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BACCHUS still active on campus
By SUZANNE WOOD
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Georgia * proposed drinking age hike hasn't affected
BACCHUS, said Laura Franz, president of the University's
organization, which is devoted to educating students about
responsible drinking.
Franz said she hasn't noticed any loss of enthusiasm
among members since the U S Congress passed a law last
summer requiring states to raise their drinking ages to 21 or
forfeit federal highway improvement funds
BACCHUS (Boost Alcohol Control Concerning the Health of
University Students! still feels the need to educate students
in alcohol awareness. Franz said
The new law hasn't affected us too much Students have
been just as enthusiastic to join, and we think we still can
affect people's attitudes "
D.J Schneider. BACCHUS' co-president, said that BAC
CHUS got a slow start this year because its sponsor, the
Alcohol Awareness Committee, was dissolved during the
summer and has been reinstated only recently Schneider
said the group also received a new adviser, Gerard Spence.
new officers and a new office in the Dean Tate Student
Center, all leading !o a lot of confusion in the early weeks of
the quarter
Both Franz and Schneider, however, emphasized that the
group is still active
"Were definitely here, and we're alive." Schneider said
BACCHUS now has about 20 to 25 active members, Franz
said, and meets the first and third Tuesday of each month
She said the group has already been involved in several
projects this quarter
"We've been educating people as to what to do when their
friends are drunk.” she said “We have programs that we
take to fratrmities and sororities to ask them to choose not to
push alcohol at their events "
She said that they’ve already presented two such
programs, and have two more scheduled during the quarter
BACCHUS was also involved in Alcohol Awareness Week,
Oct. 8-12 Its members helped Alcohol Countermeasures, an
organization run by the Athens Police Department, man the
breathalyzer booths at football games, Franz said
"It really went well this time," she said “It used to be kind
of like a game, you know, people seeing how high they could
Exchange program offers diversity to participants
By BETH OVERTON
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Each quarter, about 50
University students go to
different state colleges
without paying out-of-state
fees as part of the National
Student Exchange program
Also, about 50 students
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University, said Jenny Best,
NSE director.
“NSE works on mutual
agreement," Best said
"Anyone who joins agrees to
exchange students without
the out-of-state barrier."
The University, like most
schools that participate in
NSE. sends as many
students to other schools as
it hosts, but some schools
limit the amount of students
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they accept, Best said
"They see it as such an
advantage to their
students," she said.
University students and
their academic advisers
plan courses to take during
the exchange program so
they will fulfill requirements
for majors
Best said students who
come here take challenging
courses such as business,
computer science and
journalism
“But, they certainly take
advantage of good weather.
football and social ac
tivities." she added
Most Georgia students
exchange during winter
quarter, principally because
they like to take advantage
of winter sports at schools
like Colorado and Montana,
Best said
“But it is not a vacation by
any means," she said.
Susan Segrest. a junior in
economics, went to the
University of Montanta her
sophomore year and said she
took up sports such as hiking
and skiing
"It was a place completely
different from the Univer
sity of Georgia." she said
Greg Siler, a sophomore in
pre-journalism from the
University of Northern
Colorado, said he came here
because of the good
reputation of the journalism
school
“I fell in love with the
journalism school.” Siler
said "The faculty is ex
tremely good "
Siler said he would suggest
to any Colorado students
interested in exchanging at
Georgia to come during tall
quarter because everyone is
making new friends and
because of football
"You have real sports
here,” he said "The em
phasis in Colorado is on
skiing "
Tara Hart, a junior in
business management from
Montana State, said she is
living in the Alpha Gamma
Delta sorority house because
she is a member of that
sorority at her school
"I feel that is the best wav
to exchange." she said
Briefly
Shuttle liftoff nears
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla - As five astronauts
received last-minute flight updates, crews prepared space
shuttle Discovery for a Wednesday morning liltotf on a
mission to chase and capture two satellites that are
whirling around Earth in worthless orbits
Discovery was set to roar away from the Kennedy
Space Center at 8 22 am EST and predict ions were for
scattered clouds, "‘nochance of fog.’ and gentle winds
During their eight days aloft, the astronauts will deliver
two commercial satellites to space, then make daring
space walks to snag the two errant satellites and lock
them into the shuttle cargo bay for return to Earth.
Violence still likely
NEW DELHI, India - A week after Indira Gandhi's
assassination, opposition political and religious leaders
told the new government the situation was "still serious"
throughout much of India and urged firm action to protect
Sikhs from marauding Hindus
A Sikh leader said thousands of Sikhs had been killed.
Indian army troops kept peace in New Delhi and other
major cities, where Hindu mobs had ransacked Sikh shops
and homes in a four-day frenzy of killing and destruction
The violence broke out after Mrs Gandhi's assassination
Wednesday by two men identified as members of her
security staff
Strike hits S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG. South Africa - At least six blacks
were killed Tuesday in clashes with police, raising to 16
the death toll in two days of protests that stemmed from a
general strike in black townships near the capital.
Rioters set fires and threw stones, and police responded
with tear gas, rubber bullets and blasts of birdshot. and
sent hundreds of officers on armored car patrols in
Tembisa, east of Johannesburg
Seven people have perished in Tembisa during the two-
day strike
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