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a « The Red and Black • Thursday. March 8, 1990
BRIEFLY
Peer sex educators raise awareness
■ STATE
SAVANNAH (AP): Murder investigation continues.
Police said Wednesday that forensic tests indicated a 15-year-old high
school student was dead when her body was stuffed into Savannah’s
sewage system But Chatham County police said the tests did not
provide any further clues to who killed Latoya '‘Niki" Brunson
Detective Capt. Harvey Lowery said a pathologist at the State Crime
Lab in Atlanta told him forensics analyses were inconclusive about
how Brunson died, but showed that she was dead when she was
put into the sewer. The findings “don’t really give us a lot to go on,”
Lowery said.
ATLANTA (AP): Defense levies charges in Love case.
Emmanuel Hammond's defense attorney argued in his closing
statement Wednesday that Hammond is innocent of the murder of
Julie Love and said the state did not prove otherwise. William A.
Wehunt charged that Hammond's two chief accusers — his former
girlfriend, Janice Weldon, and his cousin, Maurice Porter — actually
killed Miss Love and were trying to frame his client. But a prosecutor
labeled that charge “ridiculous’ and urged the jury not to let
Hammond back out on the streets. Hammond, a 24-year-old Marietta
resident, was charged with murder and kidnapping in the slaying of
Miss Love, a pre-school exercise teacher. Love, 27, disappeared in
July 1988 and was the subject of a much-publicized search until her
body was found in a northeast Atlanta dumping ground last August.
ATLANTA (AP): Victims begin to receive disaster aid.
Georgia victims of last month’s storms began receiving disaster
assistance checks this week from state and federal authorities,
officials said Wednesday. Checks totaling $146,000 from the
Temporary Housing Program have been sent to 129 disaster victims
who were forced to relocate until their homes are repaired or rebuilt,
said a statement from the state and federal emergency management
agencies. The Individual and Family Grant Program has sent
$200,520 to 37 victims for repair or replacement of a primary
residence or personal property, or for medical or funeral expenses
resulting from the disaster. “We are working hard to dispense aid to
disaster victims as quickly as possible,” said Bill Clack, state
coordinating officer
■ NATION
PHILADELPHIA (AP): Subway train derailes, killing 3.
A crowded subway train derailed and crashed into tunnel support
beams yesterday morning, shearing a car in half, killing three people
and injuring 130 others, authorities said. Of the 130 people treated at
hospitals, five were in critical condition at the University of
Pennsylvania Hospital, and 35 were discharged by the afternoon.
Officials said it is the worst accident in the 21 years the Southeastern
Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has operated the regional
commuter system. Inspectors said they found splintered ties on the
right side of the tracks. The last three cars apparently jumped the
rails and fishtailed into the support beams.
WASHINGTON (AP): U.S.: Libyan plant ‘major threat.’
The White House satd Wednesday that Libya has renewed production
of chemical weapons, posing “a major threat" and requiring “vigorous
action" to shut down the plant. White House press secretary Marlin
Fitzwater refused to exclude the possibility of a military strike to
knock out the poison-gas plant. “We don’t rule out anything," he said.
However, Fitzwater also suggested the plant could be closed if foreign
suppliers denied it the raw materials needed to produce chemical
weapons. ‘The international community should step up its efforts to
deny Libya the ability to continue operating the plant," he said. The
plant at Rabta, 60 miles south of Tripoli, is producing limited
quantities of mustard gas and nerve agents, U.S. officials said.
NEW YORK (AP): College tuition increases are slight.
Many colleges and universities are announcing some of the smallest
tuition increases in a decade for next fall. College officials credit
themselves with cutting costs, especially in administration, and
passing the savings on to students. But some higher education
leaders believe next fall’s modest increases also are a response to a
growing sense of outrage among students, legislators and others after
a decade in which tuition increases were far in excess of the nation’s
inflation rate. Average tuitions rose by 5-to-9 percent during the
current school year, according to the College Board’s most recent
annual college cost survey.
■ WORLD
FRANKFURT, W. Germany (AP): Explosion kills 11. A
gas explosion and a fire in an Asian restaurant in downtown
Frankfurt killed at least 11 people and injured six others Wednesday
evening, officials said. Frankfurt fire brigade chief Guenter Burbaum
told reporters at the scene that the blaze broke out about 8:40 p.m.
(2:40 p.m. EST) and gutted the “Koryo” Chinese-Korenn restaurant
on the second floor of a five-story building near Frankfurt’s
Cathedral. Burbaum said a gas explosion in the restaurant’s kitchen
was believed to have triggered the fire, which he said had left at least
11 people dead and six others injured.
JINOTEGA, Nicaragua (AP): Sandinistas arm villagers.
Sandinista leaders say they'll hand over the government on April 25,
but their local forces don’t appear ready to hand over their guns. The
army, an organ of the Sandinista party, is delivering truckloads of
assault rifles to civilians in Jinotega and Mntagalpa provinces who
live in the poor neighborhoods the leftist Sandinistas regard as their
“social base.” High-ranking Sandinista officials in Jinotega and
Matagalpa at first denied civilians were being armed. When
confronted with evidence, the officials asserted they were creating a
self-defense network to fend off possible attacks by Contra forces that
the Sandinistas have been battling for years.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The UGA Clean and Beautiful
Committee will meet tonight at
6:30 at the Athen^Clarke
County Clean and Beautiful
Commission office, 1188 E.
Broad Street. The public is
invited.
• Gamma Beta Phi Honor
Society will meet tonight from 8
to 9 p.m. at the Tate Student
Center in Room 139.
• Greeks Advocating the Mature
Management of Alcohol will meet
tonight at the Tate Student
Center in Room 140. The public
is invited.
Lectures
• Faida Mitifu of Zaire, Ines
Ghorab of Egypt, and Silvia
Giraudo of Argentina will speak
for International Women’s Day
today at 12:10 p.m. at the Tate
Student Center in Room 142. The
public is invited.
• Matthew Janicki will speak
today at 4 p.m. at the Georgia
Center for Continuing
Education. His topic is “Aging
and Developmental Disabilites:
Are We Prepared?” The public is
invited.
• Phyllis Stonebraker, of the
anthropology and linguistics
department, will speak tonight
at 8 at the Tate Student Center
in Room 141. Her topic is
“Universal Concepts of Women’s
Roles in Production and
Reproduction ” The public is
invited.
Announcements
• The International Business
Club will have an informal
dinner tonight at 7:30 at
Spank/s Restaurant. The public
is invited.
• The Georgia Museum of Art
will open an exhibition today
entitled “Lamar Dodd: Home."
The exhibition will run through
March 25. Admission is free and
the public is invited.
• The Bulldog Student Athletic
Alliance is accepting
applications. Applications can be
picked up at the Tate Student
Center information booth.
• Applications for the Mortar
Board Outstanding Sophomore
Scholarship are available at the
Tate Student Center information
booth. Applications are due
March 22.
Items for UGA Today must be
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Marl* 644wMMr/Th« R«d and Back
Jennifer Wendt, Gary Friend and Shawn Hammond:
Discuss their roles as peer sex educators
By By KELLY CORLEY
Contnbuting Writer
While most of us are out basking
in a lazy Thursday afternoon sun,
| 13 University students gather at
Health Services.
No, it’s not a hang-out for hypo-
| chondriacs, it’s the weekly meeting
I for the peer sex educators.
Their signs are around campus
| promoting learning sessions on
| topics such as AIDS, STDs, contra-
I ception, acquaintance rape and
their most common session on male
and female relationships.
Peer sex education was started
at the University in 1986 as a way
to inform students about prevalent
j health issues, but on a level they
can understand and feel comfort-
! able with.
At the weekly meetings they
watch videos on sexual topics, ana
lyze questions about their recent-
, presentations and assign future
I presentations.
These student educators are se-
j lected through an application and
interview process every spring.
“We are very interested in diver
sity: men, women, black, white,
gay, non-gay, Greek, non-Greek,”
said Gloria Varley, co-founder of
the program.
Peer sex educators are required
to take a class on sex education.
After its completion, they receive
three hours credit and can begin
giving presentations.
Terrance Heath, a junior En
glish major, is a peer educator. Al
though personal gratification has a
lot to do with why he’s involved
with the program, another big
reason is because of what he’s been
exposed to.
*Tve lived in University housing
for three years, and I’ve seen all
the things that go on — like people
not knowing enough about AIDS,
birth control, and date rape,”
Heath said. “I wanted to help give
people the information they need.”
Ginger Carney, a junior genetics
mtyor, said she’s involved with the
program because it gives her a
sense of accomplishment.
Although there are no tangible
results of the group’s effectiveness,
members agree that if they only
reach one or two people during
each program — it’s worth it.
‘There’s not a big change in stu
dent involvement or awareness be
cause of the program, but we’re
making small steps towards a big
goal: student knowledge," said
Heath.
Students interested in applying
for a peer sex educator position or
scheduling a presentation, contact
Gloria Varley or Nancy MacNair at
Health Services in Room 301.
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