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Happy Valentine’s Day, UGA!
The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 62
INSIDE
“Driving Miss Daisy” is
picked as the best film of
the year by the
Entertainment staff.
Weather:Valentine’s Day will be
partly cloudy and warm. It may
rain tonight, so stay in with your
sweetie and be creative. After all,
it's still National Condom Week.
SAC makes proposals to Board of Regents
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
University representatives to the Stu
dent Advisory Council joined representa
tives from other colleges in the system in
asking the Board of Regents for im
provements in curriculum and policy
Tuesday afternoon.
The University was represented by 10
delegates, more than any other school.
Suzy Hendricks, Student Association
Junior Senator and SAC representative,
said the oard was particularly interested
in a proposal to ensure the quality of tea
ching assistants.
SAC recommended that courses be de
veloped which will ensure a minimum
standard of excellence at each unit of the
University System that employs students
in a teaching role.
“We already have it at Georgia, but
some of the schools don’t,” Hendricks
said.
University teaching assistants must
take the Test of Spoken English, she said.
Tom McDonald, regents vice chancellor
for Student Services, said the proposal
wasn’t aimed “at trashing” what the TAs
are doing but at raising the level of tea
ching.
McDonald said he agrees that it’s im
portant because of the large number of
students who are taught by teaching as
sistants.
‘They’re saying there should be a
course developed to give some prepara
tion to deal with problems,” McDonald
said.
Other proposals were:
• Recognizing American Sign Lan
guage as fulfilling foreign language re
quirements for the University System
curriculum and that it be a valid fulfil
lment of college preparatory curriculum.
• Adopting a system-wide policy
whereby training and classes in all
branches of military service could be
counted as transferrable credit according
to the American Council on Education
guide.
• Allowing students whose native
tongue isn’t English to substitute other
courses for their foreign language re
quirements.
• Requiring more academic feedback
from professors to indicate how students
are doing by the midpoint of the quarter.
• Developing child-care programs for
students, faculty and staff at all schools
in the system.
• Taking an environmental audit at
each school to determine how much they
use recyclable products, as well as
forming a campus recycling program and
an ad-hoc committee aimed at raising en
vironmental awareness.
University President Charles Knapp
already appointed committees on the en
vironment and recycling earlier this
quarter. A pilot recycling program at the
University began at the beginning of the
month.
LTSSO^S IOt LOVT,
UGA couples find time for each other
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
Who says opposites attract?
Certainly not several married
couples whose ties that bind in
clude University jobs.
‘We’ve spent almost our entire
lives at a college or university.
We have both been tenured pro
fessors,” said David Coker, exec
utive assistant to University
President Charles Knapp, who is
married to Sharon Price, acting
head of Early Childhood and
Family Developement. “It makes
an easier communication base by
working in the same environ
ment.”
His sentiments were echoed by
another married faculty couple,
Interfraternity Council Director
Ron Binder and Cooperative Ed
ucation Coordinator Karen
Binder.
“It’s nice that you can carpool
to work together,” Karen Binder
added.
Another couple, Thomas
Joiner and Anna Barbrey, both
professors in the music depart
ment, agree that they have a lot
in common, but maintaining of
fices just a few doors apart in Joe
Brown Hall causes them to make
a conscious effort not to take
work home.
Joiner said a normal couple
works during the day and shares
the details of their work at home,
whereas they share their lives all
day.
Joiner and Barbrey are also
unique in that they both serve as
the other’s boss in certain capaci
ties. As head of the string area in
the music school, Joiner is Bar-
bre/s boss. But Barbrey, as the
director of the music school’s pre
college program, becomes
Joiner’s boss when he’s involved
with the program.
And how do these professional
entanglements affect these colle
gial couples?
‘We make each other better,”
Joiner said. “Better teachers and
performers.”
Price said, ‘We have on awful
good time being a part of each
other’s lives.”
Like other marriages that in
volve partners who both have
professional careers, faculty cou
ples lead busy lives and some
times are hard-pressed to find
time to spend together.
This week, Sharon Binder will
be in Atlanta at a convention and
home on the weekend while hus
band Ron will journey to Atlanta
on the weekend.
“It’s a challenge. The breaks
are nice, though,” Ron Binder
said, referring to holidays.
Coker and Price also said their
tight schedules make time for
themselves a rarity.
Ties that bind: Above,
Thomas Joiner and Anna
Barbrey make beautiful
music together. Right, Ron
and Karen Binder share a
moment at the office.
“I think we manage to have
lunch together once a month,”
Price said.
She also said thev try to keep
their Friday nights free and all to
themselves.
None of the couples have spe
cific Valentine’s Day plans, other
than keeping their busy sched
ules at the University.
Rockfish to hold Amnesty benefit this evening
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
Three bands will help Athens Amnesty Inter
national educate people about human rights vi
olations and raise money to push for the release
of political prisoners worldwide at a Valentine’s
Day benefit tonight.
Mercvland will headline the benefit at the
Rockfish Palace after the Groove Trolls and In
spected by 12 open up at 9 p.m. Deacon
Lunchbox, musician and poet, will forego a pre
vious engagement in Atlanta to emcee the ben
efit. He will perform between sets.
All proceeds from the $5 cover charge will go
to the Athens and University chapters of Am
nesty International, said Hogai Nassery, the di
rector of the University’s chapter. The money
will be used fund the group’s newsletter and to
mail Urgent Action letters, which members
write at monthly meetings.
With more than 500,000 members in more
than 150 countries, Amnesty International
works for human rights all over the world.
The local chapters work for the release of po
litical prisoners worldwide. The campus group
works to educate students on human rights.
Although the campus group’s typical meet
ings have good attendance, Nassery said many
interested students have told her in the past
they weren’t aware of the group’s existence.
“Some people say, ‘Oh, Amnesty doesn’t
work, you're just a bunch of liberaf, middle-
class kids writing letters and thinking you can
change the world,’ ” Nassery said.
‘These people don’t realize that to a lot of
people in this world, we’re the only hope they
have,” she said.
Urgent Action letters are written in response
to reports of ur\just arrests issued from Am
nesty International’s main office. The reports
include addresses of officials in the prisoner’s
country. Local members send letters on behalf
of the prisoners who are in immediate danger of
torture or execution.
Money from the benefit will allow the
campus group to mail these letters collectively
instead of asking members to mail their own,
Nassery said.
Larry Lumb, guitar and bass player for the
Groove Trolls, said Amnesty International’s ef
forts to protect First Amendment freedoms of
speech, in this country and in others, drew him
to the organization.
The Groove Trolls have been on sabbatical
and haven’t done any paid shows since last
quarter, he said. However, they’ve done bene
fits for the environmental e.a.r.t.h. organiza
tion, the Athens Homeless Shelter and
Greenpeace since then.
Nassery will discuss the group’s goals during
the benefit. Anyone wanting to receive the Am
nesty International newsletter can sign up for
it there.
Proceeds from the sale of a book of poetry by
Deacon Lunchbox also will go to Amnesty.
Valentine’s Day
may cause blues
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Today you may see red roses,
balloons, hearts and sweethearts.
But Valentine’s Day doesn’t mean
happiness for everyone.
Many people are depressed
during the week of Valentine’s
Day.
Roger Rhoades, a clinical thera
pist at Psychiatric Health Services
in Athens, said Valentine’s Day de
pression is a product of “magical
thinking."
A person will believe everybody
is in love or getting presents,
Rhoades said. People have expecta
tions of being deeply in love and be
lieve this day should be extra
special.
“Valentine’s Day puts pressure
on people to have above-the-norm
love,” he said.
Even people who have a fairly
decent relationship may get de
pressed because it doesn’t have a
“spark,” Rhoades said. People also
may become depressed if they focus
on past experiences such as a
former boyfriend or girlfriend.
Mike Slavit, a psychologist at
the Counseling and Testing
Center, said many students who
are anxious to have a romantic
relationship, or who aren’t satisi-
fied with their current one, may be
come depressed this week.
“Among seniors, those who
aren’t sure about what they’re
going to do after graduation, don’t
have a relationship and know their
college experience is coming to an
end may have difficulty," Slavit
said.
If someone is single, he or she
mnv only notice couples and won’t
realize there are other single
people around, Slavit said.
“When we look around the world
and see something we lack, we’ll
notice those who have it,” Slavit
said.
People who have been picked on
or teased as children may feel infe
rior and be more susceptible to de
pression, he said. If they felt their
worth in the family depended on
meeting some standards such as
making good grades, they may also
have problems.
‘The person may get over it and
the feelings may go away, but they
may be touched on later,” Slavit
said.
Rhoades said a person with an
addiction in their family back
ground may be more susceptible to
depression. Women have also
shown more of a tendency to be de-
‘When we look around
the world and see
something we lack,
we’ll notice those who
have it.’
Mike Slavit,
psychologist,
Counseling and
Testing Center
■ Signals
• Refusal to take part in usual
pastimes.
• Decrease in sense of humor.
• An appetite loss.
• Lower intensity when dis- i
cussing matters important to the
person.
• Lack of attention to dress and
grooming.
• Complaints about waking up
too early in the morning.
• An inability to sit still.
• Difficulty in concentrating.
• Anxious or agitated behavior,
in an effort to keep going instead
of facing feelings.
• Lack of sleep.
pressed than men.
Slavit said as Valentine’s week
draws to a close lonely people may
turn back to tasks, leisure activ
ities, friends and a sense of well
being.
“If they’re not successful," he
said,“the person may be in
danger.”
Slavit offered these hints in
dealing with depression:
• Don’t fight it, see it ns an op
portunity to get in touch with your
true feelings.
• Expect less of yourself and cut
down on your normal list of activ
ities.
• Make arrangements to be
around people you like or do activ
ities you enjoy.
• Avoid alcohol.
• Exercise and go outdoors.
• Eat balanced meals and go to
bed and wake up at regular times.
• Avoid people who criticize you
and realize that life will improve.
Free help is available for all stu
dents at the Counseling and
Testing Center located in Clark
Howell Hall, Slavit said.
A condom conundrum
Michael Fuchs, a junior criminal justice major and Valentine’s Day enthusiast, tries to hand Reverend Jim a
packet of condoms and a pamphlet at the Tate Center plaza, where Jim was preaching Tuesday.
Recycling program tests the waters
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
After its first full week in operation, the Recycling
Task Force’s pilot program is already identifying
problems that could have plagued a future campus
wide effort, said James TenBrook, chairman of the
task force and director of the University’s Physical
Plant.
“We’re getting good information for our campus
wide program. So in that respect, it’s been a success,”
TenBrook said.
“We think we are on to something here,” he said.
Missy Bowen, president of Students for Environ
mental Awareness, agrees.
“I like it (the pilot program) so far; it looks like it’s
going pretty well,” she said.
The task force will provide University President
Charles Knapp with its recommendations for a Uni
versity-wide recycling program at the end of March.
The full-scale operation should begin in June.
TenBrook said a few bugs will have to be worked
out before then, however.
“We’re not efficient at it (collecting materials).
Well find better ways of doing it, though,” he said.
According to TenBrook, the best surprise has been
the large amount of office stock paper the University
has collected thus far.
‘Taper is a standing room only hit,” he said.
However, the Physical Plant needs to develop a
more efficient means of collecting the paper, he said.
Other types of paper, such as newspaper, haven t
been so popular with the vendors who buy the
materials from the University.
“We’ve been told there’s a glut in the market in
newspapers," he said. The task force still found a
vendor who’ll accept them, however.
In response to complaints about having to carry
disposable items to a central container on each
building floor, TenBrook said he plans to propose
that regular trash cans become cans for recyclable of
fice paper and central cans be placed for other trash.
Glass hasn’t been as popular as paper, probably
because no one uses glass containers, TenBrook said.
Aluminum hasn’t been popular either. He said the
reason was probably because departments on
campus were already recycling it for themselves.
Ann Hoffman, Residence Life coordinator for Reed
Community, said the residents of Reed, Payne, and
Milledge halls have been supportive of the project.
The only problem is a shortage of containers to hold
the large amount of discarded newspapers and pizza
boxes, she said.
Buildings currently recycling aluminum, paper
and glass for the pilot program are the main library,
the School of Law, Brooks Hall, Old College, New
College, the Business Services Building, the grad
uate studies building, Hardman Hall, the ecology
building, the School of Forest Resources, the physical
education and pharmacy buildings and Reed, Mil-
ledge and Pavne residence halls.