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■ UNIVERSITY
Greeks will attempt world record in ‘Simon Says.’ If
you ever wanted to participate in a world record-breaking event,
today is your lucky day. University students are invited to participate
in World Record Simon Says at 1 p.m. in the Tote Student Center
plaza, said Gretchen Keuter, a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.
Keuter said Greek Week organizers are trying to set a record for the
most people involved in the game. Currently there is no Simon Says
record in the “Guineas B<x>k of World Records.” Ron Binder, adviser to
fraternities, said, “Greek Week is a time when we attempt to get all
fraternities and sororities together and plan events which all can
participate in."
Tennis classic benefits abused/neglected children.
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority is sponsoring its 7th annual tennis
classic April 27, 28 and 29 at the University’s varsity tennis courts.
Nancy Gill, a senior political science major and co-chair of the tennis
classic, said all proceeds will go to the National Court Appointed
Special Advocate Association, the national philanthropy of Kappa
Alpha Theta. ‘These are people that help neglected and abused
children in court,” Gill said. “I feel that this is very much needed.”
Students can register this week at the Tate Student Center Plaza
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The registration fee for singles is $10 and
doubles is $15.
■ STATE
SAVANNAH (AP): Coast Guard search for fishermen.
The Coast Guard searched the Atlantic Ocean oft Georgia and South
Carolina for three missing fishermen Monday after a fourth man was
plucked from a wooden box in which he may have been floating for
days. The fisherman was found drifting in an open box about 9 a.m.
EDT Monday by a passing boat about 20 miles east of Hilton Head
Island, S.C., said Petty Officer Brett Farrell. The man’s identity was
withheld pending notification of relatives. He was listed in serious
condition and was suffering from hypothermia and dehydration, said
hospital spokeswoman Ronnie Boaen. Farrell said the man told his
rescuers he was one of four crew members on a 34-foot commercial
fishing boat that sank after it left Darien, Ga., last Wednesday en
route to a fishing area ofT Edisto Beach, S.C.
WAYCROSS (AP): Commission studies rural AIDS.
Members of the National Commission on AIDS talked with AIDS
victims in rural Georgia Monday and said the problem outside urban
areas is growing faster than it is in the cities. It was the first time the
commission, appointed by President Bush, had visited a rural area.
“The resources available to rural health care in general are much
more limited. Therefore, any stress you put on the system is going to
show quicker,” said Dr. June Osborne, chairwoman of the commission
and dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.
She said the commission’s findings in rural Georgia would likely be
part of a larger report sent to Bush for use in making policy
recommendations. ‘The people we visited with felt very
uncomfortable be cause of the amount of fear that is in the area. The
fear among neighbors and friends seriously limits the kind of things
one would normally turn to in times of trouble,” she said.
ATLANTA (AP): Governor signs in child abuse bills.
Governor Joe Frank Harris signed a package of child protection bills
Monday, designed to improve the state’s ability to detect child abuse
and protect young victims from further injury. The package included
establishing a statewide registry for child abuse cases, intended to
help investigators locate prior reports of child abuse quickly and
efficiently: requiring a wider range of child-care professionals to
report suspected cases of child abuse; slightly relaxing confidentiality
laws so that child abuse records can be shared by law enforcement
agencies; and revamping the coroner system to include a regional
system of medical examiners and to require autopsies on children
under 7 who die in suspicious circumstances.
NEW YORK (AP): Young clarifies ambition, funding.
Andrew Young, in New York to raise money for his run for governor of
Georgia, said Monday his political ambition goes no further than the
statehouse. “You couldn’t get me back into the Congress,” he told
reporters. Young, 58, commented after a fund-raising breakfast at
which several speakers suggested a future in which the former
congressman and Atlanta mayor would go from governor to U.S.
senator to the White House. About 700 people in government, labor,
business and civic groups gathered to cheer Young in a ballroom of
the Sheraton Centre Hotel. 900 tickets were sold at $100 each. Young
said afterward that he doubted there would be political liability in
Georgia if his opponents in the Democratic primary tried to picture
him as the candidate of New York money. “I think we’re past that,” he
said. “That kind of campaigning doesn’t seem to work well in
Georgia.”
■ WORLD
MOSCOW (AP): Lithuanians want to negotiate.
Lithuania on Monday asked Mikhail S. Gorbachev to meet with the
republic's president to provide details of Moscow’s threatened
economic sanctions so that Lithuanians can be prepared. It would be
Gorbachev’s first meeting with Lithuanian President Vytautas
Landsbergis, who was elected after the republic declared itself
independent March 11. In a telegram to the Soviet president,
Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimieras Prunskiene said Lithuania
wants to explain to its people just what difficulties they might face if
they ignore an ultimatum Gorbachev issued Friday. He gave
Lithuania 48 hours to rescind some of its pro-independence laws or
face a cutoff of critical products the Kremlin supplies.
UGA TODAY
! • The Athens Area Alzheimer’s
| Support Group will meet tonight
at 7:30 at the Campus View
Church of Christ, 1360 S.
Lumpkin Street. The public is
invited.
Presentations/Seminars
! • A seminar entitled “Stress
Management” will be held today
from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Clark
Howell Hall in Room 119. The
public is invited. No
preregistration is necessary.
• Students for Environmental
Awareness will host a
presentation "Building Bombs"
tonight at 7 and 9 p.m. at the
Tate Student Center Theater.
This film deals with the effects of
the Savannah River Plant on
rural South Carolina. The public
is invited and admission is $3.
• The PE Basic Challenge
Program will have a sign-up
today and Thursday, April 19
from 9 to 12 p.m. and 1 to 4 p.m.
at the PE Building in room 129.
Items for VGA Today must 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.
Meetings
• The Hotel Restaurant
Association will meet todat at
5:30 p.m. in Dawson Hall in
Room 110. Leroy Dukes, owner of
the Athens Ramada Inn, will
speak.
• The Scottish Country Dancing
club will meet tonight at 7 at the
Presbyterian Center, 1250 S.
Lumpkin Street. The public is
invited. A $2-$3 donation is
requested to help pay for use of
the center.
• UGAzine will meet tonight at 7
at Memorial Hall in Room 220.
The public is invited.
• The Environmental Health
Science club will meet tonight at
7 at the Dairy Science Building
in Room 305.
• The UGA Outdoor Recreation
Program will meet tonight at 7 at
Memorial Hall in Room 213. The
public is invited.
• Beyond War: The New
Initiative will meet tonight at
7:30 at Russell Hall in the
Conference Room. The public is
invited.
• The UGA Pre-veterinary club
will meet tonight at 7:30 at the
Veterinary School in the
Microbiology Auditorium. The
public is invited.
New Victory Fitness Centers fair to
duped LivingWell Fitness members
By ERIC ALLEN
Contributing Writer
They'll be pumping iron again at
the former LivingWell Fitness
Center in a few weeks, but under
new ownership.
Victory Fitness Centers, a
health club company based in To
ledo, Ohio, has leased the space
formerly occupied by LivingWell
and plans to open a new club in
May, Kim Pickett, manager of the
new club, said.
Several LivingWell centers in
Georgia went bankrupt in De
cember 1989 including the Athens
club which closed its doors with
virtually no advance notice Dec. 8.
Hundreds of members were left
holding worthless membership
cards.
Victory will honor LivingWell
membership cards, but only for a
limited time.
“If a person had a membership
with LivingWell,” Pickett said, “we
will honor it until the expiration
date on the card. If they had what
was called a lifetime membership,
it will be honored through March
31, 1991.” No LivingWell mem
berships will be honored after that
date, she said.
Renee Clough, who was man
ager of LivingWell and is assistant
manager at Victory, said the term
“lifetime membership” was widely
misunderstood. “A lifetime mem
bership was really a membership
with an annual renewal date,” she
said. “Of course, Victory can’t
renew those memberships since
we’re not affiliated with Living-
Well. But we will honor them
through March of next year.”
Greg Moseley, regional director
for Victory, said the seven Victory
clubs in Atlanta are also honoring
LivingWell memberships for a lim
ited time. “The only reason we are
doing it is to try to get rid of the
bad taste that LivingWell left be
hind,” Moseley said. “We want to
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Several LivingWell
centers in Georgia
went bankrupt in
December 1989
including the Athens
club
introduce people to our club."
That’s a better deal than former
LivingWell members ore getting in
some 13 to 16 other states where
LivingWell Centers have gone out
of business. In Indianapolis, forex-
ample, former members get a 40
percent discount on a new Victory
membership, but LivingWell cards
aren’t honored.
Former members trying to re
claim dues paid to the bankrupt
company may be out of luck.
Clough said she still hasn’t been
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She has filed a bankruptcy
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“If someone bought, say, a three-
year membership with LivingWell
and paid for it up front, I feel for
them,” Clough said. “There’s prob
ably nothing they can do.”
Two-year memberships at Vic
tory are selling for $180, Pickett
said, but she added that it was an
introductory price and would go
up.
That compares well with other
health clubs in town. The Iron
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bership for $216. O’Malley’s Esprit
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both clubs ofTer short-term mem
berships, which Victory doesn’t.
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