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4 | Thursday, November 29, 20011 The Red & Black
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The choice is clear
Due to overcrowding, students may
have to apply to the Terry College
The Terry College of Business has been
dealing with overcrowding for years. Since
1992, enrollment in Terry has increased by
2,745 students.
The school might have found a solution to
this problem. Officials are hoping they can
make changes to their admission policies
which will allow only juniors and seniors to
be enrolled in the school.
Why this change wasn’t done earlier
remains a mystery to us, but hopefully the
policy can finally be instated.
Other colleges at the University benefit
from students having to apply.
The Grady College of Journalism and
Mass Communication is a two-year college
where students can enjoy smaller class sizes
and more personal attention from
professors.
In fact, other University colleges have an
average of 22 students per upper-level class.
Terry College’s upper-level classes have 80-
85 students in them.
Robert Gatewood, the associate dean of
academic programs at Terry, said that the
large classes limit the style, quality and
structure of teaching.
If Terry is to continue to be one of the top
business schools in the nation, they need to
produce graduates who have studied in an
environment with personal attention.
Also, making students go through an
application process gives students incentive
and promotes healthy competition.
When a college gains such an overwhelm
ing number of students, there’s only a
few things that can be done about it: hire
more faculty or limit the number of stu
dents.
For Terry College the choice is clear.
If you build it...
The University should pursue a
campus memorial far fallen heroes
A campus memorial honoring those who
gave their lives serving in U.S. armed forces
was a controversial topic last semester.
Some critics argued that money allotted
for the memorial could be spent better else
where.
What better way to spend money than to
use it to show our support of the military
and the freedom they fight for in the form of
a memorial?
In these times of war in the United States,
there has been a newfound respect for those
that fight and give their lives for this
country.
Alumni and students are fighting in the
war now and they have died for our country
in years past. We should show our respect
and support for them and all soldiers by
honoring them with a memorial because
they serve and risk their lives so that we
may live in freedom.
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Can you be just friends with an ex?
A guy that I was dating
broke up with me a few
weeks ago, and he used
the line that I’m sure we’ve
all heard way too many
times.
He told me that even
though he knows it’s cliche,
he still “wants to be friends.”
I’ve seen him a couple of
times since then, but I
haven’t really felt the urge to
strike up a friendly conversa
tion with him.
The more I think about it,
the more I wonder: Can girls
and guys really be friends
after they’ve broken up?
I don’t consider myself an
expert in the field of dating. I
have spent most of my col
lege years in a string of short
“relationships” that have left
me wondering what the hell
is wrong with me.
But when I think about
the guys that I’ve dated, I
can’t really say that I’m
inends with any of them. Or
that I really want to be.
With most of them, I can
see them and at least be civil.
This, however, only happens
after a three- or four-week
period when I hate their guts.
I can usually only look at
them without my blood boil
ing once I’ve found someone
else to focus on.
I feel really awkward
around most of them. Some
of them have seen me at my
worst, so I’m afraid they
think I’m a total idiot and
have no qualms about shar
ing that with their friends.
It’s just plain weird for me
to be around guys when I
know I’ve had some kind of
past with them, whether it
was for just a few weeks, a
few months or more than a
year.
So it seems that I, for one,
can’t remain friends after a
break-up.
I think maybe it’s because
I take the break-up personal
ly. I just can’t help but see it
This is in response to
the article “Diversity
Suggestions Compiled” in
Tuesday’s edition of The
Red & Black.
One of the suggested
ways to increase diversity
was to “de-emphasize the
importance of standardized
testing and students’ SAT
scores in the admissions
process.”
I hope this committee is
not serious about doing this
because it goes directly
against the University’s
mission statement which
states, “a statewide respon
sibility and commitment to
excellence and academic
achievements having
national and international
recognition.”
How else should stu
dents be accepted besides
based on their grades and
SAT scores? Is the next
step to not include high
school GPA in the admis
sion process?
For the sake of this
school, I hope not.
Carlton J. Estes
Senior, Marietta
Management
People of faith should
‘embrace’ cloning
I was very pleased with
Amber Billings’ article on
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Caroline Sanfiuppo
A
as an insult when someone
doesn’t want to be with me
anymore.
That may not be exactly
what the guy is thinking, but
in my warped perception of
reality, it’s what is true.
So, naturally, I don’t want
to be friends with someone
who, in my opinion, thinks
I’m not good enough.
Or maybe my problem is
that most of my break-ups
haven’t been under the great
est of circumstances.
I’ve found it kind of hard
to be friends with guys who
have ditched me for other
girls or cheated on me.
It could be months or
years after it’s happened, but
there’s always something in
the back of my mind that
reminds me that the guy
treated me like crap.
And who wants to be
friends with someone who
does that? I don’t.
Or maybe it’s because I’m
a girl. The general consensus
among the girls I know is that
they can’t be friends after a
break-up, but most of the
guys I’ve talked to don’t seem
to have a problem with it.
While I can’t explain the
inner workings of a guy’s
mind (if I could, I wouldn’t be
writing this), I can only say
that they seem to think it’s
because girls are more emo
tional.
That could be it. Girls
tend to be a little more
attached to guys than the
other way around, especially
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human cloning. (“Human
cloning: too far?” Nov. 28) It
was a fine piece of objective
journalism.
What I was not pleased
with was the responses she
received from several of the
religious organizations on
campus.
I firmly hold to conserva
tive Christian beliefs and
values, but I am not unset
tled about the prospect of
human cloning.
In fact, I think it is pretty
exciting.
Having said that, I will
admit that genetic engi
neering is somewhat scary
to me and I don’t want the
future to be like that from
the movie “Gattaca.”
However, if cloning is
able to provide insight to
some genetic diseases, why
shouldn’t we do it?
Some folks say it is
morally wrong and I don’t
understand on what
grounds they are basing
this statement.
Jews, Christians, and
when more than handholding
is involved.
This seems like a valid
argument to me, but I also
think that every situation
and every person is different.
But enough about me.
What do other people think?
My friend Emily says she
cannot be friends with any of
her ex-boyfriends. She says
that once you’ve taken the
step up from being just
friends, it’s awkward going
back down a step.
She questions how you
can go back to acting normal
with someone who knows
more about you than your
other guy friends know.
My friend Chris says that
he can be friends with his ex
girlfriends as long as they’re
not “psycho.”
He says that most of
them, however, don’t really
have an interest in being
friends with him.
He says it’s easier to be
friendly when you’ve found
someone else.
He’s got a girlfriend.
Maybe that’s why it’s easy for
him to not hold a grudge.
So I guess the answer to
my question is that it’s all rel
ative. Every break-up is dif
ferent, and every girl and guy
involved is different.
I can’t say that I want to
be friends with any of my ex
boys, but I can stand to be
around at least two of them
without wanting to put my
hands around their necks
and squeeze.
But not the other guys.
They are not my friends. So
until the day when my fairy
tale romance ends with the
words “And they lived happi
ly ever after,” I’m going to
have to face that fact that I
can’t be friends with the guys
that broke my heart...or
bruised my ego.
— Caroline Sanfilippo is a
senior in magazines.
Muslims all claim their
faiths originate from
Abraham of the Old
Testament.
It would be good for
some of those folks to revis
it the Old Testament and
learn at least two things
about the God they say
they worship.
First, God gives humans
souls and they are each
distinct. Even if someone
is a genetic copy of me,
we won’t share a soul
and that is what really
counts.
Second, the God of the
Old Testament is omnipo
tent. He controls all and
nothing happens against
his will. If he wants to, he
will allow human cloning. If
he doesn’t like the way
humanity handles this
power, he will exact his
revenge.
People of faith should
embrace scientific advance
ment as a gift from God.
They should be responsible
with these gifts, but they
should not fear and shun
them.
Stubborn years of
despising intelligence and
academia have soured the
world to the messages of
these religions.
Bray Deavours
MBA Student
Duluth, GA
Will Mosher
A
Finding the
root of most
problems
W ell, let me just say this:
I’d gloat, but when a
team has won seven of
the past 10 meetings, it
just seems kind of petty
and pointless to gloat
about another Governor’s
Cup coming to Athens.
(This just in: Verron
Haynes is STILL running
over the Tech defense.)
Best way to thank the
team? Show your support
Saturday in person.
Yes, I know that means
getting up really freaking
early (the Dawg Walk is at
10:30 a.m., kickoff at noon)
but there’s all day Sunday
for sleeping.
And, with that out of
the way I think I may have
found the cause of many
problems in day-to-day life.
That’s right, your hum
ble (sic) columnist, he of
modest GPA, chiseled jaw
and buttocks, occasional
wit and great love for UGA
football has found the root
of several of our problems.
No, seriously.
So many trivial prob
lems — not things like war,
racism etc., but “smaller”
squabbles — are the result
of a communication break
down.
Interpersonal relation
ships, business transac
tions, the drive-thru win
dow — problems all arise
from communication not
being clear.
So, the question is:
Why do these breakdowns
occur?
Well, I’ll tell you (and
thanks for waiting
patiently.)
Even when we speak the
same language, the same
WORDS even, the MEAN
ING is rarely the same.
A person’s own back
ground colors their mean
ing of words.
Don’t believe me?
Fine, get go tell an
elderly person that some
thing is “cool” and see if he
understands what you’re
saying.
Or, for another example,
if I were to, for no reason
other than my own amuse
ment, split an infinitive
here in this sentence to, for
the heck of it, illustrate a
point, the words “split
infinitive” would be of little
consequence to, say a
economist with no interest
in grammar, while a mili
tant grammarian (after
recovering from the sight
of two split infinitives)
would know almost exactly
what I am talking about.
A better example (re:
far more relevant to the
entire student body) is the
word “flirting.” Think
about this for a second:
When you say you/he/she
was “flirting” what do
mean by that word? To
you, what exactly consti
tutes “flirting?”
Batting eyes, smiles,
verbal innuendo — do
these count?
Does physical contact
have to be involved? Does
anyone have to speak?
And, do you classify differ
ent types or stages of flirt
ing? Ladies, write your
answers down on a 3 x 5
card and take it with you
downtown this weekend —
be sure to have them out
where I can read them.
Now, do you think your
definition of “flirting” is the
same as the person you’re
flirting with?
It probably isn’t, and
therein lies the problem.
Of course, I don’t really
have a solution to this
problem — I just point it
out in the hopes that rec
ognizing the problem is the
first step to fixing it.
And also, if I had a
viable solution to our col
lective communication
cacophonies I certainly
wouldn’t have to worry
about paying back student
loans.
Oh, what’s that? You’re
wondering what my defini
tion of flirting is? Why do
you ask?
— Will Mosher is a
junior in English.
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