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2 ♦ The Red and Black » Tuesday. January 30. 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
New SA senator election proposal to be voted on. The
Student Association will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Phi Kappa Hall.
SA Sophomore Sen. Laura Petrides said the SA is expected to vote on
a proposal calling for the election of SA senators from each of the
University’s 13 schools and colleges, rather than from each class.
Articles six through 12 of the SA constitution also will be reviewed,
Petrides said.
Leathers begins second vice president duties. Dale G.
Leathers, professor and speech communications department head,
took office Jan. 1 as the second vice president of the national Speech
Communication Association. The association elected Leathers last
fall and notified him of his victory in November. As second vice
president, Leathers said he will have the responsibility of
maintaining and building membership as well as acting as a liaison to
affiliated organizations. The association’s policy mandates that
Leather will automatically move on to the position of first vice
president in 1991 and president in 1992.
Odum said transitions in behavior essential.Eugene P.
Odum, founder and director emeritus of the University’s Institute of
Ecology spoke at the law auditorium Thursday and Friday as part of
the two-part Ferdinand Phinizy lecture series. He said because the
earth is reaching maturity, transitions must be made in our behavior.
One of the most important transitions to make is from a waste
disposal to a waste reduction society, he said. For instance, farmers
can reduce waste by using sewage sludge rather than chemicals for
fertilizer. In some University experiments pine trees grew faster with
sewage than with chemical fertilizer, he said. Odum was 1987 winner
of the Crafoord Prize, looked upon as the ecology equivalent of the
Nobel Prize.
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author cancels lecture. Pulitzer-
Prize-winning author Robert Coles, was scheduled to speak Monday
afternoon but was forced to cancel his lecture. Carol Winthrop,
assistant to the vice president for Academic AfTairs, said Coles
injured his back while shoveling snow at his Boston home. Coles was
to speak on “ The Moral Life of the Young,” a topic based on his
studies showing how children from different backgrounds gain
religious values in various social and cultural settings. Winthrop said
she hopes Coles will be able to speak before the end of the quarter.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): GMA urged to support Harris. Gov. Joe
Frank Harris asked city officials from across the state Monday to
support his growth strategies initiatives and solid waste disposal
plans currently pending in the state Legislature. Harris told
members of the Georgia Municipal Association that their input is
valuable in finding ways to maintain the state’s growth rate and
handle the problems created by it. The GMA, which wrapped up a
three-day legislative conference Monday, placed growth strategies
and solid waste management atop its legislative agenda for 1990.
ATLANTA (AP): Filmmaking big business in Georgia.
Filmmaking in Georgia had its most prosperous year in a decade in
1989 with 15 motion pictures and made-for-television movies and
series filmed in the state. Locations ranged from Covington to Jekyll
Island, and generated $141.9 million for the state’s economy,
according to the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade and
Tourism. The film and TV industry in Georgia employed more than
600 technicians and artisans last year with than 400 actors cast in
speaking roles.
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Bush's budget sent to Congress.
On Monday President Bush sent Congress a $1.23 trillion budget for
fiscal 1991 that keeps new spending below inflation and recognizes
“remarkable changes” in the world by scaling back defense and
rewarding emerging democracies. Bush called the spending plan an
“investment in the future.” But Democratic leaders in Congress
pounced on it as a "standpat budget” and challenged its claim to halve
the federal deficit, to $63 1 billion. Fights loomed with the
Democratic-controlled Congress on a range of fronts: Bush’s desire to
cut Medicare and capital gains taxes, to close military bases he
considers outmoded and, on the other hand, to preserve some
expensive weapons. Bush would increase spending on space,
education, the environment and the war on drugs. Losers, this year,
are Medicare, college student loans, farm subsidies, energy
conservation grants and mass transit. The president’s budget for the
fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 calls for $36.5 billion in spending cuts
and other deficit-reduction measures.
■ WORLD
EAST BERLIN (AP): Honecker to face trial. Erich
Honecker, who ruled East Germany for 18 years until his downfall in
October, was released from a hospital Monday and arrested .
immediately to be tried for treason, the natloaal prosecutor said.
Honecker was recuperating at Charite hospital from surgery
performed Jan. 8 to remove a malignant kidney tumor. Plans to put
the former Communist Party chief and three members of his
Politburo on trial in March were announced by Prosecutor Hans-
Juergen Joseph at a session of Parliament.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Criminal Justice Society
will hold an organizational
meeting tonight at 6:30 in Room
140 of the Tate Student Center.
The group is open to both
criminal justice majors and non
majors.
• The Social Work Club will meet
tonight at 7 in the lobby of
Tucker Hall. For more
information, call 549-9377.
• The Earth Day organizational
meeting will be tonight at 8 in
Room 142 of the Tate Student
Center. All interested are
welcome.
• Beyond War/The New
Initiative will meet tonight at 8
in the Russell Hall conference
room. Annie Gibson from the
community group will talk about
the national seminar she
attended in California.
• Trends, the magazine of The
Red and Black, will have a
meeting tonight for writers and
artists interested in contributing
their work. The meeting will be
at 8 in The Red and Black offices.
• The University of Georgia Pre-
Veterinary Club will meet
tonight at 7:30 in the
microbiology auditorium at the
School of Veterinary Medicine.
All members should attend and
new members are welcome.
Announcements
• Christian Campus Fellowship
| will have a free meal tonight at
| 6:15 and a bible study at 7 at
j 1080 S. Milledge Ave. Everyone
j is welcome. For more
information, call 546-1021.
• The Public Relations Student
■ Society of America will hold its
annual new member induction
ceremony tonight at 8 in the Tate
Student Center reception hall.
Refreshments will be served and
everyone is welcome.
•The Department of Philosophy
will sponsor a colloquium today
titled “Heidegger and Artificial
Intelligence,” by Dr. Elizabeth
Preston of the University of
Pittsburgh. The lecture will
begin 4:30 p.m. in Room 205S of
Peabody Hall.
• The Counseling and Testing
Center will have a presentation
today on learning to schedule
your time while still having time
for fun. It will be from 3:30 to
5:00 p.m. in Room 119 of Clark
Howell Hall. No preregistration
necessary.
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By LAURA ROE
Staff Writer
Aids Education, Awareness, and
Action Day provided a potpourri of
information for the 120 people who
attended the all-day program Sat
urday at the Tate Student Center.
The program included a variety
of speakers on many topics in
cluding an Acquired Immune De-
fiency Syndrome medical update,
psychological and social aspects of
AIDS and a question and answer
panel with two people with AIDS.
Melanie Thompson, president of
the AIDS Research Consortium of
Atlanta, presented the medical up
date. She said the consortium is in
volved in the testing of many drugs
that fight the Human Immunodefi
ciency Virus.
The consortium is participating
in a project with the Centers for
Disease Control “to learn more
about the different illnesses caused
by the HIV infection both nation
ally and in Atlanta,” she said.
People with AIDS interested in
participating in the experimental
project can enroll by Thursday
through their personal physician,
Thompson said.
Although the drug AZT is the
only FDA-licensed drug to treat
AIDS, people should be aware of
both its benefits and side effects,
she said. Certain people may be
able to take experimental drugs if
AZT is too expensive or if its side
Georgia is ranked
eighth in the country
for AIDS cases and the
Atlanta area has
several thousand.
Many can’t afford
treatment because it’s
so expensive.
effects are too harmful for them.
Side effects of AZT may include:
the stunted growth of bone-
marrow, nausea, vomiting, muscle
aches, headaches, elevated liver
enzymes, anxiety, and possible sei
zures.
In addition Thomspon said
many people can’t afford treatment
for AIDS because it’s so expensive,
she said.
“Insurance can make a differ
ence, but there is no cost to pa
tients to be in experimental trials,”
she said.
Dr. Florence Winship and Dr.
Paul Peteet, two physicians at Gil
bert Health Center, spoke in the
morning on basic AIDS facts. Pe
teet said Georgia is ranked eighth
in the country for cases of the dis
ease and the Atlanta area has sev
eral thousand cases.
Robert Mann/The Red and BlacK
Aids Education, Awareness and Action Day: The event
included a medical update and question/answer panel. ;
AIDS program offered new information
Experimental drugs trying to find cure
Therapeutic computers don’t have ‘bad’ days
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Depressed pa
tients who were treated by com-
j puter during an experiment
improved as much as those who
consulted a human therapist, sug
gesting an economical treatment
for a condition afflicting millions.
Computerized therapy may one
day help roughly a third of people
with depression if further research
bears out its promise, said re-
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Depression strikes about 10 mil
lion Americans within any six-
month period. Human therapists
can now treat only a fraction of
that number, but using computers
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Computerized treatment could
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The actual therapy included tea
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Tuesday, January 30 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Learn how to best schedule your time lor study
and have time tor fun too.
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