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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday, February 15, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Black lawmakers unveil drug plan.
Black lawmakers unveiled their anti-drug plan Wednesday, saying
they intend to finance it by repealing the partial food sales tax
exemption scheduled to go into effect his fall. The plan by the Georgia
Legislative Black Caucus would funnel money into drug-ridden
communities for education, rehabilitation, job training and other
services aimed at combating conditions that often lead people to sell
or use drugs.
DELHI, La. (AP): Georgia teen arrested in murder.
Alabama authorities were inDelhi Wednesday to question a 15-year-
old Georgia boy about the shooting death of an Alabama woman. The
youth, who was not identified other than as a runaway from
Woodstock, Ga., was arrested Tuesday after a tip from a hitchhiker,
said Richland Parish Chief Deputy Charles McDonald. The
hitchhiker told police of the suspicious-acting teen-ager after the car
he w as driving ran out of gas. A license plate check showed the car
was registered in the name of Paige Goodwin, the 25-year-old woman
whose body was found Monday in her home in Calhoun County,
McDonald said. She had been shot.
MILLEDGEVILLE (AP): Baldwin book bag ban upheld.
The Baldwin County school board Tuesday declined to intervene in
the issue of banning book bags at Baldwin High School. Principal
Mike Stanton and the high school faculty, citing their desire to
prevent drug abuse in the school, banned the popular shoulder-slung
bags Jan. 22. "If he (Stanton) is working for the best interest of the
kids, it’s something we have to support,” said school board Chairman
Tommy Noies. Other board members declined comment. About 15
students paraded around downtown Milledgeville Tuesday afternoon
carrying signs criticizing the ban.
ATLANTA (AP): Miller, Barnes will accept restrictions.
Gubernatorial candidates Lt. Gov. Zell Miller and Sen. Roy E. Barnes
said Tuesday they would accept a rival’s challenge to restrict
contributions in the current campaign. Both candidates are reacting
to a proposal by Democratic rival Rep. Lauren “Bubba” McDonald, D-
Commerce, who last week won House passage of a omnibus ethics bill
that would impose limits on contributions to Georgia political
campaigns for the first time. McDonald’s proposal, to go before the
Senate committee Wednesday, would limit individual, corporate and
political action committee contributions to $5,000. Miller and Barnes
lead the money race, having raised $2.7 million and nearly $1.5
million, respectively, through January.
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): N.C. woman jailed in Barry case.
A woman was jailed for civil contempt of court Tuesday after refusing
to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Mayor Marion
Barry. U.S. District Judge John Garrett Penn granted immunity from
prosecution to Maria McCarthy, of Greensboro, N.C., after she
initially refused to discuss Barry with the grand jury, said her
attorney, Leslie Scherr.When she still declined to testify, she was
ordered jailed, said Scherr.The grand jury is investigating Barry’s
ties to former city employee Charles Lewis, who has cooperated with
the panel after pleading guilty to two cocaine conspiracy charges.
Lewis testified in open court that he supplied Barry with crack
cocaine.
ATLANTA (AP): Mail bomb probe “nowhere near end."
Despite extensive and highly publicized searches of three men’s
homes and businesses in Alabama and Georgia, a federal agent
warned Wednesday against expecting an imminent break in the
Southeastern mail bombs investigation. “If I had to characterize it, I’d
say we are nowhere near the end of the investigation," said Tom
Stokes, agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms in Atlanta. The current investigation stems from a series of
four mail bombs in mid-December which killed a federal judge and a
Savannah, Ga., alderman. Federal agents have conducted extensive
searches of properties of two men in Enterprise, Ala., and confiscated
several items last week belonging to Walter Leroy Moody Jr. of Rex,
Ga.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP): 2 lions get stuck in traffic.
Lions may be king of the jungle, but two of them cowered in fear when
they found themselves in the middle of a busy highway. The pair fell
out of a trailer during rush hour Tuesday on Interstate 40. A witness
said the trailer door opened and the lions “just rolled out.” Neither of
the lions, Sampson and Casey, was injured. Animal control officers
used a tranquilizer gun to sedate them before using nooses to load
them back into the trailer.
HAHNVILLE, La. (AP): Cursing costs company cash.
A plant worker who said she suffered an anxiety attack after her
foreman cursed at her has been awarded $60,000 in damages. A jury
last week ordered Monsanto Co. and a supervisor to pay Irma White
the amount fo motional and physical stress. White contended that she
and two workers in the canning department at the plant in Luling
were awaiting safety equipment in 1986 when Gary McDermott
“violently berated them for not working,” according to court papers.
Monsanto spokesman George Williamson said the company will
uppeal.
■ WORLD
SOUTH AFRICA (AP): ANC insists on full voting rights.
The African National Congress insists on full black voting rights, but
it is open to compromise on other constitutional issues and to
considering guarantees for whites, Nelson Mandela said Wednesday.
Mandela, who plans to consult soon with ANC leaders in Zambia, did
not elaborate on what compromises might be reached. The 71-year-
old black leader praised President F.W. de Klerk, who legalized the
ANC two weeks ago and released him from prison Sunday afler 27
years. Because of de Klerk’s flexibility and integrity, he said, “the
possibility of a settlement is always there.”
NEW DELHI, India (AP): Indian airplane crash kills 91.
An Indian Airlines Airbus jet that had been in use only three months
crashed onto a golf course and burned Wednesday short of a runway
in southern India, and 91 of the 146 people on board died, officials
said. The Airbus-320 grazed a clump of trees on its final approach to
Bangalore airport and caught fire when it hit the ground, about 50
yards from the runway, officials said.The flight originated in Bombay,
530 miles northwest of Bangalore. The officials said 139 passengers
and a crew of seven were on the hour-long flight and at least 55 people
survived the crash, including two Americans, the airline said.
MOSCOW (AP): KGB killed over 750,000 under Stalin.
More than 750,000 people were shot to death as enemies of the state
during Stalin’s 1930-53 reign of terror, the KGB secret police said in a
report Tuesday. The figure does not include the millions who died in
labor camps and prisons or in the famines during Stalin’s
collectivization of agriculture, but it represented the first time the
KGB has given a figure for any of Stalin’s victims. Many Western
sources soy that altogether more than 10 million people were killed.
Under President Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms, government
commissions and the KGB have been ordered to find the truth about
Stalin’s terror and rehabilitate the victims.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• Alpha Zeta will meet tonight at
7 in the Conner Hall Conference
Room. Plans for the regional
conclave will be made. All
members are urged to attend.
Seminars/Lectures
• A Lunch & Learn session on
dealing with stress will be
presented today from 12:10 to 1
p.m. in Room 143 of the Tate
Center. No preregistration is
necessary.
• A seminar on “How to Take
Tests” will be presented today
from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Room 119
of Clark Howell Hall. No
preregistration is necessary.
• Michael Guralnick will lecture
on “Recent Perspectives on
Preschool Mainstreaming” today
at 4 p.m. in the Georgia Center
for Continuing Education. The
public is invited.
Doctor warns about the pitfalls of sex
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
Sex is a ‘"big deal” and has the potential to
cause life-long consequences for today’s college
students if they don’t act responsibly, an Emory
Medical School doctor told a group of about 150
students and faculty members Tuesday.
Dr Robert Hatcher, in a presentation enti
tled “Sexual Etiquette 101* at the Tate Student
Center theater, said sex rewards us with inti
macy and physical pleasure, but it can also be
painful and costly in many ways.
“A woman who contracts a venereal wart
virus can spend from $300 to $1,000 to have a
case of the virus treated,” he said.
Once treated, the possibility of recurrence re
mains with a woman all of her life. The 61
strains of venereal warts, or human papilloma
viruses, can go undetected for years and can re
appear suddenly, he said.
“Right in the middle of a nice marriage, 15
years from now someone who had a virus in
high school or college can get a case without
warning," Hatcher said.
He said this imminent threat is why stu
dents should always use condoms during inter
course. Most students are worried primarily
about pregnancy, but risk of infection should at
least equal the concern of conception, he said.
Meredith Clements, president of Di Gamma
Kappa Broadcast Society and peer sexuality ed
ucator, was a member of a student panel that
reacted to Hatcher’s presentation. She said stu
dents may not realize the frequency of sexually-
transmitted diseases and accidental pregnan
cies on campus.
Health Services treats 650 cases of sexually
transmitted diseases a year, she said.
“And those are just the cases we know
about,” she said.
She said she wouldn’t be too surprised if
there were a lot more, considering the fact that
85 percent of University students are sexually
active.
An average of 10 pregnancy tests are con
ducted each day at Health Services, with two to
three having positive results, Clements said.
The threat of Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome adds to the risk of unsafe sex. By
1993 AIDS will be the leading cause of death in
the 18-55 age group, Clements said.
For these reasons, Hatcher urges women to
take the initiative to get their partners to wear
condoms. He assured the mostly female audi
ence that it is simple to get men to oblige.
“All you have to say to him,” he said, “is ‘no
glove, no love.' ”
Kevin Seabrook, a senior journalism major
who attended, said anyone who notices what
goes on in bars and parties knows the reality of
sexually-transmitted diseases.
“It’s not a complicated issue,” he said. “Using
a condom is the common-sense, realistic ap
proach to being safe on all counts, pregnancy
and diseases.”
Model UN gives students a new perspective
By LYNN BARFIELD
Contributing Writer
Eleven University students have
spent the last quarter and a half
researching how to think and vote
like Africans.
The students that make up the
Model United Nations team will
represent Zaire in this year’s na
tional competition to be held April
10-15 in New York City. Their ad
viser is Robert Clute, professor of
African political systems and de
velopment.
The UN team has won the Out
standing Delegation Award five of
the last 10 years and will be com
peting against schools from the Ivy
League and Big East Conference.
Clute said the students take on
roles that must be played well.
‘The students must enter the
delegations as members of that
country, not as Americans," Clute
said.
In preparation for competition,
team members spend what Clute
describes as voluminous amounts
of time and preparation.
They meet each week with Clute
to discuss the policies of foreign af
fairs and development of Zaire.
The team meets for three hours to
discuss procedural rules, how to
speak, and how to make amend
ments and resolutions.
Each member is assigned to a
special committee of UN opera
tions and is responible for indi
vidual research.
Participation in the UN program
can be a rewarding experience,
Clute said. Not only does a student
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get to travel and have fun, but can
learn valuable research and public
speaking skills.
John Piedrahita, a junior eco
nomics major, said a student can
gain a different perspective of life
that most people can’t deal with.
Melissa Puckett, an interna
tional business major and this
year’s co-chairman for the U N.
rogram, feels that the three to five
ours a week of preparation pays
off in the end.
‘The program is fun. It’s as close
to a real-life experience as you can
get because it is a learning experi
ence,” she said.
After winning last year’s compe
tition, Puckett said she feels obli
gated to do it again.
While in New York, the team
will visit the Zaire consulate. The
actual competition will be held in
the UN building.
The UN program was started 17
years ago by Gary Bertsch, polit
ical science professor who was ad
viser for two years before Clute.
The team is one of six in the
Southeast and one of the strongest
in the nation. But the program iB
limited by its budget.
There isn’t enough University
funding to allow the team to com
pete at other competitions around
the country.
“If we were a basketball team,
you could say that we go to the na
tionals, but we never play a game,”
Clute said.
The members are funded for air
fare and hotel accommodations,
but they must pay for outside ex
penses in excess of $200, he said.
Piedrahita, who has participated
in the program for two years,
agrees that the cost of such a trip is
not stable.
Students interested in joining
the team should be ready for a
tough selection process, Clute said.
Model UN is open to all majors.
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