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2 • The Red and Black • Fnday, February 23, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
March today honors Mandela's release. The African
Student Union will sponsor a march today from noon to 1 p.m. in
honor of the release of Nelson Mandela. The march will start at the
Tate Student Center and end at City Hall. This event was originally
planned for last Friday, but was postponed due to rain.
■ STATE
MARIETTA (AP): Man gets life for selling $20 of coke.
A man convicted of selling $20 worth of cocaine to an undercover
policeman has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of
the same crime twice within two years. Cobb Superior Court Judge
Tom Cauthom, who reluctantly sentenced Ricky Isom, also sentenced
Douglas Rucks, 33, of Atlanta to life for selling less than four grams of
the drug, his second conviction. “Big-time drug dealers caught with
25 pounds of cocaine do not get life in prison,” said Bert Cohen, Isom’s
attorney. “It’s clearly cruel and unusual punishment.” Since January,
Cobb, Douglas, Fulton and Gwinnett counties have been prosecuting
repeat drug dealers under a 1933 state law, revised in 1974, that
mandates a life sentence. The statute covers only offenders twice
convicted of selling less than 28 grams, or one ounce, of cocaine.
ROSWELL (AP): Feds search for bomb equipment.
Federal agents have checked out several hardware stores in Roswell
in an effort to find out if any sold an appliance timer that may have
been used to detonate bombs at two supermarkets last weekend in
this northern Atlanta suburb. Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms officials had no comment on the timers. Store
managers, however, said they did not stock the programmable lamp
and appliance timer, which normally would be used by a homeowner
to turn lights on or ofT at pre-selected times. Kurt Schloemer,
manager of Roswell Ace Hardware, identified the timer being sought
as the Intermatic brand.
ATLANTA (AP): State recalls cheese products. The
Georgia Department of Agriculture said Thursday it found traces of a
bacteria in one batch of imitation processed cheese slices
manufactured by Deep South Products Inc. of Gainesville, a division
of Winn Dixie Stores Inc. Spokeswoman Lisa Ray said the bacteria
listeria monocytogenes was found during a routine inspection at the
plant and none of the cheese in which contamination was confirmed
was distributed to any stores. As a precaution, the entire day’s
production of 1,932 cases has been recalled, the department said. All
but 383 cases have been located in Winn Dixie warehouses and a
search is continuing for the unaccounted cases. “As far as we know,
none were sold” to the public, Ray said.
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Reagan denies involvement.
Former President Reagan testified in a videotaped deposition
released Thursday he never “had any inkling” his aides were secretly
arming the Nicaraguan Contras during a congressional ban on
military aid. In testimony for the upcoming trial of John Poindexter,
the former president also said he remained unconvinced there had
been a diversion of Iran arms sale money to the rebels —until
prosecutors confronted him with the report of the Tower Commission
he appointed. When asked whether Reagan expected Poindexter to
report such a diversion to his boss. “Yes,” replied Reagan. “Unless
maybe he thought he was protecting me from something.” Reagan
also testified under oath that he never authorized Poindexter to
obstruct congressional inquiries into the Iran-Contra affair or to
destroy documents.
■ WORLD
JOHANNESBURG (AP): De Klerk to talk with ANC.
President F.W. de Klerk on Thursday accepted a proposal by the
African National Congress to send a delegation for the first formal
talks between the white government and its foremost adversary. The
ANC’s commitment to dialogue “is a positive step,” reflecting a desire
to “search for solutions through peaceful means,” said de Klerk, who
lifted a 30-year ban on the guerrilla movement three weeks ago. No
date for the preliminary meeting has been set. De Klerk also made his
first public statement on a controversy involving Defense Minister
Magnus Malan, who has been linked in press reports to a secret
military unit that allegedly assassinated anti-apartheid activists.
The president, interviewed by the state-run TV network, said the
allegations would be thoroughly investigated by a judicial
commission.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP): Tehran Times: Free hostages.
An Iranian newspaper close to President Hashemi Rafsanjani said
Thursday all 18 Western hostages in Lebanon should be freed
because they have become a propaganda tool for Iran’s enemies. Most
of the captives are believed held by kidnappers loyal to Iran.
“Regardless of the West’s propaganda ploys, Moslem forces, out of
Islamic and humanitarian considerations, should work to get the
hostages free with no precondition,” the Tehran Times said in an
editorial, parts of which were carried by Iran’s official Islamic
Republic News Agency. It was the first known statement by an
Iranian newspaper in support of freeing all the hostages.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP): France ends nuclear ban.
France on Wednesday ended a 14-year ban on sales of nuclear energy
to Pakistan, announcing a commercial venture that would set up a
nuclear power plant in the country. “France pledges to authorize
French industrial enterprises ... to make rapidly a technical and
commercial offer for the sole of a nuclear power plant to Pakistan,”
President Francois Mitterrand told a news conference during a four-
day visit. Mitterrand did not say how big the plant would be. Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto said a FYench-supplied plant would be “open
to all international safeguards and monitoring teams.” Pakistan,
however, is not a signatory to the international nuclear non
proliferation treaty and refuses to sign it unless India does.
UGA TODAY
Lectures
• Craig Meisner will speak on
Bangladesh today at 12 p.m. at
the Miller Plant Sciences
Building in Room 1401.
• Celeste Condit will speak on
“Abortion Rhetoric: Public and
Private” today from 12:10 to 1
p.m at the Tate Student Center
in Room 140.
Performances
• The Baptist Student Union is
presenting its annual dinner
theater tonight, Saturday at 7
and Sunday at 3 p.m. at the
Baptist Student Union on
Lumpkin Street. This year’s
production is “Cotton Patch
Gospel." The number for ticket
information is 549-2747.
• Gene Dunn will perform the
saxophone for Senior Recital
tonight at 7:30 at the South PJ.
The recital is free and open to the
public.
• The Afro-American Ensemble
will perform tonight at 8 at the
Fine Arts Auditorium. The
concert is free and open to the
public.
• Pianist Richard Zimdars and
violinist Alexander Roes will
perform Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at
the First Baptist Church in
Athens. The concert is free and
open to the public.
• Pianist Martha Thomas will
perform Monday at 8 p.m. at the
South PJ. The recital is free and
open to the public.
Announcements
• The Deparment of Student
Activities will open Spring
Quarter reservations Monday at
8:30 a.m. for registered clubs
seeking meeting and event space.
Applications are in the
reservations desk in the main
office of the Tate Student Center.
• Applications for the University
Union’s Third Annual Student
; Photography Contest are
available at the Tate Student
Center in Room 153. March 12.
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Annual class report planned for 1992
to track graduates’ job fields, salaries
By KEVIN HALL
Contributing Writer
When you graduate, you may be
finished with the University, but
the University is not finished with
you.
Graduates receive dozens of
pieces of mail from the University,
including the Alumni News and so
licitations for donations.
One of the first items in the
mailbox is a questionnaire that the
Alumni House uses to track grad
uates.
Career Planning and Placement,
located in Clark Howell Hall, is
hoping to use the Alumni House
questionnaires as a basis for a
class report, said Lynn Hogan, Stu
dent AfTairs adviser.
Hogan, who is gathering infor
mation for the new project, said the
report will identify graduates’
fields of employment and average
salaries in each field.
He said it also will compare the
number of students who found em
ployment through the Career Plan
ning and Placement with the
number who found jobs on their
own.
The class report will be pub
lished yearly, Hogan said. It will
list how many graduates found
jobs in a variety of career fields and
give the average starting salary for
each field.
The class report will help eval
uate University programs, he said.
“It will be a useful tool,” he said,
“not just for us, but for the Univer
sity, because we’re all becoming
more accountable for how we use
our tax dollars.”
Hogan said the Alumni House
questionnaire will be beefed up to
provide additional information
needed to complete the report.
The Alumni House asks only for
the graduates’ names, addresses
and degrees on the latest question
naire. But Career Planning and
Placement would also need the
graduates’ employer, starting
salary and whether or not the stu
dent was registered with the office.
Hogan predicts the class report
will be complete in two years and
will include the class of 1989 or
1990.
The idea of a class report isn’t
new, he said. The report is pat
terned after one used by Western
Michigan University. The College
of Journalism and Mass Commu
nications has published a similar
list for several venrs.
Until recently, Hogan said the
class report wasn’t considered im
portant by office administrators.
Glenn Rosenthal, who became di
rector of the office in January 1988,
gave it a higher priority than his
predecessors.
Despite the renewed emphasis,
Hogan said the project is going
slowly because of the sheer number
of people involved. Almost 5,800
students graduated from the Uni
versity in 1989 alone.
Staff members fear the report
will not be accurate, said Career
Adviser Donna Crouch.
Even now, she said, some stu
dents don’t report back when they
get a job or internship.
“We don’t know how we affect
some students," she said. “They
may only look at the job notices.”
Hogan agreed record-keeping is
a problem. He said he’s afraid ear
lier reports of the number of stu
dents with internships and part-
time jobs have been inflated.
Students must sign up for some
services, like on-campUB inter
views and dividual career coun
seling. A of these students are
kept on a ^\iputer disk accessible
to the offu tstaff.
However, there is no record of
students who participate in other
services that don’t require applica
tion, Hogan said. This includes
seminars and career day, he said.
“We’re still trying to decide what
to count,” he said.
SPECIAL
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during the competition.
“It’s an incredible experience
that you have to see to really un
derstand,” she said. “It gives me
j chills to see how ecstatic they get.”
Don Crawford, Special Olympics
| executive director, said partici-
| pants are carefully placed in ability
j categories to avoid large point or
j distance differentials.
‘The Special Olympics are a very
pure form of athletics, with a
strong sense of competition, but it
doesn’t produce animosity between
athletes,” he said.
‘The athletes are just as disap
pointed as anyone would be after a
loss, but instead of being upset at
other athletes it makes them deter
mined to push their own abilities
the next time out," he said.
According to Crawford, the
games have a two-fold mains
treaming effect.
‘The kids get to socialize and de
velop comradery with other kids
and with their non-handicapped
coaches,” he said. “But it is just as
important for people to see what
these kids can do instead of just
seeing the limitations of hand
icapped people.”
While breaking down the stereo
types and building a better under
standing of handicapped people,
the athlete’s trials also demon
strate the strength of the human
spirit.
‘These athletes really have to
try and push themselves to over
come real adversities and these
obstacles are bigger deals than
what non-handicapped people con
sider adversities,” Schneider said.
Smith said contestants have the
ability to find enthusiasm from the
achievement of seemingly small ac
complishment, even if the accom
plishment comes in the face of
defeat.
“A team can be out there playing
hockey and they’ll be down by 20
points,” she said. “But when they
finally get that first point they love
The athlete’s trials
demonstrate the
strength of the human
spirit.
every minute of that small victory.”
Participants receive medals, but
the memories of the weekend are
cherished also, Smith said.
‘The next week at school you can
hear the clanging of the medals
around students’ necks,” she said.
“And for days it’s the talk of all the
classrooms.”
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