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So t have prowlers nearby campus, yet for some reason nearly half of the
emergency towers around campus are ‘Out of Service’ for months at a time.
How is that watching out for the students’ safety?^
- Anonymous UWG Student Rant
And the award goes t 0...
The View
From My Front Porch
With Larry Peel
larry@ioncinema.com
The awards season
is upon us; incredible
heartache, rapturous joy,
and hours upon hours of
television coverage that
many people will ignore,
opting for Internet coverage
the next day. I was fortunate
enough to be chosen as
part of this year's Daytime
Emmy Awards. This is my
first year being involved in
the back end of the events.
1 have watched the award
shows many times; as have
most of you 1 am sure, but
this year I ventured into
new territory.
In July of last year,
I began anew phase in
my career. Having spent
20 years practicing ditch
medicine (1 was an EMT), I
had returned to schcx)l here
to pursue a totally different
venture. 1 began writing
for this paper and for the
magazine lonCinema. 1
also joined the Academy
of Television Arts and
Sciences. It is in the latter
Republicans Fail, Democrats Deliver
THE PROGRESSIVE
PERSPECTIVE
With Skyler Akins
November was a very
good month for me, but an
even better month for the
American people, because
the American people voted
for their hopes and not their
fears.
The American people
voted for a New Direction
in America, one that puts
the interest of the people
above the top one percent
wealthiest Americans and
their lobbyists.
The American people
overwhelmingly elected
Democrats, Democrats
that preach the hope and
Optimism that is instilled
in every American; the
people rejected the divisive
politics of fear agenda that
the Republicans have been
practicing in Washington.
In the first hundred
hours of the new
Democratic Congressional,
Majority Democrats have
already put the hard
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role that I found a unique
experience, which I would
like to share with you.
The Academy is best
known for the Emmy's®,
which grants esteem to
those who chose television
as their primary venue and
have excelled in their art.
Probably best known are the
Prime Time Emmy Awards,
which garners the largest
audience and is given
all the glitz and glamour
Hollywood can muster. That
spectacle is followed closely
by the Daytime Emmy
Awards, which focuses
on the New York side of
the broadcast spectrum,
granting privilege to soap
operas, news programs
and talk shows. What is
not so commonly known
however, is that there are
far more awards given out
than the public sees. The
persons behind the scenes;
producing, directing, even
providing the makeup and
set designs, are all highly
working middle class at
the top of their list, a move
the Republican majority
didn’t take in their ten year
domination of Congress.
The Democrats have
cut the interest rate on
student loans in half.
That’s right, when you go
to the financial aid office
on Ay cock Drive to take
out a student loan, your
interest rate is going to be
three percent instead of
almost seven percent under
Republican leadership.
The Democratic
majority has raised the
minimum wage from
five twenty-five to seven
twenty-five an hour for
working families, a raise
that hasn’t occurred in over
ten years. Now America’s
hardest workers can finally
get ahead, instead of living
paycheck to paycheck as
they did under Republican
domination. The majority
skilled professionals who
are honored for their work
as well.
This year I was granted
the honor of serving as
a judge for the Daytime
Emmy Awards. Sounds
glamorous right? Wrong.
Now don't misunderstand
me, it was an incredible
honor and privilege to
serve on the panel, but 1
didn't meet anyone famous,
or even get to go to New
York. I was assigned to the
Consumer Business and
News panel, and we were
meeting in Atlanta. It seems
there are vary ing locations
for voting, each rotating
through categories so as to
offer as objective a sample as
possible. This time Atlanta
was chosen to handle this
particular Emmy .
Picture seven people
sitting in a studio in
downtown, sipping coffee,
nibbling pastries, and
watching reel after reel of
investigative reports and
consumer headlines. We
had our checklist of relevant
things to look for in each
feature -a list I cannot
share, because then I would
have to kill you, and there
are far too many of you
to track down. Each of us
scribbled our own thoughts
is also ending tax breaks
for big oil companies,
and restoring equality and
justice to our nation’s tax
system.
Embryonic Stem Cell
research is no longer a
thing of the past. Now the
nation’s leading scientists
will have the financial
ability to conduct research
on embryo’s that can, and
will save millions of lives
in the United States by
curing some of our most
atrocious diseases.
My party has ended
the culture of corruption,
the culture of private
golf trips and luxury jets
provided by corporate
lobbyists that have topped
the Republican agenda in
Washington, by creating
the most transparent and
open Congress in the
history of the United
States. The Congressional
Reform Act is so ethical,
that it has even earned the
approval of some of the
most Conservative interest
groups in our country.
The Democrats will
also make sure that our men
and women serving in Iraq
come home soon, and come
home safe. The President’s
plan to escalate the war in
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and comments on legal
pads, mine being mostly in
a shorthand which myself
and perhaps one person in
the CIA could decipher.
We broke for lunch to
ponder ourchoices,acatered
feast befitting our imagined
status as the royalty of the
Atlantaentertainment world,
and discussed and argued
our personal favorites.
We would review a few
of the reels after lunch for
clarification purposes, and
would torture the television
stations interns for coffee
refills and the like for a
couple of more hours before
taking our vote.
All in all it was not
an easy day. there was
no limousine to take me
through the gridlock of the
downtown connector on a
Thursday afternoon, nor
was there a lovely hostess
in a fine designer gown to
guide me up the red carpet
to the studio’s entrance.
Instead I bounced my SUV
up the interstate, parked in
the visitor lot and followed a
haggard and exhausted news
intern through a non descript
building where I was locked
in a dark room with six
strangers for six hours. It
was one of the greatest days
of my life.
Iraq by twenty thousand
troops only adds more fuel
to the already immense fire.
We had no purpose to invade
them in the first place, and
we have no reason to stay
there any longer, four years
is four years too long.
President Bush has had
enough chances in four
years to end this immoral
war, and he has failed us
every time. The message
is clear from the American
people to President Bush:
Stop putting our men and
women in uniform in harms
way for YOUR war Mr.
President, bring our troops
home now!
With everything from
raising the minimum wage
to cutting student interest
rates on loans, I take pride
in knowing that I belong to
the Democratic Party, the
party that represents the
backbone of the American
people, the backbone that
is the driving force of the
American dream and of
the American way of life.
My party is the party of the
people, and not the party of
the Rich and privileged, and
the people of Georgia will
realize that soon enough,
just like the other forty nine
states in the US have.
In myspace, no one
can hear you scream
By (.rant Wallace
Guest Writer
f>rannntfi7@yahoo.com
Myspace. One word says
it all. Now' I'm not here to tell
you that you may or may not
have problems for wanting to
have an intimate relationship
with something thats ends in
a “.com”, because that would
just make me a hypocrite.
Unfortunately, I’m here to
feed your addiction and make
sure your page is kept safe, so
read up.
Now most of these issues
I’ve only seen with Myspace,
so Facebook definitely seems
like the safer bet to keep your
seven hundred friends at bay.
First example; seen bulletins
you haven’t’ been posting?
Just change your password.
I’ve actually seen a site where
thousands of people have had
their myspace’s hacked, and
their username and password
|X)sted online for anyone to
log in to their my space. Neat,
huh .’And as tempting as it w as
not to be someone else for the
day, 1 managed to resist.
Something else to 1< xk
for are "Worms’’. They seem
to be filtering around quite
frequently lately, and 1 was
lucky enough to catch one not
too long ago. And yes, I did
Quest front puge 2
as unsubstantial, childish
fare with value only lying
with collectors. This may be
changing however as comic
based movies bring the
genre into the public eye.
Did you know there is now
even a graphic novel class
offered at UWG?
Greg is one of the many
who feel that eventually the
comic industry will lose its
niche roots and become
an industry that all ages
and genders can enjoy.
For this to happen he says
that the literature within
the pages must be seen as
the reason for purchasing
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say lucky. All it did was enter
in some rather humorous
HTML into my profile about
what a hot guy “Raul” is.
Oh but Raul, you tire so
replaceable. Just look over
all your sections for g<x>fy
HTML that you haven't put in
and delete it. This also works
for your “home", “browse”,
etc. buttons if they do not
appear to be working. And
it shouldn't take a scholar to
realize that "Tom” will not
give away a free iPod upon
finishing a survey. TTtis is just
a faker who wants to spam
your emails.
On a more serious note,
and hopefully much more
recognizable note, here tire the
most basic safety precautions
to take outside of having a
tidy Myspace page. Don't fall
victim to those cheesy scams
asking for your debit/credit
card information. That should
be a given. What’s even
crazier though, is that people
not only fall for this, but the
whole “chat mom" thing as
well.
Unless you actually
want to meet a pedophile,
stay away from general chat
rooms. Sites like Paypal and
Ebay tire completely different
stories, but that will have to be
saved till next time.
a comic book and its
eventual value an added
bonus. This is actually
why Quest specializes
in carrying primarily the
trade paperback form of
the books rather than the
individual back issues, so
the reader can experience
an entire story arc in one
sitting.
But whether a fan
buys comics for collecting
or as reading material
with pretty pictures is
his or her own business.
The important part is that
as long as comics are
available to their legions
of readers we can count
on Quest to be there.
Wherever there may be.