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BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
SGA, BACCHUS co-sponsor program
to help keep students sober and alive
Christian Week events this week include music, rally.
Several Christian organizations will host events to celebrate
Christian Week. National Day of Prayer will be celebrated by
members of the organizations and members of the community at the
Tate Student Center plaza, said Kate Kdding, spokesperson for
Classic City Bible Study. Prayer sessions will be held throughout the
day, with a collective meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the plaza. Friday a
march and a rally will be held. The march will begin at 8:45 a.m. at
City Hall in downtown Athens and will conclude at the plaza. Mayor
Dwain Chambers will head the march. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., a rally
will be held at in the plaza. Buddy Leach, an evangelist from Mt.
Paren Church of God in Atlanta will speak and Silken Steel, a
Christian band based in Atlanta, will perforin. Groups endorsing the
events are Classic City Bible Study, Baptist Student Union, and
Christian Campus Fellowship.
Young Democrats host political forum today at Tate.
The Young Democrats will host ‘The Changing Face of Georgia
Politics,” a forum featuring six state legislators, today at 3:30 p.m. in
the Reception Hall of the Tate Student Center. Legislators including
Thurbert Baker, Ron Fennel, Ray Holland, Karen Irwin, Ken Poston
and Doug Toper will speak about their views on the current change of
leadership in the state capital. ‘These six legislators are the future of
Georgia,” said Young Democrats president Phil Smith.
Sandy Creek Park beach reopening to be discussed.
County Commissioners will hold on agenda-setting meeting Friday
afternoon to discuss proposed safety regulations to re-open the Sandy
Creek Park beach. “At this point, the commission has approved the
beach to l>e reopened under certain restrictions,” Nancy Smith,
director for the Clarke County Parks Department, said. The beach on
Cecil Chapman Lake was closed last year after drownings occurred in
May 1988 and August 1989. About 23 Clarke County residents
attended a public hearing Monday to discuss the new restrictions, but
because of opposition the commission will reopen discussion at the
Friday meeting. Smith said several people opposed a regulation
requiring children under 12 to wear a lifejacket in the water. The
commission also recommended life guards be present, bathers not
enter the water alone and the diving platform be removed. Smith said
the park commission hopes to re-open the bench on the 260-acre lake
by Memorial Day weekend.
■ STATE
SAVANNAH (AP): Councilman alleges election fraud. A
senior judge in Savannah is considering a request that he order
Nahunta Mayor Ronnie Jacobs removed from office until a new court-
irdered election can be held in the south Georgia city. Jacobs won a
third two-year term as Nahunta’s mayor Oct. 11, but Senior Superior
Court Judge George Oliver threw out the election results after a
challenger, former City Councilman Wendell Herrin, filed suit.
Herrin alleged in his suit that Jacobs had engineered his re-election
by coordinating illegal absentee voting.
SAVANNAH (AP): Award honors mail bomb victim. The
Savannah Bar Association has established an annual award to honor
civil rights lawyer and alderman Robert E. Robinson, who was killed
in December by one of a series of Southeastern mail bombs. The
award will be presented for the first time Thursday at the group’s
annual Law Day luncheon. Robinson was killed Dec. 18 when a mail
bomb exploded in his Savannah law office. A similar bomb killed 11th
U S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert S. Vance at his home in
Mountain Brook, Ala., two days earlier. The inscription on the Robert
E. Robinson Award reads: “In recognition of outstanding personal
contributions to the goals of professional service, protection of the
rights of individuals and the promotion of justuu through law.”
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Georgia education ‘needs work.'
Fewer seniors are graduating from high school in Georgia, but the
scores of those who take college entrance exams are holding steady,
the Education Department said Wednesday. The department said
only 61 percent of Georgia high school seniors graduated in 1988,
down from 62.5 percent the previous year. The 61 percent high school
graduation rate ranked Georgia 49th among the states. Georgia’s
average entrance exams scores, however, have increased twice as fast
as the national average since 1982. Georgia ranked 19th among the
22 states that use the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Gov. Joe Frank
Harris, who has made education reform a major theme of his eight-
year administration, said the state’s report card shows that student
performance in Georgia is improving but “we still have a lot of work to
do.”
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP): Porno channel shut down.
Civil libertarians are alarmed by the ease with which District
Attorney Jimmy Evans, a Democratic candidate for state attorney
general, drove New York-based Home Dish Satellite Networks Inc.
out of business. “What’s happened is some little small town in the
South is setting the standard for the rest of the country," said Martin
McCaffery, vice president of the Civil Liberties Union of Alabama.
Evans says adult films have no First Amendment protection. “I know
from experience that hardcore obscenity lends to the abuse of women
and children,” the Montgomery County prosecutor said. In February,
a grand jury in Montgomery returned more than 500 indictments
against Home Dish, three other out-of-state companies and 10 people
on charges of distributing hardcore pornography via satellite into
Alabama.
■ WORLD
HONG KONG (AP): Robbers steal $2 million In jewelry.
Four robbers held up n shop in one of Hong Kong’s best-known hotels
Wednesday and escaped with jewelry worth $1.9 million, police
reported. Police said the three men and a woman posed ns customers.
Two of the men pulled out guns and threatened three women
employees of the shop, located in the shopping arcade of the
Mandarin Hotel in downtown Hong Kong. They grabbed several
diamond necklaces and bracelets before escaping on foot, police said.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• UGAzine will have a
production meeting tonight at 6
at the journalism building in
Rixim 244.
• The International Business
Club will meet tonight at 7 at the
Tate Student Center in Room
140.
• The UGA Criminal Justice
Society will meet tonight at 8 at
the Tate Student Center in Room
138. Officer elections will be
held.
• The UGA Cycling Club will
meet tonight at 8 at Rocky’s
Pizzeria. Officer elections will be
held. The public is invited.
Lectures/Discussions
• Peter Winter will speak today
at 3:30 at the Boyd Graduate
Studies Building in Room 109.
His topic is “Artificial
Intelligence Techniques in
Manufacturing." The public is
invited.
• The Minority Business
Students Association will
sponsor a forum entitled “Blacks
in Corporate America" tonight at
6:30 at the Tate Student Center
in Room 141. Professional attire
is requested.
Announcements
• Students of the American Red
Cross will hold a sign-up for first-
aid classes today from 11 to 2 at
the Tate Student Center plaza.
The fee is $10 for members and
$15 for non-members.
• Peace Day, the culimination of
Israel Week, is today.
Information desks will be set up
at the Tate Student Center plaza
from 10 to 2 p.m., and Athens
mayor Dwain Chambers will
speak at 1 p.m. At 8 p.m., Arab
and Jewish students will meet
for an ‘evening of fun and food’ at
the Tate Student Center in Room
145.
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. Items are printed
on a space available basis.
By BETH VALINOTI
Contributing Writer
The “I’m Drivin’ ” designated
driver program, implemented on
the first day of spring quarter, is
catching on slowly with patrons of
local bars.
Susie Griffin, a Student Govern
ment Association junior senator
and an organizer of the program,
said student participation is grad
ually gaining as awareness of the
program increases. She said that
“I’m Drivin’ ” is co-sponsored by
BACCHUS (Boost Alcohol Con
sciousness Concerning the Health
of University Students).
Student DUI stats
University students received
226 DUIs in 1989, but none were
killed in drunken driving acci
dents, according to University po
lice reports. Sgt. Richard Goodson
said he can’t recall any student
deaths in drunken driving acci
dents over the past several years in
Athens.
The information about the
number of drunken driving inci
dents scared Griffin enough to or
ganize the program.
Griffin sought BACCHUS as a
co-sponsor because its goal is to
“affect changes in behavior and at
titudes about alcohol and drug use
so that students will act respon
sibly in those areas," said Sean
Romer, BACCHUS president and a
senior English major.
The designated driver
program (‘I’m Drivin’)
gives students an
alternative to drinking
and driving.
Special handstamps
“We give the bars free public re
lations and free 'I’m Drivin” hands
tamps in exchange for free soft
drinlcs for the students over 21 who
choose not to drink alcohol, "
Griffin said. The designated driver
program gives students an alterna
tive to drinking nnd driving, she
said.
The program is also assisted by
Your Cab Company, which agreed
to participate by offering free fares
or reduced rates to students fol
lowing large events if SGA and
BACCHUS contacted the company
ahead of time.
BACCHUS provided the initial
$150 budget. Each of the 19 partic
ipating bars and restaurants re
ceived a $6 handstamp, and the
remaining $36 were spent on flyers
with information about the pro
gram.
Limited publicity could be the
cause of slow student response,
Griffin said.
Bars’ reactions
Papa Joe’s — with “I’m Drivin’ ”
flyers posted at the entrance and
behind the bar — hasn’t received
any designated driver requests for
the special “I’m Drivin’ ” hands
tamps, owner Bill Forbus said.
“I’m not sure there’s enough
publicity,” he said.
Lowery’s Tavern owner Tim
Brown said the initial response
was slow, but that lately at least
one person a night takes advan
tage of the “I’m Drivin’ ” program.
Many students haven’t been
using the program correctly,
Brown said. Students over 21 get a
'Yes” handstamp, which allows
them to drink alcohol, and then ask
for free soft drinks. Brown said he
wanted students to ask for “I’m
Drivin m handstamps when they
walk in and are carded at the door.
“A lot of people try to switch
over,” Brown said. His staff has
been instructed not to give free soft
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drinks to those patrons already
drinking alcohol.
Twenty-one establishments
were invited to participate in the
program. Only two refused — the
Georgia Theatre and the Down
stairs Cafe.
“At a place like this, we could
have people coming up all night
and say, Tm driving and I want a
free Coke’," said Kyle Pilgrim, a
Georgia Theatre manager.
“People are not here to drink.
They are here to listen to a band or
see a movie,” Pilgrim said.
Christopher DeBarr, a Down
stairs Cafe manager, said, "Ba
sically our company policy is not to
encourage drunkenness at all. We
declined because people here don’t
get wasted.”
DeBarr said he hopes the pro
gram works because it’s needed for
those establishments that en
courage excessive drinking by of
fering specials such as five-cent
beers.
What students say
“We need to pressure the bars
that aren’t involved,” Heath Gar
rett, newly-elected SGA president
and political philosophy mtyor, told
SGA senators at their first meeting
under Garrett’s authority. He also
said the senators need to continue
publicizing the program if it’s to
work.
Patrick Wall, a Myers Hall resi-
I think it’s a good first
step. A good next step
might be an emphasis
on moderation.’
— Patrick Wall,
program participant
dent assistant and junior computer
science meyor, said he learned of
the program last week when his
friend got a free soft drink at The
Globe.
“I was glad to hear about the
program. It gives groups who are
oing out an incentive to have a
esignated driver,” he said.
“1 think it’s a good first step. A
next step might be an emphasis on
moderation,” Wall said.
Idea from UVA
Griffin admitted “stealing” the
“I’m Drivin’ ” program idea from
her brother, a former University of
Virginia student government
member. The UVA student govern
ment organized a designated
driver program several years ago
after five UVA students were killed
during one weekend in drunken
driving accidents.
■ CORRECTION
A Briefly item in Wednesday's paper should have stated that
there are five local branches of Citizens and Southern Bank. The
bank's Care and Share Club, which Is sponsoring Project Share
Your Sight, has been active for several years and has student
members.
It is the policy of The Red and Black to correct errors of fact
that appear in its news columns. Corrections usually appear
on Page 2.
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