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2 • The Red and Black • Friday, May 18. 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Applications for vacant junior senator seat available.
Applications for the Student Association junior senate seat left
vacant by a resignation Wednesday will be available at the Tate
Student Center information desk today. To apply, students must be
rising juniors with a 2.25 minimum grade point average, SA
President Pro Tern William Perry said. Applicants also must garner
300 signatures on a petition to be a candidate. Deadline to turn in
applications is 1 p.m. May 25 Perry said candidates will be
interviewed by the ad-hoc elections subcommittee May 28 and the SA
will vote on them at its May 29 meeting.
Attorney General to cover measles, gays, flag burning.
State Attorney General Michael Bowers will be the guest on the
student-run talk show "Rapid Fire” today. Executive Producer David
Herndon, a junior political science major, said Bowers will address
the measles epidemic, gay rights and flag burning. The show will be
taped today and will air tonight at 7:30 p.m. on WNGM Channel 34.
The show will atso be aired at 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday.
University to survey student opinions of services. The
Office of Student AfTairs has mailed 1,100 Student Satisfaction
Surveys to students on and off-campus. The purpose of the survey is
to gather opinions on the services offered by Student Affairs, such as
the Office of Financial Aid, Handicapped Services and Health
Services Rick Rose, assistant to the vice president for Student
AfTairs. said it’s very important that students return the surveys
because many decisions and policy changes are based on assumptions
of student opinion. He hopes the completed surveys will be a random
sample of about 5 percent of the student body.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Measles cases break out nationally.
Measles is up more than 400 percent in the United States in a year,
and big outbreaks — like one that has hit 2,600 in Chicago — will
continue if inner-city child vaccination levels don’t improve, federal
heaith itficials warned Thursday. The national Centers for Disease
Control reporLed that at least 2,621 measles cases — and eight deaths
— have occurred in Chicago since Valentine’s Day 1989. Seventy-five
percent of the Chicago cases in 1989 occurred in children under 5 —
and tnus not yet suojeci to school vaccination laws. The outbreak has
centered on preschoolers in poorer inner-city neighborhoods, as did
outbreaks last year in Houston and Los Angeles.
MIAMI (AP): Minister enters Georgia governor race.
The minister of the All Faith Church of Divine Mission in Miami’s
Overtown section says he’s running for governor — of Georgia. The
Rev Clennon King, who caused a stir in 1976 when he tried to
integrate the all-white Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., where then-
presidential candidate Jimmy Carter worshipped, said Wednesday
he’s getting ready to leave Miami, where he’s lived for more than a
decade King would have to run as a write-in candidate, since
qualifying for the July 17 Georgia primaries has closed. King’s
political career includes a 1960 presidential candidacy at the head of
his own Afro-American Unity Liberation Party. He also made a last-
minute run for Georgia governor in 1970 and ran in 1976 for Albany
city commission, county commission and the Legislature. He ran
afoul of Georgia law by offering $100 to anyone who voted for him.
DETROIT (AP): General Motors shuts down plant.
General Motors Corp. said Thursday that its shutdown of the
Lakew<xxi car assembly plant in Atlanta will be effective Aug. 6. GM
spokeswoman Sharon Hines said 2,200 employees of the plant will be
laid off when the automaker stops making 1990 versions of the
Chevrolet Caprice. The Lakewood plant will be the fourth assembly
plant GM has shut down since 1987, when it signed its current
contract with the United Auto Workers union. The agreement allows
an assembly plant closing only when sales of its products slump.
CAMP BLANDING, FI. (AP): Troops have bad teeth.
One-fourth of 5,000 Army reservists from Georgia, Florida and South
Carolina were found to have severe dental problems that could delay
or prevent them from being deployed, officials said. “A soldier with a
toothache can’t do his mission,” said Lt. Col. Howard Foster, director
of the readiness exercise. “One out of four soldiers had dental
problems that would need a root canal or extraction,” Foster said
Wednesday. Although active-duty military personnel receive
government medical and dental care, reservists do not.
■ WORLD
MOSCOW IAP): Gorbachev meets with Lithuanians.
President Miknail S. Gorbachev met Thursday with a top Lithuanian
official for the first time since the Baltic republic declared
independence, a major breakthrough in the 2-month-old
confrontation. Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene
talked with Gorbachev for two hours in the Kremlin in what she
called “an introduction to coming negotiations," a Lithuanian
spokesman said. Prunskiene flew to Moscow on Thursday with an
offer of new concessions. Lithuania offered to suspend its drive for
independence and remain part of the Soviet security system.
Lithuanian leaders have said they are willing to negotiate everything
except their independence declaration. ‘The declaration of
independence is not a subject for discussion or negotiations,”
Prunskiene said.
PARIS (AP): Desecration prompts Jewish emigration.
The number of French Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel jumped
dramatically afler vandals desecrated a Jewish cemetery last week
and mutilated a recently buried corpse, the Jewish Agency said
Thursday. Two thousand requests have been received since the
desecration was discovered in the southern town of Carpentras on
May 10, agency official Claude Laloum said. Between Jan. 1 and May
9, there were 1,800 requests. The agency, which has offices in many
countries, helps make arrangements for Jews seeking to settle in
Israel. Vandals broke 34 tombstones at Carpentras and dug up the
body of an 81-year-old man buried two weeks earlier and impaled his
body on an umbrella pole. Since the desecration, there have been
daily incidents of racial and political vandalism.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Bulldog Student Athletic
Association will meet Sunday,
May 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Tate
Student Center in Room 144.
• The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People will meet Monday, May
21 at 7 p.m. at the Tate Student
Center in Room 137. The public
is invited.
• The Athens Area Habitat for
Humanity will meet Sunday,
May 21 at 7 p.m. at the First
Presbyterian Church, 185 E.
Hancock Street, in Room 306.
The public is invited.
Georgia Museum of Art
• An exhibit titled “Works by
Warhol: From the Cochran
Collection" is open from May 19-
July 1 at the Georgia Museum of
Art. The public is invited.
• An exhibit titled “Images of
American Artists: Selections of
the Junior Museum Curators" is
open May 19-June 17 at the
Georgia Museum of Art. The
public is invited.
• Hayden Maginnis, of
McMaster University at Ontario,
will speak Sunday, May 20 at 2
p.m. at the Georgia Museum of
Art. His topic is “Reflections in a
Golden Eye: Painting in
| Thirteenth Century Siena.” The
public is invited.
Announcements
• Applications for the 1990
Georgia Alumni Society
President’s Awards are due
today at the Alumni House.
Seniors who have submitted
applications prior to May 14
must contact Genie Snyder at
542-2251.
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I Because space is limited, long
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’90 campus voter registration drive ends today
The Vote '90 campus voter regis
tration drive will wind down today
and Phil Smith, president of Young
Democrats and a coordinator of the
drive, said students registered
should total about 900.
Dot Shriver, who received regis
tration forms in the administrative
office at the Tate Student Center,
said 789 studenta were registered
as of 4 p.m. Thursday.
Vote 90 started at the Univer
sity Monday with visit* from U.S.
Sen. Sam Nunn and Secretary of
State Max Cleland, whose office
spearheaded the campaign.
Daniel Diaddigo, Vote *90 pro
ject* coordinator for Cleland’s of
fice, said the campaign targets
college campuses across the state
because only about 10 percent of
people aged 18 to 25 in Georgia are
registered to vote.
T think we did a good job of it in
the final analysis,” he said.
There was no set registration
goal, Diaddigo said, since this drive
was the first of it* kind on campus.
A law which passed the Depart
ment of Justice April 23 allows stu
dents to register on campus either
in the home county or in Clarke
County. About 33 campuses in the
University System are also holding
Vote 90 campaigns.
Another drive to encourage stu
dents to vote may be planned for
the fall, Diaddigo said.
Smith said those who worked to
plan the drive couldn’t have done
any more.
“I think the secretary of state’s
office is going to find as they hold
these drives around the state that
the University of Georgia will prob
ably end up registering the most,”
he said.
— Marla Edwards
Time Lords host Alternate Realities III
By DEV JARRETT
Contributing Writer
Student* can remedy their mid
term blues and pent-up hostilities
with Alternate Realities III, an
open gaming tournament featuring
role-playing adventures.
The tournament is sponsored by
the Athens Area Time Lords and
will be in the Tate Center from
noon to midnight on Saturday May
19.
Alternate Realities III is a con
glomeration of role-playing games,
board games and computer games.
There is even a small group of
Lazer Tag players who intend to
pack up a van and head for the
open spaces to kill each other in
this exciting game.
The Time Lords, a club ded
icated mostly to science fiction and
fantasy gaming, began five years
ago as a Doctor Who club, with five
guys from Oglethorpe County who
have since left the area, said Presi
dent Jim Horvat.
Since then, the club has
Alternate Realities III
is a conglomeration of
role-playing games,
board games and
computer games.
branched out to many other areas
of cerebrum-exhausting fun. New
games include the board game
RISK, computer adventure cam
paigns and Dungeons and
Dragons.
The group’s base of operations
has moved to the University in the
last couple of years and has gained
quite a few members.
The Time Lords have about 40
members, and they expect a crowd
of 50 to 70 people to be at AR III.
Every month the Time Lords
have three meetings. There is a
gaming meeting, a community
service activity meeting and an or
ganizational meeting. Some
gaming is incorporated into these
meetings.
In the past few months, the
Time Lords’ community service ac
tivities included a yard sale to ben
efit the Athens Area Homeless
Shelter, a cleanup drive for the Tu
torial Center and giving assistance
to the Georgia Public Television
telethon.
In the coming months, they will
be involved in more benefits for the
Athens Area Homeless Shelter, in
cluding cooking and doing yard
work for the Shelter.
In spite of the fact that the Time
Lords will lose about 50 percent of
their members during summer
quarter, there is a special Atlanta
gaming conference called the Dixie
Trek in mid-June which the re
maining Time Lords plan to at
tend.
In addition to the Time Lords,
there are other gaming clubs being
formed at the University. The Uni
versity of Georgia Gaming Society,
is still under development, and an
other group, the Ghostriders, is so
new that nothing is known about it
except its name.
Membership to Alternate Reali
ties III is $3.50 in advance, $4.00
at the door for students, and $5.00
at the door for non-students.
There will be raffle-type door
prizes given out to lucky winners,
and Brad Bernstein, the vice-presi
dent of the club is preparing some
pizza for concessions. Soft drinks
will also be available.
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