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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday, March 1, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Robert Coles lecture rescheduled due to injury. The
Charter Lecture by Robert Coles, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning
“Children of Crisis," has been rescheduled for 4 p.m. March 15 in the
Georgia Hall of the Tate Student Center. Due to injury, Coles was
unable to lecture on the originally scheduled date. Coles, a professor
of psychiatry from Harvard Medical School, is renowned
internationally for his research regarding children and their religious
and moral values.
18th Century convention today at Ga. Center. The
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies will
holds its 16th annual conference at the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education today thru Saturday. Carol Downs, conference
coordinator at the Georgia Center, said the participants are on the
faculty of different universities around the country and in Canada.
Participants will present some 70 papers on a variety of
interdisciplinary topics such as literature, architecture, culture, the
arts, history, landscape, music, and politics.
■ STATE
ROME (AP): Newspaper wins dismissal of lawsuit.
News Publishing Co. Inc. won dismissal of a $3 million lawsuit
alleging that reports in its Rome News-Tribune violated the privacy
of a high school student. Floyd County Superior Court Senior Judge
Robert G. Walther ruled that there was no violation of the right of
privacy and that the newspaper was authorized to publish the
“embarrassing" articles. David Lee Tucker Sr. and Nyla Tucker filed
suit on behalf of their son, David Lee Tucker Jr., a former Coosa High
School football player, who they said was assaulted physically and
verbally by several youths at the school Feb. 29, 1988. The suit asked
$3 million for alleged disclosure of embarrassing facts about the
youth and for invasion of his privacy.
ATLANTA (AP): Winn-Dixie recalls imitation cheese.
Winn-Dixie Stores asked its customers in 13 states Wednesday to
return Superbrand imitation processed cheese slices because of
bacteria found in one batch of the product in Georgia. The
supermarket chain said the request affects Superbrand Country
Slices of American Sandwich Slices and individually wrapped slices of
Pasteurized Process Cheese Food. ‘The company is asking its
customers to return any of these products to their local Winn-Dixie
store for a full refund,” a company statement said.
ROME (AP): NAACP demands officials’ resignations.
The local NAACP has called for the resignation of three Floyd County
commissioners because one of them allegedly used a racial slur and
the others allegedly tried to cover it up. The allegations were first
raised by Alvin Jackson, who said Commissioner Joe Rob Mathis used
the word “nigger” during a commission caucus session Jan. 9. When
Jackson confronted the commission during its Jan. 23 meeting,
Mathis denied using the word. Commissioner Charles Parker and
Chairman W’illiam P. Gilliland then said that thev could not recall
Mathis using the word. ‘The Rome-Floyd County NAACP has deemed
it necessary to ask each of you who denied making or denied the racial
slur was made to resign,” NAACP President Marsha Hudson told the
commission Tuesday.
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Mandatory death penalty upheld.
States may make the death penalty the only possible punishment for
some murderers without violating the Constitution’s ban on
mandatory death sentences, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. By
a 5-4 vote, the court upheld Pennsylvania’s death penalty system
despite “some mandatory aspects.” Past Supreme Court rulings have
struck down state laws making death the mandatory punishment for
specific crimes, such as killing a police officer, or for specific offenders,
such as prison inmates already serving life sentences when they
commit murder. Those now over-ruled decisions said the Eighth
Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment requires that
sentencing judges or juries be allowed to consider aggravating and
mitigating factors.
WASHINGTON (AP): High court OKs broader searches.
U.S. agents do not need warrants for searches in other countries, the
Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a decision seen as bolstering the
fight against drug smugglers and terrorists. Bv a 6-3 vote, the justices
upheld the warrantless search of the home of a supected Mexican
smuggler. Foreigners living abroad do not have the same rights as
U.S. citizens or aliens living here, the court said. Aliens are entitled to
such constitutional safeguards only “when they have come within the
territory of the United States and developed substantial connections
with this country," Chief Justice William Rehnquist said.
■ WORLD
BEIJING (AP): Government convicts alleged spies. A
Shanghai court Wednesday convicted five men of spying for the rival
Nationalist government on Taiwan and sentenced them to prison
terms from five years to life. They were among more than a dozen
mainland Chinese accused of acting as agents of Taiwan during last
year’s massive pro-democracy protests. Zhou Yan, 23, and Qiu Lin,
30, were recruited bv Taiwan’s secret service while abroad in 1988,
the official Xinhua News Agency said. It did not say why the two men
were abroad. Zhou allegedly recruited three other men when he
returned, and they all gave Taiwan information about the democracy
movement, Xinhua said. Zhou was sentenced to life in prison, Feng to
15 years, and the others to terms ranging from 13 years to five years.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The UGA Affliate of Habitat for
Humanity will meet tonight at 6
at the Tate Student Center in
Room 138.
• The International Business
Club will meet tonight at 7:30 at
Caldwell Hall in Room 103. Joan
Guerin, the Compliance Director
for C&S Markets, will speak. The
public is invited. Professional
attire is requested.
• The Student League for
Environmental and Animal
Protection will meet tonight at
7:30 at Memorial Hall in Room
213. The public is invited.
• The Cycling Club will meet
tonight at 8 at Peabody Hall.
Anyone interested in racing for
UGA is invited.
Lectures/Seminars
• A seminar entitled "Exploring
Personal Themes and Myths”
will be held today from 12:10 to 1
p.m. at the Tate Student Center
in Room 143. No preregistration
is necessary.
• Bruce Tonn, of the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, will speak
today at 3:30 p.m. at the
Graduate Studies Research
Center in Room 109. He will
speak on uncertainty concepts
and methods. The public is
invited.
• Hans Kellner, professor of
humanities at Michigan State,
will speak today at 4 p.m. at Park
Hall in Room 265. His topic is
“Beautifying the Nightmare:
Aesthetics and the Historical
Text.” The public is invited.
• Theda Perdue, professor of
history at Kentucky, will speak
tonight at 8 at the Main Library
in Room B-2. Her topic is
“Cherokee Women: A Study in
Changing Gender Roles.” The
public is invited.
Announcements
• In observance of Women’s
History Month, a video festival
will be held today from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. at the Tate Student
Center in Room 137. The public
is invited.
• A LSAT practic test for prelaw
students will be given tonight
from 6 to 9:30 at the Kaplan
Learning Center in the College
Square Building, across from the
arch.
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SCEC lends helping hand to disabled
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
Some of the worst wheelchair racers in the
world went head to head Wednesday on the
first floor of the Tate Student Center.
Weaving through a row of orange cones — or
attempting to —the competitors found out for
the first time what it’s like to sit in a wheel
chair.
But the competitions, sponsored by the Stu
dent Council for Exceptional Children, only
lasted a few minutes. When they were over, the
competitors stood up and walked away.
For many, including about 20 students at the
University, walking away is impossible. Wheel
chairs for them are a permanent way of life.
That was the point of the race.
Jeanne Schneider, SCEC president, said
many students don’t realize how difficult life
can be for those challenged with a disability.
To help people understand, she and other
members or the group brought out the wheel
chairs. They also asked blindfolded volunteers
to navigate a maze of red plastic chairs.
The maze was designed to make people con
sider the kind of obstacles blind or visually im
paired students are forced to overcome.
There are about 20 such students currently
enrolled at the University, according to Hand
icapped Student Services.
Formed two years ago, the Student Council
for Exceptional Children is a campus organiza
tion with about 20 members. It’s an affiliate of
the National Council for Exceptional Children.
The chapter works to help the disabled cope
and to clear up misconceptions about their disa-
bilitaes. ... .. .
Members worked with mentally impaired
children last week during the Georgia Special
Olympics and they often baby-sit for families
with children who need extra care.
In addition, they are collecting donations for
Extra Special People Inc., a local group that
works with disabled children.
Computer virus lingers in University Mac labs
Systems unable to detect
By ANNE MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
At Macintosh labs all over
campus, faculty and staff are
taking precautions to wipe out a
computer virus that surfaced in
December.
Frank Steele, computer services
specialist, said the virus, WDEF A,
has invaded labs all over the Uni
versity’s campus and campuses na
tionwide.
Ray Butler, Journalism School
supply and equipment manager,
said, “We started having major
problems at the beginning of the
quarter, but I*think it was there
before.”
Albert Hester, head of the jour
nalism department, said an UGA-
zine staff member alerted the
journalism school to the problem.
“It’s more a nuisance than any
thing else.” Hester said. “The frus
trating thing is it only takes one
infected disk to start the cycle
over.”
The documentation on WDEF A
says it doesn’t destroy data, but
there have been two suspicious
cases in which data was destroyed.
Hester said the journalism
school uses virus detection systems
regularly but WDEF A can’t be de
tected by many systems.
After cleaning the system Sat
urday it was already infected
Sunday, he said. After another
cleaning he found it infected again
Wednesday. The school uses a
system called Disinfectant to con
trol the virus.
Steele said the library lab uses
Gatekeeper 8 to automatically de
tect and remove the virus from
computer disks.
The library started using Gate
keeper 8 during Christmas break,
but by the time they began pro
tecting the computers, the virus
had hit.
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