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■ UNIVERSITY
Franklin College honors outstanding advisers. The
Franklin College Jt Arts and Sciences Outstanding Adviser Award for
1990 went to Bobbie Epting, an arts and sciences adviser for the lower
division for freshmen and sophomores, and Oliver Coleman, an art
department adviser for the upper division for juniors and seniors.
Each winner received a $50 cash award. Students nominated their
advisers for the honor The two winners were selected by a committee
of three students and three advisers, including last year’s upper
division winner, Richard Hazen, an associate professor of psychology.
Susan Lahey, an educational program specialist in Arts and Sciences,
who also served on the selection committee, said she was glad to see
there were several nominees in each category. The two winners will
be honored at a luncheon May 14 at Trump’s. Arts and Sciences is the
only college that gives out such an award.
Students to present proper animal care in dairy show.
Students will display their ability to care for University animals
tonight at 7 p.m. at the Spnng Dairy Show in the little arena behind
the Coliseum. Dairymen from Georgia, North Carolina and South
Carolina will participate in the Open Show Friday at 8 a.m. 4-H Club
and Future Farmers of .America members from across Georgia will
participate in the Dairy Cattle Judging Contest Saturday at 9:30 a.m.
Larry Vamadoe, educational program specialist in the department of
Animal and Dairy Science, said University students were given four
weeks to take care of the animals and make them presentable for
showing. "The purpose is to teach students how to handle animals,”
Vamadoe said. All shows are free and open to the public.
■ STATE
T0CC0A (AP): Pusher who recruites children busted.
A 29-year-old Miami, Fla., man arrested at a local motel on drug
charges is believed to be a member of the ‘'Miami Possee,” a group
police suspect recruits children to sell drugs. Eddie Shipp, 29, was
charged with cocaine possession with intent to distribute, possession
of drug-related objects and possession of a firearm by a convicted
r elon. Shipp was arrested after Stephens County authorities found 42
plastic bags of crack cocaine and other items in his motel room. Shipp
and 13 other alleged members of the Miami Posse also face charges in
West Columbia, S.C., of trafficking in 100 grams of crack cocaine,
distribution of crack cocaine, and federal weapons violations,
according to a report by the Toccoa-Stephens County Drug Task
Force. ‘They get school-age children to ao it because nothing happens
to them if they get caught,” said Capt. Larry Hall of the West
Columbia Police Department. “When they offer them $50 to $100,
they go wild."
LAWRENCEVILLE (AP): Assassin scare grips police. A
shattered window in a car carrying a federal appeals judge to work
Wednesday prompted a police sweep to find a would-be assassin —but
several hours later, federal investigators concluded there wasn’t one.
The rear window shattered in the U.S. Marshals Service sedan
:arrying 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J.L. Edmondson
from his suburban Gwinnett County home to the Atlanta court
around 8:30 a.m. A Gwinnett County police spokesman reported soon
after Wednesday’s incident that an “unknown individual” had
‘apparently ... shot at the vehicle.” The police chief in LawTenceville
reported that police had converged on a possible suspect in a nearby
subdivision. However, federal investigators said at midday that they
had been unable to find that any sort of object had been fired at the
car. Instead, investigators surmised that the shattering was caused
by a defective window or an abrupt temperature change.
■ NATION
PHILADELPHIA (AP): Jazz legend Dexter Gordon dies.
Dexter Gordon, revered by jazz fans as a pioneering teno^
saxophonist and known to filmgoers for his Oscar-nominated
performance in the 1986 movie “Round Midnight,” died today. He was
67. Gordon died at 12:50 a.m. of kidney failure, said Don Lucoff,
spokesman for Blue Note Records in New York. “It’s very, very
difficult to even contemplate that we’ve lost such a great master of his
instrument and incredible human being ” said guitarist George
Benson. In the 1940s Gordon helped define the bebop style of jazz
begun by Lester Young, Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, and his
playing influenced future generations of musicians.
■ WORLD
LONDON (API: Church proposes revision of 'Queen.'A
church proposal nas suggested scrapping the pugnacious second
verse of “God Save the Queen" and replace it with rhymes about
brotherly love. Currently, the second verse of the anthem is “O Lord
our God arise, Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound
their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks, On Thee our hopes we
fix; God save us all.” Some Church of England clerics feel such
language is inappropriate in an age of world brotherhood. The
church’s Liturgical Commission has proposed a different verse: “Nor
on this land alone, But be God’s mercies known, From shore to shore.
Lord, make the nations see, That men should brothers be, And form
one family, The wide world o’er.”
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Zoology Club will meet
tonight at 6 at the Bioscience
building in Room 707. Elections
will be held.
• The UGA Clean and Beautiful
Committe will meet tonight at
6:30 at the Athens/Clarke
County Clean and Beautiful
office, 1188 E. Broad Street. The ;
public is invited.
• The Minority Business
Students Association will meet
tonight at 6:30 at the Tate
Student Center in the Reception
Hall. Euris Belle and Joseph
Greene will speak on
“Professionalism in Finance and j
Insurance.” Professional attire is
requested.
• The International Business
Club will meet tonight at 7 at
Gus Garcia’s. All majors are
invited.
• Circle K will hold a
membership reception tonight at
7 at the Tate Student Center in
Room 142. The public is invited.
• The Society for Georgia
Archaeology will meet tonight at
7:30 at the State Botanical
Gardens, Callaway Building.
The public is invited.
• The Northeast Georgia
Steering Committee for Andy
Young’s campaign for governor
will meet tonight at 8:30 at
Lawson’s Realty, 2500 Lexington
Road. The public is invited.
• Gamma Beta Phi honor society
will meet tonight at 9 at the Tate
Student Center in Room 141.
Officer elections will be held.
Lectures/Seminars
• A seminar entitled “Relaxation
through Imagery” will be held
today from 12:10 to 1 p.m. at the
Tate Student Center in Room
143. The public is invited. No
preregistration is necessary.
• Charles Ragin, professor of
sociology at Northwestern, will
speak today at 3:30 p.m. at
Baldwin Hall in Room 326. His
topic is “Making the
Comparative Method Count."
The public is invited.
• Fiber sculpture artist Edith
Kelman will present a slide show
tonight at 7:30 at the Athens
Regional Library. The public is
invited.
Announcements
• The P.E. Basic Challenge
Program written examination is
tonight at 7 and 8 p.m. at North
PJ.
• The Athens Writers’ Project
will sponsor a reading of local
authors tonight at 7:30 at the
Lyndon House, 293 Hoyt Street.
The public is invited.
• The Ideas and Issues division
of the University Union is
accepting applications.
Applications are available at the
Tate Student Center information
desk and are due in by April 30.
Items for UGA Today must be
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Include specific meeting location,
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phone number. Items are printed
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announcements are shortened.
New station gets strong response in Athens
Trecy »Unberf/The Red and Black
David Alexander spins records — or more likely cds— on
the newest Athens radio station.
By CRAIG HESTER
Contributing Writer
Ever since David Alexander was
8 years old, he’s wanted to be Dick
Clark. Now, at 22, he’s the opera
tions manager of Athens’ newest
radio station, WGMG FM Magic
102.1
On the air since April 6, the sta
tion plays a format called Adult
Contemporary which is a mix of
well-known songs from the past
three decades. “We play songs that
have already been established —
music people can feel comfortable
with,” Alexander said.
The station targets 18 to 49 year
olds, but, Alexander said, much of
the station’s programming will
capture the University’s student
audience. So far the city and the
University have been very recep
tive, he said, and there’s no ques
tion that there’s room for a radio
station of this type in Athens.
Alexander left his job as pro
gram director of a station in Sa
vannah to take the WGMG
position, where his duties also in
clude on-air work as a disc jockey.
“I think I’d go crazy if I had to be
ofT the air all the time,” he said.
All of the equipment at the sta
tion is state-of-the-art including
the latest in compact disc ma
chines, Alexander said. Seven hun
dred of the station’s song titles are
on CD and 79 were put directly on
i carte — a type of track tape used in
I radio — from CDs, he said.
The station, located at 1137
! Cedar Shoals Rd., is owned by
I Southern Broadcasting Instru
ments Inc. which owns other sta
tions in Rome, Thomasville and
Senica. According to Alexander, it’s
a company that knows “they have
to spend money to make money.”
He cited that WGMG’s facilities
are high-quality for a small market
like Athens.
Lynn Twidell, the station’s gen
eral sales manager, said WGMG is
a new signal, not a takeover of a
previously existing one, and the
station will cover the Athens metro
area.
“People can listen to our station
and not have to hear Atlanta traffic
reports. We will cover Athens
weather and news,” she said.
Response from Athens adver
tisers in the first two and a half
weeks on the air has been strong,
Twidell said. They’ve had ads since
their second day and are optimistic
the station can hold its own.
Alexander said the station will
strive to put something back into
the community that supports it.
Part of this effort has been to give
University students a chance to
work at WGMG.
Alexander got his break into
radio at 13 when lightning struck
an automated station in his home
town. The station needed people
fast to take over when the machine
automation failed. In a matter of
minutes he was on the air and said
he hasn’t looked back since.
“Radio is a weird profession. It’s
hard to get a job without experi
ence, but you have to have experi
ence to get a job,” he said. That is
partly why he pulls students from
the University.
Jason Beck, a pre-journalism
mqjor, landed a part-time disc
jockey position at tne station. He
has three previous years of experi
ence but said that “it’s really a
great opportunity to get this type of
experience on the air while I’m a
freshman. It’s not often that you
get a chance like that in radio.”
■ CORRECTION
A quote in an article about the Athens Tutorial Program in
Wednesday's Red and Black was incorrectly attributed. Barbara
Thurmond Archibald, program administrator, said, ''We see stu
dents who were making Fs one quarter go to As and Bs the next.
The program also provides discipline. There is improvement atti-
tudinally as well as academically."
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