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it on-site to moving it elsewhere
“It'i an interesting figure,” At
torney Jeff Gilley laid of the
College’* price. “Especially lince
only three weeks ago they were will-
ir^; eo destroy the house. ” Gilley has
been active in the legal
maneuvering! that have *o far
stopped the destruction of the
house.
The house sits in limbo during a
60-day legal standoff— the penod
of time during which the Christian
College agreed not to tear down the
house and preservationists agreed
not to push for the inclusion of the
house under the local historic pres
ervation ordinance.
Meanwhile, observers noticed
“persons known to them” leaving
the Wray-Nicholson property Fri
A Celebration of Phinizy Spalding
(1930- 1994)
Madison, Wis., and Seatde, etc.
Everyone can get involved: Kids
can bike to school, workers all over
Athens and the students, faculty
and staff at UGA can all commute
on bikes.
Call your Commission repre
sentatives —for students living in
the campus area; contact your
Commissioner John Barrow (353-
6584W, 543-6287H) and voice
your support for bicycling. Call/
write UGA at the president’s of
fice to support a UGA bicycling
policy. Lobby your state represen
tatives for more funding for alter
native transportation. Let’s make
the DOT into the Department of
Transportation — not the Depart
ment of Highway Building. Con
tact SEA for more information or
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■ err WORKED UP
There is very litde being planned in Athens to com
memorate the fifth anniversary of the massacre at
Tiananmen Square in Peking. It is not that surprising. That
was an old atrocity, and we are worn out by the fresh ones
in the world. Bosnia, Rwanda and the other far away spots
on the globe have worn out our attention spans. We even
have to fight to remind people that the holocaust actually
existed (there are some who would deny it) and that there
was a great purpose in the D-Day invasion fifty years ago.
We sleep and hope that the cruel outside world will not
invade our shores. How like the thirties the nineties are
becoming.
The June 4 massacre must be remembered. On Satur
day at noon people around the world are being asked to
spend a few minutes in prayer and quiet reflection to re
member the victims and the hopes of the survivors. There
is talk of some folks gathering locally at the UGA arch
Saturday at noon to observe this moment. Come and join
them if you have the time. Wherever you are on June 4 at
noon take a moment to remember Tiananmen Square and
all the more recent atrocities.
There will be a speech at the Tate Student Center on
Monday, June 6, at 1 pm by Professor Guo, formerly of Pe
king University, on the current state of affairs in his coun
try. Guo was a leader of the pro democracy movement who
has just recently left China. He will speak in Chinese but a
translator will be present.
June 6 is the anniversary of D-Day. All during the thir
ties we looked the other way at atrocities in Spain, Ethio
pia, Manchuria, Korea, etc. We claimed that far-off places
were none of our business, that it was an economic neces
sity to trade with aggressor nations. In the end the world
paid a great price for comfort, cowardice and inaction. We
were wrong then; we are wrong now. (DFG)
■ WHAT PRICE PRESERVATION?
Anybody who ever wondered how a Christian would
say, “Fuck You!" found out last week when the Christian
College put a $2 million price tag on its Wray-Nicholson
House property
Local preservationists trying to save the structure had
asked the College to name a price, so that they could more
realistically seek potential buyers. Instead they got what
they consider a price so unrealistically high that it amounts
to a refusal to name a price.
“It’s so strange," said Sheila Hackney, Executive Direc
tor of the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation. “Two weeks
ago the house was worthless.”
The Christian College two weeks ago applied for a demo
lition permit after word leaked out that the College intended
to bulldoze the ante-bellum structure. Preservationists
scrambled to save the house, with plans ranging from buying
day night in a pickup truck filled
with what appeared to be furnishings and details from the
house. (PMc)
■ DOES ATHENS NEED BIKES?
Athens has come perilously close to “non-attainment,”
when air quality must be assured through emissions test
ing. (Adanta must have emission tests, since air quality
testing shows “non-attainment ") For the local environ
ment, less emissions mean better breathing for all with low
ered amounts of damaging ground level ozone and particu
late matter
If road use by cars is lowered there will be less demand
for widening and building new roads — less asphalt. If
coupled with a policy of creating greenspaces, the “urban
heat island" that cities create could be offset. This would
mean a cooler Athens environment in the summer. Have
you noticed the temperature difference moving from the
city out into rural areas? This difference is due to heat ab
sorbing concrete and asphalt. Global environmental effects
include less demand for oil and gas, and thus less oil spills,
oil drilling, etc., and lower emissions from gas-guzzling cars
will also help the global environment.
Besides aesthetic and economic reasons, bicycling pro
motes healthy living, and thus a healthier community. For
students and similar low-income folks, bicycling is inex
pensive and efficient. If the public buses install bike racks
(as they hopefully will in the future), every area of Athens
will be accessible without the need of a car. With regard to
UGA, a strong commitment to promoting bicycles will
decrease much of the congestion in the downtown-UGA
area. Athens and UGA can join the ranks of other pro
gressive communities such as Davis, Calif., Gainesville, FL.,
ens 30602, or call 542-8102.(Ali Jones)
■ AVE ATQIJE VALE
“1 hadn’t realized how much we needed that," remarked
Bob Carson, Jr., standing outside the UGa chapel after the
“Celebration" (or “roast," as Emory Thomas called it) of
Phinizy Spalding.
The recently deceased Spalding would, of course, have
enjoyed the affair, and had he been forewarned, would no
doubt have taped some answering remarks of his own for
the occasion.
Spalding made his living teaching history at the uni
versity, and he made his life in various pursuits that en
gaged his considerable charm, wit, energy and resources.
The Celebration, “a tribute from his colleagues in the De
partment of History,” filled the Chapel with the usual sus
pects drawn from that broad range of humanity counted
among Spalding’s family, friends, colleagues, and allies in
various uplifting endeavors (no Globe puns intended).
The gathering brought tears and laughter intermittendy
and together as his brother Hughes Spalding, along with
Hardy Jackson, Don Eastman, Emory Thomas and Milton
Leathers unwrapped like lovingly hoarded pearls memories
and anecdotes that in his absence filled the Chapel with
Spalding’s presence.
Wagner’s Tarmhauser welcomed the assemblage; Haydn’s
The Emperor Quartet, with the help of Alexander Ross,
Elizabeth Jobsen, Laurin Smith and David Starkweather,
counterpointed the discourse; and Gregory Broughton’s a
capelio offering of Amazing Grace the way it is supposed to
be sung sent the celebrants out to a reception at the Geor
gia Museum of Art. (PMc)
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