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Tubsday, Octqbkr la. aoio [ The Red & Black
DmM Burnett | Editor In Chief (Miitor@randb.com
Carey O’Neil | Managing Editor me@mndb.com
Courtney Holbrook | Opinions Editor opinions@randb.com
Graduation time
now appropriate
Boy what a relief.
I was thrilled to
leam that the
University’s spring 2011
commencement ceremony
would be held in the eve
ning.
At first I was dismayed
graduation was listed at
9:30 a.m.
Graduation is an excit
ing time, but at 9:30 a.m.
on a sweltering Saturday
in May I’d find it kind of
difficult to get excited.
With this recent
change, however, my
excitement has increased
twofold.
Think of all the possi
bilities: cooler weather,
more preparation time,
and of course more family
members.
Since the ceremony
begins at 7 p.m. Friday,
more of our family mem
bers and friends will be
able to see graduation.
Though there are many
positives that arrive out of
this change, there are also
negative issues as well.
For instance, imagine
the increased traffic a
Friday evening graduation
could cause.
It would be like a foot
ball game day because of
the sheer number of peo
ple that will travel to
Athens to see their loved
ones graduate.
And what about smaller
colleges within the
University who have tradi
tionally held their ceremo
nies the day prior to the
University’s commence
ment? Are they supposed
to move their dates back,
or are we supposed to
scamper across Athens to
all the different ceremo
nies we have to attend?
These aren’t questions
Mailbox
E-mail and letters from our readers
Editorial cartoons
anger students
There was only one
thing refreshing about
Monday’s editorial car
toon it seems Sarah
Quinn is finally admitting
her factual error - even if
it is a month after the fact.
But for a second, let’s
talk about what isn’t so
refreshing Quinn’s
material.
Over her last 26 car
toons, she has drawn two
lambasting University
Greeks, six attempting to
shame the football team
and eight mocking the
Republican Party. This
leaves just 10 cartoons
(just fewer than 40%)
focusing on ANYTHING
other than these three
topics.
I could be wrong, but if
Sarah Quinn knew any
thing about sports, she’d
probably be a sports writ
er rather than an editorial
cartoonist, so it’s slightly
ridiculous that 23% of her
work has focused on the
football team. And, if she
had any integrity whatso
ever, she would have
retracted her Sept. 2 car
toon ridiculing Wes
Fugate’s 100% factually
correct statement about
Greek academics much
sooner than five weeks
after the fact.
Don’t get me wrong,
Quinn is extremely talent
ed at the graphic aspect of
cartooning.
But what separates a
great editorial cartoonist
from other artists is their
ability to artistically com
ment on news stories in a
way which generates con
versation on the topic
not on the naivete of the
cartoonist.
Rather than featuring
an editorial cartoonist
who either has personal
vendettas against certain
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that I have the answers to,
but they are issues that
are at the forefront of this
new graduation date.
Some students are
going to be inevitably wor
ried about the potential
for inclement weather on a
date like Friday, May 13.
I don’t generally sub
scribe to beliefs about bad
luck, especially with the
date Friday the 13th.
But just in case any
thing goes wrong the
University has a back-up
plan.
In the case of severe
weather, (high winds,
thunder and lightning) the
ceremony will be resched
uled for Saturday May 14,
at 10 a.m.
But if it just rains, we
will head directly to our
assigned seats on the field
instead of processing as
usual. We will even be pro
vided with ponchos.
There isn’t much more
a senior could ask for.
With all of the recent
negative press that seems
to be hovering over the
University lately, it’s good
to finally have something
positive to look forward
to.
Graduation was already
going to be a huge day for
me and my fellow spring
2011 graduates.
Thankfully, it just got a
whole lot better.
Kelby Lamar is a
senior from Americas
majoring in newspapers
and political science
groups or really just isn’t
very clever, perhaps The
Red & Black should find a
replacement.
Quinn’s narrow-minded
daily addition to the
Opinions page detracts
from the overall journalis
tic integrity of the paper.
JENNIFER GILBERT
Junior, Fairfax, Va.
Political science,
Computer science
and Geography
I do not know what
Greek life did to upset
Sarah Quinn, nor do I
know how the football
team managed to person
ally insult her.
However, I do know
that these two groups of
the University student
body do seem to be recur
ring characters in The Red
& Black’s editorial car
toons.
Granted, these groups
have been making mis
takes of late —but why is
the STUDENT newspaper
attacking fellow
STUDENTS?
Let’s support each
other instead of continu
ing to tear each other
down, and for what gain?
Yes, it is The Red &
Black’s responsibility to
report student news, but
is it The Red & Black’s
responsibility to insult
another’s Intelligence
(albeit incorrectly)? Or to
beat a dead horse by
drawing the football team
in corrections department
jumpsuits?
Remember, we are in
the same classes, walking
across the same beautiful
campus, studying in the
same library and receiving
the same diploma.
CAREY MILLER
Junior, GakMMvHo
Political science and
Speech communication
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Opinions
Bullying, the new media nightmare
When you’re a kid it’s harder
to look past yourself and
your own actions.
You have a clear sense of right
and wrong. Yet, discerning exactly
how wrong a decision might be
usually is beyond the scope of a
12-year-old.
It can be difficult to think
beyond the immediate laughs pro
duced by a joke particularly per
sonal ones made at another’s
expense.
But for college students, as vet
eran participants in social media,
thinking ahead is especially crucial.
We are accountable for everything
we post online alongside our
names.
Nowadays, the stuff we all got
away with in middle school— now
known as cyber-bullying has con
sequences we never could have
fathomed as preteens.
With today’s technology, it's all
too easy to interfere with someone
else’s personal life, to invade a
roommate’s privacy and to defame
a classmate before a global audi
ence.
As we get older, some jokes
cease to be funny.
You know, those that isolated
the awkward kid, the dull kid or
the shy kid, and made fun of them
for the rest of the semester?
Hilarious when you’re 12 ... and
when you didn’t realize the terrible
anguish you caused.
Maybe now you are thinking,
“Well, I just went along and
laughed with everyone else because
I was just glad they weren’t picking
on me.”
Republicans hurt by Tea Party insanity
I consider myself to be
a man of many tastes.
But there is one
taste I do not like.
Tea.
It doesn’t matter what
kind it is.
Ice tea, hot tea, sweet
tea, green tea, black tea
or white tea. I hate them
all.
Maybe that is why I
have such an utter dis
taste for the Tea Party.
Last January, moder
ate Republican Scott
Brown took the country
by storm when
Massachusetts, the most
liberal state in the Union,
elected him to fill the seat
of the Lion of the Benate.
the late Ted Kennedy.
The Tea Party was due
much of this victory.
I was ecstatic that my
party had united under
the Tea Party's message
of limited government,
and we were ready to
take on the Democrats
and their dangerous
agenda.
Only nine months
later, the Tea Party has
become an extremist
movement for the radical
ChristUm right, and I’m
sitting on the sidelines
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wondering who is going
to represent me.
Don’t get me wrong. I
am no moderate.
I’m about as fiscally
conservative as one can
get.
I'm just smart enough
to realize that abortion
isn’t going away anytime
soon and tolerant enough
to not care whether we
keep marriage between a
man and a woman.
I just want to focus on
the economy, stupid.
But the Tea Party has
hypnotized my beloved
GOP
And now they are say
ing this isn't good
enough. I’ve been classi
fied as a RINO
(RepubUcan in Name
Only) and excommuni
cated from the He Man
Obama Haters Club.
All over the country,
the Tea Party and their
heroine (more like hero
in), Sarah Palin, are lead
ing the charge against
Our Staff
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A confession: I did that.
But now I am a reformed mean
girl.
Asa 12-year-old, I was an
accomplice to my best friend’s plan
to manipulate a female classmate's
romantic feelings for a boy. We did
it for our own amusement.
Using AIM, my friend figured
out the boy's password to his user
name and chatted with our girl
friend, pretending to be the boy
and pretending to be romantically
interested in her.
I enlisted in the scheme.
I telephoned this poor girl, per
suading her to declare love that we
knew the boy did not share.
The story now becomes compli
cated as do so many events from
those youthful days.
But after three years and a good
bit of growing up by me, I learned
our victim, now 15, remembered
every detail about what we’d done
to her when she was 12.
At that moment I understood
how deeply I had hurt her. Three
years later, and she still thought
about it.
I felt sick, disgusted with myself.
I apologized profusely to her.
I didn’t know what else to do.
How in the world could I undo such
hurtful deception and humiliation?
I couldn’t.
“moderates” in favor of
their own fringe candi
dates.
Just recently, the Tea
Party knocked longtime
Representative Mike
Castle out of the
Delaware Senate race in
favor of radical, perennial
candidate Christine
O’DonneU.
To put this into per
spective, while Americans
have been voicing their
concerns about unem
ployment and the rising
federal debt, O’DonneU
has been busy campaign
ing against masturbation
and medical marijuana.
Does nobody else see
the disconnect?
On campus, it seems
like I’m the only one who
Is having this Tea Party
problem.
I regularly debate my
RepubUcan peers on the
adverse affects of the Tea
Party.
But to no avail.
Their hearts just seem
to melt at the mere men
tion of it.
So I try to get some
consolation from my
Democratic adversaries,
thinking they would
understand my dilemma.
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I think of this today when so
many of us feel we can just hit
CTRL+Z and everything’s all bet
ter.
Hurtful comments and public
humiliation stay with people for a
long time three years, 10 years,
even 20.
So why, even as university stu
dents, do we continue to do this to
each other?
Why did a couple of freshmen at
Rutgers University think it was
funny to use a webcam to stream
live footage of a fellow student hav
ing gay sex?
It wasn’t funny.
The young man jumped off a
bridge to his death.
It’s time to leave middle school
behind. There’s no room for that
kind of “humor” among socially
responsible adults.
Did the Rutgers student, Tyler
Clementi, commit suicide merely
because of the video?
Or was it knowing that there
was an audience hungry for a sec
ond show starring him?
In a way, we all helped to create
this social media nightmare. By
posting or merely viewing
such embarrassing material, we
can create more TVler dementis.
Let’s all agree to never let it get
that far again.
For once we create another
dementi, there is no backspace.
There is no “undo.”
There is only loss.
Anita George is a senior from
Lilbum majoring in
magazines and psychology
But they are also in Tea
Party heaven.
They think it will even
tually bring about the
demise of the Grand Old
Party.
And the trouble is,
they are right.
If the Tea Party con
tinues to label factions of
RepubUcans as outcasts,
they can kiss the moder
ate and independent vote
goodbye.
Any chance of a
RepubUcan takeover will
perish due to their own
ignorance.
And our common goal
of limited taxation and
fiscal restraint wiU forever
be a dream.
As for me?
I will continue to fight
for candidates, namely
who tu-e the
best quaUfied to move
this country forward.
And if the GOP
decides to form a Jack
Daniel's Tennessee
Whiskey Party, they will
have my total support.
But If the Tea Party is
the future, then they can
count me out.
Jeremy Dailey is a
senior from Conyers
majoring in
political science
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