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2 • The Red and Black » Wednesday. February 28, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Fire in physics building damages laser lab equipment.
A Monday morning fire in Room 249 of the physics building damaged
electronic equipment in a laser lab, University Fire Marshall Frank
Edwards said. The fire was accidently started at about 10:30 a m. by
workmen using a cutting torch to remove pipes in the room above the
lab. When a pipe was removed, the workmen stuffed rags in the
resulting hole to keep sparks from the torch from falling into the lab.
The rags caught on fire and fell on electrical equipment below,
leaving the laser intact, but causing smoke damage to the room and
damaging the electronics. Another fire at about 7:30 a.m. Monday
started in the computer room of Oglethorpe House when a couch
caught on fire, Edwards said. Careless smoking caused the fire, he
said.
State and federal candidates to speak tonight. The
Young Democrats of UGA/Clarke County will meet tonight at 7:30 at
the Tate Student Center in Room 141. Spalding County
Commissioner Jim Goolsby, primary candidate for lieutenant
governor, will speak. The UGA College Republicans will meet tonight
at 7 at the Tate Student Center in Room 142. Joe Hoffman, primary
candidate for the 9th District (Lawrenceville) for the US House of
Representatives, will speak.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Environmental group sues governor. An
environmental group filed suit Tuesday against Gov. Joe Frank
Harris and the state’s Hazardous Waste Management Authority over
a planned hazardous waste incinerator in Taylor County. The Legal
Environmental Assistance Foundation filed the suit in Fulton County
Superior Court, alleging that state officials acted with "gross abuse of
discretion’ when they ranked six sites and then selected a 9,000-acre
site in Taylor County for the landfill. ‘The governor and the waste
authority never tried to identify a suitable site in this state for this
facility,’ said B. Suzi Ruhl, executive director of the foundation. In
the suit, the group asks that the site selection process be reopened
and a decision made on environmental considerations.
ATLANTA (AP): Georgians want stiffer school rules.
Most Georgians responding to a survey on public schools said they
believe no-pass, no-play rules should be tightened and teachers and
principals should be able to paddle students who act up. The survey
w as conducted by the University of Georgia Survey Research Center
for the state Department of Education, which released the results this
week. It surveyed 521 Georgians through random digit dialing last
October and November and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5
percent. Of those surveyed, 73.9 percent said they believe no-pass, no
play rules — which prohibit students who fail to meet certain
academic standards from participating in sports and other activities
— should be extended to all extracurricular activities. The survey
found 54.7 percent favored permitting paddling.
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): U.S. to move closer to Nicaragua.
President Bush tola congressional leaders there will be “a dramatic
and swift change in policy” toward Nicaragua as a result of the ouster
of President Daniel Ortega. A State Department official says
sanctions will be lifted soon, and estimates of a U.S. aid package has
climbed to hundreds of millions of dollars.
WASHINGTON (AP): Hostage negotiations denied. The
White House today denied a report that the United States and Iran
held secret talks in Geneva aimed at securing the release of
Americans held hostage in Lebanon. *We are not aware of the source
of these stories or any talks that fit this description,* said White
House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. The report was carried by a
London-based Lebanese newspaper, Al-Hayat. An editor at the paper
said the story reported that Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a
key Lebanese Shiite Moslem cleric, had said contacts took place
between Iran and the United States, through third parties. Fadlallah
is the spiritual leader of the Iran -aligned Hezbollah group, believed to
be holding several hostages.
WASHINGTON (AP): Drugs can be forced on inmates.
Prison officials can force inmates to take powerful anti-psychotic
drugs without a judge’s consent, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Voting 6-3 in a case from Washington state, the justices said
prisoners’ rights are safeguarded as long as staff psychiatrists say the
drugs will help, and not merely pacify, them. “An inmate’s interests
are adequately protected and perhaps better served by allowing the
decision to medicate to be made by medical professionals rather than
a judge,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court. Kennedy
said the state may “treat a prison inmate who has serious mental
illness with anti-psychotic drugs against his will if the inmate is
dangerous to himself or others and the treatment is in the inmate’s
medical interest." Justices John Stevens, William Brennan and
Thurgood Marshall dissented.
■ WORLD
MOSCOW (AP): Gorbachev pushes executive reforms.
A determined and angry Mikhail S. Gorbachev on Tuesday rammed
through the legislature his proposal for a Western-style presidency
despite vigorous objections that the new post would concentrate too
much power in one man’s hands. Amid shouts of protest from
lawmakers who warned of the dangers of dictatorship, Gorbachev
called the action “a great political event in the history of our state.”
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Athens Gay/Lesbian
Association will meet tonight at
7:30 at Memorial Hall in Room
213. The public is invited.
• Students for Environmental
Awareness will meet tonight at
7:30 at the Institute of Ecology
Auditorium.
• The Culture of the South
Association will meet tonight at
7:30 at the Tate Student Center
in Room 140.
• Students of the American Red
Cross will meet tonight at 7:30 at
the Tate Student Center in Room
145. Elections for officers will be
held.
• The 1990 Budget Tour to Eu
rope will meet tonight at 8:30 at
the Tate Student Center in Room
145. For more information, call
Carolyn Lantz at 353-3854.
• The National Organization for
the Reform of Marijuana Laws
will meet tonight at 9 at the Tate
Student Center in Room 144. The
public is invited.
Lectures/Seminars
• Karen Porter, professor of
zoology, will speak today at 3:30
p.m. at Dawson Hall in Room
164. Her topic is “Intimate
Relationships in Plankton Food
Webs.”
• A seminar on identifying
personal style and sensory
strengths for learning will be
held today from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at
Clark Howell Hall in Room 119.
No preregistration necessary.
• Paul Robertson,
communications specialist, will
speak tonight at 7:30 at South
PJ. His topic is “How to Market
and Conduct Yourself for
Interviews’ The public is
invited.
Announcements
• A prelaw orientation meeting
will be held today from 3:30 to
4:30 p.m for juniors and seniors
and 4:30 to 5:30 p.m for freshmen
and sophomores at the Law
School in Room C. All students
interested in attending the law
school are invited.
• The Collegium Musicum will
perform tonight at 8 at the Em
manuel Episcopal Church. The
music of Josquin Des Prez will be
played. The recital is free and the
public is invited.
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UGA to conduct drill
By JENNIFER RAMPEY
Associate News Editor
The University will participate
in a statewide tornado drill today
that will test the University’s
emergency plan as a part of Severe
Weather Awareness Week. The
time of the drill has not been re
leased.
However, many University de
partments on campus don’t have
emergency plans for tornados
according to Public Safety Director
Asa Boynton.
The University is required by
the Board of Regents to have a di
saster plan, Boyton said. The plan
requires that each department de
velop its own plan coinciding with
the University’s.
The University’s plan only deter
mines the order of control and the
flow of information, Boynton said.
There are more departments
without tornado plans than have
them, he said. Some department
heads may not realize this is their
responsibility.
But Boynton said it’s important
that all departments develop emer
gency plans because “the initial re
sponse could make the difference
in who lives and who dies.’
Under an ideal tornado plan,
people should go to center of the
lowest floor in a building and as far
away from windows as possible,
according to Cpl. Eric Longman,
crime prevention coordinator for
the University police.
Boynton said students, if con
fronted by severe weather condi
tions, should be aware that the
weather could change rapidly and
find shelter whether it be in a
building or a ditch.
There are two types of tornado
warning devices on campus: two
outside warning sirens on campus
will be activated and 60 weather
receiver radios will spread infor
mation about Revere conditions to
r iple inside buildings on campus,
said.
Universtv Police Chief Chuck
Horton Baia police cars also will an
nounce the drill over loud
speakers.
The drill will be postponed until
March 2 if weather conditions
today are bad, Boynton said.
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■ JUDICIAL REPORT
The Student Judiciary will hear 19 cases this week, including four
academic dishonesty, five assault and six theft cases.
The judiciary also will hear one falsification of records case, two
harassment cases and a damage to property case. The falsification of
records case involves a student charged with forging an excuse after
missing a class.
Judicial Programs Counselor Roger Lee said the judiciary also re
ceived the following complaints from Feb. 20-27: A student organiza
tion was charged with disorderly conduct; two students were charged
with disorderly conduct for fighting and five students were chnrged
with driving under the influence, one of whom will be tested for drug
use.
That’B a higher number of DUI complaints than recorded earlier in
the quarter. Lee said most DUI cases aren’t handled by student courts.
Instead, those charged with a DUI often plead guilty and receive a sen
tence from Lee. If a student contests a DUI charge, however, the case
goes to a student coyrt.
Last week, the judiciary found one student innocent in a drug case,
but suspended another for a quarter on a drug charge. The judiciary
also ordered a student to do 50 hours of community service for vio
lating fire safety regulations.
Lee also said a student was placed on probated suspension from
the University nnd ordered to do 25 hours of community service for
drug possession.
Another student was found guilty as an accessory in a drug case
and placed on probated suspension from housing. That student was or
dered to do 10 hours of community service.
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