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4 • The Red and Black • Fnday, March 16, 1990
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OPINIONS
The Red & Black
Established 1893—Incorporated 1980
An independent student neu spaper not affiliated with the University of Georgia
Charlene Smith/Editor-in-Chief
Amy Bellew/Managing Editor
Robert Todd/Opinions Editor
■ EDITORIALS
Admirable efforts
Since we won’t be here at the end of this month, we
are giving out The Red and Black’s “Job Well Done”
awards a little early. Even though March is only half
way over, the University community has been very
active and successful. A special congratulations to all
the following for their exemplary efforts.
• Sophomore Student Association Senator Susie
Griffin for establishing the new “I’m Driving” program
with local restaurants and taverns. Under the
program, about 18 local bars and restaurants agreed to
provide free soft drinks to student designated drivers.
• All the local bars and restaurants that agreed to
participate in the “I’m Driving” program.
• The University debate team which is headed to
the national finals during spring break. This is te first
time the Univeristy team has made it to the finals since
1977.
• University Sophomore Gina Tolleson who was
selected as first runner-up in the Miss USA
competition.
• Dr. Karen Swalec of the College of Veterinary
Medicine who successfully performed heart surgery on
a small puppy. The life saving operation had to be
completed within three minutes.
• ROTC Cadet Gregory Fryer who was selected for
Bethesda military medical school.
• SA senators and members of the University’s
Young Democrats who travelled to the nation’s capital
to lobby against cuts in financial aid for higher
education.
• Douglas Bachtel, Ouida Meier and all those
responsible for developing the new Graduate Student
Association.
• Lady Bulldog tracksters Jolly Earle and Trisha
Carter who made it to the NCAA Track and Field
Championships in Indianapolis, Ind.
• Students for Environmental Awareness who took
the initiative to conduct an environmental audit of the
University and pass their findings on to the
administration.
• All the new members of Phi Kappa Phi, the
national scholastic honor society.
• Univeristy students Peter Fletcher and Andy
Wen who have been chosen as national finalist to
compete in the Music Teachers’ National Association of
Collegiate Artists Competition.
• Lady Hardmon selected to the women’s All-SEC
first team. She was the only player selected who didn’t
participate in the conference tournament finals.
• The University men’s and women’s basketball
team both of which received invitations to participate
in their respective NCAA championship tournaments.
• Alec Kessler, selected as an Academic All-
American, and Litterial Green who both received
Honorable Mention in The Associated Press All-
American voting.
• Men’s Head Basketball Coach Hugh Durham who
was selected as Southeastern Conference Coach of the
Year.
Over zealous
Even the most admirable of beliefs can be taken too
far. When this happens, the cause suffers. If anything,
zealotry is counterproductive.
Not flushing toilets to protest water waste, blowing
up abortion clinics, throwing blood on women wearing
furs or condemning an author to death don’t inspire
others to rally behind one’s cause. They alienate it.
Before turning to fanaticism, remember that there
is an enormous pool of options for solving problems. Let
common sense prevail.
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POLMH> 16 WVEN A LAFttR ROLE
IKIHCiSWAAK MICATIONW
Surviving at the University dining halls
On the surface what can one say about the
University Food Services, or the dinning halls?
Mo6t of us simply eat our meals there daily,
without giving much thought to what goes on
behind the scenes. Recently I spoke with sev
eral different employees from each of the re
spective dinning halls, and based on those
conversations, here is your offical survival
guide to UGA dining halls.
THE GOOD
• All the dairy products (ice cream, milk,
whipped cream). They are made on campus and
dispensed in clean, safe containers.
• The biscuits. They are made fresh daily.
• The pancakes are USUALLY alright, but
use your own judgement.
• The waffles at O’House. The batter is fresh
and good.
• The cakes, pies, and cobblers. They are
made by “good folks,” according to sources in
dining halls.
• The Coke products are safe.
• The donuts are made fresh daily, a wise
choice.
• The dried fruits: not much can happen to
them, bugs don’t even like them!
THE BAD
For God sakes, stay away from:
• The cereal, it is infested by bugs and cer
tain unknowns. This is due to the fact that it is
left out in loose containers overnight.
• Any fruit on the salad bar: the fresh fruit is
mixed with old fruit constantly. If you chose to
eat it anyway, only graze the fruit from the top,
DON’T dig to bottom- It’s at your own risk!
• The bacon, sausage, or anything made with
grease-- Because of the way that they are
cooked, the food soaks in grease which makes it
cholesterol heaven. The grease, however is left
out ALL night and roaches just LOVE grease!
• Anything called casserole, those products
Richard
hidden under cheese or a special sauce. It is the
ancient food that they couldn’t get rid of any
other way- BUYER BEWARE!
• The Turkey dressing, or anything made “by
hand,” because it is TRULY made by
hand...and arms... and shoulder... etc..
• The frozen yogurt, the inside of the ma
chine is disgusting.
• The roast beef on Sunday. It is still
breathing (burned on the outside, but bleeding
on the inside)
• The baked potatoes. They are left out for
ever, and ever!
• The pizza, if you only read the box it came
in- artifical everything!
• Remember, all the dinning hall meats, with
a few exceptions are Grade D, “but edible.”
Keep that in mind, as you walk through the line
and chose your entree.
• The toast at breakfast. It is actually the
bread from yesterday that sat out all day at the
deli; then it sat, poorly covered in the kitchen
overnight, for insects to crawl over it- and fi
nally to your plate the next morning.
THE UGLY (other suggestions, from em
ployees who know)
• clean your silverware, wipe the rim of your
glass, check your plates (twice) and say your
prayers!
• If it falls on the floor, consider it diseased!
The vacuums don’t sanitize the filthy floors
that everyone has walked on since the respec
tive dinning hall was built!
• Wash your hands after touching the elec
tric hand machine- Everybody else has
touched it, including you!
ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS
Each of the persons that were contacted gave
the cooks the highest praise for “doing the best
with what they had to work with.” When asked
what was the best dining hall to eat at, Ogelth-
rope House won hands down. O’House was
praised highly for good management, a
pleasant atmosphere, and good cleanliness.
Snelling was a distant second. Despite rea
sonably good cleanliness and a pleasant atmo
sphere, the temperature is always too HOT or
too COLD. The management was rated fair at
best. Bolton was dead last. The only good thing
said about Bolton was that it has potiental for
good management in the future. Criticisms
ranged from poor management, a severe insect
and rodent problem, and fair cleanliness at
best.
The one thing that was stressed, is that the
problems mentioned above could be corrected
and the adminstration could help. Instead of
making an ocassional appearance at a dinning
hall once or twice a quarter administrators
should take a close look at the behind the
scenes operations. As students, we pay almost
$500 dollars a quarter, the adminstation, and
the food services officals could at least take a
look at that exist in the dinning halls and try to
correct them.
Richard Martin is a columnist for The Red and
Black.
Wrong Howard gets abuse
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and Black s offices at 123 N. Jackon St., Athens. Ga.
As I sleepily perused the front
page of The Red and Black on Feb.
22, I ran across an article with my
name in it, sort of. The article re
ported the story of how one Eugene
Howard was charged with the mis
demeanor of pet abandonment.
Well, my name is also Eugene
Howard, and in the week that fol
lowed the story I was approached
by students and teachers asking
about the incident. It is a classic
case of mistaken identity.
I’m not the Eugene Howard re
ferred to in the article, for Tm a zo
ology major, while he is a drama
major. I do know him, for we met in
Freshman Orientation. I see him
from time to time on campus, and
he is a very nice person. I must say
that I think there is more to the
story than was reported, for he’s
nothing like the character de
scribed in the article, and he didn’t
have a chance to defend his actions
in the report.
When one-sided articles Eire
printed, the problem becomes
great: for now those uninvolved in
the story have to answer for some
thing they didn’t do. I suggest you
try harder to identify students, so
name problems like this don’t
happen, and you allow students
like Eugene Howard (the drama
m^jor) a chance to tell his side.
Eugene M. Howard
junior, zoology
Editor’s note: Eugene Howard, a ju
nior drama major, was given an
opportunity to comment at the time
the story was written. However,
Howard declined to do so.
Just sitting in bars
I am writing in response to the
column “Changing channel won’t
change world” by Maureen Maher
(March 6).
What exactly is the point of her
column? Is she trying to blame
world hunger on beauty pageants?
The comparison she made between
starving nations and beauty pag
eants seems ludicrous in light of
the fact that she makes these re
marks in a beachside bar while sip
ping on a brewski! It doesn’t
appear that she is striking a blow
against world hunger any more
than the beauty queens she so ad
amantly condemns. In fact, these
“fictional women” have obligations
to attend numerous charity func
tions and fundraisers. Believe it or
not, many are socially aware and
are active in causes they believe in.
This seems to be more than Maher
has done. The money that she
spent on beer that night could have
been used to feed a starving child
in Mozambique for weeks or even
months.
It seems that Maher suffers
from a common attitude problem —
too much saying and not enough
doing. Before she points fingers
and starts calling pageant winners
superficial, she should take a long
hard look at herself.
Or maybe she should join the
Peace Corps.
Jennifer Patti
Junior, muelc
Currant out of line
In response to Paul Currant’s
letter which suggests solutions for
the University’s problems.
He mentioned Princeton as a
school in a category we will be con
tinually left out of. But we may
well have to play Princeton in this
year’s NCAA basketball tourna
ment. I don’t see successful basket
ball hurting the reputation of
either school. Maybe if we cancel
our football and basketball pro
grams then other slack schools like
Notre Dame and Duke will follow,
just to keep up. Georgia Tech beat
us in football and basketball this
year. Does this better our academic
reputation or worsen theirs?
Currant mentioned increasing
faculty salaries by 50 percent, but
would increased salaries directly
improve instruction? Maybe he
could talk the state legislature into
giving us more money.
He also mentioned that we
should get serious about Afro-
Americani8m. I don’t think that
anyone would consider changing
flags and increasing janitorial pay
as “getting serious” about Afro-
Americanism. Problems of this na
ture are much more deeply rooted
than he suggests.
The University has a good bal
ance of fun, athletics and aca
demics.
Mark Hammond
sophomore, political science
Knapp courtship good
The ignorance quotient of The
Red and Black editorial page
reached an all-time high with its
rambling March 14 attack on Pres
ident Knapp. Apparently it still
hasn’t dawned on The Red and
Black that the University has one
of the country's premier university
presidents at its helm. The Univer
sity of Virginia wasn’t recruiting
losers to be its new president. Vir
ginia was in a position to pick and
choose from among the very best
people in higher education admin
istration.
There’s nothing unusual about
university presidents or faculty
members being recruited by rival
institutions. We will know that the
University is really in trouble
when our people stop getting out
side courtships and offers. The in
stitution that defines disloyalty as
being willing to listen to outside of
fers is destined for mediocrity. A
great university is characterized
by a faculty that is continuously
saying “no” to other academic op
portunities. As I write, the chem
istry department here at Georgia is
doing its best to fend off substan
tial outside offers to two of its most
talented faculty (not me!), and the
word “disloyalty” has never been
mentioned. I am delighted that
President Knapp has decided to
stay at Georgia. In the eyes of the
rest of the academic world, the
University moved up several
notches this month.
Henry F. Schaefer III
director, Center for Computational
Quantum Chemistry
Nassery bashing
On most days I er\joy reading
The Red and Black, but on certain
days this paper makes me so mad
that I get the urge to blow up its
printing press. Who is the lunatic
who allows Hogai Nassery to write
a column?
I plead with the editors of The
Red and Black to never again sub
ject the student body of this great
University to the ridiculous
whining and babbling of Hogai
Nassery
Robert D. Sanders
senior, business manaQamant