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4 | Friday, January 11, 20021 The Red & Black
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A wrap-up of the week’s ups and doums
Get with the PROgram. Tight end
Randy McMichael and defensive end
Charles Grant announced their deci
sion to leave the University and head
to the NFL.
Maybe they’ll hit Sally Struthers up
for a degree in TV and VCR repair
from their new homes.
Like peanut butter and jelly. If the
county commission gets its way, local
strip clubs will have to decide between
beer or breasts.
In related news, The Red & Black
(located across from Topper’s) will
open “The R&B After Dark,” which
will feature a full bar.
“This is where the magic happens.”
University Housing unveiled a
prototype for the new East Campus
dorms.
They feature single-occupant
bedrooms so dorm students can
increase their, uhh, sleeping.
OASIS in the desert. The University
updated OASIS so students can
withdraw from classes over the
Internet.
There also is talk of some sort of
large vehicle that will replace the
horse-drawn carriages that transport
students to class. But again, just talk.
No love for tha club. Due to
financial constraints, Insomnia was
forced to re-open as a bar/dance club.
Didn’t Kevin Bacon teach us
anything in “Footloose?”
Bulldog Nation. Football fans placed
No. 6 in a national poll ranking home
game attendance.
Fans packed in at an average of
86,520 per game, down from 86,521
after the arrest of Michael Lasseter in
Hartsfield Airport.
Ladies and gentlemen, Satan has
left the building. University of Florida
head coach Steve Spurrier announced
his resignation Jan. 4.
Sources say shortly before the
announcement was made, Spurrier
was seen wearing red and black,
hugging a stuffed Uga toy and
crying, “I just can’t go on living a lie!”
D-l-V-O-R-C-E. Michael Jordan
announced this week that he and his
wife will be divorcing.
First Drew and Tom and now this!
We’ve got a shiny quarter that says
Billy Bob and Angelina are next.
Quote of the week: “Most of the men come in
because they are having relationship problems.
The girls try to help them out and give them
good advice.”
— Jill Dlaross, an exotic dancer at Topper’s
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No need to rush down the aisle
W hen I was a little girl, I
dreamt of the day that
I would get married.
I walked around the
house with a blanket
draped around my
j shoulders and a piUowcase
on my head.
I was convinced that I
made a very beautiful bride.
I had the pleasure over
i the break of seeing my
I cousin live out her dream.
I also had the pleasure of
! anticipating, with dread,
I the questions my
weU-meaning relatives were
i going to ask me.
Our conversations went
I something like this:
WeU-Meaning Relative:
I So, Caroline, when are you
I going to get married?
Me: I don’t know.
WMR: Oh, you don’t
I know? Well, is there a man
in your future?
Me: No.
WMR: There’s not?
Don’t worry, you’re still
young.
Yes, I know, I’m still
young.
I’m very young.
I don’t plan on getting
married any time soon.
I’ve finally wrestled with
| the demons in my head
that are prancing around in
! veils, throwing rice and
humming “Here Comes the
; Bride.”
They popped up when
j the girls in my family
I started getting married.
And they only multiplied
I when my cousin got
engaged and I realized that,
I by birth order, I was next.
I started thinking I
needed to hurry up and find
The One so I wouldn’t
Caroline Sanfiuppo
▲
disappoint my family.
I put a lot of pressure on
myself that was completely
ridiculous.
I had to step back, take
a deep breath and realize
how silly I was being.
I’m 21 years old, single,
in college and having the
time of my life.
Remind me again — why
did I want to get married?
Yeah, sure, it’s nice to
have a day when you’re the
one all in white and
everyone is paying atten
tion to you.
But, of course, there’s
more to getting married
than the wedding.
You actually have to live
the rest of your life with
someone else.
While I would like to get
married before the end of
my child-bearing days, I
think I would rather get
married when I’m 40 than
rush into marriage with
someone I couldn’t bear the
sight of a few years later.
I want to have the look I
saw on my cousin’s face as
she and her husband had
their first dance as a
married couple — the look
of pure love, adoration and
joy.
The look you don’t get
when you pressure yourself
into thinking you have to
get married some time
soon.
As I stood huddled with
all the other single girls at
my cousin’s reception, wait
ing for her to throw the
bouquet, I started to think
the whole tradition is a
little crazy.
There we were, the girls
who, for whatever reason,
weren’t yet a Mrs.
I’ve done this before.
Two times I’ve had the
bouquet ripped from my
hands by someone taller
than me — so I’m a little
jaded by the whole thing.
We were expected to
jostle each other for some
flowers that would
magically transport us away
from the horrible world of
singledom.
I admit that when I
watched the bouquet land
in the outstretched arms of
a bridesmaid, I felt a little
twinge of disappointment.
But then I had to laugh.
Did I really think a
ridiculously expensive
bunch of plants was going
to make me the next girl to
meet her dream man?
That’s not how my
cousin got her husband.
So, I’m either going to
have to buy shoes that
make me taller to fool
myself into thinking the
flowers in my hand are my
ticket to a happy marriage,
or I’m going to have to
stick with a blanket and
pillowcase and wait for my
time to come.
— Caroline Sanfilippo is
a senior in magazines.
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E-mail, letters and faxes from our readers
| Reader: Gayle unaware of many rights
Jack Gayle’s view on the
Athens-Clark County Police
Department, (“Cops unfair
I to coUege students,”
Jan. 10), is both
I ignorant and insulting.
Mr. Gayle, do you truly
believe that the officers in
charge of our public safety
j wake up each morning won-
| dering how they are going
to stick it to some
I University students today?
A-C Officers know that
collage students are the rev
enue of this town and it’s in
j their best interest to keep
us and our
civil liberties safe.
Your friend was doing
I something stupid as you
admitted Mr. Gayle, and
I you should have been
pulled over.
The officer had very
broad powers to search your
friend’s car as automobiles
come under a special form of
warrant-less searches.
Mr. Gayle you have shown
you know very little about
the rights which you your
self claimed were important
to be aware of.
Also your claim that col
lage-aged students are
maltreated by police is
extremely serious and
shouldn’t be made without
I some extremely serious evi
dence backing it up —
you offered none.
So please, next time you
| do something stupid that
attracts police attention,
make sure you know what
you are talking about before
you start whining about how
h
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you are being oppressed.
GREG STEIN
Senior, St. Simons Island
Criminal Justice and
Political Science
Bush’s education bill
is a needed change
In response to the editori
al concerning the “No Child
Left Behind” bill (“Below the
standard,” Jan. 10), I can’t
understand the logic behind
opposition to this most nec
essary implement to our
educational system.
Tantamount to my disbe
lief is the disdain the editori
al board shows towards the
concept of accountability.
This is exactly what’s
wrong with education.
Labeled yesterday by the
editorial board as a “hot
political phrase,” account
ability for one’s own actions
(in my humble opinion) is
exactly what’s
lacking in this country.
The editorial board claims
that the bill unfairly assumes
parents will “care enough” to
help their children achieve
the standards of education
required of them.
Is this too much to
ask of a parent?
I’m not suggesting that all
parents have the resources
to relocate a student to a
better school; I’m suggesting
that they spend time with a
child — promoting curiosity,
piquing his or her academic
interests, and yes, encourag
ing them to explore
their creative abilities.
These are not completely
the responsibilities of the
schoosystem and its educa
tors.
Assuming that they are
removes any accountability
from the parent in fostering
an intelligent and
well-rounded individual.
The editorial board says
that this new bill will
crush creativity.
Shouldn’t there be some
standards, however, for basic
math and science, not to
mention reading skills?
I helped a friend of mine
grade some Latin exams the
other day.
The test asked the class
to translate the verbs “leg-
ere” (to read) and
“scribere” (to write).
The student replied (in
almost illegible script) “reed”
and “wright.”
The student in question is
a junior in high school.
More and more students
are coming out of high school
with no concept of the world
around them, and the correc
tion of this, I believe, is the
ultimate goal of President
Bush’s reform.
CLAY KELSH
Graduate student,
Dunwoody
Matt Koehn
▲
Finding the
real college
experience
I have a question for
you. Yes, you. What is
the point of college?
In my opinion, coUege
is a beneficial transition
from childhood to
adulthood.
The knowledge you
gain from the experience
is far greater and more
important than the
knowledge you gain from
class.
I feel we are the great
est teachers on this cam
pus.
Each of you, directly
or indirectly, has taught
me an important concept
of life.
To thank you for your
efforts in making me who
I am today, I want to
share these life lessons.
Hopefully others now
may learn from me.
Love hurts.
If you expect it not to
hurt, it’ll hurt even more.
Never think you’ve
wasted any part of your
life, because during every
moment you are learning
something that will help
you in the future.
Trust those who are
closest to you.
You will not love
someone else in a healthy
way unless you first love
yourself in a healthier
way.
Have faith in your
faith and not in others.
Sometimes doing
nothing can mean more
than doing something.
Life is ironic in that it
is only when you emo
tionally crack that you
eventually become emo
tionally solid.
Trust your intuition.
Live in the present,
not in the past or future.
The ability to appreci
ate each moment is a gift
one acquires by first
being given coal.
Everything really does
happen for a reason.
Fighting is the oxygen
that fuels a fire, whereas
discussions are the water
that puts it out.
The best way to love is
to accept.
The only way to love is
to accept.
You cannot control
anything in your life.
Every moment hap
pens as a result of the
preceding moment, and
trying to control one
moment makes it that
much harder to control
the next, and then the
next, and so on.
In the end, you are
only attempting to con
trol your unconscious.
Lastly, and perhaps
most importantly, the
key to love is friendship.
What is the point?
The point is I would not
have learned any of these
lessons were it not for my
experiences with my
friends, family and peers.
Life is about experi
encing things firsthand.
Someone else telling
you what they have
learned does not mean as
much to you until you
have experienced what
they have.
It is human nature to
not understand until you
have been in that
person’s shoes.
These life lessons of
mine are not unique.
Each of you will learn
them during your lives, if
you have not already.
I pray that you
embrace them when they
are presented to you.
Remember that you
can turn any negative
into a positive by focus
ing on what you can
learn from the situation.
Trust me when I tell
you I am a weak person.
If I was able to do it,
so can you. God bless.
— Matt Koehn is a
junior in phycology and
political science.