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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 ► From Page 1 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. If •", H # MM* MX*. ▲ Hebert Kohn (Top) and Sam Lefco spoke at the first Holocaust Survivor Lunch on Sunday. Hillel donated $1 for each person attending. i 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. 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