Profile 1993 94

The Profile

Friday, September 24, 1993

The Independent Student Newspaper of Agnes Scott College

Vol. 80, Issue 1

President Schmidt to retire June, 1994

Announcement follows faculty's "no confidence" vote in May

By Janelle M. Bailey

Sports Editor

After a total of twelve years as
President of Agnes Scott College,
Ruth Schmidt will retire on June
30, 1994. The announcement
came on September 7 in a letter to
all members of the campus after
a series of events which included
a "no confidence" vote by the
faculty.

On May 14, the faculty over-
whelmingly passed a motion of
"no confidence" in President
Schmidt. The final vote was forty
four in favor and six against.
There were ten abstentions. Al-
though President Schmidt nor-
mally presides over faculty meet-
ings, she immediately turned the
meeting over to Dean Blanshei
when this issue was brought to
the table.

"The President's actions over
the years have contributed sig-
nificantly to the demoralization
of the faculty, staff, and students,"
the motion said. 'The resulting
climate has affected retention and
enrollment, and poor retention
and enrollment have created fi-
nancial and budgetary pressures
which in turn have reduced mo-
rale even further."

The "no confidence" vote was
prompted by the President's de-

nial of a recommendation for ten-
ure to Assistant Professor of
Mathematics Daniel Waggoner,
despite a unanimous vote of ap-
proval from the Appointment,
Re-appointment, Promotion and
Tenure (ARPT) Committee and
recommendation from Dean of
the College Sarah Blanshei. Dr.
Patricia Pinka, Chair of the Fac-
ulty Executive Committee,
stresses that the tenure case was
not the sole reason for the vote,
but merely the catalyst for it.

"We saw this lack of trust in
the judgment of the faculty and
the Dean as another example of a
lack of collegiality that has gone
on for years," Dr. Pinka said.
"The faculty found this a very
painful and difficult decision to
make."

On May 5, the faculty passed
a resolution asking President
Schmidt to reconsider her deci-
sion on Professor Waggoner's
case. The "no confidence" vote
was first suggested on May 10.
Two informal meetings for inter-
ested teaching faculty members
were held that week, before the
motion came to vote.

In an interview in early Sep-
tember, President Schmidt ex-

pressed disappointment in such
a serious action by the faculty.
The apparent lack of discussion
bothered her in particular.

"I think the most disturbing
part about it for me was that
there was no public debate," she
said. The action was first sug-
gested at a May 10 faculty meet-
ing and discussed among teach-
ing faculty members through-
out that week. The motion was
passed just hours before Bacca-
laureate services on May 14.

One of the reasons cited in the
motion was that the President is
responsible for a lack of morale
among faculty, staff and stu-
dents. President Schmidt, how-
ever, does not feel this is accu-
rate.

"My own feeling has always
been that adults are really re-
sponsible for their own morale,
unless you are doing something
that is diametrically opposed,"
she said. "[The faculty] would
probably say that because of that
action about the tenure case, I
have worsened morale....

"[We have] good facilities, we
have good students, we have
good faculty development sup-
port in travel and leave, etc. It's

Ruth Schmidt enjoying her last days as President.

hard to believe morale could be
bad here."

Although details of Professor
Waggoner's case could not be
discussed because of an out-
standing grievance, President
Schmidt commented that she saw
the case as concerning academic
quality whereas the faculty have
taken it to be an issue about abuse
of power.

"My true feeling on this," she

said, "is that we have not reached
the level of quality that we should
have in the faculty."

President Schmidt did not
comment on the morale of the
staff. As for the students, she
feels that their morale is some-
what defined by the faculty:
"This, to me, is one of the most
frustrating parts of Agnes Scott's
culture, that the faculty seem to
involve students so much in their
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Waggoner continues teaching excellence while awaiting grievance decision

By Josie Hoilman
Editor-in-Chief

Dan Waggoner is not what I
expected. He isn't bitter. After
more than four months since
President Ruth Schmidt denied
him tenure, he remains a dedi-
cated professor who rejoices in
the few pleasures being fired may
yield.

He now speaks with enthusi-
asm about opportunities for re-
search and employment, where
last year he focused primarily
upon educating Agnes Scott
women. Over the past six years
he has developed new ways in
which he could share with stu-
dents and colleagues his exper-
tise on dynamical systems. In
fact, more than two years ago he
designed a computer program
called Dy - Sys which is currently
used in professional and colle-
giate circles around the world.
The program is one of few that
produces computer generated
fractals, a field of mathematics
which visualizes abstract num-
bers otherwise impossible to see.

With a few revisions, Dy - Sys,
labeled with the Agnes Scott
name, could have become the

authoritative program on dy-
namical systems. Waggoner's
development of this software is
only one example of his commit-
ment to professional scholarship.
During his six years at Agnes
Scott he has also
published ar-
ticles in re-
spected math-
ematics jour-
nals and pre-
sented papers
at professional
conferences.

Perhaps
more than any-
thing, his
change in field
of interest best
portrays
Waggoner's
pursuitofschol-
arshipaswellas
his commitment to teaching.
Throughout most of his career
he has focused upon algebraic
topology - a field which is virtu-
ally inaccessible to undergradu-
ate mathematics majors. His
switch to dynamical systems was

"a very good change for ASC,"
he says, "because it provides an
opportunity for me to specialize
in a area that is more beneficial to
my students and the department
as a whole."

To President Schmidt,
Waggoner's file does not reflect
adequate scholarship or teach-
ing excellence. Despite the posi-
tive recommendations of the
Appointment, Reappointment,
Promotion and Tenure (ARPT)

Committee and the recommen-
dation of the Dean of the Col-
lege, Dr. Sarah Blanshei, Presi-
dent Schmidt denied him ten-
ure.

Schmidt agreed to review his
file and again
she reached
the same con-
clusion: His
contribution
to the campus
is not one she
feels is in the
best interest
of the College.
Her own
words are
more brief
and without
explanation:
"I am writing
to inform you
that I am not
recommending to the Board of
Trustees that you be granted a
tenured appointment nor pro-
motion to the rank of Associate
Professor. I know this will cause
you deep disappointment and I
am sorry for that."

Waggoner was not expecting
tenure to be denied. He had
undergone other reviews dur-
ing his third and fourth years at
Agnes Scott. There were con-
cerns during the first of these
reviews, and although a fourth-
year review is unusual, accord-
ing to one tenured faculty mem-
ber, "It is by no means an indica-
tion that there will be a future
problem with receiving tenure."
After the fourth-year review,
Waggoner said "I felt that my
department supported me and
that I was on the right track to-
wards tenure."

Upon learning of the
President's decision last Spring,
both faculty and students imme-
diately showed enormous sup-
port.. "1 couldn't believe it," one
student said, "he has been the
primary reason I decided to ma-
jor in math. Schmidt has no clue
just how well he teaches."

This student was not alone.
Other students, faculty and staff
members joined forces in differ-
Con tinned on page 3

News

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The Profile

Friday, September 24, 1993

Federal law brings men to ASC

By Kerry Murphy
News Editor

Beginning this past summer,
three male students ha ve entered
the MAT program at Agnes
Scott. What makes these men
different from any others who
may be on campus due to cross
registration? The difference is
that these men will receive an
Agnes Scott degree.

Never before in the 104 year
history of Agnes Scott has such
an event occured. But Agnes
Scott is required by federal law
to make all new programs (the
MAT graduate program in-
cluded ) that receives federal dol-
lars, accessible to both men and
women. Ruth Bettandorff in-
sists that having males in the
program is a "natural extension
of what Agnes Scott does and
fits in with our mission/' Ac-
cording to her, that mission is to

provide quality teacher educa-
tion, which the MAT program
will serve to do.

The MAT program is a four-
teen month program that was
established a year ago and is made
available to students pursuing
careers as high school English
teachers. The program also has a
special focus on gender equity in
the classroom.

The three male students who
have already entered the program
are Paul Atkinson, Colin Mackey,
and Doug Talbot. Paul is a '92
graduate of Presbyterian College
and has since graduation spent
several months traveling through
South America for Planet Inter-
national. Colin is a '91 graduate
of the University of Georgia and
is also the son of local author
Sandra Mackey. He has also spent

time in Saudi Arabia. Doug is a
'74 graduate of Towson State Uni-
versity and a seventeen year em-
ployee of IBM. He also studied
at Connecticut College in 70-71,
where he was a member of the
second coed class.

Each of these men, upon a
successful finish of the program,
will receive his degree with the
other MAT students in August
'94. Yet, the question still re-
mains: with males now coming
to Agnes Scott, will the school go
coed? According to Ruth
Schmidt, "It is important.. .that
theconmuinity understands that
Agnes Scott is not going coed . . .
the college has existed since 1 889
to educate young women and it
will continue to do so."

Schmidt

Continual from page 1

own (as they see it) lack of mo-
rale."

The "no confidence" vote was
quickly communicated to the
Board of Trustees. During the
summer months, Chairman Jo-
seph R. Gladden and an ad hoc
committee consisting of five
members of the Board met sepa-
rately with the Faculty Execu-
tive Committee (FEC), Dean
Blanshei,and President Schmidt
to discuss the faculty's action.

Mr. Gladden's initial meet-
ing in early June with the FEC
focused on understanding how
seriously the Board should look
at the vote, and determine the
scope of the issue. He wanted to
be sure that the vote was not due
only to the disagreement about
the tenure case. The Board of
Trustees created thead hoc com-
mittee because of this meeting
to determine further the seri-
ousness of the vote and develop
an official response.. The result
of the summer's work was a
resolu tion by the Trustees (d a ted
August 17) which supported
PresidentSchmidtand called for
"a significant review of the aca-
demic program."

The resolution "affirms the
presidency of Ruth Schmidt as
being in the best interest of the
college." The Board also at this
point accepted President
Schmidt's decision to retire no
later than June, 1995.

When a faculty in any insti-
tution comes to a vote of no
confidence," Dr. Pinka said, "it
means the faculty and the Presi-
dent can no longer work to-
gether, no matter who's right or
who's wrong. I think because of
the gridlock, it is in the best in-
terest of the college that she re-
tire. In general the faculty shares

this feeling."

"I think the Board, very ap-
propriately, recognized the many
contributions of President
Schmidt [to the college]," said
Dean Blanshei. As for the pro-
posed review, she commented,
"It's a question of communica-
tion and definition." She hopes
tha t the review is meant to extend
recent studies such as the Strate-
gic Plan of 1990-91 and the Self-
Study, a report on which will be
announced in October, rather
than overwrite them.

"We're all trying to figure out
just what they meant by 'review
of the academic program' (in that
resolution)," President Schmidt
said. Dr. Pinka commented that,
like President Schmidt, most fac-
ulty members are confused about
what the Board meant by the re-
view.

Mr. Gladden addressed this
issue at a specially-called faculty
meeting on September 10. He
said the review would encom-
pass all aspects of the academic
program, not just the curriculum
as had been speculated. The re-
view is intended to build on, and
not eliminate, similar studies
done previously (such as the Stra-
tegic Plan and the Self-Study).

Mr. Gladden said the search
committee for a new president
would be announced as soon as
possible. The Board hopes to se-
en re a new president before Presi-
dent Schmidt retires, but does
not want to lose the integrity of
the search by lowering standards
in order to fit into that time con-
straint.

Other topics brought up dur-
ing the meeting by faculty and
students include enrollment and
retention problems, recruitment
of students, quality of education,
budget problemsand constraints,
and the general attitude of the
college and its various constitu-

encies. Mr. Gladden responded
in general terms, trying to avoid
getting caught up in details or
specific examples.

Mr. Gladden expressed the
Board's pleasure at the contribu-
tions of President Schmidt dur-
ing her tenure here. President
Schmidt cites campus renova-
tions, the Global Awareness pro-
gram, and the campus' move-
ment toward the future as her
greatest accomplishments.

"When I came in '82 this place
was very shabby," she said. "I
think [the physical improve-
ments and making of the Cen-
tennial Campus is] what our
alumnae think of more than any
other of my accomplishments....

"1 [also] take credit for the
Global Awareness program,
[but] not for Agnes Scott's inter-
national interests."

Encouraging people to look
to the future is another way Presi-
dent Schmidt has changed the
campus. Increasing the technol-
ogy on campus is a large aspect
of this, but she has also chal-
lenged the attitude held by
people around campus: "I think
one of my accomplishments is to
help lead Agnes Scott from al-
ways looking back, and always
thinking the past was better, to
looking forward to knowing that
[the future] can be even better."

President Schmidt wants to
continue work on the develop-
ment of the Atlanta Semester
during her last year. The pro-
gram is modeled after the Wash-
ington Semester: students from
other colleges and universities
would study at Agnes Scott and
intern in Atlanta.

Upon retirement in 1994,
President Schmidt plans to live
in the Atlanta area. Sheisconsid-
ering doing volunteer work in a
Spanish-speaking country.

Paul Atkinson (left) and Colin Mackey, two of the first men to
enter the MAT program.

Fuzz Buzz

By Angela Miller
Department of Public Safety

Welcome back! We hope everyone had a safe and produc-
tive summer. We have had only three criminal incidents on
college property in the last two months. We are happy that
because of the quick reporting of the incidents to our office, we
were able to arrest the perpetrators in all three incidents.

The first incident was a criminal trespass arrest, made after
a subject attempted to force entry into the rear of a college
house.

The second arrest was for a firearms violation, after an
individual was observed by an ASC police officer shooting the
handgun into the air at the rear of a college house.

The most recent incident occurred when a student was
walking through the archway in front of the campus on College
Avenue, and was grabbed from behind by a black male subject.
The student was able to get a way and came immediately to the
Public Safety Office. The perpetrator attempted to flee to the
MARTA station, but our officers were able to locate the subject
and place him under arrest.

Throughout the school year we will offer a variety of classes
to help you better protect yourself. We challenge you faculty,
staff, and student to take just an hour out of your busy
schedule and learn techniques tha t could one day save your life.

Classes will vary from actual hands-on self defense to the
use of defensive chemical sprays. Both forms of self-defense
would help to fight off an attacker. Watch for the notices in the
Campus Connection and sign up.

The threat of vehicle theft or break-ins continues to rise in our
metropolitan area, as well as others. Do not make your car an
easy target by leaving things lying on the back seat or by not
locking all the doors.

Be very conscious of your surroundings when walking
across campus at night. If you do not feel comfortable, call us
or come by and we will escort you. If you see somebody or
something that looks suspicious, call us.

On October 30 and 31 the Department of Public Safety will
sponsor a haunted house for our campus community children
under 13. We need volunteers to help us make this a fun and
safe experience. Anyone interested should contact Sgt. Curtis
Parrott at ext 6355.

News

Friday, September 24, 1993

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Technology enhancement
continues across campus

By Jenny White
Features Editor

Agnes Scott's Information
Technology Enhancement Pro-
gram (ITEP), outlined and
planned last spring, has already
brought a number of technologi-
cal changes to Agnes Scott's cam-
pus and will be bringing more in
the near future.

Over the summer, a number
of ITEP projects were begun.
Wiring is almost finished in Mam,
Rebekah, Buttrickand the library
and will begin soon in Alston,
the observatory, Presser and
Dana. Once the inside wiring is
complete, students will have ac-
cess to the campus network and
cable TV as well as the telephone
system. Winship, Walters and
Inman are scheduled to be com-
pleted by the end of the 1994
summer.

The Interactive Learning Cen-
ter, the computerized classroom
located in Buttrick 203, houses
twenty- two computer stations
already in use. The computer
programming classes and the dif-
ferential equations class are be-

ing taught in the lab this semes-
ter.

The Academic Computing
Center and the satellite stations
in residence halls have been al-
most fully equipped with 486
machines that run Microsoft
Windows. Faculty machines are
in the process of being replaced
as well. A Mac Lab is also in
progress in Dana, and it will even-
tually house eight Apple Macin-
tosh computers. Four of them
have arrived so far.

Changes have also taken place
withinComputmgServices. The
department is currently in the
process of filling three positions:
Software Support Specialist, Soft-
ware Trainer, and Network Tech-
nician. Also, construction will
begin in the basement of Walters
Hall this month for the reloca-
tion of both the Academic Com-
puting Center and the Comput-
ing Services offices. The Walters'
basement will also house the tele-
phone system and network
equipment so that all aspects of

The Differential equations course is one of the first to use the
faciliites in Buttrick 203 for classroom instruction.

Computing Services will be lo-
cated there. The construction
should be completed by January
1994.

Outside wiring of the campus
could not be completed over the
summer, since the contract for
the project has just been awarded.
Construction will begin in about
the third week of September.
Many sidewalks on campus will
be replaced, and the work may
be distracting, but these changes
are necessary for the new tele-
phone system and the campus

network. The work will be fin-
ished by spring of 1994 and in
March the 371 prefix will be re-
placed at the new telephone sys-
tem cutover.

The library automation
system's on-line catalog is sched-
uled to be available sometime
during spring semester. Ideas
for the Language Resources Cen-
ter and for new media resources
in classrooms are being devel-
oped and will be finalized in the
next few months.

Waggoner

Continued from page 1

ent venues of protest. Together
they demonstrated outside of the
McCain Library last Spring in an
effort to convince the Board of
Trustees to take Waggoner's ten-
ure case into their own hands.
Banners were paraded at the last
Convocation of Spring semester,
one emblazoned with the word
"Ruthless". Sidewalk chalk graf-
fiti accused the President of
"abusing her power", while the
blue ribbons in support of
Waggoner first appeared on the
lapels of faculty.

Also in the Spring both the
faculty and SGA exercised their
most drastic protest and passed
resolutions in support of grant-
ing tenure to Waggoner. In-
censed voices echoed from the
CLC as the faculty met to con-
duct the vote of "no confidence"
in the presidency of Ruth
Schmidt.

It is difficult to find a profes-
sor who admits that the tenure
case directly led to the vote. More
seem to agree with Waggoner
himself who says "It probably
played a major role, but the vote
of no confidence is an extraordi-
narily serious thing to do and is
something that the faculty did
not take lightly.... The tenure is-
sue did not by itself cause the
vote of no confidence; there was
a long list of problems that had
been brewing for at least six years
and probably more."

Another facultv member

agrees. "The vote of no confi-
dence did not result only over
the issue of granting tenure to
Dr. Waggoner, it was more 'the
last straw'."

Today the campus is more
calm. The chalk slogans which
once demanded for Schmidt to
change her mind have long
faded. Everyone has had an en-
tire summer to think about the
consequences of Schmidt's deci-
sion.

Not everything is different.
Many are still
angered. In
speaking with
most all of the
m a t h e ma t i c s
majors, and a
considerable
sampling of fac-
ulty and stu-
dents, all felt that
Dr. Waggoner
deserved ten-
ure.

One math
major said, "I
have honestly
rethought my decision to remain
at Agnes Scott because of the
President's action. I can't imag-
ine finishing out my major with-
out him [Waggoner]. It won't be
the same classes, the same de-
partment, the same education at
all when he is gone."

While the faculty and students
continue to wear blue ribbons in
support of Waggoner, President
Schmidt announced on Septem-
ber 7 that she will retire on June
30, 1994. (See story on page one )

Now the faculty is working
towards ensuring that the search
for presidential candidates is
carefully planned. They want
active involvment in the search
procedure. "We simply don't
want another Ruth," said one
tenured professor.

Many students are also work-
ing towards gaining a more di-
rect involvement with the sea rch.

Waggoner continues to spend
time on lesson plans and to teach
and to wait. He is waiting for the
complaint he
filed against
Schmidt to be
decided by the
grievance com-
mittee. He his
waiting to learn
if he will con-
tinue to have a
job with Agnes
Scott College
next year.
The grievance
committee itself
is currently un-
der revision due
to the strong possibility for con-
flicts of interest within proce-
dures. Waggoner's complaint
will be followed under the old
system, which ultimately places
the President as the last author-
ity to present grievances to the
Board of Trustees.

"The Board could conceivably
overturn a Presidential decision,
but I have no idea how the griev-
ance will unfold," Waggoner
said.

Although Waggoner remains

dedicated to his teaching during
what will likely be his last year as
an educator, he admits that it is
impossible not to change. "Had I
been granted tenure, I would
have a long-term view, instead
my view is short-term. The day-
to-day operations of being a
teacher haven't changed, but
there are intangible effects of
knowing that I won't be back,
and although I can't pinpoint
anything, I'm sure they are
there."

Recalling the events of last
Spring, Waggoner said 'The sup-
port that I got from faculty, stu-
dents and staff really made me
feel good." He is thankful for
both the public and the private
support. He remembers that the
simple words from students he
had taught "made the last two
weeks" of the acad emic year "tol-
erable." They affirmed his teach-
ing, his scholarship, with praise.
"Because of what you do in the
classroom - it made some differ-
ence in my decisions at Agnes
Scott," said one senior.

Waggoner's last memories of
Agnes Scott will not be negative
because of the support and reaf-
firmation from both his students
and peers. He said, 'To have
them come up to me and say you
made a difference helps me to
leave and to not be bitter, be-
cause their support shows that
what I did was of value. No one
can take that away."

Ivory Towers

Compiled by Jenny
Skridulis

Baker University, Baldwin,
Kansas - The football team
of Baker University was in-
vited to represent the USA
in a two-day American
Rules Football Festival in
Besancon, France. The all-
expenses paid trip allowed
forty two Baker Wildcat
players, coaches, and cheer-
leaders to travel to France
for the Festival's feature
game against McGill Uni-
versity from Canada. The
players were welcomed
with enthusiasm, spending
much of their time signing
autographs for persistent
French fans and giving away
parts of their uniforms not
needed for the games.
Cheerleading, however was
a curious concept to the
French, who don't even have
a word for it. It was a great
experience for the Yanks
who came out on top of
McGill 34-14.

University of Georgia -

Construction on a new arts
center for UGA is slated to
begin in the Fall. The design
of the complex, which will
be a series of individual
buildings, is in keeping with
the rest of the architectural
landscape around the area.
The complex will house the
Schools of Music, Art and
Drama giving additional
workingspaceto these three
disciplines. Two music halls
will allow choral groups,
orchestras, and visiting art-
ists to perform. The center is
scheduled for completion in
two years.

Purdue University - Jane
Feinberg, an associate pro-
ducer with Nancy Porter
Publications, has researched
Amelia Earhart for an hour-
long television documen-
tary. The documentary will
air in November or Decem-
ber on PBS.. Earhart was a
career counselor at Purdue
in the 1930's and her life has
become an inspiration to
many people w T ho have the
desire to achieve their
dreams through difficulties.
"She was the best of mascu-
line and feminine," Feinberg
says. "Women saw hope
for their daughters in her. . .
She was succeeding in a
male-dominated area."
Amelia Earhart's silver
twin-engine Lockheed
Electra that she piloted on
her last flight was financed
through the Purdue Re-
search Foundation.

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Farewell to Ruth

By Josie Hoilman
Editor-in-Chief

In writing my features article about Dr. Waggoner for this issue
I felt the desire to editorialize it. I had more people check for
objectivity than with any article I have written for this paper,
including those about the controversial issues surrounding ASC
students in Playboy and the dismissal of Tara Sommerville. This time
something was different. I simply found it overwhelmingly diffi-
cult to not say: "Ruth, you are wrong." I disciplined myself and wrote
instead an article that portrays the facts and the personal feelings of
both Dr. Waggoner and those who support him.

But in this column objectivity is not required, and my opinion
does not necessarily represent the entire Profile staff. Now I can be
honest and put aside my objectivity. (This is my disclaimer - one that
I am sorry there is a need for, but just look at the "Free Speech" board
and you'll understand that there is a strong need.)

As a senior I have now seen four years of a bad presidency. From
my favorite professors I have learned that all twelve have been just
as bad. Ruth is not a tangible creature, instead she lingers on the
borders of this college making decisions about a group of students
she can seldom call by name. I now understand that the faculty finds
her just as inaccessible, just as maddening, just as ineffectual. A vote
of "no confidence" is one of the most serious measures a faculty can
take against a president. This is not a hint Ruth. They don't feel you
have done your job. Obviously a lot of students also agree. The
creative acts of protest during Convocations should be the lightbulb
for you. We are not happy with your "guidance" either. You may
find us irresponsible or irrational for disrupting Convocation, but
Ruth, it's really the only place we ever see you. We simply didn't
have a choice.

There is no space to catalogue all of the reasons why I personally
have "no confidence" in your leadership, but think about this - do
you not wonder why so MANY people don't like the decisions you
have made? You have only nine more months of power. Please try
to use it responsibly. Learn from us, the students and the faculty that
you can't tell us who can and cannot teach or who does and does not
have adequate scholarship. Learn from us that you can never
perpetuate an environment that leads any student to feel discrimi-
nated against. You cannot effectively lead Agnes Scott from behind
a desk, and although we honestly appreciate all of the money you
have raised for the College, that does not excuse the "Scott-less"
attitude with which you have governed us.

To the Board of Trustees, I feel confident in speaking for the
majority of students and faculty: We want a president like Presi-
dents Alston and Perry, someone who makes a sincere effort to be a
part of our lives - someone who wants to know our names, not just
the signatures on our checkbooks. We want, no we NEED, someone
who will be a financial asset to the College, but also a responsible
leader to the faculty and the students.

To Ruth, "Farewell. We won't be able to forget you."

What was your first thought
when you turned eighteen? Did
you think "now I can vote, now
I can join the army, now I'm offi-
cially an adult"? Did you think
about how differently your par-
ents would treat you? No more
curfew, no more interference -
did you think: "now I am free."

How long did it take before
you realized you were wrong?
My personal jolt back to reality
came with my first dorm meet-
ing last year at Agnes Scott.

We all gathered into the small
lobby on the third floor of
Winship to be introduced to the
rules we would be expected to
follow. We were told about fire
drills, quiet hours, yelling "MAN
ON THE HALL," sign-in and
sign-out procedures and of
course we learned about pari-
etals. Maybe this was just my
ignorance, but before that meet-
ing Ld never heard of parietals
and when I was given my tour of
the campus as a perspective,
parietalsnevercrossedmymind.

1 come from a small college
town in western New York so
I've hung out in all male dorms
and I had never given a though
to having to leave at a certain
hour. I guess I just assumed that

What's Up With Thar?

By Esther Dunn

every college was like the one in
my town. I was wrong.

Although the college in my
town doesn't have the prestige
or academic reputation of Agnes
Scott, the students there have one
thing that we don' t - FREEDOM.
They have the freedom to have
guests of any sex in their room at
any hour. They are trusted to be
responsible with their lives. They
are treated as adults should be,
given as much (if not more) free-
dom as they would have at home.

Some may argue that pari-
etals are necessary. They pre-
vent arguments between room-
mates. They prevent guests from
over-staying their welcome and
interfering with study time.
Obviously, I disagree.

I think that any of these prob-
lems can be (and should be)
handled by the individuals in-
volved. Roommates should
work any problems out among
themselves. A woman should
be able to tell her male guest,
"Look, I have a bio test this week.
I'll talk to you later." Granted
there may be individuals w ho
are not strong enough to do this,
but I think they could learn. If
they can't, then that is their indi-
vidual problem, not that of the

Dear Editor,

We are interested in any in-
formation regarding the myste-
rious "disappearance" of a ban-
ner from the second floor of the
CLC.

Tueseday night, September 7,
we spray painted a sign and laid
it out to dry in the hallway of the
second floor. The sign read,
"Let's make this fun for the first
years (we tried) with a smiley
face, and "Bye Bye Love!" They
were intended for use at the Se-
nior convocation on the follow-
ing day.

The signs were last seen at
around 2 a.m. on Tuesday night.
The following morning at 9 a.m.,
they had disappeared.

We hope that they were mis-
takenly thrown a way by a custo-
dian particularly disgusted with
cluttered floors. We are reluc-
tant to believe that someone did
not want those signs put up.

If anyone has seen these signs

Letters

(in a trashcan or otherwise), or
has any information or opinions
they are willing to express di-
rectly, please come chat.

Laylage Courie
Jessica Daughtery

Dear Editor,

[The following letter is
submiteed as a matter of public
interest ]

At the September 10 called
faculty meeting, Joe Gladden
suggested that in the Academic
Review process, we consider not
only additions, but subtractions
that would bring Agnes Scott
closer to fulfilling its full poten-
tial. In this spirit, I suggest the
following improvements:

Beat the Board
or

entire resident population. It's
not the administration's job to
handle personal problems, espe-
cially by avoiding them with a
general rule. What parietals boil
down to is the administration's
mistrust of the student body.

My opposition to parietals
doesn't stem from a multitude of
male guests. In all honesty, I
rarely have a male guest who
isn't my brother or father and
since I'm from New York, their
visits are far from frequent. My
opposition to parietals is based
purely on my own ideas about
how a college should operate.
Agnes Scott is not, after all, a
boarding school. It's also not a
preparatory school. The students
here, despite some random be-
havior that might prove other-
wise, are not children and the
administration is certainly not a
parental supplement.

It's time for Agnes Scott to
take that leap into the '90s and let
students make the decisions
about their personal lives. (The
key word here is personal.) Let's
realize that we are old enough to
make our own choices and if
some of those choices lead to
mistakes, so be it. That is after all
how real life works.

Top 10 Things ASC Can
Do Without:

10. The "Free Speech"

board (oh my, that wasn't very

positive, was it?)

9. Being told "what you need to

understand..."

8. Key phrase: Two staff equals
one faculty.
7. Men

6. Blowers. (May I suggest a

nice, quiet rake?)

5. The MAT program (how

about some undergrad classes.)

4. Eight people in Development

(two staff equals...)

3. The mural in the snack bar.

2. Four semesters of P.E.

1. A president (at least for a

while)

And in the interim, I nominate
Dr. Lewin. Did she say Tuition

freeze?!

Laylage Courie

Editorials

Friday, September 24, 1993

The Profile

Page 5

Uffish Thoughts

By Holly Williamson & Kathleen Hill

Daring Diversity

You've survived your first
classes, you've been to all your
MANDATORY meetings, you
may evenha ve done laundry for
the first time this semester, but
none of it (and not even your
first all-nigh ter of the year) could
prepare you for cue trumpet
flourish and drum roll, please
US! It's not that we're so
strange (maybe we are,
but that's not the point),
or even that we're so
radical (maybe we are,
but that's not the point
either), it's that we'redif-
ferent. (We prefer to call
itdiversely-challenged.)

You see, we always
thought that diversity
entailed being diverse
you know, that's when
people are different
they express various,
unique views. Call us.
crazy (people do any-
way), but that's what we
thought. Diversity, then, became
the art and science of balancing
these differences, while still
working and playing well with
others as our kindergarten
teachers taught us. (Unfortu-
nately, at college, they have
eliminated the juice and cookie
routine, followed by the inevi-
table MANDATORY nap.)
However, fools that we are, we
thought (which was what started
the trouble in the first place) that
our kindergarten concept of di-
versity should still hold true (de-

spite the absence of alphabet
blocks and finger-paints). But we
have been re-educated. College
has opened our eyes to the light of
knowledge. (For you freshmen
excuse us, first-year students
who have not yet been dizzied by
its radience, that elusive illumi-
nation looks rather like a flashing
neon sign which reads "Hot Do-

'He took his vorpal sword in hand,
Long time the manxomefoe he sought
So rested he by the Turn turn tree
And stood awhile in thought
And as in uffish thought he stood,

Vie Jabbenvock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood
And burbled as it came."

conform to some pre-deter-
mined, politically-correct vision
of "community." In other words,
if you want to disagree with the
prevailing liberal regime, bite
your tongue. Well, we've tasted
much blood in our years here,
and last year we got tired of the
taste of band-aids. (If you've ever
smelled one, you'll empathize.)
So, we started this col-
umn, "Uffish
Thoughts." If you
missed the first one,
"Maintaining Equilib-
rium," you're prob-
ably asking yourself,
"Why?" Actually,
there have been times
when we have asked
ourselves the same

Lewis Carroll

nuts Now.") We now celebrate
true diversity as that Nirvana,
that Utopia, that state of unity, of
understanding, of sensitivity and
bonding with our fellow beings.
We celebrate silence, we celebrate
fear ... we celebrate diversity.

Ladies (or wymyn, if you pre-
fer), here is the ASC definition of
diversity. (We've decided to
"share the wealth" of our knowl-
edge with you.) Diversity is that
"blessed arrangement, thatdream
within a dream," that conditons
wherein each individual must

question.

Despite the hu-
mor and irony of the
situation, we felt that
we had been fleeing
ASC's Jabberwock for
far too long. So, we took our
vorpal swords (or, rather, our
pens) and began our crusade for
a balance of voices on this cam-
pus. We are driven by our uffish
thoughts, concepts which have
been muted at Agnes Scott. We
have planted our own Tum-tum
tree, a forum for voices which
have hitherto been unheard, and
we invite you to stand in its shade.
Whether or not you agree with
us, if you feel tongue-tied, we
encourage you to let your uffish
thoughts be heard.

Sex, Life & Gender

By Michelle Smith

The first week back at school,
some friends and I went to a
"hoochie-coochie" club (for lack
of a more effecitve word). You
know, the kind where both the
men and the women strip to noth-
ing but their birthday suits as
they musically gyrate in front of
you.

The next dav 1 mentioned that
1 couldn't decide whether I was
opposed to the nude dancing
club, or not. I was immediately
attacked tor not opposing the
club because of this column and

my label as a feminist, women's
right supporter, or whatever you
feel comfortable in labeling me.

The point I'm making, how-
ever, is that labels can be ex-
tremely confining. Your indi-
viduality as a free-thinker issup-
pressed for the agenda of the
labeled group. Stereotypes and
prejudices perpetuate them-
selves within the subtle confines
of "liberal, modern" thinking.

Progress take^ a back scat to
the label. Instead of promoting
their ideas, one ends up defend-

ing their orientation of gender,
race, ethninticity, political views
etc. as defined by the label of
one's particular group.

Funny, the original reason I
wasn't completely sure if I was
oppossed or not to the club was
the fact that oppossing seemed
to create the internalized label of
suppressing sexuality.

As we enter a new year at
Agnes Scott, let's be careful how
we label one another. - Pay close
attention to the confinements la-
bels place on liberal education.

Street Beat

Compiled by Tracey Baggett

With the addition of three men to the MAT
program t how do you feel about the
possibility of having men in your classes?

Seniors Martha Daniel and Perrin Cothran.

In the ASC Alumnae Magn-
zif \e, Summer 93 issue, it was
reported that women's col-
leges have benefited women
far more than co-educational
institutions. The MAT's re-
cruitment has admitted men
into undergraduate class-
rooms, creatinga "norm" that
will change the values and
essence of ASC. If we must
allow men "en masse" to
make a go of the MAT pro-
gram, perhaps these gradu-
ate students need their own
classes.

-Martha Daniel

One of the reasons I came
to ASC was to avoid having
men in class. Now there are
two of them in one of my
English classes, and they sit
together and pal around. I
wish they'd take their male
bonding elsewhere.

-Perrin Cothran

I tJhink that it is great that they are here. It takes a lot of guts
to come on this campus. I take it as a compliment that
someone wants to come here for their education, no matter
what sex they are. In choosing Agnes Scott, these men have
said a lot for our school and a lot for their courage.

-Tara Spuhler

Tara Spuhler, Class of *%.

Sports

Page 6

The Profile

Friday, September 24, 1993

BUMP, SET, SPIKE!

By Angela McNeal

Staff Writer

Anyone who came to the Vol-
leyball team's season opener on
September 7 saw that this year
the team is on the court with a
new style and a new attitude!
Sporting their hot new purple,
white, and gold uniforms, ASC
dominated the match against
Atlanta Christian defeating them
15-5,15-4, and 15-1.

Since then, ASC has raised its
record to 5-1. On Friday, Sep-
tember 10, the team played a
quad-match hosted by
Oglethorpe. There, ASC col-
lected another win over Atlanta
Christian, a victory against
Wesleyan, and lost a tough match
to Oglethorpe.

Volleyball became an NCAA
Division III team this year, which
meant several changes for the
program. The first and most im-
portant was the hiring of a coach.
Mr. Robert Bailey has been help-
ing build the Club volleyball pro-
gram for the past two years, and
to the team's delight, accepted
the official coaching position for

ASCs first intercollegiate season.

Coach Bailey remarked that
he was "pleased beyond words"
at the team's first intercollegiate
victory. Bailey says he has seen
"great improvement in consis-
tency and individual skills" over
the past few weeks, and she feels
that the team's biggest challenge
will be to use this progress to
develop stronger-team oriented
playing concepts.

Other changes that come with
higher status are more demand-
ing practices and game sched-
ules. No one knows this better
than the team members them-
selves! Ten of last year's Club
volleyball players returned to
campus a week early and en-
dured two practices a day in or-
der to prepare for this year's
tougher intercollegiate matches.

Returning players are Raquel
Bordas '94, Alison Burleson '95,
Jessica Chatham '96, Annette
Dumford '95, Tiffany Goodman
'94, Wendy Jones '93, Isabel Key
'96, Leigh Locker '94, Angela

McNeal '95, and Amanda Powell

'96.

The team has now grown to
number 16 players. New to the
team are Amy Irwin '95 and Ute
Koenig, a German exchange stu-
dent. Ute's strong volleyball
backgrounds have aided the
team tremendously. Other new
additions include Jennifer
Langston '96, Maria Melo '96,
Debbie Miller '97, and Stacy Tay-
lor '97.

The Volleyball team will play
22 matches this season. Banners
announcing home games will be
placed in the dining hall. Coach
Bailey and the team members
would really like to develop a
large fan following to cheer them
on to victory! So, take a study
break and support the volleyball
team! Come watch the next home
game this Friday, September 24,
at 6:00pm you'll be in for some
fun, fast paced action!

Cathy Benton named Act-
ing Director of Athletics

By Janelle M. Bailey
Sports Editor

Coach Cathy Benton was recently named Acting Director of
Athletics. The promotion from Assistant Athletic Director came after
former Director Cindy Peterson left Agnes Scott in August.

Coach Peterson resigned from the office effective August 1 in
order to attend Middle Tennessee State University. She is now
enrolled in the Ph.D. program, and is working as a graduate assistant
in the Physical Education Department.

In addition to coaching the soccer team and regular teaching
duties, Coach Benton is now responsible for all of Agnes Scott's
intercollegiate sports, intramurals and recreational activities, and the
Woodruff Physical Education Building.

Coach Benton received her B.S. from Miami University (Ohio)
and her M. A. from Ohio State University. She has been in collegiate
administration for five years.

Before coming to Agnes Scott, she was the Women's Athletic
Director at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Like ASC, Denison
is classified as NCAA Division III and has 1 1 intercollegiate sports for
women.

Coach Benton serves on the National NCAA Rules Committee for
Soccer and the Regional South NCAA Division III Ranking Commit-
tee for Soccer. She is actively involved in several other professional
associations.

Cross-Country team starts season

By Janelle M. Bailey
Sports Editor

The cross-country team, led
by new coach Susan Arthur, be-
ga n their 1 993 season with a good
showing at their September 10
meet at the University of the
South (Sewanee, Tennessee).
This is the first season of compe-
tition in the NCAA division III.

Kate Whitacre finished in first
place for Agnes Scott with a time
of 24:41. Jessica Moore came in
second, finishing the course in

UPCOMING EVENTS

Cross-Country

September 24
Atlanta Metro Meet at
Oglethorpe University

October 2 Georgia
CollegiateChampionshipsat
Georgia State University

Soccer

September 25 at Hollins
Women's College Tourna-
ment at 1:00 p.m.

September 26at 1 :00 p.m.

October 1 at Wesleyan
College at 4:00 p.m.

October 7 vs. Lee Col-
lege at 4:00 p.m.

Volleyball

September 24 at Ten-
nessee Temple at 6:00 p.m.

September 29 at Emory
University at 6:00 p.m.

October 1-2 at Emory
University with times TBA

October 4 vs. SDC at
5:00 p.m.

October 7 vs. Tennessee
Temple, Spelman College
7:00 p.m.

Team members at practice in the Woodruff Gym.

Agnes Scott welcomes Susan
Arthur to Athletic department

By Jenny White

Features Editor

The athletics department at ASC has gained a new cross-country
and tennis coach, Susan Arthur. She comes to Agnes Scott from
Columbus, Georgia. She is very excited to be at ASC and is enthu-
siastic about the athletics program this year.

Before her arrival at Agnes Scott, Coach Arthur lived in Columbus
for seven years where she worked as tennis pro at the Columbus
Country Club. She also worked as tennis pro for five years at
Calloway Gardens. She received her undergraduate degree from
Tennessee Tech University in business management and a master's
in health and physical education from West Georgia College. Before
living in Columbus, Coach Arthur lived in Tennessee for twelve
years, and she is originally from Lynchburg, Virginia.

Coach Arthur played varsity tennis in college and has always
been an active runner, although there was not a women's cross-
country team at her university. She plays tennis here in Decatur in
an ALTA league and also enjoys running and water-skiing.

Her background includes more than just athletics, however. For
the past year Coach Arthur worked for Disney /MGM studios in
Orlando, Florida as a production assistant in the film and tape
department. She helped produce TV shows and commercials and
worked with people such as Ed McMahon (on the 1993 season of Star
Search) and the cast of Full House. She calls it "an opportunity that
only comes once/'

Coach Arthur is very happy to be back into teaching and coaching
and looks forward to the upcoming seasons of cross-country and
tennis. She is pleased with the progress of the cross-country team so
far and is excited about their "enthusiasm and dedication." She also
has high hopes for the tennis team, which has tryouts coming up

soon.

She likes the "family-type" environment of Agnes Scott, espe-
cially the familiarity between people on campus. Coach Arthur feels
this is due in part to the Honor System. She also holds the school's
academic program in high regard.

She lives very close by, in Decatur, and enjoys eating out on the
square and going to the DeKalb Farmers' Market. She feels that the
community has "a lot of character."

Agnes Scott and the athletics department are excited to have
Coach Arthur as a new addition to the campus.

26:19.

In third place for Agnes Scott
was Vivi Jarrett. Jarrett finished
with a time of 26:37. Cathy
Ridinger had a rime of 28:05, and
Vicki Siefert finished fifth for
Agnes Scott with a time of 28:23.

Also competing for Agnes
Scott were Ashley Merritt, An-
drea Riba, Laura Spiczka and
Rebecca Taylor.

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Features

Friday, September 24, 1993

The Profile

Page

Particle Man - Spotlight on Professor Art Bowling

By Leigh Locker

This faculty spotlight will
serve to enlighten those on cam-
pus who've been wondering,
"Who is that man that is always
in the weight room?" If you're
included in this group, you must
not have taken any physics
courses to date. Dr. Arthur
Bowling, associate professor of
physics here at ASC, is the man
whose second home is in Woo-
druff Gym. I can honestly say
he's the best physics professor
I've ever had, and I purposefully
take all of the courses required
for my minor from him and
that's not just because I don't
have a choice, OK?

Dr. Bowling, a native of Vir-
ginia, completed his under-
graduate work at the College of
William and Mary and then pur-
sued his Ph.D. at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
After doing his doctoral research

in particle theory, he taught at
both Swarthmore College and
Ohio State University before
coming to Agnes Scott in 1977.
He has two tennagers, Ross and
Kathryn, and his wife Lynn
teaches preschool in Decatur.
Although he rarely finds much
free time, he enjoys reading, es-
pecially science fiction, the source
of his love for/obsession with
physics.

This past summer Dr. Bowl-
ing attended "laser camp" with
twenty other professors at the
University of Tennessee. The
group performed several ex-
periments involving lasers, and
they even built some of their own!
(Dr. Bowling's project is proudly
on display in his office now.) He
is also currently researching
some aspects of global warming
and investigating applications of
particle physics (his specialty!)

to the theories of the early uni-
verse.

When asked what he liked
mostand least about Agnes Scott,
Dr. Bowling said he liked the
students and interactions with
students best. He also likes the
professional freedom in research
which, he thinks, is more preva-
lent here than at many other uni-
versities. Further, he commented
that, although the department is
very small, he enjoys the work
involved in keeping the various
courses current. "Another plus
is the financial stability of the
college," he said with a deep
breath of relief. To answer the
latter part of the question, Dr.
Bowling stated that he feels a
certain degree of professional
isolation because there are not
many other particle physicists
in Atlanta.

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Friday, September 24, 1993

Summer Experiences

Bicker s excellent adventure

By Margaret Bickers
Staff Writer

A notice for all people travel-
ing to Austria: the world famous
Wiener schnitzel, which comes
to the table and hangs off the
plate on both sides, consists of
chicken fried veal. But unfortu-
nately, cream gravy is not in-
cluded.

I spent two weeks in Austria
this summer. The first week I
walked all over the old part of
Vienna, the Austrian capitol. The
Ringroad (a line of the old city
walls) contains everything from
Roman ruins to modern art, all
capped by the immense gold,
green and white mass of the
Hofberg palace. From here, un-
der gilded eagles and banners,
the Hapsburg family ruled the
Austrian-Hungarian Empire,
until the end of World War One.

The best part of wandering
around Vienna (while dodging
horse drawn carts and triple
parked cars) isdefinitely the food.
Each afternoon around two
o'clock, my family indulged in a
snack of chocolate, gooey sweet
pastries and coffee. As we ate,
we sat in sidewalk cafes and
watched the people window
shop or just walk past us.

From Vienna we took a train
to Salzburg. This town was
founded around a salt mine there,
on the Salzach River. Prince-
Bishops ruled thearea until 1803,
and built splendid palaces on the
salt money. The movie 'The
Sound of Music" was filmed in
several locations of Salzburg, and
you can take tours of them.
Mozart also came into the world
in Salzburg, thus providing the
city with a great tourist spot

known as the "Birth House/'
Salzburg thus features all kinds
of Mozart memorabilia: candy,
cookies, music, tee-shirts, per-
fume you get the picture.

Our last stop led us into the
Alps, at Innsbruck. We looked at
lots of little Medieval churches,
the Alpenzoo (with its local ani-
mals such as the chamois, a cute
goat used for meat and leather),
and the Hungerburg mountain.
We took a cog-wheel train up the
hill to the zoo, and further up to
the cable car. This swaying,

swinging thing carried us fur-
ther up to a saddle on the
Hungerburg. From here we saw
the jagged gray peaks of the Alps
cutting their way across Europe,
and the route to the Brenner Pass,
one of three major trade routes
through the mountains. My
brother also saw snow, and he
plastered me with it.

I had a great time in Austria.
The people are friendly, and I
like dividing prices by 10 to
convert them to American cur-
rency!

Ruby Perry
leaves ASC
for position in
Decatur

Students, faculty and
staff said goodbye to Ruby
on September 8 during a
reception held in her honor
in the Rebekah Lobby.

Ruby left her position as
Coordinator of Office Ser-
vices in mid-August, after
many years of personal in-
volvement with the Agnes
Scott community.

She is pictured here say-
ing goodbye to one of her
Agnes Scott friends.

There & back again

By Karen Jordan
Features Editor

Thanks to the National Sci-
ence Foundation, anthropology
professor Martha Rees spent the
summer with three Agnes Scott
graduates training the people of
Oaxaca to use computers. Layli
Bashir, Meg McDonough, and
Mimi Saunders, all class of '93,
traveled with Rees to the South-
eastern part of Mexico to gain
research experience in field work.
As Rees explained, the students
had three research objectives: to
read about the general area and
the native Zapotec people of
Oaxaca, to compile data from the
readings into computers, and to
go into the field to observe the
workings of this society.

The special mission of the trip
was to deliver used computers
to the community that Atlantans
had donated for the cause. While
in Oaxaca, the group studied
Spanish and also learned a little

bit of the native language,
Zapotec. Using their newly ac-
quired communication skills,
they trained the community to
use the computers.

The students lived in
homestays with Zapotec families.
Although some families lived in
modest accommodations with
many children, the families and
students got along well. "There
is a lot of love there. The living
conditions were strenuous, but
that made the families closer,"
said Rees.

Of course, the trip had its bad
moments. In preparation of the
experience, Rees described the
weather as hot and dry. She
assured the students that they
did not need a raincoat because
as she said, "only gringos wear
raincoats." And so it rained the
first three weeks of the trip. Nice
call, Martha.

Bowling

Bowling equated himself with
a hot fudge sundae when asked
what food would he use to de-
scribe himself. Why? "Because I
am always eager to please", he
said.

He certainly had some inter-
esting replies to the following
question: "If you could have three
famous people over for dinner,
who would you have, and why?"
"Madonna just kidding", he
said as he laughed. On a more
serious side, he would first invite
Werner Heisenberg, a German
physicist who worked on the
atomic bomb during World War
II. Why? Because some have
speculated that he may have in-
tentionally miscalculated an es-
sential problem in his work on
the atomic bomb. Second would
be Jacques Derrida, a French post-

Contifiued from page 7

modern philosopher with some
exciting new viewsabout today's
society. Dr. Bowling commented
that he'd like for Derrida to tell
him what's up with the world
today. And, finally, Michelle
Pfeiffer...I didn't even ask.

Next, I asked Dr. Bowling to
broadcast a message he felt im-
portant for ASC students. His
reply: "Be as intellectually flex-
ible as possible. Make broad
preparations and don't special-
ize too early. Work hard to com-
municate effectively with oth-
ers."

Oh yeah, Dr. Bowling, I forgot
to ask one question. ..Is there any
truth to the rumor that you have
a n u pcoming exercise video titled
"The Physics Behind the Phy-
sique"?

Features

Friday, September 24, 1993

The Profile

Page 9

Illiteracy: Fighting the battle with Project Read

By Kelly Holton

Arts & Entertainment Editor

For fifty-six years, Betty has
struggled to survive in a society
that has failed her. Although she
attended school through the elev-
enth grade, Betty never learned
to read. Everyday she must con-
ceal her inability to read and write
in order to get along in this liter-
ate society. Her son reads her
mail for her and makes sure she
pays her bills on time; her sisters
take rums driving her to work
and helping her do the shop-
ping; her daughter writes checks
for her before she goes to the
store so that Betty will need only
to fill in the amount. "I just want
to be able to do things by myself
like everybody else." says Betty.
She will never be independent
without learning to read.

Betty is not alone in her plight.
Conservative studies estimate
that one-third of American adults
lack basic literacy skills. Though
the problem seems insurmount-
able, many organizations across
the country try to make every-
one an independently function-
ing member of society. The vol-
unteers and students associated
with Project Read, a non-profit
literacy organization, daily fight
the battles of illiteracy, striving
to give every adult in Atlanta the
opportunity and the ability to
read.

Basic literacy includes the abil-
ity to write thoughts clearly, to
read these thoughts as they are
written, and to express thoughts
verbally. Illiteracy most often
strikes those in poor economic
circumstances. Fifty to seventy-
five percent of unemployed
adults, fifty percent of heads of
households below the poverty
line, and thirty percent of wel-
fare mothers have below aver-
age literacy skills. The problem
of illiteracy extends to all
sections of the population. Fifty-
six percent of Hispanics, forty-
four percent of blacks, and six-
teen percent of whites are illiter-
ate. Graduating from high school
does not ensure that people will
be able to read, as fifteen percent
of urban high school graduates
read below a sixth grade level.
On average, Kentucky Adult Ba-
sic Education students have com-
pleted almost nine years of
school, yet they read below a
second grade level.

For a reading person, it is dif-
ficult nearly impossible to
imagine going to school for any
length of time without learning
to read. In the very early grades,
most people master these basic
literacy skills and spend the rest
of their school years refining their
reading skills and learning. How-
ever, many people are passed
over for a variety of reasons.
Those with undetected learning

disabilities learn to get by in the
system without knowing how to
read because they cannot get the
kind of help they need in order to
be able to learn. Many people are
taken out of school before they
graduate in order to help sup-
port their families. Frank, for
example, left school after the n i n t h
grade in order to help work his
family's farm. Because he did
not continue to read after he left
school, he soon lost his ability to
read. In a more dramatic case,
Mindy lost her ability to read
when she was run over by a bus;
although she stayed in school
through the eleventh grade, she
was never re-taught to read.
"Now I can't even read a story to
my son or read a magazine in the
doctor's office." says Mindy.

Georgia's statistics are even
more startling than the national
figures; United States Census
Bureau investigations show that
Georgians are under-educated
compared with the rest of the
nation. Nearly one and a half
million Georgians are function-
ally illiterate. Only fifty-nine and
one-half percent of Georgia's citi-
zens have completed high school.
Many of these graduates are
among those who live lies each
day because they cannot read.

The Atlanta area suffers be-
cause of the under-education of
Georgians. One hundred thirty
thousand metro Atlanta residents
are functionally illiterate, and 89,
926 people did not graduate from
high school. Many people can-
not make correct change, read a
bus schedule, or even sign their
own names. Unfortunately, only
six percent of these citizens are
involved in literacy training pro-
grams such as Project Read.

Project R.E.A.D. (Reach Every
Adult in DeKalb) grew out of
Adult Basic Education in 1986
and first focused on the problem
of illiteracy in DeKalb County.
As Project R.E.A.D. grew, its fo-
cus expanded to the entire metro
Atlanta area, and officials in the
program decided that the name
Project Read better represented
their new larger service area.
Project Read trains volunteer tu-
tors and carefully matches these
tutors with students. As of Janu-
ary 1992, 825 trained tutors, 425
active tutors, and 250 students
are part of Project Read. The
group continues to grow through
new tutor training, pupil recruit-
ment, and of course fund raising.
Project Read is able to keep its
budget low because of the volun-
teer efforts of tutors, trainers,and
office workers. Volunteers are
encouraged to take an active role
in shaping Project Read's future
by attending business and orga-
nizational meetings.

Project Read trains tutors in
day-long workshops several
times per year. Before the Satur-
day sessions, prospective tutors
read information concerning the
history of Project read and tutor-
ing responsibilities and watch a
video tape describing the tutor-
ing method and curriculum.
During the Saturday meeting,
tutors are paired, and they alter-
nate practicing the tutoring role.
New tutors familiarize them-
selves with the tutoring materi-
als and practice actually teach-
ing someone from the manuals.
Many tutors-in-training doubt
their ability to actually teach
someone to read. Practicing the
tutoring process helps new tu-
tors gain confidence in their abili-
ties and helps them feel more
comfortable with the material so
that they will be able to put new
students at ease. Because new
tutors spend part of the day play-
ing the role of student, they gain
compassion for someone learn-
ing to read and become more
patient, understanding tutors.

Project Read is unique in its
effort to ensure a good student-
pupil relationship and in its flex-
ibility. Students and tutors are
carefully matched according to
their interests, location, and time
availability. Tutors who feel
unsure of their abilities to teach a
student can observe an experi-
enced tutor at work. For those
that feel that they cannot commit
to a specific tutoring time each
week, Project Read sponsors a
reading lab staffed by volunteers.
Tutors drop in when they have
time and work with students.
Lab assistants usually work with
several different students at dif-
ferent levels. The lab does not
provide the continuity of one on
one tutoring but is excellent for
more advanced students and
tutors with little free time. Tu-
tors who want to work with one
student but cannot meet twice a
week for tutoring, can share a
student with another tutor. The
student benefits from this ar-
rangement because she has two
people who care about her
progress, two people to encour-
age her to succeed.

Project Read employs the
Laubach Way to Reading tutor-
ing method, a program designed
to teach illiterate adults basic
su naval skills. Used in hundreds
of countries for over fifty years,
the Laubach Way to Reading is a
highly motivational method for
teaching people to read. Because
the instruction manuals are ex-
tremely detailed, tutors are not
required to spend a great deal of
time planning lessons, nor do
they have to be professional edu-
cators in order to be effective

teachers. Tutors are able to con-
centrate teaching in areas of in-
terest to the student and de-em-
phasize structured lessons that
may remind students of previ-
ous failure in the classroom.

The tutor and student begin
their first session with Skill Book
1, Lesson 1 . The tutor traces the
picture of a "bird with a long tail
and round body" and then com-
pares the shape of a lowercase b
with the picture of the bird. The
tutor asks the pupil to read the
word bird, and then the two of
them practice making the begin-
ning sound of the word. After
using a similar method to intro-
duce the other four words and
beginning letters on the page (pup,
dish, fish, girl, hand), the tutor helps
the new reader read a story em-
phasizing the five new words.
The student practices writing the
key letters in the lesson, and the
tutor assigns the student further
writing practice for homework.
The lesson may also include ex-
tra practice for sounds of letters
with the supplementary books
Focus on Phonics.

Helping students become in-
dependently functioning mem-
bers of society is Project Read's
ultimate goal. The Laubach Way
to Reading encourages success
through continual reinforcement
of basic ideas; tutors are asked to
make their lessons interesting
and pertinent to the student so
that the student remains moti-
vated. Lessons should do little to
remind students of previous fail-
ures in school. Test is not a word
in the Laubach vocabulary. Al-
though the checkups at the end
of each skillbook are necessary
to make sure that a student un-
derstands every thing she should,
they are designed to test what a
student knows, not what she
doesn't.

Tutors hope that their students
learn not only to read but also to
make reading and learning an
important part of life. New read-
ers are able to apply the energy
and ingenuity they have long-
used to hide their inability to
read to be more successful in
their careers and their lives. Suc-
cess stories like John's inspire
tutors and students to accom-
plish their own goals. John
dropped out of school in junior
high school in order to help his
family through hard times. By
necessity forced to concentrate
on farm work, he soon lost much
of his ability to read. Through
his use of imagination and hard
work and the reading ability of
other people, John opened his
own business. Despite the fact
that he read on a second grade
level, John was able to keep his
business open and fairly success-

ful; however, he tired of always
having to find excuses for not
reading and decided to seek help.
A Project Read tutor worked with
John for two years, helping him
learn to read and write, and his
tutor's pride in his accomplish-
ments is evident. "John now
regularly reads novels, newspa-
pers, and magazines in addition
to materials related to his busi-
ness. His company is more suc-
cessful now than ever." Reading
has improved his life dramati-
cally, and he has achieved the
independence he longed for. He
owes much of his success to
Project Read.

Abbreviated
Universe

Compiled by Margaret
Bickers

Atlanta - Mayor
Maynard Jackson an-
nounced that he does not
plan to run for re-election at
the end of his third term . . .
The Dekalb County Council
announced that it welcomed
those individuals with "al-
ternate" lifestyles. Themes-
sage comes after comments
from the Cobb County
Board, about homosexuals
in their community.

National - President
Clinton presented part of his
"leaner" government plan
to the public, in an attempt
to gain support for an over-
haul of waste and needless
spending . . . The trial for
four defendants in the World
Trade Center bombing be-
gan on Sept. 14. The pros-
ecution hopes to use physi-
cal evidence, such as chemi-
cal residue, and van rental
papers in their case . . . Hillary
Rodham Clinton put forth
another section of the new
Health Care Plan, this time
with a pool of physicians a
patientcan choose from, like
HMO.

International - The Pal-
estine Liberation Organiza-
tion and Israel signed a mu-
tual recognition treaty on
Sept 13. This opens the door
for a peace settlement be-
tween Israel and Jordan, and
limited self-rule in the West
Bank and Jericho . . . Three
Pakistani and one American
peace keeper in Somalia died
in an ambush. Mobs of
women and children are
now throwing grenades and
rocks at the troops as they
try to police the city of
Mogadishu.

Arts & Entertainment

Page 10

The Profile

Friday, September 24, 1993

Winners and Snoozers

By Kelly Holton and Tracy Walker

nue Romance: A
Tale of Elvis, Detroit,
and Undying Love

Sleep Factor Rating Code

z - Only with a student ID at

Northlake
zz - Wait til it comes to the dollar-
fifty

zzz - Rent it at Kroger
zzzz - Hold out til it's edited for
TV

Who would think it's possible
to find true romance in Detroit?
Novice call-girl Alabama
(Patricia Arquette) certainly
never did at least not until she
met Clarence (Christian Slater).
The two lovers marry, having
known each other only one night,
and Clarence feels it his duty to
kill Alabama's pimp in order to
save her honor. Influenced by
his mentor, the ghost of Elvis,
Clarence takes Alabama on their
honeymoon a desperate escape
from pimps, drug-dealers, and
would-be murderers.

While "True Romance" is at
its heart a love story, much of the
action centers around a suitcase

full of uncut cocaine and the
menagerie of characters who
have designs on it. The intricate
plot and it is much too compli-
cated to explain completely
holds the viewer's attention
througout the movie, but it is the
ensemble cast which truly de-
lights. Gary Oldman again
proves his versatility by playing
Drexel, a white pimp who thinks
he is black. Although he meets
his demise early on, his dredlocks
and his bad attitude leave a last-
ing impression on the viewer.
Outstanding too are Christopher
Walken, Dennis Hopper, Val
Kilmer, and Bronson Pinchot,
although it is hard to imagine a
former Meposian as a cokehead.

Perhaps the most memorable
of the supporting players is
Floyd, portrayed in all his
drugged-out glory by Brad Pitt.
He'll definitely give you a new
perspective on cleaning fluids
and honey, and his character
serves to broaden the comic di-
mension of this extremely violent
movie.

It is this explicit violence that
is most bothersome about the
movie. By the end of the film,
there are no characters without

blood on their hands. The gore is
tempered with humor however,
which arises from unexpected
plot twists and from the charac-
ters' idiosincracies.

The violence, though horrible,
iecessary to 'True Romance", for
without it we would not under-
stand the terrible impact of
Clarence's misguided actions.
The movie's romantic spirit
makes the violence more accept-
able: the original killing is done
for love, and all of the other vio-
lence follows from this first act.
In fact, it is the true romance
which saves 'True Romance"
from being just another shoot-
em-up action movie. We believe
in Clarence and Alabama's love.
We care about them, and we want
them to escape their crimes and
their pasts, to start a new life
with each other. A sweetness
pervades "True Romance", a
sweetness which supersedes the
bloodshed and outshines the
comedy. In short, it tastes like a
peach.

Rating: zz

Habits of the Urban Mammat. A Sometimes Tasteless,
Sometimes Hilarious Look at Dating in the Nineties

By Kelly Holton

Arts & Entertainment Editor

If you're worried that you'll
never find the perfect guy or that
you'll never find a date at all,
perhaps you'll find some solace
in Neighborhood Playhouse's
production of Mating Habits of
theUrban Mammal. Artfully, di-
rected by Elizabeth Sharrocck
Rodriguez, Mating Habits tells
the story of five singles search-
ing, with very little good luck,
for the perfect mate. This musi-
cal comedy takes a satiric look at
life in the nineties and at the
search for true love.

Gary and Katherine, por-
trayed by John Shroeder and
Tamara McCurdy respectively,
are a couple who fall in love,
move in together, and quickly
begin to doubt their feelings.
They spend a great deal of the
play trying to convince them-
selves that they can make their
love survive. Leo, a brash macho
man played by Christopher S.
Connelly, fears commitment and
does not understand how to re-
late to women. In contrast Jeff
McKerley's Ernie struggles to
form relationships with other
men despite the fact that he is

HIV positive. Martha (Karen
Whitaker-Banks) rounds out this
cast of would-be lovers as a bitter
divorcee who no longer trusts
men but does not want to live
celibately either.

The highlight of this musical
is certainly the humor. Most of
the songs are funny spoofs of
real dating problems. "Absti-
nence Drag" performed by Ernie
makes light of the dangers of sex
in our disease-ridden world; no,
the subject really isn't funny, but
the song points out the frustra-
tion and limitation that many
people now feel in a humorous,
non- threatening way. Similarly,
"The Right Man" makes fun of
both men and women's unreal-
istic expectations of the perfect
mate. In this song, only a super-
hero would be a worthy boy-
friend.

Unfortunately, the humor in
Mating Habits of the Urban Mam-
mal sometimes moves beyond
funny into the realm of tasteless.
I go to the theater to be enter-
tained, not to have glow-in-the-
dark contraceptive devices
lobbed at me by the actors. The

characterization of Leo is among
the most tasteless aspects of the
entire play. His cigar-smoking
Cupid is off-putting, as is his
chauvinistic attitude. Though
Connelly plays the part well, the
audience is unable to feel sym-
pathy for Leo because he is so
undesirable. The indelicate hu-
mor and the making light of im-
portant subjects in a crude rather
than comic way mar this other-
wise enjoyable play.

Mating Habits of the Urban
Mamma] is performed in Neigh-
borhood Playhouse's Discovery
Arena, designed as a forum for
experimental theater. The actors
perform between the two sec-
tions of audience members and
do an excellent job of ensuring
tha t both sides are equally able to
view the play. However, the
chairs in the theater are placed so
close together tha t the patrons sit
shoulder to shoulder. More com-
fortable sea ting in this new arena
would make play watching a
more enjoyable experience.

Despite the moments of vul-
garity, Mating Habits is an enter-
Con tinned on page 12

Dating in the 90's is examined and spoofed in the warm and street-
wise musical,Mflfmg Habits of the Urban Marama/,making its
Southeast premiere at Discovery Arena next to Neighborhood
Playhouse in Decatur.

Two friends, played by Tamara McCurdy of Alpharetta and Karen
Whitaker-Banks of Atlanta, bemoan the state of women in the 90's
in the musical, Mating Habits of the Urban Mammal. Theshoivhas
been held over through October 17 with performances Thursday
through Sunday. For tickets call 373-5311.

Arts & Entertainment

Friday, September 24, 1993

The Profile

Page 1 1

Around Atlanta

Kudzu Cafe may slowly be growing into one of Atlanta's well known eateries

By Merisa Aranas

Did you ever wonder what
would happen if Laura Ashley,
Ralph Lauren, and Banana Re-
public exploded in a Buckhead
restaurant? A place called Kudzu
Cafe would slowly emerge from
the Atlanta crevices and make
many other restaurants green
with envy. Expensive? Some-
what. Worth the monev? Defi-
nitely !

Situated well on Peachtree
Street, Kudzu Cafe serves any
hungrv patron "casual American
food withasouthern flair." Their
menu has a wide variety of en-
trees that can easily please the
carnivorous, omnivorous, and
the finicky herbivorous stomach.
From a meaty filet mignon
wrapped in bacon, seared
chicken pasta, Savannah crab
cakes, grilled salmon, to a veg-
etable lover's warm goat cheese
salad or vegetable plate, there
reall v is something for everyone.

For the happy tea drinkers out
there (me included), they have
peach flavored tea!

Try not to skip the unique
appetizers that they offer. They
serve southern soda cracker
pizza, crispy crabmeat fritters,
and Fanny Flagg's famous fried
green tomatoes. I highly recom-
mend the hot crabmeat and ar-
tichoke dip served with home-
ma d e ju mbo sa 1 ti ne era ckers ( the
crackers were really huge!).

End the dinner the right way
with one of their delicious des-
serts. Both the Kudzu ice cream
moon pie and the chocolate chip
cookie pie are irresistible!

The cozy atmosphere of
Kudzu Cafe is something you
will really enjoy. A trip to their
bathroom will even make you
happy! For the class of 1995,
green was THE main theme of
this restaurant! Despite a
plethora of plants in every cor-

ner, linens inundated with dif-
ferent hues of green, matching
cotton vests with green leaves
for each of the attendants, every-
thing was decorated in a very
tasteful manner.

Overall, I would say my din-
ing experience at Kudzu Cafe
was quite delightful. They made
their entrees unique with signa-
ture side orders and little touches
of their "Kudzu flair." Make
reservations if you plan on din-
ing on the weekends. You may
have to wait 30 to 40 minutes for
a table! Make sure to bring
enough money, too. Their prices
range from $6.00 to $16.00. If you
have a special weekend planned
and are clueless as to where to
eat, Kudzu Cafe would definitely
be a good place to go.

Blackf riars Announces
Phaedra Cast list

Congratulations to the cast of this year's fall play:

Phaedra - Britton McMullian
Oenone - Amy Dry den
Aricia - Stephanie Stevens
Ismene - Vicki Vitelli
Theramanes - Laylage Courie
Panope - Deirdra Harris

Positions for Technical Crew are available on the door of the
rehearsal room in Dana Fine Arts building. Please turn in your
application by noon on September 17 if you are interested in
one of these positions.

Mating Habits

taining spoof of the world of dat-
ing. Itwon't teach you themean-
ing of life or even give you a
good idea about where to find
your next date, but this play is
definitely worth a few laughs.
Though it will not appeal to ev-

Contimied frontpage 10

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its of the . Urban Mammal is a
funny, enjoyable comment on
part of our lives.

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Calendar of Events

Compiled by Jenny Skridulis

Visual Art

High Museum of Art

For more information, call 892-
HIGH

Admission: $5 adults, $3 senior
citizens and college students, $1
children 6-17, children under 6
free.

10/1/93 Night and Day
A 1991 film starring Guilaine
Londez and Thomas Langmann
who play lovers in this very lyri-
cal French romance about a
young woman who juggles two
men, one who occupies her day-
time hours, the other her nights.

OPENING 9/21/ /93 Annie
Liebovitz- Photographs 1970-1990
Annie Leibovkz has long been
recognized as one of the most
exceptional portraitists of her
generation. Her style is an amal-
gam of humor, curiosity and
compassion. Leibovitz's pro-
vocative photographs of celebri-
ties have been in numerous
popular magazines. This nation-
ally touring retrospective of her
work includes 150 exceptional
color and black-and-white im-
ages. Among those pictured are
Ella Fitzgerald, Whoopi
Goldberg, John Lennon and
Mikhail Baryshnikov.

10/2/93-10/22/93 Taiwanese
Film Festival

Four films highlight this year's
Taiwanese Film Festival. They
include 'The Peach Blossom
Land", a beautifully filmed corn-
ed v abou t two plays one a story
of lovers in Shanghai in 1949, the
other an interpretation of a clas-
sical folk tale accidentally
booked into the same space for
dress rehearsal. The others in-
clude "Five girls and a Rope",
"First Date", and "Pushing
Hands"

9/30/93 Fabulous Folk Art ami
Photography Festival
The High is throwing an all day
festival which coincides with the
opening of two new exhibitions,
celebrating the museum's new
focus on Folk art and photogra-
phy. There will be a street party
with food, music and other live
entertainment. In addition, the
High will offer guided tours of
the inaugural exhibitions
"Printed Light: Two Decades of
Collecting Photography" and
"An American Sampler; Quilts
in the High Museum of Art."
Festival hours are 1 0 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Admission to the galleries is free.

10/29/93- 11/19/93 Latin

American Film Festival

This film festival showcases eight

outstanding films from Latin
America. Among these films are:
"Excess Baggage" which is about
a man who falls into a coma and
wakes up twenty years later to
find that he is "excess baggage"
to his family. "Like A Bride" is
set in Mexico City's Sephardic
Jewish community during the
'60s. It follows the lives of two
young women as they discover
art, love, politics and their own
identities. The other films occur
later.

The Spruill Center for the Arts

Located at 5339 Chamblee

Dunwoody Road

For information, call 394- 3447

OPENING 10/3/93 The South-
ern Landscape

This exhibit features work by four
Atlanta artists whose love for
nature and their media combine
to create unique and sensitive
interpretations of the Southern
landscape. The exhibit includes
paintings by Paul Blakely and
Junko Rothwell, watercolors by
BillieShelburn,and photographs
by Craig Tanner.

10/3/93 Works in Wood
An exhibit of wood bowls, ves-
sels, whimsical toys and tradi-
tional, contemporary and one-
of-a-kind furniture by five metro-
Atlanta artists, including Fred
Allen, Mark Barr, Nick Cook, Jack
Harich and Philip Moulthrop.

Falsettos hits high notes

By Kathryn Durkee

"Four Jews in a Room Bitching" opened the musical Falsettos with three men and a boy jumping
on a bed singing of the trials of life. The musical comedy which is playing at the Alliance September
1 through October 3 portrays the reactions and interactions of a family of which the father, Marvin,
is gay. The ex- wife is breaking down, the lover wants to striving to please, and the son does not
understand what is so beautiful about love, he'd rather play chess. Meanwhile Marvin's psychia-
trist falls in love with his ex-wife. The play presented a comical view of dealing with loved ones with
alternative lifestyles, yet on the other hand, it had serious undertones with the pain of ended
relationships and of loved ones with AIDS.

The set was fun to watch as the scenes changed . At the beginning of the play, the audience is face
to face with what looks like the outside of a building, and they may wonder where the actors will
have room to do their thing. Lo and behold, the cast appears on the roof singing and dancing as this
building, which actually houses the band, sinks into the floor and the roof becomes more-or less a
traditional stage. The psychiatrist patient chair turns up out of the floor, and the backdrop rotated
like a garage door to produce a bed or a dining room set floating to its spot. Although the story took
place in the late 70's/early 80' s, the furniture and clothing appeared to be right out of this decade
presenting the story's relevance today as weU as then.

In the tradition of musicals, there was no spoken dialogue; all communication was through song.
The actors sung their hearts out, but a few of the songs such as "You Gotta Die Sometime", sung
from Whizzer / s deathbed, did not quite show the pain and confusion it was meant to. Besides that,
Whizzer was the best physically fit dying AIDS patient I have ever seen. The singing was wonderful,
the acting was believable, in all it was a great show. However, I'm not sure of the musical's message.
Perhaps i t was to present victims of AIDS as martyrs. I agree that AI DS is a horrible disease and have
deep sympathy sympathize with the vitims and families of victims, but perhaps martyrdom is
pushing it a bit far. The cast had grave looks on their faces at the curtain call as if to emphasize the
serious point of the play. If this was not it, I must have missed it. Even so, I enjoyed the perfonrtance:
I laughed at the jokes and sympathized with the pain. If you happen to an extra $34.00 you yourself
can enjoy this comedy first hand. If not, I suggest the Plaza Theater ... it's only $1.50.

Theatre

Horizon Theatre

Located on Euclid and Austin
Avenues in Little Five Points
Box-Office 584-7450

OPEN1NG10/1/93* SixDegrees
of Separation

In this suspenseful comedy-
drama by John Guare, one of
America's most renowned play-
wrights, a dazzling black stranger
charms his way into the cozy
world of an affluent Manila ttan
couple, with devastating results.
This fast-paced runaway Broad-
way hit paints a scathingly funny
portrait of urban Americans as
we are now - the wealthy, the
down-and-out, the hustlers,the
star-struck, the liberal chic, the
Catchersin the Rye.

Neighborhood Playhouse

located at 430 W.Trinity Place in
downtown Decatur
Box Office- 373-5311

9/17/93-10/23/93* A FeiuGood
Men

The Atlanta premier of Aaron
Sorkin's 1 989 military courtroom
drama about two Marines
charged with murder and the
fierce code of honor which com-
pelled them .

Shakespeare Tavern

Box Office-874-5299

RUNNING until October 1 6 with
an additional performance on
October 24, Shakespeare's Mid-
summer Night's Dream. Sun at

The 7 Stages Theatre

RUNNING until October 24,
Unquestioned Integrity: The Hlllj
Thomas Hearings. Written by
Mame Hunt fromactual court-
room text, the play depicts the
important social issue of sexual
harrassment.

Music

Variety Playhouse

Located at 1099 Euclid Avenue
in Little Five Points
Box Office 524-7354

9/22/93 Steve Morse Band and
Lost Tribe

Rock /jazz fusion from the leg-
endary guitarist from the Dixie
Dregs

9/24/93 Marcia Ball
Rhythm and Blues, boogie
woogieand roc kin' New Orleans
sounds from the pianist/ singer
from Austin.

Other

Fernbank Science Center

Located at 156 Heaton Park Dr.
For information call 370-1336

OPENING 10/2/93 Garfield's
Galactic Adventure
In Garfield the Cat's first plan-
etarium show, everyone can join
in while he explores the autumn
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The Profile

Friday. October 8, 1 993 The Independent Student Newspaper of Agnes Scott College Vol 80, issue 2

Parietals changed by residence hall vote

Inman, Main, Rebekah and Walters to begin 24 hour visitation today at noon

By Josie Hoilman

Editor-in-Chief

Residence Hall Association
(RHA) decided last Friday, Oc-
tober 1, to take the issue of 24
hour parietals to the individual
dormitories, despite the strong
disapproval of the administra-
tion. The motion passed with an
overwhelming majority of 22 to

i. t

In meetings held on Sunday
for Main, and on Monday for the
other dormitories, all but
Winship passed resolutios call-
ing for 24 hour visitation, seven
days a week (24/7, as most stu-
dents have quickly named it).

According the RHA Presi-
dent, Natasha Browner, Main
and Inman arrived at a final de-
cision with the most ease. After
only one vote a two-thirds ma-
jority was reached in both dor-
mitories. The other votes in Main
and Inman were mostly for a
change in parietal hours to a 24
hour visitation only on week-

When I was a freshman at
Agnes Scott, the words "Senior
Investiture" evoked no feeling in
me whatsoever. Aside from the
fact that I had no idea what it
was, it was three whole years

ends. Few votes cast indicated
tha t students wanted parietals to
remain the same.

Although Rebekah and
Walters eventually arrived at a
24 hours, seven days a week
decsion, three votes were taken
before a two-thirds majority was
attained. Some residents are
dubious of the voting process.
One junior said "I felt like the
process led us inevitably to that
decision."

At press time on Tuesday,
Winship had reached decisions
by floors. Both first and third
floor chose 24 hours, seven days
a week,and second floor decided
upon extended hours through
the week, and 24 hours on the
weekend. Visitation will now
begin at noon through the week
rather than at 6 p.m.

The voting procedure began
with six options, then moved to
the top three in the second vote,

away. Why worry about it? Over
the next two years, I remained
baffled over the meaning of this
grand event, but I reasoned that
old Scottie traditions tend to cre-
ate great excitement on campus

and the top two in the third. It
was designed with options so
that students could ask for ex-
actly what they want, rather than
beginning with only two choices
decided upon by RHA.

Each dorm will meet again in
one month to discuss the effec-
tiveness of their visitation deci-
sion. If necessary, they will vote
again, and a two-thirds majority
will be needed to change the pa-
rietal hours.

Speaking for the administra-
tion, Dean Hudson said in a com-
munity meeting last Friday that
she was most concerned with
the process RHA decided to fol-
low. Hudson urged "due pro-
cess," a procedure which Presi-
dent of SGA, Missy Mullinax,
insists does not apply to resi-
dence life.

If the traditional procedure
were followed, a vote for taking
the parietal issue to individual

because they represent mile-
stones in our student careers.
Finally, the day before my par-
ents were due to arrive on
Presser's doorstep for this auspi-
cious occasion, I decided to try

dormitories must be passed twice
by SGA, once by judicial review,
and then by the Board of Trust-
ees.

Mullinax and other SGA
members, along with RHA, in-
terpret the SGA Constitution to
mean that students ha ve the right
to self-governance in the resi-
dence halls.

Browner says that RHA
planned during leadership re-
treat to survey resident's opin-
ions about parietal hours. When
the proposal came from two stu-
dents to consider the plan of self-
governance, RHA immediately
began deliberation and passed
the resolution.

"I want people to realize that
RHA thought long and hard
about this. We weren't bedazzled
by anyone. We were hesitant to
go through the traditional pro-
cess, because we had doubts
about the effectiveness of the pro-

and discover the true meaning
behind the Investiture ceremony.

Unfortunately, no one could
really explain it to me. All any-
one knew was that we'd be
capped by Dean Blanshei and
listen to a speech by Dr. Cozzens,
all with the pomp that is typical
of these Agnes Scott functions.
Once the service was over, how-
ever, I found that the real reasons
for the occasion were far more
special.

Senior Investiture embodies
many meanings for those who
attended. The school congratu-
lates the seniors for having made
it to the very last stage of a very
challenging college career. Se-
niors feel pride, excitement and
no small relief, for having made
it to the home stretch. Parents
also have the chance to see that
all the blood, sweat and tears it
took to get us here and get us
through, was well worth it.

I must say that what struck
me as the most impressive part
of Investiture was the fact that it
is another one of those fine, old
traditions that ASC continues to
uphold, while many other
schools have passed it by. As a
senior, Maria Balais says, "It's the
traditional ceremonies like Se-
nior Investiture that make the
past, present, and futureof Agnes
Scott timeless."

cess itself," said Browner on
Monday.

Browner also said that "I'm
insulted by the fact that they [the
administration] think that a
handful of people could per-
suade all the residents into some-
thing they weren't already will-
ing to do. ASC has set up a
facade that we are prepared for
the future, but when it comes to
residence life, that is all negated.
In that aspect, it is an insult be-
cause they expect us to one th i rig,
and then treat us like another."

In response to the concerns of
the administration, Browner
said, "From this I hope people
will learn something -that this is
not a free reign, that this a model
for discipline. After all, we must
learn to be respectful of others,
both in the work place and at
home."

RHA treasurer, Carrie
Clemence, agrees. "I think that it
is about time the students started
deciding things for themselves.
This is something that neither
the Board of Trustees nor the
ad ministration should have any-
thing todo with becauseitdoesn't
affect them directly.

RHA also plans to go through
traditional, administrative due
process while simultaneously
enacting the new visitation hours
today at noon.

RHA strongly encourages stu-
dents to understand the new
guidelines and as Britt Brewton,
Resident Director of Inman, said
Monday, "If anything, the rules
will be more strictly enforced."

A letter outlining new poli-
cies should be distributed by
campus mail today.

Editor's note:

Look for a features article with
both the administrative and SGA
perspective in the October 21 issue
of the Profile.

If you'd like your voice heard
across campus, submit a letter to box
5 by October 17, expressing your
opinion on parietals, the President,
the trenches or any other campus-
related issue.

Also, enjoy Black Cat - in your
dorm room if you chose!

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Newly capped seniors: (from left to right) Martha Daniel, Perrin Cothran, Kim Johnson and Kim
Davis. Senior Investiture was conducted on Saturday, September 25 with English professor
Christine Cozzens as the faculty speaker.

One senior s reflections on Senior Investiture and tradition

By Martha Daniel

Page 2

The Profile

Friday, October 8, 1993

Abbreviated
Universe

Compiled by Margaret Bickers

Atlanta - A commission is holding a hearing re-
garding the building of another major airport in the
Atlanta region. Necessary expansion of the William B.
Hartsfield International Airport has proven impos-
sible to continue at the present location. The airport
operates at nearly full capacity daily and it is feared
that the Olympic traffic will overwhelm the facility.
The cities of Griffin and Macon want the new location
to be south of the city, while other groups would like
to see it in the North.

Residents of Smyrna felt a small earth quake the
week of Sept. 13. Measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale,
the quake stems from ground water movements, and
not a fault.

National - President Clinton addressed the United
Nations General Assembly on Sept. 27. He presented
a new list of criteria for armed intervention in global
crises, and asked that the United States share in reduc-
ing the UN budget.

The Clinton health care bill entered the floor of
Congress on Sept. 28. This plan provides for cradle-to-
grave medical care for all Americans, including the
unemploved and those with pre-existing medical con-
ditions. One of the problems lies in the provision that
all businesses must provide insurance for their em-
ployees. This would unfairly hurt small businesses,
critics say .

Aviation pioneer Gen. James "Jimmy" Doolittledied
September 28, at the age of ninety-five. In addition to
test flying and racing aircraft in the 1920's and 30's, he
led the first bomber attack on the Japanese home
islands in 1942.

FBI agents, along with local police, are investigating
whether a barge crashed into a bridge on which an
Amtrak passenger train derailed, killing at least 41
people. The derailment* occurred on Wednesday,
September 22. It is the deadliest accident in Amtrak's
history.

A Florida public utility plant shut one of its nuclear
reactorson Hutchinson Island after thousandsof dying
jellyfish clogged an ocean pipe.

International - Boris Yeltsin and the Russian Parlia-
ment came to a parting of ways. Yeltsin dismissed the
Parliament and called for new elections in December.
The Parliament declared Yeltsin out of order, and
swore in his vice president as the new president of the
Russian Republic. Despite claims to represent the
Russian people, the Parliament failed to gain backing
for its actions. The remaining members of the ruling
bodv remained in the "White House/' surrounded by
their guards. Yeltsin ait off their electricity, water, and
heat. In addition, armed guards werestationed around
the outside of the building. The military forces stated
that they stand behind Yeltsin, but they will remain
outside the dispute.

Somali gunmen fired on a U.S. Blackhawk helicop-
ter. They shot the plane down, killing three Ameri-
cans. Three Pakistani troopers were wounded when
they arrived at the scene of the burning helicopter.
Forces loyal to Gen. Aideed are said to have commit-
ted the action.

Agnes Scott campus serves as back
drop for Chick-Fil-A film

By Kerry Murphy
News Editor

Two weeks ago on campus,
you may have noticed cameras,
film crews, and actors out on our
quad; they were here to shoot a
Chick-Fil-A training film for
employees. Chick-Fil-A, which
is widely recognized as a re-
spected organization, made the
contract with Agnes Scott
through Carolyn Wynens of Pub-
lic Relations. Chick-Fil-A paid
the college a good amount for
the use of the campus.

Yet, the day of filming, unex-
pected problems arose. Carolyn
Wynens, who headed up the
project, was not here to person-
ally supervise the filming. She
was on vacation and the produc-
tion crew at Chick-Fil-A was
unable to change their travel
schedule to accommodate for
Carolyn's absence; instead Sara
Pilger took responsibility for su-

pervision on the day of filming.
However, certain items were
laid out in the contract that were
not adhered to on the actual day
of filming. For example, Carolyn
was told that Agnes Scott stu-
dents would serve as a backdrop
for the filming. In actuality, stu-
dents were several times asked
to move or to walk a different
route due to filming. Another
problem was that Carolyn was
told that the extras in the film
would have makeup work done
on the set. Yet, Sara Pilger found
a hairdresser cutting hair in the
snack bar in Alston Center. The
Alston Center was also used by
the prod uction crew as a hold i ng
place for the extras. The supervi-
sor of the extras left early, allow-
ing the extras to overtake the
snack bar. * Also, a few of the
extras made harassing and ob-

noxious comments to A^nes
Scott students.

There were also other prob-
lems on our part, such as un-
wanted bulldozers digging in
front of Evans Dining Hall. Also,
because of the poor wea ther con-
ditions, Chick-Fil-A was unable
to finish their shoot. Yet, because
of length of time thev spent on
campus, they had to pav for the
whole day.

Carolyn Wynens regrets am
inconveniences which the Agnes
Scott community may have had
and wishes that she would have
been here to supervise the film-
ing personally. Right now she is
in the process of talking toChick-
Fil-A about the problems that
arose during their filming on
campus.

ASC P.D. Blues

Only two criminal incidents .
have occurred since the last issue
of The Profile. Two cars were
broken into while parked in the
east side of the Walters lot, near
the Alumnae House. One of the
vehicles had a radio taken, and
several small items were taken
from the second car. Please re-
member to not leave anything of
value on your car seats. This is a
sure way to get your vehicle bro-
ken into. Also, during campus
patrols, officers have found sev-
eral students' vehicles unlocked.
Lock your car doors and take
your keys, even if you are just
getting gas at the local station.

Harassing phones calls have
been reported in the early morn-
ing hours. Never talk with any-
one you don't know over the

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conducted in the residence halls.
Please remember to evacua te t he
building immediately. Know the
location of the fire extinguishers
nearest yoilt room and in the
kitchen.

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The Profile

Page 3

Fujimori speaks out about women in Japan

Visiting professor from Kinjo-Gokuin shores culture

By Shuko Takes hita

As issues of race and class do
not concern a homogeneous so-
ciety like Japan, ma ny people are
unaware of the prevalence of
prejudice. This discrimination is
in regard to Japanese women.
With closed-minded attitudes
about sexism, women seldom
fight for equal rights. As long as
women do not speak out, men's
attitudes will never change. Pro-
fessor Fujimori addressed sexual
discrimination in her lecture,
"Japanese Female Scholars: Their
Problems and Situations."

Fujimori explained that fe-
male teachers have much better
working conditions than other
women. There is not a difference
in income between female and
male teachers. Women in the
academic world can receive one

year for maternity leave. Only a
few big companies have also
adopted this policy.

Fujimori belongs to one of the
only active women's organiza-
tions in Japan. The Female Schol-
ars Society of Nagoya struggles
to improve conditions for all Japa-
nese women. One of their cur-
rent fights regards the laws about
naming. Japanese law requires
that a married couple have only
one last name, either the
husband's or the wife's. Most
Japanese elect to keep the
husband's name, but this means
that women must give up their
identities as descendants of their
families. In addition, when ca-
reer women marry and lose their
last names, their business repu-
tation is altered.

The Female Scholars Society
has also fought the feminization
of poverty. More and more
women are living beyond their
means due to the serious prob-
lem of divorce. As in the United
States, the living conditions of
women in Japan drop dramati-
cally after a divorce. The govern-
ment needs to help divorced
women find jobs or send them to
job training schools. Widespread
counseling should also be intro-
duced to Japan.

Fujimori inspired and touched
many people in her mission to
educate the campus on the state
of women in modern Japan.
Unfortunately, she left for Japan
on September 29, but she left us
more aware than we were when
she came.

Student offers safety tips for campus living

By Margaret Bickers
Staff Writer

Residents of Winship dorm,
please note: your outside ash
tray is in the evidence collection
of the Public Safety Department.
The object in question was used
to break into two cars in the
Walter's parking lot on the
evening of September 23. The
criminal picked up the ash tray
and battered car windows. He
was able to enter two cars.

The head of Agnes Scott's
Public Safety department, Rus
Drew, expressed serious concern
about this incident. The perpe-
trator had apparently hidden in
the bushes by the lot, watching
the area and consuconsumed a
bottle of alcohol. It is possible
thatseveral Agnes Scott students
saw the person involved, and

did not report his presence to
Public Safety.

The person involved in the
incident last week where a stu-
dent was assaulted near the rail-
road tracks, is currently behind
bars. Public Sa fety thanks her for
her very prompt action and will-
ingness to prosecu te the of fend er.

Despite the two recent events,
there have been no major crimes
on campus this year. The stu-
dents and faculty are asked to
help maintain this good record
by keeping their eyes open for
possible problems. Please report
anything you see that looks sus-
picious to Public Safety.

On the question of security
systems for the dorms, the wir-
ing is in place, Chief Drew says.

The only remaining steps are to
acquire the necessary funds and
permission to install the equip-
ment. The system features a key
pad and access code. According
to Public Safety, the risk of people
reading the code as it is entered is
slim because the design of the
screens and a scrambling feature
in the system.

Also on the topic of building
access, a request has been made
by Public Safety that students
not put their ID cards on their
keyrings. Also, people are asked
to stop leaving their keys on the
table in the dining hall. It is too
easy for someone to grab them
and disappear.

On Thursday, September 30, Orientation Council sponsored a Big Sister/Little Sister trip to the
Braves game against the Houston Asttos. Although the Astros won the game with a final score of
10-8, the students who participated had a great time. Pictured here left to right are Big and Little
Sisters, Judy Bowers '95 and Amanda Lockhart '97.

Professor Fujimori spoke about Japanese culture for women.
Pictured here are students from Kinjo-Gakuin in Nagoya.

Ivory Towers

Compiled by Jenny Skridulis

Clemson University - A new honor code imple-
mented in Clemson's College of Engineering, during
the first week of school, has temporarily been placed
on a volunteer-only basis. In other wwds, the stu-
dents within the College of Engineering are for the
moment not required to act in accordance with the
code, but may do so strictly on a voluntary basis. The
problem arose when professors realized that most
students had not been notified of the change to an
honor code system. The faculty were also given
incorrect information about the new code. A faculty
Senate is currently investigating the honor code and
its fairness to students, namely because only six
students were involved in the drafting of the code,
leaving others with no vouch in the matter.

A recent loft collapse has prompted a safety
memo to all students at Clemson . At the beginning of
the semester, a student's loft fell five feet to the floor
of the room. Housing has stated that it was a
manufacturer's error and not the student's fault.
They have issued a memo to all of the dorms stressing
the importance of safety and have advised students
to contact the manufacturer if they are worried about
their lofts.

Berry College - A Berry College student competed in
the Miss Teen U.S.A. pageant this year as "Miss
Georgia." A former Miss Georgia had encouraged
Denesha Reid to enter the Miss Georgia Teenager in
1992. She placed sixth in that pageant. In the Miss
Teen U.S.A. pageant, Reid placed fifth. Before the
event, Reid had to undergo months of training, in-
cluding weight lifting and interviewing techniques.
Reid said the best part of the pageant was when
thirty-five of the girls prayed together right before the
pageant began.

Southwestern University - A biology professor
known for tracking down students who have missed
a lab and offering wake-up calls for his early classes
has been selected as the 1993 U.S. Professor of the
Year. Vincente Domingo Villa of Southwestern Uni-
versity in Georgetown, Texas, was named for this
honor on September 21 by the Council for Advance-
ment and Support of Education. He was chosen from
390 nominated instructors. He will receive a $1 0,000
cash prize contributed by the Carnegie foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching. Through Villa's
encouragement, the number of Hispanic students
entering the sciences at Southwestern has increased.
There were no Hispanic students in the sciences
when Villa started teaching. Today, more than 10%
of the university's biology graduates are Hispanic.

Editorials

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Alum Responds to Schmidt

By Jessica C. Carey

Class of 1992

Asheville, North Carolina

I am compelled to write in response to the reflections of President
Schmidt in your front-page article on September 24 President Schmidt
to Retire lime, 1994.

In the article President Schmidt provides us with a number of
personal observations on recent college events, including the Fac-
ulty vote of no confidence, morale around the college, Faculty
quality and Faculty manipulation of students. I find her comments
both laughable and pitiful.

Allow me to speak directly, if I may: President Schmidt, just
because the Faculty chose not to include you in their discussions
regarding the vote of no confidence does not mean that they did not
debate the matter. It means you were not welcome at the debate.
Most of us commend the faculty fordoing what they have every right
to do: lead their own meetings and come to their own conclusions.
By the time the motion came up at that Faculty meeting, it was a no-
brainer. There was probably nothing left to say.

In a broader sense, everyone in the "Agnes Scott community"
(Alums included) should be deeply troubled by the President's
assertion that "it's hard to believe that morale could be low around
here." Good facilities, good students, good faculty development
funds.. .gosh, if you've got all that, who needs a good leader? Who
needs a good President? Hey, faculty. ..want a raise? Well, we can't
help you with that, but why don't you take a walk around the track?
Problems with racism on campus? Take a dip in the nice pool and
cool off. So many students leaving after a year or two? They were
probably the bad apples anyway. Frustrated by the President's lack
of charismatic vision? Go sit in the pretty quad and count to ten.
Angry about arbitrary tenure decisions and /or spiteful acts of
administrative revenge? Be grateful ASC has good students and quit
sweating the small stuff. You can't have it all, you know.

The President states that one of the most troubling parts of Agnes
Scott's culture is that the "faculty seem to involve students so much
in their ow n lack of morale." This is an insult to both faculty and
students, in that it both insinuates that students do not have the
common sense or vision to be concerned about faculty issues, and
that faculty have to co-opt the students into fighting their fights. On
thecontrary,'PresidentSchmidt. You have done the dirty work: you
have merged the students, faculty and a good number of alums into
a unified block. Congratulations.

President Schmidt's comments in the last Profile article indicate
that in the process of destroying both her effectiveness and credibil-
ity, she has simultaneously lost touch with reality. For the sake of the
institution (and the college's attempt to both retain and recruit
students) the President should take an immediate leave of absence
until June 30, 1 994. As the saying^oes^one must lead, follow, or get.
out of the way. It is time for the President to eet out of the way.

Uf f ish Thoughts

By Holly Williamson and Kathleen Hill

"After all, we're all adults ..."

Columnists' note: Ironically
enough, we fully intended to
approach the subjects of respon-
sibility and accountability prior
to the uproar occasioned by the
recent decisions concerning
dorm life at ASC.

Good day and welcome to an-
other game of "Power Play," that
show wherein the most vocally
disgruntled contestant always
wins, regardless of the effect on
the other players. Our category
today is adulthood. Now, if the
contestants are ready, we can
proceed.

First answer: "Going out and
drinking themselves blind, and
thus putting themselves (some-
times others, as well) in poten-
tially dangerous situations."
BUZZZZ!

Contestant Number Two: What
is what many Agnes Scott Col-
lege students do on the week-
ends?

DING DING DING DING
DING!

Second answer: "Traveling after
nightfall alone and by foot when
Public safety offers alternative
modes of transportation, leav-
ing outer doors propped open,
and not reporting suspicious oc-
currences on campus."
BUZZZZ!

Contestant Number Two: What
is stupid?

FOG HORN NOISE.
Hostess: No, we're sorry, Num-
ber Two, a true answer, but not
the one we're looking for today.
Does either of our other contes-
tants know the correct response?
BUZZZZ!

I began talking to the lady in
front of me while in line for a
Coke at the Braves game. By
whatever transition, we began
talking about the gender of cats.
(Contrary to what you are think-
ing, I did not initiate this topic.)

Anyway, the lady has this
cat a real fluffy one with long
hair. She is the second owner of
"Huffy," she lives alone, and she
doesn't want any baby cats roam-
ing the house. So she took Huffy
to the vet to be spayed.

Not long after she dropped
.the cat off, the vet called and told
her to come pick up her cat. Con-

Contestant Number One: What
are safety hazards which Agnes
Scott women repeat quite fre-
quently?

DING DING DING DING
DING!

Third Answer: "Departmental
stances which engender the com-
plaint that professors have little
faith in student dedication and
maturity/'
BUZZZZ!

Contestant Number Three: What

are absence policies?

DING DING DING DING

DING!

Hostess: Our time is almost up,
and since we have a three way
tie, we will move swiftly to the
bonus round.

Answer: "The misconception
commonly held among tradition-
ally aged students which leads
to a chaotic liberty sans responsi-
bility."
BUZZZZ!

Contestant Number Two: What
is "We're adults now?"
FANFARE!

Hostess: Congratulations, Con-
testant Number Two, you've
won a lifetime of common sense
and a chance to return to defend
your title of adult du jour. For
our losers, we offer a dose of
reality, tempered with responsi-
bility in the form of a new-found
freedom. . . .

"Laws and principles are not for
the times when there is no temp-
tation: they are for such mo-
ments as this, when body and
soul rise in mutiny against their
rigour; stringent are they; invio-
late they shall be. If at my indi-
vidual conveniencelnughtb^

them, what would be their
worth?"

Charlotte Bronte, jane Ei/ie

Probably zilch. Probably, in
fact, they'd become more or less
like the rules which RHA is at-
tempting to institute in the ab-
sence of order incurred by cir-
cumventing due process. Should
we really trust ourselves and our
peers with the power that we
(and we use the pronoun loosely)
have usurped? Let's examine
the cornerstone upon which the
student body is attempting to
build tins precedent: adulthood.

What does it mean to be
grown-up? Is this a definition
based solely on age? Is there a
magic time when we reach 1 7 or
18 or 26 that we transform into
adults? ASC students ought to
address these questions before
they repeat the tired old whine-
and -protest routine, "But we're
all adults

We believe adulthood to be
founded on responsibility, on
discretion, on common courtesy,
on common sense. We further
believe adults to be financially
independent from their parents,
to accept life's thorns with its
blossoms, and to have experi-
enced a few of the trials of the
world outside these Gothic halls.
Now, given this definition, is it
adult to go directly toward revo-
lutionary measures without seek-
ing change first through estab-
lished channels 1 Is it adult to
endanger the campus under the
pretense of attaining power? Is it
adult toseize freedom whereoth-

Con tinned on page 6

Sex, Life & Gender

By Michelle Smith

cerned, the woman rushed to see
what was the matter.

Well, it turned out that the
"she" cat was not a "she" cat at
all. "She" was a "he!"

Huffy was on the table ready
to undergo the knife. The long
hairs were parted for surgery
when the gender identity crisis
was discovered. Not only was
Huffy now a boy, but she (now
he) had already been neutered.

Laughing, I wondered how
much thisgender identity change
would affect the cat's day to day
activities. Would he be harassed
by the other cats? Would he feel
d iscrimina tion in the workplace?

And what would his mother say
about this change in sexuality?

Others would perceive him
differently now. When he was a
she-cat, people respected him.
The community felt at ease know-
ing that as an aggressive she-cat,
the mice would not take over.
(Everyone knows that girl cats
are better mousers.)

Sexuality and gender play a
big part in our everyday lives.
Perceptions are influenced by the
roles we are asked to fulfill.

I chuckle, but only in the world
of cats is it more favorable to be a
female. Unless of course, you're
a rat.

Editorials

From The Trenches

Friday, October 8, 1993

The Profile

Pits and random garbage continue to surround Walters. What dorm will be next?

Carpe Coffee

By The Dead Poets

One miscellaneous evening,
I suddenly heard the ringing of
my telephone and I eagerly ran
to it hoping it w ould be the cute
Pizza King boy with my large
pepperoni pizza, but to my dis-
ma v, i t was GOD !!!! He (I apolo-
gize if this is not politically cor-
rect but I don't give a flying flip)
anyway, back to God. He made
polite chit-chat for a while and
then got to the heart of the call.
He wanted my companion and
I to find, no, not the Holy Grail,
but the Holy Grind, coffee grind
that is. It all began innocently
enough, we thought. We had
cash, we'd pay. Mission accom-
plished. But alas, not so simple.
God threw us thecurveball from
HELL!!! We marched tm over to
our local spot, the Freight Room,
for the glorified coffee. But, this
was a place inhabited by Satan
with a cover charge of eight
bucks. We were certain God
wanted us to have cheap coffee.
So we trotted off to find the cof-
fee which we were certain was
near. We went to Mick's but it
was closed due to a tea party.

We don't want tea, we told Betsy
who was hosting that evening,
"We are on a mission from God."
We left. We wandered many a
mile gazing in shop windows even
sitting in taverns with waitresses
who would not serve us because
Satan had taken over their exist-
ence and their coffee supplv. God
was not playing fair. Restaurant
after restaurant, bar after bar (we
even ventured down to the High-
lands) we found no solace in their
menus. What great place might
hold such coffee so great that God
would hide it form us. Well, we
were getting tired of God's little
games. We were too smart for
this senseless wandering through-
out Atlanta. Aha! Like a flash of
lighting from the great beyond,
we turned to one another and
screamed in orgasmic pleasure
"A&P. ThatistheGardenofEden,
the ark of all arks, the Juan of the
Valdez." We went. We shopped
(comparatively of course). We
purchased . We with much glee in
our souls walked from this great
Mecca of coffedom to take our
treasure to God. Only, God was a

wacky prankster. When we re-
turned to the ever so quiet cam-
pus of Agnes Scott, we got the big
boss on the phone. "Hello, God
speaking" "Yeah, God? We got
the goods." He laughed a little
chuckle and said "Look at the
package." My companion ever
so carefully removed the pack-
age from the bag and to our hor-
ror it read "Hot Cocoa" This is
not coffee for all you cola drink-
ers out there. God was playing
hard ball with our names on it.

Thus, we, the Dead Poets,
make a plea to the administra-
tion of Agnes Scott College. We
are not asking for 24 hours of sin
(which is the assumption made
concerning 24 hour parietals) or
a li ttle voice on the Board of Tru s t-
ees but a Grail filled with Irish
Coffee to the brim. Oh yes, God
called and said that coffee houses
should be built all around Agnes
Scott College so that we, the bur-
dened students, do not have to
search, risking life and limb, for
the holy grind.

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By Debbie Herron

Asconetructioncontinuesaroundcampue,one
student tryetobeat "theconepiracy"with humor.

I have been a relatively quiet student during the past
three years at Agnes Scott, but now that I have reached my
senior year (and FINAL year) I feel that I have earned the
right to complain. I have seen this institution do some
pretty stupid stuff in the past, however their most recent
action has got to be the most comical of them all. It all
started a couple of days ago when I awoke one morning (I
try to do this everyday) and found a large trench outside
of my dorm (I live in Inman). I try to keep abreast of the
world events so I knew Agnes Scott was not being invaded
by any other countries (or for that matter any Tech guys)
so I assumed that this was the beginning of our wonderful
advancement towards technology. I say that with sarcasm
because, being a senior, I will not receive any of the benefits
from this advancement, but I refuse to dwell on this point.
The trench at that time was still relatively small so I just
figured that I could deal with the small inconvenience,
even if the project was started the week of senior investi-
ture and most parents were horrified. To my dismay the
trench kept on growing until it finally succeeded in cutting
off Inman and the dining hall from the rest of campus. This
brings me to my next point, surely nobody could be as
stupid as these people appear to be.

At times the city from which I come seems to have a
monopoly on all the stupid people with all the half-baked
ideas. For example, there is a road close to my house which
was badly in need of repair and widening. This road also
had two bridges on it. Well in order to speed up the
completion of this project the engineers decided it would
be smart to take out both bridges at once. Now maybe this
idea seems intelligent to you as well, however the 200
residents that would have been stranded in their houses
for 9 months thought it was a dumb idea, and rightly so.
So, luckily the day before the bridges were set to be blasted
the road crew caught a clue and did not blast both bridges.
I can not help to think maybe the people working to install
our new technology did not just blast both bridges. Yet, I
am willing togiveall people the benefit of thedoubt, surely
they considered the fact that Inman and the dining hall are
virtually cut off from the rest of campus. Since I give them
the benefit of the doubt it leads me to believe that there is
a conspiracy going on (I am also a Political Science major
so I can find conspiracy in anything). Here it is mv BIG
CONSPIRACY THEORY: the people who operate the
dinning hall conspired with the trench diggers to keep
students out of the dining hall. You see, this method works
much more effectively than merely locking the doors and
refusing to let us in! Just call me Sherlock, I caught them
intheact. Unfortunately for them, their plan backfired. All
the walking we have to do to finally get in the dining hall
makes us eat more, and the thought of having to tread back
over, through, and around the trenches makes us stay
longer. Nice try guys.

Oh well, surely this cannot go on much longer. The
letter I got in my mailbox says it will be completed by
Spring of 1994, just in time for Graduation! I am a sleep
walker so I just hope that one night I do not wander off and
wake up in a trench, and if I do I hope someone who finds
the article remotely amusing will help me out.

DISCLAIMER: I do not mean to offend anyone, I hope
instead I have made someone smile and maybe even
laugh. This is just how I see it from my side of the trench ! ! !

P.S. The Inman phase of the advancement project is
almost finished now, I would like to think it is because they
realized I caught on to their conspiracy. In any case you
might be the next target of this wonderful project, and i f so
just remember to keep your sense of humor and maybe go
buy some hip waders for when it rains!!!

Sports

Page 6

The Profile

Friday, October 8, 1993

Sports Briefs

Rough running

By Kerri Williams

The cross country team is com-
ing on strong. Despite a rough
course which included tree
stumps, gravel, and running over
wood planks in the Atlanta Metro
Meet on Friday, September 24,
the cross country team finished
third overall. Coach Arthur says
times are good and she is very
pleased with the progress of the
team.

The meet was, to say the least,
challenging. Coach Arthur ex-
plains thatit is much harder work
for the athletes when they are
running on rough terrain. The
women had to deal with poor
footing while trying to maintain
a consistent pace throughout the
5Krace. Kate Whitacare finished
4th out of a field of 30 with a time
of 24:34, and Vivi Jarrett followed
in 6th place with a time of 25:57.

"Now that the team has estab-
lished their base miles in prac-
tice/' says Coach Arthur, "they
are focusing on cutting time off
their races." Arthursays it's great
to see times dropping for the
women at every meet. "All these
runners are new to the team this
year," Arthur says, "and have
never really competed this seri-
ously before. They are really com-
ing together as a team."

The next meet is on Saturday,
October 9, for the Double Dual at
Oglethorpe University.

UPCOMING
EVENTS

Cross Country

Saturday, October 9
Double Dual at Oglethorpe
University

Soccer

Wednesday , October 1 3 vs.
Emory at 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 16vs.
Lynchburg at 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 19 vs.
University of the South at
3:00 p.m.

Volleyball

Saturday, October 16 at At
lanta Christian at 1:00 p.m.
Trinity Baptist at 2:00 p.m.
Monday, October 18 at
Wesleyan at 7:00 p.m.
Tennessee Temple at 3:00
p.m.

Wednesday, October 20 at
SDC at 6:00 p.m.
Anderson at 7:00 p.m.

Volleyball team
spikes competi-
tion

By Tiffany Goodman

The volleyball team has con-
tinued to improve during the past
weeks. On September 17 they
played a tri-match at Spelman
College against Spelman and
Knoxville College. To take the
match meant winning three out
of five games, and Agnes Scott
easily beat Knoxville.

The team played very hard
against Spelman, winning the
first game 15-7 and losing the
next three with scores of 15-13,
15-12, and 16-14.

"It was a really close match,"
said captain Wendy Jones. "The
team worked really hard and
cooperated well. We came back
[during] the second game from a
10-0 score to lose by only two."

After soundly defeating
Wesleyan at home on September
18, the team travelled to Chatta-
nooga for a quad-match with
LaGrange, Tennessee Temple,
and Freewill Baptist Bible Col-
lege. Their record when they
returned was 6 wins and 4 losses.

The team wished to thank all
its loyal fans and encourages
everyone to come support them
at the next home game. ASC
volleyball loves its fans!

Soccer kicks off season with success

By Nanska Lovell

This year the athletic depart-
ment is off to a great start. One
of the main programs that is
booming this fall is the soccer
team. Coached by Cathy Benton,
ASC's new athletic director, this
year's team has 21 players, rang-
ing from first year students to
seniors. The seniors this year
are Beth Barnes and Sara Sabo,
followed by the juniors, Kristi
Mendheim and Jennie Dolan.
The sophomores, who make up
the most of the team, are
Adrienne McNees, Carrie
Mastromarino, Ester Dunn,
Gina Rice, Jessica Biggs, Laura
McCrodden, Sara Aldefer,
Shailia Stephens, and Tammy

Marcellus. And bringing up the
end of the team lineup are the
freshmen, Amanda Lockhart,
Becky Wilson, Chelsy Parks,
Connie Leonard, Desiree
Zaballero, Martha Bailey, Carrie
Fain, and Mona Cousin. The soc-
cer team started this year's sea-
son weeks before school had be-
gun and have already played ten
games, including the Hollins Col-
lege Classic Soccer Tournament.
1 n the t( >u rnament, played on Sep-
tember 25 and 26 in Roanoke,
VA, the ASC spirit remained
strong, despite the fact they were
so far from home. The team tri-
umphed over Averett College 2-
1 in over time, although rain bom-

barded the field leaving nothing
buta slick muddy planeon which
to play the game. Then on the
following morning ASC pulled
ahead again by scoring 3 goals
against Hollins College, there by
winning the game, and winning
the tournament. (Go Scotts!) But
the winning did not stop there.
Since the tournament, ASC has
traveled to Macon, GA to play
Wesleyan College and won again
with a score of 2-0. The ASC
athletic department is off to a
great start with nothing but great
victories in store for the future.

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Gina Rice, exhibiting excellent control of the ball in a recent game
against Guilford College.

Uffish Thoughts

ers may be held accountable?

We say to you, "No, this is
infantile." A child, in a depart-
ment store, who throws a tem-
per tantrum and takes a toy, en-
joys the gratification of the mo-
ment. But who has to accept the
consequences of the toddler's
actions? The parent: who must
pay for the toy, apologize to the
management, and discipline the
child . This parent, then, becomes
legally responsible for his or her
ward. Is this situation not simi-
lar to ours? Have we not, with
our cries of "adult," beaten our
figurative heels on the floor of
this institution, and shaken our
fists at the administration and
Board of Trustees? Have we not,
by evading due process, disre-
garded the rules that were al-
ready in place and, like the child,
taken what we desired in a fit of
self-indulgence? Have we not
put the a d mi nistration, that body
legally accountable for our well-
being, in the place of our hypo-
thetical parent who must pay the
price for the child's offense?

Continued from page 4

And can we say, then, that we
are adult?

It adulthood is based on ma-
turity, then we, as the student
body, have proven inexorably
that we are not adult. The events
surrounding parietal changes
provide only the most recent in-
stance. 1 laving taken this power,
however, we must strive to de-
serve it. We must prove our-
selves capable of coping with
such freedom. In short, we must
cultivate our communal sense of
responsibility. If we take privi-
leges for granted, then authority
figures will take them for good.
Already, the student body has
proven itself irresponsible and
immature. Consider, then, the
danger inherent in this new
found freedom. Recognize the
power that we, as students, now
possess. We must quickly grow
into the adults we claim to be if
we hope to survive this era of
self-rule.

Creative Writing

EAT AT JOE S

By Perrin Cothran

Marge switched off her alarm
clock and rolled out of bed to the
mirror. Squinting, she picked
the end of her flaky nose with a
poppy red pinkie nail. She did
not bother to wake her daughter,
Lucille, because she knew Lucille
would hear her through the pa-
per thin travel trailer wall and
get up anyway. Once, they'd
lived in a real house, before
Lucille's daddy left.

Marge piled her hair high into
its familiar beehive shape,
donned her frosty pink lipstick,
bright rouge, false eyelashes, and
an orange polyester uniform with
"Marge" embroidered on the
breast.

As she walked out the flimsy
door, she bellowed, "Lucille! I'm
goin." This was a final wake-up
call to make sure Lucille made it
ti trade school on time. She was
Studying for a career in plumb-
ing. Marge waddled the two
blocks to Joe's Restaurant at the
76 truck stop by the overpass,
where she waited tables. The
blue neon sign buzzed and flick-
ered at her in the early morning
light. She punched the clock in-
side the back screen door and
started taking orders from tat-
tooed men with "What fer ya,

Darlin?" and "Y'all doin' alright
over here, Sugar?"

It was almost noon when he
came in. About once a week, he
appeared and Marge always
knew him. He was always
middle-aged, sometimes short,
sometimes large, sometimes
skinny. He usually drove a big
rig. He came in different shapes,
but Marge always knew him
right off. She'd make casual con-
versation and convince him to
try her special homemade apple
pie.

This particular day, his name
was Jake, and he had a beard. A
burly man, Jake looked some-
what like her ex-husband Billy -
like a logger. She told him so. He
just nodded over his coffee.

"I meant it as a compliment,
Sugar." She grinned a silver-
capped grin. She'd had gold fill-
ings before Billy left her, but she
had had to melt them down for
the money.

"Thanks, ma'am. Could Ihave
a refill on this here coffee?"

"Sure! And tell ya what - 1 11
get you a piece of my very own
apple pie to go with it. On the
house, of course!" She got up to
go behind the counter.

"That's mighty kind of you,
ma'am."

She wished he wouldn't be so
nice. It reminded her less of
Billy. Maybe she wouldn't do
this one after all. She glanced
over at Jake. He was leaning up
to scratch his rear. Nah - she'd
go ahead. Billy used to scratch
his rear like that. He was prob-
ably just like Billy! Now she
could see it in his eyes. He'd left
some helpless, tearful woman
behind, with a child to take care
of. Maybe he even left her for
another man, just like Billy did.
No, he deserved it, she was sure
of it. She picked up a packet from
her purse and went into the
kitchen. She smiled sweetly at
him.

With a big butcher knife,
Marge cut him a manly logger
portion of pie. She pulled open
her pouch and sprinkled her sug-
ared arsenic healthily on the pie.
She thought of the poor soul he'd
ditched, whoever and wherever
she was. She carefully closed the
pouch again and replaced it in
her purse. Cheerfully, she
waddled back out to the table
and placed the plate in front of
Jake.

"Eat up, Sweetie!" she said.

SEX

You drive by
in vour Kaiser

as I walked
to catch a bus.

You're tongue is nice
not like another's
between my teeth
to make me sick.
You make me sink.

"I know vou're a nice girl so you must love me because you wouldn't
do what you did last night if you didn't love me."

and pant and sweat.

I am opening my mouth to say how it feels to hold your

nice big one in my hand
When all Pd known was my cousin's I'd climbed up after
on the sliding board
and tickled giggling
under his sunsuit
And you say I must love you and what a nice girl I am
and oh, yes, I am a nice girl
I am a nicer girl
now than I've ever been, 1 feel nicer now than I've ever felt
and my fingers love your fingers
my tongue loves your tongue
my eyes love your eyes so light blue cotton gray
Thick thunder brows slumped shoulders
mv mother makes cracks
about, and mv ears love the way your pointy ears stick out and
how you say how are you that sounds like who are you?

MAENAD

"The dead ripen
in the grapevines"
as Mother serves
cat curdled fur
for milk,
steamed pink
with blood
and chips

of white chocolate bone.

Wilderness tips

are useless

as I watch her

pick bird beak

from her teeth

and smile,

rolling the last taste

of finch song

under her tongue.

She was the first
Zookeepr's wife,
trained culinary Mother
cooking her children's pets
like prize-winning recipes
and teaching

that "Some things in this world
are indigestible."

-Josie Hoilman

WHY I WRITE

By Caroline Bleke

-Jalaine Halsall

My mother is the reason I write. I can still hear her voice saying
"It's coming" when I would ask her to read my high school English
theme. I usually thought that it had already "arrived" and would
heave dramatic sighs and walk back to the dining room table and
rework my thoughts. She wouldn't let me get away with just one
draft (or even two or three); she knew I could do better. And
although I have often ignored it, Mom's subliminal "It's coming" has
often moved me beyond acceptable work to exceptional writing.

Writing is a private activity, yet most writers seek validity of their
work from the public. This fence-straddling is, by nature, uncom-
fortable. I have reoccurring dreams of going to class without any
clothes on and taking an exam. No one notices or mentions my lack
ofclothinguntill'moutoftheexamand heading across the commons
where other students are gathered. Dream interpreters say that this
dream is about vulnerability. I say it's how a writer feels each time
she introduces her work to the public. Writers deliberately strip
themselves naked and then wander out into the open.

I was graduated from Agnes Scott in 1983 with a major in English
Literature-Creative Writing. I have saved all of my papers because,
as my practical mother said when I asked if she still had her college
papers, "Of course I still have them - they're the only proof I ha ve that
I actually did the work should the education police show up and try
to take my degrees away." Sometimes I reread papers I wrote ten
years ago and am amazed at my insight. Often I read short stories I
wrote for Bo Ball and cringe. The autobiographical element in them
is too raw and obtrusive. The stories seem awkward and transparent
in their self-awareness compared to my graceful and distanced
commentaries on academic subjects. I don't think I paid attention u i
the "It's coming" rule while writing fiction.

When I was a senior in college, a freshman (wecould call them that
back then) asked a friend what my major was. My friend later told
me that the freshman had said, "Yes, that makes perfect sense. I can
see Caroline living as a writer in a garret in New York City, dressed
all in blackand drinking straight gin." Ten years later, in what I prefer
to think of as a slowly evolving prophecy rather than a coincidence,
Christine Okies predictions a re coming true. I love black clothes and
gin.

For months, writing and becoming a writer have begun to domi-
nate my thoughts and motivations. I know that I am a strong writer,
but I have often been a lazy writer. The gnawing whisper in my ear
is growing louder. But the voice and message are familiar and
reassuring. "It s coming."

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Friday, October 8, 1993

Straight Talk From Washington

By Mary L.T. Jordan

It was a powerful speech the
President delivered on Wednes-
day, a week ago. And if you
believed him, 1993 is the year
that women will finally be given
comprehensive quality health
care.

Historically, women's health
has been treated as an after-
thought, but under the Women's
Health Equity act (WHEA), first
introduced in 1990 and reintro-
duced in 1991, and now a provi-
sion in the Clin ton plan, the health
care reform process would give
women the opportunity to start
fresh and be treated as full citi-
zens with equal access to a new
and improved health care sys-
tem.

Sponsored by congress-
woman Patricia Schroeder, a
Democrat from Colorado, its
original 22 separated bills repre-
sented what women felt they
needed in health care and what
they could not achieve under
may years of conservative Re-
publican Presidents. By the fall
of 1992, only two out of the 22
proposed sections had passe the
Congress: The Mammography
Quality Standards Act and a $25
million Infertility Prevention Act
tha t focuses on the screening and
treatment of sexually transmit-
ted diseases.

Other sections that were con-
si d ered taboo, such as teen-preg-
nancy and abortion, were stalled
because of the Bush
Administration's conservative
policy. But now that wojnen's

health care reform is a serious
concern for the Clinton adminis-
tration, WHEA has been re- writ-
ten into 32 health-related bills
and has been stamped / priority ,,
by the White House and Con-
gress.

What does all this mean for
college-age women? A lot. The
Women's Health Equity Act in-
cludes legislation that directly
addresses some of our most ba-
sic health care needs from poli-
cies promoting the employment
of women scientist, to research
on women and AIDS, alcohol-
ism, RU-486, smoking and eat-
ing disorders prevention, and
breast and cervical cancer mor-
tality prevention.

But here's the catch: the pro-
visions in the WHEA that we
most need may never make it
into President Clinton's health
care plan because of the abortion
provision in the legislation. Al-
though the word "abortion" is
never mentioned in the 245 page
draft, the careful phrasing con-
cerning insurance coverage of
"pregnancy related services"
may spark a heated quarrel in
Congress. In a letter to first lady,
Hillarv Rodham Clinton, a num-
ber of congresswomen wrote that
"a 11 women must make their own
decision about whether or not to
continue a pregnancy, and that
access to safe, legal abortions
should not be blocked by lack of
insurance coverage."

Congresswomen a re a d a ma n t
about abortion coverage in the
new health care plan. "My mes-

sage to the President is that this
cannot be negotiated away," said
Democrat Nita Lowey from New
York. "Health care reform must
contain abortion as a basic ben-
efit for all American women re-
gardless of income."

Although abortion rights sup-
ports say they are confident that
Clinton intends to cover abor-
tion services in his health care
plan, they are not convinced that
he will fight for the issue once he
faces the ba ttle in Congress. And
the fight will be large, heated,
and very will organized.

The National Right-to-Life
Committee plans a major
counter-attack which may fore-
shadow the conserva tive forces
on capitol Hill. A Right to Life
ad vertising ca mpa ign aga ins t the
WHEA claims that "even the
many millions of Americans
deeply opposed to complicity in
abortion would be forced to pav
for every abortion performed in
America through insurance
premiums deducted from pay-
checks by federal law and
through tax subsidies."

Activists for women's health
care reform are even more con-
cerned that the Clinton plan
shortchanges the special needs
of women altogether on its pro-
posed coverage of health screen-
ings. When President Clinton
introduced his preliminary plan,
Congresswoman Schroeder criti-
cized it for not meeting women's
health care needs. "Women want
to make sure their health-care
concerns are dealt w ith bv pro-

Janelle Bailey selected for astronomy
research program

Reprinted from The DcKnlh Sun

Janelle Bailey, an astrophys-
ics senior at Agnes Scott College,
was one of 10 undergraduates
recently selected to participate in
an astronomical research pro-
gram at the University of Wyo-
ming.

"The program is a basic tuto-
rial in research,'' explained Ron
Canterna, an associate professor
at the school.

Headded thatastudent'sedu-
ca t i ona 1 e\ perience u sua 1 ly d oes
not include academic research
until that student has enrolled in
a graduate school program.

The program is funded bv the
National Science Foundation to
give promising undergraduates
an earlier exposure to the re-
search experience.

Bailey first attended the pro-
gram in 1992 and returned to
UW this past summer to con-
tinue her research.

"It's been a wonderful experi-
ence and I highly recommend it
to anyone," she says. "Coming
from a small school; to attend
this program gave me an oppor-
tunity to meet other professors,
learn hands-on research and pre-
pare a journal article for publica-
tion."

On a more personal note, Bai-
ley says that the experience also
allowed her to make new friends
and explore the natural beauty
of Wyoming.

Her project at UW was to ex-
amine several pairs of galaxies
and then determine 1 the tidal in-

teractions between them. She
hopes to have a research article
published later this year in the
Astrophysimt journal.

Canterna says that selection
to the program is difficult with
only seven to 10 students mak-
ing the grade out of 1 20 applica-
tions annually.

"It's very competitive. These
students are chosen for their aca-
demic work, interest in as-
tronomy, how they might fit in
with their mentor and their abil-
ity to work with our faculty, re-
search associates and graduate
students," Canterna concluded.

fessionals, not politicians," she
said. Schroeder, chairperson for
the congressional Women'sCau-
cus, says the plan does not ad-
equately cover pap smears and
mammograms, two medical tests
that are crucial to the early detec-
tion of cancer.

The Women's Caucus also
charges that the recommenda-
tions of the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists
have been largely ignored bv the
Clinton plan. For example, the
ACOG argues that all women
who are sexually active or who
have reached age 18 should un-
dergo an annual Pap test and
pelvic examination. Only after a
woman has had three or more
consecutive satisfactory annual
examinations, the Pap test may
be performed less frequently at
the discretion of her physician.
Studies conducted by the Ameri-
can Cancer Society say that
women should have yearly ex-
ams to prevent cervical and uter-
ine cancer. But the Clinton plan
would pay for the cost of pelvic
exams and Pap smears only once
every three years if a woman has
negative results in three consecu-
tive tests.

Women activ ists charge that
the number of mammograms a
woman ca n get u nd er the CI i n ton
plan is inconsistent with what
she should have. According to
the draft document, a woman
can get a mammogram even t\\ o
years after the age of 50. But the
ACOG plan suggests
mammography every year tor

women over 50 years.

"Basically the plan is fairly
fair," Congresswoman
Schroeder said. "We want to
make sure w e don't end up w ith
a plan w here women have to
take their private parts and bin-
private insurance."

The fate of health sendees for
women will ultimately define the
final vote in congress. Although
Clinton has begun to take the
issue seriously , Congresswomen
and women rights supporters
around the country wonder if
the men in power will work hard
enough to insure first rate health
care for women even if it includes
abortion sendees. But we can be
assured that the next year in Con-
gress will be an extremely inter-
esting debate.

Congresswomen claim that
because this act has been
launched and launched twice
again it w ill be hard to turn back
now. "I'm certainly not ^o'\n^ to
work for any ;plan that takes
women backward," warned
Democratic Senator Barbara
Boxer from California, Congress-
woman Schroede r a d del* that " i f
the final plan is unfair toward
w omen, there w ill be a signifi-
cant proportion of the American
public who will oppose the plan,
and I can assure vou a bloc of
votes both of congresswomen
and congressmen will right-
fully reject it."

For the sake of the long term

physical health of women, one
can only hope she's right.

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The Medieval perspective: Spotlight on Dr. Sadler

By Jenny White
Features Editor

Students at ASC, both art
majors and purely interested stu-
dents, who have had Dr. Donna
Sadler for a class rarely forget
her enthusiasm about Medieval
cathedrals and churches. The
same will be true this year, since
Dr. Sadler spent her summer
traveling around France, both
working on research projects and
collecting new slides for the art
department, and visited many of
the churches she teaches on in
class. She had a memorable and
productive summer (and man-
aged to do a lot of window shop-
ping too!)

Dr. Sadler spent much of her
two months in France studying
the "reception theory" ' how
wecan view monuments the way
they were in the thirteenth cen-
tury." As part of her research of
this theory shestudied Medieval
queens and their impact on Me-
dieval art, as writers and patrons.
She concentrated much of her
study on Blanche of Castille and
M a rgaret of Provence, the respec-
tive mother and wife of Louis the
Ninth, and the "tension in the

art" found in their surroundings.
She found an emphasis on "good
counsel and partnership"
throughout Medieval art, an
emphasis that highlights the
queens 7 expected roles.

She worked to "uncove[r] who
did what" who the hidden
women that affected Medieval
art are and what were their con-
tributions. Her studies took her
both to the Bibliotheque
Nationale and to a number of
churches found in different re-
gions of France, including Sens
Cathedral, Autun, Troyes,
Auxerre, Dijon, Fontenay,
Toulouse, and Vezelay.

Dr. Sadler also began another
research project on the well of
Moses, a monument located in
an insane asylum, and its rela-
tionship to Medieval drama . She
had an interesting experience in
the asylum. She found it "almost
menacing," and even more so
after she inadvertently walked
into a funeral. An attending
woman hugged her, and after
Dr. Sadler said that she didn't
know the deceased very well,

the woman replied, "Neitherdid
I in fact, I don't know who I
am." Nevertheless, Dr. Sadler
still plans to continue her new
research project.

As well as beginning new re-
search, she finished two papers,
one on Louis the Ninth's contri-
bution to Medieval art and one
entitled "Behind Every Good
King." She delivered a lecture
on the art of the Saint Chappelle.
And, of course, she enjoyed the
French people and her view of
the Eiffel Tower .

She goes to France every few
years, and is very happy with the
work she accomplished and with
her experience this time around.
She feels sure that there will be
plenty more to do the next time
(especially in Reims Cathedral
and its 3200 statues.) And stu-
dents will benefit from her tri p a s
well through the many new slides
she acquired for the Agnes Scott
collection! She went looking for
"what other people had over-
looked," and she once again
found her objective.

Donna Sadler, another dedicated professor. She spent her sum-
mer in England collecting resources for her courses at Agnes Scott.

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Approaching Zanzibar offers extraordinary adult comedy

By Melanie Clarkson

Approaching Zanzibar, a com-
edy by Tina Howe, is a great
alternative-to-a-moviedate. The
show, which I recommend for
older teens and up, is playing
through October 17 at Actor's
Express, an intimate thea ter near
the Little Five Points area. The
admission price for students
(take your ID card) is six dollars.
Reservations are required and
may be obtained by calling 221-
0831.

The play is about the trials
and tribulations of the Blossom
family while on a 2000-mile road
trip from New York to New
Mexico. The family is "killing
two birds with one stone" tour-
ing the country and ending up at
a dying aunt's home. The play
opens with the Blossom family
riding in their car, and the chil-
dren, Turner (Michael Ogletree)
and Pony (Lauren Gunderson)
are bored and obnoxious. The
mother, Charlotte (Patricia
French) is complaining about the
bad children, her hot flashes, and
her husband's inattentive driv-
ing. Finally, the father, Wallace
(Jim Braude) decides that he's

had enough and gives the steer-
ing wheel (literally) to his wife.
At that point, I was beginning to
wonder if this was actually a live
version of 'The Simpsons."

The Blossom family travels
through the mountains and
meets a Grizzly Adams-looking
man who has a three-week old
baby and a young deaf sooth-
sayerand his grandmother. They
also camp out in various places,
and the subject of Charlotte
Blossom's menopausal state en-
ters the dialogue many times
sometimes funny, sometimes a
bit on the sad side. They spend
time in Oklahoma City with
Charlotte's brother and his fam-
ily, which includes a daughter
who is quite masculine, and a
pregnant wife. The play ends at
the home of Olivia Childs, a well-
known artist, who is dying of
cancer yet is still filled with life.

The actors were excellent
not only the focus characters, but
the others as well. Theo
Harkness, Jessica Linden,
Graciela Marin, and David Perkel
had two roles each. Eleven-year
old Perkel played Fletcher, the

deaf boy and Amy, the tomboy-
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Lauren Gunderson is makine

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her professional debut in the play
after participating in productions
at nearby Winnona Park Elemen-
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as PBS television shows, sum-
mer stock, The Marriage of Bette
and Boo, the Alliance Theatre's
production of A Christmas Carol,
and performances at other local
venues such as OutProud The-
atre, Theatre in the Square, The-
atre Emory, and the Neighbor-
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than the meager admission fee.

A side note former Class of
'94 member Jodi Crews is alive
and well and participating in the
internship program at Actor's
Express, which obligates her to
the tasks of props run and some
very interesting sound effects.
The set changes performed by
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Accordions, particles and the sun: They
Might Be Giants in Athens

By Karen Shuman and Jenny White
Contributing Editors

Those of you who have only
encountered They Might Be Gi-
ants through "Particle Man"
have seen only a glimpse of this
truly unique band. The band,
composed of John Linnell and
John Flansburgh, performed
many new songs and some old
favorites as well for their "Why
Does the Sun Shine?" tour.

Powered by Linnell's accor-
dion, saxophone and vocals and
Flansburgh's guitar and vocals,
They Might Be Giants performed
to a relatively small audience of
about 200 people at the Georgia
Theater in Athens on Septem-
ber 21.

After kicking off the concert
with an a cappella ballad sung
by Flansburgh, the Giants
launched into "Don't Let's
Start," to the delight of the audi-
ence.

They proceeded to combine
songs off their albums "Rood"
(1990) and "Apollo 18" (1992)
with newly composed songs, in-
cluding "Why Does the Sun
Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of
Incandescent Gas)." This song
was first released on a 1959 edu-
cational record for children, and
their version, which included a
glockenspiel, retained the charm-
ing simplicity of the original.

They Might Be Giants dis-
played their talent as true musi-
cians by limiting the instruments
they used to the guitar, accor-
dion, saxophone, keyboard,
drums, and trumpets, instead of
the d i verse instruments they fea-
ture on their recordings. In an-
other new song, "Spy," they suc-
cessfully coordinated Linnell's
improvised direction with all of
the other instruments.

TMBG interacted well with
theaudienceand evencameback
for two long encores. When they
played "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
during their first encore, the au-
dience started jumping up and
down in unison with the Giants
(Karen took a blow to the head
by an overly zealous and rather
tall fan!)

At the end of the concert, the
Giants played another new piece,
"Frankenstein," during which
Flansburgh broke three guitar
strings and Linnell played the
accordion with an Evian water
bottle.

We left the concert with a new
appreciation for their music, and
we cannot wait until their new
GD is released. In the meantime,
their current single, "Why Does
the Sun Shine?", will stick in our
heads like a broken record.

They Might Be Giants brought their "Why Does the Sun Shine?"
tour to the Georgia Theater in Athens, Georgia on September 21.
Offering the perfect excuse for an Agnes Scott style raodtrip, two
Profile editors returned from the trip humming "Frankenstein"
and "Why Does the Sun Shine?" for days.

Around Atlanta

Veni, Vidi, Vici

"I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" seems to be an appropriate name for
this classy Italian restaurant on Fourteenth Street

By Merisa E. Aranas

In 47 B.G., Julius Caesar de-
feated Pharnaces, a man who
had taken possession of the prov-
ince of Pontus at Zela. This Ro-
man battle is not one of those
famous battles a young classi-
cist usually remembers. What
she remembers is not the par-
ticular battle, but the famous
words Caesar said about his tri-
umph "Veni, Vidi, Vici" "I
came, I saw, I conquered." This
phrase may be one of the best
and most overused Latin
phrases to describe mankind's
conquests. I have heard this
phrase (in English, of course)
from the mouths of many differ-
ent people: from intelligent stu-
dents confidently walking out
of a test session, from my daddy
happily coming home with an
ice chest full of fish after a Satur-
day on the lake, from egotistical
sophisticates walking out of a
nightclub with women to whom
they had just propositioned. Itis
a phrase that describes ultimate
simplicity and satisfaction of
one's triumph over any obstacle,
whetheritbebigorsmall. In this
case, "I came, I saw, I conquered"
is how Veni, Vid i, Vici (the na me

of the restaurant) makes you feel
after dining there.

Connected to the parking ga-
rage of the IBM tower on Four-
teenth St., the small, very beauti-
ful restaurant is decorated in a
modern Italian design with small
touches of ancient classical art.
The four course meal begins with
a plate of bread and thin slices of
pepperoni pizza. As you listen to
the soft Italian music in the back-
ground, the waiter brings out a
tray of several different "antipasti
piccoli," hot appetizers for you to
select. Grilled Tuscan style
shrimp and bean salad with bal-
samic vinegar, braised artichoke
bottoms with salsa verde, and
grilled fresh calimari with pota-
toes and red onions are some of
the many from which you max
choose.

Next, peruse through the pasta
list and pick one plate to share
with your table. The waiter told
me that it was an Italian custom
to choose a pasta dish before the
main course was served. I would
suggest the Mezzaluna ripieni con
spinacci e ricotta con burro e
salvia, half moon pasta stuffed
with spinach and ricotta cheese

with brown butter and sage
leaves.

Then, finally, the arrival of
your "piatti del giorno," the main
course. I had roasted stuffed
duckling on a bed of bean salad,
w h i 1 e my wond er fu 1 god pa ren ts
had stuffed tender veal. They
also have grilled salmon, baby
lamb steak, lemon and garlic
chicken, and many other entrees
to choose. Don't let the Italian
entrees scare you; each has its
ow n English description below
each name.

I absolutely enjoyed this res-
taurant! The service was impec-
cable, my waiter was funny and
very helpful, and the restaurant
was beautiful and romantic.
Your meal can get rather expen-
sive, though: from $8.95 to $21 .00
a plate, excluding the antipasta
appetizersand pasta dishes. This
would be a perfect place to take
your black cat date. The
restaurant's name says it all
Veni, Vidi, Vici. If you come, you
will see the beautiful food, and
subtly "conquer" it with your
very content stomach. You will
be pleased.

Dear Ms. Scottie,

If I put a piece of rubber seat cushion up my nose, do you
think it would bolster my self-image? Would it make me more
attractive?

Dear Sister Scottie,

Be sure to chdosea color which null look good on you. Usinga tacky
seat cushion will only worsen your self-esteem.

Dear Ms. Scottie,

Does phallic symbol mean "from God"?

Dear Sister Scottie,

It is possible. Since wan was made in Cod's image, and men have
penises, and a phallic symbol represents a penis, I wouldn't say that
is an inaccurate definition.

Dear Ms. Scottie,

How did we get a pineapple in the alumnae pond?

Dear Sister Scottie,

Once upon a time while the Scott ies were away,

The pineapple fairy came to visit one day.

She left her gift for all to see

Amidst the alwmiae greenery .

Then Midas came and gave his touch

For of course the fruit lias meant so much.

And now the pineapple lies in wait,

For the Scottie wlio no longer looks for a date.

Questions for Ms. Scottie should be submitted to Box 26.

Arts & Entertainment

Page 12

The Profile

Friday, Octobers, 1993

Calendar of Events

Compiled by Jenny Skridulis

Visual Art

High Museum of Art

For more information, call 892-
HIGH

Admission: $5 adults, $3 senior
citizens and college students, $1
children 6-17, children under 6
free.

OPENED 10/1/93 Mght and
Day

A 1991 film starring Guilaine
Londez and Thomas Langmann
who play lovers in this very lyri-
cal French romance about a
young woman who juggles two
men, one who occupies her day-
time hours, the other her nights.

OPENED 9/21 //93 Annie
Licbovitz- Photographs 1970-1990
Annie Leibovitz has long been
recognized as one of the most
exceptional portraitists of her
generation. Her style is an amal-
gam of humor, curiosity and
compassion. Leibovitz's pro-
vocative photographs of celebri-
ties have been in numerous
popular magazines. This nation-
ally touring retrospective of her
work includes 150 exceptional
color and black-and-white im-
ages. Among those pictured are
Ella Fitzgerald, Whoopi
Goldberg, John Lennon and
Mikhail Baryshnikov.

10/2/93-10/22/93 Taiwanese
Film Festival

Four films highlight this year's
Taiwanese Film Festival. They
include "The Peach Blossom
Land", a beautifully filmed corn-
ed y abou t two plays one a story
of lovers in Shanghai in 1949, the
other an interpretation of a clas-
sical folk tale accidentally
booked into the same space for
dress rehearsal. The others in-
clude "Five girls and a Rope",
"First Date", and "Pushing
I kinds''

10/29/93- 11/19/93 Latin
American Film Festival
This film festiva I showcases eight
outstanding films from Latin
America. Among these films are:
"Excess Baggage" which is about
a man who falls into a coma and
wakes up twenty years later to
find that he is "excess baggage"
to his family. "Like A Bride" is
set in Mexico City's Sephardic
lewish community during the
'60s. It follows the lives of two
\oung women as they discover
art, lin e, politics and their own
identities.

The Spruill Center for the Arts

Located at xW> Chamblee

Dunwoody Road

I or information, call >H- 3447

OPENED 10/3/93 The South-
ern Landscape

This exhibit features work by four
Atlanta artists whose love for
nature and their media combine
to create unique and sensitive
interpretations of the Southern
landscape. The exhibit includes
paintings by Paul Blakely and
Junko Rothwell, watercolors by
BillieShelbum, and photographs
by Craig Tanner.

10/3/93 Works in Wood
An exhibit of wood bowls, ves-
sels, whimsical toys and tradi-
tional, contemporary and one-
of-a-kind furniture by five metro-
Atlanta artists, including Fred
Allen, Mark Barr, Nick Cook, Jack
Harich and Philip Moulthrop.

Theatre

Horizon Theatre

Located on Euclid and Austin
Avenues in Little Five Points
Box-Office 584-7450

OPENED 10/1/93* Six Degrees
of Separation

In this suspenseful comedy-
drama by John Guare, one of
America's most renowned play-
wrights, a dazzling black stranger
charms his way into the cozy
world of an affluent Manhattan
couple, with devastating results.
This fast-paced runaway Broad-
wav hit paintsa scathingly funny
portrait of urban Americans as
we are now - the wealthy, the
down-and-out, the hustlers,the
star-struck, the liberal chic, the
Catchersin the Rye.

Neighborhood Playhouse

located at 430 W.Trinity Place in
downtown Decatur
Box Office- 373-5311

9/17/93-10/23/93* A Few Good
Men

The Atlanta premier of Aaron
Sorkin's 1989 military courtroom
drama about two Marines
charged with murder and the
fierce code of honor which com-
pelled them .

The 7 Stages Theatre

RUNNING until October 24,
Unquestioned Integrity: The Hill/
Thomas Hearings. Written by
Mame Hunt fromactual court-
room text, the play depicts the
important social issue of sexual
harrassment.

Music

Variety Playhouse

Located at 1099 Euclid Avenue
in Little Five Points
Box Office 524-7354

9/22/93 Steve Morse Band and
Lost Tribe

Rock /jazz fusion from the leg-
endary guitarist from the Dixie
Dregs

9/24/93 Marcia Ball
Rhythm and Blues, boogie
woogieand rockin' New Orleans
sounds from the pianist/ singer
from Austin.

A military cover-up is brought to light in the courtroom drama \
Feio Good Men being presented at the Neighborhood Playhouse in
Decatur. The play, which later was made into the Academy-
award-winning movie, is making its Atlanta-area stage premiere
until October23. Pictured here are actors Robert Pi algo as Lieuten-
ant Kaffee and Jack Winnick as Colonel jessep. For tickets call the
box office at 373-5311.

Leibovitz uses compas-
sion and insight to portray
her subjects and herself

By Tracey Baggett and Jenny Skridulis
Contributing Editors

Annie Leibovitz' portrait of actress Whoopi Goldberg, currently
on display at the High Museum.

Annie Liebovitz' exhibition at
the High Museum wasa delight-
ful experience. She is a good
example of what women artists
can achieve. The strength of her
art comes from the compassion
and insight that she shows to
each of her subjects. Every pho-
tograph she creates is an exten-
sion of both herself and of the
subject.

She works with the imagina-
tion of her subjects to create a
distinct portrait of each person.
Her port fa i t c >f Whoopi Goldberg
captures the playful essence that
is Whoopi 's alone, and yet is still
distinctly a productof Liebov it/.
In a bathtub filled with a milky
liquid, Whoopi is completely
submerged except for her knees,
hands, and of course her face.
This allows Liebovitz to capture
Whoopi's unique smile, making
it the focal point of the photo-
graph.

Liebovitz also uses interest-
ing backgrounds to emphasize
her subjects' personalities. For
instance, in a photograph of Beth
I lenlev, the background is an

ov ergrow n garden with a worn
picket. fence in front of an ancient
Southern mansion. I lenlev is
holding a huge straw hat plas-
tered with flowers. The look that
Henley gives to the camera is
both inviting arid closed, mirror-
ing t h e i m a g e o f t h e ba c kg r o u n d .

However, some of the most
touching photographs were 4 not
those of celebrities or writers but
those of inmates spending
Christmas with their families at
theSoledad prison in California.
A whole series of photos docu-
mented the entire dav for these
people: waiting for visiting hours,
giving gifts, watching their chil-
li ren and saving good-bye.

The I ligh has been luckv to
receive this exhibition which has
been on a national tour for a few
\ ears, [lie striking combinations
of photographs that have been
put together m this collection
show the interesting aspect with
which Annie Liebovit/ gives to
individual personalities. She will
certainly be remembered as a
forthright documenter of our
times.

The Profile

Friday, October 29, 1993

The Independent Student Newspaper of Agnes Scott College

Vol. 80, Issue 3

Hudson takes leave of absence

By Jenny White
Features Editor

After 19 years at Agnes Scott,
Dean Hudson began her first
leave of absence on October 21,
and will return on January 12.
Associate Dean Mollie Merrick
will act as Dean of Students in
her absence.

Dean Hudson's vacation in-
cludes a thirteen day trip to
Egypt, a number of visits to
women's colleges, and some
much-needed time with her fam-
ily, especially with her eld est son,
whose last year at home is this
year.

The trip to Egypt will include
such adventures as camel rides,
visits to the pyramids and to
Cairo, tours of many ancient
Egyptian capitals in the upper
part of the country, and a boat
trip down the Nile. Dean Hudson
will be accompanied by Mary
Kayjarboe, ASCs registrar. The
id ea for the trip began back when
Gue Pardue and Mary Kay

Owens were students at ASC
from 1964 to 1968.

Dean Hudson and Ms. Jarboe
sat together at mandatory con-
vocation every Wednesday each
year (seating was alphabetical
then) and became good friends.
They often talked about places
they'd want to visit (usually these
discussions took place in the din-
ing hall) and both agreed that of
all the places to which they could
go, Egypt had the most appeal.

The most exciting aspect of
the trip for Dean Hudson is the
prospect of facing "a culture this
different from [her] own," in such
areas as dress, food , and religion.
She feels that she will be better
able to relate to Global Aware-
ness students after her trip.

After Egypt, Dean Hudson
plans to continue some studies
she has done pertaining to com-
munity and multiculruralism at
women's colleges. She feels that

people often come here expect-
ing a strong sense of community
and she wants to see firsthand
how community and
multiculturalism interact on a
few other women's campuses.
She hopes to come back from
visiting Smith, Mississippi Uni-
versity for Women, and other
women's colleges with some new
ideas that will help "strengthen
the fabric of the community" here
at ASC. She also has a number of
books and articles on the subject
that she plans to study over her
break.

Dean Hudson appreciates the
opportunity to take this leave
that she has been contemplating
for nearly a year. She looks for-
ward to coming back with a
"fresh perspective" and relies on
her strong staff to keep things
going while she is away.

Dean Gue Hudson, pictured here in her office, before leaving for
her vaction in Egypt.

Agnes Scott promotes education through AIDS Awareness Convocation

By Kerry Murphy and Margaret Bickers
Nezos Editor mid Staff Writer

The AIDS Awareness Convo-
cation, sponsored by the Student
Health Center, took place Octo-
ber 6 in Maclean auditorium and
featured Amy Clener as the
speaker. Amy is a young female
AIDS victim and mother of an
HIV positive child. Her speech
was entitled "Women and AIDS"
and flyers with related facts were
passed out to everyone at the
door.

Amy is a young petite blonde
in her mid twenties who was
infected with the AIDS virus at
age seventeen by a hemophiliac
boyfriend; however, she was not
diagnosed until she was twenty-
fouryearsold. Amysaid thather
first signs were persistent "fe-
male problems" that did not go
away. Her first opportunity to
be tested for the disease was in
1 987, when she became pregnant.
At the time, she did not feel the
need to be tested for HIV, and
did not give the mandatory con-
sent necessary in order to be
tested. Her pregnancy was very
difficult; she had to have a Cesar-
ean section, but her baby was
diagnosed as being healthy and
normal at the time. Amy's health
problems continued and in-
creased after her pregnancy, at
times preventing her from car-
ing for herself or for her child.
Her doctors proposed various

reasons for her failing health,
ranging from too much stress to
the responsibilities of her child,
yet doctors did not consider the
possibility of the AIDS virus un-
til much later.

On July 17, 1991, Amy be-
came bed -ridden and was ex-
tremely close to death. Her sister

took her to the hospital, where
she was admitted with bilateral
pneumonia. She was placed in
critical condition and did not re-
spond to any of the tests that
were being performed on her.
As a last resort, the doctors ran
the HIV test, which came out
positive on her and on her son,

Amy Clener (right), an AIDS victim, spoke to the student body
about her illness during the AIDS Awareness Convocation

who was later tested

Amy was very shocked and
surprised at the news and de-
cided to invest time educating
herself about the disease. She
connected herself with the AIDS
community and now works with
AID Atlanta and the Grady Hos-
pital Adolescent AIDS unit. At
the recent convocation, Amy
stressed to the audience that
women are among the fastest
growing group of people becom-
ing affected with the HIV virus.
It is easier for a woman to con-
tract the disease from a man than
for a man to contract the disease
from a woman. Amy pointed
out the fact that most women are
affected at a very young age. She
urged women in the audience to
"protect themselves and take
control of their bodies."

Now, Amy cannot work and
is classified as disabled by Social
Security. She has to deal with
discrimination almost on a daily
basis from hospitals, doctors,
friends, and family. She has dedi-
cated herself to informing others
about a very serious and very
deadly disease that is rapidly
consuming America and espe-
cially the female population.

Editor 's note: See page two for more
about Agnes Scott 's participation in
AIDS awareness

Inside
this issue:

News:

Rep Rap returns

Editorials:

Alum supports Schmidt

-page 3

-page4

Sports:

Cross Country Team update

-page7

Features:

Timepieces introduced

-page 6

Arts&

Entertainment:

Fhaedra opens E^lackfriars'

SEASON

-pageIO

News

Page 2

The Profile

Friday, October 29, 1993

HIV/AIDS awareness schol-
arships available to all
Agnes Scott students

By Kerry Murphy
News Editor

In efforts to raise HIV/AIDS
awareness among college stu-
dents, Sebastian International
and its hair and beauty salons
have formed a partnership with
Follet, America's largest whole-
saler of college books, and Hogan
Communications, an entertain-
ment based marketing and me-
dia company that specializes in
the college market, to benefit the
National Community AIDS Part-
nership (NCAP).

Beginning this fall term 1993,
and continuing for a minimum
of at least three terms, HIV / AIDS
awareness scholarships will be
available for students in all areas

of study. There will be thirty
SI ,000 scholarships awarded to
those students who create a logo,
write a song, design a marketing
plan, etc., that best addresses the
HIV/ AIDS issue.

Sebastian products are avail-
able in the ASC campus shop
and for the price of five dollars,
students can purchasea hair care
pack containing Celloshampoo,
Sheen instant conditioner, and
Wet liquid styling gel. Each pur-
chase of the pack includes a $1
donation to NCAP.

This donation will help to fund
Heart Strings 1 01 , a musical AIDS
awareness college campus tour.

AIDS

AWARENESS
BEGINS
WITH YOU

Sebastian hair-cair products, now available in the Agnes Scott College bookstore, offer $1,000
scholarships for students who creat the best logo, song, marketing plan, etc. that best addresses the
AIDS/HIV issue.

Many college students fail consumer
knowledge test

Press Release

Washington, D.C. A survey of
the consumer knowledge of col-
lege students found that most
are unprepared to make wise
purchasing decisions about fi-
nancial services. The college stu-
dents scored correct answers for
only 51 percent of the survey
questions when they could have
scored 25% by guessing.

The test was jointly sponsored
by the Consumer Federation of
America (CFA) and American
Express Travel Related Services
Company, Inc. The research was
conducted by Princeton Survey
Research Associates of Princeton,
New Jersey.

The 38-question multiple
choice test surveyed 2010 stu-
dents on 75 campuses, represent-
ing a sample of full-time juniors
and seniors attending four-year
colleges and universities. Stu-
dents answered questions on
credit (53% correct), checking/
savings (53% correct), life insur-
ance (43 r ; correct) and auto in-
surance (58% correct).

"Most college studentsare not
fully prepared to make smart
decisions about financial ser-
vices," said Stephen Brobeck,
CFA Executive Director and au-
thor of the report summarizing
the research. "After college, they
risk losing billions dollars in the
purchase of unneeded or over-
priced consumer loans, auto in-
surance, and life insurance."

Meredith Layer, Senior Vice
President, Public Responsibility
at American Express Company,
added, "College is a time when
students are developing life
skills belong what is included
in their classroom curriculum.

One of the most important tools
for a consumer is knowledge
about financial matters/

Scores of the college students
were much higher that those of
high school seniors who took a
similar test in 1 991 , and the scores
were about the same as those of
adults who were asked many of
the same question in 1990. In
general the test scores of differ-
ent groups of students taking the
test men vs. women, juniors vs.
seniors, public school vs. private
school, humanities vs. science/
math vs. business majors did
not differ significantly. Al-
though \ the scores of whites
were higher than those of mi-
norities, race-related differences
were not nearly as great among
college students as they were
among the high school seniors
and adults tested earlier. Low
scores included:

Only 22% know that the best
indicator of the cost of a loan is
theannual percentage rate (APR) .

Only 33% of respondents
know that banks and other insti-
tutions issuing credit cards
not Visa, Mastercard, or the gov-
ernment set interest rates on
credit cards.

Only 30% know that when a
credit card balance is carried from
month-to-month, the consumer
loses the grace period.

Only 19% know that auto in-
surance ratescan vary by as much
at 100%, while half think that
rates range less than 30 percent.

Only about one-third under-
stand the major differences be-
tween term, whole, universal,
and credit life insurance policies.
Only 2fV ; know that the interest

adjusted cost is the best indicator
of the cost of a whole life insur-
ance policy.

Only 30% know that the gov-
ernment agency most likely to
resolve an insurance problem is
a state insurance department.
30% actually believe that the Fed-
eral Deposit Insurance Corpora-
tion, which regulates banks, re-
solves insurance problems.

High scores included:

92% of the respondents know
that the most important factors
that lenders use when deciding
whether to approve a loan are
bill-paying records and income.

90% understand what type of
household most needs life insur-
ance.

70% know that to avoid regu-
lar fees on a checking account, a
consumer must keepa minimum
balance in theaccountatall times.

68% know that a collection
agency is not allowed discuss a
consumer's debt with his or her
employer.

66% know that a credit bu-
reau provides creditors with re-
ports of consumers 7 bill paying
records.

The Consumer Federation of
America is a federation of 240
nonprofit groups with some 50
million members that seeks to
advance the consumer interest
through advocacy.

American Express Travel Re-
lated Services Company, Inc. isa
wholly-owned subsidiary of the
American Express Company
a family of travel, financial, and
communications businesses.

Recent grads return to ASC to
offer career advice

By Shlawnda Calhoun and Alaina Williams

The time is fast approaching for the Class of 1994 to leave
the hallowed halls of ASC, and the time will come for other
classes to follow. Not wanting us to be completely ignorant
about what awaits us in the real world, four recent Agnes
Scott graduates returned to campus to share with us their
pearls of wisdom. The panelists, who spoke as part of the
Career Advisory Board's September 29 convocation, were
Leigh Bennett-Conner '92, Sarah Fisher '93, Elizabeth Fraser
'92, and Allison Petty '93.

Bennett-Conner, currently a caseworker senior a t the Fulton
County Department of Family and Children's Services, said
that as a student, she had her future completely planned out.
She expected to go directly to graduate school upon leaving
Agnes Scott, and was disappointed when her plans did not
materialize. She then assumed that every employer in the
world would want to hire her, but was only further disap-
pointed when they were not knocking each other down to get
to her door.

Fisher, employed by the Fayette County Department of
Family and Children's Services, had the opposite experience.
Doing homework was always the last thing on her mind.
Now she is eager to return to the school setting.

Neither Bennett-Conner nor Fisher earns much money,
but because they are in positions to help others, they both get
a great amount of job satisfaction. When they are unable to
help others, they are extremely frustrated. Because of the
demands of their jobs, they are under much stress.

Fraser, currently a loan officer at First Realty Mortgage,
could relate to the frustration involved with being unable to
help people. She finds it verydifftcult to explain to applicants
that their loan applications have been declined. Originally an
astrophysics major, she found herself "turned off" by the
personalities of the people in the held. This prompted her to
return to Agnes Scott in order to fulfill the requirements for an
economics major.

Petty, a biology major, is now employed by ExecuTrain. In
her marketing position, she deals with such corporations as
MCI and AT&T. Her job does not require that she use her
major specifically, but the diverse background that Agnes
Scott afforded her is a resource constantly employed.

For those students who were unable to attend the convo-
cation, the program is on video in the CP&P library. The
panelists had many suggestions, and they encourage you to
do the following when preparing yourself to enter the work
force:

Continued on Page 3.

News

Friday, October 29, 1993

The Profile

Page 3

Not-so Abbreviated Universe

Compiled by Margaret Bickers
Staff Writer

Local - The Home Depot corporation announced that it may
move its headquarters out of Cobb County. Reasons announced
officially by the corporation include the need for more space. How-
iever, inside sources say that, all other things being equal, the Cobb
County Board's statement about gays and lesbians may be the
deciding factor in the move.

National - Former "junk bond" trader, Michael Milken, teaches
a class at the University of California this semester. His topic is the
stock market and how it functions. Students taking the class say that
they remember Milken's financial success, not his federal conviction
for fraud... Congress demands hearings on the Somalia problem.
They want a statement of intent and the withdrawal of U.S. forces
from the area. President Clinton said that while he is sending more
troops in, he will have all American forces out of the peacekeeping
operations by the end of March 1994.. .Famed dancer and choreogra-
pher Agnes de Mille died Friday, October S...A New York Times' poll
found that only about 49% of those polled favor President Clinton's
proposed health care plan. Reasons included a lack of financial
security to support the plan, and concern that it will or will not pay
for abortions.

International - A group of Haitians gathered at the dock where
UN peace keepers were to disembark and refused them entry on the
night of October 1 1 . As the rally became violent, the UN ships pulled
off shore to wait out the disturbance before putting the troops on
land. The Haitians are upset with the return of democratically
elected Bertrand Aristed, the deposed president of Haiti... A fifteen
hour gun battle on October 10 left several Americans dead and more
wounded. The battle ensued after supporters of Mohammad Fara-
Aideed attacked a helicopter, and UN peace keepers went to the
aircraft's aid. There are now concerns that Aideed's forces are being
trained by the Sudanese government and Iranian instructors in an
attempt to de-stabilize the area... Prince Seinook of Cambodia ac-
cepted position as ruler of the country after UN monitored elections
took place. It is hoped that this will lead to peace in this south-east
Asian country, despite threats from the Khamar Rouge... Russian
president Boris Yeltsin received the support of the military and of the
other nations in the Commonwealth of Independent States after
putting down the Parliamentary uprising last week. He will rule
alone until elections on Dec. 12, when a new two-chamber congress
will form.

ASC PD Blues

By Officer Amy Lanier
Department of Public Safety

On Tuesday, October 19 at
6:30 p.m. in the Bu thick film room
(G-4), the Department of Public
Safety sponsored a defensive
spray class using oleoresin cap-
sicum (OC). The OC spray is an
extract of cayenne peppers which
is used to make a self-defense
aerosol spray. This spray is ef-
fective in instances when mace
or tear gas will not work, so it is
becoming very popular with the
general public and with law en-
forcement agencies. The class
provided basic facts on all types
of sprays and their use so that
you wiD be better prepared to
defend yourself, if necessary. For
more information, call Public
Safety at ext. 6355.

In the past two weeks our
police officers have made sev-
eral arrests for underage alcohol

violations and for driving under
the influence in campus related
incidents. According to the Uni-
form Crime Report of the FBI,
someone d ies every twenty- three
minutes in an alcohol related traf-
fic accident. Always remember
to designate a driver or call a taxi
for your transportation. Never
be in unfamiliar territory, by
yourself, under the influence of
alcohol. Someone who has been
drinking makes an easy target
for robbery, assault or even rape.

Be sure to look for the up-
coming "Rap Sheet" on the bul-
letin board in the Alston Center.
We will use this space to inform
you of criminal incidents which
occur between issues of the Pro-
file or to pass on other informa-
tion we feel you need to know.

Career advice

Continued from Page 2.

1. USE PEOPLE. Not in a cold and callous way! Realize
that ASC women are wonderful and everywhere. Use alum-
nae, as well as friends, family, and new acquaintances for
networking purposes.

2. ACQUIRE A GOOD WARDROBE. The job market is not
a fashion show, but you need clothing that gives you a
professional image. Also avoid garments that are dry-clean
only; it's costly to clean them.

3. MAKE INTERVIEWING A HOBBY. Even if you do not
want the job for which you are interviewing, it could open
doors and make you more comfortable with the interviewing
process.

4. DO NOT LIMIT YOURSELF. You are capable of doing
anything. Do not feel as if you are forced to go into a particular
held or remain in one permanently.

5. GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE CAREER ADVISORY
BOARD AND CP&P. Take advantage of internship,
externship, and shadow opportunities. Give suggestions for
programs and materials so that we can be more aware of your
needs. After all, we are here to help you!

Rep Rap

Compiled by Josie Hoilman from SGA minutes
Editor-in-Chief

During the October 12 SGA
meeting, first-year student rep-
resentatives were installed. They
are: Jill Wilmarth, Chaunecy
Williams, Cicely Thompson and
Courtney Huffman.

SGA also requested from
President Schmidt that students
be allowed on the committee to
establish Academic Review. Both
the President and the Faculty
Executive Committee (FEC)
agreed, and SGA President,
Missy Mullinax and Vice-Presi-
dent, Jessica Daugherty will at-
tend the meetings.

During the October 19 meet-
ing, SGA passed the parietal pro-
posal without discussion. A Ju-
dicial Review Proposal also
passed after deliberation.

Daugherty proposed that the
direction of the Board of Trust-
ees Proposal take a different ap-
proach towards a more attain-
able goal. She suggested that
voting representation may not
be what students really need.
Daugherty suggested 1) Shared
Governance, in which all college

committees have an equal num-
ber of student members; and 2
)Class Trustees, in which gradu-
ating seniors are elected to the
Board of Trustees for a three-
year term. She said that a pro-
posal could be ready to take to
the Board of Trustees meeting in
January. Anika Dyrstad, Linda
Tukman, Laura Home, along
with the entire Council voiced
approval.

The meeting closed with a dis-
cussion of Issues for Review of
Academic Program. Mullinax
asked the Council to come up
with a list of things students feel
should be reviewed. The follow-
ing are examples to which
Mullinax will add to reach a com-
plete list: update library, num-
ber of full-time faculty should be
increased, enrollment/ retention,
incremental financial aid, addi-
tion of one-year requirement for
a multi-culturalism class to dis-
tributional standards, and a re-
quired senior research project/
paper.

Members of SGA to contact for representationat meetings:

Missy Mullinax
Jessica Daugherty
Shannon Johnston
Wendy Riviere
Erin Boiling
Leigh Locker
Courtney Huffman
Chaunecy Williams
Becky Wilson
Linda Tukman
Jill Wilmarth
Tara Hogan
Elena Paras

Cicely Thompson
Jennifer Jenkins
Merisa Aranas
Raquel Bordas
Alison Burleson

Caroline Ackroyd
Laura Home
Anika Dyrstad

Shlawnda Calhoun
Sherrie Boone

Jennifer Homaday
Holly Demuth

Ivory
Towers

Compiled by Jenny Skridulis

Arts & Entertainment Editor

Berry College

Georgia Department of
Revenue enforcement of-
ficers raided two off-cam-
pus parties at which five
Berry college students
were arrested. All were
arrested on alcohol- re-
lated charges. The college
is not making judicial
charges against the stu-
dents. However, two of
the students will be
charged with improper so-
licitation at off-campus
events.

Princeton University

Russell Hulse and Joseph
Taylor Jr. of Princeton Uni-
versity won the Nobel
Prize in physics on Octo-
ber 1 3, last Wednesday, for
their discovery of a new
type of pulsar that has
opened up new possibili-
ties for the study of gravi-
tation.

Georgia Tech

Kary Mullis, a 1 966 gradu-
ate of Georgia Tech, was
awarded the Nobel Prize
in Chemistry on October
13, as well. He shared the
prize with a Canadian pro-
fessor at the University of
British Columbia. They
separately designed a way
to mass produce DN A and
to reprogram the genetic
code, techniques that of-
fer widespread applica-
tions in medicine and ba-
sic research. The technique
is being used to diagnose
infections, find causes of
hereditary diseases, and
recover DN A from fossils
as was portrayed fic-
tionally in the novel and
movie "Jurassic Park/'
Mullis is the first Georgia
Tech alumnus to receive a
Nobel Prize.

Purdue University

Three Purdue University
professors shared a forty
pound mushroom for din-
ner recently. At twenty-
six inches across, the
mushroom was too big to
fit into a dryer to be stud-
ied as a specimen, so it
was eaten instead. The
professors remarked that
it tasted like chicken.

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What's Up With That?

By Esther Dunn

Ta ke a d eep brea th, close your
eyes and think back to your child -
hood: Jump rope, skinned knees
and little sing-song phrases to
drive both friends and foes into a
temper tantrum (i.e. I know
something you don't know and
I'm not telling . . . ). But your
childhood was more than fun
and games. It was the time when
you formed your code of ethics,
your social behavior. One might
even say it was the time when
you developed your very own
honor code. Keeping this in
mind, try to recall the one char-
acteristic every cool kid hated in
a peer. Keep trying. . . Give up?
Perhaps you've spent too much
timeat Agnes Scott, living under
a system that no self-respecting
second grader could abide by.
We call it the Honor Code now;
as children we'd call it the snitch
system or tattletalism.

As with many laws or codes
intended to make people be good
and be hones, the real intention
and integrity of the Honor Code
has been lost. The honor Code, I
believe, was intended to place
students on their honor not to
cheat, steal, etc. I do not believe
the intention of the Honor code
was to place other people in
charge of other people's honesty.
Unfortunately, 1 think emphasis
has been put on watching other
students to make sure they are
not breaking the Honor Code,
instead of emphasizing the need
for each student to make sure
she follows the Honor Code

In effect, Agnes Scott has be-
come a breeding ground for

young women who perhaps are
in training for the CIA or just
really admired the next door
neighbor in that timeless sitcom,
Bewitched, Instead of having lives
of their own these above men-
tioned young women, have
made it their business to turn
people in for doing things they
don't agree with. The madden-
ing part about this way of life is
tha t not only can no student know
who to trust, but that no student
here is perfect and has never done
anything in their personal life
that could be interpreted as a
violation of the Honor Code. It's
hypocrisy and that is why I be-
lieve the Honor Code or its
present interpretation needs to
be revised.

As far as academics are con-
cerned, I think the Honor Code
needs to be strengthened. It
seems that in a mysteriously led
quest to rid the personal lives of
Agnes Scott students of any mis-
deeds, the academic aspect of
the Honor Code has been ig-
nored.

I feel that the Honor Code
should apply strictly to academ-
ics, mainly because I feel that no
one on this campus is righteous
enough to judge another
student's personal habits.

At present, the Honor Code
gives ASC a 1984 type atmo-
sphere and until it is revised
(which I suggest be done before
it is lost), I urge every student
who hated tattletalesasa child to
beware because Big Sister is
watching and she wears the face
of a typical Agnes Scott student.

Alum Supports Schmidt

By Andrea Johnson Swilley '90

I would like to take this op-
portunity to share a story with
you and your readers.

During my first year as a stu-
dent here, I experienced many of
the typical worries, frustrations
and general 'overload syndrome'
that most new students face. One
evening, quite late, as I was re-
turning to my room from my
duties as assistant editor of this
newspaper, I stopped at the ga-
zebo for a l3reather' before I
began studying. At that time, we
had a family of kittens that lived
under the gazebo and had often
served as a diversion for the
stressed-out. I was suddenly
joined by a pants-clad woman
who was holding one of the kit-
tens. It took me several moments
to realize that it was President
Schmidt. As I said before, it was
late, and here was the president
of the College sitting on the ga-
zebo with me chatting about cats
and other non-profit centered
topics. It was an evening that I
will always remember not
because she took the time to talk
to 'little ole me', but because it
make me realize how lucky I was
to attend a small institution
whose administration was so
visible and accessible.

President Schmidt was here
so late because she had been

working. And, in case you
haven't noticed, the lights in her
office are often on long after the
dining hall closes and "Beverly
Hills 90210" has gone off. You
say that you never see her any-
where but Convocation have
you heard about her "open office
hour" or been to the many cam-
pus events she attends weekly?

I would also like to ask where
it is written that the word 'presi-
dent' has the connotation 'su-
perhuman?' Can you name all of
the (over 8000 students, faculty,
staff and trustees? No. How
about the thousands of ASC
alumnae? No. I would like to
interview your friends that at-
tend school elsewhere. Odds are
that many of them do not even
know their president's name or
could describe him much less
expect him to know the names of
everyone he ever comes into con-
tact with. Ask them how many
times they've seen their presi-
dent at weekly gatherings of the
campus or special programs for
new students and their parents.

You call for a president 'like
Presidents Alston and Perry."
How many of the currents stu-
dents have met either one of these
men? Granted, the stories about
them are extremely complimen-
tary; but aren't you really saying

you want a president who agrees
with you? Remember, the grass
is always greener. . . Manv of the
archaic rules and regulations put
into place and enforced by these
two guys have been overturned
or changed by this administra-
tion. From what I understand,
they not only wanted to know
your name, but also wanted to
know what you date's father did
for a living and what time he
would have you home! I'm sure
they would have loved the idea
of 24 hour parietals. . .

You also say that you want an
active part in the search for Presi-
dent Schmidt's successor. Good
luck. I doubt that there are many
people who will want to subject
themselves to your scrutiny.
You're a tough crowd.

As students at Agnes Scott,
you are privileged to have a voice
on this campus that the majority
of your contemporaries at other
institutions can only dream
about. I challenge you to use it
wisely and to not abuse the
power that each of you could use
to make things better not to
sensationalize every issue that
arises.

Like my grandmother always
said, 'Be careful what you ask
for; you just might get it."

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Editorials

Soliloquy

Friday, October 29, 1993

The Profile

Dear Dead Poete:

I wae d\etreeeed to hear of your failure in your "Mission from God."
God hae commleeloned me to write to you and tell you that your mission
shall not be thwarted. My husband and I have a restaurant in Decatur
called "Meno's New Orleans Cafe" and we have coffee from heaven. We have
many different types but the most popular is truly heaven sent. It is Cafe
Aulait. It is notto believed and we sell it by the gallon. We have coffee from
NewOrleans shipped in just for us, as well as many other varieties, including
Irish Cream. The address is: 113 East Court Square, which is the side of
the square off of Ponce de Leon in Decatur. The phone number is 377-4405.
If in doubt, call and talk to Tom or Jim. They will fill you in on the speciality
of the day. Come and see us! Satan loses again!!!

Fondly,
Marilyn 3. Darling
Angel from Heaven

By Josie Hoilman
Editor-in-Chief

Straight Talk From Washington

By Mary L.T. Jordan

Congress appears to be on the
verge of passing legislation that
would treat crimes against
women as civil rights violations.

The Violence Against Women
Act, introduced in 1990 by Sena-
tor Joseph Biden (D-Delaware)
and Representative Patricia
Schroeder (D-Colorado), in-
cludes increased federal fund-
ing for domestic violence shel-
ters and rape crisis centers, edu-
cation programs to combat
judge's gender and racial biases
in sexual assault and domestic
violence cases, increased federal
sentences for rape, and manda-
tory treatment programs for con-
victed sex offenders.

"Simply put," says Senator
Biden, "violence against women
isoutof control. These are crimes
of terror and instill fear not only
in the eyes of the survivors, but i
the eyes of every woman in
America. "

In the last decade, the number
of reported rape crimes against
women has skyrocketed. The
Domestic Violence Coalition on
Public Policy says that one out of
every four female college stu-
dents will be sexually attacked
before graduating; one in seven
willberaped. The murder rate of
women aged 65 and older has
climbed by 30 % since 1 974, while
the murder rate for men in the
same age group has dropped by
6%. In December, 1 989, a man in
Montreal murdered fourteen
women engineering students,
proclaiming his hatred of all
women, especially of "feminists" .

Because of the soaring rate of
gender-based violence, Con-
gresswoman Schroeder and
Senator Biden have mandated

change in law enforcement and
prosecution. Under the Violence
Against Women Act, $200 mil-
lion would be used to assist sta tes
and law enforcement agencies in
developing effective law enforce-
ment and prosecution strategies
including police training pro-
grams and data collection sys-
tems to combat violent crimes
against women. General penal-
ties for repeat sex offenders
would be doubled and sentences
for sexual abuse would be_ in-
creased by the U.S. Sentencing
Commission.

The Violence Against Women
Act addresses women's safety
on college campuses, in their
homes and on the streets. The
Attorney General will be given
$200,000 to develop a national
baseline study that would exam-
ine the scope of sexual assaults
and the effectiveness of institu-
tional and legal policies in ad-
dressing these crimes and pro-
tecting the victims. Increase light-
ing, camera surveillance, emer-
gency phones and security per-
sonnel in public transportation
systems and public parks would
be increased. A national, toll-
free telephone hotline will be set
up to provide information and
assistance to women in danger
of domestic violence.

The civil rights legislation pro-
vides civil remedies for crimes of
violence against women. Be-
cause the Reconstruction-era
civil rights laws were not specifi-
cally designed with women in
mind, the Violence Against
Women Act combats crimes
against women by recognizing
that violence motivated by gen-
der deprives a woman of her

civil rights. Once enacted, the
civil rights provision will allow
victims of violent felonies com-
mitted because of gender or on
the basis of gender to bring a civil
lawsuit in federal court to seek
compensation for the violation
of their civil rights.

The civil rights remedy does
not cover minor crimes that do
not involve violence against
women. A woman, for example,
cannot seek recompensation un-
der the civil rights provision for
violent acts that are unrelated to
gender. But if the woman be-
lieves she has been violated be-
cause of her gender, she may
obtain a criminal conviction or-
der to pursue the civil rights rem-
edy. It is designed to be gender
neutral and is available to men as
well.

"Will tis stop violence against
women by making it a civil rights
violation?" asked Senator Biden
in a 1990 Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee hearing, "The answer is
no. That's not my intention. I
wish it could, my intention by
making this a civil rights viola-
tion is to change the nations's
attitude. I know of no circum-
stance under which the nation
has concluded that there is a se-
rious problem where that prob-
lem has not been reflected in leg-
islative form. I know of none.
Because no man, no matter how
suggestive a woman was
dressed, no matter what she
was doing. . . if she walked in the
most promiscuous, inviting man-
ner from there to the Capitol
across the way ... no man, under
any circumstance, has any right
for any reason to viola tea woman
physically.

Looking Down Into Time

This column is dedicated to President Schmidt
because I now understand that you tried...

Time is not linear. "You don't look back along time but down
through it like water," says Margaret Atwood in her novel Cat's Eye.
As the Class of 1994 prepares for graduation, we must decide what
we want to remember about Agnes Scott College. We must attempt
to dive into the wreckage and scrape away a small crustacean of
hope. We cannot forget the tragedies we have witnessed in the past
four years, but we need to release them, just enough, to allow
ourselves to remember the good.

We cannot forget the dismissal of Tara Somerville, the denial of
tenure to Professor Waggoner or the vote of "no-confidence" against
President Schmidt. In five or ten years we will look down into time
to edit some of the memories better forgotten, we will embrace those
we can never release to lost time, but most of all, we will learn that
we loved Agnes Scott because we were all part of something
extraordinary.

Agnes Scott is more than its traditions, more than the motifs that
characterize campus life. It far surpasses bad administrative deci-
sions and interference in student rights. Agnes Scott is not the
buildings where we have learned and loved and played. Agnes Scott
is an idea of love the love of education. We need to recognize that
we all share this love, we pursue it with vengeance. It is this desire
that forges uncommon friendships with faculty, that leads us to their
dinner tables to have conversations with their spouses and to baby-
sit for their children. In residence halls and in student organizations
we come together in the spirit of this love to find friends we know as
sisters. These are not the memories we need to worry about, they will
float easily upon the surface of time. We will be unable to recognize
that our college experience was more than just four years of clashing
with the administration.

If we allow ourselves to leave Agnes Scott overwhelmed by the
bad memories, then we have denied ourselves the full pleasure that
the college offers. President Schmidt has said that she cannot
understand why we complain of poor morale. I agree with her, only
for different reasons. The same relationships between students and
faculty that she discourages are the ones that have sustained the
spirit of the college. The close bonds create a unity that is uncommon
on most other campuses, bringing together the pursuit of knowledge
and the sense of community that is the essence of the Agnes Scott
tradition. These bonds often perpetuate the moments that become
the good memories, the small treasures lodged at the bottom of the
wreck.

If we look down into our history at Agnes Scott and see only a
myriad of wreckage, then we are looking at a few trees and not the
forest. If we fail to acknowledge the benefits that graduate students
both male and female bring to our classrooms, then we have
seen only one tree: ourself. If we only remember the misguided
decisions made by President Schmidt and not the benefits she
brought to the college, then again we are ignoring something
integral. We cannot refuse to acknowledge that another part of
tradition is change.

Agnes Scott is a phenomenal substance. It cannot exist without
the sum of its parts, and in being one of those parts you have a
responsibility to direct your experience. This does not mean you
should forget the bad memories or glorify the scars of pedagogy by
calling them birthmarks. Instead, we all need to recognize that time
is not linear. We need to understand that when we look down into
time, it will be difficult to reconstruct our history at Agnes Scott. Five
or ten years from today is too late to discover the love we shared on
this campus. Carpe Diem if you must. Do something now. Don't
allow yourself to be drowned in your own history. Somewhere in the
myriad of the wreck you can recognize a shadow on the surface, you
can construct a piece of Agnes Scott that is good.

Atwood says "You don't look back along time but down through
it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that,
sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away." If we allow ourselves to
only remember the bad, then we have seen nothing. If we leave
Agnes Scott after four years and have no sense of the shared love of
education, if we only see a colossal wreckage, then we have wasted
ourselves. Years after graduation we will peer down into our time
at Agnes Scott and see only broken fragments. We will have
misplaced four years of happiness and wisdom because we could
only see the bad.

Editorials

Uffish Thoughts

The Profile

Friday, October 29, 1993

Bv Hollv Williamson and Kathleen Hill

Wake Us When It's Graduation!

We would like to apologize
formally for the following col-
umn. Forgive us if it is too short
or disjointed or disappointing,
but we are tired. No, we are
exhausted. Not only are we ex-
hausted, we are also stressed,
distressed and disheartened: and
here's why ....

The tension here overwhelms
us. The incessant bickering un-
settles us; and the tempers that
explode at the smallest spark of
dissent make our lives a constant
game of "tiptoe around the is-
sue." And it's no wonder when
every time we pick up the Profile
or read the "Express Yourself"
board we see people attacking
one another, sisters sacrificing
love and friendship for the sake
of an issue any issue. It's a
form of offensive defense: "I'll
attack you before you can attack
me (even if you didn't intend to
in the first place)." This attitude
breeds more anger. As the hos-
tility mounts, it highlights a cur-
rent of insecurity and fear which

runs deep among us. But why
are we afraid, and of what? We're
wondering why it is that battles
are waged which count friend-
ships among their casualties
for no greater reason than that
this college is composed of dif-
ferent people who hold different
opinions.

Agnes Scott is dying before
our very eyes. The tension among
us is corroding our community
with the acids of hatred and dis-
trust. The stress that we feel is
not only the stress of the class-
room, rather it is the tension
forced upon us by the campus'
dedication to adversity. And
now we're wondering (and we
know we're not alone) "Why are
we still here?" We've been to
other schools and noted that their
atmospheres are free of the tur-
moil and tension bred here.
Friends and other contacts at
these institutions do not relate
incidents of this sever pressure
and strain, and we marvel at the
possibility that (GASP) these con-

ditions may be unique to our cam-
pus !

As one body, this community
needs to examine the situation
behind its highlv charged atmo-
sphere. We need to open our
eyes and recognize the pain that
we are causing ourselves. This
masochism has got to stop. We
are not healthy; we are not happy;
and we are emotionally ex-
hausted.

Columnists' Note: This column
serves as a forum for ideas, particu-
larly for those ideas which are com-
monly repressed on this campus.
We believe that we speak for a silent
group whether that group is a mi-
nority or a majority, we arc not si i re.
Our column is never intended to
hurt any particular group or indi-
vidual : We're addressing issues,
not people. Whether you agree or
disagree, we encourage you to com-
municate with us either in person
or via the Profile.

Faberian Influences

By Laylage Courie and Jessica Daughertv

Adulthood. What does such
a term imply? If we agree with
Ms. Hill and Ms. Williamson,
that it is not a "magic age" we
reach, then when do we reach it?
It certainly is not when our par-
ents stop giving us money. If it is
a question of experience, how do
we dare judge the breadth of
women's experiences on this
campus? Some have been raped,
harassed, abused, ignored, and
many haw 4 had to make choices
many adults never face. Then it
cannot be a question of just expe-
rience. Is it, then, accepting "life's
thorns with its blossoms"? Then
perhaps Ms. Williams and Ms.
1 lill should accept that "the most
vocally disgruntled contestant
always wins" might perhaps just
mean YOU didn't win. A de-
mocracy, maybe, is one of life's
thorns. Everyone will not be
happy, but the majority always
wins, not a select few set up to
mandate from on high.

Is being an adult a matter of
politeness? Does it mean we
restrain our anger? Does it mean
that we always play by the rules,
a nd work th i ngs OU 1 1 he nice way,
even though the "nice way" is
defined by the very people hold-
ing all the pawns? If being an
ad u 1 1 mea ns we accept the t hi ngs

the way they are, that we work
within the system even when the
system is wrong, then we are not
adults. And every man or
woman who has brought into
effect any sweeping change is
not an adult.

If however, adulthood means
recognizing what is wrong in a
system, in a process, if it means
realizing that what is wrong is a
symptom of a larger problem, it
it means doing what is necessary
to effect a change, then we are
adults. If it means saving "You
do not have to be responsible for
me anymore, I am willing to be
responsible for myself" then we
are adults. If it means realizing
that what's wrong with the idea
"if we take privileges for granted,
then authority figures will take
them for good" is not us, but the
authority figures, then we are
adults.

People have argued that it is
pathetic that we must trifle over
an issue like parietals, that there
are other issues more important.
Yes, isn't it pathetic that after all
these years we still have no con-
trol over a personal student issue
like parietals!? We are labelled
''revolutionaries." Is it so revo-
lutionary to give every woman

one vote? To take a working set
of rules and extend them 12
hours? Is it so revolutionary to
expect something most colleges
have had for 20 plus years? This
"power play" that Ms.
Williamson and Ms. Hill find so
trite, maybe seems so because
we are so far behind. The power
has harbored in one place for a
long time. And it is inevitable
that we should have to fight for
it. For power is not given, it is not
earned; it is taken.

Let's Spend The Night
Together

By Caroline Bleke

It appears that admitting men into their classrooms is more
upsetting to Agnes Scott women than admitting them into
their bedrooms.

In a power play initiated by members of student govern-
ment, students have been manipulated by those holding high
the banner of "student power" and "freedom." Student
leaders cleverly chose a no-brainer when they put parietals in
front of the student body for a vote. Like residence hall officers
presented students with the option of 24-hour, 7-days a week
male visitation. Who could resist such a sweet deal? Too much
candy, however, can give you cavities and make you sick to
your stomach.

While the instigators have succeeded in demonstrating
their "power," the d isad vantages of the issue they have chosen
to threaten further divisiveness on campus. The heady sense
of success at having 'outwitted' the system presages head-
aches on all fronts as students, faculty, and administration
begin to face the reality of having men on campus at all times.

One could compare the students who voted for 24/7 to the
women who posed for Playboy a few years ago. They don't
seem to grasp the concept of a women's college. By feeling that
men should have access to the dorms at all hours, the women
at Agnes Scott risk altering the unique character of the college
they chose to attend. Male visitation is great - in moderation.
Twenty-four hours, seven days a week is overkill. Athens
provides that kind of atmosphere at a fraction of Agnes Scott's
tuition.

What is most offensive is the 'in your face' attitude of the
student government and residence hall association members
who are shoving this decision down the throats of approxi-
mately one-third of the campus community. What thought
has been given to fair housing for the students who voted
against extended parietals? What protection do they have
against the decreased privacy and increased security risks of
dorms? What about their rights?

We all understand, however, that this vote is not about
parietals but about power.

In a perfect world, guys would wake their girlfriends up at
5;00 a.m. so they could be escorted down two flights of stairs
the men's bathroom in the lobby. In a perfect world, guys
would walk across campus to take showers in the gym. In a
perfect world, there would be no psychos ready to prey on
women who unwittingly allow them access to their dormito-
ries.

But parietals are not the issue. Power is. The student body
has been manipulated by a few women who want to affect
radical change at any cost. Let's hope the cost is not too high.

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Friday, October 29, 1993

The Profile

Page 7

Street Beat

How do you feel about the students
taking the issue ofparietals into their
own hands?

Compiled By Tracey Baggett

"I think the R.D.'s need a raise."

-Jennie Sparrow '95
R.D. in Walters Hall

"The responsibility should be
ours, because it is our own deci-
sion who is in our room and who
isn't."

-Connie Leonard '97

"I feel that the students should
have given the process a chance
instead of assuming that it
wouldn't work. It is a different
college now with a different
Board, and no one knows that it
wouldn't have passed."

-Victor Wilson
Assistant Dean of Students

"I feel that the idea of going
around the process is a bad one.
It sets a bad precedent for the
future. Although you may be on
one side of an issue now, you
may be on the other side of a
future issue, and with this prece-
dent, it could be bad for every-
one."

-Molly Merrick '57

Associate Dean of Students

Mullinax faces charges

By Karen Jordan
Features Editor

With the all the rumors, innu-
endoes, and tempers flying
around the Agnes Scott "com-
munity," the true intent of SGA
President Missy Mullinax, in
challenging the parietal dorm
rules, became lost amongst the
noise. It all began with RHA's
proposal for twenty-four hour
parietals on Black Cat weekend.
This logically led Mullinax and
RHA President Natasha
Browner to question the concept
of parietals in general.

"This is really an issue that on
one hand students want and is
also a vehicle through which we
can gain student power. People
were excited about the idea."
Mullinax described the process
that led to the parietal changes:
"Natasha took it to Judicial Board.
It passed unanimously that SGA
would relinquish control over
that policy and give it to the
dorms so that each student could
have one vote to decide what
they wanted." Browner' s pro-
posal had some general rules. A
dorm meeting must be held with
two-thirds of residents present.

Only a vote of two-thirds major-
ity would carry. The parietal
rules were as follows: that men
could not be in the dorms for
more than three nights in a row,
and that they had to sign in at the
Resident Assistant's door.

The proposal was passed by
both Judicial Board and RHA.
All of the dormitories voted for
24hour visitation, 7 days a week
except for second-floor Winship.

Respond i ng to cha rges of ma-
nipulation and plays for power
made by some fellow students,
Mullinax said, "Clearly parietals
is a side issue to the critical one of
student power, but other leaders
and I have been up front about
that and as clear as we could be.
I think it's insulting to think that
two-thirds of the campus are
weak-minded enough to be ma-
nipulated by two or three people.
Some of these allegations are so
rid iculous that I don't even know
how to respond to them." Why
are so manv people threatened
by the idea of students taking
control over the school they pay
for?

The Cross-Country team pictured from left: Ashley Merritt, Kristin Fitzgerald, Cathy Ridinger, Holli
Hutson, Vicki Siefert, Andrea Riba, Kate Whitacre, Laura Spitzke and Vivi Jarrett. Not pictured:
Jessica Moore.

Cross Country team places second in double dual

By Janelle Bailey

Sports Editor ' __

Agnes Scott's cross country-
team placed second out of 17
teams at Oglethorpe's Double
Dual meet on October 9. Team
members, none of whom have
run cross country for ASC before
this year, continue to impress
Coach Susan Arthur.

Kate Whitacre placed fifth
overall. Vivi Jarrett placed 1 1 th,

and Vicki Seifert came in 18th.
All of ASC's runners improved
their times dramatically.

Happy Halloween
from The Profile!

Features

Page 8

The Profile

Friday, October 29, 1993

Timepieces: Agnes Scott in retrospect

By Jenny White

Features Editor

(Timepieces is a nezv addition to
the Features section and will appear
regularly, highlighting different as-
pects of and facts about the history of
many of ASC sactivitiesand events.)

In light of recent campus
events, I thought it would be
informative to look at the way
student government began at
Agnes Scott. In 1906, Agnes Scott
became a four-year college, and
SGA came into being the same
year. Dean Nanette Hopkins,
who held a position at ASC for 49
years (from 1889 to 1938) was
instrumental in establishing the
organization. As it rums out she
had to persuade the students to
form SGA. Lest We Forget: An
Account of Agnes Scott College
tells this version of the story :

"Surprising as it may seem,
the girls objected strenuously, on
the ground that they had all the
privileges they wanted without
the worry of having to assume
any of the responsibility! How-
ever, after much persuasion, Miss
Hopkins succeeded in getting the
student body to sanction the or-
ganization of a Student Govern-
ment Association."

At that time Agnes Scott had
two groups of students: the col-

lege students, who lived in
Rebekah, and the preparatory
students, who lived in Main.
There were originally four offic-
ers of SGA, including a presi-
dent, vice-president, hall presi-
dent and marshall, and an ex-
ecutive committee.

The Agnes Scott College Bul-
letin, published in 1939, speaks
of SGA as a "great blessing in the
promotion of high ideals and of
strong character building." Both
qualities in an SGA member were
a necessity because of the many
duties she was expected to per-
form (legislative, executive and
judicial).

At first SGA handled what
are today Honor Court offenses
as well as legislative duties. The
first vice-president of SGA wrote
pertaining to judgment of stu-
dents by their peers:

". . . We felt that our free-
dom was greatly increased un-
der the new regime and there
was much rejoicing as well as
criticism. The latter became par-
ticularly strong when the com-
mittee was called upon to deal
with infringement of rules and
there were times when we would
gladly have laid down our offi-
cial authority and become pri-

vate students." The executive
committee of SGA handled cases
and appeals went directly to the
entire association.

Until the 1960's, executive
committee and student council
handled all proposals to SGA,
and SGA itself could only veto
their decisions. In the 1960's, the
three major functions of SGA
(legislative, executive and judi-
cial) were divided into three
groups: Representative Coun-
cil, Judicial Council and Joint
House Council. These three
groups were similar to our SGA/
Rep Council, Honor Court and
RHA of today; Honor Court and
RHA came about in the 1970's.

Lest We Forget sums up the
history of ASC student govern-
ment in the following manner:
"For over three-quarters of a cen-
tury (since 1 906) Agnes Scott stu-
dents have governed them-
selves responsibly, sensibly,
effectively. Details of this activ-
ity have changed throughout the
years, but the major thrust of this
procedure has remained the
same: College students are
young adults, capable of integ-
rity, responsibility and trust. At
Agnes Scott no one would have
it any other way!"

Black Cat! 993 Pictorial

Dean Hudson, the gypsy fortune teller, predicts success for Senior biology major Kristin Mezger.

Picture Lower Left:

Senior BrittBrewton is all smiles
for the camera now that both
the MCAT and midterms are
behind her.

Picture Lower Right:

Senior Beth Barnes engages in a
friendly squeeze with first-year
student Amanda Lockhart.

Soccer scores win against
Wesleyan and Emory

Bv Nanska Lovell

October: the month of midterms, Black Cat, and Halloween,
but also (and more importantly) the height of ASCs soccer
season. Since whining the Hollins , Tournament, ASC has played
three games, winning two of the three. On October 1, ASC
defeated Wesleyan College with a score of 2-0.

The team played against Lee College on October 7. They
played with pride and perseverance, scoring early in the game
and continuing to challenge Lee right to the end. Although ASC
lost the match, they did not lose their determination.

On October 13, ASC came out strong against Emory Univer-
sity. The team took control of the ball early in the game due to the
fantastic footwork of Jessica Biggs, and set the pace for a quick-
spirited game.

In the second half, ASC continued to dominate the game,
keeping the ball mainly on their end of the field. With the
tremendous teamwork of Carrie Mastromarino, Connie Leonard,
Adrienne McNees, Sara Sabo and Becky Wilson, ASC was able to
score against Emory. The defense, including the talents of goalie
Kristi Mendheim, kept Emory from scoring. The final score was
1-0.

The impressive workmanship of all the members of the team
reveals ASCs strong spirit and continuing improvement that will
allow them to challenge all the teams throughout the remainder
of the season.

Seniors Andie Medven, Darby Beach and Nancy Zehl enjoy their
last Black Cat picnic.

Creative Writing

Friday, October 29, 1993

The Profile

Page 9

Gold Diggers

By Perrin Cothran

Vivian's footfall was quick
and happy as though she
walked in rhythm with some
popular dance tune from the
radio. Gold silken waves
bounced behind her snappy
stride across Morris and
Epworth's thin grey carpet.
There was to be anew em-
ployee moving in next to her
today, and she had worn her
red silk suit in hopes that it would
be a man. Bout when she
reached her desk, cluttered
with plants and photos in ex-
pensive gold frames, the
neighboring cubicle was
empty.

"Good morning, Marg-
aret! " she called out to a grey
haired woman across from
her.

"Good day, Vivian." Marg-
aret did not look up from her
computer.

"Have you seen the new
guy yet? Isn't he supposed to
be here today?"

"The new x guy' is a young
woman , and no , she 's not here
yet."

"Oh. Well, how does she
think she can be late on her
first day?"

"She can do whatever she
pleases, because she is Mr.
Epworth's grand-daughter.
Her name is June, and I sug-
gest we all be polite to her, lest
she should make disparaging
comments to Mr. Epworth."

"Oh." Vivian sat down and
flipped the power switch for
the equipment on her desk.
She put her hand on her chin
and again said, "Oh."

"What?" Margaret asked
out of obligation.

"She could prove to be
quite a useful ally, eh, Marg-
aret?"

For the first time , Margaret ' s
eyes lifted from her screen. "I
hope she proves to be a pleas-

ant co-worker, Vivian."

Margaret had barely com-
pleted her sentence when Mr.
Epworth's secretary, Betty,
rounded the corner with a red-
haired girl in her early twenties.
As they came closer, Vivian's
smile faded in response to the
sour expression starting back
at her.

"Good morning, ladies. This
is June Epworth. She will be
working with you all from now
on. June, this is your cubicle."

"Hi, June! I'm Vivian! How
do you do?"

"I do fine," June said in
monotone.

Before leaving, Betty
added , " If you have any ques-
tions, just ask Vivian or Marg-
aret . . . Good luck!"

June sat down and began
rifling through her drawers and
cabinets. She pulled only a
desk calendar out of her bag.
Vivian guessed this was her
idea of decoration for her
area.

Vivian tried making conver-
sation , but June barely looked
at her. "So June, where did
you go to school?"

"State."

"Oh, really! My brother went
to State. Maybe you knew
him. When did you gradu-
ate?"

"Didn't."

"I see. Well, um, so where
are you living?"

June looked at her as
though she'd just asked what
color underwear she was
wearing. "Downtown."

"Hownice." Withthis,Vivian
decided to go back to work
and try again later.

After lunch ,she came back
with a gift-wrapped package
which she presented to June.
"It's nothing big, June, but it's
my way of saying v welcome.

June turned the gift over in

Sidewinder

Eastern dancer, dancing
across shifting sands,

Drawing passion down in
the heat.

Sliding and flowing, clad in
veils woven of wind-blown
Ocher sands.

Hiss-shaped paths mimic
the how voice of Sahara winds,
Trail up dunes and ava-
lanche down,

Never ceasing their rhyth-
mic dances.

-Margaret Bickers

her hands for bout ten sec-
onds. She screwed up her
face and said, "This is very in-
teresting wrapping paper."
Finally, she tore one end and
pulled out a white box with a
gold frame just like Vivian's.
"Oh, a picture frame."

"Yes! I thought you might
want to keep a photo of your
family on your desk or some-
thing." She waited anxiously
for June's response.

June simply said, "Okay."

The nextday, Tuesday, June
scowled through her red
bangs at the cursor on her
terminal. "How does it expect
me to know the password
when it doesn ' t give it to me? "
She pulled a thick blue manual
out of her top drawer and
dropped it on her desk with a
vibrating boom. "Idon'teven
now how to look it up in this
stupid book, and I don't care,
either, because I don't want
to be doing this. Idon'teven
want to be here. It smells bad
in here."

Vivian, who had been try-
ing to ignore June, rolled her
eyes and said, "Itshouldbein
the Table of Contents under
passwords. "'

Junefrowned even harder.
"Why do they have passwords
to get into programs you need ,
anyway? I think it stinks."

" Well , you know, June, they
have to keep undesirable
people from getting to com-
pany information. Otherwise,
any incompetent wretch
would be able to get to our
files. Ithadyoustumpeddidn't
it?"

June stared down at
Vivian's micro mini and Evan
Picone high heels. Then, she
very thoughtfully said, "That is
a stylish skirt you're wearing,
Vivian."

Vivian smiled, "Why, thank
you, June!"

"I'm glad my grandfather
owns the company and I'm
assured and eventual promo-
tion. This way, I don't have to
flirt my way to the top."

Vivian set her jaw and
tossed her head to the other
side. "I think I'll take my coffee
break now." She shot away
a blonde bullet....

To be continued next issue

Lying pliant in wit to excavate my form
With fakery like the enamored,
I imagined him to be my brother
Boasting twelve years of age and I as nine
Fondling our way back to the womb
That beats too familiar with rhythms
Betrying both age and bloodlines.

While you've devoured and fed upon

Sibling flesh as the act of innocence

Pretending that age evaded us.

Frozen there, hovering above me

With the slly sneer of fruition,

Nothing else mattered

We wereperfect at that moment of half-light,

Allusive and slippery as air, you

Fled from my breast pleading your devotion

I buried my lips to find you alone

In an empty white room

And finally, this is our truth:

I know that what I paid for was siimply

The privilege of letting you go.

Mother said his name sounded like money
And I loved that sound, continually
Flowing it through my brain, trickling
The words past my lips and melting
It with the dull, deadness of my own

I tasted the liquer-sweet crevices of your

Tongue tinged with smoke and heat

I wanted your moles to rub off onto my

Clear clena skin, creating friction, to own

Some peice of you

I fingered your scars of boyhood

Still accumulating with scabs

That perpare to depart the body.

You were my cool smooth glass

That encompassed me, clothed me

Sheeting with sweat

I gathered your bodily secretions

And injected them into y spine

You linger there with the force of

Indifference, and you will be

With me forever.

-Karen Jordan

Ifyou would like to see your
work published here, please
submit a typed copy to Box 5.

Every effort will be made to
print all material received.
Poetry, short stories, personal
essays, etc. are welcome.

Work from students, faculty,
staff, alums, boyfriends, par-
ents, etc. is welcome.

Questions may be directed to
Josie Hoilman, 371-6820.

Arts & Entertainment

Page 10

The Profile

Friday, October 29, 1993

Diverse style attracts notice and praise

Two art exhibits on display in Dana

By Claire Quin

Imagine an art exhibit that
displays two womens' work as
two very different expressions
of life, one sophisticatedly sym-
bolic and three-dimensional, the
other as flat as paper that em-
bodies a wild, child-like sense of
freedom. If your interest has
been piqued, then look no fur-
ther than the Dalton Gallery in
the Dana Fine Arts Building.
Now showing through Novem-
ber 7, Agnes Scott College pre-
sents Diane Kempler's New End-
ings: Works of Clay and Nancy
Marshall's Recent Photographs.

Kempler's work is what she
calls an "exploration of poten-
tials/' Her highly symbolic clay
figures represent her concern
with the "interrelatedness of na-
ture and human form." These
hand-built clay forms are fin-
ished in subtle colors, mostly
orange, green, blue and red, that
give them a certain softness and
delicacy. Their shapes are mainly
rounded or curved and deco-
rated with interesting organic
designs such as spirals and coils.

A very noticeable technique
is her use of texture that, inciden-
tally, is enhanced by the lighting
angles in the gallery. Most of her
works are given a rough, sera tchy
surface that draws the viewer in
closer in order to observe such
fine line and detail.

Her style seems to be a varia-
tion on a theme, as she chooses
one title for two or three works of
art (for example, "Forest of Our

Dreams," "Hambrigde Head-
dress in the Igbo Tradition," or
"Unification") that share the
same shape and color but are not
identical. She has fifteen one
person exhibits, thirty-seven
group exhibits, and eighteen
grants and awards, almost all of
which are located in Georgia.
Kempler's creations are abstract,
symbolic and unique. Their
meaning and style are almost
disturbing, but their impression
is memorable.

Across the middle lobby, just
past the black leather couches,
the works of Nancy Marshall
begin. These black and white
photographs are the focus of a
nineteenth century tradition.
Hand-sensitized with a combi-
nation of platinum, palladium
and gold, Marshall achieves a
two hundred year old style that
softens the pictures, giving them
a fuzzy, relaxed look. This tech-
nique resembles the artistic
movement in the 1800's of Im-
pressionism, where detail was
subordinate to candidness and
speed.

Her subject matter is prima-
rily her daughter and her friends,
captured on film in odd costumes
frolicking about in an open back-
yard setting. She photographs
expressions beautifully as seen
in "Abby" where the wide-eyed
child's smooth skin and subtle
lines' of her face are contrasted
against the rough texture of a
dancer's tutu. In "Lydia and

Kate," she photographs two girls,
one whose focus in on the cam-
era and one whose is not, show-
ing how aware yet comfortable
these girls are with Marshall and
her camera.

Although most of her models
are children, she also photo-
graphs sculpture, paintings, and
other photographs. These pic-
tures are titled after the names of
her subjects (such as "Kate and
Justine" or "Dark Horse") but
several of them are untitled, as if
to say the emphasis is on the
photograph itself and not its
name.

Educated at Georgia State
University and now teaching Art
History at Emory University,
Marshall has achieved a total of
one hundred and twenty-five
grants and awards, workshops,
collections, publications, and ex-
hibits. Her photographs do not
usually highlight detail, but her
use of natural light, setting, and
sense of movement give her
works and air of wildness, free-
dom and child-like innocence.

The difference in these two
womens' styles and subject mat-
ter is overwhelmingly large. The
variation, however, adds diver-
sity and originality to the exhibit.
These works are not permanent
collections, so, while you can,
stop by Dana and experience for
yourself the beautiful creations
of these fine female artists.

Phaedra opens 1992-93 Blackf liars' season

By Teresa Marie Kelly

I n 1 776, English man of letters
Horace Walpole wrote to the
countess of Upper Ossory, 'This
world is a comedy to those that
think, a tragedy to those that
feel." Next week, the Agnes Scott
College Blackfriars will open
their annual season with a pro-
duction that vividly illustrates
Walpole's conclusion that feel-
ings beget tragedy. This year's
inaugural production of Jean
Racine's Phaedra brings John
Stephens of Theatre Gael, direc-
tor of last year's highly success-
ful The Odd Couple, back to
Agnes Scott for his second
straight fall show. According to
Stephens, "This adaptation of
Euripides' Greek tragedy has lost
none of its power and relevance
with the passage of time. This
particular production may best
be described as a total theatre
piece with original music, cho-
rale singing and movement
complementing a strong and
compelling text."

Racine's neoclassical tragedy,

translated into verse by Richard
Wilbur, uses the fall of a young
Athenian queen to illuminate the
place and consequences of hu-
man desire. Phaedra's love for
her stepson precipitates a series
of events that escalates beyond
hercontrol. "Thestory of Phaedra
and her forbidden love has prob-
ably been with us since the dawn
of storytelling," says Stephens.
"Euripides dabbled successfully
in the myth. Racine, likewise,
found the tale compelling. Rich-
ard Wilbur poured his consider-
able poetic skills into a wonder-
ful translation. And the'fheatre is
a more exciting place for the
play's continuing fascination."

Of the play's plot and rel-
evancy, Stephens states, "A
young queen struggles valiantly
with the forces that shape her
destiny. In her tragic fall, Phaedra
discovers and ultimately clings
to an unshakable sense of honor.
It is a theme as old as humankind
and one I believe is of special
consequence to young people

today." Senior Blackfriars vet-
eran Britton McMullian, winner
of the Maier and Berkle award
for best actress in a Blackfriars'
production for the last two sea-
sons, has the title role of Phaedra.
The cast includes Atlanta area
actors John Liles and Troy Hill as
Phaedra's husband Theseus and
his son Hippolytus, the object of
Phaedra's desire. Veteran
Blackfriars Laylage
Courie(Theramenes), Amy
Dryden(Oenone) and Deirdra
Harris(Panope) join first-year
students Stephanie
Stevens(Aricia) and Vicki
Vitelli(Ismene) in the cast.

Stephens quickly notes the
varied contributions of the Agnes
Scott Community to his vision
for Phaedra. Professor Dudley
Sanders, back from a year's sab-
batical in California, serves as
technical director and has cre-
ated a set Stephens says, "sharply
represents the fractured world
of the play." Junior Emily Pender
functions jointly as Assistant Di-

Kempler's use of potatoes as art dispels all myth that objects as art
are limited.

Agnes Scott musicians hold recital

By Margaret Bickers
Staff Writer

Vocalists and instrumentalists from ASC's Department of
Music performed in a recital on Friday, October 8, during the
Community Hour. These musicians presented a wide range oi
selections from several musical eras. The audience received all of
the pieces and their performers well.

Jennifer Cofer opened the recital with the soprano aria Vedrei
Carino by W. A. Mozart. She displayed a great deal of poise and
excellent tempo control. Sylvia Martinez showcased her lovely
voice in the Baroque selection Music for Awhile by the English
composer Henry Purcell. Next Jeri Adams gave an excellent
rendition of Chopin's Mazurka.

Amy Heins sang Quella fiamma by Marcello with good,
though quiet, diction. Dove sei came next, sung by Osjha Ander-
son who, despite a bit of a head cold, gave a good performance.
Amy Sweckard impressed the audience (as always) with her flute
Reverie by Caplet.

Charlotte Stapleton sang the Spanish De donde venis, amore?
lightly and swiftly, as befitted the selection. Margaret Bickers
closed the recital with two selections from Couperin's Mass for the
Parishes on the organ.

A big thanks to the music studen ts for their fine work and to Mr.
David d'Ambrosio for accompanying them.

rector and Stage Manager.
Stephens has worked with se-
nior Georgia Fuller on an origi-
nal score that combines choral
chants, viola, cello, trumpet, key-
board, flute and saxophone.
Fuller notes that the music will
be performed live by Agnes Scott
students with actor John Liles on
saxophone.

In addition to Fuller's music,
sophomore Kara C. Moore has
choreographed the movement
for the actresses portraying the
Goddesses, including first-year
students Audra Brecher,
Courtney Huffman, Valerie
Horton and Naomi Zipperman.
Moore explains that the God-
desses represent Phaedra's pas-
sions. 'They set up these pas-
sions in mortals then sit back and
watch what happens." Accord-
ing to Moore, the Goddesses will
appear in silhouette from behind

a scrim to enhance the dramatic
effect.

"Phaedra is very much a story
for our time," concludes
Stephens. "There's lots of vio-
lence, lust and political chica-
nery. Interestingly, all of it falls
about a woman of uncommon
virtue and character so we actu-
ally care how it turns out."

Phaedra opens at 8:15 p.m.,
Oct. 28, in the Winter Theatre of
the Dana Fine Arts Building and
runs for consecutive Thursday,
Friday and Saturday nights
through Nov. 2. All tickets are
general seating. The cost is $5 for
general admission, $3 for stu-
dents and seniors and $4 for
Agnes Scott faculty and staff. For
more information or to reserve
tickets, contact the Dana box of-
fice at 371-6248.

Arts & Entertainment

Friday, October 29, 1993

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Page 1 1

Winners and Snoozers

By Kelly Holton and Tracy Walker

Sleep Factor Rating Code

z-Only with a student ID at Northlake

zz- Wait til it comes to the dollar-fifty

zzz-Rent it at Kroger

zzzz- Hold out til it's edited for TV

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Mr. Jones !

Most movies have a plot, and
we suppose this one does, too.
Most people have first names,
and we suppose Mr. Jones, por-
trayed by Richard Gere, does,
too. However, just as the movie
never reveals Mr. Jones' first
name, it also fails to reveal its
point.

Mr. Jones suffers from manic-
depression, and his manic state,
which makes him believe that he
can fly, leads him straight into a
mental hospital. His feelings for
his doctor, Elizabeth Bowen
(Lena Olin), extend beyond the
scope of a normal doctor-patient
relationship, and she soon be-
gins to reciprocate these feelings,
despite her knowledge that such
a relationship would jeopardize
her career. They spend most of
the movie trying to decide if this
budding relationship is worth
pursuing.

This relationship seems un-
believable because of the weak,
undeveloped plot. The audience
feels nothing for these charac-
ters, not empathizing with Mr.
Jones' condition nor caring about

Libby Bowen's professional di-
lemma. Their love story is unre-
alistic; Jones and Libby have
nothing in common, and they do
not share a common emotional
bond. The undeveloped plot
leaves the audience wondering
who these characters really are
and what brought them to this
point in their lives.

Lena Olin does the best she
can with her flat, one-dimen-
sional role. She plays a relatively
minor part in the story, only serv-
ing to offset Gere's crazy antics
with her dullness. Gere's char-
acter, though not as flat, is equally
unexciting and most annoying.
His first attempt to fly is funny,
but many of his other stunts make
him look like a jackass. Even
during the depressive phases of
his illness, Mr. Jones does not
gamer the sympathy of the view-
ers. By the end of the movie, no
one in the audience cares if he
tries to fly off the roof of a build-
ing, and no one believes that
Elizabeth Bowen cares either.

In fact, we were kinda hopin'
they'd both jump off.

Rating: z

Around Atlanta

Taste a bit of the Far East at Surin of Thailand

By Merisa E. Aranas

Staff Writer

I would like to pose a ques-
tion for those wonderful Chinese
food lovers out there. Have you
ever tried Thai food? If you have
not, you should. It was three
years ago that I was introduced
to this wonderful asian cuisine.
Being an Asain myself, I was
always fed the daily supply of
rice and beef, chicken or fish "Fili-
pino style." If I did not have rice,
noodles were substituted.

Being reared in a much smaller
city in Louisiana, the only orien-
tal restaurants that would ever
survive were the "Chinese ones."
I could safely say that most of the
restaurants that served Chinese
food were owned by either Viet-
namese, Japanese, or Filipino
families. It's the word "chinese,"
1 suppose, that entices those to
eat oriental food, even if it was
not exactly "chinese" food. The

word is so common. Those who
cannot distinguish asains from
their specific ethnic background
always ignorantly say "chinese,"
expecting every single asian in
America to be chinese. The resi-
dents of the Atlanta metropoli-
tan area should be grateful that
they are not deprived of just
"chinese" food. Now off to the
the review at hand.

One would not have to go
very far for Surin of Thailand. It
is in Virginia Highlands, one
block after the famous St. Charles
Deli. The atmosphere is very
small, casual and quiet, seating
no more than fifty. Pick a win-
dow seat on a nice Saturday af-
ternoon to watch the passersby,
or let them watch you.

For an appetizer, try a fresh

Continued on Page 12

Although A Few Good Men has ended, Neighborhood Playhouse offer other exciting plays through-
out their season. Look for Steel Magnolias to open November 12. Pictured above are the stars of A
Few Good Men, Robert Pralgo, Jack Winnick and Nicole Golden.

A Few Good Men commands attention

By Kelly Holton

Arts & Entertainment Editor

Atten-hut! Neighborhood
Playhouse presents the Atlanta
premiere of A Tezv Good Men,
directed by Tom Palmer. The
play, written by Aaron Sorkin,
opens with marines marching
down the aisles of the theater
chanting a cadence, bringing the
audience to order. The cadence
reminds theaudienceof the mili-
tary nature of the play and em-
phasizes the importance of or-
der and discipline in the lives of
marines serving in Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba.

Lieutenant, junior grade,
Daniel Kaffee (Robert Pralgo)
stands in stark contrast to the
chanting marines of the first few
moments of the play; his service
in the U.S. Navy is just a vehicle
for becoming a lawyer, a chore
he must complete before mov-
ing on to greater glory. He serves
in Washington, D.C., far from
the dangers of Cuba, and Ms ma i n
concern is his softball team. His
assignment to defend LanceCor-
poral Harold Dawson and Pri-
vate, first class, Louden Downey
(Damon Pooser and Dan Beeson,
respectively) on charges of mur-
dering a fellow marine challenges
both his acumen as a lawyer and
his dedication to the principles
of the military.

Lieutenant Commander
Joanne Galloway (Nicole
Golden) also serves to challenge
Kaffee. Though she is his supe-
rior, she plays a subservient role
to him on the murder trial. Gal-
loway receives little respect from
her fellow naval officers because
of her poor trial record. She must
earn her stripes, so to speak, by
proving her ability to win a case.
The story of A Few Good Men

raises several ethical questions
about marine corps life. This
production manages to make the
audience feel sympathy for
Lawson and Downey and for
their predicament. As loyal ma-
rines, they are expected to follow
orders from their superior offic-
ers, yet as human beings, they
should respect the lives of oth-
ers, especially those who are
weak, as was Private, first class,
William Santiago. When the two
killers are dishonorably dis-
charged from the Marine Corps,
there is a sense that justice has
been served. They must lose the
one tiling that gives their lives
purpose. They can no longer be
marines, can no longer claim to
live by the code that has brought
the greatest meaning to their
lives.

The audience is never allowed
to forget Santiago or the crimes
perpetrated against him, as Nic
Garcia who portrays the mur-
dered private sits on a landing
above the main stage through-
out much of the play. His pres-
ence is a con stant rem i nd er of the
life that has been taken and of the
weakness that the marines were
ordered to purge from their
ranks.

For the most part, the per-
formers in A Fezv Good Men bring
the passion and intensity of the
play to life in a realistic manner.
However, in the final courtroom
scene in which Kaffee and Colo-
nel Nathan Jessup of
Guantanamo Bay face off, both
characters lack the passionate
conviction that the audience ex-
pects. Because the play and the
actors do an excellent job leading
up to this scene, the lack of emo-

tion is most startling and disap-
pointing. Jack Winnick portrays
Jessup, for the most part, with
just the right amount of self-cen-
tered importance to make the
audience believe that he is ca-
pable of ordering that one of his
men be unofficially disciplined,
that he would threaten a doctor
and draw up phony paperwork
in order to cover his own role in
Santiago's death. In the court
room scene, this self-importance
is lacking and his conviction that
he has the right to protect the
country in any way he chooses is
questionable.

Similarly, Pralgo's Kaffee fails
to convince the audience that he
truly believes in what he is fight-
ing for. His transformation from
sarcastic wiseguy to dedicated
marine is overwhelming and
hard to believe.

The highlight of
Neighborhood's production of
A Few Good Met i is Tony Foresta's
portrayal of Lieutenant, junior
grade, Sam Weinberg. Foresta
brings just the right amount of
sass to this character who pro-
vides Kaffee with trial help and
the audience with comic relief.
His performance is consistently
funny and touching, and he is
the only one who ever takes the
partofPrivateSantiago. Hissym-
pathy for the loss of this soldier
and his outrage at the injustice
allowed within the Marines bal-
ance the skewed opinions of
many of the other characters.

Despite many moments of
humor, the tenor of the play is
serious, even somber, as it raises
questions of freedom, of justice,
of morality.

Arts & Entertainment

Page 12

The Profile

Friday, October 29, 1993

Calendar of Events

Compiled by Jenny Skridulis

VISUAL ART

High Museum of Art

For more information call 892-
HIGH

Admission : $5 adults, $3 senior
citizens and students, $1 chil-
dren 6-17, children under 6
free.

THROUGH 11/28/93 Annie
Liebovitz photographs 1970-
1990

Annie Liebovitz has
long been regarded as one of
the most exceptional portrait-
ists of her generation.
Liebovitz's provocative pho-
tographs of celebrities have
been in numerous popular
magazines. This nationally
touring retrospective of her
work includes 150 exceptional
color and black-and-white im-
ages. Among those pictured
are Ella Fitzgerald, Whoopi
Goldberg, John Lennon and
Mikhail Baryshnikov.

THROUGH 1 1/19/93* Latin
American Film Festival

This film festival show-
cases eight outstanding films
from Latin America. "Excess
Baggage " is about a man who
falls into a coma and wakes
up twenty years later to find
that he is "excess baggage",
to his family. "Like a Bride" is
set in Mexico ' s Sephardic Jew-
ish community during the '60s.
It follows the lives of two young
women as they discover art,
love, politics and their own
identities.

10/2/93 - 1/2/94 Art at the
Edge: Ray Smith

Ray Smith draws on his
Mexican-American heritage
to incorporate ideas and ele-
ments from popular culture,
idiomatic expressions, and
Mexican tales to create large-
scale, colorful paintings remi-
niscent of Mexican murals. This
exhibition features a new
cycle of vibrant paintings in
which the artist contemplates
ideas of family, nurture and
protection. A series of small,
humorous self-portraits in wa-
tercolor and three sculptures
made of wood and found ma-
terials are also included in the
exhibition.

10/12/93-1/2/94 Double
Takes: A New Look at the High
To mark the tenth an-
niversary of its award-winning
building, the High Museum of

Art celebrates the growth of
its permanent collection with
an innovative and compre-
hensive survey. "Double
Takes" places seemingly un-
related works from every ma-
jorcollecting area side-by-side
to illustrate the recurrence of
key themes in art in every
medium and genre from dif-
ferent periods and parts of the
world.

The Spruill Center for the Arts

Located at 5339 Chamblee

Dunwoody Road

For information call 394-3447

THROUGH 1 1 /5/93 TheSouth-
ern Landscape

This exhibit features
work by four Atlanta artists
whose love for nature and their
media combine to create
unique and sensitive interpre-
tations of the Southern land-
scape. The exhibit includes
paintings by Paul Blakely and
JunkoRothwelLwatercolorsby
Billie Shelburn and photo-
graphs by Craig Tanner.

THROUGH 1 1/5/93 Works in
Wood

This is an exhibit of
wood bowls, vessels, whimsi-
cal toys and traditional, con-
temporary and one-of-a-kind
furniture by five metro- Atlanta
artists, including Fred Allen,
Mark Barr, Nick Cook, Jack
Harich and Philip Moulthrop.

OPENING 11/8/93 John
Marshall : Works in Fabric

Over40 wall hangings,
quilts and wearables will be
on display during John
Marshall's visit to Atlanta,
where he is teaching work-
shops in Japanese dyeing and
resist.

The Atlanta History Museum

For more information , call 84 1 -
4000

Located on 1 30 West Paces
Ferry Road

Admission is $6for adults, $4.50
for students and senior citizens ,
$3 for children 6-17, children
under 6 free.

OPENING 10/23/93 Days to
Remember: Atlanta 's Cultural
Calendars

This exhibit explores fa-
miliar and unfamiliar annual
events celebrated by a vari-
ety of metro Atlanta's ethnic
and immigrant groups through
photographs taken especially
for the exhibition, as well as
costumes, calendars and
prayer books. Among the
events covered will be the Is-
lamic month of Ramadan,

Jewish and Japanese New
Year celebrations , a Polish
Christmas Eve, African-Ameri-
can Kwanzaa and the Chi-
nese Full-Moon Festival.

10/31/93 (l:00-5:00pm> Day
of the Dead Festival Dia de
los Muertros

The Day of the Dead
Holiday displays the uniquely
Mexican system of beliefs and
rituals related to death and
the deceased and is both a
mockery and celebration of
death. The festival will feature
traditional foods and Mexican
music. An artist fro
m Mexico will construct a tra-
ditional altar of fresh flowers.

THEATRE

Horizon Theatre

Located on Euclid and Austin
Avenues in Little Five Points
Box-Office 584-7450

THROUGH 11/14/93 Six De-
grees of Separation

In this suspenseful
comedy- drama by John
Guare, one of America's most
renowned playwrights, a daz-
zling black stranger charms his
way into the lives of an afflu-
ent Manhattan couple, with
devastating results. This fast-
paced runaway Broadway hit
paints a scathingly funny por-
trait of urban Americans as
we are now the wealthy,
the down-and-out, the hus-
tlers, the star-struck, the liberal
chic, the Catchers in the Rye.

Agnes Scott College

141 E. College Ave.
Decatur
Gaines Chapel
Box Office 371-6248

NOVEMBER 4-6 Hats: A Trib-
ute to Harriet Tubman

This one woman show
by Saundra D. Franks is part of
the College Events Series.
Additional one woman shows
are scheduled later in the sea-
son.

Neighborhood Playhouse

Located in Downtown Deca-
tur

Box Office 373-5311

OPENING 11/12/93 Steel
Magnolias

This contemporary
play by Robert Harling, now a
major motion picture, exam-
ines the subtle strength and

beauty that characterizes the
women- of the American
South.

14th Street Playhouse

Theatre Gael

NOVEMBER5,6,l 1 Madmen,
Liars & Poets

Celtic storytelling and
music festival that will delight
all ages.

Actor s Express

Box Office 221-0831

OPENING 11/12/93* Looking
for a City

The world premiere of
a play written in response to
our need for a new definition
of "family." Christmas Eve, At-
lanta, 1992: a young gay law-
yer packs for D.C. to begin his
career as an aide to a U.S.
Senator. His lover, unable to
look back at his past or for-
ward to his future, buries him-
self in preparations for a huge
Christmas bash. A single
mother with an iffy history of
her own arrives on their door-
step, 10 year-old kid in tow,
nearly hysterical with fear. As
the three adults fight to pro-
tect the child, they create a
strangely beautiful confed-
eracy.

Alliance Theatre

Box Office 892-PLAY

THROUGH 11/J4/93* Two
Trains Running

A compassionate and
colorful look at American life
in 1969, where the regulars of
Memphis Lee's homestyle res-
taurant have gathered at the
lunch counter to discuss the
event of the day. America's
premier storyteller returns with
the fifth in his lyrical cycle of
plays exploring the African-
American experience in this
century, set four years after
the assassination of Malcom X
- and a breath away from
where America still stands to-
day.

OPENING 1 1/3/93* The Trap
The charge of sexual
harassment. The accused is a
distinguished university profes-
sor. The victim is a young male
college student. This bold and
intelligent new drama by At-
lanta playwright and Emory
University professor Frank
Manley enters the tangled
and dizzying deliberations of
the university committee as
they ask if the facts add up to
the truth.

OPENING 1 1/24/93 A Christ-

mas Carol

Atlanta's favorite holi-
day show is back with Tom
Key as Ebenezer Scrooge.
Don't miss the music, excite-
ment, and wondrous special
effects that make Atlanta's kids
talk about our production from
one holiday season to the next.
Scrooge flies, Marley melts,
and the spirits work an amaz-
ing array of magic! A treat for
every member of the family.
Last year's production broke
all box office records. Order
early for best seats.

The Shakespeare Tavern

Box Office 874-5299

OPENING 11/5/93 Doctor
Faustas, by Christopher
Marlowe

DeKalb College

For tickets, call 299-4270

OPENING 1 1/4/93 The Cru-
cible, by Arthur Miller

Around Atlanta

Continued from Pctge I /

Thai roll; a non fried "roll" of
fresh vegetables and shrimp
rolled in a thin tofu wrapper. Or
warm your stomach with their
volcano soup; a clear, light broth
with fresh vegetables and
shrimp.

The menu is divided into sec-
tions of chicken, beef, and sea-
food. For an entree, try the
chicken curry, which is border-
line Indian. The sauce has a
lighter flavor to it. Another dish
vou can trv is the Thai noodles;
long thin noodles with fresh bean
sprouts, and shrimp, sauteed in
a peanut and soy sauce. It was
delicious. Their prices will please
any voung college students bud-
get, ranging from three to eight
dollars. Remember to bring a
friend, for one entree can hap-
pily feed two people.

My point is, yes, Chinese fo< >d
is absolutely heavenly. I3ut it
you ever get tired of the same old
sweet and sour pork, tried egg
rolls, and beef and brocolli with
rice, venture out to other Asa in
delicacies, like filipino or thai
restaurants. Know that there are
absolutely wonderful asain res-
taurants that want to (and will)
please your stomach!

The Profile

Friday, November 12, 1993

The Independent Student Newspaper of Agnes Scott College

Vol. 80, Issue 4

Board plans diversified presidential search committee

By Janelle M. Bailey

A committee to conduct the
search for a new president of
Agnes Scott will be composed of
faculty members, ad ministra tors,
students and alumnae, as well as
trustees, in an effort to better rep-
resent the needs of the college.

The committee will consist of
"not less than 10 nor more than
20 persons" selected from these
groups, said a resolution passed
by the Board of Trustees on Oc-
tober 29. This committee will
perform the search for someone
to replace President Ruth
Schmidt upon her retirement on
June 30,1994.

"I felt like it was important to
have a broader representation
on the search committee than
there was in the past," com-
mented Chairman Joseph R.
Gladden. Previous presidential
search committees consisted only
of members of the Board of Trust-

ees.

In a September 10 faculty

meeting, Mr. Gladden told at-
tendees that he expected the
search committee to be an-
nounced within a week or two.
Based on comments both in and
out of that meeting, he felt the
need to diversify the search com-
mittee, and postponed the for-
mation of the committee pend-
ing approval of the Board. This
approval was granted in the form
of the October 29 resolution.

The resolution also authorizes
"reasonable expenses" on beha 1 f
ofthecommittee, including those
expenses associated with hiring
a professional firm to assist in the
search, should the members
deem it necessary to do so. This
is the first time such an action has
been approved by the Board. The
committee will establish the ex-
act procedure it wants to follow.

Although there has been a
delay from what was originally
expected in setting up the com-
mittee, Mr. Gladden feels there is

still plenty of time to conduct a
thorough search. "I have no no-
tion that we should rush," he
said. If the committee has not
found an acceptable successor
by the time of President
Schmidt's retirement, the Board
of Trustees has the authority and
responsibility to name an interim
president.

The inclusion of faculty and
students has many people very
excited about the search. During
previous searches, faculty could
sometimes comment on candi-
dates, but none were regarded as
full voting members of the com-
mittee. There has been no official
student involvement before now.

"I think it's wonderful," said
Professor Patricia Pinka, Chair
of the Faculty Executive Com-
mittee. "It's one of the fine
changes [Mr. Gladden] has made.
He's saying that all constituen-
cies have a voice in the search for
president. The faculty has been

Construction potential threat to campus trees

By Nanska Lovell
Staff Writer

Noise and inconvenience con-
tinue to increase as Agnes Scott
becomes more technologically
advanced. Almost unrecogniz-
able from its previous landscape,
the campus is now surrounded
by large equipment, piles of
bricks and numerous deep pits.

Within the trenches that have
already been dug are fiber optic
cables that will eventually en-
able students to be computer
linked with one another and with
every department on campus.

Several issues of concern have

been raised by the ongoing con-
struction, including the problem
of safety hazards and the inter-
ference upon privacy. One im-
portant issue that has been over-
looked is the threat that the con-
struction creates for the trees that
line the quad and surround most
of the buildings.

When the project began, ASC
required the installation com-
pany, Cable Consultants, to hire
specialist Bob Sanfilippo, an
ombudsman who specializes in
treating stressed tress. His ere-

Inside this issue:

News:

Students question academic review, p. 3

Editorials:

Honor Court Defends Honor, p. 5

Sports:

Senior Spotlight on Sports, p. 6

Features:

Merrick responds to parietal changes, p. 9

Arts & Entertainment:

Phaedra redefines the "tragic flaw", p. 10

dentials include an urban for-
estry background, ownership of
Plant Locators for seven years,
and working as an horticulturist
at the Atlanta Botanical
Gasrdens. Sanfilippo follows the
construction team to ensure that
their work is performed within
the preset guidelines for main-
taining the trees' safety.

When necessary he reroutes
the workmen's trench away from
trees, sometimes insisting that
they hand dig portions of the
trench to prevent damage to
major branches of roots. Sanfil-
ippo also applies fertilizer and
root stimulant to the soil in order
to help the trees survive. By
making clean cuts, pruning care-
fully, and hand digging around
the roots, Sanfilippo has pro-
tected the health of all the trees
on campus.

In other areas, trees have been
carefully and selectively pruned
in order to avoid obstructing the
machinery. Without this cau-
tion, the tearing off of the limbs
as the machinery moves through
would send the trees into shock,
scarring their branches and dam-
aging them beyond recovery. All
necessary cu ts, on both limbs and
roots, have been "clean" cuts,
which leave no jagged edges or
holes where infections can begin
and fester.

Many students have ques-

hoping for that kind of change
for a long time/'

Missy Mullinax, President of
Student Government Associa-
tion, agrees. "I think it's a good
way to usher in a new era/' she
said. "We're going to bring in a
new president with each con-
stituency having contributed to
the process."

Mr. Gladden, in a November
2 telephone interview, said he
did not know yet how faculty,
administrators, students, or
alumnae would be chosen to be
on the committee, but hopes to
discuss the issue with the respec-
tive representatives. Professor
Pinka said that typically, for par-
ticipation on committees, the fac-
ulty as a whole elects the required
number of faculty members. Ms.
Mullinax said that she hopes to
see applica tions accepted by SG A
from any interested students.
From these applications, com-
mittee members will be selected

by SGA vote.

At the September 10 meeting,
several faculty members voiced
their concern over rushing the
search, and as a result compro-
mising standards, in order to ful-
fill the Board's desire to have a
"smooth transition" between
President Schmidt and her suc-
cessor. Mr. Gladden said that
although he agrees that this is a
deep concern, he does not fore-
see this being a problem.

Opinions on the average
length of a presidential search
vary from 4 to over 18 months.

One possible obstruction in
the presidential search is the fact
that there are a number of schools
going through the same process.
At press time, Converse College,
Randolph-Macon Women's Col-
lege, and Emory University are
all engaged in presidential
searches. Rumors abound that
-at least two other Atlanta schools
are also engaging in searches of
their own.

r

Is the campus construction more than just an inconvenience?

tioned the well-being of the elms
on the quad at the corner of
Walters Hall and the Alston Cen-
ter, fearing that they were dam-
aged when a large trench was
dug along the base of the trees.
According to Sanfilippo, the trees
were already stressed before the
construction began. The elms

have exceeded their expected life-
span of 50-60 years, therefore;
the loss of their leaves in Septem-
ber is not unusual. A younger,
more healthy elm would not be-
gin dropping leaves until De-
cember. He ensures that all trees
are safe from the threat of con-
struction.

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Abbreviated
Universe

Compiled by Margaret
Bickers

Local - The Home Depot
corporation announced that
it may move its headquar-
ters out of Cobb County. Of-
ficially announced reasons
include the need for more
space, however inside
sources say that all other
things being equal, the Cobb
County Board's statement
about gays and lesbians may
be the deciding factor in the
move.

National - Former "Junk
Bond" trader Michael
Millcan is teaching a class at
the University of California
this semester. His topic is the
stock market and how it func-
tions. Students taking the
class say that they remember
Millcan's financial success,
not his federal conviction of
fraud. . . President Clinton
said that while he is sending
more troops in now, he will
have all American forces out
of the peacekeeping opera-
tions by the end of
March, 1994. . . A New York
Times' survey found that only
about 49% of those polled
now favor President
Clinton's proposed health
care plan. Reasons included
a lack of financial security to
support the plan, and con-
cern that it will or will not
pay for abortions.
International - A group of
Ha itians gathered at the dock
where UN peacekeepers
were to dis-embark, and re-
fused them entry on the night
of Oct. 11. As the rally be-
came violent, the UN ships
pulled off shore to wait until
the end of the disturbance
before putting the troops on
land. The Haitians are upset
with the return of democrati
cally-elected Bertrand
Aristed, the deposed presi-
dent of Haiti. . . A 15 hour
gun battle on Oct. 10 left sev-
eral Americans dead and
more wounded after sup-
porters of Mohammed Fara-
Aideed attacked a helicop-
ter, and UN peacekeepers
went to the aircraft's aid.
There are now concerns that
Aideed's- forces are being
trained by the Sudanese gov-
ernment and Iranian instruc-
tors in an attempt to de-sta-
bilize the area . . . Russian
president Boris Yeltsin re-
ceived the support of the mili-
tary and of the other nations
in the Commonwealth of In-
dependent States after put-
ting down the Parliamentary
uprising last week. He will
rule alone until elections on

ASCPD Blues

By the Department of Public Safety

During the past month we
have had four related incidents,
all of which we believe occurred
during the day in the Candler
parking lot. On Monday, Octo-
ber 4, a student parked in the
Candler lot had a gay pride ram-
bow sticker removed from the
bumper of her car. The subject
who removed the sticker then
wrote derogatory remarks on it
and placed it on the side of the
car. On Wednesday of the same
week, a second student had three
gay pride stickers, one of which
was a rainbow sticker, removed
from her car. This rainbow sticker
was also written on and stuck on
her windshield. Then on Thurs-
day, October 20, the second stu-
dent, who had replaced her rain-
bow sticker with a new one, had
the sticker again ripped off her
bumper, written on and then
stuck back on her car. Finally, on
October 27, the second student
had four new stickers pulled off
her car. Again, these stickers
were either torn up or written on
and stuck back on her car. Those
stickers w hich had not been torn
off the car were also written on.
Activity of this type is against
Georgia law (criminal trespass)

and can result in prosecution. If
you see any suspicious activity
in the Candler lot or any other
lots please notify Public Safety.

We want to thank everyone
who helped us with the Haunted
Castle on Halloween weekend.
We had a good turnout and ev-
eryone seemed to enjoy them-
selves in spite of the cold wea ther .

With Thanksgiving less than
a month away, Christmas is also
fast approaching. As you start
your Christmas shopping, be
sure to keep some simple crime
prevention tips in mind. When
you carry large amounts of cash,
break it into several smaller
amounts and put it in different
places in your purse and on your
person. If some of your money is
stolen you will not have lost ev-
erything. Also, be sure not to
display large amounts of money
in public when you pay for pur-
chases or when looking for some-
thing in your purse. Be sure that
the purse you carry when you
shop does not open at the top but
zips closed or has a flap that
fastens tightly, becuae it is more
difficult for someone to steal
money out of a securely closed
purse.

Agnes Scott ranks high among
other liberal arts colleges

By Kerry Murphy
Hews Editor

The October 4, 1993 issue of U.S. Nezvs & World Report, ranked the
best national liberal arts colleges in the country. Agnes Scott ranks
number one in quartile two, composed of colleges ranked between
36th to 70th, out of 140 colleges.

The colleges were ranked by the college's reputation, selectivity,
faculty resources, graduation rate and alumni satisfaction. The
highest score for any factor was 100 percent. Each factor weighed in
at a different percentages to determine the overall rating of the
college. Alumni satisfaction accounted for five percent, graduation
rate for ten percent, financial resources for fifteen percent, faculty
resources for twenty percent, and the other two for twenty five
percent each.

Agnes Scott received an academic reputation rank of seventy-
five. The number one ranked college was Amherst College in
Massachusetts! alma mater of Emily Dickinson) which had a rank of
100. Agnes Scott ranks very highly in many of the different catego-
ries, such as the number of entering freshman who where in the top
10% of their high school class: Agnes Scott ranked 53%. Next, in the
category of faculty with a Ph.D., Agnes Scott received a score of 94%.
Also, Agnes Scott has one of the lowest student/ faculty ratios of 8/
1. The alumni giving rate was fairly high with 57%.

Agnes Scott was one of the few liberal arts colleges from the south
to be ranked so highly, surpassing other women's colleges, such as
Converse and Randolph-Macon. Agnes Scott was also one of two
Georgia colleges to have made the list. The other was Oglethorpe
University, which was ranked below Agnes Scott in quartile three.

Did you know...?

In response to student concerns, typing tutorials
have been installed on many campus computers.
Contact Dr. Tom Maier at ext. 6388 for more infor-
mation.

Large equipment and men in hard hats are constant reminders that
the technological construction is not over.

Happy Thanks-
giving from the

Profile!
Enjoy the days

of rest!

Update from Project Environment

Now that the semester is half over and we've all settled inand
gotten our lives in some semblance of order, i t's time to pu t some
effort into straightening upother areas. We all know the campus
is a little upside down - who hasn't leaped over a few trenches
to get to the dining hall - but there's no need to make things
worse. Do you know how long plastic takes to decompose?
Centuries. Think of that the next time you see someone's Target
bag blowing across campus and you don't chase it down. Just
think of it this way, you need the exercise. And many other
things float around campus - aluminum cans that can easily be
disposed of in the recycling boxes, envelopes from that long-
awaited mail, and various other items the squirrels and chip-
munks do not need for their nests. Pick them up ancj put them
in their proper place. It's a small effort that could lead to big
results.

One last tip: By the mailboxes there is a slot to put mail that
you do not want. And contrary to popular belief it's not the floor.
And if you really have a problem with junk mail you can stop
your name from being sold to junk mailers by writing to:

Direct Marketing Association

Attn.: Mail Preference Service

6 E. 43 Street

New York, New York 10017

News

Friday, November 12, 1993

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Page 3

Faculty and students ques-
tion academic review

Consolidation and elimination con-
sidered unfavorable approach

By Kerry Murphy
News Editor

The Board of Trustees has
passed a resolution concerning
an Academic Review of the col-
lege. The purpose of the review
is to eliminate unnecessary ele-
ments of the pre-existing aca-
demic program and to combine
different areas in the attempt of
fortifying and strengthening the
college's efforts in another direc-
tion.

Based on the conclusions
drawn by the Visiting Commit-
tee of the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools and the
Stra tegic Agenda for the College,
there has been a recommenda-
tion passed to include as a goal
among its priorities, that the
number of courses taught be
reduced, and that a more focused
academic program and a better
utilization of resources of be de-
veloped. Agnes Scott has been
called upon to reevaluate the el-
ements of its existing academic
program with the purpose of cre-
ating a stronger name and image
for the college.

The main point concerning
both students and faculty is the

fact that in accordance with the
expectations of the board, the
number of courses, majors, and
departments will be reduced , bu t
not the faculty. The reason for
this drastic cut is to consolidate
various classes and departments,
and to redirect efforts elsewhere.
Right now, this project is pres-
ently underway by the Board of
Trustees, who will present
progress reports of the review to
the Board at each meeting.

A majority of the students on
campus disagree with the need
for such a cut. There have been
petitions forming, posters hung,
and groups forming to consoli-
date a student, and possible fac-
ulty effort, to fight the board's
attempt to cut departments al-
ready lacking resources. Many
students agree that departments
need to be built up, courses added
and more qualified professors
need to be hired to further en-
hance what we already have.
Some believe that the effects of
this review will succeed in low-
ering student and faculty morale
and decreasing the retention rate.

Agnes Scott participates in
strategies for drug-free living

By Jenny White

Features Editor

Agnes Scott participated in
National Alcohol Awareness
Week from October 18 to 21 by
distributing literature and spon-
soring a "Mocktails" contest. Na-
tional Alcohol Awareness Week
helps people across the nation to
learn more about the problems
of drunk driving and alcoholism
and what they can do to combat
these problems.

The Mocktails contest took
place on October 20 in the dining
hall during lunch. Student orga-
nizations were invited to partici-
pate and mix a mocktail (non-
alcoholic drink) of their own. A
number of groups participated,
and prizes were given for the top
three best mocktails. The class of
1994 took the third place prize
with their "Slime Juice/' LBA's
"Zombie" won the second place
prize, and Social Council took
first place for their concoction,
"Wailin' Wahoo."

Literature on alcoholism and
on drunk driving statistics ap-
peared on campus throughout
the week. Students were given a
survey asking questions about
their drinking habits, such as how
often they drink and why. The
survey tried to pinpoint those
students who may have tenden-
cies towards alcoholism and also
gave more information on the
disease.

Agnes Scott also participated
in the "Real Life is Drug Free
1993 Georgia Red Ribbon Cam-
paign" during the week of Octo-
ber 25. Students were asked to
wear red ribbons to support the
campaign, and posters were dis-
played on campus. The national
drug awareness campaign took
place from October 23 to 31, and
people across the nation were
asked to wear red ribbons as a
commitment to living a drug-
free life.

The Social Council sponsored "Spotlight" on October 28 featured
some of the best talents on campus, including London Fog. Rep-
resenting the jazz ensemble are, from left to right, Laura Home,
Amy Heins, Julie Dykes and Charla Bland.

Sociology class presents
tribute to Toni Morrison

By Cicely Thompson and Anne Yates

Under the instruction of Pro-
fessor Bradley of the Sociology
Department, the African- Ameri-
can Studies class held a tribute to
Toni Morrison, who won the 1 993
Nobel Prize for Literature. In
this tribute, students interpreted
excerpts from Morrison's novels
Sulci, Song of Solomon, and the
1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
winner, Beloved. Students par-

ticipating in this festive occaision
were Ila Blount, Laura Wilkerson,
Anne Yates, Cicely Thompson,
LaPret Dickinson, who per-
formed an interpretive dance of
an excerpt from Sulci, and Pinky
Balais, who directed.

The performance was video-
taped and will be made available
for viewing.

Visiting lecturer speaks on re-
formed church in Romania

By Margaret Bickers
Staff Writer

The Rev. Atilla Veres-Kovak
spoke to a small but interested
group in the Chapel-Lounge on
October 25. His topic was the
state of the reformed church in
Transylvania and Romania.

He began by discussing Vlad
"Drakul", a prince of Wallachia
(the old name for part of Roma-
nia). He then described the Hun-
garian Reformed Church in
Transylvania, the Presbyterian
church that ministers to ethnic
Hungarians living in the area
between the Carpathian Moun-
tains and Hungary. Rev. Veres-
Kovak described the ethnic com-
position of the area, and the de-
struction wreaked on the church
by the Communist rule of
Chaucescu

Because of the limited num-
ber of new priests the govern-
ment allowed to be trained, the
Church has 800 congregations
with only 56 ministers to serve
them. This means that each pas-
tor has between 3 and 5 churches,
with congregations as large as
3500. Also, the government
seized all hospices, hospitals,

schools, universities, nursing
homes and orphanages owned
by all churches, which led to a
social services disaster.

After his description of the
problems with the government,
economy, and neighbors, Mr.
Veres-Kovak accepted questions
from the audience. The first asked
about the economy, which basi-
cally collapsed in 1991. He an-
swered that he earned 27 dollars
a month. The two piece suit he
wore cost $92.

Private shops and clinics pro-
vide the food and medical care
that the government can't but
they are expensive. The clinic
where his wife works charges
$15 to walk into the door.

The next question came from
a Romanian student of Agnes
Scott. Where did he get his num-
bers? She seemed to dispute his
figures from the last census.
Other questions included ethnic
problems. As a member of the
Hungarian minority, the Rever-
end feared the rising tide of na-
tionalism and the "mad dream
of a huge Serbia."

Ivory Towers

Compiled by Jenny Skridulis

University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill

A year-old business thai
buys and sells notes from some
classes at UNC has created con-
troversy in academic circles,
The business, callec
ClassNotes, buys notes from
50 of the university's biggest
classes. The company oper-
ates similar businesses on the
campuses of West Virginia anc
Pennsylvania State Universi
ties.

University of Georgia

A UGA employee, whc
admitted to falsely reporting
that she was raped on the cam-
pus, will not have charges
pressed against her, nor wil
the UGA police release hei
name. Police found discrep
ancies about the time of the
attack and the description oi
the suspect in the woman's re-
port. When confronted with
this information, the woman
admitted that her report wa:
false. Some students say they
feel betrayed by the woman
who falsified the charge, say-
ing that it damages the
community's feeling about the
seriousness of rape.

Georgia College

Georgia College's baseball
coach, John Kurtz, collapsed ai
the GC Athletic complex and
died of a heart attack las!
month. He collapsed while
taking his baseball team
through a running drill. Sev
eral of his players administered
CPR as they waited for the
ambulance to arrive. Kurtz
lelped Georgia College win
four NAIA District 25 champi-
onships and seven Georgia
IntercoUegiateAthleticConfer
ence titles. The Colonials alsc
advanced to the NAIA World
Series in 1984 and 1985.

Keene State College

The New Hampshire Su-
preme Court is considering
whether to grant a new trial tc
a former Keene State College
^resident convicted of causing
an accident that killed a
woman. Barbara Seelye was
convicted last year of negli-
gent homicide in the accidenl
that killed Alyson Barden, 24,
of Keene. Seelye was driving
to Concord when her cai
crossed the center line of the
road and collided witli
Barden's vehicle. Prosecutors
say Seelye was drunk at the
time. Seelye was sentenced tc
five to ten years in prison. She
is free on $25,000 bail, pending
her appeal.

Editorials

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Friday, November 12, 1993

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Bleke, Perrin Gothran, Carrie Clemence, Esther Dunn, Kathleen Hill, Mary
Jordan, Nanska Loveil, Michelle Smith, Tracy Walker, Holly Williamson
Photographers Sarah Brown, Daniela Edelkind

The Profile is published bi-weekly throughout the academic year. Letters to
the editor are always welcomed and should be typed on disk using
Microsoft Word. We cannot publish unsigned letters. Views expressed on
the editorial pages do not necessarily reflect those of anyone affiliated with
the College or the Profile staff other than the author.

By Josie Hoilman
Editor-in-Chief

Soliloquy

While considering the effects of time upon memory, I surprised
myself by discovering why I write. I write because I am afraid of
losing something integral. Writing is a little like playing god becuase
you create something out of nothing, and are then responsible for it.
I extend special thanks to Christine Cozzens for the continued
support and inspiration she provides to both myself and to many
others, and also for keeping nonfiction "free".

Sorting through some of my storage boxes last month, I found a
letter my grandmother had written to me when I was in high school.
Her words are slanted and looped, shiny lead smudges on paper
that is growing soft with age. "If I were grading this portfolio, I
would give you an A+++," she writes. Her language is simple. Her
grammar is reckless, like the Tennessee landscape of her childhood.
With a growing sadness I realized that these words are all that
remain of my grandmother.

She grew up in the rural South with a limited education. She never
attended college, and most of her employment was manual labor.
But now 1 realize she was an extraordinary woman, and the source
of my love of language.

I do not recall one conversation with her about this love, but I now
recognize that she would have understood my need to write. After
surviving eight years consumed with cancer, my grandmother had
to give up her larynx. She gave this gift with reluctance and grief. A
world without words, her own words, was unbearable. Although
the operation was successful in removing the worst cells, it also
effectively removed my grandmother's spirit. Without language
she soon lost her strength and died.

Shortly before her death she asked for a pen and paper. She
preferred pencil, but this serious call to writing prescribed a tool
more permanent. She wrote brief letters to all of us. Words that
explain love and misery, loss and hope. The language she uses is
again simple, but the hint of death behind them empowers the notes
with wisdom. It seems that my grandmother finally understood
everything she wanted to know.

1 now recognize that the words themselves are not the most
important part of the letters. Instead, it is their endurance as images
of her life, a life immortalized through oral and written words.

My grandmother was the one positive force from my father's side
of the family, and her death meant in a sense a death of part of myself.
I internalized all of these feelings, only to realize almost four years
later the impact both her life and death has had upon my life.

I write because I know the value and power of language; I learned
it from my dying grandmother. Without her larynx she turned to the
written word. From an unbearable silence she spoke with a pen
instead of her voice, creating a tangible piece of herself that endures.
Both her life and death have created a need in me to record history,
to anchor time with language, before it is lost forever.

Access Denied

By Kerri Williams

This past summer the Atlanta
Journal came to graduate classes
to take pictures and interview
the male students who had just
joined the program. No one -
meaning the city or local news-
paper - has bothered to either
interview or take pictures of the
women in the graduate program
the previous year. The program
is only in its second year. There
weren't any photographers the
first summer. Apparently the
new graduate program, the first
one in Agnes Scott's hundred-
year history, is not the news.

Think about the situation for
a moment. Doesn't it seem ironic
that men are asking to attend an
all- women's liberal arts college?
Equal opportunity was intended
to give access to those who have
previously been denied admit-
tance to certain institutions and
services. It is not as if white,
middle, or upper-middle, class
males have ever been excluded
from higher education. What is
happening here? Agnes" Scott
stays relatively free from the
press until three men enter the
graduate program. Why do these
three men suddenly feel the need
to attend an all- women's college?
I wonder if twenty, or even ten,
years ago these men would have
considered attending a women's
college.

Men have never been denied
access to attend America's finest
colleges, and women have had
to fight for the right to do so. In
addition, most faculty members
of "integrated" colleges are men.

I have come to the conclusion
that the medical profession is
against women. There is a con-
spiracy out there to repress us,
and let me be the first to tell you
that the white coats are winning
the war.

One would wonder how I
came up with such a profound
hypothesis. Did I send out mass
surveys? Did I do a content analy-
sis of medical procedures? Or
did I renew my subscription to
'The New England Journal of
Medicine?"

No, sparing you the uninter-
esting details of my medical his-
tory, I simply had an ache. In the
course of two weeks I received
differentdiagnoses ranging from
my kidney, gall bladder, appen-
dix, pancreas, and intestines.

In the Atlanta area, there are three
mixed-gender colleges which
have the same program offered
at Agnes Scott. Two of those
schools are private and the other
is public. By applying and enter-
ing the graduate program at
Agnes Scot, these three men -
white, male and middle class -
have challenged and twisted the
spirit of equal opportunity.

Tolerance is now required
from all the women. We have
tolerated male domination long
enough. The undergraduates
and graduates take classes to-
gether in the fall, and the women
who chose Agnes Scott specifi-
cally because of its all-women
status have been compromised
particularly the juniors and se-
niors who have gone this long
only to find they must accept
these men in their upper-level
classes. There are only three this
year; how many more will at-
tend next year?

Several students have com-
mented that these men have
changed the dynamics of the
classroom. They speak-out more,
and they tend to dominate class
discussion. And there is the nebu-
lous, but influential, factor of cer-
tain self-consciousness in the
classroom that was not present
in the graduate or undergradu-
ate classrooms last year. The
atmosphere detracts from the
process, progress, and the
uniqueness of an all-women's
education. Agnes Scott is unique
for its feminine voice and per-
spective, and should have the

opportunity to stay that way.

One male graduate student
commented to the Atlanta jour-
nal that Agnes Scott's gender
equity focus was a main reason
for his attending Agnes Scott.
Who is he kidding? If he wants
to "understand" gender equity
issues, he should be denied ac-
cess to Agnes Scott. If he is de-
nied access, he would under-
stand gender issues much more
completely. He would experi-
ence first hand what it feels like
to be denied the right to higher
education. The tables would
turn, and he would no longer be
the power base - what would he
do then?

The deadline for
submitting editorials

or articles for the next
issue of the Profile is

Friday, November 19.

If possible, work
submitted should be
typed on the word
for windows IBM
program or most any
system 7 Macintosh
program.

Questions may be
directed to Josie
Hoilman at 371-6820.

Sex, Life & Gender

By Michelle Smith

And none of these were right.

Granted, I have never been to
medical school but I didn't need
the GI series to tell me it wasn't
my intestinal tract. The problem
with these guys - and yes, the
good doctors happened to be
men - was that they didn't listen.
I feel confident, however, that if
I had been a man my complaints
would have been taken more
seriously.

Being a woman, I was prob-
ably perceived as somewhat neu-
rotic. I resent that blanket gener-
alization. I consider myself ar-
ticulate enough to know my own
body. And believe you me, I can
tell when it's my ovaries versus
indigestion.

Furthermore, I didn't need an
orthopedist to tell me that it
wasn't muscular-skeletal. Come

on guys! It's my stomach and
back. When I told you that the
pain was coming from the inside
why did you feel the need not to
listen? Did you think I live in a
vacuum and don't know my own
body? And what's with all the
physician referral? Do you all
own stock in each other's prac-
tices?

Needless to say I'm somewhat
bitter towards the medical com-
munity. Why couldn't one not
have such a callous d isregard for
my complaints?

Luckily for all you aspiring
physicians, I am working
through this anger in a positive
way by writing this week's col-
umn. And also, I finally got a
doctor to listen to my complaints.
She was very helpful.

Editorials

Friday, November 12 J 993

The Profile

Page 5

Uffish Thoughts

Thinking Positive

By Holly Williamson and Kathleen Hill

In keeping with our policy of
voicing issues and opinions
seldom addressed on this
campus, we have decided to
"think happy thoughts" and
share them with you! Too often
this campus forgets the good
things in life and gets caught up
in stressful situations. We'd like
to remind you (as we remember
ourselves in this spirit of
Thanksgiving) of the good things
about ASC. The following
thoughts are in no particular
order; they're just things that we
feel make life here a little better.
Some are silly; some are serious;
all are true to one degree or
another. Enjoy yourselves and
your break.

Peace,

Holly and
Kathleen

The snack bar has Ben and Jerry's
Ice Cream!

You can buy it in lieu of a meal

(through the nifty new meal

equivalency plan).

It snowed in October (on All

Hallows Eve, to be exact).

The leaves are turning pretty

colors.

We survived mid-terms.
Rebekah's new moat system is
almost complete - the alligators
are due to arrive over semester
break.

And speaking of semester break,
it's fast approaching!

Rebekah (and Main) have been
fire-alarm-free for several weeks.
If the board executes its plan to
consolidate classes, at least our
major requirements will be
lightened. (Hey, we had

to find something positive about
this situation!)

Whether or not we have 24-hour
parietals, seven days a week, at
least we no longer have curfew!
Black Cat is over; we can gain
weight again until Spring Ring.
The "Express Yourself board
has stayed friendly.
Although we miss her, Dean
Hudson is getting a much-
needed break.

There is a playground just a few
blocks away.

Tech is accessible by MARTA
(for those times when you just
have to get away).
Sometimes we have free time;
sometimes we can sleep!
Sisterhood is a way of life.
The $1.50 movies aren't too far
away and are usually pretty
good.

The amphi- thea ter is a grea t place
to sit and think.

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dining hall make great meals!
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days a week. (Thanks to Bill
Gailey.)

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Yard.

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allows us to turn this column in
late . . . without getting too mad
at us. [Thanks guys! -J.H.]

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Honor Court Defends Honor

Upon reading the editorial
entitled "What's Up With That"
by Esther Dunn, Honor Court
has become very concerned
about the allegations and innu-
endo it purports. As believers in
and elected protectors of the
Honor Code (or the "snitch sys-
tem", as Dunn refers to it), we felt
the need to respond to the mis-
conceptions it contains. For the
past three to four years, Honor
Court has worked not only to
maintain the Honor Code, but to
revise it and reinterpret it to suc-
cessfully represent the students
of today's Agnes Scott. It has
never been, and hopefully never
will be, a system of gossip, tat-
tling, snitching, or anything of
the sort. Rather, it began as a
system of freedom for students
and a means of attaining a level
of personal integrity for a cam-
pus-wide community.

Imagine, if you will, a campus
without integrity, a campus
where Big Sister is present: at the
Library, in the Dining Hall, in the
Residence Halls. Imagine the
annoyance of someone checking
your backpack as you leave the
library, searching you for uten-
sils and food at the Dining Hall
doors, enforcing bed checks and
curfews. Imagine a system where
you are constantly watched with
suspicion, where you worry that
your belongings will be taken
and your ideas stolen. Frankly,
the Honor Code seems the better
option. Nobody ever said that
being honorable is easy, but a
campus with no means for de-
veloping trust is far worse.

Neither the Honor Code nor
the Honor Court demand that
anyonetattle. Rather, it demands

that we all hold each other re-
sponsible for upholding the stan-
dards that have been laid down
in a tradition of mutual trust.
There is no scheming in the
Honor Code. There is no Honor
Court Representative breathing
down your neck or looking over
your shoulder during a test. That
is by far the most serious miscon-
ception. The Honor Code is not
a conspiracy set up by the Ad-
ministration or by goody-goody
students who hope to catch you
when you slip up. Honor Court
does not do investigative report-
ing or tout the moral upright-
ness of its members. Honor Court
does not "judge" because we feel
we are better than everybody
else. Furthermore, we do not
judge people, we judge actions;
just the same, our actions are
judged by the students at large
and all our decisions are subject
to review by Judicial Review
Committee. We make student-
based decisions for the protec-
tion of fellow students, and we
are elected to do so. The Honor
Code is, rather simply, a system
set up by students for the express
purposes of teaching and learn-
ing a better way of life. The
Honor Court is a jury of your
peers whose primary goals are
to give students a fair court and
to uphold the way of life laid
down by the pledge we all sign.

The social jurisdiction of
Honor Court includes violations
of the drug policy, violations of
the alcohol policy, violations of
the policy on student discrimi-
nation and harassment, and steal-
ing. Nothing more, nothing less.
Honor Court has little or nothing
to do with parietals, dorm life

(other than stealing), or "personal
habits." We have tried, through
Honor Emphasis Days, orienta-
tions, and education, to end the
misconceptions about Honor
Court. We have opened our-
selves for discussion, questions,
suggestions, and conversation.
In addition, everything about the
Honor Code is spelled out in
great detail in the Student Hand-
book.

We are not saying that there
are no problems with Honor
Court or the Honor Code. In fact,
for part of the 1993-94 Honor
Court Mission Statement, we in-
cluded a promise to reevaluate
the existing Honor Code and
fight for the changes it may need,
a tradition that has radically
changed the Honor Code from
the protectors of a dress code
and chaperoned dates to a sys-
tem based on mutual trust and
the belief that we can all be better
people. We would like to ask the
campus for any suggestions or
comments on how to improve
the Honor Code and Honor
Court. The questionnaires you
returned have been read with
enthusiasm and we are continu-
ally making efforts for change.

Please, in the times of anger
and finger-pointing we live in,
know that rionor Court is not an
enemy or a band of roving
backstabbers. We're trying to do
our part and we hope that every-
one will keep trying as well.

- Julie Dykes, Laura Rice, Jenny
White, Kathleen Hill, Katherine
Brenning, Davidae Stewart,
Kathryn Diirkee, Kara Moore,
Hannah Ray, Vicki Vitelli,
Nancy Dickenson, Alice
Roland-Fitzhugh

Sporis

The Profile

Friday, November 12, 1993

Senior Sport Spotlight

Winning on and off the court: Leigh Locker and Tiffany Goodman

By Kerri Williams

Sports Editor

Seniors Leigh Locker (left) and Tiffany Goodman have been a
winning team since freshman year.

They've been roommates
since freshman year; they started
playing volleyball as sopho-
mores the first year the sport
came to Agnes Scott, and now
seniors Tiffany Goodman and
Leigh Locker are addicted to the
game. Over lunch at the fabu-
lous dinning hall, Tiffany ex-
plains, "During the summer I
start getting anxious to get back
on the court," and Leigh nods in
agreement. "We both played in
high school so when the team
started up our sophomore year
we were ready to play again."
Leigh adds, "It was kind of funny,
we both decided to join the team,
but neither one told the other. So
we kind of surprised each other
when we both discovered we
were going to play together."

After playing together for
three years they've watched the
changes and improvements of
the team, and in themselves.
"You know," says Leigh, "ev-
erybody says how hard work
pays off, and you really don't
believe it most of the time, but
you can actually see the results
on the volleyball court."

The change from a club sports

status to a Division III
intercollegiate team has helped
to make their final year success-
ful. "This year we came back a
week early from summer break
to start practice," Tiffany says.
"We hadn't even unpacked, and
we were practicing twice a day."
Since the start of this year, they
and the team have put in more
time, practicing two hours a day,
six days a week. "And Robert
[the coach] has been more de-
manding." says Leigh, "But it's
worth it. We've been able to con-
centrate on playing and improv-
ing as a team. Last year, since it
was a club sta tus, people came to
practice when they wanted. This
year we've had to make the com-
mitment to work hard." Tiffany
adds, "And it's been great to have
Cheryl as a trainer!" The results
proved worth while when the
team beat Spelman for the first
time during their season-final
tournament.

Looking back over the past
seasons Leigh thinks the most
valuable aspect of playing on the
team has been the relationships
she has gained with team mem-

bers which will last after the sea-
son and after college. And, she
adds, she likes the satisfaction of
winning.

Tiffany echoed Leigh and
added, "I think seeing it through
to a winning season and playing
as a Division III school has made
a difference for me." After play-
ing these past years; Tiffany has
learned the power of positive
thinking. She says she used to
get mad at herself and some-
times at other teammates, but
playing as a team has showed
her that positive thinking can
result in a winning season. She
says: "It really works, just to keep
trying and saying that we'll get
the next point. I try to shake off
the bad shots and move on. It
really works."

After graduation Leigh is go-
ing on to graduate school for a
Masters degree in mathematics
and Tiffany is not quite sure
what's next for her. As a final
note, Tiffany and Leigh informed
me they read in a "Cosmo" sur-
vey that guys think a woman
spiking a volleyball is one of the
sexiest things a woman can
do You go girls.

Compiled by Nanska Lovell

Soccer Briefs

What's there to cheer about at
Agnes Scott College? Well,
there's the soccer team, of course!
ASC's athletic department is on
the move again with the help of
the soccer team which has had
another amazing week on the
field. On October 1 9, ASC played
University of the South in a very
evenly contested match. With
the help of great defensive moves
by ASC'saggressiveplayersSara
Sabo, "Speedy Gonzalas" Laura,
"Choo-Choo" Chelsy (the run-
away locomotive), and Tammy
Marcellus' "high and mighty"
kicks on offense, the score re-
mained tied 0 to 0 through both
halves and well into over time. It
was not until the last 8 minutes of
over time that University of the
South received a long pass that
allowed their player to get ahead
of ASC, take a lucky shot, and
score a goal. Although ASC was
unable to regain the lead, they
never once gave up. With the
encou ra gemen t of loya 1 fa ns, 1 i ke
Isabel, Marlee, Jessica, Emilv,
1 mma, Shane, Tara, Baby Tay-
lor, and the Coaches: Rast,

Arthur, and Bailey, the team kept
up their fighting spirit and chal-
lenged the opposing team right
up until the end. Way to go ASC!

Thursday, October 21: While
most of ASC left for Fall Break,
the soccer team was at it again.
This time the game was against
Wesleyan College. Having
played Wesleyan previously this
season and won, the ASC team
was alert and ready to conquer
again. The game started out well,
with a shot and goal right off the
bat by ASC's leading offensive
players. Throughout the rest of
the game, ASC continued to win
the ball, drive it up the field, and
reel off numerous shots toward
the goal. Laura McCrodden,
Carrie Mastromarino, and Jes-
sica Biggs displayed spectacular
team work during the game with
moves that are characteristic of
all the players on the team, as
well as of the terrific coaching
performed this year by Coach
Cathy Benton. Beyond those
team members who helped tre-
mendously on offerlse, a special
recogn i tion goes ou t to Sa ra Sa bo

and Beth Barnes, the team's two
seniors. They were valuable as-
sets to the d efensi ve end of ASC's
team through their quick reac-
tions and powerful kicks. With
marvelous moves like these, as
well as the thrilling team work
exhibited, ASC' s soccer team
has come a long way and will
continue to challenge teams
throughout the remainder of the
season.

On October 27, ASC's soccer
team traveled to Oglethorpe
University for a competitive
ma tch against their women's soc-
cer team. The match turned out
to be a very defensive game for
ASC. Gina Rice proved to be
invaluable throughout the game.
She helped to maintain control
in order to keep up with
Oglethorpe "by consistently
blocking passes. Despite the
great moves displayed by Gina
and other team members, Agnes
Scott returned home defeated.

The soccer team has proven themselves over and over this season.
Pictured above, another exciting maneuver that helped lead Agnes
Scott to victory.

Creative Writing

Friday, November 12, 1993

The Profile

Page 7

All Children Grow Up

By Kelly Holton

I walk into the room filled with familiar strangers. We sit down
together for the Thanksgiving meal, and I survey these faces so
much like my own, the faces of my cousins. Former pirates and
fairies, we have all lost the child ish fancy that allowed us to be close
without really knowing each other. As we eat and talk about
nothing of consequence, my mind wanders back to our childhood,
to our games, and to the world of imagination that links us
together.

My family climbed in the car at major holidays and during the
summer and drove for what seemed like forever until we reached
the white brick house with the black roof Grandma's house. My
brother and I bounded out of the car, quickly kissed Grandma, and
ran straight for the room at the end of the hall, childish voices
emanating from behind the closed door. The Boys 7 Room. Our
sanctuary. Our place to be loud and wild and free.

Although we saw each other seldom, our playing created a
bond that required no re-introductions. Our games were rich and
varied, yet always the same. Once we discovered a forgotten blue
"genie" bottle tucked into the back of a closet. That weekend we
perfonned countless original episodes of I Dream of Jeannie. As-
signed the part of Jeannie by my older cousins, I spent most of the
visit crouching in the closet of the Boys' Room, patiently waiting
to be summoned from my bottle. When we all became fascinated
with superheroes, we forgot Jeannie and became Batman, Robin,
and other masked crusaders. I was Wonder Woman, swinging
my lasso and capturing evil criminals. Those same closets that
once served as Jeannie's hiding place transformed themselves into
secret passageways and tunnels perfect for escaping from the bad
guys. When we grew a little older and turned our attention to
more competitive games, we played Blind Man's Bluff, and the
closets lost their magic and became the ideal place to hide from
"it." Once during a particularly tricky game of Blind Man's Bluff,
we decided to name the comers of the room in order to help the
blind man. When my older cousins delightedly named one area
"Puke Corner." I innocently asked what puke meant. While the
rest snickered at my ignorance, Weyman patiently explained the
meaning to me, and I proudly demonstrated my newly acquired
knowledge: "In that case, I puked this morning when I got carsick
during the trip." The next week I boasted to my friends in the
neighborhood of my grown-up vocabulary and gave them their
first lesson in slang.

When we visited my grandmother over Halloween one year,
my older cousins designed a haunted house. With the lights
turned off, the Boys' Room was converted into a haven for scary
ghosts and monsters that jumped from the closets and corners to
frighten little children. The drab olive green spreads on the two
double beds made the perfect backdrop for "dead" cousins painted
with my grandmother's makeup. My older cousins delightedly
dragged us, the young ones, through, forcing our tiny fingers into
bowls of egg yolks as eyeballs, spaghetti as brains, and ketchup as
blood. I hated those scary games, and I will never forget the sight
of the dead Steven rising up from his coffin, becoming a zombie,
and chasing me around the room. I screamed in terror, not
understanding and not caring that it was all fake. I just couldn't
wait until the lights came back on, and the Boys' Room once more
became Never Never Land.

Peter Pan was the staple of our play diet. No matter what other
games we played, sooner or later we assumed the forms of pirates
and fairies and children who could fly. As the youngest girl
cousin, I was always assigned the part of Tinkerbell. When 1
mustered the courage to ask to just once be Wendy, my request
was flatly refused. Denied my desire, I begrudgingly wore my
Tinkerbell wings. Soon the others were happily flying from chair
to bed to couch to floor. Seeing their fun, I forgot my hurt feelings
and joined in the flight. TMnking happy thoughts from atop the
green armchair, I hurled my tiny body through the air and landed
in a heap on the bed, crashing into one of my fellow flyers. We flew
for endless hours, sweaty and breathless and delirious, until some
adult called us for dinner or bed or some other unnecessary
distraction. Sometimes our flight turned destructive, though.
Once, with all of us jumping , preparing for take-off, the bed
collapsed. We laughed uproariously, tumbling all over each
other. Unfortunately, none of the adults who came running to see
what calamity had struck found our situation so hilarious.

Our play ended early one Saturday morning during the fall of
1985 when my grandmother died . Our family lost its focus and its

Conrtinued on page 12

Gold Diggers

By Perrin Cothran

Continued from last issue...
Wednesday arrived, and Marg-
aret, June, and Vivian sat at the
round table in the kitchen dur-
ing lunch hour.

'The vice president is coming
tomorrow," Margaret warned.

"What vice president?" June
sighed.

"Kennedy Bauer," Vivian
beamed. "Of course, I already
knew he was coming, because he
called me last night and we ar-
ranged a date."

"Oh, yes, I forgot you two had
an . . . 'affinity.'" Margaret said
disgustedly.

"Why is Kenneth Brower so
important? Why should we have
to be ready for him?" June asked .

"Bauer. Bau-er. Ken-ned-y
Bau-er." Vivian leaned across
the table and enunciated care-
fully to make sure June got it, but
June stared at her blankly. "And
the reason he's important is that
when Mr. Epworth retires,
Kennedy will probably take his
position as president of the com-
pany."

"I don't know about that, Viv-
ian," Margaret said. "I believe
Braxton La wver will get that pro-
motion before Mr. Bauer be-
cause he's been here about 20
years longer, among other
things." She stopped and
laughed. "Unless, of course, Mr.
Bauer marries into the family or
something!"

Vivian tittered nervously.
"Well, I have a clothing predica-
ment, and maybe you ladies can
help me. Tomorrow night, we're
going to dinner at some couple's
house, and that will be casual, of
course. But then, he's taking me
to see that new play at the
Hanbury Theatre, and it's open-
ing night. Now, my problem is
obvious!" She paused for dra-
matic effect, knowing very well
that they failed to see or under-
stand her problem. She ex-
pounded. "The dinner would be
a skirt and sweater affair, or
maybe even a nice slacks outfit
kind of function. But the open-
ing night of a play demands a
cocktail dress, and I certainly
couldn't wear a cocktail dress to
these people's home! I'd feel like
a fool! What should I do?"

Margaret and June continued
their apathetic stares.

"I think it's time for me to go
back to work," Margaret said.

June got up to follow Marg-
aret and replied, "Maybe if you
go naked, you can capture your
vice-president much quicker and
more efficiently."

Vivian thrust icy daggers
through June. "June, I have tried
to be nice to you, and I don't
know what you could possibly
have against me, because you
hardly know me. Now, you've

made several comments to the
effect that I am fast and loose,
and I'd just like to know where
you're getting this."

"My grandfather." She smiled
and left Vivian alone in the
kitchen. It was true. Vivian
couldn't deny it, but she didn't
think Mr. Epworth knew. She
didn't know how to touch type,
an she had majored in Art in
college. The only reason she had
made it all the way to agent sta-
tus was because she'd had an
affair with the manager of the
department. But she worked
hard to stay there! She was no
dummy, and she'd put in hours
of overtime for the department.
What was wrong with giving
yourself a little boost?

At 11:30 the next morning,
Kennedy appeared suddenly like
a specter before her desk. It gave
her a start, but she smiled coyly
and tossed her hair. He rested
his hand on the edge of her desk
and leaned in so that his Drakkar
wafted toward her.

Vivian took a deep brea th and
wet her lips. Almost in a whis-
per, she said, "Hello, Kennedy."

At the same volume, he re-
plied, "I'm going to lunch with
Mr. Epworth. Would you care to
join us, my Dear?"

Her eyes grew desperately
wide, then she wrinkled her brow
and poked out her bottom lip a
little. "I have a lunch meeting...,
but I could postpone it!"

He stood up straight again
and said, "Oh, no, I wouldn't
want you to push a client aside.
Who is that stunning creature at
the copy machine?"

"Oh, her? At the copy ma-
chine?" >

"Yes. The red-head."

Vivian bit her bottom lip.
'That's June Epworth."

"I thought she must be. I'll
introduce myself." Kennedy
sauntered over and talked to
June, who wrinkled her nose and
had a look on her face like a fly
was buzzing around her. Vivian
couldn't hear what they were
saying, but now Kennedy was
carrying June's copies back to
herdesk. Theycamebackwithin
earshot, and Vivian pounded
away on her keyboard and
looked very busy.

"1 think your grandfather
would be very pleased if you
would join us for lunch, June. I
know I would." He stood in
front of her desk with his hands
in his pockets.

Junesmirked. "Wouldn't you
rather take Vivian? She's your
girlfriend or something, isn't
she?"

"Oh, no! Why, uh. . . uh ..."
He glanced nervously at Vivian,
who was fondling her letter
opener, her eyes fixed upon him

viciously. "I mean I'd just like to
welcome you on board, June.
What do you say? We're going
to The Fox and Hounds."

"So does a vice-president al-
ways take the new employees
out to lunch?" June asked skep-
tically.

Vivian could retain her lady-
like manner no longer and
blurted out, "No, just the pitiful
ones who were hired because of
family connections. He's just
brown-nosing with the boss,
June."

Kennedy simply ignored her
and pleaded, "Don'tlisten to her,
June. Some people don't know
how to remain polite and ma-
ture in business situations. Mr.
Epworth doesn't even know that
I'm asking you, and we'll only be
an hour."

"Well, okay. Let me get my
purse."

At 1:30, Vivian had already
been to her lunch meeting and
returned. She tapped her toe on
her plastic mat and wondered
how June thought she could stay
at lunch this long, granddaugh-
ter or no. Just as she was about
to report her to the supervisor,
Kennedy came around the cor-
ner alone and walked up to her
desk. He had a sheepish grin on
his face.

"Vivian, I hope you can for-
give me, but 1'U have to break our
date for tonight. I told Mr.
Epworth I'd take June out. You
know, for good employer-em-
ployee relations. I promise I'll
make it up to you. Can we take
a rain check? Is that okay?" She
glared silently. "Oh, well, it will
have to be okay, because it's im-
portant that I take her tonight."

Very sedately, she asked, "Are
you going to take her to the din-
ner and the theatre?"

"I hadn't thought about it. I
do already have the rickets re-
served for the play, although I
haven't picked them up."

"What about dinner at that
couple's house?"

Yes, I've told them I'm com-
ing with a date. It would be Ride
to back out now. Well, I hope all
is understood. By the way, do
you still have my credit card by
any chance? I've been looking all
over for it, and I remembered
that you used it before." Vivian
thought of the card in her purse.

"Oh, yes, it's at home. I'd
forgotten all about it. I'll get it to
you through the mail or some-
thing."

"Oh, good . Well, I have to run
now, Dear." He gave her a cur-
sory peck on the cheek. "I'll call
you sometime!"

Look for the exciting conclusion
in the next issue of the Profile.

Features

Page 8

The Profile

Going West to see the stars

By Jenny White
Features Editor

Jenny White, pictured here at the Grand Canyon, spent midterm week "stargazing" in Arizona.

When I stepped out of the
trailer on Anderson Mesa into
the cold sunlit dawn, I felt a great
sense of satisfaction. I had just
finished my first observing night
ever at the 31-inch National
Undergraduate Research
Telescope outside Flagstaff,
Arizona, and we had been
working since 4:30 in the
afternoon. (A typical clear
observing night lasts from 4:30
or 5:00 until 6:30 or 7:00 a.m.
Then you go to bed, and you
sleep until about noon.)

The reason I spent a week
working in Flagstaff actually
dates back to this summer, which
I spent working at the Maria
Mitchell Observatory on
Nantucket Island,
Massachusetts. I worked on a
research project there from the
end of May until August 1 8. The
whole summer made up the best
experience I've ever had
personally and intellectually.
I met lots of ex tremely interesting
people, visited Boston and
Martha's Vineyard, learned a lot
about star clusters and actually
enjoyed being more independent
than I've ever been before.

I could fill a whole paper with
stories from the summer!
However, my experience carries
over into this year. Eileen Friel,
the director of the MMO, wrote
me towards the middle of
September and invited me to

come on a week-long observing
run with her. She just joined the
NURO (National
Undergraduate Research
Organization) this summer and
automatically has access to the
31-inch telescope for several
weeks out of the year. Eileen
studies open star clusters to
determine their ages, distances,
and compositions, and from this
information she tries to
determine the makeup of the
galaxy as a whole. She planned
to observe a number of open
clusters and invited me along
because I spent my summer
studving the open cluster NGC
2324.

I left for Arizona on Thurs-
day, October 14 in the late after-
noon and we didn't arrive in
Flagstaff (we rented a car and
drove there from Phoenix) until
very late that night. The next day
we visited the Northern Arizona
University campus and then
drove up to the observatory,
which is at an elevation of 7200
feet. There is a beautiful view of
Lake Mary and the Coconino
National Forest from the mesa.
The mesa houses two other tele-
scopes the 72-inch Perkins re-
flector and a 42-inch telescope,
both operated by Lowell Obser-
vatory.

We spent our first night
learning how to operate
everything. The telescope is

computer-controlled, as is the
CCD camera (which we used to
collect the light for our images).
We spent a lot of time in the
dome with the telescope since it
has to be supervised whenever it
is moved. We did our computer
work in a trailer not attached to
the dome (and it was 30 degrees
outside, every night!).

After the first night, we were
able to work steadily every time
it was clear, which fortunately
was the case for every night but
one. We observed my cluster
and a number of other new ones
that haven't been studied before.
We also (for fun) looked at some

galaxies and saved some of those
images for Eileen to take back
and show during MMO tours.

Besides the nights of work, I
did a lot of other things while in
Arizona. I visited the Barringer
Meteor Crater, which is three
miles in d iameter and abou 1 41 00
feet deep. I saw Sunset Crater, a
volcano that erupted in 1065
A.D., and the lava field around it
that still remains. I spent some
time on the N AU campus and in
downtown Flagstaff, especially
in the li ttle historic center of town
(off Route 66!). And best of all, I
saw the Grand Canyon. It
literally took my breath away.

Friday, November 12, 1993

We visited several points on the
South Rim and the colors and
texture of the canyon itself were
stunning. I would love to go
back and spend a couple of days.

I came back exhausted and on
a completely different schedule
(Arizona is three hours behind
us, and that didn't help my
adjusting to normal sleeping
hours). But I also came back
even more excited about my
research and about astronomy. I
had a wonderful experience, and
I hope to have many more
opportunities like this one!

Surviving: At fourteen Sarah's life was interrupted; today she understands why

By Josie Hoilman
Editor-in-Chief

Sarah is now twenty-one
years old. She has medium
brown hair and hazel eyes. An
attractive woman, she smiles a
lot, but her beauty is not striking.

"I think that may be the
hardest part for me to
understand. Why me? Everyone
says it, everyone asks, "why,"
but it's not just a question for me,
it's something I need to know.
Until I do> I doubt I will
completely get over it. Forgetting
isn't an option for me I just
want to be able to accept it."

It isn't an embarrassing date
ora bad grade that haunts Sarah.
She didn't wreck her mother's
car or lose her afternoon job.
None of the typical problems
plagued her teenage years. Sarah
was raped by her high school
English teacher, and after six
years the experience continues
to shape her daily life.

Sarah (not her real name) is
only one of the countless women
raped in the United States each
minute. The numbers are not
important to her because she
fears becominga statistic. "1 don't

think my story is more horrible
than the others, but once you
begin to bring in the figures, the
epidemic of rape in this country
seems uncontrollable. People
quit listening to the reasons why
rape happens. They only want
to sensationalize it, make a
headline out of someone else's
pain. No one can fight that kind
of colossus, but I can try to teach
other women to prevent one kind
of rape, a rape by their teacher."

Sarah wants everyone who
reads her story to understand
that the reasons why rape occurs
are possibly the answer to
preventing them. "I'm not
suggesting that rape can always
be prevented. But when I began
to understand the motivations
behind my attack, I discovered
warning signals that I hadn't
noticed."

Sarah cautions every high
school female to notice the
behavior of their male teachers.
"If they are too friendly, too
personal, stay away. Not all
teachers are potential rapists, but
all men have the ability to rape.

You must learn to notice subtle
changes in his attitude towards
you, when his actions seem out
of character, or when his
comments make you
uncomfortable. If his behavior
bothers you even just a little, then
that isn't appropriate behavior
to use with a student."

"For me," says Sarah, "I now
know that when Coach Lewis
told me 'I like you better in a
dress than in jeans/ he wasn't
complimenting me, he was
making a pass. Looking back, I
realize that his comments were
too personal; his interest in me
was never benign. If his only
motive were to compliment me,
then he would have said 'I like
your dress' or 'You look nice
today.' You see, it's the personal
interest he had in me that should
have been my warning."

Coach Lewis gave many
warnings before he attacked
Sarah. In the four months before
the rape, he grew increasingly
more interested in her
appearance, her poetry and her
schoolwork. Almost everyday

after class he requested for her to
recite an Emily Dickinson poem
to him inside his locked office.
"Something in him began to
obsess over me. At fourteen,
without a father, I couldn't
recognize the threat behind his
behavior."

Power dynamics also played
an important role in Sarah's
inability to notice the change in
Coach Lewis' behavior. "I
couldn't admit that my teacher
had a sexual interest in me. Now,
I realize that when he lost his
professionalism, I had to lose my
respect for him. Because I never
quit trusting him, I was
completely unprepared for the
attack."

After more than six years
Sarah's social and professional
life is still affected by the
irresponsibleactionsofoneman.
She can not date anyone for more
than a few months because she
eventually fears the possibility
of rape. Going to work is difficult,
because every male in authority
eventually reminds her of Coach
Lewis.

Her experience is not unique.
The lives of women everywhere
in America have been drastically
interrupted by rape. What makes
Sarah's story different is her
perspective. In accepting
responsibility for the healing, not
the rape itself, she has begun to
free herself from the past. "I still
have unexplainable fears about
my boss and the men I date, but
each time, the fear is less
threatening. The long termeffects
like mine are the worst. It's
difficult to explain your actions
or understand your emotions
based upon something that
happened six years ago. This is
why I want everyone to know
that sometimes acquaintance
ra pecan be prevented. No matter
what happens, you can't blame
yourself. Nothing you do is
permission except saying 'yes'
to sex. Other rapes are not less
traumatic, but this kind involves
not only shame but also an
overwhelming breech of trust. I
can't forget, but I'm learning to
live with it."

Features

Friday, November 12, 1993

The Profile

Page 9

From the other side: Mollie Merrick re
sponds to parietal changes

By Jenny White
Features Editor

Mollie Merrick, acting Dean
of Students, feels that the prob-
lem with the current parietals
situation is the way the changes
were handled, not necessarily
with the changes themselves.

A committee made up of the
president, possibly the vice-presi-
dent and three members of RHA,
three students at large and Dean
Merrick, will be working on a
plan to "take choice into ac-
count" choice for those stu-
dents who oppose the 24-hour
parietals and wish to live in a

separate residence hall. "Choice
and notification" are the two
main elements of parietals that
need to be "well-thought out,"
according to Dean Merrick.

Dean Merrick feels that the
process stated in the Student
Handbook needs to be followed
with whatever changes are made
and that the rules should be up-
held until they are changed
through the proper process. She
hopes that people will respect
the rules as a part of the Honor
System at Agnes Scott. " Other-

wise, the Honor System could be
jeopardized, since the whole sys-
tem cannot work if parts of it are
changed. Students are bound by
the Honor Code to uphold all of
the rules that are stated until they
are changed accordingly.

Merrick feels that the Board is
open to changes as long as they
are carefully planned and the
needs of each student are taken
into consideration. The new com-
mittee cocerning "choice" and
"notification" will meet soon to
discuss possibilities.

By Jenny White
Features Editor

The do's and don'ts of Agnes Scott's past

While cleaning in the base-
ment of the observatory, a friend
and I came across a list of rules
and regulations pasted to the in-
side of a large cabinet that we
were cleaning out. The list is
permanently stuck to the cabi-
net, and is old, faded and very
worn. We think the rules date
back to about the turn of the
century (1898-1900), when Miss
Rosa Cooper was intendant of
the infirmary and Miss Nanette
Hopkins was the principal. The
president of the college at that
time was Rev. F.H. Gaines. As
we began reading the way stu-
dents lived during the period,
we were struck by how much the
way we live has changed. We
found ourselves wondering
whether or not the students of
that time felt resentful of the rules
or accepted them as a way of life
without question.

The following is an account,
through rules and regulations,
of the way women used to live at
Agnes Scott.

Information for Boarding Pu-
pils:

Neatness of person, of dress, of
desk and of bedroom is required.
Punctuality at all school exer-
cises and meals is required.
No one will be excused from
meals except for sickness, in
which case Miss Cooper must be
informed of the absence.
Should a pupil on account of
sickness be unable to attend to
any of the school exercises, she
must present to the teacher from
whose class she will be absent a
written excuse from Miss Coo-
per. This rule also applies to
walking, study hall, church, and
Sunday School, except in those

cases the excuse must be pre-
sented to the teacher on duty.
These excuses will be given in
the Infirmary during the first ten
minutes after breakfast and din-
ner.

When pupils are prevented from
attending to their duties by other
causes than sickness they must
be excused by the Principal.
No young lady shall drop a class
or take additional work without
written permission from the Prin-
cipal.

Pupils are not allowed to receive
callers on the Sabbath.
Pupils must have their clothes
and clothes bags distinctly
marked with the name of the
owner. Each young lady will
take her clothes to be washed to
the west bath room on the sec-
ond floor on Monday mornings
before 8:00.

Pupils are not allowed to take
dishes from the dining room.
Pupils are not allowed to borrow
money, jewelry, or books, nor
wear the clothing of others.
Pupils will not be allowed to leave
the grounds without the permis-
sion of the Principal (or in her
absence the teacher on duty) nor
to appear on the street
unaccompanied by a teacher.
No talking allowed

a) in the halls and recitation
room during school hours

b) after the lights are turned
off at night

c) during religious exercises,
lectures and entertainments.
No loud and boisterous talking
and romping is allowed at any
time.

Pupils are not allowed to be in
their bedrooms during school
without permission from the
Principal.

Pupils are not allowed to visit

each others 7 rooms after the
whistle blows.

No pupil is allowed to sleep out
of her room.

Pupils are not allowed to receive
callers in their rooms without
permission from the Principal.
No nails nor tacks shall be driven
in the walls, and no pencil marks
be made. It is earnestly hoped
that all of the pupils will be care-
ful not to mark or defile this bu ild -
ing or its furniture in any way.
Every girl should have a scrap
basket in her room, and this bas-
ket should be emptied in the can
in the hall leading to the bath-
room.

A conduct roll will be called in
study hall each night, at which
time any people who have failed
to comply with the above regu-
lations of this school will report
such failures, and the teacher will
give the pupil such number of
marks as the offense seems to
justify.
Schedule:
6:50 Rising bell
7:20 Breakfast
8:30 School
2:00 Dinner
6:20 Supper
7:00-9:00 Study hour
(Sunday) 8:45 Sunday school

3:00-4:00 Meditation
hour, at which time each young
lady is expected to be in her room
and the whole building quiet,
that everyone may have an op-
portunity for reading and medi-
tation.

Additional regulations will be
found in the catalog under the
heading of general information.

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Acting Dean of Students, Mollie Merrick.

Syllabus

By Martha Rees

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Pueblos Indigenas De America: Anthropology
Taught in Spanish

"Este fue el modo como feneci el mexicano. . . , ya nada comimos.
Y toda la noche llovi sobre nosotros." [This is how Mexicans were
beaten...and we didn't eat anymore. All that night it rained on
us.]

"Guatemoc and his captains were captured on the evening of
1 3 August 1521. Thanks be to our Lord Jesus Christ and Our Lady
the Virgin Mary, His Blessed Mother. It rained and thundered
that evening..."

Which version of the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan, city of
the Aztecs, by Hernan Cortes is true? Anthropology 304, Native
Peoples of the Americas, will explore this question this Spring.
This class also offers an optional lab section for one hour credit in
Anthropology or Spanish, utilizing Spanish texts as well as
translations of indigenous texts into Spanish for students with
intermediate Spanish. The goals of this language addition to the
class are to incorporate voices of Latin Americans in order to
enrich our o wn perspective of Native Americans, as well as to use
language skills outside the language classroom, as part of the
Language Across the Curriculum program. Students will be
guided by worksheetsand discussion. Interested students should
contact Professors Annette Cash or Marths Rees.

Syllabus will now appear as a regular feature in
the Profile. This column, written by the professor,
rather than an interviewer, provides a forum for
the faculty to share information with the student
body about specific courses, guest lecturers in
classrooms or research projects they are currently
pursuing.

Faculty who would like to contribute to this new
feature are welcome to contact Josie Hoilman,
Jenny White or Karen Jordan through campus
mail or by telephone.

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The Profile

Friday, November 12, 1993

Phoedra redefines the "tragic flaw"

By Kelly Holton

Assistant Editor

Phaedra, written by Jean
Racine and translated into
English poetry by Richard
Wilbur, marks the opening of
the Blackfriars' 1993season. John
Stephens, continuing Theatre
Gael's association with Agnes
Scott, directs this tragedy which
deals with such themes as incest
and marital fidelity.

This play tells the story of
Phaedra (Britton McMullian)
who falls in love with and
confesses this love to her stepson
Hippolytus (Troy- Hill), thus
disrupting forever any hope of
harmony in the family.
Hippolytus is torn between his
step-mother's improper feelings
for him and his own
unacceptable love for Aricia,
princess of Athens (Stephanie
Stevens). When Theseus returns
from war, he finds his wife
Phaed ra acting strangely, and she
leads him to believe that his son
Hippolytus has betrayed him.
In the end, Theseus learns the
truth, that his son never
dishonored him, that his wife
harbored these unacceptable
feelings; however, it is too late to

save his son, and no one escapes
without a broken heart.

Throughout the play, a six
member ensemble performs,
most often enriching the somber
tone of Phaedra. The original
music, composed by Georgia
Fuller, was usually well-played
and well-placed within the play.
However, occasionally the music
overpowered the actors' voices,
making some crucial scenes
impossible to understand. I
would have preferred to
understand the lines, especially
the important ones, than be able
to hear only the music and be
forced to try to read lips.

The actors 7 delivery of the lines
also made understanding
difficult at times. They either fell
into the sing-song rhythm of the
poetry, or, in their efforts to avoid
this sing-song, they rushed the
lines, garbling all but the last
word of a sentence. I was truly
afraid that I was never going to
figure out the plot because the
lines were so often impossible to
understand. That several of the
actors' showed their emotions
only by raising their voices did

little to improve the clarity of the
dialogue. In fact, the emotions in
the play seemed so false that the
audience often broke out in
giggles during particularly
dramatic scenes.

Toward the end of the play,
the plot jumped a great deal.
Something seemed to be missing,
for Theseus discovered the truth
about Hippolytus too easily, too
quickly, with no warning at all.
The play ended rather abruptly,
without bringing the audience
logically to the conclusion. These
gaps in the play added to the
difficulty in understanding the
plot. A better editing job would
have provided Phaedra with
much needed continuity; a
consistent storyline would have
held theaudience'sattentionand
probably decreased the
restlessness that the audience
displayed.

This production of Phaedra is
not, however, without its good
points. The technical aspects of
the play marked significant
improvements over recent
Blackfriars' productions,
especially the set design. This

Around Decatur

By Merisa E. Aranas
Staff Writer

Are you tired of driving fif-
teen to twenty minutes for an
meal away from the dining hall?
Do the workers at McDonald's,
Blimpie, Pizza King, and Taco
Bell know you too well? If you
ha ve answered yes to these ques-
tions, then read on! There are
plenty of very good downtown
Decatur restaurants that have a
table waiting for you.

Let us take a journey, shall
we? First, let us imagine that we
very studious Agnes Scott
students experienced a beautiful
Friday when all the classes were
suddenly cancelled (a far cry
from the reality, but we are just
imagining). The dining hall was
closed, and we were all trapped
in downtown Decatur. Could it
bea nightmare? Not if you knew
that The Square Table, Our Way
Cafe, and Meno's were just
around the comer!

Let us start our morning off at
the Square Table. Located on
129 E. Ponce De Leon Ave. right
across from the Nations Bank
building, The Square Table's
quaint little tables and "diner"
atmosphere make the place very
cozy. Their "home-style
cooking" serves probably the
best breakfast in town! They
serve traditional style breakfasts
(ham, bacon, eggs, sausage,
homemade buttermilk biscuits),

as well as omelets and Belgian
waffles. Their hot cakes are so
light they melt in your mouth!

They also serve great lunch
and dinner entrees at reasonably
low prices. I am sure you can
please your stomach with one of
their gyros, club sandwiches,
chicken, fish, or steak entrees.
All their meats come with a choice
of two vegetables. Try their pork
roast plate with a choice of two
vegetables for $4.50. They are
open from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday and 6:30
am to 4:00 p.m. on Saturdays.

Okay, so breakfast at Square
Table was great! We shall now
go to Our Way Cafe for lunch,
the restaurant on the corner of
Candler and E. College. For $4.73,
you can choose one of three mea t
entrees and two of twelve
different vegetables.

Depending on the day of the
week, the meat entrees and
vegetable choices are different.
One can choose from meatloaf,
some type of chicken (baked,
barbecued, fried, teriyaki, etc.),
and different kinds of beef. From
the twelve vegetables served
daily, you may find yourself
choosing either collard greens,
mashed potatoes, sweet corn,
steamed cabbage, steamed broc-
coli, fried okra, baked okra, lima
beans, green beans, steamed car-

rots, creamed corn, or spinach
on that particular day.

For my vegetarians readers,
dare not think that you are left
out! Our Way serves vegetarian
plates where you have a choice
of four vegetables for $4.73. All
plates come with your choice of
a yeast roll, regular cornbread,
or spicy cornbread. Attractive
Our Way is open for lunch only
from Monday through Friday,
11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m..

If you are craving for a taste of
New Orleans, but you don't feel
like driving nine hours to satisfy
your taste buds, why not take a
five minute walk off campus to
Meno's Cafe? Located on the
square across the side of the old
city hall building, Meno's Cafe
serves many of Louisianians'
favorite dishes, but less spicy to
fit Georgians' palates.

For dinner, choose from
entrees like their very mild
andoullie sausage with red beans
and rice, shrimp a la Creole (a
french style marinara), chicken
jambalaya (tomato-based
casserole of rice and meat, mild ly
spicy), or crawfish ettoufee
(sauteed onions in a roux sauce).
They also have specialties like
New Orleans style barbecue
shrimp, Meno's oysters, black-
ened chicken breast sandwiches,
or fried oyster po-boys (fried

Phaedra, played by Britton McMullian, falls in love and confesses
this love to her stepson Hipplytus (Troy Hill), thus disrupting
forever any hope of harmony in the family.

set, designed by Dudley Sanders
and built by several Agnes Scott
students, was beautiful and
functioned well with the play.
The screen in the center of the
stage served an especially nice
purpose, allowing the actor on
the main stage to describe an
action as this same scene was
acted out in silhouette behind
the screen. This technique proved
particularly effective for
Hippolytus' death scene. As
Theramenes, well portrayed by
Laylage Courie, describes the
death of her beloved pupil,
Hippolytus dies and the
goddesses (Audra Brecher,
Valerie Horton, Courtney
Huffman, and Naomi Madeline
Zipperman) dance around him.
Having the scene portrayed in
this way added significantly to
the emotional quality of
Theramenes' speech.

The real highlight of the show

must be Amy Banks Dryden's
portrayal of Oenone. Dry den
truly mastered the poetry and
was able to deliver her lines
clearly and meaningfully. She
brought to life the betrayal and
shock that Oenone felt when she
learned oi Phaedra's illicit love
for I lippolytus and when she
realized that Phaedra had
deceived Theseus concerning
Hippolytus' behavior. Her
character was the only one who
inspired genuine sympathy from
the audience, as she made her
emotions realistic rather than
melodramatic. It is unfortunate
that the entire cast of Phaedra
could not have lived up to
Dryden's fine example. It is
equally unfortunate that plays
continue to be chosen for
Blackfriars' productions which
do not illuminate the best features
of our drama program or of our
individual actors.

oysters on a bed of lettuce, to-
mato, and remoulade sauce
served on french bread).

End the dinner with one of
my favorite things to eat -
beignets (french doughnuts with
powdered sugar lightly
sprinkled on top). From a
Louisianian's point of view - the
food served at Meno's is very
mild compared to the Cajun and
Creole cooking back home. But
as I said before, it caters to the
less spicy Atlanta taste buds.
Their prices range from $1 to $9.
They are open Monday through
Thursday from 9:30 a.m.-9:30
p.m., and Friday and Saturday
until 1:00 am. On Fridays and
Sa ru rd a y s a sma 11 jazz ba nd pla y s

at 9:30 p.m. till closing.

Well, I have shown you a-
day-in-the-life-of-a-well-fed-
Agnes Scottie-stranded-in-
Decatur. I hope this may show
you that you do not have to drive,
or walk, too far to get some great
food. So when you get a little
hungry for anything but Letitia
Pate Evans/ARA food, try
spending your money in some
great restaurants literally right
down the street!

Arts & Entertainment

Friday, November 12 J 993

The Profile

Pag'

ell

My Fair Lady could have danced all
night, even with food poisoning

By Tracy Walker and Emily Davis

Melissa Errico as Eliza Doolittle in Lerner and Loewe's My Fair
Lady, starring Richard Chamberlain [...almost].

My Fair Lady, Lerner and
Loewe's musical classic, has
become an endearing part of
American theatre. On its way to
Broadway, the most recent
revival visited the Fox Theatre
this past October with a cast in-
cluding T.V. mini-series king,
Richard Chamberlain. Much to
the dismay of every middle aged
woman in the audience, Mr.
Chamberlain took ill with a
supposed case of "food
poisoning" and was unable to
fulfill his role as Professor Henry
Higgins. However, there to
replace him was his understudy
Paxton Whitehead, originally
cast as Colonel Pickering.

Mr. Whitehead added such
an air of charming cynicism and
wit to the role of Henry Higgins
that it made one wonder if Mr.
Chamberlain could have
accomplished such a feat.
Melissa Errico, who portrayed
Eliza Doolittle, added feistiness
and strength to a character too
often portrayed as a porcelain
doll and brought a sense of
confidence to the production; in

Winners and Snoozers

By Kelly Holton and Tracy Walker

Cool Runnings will warm your heart

Sleep Factor Rating
Code:

z-Only with a student ID
at Northlake
zz- Wait til it comes to
the dollar-fifty
zzz-Rent it at Kroger
zzzz- Hold out til it's
edited for TV

Here's something you won't
believe ] a ma ica ' s go t a bobsled
team! Loosely based on Jamaica's
bobsled team that participated
in the 1988 Olympics, Cool
Runnings traces the adventures
of four Jamaicans whose sole
desire is to become Olympic
athletes, no matter what sport
they have to participate in.

Irv, portrayed by John Candy,
is a has-been bobsledder who
now only drinks beer and shoots
pool and who has no desire to
enter the Olympic arena again.
He changes his mind, however,
due to the powerful persuasion
and contagious enthusiasm of
Derice and Sanka (Leon and
Doug E. Doug, respectively).

Through an amazing chain of
events, along with a lot of hard
work and practice, the five

actually do make it to Calgary
for the Olympics, only to be met
with open hostility and hatred.
They persevere, enduring the
frigid natures of both the weather
and their competitors. Though
they don't win the gold, or even
place for that matter, these
bobsledders show their true
Olympic spirit.

Although this movie is light
and fun, it is not without a moral
message. The bobsled team
learns that it is most important to
be Jamaican and that their own
style is superior to any they could
copy from someone else. Irv
learns that he can redeem himself
from his past mistakes, that he
doen' t have to win the gold medal
in order to be a winner. The
otherOlympicathletesalsocome
to understand the real value of
Olympic competition through
their experiences with the
Jamaican team.

Particularly entertaining were
the performances of the actors
who made up the bobsld team.
A motely crew with varying
backgrounds and talents, these
athletes learn to work as a team
and to care about the good of the
group more than they care about
their individual concerns. Their
Jamaican humor delights the

audience and more than makes
up for what is lacking in the
somewhat underdeveloped plot.

The one major flaw with this
movie is its lack of continuity.
Often, the scenes seem
unfinished and the dialogue
incomplete. There is not always
a clear connection from scene to
scene, which could be the result
of poorediting. The movie would
have been greatly improved by a
more polished script and greater
character development. We do
care about what happens to the
team, but the individual athletes
make little difference to us.

Despite its flaws, Cool
Runnings is a charming movie
which lifts the spirits and relieves
those post midterm blues. After
seeing this movie, we wanted to
rush back to A5C to form the
Fightin' Scottie Bobsled Team,
but alas the desire has faded.
Peace be the journey, mon.

Rating: zz

fact, she seemed to help guide
Mr. Whitehead through the first
act of the musical.

Aside from the two main
characters, the supporting cast
consisted of an array of
understudies (with a few
exceptions) who seemed to lack
energy and were rather erratic.
The chorus and musical
numbers, on the other hand,
added life and lift to some of the
production's slower moments.

Although the dialogue is
amusing, the musical numbers
in My Fair Lady that have made
it one of the most well-loved
shows in the history of musical
theatre. "On the Street Where
you Live," 'The Rain In Spain,"
and "I Could Have Danced All
Night," are some of the musical's
most beloved songs; however,
the two numbers that brought
down the house with their high
spirited folly were, "With a Little
Bit of Luck," and "Get Me To the
Church." In these two numbers
cast members clinked beer mugs
and filled the theatre with
ebullient voices.

The simplistically detailed set
captured the moods of the
various scenes quite
appropriately. The costumes, in
general, well illustrated the time
period and the social classes
represented in the musical.
Deviating from the traditional
black and white costumes, the
Ascot scene took an unfortunate
rum for the worse in this produc-
tion. Actors were draped in a
garish array of colors complete
with tassels and tacky fringe
that made them appear as though
part of a circus rather than spec-
tators at a horse race.

The sound system at the Fox
Theatre proved to be a problem
during the performance as well.
Microphones crackled and
hissed throughout the evening,
making it difficult to understand
the performers at times.

Even though this production
of My Fair Lady suffered from
some last minute adjustments,
overall it was a most enjoyable
piece of theatre. To put it simply,
it was lovely.

Would you believe a dancing tuba?

By Margaret Bickers

Staff writer

Terrible puns and fantastic music followed the arrival of
the Chicago Brass Quintet at Agnes Scott the night of October
26. A joking trombone, two long suffering trumpets, a soft-
shoeing tuba and patient French horn walked onto the stage
for "Pantomime and Dance of Terror" by Manuel de Falla, a
fast and fun opening number in a "Halloweenish" minor key.

The talented group then sailed to the heights of the sublime
with three arrangements of selections by Johann Sebastian
Bach. Another, less known, Gentian composer's works fol-
lowed.

A series of really horrible word jokes introduced a set of
four songs collected by Bela Bartok. Mr. James Mattern, the
trombonist, started by comparing Bela Bartok with another
well known Bela - Lugosi, the famed actor in Dracula. The
music, such as the fast but majestic '"Magyar Tanc", more than
made up for the jokes. The second piece "Melody" conjured
pictures of a regal coronation scene.

The "Suite from the Monteregian Hills" concluded the first
half of the evening. This collection of French melodies fin-
ished with the familiar Christmas tune, "II est ne."

Russian songs started the second half of the concert. The
arrangements by Mr. Mattern featured such famous compos-
ers as Mussorgsky, Scriabin and Rimski-Korsakov. For some-
thing completely different, the Quintet ventured into the
world of rag-time, with "four rags" by Scott Joplin. Here the
tuba stood out, rather literally, as he danced across the stage
to the syncopated rhythms of the fast and lively music.

In a truly odd twist, the closing number "Stars and Stripes
Forever" again featured the tuba, this time on the tradi tionally
piccolo descant. The audience was truly impressed by this
variation.

For an encore, the Brass Quintet played the "William Tell
Overture," better known as the theme to the "Lone Ranger."
They did not receive a standing ovation, but certainly de-
served one.

Arts & Entertainment

Page 12

The Profile

Friday, November 12, 1993

Calendar of Events

Compiled by Jenny Skridulis

VISUAL ART

High Museum of Art

For more information call 892-
HIGH

Admission: S5 adults, $3 senior
citizens and students, $1 children
6-17, children under 6 free.

THROUGH 11/28/93 Annie
Liebovitz photographs 1970 - 1990
Annie Liebovitz has long been
regarded as one of the most ex-
ceptional portraitists of her
generation. Liebovitz's
provocative photographs of
celebrities have been in
numerous popular magazines.
This nationally touring
retrospective of her work
includes 150 exceptional color
and black-and-white images.
Among those pictured are Ella
Fitzgerald, Whoopi Goldberg,
John Lennon and Mikhail
Baryshnikov.

THROUGH 11/19/93* Latin
American Film Festival

This film festival showcases
eight outstanding films from
Latin America. "Excess Bag-
gage" is about a man who falls
into a coma and wakes up twenty
years later to find that he is "ex-
cessbaggage" tohisfamily. "Like
a Bride" is set in Mexico's
Sephardic Jewish community
during the '60s. It follows the
lives of two young women as
they discover art, love, politics
and their own identities.

10/2/93 - 1/2/94 Art at the
Edge: Ray Smith

Ray Smith draws on his Mexi-
can-American heritage to incor-
porate ideas and elements from
popular culture, idiomatic ex-
pressions, and Mexican tales to
create large-scale, colorful paint-
ings reminiscent of Mexican
murals. This exhibition features
a new cycle of vibrant paintings
in which the artist contemplates
ideas of family, nurture and
protection. A series of small,
humorous self-portraits in
watercolor and three sculptures
made of wood and found
ma terials are also included in the
exhibition.

10/12/93-1 /2/94 DoubleTakes:
A New Lcx)k at the High

To mark the tenth anniver-
sary of its award-winning build-
ing, the High Museum of Art
celebrates the growth of its per-
manent collection with an inno-
vative and comprehensive sur-
vey. "Double Takes" places
seeminglv unrelated works from
everv major collecting area side-

by-side to illustrate the recur-
rence of key themes in art in
every medium and genre from
different periods and parts of the
world.

12/ 4/ 93 Restored Hitchcock

The High brings Atlanta
audiences "Restored Hitchcock,"
a program that features "Bon
Voyage," an espionage thriller,
and "Avalanche Malgac," a story
of conflict within the French Re-
sistance. Designed as war pro-
paganda, these dramatic shorts
were made by Hitchcock in 1944
under the auspices of the British
Ministry of Information. The
screening begins at 8 p.m. in the
Rich Auditorium.

The Spruill Center for the Arts

Located at 5339 Chamblee

Dunwoody Road

For information call 394-3447

OPENING 11/8/93 john
Marshall : Works in Fabric

Over 40 wall hangings, quilts
and wearables will be on display
during John Marshall's visit to
Atlanta, where he is teaching
workshops in Japanese dyeing
and resist.

The Atlanta History Museum

For more information, call 841-
4000

Located on 130 West Paces Ferry
Road

Admission is $6 for adults, $4.50
for students and senior citizens,
$3 for children 6-17, children
under 6 free.

Days to Remember: Atlanta's Cul-
tural Calendars

This exhibit explores familiar
and unfamiliar annual events
celebrated by a variety of metro
Atlanta's ethnic and immigrant
groups through photographs
taken especially for the
exhibition, as well as costumes,
calendars and prayer books.
Among the events covered will
be the Islamic month of
Ramadan, Jewish and Japanese
New Year celebrations , a Polish
Christmas Eve, African-Ameri-
can Kwanzaa and the Chinese
Full-Moon Festival.

THEATRE

Horizon Theatre

Located on Euclid and Austin
Avenues in Little Five Points
Box-Office 584-7450

THROUGH 11/14/93 Six
Degrees of Separation

In this suspenseful comedy-

drama by John Guare, one of
America's most renowned
playwrights, a dazzling black
stranger charms his way into the
lives of an affluent Manhattan
couple, with devastating results.
This fast-paced runaway
Broadway hit paints a scathingly
funny portrait of urban
Americans as we are now the
wealthy, the down-and-out, the
hustlers, the star-struck, the lib-
eral chic, the Catchers in the Rye.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Tav-
ern

Located on 499 Peachtree Street
For Tickets and information, call
874-5299

THROUGH 12/5/93 Doctor
Faustus

The Atlanta Shakespeare Tav-
ern is putting on a production of
Christopher Marlowe's Elizabe-
than masterpiece, The Tragedy of
Dr. Faustus. The story concerns a
man whose insatiable thirst for
knowledge leads him to the black
arts through which he discovers
the sensual world of indulgence,
devils, and temptation beyond
imagining. For this world, he
barters his immortal soul. The
play will run only ninety min-
utes and it will be played by two
actors.

As part of the College Events series, the Chicago Brass Quintet
performed on October 26. See page 11 for review.

All Children Grow Up

gathering place. We sold the
house, divided her furniture
and other belongings among
our five families, and said
goodbye. Suddenly, there was
no common place, no where
that we considered our place to
play and be free. My
grandmother's death stole
much of my childish innocence.
Her death forced me to accept
that there is no way to avoid
life's pain. I think we all began
to grow up when she died; as
we grew older, fantasy games
lost significance in my life and
theirs, and we became more
concerned with school and
friends than with each other.
As we grew and changed, our
closeness diminished. We sim-
ply don' t understand each other
anymore.

When Grandma died, we all
agreed that Thanksgiving
would be our holiday, our way
of ensuring that we didn't lose
touch. This Thanksgiving I
rushed home from college, only
to pile in the car and ride for

what still seems like forever to
the Merry Acres Restaurant, the
new site of our family gathering.
After the requisite hugs and hel-
los, an awkwardness pervaded
the air. "How's your semester
going?" "Is the baby OK?" Our
conversation never delved below
the surface. For the first time in at
least three years, I saw my cousin
Ben. "Ifs nice to see you, Kelly,"
he said. "Good to see you, too."
I, the one who always has a com-
ment, had run out of things to
say. We looked at each other for
a few moments and then moved
on. Later as we partook of the
Merry Acres Thanksgiving Buf-
fet, I noticed that two of my cous-
ins were missing. Since both had
recently returned from two-year
mission trips, I had expected to
see them there. "They're both
spending Thanksgiving with
their new wives' families/' came
the reply. Oh, well, I thought
so much for the reunion I'd imag-
ined.

Being with my family reminds
me of what has been lost. I re-

Continued from page 7

member our childhoods as we
come together as adults, each
enveloped in school, career,
marriage, children. We have
moved in many different di-
rections, yet there should still
be something that keeps us to-
gether. No matter how old I get
or how much responsibility I
have, part of me will always be
Tinkerbell. And I suspect that
there is something of Peter Pan
left in all of them, too. We will
never really be close again, but
I still look forward to seeing my
cousins, and I will always cher-
ish the memories of our play-
ing. Sometimes when we're
together, someone will men-
tion some game we once
played, and we all chime in
with our own memories, our
own versions of the same sto-
ries. For a moment, we recap-
ture the magic of the Boys'
Room in memory, and it lin-
gers in the air reminding us of
what we all know: all children
grow up no exceptions.

The Profile

Friday, December 3, 1993

The Independent Student Newspaper of Agnes Scott College

Vol. 80, Issue 5

College bids farewell to Bonnie

By Kerry Murphy
Nrtvs Editor

Bonnie Johnson, Vice Presi-
dent ofDevelopment and Public
Affairs and a 1970 graduate of
the college, left Agnes Scott on
November 30 to assume a posi-
tion at the Emory University
School of Medicine. There, as
Executive Director of Develop-
ment and Assistant Dean, she
will serve many of the same needs
that she did here at Agnes Scott.
She will be responsible for devel-
opment, financing research and
fellowships, and directing
fundraising for the college.

The decision to leave Agnes
Scott was difficult for Johnson.
She is very interested in medi-
cine and believes that her new
position at Emory will provide
her with an "interesting angle"
on her work. Her responsibili-
ties at Emory will be on a differ-
ent scale than at Agnes Scott be-
cause of the amount of the en-
dowment and the larger campus

community, but Johnosn says
that her intentions in leaving are
not for "moving up the ladder."
The position at Emory will allow
her to focus more in-depth in
various areas.

Johnson holds a long history
with Agnes Scott. After graduat-
ing, she returned six years later
to work in the Office of Admis-
sions. She then became the di-
rector of Financial Aid and from
there became the Director of
Development. After leaving the
college in 1985 to work at Geor-
gia Tech and to earn her MBA
from Emory, she returned to as-
sume the position of Vice Presi-
dent of Development and Public
Relations.

Johnson feels that her time at
Agnes Scott has been very suc-
cessful. During her leadership,
the college was ranked among
the top twenty five colleges in
the amount of alumnae giving

and ITEP gave a million dollar
grant. Johnson also led the suc-
cessful completion of the Cen-
tennial fundraising campaign
that provided the college with
thousands of dollars in funds.
Among all her accomplishments,
she is most proud of improving
the rela tions between Agnes Scott
and the outside community.

"You doiV t work in places tha t
you don't believe in," says John-
son. She believes in the mission
of Agnes Scott and feels confi-
dent in the abilities of her staff,
who are "experienced and ca-
pable enough to handle any-
thing."

Although Johnson no longer
works for the college, she plans
to remain involved through her
alumna status.

Bill Gailey, Vice President of
Business and Finance, will as-,
sume her responsibilities until
Johnson's position can be filled.

Bowling outlines dangers of nuclear waste

Bonnie Johnson, an Agnes Scott alumna, left her position as Vice
President of Development and Public Relations on November 30.

By Jenny White
Features Editor

Mortar Board's "Don't Quote
Me" lecture series continued on
Friday, November 12 with a talk
on nuclear waste by physics pro-
fessor, Dr. Arthur Bowling.

Bowling began the lecture
with a review of the structure of
the atom. He used colorful trans-
parencies to show the nucleus of
the atom, which is made up of
protons and neutrons, and the
electrons that orbit the nucleus
in outer shells. "Nuclear book-
keeping" orders the elements of
the periodic table according to
the number of protons in the
nucleus. He also discussed the
forces that keep the nucleus to-
gether and keep the electrons
bound to the nucleus.

Bowling then discussed a
broad overview of the issues su r-
rounding nuclear waste: Very
large atoms, such as uranium,
have unstable nuclei and can lose
particles that fly out of the nucleus
at high speeds. These atoms are
radioactive, and they lose alpha,
beta and gamma particles. Al-
pha particles are just like helium
nuclei, beta particles are elec-
trons, and gamma particles are
energetic "hyperactive light"
particles. Gamma particles are

especially dangerous because
they are so penetrating. All of
these types of radiation can dam-
age proteins and DNA inside
cells, as well as the cell struc-
tures.

When large unstable atoms
are hit or "tapped" by runaway
particles, such as "rogue neu-
trons," they can undergo fission.
The nucleus breaks apart into
fragments which themselves are
radioactive nuclei, and as it does,
more neutrons are released to
cause more fissions. The energy
created by such a reaction is de-
scribed in Einstein's equation E
= mc A 2, where c is the speed of
light. C is very large so the
amount of energy produced is
tremendous, even if little mass is
"lost."

Because of this amount of en-
ergy, nuclear power has become
more and more popular in the
past few decades in energy-
starved countries such as France
and Japan. Reactors are built
that breed radioactive elements,
such asplutonium from uranium
fissions. Unfortunately, the re-
actions also produce radioactive
nuclei (the fission fragments
mentioned above) that have to

be contained and stored. Radio-
active material ultima tely decays
and converts itself into harmless
substances; typical high-level
radioactive waste from reactors
is particularly dangerous for
about 1,000 years, so the prob-
lem of what to do with it is very
serious.

Nuclear waste has been accu-
mulating since the 1940s, and
not since then has another suit-
able method of disposal been
found. The waste is embedded
in a fuel rod which also contains
leftover uranium and plutonium
from the reaction. There are two
ways to deal with the fuel rods:
encase them and then bury or
store them for a long time, or try
to reprocess them in order to
extract the leftover elements for
la ter use. The reprocessing, how-
ever, creates a corrosive, acidic,
radioactive "sludge" that has to
be disposed of as well.
"Classification" converts the
sludge into a solid for storage.
Since the 1940s, 80 million gal-
lons of sludge have been gener-
ated, mostly in nuclear weapons
programs, and all of it must be
carefully stored.

There are currently 480 reac-

tors worldwide, and 102 of these
are in the U.S. The U.S. has not
perfected the reprocessing tech-
niques yet, so the only option
here is to find a place to bury the
fuel rods from reactions, and
there are several places through-
out the U.S. that are already in
use.

W.I.P.P. is a project of the de-
fense department and is sup-
posed to be a test site for the
larger Yucca Mountain plant.
Construction at Yucca Mountain
begins in 1994 and storage will

begin in 2003. The residents of
Nevada are understandably up-
set. The Hanford and Savannah
River plants have leaked 500,000
gallons of waste, and the clean-
up procedure is extremely ex-
pensive. A leak of this type could
not happen at Yucca Mountain,
but there is the possibility of wa-
ter flooding into the cavern where
the waste is stored and causing
radioactive material to infiltrate
the water table. Transportation

Continued ou page 2

Inside This Issue:

News:

Rep Raf returns
-page 2

Editorials:

Farrerian Influences ta^es a clo;

Features:

Spotlight on Victor Wilson
-page 4

Abbreviated
Universe

By Margaret Bickers

Atlanta - A fifty-five year
old grandmother claimed
$1.5 million in the Georgia
lottery on November 13 . . .
Parents in the Fulton County
School District voted No-
vember 18 on whether to re-
main with the traditional
school year, or to go to year-
round schools . . . The body
of eight year-old Shay Hill
turned up in a sewer pipe.
The child vanished on No-
vember 13. An autopsy
showed the cause of death to
be a blow to the head by a
blunt object. Police have no
suspects at this time.

National - The North
American Free Trade Agree-
ment passed the House of
Representatives by a 234 to
200 vote. Organized Labor
accuses representatives of
selling their constituents out
in exchange for favors from
the White House. The agree-
ment will limit tariffs and
taxes on goods passing be-
tween Canada, Mexico and
the U.S A seventeen year
old male has been arraigned
on counts of arson in con-
junction with the fires in Cali-
fornia earlier this month . . .
The Senate passed a crime
bill that makes fifty plus types
of automatic firearms illegal
and provides two billion
dollars for the hiring of more
police . . . Rumors abound
that Washington Senator
Robert Packwood may re-
sign rather than face allega-
tions of sexual harassment.

World -The UN lifted the
price from the head of So-
mali warlord Mohammed
Aideed. Aideed spoke in
public for the first time in
months on November 17 to
crowds of cheering follow-
ers ... A new constitution has
been drawn up in South Af-
rica that will determine the
governing of the country
until popular elections on
April 27, 1 994. President F. W.
DeKlerk and Nelson
Mandela led the teams work-
ing on the document. Zulu
chief Buthelezi, head of the
Inkatha Freedom movement,
had no comment at this time
... A junto in Nigeria led by
General Sani Mabaja ended
democratic processes there .
. . Parisian police forcibly re-
moved Kurdish protesters
from the cathedral of Notre
Dame. The Kurds protested
the arrest of 130 PKK mem-
bers in the week of Novem-
ber 15-19.

Nuclear Waste

Continued fivm page 1

of the hazardous waste across
the country is a problem. Also,
there is the possibility that pluto-
nium and uranium recovered
from reprocessing (which will
have to be perfected here, since
Yucca Mountain can only house
solid waste and not sludge) could
be taken and used for new weap-
ons by another country or terror-
ist group.

The nuclear waste issue is one
that the U.S. will have to seri-

ously consider in the next de-
cade. The problem has both tech-
nical and political sides, and a lot
of monetary importance as well.
Nuclear power is very valuable
because there are no greenhouse
gases produced and no effect on
the global warming situation.
However, whether we expand
our nuclear resources or not, the
waste of five decades is a great
problem that must be handled.

Bv Jessica Daugherty

Rep Rap

Rep Council will begin wrap-
ping up a semester of committee
work in the next two weeks; we
are working on several different
proposals and would welcome
input from any students. The
Faculty Liaison Committee is cre-
ating a framework for student-
run course evaluations that
would be accessible to the entire
campus. Laura Home is chair-
ing a committee to develop a
pla n for a n office of mu 1 ticu 1 tu ra 1
affairs and Linda Tukman and
Wendy Riviere are leading a com-
mittee to suggest improvements
in Health Services. Jessica
Daugherty and Committee A are
working on the Diversitv Project
for next semester and on proce-
dures to increase student voice
on campus. Any of these com-
mittee chairs or committee mem-
bers would be happy to talk with
students about their proposals
and all Rep meetings are open to
the campus.

The statement below was
passed by Rep Council in re-
sponse to the Board Resolution
concerning the Academic Re-
view. Rep is also helping to cir-
culate a petition begun by inter-
ested students. This petition,
along with the RepCouncil state-
ment, will be sent to all Board

members. The three student rep-
resentatives are Beth Savage '97,
Cherica Stanley '96 and Wendv
Riviere 95

Statement Concerning Academic
Review:

We, the Representative Council
of the Student Government As-
sociation, affirm our faith in the
mission and academic tradition
of Agnes Scott College. We sup-
port the liberal arts curriculum
that the College now provides.
We agree that an Academic Re-
view has the potential to be an
important vehicle for re-evaluat-
ing the academic program of
Agnes Scott.

However, we do not support
a ma nd a fee to cu t courses, majors,
or departments. We believe that
the forced elimination of por-
tions of the curriculum will nega-
tively impact enrollment and re-
tention and will significantly
damage the academic reputation
of Agnes Scott College.

We strongly urge the Board of
Trustees to reconsider the man-
date to cut courses, majors, and
departments as stated in the
Board of Trustees Resolution of
October 29,1993.

Dr. Art Bowling discussed the hazards of nuclear waste during his
recent "Don't Quote Me" lecture.

Basketball season begins

Blackfriars' Announce
The Dreamnibbler:

The 1993 Childens Show
Dana Fine Arts Building
Winter Theatre
December 2, 3
9:30 & 11 :00 a.m. & 1 :00 p.m.
December 4, 5
2:00 p.m.

By Nanska Lovell

The 1993-94 Basketball sea-
son is now officially under way.
Coached by Nancy Rast, the team
consists of captains Sunshine
Bierley and Debbie Cheaves, and
players Stephanie Rothstein,
Stephanie Behrens, Stephanie
Chaplin, Shane Wood, Marlev
Maupin,and Nanska Lovell. The
first game of the season was a
tournament held at Emory Uni-
versity on November 19and 20,
and included the following four

teams: Emorv University,
Ogelthorpe University, Atlanta
Christian College, and Agnes
Scott College.

Although this year's team is a
new team ~ 75% of the members
a re first-yea r students - they ha ve
already developed a strong sense
of unity that will enable them to
be a leading force in NCAA's
division III.

MCCAIN LIBRARY -- HOURS AND ACTIVITIES BETWEEN SEMESTERS

During the holidays and semester break, the library will be open
the same days and times as Administrative offices, and Circula-
tion and Reference assistance will be available.

Several major projects be in progress as well.

In December and January library staff will complete the relabeling
and shifting of the collection, and put barcodes on most of the
books in preparation for the February installation of an automated
library system. To make this labor-intensive process as efficient as
possible, all books need to be in the libra rv.

Students m particular should remember to return all materials
before leaving campus. Faculty members are encouraged to
return any books not currently being used, and to return all items
beginning with these letters or numbers:

200,300,800-899 Essential!!

G, L, M, N, P (includes PA, PN, PR, PS, PQ)

Faculty who need to keep items or to return them in January
should contact library staff to make arrangements.

McCain, like many other libraries, will suspend Interlibrarv
Loan operations during the holiday period. Due to interruptions
in the University Center truck schedule, problems with mail
service, and the demands of preparation for the automated
system, the library will not be processing interlibrarv lending or
borrowing requests from December 17 through January 9 lac-
u Itv a n ticipa ting research needs during the biva k a re ena >u raged
to submit requests to ILL before the end of the semester. (Other
libraries will still be available directly with [nterlibrary DseCards

during this period.)

Please contact the library staff if you have questions about any
of these projects. The library apprecia tes your helpas we prepare
for a much improved system in 1994.

Editorials

Farberian Influences

Friday, December 3, 1993

The Profile

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141 East College Avenue V
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Editor-in-Chief Josie Hoilman

Assistant Editors Kelly Hoi ton, Emily Stone

News Editor Kerry Murphy

Sports Editor Kerri Williams

Features Editors Karen Jordan, Jenny White

Arts and Entertainment Editor Kelly Holton

Assistant Arts and Entertainment Editor Jenny Skridulis

Photography Editors Tracey Baggett, Karen Shuman

Business Manager Beth Barnes

Advertising Manager Paula Pendarvis

Circulation Manager Melanie Effler

Circulation Assistant Andrea Tarpley

Layout and Design Josie Hoilman

Technical Assitants Pat Arnzen, Carrie Clemence, Shannon Ramker

Columnists and Writers Merisa Aranas, Margaret Bickers, Perrin

Cothran, Laylage Courie, Jessica Daugherty, Esther Dunn, Kathleen Hill,
Mary Jordan, Michelle Smith, Tracy Walker, Holly Williamson
Photographers Sarah Brown, Daniela Edelkind

The Profile is published bi-weekly throughout the academic year. Letters to
the editor are always welcomed and should be typed on disk using
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the editorial pages do not necessarily reflect those of anyone affiliated with
the College or the Profile staff other than the author.

Sex, Life & Gender

By Michelle Smith

"How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

Many thanks to all students
and faculty members who ex-
pressed an interest in an hour of
pre-season holiday favorites. I
have been giving annual Christ-
mas sing-a-long-concerts for the
past ten years, and was happy to
put together an intimate program
of music for the campus commu-
nity.

I regret that a higher author-
ity unscrupulously canceled the
event. I value the personal inter-
action mu sic brings between both
an audience and performer.
Sometimes we put more empha-
sis on scholarly approaches to
music rather thanon the enjoy-
ment of music.

Music is more than notes. It's
an expressive form of communi-
cation. It's not enough to study
music. Rather, we must perform.
We must share. What, then, is
commu nica rion if we never open
our mouths to initiate contact?

No doubt the Christmas spe-
cials will soon appear on televi-
sion. This year be sure to rewatch
the Dr. Seuss classic "How the

Grinch Stole Christmas."

The Grinch hated Christmas
and tried to manipulate all those
who felt otherwise. Could the
community help it if it enjoyed
the holiday? No. And no doubt
some will argue that the Grinch
con Idn't help it if he hated Christ-
mas. True.

However, he did not have to
manipulate the community with
his power. He had every right to
hate the expressive forms of
Christmas. If he wanted to focus
on the negative aspects of the
season, then so be it. But he had
no right to put the community in
what he perceived as "its place,"
a place without Christmas.

Unfortunately, his power ac-
complished nothing. Sure, it took
away the presents. It stole the
decorated trees. But Christmas
still existed. And the love and
expression of the holiday contin-
ued to be shared, even without
the presents and decorations.

The same can be said for mu-
sic.

Editor's Note: I had intended to write an editorial about the issue of men
in our classroom, but limited space prevents me from doing so. I think
this may be a blessing, because the essential points I want to stress are
simple: The MAT program itself adds a prestigiousness to our campus
that has never existed before, and the design of undergraduate English
classes has not changed by the presence of MATs, if anything the extra
bodies ensure that more classes will be offered. Forget the "issues" for a
moment and think about reality. How many of you who are not English
majors have had a class with any of our three men? To those who are
English majors, do you know that in the design of the program, under
normal circumstances, you have the possibility of having classes with
them for only one semester? Finally, think about the real root of your
animosity. Should three men be required to represent their entire
gender? How would you treat them if they were African-American or
confined to wheelchairs? Think about it.

By Laylage Courie and Jessica Daugherty

...accounts of the student movement have radically distorted its character.. There is... the denial that any real issues
were at stake and the claim that very few real students were involved in the controversy .. some attribute the
uprisings to the powers of a handful of crackpots, political extremists ... spoiled personalities who managed to
dupe innocent and true students into believing that there are real issues... All of these accounts dissolve the real
problem into a vapor of fantasies congenial to the commentator. None of them recognize that there are real
Students asserting real grievances within an institutional setting that has in fact become pathological. An adequate
account must take a serious look at these issues. .. For some time now the students have felt themselves to be an
alien presence.. .As we have climbed to higher and higher peaks of material riches and bureaucratic complexity,
the students have fallen into deeper and deeper abysses of hostility and estrangement. As Harold Taylor has said,
"the mark of a true university [and college! is whether or not it takes its students seriously."

Sheldon S. Wolin, The Berkeley Student Revolt

This quote illuminates what is happening on our campus; in a paragraph it addresses and refutes much of the
current debate about the increased level of student activism at Agnes Scott. On a campus where the lack of
involvement is constantly decried, it would seem that an outpouring of interest would be supported, but it has not
been. The Agnes Scott version of a student movement has been diminished in several ways; the administration
has refused to admit that it is a mass movement, has attempted to ostracize a few leaders, and has told students
that we are overreacting and that we just don't understand. This column is an attempt to answer these accusations.

The October 29 issue of Profile was filled with charges that there are a few radicals manipulating students.
ASC's powers-that-be refuse to recognize, as the quote above puts it, "that there are real students asserting real
grievances within an institutional setting that has in fact become pathological." The issues at this college have been
ignored too long. The favored response that critics of student actions have raised is this charge of manipulation,
citing first faculty members and later a few students as the puppet masters. Thisidea of "outside agitators" has,
in fact, become the administration party line. Good to know, isn't it? If you think there might be some issues at
ASC we need to address, you've just been duped!! In the end, it doesn't really matter who is seen as the evil power
behind it all, the effect is the same. It reduces students to robots, hypnotized into reacting to things they really don't
care about. This idea is an insult to the individual intelligence of each student and to the purpose of this College
collectively. Students here are capable of looking at the facts and reaching their own conclusions. They are
responsible for their lives and can make the decisions about how to live them, without any manipulation. More
students have come to protests than have come to mandatory convocations. Maybe to some that smacks of
manipulation. To us it is a genuine desire to see change happen. Know this organizing is happening and we
are not afraid to say that we are doing it. Manipulation is not a part of it. Students are concerned about what is
happening to ASC and about our ability to affect an institution in which we have invested four years of our lives.
To attribute the honest and real examination of systems, procedures, and power structures that is happening at
Agnes Scott to manipulation is a brutal slap in the face to the kind of education liberal arts provide.

Some people say there are no real issues, that we are overreacting. On a campus rife with apathy, how do you
explain 80 people at a protest on the morning of the second reading day last year? How do you explain 45 students
out at 1 0:30 on a rainy Thursday night to discuss the academic review? How do you explain MacLean auditorium
filled with interested student for a meeting that was called at 1 1 :00 the night before? Students are frustrated and
angry and very, very tired of business as usual. And it will get worse before it get better. The Academic Review
will have serious, long term affects for us all. We will all get to finish our majors (wouldn't want Dean Blanshei
to think we hadn't said that) but the long term effects on the College of cutting classes, departments and majors
will be devastating. What happens to this college is important to students; Agnes Scott will be on our resume for
the rest of our lives. Every time we interview for a job, apply to graduate programs, even go to a cocktail party,
we will be an alumnae of this College. Its reputation will affect us and does matter. Think about the purpose of
a liberal arts education. ASC needs, if we are going to attempt to be a national liberal arts college, to have a varied
and rich curriculum that allows students to have choice in electives they take and depth in their majors. Why
would we expect students to want to come to the College when we don't offer choice between and within
concentrations? In our opinion, the Academic Review can be a good thing, if it is focused on addressing our real
problems. Instead of giving up on increasing enrollment we need, as an institution, to examine why we have such
a terrible retention rate and why enrollment is not higher. These issues could be addressed in a Review that does
not have its conclusions already drawn. Now we're being asked by the Board to undertake an experiment, to do
research, to think creatively, with the outcome stipulated beforehand. Students care about this Review - it is not
just a faculty issue. To imply that we do not know enough about it, that we need to stay out of it, or that we brought
it on ourselves (as was said at the faculty meeting last week) is to once again attempt to dismiss us from a
conversation of which we should be a vital part.

We want to point out the last sentence of the quote. It does not say the mark of a true College is that it lets students
on committees, that it holds forums, that it has open office hours. It says a true College takes students seriously.
We heard a very apolitical student say last week that what she hated about Agnes Scott was that they asked you
how you felt all the time but never took what you said seriously or acted on it unless it fit with the plans they had
already made. If a few students say we need to redecorate the students center and it's done, then we should be
happy, we have been heard. If 300 students protest the denial of tenure to a professor, we are ignored. When we
object, we are told that we don't understand. We understand that the hypocrisy that passes for listening on this
campus is no longer acceptable. We know that what is happening here makes some of you uncomfortable. We
wish we could say that we are sorry, but we're not. Students are demanding that we be heard, we are refusing
to back down and we are taking a voice in the policies that affect us everyday, from parietals to the academic review.
If this is not how things have always been here, too bad! It's how they are now. No one is manipulating us, there
are no faculty pulling our strings and no, the organizers don't possess a magic wand. Students are capable of
writing coherent and persuasive letters, of planning moving public protests and of reaching conclusions about the
long term affects of changes in college policy. For members of this "community" to keep insisting that we are not
is to make a mockery of the supposed Mission of Agnes Scott: "... to enable women to better understand themselves
and the world in which they Uve, and to integrate what they know into a humane perspective... students are
encouraged to develop intellectual independence, moral insight, and individual creativity, to the end that they
may live full and useful lives..."

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The Profile

Friday, December 3, 1993

Spotlight on Dean Victor Wilson

A different look at single, adoptive parents

By Pam Peel

"Nights like last night are just
hell . . . You're feeding the kid
and washing dishes at the same
time. The washer and dryer are
going, and you've got the iron
heating up to iron clothes for the
next day. . . Sometimes you just
feel like 'nobody really under-
stands what I do, nobody appre-
ciates me.'" According to Victor
Wilson, Agnes Scott College As-
sistant Dean of Students, "If you
have been a single parent, you
have been through hell." How-
ever, Victor represented a spe-
cial group of single parents on
the new Fox Network program,
The Bertice Berry Show, and
heard many affirming comments
form the studio audience. His
television appearance gave Vic-
tor the opportunity to meet three
other single, adoptive fathers, but
only one other man who had
adopted a child under the age of
one year. Victor learned from
television executives of The
Bertice Berry Show that he is one
of only four single, heterosexual

men in America who have
adopted children of the age of
one year or younger.

Victor feels very privileged
that three and a half years ago he
had the opportunity to choose
his child. The adoption process
is the same for single applicants
as it is for couples, but Victor
added, "The agency may ask a
few more questions ... to make
sure one person can provide for
the child financially." The entire
process took nine months "just
like being pregnant isn't that
just proverbial," and Victor
turned down two children with
expensive medical conditions
before considering his son,
Hunter. Victor drove two hours
to meet seven week old Hunter,
and when he held him for the
first time, he knew, "I like this
kid. This is the kid for me."

When we talked, it was obvi-
ous that Victor was relaxed by
the way that he sat sidways and
hung one arm over the back of
his chair. Discussing the adop-

tion is nothing new, and Victor
had heard most of my questions
before. He tapped his feet and
twirled his pen as he told me that
people are just more intrigued
by the situatuion than he thought
they would be.

He and another dad on the
show agreed that most people
immediately assume that single
men who adopt are gay. How-
ever, Victor decided to adopt
because he wanted to be a par-
ent. "At that point in my life the
women of the world had not
come to their sneses yet. I had
always wanted to be a good hus-
band and a good father. The
opportunity provided itself to be
a good father." Victor would
still like to be a "good husband,"
and in some ways, Hunter has
been an assset to his father's dat-
ing life. Victor syas he appears
caring, sensitive, and indepen-
dent, and the situation "can kinda
hetyou ponts." But Victor takes

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Always remember they are still people

By Debbie Miles '93

I know what the AIDS dis-
ease is and I know how one gets
AIDS. I know the statistics and
the number of people who die
from AIDS, but I do not know
anyone personally. The people
who have AIDS have always
been faceless names that I read
about in the newspaper, until I
visited the AIDS Memorial Quilt
when I went home to Florida.
The quilt is sponsored by the
Names Project. It is all in the
name: names and memories of
people who have died from
AIDS are all preserved in the
quilt.

Between 1980-87, a signifi-
cant number of people died from
AIDS in the San Francisco area.
To show concern, a group of
neighborhood residents devel-
oped the idea of making a quilt
to remember those who had d ied
from the disease. The quilt was
started in June of 1987. On Oc-
tober 11,1 987, the Names Project
displayed 2,1)00 panels of the
quilt on Capitol Mall in Wash-
ington D.C. Today, there are
over 24,000 panels that total in
length theequi valency of 13 hx>t-
ball fields. Each panel is person-
ally made by someone who
cared for the person and wants

to remember them.

I have heard many people
speak about AIDS. Profession-
als come and try to scare you.
People who have the AIDS dis-
ease come and tell you their story .
The AIDS quilt shows you the
victim and also shows you the
number of loved ones that are
left behind to carry out the memo-
ries of the deceased.

The names are no longer
anonymous. You begin to feel
something by looking at each
panel. You begin to feel the love,
the anger and the hurt. Some
panels allow you to become ac-
quainted with the person, others
are private. Some of the panels
are colorful, some have pictures,
others have poems. Each panel
has a message: people with AIDS
are still people.

TheAIDSquiltincludesmanv
different kinds of people. There
are men, women, blacks, whites,
heterosexuals, homosexuals,
teenagers, and children. It re-
minds you that no one is exempt
from getting AIDS. The disease
does not discriminate between
race, sex, or color.

My mother knew several of
the people represented in the
quilt. She is a nurse and treated

many of them as patients in the
hospital. As we looked at each
panel, she could tell me some-
thing about each person. She
told me about the families and
lovers who would come to the
hospital everyday and sit by
the victim's bedside, watching
and waiting for the inevitable
to happen. One man named
"Bill" was in the hospital for a
length of time. His partner,
"Mark," came everyday until
Bill died. Ten days later, Mark
was diagnosed with AIDS and
he told my mother that he
would not come back to the
hospital, he wanted to die at
home. My mother never saw
him again but she read his name
in the obituaries.

The AIDS quilt remembers
all of those who have died from
AIDS. The quilt also shows
how much these people were
loved. The quilt will continue
to grow because of the growing
numberof A IDS statistics. With
the help of the quilt, hopefully
AIDS victims will no longer be
reduced to a statistic. Instead,
they will be remembered as
people who were loved and
their memory will live on for-
ever for everyone to see.

Dean Victor Wilson with his son, Hunter.

Timepieces

ASC ten years ago

By Jenny White
Features Editor

(The following is a reprint of
"Speaker's Corner" from the No-
vember 14, 1 983 issue of '(he Profile,
ft's interesting to me to see hoie
much the perception of Agnes Scott
students has changed!)

The 1984-85 Selective Guide
to Colleges by Edward B. Fiske,
the education editor of the New
York Times, has just come out.
Colleges around the nation are
assessed and a short profile is
presented in this publication to
aid prospective students in their
college search. The Agnes Scott
profile begins as follows, "Agnes
Scott 'girls,' as they call them-
selves, have split personalities.
Their academics are taken in
strong doses in their own small
community. Social life, however,
exists primarily on the turfs of
their near neighbors, Georgia
Tech and Emory University,
where 'the weekends are spent
trying to meet guys.'"

The quotes within the excerpt
above were made by AGNES
SCOTT STUDENTS in surveys
they returned to this national
publication. The quotes persist
throughout the profileand make
such statements as: "We've got a
lot of preppies, hardly any ge-
niuses, and a lot of intelligent
girls who hide it in front of then-
Georgia Tech boyfriends, "; and
such as "I've met my maids of
honor here."

At first I was outraged and
attributed the profile to a preju-

dice toward w omen's col leges
but upon reviewof other profiles
found that this "prejudice" was
not evidenced in other evalua-
tions. For example, TheGoucher
College evaluation begins as fol-
lows: "Once the happy haven of
Washi ngton a nd Ba 1 ti more d ebu -
tantes, Goucher College has
changed with the times. The
college's primary objective, stu-
dents and administrators agree,
is to prepare women academi-
cally and psychologically to en-
ter the job market on an equal
basis with men. Strong academ-
ics, required internships, and an
accessible faculty provide stu-
dents with a liberal-arts perspec-
tive and marketable career skills
as well." Their students were
quoted as saying, "The college is
not only dedicated to the liberal
arts, but also to the ad vancement
of women."

Sweet Briar College is de-
scribed as follows, "You just can't
rely on anything anymore not
even on Sweet Briar College, that
elegant finishing school where
you ng Scarlett O' Ha ras once per-
fected their antebellum-style
charm. The stereotype of 'white
gloves and snobby Southern
girls' is crumbling as surely as
the walls of Jericho amidst the
college's new slogan "An edu-
cation for reality." Their stu-
d en ts a re q u o t ed a s sa y i ng, " 1 1 ow
can people in their right minds

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believe that Sweet Briar is a
Southern finishing school fan this
day and age? Get REAL."

With these positive images
presented for other women's
colleges, why are we defined as
having a split personality con-
cerned with acquiring a MRS
degree? Obviously it was stu-
dent e va 1 u a Hon tha t d etermined
the overall impression. If women
a t this school perceive themselves
as intelligent "girls" with the
need to hide that intelligence
from their male contacts, then I
think that something has failed
somewhere.

The admissions office always
presents the Scott student as be-
ing the career-minded, well-bal-
anced woman articulated in the
pro files of two other women's
colleges presented above. So too,
the Public Relations Office pre-
sents this image to the public.
Where are the Scott students
when these ideals are depicted?
Perhaps some students should
examine more closely why they
decided to attend Agnes Scott in
the first place and where they are
attempting to go in the second
place.

Personally, if I were to em-
bark upon the pursuit of a hus-
band I would use my inventive
faculties and certainlv not attend

a college where there were no
males. I would further pursue
my desired goal by attending a
college or university that sup-
ported a large number of profes-
sionally oriented undergraduate
male students. (If you're going
to do it, do it right, huh?) In
short, I would never go to an
academically demanding single
sexed college. So, if my intent
was the acquisition of a husband
I would not choose Agnes Scott.

If the students quoted in this
national publication had chosen
Agnes Scott for such a purpose,
first they shouldn't have admit-
ted such a breach in logic and
second, should have been re-
sponsible enough to realize that
people like myself exist who have
chosen Agnes Scott for academic
and career reasons and would
like to be represented in the over-
all profile for this institution.

If you are not outraged by the
image put forth in this guide for
college-bound hopefuls then I
ask first, why not, and second,
what are your purposes for be-
ing here? I hope by the time my
little girl is looking for a college
in which she can become a
woman, that Agnes Scott's pro-
file will look more like that of
Goucher or Sweet Briar.

Victor Wilson

the attitude that "if you are dat-
ing me, then you are dating my
son. . . Hunter is an important
part of my life, and I have to
consider that htis woman could
become Hunter's mother."

Hunter's biological parents
were both about to start college
and could not take care of a child .
Victor only has a copy of the
parents' medical historiehts like
last night are just hell . . . You're
feeding the s and a statement
from the mother requesting a
happy, healthy, and loving fam-
ily for Hunter. Although the two
celebrate the day that they were
united, Victor does not think that
Hunter knows why they call that
"Gotcha Day." Hunter has never
asked about his mother, but now
that he is getting older, Victor is
ready to answer those questions
when they arise. While some
people might think that the situ-
ation is too complicated to ex-
plain Victor says, "You can al-
ways put things in children's
words. I could do Newton's Law
of Relativity in Mickey Mouse
terms if I had to."

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All good parents ar$ strug-
gling to raise happy, healthy, and
well-rounded individuals in a
society filled with violence and
corruption. The challenges that
Victor faces as a single parent do
not differ from the problems of
couples everywhere. But, single
parents do have the added pres-
sure of playing the role of both
mother and father. During the
filming of The Bertice Berry
Show, one member of the studio
audience asked why single fa-
thers should receive all the acco-
lades when single mothers have
been raising their children alone
for years. Victor says he is tired
of the divisions of single parents
that separate and prevent them
from supporting one another.
His television appearance did
give Victor the rare opporunity
to exchange stories and experi-
ences with other single, adop-
tive fathers, but more impor-
tantly, he apperaed on The
Beritce Berry Show to accept the
praises from the studio audience
on behalf of single parents

Realizing Atlanta's Olympic dream

By Colin Mackey

In 1976, I was in first grade
and was watching a television
broadcast that featured a girl who
used to attend my school. Her
name was Jenny Chandler and
she was being awarded the high-
est honor that can be bestowed
upon an athlete. She was receiv-
ing a gold medal for diving at the
Olympic Games. It was at this
moment that I fell in love with
the Olympics. I remember ask-
ing my parents at the time,
"When is there going to be an
Olympics in Atlanta?" My par-
ents just laughed. They said that
Atlanta was too small and could
never dream of hosting an Olym-
pic Games. I did not understand
what they were saying. The
Olympics that I was watching
was in some place called
Montreal. I had never even heard
of this city before the Olympics.
If this little town could host an
Olympics, why couldn't Atlanta,
the center of the universe, host
one as well?

In 1 989, 1 had just finished my
sophomore year at the Univer-
sity of Georgia . As soon as I was
back in Atlanta, I went to meet
with an organization called the
Atlanta Organizing Committee.
They were a group of about fif-
teen people who were trying to
fulfill my dream. They were try-
ing to bring the Olympic Games
to Atlanta. Most of the city
laughed at them, yet they still
managed to win the bid to be the
United States representative in
the quest to be the host city for
the 1996 Games. I wanted to
volunteer my services. I could
think of no better way to fill my
time than concentrating it on the
things I love most in life: the
Olympics and my city. My par-
ents still laughed at my crazy
dream, but they were willing to
support me while I volunteered
full-time to try to win the 1996

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On September 18, 1990, my
parents woke me up before the
sun rose. We were going to Un-
derground Atlanta to watch the
announcement of the host city
for the 1996 Olympic Games. I
did not want to go. I had never
worked so hard on anything in
my life. For the past two years, I
had spent every second that I
was not in school trying to pro-
mote Atlanta in its quest. I had
done everything from stuffing
envelopes to hosting foreign dig-
nitaries. I was willing to do any-
thing it took. Now, with the
announcement of the host city
only a couple of hours away, I
began to doubt Atlanta's chances
for the first time. The 1996 Games-
would mark the centennial of
the modem Olympic movement.
One of the cities that Atlanta was
competing against was Athens,
host to the first Olympic Games.
How could Atlanta hope to beat
this sentimental favorite? I
couldn't take it. I did not want to
be in a crowd when I found out
that all of my hard work had
been for naught. However, my
parents were able to drag me to
Underground quite reluctantly.

We sat at Underground for
over a hour watching each city
make its final presentation. Fi-
nally, the president of the Inter-
national Olympic Committee,
Juan Antonio Samaranch, came
to make his announcement. I
gripped the rail of the stairs on
which I was standing to keep
myself from passing out from
nerves. He started to speak, "The
International Olympic Commit-
tee has awarded the 1996 Olym-
pic Games to the city of..." There
was a pause that seemed to last
an eternity before he finally spoke
the greatest word I have ever
heard, "Atlanta."

There was shear mayhem at
Underground. Fireworks were
exploding. People were grab-
bing complete strangers and hug-
ging them like they were their
best friend. It was the greatest
single moment in the history of
Atlanta and the greatest single
moment of my life.

Now it's three years later, and
Atlanta only has three more years
to prepare for the world. Joyce
Hamilton, another volunteer for
the Olympics, recently spoke at
Agnes Scott abou t the efforts tha t
are being made to put on the
greatest Games the world has
ever known. The scale of this
undertaking is mind boggling. It
takes six years of preparation for
sixteen days of competition.

There will be more athletes rep-
resenting more different coun-
tries than in any other Olympics.
Mrs. Hamilton noted in her
speech that the Atlanta Commit-
tee for the Olympic Games
(ACOG) will be responsible for
preparing one million meals in
that sixteen day span. She also
commented that ACOG will be
the size of a Fortune 500 com-
pany at the time of the Olympics
and will completely fold two
weeks after the Games.

The question is: will Atlanta
be ready? It is going to take a lot
of work, but so far Atlanta is
right on schedule. People have
trouble keeping the proper per-
spective on the Atlanta Games.
Since Atlanta is the host city,
people seem to think that the
Games are for us. They are not.
The Games are for the athletes
who have trained many years
for the one performance tha t they
will have in Atlanta. The func-
tion of ACOG is to make the
experience of each of the athletes
the most memorable experience
of their lives. The 1996 Olympics
are not about Atlanta, they are
about bringing together the
greatest athletes in the world in
the greatest show of peace known
to the world today. For sixteen
days, countries fight their battles
on the held, in the ring and in the
pool. This is where Atlanta comes
in. It is our job to promote peace
and be a gracious host to all.
With the eyes of the world fo-
cused on our city, it will be a time
for Atlanta to show to the world
what a great city we are. ACOG
has organized a volunteer branch
called the Olympic Force. The
Olympic Force is comprised of
thousands of volunteers. Each
year until the Olympics the
Olympic Force is given a pro-
gram in which it can better the
city. This year's emphasis is on
education. These same volun-
teers will be selected for volun-
teer jobs during the games based
on the amount of work that they
have done for Atlanta through
the Olympic Force. For one to be
a part of the Atlanta Olympics,
one must prove that they are
willing to be a part of Atlanta,
too. To me, this is the greatest
function of ACOG.

Out of the flames of Sherman's
fires, Atlanta rose like the phoe-
nix to become one of the great
American cities. In three short
years, Atlanta will rise like the
phoenix once again, this time out
of the flame of the Olympic torch
to be recognized as one of the
great cities in the world.

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The Profile

Friday, December 3, 1993

Straight talk from Washington

Bv Marv L.T. Jordan

There is a place not far from
my hometown where the roads
are sandy, clumps of grass dot
the hills, and few people - except
for an occasional jogger - hardly
ever visit. It does not look like a
wildlife refuge, but to stroll
through the stillness, the fresh
tracks of slithering creatures and
the larger animals that prey on
them, mark the National Park
with the only apparent hint of
life.

The St. Marks Wildlife Re-
serve, created to protect various
animals from extinction, is a prod-
uct of the U.S. Endangered Spe-
cies Act (ESA). But like the other
refuges around the country, this
area, and the creatures protected
bv it, have caused great debate.

Introduced by President
Nixon in 1973, the Endangered
Species Act (ESA) has brought
hope that some species can be
preserved, but not enough to ac-
count for its tremendous contro-
versy. Critics charge that by pro-
tecting the species, the U.S. is
destroying the interests of its own
people. Private landowners,
businesses and agriculture
groups say the act favors the
rights of plants and animals over
people. By obstructing develop-
ment in wooded areas to protect
animals, they say, the ESA has
cost thousands of jobs.

Supporters say the govern-
ment must protect specific spe-
cies facing an extraordinary ex-
tinction rate. Environmental or-
ganizations insist that countless
species of plants and animals
would have vanished years ago
without it. Both sides have spent
big bucks and endless hours plot-
ting strategies for the confronta-
tion in Congress, where the con-
troversy over reauthorization of
the act is expected to last through-
out next year.

"The world is harmony/' says
W.J. "Billy" Tauzin, the Louisi-
ana Democrat who is cosponsor
of an Endangered Species Act
modification bill. "These acts are
supposed to bring man and na-
ture in harmony, and they don't.
Look at them. They're creating
conflict!"

Both sides agree that the act
hasbloated into an expensive and
slow-moving program for
mother nature. In 1992, the Fish
a nd W i Id 1 i fe Service a 1 loca ted $65
million for assorted endangered
species work; the Marine Fisher-
ies Services d o na ted $8 . 8 m i 1 1 i o n .
Government spending continues
to escalate ($9.7 million was spent
on preserv ing the spotted owl;
and $5.9 million was spent on the
grizzly bear last year).

All this for only a few recover-
ies. Just five species out of the
1,326 threatened or endangered
plants and animals have been

reported as saved: the American
Alligator, three birds native to
the Palua Islands near American
Samoa and a wild plant in the
Utah known as the Rydberg
milkvetch.

Government reports have
sharply criticized the Fish and
Wildlife Sendee for failing to give
priority attention to the most
imperiled species. Animals in
the spotlight - those that are usu-
ally most loved by powerful ad-
vocates-tend to capture the most
money, while those that legiti-
mately need saving, don't get
saved. The species with the great-
est support from environmental
groups known for filing large
lawsuits usually get designated
"threatened" or "extinct" before
those that really need protection.
The National Resources Defense
Council, a powerful en vironmen-
tal group, for example, threat-
ened to file a lawsuit against the
federal government unless the
"gnatcatcher" from Southern
California made it on the list.
Even though many other species
needed more protection, the
gnatcatcher was declared endan-
gered within a few weeks.

From the tiny snail darter in
Tennessee to the Spotted Owl in
the Northwest, endangered spe-
cies have made life for some small
property owners a nightmare.
Cindy Domenigoni, a resident of
RiversideCounty,California,has
been forced to stop rotating her
crops to protect endangered kan-
garoo rats. In 1988, Norma Singer
and her husband bought less than
half of an acre in Riverside
County when they moved form
Colorado. This year, when they
tried to build an addition to their
home and pave their driveway,
they learned that the area had
been designated as a rat study
area.

"I don't want to kill every-
thing off," she told the LA Times.
"I never even killed a prairie dog
in Colorado, and you know how
they are. But the point is, aren't
human beings just as impor-
tant?"

Yes. Of course. But should
plants and animals have to take
the backlash? Private landown-
ers in California, for example,
are waging war against kanga-
roo rats, killing them off to avoid
costly government restrictions.

"It's hard to prove you've
killed a rat. Whose to say a hawk
did n' t swoop d own from the sky
and do it. Also, if you dispose of
the body, no one will ever now
the animal is missing," one Riv-
erside County resident said.

Anger toward the animals is
extreme. T-shirts with "Kanga-
roo Rat Whackers Association"
sell for $15. A drawing of a K-rat
smashed under a mallet is also

being sold. One landowner tries
to run over the animals with his
car. "Every time I see them, I aim
for them. You get to a point
where it's the animal or me, and
the frustration level is that it is
not going to be me." Critics ar-
gue that one of the many reasons
why the act is not working is that
it ironically has an adverse affect
on endangered species: instead
of saving their lives, it jeopar-
dizes them.

But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service reports that the ESA is
working. In 1990, nearly 41% of
the 600 species protected were
ei ther stable or increasing in num-
ber.

Yet other statistics seem grim:
38% of the species were reported
as declining, 2% were extinct,
and the other 19% the govern-
ment knew nothing about. For-
tunately, about 9.8% of species
protected by the act were im-
proving, but 37.77c were declin-
ing.

Supporters say that moral re-
sponsibility to Mother Nature has
kept the legislation alive. "Liv-
ing wild species are like a library
of books still unread," says Rep-
resentative John Dingell (D-MI).
"Our heedless destruction of
them is akin to burning that li-
brary without ever reading its
books."

Some call this altruistic real-
ism. Others call it romantic gar-
bage. Perhaps it is these philo-
sophical differences that signify
what all this controversy boils
down to: two very different ideas
about economic development
and environmental conservation.

As part of his new economic
package, President Clinton in-
tends to reform the act by in-
creasing funding of the Fish and
Wildlife Service by $14 million,
or 35 percent. Interior Secretary
Bruce Babbit says he stamped
his highest priority on the act
when he was appointed to the
Cabinet. "My most urgent task
in my first month around here
has been to try to assess how
we're going to handle the ge-
neric issue of biodiversity, be-
cause we're not equipped to do
it," he told the New York Times.

In the next four years, the Fish
and Wildlife Service (FWS) will
add 400 species to the list. In-
stead of writing a separate rule
for each of the hundreds of thou-
sands of endangered plants and
animals, the FWS will add sev-
eral species under one rule. Ani-
mals and plants will be classified
together under a specific ecosys-
tem. This small environment,
with all its plants and animals,
will be protected under a set of

Continued on page 8

Amy Heins and Jennifer Cofer performing "The Christmas Cradle

Song."

Duet recital delights audience

Bv Margaret Bickers \
Staff Writer

The student duet recital
opened to the sweet and familiar
strains of "Silent Night," played
on guitarbyjeri Adams and sung
by Charlotte Stapleton. They
were the first of seven groups of
students to perform for a small
audience on November 19.

Jennifer Cofer and Amy Heins
then presented another seasonal
melody, "The Christmas Cradle
Song." Their voices blended very
well in this lovely version of the
English carol. "Allegro ma non
troppo," played on cello by
Marth^ Bishop and Jenny
Skridulis, followed the vocal
duet. The cellists carried off this
modern, dissonant piece by
Sebastian Lee with great aplomb.

Next, Ms. Stapleton and
Rowena Renn sang the ever
popular "Duetto Buffo di Due
Gatti" ("Funny Duet of the Two
Cats") by Rossini. The meows

and occasional fast hissing re-
minded the aud ience of two dig-
nified, fluffy, and mildly an-
noyed cats. In fact, some listen-
ers seemed to have problems
deciding whether or not to laugh.

Patricia Lenton on piano and
Margaret Bickers on the organ
presented Fra nek's "Prelude,
Fugue and Variation For Piano
and Organ." Ms. Lenton ran
through the last piano part with
ease and grace.

Ms. Renn, Ms. I leins, and
Osjha Anderson formed the //
Capella trio which sang "Seek
Sweet Content." They balanced
their voices well in the fast, light
selection and had excellent dic-
tion. Lori Frix and David
D'Ambrosio concluded the re-
cital with a piano duet by Faure.
The evocative selection flowed
smoothly and lightly from the
piano in a beautiful performance.

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Decembers, 1993

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Winners and Snoozers

A new beautician arrives at Truvy's Beauty Shop and adds her own
style of warmth and humor in Robert Harling's bittersweet com-
edy, Steel Magtiolias, playing at Neighborhood Playhouse through
December 18. Pictured above are Laura J. Cole of Hapeville as
Annelle, the dithering assistant, and Suzanne W. Evans of Riverdale
as Clairee, the wise-cracking local aristocrat. For tickets call 373-
5311. The Neighborhood Playhouse is located in downtown
Decatur at 430 West Trinity Place. Performances are at 8:00 p.m.
Thursday through Saturday, and at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday.

By Tracy Walker and Kelly Holton

Sleep Factor Rating Code
z-Only with a student ID at Northlake
zz- Wait til it comes to the dollar-fifty
zzz-Rent it at Kroger
zzzz- Hold out til it's edited for TV

All for fun and fun for oil

OK, so the Musketeers didn't
have French accents. OK, so
Charlie Sheen won't be winning
the Best Actor Oscar this year.
OK, so the most thought-pro-
voking thing about the movie is
the Sting song during the credits.
If you look at The Three Muske-
teers from such a serious stand-
point, then, of course, the critics
are right: this movie stinks.

But, let's look at the movie
from a different perspective
say that of students who just want
to stay alive through the end of
finals. In that case, The Three
Musketeers promises an evening
of escape to Paris, not to mention
a da te with three pretty cute guys
and Oliver Piatt.

The movie begins with
D'Artagnan's (Chris O'Donnell
with long hair) dueling the of-
fended brother of one of his lov-
ers. His adventures have only
begun, however, as he rides the
next day to Paris to join the king's

Musketeers. Upon his arrival in
Paris, he quickly manages to
make enemies of Athos, Aramis,
and Porthos (Kiefer Sutherland,
Charlie Sheen, and Oliver Piatt,
respectively). Unbeknownst to
D'Artagnan, the evil Cardinal
Richelieu (Tim Curry) has dis-
banded the Musketeers in order
to expedite his taking over of the
crown. The rest of the movie
consists of a series of sword fights
and narrow escapes from death,
all in the name of King Louis.

The Three Musketeers is not
without its tender moments,
though. The reunion between
Athos and his estranged wife,
portrayed by Rebecca
DeMornay, is touching both in
the emotions of the two charac-
ters and in the final moment of
forgiveness. The patriotic spirit
of the Musketeers characterizes
the movie despite its buffoon-
ery. Even though this movie is
almost a spoof of The Three Mus-

keteers, it still manages to capture
the king's guards sense of duty
and their loyalty to each other.

Indeed, the movie seems to be
making fun of itself, and the ac-
tors' performances work when
seen in this humorous light.
However, if we choose to view
The Three Musketeers as a Serious
Film, they completely miss their
marks. Tim Curry's exception-
ally evil portrayal of Cardinal
Richelieu serves as the only per-
formance that could have be-
longed to either a spoof or more
serious movie.

Even with its less than stellar
moments, The Three Musketeers
delights the audience through
its campy humor and faux fights.
There's just one thing we still
haven't figured out: where thehell
ions Annette Funicello?\

Rating zz

Steel Magnolias: There is no such thing as natural comedy

By Kelly Holton

Assistant Editor

Following their nea rly a 11 male
production of A Few Good Men,
Neighborhood Playhouse in
Decatur presents the all female
Steel Magnolias for balance. Set
entirely in Truvy's Beauty Shop
in Chinquapin, Louisiana, the
play portrays the lives of six
southern women as they face
both the good times and the bad
times of life.

Remarkably mirroring life in
a small, southern town, these
women use the beauty parlor as
a place to meet friends, to gossip,
to share their joys, their fears,
and their sorrows. The play
opens on Shelby Eatenton's (An-
gela Bratcher) wedding day and
ends on the day of her funeral
two and one-half years later.
During the interim scenes, we
watch as she and her mother
struggle to come to terms with
their differing ideas about life,
while their mutual friends at the
beauty shop do their best to sup-
port the two and even face their

own dilemmas.

Truvy, portrayed by Susie
Caldwell, best expresses the
theme of the play with the line
"Laughter through tears is my
favorite emotion." These women
find humor in every situation
and use their senses of humor to
ease the pain that comes with
tragedy. Obviously, too, this
humor strengthens the friend-
ship among them, giving these
six extremely different women a
bond even though they seem on
the surface to have little in com-
mon.

Despite the excellent script
and the true-to- lite humor of the
play, many of the funniest lines
fell flat. Suzanne W. Evans, who
portrayed Clairee Belcher,
seemed especially inept at deliv-
ering those one-liners that char-
acterize both her character and
the play as a whole. Even my
favorite line ("If you don't have
anything nice to say, come sit by
me.") lacked its usual zing. Sev-

eral of the other actresses fluctu-
ated in their ability to pull off the
lines, especially Caldwell and
Anna House, who portrayed
Ouiser Bourdreaux. At times,
these characters seemed the caus-
tic, comic, blunt w omen that they
are supposed to be, but other
times the actresses lacked the tim-
ing that adds humor and mean-
ing to the words of the script.
The fact that nearly everyone of
the actresses botched at least one
line did noting to improve the
play's comic timing. Also de-
tracting from the genuine hu-
mor and emotion of the play was
Patricia French's interpretation
of M'Lynn Eatenton, Shelby's
mother, as a rather mean woma n .
Because she treated Shelby coldly
through the first part of the play,
her emotional display at the end
seemed both unrealistic and mis-
placed.

Angela Bratcher and Laura J.
Cole, portraying Shelby Ea ten ton
and Annelle Dupuy-Desoto, re-

spectively, gave the most con-
vincing and consistent perfor-
mances of the cast. Their funny
lines actually came out funny,
and the audience laughed at the
humor of the moment, not the
just the humor of the familiar
lines. These two also achieved a
balance between the humorous
aspects of their parts and the se-
rious, emotional aspects, bring-
ing both to life in a most convinc-
ing manner.

The play as a whole failed to
create the sense of closeness that
should pervade a performance
of Steel Magnolias. Part of this
distance comes from the ac-
tresses' lack of consistency. How-
ever, the distance is created in
large part by the set and by the
staging of the movie. The stage,
though cluttered with beauty
shop paraphernalia, seemed to
large to be an intimate, garage
beauty salon. Often, the actresses
stood far from each other or two
sets of characters carried on two

sets of actions on opposite sides
of the stage. This separation lends
a disjointed feeling to the play
and detracts from the play's spirit
of close friendship.

In the end, the play Steel Mag-
nolias saves this production of
Steel Magi Mints from disaster. The
lines, even when delivered
poorly, are funny. The circum-
stances of the play are moving,
no matter that the characters
sometimes aren't. The beauty
and the truth of this play tran-
scend any performance and can-
not fail to reach the audience. I
cried at the end when M'Lynne
mourned her daughter, not be-
cause of the portrayal but be-
cause of the words themselves
and the emotions that these
words necessarily bear. And,
despite its flaws, I enjoyed this
production of Steel Magnolias
precisely because it gave me a
chance to remember the words,
to remember the feelings.

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The Profile

Friday, December 3, 1993

The conclusion of

Bv Perdu Cothran

Gold Diggers

Vivian watched until he was
safely around the corner. She
then flipped through the phone
book until she found Hanbury
Theatre. She dialed the number.

"Hello, is this the ticket office?
Yes, Td like to cancel some ticket
reservations . . . The name is
Kennedy Bauer . . . B-A-U-E-R . .
. Yes, that's for tonight's show . .
. Thank you!"

A devilish grin spread across
Vivian's face. Margaret, who had
been fairly quiet all morning, in-
quired as to Vivian's seemingly
unnatural happiness.

" What are you doing over
there, Vivian? It must not be
work."

"But, it is, Margaret. It's dirty
work, but someone's got to do
it!" Vivian didn't care anymore
that June wasstill with her grand-
father, rather than being back at
work. She didn't care that
Kennedy had designs on her just
because she was the boss' grand-
daughter. She had sabotaged
their evening. And now she no-
ticed there was something else
shecould sabotage. June had left
her computer on inside the pro-
gram she'd been working on all
day. Vivian made sure June
wasn't coming. With the stroke
of a few keys, she had erased all
of June's work for the day. Mar-
garet shook her head and peered
through her pink framed bifo-
cals.

"Vivian, what do you think
you're doing?"

"I'm protecting my best inter-
ests, Margaret. Practical and ro-
mantic. I'll kill that wench before
I'll let her have my man or my
promotion."

Margaret took off her glasses
and said, "You're behaving irra-
tionally. Why don't you take the
rest of the afternoon off and col-
lect yourself?" Vivian thought
of that American Express gold
card. Kennedy had let her use it
before their ski trip back in the
winter.

She said, "Yes, Margaret, I
guess you're right. I think I'll go
shopping." Vivian went straight
to Saks Fifth Avenue and pur-
chased a smashing turquoise taf-
feta evening gown for nearly four
hundred dollars. She signed
"Vivian Bauer" as he had given
her permission to do before. She
would just explain that she had

bought it before he broke their
date, thinking that he would
surely want her to have some-
thing nice to wear. It was a sale
item, and it could not be returned .

At home, Vivian dressed her-
self in a black trench coat, black
sunglasses, black shirt, pants, and
shoes. She slicked her hair back
into a bun and looked for a hat.
All she could find was a red sun
visor with the name of her
parent's country club on it, but it
served the purpose. Kennedy
didn't know her country club,
and it covered part of her face.
Just before she left, she looked
up Kennedy 's friends hosting the
dinner party and found their
address. She grabbed a plastic
squeeze jar of mustard and
headed out the door.

When she found the house,
she parked two doors down, on
the other side of the road.
Kennedy and June finally ar-
rived, June in a tight sweater and
slacks, and Vivian watched them
go in. She waited almost half an
hour, until she thought they
would be safely seated at the
table before she got out. She
crept up to the driveway and
went right up to Kennedy's red
Porsche. Red paint fades very
quickly, she thought to herself as
she whipped out the mustard
and sprayed it all over his be-
loved vehicle. Two years ago,
some kids had done this to her
car, and it had eaten the paint off.

As soon as the gold goosh
covered the car, extra propor-
tions for the door handles, she
ran back to her car and drove to
the theatre to wait for them. All
the way there, she squealed and
clapped just thinking of
Kenned y' s face seeing his car like
that. It made her giddy to imag-
ine him driving to the car wash
like that. At this time of night,
he'd have to go to one of those
gas station car washes, some-
thing he vowed he'd never do.
Even if he and June never showed
up to the theatre, Vivian was
happy with what she had done.
She giggled as she slid around
the outside of the ticket office,
unnoticed.

About 7:30, the couple
rounded the corner from the
main parking lot and came to-
ward Vivian. How she almost
wished thatshecould reveal her-

self, just to hear what a horrible
night it had been so far! It only
promised to get worse for them,
but they had no idea.

When they turned in directly
in front of Vivian, she followed
them as far as she needed, in
order to hear the conversation.
Kennedy approached the win-
dow. Vivian couldn't hear very
clearly, bu t she cou Id see his face.
It went from mildly annoyed to
outraged. June looked around
like she was trying to pretend
they weren't having any of these
ordeals.

It became apparent that thev
weren't going to get to see the
show, so they decided to go some-
where for coffee. Vivian could
hear that much. She also heard
June excuse herself to the bath-
room. Nearly everyone had gone
to find their seats, so now Vivian
was hanging behind a ficus tree.
Kennedy wandered up into the
alcove between the restrooms.
Vivian thought he might go in,
but then he just lingered there.
He looked carefully all around
.the room, as if to make sure no
one was watching him, then he
quickly jammed his finger up his
left nostril and wriggled itaround
for a few seconds before he
brought it out.

Vivian stood against the wall
with her mouth hanging open.
She certainly had never seen him
do this before. She held her stom-
ach and said "blech" aloud.
Kennedy Bauer had picked his
nose. He was human, and it was
too much for Vivian to bear. She
burst into peals of laughter there
behind the ficus, hidden.
Kennedy immediately darted his
eyes around, looking for the wit-
ness. He didn't see her, even
after June emerged and they
walked past Vivian to get out.

Back in her apartment, Vivian
still laughed to herself quietly.
Kennedy is a gold digger in ev-
ery way, she thought and guf-
fawed loudly again. They de-
served each other, June and
Kennedy. Vivian knew that now,
and she went around her apart-
ment, taking down her pictures
of him. The last one she came to
was a shot of the two of them out
on the slopes. She paused for a
moment and decided to leave
that one up, so that any visitors
would know that she had been
skiing in Colorado that year.

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Dusk

At first the face in nothing
but a glance

quick absent-minded im-
pulse
to look

at what might be
self-conscious
odd nasty angle
like a shadow
close to the surface
of the glass

no bright light glaring on
grooves digging in bloody
starbursts

zigzag across the falling dark
on the cut of the chin
and the jaw half-rams
to the right
as the nose slices
what's left of slivers
and blades of light
pupils gather together
daggers

for the coming night
lean in for closer sight
no colors and no whites of
eyes

belong to the Zombie

in the jungle

of hands outstretched

to the Living Dead

over and over and over

again

on black and white TV
like a kid's jet marbles
in a Chinese checkers set
these eyes black
as a witch's hat
can't blink

and shine like black pan-

thers

staring out

whose eyes are the eyes in
the face

the hate, the hate, the hate
in these eyes in this face
are the Big-Eyed Monster's
eyes babies face
will stare them down
and stab this face,
will kill

and suck a whole face in
black gnawing sockets
gaping wide-load
why not flip back in and dis-
appear

gouge and claw and bleed
and chew the face
and wash it down with beer,
fake and slide
to the floor

back against the cabinet
sit in the dark
and shake
and beg of you
and shake.

-Jalaine Halsall

Straight talk

particular laws.

Babbit's objective in classify-
ing species by their ecosystem is
to protect plants and animals
before they reach the verge of
extinction. He hopes that by pre-
venting a species from reaching
a critical stage, clashes between
environmentalists and people
whose jobs are at stake will be
avoided. "We are going to have
to anticipate problems while we
still have the flexibility to man-
age them," Babbit testified be-
fore a House committee in I eb-
ruary.

Though the Clinton plan may
offer increased funding, it does
not end the controversy and the
deeper concern: is the govern-
ment ignoring the rights ot its
people to protect wildlife?
Should the act be beefed up or
limited in its impact on jobs and
personal freedom? Will funding
for the ESA please everyone or
no one? Will classifying species
by ecosystems really prevent
extinction and controversy? Can

Continued from pftge 6

an ecosystem really be distinctly
categorized when it is constantly
changing with the ongoing pro-
cesses of habit modification and
evolution? Can the Clinton ad-
ministration devise a new and
improved, clear and complete
plan to appease both sides, or
will Bill Clinton simply address
the problem by throwing money
at it and designating someone
else to do the work?

Under the reformed ESA, the
dynamics of the discussion will
change. We havea green-is-good
hearted vdcepresident, more lob-
bying pressure on Capitol I I ill,
and target dates for specific re-
covery plans. The eco- warriors
are fighting harder now than
ever, and unless the administra-
tion moves to referee, hundreds
of thousands of endangered
plants and animals - like the leg-
islation that supposedly protects
them - may have to die in order
to end the war.

The Profile

Friday, February 1 1 , 1994

The Independent Student Newspaper of Agnes Scott College

Vol. 80, Issue 7

Public Safety tries to track-down
sexual offender

By Kerry Murphy

News Editor

On January 14 a fifteen year
old white female was sexually
assaulted by an unknown young
white male suspect at 7:30 a.m.
on her way to Decatur High
School. The assault took place on
Agnes Scott campus, just under
the main entrance archway.

According to Officer Curtis
Parrott, the victim reported that
the man was following her, and
as she tried to elude him, he ap-
proached her. The victim asked
the man what he wanted, and in
return he came towards her and
grabbed her between the legs. At
the same time, two joggers were
running under the archway and
may or may not have seen the
incident. Their presence scared
the suspect, causing him to run
away.

The victim reported the inci-
dent to Agnes Scott Public Safety

who are working in conjunction
with the Decatur police to catch
the suspect.

A composite drawing of the
suspect has been posted on cam-
pus and distributed to local busi-
nesses in the area. The suspect is
a young white male in his early
twenties. He has blue eyes, dirty
blonde hair and bad acne on his
face. He was last seen wearing a
beige down jacket with dark blue
or black panels on top of both
shoulders. The suspect has been
spotted around the immediate
area before, and may live in the
area. Although the suspect has
been recognized, there has been
no positive ID or name given.

The suspect, if found, will be
charged with Sexual Battery.
Sexual Battery is the new label
applied to incidents of aggra-
vated assault involving a sexual

nature. This new definition can
aid officers when they perform a
criminal history on a suspect by
indicating whether the suspect is
a first time or repeated sex of-
fender.

Agnes Scott Public Safety
urges the members of the cam-
pus community to please report
to them immediately if you see
the suspect. Officer Curtis Parrott
stresses that people need to call
them immediately after they see
anything suspicious or out of the
ordinary. The quicker you are to
react, the better chance that Pub-
lic Safety has in reaching a sight
before the suspect flees.

Officer Parrott adds that if you
see someone suspicious, Public
Safety can have a composite pic-
ture drawn of the suspect with a
Quick Sketch program they have
installed on their computers.

RACE:

White

SEX: Male

DOB:

Unknown

HGT: 57"

WGT:

150

HAIR: Dirty Golden Bid.

EYES:

Blue

SSN: Unknown

SCARS

Bad acne on face

TATTOOS: None Known

FBI#

Unknown

GASID# Unknown

Unknown white male suspect sexually attacked a 15yoa white female on the front
lawn of Agnes Scott College on 01 1494 at approx 7:30am while she was
enroute to Decatur High School. The Suspect was last seen wearing a beige down
jacket with dark blue or black panels on top of both shoulders.

Suspect is wanted by our department for Sexual Battery. If you have any
information concerning this investigation please contact Lt. A. C. Lanier or
Sgt. C. D. Parrott, Agnes Scott College Police 141 E. College Ave.
Decatur, Georgia 30030 (404) 371-6355.

Presidential Search Commit-
tee begins "We" process

By Alana Noble

Arts & Entertainment Editor

In a January 5 memo addressed
to the ASC community, Joseph R.
Gladden, Jr., Chair of the Board of
Trustees, announced the mem-
bership of the Presidential Search
Committee. Nine trustees, three
faculty members, two staff mem-
bers, the President-elect of the
Alumnae Association and two
students make up the committee.

The committee members are:
Clair McLeod Muller,Trustee;
Louise Isaacson Bernard,Trustee;
Michael J. Brown,Professor of
History; Gail Cabisius, Associate
Professor of Classical Languages
& Literatures; JoAnn Sawyer
Delafield, Trustee; Lowrie
Alexander Fraser, President-elect
of the Alumnae Association;
Frances Bailey Graves, Trustee;
Mary K. Owen Jarboe, Registrar;
Sylvia Martinez, Sophomore
Class President; Charmaine
Minniefield, Junior Class Presi-
dent; Douglas W. Oldenburg,
Trustee; Lucia Howard Sizemore,
Director of Alu mnae Affairs; Jesse
J . Spikes, Trustee; Ka ren J . Thorn p-
son, Assistant Professor of Biol-
ogy; W.G. Tittle, Jr., Trustee; Sara
Ector Vagliano, Trustee and Jo-
seph R. Gladden, Jr., Trustee, Ex
officio. Clair McLeod Muller
serves as chair to the committee

and Lea Ann Grimes Hudson,
Special Assistant to the President,
serves as secretary.

What is this new Search Com-
mittee all about? Clair Muller
summed up this question: "It all
starts with community." Muller
believes that the search for the
future president of Agnes Scott
must be a "we process." Her
number one priority is inclusive-
ness, and her goal is to "get to
know the community." In get-
ting to know the community,
Muller hopes to understand
Agnes Scott's future needs and
wants; only then, can she and the
committee judiciously appoint
the college's future president.

The anticipated timeline for
the search is vague. Muller states
that "it could take six to twelve
months, and even longer if
needed." Charmaine
Minniefield, Presidentof the Jun-
ior Class, adds "You just don't
rush through it." Minniefield
agrees with Muller' s goal of get-
ting to know the community. She
states that the main issue is com-
munication. "We must find ways
to open the door to the Agnes
Scott community." Minniefield

Continued on page 3

Inside
this issue:

News:

ITEPPfcOCEEPSON SCHEDULE

-PAGE 2

Editorials:

JUUK JOOP! JEANS AND TRASH THE
MAGAZINES THAT SUPPORT THEM

-PAGE4

Fa&epian Influences question '
cuckoo plan

-page5

Sports:

Basketball season continues-
page 3

Features:

Remembering Helen McIntosh-
page 6

Arts&

Entertainment:

Nanpijoins Profile for book

REVIEW
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Board approves parietal
change

Compiled from official campus notice

In a scheduled meeting on
January 28, the Board of Trustees
affirmed student choice in resi-
dence life by approving to send
parietal hour decisions to stu-
dent vote. Following guidelines
designed earlier this academic
year by Residence Hall Associa-
tion (RHA), the Board's resolu-
tion calls for resident students to
choose their own male visitation
hours by individual residence
halls. This is an official change in
college policy as stated in the
1993-94 Student Handbook and
reflects many of the same rules
that resident students have been
following in the name of self-
governance for much of this se-
mester.

At least one hall or area for
first-year students and at least
one hall or area for upperclass
women, will be designated for
each option, based upon resi-
dents' preference of parietal op-
tions.

Each pair of roommates will
sign a "Roommate Contract ,, to
facilitate living under parietal
regulations. Students who are
unhappy with the parietal hours
on their hall will have the option
of working out a swap with an-
other student.

The Board of Trustees de-
signed regulations for parietal
hours beginning Fall 1994. First-
year students will have desig-
nated hours throughout the year:

M-Th
Fri
Sat
Sun

6 p.m. -12 a.m.
3 p.m.-2 a.m.
12 p.m.-2 a.m.
12p.m. -12a.m.

Upperclass students with a
roommate will sign the "Room-
mate Contract" during room
drawing in the spring or upon
arrival in the fall if housing is
worked out over the summer.
These contracts will serve to fos-
ter communication between
roommates concerning parietal
hours.

Returning students will have
three options of parietal hours
from which to choose and will
declare their preference early in
the second semester, before or-
dinary room drawing. Once re-
sponse cards have ben submit-
ted to the Dean of Students, no
student will be a Ho wed to change
her option.

Visitation hours in various
halls and /or residence halls may

Continued on page 3

News

Page 2

The Profile

Friday, February 1 1 , 1994

Agnes Scott Police Chief Rus Drew has returned to work after a
brief absence due to injuries he sustained after being struck by a
hit-and-run driver.

Campus Clips

Compiled by Josie Hoiknan

Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia

Senior Joanna Grant, from Duluth, Georgia, received a
Rhodes scholarship in December, along with 31 other Ameri-
cans. She is the first student from Berry College to win this
prestigious award for academic excellence and leadership.
Grant will be graduated in May with degrees in history and
English.

Seventeen of the total 32 winners were women, marking
for the first time since women have been eligible for the
scholarship, that more than half of the recipients have been
women.

The Rhodes Scholarships were established at the begin-
ning of the century by the estate of Cecil Rhodes, a British
philanthropist. ASC graduate Ila Burdette, '81, was the first
student from Georgia to receive this honor.

Georgia Southern University, Statesboro

Many students returning to school after Christmas vaca-
tion were surprised to find that their apartments and homes
had been broken into. Lt. Guy Sharp of the Division of Public
Safety advises students to be careful who they bring to their
homes, because much of the evidence in recent crimes sug-
gest that the robberies were committed by someone who
knew their victims.

University of Georgia

Condoms are now available for the first time in UGA
dormitories. Although some students said they are pleased
with the University's decision to put condoms in dormitory
vending machines, they questioned whether many students
will be too shy top buy prophylactic protection in such an
open area. The vending machines will be placed in laundry
rooms or in previously established vending area, according
to Housing Director, James Day. The condoms will be sold
along with other health care items such as toothbrushes,
aspirin and possibly small packages of laundry detergent.

Student reactions to the vending machines are mixed.
One freshman, Alex Fly, thinks of it as a joke. "If there is a
condom machine, Til just laugh at it every time I go by," he

Welcome back. We hope you
had a run and crime free Christ-
mas break! There are only two
criminal incidents to report since
the last Profile was published.

On Monday, January 10, Rus
Drew, Director of the Depart-
ment of Public Safety, was struck
by a truck on E. Davis Street just
after assisting a motorist. As he
stepped around the side of the
pa trol car to put a way the jumper
cables, he was hit by a beige pick-
up truck which then left the scene
without stopping. In spite of
three roadblocks held jointly by
Decatur and Agnes Scott police
to obtain information, as well as
interviews with all the residents
of the area, we have been unable
to gather enough evidence to
make an arrest. Chief Drew spent
one day in the hospital for obser-
vation and was then sent home
for a two week leave of absence.
Aside from a lot of soreness and
stiffness from the general trauma
of being hit and thrown over the

Fuzz Buzz

truck, he was fortunate enough
to suffer only a concussion.

The second incident, which is
reported in further detail in a
separate article, involved a De-
catur High School student who
was walking down the railroad
tracks from Avondale to the high
school on January 14. The stu-
dent was followed from
Avondale by a man who crossed
the street and then came up be-
hind her on the tracks. She ran
off the tracks and onto the Agnes
Scott campus to get away from
the man who continued to fol-
low her onto the campus. Once
on the campus the man caught
up with the victim and grabbed
her crotch. A few seconds after
he grabbed her the man was
scared off by two joggers who
came onto campus through the
College Avenue arch. A com-
posite sketch of the perpetrator
was done by Sgt. Parrott in coop-
eration with the victim. The inci-
dent is still under investigation.

[fyou watched thenews while

ITEP proceeds on schedule

Bv Jenny White

Pmtures Editor

Agnes Scott's Information and
Technology Enhancement Pro-
gram is continuing to show signs
of progress around campus. The
bulk of the remaining work for
the program is expected to be
completed for students' arrival
next fall.

On the outside of the campus,
all of the cabling (for both the
telephone system and the net-
work) from building to building
is in place. However, construc-
tion will continue because, as a
side part of the project, all of
Agnes Scott's sidewalks will be
replaced. The new sidewalks
will meet more handicap require-
ments, as well as adding to the
college's exterior makeup.

Inside wiring is complete in
all of the buildings on campus
except Walters, Winship and
Inman, which will be completed
as soon as students leave for the
summer break.

Now that the wiring is in place,
there are two remaining steps in
completing the network. On
February 14, the network elec-
tronics installation will occur.
Then, later in March, the net-
work services will be brou ght up
by servers. Some network ser-
vices may begin after spring
break, but it is expected that full
service for all students on cam-
pus will not be available until
fall.

Cable TV will definitely not

be available until next fall, since
ASC has not yet reached a final
agreement with GCTV. The new
servicesa vailable to students will
be brought on-line gradually,
starting with electronic mail and
progressing to cable and other
services. Electronic mail ad-
dresses will be assigned to any
student who wants one, and
training will also be available so
that students can learn both the
new network system and the li-
brary automation system.

The switch to the new tele-
phone system and to the new
college prefix begins March
12. Portions of the campus will
be cutover gradually to the new
system. Students can either still
use their own phones or pur-
chase a new phone in order to
use voice mail. The new phones
will have a light that blinks when
a message is present. On the old
phones, a strange tone will indi-
cates a message.

Students with their own com-
puters will be able to buy net-
work interface cards. The price
of the card will depend on the
type of computer, and the cards
will possibly be sold in the book-
store. The college will cover all
network software costs. The
computing services department
will help students with the in-
stallationofthecardand thesoft-
wa re, a nd a f ter t ha t, tra i n i n g w i 1 1
be available for all students in-
terested fan learning the network.

you were on break, you prob-
ably saw quite a few local stories
concerning carjacking. This
crime is becoming more com-
mon and unfortunately in main-
instances, more violent. There
are several precautions you can
take to protect yourself. First, be
sure to keep your doors locked
and your windows closed. When
you have to stop at a traffic light
be sure to leave enough room
between yourself and the car in
front of you to be able to pull
away if necessary (this amounts
to leaving enough space between
your car and the one in front of
you so that you can see the back
tires of the other car). If you are
going to your car and notice
someone hanging around the
parking lot close to it, walk past
your car and don't come back
until the person has left. If you
would like more information on
carjacking and how to avoid be-
coming a victim, come by the
Public Safetv office to pick up a
brochure.

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The Profile

Page;

DRUNK DRIVING DOESN'T JUST KILL
DRUNK DRIVERS.

Hannah and Sarah Fogleman, killed Dee. 12\ 1988 at 2:22 pm on
1-95 South, Brunswick, GA.

Next time your friend insists on driving drunk, do whatever it takes
to stop him.

Because if he kills innocent people, how will you live with yourself?

FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS DRIVE DRUNK.

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Search Committee

Continued from page 1

believes her responsibility is to
listen to the students' opinions
and make them known to the
Committee; "I am here to repre-
sent the student body/'

When asked what type of
background Mullerand thecom-
mittee will be looking for in the
perspective candidates, Muller
simply could not answer the
question. She remarked that "It's
all up in the air/' If the need
arises, theCommittee could tem-
porarily appoint a non-tradi-
tional president for a specific task
like increasing enrollment or
development. An interim presi-
dent also could be appointed
u n H 1 the right ca nd i d a te is found .
Muller anticipates the organiza-
tion of sub-committees like in-
terest groups, focus groups and
reading groups to help with the
paperwork.

A search firm, which Muller
believes to be invaluable to the
Committee, will be hired to as-
sist the Presidential Search Com-
mittee. Presently, the decision
has been narrowed down to two
firms. Although a search firm
will have substantial influence
on presidential candidates,
Muller says "they will not lead

us" and suggests that the Agnes
Scott community must take re-
sponsibility in leading the search.

Muller defines the ASC com-
muni ry as alumnae, trustees, fac-
ulty, staff, students and friends
of the College. She urges every-
one to participate in the search.
Nominees or other suggestions
should be addressed to the fol-
lowing:

Ms. Clair Muller
Chair of the Presidential
Search Committee
Agnes Scott College
141 East College Avenue
Decatur, GA 30030-3797.

Parietals

Continued from page 1

pending upon the number and
type of responses.

The Board also approved spe-
cific guidelines that all students
are required to follow:

1 ) There will be no male visi-
tation during reading days and
final exams. Parietals end at 12
a.m. of the first reading day each
semester.

2) A make guest may stay
overnight no more than three
consecutive days.

3) All male guests, as well as
all overnight guests, must be
signed in at the door of the R.A.

4) Men may visit the Satellite
computer centers in the residence
halls; note this when a guest is
signed in.

5) Each student must sign her
guest in at the door of her R.A.
and accompany him to and from
the lobby. No male may come to
a room unescorted; he must call
for a student from the lobby.

6) Males must use the men's
restroom in the lobby, including
in Agnes Scott Hall.

7) Male guests abide by Agnes
Scott's policies with regard to
alcohol, drugs, fire drills, quiet
hours, etc. It is the student's
responsibility to inform her
guests of these policies and to
ensure their observance.

8) Violation of any of these
rules will result in a Residence
Hall Association case.

ASC News Briefs

LBA sponsers bake sale to help battered women

On Valentine's Day LBA will sponsor a bake sale in lower Alston
to raise money for the Women's Resource Center of DeKalb County.
LBA reminds everyone that each person's support will help make
safety a reality for many women.

Arbor Day to be observed

On the third Friday each February, Georgia celebrated Arbor
Day. This marks the sixth year that Agnes Scott will participate in the
days events. The Arbor Day tree this year will be a Quercus Lyrata,
an overcup oak. The ceremony will be held at 10:25 a.m. adjacent
to Hopkins parking lot.

Witkaze presents Malcom Xfilm

Witkaze and the Office of Student activities will present Spike
Lee's Malcolm X tomorrow evening from 7 to 1 1 p.m. in Buttrick G-
4. A discussion will follow entitled "Where are the Leaders Today?"
This program is designed especially to celebrate Black History
Month.

Today marks deadline for Aurora submissions

The Auwra invites students to submit poetry, fiction, personal
essays and art (sketches, paintings and photographs that can be
reproduced in black and white) for spring publication. Each person
may submit as many as five poems, two stories and two essays. All
manuscripts should be typed; short stories and personal essays
should be double-spaced . The au thor's name must not appear on the
work. Instead, attach a 3x5 index card with the author's name,
address or box number to each entry. Submit all work to Laylage
Courie, box 1 55, or Jalaine Halsall, box 474, no later than 5 p.m. today.

Basketball team defeats Weslyean

On Tuesday, February 1, the Agnes Scott basketball team scored
a win over Weslyean with a final score of 72-51 . Marley Maupin led
the game with 27 points.

Don't forget to attend Agnes Scott's next game against Weslyean
at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 21 in the Woodruff Gym. This will
be the last home game of the season.

Ash Wednesday service to be held

From three to three-thirty p.m. on February 16, Rev. Benno
Pattison of All Saint's Episcopal Church will lead a service in the
Thatcher Chapel in the Alston Student Center. Chaplain Kathy
Carpenter will also participate in the service.

Abbreviated
Universe

Compiled by Josie Hoilman

Tonya Harding' s innocence
questioned

(as reported by Michael
Janofsky // The Nnv York
Times)

As Tonya Harding's
former husband, Jeff Gillooly,
pleaded guilty on February 1
in Portland, Oregon, to a
single count of racketeering
for his role in the Nancy
Kerrigan assault, his lawyer
said that the evidence against
Harding was "overwhelm-
ing." Harding's lawyer said
that she denied all accusa-
tions by Gillooly. Although
GiUooly'sstatementsagainst
Harding were extensive, they
seemed to provide no hard
evidence of her involvement
that could be independently
corroborated. Despite the
continued investigation into
her possible involvement in
the attack, Harding contin-
ues to train for the Olympics
at the Clackamas Town Cen-
ter shopping mall just out-
side the city

State Department finds
widespread abuse of
world's women

(as reported by Steven Green-
house in Tlte New York Times)

For the first time, the State
Department has focused on
the treatment of women in its
annual human rights report,
and its findings are grim:
forced sterilizations and
abortions in China; Burmese
and Thai girls coerced into
prostitution; maids beaten in
Saudi Arabia and girls ritu-
ally mutilated in the Sudan
and Somalia.

In painstaking detail, the
report on 193 countries is-
sued this week paints a
dreary picture of day-to-day
discrimination and abuse.
There is a problem of ram-
pant discrimination against
women/' said Timothy E.
Wirth, who oversees human
rights policy, "and physical
abuse is just the most obvi-
ous example."

State Department officials
said they greatly expanded
this year's examination of
women's situation around
the world partly in response
to suggestions from women's
groups and partly to step up
the heat on many countries
to improve the way women
are treated.

Editorials

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Friday, February 1 1 , 1994

The Profile

141 East College Avenue
Agnes Seott College Decatur, GA 30030
Printed by Chapman Press, Atlanta

Editor-in-Chief Josie Hoilman

Assistant Editor Kelly Holton

News Editor , - Kerry Murphy

Features Editor Jenny White

Arts and Entertainment Editor Alana Noble

Calendar Editor Holly Williamson

Photography Editors Tracey Baggett, Karen Shuman

Business Manager Beth Barnes

Advertising Manager Paula Pendarvis

Circulation Manager Melanie Effler

Circulation Assistant Andrea Tarpley

Layout and Design Josie Hoilman

Columnists and Writers Merisa Aranas, Maleka Bern', Perrin

Cothran, Esther Dunn, Brandy Gossage, Kathleen Hill, Mary Jordan, Nanska
Lovell, Jenny Skridulis, Michelle Smith, Holly Williamson
Photographers Sarah Brown, Daniela Edelkind

The Profile is published bi-weekly throughout the academic year. Letters to
the editor are always welcomed and should be typed on disk using
Microsoft Word. We cannot publish unsigned letters. Views expressed on
the editorial pages do not necessarily reflect those of anyone affiliated with
the College or the Profile staff other than the author.

Soliloquy

By josie Hoilman
Editor-in-Chief

Sex, Life & Gender

By Michelle Smith

Don t judge a lip by its color

For Christmas I received a multi-pack lipstick set. You know, the
ones with various shades of red, mauve, and pink.

But sometimes I wonder why I even brought it to school. I mean,
it's not like I dress up alot, and we all associate lipstick with the big
dress up routine. We see someone with makeup and lipstick and we
immediately say, "Where are you going?"

Inevitabely the person is going off campus. How many people
that you know ever casually say, "Oh, just over to accounting to pay
my phone bill," or "Just over to office services" ? No, our instincts are
usually right chances are she is going off campus.

Of course some of us do wear lipstick on campus, but usually not
on a daily basis especially for an 8:25 chemistry class, or an 8:00
hydrobics routine. On those days we're lucky to get to class on time,
much less ponder over the weight of our appearance.

But like it or not appearance plays a large role of who we are. I'll
be the first to ad mit tha t it's hard not to reach for the lipstick when you
know you are leaving campus. In fact, why not reach for the Estee
Lauder or Dollar General lipstick, if a little lip color is going to make
you feel more confident and self assured? Isn't some conformity to
societal norms o.k., especially something as insignificant as lipstick
or eye shadow?

Speaking of eye shadow, I think that's what everybody is holding
against Tonya Harding. She's into that 1970's blue and green look.
People just don't like that. They say, "wait a minute, that's a trashy
makeup job, so she must be trashy, too." But is that fair? Can the
Olympiad help it if no one ever told her to visit Marv Kay? Heck no,
she was too busy training.

Now I am in no way endorsing Tonya Harding. I don't want any
hate mail coming to my box. On second thought, I hardly ever get
any mail anyway/ so maybe it's not such a bad idea. No, just kidding.

All I'm saying is that I think many people don't like Tonya
I larding (ox unfair, prejudical reasons. Chunky thighs and bad
makeup don't necessarily make her a bad person, and certainly not
a criminal. I wonder if she were skinny, pretty, and had exquisite
makeup, if people would be so eager to throw her to the wolves over
sonu* sex-crazed, jealous, ex-husband's allegations.

Just because someone says something, doesn't necessarily make
it true. The weather man said it would rain the other dav, and well,
he was wrong. Maybe ole' Jeff the GlueGun is just sticking whoever
he can to save himself.

All I'm saying is don't judge a book by it's cover. She may be
innocent. And maybe your roommate is putting on lipstick to
deliver the phone bill over to Accounting.

What are they selling?

Junk Joop! and trash the magazines that support them

Does the image of a beautiful
blonde baby on a dog leash make
you want to buy jeans? Or per-
haps the same child depicted as
a dead angel with an arrow in his
back conjures a better image of
denim? No? Someone seems to
think that consumers will re-
spond positively to these photo-
graphs. In the past few months
the Joop! corporation has been
running these advertisements to
support the sale of their line of
jeans. Are the ads working? Un-
fortunately yes, but at least one
group of women has demanded
the termination of the advertis-
ing campaign in the name of child
protection, and although some
magazines have responded,
January issues of such magazines
as Spin still contain the offensive
images.

The imagery is not only dehu-
manizing and insulting to the
innocence of children, but also
offensive to all consumers whom
the Joop! corporation assumes
will appreciate their vulgar dis-
play. Beyond the issues of mi-
sogyny and child exploitation is
the deeper issue of exactly what
reactions these advertisements
are intending to invoke. The
images themselves are corrupt
enough, but the slogans which
accompany them are beyond
debauchery; they attack basic
humanity with their laughable
attempt to make the consumer
"think." Along with a separate
message, each ad contains the
slogan: JUST A THOUGHT.
Whatare these images supposed
to make us think about? The
child in the studded dog collar is
featu red next to the bold -printed ,
all capital letter phrase: ACHILD
ISTHE ULTIMATE PET. Equally
disturbing, the slain cherub lies
next to the prominent words: WE
HAVE DEGREES FOR MUR-
DER BUT NOT FOR LOVE. We
all know that jeans advertise-
ments are not supposed to have
very much to do with jeans
Guess has been relying on cleav-
age, tattoos and dyed hair for
years but raw sex is some-
thing we have already chosen to
expect and accept in advertising;
crossing the line into dehuman-
ization is an insult no consumer
need embrace. If Joop! wants us
to think that our culture is laugh-
able, that America is the victim
of its own liberal morality and
freedom, then they've succeeded,
but coupling this social comment
with a product is not only insult-
ing, but also foolish. Consumers
don't usually enjoy laughing at

themselves. Of course humor
may not be the intended re-
sponse. I find it difficult to be-
lieve that they anticipated the
response that I, at least twenty
other people I know', and count-
less others nationwide have had.
So what exactly are they selling
and more importantly in this
case, what are they saying?

These advertisements are two
of six in a series produced by Los
Angeles photographer Scott
Morgan. After initial reluctance
to follow through with the un-
usual advertisements, Joop! ini-
tiated the campaign and received;
according to the January /Febru-
ary issue of American Plwto maga-
zine, "immediate and positive
response." Concerning the baby
on the leash photograph, Mor-
gan said, "This ad seemed to
have the most potential for of-
fending people; it has more hu-
mor if the kid is flying rather
than being dragged on a leash
down Fifth Avenue." Yes, I think
the guy has something here
this ad is definitely the worst of
the ones that I have seen, but
regardless of the implication of
flight, the image represents noth-
ing positive. By insisting that a
child is the ultimate pet, Joop!
also says that motherhood is
merely a frivolous hobby, a re-
sponsibility that is taken equally
as seriously as the care of a cat or
dog. The image also suggests
that unplanned pregnancies are
not consequential because the
result willbean animal-like play-
thing. Are these messages that
America should send to young
adults who happen to be the larg-
est consumer group purchasing
jeans? And again, what do these
messages have to do with jeans?
Apparently nothing, and appar-
ently that is okay with the Joop!
corporation. Joop! creative di-
rector told America}] Photo that
'This [campaign] isn'taboutsell-
ing points and copy points. It's
about image and attitude and
standing out in a crowded mar-
ket. It'sgreattodoadsthataren't
reallyads. These ads a re like cool
thoughts." Cool is not a word
that comes to my mind, and hope-
fully not one that reasonably
compassionate human beings
will have when they first see these
images. Anger, outrage and dis-
belief should be the first response
and a written demand for the
end of this campaign should be
the second.

Thead withtheslaincherubis
somewhat less offensive, but it
too evokes outrage. If the child

represents cupid, then he should
not be the one who has an arrow-
in his back. The misdirected ar-
row suggests suicide and the
possible deadly mistake of giv-
ing up oneself to fully experi-
ence love. The accompanying slo-
gan suggests that because mur-
der is bad and love is good, the
identification of degrees of mur-
der, but not of love shows that
our society is more willing to
scrutinize degradation than
glory. Although this message is
almost reaffirming, the death
image of a child that dominates
the ad distorts any purposeful-
ness evoked by the slogan.

With the possible hint of t i
positive message, the Joop! cam-
paign may seem directed toward
improvement unfortunately,
it only gets worse. The January /
February issue of American Photo
ran a copy of another one of
Morgan's creations in the series
ofsix. This one shows two blind-
folded swimmers with blueskin,
Theimageseems innocentat first
glance, perhaps even positive
because the female swimmer fig-
ures more prominently in the
composition than the male. The
accompa ny ing sloga n nega tes all
benevolent implications: IN THE
UTERUS OF LOVE WE ARE
ALL BLIND CAVEFISH. The
line is completely absurd, and it
is impossible to find in it any
message, positive or negative.
The word "uterus," suggests a
disturbing and distorted refer-
ence to female sexuality.

Forget the sake of art, forsake
the license of creativity. In any
civilized society there must be
limitations, and in America these
1 i m i ta tions must a pply to ad ver-
tising. Abortion and suicide,
even in the vaguest of sugges-
tions, have no place in a jeans ad
in any ad that promotes the
sale of a consumer product. By
purchasing Joop! jeans or any of
their other products (they also
sell perfume), or by subscribing
to one of the magazines that runs
the Joop! ads, you are sending a
very strong, though perhaps
unintentional message to the
Joop! corporation. Each timeyou
purchase Joop! products you
help them to justifify the inhu-
manity that Morgan's advertise-
ments romanticizes.

So what are they really sell-
ing? Hopefully fewerand fewer
jeans so that Joop! will get a clue
and end their ridiculous cam-
paign.

Editorials

Faberian Influences

Friday, February 1 1 , 1994

The Profile

Uffish Thoughts

By Holly Williamson and Kathleen Hill

Patriarchy . . . It's not just for men anymore!

In this age of breaking social
boundaries, women have finally
made the giant step from power-
lessness to omnipotence. We
have infiltrated the enemy camp,
and we have knocked out their
linesofcommunication. We have
marshalled our troops, and we're
ready to do battle against them.
We have initiated the gender
power struggle. In the name of
equality, we ha ve done what ear-
lier women thought impossible.
We have reduced (or is that se-
duced?) the enemy, and, like
Caesar, we march home trium-
phant in our newfound author-
ity. No longer do we subject
ourselves to male authority; now
we exert our own. No longer do
we feel constrained; we have the
power to restrain. No longer do
we bow to the conformist stan-
dards of the white male regime;
now we have the power to im-
pose our own moral judgements.

Take Agnes Scott, for example.
Let's see how well our anti-patri-
archal ''community 7 ' is flourish-
ing. Discounting the Board of
Trustees (something the students
do readily) most positions of
power on this campus are occu-
pied by women. In examining
the issues surrounding the ques-
tion of extended parietal hours
versus boarding student's rights,
we find that each of the sides

within the student body
struggled against the deafness of
some power-numbed woman.
One side fought for a voice loud
enough to be heard by the ad-
ministration; the other shouted
to be heard by their more power-
ful peers. We must admit, there-
fore, that women are no less im-
petuous and insensitive to their
constituents' needs than men are.

In fact, like the white males
before us, women in power often
restrict the people they once in-
tended to serve. Agnes Scott was
founded by men to permit young
ladies to obtain an educational
opportunity they otherwise
would not have had. However,
it remains a women's institution
because we believe this gender-
based segregation to provide us
with a stronger foundation for
academic growth. But the new
female patriarchy does not limit
itself to restrictions for men; it
createsconstraintsforthoseofits
own gender as well. We no longer
need men to tell us that we must
keep house or, if finances should
necessitate an outside job, be-
come nurses, teachers, or secre-
taries. We can now impose our
own restraints on our sisters by
chiding them if they wish to ac-
cept a more "traditional" role.
Prtfronizingly (there's that prefix
again), we tell them that the only

reasons they have this idea that
they might like to stay at home
with their children instead of
launching a glorious career is tha t
they have been brainwashed by
the white, Judeo-Christian-based
patriarchy. In other words, their
desires are not their own what
they thought was an exercise in
freedom of thought is really yet
another example of the terrify-
ing reign of the white male. As
long as they do not believe as we
do, they cannot be truly free-
thinking, autonomous beings.

Instead of the Judeo-Christian
values professed by the tradi-
tional patriarchy, our own "em-
powered" leaders promote an
"anything but" philosophy.
They make it impossible for us to
confess conventional values or
to make moral judgements ac-
cording to our beliefs. Rather,
they construct for us a new set of
ideals and, having assured us
that we must think for ourselves,
proceed to tell us why we are
wrong and what we should be-
lieve. If you don't understand
what we are saying, just take a
look at the attacks at the now-
extinct "Express Yourself" board
or on the Profile's editorial page.

Our message is not that
women should not take positions

Continued on page 8

What's Up With That?

By Esther Dann

Sometimes I think I'm trapped
at a never ending Pink Floyd
concert where all that echoes
throughout the quiet stadium is:
Hello, hello, hello is anybody in
there? Is there anyone at home?
Sounds like a personal problem
you say? Well, maybe it is but
I'm guessing that I'm not the
only Agnes Scott student feeling
dazed and confused about her
future and the future of ASC
thanks to the "Resolution on
Academic Review."

I will be the first person to
admit that I don't know all there
is to know about the proposed
changes, hey, I probably don't
know half of all there is to know
about it (this is my disclaimer)
but that's not the point because
what I do know really doesn't
make sense. So, let's work with
me here and maybe we can fig-
ure it out together.

My first concern of course is
that courses will be unnecessar-
ily cut. Is the academic review

committee going to be given a
quota? Can they suggest courses
be added or replaced or can they
only eliminate? IS anyone going
to share this information with us
or do we have to start rumors?
My idea of an academic review is
that the only goals it starts out
with is to better the course offer-
ings and departments with nei-
ther the ideas of adding nor of
eliminating just reviewing.
What a concept.

My second major concern is
this "mission statement" busi-
ness that was raised by the SACS
committee. What are we? In the
army? Mission, slunission. This
is a liberal arts college for women.
What kind of statement other
than "Educating Women since
1889" do we really need? Why
does a liberal arts college need a
focus (another change suggested
by the SACS committee). If we
develop a focus, how can we
still, without contradiction, call
ourselves a liberal arts college?

What school did the SACS com-
mittee really visit?

Usually I'm an advocate of
change, bu f in this case I fear it. I
fear that the proposed changes
will lead to the eventual down-
fall of Agnes Scott College. And
who wants a degree from a school
that will go out of business a few
years after she was graduated?

So, I think that the key to all of
this is communication. The
Board of Trustees needs to talk to
the administration and the ad-
ministration needs to talk to the
faculty. (Let's forget the petty
little disagreements, shall we
kids? The disagreements are re-
ally interfering with life here in
general). As a member of the
student body I would appreciate
someone talking to us.

If anybody - anybody - has
answers to my questions, feel
free to share. Just address your
letters to the dark side of the
moon.

3y jessiea Daugherty and Laylage Courie

Going cuckoo in the quad

At the February 4 faculty
meeting, Bill Gailey and Elsa
Pena presented the Agnes Scott
Masterplan. Their slide show r
proposed physical changes for
the Agnes Scott campus on
which the Plan A's presented
beloware based. Astheseplans
were formulated before the ap-
proval of the Agnes Scott cov-
enant with the Presbyterian
church, we found them lacking
in certain aspects pertinent to
our new mission. Our Plan B's
solve the problems addressed
by Plan A's while simulta-
neously working for the greater
glory of God on our campus.
(Praise be His name.)

Cuckoo in the Quad

Motivation: The quad is not
used and enjoyed as it should
be.

Conclusion: This is the quad's
fault.

Plan A: "Cuckoo in the Quad"
is a plan to install a large clock
tower at the center of the cam-
pus. Every hour a different ani-
mal will pop out of the clock
with a different sound to strike
the hour. Students will gather
around this fascinating focal-
point in a spirit of sisterhood
and community.

Plan B: We are all going to be
transfixed, drawn to the tower
clock. As the mystic, elusive
animals emerge from the clock
and the students and faculty
gather ritualistically to partici-
pate in this communal event,
problems of paganism arise that
conflict with our new mission
to glorify God. Plan B takes the
wholesome aspects of "Cuckoo
in the Quad" and enhances
them with a reminder of our
Christian mission. Each of the
1 2 hours will be represented by
one of the 12 disciples. (Judas
will, of course, be replaced by
our lord and savior Jesus Christ,
praise be his name). Plan B is a
marked improvement over Plan
A in that not only does it bring
a sense of community to the
barren and community-less
quad , but also reminds us of the
infinite mercy and grace of our
heavenly Father. (Glory to God)

Park for the Lord

Motivation: There is not enough
parking on campus.
Conclusion: We need more
spaces.

Plan A: A multi level parking
deck to be constructed over the
Rebekah lot. Only one level will
be visible, the others will be hid
den underground . This will cost
approximately $10,000 dollars
per parking space, al thou gh stu-
dentsand faculty will be pleased
to know, that at only $2,000 a
space per year, the deck will be
completely paid forin five years.
After this point, fees will re-
main to subsidize the General
Fund.

Plan B: As an underground
parking deck takes us from the
light of heaven closer to Satan's
doors, we wish to reevaluate
Plan A. By doing so, we are
brought to the new decision:

Motivation: There is not enough
parking on campus.
Conclusion: There are too many
people on campus.

We therefore propose elimina t-
ing more faculty positions,
therefore decreasing enrol lm en t
and retention, and reducing the
number of automobiles on cam
pus and eliminating the prob-
lem. (Glory to God)

Care of God's Chosen Leaders:

Motivation: The President's liv-
ing room is not large enough for
social gatherings.
Conclusion: She needs a new
house.

Plan A: As the Board of Trust-
ees knows, it is absolutely im-
possible, dah-ling, to entertain
in any area smaller than the first
floor of the Governor's Man-
sion. Therefore, the President's
house will be completely torn
dow r n and replaced with a resi-
dence deemed respectable by
elite circles.

Plan B: As God's emissary to
our secular faculty and hedo-
nistic students, the President is
due a larger and more befitting
abode. To this end, the Board of
Trustees will be purchasing
Peachtree Presbyterian church,
which will be renova ted to ma ke
it suitable for living and enter-
taining. This location is consid-
ered especially ideal because it
both represents the higher and
purified status of the President,
and removes him/her from the
sin and muck of his/her stray-
ing flock. (Glory to God)

Features

Page 6 The Profile Friday, February 1 1, 1994

Remembering Helen Mcintosh, Class of 1 992

By Christine S. Cozzens

Helen Mcintosh was the kind of student teachers want in
their classes. Funny, hardworking, knowledgeable and mis-
chievous, she could steer discussions through difficult mo-
ments, turn a well-worn idea into something new and surpris-
ing, and provoke laughter when you least expected it. As an
RTC she had mastered the subtle art of sharing her experience
without ma king younger students or younger professors
feel inadequate. Faculty in the English and history depart-
ments probably remember Helen best for her deep love of
those two subjects, her intellectual curiosity that probed and
questioned, sparkled and shone. She would bring a line of
Milton into history class and a regard for history into an essay
about baby-sitting for her granddaughter in Mexico City. She
looked forward to achieving her college degree in 1992 but
dreaded the thought of having no more history and English
courses to anticipate.

On February 1 6, 1991 , Helen was killed in a car accident in
North Georgia. The following essay which she wrote for
English 210, Advanced Composition illustrates the humor,
grace, and insight she brought to all her classes and friendships
at Agnes Scott.

The Profile reprints this essay in memory of Helen Mcintosh
and in honor of her life.

A Modest Proposal

(with thanks to Jonathan Swift)

For Preventing the Spread of a Malignant and Ever-increasing
Blight on the Conventional Observances of Decorum and Propri-
ety

By Helen Mcintosh

It is a melancholy object to
those who walk or d ri ve this great
city or travel in the country, to
encounter in every street, road,
and placeof business greatrude-
ness practiced by both sexes, all
around and ignoring every tenet
of good manners. These boors,
instead of paying heed to estab-
lished standards of general eti-
quette, employ all their time in
making snide remarks, and shov-
ing ahead in line, setting a poor
example for their infants, who,
as they grow up, will learn to
extend not the hand of courtesy
and friendship, but rather the
finger of rudeness to all about
them.

It is a pitiful commentary on
the spirit of enterprise that helped
to form this great nation, that in
dealing with shop-clerks for ex-
ample, one is often met with ne-
glect so complete that one won-
ders whether one has become
altogether invisible. Notwith-
standing the aggravation of be-
ing ignored, that condition is still
far preferable to becoming the
object of disparagement and dis-
respect that follows upon falling
victim to those rude and insensi-
tive persons who conduct in the
performance of their duties
proves that they have thrown off
all pretensions to civilized be-
havior.

I think it is agreed by all par-
ties that this persistent plague of
rudeness, is in the present de-
plorable crisis of national values

averygreatadditionalgrievance;
and therefore whoever could find
out a fair, cheap, and easy method
of removing this grievance
would deserve so well of the
public as to have his statue set up
for a hero of the nation.

But my intention is far from
being confined to provide only
for relief from bad manners; it is
of a much greater extent, and
shall provide auxiliary benefits
to our burgeoning society not
the least of which is beneficial
effect on the overgrowth of our
very number, and additionally
will provide an outlet to the pent-
up desire of many of our citizens
to exercise an often-frustrated
constitutional right.

As to my own part, having
turned my thoughts for many
years upon this important sub-
ject, and maturely weighed the
several efforts of others such as
Miss Manners and her predeces-
sors, I have always found them
grossly inadequate in their scope.
It is true, a nationally syndicated
column is no doubt widely seen
and discussed, but we can be
assured that the ones most in
need of correction are those most
unlikelv ever to read and take to
heart well-intentioned advice.

I shall now therefore humbly
propose my own thoughts,
which I hope will not be liable to
the least objection.

I offer it to public consider-
ation that hand-guns be issued
to every citizen over the age of

twelve and indeed that the car-
rying thereof be made manda-
tory, the failure of which should
be punishable by law. A corol-
lary law would make rudeness
punishable by death and every
citizen, armed as described,
w ould be instructed to mete out
instant justice to any who fail in
common courtesy.

I have been assured by a very
knowing Georgian of my ac-
quaintance that there exists in
our own state a town called
Kennesaw, where the first step
toward this cure has already been
taken. In this enlightened com-
munity a law was passed in re-
cent years requiring each citizen
to own a firearm, although their
law fell short, in that it over-
looked the necessity of carrying
such a device at all times on one's
person.

I think the advantages by the
proposal which I have made are
obvious as well as of the highest
importance.

For first, as I have already
observed, the relief from bad
manners would re-establish busi-
ness enterprise as the foremost
activity of the citizenry, and all
those who were wont as of late to
avoid places of commerce for
fear of being rudely treated,
would gladly go forth and re-
sume the consumption of goods
on which our national prosper-
ity assuredly depends.

Secondly, this would satisfy
and quiet the clamor of those

By Jenny White
Features Editor

Back in December of this
school year, I had the distinct
pleasure of taking part in one of
Agnes Scott's beloved traditions:
visiting the Alumnae House
pond, in a new and very cold
way. For at least twenty years
engaged students at ASC have
been thrown into the pond, some-
times by merciful people who
will remove their watches and
sometimes not. I decided, since
it is getting close to Valentine's
Day, to try and find out where
this tradition originated.

However, d isco vering the ori-
gins of this practice proved diffi-
cult. There is no mention of the
pond tradition in Ed McNair's
Lest We Forget, nor in any of the
books I looked at in the library. I
called then called several ASC
"experts," including Lucia
Sizemore and Mollie Merrick.
Dean Merrick mentioned that in
her time here in the 1950s, the
tradition was not present, but

who are so desirous of exercising
the right to bear arms guaran-
teed, as they endlessly cite, by
the constitution. We might also
see a reduction in numbers of
these, since they tend by nature
to be outspoken to the point of
rudeness and therefore may be
among those early eliminated.

Thirdly, the heretofore meek
and retiring denizens of our soci-
ety will feel that they are at last
full participants in all that life has
to offer they being the least
likely to incur sudden elimina-
tion dealt out by injured parties.

Fourthly, the overburdened
social services of the nation
would soon be greatly relieved.
La w-enforcement of ficers should
early find themselves with an
appreciable decrease in work-
load. Domestic disputes would
be instantly settled, without the
intervention of outsiders. Con-
flicts involving youthful gang
wars should soon cease to be the
frightening prospect which they
have lately become, as the mem-
bers could freely remove each
other on the grounds of nothing
more difficult to prove than bad
language. There might be a sud-
denly reduced police force, ow-
ing to the unfortunate slight lapse
in cordiality which has befallen
that fraternity in recent decades,
but I feel that the likely reduction
will be matched by a correspond-
ing decrease in the need for num-
bers.

In can think of no one objec-

Timepieces

she remembered that engaged
men at Georgia Tech were
thrown mtotheshowersby their
friends and perhaps the tradi-
tion started from their practice.
While she was here, there were
three steps to getting really en-
gaged. First, a woman had to
receive a lavaliere from her sig-
nificant other (the lavaliere
would have the letters of the
man's fraternity on a chain .)
Having a lavaliere was equiva-
lent to being "engaged to be en-
gaged tobeengaged." Then you
were "pinned," which involved
receiving the man's fraternity
pin. This was a more serious
step. Finally, the woman re-
ceived a ring from the man, and
they were really engaged.

Both Dean Merrick and Lucia
Sizemore (with whom I talked
next) felt that the pond tradition
is just something that started one
evening, probably sometime in
the mid '60s, when a lucky (or

tion that will possibly be raised
against this proposal, unless it
should be urged that the number
of people will be therefore much
lessened in the nation. This 1
freely own, and it was indeed
one principal design in offering
it to the world . I desire the reader
will observe, that I calculate my
remedy for this one nation alone,
and for no other that ever was, is,
or I think ever can be upon earth.
Therefore let no man talk to me
of other expedients: of attempt-
ing the spread of the Golden Rule:
of slowing the frantic pace of
daily life so as to remove the
impulse to scramble ahead what-
ever the cost: of curing the
abrasiveness of ambition and
envy: of teaching citizens to have
at least one degree of politeness
to those whom they encounter in
their daily commerce.

Therefore I insist, let no man
suggest that the constant exhor-
tation to Have a Nice Day, heard
repeated ad nauseam, can in any
wise serve as a substitute for the
return to a more mannerly and
respectful way of conducting
ourselves in our human interac-
tion.

1 profess, in the sincerity of
mv heart, that I have not the least
personal intent in endeavoring
to promote this suggested rem-
edy, having no other motive than
the public good of my country,
and to improve the qualitvot life
of the survivors, should the plan
be undertaken.

unlucky??) woman's friends
thought it would be really neat
to pitch her into the pond and
that the beginning of the tradi-
tion is perhaps something that
no one ever thought to write
down. It happened once and
became an event that still contin-
ues to happen to ASC students.

Sizemore and Andrea Swilley
'90 related an amusing story to
me about Andrea's experience
with the pond. She became en-
gaged in April and managed to
avoid the dining hall and all of
her friends until "Senior Steak-
Out," a time after graduation re-
hearsal when the seniors ate a
steak dinner in the Alumnae
Garden. Andrea thought she
would be safe and d id n't suspect
anything until Lucia came over
to see her ring, then asked to see
her watch, and proceeded to take
it off. Then Andrea noticed two

Continued on page 7

Celebrating the pond tradition

Features

Friday, February 1 1 , 1994

The Profile

Page

Atlanta History Center celebrates Black History Month

Press Release

The Atlanta History Center's
fifth annual Black History Month
Kick-Off Celebration on Febru-
ary 1 included a reception, pro-
gram and the unveiling of the
1994 Atlanta Black History
Month Calendar. The reception
was given by Black Atlanta
Transplants (BAT) and the At-
lanta History Transplants (BAT)
and the Atlanta History Center;
the calendar is sponsored by
BAT, with additional support
from the Coca-Cola Company,
Nabisco Foods Group, Flori Rob-
erts Cosmetics and Delta Air
Lines.

The Atlanta History Center
also sponsored a Black Fa mil y
History Day on February 5 in
celebration of African- American
ancestry. Black Georgia families
who have traced their family trees
and have interesting family sto-

ries resulting from their genea-
logical discoveries shared their
stories, displayed charts, docu-
ments, photographs, clothing,
artifacts and other memorabilia
from their family histories.

Genealogist Herman "Skip"
Mason gave presentations on the
importance of genealogy and
how to begin tracing a family
tree. Mason is president of Dig-
ging It Up, an African-American
research and consul tog firm that
specializes in family research.

The Atlanta History Center
continues their celebration of
Black History month with the
following activities and pro-
grams.

February 13

Curator's Tour: Atlanta's Afri-
can-American History

February 15

Lecture: "Politics and Art of the
Civil Rights Movement

February 16
Discussion:
Mecca?"

"Atlanta:

Panel
Black

February 18:

Alston Lecture: Cornel West
February 20

Exhibit Close-Up: "The
Herndons: Style and Substance
of the Black Upper Class in At-
lanta, 1880-1930"

February 27

Film and Program: "The Gandy
Dancers"

The Atlanta History Center is
located at 130 West Paces Ferrv
Road, NW. Call 814-4000 for
additional information.

Faculty Spotlight

The High Museum of Art is also contributing to the Celbration of
Black History Month with their exhibition 'Treasures from an
African Kingdom: Royal Art of Benin from the Perls Collection at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The royal statue pictured here
is a brass and iron figure depicting a king of Benin. The exhibit
will continue through April 24.

Pond Tradition

friends with a videocamera and
more friends on the way, and she
was thrown in. However, Lucia
was thrown in too! Andrea says
that she's not really sure how it
happened, but Lucia ended up
in the pond, in her silk dress not
long before she had to speak to
the senior class. Andrea had
hardly climbed out of the pond,
though, before Lucia was cleaned
up and ready to speak. Lucia
says that she didn't mind being

Continued from page 6

thrown in because she was never
thrown into the pond as a stu-
dent, but her husband was
thrown in the showers at Co-
lumbia Seminary.

I suppose that the pond tradi-
tion, even if if doesn't have a
definite beginning, will remain
an important memory to many
students passing through Agnes
Scott, and it is through stories
such as Andrea's that the tradi-
tion will continue to live on.

Dr. Jack Nelson heads south for winter

By Brandy Gossage
Staff Writer

English Professor jack
Nelson, instead of relaxing at
home over Christmans break,
spent an interesting twelve days
in Horida. Nelson also used this
opportunity to visit several of his
graduate school friends in Key
West.

Nelson felt right at home in
Key West, close to the old haunts
of writers Ernest Hemingway
and Tennessee Williams. Nelson
also had the opportunity to speak
with poets Richard Wilbur and
James Merrill.

"I've never been in a place in
Florida like Key West," com-
mented Nelson. He described
the city as "atmospheric, even
lush" with a pleasant environ-
ment and a slow pace. Unfortu-
nately, a minor illness restricted
Nelson's activities to looking at

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the ocean, sitting on the beach,
conversing with friends about
books and old times, and people-
watching.

He spent eight days of his trip
in south Horida where he and
his friend from California drov-
e through the Everglades, whic
Nelson describes as "a sea
f grass. " Nelson said, "I feel pa
ionately about efforts to restore
he Everglades, to rescue it from d
struction. I think the Everglades
ational Park is one of the most be
utiful and interesting places in t-
he world." Nelson also visited
iami, his favorite city in Hor
da. He said that the cultura
mix has made Miami a far more in

esting city than it was twent-
y-five years ago. While there, hespe
t a "lovely afternoon and evenin
" in Coconut Grove, one of his
"old haunts" in south Miami. He
ttested to its wonderful nightli
, which includes restauran
s and sidewalk cafes. His expe
iences in Horida prompted Nelson
to recall Rabbit is Rich , a no-
vel by John Updike that is "a wonde
ful, accurate parody of the
'American Dream' as it is real-
ized in places like Naples,
Horida."

During this trip to Horida,
Nelson also recalled the many
Christmases spent in Naples with
his aunt and uncle. He person-
ally considers Naples a "sterile"
place. Like Gertrude Stein's de-
scription of her home in Oak-
land, California, he says of
Naples: "There is no there, t

ere.

Nelson returned to Atlanta
through Savannah so that his
friend could visit the city. O
e of the highlights of this sto
was their dinner at Elizabeth
s on 37th Street - a restaurant
amous for its renowned chef an
specialized menu. Nelson hea
tily recommends the roast duck
and the pecan pie.

Though he enjoyed his trip,
Nelson expressed regret that he
did not visit Key West during the
summer because the cool winter
temperatures "detracted from the
atmosphere."

Nelson looks forward to a fu-
ture visit to KeyWest inthe
warmer months of summer..

Uffish Thoughts

Continued from pwge 5

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Features

Page 8

The Profile

Friday, February 1 1 , 1994

Agnes Scott welcomes
fourth generation students

By Jenny White
Feat iters Editor

Many Agnes Scott students
have mothers, grandmothers,
sisters, and other relatives who
attended ASC before them. How-
ever, only two students on cam-
pus Anne Mitchell and Susan
Molinaro of the first-year class
have a legacy of three genera-
tions preceding them. I talked
with Anne and Susan about how
their ASC heritage affected their
decision to come here and how it
affects them as students now.

Anne, who is originally from
Maryland, says that she would
not have heard about ASC had
her mother, grandmother and
great-grandmother notattended
the school. Because her grand-
mother lives in Decatur, Anne
has heard about ASC since she
was little. She says that her heri-
tage was a big factor in her deci-
sion to come here, but she did
look at other schools until she felt
that ASC was the best place for
her in all respects. She said that
she felt no pressure from her rela-
tives to come here and that in fact
her mother was quite u pset when
Anne said she wanted to come to
ASC because she worried that
Anne might feel obligated to con-
tinue the family tradition.

Susan, on the other hand,
did n' t realize that there was such
a history of ASC women in her
family until after she had begun
to consider ASC, so her heritage
became a relatively small part of
her decision to attend. She chose
ASC because it is a women's col-
lege and because of its size and
academic reputation and other
factors. She says that she felt

absolutely no pressure from her
mother, but that her grand-
mother hinted a lot about ASC
v/hile she was deciding. Susan
was at another college visiting
when she realized she wanted to
come to ASC, and one of the first
things she did was send her
grandmother a postcard telling
her the news.

Anne enjoys comparing her
experience at ASC with her
mother and grandmother's
memories to see how the college
has changed in the last decades.
She says that they both accept
the current changes at ASC as
"inevitable" and as a part of the
progression of time. Both she
and Susan appreciate their heri-
tage but feel that it doesn't really
make them different from other
students who don't share such a
legacy.

Both Anne and Susan have a
number of other family mem-
bers who have come here, in-
cluding great-aunts, aunts, and
cousins. Anne's grand father was
a professor here, and she is
named after her great-grand-
mother, who started the tradi-
tion. Susan says that many of the
women in her family who didn' t
attend ASC attended another
women's college, Converse.

Anne and Susan have both
enjoyed their experience here at
ASC so far and would definitely
encourage their daughters tocon-
sider attending. They both hope
to know all about their families'
legacies in order to pass down
the tradition.

Basketball season continues

By Nanska Lovell

Sports Writer

The second-half of Agnes Scott's basketball season is currently
underway, with all of the players showing vast improvement
from earlier games. The team consists of players: Debbie
Cheavers (Captain), Stephanie Rothstein, KrLsri Mendheim,
Shane Wood, Marley Maupin, Nanska Lovell, Stephanie Chaplin
and Heather-Jo Williams.

In January, ASC played several teams, including Tocca Falls,
O^lkethorpe, SCAD and Martin Methodist.

Cheavers and Maupin continue to be the leading scoreers on
the team, with Wood and Rothstein battling hard for the most
rebounds.

Befoer the seasons conclusion in one month, the team will take
on new opponents such as Wesleyan College and Spelman,
among others.

During theremainder of the season, the ASC basketbla team
will continue to strive to make ASC a leader in the NCAA
Division III.

Anne Mitchell (1.) and Susan Molinaro each have a legacy of three generations preceding them at

Agnes Scott.

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Friday, February 1 1 , 1994

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Page (

Billy Joel: Definitely worth the wait

By Kelly Holton
Assistant Editor

Next to eating onions, wait-
ing is probably my least favorite
thing in the world to do. Though
1 had been looking forward to
the concert for months, nearly
two hours of waiting at the
MARTA station, at the Omni, at
the restroom, in the drink line, in
my seat had sapped nearly all
my enthusiasm. I simply wanted
to get on with the show. From
the moment that Billy Joel walked
on the stage to begin his River of
Dreams concert, I could not help
but be carried away by this amaz-
ing performer's energy and en-
thusiasm.

Joel began the concert with
"No Man's Land," a selection
from his current album. Though
the crowd responded enthusias-
tically to this politically charged
song, Joel relied on a borrowed
song tocapture thecrowd's heart.
As the tune of "Georgia on My
Mind" filled the coliseum, we
were hooked and for the next
two hours, Joel never let us go.

Much to my surprise and plea-
sure, Billy Joel concentrated on
his older songs rather than the
ones from the new album. I par-
ticularly enjoyed hearing songs
from my childhood (Remember

"An Innocent Man"?) given new
life and energy through live per-
formance. In fact, the songs
sounded so good live that the
recording now sounds rather dull
in comparison.

And don't get me wrong
I'm not complaining at all about
the songs from The River of
Dreams. In fact, I rather like them.
One of the highlights of the show
was Joel's rendition of both his
beautiful "Lullabye" and his al-
most gospel sound ing "The River
of Dreams." Though these two
songs seem at first completely
different, the singer referred to
them as having been "born to-
gether" and performed them
back to back. His singing them
together allowed me to consider
the connection between the
songs, the connection between
the dreams and questions of a
child with those of an adult.

The songs were not the only
memorable aspect of the show.
The lights and other technical
effects certainly enhanced the
excitement of the concert and
helped to make the music more
meaningful. For example, dur-
ing "Pressure" the lights pulsated
violently, capturing the spirit of

Robin Voiers pictured above as Emily Dickinson in The Belle of
Amherst. Written by William Luce, the play is based faithfully on
the letters, journals and poems of the poet. Dickinson spent her
last twenty years isolated in her father's household in Amherst,
Massachusetts. At age 53 in the play, she introduces her family and
reveals her insights, imagery, humor and timeless verse.

the song and the state of mind
that it describes. Having a piano
that revolved allowed everyone,
even those sitting behind the
stage, to fully enjoy the concert.
Joel made a special effort to pay
attention to all the sections of the
audience, making himself avail-
able to everyone, wanting to en-
tertain and to be appreciated.

He danced; he played with
the microphone; he shared anec-
dotes about his life and his mu-
sic. But mostly he did what he
does best he sang and played
the piano. By the time he came
back for his final encore, he knew
and we knew what we wanted to
hear: We were all in the mood
for a melody, and he had us feel-
ing all right. As he came to the
last chorus of "The Piano Man,"
Joel stopped singing, took his
fingers from the piano, leaned
back, and listened listened to
his own words come back to him
from thousands of admiring fans.
The lights came up, the
goosebumps went down, and it
was over. If only he'd sung "She's
Got a Way." Oh, well, maybe
next time.

Billy Joel's latest album, River of Dreams, includes the following
songs: "No Man's Land," "The Great Wall of China," "Blonde Over
Blue," "A Minor Variation," "Shades of Grey," "All About Soul,"
"Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel)," "The River of Dreams," 'Two
Thousand Years" and "Famous Last Words."

Spell her name "E-m-i-l-y 1 '

Misspelling puts damper on The Belle of Amherst

By Josie Hoilman
Editor-in-Chief

Forget for a moment the show
itself. Imagine preparing to en-
joy a one-woman play based
upon your favorite poet and then
discovering that someone can-
not spell her name.

Despite the energetic interpre-
tation of Emily Dickinson's life
by Robin Voiers, I found that the
overlooked misspelling on the
program was too much to quickly
forget. The gross error was pain-
fully distracting throughout the
production because I kept re-
membering that for a college that
is known for its celebration of
writers (Robert Frost's patron-
age and the annual writers' festi-
val to name a few) a misspelling
of one of America's most conse-
quential poets looks really bad.

Misspelling her surname
would be less embarrassing.
After all, there are numerous
possible variations of
"Dickinson." But the first name
"Emily" has only two variations
that are common, and only one
tha t was usually seen in the 1 880s.
Nonetheless, emblazoned on the
program was "E-m-i-l-i-e."

In the end I could have ac-
cepted the misspelling for what
is was - a simple error (I know
how common they are in the
media - this paper included) -
except for one thing. The play-

bill used her first name at least
three different times - two of
which were spelled correctly -
which indicates a carelessness
that is clearly on display next to
accuracy.

Misspellings may seem incon-
sequential, but this one proved
obtrusive to the enjoyment of the
play.

Voiers' consistently strong
performance saved the produc-
tion from ruin. She remained
completely in character through-
out the production and expertly
managed difficult scenes where
she spoke to other characters who
were included in the narrative,
but not on the stage.

Managing all the right pauses
and hand gestures and captur-
ing Dickinson's witty, though
withdrawn personality, Voiers'
performance was both skilled
and remarkable.

At times her voice seemed a
bit too shrill for a Massachusetts
accent, but her softer lines
complemented her gentle por-
trayal of the sadder moments in
Dickinson's life.

Although Voiers' perfor-
mance was strong throughout
the play, her best moments in-
cluded those where she recited
complete poems by Dickinson.
The most memorable recitation

was of the poem tha t begins 1 'Safe
in their alabaster chambers."
Voiers' adjusted her carefree tone
to accompany the somber mes-
sage contained in the poem. She
seemed to move easily from one
strong emotion to the next, as she
laughed as effortlessly as she
cried.

The play itself seems lacking
in a full picture of Dickinson's
life. Playwright William Luce
includes a wide variety of her
poetry that explore pleasant
themes of nature and every-day
life, but fails to fully represent
the more melancholy tone that
Dickinson used in her numerous
poems about death and other
forms of loss.

From the poems that Luce
chose to include in Vie Belle of
Amherst, someone unfamiliar
with Dickinson may receive the
impression that her life was
mostly filled with happiness, and
only a few instances of sadness.

Despite the annoying mis-
spelling in the playbill The Belle
of Amherst staring Robin Voiers
is an excellent production worth
seeing if she happens to return to
the Atlanta stage.

In the meantime, remember
to spell her name "E-m-i-l-y."

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The Profile

Friday, February 1 1 , 1994

Actor s Express presents powerful pro-
duction of Manners Speed-the-Plow

By Josie Hoilman
Editor-in-Chief

If you appreciate innovative
uses of profanity, welcome pain-
fully loud noises for up to fifteen
minutes and can handle large
doses of reality, then you are
sure to enjoy Actor's Express'
production of Speed-the-Plow. In
this powerful, though loud, in-
terpretation of David Mamet's
portrayal of "real-life/' the Hol-
lywood characters themselves
are sometimes too large to be-
lieve, but the cinematic and
numbing overload between acts
makes most anything believable.

Set in Hollywood, Speed-thc
Plow examines a three day pe-
riod in the life of a producer
(Bobby Gould), his assistant
(Charlie Fox) and his temporary
secretary (Karen). Beginning
with a prospective "buddy-film"
that will star a Hollywood leg-
end and will make everyone in-
volved richer, the action of the
play moves quickly and soon
raises questions over the differ-
ence between art and money-
making films, forcing the audi-
ence to recognize the part they
contribute to the kind of movies
that Hollywood produces.

Without missing a beat, Speed-
the-Plow also examines the sub-
ordination of professional
women in Hollywood by the
manv stereotyped ideals that
Karen must fulfill for both Bobby
and Charlie. Ending with the
most powerful dialogue and ac-
tion of the play, Speed-the-Plow
answers its own questions with a
large dose of reality that is al-
most painfully realistic.

Artistic director Chris
Coleman adds flashes of west
coast skyline and the booming
sound of music to alleviate the
usual audience boredom be-
tween acts. Unfortunately, the
music is almost more annoying
than anything else, but the im-
ages produce a meaningful com-
ment that reality itself is not al-
ways realistic, but at times con-
trived and distorted by technol-
ogy-

With the suggestion of distor-
tion, the Actor's Express produc-
tion reflects issues raised in the
play about the conflict between
art and entertainment, empow-
erment and exploitation. Artis-
tic accomplishment wins out over

obtrusive noise, but the ex-
tremely sensitive may need to
wander outside during the mo-
ments of possible discomfort.

The design of the Actor's Ex-
press theatre arranges the audi-
ence around all four sides of the
stage, providing the perfect
complement to the set of Speed-
the-Plow because the actors are
never concerned with facing in
only one direction towards the
audience.

Instead, Bob (Frank Roberts),
Charlie (Jared Simon) and Karen
(Pamela Kerlin), each mirror their
own reality because they are con-
cerned with their interaction with
one another, not with the audi-
ence.

As with all his plays, Mamet
intends to represent reality in
Speed-the-Plow. The Actor's Ex-
press production retains, as well
as increases, the level of authen-
ticity with both staging and con-
vincing performances by each of
the three actors.

Although each actor main-
tains a personal level of energy
to which the others actors enthu-
siastically respond, Kerlin's in-

Around Atlanta

By Merisa E. Arams

Dinner at Einstein's means food for thought

Albert Einstein - Encyclope-
dia Brittanica tells us he was a
German-American physicist
who developed the special and
general theories of relativity, the
equivalence of mass and energy,
and the photon theory of light.
This reference book, however,
does not tell us that Einstein was
also the sole inspiration of a very
creative bistro on Juniper Street
m the heart of Midtown.

Located near Delights of the
Garden in a remodeled house,
Finstein's has four separate din-
ing rooms and a bar. Lower and
upper decks offer al fresco seat-
ing when the weather permits.
Inside, paint-splattered
tables. add to the restaurant's
unique decor.

Each of the remodeled dining
rooms retain their original co/v
bedroom atmosphere with built
in book shelves and framed
paintings lining the w alls walls.
One table directly faces a door
covered by a lifesize cardboard
poster of Einstein. A candle in a
400 milliliter Pyrex beaker on
each table illuminate the dimly
lit rooms, adding a touch of un-

usual class to the overall aes-
thetic.

A perusal of the menu shows
clever usage of "Einstein lan-
guage." You can start your meal
with an alpha (an appetizer),
choosing from dishes like arti-
choke dip, baked brie, humus
dip, coconut shrimp, or pita
pizza. I had their CajunCalimari
- lightly spicy fried squid with
red sauce.

Afterwards you can order
from their different quantum
leaves (massive salads) E=mc2
(Entrees = more choices again),
or their sandwich dimensions
(bread + meat + cheese + bread =
energy).

Einstein's entrees offer differ-
ent pastas such as shrimp and
chicken linguini, smoked salmon
pasta, Cajun chicken linguini and
shrimp and scallop pasta. En-
trees come with a dinner salad
and a choice of a coefficient (side
dishes), including choices like
cole slaw, rice pilaf, french fries,
or sw eet potato fries.

The most impressive use of
"Einstein language" was the
eleven different sandwich di-
mensions. A few are named three

cheese - theory (Swiss, cheddar
and alouette cheeses, alfalfa
sprouts, mushrooms, lettuce and
tomato on grilled wheat bread),
cobalt bleu (chicken breast with
bacon and crumbled bleu cheese),
Fermi's favorite (grilled chicken
with pesto, red pepper strips, a
jack cheese).

' My companion ordered a par-
allax (8 oz. burger with cheddar
cheese and bacon strips) and I
ordered a hippy grill (grilled
boneless chicken with sauteed
onions and artichoke hearts on
toasted wheat bread. My favor-
ite coefficient was the sweet po-
tato fries. Most of the desserts
enticed me, but I succumbed to
the Snickers cheesecake. . . .Shou Id
I say more?

Menu prices range from $2 to
$15, with filet mignon
represwenting the only $1 5 item.
All sandwiches ranged from $5
to $7. If you want to spend some
time where you can expand your
mind whilenourishing you stom-
ach, try Einstein's. I personally
give this place an A for atmo-
sphere, food, and creative lan-
guage.

Speed-the-Plow cast members, from left to right, actors Pamela
Kerlin, Frank Roberts and Jared Simon.

terpretation of Karen is at times
too thin, too impassive and ulti-
mately impedes the character
development of Bob and Charlie.
Kerlin unveils her ingenuity in
her private scene with Roberts
but when all three characters
appear on-stage together, Kerlin
becomes lost in the consistently
strong performance by both Rob-
erts and Simon.

Like the original version first
performed at the Lincoln Center
Theatre in New York in 1988,
Speed - the- PI on ) rema ins a n i m por-
tant play not only for Mamet's
unique treatment of reality, but
also for its strong social com-
ment about the commodity that

mainstream America seems to
want from Hollywood produc-
ers.

For first- time viewers of Speed-
the-Plow, think twice about
Ma met's misogy nistic overtones;
the role of Karen works not to
promote female submissiveness
in the workplace, but rather to
acknowledge that gender poli-
tics remain a real issue for pro-
fessional women today. Don't
let preconceptions interfere with
deciding to see the play if for
no other reason, Actor's Express'
production is worth seeing for
its perfect blend of humor, skill
and talent. Just don't forget your
ear plugs.

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Pelican Brief marks second movie
hit for Grisham

By Brandy Gossage

Staff Writer

John Grisham has done it
again! Another one of his best-
selling novels has become a hit at
the box office. The Pelican Briei,
directed by Alan Pakula, boasts
of a strong cast, with Julia Rob-
erts as law student Darby Shaw,
Denzel Washington as reporter
Gray Grantham, and Sam
Shepard as Darby's lover, law
professor Thomas Callahan.

As the film basically follows
the novel, Grisham fans know
the story line: two Supreme
Court justices are murdered, a
law student writes a brief, guess-
ing at the motive for the murder,
the brief ends up in the wrong
hands, tragedy strikes, the law
student must run for her life, the
law student hooks up with a re-
porter, and the two try to solve
the mystery.

I must confess that, despite
Roberts' performance in Sleeping
with the Enemy, I doubted that
she could successfully carry the

role of Darby Shaw. Yet, when I
saw The Pelican Brief, I was sur-
prised to find that she filled the
role quite convincingly. Wash-
ington gave a strong perfor-
mance as the initially suave, busi-
nesslike reporter who becomes
supportive and protective of
Darby.

One of the most poignant mo-
ments in the film was the scene in
which Darby, after a narrow es-
cape from death, hyperventilates
and asks Gray to stop the car. He
does, and she stumbles out and
begins to sob. He takes her into
his arms and comforts her.

This movie also contains real-
istic shots of New Orleans, New
York, and Washington, D.C. --
an effective device for drawing
the viewers into the story. On
the whole, I found this movie to
be an excellent adaptation of
Grisham' s novel.

Book Review

Watson, Sherman Charlotte.
York: Harper-Collins, 1993.

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It takes a community, of the living and the dead, to raise a child

By Maleka Berry

Staff Writer

In an age when African-
Americans are ravenous for con-
nections to an African past and a
southern slave culture, there have
been too many stale roots-like
carbon copies designed to ap-
peal to those yearnings. Fortu-
nately, Charlotte Watson
Sherman's One Dark Body can
exempt itself from that group.
The novel reads as if it were be-
ing spun by the hypnotic power
of a soft voiced storyteller so that
the mystical plot never leaves
the reader searching for reality.

The novel begins in 1963 with
the voice of Raisin, the thirteen
year old main character, speak-
ing from her mother's womb.
Septeema gained her nickname
"Raisin" because her skin was
burned and wrinkled by a failed
abortion. From the womb Raisin
introduces the reader to the
people that will influence her life.
Once on this earth Raisin is raised
by an unofficial foster family in
a household of other neglected,
abandoned or otherwise dis-
carded children. Raisin has, at

times, a reluctant friend sh ip with
a young boy Sin-Sin who is two
years older than herself. Raisin
and Sin-Sin's path to woman-
hood and manhood opens for
them when the living and the
physically dead compete for the
young twosome's attention.

Raisin is haunted by her liv-
ing mother Nola, who wants a
place in the life of a child she
aba nd oned , a nd a Iso by the spiri t
of Raisin's father El, who is seek-
ing the child's help to give him
eternal peace. Sin-Sin is being
pushed into manhood by a spiri-
tual leader and herbal healer,
Blue. The forces of the spirit
world give Sin-Sin a preview of
his place of as the chosen con-
nection between the physically
living and the spiritually liber-
ated.

Watson is a skillful writer who
uses seemingly tenuous connec-
tions to follow the characters who
touch Raisin's life. Watson's
characters' spiritual journeysand
adherence to the wishes of the
ancestors is reminiscent of Julie

Dash's landmark film Daughters
of the Dust. Dash's Dust
chronicles the lives of the Gullah
women and the painful decision
to leave small island of Igbo's
Landing for the possibilities and
modernities of the mainland.

Watson's details about the in-
tricacy of African-inspired ritu-
als and about the superstitions of
a soul in eternal unrest, could
have very well been grounded in
historical analysis or simply the
creations of her imagination as
she drew from frequently shared
stories in many African-Ameri-
can homes. Most refreshing in
One Dark Body is that one cannot
easily distinguish between
Watson's imagination and his-
torical accuracy, which is consis-
tently true of the style of the new
writers trying to cash in on the
re-emerging popularity of this
genre.

The surprise in the book is not
the ending but the means by
which these character reach their
varied states of peace. The spiri-
tual well being of an entire com-

munity rests on the shoulders of
teenagers. Watson makes a con-
vincing case for the African prov-
erb: "it takes a community to
raise a child." She furthers that
adage by expressing the value
each member of the community
- even the physically scared, the
odd, and the children -- contrib-
utes with their gifts.

As Are you there God, It 's Me
Margaret has been a staple of
many young girls' reading lists,
One Dark Body can comfortably
take its place for young African-
American girls by teaching the
po werfu 1 lesson of inner gifts a nd
inner beauty.

The Profile wishes
to

continue publish-
ing

student creative
writing.

All interested
may submit cre-
ative writing
of any kind
to box 5 by
February 16 at 5
p.m.

The Profile is currently seeking to fill the position of

business manager for the 1994-95 academic year.
Qualifications include a good working knowledge of
simple accounting skills and the willingness to assume
responsibility at the end of March, 1994.

It looks great on your resume!

Call Josie at 371-6820 for more information.

Calendar of Events

Page 12

The Profile

Friday, February 1 1 , 1994

VISUAL ART

High Museum of Art

For more information call 892-
HIGH.

Admission: $5 adults, $3 senior
citizens and students, SI children
6-17, children under 6 free.

THROUGH 4/24/94 Treasures
from an African Kingdom: Royal art
of Benin from the Perls Collection of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
One hundred royal treasures
of brass, ivory, terracotta and
wood from the ancient African
kingdom of Benin represent 500
years of art for rituals and orna-
ments.

THROUGH 3/27/94 Mary
Cassatt: Art in the Making

This exhibition explores the
artist's working methods, mate-
rials and techniques. Along with
two of her finished paintings, the
museum will display a selection
of oil studies, watercolors and

preparatory sketches.

The High Museum of Art Folk
Art and Photography Galleries
Georgia-Pacific Center

Please call 577-6940 for more in-
formation.

THROUGH 3/19/94 Ansel
Adams the Early Years

This exhibition chronicles the
. first 20 years of the career of one
of America's best-loved photog-
raphers.

THROUGH 6/18/94 Earl
Cunningham: Painting an Ameri-
can Eden

This showing features 46 oil
paintings and one sculpture. The
paintings are seascapes and wa-
terscapes combining personal
experience with elements of fan-
tasy.

The Atlanta College of Art

For more inf orma tion, please call
Chris Scoates or Richard Russell
at 898-1157, or call Katharine
Murphy at 898-1164.

THROUGH 3/2/94 Multiple
World: an International Survey of

Matinee idol and ham actor, Garry Essendine (played by Ashurst
of Norcross) constantly finds himself surrounded by goo-
intentioned associates and over-eager admirers in the light-
hearted comedy Present Laugher, by Noel Coward. Also featured
are (clockwise from left: Joanna Daniel, DeWayne Morgan, Eliza-
beth Cham bless and Rachel Fowler).

Artists' Books

This exhibition is a contem-
porary survey of approximately
110 limited-edition, fine press,
multiples and off-set editions of
artists' books from around the
world.

THEATRE

Jomandi at 14th Street Play-
house

If you would like additional in-
formation, please contact Geri
Blanchet at 876-6346.

THROUGH 2/20/94 Julius Cae-
sar

Harry J. Lennix has further
updated Jomandi's 60's-style
version with non-trad itional cast-
ing.

Neighborhood Playhouse

For ticket information, call 373-
5311.

THROUGH 2/20/94 Present
laughter

Noel Coward's comedy cen-
ters around matinee idol Garry
Essendine who constantly finds
himself surrounded by admirers
and good-intentioned associates.
While they fret over petty jealou-
sies and indiscreet liaisons, Garry
enjoys life, and love, for what
they're worth.

Theatre League of Atlanta
at the Fox

For ticket information, please call
249-6400 or 817-8700. For other
informa tion, call Judy Masterson
at 873-4300.

3/15/94 - 3/20/94 The Who's
TOMMY

Set in Britain between the end
of World War II and the late
1960s, TOMMY chronicles the
adventures of young Tommy
Walker. Following a traumatic
childhood experience which
causes him to withdraw from
the world, Tommy emerges as
an unwilling hero the Pinball
wizard who must live up to
the expectations of his demand-
ing followers.

Horizon Theatre Company

for further information, contact
Mary Anne Chew at 523-1 477, or
call the Horizon Box Office at
584-7450.

THROUGH 2/27/94 Many'
Tlii)igs Have Happened Since He

"Mother and Child with a Rose Scarf' (1908) is one of the numerous
paintaings currently on view at the High Museum of Art in the
exhibit "Mary Cassat: Art in the Making." The exhibition illus-
trates Casssat's preparatory methods by compiling her meticuouls
sketches and studies with their corresponding finished paintings.

Died... And Here Are the High-
lights

Tom Key adapted this wick-
edly funny Southern comedy-
drama from the novel by Eliza-
beth Dewberry Vaughn.

ON CAMPUS

ebration" at 3pm in Maclean
Auditorium of Presser Hall.

THROUGH 3/6/94 Book Arts: A
National juried Exhibition

This exhibit, located in the
Dalton Gallery of the Dana Fine
Arts Building, celebrates the
artist's book as a special form of
visual expression that allows for
unique interactions between
word, texture and image.

AGNES
SCOTT

Please call 371-6294 for more in-
formation.

2/18/94 Recital

Martha Bishop, gambist, and
Randolph Jones, harpsichordist,
w ill perform a concert of Bach's
Sonatas for Viola de Gamba and
I larpsichord at 8pm in Maclean
Auditorium of Presser Hall.

2/27/94 Concert

Sharon Willis, soprano, will
perform a program of African-
American spirituals, past and
present, in "Spiritual Song Cel-

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Friday, February 25, 1994

The Independent Student Newspaper of Agnes Scott College

Vol. 80, Issue 8

Master plan looks to the future of
Agnes Scott

By Kerry Murphy
News Editor

Bill Gailey, Vice President
for Business and Finance, and
Elsa Pena, Director of Physical
Plant, presented the SACS Mas-
ter Plan to the faculty on Fri-
day, February 11. The plan
includes ideas and concepts
that look toward the future of
Agnes Scott College. Accord-
ing to Gailey, "We need a vi-
sion of where we're going to
go." The plan was initiated
upon the recommendation of
the SACS committee as a re-
quirement for the college.

The issues laid out in the
plan are not definite. Accord-
ing to Gailey, the "issues are

only the beginning of a conver-
sa tion that needs to take place."
Gailey stresses the fact that in-
put from the entire campus is
necessary in making future
plans for the college. Students
will have an opportunity to
raise different issues regard-
ing the plan at campus meet-
ings.

The ideas presented in the
plan are designed to make the
campus more accessible to the
college community. Among
the ideas included to make the
quad a more useful place are a
cuckoo clock or steaming rocks.
Another idea mentioned in the

plan is to add a link building
between the library and the stu-
dent center.

Plans for a new house for
the president and a conference
center are also included. The
constant need for additional
parking on campus is also ad-
dressed in the plan, possibly
through the installation of a
parking deck. Gailey adds that
these suggestions are only ideas
on how to make the campus
more useful to the students.
The ideas themselves are not
the important issue; the main

Continued on page 3

Students and faculty sign bill of rights

By Tiffany Goodman

Approximately one hun-
dred people filtered through
Rebekah Scott Hall on Wednes-
day, February 9, to sign the
Agnes Scott Statement of Aca-
demic Rights and Responsibili-
ties (SARR). SGA undertook
the writing of this document
after a student poll indicated
that the student body felt that
this sort of document needed
to be formulated in conjunc-
tion with the faculty. A com-
mittee of SGA members, stu-
dents and the Faculty Execu-

Photo By Danieal Edelkind

tive Committee worked for
many months to produce a
clear, concise document that
outlines the rights and respon-
sibilities of all members of the
academic community. The
SARR includes many of the
important points from both the
student handbook and the fac-
ulty handbook; because it is
non-contractual, it is not threat-
ening to either faction. The
goals of this document are
highly idealistic, and the au-
thors hope that it will be up-

held as strongly as the trea-
sured Honor Code.

If anyone in the academic
community (students, faculty
or administration) has not yet
signed the Statement of Aca-
demic Rights and Responsibili-
ties, please sign the large docu-
ments located in Buttrick (third
floor) or at the Alston Center
Information Desk. Everyone is
strongly encouraged to read
and sign the SARR in order to
better know your rights and
those of the other factions.

If the SACS plan is implemented, the quad may lose its open-
area charm.

Atlanta fake clinics
threaten choice of women

By the Atlanta Pro-Choice Action Committee

Juan Allende, Political Science Professor, presented the final Mortar Board "Don't Quote Me"
lecture on Friday, February 11 in the chapel lounge. Allende is a specialist in Latin American
politics and contemporary Judeo-Christian thought.

If you are considering an
abortion, or if you want to go to
a women's medical clinic for
pregnancy testing, informa-
tion, you will find legitimate
women's medical clinics listed
in the Atlanta yellow pages
under "Abortion SERVICES/'
These clinics are pro-choice and
have doctors on their staff.
They also offer contraception
and other reproductive health
services. You will notice that
"Abortion Services is the sec-
ond listing under "A" in the
yellow pages.

The first listing under "A" is
"Abortion ALTERNATIVES."
The establishments listed un-
der this section are run by-and-
large by people who believe
that abortion should be illegal.
The "pro-life" or anti-abortion
people refer to these places as
"Crisis Pregnancy Centers."
The goal of the "Crisis Preg-
nancy Center" is to persuade
every pregnant woman they
see to continue her pregnancy
to term.

What happens inside a "Cri-
sis Pregnancy Center?" Here is
what we have heard from
women who have been there:

1. Initially the women in charge
are very pleasant, very ingrati-
ating. They get some informa-
tion and ask for a urine sample.

2. While waiting for the results
of the urine test, you are asked
to watch an "information
video." This video is a propa-
ganda piece with two main
themes: fear and guilt. Ac-
tresses playing women who
have been "ruined for life" be-
cause of an abortion are inter-
viewed. Bodies of late-term
miscarriages are shown as
early-term abortions, etc.

3. Next, you get "counseling."
This is hard-core religious pro-
paganda again attempting to
hit the guilt and fear buttons.

4. If, after all this, you are still
determined to have an abor-
tion, or go somewhere to find
out about an abortion, you are
given the results of your test.
They might also remind you
that they have your name and
address.

Continued on page 6

Inside:

Investigative
report by Mary
L.T. Jordan on
violent crime.

-page 4

News

Page 2

The Profile

Friday, February 25, 1994

CP & P sponsors Convocation on
women and minorities in science

By Shlaumda Calhoun

Shirley Malcom, Director for
the Education and Human
Resources Programs of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
(AAAS), recently came to
Agnes Scott to share with the
campus a concern that has be-
come her mission: increasing
the number of women and mi-
norities in science and technol-
ogy. Career Advisory Board
invited Dr. Malcom because of
the strong interest students
have shown in pursuing careers
in the sciences.

As a student at the Univer-
sity of Washington, Dr. Malcom
remembers her undergraduate
education as a lonely experi-
ence. She says that at times she
was "the only" (African-
American or woman) and was
alwavs "the only only" (Afri-

can-American woman) in her
classes. She found this loneli-
ness quite distressing. "Where
is everybody?" she would ask
herself.

Years later that is a question
she is still posing, not only to
herself but everybody else as
well. The number of Ph.D.s
earned by women and minori-
ties has remained low despite
broader educational opportu-
nities.

Dr. Malcom attributes this
lack of interest to the four-eyed
image of science, misconcep-
tions about the difficulty level,
and little knowledge about its
practical applications. If all of
these problems could somehow
be combated, she believes that
more African-Americans, His-
panic-Americans, and women
would pursue careers in sci-

ence and technology.

She consoled science majors
by saying that long hours spent
in labs are ultimately converted
into greater earning potential.
Because they are used to fight-
ing with equations and defend-
ing concepts, they can easily
orient themselves with the
skills needed for almost any
occupation (not just those in
the medical field). She also
said that pursuing science-re-
lated careers does not require
women to forfeit motherhood.

Science and technology are
still fields dominated by Cau-
casian males. Individuals are
going to be faced with both
racism and sexism. Dr. Malcom
recognizes both as formidable
forces, but thinks that it is still
possible to change the complex-
ion of the fields.

ITEP innovation reaches the library

By Virginia Moreland
College Librarian

"Library automation."
"OPACs." "Innovative Inter-
faces." "Retrospective conver-
sion." "Internet access." "Smart
bar-codes." Mysterious
phrases like these have been
heard around campus and in
McCain Library during several
years of planning and prepara-
tion. A key component of the
Information Technology En-
hancement Program, library
automation will become a real-
ity at Agnes Scott this spring.

What does this really mean
for students, staff and faculty?
Soon the card catalog will be
transformed into a computer-
ized system, sometimes known
as an Online Public Access
Catalog (OPAC.) You may be
familiar with online catalogs
such as those at Georgia Tech
or Emory. The system pur-
chased for Agnes Scott, mar-
keted by Innovative Interfaces
Inc., is often cited as one of the
best available. It's the system
used by Mercer University, as
well as hundreds of other col-
leges and universities around
the world.

An online catalog brings
with it vastly increased speed
and flexibility of searching. It
allows topical access to mate-
rial not only by authorized sub-
ject headings, but also by key-
words. (In other words, you
can find "MTV" without look-
ing under "Rock videos
United States") A large body
of material, such as all the
works about Chaucer, can be
narrowed bv another concept,

by date of publication, by lan-
guage or by format. Many cross
references are provided auto-
matically, and a browsing func-
tion helps when the exact spell-
ing of an author's name is not
known.

Additional features go far
beyond traditional catalog
functions. Thanks to the circu-
lation module, the OPAC will
show whether a copy of a book
is checked out, on hold, on re-
serve or in the library. The
serials module will indicate the
location, format and holdings
of periodicals and even show
the date of the most recent is-
sue received. With online ac-
quisitions, it is possible to show
which books have recently been
ordered for the library.

These four modules will be
phased in over several months.
The installation of the system
and initial staff training begins
the week of February 14. If all
goes well, the online catalog
should be available to the pub-
lic by the end of March. The
circulation system for check-
ing out books will be initiated
with the annual inventory of
faculty loans in April and May,
and the summer session will
provide a full-scale test of re-
serve and circulation functions.
By next fall, all modules of the
system will be fully opera-
tional.

Remote access is one of the
biggest advantages of automa-
tion. As soon as the Agnes
Scott network is complete, the
library catalog will be search-

able from any connection on
campus. Faculty in their of-
fices and students in the labs or
residence halls will be able to
investigate library holdings,
verify a title, or see if a reserve
book is available without
making the trip to McCain.
Dial-in connections (from an
off-campus computer with
modem) will be a boon to RTC
students, alumnae and others.

The campus network will
also provide links to other li-
brary catalogs in the state, and
to a variety of world-wide in-
formation sources available
through the Internet. In fact
some of these services are al-
ready available to the campus
community. Librarians will
showcase these resources in a
series of demonstrations this
term. Watch the Campus Con-
nection for a schedule of these
drop-in sessions.

The Profile cur-
rently
seeks to fill
the position of
business manager
for the 1994-95
academic year.

Call Josie at x6820.

Correction

In the article on Agnes Scott's fourth generation students,
published in the last issue of the Profile, we stated that "only
two students on campus. . .have a legacy of three generations
preceding them." The above should have specified that these
two students are the only fourth generation students in the
first-year class, and that there are other fourth generation
students on campus in upper classes. Rebecca Chambers '96
is also a fourth generation student who is very proud of her
family tradition. In addition to fourth-generation students,
there are a number of third generation students on campus as
well. The Profile acknowledges all of these students and their
family legacies as a very special part of the student body.

ASCPD Blues

Since the last issue of the
Profile several incidents have
occurred on campus. On
Wednesday, February 9, a small
black and white TV, belonging
to one of the food service work-
ers, was taken from the snack
bar.

On Friday, February 11, a
student's car was damaged
while parked in the Candler
Lot. It appeared to have been
struck by a light colored
vehilcle which then left the
scene. The third incident in-
volved a student's car which
was parked in the Rebekah Lot.
Sometime between Monday,
February 14, and Thursday af-
ternoon, February 1 7, a bumper
sticker was removed from her
car (white and blue, reading
"No US intervention in
women's wombs"). Once
again, if you see any suspcious
activity in the parking lots no-
tify Public Safety immediately.
Hit and run and this type of
damage to someone's vehicle

are both criminal offenses.

Spring Break is less than a
month away, so, while plan-
ning your activities, be sure to
keep crime prevention in the
back of your mind. This should
be an enjoyable time and not
one you remember for becom-
ing a crime victim. Let some-
one know where you are going
and the route you will be tak-
ing. While on the road be sure
to plan stops so that you won't
run low on gas. Give yourself
plenty of time to find a service
station which is open, start
looking while you still have halt
to a quarter of a tank left. This
is particularly important if you
are traveling on weekends or
at odd hours when many sta-
tions will be closed. If you
need to stop, don't do it at rest
stops which appear empty.
Move on to a busy rest stop or
a store or service station where
there are other people. It pays
to play it safe!

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Page 3

Campus Clips

Maine students evicted from former TKE house

The Associated Press

Gorham, Maine -- Four arrests and a string of complaints led
to the eviction of more than a dozen University of Southern
Maine students from their former fraternity house.

Local police and the national Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity
served the eviction notice to 17 students on Friday, giving then
72 hours to clear out their belongings.

The students continued to live at the fraternity house after the
university imposed a four-year suspension of the fraternity in
September.

The complaints date back more than two years, when a
student who was not a member of the fraternity was convicted
of sexually assaulting a woman there at a party in 1991 .

"The final straw was a party they held here in early August,"
said spokesman Robert Caswell. "Gorham police arrested four
members for failure to disperse."

UGA researchers isolate organism, help fight
AIDS

The Assoc in ted Press

Athens, Georgia -- University of Georgia researchers said last
month that their new method of isolating an immature form of
a pneumonia-causing organism that has killed thousands of
AIDS patients could lead to more effective treatments.

An AIDS researcher at the National Institute of Health,
however, said the development could be helpful but did not
appear to be a major advance.

Dr. Jamie De Stefano, a researcher at the university's Com-
plex Carbohydrate Research Center, said the team had found a
fast way to separate the drug-resistant mature form from its
immature forms.

She said the new method is not only faster but provides a
virtually pure form of the organism, making it easier to study its
life cycle.

Clemson s Director of Student Development
arrested on sexual harassment charge

Compiled from The Tiger

Clemson, South Carolina -- Kenneth Cooke, Director of Stu-
dent Development, resigned after being arrested by Clemson
University Police on a sexual assault charge.

The charge of assault and battery of a high and aggravated
nature came immediately following a formal charge of sexual
harassment against Cooke. A female student employee re-
ported Cooke to the Office of Human Resources. University
Officials, the complaintant, the CUPD and Cooke met prior to
the arrest.

According to the arrest warrant, Cooke restrained the
complaintant against a wall and kissed her. It alleges that he
touched her leg and tried to pull her down on a couch. The
warrant also asserts there was a history of such sexual harass-
ment conduct.

John McKenzie, Director of Public Safety, said the charge was
deemed aggravated due to the subordinate relationship of the
faculty employer to the student employee. The aggravated
charge, which can carry a 10-year prison term, is a high misde-
meanor.

Cooke was released from Pickens County Law Enforcement
Center on the same day of his arrest on a $3,000 personal
recognizance bond.

Cooke's duties included working with the student judicial
board, which enforces university policy, administrative duties
with the disabled student services programs and alcohol and
drug education.

Master plan

Continued from page 1

issue concerns the need for
some type of plan being made
now to insure the future of
Agnes Scott.

Once plans are finalized, the
fundraising will begin. Gailey
believes that a "tuition increase
is not a way to raise money for
this project. " Instead,
fundraising efforts inside and
outside the campus will take
place to help raise money for
the new additions.

The ideas have already been
presented to the faculty. The
next step in the process is hold-
ing meetings for the students
to reach a consensus regarding
students' ideas for the future

of the college. The ideas will be
presented to the students in two
campus meetings. The meet-
ings will serve as a open forum
where everyone is free to ex-
press their ideas and opinions.
After the meetings with the stu-
dents, there will be a meeting
with the neighborhood asso-
ciation to get further input on
the matter. Through these
meetings the campus as a whole
can identify what needs to be
done to aid the survival of the
college. The ideas collected
from the different meetings will
be presented to the Building
and Grant Committee at their
scheduled May meeting.

OLYMPIC UPDATE

Lyubov Yegorova, a Siberian native who grew up
dreaming of dancing in the ballet, anchored the
victorious Russian cross-country relay team. The
gold medal was her sixth, tying the Winter Game

As reported in The New York Times

The National Coali-
tion Building Insti-
tute (NCBI) is a non-
profit leadership
training organization
based in Washington,
D.C. NCBI has
worked for the last
eight years to elimi-
nate prejudice and re-
duce intergroup po-
larization.

NCBI will host "Wel-
coming Diversity &
Prejudice Reduction
Workshop" on March
8, 9 & 10 on the Agnes
Scott Campus.

Contact John Pilger,
x6269, Sally
MacEwen, x6217 or
Dean Gue Hudson,
x6392 to register or for
more information.

Brigadier General challenges patriarchy

Retrospective on feminist career speaker

By Keri Randolph
Career Advisory Board

Many chose Agnes Scott in
order to live, at least for a short
time, in a matriarchal society.
But what if we had, instead,
chosen to join the military, a
traditionally male-dominated
world?

Can feminists, such as some
of us are, thrive within the
realm of a traditionally mascu-
line organization? I have per-
sonally always been a military
skeptic, but my skepticism was
laid to rest by Brigadier Gen-
eral Claudia J. Kennedy at a
program sponsored by Career
Advisory Board.

General Kennedy began
with a short overview of her
reasoning behind joining the
military. She attended and
graduated from Southwestern
at Memphis (now Rhodes) dur-
ing a turbulent time in America:
Vietnam, civil rights riots, as-
sassinations, and the Cold War.
Accompanying these national
and international issues were
personal dilemmas. General
Kennedy had no desire to ad-
here to the societal guidelines
set for women; she did not want
to follow the traditional path
for women by becoming a
teacher, nurse or wife. Her mili-
tary father motivated her to
serve and assisted in develop-

ing her dislike of draft dodg-
ers. Perhaps her most interest-
ing motivation was the book
The Feminine Mystique by Betty
Friedan.

Traditionally, women in the
army only served in ''civilian' 7
type capacities as nurses or of-
fice personnel. By the late
1960's, however, women began
to infiltrate the ranks and their
opportunities for service grew.
By the early 1 970s, women were
allowed previously denied ad-
mission into ROTC programs,
as well as academies. After
graduation, General Kennedy
was commissioned as a
Women's Army Corps officer
joining the ranks of a few but
growing number of women
officers. General Kennedy con-
tinued up through the ranks to
her current position as the first
and only female Military Intel-
ligence General.

The army continues to
present numerous opportuni-
ties to General Kennedy, in-
cluding extensive mobility. She
moves an average of once a
year and has lived in forty-five
places during forty-six years.
Though travel and culture are
important benefits, she empha-
sized that her biggest benefit is
the fairness she has found

within the army. This equality
she said surpasses the equality
found within the civilian world.
She has considered resigning
her commission at intervals
throughout her career, but each
time she found more reasons to
stay. Upon the anniversary of
her twentieth year of service,
she realized that the army was
her calling.

During the discussion, Gen-
eral Kennedy stressed the
struggle for the quality career,
urging other women not to
settle for less because of mar-
riage. She also emphasized the
significance of goals and men-
tors, stressing the importance
of college as a place to theorize
about one's own limits. As a
member of the small group that
gathered for General
Kennedy's talk, I found myself
choosing her as a mentor. She
is the most educated, confident
woman I have ever met and
perhaps the greatest feminist I
have ever encountered. Her
success as a leader within the
army was no accident; she is a
truly motivating leader, and an
example for all women to ad-
mire and follow.

Editorials

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By Eshter Dunn

What's Up With That?

While I was home over the
break my sleeping habits were
a little out of whack. After
Letterman was over and I was
still wide awake and nothing
good was on MTV, I admit that
I occasionally summoned the
patience to watch Rush
Limbaugh a man known to
many as "that big pumpkin
head/' I watched the show
keeping in mind that it is un-
fair to criticize something I
never watch, so, now that I've
watched his show, I feel that I
have earned the right to criti-
cize him.

I could rant and rave about
his pompousness because after
listening to him you might
think that he actually started
the Republican Party and ev-
erything conservative. (No
wonder his head is so big.) I
could bash him for only telling
half of the truth, for altering
the news to make everything
liberal look ridiculous and for
being a hypocrite. I would love

to alert everyone to the racist
WASP-like way that he ap-
proaches everything. But all of
this would be a waste of time
and paper. Instead, I'll look at
one aspect of his abrasive per-
sonality the phrase he is oh-
so-proud of himself for coining
"feminazis."

I have always considered
myself a feminist. It's a word
that carries a bad connotation
in some circles, but I think that
is due to the fallacies about
feminism that are spread by
people like Limbaugh.

I don't hate men. I'm not an
advocate of female supremacy
and I certainly have no plans to
cart all of the men in the world
off to concentration camps to
purify the human race. I be-
lieve women should receive
equal pay for equal work and
receive all of the opportunities
that men have always had. I
don't think that a woman
should be given a job just be-
cause she is a woman, and, of

course the same goes for men.
A person's qualifications, in-
telligence and personality, not
race, creed or sex should be the
determining factor for accep-
tance to schools or jobs or even
political office. This is what I
consider to be feminism gen-
der equality.

Keeping in mind that people
mock what they tear, 1 think
that Limbaugh is secreth afraid
that someday a much more in-
telligent (and more attractive)
woman will take over his little
operation. Maybe he is scared
that one day Hillary will come
after him for some of the offen-
sive remarks he has made about
her (and my sources say that
the odds are ten to one in her
favor). She'll make a jack-o-
lantern out of that pumpkin
head.

Whatever his real fear is, 1
hope that Limbaugh will one
day realize that feminists do
not hate all men just men
like him.

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Friday, February 25, 19'94

The Profile

Page 5

How to get into medical school
Advice from someone who knows how

Photo By Daniela Edelkind

By Britt Brewton

When I first got to Agnes
Scott, I was going to major in
international relations. I had
never even considered doing
anything else. Before class even
started, I had planned out ev-
ery course I would need to take
over the next 4 years. My first
semester was filled with
microeconomics,
macroeconomics and political
science courses. I hated all of
them, except for that biology
class I took to satisfy my sci-
ence requirement. I had al-
ready tried A. P. Biology once
in high school and was told by
the teacher, who happened to
be an Agnes Scott Alumna, that
I might want to try a different
subject. She felt "my strengths
obviously didn't lie in the sci-
ences/ 7

By the end of my first semes-
ter, I had decided to major in
biology, even though I had no
idea what to do with a science
degree. It was only after the
persuading of several friends
that I even considered a career
in medicine. No one in my
family had ever been a doctor;
they thought it was an unob-
tainable, dreamlike goal re-
served only for the most bril-
liant. My parents were always
supportive, but I could tell they
were a little wary of my deci-
sion to pursue a medical career
until they realized my serious-
ness. I continued to take more
biology courses, participate in
externship and shadow pro-
grams and volunteer in the
emergency room at a nearby
hospital. I wanted to make sure
I was fully aware of what I was
getting myself into, before I
committed myself . Fortunately
each experience continued to
push me closer towards medi-
cal school.

Being a biology major was
hard enough, but adding the
pre-med requirements was a
real pain in the neck! Spending
up to 9 hours per weed in a
laboratory when it seemed like
everyone else was sunbathing
on the quad wasn't very fun.
As any of my friends can tell
vou, my social life left much to
be desired. When they were
out drinking at Moe's and joe's,
I could usually be found with
mv nose buried in a book.
When the average student ac-
cepted to medical school has a
3.5 GPA, you know you have
to work pretty hard. At least I
was usually studying a subject
that really interested me, so it
wasn't so bad. My advisor, Dr.
Pilger, helped me to fit in the
Biology courses required for

my major, along with the addi-
tional year of chemistry, or-
ganic chemistry, physics and
calculus (30+ hours!) needed
for medical school and the
MCAT. It wasn't so hard for
me to squeeze in all these
courses because I knew what I
wanted to do relatively early.
However, I have several friends
that did not decide on medical
school until late in their sopho-
more or junior years and are
now struggling year round
with summer school to keep
up.

Once I had my course load
taken care of, I focused my ef-
forts on the dreaded Medical
College Admissions Test. The
MCAT is a knowledge-based
exam, lasting about 7 hours,
that covers general and organic
chemistry, biology, physics and
verbal reasoning. I decided to
take the rather expensive, yet
helpful, Kaplan test prep
course. The class definitely
helped keep me on tract, but
because I also had such a large
course load at Agnes Scott to
worry about, my MCAT prepa-
ration often got bumped to the
bottom of my list.

I began applying to medical
school towards the end of June
this year. Unlike most other
graduate programs, you must
first complete a generic appli-
cation for the Association of
Medical Colleges (AMCAS),
who then copy and distribute
it to your selected schools. Save
your money for this one! In
addition to their flat fee, they
charge you for each school to
which you apply. Nine schools
cost me $240. That does not
include the additional applica-
tion fees required by each
school that feels you are wor-
thy to receive one of their sec-
ondary applications. These fees
can range anywhere from $10
to $100 per school.

Perhaps the most important
part of the application process
is turning in a well-written per-
sonal statement with your
AMCAS application. You are
asked only to write about your-
self, so the possibilities are end-
less. The goal is to let the ad-
missions committee know
something about you that is
not portrayed on the rest of the
application. In addition to this
statement, many secondary
applications will often request
even more essays. Fortunately,
my top choices for medical
school had relatively simple
applications with no creative
writing involved. To give a
time perspective to the process,

I started receiving secondary
applications as early as Sep-
tember and interview invita-
tions from November until late
January.

Now after almost four years
at Agnes Scott, I am finally able
to relax a little. I have been
accepted to my top two choices
-- Emory Medical School and
the Medical College of Geor-
gia. The biggest decision will
now be deciding where too. I
strongly believe that Agnes
Scott really helped me through
the application process. We
now have a great pre-med ad-
visor, Dr. Bowling, and the
newly formed pre-med orga-
nization, the Stethoscope Soci-
ety, to provide you with most
of the information you need
for planning medical school.
In all of my interviews, the in-
terviewers were always im-
pressed to learn I attend Agnes
Scott. An Emory representa-
tive said the admissions com-
mittee was well aware that an
"A" at Agnes Scott means a lot
more than an "A" from most
other schools. For all you fu-
ture MDs, hang in there! Trust
me, the hard work really pays
off.

Britt Brewton, senior biology major provides pratical advice
on getting into medical school.

Dr. Jack Nelson heads south for the winter

By Brandy Gossage

Staff Writer

Editor's Note: Due to a printing error which made this article difficult to read in the last issue, we
a reprinting it again in its entirety.

English Professor Jack
Nelson, instead of relaxing at
home over Christmas break,
spent an interesting twelve
days in Florida. Nelson also
used this opportunity to visit
several of his graduate school
friends in Key West.

Nelson felt right at home in
Key West, close to the old
haunts of writers Ernest
Hemingway and Tennessee
Williams. He also had the op-
portunity to speak with poets
Richard Wilbur and James
Merrill.

"I've never been in a place in
Florida like Key West," com-
mented Nelson. He described
the city as "atmospheric, even
louche" with a pleasant envi-
ronment and a slow pace. Un-
fortunately, a minor illness re-
stricted his activities to looking
at the ocean, sitting on the
beach, conversing with friends
about books and old times and
people watching.

He spent eight days of his

trip in south Florida where he
and a friend from California
drove through the Everglades,
which Nelson described as "a
sea of grass." He said, "I feel
passionately about efforts to
restore the Everglades, to res-
cue it from destruction. I think
the Everglades National Park
is one of the most beautiful and
interesting places in the world."

Nelson also visited Miami,
his favorite city in Florida. He
said that the cultural mix has
made Miami a far more inter-
esting city than it was twenty-
five years ago. While there, he
spent "a lovely afternoon and
evening" in Coconut Grove, one
of his "old haunts" in south
Miami. He attested to its won-
derful night life, which includes
restaurants and sidew r alk cafes.

His experiences in Florida
prompted him to recall Rabbit
is Rich, a novel by John Updike
that is "a wonderful, accurate
parody of the 'American
Dream' as it is realized in places

like Naples, Florida.

During this trip to Florida,
Nelson also recalled the many
Christmases spent in Naples a
"sterile" place. Like Gertrude
Stein's description of her home
in Oakland, California, he says
of Naples: "There is no there,
there."

Nelson returned to Atlanta
through Savannah so that his
Californian friend could visit
the city. One of the highlights
of this stop was their dinner at
Elizabeth's on 37th Street - a
restaurant famous for its re-
nowned chef and specialized
menu. Nelson heartily recom-
mends the roast duck and the
pecan pie.

Though he enjoyed his trip,
Nelson expressed regret that
he did not visit Key West dur-
ing the summer because the
cool winter temperatures "de-
tracted from the atmosphere."

Nelson looks forward--^ a
future visit to Key West in the
warmer months of summer.

Features

Page 6 The Profile Friday, February 25, 1994

The Politics of Violent Crime

Can America Stop the Horror?

By Mary L.T. Jordan
Staff Writer

Laura Wilkens and her boy-
friend, Chris, expected a rest-
ful night in a small-town hotel
just west of Columbus, Ohio.
But when a ski-masked man
set off the fire alarm, rounded
them and 1 5 other guests into a
top-floor room, and held them
hostage at gunpoint for over 4
hours, she found herself pray-
ing for the chance to see her
21st birthday. Eventually the
man shot himself, and her des-
peration changed to hatred. "I
wanted him to be dead," she
said. "And if he lived, I wanted
him to be taken away ... for
someone to lock him up, and
throw away the key."

It's all too familiar. Blown
away body flesh and blood-
stained streets have become
sufficiently more grisly on our
nightly newscasts. Crime
pounds harder and harder on
every city street. It "kills class-
mates for their expensive ten-
nis shoes. It rapes women for
gang initiations. It sends a bul-

let through an Agnes Scott
student's window as she drives
through one of Atlanta's
wealthiest neighborhoods.

Violence has sucked in chil-
dren. Kids are killing kids, and
finally we're horrified. Poll af-
ter poll reports large numbers
of Americans abruptly calling
violent crime their greatest con-
cern. Confronted by clear evi-
dence of an increasingly horri-
fying societal war, politicians
everywhere are finally pulling
the trigger on crime. But are
they missing the target?

President Clinton peppered
his State of the Union Address
with tough talk and few solu-
tions. Approval ratings
showed that his most popular
sound bite was on his "three-
strikes-you're-out" sentencing
legislation: "Those who com-
mit repeated, violent crimes
should be told, when you com-
mit a third violent crime, you
will be put away for good. . .
Three strikes and you're out."

The Metro Correctional Institute, a state-run prison off 1-285.

Focusing on the principal
and not the specifics may cost
the President's bill passage
through Congress. He failed to
admit that Washington can do
very little in curbing violent
crime; jurisdiction for most
cases primarily remains the le-
gal domain of the individual
states. "Each state is a sover-.
eign, just as the United States
Government rules itself," ad-
mits Superior Court Senior
Judge John Langford. "The fed-
eral government is supreme in
many respects and in very few
respects. Whatever Congress
decides to do on crime in Wash-
ington is not likely to have a lot
of effect on us."

Though the legislation it-
self may be weak, three-strikes-
your-out sounds powerful and
fast-acting. People take com-
fort in a Commander -in-Chief
who says he feels our fear and
commits to solving the prob-
lem. "Folks like to hear en-
couragement from our Presi-
dent," says Decatur Mayor
Elizabeth Wilson. "I think he is
beginning to realize that some-
thing has to be done. But I
don't think that locking up
these criminals and throwing
away the key is the answer. It
may be part of the answer, but
the real solution lies in educat-
ing our children before they
start to kill each other."

President Clinton sounded
the same concern in his State of
the Union Address. "I ask you
to remember that even as we
say no to crime, we must give
people, especially our young
people, something to say yes
to." But educating our chil-
dren is tough. It's much easier
to lock away violent crime of-
fenders than to teach every
child in America the difference
between right and wrong when
so many of their role models
are scared and confused them-
selves.

"I think that society is fail-
ing to do its job before people
ever get to prison," says Lisa
Phillips, Assistant Director of
Public Affairs in the Georgia
Department of Corrections.
"You can try to rehabilitate
someone, but how do you
change their behavior in two or
three years when they've al-
ready set that pattern in the last
25?"

The increase in violent
crimes in schools suggests that
the problem begins early. One

Laura Wilkens and her boyfriend Chris Cooke, two years after
they were held hostage at gunpoint. Wilkens says, "We thought
we were going to die."

day last fall, after the Vice Presi-
dent visited a mostly black
neighborhood in Washington,
D.C., Alenia Fowlkes, a student
in a nearby high school, asked
him what he plans to do about
preventing open gunfire in her
school from ever happening
again. Gore pointed to the
crime bill, which gives money
to help states pay for more po-
lice officers (the Decatur police
department applied for a grant
last October and has heard
nothing from Washington) and
builds more prisons.

Throwing away the key
doesn't protect people like
Aliena Fowlkes from future
offenders. Until society can
cure itself of its root problems
like unemployment and
drugs which we've never
been able to do the offenders
will keep offending. So the
only available solution, some
say, is to rely on more prisons.
Just because castration may be
a simple solution for repeated
rape doesn't mean it will solve
the problem of preventing rape
in the first place.

Another point of contention
has been the cost of holding
these prisoners. In this state, it
costs $18,885 a year to keep a
prisoner incarcerated. That's
about a thousand dollars more
than one year at Agnes Scott.
The Department of Corrections
ranks Georgia as one of the
nation's largest lock-up states,
and that can get pretty expen-
sive. In December of 1 993, more
than 27,000 Georgians were
sentenced to prison in just six
months, 11,633 of which were
violent crime offenders. So if
the number of sentenced of-
fenders keeps increasing and
more and more prisons are be-
ing built (Georgia will have
nine new prisons by June of

this year) where is Georgia get-
ting the money to do all this?
That's right. You and your par-
ents, the taxpayers.

At that price, you'd think
the prisoners are getting the
most bang for our buck. But
most people don't even know
about the "check one in and
send one out" so-called Emer-
gency Release Program that
puts criminals back on the
streets to make room for new
offenders. Although the emer-
gency releasing officially ended
in December 1993, the net gain
of 374 new inmates each week
has forced the prisons to con-
tinue to free up space by letting
other prisoners go.

In the last year, more than
10,000 inmates have been re-
leased. Drug offenders who
are sometimes sentenced to 10
years are often set free in just 6
months due to overcrowding.
"Funding doesn't allow us to
lock up every felon for the en-
tire sentence," says Mike Light,
Director of Public Affairs for
the Georgia Board of Pardon
and Paroles. "We'll never have
enough prison beds to lock up
every felon for the entire sen-
tence. It's fiscally impossible."

At this point, the President's
bill seems to be nothing more
than a political attempt to calm
the American psyche. In this
formative stage, it is much too
ill-defined to be taken seriously.
Who will it be applied to? Ques-
tions like this one need to be
answered before we can judge
it. Is it fiscally responsible?
Will it only perpetuate the al-
ready failing system? Or will it
reform the old and make room
for an improved and well orga-
nized prison system?

Continued on page 7

Features

Friday, February 25, 1994

The Profile

Page

DRUNK DRIVING DOESN'T JUST KILL
DRUNK DRIVERS.

Alonzo Drake, killed 3/17/91 at 10:53pm on Robbins Rd., Harvest, AL.
Next time your friend insists on driving drunk, do whatever it takes to
stop him. ;

Because if he kills innocent people, how will you live with yourself?

FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS DRIVE DRUNK.

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Fake clinics

Continued from page 1

The "right-to-life" people
have a right to promote their
opinion, of course. We believe,
however, that they should not
attempt to deceive the public
into believing that their "Crisis
Pregnancy Center" is an abor-
tion clinic. If you look under
"Clinics" in the yellow pages,
you will find several listings of
places offering "pregnancy ser-
vices." Some of these estab-
lishments are fake clinics. They
are not listed under "Abortion
Alternatives" because they do
not want the reader to know
what they really are.

If you call a "Crisis Preg-
nancy Center" or the hotline
they use, and ask plainly if they
provide abortions, you will not
get a truthful "No." You will

probably be told that you have
to come in and talk with them.

How can you find a "real"
clinic? If you have a personal
physician and she or he is sen-
sitive to women's needs, ask
for a referral. Ask your pro-
choice friends where they go.
You can always call Planned
Parenthood and ask for a refer-
ral. When it comes to adver-
tisements in the yellow pages
or on M ART A or on billboards,
read between the lines and be
careful.

If you have been to a fake
clinic where insisted that you
did not want to continue a preg-
nancy, and then you were told
that your test was negative, get
a drugstore kit and retest im-
mediately.

For additional information
about fake clinics,
contact the Atlanta Pro-Choice Action Committee
at 239-8016.

Violent Crime

Continued from page 6

What exactly does Clinton
mean by his proposal to lock
up violent felons? Does he want
to put away purse snatchers
who nudge a store clerk and a
coat thief who pushes a woman
in his path? Or is he talking
about the particularly violent
felons? The rapists and child
molesters.

The Clinton administration
isn't even sure. "We'll let Con-
gress decide," media advisor
David Gergen admitted after
the State of the Union Address.
"We don't even know what the
different congressional ideas
call for."

Governor Zell Miller re-
cently introduced a remedy
that echoes President Clinton's
3-strikes proposal but comes
with a less expensive price tag.
Georgia's Sentence Reform
Proposal says that if a person
who has been convicted of
murder or any other violent
crime commits the crime again
that person will never leave a
Georgia prison again. "Two
strikes and you're gone," the
Governorsays. If the bill passes
the State House of Representa-
tives, (which it is expected to
do) it will have an immediate
impact on criminals who com-
mit violent crimes on or after
January I, 1995.

"We think the Governor's
Bill is better than what they're
proposing on the Federal level,
simply because it applies to
more specific felony crimes on
the state level, that the state has
jurisdiction over" says Light.
"It's not going to cost that much
to keep that small a group of
offenders incarcerated for the
rest of their lives. (FBI statistics
show violent crime offenders
making up approximately 9%
of the total crime rate in Geor-
gia)."

Only one other state, Wash-
ington, has experience with the
"three or two strikes your out"
proposal. Two months after
the law went into effect, some
Washingtonians say it's only
caused problems. According
to a recent article in the Nezu
York Times, the Seattle Police
Department argues that offic-
ers have noticed criminals be-
ing more violent when arrested,
simply because they fear "an-
other strike." Although it is
too early to judge if Washing-
ton law is actually a deterrent
to crime (there have been no
statistics since the law took ef-
fect) the SPD says there is anec-
dotal evidence that some pris-
oners are simply leaving the
state. Time Magazine says
Washington state has benefited
from the law. The New York

Did You Know...?

1) It costs $18, 885 to keep a prisoner
behind bars for one year in Georgia.

2) About 58% of Georgia prisoners are
repeat offenders.

3) In April 1993, the FBI reported 37
women prisoners for every 100,000
women in the population. The rate for
men was 18 times higher.

Times says the exact opposite.
It's just too early for anyone to
judge.

Whatever final form the bill
takes, it should recognize that
while prisons supposedly pun-
ish and reform, they do not
deter crime. "My experience
with these criminals is that they
don't think while they are hold-
ing a gun to your head, N if I get
caught, I could be in jail for the
rest of my life,'" says Light.
"Most of the people who com-
mit those crimes are strung out
on drugs."

Prison officials agree that
there are no quick fixes. But
almost everyone admits that
education and incarceration go
hand in hand. Without a skill,
criminals will undoubtedly
leave unchanged, with no real
direction and will probably re-
turn to crime. In Georgia
state prisons, an inmate can
earn a four year college degree,
take part in literacy remedial
programs, vocational and spe-
cial education, and earn a GED.
Some prisons also have a fire
fighting program, which certi-
fies state felons to learn a skill
and future profession, helping
to deter them from a life of
crime and providing 24 hour
fire coverage.

"This program is probably
one of the most successful the
department operates. Very few
times have I seen an inmate
who has the initiative to com-'
pete to enter the program
come back," says Telfair
County Fire Department Chief
Buddy Brooks. "This program
helps to teach these prisoners a
sense of responsibility, a pride
in what they are doing and
what it can mean to help in-
stead of hurt others."

Teaching responsibility,

then, before the crime is com-
mitted, may be the most im-
portant step in addressing the
overall prison crisis. Inad-
equate schooling, the disinte-
gration of the family, violent
crime on television, joblessness,
and an overall sense of hope-
lessness should be addressed
first, before our legislators re-
sort to quick fixes.

Be skeptical* There is no ob-
vious answer. Even though
politicians would like you to
believe that it's a simple issue
of hiring more police and build-
ing new prisons, the problem
is much more complex. The
frustrating attempts to grasp
solutions cut into the upsurge
of our anger and dig into the
roots of our ethical system. The
air is one of desperation.

So as Phil Collins echoes in
his hit song "Both Sides," in the
continued absence of political
and societal solutions for peace,
the American people are be-
ginning to think twice about
bringing children into this
world. "Here we all gathered
in what seems to be the center
of the storm. Neighbors once
friendly, now stand on each
side of the line that has been
drawn. They've been fighting
here for years, but now there's
killing on the streets, while
small coffins are lined up sad ly ,
now united in defeat. We al-
ways need to hear both sides of
the story." The question is
whether America can salvage
hope to listen.

Features

Page 8

The Profile

Friday, February 25, 1994

"How do you feel about Sophomore Family Weekend?"

Kelly Jennings - "I'm very

excited about Sophomore Family

Weekend and the Ring Cer-
emony. I've served as co-chair

for Ring Committee this year, so
I've seen our ring since its very

begin n ings . I'm looking forwa rd
to finally receiving our rings. I

hope everyone enjoys everything
and anticipates it as much as I
do!"

Photos and responses
compiled by Tracey Baggett

Isabel Key - "Today my ring.
Tomorrow, the world!"

Carrie Mastromarino - /

can't believe it's already here!
Our class has been working so

hard on making this weekend
special I can 't wait to wine
and dine and 'ceremonize' with

all the 'sheeks' and our par-
ents!"

Timepieces

1958 marks beginning of
Sophomore Family Weekend

By Jenny White
Features Editor

Spring semester at Agnes Scott brings lots of traditions and
observances, such as capping, elections, and of course, com-
mencement. However, spring semester is especially impor-
tant to the sophomore class because of Sophomore Family
Weekend and the Ring Ceremony. SFW has been a long-
observed event at ASC, and its origin, surprisingly enough,
has nothing to do with rings.

Edward McNair, the author of Lest We Forget, helped begin
the tradition of SFW bv suggesting at a faculty meeting that
there be some event involving students and their parents other
than senior activities such as Investiture and Commencement.
A committee was formed that eventually decided to begin a
weekend for sophomores and their pa rents OH campus, Since
seniors have the above mentioned events, juniors have Junior
Jaunt, and the first-year class always receives lots of attention,
the committee felt that sophomores "needed an occasion that
was uniquely theirs." That same year, February 21, 22, and 23
of 1958, the first Sophomore Family Weekend was held, and it
has been held every spring since.

Although the emphasis of SFW has changed somewhat by
the addition of the Ring Ceremony to the activities of the
weekend, there are still mock classes held for parents and
students, programs of entertainment produced bv the stu-
dents, and luncheons and dinners for the families. All of these
activities began with the first Sophomore Family Weekend
and continue today.

Congratulations to all the sophomores receiving rings this
weekend! Enjov the special time to spend with your family
and friends.

Behind the elevator doors

By Pam Peel

In the beginning I was
blinded by visions of glam-
our high heels clicking on the
newsroom floor, producers re-
laying codes to editors in the
control booth, cameramen
counting down "three, two,
one" from commercial. My in-
ternship in the Political Unit of
the Cable News Network be-
gan as a dream come true, a
once-in-a-lifetime look at the
media's role in a presidential
election. I researched in the
CNN library, edited tape for
"Inside Politics" and cut sound
bites for the evening news. Ted
Turner negotiated in his office
down the hall and Catherine
Crier moved back and forth
between make-up and the tele-
vision screen. My employee's
identification allowed me to see
and do all of these things. It
took me places in the CNN
Center that tour groups aren't
allowed to see. Eventually I
wandered far enough into the
news industry that the glam-
our disappeared. One of my
fellow interns, Noah, brought
reality into clear focus.

One Tuesday the intern co-
ordinator, Anne, asked Noah
and me to rearrange the library
and make room for more tapes.

lately I liked the simplest tasks
best.

"Probably one tape after
another of Bill Clinton jogging,"
I muttered, secretly glad she
gave me a job I knew I could
handle.

All of my assignments at
work suddenly intimidated
me. I realized that I hated my
internship, but I didn't know-
why. I thrived on the excite-
ment during my work in other
political arenas, but something
at CNN transformed me from
a self-confident, eager intern
into a timid, jumpy and worth-
less secretary.

To make matters worse,
Noah began to act as it he
wanted to date me. He always
checked behind me at work,
and it seemed we became part-
ners in most every task. Usu-
ally I thanked him for the help;
when things went wrong, he
was an easy person to blame.
Anne even assigned Noah and
me to work together in the
newsroom, probably because
she thought I needed the help.

"You can start shelving on
the back wall of the library ,"
Noah told me after I informed
Jiim of the task Anne assigned

"I think we're supposed to

rupted me.

"So how was Je-sup, Pam
Peeeel?" Noah jokingly asked.
"Did you see all your kin folk
over the midterm break?"

Anne told me to start shelv-
ing tapes at the front, but Noah
wouldn't listen to a word 1 said.

"It was fine," was my gig-
gling reply. The teasing was
part of Noah's love game, noth-
ing serious. I went along with
it at first to have something to
pass the time. "Did you have a
good trip home to New York?"

"The city is nice this time of
year. I know you've never been
but you can probably imagine."

I wasn't really listening be-
cause I knew what came next
stories of home, wild nights
with his cool friends and all the
work he neglected to do tor his
tough classes at Emory.

"Yeah, and I won't even get
to study tonight either because
I'm meeting a friend for din-
ner, and then I have some work
to do at the fraternity house
and-"

"Oh, so you have a date?" I
asked. For some reason, Noah's
social life interested me.

"No," he said defensively.
He turned to pick up a stack of
tapes and knocked another one

Features

Friday, February 25, 1994

The Profile

Page 9

Editor's Note: This article is the first in an ongoing series of
articles that will address particular interests of RTCs. A
combination of both feature and editorial material, this
article, not any that will follow necessarily represent the
opinions of all RTCs.

When you are my age and you sit cross-legged on the
ground with a bunch of girlfriends out on the quad, there's
a distinct possibility you might not be able to get up, at least
not right away. You may still look like you can, but there's
just never any telling.

Another thing happens too. Years ago when I would
desperately try to illuminate others I sometimes would
inject my foot in my mouth (I've never outgrown that one),
and would forget what I was saying. I'd have to stop for a
moment to backup or start over, but I always recalled within
seconds where I was going. At the time I just figured my
brain raced along at breakneck speed due to brilliance. But
now when that happens, I realize it's not that it won't come
back, sort of like those periods of silence on the Watergate
tapes, never to be retrieved again. Ask anybody in any of the
classes they take with me, they'll tell you. Am I embar-
rassed? No-oo-ooo. That's another thing that disappears
with age. You don't care if you look or sound like an idiot.
(Well, you may care if you look like one...) When I was
twenty I thought I knew everything. Now that it's twenty
years later I do know a lot more, but once you know more,
then there's just that much more you have to find out.

I asked a silly question in class the other day. I can always
tell when I do that. A lot of the of the younger women roll
their eyes and exchange glances with each other that tell me
that I've once again asked the most stupid question since the
dawn of time. Some just shake their heads right in front of
me, feeling sorry for me. Others sigh and there are a few
who are about to climb the walls they're so ready to burst
forth with some new revelation to help me. I think what's
happening is that they think the questions I ask are new to
me; that somehow I've just thought of them for the first time
- which, in turn, always surprises me. For starters, it's not
quite true. I'm asking the same questions over and over
again for the millioneth time and still wondering why things
are so screwed up. Only other students have never heard me
ask it before. People only hear the wonderment in my voice.

I was amazed the other day when I was thinking out loud
(when you get old this gets really bad -- so I guess I'm really
showing my age) and I thought one classmate was going to
have a heart attack because my question was so ridiculous
to her. I felt sorry for her because I knew she had no clue
about who I am, how I feel about things, what drives me,
who I care about, the sadnesses I've experienced in my life
or my joy from being back in school. She seemed so far away
like she was looking at me through a time tunnel and I
seemed so small to her. I left class that day feeling very sorry
for myself, but mostly sorry for the way in which we
sometimes misread each other. I guess that's one of those
things I wonder about out loud and one of those things that
will never improve with age no matter how long I live.

This article is a kind of hello to everybody from the group
of us who, for whatever reason, are in school just like
everyone else at Agnes Scott, getting frustrated and stressed-
out and taking some painful strides towards a better under-
standing of not only each other, but of ourselves as well.

I feel privileged to be at Agnes Scott and I'm glad that
college is making me look into my heart to take out what's
ugly -- to examine my mind to rid it of things that have been
poured into it by a culture that is not well and needs good
medicine.

For all fellow RTCs, this is your column. So if you have
a flash and it's hot, don't rush to the medicine cabinet, just
put it in print.

Elevator doors

Continued from page 8

over in the process. 'Tick those
up/' he said to me on his way
out of the library. My question
obviously make Noah uncom-
fortable.

"What's her name? Where
are y'all going?" I don't know
why I suddenly enjoyed giving
Noah such a hard time. Sub-
consciously, the questions de-
veloped as my way of teasing
him, seeking revenge for all the
sexist remarks and jokes about
my "southern charm."

"How long have y'all been
dating?" I refused to let the
subject of his dinner date die.
We stood face to face in the
library both trying to unload
an armful of tapes onto the
same small shelf.

"We're not dating," he said
deliberately. "Why did you
bring so many of these in here
when you saw me bring in such
a big stack?" Then he looked
straight at me and said, "I'm
available, what about you?"

Suddenly, it all came out in
the open. All those times he
offered to help he was really
only flirting with me. I should
be flattered, right? He must be
smart and ambitious to be an
intern at CNN. Something
wasn't quite right though. In
fact, things were wrong be-
tween us, and I turned to hurry
out of the tape library.

"There's a whole stack of
unlabeled tapes here, so you
should probably go and ask
Anne what to do with them."
He changed the subject when I
chose not to answer his ques-
tion, and insecurity lurked be-
hind his words.

"She told me t-" I started,
but Noah came out of the li-
brary talking. I walked over to
tell him what Anne said to do.
"I think we sh-," but again he
didn't let me finish.

"Why don't you just go and
ask her like I told you to," he
said suddenly. As usual his
tone of voice caused me to
doubt myself. What if I re-
membered Anne's instructions
incorrectly? I might cause us to

Look for another
exciting restaurant
review by Merisa E.
Aranas in the next issue
of the Profile.

This is It! Bar-B-Q
receives rave reviews
for its location, price
and quality.

Next issue available
March 11.

make a mistake that affected
the most powerful network in
the news industry. Rather than
take a risk, I consented to his
instructions. "I'll be right
back," I said as I turned to go.

"Good," he simply said, but
in that instant, I noticed things
about Noah that I never saw
before.

Suddenly I could not toler-
ate his physical appearance. I
hated him for dressing inap-
propriately wearing khaki
shorts in my glamorous world
of television. He tried to as-
sume power over me with
words, but I towered over him
physically. What a runt, I
thought, and for a moment he
looked so Jewish, his black hair
too tightly curled. His voice
was so nasal, and if he thought
I had a bad accent, he ought to
listen t his own. Despite the
fact I played into Noah's love
games for two months, I real-
ized I never liked him at all.
Was I repulsed because he was
physically unappealing or be-
cause of his offensive behav-
ior?

Regardless, I turned to do
just what Noah instructed. I
did not have the strength to
fight him yet. About that time
Anne came up the stairs with
another assignment.

"Pam," she said, "You stay
here and keep working in the
library because you know what
to do with these unlabeled
tapes. Noah, put those down
and go watch this tape. It's
boring, but I need to know
what's here."

"Why don't you ask Pam
Peeeel here about her trip down
South?" Noah said to Anne,
refusing to leave us alone.

"Noah, why don't you go
and watch that tape like I asked
you to."

Noah didn't move.

"Now!" Anne said, and
Noah moseyed out to a view-
ing station.

Anne looked relieved that
he was gone. "How was your
break, Pam?" she asked, seem-
ing to be genuinely interested.

"I had a nice trip," I told her,
but I knew Anne didn't have
time for small talk. "Noah and
I haven't made much progress
in the library," I said apologeti-
cally.

"You're doing great, he's the
one who won't listen to a thing
I tell him." My sentiments ex-
actly, I thought. "In fact, while
he's gone, let me put you on
this project of mine. When
Noah comes back, tell him to
work in the library, but you
keep working on this for me,"
she said.

Finally, my own project;

Anne chose me for the job.
Unknowingly she gave me the
boost of confidence I needed to
deal with Noah when he came
back in.

"Anne put you to work on
that same old computer sys-
tem, I see," Noah said.

"No."

"I guess you're just logging
some more tapes, huh?" Noah
asked.

"No."

"What are you working on
Pam?"

"You're to continue shelv-
ing tapes in the library," I told
him.

"Let me help you," Noah
said.

"You wouldn't know how."

"Aren't you supposed to
enter the subject of the tape
and then the correspondent's
name?" He continued to try
and give me advice on a project
he knew nothing about. Fi-
nally, he grew tired of talking
to himself. He stopped breath-
ing down my neck and re-
turned to the drudgery of the
tape library.

The office was quiet for the
next thirty minutes. I reached
a stopping point and gathered
up my things to leave for the
day. I heard him calling after
me from the tape library, but I
kept walking.

"Wait up and I'll ride
MARTA with you," he said to
me as I climbed on the elevator.

"No thank you," I said, and
the elevator doors closed be-
tween us.

As I rode the train home that
night, I remembered all the
non-glamorous aspects of life
at CNN. I thought of stressed-
out producers screaming in
Catherine Crier's earpiece as
she speaks calmly to you from
the screen. I pitied profession-
als like Anne who work eigh-
teen hour days waiting anx-
iously for their moment in front
of the camera. I questioned
whether my job was truly glam-
orous or whether I had only
logged hundreds of tapes of
Bill Clinton jogging.

Certainly I acquired new
skills, but my relationship with
Noah taught me the most valu-
able lesson of all. I will speak
up the very first time a man at
work makes a joke about my
family, my small southern
town, my accent, or my sex.
Whether Noah considered it a
love game or harassment, he
had no right to be condescend-
ing.

When those elevator doors
opened again, I had not en-
dured a semester with Noah in
vain. I learned to label sexual
harassment.

Arts & Entertainment

Page 10

The Profile

Friday, February 25, 1994

Present Laughter not an
immediate favorite

Photo By Gil Williams

By Nichole Reynolds

Theatre lovers who have never been involved in the produc-
tion of a play will appreciate Neighborhood Playhouse's rendi-
tion of Noel Howard's Present Laughter, which comically por-
trays every idiosyncrasy of a prima-donna theatre star.

The play takes place in Gary's studio, which in itself is worth
seeing. Tastefully done, the set represents the glamour of an
actor's life. When the lights go down on the well-designed stage,
there are glow-in-the-dark spots which light up like stars. This
lovely addition is not only delightful to the eye but also themati-
cally appropriate.

Present Laughter essentially focuses on Gary's life and by
default, the lives of those who adore and flock around him: his
wife, his secretary, his lovers, business associates and friends.
Gary, a middle-aged (though he refuses to admit it) womanizer
(which he happily admits), becomes caught up in the pettiness
around him when he is tricked, in a manner of speaking, into
sleeping with the beautiful Joanne.

Joanne, like many women before her, forgets her latch key and
uses Gary's "spare room." Unfortunately, she happens to be the
wife of Hugo Lyppiatt, Gary's financial backer and friend, as well
as the mistress of Morris Dixon, another friend of Gary's.

There are so many things going on in the play that it is often
difficult to follow the play. Gary is supposed to have a habit of
over reacting in everything he does. As a result, everything
seems overemphasized. Thus, the lines essential to the plot are
hard to discern because there is not a difference between some-
thing important and something unimportant.

Part of the humor in the play lies with the fact that Gary over-
acts his goodbye scenes with a schoolgirl, who also forgot her
latch key, and a young playwright, who has an obsession with
the actor. There is not enough distinction between when Gary
is play-acting and when he is being himself, or at least what he
lets others see of himself.

Although the fact that he is always acting is part of the play,
this characteristic could have been performed in such a way that
there were at least some differences between when he knows he
is acting and when he does not.

Gary was supposed to be the one who had the problem with
over-acting. Yet, everyone else in the play, with the exception of
the butler (Tom Deardorff) and the secretary (Rachel Fowler) had
the same problem. The unintentional overacting by almost the
entire cast took away from what should have been the focus of
the play.

Overall, Present Laughter is interesting to watch. It appears
that the director, Barbara Hawkins, did her job fairly well. The
entrances and exits are impressive, especially Rachel Fowler's.
The blocking is likewise motivated and timely.

Regardless of the problems with the production, people who
are impressed with the text of a play or who are theatre lovers
will enjoy spending an evening watching Present Laughter. Just
don't go on a Thursday night - Seinfeld's on.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS
THE 1994 ASC WRITERS' FESTIVAL
WILL BE HELD
MARCH 24 & 25
IN THE WINTER THEATRE

Thursday, March 24

4:00 p.m. Reading by Melissa Fay Greene
8: 1 5 p.m. Reading by Carolyn Forche

Friday, March 25

10.25 a.m. Reading by Lee Abbott
2:00 a.m. Panel discussion of student work
6:30 p.m. Alumnae Association Dinner
(By admission)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL 371-6294

A consoling wife listens patiently to the torrid details of her estranged husband's comic affairs
in Noel Coward's Present Laughter. The play ended this week, but check the Calendar of Events
page for information about Neighborhood's next play, A Little Nigh Music.

By Kelly Holton
Assistant Editor

Winners and Snoozers

The Getaway. A surprisingly entertaining movie

Since I've never been a fan
of shoot 'em up movies or Kim
Basinger, I went to see The Get-
away with rather low expecta-
tions. Imagine my surprise
when I found myself actually
liking some of the characters
and their performances and
enjoying the movie.

The Getaway tells the story of
a couple, Doc and Carol McCoy
(Alec Baldwin and Kim
Basinger, respectively), who
make their living as expert
criminals. The plot involves a
series of getaways, first the
McCoys helping others escape
and then the McCoys trying to
get away from their own en-
emies.

At the beginning of the
movie, it is hard to feel sympa-
thy for the two main charac-
ters; after all they did break the
law, so why shouldn't they pay
the price? As the movie
progresses, however, we do
begin to identify more with the
McCoys, and the movie actu-
ally does a good job of shifting
our svmpathy to the McCoys.

For one thing, characters
who make Doc and Carol look
like altar boys soon come into
the picture. James Woods plays
Jack Benvon, a powerful, evil

man who agrees to help Doc
out of a harsh Mexican prison
in exchange for criminal favors
from Doc and sexual favors
from Carol. He and his hench-
men are ruthless, willing to
cheat or hurt anyone to make a
profit. Benyon's evil nature
gives the audience the first rea-
son to start cheering on the
main characters. They will
never, as long as they are asso-
ciated with Benyon, be able to
escape this life of crime and
lead the kind of life they hope
for.

Two other characters serve
to make the McCoys into sym-
pathetic characters: Rudy and
Fran (Michael Madsen and Jen-
nifer Tilly, respectively). In the
same way that Benyon's ruth-
lessness makes Doc and Carol
appear to be responsible citi-
zens, so does the most horrible
love affair between Rudy and
Fran emphasize the genuine
emotion that the McCoys feel
for each other. Rudy, a crimi-
nal on the run, kidnaps Fran
and her husband. In a bizarre
twist, Rudy and Fran end up
becoming romantically involve
and continuing their attempt
to find and kill the McCoys on
their own. Because the affair

between Fran and Rudy lacks
any sort of real feelings, we
appreciate the fact that Doc and
Carol really do love each other.
The struggle between the
McCoys to overcome the ef-
fects of Carol's affair with Jack
Benyon also help to create a
believable bond between the
two.

But this movie is not really a
love story. It's really the story
of two criminals and the way
that they outwit other crimi-
nals and the police in order to
survive. If you have a weak
stomach, you might not want
to see this movie because many
people die in a variety of bloody
ways. In fact, it is this gratu-
itous killing that really hurts
the movie and makes it hard to
appreciate the main characters.
I never expected these two to
be model citizens, but I would
have liked to have seen some
improvement in their moral-
ity. Instead, they ride off into
thesunset using thesamedevi-
ous ways that ha ve served them
throughout the rest of the
movie, and I resented just a
little bit the fact that the folks
who made this movie con-
vinced me to root for them.

Arts & Entertainment

Friday, February 25, 1994

The Profile

Page 1

High Museum celebrates the early
years of Ansel Adams

By Tracey Baggett

North Palisade, Sierra Nevada (ca. 1930), and many other
breathtaking images by Ansel Adams will be on view at the
High Museum of Folk Art and Photography Galleries through
March 19. The exhibit features 75 black and white photographs
which survey the first two decades of Ansel Adams' artistic
growth.

Ansel Adams: The Early Years
is now showing through March
19 at the High Museum's Geor-
gia-Pacific Center. The show
spotlights the first twenty years
of Adams' professional career,
and offers some unexpected
images for those familiar with
Adams' most famous works.
The images chosen for the ex-
hibit are fresh and varied. The
exhibit captures Adams experi-
mentation with composition,
contrast, and subject matter
before he settled into his forte
as a landscape photographer.
Although the show includes
some of his earlier landscapes,
it is a collection of work unlike
any show I have seen.

In the photograph, Rose and
Driftwood, 1932, Adams draws
the viewers eyes inward into
the folds of the rose, and into
the depths of the shadows cre-
ated by his dramatic use of
light. As one sees the flower
more closely, he starts to real-
ize Adams has transformed this
simple rose into an exquisite
landscape of veins and shad-
ows. The wood beneath the
rose is captured with as much
crystal clarity as one would
expect to find in Adams's ma-

jestic mountain scapes. It is
easy to forget that the flower is
simply on a piece of wood. In
his treatment of still life, the
flower is brought alive.

Adams explores his subjects
with varying styles. The dif-
ferences he creates between
scenes, still life, portraits, and
candids are striking. At this
time in his career, he was strin-
gent to a particular school of
thought in photography that
prized low apertures to achieve
clarity. Problems occur when
he photographed people, be-
cause the low apertures were
unable to compensate for the
inevitable movement of his
subjects. This resulted in the
fuzzy rendition of human sub-
jects in some of the works in the
show. It was an unusual thing
to find in Ansel Adams's work.

There are two series of pho-
tographs included in the show.
Surf Sequence #2-5, c.1940, cap-
tures swirling, almost halluci-
nogenic patterns in the sand.
The mixture of the crisp lines
formed in the sand with the
deep contrasts and soft edges
of the water transforms the
prints into landscapes. They
are fascinating. Shipwreck Se-

ries, c.1932, is a series of six
prints of various shaped an-
chors piled on top of one an-
other. The play on light and
dark is effectively intriguing

For those Adams fans who
appreciate his traditionally
well-known photographs, the
show includes a huge print of
Mqonrise, Hernandez, New
Mexico, 1941. The print domi-
nates one end of the gallery at
almost 24"x 36" in size. It is one
of his more famous images, fa-
miliar to many who do not even
know Adams' name.

The gallery is located con-
veniently near Marta's
Peachtree Center Station. Exit
easterly at the station and walk
left down Peachtree. The Geor-
gia-Pacific Center is a large pink
building on the corner of
Peachtree and Houston Streets
and is accessible from Houston
Street side. Admission is free,
and they are open until five on
weekdays. I highly recom-
mend this exhibit to anyone
interested in photography,
Ansel Adams, or just interested
in a constructive, culturally
sound study break.

Bishop delivers strong, enjoyable
concert

By Jenny Skridulis

Staff Writer

Martha Bishop, a gifted cello
and viola da gamba player per-
formed three Bach sonatas for
viola da gamba on Friday, Feb-
ruary 19.

The viola da gamba is the
predecessor of the cello and a
much lighter sounding instru-
ment. Though the viola de
gamba was going out of style
during his lifetime, Bach, who
lived from 1 685 to 1 750, used it
to evoke feelings of poignancy
and sadness, especially in
pieces such as his St. John Pas-
sion.

The three works performed
by Bishop were the Sonata no.
1 in G major, Sonata no. 2 in D
major and Sonata no. 3 in G
minor. Each piece was accom-
panied by the harpsichord and
each required a fine balance
between the two instruments,
both of which had challenging
portions to play.

The first sonata was an exu-
berant piece, putting more of
an emphasis on the technical
difficulties of the harpsichord.

The second sonata had the viola
da gamba appearing more as a
solo instrument with difficult
cadenza passages. Bishop, who
is an enthusiastic student of
early music, was able to repli-
cate authentic styles of playing
the gamba, especially those
techniques which were used by
the players of Bach's time.

The third sonata contained
many technical difficulties for
both harpsichord and viola da
gamba. The Adagio movement
of this piece was especially
beautiful.

Early music has come to
have more followers in the past
few years, partially because of
a film which followed the life
of a French composer and
gamba player, Marin Marais.
The resurgence in popularity
of this music emphasizes its
delicate beauty and sound
which is so pleasing to hear.

"Old Wreck, Cape Cod, Massachusettes" (ca. 1936), another photograph by Ansel Adams
currently on view at the High.

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Rebekah Waltz Reception Room
7-8:15 p.m.

Pinky Balais and Claire Laye,
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Calendar Of Events

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Friday, February 25, 1994

VISUAL ART

High Museum of Art

For more information call 892-
HIGH. Admission: $5 adults,
$3 senior citizens and students,
$1 children 6-17, children un-
der 6 free.

THROUGH 4/24/94 Treasures
from an African Kingdom: Royal
art of Benin from the Perls Collec-
tion of The Metropolitan Museum
of Art

One hundred royal treasures
of brass, ivory, terracotta and
wood from the ancient African
kingdom of Benin represent 500
years of art for rituals and or-
naments.

THROUGH 3/27/94 Mary
Cassatt: Art in the Making

This exhibition explores the
artist's working methods, ma-
terials and techniques. Along
with two of her finished paint-
ings, the museum will display
a selection of oil studies, water-
colors and preparatory
sketches.

The High Museum of Art Folk
Art and Photography Galleries
Georgia-Pacific Center

Call 577-6940 for more infor-
mation.

THROUGH 3/19/94 Ansel
Adams the Early Years

This exhibition chronicles
the first 20 years of the career of
one of America's best-loved
photographers.

THROUGH 6/18/94 Earl
Cunningham: Pan\tingan Ameri-
can Eden

Photo By Kathryn Kolb

This showing features 46 oil
paintings and one sculpture.
The paintings are seascapes and
waterscapes combining per-
sonal experience with elements
of fantasy.

The Atlanta College of Art

For more information call Chris
Scoates or Richard Russell at
898-1157, or call Katharine
Murphy at 898-1164.

THROUGH 3/2/94 Multiple
World: an International Survey of
Artists' Books

This exhibition is a contem-
porary survey of approxi-
mately 110 limited-edition, fine
press, multiples and off-set
editions of artists' books from
around the world.

THEATRE

Neighborhood Playhouse

For ticket information, call 373-
5311.

OPENING 3/17/94 A Little
Night Music

Isn't it rich! A lovely musi-
cal adaptation of Ingmar
Bergman's film Smiles of a Sum-
mer Night wherein new love
blossoms, old love is rekindled
and false hopes shattered. Set
in turn-of-the-century Sweden,
with a lilting 3/4 times score,
this 1973 hit garnered Tony
Awards for Best Musical, Best
Book, with critics praising it as,
"Heady, civilized and enchant-
ing ~ "The perfect romantic
musical comedy." Featured
numbers include "Weekend in

Horizon Theatre Company completes its production of Many Things Have Happened Since He
Died. ..And Here Are The Highlights on Sunday, February 27. Pictured above are Cathy Larson
and Jeff Portell.

the Country," "Remember" and
"Send in the Clowns."

Theatre League of Atlanta the
Fox

For ticket information call 249-
6400 or 817-8700. For other in-
formation, call Jud v Masterson
at 873-4300.

3/15/94 - 3/20/94 The Who's
TOMMY

Set in Britain between the
end of World War II and the
late 1960s, TOMMY chronicles
the adventures of young
Tommy Walker. Following a
traumatic childhood experi-
ence which causes him to with-

Agnes Scott College's Dalton Gallery in the Dana Fine Arts Building celebrates the artist's
book as a special form of visual expression that allows for unique interactions between word,
texture and image. The exhibit will continue through March 6.

draw from the world, Tommy
emerges as an unwilling hero
the Pinball wizard who must
live up to the expectations of
his demanding followers.

Horizon Theatre Company

For further information contact
Mary Anne Chew at 523-1477,
or call the Horizon Box Office
at 584-7450.

THROUGH 2/27/94 Many
Things Have Happened Since hie
Died... And Here Are the High-
lights

Tom Key adapted this wick-
edly funny Southern comedy-
drama from the novel by Eliza-
beth Dewberry Vaughn.

7 Stages Theatre

For ticket information call 522-
0911

THROUGH 3/13/94 My Chil-
dren! My Africa!

The Shakespeare Tavern

Call 874-5299 for information
about ticket prices and show-
times and also for a current
update on menu items for the
restaurant section of the tav-
ern.

THROUGH 3/27/94 Macbeth

OTHER

High Museum of Art

(see VISUAL ART listing for

additional information)

TONIGHT 2/25/94 The Old
Dark House (1932)

As part of film series, the
museum will screen this clas-
sic horror film at S p.m. The
film is directed by James Whale,
who also has to his credit the
direction of Frankenstein.

3/3/94 The Dybhuk

The museum kicks off its
third annual Jewish film festi-
val at S p.m. with this film that
evokes the cultural riches of
both pre-World War I shtetl
communities and Polish Jewry
on the eve of World War II. The
film was created in Poland in
1937 and contains new English
subtitles.

ON CAMPUS

Please call 371-6294 for more
information.

2/27/94 Concert

Sharon Willis, soprano, will
perform a program of African-
American spirituals, past and
present, in "Spiritual Song Cd-
ebration" at 3pm in Maclean
Auditorium of Presser 1 [all.

Tl 1 ROUGH 3/6/^4 Book Arts:
A National juried Exhibition

This exhibit, located in the
Da 1 1 o n G a 1 1 e r y o f t h e Da n a Fi n e
Arts Building, celebrates the
artist's book as a special form
of visual expression that allows
for unique interactions be-
tween word, texture and im-
age.

The Profile

Friday, March 1 1, 1994

The Independent Student Newspaper of Agnes Scott College

Vol. 80, Issue 9

Honoring Marti Kidd

Friends hold memorial service for former student

By Tammy Bain

Marti Kidd was born on
December 8, 1974 in Somerset,
Kentucky. She attended Agnes
Scott during the 1 992-1 993 aca-
demic year.

In the fall of 1993, Marti
transferred to a small commu-
nity college in Kentucky and
then on to the University of
Kentucky in 1994.

While a student at the Uni-
versity of Kentucky, Marti be-
gan the first chapter of the Na-
tional Organization for
Women.

On February 21, Marti was
hospitalized with pneumonia.
She remained in critical condi-

tion until March 1 when she
died of a rare respiratory infec-
tion.

She was laid to rest in Bethel
Cemetery in Pine Knot, Ken-
tucky on March 5.

I remember Marti as a very
sweet person, and she was
well-liked by everyone who
met her. She was always cheer-
ful and fun to be around. Marti
was a good friend to many
people, and she left behind
many happy memories. She
will be greatly missed by all of
her friends.

On Sunday, March 6, sev-

eral of Marti's Agnes Scott
friends, including Anne Rob-
erts, Dana Carter, Ylonka
Jiminez, Judy Bower and
Tammy Bain held a memorial
service in memory of Marti's
life.

All students were invited to
attend the service, held at 6:30
p.m. in the Alston Center
Thatcher Chapel.

Marti Kidd

December 8, 1974
March 1, 1994

Marti Kidd (right) with Agnes Scott friend Tammy Bain.

Founder's Day luncheon inspires remembrance and communion

By Kerry Murphy
Netvs Editor

On Wednesday, February
23, the entire Agnes Scott Com-
munity was invited to a
Founder's Day luncheon held
in Letitia Pate Evans Dining
Hall.

The luncheon, which was
free of charge to everyone, fea-
tured the production of a short
play entitled Since We Forgot by
theatre professor, Dudley
Sanders.

The idea for having a lun-

cheon versus the convocations
of the past was presented at a
Faculty Executive Committee
(F.E.C.) meeting. The faculty
processes a certain number of
times each year, and this year
Founder's Day would have
been a day that they would not
have marched. The attendance
at convocations was also a key
factor in the need for a change
to something different and
more appealing to the campus

community.

Carolyn Wynens of Public
Relations was one of the people
in charge with the arrange-
ments of the luncheon. Ac-
cording to Wynens, the deci-
sion to have the play performed
during lunch time in the din-
ing hall was so that the greatest
amount of people possible
could see the play. She is very
grateful to all of the people in-
volved in helping to make the

event a memorable one.

The highlight of the lun-
cheon was the play entitled
Since We Forgot that combines
historical facts with relevant
themes on campus today in a
humorous and memorable
way.

Sanders and theatre profes-
sor N.J. Stanley served as the
narrators with students por-
traying major historical roles.
Kathleen Hill portrayed Colo-
nel George Washington Scott,
one of the founder's of the
school named in loving
memory of his mother. Holly
Williamson played the role of
Dr. Frank Gaines, another

founder of the college who first
presided over the Board of
Trustees and later became the
first college president. Laylage
Courie performed the role of
Miss Nannette Hopkins, first
dean of the college. The three
students featured in the pro-
duction also had other minor
roles in the play.

There was a very good turn
out at the luncheon, with atten-
dance from administration,
faculty, staff and students.
| This type of community pro-
gram used in celebration of
Founder's Day may mark the
beginning of a new tradition at
Agnes Scott.

Many members of the college community gathered together for the Founder's Day luncheon.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE":

NEWS:

SPORTS UPDATE

EDITORIALS:

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DOUBLE SEX, LIFE & GENDER

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FEATURES:

TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE

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After rocky start, tennis team surges ahead

Nanska Lovell
Sports Editor

As spring temperatures in-
crease, the ASC tennis team also
begins to warm up for the
height of the tennis season.

This year the team, coached
by Susan Arthur, consists of 10
players: first-year students:
Akeley David, Marley Maupin,
Ashley Merrit, and Kelanie
Williamson; sophomores:
Heather Braithwaite and Emily
Curington; juniors: Kira
Hospodar, Kirsten Loop, and
Wendy Wheless; and senior:
Reina Barreto.

The spring season opened
with a match on February 25
against Sewanee. Although
Sewanee was a very strong
opponent to begin the season
with and won the match
against ASC 9 to 0, Coach
Arthur feels that the competi-
tion was an invaluable experi-

ence that helped improve the
team's concentration and
strength.

Following the Sewanee
match, ASC played Mississippi
University for Womenwhere
the team showed much im-
provement, presenting closer
and more competitive matches.
Although ASC lost to M.U.W.
2 to 7, Coach Arthur said the
team as a whole played much
better, with less nervousness
and higher concentration.

On Monday, February 28,
ASC played Oglethorpe. After
already played two competi-
tive schools, the team was ready
mentally and physically to take
on their new challenger. As a
result, the team beat
Oglethorpe in every match,
winning both the singles and
doubles. The final score was

ASC 9 and Oglethorpe 0.

As the season continues, the
leadership and experience of
the returning players adds
strength to the team, helping
guide them on to a winning
season.

The high enthusiasm and
competitiveness of the new stu-
dents also brings tremendous
talent to the team.

The team looks forward to
the remainder of the season,
including their trip to Hilton
Head over spring break where
they will engage in numerous
matches against many Division
III schools from the northern
United States.

Keep an eye out for activi-
ties on the courts this spring for
the ASC tennis team will be
worth the watch.

Basketball team finishes season with good record

By Nanska Lovell
Sports Editor

On Monday Feb. 21 , the ASC
basketball team played its last
home game against Wesleyan
College. The team played ex-
ceptionally well, winning the
game 69 to 46.

Marley Maupin was the
leading scorer with 20 points,
followed by Kristi Mendheim
with 14. In addition, the game
revealed the strength and opti-
mism of all the players as each
one scored at least one basket
during the game.

The team thanks all of the
numerous fans who packed the
gym in support of their school's
efforts; their cheers helped to
spur the team on to victory.

Following the last home
game, ASC concluded its sea-
son by participating in a
women's college tournament
at Wesleyan College on Febru-
ary 25 and 26. In the tourna-

ment, ASC's first opponent was
Spelman. Although the team
lost the game by* a few points,
Coach Rast commented that it
was one of the best games the
team had played all season.
Throughout the game, ASC
never relented, continually
pressuring Spelman while
righting for the win with every
pass and shot they made. At
half time ASC was leading the
game by seven points and sus-
tained the lead for much of the
second half. The loss was a
close one 74 to 84 and, with the
continued improvement of the
team over the next year, they
hope to be an even greater chal-
lenge to Spelman next season.

To conclude the weekend
tournament, ASC played
Wesleyan College one final
time. The high spirits and
unrelinquishing determination

seen at the Spelman game again
empowered the team, giving
them a substantial victory over
their opponent. The team
showed considerable improve-
ment, revealing their abilities
to remain united and strong to
the end.

At the conclusion of the tour-
nament, the coaches voted on
whom they considered to be
the most outstanding players
of the tournament. These play-
ers were placed on the All-
Tournament Team. From the
Agnes Scott team, one mem-
ber, Marley Maupin, was cho-
sen for this prestigious honor.

Congratulations Marley!

With the close of the 1 993-94
basketball season, the team
again thanks all who came to
the games in support of their
team and hopes to see every-
one again next season.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS
WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE KAPPA KAPPA CHAPTER
OF PI DELTA PHI ON MARCH 9.

Lori Brittle
Dana Carter
Jennifer Dolan
Esther Dunn

Fariba Farhidvash
Mary-Elizabeth Friend
Brandy Gossage
Denise Medina

Anne Mitchell
Jennifer Parker
Mary Carol Patterson
Vicki Siefert

PI DELTA PHI SPONSORED AN INFORMAL DINNER
IN HONOR OF NEW MEMBERS FOLLOWING THE CEREMONY.

ASCPD Blues

The Department of Public Safety

First we would like to thank everyone for co-operating
during the tornado drill on Wednesday, March 3. Things
went relatively well, particularly with the help from the
building captains. As a quick reminder, this is tornado season
in Georgia and a tornado can appear very rapidly with or
without warning. When a tornado "watch" is announced for
our area this means that the weather conditions are right for
a tornado to occur, A tornado "warning" means that a
tornado has actually been sighted in our area. When this is
announced it is imperative that everyone seek shelter imme-
diately because there may be very little time between the
announcement of the "warning" and the appearance of the
tornado. Remember, go to the lowest level of the building you
are in or to the lowest level of the building closest to you if you
are outside. And be sure to stay away from windows.

As a result of mandatory meetings, a WSB-TV story on
March 2, and of course the Agnes Scott grapevine, I am sure
all of you are aware of the incident which occurred in one of
the residence halls over the weekend a couple of weeks ago.
It was an unfortunate incident which could have had a much
worse outcome that it did. We were fortunate this time and
we hope this situation will point out the necessity for some
changes in your behavior if the 24-hour parietals are going to
work safely. First, you need to begin locking your room when
you are gone or at night when you go to bed if you are not
already doing this. Our honor system will have little or no
inhibiting value for people outside our campus community so
you must protect yourself and your belongings just as you
would if you lived in an apartment. Also, be sure you know
your guest well, how he will behave normally or when intoxi-
cated since YOU are responsible for his behavior in either
case. And remember, intoxication is not a defense against
criminal prosecution in Georgia. If a male is found in an area
where he is not authorized to be, he will be prosecuted. The
charge will be burglary (a felony) or criminal trespass (a
misdemeanor) depending on the circumstances. The new
parietals and the choices they provide can be a wonderful
experience but everyone needs to realize the importance this
places on each student's responsibility not only for her own
safety but for that of the others in her residence hall as well.

We have gotten a couple of complaints of harassing phone
calls recently. Remember, if you get a single call occasionally
don't worry about reporting it. But if you get several calls
from the same person or several people on your hall get
similar calls please report this to our office. Harassing phone
calls are a crime and there are things we can do to stop them
and/or make a case against the caller. You don't need to put
up with this type of nuisance.

Have a safe and fun spring break! See you soon.

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Harlem Spiritual Ensemble
founder speaks at Agnes Scott

By Kerry Murphy
News Editor

Francois Clemmons, Director of the Harlem Spiritual En-
semble, presented the covocation lecture on Wednesday, March
2.

In addition to the lecture, Clemmons also participated in
classes with Agnes Scott's Joyful Noise later that evening.

Clemmons founded the chorus with the intent of preserving
the American Negro Spiritual song. Although the ensemble is
extremely successful today and is internationally renowned,
Clemmons had difficulty in forming the group.

He had to make several attempts before finding the right
combination and the incentive necessary to get the singers to
practice and show up at rehearsals.

His is the first professional African-American choral group
and both he and the ensemble are intent to make a change. He
wants to increase the popularity of spirituals in all communities.
He stressed the need to understand the culture and psychology
behind the spirituals.

To emphasize his point about the simplicity of a spiritual, he
sang the spiritual song 'This Little Light of Mine" in a beautiful
tenor voice that resounded throughout Maclean auditorium.

Clemmons provided a brief history of the spiritual explaining
its role as a means of communication. He recalled the fact that
slaves were taught only the absolute necessities of language
when they first arrived in America from Africa. The spiritual was
often the way that theyexpressed their pain and suffering.
Clemmons also mentioned using the spiritual song to delve into
an area of history, African-American history, which is usually
neglected or abbreviated in the schools. He also reiterated the
notion that education is an important part of the ensemble's
outreach into the community.

Clemmons got one of his initial starts on the children's educa-
tional program "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood." He told the story
of how he sang in the choir with Fred Roger's wife and how their
friendship led to his introduction to Rogers, who, very im-
pressed by Clemmons's singing, wanted him to make an appear-
ance on his show. Clemmons did four shows to begin with and
almost rejected Rogers offer to become a regular on the program.
Finally Clemmons agreed to be on the program and spent twenty-
five years on the show before leaving. He and Fred Rogers are
still very close friends.

Clemmons credits his mother with cultivating his love for
song. He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama to the sound of his
mother's spirituals. He said that his love for singing spirituals
was passed to him "through his mother's milk." Clemmons said
that they he has "difficulty remembering a time [he] wasn't
singing."

From a very young age, his life dream was to be able to sing
spirituals, and now, through the formation of the extremely
popular Harlem Spiritual Ensemble, he is able to live out his
dream.

Suffragists ride in one of three cars entered by the Atlanta Equal Suffrage Association in the
city's December 1913 "auto floral parade" down Peachtree Street. This photo is currently on
display in the exhibition "Disturbing the Peace: Women, Suffrage, and Politics," an exhibition
in celebration of Women's History Month.

Atlanta History Center sponsors tribute
to Women's History Month

Press Release

The Atlanta History Center
is currently sponsoring sev-
eral tributes to Women's His-
tory Month, including exhibi-
tions and special programs.

The exibition "Disturbing
the Peace: Women, Suffrage,
and Politics," celebrates the 75th
anniversary of the May 1919
decision by City of Atlanta of-
ficials to allow women to vote
in city elections -- more than a
year before the 19th
Ammendment to the Constitu-
tion was ratified in August
1 920, granting women suffrage.

The exhibition examines the
woman suffrage movement,
both locally and nationally, as
well as the roles American
women played in politics be-

fore and after gaining the vote.
Among the items on display
are a suffragist's uniform, po-
litical cartoons and historic
photographs.

The exhibition will run
through July 16.

On March 22, Dr. Darlene
Clark Hine will present a lec-
ture entitled "The Making of
Black Women's History: Past
Present and Future" on Afri-
can-American women in the
South before 1940.

Hine has been the John A.
Hannah Professor of History
at Michigan State Universoty
since 1987 and has taught his-
tory, women's studies and
black studies at the University
of Delaware, Purdue

Universitty, Arizona State Uni-
versity and South Carolina
State College.

The lecture is part of the an-
nual Aiken Lectures that are
made possible through the
Long-Rucker-Aiken Memorial
Fund, established in 1992 by a
generous bequest from Atlanta
native Lucy Rucker Aiken. The
lectures examine the role that
African-Americans played in
the history of Atlanta, Georgia
and the Southeast prior to 1 940.

The lecture is free and open
to the public.

The Atlanta History Center
is located at 130 West Paces
Ferry Road, N.W. Call 814-
4000 for additional informa-
tion.

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The Profile is published bi-weekly throughout the academic year. Letters
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Microsoft Word. We cannot publish unsigned letters. Views expressed
on the editorial pages do not necessarily reflect those of anyone affiliated
with the College or the Profile staff other than the author.

By Josie Hoilman
Editor-in-Chief

Soliloquy

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In The White Album Joan Didion says that "we tell ourselves
stories in order to live/' There are some things we need to believe
and others that we need to forget. Reality and truth are different
for each of us and facts become the stories that we tell.

2.

Words are powerful because they represent a singular reality
a personal response to a moment that has already passed. Athol
Fugard says that language will save the hope of South Africa
because a riot is only one word, but education is many.

3.

In the last year I have presented you with words about scandal,
harassment and abortion. And simple words of common news.
Some words were not easily digestible and others will never be
forgotten. All live for themselves and have a different meaning
for every person.

Some say that words easily die. Like Emily Dickinson I find that
they live a long time, sometimes longer than we intend. Words
are dangerous. They anchor time with language and command
respect, attention and sometimes mercy.

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."
6.

Words preserve memory. They provide a port-of-call, a refer-
ence to return to. Only sometimes we return to them.

7.

Anne Sexton died still searching for a common language to bind
her to this world. To her, writing was the "business of words," a
cathartic industry always questioning "where is the order?" Like
Sexton I have seen:

Words out through the lipis like toads!
And if there is a pearl among them
she will surely get lost m the confusion.
Words, words, words,
piled up on one another,
making a kind of weight of themselves.

- from Words for Dr. Y.

By Esther Dunn

What's Up With That?

My grandmother lives out
on Long Island and during one
of our visits when I was about
eight years old I remember
standing in her kitchen listen-
ing to her talk about the Holo-
caust, the Nazis,Hitler and
other things like that. Being an
impatient eight-year-old, I
asked my grandmother why
she always had to talk about
that; why couldn't she just for-
get it? She motioned to me to
follow her into the dining room
where she dug out an old black
and white photograph of a
woman I'd never seen. "She's
beautiful," I said. My grand-
mother told me to look on the
back of the picture. There I
read the date of her death at
Auschwitz.

I'll always remember that
conversation with my grand-
mother just like I'll always re-
member that a classmate wrote
"Jew" on my locker in eleventh
grade. I'll also remember how
red that kid's face turned when
I told him it better be erased
before lunch. And now Agnes
Scott and the Profile have given
me something else to remem-

ber.

In the last issue of the Profile
a fellow student wrote an ar-
ticle relating an experience with
sexual harassment. Any feel-
ing of pity or sympathy which
I might have felt for this stu-
dent flew out the window and
jumped off a cliff as soon as I
read: "Suddenly I could not
tolerate his physical
appearance.... What a runt, I
thought, and for a moment he
looked so Jewish, his black hair
too tightly curled. His voice so
nasal, and if he thought I had a
bad accent, he ought to listen to
his own." Now, I have had bad
experiences with southern
men, but never in my lite would
I tell someone that his Chris-
tian gooberishness really got
on my nerves.

I've probably heard all of the
stereotypes that surround the
Jewish religion since I've been
here: he or she's got a Jewish
name, a Jewish nose, a Jewish
accent (apparently referring to
a Long Island accent) and what
would my life be like without
those sensitive references to
greed. However, this one blows

them all away. Imagine some-
one being so Jewish (whatever
that means) as to truly disgust
someone. What an accomplish-
ment. My people can truly be
proud. Of course I never
thought anyone would be good
enough to print it for me in the
paper I write for. Gee, thanks.

I don't want any apologies,
pleas for forgiveness, or ex-
cuses as to why that article ap-
peared as it did in the last issue.
The fact is that it did, so this
will be the last column I will
write for the Profile because I
don't think I could respect my-
self if I continued to write for a
paper that doesn't really care if
it offends an entire religion.

This winter my grand-
mother was out having lunch,
wearing the Agnes Scott
sweatshirt I gave her last year.
Some women who were from
Decatur saw "her and they
started talking. After my
grandmother filled them in on
how she got the sweatshirt, the
women reacted by saying, "Oh,
Agnes Scott is not the place for
a nice Jewish girl." Maybe they
were right.

Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

As I sat reading the most
recent issue of the Profile, I ran
across something very offen-
sive. I couldn't believe my eyes:
"What a runt, I thought, and for
a moment he looked so Jewish,
his black hair too tightly curled.
His voice was so nasal and if he
thought I had a bad accent, he
ought to listen to his own."

Here at Agnes Scott, where
we are all sensitive, and we all
love diversity, we are publish-
ing a paper that prints such
stereotypes. The article "Be-
hind the Elevator Doors" by
Pam Peel hurt my feelings
deeply. What happened to the
days when two wrongs didn't
make a right? I know sexism is
wrong but what does that have
to do with a person's religion?
I know I can be naive at times,
and I know the world is full of
bigotry and hatred, but must
we publish such insensitive
statements in our school's
newspaper?

The hurt this article has
caused is irreversible and
unexcuseable. My respect for
the Profile as an unbiased, fair
and sensitive publication is

gone. Since the Profile is a rep-
resentation of our campus to
parents, alumnae, board mem-
bers, faculty and staff, our
whole community is hurt and
suffers from this misrepresen-
tation. I hope this makes the
Agnes Scott community, in-
cluding the Profile, stop and
take a look at its values.

- Mary Carol Patterson '96

THE PROFILE WILL

SUSPEND
PUBLICATION FOR
SPRING BREAK
AND WILL RE-
TURN ON APRIL 1
WITH
KELLY HOLTON
AS NEW
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.

PLEASE DIRECT
ALL PROFILE
CORRESPONDANCE
TO
BOX 195.

MY RESPONSE TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN "BE-
HIND THE ELEVATOR DOORS" INCLUDED A
PERSONAL ATTACK ON MY CO-INTERN, NOAH.
IN AN ATTEMPT TO CONVEY THE INTENSITY OF
MY REACTION TO NOAH, I PRINTED AN
UNEDITED VERSION OF MY RESPONSE TO HIM
AT THAT MOMENT I DID NOT INTEND THE
ESSAY TO INCLUDE BLANKET STATEMENTS
AGAINSTTHE JEWISH FAITH AND CULTURE, AND
I APOLOGIZE IF PORTIONS OF THE ESSAY DID
OFFEND ANY MEMBER OF THE AGNES ACOTT
COMMUNITY

- PAM PEEL

Editorials

Uffish Thoughts

Friday, March 11, 1994

The Profile

Sex, Life & Gender

By Michelle Smith

Well, it has been a heck of a week. It has been raining like a
monsoon, and my family has had a major crisis that I had to go
home and try to deal with. And to top it all off I had a "gender
politics run in" with a man at a hotel.

Picture if you please. ..a family in mourning, away from their
home. They need a hotel, somewhere to rest their head for the
night.

So Michelle, being the good person that she is, calls to get a
rate. And I barter until I get the best one possible with the
weekday discounts, etc. I admit, at this point I'm pretty smug. I
have everything written down to ensure the cheapest rate.

Well, my father goes into the hotel to get us a room, and he
leaves before I have a chance to lecture him about what discounts
to ask for, smoking verses nonsmoking, what to do in case of a
nuclear attack, etc. He has none of my notes.

And I'll have you know that my father, a man, comes back with
a rate five dollars cheaper than the one I bartered at length for!

1 was shocked. Mortified. After an eighty thousand dollar
education, my father could still get a cheaper rate from the hotel
guy than I could.

Why? Did I have idiot plastered on my forehead? (You don't
have to answer that, really.) Was the five dollars to ensure my
protection as a woman? (How do they know I'm not really
renting it for a circus of dancing gorillas?)

Perhaps it was just an oversight. I've thought of that. (How-
ever, my father received a cheaper rate without bartering at all.)
But, why did the hotel dummy make me practically pull his teeth
out to even quote the price he did to me? And why quote me a
price at all if the first Y chromosome that walks in at the front desk
gets a better rate than me?!

I should be happy. The five dollars my father saved helped
pay my library fines. It's just the futility of it all. Maybe next time
I'll barter with a gun.

By Kathleen Hill and Holly Williamson

"Alternative" Lifestyles The Choice is Yours

This column is one example
of an editorial. You'll note that
it resides in its own special sec-
tion, "THE EDITORIAL SEC-
TION." (We're not making this
up.) If you would like to see
other examples of editorials
you may glance at the various,
well-reasoned, informative col-
umns on this page or on any
other page marked "Editorias."
On occasion, however, the in-
sidious little suckers have been
known to slip through the con-
fining editorial pages and run
freely through the other sec-
tions of the newspaper, wreak-
ing havoc and leaving a trail of
destruction. We have, some-
times, caught these slippery
fellows red-handed in Arts or
Sports, and they seem espe-
cially attracted to the infamous
"Features Section." Until re-
cently, we thought the front
page free from these nasty, cor-
ruptive columns. No sooner
had we turned our backs, how-
ever, when an editorial, clev-
erly disguised as a piece of im-
portant news, snuck onto the
very front page of our beloved
Profile. (Well, actually, it was a
fake editorial.)

The culprit was an informa-
tive little blurb from our
friendly neighborhood Pro-

More Sex, Life & Gender

By Michelle Smith

Well, Jansen finally won a
gold medal. After four Olym-
pic tries, many televised falls,
and his last game, he finally
came through with not only a
gold medal, but also a new
record. Makes one kind of
weepy eyed about the old ad-
age of perseverance.

When Roseanne was on
Oprah the other week, she had
a few words on perseverance
herself. She made up a "you're
fired /hit list." She said those
were the people she wanted to
see go when the show reached
number one.

I can see how someone
would be very happy using
Roseanne's approach to perse-
verance and success, over
Jansen's. First, her approach
would be a lot more fun. And
there certainly wouldn't be any
televised falls for the entire
universe to see.

I mean, haven't there been
people in your life that you
would like to fire? I can name

a few without even trying. In
fact, that seems like a good idea.
We'll call it the "Michelle Smith,
You're Fired! Hit List."

1. A department chair, a
professor, and an instructor (it
sounds sort of like a theme
song, doesn't it?)

2. My fifth grade teacher
who made me take off my
glasses in the school operetta,
Hansel and Gretal, "because
"fairies do not wear glasses."
(I wonder how many fairies she
has seen sprinkling dew drops
on kids who eat gingerbread
houses for breakfast, to actu-
ally confirm this profound
thinking on fairies and eye-
sight.)

3. My speech teacher who
said 1 would never be success-
ful because "people with South-
ern accents are never success-
ful." (I'm sure Jimmy Carter
would have a few things to say
about that.)

4. The little boy at recess in
first grade who called me a

Yankee everyday until I hit him
really hard with the kick ball.
(See, I was a feminist then, and
just didn't know it yet.)

And the fifth person I would
fire would be.. .(drum roll,
please)

5. A little man at home who
admitted to stealing from my
parent's business, but was not
convicted of any crime. (This
man on the "You're Fired! Hit
List" wouldn't even get any
severance pay. Total scum.)

Wow, this feels really good.
In fact, I think everyone should
have a "You're Fired! Hit List."
Of course, you should also have
a "Welcome Aboard! You're
Hired List," as well.

My hired list is extremely
long, so we won't even get into
that list todav. I hope your
"Welcome Aboard! You're
Hired List" is real long, too.
ItS the folks on that list that
make perseverance all the more
special, and rewarding.

Choice Action Committee not
that we're blaming them, they
couldn't control the wander-
lust of that floating advertise-
ment they call an article. You
see, advertisements are usually
pretty obvious. They don't
have the ingenuity it takes to
hide, and they are generally
recognizable as a group by their
obnoxiously catchy phrases.
(We realize that it is not politi-
cally correct to make generali-
zations about a group, and we
hope that the advertisements
will find it in their hearts to
forgive us.) The article to which
we are referring, however, was
really only a fake advertise-
ment because it not only lacked
an obnoxiously catchy phrase,
but also any blatant recogni-
tion of its status as an adver-
tisement by its sponsor. The
perpetrator, however, failed to
disguise itself completely, and
we found incontestable proof
of its status as a type of adver-
tisement in the obviously
vested interest of its authors.

Much like a poorly-written
editorial, this fake editorial (or
fake advertisement) lacked the
documentation necessary to
support its assertions. While
its authors may "have it on
good authority," how are we to
know who they consider to be
appropriate authorities? And
what about those facts that they
never back up? Are we to as-
sume that they are truly any
less-biased than the pro-life
groups that they attack? "Oh,"
we should think, "They
wouldn't lie to me. I'll just call
that telephone number that
they were thoughtful enough
to include with their article and
believe everything that they say
even if they haven't bothered
to support it with facts. If they

don't have any proof, then it
must be true, right?" C'mon,
we're not quite as dumb as
that gullible, maybe, but not
dumb!

By the way, what's the defi-
nition of the word alternative,
anyway? We thought that it
meant a choice, one of several
or one of many. Apparently,
Webster thought so too. But
our friends of the Pro-Choice
Action Committee have re-de-
fined the word as fake. Now
we're confused. The Pro-
Choice Action Committee
seems to believe that the crisis
pregnancy centers which list
themselves under "Abortion
Alternatives" in the yellow
pages are doing something il-
legal: "you will find legitimate
women's medical clinics listed
in the Atlanta yellow pages
under 'Abortion SERVICES,'"
We were under the impression
that women's health clinics
were clinics which specialized
in women's health issues. Imag-
ine our surprise, then, to find
that they are really abortion
centers. Abortion Alternatives,
however, we would have as-
sumed to be pregnancy solu-
tions other than abortion. Give
us a hand, ladies, it seems that
we finally got one right!

Now, what we still don't
understand is how a legal es-
tablishment providing preg-
nant women with a choice to
carry their children to term and
stating as much in their adver-
tisements in the yellow pages
can be illegitimate. We always
thought that truth-in-advertis-
ing was legal even encour-
aged. We guess that the Pro-
Choice Action Committee and
their fake editorial wouldn't
understand that, would thev?

Editor's Note:

The front page of a newspaper may contain any type of journalism
-- in special cases even the editorial. Unlike Hill and Williamson
propose, the information contained in the APAC article was not false
and was not an advertisement.

For obvious reasons, APAC withheld the names of the women
who supplied evidence against places that disguiuse themselves as
abortion clincs in order to persuade women to choose another alter-
native. There are also legitimate, helpful, alternative clinics for
women that also advertise in the Yellow Pages.

There are no clear statutes governing the use of the word clinic in
the state of Georgia. Hypothetically, a bar could be called a clinic if
the owners desired. For this reason, APAC felt the need to warn
women who want abortions that you must read betwen the lines and
be careful when choosing a clinic.

An Agnes Scott student who experienced a scenario similar to the
one APAC describes is willing to speak with anyone who would like
additional proof supporting the existence of fake clinics in Atlanta.
Please contact me at 371-6820 to arrange to speak with her.

Josie Hoilman

Creative Writing

Page 6

The Profile

Friday, March 11, 1994

The Ballad of the Shirley T.

By Perrin Cothran

It was going to be a hot, July
day, but it was only 4 a.m. when
Henry Hill stepped down out of
his trailer. He tried not to wake his
wife, Mabel. But today, like al-
ways, she stirred slowly and got
up to make Henry a pot of coffee.
It was the least she could do. She
felt worthless since she'd been fired
from her job in the seafood store.
She was a hard worker, but they
couldn't afford to keep her on.
Times were bad everywhere.

Henry heaved himself over the
side of his shrimp boat onto the
deck. Alfred, his striker, would be
along shortly. Tide was low, and
a gentle zephyr blew at about ten
nauts. Henry thought he heard a
gator slink through the crackly
marsh grass on the other bank.
Henry scratched his chin. Once
the color of a milky chocolate bar,
his skin now matched the dry ash
of the oyster pit in his front yard.
He heard Alfred's quick footsteps
on the dock.

" Bout time you old fool."
Alfred clomped into the boat in
his white rubber boots.

"Who you callin' a fool? You
the one got people after you." Die-
sel fumes rolled over the dark river
and they shoved off.

They were in the Intercoastal
Waterway before Henry asked,
"Who's been after me?"

"White man by the name of
Ravenel came looking for you yes-
terday. Said he was from town."
Alfred cocked his chin in the air
sideways. He scratched behind
his ear and waited for a response
he didn't get. "Said he was from
the IRS and nobody was at home
to your house."

Henry cleared his throat. "My
little grand, Clarice, has been
down. Got bit by a rabid coon.
Mabel and me went to town to see
her in the hospital. My grand
might not live to see the next day-
break, and that man won't let me
be."

"He don't care about your
grand. He wants your money."

"I know that's right. Clarice
and her mama don't have insur-
ance, and they need my help,
don'tcha see?"

"Mm-hm. You and Mabel need
y'al] some steady money. I reckon
we all do." Both men nodded in
the early morning light and un-
derstood what was not said: the
government might take Henry s
boat. Henry's father, Marvin Hill,
had built the boat about sixty years
ago and called it Shirley t. after
I lenry's mother 1 lenrv wrinkled
his brow and swallowed hard as
he thought of loosing it. \ le swal-
lowed again harder as he thought
of losing Clarice, and all because
he wasn't watching her when the
coon attacked her. She was only

four, and didn't know to be afraid
of such a furry, interesting-look-
ing animal.

"Daddy, forgive me. I don't
think I can save either one of them,"
Henry moaned after Alfred had
gone out onto the deck to guide
the nets and doors over the side.
Henry's chest was heavy with
grief.

When the Shirley T. whirled up
to the dock at the end of the day, a
man in a light grey suit was there
waiting.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Hill!" he
called as Henry and Alfred tied up
the bow. "Remember me, sir? I'm
Bill Ravenel. I've been out to see
you before regarding your shrimp
boat. Could I have a word with
you?"

Expressionless, Henry walked
down the port side and shook
Ravenel's hand. "I hear you been
looking for me."

"Yes sir, you're a hard man to
catch. Tell you what. ..why don't
we go sit in my car over there so
we can talk privately."

"Here's fine." Henry didn't
move.

"I could give you a lift home
and we could chat on the way."

"I live a hundred yards from
here."

Ravenel sighed and frowned a
little. "That's right, isn't it? Okay,
Mr. Hill. If you want to do busi-
ness that way, then we'll quit beat-
ing around the bush. You owe the
U.S. government $6,000."

"$6,000?"

"Yes, with the added interest,
it's a little over $,6000.
Would you happen to
have that sum to
day?"

"You know I don't,
Ravenel."

"Well, I'm afraid
you have thirty days
to come up with it. If
I don't see that money
you know we'll have
to take possession of
the Shirley T." Henry
stared down at a strav
mullet flapping
around on the deck.

"My granddaugh
ter is sick."

"I'm very sorry to
hear that, Mr. Hill
Hope she's better
soon. I'll expect to see
you in the next thirty
days. You have my
number. You know
where to reach me."
Dust billowed behind
Ravenel's white
Dodge.

Henry wended his
way up to the trailer
and went inside to the
smell ot collards on

the stove. Mabel was there in a
house coat. "They cut off our
phone today, Henry. I went up to
the store to call Stella, and it's not
good. Clarice got real bad last
night. Her fever went up. She's
unconscious. She flopped down
on the orange corduroy couch next
to Henry, but got up again when
she caught a whiff of his fishy-
smelling sleeve.

"Will she be okay?" Henry was
quiet. He almost whispered.

Mabel sniffed, "Stella doesn't
think so." The two stared out the
front window at the evening sky;
fuschia, pink, coral and orange fell
into the horizon over the marsh.
Mabel stepped toward the bed-
room. "I'm gettin' dressed and
goin' over to the hospital."

"I can't go."

"Yeah, I thought, an' that's why
I went on and fixed your dinner.
She's your grand. You come on
and go, now."

"I can't."

"Cause it was your fault?
You're a sorry so-and-so, Henry."

Henry nodded and rose to clean
himself up for the drive. "I'll call
Alfred and let him know."

Mabel and Henry pulled into
the driveway and got out of the
truck at 3:30 a.m. They stumbled
up the front steps. Alfred came
running up the path from thedock.

"Henry! Henry, you all right,
old fool? Are we goin' out today?"
Henry motioned Alfred inside.

Once in, Mabel shuffled silently

to the bedroom. Henry sat down
in the chair closest to the door.
"She's gone, Alfred. She died a
couple of hours ago. I can't go
today. Just can't. Sorry."

"Oh, yeah, hey it's all right,
man. Sorry. Sorry about Clarice.
I mean, I don't know what I'd do
if...."

"Alfred, Stella owes the hospi-
tal over $22,000. She asked if I
could help. What could I say?
She's my baby. But I don't got it
I'm in deep. Don't got what I need,
much less what she needs."

"Yeah." They sat in the dark
for several quiet minutes. Alfred
stood and put his hand on Henry's
shoulder. "Let me know if there's
anything I can do." Alfred slipped
out the front door.

Just after sun-up, Henry loi-
tered in the front yard, nursing a
cup of coffee. He lazily kicked a
rock at an old cur sniffing around
in Mabel's flower bed. Mabel
wrestled a suitcase down out of
the trailer.

"Whatcha doin', woman?"

"Stella needs me, Henry."

"I might need you, too."

"You can feed yourself. And
it's only temporary. I'm gonna
find a job in town and help her pay
the hospital. She needs company.
She'll be lonely."

"My foot. That girl never been
lonely a day in her life. She got a
enough men friends ..."

"I ain't listenin. If you so wor-
ried, you come, too."

"No, I gotta figure a way to
hold on to my boat." Mabel got

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into the truck.

"You come tomorrow and bring
your suit." She wheeled away.

Henry walked up the road and
knocked on Alfred's door. Alfred
opened it, and standing puzzled
in his underwear, had a bowl of
shrimp and grits. "Henry, man,
whatcha doin' here?"

"Mabel just left." Henry looked
around nervously. "Look, ain't no
point in hangin' around here. Let's
take off."

"Oh. Okay, let me get dressed."

"I'll go home and get my boots."
Henry climbed back into his trailer
and poured another cup of coffee.
He yanked on his boots and ran
out the front door. He wanted to
get far away from the place where
his negligence had killed his
granddaughter.

When Henry and Alfred ap-
proached the dock, thick, black
smoke puffed up from the trees.
The boat had barely bumped the
dock when Henry leapt and hit
the ground running. "Tie up,
Alfred!"

"Man, be careful!" Honrs
heaved and puffed down the path
to an infernal heap of garbage. It
was all gone. Flames licked the
trees around what used to be the
trailer, and sheets of ash rose with
t h e h e a t o f t h e c h e m i c a 1 1 y - c h a r g e d
fire. Henry stood in disbelief until
Alfred came up behind him.

"You got insurance on it, right?"
Henry didn't answer. "Henry, you
can stay with me." Henry still
didn't answer.

"All 1 got is the Slur ley T., and
they're gonna take all I got left."

"What happened? Man, what
happened?"

"The coffee ..."

Henry turned and walked
briskly toward the boat.

"Henry! Fool, you ain't gonna
call the fire department?" I lenrv
didn't slow his stride.

"What for? It's gone. An it's
my fault."

Henry jumped over the side
and went in the cabin of the Shirley
T. Alfred ran down on the dock
after him.

"What you doin ? What got
into you?" Henry revved the en-
gine.

"Gimme a shove off."

"Where're you goin' fool?''
Henry wheeled around to face his
striker.

"Where they can t take my
Daddy's boat. Goodbye, Alfred."

The two men nodded solemnly
to one another, and Alfred pushed
the stern away from the dock.
Shirley T. hummed out to sea with
a gentle spray behind her.

Features

Friday, March 1 1, 1994

The Profile

Page 7

Rythmic and enriched: Spotlight on Barbara Blatchley

By Brandy Gossage
Staff Writer

Dr. Barbara Blatchley, a
graduate of Indiana University
in Bloomington, may have once
seemed an unlikely candidate
for a psychology degree. Dur-
ing her undergraduate years,
she chose a wide variety of six
different majors, including En-
glish (Comparative Literature),
history, chemistry ("until or-
ganic chemistry!" ), botany, and
geology. She settled on her
final choice, psychology, be-
cause "it let me ask the kinds of
questions I was interested in
asking."

She recently switched from
neurophysiology to psychol-
ogy because she became more
interested in the behavior of
her subjects. Her main interest
lies in circadian rhythms, which
are peaks in human activity that
occur once every twenty-four
hours.

Blatchley, who currently
conducts research in the Psy-
chology Department, uses rats
as her model for circadian ac-
tivity because rats have no
rhythm at birth and develop
rhythm over time. She wants
to know how, at what age, and
in what type of environment
the rats develop their rhythms.
Do rats learn their circadian
rhythms from their mothers,
or is the rhythm innate?

An independent student
research project, Environmen-
tal Enrichment, Learning Perfor-
mance and Susceptibility to Stress
in Rflfs, by Jennifer Bruce (1992)
addresses some of the research
questions currently of interest
to Blatchley. In Bruce's study,
44 albino male and female rats
were placed in three different
groups: an "enriched, social
environment," a "social, non-
enriched environment," and a
"deprived, isolated environ-
ment." The rats in the enriched
environment had a signifi-
cantly better learning perfor-
mance but lower activity levels
after the stress treatment than
the non-enriched and isolated
rats. The rats' environment also
affects the rats psychologically
and neurologically. Bruce's
results confirmed Greenough's
evidence that rearing environ-
ment can affect adult behavior.

Enriched environments
have an effect on circadian
rhythms. Blatchley found that
the rats raised in the enriched
environment were less rhyth-
mic in their behavior than those
raised in isolation. Isolated rats
may only appear to be more
rhythmic because they tended
to be either active or inactive,
whereas enriched animals were

either very active or less active.
The floor of activity for en-
riched rats was raised.

Greenough and others con-
ducting similar research dis-
covered that gender made a
difference in the rat's behavior.
Male rats showed greater ef-
fects of the enriched environ-
ment in the occipital cortex,
while female rats showed less
of an effect. Blatchley also

found some gender differences,
including that female rats were
more resistant to change in the
environment.

Blatchley is interested in the
development of rhythms in ac-
tivity. She wants to know
what rats' activity patterns are
at birth and how this activity
pattern changes over time. Her
proposed resaerch would chart
the activity of the rats from birth

Dr. Barbara Blatchley, assistant professor of psychology.

to adulthood. She would place
rat pups in a cage with the
mother rat and record move-
ment. She would then watch
the rats for answers to the fol-
lowing questions: Do the rat
pups move? How rhythmic is
the mother rat? Do the pups
copy the mother? Do the pups
begin with their own rhythms,
then adjust to the mother rat's
rhythm?

Because "growth patterns
are an indirect measure of how
much control you have over
your muscles," Blatchley sees a
possible correlation between
activity and growth patterns.
Human growth patterns occur
in bursts, and changes in be-
havior precede each growth
spurt. It takes about eighteen
years for humans to reach their
final height, but rats reach their
final size after about a month
and a half. Blatchley would
like to pursue experimentation
of her hypothesis concerning a
correlation between growth
patterns and circadian
rhythms.

"Come and work with me!"
she invites her students. "I'd
love to have students in the lab.
It would be so much more in-
teresting to have a place where
you apply what you learn in
class."

Applying to law school: Finding a way through the purple haze

By Elena Paras

When I think back on apply-
ing to law school, I feel like I
entered a purple haze and did
not exit until the whole terrify-
ing experience was over. Go-
ing through the overly priced
process of applying is no en-
thralling experience. Yet, it is a
process which all future law
students have to survive in or-
dertoattend. All kidding aside,
it is not that bad, but it will take
some time.

After making the decision .
to apply to law school, it is
important that you first pick
up the LS AT/ LSD AS Registra-
tion and Information Book
from the Resource Library lo-
cated next to the Registrar's
office. In order to apply to law
school, the LSAT (Law School
Admissions Test) is required.
The LSAT/ LSD AS Book con-
tains all the information which
you will need to register for
and take the LSAT. Further,
all applicants must apply for
the LSDAS service. This ser-
vice takes all your grades (in-
cluding P.E.) and reformulates
them by a standardized scale.
It compiles applicant's bio-

graphical information and aca-
demic information, including
the LSAT score, into one report
which is then sent to all the
schools to which you apply.

The number of reports or-
dered is equal to the number of
schools to which an applicant
applied. When an applicant
sends an application to a law
school, she must include a Law
School Application Matching
Form. The law school then
sends this form to LSDAS
which then sends the report to
the law school. For example: I
applied to seven schools. So, in
all seven application packets I
included the form. Further, I
ordered seven reports from
LSDAS. All the fees for the
reports are in the LSAT /LSDAS
Information Book.

Also in this book is the ap-
plication for the LSAT. Make
sure that you take the test as
soon as possible so that if you
are not satisfied with your first
scores, you have time to take
them again with the possibility
of seeing them before you must
send applications to schools.
Study for the LSAT whether it

is with a study guide book like
the Princeton Review or
through a course such as
KAPLAN. Kaplan is expen-
sive but they do provide schol-
arship for those receiving aid
from their schools. This aid
must be applied for. Law
schools will tell you that they
take into account your activi-
ties and your dog's name and
pedigree but do not be fooled.
They consider these things af-
ter they consider your GPA and
LSAT scores and personal state-
ment. The most important ele-
ments of your application are
the LSAT, GPA and PER-
SONAL STATEMENT.

After applying for the LSAT
and registered with the LSDAS
service, you can begin looking
at law schools. The best way to
go about this is to either buy
The Official Guide to U.S. Law
Schools through LSDAS ($13)
or use a copy provided by po-
litical science professor, Dr.
Cathy Scott. This book pro-
vides information for all law
schools. In addition, grids
cross-sectioning LSAT and
GPA show the number of ap-

plicants in your range the pre-
vious year who were admitted.

Read about all the schools,
make a list of those you are
interested in and send for their
applications. It is up to you to
choose schools according to
what is important to you. If
name is important to you, then
you will pick schools like
Harvard, Georgetown, Vir-
ginia, etc. If geography is im-
portant to you, you will look
for schools in that particular
region. Law schools can be
chosen according to numerous
variables. The best way to go
about it is to read about all the
schools in this book and see
which appeal to you. Perhaps
certain schools have programs
you are interested in such as
environmental law or interna-
tional law.

Once you have researched
all the law schools and chosen
a certain number (people I
talked to applied anywhere
from two to ten - it depends on
how much money you are will-
ing or able to spend) and re-
ceived the applications, make
files for each of them. It is

helpful on the outside of the
file folder to write information
which you think is useful, in-
cluding deadline, application
fee, number of recommenda-
tions needed.

You will also need to decide
which of your professors to ask
to write recommendation let-
ters. Give them all the neces-
sary paperwork provided in the
application and possibly a copy
from the application where let-
ters of recommendation are
explained. Then type out all
the applications. As a
courtousy, also provide them
with a SASE. They are pretty
much all the same in that they
ask for name, date of birth and
social security number.

Next, comes the personal
statement. This is where you
are able to demonstrate your
writing abilities and show a bit
of your personality. Keep in
mind that the individuals who
will be reading these will also
be reading thousands of other
applications. If you can say
something unusual it can help.

Continued on page 9

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Friday, March 1 1, 1994

TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE

Global Awareness in retrospect a world away remembered

I found in Russian culture that
the family stays close knit and
in most cases live within a few
miles of each other. This really
appealed to me.

Cristina Santana

The Global Awareness trip to
Russia gave me the opportu-
nity to learn much about my-
self personally and socially. In
this new environment I was
better able to observe myself
and others, our expectations
and our interactions, differ-
ently-perhaps more objec-
tively.

Holly Demuth

I amazed to discover that after
forty-four years of life, I am
content, yes,
and happy to
spend time
alone with
myself! The
lackof private
space in the
tiny Russian
apartments
had taught
me this im-
portant les-
son.

Kathy
Feddern

...an enormous percentage of
the population, consisting
mainly of elderly women, who
are crammed into an incred-
ibly tiny space (e.g.

the metro car) intent on the
mission of getting someplace
and hot heaven, hell, or even
you can stand in their wax ...

Gina Rice

1 can't put a finger on the exact
event or time of da \ , but I real-
ized that home isn't a physical
location. It's the people who
around vou and love you.

Andie Medven

Three people could fit in the
elevator, but this was not mea-
sured in American Personal
Space Units, and four of us of-
ten rode together. We only
Found it inoperable one daw
Susan Butz

Anyone for shredded cabbage?

Gina Rice

When being placed in a differ-
ent country and culture for the
first time, one must be open
minded and adaptable. It is one
thing to believe that you are
open minded, but it is quite
another to act accordingly. I
learned this valuable distinc-
tion as I caught myself think-
ing, "This is really bizarre!" or
"These people are xveird.".

Jennie Sparrow

In Russia I not only learned to
appreciate my ability to make
light of trying
times, but I was
also grateful to
the rest of the
group for mak-
ing me laugh
more in two
weeks than I
had in 21 years.

Jennie Spar-
row

I feel like I grew up a little on
this trip. I had always been
searching tor an answ er to w ho
I am, what I like, and what I
xvant to do. I feel like many of
those questions were answered
for me on this trip. Mv trip to
Russia lias definitely been one
more giant step in my path
through life.

Marianna Markwalter

So, how did I like Russia? In
one word, it was YTKA, and
that's no joke!

Tracey Partin

This trip was also exciting for
me because it was full of firsts.
It was the first tune that I had

been on a

p 1 a n e trip,
the first time
1 had trav-
eled m an-
other coun-
try, and the
first time I
had ridden
on a real
train... I had
never seen
snow flakes
where you
could actu-
ally see then-
crystal formation!

Amanda Switt

There is a verse in the Bible that
refers to things so wonderful
they are incomprehensible to
the mind of man. That's how I
view some of these lessons
my mind isn't expandable
enough yet to mull through
them in a rational, thoughtful
way.

Susan Spangler

...the Russian people are ex-
actly as we are not warmon-
gering monsters, but humans
with hopes, dreams, aspira-
tions, love of
country, a dis-
trust of political
leaders. ..thev
excel in hospital-
ity, depth of
friendship, and
a "get-back-up-
w hen -you ' re-
knocked -down''
attitude.

Susan
Spangler

There were a couple of times
w hen my trip crystallized tor
me, freezing a moment I would
always remember. It happened
once shile walking with arms
linked down Nevskv Prospect,
not talking, just looking and
walking. I thought, "I could
walk down this street with this
woman forever."

Susan Hut/

I quickly discov ered how much
I truly appreciate my lifesytle
in the States and how much I
take forgranted. But I also real-
ized how much I really enjoyed
being submerged into a cul-
ture and adapting to their
lifestyle. I Found myself miss-
ing simple things such as my
bed, car, water, American toi-
lets, and fruits. I lowcver, now
I find myself missing hot tea,
kitchen table talks, icy side-
walks, and long walks.

Amanda Powell

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Friday, March 1 1, 1994

The Profile

Pag

e9

Sharing three generations of memories

By Jenny White
Features Editor

During the events of Sopho-
more Family Weekend, I had
the pleasure of talking to three
generations of Agnes Scott
women at once: Rebecca Cham-
bers '96, her mother, Mareta
Wilkins Chambers '70, and her
grandmother Susan Spurlock
Wilkins '43. Rebecca is the
fourth generation in her family
to attend Agnes Scott and her
family has had a long associa-
tion with the college. Her
mother and grandmother
shared a few of their memo-
ries, many of them very differ-
ent from the memories current
ASC students will have, all of
them part of Agnes Scott's rich
history.

Rebecca's great-grand-
mother, Daisy Wesley Spurlock
'04, attended ASC for three
years and left after her junior
year to be married. Her brother
Paul Wesley built the Alumnae
House. Daisy's sisters Emma
and Rusha also attended Agnes
Scott, and Emma was supervi-
sor of observation and practice
teaching at the college from
1930 to 1936. Her grandmother
also had two cousins to attend
Agnes Scott, Josephine Marbut
Stanley '25 and Laura Frances
Marbut '22.

Both Rebecca's mother and
her aunt, Lynne Wilkins Fulmer
'67, excelled at Agnes Scott. Her
mother was a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, the Stukes Scholar
for three years, and first honor
graduate of her class. Her aunt
was president of SG A and went
on to obtain a Ph.D. from Rice
University. She is Professor of
Philosophy at St. Mary's Uni-
versity in San Antonio, Texas.

I talked with Rebecca's
mother and grandmother
about the changes they feel are
most apparent on Agnes Scott's
campus. Her mother men-
tioned the physical changes as
being the most outwardly ap-
parent. The Hub was the cen-
ter of campus for both her
mother and grandmother, and
the Alston Center was at that
time the gym (and it had a pool
in the basement!) Now the Hub
is gone, and the newest build-
ing on campus is the Woodruff
Athletic Center. Her mother
also said that there have been a
lot of changes in parking the
road in between the quad and
the library and Buttrick was
once open on both sides, and
people could parallel park in
front of Inman.

Rebecca's grandmother
mentioned that a science build-
ing was on the site of the dining
hall while she was here, and
that she ate her meals in
Rebekah. The students were

expected to dress up and were
served in a sit-down setting
every evening. To follow the
dress code her grandmother
wore saddle oxfords. Her
mother, even in 1970, had to
wear dresses to class and to the
dining hall.

Gaines Chapel was com-
pleted while Rebecca's grand-
mother was a student, and she
said that a famous organist
from Maryland came to play at
the dedication of the Chapel
and the organ.

We discussed the social as-
pects of college life as well.
Rebecca's mother could only
have a "date" if she was with
an upperclassman or at a party
(never alone!) During the week,
every student had to be in
within fifteen minutes of sun-
down, and the time of sundown
was posted on campus every
day. (On weekends, there were
limits as well, which were less-
ened when you became an up-
perclassman.) There were few
exceptions to the sundown rule.
However, if you wanted to eat
at Pizza by Candlelight (on
Candler Street; now the site of
Our Way Cafe), you could stay
out after sundown. Also, there
was a limit to the number of
dates you could have in a given
time frame, and the limit de-
pended on your class status.

Both Rebecca's mother and
grandmother attended Black
Cat while they were here. May
Day was very popular when
Rebecca's grandmother was a
student, and she was the court
jester one year (there was a May

Day court and a queen.) Her
P.E. class that quarter was de-
voted to learning her tumbling
act.

Both Rebecca's mother and
grandmother were on the quar-
ter system.

In her grandmother's day,
no one had cars. She knew one
student, from Michigan, who
had a car the last quarter of her
senior year, and that was a very
big deal. None of the men at
Georgia Tech had cars either
they had to rent them for
dates and after the evening
was over, the men would take
their cars back to Tech, jack
them up and run them all night
to run back the mileage and cut
down their costs!

Tuition has changed a lot,
too. Rebecca's aunt's educa-
tion cost $1 875 a year for every-
thing. Her mother's cost $3000,
and her family received $100
off because they had two stu-
dents here at once.

Rebecca's grandmother
shared with me a picture of
Daisy Spurlock, Rebecca's
great-grandmother. She also
showed me her ring, which
looked a lot like mine!
Rebecca's family has a heritage
to be proud of, and I enjoyed
spending a few moments lis-
tening to stories and learning
more about Agnes Scott's his-
tory from her family's unique
perspective.

Thanks to Lucia Sizemore for
supplying me with a copy of
Rebecca's grandmother's letter
describing her family's history
with Agnes Scott.

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Law School

Continued from page 7

In most "How To Get Into Law School" books examples are
given, such as a young woman who travelled to an Indian
reservation to help fight against government intrusion into
sacred lands. However, if you are a student like me who has
led a fairly boring but normal life attending ASC, being in a
couple of clubs, studying, doing a couple of extracurriculars
and watching 90210 and Melrose every Wednesday, this
section of the application will take a little more thought. A
great personal statement can be written without having
saved the world. For example, you can write about experi-
ences which influenced your decision to attend law school.
Even though the "How To Get Into Law School" are not
entirely representative, it is helpful to buy one because they
do provide tips on how to write the statement and what the
admissions committees are looking for. Once you have
something on paper, run it by a professor for some tips. You
should spend a lot of time on it. One book I read said about
40 hours and numerous rough drafts before the final copy. If
you can spend this much time GREAT, but if not, try to write
at least a few rough drafts before you send the final copy. Go
to the Writing Workshop for final proofreading.

If possible also include a resume. Start now compiling it
and keep a running compilation on a disk. Start with activi-
ties and achievements from freshmen year.

The best advice I can tell you is to start early. Even if you
are in your freshman (sorry first-year) or sophomore year,
start researching now. Write or call a couple of schools and
ask them to send you applications. This will give you an idea
of what they are looking for and the applications do not
change much from year to year. The key is to figure out early
what information is wanted, what is considered important
and how you can achieve it. Also attend the Law School
Forum which comes to Atlanta every year in the fall. Over
100 law schools from all over the country, both large and
small are at this Forum. You will be able to pick up applica-
tions and talk to representatives from schools such as
Georgetown, Harvard, Mercer, andUniversity of Florida. Dr.
Scott will be able to tell you when this takes place.

Once again, even if you are just considering law school and
you still have a few years before applying, I recommend
sending early for applications and attending the Law School
Forum. Try to learn as much as possible about each law
school and about the whole process so that when you have to
actually do it, you are comfortable and familiar with the
requirements. Remember it will not be fun, but if going to law
school is a burning desire for you like it is for me, then it will
be worth it. The purple haze eventually fades away.

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Friday, March 1 1, 1994

What are your plans for Spring Break?

Compiled By Tracey Baggett

"I am going to South Carolina with two of my best
friends. "

- Heather McCausland '96

"Ym going to Spartanburg to see a friend in a play,
then Vm going home to East Tennessee (& hoping to
retain my sanity), then I'm going to meet another
friend in Qiapel Hill to look at Duke for graduate
school and THEN Vm coming back to Atlanta to
catch a plane to New York to interview for a summer
internship at The Cloisters Museum and then I'm
coming back to sleep through a week of classes. "

Katie Stromberg '95

"I plan to go home and spend 'quality time' with my
family and possibly go to Florida with my friends. "

~~ Melissa Buehler '97

Biology professor John Pilger sets sail to study oceanography

By Nanska Lovell
Sports Editor

Have you ever wanted to
study the ocean first hand while
sailing on board a large re-
search vessel?

January 23-29, Chair of the
Biology Department, Dr. John
Pilger did just that. He and 20
other faculty members from
various institution across the
country were invited by the Sea
Education Association (SEA) to
participate in a week long
cruise to study the biology and
oceanography of the Bahamas
Bank. They left Miami, Florida
heading south to the Bahamas
for a week long excursion
aboard SEA's ship the Cramer,
a 134-foot, two-masted brigan-
tine.

The Sea Education Associa-
tion is an independent private
institution dedicated to pro-
moting the education of un-
dergraduate students in ma-
rine science. SEA teaches the
practical aspects of seamanship
and oceanographic sampling
aboard its two ships the SSV
Westward and the SSV Cramer.
Students who participate in
SEA's Sea Semester, which is
offered six times a year, spend
up to 6 weeks at Woods Hole,
Masachusetts studying social,
cultural, historical and literary
aspects of the ocean and other

various subjects before embark-
ing on a voyage at sea for an-
other six weeks. There they get
the opportunity to put their
knowledge to practical use on
board one of SEA's two re-
search sailing ships.

Although Pilger had known
of SEA for many years he had
never been a part of any of their
voyages until now. As a ma-
rine scientist and ship modeler,
he has often longed to combine
these interests by conducting
research while under sail, as in
the earlier days of oceanogra-
phy. Finally with SEA's invi-
tation and through the extra
funding provided by ASC, he
was able to enjoy these experi-
ences.

While on board, Pilger par-
ticipated in an oceano-
graphic and biological study of
the Great Bahamas Banks and
the Gulf Stream. Through his
participation, he helped scien-
tists collect temperature and
salinity data of the Gulf Stream
at various depths. The data
was used to construct a two
d imensional profile of the Gulf
Stream in that area. As the ship
proceeded into the Grand
Providence Channel, he and the
others gathered samples using
dredges in order to gain a bet-

ter understanding of the sedi-
ment in that area.

The study was part of a re-
search project being done by a
scientist at the Marine Biologi-
cal Laboratory (MBL) in Woods
Hole. This scientist was col-
lecting data on foraminiferans,
single celled amoebas whose
shells contain calcium carbon-
ate-mineral deposits. After
they die, their shells become
part of the marine sediments.
Research on these shells has
shown that minerals are de-
posited at specific rates during
specific climatic conditions. By
collecting samples of water at
different depths and samples
of bottom sediments in the area,
the scientist is hoping to learn
about past marine climates by
studying the trace elements in
the shells. If a correlation is
found, it will enable research-
ers to reconstruct history to
learn more about the history of
the climate at the time the sedi-
ment deposits were made.

Besides collecting the
oceanographic sampling,
Pilger also got to experience
the living conditions while un-
der sail. All the navigational,
safety, and maintenance of the
ship is done by the ship's crew,
guests and students. Once on

board, Pilger was placed on a
team that made up one of the
three watches which took turns
navigating, conducting the
sampling program, and main-
taining the ship. First and fore-
most of their duties were those
surrounding the safety of the
ship. In case of a fire, man-
over-board, or abandon ship
emergency, every person must
know exactly what to do in or-
der to secure the ship and ex-
ecute the necessary procedures
to remedy the emergency. Be-
fore Pilger had left the Miami
waters, he and the rest of the
professors on board were as-
signed specific safety stations
and ran through numerous
practice drills for each of the
emergencies.

Another watch assignment
was deck duty. The duties of
this watch included plotting the
course of the ship; trimming
and setting all sails in order to
maintain the specified course
and speed; and conducting
hourly boat checks, which in-
cluded monitoring the engine
room and checking the freezer
and dry storage. Hourly
weather conditions were also
checked and recorded. These
were logged into a computer,
where the National Weather

Service satellites gather these
data regularly for use in their
daily global weather reports.

Galley duty is important for
the daily lite of the ship and the
morale of the crew. When in
the galley, Pilger helped plan
the menu for the day, cook and
prepare the meals, and then
clean up. Although it sounds
like a welcome change from
the deck watch proceedings, it
also is very demanding.

The goods needed to pre-
pare the meals are stored in
compartments throughout the
ship instead of one central lo-
cation like in a kitchen. After
meals the watch crew began
cleaning the galley and salon.
Cleaning includes dumping
everything into a dishwasher.
We are talking about washing
everything that is used to pre-
pare the meals for 36 people,
plus washing the entire galley
(and I do mean the entire gal-
ley-top to bottom-tables, floors,
everything!).

The third watch is lab watch
where everyone participates in
the collection of data for the
various research projects that
arebeingconducted. Although
Pilger participated in the col-

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Arts & Entertainment

Friday, March 11, 1994

The Profile

Dudley does Hollywood

By Alana Noble

Arts & Entertainment Editor

Dudley Sanders, associate
professor of theatre, is Agnes
Scott's road to Hollywood. His
journey to movie land traces
back to 1976 when he received
his undergraduate degree in
Drama and English at Kenyon
College and to 1982 when he
received his graduate degree
in Stage Design at Northwest-
ern University. His decision to
specialize in stage design was
occasioned by the belief that,
"You just don't get any jobs as
a writer." Sanders opted for
safety when he buckled up his
desire for playwriting and
didn't write anything for years.
The little engine that could
couldn't until 1 983 when some-
thing changed Sander's course.

Cayce Calloway, now an
alumna of Agnes Scott, asked
Sanders a favor that resulted in
his first publication. He wrote
a one-act play for Calloway en-
titled, Maggie and the Bird Go
Fishing- Sanders has fond
memories of the play ' s first pro-
duction, for he met the two
people that would convince
him to pick up his writing pen
again, contribute to his Holly-
wood success, and become his
best friends -- Cayce Calloway
and Mark Perrv, who are mar-
ried and currently living in Los
Angeles.

Publication of, Maggie and
the Bird Go Fishings did not oc-
cur until August of 1984, one
year after Sander's completion
of the play. Jack Brooding,
former head of the Theatre De-
partment at Agnes Scott, real-
ized that Sander's one-act
wasn't just for the enjoyment
of sleepy students at Agnes
Scott. With Sanders permis-
sion, Brooking sent the script
to Baker's Plays in Boston,
Massachusetts. Since 1984,
Maggie and the Bird Go Fishing,
has been produced all over the
United States. Dallas, Texas,
and Jackson, Tennessee are two
of the twelve locations. Sand-
ers was modest about his first
publication, "They should
have called the writing police
on me."

While relishing in his first
success, Mark Perry sent Sand-
ers a movie script he had been
working on in Los Angeles.
Sanders commented, "He sent

it to me so I could tell him what
I thought about it, and I thought
it was okay. It looked easy and
fun enough, so I thought I'd
like to try it myself." The writ-
ing relationship between Sand-
ers and Perry began as a series
of phone conversations in the
mid-eighties. Sanders con-
fessed, "The beginning was
tough, we had no time together
on the phone." After too much
talk, not enough work, and too
many expensive phone calls,
Sanders decided to get his
hands dirty and took off for
Los Angeles in 1990.

While writing their first
screenplay, Sanders and Perry
craved adventure sport and
wrote a modern-day monster
movie entitled The Dark. Tril-
ogy Entertainment, a produc-
tion company in Los Angeles
acknowledged the possible suc-
cess of the script, but there was
a problem. The company
wanted Sanders and Perry to
rewrite the script and rewrite it
for free. Sanders would not
conform to their demands. "I
told Hollywood to go to hell
and 1 returned to Agnes Scott
for two quiet years."

Hollywood had not seen the
last of Sanders. In 1992, he
returned to Los Angeles feel-
ing he had not "tried for real."
He gave his writing another
chance and wrote Control, with-
out assistance from Perry. Con-
trol explores a '90s social trag-
edy-a mall killing at a food
court. Again, publishers in Los
Angeles liked his work, but this
time they wanted more sex
scenes. "Control isn't about
sex. Killing is not supposed to
be fun. Society needs to see
social agony in script."

While Sanders "smooched"
with Los Angeles publishers
about the production of Con-
trol, he and Perry received a job
with the television series, Picket
Fences in January of 1993. They
wrote an hour-long teleplay,
yet, "Nothing of what was tele-

vised was ours," Sanders
stated. "After editing, only bits
and pieces of ideas remained.
Our script vanished." Again,
Sanders gave Hollywood its
deserving farewell and re-
turned to Agnes Scott. Sanders
left feeling his time lost and
money wasted. "I hate the
world of movies and TV."

Sanders's journey to movie
land started slowly, but now
he is hugging the highway and
gaining speed. Recently, Sand-
ers found The Dark in the hands
of Mark Stern, producer of
Moon Over Miami. Mark Perry
bumped into Mark Stern in Los
Angeles and convinced Perry
that he and Sanders should give
the script another try. Sanders
and Perry agreed to give it one
last chance and began revisions.
The Dark is no longer a mod-
ern-day monster movie. "It has
taken a new twist," Sanders
states, "Now it is Jurassic Park
in a cave." Sanders completed
the revisions and sent the script
to Los Angeles on January 15.

After two hours of conver-
sations I had to ask why Sand-
ers had given into movie-land
society. "You're so young," he
added with a laugh. "I hate the
premise of changing my art to
filter into society, but you just
have to learn to write commer-
cially. There's a certain skill to
it." Sanders further explained
his new-found sentiments
about Hollywood with his fa-
vorite quote from just So Sto-
ries. "The cat walked by him-
self and all places were alike to
him." Sanders was expressing
his will not to be altered by his
external environment. He said,
"The cat never has to put on a
false behavior." The request
was bizarre coming from some-
one whose career requires him
to wear a different mask each
day. Hollywood has taught
Sanders a lesson. He learned
that a cat is a cat is a cat, and he
is a chameleon wearing a party
hat.

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formed for the first time. Kathleen Hill, Holly Williamson and
NJ. Stanley also appeared in the play.

DRUNK DRIVING DOESN'T JUST KILL
DRUNK DRIVERS.

Hannah and Sarah. Fogleman, killed Dec. 12, 1988 at 2:22 pm on
1-95 South, Brunswick, GA.

Next time your friend insists on driving drunk, do whatever it takes
to stop him.

Because if he kills innocent people, how will you live with yourself?

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OVER SPRING BREAK PLEASE REMEMBER
THAT NOT ONLY DO YOU TAKE YOUR OWN
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AND DRIVE, BUT ALSO THE INNOCENT
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Arts & Entertainment

Around Atlanta

The Profile

Friday, March 1 1 , 1994

By Merisa E. Aranas

This Is It! Bar-B-Q: Finger licking ribs and wings

Ahhh...the sun has been
making some special appear-
ances lately, giving us Scotties
a small taste of spring
(weatherwise,thatis). Warmer
weather calls for great outdoor
food like hamburgers, hot-
dogs, steaks, fruit salads and
let us not forget bar-b-q.
Thanks to Davidae Stewart, I
found a small restaurant that
specializes in some finger lick-
ing bar-b-q and buffalo wings
for a very reasonable price.

Located on Memorial Drive,
This Is Iti Bar-B-Q and Seafood
isoneof eight Atlanta area fran-
chises who pride themselves
on slabs of Bar-B-Q beef ribs,
pork ribs, pork chops, chicken,

turkey and jumbo buffalo
wings. Their special bar-b-q
sauce is not too spicy with a
sweet, tangy taste. It is very
good and thick. They also serve
meals like chicken tenders,
fried catfish, and fried shrimp
(I personally would stick to the
bar-b-q).

The restaurant is designed
like a very small deli, with no
more than eight tables. Most of
their customers order take out.
When you walk in, the food is
lined up for all to see, and you
just order from there.

They also have fresh veg-
etables, baked beans, potato
salad, stew, cole slaw, great
cornbread and hushpuppies to

complement the choices of
meats and dinners. For des-
sert, end your satisfying meal
with a very moist red velvet
cake, potato pie, peach cobbler,
or banana pudding. Did I men-
tion they were made from
scratch?

I wish I had more to say
about this place, but I reallv
don't. JUST GO AND TRY IT
FOR YOURSELF. Their prices
range from $2.99 to $11. 99. You
can get a great all-you-can-eat
buffet for $6 to $7 depending
on the time of day. I highly
recommend this place for great-
tasting, homemade, tender,
scrumptious bar-b-q.

The Visit presents challenge for director

By Teresa Marie Kelly
Blihkfriars' Publicity Chair

Ask any theatre professional
and he or she will likely de-
scribe directing as a "chal-
lenge." Professor N.J. Stanley
of the Department of Theatre
and Dance means every word
of it when she uses similar
terms to describe directing the
Blackfriars' spring production
of Friedrich Duerrenmatt's
1956 drama The Visit. In only
her second semester at Agnes
Scott, Stanley came face to face
with a script that called for nine-
teen individual roles. However,
casting did not turn out to be
the major hurdle. According
to Stanley, "One of the hall-
marks of Durrenmatt's writing
is his juxtaposition of different
styles within the same play.
What I find so attractive and
challenging about The Visit is
that it is part slapstick comedy,
part expressionistic nightmare
and part dark tragedy/'

Set in the small town of
GuUen in central Europe, The
Visit depicts the return of Claire
Zachanassian, the world's rich-
est woman, to her impover-
ished home town. Much to the
surprise of everyone, Claire's
visit turns out to be much more
than a philanthropic mission.
The ensemble cast of nineteen
is headed by accomplished se-
nior Blackfriar Amy Banks
Dryden as Claire and veteran
local actor Bob Salie as Anton
Schill, C>u lien's leading citizen.

According to Stanley, the size
of the company and the neces-
sity for several full company
scenes represented one of the
most formidable practical as-
pects of her first Agnes Scott
production. "One of my great-
est challenges has been learn-
ing how the Winter stage
works. ...Blocking (creating
stage pictures) is very difficult
in terms of trying to form inter-
esting visual tableaux for the
entire audience."

Despite the more than thirty
years that have elapsed since
Diirrenmatt first wrote the
Visit, Stanlev believes the plav
remains accessible to contem-
porary audiences. "I think this
is an intriguing play because it
communicates multiple mes-
sages about the ravaging force
of greed, the fruitless search
for justice and the ruthless drive
for power," says Stanley. "The
main themes that I am trying to
place in the foreground in this
production involve the value
of human decency and the re-
markable force that love can
create."

The Visit runs April 7, 8, 9,
14, 15 and ] 6 in the Winter The-
a t re o f t he Da na Fi n e A r t s Bu i 1 d -
ing. Tickets are $5 for general
admission, $4 for ASC faculty
and staff, and $3 for students
and senior citizens. For more
information, please contact the
Department of Theatre and

Dance at 371-6248.

The Visit Cast List

Hofbauer

Ashley Seaman

Helmesberger

Cathy Gurry

Wechsler

Tracy Walker

Vogel

Tim Norman

Station Master

Roger
Schuppert

Burgermeister

Laylage Courie

Teacher

Charles Harper

Pastor

Wendy
Wheless

Anton Schill

Bob Salie

Claire

Zachanassian

Amy

Banks Dryden

Bobby

Aubrey
Tovvnley

Policeman

C. Vance King

Kobby

Jennie Albritton

Lobby

Tony

May weather

Frau Schill

Ruth Wiles

Ottilie

[ennifer Parker

Doctor Nusslin/
Conductor

Vicki Vitelli

Pedro

Jason Gaddy

Oceanography

Continued from page 10

lection of data for the one project while he was on board,
each student who participate in SEA's Sea Semester has
an individual project. On student cruises data is col-
lected 24 hours a day for each project for the entire cruise.

The length of the Sea Semester cruises ensures that
students participate in data collecting at all hours of the
day. Students get a feel for every aspect of the ship, from
sail handling to working the lab equipment and analyz-
ing the data. Being on lab watch enables students and
guests the opportunity to get first hand experience with
research, data collection, analysis and report writing.

The watches operate at all hours of the day. In a 24
hour period the first watch begins at 7 a.m. and runs until

I p.m. The next watch is 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., then 7 p.m. to

I I p.m., then 11 p.m. to 3 a.m., and finally 3 a.m. to 7 a.m.
Because there are five watches in a day and possibly only
three watches on board, there will be times when one
watch will have two or more turns on duty in one day.
Because of the constant change in duties and positions
participants find themselves up and working at all hours
of the day, sleeping when not on watch.

In addition to the duties expected of him while on
watch, Pilger also attended a variety of classes taught by
the SEA crew and staff who were sailing with him. These
classes were held every day at 1 pm and covered subjects
such as oceanography, nautical science, literature and
history. Through some of these presentations, Pilger
learned more about life at sea for sailors back in the 19th
century, celestial navigation, and various research
projects that had been conducted by previous students.

With all the different duties, classes, and activities
going on Pilger pointed out that night deck watches
offered the only opportunity to simply sit and enjoy the
ocean. To ensure the safety of the ship, one person from
the night deck watch is assigned bow watch. This
individual sits at the bow of the ship as a look out for any
signs of lights or trouble. But in addition to working, this
person also is left alone in complete darkness, surrounded
by the water, underneath a heaven full of the stars and
the moon. Pilger commented that "at times like these,
one really gets to calm down and be at peace with
yourself and the sea. You never forget that you have a job
to do, but it becomes so much more pleasurable when all
you see is the surrounding ocean and the heavens."

Now that Pilger has returned to ASC, he realizes just
how valuable his experience was. He has always be-
lieved in being resourceful and in the challenge of living
simply. Living on board the Cramer reinforced these
qualities. He was impressed by the amount of technol-
ogy that has been developed to guide ships safety through
the waters and how difficult it must have been for sailors
in earlier centuries when there was no comprable equip-
ment. Through his adventure he has gained a new
respect for sailing and for early nautical explorers and
scientists. Through these experiences, Pilger feels more
confident presenting information about celestial naviga-
tion and the Bahamian marine environment to his classes.
He hopes more ASC students will adventure out with
SEA to learn about the sea.

DON'T FORGET

THE AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
1 994 WRITERS' FESTIVAL
WILL BE HELD
MARCH 24 & 25
IN THE WINTER THEATRE

.. the human nose, especially when prominent ..."

Friday, April 1, 1994

Preferred by Pinocchio - The Nosy Student Newspaper of ASJC

Vol. 80, Issue 10

ASC to become ASJC

by U. R. Screwed, Jr.

The Board of Trustees re-
cently announced its plan to
make Agnes Scott the best jun-
ior college in the country. As
promised in a proposal this fall,
departments will be consolidated
in order to create a more fo-
cused and exciting curriculum.

Due to popular demand and
limited space, these combined
courses should be registered for
immediately. The very chal-
lenging Mental Algebra While
Jogging For Fitness is already
full, and only limited space is still
available in the newly created
Bo Ball School of Cosmetology.

A word to all juniors who
expect to graduate in the Spring
of 1995: you cannot. Because
juniors tiave already earned
credits in excess of the new as-
sociate degree, the Board de-
cided to exclude them from the
plan. Juniors will still be re-
quired to live on campus, most
probably in Hopkins dormitory.
The Office of Accounting re-
minds juniors that the college
expects them to pay all fees in
full despite the curriculum
changes.

In order to assist the juniors
in reformulating their future
goals. Career Planning and
Placement has set up a special
cross-registration program: now
juniors can participate in the Sally
Struthers' Home Degree Pro-

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Agnes Scott recently became the nation s most respected
women's junior college.

gram in lieuoftheirsenioryears.
Plans are in the works to estab-
lish a transfer program with
Devry Technical Institute be-
cause they are serious about
success.

Education experts predict
that the move to junior college
status will bring Agnes Scott to
its fullest potential. Members of
the Board of Trustees feel that
the financial gains generated
from this transition will ensure
the implementation of the School
of Dry Cleaning program, a move
expected to increase enrollment
dramatically. Such a reputable
program can only improve Agnes
Scott's status as the nation's
foremost women'sjuniorcollege.

In addition to the new ca-
reer training program, every
computer on campus will be
programmed to perform at least

four variations of solitaire.
Though this reprogramming re-
quires that all the sidewalks be
removed again, the administra-
tion feels that the move is nec-
essary in order to eliminate the
long lines formed behind the
few computers that currently run
these games. Also, the Writing
Workshop has been converted
into a twenty-four hour game
center since the tutoring pro-
gram will become obsolete as
the dry cleaning major gains in
popularity.

One member of the Board
of Trustees said. "Agnes Scott
must make changes in order to
move ahead into the twenty-
first century. We feel that the
juniorcollege status will enhance
our sense of community and
save money. So you see, we
really are keeping the promise."

Editor caught in shocking love triangle
with Barney and Lambchop

by Lil P. Ness

Low Rates Inn, Decatur-

Newly elected Proboscis
editor, Kelly Holton, has re-
cently been spotted around
Agnes Scott in what inside
sources claim to be the most
shocking romance in the
college's 104 year history.

Several weeks ago, in a
secluded corner of the dining
hall, away from the glaring eyes
of fellow students and faculty
members, Holton was seen with
Barney. The ASJC honor stu-
dent was spied stroking the lov-

able dinosaur's long purple tail
over a shared plate of vegetar-
ian moussaka. "Evidently, the
two are very much in love,"
claimed a source close to the
couple.

Just when it seemed that
Holton had found her one and
only, the controversial couple
turned into a shocking trio. On
the same evening as the dining
hall incident, an Agnes Scott
Public Safety officer viewed the
English major leaving a Krispy
Kreme doughnut establishment
on the-arm of none other than
Lambchop. The officer, who will

remain nameless, just hap-
pened to be patrolling the
doughnut shop at the time.
When questioned about her new
loves, Holton replied simply, "I
love them, they love me, we're
a happy family."

Only a week after the cam-
pus learned of Holton's affair,
this sordid tale took yet another
amazing twist. After being seen
with Barney in the dining hall
and Lambchop at Krispy Kreme,
the ASJC junior (in true class
spirit) was seen frolicking on the
quad with Oscar the Grouch.
(Continued on Page 2)

Burns selected as
new president

by C. Gar Smoker

After a long and arduous
search, the Presidential Search
Committee has selected a new
president to lead the college into
the twenty-first century. Famous
comedian George Burns arrived
on campus two weeks ago to set
up his new offices.

The committee chose Burns
because of his youthful nature
and his proven leadership skills.
Members feel that his experi-
ence as God in the Oh God! You
Devil movies will serve him well
as he leads Agnes Scott.

The new president said, "I'm
really excited about the oppor-
tunity to work at such a fine
juniorcollege. It won't be so bad
to be around all these women
everyday, either."

Burns will effect many
changes on the ASJC campus.
In order to raise money for the
School of Dry Cleaning, Burns
plans to turn Walters Dormitory
into a casino. He hopes that
people from all over the country
will visit this "Las Vegas of the
South."

He also has some changes
in mind for the Master Plan. In-
stead of a cuckoo clock, Burns
wants to erect a giant cigar on
the quad. The everlasting smoke
billowing from the cigar will serve
as a beacon of learning and
gambling. According to Burns,
"prospective students and po-
tential blackjack players will be
drawn to the campus by the
intoxicating aroma of the
smoke."

Though most are excited
about Burns' presence, a few
have expressed concern about
his tactics. Professor Phil Good
wants to protect the reputation
of ASJC. "If we really want to be
an outstanding junior college,
how can we allow a casino to be
built here? I think we would be
better served by turning Walters
dorm into a brothel. Many more
students could then be employed
on campus, and we'd be prepar-
ing them for a lucrative career."

While the debate about
gambling and prostitution rages,
Burns continues to make
(Continued on Page 4)

ASJC President, George Burns

NEWS

"...the human nose, especially when prominent ..."

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The

Proboscis

Friday. April 1, 1994

Class of '95 unites to discuss the Colleges recent decision:

24-7 Parietals offered only in
Hopkins residence hall this fall

Master plan creates a
new look for the campus

by Iwona Nu-Drug

by Mesa Horny

The Dean of Students office
sent memos out to the campus
community announcing the re-
cent decision to close Walters
residence hall and reopen
Hopkins for the 1994-1995
school year. The students' re-
sponse was so negative that
Gooey Ludson, Dean of Stu-
dents, came by the Letitia Pate
Evans dining hall during dinner
Thursday and walked to every
table, inviting the students to
take a look at Hopkins in their
free time. The students' re-
sponse, once again, was a re-
sounding "no."

Last Friday. March 25, The
Dean of Students Office, out of
fear and sheer desperation that
no students would be willing to

live there, officially designated
Hopkins to be the ONLY resi-
dence hall that will have 24 hour
parietals seven days a week.
They also designated Main and
Winship to be the Freshman
dorms for next year.

This past Monday. March
28. the class of '95 had a meet-
ing to discuss Dean Gooey's
recent decision. Initially they
tried to find a way that the entire
class could live in dorm that
houses only 50 students. With a
lot of brainstorming, the rising
seniorclass unanimously agreed
to sacrifice their "future space."

After singing "Kumbaya" for
unity, every senior agreed to
live with two other seniors. This
way, they created room for 75
students in Hopkins. Unfortu-
nately, there are several seniors

that will be out in the cold, liter-
ally. Hopkins was a few rooms
short of housing every senior,
so the seniors without a Hopkins
room will have a tent right out-
side the front porch next to the
Alumnae Garden. Since they
will be living so near to Hopkins
and will be taking their showers
there, the six "nature seniors"
will also have the 24-7 parietal
hours. Smelley Nolton, class of
'95, said to Mesa Horny, "I won't
mind having to live in a tent
outside Hopkins with the rats.
As long as I have my 24-7, I'll be
just fine."

Mickey Minniefield, class of
'95's president, happily com-
mented, "This is our senior year,
and we want to make sure every
senior will have the 24-7 that
she deserves."

Last month the Master Plan
was revealed to the campus in a
brilliantly written article that ap-
peared in this wonderful publi-
cation. But what most people
do not know is that, since that
time, the plan has been altered.
The new Master Plan will in-
clude renovations not only to the
quad, but also to the residence
halls, Alston center and the li-
brary.

One of the new proposals is
the installation of urinals in all of
the dorm bathrooms. This addi-
tion will alleviate the inconve-
nience of having to walk a date
all the way down to the first floor
to use the restroom. Plans are
also being made to enlarge
bathtubs so that they will hold
two people. Ideas regarding
acquiring a jacuzzi for each

Agnes Scott denied all rights to scottie

by Whoizit

Recent pleas by concerned
Atlantans have brought about a
much needed change in the
1996 Olympic mascot. Demon-
strations were held last week at
the Capitol protesting Whatizit,
a faithless and misunderstood
blue cartoon animal with an odd
pair of shoes.

One person at the demon-
stration commented. "We won't
let our city be humiliated in front

of the whole world. We all want
something we can be proud of."

The Olympic committee
heard proposals for the new
mascot on March 28, 1994.
Rumors around Atlanta confirm
that the Agnes Scott scottie dog
is the number one candidate for
the new mascot. "The scottie
dog has caused quite a stir.
Everyone seems to really like
the idea. Dogs are man's best
friend you know," said Peggy
Littleworth from Dunwoody.

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The people of Atlanta have
quickly warmed up to the notion
of having a cuddly pup repre-
sent our peach state. It was
really hard for the residents of
Atlanta to relate to a blue
Whatizit. What the hell was it
anyway." one protester com-
mented.

If the proposal is accepted by
the Olympic Committee, Agnes
Scott will have to give up all
rights to the scottie dog which
has been their mascot for over
100 years. At a conference held
at the Capitol on March 20,
President Ruth Schmidt com-
mented about the hostile take

Student caught

(Continued from Page 1)
"Apparently Barney and
Lambchop's lack of genitalia was
simply too much for her to
handle." claimed a friend close
to Holton. "Oscar must be hid-
ing a lot more than trash inside
that garbage can."

Inside sources claim that,
for the moment. Holton and the
Grouch seem perfectly happy;
however, if it doesn't work out,
she has been keeping an eye on
Oregon Senator. Bob
Packwood.

over. "The Agnes Scott Com-
munity has been through many
changes this year. Taking away
our mascot is just icing op the
cake. The scottie dog was like a
part of our community, our fam-
ily, and we just painted him on a
wall in our student center. But,
it really doesn't surprise me any-
more. I have learned that all
good things must one day end
forevery woman, man. and dog."

The Agnes Scott community
is asking for suggestions for their
new mascot. Please send all
ideas to Victor Wilson at Agnes
Scott Junior College.

bathroom have also been men-
tioned.

Since Walters will no longer
be made available to boarding
students, the new plan includes
turning the dorm into housing for
some males, especially those
who are so desperately attached
to their girlfriends that they can-
not stand to be away from them
for longer than an hour.

Next year there will be lawn
chairs available for sunbathers.
but what about those days when
there's no sun, or Black Cat's
coming up and you absolutely
must get rid of those awful tan
lines? Never fear; now there will
be tanning machines available
on 2nd floor Alston. The ma-
chines will not cost any money
for individual use; after all what
do you think your tuition is pay-
ing for?

In order to pay for these
additions, the college is consid-
ering several fundraising
projects. One of the ideas pre-
sented is to auction off the lovely
oak table, chairs and furniture in
the Board of Trustees room in
the library. The furniture will
instead be replaced with the old,
scratch-marked tables, covered
with engravings of names and
fraternities, that used to be in
Buttrick. The ever-present or-
ange carpeting will also be added
to the room to give it more of a
1970's art deco style similar to
that in rest of the library.

So far, no definite date has
been set as to when these reno-
vations will take place. Accord-
ing to Elsa Pena, the workers
will need the summer off so that
they can be in excellent health
when they begin construction
sometime after students arrive
next fall.

ASIC student caught in shocking love affair with Barney
and Lambchop.

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Agnes Scott's own private "Tootsie"

by RuPaul

Thirty years ago at Agnes
Scott College, a band of militant
women picketed outside
Buttrick, tossing bras, girdles and
other "girlie" symbols into trash
cans all over campus. In 1 964,
the women of Agnes Scott added
an epithet and a cry for women's
liberation to the Agnes Scott
handbook. They wanted to be
treated like "men not little girls."

1 964 brought about the first
erosion of traditional notions of
a women's place at Agnes Scott.
Gender gaps have been nar-
rowing and adding to the suc-
cess of the AS(J)C graduate,
and a lot has changed since
1964. Women have their own
identity separate from that of
men. There is a firm under-
standing at Agnes Scott that
women are considered equal in
capability and responsibility, yet
very different mentally, physi-
cally, emotionally, and politically.

Women at Agnes Scott like
it this way. These days, you
would not catch Agnes Scott
women wanting to be "men not
girls," much less wanting a man
to be allowed to live in the dorms,
but it seems men's liberation
has snuck under the door of the
Agnes Scott community and into
Walters dormitory.

Sophomore Patricia
Getaway's true identity was re-
vealed last week in his room on
second floor Walters. Patricia,
now known as Pat, had fooled
the whole campus into believing

he was just "one of the girls."
Pat's wish was to be the first
traditional male student to
graduate from Agnes Scott. "I
have always loved Agnes Scott.
I live close by and visited fre-
quently before I decided to ap-
ply. I couldn't let gender get in
the way of a good education. I'll
admit, I've always wanted to
know what it was like to be a
woman."

Pat's charade ended when
Sophomore Jane Doe (name
has been changed to protect the
innocent) walked into Pat's room
while he was busy shaving his
face. "It was terrible. I just
wanted to borrow a tampon,"
Doe said. Apparently, Pat had
forgotten to lock his door. "It was
really quite embarrassing," Pat
commented. "Tissue was falling
out of my bra, and I hadn't waxed
my legs for weeks."

Doe made it safely to Public
Safety and revealed Pat's iden-
tity. When she was questioned
by police she broke down cry-
ing. "I told Patricia, I mean Pat,
all my most intimate secrets.
She was my best friend. I feel so
betrayed." Another friend of
Pat's commented, "I have always
been suspicious of Patricia, I
"mean Pat. She always asked
questions, strange questions
that every woman would know,
like, 'what do women really like
in bed?' And I never believed it
was her real hair. Nobody's that
blonde."

The rumor about Patricia
Getaway spread quickly the

night that Doe walked into his
room. At approximately 12:45
that morning, hundreds of Agnes
Scott students fled their dorms
and picketed outside Walters. It
seemed as though the 1 964 rally
was being relived. Every stu-
dents' hands made a bridge that
led to East College Avenue.
Pat's body was violently rolled
atop fingers and dumped outside
the Agnes Scott arch.

The cries for women's lib-
eration and men's liberation have
butted heads for the first time in
the history of the college. Dean
Gooey Ludson urges every
student to take control of them-
selves. "I'm asking that the
students not patrol the quad with
loaded weapons. It has all just
gone too far this time. You must
not take it into your own hands."

No one really knows what-
ever became of Pat. There are
rumors that he can still be seen
on the corners of the campus
peering into the school grounds.
Officials tells us that Jane Doe
has temporarily withdrawn from
her classes in order that she
might recover from this terrible
crisis. She still suffers from de-
pression. "I have to believe that
Patricia is out there somewhere.
Pat, wherever you are, please
let me know somehow if you are
alive and well. I know you never
meantto hurt anyone, "said Doe.
A meeting will be held on April 1 ,
1 994, to discuss ways to prevent
this gender charade from ever
happening again.

Women's Studies department
offers new courses

by M. T. Head

Despite the decision of the
Academic Review Board to re-
duce the number of classes of-
fered each semester, the De-
partment of Women's Studies
has created two new classes.
These courses are intended to
help students learn survival skills
useful outside the ASJC com-
munity. The classes scheduled
to be taught are Melrose: The
Development of Human
Awareness and Beverly Hills
90210: Values, Morals and
Schooling.

The Melrose course will help

students learn how to be (or not
be) a bitch, how to marry their
sisters' husbands, how to re-
cover from paralysis in a matter
of days, and how to become
pregant by a drug dealing psy-
chopath.

Students of the 90210
course will have the opportunity
to increase their understanding
of friendships and west coast
communication processes. The
course will provide instruction in
how to hide a pregnancy, how to
live in a beach house without
working, how to graduate from
school without going to class,
how to hate your best friends,

and how to get everything you
ever wanted by whining.

Each class requires a lab in
which students will act out
scenes from the actual TV show
on which the course is based,
whether "Beverly Hills 9021 0" or
"Melrose Place." Grading will
be based on how well students
take on the personalities of the
characters and how well they
utilize these personas in the
campuscommunity. Enrollment
is limited to a small number of
juniors and seniors. All ques-
tions about these classes should
be directed to Christine Cozzens,
director of Women's Studies.

"Patricia" Getaway was recently revealed to be a male
posing as a female ASJC student.

Scotties become cadets
through cross-registration

by T. N. Hutt

Warfare, anyone? Agnes
Scott plans to launch a new
cross-registration program with
the U.S. Military Academy at
West Point, New York. Inter-
ested students should pick up a
flyer from the Registrar's office.

The program will begin
during the summer of 1 995, and
students can enroll in sword
fighting, nerve gas survival, and
nuclear bomb testing classes
for two months. Students can
also opt to spend the entire aca-
demic year at West Point, dur-
ing which they take classes in
brutality toward the enemy, spy
techniques, and battle stategy.

Students face no easy task
attempting to gain admission into
the program. West Point main-
tains its high standards for en-
rollment. Students must pass a
grueling physical fitness test, a
medical examination, and ex-
tensive interviews. To be cross-
registered at the academy, stu-
dents must also obtain a
recommendation from a U.S.
Senator. Unlike traditional West
Point students, Agnes Scott
students attending classes at

the academy will not be required
to serve two years in the army.

Attendance costs may pre-
vent some students from par-
ticipating in the program. Sum-
mer classes cost $10,000 per
course, and tuition plus room
and board total more than
$40,000 per academic year. A
few scholarships are available
for qualified students.

Credit hours from West
Point cross-registration classes
do transfer to ASJC, but the
grades themselves are not fig-
ured into the Agnes Scott qual-
ity-point-ratio.

If this program proves suc-
cessful, other cross-registration
programs may be introduced
with the U.S. Naval Academy in
Annapolis, Maryland, and the
U.S. Air Force Academy in
Colorado.

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Timepieces:

When a squirrel was
a woman's best friend

by I.M. Fuzzy

Editor's Note: The regular
i Timepieces writer is on vacation
this week. We are pleased,
however, to present to you I.M.
Fuzzy, a representative of the
squirrel population on our cam-
pus, who will share some of his
fellow animals' memories of
former days at ASC.

Once upon a time, before
there were parietals, Agnes Scott
students had to find some way
to entertain themselves during
their spare time. They tried
cooking, sewing, forming immu-
nization clubs, and playing field
hockey, but none of these activi-
ties seemed to satisfy the stu-
dents' desire for amusement.
One day, during a game of field
hockey, our squirrel population
came out in full force to cheer on
the students. Thus began a
bond between students and
squirrels, a bond that unfortu-
nately was destined to be short-
lived.

Soon the squirrels were in-
vited to other social activities on
campus. According to Lest We
Forget (Where's That Last
Walnut?), the squirrels brought
all sorts of nuts to cooking club
and 4 shared their recipes for
various delicacies. They aided
in the mending of soldiers'
clothes during the war by col-
lecting threads and bits of cloth.
They even sacrificed a few val-
iant members of the community
by volunteering to participate in
biology and psychology lab ex-

Burns named Pres.

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changes. Recently he adopted
the phrase "Be Young, Have
Fun, Drink Pepsi"asthecollege's
official slogan. Though the Coca-
Cola Corporation has withdrawn
its support from the college.
Pepsi has donated large sums
of money and even larger quan-
tities of soda. Economics pro-
fessor Ima Pepper feels that
Pepsi's support will increase
enrollment. "Pepsi really ap-
peals to that junior college
crowd." she said. "With George
Burns as our leader, things here
can only get better."

periments. On any given day,
students studying in the quad
and the infirmary garden could
be seen accompanied by their
furry friends. It was even ru-
mored that some students kept
their favorite squirrels in their
rooms on campus, risking ex-
pulsion by Honor Court.

Toward the end of spring
one year, the students decided
to hold a dance in the squirrels'
honor. The dance took place in
the Woltz Reception Room. All
squirrels in the campus com-
munity were invited for a night of
dancing, feasting and frolicking.
Although no one realized it, this
was the beginning of the end of
the liaison between squirrels and
students at ASC. The next year
would bring new entertainment
in the form of parietals.

The squirrels looked forward
to the students' return in the fall
with great anticipation. They
joined a group of their student
admirers forthefirstfield hockey
game of the season, but a sur-
prise awaited them : the students
were accompanied by men ! The
squirrels, not used to such male
presence on campus, began to
talk amongst themselves. One
particular male, finding their
chatter quite irritating, retaliated
by firmly whapping one of the
squirrels with his hockey stick,
sending the hapless animal fly-
ing through a window on the fifth
floor of the library. This was not
the worst, however. The student
accompanying this man, once a
devout companion of the squir-
rel community, proceeded to
giggle light-headedly and then
rushed back to her residence
hall with the perpetrator of the
crime.

The whole squirrel commu-
nity felt betrayed and hurt after
the incident and vowed never to
befriend an Agnes Scott student
again. Among other insidious
activities, the squirrels have re-
cently allied with the rat com-
munity on campus. (See the
photo and extended caption,
also in this edition of the Pro-
boscis.) Other retaliatory mea-
sures are forthcoming! Re-
member: even when you can't
see him or her. Big Squirrel is
watching you.

Street Beat

Question:

"Do you ever get that not so fresh feeling!

Beavis

"What do you think! I'm
a pig. I spend all day in
the mud. "

Grace

"As a matter of fact, I'm
having that feeling now. "

Gretchen

"I wince at the thought.

Clarabelle

"I refuse to discuss per-
sonal hygeine with any
creature as unkempt as
you are! "

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Moments of Joy

A Photo Essay

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Spotlight on Agnes Scott's paverscapers:

The untold story

by Ima Volunteer

Scouting has long been
an American pastime for
young boys, who can get
started in the activity as Cub
Scouts and eventually work
their way up to a prestigious
position as an Eagle Scout. I
was surprised to discover re-
cently that some members of
Agnes Scott's community are
loyal Boy Scouts and still take
part in the time-honored tra-
ditions of the scouting asso-
ciation. Seven of Agnes
Scott's paverscapes workers
are members of local Den 7,
and they regularly take part in
service activities and other
social functions.

Over spring break, the Boy
Scouts on campus joined
Habitat for Humanity workers
inconstructingacampground
for Cub Scouts. The ASC
students found the venture

rewarding but complained
about the incessant noise at
all hours of the day and night
as the paverscapers worked
to build the campground. "All
we needed was a train to
make the picture complete!"
one disgruntled student
stated.

However, the Boy Scouts
showed themselves diligent
workers and completed the
campground by the end of
the week. As a celebration,
they joined the ASC students
around a campfire to roast
marshmallows and sing
songs such as "A Man With-
out a Scottie" and "My Scottie
Was Just Smashed Under a
Huge Pile of Gravel." (Please
see related photo and ex-
tended caption.)

Interest in the newfound
association with the Boy
Scouts has prompted faculty,
staff and student involvement.

Agnes Scott's construction workers pride themselves on being outstanding Boy Scouts.

Several professors have
shown a desire to earn merit
badges, and Mortar Board is
considering requiring acertain
number of merit badges in
lieu of their membership fee.
In fact, the earning of merit
badges may become a
physical education require-
ment at ASC. Several stu-
dents have suggested trench-
hopping and bricklaying as
two merit badge possibilities.

In addition, the scouts of
Den 7 have volunteered to
serve lemonade on the quad,
starting at 5:30 a.m. each day.
(Students will be awakened
by drills, power saws and
possibly a cuckoo clock in
order not to miss out.) They
have also asked to take part
in the student-sponsored
search for the giant rat (the
administrators have not yet
released any comments on

the situation.)

The scouts will be more
than happy to answer any
questions students and other
campuscommunity members
might have about scouting
opportunities. Look for them
outside your classroom win-
dows and beside your resi-
dence halls. They will be
happy to help night or day,
especially very early in the
day.

Speaking of diversity: The newest member of Agnes
Scott's community is none other than a giant rat!
Students have spotted the rat in at least two locations
on campus the dining hall and the area in front of the
library. The rat enjoys rummaging throught the trash
cam m front of the library and delights in foraging
through dining hall trashcans (especially on liver and
onions day). It is rumored that the rat may be
connected with the squirrel population on campus.
(Please see related Features article.) Agnes Scott
administrators are indignant about the possibility of
giant rats on campus and plan to send a memo'stating
their indignation.

A tragedy occurs on Agnes Scott's campus: This student (whose name is being
withheld to protect her identity) was recently found underneath one of the huge piles
of gravel on the quad. Apparently the student was sunbathing and the paverscapes
workers, oblivious to every aspect of student life, dumped a load of gravel onto her
body. One month later, when the workers finally finished the sidewalk in front of
Main, the student was discovered. Agnes Scott administrators are indignant about
the tragedy and plan to send a memo to the campus community stating their
indignation.

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"X" marks the spot
you don't want to be

by The Goddess Wanna-Be

The National College Pro-
tection Services (NCPS) today
announced that Agnes Scott
Junior College is currently under
investigation for violations in
safety and the breech of nu-
merous health codes.

Recent construction during
the college's technology en-
hancement program has re-
sulted in the broken bones of six
staff members, five professors
and three students. College
spokesperson, Ms. Centennial
Plann, announced that Agnes
Scott is confident the construc-
tion obstacles do not threaten
the health or safety of the ad-
ministration or the Board. "Until
they do," she says, "we cannot
guarantee that improvements
will 6ccur."

NCPS completed their ini-
tial tour of the campus yesterday,
reporting that only one route to
Buttrick is completely safe for
human travel. "We strongly rec-
ommend that all members of the
campus community use the un-
derground tunnels we will con-
struct overnight in order to pre-
vent injury." said NCPS chair-
man, Simon Gotte Klue. "There
are so many holes, mud slides,

pilesofbrickdebris,hiddenquick
sand and other rubble that I can-
not confidently say that any part
of this campus is completely safe
right now."

President Schmidt was un-
available for comment, but cir-
culated a memo through campus
mail proclaiming her indignation
about the hazards on campus,
and extreme shock concerning
NCPS' ability to complete a
thorough system of underground
tunnels overnight. The memo
read in full: "I had no reason to
believe that construction on
campus could be carried out in a
timely, cost-efficient manner,
and I am sorry for that."

Although NCPS originally
threatened to close the campus
indefinitely, Klue feels confident
that the underground tunnels will
prevent further danger to the
campus community. "Please
consider the map we have is-
sued thatdesignates hazardous
areas on the campus. Without
exception, avoid that areas that
are marked with an "X."

Student response today was
a mixture of dismay and sar-
casm. One senior said, "Well at
least I'm getting just what I want
for graduation my picture on
a back-hoe!"

Art show opens in Dana: The Art Department encourages all students to visit the new
exhibit in Dalton Gallery. This exhibit features student-created works of food art.
Pictured above is Art C. Fartsy's creation entitled "For Love of Yogurt. "

Hollywood's biggest
stars arrive at ASJC

by B. A. Star

Every spring, the
Blackfriars close their season
with student directed one-act
plays. This year the directors
took advantage of our new E-
mail capabilities to convince
some of Hollywood's finest to
grace their productions.

Sally Struthers' School
junior Emily Pender will direct
"Cliff Notes," the exciting stage
version of the summer hit
Cliffhanger. Sylvester Stallone
has put all his other projects on
hold so that he can star in this
play that he wrote. In a recent
telephone interview, Stallone
said, "Yo, Em is the best director
I've ever acted for. Uh.Jeven
postponed production of Rocky
XVII for the chance to work
with her."

Jodie Foster, winner of the
Academy Award for The Ac-
cused and Silence of the
Lambs, will be joining our
campus community as the star
of "Coppertones," a play about
the dangers of sunbathing.
Deirdre Harris, junior, could not
be more excited about the star.
"Jodie brings such strength to
the role of the main sunbather.
She can just lie there with the
best of them."

Foster feels strongly about
the issues dealt with in the play.
"I can't accept a role unless
there's a message behind the

play. As a person with fair skin,
I know the dangers of the sun.
Society puts so much pressure
on women to be tan. I just had
to do something."

Rounding out the trio of di-
rectors is senior Teresa Kelly.
Kelly will direct the new Irish
play "My Right Eye. ..Is Smiling."
Liam Neeson, enjoying the suc-
cess of Schindler's List, will ar-
rive on campus next week with
his Irish brogue intact. Kelly
said, "I desperately wanted a
real Irishman to play the lead,
and Neeson was the only actor
I would accept."

As of this printing, Neeson
is expected to walk away with
the prestigious Oscar Mayer-
Birkenstock Award. Of this
award, which is given each year
to ASJC's outstanding actor,
Neeson said, "Only winning the
Oscar Mayer-Birkenstock
Award can make up for my
losing the Academy Award. If I
do win, I'll probably retire at this
point of highest glory in my ca-
reer. Erin go braugh!"

These one act plays begin
on April 1 and continue through
the end of the month. Price of
tickets has risen from three dol-
lars to 2000 dollars in order to
accomodate the stars' salaries.
Juniors are reminded that they
must attend in order to fulfill the
distributional requirements of
the Sally Struthers' Degree
Program.

Around Hotlanta:

Tombstone's
Grill is a
sure pleaser
for those with

grave appetites

by Indy Jeston

Have you ever had a bar-
be-qued steak in the shape of
a snake that's to die for? Or
how about toe cheesecake?
Well, get your stomach ready
when you go to Tombstone's
Grill right off of Windy Hill road
in Dunwoody.

Famous for serving raven-
ous customers gastroenteritis,
Tombstone's Grill uses only the
freshest and most wholsome
ingredients. You might ask
how this is possible. Well, the
restaurant has a freshwater
pond, a barn full of live farm
animals, and a slaughter house
right in their very own backyard.
So you won't have to worry
about your meal being frozen
food. Your order of any fried,
grilled, or sauteed farm animal
is cooked very fresh for you.

The ambience has a taste-
less look to it. The four walls
are painted in red and white
checkers with 8 feet tall spoons
and forks (don't even ask). The
tables are made out of old TV
trays that are glued together,
and the chairs are wooden
stumps that they bought from
an old lumber company.

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Winners &
Snoozers

by Jim Shorts and Jock Strap

Sleep Factor Rating Code

z-Only with astudent ID at

Northlake
zz - Wait till it comes to the

$1.50

zzz - Rent it at Kroger
zzzz - Hold out till it's ed-
ited for TV

Academy
snubs Arnold

At the recent Academy
Awards ceremony, the best
picture of the year did not win
the Oscar it was not even
nominated. And if you thought
Tom Hanks deserved the Best
Actornod,thinkagain, myfriend.
Last Passive-Aggressive Hero,
starring the magnificent and
versatile Arnold Schwarzen-
burger, certainly deserved rec-
ognition by the Academy; in-
stead it was rudely snubbed.

Opening the film with his
unique version of Hamlet,
Schwarzenhammer endows his
performance with more poi-
gnancy than Olivier and more
sex appeal than Gibson. That
sweet prince was never finer!

Soon the movie turns to its
real subject, random acts of
violence. As fictional hero Jack
Slader, Schwarzen monger
shows his ability to shoot and
crash cars with finesse. Artfully
dodging dead bodies full of nerve
gas, he proves his true skill as
the best physical actor alive to-
day.

Schwarzenblubber shows
his extensive emotional range,
too. In a touching scene, Slader
expresses his growing appre-
ciation for classical music. When
asked if he likes the piece, he
replies with characteristic elo-
quence, "I don't know. I think I
will.'' Stars all over Hollywood
are clamoring to know what
acting method he uses.

Although he was ignored by
the Oscars again,
Schwarzenknitter maintains his
high standards of acting. He will
next star in King Lear and the
Family of Doom, co-starring
Harrison Ford. We re sure he is
up to the challenge.

Rating: z

Professor Sadler faces charges of theft

Masterpiece The Scream
discovered on Agnes Scott campus

by The Goddess Wanna-Be

Agnes Scott police chief
John D. Ramses today an-
nounced that professor of
art, Donna Sadler, may
have stolen Norway's
missing masterpiece, The
Scream, which was painted
by native son Edvard
Munch, during the Olym-
pics in Lillihammer earlier
this month.

Ramses says an arrest
is likely, but the suspect is
currently unwilling to coop-
erate with authorities in a
thorough investigation.

"We're really unclear
right now, you see, on how
Miss Sadler managed to
acquire the painting," said
Ramses this morning.
"Evidently the reported theft
by a pro-life organization is
false; we have reliable re-
ports that Miss Sadler has
the Munch masterpiece in
her Dana office."

Although Sadler was
unavailable for comment,
many of her students verify

Ramses' report. One
sophomore art major saw it
last week. "She's managed

to remove the figure from
the canvas and attach it to
a giant piece of rubber."

The missingpainting, The Scream, was recently discovered
on the ASfC campus.

The Profile
wishes everyone a

Happy April Fools' Day

"She blows it up some-
times before class," reports
another student, Senior
Neta Mann.

Sadler is a respected,
tenured Agnes Scottfaculty
member with an impec-
cable record without prior
arrests or involvement in
organized crime. However,
faculty friend, professor of
English, Christine Cozzens,
reports that Sadler at-
tempted to give the missing
painting to her for a birthday
present last week.

"I was surprised* she
tried to give me such a
priceless piece of art. It
was almost a good idea
close, but not quite."

Chief Ramses expects
an arrest later today, an-
ticipating Sadler's at-
tempted escape in a bunny
costume she reportedly
rented for Easter. "Well be
keeping a close eye on her,"
Ramses said. "We're be-
ginning to think she may be
one of the gorilla girls."

Tombstone's is
to die for

(Continued from Page 7)
Whatever you order, please
do not drink the water. They
filter their pond water to serve to
you. Yes, believe it.

Tombstone's grill has ev-
erything you want when you
have a serious appetite. If you
survive this existential experi-
ence, you automatically become
a valued customer for life and
get 20% off any future meal
there.

Tl

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mom

"portraying the significant features" of Agnes Scott College

Friday, April 15, 1994

The Independent Student Newspaper of Agnes Scott College

Vol. 80, Issue 11

Cutbacks

College to close Walters for 1994-95 year

by Kerry Murphy
News Editor

Earlier this month, the
Budget Work Group made a
decision to close Walters resi-
dence hall in order to save
money. The Board of Trustees
has recommended that all
groups make percentage re-
ductions in their budgets ac-
cording to the amout of the total
budget that they receive. In this
way, the college will be able to
lower its overall operating bud-
get.

The Budget Work Group is
comprised of Ruth Schmidt,
President of the College; Sarah
Blanshei. Dean of the College;
Gue Hudson, Dean of Students;
Bill Gailey. Vice Presidnet of
Business & Finance; Robert
Leslie, Assoc. Professor of
Mathematics; Harry Wistrand,
Assoc. Professor of Biology; and
Wendy Riviere, President of
SGA. This committee cites low-
ered enrollment as their main
motivation for deciding to close
Walters.

The decision to close
Walters, instead of any of the
other dorms, is based on
Walter's need for renovations.
The windows in the dorm, which
are energy inefficient, need to
be replaced. Also painting,
carpeting, and a few other minor
renovations will be made. Ac-
cording to Dean Hudson, the

time necessary to complete the
aforementioned projects will
exceed the summer months,
making it necessary to open
Hopkins in order to create more
housing for the portion of the
student body inconvenienced by
the closing of Walters.

Although the closing of
Walters will create a smaller
availability of single rooms, ac-
cording to Dean Hudson, "[the
lack of single rooms] is where
the savings will come from."
Technically, all of the boarding
students next year could be
housed in the four remaining
dorms: Main, Rebekah, Inman,
and Winship. So that there will
be some single rooms available
on campus, Hopkins needs to
be opened. There is also a
possibility that fourth floor Main
will be opened to create more
single rooms for students desir-
ing them.

Plans are already underway
for creating a new image of
Hopkins. The dorm will mostly
house sophomores and upper-
classmen, whileWinship will
house the first-year class. Pa-
rietals have not yet been set in
the dorm and will be at the dis-
cretion of those students living
there. There will also be an
upcoming open house at
Hopkins where members of the
campus will be invited to come
and see the dorm. Alumnae that

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waiters uormitory, one of the mam ouuaings on ine quaa, win stand empty next year due
to budget cuts.

once lived in the dorm will also
be invited to come to the open
house and retell some of their
memories about living in
Hopkins. According to Dean
Hudson, the most important
thing about making the whole
transition smooth is attitude : "The
key to Agnes Scott is the attitude
[with] which you approach
things."

Although the student body

as a whole is disgruntled about
the closing of the dorm, ac-
cording to Nicole Gosnell, Vice
President of RHA, "There's
nothing that the students can do
.... The closing of Walters is only
the first in a series of cutbacks."
Dean Hudson remarks that "It
would be more insulting to ask
people their opinion [about the
closing of the dorm or which
dorm should close] and not use

[theiropinion]." Theonly chance
of Walters remaining open next
year is if the incoming class of
'98 is very large and exceeds
the spacing allotted for first year
students. The way the plans are
shaped now, Walters will re-
open for the 1995-96 school
year. At this point, there are no
definite plans on whether an-
other dorm will be closed when
Walters re-opens.

Budget Work Committee
presents balanced budget

Education department
hires new professor

by Amy Heins

by Laura Spiczka
Assistant Editor

On April 8. the Budget Work
Committee presented a bal-
anced budget forthe 1 994-1 995
school year. At the second an-
nual Budget Forum, Vice Presi-
dent of Business and Finance
Bill Gailey commended the
committee for their hard work in
balancing next year's budget.

The budget balanced at
$19,618,424 for the 1994-95
school year. Revenue was
based on the following condi-
tions: 485 undergraduate en-
rollments, 17 graduate enroll-
ments, an 8% increase in tu-
ition, a 3% increase in endow-
ment, a 9% increase in room
and board, a 5% increase on
Agnes Scott's rental properties,
and a decrease in telephone

service which is a result of de-
clining enrollment. Expenditure
included no increases in the sal-
ary pool, increased benefits due
to health insurance, and the
basic overall operating budget.
Gailey also announced that the
closing of Walters will save the
college $18,000. Copies of the
budget will be available after it is
presented at the May meeting of
the Board of Trustees.

The Education Department
at Agnes Scott now has a new
professor. After seven months
of searching, accepting applica-
tions, and interviewing, the
Search Committee has selected
Jane West to fill the position
formerly occupied by Dr. Beth
Roberts.

West is currently complet-
ing her Ph. D. at the University of
Georgia. Her research exam-

ines how children act as teach-
ers with each other. Before at-
tending the UGA, West worked
in a third grade classroom and
has been teaching in the class-
room for several years. She
received her Masters from Loui-
siana State University and then
proceeded to the University of
Georgia.

The Search Committee had
several criteria by which they
examined the applicants. They
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Campus Clips

compiled by Laura Spiczka
Assistant Editor

Georgia College
addresses needs
of the disabled

from the Colonnade

In accordance with the
provisions of the American
Disabilities Act, Georgia Col-
lege is conducting an internal
study to evaluate the cam-
pus' accessibility. According
to Dr. Hoffman, efforts to re-
model are being considered
within the limited budget of
the college. For disabled stu-
dents who currently need
access to classrooms on in-
accessible floors, Student
Support Services will petition
for the class to be moved to
lower levels. For those stu-
dents who qualify, Georgia
College also offers talking
books, signers, tape record-
ers, and note takers in class.
The College, however, re-
minds students that, although
many services are offered to
assist handicapped students,
the academic standards are
in no way lowered.

Assistant director
at Georgia
Southern charged
with burglary

from the George-Anne

James Days, assistant
director of Union programs,
was charged with the bur-
glary of a $500 bag of change.
As assistant director, Days
was responsible for operating
the game room and conces-
sion stands. Although he was
authorized to be in the build-
ing, his authorization did not
extend to having access to
the safe. According to Public
Safety official Lt. Guy Sharp,
Days was charged with felony
burglary rather than the less
serious charge of theft. Days
was released from the
Bullooch County Jail on
$1000 bond while the inves-
tigation continues.

Valdosta State
submits proposals
to receive
lottery funds

from the Spectator

Valdosta State hopes to
receive part of the $7.5 million
in funds set aside for colleges
and universities in the Univer-
sity of Georgia System. The
College has submitted four
proposals. Proposals are
evaluated by the state, and
then matching funds must be
raised from private sources
before the funds can be re-
ceived. The state of Georgia
approved two of Valdosta
State's proposals asking for
improved computer equip-
ment in most of the academic
departments and mobile
computer labs for the School
of Education. VSU officials
are now hoping that they can
raise funds in excess of what
the state calls for so that any
funds not used by other
schools can be allotted to
Valdosta State.

Researchers hope
to cleanup Twelve
Mile Creek

from the Tiger

Steps are being taken to
clean up the Polychlorinated
Biphenal (PCB) contamina-
tion of the Sangamo-Weston
capacitor manufacturing plant
that operated from 1955 until
1 977. Approximately
4,000,000 lbs. of contamina-
tion is reported in this area,
making the consumption of
fish in this area dangerous.
The contamination, which
centers mostly in the arm of
the creek, poses a carcino-
genic risk as small as 1 in
1,000,000 to 4 in 1,000. Until
a permanent treatment facil-
ity can be established, officials
are treating the area with a
low temperature thermal
disorption.

Chaplain Search Committee
nominates candidates

by Ashley Seaman
and Tara Spuhler

After six months of survey-
ing over fifty applications, the
Chaplain Search Committee has
nominated five candidates:
Paige McRight, Debra
Bergeson, Kathy Carpenter,
Mark and Melinda Duntley, and
Susan Newton.

These candidates recently
visited our campus and were
interviewed by various members
ofthecommunity. Requirements
for the position include ordina-

tion in the Presbyterian Church
(USA), with which Agnes Scott
is affiliated, experience with
counseling, awareness of com-
munity service and enthusiasm
about campus life.

In addition to these funda-
mental attributes, the candidates
each offered their own unique
abilities. For instance, some
applicants envisioned them-
selves also serving as a pro-
fessor or counselor to faculty
and staff in addition to students.

Members of the Chaplain

Fuzz Buzz

compiled by the Department of Public Safety

During the past two weeks,
we had two incidents of particular
interest.

On Monday evening , April
4, a witness came to our off ice to
report seeing a screaming
woman being pushed into a car
by a man in front of the arch at
the entrance to the campus. An
investigation by Agnes Scott
police officers later located the
vehicle used in the incident.
Then the officers located the

parties involved in the incident.
They learned that the woman
being pushed into the vehicle
was the sister of the person doing
the pushing and that the brother
was just trying to get her back
home.

On Tuesday morning, April
5, the body of a forty-one-year-
old black female was located at
the intersection of Sycamore
Street and Glenn Street, ap-
proximately six blocks from the

Health Fair Planned
for April 19, 1994

by Lisa Sandblom

The Student Health Center
is organizing the annual Health
Fair, which will be held on April
19 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in
the Rebekah Conference Room
and Woltz Reception Room.

A health fair offers a variety
of health screenings, resources,
referrals, products and services
which enable the consumer to
obtain valuable care quickly,
accurately, and inexpensively.
Many health professionals will
be available during the day to
help you with your health care
problems or questions.

Representatives from such
organizations as The American
Heart Association, Atlanta Lung
Association, National Black
Women's Health Project, AID

Atlanta and Presbyterian Book
Store plan to attend the fair.
Attendants will have an oppor-
tunity to have the following blood
tests done at a reduced fee by
the Student Health Center's Lab:
complete blood count - $4.00,
chemistry profile - $5.00.
dhemistry proflile with HDL
$7.00, cholesterol alone - $5.00,
glucose screening -$4.00. Other
features include body fat analy-
sis, massage therapy, and nu-
trition specialists. A podiatrist
will be available between 1 and
3 p.m.

All students, staff, faculty
and their family members are
invited to participate. Questions
regarding the Health Fair should
be directed to the Student Health
Center, extension 6346.

Search Committee include
Kathy Petros (student), Tara
Spuhler (student), John Carey
(faculty), Mollie Merrick (admin-
istration), Ruth Schmidt (admin-
istration), and Gue Hudson (ad-
ministration). All members of
the committee would appreciate
your input and inquiries regard-
ing the candidate selection. The
search committee expresses its
confidence that the Chaplain's
office will continue to be a dy-
namic and vital part of Agnes
Scott.

campus. The Dekalb County
Medical Examiner's Office de-
termined the cause of death to
be strangulation. This incident
is still actively being investigated.

On April 12, 13 and 14 the
Public Safety Department con-
ducted crime prevention semi-
nars. We hope that many of you
were able to attend and encour-
age those of you who may have
missed us to come by on April
19 from 9-4 in Rebekah Hall to
see us at the Health Fair where
we will be providing valuable
crime prevention information.

Education Dept.

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wanted someone in elemen-
tary education who special-
ized in language arts and who
could meet the needs of the
required courses. These re-
quirements include the
teaching of reading, writing,
social studies, and curricu-
lum design. The committee
also wanted an applicant who
understood that, due to the
small nature of Agnes Scott,
he or she would be undertak-
ing a broad spectrum of re-
sponsibilities, including ad-
vising students and serving
on various committees. Fi-
nally, the applicant needed to
understand the role of the
MAT program and how it
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works with the rest of the Education Depart-
ment. Although the position is in elementary
education, it was important that the new
professor be able to meet both needs if
necessary.

Several students in the Education pro-
gram were also involved in the selection

process. Education students ate breakfast
with the applicants, thereby allowing for a
more informal meeting. The applicants also
gave lectures on various topics of interest to
education. Sara Wolfe, a sophomore who is
enrolled in the Education Program, was one
of these students. "I felt that all the applicants
were well qualified.*' she said. "It was a really
hard choice."

Abbreviated Universe

by Amanda Hodges
Staff writer

A great deal has occurred
around our world in the last few
weeks. On the international
scene, the crisis in Bosnia-
Herzegovina continues. The
city of Sarajevo has been
relatively peaceful for the past
two months because of the
peace agreement that ended
the siege on the city. Despite
the attempts for peace, the
warfare in the countryside has
intensified. There has been a
recent evacuation of the Mus-
lims and Croats in the Bosnian
town of Prijedor. This evacua-
tion is an attempt to rescue the
townspeople from nationalistic
Serbs.

Nationally, the White
House has faced controversy.
Last year federal regulators
brought allegations forth con-
cerning President Clinton's
gubernatorial campaign. This
investigation caused a series
of accusations ranging from
questionable real-estate deals

to the president's role in S&L
funds. The Senate has named
a committee that will be re-
sponsible for researching these
charges. In addition, the White
House handed over many of
the Clintons' personal papers,
including tax returns dating
back to 1977, to the commit-
tee. Clinton, however, is deter-
mined not to allow this investi-
gation to impede any of his
national policies.

During the weekend of
March 27, 1994, tornadoes
swept through Alabama and
Georgia. On Sunday, the tor-
nadoes ravaged a large portion
of Northeastern Georgia.
These natural disasters killed
1 8 people, and caused exten-
sive property damage. As a
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promised and, hopefully, will
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Editor's Note: The

name of the author of
this article has been
withheld in order to pro-
tect her privacy. She
has also changed certain
details of her experi-
ences so that she could
not be identified.

From a different perspective:

What it ; s like to be a maid here

I won't complain about the
work. It may not be pleasant,
but I chose to do it, and I don't
resent the fact that I pick up after
people and clean their toilets.
Lots of women do that for free at
home. No paycheck, no retire-
ment plan, no union. It's nice to
be around the students; either
they're friendly or they're not,
easy to get along with either
way.

What I don't like is the way I
get treated in the offices. I take
pride in my work, and I do a good
job. I have a bad day once in a
while when I just can't seem to
move. Just like the office ladies.
Difference is, when they can't
move, they don't have to. They
can stay at their desks, call their
friends, complain about what-
ever. Go to lunch a little early,
stay a little longer.

I'm not jealous, but let
someone catch me on a college
phone - talking to my son's
teacher at the only time she can
talk to me - and the whole de-
partment gets in trouble, and it's
meetings and memos. I see the
office ladies making Xerox cop-
ies of jokes and recipes and
church work and cute little po-
ems. It's nice they can do that.
It's nice to have an honor sys-
tem for paying for copies, too. I
like working in a place where
everyone can be trusted, more
orless. Butletmewalktooclose
to one of those machines, and

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there is an office lady sniffing
around. "Do you need some
help with that? Can I help you
with something?" What they
really mean is, "What are you
doing? Is that an official college
copy? Did you pay for that?"
And whatthey're thinking is. "Did
she take any money out of that
box?"

I listen to these samewomen
keep up with each others' ba-
bies and husbands and church
friends and people who used to
work here. Name any place,
and someone in the room will
know somebody else's sister or
child who lives there. They re-
member that kind of thing, but
they can't seem to remember
my name even though I've been
here longerthan they have. They
know each others' children's
wives and husbands and their
home towns and where they
went to college, but they don't
know my name. Don't know my
name, and I've been seeing them
every day since the disco era.
I've got a husband, too. same
old tired one I've always had.
and I've got children, and they
have names. We all have
names, but I know the excuses:
there are so many of them, I
can't keep them straight; I don't
see her enough to talk to - like
every day since 1 979 is not long
enough?

We have more in common
than you know. For example,
here I am using a computer to
write this at home. I own this

house: I work in the yard. My
children stay out too late, and
they get grounded. I drive my
elderly neighbor to the store once
a week. I'm on a very important
committee at my church. We
raise a lot of money, but they
don't want to know about my
charities or my preferences ex-
ceptonceayearwhen it'sforthe
United Way. Then the push is
on. Do it for the community.
They give it a few weeks, and
then they lean on our supervisor
because not enough people from
our department have "donated."
We asked for a payroll deduction
for that new parking fee, and
they said it couldn^ be done
because of the computers. Not
a month after that, they're trying
to talk me into a United Way
payroll deduction. One time
somebody important even came
in front of us and said she didn't
want to work with people who
aren't "generous." She could
fire us all, so what were we sup-
posed to think?

I think they never take a
good look at me. They couldn't
pick me out of a lineup of other
women my same age and
weight. I changed my haironce,
and someone whose name I've
known for three years tried to
introduce herself. You can see
why Staff Day is such an ordeal.
That's the one day to be nice, to
pretend we're all on the same
team. I don't like being hauled
out or sent away like furniture.
When there is a convocation

with a black speaker, they want
us there. Tell us we have to go.
If the Board of Trustees is in
town, they want us to be invis-
ible. They don't want to see any
blue uniforms around here when
there are important people on
campus. When there are impor-
tant black people on campus,
they want us around for show.
Imagine if your teacher or your
boss picked out all the convoca-
tions you should go to and
wouldn't let you go to any others
and wouldn't NOT let you go to
the ones he had chosen.

I don't think there's anybody
here who is mean or vicious, at
least not where I clean. I think
some people are afraid of me,
afraid of people who look like
me. Afraid that if they got too
friendly I might want to live next
door to them. But it's more than
that. Everybody is so darn nice
here they don't want to hurt my
feelings by admitting that they
don't know my name. They're
afraid that if they try to talk to me
and say the wrong thing I'll drop
my bucket, point at them, and
start screaming, "Racist!" Trust
me. I won't do it. I will treat you
with respect. I need my job. and
I wouldn't do anything that made
everybody upset. None of us in
the department would. That's
why we pretend every-thing's
OK, even though most of them
pretend we're invisible. Until a
toilet overflows - then all of the
sudden I'm your best friend.

Letter to the Editor:

In Defense of Free Speech

Dear Editor:

I was greatly disturbed by
the response to "Behind the El-
evator Door's" by Pam Peel in a
recent issue of the Profile. In a
personal essay, a student re-
counted an honest, visceral re-
sponse toward someone by
whom she felt threatened and
humiliated, in an effort to convey
the intensity of her feeling at one
particular moment. Ms. Peel's
piece was not an editorial com-
mentary, but an essay, a piece
of literature, which like most lit-
erature presents us with a range
of human experience as seen

by the author, through which
we. as readers, can ultimately
witness ourselves. For a writer
to be able to tell the truth, he
must be allowed to relate can-
didly his own unique response
to his experience. The power of
literature lies in the writer's
freedom to express his truth, for
it is our encounter with that truth
that informs and sometimes
changes us.

We see in Pam Peel's ac-
count of warring cultural stereo-
types a dynamic which is more
prevalent than many of us would
care to admit, and one that would
have remained buried if the au-

thor had not been brave enough
to describe her experience al-
together honestly. What we
observe is her poignant re-
sponse to an interchange dur-
ing which the levying of one
prejudicial stereotype evokes a
reaction in kind. The author,
having been defined by her co-
worker as a "southern yokel"
and other such regional demar-
cations of character, uncon-
sciously finds herself settling
upon his northern and. as it hap-
pens, Jewish, characteristics as
she seeks to defend herself.
Feeling threatened by having
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Sex, life, and Gender

Michelle Smith

I think it is great that a dean
can schedule a "prejudice re-
duction" workshop and, at the
exact same time, discriminate
against a student. If that doesn't
exemplify the true spirit of the
Agnes Scott body politic at large,
then I don't know what the heck
does.

A workshop that was
scheduled only two weeks prior
against an event that had been
scheduled an entire year. Over-
sight, you say. I can buy that,
maybe. And I say maybe be-
cause there comes a time when
one can no longer accept igno-
rance as an excuse. After all, a
cop will still give you a speeding
ticket if you were ignorant that
the zone was 25 instead of the
65 you were driving.

So for the sake of argument
we can claim ignorance and
oversight as the claiming fac-
tors, even though we admit that

they are no excuse. However
(and let's put the however in
capital letters so no one misses
this, not even the Queen Bee
herself) HOWEVER, when the
Queen Dean who scheduled the
workshop comes into Woltz re-
ception room and tells the mother
and aunt of the recital artist she
needs chairs for a hastily planned
event meant to combat preju-
dice and discrimination on cam-
pus and that "you won't need all
of these chairs anyway because
you won't have that many people
at the recital," folks, that's where
Michelle can no longer accept
ignorance as an excuse.

No. A remark like that is not
only callous but discriminatory
and tacky as the devil in (well,
you know where he lives). And
the administration actually won-
ders why the campus is (let's
see, how did SACS phrase it?
ah ... now I remember) joyless.

What's even funnier is the
professors who attend those
things. (And I have completed a
workshop myself, so please, no
hate mail to the box.) What I'm
driving at here is the ironic fact
thatthe professors in attendance
are the ones who discriminate
the most in the classroom, who
for instance think that jazz is
only a white experience. A
workshop environment where
faculty members are reluctant
to frankly admit their sexuality
because someone might go
back and tell a higher up and
make life less than pleasant and
carefree.

The premise is a good one.
But time and again Agnes Scott

has shown that it is neither will-
ing nor ready to accept change.
All the workshops and diversity
in the world won't make it hap-
pen. It only takes one powerful
person's sliding back to dis-
criminatory practices to instantly
undo the gains of what ten hard
working people and two work-
shops can accomplish in our
struggle for peace, harmony, and
happiness on campus.

Respect is the key word
here. No one has any respect
for anyone else. Unfortunately,
Aretha Franklin never came to
Agnes Scott. And if she had, we
have to wonder if anyone here
would have listened anyway ....

Free speech

(Continued from Page 4)

been pigeonholed as an igno-
rant southerner, she chooses
whatever weapons she can
summon from her own arsenal
of ethnic and regional stereo-
types in order to protect herself,
even if only internally. For us to
pretend that anyone growing up
in America could reach the age
of twenty without having accu-
mulated a private set of preju-
dices against someone is dis-
ingenuous at best and danger-
ously naive at worst. I believe
that each of us, if we are honest,

can remember a time in our
lives when we responded in fear
and/or anger to the difference in
another, whether we did it si-
lently, to ourselves, or aloud.
Many of us understand, intel-
lectually, the origins of such re-
sponses, but mere understand-
ing does not necessarily enable
us to change the way we per-
ceive and react to one another.
Only when we expose ourselves
(and are exposed to ourselves)
as we really are and not as we
wish we could be or would like to
have others think we are, do we
stand a chance to overcome the
obstacle of bigotry which daily

confronts us all. Only after we
can acknowledge whatever it is
that does lie between us, as
citizens and as people, can we
hope for the light of reason to
transform us.

I know from personal expe-
rience that freedom of expres-
sion carries the potential to hurt
and offend. I grew up in London,
the child of Irish immigrants, and
I was never able to completely
assimilate into a culture where I
was always, to some degree, an
outsider. I understand how
painful it is to be stereotyped,
prejudged and worse, misun-
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The Profile

Friday. April 15. 1994

National health care proposals raise questions,
provide few answers

by Mary L. T. Jordan

If you're confused about the
health care debate and the half
dozen bills now in Congress,
you're not alone.

Lawmakers may be fighting
over the best way to achieve
health care reform, but almost
all of them agree that there is a
health care crisis. According to
the Employee Benefit Research
Institute, nearly 39 million people
in the U.S. lack health insurance.
In every major city, thousands of
homeless people are not getting
the care they are eligible for at

community health centers. For
years, women's health care
needs have been neglected. And
even today with all the pharma-
ceutical and technological ad-
vances, the situation hasn't
changed that much.

President fclinton threatens
to veto any "legislation that does
not guarantee every American
private health insurance that can
never be taken away." But what
exactly does all this mean? How
much would a reformed health
care system cost? How do the

What Women Should Look for
in Health Care Reform

Access to System

Whatever plan passes Congress, women should be
able to receive a set of comprehensive benefits with an
emphasis on prevention and primary care and a full
range of reproductive health services. Such services
include prenatal care and delivery services,
mammography and pap smears, family planning services
and substance abuse services.

Choice

Women should make sure members of Congress
maintain and improve their choice in gynecologists as
well as general practitioners. Because so many women
take responsibility for their families, outpatient settings,
the home, hospice facilities, and long term care facilities
should be included to make care more accessible for
every woman regardless of where she lives. After all,
health care seeking behaviors differ between different
ethnic and socio-economic groups.

Coverage

Women have been treated as an afterthought for too
long. Health care coverage should be available to all
women, regardless of income, employment status, pre-
existing conditions, or eligibility for other forms of public
assistance. Just because a woman works at home or
works part-time without benefits does not mean she
should have to rely on her husband's plan.

NOTE! This is an election year, so Congress will be
listening closely to your concerns. The president has
already addressed women's health care needs in his
plan, but the trick now is to encourage members of
Congress to do the same: to ensure similar benefits and
access to health care for women as they do for themselves
and other men.

Stay educated. Write or call your representatives in
Congress with your specific concerns and questions.

bills differ? Would everyone
voluntarily enroll in a program?
Would the government force us
to buy insurance? What do
women have to gain and lose
from health care reform?

Americans are thoroughly
baffled about the nature of "the
crisis," the reforms being dis-
cussed, and the often publicly-
declared beliefs of the politicians
involved. So here are explana-
tions of some of the issues as
the players take posts, react to
voter opinions, and tryto one-up
rivals as their election-times
approach.

The Clinton Plan

Promises

The Clinton Plan promises
every legal United States resi-
dent protection against health
care costs at all times. Allcitizens
would be able to choose their
own doctors who will belong to
government health alliances and
select health plans at costs
controlled by the government.
Doctors would be paid by the
government at rates set by the
government, and it would be il-
legal for doctors to accept money
directly from patients.

Cost

Employers would take care
of costs for their workers by
paying health insurance premi-
ums. Businesses would be re-
quired to pay at least 80 percent
of premiums for their employ-
ees. You would pay up to 20
percent. If a person is unem-
ployed, the government would
provide subsidies to cover costs.

Problems

While the president insists
that his plan promises less
government bureaucracy, critics
argue that the plan actually beefs
up governmental control by au-
thorizing the National Health
Board, comprised of seven
presidential appointees, to de-
termine the country's health care
needs and define what is medi-
cally necessary and appropri-
ate. Critics contend that the
government would restrict the
freedom to choose plans and
doctors who would best suit the
patient's specific medical needs.

The White House Press
Office says there are no price
controls in the president's plan.
That's not entirely true. The
government would actually de-
cide how much could be spent
on health care through a system
of rigid budget limits. The plan
promises health care for every-
one, but doctors and hospitals
argue that the rigid insurance
caps and cuts in Medicare
spending may not leave enough
money to give patients their full
range of medical coverage.
According to a recent article in
Time Magazine, critics find it
even easier to condemn the
whole plan as a tax and spend
extravaganza, saying it would
add 25 percent to the national
budget by 1998.

The president insists that
his plan will create jobs, butcritics
argue that the plan indirectly
encourages companies to fire
workers. Some small companies
say they will not be able to afford
paying everyone's premiums
without layoffs; because the
Federal government says it will
pay part of the cost of the ben-
efits for part-time workers, em-
ployers say they would hire part-
timers to replace full-timers and
temps to replace part-timers. If
the Clinton Plan does not re-
quire companies to provide
benefits to temps, full-time em-
ployees would lose their jobs to
less pricey employees.

The Cooper Plan

Approach

Sponsored by Representa-
tive Jim Cooper (D-TN), the plan
relies on a voluntary program to
cover all Americans through in-
surance reform. By making in-
surance more affordable. 80
percent of the uninsured would
voluntarily obtain coverage.
Employers would not require
consumers to buy health insur-
ance and would not require
employers to pay for it. Under
this bill, a Federal agency would
study the remaining uninsured
population and advise Congress
on how to get coverage for all
Americans.

Criticism

Critics say that under

Cooper's plan, family spending
on health coverage would sky-
rocket, possibly increasing by
thousands of dollars per year.
The cost would once again
burden the consumer and thus
perpetuate the already failing
system.

Cooper also has no idea
how much his plan will cost. He
doesn't even have a rough es-
timate. This failure to evaluate
expenses could result in health
care becoming more expensive
and less expansive, with little to
no improvement. As reported in
a recent Time Magazine article,
the Cooper plan could increase
the deficit by $70 billion in the
next four years.

Single-Payer Plan

Approach

Under a bill introduced by
Representative Jim McDermott
(D-WA) and Senator Paul
Wellstone (D-MN), everyone
would be enrolled in a national
health insurance program by
1995. The Government would
design and finance the program,
and it would be administered by
the states. Children would be
enrolled at birth. The plan would
be paid for by payroll tax in-
creases on employers (4 percent
for small companies and 8.4
percent for larger ones), a 2.1
percent tax on individuals' tax-
able income, and steeper taxes
on tobacco, handguns, and
ammunition.

Criticism

Businesses pass along their
tax liabilities to the people in the
form of higher prices or lower
wages, so who ultimately pays
the taxes? We, the taxpayers,
do. But we are not absolutely
aware of how much we're being
taxed and where the tax dollars
are coming from. Under these
plans, taxpayers are being fooled
into thinking businesses are
paying taxes when, in fact, only
people can pay taxes.

Other Plans

Approach

Senator John Chafee's bill
(R-RI) would require all citizens
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' portraying the significant features" of ASC

Friday, April 15, 1994

The Profile

Page 7

Timepieces:

by Jenny White

Hopkins Hall, located be-
tween Inman Hall and the
Alumnae House and across from
the dining hall, is scheduled to
be reopened to students next
year. The history of Hopkins's
dedication and namesake is
important, as the building is
dedicated to one of the most
significant people in Agnes
Scott's history, Nannette
Hopkins. Miss Hopkins devoted
fifty years of her life in service to
Agnes Scott, and, after her res-
ignation and death in 1 938, plans
were made for a memorial to her
in the form of a residence hall.

Nannette Hopkins was one
of the first two teachers at the
Decatur Female Seminary,
founded in 1889. Nearly ten
years later, in 1 897, she became
Lady Principal of Agnes Scott
Institute and then dean in 1906
and a trustee in 1927. During
her time as dean of ASC the
office of "dean" included both
the dean of students' and the
dean of the faculty's responsi-
bilities. Thus Miss Hopkins was
well-known by everyone on
campus, and her influence on
the institution permeated each
constituency, especially the
students.

When Miss Hopkins be-
came so ill that she could not
continue her duties (and she
triedtoforawhile!), she resigned
and was given the title of Dean
Emeritus. Only a month passed
before she died on October 28,
1938. She was 78 years old and
had contributed fifty years to
Agnes Scott.

The history of Hopkins Hall

Her influence was profound.
In the Agnes Scott College Bul-
letin, Summer 1939 issue, she
is described in the following
manner.

"It is impossible to measure
or estimate the influence of Miss
Hopkins in the life of the College.
She was in closer touch with the
students than any other person
throughout its history. She loved
every girl who attended the in-
stitution, and she knew person-
ally most of them. She served
as a real mother for many of
them, because they confided in
her and trusted her judgment to
a greater extent than that of most
other people."

The faculty also thought
most highly of her and expressed
their feelings for her leadership
in a faculty resolution passed
after her death:

"To have given fifty years of
service to the institution is in
itself notable, but to have made
that service complete and sin-
gular is her enduring distinction.
Those fifty years were years of
daring, phenomenal growth,
covering as they did the whole
history of Agnes Scott from its
beginning as a grammar school
through its development into one
of the few standard colleges for
women in the South. The place
of Miss Hopkins in this devel-
opment was significant."

Following her resignation,
the college split the office of
dean into two separate compo-
nents: dean of the faculty and
dean of students. The first dean
of the faculty was Samuel Guerry
Stukes. The first dean of stu-
dents was Carrie Scandrett, a
graduate of ASC and an em-
ployee of Miss Hopkins, who
recommended her for the posi-
tion.

Hopkins Hall, built in honor of Nanette Hopkins, one of the college's most dedicated
employees, will be re-opened in the fall of 1994.

As Miss Hopkins's part in
the college history was so sig-
nificant, the college wanted to
set up a suitable memorial for
her and decided to do so by
building a residence hall in her
honor. Between 1 939 and 1 944
a total of $125,000 was raised
by the college and the alumnae
for the building. However, the
onset of World War 1 1 made con-
struction impossible, and it was
not until the early 1950's, when
Agnes Scott was in great need
of more student housing, that
work on Hopkins Hall could re-
sume.

In 1952, construction on
Hopkins Hall began. More
money was still needed (the to-
tal cost in the end, including
furnishings and landscaping,
was $227,205) and the money

was raised by alumnae who
"purchased" rooms in Hopkins.
The rooms were worth different
amounts, and, if a person gave
a certain amount for a room, her
name went on a nameplate over
the door. The costs ranged from
$500 for offices, the kitchen, and
the study lounge to $5000 for
the landscaping and the lounge
overlooking the alumnaegarden.
A double room cost $1000.
Eventually, the money was
raised and the building com-
pleted; Hopkins Hall was dedi-
cated on September 30, 1953.

An especially interesting
aspect of the building of Hopkins
concerns the structure that
originally occupied its site, White
(or Allen) House. White House
once stood where Main now
stands and was the original site

of the Decatur Female Semi-
nary. In 1890 the building was
moved to the spot in between
Inman and the Alumnae House,
and it was then razed in 1 952 for
Hopkins. White House would
probably be the oldest building
on campus if it existed today.

Speakers at the dedication
ceremony of Hopkins included
President Alston, President
Emeritus McCain, Dean Carrie
Scandrett, Mrs. Edward Owen,
national alumnae president, and
chair of the board of trustees,
George Winship. All of the
speakers talked of Dean
Hopkins's accomplishments and
her contribution to the college.
Her influence, her gift of service
to the college, and her life are
still remembered today.

Library garden to be renovated

by Jenny White

By next semester, students will be able to enjoy this garden
located outside the library.

A photo in a brochure an-
nouncing the opening of the
McCain Library shows the library
garden as it was in the fall of
1936 an outdoor reading ter-
race, complete with tables,
chairs and umbrellas for stu-
dents. A recent donation from
an anonymous alumna will help
make the garden into a quiet

place for students once again.
The renovations will mainly in-
volve the landscaping of the
garden and will hopefully make
it into a beautiful spot to study or
just relax.

The garden has structurally
been a part of the library since its
opening in 1936. Apparently,
the garden remained an "outdoor

reading terrace" until the class
of 1 979, as a gift to the college,
made it into a true garden with
plants and flowers. The donation
that has been made is intended
to renovate the spot into a lovely
garden again.

The renovations to the gar-
den will be mostly landscaping
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"portraying the significant features" of ASC

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The Profile

Friday. April 15, 1994

Focus on Dl Myrtle Lewin

Collaboration is the key

by Kathryn Durkee and Karen Shuman

On any weekday night, af-
ter most ASC professors have
gone home, go down to the CLC,
and you are likely to find Dr.
Myrtle Lewin aiding a confused
math student. Although the
student learns math from Lewin,
Lewin herself learns how to see
an old math problem from a new
point of view.

As the professor and the
student learn from each other,
learnig becomes a collaborative
effort. This collaboration is the
heart of Lewin's approach to
education, and she recently had
the opportunity to expand and
research her ideas about col-
laborative learning while
spending lastyearon sabbatical
at Cornell University in Ithaca,
New York.

During her sabbatical, Lewin
had two objectives: to learn
more about mathematics and to
conduct a pedagogical research
project. In addition to taking
courses in analytic number
theory, logic, and geometry,
Lewin expanded her knowledge
in several non-mathematical
fields. She participated in a
women's studies course, two
Jewish studies courses, and an
education seminar on math and
gender. This last course helped
her develop her research project
for spring semester.

As part of this project, Lewin
created a CLC-type atmosphere
on a larger scale at Cornell.
Many first year calculus students
took advantage of the semi-
weekly study sessions that
Lewin provided. Both students
and professors benefited from
the collaborative learning envi-
ronment. Many students also

formed their own study groups
within this setting.

At the beginnig and the end
of the spring semester, Lewin
distributed surveys to determine
what type of students used the
support facilities and what dif-
ferent attitudes men and women
bring to mathematics classes.
Overall, Lewinfoundthatwomen
did as well as men in mathemat-
ics classes, but women were
more likely to to take advantage
of the available study facilities.

Lewin is very gratified that
she "made a difference" since
other professors at Cornell
continue to work one-on-one
with their students in the col-
laborative environment.

Now that Lewin has returned
to Agnes Scott, she is continu-
ing to pursue her interests in
math education research and
gender issues. She uses her
work in the CLC to get inside the
students' heads and to under-
stand their reasoning. Lewin
says that it is the people in her
classes, not the subject matter
that she teaches, that make her
classes exciting.

Street Beat

Editor's Note: Due to a
camera malfunction, Street
Seaf pictures are unavailable.

Question:

How do you feel aout the decision to close Walters
next year I Do you feel that it will affect youl

"From all that I've
heard, the decision to
close Walters and open
Hopkins makes very little
sense. Not only is
Hopkins less comfortable
than Walters, it is also
smaller and, in the long
run, less economical! I
would like to know who
was consulted before this
decision was made and
why this situation of the
law being dictated with
no room for negotiation
is a typical action of the
Agnes Scott Administra-
tion."

- Ashley Seaman, '95

1 think thatthe decision
was made through the
'proper' channels that
being a committee with stu-
dent representation. I hope,
however, that the effect of
having a dead building in
the middle of campus bal-
ances with what is to be
gained by the numerical
efficiency of the housing
manipulation. Hey,
Hopkins could be fun!"

- Holly Demuth, '95

"It wouldn't be so bad if
it had overhead lights and
the windows didn't rattle
when the train went by. 11

-Shane Wood, '97

"I am really disap-
pointed that the adminis-
tration did not ask for stu-
dent opinion concerning
the closing of Walters.
Perhapsthe opening of
Hopkins is necessary,
but, since this issue most
affects students, WE
SHOULD HAVE HAD
SOME SAY IN THE
MATTER! I, as a stu-
dent, am tired of being
ignored and, as a paying
member of this campus
'community," am sick of
the administration's try-
ing to save money by
cutting corners at the
students' expense."

- Laura Stone McCrodden,
'96

Library garden

(Continued from Page 7)

renovations, with complete re-
planting of the area. Physical
Plant plans to add lots of new
bushes, flowers and small trees,
and hopes to make the garden
"more interesting" by adding

plants that will provide different
colors every season, so that
something will always be in
bloom. The plants will also
hopefully attract many butter-
flies and birds to the garden.

In addition, a garden bench
has been added for students

and other visitors to the garden,
and, during the summer, Physi-
cal Plant will add an opening to
the garden in the wall facing the
Alston Center. Visitors to the
garden will then be able to enter
it from the outside rather than
inside the library.

Tennis Update

by Nanska Lovell

Sun, sand, and
sea water - the key
components of a
good spring break for
most people, right 9
For the Agnes Scott
Tennis Team, spring
break was instead charac-
terized by sweat, strings,
and swings.

Leaving ASC on March
1 5, the team headed to Hilton

Head, South Carolina, for three
days of intense competition. At
Hilton Head, the team competed in
matches with several schools from
the northern pan! ofhe country, in-
cluding Washington University,
Wisconsin LaCrosse, Denison. and
David Lipscomb. These schools
proved to be very challenging,
enabling each ASC player to im-
prove her game.

Many of the matches proved

to be evenly contested, especially
the one against LaCrosse. Out of
the six singles matches played, five
of them were split sets. Reina
Barreto pulled ahead in the third set
and succeeded in winning her
match. Other winners include
Marley Maupin and Kira Hospidar,
who played tremendously well in
their doubles match.

Regardless of the intensity of
the matches, ASC players remained
steady and improved their games.
For example, Emily Currington,
playing in ASCs sixth singles posi-
tion, played steadily and triumphed
over her opponent.

Back home at Agnes Scott, the
tennis team took on Oberlin Col-

lege on Saturday. March 19. The
team again played well, displaying
good form and high concentration.
Although the team lost, Coach
Arthur feels that the extremely com-
petitive matches helped the team to
improve and become stronger.

The team has only one tourna-
ment and five more matches left
during this season. The tourna-
ment will give the team a chance to
compete against schools they would
not have ordinarily played.

As the season comes to a close,
the team continues to strive toward
improvement in their playing skills
and increasing their mental tough-
ness, both of which will benefit them
in seasons to come.

"portraying the significant features" of ASC

ARTS

Friday, April 15, 1994

The Profile

Page 9

A writer writes up
the Writers' Festival

by Jalaine Halsall

For three weeks before,
during, and after ASC's 1994
Writers' Festival I slipped into
a Zombie state, not unlike a
similar trance after reading the
first eleven cantos of the Inferno,
the difference being that I woke
and followed Virgil and Dante up
Mt. Purgatorio and for one brief,
shining moment ... No, that was
Camelot. And what I'm wanting
is ... Paradise. But Paradise is
not where writers write, writers
can't write in Paradise. And
writers are, paradoxically, in
Paradise when they write.

I'm paradoxically in Para-
dise and flooding my house af-
ter I turn on a faucet and forget
to turn it off when a frog writes its
way out of my fog, and the hall
carpet as well as every towel,
blanket, and sheet from the linen
closet is sopping.

But, see, when the writer's
writing is already written, and
the writing is written up and
running like an ad in the Writer's
Ragtime Mag, writers sink in the
Dippety Do Do. writers are far,
far too close to the madding
crowd and not in Paradise at all
but rather more or less in Hell at
the Writers' Festival.

What is a Writers' Festival?

Did I enjoy the Writers' Fes-
tival? Who enjoys a Writers'
Festival? Do the Famous Writ-
ers enjoy the Writers' Festival?
Did Carolyn Forche, the Poet of
Witness, an Angel of History,
carrying twenty extra pounds
and having a bad hair day , enjoy
the Writers' Festival? Did Lee K.
Abbott Pray for Sheetrock, did
Melissa Fay Greene follow
Dreams of Distant Lives to re-
construct or deconstruct or just
to yuck at the South at the
Writers' Festival? Did Memye
Curtis Tucker pass through the
Writers' Festival like the Ghost
of Festivals Past?

Who was that person who
wanted to know the Real Truth
Behind the Red Door and tried
to bleep the F word out ot one of
the poems at the Writers' Festi-
val?

Now that the Writers' Festi-
val is finally over (Is it really over,
will it be over when I finish writ-
ing what I'm writing, or when and
if you finish reading what I'm
writing?), I can honestly say that
I actually can't remember much
of the actual writing at the Writ-
ers' Festival. I do remember
getting my skirt caught in the
elastic of my panties and Dr.

Linda Hubert's rushing over to
cover my ass at the Writers'
Festival.

Did I make a fool of myself
at the Wrtiers' Festival?

Does the fact that two writ-
ers who write both prose and
poetry and that the one who
wrote the prose of the non-fic-
tion Josie Hoilman and the one
who wrote the poem in the po-
etry section Jalaine Halsall are
the one and the same two who
won the loot and share the same
initials as well as two syllables
strike anyone as slightly loony
and not quite Jung's
synchronicity, if at least Freud's
uncanny, but maybe merely
more nearly a flukey coinci-
dence?

Wasn't Dr. Steve Guthrie
observant to point out that the
hem of my skirt was about to get
caught in the door of my car and
flap in the wind all the way to the
airport like Shelley Duvall's in
Altman's Three Women before
Josie Hoilman hit the gas of
heavy metal at ninety miles an
hour to get Forche on Flight 222
back to D. C. after the Writers'
Festival?

Can I. can you, can any of us
transcend the Writers' Festival?

Health care

(Continued from Page 6)

and legal residents to buy cov-
erage through a qualified health
plan. Universal coverage would
be achieved by 2005. All em-
ployers would be required to of-
fer their employees enrollment
in a qualified plan, but business
would not have to pay for it.
Subsidies would be available for
individuals who could not afford
coverage. If passed, this plan
would be financed by the gov-
ernment through the reduction
of Medicare and Medicaid
spending.

Another bill, sponsored by
Senator Don Nickles, (R-OK),
offers tax credits to encourage
consumers to buy health insur-
ance. Everyone would be cov-
ered for expenses over $1000.
Consumers would lose the per-
sonal tax exemption if they did
not buy insurance.

Criticism

Both plans deduct the price
of health insurance directly from
your paycheck and send it to the
plan you choose. The problem
here is that these plans may not
allocate enough money to buy
comparable coverage on your
own.

The Bottom Line

Clinton's strategy is to push
as hard as he can - to pull every
possible string, to cash-in every
favor - to get whatever he can
passed through Congress. The
1 ,300 page plan keeps chang-
ing and will get more watered-
down until Bill Clinton can win
more support in Congress. The
question is whether his plan will
maintain any of its original provi-
sions. Representative John
Dingell's (D-MI) newly released
plan proposes a scaled-back
alternative to Clinton's plan.
Offering less bureaucracy and a
reduction of costs for small busi-

nesses, the plan is the first sig-
nificant movement to trim the
president's bill in the hope of
getting enough votes to pass
some of its provisions.

Universal coverage is the
goal of both the Dingell and
Clinton plans, but may not be
the end result. Clinton says he'll
veto anything less, but he still
needs party loyalty and the sup-
port of strong committee chairs.
As for the other plans, they may
do nothing more than point out
the Clinton bill's weaknesses and
make it that much harderto pass
anything at all. On March 20,
Bob Dole admitted on "Meet the
Press" that the GOP will meet
sometime in the next few weeks
to develop a new, comprehen-
sive Republican bill. This minor-
ity proposal may do nothing but
raise serious questions of cost
and reach, scaring America
away from any kind of reform
under the current administration.
Perhaps this is exactly what the
critics who tinker and taunt really
want.

"Expressions HI" proves
successful and entertaining

by Cheryl Reid

Another great student pro-
duction of Expressions explored
the various talents and voices of
Agnes Scott students. The third
annual show was produced by
seniors Pinky Balais and Claire
Laye. Kim Baker and Merissa
Aranas opened Expressions
with an original song by Kim,
"Tattoed Past." Later in the
program, they graced us twice
agian with their complementary
voices, Merissasinging harmony
and Kim singing melody. Both of
these women have beautiful,
earthy voices, and for our sake,
I hope they will continue to per-
form for us.

The dancers also provided
great entertainment. LePret
Dickinson offered her humor-
ous interpretation of Tonya
Harding. She also choreo-
graphed a solo piece entitled
"Music of the Night." Several
dancers of the Agnes Scott
community, including LePret,
Allison Olson, Kara Moore, Su-
san Salpini, and Pinky Balais,
contributed to "Random." a bi-
zarre but lovely expression.

Another dance piece incor-
porated an excerpt from Toni
Morrison's "Beloved." LePret
and Pinky danced as Ha Blount
interpreted the literature. This
performance was an exception-
ally moving part of the program.

A skit entitled "The Creation
of Buglies" written by Georgia
Fuller was humorously acted out
by Claire Quinn, Milke Ababiya,
Jennifer Jenkins, Daniela
Edelkind, Georgia, Catherine
Rodaer, and Mary Wohlfeil. The
skit was fun with its rhyming
patterns and also with the range
of accents in the characters'
voices. Mary Wohlfeil played a
convincing role as a female God.

Rafael Ocasio's class on
Gay and Lesbian Activism in
Latin America gave a perfor-
mance directed by Alicia Quirk
which sent a message of
awareness on discrimination,
sexism, homophobia, and rac-
ism. The class' efforts were well
received. Their message was
powerful because of their use of
symbolism and the stage de-
vices of a screen and a shadow.
The choice of literature, an ex-
cerptfrom Rosario Morales, also
carried a strong meaning. The
students participating were
RozannaGaines, Kerry Murphy,
Melanie Clarkson, Leigh
Copeland, Alicia Quirk and
Chance Claar.

The evening ended with the
music and choreography of
Georgiaand Pinky, the founders
of Expressions. This perfor-
mance was also very moving
because both women will be
graduating and this was there
last performance with Expres-
sions.

Student artwork was exibited
by several student artists, in-
cluding Robin Perry, Charmaine
Minnefield, Laney Miller, Cheryl
Reid, Kham Tang. Davidae
Stewart, Vivi Jarrett, and Anne
McCary.

If you did not attend Expres-
sions, you missed out on a great
dispalay of talent at Agnes Scott.
If you were present, then you
had a great time sharing the
creative talents of our commu-
nity. Both Georgia and Pinky
expressed their hopes that Ex-
pressions will continue in its stu-
dent-produced form. The great
response from the audience and
the performers indicates that
Expressions will continue and '
expand.

Kara Moore (left), Susan Salpini (center), and Allison Olson
(right) perform a dance routine at Expressions 111

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Friday. April 15, 1994

The Visit
premieres at ASC

by Daka Hermon

The Visit, written by Friedrich
Durrenmatt and directed by N.
J. Stanely. is a story of greed,
revenge, and a twisted sense of
justice. The play focuses on the
return of the wealthy Claire
Zachanassian to her
improvished home town of
Gullen. which she agrees to save
by donating a gift of one billion
marks. However, she will only
make the donation if her de-
mand is met: she wants Anton
(Bob Salie) to be murdered.
Many years before, Anton, after
learning Claire was pregnant,
had produced two false wit-
nesses who stated that they slept
with her. Claire, pregnant,
penniless, and humilated, was
forced to leave the town and
become a whore.

In the beginning, the people
adamantly refuse to kill Anton,
but eventually their materialistic

natures overtake their value
system, and they carry out the
murder. In the end. Anton ac-
cepts his fate, and the town is
saved, but the towns people are
conquered by a false sense of
justice.

Throughout the play, there
were distractions such as the
sounds of the train and back-
ground music that sometimes
overpowered the actors' lines.
The set also hindered the over-
all effect of the play. The action
of the play was interrupted by
the repeated scene changes.
This movement proved particu-
larly distracting in Act Two, where
each short dialogue was fol-
lowed by long set adjustments.
These changes were then fol-
lowed by dead time that caused
restlessness among the audi-
ence members.

The costumes were well

Let's Play Two
hits a homerun

by Kelly Holton

Editor-in-Chief

Let's Play Two. a romantic
comedy written by Anthony
Clarvoe. explores the compli-
cated dynamics of a contempo-
rary love relationship. As Phil
and Grace (Scott C. Reeves and
Alice Heffernan-Sneed) set out
for a friend's wedding, their
thoughts inevitably turn to their
own relationship. Longafterthey
have lost their way and aban-
doned hopes of attending the
wedding, they continue to
struggle to define their relation-
ship with each other.

From the first moment of the
play, we understand that Phil
and Grace are complete oppo-
sites: he is young and exuber-
ant and carefree; she is not quite
so young and certainly more
pragmatic and sensible than he
is. The play uses the game of
baseball to give the couple
something in common and later
as a metaphor for their relation-
ship. Through a series of flash-
backs interspersed with scenes
of the couple's driving to the
wedding, we begin to piece to-
gether Phil and Grace s (short)

history together and to under-
stand some of the problems that
they face. The plot, though it
takes several twists and turns,
follows a basically predictable
pattern. For example, it takes
about two seconds to figure out
why Grace is suddenly so "car-
sick" and to imagine the course
that the rest of the play will take
as the couple tries to deal with
her pregnancy.

The plot's predictability does
not detract from the humor of the
play. Reeves especially suc-
ceeds in creating a likeable,
humorous character. His facial
expressions and body move-
ments add greater humor to the
one-liners that make up the most
of the script. But don't misun-
derstand I actually enjoyed
the one-liners. They were usu-
ally funny and creative, and they
help to define the shallow begin-
nings of Phil and Grace's affair.
It is also interesting to see how
the couple uses their love of
baseball in relating to one an-
other. At the end. as they begin
to recognize the depth of their

Amy Banks Dry den and Aubrey Townley perform in The Visit. The play continues through
April 16. Admission is $5.00 for general admission and $3.00 for senior citizens and students.

corodinated and added much to
the overall effect of the play.
The performances of such cast
members as Laylage Courie (the
Burgermister), Ashley Seaman,
(the First Man), Wendy Wheless
(the Pastor), and Charles Harper

(the teacher) proved to be
highlights of the play. Bob Salie
also gave an outstanding per-
formance. He delivered his lines
with confidence, and he won the
audience's sympathy with his
realistic depiction of pain and

suffering.

The play ends on a very
somber note, leaving the audi-
ence to reflect on the serious
issues of justice, materialism,
and revenge.

Phil (Scott Reeves) and Grace (Clarinda Ross) escape from
a wedding reception to cheer on the Braves in Let's Play Two.

emotions. Phil proves that he
can make a committment by
pointing out that he is a baseball
fan. After all, how can someone
who watches a team season
after season, win or lose, be
anything but dedicated 9

Let's Play Two explores the

workings of a love relationship
in a humorous way. Though the
play is at times trite and
predicatable, overall it succeeds
in creating characters that, like a
good baseball team, the audi-
ence roots for, win or lose.

Free speech

(Continued from Page 5)

derstood. It is in this spirit that I
maintain that we must be allowed to
face the naked ugliness of these
issues for us to be able to progress
as a species. The real damage is
done when we attempt a glossing
over of the truth, when it is buried in
silence and shame, permitted to go
underground and fester. When the
deadly mantle of "political correct-
ness" cloaks every thought and ac-
tion, denying free expression and
true exchange, the truth is censored
and denied and all discussion be-
comes suspect or meaningless.

Literature does not exist to
palliate or placate us nor to rein-
force our limited view of the world.
5 It must challenge and provoke us.
Likewise, a free press has the right
cr and responsibility to publish diver-
ge gent opinions which may produce
3- conflicting reactions. That is its job.
=3 Free speech and intellectual free-
o dom are two basic tenets of a
CT democratic society. Without them
we have no way to talk honestly to
each other and no hope of ever
seeing, as we do in Ms. Peel's
essay, how the fundamental simi-
larities in our human responses far
outweigh any differences we may
acquire through cultural, religious
or regional delineations.

Sincerely.

Geraldine Amis and Cathy Burkes

"portraying the significant features" of ASC

ARTS

Friday, April 15, 1994

The Profile

Page 1 1

Food critic babbles
about her favorite
Mexican restaurants

by Mcrisa E. Aranas

In the Atlanta area, the
Agnes Scottie should have no
trouble finding a plethora of
Mexican restaurants to try. I
happen to have eaten at many
good ones. I would like to tell
you three of my favorites that
have been absolutely agreeable
not only to my stomach but also
to my small, collegiate, change
purse.

Let us start with Frijoleros
on 1 031 Peachtree St. NE, next
to the Cotton Club. As you walk
in the front door, you are bom-
barded with a long , narrow room
and probably a long order line.
Paper menus? Naah. There is
a gargantuan menu sign on the
left wall that you quickly peruse
while waiting in line. As the line
dwindles down, the first of three
or four crunchy granola guys (I
found them rather attractive)
takes your order behind the
sneeze guard glass counter (you
know, the glass in our very own
Letitia Pate meal lines). Feast
your eyes on local artists'
paintings on the walls or feel
free to pick up any of the toys
along the sneeze guard and play
while he assembles the burrito,
quesadilla, fajita, or whatever
you've ordered.

After you have picked up
and paid for your food, grab a
seat, or a booth with ripped-up
cushions, in one of their two
adjacent rooms. The other room
is a bar where, on Wednesday
through Sunday nights, you
might catch some local bands
play live on their small, dimly lit
stage. Poetry readings can also
be heard on a few days. On
warmer days, several round
tables are set in front of the
restaurant on the sidewalk of
Peachtree Street for you to en-
joy your "funky, California style.
Texmex" meal.

The next Mexican restau-
rant I would like to tell you about
is Tortillas on 774 Ponce De
Leon Ave. NE, right across from
Dugan's. After you wait in their
long line to order, grab a seat in
any of their booths and chairs.
There is a great second floor
filled with round tables where

you can eat al fresco. Are you
worried that the waiter won't find
you when your food is ready?
Not to fear!! The cashier that
takes your order gives you a
funky toy for you to set on your
table (I end up playing with it
until he/she comes with my
food!).

The last, but certainly not
the least, of my favorite cheap
Mexican Restaurants is Two
Pesos Mexican Cafe on 1895
Piedmont Ave. NE. Once again,
be prepared to stand in a long
line to order. When you order,
the cashier gives you a ticket
with a number that they'll call
when your food is ready (sorry,
no toys). There are three dif-
ferent areas to sit in : one is right
next to the kitchen, the other is
with a jukebox and walls that
open to the warm air, and the
third is outside on their patio
right in front of Piedmont Avenue.
There is even a drive thru win-
dow for you to order in if you
can t stay and eat. This place is
open 24 hours a day, seven
days a week. (I dropped the
"IHOP excursions" soon after I
discovered this place.)

How do I compare these
three GREAT Texmex restau-
rants? Well, I made up a list of
different items that I felt each
were best in. Here are the win-
ners:

Best Bean, Cheese, and
Chicken Burrito

- Tortillas

Best Quesadillas

- Frijoleros;

- Tortillas is second

Best Chips and Salsa

- Two Pesos - no other com-
pares, seriously!

Hottest Picante Sauce

- Two Pesos;

- Tortillas is second

Freshest Pico de Gallio sauce

- Two Pesos, hands down

Freshest Guacamole

- Frijoleros

Contemporary artist Eve Andree Laramee will "wire" the High Museum of Art in a
spectacular new indoor /outdoor installation, "A Device for Contacting the Ghost of Kepler. "
As part of the exhibition "Art at the Edge: Metaphysical Metaphors, " Laramee will stretch
6,000 feet of her trademark copper wires (as shown above in "Leaf Resistor") across the front
of the High to resemble a huge harp, a reference to an early astronomical theory about the
"music of the spheres. " The work will be on view from April 9 - June 12, 1994. For more
information call (404) 892-H1GH.

Coolest Ambiance/Music

- Frijoleros, Tortillas, Two Pe-
sos, respectively

Best Margaritas

- Two Pesos (actually, they're
the only ones that serve
margaritas, but the alcohol
content is very good)

Best Toys

- Tortillas

Fastest Service

- Frijoleros;

- Two Pesos is second

Most Attractive, Grungy
Employees

- Frijoleros and Tortillas - they
tie

All three places have excellent
locations, cozy, relaxed atmo-
spheres, good music, and great
Texmex food ranging from $1 to
$5, no kidding. So if you want to
eat Mexican but are on a fairly
tight budget, I highly recommend
Frijoleros, Tortillas, and Two
Pesos. I know you will be
pleased.

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Friday. April 15. 1994

Calendar of Events

Visual art

High Museum of Art

For more information, call 892-HIGH.
Admission:

$5 adults, $3 senior citizens and students. $1
children 6-17. children 6 and under free.

THROUGH 4/24/94

Treasures from an African Kingdom: Royal
art of Benin from the Perls Collection of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art

One hundred royal treasures of brass, ivory,
terracotta and wood from the ancient African
kingdom of Benin represent 500 years of art
for rituals and ornaments.

THROUGH 5/29/94

Italian and Netherlandish Drawings from the
Steiner Collection

This exhibition features 85 drawings as-
sembled from one of. the most important
private collections of old master paintings in
the United States. Rare works by Titian and
Bronzino. as well as exquisite drawings by
Rembrant, Parmigianino and G.B. Tiepolo
are included in the exhibition. The works
range from studies of light and shade, to
compositional sketches, to finished works of
art in their own right, providing an interesting
glimpse of the creative process.

THROUGH 7/31/94

John George Brown: The Dignity of Years

This exhibition examines a group of five
paintings of elderly Americans. The exhibi-
tion celebrates the theme of simple country
folk set against the sweeping changes and
social upheaval wrought by the rapid indus-
trialization of America. At the height of his

/

popularity, Brown was hailed as "the country's
most beloved artist."

Tula Foundation Gallery
Located at 75 Bennett St. NW
Suite B-1

Telephone: 351-3551 Hours:
Tuesday through Friday 1 2:00 - 5:00, Satur-
day 1 1 :00 - 5:00

THROUGH 4/30/94

Mary Segal: Journal Drawings

Since 1 989, Segal has made a drawing each
day of her life. This exhibit features her
journal drawings, a collection of deceptively
simple and cartoonish images.

THEATRE

Actor's Express

For ticket information, call 221-0831

THROUGH 5/1/94
Man and Superman

A brilliant comedy written by George Bernard
Shaw which is vast in its scope. The story is
a battle-of -the-sexes between a voluptuous,
conniving woman and a genius of heroic
ptoportions. The play has become recognized
as one of the Masterpieces of the Twentieth
Century and one of Shaw's highest
acheivements. Man and Superman speeds
along with witty and suprising dialogue and
characters that are etched with acute obser-
vation- all the while upending and exploding
as many social conceptions as a two hour
evening will allow.

Neighborhood Playhouse

For ticket information, call 373-531 1 .

THROUGH 4/24/94
A Little Night Music

Isn't it rich! A lovely musical adaptation of
Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer
Night, wherein new love blossoms, old love is
rekindled and false hopes shattered. Set in
turn-of-the-century Sweden, with a lilting 3/4
score, this 1973 hit garnered Tony Awards
for Best Musical, Best Book, with critics prais-
ing it as "Heady, civilized and enchanting -
"The perfect romantic musical comedy." Fea-
tured numbers include "Weekend in the
Country." "Remember" and "Send in the
Clowns."

Horizon Theatre Company

For ticket information, call 584-7450

THROUGH 4/30/94
Let's Play Two

Love and baseball intertwine in Horizon The-
atre Company's deliciously witty romantic
comedy Let's Play Two by award-winning
playwright Anthony Clarvoe. See review on
page 10 of this issue of the Profile.

14th Street Playhouse

For ticket infomation, call 873-1099

THROUGH 5/1/94
Dreamgirls

Jomandi, a non-profit organization presents
Dreamgirls, the most celebrated Broadway
musical of the '80's and winner of six Tony
Awards, featuring a new generation of
dreamers, dynamite singers choreographers,
dancers and performers. Micheal Bennett's
driving and fantastically scored musical par-
allels the rise of Motown recording artists The
Supremes.

MUSIC

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
at Symphony Hall in the Arts
Center

For ticket information, call 892-2414

April 20-23

Midori - Violinist

Jiri Belohavek - Conductor

Performing:

Mozart - Overture to The Magic Flute
Beethoven - Violin Concerto
Dvorak - Symphony no. 6
Midori, a Japanese superstar, has been
recognized as an outstanding violinist since
the age of 1 0. She will perform the towering
Beethoven concerto which was written for a
friend who was first violinist in the premiers of
many of the Master's works.

April 28-30

Stephen Hough - Pianist
Kazuyoshi Akiyama - Conductor
Performing:

Rachmaninov - Symphony no. 3
Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 9 K. 271
Takemitsu - Green
Tokyo native Akiyama visits the Atlanta Sym-
phony Orchestra for the first time since 1 975.
conducting an impressionistic Japanese
masterpiece. Green. Stephen Hough, win-
ner of the prestigious Bachauer and
Naumburg Piano competitions, will perform
the concerto written by Mozart. The program
concludes with the expansive, romantic
melodies of Rachmaninov's third symphony.

ON CAMPUS

April 21 and 22

Studio Dance presents its annual Spring
Dance concert.

Spring Fling!

Social Council
invites you to join the fun . . .

Saturday April 23
Holiday Inn, Decatur
Conference Plaza Decatur Ballroom
9 pm - 1 am

featuring music by

The Simpletons

et? Warren Southall

Friday, April 29, 1994

The Independent Student Newspaper of Agnes Scott College

Vol. 80, Issue 12

On the verge of retirement

President Schmidt shares parting thoughts

by Kerry Murphy
News Editor

On June 30th, Ruth Schmidt
will retire from her position as
president of the college. She
has many different plans for her
future, as well as hopes and
dreams for the college's future
after her departure.

When asked what her hopes
for the future of the college en-
tailed, the president replied that
she hopes that "the people all
pull together to make this place
the best it's^ver been." She has
a strong desire to make the
campus stand out among oth-
ers. In order to achieve a better
campus, the campus commu-
nity, namely the committees,
u need to f ind a way to put [Agnes
Scott] on the map in a new way
.... We need to distinguish our-
selves in some way and realize
that we haven't reached our full
potential." The president com-
mented that, under her guid-
ance, all of the external supple-
ments on the campus have been
brought up to date and help to
make the college worthy of com-
petition with other liberal arts
colleges. The next step in be-
coming competitive falls to us.
President Schmidt also recog-
nizes that her dream for the
campus would require full co-
operation from all of the campus
community. According to Presi-
dent Schmidt, "creativity and
cooperation will move Agnes

Scott ahead and make it like a
beacon" for everyone to else to
see and admire.

When asked why the presi-
dent wasn't able to make her
dreams materialize for the col-
lege, she noted the trouble with
the diversity that the
college has
achieved; "the more
diverse community
makes it harder to
pull together." She
added that although
the diversity adds
many benefits to
campus life, "more
mix makes more
tension." The presi-
dent acknowledged
the difficulty involved
when working with
others who are not
like you and how
easily disagree-
ments in such situa-
tions can arise.

President
Schmidt believes
that the opening up
of the college to the
world has been her
greatest and most
personally challeng-
ing accomplishment
while at Agnes Scott.
Among her many
accomplishments,
she mentioned the
organization and
promotion of volun-
teer work and the

Global Awareness program.
She believes that the Global
Awareness program provides
students with an invaluable ex-
perience and the opportunity to
see "other ways of viewing real-
ity" outside the parameters of

When she retires June 30, 1994, Dr. RuthSchmidt
will have directed the path of Agnes
Scott College for 12 years, with the distinction
of having been the College's first female
President.

the college. The president also
added to the list of accomplish-
ments the renovation of the
campus while under her care.
Yet, despite all of her achieve-
ments, she left open the possi-
bility of further improvement by
saying that the col-
lege "can be even
better."

President
Schmidt regrets the
fact that her biggest
dreams for the col-
lege she hasn't been
able to make hap-
pen. She hopes that
the college will be
able to "figure out the
best possible cohe-
sive experience for
women, so that the
various parts pull to-
gether around a
goal." The president
would also like to
pose a new ques-
tion forthecollegeto
help re-direct the
goal of the college:
"What does an edu-
cated woman need
to know to fulfill her
potential and make
a difference in the
world?" President
Schmidt purposes
one way to tackle the
question is to have
more of a "coherent
sampling of the cur-
riculum" reflecting

upon the students' desires as
opposed to a little bit of every-
thing. She believes that if the
college had more of a primary
focus, then it would help to pull in
more students to our campus.

When asked about the rec-
ommendations made by the
SACS committee to our cam-
pus, the president said that the
"SACS study caught who we
are now, but not what we could
be." She believes that people
on campus need to have a sense
of celebration of who we are.
She reflects back upon the time
of the college's centennial cel-
ebration and the spirit of pride
that pervaded the campus. She
noted that although people were
happy then, we no longer have
these feelings of pride and hap-
piness present on our campus.
Part of the problem, the presi-
dent believes is attributed to the
notion that no one really be-
lieves in Agnes Scott; "the spirit
of Agnes Scott is not commen-
surate with its advantages." She
believes that we as a campus,
spend too much time getting
caught up in the smaller issues
as opposed to looking at the big
picture and realizing all of the
advantages thatthis college has
to offer. The president added
that "we've been given a lot;" we
now need to devise some sort of
plan to do something with it.

Upon retirement, the presi-
dent will have many more
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Presidential Search Committee seeks opinions of campus community

by Brandy Gossage
Staff Writer

Dr. Samuel Spencer and Dr. Christine Young,
advisors to the Presidential Search Committee, visited
the campus on Monday, April 1 1 , to find out what
qualities the members of the campus community want
to see in their new president.

Spencer, President Emeritus of Davidson Univer-
sity, served on the ASC Board of Trustees from 1975-
1 991 . He now serves as a member of the Academic
Search Consultation Service (ASCS). Young, the chief
consultant of ASCS, graduated from Wellesley College
and served as a faculty member, dean, provost, and
acting president at two women's colleges before she
joined ASCS.

ASCS employs three full-time and six part-time
people on the search committee for the new president.
All members of the committee have previous experience
in college settings. Though ASCS will participate in the
search by keeping the committee on track at every
stage of the selection process, the Agnes Scott Presi-
dential Search Committee will set the criteria, screen
the applicants, and make the final decision.

ASCS is currently conducting a pre-search study.
This study involves collecting research about the college
and listening to different people's hopes and expecta-
tions for the college's future and the new president.
ASCS wants to understand the strengths that Agnes
Scott possesses and the way in which these attributes
will help to attract a qualified candidate. Since the new
president needs a realistic view of the agenda at Agnes

Scott, ASCS must determine which issues the new
president will have to tackle.

ASCS will send the report from its study to the ASC
Presidential Search Committee, where members will
decide whether or not to release the report to the
students. Spencer promised that "every member of the
committee [will have] an equal vote. The student
representatives will not be second-class citizens in
terms of the committee." Although most preliminary
interviews will be held off-campus, he said that the
student representatives would meet the candidates
only during their visits to the campus.

During the student forum conducted by Spencer
and Young, some students took advantage of the
opportunity to express their concerns about ASC . One

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NEWS

Page 2

The Profile

Friday, April 29. 1994

Campus Clips

compiled by Laura Spiczka
Assistant Editor

Valdosta State
University
restricts the Kappa
Alpha Order

from the Spectator

As a result of the Febru-
ary 17 automobile accident
involving a fraternity mem-
ber, the Kappa Alpha Order
has limited their activities to
only chapter meetings, com-
munity projects and seminars.
Wendy Mitchell, a junior
speech and pathology major
at VSU, was injured by
Berkley Mackey IV when he
hit her with his 1993 Honda
Accord. According to the
records of the case, Mackey 's
blood alcohol level was 0.20.
Mackey, 19, was charged
with driving under the influ-
ence, possession of alcohol
by a person under 21, and
violation of Georgia's open
container law. Because the
incident took place off cam-
pus, school officials cannot
punish Mackey; however, the
social activities of the Kappa
Alpha Order have been re-
stricted for an indefinite time
period. School officials also
encourage all students to
drink responsibly and rec-
ommend the Counseling
Center to those students who
have alcohol problems.

UGA Math
Department
experiments with
testing format

from the Red and Black

Disturbed by the
number of failing grades
earned in Math 102, John
Hollingsworth. chair of the
UGA math department, has
announced a change from
timed computer tests to writ-
ten exams for the Spring

quarter. Since the written
exams have multiple sections,
students will have the oppor-
tunity to earn partial credit,
while computer exams give
credit only for problems
solved. Hollingsworth ac-
knowledges that other prob-
lems with Math 1 02 are that it
no longer satisfies the math
elective credit and that poor
students drop to lower
classes. These problems also
contribute to the unsatisfac-
tory performance levels.
Hollingsworth strongly
stressed that, although the
format will change, expecta-
tions will remain the same.

Clemson to hire
new president

from the Tiger

Clemson University offi-
cials are looking for a replace-
ment for current president,
Max Lennon. According to a
high-ranking school official,
Lennon's wife, Ruth Lennon,
is considered the University's
top prospect. The official listed
Ruth Lennon's strong com-
munication skills, leadership
ability, and strength during
times of crisis as primary
reasons for her consideration.
Her familiarity with the
University's policies and the
Board of Trustees would also
make her the logical choice
for the position. Informal talks
began but are now stalled
over the issue of the
President's office. Currently
the President's office is in the
administration building; how-
ever, the administration, ac-
cording the official, feels that
"a woman's place is in the
home" and would like Mrs.
Lennon to move the
President's Office to her
home.

Phi Beta Kappa inducts
new members

by Dudley Sanders

The Beta of Georgia chap-
ter of Phi Beta Kappa, the
nation's oldest academic hon-
orary society dedicated to the
recognition of scholastic
achievement by undergradu-
ates, initiated sixteen new stu-
dent members in a ceremony
held Monday, April 18, in the
Chapel Lounge of the Alston
Student Center.

The new inductees are:
Katherine Susan Brenning
Britt Danielle Brewton
Winona Margery Carlson
Tracy Leigh Casteel
Laylage Lanette Courie

Elizabeth Kathleen Hill
Jennifer Cecelia Jenkins
Leigh Marie Locker
Elena Michelle Paras
Jacquelyn Lea Postma
Laura Anne Rice
Jennie Susanne Sparrow
Charlotte Lee Stapleton
Lara Anne Webb
Nancy Catherine Zehl

The chapter also inducted
Malinda Snow (ASC. 1966), an
Associate Professor of English
at Georgia State University, as
an alumnae member.

Phi Beta Kappa was

founded in 1776 at the College
of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, Virginia. Addi-
tional chapters were founded at
Yale in 1780 and Harvard in
1 781 . ensuring the perpetuation
of the organization when the
parent chapterbecame inactive.
There are currently 242 chap-
ters nationwide, and the pres-
ence of a chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa on campus is a mark of
distinction for a college or uni-
versity.

Agnes Scott's chapter was
founded in 1926, the second to
be established in Georgia.

Health Fuzz Buzz
Notes

submitted by the Department of Public Safety

by Mary Lou Christiansen

Please Note: The Student
Health Center will be closed
during the summer break

If you are taking birth control
pills prescribed by the Student
Health Center, please remem-
ber to come by the office soon
for a prescription renewal that
will last through the summer.

If you will be applying to
summer school, graduate
school, or summer camp posi-

Congratulations! You have
almost made it through another
school year. Those of us at
Public Safety hope that you had

tions, you will probably need a
copy of your immunization
records. Please obtain these
before June 1 .

Anyone interested in joining
the Peer Educators group should
call or come by the Student
Health Center to fill out an appli-
cation.

Search Committee

(Continued from Page 1 )

student noted the lack of student
and faculty representation on the
committee prior to two years ago.
Another student described
Agnes Scott as having "a lot of
turmoil," while other students
expressed concerns about stu-
dent retention, decreased en-
rollment, and apathy on campus.

The attractive features of
the college were discussed as
well. One student suggested
that Agnes Scott students "will
be the great female leaders of
this country." Another student
said thatthe new president would
find on our campus "some of the
brightest, most energetic, en-
gaging women." Among the
other strengths students cited
about Agnes Scott were the
science department, the
SHARP! program, language

across the curriculum, interna-
tional awareness, Global
Awareness, Atlanta, and op-
portunities for internships.

Students also discussed the
qualities they feel the new presi-
dent must have. One student
stated that the new president
should be committed to
multicultural affairs. "Open to
opinions" ranked high on an-
other student's list. One student
requested an informal president
who would get to know the stu-
dents so "there wouldn't be so
many barriers." Another stu-
dent expressed the need for a
president who would value well-
rounded liberal arts education.
Still another student com-
mented, "One of the jobs of the
President is to bridge the gap
between the students and the
Board of Trustees."

One student left us with the
following burning question:
"Does the president have to be
Presbyterian 9 "'

a good year and will have a
relaxing, profitable and crime-
free summer. Remember, be
aware of your surroundings
wherever you are. This is your
best protection against becom-
ing a crime victim. So have fun
and be safe.

President Schmidt

(Continued from Page 1)

opportunities to indulge herself
in leisurely activities. Immedi-
ate plans after leaving the col-
lege include the renovation and
refurbishing of a house that she's
purchased here in Decatur. She
has currently been working to
restore the house that she will
move into on the first of June.
Other plans for retirement in-
clude a trip to Oxford, England
to enroll in a two-week program
in Religious Studies. The pro-
gram will consist of lectures and
visits to many of the local
churches. Although President
Schmidt's background is in
Spanish, she was encouraged
to take this course upon the rec-
ommendation of a good friend.
After the program is over, she
will engage in some traveling
around the English countryside.
The president also mentioned
tentative future plans for more
world traveling and a desire to
visit Spam.

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In the spotlight

Tracking down a career in news

by Mary Jordan

If the news director in
Dothan, Alabama, wanted to
cast a skeptical, curious, hard-
nosed television reporter three
years ago, Mary Jordan would
never have made the first cut. In
fact, I'm still not sure I have what
it takes to report day in and day
out on dead bodies, car
crashes, and fires. But
I always had the idea
that somewhere in my
gene pool came the
aggressiveness to an-
noy people, the persis-
tence to get my ques-
tions answered, and
the hunger to do some-
thing of which I could
really be proud. And
just a few days ago
because I devoted
weekdays, weekends,
and many sleepless
nights to internships
I landed my dream job.

I got an offer from
a local CBS television
affiliate in Dothan to go
on-air as a general as-
signment reporter and
fill-in anchor. Granted, Dothan
is not by any means a metropoli-
tan city. But the rule of the
business is that all reporters and
anchors pay their dues in a small
city, learning to shoot, edit, write,
and essentially do everything.

If you are interested in news,
try to start interning now. Be-
cause you are studying within a
liberal arts curriculum you have
to go beyond Agnes Scott for an
education in news. News di-
rectors will not hire college
graduates on a degree alone.

If you can't afford the time,
make the time. Remember, this
could be your career, so it should
be a priority. My suggestion is
that you try to get course credit
for your internship. That way,
you avoid busywork in an elec-
tive course, and, in the mean-
time, you learn some real skills
in an internship. Or, if you want
to intern over the summer, but
can't afford to pay the bills and
work for nothing, devote half
days to your internship and the
other half to your paying job.

Do whatever it takes to get
that internship. News directors
often weed out resumes based
on the applicant's level of expe-

rience. I had 10 internships in 5
different cities on my resume,
but you really only need about
one ortwo years undergraduate
experience. If you want to work
outside Atlanta, try living with
college friends. To get the in-
ternship, write or call the local

nel 5, 2, or 1 1 ) where you can
shadow reporters. In this busi-
ness, you learn by doing. Ask
questions. Watch how the re-
porter writes, how he carries
himself in front of the camera. In
Hartford, I shadowed a con-
(Continued on Page 9)

Senior Mary Jordan, pictured here in front of the White House, spent
many hours preparing for her new TV news job.

AbbreviatedUniverse

by Amanda Hodges
Staff writer

Another crisis has arisen
in war-torn Bosnia-
Herzegovina. A British jet
was shot down over the be-
sieged region by Serbian
forces on Saturday, April 16.
On April 1 8, Serbian extrem-
ists continued to bomb the
Muslim town of Gorazde de-
spite the supposed cease-
fire agreement that had been
signed the day before. United
Nations officials were out-
raged to learn of the contin-
ued attack. In response,
White House and U.N. offi-
cials are considering several
different options. Among
these options, there is the
possibility of increased U.N.
bombing of Serbian territo-
ries and the lifting of the arms
embargo, which currently
prevents the Muslims and

Croats of the area from hav-
ing the advanced weaponry
that the Serbs utilize.

While attempting to en-
force the "no fly zone" in
Northern Iraq, two U.S. fighter
pilots shot down two U.S. he-
licopters that were transport-
ing U.N. officials. The fighter
pilots mistakenly assumed
thatthe helicopters were Iraqi
aircraft flying in the regulated
zone. Twenty-six men died
in this tragic accident.

On a happier note, base-
ball season has begun! All
over the Southeast, and es-
pecially in Atlanta, Braves
fans are enjoying a terrific
start. The Braves tied their
record of opening wins set in
1982 by winning 13 of their
first 14 games.

station. They always need help.

Be selective. Choose those
internships that you believe will
give you a new angle on news.
Try to intern in your hometown,
in Atlanta, even abroad. If you're
interested in a particular network
like CNBC, the financial news
network or CSPAN, try to go to
Washington. Agnes Scott offers
the Washington Semester Pro-
gram at American University,
which allowed me to intern and
receive academic credit. It was
the best experience of my life.

I began interning at CNN.
Sure, CNN looks great on a re-
sume, but it teaches you nothing
about covering local news. No
one fresh out of college will start
as a producer or reporter at CNN ,
so make sure that you intern
with as many local stations as
you possibly can to prepare for a
job in a small city. Also, you will
not start as a reporter, producer
or anchor in Atlanta or any
metropolitan city. Be prepared
to start small. Atlanta, Wash-
ington, New York and L.A. are
the rewards for spending time in
smaller cities.

If you want to be in front of
the camera, make sure you in-
tern with a local station (Chan-

Beyond Agnes Scott

The search for graduate
programs in math and science

by Janelle Bailey, Beth Barnes and Leigh Locker

Although there are many
aspects to a graduate school
search that are unique to both
the field and to the individual
doing the search, there are
several common threads be-
tween math and the various sci-
ences. Through this article, we
have tried to make the applica-
tion process a little less intimi-
dating.

One thing that all of us agree
on is this: START EARLY!!!
Begin looking at schools during
your junior year, requesting
general information and an ap-
plication packet as soon as
possible. The Peterson 's Guide
is a good place to start; it contains
summaries of each U.S. gradu-
ate program. For chemistry and
physics/astronomy, professional
associations such as the
American Chemical Society and
the American Institute of Phys-

ics publish guides to graduate
programs in their fields. Also,
ask the professionals around
you; they will have valuable in-
formation to pass on to any in-
terested party. Remember that
asking for information does not
constitute acommittment. Don't
trash unwanted information;
someone in a class behind you
may find the stuff useful.

Although you don't want to
rush, try to decide pretty early
which schools you want to apply
to. Opinions vary on how many
schools you should apply to; no
less than four or five seems to
be a good number. Consider
the costs involved when decid-
ing, but don't let money be the
only factor. Many departments
will cover the application fee or
grant you a waiver if you just
ask.

All schools we looked at

required the general GRE scores
be sent to them. This exam is
much like the SAT, with an added
analytical (logic) section. Reg-
ister early! The deadline for the
October test is usually the first
week of September, but, the
longer you wait, the less likely
you are to get your first (or second
orthird...) choice of location. We
had friends who had to drive
hours to take this test. As for the
subject test, many, though in no
way all, of the schools require
the advanced subject test. If the
schools recommend but don't
require the subject test, try to
take it anyway if at all possible.
In addition to looking good on
your applications, it can help
you figure out your strengths
and weaknesses in your field.

Many people suggest not
taking both the general and
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EDITORIALS

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Friday, April 29. 1994

Whitewater's media frenzy:
How much is too much?

by Mary Jordan

Bam! Bam! Bam! There
goes another round. The Presi-
dent has been wounded,
stunned again by the media, and
what could suffer this time is the
country's domestic agenda, al-
ready imperiled by report after
report of cover-ups and lies.

After four months of front-
page stories, the press has
transformed Whitewater into a
feeding frenzy in which every
crumble of news is daily gobbled
up by the media. Perfectly pre-
dictable, the dynamics of the
coverage have fluctuated from
finger-pointing to silence and
back again. Biting, then re-
treating, stirring then subduing,
the wavering pattern continues
to delve into questions of politi-
cal tampering and abuse of
power, leaving the White House
almost always scrambling for a
counter offensive.

The first report came in
March 1 992, just months before
the presidential election. Jeff
Gerth of the New York Times
broke the story about Governor
Bill Clinton's connection to
James McDougal and the failed
Whitewater investment. Gerth
reported that during Clinton's first
term as governor, McDougal
bought control of Madison
Guaranty Savings & Loan. In

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1 989, Madison failed at a cost to
taxpayers of $60 million. Before
Madison's collapse, the Clinton's
became equal partners with
McDougal and his wife, Susan,
in Whitewater Development
Corp., a shakily financed and
irresponsibly managed venture
designed to build retirement and
vacation homes in northern Ar-
kansas. The Whitewater invest-
mentfailed, too, and the Clinton's
sold their share for $1,000 in
1992, losing almost $70,000.

What's important is that in-
vestigators are still trying to de-
termine if Whitewater played any
significant role in Madison's
failure, and whether Clinton or
his wife - then a partner in a
powerful Arkansas law firm -
pulled any political strings to keep
theirfriend McDougal and Madi-
son Guaranty afloat.

Before the election, Clinton
spin doctors managed to lull the
hype, and President Bush, wary
of potentially hazardous dirt-
throwing so close to election
time, decided to back off. The
story disappeared, but frenzy
soon interrupted the stillness,
and the media quickly shifted
focus.

Vince Foster's suicide last
July ignited the scandal stage.
Could Foster, the Clinton's White
House lawyer, have been hiding
something? Talk of document
shredding and cover-ups-even
murder - filled the papers and
ate time on nightly newscasts.
Although the note he left didn't
mention Whitewater, Foster's
suicide fueled speculation about
the Clinton's finances, including
Whitewater, which Foster
handled as a former law partner
of Hillary Clinton.

The New York Post savored
the moment. Reporter Christo-
pher Ruddy claimed that the
"suicide" sent administration of-
ficials "scrambling" to remove
Whitewater files from Foster's
desk. The article raised new
questions. Could Foster have
been murdered because he
knew too much? A shot of in-
trigue-laced hysteria raced
throughout the tabloids.

One of Foster's in-laws

begged reporters to "back off."
The White House attempted to
stop the rumors of murder:
"That's entirely false," said one
official. But the talk continued,
and a whole new series of pre-
posterous innuendos fanned
worries about Whitewater and
sent stock and bond prices tum-
bling.

Two weeks ago, investiga-
tors released a report conclud-
ing that Foster committed sui-
cide. But even now, the media
suggest time and again that
Foster may have killed himself
because he was submerged in
Whitewater. Clinton aides
quickly learned that not talking
would only make matters worse.
So last month, when the Justice
Department appointed a special
counsel to investigate, the White
House hoped reporters would
enter a peaceful stage. But news
organizations had already in-
vested a lot of time and money
into the story, and had sent nu-
merous reporting crews to Ar-
kansas. Why pull out now?

And so the wallowing-in-
Whitewater stage began. Some
of the country's best and
brightest reporters were already
in Arkansas. They began to dig
hard, searching to find a new
angle, an innovative story to one-
up the competition. What hap-
pened instead was a series of
reports indirectly involved with
Whitewater, which might have
otherwise been treated as news
of medium importance. In a poll
taken on March 1 1 th, Newsweek
reported that 25% of the Ameri-
can people believed the media
were most responsible for the
problems the White House had
in dealing with Whitewater. "The
country has clearly begun to turn
on the press," said ABC news
correspondent, Ted Kopple on
The Late Show with David
Letterman two weeks ago.
"Nothing has been an indictable
offense - nothing probably will."
So you'd think the news industry
would back off.

No way. The story gets
meatier. Hillary Clinton's cash
cows and other sweet financial
dealings have brought new alle-

gations beyond Whitewater, one
of which was that she made
$100,000 speculating in cattle
futures in the late 70s. All done
legally - maybe.

If, in fact, the First Lady is
guilty of making unlawful com-
modity trades, and, if her hus-
band used his influence to go
easy on the cattle industry as a
result of her profits, then that's a
serious abuse of power. That's
newsworthy.

The press clearly needs to
stay aggressive but less predict-
able. The print media have
pursued the stories in over-
whelming detail. In March, the
day the story broke, the New
York Times ran a detailed ac-
count of Hillary's cattle invest-
ments on page one and a full
page inside. The Wall Street
Journal devoted editorial space
in almost every issue. Surpris-
ingly, television coverage has
been less extensive, but not on
journalistic principle. The story
is simply too complex to tell in 1
time-constrained TV news and
even more difficult to report
without extensive video. "Tele-
vision requires pictures, and it's
a story in which there are not
many pictures," said Barbara
Cochran, CBS Washington Bu-
reau Chief, in a March 21st
Broadcasting and Cable article.
So both the print and broadcast
media, in their own ways, con-
tribute daily to the climate in
which insignificant details inun-
date news.

Reporters and editors need
to take a long, hard look at all the
information to weed-out recycled
questions and hand-me-down
information. And viewers and
readers need to recognize the
danger in trusting every detail
when not enough evidence has
been presented. Yes, the story
is important and undoubtedly
deserves scrutiny. But the
problem is that, too often, the
media allow truth to fade into the
sludge, and Americans, as a
result, have a hard time sepa-
rating fact from fiction. The next
stage should give way to a
steady, more stimulating dy-
namic: reliable selectivity.

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Page 5

Uffish Thoughts

Parting is such sweet sorrow

by Holly Williamson and Kathleen Hill

As we prepare to go our
separate ways and conclude our
collaboration, we consider the
catalysts behind our columns.
Having discovered our mutual
feelings of distress, we began
our team effort to inspire a new
way of thinking within this com-
munity. We hoped that by giving
a voice to an often reticent group,
we could encourage an open
discussion among people of
differing ideologies. Ouragenda
has not been to convert readers
to our way of thinking but to
provide a forum for an exchange
of insights. We hope that our
readership has felt able to accept
our writings as such.

Duringtherunofourcolumn,

Sex, Life, and Gender

The Final Column

by Michelle Smith

"Pickles, onions, on a sesame
seed bun, please."

As I look over my time at
Agnes Scott, it becomes ap-
parent to me that the problem
with this institution is the gov-
erning administration (a conclu-
sion that many of you can
probably also agree with). Agnes
Scott is being run like a bad
business, one that makes lots of
money but doesn't care who it
steps on to achieve that extra
decimal dollar in the bank ac-
count.

If Agnes Scott were a burger
joint, it would be known for it's
really bad service. Granted, the
burgers would be the best in the
state, but you wouldn't go there
if you wanted a burger other
than the one on the current
menu. After all, at Agnes Scott
they had been cooking ham-
burgers for well over 1 00 years
and, if you wanted something
extra or different, "Tough!"

There would be no such
thing as service with a smile.
Rather, the motto would be "ser-
vice with a scowl, that is if you
get any service at all." And if or
Aggie messed up your order,
then that would just be too bad.
And to Hell with extra pickles!
After all, Agnes is only in the

burger business, not in making
sure you are happy.

And sometimes Aggie would
be right. She wouldn't be legally
bound to change your regular
fries to spicy fries just because
you changed your mind after
they got to your plate. But if
Aggie were a good business-
woman she would eat her losses
on those regular fries and let you
have those spicy fries instead.
Sure, she wouldn't have to, and,
yes, she would take a loss on
the profits that evening. But in
keeping the customer happy she
could very well increase her
profits ten fold the next day. And,
if she threw in a double fudge
brownie "just because you had
to wait," well the profits might
come in so high that ole' Aggie
might just have to become a
chain all over the nation!

Chances are that profits
would increase. A happy cus-
tomer recommends Aggie to all
her friends. Word of mouth is
the best advertisement. Or in
our case the worst advertise-
ment. Fancy brochures don't
mean anything if we don't put
students, faculty, and staff first.
No where in the constitution does
it say that service has to be with
a smile, but it also doesn't say
you have to recommend such
an establishment to all your
friends, either.

we have met anger and resent-
ment toward some of our opin-
ions. And we've heard it whis-
pered that we're judgmental.
That's fine; when we asked to
write this column, we agreed
that we might have to weather
some difficult times to effect the
changes for which we hoped.
We ran into surprisingly little
hostility, however, and we hope
and pray that this reflects the
willingness of this campus to
hear different ideas rather than
the apathy of the student body
toward a "joyless" community.

This year we have wit-
nessed a series of divisions on
campus. It is as if the members
of Agnes Scott are severing all

Agnes Scott has so much to
offer. There are a myriad of
endless possibilities and re-
sources at our fingertips. But no
one will ever use them if these
current administrative practices
continue. In fact, we will be
lucky to have a campus to come
back to at our own Alumnae
Reunion.

Truett Cathy, the founder of
Chick-fil-A, has built his busi-
ness from the ground up. When
asked about the success of his
business, he said he always put
the customer first. A remarkable
and innovative idea! Making the
customer feel special because,
without customers, there is no
business.

I had the opportunity to meet
Mr. Cathy a few years ago. He
was kind, positive, and had the
rare quality of making you feel
that what he was saying and
doing was meant especially for
you. With his compassion for
people and a lot of hard work he
has made his company a great
success. With the same type of
leadership at its helm, Agnes
Scott could, too.

A place where you could not
only get a good burger, but also
change your mind about spicy
fries and get a brownie to boot!

Thanks for a great year... .

supportive emotional ties to each
other. The common bond of
sisterhood, which has linked
students throughout the hun-
dred-odd years of the college's
existence, has been broken; our
unconditional love forothers has
regressed into a shallow aware-
ness of their sensitivities and a
self-preserving desire not to of-
fend. Themovementtowardthe
politically correct has made us
more concerned with whether
we will be branded an 1st" than
with whether we sincerely re-
spect the people around us.

We hope that in the coming
year someone else will pick up
where we have left off that she
(or they) will try to make a dif-
ference and to effect a change
for the better within the rela-
tionships among the commu-
nity. We have tried to open a
formerly taboo subject for dis-
cussion. We have tried to
present an unheard point of view.
Now that the conversation has
begun (at least on some small
level), perhaps someone will
work toward restoring peace and
joy to a stricken community. With
the advent of a new administra-

tion, this community may have
the opportunity to rejuvenate it-
self and look forward to a
healthier future. Such a revival
will require effort from all fronts;
it will not simply be handed down
as the result of a new presi-
dency. If we are to re-institute
joy as a life force in our com-
munity, we must learn to com-
municate effectively: we must
learn to listen as well as speak.

In parting we entrust you
with all our hope thatthe troubles
at ASC can be conquered. Be
assured that if enough people
work toward a single goal they
will achieve it. Agnes Scott is
not hopeless, and, regardless of
the SACS report, it is not joyless.
Even at our most cynical we
cannot erase the fun and hap-
piness, nor can we neglect to
rejoice in the framework of
friendships here which gives
stability to an otherwise rapidly
eroding society. We leave you
with afinalthoughtfrom Edmund
Burke: "The only thing necessary
for the triumph of evil is for good
men [or women] to do nothing."
Have good summers; let your
voices be heard.

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor:

As the Dean described in
Michelle Smith's editorial, I want
to apologize to her and her fam-
ily for any unhappiness that my
remarks caused on this impor-
tant day in her college career. I
did not intend to be rude or ap-
pear not to respect her musical
performance.

For the last several years,
the College has sometimes
scheduled more than one event
during the same time slot, just
as Michelle's recital was sched-
uled during the same time that
the NCBI workshop occurred.
The participants in this work-
shop had a choice of coming on
Sunday or Wednesday, and
several who had signed up for
Wednesday came on Sunday
withouttelling me earlier. About
45 minutes before the recital, I
asked if I could have 4 chairs,
since Rebekah Woltz was full of
chairs for her recital, and I
doubted that they would all be

used. I did not intend this re-
quest to be insensitive, but it
clearly hurt Michelle, and I am
sorry. I was told that there were
some extra chairs in the kitchen,
which I took.

I am very sorry that, in
Michelle's angertoward me, she
attacked those participants who
were invited to this workshop by
virtue of their committee mem-
bership. Many came willingly,
but some came with great reluc-
tance. Participants in the work-
shop had the right not to reveal
their sexual orientation, and that
right was respected and agreed
upon by everyone present. It
seems unfair to report what al-
legedly happened at a workshop
that is supposed to be confi-
dential. I wish Michelle had
continued to focus her anger
toward me, rather than criticize
other people.

Sincerely yours,
Gue P. Hudson
Dean of Students

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SENIOR

Last Wills & Testaments

/, Anika Dyrstad, being of sound
mind (as sound as a Senior's can
be the last semester) and tired &
abused body, do hereby bequeath:

To Ha Blount, a pack of NoDoz,
use this in good faith and someday
you may be able to stay awake
throughout an entire class.

To Leigh Copeland, a golden
calculator - may you use it and
think of me during all of your future
Math courses.

To my Japanese class, ever-
flowing beers at Eddie's (when you
are of age). May you lose all inhibi-
tions and speak Japanese fluently.

To Angie Dorn, a strong pair
of knee pads. Wear these proudly
and carry on the bar crawling tradi-
tion for the retiring three.

To Mary Snyder, copies of "75
TV Theme Songs" & "The Village
People's Greatest Hits." May you
finally learn the words to them all
and torture your cappee with your
abundant knowledge next year.

/, Laura B. Home, as I depart for
the Great Beyond, have some
parting words for my friends that I
may leave behind.

To Mary Lynn Jordan I wish
Good Luck. When you find the
Truth, give me a call. I'll be looking,
too.

To Debbie Garry I wish pa-
tience, virtue, and chastity.

To Cynthia Carson I be-
queath my Bible minus the Pauline
Letters (I have made the definitive
authentic highlights to signify his-
torical accuracy, so not to worry!).

To Tara Spuhler I leave my
theological insight (or my theologi-
cal confidence, I get them con-
fused!)

To Pam Peel I reserve a booth
at McDonald's for a private chat.

To Cheryl Reed I leave my
Thesaurus with plenty of stupen-
dous, eloquent, chic, etc. synonyms
for "nice try" while attempting ten-
nis.

Amy, Holly, Allison, Sylvia,
Kara, Jeri, and Ronnie, I remind
you all to never forget the "face in a
misty light."

To Tina, I bequeath funds for
the establishment of a Hotline of the
End; keep me posted!

Dr. Carey, I wish that you may
continue to have the courage of
Luther, the conviction of Tillich, and
the stamina of George Burns! I
need you around to teach my
daughter so I can come and visit!

And to Bible and Religion
Majors everywhere, MAY THE
FORCE BE WITH YOU!

/, Betsy Horton, of weary body,
soul, and heart, bequeath the fol-
lowing:

To Charmaine, Holli, and
Kristen I leave DICK, Cindy
(YIKES), All the strange people at
the restaurant.

To Angie- ASSUME THE PO-
SITION- think always of the statue,
you've come a long way (even
through snow, uphill, running!

Pam Peel, I wish you could
give me your accent (despite years
of teasing!)

To the rest of you would-be
slimers (Wendy, Daka, Alana,
Mary, Cheryl) you'll never be
princesses, but keep up the tradi-
tion at Eddie's and you can be La-
dies-in-waiting. KEEP MY BAR
STOOL WARM!

To my little sister, Becki, enjoy
your years here, crazy one, they go
too fast.

Holli, please let me still hug
you tight when I'm old and gray-
you're wonderful.

To my girls-l love you dearly.
Allena and Kathy, I leave you a
few more chairs for your offices so
you have visitors. That's all I guess-
I never thought I'd say this - I'll miss
this place!!!

/, Janelle Bailey, of tattered mind
and exhausted body do hereby
embark upon a journey of further
deterioration of the sanity, leaving
behind the following:

To Jenny, I leave an extra-
large dose of patience for the trying
times ahead, a problem-free wed-
ding, and a computer login that
never fails. May your Mortar Board
experience be a non-stressful one.
Don't let Kara panic too much over
classical mechanics and thermo-
dynamics, ok? And please don't
procrastinate on your independent
study as much as I have!

To Stephanie, I leave a
winnning season forthe Braves and
absolutely NO threats of war. Be-
ware of those guys in uniform ; they'll
steal your heart every time.

To Holly, I leave a medical
worry-free year, and, if not, then
lots of cheap prescriptions. And of
course, all the chocolate that will
make you happy. Take care of
yourself, woman!

To Kara, I leave the under-
standing of all the physics prob-
lems Dr. Bowling can dish out and
the sense to ask for help when you
need it. You can make it through, I
promise!!

To Sunny, I supply you with a
"feminine hygiene disposal con-
tainer" for every bathroom stall you
ever enter, al! the cleaning supplies
you want, and the wish that your
enthusiasm is never drained.

To Dr. Bowling, I leave a class
full of non-procrastinating physics
enthusiasts, a stadium-sized box of
brand new chalk, and a comparably
sized chocolate chip cookie. Thank
you for everything you have done.

To Alberto, I wish you a pleas-
ant sabbatical and a working com-
puter system by the end of the
summer!

To Amy. the Career Advisory
Board, and CP&P, I leave a big hug,

thanks, and as many free speakers
as you can handle. And of course,
lots of jobs for all of my graduating
friends!

A last message to all of my
senior friends: Thanks so much
for the last four years. The memo-
ries are ones I will cherish forever.
Beth, I'll see you on Thanksgiving!
Darby, I expect to someday see
you in the stars!!

/, Kathleen Hill, being of sound mind
and body do hereby will and be-
queath the following:

To Kelly Holton, I leave a
memorable experience as editor of
the illustrious Profile;\us\ remem-
ber, I got you started. (You know,
Kelly, they say there's a sucker
born every minute ...) I also leave
her the sleepless nights spent writ-
ing an independent study and an
appreciation for the broad gamut of
humor in literature.

To Tracy Walker, I leave your
last and best children's play. (I hope
it's Rumplestiltskinl) I have enjoyed
working and playing (no pun in-
tended) with you for the last three
years. Don't lose that spirit which
makes those plays as much fun for
you and your fellow cast members
as for the kids! I'll see your name in
lights one of these days!

To Jenny White, I leave the
loft bed which has become hers
anyway (now you can figure out
how to store it!)

To Rachel Bowell, I leave the
dubious honor of the Mortar Board
Vice-Presidency. May you be more
patient than I.

To Holly, H.J., and Angel, I
leave the ASC connection with
ThetaXi. I hope that you will enjoy
and be nurtured by it as much as I
have.

To Holly, Emily, Jennie, and
Kathy I leave many plans for the
future, long nights in the theater,
and endless executive board meet-
ings spent listening to people ar-
gue. I likewise leave you my trea-
sured if nebulous Blackfriars . . .
take care of them, please.

To Ann McCary I leave a set
of headphones, a blue light, and the
admonition that she use them well
and wisely. (You won't have me
around to keep you out of trouble
that goes for Emily, too!)

To Kelly, Geraldine, and Pam
I leave my Sunday evening hours.
No one would take them this se-
mester, and I won't be there to take
them next semester. I also leave
you many good times and success-
ful sessions in the Writing Work-
shop. I've enjoyed working with all
of you.

Last of all, but certainly (as the
cliche goes) not least, to Holly
what can I say? I leave you an
incredible senior year, the care of
the Blackfriars, and all my words
and late-night philosophies in case
you are ever hard-up for a

Spotlight on

Marilyn Darling

by Daka Hermon

As Professor Darling and a
student frantically searched for
a missing costume for that night's
Studio Dance performance, I
glanced around the room, no-
ticing the contrasts. Above her
cluttered desk hangs a beautiful
portrait of ballerinas and her
shelves hold several ballerina
figurines and hertoe shoes, while
her Reebok tennis shoes lie a
few feet away. On her door is a
sarcastic poster stating "Relax,
Senator Helms, The Art World Is
Your Kind of Place." Below this
remark, there were several slo-
gans, and my two favorite are as
follows: "Women artists have
their place: after all, they earn
less than 1/3 of what male artists
earn;" "Museums are separate
but equal. No female black
painter or sculptor has been in a
Whitney Biennial since 1973.
Instead they can show at the
Studio Museum in Harlem orthe
Women's Museum in Washing-
ton." When Darling returned to
the room, what was originally
supposed to be an interview
became an easy-going conver-
sation.

Darling arrived at ASC in
1 971 , when the dance program
was improvisational and was,
as she described, "in therapy,"
meaning they were "fluttering
around". She introduced mod-
ern dance techniques, such as

the Martha Graham style of
movement. She taught these
techniques forthe next five to six
years. Ballet was soon added
as a service course in the
Physical Education department,
eventually becoming a part of
Studio Dance. In the early
1980's, Darling implemented a
jazz and tap program, which she
said was met with some con-
troversy by the Curriculum
Committee. She fondly re-
members that at a faculty
meeting , when the tap class was
passed, the faculty members
excitedly tapped their feet in-
stead of clapping.

During Darling's twenty-
three years at ASC, she has
been an active member of the
Board of Dance Atlanta.
Through this association, she
has worked with such dancers
as Paul Taylor, Josie Limon,
Murray Louis, Alwin Nikolais,
Bob Fosse, Gus Giordano, Pe-
ter Gennaro, and David Roche.
Many of these dancers have
interacted with ASC students.
Recently, Darling collaborated
with Jane Comfort and Pilobolus
in a Studio Dance Performance
held April 21 and 22. She felt
that this program was a tribute to
the ASC dance department,
which has a high caliber of
dancers. Darling proudly dis-
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collaboratrice. To you I bequeath,
as well, all the love and optimism I
feel for ASC (There really is some
still left in me.) With them, I leave
the urge to make a difference, to
evoke a change for the better. I'm
going to miss you. Remember
there's always a place for you in
Birmingham.

/, Marianna Winn Markwalter, of

over-saturated mind and spent body
do hereby bequeath the following:

To Angie Dorn, I leave a barf
bag and a can of Lysol for your car,
just in case the unfortunate occa-
sion may arise "again". I also leave
you a bicycle bell for your bike rides
in Key West. Just remember to put
your blinker on.

To Adrienne McNees, I leave
my kayak for you but, only if you
stop breaking bones. I also leave
you my high tolerance for alcohol.
Lord knows you need it. Really
Adrienne, one beer?

To Dr. Scott, I leave you with
my gratitude for making me work
hard and helping me to overcome
my "slacker" tendencies. Your

classes have given me a politically
correct mind and taught me how to
think for myself. For this I leave you
with the newly revised book by
Dougherty, Pfaltzgraff, and
Markwalter.

/, Rosemarie Kelly, having lost my
mind in the stacks, leave my empty
brain to the McCain library right
next to a full trash can. To the rest
of my friends, I leave the good news
that the warthog from hell has been
purchased by Jimmy Dean. So
relax, it's a wonderful world.

/, Rebecca "Big Dawg " Moen, of

distorted and not potilically-correct
mind and body, do hereby bequeef
(sic) the following:

"Angie, Angie" as Mick
Jagger would say: my place in Key
West, soon to be yours, where the
sun, hearts, and people are warm.
And of course the beer is cold!, the
mirror that I look in as I touch my
face and end up looking so beauti-
ful- as you would know, and of
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Timepieces:

Reflecting on Presidents

.by Jenny White

Darling

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cussed the quality of her danc-
ers, and the immense variety
they have provided for the de-
partment.

Currently, Darling is head-
ing several major projects for
this summer and the 94-95
school year. In July, she will
head "Dancemakers," a program
showcasing female choreogra-
phers. The program, the first
such event at ASC, will consist
of five or six dance companies
and soloists.

In the fall, Darling's former
dance partner from Florida State,
David Roche, and his wife Simi
will be artists in residence. They
hope to focus on modern dance
and to bring the Australian and
Aborigine experience to ASC.
The couple will world premiere
two major works. Simi's pre-
miere will take place in the fall
and her husband's in the spring.
These works will showcase
Agnes Scott students and con-
tinue Darling's attempt to "edu-
cate, enhance and spotlight
women." Forthe spring, Darling
is also in the process of obtain-
ing a Romanian dancer to teach
Russian ballet techniques.

Recently, the dance and
theatre departments were com-
bined, and Darling believes that
these changes will allow more
students to learn about move-
ment and enable them to work
across boundaries. As the chair
of the combined department, she
hopes to teach students the
importance of the fine arts. She
said that 'the proscenium theater
is a canvas and the human body
the paint."

To end our conversation, I
asked Professor Darling, "If you
could be any dance what would
you be?" I then asked, "What
dancer would you work with if
you could?" She answered sur-
prisingly: Top Hat for the first
question, Fred Astaire for the
second.

As we reach the end of an-
other school year, we face the
both exciting and terrifying
prospect of a new president
when we return in the fall. I
thought it would be interesting to
look for a moment at the lives
and accomplishments of Agnes
Scott's presidents thus far.

Frank Henry Gaines, ASC's
first president, was born in Ten-
nessee and went to school at
Cumberland University. He
"studied medicine and theology"
and pastored several churches
before his arrival in Decatur. As
pastor of the Decatur Presbyte-
rian Church, he suggested the
possibility of starting a women's
school to some members of his
congregation in 1 889. He "envi-
sioned providing high quality
Christian education for young
women" and began the Decatur
Female Seminary in August of
that year. Dr. Gaines served as
the first chair of the Board of
Trustees and became president
of Agnes Scott in 1896.

He saw Agnes Scott through
the expansion of the campus,
was instrumental in obtaining
an endowment for the college
and in reducing the college's
debts, developed an academic
program of very high quality,
and saw the g rowth of the student
body as more and more young
women became interested in
attending ASC. Dr. Gaines had
an "unyielding commitment" to
Agnes Scott, and his sudden
death on April 14, 1923, ended
the first era of Agnes Scott's
history.

The Board of Trustees voted
unanimously to elect James
Ross McCain as Agnes Scott's

second president. McCain was
born in 1881 in Tennessee and
attended Erskine College, Mer-
cer University, University of
Chicago and Columbia Univer-
sity. Before his appointment as
president, he "served [Agnes
Scott] as registrar, professor of
bible, history and sociology, and
as vice president." He was
president of ASC until his retire-
ment on June 30, 1 951 , at the
age of 70.

During President McCain's
time at ASC, the college's annual
income increased, the endow-
ment tripled, and salaries were
greatly increased. He was well
known by the students, as he
attended campus events (most
notably student/faculty hockey
games, in which he participated.)
He also helped found the Uni-
versity Center of Georgia. Be-
fore his retirement, he was
elected Moderator of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States.
President Alston described him
as follows: "With courage, un-
selfishness and clear-
headedness, he did more than
any one person to shape the
characterofthecollege. Hewas
brought to the college to lead
and he led!"

Dr. Wallace McPherson
Alston, ASC's third president,
served from 1951 to 1973. He
was born in Decatur and at-
tended Emory University, Co-
lumbia Seminary and Union
Seminary. He was known for
his familiarity with every person
on Agnes Scott's campus he
"knew each student by name"
and personally appointed all of
the new trustees and every fac-

ulty member, administrative of-
ficer, and staff member. Al-
though the endowment and
value of the college increased
during his time, he seems to be
better known for his strong
commitment to academics and
his camaraderie with the com-
munity. He continued to teach
philosophy classes as president
and brought noteworthy speak-
ers to campus, such as Theodore
Greene and Sir John
Rothenstein.

Dr. Alston, despite great
reluctance and regret from the
campus community, decided to
retire on September 7, 1972.
He was 67, and he wished to
spend more time with his family,
travel with his wife, and do some
writing. He was presented with
a silver plaque from the trust-
ees, and the engraving de-
scribed him as a "distinguished
scholar, creative leader, effec-
tive administrator, eloquent
preacher, [and] compassionate
and gracious friend." His ac-
complishments and concern for
the campus were greatly re-
membered by everyone.

Agnes Scott's fourth presi-
dent, Marvin Banks Perry, Jr.,
was born in 1 91 8 and attended
University of Virginia and
Harvard University. Before his
presidency here, he taught En-
glish at several institutions,
served as director of admissions
at University of Virginia, and was
president of Goucher College.
He came to Agnes Scott with
high credentials, and he accom-
plished much while here: pro-
grams for Honors Scholars, the
Return-to-College program, the
Kirk Concert series, continued

growth of the college's campus
and building renovations, and a
rise in the operating budget.

Dr. Perry retired in Septem-
ber of 1981, again with regret
from the campus community.
His health had been uncertain,
and he wished the college to
start a search for a new presi-
dent. He stated, in his letter of
retirement to the trustees, that
he felt that he and the college
had "kept faith with the vision of
our founders and the efforts of
our predecessors here, mindful
both of our great heritage and of
the educational needs of women
preparing for life in this turbulent
age."

Dr. Ruth Schmidt, Agnes
Scott's fifth president, came to
us in 1982. She attended
Augsburg College, University of
Missouri, and University of Illi-
nois. Before her presidency
here, she taught at Mary Baldwin
College and the State University
of New York at Albany and
served as provost and professor
of Spanish at Wheaton College.
Her accomplishments here in-
clude the beginning of the Glo-
bal Awareness Program, the
renovation of many campus
buildings and the construction
of some new ones, including
Woodruff Physical Activities
Building, and the completion of
a campaign to raise $35 million
for the college. Dr. Schmidt
announced her retirement ear-
lier this year, and she will leave
Agnes Scott in June 1994.

All quotes and information come
from Lest We Forget, by Edward
McNair, and A Full and Rich Mea-
sure, by Lee Sayrs and Christine
Cozzens.

Senior wills

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course the most wonderful friends
an insane person could have.

Dr. J - Thank you for inspiring
me to be an Econ. major & to know
the difference between B.S. and
'truth". AYUD, you're the best!!

Dr. Cunningham - Thanks for
pushing me to understand and for
not giving up on me when I slacked.

/, Elizabeth Gwen Franklin, being
of frazzled mind and worn-out body,
hereby bequeef (sic) the following
to you poor losers that have to
remain in this doom and gloom we
call ASC:

To Angie Dorn, our slimer

"protege"- directions to the Key
West police department, an ID
holder on a chain, my endless les-
sons on "How to Pick Up" and "The
Benefits of Dating Old Men," an
open invitation to my new abode,
wherever that may be, and as many
blind dates as you want, as long as
I can borrow your Mrs. Roper en-
semble.

To Dr. Ed Johnson - I leave
my thanks for providing a bright
side to the regurgitative "truth" ex-
alted from high here at ASC and my
best wishes for escaping the bu-
reaucratic B.S.

/, Kaki Horton, of hopefully gradu-
ating mind and body, do hereby
bestow the following:

Alana Noble - 1 leave the great

"Bud" dartboard my friends and I
stole at Bashs because it was the
first place we corrupted a high
school senior. Good luck next year!

Angie - Tanner's- enough said !
Well, Key West, but I don't have
enough room!

Pam Peel from Jesup - 1 leave
the driving of the scavenger hunt
next year for capping - have fun -
take a cab!

/, Kari Sager, of befuddled mind
and decomposing body, do hereby
bequeath the following to:

Angie Dorn - 1 leave you a key
to my abode in Margaritaville forthe
moments when you need to ab-
scond from your last painful year at
ASC. I also leave you the obligation
of carrying on the Navy tradition,

the last remnants still linger in your
car. And finally, a little black book,
so you can keep track of all the
pitiful slimers who are pursuing you.

Amy Heins - all the rapture of
Social Council and all the left over
beverages from functions. Enjoy!

Pam, Mary, Marisa, Daka,
Alana and Wendy - I leave you our
worn in bar stools at Moe's. Please
carry on the Slimer tradition for us
and don't forget to harrass Bryant
once in a while.

/, Sarah Cardwell, being of rest-
less mind and body, do hereby
bequeth the following:

To Angie Dorn, the best
roommate ever, I leave a rainy day
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Stepping up in the world

Senior wills

(Continued from Page 7)

to buy a couch, a stair rail to stand
on, leisurely talks on the Inman
porch swings, the strength and
perserverance to finish your senior
year, and finally a margarita (in
honor of the old days!).

To Leigh Copeland. I leave the
rest of Dr. Johnson's history classes
(it seems we should have taken
them all by now), capping memo-
ries, and of course many beers at
Eddies.

To Pam, Mary Elizabeth, and
Holli, I thank you for always making
me smile and laugh when I got too
stressed out. Whatever untapped
patience and charm I have left,
leave to you to survive another year
of orientation.

To Wendy, my cappee, I leave
you all the polyester clothes you'll
ever need and all my unused cap-

/, Tara Greene, being of crazed
mind and seriously overstressed
body do hereby leave this as my
last will and testament:

To ANGIE D., I leave you with
a bat and slime repellent to help
fight off all the boys. I leave you with
all the crazy nights I have ever
had you better watch out! I leave
you with a new sports car that
doesn't have big rims down the
sides- no more redneck vehicles!
leave you with my thanks for being
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Friday, April 29, 1994

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Page 9

News career

(Continued from Page 3)

sumer reporter and a political
reporter. Even though they both
went on-air every day, they re-
searched and wrote differently.

Find out what an anchor
does to prepare for the 6:00
news. If you want to produce,
study what a producer does.
Make sure the person is ap-
proachable. Ask if you can sit
with her for a few minutes to
watch how she writes and how
she gets her information.

Once you learn how to write
news script, practice getting in
front of the camera. I'll never
forget my first time: I was on
Capitol Hill, surrounded by
hundreds of people, who all
seemed to be staring at me. My
shoulders were tight. My voice
cracked. And on tape, I looked
terrified. But you have to keep

trying. It gets easier every time.

When you feel comfortable
enough with your camera pres-
ence, ask an editor to teach you
howtoedit. Then make a resume
tape. On this tape, you should
talk over pictures and then talk
to the camera about a story. If
you want to report or anchor,
you cannot get a job without this
tape that demonstrates what
you've done, what you're ca-
pable of doing, and how you will
look on camera. In your intern-
ship, you'll see first hand what a
resume tape looks like, and you'll
learn how to make one. Just
ask.

The next step is to send
tapes and resumes to news di-
rectors in relatively small cities
all over the country, regardless
of whether or not there is an
opening. It can take anywhere
from a month to years to get that
first job because the news busi-

ness is so competitive. That's
why it is important to network as
much as you can before you
graduate. If you visit a city, drop
by the local station and intro-
duce yourself. If there is an
opening ayearfrom now, around
the time you are about to gradu-
ate, you'll have an advantage
because someone there already
knows your background. I visit
my hometown often, and, before
I got my job, I used to bring the
CBS affiliate in Tallahassee an
updated resume tape. Sure, the
news director probably knows
with or without another tape
whether or not he will ever hire
me, but at least he never forgets
me. And that, finally, is what's
most important about getting
hired.

In your internships, be pre-
pared to work long hours. You'll
never get back to Agnes Scott
beforedinnerends. Sometimes

Graduate studies

(Continued from Page 3)

subject tests on the same day; it
really depends upon your
stamina, schedule, and money
(each test is $48!). Beth says it
is not advisable to take the
chemistry subject test before
December because you need to
finish Inorganic Chemistry be-
fore taking it. Janelle says be-
ware of taking such a strenuous
test (and believe us, all of them
are!) so close to final exams.
Leigh took both tests in October
and still lives to tell about it, so it
must not be too bad!

Ask your professors for
recommendations early. Don't
think that you should wait until
your applications are done be-
fore asking them; the graduate
schools don't care whether the
references get there before or
afterthe application. You're sure
to get a better recommendation
if your professor doesn't have to
rush to get his or her letters in.
This is especially important
around exam time!

Give your professors all the
information you can think of and
provide pre-addressed stamped
envelopes and the deadline for
each application. Furthermore,
you may want to give them a
copy of your resume or write
something up that describes all
your extracurricular activities,
work experience, research ex-
perience, and any other perti-
nent information (in other words,
include anything which you might
refer to in a statement of purpose

for your application). One more
thing: most schools require at
least three letters of reference,
so be sure to take this into con-
sideration.

Before you leave for the
break, request your transcripts
from the Registrar's office. They
are $1 each, and you can ask
that they be sent after the fall
semester grades are posted. If
you've taken a class anywhere
else, even if the credit was
transferred, the prospective
school will want a transcript.
Time and fees vary for each
school, so do this early.

Get your applications in as
early as possible. Deadlines for
financial aid (not the FAF like for
undergrad) in the form of
teaching or research assistant-
ships and fellowships vary from
January 1 to March 15, but the
sooner you get your application
in, the better! If at all possible,
get them all done before re-
turning to ASC for the spring
semester. If nothing else, you
can be glad that they are out of
the way!

Once you've got your ap-
plication in, the agonizing wait-
ing game begins. Schools will
begin notifying students as early
as mid-February but can con-
tinue past graduation, especially
true if there is no assistantship
involved. Many schools have a
response deadline of April 1 5 for
those students to whom they
have offered assistantships.

If at all possible, visit the
schools you are interested in. If
you visit before the decision on

your application is made, you
could positively influence the
decision by making a good im-
pression and providing addi-
tional information beyond your
application. However, finan-
cially, you're on your own. Many
schools will pay for you to visit if
they've accepted you into their
program (or at least a good frac-
tion of the costs, including total
or partial airfare, lodging, and
meals during the visit). If you
visit schools, talk to as many
people as you can.

It is especially important to
talk to graduate students away
from the professors; they're
generally much more honest
about attitudes and atmosphere
without the pressures of selling
the program. Ask as many
questions as you can. Don't
think a question is dumb; the
only stupid questions are those
left unasked.

One last thing: research
experience is invaluable in the
eyes of graduate programs. This
is especially true if your GPA or
GRE scores aren't very high. All
of us participated in at least one
summer research program.
There are numerous REU (Re-
search Experience for Under-
graduates, most sponsored by
the National Science Founda-
tion) programs around the
country; ask your professors for
more details.

Try not to agonize too much
once it's out of your hands. The
waiting game can be hard, but
you'll survive. Good luck!

(if you become a workaholic)
you'll stay at the station until 2 or
3:00 in the morning. If news
breaks, and you're out on a story,
you can't leave. Usually, you
have to stay at the scene until
the story is fully investigated,
which sometimes takes all day
and night.

Ifyouthinkyou're interested,
definitely give it a try. It's a
fascinating business that
changes every day. And if all
else fails, you'll learn things about
a world that most of us rarely get
the chance to see.

Senior wills

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there for me when I need you.

To TAMMY M., I leave one of
my most prized possessions MY
HOMEMADE METABOLIC PATH-
WAY CHART - you will need it for
Cell Physiology/Biochemistry! I
leave you with the thought that you
are one of the nicest people I know
and I am glad to have you as a
friend. You are a mom that I know
I could always turn to if I needed
you. Thanks.

To WENDY R., I leave all the
answers to the MCAT! you and I
both wish. I leave you with the
notion that all your hard work will-
payoff so don't ever quit. I leave
you with part of a poem that I truly
live by: "Success is failure turned
inside out, it may be nearer when it
seems afar, so stick to the fight
when your hardest hit. It's when
things seem worse you mustn't quit!"

To DAKA H., I leave a great
job in the Psychology field that you
will love. I leave you with my alcohol
tolerance-you need it! I leave you
with my thanks for being a good
friend for three years.

To HEATHER B., LEIGH C,
SHANNON J., and NICOLE G., I
leave you with an infinite number of
cases of beer and lots of good times.
I leave you with 1 0 decks of cards
so you will never run out.

To all BIOLOGY/ CHEMIS-
TRY/ PHYSICS PROFESSORS, I
leave thanks for giving me a great
education. You made me work

hard and I know it will all payoff.
Finally to ADRIENNE M., one

of my very best friends, I leave all
my gratitude and admiration. For
two years you have always stuck by
me, even when I was the most
stressed I have ever been and
believe me, I don't have many
friends that would do that. You
have given me courage and deter-
mination to achieve my goals. You
have given me so much that I feel
like anything I leave you with just
isn't good enough. I have never
had a friend like you. I cannot begin
to thank you enough for your pa-
tience, our good times, and most
importantly your friendship. I will
never say good-bye to you because
I know our friendship will last a
lifetime.

/, Lara Webb, being of barely sane
mind & malnourished body do
hereby bid adieu to Agnes Scott
College, her memories of intellec-
tual dreams, the best of friendships,
and many, many pitchers of cold
beer.

To Pam, Alana, and Daka I

bequeath the joys & miseries of the
English major. Read, read, read,
write, write, write, and never loose
sight of that ecstatic love of words
and their connectedness to this
crazy world of ours.

Wendy: girl, girl, girlgirlgirl.

To Pam & Kelly: I leave the
Writing Workshop.

Merisa, my Latin buddy: Say
hello to Rome for me. Maybe you
could buy me a pair of Italian shoes?

To Lyn, my little sister: I leave
Social Council, the joys of Vice
President, and that frantic search
for the perfect hotel. Hope Agnes
Scott has been for you all that is has
for me.

Shannon: you have one more
year of kite flying, soap watching,
and dancing. Watch those stairs at
Axcess.

And Leigh, who will be here
yet another year: I leave our shared
love of poetry, its song of life and
womanism, the cigarettes I can
never seem to smoke, and Eddie's.
That's just about where it all started.

To all my professors, friends,
and concerned prayer group, I
leave Scott proud but scared, with
my ring and the energy to do and be
all. And to anyone out there crazy
enough to do it, I leave my red paint.

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Friday, April 29, 1994

Man and Superman proves
to be a one man show

Comments
from a CD Critic

by Debra Dobkins

by Daka Herman
Staff Writer

Actor's Express is offering
up a delicious rendition of
George Bernard Shaw's play,
Man and Superman, minus the
often-cut third act depicting Don
Juan in Hell. This production,
directed by Chris Coleman, fo-
cuses on the amusing battle of
sexual wits between John (Jack)
Tanner and his pursuer, Ann
Whitefield. The playbill de-
scribes the play as a "sparkling
romantic comedy," and so it is
but with the biting edge of
Shaw's satirical dialogue and
philosophical, political diatribe.
Shaw's genius with language
and pointed jibes aimed at both
sexes ensure that this work will
not sink into the vapidity and
superficiality often associated
with romantic comedies, while
Peter Ganim's dynamic turn at
the role of Tanner ensures that
boredom could not possibly set
in.

Peter Ganim's vitality in the
starring role in Man and Super-
man infuses the entire produc-
tion with energy and electricity.
Though he is small in stature,
Ganim's Byronic good looks and
magnificently theatrical voice
make him tower over everyone
else in the vicinity of the stage.
He commands not just his role
but the play itself. Ganim has
the kind of diction actors train for
years to achieve and the richly
timbered voice most would kill
for. He plays Jack with an over-
the-top exuberance that startles
at first, then delights. When he
arrives on-stage and does the
first of his stomps and leaps,
one is initially disconcerted. This
impression on the viewer quickly
evaporates as the exaggerated
physicality with which Ganim
plays the role becomes part and
parcel of the self-parody integral
to the character of Jack Tanner.
The power of Ganim's perfor-
mance and the magnetism of
his voice soon relegate the
physical mannerisms to their
appropriate secondary signifi-
cance.

While Ganim commands the
stage, some fellow players fare

better than others in the attempt
to hold their own. LuannPurcell
is adequate as Ann but does not
offer a performance that indi-
cates that her character could
match wits successfully with
Ganim's Jack Tanner. Perhaps
she chooses, as her only de-
fense in the face of his dyna-
mism, an intentionally low-key
approach. I would like to see
Jennifer Deer, who plays Violet
with strength and vitality, in the
role of Ann. She might make a
more compelling match for
Ganim. David Crowe is amus-
ingly, pathetically wimpy as Tavi,
while Wayne Coleman as the
stiffly upper-crust Ramsden
does a fair Nigel Bruce impres-
sion. Kenneth Roberts as the
working class Henry Straker
does a fine job of imbuing a
smaller role with humor and vi-
tality. Charles Horton is less
than satisfying as the indepen-
dent-minded American. Hetries
a bit too hard to project earnest-
ness and comes off as flat. The
performances in the minor
women's roles, those of Mrs.
Whitefield and Miss Ramsden,
played by Adriana Warner and
Susan Shepard respectively,
seem wooden and plodding.

The set designs are inter-
esting. The set for the first act,
Ramsden's study, is fairly mun-
dane with the usual bookcases
and wing chairs. But, set de-
signer Theo Harness displays
his inventiveness in the second
and third acts. The props be-
come reduced in the second act
to an antique car and paper
leaves. This minimalist ap-
proach easily conveys the
country roadside where the
scene occurs. The third set, a
villa's garden in Granada, is
beautifully depicted by the stra-
tegic use of a few pieces of
wrought iron furniture and pot-
ted plants. The festive holiday
mood is cleverly evoked by
scattered paper flower petals in
bright shades of pink and red all
over the terrace floor.

The costume design is
faithful to the Edwardian period.

with gorgeous, elaborate gowns
for the ladies and waistcoats
and watch chains for the gentle-
men. Though lovely to look at,
the layers of men's clothing must
have been unbearably hot, as
the sweat pouring for the actors
indicated, and the ladies' gowns
trailing beneath their feet made
the possibility of falling flat on
their faces seem distressingly
imminent at times. A little air
conditioning and higher hems
would eliminate both concerns.
The designers, though, obvi-
ously paid loving attention to the
costumes in this play.

Actor's Express offers an
energizing, enjoyable evening
at the theatre with its mounting
of Shaw's Man and Superman. It
is worth the trip just to admire
and enjoy Peter Ganim's voice,
charisma, and vitality. This Man
and Superman is a one-man
show Ganim's.

*Man and Superman is playing
until May 1 at Actor's Express
Theatre. Reservations for the
show are required, and the num-
ber is 221 -0831 . Ticket prices
for students are $7.00 on
Thursday and Sunday evenings.
Show times begin at 8 p.m. on
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
with shows on Sunday begin-
ning at 7 p.m.

Looking for a great CD to
listen to on the long drive home
or, better yet, during the reading
days when your supposed to be
studying? Well, look no longer!
Recently, the new band Material
Issue released a CD called Freak
City Soundtrack. The band was
formed in 1987 by Jim Ellison
and later joined by Ted Ansani
(bass) and Mike Zelenko (drum-
mer). The band mixes modern
rock with an alternative sound
that is very pleasing to the ear
and, sounding likeacombination
of the Indians and the Cure,
could possibly become an un-
derground classic.

The new CD includes such
songs as: "Going Through Your
Purse" which the band says was
written one night after one of the
band members was waiting for
someone to finish dressing and
decided to break "the Cardinal
Rule of Romance" by going
throughthewoman'spurse. The
second song on the CD, "Kim
the Waitress" is dedicated to
anyone who has ever been love
with a pretty annoying waitress
and "Help Me Land" is espe-
cially for persons who have be-
come so drunk that they fell
down, all the while praying for
someonetohelpthemland. The
song "Ordinary Girl" really hit
home. The song is allotted to
women who have experienced

La Malediction

A French operetta written and composed
by Georgia Fuller

Performances

Sunday, May 1 7:00 P.M.
Operetta and dinner
$5 for students
$10 for adults

Add $3 to any ticket for wine

Woltz Reception Room,

Rebekah

Monday. May 2 8:00 P.M.
Operetta only

Free, but donation accepted for
the Battered Women's Shelter

Woltz Reception Room,

Rebekah

days so bad that a migraine de-
veloped.

Although this CD is not as
great as the soundtracks from
Pretty in Pink, Reality Bites, and
Boomerang, it is funny and re-
laxing. Go Buy It!

However, if you're tired of
not being politically correct and
even more tired of listening to
inane lyrics, then another CD
might just get your blood boiling.

Picture this: you're sitting in
a dark room with one candle
burning in the far corner. You're
alone and in the mood that de-
mands you listen to modern po-
litical poetry (if there is such a
mood). I have just what you
need, a new CD by Reg. E.
Gaines called Please Don 'tTake
My Air Jordans. This CD con-
sists of Gaines', who is an an-
gry, intelligent, and clever hip-
hop poet, spouting poems with
jazz music accompaniment.
Gaines is an African-American
poet discussing such social is-
sues as homelessness, family
violence, education, rape, affir-
mative action, starvation, racial
relationships and drug addiction.
He also manages to criticize
Maya Angelou, Michael Jack-
son, Jesse Jackson, Colin
Powell, and Arsenio Hall. In the
song, "Please Don't Take My Air
Jordans," the title track on the
CD, Gaines discusses the prob-
lem of kids killing for clothing.
He tells a story of a young boy
who kills someone for his shoes
and is planning to kill someone
for his Starter jacket.

Gaines truthfully, presents
the world around him in a musi-
cal, humorous and engaging
manner. But I must warn you,
this is not easy listening, and
some songs have explicit lyrics.
Yet, this is definitely a CD that
must be explored.

Well, there you have it! I
have given you a choice of two
entirely different types of music
to listen to during he horrendous
days ahead. Which one do you
perfer? Remember both CD's
are available in your nearest
music store, so hurry out to get
them.

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Sabo and Laye display talents at Senior Art Show

by Jessica Lake

The Agnes Scott Art Show,
featuring the work of seniors
Sara Sabo and Claire Laye,
among others, opened to a siz-
able crowd on April 10 and will
run through May 14. Agnes
Scott has only two senior art
majors this year, but the work
that both Sabo and Laye present
is the culmination of four years
of learning.

Sabo's pieces are about
growth and maturation an
appropriate theme for someone
who has developed as an artist.
Most of her work is untitled, but
her book entitled "My Life" ex-
amines her personal history.
Another piece, a small painting
called "Sunflowers" is an ab-
stracted, impressionistic repre-
sentation of a field of sunflow-
ers. The majority of her works
deal with the earth and nature,
and their warm colors echo this
theme.

Laye's untitled installation
is not a collection of her best
pieces. Rather, it is a piece that
was inspired by dancers and her

"Sunflowers, " by Sara Sabo, is now on display at the Senior Art Show in the Dana Fine Arts
building. The show continues through May 14.

study of performance artists such
as Joseph Beuys, who believed
in creating a total art environ-
ment or experience. Hanging
from the ceiling of the gallery are
sheets of white parachute fabric,
and projected onto them and the

back wall are black and white
images of a dancer. The room is
completely darkened so that one
sees almost nothing butthe over-
lifesized images of the dancer
on the gently undulating fabric.

The movement of the fabric,
along with the music playing in
the background, creates an art
environment. Laye invites the
viewer to participate in the expe-
rience and move with the dancer,
thereby creating a new artwork.

Also featured in the show is
the work of younger students.
Most of the pieces contributed
are paintings, prints, and a few
sculptures. Several examples of
book art, something we have
not seen before at Agnes Scott,
also appear in the show. Jun-
iors Charmaine Minniefield and
Davidae Stewart both contrib-
ute powerful books which ex-
amine their experiences as Af-
rican Americans. Visitors to the
show are immediately con-
fronted with the gigantic alumi-
num scissors by Gloria Comer,
a fitting sculpture for a hair-
dresser. The back gallery fea-
tures the drawings of students in
the Art Structure I class. Pro-
fessor Anne Beidlerencourages
students to use themselves -
their lives, histories, and bodies
- as models, and this technique
is evident in most of the work
displayed. We look forward to
seeing the work of these stu-
dents in future senior art shows.
In the meantime, be sure to visit
this one!

Fuller's "Buglies" delights audience

by Alana Noble

Arts and Entertainment Editor

"Creation of Buglies," a cre-
ative and comical interpretation
of the first seven days on Earth,
was presented on April 20 in the
Agnes Scott amphitheater dur-
ing a relaxing Greek-style dinner.
Georgia Fuller, writer and di-
rector of "Buglies," remarkably
wrote the entire play in rhyming
couplets.

The scenery could not have
been better for Fuller's play. It
was certainly nice to see the
amphitheater used for its origi-
nal purpose. Four microphones
were used to fight Decatur's six
o'clock buzz, but unfortunately
some lines were still lost because
of passing trucks on McDonough
Street. Distractions were also
created by hungry students who
ate during the performance. Yet,
overall, the actors were suc-
cessful in projecting their voices
and (thankfully) conscious of
stepping up to the microphone
when speaking their lines.

Claire Quin gave the stron-

gest and most convincing per-
formance. Quin was the creator
of birds and the creator of in-
sects, or more originally put, the
creator of buglies (bugs for
short). These buglies must win
the prize for most crowd-pleasing
performance. It might have been
the music used to introduce the
buglies or the Agnes Scott stu-
dents who were hidden under
ugly bugly faces, but the crowd
gave the biggest response to
those unsightly creatures.

The costumes were a definite
eye-pleaser. The solid-colored
dresses shown brightly against
the setting sun and the grass.
The blue undulating sheets used
to dramatize the ocean repre-
sented another creative and
thoughtful idea that added to the
play's visual depth.

Also, Fuller's choice of music
also added to the enjoyment of
the play, especially the music
that introduced the buglies.

Overall, Fuller's play was a
success. I hope to see more

The angels help create the world in Georgia Fuller's femi-
nist look at God, "Creation of Buglies. "

from Georgia Fuller in the future creativity seen on the campus,
and hope that more Agnes Scott Express yourself! Hats off to
students make their art and Fuller.

24-hour
restaurants
sanity-savers
during finals

by Merisa E. Aranas

From today, Friday, April 29,
we have exactly three more days of
classes and seven days until final
exams start. Have you been getting
enough sleep lately? Will you have
to stay awake every night to write
that 30 page Senior Seminar final
paper? Or will you be cramming all
those physics formulas and organic
chemistry reactions in your over-
exhausted, slacker head of yours?
Although I do not have a solution to
magically erase your final exam
blues, I have a suggestion that may
help your mental spirits in the dead
of a hot Atlanta night. Grab some
friends, take a break from your
studying, and treat yourself to some
unhealthy food at a 24-hour res-
taurant. Following are some food
places that I happen to know of:

The Majestic, at 1031 Ponce
De Leon Ave., NE, is a classic! This
place is famous for its overall atmo-
sphere. Established in 1929, this
timeless diner has captured the
hearts of many for its very diverse
crowd, its interesting looking staff,
and its most greasy food. No
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The Profile

Friday, April 29, 1994

Calendar of Events

VISUAL ART

High Museum of Art

For more information, call 892-HIGH.
Admission: $5 adults, $3 senior citizens
and students, $1 children 6-17, children
6 and under free.

THROUGH 5/29/94
The Steiner Collection: Drawings
from Italy and the Netherlands

This exhibition features 85 drawings as-
sembled from one of the most important
private collections of old master paintings
in the United States. Rare works by
Titian and Bronzino, as well as exquisite
drawings by Rembrant, Parmigianino and
G.B. Tiepolo are included in the exhibi-
tion. The works range from studies of
light and shade, to compositional
sketches, to finished works of art in their
own right, providing an interesting glimpse
of the creative process.

THROUGH 7/31/94
John George Brown:
The Dignity of Years

This exhibition examines a group of five
paintings of elderly Americans. The ex-
hibition celebrates the theme of simple
country folk set against the sweeping
changes and social upheaval wrought by
the rapid industrialization of America. At
the height of his popularity, Brown was
hailed as "the country's most beloved
artist."

THROUGH 6/12/94
Art at the Edge:

Metaphysical Metaphors

Five emerging artists whose work re-
flects an interest in spirituality are fea-
tured in this exhibition, the first thematic
group show offered by the High in its
ongoing series of exhibitions by contem-
porary artists. The five artists work in a
variety of media and styles, but explore

similar themes such as transformation
and transcendence, states of matter,
forces of energy and metaphysics.

Spruill Center Gallery
& Historic Home

4681 Ashford Dunwoody Rd.
394-3447

THROUGH 6/9/94
Progression

Progression takes a visual journey fol-
lowing artists Hough, Loehle and Moore
through the various changes and influ-
ences that have marked their work over
the past twenty years.

THEATRE

Actor's Express

For ticket information, call 221-0831

THROUGH 5/1/94
Man and Superman

A brilliant comedy written by George
Bernard Shaw which is vast in its scope.
The story is a battle-of -the-sexes between
a voluptuous, conniving woman and a
genius of heroic proportions. The play
has become recognized as one of the
Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century
and one of Shaw's highest achieve-
ments. Man and Superman speeds along
with witty and surprising dialogue and
characters that are etched with acute
observation- all the while upending and
exploding as many social conceptions as
a two hour evening will allow.

Neighborhood Playhouse

For ticket information, call 373-531 1 .

THROUGH 5/15/94

A Higher Place in Heaven

Traditions of the old Southern lifestyle
are turned upside down by the revelation

of family secrets as members battle over
a family will. The result is a humorous,
eye-opening look at the human spirit as
they develop a deeper meaning for the
words relationship and love.

14th Street Playhouse

For ticket information, call 873-1099

THROUGH 5/1/94
Dreamgirls

Jomandi, a non-profit organization pre-
sents Dreamgirls, the most celebrated
Broadway musical of the l 1980's and
winner of six Tony Awards, featuring a
new generation of dreamers, dynamite
singers choreographers, dancers and
performers. Michael Bennetts driving
and fantastically scored musical parallels
the rise of Motown recording artists The
Supremes.

MUSIC

Variety Playhouse

For ticket information, please call 521-
1786.

5/7/94 Incognito

Jazz and hip hop from the hot English
ensemble. Show is at 8:30, tickets are
$1 5 in advance and $1 7 the night of the
show.

5/13/94 Michelle Shocked

Alternative rock and Texas folk music.
Tickets are $1 4 in advance and $1 6 the
night of the show.

Coca-Cola Lakewood
Amphitheatre

For ticket information, call 249-6400.
5/17/94 Michael Bolton
6/4/94 Phil Collins

ON CAMPUS

4/29/94 & 4/30/94
Student-Directed One Act Plays

Free admission, programs begin at 8:1 5.

OTHER

Atlanta History Center

Call 814-4000 for further information.

THROUGH 7/16/94
Disturbing the Peace:

Women, Suffrage, and Politics

This exhibition celebrates the 75th anni-
versary of the May 1919 decision by City
of Atlanta officials to allow women to vote
in city elections more than a year be-
fore the 1 9th Amendment to the Consti-
tution was ratified in August 1 920, granting
women national suffrage.

Georgia Renaissance Festival

For more information, call 964-8575

WEEKENDS THROUGH 6/12/94

Celebrate the adventure, romance, and
art of the Renaissance in this 30 acre
theme park. The annual festival returns
with nine new attractions!

Key: (1) Restaurant

(2) Greasy Food

(3) Conducive to studying

(4) Price

24-hour eats

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matter what time of day it is, espe-
cially the wee hours of two and
three o'clock in the morning on Fri-
day and Saturday nights, you are
almost guaranteed to wait for a
table or booth. They serve break-
fast, lunch, and dinner entrees 24-
hours a day. From pork chops,
steaks, hamburgers, onion rings.
Ore Ida style fries, and vegetable
soup, to omelettes, grits and Froot
Loops, The Majestic is bound to
have something that you are crav-
ing.

Two Pesos Mexican Cafe is
great whenever you have the

munchies for the best nachos and
fresh salsa in town. It is located at
1895 Piedmont Avenue NE. I shall
say no more because I reviewed
this place two weeks ago with other
Texmex restaurants, remember?
International House of Pancakes
(IHOP), located at 129 North Av-
enue NE, and any of the 150-*- At-
lanta metropolitan area Waffle
Houses are two of Atlanta's great
chain 24-7 restaurants. The wait
for a table is not as bad at Waffle
House as it is at IHOP.

Could you ever resist a Krispy
Kreme glazed doughnut? Need I
say more about this particular es-
tablishment? I don't think so. It is
located at 295 Ponce de Leon Av-

enue NE for those of you who have
been living in a hole.

As you walk through the
swinging glass doors of Stake 'N'
Shake (4712 Memorial Drive), your
eyes are drawn to the big pictures
of food on the right wall. Walkover
the black and white checkered floors
over to your red vinyl covered booth
or stool, and inhale the greasy air.
One hot item that I recommend is
the Shake's Alive! giant shake. Try
flavors such as chocolate chip or
Oreo. There are so many cookies
in the shake that cookie chunks
always get stuck in the straw when
you try to suck it up. They also
serve their signature shoe fries,
hamburgers, chicken sandwiches.

and breakfast food.

Denny's on 4650 Memorial
Drive has to be the 24-7 restaurant
that i frequent most often other than
Two Pesos. The service isn't always
the fastest, but the atmosphere is
so cozy, clean and quiet that you
sometimes forget that you have to
order food.

Getting off campus is always a
good thing. Sometimes you feel
the need to get away in the middle
of the night. Know that you can find
an "open" sign in front of these
particular restaurant doors anytime.
I made a little chart of what to expect
from each of the restaurants. See
which restaurant suits you best,
and then try it out for yourself.

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)

d)
(2)
(3)
(4)

d)
(2)
(3)
(4)

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)

The Majestic

count on it

nope

99c-$7

Two Pesos

not really
why study 9
$1-$5

IHOP

it depends
no way
$2-$8

Waffle House

not really

no

$1-$7

Krispy Kreme

what's grease?
no

35c-$3

Stake N' Shake

you bet
it can be
$1-$5

Denny's

sometimes
a big YES
$1-$8