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BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Kemp on leave of absence-gives no specific reason.
Jan Kemp, the Developmental Studies English instructor who
successfully sued the University for violating her First Amendment
rights when she protested the preferential treatment of athletes, is on
leave of absence at her request for this quarter. William Antenen,
Developmental Studies director, said she didn’t give a reason and he
doesn’t know when shell return but it should be sometime this
quarter. In other news, Kemp’s ex-husband, William Babb Kemp Jr.,
took her to court last week charging she denied him visitation rights
to their two children. This is the fifth time since their 1987 divorce
that he has taken her to court about visitation rights. Fulton County
Superior Court Judge Luther Alverson ordered Kemp to pay $3,000
for attorney’s fees and fined her $200 for the violation.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Delta won’t hire Eastern strikers.
Eastern Airlines pilots who participated in last year’s strike and now
are looking for work have found it’s “No Help Wanted” at Delta Air
Lines. “Obviously, there’s people in (Delta) management who don’t
want to touch us,” said John Davis, 33, an Eastern flight engineer
who is job hunting. “We’re considered rabble-rousers, troublemakers,
union radicals.” Delta officials have another explanation. They say
they don’t want to hire and train former Eastern pilots, only to have
them leave if their old jobs become available. “It’s strictly a decision
made on the investment we have to make in training a pilot or flight
attendant,” said Delta spokesman Neil A. Monroe. “Until this entire
labor situation is resolved, we are not in a position to consider them.”
BRUNSWICK (AP): Mystery fish to be researched.
Scientists have a mystery on their hands off the Georgia coast.
Researchers want to study a fish that was discovered by accident a
few years ago. Duncan Amos, associate director of the University of
Georgia’s Marine Extension Service, said he has requested funding to
learn more about the wreck fish, a large member of the bass family
that gets its name from hanging around sunken ships. “Nobody
knows where they come from,” Amos said. Wreck fish were discovered
in an area known as the Blake Plateau, previously thought to be
barren. Weighing 30 to 120 pounds dressed, wreck fish live about 180
miles off the coast at depths of 600 to 1,200 feet. “I would call it a
mystery fish,” Amos said. “We don’t know if they cross the Atlantic
Ridge of if they spend their entire lives off the coast of Georgia.”
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): High court refuses appeal bid. Two
Georgia death row inmates — Robert Hicks and Ronald Spivey — lost
bids Monday to have their appeals heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hicks was convicted of murder in the July 13, 1985, slaying of Toni
Roberts in Spalding County. His death sentence also was upheld by
the Supreme Court in 1987. Spivey was convicted of killing a
Columbus police officer, Billy Watson, on Dec. 28, 1976. His original
conviction was overturned on appeal, and he was convicted and
sentenced to death a second time in 1983. The court action was taken
without comment, except for a dissenting statement by justices
William J. Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, who oppose capital
punishment under all circumstances.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP): Young AIDS hero nearing death.
Ryan White, the young AIDS patient whose rejection by hometown
classmates brought him sympathy and support all over the world,
was reported near death Monday. White, 18, was in critical condition
this afternoon at Riley Hospital for Children and was not expected to
survive internal bleeding that has left him unconscious, said Carrie
Van Dyke, director of health promotion for the State Board of Health.
White was diagnosed as having AIDS in December 1984 when he was
13. He contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome through a
blood-clotting agent used to treat his hemophilia. The following year,
he was barred from Western Middle School near Kokomo after school
officials and parents there rejected health authorities’ reassurances
that AIDS cannot be spread through casual contact. After months of
school board battles and court hearings, White won the right to
attend school.
DENVER (AP): Brent Musburger's brother cries foul.
Brent Musburger’s brother said Monday that CBS’ version of the
sportscaster’s departure from the network is “far from the truth. I’m
concerned about some of the information they’re putting out,” said
Todd Musburger, who represented his brother in contract
negotiations. “I don’t want to get into the details right now, but
maybe after the game the gloves will come off.” The game — Monday
night’s NCAA basketball championship between UNLV and Duke —
will be Brent Musburger’s final broadcast on CBS. The network
announced Sunday that it wouldn’t renew his $2 million-per-year
contract after it expires June 30. The main issues apparently were
money and high-profile assignments. Musburger admitted that
money and assignments were primary issues in the negotiations, but
claimed that CBS never indicated it was unhappy with his brother’s
performance.
■ WORLD
MOSCOW (AP): ‘Gradual’ independence offered.
Lithuania’s president Monday invited Kremlin officials to Lithuania
to discuss the republic’s secession drive and struck a conciliatory note
by saying Lithuania wants gradual, not immediate, full
independence. Landsbergis told Lithuanian legislators that officials
face “political difficulties” in dealing with Lithuania’s March 11
declaration of independence. The Lithuanian declaration of
independence “may seem to some people ... a demand that power be
handed over the very next day,” Instead, Landsbergis told legislators
the republic had stated “how by means of agreements and a gradual
takeover of certain functions, we would consolidate our
independence.” Gorbachev has said talks on independence can take
place only if Lithuania renounces its declaration of March 11. Refusal
to take back the declaration of independence may result in “grave
consequences for all of us,” Gorbachev said in a statement to
Lithuanians on Saturday.
PARIS (AP): Carter plans tentative talks with Arafat.
Former President Jimmy Carter and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat
plan to meet Wednesday in the French capital, a newspaper and radio
station reported Monday. A spokesman for the Carter Center in
Atlanta said Carter hoped the meeting with the Palestine Liberation
Organization leader would go forward but nothing was firm. The
precise location of Wednesday’s meeting will be kept secret until the
talks end, the radio station said, adding that Premier Michel Rocard
or Foreign Minister Roland Dumas of France may attend.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• BACCHUS will meet tonight
from 6 to 7 at Memorial Hall in
Room 221. Call the BACCHUS
office at 542-1928 for more
information.
• The UGA Pre-veterinary Club
will meet tonight at 7:30 at the
Veterinary School Microbiology
Auditorium. The public is
invited.
Announcements
• The UGA Aikido Club will
sponsor a demonstration of the
defensive art today at 1 p.m. at
the Tate Student Center Plaza.
• Sh’ma Yisra’el will sponsor a
four-part study of Passover from
a Messianic perspective tonight
at 7:30 at Beechwood
Apartments in Room 1-5.
Tonight’s topic is “The Seder of
Jesus." The public is invited.
• Henry Rollins, former singer of
Black Flag turned poet and social
commentator, will speak tonight
at 8 Georgia Hall at the Tate Stu
dent Center. Tickets are $1 for
students, $2 for the public and
are available at the cashier’s
window at the Tate Student
Center.
Items for UGA Today mutt be
submitted in writing at least two
days before the date to be printed.
Include specific meeting location,
speaker's title and topic, and a
contact person's day and evening
phone number. Items are printed
on a space-available basis.
Because space is limited, long
announcements are shortened.
Honors week for journalism school
And the winner is
R&B wins top awards
By LYNN BARFIELD
Contributing Writer
The broadcasting industry will
honor its brightest talent with an
award that’s considered the indus
try’s highest achievement.
The 50th Anniversary George
Foster Peabody Awards ceremony
will be held in Atlanta at the
Georgia World Congress Center at
7 p.m. tonight. The Peabody
Awards are given by the College of
Journalism and Mass Communica
tion each year to recognize out
standing achievements in
broadcasting.
Master of Ceremonies will be
NBC Nightly News commentator
John Chancellor. Other dignitaries
attending will be NBC Nightly
News anchor Tom Brokaw, CBS
news anchor Dan Rather and ABC
journalist David Brinkley, who will
receive a lifetime achievement
award for his contributions to the
■ ■ ■
broadcasting field.
University President Charles
Knapp and Peabody Awards Di
rector Worth McDougald will be
among University representatives
attending the awards.
The awards ceremony closes the
National Association of Broad
casters Convention in Atlanta this
week .
Kay Weeks, administrative sec
retary for the Peabody Committee,
said it was a coincidence the NAB
convention marks the Peabodys’
50th anniversary.
Doug Wills, manager of media
relations for NAB, said the cere
mony will show off the excellence of
the broadcasting industry.
‘The Peabodys are the Pulitzer
Prizes of the industry. John Chan
cellor exemplifies excellence in the
broadcasting industry,” Wills said.
Recipients of this year’s awards
include the ABC’s “China Beach”
and ‘Sesame Street.”
The Red and Black is the best
non-daily newspaper in the
Southeast according to The So
ciety of Professional Journalists.
SPJ named The Red and Black
the Best All-Around College
Newspaper in the non-daily cat
egory Saturday at its Southeast
regional conference at the Uni
versity of Alabama.
This is the fourth consecutive
year The Red and Black has re
ceived this honor.
John English, journalism pro
fessor and SPJ member, said, “It
shows they are doing a good job
at covering the University and
the community and issues that
afTect students.”
Red and Black staff members
were also recognized with the
Mark of Excellence awards given
by SPJ in various categories.
Cartoonist Mike Moreu was
This is the fourth
consecutive year the
Red and Black has
received this honor.
awarded first place in editorial
cartooning and Chns Clonts, a
former staff writer, placed first in
column writing.
Kelly Keating, a stringer for
The Red and Black, placed
second in feature writing for a
feature story published in the Sa
vannah News-Press.
The awards were presented at
SPJ’s Southeast regional confer
ence at the University of Ala
bama in Tuscaloosa.
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