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WEDNESDAY
January 16, 2008
Vol. 115, No. 84 | Athens, Georgia
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Med school expansion plans progressing
BY BRIAN MINK
The Red & Black
Plans to expand the
Medical College of Georgia to
Athens made strides
Tuesday when the Board of
Regents heard a much-antici
pated report recommending
the extension of MCG to the
former Navy Supply Corps
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▲ Shinya Miyake, a graduate student from Japan, makes a paper crane at the Tate Center Gallery. The Japan Club
and Students for Peace invited students to make cranes, to be sent to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
Bomb survivor shares ‘surreal, hellish’ memories
BY JULIE LEUNG
The Red & Black
A woman, buried up to her neck in rub
ble, about to be consumed by fire. A play
mate holding his arms out because the
skin had been burned off.
These are the images that remain
etched in 73-year-old Takashi Teramoto’s
mind as he recounts August 6, 1945 the
day the atomic bomb was dropped on his
hometown of Hiroshima, Japan.
“I had dreams about that woman for a
long time,” said Teramoto through his
translator, Natsuki Okito.
Sitting in an Atlanta Barnes & Noble
coffee shop on a clear blue Saturday after
noon, the hellish scenes Teramoto
described seemed surreal.
“It’s really hard to communicate this to
anybody because it is so outside their
experience,” he said. “It’s hard for you to
imagine a situation like that."
In a mild-mannered tone, Teramoto
related his memory of the exact moment
the bomb dropped:
“I lived one kilometer from the hypocen-
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▲ Kate Winskell lectures on “Scenarios From Africa:
Dramatizing Stories of HIV/AIDS,” an organization she
co-founded, Tuesday in the Chapel.
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The plan the regents heard
Tuesday, authored by
Pittsburgh-based consulting
firm Tripp Umbach, calls for
collaboration between MCG
and the University to develop
anew campus and increased
research capacity in biomedi
cine and public health,
according to a news release
FOLDING FOR PEACE
SURVIVOR VISIT
What: Hiroshima Atomic-Bomb Survivor Visit
When: 6:30 tonight
Where: University Chapel
Price: Free
More Information: uga.edu/jac/hiroshima
ter. I was writing a letter to my friend and I
felt a flash behind me. I turned around to
look at it and suddenly all went black. I
don’t remember anything after that.”
“I think I ducked under the desk. It
probably protected me from things that
were falling,” he said.
“Inside other houses, people were blown
against the wall. But I didn’t move. I don't
know why that happened. It’s incredible
that the blast blew my house away, but I
was just sitting there.”
Rescued by his aunt from the debris,
Teramoto was carried to safety in the sub
urbs, he said.
However, 10-year-old Teramoto said he
did not escape unscathed.
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issued by the BOR. The BOR
commissioned the report in
September 2007, and regents
saw it for the first time
Tuesday.
The first class of 40 stu
dents is expected to begin
courses in Athens by 2009 or
2010, University President
Michael Adams said in a
recording of a Tuesday news
Program helps fight HIV/AIDS stigmas
Young Africans
submit stories
BY AMANDA WOODRUFF
The Red & Buck
Africa’s youth are waging
their own battle against the
HIV/AIDS epidemic, unsheath
ing imagination and video cam
eras In lieu of heavy artillery.
"Scenarios from Africa:
Dramatizing Stories of HIV/
AIDS,” co-founded by Kate
Winskell, invites young Africans
to submit stories to create
short films depicting the reality
of HIV/AIDS.
Free verse
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Once upon a time, a University
alumna won a Pulitzer Prize.
Today, she’ll be sharing her
award-winning poetry at the
SLC. Check her out even if
you’re not an English major.
conference provided to The
Red & Black by the
University.
The University hopes to
move classes to the Prince
Avenue site by 2012 or 2013,
Adams said.
“I’m excited. I’ve waited a
long time to get to this point.”
Adams said in the news con
ference following the regents’
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▲ Takashi Teramoto, a Hiroshima
survivor, shares the story of his
experience after the blast.
killed from the bomb and its effects,
Teramoto’s mother numbered among
See HIROSHIMA, Page 6
“(The program) forces links
between diverse groups,”
Winskell, an assistant director
of Emory University’s Center
for Health, said during a lecture
Tuesday at the University
Chapel.
"Scenarios” has received
more than 100,000 submissions
in the past decade.
“It allows young people to
identify, value and use local
resources,” she said. “It identi
fies them as vectors of social
change."
The program began in three
African countries but quickly
swept across the continent,
enlisting the public to trans
form the stigmas surrounding
HIV/AIDS to messages of pre
meeting. “I think (the expan
sion) will ultimately
enhance economic develop
ment for our entire state.”
University System of
Georgia Chancellor Erroll
Davis said at the news confer
ence the BOR will approve a
definite plan at some point in
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Gym Dogs
ally with
Special
Olympics
BY KEVIN COPP
The Red & Black
The child walked unsteadily
along the balance beam, concen
trating intently every step of the
way.
Her mother knelt on the floor
about 20 feet away, biting her
lower lip in a nervous smile, her
eyes growing larger with every
turn and jump on the beam.
The child finished her routine,
dismounted onto the nearby mat,
smiled from ear to ear and waved
with both hands to the imaginary
crowd.
Courtney McCool, a 19-year
old sophomore Gym Dog, who
has known the thrill of competing
in the Olympic Games in 2004,
watched the routine intently and
gave a double-handed high five to
the girl.
Suzanne Goossens is 19 as
well, a young adult diagnosed
with Down syndrome.
For the past two years,
Suzanne’s family has driven from
Elberton to Athens for gymnas
tics instruction, thanks to a part
nership between the Gym Dogs
and the Special Olympics.
“She loves it,” Suzanne’s
mother, Janet, said.
“(Gymnastics) has been her life
since she was 2. Even at home,
she watched the videos of the
team. She can name them all.
When she got a chance to do
this, she absolutely had to.”
For the next hour, the girls
were given free reign to enjoy the
same facilities as some of the best
gymnasts in the world.
Disabilities were never men
tioned. For a few hours, the
Special Olympians simply shared
gym space and had a great time
with their Gym Dog friends.
The transformation in the
children and their teachers by
the end of the hour was appar
ent.
“For Suzanne, most of her life
has been on her own,” her mother
said.
“This year, they moved gym
nastics from the summer to the
winter (Special Olympic) games.
She’s been bowling for the last
six years in the winter, but she
said she wanted to do gymnastics
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vention and hope. The films
have been translated into more
than 30 languages, including
sign language.
“People with disabilities
don't have the same access,”
Winskell said. “(Sign language)
is important so they get that
information."
The program’s goal. Winskell
said, is to allow youth to cate
gorize social change for them
selves. In this way, those “most
afflicted” by the disease become
storytellers.
When communities watch
films written in the context of
their own culture, discussion
and reflection on the impact of
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