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The Red and Black • Wednesday, April 18, 1990 • 3
Cafe’s auction helps save Earth
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY r —
Staff Writer .
Environmentally conscious col
lectors will have more to bid on
Saturday than works of art at the
Downstairs Cafe’s “Anything on
Earth Auction.”
All proceeds from the auction
will be given in support of the
Northeast Georgia Earth Day
Foundation, Downstairs owner
David Levitt said.
Christopher DeBarr, an em
ployee of the cafe, said the idea of
the auction is for people to give
something to help support Earth
Day. He said the Downstairs auc
tion will accept anything anyone
has to offer.
In addition to paintings and pho
tographs, the Downstairs has re
ceived a yellow Platypus
Challenger surfboard, a ceramic
fishbowl clock, a windmill sculp
ture and a hardback copy of “Gaea”
by ecologist James P. Blaylock.
It was announced previously
that the deadline for donations was
April 14, but Levitt said the Down
stairs doesn’t want to turn any
thing down. The cafe has extended
the deadline until Saturday night
to get as many items as possible.
Local and national artists who
have made contributions include
Michael Stipe, Pat Cardiff, Andy
Nasisse, Jim Stacy, and Georgia
folk artist R.A. Miller.
Cardiff is known around town
for his boomerang art, including a
cat-in-the-hat piece now on display
at the Downstairs, Levitt said.
Chris Bilheimer, a regular at the
restaurant, said he plans to donate
some lithoprints he’s done.
“It’s something I can do for the
cause,” he said.
Accordion player Tom Root, who
plays everything from polka tunes
to the Eagles, will provide musical
entertainment, Levitt said. The
auction will begin at 9:30 p.m. and
continue until everything is sold.
A one-dollar donation at the door
will help with crowd control and
discourage those not really inter
ested in Earth Day, he said.
“If people don’t have a dollar to
give at tne door, they won’t have
$20 for a painting,” Levitt said.
Levitt said the idea of Earth Day
is to inform and recondition the
American consumer. He said the
auction will help the Earth Day or
ganizers with their financial
burden.
The Downstairs, which saves
cans, bottles, plastic and all or
ganic matter for recycling, “would
like to challenge every place down
town to recycle,” Levitt said.
Geology adventure
Students explore the environment
By MARY BETH MOORE
Contributing Writer
What do camping in tents, bathing in streams
and hiking up mountains bring to mind?
It’s not the frontier movement. It’s not the “find
yourself days of the 1970s, either.
It’s the University of Georgia Honors Field Ge
ology Program. For two months during the
summer, University students experience geology
first hand.
Travelling by van across the country, students
study a variety of topics including volcanic proc
esses at Mount St. Helens, earthquakes along the
San Andreas Fault and earth history at the Grand
Canyon.
Students participate in field projects, lectures,
reading assignments and written and practical
tests while earning 15 hours of science credit, pro
gram director Willis Hayes said.
The Honors Field Geology Program is in its third
year at the University, and is co-sponsored by the
Honors Program and the Geology Department,
Hayes said.
The $2,500 price tag covers tuition and room and
board for both in-state and out-of-state students,
he said.
Hayes, a University geology professor, said the
program is open to all majors. Participants must be
in the Honors Program or have a grade point av
erage of 3.2 or above.
“It’s a great way to fulfill the science require
ment needed for graduation,” Hayes said.
It’s a very demanding experience, Hayes said.
Students participate in intensive field work, as
well as work together on camp chores such as
cooking and cleaning
There’s also rigorous exercise involved. Hayes
recalls the hike up to Mt. St. Helens two years ago.
“Weather conditions were horrendous,” he said.
“It was about 30 degrees, raining, with a bad wind
blowing against us.” After a three-hour journey to
the top, the group planted a Confederate flag in the
ground.
“It was a great feeling of accomplishment,” he
said.
Lisabeth Stanley, a senior music major who par
ticipated in the program two years ago, said, “It
was a grueling experience, but there were fun mo
ments, too.”
This summer’s expedition begins June 17 and
continues until Aug. 20. Hayes said applications
are still available.
Police begin using hypnosis
Bush: Turn up the heat on research
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President
Bush called for more research “to
sort out the science” of global
warming Tuesday at an interna
tional White House conference.
Bush said he hoped the confer
ence, attended by delegates from
19 nations, would prod interna
tional research and inject economic
issues into the debate over the
“greenhouse” effect.
The president called for re
solving some of the scientific un
certainties and economic
implications before making a com
mitment to specific pollution con
trols to deal with possible gradual
warming of the Earth.
“Environmental policies that ig
nores the economic factors — the
human factors — are destined to
fail," he said, maintaining anew
that some scientists are in wide
disagreement over the impact of
manmade pollutants on the tem
perature of the globe.
Scientists, including Bush’s own
science advisers, generally agree
that manmade pollution, especially
carbon dioxide emissions from au
tomobiles, is causing heat to be
trapped and will result in a global
warming of 4 degrees to 9 degrees
Fahrenheit by the middle of the
next century, causing coastal
flooding and a shift of weather and
agriculture patterns.
BARROW
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Her knowledge of Georgia his
tory and culture will make her an
informed spokeswoman, he said.
Everyone on the trip will stay
with a host family.
Barrow’s husband Jim Barrow,
Athens Superior Court judge won’t
be accompaning his wife on the trip
because he couldn’t get time off.
“I’m going alone without my hu-
band and will not be staying with
anyone else who is on the trip,” she
said. “I hope my Georgia family
speaks English.”
She said many more Soviet
Georgian families volunteered
than are needed.
Paul Popovo, Germanic and
Slavic languages assistant pro
fessor, said Barrow will receive a
“warm reception because
Georgians are impressed with
America.”
Barrow said, “The first week we
will sightsee with our family and
learn about the history of the area.
The second week I hope to go to the
university, day care centers, and
see at least one of the three ballet
companies in Tbilisi.”
There’s no exchange rate for dol
lars and rubles. She said each host
family is giving 600 rubles for their
American guest to spend.
‘They say we won’t be able to
spend all of that in two weeks. We
have to carry what we buy back
with us because there is no ship
ping in the Soviet Union,” Barrow
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said.
Barrow is taking many gifts for
her host family. They include a
Georgia sweatshirt “with big red
letters and a Georgia Bulldog cap
for the 16-year-old boy. I also
bought a cute Georgia suit with a
Bulldog print from the bookstore
for the 4-year-old girl.”
Other presents include the
“Georgia On My Mind” travel
guide, t-shirts, make-up, coffee,
chewing gum and “a carton of
Marl boros because they can’t get
cigarettes over there and I can’t
change the evil of their ways in two
weeks.”
The Republic of Georgia is about
half the physical size of the state of
Georgia. The weather is similar to
that of Southeastern United
States.
“It gets hot, cold, wet and dry
over there too. They told us to take
clothing appropriate for the
weather here this time of year,”
Barrow said.
Soviet Georgia’s sub-tropical cli
mate is advantageous for growing
many fruits and vegetables.
Barrow isn’t afraid that she will
have a bland diet on her trip.
“I’m told meals are oflen eight
courses long. Everyone sits down
and there is lots of conversation
and wine,” she said. There will be a
20-course feast given in honor of
the American Georgians during
the trip.
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JONESBORO, Ga.— Some po
lice departments have begun using
hypnosis as an investigative tool,
but at least one Georgia prosecutor
says the technique is “a bunch of
voodoo.”
Since October, three Clayton
County investigators have learned
hypnosis at the Georgia Public
Safety Training Center in Forsyth.
About 40 police officers and pros
ecutors from around the state at
tended the sessions.
Clayton police recently put hyp
nosis to use when a carload of
youths forced another car off Tara
Boulevard, fatally injuring Mary
Frances Edwards of Atlanta. No
one was able to provide the license
plate number of the vehicle.
Ms. Edwards, 45, died April 4
from head injuries. A woman mo
torist who was almost run off the
road by the same car was hypno
tized recently, and “we got a par
tial tag number,” Clayton Police
officer G. Jeff Howard said.
“I’m not going to release the
numbers yet. We’re just trying to
see how good the information is,”
he said.
But some Georgia prosecutors
are wary of the technique.
“I’ve never used it and wouldn’t
use it,” Cobb County Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Russ Parker said. “I
think it’s a bunch of voodoo.”
“Generally, it’s a waste of time,”
agreed Fulton County District At
torney Lewis Slaton. “The courts
don’t approve of it.”
In his 25 years as a prosecutor,
Slaton said, he has used a hyp
notist about five times, when a
tough case reached a dead end.
“And then we tried everything. We
even tried voodoo and witches,” he
said.
Critics complain that police can
easily “plant” an idea — or the
name of a suspect — in the mind of
a person under hypnosis.
Georgia law prohibits witnesses
from testifying in court about
statements given under hypnosis,
unless they made similar
statements before being hypno
tized, DeKalb County Assistant
District Attorney Robert E. Sta-
tham said.
“If there’s a witness who’s been
hypnotized, they better have some
thing in writing from him before
he’s hypnotized,” he said.
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