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The Red and Black • Wednesday, Januaiy 10, 1990 • 3
Dolphin feeding regulations
may affect boat excursions
The Associated Press
Popular dolphin-feeding excur
sions off Georgia ana other
Southern coastal states could be
come federally regulated to protect
the aquatic mammals if environ
mentalists have their way.
The excursions — boats trips
that take tourists out to feed and
pet dolphins — have boomed re
cently on the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts from South Carolina to
Texas.
The dolphins lift themselves out
of the water to get a look at the
people on the boats and offer their
tongues and bellieB to be tickled,
Said Ervin and Sonja Strong, who
operate excursion out of Corpus
Christi, Texas.
There are no enforceable laws
against the excursions, but now
scientists, environmentalists and
even some boat operators who lead
excursions are pushing for federal
laws.
John Reynolds, a biologist with
Eckerd College in St. Petersburg,
Fla., said widespread feeding could
make dolphins dependent on hand
outs and lesB able to find their own
food.
Similar problems have devel
oped with other animals.
"We want to avoid the kind of
roblems that Yellowstone is
aving with grizzly bears,” said
Hans Neuhauser, vice president of
the Georgia Conservancy.
Other observers say providing
dolphins with readily available
food could change their migration
habits and making them more com
fortable around boats could in
crease the number of dolphins
injured by motors and entangled in
fishing nets. An estimated 125,000
dolphins die each year when they
become entangled in Pacific tuna
nets.
Even some of the boat owners
who profit from the excursions say
it might be best for federal officials
to regulate the practice.
“It’s getting out of hand,” said
Michael Broas, one of several
boatmen who run dolphin-feeding
excursions out of Tybee Island,
Ga., and nearby Hilton Head Is
land, S.C. “Even though I do it, Pm
kind of hoping they'll stop it.”
But Robert Flanagan, a Hilton
Head lawyer, argues that the
feeding tripe could help reduce dol
phin carnage.
‘If enough people were to see
and appreciate the intelligence and
grace and beauty of theBe crea
tures, we might stop slaughtering
them to provide tuna salad sand
wiches for bridge clubs,” he said.
The question of prohibiting the
excursions came to the fore last
Bpring when Corpus Christi boat
owner James Atkinson applied for
a federal permit for dolphin trips
when local officials told him he
might eventually need one.
A ruling on his application is ex
pected this winter.
Black population goes up in South
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - For the first
time in more than a century the
share of blacks living in the South
is increasing, the Census Bureau
reported Tuesday.
The proportion of blacks living
in the South grew from 52.2 per
cent in 1980 to 55.9 percent in
1988, reversing a decline that had
been under way for more than 100
years.
While the new census study did
not investigate the reasons for this
reversal, two factors are likely in
volved, according to census statis
tician Claudette Bennett.
One is that fewer blacks are
leaving the South than in the past,
while the second is movement of
blacks back into the region both in
search of jobs and as part of the
general movement of all types of
Americans into the Sun Belt
states.
In recent years, the employment
growth that has taken place in the
country has occurred disproportio
nately in the South, noted William
O’Hare, director of policy studies at
the private Population Reference
Bureau.
Blacks had traditionally been
drawn out of the South by jobs in
heavy industry in the North, but
most had maintained family and
kinship ties in the Southern states,
he commented. Such ties, ex
plained O’Hare, make it easier to
return south.
However, the current trend is
not exactly a return flow, O’Hare
said in a telephone interview.
Historically, blacks moved out of
the rural South to the urban
North. The flow now is to urban
areas in the South, not back to peo
ple’s rural roots, he said.
While the share of blacks in the
South grew by 3.7 percentage
points between 1980 ana 1988, the
region with the largest loss was the
Northeast, slipping from 18.6 per
cent to 16.5 percent of blacks.
The Midwest dropped from 20.5
percent to 19.1 percent of blacks
over the period, while the West
was nearly unchanged, sliding
from 8.6 percent to 8.5 percent.
The 1880 national census found
90.4 percent of blacks living in the
South, and a century ago in 1890
that had slipped only slightly to
90.3 percent, according to calcula
tions based on historical records
kept by the Commerce Depart
ment.
By the turn of the century, the
South’s share of blacks had de
clined to 89.7 percent. It has
dropped steadily in this century as
blacks moved out of the rural areas
and smaller cities of the South in
search of jobs in the Northern and
Western industrial centers.
Overall, the new study con
cluded that there were 29.3 million
blacks in the United States as of
March 1988, up 13.6 percent since
the 1980 census. That represented
12.2 percent of all Americans, up
from 11.7 percent in 1980.
Classroom pressures begin once again
Kirsten Hurlburt, a speech communications major, brushes up on her public-speaking
knowledge by reading her Speech 108 text.
DRUGS
From page 1
released by Morgan.
Leed said the early draft pro
posed a one-year suspension for
students convicted of use or pos
session of drugs. Students
would be expelled from school
for their second offense of drug
use or possession.
They also would be expelled
the first time they arc- convicted
for selling or manufccturing of
drugs, according to the pro
posal.
“A student could be convicted
for marijuana or 10 pounds of
cocaine and still be suspended
for one year,” Leed said.
House leaders are still nego
tiating the details of the anti
drug package.
Dwight Douglas, vice presi
dent for Student Affairs, said it
would be difficult to learn about
all student drug convictions, es
pecially if they were out of town.
“How are we to know to sus
pend you?" Douglas said.
Concerning the possible drug
testing of state employees, Uni
versity Law Professor J. Ralph
Beaird said the U.S. Supreme
Court has upheld such testing
for certain employees, such as
those at airlines and railroads,
where safety is concerned.
“Once you leave the area of
transportation, where is the line
drawn?" Beaird said.
Leed said when it isn’t a case
of health and safety, employee
drug testing may come in con
flict with unreasonable search
and seisure.
‘It’s not clear who you can
test," he said.
Gene Ruffin, a library assis
tant and student supervisor,
said, “it’s ludicrous.
‘It’s a complete invasion of
‘It’s not clear who
you can test’
— Arthur Leed,
Student Affairs
legal adviser
privacy. It boils down to ide
ology testing," Ruffin said. ‘The
use and non-use of substances is
up to one’s lifestyle. Like big
brother, they (the government)
do not have the right to do that.”
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