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The Red and Black • Thursday, May 3, 1990 • 5
New Bio Science Complex will be
finished in time for fall quarter
Bio Science Complex: A model of what it will eventually
look like when finished.
By DENNIS GROGAN
Contributing Writer
There’s good news for biolog
ical science majors.
David Lunde, director of
campus planning, said the new
$32 million Biological Sciences
Complex, located on South
Campus next to Aderhold Hall,
should be ready for use in Sep
tember.
Sidney Kushner, head of the
genetics department, said this
complex will offer undergrad
uates studying biology, microbio
logy, biochemistry and genetics
more “hands-on” laboratory expe
rience. Also, the new building
will solve the present problem of
overcrowding in graduate re
search labs.
The project was funded by the
state through the University
System Board of Regents. Lunde
said the complex is “the most ex
pensive project the regents have
ever done.”
In order to make the building
ready for use in September, an
entire floor of teaching labs,
classrooms, a lecture hall and a
separate fermentation plant were
left off at this time. These addi
tions will be built later, Lunde
said.
Lunde said the preliminary
drawings for the extra teaching
labs, classrooms, lecture hall and
fermentation plant were com
pleted as of Monday, but no bids
for construction have been made.
There’s $820,000 left from the
original $32 million budget, and
this money will go towards the
construction of the additions,
Lunde said. If the additions cost
more than $820,000 he doesn’t
know where the money will come
from, Lunde said.
Lunde also said the genetics
and biochemistry departments
will move into the new 250,000
square feet building.
“I’m very excited about moving
into the new building,” Kushner
said, and he also said he believes
other universities will copy the
outstanding design of the new
complex.
Kushner said labs and offices
will go around the exterior of the
building, receiving natural
lighting. Refrigeration and cen
trifuge machines, which create a
lot of noise and heat, are located
in the interior of the building to
keep distractions to those inside
the building at a minimum. Also,
the corridors are no longer than
70 feet, making interpersonal
contact with colleagues much
easier.
There is no official name for
the complex, Lunde said.
Widow of man killed at Perimeter
lobbies Congress for gun control
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The widow of the
man killed during last week’s
shooting spree at a suburban At
lanta shopping mall joined two na
tional symbols of the gun control
movement Wednesday in calling
for a mandatory waiting period for
handgun purchases in Georgia.
Melanie Musick of Norcross ap
peared at a statehouse news con
ference with former White House
Press Secretary James S. Brady
and his wife, Sarah, where she also
urged the adoption of more strin
gent rules for the release of indi
viduals from mental hospitals.
Brady was shot during a 1981
assassination attempt on then-
President Ronald Reagan. His wife
since has become a driving force
behind the effort to win congres
sional approval of a national seven-
day waiting period for handgun
purchases.
Mrs. Musick’s husband, Greg,
was killed and four others were
wounded when James Calvin
Brady of Atlanta opened fire inside
Perimeter Mall April 24, the day
after his release from a state-oper
ated mental hospital. The pistol
used in the shootings was pur
chased just before the incident.
The widow said apathy was
partly to blame.
“We, as citizens, allowed James
(Calvin) Brady to purchase a gun
because we did not speak up be
forehand” to urge legislators to
enact stronger laws, she said.
Mrs. Musick said she now is
urging Georgians “to please write
your congressman, your represen
tative, your legislator ... let’s do
something about this.”
The federal gun legislation,
known as the Brady Bill, was nar
rowly defeated in September 1988
but has been reintroduced in Con
gress and could come up for com
mittee action next month, Mrs.
Brady said.
Her husband, reading from a
prepared statement, said national
polls indicate most Americans
favor the provisions of the pro
posed legislation "but too many
members of Congress are still
afraid of the gun lobby.”
Still, he insisted, “the time has
come for Congress to stand up for
the rest of us.
Gov. Joe Frank Harris, at his
own news conference an hour ear
lier, said local governments can
move faster than either the state or
national governments in putting
mandatory waiting periods into ef
fect, and added that he hopes many
will decide to do so.
But he said state and federal ac
tion is unlikely any time soon, and
added, “Local governments can go
ahead and exercise that right —
and I hope they will.”
A call by Atlanta Mayor May
nard Jackson last week for a uni
form waiting period in the Atlanta
area met with mixed success. The
DeKalb County Commission took
up the issue Tuesday, but commis
sioners said it could be a month be
fore any action is taken. Some
other metro area officials have sup
ported the idea, but gun enthu
siasts are opposing it.
Bill Davis, a member of the
Georgia Sport Shooting Associa
tion, an affiliate of the National
Rifle Association, said waiting pe
riods “are not going to work” be
cause law enforcement officials,
who are expected to use the time to
screen applicants for felony or
mental records, will not have ac
cess to all legal and mental re
cords.
“If you can’t find out about a
man, what’s your waiting period
going to do?” asked Davis, who was
on hand to observe the news con
ference held by Mrs. Musick and
the Bradys.
Water and sewage rate increase
approved by City Council
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Writer
Although the University’s water
services will be affected by an in
crease in city water rates, student
fees and residence hall rates won’t
be affected.
In an 8-2 vote Tuesday the
Athens City Council approved an
8.6 percent increase in sewer and
water rates.
The rates, which go into effect
Oct. 1, will increase in-city water
bills by 33 cents per month and
out-of-city bills by 56 cents.
Monthly sewer rates for in-city
residents will increase 34 cents
and out-of-city rates will increase
by 75 cents.
Councilman Calvin Bridges
pointed out the decrease in Athens’
water usage by 7.4 percent over the
past two years and said citizens
must realize the increase is
needed.
“We don’t want to give up our
water system, so we’ve still got to
pay our bills,” Bridges said.
Voting against the increase were
Council members Nathan Williams
and Carolyn Reynolds.
Councilman Harry Sims, a
member of the Finance Committee
which reviewed the increase, said
the proposed rates were actually
decreased by 4.65 percent from
13.3 percent.
The engineering firm of Jordan,
Jones, and Goulding was hired by
the city to study water rates for a
projected three-year period.
Bobby Snipes, Director of Public
Works, said the firm has been with
the city for 10 years and does an
nua] evaluations on the city’s
water system.
No University representatives
were present to speak out on the
increase, although the University
appealed to the council at a May 1
meeting to keep water prices at a
reasonable level.
University Physical Plant Di
rector James TenBrook said the in
crease will affect some 300
University buildings that receive
water services.
TenBrook said the University
paid a total of $577,000 last year
but feels the 8 65 percent increase
is more reasonable than the orig
inal 13 percent.
Although the increase will cost
the University about $50,000 a
year, TenBrook said student fees
and residence hall costs won’t be
affected.
Also on the city council agenda
was the introduction of newly
elected Student Government Asso
ciation President Heath Garrett to
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Councilman Calvin Bridges:
Said the increase is nec
essary
the council
Garrett said fii- . -c p^ns for the
SGA include correcting the com
munication gap that exists be
tween students and the Athens city
government.
‘We are here to work with you,
not against you,” Garrett said.
Thatcher’s era might be at an end
The Associated Press
LONDON — As Margaret
Thatcher’s troubles pile up, talk
about the post-Thatcher era is get
ting louder.
Nobody has yet written off this
most accomplished and tenacious
of politicians. She has up to two
more years in office — time enough
to revive the economy and win an
unprecedented fourth election.
But at the moment, things look
grim, and nationwide local govern
ment elections Thursday are
widely expected to underline
Thatcher’s difficulties.
Inflation is heading toward 10
percent. Interest rates, at 15 per
cent, are devastating the home-
owners and business people who
until now were Thatcher’s most
loyal voters.
Treasury officials say high in
terest rates are necessary to fight
inflation, and that an improvement
should be felt by autumn.
The debate in Thatcher’s Con
servative Party is between those
who want a quick change of course,
and those who counsel patience
and steadfastness.
The former worry that time is
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Thatcher wins elections precisely
because she sticks to her policies,
and that any backdown would cost
the Iron Lady her credibility.
Most damaging is Thatcher’s
sweeping reform of local taxes. The
community charge, or poll tax, has
caused street riots and is proving
so costly to most Britons that
Thatcher has been forced to con
sider changes.
The Labor Party, more than 20
percent ahead in opinion polls, ap
pears to be on increasingly credible
alternative, now that it has moved
its policies to the center.
Global changes play a part. Bri
tons also want a kinder, gentler so
ciety after the harsh market-
oriented 1980s. They worry about
the environment, and whether the
Tories are ideologically equipped to
save it. Thatcher’s strong stand on
nuclear defense is less seductive to
voters in the Gorbachev age. Her
resistance to closer union with con
tinental Europe makes her look
isolated.
Tory lawmaker Tony Marlow
sees a “formidable coalition”
building up against Mrs Thatcher:
‘The old, who feel she does not
care; the young, who feel she is out
of touch; and the working class,
who feel she does not understand."
Writing in The Independent last
week Marlow expressed the fear
that his party could lose the next
general election, and with it all
that 11 years of Thatcherism has
accomplished in taming the trade
unions, cutting industrial fat and
stiffening the national backbone.
Therefore, he said, “the first es
sential element to the maintenance
of Thatcherism is not
Mrs .Thatcher herself, but Conser
vative government.”
The test, he said, would be how
Thatcher handled the poll tax
crisis.
Last November Thatcher, 64,
comfortably won the annual party
leadership election. But it was the
first time she had faced a chal
lenger, and unless the economy re
covers soon, a more serious contest
may develop this November.
If the Conservatives think she
will lose them the next election,
they could pick a new prime min
ister without having to call an elec
tion.
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