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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA » VOLUME 97, ISSUE 92
Student’s death prompting increase in meningitis inquiries
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
The death of a University student
Monday has prompted many University
students and parents concerned about
meningitis to contact the Gilbert Health
Center and local hospitals.
University freshman Stacy Ware died
Monday night of bacterial meningitis at
St. Mary’s Hospital. He 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 a few hours
later.
Steve Bell, assistant director of public
information, said the University’s health
center had more than 200 calls Tuesday
and about 100 calls Wednesday from stu
dents and parents concerned about men
ingitis.
He said about 80 to 100 students came
in for information at the health center
Wednesday.
However, he said the number of pre
scriptions of Rifampin has been below 75.
The drug was prescribed to students who
may be at risk.
Bell said there have been 10 to 15 per
cent more walk-in students at the health
center than usual.
“It wasn’t any kind of tremendous in
flux of people to the health center,” Bell
said.
Lorraine Edwards, public relations di
rector at St. Mary’s Hospital, said the
hospital has seen about 10 people in the
emergency room and answered around 80
questions by phone concerning menin
gitis.
Recorded information about meningitis
is available from tape 238 of St. Mary’s
24-hour Tel-Med service line — 354-3080.
‘We’ve received 102 Tel-Med calls for
the meningitis tope from Monday until
Wednesday evening,” Edwards said.
An emergency room worker at Athens
Regional Medical Center said the hospital
had received about 50 meningitis-inquiry
calls on each of the last two days.
Lynn Perry, at the University’s health
center, said she answered calls for six
hours about meningitis.
Perry said health center workers
talked to students and referred anyone
who appeared to have possible symptons
to a clinician at the health center.
She said most of the students who
called already had pre-existing problems
“Phone calls have been more plentiful
than visits,” she said.
Bell said the staff at the health center
handled the situation well and saw that
precautions were taken.
The Black Affairs Council will hold a
memorial service for Ware tonight at 7:00
p.m. The services will be held at the Lu
theran Chapel across from Myers Hall on
South Lumpkin Street.
Funeral services will be Friday at 1:00
.m. at Chapel Hill Harvester Cnurch in
is hometown of East Point.
Staff writer Lynn Barfield contributed to
this story.
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Dr. Joshua Lacrim (left), director of the museum of natural history, and Jim Boone,
graduate student in ecology, examine two complete whale skulls and postcranial ske
letons salvaged from Ossabaw Island, GA.
Fish out of water
UGA Student missing
Boat found running in Lake Thurmond
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
A University student who went
camping near Lake Strom Thur
mond in South Carolina has been
missing since Friday.
David Lee Singleton, a doctoral
candidate who teaches math full
time at Gainesville Community
College, is the subject of a search
conducted by the McCormick
County, S.C., sheriff, the Army
Corps of Engineers and the South
Carolina wildlife and marine re
sources department.
Pete Thompson, a dispatcher for
the Edgefield, S.C., wildlife office,
said Wednesday evening that there
were six to eight divers looking for
Singleton at that time. Singleton
was supposed to meet friends at
the lake to go camping and fishing.
Two fishermen found Singleton’s
boat running in circles 300 yards
from his campsite at the lake near
Modoc, S.C, said Johnny Evans,
department spokesperson for the
South Carolina Wildlife and Ma
rine Resources office in Columbia.
He said the fishermen discov
ered the drifting craft at 11 p.m.
Friday and the department was no
tified at 1 a.m. Saturday. The de
partment conducted an immediate
search on land in case Singleton,
who has had a heart condition
since he was a teenager, had suf
fered a heart attack.
Evans said it was hard to tell
where Singleton could have fallen
in because the boat may have
drifted in a straight line before it
fell into its circular pattern.
He said the search will continue
indefinitely until Singleton is
found, but said it would “diminish
over a period of time — normally
two weeks. Well always have at
least one boat out there.”
After that, the all-day effort will be
reduced to morning and afternoon
patrols by surface craft, and
sweeps by aircraft when available.
Evans couldn’t be specific about
the number of game wardens from
the wildlife department involved n
the search, because many of the
wardens are busy with the huntirg
season patrols. He estimated that
as many as five men have parti i-
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SA name to be changed
Amendments approved with
only 31 out of 1,717 voting
By MARLA EDWARDS
and DARA McLEOD
Staff Writers
All 22 amendments to the SA
constitution were approved
Tuesday although only 31 out of 1,-
717 students voting cast ballots re
garding them.
President Pro Tern Andrea Na-
terman said volunteers who
opened the booths were instructed
to encourage students to vote on
the amendments, which were
listed on a separate ballot. They
also were told to tell the volunteers
relieving them to remind students
to vote on the constitution.
However, many students
weren’t aware that the constitu
tional ballots were available, and
many volunteers failed to remind
them.
“It’s unfortunate, I think, when
you use another group to help you,”
N a term an said. Volunteers came
from five other campus organiza
tions because SA senators who
were running in the election
weren’t allowed to man booths, she
said.
Naterman said she has compiled
a list of problems encountered
during this election and sugges
tions for avoiding them in the fu
ture.
Approved amendments
include:
• The name of the SA will be
come the Student Government As
sociation.
• The president will be limited
to two terms of office.
• The president and vice presi
dent must “be capable of fulfilling
obligations of the office during
summer quarter.” The original con
stitution requires that they “main
tain a presence on the University
campus during summer quarter.”
Under the amended constitution,
the president and vice president
aren’t required to reside in Athens
during the summer.
• A runoff will be held in future
elections between the two top pres
idential tickets if one ticket doesn’t
receive more than 40 percent of the
vote. Currently, one ticket must re
ceive more than 50 percent of the
vote to prevent a runoff.
• The president rather than the
vice president will have the duty of
appointing chairpersons to all com-
Andrea Naterman: SA presi
dent pro tern
mittees except for the Internal Af
fairs Committee, which is headed
by the president pro tern.
• Article 12, which governs the
approval of bylaws, will be added
to the constitution.
Candidates to debate in two forums
Gubernatorial candidates will
have two chances to square off in
Athens today — first for television
and then in a public forum.
The first session, a debate to be
aired on “Rapid Fire” Saturday at 3
and 7 p.m., will feature Lauren Mc
Donald, Roy Barnes, Lester
Maddox and Hosea Williams.
Charles Bullock, a University pro
fessor who specializes in southern
politics, will join the candidates for
the 3 p.m. taping.
They debate will be moderated
Williams will participate via a
telephone hookup, Herndon said.
Possible topics include race rela
tions, the environment and educa
tion.
Herndon said the debate could
get out of hand because “there’s no
structure to keep them from going
at each other.
“If there are any problems, I'll
slow it up a bit,” he said.
McDonald, Barnes and Maddox
then will be joined by Andrew
Young, Johnny Isakson and Bob
Wood for a 6 p.m. public forum at
the downtown Holiday Inn.
The forum is sponsored by the
Northeast Georgia Chamber
Roundtable, which includes eight
area counties and nine chambers.
‘The forum is for the public to
meet these candidates and com
pare their positions," said Mary
Jane Brown, communications di
rector for the Athens Chamber of
Commerce.
Topics on the agenda include a
regional airport, a commuter rail
service, a regional water reservoir
and landfill, elementary and sec
ondary education and economic de
velopment.
— Lance Helms
David Herndon: Moderator
of televised debate
Technology park to border S.C. nuclear plant
The Associated Press
AIKEN, S.C. — The Aiken
County Council has agreed to sup
port the creation of a Regional Re
search Authority that will serve as
a vehicle to build a massive techno
logical park on the boundaries of
the Savannah River Site.
A supporting facility also will be
established at the University of
South Carolina’s Aiken campus to
attract major companies and top
scientists working on research pro
jects around the nation.
Environmental protection,
waste management, peaceful ap
plications of nuclear processes, nu
clear medicine, lasers, robotics and
computers are the research areas
supporters hope to lure to the tech
nology park.
“We are talking about many mil
lions of dollars — in construction
and permanent jobs,” said Carl E.
Cliche, a research associate with
Westinghouse Savannah River Co.
He unveiled the project Tuesday
before the County Council, which
agreed to support the plan.
“We are talking about thousands
of new employees for companies
using the park and for spinoff in
dustries. We are talking about a lot
of good things,” he added.
Cliche, whose company is the
prime contractor at SRS and the
major partner in the venture, said
the project’s goal is to create a sci
entific community that will be ded
icated almost solely to building
new technologies across the entire
spectrum of science.
According to a 72-page report
prepared by the committee, the Sa
vannah River Site, because of its
many skilled professionals and
state-of-the-art technologies, pro
vides the nucleus for the park to
become the hub of research and
high technology in the Southeast.
University Council’s
new members to meet
By MARLA EDWARDS
and DARA McLEOD
Staff Writers
The new student representa
tives to the University Council can
look forward to addressing two per-
enial issues — semester feasibility
and faculty pay raises, said Tom
Gump, a student representative
last term.
The representatives, chosen
according to their schools and col
leges, will meet curd decide who
will be appointed to the council’s
standing committees, Gump said.
Fifteen council student seats
were filled in Tuesday’s election,
despite an initial shortage of appli
cants.
Four of the total 19 student
seats on the council are filled by
appointment or election within the
four schools that didn’t participate
in the campuswide election.
Voter turnout for the election, in
which students also chose the new
Student Association senate and ex
ecutive officers, was 1,717 or
nearly 7 percent. The University
Council is the only legislative body
in which student members have
voting power. It is made up of fac
ulty and students.
■ NEW REPS
New University Council student
representatives elected Tuesday
are as follows:
• College of Arts and Sciences:
Amy Ashbum, Susie Griffin, Jeff
Myers, William Perry
• College of Business Adminis
tration:
William Cochran, Drew Meadows
• College of Education:
Jennifer J. Lee, Molly Myddelton
(cq)
• School of Forest Resources:
Karen Kuers
• College of Agriculture:
Branch Carter
• College of Journalism:
John McGee
• College of Home Economics:
David S. Guber
• School of Environmental De
sign:
Jennifer L. Morton
• Graduate School:
St. John Flynn, Martha Wisbey
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