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2 • The Red and Black • Friday, May 4, 1990
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■ UNIVERSITY
Georgia Secretary of State to appear on Rapid Fire.’
Secretary of State Max Cleland will be tne guest on “Rapid Fire," a
local student-produced television forum that discusses various
current news issues. Georgia Press Secretary Bill Crane said Cleland
will discuss numerous topics including the effect of high Atlanta
crime rates on the city's bid for the 1996 Olympics and the upcoming
gubernatorial election. David Herndon, the show’s executive producer
and moderator, said Cleland will also talk about abortion and his
advocacy of the voter registration drives going on at colleges around
the state. The program will be broadcast on Channel 34 Friday at
7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Forum will discuss the status of the black student, a
forum will be presented Saturday by the Black Faculty and Staff
Organization on “The Status of Blacks at The University of Georgia"
in the Tate Student Center. Speakers will include Dr. Na’im Akbnr, a
psychologist and author who serves on the faculty at Florida State
University, and Georgia Supreme Court Justice Robert Benham, a
University law graduate and the first black to serve on the Supreme
Court. Maurice Daniels, BFSO chair and associate professor of social
work, said, "We have made a great deal of progress from the time
since black students were first admitted to the University. But, we
have not achieved justice, equity and parity." The cost is $10 and
registration will be Saturday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Tate
Center lobby.
College Young Democrats elect new state president.
Shanon Mayfield, a senior political science major, was elected
president last weekend at the state College Young Democrats
convention in Macon. He said he will work to improve the image of
Democrats across the state. “It will be important to consider our
current image for the sake of the young people in the party now that
will be with the party in the future," he said. Mayfield had previously
served as co-president for the University chapter of the Young
Democrats. Shannon Webb, a junior politial science major, was
elected secretary. "Shanon and I will try to branch out to the southern
part of the state and build up strength there," he said. Mayfield and
Webb began their year-long terms immediately after being voted into
their offices.
Polo match helps the American Heart Association. Polo
players and fans will be tailgating roaring 1920s style before a polo
match this Sunday to benefit the American Heart Association. The
UGA Polo Club and Gamma Sigma Sigma service sorority are
insisting the Mount Vernon Polo Club in sponsoring the benefit at the
club located on Jack’s Creek Road off U.S. 78 near Athens. The public
is invited for Mount Vernon’s season-opening match. Gatec open for
tailgating at 11:30 a.m. and the match starts at 1 p.m. Tickets are $7
per car and $5 per car with a University ID. A portion of the proceeds
will benefit the American Heart Association.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Man alleges discrimination in hiring, a
black insurance salesman has filed a federal lawsuit against the
Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co., alleging that the
company doesn’t hire blacks. Pat Nelson, a lawyer for Abe Harris II,
said Thursday the Decatur man tried to apply for sales agent
positions at two different county offices of the company in January
and February 1988 and was told there were no openings. “But,
knowing people who worked there, he knew there were openings,”
Nelson said “Later he found out that in each case, they hired a white
person.” Farm Bureau officials refused to comment on the pending
litigation. But one company employee, who requested anonymity, told
WAGA-TV in Atlanta that company managers discourage advertising
for positions because it could lead to hiring blacks. “What are you
going to do if a nigger applies?” the employee said a manager once
told him.
WASHINGTON (AP): Scientist reproduces brain cells.
Brain tissue from a child has been nurtured into a colony of living
cells that eventually may be used to replace the damaged brain cells
of people who suffer from Alzheimer’s, stroke or head injury. Dr.
Solomon Snyder of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore
said his research team has, for the first time, developed a continuous
culture of human brain cells that divide and grow in laboratory
dishes. Scientists have long been hampered in their study of the brain
because human brain cells won’t reproduce. If a substantial number
of those cells are damaged by disease, injury or stroke, functions
controlled by those brain cells are lost forever. Snyder said in a
telephone interview that the cultured cells underwent 3Va years of
vigorous testing to assure they aren’t an abnormal growth. “We have
every confidence that they will function that way when
transplanted,” Snyder said.
■ WORLD
BEIJING (AP): Party chief praises 1919 protests.
Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin Thursday praised China’s first
student protests in 1919. “Young intellectuals as a whole are good
and can be trusted," he told 3,000 youths invited to hear him in the
Great Hall of the People. But much of his speech, intended to honor
the student protesters of May 4, 1919, condemned students who
protested last year. The official Xinhua News Agency quoted Jiang as
saying. ‘They lost all sense of national dignity and personal dignity.
What qualifications do they have to talk about patriotism, democracy
and human rights?” The May 4, 1919 protest by a few thousand
college students at Tiananmen Gate in Beijing is one of the mcyor
events in modern Chinese history. The protesters’ demands for
democracy and modernization sparked an intellectual movement that
helped produce the Communist revolution.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Bulldog Student Athletic
Alliance will meet Sunday, May
6 at 6:30 p.m. at the Tate
Student Center in Room 144.
• Students for E.A.R.T.H. will
meet Monday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m.
at 216 North Avenue, Apartment
B.
Lectures/Seminars
• Dr. John Kaplan of the Centers
for Disease control will speak
today at 1:15 p.m. at the
journalism building in Room 412.
His topic is ‘The Effects of
Nuclear Weapons.” The public is
invited.
• Mark Selden will speak today
at 2:15 p.m. at Peabody Hall in
Room 115. His topic is
“Reassessing Marxism in the
Light of the Democratic
Movement in China.” The public
is invited.
• The UGA Aikdo Seminar will
be held Saturday May 5 from 10
to 5 p.m. and Sunday, May 6
from 10 to 12 p.m. at Stegeman
Hall. The public is invited.
• Lt. Col. Daniel Kaufmann of
the U.S. Military Academy will
speak Monday, May 7 at 1:15 at
the journalism building in Room
412. His topic is ‘The Anticipated
Peace Dividend." The public is
invited.
• The Northeast Georgia
Community Mental Health
Center will hold Compeer
training Monday May 7 and
Monday 14 at the Northeast
Georgia Center, 1247 Prince
Avenue. Compeers commit to
spend at least one hour a week
with a mental health client. For
more information, contace Bette
Nielson at 542-9739.
Announcements
• The Athens Area Chapter of
the National Assocation of
Women in Construction will hold
a “Contractors’ Castoff Sale”
Saturday, May 5 from 8 to 2 p.m.
at the lot of Thomason’s, on
Atlanta Highway. All proceeds
go the NAWIC Scholarship fund.
• The Culture of the South
Association will sponsor a field
trip to Middle Georgia rural
houses on Saturday, May 5.
Departure it 10 a.m. at the Tate
Student Center parking lot. The
public is invited. For more
information, contact Bill
Cawthon at 549-5653.
Speaker: Anti-Semitism rising in U.S.S.R.
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Writer
His disposition mav have been
soft-spoken, but what he had to say
was hard and definite.
Ben Hirsch, Holocaust survivor
and president of the Holocaust
Survivors Organization, spoke to a
crowd of students Wednesday
night at the Delta Phi Epsilon so
rority house. He told them to re
alize that what happened in
Germany during World War II is
happening again in another part of
the world.
Hirsch spoke about a rise in
anti-Semitism taking place in the
U.S.S.R., but hidden by glasnost.
“Jews in Russia are fearing for
their lives and no one seems to
know it,” Hirsch said.
Hirsch said a group in the Soviet
Union called Pamyat started as a
writer’s guild but has begun dis
tributing literature blaming Jews
| for the country’s economic down-
I fall.
The group has openly published
| dates for pogroms — open attacks
! on Jewish citizens. The dates for
' the attacks are alleged to be May 5
Tracy St*nb#ig/Th« Red and Black
Ben Hirsch: Holocaust sur
vivor
and 13.
Hirsch said the Soviet govern
ment plans to stop the violence, but
media attention will be limited, if
not nonexistent.
“A pogrom is a cattle round-up;
wherever you see a Jew, you kill
it,” Hirsch said.
Hirsch told the audience about
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his experiences with anti-Semitism
as a child in his hometown of
Frankfurt Am Main, Germany,
and anti-Semitism in America.
“I was open-season,” Hirsch
joked, referring to his fights with
little kids in Nazi uniforms who
ran around looking for Jewish chil
dren to beat on.
Hirsch said he found anti-Semi
tism worse in the suites because in
Germany “I knew what to expect.”
Being Jewish and a foreigner
was a bad combination in the
United States, he said.
But Hirsch’s difficult childhood
began with his separation from his
father on November 9, 1938, when
German soldiers began removing
Jewish political leaders for assassi
nation.
He was separated from his
mother and two of his six siblings
after his mother sent the oldest
five to France.
After three years in children’s
homes in Paris, Hirsch was one of
400 children sent to America by
boat.
He later found out his family’s
fate. His father was killed after an
attack on his hometown and hit
mother, brother and sister were
killed at Auschwitz, a concentra
tion camp.
Hirsch said the new revival of
anti-Semitism needs to be com
batted with the voice of people.
The world needs to let everyone
know that violence against Jews or
any other denomination will not be
tolerated, he said.
“College kids need to scream out
and let their voice be heard,” he
said, adding that student protests
during the Vietnam era helped get
the soldiers home. He said stu
dents need to mobilize with pro
tests and gatherings.
Hirsch gave the example of non
Jewish people who died in the Ho
locaust for opposing the Nazis.
“Non-Jews died in concentration
camps because they spoke out,” he
said.
Many students at the program
said Hirsch made them think
about the future.
Tie made me think that it could
happen again. My great-grandpa
rents escaped from this, but his
tory repeats itself,” said freshman
Jodi Herman.
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