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2 • The Red and Black • Wednesday, March 14, 1990
BRIEFLY
UNIVERSITY
Two University students attacked at tavern. Two
University students reported they were attacked bv two women while
playing poo! at Lowery’s Tavern Monday night, according to Athens
police reports Stephanie McPherson, a sophomore, and Maureen
Hughes, a freshman, described one attacker as 5-foot-7-inches tall
with brown hair and the other as a blonde, 5-foot-5-inches tall Both
said they were hit in the face and Hughe* said her shirt was ripped
and a pendant she was wearing was broken Neither needed medical
treatment, Hughes said.
SA candidate applications due in this Friday.
Applications for Student Association positions should be turned in by
Friday at 1 p.m. at the Tate Student Center informauon desk,
President Pro Ten. Andrea Naterman said. Candidate verification
will be April 2 To qualify, candidates for senator must be full-time
students with a 2.25 grade point average. Presidential and vice
presidential candidates must have a 2 5 GPA. Elections will be April
17, and senators will be sworn in April 19. The term will last through
April of next year.
STATE
AUGUSTA (AP): Barnard says letter proves innocence.
U S Rep Doug Barnard has denied allegations of wrongdoing
involving contributions to his 1986 re-election campaign, and he says
he has a letter to prove it. Barnard. D-Ga., produced a letter Monday
from Edwin Gray, former chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank
Board, to rebut allegations that he swapped influence for a $20,000
contribution from Charles Keating. Keating was chairman of
American Continental Corp., owner of Lincoln Savings and Loan,
which was closed by the federal government in 1989. Republican
opponents have claimed Barnard intervened on behalf of Lincoln
Savings and Loan after receiving the contribution. But Gray said in
his letter to Barnard, “I’m not aware that you sought any political
contributions from Charles Keating and his associates. Second, you
did not, in fact, ever interfere with the regulatory process during my
tenure as chief regulator of savings institutions*
ATLANTA (AP): Dispute over juror delays sheriff's trial.
A disoute over the qualification of a juror led to a postponement
Tuesday in the federal extortion trial of Fulton County Sheriff
Richard B Lankford. U.S. District Judge Richard C. Freeman
ordered that a woman, disqualified by the prosecution, be restored to
the jury. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Gaffney had struck the
woman from the jury because she said she had heard Lankford, who
also is a minister, preach at her church last year. Defense lawyers
argued for her qualification. Both Lankford and the potential juror
are black. Under a 1986 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court,
prosecutors must give a non-racial reason for striking a juror who is
the same race as the defendant.
NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): U.S. trade deficit shrinks 16%.
The government said Tuesday that the deficit in the broadest
measure of U.S. trade sank to a five-year low last year. America’s
current account balance narrowed by 16 percent over a $126.6 billion
deficit in 1988, reflecting growth in exports, higher overseas earnings
of American businesses and increased spending by visiting foreign
tourists. The current account, also known as the balance of payments,
is the most closely watched trade statistic because it measures not
only trade in merchandise but also trade in services and investments.
It also reflects the amount of money the United States must borrow
annually from foreigners.
VALLEJO, Calif. (AP): Blind man attempts to rob bank.
A blind man who handed a threatening note to a bank teller and
collected $105 was arrested after he asked her to help him leave the
building, police said. 27-year-old Jeffery Lee Flournoy was taken into
custody Monday by police who waited outside the busy downtown
Bank of America branch in this northern California city. He was
booked on suspicion of robbery. The branch manager called police
while Flournoy, wearing dark glasses and using a cane, was in the
bank. Flournoy handed a note to the teller that read, “I have a bomb
so give me your money or the bomb goes off.” There was no bomb.
WORLD
MOSCOW (AP): Gorbachev won’t recognize Lithuania.
Soviet leader Miknail S. Gorbachev rejected Lithuania’s declaration
of independence and ruled out talks with the rebellious republic
Tuesday. Gorbachev told the Congress of People’s Deputies he
considers the Lithuanian move “illegal and invalid" and said the
Kremlin would not begin wholesale negotiations with republics
seeking independence. “We cannot talk about negotiations," he said.
“You carry out negotiations with a foreign country.” Gorbachev,
however, also urged patience and said Moscow’s relations with the
Baltic republic would continue unchanged for now in the wake of
Sunday’s vote by Lithuanian lawmakers to break away from the
Soviet Union.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP): Riots break out.
Blacks fought with police and among themselves across South Africa,
and 15 people were killed, 50 were wounded and hundreds arrested,
police said Tuesday. Police listed 57 incidents on Monday and
Tuesday, the largest number on the daily report since violence
erupted last month in black areas across the country. More than 200
blacks have been killed since early February, most of them in
factional fighting. In the southeastern province of Natal, the site of
four years of fighting between rival groups, police scud eight black
men were stabbed, shot or burned to death in three separate attacks.
Elsewhere, four black men were killed in separate incidents when
police fired birdshot to disperse stone-throwers in the Cape and
Orange Free State provinces. Also, two black men were fatally shot
and another stabbed to death in townships outside Johannesburg.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Society for Human
Resource Management will meet
tonight at 7 at Caldwell Hall in
Room 103. All personnel/human
resource management and
industrial psychology majors are
invited. Professional attire is
requested.
• The UGA College Republicans
will meet tonight at 7 at the Tate
Student Center in Room 140. The
public is invited.
• The Young Democrats of
UGA/Clarke County will meet
tonight at 7:30 at the Tate
Student Center in Room 139. The
public is invited.
• Phi Alpha Delta, the pre-law
club, will meet tonight at 8:30 at
the Tate Student Center in Room
139. Elections will be held.
Lectures
• Attorneys Robert Kennedy,
John Pratt, Kamau King, and
Vince La terra will speak today
from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Law
School Auditorium. Their topics
will cover trademark, patent,
and copyright laws. The public is
invited.
Public safety cadets get good pay and
flexible hours for keeping UGA secure
By LARA ROBERTS
Contnbutirqi Writer
In the mad rush through the library many
students rarely stop to wonder who the uni
formed people standing off to the side are.
They monitor the tumultuous human traffic
and often stop you if you try to sneak in with a
drink.
These service officers are students who work
for the University Public Safety Division. In ad
dition to the libraries, security officers are
placed in important buildings around campus
including the President’s house, the Butts-
Mehre building, the Ceorgia Center for Contin
uing Education, the College of Veterinary Med
icine and the Georgia Museum of Art.
They must be enrolled in school here, either
as an undergraduate or a graduate student.
Sgt. Richard Goodson emphasized the differ
ence between service offices and police officers.
They are hired to watch only. They don’t
carry guns, because they are not exected to
handle tough situations,” he said. “If anything
out of the ordinary happens, it is their job to
call a police officer.”
"Anyone can apply,” said Cpl. Dave Crumley
who is responsible for hiring officers. “There’s
no grade requirements and you don’t have to be
a criminal justice major, although the majority
of our officers are.
“Our officers usually don’t have any law en-
• Reita Rivers will speak today
at 4 p.m. at the Tate Student
Center in Room 142. Her topic is
“Jeannette Rankin: Portrait of a
Pacifist.” The public is invited.
• Alex Williams will speak
tonight at 7 at the Presbyterian
Center, 1250 S. Lumpkin. His
topic is Testing your Spiritual
I.Q.* The public is invited.
Announcements
• An exhibit entitled “Designs
and Forms in 3-Dimensions’ will
open tonight from 6:30 to 8:30 at
the Courtyard Gallery in the
Visual Arts Building.
• The Minority Business
Students Association will hold a
recruitment drive today from 4 to
8 p.m. in the Creswell lobby.
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forcement background, but most of them be
come interested in the field while working
here,"he said.
The minimum number of hours one can work
is 15 and the maximum is 40, although few
work that many, Crumley said.
“Officers also can get extra hours by volun
teering to work receptions and special events,”
he said.
Sharon Wheeler, a senior criminal justice
major who works as a library security guard,
said ‘This job is better than most jobs because
they always work around your schedule, and it
pays pretty well,” she said.
Sgt. Cynthia Stice, a graduate student who
supervises the officers, said she’s proud of the
program, which has grown a lot during the past
15 years.
"It started out with only 12 officers and we
currently have 42 officers employed," she said.
“We are expanding daily as our responsibilities
are getting greater.
The work experience they gain from here is
valuable and has helped former officers to land
quality jobs,” Stice said.
The division accepts applications all the
time, Crumley said, but they usually hire only
once a quarter. There’s a seven-day training
program students must go through before be
coming an official officer, he added.
The training involves CPR, basic first-aid,
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Sharon Wheeler: Likes the pay
fire safety and how to handle emergencies. It
lasts about five or six hours a day and is paid
time, Crumley said.
Goodson said he feels this is a sufficient
amount of training since their job only is to
monitor.
The officers usually receive about 40 hours
of training, but the best training they get is just
being on the job, and learning on their own,” he
said.
Bush lifts sanctions
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President
Bush lifted trade sanctions against
Nicaragua on Tuesday and asked
Congress to swiftly approve a $300
million down payment for re
building the nation's ravaged
economy.
Rushing to shore up the in
coming government of President
elect Violeta Chamorro, Bush also
pledged he will seek an additional
$200 million in fiscal 1991 which
begins Oct. 1.
The president urged Congress to
complete work by April 5 on money
for both countries. All the funds
would be diverted from the Penta
gon’s budget, perhaps the first real
“peace dividend” from the receding
Cold War.
Opening his news conference,
Busn announced he had lifted the
five-year-old economic embargo
against Nicaragua, one of the tools
used by the United States to un
dermine the leftist government of
Ortega.
The president also took steps to
allow Nicaragua to resume ship
ping sugar to the United States
and to make that nation eligible for
duty-free treatment for a variety of
other products.
Of the money for Nicaragua, $75
million would be earmarked for
economic restructuring, $60 mil
lion for critical agricultural sup
plies, petroleum and medical
supplies, another $60 million for
development projects and $50 mil
lion to help with foreign debts.
Some $45 million would go to
ward helping speed the repatria
tion of the U.S.-backed Contra
forces and other refugees.
Parking meter price to
go to twenty-five cents
The Public Works Department
of the City of Athens is installing
parking meters downtown that
will charge 25 cents an hour and
won’t take pennies.
The old meters charged 10
cents an hour and took pennies,
nickels and dimes. Sgt. James
Doster of the Athens police esti
mated the old meters to be 30
years old.
Doster said installation of the
meters was delayed because the
parts were delivered separately,
and the city had to drill holes in
the meters for stabilizer bars.
The new meters will be two-
headed, Doster said, which will
make the streets more attractive
and less cluttered.
Steve Sgarlato, owner of The
Grill at 171 College Ave., said the
city didn’t ask him for input on
installation of the 25 cent meters.
But he said the increase
shouldn’t affect his business, be
cause most of his customers walk
to The Grill before 4 p.m., and
wait until after 4 p.m. to drive.
Sgarlato said he doesn’t mind
the increase.
Td be glad to pay a quarter,”
he said. “Prices are going up all
over the place — inflation is
going nuts.
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