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BRIEFLY
UNIVERSITY
Engineer society to hold egg-dropping contest today.
The campus chapter of the American Society ofAgncultural
Engineers will sponsor an egg drop contest today at the Tate Student
Center at 4.30 p.m Velton Hi*, a senior agricultural engineer, said
high school and University students will compete to see who has the
lightest structure possible that will Weep one egg from breaking when
dropped from Sanford Bridge If more than one egg survives, an
equation will be used to determine which structure is smallest in area
and weight, he said. Monetary prizes, including $50 for first place,
will be awarded Registration, which is free, will begin at 4 p.m.
■ STATE
BRUNSWICK (AP): Former convict to run for office.
Former state Sen. R**coe Dean Jr., who served nearly four years in
prison for conspiring to import drugs, says he may seek public office
again.Tm not a quitter," Dean told members of the Brunswick-Glynn
County Committee of Public Affairs Tuesday night. He said he will
announce his intention to seek an office ‘at the proper time,” but did
not say what office he may pursue Dean, 53, of Jesup, has managed
property since his release from a federal minimum security prison in
Lexington, Ky., in 1986. He was convicted in 1980 of conspiring to
import drugs to help finance his 1982 campaign for governor. He was
sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10,000, but he was
released in September 1986 after serving about two-thirds of his
sentence Although his civil rights were taken away upon his
conviction, he said Tuesday night they have been fully restored. ‘I
have my rights, I can vote, and I can run," Dean said.
ATLANTA (AP): Prisoner captured after 17 years. New
York authonr.es arrested an Atlanta prison escapee who had been on
the run for more than IT years, but a prosecutor said Wednesday he
doesn’t want the man back Gary Williams, 42, escaped Oct. 26, 1972,
/.ton County Correctional Institution, where he was serving a five-
month sentence for theft. He remained free until police in New York
City stopped him for running a red light, said Georgia Department of
C rrections spokeswoman Lisa Phillips. Ms. Phillips said Williams
was bt.r.g held n New York pending extradition to Georgia. But
Fulton County District Attorney Lewis Slaton, whose office
prosecuted Williams on the original theft charge, said he doesn’t plan
to press the escape charge and doesn’t plan to seek Williams’ return.
In 1985. a Superior Court judge “dead-docketed everything against
this Gary Williams, including the escape charge," Slaton said. ‘That
administratively took him out of being wanted. We might not let him
back in our jail."
WASHINGTON (AP): Congressmen’s visas denied. The
Soviet Union has turned down visa requests from four members of
Congress who had planned to go to Lithuania for legislative and local
elections this weekend, the State Department said Wednesday.
Spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler expressed regret over the decision
and sa.d U S. Ambassador John Matlock was raising the issue with
Soviet authorities. Soviet officials said the visas for the lawmakers
were not approved because the four had not been invited by the
apcropria*e authorities in Moscow. An invitation had been extended
by an independent movement in Lithuania, where a pro-secessionist
movement has oeer. gaining strength. The congressmen are Richard
Durbin, D-Iil ; Bill Sarpulias, D-Texas; Christopher Cox, R-Calif., and
John Miller, R-Wash.
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (AP): Weather delays launch.
NASA today delayed the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis’ secret
military mission for at least 24 hours because of the commander’s ill
health and weather conditions. A brief statement said the
commander, Navy Capt. John 0. Creighton, had “developed an upper
respiratory tract infection. In addition, the launch weather is not
predicted to be favorable.” NASA said it would decide Thursday
whether to try the launch at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday.
The space agency said a cold front was expected to move through the
area tonight, bringing with it clouds, rain and high winds at the
expected early Thursday launch time.
BEIJING (AP): Bomb safely removed from under hotel.
An army unit has safely recovered a live bomb that had been buried
under a hotel in the coastal city of Ningbo since 1949, a Shanghai
newspaper said. The Shanghai Daily said in its Tuesday edition that
an army demolition crew found the 330-pound, 3-foot-long bomb
under the Jiangbei Dongya Hotel. It was thought the bomb was
dropped in an air raid by Nationalist forces in the Chinese civil war.
People who remembered the raid said the bomb entered through a
second floor window, crashed through the floor and lodged itself
under the hotel without going off. Several hundred thousand people
have slept above the bomb since then. However, when the hotel was
razed recently for rebuilding, older stafT members remembered the
bomb and warned that construction pile drivers might set it off.
BEIJING (AP): Death Toll Rises in Building Collapse.
The death toll has risen to 42 in the collapse of a factory roof in
northeastern China, state TV reported Wednesday. China Central
Television said 130 people were injured in the accident Friday at the
Dalian Heavy Machinery Factory in Dalian, east of Beijing. It said all
but three of those hospitalized were out of danger. The television
showed the accident scene for the first time, including the four-story
concrete building with a large portion of the roof caved in. More than
300 Communist Party members had been meeting inside at the time,
the report said. It showed rescue workers hauling the injured out on
their backs and crowds of medical workers in white coats meeting
ambulances at hospital emergency rooms. People’s Liberation Army
soldiers were shown donating blood.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• Metro Atlanta Agricultural
Communicators will meet today
at 5:45 p.m. at Conner Hall.
Roland Brooks will speak. All
home economics and agricultural
journalist majors are invited.
• The UGA Clean and Beautiful
Committee will meet tonight at
6:30 at their Athens/Clarke
County office, 1188 E. Broad
Street. The public is invited
• The Geography Club will meet
tonight at 7 at the Geography
Building in Room 147. Davidf
Butler will speak on “Death,
Doom, and Destruction:
Landslides and Avalanches.” The
public is invited.
• The International Business
Club will meet tonight at 7:30 at
Caldwell in Room 103. George
Calienes, an associate from
Mitaubushi Electric, will speak
on “Opportunities in
International Business.” The
public is invited. Professional
attire requested.
• The Athens Sierra Club will
meet tonight at 7:30 in The
Clarke County Board of
Education Annex on Jackson
Street. The public is invited.
• The UGA Affiliate of Habitat
Task force pushes for local support of public
communication center for Athens area artists
By SHANNON SAVAGE
Contributing writer
In response to the lack of affor
dable practice and production
space for local artists, tne Athens
Area Chamber of Commerce Arts-
As-Industry Task Force recom
mended Tuesday night that
Athens establish a public arts fa
cility.
Member Rick Vanderpool said at
the task force’s second meeting, at
the Georgia Theatre, that the
Thomas Textile plant site on the
river near the Botanical Gardens
would be a prime location for an
arts facility, if financing can be
made available The site is located
on approximately six acres of land
with 100,000 square feet of
building space.
“It’s a perfect space to use for
creative people and other compli
mentary businesses," Vanderpool
said.
Vanderpool added that it would
be necessary for the artists to keep
the facility in good condition, if
given the chance.
“When you say you want to get a
bunch of artists together in one
place, conservative people see it as
a place that will end up a den of in
equity,” he said. “They think we’ll
trash it, that kids are going to run
around naked and make art in the
woods.”
The meeting was held to review
the problems brought up by mem
bers of the arts community at the
task force’s last public meeting and
to get feedback on the possible so
lutions that were developed by the
task force.
“We heard some real good infor
mation at the first meeting,” Tom
Glaser, task force member said.
“The question was what to do with
it.”
Some of the problems facing the
arts community are: promotion
and communication, regulatory is
sues, affordable work and practice
space, business management and
financing. More specifically, the
task force and audience discussed
the need for centralized informa
tion about the different kinds of art
in Athens.
Michael Kennedy, Groove Trolls
band member, said,There’s a seg
regation of the arts.
“No one correlates all the arts in
formation in one place," he said.
‘There are things going on that you
don’t hear about unless you’re in
the flow of that field."
Scott Pope, owner of the Loft art
supply store, agreed, “None of us
know the full extent of what’s
going on in other areas (of the arts
community)."
The task force recommended
that the University and Athens
Welcome Center construct kiosks
that would display information on
local arts businesses.
It also recommended the Univer
sity’s art and music programs in
clude a course on the “business”
side of the arts.
The task force discussed at
length the development of an arts
council as a nonprofit organization
that would coordinate and promote
the arts in the Athens area.
The parameters of the arts
council weren’t decided. Yet, Ralph
Verrastro, task force member and
University academic music di
rector, said he saw the arts council
as an organization that focused on
venturing and producing rather
than coordinating.
In addition to discussing the
need for an arts council, the audi
ence discussed the need for an art
ists’ cooperative that would
continue working on the needs of
local artists and ofier support
among the artists in the commu
nity after the task force disbands
next month, said Robin Chasman,
task force chairwoman.
“Artists need to come together
and have an advocacy group of
their own,” Jim Hawkins, task
force member, said.
Vanderpool said despite the en-
thusiam the artists have about
continuing the momentum started
by the task force, the lack of people
attending Tuesday’s meeting indi
cates a lack of commitment. About
30 people attended Tuesday’s
meeting, half the attendance of the
first meeting.
Ancient coin features famous couple
By LYNN BARFIELD
Contributing Writer
A coin celebrating one of the
most acclaimed and tragic ro
mances of all time is on display at
the Georgia Museum of Art until
March 16.
The one object exhibit commem
orates the union of Roman general
Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII,
the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt.
The coin is one in a collection ao-
nated to the museum by Richard E.
Paulson in 1983.
The coin is a denarius — a small
silver coin — weighing 3.398
grams.
The denarius was the most pop
ular piece of currency in the
Roman coinage and was used to
pay soliders’ wages during the
Roman era, according to Francis
Gordon, associate professor of art
history.
The coin shows specific physical
detail of a head of Antony on the
front side and a bust of Cleopatra
on the reverse side.
Antony has a wide face with long
eyebrows, a large neck and a
pointed nose; his hair is long and
straight.
Cleopatra’s bust shows her with
small shoulders and a head graced
with a diadem, or crown. Her face
and neck are slim and her nose is
shaped iike a beak.
Ancient authors say a lot about
Cleopatra’s charm and intelli
gence, but her bird-like appearance
leaves something to be desired.
“She was not a great beauty at
all, but she was a great lady,” said
Shannon Bland, assistant to the
museum’s information specialist.
The history concerning the coin’s
specific minting place and date are
not certain.
Gordon said the prow of a ship
located on Cleopatra’s portrait may
refer to the military aid she gave to
Antony at the city Ephesus in
Turkey, where his forces and her
resources were assembled for
battle with Octavian.
Ephesus is believed to be the
minting city because of this event.
Yet some scholars argue that the
style and letter shapes resemble
coins minted in Athens in Antony’s
honor.
The date of minting may have
been 32 B.C., after the joining of
Cleopatra and Antony’s forces, or
in the earlier part of 31 B.C. — the
date that Antony abandoned his
army and fled with Cleopatra to
Egypt.
Bill Eiland, information spe
cialist of the Georgia Museum of
Art, commented that the display
comes at a time when there is con
troversy in the art and history
world concerning the society
during the Roman era.
Historians are arguing that
blacks may have made up a large
The coin shows Antony
on the front side and a
bust of Cleopatra on
the reverse side.
percentage of the Roman commu
nity.
‘The Romans may have been
black or at least a part of the
Roman society was,” he said. “Cleo
patra herself may have been black
— we are not for sure.”
Bland said the museum will fea
ture one object exhibits regularly
with a specific scholar writing an
essay on the work.
Gordon penned the essay for the
Antony and Cleopatra denarius.
Some future scholars partici
pating in the program will be from
University of California at Los An
geles and New York University.
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for Humanity will meet tonight
at 7:30 at the Tate Student
Center in Room 142.
Lectures/Seminars
• In celebration of Black History
Month, Curtis Halyard and
Janice Thurmond will speak at 5
p.m. at the Tate Student Center
Reception Hall. Their topics are
“African-American Art” and
“African-American Political
Participation in the 21st
Century.”
• A seminar on “Workin’ for a
Living”* will be held tonight at 7
in the North Meyers Lobby. The
public is invited.
Announcements
• Phi Alpha Theta, the history
honors society, is holding a book
sale today at the second floor
lobby of LeConte Hall from 9
a m. to 4 p.m.
• Alpha Zeta will have its picture
taken for Pandora at 6:50 p.m. at
Conner Hall.
• The Miss UGA pageant is
tonight at 7:30 at the Fine Arts
Auditorium. Tickets are $7 and
available at the cashier’s window
in the Tate Student Center.