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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday. February 1, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Drug bills approved by House committee. Two drug bills,
revised in accordance with Student Association recommendations,
were approved Wednesday by the state House of Representatives
University System Committee. House Bill 1231 calls for the
suspension or expulsion of students convicted of felony drug charges.
House Bill 1225 calls for the expulsion of university organizations
that knowingly permit the use of drugs. The bills will be placed on the
general calendar and will probably be voted on Friday by the House of
Representatives, Rep. Frank Stancil, D-Watkinsville, said. If
approved by the House, the bills will go on to the Senate which may
make additional changes to the bills.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): GSU newspaper inserts condoms. The
president of Georgia State University said he sees nothing wrong
with the student newspaper giving out condoms, but that doesn’t
mean he thinks the campus health center ought to. Each copy of The
Signal distributed Tuesday included a condom, courtesy of an
anonymous donor and the newspaper. The 7,000 condoms followed
AIDS awareness activities on campus last week. GSU President John
Palms commended the newspaper’s editors for their concern over the
AIDS issue. While he advocates abstinence, he said, “peers have a
way of knowing how best to communicate.”
ATLANTA (AP): Legislators take one last lottery stab.
Lottery supporters in the Georgia Legislature kept the issue alive for
at least one more day Wednesday by invoking a seldom-used rule that
forced House leaders to schedule a life-or-death vote on the proposal
Thursday. The House Industry Committee voted 11-6 Tuesday to
reject the proposed constitutional amendment to legalize a state-run
lottery. Committee rejection normally kills legislation, but a House
rule allows those dissatisfied with a committee’s action to ask the full
House to overrule the panel. Rep. John White, D-Albany, moved to
invoke the rule at the close of Wednesday’s House session, and
Speaker Tom Murphy, D-Bremen, who opposes the lottery, quickly
scheduled a vote on the motion for Thursday morning. If the motion
passes Thursday, the lottery legislation would be placed on the
House’s general calendar for debate and final action later. If the
motion fails, the issue most likely is dead for the 1990 session.
ALBANY (AP): Undercover sweep hits small dealers.
GBI agents, state troopers and deputy sheriffs swept through 15
southwestern Georgia counties Wednesday, searching for 245 people
who allegedly sold illegal drugs to undercover agents during a three-
month investigation. “Operation SOAP” — for Sheriffs Organized
Against Pushers — was requested by members of the Georgia
Sheriffs Association. Dave Slemons, the association’s training
director, said the arrests are part of a statewide effort to rid
communities of street-level drug dealers. Jim Baker, the special
agent in charge of the GBI’s Albany Regional Drug Enforcement
Office, said warrants were issued for 260 people as a result of the
investigation.
LAWRENCEVILLE (AP): Deputy charged with fondling.
Ralph Staunton, a Gwinnett County sheriffs deputy and a five-year
veteran of the department, is out on bail after his arrest on a child
molestation charge. A warrant signed Monday by Gwinnett Superior
Court Judge Bryant Huff charges that Staunton, 41, fondled his 3-
year-old granddaughter at his Dacula home Dec. 22. Staunton’s
attorney, Mike Clark, said the deputy maintains his innocence and
has no intention of resigning.
SAVANNAH (AP): Parents get unexpected twins. Mike
Cowart thought he’d had enough surprises for one day when he
helped his wife deliver a baby girl in the couple’s bedroom. But at the
hospital, the couple became the parents of twins. As Cowart was
calling 911, the first baby’s head popped out. As the paramedics took
Cowart’s wife, Rebecca, to the hospital, she gave birth to a second girl.
Rebecca Cowart said she wasn’t expecting to deliver until March.
■ NATION
NEW ORLEANS (AP): Suspected drug ship fired on. A
Coast Guard cutter fired cannon and machine-gun rounds at a
Cdban-operated merchant ship suspected of carrying drugs in the
Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, but the vessel escaped into Mexican
waters, officials said. The 250-foot Panamanian-registered freighter
Hermann took at least two direct hits without stopping, said Coast
Guard spokesman Joe Gibson. There was no word on injuries. Gibson
said the Coast Guard asked the Mexican government to board the
ship and inspect its cargo. Capt. Aristides Palma Palma,
harbormaster in Tampico, Mexico, said by telephone that the
Hermann would dock there later in the day. The Cuban Embassy in
Mexico City charged that the Hermann was attacked in Mexican
waters, but that was denied by Mexico’s Foreign Ministry and the
U S. government.
WASHINGTON (AP): Operation Rescue in debt . The anti-
abortion organization Operation Rescue is shutting down its national
headquarters because of debt, but local affiliates nationwide will
continue their efforts, founder Randall Terry said Wednesday. Terry
made the announcement at a news conference one day after he was
released from a Georgia prison where he had spent nearly four
months in custody on charges of criminal trespass and unlawful
assembly. He said a $50,000 fine imposed by a New York court in a
lawsuit filed by the National Organization for Women hurt Operation
Rescue’s fund-raising efforts and helped put the group $70,000 in
debt. The fine is being appealed, but the judgment in the New York
case is driving the organization to bankruptcy, Terry said.
NEW YORK (AP): Progress made toward AIDS cure.
Scientists say they have created what appear to be the most potent
substances yet studied for stopping the AIDS virus from reproducing,
based on test-tube results. The class of compounds apparently
sabotages a process involving a virus enzyme called reverse
transcriptase, the scientists said. The compounds have not yet been
tested on humans for effectiveness, but one of the substances was
tried on six healthy men who tolerated it without major side effects,
the researchers reported in a British journal.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Counseling and Testing
Center will hold a seminar on
choosing a rntyor and program of
study today from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in
Room 119 of Clark Howell Hall.
No preregistration is necessary.
• The Athens Peace Coalition
will sponsor a public forum on
the federal budget today at 5
p.m. in Room 144 of the Tate
Student Center.
• The Association of Collegiate
Entrepreneurs will meet tonight
at 6 in Room 304 of Caldwell
Hall. Elections will be held and
plans for the national convention
will be discussed. All interested
are welcome.
• The Demosthenian Society will
meet tonight at 7 in
Demosthenian Hall on North
Campus.
• The International Business
Club will have an informal
dinner tonight at 7 at Mexicali
Grille. All majors are welcome.
• Alpha Zeta will meet tonight at
7 in Room 104 of Conner Hall to
have Pandora pictures taken.
• The Student League for
Environmental and Animal
Protection will meet tonight at
7:30 in Room 213 of Memorial
Hall. All are welcome.
Recitals
• David Brussel, of the School of
Music, will perform a horn
recital tonight at 8 in the South
PJ auditorium. The concert is
free and open to the public.
Upcoming
• The Women’s Studies Program
will feature “Women and Money
as part of its Brown Bag Lunch
Talks series Friday from 12:10 to
1 p.m. in Room 140 of the Tate
Student Center.
Items for UGA T<xiay must be
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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.
SA tables election procedure proposal
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
The Student Association tabled a proposal
Tuesday that would transform its election pro
cedure and its body of representatives.
SA President Mark Schisler proposed elec
ting senators from both classes and the Univer
sity’s 13 schools and colleges. The proposal
came during a debate over proposed amend
ments to the SA constitution’s clause con
cerning elections.
It stems from previous discussion over
freshman senator elections and would increase
the number of senators from 34 to 53.
In addition to the 34 senators already elected
from the freshman through graduate classes,
19 senators would run for office from their
school or college. The procedure would provide:
• Four senators from the College of Arts and
Sciences.
• Two from the College of Business Adminis
tration.
• Two from the Graduate School.
• Two from the College of Education.
• One from each of the other smaller schools.
Schisler said, “We would have a bicameral
legislature in which we would truly represent
the whole campus.”
His proposal expands one presented last
week by Junior Sen. John Piedrahita to elect
senators only from schools and colleges, elimi
nating elections from classes.
Schisler said this type of representation
might allow SA to appoint University Council
student representatives, who currently are
elected by students from schools and colleges.
Junior Sen. Ian Henyon agreed with
Schisler, saying the original SA constitution ex-'
pressed an intent to eventually take a role in*
the University Council.
Schisler said he would take charge of a com
mittee to discuss the proposal so senators can
provide their input.
President Pro Tern Andrea Naterman said'
she hoped the committee would formulate;
something since sections of the constitution
have been continuously tabled for four months.
After tabling Article V on elections, the SA.
moved on the remaining Articles VI-XII of the
constitution.
The SA approved minor changes in some of
the articles that list provisions for: committees,
impeachment and expulsion of senators, meet
ings, the four-year vote to keep the SA in opera
tion, amendments, bylaws and ratification,
recall and referendums.
American fast food big hit in Moscow,
as world’s largest McDonald’s opens
The Associated Press
MOSCOW— American fast food
got off to a fast start here
Wednesday, with thousands of
people lining up beneath the
golden arches and hammer and
sickle for their first taste of a Mc
Donald’s “gamburger.”
They also eagerly tried “chiz-
burgers” and “Filay-o-feesh” sand
wiches. The queue-hardened
consumers seemed unfazed by the
long line that snaked out the door.
They moved briskly, thanks to the
27 cash registers at the world’s
largest McDonald’s, the first of 20
planned in the Soviet Union.
“I only waited an hour and I
think they served thousands before
me,” said a happy middle-aged
woman from the aluminum plant
on Dmitrovskoye Highway.
“And it was only 10 rubles for all
this,” she said, pointing to a bag
packed with unfamiliar treats like
cheeseburgers and fish sand
wiches. “I’m taking it back for the
girls at the factory to try.”
Unlike nearly all other Western
companies opening in Moscow, Mc
Donald’s is selling for rubles,
which are worthless outside the
Soviet Union and won’t even buv
much in their homeland. It took
McDonald’s of Canada 14 years,
but thousands of Soviets finally got
a first-hand look at such alien con
cepts as efficiency and fast,
friendly service.
Normally dour citizens broke
into grins as they caught the infec
tious cheerful mood from youthful
staffers hired for their ability to
smile and work hard. Accordions
played folk songs and women in
traditional costumes danced with
cartoon characters, including
Mickey Mouse and Baba Yaga, a
witch of Russian fairy tales.
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One Muscovite, accustomed to
clerks who snarl if they say any
thing at all, asked for a straw and
was startled when a smiling young
Soviet woman found him one and
popped it straight into his drink.
“It tasted great!” a 14-year-old
boy said.
“It’s a lot different from a stolo-
vava," he continued with a smile,
referring to the dirty cafeterias
that slop rice and fat or boiled sau
sage in the Soviet Union’s closest
thing to fast food.
McDonald’s of Canada
Chairman George Cohon, the man
behind the deal, said many people
were buying multiple orders and
the restaurant served 15,000 to
20,000 people in just the first five
hours of operation. No official fig
ures on the first day’s sales would
be available until Thursday.
The restaurant, a joint venture
of McDonald’s of Canada and the
city of Moscow, limited purchases
to 10 Big Macs per customer in
hopes of preventing an enter
prising citizen from setting up an
Three Armenian
students said they flew
1,200 miles from
Yerevan just for the
McDonald's opening.
unauthorized subsidiary selling
burgers without the wait for an in
flated price.
Three Armenian students said
they flew 1,200 miles from Yerevan
to Moscow just for the McDonald’s
opening.
“It was magnificent,” said Ida
Zakharyan, gushing over the clean,
brightly colored interior and the
10-minute services she experi
enced.
“Well, my wife makes better
food,” said Victor Kunyasev of
Moscow. “But it was nice, a good
place to take a break and grab a
bite to eat.”
Academic Success Series
TODAY! CHOOSING A MAJOR
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