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2 • The Red and Black • Fnday, April 6, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Athens Area Homeless Shelter benefits this weekend.
The University Service Organization Council is sponsoring a benefit
for the Athens Area Homeless Shelter today from 11 to 2 p in. at the
Tate Student Center Plaza. Lunch will be available for donations, and
Infomania and Smash Fantastic will perform. Gamma Sigma Sigma
will host “Rent a Student,” a program to raise money for the Athens
Area Homeless Shelter Saturday, April 7. Angela Burton, program
adviser for volunteer services, said students will perform yard work
and clerical duties for participating businesses and individuals in
Athens. The Athens Area Homeless Shelter will hold a yard sale
today from 10 to 4 p.m., Saturday from 8 to 4 p.m., and Sunday from 1
to 4 p.m. at W & W Quality Meats on Hawthorne Avenue and Old
Epps Bridge Road. There will be door prizes every hour. Please bring
donations before sales hours. If you wish to volunteer, contact the
shelter at 543-1532 or 354-0423.
Red Clay environmental law forum this weekend. The
Environmental Law Association of the University of Georgia School of
Law is hosting the Red Clay Conference, April 6-7. The conference
will focus upon environmental issues and the legal procedures
available to deal with hese issues. Experts from across the Southeast
will oduct panel disucussion workshops on topics such ns wetlands
protection, wildlife preservation, ecological development, and current
trends in environmental legislation. Admission is $1 for students, $10
for individuals, and $40 for attorneys. For more information, contact
Victor Johnson at 795-5281. For registration information, contact the
Dean of Students, UGA Law School, at 542-7985.
Students should apply for financial aid immediately.
Financial Aid for summer quarter 1990 is first come, first served
because of limited funds. Only students who have already received
aid during the academic year are eligible. Students may come to the
Office of Student Financial Aid in the Academic Building on or after
April 9, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., to re-apply for the following aid:
Health Professions Loans for Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine
students, Stafford Loans, Supplemental Educational Opportunity
Grants and Regents Scholarships. Students who received less than a
full Pell Grant during the academic year are also eligible. “We’re
asking those students who’ve received supplemental funds during the
school year to come bock in,” Gary Lewis, associate director of
financial aid, said. Funds for the Perkins Loan and Student Incentive
Grants aren’t available for summer quarter, Lewis said.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Handlers not ill from monkey bites.
Four animal handlers at the Hazleton Research Products of Reston,
Va. have become infected with an Ebola virus carried by laboratory
monkeys, but none have become sick from the usually devastating
disease, the Centers for Disease Control reported Thursday. The
virus, related to the deadly Ebola virus of Africa, has turned up in
monkeys from three Philippines importers since last fall. The licenses
of three of the nation’s largest monkey importers have been revoked
amid concerns over the spread of the virus. But unlike African Ebola
virus, which attacks suddenly and produces serious and oflen fatal
illness, Philipino virus isn’t making humans sick.
■ NATION
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP): Clothes don't excuse rape.
Sexual assault defendants could not introduce evidence that a victim
wore provocative clothing under legislation passed Thursday by a
Florida House panel reacting to a rape acquittal where jurors found
the woman “asked for it” by wearing a lace miniskirt. “It was not
relevant at all to whether the person on trial actually committed the
crime," said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Elaine Gordon, D-North Miami. A
Fort Lauderdale jury last year acquitted Steven Lord, 26, of
Lawrenceville, Ga., of rape after his attorneys introduced the victim’s
miniskirt as evidence and presented testimony that she wasn’t
wearing underwear in an attempt to show she was looking for trouble.
WASHINGTON (AP): U.S. to Japan: Wood is safe.
Timber state congressmen Thursday challenged Japanese clnims
that increased use of American wood products in Japan would lead to
more deaths and injuries from fires and earthquakes. In a letter to
Japanese Ambassador Ryohei Murata, Reps. Lindsay Thomas, D-Ga.,
Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sonny Callahan, R-Ala., said they would like
to meet with Japanese trade officials to set the record straight on
wood safety. Wyden said the three would like the opportunity to
counter claims by Japanese officials that increased use of wood
products in Japan would lead to more deaths and injuries from fires
and earthquakes. The congressmen also warned the ambassador that
failure to reduce Japanese restrictions against U.S. lumber could
result in retaliation against Japanese exports.
■ WORLD
BEIJING (AP): Tiananmen Sauare rallies prevented.
Authorities staged all-day rallies in Tiananmen Square Thursday on
Qingming, China’s annual day for mourning the dead, preventing
unofficial visits to the symbolic center of last year’s crushed
democracy movement. The method appeared successful. There were
no reports of any attempts to honor the hundreds and possibly
thousands of people killed June 3-4, when the army opened fire on
pro-democracy protesters. Chinese dissidents abroad, through faxes
and mailed leaflets, urged Beijing residents to stroll through
Tiananmen Square on Qingming in memory of the slain protesters.
Early in the week, however, Beijing authorities warned residents to
pass Qingming in a “civilized and healthy” way and not “take
advantage of the opportunity to create distubances.”
OSLO, Norway (API: Carter advocates deterrence.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Thursday the spread of
nuclear and chemical weapons in the Middle East could be an
inducement to Arab-Israeli peace. Carter told a news conference that
the potentially devastating weapons could prove to be a deterrent in
the troubled region. “It has long been known that Israel has a
formidable nuclear arsenal,” and several Arab countries are
developing chemical and biological weapons, he said. “People see now
that the next war that might be fought would not be fought by
conventional arms ... but would be fought by attacking civilian
populations, so this might be a deterrent or an inducement towards
peace,” Carter said.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Athens Mothers’ Center is
holding an introductory meeting
tonight at 9:30 at St. Gregory’s
Episcopal Church on Barnett
Shoals Road. For more
information, contact the Center
at 369-9296 or 548-9887.
• The Bulldog Student Athletic
Alliance will meet Sunday, April
9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Tate
Student Center in Room 144.
• The UGA Racquetbell Club
will meet Sunday, April 9 at 6
p.m. at the Tate Student Center
in Room 143.
• The Social Work Club will meet
Monday, April 10 at 7 p.m. at
Tucker Hall. Juvenile
delinquency and gangs in Athens
will be discussed. There will be
an ice cream social at 6:30 before
the meeting. The public is
invited.
• Delta Sigma Pi, the
professional business fraternity,
is holding Spring Rush Monday,
April 10 at 7 p.m. at the Tate
Student Center. All business
majors are invited. Professional
attire is requested.
Announcements
• The UGA Chapter of Beta
Alpha Psi, the honors accounting
fraternity, will sponsor a
volunteer income tax assistance
program today from 1 to 5 p.m. at
the Tate Student Center in Room
143. Anyone needing assistance
in filing their 1989 tax return is
invited.
• The Classic City Band will
perform its Spring Concert
Monday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. at
Clarke Central High School’s
Mel! Auditorium. The concert is
free and the public is invited.
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Taking a bite out
of homelessness
By PEGGY McGOFF
Contributing Writer
University students will be
given a chance to trade lunches
with the city’s homeless today as
part of National Hunger and
Homeless Awareness Day.
The program is sponsored by the
Service Organization Council to
raise money for the Athens Area
Homeless Shelter and to increase
awareness among students.
Jackie Murphy, chairperson of
the SOC, said, “We want students
to be aware of what homeless
people eat and how little they
nave.”
Organization members will
hand out bagged lunches of peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches, a
f iiece of fruit and an orange drink
rom 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. Orga
nization members will ask for do
nations for the lunches equal to
what the students normally spend.
Tables will be set up in the Tate
Student Center plaza, behind Ad-
erhold Hall, at the arches and at
the graduate studies building,
Murphy said.
Angela Burton, program adviser
for volunteer services, said Info-
mania will play at the Tate Center
plaza from noon to 1 p.m. and
Smash Fantastic will play from 1
to 2 p.m. ns part of the program.
The sandwiches were made with
bread provided by Holsum Bread
Company and peanut butter pro
vided at a discount by Kroger. Cris
well Produce donated the fruit.
The organizations that make up
the council include Gamma Sigma
Sigma, Circle K, Collegiate 4-TT,
Gamma Beta Phi. Communiveristy.
Georgia to study West
German education
By STEPHANIE-LEA SMITH
Staff Writer
The University will have direct
access to innovative West
German educational methods
next year ,
A $25,000 Fulbright Senior Re
search Award was granted to
Shawn Glynn, an educational
psychology professor, to conduct
a science education project com
paring textbooks and teaching
methods in West Germany and
the United States.
The award is given bv the
Council for International Ex
change of Scholars.
‘This is the best thing that has
Each applicant must be « p .
proved by both a United Statgg
and West German committee.
Glynn will be studying at the
Univeristy of Kiel, the center for
the Institute for Science of Edu
cation in West Germany. He will
focus on the teaching techniques
for elementary students between
the ages of 10 and 13.
This is an important topic at
this time,” he said. “American
students do poorly compared to
West German and Korean stu
dents. Teachers here need to
learn what they are doing. ”
Glynn will do research on a
book and create a videotape of
German educational methods.
’’clynn *«aid°“iTavsTSSn Glynn will be at thei University
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