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2 • The Red and Black • Wednesday, February 7, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Bracewell elected president of national association.
Judicial Programs Director Bill Bracewell has been elected national
president of the Association for Student Judiciary Affairs, a
professional organization of campus administrators involved in
judicial programs. Bracewell, who took office Jan. 21, was elected
president by the 500-member organization in November. As
president, he will appoint committees and represent the group.
Speaker, food lab dedication scheduled at Dawson.A
new food lab in Dawson Hall will be dedicated to the University at
2:30 p.m. today. Scheduled to attend the ceremonies are University
President Charles Knapp, University vice-presidents, Board of
Regents members and representatives from companies that donated
equipment to the facility. Julia Poynter, a home ecomonics teacher,
said before the dedication, Andy Devine of Pennsylvania State
University will speak about the future of the hospitality industry in
the United States. The new lab will benefit hotel and restaurant
majors as well as the entire University, she said.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Braves hire ‘Ernest P.’ to draw fans.
The Atlanta Braves are hiring Jim Varney, who plays the homespun
character Ernest P. Worrell, to do television ads promoting the
National League club in hopes of boosting sagging attendance. The
Braves, who were last in attendance in the major leagues the last two
seasons, said the deal will include nine television spots, print
advertising and three scheduled appearances by Varney.
FORD CITY, Pa. (AP): Bombs found in Georgian’s car.
A Georgia man was held Tuesday in a Pennsylvania jail while federal
officials tried to determine why he had seven homemade bombs and a
variety of weapons in a car, authorities said. The bombs and weapons
were found Sunday when two Ford City police officers stopped Dean
Hileman of Valdosta for going the wrong way on a one-way street,
said police Chief Jan Lysakowski. Hileman offered no explanation as
to why he was carrying the weapons, police said. The U.S. Bureau of
Alcohol and Firearms is investigating the case.
■ NATION
LOS ANGELES (AP): Idol seriously injured in accident.
Rock singer Billy Iaol was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident
Tuesday and underwent several hours of surgery to repair a badly
broken leg, his publicist and a hospital spokesman said. Idol suffered
a serious fracture of his right leg between the knee and the ankle and
a fracture of his left wrist, according to a spokesman for Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center. No details of the accident were known except that it
involved a car.
LOS ANGELES (AP): Summers shortened for students.
Afternoons at the beach, jobs and summer loves will have to be
squeezed into the schedule of Los Angeles public school students as
the traditional three-month vacation becomes a thing of the past.
Beginning in July 1991, all 646 schools in the Los Angeles Unified
School District will go on a year-round schedule; 102 Los Angeles
schools already operate year-round. The cut, which will shorten
summer vacations while lengthening the winter break, is intended to
ease severe school overcrowding in the 594,802-student Los Angeles
district, second in size only to New York City’s district.
■ WORLD
SOUTH AFRICA (AP): Release of Mandela still on hold.
The South African government is delaying the release of Nelson
Mandela to deal with his political demands and that could jeopardize
its pence initiative, an activist said Tuesday after conferring with
Mandela. The Rev. Allan Boesak said Mandela wants the government
to lift the state of emergency and free all political prisoners, including
those convicted of violent acts, but would accept freedom whether or
not these demands are met. The government has made clear it wants
Mandela, the most popular leader among South Africa’s blacks, to
play a conciliatory role when he emerges after more than 27 years in
prison. President F.W. de Klerk’s hopes of initiating negotiations on
black-white power-sharing could be dashed if a freed Mandela were to
take a tough stance against the government.
LONDON (AP): Kennel fined heavily for death of dogs.
A magistrate Tuesday fined a British kennel $22,100 for the deaths of
79 beagles it was shipping to a Swedish pharmaceutical firm. The
dogs suffocated in a truck trailer aboard the ferry Tor Britannia in
the North Sea on Sept. 5. Perrycroft Farm Kennels, which breeds
animals for scientific research, had pleaded guilty to two charges of
causing unnecessary suffering to 100 beagles during the 24-hour
ferry trip from Harwich, England toGoteborg, Sweden. The 8-month-
old beagles were being shipped to the Astra pharmaceutical company
in Sodertalje, south of Stockholm, for use in testing drugs, said Astra
spokesman Staffan Temby.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• A workshop on opportunities
for minorities in law will be
presented today from 3:30 to 4:30
p.m. in Room C of the law school.
All students interested in
attending law school are invited.
• The student chapter of
American Society of Interior
Designers will meet today at 5:30
p.m. in Room 116 of the Visual
Arts Building. It will include
elections for next year’s officers.
• The Red and Black will hold a
new writers meeting tonight at 7
in the Dean’s Conference Room
of the journalism building. All
majors ore invited.
• Presbyterian campus minister
Alex Williams will speak on
“Bloom Where You Are Planted”
tonight at 7 at the Presbyterian
Center, 1250 S. Lumpkin Street.
A social will follow at 8.
• Bill Durrence, a professional
market representative for Nikon,
will speak in Room 116 of the
visual arts building at 7 tonight.
• UGAZINE will begin
production for its winter issue
tonight at 7 in Room 309 of the
journalism building. Anyone
interested in helping is welcome
to attend.
• Students for Environmental
Awareness will meet tonight at
7:30 in the ecology auditorium.
All are invited.
• The Athens Gay/Lesbian
Association will meet tonight at
7:30 in Room 213 of Memorial
Hall. This support and resource
group meets the first and third
Wednesday of each month.
Everyone is invited.
• The Young Democrats will
meet tonight at 7:30 in Room 139
of the Tate Student Center.
Visitors are welcome.
• William Moffat, a historic
preservation planner with the
Northeast Georgia Regional
Development Center will speak
on problems in rural Georgia
preservation tonight at the
Culture of the South Association
meeting. The meeting will be at
7:30 in Room 141 of the Tate
Student Center.
• The College Republicans will
meet tonight at 8 in Room 142 of
the Tate Student Center.
Everyone is invited to attend.
• The Women’s Studies Program
will present "The Causes and
Effects of Wife Abuse” by Ileana
Arias of the department of
psychology tonight at 8 in Room
120 of the psychology building.
Concerts/Exhibits
• Doctoral students Richard
Maynard and Andy Wen will be
featured in a duo saxophone and
ensemble concert tonight at 8 in
the South PJ auditorium. The
concert is free and open to the
public.
• The Visual Arts Division of
University Union announces
Janice Pittsley’s exhibition at the
Tate Student Center Gallery.
The exhibition runs through Feb.
14.
Announcements
• The Georgia Israel Network of
University Students will be
selling certificates for trees in
Israel to mark the Tu B’shuat
holiday today and Thursday at
the Tate Student Center Plaza.
Speaker finds Gandhi ‘good’ and ‘bad’;
but doesn’t conclude on fate of spirit
By GAYL BARRETT
Staff Writer
Is Gandhi in heaven? The ques
tion was largely left unanswered
by Henry Schaefer Monday night
as about 300 people packed the
Georgia Hall at the Tate Student
Center to hear him speak.
The world-renowned University
quantum chemistry professor was
invited to lecture by Campus Life,
a Christian organization.
Schaefer himself had brought up
the question with a few friends ear
lier. Inspired by the 1982 movie
based on Mohandas Gandhi,
Schaefer has read and studied
Gandhi as both a man and a
leader.
“Many people left the movie
saying ‘He was just like Jesus,”*
Schaefer said in his speech. "If the
man was truly as good as all that, I
wanted to know more about him.”
Clips from various sources were
shuffled on and off an overhead as
he spoke. From Bob Dylan to
Einstein to religion scholars to
children’s books, Schaefer tried to
formulate not only a clearer image
of Gandhi, but of heaven as well.
What he concluded was that the
concept of heaven is common to all
religions. The only idea religions
differ on is how a person can get
there. Schaefer, as a Christian,
said he believed people get to
heaven only through the belief in
Jesus Christ.
The evening then took a turn.
Was Gandhi a Christian? He
claimed to be, Schaefer said, and
no question about it, Gandhi did do
some great things. The political ac
tivist in India preached tolerance
and concern fbr others. He pre
ached pacifism and a release of
India from oppressive British rule.
But, Schaefer said, Gandhi did
some not so great things, too.
At the brink of World War II,
Gandhi wrote to Great Britain
asking them to give into German
demands.
“Hitler is not a bad man,"Gandhi
said.
In another account, Gandhi came
across not only as a misjudge of
character, but as a hypocrite as
well. Gandhi had dedicated his life
to the freedom of India from op
pressive British rule. At the same
time, Gandhi aided British forces
in suppressing black uprisings in
South Africa, Schaefer said.
There was also mention of Gan
dhi’s personal problems at the
meeting. The political activist was
said to have little concern for wife
and family. And he was said to
have written more on bowel
movements and clean bathrooms
than on politics or philosophy.
Gandhi also had a misconception
of seminal fluid, Schaefer 6aid.
Gandhi believed that mental
strength and stamina came from
unused semen that was stored in
the skull. The act of sex would ac
tually drain a man of his ability to
think and act.
When asked her reaction to
Schaefer’s negative comments on
Gandhi, Sandra Farrer, a pub
lishing management senior, said
she found the facts even-handed.
“Gandhi was just a man who ac
complished a lot of good things —
just like Martin Luther King. As
good as he was, he was just a man,
she said.
The open forum after the speech
gave rise to negative reactions
from various groups. Several
people spoke in defense of the
Hindu beliefs. It was unfortunate,
one man said, that Schaefer would
misrepresent Hinduism in defense
of Christianity.
“Hinduism is one religion that
doesn’t stress the putting down of
other religions,” the man said.
A religion major, Rena Peck,
specifically attacked Schaefer’s
claim that Hindus worshiped idols.
“It’s just not true. Hindus see
God in everything. My hand has
some of God in it. Your eyesight
has some of God in it. Everything
Henry Schaefer: Explored
the fate of Gandhi’s soul
that exists has God in it. That’s not
idolatry so much as it is a worship
of life,’’she said.
Someone else pointed out that
the bad things Schaefer found on
Gandhi could be found on Jesus as
well.
'You can probably find people
saying bad things about Jesus —
things that are just as bad as what
you’ve found on Gandhi." the man
from the audience said.
Evolution need not be the consensus
to be taught in schools, lecturer says
By LANCE HELMS
Contributing Writer
The notion of creation by God
can exist with the notion of evolu
tion if religious and scientific
truths stand alone, a professor
from the University of California,
Irvine, said Monday.
Francisco Jose Ayala made the
comments to about 200 students
and faculty at the law school audi
torium in his lecture, “Darwin and
the Bible.” He said the Bible
should be taken seriously only with
respect to religious truth, not with
respect to science.
He said it’s acceptable to look to
the Bible to see how the planets
were made, but not to learn how
they rotate.
‘The Bible is a book of religion —
looking to it for absolute truths is
blasphemous,” said Ayala
Sacred scripture is intended to
show how man can get closer to
God, not how the heavens work, he
said.
Ayala is a professor of biological
sciences and has done extensive re
search in population genetics,
ecology and evolutionary biology.
He was one of several prominent
scientists who testified in an Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union lawsuit
against the state of Arkansas.
The 1982 case came in response
to a state law requiring the Biblical
version of the world’s creation be
taught along with conventional bi
ology and evolution classes.
A federal court judge ruled that
the law was an unconstitutional in
trusion of religion.
In the lecture, Ayala addressed
the argument against teaching
evolution in school. He said evolu
tion need not be a consensus
among scientists before it’s taught.
“Geographers argue about how
the Rocky Mountains were formed
—whether this peak is higher than
the other peak — it would be fool
hardy to argue whether the Rocky
Mountains are there.”
He said the science of evolution
doesn’t mean any perfect
fact/There are many ways of
reaching the truth, and science is
only one,” he said.
Darwin Smith, associate pro
fessor of chemistry, said he
thought Ayala should have re
ferred to the conflict between evo
lution and religion as a conflict
between naturalism and religion.
Smith said naturalism implies
that science is the only true source
of knowledge. Many proponents of
evolution talk as if naturalism
were valid.
‘lie ignored what I think is the
key problem. I agree with his con
clusion, but I don’t think he dealt
with the real issues,” he said.
Other audience members agreed
that Ayala did not raise pertinent
issues.
“I think he raised some impor
tant points about not having to
have religious beliefs and science
necessarily contradict each other,”
said Pete McBrayer, a freshman
comparative literature major.
“But I wish he had addressed
the issues more directly, like
whether or not creation should be
taught in secondary schools side by
side with evolutionary thought,” he
said.
“Darwin and the Bible” was part
of the Honors Program Lecture Se
ries.
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THE BLACK AFFAIRS COUNCIL
presents
"Reflections of Our Past"
An exciting night of skits reflecting important
points in Black American history as seen through
the eyes of campus clubs and organizations.
Special Guest Entertainment:
Miss Black UGA 1989-90 - Miss Kimberly Nelson
"A Tribute to the Motherland"
Interprative Dancer - Miss Erica Tiggler
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