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Have an Exotic Experience
T he world's largest totally student run organization. AIHSHC* teye-sec > will
hold a recruitment meeting tonight at the Business Building in Boom 206 at
7:30
Th«* organization is composed of students of various majors who are
interest* o in international affairs and business, and offers a wide range of
practical experience from marketing to communications
Comp by in see how you obtain a traineeship to an exotic country this
summer
A Stunt Here, A Stunt There . . .
Tonight at the B & I Warehouse. Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity is holding its
seventh annual Sorority uni Night " (iirls from all sororities will present
talent in song and dance, musical comedy, and washboard band categories
Admission is $1 50 and the • roceeds go to benefit the Georgia Leukemia
Society The fu it 7 30
Bi-Weekly Republicans
College Republicans will have their bi-weekly meeting tonight at 7 p m in
Room 404 A Journalism Building The mam speaker will discu>s the
Republican strategy for organizing Georgia in order to achieve a Republican
victory in 19BU \lso the club will discuss the piedicted Reagan Connolly
showdown
Be Candid
Robert Wilson became 101 years old Oct. 27
Red and THacfc
University o£ Georgia Tuesday, November 6, 1979 Volume 8b, Number 18
"Georgia's only collegial? daily newspaper' News 942-1441 Advertising 942-3414
STUDENT PARALYZED AFTER PICNIC
Penn, suit could affect college parties
By BRI C E Mi l El I AN
Staff w riter
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Pennsylvania is expected to rule this month
on its review of a case which could
eventually affect the serving of alcohol at
parties sponsored by University organiza
tions.
Bill Bracewcll. director of judicial
programs, said the University is concerned
with the outcome of Bradshaw v. Rawlings
in which a college student in Pennsylvania
who was injured in a car accident after a
sophomore class picnic sued the college
and four defendants in the case and was
awarded more than SI milium
"It will not have an immediate effect <>n
courts in this area, but it's something fur
us to worry about." Bracewcll said.
He said the University has many policies
designed to protect against suits and has
not set up any new measures because of
the case, which was decided in January.
"The University...hasn't changed, and
shouldn't, until the decision is completely
litigated." Bracewcll said.
FOUR APPEALS were made to the
circuit court after the decisions and award
were made by a jury in district court. The
appeals process could take the case to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Delaware Valley College, a small school
tn Doylestown. Pa., became involved when
the sophomore class officers and class
adviser, a faculty member, planned a class
picnic.
Sophomores at the college were invited
i" the picnic held April IK. 1975. at an off-
campus location. There was no charge to
attend, and no limit was placed on how
much beer a student could drink at the
picnic.
Since personal cars were the only
trail sport at ion between *he picnic area and
the college. Donald Bradshaw, a sopho
more at the school, returned from the
picnic in a car driven by Bruce Rawlings.
Before reaching the school, the Rawl
ings' car hit a parked car. In the accident.
Bradshaw received a cervical fracture
which caused quadriplegic paralysis.
IN HIS suit. Bradshaw said the college
was negligent in overseeing the picnic.
At the * rial Bradshaw said Raw lings
consumed five or six mugs, holding 12 to
lb fluid om • • Mid the < lass
president and other witnesses said Rawl
ings drove his car onto the picnic area and
began to make "doughnuts" with his
wheels.
Although <skk net v* prt m nted that
Rawlings was not intoxicated. Rawlings
said he drank three or four mugs of beer,
and it was ruled that alcohol was a
"substantial factor in causing this acci
dent."
In addition to ruling Rawlings was
negligent and a factor in causing the
accident the jury found the college,
another of the five defendants, negligent
and said its negligence played a pan in the
accident.
The college was held responsible for
several reasons:
The class adviser was present when the
picnic was planned, but neither he nor any
other faculty member attended the func
tion.
Pennsylvania law requires a person be
21 to drink alcohol, and the college had a
similar regulation, but most sophomores
arc not 21. The college was not cited for
violating the state liquor code, but for its
failure to exercise due care.
The college was aware beer would be
served because a drawing of a beer mug
was placed on signs run off by the college
administration, and the signs were posted
on campus.
A UNIVERSITY law professor said
although decisions from the third circuit
are not binding on the fifth circuit, which
includes Georgia, there could be suits
similar to Bradshaw v. Rawlings in Geor
gia.
Sec LAWSUIT, p. 3
'It will not have an immediate effect on courts in
this area, but it's something for us to worry
about.’
—Bill Bracewell
He knew his entire first class
—all four of the students
By SUSAN REU
Staff writer
• Remember when" is a game anyone can play, but how many of us could remember
things that happened more than 90 years ago?
The University’s first pharmacy professor and dean. Dr Robert C. Wilson, can. He
turned 101 years old Oct 27. and he's "still as alert and sharp as can be." according to
his daughter. Grace Waters
Wilson can name all the students in the first class he taught—all four of them. "1
knew all my students well. We were just like a family," he said.
He became u phaim.•• y teacher in 1907 after learning the profession in the way most
pharmacists did in the late IHuos. by working in a drug store After three years of —
working and learning, one could take an exam to become a licensed pharmacist.
He began in the town where he grew up. Sparta, and then came to Athens in 1902 and
worked at the Orr Drug Company on the corner of College Avenue and Clayton Streets
In those days, drugs such as opium, cocaine and morphine were “items of
merchandise, sold over the counter to anyone." he said. Wilson remembers a Sparta
family who bought 437 1 grams, or one ounce, of morphine every week The average
dose of morphine is 1 i gram, he explained.
When they realized people were t>ecoming addicted to the drugs. Wilson and other
Athens pharmacists began to work for drug control He sponsored legislation for the
control of narcotics both on the state and federal levels
Because ol these and other contributions he made to the pharmacy profession. Wilson
is registered as the father of modern pharmacy in Georgia.
This pharmacist-turned professor-and dean was largely responsible for establishing
educational requirements for pharmacy licensing and for the continuous upgrading of
admission and graduation standards at the pharmacy school He is proud that the
University’s pharmacy school was the first in the country to have entrance
requirements and the first to switch from a two-year to a four-year program.
Wilson was recognized lor his contributions last year by the University System when
the pharmacy building was named after him in a ceremony on his 100th birthday To
allow this honor, the Board of Regents had to waive its policy against naming buildings
for living persons
Modestly, though. Wilson says. I didn't deserve any such honor There are so many
things I left undone in regard to the advancement of the profession, both nationally and
internationally
Wilson became dean in 1914. and for some time the pharmacy school had a faculty of
one—himself He first taught in Terrell Hall, and later the school was moved to the top
two floors of New College
Broad and Milledge is most hazardous crossing
B> JACK THREADGILL
'ftalf Ma
There Here 54 accidents at the Milledge Avenue-Broad Street intersection last year
UG A Today
Stoic. Isn’t He?
The American Association of Uni
versity Professors will bo having its
legislative breakfast Thursday in the
Pulitzer Room of the Kamada Inn at 7
a m. All interested students and
faculty are welcome to attend For
reservations, call Ellen Mattingly at
542-8063 or Walter O Briant at 542-2823
before nooon today
Bookstore
News Flash!' The University
Bookstore will In* closed November 7
and 8 for inventory. (That's Wednes
day and Thursday Be sure and get
what you have to do done so you won't
be caught empty handed
Allen Funt is back on t andid
Camera In some of the wildest
situations ever. Funt and guests Loni
Anderson Will Chamberlain and
Valerie Harper participating in
several events 10 p m on Channel 2
Turning to more serious matters.
Cambodia * Nation Is Dying, opens
with a documentary recot ding the
plight of four million people half of
whom are said to be starving The
second part of the show examines the
U.S relief programs 9 p.m on
Channel 8
The Milledge Avenue Broad Street
intersection is the most dangerous in the
city, according to statistics compiled by the
Clarke County traffic engineer.
"That is what we call a high-traffic area,
and it had 54 accidents last year." county
Traffic Engineer Bobby Snipes said.
Snipes' figures single out the Broad Street-
Alps Road intersection as the second most
dangerous with 51 accidents last vear
According to the statistics, the Luntpkin-
Baxter intersection is one of the least
dangerous in terms of traffic accidents.
Only 17 mishaps were recorded for that
intersection last year
But it was at that intersection that a
student was killed and three others injured
early this year
On a Sunday night last Januarv. a fire
truck traveling south on Lumpkin collided
with a Mustang heading west on Baxter
across Lumpkin
The Mustang's front seat passenger.
Lisa Gail Bailey. a 19-year-old sophomore,
was killed in the accident The driver.
Marv Dasch. 19. and back seat passenger
Elizabeth Kendrick. 19. were seriouslv
injured. Julie Cooper. IK. was also injured
This incident occurred Jan 14. Three
days later, the Georgia State Patrol staged
a re-enactment of the accident and
determined that both drivers shared
blame. The fire truck driver disregarded
the stoplight, which was red for him. and
the driver of the Mustang failed to heed the
emergency vehicle's sirens and yield the
right of way
In April of this year. June Bailey. mother
of the student killed in the accident, filed a
S750.000 lawsuit against the city Mayor
Upshaw Bentley and the city council were
named as defendants in the suit.
That suit is still in its preliminary stages
attorneys for both sides are discussing the
issues in the case.
Th ' city also took action in April, when a
proposal was introduced before the Public
Safety Committee of city council to equip
three city fire trucks with an Optical
Control System. OPTICOM. which would
automatically change traffic lights to green
for the approaching emergency vehicle.
The system works when a beam of light
is projectd from a device on the truck to
another device on traffic lights along the
truck’s route, turning the lights green for
the truck and stopping traffic on cross
streets.
At the April meeting when it was
proposed, traffic engineer Snipes recom
mended the $89,000 system be installed
first on College Avenue between Dougher
ty and Broad Street, on Broad from
Thomas Street to the Athens city limit, and
on Lumpkin from Broad to Milledge.
But Jerry Nicholson, second ward city
councilman and chairman of the Public
Safety Committee, said nothing further has
beer done about the system, although
council is "looking for ways to fund the
project within the next two to three year*.”
See INTERSECTIONS, p. 3
Homecoming happiness
Sara Collins. .. junior from Lexington, was all smiles Saturday as Dean of Student
Services Dwight Douglas crowned her Homecoming Queen the first black queen
in University history See page 5 for more homecoming photos