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Who’s that big doggie on campus?
By MISTY GUNDERSON
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Yes, the big. red, friendly dog so often
seen hanging around the main library
has a name and an owner
Tucker is his name and Dave Salz-
berg. a senior majoring in history, has
been his owner since the eight year-old
canine was a puppy
So. why does Tucker hang out at the
library’ For the same reason a lot of
students go to the library - to socialize
"He likes it here and everybody knows
him." Salzbergsaid
Salzberg takes Tucker everywhere
with him because, “he'd rather be out
In the sunshine than cooped up
somewhere " So, when he goes to work
at the library Tucker goes too
"He's known to stick around
wherever I go," Salzberg said This is
how he accounts for Tucker's patience
in waiting for him wherever he goes
However. Salzberg said Tucker will
wander off to chase squirrels and he is
sometimes li ired away by female dogs
But he doe sn't worry because Tucker
usually returns to the library by the
next day, or he goes to his previous
home, which is only walking distance
from campus Salzberg used to walk
him to campus, but now he's moved to
the country so he brings Tucker in the
car.
"I need to get him a collar and a tag
though." he s.sid, because one time a
woman mistook Tucker for a stray and
she took him home When Tucker didn’t
return after four days, Salzberg said he
began to worry He posted signs all over
campus and to’wn, and the woman saw
them and returned Tucker
Other than wearing a bandanna
sometimes, chomping his teeth is one of
Tuckers distinguishing characteristics
"He chomps his teeth at you when he
wants to go out, or if he's hungry or if he
wants your attention.”
Tucker is not a Georgia native He
was found as a puppy locked up in a
laundromat in California Salzberg
adopted him and they moved to Georgia
four years ago
When asked what he thinks about the
students here, Tucker made no reply
But what do the students think about
him?
"He's a pretty good mascot," said
Cynthia Slice, a service officer at the
library. "He ain't a bulldog, but we ll
let him get by And you can always
count on seeing a friendly face — even
during finals '
"He’s lazy and friendly and loyal,"
said Keith Jones, a University junior
Another student. Matthew Condon,
doesn't say much about Tucker, just.
"It's a dogs life ”
So, the next time students see Tucker
chomping his teeth, maybe he's trying
to catch their attention But if he's just
laying there looking mellow, he's
probably patiently waiting for Salzberg
to come pick him up
Indictment charges Paul planned !
to grow marijuana underground
ATLANTA (AP) -
Race car driver John Paul
Sr apparently planned to
grow millions of dollars
worth of marijuana in an
underground cavern in
Coweta County and used the
hole as a hideout when
Florida authorities were
looking for him in 1983, in
vestigators close to the case
said Wednesday
The cavern, which could
be entered only through a
trap door in a bam, became
part of a joint federal-state
drug investigation that
resulted in a racketeering
indictment unsealed in
Jacksonville. Fla., Tuesday
The indictment charged
Paul, who was arrested last
week in Switzerland, with
conducting a criminal en
terprise
According to the in
dictment, Paul and co
defendant Christopher Schill
of Jacksonville spent more
than $300,000 to build the 200-
foot-by-40-foot underground
room on a farm near Corinth
southwest of Atlanta Their
plan to grow marijuana in
the cavern, the indictment
said
Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation agen's began
looking into the construction
project in March 1983 when
they were informed that a
Netherland Antilles cor
poration had purchased the
600-acre farm, GBI Director
Phil Peters said Wednesday
Holland M Ware, a
Hogansville businessman
who sold the land to the
corporation, told a Coweta
County newspaper last year
that he dealt with a man who
identified himself as John
Drew He said GBI agents
later showed him a picture of
the same man and told him it
was Paul Ware, who
regained the property later
in foreclosure proceedings,
said he saw the underground
cave, which was supported
by steel I-beams and
covered with sheet metal
and plastic
"It was a tremendous
project to build," Ware told
The Newman Times Herald
Investigators discovered
that Paul and his associates
purchased $40,000 worth of
"grow lights" to provide
light for the marijuana
plants and a $40,000 diesel
generator to run them, said a
source close to the in
vestigation who asked not to
be identified
Tanks were buried
beneath the room to provide
fuel for the generator, the
source said.
Access to 'he hole was
through a barn, down a shaft
and through a 25-foot-long
tunnel made of 6-foot
culvert, the source added
“If they ever got grass
growing over the cavern,
you could walk right over it
and never know it's there It
was elaborate ”
He estimated the cavern
could have been used to grow
$4 million worth of high-
grade marijuana per year,
"if everything went like they
had planned "
Because there was no
marijuana growing in the
cavern when it was
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Rubin said the market
place will determine who has
information "It's an im
perfect institution, but it's
the most perfect we’ve got,"
he said.
Rubin said Yuppies are
merely “achievement
oriented," while Reagan and
the Republicans are
"selfish " He predicted the
political candidate of the
future as a merger between
Jesse Jackson and Jack
Kemp
Rubin denied that Yuppies
are intrinsically Republican
but said they voted for
Reagan because he "talked
about the future and Mon
dale whined and com
plained"
Hoffman said the
Republican trickle-down
theory of economics is aptly
named "On 42nd Street,
they call it golden showers."
Hoffman said
Describing Reagan as
"our benevolent dictator."
Hoffman offered the
president $10,000 to his
favorite charity "if he can
discovered, the GBI offered
its information to a federal
drug task force in Atlanta,
which began investigation
with other federal agencies
and the GBI in the summer
of 1983, Peters said The case
was turned over to the
federal grand jury in
Jacksonville in February
1984
In the meantime, Paul was
charged with attempted
murder in St. Augustine,
Fla., in connection with the
April 1983 shooting of a
witness in the drug in
vestigation He eventually
surrendered to Florida
authorities in June 1983
The Georgia source said
investigators believe Paul
used the Coweta County
cavern as a hideout during
the time he was being sought
in connection with the
shooting "We put two and
two together and found out
he had been there," he said
DEBATE —
name his cabinet "
When a student asked
Hoffman, who claimed he
didn't trust anyone under 30,
why young people supported
Reagan, he replied, "the
diet, the music, the con
centration on nuclear war."
If you're into radical chic
politics, being anti-nuclear is
definitely last year's fad "It
was so easy," Hoffman said
"Everybody can do it.
Rubin's against nuclear war
Most yuppies are It would
screw up tlieir career plans
“Central America is the
moral issue of our times,”
Hoffman said "The same
faces and people who plotted
Vietnam are plotting in
Nicaragua ' Hoffman urged
students to get involved and
write their Congressmen to
vote against U S funding of
Nicaraguan rebels whom he
described as mercenaries
"It's in your self-interest
Better active today than
radioactive tomorrow
"We need agitators to stir
things up If you don't do it
(democracy) you don't live
it." To show the audience he
still questioned authority, he
Paul failed to appear fjr
trial on the attempted
murder charge in December
1983 and remained a fugitive
until his arrest last week Ji
Geneva, where authontis
expect to extradite him m
the United States within 60
days.
The Jacksonville in
dictment was returned in the
spring of 1984 but remained
sealed until Tuesday
because Paul and other
defendants were fugitives,
according to U S. Attorney
Robert Merkle of
Jacksonville.
The Coweta County cavern
was abandoned after Paul
fled the country tn
December 1983. and Ware
repossessed it in February
1984, Peters said The
property later was sold te
another party, who had the
cavern filled in.
presented a tag from his
mattress in his hotel room,
reading "Please do not rip
tag
Not only is Hoffman an
elitist about his issues, he is
also an egomaniac:
Listening to him you'd think
he was responsible for the
entire civil rights
movement He bragged he'd
been arrested 41 times, but
he said 47 in his
autobiography. “Soon to be*
Major Motion Picture " He s
probably lost count
But give Hoffman credit
He hasn't lost his sense of
humor He also seems lb
have remained faithful to lji$
ideas While Rubin is
"networking" or setting lip
business deals. Hoffman -ip
off to Nicaragua this sum
mer "rebuilding two towns, I
can’t tell you wherq,
though '
In case you're interestdd,
Hoffman said, to bet on San
Francisco and by more than
three points " Bet against
Jimmy the Greek " How
could you not trust a mapi
who wrote "Steal This
Book"?
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