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4 • The Red and Black • Tuesday, November 27. 1990
OPINIONS
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■ EDITORIALS
Warped values
A local group called Citizens for the Election of a
Qualified CEO is using the Chief Elected Officer’s run
off election to express its opinions about the American
Civil Liberties Union.
In its literature intended to sling mud at CEO
candidate Gwen O’Looney, these concerned citizens r
collective high and mighty fingers at her husband
John, who is President of the local ACLU chapter.
“In the South, we don’t know too much about this
organization, but what we do know doesn’t sound like
the kind of values we want in our community, either
directly or indirectly," the pamphlet states.
We think this group ought to change its name to
Citizens with Warped Values.
It’s true that the “Old South” didn’t know much
about this organization, but back then it was
customary to kick blacks out of resturants and off
buses, wear white sheets and bum crosses. Basically
there wasn’t too much concern for civil rights and
liberties in general.
Groups like the ACLU, which defend and protect
the rights of individuals and the sovereignty of the Bill
of Rights, have helped to change the face of this nation
in a positive way.
The ACLU represents the beliefs that this nation
was founded upon and the ideals expressed through
our Constitution.
The ACLU didn’t defend the Nazis’ right to speak in
Skokie, 111. because it liked what the Nazis were
saying. The ACLU defended them because the Nazis
had the right to speak, guaranteed to every person by
our Constitution.
It’s ironic that the efforts of groups like the ACLU
enable a group like the Citizens with Warped Minds to
spout its rhetoric.
If the Citizens with Warped Minds doesn’t want the
values expressed through the Constitution in their
community, then we suggest they move to Chile, South
Africa or Iraq. People there aren’t too big on civil
liberties or human rights either.
This, however, is Athens, and we do believe in the
civil rights and liberties of Americans.
A footnote
John O’Looney’s occupation has nothing
whatsoever to do with Gwen O’Looney’s qualifications
to be the Athens-Clarke Chief Elected Officer. By the
same token, E.H. Culpepper’s wife’s occupation has
nothing whatsoever to do with his qualifications for the
job either.
This isn’t an election for “Dream Couple of the
Prom,” it’s an election to decide who should hold the
area’s highest elected office. Vote on the issues and the
candidate’s stances, not on family trees.
That said, we would like to repeat our
endorsements and once again encourage everyone to
get out and vote today.
Chief Elected Officer: Gwen O’Looney. For six years
O’Looney has served the Athens community well. She
has consistently demonstrated an open and progressive
attitude toward growth, planning, zoning, historic
preservation and the welfare of her constituents.
District 7 Representative: Cardee Kilpatrick.
Kilpatrick is another proven leader with a record of
service to her constituents.
She voted to extend alcohol serving hours, supports
a referendum on Sunday alcohol sales and opposes the
Open Container Ordinance. Kilpatrick has repeatedly
called for a government which is more responsive to the
needs of the community it serves and will work for the
good of the entire Athens-Clarke community.
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Auburn: Not such a bad place after all
I hate Auburn.
I can’t count the times I have heard, thought,
or otherwise encountered that phrase in over
three years at Georgia.
Yet, after a recent visit there for a “better re
lations" day with a group of Auburn and
Georgia student leaders, I was Quite impressed
with the quality of the War
Eagles/Tigers/Plainsmen that I met.
Granted, I am sure they kept all the future
yam-growers and yak-herders penned up in one
of the pastures just seconds from the campus,
but I nonetheless (dare I say it) enjoyed my
visit to Auburn.
Auburn has long been maligned for an inade
quate nightlife, or bar scene, and well it should.
I’ve seen more action in the Science Library on
a Sunday night than in drinking holes of Au
burn.
And, yeB the campus is small. I’d classify it
somewhere between a Russell Hall room ana an
Orbit bus, but hey, if you spread things out
much more, the tractors could never make it to
class on time.
Next, I know everyone is going to bring up
one of the top reasons to hate Auburn, Head
Football Coach Pat Dye. Our group had a
chance to meet him, and I noticed several
things.
One, I still want his UGA diploma burned.
Two, his knowledge of football strategy is still
equivalent to that of my grandmother Jose
phine. But three, he is a pretty down home guy,
and I almost, sorta, kinda, enjoyed meeting
him.
Clearly, there are a number of blessings Au
burn was not fortunate enough to have re
ceived. I’m sure when the Lord offered culture
they thought he said vulture, and turned him
down because they wanted side-of-road victuals
all to themselves.
Yet still, in that sleepy little town they call
the ’loveliest village on the plains,” I found very
little to hate other than a football program that
has yet to do tackling drills with a linebacker
named Jan Kemp. Sure, they have produced
such intellectual giants as Aundray “I majored
in Family Development ’cause I had the experi
ence" Bruce, but that is not a reason to really
Cale
Conley
despise them. After all, one our own 1980 foot
ball team graduates is currently unemployed in
Tiflon.
Wait though, you Gene Williams and Lewis
Grizzard’s of the world, don’t bum my picture
in effigy just yet. There is an Auburn worth
mentioning, and there may be few lessons
worth learning from the school without a true
nickname.
For one, people there are friendly. They look
you in the eye when they shake your hand, they
answer all your questions, thev have good food,
and several were wise enough to tell me how
beautiful our campus is. It is amazing how dif
ferent both groups reacted to each other when
the first two sentences from each party did not
involve the word “sucks."
Two, they have a Student Government that
has the respect of administrators and students,
and people actually seem to care about working
on worthwhile project*. Given the student sup
port Auburn enjoys, even our much belea
guered Student Government Association would
have firm feet on which to stand.
Three, they have a university president who
looks like your best friend’s dad, and he laughs
a lot and speaks sincerely about real student is
sues. And I didn’t hear him talk about a single
task force to solve problems.
Four, they have fraternity houses that are
big, immEiculate, well-kept structures complete
with house mothers. Tney get together find
throw parties on a regular basis, and I didn’t
hear any worries about fighting.
Five, they have a wall, too, right in the
middle of campus, and the students hang out
there just as if it were Baldwin Street. What
they don’t have, I was just heartbroken to see,
is a Guatemalan outlet store complete with
earthen beads, burlap button-downs, and the
music of Zamphir, the pan flutist. They didn’t
seem to be missing much, at all.
Instead of Add Drug, they have Toomer’s
Drug. Instead of Tate Center, they have Foy
Union. Instead of a bulldog, they have an eagle,
and it even has its own big ole’ cage right next
to the stadium. They have a Guthrie’s, almost
like ours.
They even have a police force as obnoxious as
our own. I saw one socially deviant war eagle
get ticketed for riding his bike on the wrong
part of the sidewalk, and heard one Auburn
person say “surely our police have better things
to do.” I just hummed a few bars of‘It’s A Small
World” and chuckled profusely.
What I’m trying to say is that though I’m def
initely not looking to transfer anywhere near
the state of Alabama, maybe it’s time we re
evaluate why we hate something.
I don’t think it should be over 22 men run
ning into each other on Saturday afternoon,
though I love Goergia and Georgia football with
unquestioning allegiance.
I will never believe Auburn is a better place
than Athens (if such a place dares to exist), but
for one sunny October aflemnon, it wasn’t such
a bad place to live and breathe.
I think we need to realize that size doesn’t al
ways produce stature, and UGA is not without
warts. There is something to be said for a place
where pep rallies are still “cool," the President
remembers your name on the first try and not
the seventh, and you don’t need twenty tons of
steel bus to get you to class on time.
So when you road trip down there next year,
don’t cop such an attitude. Instead, realize that
Georgia didn’t write the book on how college
should be, and Auburn has at least read a
couple of chapters.
That’s better than places like Tech, where
the book hasn’t even been checked out of the li
brary.
Cale Conley is a senior advertising major.
Defending country music
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I would like to comment on the
signed opinion column by Adam
Etheredge (The Red and Black,
11/14/90).
I have to say that I truly feel
sorry for such an uptight person.
Does he have nothing else to worry
about other than what song or type
music is playing on the bus for the
few minutes he’s on it?
I guess being a freshman,
though, he has a lot to learn about
college life and the rest of the
world. I don’t know where he’s
from (I think I have some idea
though), but most of us in the
South were raised with the idee
that it is rude, inconsiderate, and
very ignorant to publicly criticize
and put down other people’s life
styles and occupation.
I just have one thing to say to
him: Adam, you are in the real
world now. You are definitely going
to have to learn to be more open-
minded and flexible. That’s what
life ia all about. If, though, you
choose to remain so close-minded
to other types of music and ways of
life, I suggest that you find some
other form of transportation.
The bus driver is driving so he
should have the right to choose
what type of music to play whether
it be Depeche Mode, Debbie
Gibson, Vanilla Ice, or Willie
Nelson. He can’t please everyone
on the bus. So just take it easy. It
ain’t no big deal.
Dawn V. Fowler
senior, fashion merchandising
Very rarely does one find in the
editorial pages anything quite as
ignorant as Adam Etheredge’s
signed opinion column about his
disgust with country music, and
the country way of life.
I find it particularly offensive
that he associates living in a rural
community with "genetic inability
to pronounce the word nuclear.” If
his comments were limited to the
criticism of country music, it would
be easy to use the same logic as he,
and write him off merely as an ig
norant freshman.
But to an educated pereon it is
obvious that all freshman are not
ignorant anymore than people who
listen to country music are “evolu
tionary throwbacks.”
As I read Mr. Etheredge’s colum-
neditorial, I could not help but
think that one of the benefits of ed
ucation is an increased tolerance of
those whoee background are dif
ferent from yours. I do not listen to
nor can I relate to Depeche Mode or
Concrete Blond, but I do not ridi
cule him because that is what he
enjoys. Neither will I say that one
style of music is “real” while the
other is not. I come from a country
background, yet I do not drive a
transfer truck or chew tobacco, but
I will admit without hesitation
that I know people who do, and I do
not consider them inferior to my
self or anyone else.
Chris Ozment
Junior, educational pyschology
How many of you remember the
sixth-grade psuedo-bully who
would fight the smallest and mea-
kest of his classmates but would
leave the big boys alone? Adam
Etheredge reminds me of such a
jackal.
In his signed opinion column,
Etheredge took potshots at an easy
target, poor and working-class
whites, in an apparent attempt to
establish himself as The Red and
Black’s latest practitioner of con
troversial, breakthrough journa
lism.
But all he did was establish him
self as a gutless writer. I am sure
that Etheredge lacks the courage
to write a column that would slam
rap music and in uncertain terms
insult the genetic quality of black
Americans. Would he have the
backbone to gratify his lust for at
tention by launching a mindless
assault on the listeners of Sixties
music? I doubt it, since anything
about the Sixties is cool.
Etheredge is entitled to his
opinion that country music is “sick
ening,” but I can just as easily scoff
at his new-wave Depeche Mode
trash; and it is ironic that he would
try to compare the poor, rural
whiteB to Cro-Magnon man when
he is too lazy and too stupid to go
buy the textbooks for his history
class. Who is the dunce, now?
Myles Gibson
graduate etudent, agronomy
In his signed opinion column,
Adam Etheredge succeeded in
showing complete ignorance in a
way few people are capable.
We don’t mind you poking fun at
country musk; everyone is entitled
to his or her own opinion. But your
column veers from an expression of
musical preference to an attack on
a group of people who play an inte
gral part in our eociety.
You obviously have no concept of
what society is based upon: the
production of food and fiber so that
people, whether they be apprecia
tive or like yourself, can survive.
So before you make a call to
bring down “the Society for the
Promotion of Farming Equip
ment,” it is time you, young
freshman, had a lesson in life. The
next time you put clothes on your
back, shoes on your feet, food in
your stomach, or perform any other
function of daily life, stop and
trunk about where these neces-
mtles nn d luxuries originate.
Also remember that the produc
tion of agricultural goods is the
largest industry in this state and
in thus nation. Don’t attack the
people who are partly resronsible
Tor you existence.
, » Ke ^ ,a f c . h - rttnereage, is a mvu ui
life. Don t knock a lifestyle that you
wiow nothing about. Know the
facts before you speak out. Re-
t l' ia and your stay here
will be much more enjoyable. Class
dismissed.
Mike Powell
Ched Shivers
senior*, agricultural engineering