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November 30,1999
Vol. 107, No. 68 | Athbns, Georgia
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PACE 6
Students
write off
chalk rule
By R. LEE GUARNELLA
The Red a Black
There’s chalk everywhere.
“Chalk It Up” graffiti has surfaced on
North Campus since Nov 20, after Student
Activities enacted a new policy charging
student groups $150 if they continue using
chalk ads
Student Government Association
Senator Chris Hoofhagle said he's one of
the students responsible for the chalkings,
but he doesn’t plan to keep chalking up
campus until he hears “what the adminis
tration response is.”
i “I did it because individual students
have the right to express themselves in the
form of chalking the sidewalks. Student
Activities unfairly restricts free speech,"
Hoofhagle said. “The regulation restricts
groups — I’m not a group.”
One SGA member isn't happy with the
no-chalk policy and supports the graffiti,
but he doesn’t take any responsibility.
“I deny any involvement, but I do
applaud the student’s effort," said Mike
Runnels, SGA president pro-tempore.
“For many groups, it’s the most effective
way of communication; it’s a form of politi
cal expression. ”
On Nov. 10, the Department of Student
Activities sent a notice to all student orga
nizations telling them that all chalk adver
tisements were prohibited.
Runnels said the use of chalk advertise
ments is a way for student organizations
to express their opinions on campus.
“I know that the chalk causes discol
oration in the bricks, but sidewalk chalk
can be swept up with a broom. I've seen it
done,” Runnels said. “For the department
to say that it costs $150 to clean up the
chalk is rather ridiculous. It's like the no
smoking rule in the dorms — it's a touch
much.”
Hoofnagle said the administration
wants to remove the chalk because it may
offend the parents of prospective stu
dents.
“I think that parents come to the cam
pus for tours, and sometimes they see
political messages that could be consid
ered controversial. They don’t want to
spook the parents,” he said.
Patricia Johnson, director of Student
Activities, said students want a chalk-free
campus.
“I don’t think students would want
their campus drawn on especially when it
doesn't wash away,” Johnson said. “One
group will see another group doing it and
will think it's all right to do it.”
She said the policy always has been a
rule.
The regulation isn’t found in the stu
dent handbook.
Student groups are allowed to advertise
on campus with flyers, electric signs or
street painting by permit.
Bethany Iverson, a senior from Athens,
said she preferred chalk over paper adver
tisements because most of the paper
would be wasted.
“I’d rather have chalk on the sidewalks
than have thousands of advertisements on
pieces of paper. People won’t always recy
cle all of those pieces of paper,” she said.
Sprucing up downtown
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▲ Adding to downtown’s holiday atmosphere, the Christmas tree in
front of the courthouse will be decorated today.
Teacher upset
over note site
Service defends use
of online study help
By MIRANDA MANGUM
The Red a Black
An online class notes company
claims a University professor has
interfered with its Web site’s right to
do business.
The founders and CEOs of
Study24-7.com, Craig Green and Brian
Maser, said University art history pro
fessor Bradley Tindall threatened stu
dents with an “impossible-to-pass
Anal exam” in his Asian art history
class if his lecture notes weren't
removed from the site.
Study24-7.com hires students to
host virtual class communities where
they post class notes and host discus
sions of class lectures.
“We had an individual enrolled in
Tindall’s class posting lecture notes to
our Web site,” Maser said. “He got
upset and demanded the notes be
removed immediately.”
The name of the student who post
ed the notes on the Web wasn’t
released by the site owners to protect
his or her privacy.
Green and Maser said Tindall is
maliciously interfering with their right
to do business on campus.
The CEOs said Tindall contacted
them through e-mail and demanded
they stop posting his notes on the Web
site, saying it was copyright infringe
ment.
"Students have every right to do
this,” Maser said. “We’re promoting
students studying together, and we’re
not doing anything illegal.”
Tindall couldn’t be reached for
comment Monday, but the director of
the Lamar Dodd School of Art,
SPECIAL | Til Rid a Blah
▲ A University student posted
notes from an art history class
on Study24-7.com.
Carmon Colangelo, said he stands
behind Tindall.
“Malicious Interference is an unfair
characterization,” Colangelo said.
"The action he’s taking is his preroga
tive."
Colangelo said Tindall has an
exemplary record and is in good
standing with the art school.
“He’s not threatened them. He Just
made a step to protect the academic
integrity of the class," Colangelo said.
Paul Heald, a law professor, said the
law protects the professor’s interpre
tation of facts, but not the facts them
selves.
“Note taking and sharing is almost
certainly a fair use," Heald said.
Fair use law permits the use of
copyrighted material without its
author’s permission in some
instances.
The notes haven't been removed by
Study24-7.com, but the student has
stopped posting notes.
“What we’re doing is 100 percent
legal,” Maser said. “We're not trying to
get in a fight with the University of
Georgia."
Standardized tests suggested for Georgia colleges
By PAUL FULTON JR.
The Red a Black
Students may be required to take
standardized tests after their sopho
more year to measure the University’s
academic effectiveness, suggested an
e-mail to Gov. Roy Barnes.
Steven Portch, chancellor for the
University System of Georgia, e-mailed
the governor a list of ideas for the
Board of Regents to consider to
improve Georgia’s education system.
The e-mails also proposed using
students’ scores on the Georgia High
School Graduation Test as a dominant
factor in admissions and possibly
requiring HOPE scholars to complete
some type of community involvement.
But there will be no immediate
changes for Georgia’s colleges and uni
versities, said John Mtllsaps,
u
“Chancellor Portch has got
some insights in education, so
they're ideas that are based
upon his expertise in his many
years in the field. But again
they’re just ideas to consider.”
JOHN MILLSAPS
Spokesman tor the Board of Regents
spokesman for the Board of Regents.
Although Portch serves on Barnes’
Education Reform Commission, “The
conversations the chancellor had with
Governor Barnes were not as chancel
lor but as a private citizen," Millsaps
said.
“Chancellor Portch has got some
insights in education, so they’re ideas
that are based upon his expertise in his
many years in the field,” Millsaps said.
“But again, they’re just ideas to consid
er. There’s no activity in researching
this or developing the proposal.”
Millsaps said the possibility of using
such standardized tests is Just one sug
gestion in a long list of possibilities the
governor may want to think about for
improving the University System of
Georgia.
“I wouldn’t give that suggestion any
more or any less weight than the oth
ers,” he said.
The e-mails from Portch to Barnes
were obtained by The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution as a result of an Open
Records request.
Portch said in the Saturday article
he believes the proposals — including
the use of standardized tests — even
tually will pay off.
“It's inevitably going to come,” he
said. “Why don't we just go ahead and
do some of this stuff?"
Jim Fletcher, vice-president for stu
dent affairs, said he sees no reason to
begin using standardized tests after
students' sophomore years.
He said junior and senior years
should be more for concentration on
majors than anything else.
“It’s not a helpful step at all,"
Fletcher said. “By the time a person is
a sophomore, he’s already started into
one of the several hundred majors that
are possible in the state. We aren’t
going to have a test that is meaningful
for a person in upper-level learning."
He said students get standardized
testing experience when taking the
Regents Exam or Constitution test.
North Korean panel visits University
discusses conflict with United States
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By SAMIRA JAFARI
The Red a Black
For the first time in history, a senior dele
gation from North Korea visited an
American university.
A five-member panel of North Korean
scholars and policy-makers visited the
University to discuss relations between the
United States and the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea before an audience of
more than 40 people Monday afternoon.
Four U.S. officials formed a second panel to
ask questions, give feedback and generate
discussion in the conference, sponsored by
The Center for the Study of Global Issues
(GLOBIS).
“This symposium should be seen in a pro
foundly historical context — at the dawn of
the 21st century, we are faced with a number
of serious challenges threatening the very
survival of mankind and the continuation of
human history," said Han 8. Park, director
of OLOBI8 and a University political sci
ence professor.
The symposium was spurred by
President Clinton lifting the economic
embargo against North Korea Sept. 17.
But the lifted embargo is only a symbolic
gesture by the United States because there
haven't been any other forms of U.S. cooper
ation, Korean panelists said.
The American panel was led by James T.
Laney, president emeritus of Emory
University and former U.8. ambassador to
South Korea.
"I’ve been waiting 52 years for an occa
sion like this," Laney said.
Kim Hyong U, vice-chairman of the Korea
Asia-Pacific Peace Committee and former
DPRK ambassador to the United Nations,
headed the panel of North Koreans.
The symposium was split into two ses
sions. The first allowed opening speeches
from both ambassadors, with Park presid
ing. and an informal discussion between
both panels followed.
“Technically, our two countries are still at
war. As we speak, some 36,000 U.S. ground
troops are stationed along the border divid
ing North and South Korea," Park said.
Currently, the Korean peninsula remains
the most heavily armed region in the world.
Yet members of GLOBIS believe that If
both countries plan mutually beneficial pro
jects, peace will be tangible in the future.
Li Su Ik, member of the Korean Christian
Federation and former soldier in the Korean
Whr, said in the informal session that the
war was criminal to Korea, and it still
angered many people.
The North Korean army is key in reunify
ing North and South Korea — outside forces
should not interfere, Kim said.
John Merrill, senior foreign affairs analyst
of the Department of State, was scheduled
to take part In discussion but did not attend
the meeting for unknown reasons.
“It is unfortunate that the North Koreans
traveled the distance to attend the sympo
sium, but a member of the U.S. State
Department doesn’t show,” Kim said during
a break between sessions.
The DPRK panel will travel to New York
after Its visit to Athens.
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