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The Red a r 'd BJseIl • t
Fortune-tellers read
tarot cards, crystals,
palms and the bible
By MELANIE THOMAS
Campus Correspondent
When an unsuspecting new
comer enters the dwarf-sized
room, they may feel over
whelmed by a mystical aura of
zodiac signs, colorful crystals
and spiritual symbols.
Catholic figurines and beads
adorn several red-clothed tables,
and a tiny stand, usually sup
porting a crystal ball, tarot cards
or an anxious client’s palm, rests
in the midst of prophetic trim
mings.
The atmosphere is right for
persons seeking a glimpse of
their future.
‘I started seeing vi
sions, things about
other people ... And
the older I got, the
clearer they be
came.’
- Marie Marks,
fortune teller
“Make two wishes, think
about them very hard, and then
show me your palm,” were Marie
Marks’ instructions to one
University student.
Marks and her mother are the
psychic powers behind Sister
Marie, a fortune-telling estab
lishment on the Atlanta
Highway about five miles past
Georgia Square Mall.
The mother-daughter pair
uses the positions of stars and
planets to offer advice on love af
fairs, business ventures or any
thing on the client’s mind.
“Both your wishes will come
true within six months,” Marks
said. “You were born under a
good sign.”
Tara Truitt, a junior from
Albany, was visiting Sister
Marie’s burrow for the first time.
“Them’s something real unas
suming about her,” Truitt said. “I
thought she was going to make
some bi»_J generalizations, but
she told me about specific things
in my life."
Marks isn’t the stereotypical
gypsy, bearing an extravagant
scarf around her head and a
sheath of gaudy necklaces. Her
regularity probably helps put
customers at ease.
“She’s not trying to put on
airs," Truitt said. “She’s just very
straightforward."
At Sister Marie’s, soothsaying
seems to run in the family.
Marks’s mother, grandmother,
and great-great grandmother
were also psychics.
Marks said she realized she
was different when she was
about 5 or 6 years old.
“I started seeing visions,
things about other people,”
Marks said. “And the older I got,
the clearer they became.”
Marks has been working as a
psychic with her mother since
she was old enough to work.
Marks said her mother gave her
one piece of advice when she
went into the art of clairvoyancy.
“She told me whatever I see
for somebody, then I must not
keep anything back from them.
And be thankful for what the
Lord has given us,” Marks said.
The pair describe themselves
as very Catholic and find no con
flict between their fortune
telling and religion.
“It’s a gift from God," Marks
said. “All we do is through the
Lord, through the crystals. It’s
nothing bad.”
Marks said their powers are
natural, not learned from books.
“My mother never sat me
down and taught me how to do
this,” Marks said. “It’s just in
you."
Marks said she can tell things
about a person by “feeling the vi
brations of their soul.”
Just being in someone’s pres
ence tells Marks the kind of per
son they are, she said, as well as
how religious they are and if
something’s troubling them.
The services of Sister Marie’s
range from about $10 to $140 for
anything from a single palm
reading to an intense reading
with crystals.
Most people want their palms
read, Marks said.
Different lines on a person’s
palm tell the spiritualist differ
ent things about a person.
Putting the two hands together
is like the ending and beginning
of a book.
The mentalists also do a lot of
tarot card reading. Different
cards adorned with pictures sup
posedly tell as much about the
client as two cards laid out to
gether.
Marks reads crystal balls
also, but said what a lot of
University students want are
crystal readings.
“They choose a crystal,”
Marks said, pointing to an array
of variously shaped and colored
crystals, “and hold them. I can
feel the vibrations from the crys
tals. It’s an intense reading.”
Marks said University stu
dents make up a large percent
age of their business.
But Jean-Piere Caillaut, a
University astronomy professor,
has his doubts about spiritual
seers.
“I think it’s a bunch of
baloney,” he said. “To think that
planets effect us is crazy.”
Marks said most people who
come in for a reading believe in
fortune-telling, but “if a person
comes in here a non-believer,
they leave a believer,” she said.
Don Eastman on UGA money matters
New VP directs
dollar-raising
By LORI WIECHMAN
Campus Correspondent
Don Eastman became Vice-
President for University
Development and Relations at the
beginning of the fall 1991 academ
ic year. In a recent interview with
The Red and Black, he discussed
University fund-raising methods
and his first year as a vice presi
dent, among other subjects. The fol
lowing are excerpts from that inter
view.
Q: How did the legislative
decisions during the Georgia
General Assembly affect the
University?
A: I think the University came
out very well in a very tough eco
nomic time. The best thing that
came out is a clear message that
higher education is at the top of the
priority list for Gov. Miller and
the legislature. To get a 3 percent
pool for salary increases does not
cause great celebration lots of
times. But when other sectors in
Georgia didn’t get that large of a
piece it’s a great victory. And it’s a
victory, I think, owed to the com
mitment of Gov. Miller and the
very strong support he got from
President Knapp, who led the ef
fort to help people understand why
that kind of increase is necessary.
I also think the legislature and the
governor took a bold step in fund
ing as many capital projects as
they did - 16 new buildings for the
university system bonded. When I
came here, there were 7.5 percent
budget cuts and in nine months,
just the public psychology has
changed.
Q: You said at the beginning
of the year you wanted to in
crease student donations.
Have you seen that happen?
A: I think it has happened this
year, although I don’t have the ex
act numbers. I’m more and more
certain that what I want to do and
want everyone to do is to help stu
dents become aware of the obliga
tions of alumniship. By the time
they graduate from the University,
they have a sense of what they
have been given by the state, and
what their opportunities to repay
the state are. Most students proba
bly graduate with the belief that if
they are going to get tickets on the
50 yard line, then they will have to
give some money to the athletic de
partment. They probably don’t
have a sense that if they want the
department they graduated from to
be one of the best departments, it
doesn’t only depend on what they
get from the state of Georgia, but
on private gifts from people like me
and people that I know.
Q: Where does the money
need to go to make the
University one of the best in
the country?
A: It’s not really the job of the
development office to set fund rais
ing priorities for the institution.
The president and department of
academic affairs should be setting
the major needs in areas we want
to concentrate on. Then they
should come to the development of
fice and tell us how much money
they need. If they have projects x,
y and z, and if nobody believes pro
ject y is any damn good, then we
need a public relations campaign to
try to get people to understand
what’s going on with Y and why
the University thinks that’s impor
tant.
Q: Is there any news on the
investigation concerning im
proper consultant payments in
the Botany department?
A: I wish I had some. I think
they are trying to be careful not to
put individuals, or even reputa
tions, in jeopardy. The downside of
that is that you can fuel a rumor by
not giving out fact. The upside is -
and the upside is more important -
protecting individuals from any
kind of reputational damage.
Q: How do you generate
fund-raising ideas?
A: They’re not all mine, for one
thing. And there are a lot of uni
versities who have been in this
business a lot longer than we have,
so you try to learn from them. And
that’s one reasons why you employ
consultants. They don’t only know
a lot themselves, but they know
what happened at Harvard, Yale
and Stanford. I think the key issue
in respect to development is to lis
ten to your constituents and what
you want to do. A good develop
ment program provides opportuni
ties for people to invest, not to do
nate. I don’t want donations. I
want people to invest in something
that makes their lives more mean
ingful. Development is about form
ing a relationship between an indi
vidual and a program, or two or
three or four, at the University.
Q: How have you reached
your fund-raising goals this
year?
A: We have really good numbers
from the annual fund. I’m not re
ally ready to make an announce
ment yet, but I’m almost certain
that we are going to have the high
est number of participants the
University has ever had. We may
double the number of participants.
We’ll have the numbers by July 1.
Of course, this is due to the tele
phone fund raising campaign that
began this year with the help of the
athletic department. We are call
ing all the alumni we can find.
That’s a little over 100,000. Many
of them haven’t been asked,
haven’t been involved and it’s been
as many as 10, 20 or 30 years since
they’ve been out of college. And
you're giving them an opportunity
to be involved in something which
really is a source of gratification
and great pride.
Q: What were your first im
pressions when you came to
the University?
A: I came in late August and
sorority rush was going on. There
were about 1,000 very attractive
young ladies parading up and
down on the sidewalks in front of
my building. This is much more
colorful and social than Cornell
was, at least at the beginning of
the semester. The second generic
impression I developed is how pas
sionate people are about the
University, whether they attended
or not. I was at the SunBelt Expo,
the world’s largest county fair, and
I was checking out of my hotel. A
young women asked if I was with
the University and when I told her
I was, she said “Go Dogs.” That
kind of statewide passion, interest
and affection and, sometimes, dis
affection, is not the case every
where.
Q: Where do you see yourself
in the next ten years?
A: I think right now, I’ve got as
good a job as you can have at any
University. There are lots and lots
of opportunities to do good here. I
don’t have really any ambitions to
do any other work or to work at any
other universities. With a lot of
luck, if the fiscal environment of
the state stays right and if I have
the ability to mount the kind of
abilities I want to mount, I think it
will be enough of a challenge to
keep me stimulated for a long, long
time. I think the thing that bums
people out sometimes is that they
don’t have enough resources to
help build the programs which
make things work. I want to con
tinue to be involved in a program
which competes at a national level
and Georgia is ready for that. As
long as that continues to happen,
there’s no reason to go anywhere
else.
Q: What was the most chal
lenging part of the job during
your first year?
A I have had a great year, but
there are two large issues. One is
trying to figure out the best way to
use my time among those very re
lated but distinct areas, without
going to the one which has the
most obvious problems. And you
only have about 25 hours a day to
work. I’m not just associated with
the fund-raising program, but also
with government, state, federal
and local relations and the
University’s public relations. I also
have to answer the question of
what the state and the University
of Georgia is paying me to do.
Q: Why do you wear bow
ties?
A Because they fit.
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