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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA » VOLUME 97, ISSUE 91
■ MENINGITIS FACTS
Meningitis — caused by bacteria or a virus that invades the spinal
cord and the area of the brain called the meninges (the membranes that
envelope the brain and the spinal cord).
There are two types of Meningitis:
• Viral: generally not too serious. It’s usually seen in children and re
covery is usually complete.
• Bacterial: the most serious —it can be fatal. This type progresses
very rapidly and may cause death within 24 to 48 hours even with med •
leal attention.
Symptoms for both types include a sudden onset of fever, severe head
aches, stiff neck, confusion, nausea, vomiting and frequently a rash
that’s pinkish in color.
An affected person should:
• Go to the doctor as soon as possible. The affected person’s household
members also should seek immediate medical attention.
• Alert anyone who has had contact with the oral secretions of the in
fected person, such as through mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, coughing,
sneezing or kissing.
The incubation period varies — it may be two to 10 days or as long as
one to two months.
Transmission — direct contact with droplets/discharge from an in
fected person’s nose or throat, such as coughing, vomiting and phlegm.
Treatment — easily treated with penicillin-type drug in large doses.
Generally within 24 hours of treatment there is significant im
provement
Diagnosis — usually made by recovering the organism from spinal
fluid or blood.
For more information, call the Gilbert Health Center’s hotline at 542-
1162 or St. Mary’s Hospital Tel-Med at 364-3080.
-SANORA STEPHENS
Meningitis kills freshman
Health Center: Danger to others limited
By LYNN BARFIELD
Contributing Writer
A University freshman died of bacterial me-
nigitis Monday night at St. Mary’s Hospital.
Stacy L. Ware, 19, of East Point, Ga., became
ill in his room on the eighth floor of Russell Hall
Monday afternoon and was taken to St. Mary’s
around 6 p.m. He died within a few’ hours.
Ware went home for Easter last weekend,
which reduces the chance of exposure to other
students at the University, said Dr. Jacquelyn
Kinder, director of University Health Services.
The 48-hour period before the victim begins
having symptoms is when he is most conta
gious, Kinder said.
At a press conference Tuesday, Kinder said
residents from Ware’s floor were notified at 6
a.m. Tuesday morning of Ware’s death and
their possible exposure.
University health officals began adminis
tering doses of the drug Rifampin to 40 resi
dents as well as the eighth floor custodians.
The health center has ordered more of the drug
from its manufacturer. To meet the immediate
need, health center officials pooled Rifampin
from area retail pharmacies.
Arlene Ligotti, a contamination expert at St.
Mary’s, said Rifampin is preferred for treat
ment of the disease because it neutralizes the
bacteria that cause meningitis, and because it’s
easier to administer than other drugs. Ri
fampin is given orally in two doses a day for a
two-day period.
Kinder said Ware’s instructors were con
tacted so they can notify other students who
had classes with Ware. Campus ministers also
were available to give Ware’s friends and fellow
students grief counseling.
Gene Luna, director of the colonial residence
halls, said University health service employees
are holding meetings with Russell Hall resi
dents to disseminate information about menin
gitis.
University health services is providing a hot
line to answer students’ questions about the
disease.
Kinder said some symptoms of bacterial
meningitis include continuous headaches,
nausea, vomiting and stiffness of the neck.
She said the disease is transmitted through
oral secretions such as sneezing or coughing.
People who eat or drink after the infected
person are also at risk.
Jimmy Swinson, a graduate resident in Rus
sell Hall, said eighth floor residents decided not
to talk to anyone about Ware.
“We’re dealing with the fact that a resident
has died," he said.
Charles Merritt, a resident assistant in Rus
sell Hall, said the eighth floor staff and resi
dents haven’t given any information to the
press or anyone else.
Ware contracted bacterial meningitis, which
is the most dangerous form of the disease be
cause it instantly attacks the victim’s brain and
spinal cord, Kinder said.
This is the third case of meningitis in Clarke
County this year. Two others involved students
at Cedar Shoals High School, who contracted
viral meningitis.
Steve Wenger, a medical epidemiologist at
the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, said
meningitis cases in the state shouldn’t be con
sidered an epidemic because they have oc
curred at a rate less than one per 1,000 people.
Funeral arrangements for Ware hadn’t been
confirmed as of Tuesday, according to Steve
Bell, assistant director of public information.
Garrett and Calhoun take SA election
Tuesday night with 53 percent of vote
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Heath Garrett: Savors his victory in the SA presidential
election Tuesday
By MARLA EDWARDS
and DARA McLEOD
Staff Writers
The Student Association presi
dential ticket of Heath Garrett and
Ben Calhoun won Tuesday’s elec
tion by nearly 53 percent of the stu
dent vote, coming in just over the
50 percent required for an outright
victory.
The SA Constitution specifies
that a candidate must receive more
than 50 percent in order to win
without a runoff.
Voter turnout was 7 percent of
the student body, or 1,717 votes.
The presidential election garnered
1,585 votes because not all ballots
contained votes for a presidential
ticket.
Garrett and Calhoun received
835 votes.
Ian Henyon and Misty Lathem
garnered 501 votes. The third
ticket, Pat Dolan and Kelly Corley,
came in with 249 votes.
In the only contested senatorial
race of the election, winning sopho
more senators were Will Cochran,
Sandra Wang, Richard Barid, Erin
Ostrow, Holly Thomas and Troy
Van Kutzleben.
Garrett said he and Calhoun will
provide strong, much-needed lead
ership to the SA. Garrett was an
SA senator during the 1988-89
tenn.
SA President Pro Tern Andrea
Naterman said she was pleased
with the 7 percent voter turnout
since she expected only about 5
percent of students to vote.
Last year’s election was tainted
by volunteers who were unfamiliar
with the voting booth guidelines
established by the Department of
Student Affairs.
Voter turnout was 7
percent of the student
body, or 1,717 votes
During Tuesday’s elections, a
volunteer manning the Park Hall
booth approached a Red and Black
reporter and told her to vote for
Garrett and Calhoun. Another Red
and Black staff member who voted
said a volunteer at the Tate Stu
dent Center booth took her folded
ballot, opened it and read it before
placing it in the ballot box.
Naterman said volunteers were
instructed not to look at students’
ballots.
Presidential and senatorial bal
lots were counted by computer
after the polls closed at 4 p.m. Vol
unteers from various campus orga
nizations manned the polls..
Constitutional amendments up
for approval were on a separate
ballot. Out of the 1,717 students
voting, only 31 voted on the
amendments. Results on whether
the amendments were approved
will be released today.
Two senior senate seats and all
six graduate seats went unfilled
because of a lack of applicants. The
remaining seats will be filled by
the new SA through the vacancy
process outlined in the constitu
tion.
Applications for the vacant seats
will be accepted after the new pres
ident pro tern is selected at this
term’s second meeting. The In
ternal Affairs Committee will in
terview applicants and make
recommendations to the senate,
which will vote on the candidates.
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Following the leader
Greek Week participants play “Simon Says” in the
Tate Center Plaza on Tuesday.
Student still critical
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
University junior Sarah Harvey
was still in critical condition as of
Tuesday afternoon in the nuero-in-
tensive care unit at Macon Medical
Center. Her hospitalization follows
an accident Sunday, in which Jan
Hester, a senior accounting major
and passenger in the car, died.
There has been no change in
Harvey’s condition, said Angela
Partain, a Medical Center
spokesman. Harvey’s family didn’t
wish to disclose specific injuries.
The accident happened at 3:15
p.m. on 1-75 about one mile south
of Perry, Ga., and involved another
car with two occupants, according
to Georgia State Patrol reports.
Harvey, a recreation major, was
driving a 1981 Peugeot when she
swerved from the northbound lane
of 1-75 into the southbound lane.
The car struck the passenger side
of a 1988 Ford Ranger truck occu
pied by Tammy D. Brashear and
Tonya R. Delung.
Brashear, a 23-year-old land
scape manager, and Delung, a 26-
year-old secretary, are roommates
in Orlando, Fla., Brashear said
from her room at Perry Hospital.
Brashear has a broken foot and
bruises. Delung has scratches,
bruises and various back injuries.
Funeral services for Hester will
be at 2 p.m. today at Bethlehem
Baptist Church in Clarkesville, Ga.
A memorial service open to the
public will be held Monday at 7:30
p.m. at the Student Methodist
Center.
UGA recycling program set to start
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By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
The saying goes, “One man’s
trash is another man’s treasure."
The University will begin
turning its trash into treasure
with the start of its campuswide
recycling program on June 30.
University President Charles
Knapp and the vice presidents
adopted a report Monday from
the Recycling Task Force as the
basis for the new program.
Knapp, in a prepared release
Tuesday, said, “Recycling is part
of the University’s role as a good
environmental citizen."
Knapp appointed the Recy
cling Task Force on Dec. 20 to ex
amine recycling possibilities for
the University. Physical Plant
Director James Ten Brook headed
it.
The task force conducted a
pilot recycling program from Feb.
1 to March 2. The report Knapp
approved explained the results of
the pilot program and listed rec
ommendations for the program.
The following recommenda
tions were made:
• Recyclable materials should
be divided into three categories.
Category 1 will be office stock
paper. The program will utilize
15,000 collection boxes in rooms
and offices all over campus. Ten-
Brook said vendors will assist in
collecting the paper and this pro
gram should snow a profit for the
University.
Category 2 will be made up of
common recyclable materials.
TenBrook said about four dump
sters will be located on North
Campus and four on South
Campus for aluminum cans,
glass, plastic, and newspapers. A
vendor will collect the materials
from the dumpsters and should
show a small profit for the Uni
versity, he saia.
Category 3 will be special col
lection items such as tires, card
board, grease, metal and copper.
Employees will be able to call on
Physical Plant to pick these up.
• A policy should be initiated
requiring that a minimum
amount of the paper purchased
by the University be recycled
paper.
• The program should be run
by Physical Plant on a day-to-day
basis and the task force should
become an advisory group over
seeing the program.
• Revenues generated by the
program should be re-invested
into the program and campus
wide trash disposal efforts.
According to the task force’s
report, 32,204 pounds of material
were collected in the pilot pro
gram for a total generated rev
enue of $476.93.
Retired professor selected for trip
Phyllis Barrow: Selected to go to Soviet Georgia as good
will ambassador
By STEPHANIE LEA SMITH
Staff Writer
Bulldog fans will soon reach as
far and wide as the Soviet Union.
Retired University assistant
professor Phyllis Barrow will give
Bulldog sportswear to Soviet
Georgians tnis month as part of the
Friendship Force, Georgia to
Georgia American-Soviet Ex
change program between Atlanta
and Tbilisi, Georgia.
“I’m in shock," she said Monday,
in anticipation of the trip Tuesday.
Barrow, who taught sociology at
the University for 24 years, is fol
lowing in her parents’ footsteps.
“My mother and father went to
Russia in 1934, the first year they
let anyone in after the revolution,”
she said.
Bnrrow first read about the two-
week trip more than a year ago in
the newspaper. She was skeptical
about being chosen.
She feels that her background
and age may have been a deter
mining factor in being picked out of
the more than 2,000 wno applied.
‘They want a varied group to go.
There are two groups of school chil
dren and many families," Barrow
said.
Barrow will carry the key to the
city of Athens, given to her by
Athens Mayor Dwain Chambers,
on the trip.
Sociology Department head Al-
beno Garbin said, “Phyllis BaVrow
is an excellent choice for partici
pation on the friendship force. She
will make a most effective rep
resentative.”
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