said.
Martin, an assistant professor in the drama de
partment, came to the center after seeing an adver
tisement in the faculty newspaper, she said.
Reading books gives her voice a workout, she
said It also gives her a chance to use her voice to
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fou need to put things back into your art in
stead of just taking," Martin said
Clinton, who has been at the center since 1975,
is a monitor. She works three hours a week,
catching mistakes made by the readers as they
read, she said
Aiding the handicapped gives her a g<x>d feeling,
especially when she sees how her work has helped
someone, she said.
“We get a lot of feedback from students who have
gone through and used the tapes," Clinton said
Marshall said the work done by these volunteers
is valuable, having been appraised at a worth of
$24 an hour
But Marshall is the only paid staffer, he said
The other 161 workers don’t make any money
Timm, Clinton and Martin agree that the non
monetary rewards are the incentive
Timm said a blind person once wrote to say how
good it feels to curl up on a winter night with a gm»d
“book” and a southern accent.
Another visually impaired student who was vis
iting the center recognized Tirnm's voice
“And he said, ^00 read to me last week,’ "she
said.
Clinton said reading and monitoring allows vol
unteers to learn.
“You get a smattering of things," she said
Clinton has monitored readings of everything
from French and Spanish to history
Timm said there have been many very dedicated
volunteers at the unit in its 35 years
“A woman used to come in from Milledgeville on
Tuesdays,” Timm said. “She would read Tuesday,
spend the night in Athens, and read again
Wednesday. Then she’d go back home ”
The walls boast plaques recognizing the 36 vol
unteers who have worked 1,000 hours
At an average of one and one-half hours a week,
it would take 13 years to achieve the 1,000 hour
goal. Timm’s name is on the plaque
“It’s nice," she said. “But we don’t do it for the
recognition.”
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