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The Red and Black
Tueaday, May IB. 1983
Everything is useful here
By MICHAEL CULBRETH
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Inside an ordinary-looking
house on Jefferson Road in
Athens, 130 alcoholic men
are rebuilding lives through
a Christian rehabilitation-
work program
The Potter's House
provides rooms, food, work
and religious guidance to
help alcoholics learn to live
independent lives, said
Potter's House Director
Jack Lindsay
"Rehabilitation involves
spiritual therapy and work
therapy," Lindsay said.
He said the spiritual
therapy consisted of chapel
services twice daily
"Through utilizing the Bible,
we try to treat the men's
alcoholic problems," he
said
The work therapy, he said,
provides the men with op
portunities to work as
mechanics, repairmen,
gardners, carpenters and
farmers
"Through these jobs the
men help themselves and
provide financial support for
the Potter’s House,” Lind
say said. "After the men
leave the house, we try to
help them find jobs.”
Most of the jobs provided
by the Potter’s House are
created by donations the
house receives, he said.
Del Von Almen, chaplain
and counselor, said the
motto of the house was : “If
you can't use it, we can.”
He said the Potters House
accepted items such as
furniture, lawn mowers,
refrigerators, bicycles,
clothing, television sets and
other appliances
"Everything that is given
to the house is repaired if
needed and trucked to the
outlet store, the Thrift
store," Almen said
At the Potter's House
Thrift Store on 285 W
Washington St., newly
repaired and recylced items
are sold at low coat, Almen
said
Clothing is one of the most
College budget plan
may be rejected by
Congress once again
WASHINGTON, DC (CPS) — Congress may reject
President Reagan's federal college budget plan for the
second consecutive year, if recent congressional votes hold
The House of Representatives has voted to approve a
higher education budget that totals J650 million more than
Reagan asked for in his budget submitted in February
The measure now goes to the Senate, where it will compete
with two other funding bills
One bill would freeze college funding for 1983-84 at this
year's levels The other, sponsored by Sen Ernest Hollings,
D-S C , would amount to an estimated $800 million increase
over 1983-84 levels, said Kathy Ozer, legislative director of
the U S Student Association.
None of the bills eliminates the National Direct Student
lawn. Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant or State
Student Incentive Grant programs, as the president had
wanted Congress to do
Potter’s House provides rooms, food, work and religious guidance
popular items sold in the
thrift store, he said.
He said any clothing not
used by the men or repaired
for sale was packed in
bundles and shipped to
recycling plants to be made
into rags for industrial use
Money obtained from such
thrift stores in Athens and
Gainesville provide the
major financial support for
the house, Almen said He
added that donations from
churches, civic groups and
inviduals also supported the
house
Another way in which the
men’s work contributes to
the house's self-sufficiency
is through farming, Almen
said
He said the men at the
House grew most of the food
they consumed The men
grow vegetables in a
greenhouse and raise cattle
and hogs, he said "Through
these means, the house is
able to almost independently
support itself," he said
Thrift Store provides main source of income
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Murphy’s research to aid space shuttle
monitoring
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Student improves shuttle
By NANCY FULGINITI
Hed and Hla< k t unlr Ibsiting Writer
It may be possible to more
accurately monitor the U S.
space shuttle when it makes
its next space flight this
summer, thanks to the
contributions of a Univemty
student
Peggy Murphy, a senior
majoring in management
information systems, spent
six months in Houston
testing a system that would
enable the National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration's Mission
Control to monitor the space
shuttle
Murphy spent a year
working for the Federal
Systems Division of In
ternational Business
Machines In Houston This
division of IBM works ex
clusively with government
contracts and NASA
Once cleared (or security,
Murphy spent six months
working with a set of com
puter instructions for
organizing space shuttle
flight information
While in Houston, she
helped test a system
developed by IBM that
would make information
sent down from the space
shuttle more manageable
With the system tested by-
Murphy. a person at Mission
Control will be able to sit
down at a computer and ask
what is happening with a
specific aspect of th’e spare
shuttle during a specific
block of time
Because the system is
realistic the computer im
mediately responds to any
inquiry put in. and a person
at the computer will be able
to get an immediate
response to any question
For her first project, Mur
phy had to learn an un
familiar language called
Assembler
Murphy didn't just stick to
testing the information
operating system During
her second six months in
Houston she worked on a
project that gained her
worldwide recognition from
IBM representatives
While on the staff of a
senior manager in her
division. Murphy conducted
a study that examined the
Federal Systems Division's
programming system - the
most error-free program in
the world — to find out the
number of errors per
program package sent to
NASA
NASA gives IBM a set of
requirements for the
programs thev need Before
IBM can send the programs
to NASA, it must make
sure the programs conform
to NASA's requirements and
that any program in
formation is correct
After Murphy graduates in
December, she plans to go
hack to Houston, w here she’s
been assured of a job with
the Federal Systems
Division, and take on a new
information management
project
"I II help install it, teach
managers to use it and try to
convince them to use this
new approach to
management." she said
Now’s the time for fitness;
students have no excuses]
By SHERON SMITH
Red and Black ContrilMJlinS W rllcr
Students pinching a little more than an
inch from their waistlines are probably the
same ones using the worn out "too much
studying’ ’ excuse for not exercising
But they may be only fooling themselves
"If they can’t find time now (to exercise)
they’ll never find time, especially locked
into a nine-to-five job," said Harry Duval,
director of the University's Fitness Center,
a branch of the physical education
dejjartment
Duvan said one hour of exercise three
days a week would be beneficial to
students, "and that 's not too much to ask
"Most research shows if it is much less
than that you don’t get the benefits," he
said
That assessment includes the "weekend"
athlete who thinks he is staying in shape
with a few games of tennis
“By the time he is 45, his tennis game w ill
be going to pot because he's not as active
i in other areas of life),” Duval said
Duval said people of college age who are
still fairly active and satisfied with their
weight should write the weight down and
refer to it from time to time to see if they
have gained or lost
"Unless they’re on a weight training
program they should not gain a pound for
the rest of their life," he said
This is discouraging prescription,
perhaps for a student population which
thrives on beer and pizza But Duval said it
was just a matter of putting health into
perspective.
Too many people think they have to be a I
model, but they really don’t," he said • If a I
female gets to where she has 25-percent |
body fat. she's fine." 1
People who depend on the "activetic
means of fitness, such as walking to work I
instead of driving, or taking the stairs I
instead of the elevator, may be helping to I
keep their weight under control but are not |
getting the exercise they need
Most of those things don't result in I
exercise," said Kirk Cureton, director of I
the University's Human Performance |
Laboratory "They need exercise higher in |
intensity and sustained."
A sustained exercise program needs one I
crucial ingredient — commitment
•They have to be committed, or I
everything will go out the window," Dural
said "They have to figure out when in
their schedule they can have this exer
rise) three days a week.”
And the person who says he is too busy I
definitely lacks commitment, Duval said j
The busiest person in the world can find |
an hour," he said.
“If it's more important to go to I
O'Malley's than to exercise a half hour and |
then go. you're not committed.”
Duval suggested setting aside the time I
one usually reserves for getting together I
with friends and making a group project of I
exercise r
"Conduct your bull sessions while run
ning up Lumpkin Street," he said, “and as |
long as you like it. stick with it.”
Breath testers back in fall
Volunteers from the
Athens Alcohol Coun
termeasures program want
to try it again
Linda Painter, director of
the program, said she
planned to re install breath
analyzer booths used after
Georgia football home
games this fall despite the
fact the booths were forced
to close last season when
drunken fans injured a
volunteer booth worker
The AAC breath analyzer
booths were first set up after
home games last fall, and
participation was high
before the program was
cancelled The booths were
equipped with special breath
analyzer devices which
allowed people to test their
blood alcohol level before
deciding whether to drive
home
Painter said she believed
the booths would discourage
fans from drinking and
driving by emphasizing the
hazards involved
Next season the booths
may be relocated from their
previous spot at Memorial
plaza to a nearby location
that would give more people
access to the booths. Painter
said
Like last year, police will
not have access to any
breath analyzer results.
Painter said But police may
be located around the booth
Booths are to discourage fans from drinking
for security reasons, she
said
"I would hope that last
year's skirmish would be a
one time incident and that
people would be more
responsible next time,"
Painter said
The Athens Police
Department will donate the
breath analyzer machines
and booths will be manned
by volunteers, and there will
be virtually no costs i
volved, Painter said
Plans for the booths are |
tentative at this stage
Painter said, but she said |
she saw no problem in
stalling the booths if the I
University would cooperate
with the program again this
fall
— William Smith
Chrysler's back on its feet
ATLANTA iAP> - A top
executive of the Chrysler
Corporation said Monday the
company is "back on its feet
and getting stronger every
day, " but would fare even
better if the United States
took a stronger stand on
Japanese imports
Gerald Greenwald. vice
chairman of the Chrysler
board, said 1983 is shaping
up as the best year for the
company in modern limes,
with record earnings for the
first quarter of the year and
many models sold out for the
rest of the model year
But all domestic
automakers would show
even stronger positions it
this country's trade policy
forced Japanese
manufacturers “to put a fair
price on their cars," he said
correction
8 e ^ , * ,on °* The He'd and Black incorrectly iden
tilled seven women washing a Volkswagen as Zeta Tau Alpha
sorority members They were actually Phi Mu sorority
members
It is the policy of this newspaper to correct errors of fact
appearing in its news columns Corrections normally run on
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