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I Monday, September io, 2007 | The Red & Black
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Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board
It’s not all football
Disappointed Bulldogs can find solace
in women's soccer and volleyball wins.
While this past weekend proved painful
for many Georgia football fans as Spurrier &
Cos. squashed any dreams of a six-year win
ning streak over the Gamecocks, there are
other lesser-known campus sports teams that
deserve some kudos for their season efforts.
The undefeated women’s soccer team (4-0)
beat South Florida (2-1) 3-0 Sunday after
noon. Sophomore Lauren Glancy and freshmen
Caroline Simpson and Mar ah Falle all scored
goals, with Falle scoring the last of the game.
However, senior Ashley Stinson suffered a knee
injury during the game.
And although it lost its match against
Georgia Tech (4-1) Saturday, the Georgia vol
leyball team (8-1) entered the Georgia Tech
Classic with seven consecutive shutout wins.
The team lost three out of four of its games in
its match against Tech.
Sure, these sports might not have ESPN2
coverage every weekend nor a highly-coordinat
ed halftime show and probably don’t generate
enough ire from Georgia fans to warrant a dart
board First & Goal cover with the opposing
coach’s face on the front.
But University athletes, from sports big and
small, deserve recognition for all of their hard
work, dedication and victories.
We congratulate these teams for their wins
and hope that their success continues through
out the season.
Jo Ann Anderson for the editorial board.
A-salt and arrest
McDonald's eaters, there is such a thing
as too much salt in your fast food diet.
Authorities in Union City, Ga., are investi
gating a case of fast food gone bad, ajc.com
reported Sunday.
Sept. 7, a police officer purchased a Big N’
Tasty burger in a McDonald’s drive-thru. He
returned an hour later and claimed the burger
had made him sick and arrested the cook, who
admitted to having spilled salt on the patty
and then attempted to “thump [it] off.”
Detectives still are interviewing employees to
determine exactly how the “a-salt” was carried
out.
The uneaten portion of the hamburger has
been submitted for chemical analysis in a crime
lab to determine whether other toxic substanc
es were on the burger.
To protect against more of these decidedly
un-happy meals, we remind our readers to fol
low these simple, common-sense rules:
>• According to the Wikipedia entry on
the Big N’ Tasty burger (of course it has a
Wikipedia entry), the sandwich normally con
tains 790 mg of sodium, which is 30 percent of
the recommended daily value.
Even though that’s enough sodium to give
small children heart palpitations, the officer
could have viewed it as McDonald’s trying to
give him his daily sodium ... all in one meal.
► If it really tastes peculiar, there’s no harm
in asking for another burger.
► McDonald’s food in general is not recom
mended for those wishing to not get sick.
Should you choose to eat at McDonald’s
anyway, and you get bad food, remember
there is much more money to be made by
suing.
Matt Brandenburgh for
the editorial board.
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Compassion key to tolerance
Being in college, I
think everyone in
the University can
attest to the fact that the
older we get, the faster
time seems to go by.
It’s already been six
years since the attacks of
Sept. 11. I can still recall
the exact moment I first
heard the news: I was in
10th grade, sitting in the
trailer of my geometry
class, when the teacher
turned on the TV just a
few minutes before class
started. By lunchtime,
mass student prayer
groups formulated in the
courtyard and some peo
ple were even crying.
I can’t say I was direct
ly affected by the attacks.
I’m not a resident of New
York or Washington, D.C.,
nor do I know anyone liv
ing there, and I didn’t
know any of those on the
planes. But I did know my
country had been attacked
and knew we wouldn’t just
stand by doing nothing.
I was bom and raised
in Georgia and therefore
consider myself more
American than Korean.
But being raised Korean-
American, life was an oblig
atory balancing act of the
two cultures. My mother
always told me no mat
ter how American I dress
and act or how good my
English is, the first thing
people will notice about
me is my Asian face.
For this reason, it is
important to maintain my
heritage while assimilating
to the culture around me.
Although I am living and
working as an American,
Constitution’s merits evident
When we think of
the American
Constitution,
many of us tend to focus
on the BiU of Rights, espe
ciaUy the great protec
tions of freedom of speech
and freedom of religion
enshrined in the First
Amendment.
The September 17 date
of National Constitution
Day marks when the
Framers signed the
Constitution in its original
form.
There were serious
shortcomings in that
Constitution. The great
est was the document’s
tolerance of human slav
ery. Indeed, the
Constitution of 1787 cre
ated incentives for the
spread of slavery, particu
larly by tying the number
of each state’s congressio
nal representatives in part
to the number of slaves
within its borders.
The Framers’ failure to
deal with the tragedy of
slavery contributed great
ly to the Civil War.
The first constitutional
act in the wake of that
war was the Thirteenth
Amendment, which pro
vides that: “Neither slav
ery nor involuntary servi
tude ... shall exist within
the United States...”
Later amendments
adopted pursuant to the
amendment process put
in place by the original
Constitution itself
broadly extended the
franchise to racial minor
ities, women, young
adults and those too
poor to pay poll taxes.
Another major prob
lem with the original
Constitution was that it
included no Bill of
Rights. When George
Mason of Virginia pro-
I
Lola Pak
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being Korean will always
be an inherent identity to
me.
I mention this because
after the attacks hap
pened, I knew the media
would automatically pin
down the race of the per
petrator after they found
out who did it.
When it was realized
that it was a group of
Middle Eastern terrorists,
I felt a wave of forebod
ing, knowing what comes
when a foreigner makes
fault with the Western
world.
And I was proved right.
In the following days, a
couple of Arab girls were
harassed in the hallways,
their head veils yanked at,
the furtive glances tossed
when they walked by.
Has much changed in
race relations in this coun
try since then? I would
like to think so. This year,
I can visibly see more
minorities on campus as
well as the types of res
taurants in Athens that
serve dishes from faraway
lands. There are cultur
al weeks around cam
pus year-round; a mas
sive Hindu temple was
Dan Coenen
posed adding a Bill of
Rights at the
Constitutional
Convention, his motion
was overwhelmingly
defeated.
The Framers wisely
provided the Constitution
could become law only if
it were approved by spe
cial state conventions at
which the people were
directly represented by
delegates called on to
focus on the Constitution.
Following the lead of
Mason, delegates in sever
al key states including
Massachusetts, Virginia,
and New York demand
ed the addition of a Bill of
Rights as the price of rati
fication. The mode of
adoption established by
the original Framers gen
erated a far better
Constitution than those
Framers themselves had
crafted.
The Framers gave little
attention to a Bill of
Rights because they
focused on devising an
effective structure for self
rule. It is impossible to
capture all of the moves
made by the Framers to
produce a stable and
effective framework of
republican government.
But one move was key:
The Framers broadly dis
persed powers between
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Sandra Oh is a lead star
on the popular TV drama
“Grey’s Anatomy.”
But I also see room
for improvement. The
Michael Vick debate can’t
conclude without men
tioning his background.
Construction workers still
are being automatically
seen as Mexican, and let’s
not forget how “shocking”
it was that an Asian
more specifically, Korean
committed one of the
most horrendous acts of
inhumanity at Virginia
Tech last April.
Cultural tolerance and
peaceful race relations are
fickle and always without
resolution.
But as a mentor once
told me, the more you
learn, the more you real
ize how much you don’t
know. The race case may
never be settled, but
what’s important is what
we have learned and what
we decide to do with it.
Sept. 11 and its after
shocks may have created
chaos and fractured our
relationships and under
standing of other coun
tries —and even within
our own —but it will be
the open mind and wise
compassion of this coun
try to admit our faults and
keep on improving.
Who knows? As Indian
comedian Russell Peters
put it, maybe one day we’ll
all be “beige,” finally living
in a genuine melting pot.
Lola Pak is a senior
from Duluth majoring in
magazines and French.
nation and states and
among the legislative,
executive and judicial
branches to frustrate
efforts, particularly by
self-interested majorities,
to turn the government
into a vehicle of tyranny.
Each branch of the new
government was given a
distinctive identity so that
conflicting perspectives
would naturally emerge
within them. Senators
elected for six-year terms,
for example, would take a
longer view than
Representatives elected
for two-year terms.
Federal judges appoint
ed for life would take an
even longer view than
either Representatives or
Senators, and their legal
backgrounds and insula
tion from political retalia
tion would focus their
attention more on funda
mental principles than
near-term popular causes.
The executive branch was
given! a distinctive capaci
ty because executive
power was vested in the
President.
In the Federalist
Papers, James Madison
asserted the essential chal
lenge in constitution-writ
ing lay in “so contriving
the interior structure of
the government, as that its
several constituent parts
may, by their mutual rela
tions, be the means of
keeping each other in their
proper places.”
Did our founding
fathers succeed in this
effort? There can be little
better evidence of their
essential success than that
the Constitution they
forged has now endured
for 220 years.
Dan Coenen is a
professor of law al
the University.
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Students’ lack
of pep troubling
I want to be the first
one to officially say that
I am embarrassed to
have been a part of the
University student sec
tion this weekend. Mark
Richt made a personal
request that the stu
dent section be as loud
as they could and half
of you guys sat there
silently while Steve
Spurrier and the Cocks
ran and passed all over
us. There was even one
point when the crowd
actually quieted down
while Blake Mitchell was
trying to call an audible.
News flash, Georgia
fans: You’re supposed to
be loud when we’re on
defense and quiet when
we’re on offense. That
was obviously something
that many didn’t know
Saturday.
The fans are sup
posed to be a part of the
team so next Saturday,
instead of texting your
friends about what’s
going on later, try cheer
ing on your team.
BILLY MEHLINGER
Senior, Lilburn
Horticulture
Bring dart board
back, please
When I saw the First
& Goal section today, I
was very disappointed to
find there was no Steve
Spurrier dart board
included. I believe the
dart board has appeared
the last two years, and
I was hoping it would
become an annual fea
ture.
Few things in life give
me the pleasure that I
receive when I nail the
“Ol’ Ball Coach” right
in the visor. Luckily, I
saved a dart board from
last year, so I can still
have my pre-game fun.
But what will all the
other Spurrier haters
do?
Please bring back
the Steve Spurrier
dart board and give all
Bulldogs a shot at this
cocky coach. As repara
tion, might I suggest a
Tim Tebow dart board
in October?
LAURA DEAL
Sophomore, Watkinsville
Social Science Education
‘Godzilla humor’
not appreciated
How does The Red
& Black justify shame
lessly taking away one
of the best First & Goal
traditions of late? For
the past two years, stu
dents have gotten great
pleasure reveling in our
yearly victory over South
Carolina by throwing
darts at Steve Spurrier’s
face.
The beauty of a
Spurrier face to over
lay one’s dart board
has been replaced by
a cheesy attempt at
knock-off Godzilla
humor. Red & Black,
you owe us something.
ANDY HOMRICH
Junior, Lawrenceville
Communications
View on religion
needs humility
Drew Lichtenstein’s
column (“Eternal future
not so bright,” Sept. 7)
was, unfortunately, not
original in its straw man
portrayal of Christianity.
His realization of the
ultimate statistic
everyone dies ought
to have had a more
profound and sobering
effect on his attitude.
If one can come to
see one’s self in humil
ity, recognizing the
depth of their sin, God’s
righteousness becomes
clear as does His judg
ment. In that context,
the grace of the cross
becomes equally clear. I
hope many come to see
with clarity soon.
MIKE SATTERFIELD
Campus Minister,
Athens