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A review of Everything
But The Girl’s latest
album, ‘Language of Life.’
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SOME ADVICE: Celebrate
National Orgasm Week. Don't do
anything we wouldn't over break.
MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 81
Dudley Park: Robert Kuhn and Meera Sub-
ramanian planting?or Earth Day
20th annual celebration
Biggest Earth Day ever?
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
With the 20th annual Earth Day cele
bration only a few weeks away, local en
vironmentalists are working to make
this year’s event the biggest ever.
In addition to members of Students for
Environmental Awareness and the Envi
ronmental Health Science Club, local
artists, musicians, politicians and activ
ists — even a few kindergarten kids —
are getting ready for Earth Day.
*This is going to be big,” said Pete
Schrantz, assistant coordinator for the
Northeast Georgia Earth Day com
mittee, which is helping local commu
nities plan Earth Day celebrations.
“Your campus is getting a new stance on
the environment.”
The first Earth Day took place in 1970.
Its organizers stressed the fragility of
the environment and encouraged people
to preserve nature.
Four years ago, Schrantz and a few
friends put together the first Earth Day
celebration in Athens. Since then, partic
ipation has grown steadily.
This year there will be about 50
people in Athens helping to set up the
Earth Day celebration, which is ob
served worldwide on April 22.
Schrantz said Earth Day will be bigger
in Georgia this year for several reasons.
The National Earth Day committee re
cently declared Atlanta a representative
city —which means it’s eligible to receive
publications and supplies to help plan
the event — and Athens and Augusta
both volunteered to sponsor Earth Day
celebrations this year.
Also, increased publicity about envi
ronmental destruction has sparked more
interest in saving nature and more par
ticipation in Earth Day.
Such publicity has helped to boost the
active membership of groups such as
Students for Environmental Awareness,
which Schrantz said have played a
rrnyor role in promoting environmental
awareness and in planning this year’s
Earth Day at the University.
“SEA this year is literally above and
beyond the call of duty,” he said. ‘They
should be recognized nationally for what
they’re doing.”
Schrantz said members of SEA and
other concerned students have been
meeting at 8 p.m. every Tuesday at the
Tate Student Center. At the meetings
the students plan Earth Bay and other
events that will take place that week.
SEA also plans to hold a separate
Earth Day celebration on campus April
20. It will feature speakers and live
music, and the group will hand out infor
mation on the environment.
Melissa Bowen, a longtime member of
SEA, remembers when the group had
only 10 or 11 active members. It now has
three or four times that, she said, and
she expects Earth Day to show similar
growth.
Although environmentalists were once
dismissed as radicals or worse, the Uni
versity and the city of Athens have
shown support for Earth Day this year,
said Pam Reddick, a coordinator for
Northeast Georgia Earth Day.
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Condom advertising
changes with times
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
Hodgson’s Pharmacy has a com
plete stock of condoms, now hot
sellers becuse of the sexually
transmitted disease scare, but,
pharmacist Chester Sosebee said,
“about four years ago we almost
quit selling them.”
Sosebee said they’re selling six
times as many as four years ago
and women are buying condoms
with greater frequency.
‘They seem to buy them and it’s
no big deal,” he said.
However, Sosebee said men typ
ically become nervous and embar
rassed, especially when female
clerks try to help them.
This amuses me because one
assumes they’re going to use them
on women,” he said.
Now some companies are pack
aging them to appeal to women,
Sosebee said, and tne store has put
same over near the feminine ny-
gene products, in addition to
having them behind the counter.
With increasing sales and the di
minishing stigma of using con
doms, there has been a change in
marketing them.
Trojan brand condoms has
launched a new advertising cam
paign just in time for spring break.
Clad in a suit of Trojan armor, a
live Trojan Man is carrying the
message of safe sex to students at
Daytona Beach, Fla., this week.
He’s making an appearance at
the Trojan booth in Ocean Center,
a trade exhibition, as well as drop
ping in at Daytona nightclubs, pool
decks and beaches, Mark Klein,
vice president of marketing at
Carter-Wallace, Trojans’ parent
company, said.
Klein said Trojan Man will hand
out condoms and Trojan Gold
cards.
Aimed at reducing the embar
rassment of buying condoms, the
cards are the size of a credit card
and cany the message, “May I
please have a box of Trojan con
doms?”
Dean M. Krugman, a professor
in the College of Journalism and
Mass Communication, agrees that
condom advertising has changed
over the years.
“Condom advertising has been a
controversial subject for several
years,” Krugman said. “With the
crisis of AIDS and other sexually
transmitted diseases, there’s been
a rethinking of making condom ads
public over the airwaves.
Although the mqjor networks
haven’t aired condom ads, some
local stations have experimented
with them.
In response to the Trojan cam
paign, Krugman said, “Whether
that’s hitting the targeted market,
they’ll soon find out”
Sosebee said Hodgson’s used to
carry a lot of the natural skin con
doms made from sheep intestine.
“Only one condom can be made
Please See TROJAN, Page 7
Fla. resorts
attempting
to exclude
By DARA McLEOD
Staff Writer
Although some resort cities are
going out of their way to ensure
that collegiate spring breaks are
filled with fun and sun, other re
sorts are hoping to attract only the
most well-behaved revelers, pre
ferably those over 25 or those
willing to put up deposits of up to
$500.
Georgia Carter, publicity di
rector for Destination Daytona,
said rumors have been circulating
that Daytona Beach doesn’t want
students visiting for spring break.
But she said those rumors are
Trojan Man: Will be handing out Trojan Gold cards in Day
tona Beach, Ra. throughout this week
wrong.
Daytona is expecting more than
400,000 “spring breakers,” she
said.
A Spring Break Festival Task
Force has been formed to help deal
with traffic problems, increase po
lice protection, campaign against
drunk driving and encourage ho
tels to step up their own security,
Carter said.
“If you’re going to party, party
smart,” she said.
Some of the many events Day
tona has in store include concerts,
sporting events, a beauty pageant
and promotional events sponsored
by Miller Brewing Company, Ha
waiian Tnroic, Jeep Eagle and
Plymouth Motor Company.
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