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The Red and Black • Friday, March 16, 1990 • 3
Conservation raises stink Univ©rsity to film documontdry in W©st AfriCd
By LYNN BARFIELD
Contributing Writer
Even though the *908 has been dubbed the “decade of conservation,”
some residents of Boggs Hall feel that one student is taking the act too
far.
According to Resident Assistant Ciciley Nelson, a resident of the
first floor has decided not to flush the toilet so as to conserve water.
Arlene Ligotti, inspection control coordinator for Saint Mary’s Hos
pital, said this is an unsanitary action that poses a health hazard by
& en JJ®ting bacteria that can easily be spread to any other resident.
*vVith feces, all sorts of contact contamination exist," she said. “Due
to odor, it will attract flies that in fact carry the germs and disease that
the residents will contract."
*We don’t know who is doing this, but I really wish that they would
stop," said Nelson, a sophomore political science major.
The situation began about three weeks ago when resident Jennifer
Hughes noticed fecal matter in the hall bathroom. She then wrote a
letter to the other residents to try and stop the contamination.
The culprit wrote a letter back to the residents and posted it inside
the stalls. The letter said that “five gallons of water are wasted each
time a toilet is flushed." She said the other residents were acting irre
sponsibly towards the planet.
Hughes, a sophomore education mqjor, wrote a letter of rebuttal
stating that the matter will be taken to the graduate resident if the un
healthy conditions continue.
Carol McCullough, a sophomore special education major, said she
noticed the matter when a visiting friend asked her to see a mess in the
bathroom. When McCullough went to the stall, she saw feces hand
printed all over the walls.
This enviromentally conscious female may be what Allison Jones,
secretary of education for the Students for Enviromental Awareness
classifies os an “extremist.”
The amount of water that is wasted in residence halls and regular
households vary due to the different water systems.
According to Wayne Lewis, owner and operator of Lewis Plumbing
in Athens said there are two different tank systems.
A tank system, installed in most homes, probably uses three and one
half gallons of water per flush, while a flush valve, installed in most
public restrooms, will be a little more than that, Lewis said.
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
It sounds like a good job for a for-
eign correspondent.
Burkina Faso, a small country in
West Africa, has fallen on hard
times. The population is rising,
water is scarce and each year the
creeping sands of the Sahara De
sert devour a few more miles of
trees and grassland.
But CNN isn’t handling the
story. Neither is National Geo
graphic. Instead, it’s being covered
by the University's Office of Public
Information.
Tom Jackson and Steve Bell,
both public information officials,
flew to Burkina Faso last
Wednesday to film a documentary
about the country’s plight and ef
forts to improve the situation
there.
For the last 10 years, officials
from the University and the Uni
versity of Ouagadougou in Burkina
Faso have been working to improve
agriculture in the country. The
program was initially funded by a
1979 grant from the U.S. Agency
for International Development.
In December of last year, Uni
versity President Charles Knapp
traveled to Burkina Faso and an
nounced the beginning of an ex
panded relationship with the
country.
Among other projects, the new
relationship has led to construction
of an agricultural research station
and a student exchange program
with the University of Ouaga
dougou.
Larry Dendy, associate director
of public information, said Jackson
and Bell are both experienced
broadcasters, but the documentary
is the first of its kind produced by
the public information office.
Now director of public informa
tion, Jackson once worked as a re
porter for WXIA-TV (Channel 11),
and Bell worked for a station in Al
bany, Ga. He’s now public informa
tion broadcast editor.
Dendy said the cost and distri
bution of the film haven’t been de
termined yet, but it may be shown
on Georgia Public Television.
‘They are shooting footage of
personnel from the University who
work there as well as natives who
have studied at the University and
gone back to Burkina Faso,” he
said. “It’s more than a promotional
tool. It’s an educational tool to
demonstrate the University’s pro
grams there that are of consider
able importance to the people."
Jackson and Bell, who will re
turn to Athens on March 19, are
filming the documentary with a
camera and audio equipment
owned by the public information of
fice. Dendy said the equipment
produces a quality film that could
be used for a network TV program.
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In addition, four University pro
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cluding Dari Snyder, director of
international development, and
Louie Boyd, associate dean of the
College of Agriculture.
Snyder and Boyd are on their
final grant-funded visit to Burkina
Faso.
Bernadette Allard, Snyder’s as
sistant, said the two professors are
cementing details of new exchange
and agricultural projects in the
country and will return this
weekend.
The exchange program has al
ready allowed about 15 students
from Burkina Faso to study here
and that more are expected, she
said. Under that program, stu
dents and faculty from the Univer
sity also travel to Burkina Faso to
teach, do research and work on
ways to improve the agricultural
situation.
Although volunteers from sev
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to help Burkina Faso, agricultural
experts from Georgia work in the
region partly because it grows fa
miliar crops. Peanuts, corn,
sorghum and cotton are Burkina
Faso’s main products.
There is such a need in Africa,”
she said “You need money. You
need teachers. You need money to
build schools.
“We’ve had some great suc
cesses,” Allard said. But she cau
tioned that with continuing
deforestation, drought, a rising
population and the rapidly ad
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