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Downtown sales up
despite tailgating rules
By ASPEN SMITH
The Run & Black
When the University announced
new regulations regarding tailgating
on North Campus, several downtown
business owners “freaked out.”
Mike Bradshaw, the owner of The
Grill, said many businesses were anx
ious about sales plummeting because
pedestrian traffic coming from North
Campus would be drastically less.
Without the steady flow of tail
gaters from North Campus, Bradshaw
said he was convinced downtown
would be a ghost town on gamedays.
However, for many businesses,
including The Grill, the implementa
tion of the new tailgating regulations
has had the opposite effect.
Ashley Becker, the owner of the
downtown clothing store Flirt, said
sales have actually increased this
football season. But whether this
can be attributed to the tailgating
rules or the afternoon kickoffs, she
does not know.
“The 12:30 games are good for
business,” Becker said. “Many people
leave at halftime and come down
town to walk around.”
Bradshaw said he has not noticed
HOLOCAUST: Hearing experiences
‘powerful’ for event attendees
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invite him to ride on the
top of the train where he
would see Luftwaffe tower
ing above and pray a bomb
would not be released.
When he and his mother
got back to their farm in
1944, it had vanished. The
land was now occupied by
the communist regime and
so began their journey to
Israel. This was the end of
the Holocaust.
Walker was 9 years old.
This was one of 13 sto
ries heard Sunday at the
University's first Holocaust
Survivor Luncheon, where
10 survivors and three sec
ond generation survivors
spoke. For each person who
attended, Hillel donated $1
to the William Breman
Jewish Heritage and
Holocaust Museum in
Atlanta.
“I came because I want
to leam about a moment in
our history I think every
one should have an under
standing of,” said SGA
President Josh Delaney.
“It’s important because
everyone should have a
knowledge and under
standing of what happened
during the Holocaust so
that we can all work to
make sure nothing like this
ever happens again.”
Asa room full of gazes
received Walker’s introduc
tory speech, there was a
silence from those unex
posed to famine or the
stench of flesh. Walker said
he speaks to protect these
eyes from seeing flaky
ashes appear from smoke
stacks or hearing the wails
of murder, as he once did.
Though Walker spoke in
more detail for a larger
group of people in the
Miller Learning Center stu
dents such as Nina Paletta
were able to have lunch
with a small group of peo
ple and a survivor.
“[Manuela Bomstein]
suffered vicariously,” said
Paletta, a freshman biology
imyor. “Her story was more
of how she evaded the
Holocaust rather than
being sent to the camp.”
Paletta said Bomstein
had to hold back her tears
when she pulled out a let
ter from her grandmother
that became their last cor-
respondence.
“[Her grandmother] was
In Germany and couldn’t
get a visa out of the coun
try and her friend ended up
being captured,” Paletta
said. "She sent a farewell
letter to her family and
then committed suicide.”
Senior and co-coordina
tor of the event Hilary Gray
said she heard the stories
of some of these speakers
while interning at the
Breman Museum.
"To listen to somebody
even one time chang
es your life,” she said.
Gray convinced the
museum to get more than
10 speakers to help change
the lives of the students at
the University.
Senior international
affairs major Lauren
Rosemary Hook said she
took a class on genocide
but that secondhand edu
cation cannot encapsulate
the atrocities of a holo
caust.
“After being in those
classes and being in the
Holocaust museum in D.C.,
actually coming here and
any drop in sales this football sea
son.
He said once people begin coming
into The drill at 8 a,m., the restau
rant stays frill all day.
What may affect sales more than
where football fans are allowed to
tailgate is how well the football team
is performing.
“The better the football team
does, the better we do,” Bradshaw
said/
Pauley's Crepe Bar has also expe
rienced a slight rise in sales this foot
ball season. Joshua Fox, Pauley’s
assistant manager, said gamedays
have been busier than he expected.
“The past game, we had a lot
more people than we thought we
would more than compared with
last year," he said.
Now that people cannot tailgate
on North Campus, they come down
town and spend money, Pox said.
Several business owners said the
new tailgating rules are not a
point of concern among them, now
that they have not felt any negative
effects.
“People are going to come down
town whether there’s tailgating or
not,” Pox said.
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hearing them live is some
thing really more power
ful,” she said.
Walker said Germany
has since done a good job
of acknowledging its mis
takes and punishing the
perpetrators of anti-Semi
tism, but solace didn’t
come easy for others. The
effects of the Holocaust
still linger in the heart of
Gray, whose father’s par
ents were both survivors.
“I grew up knowing I
would never buy a German
car,” Gray said. “My grand
father always said they are
just like the German tanks
that ran us over.”
Gray ended the lun
cheon by reciting a Jewish
prayer called the Mourner's
Kaddish.
“Y’hey sh’lama raba min
sh’ma-ya, v’ha-yim aleynu
v’al kol yisrael, v’imru
amen. Oseh shalom bim
romav, hu ya-aseh shalom
aleynu v’al kol yisrael,
v’imru amen,” she prayed.
“May God grant abundant
peace and life to us and to
all Israel. Let us say: Amen.
May He who ordains har
mony in the universe grant
peace to us and to all Israel.
Let us say: Amen.”
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