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2 • The Re<) and Black • Friday. February 9. 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Applications now being accepted for Athletic Alliance.
The Bulldog Student Athletic Alliance (BSAA,», which acta as a liaiaon
between the student body and Georgia Athletic Association, is now
accepting applications from sophomores and freshmen interested in
serving on BSAA committees. Applications, which are available at the
Tate Center Information Booth, will be accepted until Feb. 12.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Senate approves solid waste proposal.
ils the state's system of garbage disposal was
passed Thursday by the Georgia Senate after lengthy wrangling over
*hat should be charged for throwing away tires Hie solid waste
legislation, passed on a 54-0 vote end sent to the House, tightens the
operating procedures for Georgia's landfills, calls for a 25 percent
reduction in the amount of solid waste generated by 1996, creates an
education program aimed at promoting recyclingand sets guidelines
for disposing of tires and car batteries. The bill, supported by Gov. Joe
Frank Hams, establishes a tl per tire disposal fee, to be assessed
upon each purchase of a new tire, and a tl per ton fee on other
wastes.
McDONOUGH (AP): Dangerous medical waste found.
About a week's worth of potentially dangerous medical waste from
Georgia Regional Hospital was found illegally dumped in Henry
County . Henry County Sheriffs Capt. Keith McBrayer said Thursday
that a man wa king in an undeveloped subdivision Wednesday night
found 18 bags of syringes, vials ana test tubes. The waste could
soread infectious disease and bacteria, said Georg.a Regional's
superint r Richard A. Fields. He added that the danger
depends on how long the waste had been lying there, a factor that’s
not known.
BLAKELY (AP): County endorses prison-for-profit plan.
Early County is looking for private investors to help pay for a $7.8
- ...ion jail -hat would be leased to the county and run at a profit by
taking in prisoners from other areas. The county commissioners
endorsed a plan this week to seek private funding for the 400-bed jail,
and they w-i'.l meet Monday to discuss whether there is adequate
investor interest. After construction, the investors would lease the
facility to the county, which expects to see an annual profit of about
Si million from fees for housing the prisoners of other jurisdictions.
ATLANTA (AP): U.S. Judge orders high school closed.
A federal judge, after hearing that gaping holes in its roof were
among many inadequacies at a predominantly black Meriwether
County high school, said the school should be c!c*ed. “Unless the
appeals court 1 overrules me, there isn't going to be a Woodbury High
S.- " U.S. District Judge Robert L. Vining Jr. said Wednesday
during a hearing on a lawsuit over the desegregation of Meriwether’s
school system. Woodbury is the subject of Department of Justice and
NAACP allegations that the school system is violating a 1973 court
--cer to avoid inferior schooling for black students. Officials testified
that the school had chronic drainage problems and course offerings
were more restricted than those at the county’s predominantly white
school.
ATLANTA (AP): AIDS cases on the decline, CDC says.
The number of new AIDS cases in the United States rose just 9
percent in 1969 — the slowest increase ever — but the disease is
spreading faster among heterosexuals, newborns, women and
Southerners, federal AIDS specialists reported Thursday. A total of
35,238 AIDS cases were reported in 1989 by the national Centers for
Disease Control, compared with 32,196 reported during 1988. That 9
percent increase is easily the slowest since the spread of AIDS began
in the early 1960s. For example, AIDS was up 34 percent in 1988 and
60 percent in 1967.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP): Teacher turned murderer?
To most, Carolyn Warmus is a bright, energetic schoolteacher. To
police, she is an obsessed woman who pumped nine shots into her
lover’s wife, then met the man for drinks and sex. It took a year of
intense legwork by two detectives to put together the case that made
a murder suspect out of the 26-year-old computer science teacher and
insurance heiress. Warmus was charged with second-degree murder
Monday. Police said she shot Betty Jeanne Solomon, 40, nine times on
Jan. 15, 1989, then drove to a local hotel to meet her lover, fellow
schoolteacher Paul Solomon, for drinks and a sexual tryst in her car.
■ WORLD
MOSCOW (AP): Activists label reforms inadequate.
Communist maverick Boris Yeltsin and progressive activists said
Thursday the party’s decision to renounce its legal claim on power is
not enough to end Soviet political repression and centralized control.
“It is necessary to eliminate (Communist) party organizations in the
army, the police, the KGB, the courts, in sill the state institutions,”
said Yuri Mityunov, a spokesman for one would-be opposition party,
the Democratic Union. Yeltsin, who was the sole member of the
party’s policy-making Central Committee to oppose the political
reforms Wednesday, recommended the formation of a second party if
the Communist Party fails to excise conservatives at the Congress to
be held in early summer.
SOUTH AFRICA (AP): Police use force to end protest.
Police used tear gas and clubs Thursday to disperse hundreds of
blacks protesting a tour by an English cricket team that defied an
anti-apartheid boycott. A Cabinet minister said continuing unrest is
prolonging South Africa’s state of emergency and said threats against
Nelson Mandela from left- and right-wing extremists are among the
factors delaying the ANC leader’s release from prison.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• A one-day Curriculum and
Research Conference on the
status of African-American
Studies in Georgia will be held
today from 9:30 a m, to 7 p.m. in
the Tate Center Reception Hall.
Registration is from 8 to 9 a.m.
• The Women’s Studies Program
will hold its winter talk this
afternoon from 12:10 to 1 p m. in
Room 138 of the Tate Center,
The topic will be 'Against All
Odds: Women Artists in History*
and the speaker, Nancy Carter.
• The U.S. College Comedy
Competition will be held tonight
at 8 in Georgia Hall of the Tate
Center. Admission is free. Those
wishing to compete must be in
Georgia Hall at 6 p.m.
Upcoming
• An organizational forum for
Northeast Georgia Earth Day
1990 will be held Sunday in the
Tate Center Reception Hall from
4 to 8 p.m. The public is invited
to attend.
• A blood drive will be held
Monday from 1:30 to 7 p.m. in
the Family Housing Community
Room. All are invited to give.
I • The e.a.r.t.h. fund will meet
Monday night at 7:30 in the
1 Hangar restaurant downtown,
i All those interested are invited to
| attend.
• Marcia Fishman and Jim
! Jennings will present a lecture
titled Israel and Palestine: An
Urgency for Peace and Justice’
Monday night at 7:30 in the Tate
Center Reception Hall. The
| public is invited to attend.
• The Northeast Georgia
Chapter of the Compassionate
Friends will meet Monday night
at 7:30 in the Holy Cross
Lutheran Church. For more
information, call 548-4906.
• Shirley Brumbaugh and
Katherine Eberle will be
performing in a joint Faculty
Recital Monday night at 8 in the
South PJ. The concert is free and
the public is invited to attend.
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Black Affairs Council shows historical
skits to educate University students
BL*4C3C H1ST0RU nONTH
The Minority Assistants win second place with their
reenactment of Harriet Tubman's struggles
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Students traveled back through
black history during thrss skits in
the Black Affairs Council’s "Reflec
tions of Our Past* on Wednesday-
night at the Tate Student Center
The program was organized by
the BAC arts and entertainment
committee.
LaConia Jenkins, a telecommu
nication arts major and chair
woman of the committee, said
letters with suggested topics or
themes were sent to student orga
nizations.
The purpose is to highlight piv
otal points in black history,” Jen
kins said.
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority won
the first place for their presenta
tion of the struggles of famous
black women in Three Black
Women.” The Minority Assistants’
presentation of “Harriet Tubman:
The Underground Railroad” won
second place and Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority Inc. won third place
for their presentation of the life of
black opera singer Marian An
derson.
BAC President Benjamin
Roundtree said the purpose of the
program was to educate as well as
entertain.
Roundtree said he was pleased
with the students’ response to the
program.
“I think each organization was
well-represented,” he said.
The skits were judged by Asa
Boynton, University Public Safety
director; Louise Tomlinson, assis
tant professor of Developmental
Studies; William Porter, director of
Student Activities and Robert
Pratt, assistant professor of his
tory.
Skits were judged on their his
torical similarities to the actual
event, how well the information
was presented and the overall or
ganization.
Entertainment was provided by
Miss Black UGA Kimberly Nelson,
the Reflections Quartet, African-
American Power and University
students Shaleen Connally, Cerille
Nassau, Andrea Smith and Erica
Tiggler.
Soviet, European seminar to be given
By LAURA ROE
Staff Writer
The University's Alumni Society
is expecting a record attendance
this weekend at its seminar
“Changes in the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe" at the Georgia
Center for Continuing Education.
The seminar, which has more
than 350 participants registered,
will host a variety of speakers in
cluding Arthur Hartman, former
U.S. ambassador to the Soviet
Union, Igor Khripunov, first secre
tary at the Soviet Union Embassy
in Washington, D.C., and many
University faculty members.
Gwen Parker, University
Alumni Development specialist,
said tickets for the weekend
seminar are $90 each and include
meals and a cocktail buffet.
Steve Elliott-Gower, assistant
director for the University’s Center
For East-West Trade Policy, said,
“It's going to be enormously ex
citing since we have key speakers
who are experienced in these
areas."
Elliott-Gower, Gary Bertsch, co
director of the Center for East-
West Trade Policy, and Sam
Watson, a graduate student in
East-West Trade Policy, came up
with the idea for the seminar last
summer.
Bertsch and Martin Hillen-
brand, faculty member and former
U.S. ambassador to Germany, will
both speak at the seminar. Elliott-
Gower said the pair recently ad
dressed the U.S. Congressional
Committee on Foreign Affairs,
about the impact of the changes in
the Soviet Union and in Eastern
Europe as well as the economic re
lations in these countries.
Also speaking at the seminar
will be former U.S. Secretary of
State Dean Rusk, emeritus law
professor at the University, and
Jack Perry, director of the Dean
Rusk Program for International
Studies at Davidson College and
former ambassador to Bulgaria.
Slew of weapons found in Valdosta man’s car
Bond set at $100,000
The Associated Press
FORD CITY, Pa. - A Georgia
man was held Tuesday in the Arm
strong County Jail while federal of
ficials tried to determine why he
had seven homemade bombs and a
variety of weapons in a car, author
ities said.
The bombs and weapons were
found Sunday when two Ford City
police officers stopped Dean Hi-
leman of Valdosta for going the
wTong way on a one-way street,
said police Chief Jan Lysakowski.
They searched the car after no
ticing a handgun on the floor of the
P assenger’s side and found the
ombs, a .22-caliber automatic
handgun, a .44-caliber revolver, a
sword, two daggers and a sling
shot.
The explosives were made of 3-
inch metal cylinders and appeared
to have block powder in them.
“We called in the U.S. Army
Bomb Squad and they said they’re
very dangerous and the shrapnel
could cause bodily injury,”
Lysakowski said.
Hileman offered no explanation
as to why he was carrying the
weapons, police said. The U.S. Bu
reau of Alcohol and Firearms is in
vestigating the case.
Hileman was arraigned before
Magistrate Eugene ShaefTer on
charges of driving under the influ
ence, possession of a small amount
of a controlled substance, carrying
prohibitive offensive weapons and
firearms without a license.
The magistrate set bond at
$100,000.
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