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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 BB ■ i MEGHAN PITTMAN | Tn Rid * Buo A Three of the four gas giants Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune will be on display tonight, though Jupiter will be the most visible from ground. SPACE: Jupiter eclipses visible > From Page 1 on.” 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.” £ 706-542-3243 800-877-3243 Rr de advsorCgeorgacerter. uga edu ’ • 11 tV\ Thc n,vcr,ll > Georgia 4*o M il i- (' tntrr fpr C—twiy Edmmnn I CUSSES THAT FIT .j < istanc* learning I YOUR SCHEDULE Il97SougiUiiiildnSirßß(iS^SaoryiM6o2-3803 V UVE WEIS HARNWEI! —_J LAKESIDE \ I VRIM IN l s SSajLgl C I.IJ P ' ' ' TEA TIME VARIETY Comics compete for laughs By HEATHER KINNEY ’ The Red & Black Laughter is the best medicine, and who needs a giggle or two more than a campus full of stressed students? New Earth Music Hall will be hosting its third round of Last Comic Standing tonight, which pits local comedians against each other for a headline performance at New Earth and $250. “I wanted to do come dy in Athens but I found you basically had to get on a bill with musicians because comedy didn’t have enough draw at that point,” said Chris Patton, organizer for Athens’ Last Comic Standing. “I start Ik ' WE'VE GOT YOUR LIVING COVERED. Reserve \i\i n in s 706-548-4400 www.reserveatathens.com r NOW leasing for Fall 2011! The Red a Black | Wednesday, November 17, aoio 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.” 5