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BRIEFLY
UNIVERSITY
Conference will study the future of metal research. The
I'rjv^rsnr** Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and United States
Department of Energy are sponsoring the International Conference
or. Metals in Soil. Waters, Plants and Animals, April 30-May 3 at the
Greenleaf Conference Center in Orlando, Florida. Domy Aariano, a
senior ecologist at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, said the
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purpose of the conference is to discuss state-of-the-art metals
research :r. the environment among scientists from all over the world.
Wt will err.phastze the metals of worldwide concern such as lead,
selenium and alumninum," Adnano said. Bnan Davies, dean of the
School f Arts and Natural Sciences at the University of Bradford in
Ergland, will be the keynote speaker Monday at 9.20. He will address
the historv of metal research and the outlook for the future.
LiilL
ELLIJAY (AP): Troubled hospital has new managers.
The Atlar.ta-basad hospital company that took over management of
the *r ublec North Georgia Medical Center this week said it expects
* Tec: most of the hospital’s state and federal violations within 30
dny' Medical Care Enterprises Inc of Atlanta took over management
of the 50-bed Ellijay hospital Sunday and has agreed to buy the
hospital if the state will give it time to correct deficiencies found
during an inspection last month, said John Chisena, vice president of
finance. The State Department of Human Resources has been moving
to revoke the Ellijay hospital’s operating license as a result of
e of poor health care found during the inspection. North
Georgia Medical Center officials also are under investigation for
allegations of fraud.
WASHINGTON (AP): Bush cautious about sanctions.
P.-v- 8.-: held off Tuesday on sanctions against the Soviet
T r .ts crackdown or. Lithuania saving he wanted to avoid any
steps that would ‘set back the progress that has beer, made in
taste-. Europe ” Bush said any actions that might be taken would
mat likely be “on the economic side" but would not include a grain
embargo “I’m concerned that we not inadvertently do something that
...mpel-the Soviet Union to take action that would set back the whole
-e of freedom around the world," Bush said Shortly after Bush’s
-poke. President Vytautaa Lar.dsbergis of Lithuania issued an ar.grv
- ! saving, “Can the freedom of one group of people be sold for
'reedorr. of another? This is another Munich." Lar.dsbergis
rerred to the 1938 pact in which France and Britain allowed Nan
Germany to take control of Czechoslovakia.
PIQUA. Ohio (AP): Film violates community standards.
A par.el of residents deeded the X-rated movie “Amber Pays the
Rent" violates community standards, clearing the way for the
removal of all adult videos from a store, city officials announced
Monday. More than two-thirds of the 45-member panel said the video
appealed to prurient interests. “These results are clear enough that
the city will not hesitate to proceed in court with this as evidence and
attempt to have the community standards imposed legally,” said
Stephen K!e:r., a city attorney. Klein said communities can set their
wn standards on obscenity based on a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court
ruling that established the criteria, which includes a test on whether
the average person finds that the material appeals to prurient
interests.
WASHINGTON (AP): Migrant workers face harsh life.
Migrant farm workers face conditions so harsh that their average
lifespan is only 50 years, the chairman of the House Select Committee
on Aging said Tuesday. “It has now been 30 years since Edward R
Morrow’s famous television documentary on American farm workers,
‘Harvest of Shame,’” said Rep. Edward R. Roybal, D-Calif.
“Unfortunately, little has changed in the past 30 years.” Witnesses
who provide health care and housing for migrant farm workers in
Florida, California and the Southwest said workers are housed in
deplorable conditions, face exposure to dangerous pesticides and have
difficulty getting medical treatment.
■ WORLD
BONN, W. Germany (AP): Germany closer to unity.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl and East German Prime Minister Lothar de
Maiziere on Tuesday named July 2 as the day for economic and social
union of the two Germanys, a West German spokesman said. The
issue of political union, or holding an election to form a single
government, remains to be worked out. Delegations from both
Germanys are to meet in East Berlin on Wednesday to negotiate over
how to best introduce the powerhouse West German mark into East
Germoy’s battered economy. The basis of the talks will be Bonn’s
proposal for monetary union, which calls for a basic 1-1 exchange rate
of East German marks for West marks for wages, salaries and
pensions in East Germany.
TOKYO (AP): Japan to extradite hijacker to China.
Japan agreed to extradite a Chinese man to Beijing to face hijacking
charges after receiving assurances he will receive no more than 10
years in prison, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
Spokesman Taizo Watanabe said an order to surrender Zhang
Zhenhai, 36, to Chinese authorities was drawn up Tuesday. Human
rights groups and Zhang’s lawyers had urged Japan to grant Zhang
political asylum or allow him to be tried in Japan, claiming he had
been politically active in China and faced execution. Watanabe said
Beijing had given written assurance that Zhang would not be tried for
anything other than the hijacking. Zhang hijacked a Chinese jetliner
with 233 people aboard on a Beijing-Shanghai flight on Dec. 16.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• Pi Sigma Epsilon will hold a
Business Teachers’ Panel tonight
at 6:30 at Caldwell Hall in Room
304. Professional attire is
requested.
• IABC will meet tonight at 7 at
the Tate Student Center in Room
139. The public is invited.
• The Young Democrats of
Clarke County/UGA will meet
tonight at 7:30 at the Tate
Student Center in Room 141. The
public is invited.
• Students for Environmental
Awareness will meet tonight at
7:30 at the Ecology Building
auditorium. The public is
invited.
• The Athens Gay & Lesbian
Association will meet tonight at
7:30 at the Tate Student Center
in Room 140. The public is
invited.
• The UGA College Republicans
will meet tonight at 8 at the Tate
Student Center in Room 139. The
public is invited.
Lectures
• Linda Brooks, of the
Comparative Literature
Department, will speak today at
12 p.m. at Park Hall in Room
261. Her topic is “Coleridge’s
Demonic Counter Identity." The
public is invited.
South African student groups fight apartheid
a land where oppression is a way of
on’t take restric-
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
As hard as it may be for Univer
sity students to imagine student
government meetings packed with
politically-minded students, it does
happen. Ironically in South Africa,
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life, students ac
tions lying down, according to an
| Indian student from Durban,
South Africa.
Savera Kalideen, a University
1 graduate student studying adult
education, said at an Amnesty In-
, temational meeting Monday that
mass meetings are held at her
| alma mater, the University of
Durban, so students can voice their
I opinions. The Student Representa-
| tive Council holds these meetings
I to decide collectively with the stu
dents what actions it will take on
; campus.
Trie South African university
system :s divided by race — white,
black arc Indian.
ruder.: leaders are voted on by
60 to 50 percent of the student
body ar.d are held very accountable
for maintaining student senti
ment,” she said.
On high school and college
levels, South African student oppo
sition against restrictions placed
on them by government-employed
administrations is symbolic of na
tional changes wanted by the op
pressed majority as a whole.
“As students we are the ones
that have to take the stand because
we don’t have to worry about jobs,"
Kalideen said.
Students protest against things
like poor dormitory conditions and
administration-sponsored
speakers on campus that are
linked to Apartheid.
“Our dorm conditions range
from bad to pathetic,” she said.
The main form of protest is the
boycott of classes, Kalideen said.
But students don’t look at it as a
day off from academics.
“We still go to campus and have
mass meetings and march with
banners and placards and we sing
freedom songs,” she said.
“We always maintain discipline
because the minute we overstep
boundaries we could find ourselves
in jail,” she said.
Between 60 and 80 percent of
the 6,000 students at the Univer
sity of Durban participate in the
protests and mass meetings.
Kalideen said police occupy cam
puses when mass meetings or boy
cotts are scheduled.
police
force also appears on days of his
torical significance like June 16.
On that day in 1976 students
rallied in Soweto to protest the im
position of the Afrikaans language
—a tongue developed by Dutch set
tlers in South Africa — on black
universities. Police cracked down
on the rally, killing six hundred
students.
‘The police are used against stu
dents more than they’re used
against anything else,” Kalideen
said.
About 50,000 students were
jailed on June 12, 1986, when a
state of emergency was proclaimed
in South Africa.
“Many of them remained there
until the beginning of 1989," she
said.
The SRC also arranges cultural
festivals and alternate graduation
ceremonies.
“We boycott official graduation
ceremonies, but because it can be
an emotional time for parenta and
students do want to do something,
we set up our own ceremony," she
said.
Failure to attend an official cer-
mony often prevents students from
getting their diplomas for about six
months, Kalideen said.
Universities have no radio sta
tions or school newspapers, but she
said students keep each other in
formed.
“Students are very informed
there — more than here in the
States — which is surprising be
cause information is so accessible
here," she said.
Critics of the anti-Apartheid
movement say oppressed South Af
ricans aren’t able to rule them
selves.
“But as long as we are true to
ourselves and pay attention to each
other I’m sure we could make it,”
she said.
According to Kalideen, the goal
of anti-Apartheid supporters is
simple. “One man, one vote," she
said. “That’s what we want."
• Alex Williams will speak
tonight at 7 at the Presbyterian
Center, 1250 S. Lumpkin Street.
His topic is 'The Holocaust and
Revenge." The public is invited.
Announcements
• A presentation on the Law
School Clinical Programs willl be
held today at 3:30 p.m. at the
Law School in Room C. All
students interested in attending
law school are invited.
• A seminar entitled “Study
Skills" will be held today from
5:30 to 7 p.m. at Clark Howell
Hall in Room 119. The public is
invited. No preregistration is
necessary.
• The Athens Writers’ Project
will sponsor a reading of local
writers Thursday, April 26 at
7:30 at the Lyndon House, 293
Hoyt Street. The public is
invited.
• Applications for campus
Graduate Student Assocation
Councilors-at-Large are
available at the Tate Student
Center information desk and are
due in Friday, April 27 at 5 p.m.
at Moore College in Room 109.
Items for UGA 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.
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The Rec Sports
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gear up with a 20 mile
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and pump to a finish
with a 6.2 mile run
through the campus
and streets of Athens.
Sign-ups will be taken
Mon- Frl 9 am.-4 p.m.
at 229 Memorial Hall, or call
542-5060. Early entry
deadline Is May 2 at 4 p.m.
The first 150 individuals to
register will get a free
t-shirt.
So register.
GET A
GRIP
On Summer
'*kW It’s a nrc.it time to bike those
math, English, history or other core
courses that you’ve postponed. You can
cam a full quarter's credit in just four
weeks by enrolling in a mini-session at
Kennesaw State!
And you can still get that summer joh
your parents are hinting about. Just five
minutes from campus you’ll find over
200 retail shops. Our class schedules
make it easy for you to combine work
and school.
Have tun in the sun too! Meet
your friends on campus tor tennis and then
a swim in the pool. Once the quarter's
over, you’ll have plenty of time for a
summer vacation.
ii. i . Get a grip on summer! Mark these dates on your calendar:
JUNE 4: Applications and transcript(s) due. (NOTE: A
transcript is not official unless your college's registrar’s office
mails it directly to us.)
JUNE 19: Registration date for all sessions.
Hirst four-week mini-session: June 20-July 19
Second four-week mini-session: July 24-August 23
Six-week session: June 20-August 3
Bight-week session: June 20-August 23
Write to Director of Admissions, Kennesaw State College,
P.O. Box 444, Dept. A, Marietta, GA 30061. Or call 423-6300.
KENNESAW STATE
COLLEGE
A Senior College in the University System of Georgia.
Kennesaw State College is an affirmative action/equal
educational and employment opportunity institution.
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