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Abortions do not
equal Holocaust
Last week, Students
for Life hosted the
Genocide Awareness
Project, featuring a graph
ic display that took up
most of Tate Plaza.
They apparently hoped
to use their shock factor
images to bully and terrify
students into reconsider
ing their own personal
beliefs about abortion.
Before arriving in Tate
Plaza, signs were posted
stating “Warning:
Genocide Pictures
Ahead.”
The display featured
graphic images of fetuses
tom to pieces and baby
eyeballs, hands, feet and
other separated body
parts splayed out next to
coins so the audience
could see just how tiny
these fetal pieces were.
Signs stated “Call Planned
Parenthood to Butcher
Your Baby.”
But most significantly,
the display showed graph
ic pictures of victims of
the civil rights movement
and the Holocaust, com
paring the abortion rate to
genocide.
While the project is
offensive on many levels to
many different types of
people, its most offensive
aspect is the casual com
parison to the Holocaust.
It seems today many
Americans are content
comparing anything dislik
able to the horrors of the
Holocaust.
When the president
passes anew law, he is
compared to Hitler. When
taxes are raised, the coun
try is compared to Nazi
Germany.
And now, when women
exercise their right under
Roe v. Wade to have an
abortion, they are com
pared to the Nazi execu
tioners in the Holocaust
and accused of starting a
genocide.
This shows blatant
ignorance and a chilling
disregard for the reality of
the Holocaust.
The Holocaust is
unique in its horror, and to
compare anything to it is
to diminish the actual
atrocities the victims
endured.
There is no greater
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E-mail and letters from our readers
Abortion display
shows the tnith
Many have character
ized the anti-abortion dis
plays at Tate as “offen
sive,” “disrespectful” and
“disgusting.” However, I
think that many students
have overlooked the pur
pose of this exhibit: to
shock people (students)
back into reality.
The first objection
many have had to the
exhibit is the grotesque
ness of the images dis
played. However, the main
argument of pro-abortion
ists is that these unborn
children are not children.
They have succeeded in
separating the inhumanity
from the act of aborting a
child. Seeing the small,
fragile carcasses of abort
ed fetuses would force any
sane person back into
reality.
The second objection
many have had to the
exhibit is the demonstra
tors’ comparison of abor
tion to genocide, more
specifically of blacks.
Before refuting these
facts, I implore that each
individual do their own
research regarding the
birth control movement.
Many who spearheaded
this movement did so
using racist ideology and
ulterior motives. Once this
is done, it will be difficult
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insult to those victims,
especially when it comes
from a generation so far
removed from Nazi
Germany they can’t fath
om the significance of the
insult they so cheerfully
throw around.
On Thursday, the
University was lucky
enough to be honored
with hosting a Holocaust
survivor to speak about
her experiences.
However, Students for
Life and the GAP Project
sent a very clear state
ment of ignorance for her
to see they dent care
about the reality of the
Holocaust, but would
rather it stay far removed
from them as a set of sta
tistics in order to use it as
propaganda.
Reality check: Not
everything you disagree
with can be compared to
the Holocaust.
Genocide is not a one
size fits all term.
Genocide is the deliber
ate and systematic
destruction of a people,
and the Holocaust was a
transgression against
humanity which has never
been equaled.
Nothing in America can
be compared to the
Holocaust; not taxes, not
the president’s bills —and
not abortions.
No matter what the
GAP project or Students
for Life want you to think,
having a necessary and
legal medical procedure of
your own free will is not,
and will never be, geno
cide.
Whether you are pro
life or pro-choice, it is time
to take a stand against the
dismissal of the Holocaust.
It’s time to remember
its true atrocities.
It's been only 65 years
since Auschwitz was liber
ated. Have we already for
gotten?
Stephanie Kuzy is a
junior from Carrollton
majoring in Spanish
to classify their claims as
“ridiculous,” “absurd" or
“conspiratorial” in nature.
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and Latin American and
Caribbean Studies
Online program
hurts students
It makes sense for the
University to keep up with
modem technology and
make use of it to further
education. However, using
University students as a
test group for eLearning
Commons trades our aca
demic success for the
experiences the eLC pro
grammers get in trouble
shooting their system.
With ample space on
various gmail and uga.edu
e-mail systems and reli
able and backed-up web
servers, why not go back
to having professors post
files on websites or e-mail
them to the class?
I’m writing this letter
while I’m supposed to be
studying for a test and
preparing for a class, but
the files I need are pent up
on eLC and I can’t get to
them. No More eLC!!!
DOUGLAS PATTON
Grad student, Athens
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SGA must ban umbrellas on campus
In search of general complacen
cy, and perhaps a larger func
tion in society, I had previously
decided to retire from petty cam
pus journalism some three weeks
ago. I put my pen to rest in hope of
discovering a fresh, uplifting pas
sion. Nothing transpired.
Asa result, my insatiable desire
to critique this campus community
had all but destroyed my emotional
stability. Like an alcoholic sans
bourbon, I now find myself trem
bling at the need to explode my
outrageous opinions upon the deaf
ears of my peers.
With this in mind, it is my aim
to propose to this University anew
yet necessary executive order.
The student body must be
barred from the use and/or posses
sion of any handheld water-shield
ing apparatus: chiefly, the common
umbrella and/or any similar 3-D
device of a similar nature and
intent.
This includes, but is not limited
to, possession of a common
umbrella, parasol, rainshade, brolly,
gamp, bumbershoot, umbrella-hat,
umbraculum and/or any canopy
like structure designed to deflect
undesirable precipitation and/or
sunlight.
The abhorrent wielding of said
devices, (now officially condemned
as contraband), in recent rain
storms has forced me to request
the Student Government
Association enact this obligatory
legislation immediately.
| Display violates University Code of Conduct
Gory, ghastly pho
tos stood tall
before me. I kept
my eyes deadlocked on
Bulldog Cate’s glowing,
red sign I was hungry.
Although the people
protected behind alumi
num fencing were nice,
providing brochures
about why abortion is
genocide and offering
good day wishes they
destroyed my appetite
and any chance of me
having “a good day.”
Now people are writing
how this visual terrorism
(See? I can use words
inaccurately just like the
anti-abortion cult) is an
expression of free speech
and initiates public dia
logue two things I gen
uinely cherish.
The Center for Bio-
Ethical Reform is a pri
vately firnded organiza
tion that works to estab
lish prenatal justice and
the rights of the unborn,
according to CBR’s web
site, abortionNO.org.
It wasn’t CBR’s bro
chures that bothered me,
or their gigantic display
rather, the fact they
got away with breaking
the rules.
CBR has a right to free
speech in America, but
the University, under The
University Code of
Conduct, should not
allow their pictures.
The display
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It is imperative this vital body of
scholars and future world leaders
recognizes the importance of such
a bill. It should discount trivial
campus issues, (namely the cam
pus-wide smoking ban, et al.), in
pursuit of a safer, more secure
learning environment for all.
Should any aforementioned con
traband be found in possession of a
student or faculty member of this
University, I humbly request the
University Judiciary seek the
harshest of penalties: may said
scoundrel be waterboarded within
an inch of his miserable life, such
that he may feel the painful reality
of the everyday unarmed, law-abid
ing student.
For too long now, the water
logged innocents have suffered at
the hands of the irately self-inter
ested umbrella-toting bourgeoisie:
The pure have been battered
and bruised; they have nursed too
many a scratched cornea with no
retribution, no common decency or
consideration from the guilty
majority.
The untainted few have endured
countless viral attacks due to sod
den stockings and saturated hair
while the culpable enjoy a few sec
onds of comfort in an already over
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“infring[edj upon the
rights, privacy, or privileg
es” (University Code of
Conduct, Art. V, Sec. 2) of
women who have exer
cised their right to termi
nate their pregnancy.
What about the people
who heeled to the
“Warning: Genocide pho
tos ahead” signs and were
late to class? I believe
that constitutes
“disrupting] the normal
operations of the
University” (University
Code of Conduct, Art. V,
Sec. 7).
Though most buildings
near Tate Plaza have
entrances out of view
from bloody fetuses, the
ATMs don’t, making the
display a “disruption or
obstruction of teaching
research, administration
or Other University activi
ties, including its public
service functions on or off
campus," (University
Code of Conduct, Art. V,
Sec. 1)
And for our beloved
Jewish students, compar
ing aborted fetuses to the
annihilation of two thirds
of the Jewish population
during World War n con
stitutes as “conduct that
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causes or provokes a dis
turbance that disrupts
the academic pursuits...
of another person,”
(University Code of
Conduct, Art. V, Sec. 2).
The CBR is not the
first group to get away
with rule breaking. “Tate
Preachers” {(race our
campus and are permit
ted to directly attack stu
dents.
“Physical abuse, verbal
abuse, threats, intimida
tion, harassment, coer
cion," (University Code of
Conduct Art. V, Sec. 3) is
a direct violation, yet our
administration allows
these preachers to stand
during class transitions
and verbally assault
homosexuals, Muslims,
girls in skirts and anyone
not carrying around a
Bible.
Are Christian-based
attacks exempt from the
University’s Code of
Conduct? CBR endorses
“The Matthew 28:20
Project,” where they use
spiritually based quotes
to scare people into birth
ing their unwanted chil
dren. I think it's fair to
say they are a Christian
affiliated organization.
It appears any persons
affiliated with Christianity
that violate these provi
sions are exempt from
any retribution.
I’m proud our campus
recognizes our right to
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The time has come for radical
change.
I also extend a plea for parallel
legislation banning the use of
obnoxious and distasteful rubber
rain boots, which have infected the
population of this fine institution.
In an effort to maintain the
integrity of higher education, I
request the Btudent Government
Association endorse a bill that
would forever remove the ridicu
lous abundance of such ghastly
footwear from this campus ever
more. The common wader is a
loathsome distraction.
It must be abolished, effective
immediately.
Should you have any questions,
comments, concerns or applause,
please contact the editor.
I will not concern myself with
the paltry grievances and/or
pathetic criticism against my pro
posed system of laws, if for no
other reason than the obvious fact
that I. too, have been a victim of
your selfish iqjustices.
Putnam’s Plan, so it will be con
sciously dubbed. Raincoats are
acceptable. Boots remain in ques
tion. Cigarettes are decidedly toler
able.
Umbrellas are not.
Those in favor...
Mark Putnam, Freedom
Fighter, is a senior from
Alpharetta majoring in
international affairs
free speech, however I
would like the restrictions
to extend to the extrem
ist Christians hell-bent on
infringing “on the rights
of other members of the
University community”
(University Code of
Conduct, Art. V, Sec. 7).
Our rights the right
to be gay, the right to
show our religion, our
right to terminate a preg
nancy, our right to walk
through Tate Plaza and
our right to enjoy a
Chick-fil-A sandwich
without the images of
dead babies on our minds
were disturbed.
Put down your engi
neering school blueprints,
President Michael
Adams, and do something
about the recent attack
on your students.
Not only should these
preachers, photos and
whatever group wants to
display them be restrict
ed on campus, the stu
dent organizations that
invite them should be
fined, suspended or what
ever the proper punish
ment the division of stu
dent affairs can think up.
I know the powers that
be won’t do anything
without a formal, student
complaint... who’s with
me?
Samantha Shelton it
a senior from Auburn
majoring In newspapers
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