Georgia Southern University - Reflector Yearbook (Statesboro, GA)

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Speakers Come To Southern Philosophy is the process which starts you thinking. It does not ask what is the problem, but asks the question behind the question. What makes you think the problem is a problem? Dr. Gregor Sebba Professor Emeritus Emory University I never expected anybody to go to the moo less be a part of an Ap Dr. Jimmy Carter will be elected President in November. 28 Student Life

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Today ! Is This Cot-tuh Country? Or Grits And Politics Don ' t Mix By Susan Clary Georgia Southern, every student on your campus is a celebrity In fact, Southerners from Texas to Virginia to the farthest tip of Florida now hold nationwide acclaim We ' re an enigma, a peculiar people, a fascination from our pea-pickin ' drawl to Mother ' s fried chicken and grits. With the advent of Jimmy Carter, the South has become a national fad Northerners, and many Southerners were amused when Carter announced his candidacy But his hard drive to Madison Square Garden soon changed the Jimmy who ' s to admiring claims of a unified party and a sure-win candidate The South can ' t help but be a little proud. Like him or not, Carter ' s from home and the vision of a Georgian in the Oval Office soothes egos that have been battered too long But this sudden renown has caused a national interest bordering on the ludicrous Magazines, books, and TV documentaries delve into the eccentricities of the South and its people TIME magazine devoted 70 pages of its September 27 issue to The South Today — Carter Country and Beyond According to TIME, the South is complex and contradictory, a mix of modern and ancient, traditional and futuristic Carter has given us confidence and an almost metaphysical feeling that we are moving at the heart of the world Where is the rest of America moving 9 The issue presents a long-winded revelation of the New South from our Bible-belt Christianity to the fact that Savannah, Georgia, Montgomery, Alabama, and Lubbock, Texas hold the three highest murder rates in the nation It denies the stereotypes of barrel-bellied redneck sheriffs and chanting, chaingang Negroes, but glorifies good ole boys and Southern belles made of magnolia and iron In Its attempt to eliminate stereotypes of the past it creates new ones that may be even harder to swallow The good ole boy sports nicknames like Goober and Goat and dresses up in decorated T-shirts and jeans He drinks gustily with his buddies and avoids women at mixed gatherings. In fact, TIME says, he doesn ' t really like women except in bed A portrait of the Southern male we can be proud of And did ycu know that a Southern lady is not pregnant, she is in bloom or her bees are aswarming 9 According to TIME, some of our most cherished idioms include girls being ugly as homemade soup or pretty as a speckled pup, rain coming up a cloud, and a good life just a slide on a doughnut We owe our changed society to the spread of TV and the airconditioner, and we ' ve been reunited with the North by seeing the dreaded Yankees up close on the evening news. New business opportunities are cropping up like peanuts We ' ve got tire companies in South Carolina, Swedish Volvo assembly plants in Virginia and Japanese zipper-makers in Macon, Georgia. We also seem to hold the copyright on evangelism Apparently the South abounds with perspiring camp meeting preachers and sheet metal signs along the roads warning of spiritual doom TIME calls this the language of piety Is it really Southern Religion 9 But the biggest fascination seems to be with the Southern dialect In an earlier issue TIME presented a glossary from Cot-tuh Country According to a writer from Baltimore and an editor from Brooklyn, candit is what Cot-tuh is, fust is where he hopes to finish; sup- pah is what a Watt House dinner would become, and goo-buhs are the last cose, of cose The South is unique, as is the North, the West, and the Southeast We ' re growing economically, spiritually, ecologically Maybe we need a little propaganda after years of being scapegoats, but we don ' t need to be the nation ' s newest fad. The fascination may fade if Carter is elected, but if it doesn ' t, we may be seeing Cot-tuh Country, U.S.A. What a prospect. Student Life 27

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Rape can happen to anyone, male or female, and it happens to both . . You are in more danger here (on a college campus) than you were at home. The atmosphere makes you feel secure, so you take short- cuts. Carol A. Kope New York Deputy Sheriff Sex Crimes Investigator There is no censorship of books in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) because we never distort a piece of art. Horst explained that when courses in literature are taught, the works are analyzed from a Marxist point of view and the connections of art and reality are discussed. Ilde Horst Professor Teacher of American Studies at Humbott University in East Berlin