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The Red and Black / Finals • Monday, March 19, 1990 • 9
ACLU to form UGA
chapter in spring
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
The University will have a new
voice for freedom if one group of
students succeeds in forming a
University chapter of the Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union.
Cathy Mills, a junior journalism
mqjor who is helping form the
group, said the organization will
promote the rights of University
students and act as a non-partisan
forum for examining issues that af
fect students.
‘The ACLU does a whole lot of
good. It would make students
aware of their rights that could be
abused bv the police or UGA offi
cials,” Mills said.
Students would benefit from the
formation of a student chapter of
the ACLU because laywers would
be available for consultaion on is
sues concerning students’ rights,
she said.
John O’Looney, president of the
Athens ACLU chapter, said the na
tional organization advocates the
rights and liberties guaranteed in
the U.S. Constitution.
A University chapter would be
beneficial to students and the
Athens chapter would work closely
with a student chapter, O’Looney
said.
“Students are often considered
as second-class citizens because of
their age and the fact that they
don’t have lawyers,” he said.
O’Looney says that there are
many student-oriented issues that
might not be as closely examined
by the Athens chapter, but that
warrant attention.
Students who joined the Univer
sity chapter of the ACLU automat
ically would be considered
members of the Athens chapter, he
said.
Casey Curran, a senior political
science major helping form the
group, said once the organization
achieves University club status
this spring, he hopes it will enlist
members by setting up a booth at
PROGRAMS
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member of the steering committee,
is to “serve as an aid to the Univer
sity in recruiting and maintaining
African-American graduate stu
dents.”
Coming to the University from
Howard University, Charlene
Woodard, graduate in clinical ps-
chology, said she felt isolated by
“not having a peer group."
Andrea Richards, a graduate
student working for a master’s
degree and GAPS member, esti
mates that less than 6 percent of
the MBA program is made up of
blacks.
Woodard said minority help or
ganizations such as GAPS don’t
promote seperatist attitudes.
“We function in the fact that we
enhance overall integration of
Afro-Americans in the University
as an institution by way of mi
nority recruitment and facilitation
of retention," she said.
• The Black Affairs Council:
The council dates back to approxi
mately 1969 when it served as a
committee under the Black Stu
dent Union.
BAC’8 main purpose is advocacy
for black students.
Programs include Adopt-a-Stu-
dent and Adopt-a-Pamily, in which
black students are paired with
black families in the Athens com
munity, and Unity Day for Black
Students, in which a student is
paired with one of another race.
BAC President Benjamin
Roundtree said this has been a
"banner year’ for the BAC*s com
mitment to the needs of the black
student body. Yet, he still is wor
ried by the lack of black student
participation in BAC programs.
•The Minority Business Stu
dents Association: This associa
tion offers students resume and
interviewing skills, test banks,
visits from local black businesses
and a forum for interaction with
black faculty.
Visits by local businesses have
been sources of inspiration for Co-
President Sonya Hearn, who said
they serve as “role models for stu
dents in business.”
The purpose of the organization
is to assist and serve the needs of
minority business students, said
group president Maurice An
derson.
Casey Curran: Helping to
form new ACLU chapter
the annual Athens Human Rights
Festival.
Curran said the group hopes to
schedule a speaker soon after to
keep its initial momentum going.
The group will provide students
with information about their rights
by setting up a table at the Tate
Student Center periodically,
Curran said. The national ACLU
published a book on student’s
rights that contains information
that students should know, he
said.
O’Looney said ACLU partici
pation is an excellent way for stu
dents to learn about the freedoms
guaranteed in the Bill of Rights
and the responsibilities that ac
company them.
The group might promote the
freedom of the intellectual commu
nity at the University, he said.
Future members with the help of
O’Looney are drafting a constitu
tion to fulfill requirements for be
coming an official University
organization, O’Looney said.
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