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Club offers tea time
to discuss topic of HIV
By SHAWN JARRARD
The Rid & Black
Hot tea and HIV/AIDS will form the
basis for discussion at today’s Tea Talk.
Hosting the beverage and conversa
tion is World Ambassadors.
“World Ambassadors is one ot the
most diverse groups of students, both
from undergrad and grad school,” said
Danielle Alexander, a graduate student
interning with the International Student
Life office, under which World
Ambassadors housed. “One of the things
they’re doing is Tea Talks.”
The talks are aimed at creating aware
ness and brainstorming solutions.
"What it is, it’s kind of a smaller
room, more of a discussion than a
debate,” Alexander said. “A particular
speaker leads the discussion on a topic
that’s important in the world usually
it’s a social problem. They’ll just kind of
explain what they know and what they’ve
learned about the problem to the group,
and talk about some of the human rights
issues with what’s going on. And then
we’ll discuss all of the factors that are
influencing it, and how we can essentially
work to change some of those things. We
just sit around and discuss it while drink
ing tea.”
Each Tea Talk varies widely in topic,
and today’s event marks the third and
last of the semester.
“The first one we did had to do with
Chevron’s pollution in Ecuador, and just
explaining-to all of the students what’s
going on, what’s the history of the prob
lem,” Alexander said. “The second one
was about the laogai camps [Chinese
criminal reform camps] in China."
For the final talk, World Ambassadors
wants to bring the discussion a little
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Gazers will get a chance
to witness a celestial danc
ing of sorts as several
eclipses occur about
Jupiter.
“They [the moons] will
pass in front of Jupiter ...
they’ll go behind Jupiter
and disappear,” Snook
said. “And then they’ll
come out from behind
Jupiter, and then they’ll go
into Jupiter’s shadow,
which means that one of
the moons is having a
Galilean eclipse. And so as
you watch the moon, with
in five minutes it disap
pears. It’s out there in
space, you see it nice and
bright in the telescope and
then all of a sudden it
starts to get dimmer and
dimmer and dimmer
and finally it disappears."
The solar system’s four
gas giants include Uranus
Saturn, Neptune and
Jupiter, but only Jupiter
will be on such grand dis
play tonight.
“Unfortunately Satum
is not out, so we can’t see
all four giant planets, just
the three of them,” Snook
said. “They’re so far away,
Uranus and Neptune, that
in the telescope about the
only thing you can tell is
that Uranus is a little ball,
and not a star, which are
points of light even in tele
scopes. So that’s why we’re
calling it the Night of the
Giant Planets.”
The Athens
Astronomical Association
will be providing its own
equipment for the gazing.
“There wUI be at least
two of us, and well have
two big scopes and several
other Uttle smaller
■copes,” Snook said.
“Hopefully maybe we’U get i
some more people to come
out to Sandy Creek Park.” j
When: 4-5 p.m.
Where: Tate Student Center, room 145
More Information: Drink tea while discussing
the issue of HIV/AIDS locally and internationally
closer to home.
"The one [today] will be’about AIDS,
more locally," Alexander said. “They’ll
touch on some of the profile of AIDS and
what it looks like today, and how it’s
affecting citizens. They’re also going to
bring it in more locally this time, and
explain how AIDS is not just a problem
that’s in some country far away. AIDS is
prevalent throughout the United States.
Some of the students are just presenting
on what they've learned about AIDS here
in Georgia and how we can help."
The selection of tea as a focusing
agent has both practical and ideological
reasoning behind it.
“I think they essentially picked tea
because International Student Life does
coffee hour on Fridays, and so they didn’t
want to call it anything related to coffee
because it might get confused with coffee
hour,” Alexander said. “So tea was the
next hot beverage. But I think, too, in a
lot of other countries tea is a more com
mon drink, and so when political leaders
sit around and discuss things, they
would discuss it over tea. So I think that
was kind of their thought behind the
original naming of Tea Talk.”
Students can bring questions if they
want, but the tea will be provided.
“They don’t have to discuss anything
if they don't want to,” Alexander said.
“Just be ready to learn about some
thing.”
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ed brainstorming ideas of
ways to get people out
and I figured a competi
tion would be a good way
to get it started.”
Last year, the competi
tion featured 13 contes
tants. This year, it was
bumped up to 20.
“The show has done
really well so far,” Patton
said. “We are in the semifi
nals right now so we have
four [comedians] left.”
The audience is in
charge of the vote, decid
ing who stays and goes by
casting paper ballots.
“The four [comedians]
we’ve got left are definite
ly the best four that have
been in the competition,”
Patton said.
Several of the final con
testants are current and
COMEDY NIGHT
When: Tonight at 9
Where: New Earth
Price: $5
past students at the
University, including
Robert Hayes, Kelvin
Williams and Matt
Gilbert.
The comedians prac
tice outside of the venue
to prepare for the differ
ent rounds.
"It’s fun to watch the
heat get put on them
when they move on to the
next round and all of a
sudden they have to come
up with eight to 10 min
utes of new material,"
Patton said. “I like to see
the comedians grow.”
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