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■ UNIVERSITY
Man assaulted in restaurant Wednesday night. Athens
resident Tim Coley was assaulted by three unidentifiedmen late
Wednesday night at the Subway Sub Shop on West Broad Street
according to Athens police reports. Wooden chairs and a neon sign
were damaged. Coley was unable to provide a description of the men.
Students’ house burned last week. Three students. Steve
Pontzer, Jay Halprin and Mike Ilemni, all students of the School of
Forest Resources, lost their house at 2535 Pheonix Rd. in a fire Dec.
28, according to University Fire Marshall Frank Edwards. Pontzer,
who was the only one there at the time, escaped without injury. His
car also was severly damaged. Edwards is still investigating the fire
which apparently originated in the kitchen.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Delta tightens security after threat.
Delta Air Lines said Thursday it was intensifying security after
receiving a "general threat” against its trans-Atlantic operations.
Delta spokesman Jim Lundy said the threat did not name a
particular (light, city or day. He would not say when the threat was
received or discuss the nature of the threat. Lundy said federal
authorities had been notified. But a spokeswoman for the Federal
Aviation Administration, Arlene Salac, said the agency was not yet
involved. Delta’s trans-Atlantic operations include flights from
Atlanta to Germany, Ireland, England and France. Lundy said
passengers were being notified of the threat upon check-in and were
given the option of canceling or delaying their trips.
ATLANTA (AP): Miller is best-financed candidate. Lt.
Gov. Zell Miller checked in Thursday as the best-financed candidate
so far in the Democratic gubernatorial contest, reporting he has
raised nearly $2.7 million for the campaign. That was nearly twice as
much as his closest competitor in the fund-raising department, state
Sen. Roy Barnes, D-Mableton, who reported earlier he had raised
nearly $14 million. State Rep. Lauren “Bubba” McDonald of
Commerce, also a candidate in the Democratic contest, reported
raising $493,288. On the Republican side, state Rep. Johnny isakson
of Marietta has reported raising $605,277. Candidates have until
today to file year-end disclosure reports. Other candidates are former
Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who is seeking the Democratic
nomination, and former Superior Court Judge Greeley Ellis, a
Republican.
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Sale includes Ga. properties. A
Marietta shopping complex valued at $4.75 million and an Athens
shopping center valued at $1.37 million are among 744 Georgia
properties owned by bankrupt savings and loan associations that the
government wants to sell. Descriptions of the Georgia properties —
most of them single-family residences — are included in a four-
volume inventory of 30,123 properties nationwide that the Resolution
Trust Corp. released the week. The agency, created in August by the
legislation enacted to bail out the savings and loan industry, listed all
properties owned by savings and loan associations that had been
seized by Sept. 30. The new corporation is turning the properties over
to brokers in hopes they can be sold quickly to generate the cash
needed to fund takeovers of even more bankrupt savings and loan
associations. The Athens shopping center, Market Square on West
Broad Street, is described as a “30,000-square-foot, one-story strip
shopping center on major artery in process of renovation."
BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP): Bunyan statue called tacky. An
18-foot statue of Paul Bunyan, that giant lumbeijack of lore, and his
blue ox, Babe, has become the center of a controversy of an
appropriately grand scale. The 8-ton concrete-and-steel work, which
has graced the Lake Bemidji waterfront for more than a half-century,
was called “tack/’ by an art critic in a column in The Daily Pioneer.
Since then the paper has been deluged with letters for and against
the figures. The statue of Paul and Babe was built in 1937 by the local
Rotary Club with $200 worth of materials. The labor, at 60 cents an
hour, cost $442.20. In the newspaper column, sculptor Kent Nerbum,
who holds a doctorate in theology and art, called the artwork “the
well-meaning gropings of a group of fine civic-minded men with
plaster, chicken wire and trowels, creating objects for a simpler time
with a simpler vision.”
LOS ANGELES (API: Postal service pays for dog burial.
A dog allegedly shot to death by a mailman was laid to rest in a white,
silk-lined casket at a funeral paid for by the Postal Service. Skippy,
gunned down the day after Christmas, was buried by his grieving
owners at Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park in Cal abas as on
Wednesday. The funeral cost $773.50, said John Conte, a Postal
Service spokesman. The price included the casket, headstone and
flowers, said cemetery spokeswoman Laura Ortega. Tammie Brody
and her son, Brian, 10, witnessed the shooting of the 2-year-old
German shepherd mix as the woman opened the door to give mailman
Floyd Bertran Sterling a gift-wrapped bottle of vodka. Sterling told
police the dog had bitten him earlier and that he was only trying to
frighten it. But an autopsy indicated the dog may have been shot
while fleeing, authorities said Wednesday.
PHOENIX (AP): Black group boycotts meeting site. An
organization of black journalists has canceled its national board
meeting in Phoenix because of the suspension of a state holiday for
the late Martin Luther King Jr. The directors of the National
Association of Black Journalists had scheduled their quarterly
meeting Jan. 12-14 in Phoenix. The King holiday was to have been
celebrated Jan. 15. NABJ president Thomas Morgan said the group
could not in good conscience spend its money in a state that “will not
commemorate the values of truth, freedom and justice that the Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. so courageously embodied.” NABJ, an
organization of print and broadcast journalists, has about 1,800
members. The holiday, approved by the 1989 Arizona Legislature,
was suspended because of a drive to rescind the celebration.
Opponents filed nearly 80,000 signatures on petitions calling for an
election on the issue.
MIAMI (AP): Judge enters plea for Noriega. A federal
judge entered an innocent plea for Manuel Noriega after the fallen
dictator refused at his arraignment on drug trafficking charges to
acknowledge the United States has a right to try him. “General
Noriega refuses to submit to the jurisdiction of this court ... because
he is a political prisoner brought to this country illegally," Noriega
attorney Frank Rubino told U S. District Judge William Hoeveler.
The judge then entered the plea. Noriega, who defied two U.S.
presidents until he was toppled by the Dec. 20 American invasion,
was flown to Homestead Air Force Base, 25 miles south of Miami,
after surrendering to U.S. troops outside his Vatican Embassy refuge
in Panama City. Rubino had indicated the defense might begin with
the theory argued earlier that Noriega is immune from prosecution in
the United States as a former head of state.
UGA TODAY
Announcements
• UGA Tutorial Services is now
accepting applications for peer
tutors for the 1990-91 academic
year. Applications are available
at the Tate Student Center
Information Desk or by calling
542-7575.
• Trends, the magazine of The
Red and Black, will hold its
writers’ meeting Monday night at
8 at the newspaper’s office on
North Jackson Street. Anyone
interested in contributing stories
or story ideas is invited to this
meeting. No prior experience is
necessary.
Exhibits
• An exhibition of prints by
Georgia artists will be on display
at the Georgia Museum of Art
through Jan. 21. The featured
artists are Cheryl Burgess,
Barbara Daupert, Ric Hill, Regis
Lewis, Joni Mabe and Art
Werger.
• 'Old Master Prints from the
Permanent Collection’ will be on
display at the Georgia Museum
of Art through Jan. 21. This
exhibit features some of the most
important Renaissance and
Baroque prints from the
museum’s collection.
Asbestos is removed from Payne Hall
By LAURA ROE
Staff Writer
The state Agency for the Re
moval of Hazardous Materials
cleaned Payne Hall Dec. 9 to re
move asbestos for the second time
since last summer.
Asa Boynton, Director of Public
Safety, said the agency removed all
ceiling tiles and new carpet to elim
inate asbestos in the residence
hall. Geo Environmental Services
in Atlanta rechecked and tested
the area before it was reoccupied.
Bill Herrington, Occupational
Safety and Health Officer for the
University Public Safety office,
said the original clean-up job
during summer cost $80,000 and
the follow-up job was free of charge
because the original job was incom
plete.
Asbestos is a fibrous material
used for fireproofing and electrical
insulation. It has been shown to
cause cancer when inhaled in large
amounts, but is only dangerous
when broken fibers float freely in
the air.
When asbestos levels of 67 were
found in Payne Hall, Dan Hallen-
beck, Student Affairs associate vice
president, asked AFROHM to con
duct a follow-up cleaning job
during Christmas break.
Herrington said patches of as
bestos were found in the residence
hall, and although the levels
weren’t hazardous, the possibility
of the levels becoming hazardous
required another cleaning.
Herrington said the fibers could
become friable, meaning the sub
stance holding the fibers together
could deteriorate, allowing fibers
to float freely in the air.
Herrington said Geo Environ
mental Services used Transmis
sion Electron Microscopy, which is
a “state-of-the-art” testing method.
‘This testing is above what is
usually needed. It uses the highest
power microscope we have —
showing the exact amount of as
bestos in the air,” Herrington said.
AFROHM Assistant Director
Gary Monroe said nine TEM tests
were run by Geo Environmental
Services. He said the procedure
consists of "aggressive air testing,”
using a blower to stir up the air to
find microscopic fibers of asbestos.
Monroe said this type of testing
wasn’t done in the first cleaning job
this summer. He said although the
earlier test results were well
within the safety requirements of
the Environmental Protection
Agency, which requires an as-
Herrington said
patches of asbestos
were found in the
residence hall.
Although the levels
weren’t hazardous, the
possibility required
another cleaning.
bestos level of 70 or less, both the
University and AFROHM weren’t
satisfied with the results.
Monroe said eight of the nine
TEM tests conducted this De
cember didn’t detect any asbestos.
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Cordially Invites Students
to Serve on Planning Committees for
CAREER AWARENESS
WEEK
Committees will plan and execute activities
related to the important week.
Assignments include:
Registration Logistics
Outreach Programs
Interested students should attend one of the
following meetings:
Wednesday, Jan. 17 12:10 & 3:25 p.m. Thursday, Jan 18 12:10 & 3:25 p.m.
Tale Student Center, Room 141 Tate Student Center. Reception Hall
If interested and unable to attend either meeting
Contact Donna Crouch at 542-3375
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