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To try to reassure you D little bit, there are several important diferencesfrom the CMUpaper that reduce our likeliness 10 get too bitchy. The first and foremost is that we were designed from the very start as views that appeared in his recent that sprung to life while I was Praise and Warning article on ‘gun control undergraduate at Carnegie a noncompetitive, inclusive an concedifig the Nazi activities Editors: Mellon. It started just like the magazine determined to open against the Jews in the Warsaw Review but transformed into a up debate at Georgia Tech; the CMU newspaper, in ghetto uprising. If a handful of I just thought I’d write to mean-spirited rag, rife gripe firearms in the hands of those commend you on a fine second with name-calling and other fundamental contrast, adopted confrontational stances with the people defied the Nazi death issue and on your recent SGA words. I never enjoyed angry machine for a brief moment, funding. I found the Review to reading that paper, and I don’t established newspaper, trying what if all of the residents had be informative and to cover a think it served many people’s to provide alternative interpretations the same news been armed? Then the holocaust wide range of topics and views. needs. Try not to follow this of Overall, the writing was good, events. would have never happened! trend. I and Iespexiallyenjoyedhnkin “Power comes from the barrel and Babb’s interview of the some Luckily, we’re not trying to do Lastly,I’dliketopointout of a gun,”saidMao. He stripped homeless folks. The poetry and irony in your presentation of that. Although there will certainly be occrisional all weapons from the people. art work were great, too. Keep thestatisticscornparingmilitary some overlap between and The Communist China has one of it up. spending with social spending. our Technique’s topics, our the strictest gun control Eisenhower used those same emphasis will continue to be on programs in the world. The As a writer for The Technique, type of figures in the 1950’s to the non-newsy aspects of students of the democratic I foresee some evolving roles justify building up our nuclear movement didn’t have enough for the two journals here on arsenal in his defense policy Georgia Tech life. Wedefinitely guns. The guns that were campus. I see The Technique called “massive retaliation.” share your concern for becoming negarive, provided by some units of the as Tech’s current news source, You nuclear weapons were too so see, People’s Revolutionary Army keeping people informed of cheaper than the expensive please keep us honest; poinr far were refused because it was campus happenings. The conventional (I think that’s out our good and bad points as arms intended to be used as Review, on the other hand, still true today), thus freeing up weevolve. Thanksforrheletrer. justification for the PLA lo seems to be Tech’s money to use on social and declare war on the students. “magazine”- a perioUic economic programs. Ironically, However, as it turned out, the publication where important I don’t think that you intended PLA fired on unarmed students campus and community issues advocate nuclear and, to arms, anyway. are discussed and people in fact, it’s conwary to today’s More response to express their views. I believe 1 I have more fear of the organized your editors used words to this weapons. . effect during your funding . I rhisletter to the editor has been oppressive forces who insist on protecting me from injuring review. To me, the two publi- Again, keep up the good work. edited to increase readability cations are complimentary, not (2nd Correct errors of SpeIIing myself by taking away my I lo& fowud to reading issue freedom of choice, than fear of competitive. I can only hope three. and grammar. Great care has that The Technique and the been taken to assure that the random criminal acts. May I Reviewwork together to provide content and style are suggest that Mr. Meridith and Sincerely, all Gun Prohibition groups read Tech with the information it Mike Emmerth uncorrupted. needs. (Edited by Matthew C. Kramer) the novel 1984, and decide for Our,response: I. themselves if that’s the society I would like to warn you, Yourpointsare very well taken, Lettek to the editor: that they prefer? however, not to follow the lead especially the one about of a similar “alternative” (for avoiding excess negativity in I am writing this letter in Tsang Y. Jon lackofabetterword) newspaper &hefuture. One of ou? staffers, response to Mr. Meredith’s P.O. 34397 THANKS. Boatwright and How To Be A Computer In preparation for our October 10 meeting Geek in Four Easy Steps with the Undergraduate and Graduate Stu. (Or At Least Look Like dent Governments (USG and GSG), we Lunsford Praised solicited a number of letters of supporr by Benjamin Hendry and Larry Sampler One) from faculty. Although we didi’t use the letters at any of our meetings with srudenr Steve Lunsford and Jim Boatwright by Ian Smith, gt4018c@prism senators, we want io explicitly recognize earned a measure of our respect at the the efforts of our faculty supporters. Here October 10 meeting of the USC by Maybe you’re a really cool kinda guy or is one of the letters, which affirms our exhibiting a commendable level of gal, but have thesenagging doubts that you efforts and is representative of the pieces tolerance for opinions that they considered can’t really fit in at Georgia Tech without we received. Thanks again to everyone tobe not necessarily in line with theirown. being able to sling computer jargon around who helped us to get funding. Both Steve and Jim, themselves USC at boring cocktail parties: Well, let me To the members of the Georgia Tech representatives, admitted that they “hated give you some advice: you can really have Student Government: the North Avenue Review from front to (gasp!) some fun by using the resources back”, yet realized that their own available to you (for FREE - thanks, Clyde) I am a professor at Georgia Tech and am perspectives and biases should not on the GTNET. * writing to lend support to the idea of having supersede the right of others to express the student government financially back their views, Or, as Steve put it “This is To start you on your way to becoming a the new North Avenue Review magazine. what the Bill of Rights is all about, right?”. computergeek, may I suggest that you start An interview I gave this magazine (The Consequently, they voted to appropriate out by “reading news.” Every person who Growing Conflict Between Research and Funds to the NAR in the interests of the starts reading news becomes addicted to at Teaching) was printed in their latest issue. wholeof Tech rather than submit topersonal least twelve of the newsgroups available. There are groups on every possible range In this interview. 1 tried to speak candidly whims. Steve even declared his intention about the life of aprofessorand specifically :o be a future contributor. Their attitude is of topics (over 500 in all), and they cover abut the balance between research and 3n example for all of us; it recognizes that the entire spectrum of interests. There are teaching as I view it. The topic was timely me can be humble enough to recognize newsgroups available to you on topics and I was pleased with the result of their that he is not infallible and yet courageous ranging from political theory to work. I was glad to have had this :nough to risk his views in an open forum. masturbation; from religion to wrestling; opportunity to share my opinion on this We hope that their example can serve as an from cellular automata to movies; and so subject and I hope it both educated and nspiration to every faction as, after all, on. (More on exactly how to get at this stimulated student thought. .his issue transcends the mere boundaries information later.) if Tech and is one of the very underpinnings I believe the North Avenue Review if American society. Another very interesting thing to do on the magazine was theonly appropriate medium network is “Forum.” (This is also used by for this interview. However, I also believe experienced computer geeks as a verb, e.g. the importance of this and the other topics “Shut up, I’m busy foruming,” ) This discussed in the Iat4st issue of the Norrh system allows you talk to college students Avenue Review magazine is self evident ail over the country in real-time (computer lingo for “you see what they type and that there is a continuing need for a immediately after they type it”). This is a forum to pubIish such mhterial. In one issue of theh’orth Avenue Review magazine shrewd way to avoid long distance charges we saw featurestoriesoncapitalism,ethics, from Ma Bell if you can get together with the homeless in Atlanta, and the idea of a friend atanotherschool ataplanned time. national service. Through debate a,nd This program is quite versatile and has a discussion on issues such as these, we can wide range of discussion topics. gain aperspectiveon our world nqt a~ailable in any classroom setting. Icomplement the There are lots more things that one can use staff of theNorth AvenueReview magazine the network for, but now down to the guts forputting together sucha stringof quality 3f this article: How to be a computer geek. discussiorv. AI1 you need is: 1) Your gt number. It is my sincere hope that the students of 2) Your password. 3) Some time. Georgia Tech will agree with me that such excellence and potential is worthy of our 4) Enough guts to ask people you don’t mow to help you when you get stuck. support, both intellectual and financial. It would be a wise investment, continued on page 5.. 1 a student at Syracuse University and after graduation got a job working as a songwriter for Pickwick Records. His job was to pump out songs that Pickwick could give to prospective pop stars to record. One sond Reed wrote, “The Ostrich,” was to be a new dance craze and Reed was thrown together with several other musicians to perform the song under the name the Primitives, Althoughthesongwasn’tquik thehit thatpickwick had anticipated by Suzanne Bums this effort introduced him to John Cale. Cafe was a Welsh avant garde musician with classical training in the viola whos musicial In the history of rock and roll music there have been several bands concepts fit perfectly with Reed’s brilliantly insightful lyrics,. that stood out from the crowd and made a great impact on rock Cale had previously been in an experimental group playing an music in the years to come. Especially in the period of the 1960’s electric viola. Caleand Reed dzcrded to start a band and recruited these influential bands changed the course of music as the world Sterling Morrison,an old Syracuse buddy oflou’s,to play guitar. commonly knew it. There was the Britisn Invasion that brought They got Angus MacLise, who lived in the same apartment a deluge of great rock musicians from England to the United States building with Lou and John, to play drums. They soon solved the such as The Who, The Rolling Stones, and of course The Beatles. problem of aname for the group when a friend found a paperback At home there were a number of bands, including The Grateful book in a gutter. The book about sadomasochism was called The Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention Velvet Underground. The title was adoRted by the band as a name in California creating new boundaries in rock music, and such because of their involvement in the underground music and art legends as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul, and Mary were scene in New York City, where they were living. Soon after, greatly developing folk. The music world was exploding with Angus left the group because it was too re$tricting. Lou and new ideasand groups. Many of thesegreat groups have undoubtedly Sterling had a friend from Syracuse, Jim Tucker, whose sister influenced hundreds, if not thousands of fledgling rock bands Maureen played drums and after auditioning she joined The since. It would be hard to find a rock band in existence now, or Velvets. in any time since the 1960’s, that has not been influenced by some The band played small shows around New York for a good innovative group of the ‘60’s. Although most of these mentor part of 1965 until during a residency gig at The Cafe Bizarre in bands were quite popular and successful when they began in this Greenwich Village they were introduced to pop art guru Andy period, one group never had commercial success. They were WarhoI. This was a major turning point in the life of the band. considered relatively obscure during their brief exeistence but in They became the musical accompaniment for Warhol’s the yearrs since have gained a surprisingly large cult following experimental multi-media event The Exploding Plastic Inevitable. and have been a major influence on countless rock musicians in This show bombarded all of the senses ofthe audience. There was the past two decades. Thisband wascalled the Velvet Underground. VU providing the music, Gerard Malanga and Edied Sedgwick Lou Reed was the backbone of the Velvet Underground. He interpretively dancing and performing, and Andy’s films and art had classical piano training as a child and while growing up he being flashed on the screen behind everything else, and strobe played guitar in several short lived bands. He played in bands as continued on next page. go to it now ...

Computer Stuff..., continued from pg.4 From here you have a slew of choices, they are too numerous to list here and“the The procedure is as follows: someof which are mentioned in this article. yak” will tell you about them anyway. ). From “the yak” you can type ‘forum’ to get 1) Walk up to any terminal that is on I suggest that you do a little exploring. on the forum I spoke of earlier, or you can GTNET and sit down. There are terminals You are in the wonderful world of the type ‘yn’ to read all the local news. (Note: of this type in the library, in the Rich UNIX Operating System, which is a bit at press time several student organizations Building, and other places.‘ (sic) arcane. Information on this system had newsgroups there including : TheNorth and how to use it, can be picked up in Ave. Review, The Technique, Radio 2) Type ‘connect hydra’ (In all the almost anyplace that OCS has a computer Techwood, Amnesty International, and examples in this article, don’t type the cluster, but Rich 104 is always a good possibly Erato. ) If you have questions or apostrophes, and hit the return key after choice. need help about “the yak” send mail every line.) I (another UNIX command) to Keith by To “read news”, as mentioned above type, typing ‘mail yak@kong’.

3) Type your gt number. ‘m’,All of this news is nationwide, and, I most students don’t have the ability to post There are lots of other things to do on 4) Type your password. their own information to it. However, if the network, and there is only really one you are interested in local news, which you way to find things out: ASK PEOPLE! Now you own your account. Oooh, so you can also contribute to, type ‘hadal/ Don’t be afraid to ask anyone on Forum didn’t know you had one.,. well, OCS has dsadmte/yak’. This is a wonderful system how to do something, or just lean over to been liind enough to us to let each of us in its own right run by Keith Edwards and the person beside you in the computer have an account on this system. See, it’s is a lot of fun (There are a lot of things to cluster. EVERYBODY LEARNS THIS not so hard. do on “the yak” other than read news, but WAY, just give it a try. Enjoy! c

..,continued from last page (the one you just left) with Lou which just compounded the problem. On September 28, lights flashing everywhere. Andy was close friends with and a 1968 John Cale played his last gig with The Velvet Underground. big fan of German model/actress/singer Nico at the time and at his Although neither Sterling Morrison nor Mo Tucker had problems suggestion the Velvets added Nico as part of the band, and with Cale or wanted him to leave, they both knew that there was consequently changed the name to The Velvet Underground and no way the band could continue under the tension of Lou and Nico. I John’s rivalry, and that Lou was irreplacable. Within a week of Andy’s E.P.I.toured the United States off and on from 1965 Cale’sdepanure the band hada new bass player, Doug Yule. Yule to 1967 when the energy and enthusiasm of the group seemed to had formerly played in The Glass Menagerie, a Boston band and dwindle and the Velvets began to leamn more toward recording had been friends with the Velvets. and performing normal shows than being involved in the New In March of 1969 the Velvets released their third album “The York underground art scene. With Andy Warhol as their producer Velvet Underground.” Musically the band had now changed they recorded their first album “The Velvet Underground and moods again, This was more melodic and simplistic than any of Nico” in 1967 on MGM Records’ Verve label. Unfortunately their previous work. The substance of the songs was mostly MGM was not pleased with the public response to the album. happy and light. But onceagain. as the band was now accustomed There was a great deal of controversy over the content of songs to, MGM basically ignored the records’ existence. This was more like “Venus in Furs,”a song about sadomasochism. “Waiting for frustrating than ever to the Velvets though because now they were the Man” about scoring heroin, “Run Run Run”about a drug park getting very positive responses form their shows and fans who in New York City, and perhaps their most conuoversial song ever had heard therecord. Thesenew fans found it virtually impossible “Heroin,” a song written from the view point of a heroin junkie. to findany ofthebandsalbumsduetoMGM’slackofdistribution. The album was banned from airplay in New York and MGM did In 1969 the band also recorded a live album “1969 Velvet little to nothing to promote or distribute the album. The ironic Underground Live with Lou Reed.” thing about all of the controversy over the record’s contents was At the end of 1969 the Velvets had finally had ali they were that these songs were in no way encouraging sadomasochism or going to take from MGM. They got out of their contract with any drug use, much less heroin. The songs simply gave factual MGM/Verve and went to Atlantic Records. They had recorded a accounts of what these vices were really like, and if anything, fourth studioalbum at MGM before leaving but when they moved portrayed them in a light that might discourage their use. to Atlantic, MGM wouldn’t release the tapes. This “Lost Album” Nonetheless the public had formed an opinion of The Velvet contained some of the Velvets best material, including “foggy Underground that would follow them throughout their career. Notion,” “Stephanie Says,” and “I Can’t Stand It.” In 1984 at the After the making of “The Velvet Underground and Nico” demand of Velvets fans MGM released this classic Velvet Nico left the group. She and Lou had been having some major Underground effort as “VU.” personality conflicts that eventually lead to her departure from In June of 1970 the Velvets began their 10 week residency at the band. She went on to pursue a solo career with Andy as her Max’s Kansas City, a Manhattan club frequented by underground producer, At this point the Velvets drifted from Andy Warhol. artists, including many Andy Warhol groupies. While playing at The group hired Steven Sesnick as theri business manager and in Max’s one night a long time fan of VU and cohort of Andy’s the “Summer of Love”o f 1967 they recorded their second album recorded the show. She took the cassette to Atlantic who released “White LighWite Heat.” The albun name came from the it as “The Velvet Underground Live at Max’s Kansas City.” feeling experienced when using amphetamines,which they often During the stint at Max’s the band was also recording their did. This title never drew much attention though because few last record “Loaded.” Mo Tucker was pregnant at the time so people knew what it meant. The album wasreleased inearly 1968 Doug Yule’s brother Billy filled in for her on drums. Lou was and was much less controversial in its cohtents than the first having some big problems working wilh their manager Steven album. Their musical style had also evolved greatly. “The Velvet Sesnick and was increasingly having trouble getting along with Underground and Nico” was melodic at points and the Doug Yule and Sterling Morrison. Steling had never really concentration was more, gn the intense, chilling vocals of Nico forgiven Lou for kicking John Cale out of the band and was and on John Calq’s electric viola. “Whit LKighWhit Heat” getting fed up with Lou’s ego. Before “Loaded” was even begins. Fishermen chase the doiphins with helicopters and The Fisherman’s Friend speedboats. Exhausted and terrified,the dolphins are encircled in “purse seens” - nets up to a mile long that are drawn closed at the No Longer bottom. by Mary T. Sorensen “The poor animals are trapped!! Many suffocate or drown. Others are hauled through the power blocks that drive the Oppian, a Greek poet of the second century and the author of nets ...ALIVE.”2 poems on fishing, states that dolphins were in the habit of pushing fishes into the nets of fisherman. But Pliny the Elder was even The three species that have been significantly reduced are the more specific than Oppian. This Roman writer lived in Gaul, and northern offshore spotted, eastern spinner, and coastal spotted. around 70AD was the procurator of the Province of Narbonne. Environmentalists were able to get the attention of the US. There is a passage in Book IX of his Natural History based on governmentand pass legislation in 1972with the Marine Mammal his own observations: I Protection Act. In summary :

‘There is, in the Province of Narbonne, in the temtory of Nimes, “The MMPA is one of the principal wildlife conservation and a pond named Latera, where dolphins fish with humans. On a management acts administered by the Department of Commerce certain day, a boundless school of mullet leaves the pond and and has been a key factor in the recovery of several marine heads for the open sea through a narrow channel which connects mammal populations. Since a major concern of Congress, as two bodies of water... a great crowd of people assemble at that evident in the act, is the continued variability and health of spot, eager to see whatever may be seen. Everyone calls out in a populations of marine mammals in their ecosystems, National loud voice: ‘Simon! ’ [Apparently, the popular name for dolphins Marine Fisheries Service has dedicated significant resources over at that time.] Then the dolphins come, arranged in the ranks for the years to the study of marine mammal populations, 1ife.cycles battle. They block the way and push the frantic mullets back and reproductive capacities to broaden our knowledge of these toward the shallows where fisherman encircle them with their species.”3 nets. Nonetheless, the mullets try to jump over the nets, but they are caught by the dolphins who, for the moment, are content to kil This WneMammal protection sounds very good; and compared them and defer their meal until the victory has been won.”l to some other developed countries, the United States has taken great strides in wildlife protection. However, special interest And what has become of the dolphins of today? Fishermen still groups through lobbying efforts have a significant influencein the utilize the assistance of these energetic and graceful creatures for law making procedures. A closer look at the “1984 MMPA locating schools of tuna-especially yellowfin tuna. For unknown amendments (P.L. 98-364) extend the cumulative morality quota reasons, schools of yellowfin tuna swim just below the herds of of 20,500 animals per year indefinately. This cumulative quota dolphins. Then the practice known as “setting on a dolphin” was derived basically as a mortality rate of 0.24 dolphins per see DOLPHIN p. 11 ,,.

...continued from last page Underground fans. really recognized as a ture Velvet Underground record without The Velvet Underground has been called the most influential + Lou. American rock band of the last 25 years, and with good reason. After the band became defunct the members went their Despite their lack of commercial success, the Velvets have made separate ways. Maureen Tucker became a computer programmer more of an impact on rock music than could possibly be measured. and is now working at ‘YeaImart as a cashier in Douglas County, In 1987Rolling Stone Magazine ranked“The Vevet Underground Georgia. She is divorced and the mother of five. Sterling and Nico,” “The Velvet Underground,” and “Loaded” in the top Morrison is now an English professor at the University of Texas 100albumsinmkandroll history. Their influence is unmistakable at Austin. He is married and has one daughter. Doug Yule owns in an amazing number af bands including U2, David Bowie, a cabinet making business in New Hampshire, Nico went on to R.E,h?[., The Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin, Roxy Music, The Dream record five sosl albums and several movies, and had a son. In July Syndicate (the name was even taken from John Cale’s pre-Velvet of 1988 she died of a cerebral hsmmorage from falling off of a band),and Jonathan Richman and the ModernLovers,who in turn bike. John Cale recorded nine solo albums, divorced, remarried, have been an influence for many other bands. The list goes on and and is now living in Manhattan. Lou Reed, the most well known on. It is both sad and frightening to think of the tremendous member of the group since their breakup went on to marry and success the Velvets could have had if only they had been handled record more than 20 solo albums. He finally had a top ten single by arecord company who knew what incredible talent they were in themid-1970’swith“Walk on the Wild Side.” His 1989 release working with: the genius in composing Iy~Scsthat could make “New York” went to the top 20 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s top Lou Reed remembered years from now as one of the most 100 chart. The recnt death of Andy Warhol sparkedhu Reed and insightful poets of our time, and the musical talent of John Cale John Cale to reunite for a requiem to their dear friend. This that could make him rememberd as another Beethoven. Without collaboration “Songs for ‘DrelIa”(WarhoI’s nickname) will be a doubt The Vevet Underground will be remembered as a band released in November and is greatly anticipated by Velvet that was truly decades ahead of its time. except for the blood transfusion that 7 more children put up for adoption. 34,000 If you haven't years ago transmitted the AIDS virus into children wait in this counuy to be adopted, her body. Before doctors were able to but the catch is that 82% are older or - diagnose the illness, she had a child who handicapped and 51% are minorities. thought ahout now also is a victim of the virus. She is Another 450,000 children are housed in pregnant again because of failed birth foster care, taken out of their homesbecause the abortion control. In all likelihood, the baby she is of abuse, Is it really fair then to promote presently carrying will carry and contract the birth of more healthy white babies issue lately, the AIDS virus. However, since abortion while many black and handicapped children is illegal, she must have the baby. She will remain unwanted and homeless? watch two of her children suffer as she dies consider this: of AIDS herself. Sadly, the anti-abortion trend goes hand in hand with anti-birth control. Most anti- You're an undergraduate in your senior The above examples are not dramatizations. abortion/pro-life groups in this country year at some prominent technical institute These situations happen and are not at all also oppose many methods of birth control, in Atlanta, GA. Because you can only uncommon in real life. Contraceptives,no The idea that life begins at conception afford three more quarters of fees, you are matter how carefully they are used, do fail automaticalIy outlaws.some forms of the taking a heavy class load while and subsequently result in approximately Pill and the IUD, two of the safest methods singlehandedlyorganizingand carryingout 30 million unwanted pregnancies in our of birth control aqailable today, because a job search that seems at best frustrating world each year. they can abort an egg after fertilization. and at worst hopeless. Despite the 16-18 The French pill, RU 486 which aborts a hour days, endless homework and number Perhaps the most powerful argument fertilized egg without a surgical procedure, crunching, you're surviving and with only opposing legal abortion in modern is already banned from use in the United three more quarters to go, you can see and American society is that which maintains States despite the fact that the pill is not smell the light at the end of the tunnel. But that life begins at conception and that the only safer than conventional abortion one day, in one of your few quiet moments taking of such life is murder. Yet, because procedures but also has other beneficial with your girlfriend (or wife), she tells you an embryo/fetus is not able to survive on its effects unrelated to abortion (such as the that she's pregnant. Abortion is illegal in own prior to six months, whether ornot the treatment of some forms of cancer). the United States, so your choices are embryo/fetus is indeed a human life is and limited: you can try to have an illegal always will be a religious issue. One must also consider the reality of abortion or you can choose to have the withholding legal and safe abortion from baby. Concerned for your girlfriend's life, Perhaps, then, the responding argument to women in the United States. Women there is only one real choice: to have the the above would question the changing carrying unwanted embryos will continue baby. You are forced to quit school and viability threshold of the fetus as medical to have abortions whether they be legal or work to participate in the financial struggle technology advances. Most medical people illegal as was the case before the Roe v. involved in the $5000+ task of having a agree that the viability threshold can never Wade decision in 1973. Unwanted baby. Three+ years of struggle for your drop below 23 or 24 weeks. Says Mark pregnancies before 1973 are not much Bachelors Degree at GT slip quietly away. Evans, director of reproductive genetics at different from those in 1989. Consider for Hutzel Hospital in Detroit: "We have example, the facts in Brazil where abortion

Or this: I gotten much, much better at salvaging is illegal. Out of'a total population of 144 Alow-income woman living in the housing premature infants, but we have not million, approximately 3 million illegal projects just across North Avenue. She is dramatically lowered the age at which the abortions are performed in Brazil each hopelessly addicted to crack the latest and fetus becomes viable." year as compared to 1.6 million legal 246 most alluring form of cocaine. Life for her abortions out of million people in the t is a single-minded day-to-day struggle to The question of life beginning at United States. As long as coat hangers are meet her increasing need for crack. The conception, then, returns unavoidably to available,regardless of U.S. laws, abortion two month old baby growing inside,of her religion. By making abortion illegal, the will remain alive and undiminished, Rather funher complicatesthe Struggle. Not having federal and/or' state* govern,mnts will than saving "human" lives, then, making I the option for safe and legal abortion, she reunite the religion of fundamentalist abbrtion illegal will cost two "human": i1 must have the baby. Unable to tak"e €are of Christians and state, an action that violates lives: that of both the unborn fetus and the it herself, the baby joins the multitude of the very basis on which this counuy was mother who finds herself pregnant with an t unwanted babies in America that are born founded. unwanted child. addicted to crack, Pro-life activists also promote the option I have two final questions for the pro-life Or consider: to adopt rather than abort. In theory, this movement: A 30-year old married woman living in a option seems ideal. If one person doesn't If your concern is really for the children in seemingly' safe and secure Cobb County want a child, give it to someone else who home. Her life seems cozy and content does. Yet, the last thing America needs is continued on page 10... J P 1 larly enlightening: from him I learned that prevented a violent clash that day. a baby is a “salamander” before it is born.) COOR and- We carried on like this for about ten min- “What about Operation Rescue?” the pro- utes, until eventually the two retreated to choicer cries. “They also ignore rights by their respective camps, and I returned to crying to prevent women from entering the First my book while dismissing the incident as abortion clinics!” A prolifer might point isolated. out that, while the freedom of information/ ideas dates back to the principles of the Amen.d .ment I was wrong. A few minutes later the Enlightenment of the 17th century and is .from the frontline of the slogan-chantingCOOR activists assaulted specificallyprotected in the Bill of Rights, . . our position in force, squeezing their way the abortion right was created by judicial Abortion Battle among us and obstructing our signs. Their fiat in 1973 and, as the Supreme Court primary target was a large banner bearing affirmed in the Websferdecision, will in- by Allan W. Yarbrough the message: “ABORTION IS MURDER”. creasingIy become a matter of state discre- When the two people holding it attempted tion. But the& is a more fundamental Have some Liberals abandoned their to back away, six of the COORitespursued distinction to be made: the Rescuers, with commitment to free speech? them.. .all the way up Fourteenth St. to the their own acquiesence, are hauled away in traffic light, across the road, and back police vans to detention centers, while the This is not necessarily a rhetorical ques- down the other side, screaming slogans COOR activistscondyct their campaign of tion. Many groups of people have on and blocking the banner all the while. harassment with the full sanction of the occasion sought to limit open discussion authorities. on an issue either within an organization or These events greatly disturbed me, for they in the public arena; however, when the had never in my experience happened Which brings me to the point that the group in question has rnadean obsession of during one of these demonstrations. Fear- officers at the Center obviously did not of libertarian interpretations of the First ing an outbreak of violence, I approached their own initiative begin 10 observe a Amendment, one cannot help but add two officers observing the scene from the double standard in whose rights they pro- hypocrisy to the charge of repression. I comfort of their police car and requested tect, for this incident represents a pattern have evidence of such repression by the that the two groups somehow be kept sepa- throughout the city. The question is: Who activists of the Coalition Opposing Opera- rated as in the past. “We can’t,’’ they gave the order? It would be ironic if Mayor tion Rescue (COOR), witnessed this sum- repIied, with poorly concealed glee. “It’s Andrew Young, himself a veteran of the mer during a demonstration outside the freedom of speech.” Civil Rights movement, is now abusing Feminist Women’s Health Center. police power on behalf of the new Estab- Wait a minute, Am I to understand that, lishment‘. Otherwise, he certainly owes it I arrived that Saturday morning with a under the pretense of freedom of speech, to the people of this city to discover and g~oupof friends from Tech to support the the COOR activists are now licensed to reprimand the man who is. local church group that organized a prolife harass and obstruct those that do not agree demonstration loosely affiliated with with them? Notwithstanding the various Operation Rescue. We were fairly disor- mythologies of what the First Amendment ganized: there were nodrcular pickets, does and does not require, one would think and no one had brought copies of the songs that, as a concept, “freedom of speech” that were being sung, so I perched on a would imply a broadening of the views nearby fence to read a book while awaiting expressed rather than anarmwing of them, further direction. I but narrowing discussion and limiting dissent is precisely the affect‘of COOR’s

Suddenly I glanced up to notice the follow- activities. , ing scene: a young lady of our‘b&ty was // I\ walking on the side of the street directly It is obvious in whose benefit these new opposite the entrance to the Center while “rules of engagement” for prolife demon- Carrying a sign bearing the photograph of strations operate. In addition to being an aborted fetus. Trailing her was an un- more numerous, the COORites have al- pleasant looking fellow attempting to block ways been more aggressive than the prolife the view of her sign from the Center with a picketers, as anyone could surmise from sign of his own and not being dissuaded by watching one of these confrontations. The her constant attempts to escape him. This screams, chants, and curses of the pro- struck me at the time as simply discourte- choice people contrast sharply with the ous: thus, I attempted to interpose myself hymns, rosaries, and quiet prayers of the between them while distracting him with Operation Rescue affiliates. It was only conversation. (This last was not particu- their commitment to peaceful protest that 1 #/r1111 t Western culture has a long history that cannot be denied, and is continuously reinforced A Man Needs A Maid generation after generation through our teaching of that history. Only recently have Abortion and the Threat to Male sociologists andeducatorsbegunto question the way we perpetuatesexist attitudes in our Dominance schools. Philosopher Seyla Benhabib poses the question this way: ”If what have hitherto been considered the major works of the Western tradition are, almost uniformly, the by Steve Donkin product of a specific group of individuals - propertied, white, European, and North- American males - how universal and representative is their message, how inclusive is Sexism is alive and well and their scope, and how unbiased their vision? In continuing to insist that their work alone fueling the fue of the abortion debate. In constitutes the canon, are we not participating in the silencing, marginalization, and the past twenty years, women have gained oppression of those ‘others,’ mainly women, non-white peoples, and members of non- an increased presence in previously all- Graeco-Roman and non-Christian traditions?”’ male or male-dominated areas of society, The answer is, of course, yes, and now those propertied, white, Christian,North and this has posed a serious threat to some American males are leading the fight to preserve tradition in the only field where they cherished traditions. Whenever tradition is have a hope of winning - that of reproductive rights. Not only are the battlelines clearly challenged, a backlash is to be expected, drawn in the area of reproductive rights (you are either pro-choice or anti-choice), but and we are now seeing age-old sexist and it is also the only theater that allows fDr effective guerrilla warfare in favor of rnen; outright misogynistattitudes surfacing and because rnen have no chance of becoming pregnantthemselves,they can hide in the trees making a final stand on the front steps of and snipe at the women with self-righteous epithets about the evils of being pregnant abortion clinics all over the country. with a child you don’t want. Sexism as an integral part of One need not look far for examples of feminist progress in our society. In 1969, ...continued from page 0 9% of first year medical students were female; by 1987 that figure had increased to 37%. Similarly, only 8%of the law degrees given in 1973 were to women; in 1983, the figure our world, why bring more into an already was 364, And in 1973, women earned only 4.9% of the MRAs awarded; in 1983, the overpopulated world where millions are figure was 28.9%~~However, among the real policymakers in the country, women are ’ starving and millions more are abused (2.2 still sadly outnumbered. In the Supreme Court, the ratio is 8 to 1; in the House of million in the U.S. alone) or homeless? Representatives, it is 408 to 27; in most state legislatures it is worse. Though they may be more educated and financially independent than ever before,-women still have If you really believe that life begins at relatively little voice when it comes to the creation and enforcement of the laws that conception, why do I see you protesting govern them. every Saturday morning at Atlanta The alarming direction that these mostly male-made laws and court decisions SurgicenteryetIdon’tseeanyofyouatthe have recently been taking should at least worry some women, and at most enrage those Atlanta Humane Society where kitten and who would otherwise take exception to being labelled as second-class citizens, for that puppy fetuses are aborted regularly, Do is exactly the implication that anti-choice legislation carries with it. An article in a recent unwanted animals not have to suffer, issue of Ms. stated, “It is impossible for the state to take a position on fetal life - whether because according to the fundamentalist that it has absolute value or that it should ovemde a woman’s right to choose - without idea, only humans have souls? Why does denying the bodily and moral integrity of women.’’3 In other words, this is not just an having “a soul” lead us into more global issue dealing with pregnant women or sexually promiscuous women, but with all pain and suffering Father than deliver us women. When the state tells women that it alone has the final Say about their reproductive from it? behavior. it is singling out women as a group both separate from men (because men can’t get pregnant) and subordinate to men (since men dominate the control of the state). Despite the intensity of bpth sides of the Reproductive freedom is certainly not an issue that concerns only women. Men abortion issue, the most’deuimental force who pride themselveson their enlightened attitudes towards women’s rights, or who take presently affecting either side is those who an active interest in creating and maintaining a society that is truly just, should be as stand in the middle, uncommitted. No dedicated to making their views known to their legislatures as women should be. matter what your opinion, please speak up; However, ifanti-choiceattitudes prevail and restrictivelaws arepassed, then it is women your voice is desperately needed. Or you who will suffer the humiliation of being classed as baby factories first and free citizens may find yourself with no choice- at all. second, Likewise, it is women who will be forced to suffer the physical and financial .I hardships of gestating, birthing and then raising to adulthood an unwanted child. And, Note: inevitably,it is women who willdie from unsafe abortions, or even from pregnancies thal Most of the above statistics come from the should never have come to term. In that same issue of Ms.,Gloria Steinhem wrote, “We film “Abortion for Survival” (produced by give freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and other basic rights 10 the individual, the Fund for the Feminist Majority) and limiting state power in the long-term interest of democracy; but reproductive freedom have been reconfirmed by popular articles; has never been taken that seriously. On the contrary, a man’s house may be his castle, but Although this film presents perfectly valid a woman’s body is rarely her own.”‘ information, it may be dismissed by many as invalid because the film itself presents ’Seylm Bonkbib, “011 COMmpgr hrd&t ‘Ibay“, DUUM, ’Rhd copslon & lCaUq~Kolbon, “hprlscl luruw”,MJ,, July/ only the pro-choice side of the abortion Svmmpt 1919, p. Mb. AulUn 1989, p. 434. 9.rhn Bhronraleb, -Rnlhh ud Mum”,DUM*. ‘OLmL Slolnbm. ‘A Buic HwRight‘, MJ,~luly/Augua 1989, issue. Swumr 1919, p. 366, p.40. , POLITICS OF THE ABORTION ISSUE

By Janice Day be discarded. A11 feminists are for “birth conuol”. This empty longer violate and rape women, I was marching in a rally for “lesbian men-haters”, all phrase simply separates the“us” when every child is born pro-choice earlier this year democrats are “liberals”, all from the “them”. “We” use healthy, then we will not need when a funny thing happened black people have small brains. proper contraceptives; “they” abortion. If there is no to me, An elderly man stopped all Georgia Tech girls are use abortion. “They” are the alternative women will always ’ and told me that if I didn’t have looking for a man or must be fat minorities, poor people, have the ability to choose to sex then I would not need an and ugly - tbeseareallexamples feminists, (fill in the blank), reproduce. They will continue abortion. This was rather of discarding a catagorized people who are definitely not to demand control over their strange bccause I never said I group. The anti-abortion “us”. The “pro-lifers” are own bodies - illegally if needed an abortion nor was I advocates have perfected this isolating themselves into the necessary. recommending women have distancing technique. They “perfect people” group. them. I wasadvocating achoice have accomplished separating The abortion problem affects for all women if they became the pro-choiceandanti-abortion Obviously neither side is perfect all of us - maybe your brother pregnant. More strange, issues with the s1ogan“abortion and isolation will not solve any or sister, your friend, your however, was that this man was must not be used as birth probIems. We cannot avoid parent, maybe you. While we telling me I must abstain from contr~l”.This seems logical; natural human sexuality and are perfecting society, the time sex unless I want a baby. So no rational and intelligent ignore our vulnerabilities. We will come for all of us to face accordingto his theory, if I want person would use abortion as a need to work together because the issue. When that time two children then I am allowed contraceptive. But what does the only way to eliminate comes, will the government ask to have sex twice during my abortion for birth control really abortion is to eliminate the need why you had sex if you didn’t life. mean? The purpose of an for it. When a 100% effective want a baby? When the time abortion is to prevent a birth. birth control method is available comes will you have a safe and This is the theory of the anti- Therefore every abortion is used to ALL women, when men no legal choice? abortion movemenl. ThisgrouF talks of religion and ideology, ... DOLPHIN from p. 7 expense of dolphins‘ lives, Let’s not be passive. If you value thp lives of these dolphins, don’t just forgetting the real world. They every ton of yellowfin tuna harvested. say every fetus will be born , - say, “hey, I don’t eat tuna. ” Next time you are at the grocery store or see a can at a friends, get the wanted. Many times I have It must noted that , though shockingly be address and write to them &you are boycotting heardanti-choice people tell me inadequate-some safety features for the about adoption. Unfortunately, dolphins are utilized such as additional their product. This is the only way your efforts the world we live in is not equipment board the vessels to release wiil be acknowledged. So where does ARA get on their tuna anyway? perfeqt; most adopting couples tangled dolphins. Also a prohibition of are skarching for a blue-eyed, sundown sets (of nets) reduce mortality. “But Just as a last thought- the 20,500 incidental death blonde, male infant. Children the fishing companies say dolphin deaths are figure is tor the fleet alone. That is really are born addiqted to drugs, ‘incidental for their But the dolphins U.S. work. justthe tip of the iceberg. This is a matter of severely handicapped, some are known to ’onal tarw sought out be hundreds of thousands of dolphins in jeopardy. have AIDS, and many are born to maximize tuna catches - and profits. minorities. These children will We all make a difference. 1 probably NOT beadopted, Yet So the question here is what we can &to help Consider this eyew itness report from a government they must be born because their this situation, One of the primary roles of the mothers became pregnant dd Environmental here biologist working undercover on board a tuna Forum boat: Lhc punishment for sex is the distribution of info children. Look inside yourself; information here shows that something needs you concerned the 5oo dolphins shrieking in panic as are for to be Most welfare of the fetus or are you organization Greenpeace. Theyhave havehears become Of *e they fight and gasp for air... standing by helplessly punishing women for having an effective force in fighting environmental as living dolphins were dragged aloft thrashing sex? disaster. They say that with support they and flailing in terror before being literally crushed our deilth in the power block It’s enough to make can awaken public opinion, arouse world press to ... you give up tuna for life.” A classic tactic in overcoming andcompel U.S.govemmentandothernations opposition is to label and place to takeaction to this ’laughter* 1 Ddplin. Jnqwm-Yw Couatuu, Doubledry md Campmy. Inr. Now Yuk the threat intoa catagory. 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.. Loneliness

It means that you're not happy with the way people are around you and you're eating dinner with a monster on your shoulder. Your cat won't talk when the TV's on and the couch is changing colon. Your clothes don't fit because it's too cold and the grass hasn't grown in months. :.: ..- '.?, It's the way that your keys set in your pocket. ' when the leaves fall and the dew comes more often.

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-Jillanna Babb I thought the waters were clear to these islands where I've brought my thoughts . and things.

Are there souls within screaming distance or have my fading advertisements drowned or burned?

Where is the rush traffic I had fantasized into this fortress paradise? The others must have crashed into my signal by now.

Don't they sense my , sunset or feel the fall of the rock face?

I suppose they are all vacationing in the revolving world, AGAIN.

I must be conscious alone. -Karen Sfeadman Insomnia

00the night of Augur 7th. 1979. IJ youq girl was raped by three men in u empry cow pururejwr ourside ihe town of Massey. Alabama. .. . .

I knew something terribly wtong had happened the moment I walked into from the older woman. I hear my mother wake my father.

the room. 11 was like a surreal drawing 0f.a family scene. Everything ~ 3." was in place, but there was something subtly wrong with the picture. If you can, picture this: The young boy lying in his bed. waiting for the Everyone knew their role- the hostile mother. the contemplative father. coming srorm. hearing the growing wind and thunder, then, nothing. 1 [he penitent child- but, tonight, my mother was confused, searching for got up and went to the living room. The detail I noticed wasn't the sight the words to set everything in its proper place. As. for the others, they had of my mother and sister crying (seperately. to be sure). or that of my crawled back into theirselves, only their bodies there to witness the 'father fighting within himself, or that Angie was sirling in our living morn mother's disorientation. It wasn't that later either. at two in the morning. What srmck home with me wasn't the appearance of the police, the questions they asked, or the details of the homble events We had been at the town swimming pool until nine that night, playing in that cow field. It wasn't her bruised wrists, her shaky hands, her pinball and floating on the inner tube. When the pool closed, 1 walked swollen face, or that night's trip to the hospital. What struck me. home, but my sister and our neighbor Angie went to the Civic Center. convinced me, crawled up inside my mind to die and rot there was this: About'eleven, I went to bed. ,My mother allowed Terha to smoke. She brought her an ashway. and even lit the cigarette, since my sister could not hold rhe flume to the tip. It wasn't the first night I had waited up on her. She had turned fourteen Seeing that, 1 could feel my life, the normal (happy?) small-town life almost B year earlier, and felt that she was grown, ready to deal with life coming to an end. and in its place, a hard, cold, and empty (alone) head-on. My parents didn't agree, however. So, weekends, she would existence. It was the end of my childhood. go out, curfew set. warnings issued- and do just as she pleased. Grounding didn't stop her, either; with parents in bed. the rear windows I was only twelve. were easy to open. and there was always a getaway car parked down the street. So, weeknights and grounded weekends, we would talk until eleven or so, until my parents were settled in their bed, and then she would go. I would go back to my morn and wait. Usually two or three. and even occasionally as late as five, 1 would hear her come back through the window, and then and only then, I would go to sleep.

So, anyway, its Saturday night, a little after two, my mother is waiting up and my sister comes home. When I hear the car pull up, I know it's her, and can feel my mother preparing for an all-out verbal assault, the waves crashing against the, rocks once again tonight. Then the door opens. and silence saikes, as if the child's mere presence had sucked the fury, the life

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-Stefan Jaklitsch Do Not Turn The Page! by Raymond Close

Art is not supposed to bc plcasing images, as many peoplc think. Art is an attcmpl to mirror reality, often with [he intent of conveying some mcssagc. Thus, while art can be plcnsing, its morc gcneral I'unction is to cause people to think. This is why clip art is, in Ihci, iui, 'A well-executed clip art piccc cun convey a complex incssbgc better than orhcr art forin3 in many cases and it is ot'isn superior to prose in dclivcring cmotional con,tcnt. This combination makes clip art , a usctul art form.

For insuncc, the piccc of clip art on [hc ncxt page,deals with my I'cclings about Playboy magaxine and thc scxism involved with it. Thc overall meaning is that Pliiyho)' is stxist, and is ihcrclbrc dcstrLlcltvt 11) both woiticri ihntl nicii. Various dcviccs arc uscd to chprcbs this point. "Found" phrascs LUC used, ofkn raurinycd, sornclimcs not. (I think thc arranyctncnt of Lhc two phrascs at [he top of the page from the Playboy tlycr that was distributed on cainpus is particularly nice. It I rcvcals the "rue" mcaning of ihe llyer.) I could go into more tictail about the ,piece, but I'm going to slop herc. The point of clip art is to causc peoplc to hink, not to cntertain them, so 'm no1 going to subvert the iicce's ' purpose. Look at the iccc and try to figure out what it 111 means. You may not agrec with it, but you will have hought about the subject and, ioucfully, if I've done a good job, you'll understand [he world around you a little better. Now, 60 ahead and turn he page.

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My grandmother's hand, pale and bony, My grandfather had a comfortable lap and a hung over the back of the seat of the car like the huge sack of walnuts. I remember singing songs with him. I remember laughing at his stories. I injured wing of a dove. The worn gold band hanging loosely from her skeletal ring finger remember wincing as I bit into that bitter part of the looked very heavy. I couldn't take my eyes off that shell that sometimes sticks to the walnuts. ghostlike hand that night on the way to the "You're my favorite," he always told me hospital. The wrinkled skin reminded me of rice with a wink, "but don't tell anyone." I never did. paper, it was so thin and pale. The sinuous blue My grandmother had once teased that I only veins snaking underneath it looked vulnerable. came over to visit my grandfather. I remember I closed my eyes, but the image wouldn't being very defensive. It was true. disappear. 1 squeezed my eyelids shut as hard as I The room at the hospital smelled funny, a could until my head began to spin, slowly at first, mixture of bandaides and plastic flowers. 1 never then gaining momentum like a tire rolling down a trusted rooms that smelled funny. A family was hill until the noise of the turning and whirling crying while the overhead light mourned in grew almost unbearable. I suddenly realized that fluorescent monotone. My mother had gone with the noise I was hearing was someone humming the doctor when he had whispered something in Amazing Grqce. I strained to hear it better but the her ear. My brother looked dazed. The heavy air in sound faded in and out like a radio station going off the room with the funny smell was humid. My the air. My grandmother used to play Amazing skin felt clammy but my throat was dry and raw. Grace on her old, dusty pianu-the one with the flat When my mother'returnd she was crying. I don't F and the picturtdof all those old people I didn't remember if I cried. recognize on its worn, dustcovered surface. How "You knew she was going to die," they told had those frail, claw-like hands played those notes me, "you knew, so you were prepared." My sister was at camp when my 90 passionately? There was blood on her hand. It filled the grandmother died and didn't get to attend the tiny lines between her thumb and index finger, funeral. The men in the black suits opened the coloring them'brick red and reminding me of some casket for her at the burial. The image of my macabre road map. I knew she had a towel soaked grandmother's colorless, motionless face haunted with blood in the front seat with her. Fresh blood. me. The frozen lips seemed to tremble, the Her blood. I wondered how the veins on the back eyelashes seemed to flutter. I had to look away, of her limp,, pale hand were so swollen after she wincing as if I had been eating walnuts with my had lost so much blood. grandfather again. Her hands were folded like the wings of a dove. Her wrist had like My mother drove fast, She didn't talk. She sleeping looked looked very old. I noticed how gray her hair had naked bones without her watch, which now lies dormant in the cluttered coffin of jewelry box. become. Since when did my mother have gray my hair? I watched$he second hand tickiirg slowly, The one that plays Amazing Grace. steadily, on my gtandmother's watch. "Get up-we have to take Grandma to the -Jillanna Babb hospital ,I' We conspire with an ageless enemy. Here's your allowance and a rose for emily One dollar, twenty-six cents Never enough. Can't buy what we really want love immortality god-or a rolex, if we gotta choose

-Steve Dnnyu

-Jillanna Babb My Father ,

'Aneel in the minnow net boutrced and flashed of-black It's black whipped so the white shined silver.

My father wrapped it in the hoard of knots qf string. L ' "You not hold lightening!" can .' L, - And he took his heel and missed, My father missed, missed again.

My father grounded that sole upon that eel's rebellious head. And the blood shaken forth onto his pant legs stained like hope. - - .- -JdmE.Podr a The Under Side of Leaf I I ! Living in a jar of urine A quiet house . 1 Young eyes smell the poignant stench wetting a nation in stink The bowl is full but flushing would awake the occupants , Lid is shut, the light left on, and bags put out on the porch - Full of leaves The nose lifts to the wind of seasons I I It is time for adolescence to hit the road

Hanging off of skyscrapers washing windows .I' 1 Windex wipes in insignificance Fingers fondle a dangling crucifix Among the forest of the concrete trees His leaves block the sunlight pouring in like I Far away from the loud arguing voices Deaf to the underside of the leaf ti- 1 Wherein moist mi1 his reason worm

Stretches a body to fit new shapes I Twisting a kid to play with retarded blocks And the geometric patterns of leaves protecthg the darkness John Hewson

HIGHER EDUCATION

The man droner on, intrigued by his trivial mathematics. Out in the hall, the janitor dozes one with a bottle of Mad-dog.

he has chalk in his hair, on his clothes, ,maybe in his btood; and he drones on. Across the Street a hungry 12 year-old mother cries, already dons with her chikihood'.

!. : '..I . I. ' - Larry Sampler .. .. “Where is the Dream?” thinking and interaction. Many viewed ~ DESTRUCTION ON architecture as an important expressive Architecture Students Battle element in society, and not simply a field PEACHTREE: Intolerance and Apathy in requiring technical expertise. Thus, some WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ALL OF Promoting Free-Expression students saw the need for more debate, MY FAVORITE BUILDINGS? discussion, and general exchange of ideas by Steve Donkin about the- role of Ihe architect in society. by Valerie Stickles With assistant professor Mark Linder as This past summer, some students in the their faculty advisor, the students launched I wassitting atthekitchen tablereading the School of Architecture erected a smcture a publication called Static, the purpose of newspaper and I saw an article on the in the lobby of the New Architecture which was to provide the School of Columbia theater. Apparently a church Building as part of an on-going campaign Architecture with an internal recourse for owns it and is using it for outreach to promote free-expression within the expression. ministries. Okay, the church is helping the department. Named “The Kiosk”, the community, but what do the homeless need structureconsistedof a wall ofcinder blocks It was not easy, though, to bring all students the world’s largest movie screen for? Even and some other blank walls made of wood together for such aproject. Undergraduates though all of the historical value of the and paper, arranged in a way that especially seemed to feel thatthe publication Columbia has been lost through the encouraged interaction. The viewer could was solely a graduate student endeavor,put numerous renovations, somehow the walk around the smuctureas well as through out by an elite group to which they didn’t sentimentality remains. If there was a it, and could write on the wallsor otherwise belong. Others apparently felt that’it just place large enough in my house, I would adorn them. There were no rules governing wasn’t worth their time. The steadily ask the church if I could have the screen.At the means of expression that one could use. increasing apathy finally inspired a new least it would be preserved and not torn approach,which resulted in theconstruction down like the marquee that was outside. However, during the weekend of October of “The Kiosk.” It was hoped that students After all, the theater was donated to the 14-15, the means of expression took on the would more readily interact with something church. The surround sound would be nice form of vandalism as persons unknown that was harder to ignore, and feel to have also. No fraternity would be able to toppled the heavy cinder block wall and encouraged to make a statement of some compete with my stereo. , I wrote derogatory comments questioning kind about anything. the underlying purpose of the structure and Practically next door to the Columbia is its builders, This incident was only the There was some positive response, but the “The Ponce” aparunents/condos. They latest in aseries of obstacles that thestudents general attitude remained one of apathy or look nice, but the truly beautiful building is have had to face in their year-old struggle simply confusion. Early in October, the one just across the street on Ponce de to foster more discussion and interaction frusuation gave way to an even blunter Leon. The Georgian Terrace Hotel needs within the department. Graduate students approach. Sraiic members wrapped the to be gutted (to remove the fire damage) Barbara Bond and Chris Fullman took time wall in paper :and painted on it the words: and redone. The windows and tilework on to discuss the history of their cause and the “Do you dream anymore?” and “Passive he outside are absolutely spectacular and ideas behind it. voice is no voice.” In addition, 8 banner right now it serves as ij homeless shelter. was hung from a balcony outside reading: However, this property wasn’t donated to In the fall ofL1988, the School of Passion a church. Whoeier owns it will probably Architecture was seen by some within it as Conflict tear down the sign on the roof and then sell needingasingleunifyingvenue for creative Desire the building so that a parking garage can be Action built. ! ,a Where the Dream? I’ is much more beatable, I ielieve that the Speaking of tearing down buildings in order mire Atlanta music scene resided in this The result was the Act of vandalism that to build parking garages, that is what anerun-downapart I wonder occurred the following week. A meeling happened to the Sears building on if there was a shuif Persh i ng was then called for students and faculty to Peachtree. When plans for the “Emerald Point apartments an4 the Mgroplex? At discuss the problems the group was having City” of Oz near the Roxy in 3uckhead first, a park was pur in jhg place of the in igniting student interest. Fliers were were revealed, a parking deck was in the apdrtments, much better than a parking distributed saying “Efforts are being made place of the Sears building. So down it deck,Isuppose. Now thenewNSIbuilding to construct a vehicle for student discourse. came. I heard that the collapse was rather occupies the spot. The new tenants don’t Are we desuoying our own voice?”, and spectacular - but for a parking deck? really look like 1 announcing the October 18 meeting. This meeting was fairly well attended and

1, Once upon a timea rather interesting group . hi involved some productive discussion .? on of apartments existed at Pershing Point on The latest destruction on Peachtree that the purpose of the grbup and the thecornerofPeachtreeandWestpeachtree. has peeved me has involved my favorite opportunities that it presented to students. The tenants made the wait for the stop light DESTRUCTION Cont’d p, 32... DREAM continued on page 22 ... whole nation must confess that they are guilty of supporting the rioters. The whole nation Washington must shout the forty slogarls issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The whole nation must salute to those “Guards of the Republic” for their butchering. . March fqr Democracy in China he author wishis to remain anonymous.

October 1 was the fortieth anniversary of the communist control of China. We drove all the way from Atlanta to Washington D.C. the day before. We did not come to celebrate, we came to join the Washington March for Democracy in China.

It was a dreadful day. Rain could come any moment. Meteorologists said it was the effect of Hurricane Hugo. I started to wonder what kind of weather it would be in China. Yes,itmust also bedreadful, Didn’t the amy massacre hundreds, even thousands, of innocent pcople in Beijing not a long time ago? Isn’t the purging and arresting still going on in China? The hurricane that wipedout Tiananmen Square hadaneffect that is far more than just a few days of rain. It destroyed the body and soul of those who participated in the demonstration, and intimidated those who werealready scared.Peoplearenotallowed to mom their beloved killed by their liberators becauq they arc accused as counterrevolutionary thugs, The whole nation must study the old man’s speech to !be anny officers whoforchestrated the rnassecre. The whole nation must unify their thoughts tb that of the old man. The

,.,DREAM continued from p. 21 from the bottom of my heart!” What a solidarity! What a world of peace and prosperity! , .I Later I found our that 1~;1000carefully chosen people were to dance in Tiananmen Ms. Bond and Ms. Fullman cpnclude that Wy are still optimistic abouithe future of the group. More students seem to be taking an interest in group’s intent, possibly spumed on by the recent startling events end the realization that free-expression may truly be at risk if no opinions are voiced, A film project is now in the works, as well as a design competition to reconstruct “The Kiosk”, and Static still meets weekly to discuss future topics of exploration. The meetings are Wednesdays, 12 noon, in the New Architecture Building lobby, and all to that faction of animal rights activists that believes in the Ethnocentrism: A oneness of nature and man’s equality with the rest of the animal kingdom, I flatter myself that I could refute this position; Different Look however, ethnocentrism is not their problem. In theEighteenth Century,Edmund e criticized the Revolution by Allan W.Yarbrough Society in Great Britain for advancing*thedoctrine of the “Rights of Man.” Their list of rights were incobt, he said, and derived Eth-no-cen-trism: n. SocioL the concept that from a foggy, abstract source. The only real basis for rights could the attitudes, beliefs, and customs of one’s own come from the tradition and customs of a particular country; thus, group, people, or nation are of central importance he emphasized the“Rights of Englishmen” as distinct from those and a basis for judging all other groups. (Funk rights other people may enjoy. This earned him the criticism of and Wagnals Dictionary) America’s founding fathers, who, drawing from the Enlightenment philosophy of Thomas Hobbes and Job Locke, declared that they enjoyed the rights “life, liberty, and the pursuit of property” by 3hnocentrism is a word used often these days, almost invariably virtue of their humanity, ie. by virtue of being created by God. IS a pejorative. An article appearing in the pages of this joUrnar This debate over which of our rights, if any, are universal and nade me lament the dearth of serious writing on the subject; thus, which belong to us only as citizens of the U.S.,or more likely, as I shall attempt in my own small way to make a contribution. Let members of Western Civilization. continues to the present day, ne say first that I believe that a small degree of ethnocentrism is with a mix of attitudes being found in our populace. Consider the moth good and necessary, but that there are limits to its practice outbreak of rage in this country over the Tinnernen Square ind distinctions in its type. i will examine these limits and massacre in China last spring. Our anger reflected a decisively listinctions in an effort todifferentiatebetween“good”and“bad” ethnocentricclaim:that all people shouldbe permitted topeacefully :thnocentrism. I will make no attempt to cover all the facets of express their discontent without being arbitrarily massacred with :thnocentrism but would like to explore three topics within its tanks and machine guns. However, it is important to realize that purview, which I will call the taste/principle distinction, we ourselves enjoy these rights only because we are heirs to a universality, and sphere of influence. liberal democratic political tradition of freedom of assembly, a tradition held almost exclusively in Europe and America. We There is an old saying engraved in my memory from a source I routinely criticize and condemn Israel and South Africa for have long forgotten: “On matters of taste, go with the flow; on practices that are mild compared to the brutality that other Arab matters of principle, stand like a rock.” This statement makes a and African governments regularly mete out to their own people distinction between tastes: our personal preferences in food, and that go relatively unnoticed. This is right and proper, for both clothing, music, women, etc.; and principles: our notions of truth, Israel and South Africa claim to be, and in fact are, outposts of justice, right and wrong, and personal integrity. The former we Western Civilization on their respective continents, and as such select for ourselves based on what we like or on convention. I should be held to a much more exachg standard of behavior. (? wear blue-jeans ahd t-shirts because that is the school uniform, must say in passing, however, that Europe and America hake been and I eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches because I think they horribly unsympathetic to the unique situation these counuies taste good. Others may elect to wear plaid suits and eat raw face in being surrounded by barbaric and hostile neighbors. If, cauliflower; although I do not understand these tastes, people who immediately,Israelweretograntpolitical powertothePalestinians, choose them need not suffer my interference for this reason. or the white South Africans let their blacks vote, nothing is more People derive principles, however, from much deeper sources. certain than that all rights and freedoms would quickly disappear The reason I would tell the truth in a potentially embarrassing as these countries came to resemble the rest of their regions, and’ situation has nothing to do with taste! in fact, I may prefer to lie theijghtof WestemCivilization there became extinguished.) But ’ to escape the situation. But I wouldn’t, for this would incur the are there any rights chat all people everywhere enjoy, not as judgement of God and preNdice the good order of society. Westerners, but as human beings? I believe there are, but 1 rghar Truthfulness is a principle I would exact from myself and those suspect that the list is slightly shorter than what the philosophers around me, There are two mistakes we often make with this of the Enlightenment believed and that different rights differ in , distinction that constitute “bad” ethnocentrism: mistaking our importance, eg, that the use of chemical weapons by the Iraqi8 9n tastes for our principles and mistaking other peoples principles for their own Kurdish citizens is more barbaric than the deprivation their tastes. An example: a friend of mine, a man of essentially of property rights in the Soviet Union, which is more barbarichan conservative views, is positively horrified by the idea of deer the deprivation of political rights in Chile, And the debate goes hunting. They are beautiful and peaceful to him and he gets a on. personal satisfaction from watching these animals in their native habitat. He believes that no one should hunt them, but he has no My last distinction has o with sphere of influence. I principle with which to judge and forbid the actions of deer following postulate: the people of a community, city, state, br hunters who, obviously, view the animals somewhat differently. nation have the right to determine and control the environmenJ$f - He is making the first mistake in practicing “bad” ethnocentrism, i. However, I would be guilty of the second if I applied this analysis continued on page 24 ... NIHI tM Mf111 ...... continued from page 23 just after I got out of the Army, and I their own community,city, state, or nation thought that one day I might want to be however, they do not have the right tc able to build my own house. I always determine the environment of anothei had that dream so I wanted to learn how people’s Community, city, state, or nation to lay brick and some other things, I’ve An example: when Salman Rushdie wrote always liked being outside, that’s one Satanic Verses, Iran promptly banned the reason why I work out here. Even when I book and pronounced the death sentence was a kid I was always out in the back. on its author. This is behavior that was When I’d come in from school I was entirely to be expected from a country always out there somewhere. I always dominated by fundamentalist Islam. loved being outside, I remember one However, when Iran then took out an time I wantedto be a game warden, always in the woods. I don’t like being international contract to the tuneofseveral inside, I love being the outside, million dollars the author’s life, il on on especially in spring and summer. Even incudthe justifiableoutragcof the West. in the cold weather I don’t mind being the first time, a country tried to impose For out, I’ll put my clothes on, get dressed the ethos of its region on the ethos of OUT and get right on out there. I’ve talked tg region, which believes in freedom of the other masons I’ve worked with over the press. Iran was acting outside of its sphere years and they say the same thing, they of influence. On’a local level, it is love being on the outside. It’d be dark appropriate for the citizens of, say, Interview With and I’d be in the woods and I was Tennesseeto illegalizepornography in their supposed to be inside but I couldn’t own state. However, it would be Mr. William R. stand to go in, I loved being out in the inappropriate for these citizens to go to woods. Congress in an attempt to regulate the Durham pornography of Massachusetts: that is a LEARNING: , matter for the citizens of that state. by Stacy Johnson and Jeff Cardille I started to get out of this trade a couple Likewise,it would be wrong for the citizens of times, back around ’73 or ’74, becaus of Massachusetts to attempt to deregulate ometimes you’re walking around and se it hit rock bottom and there wasn’t much pornography in Tennessee. Either action mething that really knocks you out. For would be acting :ut of the state’s sphere of re fastfew weeks some workers have been influence, thus constituting “bad” uilding a wheelchair ramp outside of the ethnocentrism. rudent Center. When they began laying le brick for ihe wall, some of us at the Inallprobabilitythese~notthe definitive orth Avenue Review noticed the simple answers totheskquestions. They are merely 5auty of the work; we wanted tofind out reflections on,a subject that has been much hat these workers thinkabout their trade. abused by dogmatic assertions that all ‘hen woof usapproached Mr. WilliamR. ethnocentrism is bad. This i$ self urham, who was builditg the wall with marand bricks, we Mere amazed at his contradictory, paramount the dogmatic to rsy ability io express things that are assertion that nothing can be’dogmatically iiversal in all us. conversarion . asserted. Even worse, such a statement is of Our rnged from the mechanics of bricklaying nihilistic: the denial of objective truth. If the desire to have u family, but Mr. really and truly held, it undercuts the basis urharn’sexpression of the love he hasfor foranyjudgementabout truth,justice,right strade was the most striking. Hisfeelings and wrong. Not only would we be unable r his dream and for his love of bricklaying out of the rest of them. I like this better to criticize the actions of Iran or South oved us,andwe hope someof thisemotion than any of them, I do. I love it. Afnca,butwecould not jhstify punishment is carried through to these excerpts from forthecrimescornmittedbyourownpeople, ir conversation. Who is to say that murder is wrong, rape is wrong, theft is wrong, if there is no truth? THY A BRICKLAYER? Whatever conclusions we come to about rst of all I’ve‘been doing this for the limits of ethnocenuicism, we must be ghteen years, this is my eighteenth year careful to avoid abstract generalizations id I’m 41 now. I started in 1972, I that will inevitably lead to the destruction ent to Holden Technical Institute in of all that we cherish. iteigh-Raleigh‘s my home. It was ...continued from page 24 CREATIVITY: pain. They even had a couple of other This is one thing that you can do that fellas that played years ago-there was do, the plumbing, electrical, I want to be allows you to be creative. There are jobs one that played with the Miami Dolphins in on the whole thing, all of it. Because I that you go in in the morning, you punch and he’s in a wheelchair. He can hardly think it’ll be an enjoyment to live in a a clock and you go to a certain place and walk. Every one of them said that it’s house that you built yourself, I really do. you do what somebody else tells you to fpr the love of the sport, that they just Once you have a dream you don’t ever do the whole time. You’re doing it %wed it so much.’ If you love doing give up on it. Some people have dreams exactly the way you’re told. But laying something, if you’re happy doing it, I and they don’t make them happen until brick allows me to be creative guess it’s enough motivation to keep you they’re forty or fifty, so you just have to sometimes, I can use my own talent, It going. Sometimes it’s not the money, keep holding on to it. But I plan to doesn’t necessarily have to be like it’s just the love of it. If you love it someday. Whenever that day comes I’ll something I’ve seen, or like the house enough you just continue to do it. know how to do it. next door- I can put a little creativity in I say that to say this: sometimes it’s during the winter and it rains or it’s cold or I might be in mud and I think “hey, I’ve gotta get out of this, it’s rough” but I find myself still doing it because if you love it, it’s just like anything else: just . like a football player loves to play football and for some reason or other he can’t leave it. Lying in the bed at night I think “Well, what would I do?” but the next morning I’m right back out here.

THE FUTURE: I went to Old Dominion University in Virginia last year and it’s a course that comes under Engineering-blueprint reading-and you learn to do the carpentry, electrical, plumbing-there’s about seven or eight classes that you ENGINEERING, AND BUSINESS there. Especially if you’re working on a have to take.”You start with one and go

STUDENTS: ‘I fireplace or something like that, you can all the way through and when you Anybody who’s going to school for ’ use your imagination. There’s a whole complete the last one you get a degree in business or engineering,or anything like lot to it that I love. I could go on naming Cost Estimating. What it does is it that should justgo and pursue it all the things that I love about it all day. And teaches you all the phases of way, Those areas have just improved so the satisfaction I get out of it is that construction, anything that’s got to do much-the mopey is good. But if you’re when I do some work and finish it I can with building a building from laying doing something that you’re makingla back off a couple of steps and look at it down the footing all the way up. There’s whole lot of money but you’re not happy and I can see what I did. )!Think knowledge to gain every day. The whole doing it, then you’re not satisfied. Even different people have different talents thing in a nutshell is that I want to learn though you’re makings whofe rot of that they can put into their work. Two everything I can learn about it. As long money, if you’re not happy with what work. I think the same thing goes with as I’m able to come out here and work you’re doing, then you probably ought this. and learn something, I want to do that. not be doing it. People go to work every Everything can be rewarding in its own day working at jobs and they’re not THE LOVE OF THE SPORT: way, you’ve just got to do what you happy at all with where they work or the Like I say again, it was mostly for the would do with anything-work hard. I type of work they do. I don’t think it love of it. I’ll give you a good example. love this, I love it a lot. I loge it more should be the money so much, it’s the I was watching TV the other night and than I could tell you really, because certain amount of satisfaction you get they were talking to a professional we’re never really going to admit how out of doing your job. There’s got to be football player who’s averaged one or much we really love it. I just plan to a certain amount of love for your work. two operations on his knee every year, someday get something back out of it. I’ll be honest with you, I love this, I and they were asking him why he This trade will give me something back really do. Yes I do. continues to play; it’s got to be a lot of someday. to make 'such decisions, or perhaps they simply have an abun- dance of hosts. In either case our course is clear. It remains only Another to implement the decision. I

a dangerous proposition; we don't want to destroy any healthy tissue (Le. non-homo sapiens or homo sapiens beyond a normal, hunter-gatherer concentration). The best method would be to create 8 device that keeps the human populations at a heathy Proposal concentration, the way the fox keeps the hare in check. Self

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./I by Lon Remlinger

Sometimes it takes an uncommon point of view to see one's duty. This essay discusses one such duty. The necessary in order to graft life onto the scarred areas. point of view is from space, where planet Earth can be clearly seen The predatorhealer machines must be accurate and as a single unit. thorough and fairly intelligent, since faulty human-detection 01,

1 The organic matter of the Earth can now be easily visualized as a single living thing, made up of countless millions , of "micro-organisms.", Occasionally in ordinary tiving things, a . micro-organism that serves as pert of the living thing experiences unnaturally favorable conditions for growth. This is commonly called an infection. The infecting organisms produce toxins and destroy host-tissue. If we had been giving the Earth physical ex- aminations over the last million years or so, we would see that the Earth has a serious infection. An organism known as homo supi- en5 has colonized and multiplied to an enormously unnatural extent, and is characteristically producing great quantities of toxins and destroying huge tracts of Earth-tissue. - The Earth's "immune system" is efficient and complex, made up of groups of organisms chat hold each other's population within healthy limits. Some unlucky mutation must be respon- sible for homo &ens ' ability to overcome this system. Some would argue at this point that the increase in homo supiens - though clearly damaging in the shon run-is a necessary part of Earth's reproductive cydle, since inter-planetary travel requires such an increas?. However, the Earth's condition appears to be deteriorating at a rate that makes the possibility of Earth-repro- duction remote. Furthermore, Earth-life is not a product of reproduction,as far as we know, so there is no reason to think that inter-planetary travel is necessary for other planets to develop

A life. Thus reassured that&; Earth does have a dangerous infection, 8s Earth's physician we would quickly prescritx meas- " ures toreduce the count of the infectious organism. This produces

p a terrible conflict of interests, since the position of Earth's physician must be filled by none other than the infectious organ- ism itself. Never before in medical history has such a problem -

, .., happen is this: You eventually give up and accept all these things and apathy takes charge. This is what the conspiracy wants. If . PCenough people believe that there isnothing that can be done toend poverty and hunger, protect the environment, and stop racism, then they become correct.

Note: 1 am not trying to suggest that anyone associated with PART I11 Georgia Tech is a member of this conspiracy, alrhough I am also not trying to not suggest that anyone associated with Tech could by Raymond Close be involved. The conspiracy widds great power and influences decisions r’n many ways. Often, the conspiracy reaches its goals In the Amy, new inducteesdon’t automaticallybecomesoldiers- by causing people to believe that these goals are beneficial to the first, they go through basic training. While in mining, these actual people making the decision. Just asfrequently, however, future soldiers learn a lot of things of little or no importance. Sure, goals are reached by making them as unattraclive as possible to , they Im a lot about their friend, the rifle, but the main reason for the decision-making party. Also, although the conspiracy would basic training is to mold thenew inductee into a tool that the Army never stoop to the level of bribery or srrong-arm tactics, [he can use effectively. Basically, the idea is to create a machine that conspiracy certainly would never hesitate to do so if ir deemed such action necessary. will go where it is told and try to kill whoever else is there. Basic 1 training may sound distasteful to you, but you probably don’t think about it in terms of conspiracy theory. The problem is that /f conspiracy theory seems ridiculous to you, that is only because 1 you do not believe it. you would only rake it on fairh and every day the exact same type of training is used on us, If examine the world around you using ihis new outlook, you would ,’ If you don’t believe it, take a look at some campus policies and see see rhar conspiracy rheory is the only explanation (hat can how they compare to the Army’s indoctrination program. First of account for the mass of evidence refuring it. all, think about the wonderful world of P-Plant. Maybe you think hat the ridiculously designed sidewalks and posts’n’chains@are simply the result of idiocy in campus planning- I don’t. It’s a carefully designed ploy to train students to comply with the demands of their superiors. Sure, we all know that the sidewalks aren’t in the right places, and we all find the posts’n’chainsO ugly and inconvenient. Sure, it makes more sense to walk straight to , the chemistry building, but, the sidewalk is there, and it’s simply too much trouble to step over the chain. Seems harmless enough, right? Until you realize how much of this type of crap we have to tolerate,and you sytto think about how it may effect your mind> set.

One more example- dress codes. In my ChE labs’ oral reports and my public speaking’course, students arc evaluated on their adherence to a dies code. Now, maybe I’m a special case, but I find this outrageous. I am a college student working part-time to pay my expens&. Also, let’s see- in the past twenty-two years 1 haveneededasuiton,hmmrn, about,oh, I’d say,Zerooccasions.- But, because of theclasses, Tech expects me to go out and buy g suit for them so that I can weqjtfpr a grand total of thirty m&~.~Lqfiir

this quarter. Is this reabnable? Do I need 10 practicq vwearing.c I power tie for when I graduate? Does the buck private in basic. training need to practice shining shoes and correctly folding ’socks? Once again, its simply a scheme to get us acquiesce tp the demands that our occupations may place on us, whether they are

reasonable and appropriate or not.d .

Anyway, the problem isn’t having to wear a suit, or hav& to wal&,-, around the field behind the student center. The problem is that all, these little things that the conspiracy forces us to endure mount up. You can’t park on campus, you can’t walk across campus at night, without the lights going out and you can’t find an open terminal 10 use so that you can type in your article. What can eventually f ' Move On * The ARA Scam Down The by Janice Day Road... & Ian Smith

by Matthew Ktamer Any organization wishing to serve refreshments at a campus function must have the food or drinks catered by ARA services. This means that no group can bring ANYTHING of their own for There is a massacre taking place consumption no matter how trivial; ie, cookies, crackers, snacks, drinks, NOTHING. If the in America. Hundreds of organization auempts to consume non-ARA refreshments they will be bwned from ever requesting thousands of productive lives a place on campus for their activities. ,vis limitation includes ALL organizations, fraternities, have been wiped out, while the sororities, church groups, everybody. A strict monopoly such as this leads to gross misuse of power. media fails to focus on the Some examples of ARA's abuse of their conmct are below. (Note: these listed items were required carnage. In the U.S.,in 1987 tobe picked upby IheorganizationanddidnoljnvolveARA's helpintransporution,set-up,orclean- alone,almost50,ooO lives were up. However soma items were prepared by ARA employees - for example, the iced tea and lost and 1.8 million suffered hamburger patties.) debilitating injuries. Automobile exhaust and gas ITEM Their Price Howell Mill Kroger's Price fumes account for innumerable cases of lung cancer and Hamburger SSp4lIb $1.69/lb respiratory problems. Let's not Patties forget the environmental effects. These "accidents" cost. Hotdogs I s13.io~io $2.79/10 (oscar meyer) . us an estimated 5.3 billion dollars per month! (Insurance, Buns '. ' $1.30/10 . $0.99/12 indigentcare,lostproductivity.) That breaks clown to an average Potato chips $4.00/Ib %2.19/lb(golden flake) of %2,051 per second. How can we, as civilized people, allow Iced Tea $5.95Jgal $0.36/gal this to go on? Consider all of the crimes that are cpmmitted Lemonade $5 Solgal $1.15/gal (already made!) every day with automobiles. It would not be so easy for a Charcoal S 10.25Jbag $3.29/101b bag criminal to escape if he or she did not have a get-awai &ar. Lighter Fluid $S.oO/can %2.09/3202can Drunkdriving would be reduced *. to zero. Parents would not have Mixed Nuts S8.25fib M4.99/1.51b to worry about their kids playing in the sueet. It is obvious what , Honey Roasted $4.34/1.51b (planiers) the answer is: Peanuts

BAN AUTOMOBILES! populationb between 1950and oftheowners, who fail tocheck cars are outlawed, then only 1980. Homicide is made less if the damn thing was loaded, outlaws will have cars". They However,many havechosen to difficult because of guns, but or leaveit out where junior can fail to realize that it is very hypeanother issue, as if it were that in itself is no argument to reach it. difficult to carry a concealed asdevastating. They think there ban them. There are many other \I' car. They must remember that we widespread problems with articles that can be used to do Stop all. of this gun-banning there is no Constitutional right guns in our country. The truth the dastardly deed if need be. nonsense,-and focus in on the to keep and bear Chevys. Let's is, though, that accidental (Yes, humankind committed real problem. If Congresscares actnow toendthecarnage (P,S tirearm deaths accounted for murder long before the gun was about the lives of Americans, Alcohol was directly less lhan 2,000 deaths in 1986, invented,) Also, experts see no then it shouldimmediatelypass responsible for 50% of these . with the rest homicides and certain connection between legislation resuicling private automobile 1 deaths and. Euicides. The number of national suicide rates and the. carownership,except for police accidents. Why not ban it, Freann-relatd deaths in this availability of guns. Most of and military use in law .ls0?)e? ', '; :omtry increased at a rate only theaccidental deathsarccauscd enforcement and defense !lightly faster than the increase by plain carelessnesson thepart purposes. Many have said, "If

I I violations? Well, they can’t anymore.,I Picture this scenario: Ma wondering ‘why Jimmy’s hair is falling out and why he’s/

barking at parked cars. “No problem Mrs ~ Jones,” the feds say, “that’s only because, DuPont sprayed your rosebushes with their excess radioactive water. Death should by Chris Yeargers a nice little bill limiting violence on cure his problem.” Sounds silly, bul television by tacking on aclause that limits wording in these business’s conwacts with To question or not to question? To question, sexually explicit stuff, also. His reasoning the gov’tstates that thegov’tjsresponsible I think. Ever seen something that you for this was that if violence on TV begets for “all costs... with respect to any and all think stinks? Well, I have, 50 here I am to violence in society, the same must be Vue liabilities... arising out of or related to safet) share some ugly insights with you; I like to for sex. Wouldn’t that be awful? Our and health activities (of theaforementioned call them ugly nuggets, I’ve noticed some society losing some of the taboos that were contractors).” Woah there! Stop this stuff lately that seems to be of some ingrained in us by bucketheads like him in train, I want to get off! Can you imagine

1 significance, yet is relegated to a behind- the fist place? Call 91 l! Call 91 l! the committFe that this got by? Either thi-scenes spot. If anyone should be these guys are complete morons or their offendedbysornething thatIsayherein... SO Hue’s a meaty bit I found: There is a bank accounts are numbered and ir WHAT!? senate proposal up now to create a Switzerland. The gov’t recommends thal presidentially appointed inspector general. this deficiency be corrected. NO SHIT! A; .First off, I’d like to speak globally. Did One group opposing this idea is the CIA. the very least, we should hunt down thr you know that our wise and wonderful Why? Because the inspector general is do&) who negotiated these contracts ad prez, the one who said in a speech to the responsible for checking up on the CIA. see that they play rock-hockey with Bubbq United Nations that he favored immediate steps to “halt and reverse” the worldwide t threat of chemical weapons, is not willing I to do any halting and reversing himself? In ! i I fact, he intends tocontinueproducing these I killers even after the Geneva treaty goes into effect. This policy makes our Bush- boy look pretty indecisive to me. The Defense department urges this course of action so that we can continue producing “binary“ chemical weapons, non-lethal until combined. Thanks, boys, for making zz 7 I us all that much “safer.”

Now, how abdut some of the junk that affects just our wonderful, free counuy. It i i looks like Jesse Helms is gonna get, if not all, most of his art tfifi passed. (The bill in question limits gov’t financing of art that is deemed obsceneor indecentor that offends any religion; we,ethnic group, age group, or handicapped group). Hey, it’s not art if it doesn’t make you think a little. Sen. Helms offends me, but Ipg’t just order him to disappear. Nothing can be done in Well, guess who currently hires and fires “Hey, boy, you my little pumpkin today’s society without offending some the Inspector General? TheCIA does! Just Lee, resident prison rapist (I really enj group or individual somewhere. So who is to get an idea of how ludicrous I find this, writing that, I hope you enjoyed re to decide who is right or wrong? Here’s a think of being able to fire your profs when it). test: say, “congressionally approved art.” they give you a cruddy grade. Right, I Catches in your throat, doesn’t it? Now, would have a chance to graduate in the four I’ve written thisbecause1 hate the fact say, “A mutant zealot like Jesse Helms years alotted. people get away with so much stu should be publicly flogged on national barely anyone knows it. If you kn television while millions cheer,” Much But wait, I’ve saved the best for last. You something you think others should easier, huh? Mr. Rogers would probably know how the gov’t is supposed to fine feel free to send it to me c/o Norlh Ave thank you. (Addendum: J.H recently killed nuclear arms contractors for safety Review P.O. 33090. . ,<‘: . The Intelligent Viewer we can’t save the orphanage while we’re keep watching ...” (click) ’ by Brad Grove trappedin this here basement. Noproblem “..Alcohol is good, marijuana is bad. boys, I think I’ve got a plan. We’ll make Alcohol iJ;good, rnarquana is bad. Alcohol Tom, the Average American, settled into automatic weapons out of those paint is good, matijuancr is bad. Alcohol is good, his favorite chair for an evening of shavings and bail bearings in the corner. marijuana 5s -bad. This public service television. Nothing short of tragedy could Then we’ll shoot ...” (click) announcementpaid for by the Coalition to interrupt this nightly ritual. “What a “..Let’s take a look inside Tom Selleck’s Reinstate Moral Hypocrisy..,” (click) wonderful thing this is,” thought Tom. enormous beach-side mansion. Yes, it’s “..Join the NRA now and get The “Had I the time, I couldbe totally entenained quite a sight for those of us who have no Sportsman, our ojficial guide to hunting 24 hours a day.” Tom was proud to be an lives ofour own andmustfeed likeparasites with assauli rifles. Listen ro’what our American, he could just imagine citizens off of the experiences of the rich and members have ti say about this handy all over the country tuning in at this very famous ...”( click) publication: ‘Its really increased my moment. Thesenseofbrotherhood brought “...and should the 20 million be raised, appreciation of nature and the ecological tears to his misty blue eyes. Tom found his God himself has given me his personal world around me. Last weekend, when I Sony remotecontrol sitting on the Readers assurance that Jesus Christ will return. In was out in the woods, I honestly felt I’d Digest Condensed Books that he like to use af~minuteslwillreadtoyou’mybrothers, beci?meone with my environmeni. I killed as a beer coaster. Tom marveled a moment the very post card that I received from five deer and a wild pig. You shoulda seen I at the thoughtful simplicity of this tiny God. Butfirst, let’s take a look at the latest the look on that old boar’s face when I unit, and then miracuIously turned on the tour dates for the Second Coming. Jesus opened up on’emfrom the blind ...” POP! television wihout even leaving his chair. will be appearing at the Long Island It was an old TV and the picture tube “...With our new Waste Away diet plan, Convention Center on October 21st,Radio was bound to go sometime. There was a you can lose hundreds of pounds without City Music Hall on the23rd, then in Chicago tiny electric pop, then nothing but darkness. any eflort cat all! As a bonus you’ll receive for a Bible-signing party at Peter’s Suddenly it was very quiet in this little rhc bestselling nutrition guide, Cooking Bookshe(f on the 30th. In December ...” suburban home. Torn stared Wirh Bean Skins. Remember, ifyou’re fat, (click) uncomprehendingly for a few moments at you’re useless ...” (click) “...Satanism, one more time. Next on the broken television, looked helplessly “,.,Whatare we gonnado now Hannibal, Geraldo. We keep it coming because you around, and then died in his favorite chair. . Across, 1. Right-wing leader responsible for the deaths of thousands of ethnic scapegoats; Adolf , 2. Greatest financial threat to the GT graduate. 3, Acronym that proves you can’t purchase style, 4. Curiicuhm that the Tech student body believesis . taught in the inner ring of the Inferno (that is, if they had ever heard of Dante). (I. 5. Prototype 1980’s imperialist. 6.Teleprompter king, 7. Corporate homewreckei; Frank 2, 8. Coucessions from‘thedominantclass to pacify thesuppressed.

JhWl 1. Utility Company whose 4. ”Psycho of the stars;” slogan about moral Nancy . employees is: “YOUcan’t 5. Here I go again. kill just one!” 6.True gauge of modern 2. World environment religious integrity. threat; Earth raper. 7. A cola brand; also 3. Syn. foregoandmoney. makes ‘8 Across’ fit. ART AND REVOLUTION 30 YEARS OF CUBAN ART .

ALDO SOLER AVILA Distinguishcd painter and mcmber of the ymr Nationill Union or Cuban Writcrs iInd Arlisls htiniird Eurilfiir A talk and slide presentation on the topic of "Contemporary Cuban Art" Sponsorcd by the School of Soci;il Scicnccs

Friday, November 17, 1989

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Amnesty International is a origin, sex, religion or worldwide human rights language, provided they have movement which works never used nor advocated impartially for the release of violence. AI opposes torture prisoners of conscience--men and the death penalty in all cases and women detained anywhere without reservation and for their beliefs, color, ethnic advocates fair and prompt vials for all political prisoners. AI is DESTRUCTION from p. 21 independentofall governments, political factions, ideologies, place to go after 'being shafted economic interests, and on a test. I drove over to 14th religious creeds. Amnesty andPeachtreeoheeveningonly International was the recipient to find QUt that: - of the 1977 Nobel Prize for PMIlrL SrkaymlY Peace. The Georgia Tech involved, come to thc first CORINS IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!, -Amnesty International group IABITAT .. meeting on November 20t1 meets every Thursday at 7:15 ?OR (Monday) at 6:30 pm in thl Does any mom need to be said? Dm in D.M.Smith room 105+, ~ Student Center thcatcr, Th What will be tom down next? On Amnesty International: IUMANrTY primary purpose of this The High Museum of Art, The by Daniel Scharfstein meeting is to act on thc Fox, or Frijoleros - only time ",..an arm of communist recommendations of thc will tell what destruction will propaganda..." A chapter of Habitat for steering committcc, onc of occur next on Peachtree. In the -State Premier, Queensland, Humanity is being organized which is to build a Gcorgiu I meantime I'll just sit here and Australia, 198 1 at Georgia Tech. Some Tech house as soon as read the paper, hoping that my students are already working possible. For furthcr name will not be in the "...completely maintained by on building homes in information, call Dr. Ray obituaries along with my imperialist security services..:" Cabbagetown (see picture). If (894-2792)or Bob Gcigcr favorite buildings, -fzvestiya,USSR, 1980 you are interested in getting (894-3905).