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THURSDAY
the University of Georgia Community
GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 104
INSIDE
A preview of African
American filmmaker
Spike Lee’s appearance at
the Coliseum tonight
Weather: Today, cloudy, 50
percent chance rain, mid 70s,
tonight, fair, mid 40s. Friday,
sunny, high in upper 70s. Do the
right thing - catch some rays.
Win, Lose or Draw - Bulldog style
Burt Reynolds and Bert Convy were nowhere In site as madcap Uni- and Karen Eisner (r-D play for the Sigma Delta Tau sorority team
versity students teamed up Wednesday at the Tate Center to earn in Delta Zeta sorority’s charity version of the television game
money to benefit the speech and hearing impaired. Here Elise Garner show “Win, Lose or Draw.”
Knapp says research complements instruction
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Research and teaching should be comple
mentary, according to University President
Charles Knapp.
“I don’t believe the notion that teaching and
research are competitive,” he said at the Uni
versity’s Research Foundation Banquet-
Tuesday night at the Athens Country Club.
“Our role is to create an environment so (re
search) can flourish.”
The term "research university” frightens a
lot of people, he said.
"It makes them think the University is
drifting away from its other mission — instruc-
The term ‘research university’
frightens a lot of people
Charles Knapp
University President
tional,” he said.
Joe Key, vice president for research, said the
University has had the best research equip
ment in his memory under Knapp’s leadership.
Graduate School Dean Gordnan Patel said
it’s important for a University to increase the
pool of available funds for research.
Graduate students whose research is funded
by grantf. are limited by their contractual obli
gations, he said.
With funds from other sources “a student can
have more freedom with the kind of research
projects,” Patel said.
Knapp praised Jacquelyn Kinder, Gilbert
Health Center director, for her efforts in
dealing with the measles crisis on campus.
“We’ve learned more from Dr. Kinder at the
Health Services than we ever wanted to know
about measles," he said.
“1 think we’re going to bring it (the measles)
under control very rapidly."
Class won’t
be canceled
By PEGGY McGOFF
Staff Writer
Rumors that state health offi
cials might close the University
due to the increase in the number
of measles cases were dispelled
Wednesday by the Georgia Depart
ment of Human Resources.
“We will not close the University
of Georgia,” said Mike Cheney, im
munization program manager in
the division of public health at the
DHR.
The decision would be a joint one
between the DHR and the Univer
sity System Board of Regents, and
the DHR currently has no plans to
close the University.
Rumors of a University shut
down surfaced this week after the
DHR declared a medical emer
gency on campus Monday and re
quired mandatory vaccination for
all students, faculty and staff born
on or after Jan. 1, 1957.
Twenty-six measles cases had
been reported to the Gilbert Health
Center as of Monday and four addi
tional cases, one on Tuesday and
three on Wednesday, had been di
agnosed as of Wednesday af
ternoon.
Health Services officials are con
fident that closing the University
won’t become necessary.
“With the cooperation we’re ex
pecting from students, faculty and
staff by May 18, we will contain
measles,” said Health Services Di
rector Jacquelyn Kinder.
Dr. Florence Winship, assistant
administrative director of Univer
sity Health Services, expects mea
sles diagnoses to continue up to
four weeks after the May 18 inoc
ulation deadline.
Many people may already have
been exposed to the virus but will
not show symptoms for up to two
weeks. Once a person has con
tracted measles, the vaccination
can’t stop the virus, Winship said
Public Information Director Tom
Jackson said students with a cough
or a cold may be experiencing the
first symptoms of measles and
should contact Health Service offi
cials immediately. Patients are
contagious about four days before
and after the onset of symptoms.
The target age group has been
reduced to an estimated 25,000
people, Jackson said. Of these,
7,000 received vaccinations during
the voluntary inoculation period,
he said.
Another 2,850 had been vacci
nated at 5 p.m. Wednesday, the
first day of the mandatory inocula
tions, Kinder said.
Under the mandatory vaccina
tion policy, a person may claim
exemption from inoculation for
medical or religious reasons, but
must leave campus until two
weeks after the last measles case
has been reported.
About 150 people claimed exclu
sion from the vaccination policy,
Kinder said.
It’s undetermined what per
centage are students or why they
are exempt, Jackson said.
People who claim exemption can
choose to undergo a titer test,
which measures the level of mea
sles antibodies in the blood system.
If enough antibodies are found, the
person will be considered immune
and will not be forced to leave the
University. About 30 people under
went the test.
Pregnant women, in particular,
won’t be given the vaccination by
Health Service workers. These
women may send a physician’s
letter to Kinder by May 18, certi
fying their conditions.
If there is a question of preg
nancy, women will be referred to
the Gilbert Health Center for a
pregnancy test. The test costs $10
and will be administered from 8 to
11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Although the vaccination dead
line is May 18, Kinder said she
would like to have most people in
oculated by Friday, May 11.
“We don’t want students leaving
the University of Georgia not im
munized,” she said.
Students dispersing to other
areas of Georgia for Mother’s Day
could spread the virus to other
communities in the state, Kinder
said.
Winship said Health Services
doesn’t have previous vaccination
records because records required
for University admissions aren’t of
ficial. Students are usually asked
to indicate which vaccinations they
have received, but these docu
ments aren’t verified by a physi
cian.
Official vaccination records will
be kept for any person inoculated
by Health Services.
$1.15 million endowed chair established
Niemi will head research center
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Dean Albert Niemi: Holder
of the Simon S. Selig, Jr.
Chair of Economics
By J.D SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
Albert Niemi, dean of the Col
lege of Business Administration,
was appointed head of the newly
established Simon S. Selig Jr.
Center for Economic Growth
Wednesday by the University
System Board of Regents.
The endowed professorship is
supported primarily by a $650,000
gift from Selig’s children. Niemi’s
formal title will be holder of the
Simon S. Selig Jr. Chair of Eco
nomics,
Private gifts of about $500,000
have been received to supplement
the Seligs’ gift, bringing the total
endowment for the research and
the endowed chair to $1.15 million.
The Selig Center will continue
the work of the research division,
which includes information pub
lished in the Georgia Business and
Economic Conditions and the
Georgia Statistical Outlook, peri
odic papers dealing with the
Georgia economy.
The endowment is a memorial to
Selig, a 1935 graduate of the Uni
versity, who was chairman of Selig
Enterprises Inc. from 1968 until
his death in 1986.
Niemi couldn’t be reached for
comment.
Also at their monthly meeting,
the regents approved the addition
of a new University System policy
to handle the current measles
crisis and any future epidemics.
The new section stipulates that
when a state of emergency is de
clared by state health officials at
any public university or college,
the president, in conjunction with
University System officials and
health authorities, can require stu
dents to be vaccinated.
Students or faculty who can’t be
immunized because of medical rea
sons or religious objections will be
dealt with individually, Henry
Neal, regents secretary, said.
Other students and faculty who
don’t comply with the order could
be asked to leave campus until im
munity is proven or the epidemic
ceases to be a public health threat.
Raindrops keep failin’ on my head
University students trek to class Wednesday despite the rain which has plagued Athens for the last few
days. Look for relief soon 'cause the weatherman says, quoting Little Orphan Annie, "the sun'll come out
tomorrow."
11th annual awards held to honor University researchers
By ANNE MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
University researchers stepped away
from their laboratories and offices and
into the limelight Wednesday at the 11th
annual University of Georgia Research
Foundation Awards.
Charles Hudson, an anthropology pro
fessor, received the Albert ChnstJaner
Award and a $1,000 check for his con
tinued research on the first interactions
between American Indians and Euro
peans in the Southeastern United States.
Hudson’s most recent book, “The Juan
Pardo Expeditions,” follows the explorer’s
travels from 1566 to 1568, 26 years after
Fernando DeSoto. In 1989, Hudson con
ducted a six-week summer institute on
Southeast Indians for college and univer
sity instructors from across the country.
Funded by the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the institute focused
on 16th century Spanish exploration in
the Southeast United States.
Hudson said moBt Americans have vir
tually no knowledge of the explorations of
DeSoto and Pardo.
University alumnus Peter Soule, a
University of Alabama associate pro
fessor of geography, received the Robert
C. Anderson Award and a $1,000 check
for his research on drought patterns in
the United States.
The Anderson Award is given to former
graduate students who have received de
grees within the last two years, said Mi
chael Moriarty, associate vice president
for research.
University graduate students from the
social and natural sciences were recog
nized for contributions as National Sci
ence Fellows.
Phil Gibson, a graduate student in
botany, is studying the genetic structure
of Appalachian pine trees to find out how
genetic diversity is maintained in the
area.
The Appalachian region pine trees are
a “natural model for designing parks and
reserves," he said. “Usually we have to
separate certain trees to keep species
pure.”
Loch Johnson, a political science pro
fessor and CIA expert, received a Crea
tive Research Medal for his work on the
Congressional oversight of American In
telligence Policy.
The Lamar Dodd Award was given to
Robert Armstrong, a physical education
professor, for his work in exercise physi
ology and biochemistry. Armstrong, who
also received a $1,000 check, researched
the blood flow in muscles of animals
during exercise.
The following faculty also were hon
ored:
National Science Foundation fel
lows:
• Gregory Derda, botany.
• Elizabeth Friar, botany.
• Jill Mateo, psychology.
• Valerie de Oviedo, psychology.
• Bradley Deleeuw, chemistry.
Creative Research Medals:
• Mary Case, genetics professor, for
work on red bread mold.
• Steven Newell, senior research scien
tist at the Marine Institute, for devel
oping a technique for measuring the
biomass and productivity of fungi.
• Roy Smith and Rofcirt Varey, math
ematics professor and associate professor,
respectively, for research in geometry.