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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday. July 20. 1989
BRIEFLY
Grad gets the ‘toughest job she’ll ever love’
UNIVERSITY
Death is an apparent suicide A University student’s death on
July 12 apparently was a suicide, according to an Athens Police
report. Carey Davis, 23, of Canton, Ga , apparently shot himself in
the head A pistol was found by the body, police said. Davis, a senior
industrial arts education m^jor, was the son of Canton Mayor Walton
Davis, Jr. Davis’ roommate heard the shot and notified police at 2:05
p.m.
Youth aprehended following attack The Athens Police
arrested one juvenile in connection with nn attack on two individuals
Saturday night at the 40 Watt Club at 256 W. Clayton St.. Athens
Police Major Joseph Lumpkin said Two unidentified youths were
throwing rocks at cars in the club’s parking lot. According to police
reports, when two club patrons confronted the youths about their
activities, n group of seven to 10 youths attacked the two patrons.
Other patrons tned to intervene in the scuffle and were also attacked
An Athens policeman on foot patrol witnessed the end of the fight and
was able to apprehend one of the youths though the others fled on
foot. The suspect was later released in custody of a relative.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
•Students for Environmental
Awareness will meet tonight at
7 30 in Rm 143 in the Tate
Center for a general
organizational meeting. For
more information contact Andy
Miller at 546-1059.
•An AIDS support and
information session will be held
tonight at 7. The meeting is for
those diagnosed with AIDS, ARC
or as HIV positive, and those
dealing with AIDS among family
and friends Concerned students
who would like to help provide
support are welcome. For
information on location call
Nancy MacNair, University
Health Service, 542-1162
•The Athens Area Arthritis
Support Group will meet
Monday, July 24 at 10:30 a m. in
the Assembly Room at St Mary’s
Hospital Joe Leone will discuss
“Alternative Treatments for
Arthritis." All interested persons
are invited to attend For further
information contact Geneva Lee
at 769-5348
•Cocaine Anonymous meets at 8
m. every Tuesday at Charter
Tinds Hospital, 240 Mitchell
Bridge Rd. For more information
call 546-7277.
Events
•The East Georgia chapter of the
American Red Cross will conduct
a blood drive today at the Main
Library from Noon to 5 p.m.
Another blood drive will be
conducted Tuesday, July 25 at
BJC Hospital in Commerce from
1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
•Jennings Mill Country Club
will hold the "Run at the Mill"
road race Saturday, July 22. The !
event will consist of three races, I
a 5K run, a 5K “Healthwalk” and 1
a half-mile "Fun Run " Runners '
will be treated to complimentary j
refreshments and T-shirts The
pre-registration fee is $11 until
race day. Race packets and entry
forms are available at Pro Appeal
in Beechwood Shopping Center.
For more information call Chris ,
Brown, 548-1852, or I^ee
Gatewood, 354-0278.
•Sandy Creek Nature Center
will sponsor LOVE 'EM AND
LEAVE 'EM July 22 at 10 a.m. at
the Nature Center interpretive
building. It is the fourth in a
senes of family programs offered
each Saturday morning in July.
Most activity time will be spent
outdoors, so dress accordingly.
Find out which backyard
creatures are safe for nature
study in the home Each program
is free and open to the public.
Pre-registration is required and
is limited to 20 children. For
more information, please call
Sandy Creek Nature at 354-
2930.
• A volleyball tournament will be
held at Lake Herrick Saturday,
July 29 at 2:30 p m to support
the Athens Regional Children’s
Unit The fee is $20 per 4-person
team For more information call
Mike at 546-0597 or John at 546-
9226
•The Georgia Museum of An is
presenting an exhibition through
August 20 "Visions of Nature:
English Romantic Prints from
the Permanent Collection" will
include works by William Blake,
J.M.W. Turner, John Martin,
John Sell Cotman, David Lucas
and Samuel Prout
•The Georgia Museum of Art is
presenting the 41st Biennial
Exhibition of Contemporary
American Painting through
August 20 The presentation
contains the works of 18
Southeastern artists, including
five Georgians. The museum is
open Monday through Saturday,
9 a m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 1
a m to 5 p.m. Admission is free
Announcements
•Project Safe needs volunteers
for its crisis line, fundraising
committee, community education
and children’s programs. Project
Safe is is dedicated to serving
battered women and their
children in Clarke and
surrounding counties and to
educating the community about
domestic violence. Those
interested in helping battered
women are urged to attend a
training series July 19 and July
20 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
and July 22 from 9 am to 5 p.m.
at the Mi Hedge Center (old
Southern Bell Building), 394 S.
Milledge. One must attend all
three days of training (14 hours
total). Childcare will be provided.
For further information call 549- |
0922.
•The second edition of “Blue
Plate Special,” a literary
magazine featuring community
a:lists, is now available for 99<r
at Barnett’s Newsstand, Old
Black Dog Bookstore, Jackson
Street Books, The Downstairs
Cafe, Swap Club Carnival and
The Grit.
•The Athens Area Emergency
Food Bank, Inc. is appealing to
the community for food
donations and volunteers for
both the store operations and the |
renovation project each Saturday
morning between 9 a.m. and
noon until the project is
complete. The renovation project
involves upgrading the new
facility on 640 Barber St.
Financial contributions may be
made and volunteer services
indicated by writing to the Food
Bank, P.O. Box 769, Athens, GA
30603. Food may be delivered to
the Food Bank between 9 a.m.
and 1 p.m., Monday through
Friday. All contributions, food
donations, financial gifts and
volunteer expenses ure tax
deductible.
By JEFF RUTHERFORD
Contributing Writer
While most students will be
dreading final exams at the end of
July, Tanya Sisler, a recent grad
uate of the University, will bo trav
eling to Mali to lx»gin her two year
stint with the Peace Corps
Mali, located in western Africa
below the Sahara Desert, is the
world’s fifth poorest country, with
a per capita income of $190. Per ca
pita income is the total yearly
amount of money generated by a
country after taxes, divided by the
total population of the country
Even though the country is very-
poor, it doesn’t fit the starving Af
rican image so common on
American television.
‘The country is politically stable
and the people are basically happy
with what they’ve goi ” Sisler said
On July 26. Sisler will fly to
Philadelphia for orientation. After
that she will fly to Biunako, the
capital of Mali. Shell undergo
training for three to four months in
a village about 10 miles outside of
Bamako.
During this training, the volun
teers are gradually introduced to
the native food that they will eat
for the next two years. This diet
consists mninly of rice with a va
riety of sauces and stews. After
this training is complete, Sisler
will be sworn in as n Peace Corps
Volunteer. She will then be as
signed a village where she will live
alone and work with the villagers.
The Peace Corps was estab
lished in 1961 by President John F.
Kennedy. Volunteers serve in 65
countries around the world helping
people cope with diseuse, poverty,
and inadequate agricultural condi
tions.
The Pence Corps recruits volun
teers of all ages Volunteers nre
paid a salary of $200 per month
once they finish their two-year
commitment.
Sisler will be participating in the
. and soil conservation area
of the Peace Corps even though she
has no previous experience in this
fidd
“1 think one of the things that
helped me get in was my back*
ground in French. I took French
here and I studied in France for a
summer They really look at lan
guages," Sisler said.
Forestry and soil conservation is
important in Mali because 90 per
cent of the country’s fuel is wood.
Sisler will learn reforestation tech
niques which she will teach the
people in her village.
Sisler became interested in Af
rica after she participated in an ar
cheological dig, sponsored by the
University archaeology program,
in North Africa two summers ago
But the differences between North
Afnca and West Africa are great,
Sisler said. North Africa is much
more industrialized and economi
cally stable, she said.
When she returned to the Uni
versity after her summer in North
Africa. Sisler began considering
the possibility of going into the
Peace Corps.
“I majored in human geography,
and I’ve always been fascinated
with different cultures,” Sisler
said
She hegnn attending the meet
ings of the Northeast Georgia Re
turn Peace Corps Volunteers. This
group of previous Peace Corps Vol
unteers sponsors a pot-luck dinner
once a month where they discuss
their experiences in the Peace
Corps. The meetings are open to
anyone considering the Peace
Corps.
Afler sending in her application,
Sisler was interviewed for two and
a half hours in Atlanta by Garnett
Hollis, her recruiter.
Tanya had all the aualities that
we look for in a Peace Corps Volun
teer,” Hollis said, “She is motivated
and willing to learn another cul
ture."
Peace Corps Volunteers must be
adaptable, Hollis said. Most volun
teers are stationed in villages that
have no electricity or running
water.
'They asked me auestions in the
interview like would I be willing to
cover my body and face if I was sta
tioned in a Muslim country,” Sisler
said.
This question was a crucial one
for Sisler since Mali is 90 percent
Muslim. Their Muslim belief is a
hybrid of traditional Muslim and
their old animalistic beliefs
‘They’re not as strict as some be
liefs. I can’t wear shorts though I
have to wear long skirts which
cover my legs and ankles," Sisler
said.
Sisler is looking forward to expe
riencing this unique culture.
“I want to work with the people.
I’m not expecting to change any
thing overnight, but at least 111
have some effect,” Sisler said.
Geologists gather for
Appalachian meeting
By CYBELE LANGE
Staff Writer
Athens is the site for an interna
tional geological conference to be
held Friday and Saturday.
R.D. Dallmeyer, professor of ge
ology, said scientists from 14 coun
tries will attend the conference on
the formation of the Appalachian
Mountain Range, entitled ‘Tecto-
nothermal Expression of Terrane
Accretion Within the Appalachian
Orogen.”
Scientists from France, Spain,
Great Britain, Sweden, Mexico,
Portugal, Israel and Mauritania
will attend the conference, Dal
lmeyer said.
The conference is sponsored by
the International Geological Corre
lation Program, which is overseen
by the United Nations Educa
tional, Scientific and Cultural Or
ganization, he said.
Previous conferences have been
held in Oviedo, Spain; Nouakchott,
Mauritania; and Montpellier,
France. Future conferences have
been scheduled for Gettingen, Ger
many and Tromso, Norway.
Following the conference, there
will be a nine-day geological excur
sion across the southern Appala
chian Orogen, or mountain
formation. The excursion will ex
tend from Birmingham, Ala,
across Georgia to McCormick, S.C.,
Dallmeyer said.
The excursion will study all li-
thotectonic elements of the
Southern Appalachian Orogen, he
said.
D. Murray, University of Rhode
Island assistant geology professor,
said the conferences are an annual
event that have been held for the
last 15 years.
Tn the past 15 years, I’ve been
to about half of them," Murray
said.
When asked about student at
tendance at the conferences,
Murray said that “in general, the
conferences are out of the country,
and undergraduates do not at
tend.”
The conference will be held at
the Holiday Inn. To register, con
tact the University’s geology de
partment.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
We are seeking patients with
bladder/kidney infections to
take part in a research study
testing a new antibiotic.
Qualified participants will be
treated free of charge and will
be eligible for a stipend of
$1 50 u P on completion.
If interested contact:
Leah Evans, Pharm. D.
at 972-2241
Gwinnett Clinical Research Center •
2366 Lenora Church Rd. Snellville, GA 30278
•Summer volunteers are needed
to tape college textbooks and to
read for students with visual
l. pl«
contact Handicapped Student
Services at 542-8719
•International Education
Forum, a non-profit
organization, needs host families
for English-speaking students
from Europe and Asia. These
students will be arriving soon in
the U.S. to attend high school
and need to be placed with
families immediately. For more
information call Stephanie
Kurtz, 1010 Windbrooke Ct.,
Watkinsville, GA 30677, 769-
9750 or 1-800-346-2826
•Community Connection
announces the establishment of a
support group for single women
who are raising children alone
and know the problems of
receiving public assistance and
child support from ex-spouses If
you want to meet with other
women who have had these same
problems to work for
improvement of the system, call
353-1313 weekdays 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. for more information.
•Submissions are wanted for the
summer edition of S.L.E.A.P
Magazine, a creative magazine
published by the Student League
for Environmental and Animal
lYoUCtfan P**-try, essays,
cartoons, pen and ink or screened
drawings with an animal rights
and/or environmental rights
theme are welcome Send non-
returnable submissions to A.
Newton, Box 5201, Athens, GA
30604 The deadline is Friday,
July 21.
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