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Celebrate diversity
Earlier this week Dawn Bennett-Alexander asked
the University community to reach across cultural
lines and learn more about one another.
Celebrate diversity she said.
Even at an institution of higher learning, we still
encounter closed minds, ignorance and prejudice.
There are those who refuse to accept or acknowledge
anyone who is different.
Celebrating diversity doesn’t mean abandoning
one’s own values and adopting a new way of life. It
means experiencing and enjoying the differences that
are found in all people. It means taking pleasure in and
benefiting from the many individual cultures which
create the society in which we live.
Everyone isn’t the same, ard that is the beauty of
humanity. Enjoy this. Celebrate it.
There is room in the University community and
beyond for cultural diversity — amoung blacks and
whites, Christians and Muslims, all of us.
We are no longer a nation of white Anglo-Saxon
Protestants. We are African-Americans, Asians,
Hispanics, Europeans and American Indians. We are
heterosexuals and homosexuals, young and old.
Let us not only take pride in our differences, let us
take advantage of our diversity.
Open up
The Red and Black was denied access to a Student
Judiciary Organizational Court hearing Wednesday. A
reporter and editor were told they couldn’t attend the
proceedings because of stipulations of the Family
Education and Privacy Act of 1974 — commonly
referred to as the Buckley Amendment.
However, the Buckley Amendment is meant to
ensure the privacy of individual records and not the
happenings within several large organizations.
The Buckley Amendment assures access by parents
and students to student educational records and
prohibits schools from releasing these records to
others. On the other hand, the Organizational Court
deals with student organizations not individuals or
their personal records. Organizational membership
isn’t even recorded on a student’s transcript.
There is no reason to deny access to the public and
its representing media organizations at these hearings,
and we aren’t the only ones who feel this way.
The recently completed University Self Study
agrees with us.
The study, conducted by University faculty and
students over the course of two years, is intended to
find and suggest means of improving the University.
The self-study sub-committee which was charged
with the evaluation of Judicial Programs recommended
that these hearing be more open and public. This
recommendation was approved by all other committees
and adopted as part of the self-study report.
The Judiciary also seems to be in violation of the
Georgia Open Records Law, according to an attorney
for the Student Press Law Center in Washington D.C.
The right of The Red and Black and the public to
have access to these hearings is essential to our ability
to protect the rights of those involved and the integrity
of the system.
We call upon the University to ammend this policy
of closed hearings and pledge to pursue this matter as
far as is necessary to secure the rights of the public
guaranteed by the Constitution and the First
Amendment.
"What they do is they provoke students until they re angry and
they want to do something, to him " „ 4rtIuItIae
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Crisis rhetoric receiving little attention
The recent developments in the Persian Gulf
have provided a variety of topics for political de
bate. Curiously, of the many aspects discussed,
one has been conspicously absent: the political
rhetoric. More specifically, the implications of
political language on the possible resolutions of
the Gulf Crisis have not been adequately ad
dressed.
If the words that President George Bush and
his advisors use are examined closely, they re
veal at least two important characteristics inte
gral to understanding the Middle East
predicament.
First, the Bush administration continues to
express to the U.S. populus that the military
build-up in Saudi Arabia is defensive. It is cru
cial to the success of the U.N. imposed embargo
of Iraq. Yet, recently, Secretary of State James
Baker has been canvassing various world
leaders for a U.N. resolution that would allow
offensive military action.
The ambiguity of the political rhetoric inti
mates a dual purpose. The Bush Administra
tion hopes to assuage the fears of the American
citizenry on the one hand, while conversely in
stilling the fear of military destruction in
Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi people. The pur
pose has not been convincingly served.
The political language continues to under
mine the goals of the president. The support of
a wary public has waned in recent months.
Consequently, public support would decrease
dramatically once American bodies, both men
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Carroll
and women, begin to be shipped home in cof
fins. Also, there is no indication that the Iraqis
are willing to relinquish their hold in Kuwait.
In fact, Hussein has sped reinforcements to the
Saudi border and firmly entrenched fortified
troops along this front.
Second, Bush continues to draw an analogy
between Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler. The
repercussions of this analogy have not been
fully realized. They are twofold. Initially, this
tactic may serve to justify and garner support
for an offensive military attack on the part of
the United States. But ultimately, a categoriza
tion of Hussein as an “enemy” of the American
people and the world severely limits the possi
bility of a peaceful resolution.
Enemies, by definition, perpetuate evil co
vertly. They lack any visible human or humane
qualities, and their actions are undertaken ir
rationally. Further, enemies cannot be bar
gained with, anticipated strategically, or
understood through a rational perspective.
This situation would necessarily mandate re
pression as the only possible solution.
This version of Hussein does not square with
the one portrayed during the Iran-Iraq war. At
that time, Iraq was afforded military weapons,
technology and intelligence by the U.S. govern
ment in order to potentially destroy our former
“enemy,” the Ayatollah Khomeini. The roles, as
well as the world order, have shifted since.
I suggest that the political rhetoric shift also.
It is possible for the Bush Administration to
correctly define Hussein as an “adversary*
without undermining either the position of the
U.N. of the United States. Adversaries are rec
ognized as capable of human error and further
ofTers the ability to understand their perspec
tive. The political language of adversaries en
hances the possibility of dialogue, and more
importantly, the possibilty of a peaceful resolu
tion to the Gulf Crisis. Persuasion is substi
tuted for coercion.
If the Bush Administration continues to use
imagery and rhetoric of a Herculean United
States, they would be wise to recognize that
classically Hercules was imbued with the
powers of reason and persuasion; not force and
coercion. Perhaps Bush should choose his
words and his enemies more carefully. Amer
ican lives depend on it.
Dan Carroll is a graduate of political science.
Tech: A life is a terrible thing to waste
Tomorrow, in a series dating back to 1893,
The University of Georgia and the Georgia In
stitute of Technology will do battle on the grid
iron in what is one of the truly great rivalries in
all of college football.
If there has ever been a game that isn’t “just
a game," it’s Georgia vs. Georgia Tech — in foot
ball, basketball, volleyball, darts — anything.
When these two get together, make no mis
take: It’s two completely different institutions
generally representing two completely different
types of people. Unfortunately, for people of our
generation, this rivalry has lost a great deal of
its luster.
You see, for the last quarter of a century or
so, we have dominated these people in just
about every type of athletic event — so much
that a lot of Georgia students, alumni and fnns
have forgotten just who it is that we are suiting
up against tomorrow. People have turned their
attention too much toward Auburn, Clemson,
Florida and the like in recent years and have
lost sight of our number one rival.
Anyone who knows anything at all about
Georgia Tech knows that 99 percent of all
people associated with the institute think that
they are God’s gift to the free world and that
anything asociated with the University of
Georgia is a menance to society. They think
they’re better than us in anything and every
thing, and the most pathetic part of the whole
thing is that, until very recently, they don’t
seem to take pride in anything of their own, but
rather in the defeat or misfortune of others.
Anyone who was at Bobby Dodd stadium last
year knows what I’m talking about. It was truly
unbeliveable. You would have thought they had
just won the Superbowl, the World Series and
the NBA Championship all at once, and that
their male students had gotten a date with a
good looking American girl. They threw things
at us. They screamed at us. They called us
losers and wore buttons that read “UGA — A
Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste.” All from a
school that has lost nine of the last twelve foot
ball games to Georgia. A school which has
beaten us in tennis once since I was bom. A
school which voluntarily cancelled its series
against us in women’s basketball last year be
cause their all-time record against us is 0-16. A
school that claims to have such class, but is the
same school that caused Paul “Bear” Bryant to
actually wear one of his team’s football helmets
onto the field for fear that one of the countless
bottles being thrown from the Tech student sec
tion would hit him.
They like to make people think that they are
superior to us academically. Let’s talk aca
demics. Let’s talk about our business school
being ranked in Business Week’s prestigious
top twenty. Let’s talk about our College of Jour
nalism being ranked third in the nation. Let’s
talk about our Law School's Moot Court team
recently winning the world, that’s right, world
championship. And let’s talk about the student-
athelete academics. Here’s a few scores for you.
In NCAA football post-graduate scholars, its
Georgia 11, Tech 5. In the National Football
Foundation post-graduate scholars, Georgia 8,
Tech 2. In total football academic awards recip
ients among southern schools, Georgia 30, Tech
18. In NCAA post-graduate scholars of all
sports, Georgia 23, Tech-no where to be seen
(they didn’t have enough to be ranked).
Why didn’t you ever hear about these things?
Because the North Avenue Trade School has
everyone believing that they're the best thing
since pizza and beer and that they’re the only
source of higher education in the state. Think
about this. Tech supporters will brag that the
average SAT score lor their students is 100 or
so points higher than ours (about 1160 to 1060).
Have you ever stopped to consider that our en
rollment is well over twice that of theirs? Don’t
you think if we only had 12,000 people enrolled
that our average might just be a wee bit higher?
Is that not enough? Then let's talk about
campus life. Let’s talk about their campus re
cently being ranked third-worst in America in
terms of crime. We have the arch, they have
Techwood Homes. We have a Milledge bus, they
have a MARTA bus. But yet they will say a
thousand times tomorrow, “If you can’t go to
college, go to Georgia." Gladly, pal. I’ll take our
Five Points over theirs any day. Ill also take
our football team, 4-6, or 4-100.
We will pack it out with 82,122 at 12:40 to
morrow, and if we make it like a Georgia crowd
should be for a Georgia Tech game, it won’t be
our bowl game, as people have called it. It will
be our poll game, because we will put the
Jackets where they really belong in the polls —
nowhere near the national championship. So
show it up for your school tomorrow morning —
show up early, show up proud, and most of all,
show up loud.
Brook Whitmire is a senior journalism major.
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Sportsmanship ‘essential’
As everyone is well aware, Sat
urday's game against Georgia Tech
is our biggest game of the season.
Our rivalry with Georgia Tech it
one of the greatest in collegiate
football, and this year's contest
should prove to be another classic.
“We are expecting a
very competitive game
‘between the hedges,'
and that is where we
want to keep all the
action.’’
We are expecting a very compet
itive game "between the hedges,"
and that is where we want to keep
all the action. Yell as loud as vou
can, cheer as often as you can, but
ood sportmanship from all Bull-
ogs is essential. I am confident all
Georgia supporters will display the
first class sportmanship we afford
all our visitors to Sanford Stadium.
I urge all Bulldogs to come early
to the game, support our team with
as much enthusiasm as possible,
but above anything else, show good
sportmanship. Thanks for your
support, and GO DOGS.
Vine* Dooley
University Director of Athletics
Juries important
The Clarke County Jury Com
mission is currently revising the
Jury list for the county.
Federal and State laws control
■ FORUM
many of the aspects of selection for
the Jury Box (from which Jurors
ore selected.) The Jury Box must
be consistent with the demography
of the county so far as age, gender
and race are concerned. This can
sometimes create difficulties, as
the basis for the selection is the list
of registered voters, and some
p-oups, such as young males, are
less likely to be registered; yet,
these groups still must be fairly
represented on the list of available
jurors.
Although names for the Jury
Box are normally selected from the
voter registration list, others may
be eligible. Persons who might
wish to be included for jury duty
may leave with, or send their
names to the Jury Commission, do
Delores Brooks, Clerk of the Supe
rior Court, Clarke County Court
House.
Jury duty is not only a priv-
iledge, but provides many people
with an oppurtunity to see juris
prudence first hand, and provides
selected jurors with remuneration
or income.
Clarke County Jury Commission
Beat Tech
To the football players: Please
don’t disappoint the students and
alumni of UGA. Get your (expletive
deleted) in gear and BEAT TECH-
Tom Pelllno
senior, Journalism
Brian DINapoll
senior, political eclonco