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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Ga., Vol. 92, No. 106
Tuesday, May 14,1985
News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
public domain."
The local office of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation is coordinating police
efforts to find the thief, because the
computer is U.S. government property.
A local FBI spokesman refused
comment on the status of the in
vestigation.
Kussell said he doesn't think there's
much chance the lab will get back the
complete computer and programs, but
nevertheless, he said he still holds some
hope
“We just hope people will hear about
this and someone will respond," he
said. "This research work was in
valuable, a couple years of field data
and a lot of manhours "
History week
to begin with
speech today
By JOHN ALDEN
Knl and Hlark Senior Reporter
As part of the celebration of National
Historic Preservation Week, University
students of the Student Historic
Preservation Organization will host a
week of events recognizing the
University 's historic character
Today. Vice President for Academic
Affairs Virginia Trotter will announce
the beginning of the week at a 2:30 p.m
ceremony in the President's Memorial
Garden on North Campus
The featured speaker is Elizabeth
Lyons, head of the state office for
historic preservation. Lyons will speak
on the theme of the celebration, "The
Action's Back on Mainstreet."
Also in conjunction with the national
observation, there will be tours of North
Campus for visitors, featuring the
campus’ oldest buildings, some of
which are part of the National Trust for
Historic Preservation The tours will be
from 10 a m to 10:30 a m. Wednesday
and from 2 p.m until 2:30 p.m. Thur
sday afternoon at the arches
Immediately after the campus tours
visitors will tour the Garden Club
headquarters
"The message we're trying to get out
is that restoration and rehabilitation of
our historical resources makes good
economic sense,” said Milton Leathers,
president of the Athens-Clarke
Heritage Foundation.
He said much of the development now
occurring in downtown Athens is a
result of tax credits offered'lo building
owners as part of the area's status as
part of the National Trust for Historic
Preservation.
"Downtown Athens does not look the
way it does simply because people have
a hankering for the good old days,”
leathers said A 25 percent tax credit is
available to developers of properties
within historic preservation districts
as long as the properties are developed
with an eye to preserving the historic
nature of the area. Leathers said.
Joe Burnett, director of the Down
town Development Authority, said the
public should be made aware of
America's programs to revitalize its
olrtiT downtown areas. Athens is in
volved in the Mainstreet Program,
which combines organized planning
and promotions to attract new and
diverse retail industries and new design
in an effort to restore the inner cores of
many cities
Radioactive isotope, X-ray use vital to University research
By TRACEY BROWN
Hrst and Mark Sratar Hrpurtrr
Today, Dr Adelbert Wade, pharmacy department head
in the School of Pharmacy, will find the results to his first
experiment using radioactive materials
Wade's experiment will help him determine how cancer
causing agents act upon cancerous cells
About 130 laboratories across the University campus are
using radioactive materials and 30 laboratories are using x-
rays. but University officials said all laboratories are safe
and all University researchers are licensed.
Some University researchers use radioactive materials
to study cancerous cells, nutrition problems, animal
nutrition, diabetes, heart diseases and other research such
as Wade's
“We are looking at the possibility of how changing life
style may change the incidence of cancer," Wade said "We
are trying to answer the question (using radiation I — how
does dietary fat alter the initial process and how diet in
fluences that structure of cancer."
Lowell Muse, Senior Radiation Safety Officer in the
Public Safety building, said the University uses radioactive
material mainly on south campus.
"It is used all over the science part of the campus," Muse
said “The (State) Department of Human Resources
licenses the University to use radioactive materials ”
Before obtaining its license in 1964. Muse said the
University set up a Radiation Safety Committee to develop
procedures and policies complying with state
requirements The Committee also licenses researchers
who use radioisotopes, or radioactive atoms, on the
University campus
"In addition to the University being licensed, the Com
mittee has to approve each person who uses radioactive
materials (on campus)," Muse said.
Researchers using radiactive materials on the University
campus include faculty members, graduate students and
lab technicians. Muse said The graduate students and lab
technicians in the laboratories quality to work by com
pleting a Radiation Safety Course or training with licensed
researchers in the laboratories.
In addition to inspections made by the radiation safety
officers, each laboratory is required to make a monthly
radiation safety survey on themselves. Muse said
"It's seldom that you find contamination," he said
Muse said contamination is measured when the labs take
their monthly surveys. The most commonly used method
of determining contamination is with a liquid scintillation
counter
"We take wipe samples and then count it in a scintillation
counter." he said "It measures the light that is emitted by
the solution "
Muse said contamination can be cleaned up by the
researchers in the laboratories if the liquid scintillation
counter detects less than 500 counts, or amounts of changes
in the brightness of the substance, in one minute
Muse said if the liquid scintillation counter detects
greater than 10,000 counts per minute, the researcher
notifies the University’s Radiation Safety Office and
Muses's department must conduct the cleanup procedures
Muse said minor amounts of contamination are found in
laboratories, but the University has not had any spills
serious enough to contact the Department of Human
Resources since his appointment in 1969
Rastaerobics
This man probabl) thnuuhl hr needed a little exercise, ho he
decided to try some modified jumping jacks. That's
probabh not it. Maybe he's trying to fly. That’s probably
not it either, and even if it is. it's not going to work. It's
possible that he just received some very good news and he’»
jumping up and down <in a somewhat strange manner» for
jov. It Is possible, hut that’s not true either. Actually,
Mostafa of Nashville’s African Dreamland is dancing in
front of some onlookers in College Square. One can only
guess what kind of dance he's doing, hut one can safely
assure that it's a very interesting one. and definitely
requires a great deal of energy, lie probably had Cheerios
for breakfast.
Pizza driving: a slice of life
By JIM MOODY
Itrrl .ltd Hlark Stall Writer
When Domino's Pizza employee Bill
.Kelly walked up to a Sussex Club
apartment a couple of weeks ago to
deliver a pizza, he had no idea he was
going to be on television that night
The apartment was the home of
Kevin Butler, Georgia's All American
plaeekicker, who was anxiously wat
ching the NFL draft on television News
teams from Atlanta television stations
were in the apartment to record
Butler's reaction
“I walked in the door and there were
video cameras pointed at me," Kelly
said
"Nobody told me what to do with the
pizza." he said "They were asking me
silly questions like. 'Is this the first
time you've ever delivered to Kevin
Butler’"'
Kelly 's cameo appearance made it on
Atlanta's Channel 5 A reporter asked
Kelly what his weirdest pizza delivery
experience w as
"This is it," Kelly said
Delivering pizzas can he a strange
job, drivers for some of the eight
Athens pizzerias that deliver have
stories to tell, stories which range from
the absurd to the almost terrifying
• Domino's employee Lewis Whited
said, "You'll notice everyone working
here is a little loony It takes a certain
kind of person to stand the pressure and
the abuse "
The first night Whited worked for
Domino's, he had to deliver a pizza to
one of the poorer areas of town at about
1 am
A large man. about 6'3" and 250
pounds, "most of it not fat," answered
the door.
"He was dressed in high-heel pumps,
a knee-length red skirt, a wig, makeup,
jewelry, the works." Whited said
"The hardest thing about it was not
knowing whether to say 'ma'am' or
'sir."’
• A co-worker of Domino's Whited,
who preferred to be known only as
"C.B ,” said he had an interesting
experience delivering to the Bulldog
Inn one night
“I went in the room, and there were
two girls and a guy, all naked." C B
said "I kept getting calls from them at
Domino’s for a week afterward "
• Sons of Italy employee Dru Wilbur
By MICHAEL KOENIG
Hrd •nd Hlark Sull Wrller
University and Athens police said
Monday they are still searching for a
thief who entered the US. En
vironmental Protection Agency’s
Athens lab on three separate occasions
during the weekend of May 4, making
off with a computer and computer
programs valued at $10,000
"There are probably four or five
employees who come into the lab each
weekend," said Bob Ryans, technical
information manager for the EPA lab.
“Some of them noticed items missing,
but they thought other employees were
using them.”
On the first instance, the employees
noticed that the computer’s "Lotus
Key," which allows access to IBM
programs, was missing. On the second
instance, they noticed several disks
missing
It wasn't until Monday, when em
ployees noticed the IBM PC-XT com
puter missing, that they suspected
burglary
Walt Russell, the lab's associate
director, said it appears the thief broke
in by forcing the lab’s rear door.
The lab is advertising through the
Athens Police's “Silent Witness” crime
prevention program. The ads have
already appeared in the Athens Ban
ner-Herald and Daily News and will
soon appear on area radio stations.
Athens and University Police are
posting notices of the $1,000 reward at
various locations around Athens
Kussell said, “It looks as though the
thief was someone very familiar with
computers." He said part of the pur
pose of the ads is that they may possibly
convince the thief of the importance of
the stolen programs and encourage him
to return them.
The programs are part of an ex
periment to mathematically simulate
the transport of chemicals from soil to
groundwater.
Groundwater contamination results
from the seepage of pesticides and
other farm chemicals into water
sources from the soil after rainfall,
damaging the natural water cleansing
system
Bob Ryans, Technical Information
Manager for the Athens EPA lab, said
'he stolen programs represent a loss
which will set back the experiment six
to eight months
“I don’t think the programs would be
of any value to anyone, except for
scientific purposes," said Sonja
Albertson, a computer programmer for
the lab "All the information is in the
delivered a pizza to a dormitory room,
and a girl in her underwear answered
the door
"She let out a bloodcurdling
scream," Wilbur said.
Aside from the interesting delivery
scenes, pizza workers must also deal
with policemen, parking and
pranksters
Louis Ohly, a co-worker of Wilbur's,
said "People are always doing bogus
things, like saying J ordered a pizza
four hours ago,' and expecting to get a
free one Then we check our records
and see that they never ordered one.”
.Steverino's Pizza employee Jeff
Solomon said. "It's fun trying to deliver
after a football game You learn all the
shortcuts and where all the policemen
hide "
Solomon said a sandwich cook had to
lake a delivery one night because
Steverino's was running behind in their
orders The inexperienced cook parked
in a Brumby Hall fire lane, and when he
came out University Police were
jacking up his car.
“He had to pay them 30 bucks to jack
his car down,'' Solomon said.
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Sons of Italy employee Kenny Aguar
summed up the Athens pizza delivery
scene: “Each night is a new, unique
experience,"
Pizza deliverers work primarily for
tips One would think that tips would be
low in a college town, but the drivers
say otherwise
“Most nights it's fairly decent,
depending on the weather and the day
of the week," C.B. said
On a delivery to River's Edge con
dominiums, Domino's employee
Charlene Lenett was offered a glass of
wine and some nitrous oxide, laughing
gas. as a tip.
"1 was on the clock, so I didn't do it,"
she said
By the way, Kevin Butler tipped $1.
$1000 offered for computer
stolen from U.S. EPA lab