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2 « The Red and Black • Wednesday, January 24. 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
University chosen for Georgia magazine conference.
Close to 150 magazine professionals from all over the state will meet
at the Center for Continuing Education on Jan. 30 and Jan. 31 for the
first Georgia Magazine Association Conference. The conference for
the year-old association is a celebration for the associations first year
of work, said Gina Schreiber, publisher and editor of Southern Homes
magazine and association president. The University was chosen as
the conference location because of its convenient facilities such as
.ecture and banquet halls, she said. John English, journalism
professor and association board member, said although the
conference is designed for professionals, students can participate on a
space available basis. The itinerary includes an awards ceremony,
classes and exhibits of innovative products and services that will
make magazine publishing much easier. English said 50 of the 250
magazines based in Georgia are members of the association.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (API: Open records disputed. Rov Barnes
accused fellow gubernatorial candidate and Lt. Gov. Zell Miller on
Tuesday of trying to duck Barnes’ request to see Miller’s collection of
clippings and tapes. Barnes said Miller had placed “administrative
convenience’ above his duty to comply with the state’s open records
act. Michael Jablonski, an attorney hired by Barnes’ campaign as a
researcher, has asked Miller to allow access to the newspaper
clippings, videotapes and audiotapes he has kept during his 16 years
in office Miller, who has championed open meetings and open
records, rejected the request, saying it was a “political fishing
expedition" designed to disrupt his office while the legislative session
was under way.
CINCINNATI (AP): Jury decides in favor of company, a
jury concluded Tuesday that two former Cincinnati Bell Telephone
Co. installers defamed a company supervisor by claiming he directed
them to perform illegal wiretaps. However, the eight-member
Hamilton County Common Pleas jury returned an inconsistent
verdict on the overriding question at the trial: whether the former
employees defamed the company by saying it had them perform
hundreds of illegal wiretaps in the 1970s and 1980s. The partial
verdict read in court indicated jurors didn’t believe at least some of
the wiretapping claims of former Bell employees Leonard Gates and
Robert Draise, who estimate they performed 1,200 illegal telephone
taps for police and the telephone company.
WASHINGTON (AP): Webster says Soviet threat cut.
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Webster,
told Congress Tuesday that Eastern Europe’s tumultuous push for
democracy has cut the Soviet threat to the West and that “we can
probably expect a continued diminution.” Webster, in an unusual
public appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said
that as unchallenged communist control comes to an end in the
Eastern bloc, those nations’ links to Moscow have been radically
changed. The result, he said, is a severe blow to the Soviet Union’s
certainty that Eastern Europe will respond to Moscow’s military
directives. The armed services committee is beginning work on
writing a defense budget for fiscal 1991 with an assessment of the
Soviet threat to the West.
MOSCOW (AP): KGB says many push for secession.
Extremists ambushed a military convoy in Azerbaijan, killing two
reserve soldiers and a woman bystander, Soviet media said Tuesday.
The KGB said the situation in the Soviet Caucasus, where Armenians
and Azerbaijanis have been battling for 11 days, remained tense
Tuesday. It said leaders of Soviet Azerbaijan and Armenia continued
negotiations to end the ethnic-violence, but little progress was
reported. The death toll rose to 170, including those killed in anti-
Armenian riots in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku and the clashes
that ensued among Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Soviet troops.
Azerbaijani activists said sentiment to break away from Moscow was
rising Jeikhun Mula-Zade, a political scientist, said the Azerbaijani
Communist Party leadership was meeting Tuesday and Wednesday
and would consider a break from the national party, as Lithuanian
Communists did last month.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• UGAZINE will meet tonight at
7 in Room 220 in Memorial Hall.
Anyone interested in writing,
editing, layout or advertising is
welcome to attend.
• The Zoology Club will meet
tonight at 7 in Room 707 of the
Biology Sciences Complex.
• The UGA College Republicans
will meet tonight at 8 in Room
140 of the Tate Student Center.
Everyone is welcome.
• The Student Association sub
committee on voter registration
will meet tonight at 7 in Room
143 of the Tate Student Center.
All students are welcome to come
share their ideas on student
involvement in local government.
• The Athens Gay/Lesbian
Association will meet tonight at 7
in Room 213 of Memorial Hall.
Everyone is invited.
• The Bulldog Student Athletic
Alliance will meet tonight at 8 in
Room 221 of Memorial Hall. All
member* should attend.
Announcements
• There will be a law school
applications workshop today
from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room C
of the law school. All students
interested in attending law
school are invited.
• The Counseling and Testing
Center will have a workshop on
coping with anxiety today from 5
to 7:30 p.m. in Room 119 of Clark
Howell Hall. No preregistration
is necessary.
• There will be a Lunch and
Learn Series today about the
exploration of research and
information regarding the
practice of meditation. The series
will be from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in
Room 143 of the Tate Student
Center. No proregi strati on
necessary.
• The Gerontology Center is
sponsoring a talk entitled
"Exercise, Physical Fitness and
Aging” today at 2 p.m. in Room
141 of the Tate Student Center.
The guest speaker is Dr. Brigitte 1
Jann, vice chairman of the
Department of Rehabilitation
! Medicine at Emory University
Medical School. Everyone is
welcome. A reception will follow
the talk.
• UGA Professor of English,
Vinay Dharwadker, will speak
on “Literary Theory and the
Fiction of Salman Rushdie"
today at noon in Room 261 of
Park Hall. The lecture is part of
the Lunch in Theory discussion
series sponsored by the
Humanities Center.
• A support group for women
who have been sexually
assaulted will meet tonight at 7
j at the Northeast Georgia Center,
1247 Prince Avenue. For more
information, call 542-9727.
• A presentation on the
Department of Natural
Resources Nongame Wildlife
Checkoff program-the option on
your Georgia state income tax
form to make a voluntary
donation to protect nongame
species in Grorgia-- will be
tonight at 7 at the Athens
Regional Library auditorium.
The program is free and open to |
the public. For more information,
call Sandy Creek Nature Center
at 354-2930.
Exhibits
• “Prints and Works of Paper:
New Acquisitions," a collection of
prints, drawings and watercolors
the Georgia Museum of Art has
acquired since 1986, will be on
display from Feb. 3 through
March 11 at the museum.
• The Georgia Museum of Art
will open its sxhibition, “Viewing
Video as Art An Overview of the
Youngest Art Form," on Jan. 27.
Films will be shown at scheduled
times and on an on-demand basis
through March 4.
Items for UGA Today must be
submitted in writing at least two
days before the date to be minted.
Include specific meeting location,
speaker's title and topic, and a
contact person's day and evening
phone number. Items are printed
on a space-available basis.
Because space is limited, long
announcements are shortened.
Sanchez sparks a fire in University address;
Challenges people to take active roles in life
Sanchez said people
shouldn’t get so
wrapped up in their
everyday lives that
they lose sight of their
responsibilty to people
and the planet.
By GAYL BARRETT
Staff Writer
American Book Award Winner
Sonia Sanchez did more than read
her poetry to the estimated 230-
person audience Monday night at
the Tate Student Center.
She elaborated on what her
poems were made of — fears, wars,
doubt*, grandmothers and hard
work. She spoke of classmates who
became drug addicta, an aunt who
was ashamed of how she looked
and gave other anecdotes that
added a personal flavor to her po
etry. She challenged her audience
to think, feel and act.
“You’ve got to know what’s going
on in the world, people," she said.
“And it’s up to you to do something
about it."
Drugs threw a wrench into the
American machine, she said. It
made people not care.
“You on drugs — you ain't what’s
happening. Where were you when
life was happening? Where were
you when Grenada was hap
pening?"
Sanchez said people shouldn’t
get so wrapped up in their ev-
eryday lives that they lose sight of
their responsibilty to people and
the planet.
“You’ve got to think about this
world we live in — a place called
Athens, Georgia,” she said. “People
are waiting for you. The earth is
waiting for you. To say something
about the world, to say something
about yourself."
Her poetry and personal reflec
tions portray a society where there
were set ideas of beauty, success
and reward. These social dogmas
led to self-hate and prejudice. To
counteract this, she spoke of self-
confidence and love.
“It’s a shame to live on this earth
and not like who you are. If you
love yourself, you have no reason to
exploit anyone else," she said.
Sanchez was born in Bir
mingham, Ala., in 1934. At the age
of eight, her family moved to New
York. She attended Hunter College
and later transferred to New York
University. Her published works
include "Homegirls and Handgre-
nades," “Under a Soprano Sky” and
“We a BaddDDD People."
Norman Harris, director of Afro-
American Studies, introduced her
at the reading as a poet, a play-
wright, an activist, a fiction writer,
a teacher, a mother and a wife. He
said she was part of the Black Arts
Movement which included such
poets as Amiri Baraka, Haki Mad-
nubuti and Atlanta native Askia
Muhammed Toure.
He said the Black Arts
Movement is noted for its musical
characteristics and many of San
chez's poems are meant to be Bung
instead of read. Sanchez is cur-
rently an associate professor at
Temple University where she lec
tures between speaking tours.
The University Union Issues
and Ideas Division sponsored the
reading as one of several in a se
ries, Coordinator Audrey Haynes
said. Arun Ghandi, grandson of In
dia’s famous political activist Mo
handas Gandhi, will speak Feb. 16.
Other speakers include Watergate
attorney G. Gordon Liddy and
Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn.
Financial
aid hotline to help students
Toll-free line on Saturday
Parents and students with Ques
tions about financial aid and filling
out corresponding forms can call a
toll-free hotline on Saturday, Jan.
27 to get the official answers.
The number for Georgia resi
dents to dial is 1-800-776-6878. At
lanta residents can call 493-5402.
Fifteen volunteers from the
Georgia Student Finance Commis
sion, which administers state-
funded grants and loans, will an
swer questions from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m., Gary Lewis, associate di
rector of financial aid at the Uni
versity, said.
Advisers will answer questions
from general to specific concerning
aid at Georgia colleges and univer
sities.
Tommy Moore, president of the
Georgia Association of Student Fi
nancial Aid Administrators at Val
dosta State College, said this is the
third year for a hotline and the
first year there will be a state-wide
toll-free number.
This, combined with increased
publicity, should keep the lines
very busy this year, he said.
by Anne-Marie Fanguy
Parole revocation hearing set for kidnapper;
New 22-year sentence will overlap set parole
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The Georgia Board
of Pardons and Paroles has set a
date for the parole revocation
hearing of confessed kidnapper
Charles “Scotty” Blassingame.
Blassingame, jailed in Dalton,
was on parole for a 1980 north
Georgia burglary coviction when
he was arrested in Whitfield
County in the 1987 disappearance
of Tammy Lynn Maciulis, 11, of
Marinette, Wis.
He pleaded guilty to kidnapping
charges after agreeing to lead au
thorities to the shallow grave in
which he buried the girl after she
died during the abduction. He was
sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Board spokesman Silas Moore
said Tuesday the state Board of
Pardons and Paroles will hold a
public hearing Jan. 31 before de
ciding whether Blassingame’s pa
role on the north Georgia
conviction should be revoked be
cause of his kidnapping sentence.
"He has not indicated whether
or not he will waive his hearing, so
we went ahead and set one up,”
Moore said. "He may decide be
tween now and then to waive his
hearing.”
Blassingame arrived in Whit
field County on Thurday after
brought to Georgia from Wisconsin
by a private extradition company.
He is being housed in Murray
County.
He was brought to Georgia after
Marinette County, Wis. District
Attorney Tim Duket requested the
state Board of Pardons and Paroles
trigger a parole revocation based
on Blassingame’s 22-year sentence
for the July 1987 kidnapping of the
11-year-old Marinette girl.
Blassingame, who has an exten
sive history of sex-related crimes,
was on parole for a 1980 conviction
for aggrevated battery and bur
glary in Murray County when he
was arrested in Whitfield County
in Tammy’s disappearance.
Blassingame pleaded guilty to
kidnapping her after persuading
Wisconsin prosecutors to drop the
threat of homicide prosecution in
exchange for him leading them to
the girl’s body. In October, he lead
authorities from Georgia and Wis
consin to a shallow grave in
Murray County where she had
been buried since 1987.
Blassingame contends he acci
dentally ran over the girl with his
car, but autopsies in Georgia and
Wisconsin show she died of mul
tiple blows to her head and have
ruled Tammy’s death a homicide.
Though Wisconsin authorities
agreed not to charge Blassingame
with homicide, their decision does
not affect Georgia prosecutors.
Conasauga Judicial Circuit Dis
trict Attorney Jack Partain said he
is awaiting reports from the state
Crime Lab in Atlanta before taking
any action on Blassingame.
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