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The Red and Black • Thursday, November 8, 1990 • 3
Debate focused on old South vs. new
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Writer
Strong words were spoken about
southern culture Wednesday as
the Demosthenian Society held a
debate discussing the differences
between the old South and the new
South.
The debate, held at the Tate Stu
dent Center Plaza, featured six
members of the oratory society dis
cussing the notion that the grace
and culture of the old South was
more valuable to society than the
cold technology and lack of identity
in the new South.
Members took turns speaking on
the good, the bad and the ugly
sides of the South’s past — a past
that included hospitality, sexism
and racism.
Keiley Martin, a junior history
major, said the hospitality of the
old South was an act to cover up
the “bigotry and filth" that existed
during the time.
Martin called the South a “mag
nolia-covered illusion,” but Clay
Jones, sophomore political science-
/history major said the grace and
hospitality of the old South has
been lost in the present-day
Southern region.
“I’m trying to address the feeling
of grace. The coldness that exists
now never existed before in the old
South,” he said.
“A sense of community doesn’t
exist in the new South. Technology
has gotten between us to create a
feeling of alienation. When you
drive down the street in your car,
you keep the windows rolled up,”
John Lucky, a senior science and
ethics major, said.
Martin questioned Lucky’s re
marks by asking if his feelings of
alienation were personal: “Just be
cause you feel alienated, does that
mean everyone else has to?"
Scott Welles, a senior history/re
ligion major, brought up the sub
ject of racism.
‘The racism that existed was not
just in the South. Ask a person
today in the North if they like
black people and he would say, ‘I
love them — I’ve seen them in
books’,” he said.
Junior English major Terrance
Heath said blacks and women are
now playing major roles in the
growth of the new South, which
still has a long way to go before
things are resolved.
Heath took a stab at Rhett
Butler, the lead male character in
the Southern saga “Gone With the
Wind” to make his point about the
treatment of women in the old
South. “Scarlett O’Hara was not
swept off her feet. She was raped —
Rhett Butler was a rapist,” he said.
SEA sets up “bikeblock” for pathway action
By JENNIFER PETERSON
Campus Correspondent
Students for Environmental Awareness
blocked the Tate Student Center Plaza with a
ile of chained bicycles Wednesday — hoping to
ring attention to the need for bikeways with a
sign: “Are bikes getting in your way?”
“We’re hoping to have enough bicycles to
block the pathway,” said Ali Jones, education
director for Students for Environmental Aware
ness.
SEA members are asking other auestions
such as, “Do you feel that Athens/the UGA
campus is safe for bike riders?” and “Do you feel
that bike lanes/paths should be built?”
SEA will present the results of its poll at a
public meeting of the Athens Steering Com
mittee for Safe Cycling Nov. 18. SEA also plans
to send the results to the Athens/Clarke County
Planning Commission, which is working on a
proposal to get bikeways in Athens and on
campus.
Planning Commission Member Brian Martin
said, “We are in the preliminary stages of cre
ating a system of paths for commuter and recre
ational bikers.”
Jones said today is the last day of the poll
and all students are encouraged to participate.
“We would like for cyclists to park their bikes
here,” Jones said. ‘They will get them back
around 2 p.m. today.”
The growing number of problems with bicy
cles, pedestrians and motorists at the Univer
sity prompted SEA to become involved in
promoting bike lanes and paths, Jones said.
“People are scared of riding on campus,”
Jones said. ‘They are terrified of the Milledge
Avenue area especially.”
Students filling out surveys expressed their
opinions on the bikeways issue.
“I think bike lanes are a good idea, but it’s
kind of unrealistic,” said Deb Bernstein, a se
nior drawing and painting mcyor. “I’m totally
for it. I have a bike, too — but it could be treach
erous.”
Sue Roalman, Steering Committee orga
nizer, said problems go beyond the University
and into Athens as well.
“It needs to be recognized that cyclists are an
important interest group with specific needs,”
Roalman said. “Now is a good time to approach
the subject with a new government coming in.”
Athens motorists have little respect for cy
clists, she said.
“I’ve had someone lean out of a passing car
and hit me with a rubber hose,” Roalman said.
Israeli consulate to discuss Middle East crisis
By ANGELA HORNSBY
Staff Writer
Students with questions about
the Middle East situation may get
some answers as Israeli consulate
Alon Liel comes to the University
to discuss the current crisis.
Liel will speak at the Tate
Center Monday at 8 p.m.
Samantha Barcus, senior En
glish meyor and president of
Georgia Israeli Network of Univer
sity Students (GINUS), said Liel
will talk about the Middle East and
Saddam Hussein’s relationship
with Israel.
“He’ll also talk about infitada,”
she said.
Infitada refers to the uprisings
between Palestinians and Israelis,
she said.
Liel was director of Foreign Min
istry for the South Africa desk and
part of the Israeli delegation to the
United Nations General Assembly
before taking his position as Israeli
consulate in Atlanta in August.
Barcus said after Liel’s speech
there will be a question and an
swer period.
The consulate’s visit is spon
sored by the GINUS, a state-wide,
independent organization in its
fourth year.
“We try to do political action pro
grams related to Israel,” she said.
“We want to inform students
and open their eyes to what’s going
on in the world around them.”
Barcus said the program might
foster good relations between Arab
and Israeli students.
“It’s nice to start out on a good
note,” she said. 'To have an infor
mative program in which Jewish
and Arab students can attend.”
Rebecca Greenwald, a junior po
litical science major and state di
rector of GINUS, said Liel’s visit
will be educational to all students,
not just Jewish students.
Shai Ben-Zvi, a senior math
ematics major and vice president of
GINUS, said the consulate’s visit
to the University is a good idea.
“He provides an important as
pect in that he represents the offi
cial position,” he said. “He brings
Israel into the picture.”
Liel plans to meet with former
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
during his one-day visit, Barcus
said.
Top radioecologist to
join staff next quarter
By AL DIXON
Staff Writer
Ward F. Whicker, an award
winning scientist and ecologist
from Colorado State University,
will join the faculty of the Univer
sity’s Savannah River Ecology
Laboratory next auarter.
Joe Key, the University’s vice
president for Research, said he
expects Whicker to join the fac
ulty sometime around Feb. 1.
“Whicker is probably the
leading radioecologist in the na
tion — and possibly the world,”
Key said.
Radioecology is the study of
the transportation of radioactive
isotopes and their effect on the
environment, Key explained.
“Whicker just received the
E.O. Lawrence Award from the
U.S. Department of Energy for
his work with radionuclides in
the environment,” Key said.
‘This is the highest honor the de
partment can bestow, and he is
the first ecologist ever to win it.”
“We at the University and the
entire staff at the Savannah
River Plant are terrifically ex
cited about Whicker’s arrival,” he
said.
Whicker, who will serve as se
nior ecologist on the staff of the
Savannah River Ecology Labo
ratory, said the plant is the “per
fect site” for the type of work he is
interested in doing.
“One reason I chose to come to
the Savannah plant is that I
agree with the philosophy they
have there,” he said. ‘They want
to develop a good base of scien
tific information before throwing
money foolishly and historically
into projects to save the environ
ment.
“Scientific research is nec
essary to the protection of the en
vironment,” Whicker said. “I
think we at the Savannah River
Plant can save the government
billions of dollars by determining
which problems actually present
a real danger to the environ
ment.”
Whicker said he is also inter
ested in educating the public to
the real status of the environ
ment and the potential dangers
of radioactive material, an area
the Savannah plant has been
heavily involved in.
“In addition, I feel I could be of
great help in educating the Uni
versity’s graduate students in the
area of radioecology,” he said.
“And I would like to teach an un
dergraduate course in the area of
atomic energy at the University
one day. There are a lot of mis
conceptions in that field.
‘The primary focus of my work
at the University will be the
study of radioactivity in an
aquatic environment and the
amount of radiation an environ
ment can be exposed to before it
is considered contaminated,” he
said.
‘The Savannah River Plant
has a good group of ecologists,”
Whicker said. “I think I can lend
my expertise to help combine the
fields of ecology and scientific re
search.”
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Georgia’s lone Republican con
gressman, House Minority Whip
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worse. Challenger David Worley,
who garnered only 41 percent
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In a hotly contested race for
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