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2 • The Red end Black • Wednesday. January 10. 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Earth Day 1990 being planned. Studenta for Environmental
Awareness nave invited environmental organ!rations from the area
and representatives from the state tojparticipate in tonight’s
planning session for Earth Day 1990. Tlie meeting will be at 7:30 p.m.
in the ecology building's auditorium Earth Day 1990, scheduled for
April 22, is an international twentieth-anniversary celebration of the
original event held in 1970 Mark Williams, the Sierra Club's group
chairman, said representatives from his club, the Georgia
Conservancy and Sandy Creek Nature Center will attend tonight’s
planning meeting. He said a representative from the Georgia Earth
Day 1990 planning office in Atlanta may attend the meeting. SEA
will also discuss its petition drive demanding more economically
sound business practices from the University.
■ STATE
MIAMI (AP): Noriega to Atlanta?A judge delayed shearing
for Manuel N'or.ega on Tuesday and ruled the court has final say over
whether the fallen dictator can be moved from his comfortable but
closely guarded quarters in Miami. U.S. District Court William
Hoeveler said U S. marshals must submit any plans to transfer
Nonega from quarters at the federal courthouse, and defense
attorneys will have an opportunity to respond before a decision is
made Hoeveler set a Jan 26 detention hearing for Noriega, who
attended the one-hour court session Tuesday. The New York Times
reported in Tuesday’s editions that Noriega probably would be taken
to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. But Angie Sheffer,
spokeswoman for the Atlanta prison, said Tuesday that no
preparations were being made for Noriega’s arrival.
ATLANTA (AP): Licenses jeopardized with new bill. The
House Motor Vehicles Committee churned out some of the first anti-
drug bills of the 1990 session, approving and sending to the full House
measures placing the drivers’ licenses of convicted drug users in
jeopardy. The bill would prevent young drug offenders from getting
their drivers’ licenses until age 17 for a first offense and age 18 for a
second offense. Another bill would allow the state to suspend the
driver’s license of any Georgian convicted of possessing drugs,
regardless of whether a motor vehicle was involved in the arrest. A
first offense would bring a suspension of four months, a second
offense of one year and a third offense, five years.
ATLANTA (AP): AIDS protest results In arrests. About
150 backers of a radical AIDS protest group tried to block entrances
to the federal Centers for Disease Control and the street in front of it
Tuesday, charging that the CDC underreports AIDS cases. About 14
people who climbed onto a building overhang were arrested by
DeKalb County officers, who removed the ladder they used to scale
the building. In all, about 50 people were arrested, said police Maj.
Jim Wilson. He said some would be charged with criminal trespass
and some with damaging government property. The group, the Aids
Coalition to Unleash Power, or ACT Ur, contends that the CDC,
where much of the nation’s AIDS research is done, is underreporting
AIDS-related illnesses and is not using a broad enough definition of
the AIDS virus.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP): Shuttle successful.
Shuttle Columbia opened a new decade of space travel Tuesday with
a letter-perfect launch and the start of a search-and-rescue mission
for a scientific satellite drilling back to Earth. Afler three weeks of
delays, the shuttle lifted off precisely on time just after dawn at 7:35
a m. and began chasing the satellite, which was 1,500 miles ahead of
the shuttle. The flight begins a decade in which shuttles will
transport astronauts and materials to build America’s space station.
The station is an essential step for a return to the moon and
expeditions to Mars envisioned by President Bush. Columbia’s
mission is scheduled to last 10 days, the second-longest since shuttles
began flying in 1981.
WASHINGTON (AP): Bush salutes King President Bush on
Tuesday praised Martin Luther King Jr.’s courage in the face of
threats and promised to “bring to justice the bigots” responsible for a
wave of bombings against civil rights leaders two decades afler King’s
death. Dr. Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP, a prime
target of the hate campaign, emerged from the Oval Office saying he
was “fairly satisfied” with federal efforts to solve the bombings, but
was seeking further assurance “that from the presidency down there
is a sense of urgency.” Bush invited civil rights leaders and students
to the White House to witness his signing a proclamation for
Monday’s holiday in marking King’s birthday. Later, afler meeting
privately with Hooks, Bush said he reassured the NAACP leader
"that my administration will not tolerate bigotry and racial prejudice.
We must finally leave the tired old baggage of bigotry and racial
hatred behind us.”
■ WORLD
MOSCOW (AP): Lithuanians demand independence.
Lithuanian demonstrators demanding independence for their
republic confronted the visiting Kremlin ideology chief Tuesday in a
prelude to rallies planned for Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s expected visit.
"You want to leave the Soviet Union?” Vadim A. Medvedev asked a
crowd of protesters on the snowy square near Kaunas, Lithuania’s
second largest city. Medvedev’s visit to the Baltic republic is intended
to help defuse one of the most serious political crises facing
Gorbachev.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP): Resolving war attempted.
Diplomatic efforts began today in Bangkok, Beijing and Paris to try to
resolve 11-year-old Cambodian war following reports of guerrilla
attacks in Phnom Penh.The non-communist resistance forces of
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, allies of the Khmer Rouge, said they
launched a series of grenade attacks on Phnom Penh between Dec. 5
and 10, wounding 16 Vietnamese and two Cambodian policemen. The
Cambodian government’s SPK news agency on Tuesday did not
mention any attack.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Athens Pro-Choice Action
League will meet tonight at 7 at
the Athens Regional Library, 120
W. Dougherty St. It will be a
working meeting to plan for the
17th Roe vs. Wade anniversary
commemoration. For more
information, call 353-0488.
• The Athens Gay/Lesbian
Association will meet tonight at
7:30 in Room 213 of Memorial
Hall. Everyone is invited to
attend.
• Studenta for Environmental
Awareness will meet tonight at
7:30 at the Institute of Ecology
Auditorium. Discussed will be
the petition campaign for
ecologically sound business
practices at UGA.
• The Food and Nutrition
Association will meet today at 5
p.m. in Room 169 of Dawson
Hall.
• The UGA Young Democrats
will meet tonight at 7:30 in Room
140 of the Tate Student Center.
Visitors are welcome.
• The UGA College Republicans
! will meet tonight at 7 in Room
142 of the Tate Student Center.
Everyone is invited to attend and
become a member.
Announcements
• Advising for freshmen and
sophomore students in the
Franklin College of Arte and
Sciences will begin Thursday.
Students can make
appointments beginning today in
j New College.
• Communiversity Service
Organization will be having
j winter orientation tonight at
1 7:30 in the Georgia Hall at the
Tate Student Center. Anyone
interested in tutoring, being a
( big brother or sister, adopting a
grandparent, helping with blood
drives or working in the public
schools is welcome to attend.
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Because space is limited, long
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Mitchell exhibit brings great response
Rare memorabilia now on display
By DARA McLEOD
Staff Writer
“1 pledge with all my heart I
shall try to make Scarlett O'Hara
live as you described her in your
brilliant book,’ were the words Vi
vian Leigh sent to author Margaret
Mitchell in a telegram dated Jan
13, 1939.
This telegram, along with a rare
copy of the original movie script to
“Gone with the Wind,” are port of
the University’s 60,000-piece Mar
garet Mitchell collection on display
now in the Hargrett Rare Book and
Manuscript Library.
The exhibit displays only a por
tion of the University’s collection.
It focuses mainly upon the produc
tion of the film, which took pro
ducer David Selznik three years to
complete.
Rare items on display include
telegrams and letters to and from
Mitchell, a guest book signed by
Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh and
tickets to the 1939 Atlanta pre
miere of the movie.
Also featured in the exhibit are
publicity photos, photoe of the 1939
premiere, still photoe from the
movie and photoe taken on the set
during the production of the film.
The exhibit was introduced on
Dec. 15, the fiftieth anniversary of
the premiere of the movie at Loew’s
Grand Theatre in Atlanta.
The response to the exhibit has
been overwhelmingly positive,"
Thomas Camden, head of the Har-
grett Library, said. The response
outside of the city has also been
very strong."
Camden said timing was a key
factor in generating the positive re
sponse. He said collectors and fans
from as far away as New York,
Connecticut and Texas have come
to see the exhibit
Mary Ellen Brooks, assistant
head of the Hargrett Library, de
signed the exhibit. She said the
University’s Mitchell collection is a
valuable resource for authors and
scholars. It was given to the Uni
versity about 1970 by Margaret
Mitchell’s brother, Stephens
Mitchell, who graduated from the
University in 1915.
The University’s Mitchell collec
tion is the largest of its kind. It in
cludes three unpublished works by
Mitchell which Camden said were
“treasures on tap."
Tfscy SUnbetg/The Red and (Hack
Mitchell memorabilia: Largest collection of its kind
This is the second “Gone with
the Wind" exhibit held in the Har-
gTett Library. The first was held in
1986 to commemorate the fiftieth
anniversary of the novel’s publica
tion. Brooks said, however, that
the material in the current exhibit
hasn’t been shown before.
“I think the amazing thing about
this exhibit is the wide variety of
people it has attracted,” Brooks
said.
The exhibit will remain on dis
play through Feb. 28. The Hargrett
Library is located on the third floor
of the main library.
Textile sciences doctorate program available
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
Beginning in Fall 1990, a new
textile sciences doctorate program
could make the University “the
leader in textile research in the
Southeast," Emily Pou, dean of the
College of Home Economics, said.
The Board of Regents approved
the doctorate program for the col
lege during their Dec. 13 meeting.
Pou said the program is impor
tant to the University because
Georgia is one of the leading man
ufacturers of textiles in the nation
and Dalton, Ga., is one of the
leading carpet-makers in the
world.
Pou said the program will at
tract more faculty to the Univer
sity as well as help keep existing
professors in Athens.
The doctorate program will in
crease the amount of research con
ducted by the University which
will, in turn, provide more research
grants by private industry. Pou
said both students and faculty will
benefit from the increased depth
only a doctorate program can pro
vide.
“It will have a vital international
scope by attracting experts
through seminars and workshops.
The potential is tremendous,” she
said. “However, we will begin by
concentrating on the local level.”
Theresa Perenich, the textile sci
ence program’s department head,
said she wants the doctorate pro
gram to be a small, select, qumity
program. She said the program
won’t allow for more than four stu
dents. However, she said they ex
pect about 20 applicants.
Perenich said that the program
will be focused on the end product
of the textile making process. It
will differ from Georgia Tech’s pro
gram in that respect, as Tech con
centrates upon the actual
engineering and production
process.
“Our research will focus on the
analytical aspects of textiles and
consumer usage," she said. “We
will concentrate on the application,
The doctorate program
will increase the
amount of research
conducted by the
University which will, in
turn, provide more
research grants by
private industry.Both
students and faculty
will benefit from the
increased depth only a
doctorate program can
provide.
performance, and evaluation of
textiles."
‘The research will include dying
and finishing of textiles, the effects
of textiles and textile production on
the environment, and the weath
ering of textile material,” she said.
Perenich said there’s a big de
mand in the textile industry for
textile experts, although most
firms have Deen cutting back on re
search. She said graduates of the
doctorate program can expect to
start at $50,000 a year working for
a private company.
The program has been in the
making for almost 10 years. In
order to launch it, Perenich said
she first had to make sure there
was a need for the program.
She then had to build up the tex
tile sciences unit by attracting
qualified faculty members. Finally,
she had to coordinate her efforts
with the Georgia Institute of Tech
nology in order to avoid duplicating
the program offered there.
Perenich presented the rough
draft of the program to Pou, in
1986. The University Council ap
proved the final plan in October
and the Board of Regents finished
the decade-long process in last
month’s meeting.
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