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2 • The Red and Black • Tuesday. February 27. 1990
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■ UNIVERSITY
Visitor assaulted at fraternity party Saturday .Hubert
Pierce Williams, a visitor from Davidson, N.C., reported to Athens
police that he was assaulted during a party Saturday night at the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Williams reported that while
dancing he bumped into a man behind him, who struck him He said
he pushed the man and was then held down and struck by several
other male subjects whom he couldn’t descr.be, according to the police
report. He received cut* on his face and forehead Hilda Spratlm.
Athens public information officer, said police have no suspects in the
case.
NAACP director will speak for Black History Month.The
Southeastern Regional Director of the NAACP will speak Wednesday
at 7 p.m. during a banquet honoring the end of Black History Month,
said Jackie Richey, minority assistant program coordinator. The
speaker, Earl Shinhoster, received a smoke bomb last summer in an
incident possibly linked to the recent rash of racially motivated
bombings in the Southeast. Winners of the Black History Month
literary contest will also be announced at the banquet in the Tate
Student Center reception hall, Richey said The MA program and the
Department of Minority Services are spor.sc-r.ng the event. Tickets
are $4 for students and S6 for nor.-students.
Info for conservation internships available tonight.
Student Conservation Association representative Elizabeth Jay will
be in Room 305 of the forest resources building tonight from. 7:30 to
8.30 p.m. to discuss summer positions available in national r.or.-profit
agencies. She will be at the Tate Student Center p'.axa Wednesday
distributing applications. The positions, which have varying
requirements, are all-expense paid and are available in 42 states
■ STATE
WOODBINE (AP): Inmates' standoff ends in injuries, a
10-hour weekend standoff between inmates and officers a: the
Camden County jail ended with two inmates hospitalized Sheriff Bill
Smith said 14 inmates at the jail severely beat two inmates Saturday
morning, then turned over the injured men before blocking off
entranceways and covering windows with sheets He said four of the
inmates surrendered to officers late Saturday, but 10 others had to be
captured. Five officers and five inmates received minor injures when
officers entered the cell blocks early Sunday, Smith said.
SAVANNAH (AP): Soldier killed in truck explosion, a
soldier was killed Monday when a tanker truck carrying aviation fuel
exploded and caught fire at Hunter Army Airfield. Army spokesman
Dean Wohlgemuth said the blast occurred at 9:10 a.m in a remote
section of a parking lot. The soldier, a member of the 1st Battalion,
24th Aviation Regiment, was pronounced dead at Savannah’s
Memorial Medical Center, Wohlgemuth said. No identification was
released pending notification of family. Wohlgemuth said Army
officials have started an investigation to determine the cause of the
explosion.
DOUGLASVILLE (AP): 2 Sisters charged in shooting.
Two Atlanta sisters were arrested and charged Monday with robbing
and shooting a man six times and leaving him alongside Interstate 20
in Douglas County. Motorists found Albert Gross, 35, of Decatur,
critically wounded near the interstate about 5 a.m. Saturday
morning. Mattie Smith, 35, and her sister Myra Vinson, 40, were both
charged with aggravated assault, armed robbery and kidnapping.
Authorities said Gross was shot once in DeKalb County, then driven
around in his truck for about six hours, robbed of $80, and shot five
more times in Douglas County before being left.
■ NATION
HOUSTON (AP): Reward offered In postal bomb case.
The U.S. Postal Service announced Monday that it is offering a
reward up to $50,000 for information on a bomb mailed to a Houston
church that injured the pastor’s daughter. The reward is “for
information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or
persons responsible for mailing the bomb to Lakewood Church,” said
Allison Brown, Houston postal inspector. The bomb exploded when
Lisa Osteen opened her father’s mail at the Lakewood Church.
Osteen, 31, required hospitalization for 11 days for treatment of
bruises and flash bums from the bomb that exploded in her lap. The
bomb is believed to have been mailed from North Carolina on or about
January 26.
WASHINGTON (AP): Jackson won’t run for mayor. Jesse
Jackson announced Monday he will not run for mayor of the
“dispirited” nation’s capital but he refused to rule out a third bid for
the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992. “I want to continue
to serve, but not as mayor,” Jackson said. “At present I believe that I
may best serve by continuing work at a national level to change the
direction of this country." Jackson’s political plans have been the
subject of much conjecture since he moved to tne District of Columbia
last April. Speculation about a Jackson mayoral candidacy increased
after Mayor Marion Barry’s arrest last month on a cocaine possession
charge and subsequent enrollment in a substance abuse treatment
program.
■ WORLD
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP): Ortega upholds vote.
President Daniel Ortega assured the world Monday that the
Sandinista party will accept the voters’ verdict and relinquish power
to a fragile, young democratic coalition that will end more than a
decade of one-party leftist rule. Nicaraguans, fed up with war and
poverty, lashed out bitterly with a secret ballot Sunday to put an end
to more than 10 years of Sandinista rule.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• Christian Campus Fellowship
will have a free meal tonight at
6:15 and a Bible study session at
7 at 1080 S. Milledge Avenue.
The public is invited.
• The Bulldog Student Athletic
Alliance will meet tonight at 6:30
in Memorial Hall. All members
must attend.
• The Public Relations Society of
America will meet tonight at 7:30
at the Tate Student Center in
Room 141. Celia Broswell, a
public relations manager, and
Kenneth Boswell, assistant
county manager for Fulton
County, will speak. The public is
invited.
• The UGA Pre-veterinary Club
will meet tonight at 7:30 at the
Microbiology Auditorium in the
School of Veterinary Medicine.
• The Earth Day 1990 steering
committee will meet tonight at 8
at the Tate Student Center in
Room 143. The public is invited.
Announcements
• Delta Gamma will hold its
annual Mr. Eyes contest today,
Wednesday, and Thursday,
February 27-March 1. Voting for
the campus’s most beautiful eyes
will take place at the Tate
Student Center from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.
• Communiversity is having a
skating party tonight from 5 to 7
p.m. at Skate-A-Round USA. The
cost is 50 cents. All volunteers
are welcome.
• Applications for the University
Union’s Third Annual Student
Photography Contest are
available at the Tate Student
Center in Room 153. Deadline is
March 12.
• Beyond War: The New Iniative
has cancelled their meeting for
tonight.
Performances
• Leroy Bynum, a tenor, will
perform tonight at 8:30 in the
North P J. The recital is free and
the public is invited.
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Veterans say their rights are violated
The Associated Press
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — A group at the
Georgia War Veterans Home in Milledgeville
wants to know who has the right to decide
where, and if, smoking should be permitted in
state-supported hospitals
The Oconee Smokers Rights Group was
formed by residents at the home, where
smokers must go to a heated, screened outside
porch to indulge their habit.
‘We think it is just not a fair way to treat
mer. who consider this their home," said
Charles Whittle, a non-sm.okir.g resident and a
member of the group.
"This is just not a hospital or public housing
— ::’s our home We should have a strong say-so
in this matter." he said
Officials of Central State Hospital, whose ju
risdiction includes the veterans home, say the
facility is not the same as a private residence.
“We are a medical facility," said hospital su
perintendent Myers Kurts. “Health is our busi
ness. We place the patients’ well-being as our
first priority."
Central state and all other branches of the
Georgia Department of Human Resources im
plemented policies 3ft months ago which re
strict when and where smoking is permitted.
The 23 members of the Oconee Smokers
Rights Group, however, feel workers and vet
erans should be able to negotiate the issue of
smoking areas.
“It’s our objective to help smokers,” said E.S.
Jackson, coordinator and president of the
group. “We just cannot sit back and let agencies
supported by our tax dollars continue to in
fringe on our human rights to make decisions
for ourselves.”
One of the group’s supporters is Rusty Kidd,
a lobbyist for a major tobacco company.
“It’s inhumane to deny our veterans the right
to smoke,” said Kidd. These men have suffered
wounds for our country. They have earned the
right to have the choice to smoke.”
The fact that smokers must go outside irks
the group.
“Veterans should have had an opportunity to
work with the administration on choosing
smoking areas,” Kidd said. “One side should
not force their position on another side. This is
a free society."
Hospital officials recently distributed pam
phlets on the dangers of smoking.
VICTORY
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30 parts catapulted him into
second place, with 1.702 pan:*, on
the Dog's all-time scoring chart. He
:s now 75 points behind Vem
Fleming in first place with 1.777.
“Thus game was incredible*
Kessler said Tne fans were great
and m never forget this This will
be what I remember about college
basketball *
3esdes Kessler, three other
Dogs 5rushed in double figures.
Iutter.al Green darted and leaped
for 17 point*. Point guard Rod Cole
scored 16 point* and forward Mar
shall Wf.sor. pumped in 14. The
TICKETS
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■There were police there and we
were definitely prepared," Jones
said. “We had five windows open —
one more than usual and no matter
what we would have done there
would have still been a line. I was
there the entire time. When the
windows were opened, everyone
did come forward, but there
weren’t any fists thrown. There
were a lot of people lined up, but it
was under control.”
Students were allowed to pur
chase season basketball tickets
during the first full week of the
quarter and Jones extended the
sale an additional week so that stu
dents would have more time to buy
tickets. Some of the crowding may
have been eased if students had
purchased tickets during these
team, as a whole, rose to the chal
lenge. Every time LSU hit a big
basket down the stretch, the Dogs
answered.
Kessler and his front-court
mates were impressive against
LSL"s titanic duo of centers Sha-
quille O’Neal and Stanley Roberts,
working the Tiger big men into
early foul trouble. With O’Neal on
the bench having fouled out and
Roberts playing with five fouls, the
Dogs exploited the boards down
the stretch for easy layups and tip
backs.
Then the whole dizzying affair
came to rest on the shoulders of
center Neville Austin. With a na
tional television audience looking
on and Dog fans everywhere
hanging in the balance, Austin
pre-season sales, Jones said.
The whole organization of the
ticket sale was poor," Bill Poteet, a
freshman journalism major, said.
“Somebody could have gotten hurt
and the University should have an
ticipated this happening.”
John Shafer, assistant athletic
director for business, says that the
University couldn’t have foreseen
this situation.
“We didn’t know students were
going to camp out at the Coliseum
because it has never happened be
fore,” Shafer said. “We didn’t have
any idea that the demand for
tickets were going to be that high.
We have never had a game of this
magnitude before and next time we
will take the proper precautions."
Before football games of tradi
tionally high fan interest, such as
the Georgia-Florida game, the
ticket office holds a lottery for the
opportunity to purchase tickets.
However, Shafer said that there
sank one of the biggest points in
Georgia basketball history.
Austin, a 61 percent free throw
shooter, missed the second shot but
it didn’t matter as LSlTs Randy
Devall missed a desperation shot
from just over half-court as the
buzzer sounded.
They called time out and that
kind of relaxed me a little,” Austin
said. Tve never been in that situa
tion before and I was very excited.”
The euphoric, capacity crowd in
the Coliseum could no longer con
tain themselves. The court became
a dance floor, and the nets souve
nirs. They had screamed them
selves hoarse, bringing their Dogs
from a 19-point deficit in the
second half to snatch an improb
able victory in the waning seconds.
wasn’t enough time to implement a
lottery before the LSU game.
The game really picked up in
terest late in the week and we had
already announced our intentions
to sell the LSU tickets on Sunday
morning. We would have run into
problems changing that and it
would have made people very upset
and we didn’t have enough time to
organize a lottery," Shafer said.
Wayne Jackaon/The Red and
Alec Kessler: Senior is SEC
Player of the Week
■ CORRECTION
An article about a coin exhibit in Thursday's edition of The Red
and Black contained incorrect information. There is debate
about the origins of a segment of Egyptian society, not Roman
society, said Bill Eiland, Georgia Museum of Art information spe
cialist.
It is the policy of The Red and Black to correct errors of fact
that appear in its news columns. Corrections usually appear
on Page 2.
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