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2 • The Red and Black • Tuesday. May 15. 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Student Association to fill senior senator vacancies.
The Student Association will select senior senators tonight to fill the
four vacant seats not contested in its recent election. Candidates are
Robert Claxton, Alan Cinder, Ian Henyon, Misty Lathem, Kim Marsh
and Mike McManus. The SA will also discuss the schedule of events
for Vote *90, the campus voter registration drive, semester feasibility,
the escort van service and the SA budget.
Police have no suspects for Spike Lee bomb threat.
University police said they have no suspects in the bomb threat they
received Thursday before Spike Lee was scheduled to speak at the
Coliseum. Sgt. Richard Goodson said the caller told police he couldn’t
stop his friends from planting a bomb in the Coliseum. Goodson said
it’s hard to develop leads from such calls. University Police Chief
Chuck Horton agreed and said that the number of bomb threats
police get fluctuates. “All that we’ve ever had have been bogus," he
said. “Most of these calls tend to be pranks just trying to disrupt the
University.”
Athens Gay & Lesbian Association
Organization wants to be more visible
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
Sponsoring Gay History Day
and manning an information table
at the Tate Student Center plaza is
the latest chapter in the resur
gence of the Athens Gay & Lesbian
Association.
Attendance at weekly meetings
of AG LA, a registered University
organization, has grown from
around 10 in 1987 to between 20
and 30 now, said AG LA Secretary
Terrance Heath. AGLA has also
changed its registration from an
advocacy to a service organization
on campus.
“We want to become more vis
ible, more vocal than in the past,"
Heath said.
He said there are between 30
and 40 members who pay dues,
and AGLA distributes about 100
copies of its monthly newsletter,
Athens Ten Percent, a calendar of
activities and collection of columns
written by members.
In the 1970s, the group’s ac
ronym was AG/LA and stood for
Athens Gay'Lesbian Alliance. The
group was more politically oriented
and took the University to court
when tne members weren’t allowed
to sponsor a dance at Memorial
Hall, said Lawson Sullivan,
AGLA’s female co-director.
She said they plan to sponsor a
dance next school year and will
probably organize it with the help
of similar groups at the Georgia In
stitute of Technology, Emory Uni
versity and Georgia State
University.
AGLA maintains a resource li
brary and provides a speakers bu
reau of three to four panelists for
discussions on gay and lesbian is
sues.
Sullivan and Heath said they
would like AGLA to receive Uni
versity funding and office space,
but they have missed the applica
tion deadlines because of “organi-
AGLA maintains a
resource library and
provides a speakers
bureau of three to four
panelists for
discussions on gay and
lesbian issues
zational snafus."
Sullivan said AGLA has suffered
in the past from negative stereo
types .
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Bread-contract rigging investigated. In
the wuke of criminal cases against dairy officials who allegedly rigged
school milk contracts, the U S. Justice Department is now-
investigating possible schemes to fix lunchroom bread contracts. ‘The
Atlanta office of the Antitrust Division of the U S. Department of
Justice is conducting an investigation of possible collusion among
vendors of bread to schools in several Southeastern states,” read a
Jan. 31 letter received by Fulton County officials. The letter asks for
information including bid statements, solicitations and forms, and
school board minutes concerning bread contracts. The letter also
noted that “a similar investigation in North Carolina resulted in the
recovery of overcharges from various bakery firms on behalf of North
Carolina county schools."
ATLANTA (AP): Group wants neo-Nazi barred from U.S.
An organization that monitors hate groups said Monday it wants
federal officials to prevent a British neo-Nazi from traveling to the
United States to address a racist convention in North Carolina.
Daniel Levitas, executive director of the Center for Democratic
Renewal, said John Hutchyns Tyndall has been involved in neo-Nazi
activity for more than 30 years, and plans to attend a convention of
the Populist Party, a coalition of racist groups. The convention is to be
held in Winston-Salem, N.C., next weekend, Levitas said. The center
has asked U.S. Rep. John Lewis and officials at the U.S. Embassy in
London to ensure that Tyndall is kept out of the country.
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Court upholds clinic injunction.
The Supreme Court refused Monday to let an anti-abortion group
protest at abortion clinics in Atlanta, voting 5-4 to leave intact a
Georgia judge’s injunction. The court rejected an emergency request
by five members of Operation Rescue who said the injunction is
violating their free-speech rights. The controversy is still alive in the
Georgia courts, but Monday’s action means Operation Rescue
protesters — for now — cannot go within 50 feet of the property line of
any Atlanta facility where abortions are performed. Since July 1988,
when Atlanta hosted the National Democratic Convention, city police
have arrested 1,320 demonstrators at Operation Rescue sit-ins. Many
of the protesters barricaded abortion clinics, blocking patients and
employees from entering or leaving.
WASHINGTON (AP): Court upholds death sentence.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the sentence of Georgia
death row inmate Eli Beck, convicted six years ago in the murder and
robbery of his former employer, Emory Porter Sr. of Cochran. The
justices let stand rulings that Beck, now 28, received a fair trial and
sentencing. Beck was sentenced to die for the Jan. 16, 1984, shooting
death at Porter’s home. Authorities said Beck and Ernest Ashley,
another former employee of Porter, went to the Porter home and
argued with him. Ashley pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in
prison. Beck’s appeal argued there was insufficient evidence that he,
and not Ashley, snot Porter, or that Beck ever intended to kill Porter.
The appeal also contended that Beck, described as mentally retarded,
never knowingly waived his self-incrimination protections before
making incriminating statements to police.
WASHINGTON (AP): Smithsonian to display ICBMs.
Nuclear missiles of the type the United States and the Soviet Union
had aimed across the East-West divide — but are now withdrawing —
are to be propped up, painted and polished, side by side, in museums
in Washington and Moscow. A Soviet SS-20 and an American
Pershing 2 — minus their nuclear warheads — will be displayed at
the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. A
separate exhibit in the museum’s Space Hall will display pictures of
the missiles; copies of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces, or INF,
treaty, which governs destruction of the missiles and their launchers;
and chunks of destroyed INF missiles. The exhibit opens June 20. A
similar display is due to open at Moscow’s Central Armed Forces
Museum, the city’s main military museum, sometime this summer.
■ WORLD
MOSCOW (AP): Latvian independence bid rejected.
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev today rejected independence
moves by Latvia and Estonia, declaring the measures illegal. In
presidential decrees read on the nightly news program “Vremya,"
Gorbachev said Latvia’s May 4 declaration of independence and
Estonia’s March 30 declaration that it was an occupied country
violated Soviet law and the constitution. He did not indicate what he
would do to counter the independence measures. Lithuania declared
its independence March 11, and the Kremlin responded by imposing
an economic blockade on the republic. Latvia and Estonia passed
more cautious measures, allowing for an unspecified transition period
to independence, but Gorbachev’s response showed their moves were
equally unacceptable.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• UGAZINE will meet tonight at
6 at the journalism building in
the Macintosh Lab on the second
floor.
• The Athens Branch of the
American Association of
University Women will meet
tonight at 6 at the Western
Sizzlin on Baxter Street.
Assistance of Roland Barthes."
The public is invited.
• Darlene Roth, director of
education at the Atlanta
Historical Society, will speak for
National Historic Preservation
Week today at 4:30 p.m. at Phi
Kappa Hall. The pumic is
invited.
Business Interests
• BACCHUS will meet tonight at
7 at the Tate Student Center in
Room 172. The public i* invited.
• The UGA Pre-veterinary Club
will meet tonight at 7:30 at the
veterinary school in the
microbiology auditorium. The
public is invited.
• The Athens Area Alzheimer's
Support Group will meet tonight
at 7:30 at the Campus View
Church of Christ, 1360 South
Lumpkin Street. The public is
invited.
Lectures
• Cary Nelson of the University
English Department will speak
today at 4 p.m. at Park Hall in
Room 265. The topic is "Criticism
as Autobiography: With the
• The UGA Japanese Friendship
Society will show films on the
topic “American Businessmen in
Japan" tonight at 7 p.m. at the
Tate Student Center in Room
140. the public is invited.
• The International Association
of Business Communicators will
hold a membership drive today
from 11 to 4:30 p.m. at the
journalism building in front of
the Drewry Room.
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 art printed
on a space-available basis.
Because space is limited, long
announcements are shortened.
Uptown Lounge bom again as The Color Box
By CARTER HURST
Contributing Writer
Ever since its closing in No
vember, the Uptown Lounge has
been little more than a fond
memory. But lately, there have
been sparks of life in the Wash
ington Street club again.
Kyle Pilgrim, owner of the
Georgia Theater and former owner
of the Uptown, sold the lounge to
the owners of The Color Box of At
lanta in February of this year.
“Owning two clubs at once was
just not profitable,” Pilgrim said.
Michael Krohngold and Louie
Spetrini, the new owners of the Up
town, plan a private party opening
on May 24.
The Athens version of The Color
Box will open to the public on May
25.
“It’s the type of club that will ap
peal to the professionals as well as
the students," Krohngold said.
‘There will be a D J. every night
and a live band once a week
playing a variety of dance-oriented
music," he said.
The Color Box will have nightly
specials throughout the week. On
Wednesdays evenings, the club’s
theme will be 1970s disco night.
Thursdays will feature house
music, and on weekends there will
be dance music and live bands. On
Saturdays the club’sclosing time
will be 3 a.m. for those who enjoy
dancing until the wee hours of the
morning.
Krohngold said the changes to
the old Uptown are extreme and
that there will be little resem
blance.
“I don’t want people to walk in
and say this is just like the Up
town,” he said.
Krohngold said The Color Box
and the Georgia Theater will have
little competition between them.
“People go to the Georgia The
ater for the live bands versus The
Color Box with the D.J. every
night,” he said.
He said he hopes The Color Box
will be a stopping point after con
certs at the Georgia Theater.
“It is a place to finish off the
night,” he said.
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