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A wrap-up of the week’s ups and downs
Mixin’ it up. The University celebrated
the 40th anniversary of its desegregation
this week, complete with ceremonies,
guest lectures and the renaming of the
Academic Building in honor of the school’s
first two black students.
But...
Like white on rice. Forty years later,
minority enrollment at the University is
only 12 percent. The flagship institution of
the state should be more representative of
ALL of its residents.
Short but sweet. Even though winter
break is over, it’s probably for the best.
One more week at home with parents, sib
lings and reinstated curfews could have
led to an unimaginably horrific disaster.
A day for a dream. There’s no school on
Monday in celebration of Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day. Make sure you don’t go to
class accidently. Nobody wants to be “that
guy.”
Exiting on Q. Quarterback Quincy
Carter has decided to leave the University
and turn professional. We hope that
thumb heals in time to sign the contracts,
Quincy.
And by the way...
Five interceptions against South
Carolina?
Here come the judge. After months of
work, lawyers filed briefs this week with
the 11th Court of Appeals on behalf of sev
eral women who claim they were denied
admission to the University because they
were white. Finally, we’re actually getting
closer to a decision in this case.
Wait until dark. Students trying to
change classes during Drop/Add had to
spend hours waiting in long lines through
out the week just to get to OASIS. Some
couldn’t even get into the program until
night.
Maybe if OASIS were open 24 hours a
day, seven days a week, we all could actu
ally attend class during the first week of
school.
The oldest profession. “Temptation
Island” premiered this week on Fox.
The premise?
Four couples spend time on an island
with 22 hot singles. The challenge is for
the committed “couples” to avoid the
“temptation” to cheat.
Whores! They’re all a bunch of whores!
And if you watch this show, you’re a bad
person too.
Quote of the week:
“It’s like Lilith Fair with an edge.”
— Brian Gray, a freshman from Athens,
describing the Jennifer Nettles Band.
Correction
Due to a reporting error, an article in Thursday’s edition of The
Red & Black, incorrectly listed the phone number for the Office of
International Student Life. The correct number is 542-5867.
Due to a reporting error, an article in Thursday’s edition of The
Red & Black incorrectly listed the phone number for Watchdawgs.
The correct number is 369-6601.
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f RESIDENT ADAMS 1 PLM1 MORE OASSAWS IN THE DORMS
A plea for unity all over the world
M any people on campus and
around the country think
that prejudice and discrimi
nation based on race, reUgion,
ethnicity, or sexual orientation is
a big problem.
Wen, I think it is a big problem
not only in the United States,
but also around the world.
I constantly question who I
am and what labels are placed on
me.
So far, I am an American, a
Palestinian, a CathoUc Christian
and a Georgia BuUdog.
Because I am a Palestinian
bom in the United States, I have
come face to face with many sit
uations of prejudice, especiaUy
when I go to the Middle East and
visit my grandmother in
Ram all ah, West Bank.
I am also a science major and
I look at this problem of preju
dice in an analytical manner in
order to explain it to myself.
First of all, we are all human,
no matter what anyone says.
When we hurt, we cry. When
we are cut, we bleed. When we
are happy, we smile.
This is the same no matter
which group of people you are
talking about.
So what is prejudice and
discrimination?
These terms have different
meanings.
Discrimination means an act
or failure to act based on infor
mation obtained from a stereo
type.
An example is when I go to a
party where I don’t know anyone
and I mention to someone that I
am Palestinian.
The people around me start
treating me like I don’t know
English, that I am dangerous and
that I may be a terrorist.
A failure to act is if I go to get
a job and the person fails to hire
me based on my parents being
immigrants.
Jack Saad
A
In reality, discrimination is
very closely related to ignorance.
Prejudice, on the other hand,
is when a person has ill feelings
on the inside about a particular
group of people and is raised to
believe it.
Prejudice cannot be changed
since it is an internal aspect of
an individual’s personality and is
not a physical action that can be
seen, like discrimination.
So really, we can deal with dis
crimination by educating people,
but we cannot do anything about
prejudiced hearts.
I have been to the West Bank,
Israel, Jordan and Egypt many
times and I have experienced
prejudice, discrimination, and
just plain-out hatred in their
most extreme forms.
In Israel I have been called
names, harassed, and even had
guns pulled on me by Israeli mili
tary personnel just for fitting the
physical profile they have of a
terrorist.
But here in the United States,
some of my best friends are
Jewish, and some are even
Jewish-Israelis.
In fact, we share horror stories
and comfort each other over the
violence that has plagued the
region and our families.
What makes the difference
here and not there?
Why am I hated there so
much?
I look at this and see a general
rule: Accept every human being
as an individual not as a member
of a group.
A p-oup may hate you, but an
individual may not.
And for those individuals who
do not like you, you have to
ignore them, for they are simply
ignorant.
You cannot change them and
you cannot worry about some
thing you can not control.
This idea applies to everyone,
whether you are Palestinian or
Israeli, Indian or Pakistani,
African-American or African,
Mexican or Puerto Rican, black
or white, male or female, no mat
ter which religion you believe in,
if you even have a religion.
Right now, there is one of the
most extreme and dangerous
forms of discrimination and prej
udice going on in the world and
it is located in the most sacred
part of the Middle East.
No matter what you believe or
where you heard the news, there
is one thing that is a fact: chil
dren are getting killed.
Not only that — they’re chil
dren our age.
The average age of Israeli sol
diers is between 18 to 22, and the
average age of Palestinian stone
throwers is 13 to 25.
They were not alive during
any world war.
They weren’t even alive during
the Vietnam War. They were in
elementary and junior high
schools during the Persian Gulf
War.
Why are they fighting and
dying?
We are blessed to be in the
United States.
So in the spirit of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., let us not allow
conflict like that here, especially
on this campus.
— Jack Saad is a senior in
chemistry.
Mailbox
E-mail, letters and faxes from our readers
Readers come to the defense of Carter
George Azih
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A new way
to make a
few bucks
I finally figured out a sure
fire way to make money
without doing any work.
But I’ll get to that later.
Welcome back to the
University.
Academically speaking, col
lege students throughout the
nation did poorly last
semester, except residents of
Palm Beach County, Florida,
which, after a series of
recounts, calculated its aver
age GPA to be 47.5.
But enough about Florida.
Anyway, as I was saying
before that last shot of tequi
la, college students through
out the nation are getting
dumber.
This is great news, because
I thought it was just me.
Thankfully, it seems like
everyone is getting dumb.
Basically, college students
have the IQ of dead insects.
This is not good news, seeing
as dead insects are not exact
ly oozing intelligence.
So as college students, we
have to find an alternative
way to make money, which
brings me back to my opening
statement.
As stated in the beginning
of this column, I have finally
figured out a way to make
money without trying.
But first of all, I would like
to apologize to those readers
who were stupid enough to
attempt my last money-mak
ing scheme.
In a past column, I
observed that human beings
had way more organs than we
needed.
Seriously, do we really need
two lungs? One lung ought to
do fine.
In fact, certain species, like
yeast, have no lungs, and yet
they are doing GREAT
because somehow they fig
ured out how to make beer.
Well, I suggested that when
people need money, they
should sell their excess
organs. Hard to believe, but
certain people — let’s call
them college students — read
the column and decided to
cash in on their organs.
So now I want to send a
message out to such readers:
Attention Morons,
If you read my column and
sold your kidneys and now,
without warning, your body
emits organic fluids at irregu
lar intervals, then send a
threatening letter to me at:
George Azih, do Johnny
Cochran Law offices. Beverly
Hills, CA 90210.
Also, await a serious law
suit.
Thank you.
In response to Jason Webber’s
comments about Quincy Carter
and Terrell Davis:
First, back-up quarterbacks
for the Browns do make quite a
bit of money and I’m sure Quincy
won’t have a problem playing
backup for a couple of years while
he learns a new system and is
actually taught to play quarter
back.
Just remember, his last quar
terback coach was Todd Donnan,
who is not exactly what many
would call a great coach.
Although he was successful for
then Division II Marshall, it was
Division II and he did have
Randy Moss as a receiver.
Second, so what if Terrell
Davis wasn’t an All-American in
college.
I’m sure he’s perfectly happy
with his $30 million contract, two
league MVP trophies, a Super
Bowl MVP trophy and his two
Super Bowl Championship rings.
Also: Yes, he did back up Mike
Anderson this season. Why?
You said it yourself that he was
injured.
Remember he was the starter
at the beginning of the season?
Maybe you should think next
time before you criticize people.
CLAY JONES
Junior, Jonesboro
Finance
This is in response to Josh
Katzowitz’s and Jason Webber’s
pathetic babblings in
Wednesday’s paper.
You guys proved that you have
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absolutely no class.
You whine when Carter plays
badly, then you bash him when he
decides not to come back.
After all, isn’t that what you
wanted?
Can you blame him for not
wanting to play for fans like you
two?
There is no doubt that Carter
is a better athlete than the two of
you, and, after Wednesday, it’s
obvious he’s a much better per
son as well.
And I doubt you’ll ever be
close to even being a backup
quarterback in the NFL.
If Wednesday’s utterance is
any indication of the quality of
your thought’s, Mr. Webber, per
haps you should refrain from hav
ing any more.
GEOFF GISLER
Junior, Jonesboro
Ecology
Plenty of parking woes
in the Coliseum lot
Toward the end of last
semester, all those who usually
park in the Coliseum lot learned
that part of their parking lot will
be taken from them and given to
employees with Perimeter tags.
This information came in the
form of a large, rather blunt and
unfriendly sign which seemed to
welcome you to not only your
school for the day, but to
University politics as usual.
Little did we know, however,
just how bone-headed this deci
sion was.
On the first day back this
semester, even with my new grad
uate tag, I was forced to park all
the way over in West Campus on
the top level of the parking deck.
Already, only an hour after
classes started, I, along with
hordes of other students, were
left without parking places.
While I have since learned that
I must arrive on campus at the
crack of dawn to get parking
close to my school, I know that
there are many students who
cannot do this and are at the
mercy of the motorized mob.
I think it is about time the
University really took a long, hard
look at the parking situations
here on campus with the stu
dents in mind and make this
campus a more student-parking-
friendly place.
Taking away spaces simply
doesn’t make a great deal of
sense to me and everyone else
who park, or prays to park, at the
Coliseum lot.
BEAUMAN DICK
Graduate student, Jesup
Pharmacy
Now back to my money
making plan.
This idea is based on those
infomercials on TV that tell
you how to make fortunes
with real estate.
They show a guy next to a
huge building, and he says
something like, “Hey there. I
used to be a bum living on
Broad Street until I bought
Tony's Real Estate Video. I
sold a few buildings, and now
I’m a millionaire.”
The infomercials always
stop there. They never men
tion how the bum got the
buildings in the first place.
So watching those infomer
cials gave me a great idea.
Why not sell a building?
The building I am thinking
of in particular is Brumby
Hall.
Hey, according to the
infomercials, all I have to do is
stand next to it, smile, and
offers will immediately start
rolling in.
So if you want to be rich,
go sell a building.
I've called Brumby, so you
can't sell that one.
But there are other build
ings out there that are still up
for grabs, like Sanford
Stadium, Park Hall, and the
South Campus Parking Deck.
Remember, just stand in
front of the building, smile,
and get paid.
Then drink lots of tequila.
— George Azih is a junior
in biology and math. His col
umn appears on Thursdays.