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■ UNIVERSITY
SA to hold letter drive to address education issues.The
Student Association will hold a letter writing campaign at the Tate
Student Center plaza today and Thursday from 10 a m to 3 p m. to
encourage students to stop by and write brief, informal letters to their
congressmen or. educational matters such as increasing funding for
middle and low-income student*. The event, which is co-sponsored by
Cc.'ege Republicans. Young Democrats and the Black Affairs
Council, is for National Student Lobby Day March 5
ROSWELL (AP): Bombing threat spree continues.
Package Dombs have beer, found at two supermarkets in this Atlanta
suburb, days afrer the stores received what h.Ad seemed to be
ur.f ended >.rb threats, investigators sa i Tuesday Four Roswell
supermarkets rece.vrd bomb threats Saturday Bomba caused small
explosions at two of the §:< res minutes afrer the phone threats, but
-1thing was found at the third and fourth storaa. But late Monday,
investigators returned to a Winn-Dice store and a Big Star store and
ur.d two ‘suspic: /us packages,” said special agent Thomas Stokes of
*.“e *J S 3-reau of A.cchoi, Tobacco ar.d Firearms The packages
were disarmec Tuesday morning. It was not known if the latest
oorr.be -at Deer, p.acec since Saturday, or if they were placed later.
However, Sxkes sa‘we feel fairly confident that there is a
correction between these packages and the explosions in the other
t wo stores.” No ore has claimed responsibility for the bombs
ATLANTA (AP): Convicted murderer's appeal delayed.
Aitcmeyi frr convicted murderer Wayne William* sa.a Tuesday they
ng : Mrs seek ng .»new trial for their: ient Civil
".grits attorney W.,.;am Kur.tslrr of New York, who is working with
Georgia ^awyers on the case, had planned to file the papers in Butts
C-ur.ty Super.or Court .r. Feb. 9 out delayed the filing until this
wee.< Or. 7-esuav Kunstler sa.: the filing has oeer. delayed again,
:.-..s -me unci March 12. The delay was necessary because the papers
are so • oiuminous’ ar.d must be reviewed by all the attorneys
evolved, he sa.a Kunstler has said he may produce a confession from
scrr.ecr.e other than Williams, who was convicted of two murders in a
string of 2S slayings of young Atlanta blacks between. 1979 and 1961.
ATLANTA (AP): Effort to change flag ruled out of order.
b ac< .egis.ators made another effort Tuesday to pass legislation
str. <—g the Confederate battle emblem from Georgia’s state flag, but
*"• attempt was ruled procedurally invalid and never made it to a
;-te Speaker Pro Tern Jack Connell, D-Augusta, presiding over the
H xise at the ume, brought the effort to a halt by deciding that the
•*ug question was unrelated to the legislation at hand — a bill
proclaiming the Vi dal: a sweet onion Georgia’s official vegetable. Rep.
Frank Redding, D-Decatur, who has tried persistently but
unsuccessfully in recent years to str.p the battle emblem from the
fiag, had attempted to raise the issue by attaching the flag bill to the
Vidalia onion bill Both affected state symbols, he argued. The battle
emblem was added to the state flag in 1956 in response to
desegregation rulings.
WASHINGTON [AP): NAACP president convicted. The
Supreme Court or. Tuesday refused to alter the political corruption
conviction of Thomas Reed, who was ousted from the Alabama
Legislature ar.d resigned as state NAACP president when he entered
prison for extortion. Reed, who is serving a four-year prison sentence
at a federal prison in Pensacola, Fla., contended in part that his trial
was tainted by racially prejudicial remarks by a prosecutor. The
Supreme Court, without comment, let stand the lower court rulings
that Reed received a fair trial. He was convicted in a federal trial of
extorting a $10,000 bribe from Woodson and Jessie Lea Chesser in
1966 in return for speeding up parole consideration for their
imprisoned son, Anthony. Reed at the time was a member of the
Alabama Legislature’s prison oversight committee. He also was
serving as president of the state chapter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People. Prosecutors said Reed
promised to help get that consideration expedited in return for
$10,000, and that he was paid the money.
MOSCOW (AP): Explosion kills two at factory. An
explosion at an experimental factory for the production of pure
hydrogen in the Ukrainian city of Rovno killed two people and injured
three, the state news agency Tass reported Tuesday. An engineer
ordered the evacuation of the plant on Monday after discovering a
leak in the pumping station, but the explosion occurred before all the
workers could get out, the agency said The plant was destroyed.
Tass, citing experts, said the blast caused no environmental pollution
in Rovno, 600 miles southwest of Moscow.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Hotel and Restaurant
Student Club will meet today at
3 30 p m at Dawson Hall
Representatives from Ritz
Carlton will speak. Professional
attire required.
• Phi Alpha Delta, the prelaw
club, will meet today from 3:30 to
4:30 p m. at the Law School in
Room C. All members and their
guests are invited.
• The Society for Professional
Journalists will meet tonight at
6:30 at Steverino’s.
• Alpha Epsilon Delta, the
premedicai honor society, will
meet tonight from 6:30 to 7:30 at
the Boyd Graduate Studies
Building in ftxim 328. Dr. Gary
Person, a former Air Force
medical officer, will speak.
• The College Republicans of
UGA will meet tonight at 7 at the
Tate Student Center in Room
142 The public is invited.
• The Athens Pro-Choice Action
League is meeting tonight at 7 at
the Auditorium of the Athens
Regional Library.
• The Young Democrats of
UGA/Clarke County will meet
tonight at 7:30 at the Tate
Student Center in Room 139.
Kerry Ramsey, deputy campaign
manager for lieutenant
gubernatorial candidate Pierre
Howard, will speak on the role of
blacks in the Democratic Party.
• The Athens Gay and Lesbian
Association will meet tonight at
7:30 at Memorial Hall in Room
213. The public ia invited.
• Student* for Environmental
Awareness will meet tonight at
7:30 in the Institute of Ecology
Auditorium.
Seminars/Lectures
• A seminar entitled
"Relationships that Work” will
be held today from 12:10 to 1
p.m. at the Tate Student Center
in Room 143. No preregistration
is necessary.
• Fred Dallmayr, government
professor at Notre Dame, will
speak today at 4 p.m. at Peabody
Hall in Room 205-S. His topic is I
"Rethinking the Political: Some
Heideggerian Contributions.”
• Hunter Coleman, pastor of
i Central Prebysterian Church,
will speak tonight at 7 at the
Presbjterian Center, 1250 S.
Lumpkin Street. His topic is
"Walls Come Tumbling Down.”
Announcements
• Auditions for the UGA Nonstop
Dance Company will be held
today at 3:30 p.m. at the Physical j
Education Building in Studio
; 247.
• The Bulldog Student Athletic
i Association is still accepting
| applications from all interested
I students. Applications are
available at the Tate Student
J Center information booth.
• Sign ups for a lunch with
University president Charles
I Knapp are available at the Tate
Student Center information
booth. The lunch is scheduled for
noon Friday, February 23. 25
students will be selected at
random. The deadline is 5 p.m.
today.
j Items fur UGA Today must be
submitted in writing at least two
days before the date to be printed
1 Include specific meeting location,
speaker's title and topic, and a
contact person’s day and evening
phone number. Items are printed
1 on a space available basis.
Israeli general says Arabs have failed;
defends Israel’s conduct in territories
By ANNE MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
Retired Israeli Brigadier Gen
eral Amos Gilboa attributed the
failure of Arab nations to destroy
Israel to the perseverance of the Is
raeli people, in a Monday night
speech to Jewish students at the
Hillel Foundation.
■The Arabs failed They failed
because of our stamina, our perse
verance and our insistence of our
right*,'” Gilboa *aid.
Gilboa was the deputy com
mander of Israel’s Military Intelli
gence and is considered an expert
in Israel’s security problems.
Monday's lecture, The Terri to
nes and Israel’s Security," was
sponsored by the Hillel Founda
tion, The Georgia Israeli Network
wni'cisioiuuenia anc
raeli Consulate in Atlanta.
Gilboa said that recent revolu
tionary changes in Eastern Europe
and the Soviet Union have yet
reach the Middle East.
The spirit of these change^is
freedom, democracy!
economy. So far, the s\it/ the
r moi did not gel to t^^j&Te
ast. the Arab emintnee
’The major threat not
the Palestinians. It’^the mrab
states Beneath it coi
ical problems of the Palestinian!
he said.
Gilboa pointed to the efforts of^
Arab nations to stop the influx of
Jewish immigrants into Israel,
called Aliya.
The Arabs adamantly oppose
Aliya,” he said. This is now their
main mission against us.*
He said the number of Jewish
immigrants "might total one mil
lion in the next three to four
ears.”
Gilboa outlined what he called
^^Arabjc^strategies to cope with
h^iolence against Israel.
* AAravating >4d*nce between
i exploitation.
*|d. This is the first war
EtftipqaWia is the main tool of
uggle.
“We’re coping with the uprising
r with very restrictive and cautious
ways. W’e’re not using tanks or ma
chine guns, he said.
Today, hundreds of regulations,
v stringent ones, dictate to the
iiers how to behave in every
very i
sol die
possible happening,” he said. No
live ammunition is to be used
where women and children are pre
sent.
Despite the turmoil in the
Middle East, the University
campus appears to be unmarked by
conflict between Palestinian and
Jewish students.
Rebecca Greenwald, who at
tended the lecture, said, “Here you
have Hillel and GINUS and the
Arab Student Union. It’s not politi
cally active here,” she said. “A few
things come up every now and
again, but as far as the real issue
its just not really faced here.”
Greenwald lived in Isreal during
1969 and said she dislikes the idea
of negotiating with the PLO. She
said there are more moderate
groups in the territories.
Book’s focus is early music
By LANCE HELMS
Contributing Writer
There’s a lot to know about
music besides what’s in the notes,
according to Thomas Riis, asso
ciate professor of music and author
of the new book, “Just Before Jazz:
Black Musical Theater in New
York, 1890 to 1915.”
The book, published by the
Smithsonian Institution Press, fo
cuses on the first generation of
black composers and performers
bom after the Civil W’ar — a topic
never before published on in-depth.
This was the first chance that
previously enslaved people could
prove it in an environment"
without the burden of slavery, Riis
said.
There was a whole generation of
people who began to sing opera and
dance before the dawn of jazz, he
said.
“W’e’re talking about composers
who are classically trained,"he
said.
The book started out as the
thesis for a doctoral dissertation in
music history in 1976, when Riis
attended the University of Mich
igan.
He discovered then that Will
Marion Cook, a classically trained
black composer, had virtually been
excluded from music history, along
with other talented composers of
the period preceding the “golden
age” of the Harlem Renaissance.
Riis gave two reasons for the ab
sence of those minstrel shows from
modem musical theater: the bla
tantly racial lyrics aimed at both
black and white audiences as well
as the practice of black actors
wearing black painted faces.
There’s no doubt that there are
elements of this kind of entertain
ment that would be very offensive
today,” he said. *It would be very
hard to revive a lot of those shows
—it’s just not acceptable these
days."
The book contains musical anal
ysis, descriptions of the produc
tion* and several pictures which
have never been printed and fac
similes of original scores.
Riis started playing the cello at
age 10, and played in high school
and small professional orchestras.
Today, he plays the cello, the
treble viol, and the viola da gamba,
a bass viol in the same range as the
cello. He uses the piano for class
room examples.
Riis was trained as a cellist and
musicologist for his bachelor’s de
gree in general music at Oberlin
College in Ohio. He received both
his masters and his doctorate in
music history from the University
of Michigan.
He came to the University in
1981 and specializes in black music
history. But Riis said his real in
terest lies in American music.
Riis advises all the graduate stu
dents and doctoral candidates in
the music school. Bruce Gbur, a
graduate student in musicology
and a longtime friend of the profes
sor’s, said Riis exhibits unusual
knowledge and enthusiasm, even
in classes outside his specialization
in American music.
“I’ve had him now for three grad
uate level courses,” Gbur said.
‘The man’s energy is astounding;
he gets into it, and by his enthu
siasm, you do the same.”
■ JUDICIAL REPORT
Three guilty of drug charge
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
The Student Judiciary found three students guilty of drug pos
session charges last week.
Two of the students were sentenced to write papers ns punish
ment and to do community service. In addition to community
service, another student was placed on probated expulsion.
The judiciary also ruled in the following cases:
• Contempt of court: student given community service and
placed on probated suspension, another student given 80 hours of
community service.
• Academic dishonesty: two students suspended for one quarter,
another student found not guilty.
• Falsification of records: two students placed on probated sus
pension and told to do community service, another student placed
on probated expulsion and told to write letters of apology.
• Theft: student suspended for one quarter.
The judiciary continued from last week two drug cases and a
disorderly conduct case involving a student organization, said Judi
cial Programs Counselor Roger Lee. Those cases will be decided this
week.
Lee said Judicial Programs received these ten complaints from
Feb. 13 through Tuesday:
• Academic dishonesty: two.
• Falsification of records: one.
• Driving under the influence: two.
• Fire safety violations: one.
• Theft: one.
• Disorderly conduct: three, including two complaints filed
against student organizations.
This week, the judiciary will hear two drug cases, two contempt
of court cases, three academic dishonesty cases and two fire safety
cases, one of which involves a student organization.
Falsification of records includes forging medical excuses, stu
dent IDs or other documents. Contempt of court occurs when stu
dents or organizations treat it with contempt or fail to carry out its
orders.
Lee said students or organizations placed on “probated” suspen
sion will be suspended for disobeying the judiciary or for violating
other regulations. The same goes for probated expulsion.
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The Residence Hall Association is proud to
Present:
"UGA at the Movies"
UGARH '90
(University of Georgia Residence Hall Association)
leadership conference for residence
hall students
March 3. 1990 (Saiurcay)
9:00em to 9 00pm
Tate Center
Cost |12 00
Contact your UGARH director for further information
A one-day
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VS.
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WED. FEB. 21,7:30 P.M,
FREE BULLDOG T-SHIRTS
TO THE FIRST 2000 FANS
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