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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Ga. Volume 94, No. 53
Wednesday, January 28, 1987
News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Brumby exhaust leak
Housing asked to pay medical expenses
By Mike Krensavage
Kfd wd Mark Senior Ke|Nirtrr
A Brumby Hall resident who claims exhaust
from a diesel generator sent her to the hospital
will ask University Housing to pay her medical
expenses, but University officials don't know if
they'll pay
University freshman Courtney McMUllins said
she will ask housing to pay her ambulance and
emergency room fees following an incident Jan
22 in which she vomited after inhaling exhaust
from an emergency generator operating on her
hall, she said
“I think it’s their negligence that made me
sick and they should pay for it," she said it's
only fair.”
McMullins was one of two Brumby hallmates
who reported feeling sick last Wednesday after
exhaust leaked onto the residents’ second floor
hall.
In the incident another hall resident said she
found her roommate. Kirsten Mack, unconscious
on the floor after smoke and fumes from the gen
erator filled the hall.
Albert Kauber. medical director of the Georgia
Poison Control Center, said exhaust from the
generator could have caused the women’s ill
nesses
if there was smoke on the hall, you've got a
pretty good circumstantial case that there were
pollutants on the hall," Kauber said.“The only
way to know for sure would be to. check the
bloo0."
Holcombe said McMullin s blood test showed
no signs of poisoning and that the other ill
woman, freshman Kirsten Mack, didn’t take a
blood test
Kauber said the fumes on the hall could have
caused Mack's unconsciousness and McMullin’s
vomiting.
“A lot of other things could have caused the ill
nesses," he said “There’s a lot of uncertain
ties "The generator, which powers emergency
equipment during power outages, is inside
Brumby, but its exhaust system is outside the
building and near residents’ windows
University Environmental Safety Officer Rus
sell Dukes said he will inspect the generator
today and suggest changes to the University
Physical Plant, which operates the generator.
‘We ll look at the situation and see what can
be done with it." Dukes said Tuesday.
Housing Director Dan Hallenbeck said a re
quest that the University pay medical expenses
is ’out of the ordinary " He said he didn't know
if the University would pay.
Brumby Building Supervisor Jack Scaffe said
Tuesday that Physical Plant employees won't
run the generator until Environmental Safety
Services inspects the system today
Physical Plant employees test‘the generator
for about 30 minutes each Wednesday
Brumby Resident Life Coordinator Scotti Hol
combe issued residents 1,000 letters Tuesday ex
plaining when the generator is tested and asking
residents to close their windows during the
tending.
University bookstore nears completion;
should be ready sometime in February
Bleier inspires crowd with Union speech
IFC also will discuss alcohol problems At the last IFC meeting. Matt
Moffett Will Hatcher and Shannon Clarke were named to the newly-formed
alcohol policy committee
The committee will be charged at tonight's meeting with examining the
alcohol policies of the various member fraternities. They also will be
making recommendations to the IFC and member fraternities on handlinn
alcohol problems, Shafer said
"The Alcohol Policy Committee will be drafting a comprehensive al
cohol policy for the system and make recommendations to each chapter on
the sound management of alcohol." he said "It's going to study the use of
alcohol in our system ."
Shafer said he will participate in the deliberations of the committee
By Tony L. Wilson
Hr4 and Mark Valor Heparin
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Rocky Bleier, a veteran of the
Vietnam War and four Super
Bowls, inspired a crowd of more
than 230 University students and
community members Monday
night with his speech. "Fighting
Back," officials said.
"He gave a lot of himself to the
show People were really ab
sorbed and on the edge of their
seats," said Audrey Haynes, coor
dinator of the Ideas and Issues di
vision of the University Union,
which sponsored the program
The purpose of Ideas and Issues
is to present different speakers on
different topics to the University
and community, she said.
Bleier’s speech added another
dimension to the division's list of
past speakers, which includes
former Richard Nixon aide G.
Gordon Uddy, actor Leonard
Nimoy and "Mayflower Madam"
Sydney Biddle Barrows
Haynes said, “I think it added a
lot of variety to our leetflre
schedule."
Bleier entertained the crowd
with stories of his entrance into
the National Football League, his
stint in Vietnam and his return to
football after a grenade almost,
ended his career.
He used his experiences to
drive home his point that no
matter what obstacles lie ahead,
barriers can be overcome
“Sooner or later, the one who
wins is the one who thinks he
can," Bleier said
The Pittsburgh Steelers drafted
Bleier in 1969 as a running back
but with three games left in his
first season Uncle Sam drafted
Bleier
After serving in Vietnam for
three months. Bleier was on pa
trol one night when a grenade
blew up nearby, damaging
Bleier’s right foot, knee and
thigh. He spent three weeks in a
Tokyo hospital and then nine
months in a U S. hospital recov
ering
For the next two years, Bleier
rehabilitated his leg. returning to
the Steelers in 1973 He played for
the team until his retirement in
1980 During his time with Pitts
burgh, the team won an unprece
dented four Super Bowls (1974,
1975, 1979 and 1979). No team has
broken the Steelers' record
Students agreed that Bleier was
a successful speaker and a "cool
fella," said University senior
Russell Willis
University junior Terry Co
mans said he was inspired by
Bleier's speech
“He left me with some thoughts
that will stay in my mind for a
long time," Comans said "Never
back down. You might have set
Rocky Bleier
backs but as long as you stick
with your original plan, you'll be
all right ."
University senior Bret Cook said
he was inspired with Bleier’s
comeback from his setbacks
Dreaming of O'Malley's
Sunshine really is getting hard to find in this town. Graduate student Renee
Jolly, a marketing researcher, studies her charts at the Tate Student
Center Friday in what may have been the only patch of sunshine available
to sit in all week. Last week's turbulent weather resulted in soggy ground
and left chill winds that made sitting outside in the fresh air unpleasant.
Summer is a long way away.and the snow is just to rare down here to make
for a real winter worth remembering. Temperatures should he warming up
to the 50's by Thursday afternoon, according to the National Weather
Service. Thafc wav everyone can he fooled into thinking that springtime is
just around the corner, if only for a day.
Program regulates
city sewer systems
By Mark Wheeler
Krd and Klack Senior Krportrr
The University is helping city governments throughout the state with
water and sewage cost problems thanks to a new computer program that
can more efficiently regulate local water systems.
According to a survey conducted by state officials for the 1984 fiscal
year, 62 percent of 426 surveyed municipalities maintaining water and
sewage systems operated at a loss, said Roberta Carney, project specialist
for the state's Department of Community Affairs
In conjunction with state workshops created to iron out the problem, a
University researcher has developed an inexpensive computer program to
effectively manage local water systems' revenues and expenditures and
help them become financially self sufficient.
Robert E Sellers, research and services researcher of the Carl Vinson
Institute of Government located in Terrell Hall, said, ‘The way the system
works is it shows city governments how to equitably distribute pay hikes to
customers and to analyze revenue raises."
The computers system can save the cities and the state money and help
to make local governments financially self sufficient, he said
Water and sewage systems work on an enterprise front theory, the sys
tems theoretically should pay for themselves, he said.
‘ Most of them (city governments) were issuing across-the-board raises
such as five or 10 percent and the system now enables them to raise the
revenues from those who use the water systems,’.’ Sellers said
Currently, Sellers said he is implementing the system in six Georgia
communities, including Crawford and Vidalia. and working with the North
east Georgia Area Planning Development Commission to help solve the
water and sewage problems in the communities. * 4
Carney said because water and sewage systems are designed to operate
without financial loss, any loss incurred is not only absorbed by the city’s
budget but by state taxpayers
Six of the 62 percent of surveyed municipalities that operated in the red
lost at least $1 million on their water systems and one lost $19 million, she
said
However, the survey is non-audited so the surveyed municipalities can’t
be revealed. Carney said
The rest of the 62 percent had losses ranging from the tens of dollars to
as much as $500,000
IFC will consider minimum grade point
By Bill Kent
Krd and Mark Senior Krportrr
University students probably will
see the inside of a newly refur
bished and expanded bookstore at
its previous location on Sanford
Drive sometime next month, a Uni
versity official said Tuesday.
“Students will be astounded by
the new additions and renovations
when they see it at the middle or
end of this quarter," said Campus
Architect Charles Porter
The construction work is nearing
its mid February completion date,
he said
Gerald Driver, president of
Driver Construction Co. Inc , said
the workep are finished with al
most all tne outside work and are
doing the finishing work.
"We are down to putting in the
carpet and tile and the only re
maining outside work consists of
putting up a minor retaining wall,"
he said. "The drawings should be
complete on this wall in the next
few weeks and the main floor carpet
and tile work should begin the latter
part of this week ”
Porter said the upstairs carpet
laying and wall painting is practi
cally finished.
"There's a possibility that the
second floor will be ready to store
textbooks for spring quarter by the
first of February,” he said.
Chet Malanoski, manager of aux
iliary services, said the University
wants to sell textbooks spring
quarter at the Sanford Drive loca
tion if possible
“If it’s humanly possible, we'll
have the bookstore fully completed
and ready for customers at the be
ginning of spring quarter." he said
"Everything is going as planned,
By Keith Phillips
Krd and Mack Senior Krportrr
The University’s Interfraternity Council will hold its bi-weekly meeting
tonigi't to discuss and vote on grade requirements, a possible change in the
group's advisory structure and alcohol issues, IFC officals said Tuesday
The Council will consider a proposal requiring minimum cumulative
grade point averages of member fraternities The Council's executive com
mittee proposed the measure at the last IFC meeting and sent it to the
scholarship committee
The meeting will take place at the Chi Psi fraternity house at 6:30
IFC President Dave Shafer said the grade proposal states that any fra
ternity failing to achieve a quarterly cumulative grade point average of 2.0
will be referred to the scholastic review board for academic programming
A fraternity that falls below 2.0 for two successive quarters will lose social
privileges for the next quarter. Shafer said
Bob Hightower, IFC director of chapter development, predicted fraterni
ties can easily meet the guidelines and said the proposal would provide an
incentive to raise GPAs
"I don’t think there are any fraternities that will have trouble with
that," Hightower said."I think possibly in the future we might slowly be
able to bring it up ”
Shafer said if the proposal passes at the meeting, the policy will go into
effect spring quarter The minimun GPA of 2.0 would increase by 05 every
other quarter until it reached 2 25.
John Lloyd, president of Delta Tau Delta'fraternity, said he was glad to
see the proposal and that he hoped it would pass because it would improve
fraternities' images
"I think it’s a step forward People look at a fraternity and see it as a
place to party I’ve done a lot better (academically) since I joined a frater
nity,” he said .
Shafer added that fraternity pledges who scored below a 2.0 GPA last
quarter are being referred to the scholarship committee for instruction on
study habits and library resources *
The council also will consider the formation of an advisory committee to
help guide the direction of the council, he said. Currently the only advice
fraternities receive is from Advisor to Fraternities Ron Binder, he said.
"This council would provide additonal resources to the council,” Shafer
said. “It won't diminish his (Binder's) authority. It is intended to support
him by making other resdurces available to the council Many fine Univer
sities use a similar system, such as tlie University of Florida.”
Binder said he saw no real need for the committee adding that Shafer
originated the idea
"Dave wants to implement this He seems to think there’s a need to have
a group of advisors." he said "I don't really see a need for it right now I
get plenty of input the way it is now."
The committee would be composed of faculty members, alumni and
chapter advisors The proposal for the committee was unanimously ap
proved at the Council's presidents' meeting on Tuesday and will be voted on
tonight, he said
but there could be complications be
tween now and then.”
In the next tWo wedks, officials
will decide whether to request de
livery to the downtown location or
the campus location, Malanoski
said.
"We are checking the progress of
the construction daily and will make
a decision on where to have the
books sent based upon the confi
dence of the contractor in his ability
to finish by the middle of February
as promised," he said.
Driver said the light fixtures are
95 percent complete and the
painting is 90 percent complete
Porter said the bookstore was to
tally gutted on the inside and will be
totally different when completed.
"The interior is primarily gray
with red and black trim and the
area of the store is dramatically in
creased." he said "The old store
was 31,000 square feet, but now we
have an additional 28,000 square
feet."
There are gray tile walkways,
similar to the ones in Davidson's at
the Georgia Square Mall, sur
rounded by gray carpet, he said
The bookstore has some new fea
tures
"We have a conveyer belt to take
textbooks to the second floor to
stock and prepare for purchasing,"
he said.
Also, the new store will have an
elevator to the second floor in
stalled
The elevator will primarily serve
the handicapped but will be acces
sible to all customers. Porter said.
"Instead of tables for selling
books back, new counters are avail
able specifically for this purpose."
he said
However, "the best new feature
may be the new entrance which
faces Ihe Tate Student Center’s
main entrance as opposed to the old
entrance that faced toward the jour
nalism building." he said.
The store plans to keep the rest of
its present features, but will have
more spacse for books and students
"We still have a gift boutique,
special paper sections, cash regis
ters and our other normal services,
but the whole store should be much
more efficient,” P9rter said.
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The bookstore, now being renovated, should be complete within a month