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Thursday, Novkmbkk 4, aoio | The Rbd a Black
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Courtney Holbrook | Opinions Editor opinkMß@randb.com
Our Take
Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board
No transparency
Rodney Bennett has advised that no
written feedback be kept what?
We might expect it from a totalitarian
regime. We might even expect it from the U.S.
government. But we never expected it from our
own University.
Rodney Bennett, vice president for student
affairs, has advised that no written feedback be
kept in future hiring searches.
His reasoning: this newspaper.
Bennett said the decision was related to The
Red & Black’s open records requests in the
Dean of Students search you know, the one
where a candidate was chosen despite the fact
the voting records of the committee showed
several other candidates were clearly favored
over the eventual winner, Bill McDonald.
Bennett was in charge of the hiring, yet he
did not vote in favor of McDonald.
Josh Delaney, SOA president and the one
student representative on the search for the
Dean of Students, didn’t vote for McDonald
either.
So who really made the final decision?
We sensed something was fishy in the hir
ing process. Based on Bennett’s recent advice
to limit paper trails and squelch transparency
within the administration we might be right.
Instead, Bennett suggested faculty stick
to verbal feedback which, unfortunately,
doesn’t quite fall into the domain of open
records requests. He even met with department
heads to remind them what citizens can find
out by using open records requests.
What secrets are being hidden inside those
big buildings on North Campus that cause
administrators to advise people not to keep
records? And how far does this policy go?
Bennett told one of our reporters that feed
back is encouraged “in whatever way they’re
comfortable doing it.”
Unless it’s written, it would seem.
Documents from the meeting state: “Vice
President advised that no written feedback or
evaluative information should be kept for any
candidates in any search process, including stu
dent positions.”
The editorial board of this newspaper whole
heartedly believes this is a clear ethical viola
tion.
The students of this University don’t deserve
an administration that can hide behind closed
doors, away from pesky open records requests.
The students of this University deserve
transparency.
We deserve an administration that works for
us, not a regime that keeps information from
us.
Daniel Burnett for the editorial board
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f Thanks for talking about your almost-sexca
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to know about them.
f Getting so wasted that you start to look and
sound like a Jersey Shore cast member mated with
a hillbilly is never attractive.
fl know you think you once resided in a golden
uterus, but that is no excuse to sneer at me when I
smile at you out of politeness.
fTo the girl in my Ed. Psych class who is 30 min
utes late EVERY day, Just don’t bother. Go away.
You’re disturbing class.
fNo, guy sitting behind me in biology, your
cologne does NOT make me want to sleep with you
it makes me want to puke.
f Attention male physics students: Just because
you are in a male-dominated major doesn’t mean
you can skip taking a shower
fl exercised my constitutional right to tell the lib
erals to shove it. Did you?
fib the people who use curry, garlic, fish and
other generally odorous ingredients, and then leave
them In the sink while cooking in the kitchen of
Creswell Hall: please stop. It smells awfUl. Eat some
Easy Mac like the rest of us.
fib the kid playing ‘‘Angry Birds” in Economics
maybe you wouldn’t be failing if you were paying
attention.
fl loathe the people I invite into my home for a
party who eat my food, ruin my stuff and don’t
even thank me.
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Opinions
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Hunting keeps ecosystem healthy
Adrian Poster's Letter to the
Editor (“Hunting does not
help lower deer population.”
Nov. 2) shows how one should not
speak on something about which
they know little.
The argument that hunting
doesn’t affect the deer population
is absurd.
Hunting helps control the white -
tailed deer population.
The purpose of hunting as a
management technique is to keep
the deer population under carrying
capacity, so that the population
does not overcrowd the habitat.
As the deer situation exists,
populations in many areas are
above carrying capacity; this means
there are more deer in a designated
area than the environment can
handle.
In other words, the deer are eat
ing our surroundings to death.
I agree these populations are
much higher than they should be.
However, it is not because hunters
want more deer to hunt, but
because there are not enough
hunters.
Foster is correct non-lethal
techniques are “more humane."
But they are impractical to
implement.
Peer-reviewed, published
research has documented that
effective sterilization requires cap
turing and sterilizing at least 70
Empathize with struggles of immigration
Empathy: It’s a qual
ity many of us take
for granted.
It’s a skill some stu
dents and lawmakers
seem to lack.
Judging from the anti
immigrant dialogue
expressed in recent
media debates, I’m guess
ing many students have
never had a conversation
with an immigrant.
Let me introduce you
to one. A family friend
was considered an Illegal
alien for 15 years. (Let’s
-call him Dave).
Dave grew up in war
tom El Salvador. From
the age of six. Dave knew
the weight of a pistol.
His father made him
hide one in his pants
when he’d go out gam
bling. If the police
stopped them, Dave says,
they never would search a
young boy.
Asa teenager, Dave
shined shoes in the town
square. One day, police
shot the man next to him.
“You don’t move,” Dave
says. “You don’t look up.
You Just keep shining
shoes.”
Even taking a public
bus put Dave’s life at risk.
The bus would hit a gov
ernment roadblock.
Passengers without gov
ernment papers were
taken away. Miles down
the road, a rebel road
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those who had govern
ment papers were taken
away.
After he served a brief
conscription in the mili
tary, Dave’s parents
scraped together enough
money to send him and
his brother away from the
civil war, to the relative
safety of the United
States.
Dave arrived in Texas
in the back of a sealed
semi truck.
He found a Job labor
ing on a Texas ranch
where he earned $lO a
day working from dawn
to dusk. He worked his
way up to sl2 a day, plus
free beer.
Then, Immigration
Services picked him up
and he spent six months
in a holding facility. For
Dave, this was heaven:
Three meals a day and
hot showers, idle time to
relax and play soccer.
Several days a week a
man would come in and
say, "Sign these papers
and you can go home to
El Salvador.”
Dave eventually was
released and made his
way to Georgia. He mar
ried an American woman
Our Staff
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percent of female deer.
It’s also expensive.
The equipment itself might not
be, but the cost of manpower and
work hours necessary for a success
hil project is excessive.
University professors have done
research —and are still doing
research on the effectiveness of
non-lethal techniques. And as'of
yet, no alternative has outweighed
the practicality and cost effective
ness of hunting.
Finally, hunters in search of tro
phy bucks do not want a large pop
ulation.
Larger deer populations do not
yield bucks with the desirable
multi-point antlers, because there
is less available food in the habitat
for consumption.
In fact, the smaller the popula
tion, the bigger the deer become
which is better for the “gun-toting
lunatics” who want a head to hang
on their wall.
Asa deer population increases,
the size of individual deer decreas
es, the number of trees decreases
and the number of diseased ani-
and gained legal resident
status.
He joined a forestry
labor crew and, in three
years, became the fore
man. A few years later, he
ascended to manager.
Today, he owns the
company.
Now, Dave travels back
and forth between his
two lives, one in El
Salvador, and another in
Georgia.
There, he owns a farm,
a restaurant anr*. a hard
ware store.
Here, he owns a suc
cessful reforestation com
pany. He pays taxes and
abides by the laws of our
country.
Yet, I fear Dave will
always be considered a
second-rate citizen
because of his accent, his
appearance, his “other
ness."
Most illegal immi
grants pay taxes for
gasoline, food and other
resources, if not to the
IRS. Many work jobs
other Americans refuse to
work.
And, realistically, they
are not taking the seats
of deserving college appU
cants.
Undocumented stu
dents make up less than
0.2 percent of the stu
dents in Georgia’s 35
public coUeges and uni
versities.
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mals increases.
Although not yet found in
Georgia, chronic wasting disease is
a result of overpopulation —and
yes, the disease is as bad as it
sounds.
The infected animal essentially
starves to death. Moreover; this
meat is not safe to eat.
The existence of this disease is
another reason why educated hunt
ers encourage lower rather than
higher populations.
Bottom line: the smaller the
population (within reason), the
healthier the deer, and the happier
the hunters.
Asa non-hunter which is dif
ferent than an anti-hunter I can
honestly say I might not be able to
actually shoot an animal.
Asa wildlife management stu
dent at the University, I can hon
estly say it is part of our role as
humans to be a stewards to the
natural world.
But we must remember that our
duty as a steward is more than just
refusing to kill the warm and fuzzy
creatures it is maintaining a
healthy ecosystem.
If that means killing deer
which around here it does —then
that is our duty.
Annaliese Ashley is a junior
from Albany majoring in
wildlife management
around these facts, so
that at the end of the day
they may sleep peacefully
with a worldview of self
entitlement and privilege.
Recall former football
coach Barry Switzer’s
quote, “Some people are
bom on third base and go
through life thinking they
hit a triple.”
Why do so many of us
feel we are more entitled
to the pursuit of happi
ness than immigrants like
Dave?
Integrity and hard
work have nothing to do
with our luck or grace to
have been bom stateside.
Unlike Dave, I don’t
know true suffering.
But the truth is, many
illegal immigrants are
merely attempting to
escape a world of poverty
and violence of which
many of us know little.
I know I would do the
same in their shoes.
Yes, immigration law
needs major reform. We
must make it easier, fast
er and more affordable for
immigrants to obtain citi
zenship.
Until then. I’m asking
that we empathize and
place ourselves in the
shoes of an Immigrant
before espousing anti-im
migrant rhetoric.
Devon Young is a
senior from DanielsviUe
majoring in magazines
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