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The Red and Black • Thursday, April 5, 1990 • 3
Students show little interest in SA senate race
By DARA McLEOD
Staff Writer
Candidates running for senior
and junior senator seats in the
Student Association won’t be
facing a very tough election April
17 — in fact there aren’t even
enough candidates to fill all the
available positions.
The deadline to qualify to run
in the election was Monday and it
won’t be extended despite the
shortage of candidates, President
Pro Tem Andrea Naterman said.
Only four candidates are vying
for the eight senior senator posi
tions available, she said. In addi
tion, eight candidates will run
unopposed for the eight junior
senator positions and no one is
running for the position of grad
uate senator.
However, 10 candidates will
vie for the six sophomore senator
positions.
Naterman said the vacant se
nior senator positions will be
filled by the same process em
ployed when senators resign.
Under this process, any stu-
File
Laura Petrides
dent who qualifies as a candidate
may apply. The SA’s Internal Af
fairs Committee will interview
the candidates and make a rec
ommendation to the Senate,
which will vote on the candi
dates.
Sophomore Sen. Laura Pe
trides, who is also public rela
tions chairperson, said
University Council is also lacking
Sen. Laura Petrides
said University
Council is also lacking
student candidates.
She also said "bad
press" regarding the
resignations of nine
senators may have
discouraged people
from running
student candidates.
“It shows that the University
campus is terribly apathetic,’’she
said.
Petrides also said that “bad
press" regarding the resignations
of nine senators may have dis
couraged people from running.
However, junior Sen. Todd
King, who isn’t running for re-
election, said many people who
picked up applications may have
decided SA would be too time-
consuming.
“I was really surprised. Last
year there were so many people
that ran," he said.
King said he doesn’t think
people were discouraged by SA’s
image and that SA received much
better publicity and accom-
f dished much more this year than
ast.
He said he isn’t running again
because he’s been a senator for
two years and would like to de
vote more time to academics and
other things.
Naterman said she thinks the
reason no one is running for
graduate senator is because of
the formation of the Graduate
Student Association and because
many graduate students would
graduate before the end of the
term.
The president and vice presi
dential tickets are running with
“intense competition," but the
senators aren’t, she said.
There are three tickets in the
running.
P«l*r Fr«y/The ReO and Black
Sitar man
K.C. Gangrade, a retired music professor and a sitar player from
Bombay, India, plays his ancient instrument Wednesday for two music
classes. Gangrade also gave a lecture on the characteristics of clas
sical Hindustani sitar music, a traditional musical form. Gangrade trav
eled all the way to Athens to visit his son, who is working toward a
doctoral degree in biopharmaceutics at the University. Assisting him is
Ranee Kaur, president of the Indian Student Association and a grad
uate student studying literature.
City boosts
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
Athens City Council Tuesday
night approved significant in
creases in city bus fares that will
prove more costly to Athens citi
zens than University students. The
hike won’t affect bus service to the
University campus or student
transportation fees, but it will
mean a shifting of funds in the
University budget.
Council members voted 9-1 to in
crease the adult fare from 60 to 75
cents, youth and senior citizen
fares from 30 to 35 cents and the
cost of monthly adult passes from
$18 to $22 and monthly youth and
senior citizen passes from $10 to
$11.
Business Services Director Jo
seph Broadhurst said the Univer
sity has a contract with Athens
Area Transit that gives the city bus
system $2 per student each
quarter.
That rate will increase to $2.50
per student at the beginning of
summer quarter. However, stu
dents won’t pay an increase in
quarterly transportation fees. In
stead the funds will be diverted
from University bus funds to the
city.
Currently students pay a quar
terly transportation fee of $24.50.
This rate was increased this fiscal
year from $22.50.
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Coast Guard isn’t laughing after fatal hoax
bus fares
The hike won’t affect
bus service to the
University campus
To compensate for the city in
crease, the University, which nor
mally buys two new buses per year,
won’t order any in fiscal year 1991.
Broadhurst said, “We are ahead
of schedule in renewing the Uni
versity fleet and it will not be nec
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The Associated Press
BOSTON — The call, on a ma
rine hailing frequency, was ur
gent and chilling: A ship
somewhere on the freezing wa
ters off Massachusetts was trans
mitting a last-ditch plea for help.
‘This is the fishing vessel Sol E
Mar," a male voice shouted in
frenzy. “We’re sinkin’. We need
help now!”
The plea rose into a scream.
The transmission was abruptly
cut. Then, there was only crack
ling static. Coast Guard radio
monitors on Nantucket and Mar
tha’s Vineyard tried desperately
to get the caller back to locate the
ship and send help. But just over
a minute after the first call, an
other distress signal came in.
“SOS, I’m sinking,” a male
voice said. And then he laughed.
The Coast Guard officers
didn’t dispatch rescue planes or
boats. The calls, they thought,
were just part of the rising
number of hoaxes.
Last Friday, five days later,
they discovered they were wrong.
The Sol E Mar was reported
missing and the Coast Guard
began a search for the father and
son who manned the 50-foot
fishing vessel.
The Sol E Mar and the two
men were presumed lost at sea
somewhere south of Martha’s
Vineyard. The search was called
off Sunday night and the Coast
Guard was left wondering how to
deal with hoaxers.
Bogus distress, once just a nui
sance to Coast Guard rescuers,
now are considered a serious
problem.
In 1989, 16 hoaxes were re
corded on the coast from Canada
to New Jersey. This year, there
already have been 11 known
hoaxes.
Lost with the Sol E Mar were
William Hokanson Sr., 44, and
his 19-year-old son, William Jr.
year.
‘The money saved from not get
ting new buses can be used to cover
the city increase without having to
burden students with a higher fee,”
he said.
The increase is the first in five
years. Council member Gwen
O’Looney, who voted for the mea
sure, said she regrets so much time
has lapsed since the previous in
crease.
“I think it shows some bad man
agement on our part for not doing
gradual increases and having to
have such a big jump at once,” she
said.
Councilman Linny Bailey cast
the dissenting vote.
“It’s an undue burden on
workers who make minimum wage
and ride the buses every day,” he
said.
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AUDITIONS
The television show "Star Search" will be coming to Athens to
hold auditions, specifically seeking talent from the l nivcrsity of
Georgia. Vie will be auditioning students that are interested in
appearing on our show who would compete in one of the fol
lowing categories: Male Vocalist, Female Vocalist, Band. Dance
Group, Actor, Actress, Female anti Male Spokes person. Anyone
who is interested in an audition should act immediately. Please
write your school name, and the category you're interested in
on the outside of all packages. Contact:
Slur Scarch/6230 Sunscl Blvd/Hollywood, CA 90028
(213) 962-1991
3rd ANNUAL STUDENT
PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST WINNERS
thru April 13 TateGallery
Reception on Tuesday, April 10 at 7:00 p.m.
MODERN MANDOLIN QUARTET with opener Yoemans
Monday, April 9 8:00 p.m. Fine Arts Theater
$1 UGA Students $3 public reserved seating
MICHELLE SHOCKED and DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND
Thursday, April 12 6:00 p.m. LegionField
$5 UGA Students $ 10 public
MICHEAL HEDGES - New Age Guitarist
Tuesday, April 17 8:00 p.m. GAHall
$4 UGA Students $8 public
CINEMATIC ARTS PRESENTS MOVIES
AT THE TATE THEATRE
Tickets for all shows arc available at the Tate Cashier Window
University Union is now accepting applications
Pick one up at the Tate Info Desk and return by April 20th
For more info call 54-UNION
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