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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 50
Fitness club
could honor
agreements
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
A fitness chain based in
Dayton, Ohio, may give new life
to memberships at the defunct
LivingWell Fitness Center fran
chises in Athens and Atlanta.
Jerry Westbrock, president of
the Spa Lady Spa Fitness office
in Jacksonville, Fla., said the
chain has worked out an
agreement with owners of the
Beechwood Shopping Center —
where the Athens LivingWell
was located. If all negotiations
are successful, LivingWell mem
bers might be able to workout
there by the end of February, he
said.
Spa Lady Spa Fitness would
like to honor all paid LivingWell
memberships, Westbrock said,
but the final decision is up to the
Houston bankruptcy court hand
ling the LivingWell case.
“People have spent their
money and we’d love to be able to
honor their memberships,” West
brock said.
In December, the Athens loca
tion and the last five or six other
LivingWell centers remaining in
Georgia closed their doors and
declared bankruptcy.
Spa Lady Spa Fitness also is
negotiating to purchase five or
six of the LivingWell centers in
Atlanta, Westbrock said.
The chain wants to move staff
from Jacksonville to Atlanta to'
open a regional office by next
week, he said. The Athens center
would include staff from Jackson
ville but it would also hire locally.
The Spa Lady Spa Fitness
franchise owns about 250 clubs in
the United States and Canada.
Westbrock said the chain has
taken over out-of-business clubs
in the past and honored their pre
vious memberships.
Bob Waters at the LivingWell
Inc. headquarters in Houston
said employee paychecks, along
with other debts, are still in
bankruptcy proceedings there.
Westbrock said he hopes to be
in the Athens building by Feb. 1,
but he may not be able to open
the club then because of needed
repairs.
New recycling program starts Feb. 1
FUTURE SITES OF NORTH CAMPUS RECYCLING CENTERS
FUTURE SITES OF SOUTH CAMPUS RECYCLING CENTERS
Phase One: Trash bins at these 15 locations will receive trash to be analyzed for various attributes
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Clarke County,” Knapp said.
TenBrook said, ‘The University
produces about 550 tons of solid
waste per month. We guestimate
65 percent of that is paper."
The task force will report on the
pilot program and make recom
mendations for the University-
wide project to Knapp at the end of
Marcn.
As part of the pilot project,
paper, glass and aluminum will be
collected in separate bins in 6ix
North Campus buildings, six South
Campus buildings and three resi
dence halls.
Bins will be placed in the main
library, the School of Law, Brooks
Hall, Old College, New College and
the Business Services Building on
North Campus.
On South Campus, bins will be
in the graduate studies, physical
education and pharmacy buildings,
Hardman Hall, the ecology
building and the School of Forest
Resources.
Reed, Payne and Milledge resi
dence halls will be involved as well.
Each floor of the buildings will
have three containers: a red one for
glass, a white one for paper and a
gray one for aluminum. Custodians
will empty the containers into spe
cial recycling bins, one by Candler
Hall for North Campus and one in
the Hardman Hall parking lot for
South Campus.
The Physical Plant will admin
ister the North and South campus
programs. University Housing will
administer the programs in the
residence halls.
Bruce Ferguson, associate pro
fessor of landscape architecture
and member of the task force, said
only aluminum, paper and glass
will be collected because “they
have a lot of volume and maybe
vendors will be willing to pay us a
good price for them.”
TenBrook said the vendor se
lected by the task force will accept
all kinds of paper. Clear, green,
and brown glass all will be col
lected as well, he said.
However, Ferguson said the
most valuable material is alu
minum, at 40 cents a pound.
may come for Chinese students in U.S.
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
In keeping with University Pres
ident Charles Knapp’s pledge for
an environmentally aware institu
tion, the University will begin a
limited sol id-waste recycling pro
gram by placing trash bins in 15
campus buildings Feb. 1.
The pilot program is being un
dertaken by an eight-member Re
cycling Task Force which Knapp
appointed Dec. 20.
James TenBrook, chairman of
the task force and director of the
University’s Physical Plant, said
the task force will gather informa
tion on the types and quantities of
trash on campus during the pro
ject. It also will determine the pro
ject’s costs and the amount of
money earned from recycling the
trash.
The data will be used to develop
a recycling program for the entire
campus that should begin as early
as June, he said.
Data will be collected from Feb.
1 to March 2, but the bins will re
main in the buildings until the ex
pansion of the campus-wide effort,
TenBrook said.
Knapp, in a prepared statement,
said he appointed the task force be
cause recycling isn’t covered by the
recently-appointed environmental
task force headed by President
Emeritus Henry King Stanford.
‘The University of Georgia gen
erates a large amount of solid
waste, and through recycling we
can make a vital contribution to
waste management efforts in
Reprieve
By STEVEN M. SEARS
Staff Writer
The fate of Chinese students in
the United States, including many
at the University, will be decided
today as Congress votes whether to
override the Presidents’ veto of leg
islation that extended their visas
after the Tiananmen Square mas
sacre.
University Chinese students,
who lobbied in Washington, D.C.,
for the past several months, are
confident President Bush’s veto
will be nullified.
If Bush’s veto isn’t nullified,
Chinese students will be forced to
return to China for two years be
fore they can return to the United
States.
“Congress already has enough
votes,” said Hong Kai Lu, who was
instrumental in orchestrating local
lobby efforts. He said Chinese stu
dents were warmly received in
Washington, D.C.
Several Georgia politicians sup
port Lu’s sentiments.
Sen. Wyche Fowler and Con
gressman Buddy Darden will vote
to override Bush’s veto, according
to their press secretaries.
A spokeswoman from Sen.
Nunn’s office said Nunn hasn’t de
cided how he will vote today.
Lu said if Bush’s veto is nullified
it will indirectly criticize the
A spokeswoman from
Sen. Nunn’s office said
Nunn hasn’t decided
how he will vote today.
Chinese government.
‘This bill is not only protection
to the Chinese students, Dut a pro
test against the Chinese govern
ment. It sends a strong message
from the United States govern
ment,” he said.
Returning to China could be
dangerous for students who dem
onstrated last spring in Athens to
support Beijing democratic demon
strations. When they return to
their homeland, their government
could punish them for having
spoken against it.
“Most people who took part in
the demonstrations actively may
have trouble,” Jiang Einping said.
“We think maybe our names are
on the blacklist,” said Einping, a
chemistry graduate student.
Some students have received
personal letters from friends and
relatives in China which they sus
pect government censors read.
T know one case where they put
the wrong letter in the wrong enve
lope,” Einping said.
Two government experts on
campus said Bush’s veto of the bill
was related to problems between
the executive and legislative
branches
Dean Rusk, secretary of state
during the Kennedy and Johnson
administrations, said, “I don’t see
why (Bush) necessarily vetoed it. I
think he agreed with the purpose
of the bill. It's one of the many ex
ecutive-legislative problems.”
Martin Hillenbrand, director of
the East-West Trade Center,
echoed Rusk’s sentiments.
“It’s a matter of the executive
branch and legislative power. The
legislative powers are trying to in
terfere on executive power,” he
said.
Ping Pong break
Jeff Andrews, a senior business major, plays Ping Pong before his
classes. Playing usually once a week, he beat today's opponent 21-
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Student files small claims suit against
O’Malley’s Esprit about parking space
By KRISTINE SCHWARTZ
Contributing Writer
The overcrowded parking condi
tions that have plagued O’Malley’s
Esprit this quarter prompted one
student member to file a lawsuit
against the spa Tuesday in Clarke
County Magistrate Court.
Eric McPherson, a senior inter
national business mcyor, said he
filed the suit in small claims court
because he assumed that buying q
membership guaranteed his right,
to park in the lot.
He has had difficulty finding a
space recently, because students
take advantage of the spa’s close-
to-campus location and park there
during their classes.
McPherson said he’s asking for
O’Malley’s to pay him the cost of a
parking permit elsewhere. He isn’t
seeking a refund of his mem
bership because he still wants to
work out there.
To ease the parking problem,
which has increased this quarter,
O’Malley’s Esprit owner Ken
Fulghum said he divided the lot
into two sections, one for student
parking, and the other adjacent to
the building for exercisers only. In
addition, he has hired an atten
dant to make sure students park in
the correct section.
McPherson said O’Malley’s man
agement told him he had to move
his car to the student lot after he
works out in the mornings or be
towed. But, he said, there are
never any spaces available in the
student lot.
He confronted O’Malley’s man
agement about the parking
problem last week, but he said they
ignored him.
Fulghum said he wasn’t aware
of the lawsuit.
“I’m surprised he has nothing
better to do," Fulghum said.
“What’s he going to sue me for —
cruel and inhumane damage?"
There are many spaces available
for students who want to work out,
Fulghum said, and he’s not plan
ning to monitor students who exer
cise first and then leave for class.
O’Malley’s usually doesn’t tow
cars if they have an O’Malley’s
parking sticker, Fulghum said.
However, some students have tried
to squeeze their care into non-des-
ignated spaces, he said.
Fulghum said O’Mallev’s allows
students to park in the lot out of
courtesy, and the membership con
tract doesn’t stipulate that a
member has 24-hour parking, he
said.
“We have nearly 600 spaces,"
Fulghum said. “We don’t even see
that many working out every day.
If we do, well reduce student
parking.”
McPherson said O’Malley’s
should limit the number of parking
permits it distributes and they
shouldn’t use the parking spaces to
sell memberships for the spa.
Kelly Salata, a senior psychology
major, said she knows students
who only use the O’Malley’s mem
bership as a parking permit.
“People don’t realize the north
commuter lot is just as good,” Sa
lata said.
Fulghum admits the Esprit
members are abusing their
parking permits to use the lot for
convenient parking near their
classes.
“Now, it seems everyone’s joined
to park," he said. ‘The sticker is for
your access to O’Malley’s Esprit,
not to the University."
Fulghum said he can give
parking permits for the available
spaces but can’t guarantee a
parking space in the student lot.
Fulghum said O’Malley’s has
more student members than ever
Eric McPherson
before which has increased
parking problems. He said he could
increase the membership price
from $45 a quarter to decrease
memberships, but he wants to keep
the membership affordable for stu
dents.
To deal with the parking
hassles, Fulghum said he’s near
closing a deal that would annex a
vacant lot across the street.
The new lot would provide an
additional acre to the present five
acres of parking and increase
parking 50 percent, Fulghum said.
“If the new lot eases the parking
problem, we’ll be satisfied,” he
said.
show myths, tell facts
Program to
By LAURA ROE
Staff Writer
Students and faculty members
will have an opportunity to meet
with AIDS experts and those in
fected with the HIV virus Saturday
during AIDS Education, Aware
ness and Action Day presentations.
“We want to convey a feeling of
what it’s like to live with AIDS,"
said Nancy MacNair, health edu
cator at the Gilbert Health Center
and AIDS Athens member.
AIDS Athens, a grass-roots orga
nization to assist AIDS victims,
and the University Health Service
are co-sponsoring the event at the
Tate Student Center.
The workshop registration fee,
which includes lunch, is $2 for stu
dents and $15 for non-students.
The program begins at 8:30 a.m.
and ends at 5 p.m. People can call
542-AIDS until Friday to register.
MacNair said she is excited
about having the program in
Athens.
Although more people have died
of AIDS than were killed in the
Vietnam War, she said fighting the
disease isn’t a hopeless situation.
But it’s crucial for both University
students and faculty members to
try to understand as much as they
can about AIDS.
Dr. Paul Peteet, a physician at
the Gilbert Health Center, and Dr.
Florence Winship, a health center
administrator, will speak on “Basic
Medical Facts about AIDS," at 10
a.m.
Peteet said, “One of the common
myths is that it’s just a disease for
gay people or it’s just something
about AIDS
that someone else may get.
“A lot of students feel like
they’re invulnerable, that nothing
serious is going to happen to
them," he said.
Other topics will include presen
tations by people with AIDS and
an AIDS medical update by Dr.
Melanie Thompson, President of
the Atlanta AIDS Research Con
sortium.
The psychological and social as
pects of AIDS and its impact on the
workplace and schoolsettings will
be discussed.