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Tuesday, January 8, 2008 | The Red * Black
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Tarnished television
Golden Globe Awards show scaled down
to news conference doe to writers 1 strike
There still is no end in sight for the writers’
strike, which arose over payment for digitally
distributed work.
Asa result, the Writers’ Guild of America is
resolute in its vow to picket the Golden Globe
Awards, which originally were set to broad
cast Sunday on NBC. Monday, the Hollywood
Foreign Press Association, which distributes the
awards, announced that the ceremony would be
scaled down to merely a press conference.
Gone are the days of a sumptuous red car
pet fashion show and lavish dinner instead,
NBC’s news magazine show, “Dateline,” will air
a special program on the nominees preceding
the announcement of the winners. To conclude
what likely will be a dismal night for NBC’s
ratings, the network will broadcast an “Access
Hollywood”-style program visiting various star
studded parties around Los Angeles.
It is doubtful that the average person could
have foreseen the effect this strike would have
two months ago. February is not only sweeps
month when networks air their highest-rated
episodes —but also Academy Award season.
Will the strike cause the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences to change its for
mat as well? According to producer Gil Cates,
the Oscars still will air Feb. 24. Nevertheless,
it is uncertain if guild member and host Jon
Stewart will contribute to the program.
Monday, striking writers announced that
a deal has been enacted with United Artists
Films to allow the production company’s proj
ects to resume. Perhaps the Writers’ Guild
and the remaining powers-that-be will cut a
deal before sweeps month. After all, ratings
are used to determine advertising prices for
networks, and without these numbers, how
can the networks continue to collect valuable
ad revenue? Other producers and production
companies should take note of United Artists’
negotiation and reach agreements of their own
before the networks begin airing “American
Gladiator” and “Deal or No Deal” 24/7.
Shannon Otto for the editorial board
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A rash of burglaries hit students’ apartments
during winter break, and a grad student is
currently missing. As the semester begins, we
would like to remind everyone of some simple
steps to ensure your safety at home or out on
the town:
► Remember basic home security steps, such
as locking doors and windows.
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assailant deterrents. Other useful items may
include help whistles and siren devices.
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areas, accompany friends downtown late at
night and offer to pick up your friends.
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take one at another fitness center in town.
► Don’t get into white, unmarked vans.
► Search for “self defense tips” on the Internet
for more simple and effective ideas to ensure
your personal safety.
Matt Brandenburgh for the editorial board
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Candidates threaten liberty
Over the course of
last semester, I
wrote a series of
articles focused on the
2008 presidential cam
paign.
At the beginning of
this semester, the first
contest in lowa already
has taken place. With the
New Hampshire primary
today, I have but one final
thought before the prima
ry season is in full swing.
More important than
the success or failure of
any candidate’s campaign
is the political climate of
our nation. The nature
of this election offers an
interesting glimpse into
the reality of our current
America. Paying close
attention to the candi
dates, I have noticed one
very disturbing trend that
crosses party lines.
If we were to take but
a moment to cast aside
our partisanship, to
cease being Republicans
or Democrats, and view
government rightly as the
protector of our individual
freedoms, we may reveal
some upsetting realities.
Ignoring right and left,
perhaps it would be more
appropriate to view the
candidates and ourselves
in a spectrum of liberty
and statism. Defining lib
erty as the freedom to
act uncoerced by others,
and statism as granting
control over our lives to
government, we’ll find
our country drifting to an
increasingly statist desti
nation.
Rudy Giuliani, Hillary
Clinton, Mike Huckabee,
Mitt Romney, John
Edwards: these are all
statist candidates, run-
Darfur puts bad day in perspective
I had the stereotypical
bad day last semester.
Like most bad days, it
was a Monday. Also like
most bad days, it started
with my oversleeping the
alarm by 30 minutes on
the day of a test.
I ran into my shower
and twisted the knobs
in a half-asleep haze,
only to find that our hot
water was out. I hastily
put on deodorant and
brushed my teeth, getting
toothpaste on my already
wrinkled shirt. I ran off to
class unshaved, unkempt
and uncombed.
As one would expect,
on a day I was wearing
sandals, there was a tor
rential downpour, and my
feet got soaked. I guess
that at least made up for
the lack of a shower.
Naturally, the test was
twice as hard as I had
expected the professor
had the crazy notion that
his students were going
to have completed the
reading by the time of the
test.
After bombing the test,
I decided to spend my
break between classes sit
ting in the hallway listen
ing to my iPod. My plans
were derailed, however,
by my discovery that this
S2OO piece of technology
had no interest in turning
on, despite the fact that
I had gotten it fixed for
this very problem only a
couple months before.
Considering that this
was my second iPod in four
years, I was forced to come
up with a logical conclu
sion: my veins flow with
blood that is iPod kryp-
J. Patrick Rhamey
ning on a platform of cen
tralizing more power with
government, advocating
a trust in government to
solve our problems.
The American voter sits
confused. We see clearly
in front of our eyes the
numerous challenges that
lie before us —a failing
war in the Middle East,
the threat of terrorism, a
declining dollar, an unsus
tainable welfare state and
a health care system in
shambles.
We know no solution
to these problems, so we
turn to government to
solve them instead of rely
ing upon our own inge
nuity and resolve. In so
doing, we turn a blind,
intentionally ignorant eye
to the reality that all these
problems are created by
the very government to
which we are granting ever
greater control.
What makes these can
didates dangerous is not
that they actively seek to
destroy liberty, but that
they have a complete
and total disregard for its
existence. They seek our
passive consent to create
paternalistic institutions
to solve our problems.
We should take a
moment to be reminded
of the words of Rousseau:
“to renounce liberty is to
f.
Drew Lichtenstein
“/guess it’s one
thing to recognize
your own faults and
another thing to
have someone
(accurately) point
them out to you. ”
tonite. I probably should
see a doctor about it.
The rest of my classes
that day didn’t fare much
better. I got called out
by a professor for falUng
asleep in class, and my
attempts to flirt with the
cute girl next to me were
thwarted by you guess
ed it the toothpaste on
my shirt.
I went home during my
brief break between class
es and work to find that
I had no milk or bread,
forcing me to make a can
of tuna my lunch (and by
“make,” I mean “open and
eat with a fork”).
A couple minutes later,
one of my roommates
walked in and asked what
stunk In the kitchen. I
surreptitiously threw
away my can, shrugged
my shoulders and rushed
off to work.
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renounce being a man.”
These candidates who
advocate government
solutions view us not as
people, but as animals to
be coerced and herded
to a desired outcome. In
their eyes we cannot pos
sibly know what is best
for ourselves, so they must
force us to it.
We now are falling
back on our old solutions
the same solutions
which caused world wars,
depressions and genocide.
We grasp at government
to give us security, and
only end up less secure.
As they failed before, so
these attempts will have
similar results.
The Federal Reserve
actively is destroying our
currency devaluing our
dollar, and with it, our
savings, our salaries and
our freedom. The Bush
administration contin
ues its foreign policy of
weakening our defenses
and inciting hatred for
America abroad.
While difficult,
Americans must rediscov
er self-reliance. We must
wake up and realize these
polices advocating great
er government control of
our lives, on both the left
and right, will only lead to
more war, more poverty
and further decline of this
great nation.
In the words of Ron
Paul, “Let it not be said
that no one cared, that no
one objected once it’s real
ized that our liberties and
wealth are in jeopardy.”
- J. Patrick Rhamey is
a graduate student
from Athens studying
political science.
Work went as one
would expect on a
Monday slowly. My
boss suggested that I
could work a bit harder,
better, faster and stron
ger, which didn’t help my
mood.
However, the problem
wasn’t that she was tell
ing me this; it was the
fact that I knew she was
right.
I guess it’s one thing
to recognize your own
faults and another thing
to have someone (accu
rately) point them out to
you, but my mind was too
blank from the events of
the day to formulate any
sort of valuable lesson
from this experience.
I got home, collapsed
on my reclining chair and
flipped on the television
with the goal of turning
on and tuning out.
After a few mind
less minutes of flipping
channels, I found myself
watching a CNN special
on Darftir with pictures
of starving children, limb
less adults and homeless
families.
I eventually found
something else to watch
(most likely on Oame
Show Network gotta
love “Lingo”).
Fortunately, I could at
least realize that having
a crummy apartment, a
boring job and a broken
iPod is better than having
no apartment. Job or iPod
at all.
Drew Lichtenstein
is a Junior from Marietta
majoring in comparative
literature.
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E-mail and letters
from our readers
Don’t waste
effort when
conserving
Saving water through
an “ascetic Ufestyle”
can oe penny-wise and
pound-foolish. Our goal
(I hope) is not to accu
mulate karma points for
making ourselves uncom
fortable, but rather to
actuaUy save water. To
do so, our main target
needs to be inefficiency
and waste, not comfort.
Fix every leaky faucet.
Use low-flow toilets and
shower heads. Adapt
your lawn not to require
watering. Shorten show
ers and baths within
reason. Make sure the
water is turned off when
you’re not actually using
it. But don’t compromise
on health or sanitation,
and don’t waste effort on
paltry savings.
Remember, the earth
isn’t running out of
water; the rain just isn’t
delivering much of it to
Athens right now. Also, a
lot of the shortage is the
fault of real estate devel
opers who imagined we
always would have the
amount of water we have
in wet years.
MICHAEL COVINGTON
Associate director
Artificial Intelligence
Center
Terry expansion
a misguided idea
It would be wise
before asking students
of the Terry College of
Business to lead the way
in financing the initial
one-third of the pro
posed SIOO million devel
opment to look more
carefully at what is being
proposed.
Does the Terry school
really need this? Lucas
Puente believes so and
lists “amenities such as
group meeting rooms,
computer labs, a dining
area, a business lounge
and a large, multi-pur
pose room for banquets"
as support.
All this, he says,
“would help Terry stu
dents develop into better
future business leaders.”
That’s like saying anew
stadium and sweet uni
forms would help Ole
Miss develop into a top
five football program.
Our government and
our society throw money
at problems, and anyone
watching knows this
strategy is fruitless and
misguided.
Penn, Harvard and
Northwestern don’t
have superior business
programs because of
new, high-tech buildings.
They produce stellar
graduates and lead
ers because they have
award-winning faculties
and peerless students,
not to mention annual
entrepreneurial contests,
unique courses, count
less seminars and guest
lectures.
All I’m saying is SIOO
million is a large sum
of money, which could
endow chairs and profes
sorships, entice promis
ing and gifted students
with scholarships or fund
research and innovation
here in Athens.
ALEX BUSKO
Sophomore, Atlanta
English/Pre-Medicine
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