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The Red & Black ('fcS
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1969 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 96, ISSUE
INSIDE
A review of the Cortona
exhibit. It’s on display at
the Georgia Museum of
Art.
Weather: Cloudy today with a 20
percent chance of rain. High near
80. Tonight's low In the mid 50s.
Partly cloudy Thursday with a high
In the upper 70s.
Thefts high in Brooks Hall
Thousands stolen from campus buildings
By JIM TEAS
Staff Writer
University police reports indi
cate that more than $138,000 in
equipment and employees’ per
sonal belongings were taken by
thieves from academic buildings
last vear. However an employee in
Brooks Hall, a building partic
ularly hard-hit by office-entry
theft, said the total dollar figure
could go much higher.
Caroll Corina, an administrative
coordinator, said her purse was
stolen in early March for the third
time since she began working in
Brooks Hall. The latest heist was
from a locked file cabinet.
"My purse was locked in my file
cabinet, and the key was well
hidden,” Corina said. “Either
someone knew where my key was
or there is a pass key out there.
“My insurance adjustor told me
that people almost always under
estimate the value of the contents
of their purses,” Corina said. “I un
derestimated by almost half the
total amount. If everyone similarly
underestimated, you can see how
high the figure could be.”
Elise Boswell, a degree program
assistant, placed her wallet in her
briefcase, carefully hid the brief
case and closed her door before
stepping out of the office for a few
minutes. When she returned, her
briefcase was lying open. Her
wallet, which contained her wed
ding rings, was missing.
"I wasn’t gone more than five
minutes and the briefcase wasn’t
in plain sight,” she said. The total
value of the missing items was over
$1,300.”
One particularly prolific thief
became so well known in Brooks
Hall that a composite sketch was
circulation among personnel. The
man would actually engage a
person in conversation before slip
ping a wallet from the person’s
purse. University police eventually
caught the thief.
Corina, along with several of her
Brooks Hall peers, have decided to
take the offensive against the
thieves.
"We are taking the necessary
channels and we hope the issue
winds up on Dr. Knapp’s desk,” Co
rina said “We have been compla
cent about a problem that demands
attention.”
Corina presented the matter to
Please See THEFTS, Page 2 Chuck HortOfl
Manual turbo
Angela Beall of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority gives 11-year-old Qulton
Heard some tips on high-speed Big Wheeling. Heard competed with
other Communlverslty little brothers and sisters In a Big Wheel race
Tuesday as part of Greek Week. Other competitions included an ice
cream eating contest and a bucket pass. Race results weren't avail
able at presstime.
72 students enter
SA senate race
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
The Student Association is
sponsoring a “Meet the Candi
dates Day” next week so stu
dents can get a look at
candidates running for SA
senate — but if you go, be pre
pared for a long day.
Seventy-two people stepped
forward this year to run in the
senatorial election — more than
twice as many as last year.
Carter Sturkie, SA elections
committee chair, said the large
turnout shows students want
the SA to “play a more active
role on campus.”
“It’s a good indication that the
students want to get involved
and really care about what goes
on at this University,” he said.
Thirty-four people — more
than the total number of candi
dates in the last election — will
compete for eight junior senator
spots; 21 people will compete for
six sophomore spots and 18
people will compete for eight se
nior spots.
Freshman senators will be
elected next fall.
One person is running for
graduate senator. There are six
graduate senate seats
In the last election, so few
people ran that all of the candi
dates for sophomore, senior and
graduate senator seats automat
ically won slots on the senate
Joanna Davis, a sophomore
candidate, said competition for
the slots is going to be tough.
Sturkie said so many people
running for each slot that candi
dates will have a tough time
gaining recognition from the stu
dents.
Students compete in
ESPN trivia contest
By JENNIFER RAMPEY
Staff Writer
Three University students will
represent Georgia for the first time
on the Boardwalk and Baseball
Super Bowl of Sports Trivia show
when their match against the Uni
versity of Arizona is aired tonight.
Glenn Loewenthal, Trey Bliss
and Mitch Prusin will appear on
ESPN at 6 p.m.
Bliss, a senior finance m^jor,
said the competition is co-spon
sored by ESPN and the Boardwalk
and Baseball Amusement Park
near Orlando, Florida, where it
was filmed in January.
Loewenthal, a senior business
m^jor, said the competition will be
among 32 selected universities
from across the nation and is
hosted by ESPN’s Chris Berman.
Contestants signed a release
promising not to divulge the re-
suits of the competition before it’s
aired, Loewenthal said.
Bliss said the teams were
quizzed on their past and present
knowledge of a wide variety of
sports topics.
Candy Sherman, clubs and
media coordinator, said the team
was chosen from a campus-wide
trivia competition held in corvjunc-
tion with WUOG last November.
The preliminary round consisted
of a 60-question written test,
Sherman said. Top scores deter
mined three team members who
went head to head with Loewen
thal and his team in a match sim
ilar to the format of the show.
Loewenthal, WUOG’s former
sports director, had spearheaded
efforts to get ESPN to allow the
University to enter a team in the
competition. His team consisted of
champions of his Sports Stumpers
Trivia show on WUOG, Sherman
said.
Loewenthal said he was re
quired to enter the campus-wide
competition to affiliate the Univer
sity with the proceedings. His team
won the competition and flew to
Florida to compete with other
sports scholars from across the na
tion.
Bliss said each team was guar
anteed $1,000 and could win up to
$10,000.
The winner of the round against
Arizona will play the winner of the
match between Pennsylvania State
University and Indiana University
on April 26, Bliss said.
University researches
farmers’ Maneb use
By RAND PEARSON
Staff Writer
The University is trying to
save a multi-million dollar
chunk of Georgia's agriculture
economy which is being re
viewed by the Environmental
Protection Agency for its use of
Maneb — a fungicide sprayed on
crops that can produce a can
cerous by-product during
cooking.
Georgia farmers produce 8,-
000 to 9,000 acres of leafy greens
a year and have to use Maneb to
prevent leaf spots and discol
oring mildews.
Dorris Lillard, a food science
professor, said, "Maneb is the
only fungicide available for
growing greens."
Plant Pathologist Donald
Sumner, of a University re
search center in Tiflon, scud the
majority of a farmer’s crop
couldn’t be sold without the use
of Maneb.
'The quality would fall out
tremendously, Sumner said.
Lillard said EPA research
concluded that when the Maneb-
sprayed vegetable is cooked, a
by-product is formed which can
cause tumors in laboratory rats
"We are trying to get informa
tion for the EPA so they can ei
ther put limitations or ban the
chemical altogether,” she said.
The study, funded by a grant
from Southern Frozen Foods and
the Southern Region Pesticide
Impact Program, shows less
than one-sixth of the federally
allowable pesticide residues re
mained on the greens after
cleansing.
Sumner said the research has
shown that foilage diseases can
be controlled with a reduced
amount of Maneb and the chem
ical residues can be significantly
lowered or eliminated through
washing with water and alka
line.
Cooperative Extension Spe
cialist BU Hurst said the study
has shown that in the greens re
ceiving high Maneb treatment,
residues of the chemical were
less than 0.5 parts per million
after washing — well under the
three to four ppm standard set
by the Food and Drug Adminis
tration.
The EPA set a tolerance level
of 10 ppm on raw commodity
when the chemical was intro
duced in 1940, Hurst said
Alfredo Gonzalez, a Univer
sity of Arkansas food science
K rofessor, said one-third of every
laneb molecule turns into a
cancer-causing material.
However, he said a study
showed that a pregnant rat in
jected with one doee of Maneb
gave birth to deformed offspring.
The EPA has a law which re
calls compounds after they are
discovered to have caused cancer
in lab animals, Gonzalez said.
'The EPA may remove Maneb
in a couple of years,” he
said.This is the only thing that
can come out of all this concern."
Schools like the University
and the University of Arkansas
with large agricultural colleges
need to continue research in
order to help the farmer save his
crops, Gonzalez said.
His method of using high
phosphorous-level detergents
successfully reduces Maneb resi
dues below 1 ppm, he said.
Students get involved with AIDS education
By ANDY ROGERS
Staff Writer
The lack of AIDS awareness on campus may
be slowly going out of style. These days it’s not
iust health educators talking about the disease,
but also student volunteers.
Two recent efforts include a special training
session for students wanting to educate others
about Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome,
and the formation of a student support group to
voice concerns about the disease.
The idea that it’s real and it’s there and it
could happen to anybody is important," said
Nancy MacNair, University health educator
She has been involved in both of these AIDS-
awareness projects
The five-hour training session prepared 11
volunteer students to conduct programs about
AIDS for student groups, MacNair said. The
volunteers were also trained in helping individ
uals who are affected by AIDS.
This is just a start,” she said. These people
will need more training.”
MacNair said some of these students have
been involved in other volunteer programs to
promote AIDS awareness, and now want to in
crease their knowledge.
“We’re excited because they were so enthu
siastic about it," she said.
Rob Zell, a Creswell Hall resident assistant,
said he sees sexual promiscuity among many
students and he is concerned that they may be
afraid to talk about AIDS.
“We need to get out there and show people
that it’s something to be talked about and not
avoided,” he said.
MacNair has also been acting as adviser for
the newly formed student support group, UG-
AIDS.
The group’s purpose is to help people who are
affected by AIDS, including tnose who know
people with the disease and those who are just
concerned about it.
Graduate Student David Mattox leads UG-
AIDS.
“We are concerned with what people are
thinking — how they’re dealing with this stress
and school at the same time," ne said.
-The group meets bimonthly in the Gilbert
Health Center on Thursday nights.
Peach State Public Radio and Georgia Public
Television are also promoting AIDS awareness
by declaring this week "AIDS Week.”
We need to get out there and
show people that it's
something to be talked about
and not avoided.’
- Rob Zell,
Creswell Hall RA
PSPR, which includes WUGA-FM in Athens,
is featuring programming that examines how
AIDS touches the lives of Georgians. GPTV has
been showing AIDS-related programs
throughout April.
Coroner: Abbie Hoffman died of drug overdose
The Associated Press
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - Yippie
founder Abbie Hoffman committed
suicide with a “massive overdose”
of the drug phenobarbital, the cor
oner said Tuesday.
‘The death was from the com
bined effects of phenobarbital and
alcohol,” Coroner Dr. Thomas
Rosko said at a news conference.
Hoffman, who held fast to his
anti-establishment convictions and
made his points with searing
humor, was found dead April 12 at
his home in New Hope. He was 52.
T think it is likely that he liter
ally fell asleep and died in his
sleep," Rosko said "Other than
that, what occurred in his last
hours is strictly speculation."
The autopsy found the residue of
about 150 pills, several times the
lethal doee even without the pres
ence of alcohol, the coroner said.
Phenobarbital is a long-acting sed
ative and an anticonvulsant
Hoffman's blood alcohol level
was .20, twice the legal limit in
Pennsylvania, Rosko said
The coroner said laboratory taste
showed two other drugs were pre
sent in Hoffman's system But he
said the small quantities of pro-
pranol, used for cardiovascular
conditions, and benzo-diazepine, a
class of drugs including the seda
tive Valium, had no connection
with Hoffman's death.
Although Hoffman was consid
ered a self-taught expert in drugs,
Rosko said there was no evidence
he was using drugs for pleasure.
The coroner said he relaved his
findings to Hoffman's family min
utes before his news conference.
Although Rosko ruled the death
a suicide, Hoffman’s brother, Jack,
held out hope it was an accident.
“Abbie, as many of you know,
was somewhat careless with pills
and we always warned him about
this kind of thing," Jack Hoffman
said at a news conference in
Worcester, Mass, the family's
hometown.
Hoffman’s mother, Florence, de
clined to comment
The day after her eon’s body was
found, she speculated that he had
committed suicide, saying he had
sounded depressed in recent tele
phone conversations. But ths next
day, she said the family no longer
suspected suicide.
Other relatives and friends men
tioned suicide Rosko said Friday
there was no indication then that
Hoffman killed himaelf but that
preliminary resulta were inconclu
sive. Roskos autopsy report last
week also didn’t elaborate on a
trickle of blood reported found
caked under Hoffman's nostril.
In June 1988, Hoffman said he
was taking painkillers a doctor had
prescribed for injuries he suffered
in an auto accident.
Hoffman was last seen alive on
April 11 by a girlfriend of his land
lord. He was found dead by a
neighbor, Michael Waldron, who
told police Hoffman had been de
pressed about ths car accident.
A memorial service planned
Wednesday in Worcester, Maas., is
to include a peace march from his
mother’s houss to Temple Ema
nuel, which Hoffman attended as a
child.
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