Newspaper Page Text
■x
»
i
2* Jhe Red and Black • Wednesday, May 2, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Exhibit commemorating Holocaust today at Tate. An
exhibit of photos and posters will be on display ana a Holocaust
survivor will speak today to commemorate Holocaust Day, an annual
part of Israel Week on campus. The exhibit will be up from 9 a m. to 2
p m. in the Tate Student Center plaza. Photos will focus on the
concentration camps of World War II and will include some taken by
American liberators of the camps. At noon, a siren will be sounded to
begin a moment of silence for remembrance of those who died in the
camps and six Yortsite candles will be lighted, one for each of the six
million Jews who died, said Andrea Frolich, vice president of Hillel.
Holocaust survivor Ben Hirsch, president of the Holocaust Survivors
Committee in Atlanta, will speak at 7 p.m. at the Delta Phi Epsilon
house.
Local club accepting used eyeglasses for the poor. The
Care and Share Club of the Citizens and Southerns Bank is
sponsoring Project Share Your Sight until May 31. The four local
branch offices of C&S are accepting donations of old eyeglasses for the
underprivileged, both locally and worldwide. Kipp Mullis, a club
member and a junior advertising major, said most of the eyeglasses
collected will go overseas due to certain law restrictions on
prescription eyeware in the United States. The Care and Share Club
s in its first year as an organization of the C&S Bank. Mullis said
that although no other students are members, the club serves the
community and students are invited to join.
■ STATE
STATESBORO (AP): Two convicts escape county jail.
Two Bulloch County jail inmates picked a lock on their cell and
escaped early Tuesday, authorities said. Dogs from the state prison at
Reidsville and a plane were being used in the search for Allen Jarrod
Baker, 22, and Darrell J. Williams, 23, near the Clito community
about 10 miles north of Statesboro, the Bulloch County Sheriffs
Department said. Both escapees were being held at the jail pending
trnnsfer to the state prison system. Baker was convicted of multiple
burglaries and Williams’ parole was revoked after an aggravated
assault conviction.
GRIFFIN (AP): NAACP protest police firings. Bomb-
snifRng dogs from the Atlanta police swept the Eighth Street Baptist
Church before a local NAACP chapter rally Monday, and a dozen
police officers guarded the building during the meeting, said Griffin
Police Chief A.L. Shapeau. Officials of the National Association for
the Advancement for Colored People said they had received
anonymous death and bomb threats last week. The meeting was in
support of Oscar Jordan, a recently dismissed investigator for the
Spalding County district attorney, and Prince Arnold, a Spalding
County sheriffs deputy fired in February. Spalding County Sheriff
Richard Cantrell said Arnold was fired for the false imprisonment
and sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl in February, and Jordan was
fired by the district attorney in connection with the allegations
against Arnold.
■ NATION
NEW YORK (AP): Dying butler forgives employer. Jose
Tony” Deleu, a butler who claimed he was fired by a Manhattan
socialite because he had AIDS, has died. He was 47. Deleu died
Friday at New York Hospital and a funeral was held Monday. Hours
before his death, Deleu said he forgave his employer, saying: “I don’t
have any hard feelings. I feel very bad about all this.” Deleu had filed
a $1.5 million discrimination lawsuit against France Scaife, wife of an
heir to the Mellon family fortune and a committee woman on the
Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force. Deleu’s attorney, David Spears, said the
discrimination claim was recently dropped because of a loophole in
the state anti discrimination law that exempts domestics. Spears
said he planned to continue fighting Deleu’s lawsuit on charges that
Mrs. Scaife owed him overtime pay and Social Security and health
insurance benefits.
LOS ANGELES (AP): Man wants head in deep-freeze. A
mathematician who filed a lawsuit so he can freeze his own head
before he dies from a brain tumor said Tuesday the odds of achieving
immortality aren’t as bad as one might think. T think everyone
should be immortal," Thomas Donaldson said in a telephone
interview from his home in Sunnyvale, a town south of San Francisco.
Donaldson, 46, said he wants his head quick-frozen while he is still
alive, using a process known as cryonic suspension. He’s betting that
future scientists will discover a way to cure the tumor and attach his
head to a healthy body. In a lawsuit filed Monday in Santa Barbara
County Superior Court, Donaldson seeks to bar state and local
officials from preventing his cryonic suspension before he is declared
legally dead. Cryonic suspension is a procedure in which all or part of
the body is supposedly preserved in a deep freeze.
■ WORLD
STRASBOURG, France (AP): Huge omelette created. A
platoon of chefs Tuesday whipped up an 80,000-egg omelette filled
with 1,763 pounds of mushrooms, then dished out portions with bread
and drinks to 22,000 people. The omelette took 26 chefs three hours to
cook on a pan 39 feet wide, organizers reported. The event was staged
in this eastern French city to raise money for charities in France and
West Germany. Other ingredients included 26 pounds of salt, 4.4
pounds of pepper and 20 gallons of oil.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Psychology Club will meet
tonight at 6:30 at the psychology
building in Room 120. The public
is invited.
• The Society of Professinal
Journalists will meet tonight at 7
at the journalism building in
Room 412. The public is invited.
• Students for Environmental
Awareness will meet tonight at
7:30 at the ecology building in
the auditorium. The public is
invited.
• The Young Democrats of
Clarke County/UGA will meet
tonight at 8 at the Tate Student
Center in Room 141. The public
is invited.
• The UGA branch of Habitat for
Humanity will meet tonight at 8
at the Tate Student Center in
Room 144. The public is invited.
Philosophy/Religion
• James Boyd, professor of
religion at Colorado State, will
speak today at 3:30 p.m. at
Peabody Hall in Room 205-C. His
topic is The Zoroastrian Concept
of Evil." The public is invited.
• Piers Rawling, of the UGA
philosophy department, will
speak today at 3:30 p.m. at
Peabody Hall in Room 205-S. His
topic is Truth Condition and
Oratio Obliqua." The public is
invited.
• Alex Williams, Presbyterian
campus minister at UGA, will
| speak tonight at 7 at the
Presbyterian Center, 1250 S.
Lumpkin Street. His topic is
| “Does God Experience Change?"
I The public is invited.
Lectures/Seminars
• The first annual Clifford G.
Lewis Colloquium, sponsored by
the School of Health, Physical
Education, Recreation and
Dance, will be held today at 4
p.m. at the ecology building in
the auditorium. M. Joan Paul
will deliver the intial lecture
entitled “From Barbells to Paper
Chase.” The public is invited.
• Tom Riis, of the UGA Music
Department, will speak today at
4 p.m. at Park Hall in Room 261.
His topic is “Who Wrote the First
Black Musical?" The public is
invited.
Announcements
• Delta Zeta will hold “Picture
It," a Win, Lose or Draw
competition today from 11 to 4
p.m. at the Tate Student Center
plaza. Entry fee is $15 for a 3
member team. All proceeds will
benefit the speech and hearing
impaired.
Item$ for UGA Today must be
submitted in writing at least two
days before the date to be printed.
Include specific meeting location,
speaker's title and topic, and a
contact person's day and evening
phone number. Items are printed
on a space available basis.
Because space is limited, long
announcements are shortened.
Greek system under attack
National Greeks change their system
By MIKE TERRAZAS
Contributing Writer
Greek systems across the
country are changing, but the Uni
versity^ system seems resistant to
reform.
A Time magazine article titled
“Waging War on the Greeks" dealt
with the issue of whether Greeks,
mostly fraternities, are changing,
or not changing, with the attitudes
of modern American colleges. The
article appeared in the April 16
issue.
According to the article, the fac
ulty at Bucknell University last
fall “voted to abolish all such clubs,
blaming them for promoting
‘racism, sexism, elitism and anti-
intellectual ism.’ "
Whether these problems exist in
Athens could be hotly debated, but
the fact remains that some schools,
like Bucknell, are taking drastic
action.
Segregation
Most University Greek organiza
tions are segregated. According to
Ron Binder, adviser to the fraterni
ties, only two traditionally white
fraternities have black members
and no traditionally black fraterni
ties have any non-black members.
Binder said this is a “frustration”
and has been working with the fra
ternities to try to alleviate.
The main reason for this segre
gation, according to Binder and
Sigma Phi Epsilon President Max
well Muse, is that few, if any, mi
nority individuals go through
structured rush.
The only people we can pledge
are those who go through rush,”
Muse said.
Phi Kappa Theta President Pat
rick Dolan agreed and added that if
the black fraternities “allowed
themselves to go through regular
rush, you might see a different
system.”
Dolan and Muse said the Uni
versity is different because each of
their fraternities has other re
gional chapters that are inte
grated.
Ron Riggs, past president of all
black Omega Psi Phi, said the
reason the black fraternities don’t
participate in rush is tfiat it’s hard
for a fraternity to get to know each
rushee well enough when there are
so many of them. Potential Omega
ledges, like those of the other
lack fraternities, attend
“smokers,” where they get to know
the brothers more personally.
To me it shows a little more
dedication if a person goes to one
fraternity," said Riggs.
All four men agree that among
actual rushees, skin color has no
impact on who is pledged.
“If a person meets my criteria for
a brother,” Riggs said, “it makes no
difference if ne’s white, black,
Chinese, Spanish, or whatever."
Anti-intellectualism
Fraternities have also been
charged with promoting anti-intel
lectualism, which Binder calls the
“biggest criticism levelled against
fraternities today.”
Binder said that up until three
or four years ago, the fraternity
men’s grade point average was far
below that of non-fraternity men.
Now, he says, it’s “about a dead-
even race.”
Statistics published by the Uni
versity Greet Life office show the
Greek GPA was equal to that of
non-Greeks fall quarter, and one-
hundredth of a point lower winter
quarter.
Muse, who has a 3.86 GPA, calls
the anti-intellectualism charge “ri
diculous,” saying that the indi
vidual members are responsible for
their own academic success.
“You can’t say the fraternities
are responsible for those grades,”
Muse said. “We’re not a paternal
organization, we’re a fraternal or
ganization."
Riggs and Dolan agree. Dolan
said Greeks are involved more
than ever in leadership opportuni
ties on campus.
The image of the boozy Biffy
and Muffy is an anachronism,”
Dolan said. “It used to be that fra
ternities were measured by the
size of their parties, now they’re
measured by the number of lead
ership positions they hold on
campus.”
Co-ed fraternities
A third controversial issue men
tioned in the Time article is that of
co-ed fraternities. According to the
story, Middlebury College in Ver
mont, which has no sororities on
The single-sex
environment is not the
healthiest environment
in the world’
-Ron Binder
fraternity adviser
campus, forced its fraternities to go
co-ed, calling single-sex organiza
tions “antithetical to the mission of
the college.”
Binder admits he has “mixed
feelings” about co-ed fraternities.
But he thinks the decision Bhould
be left up to the national organiza
tions, which he feels will be
“prodded by the Supreme Court” to
go co-ed.
"Clearly the literature suggests
that the single-sex environment is
not the healthiest environment in
the world,” Binder said.
Dolan and Muse think things
should be left alone and that fra
ternities are fine being what
Binder called “the last bastion of
single-sexedness in America."
“Nationals would say that’s
what sororities are for and I would
have to agree,” said Muse.
Dolan feels that in an all-male
environment, fraternity members
can “grow as a person.”
“You can find your self-identity
without being constantly self-con
scious,” he said.
"Athens'most Convenient Location’
Efficiency, 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom
mw
UNIVERSITY
<TkTT>
353-3158
142 Baxter Dr. (off Baxter Street)
549-4884
J
* PyToE
CRIMPERS
hair salon
( SH AWS)
Ladies Mens
$d A 99
Every
Item
in
Stock!!
99
OR
LESS
Summer &
DeKalb
College
A Winning
Combination
wi» jsanm
Get a headstart on college by
enrolling at DeKalb College during
the summer when the pace is
slower, or complete a science
sequence, begin a foreign lan
guage, fulfill a physical education
requirement and still have time for
summer fun. Two 5-week ses
sions, a 7 1/2-weck term, and a
10-week evening term in a broad
range of courses offer you lots of
choices for a summer that combines
both study and play—and allows
you to take course credits back to
your college in the fall. Think about
it. Then let DeKalb College help
make this summer a winner for
you.
Apply For Summer Quarter by June 1. Classes begin June 20.
For More Information,
Call Or Write Us
Office of Admissions and Records
3251 Panthersville Road
Decatur, GA 30034
244-2240
299-4038 (Voice/TDD)
A TWO YEAR UNIT Of THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM Of GEORGIA • AFHRMATT\% AC XT TON / EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPlOYER
u>
DEKALB
COLLEGE
THE NEXT STEP