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Salary increase for Terry
professor due to overtime
The Tuesday, Feb. 9
edition of the Red & Black
reports that I received a
26.18 percent raise over
the past year.
I want to set the record
straight by reporting my
contractual salary and
cumulative raise over the
past two years. My 2007-
2008 salary was $288,750.
I received a 3 percent
raise the next year, yield
ing a 2008-2009 salary of
$297,673.1 received no
raise and six furlough days
in 2009-2010. So, my sal
ary is currently $290,037.
Thus, my total raise over
two years is approximately
1 percent.
I regularly contract
with UOA to do overload
teaching in evening and
weekend Atlanta-based
programs that generate
incremental revenues to
support Teror CoUege
operations (including fac
ulty hiring).
The amount of the over
load work depends on how
many senior faculty are
available and occasionally
varies year to year.
However, a difference
between years in overtime
pay is not a raise.
STEPHEN P. BAGINSKI
Faculty, Terry College
Springfield, Ittnoi*
GOP using Sarah
Palin for agenda
“The devil is in the
distractions". Our corpo
rate banking and military
industrial establishment
has purposefully placed
Mrs. Palin into our col
lective psyche to further
placate our falsely-divided
liberal and conservative
populace.
Mrs. Palin is a brain
child of GOP stalwarts
such as Karl Rove and oth
ers whose main objective
is to steer populist fervor
away from familiar ideolog
ical principles of an inter
ventionist central bank,
expansive military empire
and toward the phony and
petty differences of the
current administration.
It is very possible that
Palin isn't even aware of
how she is being tooled
by her handlers, simi
lar to President Wilson
(although I believe the
dogma she has been fed
since her parlay with
McCain has actually
convinced her that their
warped paternalist ideol
ogy is noble).
Don’t be naive. Palin
is being paraded to
Americans as a leader of
small government, less
taxes and “conservative”
values, when really she is
only diverting attention
away from the small brush
fires set by Dr. Ron Paul
and others who champion
the ideology of individual
liberty, sound money and
constitutional government.
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CARTER KESSLER
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Economics
Foreign Coca-Cola
workers ‘victims'
Georgia’s loyal support
of Coca-Cola may have
resulted in hundreds of
thousands of dollars of
“philanthropy” here on
campus, but union leaders
in Colombia working at
Coke bottling plants have
not been so lucky.
According to the activ
ist organization Stop Killer
Coke, no less than eight
union organizers employed
by Coke have been killed
by paramilitary thugs with
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close ties to bottling plant
management in the past
twenty years.
Coke employees in
Latin America, prevented
from organizing, receive
abysmal wages and work
in hazardous conditions,
while business students in
Athens enjoy their newly
refurbished lounge and
Coke executives watch
football games In sky
boxes.
How could they explain
this extravagance to the
families of the victims who
have suffered every hard
ship from union busting to
outright murder?
NICK KAUVOOA
Sophomore, Athens
Linguistics
Coca-Cola contract
hides UGA's profits
Monday’s article on
Coca-Cola's relationship
with the University stated
“Coca-Cola and Pepsi...
bid based on the amount
of money they would give
the University in return for
the University only selling
its product.”
This money doesn’t
come from Coke but from
the pockets of students
and employees who pur
chase these products.
Based on the commis
sions stated in the article,
that $1.25 bottle of Coke in
the vending machine costs
about $0.83 with $0.42
going to UGA.
Perhaps the Red and
Black could find out how
much money UGA earns
from these hidden price
increases.
KATHLEEN MCMANUS
Senior, G sinesvlße
Pharmacy
Article attempt to
ruin reputation
In regards to the
“Insults lead to the arrest
of three” article published
on Tuesday, Feb. 9, the
mentioning of Pi Kappa
Alpha was a completely
pointless attempt to,
again, hurt their reputa
tion.
The entire first para
graph about Greek nick
names has no legitimacy
and has absolutely nothing
to do with the “backbone”
of the story.
I thought we learned
that in high school
English?
Ruthless stabs at UGA
Greek life seem to be a
common theme in the arti
cles in the Red and Black,
most of them boring and
pointless.
I would recommend
gaining some facts and
maybe even writing arti
cles that have more depth
than drunken fights.
I would also recom
mend losing the attempts
to tarnish the reputations
of fraternities and sorori
ties by including them in
articles about events they
were not even involved in.
KACEY PULLIAM
Fetthmin, Powder Springs
Psychology
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Newspaper coverage full of decisions
Fluff brings to mind bunny rab
bits, marshmallow creme and
clouds. Not hard news stories,
sports coverage and newspapers.
But in a letter to the editor pub
lished Tuesday, sophomore Carol
Alles referred to the content on
the front page of The Red & Black
Monday as “fluff” that was “disap
pointing.”
Disappointing is Ms. Alles’ failure
to notice the below-the-fold head
line that read “Bulldogs defense
leads to win over top-20 team.” The
story ran complete with a candid
photo from the game on a front
page Ms. Alles claimed was filled
with “fluff,” and not the marshmal
low creme kind.
Referring to The Red & Black’s
front page content as “fluff" is a
statement lacking knowledge or
capacity of the decisions I, as sports
editor, and the other editors are
forced to make in the face of the
evolving 24-hour news cycle.
This phenomenon makes every
newspaper from The Red & Black
to The New York Times excruciat
ingly aware of the changes happen
ing in media.
The constant push for the most
up-to-date print content, web con
tent and multimedia content has
shoved publications into a comer,
forcing news media to quickly adapt
to demand and give content-hungry
consumers what they ask for.
Since The Red & Black prints
five days a week, that leaves a
48-hour weekend void our Web site
must fill in the absence of the print
Vending machines not Obama’s jurisdiction
Could President Barack Obama
please keep his Intrusive
hands to himself?
Just when I thought the rights
of the American people had been
threatened enough by Obama’s
ever-inflating government, the presi
dent decided to threaten something
else, something very close to the
Southern heart: Coca-Cola.
Obanja is calling for legislation to
ban sugary snacks from schools and
signed an executive order Tuesday
to jumpstart his initiative.
Yep, if the community organizer
in-chief gets his way, it could mean
saying sayonara to soft drinks and
candy bars within public schools.
Since when is it the president's
job to save the American people
from not only Al-Qaeda and hyperin
flation —but also calories?
America has some fat kids any
sampling of kiddies waddling off of a
school bus will confirm that fact.
But it’s not the government’s
job to tell people what they can
and cannot eat any more than it’s
Washington’s job to cool global tem
peratures or try and force me to buy
health insurance.
Oh, wait... those are already on
Barry Obama’s executive to-do list.
Now, to give Obama his due, obesity
among American children is serious.
The CDC reports approximately 19
percent of children 6 to 19 are obese.
But to this, I have two things to say.
First, what about the other
80-plus percent who, according
to Obama’s legislation, would be
denied their God-given right to
Snickers and Fanta?
Too often In this country, the
minority is catered to while the
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edition.
The Red & Black’s sportswriters
do more than their part to contrib
ute to our Web site during the print
edition’s hiatus each weekend by
submitting a gamer —a recap of a
team's game, meet or match results
that is posted on the paper’s
Web site immediately following the
contest.
That writer then turns around
and crafts another story that is
forward-looking and geared more
for the print version that is to run
In Monday’s paper.
When the editors reconvene
Sunday afternoons yes, even
Super Bowl Sunday —and begin
production Sunday evening, we are
faced with choices about what news
and sports coverage will be relevant
come Monday morning. That’s
when we decide what content to
run on the front page, what is most
pertinent and what stories have not
fossilized over the weekend.
And in the 24-hour news cycle we
all live in, a game, meet or match
that happened Friday night is an
archaic almost extinct dino
saur at the start of the school week.
Neither USA Today nor The
Athens Banner-Herald did not spat
ter extensive coverage of Super
Bowl XLIV across today’s front
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Burnett
silent majority is forced to weather
the crippling legislations that lash
out of the Capitol.
Second, what happened to those
age-old American mantras of per
sonal responsibilities and individual
liberties?
We are living in what is called
the freest nation on earth, yet we
are OK with a polarizing president’s
assault on personal choice regard
ing what our nation’s schoolchildren
eat? I disagree. I say let’s hear it for
Snickers eaters and Fanta drinkers!
The anti-obesity task force is
spearheaded by first lady Michelle
Obama. Now, I completely support
her “Let’s Move” campaign it
could be the most productive cam
paign by a first lady since Nancy
Reagan chanted “Just Say No” from
the White House’s Truman Balcony.
MlcheUe’s crusade to encourage
kids to turn off Hannah Montana
and actually venture outside into
the sunlight to play and exercise
is commendable. However, it is not
the role of the Obama administra
tion to ban certain food in schools.
Where will it stop?
Will the toxic legislation ooze
upward from pubUc schools to pub
lic universities? Will delicious des
serts disappear from our own dining
halls? Will my beloved snacks disap
pear from store shelves thereafter?
Will Obama push for tripling
taxes on what he considers to be
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pages three days after the con
test. Why? Because the news is old,
decrepit and ready to Join the rest
of Sunday’s news at the nursing
home down the street.
We do not “prepare” stories for
the convenience of our social lives
in order to scurry out of the office
with a mediocre paper thrown
together. We brainstorm and exe
cute stories intended to inform and
analyze issues for readers, such as
you, Ms. Alles.
And when every other sports
team at Georgia has the coverage
demand, national publicity and
earning power like that of football,
then The Red & Black would feed
the increased demand for coverage.
In that case, we would douse
Monday front pages with that two
or three-day-old sports coverage
with huge color photos, meticulous,
exhaustive coverage and “trium
phant” stories.
It becomes a matter of necessity
to make what we feel are the best
decisions possible when choosing
what stories run on the front page
and what stories we “shim" to the
back pages.
As journalists, we have to perse
vere and continue making the right
decisions about not only front page
content, but also what appears
throughout the paper.
And trust me, nothing about
that is fluffy.
Rachel O. Bowers is the sports
editor for The Red & Black
unhealthy food, as he did to ciga
rettes?
I spent 13 years eating burgers
and fries in the public school sys
tem. I attribute it to the fact that
my parents made me play outside.
Maybe we could use more parents
like these and not so much govern
ment red tape.
We don’t need Obama to be our
babysitter. We don’t need Obama to
be our nutritionist. We need him to
be our president.
If Obama swaps Snickers for
celery and cola for carrot juice, ath
letics at schools will suffer. Money
raised in vending machines often
helps buy gear for sports teams.
Sorry, soccer team. No new jer
seys this year. So much for encour
aging physical activity.
If the Snickers threat doesn’t per
suade you to accept this argument
—and you know you can’t resist the
tempting combination of rich choco
late and crunchy peanuts try this:
Reports out of Washington indicate
the president’s plan would cost an
additional $1 billion. That’s nine
zeros —and that doesn’t sit quite
right with me, either.
Maybe our president should
focus more on reducing unemploy
ment and salvaging his plummeting
approval rating than on monitor
ing what comes out of vending
machines.
Life is too short to spend it
munching on government-mandated
cauliflower stumps. Let’s leave the
parenting up to mom and dad, not
Uncle Sam.
Daniel Burnett is the manag
ing editor of The Red A Black
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