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4 • The Red and Black • Wednesday, February 21, 1990
OPINIONS
"The University needs to reflect the cultural diversity of the
state." — University President Charles Knapp on minority stu
dent and faculty recruitment.
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Charlene Smith/Editor-in-Chief
Amy Bellew/Managing Editor
Robert Todd/Opinions Editor
■ EDITORIALS
Good for the goose
Earlier this week, the State Senate Special
Judiciary Committee approved a bill which, if passed
by the Legislature, will require all elected officials to
undergo drug testing.
Drug testing of all state employees is an invasion of
privacy, and legislators like Sen. Ken Fuller, D-Rome,
who have opposed the testing deserve praise for their
efforts. Fuller continues to challenge drug testing and
opposes the new proposal.
However, what’s good for the goose is good for the
gander. If legislators are going to require state
employees to take the tests, then they damn well better
be ready to deliver some samples of their own.
In the midst of its drug-war fever this session, the
Legislature voted to randomly test state employees for
drug use. Now it’s time for the Legislature to act
accordingly. The committee’s proposal shows that
legislators are willing to subject themselves to the
same standards they are willing to impose upon others.
The proposal now goes to the Senate Rules
Committee and must get a spot on the Senate calendar.
It’s up to the full Senate, and the rest of the
Legislature, to put its money where its mouth is and
pass this proposal as a sign of good faith.
Unwarranted
How many police departments does it take to cover
a small college town? Well, so far the Athens area has
three off-campus patrols: the Athens Police
Department, the Clarke County Police Department
and the Clarke County Sheriffs Department.
On campus, add one more: the University Police
Department.
If the State Legislature gets its way, the campus
police at University System institutions will also be
able to conduct searches off campus. That just isn’t
necessary with the abundance of police that would be
able to conduct the searches for the campus police.
The University police are always complaining
about their lack of personnel. Extending their
jurisdiction and responsibilities will contribute to this
problem. If the need should arise for the University
police to search a car, apartment or any other place off-
campus, there is a plethera of other law enforcement
agencies in the area available to help. University police
belong on campus, there’s enough crime here to keep
them busy.
Additionally, allowing University police off campus
raises questions about the University’s liabilities in
such cases.
The bill to allow campus police to serve search
warrants off-campus has passed the state Senate and
now faces a House vote. Maybe the state
Representatives will realize that there are enough
police around here to fight a war and extending even
partial jurisdiction to one more department is
unwarranted.
Go Dogs
Head Football Coach Ray Goff and his entire staff
have garnered the very best recruiting class in the
region, if not the country, to help build the 1990
Bulldogs.
Andre Hastings completes a distinguished list of 25
recruits Georgia lured away from Florida State,
Alabama, Notre Dame and, of course, that armpit of
the Southeast, Auburn. The recruiting staff has much
to be proud of for its hard work in convincing these
incoming freshmen that Georgia is the best place to
spend their college careers. Now, let’s see what Goffs
coaching staff can do with all this talent.
STAFF
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THEM COO SA1PTO 6UBBAIR NORTH GEORGIA,
"BUY THE LARGEST TIF£S yoU CAN AFFORD,
AMD PUT TWO OF EVERY AUTOMATIC WEAPON
IN THE BACK...'*
Transit horror, catch a bus in the rain
Last week I had a harrowing experience with
campus transit. It all started while I was pa
tiently waiting in front of the Tate center for
my bus.
As I stood there, ominous black clouds began
to gather above in a swirling, threatening
manner as a harsh wind chilled me to my
bones. I looked up at the darkness of the sky.
Looking back down, I noticed a host of jostling
students had taken refuge in the bus shelter.I
thought perhaps I could somehow squeeze my
self into the crowd, but I was quickly brought to
reality when a young woman wearing a beehive
hairdo and a skull and cross-bones brooch flip
pantly pressed some secret button on her um
brella. It flung itself open into a mushroom
cloud and sent me reeling on my backside.
As I picked up myself and my bookbag, a hor
rendous thunderclap like the boom of a cannon
sent shockwaves through my body and a
blinding flash of lightning split the heavens. A
tempest of rain then descended upon me in tor
rents.
There I stood in the thunder, lightning and
rain. I thought salvation had found me when
the bus pulled up. Its doors flew back; an av
alanche of humanity rolled out and was met by
a surge from those evacuating the shelter. I was
in the middle. When I regained consciousness
the bus was gone and a new group of students
had packed themselves into the shelter.
Steven
Sacco
Again I picked myself up as the rain came
down. Two University cops then rode by in a
comfortably dry-looking sedan. As they passed
they laughed uproariously at me and pointed.
In doing so they inspired the entire population
■of the shelter to do likewise.
Naturally, I was determined to regain my
self-esteem and secure a place on the next
available bus.
As it pulled up I recalled my Army bootcamp,
adjusted my bookbag, and spearheaded onto it
like a human projectile. I was on all right - so
were a million others.
The bus moved slowly up Sanford drive with
a day in the life/ blarring over the cackling
speakers. I dragged a comb across my head and
went into a dream that the bus system had
been replaced with a device that operated only
by the command: beam me up Scotty. I was
flung back from this escape as we came to an
abrupt stop and everyone was suddenly sitting
in the seat in front of him. I disembarked.
As the bus pulled away it left a billowing
smoke screen of black exhaust which I inadver
tently inhaled deeply. I coughed, choked and
hacked my way across the street wondering if
my $24.50 transportation fee was well spent.
When I reached tne other side, another campus
bus labored toward me. It drove directly
through a huge Georgia red-clay colored mud
puddle and sent a towering wall of foul smelling
sludge crashing down upon me like a tidal
wave. Just then, the woman I have secretly
been in love with since childhood walked by me
and frowned.
I got hypothermia, and have subsequently
been diagnosed with lung cancer. The doctor
said it was transit lung, a terminal disease. My
chances of living are purely academic.
I must say the system does have one re
deeming quality. The buses are all so cleverly
labeled. NS for north-south, EW for east-west
and so on. Clever indeed, but wouldn't it be a
whole lot more accurate to simply call them all
BS?
Steve Sacco is a columnist for The Red and
Black.
Courtesy disappearing from our world
Debbie’s long blonde hair glistened in the
sunlight. Guys drove by, honking and waving,
obviously mistaking the look of desperation on
her face for wanton desire. I trudged to the
nearest gas station where the attendent glee
fully told me that he’d just driven by me and my
broken-down car. Unfortunately, gas wasn’t the
only thing my car needed, and long afler the at
tendee's girlfriend had dropped me off with a
gallon of gas, Debbie and I were still out on the
highway trying to flag someone down.
As Debbie and I were waving at truck
drivers, fraternity guys, housewives and even a
few people who looked like they might actually
have some where to go, I counted more than 100
cars in a five-minute period. That means that
in the two hours we were stranded more than
1000 cars passed us by without a second
thought, including three police cars. Even as
suming that the sight of two clean-cut girls on
the side of the road in a North Carolina college
town was threatening to all of these Sunday af
ternoon drivers, it seems as if at the very least
one of these people could have taken a moment
to call somebody to help us.
Throughout the entire afternoon I asked my
self and a broad assortment of gas station at
tendees and mechanics Wiat the $%!?! has
happened to Southern hospitality?
It is undeniably, irrefutably true that the
genteel manners of society are crumbling. Can
Molly
Mednikow
you hardly blame a guy for not opening doors
for ladies when half the time he is blasted by a
feminist who accuses him of chauvinism? But is
this any excuse for guys and girls alike to let
doors slam in the face of people walking directly
behind them? How do you suppose Emily Post
woq)d have reacted to her boyfriend making
unnientionable noises in public and then
blaming it on her?
We live in a world where pizza delivery guys
drop your pizza and make off with your money
ana tip before you even realize that all the
cheese is stuck to the top of the box. Fast food
restaurants don’t seem to realize civilized
people like to use napkins with their to go or
ders. The underside of my car seat has just
about run out of clean areas for me to wipe my
hands.
Even though these atrocities can be ex
plained away as mistakes, don’t they indicate a
general trend toward laziness in our society?
And laziness is one of the least colorful words
that I can find to describe people who, despite
an abundance of parking on the street, insist on
parking in their front yard. Surely everyone on
campus can relate to trying to squeeze onto a
bus when there is plenty of space in the middle
aisle, but people don’t txither to move up a few
feet.
In my short lifetime I can remember when
gas stations were REALLY full service. Nowa
days, gas stations are apt to close down their
full service sections (if tney even have one) at
the first sign of rain.
It really seems as if an era is coming to an
end. Respect and consideration for others is no
longer the priority that it used to be in the
South. Will there come a day when the term
'Southern hospitality* is used in reference to
Mexico’s tourist industry? Don’t misunderstand
me; I still prefer the South to the pack of slo
venly, mannerless, heathens in New York who
communicate solely through the use of obscene
arm gestures. The South has yet to completely
transcend those violations of basic speech.
When it does, HI have to start practicing my
Spanish.
Molly Mednikow is a columnist for The Red and
Black.
Kelly wrong and inhumane
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and Black's offices at 123 N. Jackon St. Athens. Ga.
Tm writing to respond to Scott
Kelly's editorial (Feb. 9). He sug
gests we cut back AIDS-research
funding because the only way to re
strict the spread of the virus is to
practice safe sex. So what of the
people who don’t get AIDS from sex
or IV drug use?
It is true researchers shouldn’t
ignore other diseases, but AIDS is
causing the deaths of more and
more people and urgently needs at
tention. Kelly states “a cure for
AIDS isn’t on the horizon” but this
just isn’t the case. Drugs such as
AZT, Pentamidine, Compound Q
and DDI have been developed and
greatly slow down the effects of the
virus. Recently, an Atlanta news
paper reported that results of a
bone-marrow transplant in an
AIDS patient have been an encour
aging step in eliminating AIDS
from the body.
Kelly also states it is “foolish” to
“prolong the victims’ lives or re
duce their pain” for no reason. His
attitude is that we shouldn’t bother
to help them because they will die
fairly soon anyway. This way of
thinking is terribly inhumane.
Many people with AIDS are well-
adjusted and still lead productive
and happy lives.
Nancy J. Evan*
senior, engtlsh
End racial ignorance
I am a white female and earlier
this week, I encountered a verv
frustrating experience which
inspired me to submit this letter. I
was on campus taking pictures for
my photography class, when some
balloons swaying in front of the
Tate Center caught my attention.
A black male student was standing
amongst the balloons and I asked
his permission to take the picture
with him in it. As I proceeded to
focus the shot, a car of white male
students rode by and shouted ra
cial obscenities.
We have gone too many years
now hating one another. There was
no need for such an ignorant, cruel
remark. Each of us is a person with
feelings and emotions. Why pur
posely try and hurt and violate an
other human being? The time has
come for us to open our minds to
the people around us and accept
those people for who they are and
not by their color or religion.
This isn’t just a black-white
issue; this is an issue of people ev
erywhere. Let’s try putting an end
to ignorance and close-minded-
neaa.
Amanda Llebl
Junior, Journalism
Computer tests stink
What kind of institution would
put a math course on a computer
and grade students’ computer
skills? The system is ridiculous.
Why should one be penalized for a
typographical error rather than a
mathematical one? The computer
system eliminates any partial
credit as well as reducing student-
/teacher feedback.
More students are taking these
courses elsewhere, which is costly
and creates extra scheduling prob
lems if the student works.
Frank Clayton
senior, International business