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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday, September 28. 1989
BRIEFLY
■ STATE
MARIETTA (AP): Garbage study trashes hopes. Cobb
County officials say a new garbage study recommends the county not
ship its trash to other counties — leaving a 142-acre landfill the
county’s alternative. “We have a historical obligation to deal with our
own waste,” said Jarvis Middleton, the county’s director of solid
waste “Other counties don’t want to be the dumping grounds for our
trash ” The report’s recommendations come as part of a $270,000
comprehensive solid waste study being compiled by Roy F. Weston
Inc The study, which is scheduled to take about nine more months to
complete, will include in-depth analysis about waste reduction,
recycling and landfilling. Some residents have opposed the landfill
because of concerns it might contaminate their drinking water. But
Middleton said it would include a plastic liner to prevent pollution
seepage. Cobb’s primary current landfill will be full within a month.
ATLANTA (AP): Ga. legislators revive flag issue. Two
Georgia legislators said Wednesday they will ask legislative leaders
across the country to press Congress for a constitutional amendment
that would make flag-burning illegnl. House Speaker Pro Tern Jack
Connell of Augusta and Senate President Pro Tern Joe Kennedy of
Claxton, both Democrats, said they already have secured the backing
of 10 of Georgia’s 12 congressmen and senators for the proposal. They
said they intend to write their counterparts in the 49 other state
legislatures, urging them to take similar steps with their
congressional delegations. Kennedy said his goal is to spur Congress
to act shortly after the first of the year so the amendment, if
approved, can be sent quickly to the states for ratification while many
of the legislatures are in session. Connell did not say which of the
state’s congressmen had not endorsed the proposal, but the offices of
4th District Rep. Ben Jones and 5th District Rep. John Lewis, both
Democrats, said Jones and Lewis did not support the effort.
WASHINGTON (AP): Ga. senators for stealth bomber.
Georgia’s senators both voted Tuesday to leave the B-2 stealth
bomber budget intact. The Senate, in a 71-29 roll call, rejected an
amendment that would have cut $2.7 billion in procurement money
from President Bush’s $4 7 billion request for the bomber. Sens.
Wyche Fowler and Sam Nunn, both Democrats, voted to leave the
program intact.
■ NATION
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP): Bottle-switching poisons 10. Ten
people were poisoned accidentally at a nightspot when a cleaning
solution was inadvertently served in place of liquor, police said. “The
investigation is complete, with no intent of malice found,” Lt. Bud
Brooks said Tuesday. “It has been determined that the cleaning
solution which was ingested by the patrons had been mistakenly
placed in an area where the liquor was stored." Six people remained
hospitalized. The others were treated and released. The victims all
ordered a drink called a watermelon spot — a type of schnapps — at
The Peppermint Twist on Saturday night, Brooks said. Instead of
liquor, Brooks said, they were served some type of dishwashing liquid
from a container similar to the container in which watermelon
schnapps was kept. Brooks said detectives interviewed all employees
who were working the night of the incident and checked samples of
the liquid.
MOC BAI, Vietnam (AP): Cambodian soldiers return.
Relatives rushed across the border into Cambodia on Tuesday to
greet their sons, fathers and husbands returning from Vietnam’s
nearly 11-year-old war in the neighboring country. Vietnam said the
withdrawal marked the end of its military involvement in Cambodia,
but guerrillas claim thousands of Vietnamese soldiers remain,
wearing Cambodian uniforms. Schoolchildren, peasants and city
dwellers lined Highway 1, waving flags and tree branches at the
thousands of passing troops in a government-orchestrated welcoming
ceremony. Vietnam had promised it would have all of its 26,000
troops out of Cambodia by Sept. 26, and the withdrawal sparked fears
that Cambodia will slide into protracted civil war as government
troops try to fight the three-party guerrilla coalition without
Vietnamese help. Vietnam’s invasion in December 1978 ousted the
Khmer Rouge regime, which had ruled Cambodia since 1975. During
that time, the Khmer Rouge killed hundreds of thousands, practicing
a radical brand of agrarian communism. Now the Khmer Rouge is the
strongest of the three-party guerrilla front.
BERGEN, Norway (AP): The little train couldn’t. The
Norwegian State Railroad’s luck was on the wrong track this week.
The trouble started Monday when sparks from a bonfire lit by
railroad workers set fire to a wooden structure used to keep snow off
the tracks. Workers rolled out fire hoses only to find that a defective
coupling had cut water pressure. They fixed the coupling, but the old
hoses ruptured when the pressure increased. The blazing structure
then collapsed onto the tracks, and the heat warped the rails. The
newspaper Bergens Tidene said about 1,000 passengers were
stranded for hours in the mountains outside Bergen and finally put
onto buses. “We had certain technical problems," traffic manager
Lars Bjoerndal was quoted as saying. No one was injured in the
mishaps.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• Mortar Board will meet tonight j
at 6 in Room 138 of the Tate
Student Center.
• Minority Business Student
Association will hold its first
meeting of the year tonight at
6:30 in Room 140 of the Tate
Student Center. Contact Maurice
Anderson at 354-1302 or Sonya
Hearn at 357-2112 for more
information.
• UGA Affiliate Habitat for
Humanity will meet tonight at 7
in Room 138 of the Tate Student !
Center. All are encouraged to
attend.
• The International Business
Club will hold its first meeting of ,
the year tonight at 7:30 in Room
141 of the Tate Student Center. !
All majors are welcome.
• U/G/AIDS will have an open
meeting tonight at 8 in Room 140
of the Tate Student Center for
those interested in joining a
support group or becoming
student AIDS peer educators.
For more information, call Nancy
MacNair at 542-1162.
• The Cycling Club will meet
tonight at 8 in Room 138 of the
Tate Student Center. All cyclists
are invited.
Announcements
• The Society of Professional
Journalists will have a social for
all old, new and prospective
members at Steverino’s tonight
at 6:30
• DiGamma Kappa Broadcast
Society is now accepting
applications for fall quarter.
Applications are available at the
Tate Student Center and on the
second floor of the journalism
building. The deadline is
Thursday, Oct. 12.
• Greeks Advocating the Mature
Management of Alcohol will meet
tonight at 8 in Room 139 of the
Tate Student Center. All are
welcome.
• The Ag Hill Council will
sponsor an exhibit fair and
barbecue dinner at 6 tonight on
the Food Science Court across
from Conner Hall.
Representatives from South
Campus will be available to
answer uuestions about their
clubs. All students are welcome.
• The Georgia Hillel will host a
Welcoming Fair from 11 to 2
today at the Tate Center Plaza.
Tonight from 10 to 1, the band
“Inspected by 12" will appear at
the Hillel House. For more
information on these and other
Hillel events, call 543-6393.
• The Women’s Studies Program
Brown Bag Lunch Talks will
feature “Women’s Stories: A
Story-telling,” Fnday from 12:10
to 1 in Room 140 of the Tate
Student Center.
Items for UGA Today must be
submitted in writing at leant two
daya before the date to be printed.
So items will be accepted by
telephone. Please include specific
meeting location, speaker’s title
and topic, and a contact persona
day and evening phone number.
Items are printed on a first-come,
first-served basis, as well as on a
space available basis.
SA keeps
abolition
clause
Every four years, students get
the chnnce to abolish the Student
Association.
But at SA’s Tuesday meeting,
one senator tried to put an end to
that possibility.
In an effort that failed, junior
Sen. John Piedrahita moved that
the SA consider striking the vote of
confidence clause from the SA Con
stitution.
Students would vote whether
they agree with the clause, which
reads “Every four years, the ballot
for electing the president and the
vice president shall contain the fol
lowing statement to be voted upon:
The Student Association of the
University of Georgia should con
tinue to operate.’ "
The SA vote was overwhelm
ingly in favor of keeping the clause.
SA President Mark Schisler said
at the meeting that he supported
Piedrahita’s motion.
In an interview Wednesday, he
said, ‘This is something for us to
look at." But he continued, “I was
Mark Schisler: Agreed with
Piedrahita’s proposal
impressed that most of the sen
ators voted Yes, let’s keep it.’ "
SA President Pro Tern Andrea
Naterman said she was glad the
SA chose not to remove the clause.
‘The student body needs to con
tinue to have a say in whether the
SA exists,” she said.
SA Advisor Tom Cochran said he
wasn’t surprised that the removal
of the clause was suggested.
“It is refreshing that the SA wn*»
so in favor of saving the vote of con
fidence,” he said.
—Jennifer Rampey
FRESHMEN
From page 1
“I really don’t think it’s worth
the time or effort to have two elec
tions.” he said. “Having two elec
tions a year is a big strain on the
Student Association. It saps our re
sources."
Instead of two separate elec
tions, the SA approved, in a special
meeting Wednesday, a constitu
tional amendment requiring only
one.
Andrea Naterman, SA president
pro tern, said the SA decided to
make the changes Wednesday in
stead of at its next meeting be
cause that would give students
more time to study the constitu
tion. She said students can pick up
copies of the document at the SA
office on the ground floor of the
Tate Student Center.
Naterman said that according to
the amendment, 28 senators will
be elected each spring to serve as
sophomore, junior and senior sen
ators the following year.
If students approve the new con
stitution, she said the six freshman
senate seats will be eliminated and
a Freshman Advisory Board cre
ated in their place.
The advisory board will consist
of six freshmen chosen through in
terviews by the SA Internal Affairs
Committee, Naterman said. To be-1
come u member of the board, appli
cants — full-time students only —
will have to collect at least 300 sig
natures, after which they will be
interviewed.
Schisler said members of the
board won’t he nble to vote in SA
proceedings because they weren’t
elected by the BtudentB and there
fore aren’t representatives.
During the meeting, junior Sen.
Scott Dickinson said holding two
elections is “no big deal" and in
sisted senators could work on
freshman elections and other pro
jects at the same time.
But Tom Cochran, assistant to
the vice president for Student Af
fairs, said holding two elections “is
time-consuming and absorbs a lot
of energy .”
For this reason, many schools
have only one election, he said.
Although freshmen wouldn’t be
able to vote under the new consti
tution, Nnterman said they would
still have a voice on the SA.
Board members would be able to
submit proposals, make sugges
tions and have the same speaking
privileges us regular senators, she
said.
Junior Sen. Pete Allen said the
new constitution must be read
aloud at an SA meeting before
being presented to students for a
vote. During that meeting, sen
ators could propose more changes.
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