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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA « VOLUME 97, ISSUE 103
Keith Duncan: The University graduate student waits in
line at the Tate Student Center for his measles vaccination
on Tuesday
■ MEASLES INFO
• The University’s definition of proof of immunity is:
A statement signed by a physician that an individual has had a di
agnosis of measles, or an official immunization record showing two vac
cinations since age one.
• Health Services has established a measles telephone hotline to an
swer questions about the virus and the vaccinaton process. The number
is 542-6001; it will be in operation from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
• Persons who have medical or religious reasons for not receiving a
vaccination should contact Health Services.
• Vaccinations will be given at the Tate Student Center and Memo
rial Hall today through Friday, May 18,(excluding Sunday, May 13)
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Inoculations will be given Saturday at the Tate
Center only. Hours will be extended todny and Thursday until 7:30 p.m.
UGA requires measles shot
Students and faculty must
be vaccinated
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Jodie Barbour: Grimaces as she receives her measles vac
cination from Joyce Osburne, a health center RN
By PEGGY McGOFF
Staff Writer
University students, faculty and
staff who don’t receive a measles
vaccination and who are not al
ready immune will be forced to
leave campus until two weeks after
the last cuse of measles has been
reported, Public Information Di
rector Tom Jackson said in a press
conference Tuesday.
The order is part of a mandatory
vaccination requirement by the
Georgia Department of Human Re
sources for all people on campus
born on or after Jan. 1, 1957,
Jackson said.
Exemptions may be claimed for
medical or religious reasons, but
people declared exempt will not be
allowed on campus until the mea
sles cases cease.
Amy Bobnensteihl, a freshman
French major, received a measles
shot Monday, the first vaccination
of her life. Her religion, Christian
Science, encourages its members to
avoid vaccinations. However,
rather than forfeit her eligibility to
by the 18th
attend classes and risk the measles
virus, she decided to be immu
nized.
An immunity test is under con
sideration for those people whose
medical condition, such as preg
nancy, or religious beliefs will not
allow them to receive the vaccina
tion. The test would cost the Uni
versity $27 a person, and if
utilized, will be a last resort before
people must leave the campus,
Jackson said.
Faculty and staff forced to leave
campus will be paid for time
missed. Students having to leave
the University could miss the rest
of the quarter’s classes, and may
have to receive grades of incom
plete, Jackson said.
Further cases could be reported
up to four weeks after the May 18
vaccination deadline, said Dr. Flor
ence Winship, assistant adminis
trative director of University
Health Services.
Sanctions may be imposed on
students, faculty and staff who are
not exempt and have not had a vac
cination or proved immunity by 6
p.m. on Friday, May 18, he said.
Such sanctions, Jackson said,
could include barring students and
faculty from classes and with
holding paychecks and grades. No
formal sanctions have been deter
mined.
Up to 20,000 people on campus
may need to be vaccinated by May
18, Jackson said.
Mike Cheney, immunization
program manager with the DHR,
said costs for the vaccinations
could reach $500,000, which will be
funded by the DHR
‘This is going to basically ex
haust the supply of funds for vacci
nations available,” Cheney said.
Regents will make shot requirement official
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
ATLANTA — To comply with the medical-
emergency order issued by the Georgia Depart
ment of Human Resources, the University
System Board of Regents will vote todny on a
measure that will officially require all Univer
sity students to prove immunity to the measles
virus.
Effective May 18, students, faculty and staff
born since January 1957 will have to prove
they’ve been immunized since 1980 or have had
the virus before. Failure to comply could result
in dismissal from classes, said Lamar Cousins,
chairman of the Board of Regents’ Committee
on Health Professions.
Tom MncDonnld, vice chancellor for Student
Services, said any student not complying with
the order also could be banned from University
Housing.
Regents Secretary Henry Neal said students
with medical reasons for not getting inoculated
or those who object because of religious beliefs
will be dealt with individually by University of
ficials.
The mandatory-immunization measure will
establish a new section in the Board of Regents
Policy Manual setting guidelines for hnnning
students from classes and workers from their
jobs in cases of similar medical emergencies.
'The mandatory vaccination policy will have
the two-pronged effect," Cousins said, “ap
pealing to people’s good common sense in
avoiding disease and complying with the De
partment of Human Resources’ order that stu
dents be protected to go to class.”
There have been 27 confirmed cases of mea
sles since April 21. As of Tuesday afternoon,
about 7,000 people had been inoculated,
according to Health Services.
The state is requiring the vaccinations to
avoid the virus’ spread not only on campus but
also throughout Georgia and the Southeast ns
well, he said.
“We worry that infected students are going
home, and that will lead to cases everywhere,”
Cousins said.
“When someone is in college, childhood dis
eases like this can seem very remote and
obscure,” he said.
“But measles 19 a very significant disease, es
pecially when contracted by adults."
The procedure for immunity verification
hasn’t been established yet and is being dis
cussed by University officials.
In other business, the Board will vote on Uni
versity President Charles Knapp’s request to
establish the Simon S. Selig Jr. Chair of Eco
nomics in the College of Business Administra
tion.
Selig, who died four years ago, was a 1935
University graduate. In 1980, he received The
College of Business Administration’s Distin
guished Alumnus Award. The chair will be sup
ported by a $650,000 gift to the University by
Selig’s children.
The University also will request that, in rec
ognition of this gift, the business school’s Divi
sion of Research be named the Simon S. Selig
Jr. Center for Economic Growth.
ID forgery a big problem for Athens police and bar owners
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Above, the ID at the top is a computer generated fake Michigan
driver’s license which is based on a Georgia license with the out
line of the state in the background. The other two IDs are exam
ples of the actual design of a Michigan license. Right, Lt. L.H.
McCrary of the Athens police dumps a box of fake IDs his depart
ment has collected.
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
Ask Athens police Lt. L.H. McC
rary if the use of fnke IDs is a
problem in Athens and he’ll an
swer by pulling out two medium
sized cardboard boxes overflowing
with IDs police have collected.
Some were used by minors to
buy alcohol, others to get into local
nightclubs. He hud another box full
hut destroyed it about a year ago.
“As you can see the sheer
number of them precludes us from
tracking down everyone,” McC
rary, head of the Criminal Investi
gation Depart, said,
Most are valid drivers’ licenses
that didn’t belong to the minor pre
senting them. Others are valia li
censes that have been altered in
some way. Some are just plain
fake. No action was ever taken on
them.
One University student, a
freshman pre-med major who
asked that nis name be withheld,
currently is making fake drivers* li
censes on his computer. He said he
considers himself an expert and
that his fakes are works of art.
“All it takes is a lot of patience, a
ood computer and a little talent,”
e said.
They produce the licenses on a
personal computer using Harvard
Graphics software and a laser or
paint cartridge printer.
“You have to be selective with
who you are going to sell them to;
that’s why we nre only making 20
and selling them to friends," he
said.
He said he and his friend, who
helps produce the IDs, will sell
them for $50 each and split a $1,-
000 profit.
While most minors who use false
IDs are given a warning or a fine,
McCrary said producing one is a
first-degree forgery. People who
are making them are putting
themselves into real jeopardy.
They’re looking at five years. If I
eaten them I’m going to put them
in prison."
On the back of the freshman’s
fake licenses where the driver’s re
strictions are listed, one item
reads, 'This is a joke.” The
freshman said he thinks this might
get him off the hook if he’s caught.
Not so, said McCrary.
“It all comes down to a matter of
intent. Did he mean for the li
censes to misrepresent people?”
McCrary said.
The freshman said he started
making fake IDs in high school. He
and other University students
have used various methods to
make them. Other methods in
clude:
• The “poster ID” — Minors
stand in front of a large poster de
signed to look like the front of a li
cense and photograph themselves.
Poloroid 600 is reported to be the
film of choice. Then they cut the
photo out and laminate it. The li
cense back is reproduced on a copy
machine.
• Altering traffic tickets —
Spraying the front of a ticket with
hairspray removes the original
carbon on the ticket. Using a
carbon sheet, new information is
then written in.
• Borrowing a friend's ID —
Ken Fulghum, owner of O’Malley’s
Tavern, said it’s often hard to tell if
nn underage person is using a si
bling’s ID, or if other people who
look similar nre using each other’s
licenses.
Fulghum said he trains his
doormen to look at the weight,
height, eye color, and hair color on
an ID.
‘We collect the ones that are
overtly apparent; the ones thnt’ve
had micro surgery done to them,”
he said.
They also have several “tricks”
to discern whether a minor is using
another’s license. They might ask
the customer his or her social secu
rity number on the ID or the astro
logical sign of the birth date on it.
Fulghum said most people know
their own sign, but would be hard-
pressed to tell someone else’s.
Steve Clarke, manager of The
Red and Black package store, has
collected 38 fake licenses since
September. He said employees can
spot underage patrons when they
walk in the door.
Theyll come in and not know
anything about liquor. They’ll say
give me a flask of that; or give me
that little pint,” he said.
The package store has caught a
number of convincing out-of-state
fake drivers’ licenses by comparing
them to real ones using The 1989
ID-Checking Guide, Clarke said.
An authentic Texas license has
'Texas Department of Public
Safety" printed across the top. One
fake that turned up at The Red and
Black package store had Texas
Department of Public Security" on
it. Another real-looking fake was a
Michigan driver’s license with a
yellow background. Authentic
Michigan licenses have a white
background.
Isiah Warner, the door super
visor nt Wax Alley, said his
doormen must pass a test on the
appearance of out-of-state IDs.
Sometimes people return to get
licenses they let someone else use,
Fulghum said. He will often ask a
member of his security staff to talk
to them about loaning out the li
cense.
McCrary said people also have
come to him asking for their license
hack.
They come in and I get the line,
‘I lost it,’ ” he said.
McCrary said he keeps a list of
the people who ask for a license
hack and will suspend the license
of anyone who comes in twice, but
that hasn’t happened yet.
The threat of arrest for using
someone else’s license can he real.
He said he has made several ar
rests over the years.
Fraudulent use of an ID is a mis
demeanor under Georgia law, he
said. An offense can carry a fine of
up to $1,000 and a year’s imprison
ment, but the severity of the pun
ishment is determined by the judge
hearing the case.
James Warnes, the presiding
judge of Athens Municipal Court,
said the punishment for using an
other’s driver’s license or altering
your own is a $200 fine and sus
pension of the license for a year.
McCrary said he understands
the reasons behind all the IDs he
has collected.
“When they raised the drinking
age to 21 it really cut the entire so
cial class of college students in
half. The pressure is intense and
people are forever coming up with
new ways to bent the system."