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Page 2 The Kfd and Black Wednesday November II, IttHI Police stress theft prevention By RHONDA BETH SCHWAKTZMAN K.,1 and Black Suit H rllrr The bell rings and you rush out to catch the North-South bus because you don’t want to be late for chemistry class Suddenly, you realize that you left your purse in your previous class Runn ing back to your class, you find your purse is there, but the $23 in cash and one credit card is gone. Sound silly? It has happened before and it could happen to you Last month, money stolen from dorm rooms alone amounted to a total of $905 Other academic buildings around campus have reported combined losses of $1,118 Sgt. David Brown of the University Police Depart ment and University Crime Prevention Officer Carl Travillian said many of these misdemeanor thefts could have been prevented The following are some security tips the University police recommend which might prevent your purse or other property from being stolen: • Lock your office or dorm room whenever you leave, even if you will only be gone fora minute. • Keep your purse, wallet and other valuables in a secure location such as a locked desk or filing cabinet • If you are entrusted with a key to a specific area, never loan it to anyone Keys can be easily lost, stolen or duplicated • Protect your property through Operation Iden tification by marking your valuables with identifying numbers To borrow an engraver, contact the Crime Prevention Unit of the University police. • Carry only the amount of cash you will need for the day. Credit cards are often the target of purse thieves. Make a written record of all credit card numbers and keep it in a secure place • Most of all. Brown stress ed the importance of wat ching for suspicious persons who have no business in your area. If you see someone ac ting in a strange manner, get a good physical description of the person and report him immediately to the Universi ty police. Brown said. Completed College Square to be dedicated this week By MARIA HI KT Krd and Black SUlIHrilrr The grand opening of Col lege Square, the downtown pedestrian mall, begins Thursday when downtown area stores open their doors and begin their annual Fall Moonlight Sale — so called because it does not end until 9 p.m. Tickle Someone today with our FTD Tichter Bouquet \ Now we con help you fickle just about anybody just about onywhete With our FTD Tickler Oouquer Ir $ rhe fun bouquet con send tor just obout ony reason Or no reason or oil $10.00 Coll or visit us today When you see our FTD Tickler Bouquet you II be tickled too' 2145 W. Broad 546-7624 • 446 >011 KlW $ Marsh- 1 McN kM NUS°° , - * ,7 f^T The dedication of College Square begins officially at noon, but the Classic City Band will begin playing oldies from the turn of the century prior to the ceremony. The dedication of College Square marks the end of con struction on the area which began last June. The square is part of an overall plan to revitalize downtown in itiated by the Athens Downtown Development Authority and the Athens Downtown Council with the city of Athens "The downtown will not take a backseat to any other program. College Square is evidence that the city has begun accepting the challenge of change," said Joe Burnette, director of the ADDA. The ceremony will open with entertainment from a barbershop quartet and a devotional from Rev. Charles Haisty of the First Presbyterian Church, followed by remarks by Athens Mayor Lauren Coile. Hal Coffer, president of the Downtown Council. Univer sity President Fred Davison, and Louis Scruggs. Chair man of the ADDA will also speak John Waters, presi dent of the Athens Tree Com mission, will dedicate the Athens Historic Tree Walk Every tree along the square will commemorate a special event in Athens. Each tree will receive a number referring to a plaque which dedicates the tree to the event. A brochure with further explanation of the events will be available in the area stores. The grand opening theme follows the theme of the area's turn of the century renovation. Many mer chants have encouraged their employees to wear clothes from the period and the Downtown Council bought 350 straw hats which will be distributed to mer chants to wear, Burnett said Newsboys, shoe-shine boys, and flower venders will be selling their wares on the square Balloons will also be given out The council arranged for a hot air balloon to be on the square. However, if the balloon is too big to fit in the square, or if the weather does not cooperate, the balloon will not be there. A one-hour ride in the balloon worth $150 will be given away at the Auburn pep rally that evening. Shoppers can register for the prize all day Thursday. Economists face off in Union-sponsored debate By SUSAN DIXON Krd and Black Staff Writer In cooperation with the College of Business Administration, the University Union is sponsoring a debate between two well-known economists, George Gilder and Lester Thurow The debate is scheduled for this Thursday at 8 p.m in the Memorial Hall Ballroom George Gilder, a staunch “supply- sider," wrote the book "Wealth and Poverty" which has become virtual gospel in the Reagan White House. Of fice of Management and Budget Direc tor David Stockman distributed the book to numerous colleagues, and called it “the best thing written on economic growth. Dramatic cuts in taxes and federal ex penditures and stimulation of private in vestment through fiscal incentives are Gilder's answers to the American economic malaise. Gilder believes misguided government policies and pro grams have fostered dependency and crippled investment incentives Gilder studied sociology and govern ment at Harvard University. He became involved in the formulation of supply- side economics in the early 1970s as chairman of the Lehrman Institute Economic Roundtable and as program director for the International Center of Economic Policy Studies in New York Lester Thurow is a favorite of the liberal establishment because of his book "The Zero Sum Society." Business Week described the book as a "ruthless ly honest, tough-minded book on what it will take to restore the United States economy to full health." Thurow argues that the tax cuts proposed by Reagan and supported by Gilder will increase consumption rather than encourage in vestment. He suggests a large tax in crease on consumption instead, believ ing that this would ulitmately revitalize the economy. Thurow graduated from Williams Col lege and received advanced degrees from Oxford and Harvard. Currently he teaches at M.l.T. and serves as economic columnist for the Los Angeles Times Thurow has served on the Presi dent's Council of Economic Advisers, the NAACP Economic Advisory Council and several other advisory groups Thurow and Gilder both lecture exten sively, but rarely debate one another. The Athens debate is the only one scheduled for the Southeast region Tickets are available at the Memorial Hall Business Office and cost $1 for students. $2 general admission. Pesticide sprayer has revolutionized industry Cl ■ •tarring ANNETTE HAVENl I DltlBII NUT JOHN MOLMII [ ( M*t Sat Sun 3:00-4 40 _ I Ev«: 6:20 8:00 9:40 Starts Friday Strip#* WANTED. The Ked and Black is accepting, applications for the positions of editor-in-chief and managing editor for the winter and spring quarters. 1982. Responsibilities of the editor-in-chief include general supervision of a student editorial staff engaged in publishing an independent student newspaper. Responsibilities of the managing editor include direct oversight of news-gathering and copy-editing operations. Further information and applications are available at the editorial offices, 122 N. Jackson St., or by calling 542-1809. Applications must be submitted by noon Friday, Nov. 12, 1981. Other staff positions will be available for the winter quarter, including paid jobs on news, entertainment, sports and copy desks. For information call the number above. Applications, available at the address above, are due at noon Tuesday, Nov. 17. •All Laundry and Dry Cleaning Services •Same Day Services •Suede I Leather Care •Alterations •Carpet Cleaner Rental THIS WEEKS SPECIAL: (Good Wed. through Sat.) Bring Pay For Get _____ 3 2 1 FREE Sweaters - Skirts • Pants Eligible for Disneyworld Vacation contest! No Purchase Necessary 1041 Baxter St. 543-2724 By SHERI FOX Krd and Black C onlributing W ritrr The next time you grumble about a class project, think about this: S Edward Law's senior class project at North Carolina State University has brought him to the brink of fame The project centered around his invention, the electrostatic sprayer, which is revolutionizing the pesticide spraying industry. It increases pesticide ap plication efficiency from 20 percent to 80 percent, cuts energy and feedstock costs by 11 million barrels of oil per year and decreases the amount of pesticide left air borne as a pollutant. Savings to farmers because of the sprayer could be as great as $1 billion annually. Law began working with electrostatic forces in 1961 as a senior at North Carolina State After graduation, he received a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Beltsvillc Research Center in Maryland He then took a position at the Engineering Research Laboratory in New Jersey, and in 1970 he joined the University's agricultural engineering department ^<T ~THE cJWAD HATTER^ the nightspot with something tor everyone Proudly Presents PENNY BEER 4:00-5:00 A HQ ri.v t if Today With Your Day club Card Just come by and Pick up your dayclub card today! TONIGHT- LADIES NIGHT featuring Kelly's Alt Male Review Doors open at 7:30 Ladies only till 10:00 and Coming Thursday Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity Stunt Ni^ht featuring SHORTWAVE ^45^a*HtancoclrAv^^^49^4<^^Jus^^Uea#M9^ear^ld^ AAMCO-The World’s Largest Specialists ★ Free Towing ★ One Day Service (in most cases) ★ Financing Arranged on Approved Credit Over 900 AAMCO Centers in the USA & Canada Present your UGA I.D. and get a 10% discount Call 353-3977 AAMCO TRANSMISSIONS 2705 Atlanta Highway Across From K-Mart The effectiveness of Law s electrostatic sprayer lies in its use of electrical deposi tion fields In simple terms, electrostatic forces underly static cling And that is basically how the elec trostatic sprayer w orks. A cylindrically-shaped electrode is embedded in a nozzle which is in turn at tached to a row-crop sprayer. As pesticide flows into the nozzle, it is sur rounded by compressed air Then, said Law, "as spray- droplets are generated within the nozzle in the presence of the electrode's field, they take on a negative charge by electrostatic in duction and are carried out ward toward the plant canopy by a stream of com pressed air.” When the negatively charged particles reach the neutral plant, like particles repel like, and the plant is left with a predominantly positive charge. The negatively charged pesticide is then attracted to the positively charged plant, evenly coating both the top- sides and undersides of the leaves. Early in its development. Law encountered a major problem wilh the sprayer. Although it was not necessary to alter electric charge levels to accomodate different pesticides, it was found that various charge levels became necessary when spraying plants with different leaf shapes Pointed or irregularly shaped leaf lips acted like miniature lightening rods that either bled off or neutralized the electrified pesticide cloud. To insure that the spray cloud is properly charged and that the sprayer is operating at maximum effi ciency. Law has developed a calibration and monitoring system that he said may eventually be "nothing more complicated than an on-off switch, a set of lights to in dicate when the charge is operating at the proper level and when it is not. a charge level selector device thal allows the farmer to 'dial' the pre- specified optimum charge level for a given crop." As for the system's poten tial use in other areas of agriculture, Law said "the next logical step is to develop a system that could be applied to a plane sur face." For this reason, the U S, Golf Association is helping to fund the development of the sprayer for use on the turf Law and other scientists are also investigating the possibilities of adapting the system for orchard- spraying. home gardening, artificial pollination and biological pest control The University has secured a patent for the elec trostatic sprayer and has assigned the Research Cor poration of New York City the rights to commercially develop the sprayer in the public interest Law said the corporation is presently coming to terms with a ma jor farm machinery com pany for that purpose Try THE SHRIMP BOAT you'll be &lad you did TASTY FOODS-NEVER BLAND 600 Baxter- 548-7256 $1.50 Pitchers Every Mon. & Thurs. $2.99All You Can Eat Spaghetti Every Wed. New Lower Prices ! All new game room. 2 6ft. 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