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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday, January 11, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
RA applications available. Applications are now available for
resident assistant positions in each residence hall community office,
according to Student Development Specialist Debbie Spenser. The
applications are due Jan. 26. Information sessions, which will detail
the application process, will be held Tuesday through Wednesday.
Spenser said RAs are paid peer counselors who live on a hall and
manage a section of 30-60 students. Applicants must be a sophomore
by next fall, have a 2.2 grade-point-average and a good academic
standing at time of employment.
Financial aid packets In. Financial Aid Application Packets for
the 1990-91 academic year are now available in the Office of Student
Financial Aid. Applications can be picked up from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in
Room 220 of the Academic Building. The priority deadline is March 1,
1990. Ray Tripp, director of financial aid, said students should begin
the application process as early as possible. Tripp said there have
been some changes in the application procedures which will make it
easier for students to apply. He said he expects the amount of aid
available for the 1990-91 academic year to be about the same as last
year.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Taxpayers asked to help wildlife. Nearly
1,000 species of animals, from manatees looking for a new home on
the Georgia coast to flickers house-hunting in the Appalachian
foothills, could benefit from a new line on the Georgia income tax
form. It’s line 26 on Form 500 or line 6 on Form 500EZ, and it allows
taxpayers to donate money from their tax refund, or send a payment
with their taxes, to the Georgia Non-game Wildlife Fund. Most of the
875 non-game species are facing the same problems of habitat loss
and pollution which confront ducks and deer, but since they are not
game animals, money raised by hunters’ taxes isn’t used to help
them.
JACKSONVILLE, Ha. (AP): Stolen items sold at
markets. Jacksonville police say they have presents for many south
Georgians — stolen lawn mowers, boat motors and other items worth
about $500,000 that were stolen from 18 Georgia counties.
Jacksonville authorities are rounding up the merchandise from
Jacksonville area flea markets after Georgia men were arrested in
Ben Hill County, Ga. Prints from the men’s shoes matched footprints
found after burglaries at Georgia homes and farms between October
and December, police said, adding that each man faces more than 180
charges of burglary, theft by taking, criminal trespassing, possessing
stolen property and altering serial numbers.
ATLANTA (AP): Propst wants higher graduation rate.
The state’s public colleges must work to raise their graduation rate
and the retention rate of minority students, faculty and staff,
University System of Georgia Chancellor H. Dean Propst said
Wednesday. In a “state of the system" address prepared for the Board
of Regents, Propst said a major goal for the 1990s is to raise the
graduation rate at the system’s 34 institutions. Propst also said the
system must make a special effort to graduate minorities and women
and to retain black and female students and employees. He noted that
in the 1980s black enrollment in state colleges increased 45 percent,
from 18,619 in 1979 to 26,955 in 1989.
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP): Case to go to grand jury.
Charges against a roofer accused of attacking four women in one
apartment complex will be presented to a Gwinnett County grand
jury, a magistrate ruled Tuesday. John Charles Whipple, 29, of
Norcross is charged with three counts of rape, three counts of
aggravated assault, two counts of aggravated sodomy, four counts of
burglary and one count of cruelty to children. One of the women, all of
whom lived in the Shadow Creek apartment complex, escaped her
attacker. Police in Illinois have charged him with five similar rapes in
the Chicago area.
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Lost engine linked to lavatory, a
Northwest Airlines spokesman said Tuesday the lavatory of a Boeing
727 that dropped an engine over Florida last week had been repaired
eight times in the weeks leading to the incident, which officials
believe was linked to a leak in the sanitary system. Northwest’s
Flight 5, from Miami to Minneapolis, made an emergency landing in
Tampa after the aircraft lost power. The pilots later learned that the
right engine, one of three, had fallen off the plane at 35,000 feet above
ground. None of the 139 passengers or six crew members were
ir\jured. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday the
lavatory had been repaired 10 times since November 1989.
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP): Watergate Room in library.
Even Richard Nixon agreed that the library honoring him would not
be complete without a mention of Watergate. So the new Richard M.
Nixon Library will include not only a Watergate Room, but some of
the recorded telephone and conversation tapes revealing the former
president’s role in the scandal cover-up that led to his downfall,
library officials said.
■ WORLD
BEIJING (AP): China ends martial law. Premier Li Peng
lifted Beijing’s 7-month-old martial law Wednesday night and said
that by crushing pro-democracy protests, the army had saved China
from “the abyss of misery." The largely symbolic action appeared
intended chiefly to ease foreign criticism of China’s harsh crackdown
on dissent and cue the World Bank and industrialized nations to
restore badly needed soft loans. A White House spokesman said there
was no change in the U.S. economic sanctions against China, but
hinted that the United States stands ready to back World Bank loons
for China for humanitarian needs.
LIMA, Peru (AP): Ex-defense minister assassinated.
Shining Path rebels shot and killed a former defense minister
Tuesday morning in a shopping center parking lot, making him the
highest-ranking official to be slain in 10 years of guerrilla war in
Peru, officials said. Enrique Lopez, shot at close range as he was
parking his car in the Lima suburb of San Isidro, was the first
cabinet-level official killed in the escalating guerrilla violence that
has claimed the lives of hundreds of federal and local officials. A
spokesman for the Interior Ministry, who asked not to be identified,
said four men with submachine guns pumped at least 10 bullets into
Lopez at 10 a.m. two miles south of downtown Lima. He said Lopez
was alone in the vehicle. Lopez, rushed to a nearby military hospital,
died in surgery, officials said.
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP): Ethnic unrest in Bulgaria.
An outbreak of Slavic nationalist protest against the Turkish
minority appears to be an attempt by Communist hard-liners to
preserve their power in Bulgaria, an opposition leader said Tuesday.
‘It’s an organized process from lower and middle levels" of the
Communist Party, “and even some people at the top," said Petko
Simeonov, a leader of the opposition Club for Glasnoet and
Democracy. Thousands of nationalists in the past week have staged
strikes and demonstrations in at least eight cities across Bulgaria to
protest a Dec. 29 decision by central authorities to restore cultural
and religious rights to the country’s estimated 1.6 million Moslems,
mostly ethnic Turks.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• Circle K International will
have its weekly meeting tonight
at 7 in Room 137 of the Tate
Student Center. Visitors are
welcome.
• International Club will hold its
winter reception tonight et 8 in
Room 140 of the Tate Center. All
members and prospective
members are invited.
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Dept, of Energy contract adds depth
to University’s ecological exploration
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
Thanks to a new contract with
the U.S. Department of Energy,
the University will continue its re
search at the Savannah River
Ecology Laboratory and begin
more in-depth studies of the ecolog
ical effects of radioactive materials
on natural habitats.
The present contract, adminis
tered by the University Research
Foundation, expires Sept. 30, 1990
and will be renewed until Sept. 30,
1995.
Created in 1951 by Ecology Pro
fessor Eugene Odum and operated
by the University, the lab is located
on 192,000 acres of government-
owned land on the Savannah
River, next to the nation's only plu
tonium production facility.
Whit Gibbons, zoology professor
and division head of wildlife
ecology at the lab, said that al
though the facility is located near
the plutonium plant, researchers
are still able to study the natural
habitats of ecological systems in
the area.
The lab has a lot of protected
areas in which biodiversity in the
coastal plain region has been pre
served, he said.
“There is a major effort in the
area of biodiversity right now,”
Gibbons said. The project as a
whole is important to the DOE be
cause it has global implications, he
said.
“Right now in the U.S. senate,
ng pi
odiversity bills, so that legally, bi
odiversity has to be considered in
passing the bills,” he said. They’ll
have to address the question; Bow
does this affect the biodiversity of
the region?"
Gibbons said emphasis will also
be placed on ecotoxicology — the
study of radioactive materials and
the possible genetic effects of these
materials on wildlife.
SREL Communications Coordi
nator Patricia West said, ‘Since it
opened, work at the SREL has
been the subject of more than 60
masters and doctoral theses.”
Negotiations on the new con
tract, which is expected to exceed
$35 million, should be completed
next summer.
Eugene Odum
SA will do survey
of residence life
By DARA McLEOD
Staff Writer
The Student Association
Tuesday voted to conduct a
random survey of University
Housing residents to determine
what problems the new Univer
sity Housing Director should ad
dress when appointed.
Outgoing director, Dan Hallen-
beck, was selected earlier this
year as the new associate vice
president of Student Affairs and
will be giving up his position as
housing director as soon as a re
placement is found. A screening
committee of faculty, staff and
students is currently reviewing
applications for the position.
All freshman senators have
been appointed to a committee
which will examine student satis
faction with University Housing.
Todd King, junior senator, said
the SA may submit a letter re
questing the new director to
spend two or three days in some
of the residence halls to gain
first-hand experience of resi
dence life.
Eugene Luna, assistant di
rector of the Colonial Residence
Halls, said, “I would be surprised
if the new director doesn’t do
something like that."
“It certainly would give them a
different perspective,” he said.
Hallenbeck said, “We’re not
going to hire somebody that
doesn’t have any understanding
The SA may submit a
letter requesting the
new housing director
to spend two or three
days in some of the
residence halls to
gain first-hand
experience.
of what a residential community
is.”
In other business:
• King said he wants the SA to
take action against a proposed
bill before the 1990 state legis
lature. The bill would require all
students convicted of drug
charges to be suspended or ex
pelled from the University.
• SA President Mark Schisler
said the University Council has
asked the SA to look into doing
away with the University’s man
datory physical education re
quirements because they are
antiquated.
• Other proposals to be pre
sented next week include the
publication of course evaluations,
a recycling program for the Uni
versity, and nighttime lighting
for the running track near the
coliseum.
Satellite put into orbit
The Associated Press
SPACE CENTER, Houston -
The Columbia astronauts put a
Navy communications satellite
into orbit Wednesday and con
tinued to close in on the path of a
floating science laboratory they
hope to snatch from space.
"It was an outstanding
morning," flight director A1 Pen
nington said shortly after the re
lease of the 15,200-pound Syncom
satellite. “So everything looks real
good right now. It’s a great ship up
there they’re flying and it con
tinues to perform beautifully.”
After the satellite was released,
the astronauts turned their atten
tion to the other major task of the
mission, tracking down the 21,400-
pound Long Duration Exposure
Facility so it can be brought back to
Earth.
Commander Dan Brandenstein
and pilot Jim Wetherbee steered
the space shuttle through addi
tional maneuvers to help the or-
biter catch up to the bus-size
LDEF. If the astronauts fail, the
satellite is expected to be pulled to
its destruction in a fiery dive
through Earth’s atmosphere on
March 9.
Columbia is in a slightly lower
orbit than LDEF, which enables it
to circle the globe a little faster and
gradually narrow the distance be
tween it and the satellite. The
shuttle was closing in on LDEF at
a rate of about 40 miles per 91-
minute orbit Wednesday.
When the shuttle lifted off from
Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Tuesday,
it was 1,725 miles behind LDEF.
By the time the five crew members
ended their workday Wednesday
afternoon, they were about 750
miles from their target.
The chase should end Friday
morning when mission specialist
Bonnie Dunbar plans to use the
shuttle’s 50-foot robot arm to latch
onto LDEF and tuck it into the
cargo bay for the trip home.
Scientists are eager to see what
has happened to the 57 self-con
tained experiments aboard during
nearly six years of exposure to
spae. LDEF was to have been re
trieved 10 months after a shuttle
put it into orbit in 1984, but sched
uling problems and the 1986 Chal
lenger disaster delayed the
retrieval.
Columbia mission specialists
Dunbar, David Low and Marsha
Ivins worked on several experi
ments of their own, concentrating
on materials processing and tests
of how well the human body adapts
to living in weightlessness.
The major task Wednesday, de
ploying the $85 million Syncom sa
tellite, was completed in the
morning when it slipped from its
berth in the cargo bay and spun
away. Forty-five minutes later, an
onboard motor fired to propel the
satellite toward its permanent
working post 22,300 miles above
the Pacific.
The satellite, built by Hughes
Aircraft, will complete a network of
five satellites through which the
Pentagon communicates with its
planes, ships and bases around the
world.
Columbia’s 10-day mission is the
second-longest in 33 shuttle mis
sions. It is a step toward even
longer flights leading to extended
stays in space of several months
aboard space station Freedom later
in this decade.
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