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Drunk driving simulator course to test
reaction abilities ‘under the influence’
By DEBRAELEE ESBITT
Contributing Writer
Student* who want to test their drunk-
driving skills can do bo legally Saturday at the
Coliseum.
Dodge and Chrysler Motors along with
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Creeks Advo
cating the Mature Management of Alcohol and
the Residence Hall Association are co-spon
soring the event to give students a chance to
test their ability to drive drunk.
A car simulator provided by the two compa
nies will give sober individuals an idea of what
it is like to drive while intoxicated.
Although the car simulator is geared toward
high school students, anyone in the Athens
area can try it if they have a valid driver’s li
cense, said David Alper, President of the
Athens MADD chapter.
The computer-controlled Dodge Daytona is
programmed to respond to the individual's body
weight and hypothetical alcohol level.
Participant* will drive the test car through a
200-foot course at a speed of about 20 mph. The
driver will have to try to avoid cones and other
unexpected obstacles.
Alper said although some people may be ex
perienced with drinking and driving, they won’t
be able to react quickly enough when having to
make abrupt judgement* on the course.
“It should teach drivers a good lesson,” he
said. “And I hope it will.”
The simulator course will be located in the
Coliseum parking lot. Admission is free and the
hours will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. and from 12
to 2 p.m.
MADD and GAMMA organizations have
been set up to make people aware of the
drinking problem and to prevent people from
driving under the influence.
According to Alper, MADD isn’t against
drinking, but wants to stop drinking and
driving.
MADD sponsor* lectures, promotes aware
ness of the drinking problem, and provides
emotional support for victims of fatal accidents.
MADD chapters nationally are trying to pro
vide free taxi services to prevent drunk driving
accidents on the holidays, Alper said.
"Some people ore just unbelievably lucky
they’ve made it through,” he said. “But then
you see others who regret it afterward and you
wish you could have forewarned them.”
MADD chapters are also trying to establish a
24-hour telephone line with a toll-free number
ending in M-A-D-D, so victims of drunk driving
accidents can call and receive help.
Alper said in 1988 there were 23,350 acci
dents due to drunk driving.
Debra Durham, Athens Police Records Su
pervisor, said there were 483 DUI arrests in
Athens last year.
SEA to evaluate University garbage samples
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
Members of Students for Envi
ronmental Awareness will dig
through the University’s garbage
today to test the campus solid
waste stream as part of a campus
wide environmental audit.
Sponsored here by SEA, the
audit is being conducted by stu
dents on campuses nationwide.
The audit was first performed by
graduate students at the Univer
sity of California at Los Angeles
and was adopted by Earth Day
1990 national organizers,
according to Edward McNally at
the Atlanta Earth Day office.
The solid waste stream test is
just one exercise in the audit which
identifies areas in which the Uni
versity’s activities affect the envi
ronment. These areas include:
solid, hazardous and radioactive
waste, energy use, procurement
policies and water use. Other areas
are pesticide use, conditions of the
workplace and environment, air
quality, transportation, waste
water and medical wastes.
Students responsible for
studying each category are guided
by checklists and suggested ques
tions SEA received from the Earth
Day 1990 organizers.
Ali Jones, SEA secretary of edu
cation and organizer of the audit,
said the students will categorize
and weigh 30 bags of garbage
today, five bags each from six
campus locations.
In today’s test, the garbage will
be sorted into two categories, recy
clable* and other. The other cat
egory includes food and hazardous
wastes as well as metals and non-
recyclable paper.
The garbage will come from sites
in the liberal arts area of campus,
the science area, a dining hall, a
residence hall, the administrative
area and the Tate Student Center.
Jones said SEA picked areas
that don’t recycle in order to get a
correct sample of the University’s
waste stream. The University
launched a pilot recycling program
this month in 15 campus buildings.
"The University is working with
us to do this. They want to use this
audit,” Jones said.
When the audit is completed,
Jones said SEA will submit its
SEA will submit its
findings to the
University for study.
findings to the University for
study. The findings will include a
prioritized list of recommenda
tions. She predicted solid wastes,
energy use and procurement, or
purchasing, policies will be fore
most in areas that need work.
Tm predicting well want to do
better not necessarily because
they’re bad, but because they’re en
vironmentally important and they
affect the University,” she said.
BALDWIN
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of the lows of my life,” she said,
glancing down at her six-inch-
long scar, an eerie reminder of
the traumatic incident.
The surgeon told her he
thought her days as a gym rat
were over.
‘The day after the surgery, I
knew I was going to play,”
Baldwin remembered. “I’m ob
sessed with the game of basket
ball. Maybe that’s not healthy.
My mom thought I was psycho
because of the stuff I did while
waiting on my leg to heal.”
That “stufT included sit-up
festa, cranking out a thousand at
a time, followed by a couple of
thousand leg lifts. Once on her
feet, she ran and swam eight
hours a day.
Although she was back on the
court in only a few months, her
chances of transferring up to Di
vision I ball were narrowed con
siderably. Some coaches,
including Tennessee’s Pat Sum-
mitt and Georgia’s Andy
Landers, said she didn’t have a
chance. She was too slow and
couldn’t play defense.
"When Sharon first got here,
she couldn’t guard a broom,”
Landers joked in a recent inter
view.
Baldwin, knee brace and all,
persisted. Despite other offers,
she insisted on a tryout with
Georgia.
“I feel like you’ve always got to
keep pushing,” she said in a Ten
nessee accent, which translates
most thoughts into folksy profun
dities. "If something is within
reach and you’re not persistent,
you’re never going to get it."
After Landers got tired of
saying no, he granted her wish.
She made the team and had to sit
out a year because of transfer
rules. Baldwin wasn’t used to
riding the pine.
At Kennesaw, she averaged
18.9 points, five rebounds and
four steals per game over two
seasons. She averaged 20 pointa
and seven rebounds a game in
her senior year of high school.
After a year of working to im
prove her defense, Baldwin made
the lineup, played in all but one
game, and adjusted to a new role.
She would no longer be a team’s
statistical leader but the athlete
that makes the team click.
And what makes the team
click is her hustle. Whether she
does it by dribbling through a
swarming trap defense and
making an important dish, or by
attacking press tables in pursuit
of a loose ball, Baldwin makes
things happen.
"I’ve got to play that way if I
want to be in the lineup,” she
says, noting that her individual
physical abilities don’t stack up
with the likes of some of team
mates Lady Hardmon, Miriam
Lowe, Kim Berry and others.
"I can’t shoot like Miriam or
Kim and I can’t run as fast or
jump as high as Lady,” she said.
“So I have to do a little bit of ev
erything. If there’s a loose ball, I
have to get it. If there’s some
junk to be picked up, I’ve got to
get that too.”
After her hardwood glory days,
Baldwin, a business education
major, plans to live the American
dream of being married, having
kids and owning a nice house.
Further down the road, she
wants to become a coach.
“I’ll do the best I can and fight
for whatever I want,” she said.
‘That’s all I know.”
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