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THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 79
Regents choose firm for SPACENTER plans
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
The architectural firm selected by the
Board of Regents to draw up construction
plans for the $34 million SPACENTER
should have them completed by March
1991, Campus Architect Charles Porter
said.
With the selection of Chegwidden,
Dorsey and Holmes of Marietta at the re
gents monthly meeting Wednesday, “Ev
erything is on track,” said University
System Vice Chancellor for External Af
fairs Tom Daniel.
The projected budget for the center’s
construction is $28 million, according to
Vice Chancellor for Facilities Frederick
Branch.
He said the remaining $6 million of the
$34 million project will go toward ar
chitectural fees, surveying and material
testing. The funds will also pay for the
center’s furniture and equipment, among
other expenses.
Gov. Joe Frank Harris, in the fiscal
1990 supplemental budget, approved the
University’s allocation of $1 million of its
funding toward planning of the center.
The firm was chosen for its past experi
ence with similar facilities and its past
performance, Branch said.
The Architectural Selection and
Building Committee recommended the
firm March 5 as the first choice of four
possible firms, Porter said. University
President Charles Knapp, who appointed
the committee, accepted the recommen
dation and sent it to the regents, who ap
proved the selection Wednesday.
Porter said Parkin Architects of Los
Angeles, Calif., will assist in the planning
of the SPACENTER. Parkin will do most
of the design work and Chegwidden,
Dorsey and Holmes will be mostly respon
Bible for the drawing of the construction
documents, he said.
Porter said Parkin is well-known for its
innovative sports facilities.
Branch said once funding is approved
by the Georgia Legislature, the project
will take approximately two years “from
ground-breaking to ribbon-cutting.”
Daniel said the regents will ask the
Georgia Assembly at next year’s session
to approve general obligation bonds for
construction of the project.
General obligation bonds are sold by
the state and must be paid back by the
University and the University System,
Daniel said.
Money from the bond sales will pay
project costs. The money made by the pro
ject will be used to pay off the bonds, a
process known as revenue financing.
Student activities fees, GAA subsidies
and faculty/staff memberships will be
used to pay off the bonds.
Knapp has promised not to raise stu
dent activity fees until the projected com
pletion date In order to keep that
promise he proposed in November that
the GAA contribute its part of the tab in
the beginning and have activity fees pay
for the rest after completion.
SEA audit
clarified
by UGA
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
Problems with medical wastes
at the College of Veterinary Med
icine cited in a campus environ
mental audit were clarified by
University officials Wednesday.
The audit, conducted by mem
bers of Students for Environ
mental Awareness and presented
to the University Tuesday, de
tails University activities that af
fect the environment.
The section which details Uni
versity medical waste reported
that chemotherapy waste pos
sibly was being disposed of
through autoclaving, a process of
sterilization through heat. Auto
claving instead of incinerating
these wastes is in violation of
state law, the report read.
The audit defines chemothe
rapy waste as empty disposable
material that has come into con
tact with agents toxic to cells or
agents that inhibit or prevent the
growth and spread of tumors or
malignant cells. It includes
masks, gloves, petri dishes and
empty IV tubing bags and vials.
The chemotherapy wastes re
ferred to were reportedly from
the vet school. However, Phil Lu-
kert, professor of medical micro
biology, said those wastes aren’t
being autoclaved. He said the
only part of the vet school dealing
with such wastes is the Small An
imals Clinic and waste there is
bagged, labeled and sent to the
school’s pharmacy department.
Prom there, the University’s
Public Safety Department picks
up and disposes of the waste
material, he said.
Warren Safter, assistant di
rector of Public Safety, said the
chemotherapy waste is then
packaged, sealed in steel drums
and transported as hazardous
waste by a contracted company.
He said he thinks the waste is
then incinerated.
Lukert said the report in the
audit may have come from a mis
understanding of the term “che-
motherapy waste.” The
parasitology department per
forms tests on drugs against
blood parasites from which
wastes are autoclaved.
Pharmacologists would term
those "chemotherapeutic agents”
although they have nothing to do
with cancer, he said.
Audit chairwoman Alison
Jones, SEA’s secretary of educa
tion, said she could understand
the miscommunication. Perhaps
the meaning of chemotherapy
waste discussed wasn’t fully ex
plained to the auditor.
The audit also detailed a
problem with needles and sy
ringes mixed in with manure in
compost piles that were available
to the public as fertilizer.
Lukert said the issue was ad
dressed a year ago and the piles
are located near the Physical
Plant.
Physical Plant Director James
TenBrook couldn’t be reached for
comment.
“We know how they got there.
It was an error in the way those
wastes were handled,” Lukert
said.
But he said the needles and sy
ringes in the manure may have
come from other departments of
the University than the vet
school. The problem is the waste
still has not been cleaned up.
Manure seemingly contami
nated with needles and syringes
has been added to the niles in the
past year, Jones said, but she
doesn't know where it came from.
Only until recently was the
public barred from using the ma
nure as fertilizer, she Baid.
National competition is music to students’ ears
P*t*r Fr«y/The Rad and Black
Andy Wen: Doctoral student in musical arts practices his
saxophone 2 to 3 hours a day to prepare for competition
By MEUSSA CRAIG
Contributing Writer
The sweet song of victory has been playing for two
University students since April 1989 and they’re
hoping it won’t end too soon.
Feter Fletcher, junior music performance major,
and Andy Wen, doctoral student in musical arts, were
chosen recently as national finalists to compete in the
Music Teachers’ National Association of Collegiate
Artists Competition to be held April 2.
“It’s like getting into the Final Four,” said Richard
Zimdars, chairman of the music department’s piano
division.
Zimdars, who won the national competition in 1971
for piano, said it offers young artists a great deal of ex
posure. Not since 1986 has the University produced a
national finalist.
“All I can do is my best,” said Fletcher, who prac
tices between five and eight hours a day to prepare for
the finals.
“Someone once told me that performing is like a
tennis match; your toughest opponent isn’t on the
other side of the net, he’s yourself,” he said. “I really
believe that’s true.”
Fletcher, a music performance major who originally
wanted to play pop music, has 10 years of classical
guitar training under music professor John Suther
land, whom he followed to the University three years
ago.
Wen, who has studied saxophone for 13 years, en
tered the University’s doctoral program two years ago
under an assistantship in which the University pays
him to work as a saxophone and music theory in
structor.
He said most people consider his strengths to be
consistency and technical proficiency, but he believes
that a display of confidence might help to influence
the judges.
From the Southeast region, Fletcher and Wen pro
ceed to the finals of the competition as the guitar and
woodwinds category winners along with four other
winners from the piano, voice, brass and chamber en
semble categories.
The national first place winners from each category
will receive $2,000 in cash and perform in a winners’
recital the night following the competition.
Under the requirements of the competition, musi
cians had to perform a mtyor concerto from memory as
well as a piece from three of the four stylistic musical
Peter Fletcher: Junior music performance
major has 10 years on classical guitar
periods of baroque, classical, romantic and contempo
rary.
‘*We tried to select pieces of music which would pre
sent Andy at his best,” said professor Kenneth Fisher,
Wen’s personal instructor.
In addition to carefully choosing a musical reper
toire, Sutherland said his goal was to “get Fletcher to
the level of performance where he could play musi
cally and technically well enough to win.”
Wen practices two to three hours a day and meets
with Fisher once a week for a private lesson.
Fletcher said that although success is flattering
and gives him confidence, he does not enter into mu
sical competitions with the sole purpose of winning
the contest.
“I do them for experience because it strengthens me
to play as much as I can,” he said. “I believe a great
player is going to be recognized whether he competes
or not."
Bonding company gets students out of jail free. . . almost
By ANNA SMITH
Contributing Writer
In a town policed by four law en
forcement agencies most students
would agree that its nice to know
there’s a way to get out of jail free.
Although it only has happened
three times since 1978, anybody
wearing an Aaron Bonding Co. T-
shirt can be rescued free by the
owner of the company, John El
liott.
He also offers a 10 percent dis
count to University students.
As owner of Athens’ oldest
bonding company, Elliott has tar
geted his services to University
students for years. Not because
students get into more trouble, but
because the students are more reli
able and safe, he said.
“Students are really just a mi
crocosm of the whole world, they do
the same thing everybody else
does.”
A bonding company, such as
Aaron Bonding, enables a person
that has been arrested to get out of
jail pending their trial.
A person who has been arrested
has three choices: pay the bond in
cash, sign a property bond, or hire
a professional bondsman.
A bondsman can charge his
client 10 percent of the bond as a
fee.
For 12 years Elliott has been
helping students that have found
themselves in an unfortunate posi
tion with the law.
Elliott was in law school in At
lanta when he decided to start a
bonding company. He said that he
had some capital, caught the “en
trepreneurial spirit” and decided to
go for it instead of completing his
law degree.
Elliott said he enjoys hi9 job and
working with students because
they help keep him young. He ad
mits that there is a risk associated
in accepting responsibility for his
various clients, many of whom
aren’t University students.
Elliot decides when they call him
on the phone whether or not he will
get them out of jail, he said.
“It’s just an act of faith,” claims
Elliott, “there are certain questions
you can ask a person to tell if they
are reliable.”
And for anyone that decides to
skip their court date, Elliott issues
a bail jumping warrant and places
that person back in jail.
“We will get our money back. It’s
a business decision,” he said.
However, Elliott has found that
most students pay their bond fee
right away and snow up for their
court date. A University graduate
himself, Elliott is understanding
Please See BONDING. Page 5
3 SA members resign with 2 weeks left in terms
By DARA McLEOO
Staff Writer
Student Association Vice Presi
dent Mary Beth Hartlage, Trea
surer Tammy Dudley and senior
Sen. John Piedrahita resigned at
Tuesday’s meeting, just two weeks
before the end of their terms.
Nine of the 36 members of SA
have now resigned during this
term, which began last April.
Hartlage, who accepted a spring
internship with U.S. Sen. Sam
Nunn’s Atlanta office last quarter,
said her decision doesn’t reflect a
lack of commitment to SA. How
ever, she said she wouldn't be able
to fulfill her duties for the last two
weeks of her term.
The SA Constitution requires
that all senators and officers be en
rolled at the University as full
time students and serve until their
successors take office.
Piedrahita also resigned after
accepting a spring quarter inter
nship with Nunn’s office in Wash
ington, D.C.
Dudley resigned because she
will graduate this quarter. She had
previously thought she needed one
more course to graduate.
Dudley said she had planned to
take another course so she would
meet the SA Constitution’s re
quirement that she be a full-time
student. She will remain in Athens
and plans to work as an adviser to
her successor os SA treasurer.
SA President Mark Schisler said
he was aware that Hartlage and
Piedrahita were considering ac
cepting internships.
“1 think all three made academic
decisions. I don’t blame them for
making a career decision over
staying with SA for two more meet
ings,” he said. “If it had happened
at the end of fall quarter it would
have been something else."
Schisler said he doesn’t think
the resignations will have any neg
ative effects on SA.
However, former Sen. Lane
Haley said he resigned in spring
quarter 1989 in part because Hart
lage would violate the SA Constitu
tion if she accepted the internship.
Hartlage waited until September
to announce that she would accept
the internship.
Schisler said, “All three of them
have served the SA well. But, be
cause the SA Constitution says
they must be full-time students,
Mary Beth Hartlage:
cepted Nunn internship
they’re being forced to resign."
The revised SA constitution re
quires seniors and graduate sen
ators to take only the number of
classes required for graduation.
But it won’t go into effect until
after it’s ratified by two-thirds of
the student body during elections
April 17 and approved by Univer
sity President Charles Knapp.
Therefore, Schisler said, under
the new constitution Hartlage and
Piedrahita wouldn’t have had to re
sign if they were enrolled in five
credit hours for their internships.
SA conducting student poll
on library lounge issue
By DARA McCLEOD
Staff Writer
The Student Association will conduct a poll at the main library study
lounge today to determine whether students think smoking should be
banned in the lounge.
Junior Sen. Todd King said many students have told SA senators they
would like to see smoking banned there.
Bonnie Clements, assistant director for Public Services at the main li
brary, said banning smoking in the lounge is the number one suggestion
received in its suggestion box.
King said SA wants to determine what the student consensus is be-
fore making any recommendations.
Library administrators will take SA’s recommendation into consider
ation and may action on it depending on the poll, Clements said
The polling tables will be located in the lounge and will be open 10
a.m. to 1 p m., 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Student IDs and fees paid cards are required to vote.
In other business:
• SA approved a motion to support senior Sen. David Seigel’s proposal
to request that the family housing bus route be extended Seigel will meet
with a University administrator to propose adding three or four more
stops and more buses to the route.
• Sophomore Sen. Susie Griffin announced BACCHUS, a student al
cohol awareness organization, has agreed to co sponsor a designated
driver program, called “I’m drivin’ " About 18 local bars have agreed to
serve soft drinks to student designated drivers. Griffin said the program
is scheduled to begin early spring quarter
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