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The Red a Black | Wednesday, April 5, 2000 | 3
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Speaker warns of apathy Groups vow spenee
to uphold gay rights
HEATHER ALLEN
A Erna Dziewienski Martino, daughter
of Holocaust survivors, speaks at
Hillel Tuesday night.
By SAMIRA JAFARI
The Red a Black
A daughter of Holocaust
survivors told an audience
Tuesday night that apathy
was the main cause of the
Holocaust.
Ema Dziewienski Martino,
daughter of Polish Holocaust
survivors and acting presi
dent of Hemsheeh, the orga
nization of Holocaust Sur
vivors and Children of Sur
vivors and Future Genera
tions, spoke to students
and visitors at Hillel, the
Campus Center for Jewish
Life.
Bom in 1946 in Bavaria,
Germany, Martino said that
during her "unusual child
hood” she tried to under
stand her parents’ ongoing
pain caused by the Holo
caust.
As a child, Martino over
heard “horror stories” in
Yiddish from her father and
his friends, and watched her
mother mourn the death of
Martino’s brother and sister,
who were killed by Nazis.
“There was no way to
deal,” she said. “The pain
remained forever.”
Martino said she had two
reasons for speaking to the
audience — first to explain
who she is, and then to tell
young people they have the
opportunity to remove the
prejudice and bigotry in the
world.
“If you see injustice, speak
up,” Martino said.
She said passivity was the
cause of the Holocaust, more
so than hate.
"The reason It was possi
ble for such an enormous
crime to take place and
such evil to occur was
because of the apathy of
the Christian world,” she
said.
Martino said there were
not enough people at
the time who spoke out
against the wrong of mass-
fhurdering Jews.
“The key to all this is the
word 'choice,’ ” she said.
“The problem with the
Holocaust is not that so
many were so evil, but how
few chose to do the right
thing.”
Martino said that the
more information a person
receives about the Holo
caust, the harder it is to
answer moral and ethical
questions — “there are no
answers,” she said.
Martino said she never
encountered bigotry in
Bavaria — instead she found
bigotry when she moved to
Atlanta. The Ku Klux Klan
painted swastikas on mail
boxes in her neighborhood in
1962.
She said young people
have the “opportunity to cre
ate a different world than the
world that didn’t have room
for (her) brother and sister,
and all those beautiful chil
dren.”
SGA senate says it won’t fund pageant next year
By SHANA GALl.ENTINE
The Red a Black
The Miss UGA Pageant won’t
receive money from the Student
Government Association's bud
get next year because it discrimi
nates against men, SGA senators
decided Tuesday night.
SGA had submitted plans to
the All-Campus Allocations
Recommendations Committee
for $500 of its line-item budget to
go toward the pageant, which it
has sponsored in recent years.
Richard Butler, president pro r
tempore, argued in open forum I
to change the budget because
the pageant excludes males and
contributes to negative female !
stereotypes.
He said it was wrong to give j
money to a pageant that discrim
inates against males while SGA
can’t contribute to minority
•cholarships that aren't available
Jo all students.
• “The fact is, we can’t help out!
■a poor child living in the inner:
city, but we can help out an afflu
ent, attractive, well-spoken
woman,” Butler said.
The debate continued for
about 15 minutes, as several sen
ators disagreed with Butler.
“If we were violating Title IX,
which has been in place for so
many years, someone would’ve
been screaming at us by
now,” said Treasurer Stephen
Bruner.
After a 5-minute recess, Vice
President Chi Chi Patrick called
for an informal vote.
Senators voted 19-5 to with
draw support from SGA’s budget,
but to continue supporting the
Miss UGA Pageant through fund
raising.
However, the senate does
not need to approve SGA’s
budget.
Patrick said she called for the
vote to gauge opinion in order for
her and President Garrett
Gravesen to make a final
decision.
Resolutions also passed to
expand the Tate Student Center,
research student support for a
commuter meal plan and imple
ment a peer advising program for
freshmen.
By DENA LEVITZ
The Red a Black
Rather than religious
demonstrators, if you walk by
the Tate Student Center today,
you may only hear the sounds
of silence.
In observance of "A Day of
Silence,” members of Straight
But Not Narrow will vow not to
talk for nine hours in an effort
to make a statement about gay
rights.
Instead, they will pass out
fliers, stickers and cards to get
their message across to stu
dents passing by the Tate
Student Center from 10 a m. to
5 p.m.
"So often in the gay and les
bian communities people are
silenced,” said Rachel DuBois,
co-president of Straight But
Not Narrow. “Day of Silence is a
way of aligning ourselves with
these people who don't have a
choice about being silenced.”
By taking a vow of silence,
students who keep quiet today
are saying they believe that
laws and attitudes should be
inclusive of all sexual orienta
tions.
DuBois said the day also is
designed to promote further
action on the topic of gay
rights.
“We want to show support
and allow people to reflect on
just how Important everyone’s
voice is,” she said. “So they’ll
do something in the future.”
Anyone can participate in
Day of Silence, which Straight
But Not Narrow has been plan
ning.
Other organizations, includ
ing the National Organization
for Women and the Lamba
Alliance, also have shown inter
est in the effort and will help
man the table throughout the
day.
At the end of the nine hour
period of silence, all the partici
pants will regroup at the Tate
Student Center for a “scream
out,” where they can let out ail
the tension that has built up
during the day.
Day of Silence began in 1996
as an extension of a paper on
non-violent protest written by
a student at the University of
Virginia.
Event organizers hope Day
of Silence will cause people to
think about voices they are not
hearing, both on that day and
afterward, to figure out what
they can do.
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