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The Red and Black • Tuesday, February 27, 1990 • 3
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University to sponsor health program
beginning this fall for faculty and staff
By MARIA CALDERON
Contributing Writer
Starting this fall, the University
plans to sponsor for its faculty and
staff a health awareness program
designed to ofTer solutions to both
psychological and physical health-
hazardous behaviors such as stress
and smoking.
Craig Huddy, coordinator of The
University Faculty and Staff Well
ness Program, said it’s the first
formal attempt to initiate such a
program at the University. He said
the program will enhance the
health status of its participants.
David DeJoy, head of the Uni
versity’s Department of Health
and Safety, said he and other fac
ulty members saw a need for this
sort of a program at the University.
Huddy said examples of behav
ioral risks include smoking, poor
nutrition, stress and lack of exer
cise. Participants will undergo an
analysis to determine their current
health status.
In order to identify the physiol
ogical needs of the participants,
the University gave $15,000 to the
program for research and labo
ratory equipment, he said.
Included in the lab equipment
will be a chemical analyzer to mea
sure cholesterol levels and bio-im
pedance equipment to measure
body-fat content, Huddy said. All
equipment will be installed at the
Adult Fitness Center in the phys
ical education building.
In March, an extensive question
naire will be distributed to the fac
ulty and staff asking them to
identify their health behaviors.
The data will then be analyzed and
a program will be designed to suit
their needs.
Those who return their ques
tionnaires will be sent a risk pro
file. Based on data and statistics,
the profile will state the risk one
has of dying within the next 10
years, Huddy said.
He explained that these aren’t
intended as medical diagnoses, but
to “provide enough motivation to
The health awareness
program will be
available to students
once it is better
established.
seek solutions to their health prob
lems.”
The program is currently limited
to faculty and staff, because more
faculty are likely to respond than
students, Huddy said.
Once the wellness program is es
tablished, it will be available to
students as well.
Miss UGA;
Snellville native crowned as 1990
junior will soon be competing in Miss Georgia
Junior marketing major Mary Beth Ewing
was crowned Miss UGA in a pageant held
Thursday. She won $600 in scholarship money
and a chance to compete in the Miss Georgia
Pageant.
A native of Snellville, Ewing is president of
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, chairwoman of the
Miss Homecoming Committee for 1989, a
member of the Greek Honor Society, Order of
Omega and a member of Palladia honor society.
She will compete in the Miss Georgia Pag
eant June 23 in Columbus.
Ewing was also the winner of the talent com
petition in the pageant.
Runners-up in the pageant were: first, Rae
Carlton, senior English major; second, Candice
Moody, freshman communications major; third,
Nita Browning, junior psychology major; and
fourth, Jennifer Patti, AB-music major.
Sponsored by the Interfratemity Council, the
pageant included interviews as well as talent,
swimsuit and evening gown competitions.In
the final judging, talent counted 40 percent, in
terviews 30 percent, swimsuit 15 percent and
evening gown 15 percent.
Miss Georgia 1989, Jamie Price, was mis
tress of ceremonies for the pageant. Ewing was
crowned by Michele Waschek, Miss UGA 1989.
Total scholarship money awarded to pageant
winners was $2,000. The Miss UGA pageant is
a preliminary to the Miss America pageant in
Atlantic City.
— Marla Edwards
Baltic legislators reject draft law that allows
Moscow to take over in state of emergency
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Legislators from the
Baltics and other independent-
minded republics Monday de
nounced a draft law that would
allow the Kremlin to take over
their governments by declaring a
state of emergency.
Several deputies said the pro
posal is even more dangerous be
cause a separate bill on
strengthening the presidency
would permit the nation’s leader to
declare a state of emergency on his
own.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
is seeking a law that would give
him more plwir to push through
his program and to nalt riots and
ethnic strife that have been threat
ening his reforms.
Some progressives said such
laws must be carefully drawn to
prevent “a repetition of totalitaria
nism,” as legislator Yuri Afanasiev
put it during Sunday’s massive
pro-democracy demonstration in
Moscow.
The state of emergency bill is
one of dozens proposed in the cur
rent two-month session. Legis
lators frequently have complained
they had no legal guarantee — only
Gorbachev’s word — that peaceful
demands for reform would not be
crushed by Soviet tanks and
troops.
The bill would allow the Pre
sidium, chaired by Gorbachev, to
suspend republic parliaments and
city councils, cancel local govern
mental decisions and take over ad
ministration of an area in cases of
mass disorder that threaten life
and health, or even those which
simply “could have heavy conse
quences.”
Legislators complained the draft
presented Monday by the Council
of Ministers is too broad.
“A mechanism for preventing
any groundless declaration of a
state of emergency and abuse of
power” must be added, said Esto
nian legislator Marju Lauristin,
according to a Tass report on the
session in the Council of the Union,
one of two houses of the Supreme
Soviet legislature.
Vaidotas Antanaitis, a legislator
from Lithuania, said such powers
conflict with Kremlin promises to
give more autonomy to the repub
lics, and he demanded the draft be
changed to say that their govern
ments must agree with the imposi
tion of a state of emergency.
The Baltic states of Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia have been
careful to avoid any violence that
could be used as an excuse to crack
down on their strong mass
movements for independence. They
have used their parliaments to
pass constitutional amendments
allowing them to suspend national
laws on their territories, and
Latvia and Lithuania led the union
in legalizing multiple political par
ties.
But the Balts’ demand for au
tonomy is hampered by‘the fact
that Azerbaijani authorities in
January refused to agree to imposi
tion of a state of emergency in their
capital of Baku, even though ri
oters were killing dozens of Arme
nians and forcing thousands others
to flee for their lives. Gorbachev
eventually ordered troops into the
city in the face of strong local resis
tance, and more than 200 people
died in the unrest in the southern
Caucasus.
The draft allows authorities
during a state of emergency to hold
troublemakers without trial for up
to 30 days, ban strikes and demon
strations, fire the directors of facto
ries and institutions, limit the use
of communications and movements
of citizens, place people under
house arrest, expel non-residents,
and abolish unregistered organiza
tions.
Authorities could also protect
key sites and order a curfew.
The draft law includes a clause
allowing the Presidium to give ad
ditional powers as needed to spe
cial administrative bodies of power
set up during the state of emer
gency.
The Kremlin took over the local
government of Nagorno-Karabakh
from the republic of Azerbaijan in
January 1989 in hopes of halting
months of ethnic violence in the
disputed territory occupied largely
by Armenians. But the Kremlin
committee was unable to solve the
problems, and the Supreme Soviet
legislature last fall ordered the ad
ministration of the area returned
to Azerbaijan.
Since then, the entire republic of
Azerbaijan, including Nagorno-Ka
rabakh, exploded in ethnic and na
tionalist violence. It remains under
a state of emergency with Soviet
troops maintaining order.
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Indians work to stop
disturbance of ground
The Associated Press
DACULA, Ga. -American In
dians who held a vigil to protest
proposed development of an In
dian burial ground in Gwinnett
County say they are not happy
with compromise measures to
provide better protection for un
marked Indian gravesites.
Tf I had my way, I’d kick you
all back where you came from,”
said Aaron Two Elk of Atlanta,
who represents the International
Indian Treaty Council.
“We will not get respect in life
until we get it in death,” said
Chipa Wolf, a Cherokee who
came from north Georgia to start
the vigil, which broke up last
week after the group filed a law
suit to block development of a 2-
square-mile planned community
on the Gwinnett County site.
Decades ago, Cherokee In
dians buried a few dozen of their
people at the site on the Apala
chee River. Similar burial
grounds and even larger, much
older sites are common in metro
politan Atlanta. But they are un
marked and generally uncharted
until bulldozers or artifact
hunters discover them.
The issues in Dacula — grave
disturbance and the collection of
artifacts and Indian remains —
are sparking protests across the
country and forcing state legis
latures and Congress to provide
better protections for unmarked
Indian gravesites. One such bill
is pending in the Georgia Legis
lature.
Georgia law prohibits the de
struction of any human burial
site, but the statute is generally
applied to known cemeteries.
That leaves at risk the unmarked
graves of Cherokees, Creeks and
earlier people who lived in what
is now metropolitan Atlanta.
‘There is not effective protec
tion for Indian sites in the state
of Georgia,” said Patrick H.
Garrow, a prominent Atlanta ar
chaeologist.
Cobb is the only Georgia
county with a staff archaeologist
who checks development sites for
burials and other archaeological
features. Cobb archaeologists
have discovered several Indian
burial sites, including one that’s
1,000 years old.
Other counties are presumed
to have the same number of ar
chaeological features, which ex
perts say show up at the rate of
one for every 20 to 40 acres in the
Piedmont region.
While it’* a matter of historic
preservation to archaeologists,
it’s a matter of spirits to Amer
ican Indians. According to the re
ligious beliefs of most tribes,
which strive for communion with
the earth, those who are buried
must rest peacefully until their
remains disintegrate.
The activists have focused first
on museum curators and archae
ologists who have dug up their
ancestors, studied their bones
and then put them on display.
Congress last year required the
Smithsonian Institution to re
turn its thousands of human re
mains to tribes for reburial.
“I’ve heard them called speci
mens, anthropological material
or data, anything but human,”
said Walter Echo Hawk, staff at
torney for the Colorado-based
Native American Rights Fund.
“If you call them what they are —
dead people — then you have to
treat them like people.”
While museums and profes
sional archaeologists are rela
tively easy to regulate, amateur
artifact collectors and land devel
opers pose a more complex
problem to Indians who want to
protect burial grounds.
Construction workers “tell us
horror story after horror story of
their bosses saying, Tf you find a
body, bulldoze it,*” said Carole
Sneed, a Cobb archaeologist.
Builders and developers argue
that protecting such sites is ex
pensive and time-consuming.
“Is it fair to ask you or me to
have to pay for the re moval and
relocation of all this? I would say
no, right offhand. Our job here is
to hold down the cost of housing,”
said Mark Baldwin, executive
vice president of the Home
Builders Association of Georgia.
Construction crews generally
blunder onto a burial site; arti
fact hunters go looking for them.
Garrow said he knew an arti
fact hunter in Rome “who would
go out pillaging Indian graves on
the weekend. He dug them by the
hundreds. He said he talked to
his minister, who said it was OK
because they were heathens, but
it wasn’t OK to destroy Christian
graves.”
The activists do not expect a
revolution. But through vigils
and education, they believe so
ciety will change and their dead,
someday, will be safe.
“Just being here and chal
lenging it and aggravating
things, social change is coming
about,” Two Elk said.
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