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■ UNIVERSITY
Pulitzer Prize winner slated to deliver McGill lecture.
Claude Sitton, editor of The Naws and Observer in Ra.t-gh, S C , ar.d
1983 Pulitzer Pnze winner, will give the 12th annuel Ralph McGill
Lecture Fnday at 11 a m in the Georgia Center for Continuing
Education auditorium Sitton was the Southern correspondent fcr
The New York Times when McGill was editor at The Atlanta
Constitution, according to J Thomas Ruaeell, dean of the College of
Journalism and Mass Comm uni cation The McGill lecture is part cf a
two-day seminar senes co-sponsored by the Georgia Press
Association and the College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
More than 300 reporters, editors and publishers are expected to
attend the conference. Journalism instructor Margaret Johnston said
lecture topics will range from how to do computer layouts to what
maxes a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Former Falcon Bartkowski to panel “Rapid Fire/'
Former Atlanta Falcon quarterback Steve Bartkowski will be a guest
panelist or. this week’s 'Rapid Fire.” a student produced television
•'.rum that addresses current new* events. David Herndon, the
show’s executive producer and moderator, said Bartkowski will join
University and local officials in discussions about a variety of topics
including pending legislation in the Georgia House of
Representatives. 'Bartkowski :s now a very successful businessman
ar.d has become active in politics, so it should be a good show."
Hemdor. said The panel will discuss other topics, including
regulation ir. professional sports and the recent Mike Tv son-Buster
Douglas fight The program will be aired on Channel 34 Saturday at 3
p m. and T p.m.
Grandson of Gandhi scheduled to speak on racism.
Arur. Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of India’s
fight aga.r.st social injustice, will lecture on racism today a: 3 p.m.
Pr.e speaker was bom in South Africa and has just published a book
on racism in the United States, South Africa and India. The lecture
will o* held in Georgia Hall of the Tate Student Center ar.d is
sponsored by University Union’s ideas and issues division Admission
.s free
Sen. Piedrahita resigns; position will not be filled.
Student Association Junior Sen. John Piedrahita announced his
resignation Tuesday night after making a long-awaited decision to
accept a spring quarter internship. Piedrahita said he will accept an
in the Washington, D C., office of Sen Sam Nunn, D-Ga. He was first
offered the internship during spring quarter 1989, but said he waited
Vj dec.de or. the offer because an illness in his family has been his top
tinority. The internship begins April 2 and ends June 8, he said. SA
President Pro Tern Andrea Naterman said SA elections for next year’s
sophomore through graduate senators are scheduled for April 17 ar.d
that a replacement probably won’t be sought for Piedrahita because of
ihe short time between his departure and the election date.ns for all
senate seats for next year except freshman will be available at the
Tate Student Center in.format!or. desk March 1.
■ STATE
HONEA PATH. S.C. (AP): 7-month-old found in bushes.
A 7-month-old boy who was kidnapped from a day-care center here
was back with his family Thursday after being found abandoned
under a bush near a hospital 90 miles away in Augusta, Ga The
.’.fart, Nathaniel McClain, was kidnapped Wednesday afternoon
from the Austin Road Learning Center by a woman posing as the
baby’s aunt. Tne woman told employees the baby's mother, Patsy
McClain, had broken her leg in an accident. Authorities were alerted
at about 3 p.m. after the center’s owner called Mrs. McClain’s office
and found out Mrs. McClain had not been hurt. A maintenance
worker at University Hospital in Augusta, Ga., found the infant
under a bush about 11:15 p.m. Wednesday.
(AP): 2 senates pass parental-notification bills.
Michigan’s Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill
requinng minors to get permission from a parent or judge before
having an abortion, and South Carolina senators unanimously
approved similar legislation with a twist. Under South Carolina’s bill,
parents who deny a daughter’s request for an abortion would have to
'hare legal and financial responsibility for her child until the young
mother turns 18 The Michigan legislation, adopted 29-8 Wednesday,
would allow a g.rl under 18 to seek a probate court order allowing an
abortion if she couldn’t get the permission of a parent or adult
guardian. South Carolina’s bill passed unanimously on a voice vote
Wednesday, and permits girls under the age of 17 to obtain
permission for an abortion from a grandparent or guardian in
addition to a parent or judge. Each bill now goes to the respective
state houses for consideration.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): American troops to be cut.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and South Korean officials agreed
Thursday to the withdrawal of several thousand U.S. troops over the
next three years as Korea “takes the lead" in its own defense. U.S.
officials said Cheney told the South Koreans he wants to cut U.S.
forces in Asia and the Pacific by 10 percent to 12 percent, with 5,000
of the troops being pulled out of South Korea and 7,000 to 9,400
leaving the Philippines and Japan. There are 120,000 troops based in
the three countries, including 43,000 in South Korea.
UGA TODAY
Lectures
• Ann Brown of the University of
New Brunswick will speak today
from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in Room 140
of the Tate Center. The topic will
be “Quebec Women Writers
During the Quiet Revolution."
• A panel discussion entitled
“The Newspaper Industry: A
View from Campus” will be held
today from 3:30 to 4:30 in the
Georgia Center for Continuing
Education. Journalism students
and newspaper publisher/editors
will discuss current media issues
as part of the Georgia Press
Institute conference. The public
is invited.
Tickets
• Tickets for the Miss University
of Georgia Pageant are now
available at the Tate Center.
Tickets cost $7 for the the Feb. 22
event, and will be available until
the night of the pageant.
Upcoming
• “Animal Fun," a program for
preschoolers, will be presented
Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. at
the Athens Regional Library
Auditorium. Stories, singing and
animals are scheduled. The
public is invited.
• The "African Spirit
Celebration" will be held
Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Georgia
Museum of Art. "Art of the
Cameroon," which includes
audience participation, will be
featured. The public is invited.
• A live concert featuring various
local artists will be broadcast live
from the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education
Auditorium Sunday night from
7:30 to 9. Admission is $3 to the
“Once in a Blue Moon" live radio
event. For more information, call
542-9842.
• Alpha Kappa Psi, a
professional business fraternity,
will hold its informal rush
Monday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at
545 Milledge Ave. All business
1 majors are invited.
• Amos Gilboa will speak on The
Territories and Israel’s Security"
Monday at 5:30 p.m. at the
i Congregation Children of Israel.
The public is invited.
• A horn recital will be given by
David McCullough Monday night
at 6:30 in the Fine Arts Balcony
Auditorium. The public is
I invited.
• SOT A will meet Monday night
j at 7:30 in the Family Housing
Office on East Campus Road
“Assessment Management for
Middle Class Families” will be
the topic of discussion Students
over 24-years-old are invited
• Saxophonist Paul Brodie will
perform a Guest Artist Recital
Monday night at 8 in the South
PJ. The public is invited.
‘Do The Right Thing’ star lectures on
recognizing one’s own prejudices first
Research will target homes of neglected kids
By MARK SHEFTALL
Control Wrter
Those who warn to "Do the Right
Thing" and battle racism should
begin by rooting out their own per
sonal prejudices, a star of the crit
ically acclaimed Spike Lee film
said Wednesday night.
Giancarlo Esposito, who ap
peared in "Do the Right Thing” as
the troublemaker Buggin’ Out, told
an audience of around 150 about
the meaning of the movie ar.d how
it can apply to real life.
“ ‘Do the Right Thing’ is about
choices," the 31-year-old New York
native said in Georgia Hall of the
Tate Student Center.
In the movie, the characters
were presented with a volatile situ
ation and were forced to make
choices about how to react. Espo
sito said it was the audience’s re
sponsibility to decide if those
characters made the right choices.
“We all think someone else has
the problem ( of being racist)," Es
posito said. “But we have to hold a
m:ttor up to ourselves and recog
nize our own personal prejudices
and root them out."
Esposito advised students not to
become apathetic, and to follow the
examples </ Martin Luther King,
Malcolm X, Mohandas Gandhi and
Nelson Mandela by surrendering
themselves to a worthy cause
"We are able to change things for
those who come after us," Esposito
said
Gerry Williams, a sophomore
pre-law major, said he liked what
Esposito had to say about racism
being a two-way street
"By thinking all white people are
racist, you penalize the ones who
are not,” Williams said.
Before he began his lecture, Es
posito asked members of the audi
ence how "Do The Right Thing”
made them feel when they saw it.
Some members of the audience
said they were angered by the inci
dents depicted in the movie, ar.d
others said they feit frustrated by'
their helplessness to affect the
kind of change that would end such
racial conflict*.
Esposito said he was glad "Do
the Right Thing" made people
think, because that’s what it was
designed to do.
“People very often may not want
to see a film that makes them
think," he said.
Giancarlo Esposito: Gave Black History Month lecture
Esposito, who has also had roles
in Spike Lee’s "School Daze,” and
TVs “Miami Vice," said he often
had to ask himself whether the
roles he was taking conformed to
negative Hollywood stereotypes
“As blacks, we’re hungry to see
ourselves portrayed by Hollywood
as real people," he said.
Esposito's lecture was sponsored
by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity as
part of Black History Month.
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The University School of Social
Work will conduct a three-year
study of families with neglected
children with a $450,000 grant
from the National Center on Child
Abuse and Neglect.
The project will involve 140 low-
income families with neglected
children as well as 140 without. It
is aimed at improving child-care
and parenting skills and ending
child neglect, James Gaudin Jr., a
University associate professor of
social work, said.
"Research shows family-based
intervention works better than
counseling just the parents or the
individual,” he said.
Researchers will choose families
from among those already involved
with the Department of Family
ar.d Children Services or the Head
Start child development services in
several Georgia counties.
The project will involve only re
search without any intervention,
Gaudin said.
Allie Kilpatrick, a University as
sociate professor in social work and
a research associate for the project,
said researchers chose counties
with varied demographics.
The study will cover rural and
urban, black and white ar.d two-
parent and one-parent families.
Another factor researchers will
study is the influence of drug or al
cohol abuse on the families, she
said.
The project team includes
Richard Sutphen, a recent Univer
sity graduate who will be project
coordinator, and Norman Po-
lansky, professor emeritus with
the School of Social Work who is co
principal investigator. They have
begun training researchers and
hope to start collecting data in
March.
Kilpatrick said six to seven in
terviewers will go into the subjects’
homes and videotape family inter-
Gaudin said this is the third
study done on this subject. The
first, in the early 1980s, concerned
isolation and loneliness. Kilpatrick
said another study looked at social
networks of neglected families.
CORRECTION
An article in Thursday's edition of the Red and Black contained
incorrect information.
Melissa Luckett is co-chairwoman for tne Model United Na
tions program at the University. Also, the Model UN competition
in New York City is held primarily at the Grand Hyatt hotel.
It is the policy of The Red and Black to correct errors of fact
that appear on its pages. Corrections usually appear on Page
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