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TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 94
Two infected with measles virus - both Lipscomb residents
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
Two University students are being
treated at Gilbert Health Center for the
highly contagious measles virus, said
Health Services Director Jacquelyn
Kinder.
One student developed symptoms
Sunday night and the second case was re
ported Monday, she said. The infected
students are residents of Lipscomb Hall.
Any student born after 1956 that
hasn’t had at least two measles vaccina
tions, with one dose being a booster since
1980, needs to come to Gilbert Health
Center for a shot, Kinder said.
‘The virus is airborn, so it's very conta
gious and any student worried about get
ting the disease should come to Health
Services to get a booster,” Dr. Kinder
said.
Because measles includes coughing
and a runny nose, the disease can spread
easily and rapidly, she said.
Health Service personnel went to Lips
comb Sunday evening to give students at
risk there vaccinations. A doctor and a
nurse were in the residence hall again
from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday to give shots to
any students who had missed the Sunday
vaccination session.
Lipscomb houses 360 male residents.
Residents from other halls also came to
get vaccinated.
Lipscomb resident Lee Chafin, a
freshman, said he learned of the first
measles case Sunday afternoon. Resi
dents there have reacted to the news con
siderably well.
‘There was some panicking, but it
hasn't been too bad," he said.
Resident assistants were directed by
Housing Services to withhold any com
ment.
Symptoms are coughing and a runny
nose with a fever of 101 degrees or higher.
Subsequent rashes appear around the
ears and neck, which spread to the trunk
area. Conjunctivitis, inflammation of the
eyelids, also may occur, Kinder said.
The virus incubatoB for one to two
weeks before symptoms appear. After the
first signs of measles show up, the illness
can become severe within two to three
days.
The Center for Disease Control in At
lanta reported last year that measles
caseB have been increasing nationally
since 1983. In the fim half of 1989 there
were 7,335 cases reported nationally.
This is a 380 percent increase over the 1,-
529 cases reported during the same time
of the previous year.
Student presumed dead
as lake search cut back
A memorial service will be held
Saturday for a University stu
dent who is presumed drowned
by South Carolina Department of
Wildlife officials.
The service for David Lee Sin
gleton, a doctoral candidate in
mathmatics education from Jef
ferson, Ga., will be held, at
Harlem United Methodist
Church in his hometown of
Harlem, Ga., at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Singleton has been missing
from Lake Strom Thurmond in
South Carolina since April 13.
Johnny Evans, a spokesman
for the South Carolina Depart
ment of Wildlife, said two fish
ermen found Singleton’s 12 to 14-
foot fishing boat running in cir
cles in the lake April 13 with
about half a tank of gas.
Evans said there was no evi
dence of foul play. The search for
Singleton, who is presumed
drowned, has been reduced to
twice-daily shoreline passes and,
when possible, overhead fly-bys.
Singleton’s family declined to
comment on his disappearance.
Singleton, who won a number
of University-wide
assistantships, transferred from
Young Harris College with a 4.0
grade point average.
Ed Davis, a professor of math
ematics education and Sin
gleton's former adviser, said
Singleton was “an excellent stu
dent — one of the very best stu
dents we’ve had."
As of Monday night there were
no developments in the search.
— Lance Helms
Brain hemmorage kills junior
Hi*
Melanie Womack: Junior
died Sunday in Athens
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
A University student died
Sunday at St. Mary’s Hospital
after apparently suffering a
sudden brain hemorrage.
Melanie Dawn Womack, a junior
in pre-journalism from Wrens, Ga.,
was hospitalized after collapsing at
her house in Athens about 7:15
a.m. Saturday, said her roommate,
Holley Cater, a senior Spanish
mm or.
Womack underwent surgery im
mediately, and doctors told her
roommates she had only a 10 per
cent chance of living and would
have had severe brain damage if
she’d survived, said Karen Don
aldson, one of Womack’s room
mates.
After surgery, Womack spent
nearly 24 hours in intensive care at
St. Mary’s, said Tom Newsome,
Womack will be buried
beside her mother in
Seabring. Fla.
who had been dating Womack for
the past year.
She died at 1:35 p.m. Sunday,
according to hospital officals.
St. Mary’s wouldn’t release addi
tional information, but Cater said
doctors told her the hemorrage was
brought on when a weak connec
tion in a blood vessel in her brain
burst.
Womack will be buried beside
her mother in Seabring, Fla.,
Wednesday, said Newsome.
A public memorial service will
be held for Womack at Wrens Bap
tist Church Saturday at 11 a.m.
Her sudden death was a shock to
everyone, Womack’s roommates
said. There were no signs of illness
when she left Bennigan’s on Alps
Road, where she worked as a bar
tender, at about 2 a.m. Saturday.
Jayn Morgan, another of Wo
mack’s roommates and a senior art
history m^jor, said, "We’re all
taking this as well as possible."
Newsome, a manager at Benni
gan’s, said her friendly nature
caused her to have many regular
customers, several of whom came
to St. Mary’s to see her. Although
they hadn’t set a date yet, he said
they’d planned to marry in about a
year.
Her roommates said she was a
very special girl who enjoyed
taking life at a slow pace. In addi
tion to marrying Newsome, they
said she planned to work as a free
lance writer one day.
1989 NCAA champion UGA Gym Dogs
finish third behind Utah and Alabama
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Sports Writer
CORVALLIS, Ore. — 1989 national cham
pion Georgia Gym Dogs, led by 1990 all-around
All-American Corrinne Wright, turned in an
outstanding performance and finished third in
the NCAA championships with their second-
highest score of the season, a 193.225.
The Utah Utes scorched all four apparatus
en route to a 194.90 and their sixth NCAA ti-
tle.The Alabama Crimson Tide scored a
194.575 and placed second.
In the wake of the championship, the Lady
Dogs boarded their flight back to Athens with
their heads held high —knowing they counted
only one fall and placed as high as could’ve been
expected.
Utah and Alabama were simply awesome all
season long.
“I think we did great,” Georgia coach Suz
anne Yoculan snid. “Based on the fact that we
scored our second-highest score of the year and
the fact that we only had to count one fall, I
think the team really competed to its maximum
ability level.
'This, unfortunately, was only good enough
for third place this year.”
Yoculan’B charges have placed in the Top 10
in all seven years of her tenure at Georgia and
won the national championship in 1987 and
1989.
The Lady Dogs opened this championship on
the beam (after a bye) knowing that recap
turing their title required each athlete’s max
imum-level performance. Four of six beam
workers hit their routines and led the team to a
solid 47.85 start.
Sophomore Sophia Royce, a model of consis
tency in pressure situations throughout her two
years at Georgia, led off with a career-high
9.625.
“Sophie is always consistent," Yoculan said.
“We’ve had a lot of real key performances from
her.”
Please See GYM DOGS, Page 5
Politics, music and streaker highlight
Earth Day 1990 celebration in Athens
What’s wrong here?
While environmentally conscious University students enjoy Earth Day festivities at the
Tate Center Plaza on Friday, one lone dissenter boldly flaunts an environmentally haz
ardous polystyrene cup.
By ANNE-MARIE FANQUY
Staff Writer
It was Earth Day 1990 and the
environmental consciousness of
Athens was on the line. Thousands
of people filtered in and out of Col
lege Square and thousands of poly
styrene cups and aluminum cans
were crammed together in traah
cans. Politicians sang and musi
cians politicized.
The crowd grew as Sunday wore
on and by the time the local band
Groove Troll took the stage, about
10 p.m., College Square was
packed.
As the band finished “Ameri
cana," a man leaped on stage in his
birthday suit and told the crowd to
“get natural."
After this surprise guest raised a
few eyebrows, Ed Tant, a colum
nist for the Athens Observer, told
the crowd to “Raise issues, raise
consciousness and raise hell.”
"George Herbert Walker Bush
sits in the Oval Office and calls
himself the environmental presi
dent — Pleeeasel” he said.
He said asking Bush to protect
the environment is like asking
Dracula to guard the blood bank.
While Tant used political satire,
one speaker tried to get the crowd
in the mood with a song.
Gubernatorial candidate An
drew Young coerced two musicians
into joining him on stage for an a
cappella version of “We Are the
World.”
Young advocated a mandatory
environmental education program
starting at the kindergarten level
and said we must be environmen
tally responsible because we’re
“making decisions for seven gener
ations yet unborn.”
The voice of Tony Joseph, from
Earth Love Fund, Ltd., pierced the
air with his hard-hitting message,
“The blood of the earth is on your
hands.”
Joseph, a founding member of
the reforestation group, told the
crowd to stop procrastinating, pick
a cause and get involved.
"Say to yourself, 'I must do
something,’ and then pick some
thing and do it,” he said.
University students and Aths-
nians walked the square from noon
until just about midnight checking
out displays on animal rights, refo
restation and pollution in the
Oconee River. Tables lined the
street displaying health food free of
pesticides and makeup made
without animal testing.
Hilary Hartung, the lead singer
for Groove Troll, said ‘The people
that put this together didn't expect
this large of a crowd. It's good to
see the same amount that attended
the Human Rights Festival at
tending this. There’s a definite in
terest in environmental issues.”
Florante Galvez, a graduate stu
dent in drama who attended the
event, said, “Events like Earth Day
reinforce how ugly the world is, but
through that ugliness there’s a ray
of hope.”
Downtown businesses cashed in
on the event by keeping late hours
to accommodate the crowd.
Murphy Wolford, an employee at
Downtown Records said, "We don’t
close until the store’s empty and
the store hasn’t been empty.”
House vandalized
Knapp upholds 5 year
Sigma Chi sentence
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
In a decision that is final at the
University level, President
Charles Knapp on Friday upheld
Sigma Chi’s previous sentence: a
five-year suspension with a
chance of return after three
years.
University Police Sgt. Richard
Goodson Baid an officer was dis-
atched later that night to the
igma Chi house at 590 S.
Lumpkin St to investigate re
ported damage to property. As of
Monday afternoon, more than 20
large single-pane windows at the
house were either broken or com-
f iletely knocked out of their
rames.
Student Activities Director
William Porter said Monday he
went to the house Saturday and
saw "a bunch of broken win
dows.”
Sigma Chi members refused to
comment on the broken windows.
Al Epting, director of the
alumni corporation that manages
the house, said the damage will
be accounted for even if charges
must be filed.
Epting also said he has no
plans to move any members out
of the house in the next week. He
said he would meet with frater
nity members Monday night to
discuss the possibility of an ap
peal.
Knapp’s decision preserves in
its entirety a ruling handed down
by Dwight Douglas, the vice pres
ident for Student Affairs, who
suspended the fraternity for five
years with the possibility of an
early return.
Douglas said Sigma Chi’s na
tional office may "petition" in the
spring of 1993 for the University
chapter’s return that fall.
The fraternity was on probated
expulsion for disorderly conduct
when it went before the Organi
zation Court of the Student Judi
ciary for another disorderly
conduct stemming from a Sept.
23 band party On appeal, the Ju
dicial Council reduced the expul
sion to a five-year suspension.
Douglas said organizational
suspensions are rare and no set
procedure has been established
for an organization’s return to
campus.
Although Knapp’s derision is
final at the University level, the
fraternity can appeal to the Uni
versity System Board of Regents
within 20 days.
The regents aren't required to
hear appeals, but if they do, their
decision is final and binding.
Neither Knapp nor Sigma Chi
President Craig Beard were
available for comment Monday.
Candidate promises he’ll
remove committee member
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — A candidate for
lieutenant governor is promising
not to allow Sen Bill English to re
main on a Senate committee over
seeing health issues because of
English's job with a home health
care company.
The candidate, Sen. Pierre
Howard, said English’s service on
the Senate Human Resources
Committee is inappropriate be
cause he works as a representative
of ABC Home Health Services Inc.
English, D-Swainsboro, said he
does not lobby for his employer but
does take an active role in the
Senate on health care issues.
“I don't think you stand idly by
and let something happen detri
mental to the industry you make
your livelihood in,” he said.
“I don’t have any apologies," En
glish said.
Howard said he will not return
English to the Human Resources
Committee if he becomes lieu
tenant governor. The lieutenant
governor presides over the Senate
and appoints committees.
Howard is chairman of the
Human Resources Committee, but
he said that job did not give him
the power to remove English from
the committee.
'The problem is, in the Senate,
we leave conflict-of-interest up to
the conscience of the individual
senator," Howard said. “We need to
f ;et a code of ethics for the legis-
ature.”
ABC Home Health Services,
based in Brunswick, operates 24
home health agencies in Georgia
and does business in eight other
states.
Michael Hennessy, chief finan
cial officer of ABC, said English
has a “flair" for making rural doc
tors aware of home health services.
He said English’s position as state
senator doesn’t hurt.
'That helps our company when
he goes to talk to a doctor about
ABC,” said Hennessy .’That shows
he has high standing in the com
munity.”
English said he also helps ex
plain the business to state officials
outside of Georgia but does not con
sider himself a lobbyist.