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Winter weather flurries cancellation rumors
BY CLAIRE MILLER
The Red & Black
If predicted inclement
weather hits Athens this
week, the University is
prepared to make a deci
sion on its daily opera
tions.
The National Weather
Service’s Web site advises
Northeast Georgia resi
dents, including those in
Athens, of “the potential
for accumulation of sleet
and freezing rain” between
late Wednesday and early
Thursday. This could
affect whether the
University opens
Thursday.
The University’s
inclement weather policy
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Students confront negative black stereotypes’ in media
BY LINDSAY OBERST
The Red & Black
Tiffany "New York” Pollard
may have conquered Flava Flav
and gotten her own show, but
she still doesn’t represent black
culture as a whole, some stu
dents believe.
Now the Freshman Advisory
Board of the Black Affairs
Council wants to address what
one member. Bridgette Burton,
a theater from Stone
Mountain, calls “the next big
thing” African-Americans must
deal with.
The organization will hold
a forum, “America’s Next Top
Scandal: The Media’s
Depiction of Black Culture,” at
6 p.m. Thursday in room 101 of
the Student Learning Center.
The name of the forum
plays on reality TV because
the media’s —and especially
television’s presentation
of African-Americans causes
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allows the University to
decide between three
alternatives on such days:
the school will remain
open and fully operating,
it will delay in opening or
it will close, according to
the University’s news Web
site.
Tom Jackson, vice
president of public affairs,
said the decision-making
process on inclement
weather days begins at 5
a.m.
“I consult with the
police chief and the man
ager of the physical plant
to see what campus con
ditions are like,” Jackson
said Tuesday in a tele
phone interview.
Jackson said many
“If I'm going to
school, I'm just
miserable. I can’t
even remember
the last time it
rained! 1 would
probably take a
long shower
because I don’t
feel bad using so
much water (on
a snow day).”
“First things
first. I check
my Chia pet
and see if
there's any
growth. Then l
flip on the
Food Network
and watch
'Emeril. ’”
negative stereotypes to form,
Burton said.
While discussing possible
ideas to fill the group’s education
requirement, discussion of VHI,
MTV, BET and the media's
coverage of Hurricane Katrina
continued to come up. Burton
said.
“We all agreed that the media
wasn’t giving a good representa
tion of how African-American
culture really is,” she said.
She said she often watched
reality shows and laughed at
them.
But. she said, her behavior
was not OK, and now is the time
for college students to develop
and grow as adults and to realize
that imitating or supporting neg
ative TV behavior is wrong.
“Reality TV shows like ‘I Love
New York' present the wrong
idea about blacks,” Burton said.
Three main points developed
by the board members will be
addressed at the forum.
people think the decision
to remain open or closed
is made based on the
weather forecast, which is
only one part of the deci
sion.
“We close based on
conditions on the ground,”
he said.
The National Weather
Service and other police
chiefs in the area are con
sulted.
Then, Jackson said,
they make a recommen
dation to University
President Michael Adams,
who makes the final deci
sion by 6 a.m. Jackson
also said the University
tries not to close because
professors schedule their
semesters tightly.
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“It’s a big loss to waste
a day,” Jackson said.
Once Adams makes the
decision, it is posted on
the University’s Web site,
and a campus-wide e-mail
is sent to inform the com
munity.
The message also is
broadcast on University
Cable Channel 15, AM
radio stations 880, 960 and
1340, and several FM radio
stations, including 88.9,
90.5, 91.7, 97.9, 102.1, 103.7
and 106.1.
“We notify the Atlanta
media outlets, but we
don’t depend on them,”
Jackson said. “Athens
radio stations give us pri
ority.”
Campus Transit also
“I’d sleep in
and make a
fire in the
fireplace. ”
“Hell yeah I'll
be out in the
snow! Even if
we have class.
I’m skipping
to play in the
snow!”
‘AMERICA'S NEXT TOP
SCANDAL: THE MEDIA'S
DEPICTION OF BLACK
CULTURE’
A forum by the Freshman Advisory
Board of the Black Affairs Council
When: Thursday. 6 to 9 p.m.
Where: SLC. room 101
The first issue, “the media
defining a black man’s hustle,”
confronts that the majority of
black males in the media are
athletes and hip-hop stars,
depriving other worthy profes
sions of recognition.
The second issue is “a black
woman’s values: the great com
promise."
“Women, including Asians and
Latin women, have to compro
mise to become recognized by
the media,” Burton said.
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has a policy when winter
weather strikes.
According to Campus
Transit’s Web site, the
transit system closes its
operations on days when
the University officially
closes.
Buses and vans oper
ate for one hour after the
official closing time when
the University closes early.
Similarly, the buses and
vans start service one
hour before the official
opening time when the
University is delayed in
opening.
With plans in place and
inclement weather possi
bly coming to Georgia, the
fate of classes will be up
to administrators.
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“The media’s burning of the
family tree” illustrates the last
issue, concerning a recent shift
in the family structure of TV
shows.
"TV shows like ‘The Cosby
Show’ used to present stable
families,” Burton said. “But now
single parents and adoptions are
what everybody watches.”
Anyone with an interest,
despite year or race, is invited
to participate, said Yasmin Yonis,
an international affairs and
newspapers major from
Lawrenceville and Freshman
Advisory Board project leader.
Yonis wants to create aware
ness through discussion and
interaction.
“I hope this forum gives
people a platform to speak
about a subject they would
usually not have the opportunity
to do so otherwise,” Yonis said.
“African-Americans are not
just those shown constantly in
the media."
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“I play on my
Macßook Pro
with the
26-inch screen,
and then move
to the big
screen TV to
play my Wii
all day. ”
“I'd probably
stay in and
have a movie
day and
lounge around
with my
friends. ”
NEWS NOTEBOOK
Students
to engage
in lecture
University students plan
to participate in Focus the
Nation, a national teach-in
focused on global warming
solutions. The event will
last from Jan. 30 to Jan. 31.
On Jan. 30, the national
event will begin with a Web
cast at 7 p.m. in the
Memorial Hall Ballroom.
There will be a lecture
at 2 p.m. Jan. 31 given by
Janisse Ray, an author. The
Charter Lecture will be
presented by National
Geographic executive edi
tor Dennis Dimick at 3:30
p.m. Both speeches will be
in Georgia Center for
Continuing Education.
Funds awarded
for volunteer work
Students majoring in
child and family develop
ment or education may be
eligible for a $2,200 per
semester scholarship.
The students must agree
to work with children from
birth through age five in
inclusive preschool or kin
dergarten classrooms or in
early intervention pro
grams after graduation.
Students selected for
the program will spend
part of each semester work
ing with the children in
addition to their regular
classes.
To be eligible, students
must be rising juniors with
a 2.7 grade point average.
Music guru offers
‘Digidesign’ skills
John Keane, an Athens
music producer and engi
neer, will teach a series of
four-day workshops
focused on the use of
Digidesign’s Pro Tools, the
music industry’s standard
for digital recording.
The workshops will be
based on Keane’s book,
“The Musician’s Guide to
Pro Tools,” which provides
a foundation in the basics
of Pro Tools for home
recordists and aspiring
audio producers.
Keane has worked on
gold and multi-platinum
albums, and his Athens
studios have hosted record
ing artists such as R.E.M.,
Indigo Girls and
Widespread Panic.
The workshop will be
offered March 17-26, Aug.
18-27 and Nov. 3-12.
Registration is limited and
will cost S7OO, which
includes instruction and
the use of Apple iMacs
equipped with Mbox and
Oxygenß MIDI controllers
and Pro Tools software. It
will cost SIOO for those who
provide their own supplies.
—University
News Service
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